The same reason that most profitable car companies are now relocating into Right To Work states. The unions latched onto GM like a vampire and drained it of it's life force.
Ahh, the old "parasites" argument. Whenever the armchair industrialists want to whine about uppity workers expecting decent pay and working conditions, this oldie always gets pulled out.
Of course this only works if you completely gloss over that the unions had valid contracts that GM chose to enter into and then renege on as much as possible. When the CEO drains the pension fund to gamble on the stock market and looses big, retires and leaves it for the next couple of CEO's to ignore and suddenly all those retiring workers *surprise!* actually are still alive and want the pensions they contracted for but the company can't afford now, it's the Unions fault somehow. Can't blame themselves for poor management after all.
Before anyone goes spouting off about the mythical guy pushing a broom all day for $1000 an hour, let's remember that Union contracts are negotiated, and if GM's highly paid lawyers and management couldn't negotiate a way to efficiently utilize their work force, then that's on them, not the Union. But then, how can management suppress wages with Unions around? Whoops, I mean the workers wages, they're not savages after all, THEY have stock options and golden parachutes, naturally.
I don't want irradiated food because the radiation kills the plant. Dead food has far less nutritional benefits compared to fresh picked food that is still alive.
Furthermore, if I can get non-irradiated food, I can plant the seeds and get my own copy of those plants to grow in my garden. In my opinion, THAT is the real reason why the ag industry wants to irradiate all of our food. It prevents propagation of desirable plant species, making people subservient to and reliant upon the ag industry.
You know what? cooking food kills the plant, I don't see you advocating for all raw food, and if you are well, enjoy that salmonella. For that matter, taking a vegetable out of the ground or off it's tree/vine is slow killing it too. Which is neither here nor there because that's not how irradiation works.
Also, hate to burst your conspiracy bubble, but farmers rarely sit around peeling apart last years crop to get seeds for this year. They buy seeds from dedicated seed farms, just like the majority of people who want a garden go down to the garden shop and buy packets of seeds. You get higher quality, more consistent seeds. Just because a fruit or vegetable is raw doesn't even mean it's in it's seed baring form either.
Unfortunately it will probably work out that rather than produce more food, which will subsequently lower food prices, they'll devote more land to growing high starch corn for bio-fuel.
Bio-fuel is a nice idea, but currently there are too many down sides and loopholes to relying on it that most people don't consider. It's like how paper mills have used black liquor, a byproduct of paper production, for decades as fuel in the plants. Then they mixed in a gallon of diesel, called it 'biofuel' and raked in billions from biofuel subsidies.
Able to resist being covered in increasingly caustic pesticides = bad modification.
If they don't harm humans or the environment, is that a bad modification?
Let's not go that far. Roundup (the most GMO targeted pesticide) is by definition a poison and does have ill effects on humans in concentration. It's all about the dose. It may also be linked to bee colony collapse, but I don't know if that's definitive. It's meant to kill insects so not really a shock if it is.
If only it were that simple. Frankly the paranoia and misinformation of liberals on the topic of GMO vs Organics is about as bad as conservatives and Global Warming.
I've tried to explain to people that food irradiation is a safe method of preservation for instance, and been told that they don't want "radioactive" food. Explain to them that bananas are radioactive and they will, with a straight face, tell you that it's "natural" radiation so it's healthy. Try to explain that "organic" food uses some truly scary pesticides or that all foods have chemicals in them and it goes right over their heads.
As far as GMO for Roundup goes, that stuff is expensive and nobody is out there replacing water with it like it's Brawndo. It's highly targeted spraying. However I do think that using GMO to lock seeds up behind copyrights and such is wrong. Modified life forms should be open source so we can all monitor and benefit from them equally.
Yeah, no.. not many prophets write out their formulae and methodology in trade journals for all the other prophets to fact check and duplicate. Faith you believe because someone tells you to, science you believe because it can be duplicated and proven.
Actually, the major factor against Sears succeeding was Eddie Lampert himself. He had zero knowledge or experience in retail stores, being a career hedge fund manager. He's a devoted Libertarian and forced each department of the company to act like it's own separate company, fighting for funding. If Kenmore (Sears branded) appliances were on sale, they had to pay their ad department more than what other brand appliance mfgs. were paying or they wouldn't get mentioned in the stores own sales fliers. The constant bickering and loan servicing simply ate into all their revenue until the company imploded like KMart (also owned by Lampert) did before them.
