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Don't worry, someday you'll be able to upgrade your memory and maybe your processor as well, so that you'll be able to handle the increased speed. Being 40 I'm personally long overdue for a memory upgrade myself.

An interesting article, they guy has a few minor complaints, but mostly positive. Life With Tesla Model S: Owner's Report After 5,000 Miles "The Stubborn Vampire Big Problem No. 2 is the Tesla's "vampire" thirst for kilowatts even when it's turned off and parked. I've measured idle power losses of around 4.5 kilowatt-hours a day, for a total of about 750 kWh during the time that I've owned it. That's almost half the electricity I've used to drive the car! The 15,000-odd Model Ses now on the road collectively squander about 60 megawatt-hours of electricity a day. That's the equivalent of about 50,000 60-Watt light bulbs left on 24 hours a day for no reason--what a waste."

I have to slightly disagree with Buffett's assessment on who the "ablest CEO in America" is. Bezos is great, but this guy may be one step better! Bezos revolutionized retail...Musk may make the world a better place for your grandchildren. Cheers! This is something I'd agree with 100%. I think because of Musk your great-grandkids may vacation on Mars or even chose to live there. My prediction is that when all is said and done Bezos may be remembered as someone who built an industry, but Musk has the potential to be someone who changes our society at a more fundamental level (transportation, energy, spacefaring, ...)

Some of these were already mentioned, but the books my kids loved to read over and over were: [amazonsearch]Knuffle Bunny[/amazonsearch] [amazonsearch]What Color is your Underwear[/amazonsearch] [amazonsearch]Green Eggs and Ham[/amazonsearch] [amazonsearch]I love you Stinkyface[/amazonsearch]

If it was Germany the ads would have naked women in it.

On the bottom of the brochure for that system lists the contact info as: BYD North America 1800 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 09915, USA Tel: +1-213-748-3980 Email:[email protected]

He says in the article that management does not work for the shareholders. If the shareholders own the corporation then management does work for the shareholders. I know there is a legal fiction called a corporation, but it is a fiction, there is no consciousness that can make decisions there are only people. If I tell you that you work for a unicorn that I own, but you do not work for me, it doesn't make it so. Something needs to actually exist in reality to make a decision about what to do with assets.

The company's assets belong to the company which belongs to the shareholders. That's like saying your marital assets don't belong to you nor your wife, only to the organization of your marriage. This has got to be one of the worlds dumbest articles. The owners don't own it, the management doesn't own it, the board of directors doesn't own it, the fictional "organization" does? Huh? And he goes around calling others stupid.

Of course we all have a bad impression of taxis, but that impression is due to government interference in the marketplace. In most cities you need a license or medallion to drive a taxi. There are so many problems with this that I'm sure people have written books on the subject, but briefly they limit the number of these so that gives the existing holders a sort of guaranteed monopoly on the market and they are less likely to need to innovate. 2nds they are expensive and highly regulated, the issuance of them is a political pull issue, not at all an issue of who will best serve the public. And in many cities the medallion is tied to the vehicle itself, meaning companies will be driving these vehicles long past the time they should or otherwise would. All of this (and more) virtually guarantees that you will not get good, quick, affordable, reliable, friendly service in a clean vehicle by an innovative company determined to please you. If government (city, state, or federal) heavily regulates autonomous cars, none of these predictions will pan out in any way shape or form.

That is my suspicion too. I almost hope it turns out that way, because that will mean there are a ton of companies competing at each others throats to serve us better and lower costs.

I agree with most of what you're saying, but the one contrasting point I'll make is that I think the saturation levels in terms of public and private transport are so high in some cities now that perhaps a far more efficient and vastly more affordable system does finally make sense even if it clearly didn't 60 years ago. It isn't all about being more efficient, although that can be part of it. I don't ride on buses, because I don't like to be in a vehicle with that many other people who I don't know. The only reason I ride on commercial aircraft is that I can't afford Netjets or even charter, so economy wins out in that case. A Taxi has almost the same problem as a bus, you need to deal with people you don't know. Getting in an autonomous vehicle alone or with your friends/family without strangers around is still just as independent feeling as driving yourself. The other issue is cleanliness, I'd pay a lot more for a service that detailed their cars a few times per week and looked more like a personal car and less like a bus or a taxi. That isn't to say that there won't be discount services out there which will operate vehicles that look, feel, and smell like today's taxis. It will be up to you which level of service you'd like to pay for.

The other thing to consider, and I think this is the future of transportation, is that there is no way to have an investing thesis based on this model today. You can't know how it will look or what companies will be involved. People outside the cities may own their own self-driving cars, as well as human controlled vehicles. Maybe Hertz licenses tech from Google and buys from GM, or maybe those companies don't end up being involved at all. Look 20 years into the future and it could be something no one would predict today. Maybe the 2 major car manufacturers are Tesla and Apple, and they not only have their own auto-drive systems, but they also rent cars by the minute which will pick you up in 3min or under anywhere in the US when you call it from your communications device, as well as manufacture cars, and sell cars direct to consumers who want to own them outright. Who knows at this point. Here were my thoughts on this from a little over two years ago in the google thread: http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/investment-ideas/goog-google/msg44185/?topicseen#msg44185

I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with Feedly or use InoReader, there are things I like and dislike about each. But one thing I discovered which made it easier to try out InoReader was that you can export all of your feeds from Feedly in OPML format then import them into InoReader (and likely any other reader as well). This is necessary, because logging in with your Google ID no longer does it now that Google Reader is gone. To export from Feedly go here http://cloud.feedly.com/#opml , select all of the text on the page and copy it to the clipboard, open a text editor and paste it in. Then save the file as feedly.opml You can then import this into InoReader in the settings. You will have all of your feeds organized into all of your categories.

