They know what they are doing. They know precisely how often people would upgrade and pay a fee. They know how many customers will put up a fight and demand to be served. They know how many are business customers who would pay the rack rate. They have arrangements with other rental car companies to take each other's peak load requirements.
You put up a fight, they will either give you an upgraded car for free, or get one from the neighboring companies. The fixed cost of upgraded car does not matter, it has already been accounted for. Variable cost difference between the tiers is minor. But they will make you pay for it in time. Thus people who value time and who have a little bit of money will give in. That is what these companies are shooting after.
People who travel on business who just pay the rack rate get the best customer treatment you can hope for. They don't even have to stand in line. They can walk into the lot, pick any car they want and drive off and the gate guard will complete the formalities in seconds.
It is just that we want great service and they are not willing to provide it for the price we are willing to pay. It might be worth taking the Uber to a off airport location to get better deals.
He and Trump won the election. They are the administration. The people who voted for them would not care. They will rationalize it.
We liberals need to unify and defeat them in the polls. There is no other way. There is absolutely no point in trying to reason with them or find middle ground with them. Their game plan is to make the middle ground far into the right of center. We have taken our civil rights for granted. We have taken the hard won victories for granted. The confederates never stopped fighting. The confederates have defeated the Union 150 years later. It is time to take our Union back. We will. Or my children will.
It makes more sense to rent IC engine cars for long distance trips and own a commuter runabout with 120 mile range with six to eight hours for full recharge. I am surprised rental car companies have not come out with a Netflix model of subscription based car rentals for battery car owners. Something like basic service 25$ a month gets you 10 days of car/truck per year. Electric car manufacturers could throw in the first or second year of service for free. Throw in the ability to rent anywhere in the country, suddenly electric car ownership and ic car rental by subscription becomes very very attractive. This is for single car owners. Multi car owning families have no real reason to go for IC engine car for their second or third vehicle.
Battery car is still too expensive, Chevy Bolt is 35K that is a cheap Chevy Cruz in terms of amenities, comfort and ride. Range and charge times are not the issue. Price is. When you can buy for the same price, same car body with a choice of IC engine or 120 mile range, 8 hour recharge battery IC engines will lose big. The simplicity and low maintenance of electric car will compensate for the lack of full range. Renting cars for long distance would become the norm. Rental car companies will aggressively go for this business model. They would imagine 50 million electric car owners who must rent 10 to 15 days a year. Between half a billion to a billion days of renting. The rental car companies have the deep pockets, they buy the cars in large volumes from IC engine car makers. They have the clout, they will be part of the transition to electric cars.
Automation and industrialization has been transferring wealth from the poor to the rich for centuries. Societies have been decimated, norms totally broken down, millions of people starved to death. But since most of the devastating effects happened in the colonies, it did not get the mindshare of historians and scientists. Even liberal ones do not really get the true scale and depth of the devastating effects of industrial economies dumping their products in their colonies decimating local economies. For example the Great Famine killed more people (5.5 million) in two years than the entire Irish potato famine (1 million).
Millions of people starved to death, society disintegrated, in the colonies. India and China which had 25% of world GDP each before 1700s never got back to that range ever. China is coming back, and slowly India is emerging. If you want to see how far well developed civilized nations would lose in standard of living, just see the decline of India and China between 1600 and 1900.
But automation killed jobs, destroyed societies and people starved to death and they endured abject poverty. All the societal norms built over millennia disintegrated. But it happened in the colonies. So the Industrial powers never wrote the details in History books in great detail.
One single example, the great Famine of Madras Presidency killed more people than the entire Irish Potatoe famine. Need to dig up the numbers.
Millions of people starved to death in India and all over British colonies when Britain dumped their factory made goods. In fact without such a large dumping ground creating jobs in Britain, the Industrial Revolution might have fizzled out. Hungry mobs would have rebelled and destroyed everything.
Have you ever wonder why so much of the misconduct allegations have not been proven? If you are predisposed to think ALL the accusations are false, and ALL the police officers are saints ALL the time, you are biased.
The question was not about abstract class. It was "What is an absolute ass, and where do you find it?". The answer is the US immigration officer, and you find the best ones in NY JFK airport.
Lucky for me I have not had to take an interview since 1994. And I have been on the asking side ever since.
