Not so much in the dating/reproductive game. This isn't like a lion looking for an easy meal. The strongest males seek the best females. It's an optimal reproductive strategy for producing the fittest offspring. And society has encoded it in its social structure. Be seen dating a lower ranked woman by the alpha females and you get points taken off your rank.
And then there's the whole etiquette thing: Proper social behaviour is learned, much like sports, if you practice correct technique, you improve your game. If you goof around, or play with low ranked players, your game will suck. Sure, you can get laid more frequently hanging around the strip club. But you'll have a hell of a time building long term relationships with quality women if you treat them like hookers out of habit.
Contracts are written by both parties. Don't like the terms? Try asking for something different and see who will sign.
option for renewal
Yes, but who has the option? Most often the dealership, to protect what is to them a large investment. Manufacturers won't be affected by a few dealers coming and going to the same extent.
So, if you want to invest a few million into a dealership, will you sign an agreement that might get you cut off at the end of a term? Interesting note: In the past, dealership franchise contracts prohibited corporate ownership of multiple dealerships. manufacturers didn't want large ownership structures to build up which could challenge them in contract negotiations (divide and conquer). But this was challenged and thrown out by the courts (in the '60s or '70s, I believe).
And normal people enforce a bed time, drag their asses out of bed groggily, then come in and futz around for a few hours until about lunch,
I go to bed when I'm tired. And I generally wake up before the alarm clock. I used to start work at 6:00AM and get most of my work done before the lazy shits and psychopathic boss rolled in and wasted the rest of the day bullshitting about sports team scores and betting pools.
If you push yourself, both physically and mentally, you won't stay up late easily. Its the lazy bastards that are up until all hours. And your need for sleep isn't proportional to your previous day's activities. So you'll still need only your 'standard' length o sleep.
Which turns out not to be a great mating strategy. Genetic testing of animal species that live in alpha male/harem social structures has shown that quite a few offspring are fathered by males hanging around the periphery of the group.
Chimpanzees, bonobos and humans have reproductive strategies and social groupings that make the identification of female estrus and control over their mating at the critical time extremely difficult. So they develop kinship bonds. The children are most probably the offspring of the immediate social group, so all the males have a vested interest in raising them.
For women, the queen bee syndrome is a bit stronger as a means of controlling food resources. Everyone knows who mothered a child is, so there is more motivation to monopolize a group of males as resource providers. But females can't use sex to hang on to a man while raising a child, so they share the entertainment duties, so to speak, to keep the tribe or pack together.
Chimps and bonobos became differentiated by the environment that they came to occupy. Chimps live in territory where their food resources are subject to competition from gorillas. Bonobos live in territory where there is no such stress. And no need to fight over scarce resources.
In the short term, chimps would beat bonobos. But given time to evolve, either the chimps or bonobos would evolve to accomodate the environment into which they were placed.
No company should be prevented from selling their products directly to the public. Land of the free indeed.
So, you are starting out as a small manufacturer. You've got a product you think people would like, but you don't have the money to build a network of your own retail outlets. So you shop around for a general retailer willing to put your stuff up on a shelf.
The minute your product gains any market share, part of that agreement will be that you don't compete with the retailer within a certain geographical area. And when you start moving large volumes of product through a retailer, your cost to get to the equivalent market goes up. So its a barrier to entry.
That's why many manufacturers' outlet stores are way out in the sticks. No existing retailers cover that area, so outlet malls spring up.
Because dealer franchise agreements give individual dealers a defined geographical area in which they are the only sales outlet for that particular model. And that contract language is difficult for manufacturers to break*. Tesla had no such agreements in place.
*Not just manufacturers. We had a road realignment project here in Seattle that was stalled for years by the existence of a Buick (I think) dealership smack in the middle of where they needed to build the new road. Moving it even a few miles would have overlapped another dealership's territory and the value of the franchise was such that it was a show-stopper for the city for quite a while.
Some interesting data could still be collected. If the same phone repeatedly appears near the scene of a crime, one could deduce that crimes will occur in the future in its proximity.
From TFA:
Their analysis shows that some mobile phone data is more important than others. For example, the data relating to whether or not the phone owner was at home, was particularly strongly correlated with crime patterns.
It happens when someone in management or preliminary design fucks up in the early conceptual stage. So fear and panic are used to keep everyone's head down instead of looking around, asking who made these shitty design decisions.
Ireland wants to charge its businesses 10%. Fine. Let them. A business in Dublin pays the Irish government 10% on all the profits it makes from revenue received from customers who shop there. Whether they are Irish, Canadian, American, French, whatever.
