Even my boss that lives in a nice neighborhood can only get 1.5 Mbps DSL.
OK
so he still has a T1 that work pays for since we have a couple of back-up servers in his house.
So your corporate backup plan involves servers in your bosses house, hanging off residential broadband, but those bastards at CenturyLink won't give your boss any faster home internet service so your fall back to a T1?
The T1 your company pays for is only a 1.5Mb connection, the only difference is dedicated bandwidth with the T1 versus "best effort" for residential service.
42% of rural Americans surveyed have no issue with access to broadband internet, and the number increases to 76% of those surveyed that either consider broadband access a minor or no problem.
Wow.
Back in 2008 a similar number of Americans surveyed had similar feeling about their personal healthcare - then the government stepped in and "fixed things".
There's a difference between 'tied to the dollar' and 'dollar denominated'.
'Tied to the dollar' means the winkle-crypto-coins will forever be worth one dollar, 'dollar denominated' means as the value fluctuates it's value in dollars rises and falls, encouraging speculation.
There will be no valuation fluctuation in Winkle-crypto-coins, no incentive to buy them as an investment, unlike bitcoins.
So say I want $10,000 in one of these Winklevoss crypto-currencies I give them $10,000 in cash, they deposit the $10,000 in a bank, and I have the ability to spend $10,000 as a crypto currency?
How do the Winklevoses cover operating expenses? Am I paying a fee on top of my $10,000? Are the people I give these crypto coins to accepting less than 100 pennies for each crypto coin I give them?
Riiiiiight. FB is building it's 11 story (space-saving!) 1.8 million squarefoot data center overseas because they can't imagine Democrats ever taking control of the government.
What is it like in your world, where every decision is based on the actions (or feared actions) of Donald J. Trump? Trump's got about 6 more years in office, the house will likely flip in a few months, and the senate will likely remain under republican control long enough to confirm RBG's replacement - likely a 32 year-old lawyer with no meaningful history to examine (in the Kagen, Sotomayor tradition).
You understand that a nearly two million square foot data center will likely have a huge bank of batteries and a phalanx of generators to keep the data center humming along 24x7 until it is shutdown, right?
Large blocks of ice last a surprisingly long time. Google ice houses, they used to cut ice off lakes in the winter and use the ice harvested months earlier on their lemnade. Of course, the ice houses were insulated, but we're talking six months of stroage.
It costs more and more to operate them, because they're increasing the salt concentration in the gulf.
That's hysterical - it's like using a snow blower and you keep blowing the snow where you haven't cleared yet, simply adding to the snow yet to be plowed...
WTF are we talking about "greening the desert"? I mean, it's the desert - it wasn't a lush rainforest before the industrial revolution/age of the automobile, so why are we trying to make it something it never was? It's a stupid idea, it was always a stupid idea, and nothing Al Gore has ever has or will put on a powerpoint slide is going to change that.
Is desalination really so hard?
Can't Dubai figure out a way to, you know, conserve water?
Now the actual chip & electronics manufacturing capabilities of China, combined with reasonable quality affordable staff, that's a lot harder to replace.
Any manufacturing capability China has can be easily replicated in America, esp. by a company like Apple with their seemingly infinite financial resources, what can't be replicated here are low wages, lax environmental and worker protections.
There are already all kinds of new jobs available in the U.S. and those coal workers don't want to take any of them.
Opening a lot of factories in Appalachia, are we?
I suspect if you'd offer an out-of-work coal miner in West Virginia the means to relocate his family to a region with a growing economy they take one of your imaginary manufacturing jobs. Open a factory in a coal mining town full of unemployed coal miners, and they'll likely take those jobs.
Unlike white collar jobs, blue collar manufacturing jobs rarely come with relocation packages.
There's a country that just reached a trade deal with the US: Mexico. Apple could manufacture in Mexico.
Mexican wages are too high, I suspect. Foxconn is already in Mexico, and there are areas close to the border that have ZERO tariffs for goods made there and imported to US.
Labor is not a significant portion of the cost of an iPhone. At best, labor is 1-2% of the product cost, and an item like an iPhone likely has a 40% markup - increased labor costs won't significantly increase consumer prices.
And of course, losing access to an infinite supply of low-wage, low-skill workers with minimal governmental worker protections might just cause Apple engineers to design their phones differently, better suited to automated assembly more prevalent in American manufacturing.
My guess is this 21.2% is in large part the Trump die-hard base members; people who have been unemployed for so long the Feds don't even count them as real people anymore. That's 53M over-18 people.
