You don't become a billionaire if you can even consider the concept of "enough money". Of course billionaires always want more, or they wouldn't be billionaires.
Homer: "You know, Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny." Mr. Burns: "Oh, yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more."
Pretty much this. It's funny how all the "billing errors" the big corporations are making are always in their favor. I haven't seen a bank error in my favor since I drew that Community Chest card in my childhood but I've seen plenty of errors in the favor of companies I do business with. If DirecTV would just quote a price and say "this is the price you are paying" then they wouldn't have these problems, but since it's in their interest to keep the bill overcomplicated (easier to make "billing errors" that way) it's not going to change unless the government forces their hand.
It hasn't been 2 months and he's practically done with all the campaign promises.
Really? Where's the Hillary indictment?
Where's the wall that Mexico is paying for?
He said he would create 25 million jobs and be "the greatest jobs president God ever created", that hasn't happened yet.
He said he would "Get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries", he hasn't done that.
He said he would bring the steel industry back to Pennsylvania, that hasn't happened.
He said he would both leave the federal minimum wage at $7.25 and raise it to $10 and also let states set the minimum wage, obviously he can't fulfill all three of those promises.
He said he would be "so presidential, you're going to be so bored", that certainly hasn't happened.
He said "My only special interest is you, the American people, not major donors, the party or corporations. Obviously that's why he packed his cabinet with major donors and corporate bigwigs.
He said "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off." and then proceeds to play plenty of golf and run off to Florida every weekend. Heck days after he said "I always said about President Obama, it's great to play golf, but play golf with heads of countries and people like yourself when you're looking for votes. Don't play with your friends that you play with every week" he does exactly that and goes off to play with his friends.
"I don’t settle cases. I don’t do it.", right before settling his Trump University case for $25 million. Not really a campaign promise, just another illustration of Trumps dishonesty.
Lower personal income taxes (mostly for the rich) and lower the corporate income tax rate to 15%. He hasn't done this yet, but I think this will be one of the promises he keeps.
Renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw - nope, hasn't happened.
Impose a 45% tariff on Chinese products imported into the US: nope.
"We will double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world", we already had the strongest economy but I would love to see the doubled growth.
Eliminate the national debt in 8 years - $19 trillion. LOL, do I even need to address this one? Not happening.
Cut the budget by 20% by renegotiating government deals - hasn't happened.
Stop spending money on space exploration until the United States can fix its potholes - thankfully, hasn't happened yet.
Repeal Obamacare - hasn't happened yet and if the current bill does happen it will fuck a lot of Americans.
Make medical marijuana widely available to patients and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot. - hasn't happened.
Bring down drug prices by importing cheaper medications from overseas and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices - nope.
Require price transparency from health-care providers so patients can shop for the best prices - nope.
This was just the first portion of a much larger list I found by googling "Trump campaign promises", but he pretty much hasn't done most of what he said he would do. He hasn't drained the swamp, he's just populated it with different gators. No matter what kind of job you feel he is doing he certainly hasn't even come close to touching all the things he promised.
So? We have been eating meat for thousands of years and it has always caused cancer. What if the lab grown meat causes less cancer than real meat? Why do you assume it will cause more?
The complaint also says "Wanda suffered tremendous fright, shock and conscious pain and suffering. ". It seems like they just put whatever the lawyers imagined she felt, this doesn't seem to have any basis in fact. For all they know, she never even saw the robot that hit her and was immediately unconscious or dead. The complaint doesn't mention any video evidence.
Don't paint the entire US economy with a broad brush just because one (British) company didn't work with one of their American employees. I work for a US company and have never had a problem taking time off during the day to do errands, or go to the doctor, or whatever. I am going to a company sponsored trip to the movies this afternoon, during working hours. Just because BAE is crappy to work for doesn't mean all US companies (or foreign companies operating in the US) are.
. Usually when people have steady jobs that have health insurance and someone covered has a serious illness, they won't change jobs because doing so has possible health insurance implications that could be negative.
And this is reason #45123998 why the US should have single-payer healthcare. When you tie healthcare to work it gives the employer an extraordinary amount of leverage over the employee. Of course, employers like it this way which is why the system is the way that it is, since those with the money make the rules in this country.
They are under no obligation to try the case in the court of public opinion. Their silence tells us nothing, other than that they have competent legal counsel.
Where from come the non-African witch-doctor vaccine skeptics?
