Even under the best scenario, this is at best a temporary fix for a permanent problem. Best case scenario, Mumbai is suddenly dependent upon a corporation for what is typically a public service. Around here, it's a public utility that is responsible for providing clean water to household taps.
When they start selling the reservations they don't really own to other people, and people write it off as capitalism then they will truly understand American style free market economy.
Presumably, Apple had already decided to impose a limitation on the number of them that could be purchased by an individual. I believe that's why when they were selling in the US there was that credit card only policy.
Which pretty much just makes this a gold mining type of operation, rather than having to get out prior to the launch and sleep on the steps of an Apple store, they can get up an hour before pre-order launches and get their reservation.
Considering that Apple's thing for quite some time was to overcharge and make it into a luxury good, I'm not sure why they don't do that. People getting up early to buy out goods to flip aren't really the problem. The problem is in cases like sport and concert tickets where half the tickets are sold out before they go on sale. For something like the iPhone, I'm just not sure what the problem is.
That was my thought. At the rate that iWhatevers sell out a bit of that non-removable ink on the thumb would do the trick. All this is going to do is prevent the bourgeoisie from hiring somebody to stand in line for them.
In the US, ranchers commonly sell "their" wildlife to hunters. The hunters have to get a permit, but the ranchers are deluded enough to think that they own the wildlife. The government lets them do it since in the US you can't just go onto somebody else's property without permission.
People who win the lottery aren't typically well educated in money management to begin with. Trying to learn how to manage money after you've come into a huge windfall is, if anything, harder than learning it beforehand.
I doubt that applies to this couple as they were savvy enough to hold out for it and actually earn it.
No, but that's generally about what security work pays. You get more if you're unionized, but the south is particularly hostile towards union organizers. So, I'm guessing that the minimum wage figure is probably pretty accurate.
Which never made sense to me. You've got this piece of property that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but you don't feel like paying for the training and equipment necessary to keep it secured.
In the US, SCOTUS was apparently fine with municipalities using eminent domain for the benefit of developers. Had Apple decided to be evil, they probably could've gotten it for a small fraction of what the property was really worth.
The $1.7m represents the market value, however typical conservative non-sense would result in it being condemned and probably sold for a small fraction of what the price was before the spike in demand. Funny how that works, market forces are an OK justification when it doesn't inconvenience major corporations.
Traffic tickets are a way of improving safety. I know there's the "I want to speed wherever I go" set, but really and truly traffic tickets are primarily for safety reasons. Now there are some small towns that treat it as a source of revenue, but in most civilized areas, the cops would be pleased to never have to issue another citation for a traffic violation ever again.
And these US cities have no cabs? MADD is not a bunch of assholes, they're by and large pushing the right things to deal with a real problem. The only exception I've heard of is their insistence that an interlock device not be used as a part of the punishment.
If anything the penalties for drink related offenses are way too lenient.
Considering that virtually all crashes that involve vehicles are the result of human error and are in predictable situations, I think that it's probably safer in the long term to have computers do all the driving with just an emergency override.
Or even more or less remove the override in favor of a single "push this if you're about to drive off a cliff" button.
It's not the technology. The technology is being used as a scape goat for the real problem. That problem is too much material and not enough time to do it. Worse we're treating children like adults and failing to provide enough physical education and recess time.
Really, we'd get much better results, scaling back the curriculum to something they can handle, just make sure that it's taught well, and giving them some time to be kids that isn't in class.
On top of that, it's a lot easier to demand high standards on work, if you're not requiring several hours of homework every night, and allow the kids to gain some degree of mastery over it before moving on.
Indeed, for many relatively simple calculations, it's literally faster to do it in ones head than on a calculator. And once you've learned the order of operations and the few basic rules of division and multiplication you can do an awful lot in your head. Especially if you allow yourself to keep track on paper.
Paper routes aren't an option for kids these days. It has nothing to do with whether they want to or not. Worse it's not a matter of whether or not they're willing to do so. All the routes around here have been taken over by adults. And that's assuming that there's still a paper left to deliver in the first place.
Not entirely, we need to be more strategic about things. Having a few hours a week playing with computers when I was a kid, was great. Admittedly that was essentially a whole life ago, as the computers in the lab were all some variant of the venerable Apple ][, but one of the big mistakes that they made was failing to whet the appetite.
That being said, technology should add to the lecture, not replace it. Every bit of technology that gets included should have a purpose.
Well, considering how many people in the US still think we're the best at absolutely everything, it's not that hard to believe. It's just with the better access to information they have to keep it somewhat within the realm of possibility.
Except for things like in volcano sensors going into the lava where you're not likely to have the device live long enough to hit that billion cycle mark.
If you see water sprinklers in a datacenter anywhere that could result in water getting on equipment, or draining onto equipment indirectly. They've invented specialty systems for use around electronics for a reason.
They might be tightfisted, but when nobody allows their equipment to be housed there, they'll lighten up a bit.
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Even under the best scenario, this is at best a temporary fix for a permanent problem. Best case scenario, Mumbai is suddenly dependent upon a corporation for what is typically a public service. Around here, it's a public utility that is responsible for providing clean water to household taps.