You really think the majority of Trump's base are long-term unemployed adults? Let's think about that - you think millions and millions of long-term unemployed adults with no means other than government handouts, are die-hard trump supporters cheering him on to wipe out the very programs they personally rely on to survive? Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
FFS the factories in China are optimized for an inexhaustible supply of low-skill, low-wage workers, perhaps Apple could tap into their massive corporate holding and push their engineers to design iPhones and other products that don't require manually-intensive assembly?
Just because iPhones are made in sweat shops now, doesn't mean they have to be made is sweat shops going forward.
Finally, Apple told it's customers that if costs for foreign-made items goes up, consumer prices go up - apparently their customer base is totally clueless about this simple economic fact - they probably never heard that increased costs lead to higher end-user costs.
Now that Apple has spoken up, they know what to do.
Trump didn't offer Apple a place to find the millions of laborers needed to make their products, given that the official unemployment rate is at a historic low of 3.9%.
Are you really arguing that a) it takes literally "millions" of workers to produce cellphones, and b) we can't bring manufacturing jobs back to America because we lack "millions" of workers?
Perhaps without an infinitely large minimal wage-earning workforce, Apple might choose to change it's manufacturing process to leverage more automation? Just a thought.
You literally have no idea what a tariffs are, do you? If you understood tariffs you couldn't have written this sentence:
Philips got the EEC (precursor to the EU) to put massive tariffs on Japanese machines to make them cost the same as Phipps' ones, but all that did was increase profit margins for Japanese companies and relieve price pressure on their manufacturing.
An EEC/EU tariff is a tax the EEC/EU collects as certain goods cross the border, the funds collected do not go back to the manufacturer, For example, a US tariff on iPhones manufactured in China collects an amount of money equal to 25% of the cost of the item and puts it in the federal government's coffers. The 25% tariff does not go back to China, Foxconn, or Apple.
The purpose of a tariff is to increase the price foreign goods allowing domestic producers to better compete on price, agree with it/disagree with the intention, your statement belied a complete lack of understanding of how tariffs work.
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Well, there's a lot to unpack here:
Even my boss that lives in a nice neighborhood can only get 1.5 Mbps DSL.
OK
so he still has a T1 that work pays for since we have a couple of back-up servers in his house.
So your corporate backup plan involves servers in your bosses house, hanging off residential broadband, but those bastards at CenturyLink won't give your boss any faster home internet service so your fall back to a T1?
The T1 your company pays for is only a 1.5Mb connection, the only difference is dedicated bandwidth with the T1 versus "best effort" for residential service.
42% of rural Americans surveyed have no issue with access to broadband internet, and the number increases to 76% of those surveyed that either consider broadband access a minor or no problem.
Wow.
Back in 2008 a similar number of Americans surveyed had similar feeling about their personal healthcare - then the government stepped in and "fixed things".
One pair of Bluetooth headphones, there, problem solved.
There's a difference between 'tied to the dollar' and 'dollar denominated'.
'Tied to the dollar' means the winkle-crypto-coins will forever be worth one dollar, 'dollar denominated' means as the value fluctuates it's value in dollars rises and falls, encouraging speculation.
There will be no valuation fluctuation in Winkle-crypto-coins, no incentive to buy them as an investment, unlike bitcoins.
So say I want $10,000 in one of these Winklevoss crypto-currencies I give them $10,000 in cash, they deposit the $10,000 in a bank, and I have the ability to spend $10,000 as a crypto currency?
How do the Winklevoses cover operating expenses? Am I paying a fee on top of my $10,000? Are the people I give these crypto coins to accepting less than 100 pennies for each crypto coin I give them?
How is this different from a pre-paid debit card?
Riiiiiight. FB is building it's 11 story (space-saving!) 1.8 million squarefoot data center overseas because they can't imagine Democrats ever taking control of the government.
What is it like in your world, where every decision is based on the actions (or feared actions) of Donald J. Trump? Trump's got about 6 more years in office, the house will likely flip in a few months, and the senate will likely remain under republican control long enough to confirm RBG's replacement - likely a 32 year-old lawyer with no meaningful history to examine (in the Kagen, Sotomayor tradition).
I can't even begin to imagine the number of workers required to 'rack and stack' the countless hundreds of thousands of servers in the facility...
Yet.
Power outages?
You understand that a nearly two million square foot data center will likely have a huge bank of batteries and a phalanx of generators to keep the data center humming along 24x7 until it is shutdown, right?
It has been designed as an 11-floor structure, in an attempt to conserve space in the crowded nation, according to Facebook.
Or maybe a 1.8 million square foot data center on one floor is an insane idea?
Large blocks of ice last a surprisingly long time. Google ice houses, they used to cut ice off lakes in the winter and use the ice harvested months earlier on their lemnade. Of course, the ice houses were insulated, but we're talking six months of stroage.
