Or perhaps Netflix figured the people who'd go looking for these videos likely would be hunting for torrents once the season is released, regardless.
If you figure you're not going to get a dime out of the folks who are the likely audience for these stolen videos, what financial incentive is there to pay the ransom?
Except these episodes would be available BEFORE the official release which is a huge incentive for otherwise law abiding fans to find the pirated version. Once they've figured out how to do that, they may never go back.
It's a good thing the unfettered capitalism that you speak of doesn't exist then. In the real world, the people can greatly influence where that sweet spot lies.
I find it amusing that you espouse these pure capitalistic views and then complain of unfairness. Pure capitalism is anything but fair.
There is no point to growth if you're never going to consume; this is true for the overall economy just as much as it is for an individual. Finding the sweet spot where you have decent growth while enjoying a high quality of life is the tricky part.
How can they afford to pay a handful of workers $20k+ each? The robot option is far cheaper and if they can't scrounge up $90k in a small business loan (or from savings) then they have no business starting that shop.
That's even more reason why a small business will be able to afford reasonably priced robots; any smart business would just buy last year's model at a huge discount. Businesses that aren't run that way deserve to die.
People eat at fancy sit-down restaurants instead of cafeterias because 1) the food is better and 2) it's easier to sit and have food brought to you than lug it around yourself. Waiters and bussers are irrelevant if the tasks of ordering and delivering the food can be automated. Those jobs ARE going away, although not as fast as in other industries.
The human jobs that weren't created is probably close to zero.
The primary reason surveillance has increased significantly is because the cost of doing so has plummeted due to automation. The NSA was never going to hire billions of people to scan through your online accounts. TSA was not going to have 50 face scanner jobs at every airport. You are fooling yourself.
No, most humans hate bad service of any kind. When that service is provided efficiently they have absolutely no problem with it. Those who do are luddites who crave the good old days, but their numbers dwindle over time.
Do you really know a lot of people who prefer using a cashier rather than an ATM to get cash or deposit checks? I don't. There used to be a lot of people complaining about ATMs, but as far as I can tell they died off.
The same will be true for every other service job. When you can order your McDonalds on your phone and pick it up from a burger kiosk customers will gladly avoid having such low quality human interaction.
When? Always. It just takes a while and it isn't a straight line of progress.
Some states will come up with better solutions for income distribution and those states will thrive. Unless the belief is that the other states will be so poorly run that they will go to war with the prosperous states all states will come around eventually.
Maybe if you were the type of kid who needed to go to reform school. I'd rather my kids work as an intern at a biotech startup or robotics manufacturer.
A nit, but he never said they were equivalent, he was tying the concept of good economy and shitty economy with taxes by that connecting phrase. Totally fine.
Yes, people go long distances from their houses. That's why we have planes and trains. Insisting that the same vehicle that drives you 20 miles to work every day and drops the kids off at dance class is the one that takes you 1000 miles twice a year is madness and only something Americans think of as standard.
The huge savings from your daily use of a small, practical EV will pay for many plane trips and/or rentals of larger ICE vehicles for those long trips.
No, the reason is not because ALL charging cases need to be covered. It is because buyers like you THINK all charging cases should be covered. See the difference.
This is the same reason why people buy ridiculously oversized and impractical SUVs and other large vehicles. They THINK they need those, just in case I need to move a sofa, haul a load of lumber or whatever other thing the rarely or NEVER do.
Vehicles can and should be bought for the most common use case (as they are in most of the world). In the rare cases you need something different you can get a cheap rental or borrow from a friend. That is the sane and practical solution for SUVs and for EVs, not making them work for every single use case.
Sigh. We JUST went over this, let's walk it through again.
What good does building aTesla adapter do for other EV manufacturers? Say it with me.... NONE. It will not give them immediate access to thousands of high speed chargers around the world. There is NO reason for them to do so.
What benefit does Tesla get from building an adapter? LOTS. Their customers get instant access to tens of thousands of chargers throughout the world WITHOUT Tesla having to put any effort into building thousands of non-Tesla branded Chademo (or other) chargers and WITHOUT those other chargers making major changes in their payment system and other infrastructure.This is a HUGE difference.
Tesla has a huge investment in their supercharger network and it is a key differentiator. They would be willing to share in an expanded network under the right circumstances but they are not just going to give up that network for nothing, which is what you keep saying. GM is not just going to give Tesla billions of dollars to build more Tesla branded superchargers with Tesla plugs. That does indeed hurt their own standards and long term efforts.
