237 karma · joined November 2, 2008
Saying it is safe and passing NHTSA are two extremely different things. That is why the smart costs so much.
As a side note, some similar ideas have gotten street-legality by being officially motorcycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin_Sparrow
Not PGs essay, but what the VCs are presenting to Congress. (i.e. Bill #)
Not PGs essay, but what the VCs are presenting to Congress. (i.e. Bill #)
Understanding a risk means that you should anticipate it having unexpected, and possibly unfavorable, returns. He obviously did not. I have much less sympathy for people with interest-only loans than I do for sub-prime borrowers. Sub-prime people were sold on a dream, these people were simply sold on greed.
It is tough to criticize a man whose way of life, however perverse, vaporised in a matter of a few years. It existed for so long and lulled many people into believing it was real. Now they are paying for it.
The Ireland issue is really interesting to me. Many companies (Accenture, Warner Chilcott) are moving their incorporation from Bermuda to Ireland. The U.S. can bully around the little island states, but Ireland is much more of a bargaining force.
In my view, this is in the same vain as Delaware Corporations, just to the extreme.
With that, push through. It is not that difficult to do well in high school and the reward of a good college is worth it.
Intel's research budget last year: $5.7 billion
AMD's Revenue last year: $5.81 billion
Intel needs AMD to exist so that they can avoid anti-trust lawsuits. If AMD fails then Intel will face a lot of legal problems.
Disclosure: My dad works for Intel.
News Feed. The news feed was by far the most revolutionary thing that Facebook ever did. It not only changed the way people interact with Facebook, but really with the web as a whole. It’s probably the most copied feature of Facebook, and for good reason. Facebook is nothing today without the News Feed.
Wow. That speaks to me since it directly translates to dollars saved.
It takes more space on their wikipedia entry than their actual products.
Part of being a great CEO is being a cheerleader. You can't do that being hidden.
There are many different types of leadership, some of which Zuckerberg has. Making Facebook into the culture mainstay it is has been a huge accomplishment. I am sure a lot of this is due to him. But he needs to be an effective communicator both internally and externally in order to succeed. He can have awesome ideas that are technically groundbreaking, but he needs to make others believe.
Having just heard about Sam Altman a few days ago I am already much more impressed:
Here is a link to CPI since 1913: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
A quick modification would make the data more powerful.
A possible application to look into is integration with BlackBerry Messenger. It is very powerful and would seem more appropriate for a chat session than over SMS.
Good luck.
That being said, music industry executives are not as dumb as we see them. The music industry has a hold on America that is not going to fall soon. The industry is pushing artists to sign 360 degree contracts so that record labels do not rely solely on record sales. This will encourage distribution of free music in order to increase tour sales which record companies are mostly cut out of. This will make the ultimate surrender date a change of model, not a killing of the industry.
The venture industry is out now because they realized that the record companies control the market and aren't too eager to give others control of their product.
I have moderately fallen into it, getting a BBA along with my engineering degree.
The railroads had business at their door but were unable to run an efficient operation. By contrast, the auto industry has seen demand drop from 15M cars/year to under 10.
Also, the railroads were tied down to losing operations by government regulation. The auto industry doesn't have this problem yet, but mandatory CAFE regulations could have a similar effect.
The government can help auto industries by lending them money as a debtor in possession for a bankruptcy. If GM entered bankruptcy without government backing, no one would lend them money to restructure further and they would be forced to liquidate.
I am from Detroit and have seen how the UAW and the Big Three single-handedly created the middle class. But having worked in the Rouge Plant for a summer, I agree that people don't deserve to be middle-class for unskilled labor. The only way to break this view may be a bankruptcy.