They come into a shop for a couple hours of repair work
Hey Anonymous Coward, it would be interesting to see the cost calculations behind this.
If we assume a "couple hours of repair work" costs the scooter company $200 in labor, parts and overhead expenses then it's likely cheaper to throw the scooter away after its first repair.
That may very well be, but as I said upthread "very few" people do this. You're one of the very few.
I suspect many posters here would also tell you it's sometimes penny-wise and pound foolish to spend $65K cash on a car when you can sometimes get 0.9% dealer financing. Finance the car, and put the $65K in the market earning 7% - That way the money is working for you.
Not all debt is equal.
(But you're going against my fundamental wiring anyway. To me, spending anything over $25K on transportation seems ridiculous.)
Is it a rich person tax break or a rich person discount? I've lived in full 3 bedroom houses worth the price of that car.
I agree that spending $41,000 on a car is crazy - But I suspect very few people walk into a dealership with a bank draft for $41K + sales taxes. Most of them either "lease" or finance over 84 months.
Who cares? The problem will solve itself, like smoking, or obesity or basically anything else along those lines.
I care, Anonymous Coward, for two reasons -
1) Vaccinations don't work 100% - For them to work you need "herd immunity." While it's true my kids are fully vaccinated, it's possible that for whatever biochemical reason a particular vaccine they got didn't work. By having everyone around them also vaccinated, it means they're also protected. Ironically, this "herd immunity" is why up to recently, anti-vaxxers believed their kids don't need vaccines - Because everyone else around them is protected their kids were protected too. However, the reduced vaccination levels mean the herd immunity isn't working as well any more.
2) I don't want to kids to suffer. For the problem to "solve itself" as you describe, kids of stupid, ignorant parents will have to suffer with measles, mumps, chicken pox, and, god help us, polio and other diseases. Those kids will suffer, and maybe even die, or be crippled for fault of their own. As a parent of young children saying child-suffering is OK is unacceptable to me.
In my opinion, the biggest issue with Windows Update is the cryptic error messages when the update fails, for whatever reason or another. I'm quite computer literate, and I struggle mightily trying to search out "Error Code 0x80072ee7" (or whatever) - Takes me down a rat hole of incomprehensibly useless knowledge base articles and general gibberish.
Fixing *that* should be a top priority for Microsoft.
I'm Gen-X also, and when I was a teenager, Captain Marvel was a black woman
I guess part of my "bias" about the name also comes from watching "Shazam!" on TV on Saturday mornings in the '70s, and hearing that narration over and over again...
It's still unsafe to walk down many streets at night.
Only in American cities, and places like Buenos Aires.
Unlike the USA, other western nations have said being able to walk down the street safely at night is important and they've created environments where that's possible.
I too am a fascist, and enjoy suppressing others who have a different opinion or experience.
Hey Anonymous Coward, I don't know why we have to keep writing the same response over and over and over again when someone like you makes a strawman "fascist" anti-"free speech" argument again, but here we are.
This is not a fascist government saying that morons can't make anti-vax posts, and jailing them from doing so.
You can park yourself in front of the White House from dawn to dusk with anti-vax signs and no one will arrest you or shut you down. Other people will engage with you and call you a moron, but no one in government will curtail your freedom of speech. If you put up an anti-vax blog, no one from the government will shut it down.
It's not fascist when private corporations like Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter regulate what content can be hosted on their platforms. YouTube could update their terms tomorrow saying that they are now only hosting cat videos, and it would be within their rights. If you don't like their rules, don't use their platforms, or create your own platform.
Old generation is tired of upgrading CD, SACD, LaserDisc, DVD, 4k, 8k, Ultra, 3D
GenX here. "Old generation" also only upgrades every decade or so, to whatever tech has cemented itself as the new standard. So for me for physical media it's been -
But they are communicating via the prices they set.
Exactly, Anonymous Coward.
If you have a hotdog stand selling smokies for $5 and I set up a hotdog stand two blocks away, note your price, and also sell *my* smokies for $5, I'm not "colluding" - I'm just price-matching. Seems to me that's what these price-bots are doing.
The Internet used to be used by people who knew what the hell they were doing
Are you drunk, Anonymous Coward? I first got on usenet around 1992 / 1993. Even back then the "internet" was a cesspool of rude neckbearded know-it-all "comic book guys," with SPAM starting to run rampant.
