Then don't vote for labelling for GMO, vote for labelling for any pesticide content. (Though if it really has pesticide in it, it probably already violates other laws.)
Wow, ok, you know way more detail than I do! One thing I forgot to mention is that nowadays (i.e. last few decades), even the individual parts are in baggies on hooks as 'regular products'. (Waste of packaging I'd say.)
I think in the oooooold days, you bought parts like you'd buy screws at a hardware store.. individual pieces from a big box.
And if we get to commonplace and inexpensive electric vehicles soon
We already HAVE inexpensive electric vehicles. Even ignoring the $10K subsidy ($7500 fed and $2500 in some states), the low end electric cars are very much in the affordable range (low-mid $20Ks) and go AT LEAST twice the average commute distance that people actually go.
AI in console games has not evolved significantly for something like 20 years, since 3D pathfinding became good enough. IA is always dumb and will always be
I can't give specific examples, but on episodes of the Giant Bombcast podcast from the past year or two (I'm almost caught up), they talk about the AI in various games, and it is MUCH better in some games versus others.
It's not online at pbs.org anymore, but I see it's available via netflix.
Also, these documentary shows like Independent Lens seem to often replay their shows again, so if you set up a recording, you may catch it again at some point.
I can't figure out why people think that we should have more car manufacturing in the US.
For some reason, lots of people seem to think that having tons of repetitive, boring (at least that's the impression I get from the outside) manufacturing jobs _that should be replaced with robotics when feasible_ is a good thing, as opposed to higher paying jobs that require training. (Even someone who _maintains_ the robots building the cars or whatever.)
I think it's because the autoworkers got such relatively cushy jobs via the unions, that everyone seems to think that a manufacturing job is one that should pay tons (even though it's easily replaceable) and last forever.
Being the usual geographically illiterate American (not really as bad as most people), I'm not sure if the area encompasses countries I wouldn't actually want to be in.
Sorry, I meant corporate as in business gmail.. I thought that was a thing, where businesses could buy 'official' google services, and have it not have this type of scanning. I could very well be wrong.
You don't have to be a jerk about it. Just because I don't use taxis means I can't have an opinion about "various transportation methods where you're paying a person to drive you around"?
And it would be fair to point out that people who share such privacy concerns do not gravitate to Google corporate management. For example they of course believe it is quite legitimate to scan people's emails so that advertising may be more accurately targeted.
You're conflating two completely different things.
Device encryption is one thing.
People using a free service _in exchange for advertisements_ is completely different.
Plus, isn't it true that corporate gmail DOESN'T do this type of scanning? I thought I had read that, or maybe it was only the educational version.
I'm not trying to defend DeBeers, but how "common" are they? You can't actually go find one big enough to easily go into jewelry (or be used in an industrial purpose) that's worth enough to make it worth your time, can you?
Plus, if they're being hoarded, they really _aren't_ common (as in commonly available)?
What monumental earth shattering improvements have we made that have taken college from being a $5,000 a year investment to being instead a $25,000 a year investment in the last 20 years?
I have no idea if your numbers are correct, but even assuming they are, the cost has really "only" gone up 3.2x, not 5x as one would assume given those raw numbers.
In NYC, "private car" service is explicitly not a taxi. They don't have medallions, and don't follow the same rules. Uber, being a dispatch-only service, is explicitly not a taxi in NYC. Uber is banned by law from responding to on-street hails. So they aren't quacking like a duck.
Well, that's what I mean though. I understand that the laws obviously are not written from a layman's perspective. From a regular person's perspective, a taxi, Uber, and a "private car" service are all some way to get them from point A to point B in a car vs. some other method of transportation.
That's why it seems like they should be treated the same.
I don't use taxis nor Uber (I've been in a taxi once in my life).
It does seem somewhat unfair to me that the existing taxis have a government mandated "monopoly", but then anybody else can come in and undercut them. That is, taxis are being held to more strict (and thus expensive) regulations than Uber and the other companies are.
Either get rid of some of the regulations for the taxis or make these other taxi-like services ("if it quacks like a duck") meet the same requirements.
I do think the line can get somewhat blurrier regarding AirbnB (which I've never used) vs. hotels, though I admit I can't explain why. (In other words, the analogy in this case would seem to be the same, but Joe Schmoe's extra room shouldn't be held to exactly the same requirements that a real hotel room is.)
