SoftBank is not a bank. It is a tech holding company.
Also, while Masayoshi Son is a Japanese citizen, he is ethnically Korean, and is seen as an outsider in corporate Japan. He has attributed his success to being forced to follow a less cautious path, and being shutout of many of the cross-ownership deals between Japanese corps, that in hindsight have been a boat anchor impeding the growth and innovation of his competitors.
Indeed. In 1937, the Rockefeller family has a net worth of about 1.5% of America's economic output, or about $300B in today's dollars. But the assets of the Rockefeller family today has dwindled to almost nothing. A mere $10B.
EEE only works if you dominate a market. Linux dominates on servers and portable devices (Android is Linux). Microsoft has no chance of executing an EEE strategy against Linux. To the contrary, WSL is Microsoft's way of conceding defeat in those markets, and accepting that it has to accommodate Linux on the desktop to avoid slipping even more.
How many of these "cheerleaders" are working class? Just because an argument is made, doesn't mean it is a valid argument.
America's currency was deflationary from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of WW1. This was the "Gilded Age", as wealth became concentrated. Most of the 20th Century was inflationary, with a dip into deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The working class mostly prospered, home ownership soared, and we had far more economic equality.
It is best to have a stable currency with mild inflation of 1-2%. Excessively strong currencies (deflation) hurt the poor more than the rich. Excessively weak currencies (inflation) hurt the rich more than the poor.
The conspiracy theory that "the rich" are scheming to oppress the working class by debasing the currency is absolute nonsense. It is completely backwards and makes no sense at all.
I would certainly expect the transaction to pass in front of a human's eyes at some point before being cleared.
I don't think so. I have deposited checks in my spouse's name to my account many times, and she has deposited checks in my name to her account. We have also received checks in our company name that we have deposited to our personal accounts. We have done this many dozens of times. Never, not once, have any of these deposits been rejected.
They're even easier for central bodies to manipulate to the detriment of the working class.
Currencies are not manipulated to the detriment of the working class. Lower classes tend to be debtors while upper classes tend to be creditors. Debtors benefit from inflation, while creditors benefit from deflation. Nearly all governments are debtors, and they also benefit from inflation. Most governments and central banks have inflation policies of at least a few percent. The Federal Reserve's QE programs were strongly opposed by "Country Club Republicans", and I doubt if their concerns were the welfare of the working class.
Have they considered just lowering the damn price?
Many status symbols are Veblen Goods. A lower price would make it more affordable, lower the status boost for owners, and may depress sales.
Apple employs many marketing professionals, and is the most profitable corporation in the history of the world. I doubt if you are smarter than they are.
To be fair, slowing sales growth means that the growth in the stock price will also slow.
Nope. Apple has a PE of 16. The average for all stocks is about 25. So investors were already expecting a slowdown in sales, and it turns out that growth slowed LESS than expected, so the share price went UP... more than 10% since the earning report went public on May 1st.
"Gosh, Congressman! It seems your wife's sister is engaged to a guy whose brother is linked to terror groups!
1. You watch WAY too many movies. Can you cite even one single example of this sort of extortion actually happening in the last 40 years, by federal law enforcement, against a sitting congressman? Or anything even close to that? 2. Do you really think that a federal bureaucrat has so much of a PERSONAL commitment to getting backdoors, that they are willing to risk spending decades in prison for political extortion? 3. You are talking about Hollywood fantasy levels of corruption and extortion to prevent the passage of this bill. It is even more ridiculous to suppose that this type of extortion would work against tech billionaires like Tim, Larry, and Sergey, after the bill became law, which is what we were talking about.
Pluto and it's moons are a pretty significant set of objects, and they cross Neptunes orbit
Pluto does not cross Neptune's orbit. Pluto's orbital perigee is within the radius of Neptune's orbit, but it is inclined by 17 degrees, so they are nowhere near each other. The minimum distance is 17 AU or about 1.6 Billion miles.
Pluto is in a 2:3 resonance with Neptune, so in that sense Neptune has "cleared" it.
Pluto actually gets closer to Uranus (11 AU) than it gets to Neptune.
so does that mean Neptune is no longer a planet since it sure as heck hasn't "cleared it's zone" ?
Then there are no planets, since comets pass through all of their orbits. Zone clearing means non-transients.
