Either that or they're going to start publishing a newspaper that contains news aimed at both Trump supporters and everyone else, making 50% of it fake news. Hence "mixed reality"
Sorry, my point was probably unclear as I was answering a question that hadn't been asked. I was addressing the usual assumption that domestic cats are domesticated because once humans started trying to domesticate them, the evolution process favored cats that could live with humans.
I frequently hear people assert that cats purr, meow, etc, because those are things humans favor, and so cats that do that were more successful (because humans helped them and bred them) than cats that don't.
What's clear is that that isn't the case, cats were already easy to domesticate before humans started trying, and cheetahs are an example of a cat that does all those things (including meow!) despite having not having domestication as an evolutionary input.
Toxoplasma is, as another sibling posting points out, a parasite, which means that it's not cats domesticating people or vice versa, it's toxoplasma controlling both - if you want to be paranoid.
That said, as cats are domesticated and kept even in the absence of the parasite, it's not really a factor here. A sizable number of cats, including many outside of those practical to keep as pets, seem to be fairly easy to domesticate - bring up a cheetah cub yourself and it'll purr and let you do all the things you'd expect to be able to do with a Maine Coon without it ripping your head off, for example. As neither toxoplasma nor centuries of evolution explains that, you end up having to draw the conclusion that many, many, types of cat are just naturally comfortable and friendly towards those who bring them up.
Nah, he's admitting being "right" (I'm making no judgement here on whether it is right, but to Jobs it was.) If I'm following the argument correctly, the conversation is something like:
Jobs: We need a back button.
Designer: But we're trying to make everything consistent and a back button wouldn't be *gives examples*
Jobs: Oh yeah, that. No back button!
The bit that's missing from the conversation above, as reported in the summary, is who gave the order for every user interface component to be consistent. Always. All the time.
I think it's pretty obvious who. Jobs rejected the back button before he knew the back button existed, he just needed to be reminded of that.
They still don't (or do, depending on your perspective) - the command ("Splat") key (also seen on the Mac Plus keyboard) is the equivalent of Ctrl for Macs. And is the same key if you're using a USB or Bluetooth keyboard, just with the label changed.
The one by here has an entire medicine aisle. Except, of course, it's homeopathic because of course it is.
They certainly want you to think they're a supermarket or a supermarket competitor. And regardless of whether they do or not, that's who they're competing with.
What irritates me about whole foods is that they go to all the bother to sell expensive healthy organic produce and then they sell fraudulent homeopathic "cures" instead of real medications. To me it shows they really aren't a very honest company given they are pedaling snake oil like that. They're basically catering to idiot hippies with more money than brains.
This.
I'm already dubious because of the whole "Organic! GMO-free!" stuff that has no basis in any kind of respectable medical science - but, sure, people believe what they want to believe and it's probable the process leads to differently tasting foods. But the fact the "drugs aisle" is actually clearly fraudulent is enough to make me mistrust the entire company.
Or you could do as many others do and just order your medication via Google Express, Amazon Prime Now, or just Amazon Prime
Or I could just do what I've always done. If a business is asking me to change how I do things if I want to do business with them, they need to make it compelling. Saying "From now on, instead of going to Publix, you can come here for 75% of what you need, although it'll be more expensive, but some of our stuff might be slightly better than you'd find in Publix, and in some cases you might even be able to tell, and the other 25% of the time you can go on the Internet, and buy your items from there" is not really much of a selling proposition.
Oh sure, I'm sure some people are happy about it. But I suspect the people who are are the people who are totally down with Homeopathic bullshit anyway. They're the people buying organic wholemeal GMO-free lettuce, because it's organic, and wholemeal, and GMO-free, and because they think it doesn't have any pesticides. And to them that makes it worth it, not any perceived quality improvement, but because they believe all that crap makes it better.
I'm not in that category I'm afraid, so popping by Publix, or even *gasp* Wal-Mart (hey, they're cheaper, they were selling a gallon of milk for under $3 last time I went), on the way home from work seems to me to be the easiest option that gets me what I want.
You're more likely to find aspirin at a drugstore than Whole Foods.
100% likely. But Whole Foods does sell all the homeopathic bullshit you can buy, but it doesn't sell asprin. Because...
No, I'm not going to another store, be it another supermarket or a pharmacy, to buy asprin. No other supermarket on the planet refuses to sell basics like that. And while, yeah, I'm sure the steak is noticeably worse at Winn Dixie, but Publix manages to sell quality food and everything else you'd expect to find at a supermarket.
