Well, the GP said there was a concern that taxes would not be paid to maintain the roads - but those taxes tend to come from gas/fuel taxes collected, and that would be from the workers (factories don't move that much). Likewise public utilities - I was not aware the WI deal gave them free power, water, sewer, trash service. If the company pays for those utilities, and workers do not get fuel tax-free - then I don't see how those concerns are ignored...
Wow, I didn't realize the drivers of the vehicles going to that factory were exempt from paying gas taxes! I didn't realize that the factory gets its water, power, sewer and trash services for free! Awesome!
Oh, Guntersville? You can't get THERE from here. You can get there from THERE, and you can get there from here, but you can't get THERE from here. Or something like that...:)
I spend quite a bit of time in Shanghai - I lived there for 6 years, and I have family there. I was just there last week. Used cabs several time, just told them the name of the business or the cross streets I wanted and we got there, no issues. No GPS, no nav needed... As impressive as London cabbies are, Shanghai cabbies (especially those with 3+ stars) are a whole different league!
Coming back from Las Vegas over Thanksgiving weekend, the 15 was backed up for hours. We went through Pahrump and saved a few hours. But then coming into Baker, Google said to use Well Road to avoid the main road. I started to head that way - but Well Road is literally a washed-out stream. As I was about to turn onto it - I noticed a car, about 100 yards down the road, nose-down in a ditch that bisected the "road". I guess if you had a jacked-up 4x4 then Well Road could be navigable, but in the Ford Mustang, it is a definite no-go. Google was happy to recommend it as a viable, time-saving alternative though!
I used Lyft just last night, here in San Francisco. Not only could GPS not locate me accurately (it had me across the street and 7 addresses up, this is on Polk at California), but the driver's car drifted around too... GPS doesn't work really well in all environments. Or when the weather gets really bad...
The Play:5 has a line in. You may want to check that out. Not to mention the Connect is a purpose-built analog in/out port of the SONOS system into your regular home stereo.
And those accounts are? I've read lots saying it's better than the Play:1 - but that's a $149, small speaker. I would be VERY surprised if the HomePod equaled the Play:5. Simple physics says the bottom decade will be dramatically different, as the Play:5 uses three 4" high-stroke woofers, with significantly more displacement than the HomePod. Combined with the much larger enclosure, you have much more bass extension and output capability.
We spend more than any other OECD country on K-12 education - and our students typically end up near the middle, or in the bottom half. Spending != performance, at least in the US.
Get a pair of SONOS Play:5 speakers. MUCH better sound quality, and they have an analog input - so you can use your older gear. Oh, and they also stream all the other services, not just Apple Music.
For $298 you can get a pair of SONOS Play:1 speakers. And they play pretty much everything - including Pandora and Spotify. Oh, and they do a stereo pair, too!
Seems kind of short-sighted, then. Given that they turned off 720 MW of reliable power generation, and are replacing it with wind, which is quite a bit less "reliable". Yes, they are talking about 1.8 GW of installed capacity for wind, but de-rated for typical usage, and it's barely enough to cover. And when the wind doesn't blow hard enough - well, you get brown-outs and black-outs, until you can turn on all those natural gas peaker stations.
How long is long enough, then, in your opinion? Is it 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? More? At what point is it no longer a startup, at what point do you kill the subsidizing of a company that simply cannot stand on its own?
The politics of building offshore wind isn't much better. There will ALWAYS be people fighting any new development, and slowing (or, in the case of Cape Wind, killing) deployment of new power sources. So you might as well go "for the best" because going to a lower-grade solution won't relax the difficulties in the first place.
A Tesla model S is about 600-1000 pounds more than a BMW 5 series, or Mercedes E300. That battery pack weighs a LOT - more than enough to offset the cost of a tank of diesel and an ICE.
So how many years do you plant seed corn before you start to eat? Do we talk about future earnings still decades out? At what point should a person expect a company to start turning a profit? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? More?
Sure, a drop can damage other components. Per Apple, you MUST fix those other parts too, before they will do this fix. It's like having your transmission fail intermittently, but the factory will not fix it unless you first fix the crack in your windshield and straighten your fender. Because you know, those affect the way the transmission works, or something.
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Well, the GP said there was a concern that taxes would not be paid to maintain the roads - but those taxes tend to come from gas/fuel taxes collected, and that would be from the workers (factories don't move that much). Likewise public utilities - I was not aware the WI deal gave them free power, water, sewer, trash service. If the company pays for those utilities, and workers do not get fuel tax-free - then I don't see how those concerns are ignored...