Nice story. However Fallout 76 was on sale for Black Friday and then went back up to $60 retail. It's on sale again because of the holidays, as is everything on Bethesda.net, and will likely return to it's retail price after.
Googling something only works if you have the slightest clue what you are looking for. It could be the top result, but how the heck would someone know if that's what the story was about.
The summary should have it, but since it doesn't you could be civil instead.
Yes, civility is important. So is reading comprehension. What are we discussing? Dollar Stores, ie. small market stores. Google ALDI and what's the first thing the pops up resembling what we're discussing? Hey, what do you know, it's ALDI Grocery Stores.
That's an interesting take on how this tech was being used. How about "monitor individuals that might pose a danger to her" eh? We're talking about delusional individuals who have no boundaries, are fixated on her and probably keep diaries of how often she poops. Why try to make Taylor seem like the nefarious one here subbie?
Yeaaaah.. people will just completely stop wanting to show off their having sex or watching people having sex.. not. Porn has survived when mere possession was enough to get jail time, it survived when copyright indeed did not extend to porn and it was bootlegged as much if not more even when you had to copy 8mm film negatives. It'll survive the fall of Tumblr.
The magnetosphere protects the atmosphere from being blown out into space by the solar wind.
The magnetosphere shields our home planet from solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind - the constant flow of charged particles streaming off the sun. -- NASA
The moon does not have an magnetosphere to protect you from things like solar radiation that would fry you like a microwave, or provide you with some not fun Fallout mutations. Or just lots of cancers.
The only way to live long-term on the moon would be in domed cities or underground structures with thick layers of regolith to stop that radiation. That is if humans can even survive long-term in 1/6th gravity.
Let's ask a simple question, that nobody seems to have pointed out really. Where do all the people who don't have a house go to charge their cars overnight? Also who's going to pay for all these charging stations?
If you live in a city where you have to park on the street, well you better hope someone wants to invest in curbside charging stations and wants to deal with the hassle of vandals screwing with the cables.
If you live in an apartment building I guess you'll have to enjoy higher rent to subsidize your early adopter neighbors pressuring the building management to install chargers for them, with an accurate system to track who's charger is being used and it's billing the right apartment's electric. Plus added security to make sure nobody's using your charger while you're not home.
There are still a lot of issues to deal with before we can even begin to talk about EV taking over from ICE vehicles.
The more interesting question is where exactly are all the people who don't live in houses are going to charge up their EV's. Nobody's suggested building millions of curbside EV chargers so far, not to mention the issues of sheer vandalism to all those chargers electric cables.
Pretty much, unless you have a house, you're not going to get an EV.
Honestly I think it's also how each project formed. KDE was always an integrated effort from the start with clear goals, while GNOME was a reaction to Qt's license and kind of accumulated extra bits, and developer egos, as it went, mostly in reaction to KDE. Every distro that standardized on GNOME had it's own interests over the project as a whole, whereas KDE had a team fully in control outside of the distro.. which I think is why GNOME has been so popular with distro maintainers, they don't get to claim KDE like they could GNOME.
KDE users don't fork KDE because in general we're fairly happy with it, unlike GNOME which has always been a hot mess. Every distro that provides KDE sticks with the current version. KDE3 is still supported by the diehards with Trinity though.
Also just because one party led the administration, does not mean that same party controlled Congress or the Senate, each of which can change the reporting rules as their corporate masters require.
At least cab companies are local, pay local taxes and their revenues go back into the community instead of all the profit being shoved off to some douche's new San Francisco campus.
This is ridiculous because the manufacturing has already consolidated to the point that most products have 1 to 3 manufacturers in the world. The vast majority of brand names exist as shell companies that have their label slapped on a slight variation of a product all coming out of the same factory to suggest it has more or less features/value for the price.
Buying local only works for niche products or services, anything mass produced is all about value for the dollar and that works entirely in Wal-Mart of Amazon's favor.
And yet, more people can understand how to make a spreadsheet fit their needs than a database. Which is why Excel is everywhere on the desktop yet almost no one outside of a select few in IT mess with Access.
You know what else would dry up the market for stealing laptops and selling them as repair parts? Selling repair parts at a reasonable cost to anyone and making repair manuals available. Like every other computer manufacturer.
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The same reason that most profitable car companies are now relocating into Right To Work states. The unions latched onto GM like a vampire and drained it of it's life force.
