... and yet here you are, reading the article and taking time to comment on it. That rather suggests that you've taken an interest, even if it's a negative one.
Yeah, maybe people should have to pass an entrance exam before they're allowed to read stories about Lord Musk of Tesla.
Disrupting taxi services is one thing, most normal people only use them once in a blue moon, but to try to fuck up the house rental market is a whole new level of evil.
What I want and need is to feed my sewage waste water into your swimming pool, there's no regulation right?
No no, if you remove government interference everyone starts behaving rationally in their best economic interests, I read it in an "economics for dummies" book.
And it's the government that makes people into criminals, because if there were no laws to break, you couldn't be a criminal. Or something...
Someone with only 2-5 properties probably owes the bank something on all of them, and as such, servicing those without the income from rent would be very difficult.
Maybe they should have started with a better business plan then.
You know, a 50-something guy who graduated from University in four years with a triple major of Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and then went on to get an MBA yet is left with no social skills? The guy who thinks weather forecasts are 'weather schedules' that are tailored to his specific backyard: "They said it would start raining at 2. It's 2:05 and it's not raining. They lied". The guy who fails to see the importance of clothes that are clean and possibly pressed. The guy who talks inappropriately loud in an indoor setting? The guy who points at people at starts commenting about them even when you warn him that the car windows are open and that person can hear them: "What? I'm not saying anything bad about him/her". The guy who hears fire truck sirens or police sirens and thinks his house must be on fire. The guy who can't resist anything with 'free" shipping and/or "free after rebate" even it's something he doesn't really need. Is there a robot that can help him?
Populism has a narrow meaning, and refers to the members of the Populist (or People's) Party first active in the United States in the 1890s.
Maybe in the US, not in the rest of the world. In global terms, people like Hitler and Mussolini were populists, it basically means appealing to some lowest common denominator, generally some form of scapegoating of a minority.
The problem is, when people live close to the line, they claim that they can't afford to buy the high-quality brand. But they all have the latest smartphone and a big LCD TV.
There is no difference to the communist dictatorship of the handholding left. If you let people CHOOSE to eat bad, act bad, or do whatever it is you don't think they should do, then you are as bad as they are. Don't you know? People are too dumb to think for themselves, they need Mama Obama to tell them what to do.
If you and your family lived an entirely self-sufficient existence on a desert island or something, then you would be perfectly entitled to do whatever you want, and suffer the consequences yourself.
Meanwhile, in the real world, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and the rest are costs for the whole of society.
Charitable donations are deductible. You are not taxed on that money. If you make $50K, and dontate $40K to your well-vetted (501c) private charitiy, then you are only taxes AS IF you earned a mere $10K.
This is available to everyone. The only hitch is that you have to itemize instead of taking the standard deduction.
Er, you still have to pay the $40 K out of your bank. I realise the libertarians here would rather gather up their cash and burn it rather than submit to the government enforcing taxation at the point of a gun, but still...
If the laws covering charity are insufficient to stop fraud, that's a different issue entirely. I'm not from the US so I don't know.
If there was a Microsoft store nearby, I would buy one, but then refuse to switch it on, and never in my life get anywhere near a Microsoft store wi-fi again.
On the plus side, everyone learned a lot from Chernobyl. Including that the "radioactive wasteland" that a meltdown was supposed to produce was an imaginary problem....
Yeah, it's just superstition that stops people living there.
Just because somewhere is not a "radioactive wasteland" doesn't mean it's OK.
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Did Jobs even drive a car?
Yes, he was famous for parking his Mercedes sports car in disabled parking spaces, wasn't he?
Or was he so evil that he just paid someone else to park his car there?
I think we should be told.
If all goes to plan by 2020 they'll have $100 Billion in sales.
If that succeeds they could easily get another factor of 10 in sales by 2030. That's $ 1000 Billion.
Wow, by the end of the century they will have $10,000,000,000 billion sales! I'm convinced.
... and yet here you are, reading the article and taking time to comment on it. That rather suggests that you've taken an interest, even if it's a negative one.
Yeah, maybe people should have to pass an entrance exam before they're allowed to read stories about Lord Musk of Tesla.
I've been trying to make a go of rentals for three years now and when I look at the bottom line, there's no profit.
Maybe you could stop trying to live off your apparently inadequate trust fund and get a job instead, like the rest of us.