Or are you talking about ARPANET - Back when there was a good four to five-dozen people online?
The most-viewed version of the Loose Change "documentary"
To me, these so-called "documentaries" are different than fake news. I'm old enough to remember the Alien Autopsy "documentary" on TV 25 years ago - These things have been around forever.
By contrast, fake news purports to be "real" news - Inforwars running "news" stories about a Democrat-led pedophilia ring operating out of a pizza restaurant, stories on "news" web sites about the Clintons having Seth Rich killed, YourNewsWire posting that 25 million people fraudulently voted for Hillary - And, unlike these "documentaries" that sort of thing is a recent post-2015 phenomenon.
My point RE the "not really" is you're not charged with lying to the FBI if you just "slip up." You're charged if you make a material lie that tries to obstruct justice - Which is what Trump's buddies are doing.
In legal terms - "knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements." Saying your bank-robbing friend went to the beach with you (when he didn't) falls into this category.
He was arrested for "making false statements." That is exactly the reason you shouldn't talk to cops, because even if you are completely innocent they can convict you based on a slip-up in the interview
Not really.
You can of course, decline to talk to law enforcement. But once you agree to talk to them, you are required to tell the truth, because lying to them can be considered obstruction of justice.
Let's say I know you robbed a bank, but I agree to talk to the police and in my interview I instead tell them you were with me on a beach at the time. If I do that, then my lie about you being on the beach with me has obstructed justice - That's a crime. That isn't a "slip-up in the interview" - This is an outright lie. Same deal here.
One of the things I find fascinating about the MAGA crowd who want to bring jobs back paying $50 / hour building refrigerators is the degree to which many of them are anti-union - Because SOCIALISM.
I bet many of the people on this thread who are anti-union voted for Trump.
...yet when did America enjoy some of its strongest economic growth? The '50s - The period it seems many MAGA folk want to return to - When union membership peaked at 35%.
We've plopped a 900kg machine on the surface is gently as we could, why does it matter if that 900kg is full of metal or people?
The Apollo LEM had a mass of 34,000 Kg, plus two astronauts, and that only supported the astronauts for 75 hours.
Even if you put the Mars habitation modules, food, rovers, ascent fuel and everything else down in separate landers (difficult in itself as it's all got to land together) you've still likely got 100 tons of lander and astronauts you have to safely put down in gravity twice that of the moon.
Every older measurement technique is laced with subjectivity.
Incorrect, Anonymous Coward. By examining annual layers in ice cores, as well as studying the decay of Uranium from U238 to U234 we can very accurately measure the length of past ice ages.
There have been very rapid changes in the past that match today.
Also incorrect - The current rate of change is unprecedented.
How, exactly is this touching me in my daily life?
Depends how old you are, I suppose.
If you're going to be around for several more decades, you'll see food shortages and growing areas that are no longer arable - Leading to riots and disruption.
Have a job?
You'll see economic disruption and collapse as millions and millions of Americans move north as large parts of the south become too hot to be habitable - You'll also see tens-of-millions of latin americans massing on the southern border as they too migrate north.
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They come into a shop for a couple hours of repair work
Hey Anonymous Coward, it would be interesting to see the cost calculations behind this.
If we assume a "couple hours of repair work" costs the scooter company $200 in labor, parts and overhead expenses then it's likely cheaper to throw the scooter away after its first repair.
Uh, my wife and I only pay cash for cars.
That may very well be, but as I said upthread "very few" people do this. You're one of the very few.
I suspect many posters here would also tell you it's sometimes penny-wise and pound foolish to spend $65K cash on a car when you can sometimes get 0.9% dealer financing. Finance the car, and put the $65K in the market earning 7% - That way the money is working for you.
Not all debt is equal.
(But you're going against my fundamental wiring anyway. To me, spending anything over $25K on transportation seems ridiculous.)
Is it a rich person tax break or a rich person discount? I've lived in full 3 bedroom houses worth the price of that car.
I agree that spending $41,000 on a car is crazy - But I suspect very few people walk into a dealership with a bank draft for $41K + sales taxes. Most of them either "lease" or finance over 84 months.
Would they also be able to sell me undercoating and fabric and paint "protection" for the car?