You do realize the NSA would scream "National Security"
The bill has no exemption for national security.
refuse to release any evidence, stonewall, and probably blackmail, extort and bribe any investigators/prosecutors.
The NSA has no leverage whatsoever to "blackmail" or "extort". Do you have any idea what the NSA is or what they do? They don't carry guns. They can't arrest or detain. They are a bunch of nerds with computers and stuff. They collect and analyze data.
it'd be handled in a FISA court.
I see. So you also have absolutely no idea what a "FISA court" is.
Oh. but you are forgetting that the NSA, CIA and FBI all have their own definitions for words.
The only words that matter in court are the words in the law. This bill is written clearly, by lawyers. The head of the FBI, Christopher Wray, is a lawyer. He is not going to throw away his career and pension, and risk jail, by violating this law. If he verbally tells an agent to break the law, with a wink-wink, that agent will know full well than he will be thrown under the bus when it goes public. If any government official tries to do a "wink-wink" to a tech company, then that tech company can record any interaction with a government official performing official duties.
Also, the CIA and NSA have no law enforcement powers. Any request they issue would have to be enforced by some other agency.
Which US enforcement agency do *you* think believes that the law applies to them?
All of them. If this bill passes (unlikely), it will carry the full force of law. There is no way to "secretly" request/demand an illegal backdoor. If any tech company receives such a request, they can immediately publicize and sue. An NSL provides no protection for a blatantly illegal request.
I know it is popular to be cynical about government secrecy and overreach on Slashdot, but to say that about this bill, which bans an inherently open action, is silly.
I believe the point is that, by focusing on, say, the inhumaneness of the method of execution, all of your arguments fall apart if they switch to a different method.
No. Only that one argument falls apart. That is the point. You make every possible argument. Some will work on some people, others will work on other people.
A moral argument may work on a Christian. Would Jesus Christ support the death penalty? I don't think so.
An efficiency argument may work with a fiscal conservative. The death penalty is a huge waste of money.
An appeal to humanity may work with a liberal. Poor minorities are far more likely to die, and some of them were innocent.
A legalistic argument may work with a libertarian. The ability to kill citizens is the ultimate power of the state, and a power that no limited government should have.
You are paying $50k, but a contractor, making a bulk negotiated purchase from the solar company, and installing at the time of construction, should be able to do it for significantly less. Let's say $40k. But a "normal" shingle roof would have cost $10k, so the differential is $30k.
$30k amortized over 30 years at 5% is $161 per month. That is the cost for both interest and principal repayment.
So what are the savings? 1000 sq ft would have about 100 kw of incident energy, so at 15% efficiency for 6 hours per day, would generate 90 kwh per day. At a typical California rate of 12 cents per kwh, that would be savings of about $11 per day. This is California, so figure 80% of days have full sun, or 24 days per month. So the savings would be $260 per month.
So savings exceeds the costs, and adding the solar makes the house MORE affordable, not less.
trying to block executions by questioning the method is kind of stupid
As an opponent of the death penalty, I am happy to throw any possible monkey wrench into the machinery of death.
Legal challenges to the method of execution contribute to endless delays, help to make the death penalty process more expensive, and add to the perception that it is a dysfunctional anachronism.
if is that is the issue then address it directly.
There is no obligation to be "fair" when fighting injustice.
And we have a limited amount of Helium that we can use - and waste it on party balloons
A negligible amount of helium is used on "party balloons". Less than 5% of consumption, and it is usually low grade gas, contaminated with Argon, N2, H2, etc. that would otherwise likely be vented.
The biggest consumer of helium is cryogenics, followed by pressure testing and purging, followed by welding.
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Most Japanese are ethnically Korean.
If you want to get pedantic, why not go all the way, and point out that we all came from Africa?
The modern Japanese migrated to the archipelago several thousand years ago, and are linguistically and culturally distinct from Koreans.
Softbank is a bank in Japan ...
SoftBank is not a bank. It is a tech holding company.
Also, while Masayoshi Son is a Japanese citizen, he is ethnically Korean, and is seen as an outsider in corporate Japan. He has attributed his success to being forced to follow a less cautious path, and being shutout of many of the cross-ownership deals between Japanese corps, that in hindsight have been a boat anchor impeding the growth and innovation of his competitors.
They've pissed away 2/3 of it.
To be fair, a large amount of that money went to philanthropy.
