And there's your explanation, right there. But even in Florida, things are changing. Next election there will over a million people getting their voting rights restored against the wishes of Republicans. Things won't be so close next time.
But the fact is, voter suppression still works, but now they have to get more and more brazen about it and it's actually turning some people off.
The good news is that fake stories and conspiracy theories aren't working so well any more. Racism, anti-semitism, and anti-immigrant hysteria just aren't getting the job done like they did in 2016.
I'm leaning towards the wall street and average person speculators not changing the downside very much, but limiting the upside a whole lot. In other words plateauing at $4-5K for a year a two, possibly.
This is not surprising. After several previous exponential runs in the past we have had 75% drops and plateauing for years after the drop. Dropping from $20K'ish to $5K'ish is consistent with this pattern.
They are not. I've already pointed out as an example, for just my small city, 8 different broadband providers, and I'm using two of them on a regular basis.
Thank you for sharing that anecdote.
But more than 30% of the country only have access to one broadband provider.
I understand perfectly what a monopoly is. What I don't understand is why you think you should be entitled to interfere with them.
Because, young man, it's the law, and it's been the law of land since the 1890s, and Congress has made those laws even stronger since then. These are not regulations, they are actual US Code.
The average number of seats lost by a sitting president's party in midterms going back to 1862 is 38 seats.
You're a little off. The number is 37, and that's only for unpopular presidents.
Since we're looking at an eventual swing of 39 or so, I don't see how you can call that "underperforming". It's just above average for an unpopular president, and Trump is historically unpopular.over the course of his first two years.
What did you call it when Obama lost 63 seats in 2010? You're delusional.
I bet you didn't know that after the 2010 election the Democrats still held a commanding lead in the Senate. Bigger, in fact, than any lead won in a Republican "wave".
Here are the actual numbers, not the Breitbart numbers:
By historical standards, the Dims underperformed by a pretty significant margin.
That is so not true. By historical standards, the president's party loses 25 seats. The Democrats are projected to win 35-39 seats. That's bigger than the wave election of 2006. When you add in the governors' races, you get a pretty huge realignment. I mean, fucking Kansas went blue for chirssake. That's a goddamn wave.
You even looked the word up, but in your haste to be personally insulting you didn't bother to read the definition. Show me in the definition of "monopoly" where it says anything about not being able to stop buying from them. What it does mean is that you can't buy it from someone else, but "stop buying" and "buy from someone else" are two, pretty clearly different things.
So, your shocking revelation is that "not having any choices" is very different from "not being able to stop buying from them". I stand corrected.
But in many places in the United States, Comcast is the very definition of a monopoly. Is that not true? If they're the only supplier of broadband, how the everloving fuck is that not a monopoly?
I'm surprised this is even a question any more. We've had generative art for decades, and the work is only getting more interesting and mature. For example, musician Brian Eno released procedural music last year as an iOS app (his 4th). If something so simple can be considered art, then certainly art produced by AI can be as well.
Comcast should be investigated for antitrust violations because every single company that size and larger should be investigated for antitrust violations.
If we would just make a serious example of a few huge corporations that fuck over their customers, all of our lives would be better.
Indeed, and "reasonable doubt" means roughly a 90% probability.
Is that true, Bill? I had no idea that reasonable doubt had been quantified to that extent. I don't doubt you, I'm just surprised. I learned something today.
Of course they're just extrapolations. What else could they be? We're talking about the future. We don't have any "facts" about the future. The weather report for tomorrow says "sunny and pleasant", but there could be an earthquake that swallows up my whole town.
Actuaries take the history of a host of variables and try to make the best guess they can. They are right a lot more often than not. For someone to take a prediction and say, "Well, they don't know for sure" doesn't add anything to the discussion and can actually prevent people from making informed decisions based upon probabilities.
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And there's your explanation, right there. But even in Florida, things are changing. Next election there will over a million people getting their voting rights restored against the wishes of Republicans. Things won't be so close next time.
But the fact is, voter suppression still works, but now they have to get more and more brazen about it and it's actually turning some people off.