Ron Swanson, I think when he was served a salad in a restaurant: This is what my food eats!
Then later, in the 'end tag' of an episode, after he was trying to "get healthy" for his new girlfriend and her kids.. You see him squirming when peeling a banana, and looking quizzically at it.. Then he's chomping on a big hamburger with the banana smooshed under the bun.
No, I just literally meant the people working on/programming/debugging the computers that are doing the automation, not anything really "deep".
Also, I didn't really ignore the article. I don't think we're going to get to centuries of lifetime soon.
I almost responded to one of the articles about this issue, but many/most of the responses seemed to assume that all of the anti-aging work would essentially "stretch out" time evenly. (For example, the ones talking about the birth rate going down and implying that all of these anti-aging methods would by definition mean that women in their 60s could suddenly now be having children, if they had been on the anti-aging all along.)
Plus, seems to me like replacing us with technology (including backups, e.g. multiple hearts) AS WELL as slowing down aging, would be a better solution.
In the US, you would need to eliminate the tax breaks for all non-profits.
(I read the other response, and think that it reasonably disputes your claim.. but still...)
GOOD.
I'd willingly give up a lot of tax breaks (even the mortgage interest deduction), to make the tax code far far far far far far more simple and equal among all people. (I purposely avoided the term 'fair', since some people think it's fair to steal money from one group to give to another.)
I've just done much googling to figure this out, and I can't solve it. I've tried counting from sunset to sunset as was Jewish custom. I've tried counting potential tiny fractional days as whole days. It's not working.
This is only SLIGHTLY less of a stretch than you are doing, but if you're counting partial days as full days, and "time everything right", you can ALMOST get to 3 full days.
Friday 12:01AM: Jesus dies That gives Friday, Saturday -- 2 days Sunday 11:59PM: Jesus is resurrected That gives almost all of Sunday.. another almost-full day.
Even if you go noon-noon Fri->Sun, you get two full days.
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Then don't vote for labelling for GMO, vote for labelling for any pesticide content. (Though if it really has pesticide in it, it probably already violates other laws.)
So then invest in the stock. Quit whining and complaining about the success of others, and start trying to get rich yourself.
You may call this a nitpick, but if a company moves its headquarters overseas, it *has* moved overseas.. and then (likely) still has a U.S. branch.
I simply googled "companies moving headquarters offshore". This first result:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
mentions Burger King and Chiquita.
BTW, cracked.com is NOT directly related to the old Cracked magazine (basically a low rent Mad Magazine ripoff).
They bought the URL and the logo. Otherwise, AFAIK, it is unconnected... So you can't necessarily ignore anything as humor pieces.
Wow, ok, you know way more detail than I do! One thing I forgot to mention is that nowadays (i.e. last few decades), even the individual parts are in baggies on hooks as 'regular products'. (Waste of packaging I'd say.)
I think in the oooooold days, you bought parts like you'd buy screws at a hardware store.. individual pieces from a big box.
What are you claiming Fry's doesn't sell any more?
You can still buy tons of individual electronics parts, at least at the Sunnyvale store.
By that argument, a $20 bill is worth "about as much as the paper" it's printed on... until someone ELSE values it at $20 also.
We already HAVE inexpensive electric vehicles. Even ignoring the $10K subsidy ($7500 fed and $2500 in some states), the low end electric cars are very much in the affordable range (low-mid $20Ks) and go AT LEAST twice the average commute distance that people actually go.
I can't give specific examples, but on episodes of the Giant Bombcast podcast from the past year or two (I'm almost caught up), they talk about the AI in various games, and it is MUCH better in some games versus others.
It's not online at pbs.org anymore, but I see it's available via netflix.
Also, these documentary shows like Independent Lens seem to often replay their shows again, so if you set up a recording, you may catch it again at some point.
For some reason, lots of people seem to think that having tons of repetitive, boring (at least that's the impression I get from the outside) manufacturing jobs _that should be replaced with robotics when feasible_ is a good thing, as opposed to higher paying jobs that require training. (Even someone who _maintains_ the robots building the cars or whatever.)
