That must have been some expensive shit. I would never bother with anything that didn't yield at least 100% margins. Retail is generally 200-300% margins.
"The degree of corporate freedom to innovate and take risks vs the number of protections the consumers have"
This is not serving us anymore. In the previous age where we were still trying to bootstrap ourselves this made sense...but we have a level of technology and progress where this philosophy is now harming us.
This is probably one of the most sensible things I have heard in this regard. The human race is birthing itself out of the strongman-as-leader age into one where we work together to help each other and leaders are merely servants who watch after the people and help facilitate the collective will. We have a ways to go but this seems to fit that direction of progress. We must demand that those who attain great wealth must also act responsibly in service to that privilege. With great wealth comes greater levels of responsibility as well.
The ideal free market is a bed time story...as are all ideal situations and physical things. I'll take a human, flawed free market over whatever complex, unworkable alternative you hold in your head.
500,000 Iraqi civilians dead 4,424 US Soldiers Killed 35k seriously wounded (life all fucked up) Ignited a platform for radicalism to flourish in 70 countries
One of those agencies (CIA) was recently caught red handed spying on the US Senate. The world is so fucked up it barely made the news.
“To make peace with an enemy,” he wrote, “one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.” --Barack Obama quoting Nelson Mandela the other day.
Im witnessing a massive deer overpopulation spawn despite a strong hunting culture in my state. Should we let them die of old age while they grow so prolific that people can hardly drive around without hitting them? Should we ramp up the hunting season? Should we introduce wolves or some other predator? There are literally 10 deer in every field every evening...it is crazy. It looks like we are farming them.
China, who was taking most of our recyclables, has stopped. Newsprint, which was going for $100 per ton, now sells for $5 a ton on the market. Recycling has failed in the US. Your recycling is going to the landfills right now.
However, there are people developing new plastic recycling techniques using chemicals instead of the standard mechanical methods. No word on if this chemical method will have an environmental impact or if it will be economically feasible. It is being developed to recycle the plastic that is floating in the ocean. There is a project underway to gather the plastic and recycle it using the new chemical method. The chemical method still requires sorting.
The times where I have to hunt down items I need that are not on Amazon usually requires checking two stores...about 5 miles of driving for me. Often I have to abandon my search and go out of my bubble to find the items...20 miles of driving...in a huge truck. Sometimes I have done this for things I could have gotten on Amazon but I convinced myself I needed to touch it or have it now. In about half of those cases I abandoned that trip and just bought on Amazon. These days I require that I find everything online and locate/order it before setting out. Amazon has done wonders for the environment. They have pressured every retailer to have a good, up to date, real time online presence that alllows people to locate products without driving thier huge ass truck all over creation.
Slashdot Mirror
That must have been some expensive shit. I would never bother with anything that didn't yield at least 100% margins. Retail is generally 200-300% margins.
"The degree of corporate freedom to innovate and take risks vs the number of protections the consumers have"
This is not serving us anymore. In the previous age where we were still trying to bootstrap ourselves this made sense...but we have a level of technology and progress where this philosophy is now harming us.
This is probably one of the most sensible things I have heard in this regard. The human race is birthing itself out of the strongman-as-leader age into one where we work together to help each other and leaders are merely servants who watch after the people and help facilitate the collective will. We have a ways to go but this seems to fit that direction of progress. We must demand that those who attain great wealth must also act responsibly in service to that privilege. With great wealth comes greater levels of responsibility as well.
The ideal free market is a bed time story...as are all ideal situations and physical things. I'll take a human, flawed free market over whatever complex, unworkable alternative you hold in your head.
500,000 Iraqi civilians dead
4,424 US Soldiers Killed
35k seriously wounded (life all fucked up)
Ignited a platform for radicalism to flourish in 70 countries
One of those agencies (CIA) was recently caught red handed spying on the US Senate. The world is so fucked up it barely made the news.
https://news.vice.com/article/...
“To make peace with an enemy,” he wrote, “one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.”
--Barack Obama quoting Nelson Mandela the other day.
https://www.newyorker.com/news...
I dont know but these new slashdot owners and know how to pull our chain
He isn't white
Three. Point. Dunk.
Im witnessing a massive deer overpopulation spawn despite a strong hunting culture in my state. Should we let them die of old age while they grow so prolific that people can hardly drive around without hitting them? Should we ramp up the hunting season? Should we introduce wolves or some other predator? There are literally 10 deer in every field every evening...it is crazy. It looks like we are farming them.
...not if you bring in creimer.
Not if you bring in creimer.
Why not just call them into a stand-up and threaten them?
Well...that was a dunk from the three point line.
Sigh. A lot of people do this. Every car repair garage in existence send oil down the drain every day--even though they catch most of it.
It appears we really are just going scratch each others eyes out.
And you can heat the lens if you are really hopped up about this "problem."
Unless the ink removal process converts the ink into a toxic chemical. Anyone have insight on that?
China, who was taking most of our recyclables, has stopped. Newsprint, which was going for $100 per ton, now sells for $5 a ton on the market. Recycling has failed in the US. Your recycling is going to the landfills right now.
However, there are people developing new plastic recycling techniques using chemicals instead of the standard mechanical methods. No word on if this chemical method will have an environmental impact or if it will be economically feasible. It is being developed to recycle the plastic that is floating in the ocean. There is a project underway to gather the plastic and recycle it using the new chemical method. The chemical method still requires sorting.
Ireland
The times where I have to hunt down items I need that are not on Amazon usually requires checking two stores...about 5 miles of driving for me. Often I have to abandon my search and go out of my bubble to find the items...20 miles of driving...in a huge truck. Sometimes I have done this for things I could have gotten on Amazon but I convinced myself I needed to touch it or have it now. In about half of those cases I abandoned that trip and just bought on Amazon. These days I require that I find everything online and locate/order it before setting out. Amazon has done wonders for the environment. They have pressured every retailer to have a good, up to date, real time online presence that alllows people to locate products without driving thier huge ass truck all over creation.
Pssst....the schools are not good.
My house was $117k in a very nice neighborhood.
Found the Russian
The world is awash in potential hitlers who have risen to power in the last five years by exploiting fear of other races and nationalism.