Unless Amazon figures out how to make their shipping reliable again, I can't see this succeeding. Most of the time people don't have a week-wide window for receipt of their drugs.
Amazon thought they were paying too much to FedEx and UPS (and probably USPS as well) for shipping, so they decided to hire their own drivers and "cut out the middle man". But it turns out that managing a delivery service is hard work, unless you want your delivery people to suck and your customers to constantly complain about it.
So now they're basically trying to lure unsuspecting people into subsidizing Amazon's delivery costs. I'm sure some desperate fools will fall for it...
Fermi’s wife was Jewish, and their household tended to follow the Jewish holidays. Well, one day Fermi drove into work, not realizing it was December 25th. He tended to be pretty focused on his own projects, so he really didn’t notice that most of his coworkers had stayed home for Christmas.
Noon came around, so Fermi grabbed the knishes his wife had packed for him and went to the normally bustling lunchroom - but found there were only three other guys there. So, naturally, he asked one of them “Where is everyone?”
Your original “all they need to do” statement didn’t mention profit potential at all, nor any qualifiers other than a willingness to state “we’re not affiliated with J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers”.
I would expect many of these festivals could potentially run afoul of “nominative use” in several of the same ways that Axenar did.
All they need to do is both assert normative usage rights and to expressly indicate that they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the owners of the Harry Potter franchise, including but not limited to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers.
Ask the Prelude to Axenar folks how well that “Nomative Use” argument worked for them.
“I’ve got a patent on 87% of the likely ways NASA would try to stop an asteroid, and a dozen east Texas lawyers on hot standby. To hell with trolling individuals... the US government has the deepest pockets of all!”
The Germans never would have used such an encryption if modern methods of breaking it existed. So a complete misnomer.
The Germans also would never have surrendered just because the British cracked their Enigma code - so the story is rather silly on several levels, and that title is complete bollocks (to borrow a phrase from our cousins across the pond).
Bender: Clem Johnson? That skin bag wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues! Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern hitting machine!
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean come on! Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh and I suppose Pitch-O-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer.
Leela: Yep.
Bender: You humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field.
Fry: What are you talking about? There's all kinds of robots down there.
Bender: Yeah doing crap work! They're bat boys, ball polishers, sprinkler systems. But how many robot managers are there?
Fry: Eleven?
Bender: Zero! [He throws his bottle on the floor and it breaks. A small robot comes out and cleans it up.] And what a surprise! Look who's scraping up the filth! Is it a human child? I wish!
Hell, we don't need robots, we've had instant replay for decades.
In baseball, instant replay adds interminable delays to a game many people already think takes too long. Additionally, the circumstances under which it can be invoked are quite limited - you can’t challenge ball/strike calls, for instance. And none of it actually involves tech, unless you refer to humans looking at multiple camera angle views and making a decision based on what they’ve seen as “tech”.
I’m willing to put up with human imperfection, but I’d also be fine if MLB suddenly decided it was going to automate ball/strike calls. The tech is already in place for that. But the current challenge-invoked rules are the worst of both worlds, in my opinion.
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Unless Amazon figures out how to make their shipping reliable again, I can't see this succeeding. Most of the time people don't have a week-wide window for receipt of their drugs.
That's going to go well with AmazonOS, FireOS, AlexaOS, ShippingOS, DroneOS and UnderpaidminionsOS!
MalpractOS
Government regulation is for CHUMPS! Boo yah!
Amazon thought they were paying too much to FedEx and UPS (and probably USPS as well) for shipping, so they decided to hire their own drivers and "cut out the middle man". But it turns out that managing a delivery service is hard work, unless you want your delivery people to suck and your customers to constantly complain about it.
So now they're basically trying to lure unsuspecting people into subsidizing Amazon's delivery costs. I'm sure some desperate fools will fall for it...
The airlines need to adjust and adapt, just like everyone else.
People take Fermi’s comment way out of context.
Fermi’s wife was Jewish, and their household tended to follow the Jewish holidays. Well, one day Fermi drove into work, not realizing it was December 25th. He tended to be pretty focused on his own projects, so he really didn’t notice that most of his coworkers had stayed home for Christmas.
Noon came around, so Fermi grabbed the knishes his wife had packed for him and went to the normally bustling lunchroom - but found there were only three other guys there. So, naturally, he asked one of them “Where is everyone?”
Rousseau was right.
I did enjoy the TV show, but I'm not particularly happy that they've been trying to implement it in the real world.
Why would anyone want to do this?
Theo: Worried
Random Slashdotter: Not so worried
No offense, but I’ll go with the OpenBSD and LibreSSL guy on security matters.
If the jury chooses in favor of the employee, one of the jurors has to lose their job.
"How can we get them to stop?"
Your original “all they need to do” statement didn’t mention profit potential at all, nor any qualifiers other than a willingness to state “we’re not affiliated with J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers”.
I would expect many of these festivals could potentially run afoul of “nominative use” in several of the same ways that Axenar did.
All they need to do is both assert normative usage rights and to expressly indicate that they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the owners of the Harry Potter franchise, including but not limited to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers.
Ask the Prelude to Axenar folks how well that “Nomative Use” argument worked for them.
“I’ve got a patent on 87% of the likely ways NASA would try to stop an asteroid, and a dozen east Texas lawyers on hot standby. To hell with trolling individuals... the US government has the deepest pockets of all!”
The Germans never would have used such an encryption if modern methods of breaking it existed. So a complete misnomer.
The Germans also would never have surrendered just because the British cracked their Enigma code - so the story is rather silly on several levels, and that title is complete bollocks (to borrow a phrase from our cousins across the pond).
The Final Countdown had F-14s having dog fights with Japanese Zeros.
I don’t remember that part; but it ended with Moss (AKA “Word”) defeating Negative One in a game of “Street Countdown”.
Bender: Clem Johnson? That skin bag wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues! Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern hitting machine!
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean come on! Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh and I suppose Pitch-O-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer.
Leela: Yep.
Bender: You humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field.
Fry: What are you talking about? There's all kinds of robots down there.
Bender: Yeah doing crap work! They're bat boys, ball polishers, sprinkler systems. But how many robot managers are there?
Fry: Eleven?
Bender: Zero! [He throws his bottle on the floor and it breaks. A small robot comes out and cleans it up.] And what a surprise! Look who's scraping up the filth! Is it a human child? I wish!
Hell, we don't need robots, we've had instant replay for decades.
In baseball, instant replay adds interminable delays to a game many people already think takes too long. Additionally, the circumstances under which it can be invoked are quite limited - you can’t challenge ball/strike calls, for instance. And none of it actually involves tech, unless you refer to humans looking at multiple camera angle views and making a decision based on what they’ve seen as “tech”.
I’m willing to put up with human imperfection, but I’d also be fine if MLB suddenly decided it was going to automate ball/strike calls. The tech is already in place for that. But the current challenge-invoked rules are the worst of both worlds, in my opinion.
Ethics aside, because nobody in an emergency room wouldn't want a cure.
I’m not sure we can genetically engineer a cure for gunshot wounds or car accidents.
Is that the Deschutes Obsidian Stout?
I imagine BeauHD wishes U of M would invent a pill cam that fits on the tip of a grain of rice...
That’s why they’re not around anymore - Pythagoras sued them into oblivion.
Form over function.
Texas - where Men are Men and Sheep are Scared.