Don't get out the ketchup yet, binarylarry. Microsoft and Google have PE ratios about double that of Apple. So, since TFA is talking market capitalization, not net profit margin, Microsoft's valuation is more likely to fall and Apple's is more likely to rise, barring major changes in the status quo and assuming investors are rational (I know, I know, that last one may be quite a stretch when it comes to tech companies).
You think the taxi industry requires mandatory inspections and re-testing? Seriously you people are so out of touch. You know what you need to become a taxi driver? A valid license and the ability to pass a two day training course.
Bullshit.
I'm sure there is plenty of room for improvement, but in my city, taxi drivers need to get and keep a commercial driver's license, (which requires periodic testing) they need to pass tests on their knowledge of local roads, landmarks, and routing (again, periodically), the taxi needs to have valid commercial insurance (kept up-to-date), and the vehicle needs to pass safety inspections (once a year), among other things.
YMMV, IANATD
As a way to build a new market, subsidized pricing works and may well be justified. When Amazon started, the notion of shopping for books on your computer was strange. For the most part people were used to browsing through their neighborhood bookstore, and it was not at all apparent that an online only store was viable. But by undercutting brick and mortar stores, they got people to try their services, which let them expand and continue to build their infrastructure.
And now, I don't have a bookstore anywhere near me to which I can go and browse through books before deciding what, if anything to buy. Amazon has made the world a little worse for me, with the added effect that I'm buying fewer books and magazines.
But if I keep my cat indoors, who'll catch the mice?
Not my dogs - they don't do stealth. The dogs will just run after the mice and bark as the mice scurry away safely into their hiding place.
A siginficant amount of leakage occurs at the well site and the processing plants. For example, there is "leakage" (but, according to those who've measured it, not as much as the EPA estimates) at well sites is from "pneumatic" controls that use and bleed gas pressure to operate valves, etc.
Also, I lived in a house built in 1917 with gas pipes original to the building (you could still see remnants of the original gas lights) and none of them were cast iron, they were all steel. I can't remember ever seeing a cast iron gas pipe. i'd bet that most non-industrial "leakage" is from blown out old style pilot lights, hard starting appliances that let some unburned gas out while lighting, and the like.
Further, areas like Illinois . . . the very people most vocal about going green have the least installed capacity.
Just wrong. With 3,842 MW of installed capacity (as of the end of 2015) Illinois has more wind power installed than all but 4 other states: Texas, California, Iowa, and Oklahoma. About 5-6% of Illinois' power comes from wind, and more than 40% from nuclear.
. . . and the motivation to clean up the environment started within "private" society, not "public" office.
So, the people insisted that the government help clean up the environment, and the government "of the people and by the people" followed the people's lead and did just that, and that's evidence that it's all the government's fault?
On the contrary, with the electoral college, an individual's vote in a less populous states counts way more than an individual's vote in a populous state. Even the state with the least population gets three electoral votes, while bigger states get electoral votes more in proportion to their population.
Story [nytimes.com] explaining how Clinton took BRIBES from Russia to sell them a large chunck of US uranium.
I read that story you linked to. Here are some quotes from it:
Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies.
Whether the donations [to the Clinton Foundation] played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown.
In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary.
The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security.
American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it. “In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel,” the letter said.
So while the situation might smell bad, the linked article does not explain how Clinton took bribes from Russia to sell them a large chunk of US uranium.
How is it possible to have record low unemployment and record low labor participation? (Hint: it's not possible)
Hint: Baby boomers retire.
Another Hint: Students are staying in school longer
Another Hint: Unemployment is not at a record low.
One More Hint: The labor participation rate is nowhere near a record low.
. . . [the labor workforce participation as a percentage of the population] has been fairly steadily declining since 2008 from about 67% to 63%.
Actually, according to your own link, it has been steadily declining since around 2000 (so I'm sure that's Obama's fault).
Could it have something to do with population changes? Like Baby Boomers retiring? Or more stay-at-home moms?
