Oh... only a 10% swing. In an afternoon. Yeah, gimme some of that Bitcoin so I can price out my goods and services to you. Oh wait... how much should I charge you? Hmmmm I'll just wait until bitcoin settles down a bit and becomes more stable. LOL. A virtual "currency" that is completely fucking useless as an actual currency. The whole POINT of money is everyone pretty much agrees how much it's worth. Oh this changes slowly over time. SLOWLY. Not 10% or more in a day. The British Pound falls 10% in a day and markets panic. The US dollar swings 10% in a day and economies would collapse all around the world.
Yeah in first world shitholes they just toss flashbangs into baby cribs at the wrong address and are cleared of any wrongdoing despite mutilating a child who was obviously guilty of SOMETHING.
This is true. Tactical entry, "no knock" warrants, etc used to be reserved for known dangerous criminals. We're almost at the point now where they're busting down your door for parking tickets. Cos admit it - busting down doors is fun. The cops paid for this tactical team and equipment, and by god they are going to use it.... it's human nature. And this trend is not just in the US. I'm an expat living in Costa Rica and I was amazed the other day when on the news I saw a tactical team busting down the doors and windows of a house to get a guy wanted for.... not paying his municipal taxes. OH MY GOD what a hardened criminal! Surely he was waiting for them with "my little friend"!
This was a lease. If it's a lease, it's still the dealer's car. Hence the whole reason the GPS was installed in the first place. It stops being the dealer's car once the dealer is paid in full. The naughty part is that the dealer probably didn't tell him about the tracker and the removal fee. The client should be informed, and the removal fee should be built into the lease price.
Well, if it's any consolation to you, you're never going to gain any sort of power, and nobody really wants to look at whatever is on your screen, beyond stealing your credit card number.
What people like you seem to fail to understand is that if I can collect and store data on EVERYBODY then in the future if I happen to be pissed off at YOU for whatever reason, I can go back through all that data I've collected and find something you said or did which I can use against you. Because EVERYONE commits some crime or other. EVERYONE. Government should never have such power.
"Give me 6 lines written by the most honest of men and in them I will find something which will hang him" -- Cardinal Richelieu
I'm sure there's a few months' lag in compiling the data and then processing it. Things have happened since Q1 2017 that make Roku less than useless for many users. I expect this growth spurt to be rather short lived. Before you pile your life savings into the IPO...
Funny I just bought stuff at the corner store and the checkout girl's eyes glazed over when I asked if I could pay in BTC. Then I ordered some delivery from a fast food joint and once again the dude on the phone said "what?" when I asked if I could pay in BTC. Some standard you have there.
I'd expect you to lower the amount of bitcoin you expect.
Oh, so you admit that BTC has no real value because even you want to peg it to some other fiat currency. You just proved why BTC will never become a standard. Everyone is looking to see what BTC can get them in USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, etc and not BTC as a store of real value.
If people were planning on keeping BTC, everyone would be flocking to BTC to use it as a long term store of value and everyone would be thinking how many BTC their government issue fiat currency could buy them. After all, it has already been pointed out that BTC keeps gaining value. So only a fool would not want to store say their life savings in BTC. People don't though - why is that? Because they know that BTC's exponential growth is speculative only.
Bitcoin is not gold. Bitcoin requires knowledge of computers, a working network, and the willing participation of many people. Gold is gold. Go to some remote village in Africa and put a piece of paper on the ground with a bitcoin wallet code, and a gold nugget next to it. Guess which one gets picked up every time.
there is nothing less real about Bitcoin than other fiat currency.
Oh yes there is. If you think a country's government and central banks don't have real power then you haven't been paying attention. The US dollar is backed by the US government and the US military. Start messing around with the US dollar and see how long it takes before you get sanctioned, invaded or both.
That's part of the problem. Bitcoin is far from being any sort of common currency, so any merchant will be thinking about converting BTC back to USD or whatever other local currency. When BTC price fluctuates so much - why should I offer to sell you something today when I could make more USD by selling it to you tomorrow? Conversely why should I accept BTC from you today if I could lose money just due to BTC's daily price fluctuations. After all, I am not guaranteed to be able to cash out my BTC instantly - there's an arbitrary delay. If I'm a merchant and my profit margin is 10%, I'd be a fool to commit to a price in a currency that has been known to swing 30% or more during a single day. That is why BTC won't be mainstream until it stops being so volatile. And it will never stop being volatile because speculation is the only thing driving BTC.
Yeah, I'm not saying I don't want to see these things happen. I'm saying I doubt they will be profitable at all. Either they will be dangerous as fuck and the occasional one will kill its passengers once in a while, or they will be so packed with safety and redundancy equipment and require so much maintenance that they won't leave any room for profit.
parachutes are a perfectly viable solution. Not for the occupants individually, but for the whole craft.
