The pay-as-you-go carriers probably subsidize phones to some extent, but certainly not to the extent that 2 year contract phones are subsidized, and they have plenty of $20-$50 phones available.
I'm sure they've got those servers online by now. People have learned a lot about how to monetize the value providers in the last 5 years.
Snarking a bit more, Google has a HUGE amount of infrastructure connected to the internet. It's almost as if their business depends on it. That isn't the kind of infrastructure you are talking about, but it is still a mildly amusing counterpoint.
(the big shift over the last 6 years is mostly due to wanton printing of money in the US and rather tight central banking in Europe [with a healthy dose of Chinese currency rate fixing thrown in]. The trend isn't all that likely to continue, as a weakening dollar is great for American businesses operating in Europe and horrible for European businesses operating in America, which creates [increasing amounts of] counter-pressure to the relatively loose government policy in the US, or saying it the other way around, counter-pressure to the relatively tight government policy in the EU.)
Also, the views of executives should inform our expectations about how corporations *will* behave, not our expectations about how corporations *should* behave.
If you understand the sampling problem your claim faces, you shouldn't use words like ergo and QED. One corrupt MBA program says little about MBA holders in general.
From what I can tell, Michigan has mostly middle of the road corporate taxes anyway. There are states without corporate income taxes and so forth, so somebody already won that race.
So your retort to my sarcastic statement about who gets to decide what excessive is is to make a sarcastic statement about who gets to decide what excessive is? Well done, you understood what I said.
As far as corporate taxes and accountability, I don't see that corporate income taxes are a path to corporate accountability, so I would choose to treat them as separate issues. Corporate income taxes are makework; the corporation treats them as a cost of business and increase the end price of their goods to compensate. They still make the investment returns they are looking for, or they invest elsewhere. So it makes a lot more sense to me to simply not bother taxing corporate income and look for better ways to hold them accountable for their actions (environmental bonds, regulatory taxes, revoking charters, etc.).
There is generally a choice. You just don't think the choice is worth it. There is a difference between failing to take option B because you like option A better and *not having* a choice.
Environmental regulations "align corporate interests with the interests of the nation". Generally in a good way. Regulation isn't bad, too much regulation is bad.
Wait, are you blaming corporations for the crap that *you* bought?
Also, I have arbitrarily determined that your pay is excessive. Please hand an additional 10% your income over to the government so that they can put it to better use.
Unless you are constantly and effectively avoiding gas that contains ethanol as an oxidizer, you probably have some problem other than persistent water (so water could be constantly leaking in...). The ethanol will pull the water into the fuel mix and carry it through the engine just fine, so the water should burn off in a tank or two, it shouldn't persist if you are using gas with ethanol in it, and you probably are.
"Dry gas" products are often just ethanol or methanol.
What are you expecting life elsewhere to be? I'm expecting it to be something that takes advantage of energy gradients (food is essentially an energy gradient, it takes less energy to gather fruit than the fruit contains, similarly for prey) in order to maintain its own order at a level above that of the average environment that it exists in.
Never say never. Capacity/dollar is increasing faster for flash than it is for spinning disk. If the trends stay where they are, somewhere in the future, the lines cross. Not next year, probably not the year after that, or the year after that, but somewhere out there.
Without disagreeing with your point about not worrying about what other people are doing, it is perfectly pragmatic at this point to buy hardware with a plan to replace it in about 3 years.
Newegg doesn't always have the best prices, and they aren't always pain free, but they are usually pain free and almost always have competitive prices.
There are plenty of 4 GB half sticks, especially if you don't care extra for Crucial:
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The pay-as-you-go carriers probably subsidize phones to some extent, but certainly not to the extent that 2 year contract phones are subsidized, and they have plenty of $20-$50 phones available.
I'm sure they've got those servers online by now. People have learned a lot about how to monetize the value providers in the last 5 years.
Snarking a bit more, Google has a HUGE amount of infrastructure connected to the internet. It's almost as if their business depends on it. That isn't the kind of infrastructure you are talking about, but it is still a mildly amusing counterpoint.