I give them a problem to solve. I ask for an algorithm, not specific language. Something like: "A trip has a starting city and an ending city. There is a list of all the trips made by John. Where did he start and where did he finish?". Then the interview proceeds based on the answers I get. Most people do linear search. "How does this answer scale as the number of trip increases?" "What happens if he started and ended in the same city?" "What if the trips did not form one chain?" "Can you find how many chains there are?" "How will you speed up your code?".
More than the solution or the answer, I am looking to see if the candidate understands me and can he/she tell me what she/he is doing. If I say, "ok, Let us say you build a map between starting point and the trip index. Would that help you speed up your code?" can the candidate understand what I am saying, if he/she can't understand ask intelligent questions to understand me, do they show an interest in understanding and solving the problem, are they comfortable in communication etc.
Puzzles have their place. If you solve puzzle instantly, it just means you have seen it before. That gives me no input. If you muddle through the solution, it means it is a fresh puzzle. Opens up lots of avenues for communication, letting me ask questions, offer suggestions and hints, and see how these hints are understood etc. I take extreme pains to put the candidates at ease. Tell them up front, "I am not looking for a final finished correct answer. I am looking to see how you find the answer. So feel free to think aloud, tell me how you plan to solve the problem, ask me if something would work or not etc. "
Take that figure with a pinch of salt. Many you tube videos automatically load and play the next stream. So many hours of it are played on monitors that have gone to sleep or played on monitors no one is watching.
But still, most of the streaming is done to handheld tablets, or phones or laptops or netbooks. My 14 inch chromebook screen at 3 feet covers the same range as the 42 inch across the room. Unless there is more than one person watching the same thing, it does not make sense to cast anything to the TV. Given the full keyboard on chromebook and unusable screen key board in Roku there is no real reason to mess with it.
We have to get rid of all these burdensome job killing government regulations.
An English language test? What a stupid idea! If you give in now, next they will demand all drivers to know how to drive cars. Will demand all drivers to know names of neighborhoods and streets too. We. must. put. a. stop. to. government. overreach.
The CEO is forecasting based on a recently published scientific study, . In fact, he is so impressed by this new branch of science he is calling himself the Chief Extrapolating Officer.
Day dreaming one day cable companies will fight this hard to serve us...
When politicians talk about private sector as the epitome of American perfection, remember private sector without competition and as a state sanctioned monopoly will function exactly like the cable companies.
We are endowing machines with Artificial Intelligence, while dumbing down the population increasing Natural Stupidity. In the long run NS will win, we might bomb ourselves to annihilation or in some catastrophe.
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Every time they tried to add his resume to the blacklist, it just disappeared.
The blacklist disappeared. Not little Bobby's resume alone.
You put up a fight, they will either give you an upgraded car for free, or get one from the neighboring companies. The fixed cost of upgraded car does not matter, it has already been accounted for. Variable cost difference between the tiers is minor. But they will make you pay for it in time. Thus people who value time and who have a little bit of money will give in. That is what these companies are shooting after.
People who travel on business who just pay the rack rate get the best customer treatment you can hope for. They don't even have to stand in line. They can walk into the lot, pick any car they want and drive off and the gate guard will complete the formalities in seconds.
It is just that we want great service and they are not willing to provide it for the price we are willing to pay. It might be worth taking the Uber to a off airport location to get better deals.
We liberals need to unify and defeat them in the polls. There is no other way. There is absolutely no point in trying to reason with them or find middle ground with them. Their game plan is to make the middle ground far into the right of center. We have taken our civil rights for granted. We have taken the hard won victories for granted. The confederates never stopped fighting. The confederates have defeated the Union 150 years later. It is time to take our Union back. We will. Or my children will.
Battery car is still too expensive, Chevy Bolt is 35K that is a cheap Chevy Cruz in terms of amenities, comfort and ride. Range and charge times are not the issue. Price is. When you can buy for the same price, same car body with a choice of IC engine or 120 mile range, 8 hour recharge battery IC engines will lose big. The simplicity and low maintenance of electric car will compensate for the lack of full range. Renting cars for long distance would become the norm. Rental car companies will aggressively go for this business model. They would imagine 50 million electric car owners who must rent 10 to 15 days a year. Between half a billion to a billion days of renting. The rental car companies have the deep pockets, they buy the cars in large volumes from IC engine car makers. They have the clout, they will be part of the transition to electric cars.
