Positive people are dangerous. Because they assume everything is going to be fine, they fail to plan for things to go wrong, and then after you're stuck cleaning up the mess they caused, they sweep it all under the rug and act like everything went smoothly - so not only do you get no recognition for your heroic efforts to fix everything, but they're fully confident in their ability to handle the next situation just as well as the last.

But nobody wants to listen to the pessimists, because they're so negative.

Because there will be more than double that number of cars on the road by that time, and so it will still result in a net increase. It's better than no cuts at all, but IMO,. they should be focusing on reducing emissions by at least 10% every single year to really stay ahead of the rate at which more cars are being added to roads... by the same time, at that rate, emissions would have been cut by about 80% off of what they are today.

That would make a difference. Reducing by 40% over 16 years is just political posturing, not any serious attempt at wanting to make the future any better than the present.

Wow... didn't have to read very far before I found somebody regurgitating *THIS* conspiracy theory again... of course, like most conspiracy theories, any otherwise entirely logical refutations are attributed as being part of "the cover up", and are excluded from consideration, preventing actual critical analysis.

There are problems with the pharmaceutical industries in North America, but this is not one of them.

Even then, the thing here is that the only reason that the laws that prohibit manufacturers from selling directly to consumers even exists is because dealerships have actually *PAID* those manufacturers for franchising rights to be authorized distributors for that manufacturer, and if the manufacturer goes and sells directly to the consumer, then that is anti-competitive behavior.

Because there are no dealership franchises for Tesla, there is no actual reason that it should really be illegal... this ruling is a bad interpretation of the law, unless there is also some explicit law that requires that automobile manufacturers must offer dealerships franchises in the state

Uhmm... I'm Canadian.

And I wouldn't vote for the Liberals either.

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I think they can figure out how to upsell.

Yes! What are we trying to set up in the free world . . . another East Germany, where people were not allowed to leave the country?

It's already happened -- just in a different fashion. What do you think the "no-fly list" is about?

If they actually make this a law, my money is on that there won't be any set penalties or specific guidelines for enforcement, so in actuality nothing will really change, but it will give them an excuse to enforce it when it is convenient for them.

But what's finally good news for the company is that the Surface gross margin was positive this quarter, which means the company finally starts making money on Surface sales.

I think that someone doesn't understand accounting very well. Thre are all kinds of real costs that don't get factored into the gross, so this report does not show whether or not Microsoft is actually making money on Surface sales. For example, all that advertising cost.

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Ah. I see you wanted to share the very definition of "prejudice" with us by providing a clear example. Thank you.

I only start to get it after at least 4 exclamation marks.

There has to be a way to prevent this

As a sysadmin, you should know that it is easy and cheap to rent a VPS (Virtual Private Server). Then, run squid on the server, or do some fancy routing to send all your web traffic out via a VPN to your VPS. Since most VPS services offer a minimum of 1TB of monthy data, there should not be any excess data usage charges.

If this issue were put to an actual vote, I have zero doubt that it would win by a landslide. I have yet to meet a single tech-savvy person that supports paid prioritization, even among conservatives.

There is a word or phrase for that, but I don't recall it now.

The problem is that most of the people you interact with are tech-savvy. You have an impression of how people would vote, but, in reality it is how a tiny slice of the population (tech-savvy people) would vote.

Annnnnd, joke fails due to logic error.