Indeed. In 1937, the Rockefeller family has a net worth of about 1.5% of America's economic output, or about $300B in today's dollars. But the assets of the Rockefeller family today has dwindled to almost nothing. A mere $10B.
just a bunch of businessmen. The most "influential" are guys who go around buying up companies and using tech other people developed.
Tech is not influential if it sits on the shelf. Great ideas often go nowhere until someone puts some money behind them.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish -- United States v. Microsoft Corp., 2001
EEE only works if you dominate a market. Linux dominates on servers and portable devices (Android is Linux). Microsoft has no chance of executing an EEE strategy against Linux. To the contrary, WSL is Microsoft's way of conceding defeat in those markets, and accepting that it has to accommodate Linux on the desktop to avoid slipping even more.
How many of these "cheerleaders" are working class? Just because an argument is made, doesn't mean it is a valid argument.
America's currency was deflationary from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of WW1. This was the "Gilded Age", as wealth became concentrated. Most of the 20th Century was inflationary, with a dip into deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The working class mostly prospered, home ownership soared, and we had far more economic equality.
It is best to have a stable currency with mild inflation of 1-2%. Excessively strong currencies (deflation) hurt the poor more than the rich. Excessively weak currencies (inflation) hurt the rich more than the poor.
The conspiracy theory that "the rich" are scheming to oppress the working class by debasing the currency is absolute nonsense. It is completely backwards and makes no sense at all.
I would certainly expect the transaction to pass in front of a human's eyes at some point before being cleared.
I don't think so. I have deposited checks in my spouse's name to my account many times, and she has deposited checks in my name to her account. We have also received checks in our company name that we have deposited to our personal accounts. We have done this many dozens of times. Never, not once, have any of these deposits been rejected.
They're even easier for central bodies to manipulate to the detriment of the working class.
Currencies are not manipulated to the detriment of the working class. Lower classes tend to be debtors while upper classes tend to be creditors. Debtors benefit from inflation, while creditors benefit from deflation. Nearly all governments are debtors, and they also benefit from inflation. Most governments and central banks have inflation policies of at least a few percent. The Federal Reserve's QE programs were strongly opposed by "Country Club Republicans", and I doubt if their concerns were the welfare of the working class.
Have they considered just lowering the damn price?
Many status symbols are Veblen Goods. A lower price would make it more affordable, lower the status boost for owners, and may depress sales.
Apple employs many marketing professionals, and is the most profitable corporation in the history of the world. I doubt if you are smarter than they are.
To be fair, slowing sales growth means that the growth in the stock price will also slow.
Nope. Apple has a PE of 16. The average for all stocks is about 25. So investors were already expecting a slowdown in sales, and it turns out that growth slowed LESS than expected, so the share price went UP ... more than 10% since the earning report went public on May 1st.
All the by-wire stuff spooks me, I'll never buy a car that doesn't have permanent direct mechanical coupling backups for steering and brakes.
You should instead use evidence based reasoning. If drive-by-wire is safer, based on actual data, then your "feelings" shouldn't matter.
PRISM was not, and is not, illegal. "Illegal" doesn't mean "something I don't like". It means there is a specific law forbidding it.
The same full force of the law that allowed PRISM and all that private sector support for domestic collection from trusted US brands?
That is a silly analogy. PRISM is legal and secret. This would be illegal and public. The two situations couldn't be more different.
Paul Ryan WROTE, not just read, multiple federal budgets.
How many balanced budgets has he written?
"Gosh, Congressman! It seems your wife's sister is engaged to a guy whose brother is linked to terror groups!
1. You watch WAY too many movies. Can you cite even one single example of this sort of extortion actually happening in the last 40 years, by federal law enforcement, against a sitting congressman? Or anything even close to that?
2. Do you really think that a federal bureaucrat has so much of a PERSONAL commitment to getting backdoors, that they are willing to risk spending decades in prison for political extortion?
3. You are talking about Hollywood fantasy levels of corruption and extortion to prevent the passage of this bill. It is even more ridiculous to suppose that this type of extortion would work against tech billionaires like Tim, Larry, and Sergey, after the bill became law, which is what we were talking about.
According to QI, Earth has tens of thousands of non-transient objects in its path.
What is "QI"?
