EU had already admitted Greece, and see how "well" it worked? Turkey is much bigger than Greece, has even more different culture and economy from the West Europe, and most of the Turkey is not even in Europe.
Nokia was sinking long before Elop and that was obvious to everybody, that was the reason Elop was hired in the first place. Elop just stated well known facts. And managed to get billions from MS to Nokia shareholders for worthless dying business.
Their market share was quickly going down before Elop was hired to to "fix" it. They were doomed. Switching to Android was not a solution, then they would need to compete with Chinese and Korean manufacturers for bottom price with no R&D investment, and that was obviously hopeless. My guess would be that they were not able to adopt to completely different software development model when going from dumbphones to smartphones. But that happened years before Elop.
They are free to sell everywhere where they want, just by using independent dealers like everybody in the US market does. You may hate all these "finance managers" at autodealers and I wholeheartedly agree that they are much worse than used car salesman. But Tesla is just gaming your emotions here, it looks their true goal is monopoly on spare part supply and control who can get spare parts and who don't, and ultimately what you will pay for car maintenance. You can't do some significant repair to Tesla car without going to "authorized" facility and paying a lot. Some owners say they just disable car charging remotely (every one has mobile network connection) until you go to them. It would be impossible with independent dealers competing with each other.
You don't need it in city, it is not 50 mile range EV. You can recharge on your way home or on your way back to the city. Most people need them on highways every 100 (or more) miles and that is all.
Diesel cars were pushed quite hard in Europe, and what is the result? Now they see all these terrible cancerogenic black fume emitting noisy junk cars in the middle of big cities and try to push hard to restrict diesel cars. Diesels cars just don't pay off in most cases, they way more expensive, and their maintenance and repair costs are much higher. They may pay off in case of very high millage and expensive fuel, like $5/gal in EU, but that is all.
"the concept home ownership is a relic of the past for most people aside from the extremely rich". Wow!!! You must be true Californian. The land that taxed and regulated itself to death;)
There is no any fundamental problems that make an outlet in condo parking place impossible. It costs very little money to install it, and even add a meter. You don't see outlets because there are very few EVs and homeowners don't care. As soon as ESs become more popular, you will get outlets in condo parking too.
This is grossly exaggerated or complete lie. Cobalt, most expensive part of batteries, is produced in many countries. 40% in Congo and less than 10% in China. Sure China imports a lot of it as China is world factory. The US isn't energy independent and will never be, global trade doesn't allow it.
It is funny, why just for a day? Do you think martians will come next day to the rescue and produce all that failed grid equipment that takes months to manufacture? Do you really think gas stations will continue to operate without electricity? Or can you get gas by just digging deep enough in your backyard?
"It is connected to the Internet." - sure, what a great idea! Now every hacker from Chinese Army will be able to operate your car;) And self-driving cars are just around the corner, Internet connected car should be mandatory. I perfectly understand that Tesla, as any for profit corporation, may be dreaming about some kind of monopoly, when they can remotely disable your car, only they can decide if they want to sell you spare part or not, if you are allowed to fix something on your own car or go to their "authorized" facility that may quote something like $11,000 for bent fender replacement to recoup authorization fees. What a great corporate dream! But no, thanks, I don't want it, I would better stay free from their corporate control.
I wonder what people are thinking (if they are capable of thinking at all) when they put such Big Brother device into their car port. For me the showstopper was when I read that Progressive has no responsibility if their device fries car electronics, and some people claim it happened. Then I found that other insurance companies give the same or lower rate as Progressive "reduced" rate. So what is the point of this? You need to let them track you just to get normal insurance rate, and take responsibility for their crappy hardware. Switching insurance company is much simpler.
Newer air heat pumps like Mitsubishi ones have just the same efficiency down to -15C, and retain some advantage over resistive heaters up to -25C. And in France it doesn't really matter, it very rarely gets that cold there.
I thought things like x-ray examination and grain analysis are mandatory for every semi-critical product in the steel industry. And they putting some untested struts in the rocket that costs many millions? How can it happen?
p.s. And they have integrated SIP client which means you don't need some extra SIP software and don't need to mess with something extra when making a call, just choose SIP or mobile provider at call time. Great, except that configuration interface is unfinished and it often hangs up for unknown reason when you go out of wifi coverage.
