The medical industry is full of perverse incentives. Companies will never do clinical tests of any remedy that can't be patented, and managing diseases is much more profitable than curing diseases. I propose a different funding model: the health insurance providers band together and research medical procedures that will save them money, rather than maximize pharma profits. Of course, that requires all the insurance companies work together as a consortium -- I imagine the Pharma execs would start screaming for anti-trust regulation if that happened.
Making it obvious to jail staff that your prison privileges MUST be severely restricted for the rest of your stay seem pretty self-destructive to me. This guy needs to ask himself, "Was it worth it?"
Doesn't have Spany McBoneSpur's picture, but the first two examples of the use of the word "dotard" are quotes from people talking about Trump. In other words, Trump IS a textbook dotard!
What Trump doesn't understand is that Amazon does all long-haul shipping itself, presorts all items, and delivers them on a palette to a local Post Office. All the Post Office has to do is sort the items off the palette into mail trucks and do local delivery. Amazon also tells the Post Office in advance about every package they are delivering to them (and pays a $1.50 fee for every one they miss.) That's why Amazon gets a lower rate than having a single package shipped anywhere in the US! (And yes, I worked in a Amazon sorting center during Christmas rush last year.)
So, if Apple believes they still own the hardware you paid for and you have no right to repair it without going through Apple, perhaps the solution is to stop buying Apple products altogether? Apple buys most of their parts from Samsung to begin with, and Samsung is already well ahead of Apple in technology, although both companies appear to think they can maximize profits by making their products as easy to break as possible. Essentially, Apple is pissed because 3rd party replacement screens cut into their most lucrative profit center.
I held out for many years without getting a Facebook account, finally gave in a couple years ago and created one to keep track of the people I graduated with in '78, but I deleted my account this April. I look forward to Facebook going the way of MySpace and Yahoo, but that will be a slow, drawn out process, it will probably be another decade before Facebook is totally irrelevant.
Amazon is building out their own network of brick and mortar stores, proving the brick and mortar chains are having problems because they failed to adapt to modern technology. Amazon is looking at buying up Toys R Us stores. Toys R Us failed because they were ridiculously over-leveraged with $5 billion in debt, not because Amazon took away all their business. Apparently the Toys R Us geniuses failed to anticipate the possibility that their debt service costs would exceed their profits.
The USPS has one big advantage over every other delivery service: legally, they are the only people that can put anything in anybody's mail box. They also have another advantage that all their real estate infrastructure was paid off years ago, so their capital costs are lower than any newer delivery service. Their big disadvantage is huge debt for an overly generous retirement plan, but then GM has the same problem.
When the results come out, it will prove Trump is a dotard that has no idea what he is talking about. And the anti-Trump media will be certain to publicize that. I expect the report will come out right before the 2018 election.
Trump kills the TPP which would have placed restrictions on Chinese stealing US company's intellectual property, then bitches about the evil Chinese stealing US company's intellectual property? Which is it, Spanky? Or should we just rename the White House to the "Waffle House"?
Many years ago, I said that betting on a single internet sales company was silly, invest in the delivery services like FedEx and UPS instead! Now, Amazon is becoming their own delivery service, just to make me look wrong. And delivery services are a "natural monopoly", as in only about 3 of them can survive even in a large country. It's a business where economies of scale really kick in.
The lesson of the 207/2008 recession was, "If they are 'too big to fail', then break them up into smaller companies and let them fail!" Not sure that applies to Amazon; other than shipping, most of the businesses they are in have low barriers to entry and they could be easily replaced if they failed. The shipping business is problematic, since it is a natural monopoly.
Half the web sites I read news from REQUIRE a Facebook account to post comments -- that has got to change! I deleted my Facebook account, so now i just STFU.
I'll use the same argument I used to make about Microsoft: having an 800 pound gorilla in the room is very good for driving standards. Google brought us Android. Amazon prospers by having enough money to throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see what sticks; they don't actually have a monopoly in any one industry. Facebook will go the way of MySpace and Yahoo in a few years anyway, no need to worry about them, but what we need is an open source universal login to replace what many web sites use Facebook for now.
I thought dedicated bitcoin mining cards were a thing now, and that gaming GPUs would soon be easily available again... especially when miners start selling off all their used GPUs. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/ar...
