I find it ironic that all of these "free market" people are so keen on providing subsidies, etc. to corporations. Rick Perry, a staunch "free market" Republican is famous for running around handing out Texas state government subsidies to hand-picked corporations. You can call this socialism, crony capitalism or fascism... it's all basically corrupt and screws the 99% in favor of the needy 1%.
In Nevada, they can't write a law exempting a specific company from taxes, etc. but to get around this they write the law with enough specifics to practically make it apply to only a specific company. In Tesla's case, the new law says "any company" which invests at least $3.5 billion and manufactures electric cars... etc. so theoretically another company could qualify for the exemption but not likely to find another company which meets all the criteria.
Geography... it matters. Hoover dam is in Southern Nevada, the factory is in Northern Nevada... big desert between them with not much infrastructure. Also, most of the power from Hoover Dam goes to Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas. Also... climate change and drought.
This confirms my suspicion that Tesla is really a battery company masquerading as a car company. The cars are just a vehicle to sell lots of batteries;). The grid in Reno might have a problem handling large swings in renewable power but since the factory should have lots of batteries, they can use them to smooth out the power fluctuations and use this as a demo site to sell battery grid backup systems.
Thanks for explaining the 35% fee is actually prepayment of income tax. This is probably useful for getting some income tax from people who buy stuff but somehow manage to declare no income.
The banks are reaping the rewards of years of sticking their heads in the sand on security. Europe has chip and pin which is much more secure. US credit cards are ridiculously easy to counterfeit. I hear that they are finally, slowly moving to chip and pin since their losses to fraud are increasing.
I'm all for people getting paid for their work. It's usually called a job... sometimes you have to be an entrepreneur. I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money. I call these people "the takers". They are leaches on society.
One problem I have with this study is that they didn't seem to record the types of carbohydrates and types of fat people were eating. There are big differences among sugar, refined starches such as white flour, and whole grains. Also, there is a big difference between animal fat and vegetable fat. All of these different nutrients are metabolized differently and have different effects on weight and health. If the "high carb" people ate lots of sugar and refined starches, they would not be healthy. If the "high fat" people ate lots of olive oil and not much animal fat, they would be healthy. Bottom line is that you can't tell much from this study.
I believe that Tesla has this as a target market. A recent article about a Tesla factory tour mentioned that they were in the process of assembling a 4000 kwh battery pack to be used for fixed place energy storage (the cars are 60 or 85 kwh). Tesla will have an amazing capacity to produce batteries once they build their "gigafactory" (supposedly greater capacity that all of the existing Li battery factories) and it seems that they are looking to have a business selling battery packs.
The war on drugs is a war on black people. It's a convenient way to lock them up. White people use (abuse) drugs at a higher rate than black people but get busted at a much lower rate.
TFA said that Zync has rendering software. Google has computers. Perfect match. Rendering software has many applications... try to think for a minute and I'm sure you'll come up with something.
Just yesterday, I was driving on I-80 in Reno. There was a lot of traffic backed up (Burning Man) at one exit that I didn't see and had to come to a screeching halt (fortunately stopped in time and they guy behind me was able to swerve into the next lane). If I had had V2V, I theoretically would have had warning of the problems in time to avoid the panic stop.
Case in point... Nixon's tapes. He recorded everything... except a 21 minute gap that "accidentally" got deleted. Nobody believed him. Cops who "lose" parts of recordings will be outed quickly.
Communities which have adopted cop cameras have experienced a sharp drop in the number of complaints and the cost of settling complaints. Your hypothetical is absurd.
Some years ago I read an article about automatic control of airplanes which (somewhat facetiously) predicted that in the future airplanes would have one pilot and a dog. The dog's job would be to keep the pilot from touching the controls. Humans are very erratic. Machines are predictable.
"Not necessarily and only after the fact. A hotel chain has a reputation to maintain and generally they are operating as ongoing concerns. AirBnB users (both guests and renters) are under no such long term pressures."
So... AirBnB renters are just in it for one rental? I find it hard to believe that a renter would only be interested in renting their place one time and not be concerned about renting it again the next week.
"If someone is considering a long term stay, chances are they are going to look the place over in person before any money changes hands. Not so with a short term hotel-style stay where you will be in and out in a short amount of time."
So... the people who are renting out their housing and who are living in their housing aren't concerned about health and safety of the premises? They should be able to check out the health and safety of their premises for themselves and this would also protect their short term renters.
This reminds me of a story told by some very old time IBM reps. The Selectric typewriter was newly installed for an executive secretary. She complained that the keys were too hard to press. The full IBM support team came to investigate the complaint. They were originally flummoxed because there is no adjustment for key pressure on the typewriter. However, one of them had a brilliant idea. Inserting a screwdriver into the back of the typewriter, he turned it slowly one way then another while the secretary typed. Eventually she pronounced it "fixed". Now that's customer service.
Wouldn't the Air BnB customer feedback system take care of hosts who were "bad actors"? It seems the government is only concerned about the bad actors from the standpoint of violation of their tax and monopoly preservation regulations. If a housing unit is safe for rental for the long term, it should be safe for short term guests so I doubt that there are any genuine safety concerns.
"A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between sellers and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. "
A couple of things here: - meat inspection would be government interference in the market - wouldn't paying for information cause interference in the free consent between sellers and consumers? - buyers and sellers must each have free access to all information
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I find it ironic that all of these "free market" people are so keen on providing subsidies, etc. to corporations. Rick Perry, a staunch "free market" Republican is famous for running around handing out Texas state government subsidies to hand-picked corporations. You can call this socialism, crony capitalism or fascism... it's all basically corrupt and screws the 99% in favor of the needy 1%.
In Nevada, they can't write a law exempting a specific company from taxes, etc. but to get around this they write the law with enough specifics to practically make it apply to only a specific company.
