One particular Uber decided that it was $205.00 from JFK to mid-town Manhattan. I ended up taking a yellow for $65 plus tip.
So what you're saying is that you always aim for the cheapest form of transport. By jumping from a company that prices based on supply and demand to a company that has fixed pricing at all times you have successfully managed to screw over everyone, and then you dare to complain about it despite the fact that you were only in this position due to the good grace of the company you're calling "scam".
I like the concept of Uber and Lyft, but the execution feels greedy.
I like the concept of mandatory economics lessons.
do note that those selecting about specific attributes
They are called examples. Otherwise your post would have just been a single line saying "such as"
and the expected lifetime had yet to be proven.
Err no. That's been proven about 5 generations ago.
You _know_ this to be a falsehood because you'd seen the updated code to support it
So they lied about the abilities to mask for the fact that they were yet again massively slow and late to the party with supporting code?
To misquote something I once read: "I do note that those selecting about specific attributes and defending them with strange excuses are often missing the forest for the trees."
realize that Apples implementation is the first widely available _GOOD_ implementation of them.
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Apple isn't a goose that shits out nothing but golden eggs. They have their fair share of misshits too.
Speaking of high def touchscreen, what's so much better about Apple's current top of the line OLED screen with a notch on it, then the higher resolution, better colour and higher brightness screen in the 3 year old Galaxy S6?
- Sometimes Apple is a true quality leader (first really high resolution display). - Sometimes they seriously misshit (bullshit excuse about cutting out headphone jack to sell more Beats headphones, claiming that display pixels need to be multiples of 2 for backwards compatibility then reneging on the very next model, no SD card). - Sometimes they are just purely late to the party (e.g. OLED screens, and Bluetooth 5, or the especially baffling lack of support for aptX on a device where wireless audio is not only a premier feature but actually required to use headphones without a dongle).
When the study doesn't fit the narrative, just bury it! If that isn't bias, what is?
When a study produces no statistically significant result, publishing it will likely make the media spin it in the wrong direction.
I can see both cases here. The media and public have enough problems with understanding statistically significant studies, let alone those which aren't. That said, the study was paid for by pubic funds, so it should have been published on those grounds alone.
I agree. Mixing is the way to go. I don't mind the smoothie I listed with the beetroot, but I can't stand it by itself (worst Australian ever given it's a staple on every Australian burger).
Now as for liver.... that one I'll leave to the Germans. It's one thing I can't really stand.
Sauerkraut, pork and a litre of beer I can get behind:-)
The pressure difference isn't all that much. atmospheric pressure is around 1kg/cm, most cars run 2kg/cm, so it's 3 times higher inside than out.
The pressure difference between a tire in the air at -50degC at reduced pressure and a tire suddenly loaded with over 20tonnes + inertia from hitting the ground is incredible. They use nitrogen because it's inert. Oxygen reacts with rubber. The amount it reacts depends on environmental conditions and stress on the tire. Airline tires go through massive pressure and temperature swings between flying at altitude and hitting the ground, several orders of magnitude worse than a typical car. If brakes are applied the tire literally needs to survive in a fire.
But you don't need to take my word for it. Google it.
No one has any evidence of a tire failing
From Boeing's website:
In addition, Boeing has received reports of three confirmed cases and other suspected cases in which a wheel/tire assembly exploded when the oxygen in air-filled tires combined with volatile gases given off by a severely overheated tire. In one case, the tire became overheated as a result of a dragging brake, and the wheel/tire assembly exploded when it reached the auto-ignition temperature. In another case, a wheel/tire assembly explosion in the wheel well during flight was suspected in the catastrophic loss of one airplane. A similar explosion caused severe damage to two others.
As a result, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued Airworthiness Directive 87-08-09 requiring that only nitrogen be used to inflate airplane tires on braked wheels. However, tires may be topped off with air in remote locations where nitrogen may not be available if the oxygen content in the tire does not exceed 5 percent by volume.
Don't know. All software runs on Windows and Android, why would you "need" Apple or Linux?
