Japanese can coffee is quite enjoyable and super convenient - push a button and scan a contactless EDY or transit card, and you have your beverage for about $1 and in less than 5 seconds. That said, I can see why it didn't take off here. People are like "hot beverage in a metal can, won't that hurt your hand?" herp-derp and then proceed to burn their hand on the paper cup they just waited 5 minutes for, because putting said paper cup into the cardboard sleeve is not in the $15/hr Starbucks employee's job description.
That is why I still use Adblock, and allow the unintrusive ads.
That said I have a few disagreements with what it finds unintrusive. Wikipedia ads are IMO intrusive, as are those ones that pop up a few minutes after you start reading an article or webpage and grey out the page.
Already a solved problem on JetBlue, they have at-seat 110V outlets and USB ports at a ratio of 1:1 for their higher class seating, and 2:3 for "core" (coach). Also device battery life has drastically improved. I have a Chromebook that's 3 years old, and even streaming high-def video (the most energy intensive thing you can really do with one) the battery lasts 8 hours. Simple web browsing and the battery seems to last forever - I've gone up to 3 days without charging it while on vacation (extremely useful if you only have 1 functioning international outlet in your hotel room). As for phones, those plug-in USB power packs are $10 and will bring you back to at least 75% charge. Running out of power on any public transit is a solved problem even if the transit provider refuses to give you outlets (I'm looking at you, MBTA!).
Depends on the union and "union culture". Bad union: Cashiers at grocery stores in Canada and Japan - successfully prevented their duties from being expanded to bagging groceries. Result: self checkout is actually easier and faster than using a human (you can take the item out of the cart, run it across the scanner, and put it in the bag in one motion. Versus unloading the cart onto a belt and then loading things from a different belt into bags). And soon Amazon's system which simply electronically charges you for whatever's in your cart as you exit the store will put pretty much all these places out of business.
Bad union: in NYC the "token booth" clerks were being made irrelevant due to vending machines and security cameras. Transit tried to expand their duties, and lost against the union. The incident where a woman was raped in full view of staff who did nothing to intervene did not help (until that point one of the union's selling points to keep stations staffed was "safety"). So they simply started closing booths and replacing them with push button kiosks that connect people to a call center to ask their questions, and an emergency button to call for help. If all the booth person can be counted on to do if a crime is happening is call the police, any nearby warm body can push a red button to do the same.
Good union: white collar ones. They generally stay out of the way. They still of course try to keep the number of employees up, but are far more open to re purposing existing employees and titles.
In many states government employees are not allowed to receive "gifts" (including meals) from outside vendors unless it's of negligible value, or something offered to any customer. To that end as far as lavish meals are concerned the most the vendors can provide is maybe two mozzarella sticks off a shared appetizer plate, unless literally every customer of the company had been invited to that specific meal.
Meanwhile at all of the Catholic schools I attended growing up, Halloween costumes were encouraged on Halloween (in the sense that, if you didn't wear one you still had to wear the normal uniform). I was tempted to dress as "public school student".
Three of the five subway lines in Singapore are fully automated with no driver. From what I understand increasing/decreasing service is a matter of someone pushing some buttons in a control center, and more trains make their way to/from the yards. They're essentially horizontal elevators. Of course this is only possible due to strict control of the right of way - platform screen doors and having the entire route underground allow for this.
If NYCT can do this with the L line (which would mean enclosing the outside portion) then they might be able to get rid of the entire crew. Not a union violation if there are no union employees taking on additional duties (which was how they 'won' the conductor ruling, 8 car trains with doors controlled by just the train operator).
Typography is what editors are for. I'd rather the novel writer be focused on writing a solid plot with interesting characters than worrying about what their software is doing to the things they type.
I'd agree with you except speed limits are still set too low in most of the country (for limited access highways), despite everyone mentally adding 9 to all of them when they set their CC...
I can see where this is coming from. The lack of interaction has a strange thickness to it. An empty house can feel like you're stranded on a deserted island. For those still of working age it's avoidable, though (without getting hitched): 1. Live in an apartment building. Not a complex where everyone has their own door to the outside, but a huge, elevator building with dozens of apartments per floor. As these tend to be cheaper (or luxury buildings) it is a bit of a win-win. Having an interior space shared with neighbors helps a lot psychologically. 2. Don't telecommute. Unless you (a) work with assholes or (b) are an asshole yourself it's hard to avoid making good friends in person at work. 3. Get a roommate, or a pet if you hate compromising. 4. Don't retire early. My dad made this mistake and has regretted it ever since. I suspect this article is about people like him.
Nonsense. If you were to take the most favourable interpretation: 1. delete all Gary Johnson votes (more would have gone Trump than Clinton anyway and given him even more of a lead). 2. assign all Jill Stein voters to Clinton
She still loses the EC.
The third party voters would have stayed home if there were no third party options, as a good chunk of democrats had. If you want to blame anyone blame the dems who stayed home, and the DNC for providing a candidate no one wanted to waste gas money / bus fare on getting to the polls for.