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a British former gastroenterologist and medical researcher who was struck off the UK medical register for his fraudulent 1998 research paper, and other proven charges of misconduct, in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hmm, the guy who wrote the book for anti-vaxxers was from the UK, maybe you should reconsider your "Americans are the reason all bad things happen on the planet" stance.
If the second longest bull market in US history isn't optimism, what is? I spoke to measurable gains because they are quantifiable and a good proxy to optimism.
I think the better point to take away is that for the first time in 8 years there is optimism and measurable gains in the market
WTF are you talking about? Measurable gains? The S&P 500 has gone up 17% per year (dividends reinvested) for the last 8 years for a total return of 230% for the time period (source). Don't get me wrong, I'm liking the Trump Bump, but to claim the market hasn't had measurable gains in the last 8 years is easily refutable and delusionally wrong.
Nope, sorry no political agenda. The fact that you see a political opponent any time someone disagrees with you might point to you being the problem, not everyone else.
Depends on the plant. Dams are usually load following and river flow crafts are usually base load.
Yes, because run of the river plants have limited dispatchability (no dispatchability if they have no impoundment at all) so they are run as base load. Which point are you arguing? Originally you said that CF has nothing to do with dispatchability but then you post an example where the capacity factor is directly related to how dispatchable the plant is (RotR vs dams). Which it it?
The CF is a result how you run the plant.
Exactly. And how you run the plant is predicated on its dispatchability.
Absolutely dispatchability is relevant when discussing capacity factor. For example, the reason that hydro's capacity factor isn't near 100% is that it can be dispatched to load follow so it's not running all the time, decreasing its capacity factor. When building a hydro installation they size the generators for a higher load than the inputs can provide. If CF wasn't related to dispatchability the generators would just be sized to generate the amount of power the input river generates on average and run at 100% all the time (some hydro plants are like this, but only in areas where they don't need the flexibility). The reason nuclear's CF is so high is the plants have a huge capital costs, low fuel costs and long ramp times so it makes economic sense to run the plant near full blast as much as you can. For a natural gas turbine fuel costs are high and dispatchability is high, so they are usually run as load following or peaking plants, hence a lower CF. Dispatchability is related to the load factor in all three types of generation that I mentioned, I don't see how you think it isn't.
What the fuck are you talking about? I didn't say anything at all about politics. As dwilden stated, I only pointed out capacity factor is relevant when discussing wind or solar. You partisan fucks that can't even discuss a technical issue without determining which "team" the other poster is on make me sick.
The GP's comment was really just pushing a political party line
Nope
and was somewhat orthogonal to reality. I didn't point it out because is should have been obvious.
What did I say that is "orthogonal to reality"? It's not obvious to ME (the person who actually posted the comment) so please point out where you think I erred, but please provide your sources and leave politics out of it.
Capacity factor absolutely matters when it comes to solar and wind because they are not dispatchable. The power they generate is at the mercy of the conditions, they generate when THEY want to generate, not when you want them to. The other types of generation you mentioned (hydro, coal, gas, nukes) are dispatchable so capacity factor is related to business needs and technical needs, not the weather conditions. A certain amount of solar and wind can be incorporated into the grid with good forecasting and a lot of load following or spinning reserve capacity (hydro is great at this, which is one of the reasons that its capacity factor is relatively low) but past a certain point you need grid storage to be able to incorporate intermittent sources like solar and wind.
You have nuclear's capacity factor way wrong. According to this report, these are the average capacity factors in the US:
Nuclear–90.3% Coal–63.8% Natural Gas Plant–42.5% Hydroelectric–39.8% Renewables (Wind/Solar/Biomass)–33.9% Oil–7.8%
If you have different data that shows otherwise, please provide it.
But, unlike nukes, renewables peak when demand is highest
Nope, hydro is the only major renewable that peaks when demand is highest, and that's just because it's dispatchable. Solar peaks earlier in the day than the peak demand and wind has random peaks.
Do you realize that the richest people in the world are all walking around with the same exact smart phone as many of the poorest? Talk about leveling the playing field. Who cares if someone is richer than ever but many things they can't even buy a better version of.
Nope, they are paying $151K for gold plated, diamond encrusted Trump phones, not using the same phone the plebs use. That's so other people can recognize how rich and important they are.