I have a live N8 in front of me, with latest software update. Yes, the hardware is better than any competitor's one and the features are great until it comes to actually using software. Browser crashes as soon as you try to scroll before page is fully loaded. Some older version didn't crash, but was sluggish. Offline GPS - great, except that in latest version it doesn't work half of the time. Often you can wait for half an hour and it can't find your location until you get online. You can't even change interface language without hacking your phone using service software if it's was sold for some other country. Yet more software fragmentation that makes impossible to debug software up to production state. You need to be a geek to use it efficiently.
Public transport in Tallinn is free for Tallinn residents only. It is done to encourage people to register as Tallinn residents instead of residents of some locality over the city border, and not "to encourage people to leave their cars at home".
And no, most places in the US are not that densely populated and can't have any public transport (at reasonable cost) that is remotely as convenient as your own car. There are exceptions like NYC, but these are exceptions.
You are asking for certain IRS audit and overturn if you paying just 30k out of 100k as salary in S corporation that is one person company. It is not reasonable, IRS would require you to prove that 30k is normal wage for the kind of work you perform, and if you actually earned 100k, it is more likely to be normal wage. 80k out of 100k may allow you to pass under radar, but not 30k. And you can write off expenses even if you are not incorporated.
This is the same how it may work in regular taxi companies, except that means of communication are different. The whole business model competitive advantage is skipping on employee taxes and regulations and marketing it as "cool new thing", that is all.
Insurance is not charity. In the end you pay the same money you can actually loose plus hefty extra for profit. There is no point to pay for insurance if you can handle potential loss on your own.
Actually you can do the same with gmail address and many other email servers (but not all). I.e. if you have foo@bar.com, you can use foo+anyRandomString@bar.com. Too bad many lame email checkers don't understand that + is valid character in email address.
Sure it is not just Krugman, but it doesn't really matter. There is no "dropping money from copters" solution for Greece. It is not possible until it starts devaluing it's own currency. Even then it would not be a solution, but a patch, problems are much deeper than just temporary economical cycle. Most prominent historical example is USSR. At it's last days it was spending more and more, printing more and more devalued money, just like from keynesian textbook. It didn't help to avoid bankruptcy.
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EU had already admitted Greece, and see how "well" it worked? Turkey is much bigger than Greece, has even more different culture and economy from the West Europe, and most of the Turkey is not even in Europe.
Nokia was sinking long before Elop and that was obvious to everybody, that was the reason Elop was hired in the first place. Elop just stated well known facts. And managed to get billions from MS to Nokia shareholders for worthless dying business.
Their market share was quickly going down before Elop was hired to to "fix" it. They were doomed. Switching to Android was not a solution, then they would need to compete with Chinese and Korean manufacturers for bottom price with no R&D investment, and that was obviously hopeless. My guess would be that they were not able to adopt to completely different software development model when going from dumbphones to smartphones. But that happened years before Elop.
They are free to sell everywhere where they want, just by using independent dealers like everybody in the US market does. You may hate all these "finance managers" at autodealers and I wholeheartedly agree that they are much worse than used car salesman. But Tesla is just gaming your emotions here, it looks their true goal is monopoly on spare part supply and control who can get spare parts and who don't, and ultimately what you will pay for car maintenance. You can't do some significant repair to Tesla car without going to "authorized" facility and paying a lot. Some owners say they just disable car charging remotely (every one has mobile network connection) until you go to them.
It would be impossible with independent dealers competing with each other.
You don't need it in city, it is not 50 mile range EV. You can recharge on your way home or on your way back to the city. Most people need them on highways every 100 (or more) miles and that is all.
Diesel cars were pushed quite hard in Europe, and what is the result? Now they see all these terrible cancerogenic black fume emitting noisy junk cars in the middle of big cities and try to push hard to restrict diesel cars. Diesels cars just don't pay off in most cases, they way more expensive, and their maintenance and repair costs are much higher. They may pay off in case of very high millage and expensive fuel, like $5/gal in EU, but that is all.
And I don't care about boat trailer, why should I?
And it is just small fraction of gas price
"the concept home ownership is a relic of the past for most people aside from the extremely rich". ;)
Wow!!! You must be true Californian. The land that taxed and regulated itself to death
There is no any fundamental problems that make an outlet in condo parking place impossible. It costs very little money to install it, and even add a meter. You don't see outlets because there are very few EVs and homeowners don't care. As soon as ESs become more popular, you will get outlets in condo parking too.
