Give less control to readers and allow the screaming angry retarded mob to reinforce itself by rabidly banning the 1% of people who don't agree with them.
I had to laugh when they screamed about ending Saturday service. I haven't had reliable Saturday service in over a decade. Maybe one Saturday a month maybe less. And the rest of the week is even worse. On a good week we get mail 4 of the 5 days and when it comes, if it comes it's after 7pm. We stopped leaving mail for pickup years ago because if it didn't get lost, it would add 2 days to delivery. As it is, it take 5 days to send a 1st class letter to an address in the same zipcode. The USPS is Welfare for fat drunk diabetics.
Companies like Apple source from China but they have extremely rigorous specifications and quality control processes. They can afford to reject batches of output that don't meet their standards. Chinese companies aren't beholden to OTHER PEOPLE's requirements so they are free to churn out cars of any quality they like. Whereas their Chinese customers may be happy to be able to purchase a crummy car that looks nice and falls apart, that might not fly in the US. It could, if they want to displace GM but they can only do that but undercutting massively the price. Moreover EVERY car company has understood for decades that they have to make cars WHERE they sell them if they plan on making large numbers of cars. Volvo has always been a small company. So again, they can afford to make a small number of units and ship them.
It's the service, parts and dealership network that will matter. If they fall apart it's one thing, if they fall apart and you can't get them repaired for 6 months because there's no parts, that's another.
The added cost pushes the economic break even point past the effective product life once you factor in the average additional cost of $4,000 at 140K miles to replace the battery pack, which is what many units are experiencing. Moreover there are a few all gas or all diesel cars out there just as small that can get 45-50mpg so the difference in economic value is even more stark.
Plug ins - aka all electric cars of course suffer from the same problem. For example Smart Car makes a small number of all electrics. They cost nearly $26,000. And contrary to their claims, the tax credit in most states is $2,000 not $7,500. And my state charges an extra $100 just to register the car. They're still debating how to screw owners into paying an additional tax to cover the gas tax. And so it goes.......
That whenever Obama talks about anything like this, what he means is "We don't spend enough money on black urban gang members. Also my base wants me to focus on women and LGBTQ and how we can tilt the scales more in their favor at the expense of anyone else."
Toss every single employee of the organization into prison for life. Toss THEIR families out on the street and burn all their houses to the ground. Then pass a Federal law enslaving all white people in America.
Would THAT make amends or should we wage genocide on them as well?
The fact is that corporate America runs on fear. No one would lie unless their boss taught them that bringing him or her bad news was a career ender and/or they would be blamed for it.
AT&T and Verizon can pick over the corpse. That's a near certainty. Sprint will be $54 billion in debt with a shrinking customer base and nothing but the same disasters on the horizon of pretending to 'integrate' two absolutely incompatible networks. It's as if Sprint is run by the Federal government or the Soviet Union.
2 different systems on two different spectrums using 2 different technologies. Nextel II electric boogaloo. Just when you thought Sprint couldn't get any worse. Sprint is now the biggest reseller of AT&T minutes. Awesome. They will exit the branded retail market soon.
You've given them what they want. I have no doubt that IBM and others are fully moving to the point where there are zero US employees except for the top layers of management. US employment for IBM is somewhere under 85,000 vs 400,000 (including contractors) world wide. There are more IBM'rs in India than any other country. The largest IBM sites are in India.
All it does is make a first pass at scrubbing you from search results. But let's face facts here - on day one someone is going to sue 'the internet' for not erasing their existence from everywhere and everything online since the dawn of time and when someone points out them that governments can't successfully fine 'the internet' they will no longer care about any of this. The problem is that people are idiots and they're too dull to understand what this law is and is not. Meanwhile if you have an iPhone and Apple collects your location data and keeps your Apple store history, there's no provision to wipe that because it's not commonly publicly available. It's still there you don't see it.
The basic operating principle is that we're all fucking retards and our managers need to micro micro micro micro micro micro manage everything minute by minute and as long as they give us a ceaseless torrent of changes and firm 'direction' washing in like the sea and nothing ever gets done except endless control-freakism and textbook OCD we're fine.
We JUST got off XP - more or less, still a few stragglers out there. Anyone who gets a machine this year won't be capitalized until the end of 2017 so we won't worry about Microsoft until then. And by then I'm sure the executive will have invested a billion dollars and a billion meetings in finally coming to agreement on the makeup of a usable Linux desktop by then.
The overall level of system quality is so piss poor anyway what does it matter than your toaster is going to try to kill Sarah Connor? Anyone read the news recently? Car makers recalled about eleventy zillion cars recently and half the problems were on board computer based. Are you going to lose any sleep that your refrigerator will get hacked and join Skynet? Because the real problem is going to be that when your Refrigerator blows an 80 cent part on a 2 dollar circuit board it's going to cost $1100 to 'repair'.
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So I don't know what you're talking about.
Give less control to readers and allow the screaming angry retarded mob to reinforce itself by rabidly banning the 1% of people who don't agree with them.
This will get turned over on appeal. We're talking about the courts in Silicon Valley which aren't real courts.
