It seems most of Trump's appointments have been for people who are the opposite of the best choice for the job.
You noticed that too, eh? I thought it was just me.
His appointments have been the least qualified but most corruptible people he could find.
Either that or they've been the most incompetent people he could find, like picking Ben Carson to run HUD. A man with absolutely zero qualifications in terms of knowing anything, literally anything about the job he's now supposed to do.
Ben Fucking Carson. This is the guy that said he didn't want to head up a cabinet position because he said he felt "unqualified" to do so, but nonetheless had no problem running for president.
Just to note, this is not all bumblebees, it's the Rusty Patched bumblebee that's been put on the endangered list.
Libertarians will simply claim that this is the Free Market at work.
Obviously no one wanted those dang Rusty Patched bumblebees and so they're dying off. They just weren't popular enough or couldn't get their message out or whatever.
Don't worry, this is just the start of the coming unstoppable cascade of ecosystem collapses that will lead to worse and worse effects, including overall destruction of the food supply.
The interlocking domino-effect of multiple large-scale environmental system failures will quickly kill off most plant and animal species, including those in the ocean habitats. It'll happen faster than you think.
Once the tipping point is reached the entire ecosystem will crash- interdependent flora and fauna will die off, most of them before they have a chance to understand something is wrong.
By the way, just in case it hasn't sunk in, you are one of the animal species that's gonna die off. Apex predators are always among the first to go when something disruptive happens. And if wholesale environmental collapse isn't "disruptive", I don't know what is.
Oh sure, the rich people can hide in their doomsday bunkers for a while but no one has stocked 50 years of MREs for each bunker-dweller, and even if they did, so what? The human population will have dwindled well below the minimum biological diversity limit to be able to sustain itself.
Complex systems (like our ecosystem) are fragile and often ridiculously susceptible to small events. Toss a bolt into a running jet engine and you'll see what I mean.
If you sell them as a musician, you will also need a box and inlay.
What if you sell them as a heart surgeon or a carpenter?;)
Seriously though, blank cassette tapes are more expensive than CDs and so are the cases (a quick check of google or amazon will confirm).
CDs are 13~15 cents or less and the cases are about the same. Add in the printed overlay and you might be close to 40 or 50 cents total. You can probably get them even cheaper but I didn't spend much time searching.
Cassettes start out somewhere around a dollar or more with a case, but you still have printing and packaging costs.
Postage will be roughly the same, perhaps a bit more for a cassette but not substantially so.
So no, I don't think cassettes are the answer, especially once you realize that practically no one has a working cassette deck anymore.
If I were selling life-saving supplies in the USA's litigious climate, I would want to recover from each sale the probably-huge cost of insurance against confected claims.
The bottom line is it's not a problem of designing a $34 million quadcopter. It's a problem of designing a quadcopter and then manufacturing and fulfilling $34 million worth of orders.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll design, manufacture, and fulfill $34 million worth of "follow-me" quadcopter orders. And I'll do it in less than a year with a price of about $400 per quadcopter instead of $800.
Did they actually get the full money from the pre-order?
I don't know, but the headline said "...Buyers Will Be Refunded" and the story stated, "they are shutting down the company and will issue refunds", so I'm thinking they took the money upfront.
It sounds like a colossal clusterfuck of epic proportions. I mean, this thing is a fucking toy, it doesn't have to fly to space, survive reentry, or work under battlefield conditions. It's a fucking plastic drone that follows you around.
It was supposed to cost $799. Tell ya what- you give me just $20 million dollars in start-up funding and I'll ship a working product in under a year for $399.
They could either arrive late with a crappy product or give people (some?) money back so they could just buy a Mavic like everyone else. Which would you choose?
For starters I'd choose not to plow my money into anything they ever did again.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll ship a working product. FFS, they could have bought COTS gear and added their own special sauce to make it work.
I don't know the first fucking thing about making a drone that follows you around but give me $34 million dollars and I could fucking well make it happen. This is NOT a $34 million dollar problem; this is maybe a $1 million dollar problem, and that includes the hookers and blow.
All of those things are true of stocks too. Does that make stocks a currency? I don't see many people treating them like one.
It's true of a lot of things. The difference is that 99.9999999999% of bitcoin users will tell you that bitcoin is a currency AND they use it like one. So either there has been a total failure of getting the idea of what bitcoin is across to its users, or it's a currency.
Frankly, I can't find a page that says that bitcoin is not a currency. I'm sure there are some out there but I'm also sure I could find pages that state the Moon is hollow.
If it's not for storing money, am I supposed to constantly be converting my bitcoins back and forth to "real" money or gold or bullets or tulips or whatever? What good is it if I can't use it to store some value?
Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it.
And that's exactly what I do...I have a nice gallery script set up on one of my domains and if people want to see my pics (or share some of their own) then they can go there. No muss, no fuss, no ads, and no spammers crapping all over the site either.
No creepers talking shit or stalking anyone, no lamers uploading pics of this morning's breakfast bagel, and no corporate entities telling me what to buy.
Until InstaCramp can give me that experience, I have no interest in their service.
"What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."
Sounds like a currency to me, and apparently to damn near everyone else who's ever used it:
It can be stored, sent, transferred, or saved. It holds some value and can be used to buy and sell things. It's a form of payment. It can satisfy a debt, and it can increase or decrease in value according to market forces.
If that's not currency then perhaps we should change all the dictionaries or else tell all the bitcoin users that they're "doing it wrong".
"... means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress."
Wrong. Virtually every constitutional scholar disagrees that it means "infringed upon by Congress" or "only by Congress".
That argument was floated around for a while in an attempt to try and gain traction by limiting the scope of who could be doing the "infringement", but it never found any validity on the courts.
Yes, exactly. Only people who have little first-hand experience with law enforcement or the courts would think that being innocent will make things easier.
Or that being innocent even matters.
Many prosecutors couldn't care less about your guilt or innocence- what guides them is if they think they have a winnable case or not.
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No but you are quick enough to point it out (almost like a sense of pride), guess what no one cares...
I can't reply to you because I'm too busy crying. Maybe later.
No.
The story of my life...so close, and yet so far. :(
"The centerpiece of the system is a high-end smartphone with a large edge-to-edge screen that lacks a surrounding bezel."
Oh my GOD!! A phone without a bezel! I must buy one IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Suck it, all you outdated "phone-with-bezel" peasants!!
There's a period after "Apple" that shouldn't be there:
"...a 40-person team, filled with recruits from Apple. and Google, Rubin is..."
It seems most of Trump's appointments have been for people who are the opposite of the best choice for the job.
You noticed that too, eh? I thought it was just me.
His appointments have been the least qualified but most corruptible people he could find.
Either that or they've been the most incompetent people he could find, like picking Ben Carson to run HUD. A man with absolutely zero qualifications in terms of knowing anything, literally anything about the job he's now supposed to do.
Ben Fucking Carson. This is the guy that said he didn't want to head up a cabinet position because he said he felt "unqualified" to do so, but nonetheless had no problem running for president.
Aaaaaand it's gone.
The site is off the air, whether taken down by hackers or by the numbnuts that run the site remains to be seen.
"Have you ever made a cringeworthy mistake in a Facebook post?"
No, because I don't have a fucking Facebook page.
And holy crap, did lil ol' me manage to get a 1st post?
Just to note, this is not all bumblebees, it's the Rusty Patched bumblebee that's been put on the endangered list.
Libertarians will simply claim that this is the Free Market at work.
Obviously no one wanted those dang Rusty Patched bumblebees and so they're dying off. They just weren't popular enough or couldn't get their message out or whatever.
Don't worry, this is just the start of the coming unstoppable cascade of ecosystem collapses that will lead to worse and worse effects, including overall destruction of the food supply.
The interlocking domino-effect of multiple large-scale environmental system failures will quickly kill off most plant and animal species, including those in the ocean habitats. It'll happen faster than you think.
Once the tipping point is reached the entire ecosystem will crash- interdependent flora and fauna will die off, most of them before they have a chance to understand something is wrong.
By the way, just in case it hasn't sunk in, you are one of the animal species that's gonna die off. Apex predators are always among the first to go when something disruptive happens. And if wholesale environmental collapse isn't "disruptive", I don't know what is.
Oh sure, the rich people can hide in their doomsday bunkers for a while but no one has stocked 50 years of MREs for each bunker-dweller, and even if they did, so what? The human population will have dwindled well below the minimum biological diversity limit to be able to sustain itself.
Complex systems (like our ecosystem) are fragile and often ridiculously susceptible to small events. Toss a bolt into a running jet engine and you'll see what I mean.
Happy 2017!
If you sell them as a musician, you will also need a box and inlay.
What if you sell them as a heart surgeon or a carpenter? ;)
Seriously though, blank cassette tapes are more expensive than CDs and so are the cases (a quick check of google or amazon will confirm).
CDs are 13~15 cents or less and the cases are about the same. Add in the printed overlay and you might be close to 40 or 50 cents total. You can probably get them even cheaper but I didn't spend much time searching.
Cassettes start out somewhere around a dollar or more with a case, but you still have printing and packaging costs.