If the AI/automation revolution actually happens then labor will no longer have any income on which to pay tax. For some time, productivity gains have accrued with capital and labor has gotten the short end of the stick. This is a bug in capitalism but we have largely worked around the bug through progressive taxes and inheritance taxes. However, if AI and automation replace all labor then capital no longer has a reason to keep labor around. Since the people with a lot of capital largely control the government don't expect any help from that quarter.
In the past automation has made people more efficient and enabled many new jobs to come into being. This time it's different, formerly automation replaced our muscles and we moved from manufacturing economies to service economies and let the automation largely do the manufacturing work. This time, the robots will be replacing our brains rather than our muscles and there won't be service jobs to switch to. More and more people will lose their jobs and be unable to find new ones while capital continues to increase their hold on the available money and power, creating a feedback loop where all capital ends up with a small portion of the population. Unless we do something now (while labor still has some power) we are unlikely to stop this from happening.
If they got nothing to hide they have nothing to worry about.
Really? Keep that in mind the next time a law enforcement officer asks you to unlock your phone.
THAT'S THE JOKE. Since the police are always using that line on citizens who just want their 4th amendment rights respected, I think it's only fair to turn it around on them.
You would be surprised at how much it costs to plant all these negative stories about Uber, I'm sure it ate up most of their marketing budget.
On the subject of budgets, how the hell is Uber managing to lose $3 BILLION in a year? What the heck are they spending all this money on? The app itself would take like a weekend to code so it's certainly not on developers. It really seems like what they are doing could be accomplished by a 20 person company in a basement somewhere but for some reason they have over 6000. They shouldn't have a sales department and we already ruled out engineering so where do all these people work? Marketing? Support?
Oh, they are pushing for backdoor-less crypto while simultaneously paying RSA $10 million to put a backdoor into their crypto? Yeah, we should really just trust these guys, I'm sure they would never use that backdoor for anything but pure good.
You win the lottery, you have the right to dispose of one moon trip. If you are physically unable to go, you can sell it or give it away. In fact, the Dragon can hold more than two people (up to 7), the private customers should spec the mission for 3 people and sell raffle tickets for the third seat to defray expenses.
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You don't become a billionaire if you can even consider the concept of "enough money". Of course billionaires always want more, or they wouldn't be billionaires.
Homer: "You know, Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny."
Mr. Burns: "Oh, yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more."
Pretty much this. It's funny how all the "billing errors" the big corporations are making are always in their favor. I haven't seen a bank error in my favor since I drew that Community Chest card in my childhood but I've seen plenty of errors in the favor of companies I do business with. If DirecTV would just quote a price and say "this is the price you are paying" then they wouldn't have these problems, but since it's in their interest to keep the bill overcomplicated (easier to make "billing errors" that way) it's not going to change unless the government forces their hand.
It hasn't been 2 months and he's practically done with all the campaign promises.
Really? Where's the Hillary indictment?
Where's the wall that Mexico is paying for?
He said he would create 25 million jobs and be "the greatest jobs president God ever created", that hasn't happened yet.
He said he would "Get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries", he hasn't done that.
He said he would bring the steel industry back to Pennsylvania, that hasn't happened.
He said he would both leave the federal minimum wage at $7.25 and raise it to $10 and also let states set the minimum wage, obviously he can't fulfill all three of those promises.
He said he would be "so presidential, you're going to be so bored", that certainly hasn't happened.
He said "My only special interest is you, the American people, not major donors, the party or corporations. Obviously that's why he packed his cabinet with major donors and corporate bigwigs.
He said "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off." and then proceeds to play plenty of golf and run off to Florida every weekend. Heck days after he said "I always said about President Obama, it's great to play golf, but play golf with heads of countries and people like yourself when you're looking for votes. Don't play with your friends that you play with every week" he does exactly that and goes off to play with his friends.
"I don’t settle cases. I don’t do it.", right before settling his Trump University case for $25 million. Not really a campaign promise, just another illustration of Trumps dishonesty.
Lower personal income taxes (mostly for the rich) and lower the corporate income tax rate to 15%. He hasn't done this yet, but I think this will be one of the promises he keeps.
Eliminate the carried interest tax loophole - nope, hasn't happened yet.
Renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw - nope, hasn't happened.
Impose a 45% tariff on Chinese products imported into the US: nope.
"We will double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world", we already had the strongest economy but I would love to see the doubled growth.
Eliminate the national debt in 8 years - $19 trillion. LOL, do I even need to address this one? Not happening.
Cut the budget by 20% by renegotiating government deals - hasn't happened.
