That's like a day in the life of an office LJ4000. GP poster did say the home market would be limited, but there's still a strong market for workgroup printers.
And those old laserjets don't really have any driver issues like other posters have mentioned. They aren't some crappy $79 special home inkjet printers.
Although just a month or two ago, I switched to Keypirinha because Launchy development stalled out long ago and I was starting to have some weird bugs with it (long hangs when I started trying to use the calculator feature or search for anything that started with digits).
That being said...Kodi probably wouldn't exist without piracy. I'd wager the majority of Kodi users have amassed at least some of their media collection through illicit means. There are so many ways to set up kodi with automatic usenet/torrent downloaders, and the built in library parsers are great at figuring out what you have from standard scene naming conventions...for every person who has filled their library solely with purchased and ripped DVDs...there are probably 10 who have a bunch of torrented stuff (especially since most non-physical-media ways of purchasing content are not compatible with Kodi).
Although I once stayed at a hotel that had a customized kodi installation on a box attached to the back of their TVs with the usual sort of hotel menu options. It wasn't branded Kodi, but I noticed the sound effects were familiar and I restarted it to watch the bootup sequence. I googled the company that made it a bit and could find very little info...I strongly suspected that they were probably in violation of the GPL, but never followed it further. The closest I got was some guy posting in search of technical support with pasted log files that contained the company name in some file paths (and the guy's name showed up on linkedin as an intern at the company).
The headline is pretty misleading though. All denmark is doing is applying the same tax to Teslas as it used to apply to other cars. For a while, Teslas in denmark were very "cheap". You could get a fancy Tesla without the tax for roughly the same price as a car with 1/3 of the sticker price.
Given the tax is an insane 180%, it was never entirely about emissions. It was also about encouraging people not to own cars, cut down on driving (wear and tear == buying new cars), cut down on upgrading perfectly good cars, etc. It is heavy-handed social engineering. Prior to the Tesla, these cars were kind of an "oddball" thing. But with the Tesla, it kind of just let wealthy car buyers get a huge discount on something that is sold as a luxury vehicle in the rest of the world.
As a public company, there is a limit to how much resources they can throw into advocating something purely for altruistic reasons. They are right that they are big enough that this isn't a problem for them. They can pay for peering agreements, and if ISPs mistreat their customers, then ISPs will have a lot of angry customers. Furthermore, at this point, if the ISPs got rid of net neutrality and turned around and screwed netflix, it would probably quickly change a bunch of people's minds who currently believe we don't need government intervention and lead to people looking for a replacement.
This is a pretty good compromise (not to mention, they are still lobbying to some extent). They don't waste resources doing something that doesn't matter to their business, but they still get to make their point clear. ISPs can't come back and say "Look, netflix doesn't even care about this anymore..." and Neutrality fans can point to netflix and say "Look, even netflix agrees that if they weren't already a Megacorp, they would be harmed by a lack of net neutrality just like any future startups will be".
Drivers may not be "independent contractors" in the same way that a programmer might be (for example, depending where you live, you might only have one ride share service you can work for), but they absolutely are not regular employees.
They have 100% control over schedules, and a very low bar to getting hired (for many places, it seems like you just download an app, fill out some info, get a rudimentary vehicle inspection and an automated background check and you are ready to start driving...no need to actually demonstrate that you are a friendly person or a skilled driver). Maybe there needs to be some new legal framework for these people, but it seems absurd that a company should have to pay perks and benefits to a person that they have no direct authority over. All uber can do is remove your access to the platform. They can't tell you "work this shift" or "work this neighborhood" or "we are busy, you need to stay on another hour"...
It is almost like if you said that ebay was responsible for paying benefits to powersellers...Sure, ebay is in a position to cut off their livelyhood by banning them from the platform, and sure, for some people there might be no alternative viable market to hawking their wares on ebay, but nobody would ever call a powerseller an ebay employee.
