How would you go about verifying someone rating a movie has seen it?
All you have to do is ensure that anyone posting anything on the internet uses their own real name and address, and has provided a copy of their passport/driving licence or other official ID as proof.
In order to be allowed to rate a movie, you would have to provide a copy of your cinema ticket.
In other words, anonymous online reviews are currently close to meaningless. Personally, I would rather read a couple of reviews by decent film critics, rather than take any notice of the number of 1* or 5* reviews.
In Michigan they calcuated it would be cheaper to hire Uber to carry bus passengers door to door rather than create an enormous multi-county bus service.
If I had enough foolhardy investors backing me, I could give Michigan (or anywhere else) a completely free bus/taxi service.
The taxi industry revenue in the US alone is $19 billion. Uber is global(ish). $10 billion isn't a huge debt. They had revenue of $6.5 billion and an increase of 100% of bookings last year. The theory is that you lose a lot of money now, but due to the large growth you will eventually get positive. It worked for Amazon. It might work for Uber too.
If Uber had all that $19 billion in revenue in the US but still made a loss, the company would logically have a negative value.
Presumably, Uber's plan is to put its competitors out of business so that it can then ramp up its charges dramatically and make a profit.
If this was Microsoft doing something similar, everyone here would be up in arms demanding the Government fined them out of existence.
The point about Uber is that their investors are prepared to lose a lot of money in the short term, because they believe that in the medium term Uber will have a near-monopoly on self driving cars for hire. Somehow, Uber will be able to buy/produce/run these cheaply enough to let them make a profit whilst having such low fares that it won't be worth buying your own car.
You'd be just as well off investing in a cold fusion company.
Yes, but the point is that there is not some magical percentage of your GDP that you must spend to defend yourselves adequately.
Other things being equal, a wealthy country should be spending LESS as a percent of GDP on defence since the absolute values are still much higher than for a poor country.
For example, while an F35 or aircraft carrier is expensive in the US, it would be a massive percentage of GDP for a small African country.
you're a fucking moron. cops don't have the right to detain you absent a crime. it means they're fucking breaking the law, and if they use force you should crack them over the head.
he Progressive excuse for all manner of corporate authoritarianism and malfeasance.
"Progressive" excuse? Sorry, USian political slang confuses me immensely. Can you define what you actually mean by "Progressive"?
If you are extreme enough on the right wing, you consider everyone from Communists to ultra-Conservatives as "left wing" or "progressive". Similarly, but not identically, if you are an extreme libertarian, then basically anything in the political mainstream is equally evil, and that includes normal businesses just as much as Stalinists or Fascists.
Tesla has cars on the road, it's not vaporware company.
There is a continuum from "long established manufacturing company with a proven history of sales and profits" to "perpetual motion type scam". Just because Tesla is not the latter does not make its valuation realistic.
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
So it's ok if a Christian preacher does the same thing, but if an Imam does it it's bad?
If a white Christian says something vile, it's just them exercising their right to free speech. If a brown Muslim does the same, the world is ending.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
I think that using the argument that the US is only doing the same thing as the insane dictatorship that is North Korea is not a good way of proving your country's sanity.
We must generate best-of-breed web-readiness to be able to scale ubiquitous e-commerce to utilize proactive systems to deliver frictionless deliverables for the innovate B2C web services.
it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with....
it doesn't understand pity....or remorse.....or fear....
and it absolutely will not stop.....EVER.....until you are dead
Not to be picky, but that was said about the original Arnie Terminator, not the self-repairing one in Terminator 2 played by Robert Patrick.
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How would you go about verifying someone rating a movie has seen it?
All you have to do is ensure that anyone posting anything on the internet uses their own real name and address, and has provided a copy of their passport/driving licence or other official ID as proof.
In order to be allowed to rate a movie, you would have to provide a copy of your cinema ticket.
In other words, anonymous online reviews are currently close to meaningless. Personally, I would rather read a couple of reviews by decent film critics, rather than take any notice of the number of 1* or 5* reviews.
Fuck GTR. Fuck Southern and fuck the Tories.
Jeremy Corbyn should adapt this as his slogan, even the most diehard conservative would have to agree with two thirds of it.
In Michigan they calcuated it would be cheaper to hire Uber to carry bus passengers door to door rather than create an enormous multi-county bus service.
If I had enough foolhardy investors backing me, I could give Michigan (or anywhere else) a completely free bus/taxi service.