Exactly how Maine went. The state went blue so the two "senate" electors were too, as well as the "congress" elector for the district that weighed the scale. The other went red. Were it WTA the other would have gone blue. Similarly, at least 10 of NYS's electors would have gone red if it were by district.
It's not just weather. For example Puerto Rico has much better year round weather than Florida. Less humid and the hurricanes are usually not as strong when they pass by. Also better "business climate" than California, and fairly cheap land. Great food and dollar beers at the bar. Well connected to most cities east of the Mississippi as well as Europe. So why is it not the next tech hub? The two most important things, electricity and Internet, are orders of magnitude more expensive there than pretty much anywhere else.
For now, Texas is the lead horse in the running for "new tech hub" of the US. Great weather, great business climate, and between DFW and IAH you can go to almost every civilised country in the world without change of plane (had to word this carefully to include Singapore Airline's strange flight to its home country via Moscow).
You *can* bring your gun, but it must be in checked luggage in a specially secured container to prevent theft (and obviously not loaded). Hardly an onerous requirement.
in a similar vein: why do only the UK and Australia have sausage rolls and meat pies? They're perfect when you're only "kindof" hungry. Best we can get are Jamaican food and Taquitos, which aren't nearly half as satisfying.
It's not easy to leave, as it means leaving the country. That said, if people *can* leave they should. Those who are rich and those who are intelligent (aka the ones countries like to court and keep) will have no problem leaving, taking their skills and wealth with them. If a government makes too many missteps, this will happen and before you know it, you're Venezuela (or Detroit). Then, either the failed government is enlightened and starts reversing it's harmful policies, or it dissolves into irrelevance on the global stage.
Did not vote for Trump, and his stance on torture I vehemently disagree with. That said, he is also campaigning on pulling back the military from meddling in foreign lands (so we'll be less in a position to torture), and all of his rhetoric about atomic weapons is meaningless when he wants to buddy up with Russia, the only real atomic threat to the US out there. He also is campaigning on building up America's infrastructure which are jobs that cannot be outsourced, guaranteed to both employ and ultimately improve the lives of citizens in cities and towns large and small.
As a side effect a reduced global presence of the US makes us less a target of terrorists.
But yes, the Mexican wall is full blown retard. I happen to like the idea of taco trucks on every corner.
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Japanese can coffee is quite enjoyable and super convenient - push a button and scan a contactless EDY or transit card, and you have your beverage for about $1 and in less than 5 seconds. That said, I can see why it didn't take off here. People are like "hot beverage in a metal can, won't that hurt your hand?" herp-derp and then proceed to burn their hand on the paper cup they just waited 5 minutes for, because putting said paper cup into the cardboard sleeve is not in the $15/hr Starbucks employee's job description.
Kill switches need to be reverse. As in, you regularly enter a code for (whatever) to keep functioning.
That is why I still use Adblock, and allow the unintrusive ads.
That said I have a few disagreements with what it finds unintrusive. Wikipedia ads are IMO intrusive, as are those ones that pop up a few minutes after you start reading an article or webpage and grey out the page.
If your idea of making out requires ass hairs, I think one of us is doing it wrong...
Already a solved problem on JetBlue, they have at-seat 110V outlets and USB ports at a ratio of 1:1 for their higher class seating, and 2:3 for "core" (coach).
Also device battery life has drastically improved. I have a Chromebook that's 3 years old, and even streaming high-def video (the most energy intensive thing you can really do with one) the battery lasts 8 hours. Simple web browsing and the battery seems to last forever - I've gone up to 3 days without charging it while on vacation (extremely useful if you only have 1 functioning international outlet in your hotel room).
As for phones, those plug-in USB power packs are $10 and will bring you back to at least 75% charge.
Running out of power on any public transit is a solved problem even if the transit provider refuses to give you outlets (I'm looking at you, MBTA!).
And geothermal, where possible.
Depends on the union and "union culture".
Bad union: Cashiers at grocery stores in Canada and Japan - successfully prevented their duties from being expanded to bagging groceries. Result: self checkout is actually easier and faster than using a human (you can take the item out of the cart, run it across the scanner, and put it in the bag in one motion. Versus unloading the cart onto a belt and then loading things from a different belt into bags). And soon Amazon's system which simply electronically charges you for whatever's in your cart as you exit the store will put pretty much all these places out of business.
Bad union: in NYC the "token booth" clerks were being made irrelevant due to vending machines and security cameras. Transit tried to expand their duties, and lost against the union. The incident where a woman was raped in full view of staff who did nothing to intervene did not help (until that point one of the union's selling points to keep stations staffed was "safety"). So they simply started closing booths and replacing them with push button kiosks that connect people to a call center to ask their questions, and an emergency button to call for help. If all the booth person can be counted on to do if a crime is happening is call the police, any nearby warm body can push a red button to do the same.
Good union: white collar ones. They generally stay out of the way. They still of course try to keep the number of employees up, but are far more open to re purposing existing employees and titles.
In many states government employees are not allowed to receive "gifts" (including meals) from outside vendors unless it's of negligible value, or something offered to any customer. To that end as far as lavish meals are concerned the most the vendors can provide is maybe two mozzarella sticks off a shared appetizer plate, unless literally every customer of the company had been invited to that specific meal.