Yeah, that was another incident, when one of my credit card companies posted an unauthorized charge. "The charge was for a product delivered to an address on the east coast, but we can't tell you what address it was delivered too." Uh... you wan't me to pay for something, but you can't give me any details about the order? Sure, protecting yourself from liability when somebody decided to take justice into their own hands is more important that helping fix the problem of credit card fraud. (For the record, they _might_ release the information to law enforcement, but in my experience law enforcement isn't willing to expend any time or energy investigating. Like when thieves broke into my motorhome, I call up police and said, "When are you going to come out and investigate, they left the tool they used to break in and probably left fingerprints." and there response was, "Why would we want to do that? We gave you a report number to give your insurance company, now leave us alone!" In other words, since I didn't have theft insurance, reporting the crime to the San Jose police department was pointless, they had more important things to do than investigate the theft of somebody's luggage and CD collection.
Despite giving them instructions that all orders should use the password I selected, T-Mobile allowed some tweaker that stole my phone info out of my car to call their phone payment system and make 11 approximately 11 dollar payments to my account, each with a different stolen credit card number, presumably to test the numbers and see if they had been deactivated yet. I immediately called T-Mobile to inform them there had been a mistake, and other people's money had been deposited to my account, and they should reverse the transactions. They're response? "We can't do anything about those transactions until the card owner complains to us, and we can't even tell you any information about the accounts used for the payments because of privacy!" Seriously??? Of course, as the card holders noticed the fraudulent transactions, T-Mobile started fining me $35 for each transaction that didn't go through, then insisted that all payments be made IN CASH in person at a T-Mobile store since they couldn't trust me after all those payments I made didn't go through! That was after their customer support insisted the problem was with my bank and I needed to clear it up with my bank despite my repeatedly telling him none of the bad transactions were made from my account. He then made a note on my account saying "customer refused to cooperate" and hung up on me. So I switched to AT&T.
New evidence indicates the Pulse Nightclub shooting was planned out about as well as one of Spanky's executive orders. So no, terrorism doesn't require good planning. Recently, a white supremacist in Wisconsin blew himself up, so terrorism doesn't even require intelligence above the level of a moron. Even Spanky could qualify.
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The medical industry is full of perverse incentives. Companies will never do clinical tests of any remedy that can't be patented, and managing diseases is much more profitable than curing diseases. I propose a different funding model: the health insurance providers band together and research medical procedures that will save them money, rather than maximize pharma profits. Of course, that requires all the insurance companies work together as a consortium -- I imagine the Pharma execs would start screaming for anti-trust regulation if that happened.
Making it obvious to jail staff that your prison privileges MUST be severely restricted for the rest of your stay seem pretty self-destructive to me. This guy needs to ask himself, "Was it worth it?"
Doesn't have Spany McBoneSpur's picture, but the first two examples of the use of the word "dotard" are quotes from people talking about Trump. In other words, Trump IS a textbook dotard!
What Trump doesn't understand is that Amazon does all long-haul shipping itself, presorts all items, and delivers them on a palette to a local Post Office. All the Post Office has to do is sort the items off the palette into mail trucks and do local delivery. Amazon also tells the Post Office in advance about every package they are delivering to them (and pays a $1.50 fee for every one they miss.) That's why Amazon gets a lower rate than having a single package shipped anywhere in the US! (And yes, I worked in a Amazon sorting center during Christmas rush last year.)
So, if Apple believes they still own the hardware you paid for and you have no right to repair it without going through Apple, perhaps the solution is to stop buying Apple products altogether? Apple buys most of their parts from Samsung to begin with, and Samsung is already well ahead of Apple in technology, although both companies appear to think they can maximize profits by making their products as easy to break as possible. Essentially, Apple is pissed because 3rd party replacement screens cut into their most lucrative profit center.
If it damages Facebook's business model to the extent that they go out of business, then that is a GOOD thing.
Trump supporters.
I held out for many years without getting a Facebook account, finally gave in a couple years ago and created one to keep track of the people I graduated with in '78, but I deleted my account this April. I look forward to Facebook going the way of MySpace and Yahoo, but that will be a slow, drawn out process, it will probably be another decade before Facebook is totally irrelevant.
Amazon is building out their own network of brick and mortar stores, proving the brick and mortar chains are having problems because they failed to adapt to modern technology. Amazon is looking at buying up Toys R Us stores. Toys R Us failed because they were ridiculously over-leveraged with $5 billion in debt, not because Amazon took away all their business. Apparently the Toys R Us geniuses failed to anticipate the possibility that their debt service costs would exceed their profits.
