Not correct - proven untrue - the price of a loaf of bread has risen 1090.48 % from 1965 today - and min wage has only risen 480% - the fact is labor is only a small part of that price increase - and it would take raising everyone's wages by more than the overall productivity increase differential realized before it would greatly affect the price of goods and services. No one bats an eye when the price of a pizza goes up by $1.25 due to the cost of ingredients and gas but somehow a $.50 increase due to labor would be untenable - it's just a lie.

I'm pretty sure if you tried to short this morning when it opened at 80 you'd have lost so large you'd never find a way out to any kind of profit by noon when the margin call came in. That's why a hedge fund has now gone bankrupt over this - there is *no* cap on loss when shorting.

They are. They hired a new CEO - the same one that took CHEWY from a 100k company to a billion dollar company. Gamestop has plans to continue to off the stores and transition to more online sales - something they grew 300% in over the last year. For any other company the share price would be hovering around 80 dollars based on just the fundamentals - but most people can only see brick and mortar stores and think of blockbuster - however Gamestop is actually in very good shape financially even with Covid - and they hired people who's specialty is moving a brick and mortar business into a new business model. They could fail but they have made the right moves and have the right financials there shouldn't be any reason to be pessimistic about them other than sour grapes over crappy working conditions (not that I condone this - but I really haven't seen anything worse than *every* retailer does) - or the assumption that they are stuck in the mud and have no plan to change.

Wikipedia is not a source.

case law - from a USSC case no less. and I am no longer doing your homework for you - if you think you can prove it different try comming up with something other than a mechanic's lean - which varies by state - and 99% likely can't be used on a computer. https://www.levelset.com/news/...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

Given that this was in the United States - even if the service agreement stated private data was owned by the shop - it wouldn't pass 'unconscionable' standards of contracts. The private data was never the shops - even if the hardware changed hands. Using it was in effect a computer crime.

No - it hasn't been the case for a long time really. Windows 7 was pretty solid - and Windows 10 has been outstanding. Nothing is perfect - but I've gone out of my way to make 10 die and it is very - very - resilient. Between Shadow volume, rollback, and the driver store it just works. I've pulled the plug on a major version update 50% of the way through - on reboot it just noted a bad install - rolled back - booted up without issue and asked if I wanted to try the update again or schedule it. Bad hardware - still will kill it. HDD failures or driver issues can still be a problem. I did have an update kill the machine (bluescreen after install finished) - after trying to start 2-3 times it just rolled back and I was left with a fully functioning machine - until I found the driver that I had to manually update. My wife and I had identical machines - on hers (because she doesn't update early) it noted the driver and asked her to update it before the install even happened. I mean it's still Windows - it's not a server OS - but you don't need to reboot outside of update cycles.

You'd be wrong. 305 GB - 1 roku player on my network. In the past 30 days I've used 1,206 GB - avg of 150 GB per computer on the network - streaming uses a ton of bandwidth - especially if your network is fast enough to never downgrade the video.

No but if you setup a meeting place where two people could exchange USB keys by giving them to you first, and then handling the swap - yes - you would be.

https://www.energy-charts.de/p...

Looking at 2017 (expand the timeline to the year) - it sure does look like they export most of the time - with a few blips of import. Looking over other graphs I saw them import from France but on the *same* day they were exporting 10 times that amount to other countries - so end result.... a power grid working as designed to move power from one spot to another - that sometimes results in imports that wouldn't be needed if the country was in isolation?

No - although he's exceptionally separate from most billionaires. If you think that the difference between someone working 60+ hours a week and the heir to the Campbell's fortune - (the Dorrance family - 17.1 B) is that the heirs are brilliant hard workers - well that's where we differ. People like Bezos deserve everything he has in life - people like the Dorrance family *may* be awesome - but it's doubtful. For every Bezos there are millions of flubs - I don't doubt that - and neither did the people who created this country. That's why the *estate* tax (death tax) was 90%.

For the record the kids in the Dorrance family - even though they were super rich and never had to work a day to earn the wealth - don't seem to 'do nothing' with their lives. The point I was making above is... someone who was already going to do nothing is better off not having to half ass it and make everyone elses lives miserable. Anyone who has even a shred of initiative or desire to better themselves can still do so - only now instead of the stress of trying to find a job that pays rent they can focus on finding a job that betters themselves.

I think the net effect of UI would be positive because I see it as getting people who don't want to work out of the workforce - I see that as a good thing - jobs that could be shitty *only because of a glut of labor* are forced to be better to attract people. Jobs that only have people doing the motions are better because they go home don't bother. Thats just me though - I'm not saying it's even doable - I just dislike the idea that assumes everyone automatically will do nothing. Sure some will - I just wish they weren't around already - because every damn 'joe' that only shows up to do the least amount of shit to keep a job makes my day harder.

Well the real question is does everyone need to do 'something that benefits a corporation' to bring value to the world. Someone do 'nothing' that sits at home and has no goals or ambition - well they are better off being paid not to work anyway - because they are going to do a shit ass job and make life worse for everyone else. Someone who might enjoy painting or creating art/song/etc. may do so now instead of taking up another job calling people to renew their car warranty. Is that still 'nothing'? Are we net better off?

If the 'worthless jobs' of working at a fast food place double your take home - would people treat them with more respect - because no boss will put up with lazy crap because at the back of their heart they worry about the kid at home that needs food/a home?

There are so many interconnected threads to the idea of what someone might do with the money.

As to the 'people given the option WILL DO NOTHING' - well that's 100% provable lie. We don't need the study to know this.

Answer to this question - is another question - How many billionaires that never need to work another day in their or their great great great grandkids lives - sit at home and do nothing?

Your payroll number doesn't match your source. That said I like how that is 'estimated' - having been in the meetings going over year end, where average profit per store was 78% of every dollar earned - I think the 'estimate' is not correct. But hey - if it is the fast food places in other areas with higher minimum wage would be operating at a loss - even though they aren't... so perhaps (again) bad numbers? Oh yeah - biggest cost per store - rent/utilities/product - labor was laughable.

The FCC was enacted by congress to pass regulation. Sweet Christmas do you even understand what nonsense you are spewing when you say things like this?

You are right - Congress should go full bar and classify internet as full common carrier with all the restrictions instead of the 'light' version that the FCC gave it. Make the internet a utility like it deserves to be.

That's still an option. It's just cheaper to do now - before private insurance would start at around 12 grand a year with a 20 grand deductible.