So you are happy with Subway selling you a 11 inch foot long sub?
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Automation and industrialization has been transferring wealth from the poor to the rich for centuries. Societies have been decimated, norms totally broken down, millions of people starved to death. But since most of the devastating effects happened in the colonies, it did not get the mindshare of historians and scientists. Even liberal ones do not really get the true scale and depth of the devastating effects of industrial economies dumping their products in their colonies decimating local economies. For example the Great Famine killed more people (5.5 million) in two years than the entire Irish potato famine (1 million).
Millions of people starved to death, society disintegrated, in the colonies. India and China which had 25% of world GDP each before 1700s never got back to that range ever. China is coming back, and slowly India is emerging. If you want to see how far well developed civilized nations would lose in standard of living, just see the decline of India and China between 1600 and 1900.
One single example, the great Famine of Madras Presidency killed more people than the entire Irish Potatoe famine. Need to dig up the numbers.
Millions of people starved to death in India and all over British colonies when Britain dumped their factory made goods. In fact without such a large dumping ground creating jobs in Britain, the Industrial Revolution might have fizzled out. Hungry mobs would have rebelled and destroyed everything.
Of course, proven police misconduct is so rare
Have you ever wonder why so much of the misconduct allegations have not been proven? If you are predisposed to think ALL the accusations are false, and ALL the police officers are saints ALL the time, you are biased.
Someone probably hacked into her email and released a statement in her name to embarrass her.
Newer scientific studies show pool water has medicinal properties.
Clearly you don't know that urine has medicinal properties, according to auto urine therapy.
The question was not about abstract class. It was "What is an absolute ass, and where do you find it?". The answer is the US immigration officer, and you find the best ones in NY JFK airport.
I give them a problem to solve. I ask for an algorithm, not specific language. Something like: "A trip has a starting city and an ending city. There is a list of all the trips made by John. Where did he start and where did he finish?". Then the interview proceeds based on the answers I get. Most people do linear search. "How does this answer scale as the number of trip increases?" "What happens if he started and ended in the same city?" "What if the trips did not form one chain?" "Can you find how many chains there are?" "How will you speed up your code?".
More than the solution or the answer, I am looking to see if the candidate understands me and can he/she tell me what she/he is doing. If I say, "ok, Let us say you build a map between starting point and the trip index. Would that help you speed up your code?" can the candidate understand what I am saying, if he/she can't understand ask intelligent questions to understand me, do they show an interest in understanding and solving the problem, are they comfortable in communication etc.
Puzzles have their place. If you solve puzzle instantly, it just means you have seen it before. That gives me no input. If you muddle through the solution, it means it is a fresh puzzle. Opens up lots of avenues for communication, letting me ask questions, offer suggestions and hints, and see how these hints are understood etc. I take extreme pains to put the candidates at ease. Tell them up front, "I am not looking for a final finished correct answer. I am looking to see how you find the answer. So feel free to think aloud, tell me how you plan to solve the problem, ask me if something would work or not etc. "
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But still, most of the streaming is done to handheld tablets, or phones or laptops or netbooks. My 14 inch chromebook screen at 3 feet covers the same range as the 42 inch across the room. Unless there is more than one person watching the same thing, it does not make sense to cast anything to the TV. Given the full keyboard on chromebook and unusable screen key board in Roku there is no real reason to mess with it.
Are you sure you are not confusing your cat for your mom?
An English language test? What a stupid idea! If you give in now, next they will demand all drivers to know how to drive cars. Will demand all drivers to know names of neighborhoods and streets too. We. must. put. a. stop. to. government. overreach.
The CEO is forecasting based on a recently published scientific study, . In fact, he is so impressed by this new branch of science he is calling himself the Chief Extrapolating Officer.
When politicians talk about private sector as the epitome of American perfection, remember private sector without competition and as a state sanctioned monopoly will function exactly like the cable companies.
I have no sympathy for the person making $700k that was complaining. Fuck that guy.
I am sure some one is making good money doing exactly that. How else do you blow 700K?
We are endowing machines with Artificial Intelligence, while dumbing down the population increasing Natural Stupidity. In the long run NS will win, we might bomb ourselves to annihilation or in some catastrophe.
So you want India to be patriotic to America?