Works with games on CD too. Similar price drops, and eventually there may be some re-release that has all the fixes too.
I prefer GOG.com, no worries about DRM, losing disks or running out of storage space. All the older games come with pre-configured dosbox built in and connections are only needed for downloading new games/manuals. (Sure, some games still have their built-in manual based DRM(spell lists for MM and KQ3 for example), but you get a digital copy of the manual, so not a big deal).
Perhaps not the latest and greatest, but most of those seem to be MMOs anyway, and I just don't want to invest the time needed to be competitive in that sort of environment.
Radioactive isotopes with long half-lives, even in minute quantities, are quite effective at causing cancer in humans if they're ingested. There is no such thing as "a little harmless pollution" with these substances.
You do realize that there are a number of naturally occurring radioactive elements?
Did you know the radioactive elements naturally present in the granite used to build Grand Central Station actually makes the background radiation in that station higher than what is allowed for any nuclear facility in the US?
Also, most materials and shielding used in a radioactive environment are considered to be 'hot' and need to be disposed of as nuclear waste even if those materials are less radioactive than the bananas in your grocery store.
Yes, Bananas are more radioactive than other fruits because they have more potassium in them. And if you don't eat enough potassium you get sick.
The claim that all radiation is harmful is an artifact of a study that found that 100x radiation would kill 100 people, and 1x radiation kills 1 person, made the blanket assumption that 0.01x radiation must kill 0.01 people. There is literally nothing else that works like that. Not poisons, not diseases, not blood loss, and not blunt force trauma.
In the 2008 political season the Obama campaign bragged about their data analytics and social networking, something they continued to brag about for 2012 (reference: https://www.technologyreview.c... ).
I do not remember if they used the same firm as the Trump campaign (Cambridge Analytica ) or not, but they did brag about scraping millions of users from Facebook.
The only major difference I am aware of, is that one campaign was loved and supported by both Facebook and the news networks, while the other is hated and reviled.
For Obama it was 'marketing genius' and for Trump is was a crime against Facebook users.
Funny you should mention "batshit insane"... you seem to believe illegal immigrants can vote, when not even Green Card holders can do that.
You need not be a citizen to be counted in the census, which is used to apportion state representatives(and electoral votes). And for the last few it did not even ask about legal status, allowing democratic 'sanctuary' cities and states increase their apparent population.
Democrats also consistently vote against any sort of voter ID requirements or any other method that would help prevent non-citizens from either using the name of a citizen to have their vote counted or registering to vote under their own name. (Motor-voter laws are a great way to register non-citizens to vote for example)
So, sure it is not legal for a non-citizen to vote in national elections, but even if those laws are followed, illegal immigrants are still useful for pulling more legislative and electoral votes into liberal areas.
At roughly 17 million sq km, Russia is almost twice the size of the next largest country (Canada at 9.98 million sqkm) As such, one would expect them to have proportionally more randomly placed things happening within their territory.
Cain was a farmer and offered up fresh, moist fruits and vegetables while Able was a rancher/herder and offered up the carcasses of animals rich in fat. Both were offering their best products, but the flames were bigger and brighter when consuming the fat bone and fur than they were when consuming the fresh, moist, vegetables, so it was assumed that God was more pleased by the one that burned better than the other.
Due to that assumption, Cain became jealous and killed his brother.
As far as I am aware, God was happy with both, at least until Cain committed murder.
You do know that the USA spends the most per capita on health insurance & has the worst healthcare outcomes, e.g. highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, don't you?
Indeed, the US counts every child born with a pulse as a live-birth regardless of how premature they may be or their chances of survival, while few other countries do so(I think most count anything less than 1 day as still-born). I had a nephew with, I think it was, 4 open heart surgeries before he died 1 week after being born. In most other countries he would have been counted as still-born and they would not have bothered.
This, combined with staggeringly high obesity rates, reduces the average life expectancy of a US citizen in spite of having the most advanced health technology in the world.
Of course defensive testing driven by multi-million dollar malpractice suits does nothing to help results and plenty to drive up costs.
I know of a couple of subreddits that are quite productive./lfg (Looking for group)has a huge number of groups and players looking to play RPGs, with the most recent thread rarely more than a few minutes old (mostly D&D 5th however)/hfy (Humanity F- Yeah!)seems average more than a dozen original content stories posted per day
Not too sure about the rest of it, but the bit where I dipped my toes in seems to be quite lively.
When Trump makes a demand, the rest of the world gets nervous. (NAFTA and Paris accords for example) When Obama made a demand, the rest of the world smirked. (bowing to tyrants, multiple 'red line's and Benghazi caused by a video for example)
Of the two, the reaction to Trump is not the reaction I would associate with having made the country a mockery of itself before the rest of the world.
Data would be like sunshine, if Facebook/Google/etc were capable of blocking out large portions of the sky to prevent the sun from shining on anyone else.
I do that. I've got perhaps a 1/4 acre lot where I block out the sun for my exclusive use. I hear Google, Apple, and Amazon all have some quite sizable areas where they block out the sun for the exclusive use of the company and it's employees.
On the other hand Disney has a quite sizable area near Orlando, FL where they sell short-term access to their sunlight(and things it reflects from) at fairly high prices.
My sister even has a multi-acre lot for her exclusive use where she uses her sunlight to grow fruit, vegetables and livestock(she calls it a 'Ranch').
Similarly, if you are providing any online services, you could easily collect any incidental data that passes through your systems for your own use.(might want an EULA, but that is not much of a requirement)
If we continue this break-neck pace, the oceans will leave the EPA recommended range for municipal drinking water shortly before the earth is consumed by the sun. (300m*16=4.8b Red Giant ~10b - current age(4.6b) = 5.4b giving us roughly 600m years between ocean ph dropping below 6.5 before the sun is a full-sized red giant)
Glacial period, not Ice Age. The current age is an ice age(The entire Quaternary period is an ice age, as can be seen by year-round polar ice-caps, those ice-caps did not exist for a majority of the history of life on earth).
