Magnuson-Moss is related to warranties. It says that car-makers can't rescind your warranty if you used after-market parts on your car unless they could prove that these parts caused the problem which the warranty should have covered. So if I attached a super-charger to the engine and later had issues with the pistons, it was up to the car-maker to prove that the super-charger is what caused the problem with the pistons. Unless the repair is very expensive and/or there are lots of people using these super-chargers, the car-maker will probably just fix the problem.
This is slightly different in that it has nothing to do with warranties. This is the equivalent of my car refusing to run if I replace the manufacturer's air-filter with one from K&N.
I take advantage of it most frequently when I'm traveling and wish to quickly snap a photo without having to type in my password [...]
But imagine if I didn't have to enter a password. Imagine if I had some sort of biometric type of system, like a fingerprint reader or facial recognition or something, that would let me unlock my phone without having to enter a password.
I like to be in control of my life, which is why I don't care if my car drives me around or not. Driving is not my life. If you feel you need this one little thing that you can control because everything else is out of your control, you may want to reconsider your life choices.
See, I used to live in one of those places where it snowed--Vermont. And, yeah, you get heavy snowstorms. But they do have things called "snowplows" which plow the streets. And the snow does end eventually. Which means that, sure, there are times that the car may not be able to handle the weather. But if I could autodrive 4 days out of 7--and if you're getting that much snow three days a week that the car couldn't handle it, you must live in Buffalo--it'd be worth it to me.
If "professional" musicians can't get people to purchase their music and people instead purchase some "inferior" music isn't that "inferior" music actually superior because it's what people want?
Frankly, "inferior" and "superior" are incredibly subjective and it's really a waste of time unless you want to get into a fanboi holy war.
Windows 7 is the most popular operating system. Does that make it "superior" to OS X or Linux? iOS is the second most popular phone operator system. Does that make "inferior" to Android but "superior" than Windows Phone or Blackberry OS 10? Budweiser is the top selling beer in the world. Does that make it "superior" to Corona or the various microbrews?
Popular : Superior:: Kumquat : Ferrari.
Now I certainly have music I like. But I am not so vain that I insist that the music I like is somehow "superior" to the music you like.
Isn't using your monopoly in one area (online music sales) to leverage your entry into another market (online radio) the definition of abuse of monopoly ?
Yes, it is illegal to use a monopoly in one market to seek to gain a monopoly in another market. At least here in the US.
That said, Apple has something like 60% of the market for online music. Amazon has somewhere around 30%. Not really "monopoly" numbers.
So I'm in a bar this morning to watch some football (Out here in LA, football starts at 10:00AM). Since it's my first time here, I ask the bartender where I should go to smoke--or, more precisely, should I go out onto the patio. She asks if I'm smoking e-cigarettes and I say no. She says the patio is fine. I asked her about e-cigarettes, as there are a few signs around saying that there will be no smoking e-cigarettes on the site.
Well, according to her, there were people bringing in THC e-cigarettes. It was prevalent enough that they had to ban it--I assume one of those lawsuit-type things.
One difference between rail and airline is that it isn't that much more expensive to attach another car to the train. So if I'm traveling from New York to Los Angeles with 100 complete strangers, they can have two cars. If I'm traveling with 200 complete strangers, they can attach another two cars. At some point, they'll probably need another locomotive and that would probably make a difference. But it's pretty flexible.
Conversely, there are only 400 seats traveling from New York to Los Angeles by air. They can't really add or remove seats from the airplane.
Assuming the train travels between Tokyo and Nagoya, a distance of 177 miles according to the summary, and travels at 310 MPH that comes up with 34 minutes from Tokyo to Nagoya. What the heck, we'll make it 45 minutes, what with acceleration and deceleration and all.
Tokyo is one of the most densely populated areas in Japan and is pretty high up there in world rankings. Areas of high population density, of course, tend to be expensive places to live. Sure, you can have a place outside Tokyo for much cheaper but then you spend your life in traffic or on a train--not an attractive prospect.
Imagine if I could live in Nagoya and work in Tokyo and not have to spend hours a day commuting or living in a tube during the week and only being home on the weekends. Imagine that an employer might be more interested in hiring me as I could work "cheaper" since my living expenses could be far less in Nagoya. I remember reading how New York City's economy improved by creating infrastructure (i.e., bridges, trains) allowing people who lived in Brooklyn to conveniently get to New York City.