Obama inherited an almost trillion dollar deficit and a tumbling economy that reduced revenues and increased expenditures - that is what increased the debt under Obama. The deficit has been cut in half since then, which is not good enough, but better than it'll be if Trump increases "infrastructure" spending and reduces taxes.
Unemployment numbers are a bit worse off today than they were when Obama took office, regardless of which measure you look at.
Bullshit. When Obama took office, the economy was in a free fall. The economy is now rising, and unemployment statistics are better. Not that I believe the president can have that much influence on particular economic swings.
The lion share of computers in the world are not used by people who do real work.
Really? Because just about everyone has a computer at work that they use to do real work. That's got to be around half of the "Personal Computers" in the world, plus servers, mainframes, etc. used for work.
Nowadays, even construction workers have laptops or tablets with plans on them at the jobsite, not to mention their use of e-mail for communications,.pdfs for submittals, requests for Information, and the like, spreadsheets, project management software, word processing, etc.
No rationally designed modern underground storage tank will leak gas into the soil from a bad seal.
They are typically double-wall fiberglass tanks with interstitial leak monitoring. Any "seal" that might deteriorate from alcohol would be at the top of the tank, most likely around piping penetrations, but the piping connections themselves would have solid connections without any resilient seals - stainless steel flexible hose would be used where needed to deal with vibration or expansion & contraction. It's much more likely you'll get a gas into the soil from a spill by the tanker truck filling the storage tank or the driver filling up their car.
Water getting into the tank is another story.
Instead, it's an article saying that posting on social media won't magically lead to a career. I'm confused as to why the author would ever think that posting on social media could lead to anything in the first place.
Well, my nephew's wife got a job that's mostly posting on social media. So there's that, anyway.
I honestly cannot recall the last time I actually saw a blind person attempt to cross a road.
Last time I saw a blind person crossing the road, a cab making a right turn on red cut her off. Fortunately her seeing eye dog stopped her. The taxi had an internal combustion engine, anyway, and there were plenty of other vehicles each making their own noise. I don't see how, if it were electric, adding noise could've helped.
In order to go through a bankruptcy without being liquidated and ceasing to exist, they would have had to secure loans. Loans were not available to those with good credit at the time, let alone bankrupt companies. That is why the government lent them money to continue operations. Loans which were paid back.
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Don't get out the ketchup yet, binarylarry. Microsoft and Google have PE ratios about double that of Apple. So, since TFA is talking market capitalization, not net profit margin, Microsoft's valuation is more likely to fall and Apple's is more likely to rise, barring major changes in the status quo and assuming investors are rational (I know, I know, that last one may be quite a stretch when it comes to tech companies).
Theory of Moral Sentiments
about $0.54 per mile, according to the IRS for 2016, including capital costs like loan payments and "variable" costs like gas and maintenance.
Sound like my son netted more money delivering pizzas for just tips than you did driving for Uber.
Bullshit.
I'm sure there is plenty of room for improvement, but in my city, taxi drivers need to get and keep a commercial driver's license, (which requires periodic testing) they need to pass tests on their knowledge of local roads, landmarks, and routing (again, periodically), the taxi needs to have valid commercial insurance (kept up-to-date), and the vehicle needs to pass safety inspections (once a year), among other things.
YMMV, IANATD
And now, I don't have a bookstore anywhere near me to which I can go and browse through books before deciding what, if anything to buy. Amazon has made the world a little worse for me, with the added effect that I'm buying fewer books and magazines.
Actually, that was mwvdlee's original point. You just didn't get it.
But if I keep my cat indoors, who'll catch the mice?
Not my dogs - they don't do stealth. The dogs will just run after the mice and bark as the mice scurry away safely into their hiding place.
A siginficant amount of leakage occurs at the well site and the processing plants. For example, there is "leakage" (but, according to those who've measured it, not as much as the EPA estimates) at well sites is from "pneumatic" controls that use and bleed gas pressure to operate valves, etc.
