Most large amusement parks offer "fast lanes", "fast pass", etc, so you can skip the long lines. Many public highways have express lanes with tolls. Or HOV lanes you can use if you buy an EV or Hybrid. Airlines, trains, etc, offer different classes of service at different price points. Theater and show tickets have different prices for different locations in the theater, assuming you could buy them at all. They cost much more when you buy through a ticket broker. Every manufacturer offers volume based pricing.
You go to Chuck-E-Cheese and you buy a game card with credits on it. You spend a couple of hours "gambling" for crappy in-restaurant tickets. You exchange these tickets for crappy toys. This has been going on for, what, 50 years? Why do we add "on the computer" and get upset?
There is no gamble. All machines that give tickets give them regardless of how you play. The tickets can be purchased for 1 cent each. As a parent I couldn't care less about the tickets, we are there to have some fun playing games. But the kids like counting them up and trading them in for some candy or a trinket or something.
Yes, Yuri was the first human in space, beating the Americans by a couple of months. He didn't land on the moon, drive around in a lunar rover, and come back. Keep up.
And the USSR had rovers driving around the Moon 50 years ago and even sent robots that returned with lunar soil samples. Remembering how far behind the USSR was in 1917 and/or in 1945 after losing 13.7% of its population and lots of infrastructure in WWII, it's quite amazing how well they did. The USA had a huge advantage going into the space race.
Sure. But no humans. This was about humans in space. Agree though that the Soviets had some great scientists working under very difficult conditions.
Also, unlike the USA, the Russians still have the capability to send a human into space.
Big deal. Americans were driving around on the moon taking pictures and collecting souvenirs almost 50 years ago.
Exactly. 50 years ago. Not today.
Been there, done that. Yet you believe other nations are innovating when they haven't caught up to where the Americans were 50 years ago. Let me know when they send someone there and bring back the American flag. For extra credit have them do it using 1969 technology.
All Trump did was revert back to the pre-2015 "bad days" of no net neutrality. Oh, it was so much worse back then, just a couple of years ago!
Here's a short list of stuff the telecoms did before Net Neutrality:
Your short list includes multiple things unrelated to net neutrality. When you buy a smartphone locked to a carrier the carrier may make deals with the phone maker to bundle or block features on the phone. For example, I have a legacy at&t unlimited plan, and the plan prohibits tethering. Net neutrality has no bearing on this restriction.
The Slate article basically said that the government would have benefited much more had they made an equity investment rather than make a loan. I agree, but that wasn't was the government did (except in the case of GM). Typically a government will prefer loaning money to avoid having the appearance of being "state-run." A loan spells out all the terms without getting involved in management. Loans are also paid back over time so that money is recouped sooner is small sums. An equity investment requires more ownership types decisions including when to liquidate. I don't disagree with the premise, but this is hardly Tesla sticking it to the government. It is much more akin to armchair quarterbacking with an ax to grind.
I agree with your points, including this one. They should have structured this deal like the TARP ones that were set up by Hank Paulson. The treasury bought perpetual preferred shares in the banks with a dividend that was increasing over time (to encourage faster repayment), and they got warrants too. That's why even though most people think the banks got a handout the treasury actually made billions from TARP.
I saw "LA Times" and knew immediately what kind of mental vomit I was about to see.
Well then don't take time away from your fantasizing about genitals like donkeys and emissions like horses to read it, Mr Ezekiel 23:20
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled. (Ezekiel 23:20–21)
Thanks, American Govt for lending our tax money to Tesla and getting them all back 9 years earlier than expected with full interest. https://www.tesla.com/blog/tes... Maybe the knuckle-draggers, once they go electric, will also repay their loans.
Not ponzi scheme since there is not once person at the top that gets all the money at any point. I don't think bitcoin is wise as investment, though mining I can see the point for the near term. Even so, it's like a futures market more than anything else.
I think cryptocoins are neither currencies nor commodities. To me they look like collectibles with the "scarcity" built into the design . They could be baseball cards, comic books, beanie babies, whatever. One advantage they have though is better liquidity than other collectibles.
They have vans for this. In fact, unless GM offers this on a front wheel drive van*, I doubt the geezers will be interested.
*An ideal platform to modify for loading/unloading wheelchairs, mobility scooters, etc.
