Electric vehicles in general are insanely expensive. I was watching Top gear (the crappy American version) and the had "Entry Level" electric vehicles on there. The cheapest was well over $30,000. This for a car about the size of Ford Focus, but over twice the cost, and half a ton heavier.
I stopped flying in 737's until Boeing implemented a workaround for the hardover rudder problem that caused 737's to yaw on their side and fly straight into the ground.
Yes, hopefully you switched to the Airbus competitor to the 737 which had no problems with the rudder, just an issue with the screw sheering off on the elevator.
Yes, yes it is.//Just finished my annual training about this a week ago.
Well, then they should stop printing dollars. That is the number one currency used for organized crime in the U.S.
Also, if they stopped printing dollars, that would also help with the issue of the Dollar devaluing against other currencies and also with inflation.
So you posit that bitcoin is both a scam and a pyramid scheme. Very well.
If it is a scam, it must have victims. Please point out the victims of this scam.
If it is a pyramid scheme, then money is being taken from people who entered into the scheme late and being given to the people who entered into the scheme early. Please indicate who has recently had money taken from them to enter into this scheme, and who has been paid for entering into this scheme early.
So a person who makes money without working, and yet does not actually take the money from someone else, but merely is creating mathematically something that they and others value, is somehow evil?
Universal acceptance is one of the requirements. If a token is only useful for enumerating some exchange but not others, than it's indistinguishable from grocery store coupons.
So we are in agreement that there is no such thing as a currency.
Bitcoin is backed by the agreement of people that use bitcoin that it has a certain value. This value tends to change as more people use bitcoin, as there are only so many of them.
The U.S. Dollar is similarly backed by the agreement of the people that it has a certain value. However, that value may change because an outside authority has the power to print more of such money, thus diluting what your current money is worth. Therefore, the U.S. Dollar is an investment vehicle guaranteed to lose value over time in relation to any fixed commodity.
The government does not "back" the dollar at all. If you give them a dollar, they will give you nothing in return, but another dollar.
There are many places in the United States that will not accept your dollars as payment.
Let's just admit that it is all a line drawing game. U.S Dollar is a currency that can be used for almost everything in the United States, and quite a lot of things in the rest of the world. Bitcoin is a currency that can be used for a lot of things in the United States and a lot of things throughout the rest of the world.
At least it won't be the first time that bitcoins are used for murder.
Can you go ahead and rattle off a couple of examples of bitcoin being used for murder? Oh, and the silk road thing doesn't count, because nobody was actually murdered.
It's an overreactionary policy by the school, nothing more.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
If unemployment isn't federal, then why do I have to pay unemployment tax to the federal government, and why is their second largest budget bucket "Unemployment, Welfare and Social Services"?
OTOH those 90% top 10% drivers might realize that it is better to let the car drive home when they are drunk.
Is being dunk an issue that plagues a lot of people? I just ask, because it has literally never happened to me. It kind of seems like something that is well within your own capability to control.
The most recent completed year we spent more on the military than the size of the deficit. That means, we'd have had a surplus, if not for the military.
The same could be said of Social Security or Unemployment, Welfare and other Social programs. Maybe we should end those as well.
Surely the company has positioned the correct personnel to be able to handle sales and support calls such that one person can go to a meeting for half an hour and business can still carry on?
If you are the only one capable of doing your job, maybe the company should fire you so as to eliminate that single point of failure.
At least at school, the only person you are screwing over is yourself, and possibly whoever you are texting, and whoever hires you in the future.
At work, you are screwing over anybody who is expecting you to be paying attention and know what is going on. This could be the other people in the meeting, people that report to you, and internal and external customers.
What does passively cooled mean? Does that mean the fans on the card are turned off? I have a 6990 that is cooled only by the fans on the card itself. I used to run bitcoin mining on it back when that was profitable. I never needed anything other than the stock cooling.
Getting it to work with my Harmony remote was a pain in the butt, too.
You got it to work with the Harmony? I just assumed it wasn't going to work at all. I always just switch it on myself. But then, when I switch it off, I switch it all the way off, and I don't think the Harmony is able to control rocker switches.
I have over 200 contacts and have never had a job offer from linkedin. Maybe it is because I don't accept connections from people I don't know.
I do regularly get contacted by Indian firms via e-mail or even by phone, but as soon as they find out I am a citizen and not an H1b, then they lose interest.
Sounds like they measured it like the Nielsen ratings. There are only a small percentage of Nielsen households, but they treat the numbers as Holy and a direct indication of what other people are watching. In truth, there are certain factors that may make someone more likely to want to be a Nielsen family. For example, they watch a lot of TV. Nielsen then assumes everyone watches the same amount of TV as someone who wanted a Nielsen box. I would also surmise that people who want a Nielsen box are more likely than the general population to like lowbrow humor, reality shows, awards shows, and sports.
I guess the statistics bear out if they were trying to get the opinion about what people who like to watch TV like to watch. However, they are making claims to advertisers about how many eyeballs were on their ads, and I think that that is a falsehood unattainable from the Nielsen statistics.
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Electric vehicles in general are insanely expensive. I was watching Top gear (the crappy American version) and the had "Entry Level" electric vehicles on there. The cheapest was well over $30,000. This for a car about the size of Ford Focus, but over twice the cost, and half a ton heavier.
I stopped flying in 737's until Boeing implemented a workaround for the hardover rudder problem that caused 737's to yaw on their side and fly straight into the ground.
