Probably not but I didn't get that meaning from the article.
Collecting may have cost only 30 cents of that, however imagine how much time and effort is spent by everyone getting the ticket. Also calculate what it costs to make sure nobody cheated.
And then factor in a potential of more people using public transportation instead of private, thus relieving streets.
If you go for something like 5 bucks a day gets you 1st class, you'll once again need policing, clearly defeating some of the point.
If you do it on a first come, first serve basis, I guarantee it won't take one week for the first physical encounters to happen over a 1st class seat...
You won't see this from phone manufacturers. While many devices, not just Apple's, are priced like luxury objects, they are still very much mass produced commodity items.
Aston Martin does not make commodity items. You usually do not buy an Aston Martin for your commute. Aston Martin sells you a dream. And dreams are something people cultivate.
It seems it's been too long since we've had to work for our freedom and pay for it in blood, both our enemies' and our own.
That which comes free and is considered to be a given rarely has any worth in the eyes of people.
We are descending into totalitarianism again, one way or another, and at some point we will be sick enough of being enslaved, also one way or another, that we'll rise up, heads will roll and we'll install another ruling class, one we trust, to slowly grow complacent and enamored with their power.
The cycle is alive and well and we merely markers on it.
I don't quite get your motivation to get rid of porn.
The talent in porn is only exploited when A: it's illegal and they don't enjoy labor laws that give them leverage or B: there's so much talent around that their salaries crash.
In case of A the best thing is for the government and the people to not be prudish hypocrites.
Im case of B it's the same issie we're seeing everywhere else and I don't see many people wanting to make cubible work illegal because it's basically abuse.
Sad yes, but after all, nobody's ever gonna give you even so much as an acknowledgement, much less a thank you of any kind, for being a better person and standing up for something greater than yourself.
A human being has only so much strength to waste in fights against windmills before he or she starts thinking "so when's somebody gonna stand up against my suffering?"
Society is not ready to honor those who fight the good fights. Therefore it's a rather wasted effort unless enough people happen to find themselves agreeing and posing an actual united front.
First, I think, most people have no idea what the definition of millennial even is. and second, they think the extreme loudmouths the media likes to amuse us with constitute a representative sample.
Once you're beyond that, I think nothing about millennials remains outside tbw norm and what we've seen in everey other generation.
Yes and one could go on about how most people don't know shit from quality these days.... one may be right even but what gets me is that in this time where about every niche idea seems to prosper, pure quality (without the added and often fake sense of luxury) seems hard to find.
Tech has gotten pretty repetitive. You have either uninspired iterations of established things or promises that lead nowhere.
VR, modular smartphones and many other things that get our little nerd hearts beating the imperial march... they've been promised to us and then killed or delivered in what I'll call a subpar experience with a lot of goodwill on my part.
A new CPU (as opposed to all the rebrandings they are doing) from Intel might be exciting. A good GPU from AMD too.
RTX had the potential to be something but fell flat on its face because some schmuck couldn't keep it in his pants until developers were read yto awe us.
Second: Ya had to get rid of the booth babes, didn't ya. If I want an absolute sausage fest, I'll go to VMworld, thank you very much.
This is not about the specific product but home automation in general:
Am I just naive or is this whole sector massively overpriced?
I have not yet found a product line that would fit all my home automation needs (like lights, door lock, surveillance cameras, garage door, intrusion detection, shutters, smoke detection, home entertainment control and so on), has a UI that doesn't make you want to pull out your hair by the roots AND is actually affordable.
Because let's be honest, a wireless light switch does not cost more than 3 bucks to produce. It just doesn't. And then I keep seeing prices like 20 to 50 bucks a pop.... remember how many switches you need and do the math.
After all this time of home automation being a thing, especially with the smart home appliances Google, Amazon, etc are offering, one would think that doing it yourself with arduino or something comparable could not still be the more versatile and cheaper option. But my gut tells me it is.
So am I being naive or haven I just not yet stumbled upon the right product?
The interesting thing to keep an eye out for is whether they will have the balls to resign when they realize that Google only cares about social issues as long as it's good for the bottom line.
I don't know whether my thoughts apply here since I live in Switzerland but...
The two primary things I'd want is the ability to pay normal bills with my credit card so I probably wouldn't even need a bank account and would collect frequent flyer miles on top of it:D.
On a more serious note, I'd love it if I could use the principle of compounded interest FOR me instead of having it wielded against me for once. I'd like to be able to pay a fixed amont of money to the bank on my mortgage each month. The bank takes what it's due for interest and the rest goes to amortization.