Unless I'm missing something, if you don't want this functionality just don't give it your wifi password? Not really a "threat"...
Evangelical Christians, they so silly...
Meanwhile at all of the Catholic schools I attended growing up, Halloween costumes were encouraged on Halloween (in the sense that, if you didn't wear one you still had to wear the normal uniform). I was tempted to dress as "public school student".
Three of the five subway lines in Singapore are fully automated with no driver. From what I understand increasing/decreasing service is a matter of someone pushing some buttons in a control center, and more trains make their way to/from the yards. They're essentially horizontal elevators.
Of course this is only possible due to strict control of the right of way - platform screen doors and having the entire route underground allow for this.
If NYCT can do this with the L line (which would mean enclosing the outside portion) then they might be able to get rid of the entire crew. Not a union violation if there are no union employees taking on additional duties (which was how they 'won' the conductor ruling, 8 car trains with doors controlled by just the train operator).
Typography is what editors are for. I'd rather the novel writer be focused on writing a solid plot with interesting characters than worrying about what their software is doing to the things they type.
I'd agree with you except speed limits are still set too low in most of the country (for limited access highways), despite everyone mentally adding 9 to all of them when they set their CC...
If you want express entry into Canada (as an American or as a Canadian), you need to submit an iris scan. Nothing crazy about that.
I can see where this is coming from. The lack of interaction has a strange thickness to it. An empty house can feel like you're stranded on a deserted island. For those still of working age it's avoidable, though (without getting hitched):
1. Live in an apartment building. Not a complex where everyone has their own door to the outside, but a huge, elevator building with dozens of apartments per floor. As these tend to be cheaper (or luxury buildings) it is a bit of a win-win. Having an interior space shared with neighbors helps a lot psychologically.
2. Don't telecommute. Unless you (a) work with assholes or (b) are an asshole yourself it's hard to avoid making good friends in person at work.
3. Get a roommate, or a pet if you hate compromising.
4. Don't retire early. My dad made this mistake and has regretted it ever since. I suspect this article is about people like him.
Nonsense. If you were to take the most favourable interpretation:
1. delete all Gary Johnson votes (more would have gone Trump than Clinton anyway and given him even more of a lead).
2. assign all Jill Stein voters to Clinton
She still loses the EC.
The third party voters would have stayed home if there were no third party options, as a good chunk of democrats had. If you want to blame anyone blame the dems who stayed home, and the DNC for providing a candidate no one wanted to waste gas money / bus fare on getting to the polls for.
Exactly how Maine went. The state went blue so the two "senate" electors were too, as well as the "congress" elector for the district that weighed the scale. The other went red. Were it WTA the other would have gone blue.
Similarly, at least 10 of NYS's electors would have gone red if it were by district.
It's not just weather. For example Puerto Rico has much better year round weather than Florida. Less humid and the hurricanes are usually not as strong when they pass by. Also better "business climate" than California, and fairly cheap land. Great food and dollar beers at the bar. Well connected to most cities east of the Mississippi as well as Europe. So why is it not the next tech hub? The two most important things, electricity and Internet, are orders of magnitude more expensive there than pretty much anywhere else.
For now, Texas is the lead horse in the running for "new tech hub" of the US. Great weather, great business climate, and between DFW and IAH you can go to almost every civilised country in the world without change of plane (had to word this carefully to include Singapore Airline's strange flight to its home country via Moscow).
You *can* bring your gun, but it must be in checked luggage in a specially secured container to prevent theft (and obviously not loaded). Hardly an onerous requirement.
The best I got was the listing of sponsors for one of the bills:
Senator Wyden (along with Sens. Coons, Lee, Franken, and Daines)
Source
in a similar vein: why do only the UK and Australia have sausage rolls and meat pies? They're perfect when you're only "kindof" hungry. Best we can get are Jamaican food and Taquitos, which aren't nearly half as satisfying.
It's not easy to leave, as it means leaving the country. That said, if people *can* leave they should. Those who are rich and those who are intelligent (aka the ones countries like to court and keep) will have no problem leaving, taking their skills and wealth with them. If a government makes too many missteps, this will happen and before you know it, you're Venezuela (or Detroit). Then, either the failed government is enlightened and starts reversing it's harmful policies, or it dissolves into irrelevance on the global stage.
Alternative medicine doesn't work, because if it did... it would become medicine!
(from some late night comedian).
"Sir, there's drones carrying missiles approaching."
"Well, that's either our munitions re-supply or the world's most obvious trojan horse."
Did not vote for Trump, and his stance on torture I vehemently disagree with. That said, he is also campaigning on pulling back the military from meddling in foreign lands (so we'll be less in a position to torture), and all of his rhetoric about atomic weapons is meaningless when he wants to buddy up with Russia, the only real atomic threat to the US out there. He also is campaigning on building up America's infrastructure which are jobs that cannot be outsourced, guaranteed to both employ and ultimately improve the lives of citizens in cities and towns large and small.
As a side effect a reduced global presence of the US makes us less a target of terrorists.
But yes, the Mexican wall is full blown retard. I happen to like the idea of taco trucks on every corner.