This is grossly exaggerated or complete lie. Cobalt, most expensive part of batteries, is produced in many countries. 40% in Congo and less than 10% in China. Sure China imports a lot of it as China is world factory. The US isn't energy independent and will never be, global trade doesn't allow it.
It is funny, why just for a day? Do you think martians will come next day to the rescue and produce all that failed grid equipment that takes months to manufacture? Do you really think gas stations will continue to operate without electricity? Or can you get gas by just digging deep enough in your backyard?
Solar panels however may survive just fine.
"It is connected to the Internet." - sure, what a great idea! Now every hacker from Chinese Army will be able to operate your car ;) And self-driving cars are just around the corner, Internet connected car should be mandatory.
I perfectly understand that Tesla, as any for profit corporation, may be dreaming about some kind of monopoly, when they can remotely disable your car, only they can decide if they want to sell you spare part or not, if you are allowed to fix something on your own car or go to their "authorized" facility that may quote something like $11,000 for bent fender replacement to recoup authorization fees. What a great corporate dream! But no, thanks, I don't want it, I would better stay free from their corporate control.
I wonder what people are thinking (if they are capable of thinking at all) when they put such Big Brother device into their car port. For me the showstopper was when I read that Progressive has no responsibility if their device fries car electronics, and some people claim it happened. Then I found that other insurance companies give the same or lower rate as Progressive "reduced" rate. So what is the point of this? You need to let them track you just to get normal insurance rate, and take responsibility for their crappy hardware. Switching insurance company is much simpler.
I don't think they solved too high price problem.
Newer air heat pumps like Mitsubishi ones have just the same efficiency down to -15C, and retain some advantage over resistive heaters up to -25C.
And in France it doesn't really matter, it very rarely gets that cold there.
I thought things like x-ray examination and grain analysis are mandatory for every semi-critical product in the steel industry.
And they putting some untested struts in the rocket that costs many millions? How can it happen?
p.s. And they have integrated SIP client which means you don't need some extra SIP software and don't need to mess with something extra when making a call, just choose SIP or mobile provider at call time. Great, except that configuration interface is unfinished and it often hangs up for unknown reason when you go out of wifi coverage.
I have a live N8 in front of me, with latest software update. Yes, the hardware is better than any competitor's one and the features are great until it comes to actually using software.
Browser crashes as soon as you try to scroll before page is fully loaded. Some older version didn't crash, but was sluggish.
Offline GPS - great, except that in latest version it doesn't work half of the time. Often you can wait for half an hour and it can't find your location until you get online.
You can't even change interface language without hacking your phone using service software if it's was sold for some other country. Yet more software fragmentation that makes impossible to debug software up to production state.
You need to be a geek to use it efficiently.
Public transport in Tallinn is free for Tallinn residents only. It is done to encourage people to register as Tallinn residents instead of residents of some locality over the city border, and not "to encourage people to leave their cars at home".
And no, most places in the US are not that densely populated and can't have any public transport (at reasonable cost) that is remotely as convenient as your own car. There are exceptions like NYC, but these are exceptions.
You are asking for certain IRS audit and overturn if you paying just 30k out of 100k as salary in S corporation that is one person company. It is not reasonable, IRS would require you to prove that 30k is normal wage for the kind of work you perform, and if you actually earned 100k, it is more likely to be normal wage. 80k out of 100k may allow you to pass under radar, but not 30k. And you can write off expenses even if you are not incorporated.
This is the same how it may work in regular taxi companies, except that means of communication are different.
The whole business model competitive advantage is skipping on employee taxes and regulations and marketing it as "cool new thing", that is all.
Insurance is not charity. In the end you pay the same money you can actually loose plus hefty extra for profit. There is no point to pay for insurance if you can handle potential loss on your own.
Actually you can do the same with gmail address and many other email servers (but not all). I.e. if you have foo@bar.com, you can use foo+anyRandomString@bar.com. Too bad many lame email checkers don't understand that + is valid character in email address.
Sure it is not just Krugman, but it doesn't really matter. There is no "dropping money from copters" solution for Greece. It is not possible until it starts devaluing it's own currency. Even then it would not be a solution, but a patch, problems are much deeper than just temporary economical cycle. Most prominent historical example is USSR. At it's last days it was spending more and more, printing more and more devalued money, just like from keynesian textbook. It didn't help to avoid bankruptcy.