Of course, you also have to look at productivity. In many places the last hour or two of any given shift are basically spent running the clock out. In many cases, even if the workers don't intend to do that. They've simply run out of productive energy. If, instead, you're running 4 shifts you may well get 33% more work done.
Agreed. Before anyone in the U.S. criticizes, they should think back to the '70s (if they remember the '70s) when the computer couldn't be wrong. When any dispute with billing could be shut down by "well the computer says...". When any thing the computer was hard coded to print was taken to be some sort of mysterious process where people wondered "How could it possibly know that?" People even fell for "computer dating" where because computers were amazing and super smart they obviously could choose the best match for you.
The problem is indeed a lack of moderation, but it's on the parts of the parents and the rest of the society. If you want the kids to find something better than the smartphone you have to actually let them leave the house and congregate somewhere else with their friends. When you have child services freaking out if they see a child without a parent and in the UK you have shops emitting a painful mosquito like whine while in the U.S. you have legal curfews and unaccompanied teens banned from the mall. The woods were mostly cut down and paved over. The bit that's left is called a park and guess what? With parks come police that don't much enjoy unaccompanied teens and children running about. All they have left is the smartphone.
You might think the grown-ups could figure that out, but apparently not.
That depends on their choice of vape. I have a coffee vape that I like. The biggest danger of it is people get their hopes up only to find that there is no coffee available.
Do you also get upset when someone walking by is chewing artificially flavored strawberry bubblegum?
Actually, if you could prove that they were slamming the door with the intent to turn off all of your lights, you might just succeed in court (probably no damages awarded, just an injunction). Naturally, that would be a bit hard to prove. It's nowhere near as hard to prove that BK had the intent to get Alexa to read the Wikipedia page to you.
They could also have Alexa just read out the definition of Whopper from some other source. For example, "A gigantic lie. A lie that goes beyond credibility."
Based on followup articles, he probably has a huge basis to sue. Apparently, the cops who dragged him off were not regular PD and so had no authority to arrest (only write tickets) and were not allowed to board a plane. The city is looking in to that now. Next up, he was not denied boarding, he was deplaned. The airline can deny boarding when overbooked, but that right goes away once the passenger enters the plane.
Actually, no. It was within it's right to deny boarding. That is, not let you get on the plane. Once you are boarded, they can only toss you out if you represent a danger to the flight (that is, drunk and unruly, uttering threats, commit an act of violence, etc).
There are a number of other benefits. For example, try changing your desktop environment on Mac or Windows if you don't like the default. Just look at how many changes MS made to add more tracking and to pester their users into "upgrading"
So, in other words, short of a handwavy something or another not yet known to man, anarchy will inevitably devolve into the worst form of state.
It looks to me like the balance of force necessary to manage that makes my broken teacup spontaneously re-assembling and returning itself to the cupboard look like a sure bet.
Whatever the handwavy thing must be, it cannot be a monopoly that grants itself an exception. That would be a state. It cannot be a consortium of non-monopoly actors unless each person is a member of that consortium by virtue of existing. But they would all need to be equally powerful. I am not aware of anything but a powerful communist state that could maintain that state of affairs for long, and even that would have to have an unprecedented low level of corruption. (and of course, it would not be anarchy)
Take every single internet provider (minus resellers) and force them to all compete in the same territory and you still don't have enough competition to make market forces work properly. But you will get hopelessly snarled utility poles.
Of course, even were that not so, free competition apparently wasn't on the table. The options were give public money to private interests or let the public utility expand.
That's the damnable part of it. You are paying for the subsidy if you live there, but if they simply allowed the city to expand it's municipal service, it would have been paid for by subscribers.
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Of course, you also have to look at productivity. In many places the last hour or two of any given shift are basically spent running the clock out. In many cases, even if the workers don't intend to do that. They've simply run out of productive energy. If, instead, you're running 4 shifts you may well get 33% more work done.
Agreed. Before anyone in the U.S. criticizes, they should think back to the '70s (if they remember the '70s) when the computer couldn't be wrong. When any dispute with billing could be shut down by "well the computer says...". When any thing the computer was hard coded to print was taken to be some sort of mysterious process where people wondered "How could it possibly know that?" People even fell for "computer dating" where because computers were amazing and super smart they obviously could choose the best match for you.
