name a SINGLE government agency that is efficient at what it does.
The Department of Energy loan program which had Solyndra. Yes, that one is efficient and successful. Of all the loans it has given out, only four have failed. The loss rate for the program (as of 2014) was 2.28%. Right now that program is making money even though it was never intended to do so.
Further, Republicans were so sure the taxpayers would lose money on this program (which was started during the Bush administration), they set aside $10 billion to cover losses. Those four failures cost less than $1 billion.
Compare that to private industry which lost over $1 billion on Solyndra alone. Even Tesla paid back its loans nine years early, with interest.
You wanted one example, there ya go. Now go ahead and move the goalposts.
Many top sci-fi writers have done scripts and found it daunting to constrict the sprawling saga to a feature film format.
I finished reading the trilogy a week or so ago. There is no feasible way to take what was five hundred or so years of conflict and intrigue, and all the attendant characters, and make it into a two-hour movie. Nor even a three-hour movie.
Whatever would come out would be a shell of the story, the characters lifeless, and the plot unable to be followed by the majority of viewers. A tv show is the only way to approach Asimov's story since it allows for longer development of plot lines and encompass the time involved.
Anyone who worked at FB who suddenly has a change of heart is being disingenuous or trying to save their skin. Everyone at the company knew their sole job was to collect data on people and sell it.
They weren't offering anything to the users other than a place to spout off their nonsense. Since they weren't charging for the service (excluding advertisers), where did people think the money came from to run operations?
To claim they didn't know or now suffer umbrage at what has been going on is a joke at best. They were happy to collect their large salaries and stock bonuses, being made millionaires overnight, while the data was being collected. Don't now come to the public and proclaim their disgust. If they truly wanted to make a statement, the least they could do would be to give back their stock and leave the company completely.
It will be an additional $500 more expensive and the case will be sealed shut to absolutely prevent anyone from even attempting to see if any part can be pried off the motherboard to be replaced.
If something goes bad, oh well. You'll have to buy another one. That's the fiscal reasoning behind the delay.
suing their own customers and the customer are paying for it
We've already paid for it. Twice. During the Clinton administration, $200 billion of taxpayer dollars were handed over to broadband providers who promised us 45 Mbps, both ways, within a decade.
Since that time, over $1 trillion in direct payments, tax breaks and other inducements, all of it taxpayer money, has been given to broadband companies who are now fighting tooth and nail not to provide the service they claim to do.
Considering it was the government (i.e. taxpayers) who created the internet, that it is government (i.e. taxpayers) who continues to foot the bill, it's very disingenuous for companies to claim they shouldn't have to do what the government tells them to do.
If someone wants to take shrooms to hallucinate or "get wasted" why is that a problem for you? From what I understand, no one has ever had a medical emergency due to taking them,
And Tumblr seems to not care at all about the problem,
It's the same with their rape videos, or videos showing torture. And no, I don't mean the simulated ones. I mean women who are unconscious being raped, one on a kitchen counter fighting off her attacker, and so on.
That's the real reason Tumblr forced people to get an account. They think they're hiding these photos/videos but as this story shows, it's really just a shell game.
Every time this fraudster was mentioned on here I kept asking why anyone believed her, why anyone kept giving her money and why she wasn't in jail.
It was obvious from the beginning this was nothing but a scam. She never showed her results, never allowed anyone to replicate her results, and never submitted her blood test to the FDA for testing.
Why don't we go back and find out why two different FBI field agents were told to stop their investigation of reports of people learning to fly jets but not take off or land.
Also, the 9/11 hijack leaders were in this country under their names, names which were on the "Do Not Enter" list but who also overstayed their visas.
because we don't want to leave the earth worse than we found it.
Which is why your hardware has to be thrown out every three years because you refuse to allow it be upgraded which would extend its life.
Which is the manufacturing process to create your products involves scooping out giant holes in the ground to extract small quantities of rare minerals, and all the resultant waste products.
Which is why you just built a huge flying saucer for your headquarters, chewing up who know how many resources so people can walk into glass walls and doors.
I could go on, but whenever I hear someone who's head of a multi-billion dollar company talk about sustainability and eco-friendliness, it makes me wonder how they can eat their own crap every day. And yes, I'm including companies like Patagonia and North Face who have their overpriced products made in China, one of the worst polluters on the planet.
In the movie The Aviator, Brewster, played by Alan Alda, makes the claim that a single carrier would be able to provide better service to fliers than could multiple carriers.
The con artist administration doesn't want to upset private industry by holding them accountable for their actions (or inactions in this case). Wells Fargo is simply a feel-good tactic.
After all, if he won't take responsibility for all his failed businesses, because as he'll tell you none of those were his fault, why should other businesses have to be held liable?
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Make web sites and advertisers work to figure out who you are.
name a SINGLE government agency that is efficient at what it does.
The Department of Energy loan program which had Solyndra. Yes, that one is efficient and successful. Of all the loans it has given out, only four have failed. The loss rate for the program (as of 2014) was 2.28%. Right now that program is making money even though it was never intended to do so.
Further, Republicans were so sure the taxpayers would lose money on this program (which was started during the Bush administration), they set aside $10 billion to cover losses. Those four failures cost less than $1 billion.
Compare that to private industry which lost over $1 billion on Solyndra alone. Even Tesla paid back its loans nine years early, with interest.
You wanted one example, there ya go. Now go ahead and move the goalposts.
Many top sci-fi writers have done scripts and found it daunting to constrict the sprawling saga to a feature film format.
I finished reading the trilogy a week or so ago. There is no feasible way to take what was five hundred or so years of conflict and intrigue, and all the attendant characters, and make it into a two-hour movie. Nor even a three-hour movie.
