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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Quit being hostile to your viewing audience and we'll (well, some of us) will quit pirating it. . . . (Speaking for MLB here, I still can't stream Twins games in their local market. . .
I am hours by car from the MLB teams in my state, and they are blacked out even when they are not playing at home. If MLB.tv were not free through my mobile subscription, there is exactly zero chance that I would pay for a subscription. I would love to know how they calculate when a home viewer is in the local market for blackout purposes because the way it is done now makes it really easy to not care.
Can't Canadians just visit the websites of their local news sources? Why is that so hard?
However people shouldn't be able to just get away with ripping off people, we are all dumb sometimes, and they should also get punished. Sotheby made money off these scams they didn't care, they got their commission. I don't think that is acceptable behavior that should be condoned by society.
How were these people ripped off? They purchased "art." They would arguably still have the NFT, but they just would be unable to flip he NFT to some future buyer because there is not a huge resale market for pictures of cartoon apes. This is not the same as buying stock in a company which has been obscuring its horrible financial data to defraud investors. These were cartoon pictures of apes. This was a stupid fad, and it had stupid people who knew nothing of markets in general or the art world in particular buying these things under the assumption that the value would go up. You know what makes value go up? Scarcity. It really helps the value of your piece of art if the person who created it is dead and there will not be any more. Scarcity, scarcity, scarcity.
If there was really a huge market for cartoon apes that the market could not satisfy, you could be assured that some enterprising company from China would figure out how to flood Amazon Marketplace with knockoff ape cartoons.
I was coming to say this. Why DOES a local printer need to be connected to the cloud? Can you just plug it into a USB port and use the software on your computer? Maybe it will stop working if it detects the wrong filament? I just don't understand why everything has to connect to the cloud.
There is exactly zero chance in this happening in Texas anytime soon. Texas is 98% private property, so construction of the track would have to be either a) along public roads, b) along existing railroad lines, or c) on private property through eminent domain. None of these alternatives are likely. Add in the fact that Dallas and Houston are both "blue" cities, and you'll be hard pressed for the current state government to do something to make life better for the "libs" in those two cities.
he was serious about cleaning house and restoring customer faith
It looks like Chapek made some fumbles, but he was suddenly replaced because Disney+ had been a big focus of his and there was a surprise earnings report by Netflix which caused investors to sour on streaming services in general. So the billions that Disney had spent on that service now suddenly seemed like a bad move. And the second reason was that Bob Iger was looking to get another job elsewhere and the Disney board wanted to grab him before someone else did.
Some fumbles? One could argue that he was actively sabotaging the Disney brand with his stupid decisions. It wasn't just Disney+, he messed with the theme park formula.
I can't speak to all of the Disney parks, but he made Disney World much worse. When you flew to Florida and landed at the airport, you didn't have to go to baggage claim, Disney employees did that. You didn't have to lug around your luggage. Disney employees did that. You didn't have to worry about transportation to the resort. Disney employees did that. You and your family could pick slots for rides a month before, and when you landed you could just go ride rides and come back to your room and find your luggage already in your room. Your average person never gets to experience that kind of service, and now it's gone. Now, there's congestion pricing. Prices have gone up, and services have gone down.
Chapek, like so many other c-suite types, has no vision. Instead, he made things worse by trying to squeeze out a few more bucks to make Wall Street types happy. He's an idiot. He didn't understand the product. Instead, he was well on his way to turning Disney parks into a physical version of free app store games with a micro-transaction approach to what was already the singular most expensive vacation that most families will ever take.
Gov. Abbott has already said that Texas would eliminate rape. Why can't he eliminate grooming, too? I don't understand why other states don't just eliminate bad stuff.
So all those conservative pickup drivers looking to avoid woke companies will put Cybertruck at the top of their list.
You think? I live in a deeply red, small-town area of a red state, and I don't know too many pickup truck drivers who want less functionality. What you have to understand about the kinds of buyers whom you probably don't know is that their purchases are not driven (bad pun) by need, they're driven by the perception of possible need. This is why you see so many 3/4 ton diesel 4x4 trucks in smaller areas. Vehicles are so expensive, buyers want a truck that can do everything that they might need. If you're a tradesman, these large trucks are no-brainers in the U.S. because of the tax code.