I also question the usefulness of a store that doesn't sell essentials like asprin. I can get decent quality steak at Publix, and I can get asprin there too. I might be able to get a better steak from Whole Foods but I suspect I probably wouldn't taste the difference, and after viewing the receipt, I'd have a headache and no asprin to fix it.
Now, sure, I can go to two supermarkets. I can also not, and use the extra half hour to an hour it would take to drive to the next one, park, go in, find what I'm looking for, go to the checkout, buy it, walk back to the car, and drive home, to read another chapter of a book, or watch TV.
Please do tell, oh victimized conservative, how calling the Republican effort "multi-million" and not, this time, calling the Democratic equivalent the same label, although it has been done many, many, times before, is somehow harmful to Republicans.
Is someone seriously not going to vote Republican because they heard they spent millions of dollars on a part of their campaign? Is someone seriously going to think the Democrats don't?
I've yet to come across a company that's gone for 100% self-checkout. All have a mix of both self-checkout and judgemental employee checkout. So if you want someone at Whole Foods to admire the fact you spent $20 on a can of lentil soup, they're continue to have someone there to do it, while the rest of us checkout quickly at the self-checkout, and pay less because of it.
As long as Whole Foods continues to sell organic whole earth GMO-free sandals, I'm pretty sure the company will attract the same customers it always has. I don't think many (note: I said many, I'm sure some do) go to it for the high prices and to have their shopping baskets judged by a minimum wage checkout clerk.
I apologize to the two moderators who apparently do want the right to repost ISIS's recruitment videos, but you're still horrible, horrible, people, and the people who are pretending this is about political correctness are still fucking idiots.
It's the 600MHz spectrum, it's always been in private hands. The difference is now the service it's being used for is more democratic - that is, T-Mobile will allow you and me to use it for a small fee, whereas once upon a time it was for the exclusive use of some TV stations in your area..
It's not just height restrictions, it's small numbers of well organized locals coming out against any developments that might improve the housing supply. Well intentioned politicians introduced measures to ensure communities had a say in their development, but those processes have been hijacked by groups opposed to everyone from outsiders to the poor.
What you really need to do is reduce the power of the community veto in circumstances in which a severe housing shortage exists. Legal Shantytowns seems a poor way to solve the problem, but it may well be Google is actually doing this to apply pressure on legislators to act - the payoff isn't more homes, it's horrified politicians realizing that a major city is becoming a third world spoof of itself thanks to its inability to deal with an easily solvable problem.
. Liberals hate to hear it, but NIMBYism is a major cause of inequality in America
Liberals have been arguing against NIMBYism for a long time. NIMBYism isn't ideologically aligned - here in Florida, the Republican counties are more likely to be NIMBYs than those dominated by urban Democrats. And California's Democratic governor is among those taking the strongest stand against that SF's residents are doing.
Are they terrorists or advocating terror? No? Well then they're not affected.
Every fucking time there's a story like this, there's always a whole host of modded to the sky idiots who insist that YouTube is really about to steal their frozen peaches over some shit that has nothing to do with terrorism but isn't "politically correct". Don't worry, you'll continue to be free to make an idiot of yourself by critiquing Anita Sarkeesian videos you haven't watched and know nothing about, and pretending you care about ethics in gaming journalism.
What you won't be able to do is repost ISIS's recruitment videos.
Almost everyone who runs a production GNU/Linux system in 2017 runs systemd. If it were even 1% as bad as the systemd trolls claim, GNU/Linux on the server would be radically losing marketshare to FreeBSD and even Windows. It isn't.
But Musk invented the Hyperloop! The Hyperloop! The single greatest form of transportation that'll never exist and would be totally shit if it really happened but gives NIMBYs a FUD strategy to help them kill HSR proposals!
It was modded up because it's probably correct. Trump has been dismantling organizations like the EPA since he entered office, there's every reason for us to be pessimistic that anything will happen about an issue like this.
And nobody on the left has been "ginning up snipers" with the possible exception of some obscure lunatics nobody can put a name to. This is somewhat unlike the, well, current President who has advocated violence against left wing protestors and even suggested gun owners should take out a hypothetical President Clinton during his campaign.
