Poor people are already exempt from federal income tax and drive older cars with lower gas mileage. You'd be taxing the super rich and super poor simultaneously.
It won't matter. Anyone capable of being elected in their place will be bought by the same entities. Unfortunately, this is a systemic problem and people will have to force themselves to drop their qualms with things like SOPA to focus all attention on 1. Making it illegal for a government official to take any money from any private entity and 2. Implementing a voting system that allows people to vote for a candidate (their true favorite) without effectively voting against every other candidate (that might be perceived to have a better chance at winning). This is the only way to produce "clean" politicians.
What exactly can iphones do that android phones can't? The question is do you want reliability, low cost, freedom, compatibility, fast cpu, shininess etc..
I'm not saying a single repair would make you get rid of the thing and go buy a new one, I was just pointing out that the number you gave wasn't the whole picture. Maybe the extra insurance and taxes would offset the extra maintenance, who knows.
As far as the depreciation, the blue-book value does drop pretty fast on new cars, but that's not necessarily what the car would be worth to the person who bought it new. To them it's still new, and they know exactly how it's been used since it rolled off the lot. Looking at used cars with like 10k miles makes you wonder why they're being sold so soon.
A car is one of the most complicated purchases a person can make. There's too much that goes into predicting future costs and relative and subjective value to give such a simple comparison of prices is all I'm saying.
Buying a car with over 100k miles costs more than just what you pay up front. There's a certain "buy low sell high" benefit in terms of maintenance costs.
I don't know about that monopoly part. You can get a first gen android phone contract-free with a 32GB SD card for about 70 bucks cheaper than the equivalent ipod touch. It allows you to ditch the dumbphone too.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out how insidious it is to purposely label a highly partisan think tank with a name that is obviously meant to seem like a legit government agency.
Ok, the idea was once novel, but was that recently? Phones have had push buttons for each number since rotary went out of style. Suppose I made a dialer for a smartphone that allowed you to "push" imaginary number-buttons. Not only that, but if after a few numbers it aligns with one of your contacts the phone will autocomplete and let you dial it or keep pressing new numbers (kind of like google instant). Neither dialing with number-buttons nor auto-completion could be considered novel these days, but patents are granted for this sort of thing just because the features have never been implemented at the same time and on a smartphone before. The ideas were novel at one time, but not when the patent was filed. All that happened was new implementation.
"Implement: To put into practical effect; carry out"
You always pay for the phone. That was my original point... also that you end up paying more when you sign a contract (unless you can fully utilize everything you're paying for).
* There's a financial disincentive for buying a phone without a contract.
I beg to differ. You might have been fooled into thinking the phone itself is cheaper with a contract, but take a look at the total cost over a couple years even after buying the phone at full price.
This is true. Getting apps pushed to your phone from any computer with an internet connection is way better than being able to download them and push them through USB.
There would be no warranty to honor. Any drive that's already been purchased will carry the full warranty, and that warranty will be honored according to TFA.
You can upgrade your smartphone OS on your own as well. You can buy the smartphone outside of a contract too, just like a PC. The only requirement to avoid these broken promises is a little foresight.
Yes, but with instant runoff there can actually be more than one popular/electable "moderate" candidate (or left/right candidate for that matter). Primaries could actually be rolled up into the general election; although having a shit-ton of candidates might still confuse people.
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Yeah "hurting" is not really hurting though. It's a shitty thing to do, but no one will be in physical danger as a direct result.
Poor people are already exempt from federal income tax and drive older cars with lower gas mileage. You'd be taxing the super rich and super poor simultaneously.
In two dimensions, that means roughly a 2500% increase in density, enough to keep Moore's law alive and well for some time to come.
Except that fabricating wires isn't quite the same as fabricating transistors.
It won't matter. Anyone capable of being elected in their place will be bought by the same entities. Unfortunately, this is a systemic problem and people will have to force themselves to drop their qualms with things like SOPA to focus all attention on 1. Making it illegal for a government official to take any money from any private entity and 2. Implementing a voting system that allows people to vote for a candidate (their true favorite) without effectively voting against every other candidate (that might be perceived to have a better chance at winning). This is the only way to produce "clean" politicians.
Why do you have to get shot to make a statement? People are/were marching in the streets and getting arrested en-masse.
Numbers like these don't bode well for PC gamers and will only serve to encourage even more draconian DRM measures than we've seen in the past.
I'd mod this entire article flamebait if I could.
What exactly can iphones do that android phones can't? The question is do you want reliability, low cost, freedom, compatibility, fast cpu, shininess etc..
Wouldn't the pda be capable of what the ipod does? Also, who carries a compass?
I'm not saying a single repair would make you get rid of the thing and go buy a new one, I was just pointing out that the number you gave wasn't the whole picture. Maybe the extra insurance and taxes would offset the extra maintenance, who knows.
As far as the depreciation, the blue-book value does drop pretty fast on new cars, but that's not necessarily what the car would be worth to the person who bought it new. To them it's still new, and they know exactly how it's been used since it rolled off the lot. Looking at used cars with like 10k miles makes you wonder why they're being sold so soon.
A car is one of the most complicated purchases a person can make. There's too much that goes into predicting future costs and relative and subjective value to give such a simple comparison of prices is all I'm saying.
Buying a car with over 100k miles costs more than just what you pay up front. There's a certain "buy low sell high" benefit in terms of maintenance costs.
I don't know about that monopoly part. You can get a first gen android phone contract-free with a 32GB SD card for about 70 bucks cheaper than the equivalent ipod touch. It allows you to ditch the dumbphone too.
And now if you just stopped gaming and watching movies, you'd have so much more time to spend coding and hanging out with friends etc!
what is "using it against them"?
Sigh.. no mod points.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out how insidious it is to purposely label a highly partisan think tank with a name that is obviously meant to seem like a legit government agency.
Ok, the idea was once novel, but was that recently? Phones have had push buttons for each number since rotary went out of style. Suppose I made a dialer for a smartphone that allowed you to "push" imaginary number-buttons. Not only that, but if after a few numbers it aligns with one of your contacts the phone will autocomplete and let you dial it or keep pressing new numbers (kind of like google instant). Neither dialing with number-buttons nor auto-completion could be considered novel these days, but patents are granted for this sort of thing just because the features have never been implemented at the same time and on a smartphone before. The ideas were novel at one time, but not when the patent was filed. All that happened was new implementation.
"Implement: To put into practical effect; carry out"
You always pay for the phone. That was my original point... also that you end up paying more when you sign a contract (unless you can fully utilize everything you're paying for).
His point is that novelty is a factor; or should be.
*compared with* buying the phone at full price, sorry.
* There's a financial disincentive for buying a phone without a contract.
I beg to differ. You might have been fooled into thinking the phone itself is cheaper with a contract, but take a look at the total cost over a couple years even after buying the phone at full price.
This is true. Getting apps pushed to your phone from any computer with an internet connection is way better than being able to download them and push them through USB.
There would be no warranty to honor. Any drive that's already been purchased will carry the full warranty, and that warranty will be honored according to TFA.
The readable thing isn't much of an issue with this.
You can upgrade your smartphone OS on your own as well. You can buy the smartphone outside of a contract too, just like a PC. The only requirement to avoid these broken promises is a little foresight.
Yes, but with instant runoff there can actually be more than one popular/electable "moderate" candidate (or left/right candidate for that matter). Primaries could actually be rolled up into the general election; although having a shit-ton of candidates might still confuse people.