I think it's because the autoworkers got such relatively cushy jobs via the unions, that everyone seems to think that a manufacturing job is one that should pay tons (even though it's easily replaceable) and last forever.
Thanks, that's interesting.
Being the usual geographically illiterate American (not really as bad as most people), I'm not sure if the area encompasses countries I wouldn't actually want to be in.
Sorry, I meant corporate as in business gmail.. I thought that was a thing, where businesses could buy 'official' google services, and have it not have this type of scanning. I could very well be wrong.
You don't have to be a jerk about it. Just because I don't use taxis means I can't have an opinion about "various transportation methods where you're paying a person to drive you around"?
You're conflating two completely different things.
Device encryption is one thing.
People using a free service _in exchange for advertisements_ is completely different.
Plus, isn't it true that corporate gmail DOESN'T do this type of scanning? I thought I had read that, or maybe it was only the educational version.
I'm not trying to defend DeBeers, but how "common" are they? You can't actually go find one big enough to easily go into jewelry (or be used in an industrial purpose) that's worth enough to make it worth your time, can you?
Plus, if they're being hoarded, they really _aren't_ common (as in commonly available)?
I have no idea if your numbers are correct, but even assuming they are, the cost has really "only" gone up 3.2x, not 5x as one would assume given those raw numbers.
Since, according to http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cp..., $5000 inflation adjusted from 25 years ago is $7803.08.
Well, that's what I mean though. I understand that the laws obviously are not written from a layman's perspective. From a regular person's perspective, a taxi, Uber, and a "private car" service are all some way to get them from point A to point B in a car vs. some other method of transportation.
That's why it seems like they should be treated the same.
I don't use taxis nor Uber (I've been in a taxi once in my life).
It does seem somewhat unfair to me that the existing taxis have a government mandated "monopoly", but then anybody else can come in and undercut them. That is, taxis are being held to more strict (and thus expensive) regulations than Uber and the other companies are.
Either get rid of some of the regulations for the taxis or make these other taxi-like services ("if it quacks like a duck") meet the same requirements.
I do think the line can get somewhat blurrier regarding AirbnB (which I've never used) vs. hotels, though I admit I can't explain why. (In other words, the analogy in this case would seem to be the same, but Joe Schmoe's extra room shouldn't be held to exactly the same requirements that a real hotel room is.)
(I do love the TV show "Taxi" though.. heh)
Ron Swanson, I think when he was served a salad in a restaurant: This is what my food eats!
Then later, in the 'end tag' of an episode, after he was trying to "get healthy" for his new girlfriend and her kids.. You see him squirming when peeling a banana, and looking quizzically at it.. Then he's chomping on a big hamburger with the banana smooshed under the bun.
You know, lobster was once poor people food..
http://www.history.com/news/a-...
No, I just literally meant the people working on/programming/debugging the computers that are doing the automation, not anything really "deep".
Also, I didn't really ignore the article. I don't think we're going to get to centuries of lifetime soon.
I almost responded to one of the articles about this issue, but many/most of the responses seemed to assume that all of the anti-aging work would essentially "stretch out" time evenly. (For example, the ones talking about the birth rate going down and implying that all of these anti-aging methods would by definition mean that women in their 60s could suddenly now be having children, if they had been on the anti-aging all along.)
Plus, seems to me like replacing us with technology (including backups, e.g. multiple hearts) AS WELL as slowing down aging, would be a better solution.
Uhh, some of us need to be the ones *working* on the computers doing the automation.
Plus, I don't care about my wealth over the next couple of centuries.. just the next couple of decades.
(I read the other response, and think that it reasonably disputes your claim.. but still...)
GOOD.
I'd willingly give up a lot of tax breaks (even the mortgage interest deduction), to make the tax code far far far far far far more simple and equal among all people. (I purposely avoided the term 'fair', since some people think it's fair to steal money from one group to give to another.)
This is only SLIGHTLY less of a stretch than you are doing, but if you're counting partial days as full days, and "time everything right", you can ALMOST get to 3 full days.
Friday 12:01AM: Jesus dies
That gives Friday, Saturday -- 2 days
Sunday 11:59PM: Jesus is resurrected
That gives almost all of Sunday.. another almost-full day.
Even if you go noon-noon Fri->Sun, you get two full days.