I change my oil every 5000 miles, and I add some wiper fluid. I might need to get my brake pads and tires changed. Then I get my 30k, 60k and 90k service. I certainly don't get a "yearly" service. But I also take care of my car so it never needs "emergency" service.
The exact reason why they won't catch on in the States. Car ownership here in the US is a cultural thing and that is not going away anytime soon. Car sharing companies don't really do well here. Americans like their cars.
And you entirely ruined your argument, not that you had a good one to begin with. Car2go growth? Maybe in Seattle, or China, but Car2go and Zip have very little presence in the rest of the country. Total revenue for Car sharing in the US 400 million. compare that to the 28 Billion for traditional car rental. Those numbers really show your "growth". The people who would use the car sharing are now using Uber and Lyft, so I bet you will see what little growth the car sharing industry has seen dissipate
"You're already seeing growth in this year over year in cities with Car2Go."
Comments like these require proof, because the only place Car2go is seeing major growth is in China.
Car2go now only is in 9 US cities after dropping Miami, Arlington, LA, and Eugene. While they may be the largest car sharing service, they are the largest of a small, and shrinking market. (a million registered members is nothing for an international company).
Since this is not a technical problem (the idea of shared cars has been around a long time), and they have never really taken off. Sure it may work for awhile in certain cities with certain demographics, but on a larger scale these ideas fail. Not because we can't implement them, but because a majority of people won't use them, they will not give up on freedom that car ownership provides.
I don't know about the car culture in Canada, but here in the States it is integral to the modern American experience.
Maybe in Europe, but you fail to take the American Car Culture into consideration. It is a strong part of our natural identity. You will need to have a major cultural shift in this country, a shift I don't think the tech minority really understand. The majority of Americans will not give up their cars to let some computer drive them around. It's a part of the puzzle everyone ignores, it's also the part that pretty much insures that these ideas flop.
You mean like Zipcar and Car2go? Both which have seen miserable stock performance, and in my experience are abject failures. The idea that the American car culture is going to up and vanish with the advent of self driving cars is ludicrous. You are asking for a cultural change, a giving up of the "Freedom of the open road". I have a really hard time seeing the American public embracing it.
Did your Roku stop working or do you just want to spend money? I just want to know because if you use Plex then the interface is pretty much the same across devices, so what do you gain by changing the client?
>and provides a good app store where they can easily find things like Spotify.
I would beg to differ, as you cannot find Spotify on their store right now.
Until Apple had a competing product they were not in the habit of removing streaming apps from their store. Now that they are competing they are adding onerous conditions to their competitors.
So what value is added by Applr removing Spotify from the store. Your argument would hold water if this were voluntary, but it is not. Apple users have no choice but to pay the extra money, not as a convenience but as a requirement for using their hardware, hardware that has already been paid for. An actual Apple tax, unlike the perceived one with regards to their hardware.
Except the market in question is not the smartphone space. It is the streaming music market, which Apple does have sizable control (as in can dictate market prices). That is what may put them in the legal cross hairs. It's not bout the straight numbers, it is about how much control a player has in the market. Apple has been the controlling force in digital music since the beginning (where do you think the current pricing of about a dollar a song came from).
And if we really want to get into it. Apple has 100% control of this particular market, IE the walled garden. they control access to it, and when they decide to compete against you, you will be denied entry. This is very much an anti-trust issue. No less so then Microsoft deciding to bundle a browser (they never charged Netscape a dime for letting them run their program on Windows nor did they deny them the ability to.).
See now that is an interpretation unsupported by the actual amendment. The 2nd was about national defense period. There is absolutely no language in it regarding overthrowing the government. Now there are many "quotes" of founding fathers regarding that idea, but when you actually look into them they rarely pan out.
Like this gem: "A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - G Washington (except he never said it.)
What he actually said was: "A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a Uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the Troops which may be deemed indispensible, will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the Officers and Soldiers with a due regard to economy." - G Washington, annual address to the Senate and House of Representatives on 8 January 1790.
You mean the NRA didn't jump all over the media after Sandy Hook? After Columbine? After every major shooting incident you will see the NRA having major press conferences. So who again is using the tragedy for their political gain?
What non-right gets thrown around as a right? I mean you sound like you think that the Bill of Rights is a list of ALL our rights, even though it specifically says otherwise.
He wasn't talking about Mexico? Because he said Mexico, not illegal immigrants.
"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists." - Trump
What law allows for the taking down of a site (or in this case multiple sites) over a trademark dispute? Them DMCA does not cover trademarks and I know of no other law with the safe harbor provision.
Digitalocean might be in a bit of a bind over this as they have no legal protection from the DMCA safe harbor provision.
Turn in your geek card, as you know nothing about hard drive speeds. In no way is the blu ray drive faster then the internal hard drive. A 5400 rpm sata II drive does not have a transfer speed of 10MB/s, that is slower then the old pata interface. 5400 drives get about 80 to 90 MB/s, that's big b not little b.
You really need to brush up on your rotational media, as you seem to be very confused about what actual speeds are.
Why should people follow building codes? Why should hotels and restaurants follow health codes?
Because we as a people have decided to enact laws that require them to follow the rules to make things safer for us, and because people have proven time and time again, that on their own they will cut corners to make an extra buck.
One was a credit card the other was ATT, both were contracts you signed, and were nothing like End User license agreements from a legal perspective. Both were offering an ongoing service unlike the one time purchase one makes with software.
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I change my oil every 5000 miles, and I add some wiper fluid. I might need to get my brake pads and tires changed. Then I get my 30k, 60k and 90k service. I certainly don't get a "yearly" service. But I also take care of my car so it never needs "emergency" service.