I agree that there's some weirdness here. Uber drivers aren't quite the same as completely independent contractors. But they are also clearly pretty different from traditional employees. They have complete freedom in what hours they drive and what areas they drive in. They can work 200 hours one month and none the next. They can drive for Lyft tomorrow if it has better rates.
Trying to force them into the mold of traditional employees is wrong. It defeats a lot of the things that make Uber work. Have to pay them a minimum wage for driving when there are no rides? That breaks the elastic supply of drivers model because a bunch of people will sit around in a parking lot watching movies all night when there are no rides to give. Have to pay benefits to full time employees? Who's a full time employee?
On the other hand, they should probably get some protections. Workman's comp seems reasonable here, as does some sort of government insistence that the rating system (which determines if a driver is fired) is being fairly applied. At the current rates, I think Uber is a shit gig...but clearly there are people lined up to do it (otherwise they would have to raise rates to attract more drivers).
When prices go up, it pushes consumers to consume less. You still get a market-clearing result--everyone who needs a ride is able to get one quickly, because those people who can wait or go by some other means (or can't afford the new price) will remove themselves from the market.
Turns out that the effect on demand is much stronger than the effect on supply. Customers drop their requests faster than drivers can get to the area. Uber probably sees it as a failure internally because they make less money when prices go up (even though it is still a success at ensuring availability and short wait times).
If surge is low, it isn't worth a driver heading across town without a fare just for a 20 or 40% bonus in fares (especially if surge is gone by the time he gets there). Low surge doesn't do much to increase supply.
However, if surge is high, customers won't want to pay. At least in my market, taxis are still a perfectly viable option (and can be flagged off any street corner), and last I checked, a surge of 1.7x or more made UberX more expensive than a taxi. I would also be willing to take a bus or ride a bike in some instances (or simply wait for surge to go away). I think I have only paid surge over 2X once, and it was for a short ride where the money just didn't matter much.
High surge is great at reducing demand. This helps clear the market and is overall a market success. Unfortunately, Uber is in the business of selling you a ride. Reducing demand for their own product is not exactly a success.
The only times that it is really a success for uber are times where many drivers expect surge in advance. New Years Eve is a great example of this. In my city, there weren't crazy surges on NYE like there were a few years ago. Drivers knew there was money to be made and they went out. They may have been disappointed that they weren't seeing huge surges (averages were less than 2...probably a lot in the 1.2-1.4 range), but they were out there driving, and customers were surprised by the low fares and took more ubers.
I think the idea is that they could use machine learning to predict the non-obvious times. Get drivers on the road in time to meet the demand...thus increasing supply rather than decreasing demand.
But looking at the tweet that announces it, I'd say it is just a judgement of "what idiot uses their government work email to sign up for a dating site"
So I rarely post anything and mostly browse through photos, events, and articles posted by my friends...because I only care about myself?
It's a tool. It is a way to connect with others. You can use it in a shitty way, or you can use it in a positive way. The only downside I see is that it gives the shitty people a lot more reach. Those people were shitty and obnoxious before they had facebook accounts...it was just that you only saw it if you were in the same room as them. Now you can see their dumb thoughts in comment sections across the globe!
My thinkpad sits in a docking station. It has DVI connections to two displays, USB to keyboard and mouse + accessories, headphones/speakers, power, and ethernet.
I press one button and it pops free. Can take it to a conference room and attach it to a projector. Then go push it back on the dock and it switches back to my chosen display setup and everything is how I left it. No bunch of cables to plug in, no need to worry about which order I connect the displays (and heck, I don't even know how to connect two displays over digital connections without using the docking station...can it be done?).
I hate to break it to you...but where you live, you are poor. Nobody said you couldn't be happy and poor, but you're poor all the same.
There are all sorts of places where you wouldn't be poor on 50k, You don't even have to live in bumfuck nowhere...you wouldn't be poor in Nashville.
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
