If you can fit a smartphone in your wallet, you need to get a smaller wallet. Phones do not have the dimensions of credit cards, particularly when it comes to thickness.
If you're targeting primitive civilizations, you do it locally, because there's no way a civilization in another galaxy like us can hope to respond. Also, this "transmitter" would probably fry any planet within a hundred light years it was aimed at.
Trying to colonize Mars with rocket technology is like trying to Colonize the New World with canoes.
Canoes got the Polynesians pretty far, possibly including the New World. Mars is a lot harder due to the lack of air and fish, yet easier in the sense that all you need is some really obscene amounts of money. For say 10 trillion dollars a year, you can make a pretty successful rocket-based colonization program.
Unlike the moon, Mars has plenty of ice. An underground habitat would have to extract all that ice anyway for drinking and fuel, so I don't see how the ice dome is more complicated than making an air-tight environment in a cave that can withstand high pressure and then bringing the water down into it.
The left will verbally chastise you loudly for saying something that's offensive to a minority group. We don't believe in capital punishment or torture or punitive prison terms like the right does.
"automatic security updates" isn't such an attracting key point to put on a box to get more consumer. But "this devices has 2x more pixels than the competition and you can control it from a smartphone app" is.
Perhaps the bigger problem is that a device that gets hacked and stops operating correctly in a few years is good for encouraging frequent purchases of newer models.
Unfortunately the code going to the public domain isn't going to get more than 0.01% of users updated, and the life expediencies of most of these companies are far below 30 years.
There are two important questions here: why do Americans use it when it pays them so little, and why does the majority of the world for whom it'd represent a great pay raise not use it?
Seriously, you think the party of NAFTA and the TPP is knee-jerk protectionist? Mainstream democrats aren't protectionist at all, it's just a lot of the people who normally vote for them are.
The actual cost of living and exchange rates in many countries is such that the US minimum wage would have people living luxurious lives. Make it a rule that adjusts the minimum wage to the country's cost of living and it'd be worth pondering.
In the past, most mental health issues went unreported and untreated. The availability of medication is one of the many factors increasing the number of people who come in for diagnosis. If you're schizophrenic but there are no meds for it, who's going to bother taking you in to a doctor? People used to just seal up their mentally ill relatives in a back room of the house for life and try to forget about them. But when there are meds, that drives people to seek treatment and be measured.
We've also increased the number of things we'll label as mental health problems, of course, as we feel more capable of treating things that may appear less extreme. People who were previously just labeled as weirdos and shunned are now told there might be something we can do for them. Of course meds frequently fail or cause problems worse than the original problem, but they give people enough hope to try.
Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
Perhaps if you have a 500 gallon tank? It never takes me more than 3 or 4 minutes.
Nothing worse than going from a 20m wait to 60m wait for no reason other than someone else wanted to get their fucking latte or whatever and didn't give a shit about anyone else.
Perhaps these Starbucks locations are the real issue. How in the world does it take anyone an hour to get a latte? It should be perfectly doable in the 15 minute charging time.
We don't have any public transportation outside of the highest density cities, now.
That's seriously exaggerating the scale of the problem. My low density census designated place of 10,000 people has hourly bus service. I think the bigger problem is that public transit isn't very practical or economical outside cities -- it would cost me more to take the bus than to maintain my car, and it wouldn't go as many places, and wouldn't do it as quickly or conveniently, and wouldn't make it easy to transport groceries.
We know from previous stories that Uber's "self-driving" cars only self-drive in the easiest imaginable spots and are human-driven most of the time -- it's just a PR stunt for them, not a meaningful evolution of driverless tech. So it's pretty easy to conclude that the human was driving here, since it wasn't on the highway.
People already try to switch the price tags on items and argue they should get the lower price. How do you prevent them from switching the RFID tag with one for a cheaper item? When you have no checker to verify, seems like that could become a problem.
The bigger benefit to the store is that when it's easier to buy stuff you buy more stuff. In particular with Amazon's strategy, where you don't even have to check the price or pay in the store. If deceptive $19.99 a month payment plans snare so many people, imagine how easy it is to snare people into buying lots of junk they don't need when the payment is an invisible automatic thing in the background that they don't have to worry about.
Self-checkout lines at Safeway at least don't have any impulse buy items to look at (nor any lines most of times of day). So they have given it up some places. It works out for them too, because a main reason I shop at Safeway instead of Walmart is that I don't have to deal with a line.
I'd like the service customer industry replaced with robots as quickly as possible. There are few jobs more degrading than doing extremely repetitive physical tasks while having to smile at demanding rude idiots who treat you like dirt and try to take advantage of you all day. Past history shows that we've reduced or eliminated most other categories of horrible jobs and actually have a lower unemployment rate to show for it, so worrying about unemployment is dangerously counterproductive until it actually happens.
Or...maybe you're full of shit and spouting lies like a typical Leftist useful-idiot that is only capable of repeating the propaganda fed to you because you're too stupid or lazy to search out the truth yourself, or just so filled with hate and so caught up in your political/ideological pissing contest that truth doesn't matter, as long as you can *hurt* those you are told you're supposed to hate.