Ahh, the old "parasites" argument. Whenever the armchair industrialists want to whine about uppity workers expecting decent pay and working conditions, this oldie always gets pulled out.
Of course this only works if you completely gloss over that the unions had valid contracts that GM chose to enter into and then renege on as much as possible. When the CEO drains the pension fund to gamble on the stock market and looses big, retires and leaves it for the next couple of CEO's to ignore and suddenly all those retiring workers *surprise!* actually are still alive and want the pensions they contracted for but the company can't afford now, it's the Unions fault somehow. Can't blame themselves for poor management after all.
Before anyone goes spouting off about the mythical guy pushing a broom all day for $1000 an hour, let's remember that Union contracts are negotiated, and if GM's highly paid lawyers and management couldn't negotiate a way to efficiently utilize their work force, then that's on them, not the Union. But then, how can management suppress wages with Unions around? Whoops, I mean the workers wages, they're not savages after all, THEY have stock options and golden parachutes, naturally.
I don't want irradiated food because the radiation kills the plant. Dead food has far less nutritional benefits compared to fresh picked food that is still alive.
Furthermore, if I can get non-irradiated food, I can plant the seeds and get my own copy of those plants to grow in my garden. In my opinion, THAT is the real reason why the ag industry wants to irradiate all of our food. It prevents propagation of desirable plant species, making people subservient to and reliant upon the ag industry.
You know what? cooking food kills the plant, I don't see you advocating for all raw food, and if you are well, enjoy that salmonella. For that matter, taking a vegetable out of the ground or off it's tree/vine is slow killing it too. Which is neither here nor there because that's not how irradiation works.
Also, hate to burst your conspiracy bubble, but farmers rarely sit around peeling apart last years crop to get seeds for this year. They buy seeds from dedicated seed farms, just like the majority of people who want a garden go down to the garden shop and buy packets of seeds. You get higher quality, more consistent seeds. Just because a fruit or vegetable is raw doesn't even mean it's in it's seed baring form either.
Unfortunately it will probably work out that rather than produce more food, which will subsequently lower food prices, they'll devote more land to growing high starch corn for bio-fuel.
Bio-fuel is a nice idea, but currently there are too many down sides and loopholes to relying on it that most people don't consider. It's like how paper mills have used black liquor, a byproduct of paper production, for decades as fuel in the plants. Then they mixed in a gallon of diesel, called it 'biofuel' and raked in billions from biofuel subsidies.
Able to resist being covered in increasingly caustic pesticides = bad modification.
If they don't harm humans or the environment, is that a bad modification?
Let's not go that far. Roundup (the most GMO targeted pesticide) is by definition a poison and does have ill effects on humans in concentration. It's all about the dose. It may also be linked to bee colony collapse, but I don't know if that's definitive. It's meant to kill insects so not really a shock if it is.
If only it were that simple. Frankly the paranoia and misinformation of liberals on the topic of GMO vs Organics is about as bad as conservatives and Global Warming.
I've tried to explain to people that food irradiation is a safe method of preservation for instance, and been told that they don't want "radioactive" food. Explain to them that bananas are radioactive and they will, with a straight face, tell you that it's "natural" radiation so it's healthy. Try to explain that "organic" food uses some truly scary pesticides or that all foods have chemicals in them and it goes right over their heads.
As far as GMO for Roundup goes, that stuff is expensive and nobody is out there replacing water with it like it's Brawndo. It's highly targeted spraying. However I do think that using GMO to lock seeds up behind copyrights and such is wrong. Modified life forms should be open source so we can all monitor and benefit from them equally.
Yeah, no.. not many prophets write out their formulae and methodology in trade journals for all the other prophets to fact check and duplicate. Faith you believe because someone tells you to, science you believe because it can be duplicated and proven.
Actually, the major factor against Sears succeeding was Eddie Lampert himself. He had zero knowledge or experience in retail stores, being a career hedge fund manager. He's a devoted Libertarian and forced each department of the company to act like it's own separate company, fighting for funding. If Kenmore (Sears branded) appliances were on sale, they had to pay their ad department more than what other brand appliance mfgs. were paying or they wouldn't get mentioned in the stores own sales fliers. The constant bickering and loan servicing simply ate into all their revenue until the company imploded like KMart (also owned by Lampert) did before them.
Nice story. However Fallout 76 was on sale for Black Friday and then went back up to $60 retail. It's on sale again because of the holidays, as is everything on Bethesda.net, and will likely return to it's retail price after.