So if an American buys their products, they pay that 10%. To the Irish government. And they don't pay diddly to the USA. If our Congress doesn't like that, they can take it up with the US citizens who travelled overseas and spent their money where the government take is less. Or they can just keep them the hell out of Ireland. Good luck with that. The last people who built a wall tore it back down in 1989 (Sorry, the second to the last. I forgot Israel).
Historical reasons. Manufacturers could book a sale when they shiped a car to a dealership. Want to keep your dealership franchise? You'll accept X cars per month. You figure out how to sell them. So now manufacturers have stable 'sales' figures to make investors happy.
After some time, laws were passed against these abuses. But the same laws protected dealership franchises, so they persist.
Right. But being non-lethal, there is less to discourage cops from using this technology against the "$15 per hour now" marches instead of potentially violent confrontations.
Police are there to protect the public order, not your civil rights. And public order is often defined by the upper classes as not wanting to see a bunch of dirty hippies marching with signs.
So you wouldn't mind if videos of your own kids * being raped were being passed around?
What does tht have to do with mapping every device on the Internet?
First of all, kiddie porn isn't an NSA, GCHQ problem. That's for the FBI, local law enforcement and their foreign equivalents to pursue. NSA and GCHQ are primarily involved with monitoring their respective internal populations for the purpose of political control and suppressing dissent. Unfortunately they seem to be co-opting local law enforcement into supporting their mission rather than pursuing criminal activity, including kiddie porn.
The TOR protocol was developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to protect secure government online communications. So when a Comcast rep contacts you, ask him what business they have intercepting secure communications channels. And then ask him for his name and current location and request that he remain there until FBI agents can respons to his location. Then hang up.
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The weak prey on the weakest.
so do the strong.
Not so much in the dating/reproductive game. This isn't like a lion looking for an easy meal. The strongest males seek the best females. It's an optimal reproductive strategy for producing the fittest offspring. And society has encoded it in its social structure. Be seen dating a lower ranked woman by the alpha females and you get points taken off your rank.
And then there's the whole etiquette thing: Proper social behaviour is learned, much like sports, if you practice correct technique, you improve your game. If you goof around, or play with low ranked players, your game will suck. Sure, you can get laid more frequently hanging around the strip club. But you'll have a hell of a time building long term relationships with quality women if you treat them like hookers out of habit.
That just smacks of dumb contracting.
Contracts are written by both parties. Don't like the terms? Try asking for something different and see who will sign.
option for renewal
Yes, but who has the option? Most often the dealership, to protect what is to them a large investment. Manufacturers won't be affected by a few dealers coming and going to the same extent.
So, if you want to invest a few million into a dealership, will you sign an agreement that might get you cut off at the end of a term? Interesting note: In the past, dealership franchise contracts prohibited corporate ownership of multiple dealerships. manufacturers didn't want large ownership structures to build up which could challenge them in contract negotiations (divide and conquer). But this was challenged and thrown out by the courts (in the '60s or '70s, I believe).
And normal people enforce a bed time, drag their asses out of bed groggily, then come in and futz around for a few hours until about lunch,
I go to bed when I'm tired. And I generally wake up before the alarm clock. I used to start work at 6:00AM and get most of my work done before the lazy shits and psychopathic boss rolled in and wasted the rest of the day bullshitting about sports team scores and betting pools.
If you push yourself, both physically and mentally, you won't stay up late easily. Its the lazy bastards that are up until all hours. And your need for sleep isn't proportional to your previous day's activities. So you'll still need only your 'standard' length o sleep.
Alpha dominance and hierarchy
Which turns out not to be a great mating strategy. Genetic testing of animal species that live in alpha male/harem social structures has shown that quite a few offspring are fathered by males hanging around the periphery of the group.
Chimpanzees, bonobos and humans have reproductive strategies and social groupings that make the identification of female estrus and control over their mating at the critical time extremely difficult. So they develop kinship bonds. The children are most probably the offspring of the immediate social group, so all the males have a vested interest in raising them.
For women, the queen bee syndrome is a bit stronger as a means of controlling food resources. Everyone knows who mothered a child is, so there is more motivation to monopolize a group of males as resource providers. But females can't use sex to hang on to a man while raising a child, so they share the entertainment duties, so to speak, to keep the tribe or pack together.
That depends on how you 'put them together'.
