But if there is another method of harvesting that solar energy, for a similar cost, but which is more efficient, then it would be preferable, as it would be producing more output.
I think that there are two types of consumer here. One type likes *a song* so they just want to buy that song. The other type like *the artist* so they will buy everything the artist releases. Record companies should know their market and appeal to both types.
Get rid of sales tax. Then you won't have these market distortions.
The problem is, that sales tax is one of the few taxes which is almost unavoidable for companies and the wealthy. Most other taxes they can find some way around.
Your post made me think about the Gartner Group. They are crap. Yet they don't curl up and die - someone keeps paying for their wild and inaccurate guesses. I put it down to insecurity - the same as people who go to visit fortune tellers.
There are Terrorists. We must do something. This is something. Therefore we must do it.
Implementing measures, whether popular or not, give the illusion that they are doing something and therefore can justify their own existence. It is human nature to think that something is better than nothing. Even when you point out that the measures are worthless, many people will think "but at least they are trying". Taking a big-picture long-term view of the loss of freedoms and subjugation by agents of the government, things aren't looking good for the USA and (by association and intimidation) the rest of the world.
I posted a comment somewhere above noting that individuals cannot trasfer their wealth/earnings overseas to minimise taxation, yet companies can.
And here is another example - companies are free to move around between countires to obtain the best deal. However, people cannot do this, as they need visas, immigration approval etc.
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Do you man a call centre help desk for Microsoft by any chance?
But if there is another method of harvesting that solar energy, for a similar cost, but which is more efficient, then it would be preferable, as it would be producing more output.
I think that there are two types of consumer here.
One type likes *a song* so they just want to buy that song.
The other type like *the artist* so they will buy everything the artist releases.
Record companies should know their market and appeal to both types.
Will they never learn?
"Why do you hate America and want to destroy it?"
That's the kind of thinking you will have to overcome. I wish you luck.
about how cloudy Phone 7 was
Cloudy, with an 80% chance of fail.
...and that's when it started to go horribly wrong - when you started to think you were better than others.
Get rid of sales tax. Then you won't have these market distortions.
The problem is, that sales tax is one of the few taxes which is almost unavoidable for companies and the wealthy. Most other taxes they can find some way around.
If this was in Europe, the company would have a plan in place to retrain the workers for some other vital function within the company.
However in the USA they would lay off the meter readers while hiring new workers for those other roles.
I can see how having people like you could seem new and novel to Microsoft.
Well then you may be totally horrified by this
Not yet, but I detect Global Clouding.
like in a Sergio Leone movie.
I was thinking more Sam Peckinpah.
Yep, it's like "exponentially" is the ultimate word to use.
Yeah, I saw Cool Hand Luke was on TV last night.
That guy got to eat all the eggs he wanted!!!
Perhaps what we have here is a failure to communicate.
> Switch to Hybrid trucks
Here in Australia, deliveries in the suburbs are done on small, fuel effient motorcycles:
postie bikes
They also have the advantage that they can be ridden right up to the mailbox, then across the driveways/footpath to the next letterbox.
Your post made me think about the Gartner Group. They are crap. Yet they don't curl up and die - someone keeps paying for their wild and inaccurate guesses. I put it down to insecurity - the same as people who go to visit fortune tellers.
I thought that a president was set for 4 years, sometimes 8.
Here's a picture to help illustrate your point.
To loosely quote Schneier,
Implementing measures, whether popular or not, give the illusion that they are doing something and therefore can justify their own existence.
It is human nature to think that something is better than nothing. Even when you point out that the measures are worthless, many people will think "but at least they are trying".
Taking a big-picture long-term view of the loss of freedoms and subjugation by agents of the government, things aren't looking good for the USA and (by association and intimidation) the rest of the world.
I posted a comment somewhere above noting that individuals cannot trasfer their wealth/earnings overseas to minimise taxation, yet companies can.
And here is another example - companies are free to move around between countires to obtain the best deal. However, people cannot do this, as they need visas, immigration approval etc.
The sad part is that right now it's all perfectly legal to move money around internationally for the express purpose of lowering the taxes paid.
What is particularly unfair is that individuals are evading tax if they do this, but for companies, it's just good practise.
But I am sure that by designing a vehicle from scratch as electric-only, you could make it a much better car.
For example, no need for a fuel tank or exhaust system means the floor pan at the rear can be much lower and flatter - giving more luggage space.
Electric offers the opportunity to rethink car design and make something different, and hopefully better (for some definitions of better).
Exactly, there is no "out". Only option 1 or option 3.
The only real "out" is to not fly.
It's supposed to be a distribution format. The fact that the format offers script execution is pretty baffling.
I see no contradiction here if you realise that it is a format for *distribution of malware*.