Next person to release an untested line of code will play the piano for us *SLAM*
"Only old people use Snapchat!", S. Korean 14 year old a few years from now.
Well, this IS the company that actually made a video game of an adult in a creepy king costume stalking children and making them eat unhealthy food.
The problem is indeed a lack of moderation, but it's on the parts of the parents and the rest of the society. If you want the kids to find something better than the smartphone you have to actually let them leave the house and congregate somewhere else with their friends. When you have child services freaking out if they see a child without a parent and in the UK you have shops emitting a painful mosquito like whine while in the U.S. you have legal curfews and unaccompanied teens banned from the mall. The woods were mostly cut down and paved over. The bit that's left is called a park and guess what? With parks come police that don't much enjoy unaccompanied teens and children running about. All they have left is the smartphone.
You might think the grown-ups could figure that out, but apparently not.
Exactly. Which is why I said it's more akin to smelling coffee than it is to smoking tobacco. I vape BTW.
That depends on their choice of vape. I have a coffee vape that I like. The biggest danger of it is people get their hopes up only to find that there is no coffee available.
Do you also get upset when someone walking by is chewing artificially flavored strawberry bubblegum?
Actually, if you could prove that they were slamming the door with the intent to turn off all of your lights, you might just succeed in court (probably no damages awarded, just an injunction). Naturally, that would be a bit hard to prove. It's nowhere near as hard to prove that BK had the intent to get Alexa to read the Wikipedia page to you.
In the phrase "tell a whopper", which word is the noun? Now define that noun in the context of the phrase.
As for catch a whopper, one might question if the whopper was caught or told :-)
They could also have Alexa just read out the definition of Whopper from some other source. For example, "A gigantic lie. A lie that goes beyond credibility."
Congratulations, you have just run into a vaper over 30.
Only if you consider yourself to be smoking coffee if you can smell it.
Most people don't switch around, but many do appreciate being able to pick a favorite. Compare when Gnome went south vs Windows 8.
Based on followup articles, he probably has a huge basis to sue. Apparently, the cops who dragged him off were not regular PD and so had no authority to arrest (only write tickets) and were not allowed to board a plane. The city is looking in to that now. Next up, he was not denied boarding, he was deplaned. The airline can deny boarding when overbooked, but that right goes away once the passenger enters the plane.
If they want full planes, the right thing to do is sell standby tickets.
Actually, no. It was within it's right to deny boarding. That is, not let you get on the plane. Once you are boarded, they can only toss you out if you represent a danger to the flight (that is, drunk and unruly, uttering threats, commit an act of violence, etc).
There are a number of other benefits. For example, try changing your desktop environment on Mac or Windows if you don't like the default. Just look at how many changes MS made to add more tracking and to pester their users into "upgrading"
Of course, the casinos have taken countermeasures such as bigger card shoes to make card counting harder and reduce it's payoff.
So, in other words, short of a handwavy something or another not yet known to man, anarchy will inevitably devolve into the worst form of state.
It looks to me like the balance of force necessary to manage that makes my broken teacup spontaneously re-assembling and returning itself to the cupboard look like a sure bet.
Whatever the handwavy thing must be, it cannot be a monopoly that grants itself an exception. That would be a state. It cannot be a consortium of non-monopoly actors unless each person is a member of that consortium by virtue of existing. But they would all need to be equally powerful. I am not aware of anything but a powerful communist state that could maintain that state of affairs for long, and even that would have to have an unprecedented low level of corruption. (and of course, it would not be anarchy)
Its all the ones that didn't get taxpayer money.
So where have they been the last 20 years? Certainly not in any of the areas still on dial-up.
Take every single internet provider (minus resellers) and force them to all compete in the same territory and you still don't have enough competition to make market forces work properly. But you will get hopelessly snarled utility poles.
Of course, even were that not so, free competition apparently wasn't on the table. The options were give public money to private interests or let the public utility expand.
That's the thing, given an anarchy, it WILL devolve to something like Somalia because by definition there's nothing to forbid it.
That's the damnable part of it. You are paying for the subsidy if you live there, but if they simply allowed the city to expand it's municipal service, it would have been paid for by subscribers.
At one time, pulse had a reason to be,, but that went away when most sound hardware improved and ALSA started taking advantage of it.