Why would it be good for the common man? Seriously, why? Right now I can get a cheap home loan. A cheap car loan. As long as inflation remains relatively low, it's in the interest of the common man for the interest rate to stay right as close to zero as possible.
Indirectly, low interest rates helps provide jobs, which is also good for the common man.
If you leave your front door open, and somebody comes in and steals all your stuff, it's still stealing. If caught, the thief would still go to jail.
If there was such a thing as a secure system, maybe it would make sense to prosecute executives. It would be how therapists are legally required to keep their files behind two sets of keys (say, a safe inside a locked house). However, such a model doesn't work in a world where we have zero-day exploits and even high-security targets such as the CIA are getting hacked.
This really shows how out of step the FBI is, that they thought Ray Bradbury could be an agent of international communism. Why, Raymond Bradbury is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
Know that's just "Fight Club," but that's the whole idea behind punitive damages. For example, the famous/infamous case of the women who won hundreds of millions when she got burnt from McDonald's coffee.
The article is vague, but if you changed a person's metabolic rate (how many calories are burnt without exercises) you would also expect them to have a corresponding change in body temperature. Perhaps there's another explanation for IRX3 and IRX5 and obesity being linked. They mentioned "a complete resistance to a high-fat diet" which sounds like, it adjusts how these mice eat (and certainly doesn't mean the same thing as metabolic rate). Of course, saying you have a miracle obesity cure that means you don't need to change any of your life habits, all based on an experiment with mice, sells better.
Part of the reason Apple is getting into the car industry in the first place has to be to leverage the marquee value of their name. A taxi company doesn't want a fancy brand name, they want something cheap and reliable. It would only make sense if Apple was getting into the consumer market.
This is a very US-Centric way of thinking. The US is in control of car policy in South Korea! Wow, they screwed that one up!
Korea had other things going on than concerns risen by a candidate for president who managed 6% of the Democratic vote. In 1987, the South Korean government was controlled by a military government that had taken power with a coup. In 1988, it has an elected president. The GDP/capita was 2-3 times what it had been just 10 years earlier, and really the country was just beginning to move out of being a 3rd world hellhole. Of course once a country gains wealth and a more democratic government, it's going to be more likely to move towards private ownership of cars.
Currently, there are plenty of nations with membership in the WTO (and its subsequent limitations on tariffs) that have higher prices on cars. For instance, many countries have high registration fees, even in the tens of thousands of dollars. Fuel taxes or a million other things could have accomplished the same basic goals as tariffs.
Yeah, I thought it was really suspicious when Microsoft heavily promoted the new version of their operating system. Then when hardware manufacturers kept on including wifi and bluetooth in their hardware, without the need for an external card, I knew the only possible explanation was a massive snooping campaign by the NSA.
"Gan" would never be used for "it's nice to talk to you." This hasn't been a problem with automatic Chinese translation for the last 10 years, and I only ever saw it with "dry" being translated to "fuck."
Also, we're talking conversation here, not characters. Sure the Chinese word for "fuck" has homophones, but that is just a normal part of the Chinese language. There's no more reason they'd be stuck over "fuck" than a million other homophones, like how "shi" can mean "ten" "is" "stone" "lion" or many other different things, all depending on both tone and context.
Drivers don't really have the option not to take rides...they have to accept 90% of rides offered, or they're out of Uber. Uber also doesn't let drivers see the routes they're going to take ahead of time, just where the pickup locations are. Uber also sets prices that the drivers are going to work at.
So going with your analogy, imagine if the agent told the actor, "in order to remain an actor, you're going to work some unknown jobs at specific locations I give you, and I've decided you're going to do this work for 20% less than you received last time, and your only recourse it to quit." It sounds like a W-2 job to me.
I recently had a high school re-union, and some people did look a lot older. I guess you could make a complex theory about how some people genetically age faster than others, even if their overall lifespan is approximately the same. However, the real determination was: "are they fat?" People who weighed more also tend to look older.
You seriously think there are only 6 million Americans in mega-urban areas? What?
And you really think ICEs and "power plants" all the same efficiency? Of course different kind of power plants have different efficiency levels. Not to mention they burn different kind of fuels, and a direct comparison is silly. However, even if they burn off dirty coal, electic motors are more environmentally friendly. This is an easy thing to Google if you have any interest in numbers or the truth (I suspect you don't).
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Why would it be good for the common man? Seriously, why? Right now I can get a cheap home loan. A cheap car loan. As long as inflation remains relatively low, it's in the interest of the common man for the interest rate to stay right as close to zero as possible.
Indirectly, low interest rates helps provide jobs, which is also good for the common man.
This review was brought from the "I love the 00s" section of Slashdot! Great new feature! I hope the next one is a scathing review of the Palm V!
Are you suggesting they buy magical anti-electronic beams?
Right, prohibition never works. Prisons just need more porn, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
So you're saying his activities were puerile, plus he chose the wrong website to go to, and so he deserves death?
If you leave your front door open, and somebody comes in and steals all your stuff, it's still stealing. If caught, the thief would still go to jail.
