Cute collection of parables but that's not how you get rich. You get rich like Trump got rich. Start with millions from daddy and then screw everyone to get more.
The Presidential race this time elected the best liar and conman who promptly set out screwing all of the ignorant racists who voted for him so that's not a very good example of effecting change. (Wall Street and corporations are firmly in control of the government.) We stopped having Senators appointed by the state because they were much easier to buy off at the state level. Going back to that system would only make it more responsive to corporations and the rich.
You don't seem to realize that it's not possible to convert earned income to investment income. If you work at a job, that's earned income. If you're rich and have investments and don't work at a job, you live off of investment income and get taxed at a lower rate. You can't convert earned income to investment income.
How do you convert earned income to investment income? Most people have a job with earned income and get taxed at a higher rate. If you're rich, you don't need to work at a job and can live off your investments at a lower tax rate. So, how the the average working person "get rich" so they can stop earning income? (Don't give me that "work hard and save" bullshit.)
Your reasoning falls down at the "write your congress critters" part. You should realize that your congress critters work for rich people and corporations and are bribed by them to keep their taxes low and put special loopholes in the law so they don't have to pay taxes. Congress doesn't work for voters. If you're just a regular working stiff and not a corporation or rich person, you are paying too much tax.
Patents are a minefield. They are written broadly to cover as much as possible. It's hard for a new company to enter the field without getting sued by those that own the patents. Not sure what Apple's strategy here is but I doubt they can avoid paying royalties to someone for GPU patents. Maybe they think they can bluff their way into the market.
I used hoteltonight.com when I was last in San Francisco. Found a cheap room at a good hotel. Went to the front desk and asked them to match the price. They checked and said they couldn't match it so go ahead and book it on hoteltonight. The room was a good room, no problems. The hotel wasn't very full. I found it odd that they wouldn't match the price since they have to pay a commission to the web site. I've used this tactic at other hotels and they usually try to match the price.
Local prices for electricity are influenced by a lot of political and regulatory factors which go far beyond the "cost" of electricity. Slovakia has renewable potential generation (and costs) similar to much of the rest of the world. Whether they take advantage of it is a political and regulatory outcome. A lot has to do with the entrenched fossil fuel interests who want to keep their outdated infrastructure sunk costs producing. (I just read an article about idle coal plants in China and India which have dropping utilization due to high costs, lower energy use and lower costs of renewables. Coal plant utilization rates are about 50% now and have been dropping for 5 years.)
I've installed Opera browser on my computers which has a free VPN provided by SurfEasy which is a Canadian company they own. Privacy Policy includes "no logs" https://www.surfeasy.com/priva... https://www.opera.com/privacy This should give good protection from my local ISP. Hopefully I will be able to trust SurfEasy and Opera to adhere to their policy. (BTW, the browser seems much faster than Chrome or Firefox on my old MacBook.)
Your fees are the result of a political regulatory process and have little relationship to reality. If you want to see the true cost, you'll need to follow the money and also look at other subsidies.
Your fees bear no relationship to the cost of the energy. New wind and solar installations are bid (without subsidies) at a lower cost per kWh than coal, gas or nuclear (which receive many other subsidies).
Face it. There are very few people who need desktop power. Email, web browser, word processing doesn't need much CPU. That's why Chromebooks are just fine for most people.
The original Tesla Roadster had a range of 245 miles. New battery upgrades that to 400+ miles. Tesla's have the batteries low to the ground which gives them incredible handling.
I just installed Opera and turned on the free VPN. It's easy and works great. No perceived slowdown with the VPN. (BTW, the Opera browser is much faster than Chrome or Firefox. Both of those tended to bring my old MacBook to a crawl but with Opera it's like a new machine.)
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Cute collection of parables but that's not how you get rich.
You get rich like Trump got rich. Start with millions from daddy and then screw everyone to get more.
The Presidential race this time elected the best liar and conman who promptly set out screwing all of the ignorant racists who voted for him so that's not a very good example of effecting change. (Wall Street and corporations are firmly in control of the government.)
We stopped having Senators appointed by the state because they were much easier to buy off at the state level. Going back to that system would only make it more responsive to corporations and the rich.
You don't seem to realize that it's not possible to convert earned income to investment income.
If you work at a job, that's earned income.