Still puzzling out the difference between the Boolean operators AND and OR? I expect you'll choose to remain ignorant RATHER THAN educate yourself. Oh well.
No car makers are manufacturing an adapter for Tesla plugs.
No car makers have partnered with Tesla in joining and expanding the Tesla supercharger network.
Do you not see the vast difference between those two statements and why your conclusions are completely unfounded?
I will reiterate. Making an adapter by itself is useless.
That manufacturers haven't taken this simple step is NOT an indicator that they do not support EVs. It is simply an indicator that they are not willing to completely cede the design and control of the international EV charging network to Tesla.
I will grant you that your absolute confidence in your moronic opinion made me go look up the word "rather," in case there was an archaic or obscure meaning of the word that I was missing. But no, there isn't, you're just an idiot who can't read a simple sentence.
Yet you are the moron who reads that as someone will have to pay $5 to pick it up from the curb. Do you honestly not see the word "RATHER" in there. You know, like it is either this OR that? You really need to find smarter friends; people who will walk you through simple concepts like boolean logic.
You are grossly misinterpreting what Tesla has said or implied. If you have a reference saying that they will gladly let others use their supercharger network, please supply the link, because that would be a ridiculous thing for them to say. They are happy to share their plug specifications, but NOT their network of superchargers; which is what this thread is about. An adapter that converts the number and shape of prongs on a plug will be useless on the network until Tesla decides on how and when those other vehicles can use it.
Your point appears to be that, I can pay $5 more for driverless shipping, but I have to fetch the package from the vehicle.
Is English not your first language? Or even your third? That is nowhere near my point.
My point is that you're an idiot. More importantly an obnoxious idiot. If you were a polite idiot I would respond kindly to you. You have not understood ANY part of this conversation. Contrast that with Silver... who understood the whole point of my argument without having it spoon fed to him/her, yet you continue to be both obtuse and obnoxious.
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Or perhaps Netflix figured the people who'd go looking for these videos likely would be hunting for torrents once the season is released, regardless.
If you figure you're not going to get a dime out of the folks who are the likely audience for these stolen videos, what financial incentive is there to pay the ransom?
Except these episodes would be available BEFORE the official release which is a huge incentive for otherwise law abiding fans to find the pirated version. Once they've figured out how to do that, they may never go back.
It's a good thing the unfettered capitalism that you speak of doesn't exist then. In the real world, the people can greatly influence where that sweet spot lies.
I find it amusing that you espouse these pure capitalistic views and then complain of unfairness. Pure capitalism is anything but fair.
There is no point to growth if you're never going to consume; this is true for the overall economy just as much as it is for an individual. Finding the sweet spot where you have decent growth while enjoying a high quality of life is the tricky part.
How can they afford to pay a handful of workers $20k+ each? The robot option is far cheaper and if they can't scrounge up $90k in a small business loan (or from savings) then they have no business starting that shop.
That's even more reason why a small business will be able to afford reasonably priced robots; any smart business would just buy last year's model at a huge discount. Businesses that aren't run that way deserve to die.
People eat at fancy sit-down restaurants instead of cafeterias because 1) the food is better and 2) it's easier to sit and have food brought to you than lug it around yourself. Waiters and bussers are irrelevant if the tasks of ordering and delivering the food can be automated. Those jobs ARE going away, although not as fast as in other industries.
This is nonsense. Completely irrelevant nonsense.
The human jobs that weren't created is probably close to zero.
The primary reason surveillance has increased significantly is because the cost of doing so has plummeted due to automation. The NSA was never going to hire billions of people to scan through your online accounts. TSA was not going to have 50 face scanner jobs at every airport. You are fooling yourself.
No, most humans hate bad service of any kind. When that service is provided efficiently they have absolutely no problem with it. Those who do are luddites who crave the good old days, but their numbers dwindle over time.
Do you really know a lot of people who prefer using a cashier rather than an ATM to get cash or deposit checks? I don't. There used to be a lot of people complaining about ATMs, but as far as I can tell they died off.
The same will be true for every other service job. When you can order your McDonalds on your phone and pick it up from a burger kiosk customers will gladly avoid having such low quality human interaction.
When? Always. It just takes a while and it isn't a straight line of progress.