The USPS has one big advantage over every other delivery service: legally, they are the only people that can put anything in anybody's mail box. They also have another advantage that all their real estate infrastructure was paid off years ago, so their capital costs are lower than any newer delivery service. Their big disadvantage is huge debt for an overly generous retirement plan, but then GM has the same problem.
I believe tracking Trump's untruths is the modern definition of a herculean task.
When the results come out, it will prove Trump is a dotard that has no idea what he is talking about. And the anti-Trump media will be certain to publicize that. I expect the report will come out right before the 2018 election.
Trump kills the TPP which would have placed restrictions on Chinese stealing US company's intellectual property, then bitches about the evil Chinese stealing US company's intellectual property? Which is it, Spanky? Or should we just rename the White House to the "Waffle House"?
So, where do you keep your kitty porn?
Many years ago, I said that betting on a single internet sales company was silly, invest in the delivery services like FedEx and UPS instead! Now, Amazon is becoming their own delivery service, just to make me look wrong. And delivery services are a "natural monopoly", as in only about 3 of them can survive even in a large country. It's a business where economies of scale really kick in.
The lesson of the 207/2008 recession was, "If they are 'too big to fail', then break them up into smaller companies and let them fail!" Not sure that applies to Amazon; other than shipping, most of the businesses they are in have low barriers to entry and they could be easily replaced if they failed. The shipping business is problematic, since it is a natural monopoly.
Because they "Do no evil"??? LOL...
Half the web sites I read news from REQUIRE a Facebook account to post comments -- that has got to change! I deleted my Facebook account, so now i just STFU.
I'll use the same argument I used to make about Microsoft: having an 800 pound gorilla in the room is very good for driving standards. Google brought us Android. Amazon prospers by having enough money to throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see what sticks; they don't actually have a monopoly in any one industry. Facebook will go the way of MySpace and Yahoo in a few years anyway, no need to worry about them, but what we need is an open source universal login to replace what many web sites use Facebook for now.
Mark Zuckerberg now knows what VR porn I watch! Come to think of it, Zuckerberg must have an awesome porn collection himself!
I thought dedicated bitcoin mining cards were a thing now, and that gaming GPUs would soon be easily available again... especially when miners start selling off all their used GPUs. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/ar...
Yeah, that was another incident, when one of my credit card companies posted an unauthorized charge. "The charge was for a product delivered to an address on the east coast, but we can't tell you what address it was delivered too." Uh... you wan't me to pay for something, but you can't give me any details about the order? Sure, protecting yourself from liability when somebody decided to take justice into their own hands is more important that helping fix the problem of credit card fraud. (For the record, they _might_ release the information to law enforcement, but in my experience law enforcement isn't willing to expend any time or energy investigating. Like when thieves broke into my motorhome, I call up police and said, "When are you going to come out and investigate, they left the tool they used to break in and probably left fingerprints." and there response was, "Why would we want to do that? We gave you a report number to give your insurance company, now leave us alone!" In other words, since I didn't have theft insurance, reporting the crime to the San Jose police department was pointless, they had more important things to do than investigate the theft of somebody's luggage and CD collection.
Despite giving them instructions that all orders should use the password I selected, T-Mobile allowed some tweaker that stole my phone info out of my car to call their phone payment system and make 11 approximately 11 dollar payments to my account, each with a different stolen credit card number, presumably to test the numbers and see if they had been deactivated yet. I immediately called T-Mobile to inform them there had been a mistake, and other people's money had been deposited to my account, and they should reverse the transactions. They're response? "We can't do anything about those transactions until the card owner complains to us, and we can't even tell you any information about the accounts used for the payments because of privacy!" Seriously??? Of course, as the card holders noticed the fraudulent transactions, T-Mobile started fining me $35 for each transaction that didn't go through, then insisted that all payments be made IN CASH in person at a T-Mobile store since they couldn't trust me after all those payments I made didn't go through! That was after their customer support insisted the problem was with my bank and I needed to clear it up with my bank despite my repeatedly telling him none of the bad transactions were made from my account. He then made a note on my account saying "customer refused to cooperate" and hung up on me. So I switched to AT&T.
New evidence indicates the Pulse Nightclub shooting was planned out about as well as one of Spanky's executive orders. So no, terrorism doesn't require good planning. Recently, a white supremacist in Wisconsin blew himself up, so terrorism doesn't even require intelligence above the level of a moron. Even Spanky could qualify.
Twitter can't go down that path; if they start banning people for hate speech, they would inevitably have to ban president Spanky to be consistent.