When they start selling the reservations they don't really own to other people, and people write it off as capitalism then they will truly understand American style free market economy.
Presumably, Apple had already decided to impose a limitation on the number of them that could be purchased by an individual. I believe that's why when they were selling in the US there was that credit card only policy.
Which pretty much just makes this a gold mining type of operation, rather than having to get out prior to the launch and sleep on the steps of an Apple store, they can get up an hour before pre-order launches and get their reservation.
Considering that Apple's thing for quite some time was to overcharge and make it into a luxury good, I'm not sure why they don't do that. People getting up early to buy out goods to flip aren't really the problem. The problem is in cases like sport and concert tickets where half the tickets are sold out before they go on sale. For something like the iPhone, I'm just not sure what the problem is.
That was my thought. At the rate that iWhatevers sell out a bit of that non-removable ink on the thumb would do the trick. All this is going to do is prevent the bourgeoisie from hiring somebody to stand in line for them.
In the US, ranchers commonly sell "their" wildlife to hunters. The hunters have to get a permit, but the ranchers are deluded enough to think that they own the wildlife. The government lets them do it since in the US you can't just go onto somebody else's property without permission.
People who win the lottery aren't typically well educated in money management to begin with. Trying to learn how to manage money after you've come into a huge windfall is, if anything, harder than learning it beforehand.
I doubt that applies to this couple as they were savvy enough to hold out for it and actually earn it.
Because if they didn't MS would go out of business?
No, but that's generally about what security work pays. You get more if you're unionized, but the south is particularly hostile towards union organizers. So, I'm guessing that the minimum wage figure is probably pretty accurate.
Which never made sense to me. You've got this piece of property that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but you don't feel like paying for the training and equipment necessary to keep it secured.
That's absurd, next thing you'll be asking why black turtle necks.
In the US, SCOTUS was apparently fine with municipalities using eminent domain for the benefit of developers. Had Apple decided to be evil, they probably could've gotten it for a small fraction of what the property was really worth.
The $1.7m represents the market value, however typical conservative non-sense would result in it being condemned and probably sold for a small fraction of what the price was before the spike in demand. Funny how that works, market forces are an OK justification when it doesn't inconvenience major corporations.
Because it would get confusing, wait, you meant that I should start working at 3am? I always started work at 9am previously.
Traffic tickets are a way of improving safety. I know there's the "I want to speed wherever I go" set, but really and truly traffic tickets are primarily for safety reasons. Now there are some small towns that treat it as a source of revenue, but in most civilized areas, the cops would be pleased to never have to issue another citation for a traffic violation ever again.
And these US cities have no cabs? MADD is not a bunch of assholes, they're by and large pushing the right things to deal with a real problem. The only exception I've heard of is their insistence that an interlock device not be used as a part of the punishment.
If anything the penalties for drink related offenses are way too lenient.
Considering that virtually all crashes that involve vehicles are the result of human error and are in predictable situations, I think that it's probably safer in the long term to have computers do all the driving with just an emergency override.
Or even more or less remove the override in favor of a single "push this if you're about to drive off a cliff" button.
It's not the technology. The technology is being used as a scape goat for the real problem. That problem is too much material and not enough time to do it. Worse we're treating children like adults and failing to provide enough physical education and recess time.
Really, we'd get much better results, scaling back the curriculum to something they can handle, just make sure that it's taught well, and giving them some time to be kids that isn't in class.
On top of that, it's a lot easier to demand high standards on work, if you're not requiring several hours of homework every night, and allow the kids to gain some degree of mastery over it before moving on.
Well, then he certainly won't like iPaddle U.
Indeed, for many relatively simple calculations, it's literally faster to do it in ones head than on a calculator. And once you've learned the order of operations and the few basic rules of division and multiplication you can do an awful lot in your head. Especially if you allow yourself to keep track on paper.
Paper routes aren't an option for kids these days. It has nothing to do with whether they want to or not. Worse it's not a matter of whether or not they're willing to do so. All the routes around here have been taken over by adults. And that's assuming that there's still a paper left to deliver in the first place.
Sure they do, which is why right now I'm a cowboy astronaut married to the worlds prettiest doctor, duh.
Not entirely, we need to be more strategic about things. Having a few hours a week playing with computers when I was a kid, was great. Admittedly that was essentially a whole life ago, as the computers in the lab were all some variant of the venerable Apple ][, but one of the big mistakes that they made was failing to whet the appetite.
That being said, technology should add to the lecture, not replace it. Every bit of technology that gets included should have a purpose.
Well, considering how many people in the US still think we're the best at absolutely everything, it's not that hard to believe. It's just with the better access to information they have to keep it somewhat within the realm of possibility.
Except for things like in volcano sensors going into the lava where you're not likely to have the device live long enough to hit that billion cycle mark.
What you mean magical elves are responsible? What about all those pixies I keep hearing about in monitor technology?
If you see water sprinklers in a datacenter anywhere that could result in water getting on equipment, or draining onto equipment indirectly. They've invented specialty systems for use around electronics for a reason.
They might be tightfisted, but when nobody allows their equipment to be housed there, they'll lighten up a bit.