The objective of these efforts isn't to enhance learning in any meaningful way, it's to create customers. Chromebooks, for example, are really only relevant because they gained a foothold in schools which has led to a user base raised on chromebooks continuing to use chromebooks. This is like the old tobacco and alcohol ads that appealed to children; target your customers early and create customers for life... kids that grew up on Joe Camel and Spuds Mackenzie became adults who smoked Camels and drank Bud Lite. Kids who grow up on iPads become Apple users, kids who grow up on Chromebooks become Google users... same early addiction model, only the product has changed.
That's kind of the point of achievement... that you strive for successively greater achievements.
And if you think putting men on mars would be "blindly" striving, you clearly don't understand the scope of the accomplishment or what the achievement would entail.
How is it even possible to be "abused on twitter"??? What the fuck happened to sticks and stones and all that? I swear, this is the most delicate generation in history that written on words on social media now constitute "abuse"... and an honest disservice to all the victims of actual abuse in the real world that their suffering is being coopted by snowflakes on social media who get hurt by words.
Is it really necessary to pollute this thread with your ignorance?
The US has had a near exclusive grasp of positioning technology since it's emergence as a viable technology, with Russia's GLONASS only recently becoming relevant. Ensuring that US GPS tech is more accurate and available maintains our supremacy in the field, it's not complicated.
His big justification for calling what would be humanity's greatest achievement "stupid" is that he doesn't see the imperative and doesn't think the public backs the idea sufficiently? Genius...
With the emergence of GLONASS as a viable technology and with other nations pushing for their own positioning networks, it's nice to see legitimate efforts to maintain US supremacy... and nice to see SpaceX continue to provide consistently viable launch services, something that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should in comparison with the reality TV'esque drama spin constantly given by the media towards Musk and his businesses.
Yeah... "impeachment"... cause that'll happen someday right?
Fuck you lefties are so delusional it'd actually be entertaining apart from the fact that you can vote.
Your stupid is showing again, coward... Trump's NASA budget is higher than every single Obama era budget but one. Trump is restoring NASA after the divider in chief did his best to sink them, while also pushing private space industry more than any president in history.
But please... tell us all another bit of propagandist rhetoric that CNN made you believe.
I'm saying that tax evasion isn't relevant to the discussion of whether accepting bitcoin as a payment option for those not evading taxes is a good idea or not.
Fair enough... but it's entirely unreasonable to adopt additional expense strictly for the sake of appearing cutting edge, especially for Ohio. I could see California doing something this ridiculous, maybe even New York, and it still wouldn't make sense but for Ohio it's just stupid imo.
No... that doesn't open the door for not paying at all! Are you daft? Not paying is tax evasion.
But I guess if a small paragraph is TL:DR for you, it's unreasonable to expect you to comprehend anything like basic logic and reasoning. Better luck next time.
Actually... they were enslaved by other Africans, then bought by individuals in the US. If you're gonna cry about slavery, at least try and get some facts right.
What they can do is a vastly different thing than what they're likely to do... and each of the things they "can" do also incurs a cost. There's no benefit to this. It's a sad attempt to appear to be forward thinking by accepting something that won't reasonably be a valid currency for years yet. Everything about this adds to the their overhead and it does nothing to save them money or encourage new revenue.
Did you mean to type "with the class" or was my post not classy enough for you?
No, your post wasn't in context. No one anywhere was discussing people not paying taxes except for you. You randomly brought up your irrelevant opinion that more people aren't paying taxes than will be paying taxes with BTC... then you randomly doubled down with a second irrelevant opinion that people who aren't paying taxes with fiat currency won't begin paying taxes with crypto currency.
Everybody else is on one topic, whether allowing people to pay in crypto is good or bad... the only person who's gone off in left field is you, kiddo. So, again, try and keep up with the rest of the class and save the strawman arguments for Facebook.
They'll still be hit with transaction costs that vary creating instability in revenue and they still have the potential for loss from second to second with an automated transaction... there'll still need to be a transaction that takes some time and bitcoin value changes constantly. There only really exists a potential for them to lose, particularly if they're not planning this as a way to hold the assets counting on an eventual rebound or gain.
Which is why people who don't pay taxes aren't a relevant part of the discussion as to how and why accepting payments via bitcoin will be a detriment to revenue... I know it's hard but try and keep up with the rest of the class.
Introducing this much volatility into any percentage of their revenue is a mistake. Ohio isn't exactly overflowing with surplus tax revenue... they failed to meet revenue expectations for 11 of 12 months in 2017.
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The objective of these efforts isn't to enhance learning in any meaningful way, it's to create customers. Chromebooks, for example, are really only relevant because they gained a foothold in schools which has led to a user base raised on chromebooks continuing to use chromebooks. This is like the old tobacco and alcohol ads that appealed to children; target your customers early and create customers for life... kids that grew up on Joe Camel and Spuds Mackenzie became adults who smoked Camels and drank Bud Lite. Kids who grow up on iPads become Apple users, kids who grow up on Chromebooks become Google users... same early addiction model, only the product has changed.
