Comment Re:Shcoker (Score 4, Interesting) 51
You mean killing jobs and making electricity more expensive?
Yeah, shocker.
You mean killing jobs and making electricity more expensive?
Yeah, shocker.
In 1966, Fred Trump Jr. called his close friend James Nolan, then working in Penn's admission office, the Post reports:
"He called me and said, 'You remember my brother Donald?' Which I didn't," Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. "He said: 'He's at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?' I was happy to do that." Soon, Donald Trump arrived at Penn for the interview, accompanied by his father, Fred Trump Sr., who sought to "ingratiate" himself, Nolan said. [The Washington Post]
Nolan said he was the only admissions official to talk to Trump and he gave him a rating, but the final decision rested with his boss, and "it was not very difficult" to get into Wharton in 1966, easily higher than 50 percent if you were transferring from another school. "I certainly was not struck by any sense that I'm sitting before a genius," he told the Post. "Certainly not a super genius." Former Wharton classmates say Trump was a middling student.
This is on top of lying about graduating first in his class (he didn't), never being on the Dean's list (the school provided a list of everyone on the list in 1968), or his SAT stats (someone took it for him according to Trump's niece).
So no, he didn't earn anything.
There was a time when a single checkbox would get rid of any notification of updates in Firefox. Not any longer. For years we are plagued with harassment if we don't update two seconds after the newest release is out.
For all the time, effort, and money Mozilla keeps wasting, it would be such a simple task to put back what was in the software from its beginning days.
You answered your own question. These are not investors, they are traders. Their sole job is trade on the discrepancies inherit in the system. The faster they can buy low/sell high, the more trades they can do which in turn leads to more profits.
They may not make much on each trade, but do this multiple times each day and the numbers add up over a year.
The 2008 crisis was created by financial institutions selling complex securities that were incapable of performing due diligence on to verify their solvency.
These were called "securitized mortages and default credit swaps."
The new version of this is called "tokenized assets."
Same difference.
Prepare to be screwed if you play in that market.
They just don't know where in the glacier it fell.
Gov't has many, many, many regulations including fees attached to them. If you want to 'run a business' you pay ridiculous amounts of fees.
1st Amend also allows people to complain about said fees.
Doesn't make them remotely unconstitutional or a chill on speech.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
230 requires *providers* to have a way to report content - not users.
The definition of a provider is wider than most people understand.
TL/DR: I can understand social-media companies wanting the protection of 230, but they already have the right to remove content that could get them sued, so maybe we don't need 230.
That they can now take down content is irrelevant to being sued for it. It can't be taken down prior to it being posted, unless you're reviewing everything before it goes public. So the suits happen - that's expressly why a law like 230 is needed.
A mom n pop store that allows reviews of purchases could be bankrupted over a single user review that contains copyrighted text.
230 has flaws that should be fixed, but the concept it represents is absolutely vital to the current internet. The *only* companies that could deal with it being repealed are the big social companies.
If the only people who can deal with the penalty are the ones you're trying to penalize....you might not have a grasp of the problem.
Entirely reasonable question...but it also invalidates the question you asked.
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Capitalism isn't a system - it's half a balance sheet. It looks great until you uncover the debits it's been glossing over.
you could google "windmill blade second life" and find numerous examples of uses of end of life blades.
But even if they aren't re-used....they are inert material just sitting in landfills. No worse than the mountains of trash society already produces.
The Universe is populated by stable things. -- Richard Dawkins