And what do you do when the vehicle lands on a busy highway in front of a semi, or a city intersection in front of a bus? Or on top of a pedestrian? You can do a perfect landing as far as the unit is concerned and still kill people. I don't think "It's not our fault" is going to work. The more units you have running, the greater the probability that eventually a unit will fail and someone is going to die - especially when you plan on using them in a dense urban area because after all that's probably the only place they'd be useful. My money is on sooner rather than later.
But cars (including electric cars) fail all the time. An airborne vehicle risks death or injury with a single failure. Even auto-land features on failure detected, etc are not foolproof due to the complexity of flight. What happens when you auto-land on a sloped building roof 300 feet in the air, or the middle of a lake? Exactly how much reserve do you think you can build into it? Redundancy and reserve adds complexity and weight, with eats into profit margins. Landing a passenger aircraft is far more complicated than pulling over to the curb in a passenger vehicle.
an air taxi will pretty much sell itself if it works
It will be great until they start dropping out of the sky. There's a reason everything air travel related is so expensive. The standards both in engineering and materials quality are higher, as is the maintenance required. Anyone thinking an "air taxi" operation will be a hands-off affair no more complicated that running a few drones is in for a serious wake-up call - to the point where I don't even think it's possible to make a profit. Unless, as I said, you don't care when they start dropping out of the sky. But I'm pretty sure your passengers will let you know that they do care.
Nope, it's a plutocracy and cronyism is the only way to go if you want to get anywhere. Suck up to someone in the game and you'll get some. Otherwise you'll always be a serf.
I have kodi on an android set top box separated from my computer. So if ever it's used to spy on me they're more than welcome to see whatever is on that box and nothing else. I was using Plex/Roku but both Roku and Plex have started acting like assholes and MPAA police/shills. They're both gone.
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Oh... only a 10% swing. In an afternoon. Yeah, gimme some of that Bitcoin so I can price out my goods and services to you. Oh wait... how much should I charge you? Hmmmm I'll just wait until bitcoin settles down a bit and becomes more stable. LOL. A virtual "currency" that is completely fucking useless as an actual currency. The whole POINT of money is everyone pretty much agrees how much it's worth. Oh this changes slowly over time. SLOWLY. Not 10% or more in a day. The British Pound falls 10% in a day and markets panic. The US dollar swings 10% in a day and economies would collapse all around the world.
Down is pretty much guaranteed at this point.
The belief that there is always someone out there willing to pay more and bug it off you.
And there is. Until suddenly there isn't. And least I can short Amazon and Tesla.
(looking at you, Dune
Nothing "posthumous" about THAT. Merely a son bad at writing trying to fill his father's shoes and failing miserably.
Yeah in first world shitholes they just toss flashbangs into baby cribs at the wrong address and are cleared of any wrongdoing despite mutilating a child who was obviously guilty of SOMETHING.
This is true. Tactical entry, "no knock" warrants, etc used to be reserved for known dangerous criminals. We're almost at the point now where they're busting down your door for parking tickets. Cos admit it - busting down doors is fun. The cops paid for this tactical team and equipment, and by god they are going to use it.... it's human nature. And this trend is not just in the US. I'm an expat living in Costa Rica and I was amazed the other day when on the news I saw a tactical team busting down the doors and windows of a house to get a guy wanted for.... not paying his municipal taxes. OH MY GOD what a hardened criminal! Surely he was waiting for them with "my little friend"!
This was a lease. If it's a lease, it's still the dealer's car. Hence the whole reason the GPS was installed in the first place. It stops being the dealer's car once the dealer is paid in full. The naughty part is that the dealer probably didn't tell him about the tracker and the removal fee. The client should be informed, and the removal fee should be built into the lease price.
Well, if it's any consolation to you, you're never going to gain any sort of power, and nobody really wants to look at whatever is on your screen, beyond stealing your credit card number.
What people like you seem to fail to understand is that if I can collect and store data on EVERYBODY then in the future if I happen to be pissed off at YOU for whatever reason, I can go back through all that data I've collected and find something you said or did which I can use against you. Because EVERYONE commits some crime or other. EVERYONE. Government should never have such power.
"Give me 6 lines written by the most honest of men and in them I will find something which will hang him" -- Cardinal Richelieu
And the panel listens to the best sales pitch of one person.
Nope. I remember reading that the human eye needs at least 6 photons per second in order to trigger depolarization of nerves.