Corporate taxes for the US were amongst the highest in the G20. At least from an objective report based on the tax returns of companies around the world. Unless the tax returns are wrong, or the CBO is wrong...
Wow, I didn't realize the drivers of the vehicles going to that factory were exempt from paying gas taxes! I didn't realize that the factory gets its water, power, sewer and trash services for free! Awesome!
Oh, Guntersville? You can't get THERE from here. You can get there from THERE, and you can get there from here, but you can't get THERE from here. Or something like that...:)
Not to mention Shanghai as well, if you want to get at least a single star on your license...
I spend quite a bit of time in Shanghai - I lived there for 6 years, and I have family there. I was just there last week. Used cabs several time, just told them the name of the business or the cross streets I wanted and we got there, no issues. No GPS, no nav needed... As impressive as London cabbies are, Shanghai cabbies (especially those with 3+ stars) are a whole different league!
Yes, automated, so those on motorcycles (or bicycles) get run over from the rear by those autonomous vehicles...
Coming back from Las Vegas over Thanksgiving weekend, the 15 was backed up for hours. We went through Pahrump and saved a few hours. But then coming into Baker, Google said to use Well Road to avoid the main road. I started to head that way - but Well Road is literally a washed-out stream. As I was about to turn onto it - I noticed a car, about 100 yards down the road, nose-down in a ditch that bisected the "road". I guess if you had a jacked-up 4x4 then Well Road could be navigable, but in the Ford Mustang, it is a definite no-go. Google was happy to recommend it as a viable, time-saving alternative though!
I used Lyft just last night, here in San Francisco. Not only could GPS not locate me accurately (it had me across the street and 7 addresses up, this is on Polk at California), but the driver's car drifted around too... GPS doesn't work really well in all environments. Or when the weather gets really bad...
The Play:5 has a line in. You may want to check that out. Not to mention the Connect is a purpose-built analog in/out port of the SONOS system into your regular home stereo.
And those accounts are? I've read lots saying it's better than the Play:1 - but that's a $149, small speaker. I would be VERY surprised if the HomePod equaled the Play:5. Simple physics says the bottom decade will be dramatically different, as the Play:5 uses three 4" high-stroke woofers, with significantly more displacement than the HomePod. Combined with the much larger enclosure, you have much more bass extension and output capability.
We spend more than any other OECD country on K-12 education - and our students typically end up near the middle, or in the bottom half. Spending != performance, at least in the US.
Get a pair of SONOS Play:5 speakers. MUCH better sound quality, and they have an analog input - so you can use your older gear. Oh, and they also stream all the other services, not just Apple Music.
For $298 you can get a pair of SONOS Play:1 speakers. And they play pretty much everything - including Pandora and Spotify. Oh, and they do a stereo pair, too!
SONOS, for about $499. The Play:5 does it, and sounds really, really good...
So - what is the solution? What power source do you envision that will not have met with environmental concerns?
Seems kind of short-sighted, then. Given that they turned off 720 MW of reliable power generation, and are replacing it with wind, which is quite a bit less "reliable". Yes, they are talking about 1.8 GW of installed capacity for wind, but de-rated for typical usage, and it's barely enough to cover. And when the wind doesn't blow hard enough - well, you get brown-outs and black-outs, until you can turn on all those natural gas peaker stations.
How long is long enough, then, in your opinion? Is it 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? More? At what point is it no longer a startup, at what point do you kill the subsidizing of a company that simply cannot stand on its own?
Well, Tesla has had 60 quarters, and Solar City has had 48. How many do you worry about in the future? Is 10+ years enough?
The politics of building offshore wind isn't much better. There will ALWAYS be people fighting any new development, and slowing (or, in the case of Cape Wind, killing) deployment of new power sources. So you might as well go "for the best" because going to a lower-grade solution won't relax the difficulties in the first place.
A Tesla model S is about 600-1000 pounds more than a BMW 5 series, or Mercedes E300. That battery pack weighs a LOT - more than enough to offset the cost of a tank of diesel and an ICE.
So how many years do you plant seed corn before you start to eat? Do we talk about future earnings still decades out? At what point should a person expect a company to start turning a profit? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? More?
And we're done. You've got nothing. The data you post doesn't say what you think it does, and you have nothing else. Thanks for proving it!
Sure, a drop can damage other components. Per Apple, you MUST fix those other parts too, before they will do this fix. It's like having your transmission fail intermittently, but the factory will not fix it unless you first fix the crack in your windshield and straighten your fender. Because you know, those affect the way the transmission works, or something.
And that makes the companies profitable?