They all have varying rates of toxicity and addictiveness. Alcohol and weed are at the low end of the spectrum on both. Contrary to popular belief, you can OD on weed, at least on the concentrated stuff.
You're right. I should have detailed every fucking cost of ownership of every fucking car over the life of the vehicle no matter how old it is or in what condition you bought it or when you sell it. I think a five dimensional spreadsheet would have done it. I could have whipped it out in a couple of minutes if I got off my lazy ass.
They also have advantages their competitors do not get:
Favorable taxes on their property and fleet.
Enough to offset prefunding retirement for people they won't hire for another 40 years? Enough to make them come by my house every day whether or not they have mail to deliver? Enough to allow them to deliver a letter for 46 cents when FedEx charges $9.50 to deliver a letter across the country?
Originally, the USPS was a government service, subsidized where necessary. It wasn't designed to operate as a private business or to make money. It was OK if it lost money because it was an overall boon to the economy. It worked fine that way for 200 years before it was privatized.
Now it's expected to operate as a private business and turn a profit in the existence of a competive marketplace while bound by rules and financial burdens its competitors do not have to bear. FedEx and UPS do not have to deliver anywhere they don't want to, to deliver on any days they don't want to; they have unregulated rates, don't subsidize anything and don't have to pre-fund retirement benefits.
It's a recipe for destruction. It might be saved by completely removing all regulations OR by giving it real subsidies in exchange for the regulations it bears that its competitors do not. It can't go on the way it is.
Oppo is a Chinese phone manufacturer. OPPO N1 an Android phone that will be preloaded with Cyanogenmod, which is a fully open source, downloadable version of Android. CyanogenMod has been porting and maintaining Android for years for many brands and models of phones.
How likely that combustible substance is to catch fire depends very much on what that substance it and how it's packaged. We have over 100 years of experience with gas and diesel. Both do catch fire. Diesel is a hell of a lot harder to light and doesn't easily make explosive fires. Typically what you get with diesel is a slow burn whereas with gasoline you can get a fireball because it emits explosive vapor when heated.
Now let's look at those numbers again. Tesla had 3 fires in six weeks in a population of 20000 vehicles. The first thing you can say about that is that 3 fires are not going to tell you anything statistically significant. The second thing you can say is that over those six weeks there was about 1 fire per week per 40000 vehicles and if fires were to continue at that rate it would give you one fire per year per 769 vehicles.
Based on the estimate of 150000 vehicle fires per year in the USA out of 254 million vehicles, there is about 1 vehicle fire per year per 1693 vehicles.
Again, the stats are not yet high enough to warrant a conclusion that Tesla S is more fire prone than typical vehicles. It's quite likely that the occurrence of those fires within a short period is a statistical anomaly but it doesn't hurt to be proactive and look at the subsystems that have caught fire to try and see if there is a problem here.
A 2012 Eclipse goes for $15K in excellent condition. Excellent condition is typical for a 2012. New they were $19K. That's $4k depreciation the first year. A 2007 goes for $7k in good condition. Good condition is typical for a 2007. It's 5 years older than the 2012 and depreciated $8000, averaging $1600 depreciation per year. But it was a cheap car to begin with.
Do the same math for a mid price car, a Chevy Impala 2014 LT sedan goes for $28.5k. A five year (2009) old one in good condition goes for $9687 in good condition. It depreciated 19k in 5 years, averaging $3800 depreciation per year.
It depends on what you drive. Obviously it's cheaper to drive a cheap car.
I have a hard time seeing that as wrong. Why should paid links not be at the top of their search results? Do they sue the billboard companies for only putting ads from paying customers on their billboards?
The cost of fuel is a minor part of the cost of operation and maintenance of a car. Let's say you drive 12,000 miles/year (a moderate amount) at 30MPG. That only costs you $1400/year in fuel if you get 30MPG. But maintenance is at least another $1000/year and depreciation is something like $3000/year on average. Insurance costs you maybe another $1000/year. So the total cost of all that driving is something like $6400/year.
Now assume you could make all those trips on public transportation. How many trips per year would you make? At 4 trips per day, you'd break even if they cost you an average of $4.38.
Not cabs. That's much more expensive than driving myself. If the trains and buses when where I want to go on reasonable schedules, I would take them, as I did when I lived in the suburbs and went to school downtown. But sadly, public transportation really sucks between where I live and where I work.
What do you mean, then? Are you going by the strict "it can be touched" meaning of tangible? I was going by the looser "it can be perceived" meaning. Either way, advertisements are more tangible than software but less tangible than houses.
I think he's in for a rather unfortunate future. The Russians will have had all the PR and spy info out of him that can be got in a year or so and when he's of no further use to them, what then? He could be stuck in Russia for years, decades even, under a state even more corrupt and considerably less free than the one he left.
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Wait a minute. Nobody said that abuse will not kill you. You just won't have a hangover.
They all have varying rates of toxicity and addictiveness. Alcohol and weed are at the low end of the spectrum on both. Contrary to popular belief, you can OD on weed, at least on the concentrated stuff.
The drug "GHB" does exactly this.
Unfortunately, high doses can cause coma.
Unlike alcohol?
And, it is illegal.
Sure is.
Some things to point out:
1. The device shown is way bigger than a cell phone.
2. The amount of power you want out of the device would determine how big you make your collector horn.
3. It looks like you could modify that design so the horn folds up nicely.
4. It doesn't have to work everywhere for every device to be useful somewhere for some device.
You're right. I should have detailed every fucking cost of ownership of every fucking car over the life of the vehicle no matter how old it is or in what condition you bought it or when you sell it. I think a five dimensional spreadsheet would have done it. I could have whipped it out in a couple of minutes if I got off my lazy ass.
