Honestly, there's times when you just look at things and think "Where the fuck did all that good stuff I enjoyed go to?".
Not really. Hollywood/the entertainment industry has always produced on a bell curve, you've just edited the crap out of your memory and thus created a false vision of a rosy past that never actually existed.
The second is that the expense of fighting the mujaheddin was so costly it resulted in the collapse of the Soviet economy and the unwinding of the entire Soviet state and a withdrawal from "Muslim lands". Of course the reality is that Afghanistan was a side adventure for the Soviets, it was the collapse in oil prices (the only way the Soviets could earn hard currency) in the 80's along with trying to keep up with the American defense spending of the 80's that did the Soviet government in. This double wammy exhausted the currency and gold reserves of the soviet state and resulted in collapse.
I can't speak to the rest of your 'facts'... But this one? No. Soviet defense spending peaked in the mid 70's and was generally on the decline through the 80's. Despite the myths spread by the Right in support of the canonization of Saint Reagan, and the propaganda from the military-industrial complex 'justifying' the obscene amounts of money they demand of us - we did not 'outspend' the Soviet Union into collapse.
I guess I look at pranks on strangers as something that has to be limited enough that the person pranked will themselves laugh about it.
Sure, like gluing a quarter to the ground or the ol' dollar bill on a fishing line trick; something that most people will instantly recognize as a silly, light-hearted prank and move on.
This. But, looking at their channel, they had an awful lot of much more dangerous 'pranks' (faking shots fired in a parking garage, faking a street shooting in public). These are going to get The Man involved, and The Man (quite rightfully) takes a dim view of incidents deliberately designed to panic people. They also had more than a couple where they deliberately placed people (complete strangers) in fear of their lives... for amusement. Yet another crossing of the line of reasonability.
Their channel name, Trollstation, gives the game away though... They weren't looking for laughs (a prank), they were (like all trolls) looking for attention. And they got the attention they deserved, the IRL equivalent of a banhammer.
I've never been much of a twitch gamer (poor eye hand coordination) and my upstairs neighbor used to rag me good naturedly about my addition to Sim City, Civilization, Master Of Orion and other turn based/strategy type games. So, one evening he pokes his head over the balcony and invites me upstairs to see his new computer (a 486) and this new game (which turned out to be Doom). So, as the game is booting up, he's telling me about how good he is at the game... and then proceeds to lose all his lives in less than a minute. Ok, he says.... and tries again with the same result. This happened about four times before I gave him some grief and wandered back downstairs laughing at him.
Though to be completely fair, he was pretty good at real time/twitch games, just that night he couldn't seem to keep it together. A few days later we tried again, and he gave me a complete tour of all the levels. Never did let him live it down though, every time after that when he wanted to show me a new game, I would ask him "this isn't another Doom is it?".
In other words - the grandparent is correct. No matter how hard the SpaceX fanboys try to spin it, Dragon V2 isn't currently man rated. Nor is it known when it will be certified for manned flight. (Currently the final certification flight isn't scheduled until 2017.)
No it isn't... labor is generally just as expensive, if not more expensive than the cost of the food...
You're only looking at part of the equation. Sure, you can say you pay an employee $X per hour and that they can make Y sandwiches per hour. You can say that the raw materials in each sandwich is $B. What you can't as easily predict though is how much you will pay to keep the lights on, or how much it will cost to maintain the equipment in the restaurant. You can't predict how much your parking lot will cost you or when your landlord (if you are in a shopping mall and don't own your property) will raise your rent. They also cannot always predict what the franchise fee will be any given year.
Nice job moving the goalposts. But yes, you can predict those things with sufficient accuracy, especially once you have a few years experience. Doing so is bread-and-butter work for any accountant. (Source - my lovely wife, a CPA.)
And the OP is correct, labor is far and away the biggest cost in the restaurant industry. In many industries, labor is far and away your biggest cost - there's a reason why every business that can has, ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution, sought to automate and/or use machines to increase productivity.