That way, the amount I was paying back would grow each month. Slowly but steadily. I could pay off my mortgage of about half a million by the time I'm 56 without even having to spare it any thought.
As it stands the banks keep wanting to have me amortize indirectly (I don't know whether that's a thing in the US at all...) which basically means paying into a retirement fund (which only gives.7%interest while I'm paying 1.2% on the mortgage) which I basically pawn off to the bank.
The idea behind that is to save taxes. And you do! You save easily ten percent in taxes of what you pay in mortgage interest.
Switzerland is the country where the myth that you have to have some debts in order for the state to not smother you with taxes is alive and kicking in no small part due to the fact that the banks gladly feed it at every turn. Like pigeons in Venice... and it produces about as much crap on society, too.
I'm not sure by what methodology that should work any better than the handing out of tax rebates despite the telcos not having delivered the prerequisite services.
Seriously, if you are unable to enforce a deal, making new deals is kinda moot.
I think it's about the carbon-dioxide. Coke from PET just tastes flat.
But it is interesting... for me the hierarchy is: 1 - 250ml glass bottle 2 - 330ml Aluminium can 3 - 330ml glass bottle 4 - A whole lot of nothing 5 - More of the same as in 4 6 - PET if I have a belly ache 7 - from tap only if I really crave the sugar...
For water I go with tap as that is still the cleanest and best tasting water around in Switzerland. For beer I don't care much whether it's glass bottle or can. What remains? milk and juice from tetra pak.
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Probably not but I didn't get that meaning from the article.
Collecting may have cost only 30 cents of that, however imagine how much time and effort is spent by everyone getting the ticket. Also calculate what it costs to make sure nobody cheated.
And then factor in a potential of more people using public transportation instead of private, thus relieving streets.
Not to mention tourism will like this, too...
If you go for something like 5 bucks a day gets you 1st class, you'll once again need policing, clearly defeating some of the point.
If you do it on a first come, first serve basis, I guarantee it won't take one week for the first physical encounters to happen over a 1st class seat...
You won't see this from phone manufacturers. While many devices, not just Apple's, are priced like luxury objects, they are still very much mass produced commodity items.
Aston Martin does not make commodity items. You usually do not buy an Aston Martin for your commute. Aston Martin sells you a dream. And dreams are something people cultivate.
It seems it's been too long since we've had to work for our freedom and pay for it in blood, both our enemies' and our own.
That which comes free and is considered to be a given rarely has any worth in the eyes of people.
We are descending into totalitarianism again, one way or another, and at some point we will be sick enough of being enslaved, also one way or another, that we'll rise up, heads will roll and we'll install another ruling class, one we trust, to slowly grow complacent and enamored with their power.
The cycle is alive and well and we merely markers on it.
I don't quite get your motivation to get rid of porn.
The talent in porn is only exploited when A: it's illegal and they don't enjoy labor laws that give them leverage or B: there's so much talent around that their salaries crash.
In case of A the best thing is for the government and the people to not be prudish hypocrites.
Im case of B it's the same issie we're seeing everywhere else and I don't see many people wanting to make cubible work illegal because it's basically abuse.
...who needs better reception far more than better throughput? I can live comfortably with 4G if it actually performs as it should.
Sad yes, but after all, nobody's ever gonna give you even so much as an acknowledgement, much less a thank you of any kind, for being a better person and standing up for something greater than yourself.
A human being has only so much strength to waste in fights against windmills before he or she starts thinking "so when's somebody gonna stand up against my suffering?"
Society is not ready to honor those who fight the good fights. Therefore it's a rather wasted effort unless enough people happen to find themselves agreeing and posing an actual united front.
First, I think, most people have no idea what the definition of millennial even is.
and second, they think the extreme loudmouths the media likes to amuse us with constitute a representative sample.
Once you're beyond that, I think nothing about millennials remains outside tbw norm and what we've seen in everey other generation.
Yes and one could go on about how most people don't know shit from quality these days.... one may be right even but what gets me is that in this time where about every niche idea seems to prosper, pure quality (without the added and often fake sense of luxury) seems hard to find.
Perhaps I'm just googling wrong.
Tech has gotten pretty repetitive. You have either uninspired iterations of established things or promises that lead nowhere.
VR, modular smartphones and many other things that get our little nerd hearts beating the imperial march... they've been promised to us and then killed or delivered in what I'll call a subpar experience with a lot of goodwill on my part.
A new CPU (as opposed to all the rebrandings they are doing) from Intel might be exciting. A good GPU from AMD too.
