229 customers even paying $100 month, is 22,900 in revenue per month, 274,800 per year, in gross sales. The company had limited growth potential. I can't see an ISP that small needing or havving massive capital infrastructure to put more value on the books...
What? Does the company own its own offices on lakefront property or something, and that is part of the sale?
Otherwise where is 1.8 Million dollar valuation coming from? His ass?
That's not to say I support comcast sabotaging the network and destroying the business, but if a business owner can't sell his business for what "he thinks it is worth" its usually because "its not worth that much".
"How do you make Unchartered 4 "accessible"? A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter (or any shooter), no matter what you do to it, any more than he could play tennis."
Straw man argument. Really. There is more one accessibility issue and some of them are applicable to games like uncharted.
Simple stuff though. Red / green colorblindness isn't that uncommon. So if your forest setting shooter game has a red targeting reticule over predominantly green background.
Or the red heading berry powerup looks identical to the green berry powerup... those are the sorts of things that can make a game unplayable. Or you put red text on green background...
All you'd need to fix is give multiple reticule options, and give the green berries its own model so that the only distinction isn't color, and put the text on black and white...
Same sort of tips to address blue-yellow blindness, or complete color blindness.
I like to play a lot of games on the big screen TV in the living room. There were lots of games that played well enough, via controller or steam controller but which didn't work well due to the text being not quite legible at couch distance on a 52" 1080p set. Some games had bigger text, or allowed you to increase... others not.
Hell, I like to have windows set to 'larger fonts' just to make navigating the desktop at couch distance easier and THAT setting screws up a lot of games. (They usually screw up their own magnification somehow and all you can see is the top left quarter of the game taking up your entire screen.) Simply designing your game to not choke when windows accessibility features like that are turned on would be a plus.
Not that surprisingly. They actually make lot of great hardware. The support isnt bad, and the driver download pages etc are some of the best out there. Punch in the service tag... vs some of the insane hoops you need to go through just figure out what model is sitting in front of you.
They make some really awful stuff too, but if you avoid the consumer crap its mostly quite good.
If anything, this story shows Trump in better light than either Bush or Obama that he finally did something about it.
Meh. It's got nothing to do with the president; as you said yourself.
Its just low level bureaucratic machinery humming along. It didn't happen because Trump got elected; it wasn't his mandate. He just happened to be at the wheel the day it bubbled up through the works. Its certainly not Trump news. It's barely news at all, except in a 'fun fact' curiosity sort of way.
They are following the law. Just like everyone else.
They are following the law they had put in place to suit themselves. This is completely unlike everyone else, who has the law imposed upon them.
If you are a legally incorporated entity (sole prop) you can deduct your health insurance, you can deduct travel expenses, you can deduct R&D expenditures. Just like IBM or Apple. You can shelter income in overseas owned subsidiaries. You can do all the same - just at a scale of 1 person, rather than 100,000.
The average person gains no benefit from this / cannot do this.
First, the average employer hires people, not corporations. If you are employed in a regular job, then incorporating isn't going to get you squat.
Second, it costs thousands per year to incorporate, prepare corporate tax returns, then preprare corporate tax returns of the overseas subsidiaries etc. If you make 150,000 per year, you still probably won't break even. If you make 75,000 per year you definitely will lose money on the accounting overhead.
Third, corporations don't need anything to live. People do. A corporation doesn't need to eat, or shelter... it can live in a PO box in Delaware for tax reasons... and thousands of corporations do. I can't.
You can do all the same - just at a scale of 1 person, rather than 100,000.
It doesn't scale. At a scale of 1 person the overhead exceeds the benefit. That's why your neighbor working as a regional sales manager for Verizon isn't licensing the use of his own name from a subsidiary in Ireland to reduce his tax bill. It doesn't work.
So, do you take full advantage of the tax law?
I didn't write the tax law to suit me. It's not a valid comparison.
I assume you take every tax deduction and break that you are legally entitled to, why shouldn't anyone else?
Framing it like this suggests that the wealthiest people and corporations 'avoiding' taxes are just following the law, like anyone else.
But its not like anyone else, these are the people who first re-wrote the law, who then lobbied government to pass the law, and then who contribute handsomely to elected officials to ensure the law stays put.
Don't compare what Apple does to what I do. Its not in the same league.
Yep. The analogy wasn't perfect. I said as much upfront.
