Would you happily drive it back to Detroit (or Europe or Japan) to get it fixed?
Does Tesla have authorized local repairs shops in Ohio (or Texas or North Carolina)?
Fun fact: some Porsches are, as you describe, "technically 4 seaters" just to be rated as such by insurance companies, and thus, the owners pay a lower premium.
I would imagine that any competent insurance company has actuarial tables that are more specific than just whether a car has four seats or two.
In the U.S., a lot of places won't take $100 bills. If I ever acquire a $100 bill, my choices of what to do with it are usually limited to depositing it at the bank. However, the "because I am rich" comment is not really valid, in my observation. The rich people I know seldom carry around money at all. Middle class people generally carry around $20 bills (aka, Yuppy Food Stamps). On the rare occasion that I see a $100 bill, it is in the hands of the decidedly unwealthy.
Same as shorting a stock, or anything else. You have to do it through a brokerage of some sort. They lend you the bitcoins to sell somebody else and the proceeds of the sale go into your account. At some later date, you "cover" your position by buying an equal number to the ones you shorted.
For instance, if you had shorted last year 100 bitcoins at about $8, you would have borrowed said 100 bitcoins from a willing brokerage, and you would have gotten $800. Then a year later, if you decided to cover your position and pay back the 100 bitcoins that you owed the brokerage, you would have to come up with $100,000 to do so. The brokerage also charges you interest on the loan of the 100 bitcoins.
This is a simplistic case. In real life, there would have been a margin call at some point and you would have been forced to cover your position earlier or deposit funds to cover your unrealized loss on the position. In stocks, a lot of time, you can't even short a stock unless you have the cash or other not shorted stocks to cover a certain percentage of loss.
I don't know if any brokers are actually doing this for people. It is probably too dangerous to do this right now, with the price going up so quickly. A brokerage may not even be able to collect on a margin call before the short trader is quickly in the hole for large sums of money.
With shorting stocks, your upside is limited, but your downside is unlimited. This is the opposite of purchasing a stock, where your downside is limited to your investment, but the upside is unlimited.
All of that assuming that a restaurant is a public place. I would argue that it is not. It is open to the public, but it is privately owned and consent to photograph must be given by the owner.
I tend to agree with the celebrities. People shouldn't be taking your picture in public, either.
Police are a different issue. They are doing a public job, paid for by us, the public. So recording them should be okay.
So I guess you would say that the way the law is now, I am pretty much in 180 degree disagreement with most facets of it.
In most states, you need consent to record a person. If you are doing this with hidden cameras without their consent, you are doing so illegally. If you are doing so with google glass, then when they tell you to leave they have expressed that they do not give their consent.
You do know that every patron in almost EVERY place you eat is ALREADY being videoed, right? Surveillance is ubiquitous and NOW you want to complain because individuals wish to engage in something business has been doing for literally decades?
Guess I just got lucky. My GPU miner, which I used for maybe a year has produced over $120,000 worth of bitcoins (a little over 100). It cost me about $700 and the electricity maybe cost me another $700.
You must be looking at some strange calculators. ASIC devices are much more efficient on energy than even the most efficient GPUs. My GPU is just about breakeven at current prices and difficulties. The cheapest ASICs would make me a few hundred in profit. The biggest ASICs, some of which cost $1,000, use a few hundred watts of electricity and would presently yield $2,500 USD equivalent a month.
I haven't bought an ASIC and I haven't mined in awhile, but I pay attention, and it is definitely still very profitable with the latest technology.
All of the previous revolutions in mining made the previous generation unprofitable. ASICs made FPGA obsolete (well, maybe not quite yet). FPGA made GPU obsolete (not really, but ASIC sealed its fate). GPU made CPU obsolete (eventually).
As I see it the DHS has violated HIPAA by making this woman's Private Health Information known to tens of millions of people. They should be fined $50,000 per incident plus jail time for all those who published that information. I think that if the government were to collect on this, they could go a long way toward resolving our budget issues.
Most of these places were Indian contracting company and they meant it just how it sounds. They only wanted Indians on work visa, no citizens need apply.