The good news is that fake stories and conspiracy theories aren't working so well any more. Racism, anti-semitism, and anti-immigrant hysteria just aren't getting the job done like they did in 2016.
People said the same thing when it was at $10k.
No True Downturn.
Oh, come on. Let us see that nice smile. Don't be such a grumpy gus.
Can we get a cheese pun thread going, since the holidays are coming?
Thank you for sharing that anecdote.
But more than 30% of the country only have access to one broadband provider.
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
So let's stipulate the actual legal definition of monopoly: Now do you want to tell us how the fuck that's not a monopoly?
Because, young man, it's the law, and it's been the law of land since the 1890s, and Congress has made those laws even stronger since then. These are not regulations, they are actual US Code.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...
You're a little off. The number is 37, and that's only for unpopular presidents.
Since we're looking at an eventual swing of 39 or so, I don't see how you can call that "underperforming". It's just above average for an unpopular president, and Trump is historically unpopular.over the course of his first two years.
I bet you didn't know that after the 2010 election the Democrats still held a commanding lead in the Senate. Bigger, in fact, than any lead won in a Republican "wave".
Here are the actual numbers, not the Breitbart numbers:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/2...
Who said anything about rights? We're talking about monopolies.
Decades ago, AT&T had a monopoly on phone service, but that didn't mean you have some kind of a "right" to a telephone.
Maybe you need to take a minute and learn a little bit about what a monopoly means:
https://www.quora.com/What-are...
That is so not true. By historical standards, the president's party loses 25 seats. The Democrats are projected to win 35-39 seats. That's bigger than the wave election of 2006. When you add in the governors' races, you get a pretty huge realignment. I mean, fucking Kansas went blue for chirssake. That's a goddamn wave.
So, your shocking revelation is that "not having any choices" is very different from "not being able to stop buying from them". I stand corrected.
But in many places in the United States, Comcast is the very definition of a monopoly. Is that not true? If they're the only supplier of broadband, how the everloving fuck is that not a monopoly?
I'm holding out for all the cores.
You're correct on all counts.
I'm surprised this is even a question any more. We've had generative art for decades, and the work is only getting more interesting and mature. For example, musician Brian Eno released procedural music last year as an iOS app (his 4th). If something so simple can be considered art, then certainly art produced by AI can be as well.
If you want to hear what it sounds like:
https://youtu.be/Dwo-tvmEKhk
Can anyone translate this? Google couldn't do it.
Oh, and I just realized that Comcast owns MSNBC, so Trump has his own reasons to investigate.
Don't be an asshole. If you want to say something, use your words.
When there is only one provider of a certain service available in an area, that's called "monopoly".
Here's the dictionary definition:
We just had an election where a whole bunch of incumbents were removed. You've got to stay positive, fustakrakich.
How do you stop doing business with a corporation that is the only provider of broadband you have access to?
The whole point of antitrust is to go after monopolies, and "monopoly" means, you can't stop doing business with them.
Comcast should be investigated for antitrust violations because every single company that size and larger should be investigated for antitrust violations.
If we would just make a serious example of a few huge corporations that fuck over their customers, all of our lives would be better.
Is that true, Bill? I had no idea that reasonable doubt had been quantified to that extent. I don't doubt you, I'm just surprised. I learned something today.
Costing the company half a billion dollars might be seen as incompetence in some circles.
Do you have some link for this that isn't infowars?
According to twitteraudit.com, the percentage of real followers to fake followers for the two men is within a few points of each other..
Barack Obama has 103M followers, so apparently size does matter. Size of the number of twitter followers, I mean.
Of course they're just extrapolations. What else could they be? We're talking about the future. We don't have any "facts" about the future. The weather report for tomorrow says "sunny and pleasant", but there could be an earthquake that swallows up my whole town.
Actuaries take the history of a host of variables and try to make the best guess they can. They are right a lot more often than not. For someone to take a prediction and say, "Well, they don't know for sure" doesn't add anything to the discussion and can actually prevent people from making informed decisions based upon probabilities.
Hundreds of statisticians just read your statement and blew their brains out when they realized that their work is in vain.