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I know! They think the way you make money in business is by selling a better or cheaper product. Not so at all. The way you make money in business is by eliminating the competition so people have no choice but to pay whatever you demand for your product ;)

They should substantially increase their dividend.

What a tragedy for the 115 year old person who stuck their life savings in cash under a mattress in 1913 and really needs that money today :rolleyes: For everyone else who actually invests their savings instead of shoving it in a mattress, the historical average 3.2% annual inflation of the...

If I were a potential investor, this disclosure would give me reason to stay far away from Overstock. Why? Because this horde costs the company a lot to maintain and there is absolutely nothing in it for the investor. If things get so bad that the company has to pay its employees in gold...

I'm a lawyer. Robots already do some tasks that lawyers used to do. For example, junior lawyers used to spend untold hours sorting through boxes of paper looking for documents relevant to a case. Now, AI already takes a first pass and pulls the relevant documents, and flags potential issues...

It's not the fanboys waiting in line (or paying people to do so). It's the people looking to export the devices waiting in line.

I fall into the VLC is better so who cares camp :D

The problem is that stand-alone ECU solutions are difficult to implement on late model cars because modern ECUs control non-drivetrain related functions as well as drivetrain related functions. It's one thing to adjust fuel curves, but nobody wants to try to reverse engineer the HVAC system or...

He should invest some of that money in a good personal trainer :p

Bought mine for less than $200 from a bitcoin miner :cool:

I would add to my prior post that . BF 1942 Desert Combat mod, even in early Beta stages, was less buggy than BF4. And it was developed for free by a bunch of enthusiasts.

I've played every game in the BF series since OG 1942, and I think I am done with the series after the BF4 debacle. The game has been out for over a year, and they are still futzing with the netcode. I still get memory leak and crash issues from time to time. The game is currently in a state...

Those numbers are almost certainly inaccurate and leave off a lot of jobs. I guarantee they pay their in-house lawyers more than $150k.

Fluids? There is no oil, no coolant. Brake fluid is about it and any competent shop can do it. Wiper fluid doesn't count. Shocks/suspension/CV Joints? Again, any shop is capable of this. These are mostly wear items and unlikely to go out under warranty.

It will be DOA without a massive price cut.

Played it for an hour last night. Frankly, it feels like it should be a DLC for BF4 (or even a mod). It's just a cops and robbers skin with some CTF variations. The graphics are turned down so it looks like a last-gen game. Might be worth a stand along game if the gameplay was completely...

Pretty much why I have given up on single player games. Although I can appreciate the artwork and imagination behind a large open world, when the game play degenerates into a series of meaningless errands, it gets old pretty quick. Linear and quasi-linear FPS games are even worse- they end...

I am a lawyer. This article, and many similar, overstates the progress in automating legal work. The one area where there has been a lot of automation is discovery. This is the process where each side in a lawsuit exchanges relevant documents. This used to involve junior attorneys pouring...

I'm sorry, but the cop was simply wrong (they are sometimes). Even though the bike is moving slower, it has much less grip than a car, and can't stop as quickly. You pulled ahead of the cyclist (who you should have seen) and pulled into his path too quickly for him to respond. The fact that you...

I doubt we will even get to Mars in my lifetime for the very same reason.

Right. The problem with getting to relativistic speeds (which is to say, sufficiently high velocities that Newtonian mechanics starts to break down) is that it requires relativistic amounts of energy. You need those speeds for any meaningful interstellar travel. Forget the next 100 years...

But what's there that an interstellar spacecraft needs on those asteroids? So you get some metal... how does that form the basis for a colony :confused:

A colony where? Alpha Centari, as far as we know, does not have any planets more habitable than deep space. Given the proximity, it seems like we would likely have discovered them if they existed. That proposal is like trying to cross the Pacific Ocean by swimming with the proposal that we can...

Would add to the above that even with exotic propulsion, you still run into the tyranny of the rocket equation. To go faster, you need more fuel, but as you add more fuel, you add more weight, which requires more fuel. This gets even worse when you get to extremely high velocities. Our...

Sure, we have a theoretical method of getting to 10% of the speed of light, but we have no theoretical method whatsoever of traveling 90% of the speed of light, which would be necessary to travel there in even a remotely human timescale. In fact, barring a real revolution in physics, such travel...

The article and most of the comments fail to comprehend just how unfathomably far 500 light years is. We are further from being able to travel 500 light years than the cave men were from getting to the moon. Chemical rockets and even ion propulsion are not even close. Even crazy nuclear...

I agree with much of the framework, but I don't think the framework really gets you very far. The devil is in the details.

Sorry, thought you were proposing the elimination of the foreign tax credit. However, if you are talking about keeping the foreign tax credit, the problem of offshore deferral you are seeking to solve is the reason for numerous and extremely complicated parts of the tax code. For example...

:rolleyes: Again, if you think the problem is simple, you don't understand it. What do you mean by "what you make"? If you run a small business, does that mean your gross income or net income? If you mean net income, what gets included in net income? If you mean gross, how do you account for...

I would add to my post below, that while some of the proposals are good, anybody who thinks the tax code can be fixed "easily" doesn't understand the tax code or its problems.

Re #6: It would basically insta-bankrupt many companies that have real operations overseas. Keep in mind that doing business abroad involves paying taxes to foreign governments. How would an oil company drilling off the cost of Norway (which imposes tax at around 70%) make money with an...

What I am saying is that it is a mathematical impossibility to impose a revenue-neutral tax with a single rate without increasing the taxes of the middle class. Consider that approximately half of taxpayer owe no federal income tax, while most of the tax burden is paid by the top 1/4 of earners...

I am a Tax lawyer and have been published in a major journal on tax policy. A few points: 1. The UK already does this. It works reasonably well, but it would require substantive tax reform. 2. A revenue neutral flat tax would result in the majority of taxpayers paying more and/or hit the...

Good grief. Your first sentence has a huge assumption. I don't have any victims in mind at all. My post wasn't about victimhood. It was about half the commentators rushing to decry pedophiles and make "prepare anus" type joke. It speaks to irrational bias.

So how is this different from any other social media app? You ASSUME that gay people are more likely to be pedophiles without any evidence other than pre conceptions. That is what I mean by homophobia - people are irrationally equating homosexuals with sexual predators.

The homophobia is strong with this forum. It's an app for people who happen to be gay. It's not a dating or "hook up" app. The 12 year old safe part is precisely because it is not intended as a hook up app.

So they are using a belt driven compressor to force more air into the intake manifold?

What people don't realize is that it's mostly a fitness thing. Start lifting regularly and your posture will improve naturally.

Like I said, a relic of the content distribution system. With a decent network connection, it is possible to stream and/or download blue ray quality content, it's just that the current providers (Netflix, Amazon iTunes) don't yet offer that quality. They will.

Kind of surprised how attached people are to their optical drives. Kind of reminds me of techies clinging to their floppies 10 years ago. It's an inferior technology being kept alive only by lagging content distribution systems. I have not used an optical disc in over a year and don't see...