Also, Nagoya has a pretty big airport that is arguably under-utilized. Making it more convenient to access from Tokyo may improve that situation.
Then again, with all the billions being wasted on spying (on US citizens as well as foreigners) [...]
Uh, where do you think we figured out how capture wave energy? And with the new "First to File" patent system, we can offer patent it in the US and make millions!
Well, it sort of depends on how you define "time travel."
First, you have the "real" time travel episodes: City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday, All Our Yesterdays, and Assignment: Earth. These are episodes where people are supposed to actually be in a different time.
Second, you have the "pseudo" time travel episodes: Patterns of Force, A Piece of the Action, Spectre of the Gun, Plato's Stepchildren, The Paradise Syndrome, and Bread and Circuses. While these don't actually involve time travel, they take place in environments that are the same or similar to Earth history. Patterns of Force and A Piece of the Action take place on planets where, due to human interference, the inhabitants have adopted the dress and demeanor of Nazi Germany and 1930s Chicago. Spectre of the Gun is an illusion of the Old West, Plato's Stepchildren takes place on a planet modeled after Ancient Greece, The Paradise Syndrome is inhabited by people who look and act like Native Americans, and Bread and Circuses takes place in a 20th Century Roman Empire.
Third, you have a few of "time traveler" episodes: "Who Mourns for Adonais," where the crew of the Enterprise meets the ancient god Apollo, "The Savage Curtain," where Kirk meets simulations of Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, and "Requiem for Methuselah," where they encounter a man who has been alive since 3500 BC and was Leonardo DaVinci, among other historical figures.
So if you consider "real" time travel, only four episodes had anything to do with time travel. Out of 79--I'd hardly call that a "main plot element" of the show. On the other hand, if we throw in the six "pseudo" time travel episodes and add in the "time traveler" episodes, you come up with about 16% of the episodes having something to do with known Earth history. I'm still not sure I'd call that a "main plot element" of the show--hey, it's no "Time Tunnel" or "Quantum Leap"--but it's definitely noticeable.
The obvious answer to the old "I'm a Mac, he's a PC" advertising slur was "yeah, Mac guy looks pretty, but he's actually useless. Look at what PC guy can do".
Because the land can be more valuable than what can be made from the theater?
We had a drive-in theater near my home town in Vermont. It lasted until the 1980s, when it was shut down and they built a big-box store. Here in SoCal, there was a drive-in near where I live that lasted until the late 1990s. As I understand it, the owner died and the kids sold the land to build a Wal-Mart.
Yes, you can make money off of a drive-in theater. But you can make more money using that land for something else.
Well, I can watch Rachel Maddow here. Monday Night Football requires a subscription to ESPN. If you want to watch it live you either (a) need to pay for it or (b) need to go to a bar. I'll go to a bar. It's usually more fun anyway.
If I don't care about watching it live, there's NFL Game Rewind.. $69.99 for all the games from all the teams, including playoffs and Super Bowl. If you have a favorite team, you can watch their games for $29.99, but no playoff or Super Bowl (Yeah, like your favorite team is going to make it to the Super Bowl! HA!)
I actually got a six-month notice. The company had been bought by another company in Arizona. I didn't want to move to Arizona. So they said that I'd be out in six months. They even offered a $10,000 bonus if I stayed the six months.
I stayed. When my last day came, they gave me my last check with the bonus and vacation time and everything else. I deposited said check, took a nice two week vacation, came back and there was a message on my answering machine from these folks saying, "Hey, are you available to do some contract work?"
One time the company I was working for was moving to another state. I didn't want to move so I was going to be laid off. I had six months notice and if I stayed for the six months, they'd give me $10,000.
I stayed. A month and a half later they called me up for some contract work and I did that for another five months or so.
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Magnuson-Moss is related to warranties. It says that car-makers can't rescind your warranty if you used after-market parts on your car unless they could prove that these parts caused the problem which the warranty should have covered. So if I attached a super-charger to the engine and later had issues with the pistons, it was up to the car-maker to prove that the super-charger is what caused the problem with the pistons. Unless the repair is very expensive and/or there are lots of people using these super-chargers, the car-maker will probably just fix the problem.
