If you need "Stock market police" then get the government to do it
I'm informed by the awesome cayenne8 that any form of government intervention will lead to compulsory gay marriage and death panels like they have in Venezuela.
Are you telling me it ain't so?
When they allowed the gays to marry the govt forced us all to wear dresses to school. And if a tranny came into your bathroom and requested a blowjob you had to give them one. And you weren't allowed to spit it out either. Don't let this happen to you folks....
I would go so far as to say that shorts are anti-capitalist; working to damage a potentially profitable company.
If your profits are legitimate then there isn't anything to fear. Any investor that bases their investment decision on 'cropped graphs' isn't likey to last long.
It's like privatised prisons being pushed here in NZ; it profit them not to reduce the number of residents...
Privately operated prisons are different from a privately run judicial system You might confused with the US where the legal/political system is a lot more corrupt. There's no reason why outsourcing can't be effective is proper governance is enforced.
It's easy to start big, impressive companies with other people's money when you don't have to actually make a profit...
When you think big you also think long term which usually means a large short term loss. I'm not sure how you think it's easy to 'start a big impressive company', which ones of yours are doing better?
You do know there's these things called 'other countries' yeah?
A quick google tells me that there's over 300k Nissan Leafs and Tesla produced their 300k'th car this year. Based on this I wouldn't say Telsa is the biggest, although they probably will be very soon.
I know I'll get burned for saying this but IPv6 fails the scratch and sniff test. I've grown up around the IPv4 dilemma yet no-one I know that I worked with (contractor worked at 30+ different businesses) ever seemed to fully grasp IPv6. Workers don't get it, vendors don't get it, network providers don't get it, telcos don't even seem to get it. Based on the fact that we've been at this for 15years+ and it still hasn't gained any traction it's time to call it a failure and move on.
If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, buying an EV presently doesn't help. When you replace an ICE vehicleswith an EV without changing the makeup of your electricity sources, all you've done is shift your CO2 emissions from the car's tailpipe to a fossil fuel power plant's smokestack. That's why the claim that EVs are "zero emissions" is BS at present. You need to replace fossil fuel power plants with nuclear and renewable plants to cause a reduction in CO2 emissions.
Good post, but something that's worth clarifying that electricity sources are also changing over time. For example my provider offers a surcharge if you want fully renewable sourced electricity. So for a premium you can have a zero emission vehicle right now today, and it's only going to become more common.
Here's the problem. The regulations Obama put into place, hurt wages a lot. It discentivized employers to hire new people
Yet employment increased the most under Obama than either Bush or Trump. I'm not making a political statement, merely pointing out that the observations don't match your claim.
Remember Obama's words that low GDP growth was the new normal? Why did it spike just after Trump was elected. Why have we seen a double GDP...
Removing regulations improves GDP because it usually means someone is being shit on for profit, and the cost of the shitting-on is being deferred to the future where it will ultimately cost more to fix. It happened under Reagan in 1987 and Bush jnr in 2007, and if Trump gets 8 years it will happen again.
This is why we have regulations, not because we love red tape, but because appropriate regulations applied appropriately actually improve the quality of life for everyone, not just rich people.
I was on a plane with a fuel leak from a fuel pump cover on the wing. Pointed it out to the flight attendant, one of the pilots walked back and looked out the window. He determined that it wasn't severe enough to be a concern, and we made a normal landing at our destination (we were only about 40 min away when this happened).
I just watched show on TV last night that had a story of a mid-flight engine failure. A passenger was recording it when over the loud speaker the pilot asked over the PA that if anyone notices any changes with that engine the they should let the flight crew know. So yeah, windows for passengers do come in handy...
Trump cure cancer, contact friendly alien life, and solve all the worlds problems, and you would still find something to bitch about him. Why can't you people just accept, despite his personal faults, he is actually doing a pretty decent job?
I will when you tell me what he's done? (seriously, I'm not anti-Trump, I'll give credit where it's due)
I'll start you off:
Tax cuts. This is what I consider his biggest achievement. Unfortunately it's only good if you are rich, for everyone else it's a shocker.
Employment. I give him credit for maintaining Obama's hard work to turn around the sinking ship, however there are two caveats. Job growth is slightly less than it was under Obama, so even though it's good it's not as good, and it's a lot easier to maintain short term momentum when you're already headed in that direction. The second caveat is that a lot of pro-business policy will only be good short term. These types of moves come with a risk of long term damage (see GWB and the GFC).
