I can still buy a brand new Apple iPhone 6S today, proving that a shitload of excess inventory is created every year.
Nope. What that proves is that Apple, knowing the historical data on how phones get damages over time, builds enough of them to cover what they need for warranty replacements. They're not making a shitload of excess inventory, because that would waste money. Apple has far and away the tightest inventory control in the industry.
Of course, it doesn't cost anything like $75 grand to keep a prisoner locked up and fed for a year. This is just a case of a $600 hammer, and the scam here is the money being paid into bureaucrat's salaries, pension padding, etc.
I'd become a cable subscriber again tomorrow if they just gave up on the fucking bundling. Sell me the channels I want, and don't try to charge me for a bunch of shit that I don't want. It's the lesson that every single content provider should have learned from iTunes, for fuck's sake.
That she won the popular vote is primarily indisputable.
And entirely irrelevant. There is no "popular vote" in American election law. To win the presidency, you have to come up with enough electors to win the presidency, and electors aren't allocated strictly by population. If Hillary were as smart as she believes she is, then she would have put the work in to win the states that her husband did.
Actually, I think the geriatric commie rat bastard might have been the only other person in the country who could lose to Trump. The opposition research on him had some real doozies, like his idiotic habit of praising communist dictators.
So, the DNC commits who knows how many felonies to screw over their own voters and hand this bitch the nomination, even though she's the only crook in the country who could possibly lose to Trump, and she turns around and shits on them?
Anyone else would have had. a cake walk to beat Trump, but the DNC just HAD to feed Hillary's black hole of an ego instead of nominating a decent candidate.
I remember what put skype on the map, before they got acquired and wrecked by Microsoft. It was secure, audio quality was surprisingly good even with very limited bandwidth, and it was easy to find people to talk to, and connect to legacy phone networks with SkypeOut.
It won't be me, but whoever puts out a new app that meets that description can do pretty well.
The jobs that went away in the past were the trivial ones
At the turn of the century in 1900, 80% of Americans worked on farms. Today, it's around 4%. This did not result in 76% unemployment, you dolt.
What it did was drastically cut the cost of food, and make labor available for new jobs, which nobody could have predicted at the time. Robotic cars and trucks are going to drastically reduce the cost of transportation, and once again people will take up new employment in new fields, and our overall standard of living will increase.
If we ever get a functioning justice system in this country, civil litigation of this sort would be redundant. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the NSA employs people to commit billions of felonies every day. Until and unless they actually get punished for it, this shit will continue.
The figure that matters is are KwH produced for the money spent. We could employ everyone on earth riding stationary bicycles to drive little dynamos for electricity, but that's not a worthwhile goal.
Nope. It hasn't been a promise to pay anything to Americans since FDR decided to steal all the gold in the country, and it hasn't been a promise to pay foreigners since Nixon reneged on the Bretton Woods treaty.
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I can still buy a brand new Apple iPhone 6S today, proving that a shitload of excess inventory is created every year.
Nope. What that proves is that Apple, knowing the historical data on how phones get damages over time, builds enough of them to cover what they need for warranty replacements. They're not making a shitload of excess inventory, because that would waste money. Apple has far and away the tightest inventory control in the industry.
-jcr
One of Apple's big announcements for iOS 11 was offering more access to Siri - but they weren't very clear on what that meant.
They're perfectly clear what it means. There's a whole WWDC session on it available from their developer website.
a browser that no one uses or supports.
What's your next guess? Safari has hundreds of millions of users, and it's the fastest browser available.
-jcr
Of course, it doesn't cost anything like $75 grand to keep a prisoner locked up and fed for a year. This is just a case of a $600 hammer, and the scam here is the money being paid into bureaucrat's salaries, pension padding, etc.
-jcr
I'd become a cable subscriber again tomorrow if they just gave up on the fucking bundling. Sell me the channels I want, and don't try to charge me for a bunch of shit that I don't want. It's the lesson that every single content provider should have learned from iTunes, for fuck's sake.
-jcr
For this to actually have been the cause means their IT organization was run by rank amateurs.