This is slightly different in that it has nothing to do with warranties. This is the equivalent of my car refusing to run if I replace the manufacturer's air-filter with one from K&N.
Nope. Dead Kennedys fan.
I take advantage of it most frequently when I'm traveling and wish to quickly snap a photo without having to type in my password [...]
But imagine if I didn't have to enter a password. Imagine if I had some sort of biometric type of system, like a fingerprint reader or facial recognition or something, that would let me unlock my phone without having to enter a password.
Nah. That's crazy talk...
I like to be in control of my life, which is why I don't care if my car drives me around or not. Driving is not my life. If you feel you need this one little thing that you can control because everything else is out of your control, you may want to reconsider your life choices.
See, I used to live in one of those places where it snowed--Vermont. And, yeah, you get heavy snowstorms. But they do have things called "snowplows" which plow the streets. And the snow does end eventually. Which means that, sure, there are times that the car may not be able to handle the weather. But if I could autodrive 4 days out of 7--and if you're getting that much snow three days a week that the car couldn't handle it, you must live in Buffalo--it'd be worth it to me.
If "professional" musicians can't get people to purchase their music and people instead purchase some "inferior" music isn't that "inferior" music actually superior because it's what people want?
Frankly, "inferior" and "superior" are incredibly subjective and it's really a waste of time unless you want to get into a fanboi holy war.
Windows 7 is the most popular operating system. Does that make it "superior" to OS X or Linux?
iOS is the second most popular phone operator system. Does that make "inferior" to Android but "superior" than Windows Phone or Blackberry OS 10?
Budweiser is the top selling beer in the world. Does that make it "superior" to Corona or the various microbrews?
Popular : Superior :: Kumquat : Ferrari.
Now I certainly have music I like. But I am not so vain that I insist that the music I like is somehow "superior" to the music you like.
Isn't using your monopoly in one area (online music sales) to leverage your entry into another market (online radio) the definition of abuse of monopoly ?
Yes, it is illegal to use a monopoly in one market to seek to gain a monopoly in another market. At least here in the US.
That said, Apple has something like 60% of the market for online music. Amazon has somewhere around 30%. Not really "monopoly" numbers.
I'm not so sure about that.
So I'm in a bar this morning to watch some football (Out here in LA, football starts at 10:00AM). Since it's my first time here, I ask the bartender where I should go to smoke--or, more precisely, should I go out onto the patio. She asks if I'm smoking e-cigarettes and I say no. She says the patio is fine. I asked her about e-cigarettes, as there are a few signs around saying that there will be no smoking e-cigarettes on the site.
Well, according to her, there were people bringing in THC e-cigarettes. It was prevalent enough that they had to ban it--I assume one of those lawsuit-type things.
That depends.
One difference between rail and airline is that it isn't that much more expensive to attach another car to the train. So if I'm traveling from New York to Los Angeles with 100 complete strangers, they can have two cars. If I'm traveling with 200 complete strangers, they can attach another two cars. At some point, they'll probably need another locomotive and that would probably make a difference. But it's pretty flexible.
Conversely, there are only 400 seats traveling from New York to Los Angeles by air. They can't really add or remove seats from the airplane.
Well, let's see.
Assuming the train travels between Tokyo and Nagoya, a distance of 177 miles according to the summary, and travels at 310 MPH that comes up with 34 minutes from Tokyo to Nagoya. What the heck, we'll make it 45 minutes, what with acceleration and deceleration and all.
Tokyo is one of the most densely populated areas in Japan and is pretty high up there in world rankings. Areas of high population density, of course, tend to be expensive places to live. Sure, you can have a place outside Tokyo for much cheaper but then you spend your life in traffic or on a train--not an attractive prospect.
Imagine if I could live in Nagoya and work in Tokyo and not have to spend hours a day commuting or living in a tube during the week and only being home on the weekends. Imagine that an employer might be more interested in hiring me as I could work "cheaper" since my living expenses could be far less in Nagoya. I remember reading how New York City's economy improved by creating infrastructure (i.e., bridges, trains) allowing people who lived in Brooklyn to conveniently get to New York City.
Also, Nagoya has a pretty big airport that is arguably under-utilized. Making it more convenient to access from Tokyo may improve that situation.
Indeed. And LADEE has a lot to learn if it wants people to think of it as a miracle worker.