Who cares? The problem will solve itself, like smoking, or obesity or basically anything else along those lines.
I care, Anonymous Coward, for two reasons -
1) Vaccinations don't work 100% - For them to work you need "herd immunity." While it's true my kids are fully vaccinated, it's possible that for whatever biochemical reason a particular vaccine they got didn't work. By having everyone around them also vaccinated, it means they're also protected. Ironically, this "herd immunity" is why up to recently, anti-vaxxers believed their kids don't need vaccines - Because everyone else around them is protected their kids were protected too. However, the reduced vaccination levels mean the herd immunity isn't working as well any more.
2) I don't want to kids to suffer. For the problem to "solve itself" as you describe, kids of stupid, ignorant parents will have to suffer with measles, mumps, chicken pox, and, god help us, polio and other diseases. Those kids will suffer, and maybe even die, or be crippled for fault of their own. As a parent of young children saying child-suffering is OK is unacceptable to me.
And it should be to you too.
I remember back in 1996ish trying to get a friend's Mac onto the Internet. She was having configuration issues.
Nearly 25 years later I remember the Mac error message to this day: "TCP / IP is Unhappy!" - Along with a frowny-face.
I almost pitched the very expensive Macintosh out the window.
In my opinion, the biggest issue with Windows Update is the cryptic error messages when the update fails, for whatever reason or another. I'm quite computer literate, and I struggle mightily trying to search out "Error Code 0x80072ee7" (or whatever) - Takes me down a rat hole of incomprehensibly useless knowledge base articles and general gibberish.
Fixing *that* should be a top priority for Microsoft.
I'm Gen-X also, and when I was a teenager, Captain Marvel was a black woman
I guess part of my "bias" about the name also comes from watching "Shazam!" on TV on Saturday mornings in the '70s, and hearing that narration over and over again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Narrator : In time of dire need, young Billy has been granted the power by the immortals to summon awesome forces at the utterance of a single word!
Billy Batson : SHAZAM!
Narrator : A word which transforms him, in a flash, into the mightiest of mortal beings, Captain Marvel!
True, Anonymous Coward.
I'm GenX - Age 52 in less than a month. In the comics I read as a kid, Captain Marvel was always a DC Property - That's how I know the name.
Billy Batson says "SHAZAM!" and turns into Captain Marvel:
https://static.comicvine.com/u...
I'm still keen to see the Marvel movie, though. It looks fun.
It's still unsafe to walk down many streets at night.
Only in American cities, and places like Buenos Aires.
Unlike the USA, other western nations have said being able to walk down the street safely at night is important and they've created environments where that's possible.
I too am a fascist, and enjoy suppressing others who have a different opinion or experience.
Hey Anonymous Coward, I don't know why we have to keep writing the same response over and over and over again when someone like you makes a strawman "fascist" anti-"free speech" argument again, but here we are.
This is not a fascist government saying that morons can't make anti-vax posts, and jailing them from doing so.
You can park yourself in front of the White House from dawn to dusk with anti-vax signs and no one will arrest you or shut you down. Other people will engage with you and call you a moron, but no one in government will curtail your freedom of speech. If you put up an anti-vax blog, no one from the government will shut it down.
It's not fascist when private corporations like Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter regulate what content can be hosted on their platforms. YouTube could update their terms tomorrow saying that they are now only hosting cat videos, and it would be within their rights. If you don't like their rules, don't use their platforms, or create your own platform.
Fake news doesn't want to talk about the Uranium One deal though. I wonder why?
Hey Anonymous Coward, the mainstream media discussed it extensively at the time.
For example:
https://www.latimes.com/nation...
Problem was their fact-based analysis didn't reinforce your lies, so you decried it as "FAKE NEWS!"
Old generation is tired of upgrading CD, SACD, LaserDisc, DVD, 4k, 8k, Ultra, 3D
GenX here. "Old generation" also only upgrades every decade or so, to whatever tech has cemented itself as the new standard. So for me for physical media it's been -
Vinyl => Cassette => CD
VHS => DVD => Blu-Ray
480i curved CRT => 480i flat CRT => 1080p flat panel
HD-DVD, MiniDisc, Betamax, Laserdisc, SelectaVision and every other fad were just that - Fads.
But they are communicating via the prices they set.