Disrupting taxi services is one thing, most normal people only use them once in a blue moon, but to try to fuck up the house rental market is a whole new level of evil.
What I want and need is to feed my sewage waste water into your swimming pool, there's no regulation right?
No no, if you remove government interference everyone starts behaving rationally in their best economic interests, I read it in an "economics for dummies" book.
And it's the government that makes people into criminals, because if there were no laws to break, you couldn't be a criminal. Or something...
Someone with only 2-5 properties probably owes the bank something on all of them, and as such, servicing those without the income from rent would be very difficult.
Maybe they should have started with a better business plan then.
The flaw in your solution is that you have to drive around in an RV and look like a twat.
You know, a 50-something guy who graduated from University in four years with a triple major of Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and then went on to get an MBA yet is left with no social skills? The guy who thinks weather forecasts are 'weather schedules' that are tailored to his specific backyard: "They said it would start raining at 2. It's 2:05 and it's not raining. They lied". The guy who fails to see the importance of clothes that are clean and possibly pressed. The guy who talks inappropriately loud in an indoor setting? The guy who points at people at starts commenting about them even when you warn him that the car windows are open and that person can hear them: "What? I'm not saying anything bad about him/her". The guy who hears fire truck sirens or police sirens and thinks his house must be on fire. The guy who can't resist anything with 'free" shipping and/or "free after rebate" even it's something he doesn't really need. Is there a robot that can help him?
No.
access to toys like fire arms and off road vehicles makes my quality of life decidedly better than my European counterpart.
Always good to hear the views of our teenage readers!
I don't think I've ever heard someone seriously say that "work or die" is their dream for the future.
It's a cool, edgy, business-managemently disruptive way of saying "protestant work ethic".
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Populism has a narrow meaning, and refers to the members of the Populist (or People's) Party first active in the United States in the 1890s.
Maybe in the US, not in the rest of the world. In global terms, people like Hitler and Mussolini were populists, it basically means appealing to some lowest common denominator, generally some form of scapegoating of a minority.
In what country do dead kids cry?
In the country of THE DAMNED.
Why either as long as eBay exists?
Why buy anything when you can just steal it?
The problem is, when people live close to the line, they claim that they can't afford to buy the high-quality brand. But they all have the latest smartphone and a big LCD TV.
No, they don't.
I suppose there is no suitable car analogy?
There is no difference to the communist dictatorship of the handholding left. If you let people CHOOSE to eat bad, act bad, or do whatever it is you don't think they should do, then you are as bad as they are. Don't you know? People are too dumb to think for themselves, they need Mama Obama to tell them what to do.
If you and your family lived an entirely self-sufficient existence on a desert island or something, then you would be perfectly entitled to do whatever you want, and suffer the consequences yourself.
Meanwhile, in the real world, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and the rest are costs for the whole of society.
You get all my mod points.
Which unfortunately today is zero.
The sheer selflessness and generosity of your gesture has touched me, a stranger, and brightened my day. Thanks, friend.
YOU CAN!
Charitable donations are deductible. You are not taxed on that money. If you make $50K, and dontate $40K to your well-vetted (501c) private charitiy, then you are only taxes AS IF you earned a mere $10K.
This is available to everyone. The only hitch is that you have to itemize instead of taking the standard deduction.
Er, you still have to pay the $40 K out of your bank. I realise the libertarians here would rather gather up their cash and burn it rather than submit to the government enforcing taxation at the point of a gun, but still...
If the laws covering charity are insufficient to stop fraud, that's a different issue entirely. I'm not from the US so I don't know.
How Brave New World.
How Ayn Rand.
If there was a Microsoft store nearby, I would buy one, but then refuse to switch it on, and never in my life get anywhere near a Microsoft store wi-fi again.
Yeah, fight the power!
I'd be quite happy to have a five and a half inch floppy.
Granted, it may rival a 2005 desktop... but really, 12 year old computers is the benchmark?
The point is that the performance of a desktop computer 12 years ago was perfectly adequate for the majority of tasks for most people.
On the plus side, everyone learned a lot from Chernobyl. Including that the "radioactive wasteland" that a meltdown was supposed to produce was an imaginary problem....
Yeah, it's just superstition that stops people living there.
Just because somewhere is not a "radioactive wasteland" doesn't mean it's OK.