But are you really arguing that if payphones worked better for incoming calls cellphones would never have taken off?
We could have upgraded the payphone network infrastructure, gave everyone a 'personal number' and a 'voice mail service' attached to it, then you walk up to any payphone, punch in 'your code', and that would register it to receive incoming calls to your number, you could also check any voice messages for you. Outgoing calls made from the payphone would have your number as the caller id.
Someone could have built that system fairly easily, and personal cellphones still would have pretty much steamrolled it into irrelevance, no matter how cheap that other service was.
Self driving taxis will be cheaper than owning cars, so most people will ditch owning cars (like a landline) and go with car on demand.
I was in Paris last week, and used a self-cleaning automated public bathroom in one of the downtown tourist areas.
It stank. There was garbage in it. There was small pile of shit on the floor. And there was no toilet paper. The second one was better, but it was still an experience I'd rather avoid.
How are you going to prevent your self driving car on demand fantasy from ending up there?
What's to stop the car picking you up from being full of garbage, condoms, urine and vomit? What stops prostitutes / johns from using one to conduct business? Who wipes the semen off the seat afterwards? What if the last passenger has a bad cold and sneezed all over the car?
"No more [...] stuck vehicle on road."
Wait... why? Just because you own it doesn't mean it won't break down. Or get stuck in the mud. Or end up in a ditch. Or get into an accident. While you are in it.
There are already car share programs, and they definitely serve a need. But its not utopia. The cars are pretty crappy, they are cheap and beat up, and 'base models' with no luxury, they are maintained so they work 'well enough' but they are all pretty abused and beat up.
My car is an extension of my home; it is comfortable and well maintained. It is a reflection of me. A self driving version would have the book I want to read while it drives, apps I want to use loaded into its entertainment system, maybe it'll have upgraded sound, comfortable seats, maybe a premium display to plays games or work on.
A cars2go or zipcar is a generic little shitbox; it's cheap, its small, its utilitarian, its ugly, its cheap. You can't leave stuff in it. The stereo is crap. Its covered in branding, and likely soon will have ads. The self driving version will be much the same...t's adequate as a means of transportation, and its handy as a car for people who don't really need a car all the time, but need one often enough that renting one each time is a big hassle... but as the be-all-end-all of how everyone is going to to want to live?
I doubt it.
Who will make first iPhone equivalent of self driving car?
The iphone is a status symbol; its expensive, its personalized, its yours and yours alone. Your self-driving car fantasy is actually much better represented by shared-use public payphones.
Why spend $900 on a phone you have to carry around everywhere, pay a monthly contract, worry about losing it, worry about dropping it, worry about keeping it charged... when you can just carry a few quarters and use any of millions of public phones scattered around the country...at gas stations, at parks, at hotels, at malls, just on the side of the road, at corner stores, at bars and restaurants...
The personally owned cell phone systematically OBLITERATED the pay phone. The analogy isn't perfect, of course, but a lot of it holds up pretty well. And now payphones are dying species -- but even in the early days of cellphones when people really still did have a choice, (and cellphones were a lot crappier than they are now) it was no contest.
Think of FB as a personal assistant that follows you around.
A personal assistant that follows me around, is someone I pay, who works for me. If they systematically did something I didn't like with my information; like sell me out to a beverage company and keep suggesting i try Budweiser light lime mohito... then I'd fire them, and hire a personal assistant who had the sense not to pull that kind of shit.
So, no it is nothing like a personal assistant. Its a lot more like a creepy stalker, who i am not paying, who is taking notes about what am doing even after i told them to fuck off, and who sold out to Budweiser to put lime mojito banners every where i turn since they saw me drink a beer once.
I'd welcome a digital personal assisant that worked for me... that actively sheilded me from ads, that told budweiser to get bent, that didn't try to increase my spending on shit i didn't need and dress it up as as 'service'... etc.
And further; a classified ad for a single one-off sale of used goods isn't a 'business enterprise' in remotely the same way that operating an unused suite/apartment as a 'hotel' would be.
Just as I can sell a used car via the classifieds without a lot of 'red tape'. But if I start buying and selling cars and operating a used car dealership off my driveway and out of my garage... then its a whole other thing.
AirBnB is largely people pretending to be the former, while actually being the latter.
Freedom of Speech doesn't involve Freedom To Have People Listen To You.