That's kind of the point of achievement... that you strive for successively greater achievements. And if you think putting men on mars would be "blindly" striving, you clearly don't understand the scope of the accomplishment or what the achievement would entail.
How is it even possible to be "abused on twitter"??? What the fuck happened to sticks and stones and all that? I swear, this is the most delicate generation in history that written on words on social media now constitute "abuse"... and an honest disservice to all the victims of actual abuse in the real world that their suffering is being coopted by snowflakes on social media who get hurt by words.
Is it really necessary to pollute this thread with your ignorance? The US has had a near exclusive grasp of positioning technology since it's emergence as a viable technology, with Russia's GLONASS only recently becoming relevant. Ensuring that US GPS tech is more accurate and available maintains our supremacy in the field, it's not complicated.
His big justification for calling what would be humanity's greatest achievement "stupid" is that he doesn't see the imperative and doesn't think the public backs the idea sufficiently? Genius...
Did that make sense in your little brain before you typed it or did you know how retarded it sounded and just decide to roll with it?
Awww... the lil snowflake is in full meltdown, how cute. Time for your meds mongo, too much internet for you.
With the emergence of GLONASS as a viable technology and with other nations pushing for their own positioning networks, it's nice to see legitimate efforts to maintain US supremacy... and nice to see SpaceX continue to provide consistently viable launch services, something that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should in comparison with the reality TV'esque drama spin constantly given by the media towards Musk and his businesses.
Yeah... "impeachment"... cause that'll happen someday right? Fuck you lefties are so delusional it'd actually be entertaining apart from the fact that you can vote.
Your stupid is showing again, coward... Trump's NASA budget is higher than every single Obama era budget but one. Trump is restoring NASA after the divider in chief did his best to sink them, while also pushing private space industry more than any president in history. But please... tell us all another bit of propagandist rhetoric that CNN made you believe.
That's what you get when you're using malnourished children to produce your overpriced electronics and then shipping 'em half way round the globe?
Clean up small pieces of floating plastic by intentionally setting adrift a large piece of plastic... what could go wrong. Genius.
I've removed edge from hundreds of computers, not because of anything Google did but because of everything Edge didn't do. Worst browser ever.
Am I just supposed to drink coffee and jerk off at home now or what?
I love lamp.
I'm saying that tax evasion isn't relevant to the discussion of whether accepting bitcoin as a payment option for those not evading taxes is a good idea or not.
Fair enough... but it's entirely unreasonable to adopt additional expense strictly for the sake of appearing cutting edge, especially for Ohio. I could see California doing something this ridiculous, maybe even New York, and it still wouldn't make sense but for Ohio it's just stupid imo.
No... that doesn't open the door for not paying at all! Are you daft? Not paying is tax evasion. But I guess if a small paragraph is TL:DR for you, it's unreasonable to expect you to comprehend anything like basic logic and reasoning. Better luck next time.
Actually... they were enslaved by other Africans, then bought by individuals in the US. If you're gonna cry about slavery, at least try and get some facts right.
What they can do is a vastly different thing than what they're likely to do... and each of the things they "can" do also incurs a cost. There's no benefit to this. It's a sad attempt to appear to be forward thinking by accepting something that won't reasonably be a valid currency for years yet. Everything about this adds to the their overhead and it does nothing to save them money or encourage new revenue.
Did you mean to type "with the class" or was my post not classy enough for you? No, your post wasn't in context. No one anywhere was discussing people not paying taxes except for you. You randomly brought up your irrelevant opinion that more people aren't paying taxes than will be paying taxes with BTC... then you randomly doubled down with a second irrelevant opinion that people who aren't paying taxes with fiat currency won't begin paying taxes with crypto currency. Everybody else is on one topic, whether allowing people to pay in crypto is good or bad... the only person who's gone off in left field is you, kiddo. So, again, try and keep up with the rest of the class and save the strawman arguments for Facebook.
They'll still be hit with transaction costs that vary creating instability in revenue and they still have the potential for loss from second to second with an automated transaction... there'll still need to be a transaction that takes some time and bitcoin value changes constantly. There only really exists a potential for them to lose, particularly if they're not planning this as a way to hold the assets counting on an eventual rebound or gain.
Which is why people who don't pay taxes aren't a relevant part of the discussion as to how and why accepting payments via bitcoin will be a detriment to revenue... I know it's hard but try and keep up with the rest of the class.
Introducing this much volatility into any percentage of their revenue is a mistake. Ohio isn't exactly overflowing with surplus tax revenue... they failed to meet revenue expectations for 11 of 12 months in 2017.
Agree, 100%