Isn't that what welfare programs are for? And those are paid for by what? Oh, taxes paid by people that can afford to.
Stop oversimplifying stuff to create already-solved problems. Yes I understand there are people that want to eliminate welfare programs behind ridiculous fantasies of "fraud" and "waste" but that's all bluster and cheap applause lines to win elections. There is a reason that we haven't seen freeware reform in years - the pols are all talk and no action because they want the issue.
I was actually going to go with "entitled douche simpleton" instead of communist. Don't like these companies behavior? Don't use their products. Oh, I know, you don't have a choice, right? Then start your own free services that pay the bills without doing any of the stuff you don't like.
Here's a tip: if you aren't the paying customer, you are the product. Don't expect free shit and private enterprise to be charities.
Trees take carbon from the air. Burning a tree puts it back, minus what stays in the ash. There isn't magic carbon coming from nowhere when you burn firewood.
That technology came along because of regulation. When California says "raise your mpg or don't sell cars here" the mpg magically goes up, and smog goes down.
Statistics and data. For example, if you have elevated lung cancer rates in a conical plume downwind from a coal generating station, decreasing with distance and spread / concentration.
With all the other progress being rolled back by this government, we may as well start indirectly killing people in order to prop up an industry well into death spasms already. But hey, you'll win the electoral votes from West Virginia and Kentucky!
Except when he gets butthurt about someone publicly crapping on a dubious,over-complicated scheme to save some trapped kids, and takes to Twitter to levy completely unsubstantiated allegations of pedophilia. Twice.
For some reason, Forbes wrote an article doing the math. Epic Games is privately held, but figured to be worth somewhere around 8 to 10 billion. So if Musk wanted to liquidate half his Tesla holdings to make a videogame go away he could, but it would be a massive waste of resources.
I'd rather he use that money to make Twitter go away. He (and everyone else) would actually get some benefit on that investment.
On the contrary, I expect most people with those kinds of resources available to them to be insufferable giant bags of douche, mostly because it just doesn't matter on any significant level to them. At the end of the day he has the ability to live life in a level of luxury unlike just about anybody else, and calling someone a "pedo guy" on Twatter won't change that in the slightest.
Jobs would be the first to admit that the firing and subsequent failure at NeXT was a lesson that had to be learned in order to achieve what he did later in life.
You can't look at the successes of his return to Apple without him going away.
How are you supposed to measure what didn't happen? This is why we use statistics. We know how many accidents do happen, and we know how many miles get driven each year, so we can figure accident rates per vehicle-miles driven. Now we can compare a boatload of human drivers to a boatload of autonomous vehicles and demonstrate improved safety even in a mixed environment.
There are many issues with your idea of insurance monitoring and overcharging - my wife and I are currently using a sensor tHing from our insurance company to get better rates, and it has criticised for stopping too fast when an upcoming traffic light turns yellow and we stopped instead of blowing through the red light. We were driving safer, yet we got dinged. So now we don't stop for yellows; a policy we refer to as "running red lights for better insurance rates."
Oh, it also claims that I stopped too quickly while towing with a Land Rover - which is basically impossible.
I get what you are trying to say, but the monitoring tech had better be vastly improved over what we have today. Once the 90-day period is done and we send the sensors back, we will go back to driving safer than without the electronic spy, but with better insurance rates.
So now it's "being hunted" when you skip bail and hide in the embassy of a different country because you have delusions of grandeur regarding your own importance but really just don't want a judicial smackdown showing that you are another shithead in a long list of quasi-famous names who have no respect for women?
Not much of a hunt when this guy does everything he can to put his finger in the eye of the UK government.
No, they probably really want to try him for being an incredibly public person who has wilfully violated orders of the court. No country would adopt an "aww shucks" attitude towards this. He either stays in that building forever, or goes into handcuffs - those are his only two options.
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Isn't that what welfare programs are for? And those are paid for by what? Oh, taxes paid by people that can afford to.
Stop oversimplifying stuff to create already-solved problems. Yes I understand there are people that want to eliminate welfare programs behind ridiculous fantasies of "fraud" and "waste" but that's all bluster and cheap applause lines to win elections. There is a reason that we haven't seen freeware reform in years - the pols are all talk and no action because they want the issue.
I was actually going to go with "entitled douche simpleton" instead of communist. Don't like these companies behavior? Don't use their products. Oh, I know, you don't have a choice, right? Then start your own free services that pay the bills without doing any of the stuff you don't like.