North Korea. This is a wait and see as nothing has actually happened yet. And the stuff that has happened seem to have nothing to do with Trump even though he makes claim for them (eg the united Korea Winter Olympic team)
That's all I got. To balance, here's the list of bad things...Oh wait... I don't have a hundred years to list them all in detail....
I pass about 8 school grounds (covering all age groups) on the way to work every day for over a decade. I remember it was always kids playing sports, on the swings, running around, etc. The last 5 years it's mostly sitting around and staring at phones.
I'm so thankful I wasn't raised in this generation.
My grandparents said the same thing. They used to ride horses to school and go fishing at lunchtime. We were slackers that bludged along on those new fangled bicycle thingies and simply ran around a field with a ball at lunch instead of having real fun. Nothing good would ever come from that apparently...
I was with you to this point, but TFA was utter shit. Simply stitching together parts of Ep4 & 5 was a complete let down, I would've walked out of it if I wasn't with other people. R1 was less bad but also not great, and TLJ was also trash.
So for me it's 2 out of 9, which means I won't watch Solo or any other Star Wars film again. It's quite clear that the formula that made the first two films great will never be repeated so it's time to move on.
Star Wars and Star Trek need to stop.
It isn't that these new movies are bad or worse then before. But Star Wars and Star Trek were stories, characters and a fictional universe of a different era.
I think the problem is that all the good stuff in Star Wars was the original content of the first two films. Ever since then it's been 8 films of rehashing the same story or simply explaining the characters of the first two films over and over and over again. It's just tedious.
Disney needs to let go completely and start creating completely new stories and characters in the Star Wars Universe. I thought they might do it in TLJ when Kylo kills Snoke and asks Rey to join forces to burn this shit and start again fresh. That right there was the path to success for Disney had they pursued that story line, but they chose to revert back to cliche good vs evil crap we've been hearing for 40 years.
I'm not paying money for that.
I think the problem is that The Last Jedi was the worst Star Wars movie ever and that pissed people off. They will watch Episode IX since they wan't to know how the story will end.
That's not how it works. I thought The Last Jedi was so shit that I'm never going to see another Star Wars film again. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Yep you've missed the point yet again.
Life expectancy as an indicator of QUALITY of LIFE, not A MEASURE of QUALITY of HEALTHCARE.
Sorry but you've missed that point in three successive posts, so I give up.
nor do they work the same average of hours/as productive.
Google says otherwise: http://time.com/4621185/worker...
And I'm not sure why you think being obese is an excuse. This is part of being a high quality society, not allowing you people to eat themselves to death (as an example we restrict the amount of sugary low nutrition food in schools and it produces an net gain overall. I expect this could never happen in the US because of Freedom to be fat laws or something equally ridiculous...)
You have failed to demonstrate why one is better or worse than the other. Seems like you have a conclusion that you look for evidence and narratives to support.
I assume most people want to be healthy and alive as long as possible. Maybe I have that wrong, I'm happy to be corrected.
I think you have to accept that the US despite being the richest nation on earth, is a falling behind many others in terms high quality metrics (health, education, social equality/mobility, corruption, violent crime etc etc). Why is this/how does this happen?
Or better yet, buses or trains. Single passenger cars are an incredibly inefficient way of transporting large number of people between a handful of sites.
Yeah your average road can handle something like 2000 vehicles per hour, with and average of 1.2 people per car making roughly 2500 people/hour. The best trains can move 80000/hour. It's a no-brainer but our town planners seem to get recruited directly form kindergarten.
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I'm informed by the awesome cayenne8 that any form of government intervention will lead to compulsory gay marriage and death panels like they have in Venezuela.
Are you telling me it ain't so?
When they allowed the gays to marry the govt forced us all to wear dresses to school. And if a tranny came into your bathroom and requested a blowjob you had to give them one. And you weren't allowed to spit it out either. Don't let this happen to you folks....
I would go so far as to say that shorts are anti-capitalist; working to damage a potentially profitable company.
If your profits are legitimate then there isn't anything to fear. Any investor that bases their investment decision on 'cropped graphs' isn't likey to last long.