This stuck me as more of that manufactured rage that billionaire funded think tanks have on offer. The sad thing is I'm sure my right wing friends will be repeating it as fact for years to come...
O.o
Did you miss the part where more evidence has surfaced that deliberate manipulation took place? If your right wing friends are repeating this as factual, that's because it increasingly appears to be factual !
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, I don't know who lives in a stronger Reality Distortion Field - the addlepated idiots on the Left, or the ignorant idiots on the Right.
Seriously, today's PCs are GROTESQUELY overpowered for anything but certain types of games.
Sounds like you don't get out much. Today's PC (barely a year old) for me noticeably lags during certain photo editing tasks. And don't even ask about significant video processing, I don't even try anymore unless I can let it run overnight.
Honestly, the PC market was in the Moore's Law bubble so long, that it's LONG overdue for this sort of correction.
I suspect the ongoing economic stagnation and the "squeeze on the middle class" is causing the 'correction' as much, if not more, than any 'correction' due to moving out of a "Moore's Law Bubble'. Doubly so since/. has been trumpeting every drop in PC sales for the last twenty years as being caused by "lack of recent performance increases". (When they're not blaming it on Windows while failing to note Apple suffering similar decreases.) There's also the penetration of smartphones, phablets, and tablets to consider - for many people these have entirely replaced the desktop or laptop PC.
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do with "safety" on the party of the City Council. This was about control, political connections, and Austin getting a taste of Uber and Lyfts cash. It's a classic shake down.
Having made such a claim, care to actually back it up? How, exactly, did Proposition 1 shake down Uber or Lyft for cash?
Yep, the politicians step in to fuck it up. Austin wants to control prices, wants fees, and wants to limit the number of drivers.
[[Citation Needed]]
So now Uber and Lyft leave and more people will stumble to their cars at 2am and drive drunk, More people will drive their own vehicles downtown, taking up parking and clogging up traffic. The cost of getting a ride will go up and service will decline.
So, how much did Uber and Lyft pay you to shill for them?
If they can get a high recovery rate (and this more-difficult recovery argues that they might), that drives down the cost of a launch.
The real question is how much it drives down the cost of a launch - I.E. how much does refurbishment and recertification cost? Yeah, yeah, I know what Musk has tweeted. I don't put much credence in his ego driven preening.
But now is the time for SpaceX to focus on making a profit and having a rapid cadence. If Elon does that, he will have lots of $$$ and recovered boosters for Mars projects.
He'll have lots of boosters, sure. Enough bucks for the hardware though? That's another very open question.
I always laugh my ass off when the deeply religious offer prayers in response to inconvenient facts.
Or, to put it another way, your response is completely and utterly irrelevant to my statement. That sound you heard was my point whooshing far over your head.
I guess you missed SpaceX landing the Stage 1 boosters on land (Florida) and at sea recently after accomplishing their missions, in both cases using propulsion.
You're the second clueless fuckwit with the reading comprehension of used bubble gum that doesn't seem to grasp that a Dragon isn't a Falcon, and Mars isn't Earth.
The Falcon Heavy hasn't flown, he's never been beyond LEO
Who is "he"? As far as I know Musk hasn't been in space at all, I don't know if Dragon has ever been outside LEO but SpaceX have delivered several satellites to GEO and one to L1, so certainly the rockets can reach Mars.
Since the question wasn't whether or not they can reach Mars, how are the payloads delivered even remotely relevant?
And he hasn't landed a Dragon propulsively, but a huge shell of a rocket with wind or waves to deal with actually seems harder than Mars, except you don't get a paved landing pad.
It doesn't occur to you that using an entirely different propulsion system and an entirely different landing mode might make just a litte bit of a difference?
Isn't that more similar to what NASA did in the 60s than what SpaceX did just recently?
Huh? NASA didn't land on Mars in the 60's. It's broadly similar to what NASA did in the 70's, but with entirely different hardware.
