Donald J. Trump as POTUS was one of the worst electoral mistakes in the history of the United States, one that this country will spend decades living down with the rest of the world.
And this is the worst part. Fair enough that a few thousand rednecks ruined America, but they might also be responsible for ruining the Western Hemisphere, and handing geopolitical dominance to China and Russia. If you ever wondered how the mighty Rome fell, we are all in for a real time demonstration.
No, you're still losing money. You're just losing less of it, and in this case it is Amazon that is paying less than others.
Depends on the maths used, because as with airline tickets, each seat is sold at a different price to different people. So if the average seat cost was $100, I can still make a profit selling some seats for $200 and others for $50. This is a common free market method for maximising revenue per service.
What Trump is proposing is effectively socialist price controls, ie the government setting fixed fees. Fair enough if you support Soviet style policy, but I'm pretty sure that's not what most Trump voters voted for.
Maybe USPS could consider a low cost deliver-to-locker system? Drive through collection with mobile app that tells them when you get near so the package is taken off the shelf and waiting.
Most department stores here do click and collect (ie organise delivery to their store for pickup) and some also do click and send (ie drop anything off to post), and pretty much every shopping centre has delivery lockers. So I think the home delivery business is already on its way out.
Neither are, Hillary isn't and Trump isn't going to jail. Everybody needs to stop this so we can get off this crazy partisan train.
This is probably the biggest threat to national security right now. The deliberate attempts by external forces to divide the nation seem to be working well. Every conversation is reduced to us vs them, and while this continues we all lose.
the only appropriate response is mass rebellion, in the form of creating DeepFake porn starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
You know Mickey and Minnie are cartoons? And that Deep faking been possible with cartoons since, well... cartoons were invented? 'Deep Fake' Mickey porn has been around so long it's almost our of copyright....
So what human population size is the objectively perfectly ideal size?
One that is sustainable. I don't know the exact number, but I'm pretty sure we're at least an order of magnitude too high right now.
I'll play this game. If we base the 'appropriate number' on things that can't be changed easily (ie land, water, naturally sourced food etc) then I'd guess a comfortable number is about half of what we have now, so somewhere in the 3-4B range. If you say 700M then we've at least got a starting point that is in the same ballpark. Most of the problems we have now are population related. Climate Change, pollution, famine, drought etc. With less people, all of these go away.
I'd be interested to hear other's opinion on this as constant growth cannot possibly turn out well.
nah, most feminists have children, 86% of women do. they're just not having more than 2, instead about 1.86 kids on average. That's not enough to keep a population growing.
Good. This economic model of constant growth isn't sustainable.
It was quite fascinating to see a sea of scooters weaving in and out of traffic, with seemingly no rules. Yet I only saw one get bumped, and one near-accident. There was no road rage, they all just coexisted..
It's what I call 'social transport'. Cars are very unsocial because you are insulated from other people, you can't easily communicate and you can easily injure or kill others so they just promote anger. Walking/cycling/scootering/golf kart etc all tend to be more social not only because you occupy less space and move more slowly, but you can also interact with others as humans and maintain some sort of empathy because you are all equally exposed to each other.
I look forward to the day when cars are removed from dense, large, cities, and are replaced with more socially considerate options.
Anything that gets people out of cars in hyper-traffic'ed LA is a win for me. With these, and also similar bikeshare systems, people can easily get around an urban center that does not have good public transit (ahem, Westside LA, or most of LA for that matter) quickly and without a car.
The hard part with migration from car to public transport is the last mile gap, and this solves that. So it will happen and luddites will moan because that's what they do.
People think, it is cool to have one, because nobody else does, and it will be "good for me". The problem isn't the scooter being a bad idea, because it isn't. The problem is, when the number of scooters increases to the point of becoming a problem. And there is an entitled mentality to the people that buy them, expecting wide open roads/sidewalks and avoiding all the hassles of walking and other more mundane forms of getting from one place to another. When that doesn't happen, they get all pissy about everyone ruining their great plan of scooting around everywhere.
So exactly like cars but less people die. I fail to see how this is a problem.
Every week there's another article about some ridiculous new shit literally thousands of people are doing that's ruining everything,
Is it though? Is everything being ruined or it just the media beat up? Because when I read the internet it sounds like stuff is always being ruined, yet when I go outside everything is still fine. There a lesson in there somewhere.
The hard part is scale. Smaller forums tend to self manage as most people behave in small groups. As soon as you get big, the monkeysphere limits kicks in the manners go out the window. The challenge is effective and consistent moderation in large groups, maybe AI will solve this soon?