The problem for electric trucks is towing. Some of the news stories that I've read show a pretty sizeable reduction in range when towing. Even if the Cybertruck comes in at the original price estimates, if it has terrible towing range it's going to be a non-starter for a large percentage of the potential market. I don't care how anti-woke the truck manufacturer is, if you can't tow your boat to the better lake a little further away, an electric truck isn't even going to make it on the list. I have a friend who was going to by a Lightning until some of reviews of towing range started getting published. Range anxiety will be a real thing if you want to tow anything with an electric truck, and I can't imagine the hassle of charging an electric vehicle at a charging station while towing a 20-foot boat.
Too bad that Bedrock can't play online with Java players.
One way to fix that would be to create some sort of equity system for renters. I.e. A percentage of your rent payments goes towards an "equity" account that the renter can withdraw from.
The article says that renters use 3% more energy than people who own their homes. Okay. Three. Percent. How much more do you think renters can afford to pay on top of their rent for this? They already shop for cost, size, and location. That's pretty much the extent of most renters' criteria. A single window without installation is hundreds of dollars. A new central AC can easily be $10,000. There is no economic argument for these people to pay dramatically more money on top of their rent to reduce that 3% number. They would be throwing good money after bad.
There's also the issue of the ROI on this. In my city (a small city with a university), a large percentage of the renters are students or new/temporary university employees. None of these people intend to be in the same rental housing more than a year or two. It makes no sense for them to pay more to upgrade their rental unit.
Maintenance on a rental unit is not like making an upgrade decision from an episode of This Old House. Smaller landlords are not going to spend $10,000 more for a Cadillac HVAC system in a rental unit. Or windows. Or sprayed-in foam insulation in a attic. Not for 3%.
The only way to do this is for cities to change their building codes to require higher efficiency in new rental construction, but I would argue that this is already happening. New housing is dramatically more expensive than existing housing for reasons analogous to why new cars now cost so much. It's just more expensive to make things to comply with safety and efficiency requirements that existing stock did not have to when they were constructed, and retrofitting something is expensive.
There was a commercial which ran during the Superbowl about Tesla cars. Do these systems really work as advertised? We have a car with some advanced safety features (lane departure, etc.), and they seem to be mostly an annoyance, and I usually end of turning them off when I drive. Will these really save lives for all of the costs? I'm just curious about the cost-benefit.
Imagine a world where economic sanctions could be applied against an aggressor nation and where other nations could give the victim of that aggression the means to defend itself. Then imagine that the aggressor nation runs out of autonomous killing machines while the victim nations gets propped up until the aggressor's economy collapses and it loses the ability to wage its war and has to withdraw because its population is conditioned to be proud of its robots and their superiority. That could be an improvement.
What exactly does society get out of sending her to prison? . . . She didn't get in trouble for what she did, she got in trouble for who she did it to.
But moreover, should we be using prison to deter crimes?
This has been a crazy story since it was broken by the WSJ. Have you followed this news AT ALL? The blood testing machine that she "developed" was a total fraud from the beginning. Again, it was a SHAM. She's not just a crook, she probably HURT people. Her company defrauded Walgreens, and Walgreens set up testing centers based on that fraud. We will probably never know how many people got tested and thought that everything was okay because the magical Edison machine said they were okay, and instead they were sick and lost time. We will never know because that harm was not part of the trial. She was only tried for the "you defrauded people" part of the scam and not for the "you hurt people" part of the scam because the "you defrauded people" is much easier to prove.
Most people get royally pissed off if a fast food drive-thru leaves out an order of fries. This pales in comparison to a blood testing company forgetting to tell you about your horrible diagnosis.
We cannot afford to babysit everyone. You want to do coke or meth, have it. I'm not going to stop you. Nor will I help you up.
Ah, the words of wisdom of someone who's never sat in court during a Child Protective Services docket. The issue is so much more complex than just "personal responsibility." There's a lot of collateral damage to drug addiction that cascades through society.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