Stop spending money on space exploration until the United States can fix its potholes - thankfully, hasn't happened yet.
Repeal Dodd-Frank - thankfully, hasn't happened yet.
Repeal Obamacare - hasn't happened yet and if the current bill does happen it will fuck a lot of Americans.
Make medical marijuana widely available to patients and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot. - hasn't happened.
Bring down drug prices by importing cheaper medications from overseas and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices - nope.
Require price transparency from health-care providers so patients can shop for the best prices - nope.
This was just the first portion of a much larger list I found by googling "Trump campaign promises", but he pretty much hasn't done most of what he said he would do. He hasn't drained the swamp, he's just populated it with different gators. No matter what kind of job you feel he is doing he certainly hasn't even come close to touching all the things he promised.
So? We have been eating meat for thousands of years and it has always caused cancer. What if the lab grown meat causes less cancer than real meat? Why do you assume it will cause more?
The complaint also says "Wanda suffered tremendous fright, shock and conscious pain and suffering. ". It seems like they just put whatever the lawyers imagined she felt, this doesn't seem to have any basis in fact. For all they know, she never even saw the robot that hit her and was immediately unconscious or dead. The complaint doesn't mention any video evidence.
Don't paint the entire US economy with a broad brush just because one (British) company didn't work with one of their American employees. I work for a US company and have never had a problem taking time off during the day to do errands, or go to the doctor, or whatever. I am going to a company sponsored trip to the movies this afternoon, during working hours. Just because BAE is crappy to work for doesn't mean all US companies (or foreign companies operating in the US) are.
. Usually when people have steady jobs that have health insurance and someone covered has a serious illness, they won't change jobs because doing so has possible health insurance implications that could be negative.
And this is reason #45123998 why the US should have single-payer healthcare. When you tie healthcare to work it gives the employer an extraordinary amount of leverage over the employee. Of course, employers like it this way which is why the system is the way that it is, since those with the money make the rules in this country.
They are under no obligation to try the case in the court of public opinion. Their silence tells us nothing, other than that they have competent legal counsel.
Where from come the non-African witch-doctor vaccine skeptics?
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a British former gastroenterologist and medical researcher who was struck off the UK medical register for his fraudulent 1998 research paper, and other proven charges of misconduct, in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hmm, the guy who wrote the book for anti-vaxxers was from the UK, maybe you should reconsider your "Americans are the reason all bad things happen on the planet" stance.
If the second longest bull market in US history isn't optimism, what is? I spoke to measurable gains because they are quantifiable and a good proxy to optimism.
I think the better point to take away is that for the first time in 8 years there is optimism and measurable gains in the market
WTF are you talking about? Measurable gains? The S&P 500 has gone up 17% per year (dividends reinvested) for the last 8 years for a total return of 230% for the time period (source). Don't get me wrong, I'm liking the Trump Bump, but to claim the market hasn't had measurable gains in the last 8 years is easily refutable and delusionally wrong.
Nope, sorry no political agenda. The fact that you see a political opponent any time someone disagrees with you might point to you being the problem, not everyone else.
Depends on the plant. Dams are usually load following and river flow crafts are usually base load.
Yes, because run of the river plants have limited dispatchability (no dispatchability if they have no impoundment at all) so they are run as base load. Which point are you arguing? Originally you said that CF has nothing to do with dispatchability but then you post an example where the capacity factor is directly related to how dispatchable the plant is (RotR vs dams). Which it it?
The CF is a result how you run the plant.
Exactly. And how you run the plant is predicated on its dispatchability.
Absolutely dispatchability is relevant when discussing capacity factor. For example, the reason that hydro's capacity factor isn't near 100% is that it can be dispatched to load follow so it's not running all the time, decreasing its capacity factor. When building a hydro installation they size the generators for a higher load than the inputs can provide. If CF wasn't related to dispatchability the generators would just be sized to generate the amount of power the input river generates on average and run at 100% all the time (some hydro plants are like this, but only in areas where they don't need the flexibility). The reason nuclear's CF is so high is the plants have a huge capital costs, low fuel costs and long ramp times so it makes economic sense to run the plant near full blast as much as you can. For a natural gas turbine fuel costs are high and dispatchability is high, so they are usually run as load following or peaking plants, hence a lower CF. Dispatchability is related to the load factor in all three types of generation that I mentioned, I don't see how you think it isn't.