Also, I lived in a house built in 1917 with gas pipes original to the building (you could still see remnants of the original gas lights) and none of them were cast iron, they were all steel. I can't remember ever seeing a cast iron gas pipe. i'd bet that most non-industrial "leakage" is from blown out old style pilot lights, hard starting appliances that let some unburned gas out while lighting, and the like.
Just wrong. With 3,842 MW of installed capacity (as of the end of 2015) Illinois has more wind power installed than all but 4 other states: Texas, California, Iowa, and Oklahoma. About 5-6% of Illinois' power comes from wind, and more than 40% from nuclear.
So, the people insisted that the government help clean up the environment, and the government "of the people and by the people" followed the people's lead and did just that, and that's evidence that it's all the government's fault?
On the contrary, with the electoral college, an individual's vote in a less populous states counts way more than an individual's vote in a populous state. Even the state with the least population gets three electoral votes, while bigger states get electoral votes more in proportion to their population.
I read that story you linked to. Here are some quotes from it:
Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies.
Whether the donations [to the Clinton Foundation] played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown.
In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary.
The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security.
American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it. “In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel,” the letter said.
So while the situation might smell bad, the linked article does not explain how Clinton took bribes from Russia to sell them a large chunk of US uranium.
Yes. They consider Taiwan being part of China one of their few core issues that they are willing to start a war over.
Hint: Baby boomers retire.
Another Hint: Students are staying in school longer
Another Hint: Unemployment is not at a record low.
One More Hint: The labor participation rate is nowhere near a record low.
Actually, according to your own link, it has been steadily declining since around 2000 (so I'm sure that's Obama's fault).
Could it have something to do with population changes? Like Baby Boomers retiring? Or more stay-at-home moms?
Obama inherited an almost trillion dollar deficit and a tumbling economy that reduced revenues and increased expenditures - that is what increased the debt under Obama. The deficit has been cut in half since then, which is not good enough, but better than it'll be if Trump increases "infrastructure" spending and reduces taxes.
Bullshit. When Obama took office, the economy was in a free fall. The economy is now rising, and unemployment statistics are better. Not that I believe the president can have that much influence on particular economic swings.
That math works only until other companies start extorting the government to keep from moving jobs out, and they've already been doing that.
Really? Because just about everyone has a computer at work that they use to do real work. That's got to be around half of the "Personal Computers" in the world, plus servers, mainframes, etc. used for work. .pdfs for submittals, requests for Information, and the like, spreadsheets, project management software, word processing, etc.
Nowadays, even construction workers have laptops or tablets with plans on them at the jobsite, not to mention their use of e-mail for communications,
No rationally designed modern underground storage tank will leak gas into the soil from a bad seal.
They are typically double-wall fiberglass tanks with interstitial leak monitoring. Any "seal" that might deteriorate from alcohol would be at the top of the tank, most likely around piping penetrations, but the piping connections themselves would have solid connections without any resilient seals - stainless steel flexible hose would be used where needed to deal with vibration or expansion & contraction. It's much more likely you'll get a gas into the soil from a spill by the tanker truck filling the storage tank or the driver filling up their car.
Water getting into the tank is another story.
Well, my nephew's wife got a job that's mostly posting on social media. So there's that, anyway.
Hey, they were mean to me in the 80s, too. And in the 2000s they were especially mean to Linux, going as far as funding the SCO lawsuits.
Last time I saw a blind person crossing the road, a cab making a right turn on red cut her off. Fortunately her seeing eye dog stopped her. The taxi had an internal combustion engine, anyway, and there were plenty of other vehicles each making their own noise. I don't see how, if it were electric, adding noise could've helped.
In order to go through a bankruptcy without being liquidated and ceasing to exist, they would have had to secure loans. Loans were not available to those with good credit at the time, let alone bankrupt companies. That is why the government lent them money to continue operations. Loans which were paid back.