If there was such a thing as a secure system, maybe it would make sense to prosecute executives. It would be how therapists are legally required to keep their files behind two sets of keys (say, a safe inside a locked house). However, such a model doesn't work in a world where we have zero-day exploits and even high-security targets such as the CIA are getting hacked.
This really shows how out of step the FBI is, that they thought Ray Bradbury could be an agent of international communism. Why, Raymond Bradbury is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
Know that's just "Fight Club," but that's the whole idea behind punitive damages. For example, the famous/infamous case of the women who won hundreds of millions when she got burnt from McDonald's coffee.
To be fair, Mars 3 sent us this and then died. I would not call it a successful space mission.
The article is vague, but if you changed a person's metabolic rate (how many calories are burnt without exercises) you would also expect them to have a corresponding change in body temperature. Perhaps there's another explanation for IRX3 and IRX5 and obesity being linked. They mentioned "a complete resistance to a high-fat diet" which sounds like, it adjusts how these mice eat (and certainly doesn't mean the same thing as metabolic rate). Of course, saying you have a miracle obesity cure that means you don't need to change any of your life habits, all based on an experiment with mice, sells better.
Part of the reason Apple is getting into the car industry in the first place has to be to leverage the marquee value of their name. A taxi company doesn't want a fancy brand name, they want something cheap and reliable. It would only make sense if Apple was getting into the consumer market.
And because this is Slashdot, let's all pretend people use Bittorrent for things besides piracy.
This is a very US-Centric way of thinking. The US is in control of car policy in South Korea! Wow, they screwed that one up!
Korea had other things going on than concerns risen by a candidate for president who managed 6% of the Democratic vote. In 1987, the South Korean government was controlled by a military government that had taken power with a coup. In 1988, it has an elected president. The GDP/capita was 2-3 times what it had been just 10 years earlier, and really the country was just beginning to move out of being a 3rd world hellhole. Of course once a country gains wealth and a more democratic government, it's going to be more likely to move towards private ownership of cars.
Currently, there are plenty of nations with membership in the WTO (and its subsequent limitations on tariffs) that have higher prices on cars. For instance, many countries have high registration fees, even in the tens of thousands of dollars. Fuel taxes or a million other things could have accomplished the same basic goals as tariffs.
Yeah, I thought it was really suspicious when Microsoft heavily promoted the new version of their operating system. Then when hardware manufacturers kept on including wifi and bluetooth in their hardware, without the need for an external card, I knew the only possible explanation was a massive snooping campaign by the NSA.
"Gan" would never be used for "it's nice to talk to you." This hasn't been a problem with automatic Chinese translation for the last 10 years, and I only ever saw it with "dry" being translated to "fuck."
Also, we're talking conversation here, not characters. Sure the Chinese word for "fuck" has homophones, but that is just a normal part of the Chinese language. There's no more reason they'd be stuck over "fuck" than a million other homophones, like how "shi" can mean "ten" "is" "stone" "lion" or many other different things, all depending on both tone and context.
Why would I move on to a social network nobody uses? What would be my motivation?
They didn't actually steal 1.2 billion. They claimed to have earned 1.2 billion. If you claim to have earned $100, nobody will give a shit.
And, these executives will surely face jail time.
And thus the birth of the TSA and Homeland Security. Another bloated bureaucracy that has been an abject failure by every measure.
Well, the US hasn't had another 9/11...were you hoping for a worldwide end to people using terror as a weapon?
Drivers don't really have the option not to take rides...they have to accept 90% of rides offered, or they're out of Uber. Uber also doesn't let drivers see the routes they're going to take ahead of time, just where the pickup locations are. Uber also sets prices that the drivers are going to work at.
So going with your analogy, imagine if the agent told the actor, "in order to remain an actor, you're going to work some unknown jobs at specific locations I give you, and I've decided you're going to do this work for 20% less than you received last time, and your only recourse it to quit." It sounds like a W-2 job to me.
It wasn't a CPU in the sense that you could actually process things with it and make it the central design element of a computer.
No they didn't. They developed a 350 GHz room temperature transistor.
I recently had a high school re-union, and some people did look a lot older. I guess you could make a complex theory about how some people genetically age faster than others, even if their overall lifespan is approximately the same. However, the real determination was: "are they fat?" People who weighed more also tend to look older.
No no no no no no no. You underestimate the costs of the new, and over-estimate the costs of the old.
The cost of electricity equivalent to sunlight is quite high. The cost of 5 story warehouses close to a city is high.
Sunlight is free. Water is cheap. Farmland in the middle of nowhere is cheap. Roundup is cheap/environmentally friendly.
You seriously think there are only 6 million Americans in mega-urban areas? What?
And you really think ICEs and "power plants" all the same efficiency? Of course different kind of power plants have different efficiency levels. Not to mention they burn different kind of fuels, and a direct comparison is silly. However, even if they burn off dirty coal, electic motors are more environmentally friendly. This is an easy thing to Google if you have any interest in numbers or the truth (I suspect you don't).
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Please post less and contemplate more.
Car retains value after the lease of course. If buying outright, it goes from a $33k to a $23k car.