Pluto and it's moons are a pretty significant set of objects, and they cross Neptunes orbit
Pluto does not cross Neptune's orbit. Pluto's orbital perigee is within the radius of Neptune's orbit, but it is inclined by 17 degrees, so they are nowhere near each other. The minimum distance is 17 AU or about 1.6 Billion miles.
Pluto is in a 2:3 resonance with Neptune, so in that sense Neptune has "cleared" it.
Pluto actually gets closer to Uranus (11 AU) than it gets to Neptune.
so does that mean Neptune is no longer a planet since it sure as heck hasn't "cleared it's zone" ?
Then there are no planets, since comets pass through all of their orbits. Zone clearing means non-transients.
You do realize the NSA would scream "National Security"
The bill has no exemption for national security.
refuse to release any evidence, stonewall, and probably blackmail, extort and bribe any investigators/prosecutors.
The NSA has no leverage whatsoever to "blackmail" or "extort". Do you have any idea what the NSA is or what they do? They don't carry guns. They can't arrest or detain. They are a bunch of nerds with computers and stuff. They collect and analyze data.
it'd be handled in a FISA court.
I see. So you also have absolutely no idea what a "FISA court" is.
Oh. but you are forgetting that the NSA, CIA and FBI all have their own definitions for words.
The only words that matter in court are the words in the law. This bill is written clearly, by lawyers. The head of the FBI, Christopher Wray, is a lawyer. He is not going to throw away his career and pension, and risk jail, by violating this law. If he verbally tells an agent to break the law, with a wink-wink, that agent will know full well than he will be thrown under the bus when it goes public. If any government official tries to do a "wink-wink" to a tech company, then that tech company can record any interaction with a government official performing official duties.
Also, the CIA and NSA have no law enforcement powers. Any request they issue would have to be enforced by some other agency.
Which US enforcement agency do *you* think believes that the law applies to them?
All of them. If this bill passes (unlikely), it will carry the full force of law. There is no way to "secretly" request/demand an illegal backdoor. If any tech company receives such a request, they can immediately publicize and sue. An NSL provides no protection for a blatantly illegal request.
I know it is popular to be cynical about government secrecy and overreach on Slashdot, but to say that about this bill, which bans an inherently open action, is silly.
I believe the point is that, by focusing on, say, the inhumaneness of the method of execution, all of your arguments fall apart if they switch to a different method.
No. Only that one argument falls apart. That is the point. You make every possible argument. Some will work on some people, others will work on other people.
A moral argument may work on a Christian. Would Jesus Christ support the death penalty? I don't think so.
An efficiency argument may work with a fiscal conservative. The death penalty is a huge waste of money.
An appeal to humanity may work with a liberal. Poor minorities are far more likely to die, and some of them were innocent.
A legalistic argument may work with a libertarian. The ability to kill citizens is the ultimate power of the state, and a power that no limited government should have.
Let's do some math:
You are paying $50k, but a contractor, making a bulk negotiated purchase from the solar company, and installing at the time of construction, should be able to do it for significantly less. Let's say $40k. But a "normal" shingle roof would have cost $10k, so the differential is $30k.
$30k amortized over 30 years at 5% is $161 per month. That is the cost for both interest and principal repayment.
So what are the savings? 1000 sq ft would have about 100 kw of incident energy, so at 15% efficiency for 6 hours per day, would generate 90 kwh per day. At a typical California rate of 12 cents per kwh, that would be savings of about $11 per day. This is California, so figure 80% of days have full sun, or 24 days per month. So the savings would be $260 per month.
So savings exceeds the costs, and adding the solar makes the house MORE affordable, not less.
trying to block executions by questioning the method is kind of stupid
As an opponent of the death penalty, I am happy to throw any possible monkey wrench into the machinery of death.
Legal challenges to the method of execution contribute to endless delays, help to make the death penalty process more expensive, and add to the perception that it is a dysfunctional anachronism.
if is that is the issue then address it directly.
There is no obligation to be "fair" when fighting injustice.
And we have a limited amount of Helium that we can use - and waste it on party balloons
A negligible amount of helium is used on "party balloons". Less than 5% of consumption, and it is usually low grade gas, contaminated with Argon, N2, H2, etc. that would otherwise likely be vented.
The biggest consumer of helium is cryogenics, followed by pressure testing and purging, followed by welding.
Applications of Helium