Or it melts.
"letting all the white immigrants from Europe come over" - you're adorable, and you have a childish view of the hospitality of the native americans.
It costs more and more to operate them, because they're increasing the salt concentration in the gulf.
That's hysterical - it's like using a snow blower and you keep blowing the snow where you haven't cleared yet, simply adding to the snow yet to be plowed...
Why can't they divert the salt slur elsewhere?
WTF are we talking about "greening the desert"? I mean, it's the desert - it wasn't a lush rainforest before the industrial revolution/age of the automobile, so why are we trying to make it something it never was? It's a stupid idea, it was always a stupid idea, and nothing Al Gore has ever has or will put on a powerpoint slide is going to change that.
Is desalination really so hard?
Can't Dubai figure out a way to, you know, conserve water?
Now the actual chip & electronics manufacturing capabilities of China, combined with reasonable quality affordable staff, that's a lot harder to replace.
Any manufacturing capability China has can be easily replicated in America, esp. by a company like Apple with their seemingly infinite financial resources, what can't be replicated here are low wages, lax environmental and worker protections.
There's another problem with moving manufacturing to the US.
There's also the reality that other countries impose their own excessive, punitive tariffs on manufactured goods from the US.
Tariffs aren't uniquely American.
There are already all kinds of new jobs available in the U.S. and those coal workers don't want to take any of them.
Opening a lot of factories in Appalachia, are we?
I suspect if you'd offer an out-of-work coal miner in West Virginia the means to relocate his family to a region with a growing economy they take one of your imaginary manufacturing jobs. Open a factory in a coal mining town full of unemployed coal miners, and they'll likely take those jobs.
Unlike white collar jobs, blue collar manufacturing jobs rarely come with relocation packages.
There's a country that just reached a trade deal with the US: Mexico. Apple could manufacture in Mexico.
Mexican wages are too high, I suspect. Foxconn is already in Mexico, and there are areas close to the border that have ZERO tariffs for goods made there and imported to US.
Good Lordy you are a moron.
Labor is not a significant portion of the cost of an iPhone. At best, labor is 1-2% of the product cost, and an item like an iPhone likely has a 40% markup - increased labor costs won't significantly increase consumer prices.
And of course, losing access to an infinite supply of low-wage, low-skill workers with minimal governmental worker protections might just cause Apple engineers to design their phones differently, better suited to automated assembly more prevalent in American manufacturing.
My guess is this 21.2% is in large part the Trump die-hard base members; people who have been unemployed for so long the Feds don't even count them as real people anymore. That's 53M over-18 people.
You really think the majority of Trump's base are long-term unemployed adults? Let's think about that - you think millions and millions of long-term unemployed adults with no means other than government handouts, are die-hard trump supporters cheering him on to wipe out the very programs they personally rely on to survive? Conventional wisdom is that those without other means of support tend to fall on the democratic end of the political spectrum.
FFS the factories in China are optimized for an inexhaustible supply of low-skill, low-wage workers, perhaps Apple could tap into their massive corporate holding and push their engineers to design iPhones and other products that don't require manually-intensive assembly?
Just because iPhones are made in sweat shops now, doesn't mean they have to be made is sweat shops going forward.
Finally, Apple told it's customers that if costs for foreign-made items goes up, consumer prices go up - apparently their customer base is totally clueless about this simple economic fact - they probably never heard that increased costs lead to higher end-user costs.
Now that Apple has spoken up, they know what to do.
(/sarcasm)
Trump didn't offer Apple a place to find the millions of laborers needed to make their products, given that the official unemployment rate is at a historic low of 3.9%.
Are you really arguing that a) it takes literally "millions" of workers to produce cellphones, and b) we can't bring manufacturing jobs back to America because we lack "millions" of workers?
Perhaps without an infinitely large minimal wage-earning workforce, Apple might choose to change it's manufacturing process to leverage more automation? Just a thought.
You literally have no idea what a tariffs are, do you? If you understood tariffs you couldn't have written this sentence:
Philips got the EEC (precursor to the EU) to put massive tariffs on Japanese machines to make them cost the same as Phipps' ones, but all that did was increase profit margins for Japanese companies and relieve price pressure on their manufacturing.
An EEC/EU tariff is a tax the EEC/EU collects as certain goods cross the border, the funds collected do not go back to the manufacturer, For example, a US tariff on iPhones manufactured in China collects an amount of money equal to 25% of the cost of the item and puts it in the federal government's coffers. The 25% tariff does not go back to China, Foxconn, or Apple.
The purpose of a tariff is to increase the price foreign goods allowing domestic producers to better compete on price, agree with it/disagree with the intention, your statement belied a complete lack of understanding of how tariffs work.