Given the choice between a group van and my own private vehicle I would definitely choose the latter. I was just telling my kids recently I hope self-driving cars are perfected before I am unable to drive myself. If they can make a car I'm sure they can make a van suitable for the disabled too.
Florida has many areas with low to medium density and large populations of elderly people. If I lived there and could no longer drive I would get one of these in a flash.
Yes. It is always a good thing to hand over taxpayer dollars to companies like Comcast to build out infrastructure. Oh I see, you were being serious?
Due to the low population density there is little financial incentive to invest in high-speed internet service in rural areas. The order is trying to reduce the cost by "make[ing] it easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land and buildings, part of a push to expand high-speed internet in rural America".
"The White House described the moves as an incremental step to help spur private development while the administration figures out what it can do to help with funding, something that could become part of Trump’s plan to invest in infrastructure. “We know that funding is really the key thing to actually changing rural broadband,” a second White House official said.
At this point if the executive order provided free high speed internet to all Americans the headline would probably be "Trump signs order making it easier to spy on all Americans".
Please provide some authoritative evidence instead of bringing up irrelevant minutia. I don't think you can.
It's clear you are not interested in the facts when you don't consider "The Bureau of Labor Statistics" to be the authority on labor statistics.
The report does differentiate by industry. Your arguments are specious.
The EPI report chart differentiates by occupation, not industry. Of course you don't believe that, even though the chart is titled "Average hourly wages of black women and white men by OCCUPATION"
... and regardless of industry or occupation, there is significant race and gender inequality.
Repeating that proves nothing.
The EPI report is misleading because it doesn't differentiate by industry.
I made much much less doing software development for a computer manufacturer than I did working for a bank. It wasn't because the computer manufacturer was discriminating against me. They paid me according to their salary scale for the position. so I left to find a higher salary scale.
It doesn't adjust by industry. Different industries pay different rates for a job that may have a similar title. A software developer on wall street gets paid a lot more than a software developer at a school
I picked one line from that chart, retail salespersons. According to that chart, black female retail salespersons make $10.99/hr while white males make $20.12/hr
If you are working sales in a retail store the average wage is around $11/hr But if you are working sales in the manufacturing industries the salaries are $20+/hr
The EPI chart clearly doesn't adjust by industry. As usual, if you want to make more get a job that pays more.
I ditched that the minute I was able to connect an MP3 player to my stereo.
I mostly stream too but trying to stream radio is massively painful. It's distracting opening up the app, selecting a station. Changing stations is painful and slow. It's a completely different experience from changing station on a builtin sound system. Sometimes I want to throw the phone out the window
And you want to push a nonsense agenda and are not even aboe to read the link you sent. THAT LINK ACTUALLY SHOWS A HEALTHY DIET. And not the nonnsense diets comming from the US we were talking about.
Have it your way. US stupid. UK smart. Whatever helps you make it through the day
Decades ago, before he got into politics, I studied Trump quite a bit. I read all his books, which explained his thinking although ghost writers wrote the words. I've paid more attention since he started wading into politics and making some outrageous statements. He's not that complicated and his major ideas have been written about extensively.
I don't know why people are shocked by the things he is doing. He wrote them years ago in his book "Make America Great Again". What sets him apart is
- He was serious about campaign promises. - He has no experience in government so he has had to learn how to get things done within the system. I think he's learning fast, and the 4 months of 2017 show improvements in his approach. - He is an alpha male which drives the left insane. They are used to easily cowed betas they can push around. - He doesn't take shit from anyone
I didn't want him as president but it was massively entertaining watching him beat up his opponents during the election. It's still fun watching him beat his opponents up. That "My button is bigger than yours" tweet was hysterical, except for the humor-challenged left.
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Most large amusement parks offer "fast lanes", "fast pass", etc, so you can skip the long lines.
Many public highways have express lanes with tolls. Or HOV lanes you can use if you buy an EV or Hybrid.
Airlines, trains, etc, offer different classes of service at different price points.
Theater and show tickets have different prices for different locations in the theater, assuming you could buy them at all. They cost much more when you buy through a ticket broker.
Every manufacturer offers volume based pricing.
Examples go on and on
You go to Chuck-E-Cheese and you buy a game card with credits on it. You spend a couple of hours "gambling" for crappy in-restaurant tickets. You exchange these tickets for crappy toys. This has been going on for, what, 50 years? Why do we add "on the computer" and get upset?