It's like privatised prisons being pushed here in NZ; it profit them not to reduce the number of residents...
Privately operated prisons are different from a privately run judicial system You might confused with the US where the legal/political system is a lot more corrupt. There's no reason why outsourcing can't be effective is proper governance is enforced.
Investors shorting Alibaba have lost over $16B.
Haha probably all the stupid people that watched that documentary the China Hustle and didn't realise that it was part of a hustle in itself.
It's easy to start big, impressive companies with other people's money when you don't have to actually make a profit...
When you think big you also think long term which usually means a large short term loss. I'm not sure how you think it's easy to 'start a big impressive company', which ones of yours are doing better?
Nissan's Leaf is the 7th best selling EV in the US. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
You do know there's these things called 'other countries' yeah? A quick google tells me that there's over 300k Nissan Leafs and Tesla produced their 300k'th car this year. Based on this I wouldn't say Telsa is the biggest, although they probably will be very soon.
I know I'll get burned for saying this but IPv6 fails the scratch and sniff test. I've grown up around the IPv4 dilemma yet no-one I know that I worked with (contractor worked at 30+ different businesses) ever seemed to fully grasp IPv6. Workers don't get it, vendors don't get it, network providers don't get it, telcos don't even seem to get it. Based on the fact that we've been at this for 15years+ and it still hasn't gained any traction it's time to call it a failure and move on.
If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, buying an EV presently doesn't help. When you replace an ICE vehicleswith an EV without changing the makeup of your electricity sources, all you've done is shift your CO2 emissions from the car's tailpipe to a fossil fuel power plant's smokestack. That's why the claim that EVs are "zero emissions" is BS at present. You need to replace fossil fuel power plants with nuclear and renewable plants to cause a reduction in CO2 emissions.
Good post, but something that's worth clarifying that electricity sources are also changing over time. For example my provider offers a surcharge if you want fully renewable sourced electricity. So for a premium you can have a zero emission vehicle right now today, and it's only going to become more common.
Here's the problem. The regulations Obama put into place, hurt wages a lot. It discentivized employers to hire new people
Yet employment increased the most under Obama than either Bush or Trump. I'm not making a political statement, merely pointing out that the observations don't match your claim.
Remember Obama's words that low GDP growth was the new normal? Why did it spike just after Trump was elected. Why have we seen a double GDP...
Removing regulations improves GDP because it usually means someone is being shit on for profit, and the cost of the shitting-on is being deferred to the future where it will ultimately cost more to fix. It happened under Reagan in 1987 and Bush jnr in 2007, and if Trump gets 8 years it will happen again.
This is why we have regulations, not because we love red tape, but because appropriate regulations applied appropriately actually improve the quality of life for everyone, not just rich people.
The new video windows will alternate between showing old episodes of Will and Grace and a safety video about choking on airline peanuts.
You laugh, but I'll bet you the screens get used to force feed you advertising for the entire flight...
You mean like watching a nature documentary on TV? Not really the same is it...
I was on a plane with a fuel leak from a fuel pump cover on the wing. Pointed it out to the flight attendant, one of the pilots walked back and looked out the window. He determined that it wasn't severe enough to be a concern, and we made a normal landing at our destination (we were only about 40 min away when this happened).
I just watched show on TV last night that had a story of a mid-flight engine failure. A passenger was recording it when over the loud speaker the pilot asked over the PA that if anyone notices any changes with that engine the they should let the flight crew know. So yeah, windows for passengers do come in handy...
Trump cure cancer, contact friendly alien life, and solve all the worlds problems, and you would still find something to bitch about him. Why can't you people just accept, despite his personal faults, he is actually doing a pretty decent job?
I will when you tell me what he's done? (seriously, I'm not anti-Trump, I'll give credit where it's due)
I'll start you off:
Tax cuts. This is what I consider his biggest achievement. Unfortunately it's only good if you are rich, for everyone else it's a shocker.
Employment. I give him credit for maintaining Obama's hard work to turn around the sinking ship, however there are two caveats. Job growth is slightly less than it was under Obama, so even though it's good it's not as good, and it's a lot easier to maintain short term momentum when you're already headed in that direction. The second caveat is that a lot of pro-business policy will only be good short term. These types of moves come with a risk of long term damage (see GWB and the GFC).