The point was, people who are locked into a keyboard don't understand that alternatives exist with widely different feature sets. E.g. the keyboard I installed intelligently flips between multiple languages for the spell checker. I also used to use a Swipe keyboard which was much easier to write with than the stock Samsung or Google one, though Google has closed the feature and quality gap with Swipe.
which sane 50 year old male would come to the idea to buy celery juice or cucumber juice?
You obviously don't spend much time out. Whacky and weird health juices are all the rage at the moment. It's a frigging huge and booming business. You can't walk through the juice section of a supermarket without finding as many vegetable juices are your traditional fruit juices. There's juice bars opening up everywhere. Celery mixed by itself tastes like... celery. But in combination with beetroot, cucumber, and spinach it makes quite a nice and healthy drink.
Hell with the benefit of hindsight if I travelled back in time 10 years I'd open a vegetable juice bar. The first person to do that in Australia is now stupid rich.
They fill the tires with nitrogen because air is mostly nitrogen...
Yes because filling with pure nitrogen instead of air is a perfectly reasonable and financially sound decision. In other news Anonymous Cowards appear to have killed off their last functioning braincell.
The only juice made from fruit is "fruit" juice. Juice is made from all sorts of things. Carrot juice, celery juice, cucumber juice, all quite common. Often taken in combination too with leafy items such as kale, or herbs and spices.
It doesn't matter so much what people think when it comes to resolving the world. This is something that can be fixed by policy, and thus what really matters is what the people on the top think, those that open up funding, those that research, those that invest, etc. Whereas killing each other is something that happens on an individual level.
That's why we can solve the former but won't ever solve the latter, despite our initial thought that the latter should be more easily solvable.
How about "going away from family and friends and the familiar, perhaps for an extended period, causes sadness easily triggered to tears by a mildly sad moment in a movie syndrome"?
What makes you think all people are flying away from their families? I would suggest that close to half of people are flying towards their home family and friends.
(I'd argue link shorteners are evil in general, but that's a discussion for another day)
Link shorteners in general aren't evil, but their no click, no confirmation implementation is. They should always direct to an intermediate page which shows clearly where the shortener is directing you and wait for confirmation to do so.
You have to change hearts and minds of pretty much everyone on the planet, first. Good luck with that, by the way. We can't get people to stop doing much simpler things (like killing each other over stupid things like this-or-that-so-called-god
Just because we can't solve simple things doesn't mean we can't solve the complex ones. We are directing far more energy into solving the large issues than dealing with our imaginary sky-daddies. We have already slowed the extinction rate from early hunting practices. We are making good progress on issues of development. And we are also at least reaching a governmental consensus on the issue of climate and making great strides towards reducing the rate at which we affect it.
Comparatively most people don't give a shit if two people blow each other up because one called the other's imaginary friend silly.
There is no formal definition for a mass extinction event. The current event is based on extinction rate over the background rate. Other methodologies such as percentage of families and genus which have gone extinct at this point don't consider us in an a mass extinction event... yet.
The past extinction rates at the start of the Holocene event (the current one) were much higher than they are now. Based on this human hunting and development is causing the rate to drop. If we can also prevent horribly screwing up the climate then we may end up in 2200 perpetually arguing if the Holocene event can be defined as an extinction event at all.
On the global biological scale we are still in early days if this event.
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Most people dont have any special circumstances.
Most people don't recognise their special circumstances. There's a difference.
Not required unless you work specifically for a London taxi company. And frankly I take a minicab long before I hail a taxi.
One particular Uber decided that it was $205.00 from JFK to mid-town Manhattan. I ended up taking a yellow for $65 plus tip.
So what you're saying is that you always aim for the cheapest form of transport. By jumping from a company that prices based on supply and demand to a company that has fixed pricing at all times you have successfully managed to screw over everyone, and then you dare to complain about it despite the fact that you were only in this position due to the good grace of the company you're calling "scam".
I like the concept of Uber and Lyft, but the execution feels greedy.
I like the concept of mandatory economics lessons.