I remember last time I was looking for work that one of the big requirements was "Must have valid work permit to work in the United States". They were quite serious about this requirement. If you were a citizen, then you obviously didn't have a work permit and so therefore you did not meet the qualifications of the job requirement.
I mined a few Bitcoins last winter using my GPU. I needed to heat my house a bit, so the cost for me was basically nothing. Today I sold the last Bitcoin - total profit: USD 6500... Happy, but I think I'll spend the coming week second-guessing my decision to sell today.
My guess is that you are right. However, you have to get out sometime. I'm sitting on quite a lot of unrealized gain myself. At some point, I will cash out just to cash out, but it probably won't be because I think it is peaking.
There are something like 20,000+ vendors accepting bitcoin now. I would like to cash out by purchasing some stuff. As more vendors accept bitcoin, the temptation to spend will increase.
Are you serious? The Silk Road shutdown barely caused a blip in bitcoin, and it is not trading at almost ten times what it was when Silk Road was in business. Just what percentage of bitcoin do you think was actually being used on Silk Road? My guess it was miniscule. This is another one of those "It could be used for something illegal, so shut it down" agendas. For the same reason, we should stop using guns, knives, hammers, dollars, rocks, etc.
I mined mine when they were trading at about $8. Then mining got too expensive for my rig because of the difficulty, and I just sat on my bitcoins and didn't think of them for awhile.
Of course, things were different back then. People were saying exactly the same things about the demise of bitcoin back then, but instead of saying it is not worth $1000, they were saying it wasn't worth $8.
When exposed to sunlight, plastics deteriorate rapidly. Look at how plastic parts on cars hold up even after only 20 or 30 years. And those are designed to last, unlike bags, which are designed to get our groceries about halfway to your car. I think they should do some testing in a controlled environment. I would bet that left in the sun, a plastic bag would completely decompose within about two years.
Of course, in order to perform this experiment properly, they first need to subject the bag to touching groceries. Touching groceries nearly instantly causes a bag to lose all cohesion and begin the process of decomposition.
If you are budgeted 40 hours a week for six months, you can only work 40 hours/week for six months as a government contractor, salaried or not. Those are literally the only hours you can legally bill to the customer. That means that if you do 80 hours a week with only 40 paid, the business has literally taken away your ability to make a salary for those remaining 3 months unless they have new coverage. It is worse than normal salaried over time.
The company could still pay the employee and be just fine, though. They just don't get paid themselves for it.
What used to piss me off, back when I was an employee of a company that hired me out as a contractor, is that I was paid salary based upon 40 hours per week, however, if they sent me to a site, they billed by the hour. If I worked 16 hours one day, they literally made an extra $3200 and I got zero of it. Now I understand that they have to cover my "bench time" (of which there was none), and vacations and whatnot. But in the case where I would have been well within my right to walk out the door after 8 hours, but instead chose to finish the job and also allow my company to bill more, it seems some consideration is in order.
That's not necessarily a sign of trouble at the company - they probably just wanted to spend more time with their families and maybe pursue some hobbies, just like all top executives that leave a company.
I would agree with you, if it wasn't for the fact that there were three of them that left. Of course, being RIM, we don't need any additional warning signs to figure out that there are problems.
One thing often left unappreciated by the general public is that unpaid overtime is literally stealing employment from the employee because a salaried employee is only authorized to bill so many hours to a contract during a period of performance.
Unpaid overtime is ALWAYS stealing from the employee, whether the employee is government, a contractor, or private sector. The employee agreed to work 40 hours for X amount of compensation. If the employee is working more than that, they deserve to be compensated. if they are working less than that, they deserve to have their pay reduced.
I doubt they would pay the lower employees much more due to this law. I think mostly they would just pay out less salary as a whole, meaning that income tax collections would go down, and we would have to find other ways to fund our already ridiculously fat federal budget.
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Would you happily drive it back to Detroit (or Europe or Japan) to get it fixed?
Does Tesla have authorized local repairs shops in Ohio (or Texas or North Carolina)?
Fun fact: some Porsches are, as you describe, "technically 4 seaters" just to be rated as such by insurance companies, and thus, the owners pay a lower premium.
I would imagine that any competent insurance company has actuarial tables that are more specific than just whether a car has four seats or two.