I think he is off to a good start. Don't know about the time table. He has successfully shown that he can perform this type of lift and landing.
o.0 Huh?
The Falcon Heavy hasn't flown, he's never been beyond LEO (the difference in thermal environment is of particular concern here), and no Dragon of any kind has ever landed propulsively. (Though there have been some short test hops IIRC.) Or, to put it another way, pretty much none of the precursors to this mission have been demonstrated, let alone successfully.
Seriously, are Musk fanboys just completely clueless when it come to space technology, or are their blinders that thick?
He didn't just talk abut robots, he talked about technology - and for good reason. It's not just manufacturing jobs that are vanishing.
The entire travel agent industry was wiped out by Expedia and the like. Booksellers have been virtually eradicated by Amazon and e-readers. Quicken, vertical packages, and tax software have taken a heavy toll on accountants. CAD programs have virtually wiped out the professional draftsman. The PC and an attached printer completely destroyed the job printer. (Even my relatively small town in a semi-rural county used to have three... and two more elsewhere in the county.) Automated phone systems are wiping out the phone desk, which used to be an entry level job in a lot of fields. (The mail room clerk is vanishing too.) Etc... etc...
Of what happens when you leave safety up to the private sector.
Funny thing - this ship was fully compliant with government regulations at the time, including the specific rule governing the number of lifeboats it was required to carry.
Ayup. And the number was so small not because of any perfidy on the part of the government or influence from the private sector either.
Prior to the loss of Titanic it was presumed (not unreasonably based on experience) that if a ship was lost near the coast, it only needed enough lifeboats to make a few a trips between the ship and shore. Equally it was presumed that if you were lost further out from the coast, especially in the middle of the ocean, you were basically fucked. It simply wasn't practical to equip a liner with enough lifeboats with sufficient food and drinking water (anywhere from several weeks to several months) for all the passengers to have a shot at survival. And the odds weren't good that heavily loaded boats that small would survive open ocean conditions long enough to fetch up on the coast even so.
Titanic shattered those assumptions because she had a radio. Now you could call for help, and expect to get it. In the heavily traveled North Atlantic, help might only be a few hours away. Now if you could get off the ship, in many places in the world you need only survive for hours or days at most.
The problem isn't that the regulations were insufficient. Nor that the regulators or operators were corrupt. It's simply that the regulations hadn't caught up with the new capabilities offered by new technology. They hadn't even realized the new capabilities existed.
Tesla has issued a press release stating they have open sourced their patents. But open source isn't (so far as I am aware) a legal term of art, especially with regards to patent law. Nor is a press release a legal release. (Though it may establish intent.)
So, it's not clear to me at all that the patents are in fact open and free to the point where Ford etc... can spend billions of dollars free from the possibility of a lawsuit.
It's not unreasonable for his jailers to try to prevent it from becoming 78. He's so dangerous that making him wear cuffs when moving him between cells and preventing him from coming into proximity with other prisoners seem like reasonable precautions.
He's a rather ordinary human being, not Lex Luthor or Hannibal Lecter.
You make it sound like a dealer network is the only way to solve this problem
Is there a different way than a network of dealers and service centers? Feel free to contribute your ideas.
that Tesla hasn't thought this through and has a solution.
You have information to this end? Feel free to share it.
Neither are the case.
Basically, you seem to have nothing to support your case save blind optimism. Thanks for playing, but you don't even get a used copy of the home game with half the pieces missing.
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Not really. Hollywood/the entertainment industry has always produced on a bell curve, you've just edited the crap out of your memory and thus created a false vision of a rosy past that never actually existed.
I can't speak to the rest of your 'facts'... But this one? No. Soviet defense spending peaked in the mid 70's and was generally on the decline through the 80's. Despite the myths spread by the Right in support of the canonization of Saint Reagan, and the propaganda from the military-industrial complex 'justifying' the obscene amounts of money they demand of us - we did not 'outspend' the Soviet Union into collapse.