Chimps and bonobos became differentiated by the environment that they came to occupy. Chimps live in territory where their food resources are subject to competition from gorillas. Bonobos live in territory where there is no such stress. And no need to fight over scarce resources.
In the short term, chimps would beat bonobos. But given time to evolve, either the chimps or bonobos would evolve to accomodate the environment into which they were placed.
No company should be prevented from selling their products directly to the public. Land of the free indeed.
So, you are starting out as a small manufacturer. You've got a product you think people would like, but you don't have the money to build a network of your own retail outlets. So you shop around for a general retailer willing to put your stuff up on a shelf.
The minute your product gains any market share, part of that agreement will be that you don't compete with the retailer within a certain geographical area. And when you start moving large volumes of product through a retailer, your cost to get to the equivalent market goes up. So its a barrier to entry.
That's why many manufacturers' outlet stores are way out in the sticks. No existing retailers cover that area, so outlet malls spring up.
If Tesla can do it why can't other car companies?
Because dealer franchise agreements give individual dealers a defined geographical area in which they are the only sales outlet for that particular model. And that contract language is difficult for manufacturers to break*. Tesla had no such agreements in place.
*Not just manufacturers. We had a road realignment project here in Seattle that was stalled for years by the existence of a Buick (I think) dealership smack in the middle of where they needed to build the new road. Moving it even a few miles would have overlapped another dealership's territory and the value of the franchise was such that it was a show-stopper for the city for quite a while.
Let's hope it is truly anonymous
Some interesting data could still be collected. If the same phone repeatedly appears near the scene of a crime, one could deduce that crimes will occur in the future in its proximity.
From TFA:
Their analysis shows that some mobile phone data is more important than others. For example, the data relating to whether or not the phone owner was at home, was particularly strongly correlated with crime patterns.
Not so anonymous, IMO.
Good luck with digital TV.
Where I live, rabbit ears work OK. Rooftop UHF antenna works great, which is my primary TV source anyway.
Intentionally used.
It happens when someone in management or preliminary design fucks up in the early conceptual stage. So fear and panic are used to keep everyone's head down instead of looking around, asking who made these shitty design decisions.
More corporate vice presidents to feed. Think of the children!
Boeing hasn't built anything.
I've done even less. I'm kicking myself just thinking about how much I could have asked for.
And over unfriendly territory as well.
Ireland wants to charge its businesses 10%. Fine. Let them. A business in Dublin pays the Irish government 10% on all the profits it makes from revenue received from customers who shop there. Whether they are Irish, Canadian, American, French, whatever.
So if an American buys their products, they pay that 10%. To the Irish government. And they don't pay diddly to the USA. If our Congress doesn't like that, they can take it up with the US citizens who travelled overseas and spent their money where the government take is less. Or they can just keep them the hell out of Ireland. Good luck with that. The last people who built a wall tore it back down in 1989 (Sorry, the second to the last. I forgot Israel).
In my day, we called them codpieces.
Now get off my lawn, peasant!
Your image has no privacy when in a public place.
So they have no problem with the camera I've got set up on the street at the J Edgar Hoover building parking garage entrance?
Battery operated TV set here.
Right now, Bono must be feeling about as bad as Gary Powers did back in 1960.
Historical reasons. Manufacturers could book a sale when they shiped a car to a dealership. Want to keep your dealership franchise? You'll accept X cars per month. You figure out how to sell them. So now manufacturers have stable 'sales' figures to make investors happy.
After some time, laws were passed against these abuses. But the same laws protected dealership franchises, so they persist.
Right. But being non-lethal, there is less to discourage cops from using this technology against the "$15 per hour now" marches instead of potentially violent confrontations.
Police are there to protect the public order, not your civil rights. And public order is often defined by the upper classes as not wanting to see a bunch of dirty hippies marching with signs.
So you wouldn't mind if videos of your own kids * being raped were being passed around?
What does tht have to do with mapping every device on the Internet?
First of all, kiddie porn isn't an NSA, GCHQ problem. That's for the FBI, local law enforcement and their foreign equivalents to pursue. NSA and GCHQ are primarily involved with monitoring their respective internal populations for the purpose of political control and suppressing dissent. Unfortunately they seem to be co-opting local law enforcement into supporting their mission rather than pursuing criminal activity, including kiddie porn.
The TOR protocol was developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to protect secure government online communications. So when a Comcast rep contacts you, ask him what business they have intercepting secure communications channels. And then ask him for his name and current location and request that he remain there until FBI agents can respons to his location. Then hang up.