I have a hunch this is Tesla's true end game. I don't think Musk honestly believes he'll reach $650B market cap in 10 years by selling cars. I think he believes he'll reach $650B market cap by selling these.
One rule I live by is that smart people have thought of what you have thought of plus some. And since Elon Musk is clearly a smart guy, I would guess cars only form a small part of the strategy.
Maybe Tesla's, or maybe someone else's. Tesla isn't the only battery maker
True, but Tesla are the biggest, thus you would expect them to be able to supply more easily and more cheaply.
Why leave money on the table for someone else to grab with a battery only solution?
Also true, but Tesla is selling a complete end to end to solution of out box now. Any other option, while it may be better and cheaper, probably requires someone to design, build, test, project manage multiple suppliers etc which means risk and delays. A bird in the hand etc.
Sounds like you've put some thought into this. I often think how public forums could be improved as a good one can offer so much value. I find it odd that this problem still hasn't been solved yet. Slashdot makes a reasonable attempt, but there's still plenty of room for improvement.
I still think Trump's primary focus (and desperate hope) is to get Xi to lean on Kim.
Seems like a foolish move. North Korea is the jewel in China global strategy crown. It is is one of the main reasons they can get away with Taiwan, Tibet, Spratly Islands, Africa etc. and give them a big security lever to allow their expansion plans. They will not give that up easily, and they already have Taiwan so it's not a big enough carrot.
Ok, since you said that they must be, because that's how pure logic works apparently...
Before you waste another paragraph telling me how superior your logic is because you said it is, maybe digest this and give me your pure logical response: http://news.gallup.com/poll/22...
You don't get to be president of the United States by being stupid
The record of American presidents would suggest otherwise...
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Donald J. Trump as POTUS was one of the worst electoral mistakes in the history of the United States, one that this country will spend decades living down with the rest of the world.
And this is the worst part. Fair enough that a few thousand rednecks ruined America, but they might also be responsible for ruining the Western Hemisphere, and handing geopolitical dominance to China and Russia. If you ever wondered how the mighty Rome fell, we are all in for a real time demonstration.
No, you're still losing money. You're just losing less of it, and in this case it is Amazon that is paying less than others.
Depends on the maths used, because as with airline tickets, each seat is sold at a different price to different people. So if the average seat cost was $100, I can still make a profit selling some seats for $200 and others for $50. This is a common free market method for maximising revenue per service.
What Trump is proposing is effectively socialist price controls, ie the government setting fixed fees. Fair enough if you support Soviet style policy, but I'm pretty sure that's not what most Trump voters voted for.
Listen to the "Trump Inc" podcast.
I don't think making money from the casinos was ever a central part of the plan.
Why don't you share with us the main points, because it's making money is Trump sole reason for living.
Maybe USPS could consider a low cost deliver-to-locker system? Drive through collection with mobile app that tells them when you get near so the package is taken off the shelf and waiting.
Most department stores here do click and collect (ie organise delivery to their store for pickup) and some also do click and send (ie drop anything off to post), and pretty much every shopping centre has delivery lockers. So I think the home delivery business is already on its way out.
Donald is going to prison, ?
Neither are, Hillary isn't and Trump isn't going to jail. Everybody needs to stop this so we can get off this crazy partisan train.
This is probably the biggest threat to national security right now. The deliberate attempts by external forces to divide the nation seem to be working well. Every conversation is reduced to us vs them, and while this continues we all lose.
the only appropriate response is mass rebellion, in the form of creating DeepFake porn starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
You know Mickey and Minnie are cartoons? And that Deep faking been possible with cartoons since, well... cartoons were invented? 'Deep Fake' Mickey porn has been around so long it's almost our of copyright....
to dumb to parent, to dumb to breed.
Oh dear...
So what human population size is the objectively perfectly ideal size?
One that is sustainable. I don't know the exact number, but I'm pretty sure we're at least an order of magnitude too high right now.
I'll play this game. If we base the 'appropriate number' on things that can't be changed easily (ie land, water, naturally sourced food etc) then I'd guess a comfortable number is about half of what we have now, so somewhere in the 3-4B range. If you say 700M then we've at least got a starting point that is in the same ballpark. Most of the problems we have now are population related. Climate Change, pollution, famine, drought etc. With less people, all of these go away.
I'd be interested to hear other's opinion on this as constant growth cannot possibly turn out well.
nah, most feminists have children, 86% of women do. they're just not having more than 2, instead about 1.86 kids on average. That's not enough to keep a population growing.
Good. This economic model of constant growth isn't sustainable.
You don't like being called out for the fascist you are, Peter?