I had to laugh when they screamed about ending Saturday service. I haven't had reliable Saturday service in over a decade. Maybe one Saturday a month maybe less. And the rest of the week is even worse. On a good week we get mail 4 of the 5 days and when it comes, if it comes it's after 7pm. We stopped leaving mail for pickup years ago because if it didn't get lost, it would add 2 days to delivery. As it is, it take 5 days to send a 1st class letter to an address in the same zipcode. The USPS is Welfare for fat drunk diabetics.
We're approaching a "The Reichstag Burned Down" moment in America.
Companies like Apple source from China but they have extremely rigorous specifications and quality control processes. They can afford to reject batches of output that don't meet their standards. Chinese companies aren't beholden to OTHER PEOPLE's requirements so they are free to churn out cars of any quality they like. Whereas their Chinese customers may be happy to be able to purchase a crummy car that looks nice and falls apart, that might not fly in the US. It could, if they want to displace GM but they can only do that but undercutting massively the price. Moreover EVERY car company has understood for decades that they have to make cars WHERE they sell them if they plan on making large numbers of cars. Volvo has always been a small company. So again, they can afford to make a small number of units and ship them.
It's the service, parts and dealership network that will matter. If they fall apart it's one thing, if they fall apart and you can't get them repaired for 6 months because there's no parts, that's another.
Just pass a fucking law outlawing driving and forcing everyone to employ a Federal civil servant to drive your car for you.
The added cost pushes the economic break even point past the effective product life once you factor in the average additional cost of $4,000 at 140K miles to replace the battery pack, which is what many units are experiencing. Moreover there are a few all gas or all diesel cars out there just as small that can get 45-50mpg so the difference in economic value is even more stark.
Plug ins - aka all electric cars of course suffer from the same problem. For example Smart Car makes a small number of all electrics. They cost nearly $26,000. And contrary to their claims, the tax credit in most states is $2,000 not $7,500. And my state charges an extra $100 just to register the car. They're still debating how to screw owners into paying an additional tax to cover the gas tax. And so it goes.......
That whenever Obama talks about anything like this, what he means is "We don't spend enough money on black urban gang members. Also my base wants me to focus on women and LGBTQ and how we can tilt the scales more in their favor at the expense of anyone else."
It's world cup. big titted groupies and cheap beer. screw this internet shit.
It won't fit on a tablet or a phone and Microsoft will complain that it's not Window. So it will be killed.
At best they will dick around with test models for another few years until Obama or Empress Hillary kills it.
Toss every single employee of the organization into prison for life. Toss THEIR families out on the street and burn all their houses to the ground. Then pass a Federal law enslaving all white people in America.
Would THAT make amends or should we wage genocide on them as well?
The fact is that corporate America runs on fear. No one would lie unless their boss taught them that bringing him or her bad news was a career ender and/or they would be blamed for it.
AT&T and Verizon can pick over the corpse. That's a near certainty. Sprint will be $54 billion in debt with a shrinking customer base and nothing but the same disasters on the horizon of pretending to 'integrate' two absolutely incompatible networks. It's as if Sprint is run by the Federal government or the Soviet Union.
Considering the EU positioned this as the first and last bulwark against fascist oppression everywhere.
2 different systems on two different spectrums using 2 different technologies. Nextel II electric boogaloo. Just when you thought Sprint couldn't get any worse. Sprint is now the biggest reseller of AT&T minutes. Awesome. They will exit the branded retail market soon.
Because I have tons of that.
You've given them what they want. I have no doubt that IBM and others are fully moving to the point where there are zero US employees except for the top layers of management. US employment for IBM is somewhere under 85,000 vs 400,000 (including contractors) world wide. There are more IBM'rs in India than any other country. The largest IBM sites are in India.
I like it that Google will eventually skip over cable, DSL and all other terrestrial modes. Because fuck those guys. Seriously.
All it does is make a first pass at scrubbing you from search results. But let's face facts here - on day one someone is going to sue 'the internet' for not erasing their existence from everywhere and everything online since the dawn of time and when someone points out them that governments can't successfully fine 'the internet' they will no longer care about any of this. The problem is that people are idiots and they're too dull to understand what this law is and is not. Meanwhile if you have an iPhone and Apple collects your location data and keeps your Apple store history, there's no provision to wipe that because it's not commonly publicly available. It's still there you don't see it.
The basic operating principle is that we're all fucking retards and our managers need to micro micro micro micro micro micro manage everything minute by minute and as long as they give us a ceaseless torrent of changes and firm 'direction' washing in like the sea and nothing ever gets done except endless control-freakism and textbook OCD we're fine.
Works for us.
We JUST got off XP - more or less, still a few stragglers out there. Anyone who gets a machine this year won't be capitalized until the end of 2017 so we won't worry about Microsoft until then. And by then I'm sure the executive will have invested a billion dollars and a billion meetings in finally coming to agreement on the makeup of a usable Linux desktop by then.
Who will sue you for turning the machine on.
The overall level of system quality is so piss poor anyway what does it matter than your toaster is going to try to kill Sarah Connor? Anyone read the news recently? Car makers recalled about eleventy zillion cars recently and half the problems were on board computer based. Are you going to lose any sleep that your refrigerator will get hacked and join Skynet? Because the real problem is going to be that when your Refrigerator blows an 80 cent part on a 2 dollar circuit board it's going to cost $1100 to 'repair'.