But our right to communicate with our government is protected. If you send a letter to the whitehouse, you can't make the Twit read it, but don't you think it crosses a line for him to tell the post office refuse to even deliver it to him if its from you?
Plus Twitter become a forum of political discourse; (such as it is); and has been officially endorsed by the whitehouse as his official statements...
I do think he's unnecessarily muddying the waters by mixing his personal and official Twitter accounts
As you say, he's muddied the waters. I'd prefer to err on the side of freedom of speech and transparency in a case like this.
It also sucks that you run a business that isn't handicap accessible, in violation of the law.
I mean, seriously, you sound like you think you should be allowed to rent suites with no windows in violation of the fire code as long as you tell people up front... "No windows".
That doesn't fly. I can't open a knick nack shop that doesn't have a handicap accessible bathroom in it. If I get a space that isn't suitable I need to resolve all that stuff before I can get a permit, before i can legally let a customer in the door. Why should you be able to start a small hospitality business and do NOTHING?
Oh right... because you didn't bother getting a permit to run your little hospitality business. If this ever comes to bite you in the ass, its not because you got punished for being honest, its because you ran a hospitality business without meeting any standards, and got around being detected for a while at least, by futher failing to register and get licenses and permits. Probably failing to disclose the airbnb income properly on your taxes... because if every other part of your little hustle is illegal, why not that too?
How about a pharmacy that simply dispenses pills you need? How about the grocery store? What if all the water, electric, solar / gas / coal delivery etc, garbage collection, phone, or sewer companies are private?
Can they all just decide they don't like serving people "like you"? And you die for lack of meds, lack of food, lack of heat... whatever? Really? that's the society you want to be a part of?
"A surgeon that says "I'd rather let you die than treat you" obviously [...]"
shouldn't be licensed to practice medicine.
"I think I'm far better off taking my chances driving over to the next town than to have someone who wants me dead cut me open."
Whereas I think that its beyond unacceptable for the scenario to arise in the first place. The patients should not be shopping for a doctor that is willing to treat 'their kind' while literally bleeding out. I suppose they should comparison shop pricing too? Right? And read yelp reviews or something.
"In different words, your own example shows the utter folly of your political position."
I seem to recall an idiom like "Be aware of the log in your own eye before pointing at the splinter in someone else's." that applies nicely here.
So now we're having to calculate if the risk of something really bad happening onboard due to an electronic device's battery kept in the cargo hold catching fire is higher than the risk of terrorists having explosives in their laptops.
Right
In rare circumstances, lithium-ion batteries spark fires...
And then you have to incorporate the risk of terrorists deliberately checking laptops primed to short out and cause fires in the cargo hold.
In their case, they couldn't even add an additional 220 (e.g. a 'dryer' or 'stove' circuit to their box, without replacing the box.
And in general the cost of adding a new circuit really depends on the layout of the home, the location of the electrical box vs the garage etc. In my home the electrical box is in the garage... so that's a win.:) but in there's it was completely other end and everything was finished, so to do it properly was going to be several thousands.
It won't be practical to tax electricity in the same way as fossil fuels
Which is why i predict they'll go to an odometer tax. And charge you per km on a sliding scale based on vehicle weight or number of axles or something.
This would give a cost for driving 426km of 42.6L x $1.11/L = $47.29. The cost per km would be $47.29/426km = $0.111/km. In other words gasoline costs $0.111/$0.0299 = 3.7 x more or 370% more than electric per km!
I don't know where you live, but where I live, its about 70cents or so for the gas, and another 40 cents per liter in taxes. Doing the math at 10L / 100 means $4 in taxes per 100km... or 4 cents taxes per km.
That's more in TAXES per km than your electric vehicle costs in electricity right now. If you think the government is going to let that revenue disappear your nuts... so for a realistic comparison take your 0.0299 cents/km... and add 4 cents taxes to it. Because that's probably how its going to go.
Suddenly, the electric... is still better but its 7 cents vs 11 cents, which is a LOT less dramatic.
Costs are for fossil fuel cars are going up.
A large drop in demand, say due to millions of people turning to electrics, could turn that around though. Potentially squeezing that 7 cents to 11 cents even tighter.
Electric will win over gasoline because it is cheaper and better.
I think so too, i just don't think it's going to happen nearly as quickly as 8 years.