In the U.S., a lot of places won't take $100 bills. If I ever acquire a $100 bill, my choices of what to do with it are usually limited to depositing it at the bank. However, the "because I am rich" comment is not really valid, in my observation. The rich people I know seldom carry around money at all. Middle class people generally carry around $20 bills (aka, Yuppy Food Stamps). On the rare occasion that I see a $100 bill, it is in the hands of the decidedly unwealthy.
How do you go short on bitcoins? Details please.
Same as shorting a stock, or anything else. You have to do it through a brokerage of some sort. They lend you the bitcoins to sell somebody else and the proceeds of the sale go into your account. At some later date, you "cover" your position by buying an equal number to the ones you shorted.
For instance, if you had shorted last year 100 bitcoins at about $8, you would have borrowed said 100 bitcoins from a willing brokerage, and you would have gotten $800. Then a year later, if you decided to cover your position and pay back the 100 bitcoins that you owed the brokerage, you would have to come up with $100,000 to do so. The brokerage also charges you interest on the loan of the 100 bitcoins.
This is a simplistic case. In real life, there would have been a margin call at some point and you would have been forced to cover your position earlier or deposit funds to cover your unrealized loss on the position. In stocks, a lot of time, you can't even short a stock unless you have the cash or other not shorted stocks to cover a certain percentage of loss.
I don't know if any brokers are actually doing this for people. It is probably too dangerous to do this right now, with the price going up so quickly. A brokerage may not even be able to collect on a margin call before the short trader is quickly in the hole for large sums of money.
With shorting stocks, your upside is limited, but your downside is unlimited. This is the opposite of purchasing a stock, where your downside is limited to your investment, but the upside is unlimited.
All of that assuming that a restaurant is a public place. I would argue that it is not. It is open to the public, but it is privately owned and consent to photograph must be given by the owner.
I tend to agree with the celebrities. People shouldn't be taking your picture in public, either.
Police are a different issue. They are doing a public job, paid for by us, the public. So recording them should be okay.
So I guess you would say that the way the law is now, I am pretty much in 180 degree disagreement with most facets of it.
In most states, you need consent to record a person. If you are doing this with hidden cameras without their consent, you are doing so illegally. If you are doing so with google glass, then when they tell you to leave they have expressed that they do not give their consent.
You do know that every patron in almost EVERY place you eat is ALREADY being videoed, right? Surveillance is ubiquitous and NOW you want to complain because individuals wish to engage in something business has been doing for literally decades?
Wow. It must suck to live where you live.
Guess I just got lucky. My GPU miner, which I used for maybe a year has produced over $120,000 worth of bitcoins (a little over 100). It cost me about $700 and the electricity maybe cost me another $700.
You must be looking at some strange calculators. ASIC devices are much more efficient on energy than even the most efficient GPUs. My GPU is just about breakeven at current prices and difficulties. The cheapest ASICs would make me a few hundred in profit. The biggest ASICs, some of which cost $1,000, use a few hundred watts of electricity and would presently yield $2,500 USD equivalent a month.
I haven't bought an ASIC and I haven't mined in awhile, but I pay attention, and it is definitely still very profitable with the latest technology.
All of the previous revolutions in mining made the previous generation unprofitable. ASICs made FPGA obsolete (well, maybe not quite yet). FPGA made GPU obsolete (not really, but ASIC sealed its fate). GPU made CPU obsolete (eventually).
As I see it the DHS has violated HIPAA by making this woman's Private Health Information known to tens of millions of people. They should be fined $50,000 per incident plus jail time for all those who published that information. I think that if the government were to collect on this, they could go a long way toward resolving our budget issues.
I'm glad the company weeded you out though. Does a company really need someone with as little horse sense as you?
Anyone who is able to work in the US could apply for a job like that. That includes citizens.
Of course you could apply. But since they are only wanting H1Bs, applying is pointless.
Most of these places were Indian contracting company and they meant it just how it sounds. They only wanted Indians on work visa, no citizens need apply.
I remember last time I was looking for work that one of the big requirements was "Must have valid work permit to work in the United States". They were quite serious about this requirement. If you were a citizen, then you obviously didn't have a work permit and so therefore you did not meet the qualifications of the job requirement.