Postage will be roughly the same, perhaps a bit more for a cassette but not substantially so.
So no, I don't think cassettes are the answer, especially once you realize that practically no one has a working cassette deck anymore.
If I were selling life-saving supplies in the USA's litigious climate, I would want to recover from each sale the probably-huge cost of insurance against confected claims.
Okay....and what's your point?
"And Impax is also offering a coupon to reduce the cost to just $9.99 for qualifying patients."
Which means the actual cost of manufacturing an Epi-pen is probably abut 3 or 4 dollars.
From what I gather, the medicine itself is the cheapest component; the container and injector system accounts for ~75% of the cost.
The bottom line is it's not a problem of designing a $34 million quadcopter. It's a problem of designing a quadcopter and then manufacturing and fulfilling $34 million worth of orders.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll design, manufacture, and fulfill $34 million worth of "follow-me" quadcopter orders. And I'll do it in less than a year with a price of about $400 per quadcopter instead of $800.
Doesn't a CD-R cost like 50 cents? Is recording a cassette really cheaper than burning a CD?
Oh god no, they're waaaaaaaay less than that:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...
600 discs for $83 is 0.13 per disc and there are lots of similar deals.
Did they actually get the full money from the pre-order?
I don't know, but the headline said "...Buyers Will Be Refunded" and the story stated, "they are shutting down the company and will issue refunds", so I'm thinking they took the money upfront.
It sounds like a colossal clusterfuck of epic proportions. I mean, this thing is a fucking toy, it doesn't have to fly to space, survive reentry, or work under battlefield conditions. It's a fucking plastic drone that follows you around.
It was supposed to cost $799. Tell ya what- you give me just $20 million dollars in start-up funding and I'll ship a working product in under a year for $399.
They could either arrive late with a crappy product or give people (some?) money back so they could just buy a Mavic like everyone else. Which would you choose?
For starters I'd choose not to plow my money into anything they ever did again.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll ship a working product. FFS, they could have bought COTS gear and added their own special sauce to make it work.
I don't know the first fucking thing about making a drone that follows you around but give me $34 million dollars and I could fucking well make it happen. This is NOT a $34 million dollar problem; this is maybe a $1 million dollar problem, and that includes the hookers and blow.
"The startup, which took pre-orders worth more than $34 million..."
FFS, you had $34 million dollars in your pocket and couldn't ship one fucking product?
They should rename themselves, "Hopeless Lamers Inc" and their company motto should be, "We Can't Do Shit".
Yeah, but WeChat is effectively FaceBook.
Sounds like another reason to avoid it like the plague.
All of those things are true of stocks too. Does that make stocks a currency? I don't see many people treating them like one.
It's true of a lot of things. The difference is that 99.9999999999% of bitcoin users will tell you that bitcoin is a currency AND they use it like one. So either there has been a total failure of getting the idea of what bitcoin is across to its users, or it's a currency.
Frankly, I can't find a page that says that bitcoin is not a currency. I'm sure there are some out there but I'm also sure I could find pages that state the Moon is hollow.
If it's not for storing money, am I supposed to constantly be converting my bitcoins back and forth to "real" money or gold or bullets or tulips or whatever? What good is it if I can't use it to store some value?
Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it.
And that's exactly what I do...I have a nice gallery script set up on one of my domains and if people want to see my pics (or share some of their own) then they can go there. No muss, no fuss, no ads, and no spammers crapping all over the site either.
No creepers talking shit or stalking anyone, no lamers uploading pics of this morning's breakfast bagel, and no corporate entities telling me what to buy.
Until InstaCramp can give me that experience, I have no interest in their service.
Did not see that coming.
Guess you're not as smart as you pretend to be, eh?
"What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."
Sounds like a currency to me, and apparently to damn near everyone else who's ever used it:
It can be stored, sent, transferred, or saved.
It holds some value and can be used to buy and sell things.
It's a form of payment.
It can satisfy a debt, and it can increase or decrease in value according to market forces.
If that's not currency then perhaps we should change all the dictionaries or else tell all the bitcoin users that they're "doing it wrong".
Yay!! More advertising! Just what I always wanted, thank you Instagram!
"... means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress."
Wrong. Virtually every constitutional scholar disagrees that it means "infringed upon by Congress" or "only by Congress".
That argument was floated around for a while in an attempt to try and gain traction by limiting the scope of who could be doing the "infringement", but it never found any validity on the courts.
Yes, exactly. Only people who have little first-hand experience with law enforcement or the courts would think that being innocent will make things easier.
Or that being innocent even matters.
Many prosecutors couldn't care less about your guilt or innocence- what guides them is if they think they have a winnable case or not.