They should have won the online race with their catalog history.
They did. They sold them all off and left behind the rotting corpse of brick and mortar to die. Sears liquidated long ago. The financial term is cash cowing. Selling off everything of value and abandoning the rest.
yeah this happens in every market and every business. This is the point where most businesses turn evil. Without expansion fueling income growth they turn to expense reduction and turn on the employees and then product/service quality.
As the tech and its market become more mature there is less change and longer effective product life thus fewer sales. This happens with everything. Eventually every market stops being driven by growth and product updates and moves more to replacement of damaged or failed items.
This is just a silly what if that won't ever happen. We already have laws that make sure you can get out of a trunk, the manufacturers would never make any design that would at anytime prevent someone from getting out of the car. The liability would be way too high. Note police don't disable cars (or actually tell On-Star to) unless they are behind the car and know its safe. Again the liability of disabling a car on a freeway and causing an accident is way to high. Then there is the problem that you could never convict the person. Much better to go to the car and catch them in control of the car.
Exactly how does wasting space on grossly inefficient bike lanes accomplish this. The world has been damaged enough by bad ideas masquerading as good intentions.
I hope you are hit by a truck and paralyzed. Then you might realize that a sizable percentage of people aren't as able bodied as you and need cars and roadways.
The only difference between scooters and bikes is that bikes will violate laws and use pedestrian areas to get around traffic controls.
Because of tipping US can't lock a payment down. Chip&pin is final - transactions can't be changed, which means / bring the terminal to the table so I can put whatever tip I want and then secure it with pin. But no - now in US you can authorize a 1.99 payment and have Joe Schmoe add 1000 tip on it, just fine.
Chip and no pin leaves the chip unencrypted, so it is no better than mag stripe
Absolutely untrue. whether a system simply authorizes or authorizes and finalizes a transaction has nothing to do with the card but with the systems programing. Pin or sig or none is decided by the provider according to its contract. Usually all are available but different rates are charged. The chip is always encrypted and always secure. Anyone can clone the magstripe and it usually just holds the information from the front of the card. Cloning the chip is basically impossible due to the level of tech that would be needed. The Chip guarantees that the card was present. PIN or Sig just verifies the owner was.
well since you apparently never buy anything more than $10 I don't think it matters. The only time i don't have to enter a pin is when buying a $5 meal at a fast food joint or at places that don't support chip transactions yet. Those are disappearing as that makes them liable for fraud.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. You can't steal IP it doesn't physically exist. You can violate it, you can't steal it.
We've known for decades that organophosphates are very dangerous. This is why they developed neonicotinoids that are much safer. It's to bad that so called environmentalists would rather attack the safer alternatives simply because they want to blame the companies that make them for all evil in the world. Organics are more dangerous and less effective requiring greater use and higher costs.
By factoring the biomass gasifier as free energy. Of course it's not. even if there is a close plentiful supply you still need to transport and handle it and maintain the system which will never be less than.02/liter.
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He hired 1000 battery engineers and one guy that worked at a body shop once. Teslas are poorly designed and built crap vehicles.
Is Elon looney tunes or batshit crazy?
They should have won the online race with their catalog history.
They did. They sold them all off and left behind the rotting corpse of brick and mortar to die.
Sears liquidated long ago. The financial term is cash cowing. Selling off everything of value and abandoning the rest.
Nobody looks at their Facebook page, or their friends pages. Facebook is about the feed.
Hey, it works great. It just suggested I try Chrome.
This is bad news for Firefox users. Both of them.
yeah this happens in every market and every business. This is the point where most businesses turn evil. Without expansion fueling income growth they turn to expense reduction and turn on the employees and then product/service quality.
As the tech and its market become more mature there is less change and longer effective product life thus fewer sales. This happens with everything. Eventually every market stops being driven by growth and product updates and moves more to replacement of damaged or failed items.
This is just a silly what if that won't ever happen. We already have laws that make sure you can get out of a trunk, the manufacturers would never make any design that would at anytime prevent someone from getting out of the car. The liability would be way too high.
Note police don't disable cars (or actually tell On-Star to) unless they are behind the car and know its safe. Again the liability of disabling a car on a freeway and causing an accident is way to high.
Then there is the problem that you could never convict the person. Much better to go to the car and catch them in control of the car.
Ummm that's exactly how it works. If you don't take chip cards your liable for fraud. If you do VISA/MC is.
Exactly how does wasting space on grossly inefficient bike lanes accomplish this. The world has been damaged enough by bad ideas masquerading as good intentions.
I hope you are hit by a truck and paralyzed. Then you might realize that a sizable percentage of people aren't as able bodied as you and need cars and roadways.
The only difference between scooters and bikes is that bikes will violate laws and use pedestrian areas to get around traffic controls.
Handling cash is not 'free' from a retailers preservative either.
Actually business often have to pay a fee to deposit cash.
Having some cash with you can also save your life if robbed
Paying with cash will make you a target and get you killed if the robber panics.
They are... That is how it works.
Because of tipping US can't lock a payment down. Chip&pin is final - transactions can't be changed, which means / bring the terminal to the table so I can put whatever tip I want and then secure it with pin. But no - now in US you can authorize a 1.99 payment and have Joe Schmoe add 1000 tip on it, just fine.
Chip and no pin leaves the chip unencrypted, so it is no better than mag stripe
Absolutely untrue. whether a system simply authorizes or authorizes and finalizes a transaction has nothing to do with the card but with the systems programing. Pin or sig or none is decided by the provider according to its contract. Usually all are available but different rates are charged. The chip is always encrypted and always secure. Anyone can clone the magstripe and it usually just holds the information from the front of the card. Cloning the chip is basically impossible due to the level of tech that would be needed. The Chip guarantees that the card was present. PIN or Sig just verifies the owner was.
well since you apparently never buy anything more than $10 I don't think it matters. The only time i don't have to enter a pin is when buying a $5 meal at a fast food joint or at places that don't support chip transactions yet. Those are disappearing as that makes them liable for fraud.
China are clearly IP thieves,
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. You can't steal IP it doesn't physically exist. You can violate it, you can't steal it.
US patents are exactly that. US patents. they don't effect China in any way.
You can't steal IP. i don't think you know what IP is.
Last time I checked more that 60% of crops required no polinizers and there is no real evidence that neonicotinoids harm any when used properly.
We've known for decades that organophosphates are very dangerous. This is why they developed neonicotinoids that are much safer. It's to bad that so called environmentalists would rather attack the safer alternatives simply because they want to blame the companies that make them for all evil in the world. Organics are more dangerous and less effective requiring greater use and higher costs.
This devices presumably changes that, if the resulting water really only costs $0.02/l
That is incredibly expensive for water.
At 50x the cost of tap water i don't think its an issue.
By factoring the biomass gasifier as free energy. Of course it's not. even if there is a close plentiful supply you still need to transport and handle it and maintain the system which will never be less than .02/liter.