Yes, hopefully you switched to the Airbus competitor to the 737 which had no problems with the rudder, just an issue with the screw sheering off on the elevator.
Yes, yes it is. //Just finished my annual training about this a week ago.
Well, then they should stop printing dollars. That is the number one currency used for organized crime in the U.S.
Also, if they stopped printing dollars, that would also help with the issue of the Dollar devaluing against other currencies and also with inflation.
I would like to be an idiot. Please send me all of your bitcoins.
And, you know, preventing financial support for organized crime.
I'm pretty sure it is not in the Treasury's mandate to prevent financial support for organized crime.
So you posit that bitcoin is both a scam and a pyramid scheme. Very well.
If it is a scam, it must have victims. Please point out the victims of this scam.
If it is a pyramid scheme, then money is being taken from people who entered into the scheme late and being given to the people who entered into the scheme early. Please indicate who has recently had money taken from them to enter into this scheme, and who has been paid for entering into this scheme early.
So a person who makes money without working, and yet does not actually take the money from someone else, but merely is creating mathematically something that they and others value, is somehow evil?
Universal acceptance is one of the requirements. If a token is only useful for enumerating some exchange but not others, than it's indistinguishable from grocery store coupons.
So we are in agreement that there is no such thing as a currency.
Bitcoin is backed by the agreement of people that use bitcoin that it has a certain value. This value tends to change as more people use bitcoin, as there are only so many of them.
The U.S. Dollar is similarly backed by the agreement of the people that it has a certain value. However, that value may change because an outside authority has the power to print more of such money, thus diluting what your current money is worth. Therefore, the U.S. Dollar is an investment vehicle guaranteed to lose value over time in relation to any fixed commodity.
The government does not "back" the dollar at all. If you give them a dollar, they will give you nothing in return, but another dollar.
There are many places in the United States that will not accept your dollars as payment.
Let's just admit that it is all a line drawing game. U.S Dollar is a currency that can be used for almost everything in the United States, and quite a lot of things in the rest of the world. Bitcoin is a currency that can be used for a lot of things in the United States and a lot of things throughout the rest of the world.
At least it won't be the first time that bitcoins are used for murder.
Can you go ahead and rattle off a couple of examples of bitcoin being used for murder? Oh, and the silk road thing doesn't count, because nobody was actually murdered.
It's an overreactionary policy by the school, nothing more.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
If unemployment isn't federal, then why do I have to pay unemployment tax to the federal government, and why is their second largest budget bucket "Unemployment, Welfare and Social Services"?
OTOH those 90% top 10% drivers might realize that it is better to let the car drive home when they are drunk.
Is being dunk an issue that plagues a lot of people? I just ask, because it has literally never happened to me. It kind of seems like something that is well within your own capability to control.
I misread it as "healthcare.gov officialLY resigns". I was about to throw a party.
The most recent completed year we spent more on the military than the size of the deficit. That means, we'd have had a surplus, if not for the military.
The same could be said of Social Security or Unemployment, Welfare and other Social programs. Maybe we should end those as well.
Surely the company has positioned the correct personnel to be able to handle sales and support calls such that one person can go to a meeting for half an hour and business can still carry on?
If you are the only one capable of doing your job, maybe the company should fire you so as to eliminate that single point of failure.
At least at school, the only person you are screwing over is yourself, and possibly whoever you are texting, and whoever hires you in the future.
At work, you are screwing over anybody who is expecting you to be paying attention and know what is going on. This could be the other people in the meeting, people that report to you, and internal and external customers.
What does passively cooled mean? Does that mean the fans on the card are turned off? I have a 6990 that is cooled only by the fans on the card itself. I used to run bitcoin mining on it back when that was profitable. I never needed anything other than the stock cooling.
Getting it to work with my Harmony remote was a pain in the butt, too.
You got it to work with the Harmony? I just assumed it wasn't going to work at all. I always just switch it on myself. But then, when I switch it off, I switch it all the way off, and I don't think the Harmony is able to control rocker switches.
It's the hobbyist way to buy MP3/AAC tracks. They come with their own lossless backup.
No to mention a case, cover art, sometimes other artwork, and sometimes lyrics or other inserts.
I have over 200 contacts and have never had a job offer from linkedin. Maybe it is because I don't accept connections from people I don't know.
I do regularly get contacted by Indian firms via e-mail or even by phone, but as soon as they find out I am a citizen and not an H1b, then they lose interest.
No, his fucking hand is the one that is preoccupied.
Sometimes it pays to be ambidextrous.
But according to the article there were no injuries. So the pilot would have walked away except for what? That the pilot is a paraplegic?
No, he would have walked away, but he was killed in the accident.
Sounds like they measured it like the Nielsen ratings. There are only a small percentage of Nielsen households, but they treat the numbers as Holy and a direct indication of what other people are watching. In truth, there are certain factors that may make someone more likely to want to be a Nielsen family. For example, they watch a lot of TV. Nielsen then assumes everyone watches the same amount of TV as someone who wanted a Nielsen box. I would also surmise that people who want a Nielsen box are more likely than the general population to like lowbrow humor, reality shows, awards shows, and sports.
I guess the statistics bear out if they were trying to get the opinion about what people who like to watch TV like to watch. However, they are making claims to advertisers about how many eyeballs were on their ads, and I think that that is a falsehood unattainable from the Nielsen statistics.