That applies if you have 1 car and 1 SUV. In general in most places this isn't the case. 10 cars and 1 SUV means the smaller incremental improvements in cars are actually significant, especially if you can eliminate the emissions from the city street completely as in the case of all-electric.
So far the Chinese have shown that they can *talk* about banning combustion cars, not that they can actually make it work.
When we talk about China we always talk about the next thing China is talking about, without looking at what they have achieved in the past.
While we claim they are all talk, they are the biggest electric car market in the world and the rate of increase in the market has in the past 2 years surpassed the entire rest of the world. The USA talks about things and then generally plods slowly in that direction, spending more energy bickering about it in the government than actually instigating change. China on the other hand has a steady record of making a decision (often a questionable decision) and then plowing full steam ahead to achieve it.
I'm going to guess the working poor are not in the market for a new car.
There's this thing called attrition. It's a great way of changing things without affecting the working poor, and that's how pretty much all these laws being proposed work.
Except in the Netherlands, we actively ban piece of shit in the cities.
Marketing speak, and to hit the numbers they just added a whole lot of restrictions.
iPhone 9: The new Face ID has a 1 in 1,000,000,000 false positive rate. Note to achieve this your face needs to be permanently and uniquely disfigured in a horrible industrial accident. However we don't suggest you use this feature if you lost your nose completely, only if it is bent in a non-standard direction. Using it without a nose may cause a false positive for other disfigured people who also lost their noses.
Apple recommends doing a lot of heroin as a child as you may end up with heterochromia and the missmatched eye colours can further help to secure your device.
No. Unskilled retail jobs are unproductive. The skilled and knowledgeable who can readily offer the best advice improve your efficiency which is productive.
good for the economy
Scratch that. The idiots who just recommend the product with the highest margins are good for the economy because they'll recommend something that doesn't suit your needs and then you need to go shopping a second time.
Why would I ever ask a store employee for a product recommendation?
Maybe because the world is full of misinformation and because not everyone runs around googling every small detail they see. I often shop at stores looking for something that meets a generic specification. Having to google each and every item I see on the shelf is a waste of time.
Walk into a hardware store I expect to be able to say: "I'm looking for a water proof glue that is food safe," and get a response along the lines of: "This one, this one and this one are food safe. What are you trying to glue together because they are not all suitable for all materials?"
You said it yourself. "1. You need it now." Googling every tiny detail does not fit the "need it now" requirement.
Why not just buy like a transistor radio with solar cell charging, their very cheep. Where's my Swiss knife pop out of my Iphone, that would be more useful.
It's ironic that you mention a single purpose built device in the same post as a multipurpose tool, and compare the two.
The only thing useful is the device you have with you. That is precisely why the Swiss army knife is great in a pinch but not a very good knife, or scissors, or nail file, or (insert other function here). What good is the solar power transistor radio if it's somewhere else in a box I can't find when I need it? What good is my Miyabi pearing knife in my kitchen when I'm at work?
Two parties can sign a contract agreeing how to resolve differences, it happens all the time
The fundamental purpose of the courts is to resolve disputes about contracts. In most countries it's not legally possible to sign away the ability to do this.
I was unaware that you could sign anything that would allow somebody else to break the law.
The problem is that your solution only works for strict protected rights, not for contract disputes which don't fall under the cover of "breaking the law". There are many reasons an employee gets screwed which has nothing to with breaking the law.
It should be illegal to sign away the ability to dispute in court for anything in any case.
The solution is not to allow people to collectively gather to counteract each other's power, it's to strip power away from the powerful.
The idea that you can't sign away your right to sue would be a good first step, employee protections laws would be a second, and an employee advocating ombudsman to reduce the cost of disputes would be another great step.
What you meant to say was "accordingly priced" furniture. As far as quality for price goes it's about the best bang for buck you can get on the market. Shelves priced about the same as typical low cost Chinese import, but without sagging when you dare to place a book on them. Even their kitchen countertops are actually capable of withstanding the abuse typical of a kitchen.
I've never not been able to do the assembly without marring the gloss white finish in at least one spot.
Sounds like a general approach you use to assembly rather than anything IKEA specific. Place the dowel in, put a piece of wood over the top to give you a larger hitting target, and tap gently.
The only real complaint I have with IKEA is they tell you to use Philips head screwdrivers while providing Pozidrive screws. The biggest damage I see is stripped screw heads.
The entire FCC in their pockets and they still turn to other tactics in order to screw over consumers? What's wrong AT&T? Is you BFF Ajit moving to slowly for you?
On the other hand, the *toner* used to laser-print on them (basically, fused plastic) will surely outlive the acidic paper.
Indeed. But long before the paper has disolved your toner will stick the pages together in ways that you'll never be able to read what was on them without applying a liberal dose of science.
If you have lots of errors you're not in the realm of cosmic rays or random bit flips, you're suffering from actual hardware failure.
If you have errors, you get another tape out of the cupboard.
Funny I did that with my last memory card and my last HDD when they started throwing errors, and at $20 for an 800GB tape the replacement HDD was about the same price.
