Correction: Is cheaper than Whole Foods USED to be.
Especially for Prime members.
Having been in Whole Foods before, I can tell you that taking 10% off “hundreds of sale items” is not bringing its prices anywhere near those at my local Winco Foods nor those of our local Fred Meyer - the two grocery stores we generally shop at.
I live in Washington state. A couple of years ago we got an Amber Alert related to an abduction in California - somebody thought the guy might choose to head north, so they apparently set them off along the entire I-5 corridor.
I disabled them on my phone long before that, but you still see them on freeway signs and whatnot.
The idea behind Amber Alerts isn’t a bad one, but the implementation is rubbish - probably because it’s driven by emotion rather than a rational look at what might actually help.
Sure, it’s nice not to be a target... but even if they’re collecting my data incidentally that’s a problem, since we’ve seen time and time again that law enforcement agencies hold onto incidental data as well. This means it can get stolen and misused by other bad actors; or it can potentially be used against you in the future by government and/or private entities without application of the constitutional strictures that exist in a land where people are supposedly innocent until proven guilty.
- As far as I can tell, the reason this plant breeder isn’t using CRISPR is because she is “concerned” anti-GMO activists will fight it. There’s no mention of anything these activists have actually done - so the premise itself seems a bit dicey. It’s like me saying “I don’t want to go outside for a walk because I read about people getting proselytized when they were out for a walk”.
- The approach itself doesn’t seem to address the fundamental problem of increasing CO2 production. Yes, we can plant some farmland with this theoretical super crop... but the amount of land available for this has an upper bound, so the quantity of CO2 that can theoretically be fixed also has an upper bound. We’re basically talking about, at best, moving the clock back by some set number of years.
They didn't actually remove don't be evil.... Only part of the motto was removed, you see: the only part they actually removed was the word Don't; leaving most of the policy intact.
It was even more minor than that - they only removed the “n”, the apostrophe, and the “t”. That’s less than a 25% change!
It's a great idea but if you're a manager or other similar non-productive type, half of your job is randomly stopping by and annoying your co-workers
That's still quite possible to do remotely.
I had a boss who required we all be on instant messaging at all times, whether in the office or working from home. On my telecommute days he would IM irrelevant crap to me at random times - I assume to check whether I'd respond or not (he would only do this when I was teleworking, never in the office). I'd tell him that having to stay on IM all the time substantially negated the benefit of teleworking, since those were supposed to be my focus-on-longterm-project days - but he would have none of that.
The big news there is - Musk is apparently a SpongeBob SquarePants fan.
Or, maybe he secretly sees himself as Plankton, in which case we should be concerned that a coin-operated self-destruct might get included in these cars...
It's fitting that the story comes from the Washington Post since this has nothing to do with Amazon and EVERYTHING to do with the smear job WAPO has been doing to Trump.
So you are claiming that a story about how Trump is pushing the Postmaster General to significantly increase the rates it charges Amazon... has nothing to do with Amazon? Are you saying Trump did not, in fact, press for Amazon's postal rates to increase? Because the Postmaster General has specifically and rather publicly stated why she cannot do that - which would be an odd and random thing for her to say if Trump hadn't asked for it.
Oh come on - next thing you'll claim is that Sergei didn't actually skydive to the top of the auditorium where Google I/O was being held a couple years ago...
Every week there's another article about some ridiculous new shit literally thousands of people are doing that's ruining everything, and it's absolutely never relevant outside either LA or SF.
The last story along these lines was just three days ago... and it was about Washington, DC, which is several thousand miles away from both cities you mention.
You may have gotten that impression, though, because many of the companies causing these "problems" are headquartered in California's Silicon Valley.
Yeah, I'd really like to see what a similar poll of non-millennials would end up showing.
I'm way, way out of the "millennial" group - as are most of my co-workers and friends. But a significant percentage of people in my circle claim they are "looking"... and this is nothing new. Most of them will still be in the same job five years down the road, regardless of their stated intentions now - and they'll still be saying then that they're just about ready to leave, any day now.
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Correction: Is cheaper than Whole Foods USED to be.
Especially for Prime members.
Having been in Whole Foods before, I can tell you that taking 10% off “hundreds of sale items” is not bringing its prices anywhere near those at my local Winco Foods nor those of our local Fred Meyer - the two grocery stores we generally shop at.
I live in Washington state. A couple of years ago we got an Amber Alert related to an abduction in California - somebody thought the guy might choose to head north, so they apparently set them off along the entire I-5 corridor.
I disabled them on my phone long before that, but you still see them on freeway signs and whatnot.
The idea behind Amber Alerts isn’t a bad one, but the implementation is rubbish - probably because it’s driven by emotion rather than a rational look at what might actually help.