I mined a few Bitcoins last winter using my GPU. I needed to heat my house a bit, so the cost for me was basically nothing. Today I sold the last Bitcoin - total profit: USD 6500... Happy, but I think I'll spend the coming week second-guessing my decision to sell today.
My guess is that you are right. However, you have to get out sometime. I'm sitting on quite a lot of unrealized gain myself. At some point, I will cash out just to cash out, but it probably won't be because I think it is peaking.
There are something like 20,000+ vendors accepting bitcoin now. I would like to cash out by purchasing some stuff. As more vendors accept bitcoin, the temptation to spend will increase.
Are you serious? The Silk Road shutdown barely caused a blip in bitcoin, and it is not trading at almost ten times what it was when Silk Road was in business. Just what percentage of bitcoin do you think was actually being used on Silk Road? My guess it was miniscule. This is another one of those "It could be used for something illegal, so shut it down" agendas. For the same reason, we should stop using guns, knives, hammers, dollars, rocks, etc.
I mined mine when they were trading at about $8. Then mining got too expensive for my rig because of the difficulty, and I just sat on my bitcoins and didn't think of them for awhile.
Of course, things were different back then. People were saying exactly the same things about the demise of bitcoin back then, but instead of saying it is not worth $1000, they were saying it wasn't worth $8.
When exposed to sunlight, plastics deteriorate rapidly. Look at how plastic parts on cars hold up even after only 20 or 30 years. And those are designed to last, unlike bags, which are designed to get our groceries about halfway to your car. I think they should do some testing in a controlled environment. I would bet that left in the sun, a plastic bag would completely decompose within about two years.
Of course, in order to perform this experiment properly, they first need to subject the bag to touching groceries. Touching groceries nearly instantly causes a bag to lose all cohesion and begin the process of decomposition.
Plastic bags ARE recycleable.
Who made your nexus5 ? Who mined the materials ?
Someone who would otherwise have been begging on the street instead of being gainfully employed.
If you are budgeted 40 hours a week for six months, you can only work 40 hours/week for six months as a government contractor, salaried or not. Those are literally the only hours you can legally bill to the customer. That means that if you do 80 hours a week with only 40 paid, the business has literally taken away your ability to make a salary for those remaining 3 months unless they have new coverage. It is worse than normal salaried over time.
The company could still pay the employee and be just fine, though. They just don't get paid themselves for it.
What used to piss me off, back when I was an employee of a company that hired me out as a contractor, is that I was paid salary based upon 40 hours per week, however, if they sent me to a site, they billed by the hour. If I worked 16 hours one day, they literally made an extra $3200 and I got zero of it. Now I understand that they have to cover my "bench time" (of which there was none), and vacations and whatnot. But in the case where I would have been well within my right to walk out the door after 8 hours, but instead chose to finish the job and also allow my company to bill more, it seems some consideration is in order.
That's not necessarily a sign of trouble at the company - they probably just wanted to spend more time with their families and maybe pursue some hobbies, just like all top executives that leave a company.
I would agree with you, if it wasn't for the fact that there were three of them that left. Of course, being RIM, we don't need any additional warning signs to figure out that there are problems.
One thing often left unappreciated by the general public is that unpaid overtime is literally stealing employment from the employee because a salaried employee is only authorized to bill so many hours to a contract during a period of performance.
Unpaid overtime is ALWAYS stealing from the employee, whether the employee is government, a contractor, or private sector. The employee agreed to work 40 hours for X amount of compensation. If the employee is working more than that, they deserve to be compensated. if they are working less than that, they deserve to have their pay reduced.
I doubt they would pay the lower employees much more due to this law. I think mostly they would just pay out less salary as a whole, meaning that income tax collections would go down, and we would have to find other ways to fund our already ridiculously fat federal budget.
Should we? Yes. Will we? No. Why? Republicans.
You forgot Democrats.
So the execs will layoff the lowest paid workers and hire other companies in to do the job of those workers.
Or they will split the company and have one company own the other. Low paid workers in the one company and high paid workers in the other.
So many ways around this they will never close all the loopholes.
Why do that when they could just pay the CEO 12 times what the lowest level employee makes and then give him a million dollars worth of stock?