There is no gamble. All machines that give tickets give them regardless of how you play.
The tickets can be purchased for 1 cent each.
As a parent I couldn't care less about the tickets, we are there to have some fun playing games.
But the kids like counting them up and trading them in for some candy or a trinket or something.
The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin.
Yes, Yuri was the first human in space, beating the Americans by a couple of months.
He didn't land on the moon, drive around in a lunar rover, and come back.
Keep up.
And the USSR had rovers driving around the Moon 50 years ago and even sent robots that returned with lunar soil samples.
Remembering how far behind the USSR was in 1917 and/or in 1945 after losing 13.7% of its population and lots of infrastructure in WWII, it's quite amazing how well they did. The USA had a huge advantage going into the space race.
Sure. But no humans. This was about humans in space.
Agree though that the Soviets had some great scientists working under very difficult conditions.
Also, unlike the USA, the Russians still have the capability to send a human into space.
Big deal. Americans were driving around on the moon taking pictures and collecting souvenirs almost 50 years ago.
Exactly. 50 years ago. Not today.
Been there, done that. Yet you believe other nations are innovating when they haven't caught up to where the Americans were 50 years ago. Let me know when they send someone there and bring back the American flag. For extra credit have them do it using 1969 technology.
Also, unlike the USA, the Russians still have the capability to send a human into space.
Big deal. Americans were driving around on the moon taking pictures and collecting souvenirs almost 50 years ago.
What could go wrong?
All Trump did was revert back to the pre-2015 "bad days" of no net neutrality. Oh, it was so much worse back then, just a couple of years ago!
Here's a short list of stuff the telecoms did before Net Neutrality:
Your short list includes multiple things unrelated to net neutrality. When you buy a smartphone locked to a carrier the carrier may make deals with the phone maker to bundle or block features on the phone. For example, I have a legacy at&t unlimited plan, and the plan prohibits tethering. Net neutrality has no bearing on this restriction.
One advantage they have though is better liquidity than other collectibles.
Disagree. I never had to pay a 30-60 $ transaction fee to get or dump a Beanie Baby.
Liquidity is more about a robust buying and selling environment than the transaction cost which eats into the profits
Here's an interesting article on the Beanie Baby bust
http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/...
The Slate article basically said that the government would have benefited much more had they made an equity investment rather than make a loan. I agree, but that wasn't was the government did (except in the case of GM). Typically a government will prefer loaning money to avoid having the appearance of being "state-run." A loan spells out all the terms without getting involved in management. Loans are also paid back over time so that money is recouped sooner is small sums. An equity investment requires more ownership types decisions including when to liquidate. I don't disagree with the premise, but this is hardly Tesla sticking it to the government. It is much more akin to armchair quarterbacking with an ax to grind.
I agree with your points, including this one. They should have structured this deal like the TARP ones that were set up by Hank Paulson. The treasury bought perpetual preferred shares in the banks with a dividend that was increasing over time (to encourage faster repayment), and they got warrants too. That's why even though most people think the banks got a handout the treasury actually made billions from TARP.
I saw "LA Times" and knew immediately what kind of mental vomit I was about to see.
Well then don't take time away from your fantasizing about genitals like donkeys and emissions like horses to read it, Mr Ezekiel 23:20
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled. (Ezekiel 23:20–21)
Thanks, American Govt for lending our tax money to Tesla and getting them all back 9 years earlier than expected with full interest.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tes...
Maybe the knuckle-draggers, once they go electric, will also repay their loans.
If they are trying to fully repay the government they have a long way to go.
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
And then there is this too
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
Not ponzi scheme since there is not once person at the top that gets all the money at any point. I don't think bitcoin is wise as investment, though mining I can see the point for the near term. Even so, it's like a futures market more than anything else.
I think cryptocoins are neither currencies nor commodities. To me they look like collectibles with the "scarcity" built into the design . They could be baseball cards, comic books, beanie babies, whatever. One advantage they have though is better liquidity than other collectibles.
large populations of elderly people
They have vans for this. In fact, unless GM offers this on a front wheel drive van*, I doubt the geezers will be interested.
*An ideal platform to modify for loading/unloading wheelchairs, mobility scooters, etc.