There's nothing funny about terawatt-hours per year as a measure of power.
Agreed.
Then again, with all the billions being wasted on spying (on US citizens as well as foreigners) [...]
Uh, where do you think we figured out how capture wave energy? And with the new "First to File" patent system, we can offer patent it in the US and make millions!
We didn't lose! It was a tie!
while the iPhone continues to top carrier sales charts in the U.S. even with old models...
FTFY.
Well, it sort of depends on how you define "time travel."
First, you have the "real" time travel episodes: City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday, All Our Yesterdays, and Assignment: Earth. These are episodes where people are supposed to actually be in a different time.
Second, you have the "pseudo" time travel episodes: Patterns of Force, A Piece of the Action, Spectre of the Gun, Plato's Stepchildren, The Paradise Syndrome, and Bread and Circuses. While these don't actually involve time travel, they take place in environments that are the same or similar to Earth history. Patterns of Force and A Piece of the Action take place on planets where, due to human interference, the inhabitants have adopted the dress and demeanor of Nazi Germany and 1930s Chicago. Spectre of the Gun is an illusion of the Old West, Plato's Stepchildren takes place on a planet modeled after Ancient Greece, The Paradise Syndrome is inhabited by people who look and act like Native Americans, and Bread and Circuses takes place in a 20th Century Roman Empire.
Third, you have a few of "time traveler" episodes: "Who Mourns for Adonais," where the crew of the Enterprise meets the ancient god Apollo, "The Savage Curtain," where Kirk meets simulations of Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, and "Requiem for Methuselah," where they encounter a man who has been alive since 3500 BC and was Leonardo DaVinci, among other historical figures.
So if you consider "real" time travel, only four episodes had anything to do with time travel. Out of 79--I'd hardly call that a "main plot element" of the show. On the other hand, if we throw in the six "pseudo" time travel episodes and add in the "time traveler" episodes, you come up with about 16% of the episodes having something to do with known Earth history. I'm still not sure I'd call that a "main plot element" of the show--hey, it's no "Time Tunnel" or "Quantum Leap"--but it's definitely noticeable.
Minor point: Half-vulcan, half-romulan.
The obvious answer to the old "I'm a Mac, he's a PC" advertising slur was "yeah, Mac guy looks pretty, but he's actually useless. Look at what PC guy can do".
Tried that. Meh.
Hey, I've been waiting for them since 1965.
And nearly 25 million homes will have at least one Potrzebie
I would imagine that most homes would have millions of potrzebies.
(So I read this and thought...where have I seen this word before?)
When I was a kid, I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the local drive-in. It had a crappy box you stuck on the window.
Because the land can be more valuable than what can be made from the theater?
We had a drive-in theater near my home town in Vermont. It lasted until the 1980s, when it was shut down and they built a big-box store. Here in SoCal, there was a drive-in near where I live that lasted until the late 1990s. As I understand it, the owner died and the kids sold the land to build a Wal-Mart.
Yes, you can make money off of a drive-in theater. But you can make more money using that land for something else.
Well, I can watch Rachel Maddow here. Monday Night Football requires a subscription to ESPN. If you want to watch it live you either (a) need to pay for it or (b) need to go to a bar. I'll go to a bar. It's usually more fun anyway.
If I don't care about watching it live, there's NFL Game Rewind.. $69.99 for all the games from all the teams, including playoffs and Super Bowl. If you have a favorite team, you can watch their games for $29.99, but no playoff or Super Bowl (Yeah, like your favorite team is going to make it to the Super Bowl! HA!)
I actually got a six-month notice. The company had been bought by another company in Arizona. I didn't want to move to Arizona. So they said that I'd be out in six months. They even offered a $10,000 bonus if I stayed the six months.
I stayed. When my last day came, they gave me my last check with the bonus and vacation time and everything else. I deposited said check, took a nice two week vacation, came back and there was a message on my answering machine from these folks saying, "Hey, are you available to do some contract work?"
One time the company I was working for was moving to another state. I didn't want to move so I was going to be laid off. I had six months notice and if I stayed for the six months, they'd give me $10,000.
I stayed. A month and a half later they called me up for some contract work and I did that for another five months or so.
Oh, please. You don't remember nVIR and it's variants? Or MDEF?