Googling something only works if you have the slightest clue what you are looking for. It could be the top result, but how the heck would someone know if that's what the story was about.
The summary should have it, but since it doesn't you could be civil instead.
Yes, civility is important. So is reading comprehension. What are we discussing? Dollar Stores, ie. small market stores. Google ALDI and what's the first thing the pops up resembling what we're discussing? Hey, what do you know, it's ALDI Grocery Stores.
Quit enabling stupid.
That's an interesting take on how this tech was being used. How about "monitor individuals that might pose a danger to her" eh? We're talking about delusional individuals who have no boundaries, are fixated on her and probably keep diaries of how often she poops. Why try to make Taylor seem like the nefarious one here subbie?
Yeaaaah.. people will just completely stop wanting to show off their having sex or watching people having sex.. not. Porn has survived when mere possession was enough to get jail time, it survived when copyright indeed did not extend to porn and it was bootlegged as much if not more even when you had to copy 8mm film negatives. It'll survive the fall of Tumblr.
The magnetosphere protects the atmosphere from being blown out into space by the solar wind.
The magnetosphere shields our home planet from solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind - the constant flow of charged particles streaming off the sun. -- NASA
It does both.
Why though? Why leave Earth other than to feel like you're important? (Hint: You aren't important, no one is)
Mostly, to get mining and other dangerous ecological practices off the planet we do live on.
The moon does not have an magnetosphere to protect you from things like solar radiation that would fry you like a microwave, or provide you with some not fun Fallout mutations. Or just lots of cancers.
The only way to live long-term on the moon would be in domed cities or underground structures with thick layers of regolith to stop that radiation. That is if humans can even survive long-term in 1/6th gravity.
Let's ask a simple question, that nobody seems to have pointed out really. Where do all the people who don't have a house go to charge their cars overnight? Also who's going to pay for all these charging stations?
If you live in a city where you have to park on the street, well you better hope someone wants to invest in curbside charging stations and wants to deal with the hassle of vandals screwing with the cables.
If you live in an apartment building I guess you'll have to enjoy higher rent to subsidize your early adopter neighbors pressuring the building management to install chargers for them, with an accurate system to track who's charger is being used and it's billing the right apartment's electric. Plus added security to make sure nobody's using your charger while you're not home.
There are still a lot of issues to deal with before we can even begin to talk about EV taking over from ICE vehicles.
The more interesting question is where exactly are all the people who don't live in houses are going to charge up their EV's. Nobody's suggested building millions of curbside EV chargers so far, not to mention the issues of sheer vandalism to all those chargers electric cables.
Pretty much, unless you have a house, you're not going to get an EV.
Honestly I think it's also how each project formed. KDE was always an integrated effort from the start with clear goals, while GNOME was a reaction to Qt's license and kind of accumulated extra bits, and developer egos, as it went, mostly in reaction to KDE. Every distro that standardized on GNOME had it's own interests over the project as a whole, whereas KDE had a team fully in control outside of the distro.. which I think is why GNOME has been so popular with distro maintainers, they don't get to claim KDE like they could GNOME.
Try KDE Neon, it's built on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and maintained by the KDE community.
KDE users don't fork KDE because in general we're fairly happy with it, unlike GNOME which has always been a hot mess. Every distro that provides KDE sticks with the current version. KDE3 is still supported by the diehards with Trinity though.
Also just because one party led the administration, does not mean that same party controlled Congress or the Senate, each of which can change the reporting rules as their corporate masters require.
If no human is aboard the ship and it is in international waters, then it is by definition abandoned per maritime law.
At least cab companies are local, pay local taxes and their revenues go back into the community instead of all the profit being shoved off to some douche's new San Francisco campus.
This is ridiculous because the manufacturing has already consolidated to the point that most products have 1 to 3 manufacturers in the world. The vast majority of brand names exist as shell companies that have their label slapped on a slight variation of a product all coming out of the same factory to suggest it has more or less features/value for the price.
Buying local only works for niche products or services, anything mass produced is all about value for the dollar and that works entirely in Wal-Mart of Amazon's favor.
And yet, more people can understand how to make a spreadsheet fit their needs than a database. Which is why Excel is everywhere on the desktop yet almost no one outside of a select few in IT mess with Access.
You know what else would dry up the market for stealing laptops and selling them as repair parts? Selling repair parts at a reasonable cost to anyone and making repair manuals available. Like every other computer manufacturer.