In some of our group chats...they don't seem to be able to use these "new features" that I've long used on my iPhone.....so, curious if they need to change their settings?
3% is not going to be enough, expect 3 times as much cuts by the year end, then twice more as much in the following year. The money isn't flowing, once the money is not flowing the cuts start. Money flows when the economy expands due to actual increase of production or money flows when it is handed out for free by borrowing, printing. Once the flow slows down or stops, the music stops, everyone tries to grab the closest chair. Every company will be shrinking this year and in the subsequent years, until the attitudes change, government actually shrinks by a couple of orders of magnitude, rules that prevent productivity become unenforceable and/or are rescinded, gold replaces fake paper as money, then people will start rebuilding.
Right, because the suppliers who are buying from Nvidia and paying the higher prices absolutely are just going to eat the delta and leave their inflated prices the same to the end purchaser, reducing their own margins.
You are high on something very potent.
I'm not some quack job that thinks tariffs are paid by China, and in almost all cases tariff taxes are passed on to consumers, but this is one rare area where I'm not so sure. I think most of these costs will be passed on to scalpers, and those scalpers will have a hard time raising their prices any more than they already have. There are some companies finding ways to get Nvidia cards to consumers at or near MSRP, and the tariffs will directly make these cards more expensive, but I don't think that is what the majority of US consumers are paying.
It's just an opinion. I may be wrong. We shall see.
It's a lot more complicated than that.
I'll preface this by saying that unrestricted tariffs are an incredibly stupid idea and always end up with things costing a lot more. Companies love to use taxes and tariffs to increase prices above and beyond the actual tax or tariff increase because they know that the customers will blame the government.
But when it comes to a price increase, be it from a government or other source, various people along the supply chain will often choose to adsorb the additional cost in part or whole as this is the only way to avoid losing too many sales. It's a choice of losing a little bit of margin or a lot of profit from lost sales. Usually when tariffs are involved, it's not the manufacturer or originating country that adsorbs the cost, rather it's the local distributors... However as I've said a lot of companies use tariffs as an excuse to raise prices and distributors are usually the most guilty party in this.
However it's generally correct, the end customer ends up paying.
I've got a friend who works for a manufacturing company. They supply parts to the US from Spanish factories. Already customers have asked them to adsorb the 20% tariff... He's told them to sod off. The US doesn't produce this particular part either, all manufacturers are either European or one company in Japan.
Use Airbnb's Australian site to search; local laws require the up-front display of the full, all-inclusive price. Then you can use your normal Airbnb account to make the bookings.
Same with the UK site.
Cleaning fees are still listed as a separate line item but included in the advertised price (I.E. if you search for rooms less that £50 a night, that £50 includes the cleaning fee).
Most countries have a law against advertising a lower price than you're required to pay.
Accommodation providers (including Airbnb) should include the full price up front as one single number. No more BS "resort fees" or "cleaning fees" or whatever.
This gets a bit of difficult because often resort fees are imposed by the accommodation provider and not the booking agent.
A better solution is to ban resort fees in totality, like the rest of the world does so that an advertised price is what you pay. Some hotels will go down the "budget airline" route of making some things optional extras such as the air conditioner and Wifi... Yes, this is a thing, Tune Hotels are a series of "limited service" hotels started by low cost carrier founder, Tony Fernandez, but even then these are optional, the advertised price includes all applicable fees, duties, taxes and charges.
I've never encountered a resort fee outside the US and I suspect if I booked a US hotel via a UK site it'd be included in the quoted price.
Things like resort fees are just there to make the sticker price look smaller and hide the real price... Which seems to be a peculiarly American fetish.
What is a true perpetual license agreement then?
There is no such thing.
License agreements can be separate from a product. You can buy a product in perpetuity but not a service or license. With VMWare, you can still use the software you bought but can't update it (legal, but still a dick move) or have any entitlement to services or support from Broadcom unless under a separate agreement.
The lesson to learn from all of this (VPNsecure and Broadcomm... there will be others as well) is that there is no such thing as a perpetual service. Ambiguous terms like "lifetime" are wet dreams for lawyers because they can be argued to mean so many things. So if you're buying a service, make damned sure you specify what a lifetime is and how long it goes for (and ensure to include a clause for unnatural or untimely deaths).
Nuclear weapons are banned. Chemical weapons are banned. Biological weapons are banned. Now robot weapons will be banned. Can you see a pattern here?
Yes, the pattern is you cant tell the difference between banned and restricted.
Chemical and biological weapon attacks have not been commonplace for over 100 years. Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare in near enough to makes no difference, 80 years. This is largely because the international community agreed that we will not tolerate such things. The last time a nation was even accused of harbouring chemical weapons they were invaded.
Even nuclear testing is mostly done without causing a nuclear explosion these days.
Arms limitation treaties and agreements have been quite successful. The last time one was ignored (London and Washington naval treaties) it ended very badly for the three nations that were first to break the agreements (I'll let you guess who, but it did involve the last time a nuclear weapons was used in anger).
Except Civ VII. They appear to have gone to the darkside. I'm sticking with IV, V, and VI.
I gave up after Civ V and went back to IV.
Why do you think the US is focusing such intense propaganda on them? Why is it wrong for them to "genocide" the Uighurs( by forcing them to eat pork, showing them how their holy book is bullshit and teaching them job skills so they can find jobs instead of chase people around train stations with machetes hacking them(as happened in China).
Moreover, during China's own J6 riot, they had the courage to callout the A-10sandturn the rioters into pink mist. Our own government was cowardly and turned the reins of power over to the coup leader, who is systematically wrecking the entire country.
You're in favor of China and the CPC, though you probably did not know it.
You've all had artificial banana flavoring. In candies and other sweets. You know how it barely tastes like bananas at all, it's super sweet and rich, like how other candy flavors are only parodies of the flavors they imitate.
Artificial banana flavor is what the Gros Michel banana tasted like. That's why it tastes like it does, they were imitating Big Mike. By contrast, the Cavendish is bland, mushy and flavorless. We won't miss the banana when it's gone. I The Cavendish was living on borrowed time since it was made due to the pure clone nature. t's basically pure sugar anyway. Good for pregnant women at least, but that's about it.
On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