Whatever would come out would be a shell of the story, the characters lifeless, and the plot unable to be followed by the majority of viewers. A tv show is the only way to approach Asimov's story since it allows for longer development of plot lines and encompass the time involved.
You gave me a FB account, without my knowledge or consent, and added data to it which you then sold to third parties.
Further, the only way to tell FB I want to opt out is create an account, but not the shadow account, even though I don't use FB.
Anyone who worked at FB who suddenly has a change of heart is being disingenuous or trying to save their skin. Everyone at the company knew their sole job was to collect data on people and sell it.
They weren't offering anything to the users other than a place to spout off their nonsense. Since they weren't charging for the service (excluding advertisers), where did people think the money came from to run operations?
To claim they didn't know or now suffer umbrage at what has been going on is a joke at best. They were happy to collect their large salaries and stock bonuses, being made millionaires overnight, while the data was being collected. Don't now come to the public and proclaim their disgust. If they truly wanted to make a statement, the least they could do would be to give back their stock and leave the company completely.
there's also a larger fiscal reasoning behind it.
It will be an additional $500 more expensive and the case will be sealed shut to absolutely prevent anyone from even attempting to see if any part can be pried off the motherboard to be replaced.
If something goes bad, oh well. You'll have to buy another one. That's the fiscal reasoning behind the delay.
Will we still have to throw out our Mac after three years when something goes bad because we can't replace it?
How much will all those extra welds add to the weight of their MACs?
The con artist will have some monolithic government agency poke its nose into private industry and demand they stop its energy efficient operations.
suing their own customers and the customer are paying for it
We've already paid for it. Twice. During the Clinton administration, $200 billion of taxpayer dollars were handed over to broadband providers who promised us 45 Mbps, both ways, within a decade.
Since that time, over $1 trillion in direct payments, tax breaks and other inducements, all of it taxpayer money, has been given to broadband companies who are now fighting tooth and nail not to provide the service they claim to do.
Considering it was the government (i.e. taxpayers) who created the internet, that it is government (i.e. taxpayers) who continues to foot the bill, it's very disingenuous for companies to claim they shouldn't have to do what the government tells them to do.
If someone wants to take shrooms to hallucinate or "get wasted" why is that a problem for you? From what I understand, no one has ever had a medical emergency due to taking them,
That's because, just like with marijuana, there are no effects to taking shrooms. Nonewhatsoever. No one has ever had an adverse medical reaction to something so natural.
And Tumblr seems to not care at all about the problem,
It's the same with their rape videos, or videos showing torture. And no, I don't mean the simulated ones. I mean women who are unconscious being raped, one on a kitchen counter fighting off her attacker, and so on.
That's the real reason Tumblr forced people to get an account. They think they're hiding these photos/videos but as this story shows, it's really just a shell game.
Uber at least had something physical. They are a taxi service so they had employees and vehicles to show for the money.
Theranos had nothing. They weren't even using their own product.
Fraud from beginning to end.
Every time this fraudster was mentioned on here I kept asking why anyone believed her, why anyone kept giving her money and why she wasn't in jail.
It was obvious from the beginning this was nothing but a scam. She never showed her results, never allowed anyone to replicate her results, and never submitted her blood test to the FDA for testing.
If those aren't red flags, nothing is.
Considering the Manchurian candidate has yet to say a single bad word about his buddy Putin, it was about time an adult said something.
Trump added $2T for tax cuts for the top 1%
Don't forget, in six months the con artist added $1 trillion to the national debt.
But then, he's bragged about being the King of Debt, so this shouldn't be a surprise.
This is why you never let your programmers program your applications. No good can come of it.
Why don't we go back and find out why two different FBI field agents were told to stop their investigation of reports of people learning to fly jets but not take off or land.
Also, the 9/11 hijack leaders were in this country under their names, names which were on the "Do Not Enter" list but who also overstayed their visas.
because we don't want to leave the earth worse than we found it.
Which is why your hardware has to be thrown out every three years because you refuse to allow it be upgraded which would extend its life.
Which is the manufacturing process to create your products involves scooping out giant holes in the ground to extract small quantities of rare minerals, and all the resultant waste products.
Which is why you just built a huge flying saucer for your headquarters, chewing up who know how many resources so people can walk into glass walls and doors.
I could go on, but whenever I hear someone who's head of a multi-billion dollar company talk about sustainability and eco-friendliness, it makes me wonder how they can eat their own crap every day. And yes, I'm including companies like Patagonia and North Face who have their overpriced products made in China, one of the worst polluters on the planet.
They literally designed their building such that it was a maze of glass walls
So they're in a twisty maze of passages, all alike?
Something even more simple. Have each employee wear a shock collar. When they get too close to a wall or door sensors trigger the collar.
Guaranteed they'll keep their heads up and looking where they're going after one or two incidents.
You jest, but remember, it was Republican Senator Owen Brewster who pushed for legislation that would give Pan Am the single-carrier international air monopoly for the U.S..
In the movie The Aviator, Brewster, played by Alan Alda, makes the claim that a single carrier would be able to provide better service to fliers than could multiple carriers.
I said upgraded, not updated. You can't replace parts on an Apple because they are welded to the motherboard.
one still has to throw out an Apple product after three years because it can't be upgraded.
the most common victim of criminals are old people, suffering almost exclusively by our newly imported "diversity"...
Because Greece has done such a great job for its elderly population on its own.
The con artist administration doesn't want to upset private industry by holding them accountable for their actions (or inactions in this case). Wells Fargo is simply a feel-good tactic.
After all, if he won't take responsibility for all his failed businesses, because as he'll tell you none of those were his fault, why should other businesses have to be held liable?