Cool story. I'm sure in your head this all makes sense, but maybe come back when you learn how to construct coherent sentences
It was quite fascinating to see a sea of scooters weaving in and out of traffic, with seemingly no rules. Yet I only saw one get bumped, and one near-accident. There was no road rage, they all just coexisted. .
It's what I call 'social transport'. Cars are very unsocial because you are insulated from other people, you can't easily communicate and you can easily injure or kill others so they just promote anger. Walking/cycling/scootering/golf kart etc all tend to be more social not only because you occupy less space and move more slowly, but you can also interact with others as humans and maintain some sort of empathy because you are all equally exposed to each other.
I look forward to the day when cars are removed from dense, large, cities, and are replaced with more socially considerate options.
Anything that gets people out of cars in hyper-traffic'ed LA is a win for me. With these, and also similar bikeshare systems, people can easily get around an urban center that does not have good public transit (ahem, Westside LA, or most of LA for that matter) quickly and without a car.
The hard part with migration from car to public transport is the last mile gap, and this solves that. So it will happen and luddites will moan because that's what they do.
People think, it is cool to have one, because nobody else does, and it will be "good for me". The problem isn't the scooter being a bad idea, because it isn't. The problem is, when the number of scooters increases to the point of becoming a problem. And there is an entitled mentality to the people that buy them, expecting wide open roads/sidewalks and avoiding all the hassles of walking and other more mundane forms of getting from one place to another. When that doesn't happen, they get all pissy about everyone ruining their great plan of scooting around everywhere.
So exactly like cars but less people die. I fail to see how this is a problem.
Every week there's another article about some ridiculous new shit literally thousands of people are doing that's ruining everything,
Is it though? Is everything being ruined or it just the media beat up? Because when I read the internet it sounds like stuff is always being ruined, yet when I go outside everything is still fine. There a lesson in there somewhere.
Make it legal to clothesline anyone riding a powered vehicle on the sidewalk.
Problem should sort itself out soon enough. =Smidge=
Only if you have no experience with contact sport.
The hard part is scale. Smaller forums tend to self manage as most people behave in small groups. As soon as you get big, the monkeysphere limits kicks in the manners go out the window. The challenge is effective and consistent moderation in large groups, maybe AI will solve this soon?
I have a hunch this is Tesla's true end game. I don't think Musk honestly believes he'll reach $650B market cap in 10 years by selling cars. I think he believes he'll reach $650B market cap by selling these.
One rule I live by is that smart people have thought of what you have thought of plus some. And since Elon Musk is clearly a smart guy, I would guess cars only form a small part of the strategy.
Maybe Tesla's, or maybe someone else's. Tesla isn't the only battery maker
True, but Tesla are the biggest, thus you would expect them to be able to supply more easily and more cheaply.
Why leave money on the table for someone else to grab with a battery only solution?
Also true, but Tesla is selling a complete end to end to solution of out box now. Any other option, while it may be better and cheaper, probably requires someone to design, build, test, project manage multiple suppliers etc which means risk and delays. A bird in the hand etc.
Congratulations, now you violated Federal Law as well as the Facebook TOS!
Your assuming the GP is in the same legal jurisdiction as you, which is quite strange given that this an international forum.
Sounds like you've put some thought into this. I often think how public forums could be improved as a good one can offer so much value. I find it odd that this problem still hasn't been solved yet. Slashdot makes a reasonable attempt, but there's still plenty of room for improvement.
Trump is basically giving away his leverage -
No he's giving away America's leverage, probably in exchange for a new hotel deal
Good job, “master” deal maker.
Well if you take the view that he personally will gain (which has been his life story) then yes it's a good deal for him.
Literally, What The Fuck?!!! He's a fucking buffoon with no coherent plan for anything.
You say that like it's a surprise?
I still think Trump's primary focus (and desperate hope) is to get Xi to lean on Kim.
Seems like a foolish move. North Korea is the jewel in China global strategy crown. It is is one of the main reasons they can get away with Taiwan, Tibet, Spratly Islands, Africa etc. and give them a big security lever to allow their expansion plans. They will not give that up easily, and they already have Taiwan so it's not a big enough carrot.
No, my clams are based on pure logic.
Ok, since you said that they must be, because that's how pure logic works apparently...
Before you waste another paragraph telling me how superior your logic is because you said it is, maybe digest this and give me your pure logical response: http://news.gallup.com/poll/22...
You don't get to be president of the United States by being stupid
The record of American presidents would suggest otherwise...
Few can afford PAs today.
Anyone labelled an 'Executive' should be able to...