In other news today, another model T, the worlds first assembly line manufactured car, broke out into flames today, being the 5th such incident this year many predict the ford motor company will not survive the winter as any reasonable investor would bail from the company, undoubtedly the use of mass manufacturing will be the end of ford.
You forgot to mention buggy whip makers anywhere in your useful analogy.
A corporation is a separate entity from its founder, stockholders, and in fact any human being, and has its own purposes and interests separate from theirs.
You shouldn't anthropomorphise corporations - it really annoys them.
"Little choice" but to fire Clarkson? That's hilarious. A child-molesting pervert hunted on BBC premises for close to half a century, claiming nearly 600 victims. Their upper management claimed they had no idea.
So yes, they had a choice.
The BBC upper management had no more idea than the rest of the country.
The idea that they were all involved in some sort of left wing/paedophile conspiracy is simply absurd.
There's actually no rule or law which says an employer has to sack someone for a physical assault
In the UK, it's pretty much covered under the general heading of "gross misconduct" which means you're liable to instant dismissal (same as for things like nicking the petty cash).
You punch me without provocation, im going to HURT YOU IN A PERMANENT WAY as a reminder to control yourself. Fighting is not a fucking joke. I would have permanently disfigured Clarkson if he pulled that shit on me.
Probably, we will see Northern Ireland join the Irish Republic
If only someone had thought of this solution before! It's so obvious when you think about it. Such a simple solution to a bitterly divisive four hundred year old political problem. Yet more evidence that so-called experts could learn a thing or two from browsing on the internet a bit more.
That may be true for insuring against $billion scenarios but I don't see how that applies to car insurance.
You're missing the point. If insurance companies have lots and lots of small premiums coming in, they soon start to add up. And for any sort of insurance you will always have cash coming in before you have to pay out claims, so the insurance company will always have investments earning them interest.
I think this is right. When self-driving cars merge with Lyft or Uber or Avis, then a lot of people won't need to own cars at all. Open your smartphone app and request a small car to drive you to the supermarket - and 90 minutes later, request a large car to take you and your groceries home. Or schedule a van to take the family across town to Grandma's house or across the country to go to Disneyland. And it would STILL probably be cheaper than buying a car and making payments + insurance + gas + maintenance (plus, in big cities, leasing garage space...).
Perhaps each car service will merge with a different car maker....
If you can afford it you can already do all that with existing taxi/van hire services. And if you can't afford it now, Lyft or Uber aren't exactly going to provide subsidised services for the poor in the future, are they?
It's always going to be more convenient to have your own vehicle.
Let's put some numbers on this. The average grain of coarse sand is 2mm in diameter, so a grain of coarse sand a kilometre away occupies an arc of 115 millionths of a degree. A 37m rock 14 million km away occupies an arc 151 millionths of a degree, very much the same ballpark.
So spotting this thing would be like trying to see a cold, dark grain of sand from a kilometre away, at night. Good luck with that.
All you need is a good torch, sorry flashlight, and a telescope. Hardly rocket science.
Why does everyone keep saying there aren't high end tablets? You can get a Surface Pro 4 with 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and an i7.
It's an unwritten law on slashdot that anything produced by Microsoft doesn't really count: it's bound to be rubbish, and it probably takes pictures of you while you're asleep and sends them to The Cloud for later blackmail purposes such as forcing you to upgrade to Windows 10.
What good will stopping shootings do? There is a variety of ways to kill people.
Yes, but it's a lot, lot harder to stab or bludgeon 50 people to death than to shoot them. The whole point of guns is to make killing easier and more efficient.
There is a reason why we don't let civilians buy nuclear weapons.
Incentive does not go away, you say. For some, it won't. But for most, when the basic needs are dealt with, they'll be content. This follows naturally from human psyche (even the ancient romans were already aware of this with their 'panem et circenses') and it's also a baic tenet of Maslows hierarchy of needs.
You seem to have completely missed Maslow's point, which was that self-actualisation should be everyone's goal, but it's impossible to achieve this if you're spending all your time and energy on getting enough to eat.
40 hours work each week to add 20-30% to your purchasing power isn't worth the loss of time.
Universal basic income is designed to pay for a roof over your head, basic bills and food. If you want to dress in designer clothes and drive a Porsche you're going to have to get some more money from somewhere.
Just like now: the only difference is that in the months when there's not much extra work around you won't starve or freeze to death or have to beg for welfare.
Not sitting there when they're 70, thinking they wasted their life.
For the vast majority of people the time they spend working at their crappy jobs (50% of their waking lives) is wasted time.
Given the choice between flipping burgers eight hours a day or sitting at home reading Plato or Shakespeare, I know which I consider more worthwhile.
The sort of people who will just lie around all day drinking beer and watching free porn on the internet are unlikely to have been diverted from important careers in brain surgery or rocket science.
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yep screwed .. that should have been 3000 per month
Oh well, only out by a factor of thirty...I really hope you're a politician and not an engineer at Tesla.
In other news today, another model T, the worlds first assembly line manufactured car, broke out into flames today, being the 5th such incident this year many predict the ford motor company will not survive the winter as any reasonable investor would bail from the company, undoubtedly the use of mass manufacturing will be the end of ford.
You forgot to mention buggy whip makers anywhere in your useful analogy.
A corporation is a separate entity from its founder, stockholders, and in fact any human being, and has its own purposes and interests separate from theirs.
You shouldn't anthropomorphise corporations - it really annoys them.
"Little choice" but to fire Clarkson? That's hilarious. A child-molesting pervert hunted on BBC premises for close to half a century, claiming nearly 600 victims. Their upper management claimed they had no idea.
So yes, they had a choice.
The BBC upper management had no more idea than the rest of the country.
