Posts by SpammFreeEmail

Whitman has always appeared to stumble from success to success.....

.....despite her continued errors.

The one that always makes me smile the most is knowing she spend $144m (that's not a typo) of her own money on her run for California Governor on a Republican ticket in 2010.....Oh did I laugh, when I saw the results.

It's not greed, it's human nature........

A long time ago a friend told me a story that his grandfather had told him years before......

If you take five really good friends, on a Friday night, having a beer in the pub and chatting...

Now put £25 in the middle of the table and tell them to help themselves, they/ll all take a fiver and be happy.

Now take the same friends, on the same night, in the same pub....

Put £25,000,000 on the table and watch them quickly start to argue over who deserves what cut.

People get emotionally invested in 'property and other baubles' because that's what society conditions them to as important, few have the wherewithal to work out what really makes them content rather then short term 'latest toy' endorphin rush.

Qbit measurement without alternation is not a given.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0312048.pdf

and that paper was written 15 years ago.....the world and technology jas moved on since then.

Why has no-one spotted,.....

........that if they do ship, even by May 12th. They are not obliged to call the shareholders meeting till after that date.

What the shareholders, who want to call the meeting, should have done was issue the formal shareholders notice themselves....who's advising them on Company Law?

Any Biometric is the least secure model I can think of.....

While it may protect your device if the device is stolen there are far too many ways to collect fingerprint, facial and DNA data metrics to be able to 'spoof' them to fool the device.

Any security model that relies on anything other then a secret known to and stored in the owners memory is fundamentally a flawed model, convenience is no substitute for a properly implemented strong security model.

Does anyone still give a toss what Paris Hilton says/endorses?

Surely, like a dried up prune, she's well past her expiration date?

Now KardiCash.....that could be concerning.

Is it true they're thinking of renaming/rebranding themselves?

Using the principal of naming things in the style of "does what it says on the tin", they've decided the most apt rebranding name is......

MimeMime

It's all about the money.......

I posted this on another Uber thread, reposted here for thoughts.

By far and away the biggest single removable cost item from cabbing (be it Black Cabs, Uberites or Mini Cabs) is the driver.

If you take some conservative numbers.....

Let's say London has 105,700 cabbies in total.

40,000 Uber (Ubers own numbers)

21,000 Black Cabs (TfL Numbers)

84,700 Licenced Cab Drivers 2015 (Govt report linked below) subtract the 40,000 Uber = 44,700 (non Uber)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/taxi-and-private-hire-vehicles-statistics-england-2015

The 'average' London Black Cab makes around £40-50,000pa after tax and costs. Let's take the lower figure of £40,000 and multiply by number of cabs 21,000 = £840m pa. The tax revenue from that is probably in the order of another £400m pa (Income Tax, VAT, Petrol Taxes).

There's no firm number for Mini Cabs and Uberites, but let's say they make £25,000 per year after expenses and Tax. £25,000 x 84,700 = £2.12Bn the tax revenue from that as per above is say £1bn.

I realise these numbers are highly subjective and we've all seen the stories of Black cabbies making £90k per year etc....for the purposes of this lets keep number conservative.

So there's about £3bn of removable costs and the consequential loss of a further about £1bn tax revenues.

If anyone thinks that Uber isn't trying to dominate the market now, to ensure they get the lions share of £4bn a year flowing to their San Francisco base, while only paying a tiny amount of Corporation Tax, you're not really paying attention.

This is just one (admittedly big global) city. Worldwide we're probably talking 10-20m drivers who could be replaced by driverless cars.

If they pull it off the $70bn valuation will look cheap.

Twit

Why on earth did he return the coins?

Even if they gave him 15 years he'd be white collar, out in under 8 and made for life.

To anyone who's a fan of the old classic 'Married with Children'.

"......and what did you have in the car when it caught fire Mr Bundy?"

"Well, there was my Monet, twenty five thousand dollars in cash, original IBM bearer bonds now worth about four million dollars and of course a special commissioned Faberge Egg made of exclusively flammable materials....."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lmg-NHPeEU

Having lived in Florida for a couple of years in my personal experience the type of people who wear "Don't tread on me" shirts are quite often informationally challenged as a life choice.

Everyone seems to have missed the point here......

If he started out as a contractor (a form of job vetting) and then became full time, how did Citiwank not pick up on the fact he was slightly off the reservation?

Looks to me like a classic case of budget constrained decisions having bad repercussions.

Do people under 30 have actual IDs?

Few of them seem to vote so are we sure they all really exist and are not some Matrixian constructs?