You do not get an algorithm to "fix" the data if its your life on the line (or your $$$).
Defence in depth. Of course you do. Best still you get an algorithm that warns you of impending failures when they start logging at an unacceptable rate. Kind of like ECC and SMART data.
The problem with the expires header (or any HTTP header) is that it needs to be requested from the client side.
Right now your browser will not display this comment exactly when it appears unless: a) You refresh right as I post b) Slashdot implements an autorefresh that refreshes right as I post (which it only does on the front page) c) A metric fukton of non-standard javascript and open connections in the background handles push updates.
That's why the customers are the product. That's what's being sold.
If you think the consumer's information is being sold then you have less of a clue than you first thought. It's like a company that exists only to sell its own trade secrets to anyone who wants to know it.
If you're going to try and correct me then realise that Facebook doesn't have a product, it has 2 services. One is bartered for personal information, the other is charged to place advertisements on the first.
Yes, let's replace a worldwide booking system that for the most part handles 3.7billion passengers every year without issue because of a very occasional outage causing a few queues.
Yes and no. While it's nice in some cases I often find myself seeing a website and trying to use it's controls before it finishes loading resulting in broken javascript requests and requiring a refresh.
It's even worse on touchscreens where the context of the input isn't captured, just the location, and that is then handled after the page loads resulting in me seeing a page, clicking on a link, the page finishing to load (including the advert) which then moves the page down because the advert is at the top and THEN the browser acting on a click in the wrong location. Bonus screw-you points if the click happened to land on another link and the wrong page opens as a result.
Being at least on par with Chrome (and in some cases better) is a pretty good achievement in my opinion.
I agree, speed is one of the reasons I moved away from Firefox. There was so much focus on memory that people forgot what was important. "look it uses less RAM than Chrome, hurrah" yeah but I don't care if it tries to load the entire internet into my RAM. I have 32GB for a reason. It'll be good to get Firefox back.
The first or the second time? To be fair, every browser starts up in less than 1 second on my machine. That doesn't mean Firefox isn't quite slow at loading and rendering webpages compared to the others.
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That applies if you have 1 car and 1 SUV. In general in most places this isn't the case. 10 cars and 1 SUV means the smaller incremental improvements in cars are actually significant, especially if you can eliminate the emissions from the city street completely as in the case of all-electric.
So far the Chinese have shown that they can *talk* about banning combustion cars, not that they can actually make it work.
When we talk about China we always talk about the next thing China is talking about, without looking at what they have achieved in the past.
While we claim they are all talk, they are the biggest electric car market in the world and the rate of increase in the market has in the past 2 years surpassed the entire rest of the world. The USA talks about things and then generally plods slowly in that direction, spending more energy bickering about it in the government than actually instigating change. China on the other hand has a steady record of making a decision (often a questionable decision) and then plowing full steam ahead to achieve it.
people would just stop using them if the new system was better
Nope, people would make ridiculous justifications as to why they aren't better. Hell we see this on a daily basis as it is.
This is America. The large car is about as sacred as the gun, the flag, and Jesus. It will take a lot more than "better" to get people to change.
I'm going to guess the working poor are not in the market for a new car.
There's this thing called attrition. It's a great way of changing things without affecting the working poor, and that's how pretty much all these laws being proposed work.
Except in the Netherlands, we actively ban piece of shit in the cities.
Camera in your bedroom?
Hey, I'm just trying to pay my way through college.
Marketing speak, and to hit the numbers they just added a whole lot of restrictions.
iPhone 9: The new Face ID has a 1 in 1,000,000,000 false positive rate. Note to achieve this your face needs to be permanently and uniquely disfigured in a horrible industrial accident. However we don't suggest you use this feature if you lost your nose completely, only if it is bent in a non-standard direction. Using it without a nose may cause a false positive for other disfigured people who also lost their noses.
Apple recommends doing a lot of heroin as a child as you may end up with heterochromia and the missmatched eye colours can further help to secure your device.
Retail jobs are unproductive
No. Unskilled retail jobs are unproductive. The skilled and knowledgeable who can readily offer the best advice improve your efficiency which is productive.
good for the economy
Scratch that. The idiots who just recommend the product with the highest margins are good for the economy because they'll recommend something that doesn't suit your needs and then you need to go shopping a second time.
Why would I ever ask a store employee for a product recommendation?
Maybe because the world is full of misinformation and because not everyone runs around googling every small detail they see. I often shop at stores looking for something that meets a generic specification. Having to google each and every item I see on the shelf is a waste of time.
Walk into a hardware store I expect to be able to say: "I'm looking for a water proof glue that is food safe," and get a response along the lines of: "This one, this one and this one are food safe. What are you trying to glue together because they are not all suitable for all materials?"
You said it yourself. "1. You need it now." Googling every tiny detail does not fit the "need it now" requirement.
Why not just buy like a transistor radio with solar cell charging, their very cheep. Where's my Swiss knife pop out of my Iphone, that would be more useful.
