It's not just the number of miles, but also the stop-go-stop-go-stop-go nature of deliveries that kill fuel consumption and increase wear and tear too.
Wolfram Alpha and Google equate 39 Manhattans to the following:
- 1,310 square miles - 3,393 square kilometers - 634,079.63 American football fields - 475,193.28 Association football fields - 0.85 Rhode Islands - 1.7 Area Flattened By The Tunguska Event(s) - 1.0 Acres Designated and Managed As Wilderness In The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - 1.0 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - 1.0 Non-tidal watershed below Waterville on the Kennebec River, ME
Pshaw, sure they do. Work 80 hours a week and never take vacations so you have a nice fat paycheck? You stole that $500,000 house and that $70,000 car (even though you were entitled to spend your money on them). Sadly, a lot of people feel this way about people who have more than them.
Amazon collects tax in 20 states, covering roughly 190 million residents (as of July 2013 pop. estimates), or a little over 60% of US residents. That's a pretty significant amount.
I think you've seen far, far too many movies if you think silencers quiet it nearly enough to bring the volume down to a level that a cell phone could replicate.
I think you grossly underestimate the difference between the maximum volume of a cell phone (or laptop or even most desktop speakers) and the volume of even a relatively small firearm going off.
There's a name for the effect, which I can't recall, but we tend to project our current self into our past self's shoes. When someone in their 40s thinks about when they were a teenager, they remember it as if they had the experience and wisdom that they have in their 40s, not as they actually were in their teens. This is one of the main reasons older generations talk about how kids these days are dumber, etc... because they don't accurately remember how kids were in their day, just how they would have been if they had decades more life experience.
TL;DR: You were just as dumb as a kid as the "kids these day" are that you're complaining about... you're just too dumb to account for the decades in between.
The rule of thumb, for at least the last decade, has been that your total amount of loans shouldn't exceed what you can reasonably expect to gross in your first year employed in that field in a job with a reasonably large number of openings. For many people, that means $30-$40k, tops. Sure, the job market can shift drastically while you're still in school, but you pretty much always have the option to change majors - there isn't a severe time penalty unless you're close to finishing your degree, by which point, a drastic shift is usually unlikely or should have been easy to predict already. I discounted a large number of schools because they didn't follow this rule of thumb, and ended up with loans that were just a little more than my first year's salary, which I paid off in just under three years - in 2013, so I don't think it's too outdated.
We had "US Government" in New York. It did a decent job of teaching about the roles of the top levels of the Federal government, but absolutely nothing about the different departments, about state or local government (which, imo, are even more important to know about), or about current issues. About the closest to something relevant that we did was a mock trial of a drunk driver, which of course nobody took seriously.
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Your FedxEx and UPS guys are already using drones with truck-based mobile launchpads?
Shit, my FedEx guy is still trying to figure out the "This Side Up" arrow on package.
It's not just the number of miles, but also the stop-go-stop-go-stop-go nature of deliveries that kill fuel consumption and increase wear and tear too.
Or AC was using the article to figure out today's date.
AC just assumed that Slashdot is continuing it's excellence in timely reporting of two year's ago news.
I believe you're thinking of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, not the DMCA
The trick is slowing light down to the speed of an unladen swallow
Because after 20 years of killing Nazis, I still haven't bought the full version of Wolf3d.
If the bugs weren't written by their peers, they'd be features.
Wolfram Alpha and Google equate 39 Manhattans to the following:
- 1,310 square miles
- 3,393 square kilometers
- 634,079.63 American football fields
- 475,193.28 Association football fields
- 0.85 Rhode Islands
- 1.7 Area Flattened By The Tunguska Event(s)
- 1.0 Acres Designated and Managed As Wilderness In The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
- 1.0 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- 1.0 Non-tidal watershed below Waterville on the Kennebec River, ME
That's just the SJ Sathanis in the background
Pshaw, sure they do. Work 80 hours a week and never take vacations so you have a nice fat paycheck? You stole that $500,000 house and that $70,000 car (even though you were entitled to spend your money on them). Sadly, a lot of people feel this way about people who have more than them.
Amazon collects tax in 20 states, covering roughly 190 million residents (as of July 2013 pop. estimates), or a little over 60% of US residents. That's a pretty significant amount.
I'm pretty sure he cemented himself as a "good guy" in history books twenty or thirty billion donated dollars ago.
"There's plenty left to dislike MS for without twisting the truth."
How many more generations until we forget about Microsoft Bob? How many!?
I think you've seen far, far too many movies if you think silencers quiet it nearly enough to bring the volume down to a level that a cell phone could replicate.
I think you grossly underestimate the difference between the maximum volume of a cell phone (or laptop or even most desktop speakers) and the volume of even a relatively small firearm going off.
There's a name for the effect, which I can't recall, but we tend to project our current self into our past self's shoes. When someone in their 40s thinks about when they were a teenager, they remember it as if they had the experience and wisdom that they have in their 40s, not as they actually were in their teens. This is one of the main reasons older generations talk about how kids these days are dumber, etc... because they don't accurately remember how kids were in their day, just how they would have been if they had decades more life experience.
TL;DR: You were just as dumb as a kid as the "kids these day" are that you're complaining about... you're just too dumb to account for the decades in between.
"Paper maps don't go flat"
My paper maps are pretty flat to begin with... actually, all of my paper is.
It's also plausible that GPS will outlive us all. The Matrix, Terminator, Bambi, seen them?
According to this timeline of GPS, the first to market with a hand-GPS was the Magellan NAV 1000 in 1989.
However, in 1990, the DoD decreased the accuracy of the system - before the start of the First Gulf War.
In 1994, the FAA and Clinton tells the worldwide (commercial) airline industry that GPS is free for them to use for the "foreseeable future"
1995 was when the first GPS constellation was finally complete, so that at least 4 satellites were always visible from any point on at Earth.
Source: http://www.techhive.com/articl...
I have no doubt that one of them was a great actor, but I'm not so sure about the other one's saxophone skills - did Reagan ever even touch a sax?
A man with an atomic watch won't shut up about it.
A very limited number of companies offer this, to a limited number of customers. It's not very widespread in the US.
The rule of thumb, for at least the last decade, has been that your total amount of loans shouldn't exceed what you can reasonably expect to gross in your first year employed in that field in a job with a reasonably large number of openings. For many people, that means $30-$40k, tops. Sure, the job market can shift drastically while you're still in school, but you pretty much always have the option to change majors - there isn't a severe time penalty unless you're close to finishing your degree, by which point, a drastic shift is usually unlikely or should have been easy to predict already. I discounted a large number of schools because they didn't follow this rule of thumb, and ended up with loans that were just a little more than my first year's salary, which I paid off in just under three years - in 2013, so I don't think it's too outdated.
We had "US Government" in New York. It did a decent job of teaching about the roles of the top levels of the Federal government, but absolutely nothing about the different departments, about state or local government (which, imo, are even more important to know about), or about current issues. About the closest to something relevant that we did was a mock trial of a drunk driver, which of course nobody took seriously.