NYC is a special case, and I really don't think it's especially a black problem.
I'm white, and when I was in NYC, I tried to catch a cab from my Manhattan hotel to La Guadia. Or to be honest, the hotel doorman tried for me since I simply couldn't do it. Cab after cab would just take off when they heard the destination.
This is sad, but not really surprising, and is just one more example of why Uber/Lyft are going to be a disaster for the country once they more completely displace the regulated taxi industry.
Are you seriously implying that Apple announced a product would be on the market the next month without having the design done and production well underway?
You really think they would expect to finish a design, get it produced in China and into customers hands in America in six weeks?
There is now shoving though, it was done on September 1st. This delay is a 100% manufacturing and logistics f-up. And that was supposed to be Timmy's specialty as the former COO and chief bean counter. If the idiot can't even get that right, what use is he?
US unemployment rates refer to people actively seeking work. It doesn't include people who have given up looking and it certainly doesn't include leeches who are content to sit on their asses their entire lives.
Fair enough if you have no ties to a place. Personally I don't see why I'd want to retire at 50 to move away from my family, kids, friends, etc and start over. Working until 65, having $3 million instead of $1.2 (without contributing another cent to my savings - so living a lot more luxuriously) and then staying near all the people in my life sounds a lot better to me.
A 50 year old male buying a life term annuity for $1.2 million will get $47,000/year for life **NOT** geared to inflation. Enjoy living on under $4,000 per month before tax after 20 years of inflation get piled on there.
When you retire, you're not out buying new Tesla's or a new phone every year, you don't really need to....having things paid off and money in the bank, and with age, your "fun" needs decrease really, no kids to take care of, etc. That's pretty easy in most parts of the US.
Or buying a new Tesla ever.
The OP scrimped and saved and worked long hours until he was 50 to have enough money in the bank to have a meagre existence for the rest of his life. It's so sad it's just pathetic. What a waste of his life.
How about start out the same way, then work until 65 without any saving after age 50. Let the extra 15 years interest turn that 1.2 million into 3+ million. And live well those 15 years with no need to save and no major expenses. Cut back on your hours and have plenty of spare income. Then retire to serious luxury with $3 million in the bank.
From the industrial revolution until Nixon Shock, the standard of living was on a steady rise.
Nixon made changes to monetary policy so that ever since then the standard of living has been basically frozen and all improvements to productivity go to corporate profits.
Even most households going to 2 income still have the same basic standard of living despite contributing twice as much to the workforce.
In Europe, the extra productivity went to a combination of more profits and shorter hours.
A side effect of the American system is fewer people can do the same work, the companies have less need for employment, so much higher unemployment. So not only are you profiting the rich, you're paying higher than needed taxes to support the poor who would have jobs if each person worked fewer hours.
This is why I'm still on a 2011 MBP. The current macs are a sick joke, I know my next machine will be windows I'm looking forward to buying one, but I can't give up the apple trackpad.
I used to buy surplus electronics for hobby stuff all the time.
I once bought a case of animated christmas light strings that would overheat and catch on fire. They'd snipped off all the power transformers so you'd at least have to know something to power them up. I replaced the transistors on the controller with higher power ones and they work beautifully.
There really is no difference. If the religious concept of God is the creator of the universe, then by their definition, the universe, is an artificial construct created by an intelligent mind for some purpose. In other words, it is a created simulation. Labelling it with words like computer and programming is just a technicality of our language. Obviously it is "programmed" to run on some "platform". Terminology really isn't that relevant. Even if it not a programming language or computer as we (currently) define them, the concept is still right.
Well I did basically call it a creation myth in my post. At least my way there's no artificial morality written by a corrupt clergy who only wants to control the people and take all the wealth.
The nice thing about my way of putting it though is that it doesn't just explain everything in religion but everything in science as well. The quantum substructure of the universe -- why render an invisible level of detail. All the weird stuff in quantum theory. Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead because it's not rendered yet in the simulation. Electrons are just probability waves because their exact location has no macroscopic effect. Double slit photon experiment -- just render the aggregate result.
The people I know who are most disturbed by the simulation concept are the ones who most claim to believe in Jesus. And they get really pissed when I ask them how it's any different from their creation myth. Fireworks really start when I explain the simulation was developed over 6 phases by a lead developer with the intials G.O.D. and Eden was just the sandbox where they tested the "human" code. Of course, the flood was a major content patch when the simulation exited beta.
Maybe if they stopped putting huge ads with flashing animations and sound overtop of the content, it would actually be worth watching some of their content.
At least that's why I cancelled my cable subscription.
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NYC is a special case, and I really don't think it's especially a black problem.
I'm white, and when I was in NYC, I tried to catch a cab from my Manhattan hotel to La Guadia. Or to be honest, the hotel doorman tried for me since I simply couldn't do it. Cab after cab would just take off when they heard the destination.
NYC is *not* typical of American.
This is sad, but not really surprising, and is just one more example of why Uber/Lyft are going to be a disaster for the country once they more completely displace the regulated taxi industry.
Are you seriously implying that Apple announced a product would be on the market the next month without having the design done and production well underway?