My bad.
They also have advantages their competitors do not get:
Favorable taxes on their property and fleet.
Enough to offset prefunding retirement for people they won't hire for another 40 years? Enough to make them come by my house every day whether or not they have mail to deliver? Enough to allow them to deliver a letter for 46 cents when FedEx charges $9.50 to deliver a letter across the country?
Implicit backing of the US gvt.
That and two-fifty will get you a cup of coffee.
Originally, the USPS was a government service, subsidized where necessary. It wasn't designed to operate as a private business or to make money. It was OK if it lost money because it was an overall boon to the economy. It worked fine that way for 200 years before it was privatized.
Now it's expected to operate as a private business and turn a profit in the existence of a competive marketplace while bound by rules and financial burdens its competitors do not have to bear. FedEx and UPS do not have to deliver anywhere they don't want to, to deliver on any days they don't want to; they have unregulated rates, don't subsidize anything and don't have to pre-fund retirement benefits.
It's a recipe for destruction. It might be saved by completely removing all regulations OR by giving it real subsidies in exchange for the regulations it bears that its competitors do not. It can't go on the way it is.
What do you mean? They're already extensively privatized.
Until they change the law so it clearly says it's a user's right to unlock his own phone whenever he wants, most steer clear of this.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/federal-mandate-makes-unlocking-cellphones-a-punishable-crime/
Oppo is a Chinese phone manufacturer. OPPO N1 an Android phone that will be preloaded with Cyanogenmod, which is a fully open source, downloadable version of Android. CyanogenMod has been porting and maintaining Android for years for many brands and models of phones.
How likely that combustible substance is to catch fire depends very much on what that substance it and how it's packaged. We have over 100 years of experience with gas and diesel. Both do catch fire. Diesel is a hell of a lot harder to light and doesn't easily make explosive fires. Typically what you get with diesel is a slow burn whereas with gasoline you can get a fireball because it emits explosive vapor when heated.
Now let's look at those numbers again. Tesla had 3 fires in six weeks in a population of 20000 vehicles. The first thing you can say about that is that 3 fires are not going to tell you anything statistically significant. The second thing you can say is that over those six weeks there was about 1 fire per week per 40000 vehicles and if fires were to continue at that rate it would give you one fire per year per 769 vehicles.
Based on the estimate of 150000 vehicle fires per year in the USA out of 254 million vehicles, there is about 1 vehicle fire per year per 1693 vehicles.
Again, the stats are not yet high enough to warrant a conclusion that Tesla S is more fire prone than typical vehicles. It's quite likely that the occurrence of those fires within a short period is a statistical anomaly but it doesn't hurt to be proactive and look at the subsystems that have caught fire to try and see if there is a problem here.
37 percent of the radio energy incident on the device, under the conditions tested.
A 2012 Eclipse goes for $15K in excellent condition. Excellent condition is typical for a 2012. New they were $19K. That's $4k depreciation the first year. A 2007 goes for $7k in good condition. Good condition is typical for a 2007. It's 5 years older than the 2012 and depreciated $8000, averaging $1600 depreciation per year.
But it was a cheap car to begin with.
Do the same math for a mid price car, a Chevy Impala 2014 LT sedan goes for $28.5k. A five year (2009) old one in good condition goes for $9687 in good condition. It depreciated 19k in 5 years, averaging $3800 depreciation per year.
It depends on what you drive. Obviously it's cheaper to drive a cheap car.
Three fires is not trivial out of the small number of these cars they have sold.
Metal piercing a gas tank almost always just causes all the fuel to leak out on the ground. It rarely catches fire.
I have a hard time seeing that as wrong. Why should paid links not be at the top of their search results? Do they sue the billboard companies for only putting ads from paying customers on their billboards?
The cost of fuel is a minor part of the cost of operation and maintenance of a car. Let's say you drive 12,000 miles/year (a moderate amount) at 30MPG. That only costs you $1400/year in fuel if you get 30MPG. But maintenance is at least another $1000/year and depreciation is something like $3000/year on average. Insurance costs you maybe another $1000/year. So the total cost of all that driving is something like $6400/year.
Now assume you could make all those trips on public transportation. How many trips per year would you make? At 4 trips per day, you'd break even if they cost you an average of $4.38.
Not cabs. That's much more expensive than driving myself. If the trains and buses when where I want to go on reasonable schedules, I would take them, as I did when I lived in the suburbs and went to school downtown. But sadly, public transportation really sucks between where I live and where I work.
I bet they could make $100,000,000 the first day.
This information is completely missing from the summary and from the article it links to.
it's not a bribe, it's a contract. how is this news?
They can't call it a contract. If they did, it would be too obvious that isn't not a new business method so you couldn't patent it.
What do you mean, then? Are you going by the strict "it can be touched" meaning of tangible? I was going by the looser "it can be perceived" meaning. Either way, advertisements are more tangible than software but less tangible than houses.
Social networking companies are at risk because they don't have a tangible product just as dotcom companies didn't in 2000.
Social networking companies do have a product: advertising.
The problem is a *debt* bubble.
A stock bubble is not a debt bubble,
Tell that to 1929.
I think he's in for a rather unfortunate future. The Russians will have had all the PR and spy info out of him that can be got in a year or so and when he's of no further use to them, what then? He could be stuck in Russia for years, decades even, under a state even more corrupt and considerably less free than the one he left.