We're - the left, the centrists, the non-insane right - are going to continue to criticize Trump for his many, many, faults and abuses of power. Politicizing sniper attacks by lunatics as you're doing isn't going to stop that. It's unamerican to call for all criticism of the President to cease just because there's a hothead or two out there. If you want the criticism to stop, demand the President cease to do the things that demand criticism.
If you're charging $9 for a tomato, the margins are probably fatter than average.
Worth mentioning that chains like Publix do well enough to pay out dividends while adding stores pretty much every year.
Calculating profits vs investment is kind of awkward in supermarket retail. To give an example: I know of one UK chain that actually was able to rake in huge profits, for several decades, simply by delaying their payments to suppliers by up to three months as a matter of policy (suppliers knew this up front, they weren't being ripped off), banking the money in the mean time (earning interest.) There was sufficient interest earned that the company was able to sell everything for less than they paid, and make a profit, and this particular technique meant their balance sheet looked thinner than it was from a practical point of view - think "Our assets are a store that's $50,000, containing $4,940,000 worth of stock, and our liabilities are $5,000,000".
MOinvestment into that supermarket is $50,000, and it probably makes profits measured in tens of thousands. But it's amazing how a balance sheet can hide that.
(The chain's name was Kwik-save FWIW, it did eventually go bust, but after about 50 years, so it's hard to claim it was their business model that was the problem.)
When I lived in the UK, delivery was normally overnight. (That said, mail order companies used to take liberties with the "May take 28 days for delivery" disclaimer, but that's another story. The actual time taken from some guy handing it over to the Post Office and it arriving at my door was rarely more than a day, at most two.)
Now, I know the Post Office (or whatever it's called today) has gone downhill since I left, but I suspect the logistics of a country barely 600 miles long haven't changed so that it's dramatically worse (hold off replying, I'm about to define "dramatically"). But in the US, it is worse. Ship something across the country using conventional parcel services can take a week or two, whether it's the US Postal Service, or a private operator like UPS. (THAT is what I mean by dramatically worse.)
That's why Prime initially became popular over here. It's a relatively small subscription that ensures you get what you ordered in a timely manner without you having to worry about extortionate two-day-delivery feeds, which are frequently more expensive than whatever it is you're ordering.
These days Prime also provides other benefits, such as a pretty large Netflix style online streaming library, and a fairly substantial, though not Rhapsody sized, music library. But the postal thing is what sold it initially - and for the life of me I doubt that was ever going to be a selling point in the UK, even if the post has gotten worse.
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Either that or they're going to start publishing a newspaper that contains news aimed at both Trump supporters and everyone else, making 50% of it fake news. Hence "mixed reality"
Sorry, my point was probably unclear as I was answering a question that hadn't been asked. I was addressing the usual assumption that domestic cats are domesticated because once humans started trying to domesticate them, the evolution process favored cats that could live with humans.
I frequently hear people assert that cats purr, meow, etc, because those are things humans favor, and so cats that do that were more successful (because humans helped them and bred them) than cats that don't.
What's clear is that that isn't the case, cats were already easy to domesticate before humans started trying, and cheetahs are an example of a cat that does all those things (including meow!) despite having not having domestication as an evolutionary input.
Toxoplasma is, as another sibling posting points out, a parasite, which means that it's not cats domesticating people or vice versa, it's toxoplasma controlling both - if you want to be paranoid.
That said, as cats are domesticated and kept even in the absence of the parasite, it's not really a factor here. A sizable number of cats, including many outside of those practical to keep as pets, seem to be fairly easy to domesticate - bring up a cheetah cub yourself and it'll purr and let you do all the things you'd expect to be able to do with a Maine Coon without it ripping your head off, for example. As neither toxoplasma nor centuries of evolution explains that, you end up having to draw the conclusion that many, many, types of cat are just naturally comfortable and friendly towards those who bring them up.
Nah, he's admitting being "right" (I'm making no judgement here on whether it is right, but to Jobs it was.) If I'm following the argument correctly, the conversation is something like:
Jobs: We need a back button.
Designer: But we're trying to make everything consistent and a back button wouldn't be *gives examples*
Jobs: Oh yeah, that. No back button!
The bit that's missing from the conversation above, as reported in the summary, is who gave the order for every user interface component to be consistent. Always. All the time.
I think it's pretty obvious who. Jobs rejected the back button before he knew the back button existed, he just needed to be reminded of that.