It's ironic that you mention a single purpose built device in the same post as a multipurpose tool, and compare the two.
The only thing useful is the device you have with you. That is precisely why the Swiss army knife is great in a pinch but not a very good knife, or scissors, or nail file, or (insert other function here). What good is the solar power transistor radio if it's somewhere else in a box I can't find when I need it?
What good is my Miyabi pearing knife in my kitchen when I'm at work?
Two parties can sign a contract agreeing how to resolve differences, it happens all the time
The fundamental purpose of the courts is to resolve disputes about contracts. In most countries it's not legally possible to sign away the ability to do this.
I was unaware that you could sign anything that would allow somebody else to break the law.
The problem is that your solution only works for strict protected rights, not for contract disputes which don't fall under the cover of "breaking the law". There are many reasons an employee gets screwed which has nothing to with breaking the law.
It should be illegal to sign away the ability to dispute in court for anything in any case.
The solution is not to allow people to collectively gather to counteract each other's power, it's to strip power away from the powerful.
The idea that you can't sign away your right to sue would be a good first step, employee protections laws would be a second, and an employee advocating ombudsman to reduce the cost of disputes would be another great step.
Crappy furniture I admit
What you meant to say was "accordingly priced" furniture. As far as quality for price goes it's about the best bang for buck you can get on the market. Shelves priced about the same as typical low cost Chinese import, but without sagging when you dare to place a book on them. Even their kitchen countertops are actually capable of withstanding the abuse typical of a kitchen.
I've never not been able to do the assembly without marring the gloss white finish in at least one spot.
Sounds like a general approach you use to assembly rather than anything IKEA specific. Place the dowel in, put a piece of wood over the top to give you a larger hitting target, and tap gently.
The only real complaint I have with IKEA is they tell you to use Philips head screwdrivers while providing Pozidrive screws. The biggest damage I see is stripped screw heads.
The entire FCC in their pockets and they still turn to other tactics in order to screw over consumers? What's wrong AT&T? Is you BFF Ajit moving to slowly for you?
On the other hand, the *toner* used to laser-print on them (basically, fused plastic) will surely outlive the acidic paper.
Indeed. But long before the paper has disolved your toner will stick the pages together in ways that you'll never be able to read what was on them without applying a liberal dose of science.
If you have lots of errors you're not in the realm of cosmic rays or random bit flips, you're suffering from actual hardware failure.
If you have errors, you get another tape out of the cupboard.
Funny I did that with my last memory card and my last HDD when they started throwing errors, and at $20 for an 800GB tape the replacement HDD was about the same price.
You do not get an algorithm to "fix" the data if its your life on the line (or your $$$).
Defence in depth. Of course you do. Best still you get an algorithm that warns you of impending failures when they start logging at an unacceptable rate. Kind of like ECC and SMART data.
Eliminating the means by which users can control what applications do is not a good thing.
That is entirely dependent on the use case.
The problem with the expires header (or any HTTP header) is that it needs to be requested from the client side.
Right now your browser will not display this comment exactly when it appears unless:
a) You refresh right as I post
b) Slashdot implements an autorefresh that refreshes right as I post (which it only does on the front page)
c) A metric fukton of non-standard javascript and open connections in the background handles push updates.
That's why the customers are the product. That's what's being sold.
If you think the consumer's information is being sold then you have less of a clue than you first thought. It's like a company that exists only to sell its own trade secrets to anyone who wants to know it.
If you're going to try and correct me then realise that Facebook doesn't have a product, it has 2 services. One is bartered for personal information, the other is charged to place advertisements on the first.
Yes, let's replace a worldwide booking system that for the most part handles 3.7billion passengers every year without issue because of a very occasional outage causing a few queues.
What could possibly go wrong.
Arguably that's what you want, right?
Yes and no. While it's nice in some cases I often find myself seeing a website and trying to use it's controls before it finishes loading resulting in broken javascript requests and requiring a refresh.
It's even worse on touchscreens where the context of the input isn't captured, just the location, and that is then handled after the page loads resulting in me seeing a page, clicking on a link, the page finishing to load (including the advert) which then moves the page down because the advert is at the top and THEN the browser acting on a click in the wrong location. Bonus screw-you points if the click happened to land on another link and the wrong page opens as a result.
Being at least on par with Chrome (and in some cases better) is a pretty good achievement in my opinion.
I agree, speed is one of the reasons I moved away from Firefox. There was so much focus on memory that people forgot what was important. "look it uses less RAM than Chrome, hurrah" yeah but I don't care if it tries to load the entire internet into my RAM. I have 32GB for a reason. It'll be good to get Firefox back.
Are you quoting me quoting you quoting me in the wrong order while correcting me all at once? Daaaayyyyyyymn.
No you didn't say that. You said "small as possible."
Indeed. The wonderful thing about metal is that size and weight are typically proportional.
The first or the second time? To be fair, every browser starts up in less than 1 second on my machine. That doesn't mean Firefox isn't quite slow at loading and rendering webpages compared to the others.