"Initrode, which unlike many of its peers does not require pre-employment drug screens, was unable to provide an answer as to why the drug abuse went undetected for so long"
Um, maybe it's not the place of a company to worry about whether or not someone is doing drugs? I get tired of everybody thinking that companies need to take care of every aspect of an employee's life.
I've been LUCKY enough to be asked... and always say I made more than I actually did. They can't verify it. I just make sure that I don't go TOO high and price myself out of the job.
I cringe every time I visit my parents and try to watch TV there. They have satellite , and there are literally HUNDREDS of channels (500-600, I think). About half of them are either movie streaming channels or infomercials, and one-third are just repeats of other channels (I've never figured that one out). It takes forever just to find the somewhat entertaining channels, and then it's really hit or miss if there is something good on. Cable/satellite have devolved into a vast desert of nothingness, just so they can claim "We have HUNDREDS OF CHANNELS! WE RULE!!!"
Eventually , the data that runs the voice assistant business is going to have to be standardized.
I'm sure that YOU would like to have standardized data, but it doesn't matter what you want. Companies want you to never switch to a rival, so why would they standardize their data to make it easier to leave to a rival?
get me off this shitty coffeeshop WiFi but do associate with my home WiFi when I get there" is a more common intent than "don't get on any network whatsoever until I remember to hit the button again".
Then it should be a 'disconnect' button. Making it look like an 'off' button is stupid.
I'm just going to ignore your computing comparison for obvious reasons. Let's skip right to your Chunnel example. The Chuunel cost 21 BILLION dollars. To go 24 miles. Under a channel that had no cities that they had to worry about digging around under. Lets call it 100 miles worth since there were three tunnels. Even if Musk makes an order of magnitude improvement to this, you are still looking at a tunneling bill of around eight billion dollars. For one single tunnel between two cities. I agree that you can make the PER MILE cost lower by digging more due to economies of scale, but it's still going to be stupid expensive to dig a nationwide hyperloop system.
Anybody who thinks Musk's hyperloop will be above ground is kidding him/herself.
So Elon Musk is kidding himself? Because all of his hyperloops showed above ground systems. They even had solar panels on top of them to power the whole thing.
All of the hyperloop designs presented by Musk so far have been on elevated supports. I think there has been some mention of using his boring machines to go underground, but they still show above ground on their video presentation.
Guarding a few dozen planes at a single airport vs. guarding hundreds of miles of steel tubing in the middle of nowhere. Guess which one is easier to guard?
On the other hand, he *has* gotten cargo to the ISS, and satellites in orbit,
We've been going into orbit for decades.
And he has got some vast number of actual working electric cars on the road,
And has yet to show a profit for it. Lots of electric cars have been produced before, but it's whether or not you can make money doing it that's the problem.
ll those things were REALLY REALLY improbable, before he did them.
No, they were not REALLY REALLY improbable. They just needed buttloads of money to do. Which he got from paypal.
If it's a prioritization of limited resources, how did Obama find the resources to hand out temporary work permits to all of these people, but not the resources to send them back to their home country? Answer: He didn't WANT to send them back.
which amendment or part of the constitution did it break
That part that clearly states that congress shall have the power to pass laws, and that the President is only able to approve/veto laws passed by congress?
I don't know why anybody would bother with a smart tv. I refuse to get one, since I can just plug in whatever device I want to be the computer. Then, if I don't like one or the other, I don't have to throw out the whole thing.
I had Comcast for 15 years, but they continued to offer me less and poorer quality service for more money year after year. I originally had a basic cable package (30 channels), no stupid cable box needed, and I had HD to as many TVs as I wanted in my house. And that cost around $20-$30 for a long time. A few years ago, I upped to a slightly better package (60 channels). But around that time they started requiring a cable box. Oh, and the basic cable box had no HD, and I was no restricted to one TV. And I was paying $50/mo. Oh, you want HD again? Like you had before? That's another $10/mo.
Direct TV Now had an early sign-up deal. $35/mo (now is $60/mo), 100 channels, and they threw in a free Apple TV. HD included, and they have on demand TV and movies (although that part still has some bugs to work out).
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How would they ever find out? If they don't (somehow) check during the hiring process, I doubt they are going to try and go back later and check.
If the salary info can be supplied to the employer, why are they asking me?
"Initrode, which unlike many of its peers does not require pre-employment drug screens, was unable to provide an answer as to why the drug abuse went undetected for so long"
Um, maybe it's not the place of a company to worry about whether or not someone is doing drugs? I get tired of everybody thinking that companies need to take care of every aspect of an employee's life.
I've been LUCKY enough to be asked... and always say I made more than I actually did. They can't verify it. I just make sure that I don't go TOO high and price myself out of the job.