Sure, it’s nice not to be a target... but even if they’re collecting my data incidentally that’s a problem, since we’ve seen time and time again that law enforcement agencies hold onto incidental data as well. This means it can get stolen and misused by other bad actors; or it can potentially be used against you in the future by government and/or private entities without application of the constitutional strictures that exist in a land where people are supposedly innocent until proven guilty.
- As far as I can tell, the reason this plant breeder isn’t using CRISPR is because she is “concerned” anti-GMO activists will fight it. There’s no mention of anything these activists have actually done - so the premise itself seems a bit dicey. It’s like me saying “I don’t want to go outside for a walk because I read about people getting proselytized when they were out for a walk”.
- The approach itself doesn’t seem to address the fundamental problem of increasing CO2 production. Yes, we can plant some farmland with this theoretical super crop... but the amount of land available for this has an upper bound, so the quantity of CO2 that can theoretically be fixed also has an upper bound. We’re basically talking about, at best, moving the clock back by some set number of years.
Well, you see, they can’t - Spike Lee sued them over the use of that phrase.
They didn't actually remove don't be evil.... Only part of the motto was removed, you see: the only part they actually removed was the word Don't; leaving most of the policy intact.
It was even more minor than that - they only removed the “n”, the apostrophe, and the “t”. That’s less than a 25% change!
That would be a rather weird and creepy thing to see floating out there, disembodied.
It's a great idea but if you're a manager or other similar non-productive type, half of your job is randomly stopping by and annoying your co-workers
That's still quite possible to do remotely.
I had a boss who required we all be on instant messaging at all times, whether in the office or working from home. On my telecommute days he would IM irrelevant crap to me at random times - I assume to check whether I'd respond or not (he would only do this when I was teleworking, never in the office). I'd tell him that having to stay on IM all the time substantially negated the benefit of teleworking, since those were supposed to be my focus-on-longterm-project days - but he would have none of that.
The big news there is - Musk is apparently a SpongeBob SquarePants fan.
Or, maybe he secretly sees himself as Plankton, in which case we should be concerned that a coin-operated self-destruct might get included in these cars...
It's fitting that the story comes from the Washington Post since this has nothing to do with Amazon and EVERYTHING to do with the smear job WAPO has been doing to Trump.
So you are claiming that a story about how Trump is pushing the Postmaster General to significantly increase the rates it charges Amazon... has nothing to do with Amazon? Are you saying Trump did not, in fact, press for Amazon's postal rates to increase? Because the Postmaster General has specifically and rather publicly stated why she cannot do that - which would be an odd and random thing for her to say if Trump hadn't asked for it.
How about a similar story from Fox News? Is this one a smear job too? Did Bezos buy Fox News? http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
And I heard “Turn me on, dead man” - but my wife swore she heard “Number nine”.
I guess I've been dropping the ball for the past couple of years.
Doesn't that qualify as "a short while ago"?
By the same token, Tom Brady is pushing past 40 and still making it to Super Bowls.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you're willing to cheat.
Oh come on - next thing you'll claim is that Sergei didn't actually skydive to the top of the auditorium where Google I/O was being held a couple years ago...
Or the simplest solution might just be correct: That hard work will wear you out. I know it does me.
Next time, try putting down the coffee cake and Mountain Dew beforehand.
Yeah, that's definitely more of a deflection.
I seem to recall a story from just a short while ago which suggested Tidal had paid a couple artists very well indeed.
Seattleite here -- that is my dearest wish as well. Our economy was fine before Amazon was here, and will be fine long after they leave.
Don't be so hard on Mr. Fudd^WBezos - the poor guy can't even afford hair!
BTW for you young'uns:
Surfin' Bird in Full Metal Jacket (although the song is a couple decades older than the movie)
WTF is a bird scooter?
A well a don't you know about the bird?
Everybody knows that the bird is the word.
Ba-ba-ba bird bird bird, bird is the word.
I don't know about that. Lime bikes are pretty popular in the Seattle hobo camps.
Seattle's homeless have likely figured out how to defeat the locking mechanism.
Every week there's another article about some ridiculous new shit literally thousands of people are doing that's ruining everything, and it's absolutely never relevant outside either LA or SF.
The last story along these lines was just three days ago... and it was about Washington, DC, which is several thousand miles away from both cities you mention.
You may have gotten that impression, though, because many of the companies causing these "problems" are headquartered in California's Silicon Valley.
Hell my first thought when reading the headline was "how would they use scooters in Venice".
They're water scooters.
Yeah, I'd really like to see what a similar poll of non-millennials would end up showing.
I'm way, way out of the "millennial" group - as are most of my co-workers and friends. But a significant percentage of people in my circle claim they are "looking"... and this is nothing new. Most of them will still be in the same job five years down the road, regardless of their stated intentions now - and they'll still be saying then that they're just about ready to leave, any day now.