They still don't (or do, depending on your perspective) - the command ("Splat") key (also seen on the Mac Plus keyboard) is the equivalent of Ctrl for Macs. And is the same key if you're using a USB or Bluetooth keyboard, just with the label changed.
The one by here has an entire medicine aisle. Except, of course, it's homeopathic because of course it is.
They certainly want you to think they're a supermarket or a supermarket competitor. And regardless of whether they do or not, that's who they're competing with.
This.
I'm already dubious because of the whole "Organic! GMO-free!" stuff that has no basis in any kind of respectable medical science - but, sure, people believe what they want to believe and it's probable the process leads to differently tasting foods. But the fact the "drugs aisle" is actually clearly fraudulent is enough to make me mistrust the entire company.
Or I could just do what I've always done. If a business is asking me to change how I do things if I want to do business with them, they need to make it compelling. Saying "From now on, instead of going to Publix, you can come here for 75% of what you need, although it'll be more expensive, but some of our stuff might be slightly better than you'd find in Publix, and in some cases you might even be able to tell, and the other 25% of the time you can go on the Internet, and buy your items from there" is not really much of a selling proposition.
Oh sure, I'm sure some people are happy about it. But I suspect the people who are are the people who are totally down with Homeopathic bullshit anyway. They're the people buying organic wholemeal GMO-free lettuce, because it's organic, and wholemeal, and GMO-free, and because they think it doesn't have any pesticides. And to them that makes it worth it, not any perceived quality improvement, but because they believe all that crap makes it better.
I'm not in that category I'm afraid, so popping by Publix, or even *gasp* Wal-Mart (hey, they're cheaper, they were selling a gallon of milk for under $3 last time I went), on the way home from work seems to me to be the easiest option that gets me what I want.
100% likely. But Whole Foods does sell all the homeopathic bullshit you can buy, but it doesn't sell asprin. Because...
No, I'm not going to another store, be it another supermarket or a pharmacy, to buy asprin. No other supermarket on the planet refuses to sell basics like that. And while, yeah, I'm sure the steak is noticeably worse at Winn Dixie, but Publix manages to sell quality food and everything else you'd expect to find at a supermarket.
I also question the usefulness of a store that doesn't sell essentials like asprin. I can get decent quality steak at Publix, and I can get asprin there too. I might be able to get a better steak from Whole Foods but I suspect I probably wouldn't taste the difference, and after viewing the receipt, I'd have a headache and no asprin to fix it.
Now, sure, I can go to two supermarkets. I can also not, and use the extra half hour to an hour it would take to drive to the next one, park, go in, find what I'm looking for, go to the checkout, buy it, walk back to the car, and drive home, to read another chapter of a book, or watch TV.
Please do tell, oh victimized conservative, how calling the Republican effort "multi-million" and not, this time, calling the Democratic equivalent the same label, although it has been done many, many, times before, is somehow harmful to Republicans.
Is someone seriously not going to vote Republican because they heard they spent millions of dollars on a part of their campaign? Is someone seriously going to think the Democrats don't?
I've yet to come across a company that's gone for 100% self-checkout. All have a mix of both self-checkout and judgemental employee checkout. So if you want someone at Whole Foods to admire the fact you spent $20 on a can of lentil soup, they're continue to have someone there to do it, while the rest of us checkout quickly at the self-checkout, and pay less because of it.
As long as Whole Foods continues to sell organic whole earth GMO-free sandals, I'm pretty sure the company will attract the same customers it always has. I don't think many (note: I said many, I'm sure some do) go to it for the high prices and to have their shopping baskets judged by a minimum wage checkout clerk.
I apologize to the two moderators who apparently do want the right to repost ISIS's recruitment videos, but you're still horrible, horrible, people, and the people who are pretending this is about political correctness are still fucking idiots.
It's the 600MHz spectrum, it's always been in private hands. The difference is now the service it's being used for is more democratic - that is, T-Mobile will allow you and me to use it for a small fee, whereas once upon a time it was for the exclusive use of some TV stations in your area..
It's not just height restrictions, it's small numbers of well organized locals coming out against any developments that might improve the housing supply. Well intentioned politicians introduced measures to ensure communities had a say in their development, but those processes have been hijacked by groups opposed to everyone from outsiders to the poor.
What you really need to do is reduce the power of the community veto in circumstances in which a severe housing shortage exists. Legal Shantytowns seems a poor way to solve the problem, but it may well be Google is actually doing this to apply pressure on legislators to act - the payoff isn't more homes, it's horrified politicians realizing that a major city is becoming a third world spoof of itself thanks to its inability to deal with an easily solvable problem.