This. But, looking at their channel, they had an awful lot of much more dangerous 'pranks' (faking shots fired in a parking garage, faking a street shooting in public). These are going to get The Man involved, and The Man (quite rightfully) takes a dim view of incidents deliberately designed to panic people. They also had more than a couple where they deliberately placed people (complete strangers) in fear of their lives... for amusement. Yet another crossing of the line of reasonability.
Their channel name, Trollstation, gives the game away though... They weren't looking for laughs (a prank), they were (like all trolls) looking for attention. And they got the attention they deserved, the IRL equivalent of a banhammer.
I've never been much of a twitch gamer (poor eye hand coordination) and my upstairs neighbor used to rag me good naturedly about my addition to Sim City, Civilization, Master Of Orion and other turn based/strategy type games. So, one evening he pokes his head over the balcony and invites me upstairs to see his new computer (a 486) and this new game (which turned out to be Doom). So, as the game is booting up, he's telling me about how good he is at the game... and then proceeds to lose all his lives in less than a minute. Ok, he says.... and tries again with the same result. This happened about four times before I gave him some grief and wandered back downstairs laughing at him.
Though to be completely fair, he was pretty good at real time/twitch games, just that night he couldn't seem to keep it together. A few days later we tried again, and he gave me a complete tour of all the levels. Never did let him live it down though, every time after that when he wanted to show me a new game, I would ask him "this isn't another Doom is it?".
Did you actually read the article or just look at the pictures? The article makes it quite plain that the webmaster (Sigurd Zitars) was arrested..
In other words - the grandparent is correct. No matter how hard the SpaceX fanboys try to spin it, Dragon V2 isn't currently man rated. Nor is it known when it will be certified for manned flight. (Currently the final certification flight isn't scheduled until 2017.)
Nice job moving the goalposts. But yes, you can predict those things with sufficient accuracy, especially once you have a few years experience. Doing so is bread-and-butter work for any accountant. (Source - my lovely wife, a CPA.)
And the OP is correct, labor is far and away the biggest cost in the restaurant industry. In many industries, labor is far and away your biggest cost - there's a reason why every business that can has, ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution, sought to automate and/or use machines to increase productivity.
O.o
Did you miss the part where more evidence has surfaced that deliberate manipulation took place? If your right wing friends are repeating this as factual, that's because it increasingly appears to be factual !
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, I don't know who lives in a stronger Reality Distortion Field - the addlepated idiots on the Left, or the ignorant idiots on the Right.
Sounds like you don't get out much. Today's PC (barely a year old) for me noticeably lags during certain photo editing tasks. And don't even ask about significant video processing, I don't even try anymore unless I can let it run overnight.
I suspect the ongoing economic stagnation and the "squeeze on the middle class" is causing the 'correction' as much, if not more, than any 'correction' due to moving out of a "Moore's Law Bubble'. Doubly so since /. has been trumpeting every drop in PC sales for the last twenty years as being caused by "lack of recent performance increases". (When they're not blaming it on Windows while failing to note Apple suffering similar decreases.) There's also the penetration of smartphones, phablets, and tablets to consider - for many people these have entirely replaced the desktop or laptop PC.
Having made such a claim, care to actually back it up? How, exactly, did Proposition 1 shake down Uber or Lyft for cash?
[[Citation Needed]]
So, how much did Uber and Lyft pay you to shill for them?
Or get the HBO app.
The real question is how much it drives down the cost of a launch - I.E. how much does refurbishment and recertification cost? Yeah, yeah, I know what Musk has tweeted. I don't put much credence in his ego driven preening.
He'll have lots of boosters, sure. Enough bucks for the hardware though? That's another very open question.
I always laugh my ass off when the deeply religious offer prayers in response to inconvenient facts.
Or, to put it another way, your response is completely and utterly irrelevant to my statement. That sound you heard was my point whooshing far over your head.