I know if I intend to upgrade there is little reason to get the 8 over the X.
Yeah we're all waiting for the ugly smaller model with the insane price tag.
do note that those selecting about specific attributes
They are called examples. Otherwise your post would have just been a single line saying "such as"
and the expected lifetime had yet to be proven.
Err no. That's been proven about 5 generations ago.
You _know_ this to be a falsehood because you'd seen the updated code to support it
So they lied about the abilities to mask for the fact that they were yet again massively slow and late to the party with supporting code?
To misquote something I once read: "I do note that those selecting about specific attributes and defending them with strange excuses are often missing the forest for the trees."
eliminating a significant source of repair claims
Citation needed. If their button is unable to withstand being pressed or even dunked into beer, maybe they should have made a better button.
realize that Apples implementation is the first widely available _GOOD_ implementation of them.
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. Apple isn't a goose that shits out nothing but golden eggs. They have their fair share of misshits too.
Speaking of high def touchscreen, what's so much better about Apple's current top of the line OLED screen with a notch on it, then the higher resolution, better colour and higher brightness screen in the 3 year old Galaxy S6?
- Sometimes Apple is a true quality leader (first really high resolution display).
- Sometimes they seriously misshit (bullshit excuse about cutting out headphone jack to sell more Beats headphones, claiming that display pixels need to be multiples of 2 for backwards compatibility then reneging on the very next model, no SD card).
- Sometimes they are just purely late to the party (e.g. OLED screens, and Bluetooth 5, or the especially baffling lack of support for aptX on a device where wireless audio is not only a premier feature but actually required to use headphones without a dongle).
Would you have bought them at full price? No? Then they didn't lose anything on the sale.
When the study doesn't fit the narrative, just bury it! If that isn't bias, what is?
When a study produces no statistically significant result, publishing it will likely make the media spin it in the wrong direction.
I can see both cases here. The media and public have enough problems with understanding statistically significant studies, let alone those which aren't. That said, the study was paid for by pubic funds, so it should have been published on those grounds alone.
I agree. Mixing is the way to go. I don't mind the smoothie I listed with the beetroot, but I can't stand it by itself (worst Australian ever given it's a staple on every Australian burger).
Now as for liver.... that one I'll leave to the Germans. It's one thing I can't really stand.
Sauerkraut, pork and a litre of beer I can get behind :-)
The pressure difference isn't all that much. atmospheric pressure is around 1kg/cm, most cars run 2kg/cm, so it's 3 times higher inside than out.
The pressure difference between a tire in the air at -50degC at reduced pressure and a tire suddenly loaded with over 20tonnes + inertia from hitting the ground is incredible. They use nitrogen because it's inert. Oxygen reacts with rubber. The amount it reacts depends on environmental conditions and stress on the tire. Airline tires go through massive pressure and temperature swings between flying at altitude and hitting the ground, several orders of magnitude worse than a typical car. If brakes are applied the tire literally needs to survive in a fire.
But you don't need to take my word for it. Google it.
No one has any evidence of a tire failing
From Boeing's website:
In addition, Boeing has received reports of three confirmed cases and other suspected cases in which a wheel/tire assembly exploded when the oxygen in air-filled tires combined with volatile gases given off by a severely overheated tire. In one case, the tire became overheated as a result of a dragging brake, and the wheel/tire assembly exploded when it reached the auto-ignition temperature. In another case, a wheel/tire assembly explosion in the wheel well during flight was suspected in the catastrophic loss of one airplane. A similar explosion caused severe damage to two others.
As a result, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued Airworthiness Directive 87-08-09 requiring that only nitrogen be used to inflate airplane tires on braked wheels. However, tires may be topped off with air in remote locations where nitrogen may not be available if the oxygen content in the tire does not exceed 5 percent by volume.
Don't know. All software runs on Windows and Android, why would you "need" Apple or Linux?
The point was, people who are locked into a keyboard don't understand that alternatives exist with widely different feature sets. E.g. the keyboard I installed intelligently flips between multiple languages for the spell checker. I also used to use a Swipe keyboard which was much easier to write with than the stock Samsung or Google one, though Google has closed the feature and quality gap with Swipe.