Here's a tip: if you aren't the paying customer, you are the product. Don't expect free shit and private enterprise to be charities.
Trees take carbon from the air. Burning a tree puts it back, minus what stays in the ash. There isn't magic carbon coming from nowhere when you burn firewood.
That technology came along because of regulation. When California says "raise your mpg or don't sell cars here" the mpg magically goes up, and smog goes down.
Funny, that.
It's a sad day when this stereotype horseshit gets modded insightful.
What, too busy to call all Americans fat too? Got somewhere important to be and can't lay yet another cowboy reference on us?
Statistics and data. For example, if you have elevated lung cancer rates in a conical plume downwind from a coal generating station, decreasing with distance and spread / concentration.
I'm pro-oxygen.
Now you've met two pro-gas people!
Elon, is that you?
So would the stroke be a result of the pants-shitting, or will the stroke beget the loading of the pants?
Your statement is unclear on this incredibly important sequence of events.
So the better a company does, the higher a rate of taxes they pay on that success? And if they are barely above water, the tax rate is less?
How is that not punishing success again?
What, because Germany wants a piece of the action without fostering any of the environment that lead to it's creation?
But it's not fair!
With all the other progress being rolled back by this government, we may as well start indirectly killing people in order to prop up an industry well into death spasms already. But hey, you'll win the electoral votes from West Virginia and Kentucky!
Oh wait, you would have anyway.
Except when he gets butthurt about someone publicly crapping on a dubious,over-complicated scheme to save some trapped kids, and takes to Twitter to levy completely unsubstantiated allegations of pedophilia. Twice.
I'm starting to think these posts come from some shifty AI that just can't grasp language, and needs an adjustment to it's learning algorithm.
This is just words that do not add up to anything but nonsense.
For some reason, Forbes wrote an article doing the math. Epic Games is privately held, but figured to be worth somewhere around 8 to 10 billion. So if Musk wanted to liquidate half his Tesla holdings to make a videogame go away he could, but it would be a massive waste of resources.
I'd rather he use that money to make Twitter go away. He (and everyone else) would actually get some benefit on that investment.
You know there is a difference between owning a license to use the software, and owning the software (copyrights), right?
That difference is, of course, a primary factor in understanding the joke.
On the contrary, I expect most people with those kinds of resources available to them to be insufferable giant bags of douche, mostly because it just doesn't matter on any significant level to them. At the end of the day he has the ability to live life in a level of luxury unlike just about anybody else, and calling someone a "pedo guy" on Twatter won't change that in the slightest.
Jobs would be the first to admit that the firing and subsequent failure at NeXT was a lesson that had to be learned in order to achieve what he did later in life.
You can't look at the successes of his return to Apple without him going away.
Did you even read what the GP wrote? Do you think the average driver goes 35 years and counting without an accident?
Statistics would put this at the far end of the curve, which by definition is not average.
How are you supposed to measure what didn't happen? This is why we use statistics. We know how many accidents do happen, and we know how many miles get driven each year, so we can figure accident rates per vehicle-miles driven. Now we can compare a boatload of human drivers to a boatload of autonomous vehicles and demonstrate improved safety even in a mixed environment.
Mandatory Autocross day, or yank their license. I like it!
There are many issues with your idea of insurance monitoring and overcharging - my wife and I are currently using a sensor tHing from our insurance company to get better rates, and it has criticised for stopping too fast when an upcoming traffic light turns yellow and we stopped instead of blowing through the red light. We were driving safer, yet we got dinged. So now we don't stop for yellows; a policy we refer to as "running red lights for better insurance rates."
Oh, it also claims that I stopped too quickly while towing with a Land Rover - which is basically impossible.
I get what you are trying to say, but the monitoring tech had better be vastly improved over what we have today. Once the 90-day period is done and we send the sensors back, we will go back to driving safer than without the electronic spy, but with better insurance rates.
Have you been to southeast Asia? In places like Vietnam there are far more scooters and motorcycles than cars.
So now it's "being hunted" when you skip bail and hide in the embassy of a different country because you have delusions of grandeur regarding your own importance but really just don't want a judicial smackdown showing that you are another shithead in a long list of quasi-famous names who have no respect for women?
Not much of a hunt when this guy does everything he can to put his finger in the eye of the UK government.
No, they probably really want to try him for being an incredibly public person who has wilfully violated orders of the court. No country would adopt an "aww shucks" attitude towards this. He either stays in that building forever, or goes into handcuffs - those are his only two options.