The exact reason why they won't catch on in the States. Car ownership here in the US is a cultural thing and that is not going away anytime soon. Car sharing companies don't really do well here. Americans like their cars.
"PS Moron"
And you entirely ruined your argument, not that you had a good one to begin with. Car2go growth? Maybe in Seattle, or China, but Car2go and Zip have very little presence in the rest of the country. Total revenue for Car sharing in the US 400 million. compare that to the 28 Billion for traditional car rental. Those numbers really show your "growth". The people who would use the car sharing are now using Uber and Lyft, so I bet you will see what little growth the car sharing industry has seen dissipate
"You're already seeing growth in this year over year in cities with Car2Go."
Comments like these require proof, because the only place Car2go is seeing major growth is in China.
Car2go now only is in 9 US cities after dropping Miami, Arlington, LA, and Eugene. While they may be the largest car sharing service, they are the largest of a small, and shrinking market. (a million registered members is nothing for an international company).
So who really is the moron here?
Who's the moron now?
Since this is not a technical problem (the idea of shared cars has been around a long time), and they have never really taken off. Sure it may work for awhile in certain cities with certain demographics, but on a larger scale these ideas fail. Not because we can't implement them, but because a majority of people won't use them, they will not give up on freedom that car ownership provides.
I don't know about the car culture in Canada, but here in the States it is integral to the modern American experience.
Maybe in Europe, but you fail to take the American Car Culture into consideration. It is a strong part of our natural identity. You will need to have a major cultural shift in this country, a shift I don't think the tech minority really understand. The majority of Americans will not give up their cars to let some computer drive them around. It's a part of the puzzle everyone ignores, it's also the part that pretty much insures that these ideas flop.
You mean like Zipcar and Car2go? Both which have seen miserable stock performance, and in my experience are abject failures. The idea that the American car culture is going to up and vanish with the advent of self driving cars is ludicrous. You are asking for a cultural change, a giving up of the "Freedom of the open road". I have a really hard time seeing the American public embracing it.
Did your Roku stop working or do you just want to spend money? I just want to know because if you use Plex then the interface is pretty much the same across devices, so what do you gain by changing the client?
>and provides a good app store where they can easily find things like Spotify.
I would beg to differ, as you cannot find Spotify on their store right now.
Until Apple had a competing product they were not in the habit of removing streaming apps from their store. Now that they are competing they are adding onerous conditions to their competitors.
So what value is added by Applr removing Spotify from the store. Your argument would hold water if this were voluntary, but it is not. Apple users have no choice but to pay the extra money, not as a convenience but as a requirement for using their hardware, hardware that has already been paid for. An actual Apple tax, unlike the perceived one with regards to their hardware.
Except the market in question is not the smartphone space. It is the streaming music market, which Apple does have sizable control (as in can dictate market prices). That is what may put them in the legal cross hairs. It's not bout the straight numbers, it is about how much control a player has in the market. Apple has been the controlling force in digital music since the beginning (where do you think the current pricing of about a dollar a song came from).
And if we really want to get into it. Apple has 100% control of this particular market, IE the walled garden. they control access to it, and when they decide to compete against you, you will be denied entry. This is very much an anti-trust issue. No less so then Microsoft deciding to bundle a browser (they never charged Netscape a dime for letting them run their program on Windows nor did they deny them the ability to.).
Or you know, have morals.
"which was supposed to protect you from tyrants"
See now that is an interpretation unsupported by the actual amendment. The 2nd was about national defense period. There is absolutely no language in it regarding overthrowing the government. Now there are many "quotes" of founding fathers regarding that idea, but when you actually look into them they rarely pan out.
Like this gem: "A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - G Washington (except he never said it.)
What he actually said was: "A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a Uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the Troops which may be deemed indispensible, will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the Officers and Soldiers with a due regard to economy." - G Washington, annual address to the Senate and House of Representatives on 8 January 1790.
You mean the NRA didn't jump all over the media after Sandy Hook? After Columbine? After every major shooting incident you will see the NRA having major press conferences. So who again is using the tragedy for their political gain?
So make your own gun. Nothing is stopping you.
What non-right gets thrown around as a right? I mean you sound like you think that the Bill of Rights is a list of ALL our rights, even though it specifically says otherwise.
He wasn't talking about Mexico? Because he said Mexico, not illegal immigrants.
"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists." - Trump
What law allows for the taking down of a site (or in this case multiple sites) over a trademark dispute? Them DMCA does not cover trademarks and I know of no other law with the safe harbor provision.
Digitalocean might be in a bit of a bind over this as they have no legal protection from the DMCA safe harbor provision.
I hope it makes sense to their wallet. I would expect at least some of the 37,999 other sites to take legal action.
" The realistic speed for that HDD is 80Mb/s"
Turn in your geek card, as you know nothing about hard drive speeds. In no way is the blu ray drive faster then the internal hard drive. A 5400 rpm sata II drive does not have a transfer speed of 10MB/s, that is slower then the old pata interface. 5400 drives get about 80 to 90 MB/s, that's big b not little b.
You really need to brush up on your rotational media, as you seem to be very confused about what actual speeds are.
Why should people follow building codes? Why should hotels and restaurants follow health codes?
Because we as a people have decided to enact laws that require them to follow the rules to make things safer for us, and because people have proven time and time again, that on their own they will cut corners to make an extra buck.
"get government out of the control business."
No. regulating business is one of governments responsibilities, Businesses do not have a good history of self regulation.
Imagine how I felt when I typed it.
You are the first person to ever comment on my sig. Kudos to you good sir.
I am wondering how the ac got the idea that I must be a scalper from my comment.
One was a credit card the other was ATT, both were contracts you signed, and were nothing like End User license agreements from a legal perspective. Both were offering an ongoing service unlike the one time purchase one makes with software.