I cringe every time I visit my parents and try to watch TV there. They have satellite , and there are literally HUNDREDS of channels (500-600, I think). About half of them are either movie streaming channels or infomercials, and one-third are just repeats of other channels (I've never figured that one out). It takes forever just to find the somewhat entertaining channels, and then it's really hit or miss if there is something good on. Cable/satellite have devolved into a vast desert of nothingness, just so they can claim "We have HUNDREDS OF CHANNELS! WE RULE!!!"
Eventually , the data that runs the voice assistant business is going to have to be standardized.
I'm sure that YOU would like to have standardized data, but it doesn't matter what you want. Companies want you to never switch to a rival, so why would they standardize their data to make it easier to leave to a rival?
get me off this shitty coffeeshop WiFi but do associate with my home WiFi when I get there" is a more common intent than "don't get on any network whatsoever until I remember to hit the button again".
Then it should be a 'disconnect' button. Making it look like an 'off' button is stupid.
You forgot the "under a waterway" part. That made construction a lot more complex.
Why would that be more complex?
It cost only $3.6 billion dollars.
That project was started in 1971, and finished in 1988. Costs on a 40+ year old project don't tell me much about costs for a modern day project.
I would expect 3+ orders of magnitude reduction in cost.
So, you think the Chunnel could now be dug for less than 20 million dollars? Now THAT'S optimism!
I'm just going to ignore your computing comparison for obvious reasons. Let's skip right to your Chunnel example. The Chuunel cost 21 BILLION dollars. To go 24 miles. Under a channel that had no cities that they had to worry about digging around under. Lets call it 100 miles worth since there were three tunnels. Even if Musk makes an order of magnitude improvement to this, you are still looking at a tunneling bill of around eight billion dollars. For one single tunnel between two cities. I agree that you can make the PER MILE cost lower by digging more due to economies of scale, but it's still going to be stupid expensive to dig a nationwide hyperloop system.
He also mentioned solar panels on top of the tubes, so it wasn't just an 'excitement' thing. There isn't much solar power underground...
Anybody who thinks Musk's hyperloop will be above ground is kidding him/herself.
So Elon Musk is kidding himself? Because all of his hyperloops showed above ground systems. They even had solar panels on top of them to power the whole thing.
Go lookup the costs on tunneling projects. They are CRAZY expensive, and that's just to go a few miles in some cases.
Trains run about 1/10th or less of what the hyperloop is expected to. Everybody doesn't die in a derailment of a regular train.
Except at 10 times the speed, with no ability to actually see what's ahead of you.
...since most hyper loop designs are buried?
All of the hyperloop designs presented by Musk so far have been on elevated supports. I think there has been some mention of using his boring machines to go underground, but they still show above ground on their video presentation.
all you have to do to eliminate that added risk entirely is to use an underground tunnel
Oh, is THAT all? How long (and how much money) do you think this underground tunnel will take?
Guarding a few dozen planes at a single airport vs. guarding hundreds of miles of steel tubing in the middle of nowhere. Guess which one is easier to guard?
On the other hand, he *has* gotten cargo to the ISS, and satellites in orbit,
We've been going into orbit for decades.
And he has got some vast number of actual working electric cars on the road,
And has yet to show a profit for it. Lots of electric cars have been produced before, but it's whether or not you can make money doing it that's the problem.
ll those things were REALLY REALLY improbable, before he did them.
No, they were not REALLY REALLY improbable. They just needed buttloads of money to do. Which he got from paypal.
If it's a prioritization of limited resources, how did Obama find the resources to hand out temporary work permits to all of these people, but not the resources to send them back to their home country? Answer: He didn't WANT to send them back.
which amendment or part of the constitution did it break
That part that clearly states that congress shall have the power to pass laws, and that the President is only able to approve/veto laws passed by congress?
What's new is that they used it to disable a car that was fully paid for, and that they had no legal right to.
The alternative for the dealer would have been sending this to collections,
No, their alternatives(s) were to either leave the device in, or ASK him to bring the car in at no fee to remove THEIR device.
I don't know why anybody would bother with a smart tv. I refuse to get one, since I can just plug in whatever device I want to be the computer. Then, if I don't like one or the other, I don't have to throw out the whole thing.
The giant battery system will be able to store 1 megawatt of power—1000 kWh
I... don't even know what to do with that sentence. Watts are not equivalent to kilowatt-hours.
I had Comcast for 15 years, but they continued to offer me less and poorer quality service for more money year after year. I originally had a basic cable package (30 channels), no stupid cable box needed, and I had HD to as many TVs as I wanted in my house. And that cost around $20-$30 for a long time. A few years ago, I upped to a slightly better package (60 channels). But around that time they started requiring a cable box. Oh, and the basic cable box had no HD, and I was no restricted to one TV. And I was paying $50/mo. Oh, you want HD again? Like you had before? That's another $10/mo.
Direct TV Now had an early sign-up deal. $35/mo (now is $60/mo), 100 channels, and they threw in a free Apple TV. HD included, and they have on demand TV and movies (although that part still has some bugs to work out).
It's not even close which service is better.