You really think they would expect to finish a design, get it produced in China and into customers hands in America in six weeks?
There is now shoving though, it was done on September 1st. This delay is a 100% manufacturing and logistics f-up. And that was supposed to be Timmy's specialty as the former COO and chief bean counter. If the idiot can't even get that right, what use is he?
Timmy needs to find the courage to get his supply chain under control.
If you don't own a license to do whatever you want to do with the car for the lifetime of the car, you'd have to be a complete idiot to buy said car.
Up until 5 minutes ago, I was a Tesla fan. Now I'm saying anyone who buys a Tesla is a complete idiot. What a great move this is for them.
Just out of morbid curiosity, what is your definition of the word "chemical". Because it's clearly different from the one most of us use.
"8 times slower"
That's a meaningless statement. Remember when we used to pretend people here knew a little arithmetic and numbers.
US unemployment rates refer to people actively seeking work. It doesn't include people who have given up looking and it certainly doesn't include leeches who are content to sit on their asses their entire lives.
Fair enough if you have no ties to a place. Personally I don't see why I'd want to retire at 50 to move away from my family, kids, friends, etc and start over. Working until 65, having $3 million instead of $1.2 (without contributing another cent to my savings - so living a lot more luxuriously) and then staying near all the people in my life sounds a lot better to me.
A 50 year old male buying a life term annuity for $1.2 million will get $47,000/year for life **NOT** geared to inflation. Enjoy living on under $4,000 per month before tax after 20 years of inflation get piled on there.
When you retire, you're not out buying new Tesla's or a new phone every year, you don't really need to....having things paid off and money in the bank, and with age, your "fun" needs decrease really, no kids to take care of, etc. That's pretty easy in most parts of the US.
Or buying a new Tesla ever.
The OP scrimped and saved and worked long hours until he was 50 to have enough money in the bank to have a meagre existence for the rest of his life. It's so sad it's just pathetic. What a waste of his life.
How about start out the same way, then work until 65 without any saving after age 50. Let the extra 15 years interest turn that 1.2 million into 3+ million. And live well those 15 years with no need to save and no major expenses. Cut back on your hours and have plenty of spare income. Then retire to serious luxury with $3 million in the bank.
From the industrial revolution until Nixon Shock, the standard of living was on a steady rise.
Nixon made changes to monetary policy so that ever since then the standard of living has been basically frozen and all improvements to productivity go to corporate profits.
Even most households going to 2 income still have the same basic standard of living despite contributing twice as much to the workforce.
In Europe, the extra productivity went to a combination of more profits and shorter hours.
A side effect of the American system is fewer people can do the same work, the companies have less need for employment, so much higher unemployment. So not only are you profiting the rich, you're paying higher than needed taxes to support the poor who would have jobs if each person worked fewer hours.
This is why I'm still on a 2011 MBP. The current macs are a sick joke, I know my next machine will be windows I'm looking forward to buying one, but I can't give up the apple trackpad.
I used to buy surplus electronics for hobby stuff all the time.
I once bought a case of animated christmas light strings that would overheat and catch on fire. They'd snipped off all the power transformers so you'd at least have to know something to power them up. I replaced the transistors on the controller with higher power ones and they work beautifully.
Using your numbers, that's 75.32 cm-cubed per s4. Not sure where you learned arithmetic but you need to ask for a refund.
It was 2.5 million phones in the original recall, over 2.5 million the second time around.
And who cares how many truckloads it is anyway?
There really is no difference. If the religious concept of God is the creator of the universe, then by their definition, the universe, is an artificial construct created by an intelligent mind for some purpose. In other words, it is a created simulation. Labelling it with words like computer and programming is just a technicality of our language. Obviously it is "programmed" to run on some "platform". Terminology really isn't that relevant. Even if it not a programming language or computer as we (currently) define them, the concept is still right.
Well I did basically call it a creation myth in my post. At least my way there's no artificial morality written by a corrupt clergy who only wants to control the people and take all the wealth.
The nice thing about my way of putting it though is that it doesn't just explain everything in religion but everything in science as well. The quantum substructure of the universe -- why render an invisible level of detail. All the weird stuff in quantum theory. Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead because it's not rendered yet in the simulation. Electrons are just probability waves because their exact location has no macroscopic effect. Double slit photon experiment -- just render the aggregate result.
Nope.
There's a big difference between a null set and an empty set.
"Supernatural is a null word" - R.A. Heinlein
...and this is why we have so many 99 cent apps that suck and no decent apps.
The people I know who are most disturbed by the simulation concept are the ones who most claim to believe in Jesus. And they get really pissed when I ask them how it's any different from their creation myth. Fireworks really start when I explain the simulation was developed over 6 phases by a lead developer with the intials G.O.D. and Eden was just the sandbox where they tested the "human" code. Of course, the flood was a major content patch when the simulation exited beta.
True, but Samsung's proprietary technique has it perfected.
Maybe if they stopped putting huge ads with flashing animations and sound overtop of the content, it would actually be worth watching some of their content.
At least that's why I cancelled my cable subscription.
I have a macbook and a note 7. I would have bought an iPhone but I couldn't bring myself to pay $1000 for a phone with 5 year out of date hardware.