North Korea. This is a wait and see as nothing has actually happened yet. And the stuff that has happened seem to have nothing to do with Trump even though he makes claim for them (eg the united Korea Winter Olympic team)
That's all I got. To balance, here's the list of bad things...Oh wait... I don't have a hundred years to list them all in detail....
I pass about 8 school grounds (covering all age groups) on the way to work every day for over a decade. I remember it was always kids playing sports, on the swings, running around, etc. The last 5 years it's mostly sitting around and staring at phones.
I'm so thankful I wasn't raised in this generation.
My grandparents said the same thing. They used to ride horses to school and go fishing at lunchtime. We were slackers that bludged along on those new fangled bicycle thingies and simply ran around a field with a ball at lunch instead of having real fun. Nothing good would ever come from that apparently...
Because 'Freedom' to be a jerk seems to be written in the Constitution....
"The Force Awakens" was a reasonable reboot.
I was with you to this point, but TFA was utter shit. Simply stitching together parts of Ep4 & 5 was a complete let down, I would've walked out of it if I wasn't with other people. R1 was less bad but also not great, and TLJ was also trash.
So for me it's 2 out of 9, which means I won't watch Solo or any other Star Wars film again. It's quite clear that the formula that made the first two films great will never be repeated so it's time to move on.
Star Wars and Star Trek need to stop. It isn't that these new movies are bad or worse then before. But Star Wars and Star Trek were stories, characters and a fictional universe of a different era.
I think the problem is that all the good stuff in Star Wars was the original content of the first two films. Ever since then it's been 8 films of rehashing the same story or simply explaining the characters of the first two films over and over and over again. It's just tedious.
Disney needs to let go completely and start creating completely new stories and characters in the Star Wars Universe. I thought they might do it in TLJ when Kylo kills Snoke and asks Rey to join forces to burn this shit and start again fresh. That right there was the path to success for Disney had they pursued that story line, but they chose to revert back to cliche good vs evil crap we've been hearing for 40 years.
I'm not paying money for that.
I think the problem is that The Last Jedi was the worst Star Wars movie ever and that pissed people off. They will watch Episode IX since they wan't to know how the story will end.
That's not how it works. I thought The Last Jedi was so shit that I'm never going to see another Star Wars film again. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
In the long run it will make hundreds of millions in DVD sales
I don't know anyone that has a DVD player today, what makes you think people will have them in 'the long run'?
To make my point very simple:
Yep you've missed the point yet again.
Life expectancy as an indicator of QUALITY of LIFE, not A MEASURE of QUALITY of HEALTHCARE.
Sorry but you've missed that point in three successive posts, so I give up.
your corporations in the state I'd start to move everything out to a friendlier place.
By friendlier do you mean more corrupt?
nor do they work the same average of hours/as productive.
Google says otherwise:
http://time.com/4621185/worker...
And I'm not sure why you think being obese is an excuse. This is part of being a high quality society, not allowing you people to eat themselves to death (as an example we restrict the amount of sugary low nutrition food in schools and it produces an net gain overall. I expect this could never happen in the US because of Freedom to be fat laws or something equally ridiculous...)
You have failed to demonstrate why one is better or worse than the other. Seems like you have a conclusion that you look for evidence and narratives to support.
I assume most people want to be healthy and alive as long as possible. Maybe I have that wrong, I'm happy to be corrected.
I think you have to accept that the US despite being the richest nation on earth, is a falling behind many others in terms high quality metrics (health, education, social equality/mobility, corruption, violent crime etc etc). Why is this/how does this happen?
Or better yet, buses or trains. Single passenger cars are an incredibly inefficient way of transporting large number of people between a handful of sites.
Yeah your average road can handle something like 2000 vehicles per hour, with and average of 1.2 people per car making roughly 2500 people/hour. The best trains can move 80000/hour. It's a no-brainer but our town planners seem to get recruited directly form kindergarten.
To put it another way: You deleted your FB.
Is that the case?
Gave it up years ago and never looked back. I have teenage kids who also don't use it, it's all Snapchat and Instagram these days.
most people didn't expect their data to be weaponized.
They loaded my data into missiles and shot them at someone? This is a stupid word. I wish people would stop using it.
Uber is a predatory company. They took a great idea and turned it to shit.
Are you talking as a driver or passenger? As a regular passenger I still find Uber a million times better than any taxi.