I know tons of people who park on the street. Just drive through suburbia at night. How are they going to charge at night? My inlaws house... they couldn't get permitting to add a telsa fast charging port, they'd need a new electrical box, inspections, new wiring...big project. Millions of houses like that.
. I donÃ(TM)t see this in 8 to 10 years for heavy equipment and trucks. As well, there are many more things than cars, buses, trucks, planes, and heavy equipment that run on fossil fuels, oil producers will have business for a long time to come.
Right if the bulk of auto did shift to electric it would still represent a collapse in the demand, and a collapse in the price.
Of course if such a price collapse actually started it would change the economics in favor of owning a gas powered vehicle. Meanwhile the price of electricity is likely to go up, as the massive vehicle energy consumption shifts to the grid.
Predicting the future is hard; who knew.
This is going to happen within 8 years? It will still be a dream in 8 years
Yeah... i don't really see it either. I'll be impressed if electrics dominate new car sales in 8 years. I just can't see it being a complete transition that quickly.
They will switch en masse to self-drive electric vehicles (EVs) that are ten times cheaper to run than fossil-based cars, with a near-zero marginal cost of fuel and an expected lifespan of 1 million miles.
There is nothing about electrics that will get them up to 1 million miles.
The reason TDIs "only" get to 300k and 400k before giving up is not the engines. Hell if the car is in great shape otherwise, you just rebuild the engine and keep going... but the car usually isn't in great shape by that point... the typical TDI with 400k kms on it is pretty dilapidated -- the seats are finished, the interior has rips and stains, the glovebox is broken, the exterior is covered in scuffs and dents and chips, the trunk release is broken, the struts for the hatch are gone, maybe the sunroof or powerlocks are gone, the suspension is due for replacement -- again... and it just becomes more sensible to replace the car than to fix it with everything else that is wrong.
Theoretical long lived electrics are going to have exactly the same issue. Even if the engine can go to a million, who is going to spend the money to replace the suspension and brakes when the car is otherwise dilapidated and the whole car isn't worth the cost of the new shocks and pads and rotors and wheel bearings and cv-joints....the TDI engine is already outlasting the rest of the car.
True. Unless you use the mac to RDP into windows, or SSH into a linux box...or fire up a virtual machine or bootcamp; and then suddenly you might use them a lot. The point remains... I use them a lot.
I'm also playing with typescript in visual studio code, and its nice that the hot keys are the same on both platforms. F5, etc...
So...I can see dropping the physical keys on the 'consumer' line, but on the *pro*? That was an indefensible thing to do to their so-called pro series; which is really isn't terribly 'pro' anymore.
1) Is that instead of adding it, they replaced a row of perfectly serviceable physical keys.
2) they stuck it too close to the physical keys you acutally need to press.
The touchbar itself is a gimmick in my opinion; with a few limited good use cases for some people.
I'd have no issue with it, if it's presence didn't mean the loss of stuff I liked and used -- like a physical escape key, and physical function keys, and if it was out of the way so that it didn't get 'used' by accident more than on purpose.
It doesn't sound like docusigns passwords were breached nor the accounts compromised. The attackers likely just got the user list.
The attackers likely aren't the least bit interested in your docusign account, and are just using the fact that they have your address and know you use docusign to send you better crafted phishing emails to deploy generic malware/ransomware/etc.
OTOH this is the same cisco that makes it a PITA to get firmware updates for many products without an active service agreement.
So many small offices out there that bought a cisco 800 series or something; and once its a couple years old can't easily get updates, even if its still an active product line.
The sentence was edited after it was originally written; and the edit reworked its entire structure quite a bit. I caught that I'd left 'without' in place after i hit submit, but since there's no edit, that's that. I didn't think it was a big enough gaffe to merit writing a followup post... until you made an issue of it.
Pretty much this. A good lecture isn't about taking notes down by dictation, or by copying them verbatim from a blackboard.
The notion that if its in the books we can just read it on our own is idiotic... the minute we have a question we have to stop... continuing further just leaves us confused. Reading the book as prep for the lecture is good. Reading the book afterward as review, and for study and reference is great. But if you think a lecture is just the professor reading the book, then you've missed the point of lectures completely.
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1.8 million for 229 internet customers. How?
229 customers even paying $100 month, is 22,900 in revenue per month, 274,800 per year, in gross sales. The company had limited growth potential. I can't see an ISP that small needing or havving massive capital infrastructure to put more value on the books...