"the bug was introduced in the 2013 patch"
Yep. With Open Source, there's a lot of eyes on code and this kinda stuff doesn't happen like it does with proprietary code.
Nope, I still have the checkbox.
You're the second clueless fuckwit with the reading comprehension of used bubble gum that doesn't seem to grasp that a Dragon isn't a Falcon, and Mars isn't Earth.
Since the question wasn't whether or not they can reach Mars, how are the payloads delivered even remotely relevant?
It doesn't occur to you that using an entirely different propulsion system and an entirely different landing mode might make just a litte bit of a difference?
Huh? NASA didn't land on Mars in the 60's. It's broadly similar to what NASA did in the 70's, but with entirely different hardware.
o.0 Huh?
The Falcon Heavy hasn't flown, he's never been beyond LEO (the difference in thermal environment is of particular concern here), and no Dragon of any kind has ever landed propulsively. (Though there have been some short test hops IIRC.) Or, to put it another way, pretty much none of the precursors to this mission have been demonstrated, let alone successfully.
Seriously, are Musk fanboys just completely clueless when it come to space technology, or are their blinders that thick?
He didn't just talk abut robots, he talked about technology - and for good reason. It's not just manufacturing jobs that are vanishing.
The entire travel agent industry was wiped out by Expedia and the like. Booksellers have been virtually eradicated by Amazon and e-readers. Quicken, vertical packages, and tax software have taken a heavy toll on accountants. CAD programs have virtually wiped out the professional draftsman. The PC and an attached printer completely destroyed the job printer. (Even my relatively small town in a semi-rural county used to have three... and two more elsewhere in the county.) Automated phone systems are wiping out the phone desk, which used to be an entry level job in a lot of fields. (The mail room clerk is vanishing too.) Etc... etc...
Ayup. And the number was so small not because of any perfidy on the part of the government or influence from the private sector either.
Prior to the loss of Titanic it was presumed (not unreasonably based on experience) that if a ship was lost near the coast, it only needed enough lifeboats to make a few a trips between the ship and shore. Equally it was presumed that if you were lost further out from the coast, especially in the middle of the ocean, you were basically fucked. It simply wasn't practical to equip a liner with enough lifeboats with sufficient food and drinking water (anywhere from several weeks to several months) for all the passengers to have a shot at survival. And the odds weren't good that heavily loaded boats that small would survive open ocean conditions long enough to fetch up on the coast even so.
Titanic shattered those assumptions because she had a radio. Now you could call for help, and expect to get it. In the heavily traveled North Atlantic, help might only be a few hours away. Now if you could get off the ship, in many places in the world you need only survive for hours or days at most.
The problem isn't that the regulations were insufficient. Nor that the regulators or operators were corrupt. It's simply that the regulations hadn't caught up with the new capabilities offered by new technology. They hadn't even realized the new capabilities existed.
Tesla has issued a press release stating they have open sourced their patents. But open source isn't (so far as I am aware) a legal term of art, especially with regards to patent law. Nor is a press release a legal release. (Though it may establish intent.)
So, it's not clear to me at all that the patents are in fact open and free to the point where Ford etc... can spend billions of dollars free from the possibility of a lawsuit.
He's a rather ordinary human being, not Lex Luthor or Hannibal Lecter.
So is Snowden now a celebrity media personality who is famous for being famous and whose every word the /. demographic is supposed to hang?
If so, I didn't get the memo.
In other words - your "solution" is the one I already mentioned, a network of dealers and service centers.
Go the fuck back to kindergarten and get back to me when you have at least the reading comprehension of a wad of chewed bubblegum.
Is there a different way than a network of dealers and service centers? Feel free to contribute your ideas.
You have information to this end? Feel free to share it.
Basically, you seem to have nothing to support your case save blind optimism. Thanks for playing, but you don't even get a used copy of the home game with half the pieces missing.