Some states will come up with better solutions for income distribution and those states will thrive. Unless the belief is that the other states will be so poorly run that they will go to war with the prosperous states all states will come around eventually.
How many years did you spend on a test track before they let you on our public roads?
"Good for you?"
Maybe if you were the type of kid who needed to go to reform school. I'd rather my kids work as an intern at a biotech startup or robotics manufacturer.
It will happen. There is no feasible alternative.
Once again. If you are NEVER home, why are you having packages delivered there! They will just pile up uselessly on your porch. Sheesh.
Jesus. Are you just trolling? No-one could be this stupid.
A nit, but he never said they were equivalent, he was tying the concept of good economy and shitty economy with taxes by that connecting phrase. Totally fine.
Yes, people go long distances from their houses. That's why we have planes and trains. Insisting that the same vehicle that drives you 20 miles to work every day and drops the kids off at dance class is the one that takes you 1000 miles twice a year is madness and only something Americans think of as standard.
The huge savings from your daily use of a small, practical EV will pay for many plane trips and/or rentals of larger ICE vehicles for those long trips.
No, the reason is not because ALL charging cases need to be covered. It is because buyers like you THINK all charging cases should be covered. See the difference.
This is the same reason why people buy ridiculously oversized and impractical SUVs and other large vehicles. They THINK they need those, just in case I need to move a sofa, haul a load of lumber or whatever other thing the rarely or NEVER do.
Vehicles can and should be bought for the most common use case (as they are in most of the world). In the rare cases you need something different you can get a cheap rental or borrow from a friend. That is the sane and practical solution for SUVs and for EVs, not making them work for every single use case.
Sigh. We JUST went over this, let's walk it through again.
What good does building aTesla adapter do for other EV manufacturers? Say it with me.... NONE. It will not give them immediate access to thousands of high speed chargers around the world. There is NO reason for them to do so.
What benefit does Tesla get from building an adapter? LOTS. Their customers get instant access to tens of thousands of chargers throughout the world WITHOUT Tesla having to put any effort into building thousands of non-Tesla branded Chademo (or other) chargers and WITHOUT those other chargers making major changes in their payment system and other infrastructure.This is a HUGE difference.
Tesla has a huge investment in their supercharger network and it is a key differentiator. They would be willing to share in an expanded network under the right circumstances but they are not just going to give up that network for nothing, which is what you keep saying. GM is not just going to give Tesla billions of dollars to build more Tesla branded superchargers with Tesla plugs. That does indeed hurt their own standards and long term efforts.
Still puzzling out the difference between the Boolean operators AND and OR? I expect you'll choose to remain ignorant RATHER THAN educate yourself. Oh well.
Let's compare these two statements:
No car makers are manufacturing an adapter for Tesla plugs.
No car makers have partnered with Tesla in joining and expanding the Tesla supercharger network.
Do you not see the vast difference between those two statements and why your conclusions are completely unfounded?
I will reiterate. Making an adapter by itself is useless.
That manufacturers haven't taken this simple step is NOT an indicator that they do not support EVs. It is simply an indicator that they are not willing to completely cede the design and control of the international EV charging network to Tesla.
I will grant you that your absolute confidence in your moronic opinion made me go look up the word "rather," in case there was an archaic or obscure meaning of the word that I was missing. But no, there isn't, you're just an idiot who can't read a simple sentence.
Yet you are the moron who reads that as someone will have to pay $5 to pick it up from the curb. Do you honestly not see the word "RATHER" in there. You know, like it is either this OR that? You really need to find smarter friends; people who will walk you through simple concepts like boolean logic.
You are grossly misinterpreting what Tesla has said or implied. If you have a reference saying that they will gladly let others use their supercharger network, please supply the link, because that would be a ridiculous thing for them to say. They are happy to share their plug specifications, but NOT their network of superchargers; which is what this thread is about. An adapter that converts the number and shape of prongs on a plug will be useless on the network until Tesla decides on how and when those other vehicles can use it.
Your point appears to be that, I can pay $5 more for driverless shipping, but I have to fetch the package from the vehicle.
Is English not your first language? Or even your third? That is nowhere near my point.
My point is that you're an idiot. More importantly an obnoxious idiot. If you were a polite idiot I would respond kindly to you. You have not understood ANY part of this conversation. Contrast that with Silver... who understood the whole point of my argument without having it spoon fed to him/her, yet you continue to be both obtuse and obnoxious.