In Tesla's case, the new law says "any company" which invests at least $3.5 billion and manufactures electric cars... etc. so theoretically another company could qualify for the exemption but not likely to find another company which meets all the criteria.
Maybe the cesspool that is the tar sands region is driving them out.
Geography... it matters.
Hoover dam is in Southern Nevada, the factory is in Northern Nevada... big desert between them with not much infrastructure.
Also, most of the power from Hoover Dam goes to Southern California, Arizona and Las Vegas.
Also... climate change and drought.
This confirms my suspicion that Tesla is really a battery company masquerading as a car company. The cars are just a vehicle to sell lots of batteries ;).
The grid in Reno might have a problem handling large swings in renewable power but since the factory should have lots of batteries, they can use them to smooth out the power fluctuations and use this as a demo site to sell battery grid backup systems.
Thanks for explaining the 35% fee is actually prepayment of income tax.
This is probably useful for getting some income tax from people who buy stuff but somehow manage to declare no income.
So... how do you disable the knife used to decapitate them?
No, Nevada lithium is in the form of naturally occuring brine. The brine is pumped from underground to evaporation ponds and dried.
Autoupdated this am.
Seems to work fine.
Memory use seems about the same. (I have 10 tabs open now... lots of "complex/rich" sites... 536 MB)
The banks are reaping the rewards of years of sticking their heads in the sand on security. Europe has chip and pin which is much more secure. US credit cards are ridiculously easy to counterfeit. I hear that they are finally, slowly moving to chip and pin since their losses to fraud are increasing.
I'm all for people getting paid for their work. It's usually called a job... sometimes you have to be an entrepreneur.
I do frown on people doing something once (I just had this brilliant idea - patent; I just thought of a tune - song; I wrote this neat software - copyright; etc.) and expecting to sit on their couch for the rest of their lives and have people sending them money. I call these people "the takers". They are leaches on society.
One problem I have with this study is that they didn't seem to record the types of carbohydrates and types of fat people were eating.
There are big differences among sugar, refined starches such as white flour, and whole grains.
Also, there is a big difference between animal fat and vegetable fat.
All of these different nutrients are metabolized differently and have different effects on weight and health.
If the "high carb" people ate lots of sugar and refined starches, they would not be healthy.
If the "high fat" people ate lots of olive oil and not much animal fat, they would be healthy.
Bottom line is that you can't tell much from this study.
The car is simply a vehicle to sell batteries ;).
Actually, the car is just a big battery and a motor plus lots of software to run it all.
I believe that Tesla has this as a target market. A recent article about a Tesla factory tour mentioned that they were in the process of assembling a 4000 kwh battery pack to be used for fixed place energy storage (the cars are 60 or 85 kwh). Tesla will have an amazing capacity to produce batteries once they build their "gigafactory" (supposedly greater capacity that all of the existing Li battery factories) and it seems that they are looking to have a business selling battery packs.
The war on drugs is a war on black people. It's a convenient way to lock them up. White people use (abuse) drugs at a higher rate than black people but get busted at a much lower rate.
TFA said that Zync has rendering software. Google has computers. Perfect match.
Rendering software has many applications... try to think for a minute and I'm sure you'll come up with something.
Just yesterday, I was driving on I-80 in Reno. There was a lot of traffic backed up (Burning Man) at one exit that I didn't see and had to come to a screeching halt (fortunately stopped in time and they guy behind me was able to swerve into the next lane).
If I had had V2V, I theoretically would have had warning of the problems in time to avoid the panic stop.
Case in point... Nixon's tapes. He recorded everything... except a 21 minute gap that "accidentally" got deleted. Nobody believed him. Cops who "lose" parts of recordings will be outed quickly.
Communities which have adopted cop cameras have experienced a sharp drop in the number of complaints and the cost of settling complaints.
Your hypothetical is absurd.
Some years ago I read an article about automatic control of airplanes which (somewhat facetiously) predicted that in the future airplanes would have one pilot and a dog. The dog's job would be to keep the pilot from touching the controls.
Humans are very erratic. Machines are predictable.
The free market isn't free?
"Not necessarily and only after the fact. A hotel chain has a reputation to maintain and generally they are operating as ongoing concerns. AirBnB users (both guests and renters) are under no such long term pressures."
So... AirBnB renters are just in it for one rental? I find it hard to believe that a renter would only be interested in renting their place one time and not be concerned about renting it again the next week.
"If someone is considering a long term stay, chances are they are going to look the place over in person before any money changes hands. Not so with a short term hotel-style stay where you will be in and out in a short amount of time."
So... the people who are renting out their housing and who are living in their housing aren't concerned about health and safety of the premises? They should be able to check out the health and safety of their premises for themselves and this would also protect their short term renters.
This reminds me of a story told by some very old time IBM reps.
The Selectric typewriter was newly installed for an executive secretary. She complained that the keys were too hard to press. The full IBM support team came to investigate the complaint. They were originally flummoxed because there is no adjustment for key pressure on the typewriter. However, one of them had a brilliant idea. Inserting a screwdriver into the back of the typewriter, he turned it slowly one way then another while the secretary typed. Eventually she pronounced it "fixed".
Now that's customer service.
Wouldn't the Air BnB customer feedback system take care of hosts who were "bad actors"?
It seems the government is only concerned about the bad actors from the standpoint of violation of their tax and monopoly preservation regulations.
If a housing unit is safe for rental for the long term, it should be safe for short term guests so I doubt that there are any genuine safety concerns.
"A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between sellers and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. "
A couple of things here:
- meat inspection would be government interference in the market
- wouldn't paying for information cause interference in the free consent between sellers and consumers?
- buyers and sellers must each have free access to all information