Lot's of people work cash jobs just to avoid this situation..
It would be more accurate to say that lots of businesses pay cash to suppliers and employees to avoid this situation: the small businesses avoid a lot more taxes this way than their employees do.
I think you can stay cynical: a no-fee system probably won't be chosen by employers that pay wages via a debit card in return for a kickback from the debit card fees, ditto for things like unemployment benefits debit cards in states that already have cozy relationships with big banks.
If they figured out how to make a car entirely dependent on a single solder joint nobody would buy that car because it would be constantly dying.
It certainly feels like that after one solder joint in the MAF sensor cracks - in my case I couldn't accelerate without stalling. In modern cars disabling one of the many fuel/engine/transmission sensors can put the car into limp mode.
Yeah, this idea is just asinine. This isn't like software where you're not shipping some bits, or even if you ship them and selectively enable or disable. These are physically manufactured components. The parts have to be physically manufactured and installed.
Even though the example given was seat heaters that would be turned on if an owner paid for them and then turned off if a subsequent owner did not, I doubt that many of the" options would involve extra physically manufactured components. Most physical options can't be "turned off"; they are there or they are not. The rentable options will just be functions and apps on the car's computers: Navigation/trip/mileage, entertainment package, memory for seat/mirror positions activated by your keyfob, "performance tuning package", etc.
If the question was "are rootkits exclusive to Sony or have other consumer product manufacturers/distributors been caught using them?" then I'm curious too.
Remove all the services, and only leave them search. See how the people of the EU like that.
Sounds like an awesome justification for the EU to start coercive licensing of Google's intellectual property. Coercive licensing is the process used by countries that have decided that a company has priced a drug too high, so they allow a competitor to make it instead.
Hmm. How about just suspending a thin piece of fiber optic cable around the neighborhood on poles? Of course OP and several neighbors may have to convert to Judaism to apply for a religious exemption for their eruv...
Hey now, they do want people to know something about everything. They'll even spend hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to inform everyone about those opinions they should agree with. Bless their hearts.
1 Consider getting enough neighbors to split the cost (depends on what the cost is of course).
I think that could be really tricky if the group doesn't include all of the homes under the HOA.
Someone wanted a subsivisiion to look a very specific way (no overhead cables) and didnt plan things out?
Seems well planned out to me: build the subdivision, sell the units, turn the HOA over to the residents, let them deal with extra costs out of their HOA dues, not your profits.
AT&T could refuse to sign up to the neighborhood infrastructure unless everyone paid for a normal account with AT&T. The HOA (or OP) would have to eat the costs of burying and building all of the mini-ISP's infrastructure.
Their reckons are frankly little more than a distraction.
Their reckons help decide elections, which shape public policy. That's why there is so much money being spent to market global warming denialism to the public.
Most Americans cant tell you how many states we have, and they will gladly sign a petition to ban the use of H2O, So please do not judge global IQ based on the land of morons I live in.
I think we're a good stand in for global ignorance. Where we stand out is willful ignorance/ideologically motivated cognition in otherwise educated and numerate people. If you want to see an educated conservative republican lie about the answer to or subconsciously misunderstand a simple math problem, just phrase it as a gun control question. Figure 7:
Wearing a white coat and speaking to an audience (or a camera) at the same time is generally a bad sign. The white coat is there to keep vacuum pump oil, biological specimens, and/or fire (ours were supposedly flame retardant) off of your other clothes. Real scientists leave labcoats in the lab. If it's being used as a signifier to backstop an argument from authority in all likelyhood you are watching an advertisement for a product.
No, 1920x1080 is *terrible* at it and you're just insisting the emperor's new aspect ratio is wonderful and good. Try a real resolution on a quality 4:3 and you'll not only have substantially higher vertical resolution but *more space overall* at the same diagonal.
I guess the parts where I said "two pages of text, side by side, 13 inch display" slipped past you? 4:3 would leave me with the pages I need to see either significantly overlapped or the fonts too small for me to be able read or edit quickly. Been there, done that, switched to 16:9. The extra square inches in total screen area can't help me if they're not where I need them. 4:3 makes sense if you are concentrating on a single document, with tools and whatnot spread around it.
16:9 isn't *good* for anything other than lining the manufacturers pockets because they get to sell you a smaller poorer quality screen for more money
It's actually a Samsung IPS panel, and the 3 lb Haswell laptop itself was under $800 before taxes. QHD+ is a macguffin for this screen size, but I'm pretty happy with the quality and the price.
I need the vertical space WAY more than the horizontal.
And I need both a document and a webpage/database to be visible at the same time, side by side. 1920x1080 or 2048 x 1152 works great for that. It gives me over 50 vertical lines of legible text visible in the document on a 13" screen - without overlapping the taskbar or the webpage. It does get to be an issue if there are lots of toolbars that I'm forced to dock above/below the workspace, especially if they aren't scaled correctly for HiDPI, but then I don't write much code.
They paid $3.2 billion for a company that makes data acquisition devices that pose as thermostats. The amount of data that they can acquire is staggering.
Plus consider the demographics for Nest customers: homeowners with disposable cash who really want to tie everything to their phones. The data they will acquire will be very profitable.
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Lot's of people work cash jobs just to avoid this situation. .
It would be more accurate to say that lots of businesses pay cash to suppliers and employees to avoid this situation: the small businesses avoid a lot more taxes this way than their employees do.
I think you can stay cynical: a no-fee system probably won't be chosen by employers that pay wages via a debit card in return for a kickback from the debit card fees, ditto for things like unemployment benefits debit cards in states that already have cozy relationships with big banks.
If they figured out how to make a car entirely dependent on a single solder joint nobody would buy that car because it would be constantly dying.