Exactly, Anonymous Coward.
If you have a hotdog stand selling smokies for $5 and I set up a hotdog stand two blocks away, note your price, and also sell *my* smokies for $5, I'm not "colluding" - I'm just price-matching. Seems to me that's what these price-bots are doing.
The Internet used to be used by people who knew what the hell they were doing
Are you drunk, Anonymous Coward? I first got on usenet around 1992 / 1993. Even back then the "internet" was a cesspool of rude neckbearded know-it-all "comic book guys," with SPAM starting to run rampant.
Or are you talking about ARPANET - Back when there was a good four to five-dozen people online?
Nothing's forcing you to throw them away.
Exactly right, Anoymous Coward.
I just threw Neverware's CloudReady operating system onto mine and now they're perfectly functional "Chromebooks."
The most-viewed version of the Loose Change "documentary"
To me, these so-called "documentaries" are different than fake news. I'm old enough to remember the Alien Autopsy "documentary" on TV 25 years ago - These things have been around forever.
By contrast, fake news purports to be "real" news - Inforwars running "news" stories about a Democrat-led pedophilia ring operating out of a pizza restaurant, stories on "news" web sites about the Clintons having Seth Rich killed, YourNewsWire posting that 25 million people fraudulently voted for Hillary - And, unlike these "documentaries" that sort of thing is a recent post-2015 phenomenon.
My point RE the "not really" is you're not charged with lying to the FBI if you just "slip up." You're charged if you make a material lie that tries to obstruct justice - Which is what Trump's buddies are doing.
In legal terms - "knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements." Saying your bank-robbing friend went to the beach with you (when he didn't) falls into this category.
He was arrested for "making false statements." That is exactly the reason you shouldn't talk to cops, because even if you are completely innocent they can convict you based on a slip-up in the interview
Not really.
You can of course, decline to talk to law enforcement. But once you agree to talk to them, you are required to tell the truth, because lying to them can be considered obstruction of justice.
Let's say I know you robbed a bank, but I agree to talk to the police and in my interview I instead tell them you were with me on a beach at the time. If I do that, then my lie about you being on the beach with me has obstructed justice - That's a crime. That isn't a "slip-up in the interview" - This is an outright lie. Same deal here.
One of the things I find fascinating about the MAGA crowd who want to bring jobs back paying $50 / hour building refrigerators is the degree to which many of them are anti-union - Because SOCIALISM.
...yet when did America enjoy some of its strongest economic growth? The '50s - The period it seems many MAGA folk want to return to - When union membership peaked at 35%.
I bet many of the people on this thread who are anti-union voted for Trump.
Today it's sitting at around 11%.
We've plopped a 900kg machine on the surface is gently as we could, why does it matter if that 900kg is full of metal or people?
The Apollo LEM had a mass of 34,000 Kg, plus two astronauts, and that only supported the astronauts for 75 hours.
Even if you put the Mars habitation modules, food, rovers, ascent fuel and everything else down in separate landers (difficult in itself as it's all got to land together) you've still likely got 100 tons of lander and astronauts you have to safely put down in gravity twice that of the moon.
We haven't yet figured out how to do it.
No new technologies need to be made.
They haven't yet figured out how to safely land several tons of humans and descent craft on Mars.
Machines? Yes, some, but not all, of the time.
But they don't know how to safely land people.
Every older measurement technique is laced with subjectivity.
Incorrect, Anonymous Coward. By examining annual layers in ice cores, as well as studying the decay of Uranium from U238 to U234 we can very accurately measure the length of past ice ages.
There have been very rapid changes in the past that match today.
Also incorrect - The current rate of change is unprecedented.
Of course the climate has changed in the past.
What is unprecedented today is the rate of change - Dramatically faster than during the previous warming periods we can measure.
For example, it took ten-thousand years for the earth to warm after the last ice age.
Rate of change is dramatically faster than that now.
How, exactly is this touching me in my daily life?
Depends how old you are, I suppose.
If you're going to be around for several more decades, you'll see food shortages and growing areas that are no longer arable - Leading to riots and disruption.
Have a job?
You'll see economic disruption and collapse as millions and millions of Americans move north as large parts of the south become too hot to be habitable - You'll also see tens-of-millions of latin americans massing on the southern border as they too migrate north.