Huawei is one of China's main phone manufacturers. The brand is quite well known around here, and apparently they try to expand globally. Their advertising is probably to create brand awareness in other parts of the world, such as where you happen to live - and considering your comment, they're succeeding.
Unless they have some special powers, I suppose the police will have to pay for those ads, just like the regular advertisers do. This would result in the police actively sponsoring these allegedly illegal sites. Can have interesting political repercussions.
Well, of course. They're digging too deep in that. In the real world, I believe that there is no such thing as "the one" or "the perfect match". Maybe it feels like it, but that's in part thanks to the "pink glasses" effect of being in love and because both parties tend to adopt to one another, especially when a relationship lasts long (years, decades).
People probably can form lasting romantic relationships with a large number of other people, after the following basic matches are followed (assuming heterosexual relations but some will apply for homosexual relations too):
The above are true for the vast majority of heterosexual relationships. Another major factor in partner choice is also the availability of the person, as in, that s/he is not in another relationship already. The fact that someone is active on sites like OKCupid fulfils that requirement. Coincidence plays a great role as well: whether you meet a person now (when he's single and looking) or in half year (when he's just got a girlfriend). Whether you meet the person at all. He may be a perfect match for you on all fronts, yet unobtainable due to living 1,000 km away.
At least in this case they made significant savings - or at least, so they claim. The question is now of course, how was this calculated, and will it pass muster if an independent accountant checks the figures.
It's harder to give economic returns of a F1 race track; even harder to make an overall profit on one.
Those customers will just get disconnected.
They forgot one thing, though; their residential customers. They are the ones who need the additional capacity, and without it their service will continue to degrade.
You're giving Verizon too much credit: the way you write this, you imply they care about their customers and the service they offer.
You can easily convert to more useful measures using Google.
Of course it'd have been nice had they use their own tools to advance science. Or maybe that should be: to have the US catch up with the rest of the world.
Google requires AC output, so even if you're adding batteries in the mix, you still need to build the inverter, with even less space for your inverter part as added bonus.
Also Google provides a DC input, and a conversion efficiency. So they'll measure what goes in and what comes out. Having batteries in the box providing the power will show itself quickly there and then.
Of course - but I hope you realise that the source of the income is rather irrelevant - it even works like that when the income they receive is something like an unemployment benefit that's almost as much as what they make when working, or under a guaranteed "basic income" system where the state provides an basic income to everyone.
inflation != economic growth.
They're often not even closely related.
Just have a look at the rate of inflation in Zimbabwe over the past years (thousands of percent a month of even a week it has been) vs. the economic growth (highly negative) for an example.
Money is just one motivation for people to get a job.
There are other motivations as well: to have a life, for starters. To feel (somewhat) useful. To get out of the house, meet other people.
You may have heard of the concept of volunteering, people spending many hours every week doing unpaid work. In those cases, money is obviously not a motivation.
You're nicely mixing up things.
Coal in power plants is a fossil fuel and has nothing to do with wood/charcoal burning in stoves.
China is very aware of the environmental issues of burning coal. The main reason for them to use coal is because they happen to have lots if it, even though they'd rather use other fuels. They also have a significant nuclear power supply.
Interesting you give this totally flawed example. It's telling, really.
Burning wood is carbon-neutral. It's carbon that would've been released back to the atmosphere after the death of the tree anyway. It's burning fossil fuels that is the main cause of climate change, and that's what we do in the developed world at a massive scale.
Now there are serious environmental issues related to burning wood or charcoal, most notably air pollution. But climate change is not one of them.
My argument is the exact opposite. It is that by being smart, you can improve your standard of living for a lower overall cost, benefiting yourself and benefiting the environment in the process.
At least one of my banks complained of a too long password when I used an 8-character password. I had to shorten it to no more than 6 characters.
Some forums don't even accept that short passwords.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