Given the duration of the outage, I'd say that's a fair conclusion.
-jcr
Blood transfusions carry risks. Virus screening isn't perfect. Transfusions are for emergencies, not for vanity.
-jcr
That she won the popular vote is primarily indisputable.
And entirely irrelevant. There is no "popular vote" in American election law. To win the presidency, you have to come up with enough electors to win the presidency, and electors aren't allocated strictly by population. If Hillary were as smart as she believes she is, then she would have put the work in to win the states that her husband did.
-jcr
you can think of all of those Libertarian votes as fuck Clinton,
Libertarian here. It's not so much "fuck Clinton", as "fuck the whole Ruling Party".
-jcr
Actually, I think the geriatric commie rat bastard might have been the only other person in the country who could lose to Trump. The opposition research on him had some real doozies, like his idiotic habit of praising communist dictators.
-jcr
So, the DNC commits who knows how many felonies to screw over their own voters and hand this bitch the nomination, even though she's the only crook in the country who could possibly lose to Trump, and she turns around and shits on them?
Anyone else would have had. a cake walk to beat Trump, but the DNC just HAD to feed Hillary's black hole of an ego instead of nominating a decent candidate.
-jcr
I remember what put skype on the map, before they got acquired and wrecked by Microsoft. It was secure, audio quality was surprisingly good even with very limited bandwidth, and it was easy to find people to talk to, and connect to legacy phone networks with SkypeOut.
It won't be me, but whoever puts out a new app that meets that description can do pretty well.
-jcr
When we the USA have the lowest tax rates in the industrialized World?
Do you even know that you're lying?
-jcr
I mean, fuck Bill Simmons, he only worked there, right?
Seems to me that the people who ran the place into the ground are the last ones we should look to for insight on how they fucked it up.
-jcr
The Laffer Curve for taxation is mostly just a fraud used to justify low taxes on high earners.
What's your next guess, sparky?
Rich people aren't a stationary target. The higher you set the tax rate, the more effort they'll put into fighting back.
-jcr
The jobs that went away in the past were the trivial ones
At the turn of the century in 1900, 80% of Americans worked on farms. Today, it's around 4%. This did not result in 76% unemployment, you dolt.
What it did was drastically cut the cost of food, and make labor available for new jobs, which nobody could have predicted at the time. Robotic cars and trucks are going to drastically reduce the cost of transportation, and once again people will take up new employment in new fields, and our overall standard of living will increase.
-jcr
I remember it too. The constitution is the document that forbids all of the crimes that our government routinely commits.
-jcr
If we ever get a functioning justice system in this country, civil litigation of this sort would be redundant. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the NSA employs people to commit billions of felonies every day. Until and unless they actually get punished for it, this shit will continue.
-jcr
The figure that matters is are KwH produced for the money spent. We could employ everyone on earth riding stationary bicycles to drive little dynamos for electricity, but that's not a worthwhile goal.
-jcr
If anyone is stupid enough to spam my voicemail and leave me any means at all of figuring out who they are, they will not enjoy the consequences.
-jcr
Also end-stage capitalism.
Oh, fuck off. Capitalism is why poverty is in retreat everywhere but a handful of countries ruled by kleptocrats.
-jcr
Venezuela isn't socialist
Liar.
it's totalitarian.
Better known as end-stage socialism.
-jcr
Despite what the gold bugs would have you believe, precious metals are nothing special.
Bullshit. The value of gold has never gone to zero, as all fiat currencies eventually have.
-jcr
The federal reserve note is a *promise to pay*.
Nope. It hasn't been a promise to pay anything to Americans since FDR decided to steal all the gold in the country, and it hasn't been a promise to pay foreigners since Nixon reneged on the Bretton Woods treaty.
-jcr
You're probably joking, but as it happens you're right. Point-to-point VTOL travel solves this problem, saves energy, and saves lives.
-jcr
This suit should be thrown out at the preliminary hearing. Zillow is stating an opinion, and they have every right to do so.
-jcr