What? Does the company own its own offices on lakefront property or something, and that is part of the sale?
Otherwise where is 1.8 Million dollar valuation coming from? His ass?
That's not to say I support comcast sabotaging the network and destroying the business, but if a business owner can't sell his business for what "he thinks it is worth" its usually because "its not worth that much".
Snapchat is the most desperate product I've seen in a long time.
oh, i dunno about that.
If snapchat is the 'most' desperate product... what adjective do you use for the products trying to copycat it??
Both whatsapp (facebook) and skype (microsoft) seem to be copying their every move lately. Surely that's even more desperate.
"How do you make Unchartered 4 "accessible"? A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter (or any shooter), no matter what you do to it, any more than he could play tennis."
Straw man argument. Really. There is more one accessibility issue and some of them are applicable to games like uncharted.
Simple stuff though. Red / green colorblindness isn't that uncommon. So if your forest setting shooter game has a red targeting reticule over predominantly green background.
Or the red heading berry powerup looks identical to the green berry powerup. .. those are the sorts of things that can make a game unplayable. Or you put red text on green background...
All you'd need to fix is give multiple reticule options, and give the green berries its own model so that the only distinction isn't color, and put the text on black and white...
Same sort of tips to address blue-yellow blindness, or complete color blindness.
I like to play a lot of games on the big screen TV in the living room. There were lots of games that played well enough, via controller or steam controller but which didn't work well due to the text being not quite legible at couch distance on a 52" 1080p set. Some games had bigger text, or allowed you to increase... others not.
Hell, I like to have windows set to 'larger fonts' just to make navigating the desktop at couch distance easier and THAT setting screws up a lot of games. (They usually screw up their own magnification somehow and all you can see is the top left quarter of the game taking up your entire screen.) Simply designing your game to not choke when windows accessibility features like that are turned on would be a plus.
Not that surprisingly. They actually make lot of great hardware. The support isnt bad, and the driver download pages etc are some of the best out there. Punch in the service tag... vs some of the insane hoops you need to go through just figure out what model is sitting in front of you.
They make some really awful stuff too, but if you avoid the consumer crap its mostly quite good.
If anything, this story shows Trump in better light than either Bush or Obama that he finally did something about it.
Meh. It's got nothing to do with the president; as you said yourself.
Its just low level bureaucratic machinery humming along. It didn't happen because Trump got elected; it wasn't his mandate. He just happened to be at the wheel the day it bubbled up through the works. Its certainly not Trump news. It's barely news at all, except in a 'fun fact' curiosity sort of way.
They are following the law. Just like everyone else.
They are following the law they had put in place to suit themselves. This is completely unlike everyone else, who has the law imposed upon them.
If you are a legally incorporated entity (sole prop) you can deduct your health insurance, you can deduct travel expenses, you can deduct R&D expenditures. Just like IBM or Apple. You can shelter income in overseas owned subsidiaries. You can do all the same - just at a scale of 1 person, rather than 100,000.
The average person gains no benefit from this / cannot do this.
First, the average employer hires people, not corporations. If you are employed in a regular job, then incorporating isn't going to get you squat.
Second, it costs thousands per year to incorporate, prepare corporate tax returns, then preprare corporate tax returns of the overseas subsidiaries etc. If you make 150,000 per year, you still probably won't break even. If you make 75,000 per year you definitely will lose money on the accounting overhead.
Third, corporations don't need anything to live. People do. A corporation doesn't need to eat, or shelter... it can live in a PO box in Delaware for tax reasons... and thousands of corporations do. I can't.
You can do all the same - just at a scale of 1 person, rather than 100,000.
It doesn't scale. At a scale of 1 person the overhead exceeds the benefit. That's why your neighbor working as a regional sales manager for Verizon isn't licensing the use of his own name from a subsidiary in Ireland to reduce his tax bill. It doesn't work.
So, do you take full advantage of the tax law?
I didn't write the tax law to suit me. It's not a valid comparison.
I assume you take every tax deduction and break that you are legally entitled to, why shouldn't anyone else?
Framing it like this suggests that the wealthiest people and corporations 'avoiding' taxes are just following the law, like anyone else.
But its not like anyone else, these are the people who first re-wrote the law, who then lobbied government to pass the law, and then who contribute handsomely to elected officials to ensure the law stays put.
Don't compare what Apple does to what I do. Its not in the same league.