We're all cheering on the inside! We'd be cheering on the outside if the government would somehow seize all of his assets. This guy will just become another Milken when he gets out. Do your time and then come out and show the world what a great guy you are, while the snake oil salesmen personality is never too far away. Same thing with Sam Antar. How many people at the SEC listen to him? Yet this is one carnivorous bastard who keeps plugging along embracing his convicted felon moniker. How about fan favorite Jim Cramer, who somehow shaped himself into the Louis C. K. of business! These assholes always come out on top, unless you take away their money and influence. The government doesn't seem to ever go far enough! Cheers! Why should the government take the money? It wasn't the government these people got their money from. Why is it not possible for these people to be sued into the poorhouse by their victims?

There's google docs, google maps, gmail, etc. All work very well inside a browser without an app. Google's Chrome browser for iOS now has a full screen feature which makes using it almost as good as using an dedicated app for most things on the iPad. There are many cases where I like a web interface better than the dedicated app. There are some exceptions, such as the gmail app, which I find the app better. Although I don't see why google couldn't make its gmail web interface more like the app.

Let's not kid ourselves. World War III will start as the result of a "preemptive" strike by the U.S. on some country or stateless region we've bullied into hating us. Yep, but the original comment is still correct as this will be either in the Middle East or Asia. Unfortunately as long as states* exist large scale war will always be a possibility. *states defined as organizations with the "legitimized" power to levy taxes to fund wars and run by relatively few people who are always the most power hungry con-men in any society, and therefore the most likely to wish to engage in wars. And run "education" systems which take children from their parents in their formative years and indoctrinate them in "patriotic" state-worship, such as the daily ritual of holding of their hands over their hearts and pledging allegiance to a piece of colored cloth representing the symbol of the state, making them more likely to agree to fight and die in wars.

Absolutely. You have to check your local codes, but in some areas you don't even need a fence around the pool if you have one. I had a fence around my pool, but one of the doors from my house went right out into the pool area, and I didn't need to alarm the door because of the cover. My kids were young at the time and the cover paid for itself in peace of mind alone.

I no longer own a pool, but at my last home I had a 20x40 in-ground. One thing you might want to look into (if you don't have one already) is an auto-cover. I'd never own a pool without one. We ran our pool without a cover for 2 years, then installed the cover and owned that home for another 6 years. Our pool heater almost never came on once we installed the cover, the cover kept the heat in. We had no evaporation I'd fill the pool to its proper level at the beginning of the season, then never have to add water after that. And the largest cost savings was the chemical usage, I added chlorine about every 3 or 4 weeks. Not too mention that it keeps dust, pollen, and debris out of the pool, so you vacuum much less often (we had the dolphin robot so we almost never had to backwash and waste water and chemicals). With the auto-cover you uncover the pool only when you are using it, it stays covered 24hrs/day otherwise and it takes only about a minute to uncover it, you put in the key and turn it and it retracts. It is also considered a safety cover so it also keeps kids out.

I don't live in CA, so the CA sales tax you paid does me no good! ;) Actually, my daughter lives in West Hollywood, so it is helping her. I'm old enough to remember when IN first adopted a 2% state sales tax. Our current rate is 7%. I know from visiting my daughter you have it worse. If your daughter: has a job; has a significant other with a job; and/or lives off of invested capital earning a return; then CA taxes are most certainly not helping her.

--“King Icahn” +1 In most areas of life there are no absolutes, everything is varying shades of gray. But there are some areas where it is all or nothing. If I give you a large glass of drinking water and you see me place a 1/4 teaspoon of raw sewerage into the water, would you find it comforting and be willing to drink it if I told you that it was 99% pure drinking water? No, in this case 1% sewerage is as bad as 100% sewerage. You are not going to drink it. The other things I put in this category are freedom (there is no such thing as part time slavery or being mostly free) and integrity (you can either be trusted or you can’t). This is the reason that even though I made a lot of money investing with Biglari in the past I no longer do so.

I just got the email invite today to try the digg reader. It looks more like google reader than feedly does, but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep using it or not, I've gotten used to Feedly.

I don't know what you are using it on, but on the firefox version of feedly you can hit "index" and get a list of all your feeds, then just click on one to read it. You can set the index page to be your default page in the settings. I prefer the firefox feedly to the iPad feedly app for this reason.

That's a tough way to go, especially if you're not careful to do it right and you end up just blocking your airways and suffocating slowly to death. You could do the Kurt Cobain thing, but even though that is quick it is messy. May I recommend picking up a purple blanket, Nike sneakers, sleeping pills, and make some vodka jello shots. The last people to use this method went with smiles still on their faces. There is always harakiri, it may be slow, painful and messy, but it is cool and will have people talking about it for a long time.

I use feedly on firefox. The old method was to use a browser add-on. The new method starting yesterday is to delete your browser add-on, restart firefox and then go here: http://www.feedly.com/index.html No browser add-on is required now. the addon puts a nice little button in handy place on the browser. :) I am keeping mine. I never used the button anyway. I'm not sure if it is an add-on I'm using (I've got a ton of them installed) or a feature of firefox, but when I right click on a tab I get the option to "pin tab". This makes that tab permanent, so it is always there. My permanent tabs are gmail, feedly, yahoo portfolio, my yahoo watchlist, facebook and Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax. These tabs are just permanent fixtures on my browser. Also the mini tab extension is a must so that you can have tons of tabs open and you see only the favicon unless that tab is selected, I currently have 26 tabs open and they only reach about 2/3rds of the way across the tab bar.

I use feedly on firefox. The old method was to use a browser add-on. The new method starting yesterday is to delete your browser add-on, restart firefox and then go here: http://www.feedly.com/index.html No browser add-on is required now.