The idea that they were all involved in some sort of left wing/paedophile conspiracy is simply absurd.
Clarkson/May/Hammond Top Gear was basically Last of the Summer Wine with Cars
Except that Top Gear was funny.
There's actually no rule or law which says an employer has to sack someone for a physical assault
In the UK, it's pretty much covered under the general heading of "gross misconduct" which means you're liable to instant dismissal (same as for things like nicking the petty cash).
You punch me without provocation, im going to HURT YOU IN A PERMANENT WAY as a reminder to control yourself. Fighting is not a fucking joke. I would have permanently disfigured Clarkson if he pulled that shit on me.
Woah, we got a badass over here!
He's almost certainly an ex-Navy SEAL.
In the old days, lots of people punched a co-worker.
Punched? You wimp. In my day we battered each other half to death with mattocks just to work up an appetite for breakfast.
The problem with Chris Evans is that he has no real sense of humour. This is a bit of a disadvantage if you're presenting a light entertainment show.
Clarkson,Wilson and Needell. But that was when it was about cars.
And there is a reason why pretty much nobody remembers the last two.
Unless you watch channel 5 and they're both on 5th gear.
Both of its viewers thank you for mentioning them.
Quite sad how pensioners get to decide the future of the next generation against their wishes.
I don't think there are 17 million pensioners in Britain yet. Lots of other people voted to Leave too.
Probably, we will see Northern Ireland join the Irish Republic
If only someone had thought of this solution before! It's so obvious when you think about it. Such a simple solution to a bitterly divisive four hundred year old political problem. Yet more evidence that so-called experts could learn a thing or two from browsing on the internet a bit more.
Impressively, we here in Britain have managed to out-Idiocractise the US, although you get your chance to regain your title if you elect Trump.
That may be true for insuring against $billion scenarios but I don't see how that applies to car insurance.
You're missing the point. If insurance companies have lots and lots of small premiums coming in, they soon start to add up. And for any sort of insurance you will always have cash coming in before you have to pay out claims, so the insurance company will always have investments earning them interest.
I think this is right. When self-driving cars merge with Lyft or Uber or Avis, then a lot of people won't need to own cars at all. Open your smartphone app and request a small car to drive you to the supermarket - and 90 minutes later, request a large car to take you and your groceries home. Or schedule a van to take the family across town to Grandma's house or across the country to go to Disneyland. And it would STILL probably be cheaper than buying a car and making payments + insurance + gas + maintenance (plus, in big cities, leasing garage space...).
Perhaps each car service will merge with a different car maker....
If you can afford it you can already do all that with existing taxi/van hire services. And if you can't afford it now, Lyft or Uber aren't exactly going to provide subsidised services for the poor in the future, are they?
It's always going to be more convenient to have your own vehicle.
And it's fucking tiny.
Let's put some numbers on this. The average grain of coarse sand is 2mm in diameter, so a grain of coarse sand a kilometre away occupies an arc of 115 millionths of a degree. A 37m rock 14 million km away occupies an arc 151 millionths of a degree, very much the same ballpark.
So spotting this thing would be like trying to see a cold, dark grain of sand from a kilometre away, at night. Good luck with that.
All you need is a good torch, sorry flashlight, and a telescope. Hardly rocket science.
...thats one fucking ugly car right there.
Also, I'm not sure the Flintstone-style square wheels are a terribly good idea. Surely they'll make the ride a bit bumpy?
Why does everyone keep saying there aren't high end tablets? You can get a Surface Pro 4 with 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and an i7.
It's an unwritten law on slashdot that anything produced by Microsoft doesn't really count: it's bound to be rubbish, and it probably takes pictures of you while you're asleep and sends them to The Cloud for later blackmail purposes such as forcing you to upgrade to Windows 10.
Interesting. How do you divide a circle into 233 equal parts using only a compass and pencil?
Duh, by copying the Antikythera Mechanism. Why re-invent the wheel?
What good will stopping shootings do? There is a variety of ways to kill people.
Yes, but it's a lot, lot harder to stab or bludgeon 50 people to death than to shoot them. The whole point of guns is to make killing easier and more efficient.
There is a reason why we don't let civilians buy nuclear weapons.
Of course there is: the infinite regression of where did the uber-advanced civilization come from which created our Universe?
Just because our Universe is a computer simulation doesn't mean that theirs is. They could have developed through Evolution quite naturally.
Incentive does not go away, you say. For some, it won't. But for most, when the basic needs are dealt with, they'll be content. This follows naturally from human psyche (even the ancient romans were already aware of this with their 'panem et circenses') and it's also a baic tenet of Maslows hierarchy of needs.
You seem to have completely missed Maslow's point, which was that self-actualisation should be everyone's goal, but it's impossible to achieve this if you're spending all your time and energy on getting enough to eat.
40 hours work each week to add 20-30% to your purchasing power isn't worth the loss of time.
Universal basic income is designed to pay for a roof over your head, basic bills and food. If you want to dress in designer clothes and drive a Porsche you're going to have to get some more money from somewhere.
Just like now: the only difference is that in the months when there's not much extra work around you won't starve or freeze to death or have to beg for welfare.
Not sitting there when they're 70, thinking they wasted their life.
For the vast majority of people the time they spend working at their crappy jobs (50% of their waking lives) is wasted time.
Given the choice between flipping burgers eight hours a day or sitting at home reading Plato or Shakespeare, I know which I consider more worthwhile.
The sort of people who will just lie around all day drinking beer and watching free porn on the internet are unlikely to have been diverted from important careers in brain surgery or rocket science.
Don Quixote portrays the wisdom and sorrows of pursuing dreams
Don Quixote is satire, not some crappy self help manual. There is no wisdom in tilting at windmills.