What does the default keyboard not offer?
You own an iPhone and can't change the keyboard don't you?
Holy shit, what about all that oxygen on the OUTSIDE of the tire?
You mean the stuff at a fraction of the pressure of the air inside the tire?
They fill tires with nitrogen because regular air contains a significant amount of water.
Air contains as much water as you want it to. It's cheaper to dry air than it is to separate nitrogen.
Anyone who told you it makes your tires last longer because there is no oxygen was telling you lies so you will spend more money.
Why would I spend money? I don't own an aircraft and I don't typically take tires up to altitude.
which sane 50 year old male would come to the idea to buy celery juice or cucumber juice?
You obviously don't spend much time out. Whacky and weird health juices are all the rage at the moment. It's a frigging huge and booming business. You can't walk through the juice section of a supermarket without finding as many vegetable juices are your traditional fruit juices. There's juice bars opening up everywhere. Celery mixed by itself tastes like ... celery. But in combination with beetroot, cucumber, and spinach it makes quite a nice and healthy drink.
Hell with the benefit of hindsight if I travelled back in time 10 years I'd open a vegetable juice bar. The first person to do that in Australia is now stupid rich.
They fill the tires with nitrogen because air is mostly nitrogen...
Yes because filling with pure nitrogen instead of air is a perfectly reasonable and financially sound decision. In other news Anonymous Cowards appear to have killed off their last functioning braincell.
The only juice made from fruit is "fruit" juice. Juice is made from all sorts of things. Carrot juice, celery juice, cucumber juice, all quite common. Often taken in combination too with leafy items such as kale, or herbs and spices.
They fill the tyres with nitrogen because it's inert and in certain temperatures oxygen degrades rubber far more rapidly.
It doesn't matter so much what people think when it comes to resolving the world. This is something that can be fixed by policy, and thus what really matters is what the people on the top think, those that open up funding, those that research, those that invest, etc. Whereas killing each other is something that happens on an individual level.
That's why we can solve the former but won't ever solve the latter, despite our initial thought that the latter should be more easily solvable.
Unfortunately, abstinence and virtuous behaviour are not exactly its strong suit.
Nor are they welcome in Vegas.
How about "going away from family and friends and the familiar, perhaps for an extended period, causes sadness easily triggered to tears by a mildly sad moment in a movie syndrome"?
What makes you think all people are flying away from their families? I would suggest that close to half of people are flying towards their home family and friends.
I always have.
And that is how we get to dumb UI decisions. Assumptions.
(I'd argue link shorteners are evil in general, but that's a discussion for another day)
Link shorteners in general aren't evil, but their no click, no confirmation implementation is. They should always direct to an intermediate page which shows clearly where the shortener is directing you and wait for confirmation to do so.
You have to change hearts and minds of pretty much everyone on the planet, first. Good luck with that, by the way. We can't get people to stop doing much simpler things (like killing each other over stupid things like this-or-that-so-called-god
Just because we can't solve simple things doesn't mean we can't solve the complex ones. We are directing far more energy into solving the large issues than dealing with our imaginary sky-daddies. We have already slowed the extinction rate from early hunting practices. We are making good progress on issues of development. And we are also at least reaching a governmental consensus on the issue of climate and making great strides towards reducing the rate at which we affect it.
Comparatively most people don't give a shit if two people blow each other up because one called the other's imaginary friend silly.
There is no formal definition for a mass extinction event. The current event is based on extinction rate over the background rate. Other methodologies such as percentage of families and genus which have gone extinct at this point don't consider us in an a mass extinction event ... yet.
The past extinction rates at the start of the Holocene event (the current one) were much higher than they are now. Based on this human hunting and development is causing the rate to drop. If we can also prevent horribly screwing up the climate then we may end up in 2200 perpetually arguing if the Holocene event can be defined as an extinction event at all.
On the global biological scale we are still in early days if this event.