It certainly feels like that after one solder joint in the MAF sensor cracks - in my case I couldn't accelerate without stalling. In modern cars disabling one of the many fuel/engine/transmission sensors can put the car into limp mode.
This kills the car.
(just guessing)
Yeah, this idea is just asinine. This isn't like software where you're not shipping some bits, or even if you ship them and selectively enable or disable. These are physically manufactured components. The parts have to be physically manufactured and installed.
Even though the example given was seat heaters that would be turned on if an owner paid for them and then turned off if a subsequent owner did not, I doubt that many of the" options would involve extra physically manufactured components. Most physical options can't be "turned off"; they are there or they are not. The rentable options will just be functions and apps on the car's computers: Navigation/trip/mileage, entertainment package, memory for seat/mirror positions activated by your keyfob, "performance tuning package", etc.
If the question was "are rootkits exclusive to Sony or have other consumer product manufacturers/distributors been caught using them?" then I'm curious too.
They would write them a letter.
Remove all the services, and only leave them search. See how the people of the EU like that.
Sounds like an awesome justification for the EU to start coercive licensing of Google's intellectual property. Coercive licensing is the process used by countries that have decided that a company has priced a drug too high, so they allow a competitor to make it instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv#Tradition_regarding_eruv
Hey now, they do want people to know something about everything. They'll even spend hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to inform everyone about those opinions they should agree with. Bless their hearts.
1 Consider getting enough neighbors to split the cost (depends on what the cost is of course). I think that could be really tricky if the group doesn't include all of the homes under the HOA.
1. City allows utilities to charge a fee to underground telecom and power cables.
2. Utilities collect the fee for decades without actually burying any cable.
3. Fees stopped, utilities allowed to keep what they collected.
4. Folks with ocean views pay to bury stuff on their own
Fast forward a few years...
1. City allows utilities to charge a fee to underground telecom, internet, and power cables.
2. Utilities collect the fee, promise to have everything buried by 2067 ...
Someone wanted a subsivisiion to look a very specific way (no overhead cables) and didnt plan things out?
Seems well planned out to me: build the subdivision, sell the units, turn the HOA over to the residents, let them deal with extra costs out of their HOA dues, not your profits.
And by "crush" you mean, what?
AT&T could refuse to sign up to the neighborhood infrastructure unless everyone paid for a normal account with AT&T. The HOA (or OP) would have to eat the costs of burying and building all of the mini-ISP's infrastructure.
If the climate scientists have a model that accurately predicted the past 16 years then we can talk about the future.
Until then the predictions of gloom and doom are about as believable as the heavens-gate cult.
1, What level of accuracy ( +/- deg. C avg global temperature) would be sufficient for you and 2, why choose that level?
Their reckons are frankly little more than a distraction.
Their reckons help decide elections, which shape public policy. That's why there is so much money being spent to market global warming denialism to the public.
Do we really have exceptional droughts today, or are we simply running out of water to waste?
Both. California and the southwest are experiencing an extreme drought AND we are pumping aquifers at an unsustainable rate.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html
Most Americans cant tell you how many states we have, and they will gladly sign a petition to ban the use of H2O, So please do not judge global IQ based on the land of morons I live in.
I think we're a good stand in for global ignorance. Where we stand out is willful ignorance/ideologically motivated cognition in otherwise educated and numerate people. If you want to see an educated conservative republican lie about the answer to or subconsciously misunderstand a simple math problem, just phrase it as a gun control question. Figure 7:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992
Wearing a white coat and speaking to an audience (or a camera) at the same time is generally a bad sign. The white coat is there to keep vacuum pump oil, biological specimens, and/or fire (ours were supposedly flame retardant) off of your other clothes. Real scientists leave labcoats in the lab. If it's being used as a signifier to backstop an argument from authority in all likelyhood you are watching an advertisement for a product.
No, 1920x1080 is *terrible* at it and you're just insisting the emperor's new aspect ratio is wonderful and good. Try a real resolution on a quality 4:3 and you'll not only have substantially higher vertical resolution but *more space overall* at the same diagonal.
I guess the parts where I said "two pages of text, side by side, 13 inch display" slipped past you? 4:3 would leave me with the pages I need to see either significantly overlapped or the fonts too small for me to be able read or edit quickly. Been there, done that, switched to 16:9. The extra square inches in total screen area can't help me if they're not where I need them. 4:3 makes sense if you are concentrating on a single document, with tools and whatnot spread around it.
16:9 isn't *good* for anything other than lining the manufacturers pockets because they get to sell you a smaller poorer quality screen for more money
It's actually a Samsung IPS panel, and the 3 lb Haswell laptop itself was under $800 before taxes. QHD+ is a macguffin for this screen size, but I'm pretty happy with the quality and the price.
I need the vertical space WAY more than the horizontal.
And I need both a document and a webpage/database to be visible at the same time, side by side. 1920x1080 or 2048 x 1152 works great for that. It gives me over 50 vertical lines of legible text visible in the document on a 13" screen - without overlapping the taskbar or the webpage. It does get to be an issue if there are lots of toolbars that I'm forced to dock above/below the workspace, especially if they aren't scaled correctly for HiDPI, but then I don't write much code.
They already do.
If big (US owned, US headquartered, or US located) companies have the data why would you assume the government doesn't as well?
They paid $3.2 billion for a company that makes data acquisition devices that pose as thermostats. The amount of data that they can acquire is staggering.
Plus consider the demographics for Nest customers: homeowners with disposable cash who really want to tie everything to their phones. The data they will acquire will be very profitable.
How much of the web content viewed in Sweden is hosted in Sweden?