Yep. The analogy wasn't perfect. I said as much upfront.
But are you really arguing that if payphones worked better for incoming calls cellphones would never have taken off?
We could have upgraded the payphone network infrastructure, gave everyone a 'personal number' and a 'voice mail service' attached to it, then you walk up to any payphone, punch in 'your code', and that would register it to receive incoming calls to your number, you could also check any voice messages for you. Outgoing calls made from the payphone would have your number as the caller id.
Someone could have built that system fairly easily, and personal cellphones still would have pretty much steamrolled it into irrelevance, no matter how cheap that other service was.
Self driving taxis will be cheaper than owning cars, so most people will ditch owning cars (like a landline) and go with car on demand.
I was in Paris last week, and used a self-cleaning automated public bathroom in one of the downtown tourist areas.
It stank. There was garbage in it. There was small pile of shit on the floor. And there was no toilet paper. The second one was better, but it was still an experience I'd rather avoid.
How are you going to prevent your self driving car on demand fantasy from ending up there?
What's to stop the car picking you up from being full of garbage, condoms, urine and vomit? What stops prostitutes / johns from using one to conduct business? Who wipes the semen off the seat afterwards? What if the last passenger has a bad cold and sneezed all over the car?
"No more [...] stuck vehicle on road."
Wait... why? Just because you own it doesn't mean it won't break down. Or get stuck in the mud. Or end up in a ditch. Or get into an accident. While you are in it.
There are already car share programs, and they definitely serve a need. But its not utopia. The cars are pretty crappy, they are cheap and beat up, and 'base models' with no luxury, they are maintained so they work 'well enough' but they are all pretty abused and beat up.
My car is an extension of my home; it is comfortable and well maintained. It is a reflection of me. A self driving version would have the book I want to read while it drives, apps I want to use loaded into its entertainment system, maybe it'll have upgraded sound, comfortable seats, maybe a premium display to plays games or work on.
A cars2go or zipcar is a generic little shitbox; it's cheap, its small, its utilitarian, its ugly, its cheap. You can't leave stuff in it. The stereo is crap. Its covered in branding, and likely soon will have ads. The self driving version will be much the same...t's adequate as a means of transportation, and its handy as a car for people who don't really need a car all the time, but need one often enough that renting one each time is a big hassle... but as the be-all-end-all of how everyone is going to to want to live?
I doubt it.
Who will make first iPhone equivalent of self driving car?
The iphone is a status symbol; its expensive, its personalized, its yours and yours alone. Your self-driving car fantasy is actually much better represented by shared-use public payphones.
Why spend $900 on a phone you have to carry around everywhere, pay a monthly contract, worry about losing it, worry about dropping it, worry about keeping it charged ... when you can just carry a few quarters and use any of millions of public phones scattered around the country...at gas stations, at parks, at hotels, at malls, just on the side of the road, at corner stores, at bars and restaurants...
The personally owned cell phone systematically OBLITERATED the pay phone. The analogy isn't perfect, of course, but a lot of it holds up pretty well. And now payphones are dying species -- but even in the early days of cellphones when people really still did have a choice, (and cellphones were a lot crappier than they are now) it was no contest.
Think of FB as a personal assistant that follows you around.
A personal assistant that follows me around, is someone I pay, who works for me. If they systematically did something I didn't like with my information; like sell me out to a beverage company and keep suggesting i try Budweiser light lime mohito... then I'd fire them, and hire a personal assistant who had the sense not to pull that kind of shit.
So, no it is nothing like a personal assistant. Its a lot more like a creepy stalker, who i am not paying, who is taking notes about what am doing even after i told them to fuck off, and who sold out to Budweiser to put lime mojito banners every where i turn since they saw me drink a beer once.
I'd welcome a digital personal assisant that worked for me... that actively sheilded me from ads, that told budweiser to get bent, that didn't try to increase my spending on shit i didn't need and dress it up as as 'service'... etc.
FB / Amazon / etc is NOT THAT THING.
And further; a classified ad for a single one-off sale of used goods isn't a 'business enterprise' in remotely the same way that operating an unused suite/apartment as a 'hotel' would be.
Just as I can sell a used car via the classifieds without a lot of 'red tape'. But if I start buying and selling cars and operating a used car dealership off my driveway and out of my garage... then its a whole other thing.
AirBnB is largely people pretending to be the former, while actually being the latter.