What the fuck are you talking about? I didn't say anything at all about politics. As dwilden stated, I only pointed out capacity factor is relevant when discussing wind or solar. You partisan fucks that can't even discuss a technical issue without determining which "team" the other poster is on make me sick.
The GP's comment was really just pushing a political party line
Nope
and was somewhat orthogonal to reality. I didn't point it out because is should have been obvious.
What did I say that is "orthogonal to reality"? It's not obvious to ME (the person who actually posted the comment) so please point out where you think I erred, but please provide your sources and leave politics out of it.
Capacity factor absolutely matters when it comes to solar and wind because they are not dispatchable. The power they generate is at the mercy of the conditions, they generate when THEY want to generate, not when you want them to. The other types of generation you mentioned (hydro, coal, gas, nukes) are dispatchable so capacity factor is related to business needs and technical needs, not the weather conditions. A certain amount of solar and wind can be incorporated into the grid with good forecasting and a lot of load following or spinning reserve capacity (hydro is great at this, which is one of the reasons that its capacity factor is relatively low) but past a certain point you need grid storage to be able to incorporate intermittent sources like solar and wind.
Oh, nukes are about 60% capacity
You have nuclear's capacity factor way wrong. According to this report, these are the average capacity factors in the US:
Nuclear–90.3%
Coal–63.8%
Natural Gas Plant–42.5%
Hydroelectric–39.8%
Renewables (Wind/Solar/Biomass)–33.9%
Oil–7.8%
If you have different data that shows otherwise, please provide it.
But, unlike nukes, renewables peak when demand is highest
Nope, hydro is the only major renewable that peaks when demand is highest, and that's just because it's dispatchable. Solar peaks earlier in the day than the peak demand and wind has random peaks.
Do you realize that the richest people in the world are all walking around with the same exact smart phone as many of the poorest? Talk about leveling the playing field. Who cares if someone is richer than ever but many things they can't even buy a better version of.
Nope, they are paying $151K for gold plated, diamond encrusted Trump phones, not using the same phone the plebs use. That's so other people can recognize how rich and important they are.
If the AI/automation revolution actually happens then labor will no longer have any income on which to pay tax. For some time, productivity gains have accrued with capital and labor has gotten the short end of the stick. This is a bug in capitalism but we have largely worked around the bug through progressive taxes and inheritance taxes. However, if AI and automation replace all labor then capital no longer has a reason to keep labor around. Since the people with a lot of capital largely control the government don't expect any help from that quarter.
In the past automation has made people more efficient and enabled many new jobs to come into being. This time it's different, formerly automation replaced our muscles and we moved from manufacturing economies to service economies and let the automation largely do the manufacturing work. This time, the robots will be replacing our brains rather than our muscles and there won't be service jobs to switch to. More and more people will lose their jobs and be unable to find new ones while capital continues to increase their hold on the available money and power, creating a feedback loop where all capital ends up with a small portion of the population. Unless we do something now (while labor still has some power) we are unlikely to stop this from happening.
Qualified Immunity.
If they got nothing to hide they have nothing to worry about.
Really? Keep that in mind the next time a law enforcement officer asks you to unlock your phone.
THAT'S THE JOKE. Since the police are always using that line on citizens who just want their 4th amendment rights respected, I think it's only fair to turn it around on them.
Lyft is absent from serious media promotion
You would be surprised at how much it costs to plant all these negative stories about Uber, I'm sure it ate up most of their marketing budget.
On the subject of budgets, how the hell is Uber managing to lose $3 BILLION in a year? What the heck are they spending all this money on? The app itself would take like a weekend to code so it's certainly not on developers. It really seems like what they are doing could be accomplished by a 20 person company in a basement somewhere but for some reason they have over 6000. They shouldn't have a sales department and we already ruled out engineering so where do all these people work? Marketing? Support?
Oh, they are pushing for backdoor-less crypto while simultaneously paying RSA $10 million to put a backdoor into their crypto? Yeah, we should really just trust these guys, I'm sure they would never use that backdoor for anything but pure good.
So she basically turned herself in for stealing. With that kind of stupidity no wonder she was offended by blonde jokes. - they hit too close to home.
You win the lottery, you have the right to dispose of one moon trip. If you are physically unable to go, you can sell it or give it away. In fact, the Dragon can hold more than two people (up to 7), the private customers should spec the mission for 3 people and sell raffle tickets for the third seat to defray expenses.