Googled it for you. Halliburton alone made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war. Does truth matter to you?
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If you can fit a smartphone in your wallet, you need to get a smaller wallet. Phones do not have the dimensions of credit cards, particularly when it comes to thickness.
If NASA's budget had stayed at 4% of GDP like during the Apollo era, then we could've had a moon colony. Turns out people didn't want that.
If you're targeting primitive civilizations, you do it locally, because there's no way a civilization in another galaxy like us can hope to respond. Also, this "transmitter" would probably fry any planet within a hundred light years it was aimed at.
Canoes got the Polynesians pretty far, possibly including the New World. Mars is a lot harder due to the lack of air and fish, yet easier in the sense that all you need is some really obscene amounts of money. For say 10 trillion dollars a year, you can make a pretty successful rocket-based colonization program.
Unlike the moon, Mars has plenty of ice. An underground habitat would have to extract all that ice anyway for drinking and fuel, so I don't see how the ice dome is more complicated than making an air-tight environment in a cave that can withstand high pressure and then bringing the water down into it.
The left will verbally chastise you loudly for saying something that's offensive to a minority group. We don't believe in capital punishment or torture or punitive prison terms like the right does.
Perhaps the bigger problem is that a device that gets hacked and stops operating correctly in a few years is good for encouraging frequent purchases of newer models.
Unfortunately the code going to the public domain isn't going to get more than 0.01% of users updated, and the life expediencies of most of these companies are far below 30 years.
There are two important questions here: why do Americans use it when it pays them so little, and why does the majority of the world for whom it'd represent a great pay raise not use it?
Seriously, you think the party of NAFTA and the TPP is knee-jerk protectionist? Mainstream democrats aren't protectionist at all, it's just a lot of the people who normally vote for them are.
The actual cost of living and exchange rates in many countries is such that the US minimum wage would have people living luxurious lives. Make it a rule that adjusts the minimum wage to the country's cost of living and it'd be worth pondering.
In the past, most mental health issues went unreported and untreated. The availability of medication is one of the many factors increasing the number of people who come in for diagnosis. If you're schizophrenic but there are no meds for it, who's going to bother taking you in to a doctor? People used to just seal up their mentally ill relatives in a back room of the house for life and try to forget about them. But when there are meds, that drives people to seek treatment and be measured.
We've also increased the number of things we'll label as mental health problems, of course, as we feel more capable of treating things that may appear less extreme. People who were previously just labeled as weirdos and shunned are now told there might be something we can do for them. Of course meds frequently fail or cause problems worse than the original problem, but they give people enough hope to try.
The daycare simply miscalculated their price. They should be charging whatever their normal hourly rate is plus say 50% for overtime pay.
Perhaps if you have a 500 gallon tank? It never takes me more than 3 or 4 minutes.
Perhaps these Starbucks locations are the real issue. How in the world does it take anyone an hour to get a latte? It should be perfectly doable in the 15 minute charging time.
The downside: if it works, Robert Mugabe will be president for 500 years.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/678/
10 years never means 10 years, it just means they have no clue.
Statistically, nothing is an unsafe as driving. No other type of accident kills anywhere near the number of people killed by drivers.
I hope so, but that remains to be seen.
That's seriously exaggerating the scale of the problem. My low density census designated place of 10,000 people has hourly bus service. I think the bigger problem is that public transit isn't very practical or economical outside cities -- it would cost me more to take the bus than to maintain my car, and it wouldn't go as many places, and wouldn't do it as quickly or conveniently, and wouldn't make it easy to transport groceries.
Anarchism is left wing. Feudalism where the wealthy and their descendants act as the nobility is the right wing no-central-government preference.
We know from previous stories that Uber's "self-driving" cars only self-drive in the easiest imaginable spots and are human-driven most of the time -- it's just a PR stunt for them, not a meaningful evolution of driverless tech. So it's pretty easy to conclude that the human was driving here, since it wasn't on the highway.
People already try to switch the price tags on items and argue they should get the lower price. How do you prevent them from switching the RFID tag with one for a cheaper item? When you have no checker to verify, seems like that could become a problem.
The bigger benefit to the store is that when it's easier to buy stuff you buy more stuff. In particular with Amazon's strategy, where you don't even have to check the price or pay in the store. If deceptive $19.99 a month payment plans snare so many people, imagine how easy it is to snare people into buying lots of junk they don't need when the payment is an invisible automatic thing in the background that they don't have to worry about.
Self-checkout lines at Safeway at least don't have any impulse buy items to look at (nor any lines most of times of day). So they have given it up some places. It works out for them too, because a main reason I shop at Safeway instead of Walmart is that I don't have to deal with a line.
I'd like the service customer industry replaced with robots as quickly as possible. There are few jobs more degrading than doing extremely repetitive physical tasks while having to smile at demanding rude idiots who treat you like dirt and try to take advantage of you all day. Past history shows that we've reduced or eliminated most other categories of horrible jobs and actually have a lower unemployment rate to show for it, so worrying about unemployment is dangerously counterproductive until it actually happens.