The taxi industry revenue in the US alone is $19 billion. Uber is global(ish). $10 billion isn't a huge debt. They had revenue of $6.5 billion and an increase of 100% of bookings last year. The theory is that you lose a lot of money now, but due to the large growth you will eventually get positive. It worked for Amazon. It might work for Uber too.
If Uber had all that $19 billion in revenue in the US but still made a loss, the company would logically have a negative value.
Presumably, Uber's plan is to put its competitors out of business so that it can then ramp up its charges dramatically and make a profit.
If this was Microsoft doing something similar, everyone here would be up in arms demanding the Government fined them out of existence.
You'd be just as well off investing in a cold fusion company.
A horse or dog will easily bring you home, regardless how drunk you are
Warning: the same does not apply to a cat.
Nope. Standard rule. When A.I can do something, then it's no longer A.I.
More like, the deluded "AI" researchers have to admit that the current party trick they've pulled off isn't the same thing as actual intelligence.
When an AI can explain how AI works, then maybe I'll believe that it's an AI. Until then ...
Since a human brain can't explain how a brain works, that seems like a silly criteria.
A human being can explain why they have made a decision.
Other things being equal, a wealthy country should be spending LESS as a percent of GDP on defence since the absolute values are still much higher than for a poor country.
For example, while an F35 or aircraft carrier is expensive in the US, it would be a massive percentage of GDP for a small African country.
MOST people pay VAT as just another sales tax.
For the end consumer there is no difference between VAT and any other sales tax.
you're a fucking moron. cops don't have the right to detain you absent a crime. it means they're fucking breaking the law, and if they use force you should crack them over the head.
I'm hoping You Are Not A Lawyer.
he Progressive excuse for all manner of corporate authoritarianism and malfeasance.
"Progressive" excuse? Sorry, USian political slang confuses me immensely. Can you define what you actually mean by "Progressive"?
If you are extreme enough on the right wing, you consider everyone from Communists to ultra-Conservatives as "left wing" or "progressive". Similarly, but not identically, if you are an extreme libertarian, then basically anything in the political mainstream is equally evil, and that includes normal businesses just as much as Stalinists or Fascists.
Hyperloop will never be affected by weather cancellations.
...because they'll never be built.
And they'll have a 100% safety record!
Tesla has cars on the road, it's not vaporware company.
There is a continuum from "long established manufacturing company with a proven history of sales and profits" to "perpetual motion type scam". Just because Tesla is not the latter does not make its valuation realistic.
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
So it's ok if a Christian preacher does the same thing, but if an Imam does it it's bad?
If a white Christian says something vile, it's just them exercising their right to free speech. If a brown Muslim does the same, the world is ending.
Another anti-Uber story. Who's paying for all these?
The now-legendary Taxi Cartel-ZOG over-arching conspiracy.
The law today does not warrant respect.
Let me guess, you probably still "respect" the laws about not stealing or murdering though?
The law is not based on a set of strict rules
Real life is, indeed, more complicated than a "Hello World" program.
Hard to see how things could get worse (especially in Syria and North Korea)
I think the US starting wars simultaneously with Russia and China might count as things getting worse, unless you're a big fan of WW3.
Most poor people have better phones than I do.
Setting aside the sheer fascist idiocy of this statement for a second, what about older people? My mother and father don't have smartphones.
As the US has the death penalty, I'm not sure how to answer that one.
The USA has lost its damn mind.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
I think that using the argument that the US is only doing the same thing as the insane dictatorship that is North Korea is not a good way of proving your country's sanity.
You can think the IRS for that kind of crap. The company will get taxed on the value of the spare parts in inventory at the end of the year.
Really? Are you sure? In the rest of the world, companies are taxed on their profit, not their balance sheet holdings.
We must generate best-of-breed web-readiness to be able to scale ubiquitous e-commerce to utilize proactive systems to deliver frictionless deliverables for the innovate B2C web services.
Only 9/10 as you failed to mention The Cloud.
I fight grizzly bears as a hobby and I have no scars whatsoever despite having both arms bitten off at one point.
I guess we're cut from the same cloth, eh?
It's just a flesh wound.
it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with.... it doesn't understand pity....or remorse.....or fear.... and it absolutely will not stop.....EVER.....until you are dead
Not to be picky, but that was said about the original Arnie Terminator, not the self-repairing one in Terminator 2 played by Robert Patrick.