Liberals have been arguing against NIMBYism for a long time. NIMBYism isn't ideologically aligned - here in Florida, the Republican counties are more likely to be NIMBYs than those dominated by urban Democrats. And California's Democratic governor is among those taking the strongest stand against that SF's residents are doing.
Are they terrorists or advocating terror? No? Well then they're not affected.
Every fucking time there's a story like this, there's always a whole host of modded to the sky idiots who insist that YouTube is really about to steal their frozen peaches over some shit that has nothing to do with terrorism but isn't "politically correct". Don't worry, you'll continue to be free to make an idiot of yourself by critiquing Anita Sarkeesian videos you haven't watched and know nothing about, and pretending you care about ethics in gaming journalism.
What you won't be able to do is repost ISIS's recruitment videos.
Almost everyone who runs a production GNU/Linux system in 2017 runs systemd. If it were even 1% as bad as the systemd trolls claim, GNU/Linux on the server would be radically losing marketshare to FreeBSD and even Windows. It isn't.
But Musk invented the Hyperloop! The Hyperloop! The single greatest form of transportation that'll never exist and would be totally shit if it really happened but gives NIMBYs a FUD strategy to help them kill HSR proposals!
It was modded up because it's probably correct. Trump has been dismantling organizations like the EPA since he entered office, there's every reason for us to be pessimistic that anything will happen about an issue like this.
And nobody on the left has been "ginning up snipers" with the possible exception of some obscure lunatics nobody can put a name to. This is somewhat unlike the, well, current President who has advocated violence against left wing protestors and even suggested gun owners should take out a hypothetical President Clinton during his campaign.
We're - the left, the centrists, the non-insane right - are going to continue to criticize Trump for his many, many, faults and abuses of power. Politicizing sniper attacks by lunatics as you're doing isn't going to stop that. It's unamerican to call for all criticism of the President to cease just because there's a hothead or two out there. If you want the criticism to stop, demand the President cease to do the things that demand criticism.
You are aware VGA came out in the late eighties, and EGA mid eighties?
This is the Libertarian equivalent of the "No it's not a LOLPHP, it's documented!" argument.
If you're charging $9 for a tomato, the margins are probably fatter than average.
Worth mentioning that chains like Publix do well enough to pay out dividends while adding stores pretty much every year.
Calculating profits vs investment is kind of awkward in supermarket retail. To give an example: I know of one UK chain that actually was able to rake in huge profits, for several decades, simply by delaying their payments to suppliers by up to three months as a matter of policy (suppliers knew this up front, they weren't being ripped off), banking the money in the mean time (earning interest.) There was sufficient interest earned that the company was able to sell everything for less than they paid, and make a profit, and this particular technique meant their balance sheet looked thinner than it was from a practical point of view - think "Our assets are a store that's $50,000, containing $4,940,000 worth of stock, and our liabilities are $5,000,000". MOinvestment into that supermarket is $50,000, and it probably makes profits measured in tens of thousands. But it's amazing how a balance sheet can hide that.
(The chain's name was Kwik-save FWIW, it did eventually go bust, but after about 50 years, so it's hard to claim it was their business model that was the problem.)
When I lived in the UK, delivery was normally overnight. (That said, mail order companies used to take liberties with the "May take 28 days for delivery" disclaimer, but that's another story. The actual time taken from some guy handing it over to the Post Office and it arriving at my door was rarely more than a day, at most two.)
Now, I know the Post Office (or whatever it's called today) has gone downhill since I left, but I suspect the logistics of a country barely 600 miles long haven't changed so that it's dramatically worse (hold off replying, I'm about to define "dramatically"). But in the US, it is worse. Ship something across the country using conventional parcel services can take a week or two, whether it's the US Postal Service, or a private operator like UPS. (THAT is what I mean by dramatically worse.)
That's why Prime initially became popular over here. It's a relatively small subscription that ensures you get what you ordered in a timely manner without you having to worry about extortionate two-day-delivery feeds, which are frequently more expensive than whatever it is you're ordering.
These days Prime also provides other benefits, such as a pretty large Netflix style online streaming library, and a fairly substantial, though not Rhapsody sized, music library. But the postal thing is what sold it initially - and for the life of me I doubt that was ever going to be a selling point in the UK, even if the post has gotten worse.