Given the choice between a group van and my own private vehicle I would definitely choose the latter.
I was just telling my kids recently I hope self-driving cars are perfected before I am unable to drive myself.
If they can make a car I'm sure they can make a van suitable for the disabled too.
Florida has many areas with low to medium density and large populations of elderly people.
If I lived there and could no longer drive I would get one of these in a flash.
Yes. It is always a good thing to hand over taxpayer dollars to companies like Comcast to build out infrastructure. Oh I see, you were being serious?
Due to the low population density there is little financial incentive to invest in high-speed internet service in rural areas. The order is trying to reduce the cost by "make[ing] it easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land and buildings, part of a push to expand high-speed internet in rural America".
"The White House described the moves as an incremental step to help spur private development while the administration figures out what it can do to help with funding, something that could become part of Trump’s plan to invest in infrastructure. “We know that funding is really the key thing to actually changing rural broadband,” a second White House official said.
I don't see what there is to criticize here.
You can't tell by some of the comments.
At this point if the executive order provided free high speed internet to all Americans the headline would probably be
"Trump signs order making it easier to spy on all Americans".
Please provide some authoritative evidence instead of bringing up irrelevant minutia.
I don't think you can.
It's clear you are not interested in the facts when you don't consider "The Bureau of Labor Statistics" to be the authority on labor statistics.
The report does differentiate by industry. Your arguments are specious.
The EPI report chart differentiates by occupation, not industry. Of course you don't believe that, even though the chart is titled "Average hourly wages of black women and white men by OCCUPATION"
... and regardless of industry or occupation, there is significant race and gender inequality.
Repeating that proves nothing.
The EPI report is misleading because it doesn't differentiate by industry.
I made much much less doing software development for a computer manufacturer than I did working for a bank. It wasn't because the computer manufacturer was discriminating against me. They paid me according to their salary scale for the position. so I left to find a higher salary scale.
Manufacturing industry sales people are not "retail sales people".
The bureau of labor statistics disagrees with you. Read the charts
https://www.bls.gov/oes/curren...
This chart (#7) finds pay disparities on race and gender across all occupations:
http://www.epi.org/publication...
It doesn't adjust by industry. Different industries pay different rates for a job that may have a similar title.
A software developer on wall street gets paid a lot more than a software developer at a school
Here's the charts for "retail salespersons" https://www.bls.gov/oes/curren...
Gender and racial inequality holds across all job classifications.
Chart #7 of this series http://www.epi.org/publication...
I picked one line from that chart, retail salespersons. According to that chart, black female retail salespersons make $10.99/hr while white males make $20.12/hr
The bureau of labor statistics charts explain why: https://www.bls.gov/oes/curren...
If you are working sales in a retail store the average wage is around $11/hr
But if you are working sales in the manufacturing industries the salaries are $20+/hr
The EPI chart clearly doesn't adjust by industry. As usual, if you want to make more get a job that pays more.
I ditched that the minute I was able to connect an MP3 player to my stereo.
I mostly stream too but trying to stream radio is massively painful. It's distracting opening up the app, selecting a station. Changing stations is painful and slow. It's a completely different experience from changing station on a builtin sound system. Sometimes I want to throw the phone out the window
And you want to push a nonsense agenda and are not even aboe to read the link you sent.
THAT LINK ACTUALLY SHOWS A HEALTHY DIET. And not the nonnsense diets comming from the US we were talking about.
Have it your way. US stupid. UK smart. Whatever helps you make it through the day
Decades ago, before he got into politics, I studied Trump quite a bit. I read all his books, which explained his thinking although ghost writers wrote the words. I've paid more attention since he started wading into politics and making some outrageous statements. He's not that complicated and his major ideas have been written about extensively.
I don't know why people are shocked by the things he is doing. He wrote them years ago in his book "Make America Great Again". What sets him apart is
- He was serious about campaign promises.
- He has no experience in government so he has had to learn how to get things done within the system. I think he's learning fast, and the 4 months of 2017 show improvements in his approach.
- He is an alpha male which drives the left insane. They are used to easily cowed betas they can push around.
- He doesn't take shit from anyone
I didn't want him as president but it was massively entertaining watching him beat up his opponents during the election. It's still fun watching him beat his opponents up. That "My button is bigger than yours" tweet was hysterical, except for the humor-challenged left.