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  1. Wendy's Company has averaged about 5% profits over the past 5 years; in the last 6 months profits shot up to 18% - the company is fine. Others have shown that higher minimum wages would add just pennies to the cost of a meal
    Automation isn't making up for higher wages, automation is its own motivation.
    Our challenge is to determine how to share the bounty: I don't want to live in a world of starving ignorant sickly people who form the backdrop to a few wealthy enclaves.

  2. Keeping it simple: the pencil.

  3. Here's a new idea for a plot: person being experimented-on can't move or respond but feels and hears everything. Agony, hopelessness, and desperation as research staff leaves the TV on reruns of old shows for decades. By the time they fully revive him, he's gone mad and they give up. The Diving Bell and the Metamorphosis.

  4. Re: Why not a wall on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    If you build it near the coast, it could be used to live on when the sea level rises and wipes out what you built the mountain to protect.

  5. Re:fascinating on German Nuclear Plant Infected With Computer Virus (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because, of course, with increased radiation levels, the viruses will mutate at an accelerated rate and will soon be shedding from the site uncontrollably. Can I copyright this plot before Stan Lee steals it?

  6. This is so much more efficient than training 10,000 monkeys as patent attorneys and letting them loose to patent ideas.

  7. ... to recharge my batteries at the solar urinal.

  8. Re:Why the jab at Trump in the summary? on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    >>There's absolutely nothing wrong with Trump's position on illegal aliens.

    I'm done here.

  9. So, what's the problem, exactly?
    I mean, do we want faster lines, more people in the pre-check program, a cheaper program, safer flights, less complaints, what?
    Maybe we want convenience without the need to define what that is.
    On a side note, sufficiently frustrated travelers may mean fewer flights which could lead to a decrease in global warming.

  10. Well regulated on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you have the right to carry a gun, but I don't have the right to know if you're carrying a gun.

    As far as I'm concerned, carrying a gun is far less safe than not. If you carry a gun, I am less safe around you. And I can't know if you're carrying a gun.

  11. Re:Translation on US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat · · Score: 1

    Grand Theft Planet.

  12. Regarding dangers to wildlife, will dragons be safe from it?

  13. Re:She lived longer than most poor voters... on Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead At 94 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if someone already posted that he slashed spending for long-term care and mental health facilities, putting incapable people in the streets where they remain today and making us the black sheep of both the civilized world and our own consciences. /S but that's a small price to pay for slashing taxes on the wealthy and enabling the take-over of the electoral system by people with too much money not to spend it investing in more perks for their classes.

  14. Rotten apples? on Cheap, High-Performance Green Battery Runs On Rotten Apples (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I might rather have my batteries catch fire.

  15. They could link to this. as it's been done before:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Re:Good, but maybe not important on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    We have achieved the inevitable in data storage, not by creating a media that will outlive its physical readers, but by creating a media whose content will outlive its human readers.

  17. Covering all the bases on Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves (astronomy.com) · · Score: 1

    "The story shows that even when Einstein's wrong, it's because he was already right the first time."

    The story shows that if you publish both proofs and disproofs of something, you're likely to be right half the time.

  18. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then how about flagging the candidate's offending tweets with a moderator note, "this post crosses the line of hate and criminal advocacy. If the tweeter were not a candidate for public office, this tweet would be blocked and this profile terminated."

  19. Renewables first. on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Until we make a concerted national effort to maximize renewables throughout the grid and the country, any new nuclear should remain on the design table where it belongs. Nuclear will always be a neutron source and always result in a large amount of very toxic and persistent byproducts, and must be a last resort, always. Don't even consider a new nuclear reactor until sun, wind, water, tides, and even fart energy has been harvested to the max, or else you're just a mouthpiece for an industry looking to grift profits on the back of a government and citizenry left to clean up your mess.

  20. Re:I guess if you have IBM stock, time to sell on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Thinking of a union as a for-profit enterprise where the profit comes from worker dues, means you really don't understand unions at all.

  21. Re: Republic vs Democracy on Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? (iamnotanumber.org) · · Score: 1

    How do we change our voting practices to ensure we don't reflexively vote based on the misinformation of the moment?

  22. Re:Well that's a town to avoid. on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe you can bottle some Canadian sunshine for them - to have handy if solar panels suck all theirs up.

  23. terrorist delivery vehicle on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe off topic, but I've wondered why some misinformed and mislead idiot hasn't yet used one of these things to fly explosive ordinance into a large crowd of people.

  24. Re: Flip side of this? on Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? · · Score: 1

    Easily 1/3 of that 150 will be simple, adequate, acceptable housing: apartment rental.

  25. There's already an established company called Faraday selling electric vehicles:

    https://www.faradaybikes.com/