I'm sure there's a few months' lag in compiling the data and then processing it. Things have happened since Q1 2017 that make Roku less than useless for many users. I expect this growth spurt to be rather short lived. Before you pile your life savings into the IPO...
Bitcoin is already a standard.
Funny I just bought stuff at the corner store and the checkout girl's eyes glazed over when I asked if I could pay in BTC. Then I ordered some delivery from a fast food joint and once again the dude on the phone said "what?" when I asked if I could pay in BTC. Some standard you have there.
I'd expect you to lower the amount of bitcoin you expect.
Oh, so you admit that BTC has no real value because even you want to peg it to some other fiat currency. You just proved why BTC will never become a standard. Everyone is looking to see what BTC can get them in USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, etc and not BTC as a store of real value.
If people were planning on keeping BTC, everyone would be flocking to BTC to use it as a long term store of value and everyone would be thinking how many BTC their government issue fiat currency could buy them. After all, it has already been pointed out that BTC keeps gaining value. So only a fool would not want to store say their life savings in BTC. People don't though - why is that? Because they know that BTC's exponential growth is speculative only.
On the other hand, the long term trend of bitcoin value has been up
So back to problem 1 - why should I agree to sell you something today when I can make more money by waiting and selling it to you tomorrow?
Bitcoin is not gold. Bitcoin requires knowledge of computers, a working network, and the willing participation of many people. Gold is gold. Go to some remote village in Africa and put a piece of paper on the ground with a bitcoin wallet code, and a gold nugget next to it. Guess which one gets picked up every time.
there is nothing less real about Bitcoin than other fiat currency.
Oh yes there is. If you think a country's government and central banks don't have real power then you haven't been paying attention. The US dollar is backed by the US government and the US military. Start messing around with the US dollar and see how long it takes before you get sanctioned, invaded or both.
That's part of the problem. Bitcoin is far from being any sort of common currency, so any merchant will be thinking about converting BTC back to USD or whatever other local currency. When BTC price fluctuates so much - why should I offer to sell you something today when I could make more USD by selling it to you tomorrow? Conversely why should I accept BTC from you today if I could lose money just due to BTC's daily price fluctuations. After all, I am not guaranteed to be able to cash out my BTC instantly - there's an arbitrary delay. If I'm a merchant and my profit margin is 10%, I'd be a fool to commit to a price in a currency that has been known to swing 30% or more during a single day. That is why BTC won't be mainstream until it stops being so volatile. And it will never stop being volatile because speculation is the only thing driving BTC.
Yeah, I'm not saying I don't want to see these things happen. I'm saying I doubt they will be profitable at all. Either they will be dangerous as fuck and the occasional one will kill its passengers once in a while, or they will be so packed with safety and redundancy equipment and require so much maintenance that they won't leave any room for profit.
parachutes are a perfectly viable solution. Not for the occupants individually, but for the whole craft.
And what do you do when the vehicle lands on a busy highway in front of a semi, or a city intersection in front of a bus? Or on top of a pedestrian? You can do a perfect landing as far as the unit is concerned and still kill people. I don't think "It's not our fault" is going to work. The more units you have running, the greater the probability that eventually a unit will fail and someone is going to die - especially when you plan on using them in a dense urban area because after all that's probably the only place they'd be useful. My money is on sooner rather than later.
But cars (including electric cars) fail all the time. An airborne vehicle risks death or injury with a single failure. Even auto-land features on failure detected, etc are not foolproof due to the complexity of flight. What happens when you auto-land on a sloped building roof 300 feet in the air, or the middle of a lake? Exactly how much reserve do you think you can build into it? Redundancy and reserve adds complexity and weight, with eats into profit margins. Landing a passenger aircraft is far more complicated than pulling over to the curb in a passenger vehicle.
Dubai, apparently.
an air taxi will pretty much sell itself if it works
It will be great until they start dropping out of the sky. There's a reason everything air travel related is so expensive. The standards both in engineering and materials quality are higher, as is the maintenance required. Anyone thinking an "air taxi" operation will be a hands-off affair no more complicated that running a few drones is in for a serious wake-up call - to the point where I don't even think it's possible to make a profit. Unless, as I said, you don't care when they start dropping out of the sky. But I'm pretty sure your passengers will let you know that they do care.
Nope, it's a plutocracy and cronyism is the only way to go if you want to get anywhere. Suck up to someone in the game and you'll get some. Otherwise you'll always be a serf.
* Except for the limits.
I have kodi on an android set top box separated from my computer. So if ever it's used to spy on me they're more than welcome to see whatever is on that box and nothing else. I was using Plex/Roku but both Roku and Plex have started acting like assholes and MPAA police/shills. They're both gone.