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Comment Re:No Clinton No Bush (Score 1) 315

Instead we kept all those programs, and shuffled those millions of the "employable rolls" to keep the unemployment rate dropping. Record use of food stamps, record social spending, and a stagnant economy. What did we gain? Nothing - except another $8 trillion in debt... And millions still in bad shape.

Comment Re:545,000 jobs (Score 1) 348

It doesn't sound like the wages are too low, it sounds like the membership price is ridiculously low. How many memberships are needed just to cover the machines, rent, and leases, and power? Techshop SF has 17,000 square feet. With industrial space in SF going for $2/SF to start, you're talking 272 memberships just to cover the rent. And the list of equipment present - that's another $150,000 per month in leases (or another 1200 memberships). Leases and space alone are 1500 memberships.

You're looking at 1500 memberships just to cover rent and lease. Not including phones, Internet, power, water, liability insurance, alarms, security, maintenance. And we haven't even started talking about staff.

This is the old dot-bomb model - we lose money on each customer but we'll make it up with volume!

Comment Re:No love for 2010 lead-free devices (Score 2) 99

The RoHS Directive came into force in early 2003 and was required since 2006 and on. Apple had a good 4+ years to work with lead-free solder (well, not Apple but Foxconn) and apparently did so with great results for half a decade before the computers being affected. It's probably NOT a manufacturing defect, but a design defect - given that the manufacturing process has been solid for quite a while prior to this issue creeping up.

Comment Re:Sweet, sweet karma (Score 1) 257

Your electric bill for the same 15,000 miles would be about $400. The extra $1300 a year can go a long way to buy a nice electric car rather than a POS bottom of the line econobox oil burner.

Until Mr. Musk - or the stockholders/board of Tesla - decide it's time to start making a profit and not giving away tens of thousands of dollars on each car in order to gain customers... Then the price of the car will necessarily increase well beyond the "break even" cost versus an ICE powered vehicle.

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