Freedom of Speech doesn't involve Freedom To Have People Listen To You.
But our right to communicate with our government is protected. If you send a letter to the whitehouse, you can't make the Twit read it, but don't you think it crosses a line for him to tell the post office refuse to even deliver it to him if its from you?
Plus Twitter become a forum of political discourse; (such as it is); and has been officially endorsed by the whitehouse as his official statements...
I do think he's unnecessarily muddying the waters by mixing his personal and official Twitter accounts
As you say, he's muddied the waters. I'd prefer to err on the side of freedom of speech and transparency in a case like this.
It would suck if I got punished for being honest.
It also sucks that you run a business that isn't handicap accessible, in violation of the law.
I mean, seriously, you sound like you think you should be allowed to rent suites with no windows in violation of the fire code as long as you tell people up front... "No windows".
That doesn't fly. I can't open a knick nack shop that doesn't have a handicap accessible bathroom in it. If I get a space that isn't suitable I need to resolve all that stuff before I can get a permit, before i can legally let a customer in the door. Why should you be able to start a small hospitality business and do NOTHING?
Oh right... because you didn't bother getting a permit to run your little hospitality business. If this ever comes to bite you in the ass, its not because you got punished for being honest, its because you ran a hospitality business without meeting any standards, and got around being detected for a while at least, by futher failing to register and get licenses and permits. Probably failing to disclose the airbnb income properly on your taxes... because if every other part of your little hustle is illegal, why not that too?
How about a pharmacy that simply dispenses pills you need? How about the grocery store? What if all the water, electric, solar / gas / coal delivery etc, garbage collection, phone, or sewer companies are private?
Can they all just decide they don't like serving people "like you"? And you die for lack of meds, lack of food, lack of heat... whatever? Really? that's the society you want to be a part of?
"A surgeon that says "I'd rather let you die than treat you" obviously [...]"
shouldn't be licensed to practice medicine.
"I think I'm far better off taking my chances driving over to the next town than to have someone who wants me dead cut me open."
Whereas I think that its beyond unacceptable for the scenario to arise in the first place. The patients should not be shopping for a doctor that is willing to treat 'their kind' while literally bleeding out. I suppose they should comparison shop pricing too? Right? And read yelp reviews or something.
"In different words, your own example shows the utter folly of your political position."
I seem to recall an idiom like "Be aware of the log in your own eye before pointing at the splinter in someone else's." that applies nicely here.
So now we're having to calculate if the risk of something really bad happening onboard due to an electronic device's battery kept in the cargo hold catching fire is higher than the risk of terrorists having explosives in their laptops.
Right
In rare circumstances, lithium-ion batteries spark fires...
And then you have to incorporate the risk of terrorists deliberately checking laptops primed to short out and cause fires in the cargo hold.
In their case, they couldn't even add an additional 220 (e.g. a 'dryer' or 'stove' circuit to their box, without replacing the box.
And in general the cost of adding a new circuit really depends on the layout of the home, the location of the electrical box vs the garage etc. In my home the electrical box is in the garage... so that's a win. :) but in there's it was completely other end and everything was finished, so to do it properly was going to be several thousands.
It won't be practical to tax electricity in the same way as fossil fuels
Which is why i predict they'll go to an odometer tax. And charge you per km on a sliding scale based on vehicle weight or number of axles or something.
This would give a cost for driving 426km of 42.6L x $1.11/L = $47.29. The cost per km would be $47.29/426km = $0.111/km. In other words gasoline costs $0.111/$0.0299 = 3.7 x more or 370% more than electric per km!
I don't know where you live, but where I live, its about 70cents or so for the gas, and another 40 cents per liter in taxes. Doing the math at 10L / 100 means $4 in taxes per 100km... or 4 cents taxes per km.
That's more in TAXES per km than your electric vehicle costs in electricity right now. If you think the government is going to let that revenue disappear your nuts... so for a realistic comparison take your 0.0299 cents/km... and add 4 cents taxes to it. Because that's probably how its going to go.
Suddenly, the electric ... is still better but its 7 cents vs 11 cents, which is a LOT less dramatic.
Costs are for fossil fuel cars are going up.
A large drop in demand, say due to millions of people turning to electrics, could turn that around though. Potentially squeezing that 7 cents to 11 cents even tighter.
Electric will win over gasoline because it is cheaper and better.