Unpredictably.
(the big shift over the last 6 years is mostly due to wanton printing of money in the US and rather tight central banking in Europe [with a healthy dose of Chinese currency rate fixing thrown in]. The trend isn't all that likely to continue, as a weakening dollar is great for American businesses operating in Europe and horrible for European businesses operating in America, which creates [increasing amounts of] counter-pressure to the relatively loose government policy in the US, or saying it the other way around, counter-pressure to the relatively tight government policy in the EU.)
Yeah thanks, it still makes a good riposte to the OPs Euro noise.
Also, the views of executives should inform our expectations about how corporations *will* behave, not our expectations about how corporations *should* behave.
If you understand the sampling problem your claim faces, you shouldn't use words like ergo and QED. One corrupt MBA program says little about MBA holders in general.
Designed in America, manufactured in Asia, purchased in Europe.
From what I can tell, Michigan has mostly middle of the road corporate taxes anyway. There are states without corporate income taxes and so forth, so somebody already won that race.
Don't forget the robots from the future.
What does an unethical MBA program or unethical MBA holder have to do with defining what corporate responsibility should be?
"People shouldn't kill people." "Oh yeah, some guy killed another guy!".
I advocate turning other people into fuel.
I'll be old someday, but I'll never be someone else.
So your retort to my sarcastic statement about who gets to decide what excessive is is to make a sarcastic statement about who gets to decide what excessive is? Well done, you understood what I said.
As far as corporate taxes and accountability, I don't see that corporate income taxes are a path to corporate accountability, so I would choose to treat them as separate issues. Corporate income taxes are makework; the corporation treats them as a cost of business and increase the end price of their goods to compensate. They still make the investment returns they are looking for, or they invest elsewhere. So it makes a lot more sense to me to simply not bother taxing corporate income and look for better ways to hold them accountable for their actions (environmental bonds, regulatory taxes, revoking charters, etc.).
There is generally a choice. You just don't think the choice is worth it. There is a difference between failing to take option B because you like option A better and *not having* a choice.
Environmental regulations "align corporate interests with the interests of the nation". Generally in a good way. Regulation isn't bad, too much regulation is bad.
Wait, are you blaming corporations for the crap that *you* bought?
Also, I have arbitrarily determined that your pay is excessive. Please hand an additional 10% your income over to the government so that they can put it to better use.
Nuclear powered liposuction is equally as ridiculous, and it would probably result in more fuel, at least the first time around.
Unless you are constantly and effectively avoiding gas that contains ethanol as an oxidizer, you probably have some problem other than persistent water (so water could be constantly leaking in...). The ethanol will pull the water into the fuel mix and carry it through the engine just fine, so the water should burn off in a tank or two, it shouldn't persist if you are using gas with ethanol in it, and you probably are.
"Dry gas" products are often just ethanol or methanol.
It isn't the degree that makes a politician. It's good that you understand that you didn't study any science though.
What are you expecting life elsewhere to be? I'm expecting it to be something that takes advantage of energy gradients (food is essentially an energy gradient, it takes less energy to gather fruit than the fruit contains, similarly for prey) in order to maintain its own order at a level above that of the average environment that it exists in.
Never say never. Capacity/dollar is increasing faster for flash than it is for spinning disk. If the trends stay where they are, somewhere in the future, the lines cross. Not next year, probably not the year after that, or the year after that, but somewhere out there.
Without disagreeing with your point about not worrying about what other people are doing, it is perfectly pragmatic at this point to buy hardware with a plan to replace it in about 3 years.
There is an easier place to keep track of such things:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=522&name=USB-Flash-Drives
Newegg doesn't always have the best prices, and they aren't always pain free, but they are usually pain free and almost always have competitive prices.
There are plenty of 4 GB half sticks, especially if you don't care extra for Crucial:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240522%201309421175&bop=And&Pagesize=50
Some are downright tiny:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208342
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609295
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211252
The summary implies that the frog has extra healing ability, so I was giving the benefit of the doubt to the gene splicers.
Optimist.
Remember to include the fact that you are paying for all that to happen.