If you're rich and have investments and don't work at a job, you live off of investment income and get taxed at a lower rate.
You can't convert earned income to investment income.
How do you convert earned income to investment income?
Most people have a job with earned income and get taxed at a higher rate.
If you're rich, you don't need to work at a job and can live off your investments at a lower tax rate.
So, how the the average working person "get rich" so they can stop earning income?
(Don't give me that "work hard and save" bullshit.)
Your reasoning falls down at the "write your congress critters" part.
You should realize that your congress critters work for rich people and corporations and are bribed by them to keep their taxes low and put special loopholes in the law so they don't have to pay taxes. Congress doesn't work for voters.
If you're just a regular working stiff and not a corporation or rich person, you are paying too much tax.
Increased sales!
Users will just go out and buy another one.
Patents are a minefield. They are written broadly to cover as much as possible. It's hard for a new company to enter the field without getting sued by those that own the patents. Not sure what Apple's strategy here is but I doubt they can avoid paying royalties to someone for GPU patents. Maybe they think they can bluff their way into the market.
I used hoteltonight.com when I was last in San Francisco. Found a cheap room at a good hotel. Went to the front desk and asked them to match the price. They checked and said they couldn't match it so go ahead and book it on hoteltonight. The room was a good room, no problems. The hotel wasn't very full.
I found it odd that they wouldn't match the price since they have to pay a commission to the web site. I've used this tactic at other hotels and they usually try to match the price.
Local prices for electricity are influenced by a lot of political and regulatory factors which go far beyond the "cost" of electricity.
Slovakia has renewable potential generation (and costs) similar to much of the rest of the world. Whether they take advantage of it is a political and regulatory outcome. A lot has to do with the entrenched fossil fuel interests who want to keep their outdated infrastructure sunk costs producing.
(I just read an article about idle coal plants in China and India which have dropping utilization due to high costs, lower energy use and lower costs of renewables. Coal plant utilization rates are about 50% now and have been dropping for 5 years.)
I've installed Opera browser on my computers which has a free VPN provided by SurfEasy which is a Canadian company they own.
Privacy Policy includes "no logs"
https://www.surfeasy.com/priva...
https://www.opera.com/privacy
This should give good protection from my local ISP. Hopefully I will be able to trust SurfEasy and Opera to adhere to their policy.
(BTW, the browser seems much faster than Chrome or Firefox on my old MacBook.)
Good points. You really need multiple windows, etc.
It will be interesting to see how Samsung handles these issues.
Thanks to the internet and Google, it's very easy to find out the cost of wind and solar renewables and how they compare to nuclear and fossil fuels.
Here are a few references from the first pages of Google results:
https://cleantechnica.com/2017...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.greentechmedia.com...
https://cleantechnica.com/2016...
Try it yourself, you might learn something.
Your fees are the result of a political regulatory process and have little relationship to reality. If you want to see the true cost, you'll need to follow the money and also look at other subsidies.
Your fees bear no relationship to the cost of the energy.
New wind and solar installations are bid (without subsidies) at a lower cost per kWh than coal, gas or nuclear (which receive many other subsidies).
Face it. There are very few people who need desktop power. Email, web browser, word processing doesn't need much CPU. That's why Chromebooks are just fine for most people.
Here's a Kickstarter keyboard screen which uses your phone as the processor.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Nuclear power has gone from "too cheap to meter" to "too expensive to matter"
Everything (coal, gas, wind, solar) is cheaper than nuclear.
Source code is available.
VPN is a separate Canadian company.
Good questions... Do you know?
Tesla has a gross margin of about 25% on each car they sell. If they stopped investing in new models, factories, etc. they would be profitable today.
The original Tesla Roadster had a range of 245 miles. New battery upgrades that to 400+ miles.
Tesla's have the batteries low to the ground which gives them incredible handling.
You might be interested in this:
http://electrameccanica.com/
Single seat, three wheels. US$15,000
Opera browser.
Fast and free VPN. One click setup.
I just installed Opera and turned on the free VPN. It's easy and works great. No perceived slowdown with the VPN.
(BTW, the Opera browser is much faster than Chrome or Firefox. Both of those tended to bring my old MacBook to a crawl but with Opera it's like a new machine.)
Opera has a built in free VPN. I turned it on and haven't noticed any difference in speed.