I think so too, i just don't think it's going to happen nearly as quickly as 8 years.
I know tons of people who park on the street. Just drive through suburbia at night. How are they going to charge at night? My inlaws house... they couldn't get permitting to add a telsa fast charging port, they'd need a new electrical box, inspections, new wiring...big project. Millions of houses like that.
It will happen, but it'll take a while.
. I donÃ(TM)t see this in 8 to 10 years for heavy equipment and trucks. As well, there are many more things than cars, buses, trucks, planes, and heavy equipment that run on fossil fuels, oil producers will have business for a long time to come.
Right if the bulk of auto did shift to electric it would still represent a collapse in the demand, and a collapse in the price.
Of course if such a price collapse actually started it would change the economics in favor of owning a gas powered vehicle. Meanwhile the price of electricity is likely to go up, as the massive vehicle energy consumption shifts to the grid.
Predicting the future is hard; who knew.
This is going to happen within 8 years? It will still be a dream in 8 years
Yeah... i don't really see it either. I'll be impressed if electrics dominate new car sales in 8 years. I just can't see it being a complete transition that quickly.
They will switch en masse to self-drive electric vehicles (EVs) that are ten times cheaper to run than fossil-based cars, with a near-zero marginal cost of fuel and an expected lifespan of 1 million miles.
There is nothing about electrics that will get them up to 1 million miles.
The reason TDIs "only" get to 300k and 400k before giving up is not the engines. Hell if the car is in great shape otherwise, you just rebuild the engine and keep going... but the car usually isn't in great shape by that point ... the typical TDI with 400k kms on it is pretty dilapidated -- the seats are finished, the interior has rips and stains, the glovebox is broken, the exterior is covered in scuffs and dents and chips, the trunk release is broken, the struts for the hatch are gone, maybe the sunroof or powerlocks are gone, the suspension is due for replacement -- again... and it just becomes more sensible to replace the car than to fix it with everything else that is wrong.
Theoretical long lived electrics are going to have exactly the same issue. Even if the engine can go to a million, who is going to spend the money to replace the suspension and brakes when the car is otherwise dilapidated and the whole car isn't worth the cost of the new shocks and pads and rotors and wheel bearings and cv-joints....the TDI engine is already outlasting the rest of the car.
On macOS, the function keys aren't really used.
True. Unless you use the mac to RDP into windows, or SSH into a linux box...or fire up a virtual machine or bootcamp; and then suddenly you might use them a lot. The point remains... I use them a lot.
I'm also playing with typescript in visual studio code, and its nice that the hot keys are the same on both platforms. F5, etc...
So...I can see dropping the physical keys on the 'consumer' line, but on the *pro*? That was an indefensible thing to do to their so-called pro series; which is really isn't terribly 'pro' anymore.
The only real criticism is
1) Is that instead of adding it, they replaced a row of perfectly serviceable physical keys.
2) they stuck it too close to the physical keys you acutally need to press.
The touchbar itself is a gimmick in my opinion; with a few limited good use cases for some people.
I'd have no issue with it, if it's presence didn't mean the loss of stuff I liked and used -- like a physical escape key, and physical function keys, and if it was out of the way so that it didn't get 'used' by accident more than on purpose.
It doesn't sound like docusigns passwords were breached nor the accounts compromised. The attackers likely just got the user list.
The attackers likely aren't the least bit interested in your docusign account, and are just using the fact that they have your address and know you use docusign to send you better crafted phishing emails to deploy generic malware/ransomware/etc.
OTOH this is the same cisco that makes it a PITA to get firmware updates for many products without an active service agreement.
So many small offices out there that bought a cisco 800 series or something; and once its a couple years old can't easily get updates, even if its still an active product line.
It should have been 'with' not 'without'.
The sentence was edited after it was originally written; and the edit reworked its entire structure quite a bit. I caught that I'd left 'without' in place after i hit submit, but since there's no edit, that's that. I didn't think it was a big enough gaffe to merit writing a followup post... until you made an issue of it.
Pretty much this. A good lecture isn't about taking notes down by dictation, or by copying them verbatim from a blackboard.
The notion that if its in the books we can just read it on our own is idiotic... the minute we have a question we have to stop... continuing further just leaves us confused. Reading the book as prep for the lecture is good. Reading the book afterward as review, and for study and reference is great. But if you think a lecture is just the professor reading the book, then you've missed the point of lectures completely.