RTX had the potential to be something but fell flat on its face because some schmuck couldn't keep it in his pants until developers were read yto awe us.
Second: Ya had to get rid of the booth babes, didn't ya. If I want an absolute sausage fest, I'll go to VMworld, thank you very much.
This is not about the specific product but home automation in general:
Am I just naive or is this whole sector massively overpriced?
I have not yet found a product line that would fit all my home automation needs (like lights, door lock, surveillance cameras, garage door, intrusion detection, shutters, smoke detection, home entertainment control and so on), has a UI that doesn't make you want to pull out your hair by the roots AND is actually affordable.
Because let's be honest, a wireless light switch does not cost more than 3 bucks to produce. It just doesn't. And then I keep seeing prices like 20 to 50 bucks a pop.... remember how many switches you need and do the math.
After all this time of home automation being a thing, especially with the smart home appliances Google, Amazon, etc are offering, one would think that doing it yourself with arduino or something comparable could not still be the more versatile and cheaper option. But my gut tells me it is.
So am I being naive or haven I just not yet stumbled upon the right product?
Important factor being "when you have nothing else to go on" not "in the face of overwhelming data and science" :).
The interesting thing to keep an eye out for is whether they will have the balls to resign when they realize that Google only cares about social issues as long as it's good for the bottom line.
Yes but HIV is not genetic so why was the father being HIV positive a problem considering, as I understood it, we're talking in vitro here?
I'll out myself here but I have a really hard time getting the hang of git...
So yeah, it's nice that it's easy for you but their apprehension is not completely unfounded.
I don't know whether my thoughts apply here since I live in Switzerland but...
The two primary things I'd want is the ability to pay normal bills with my credit card so I probably wouldn't even need a bank account and would collect frequent flyer miles on top of it :D.
On a more serious note, I'd love it if I could use the principle of compounded interest FOR me instead of having it wielded against me for once. I'd like to be able to pay a fixed amont of money to the bank on my mortgage each month. The bank takes what it's due for interest and the rest goes to amortization.
That way, the amount I was paying back would grow each month. Slowly but steadily. I could pay off my mortgage of about half a million by the time I'm 56 without even having to spare it any thought.
As it stands the banks keep wanting to have me amortize indirectly (I don't know whether that's a thing in the US at all...) which basically means paying into a retirement fund (which only gives .7%interest while I'm paying 1.2% on the mortgage) which I basically pawn off to the bank.
The idea behind that is to save taxes. And you do! You save easily ten percent in taxes of what you pay in mortgage interest.
Switzerland is the country where the myth that you have to have some debts in order for the state to not smother you with taxes is alive and kicking in no small part due to the fact that the banks gladly feed it at every turn. Like pigeons in Venice... and it produces about as much crap on society, too.
Frankly, the only raving cultist I can spot here is anti Musk. Seems to me he's more relevant to your life than you are insinuating he is to ours.
What, that is crap, too?
And I thought they botched the web interface intentionally just to make me install their spyware... guess they just suck at software development then?
That wouldn't be petty at all...
Granted, I could see myself doing that, too ;).
I have absolutely no sympathy for this man, however I still would want the SWAT team investigated.
From what little info reached me, it does seem someone had a nervous trigger finger and that cannot be left to go on.
My understanding was that the Uber incident was a Tchernobyl type of event where security features were left turned off/overridden intentionally.
Has that changed in the meantime?
I'm not sure by what methodology that should work any better than the handing out of tax rebates despite the telcos not having delivered the prerequisite services.
Seriously, if you are unable to enforce a deal, making new deals is kinda moot.
I think it's about the carbon-dioxide. Coke from PET just tastes flat.
But it is interesting... for me the hierarchy is:
1 - 250ml glass bottle
2 - 330ml Aluminium can
3 - 330ml glass bottle
4 - A whole lot of nothing
5 - More of the same as in 4
6 - PET if I have a belly ache
7 - from tap only if I really crave the sugar...
For water I go with tap as that is still the cleanest and best tasting water around in Switzerland. For beer I don't care much whether it's glass bottle or can.
What remains? milk and juice from tetra pak.
Not every depiction of sex is pornographic you know.
Just as romanticism has been perverted into a sick abomination by Hollywood, so has sex.
I still think the sex scene in 300 was one of the most beautiful things ever to be recorded. It should be the norm, not the exception.
Well, if that's YOUR only use, then I doubt we'd miss your kind.
Most of the rest of us have a tad more varied value we can bring to the table...