It would be great for biodiversity if we moved away from being too cold for plants for much of the year for large parts of the planet. A warmer climate leads to more prolific and productive plants which in turn lead to more energy available for other forms of life.
Sure change sucks for established species, but if you want increased biodiversity, then you want a warmer climate which can support it.
Only problem is with the birthrate dropping fairly significantly in the US, stopping immigration puts us in the same position China and Japan are finding themselves in - way too many older folks and way to few workers. Here, however, we don't have the social structure in most families where the kids take care of the parents. So be careful what you wish for - you might just get it.
The US leads the world in legal immigration(More than #2-5 combined), plenty to make up for the less than replacement birth rate.
Illegal immigrants are, by definition criminals, and can easily be coerced into worse crimes, assuming they are not already stealing identities and other crimes which may be necessary to support their illegal presence in this country.
I'm all for legal immigration(Wife is Canadian, and we went through the entire process), but illegal immigration is bad for both the person and the country(great for lots of criminal organizations though).
I expect that there are any number of developers who would be happy to address those issues if their managers would only put enough time into the schedule to do so (and not go-back and demand enough additional features to squeeze it back out of the schedule).
Just voted Democrat all the way down, baby! If they lose tonight, I am screwed!
That has been the democrat platform for nearly 150 years, ever since the 14th amendment and other federal statutes overturned their Jim-Crow laws and they lost their 'keep those blacks in their place' platform.
I am sure they will be glad to see their propaganda is still working in your case.
Why doesn't Netflix go back to what was working? This internal created programing is mostly crap, can't imagine its cheaper then buying really good produced shows and movies. Amazon has basically done the same thing, spending a ton of money on internal productions. Both need to go back to being a content streamer not a production house making failed original content.
Due to: 1) Price gouging by content owners 2) Content owners pulling their content and making competing services
It is probably not only a great deal safer in the long run, but probably cheaper in both the short and long-term to make their own content Not to mention 3) different constraints on streaming vs broadcast As this lets them make episodes that do not need to exactly match the current broadcast episode length, or even the length of previous episodes for the same series. (including explicit material for some series/episodes that could not be broadcast)
Also, the opportunity cost is very different as Netflix is not constrained to 'time-slots' and they can keep things running/available even if they are only marginally popular/profitable because the cost for keeping it available on their servers is effectively zero(if it is theirs), and 'broadcast' costs scale with popularity.
When I was single, I kept my pantry stocked with meals that took less time off my computer to prepare than it would take me to get in my car and drive to the end of the block. Occasionally I would cook more involved dishes, but not usually. I also never ate out by myself as it took too much time away from other things.(Social eating was different because as an introvert I would force myself to do social things even when they felt like a waste of time, because otherwise I would never engage in activities where I might meet someone)
If you plan ahead, it is easy to cut total prep-time(including shopping) to less than the time lost to eating out(mostly transit, but also lines, ordering, paying, and any time needed to set-up or tear-down your work environment if you bring it with you)
Now that I am married(and she likes to cook), I spend even less time cooking.(I also eat out a lot more, but once again, not alone)
The only exception I have had to this policy is business trips with meal reimbursement(with caps), as opposed to a straight per-diem, as that makes doing things efficiently too much of a headache to bother with.
When they re-use a block-4 booster they: 1) remove the landing legs(need to be replaced if the second launch will carry them, Block 5 legs are reuseable) 2) wipe off the soot over the welding seams and inspect those seams(the rest of the soot stays on for the second launch) 3) Replace the grid-fins(if they were aluminum and will be used on the second launch, titanium ones are reusable) 4) perform a new static fire test 5) attach a new second stage with new payload and fairing(they currently are working on Second Stage and Fairing reuse, but I am not aware of them actually having done so as of yet) 6) refill fuel tanks and launch
Labor fallows the laws of supply and demand as assuredly as everything else. Why you think this would be otherwise is beyond me.
Because I can read labor charts? So then explain why wage growth for regular emoyees when indexed against inflation has essentially been flat while CEO pay has gone up 1000% when inflation is taken into account.
And we all know that employers are not abusing the H1B and other visa programs to increase the labor pool and keep wages low, and no one would ever look the other way as to the work authorization(aka immigration status) of someone who offers to do a job at a lower rate.
AM radio has been pretty steady for a while, and it seems more likely that adding cell antennas to radio towers is just an additional revenue stream.
If AM radio is dying, it is because of the crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games....
Perhaps because that is what most listeners want? As opposed to NPR which could not stay on the air without government subsidies.
Ever consider that main-stream and 'kook' might not be where you think they are?
There are laws designed to keep capitalism from going full psycho, but since money and politics are intertwined, the forces of capitalism are able to subvert those too (or more concretely, the most powerful capitalists are highly motivated to use the power of their money to subvert them).
We need a system where power and money is separated and independent, and where empathy, which is invaluable for any functioning society, is rewarded instead of discouraged.
Any time authority(aka power) and resource distribution(aka money) are separated, authority is used to adjust resource distribution so that it is primarily directed towards those with authority.
or if you prefer: any time power wants more money, it goes and gets it, therefore separating them never lasts.
Overall conditions will inherently get WORSE as time optimized routing increases. If my app drives my car ten miles farther to avoid a constant traffic snarl that takes 12 minutes to ge through, i save two minutes. My car drives another ten miles. I am disrupting traffic at my usual places plus ten miles of circuitous but time optimal for me. Maybe i make a hundred people one second slower for each extra mile i drive. That's a thousand people seconds. Which means my saving two minutes just cost you sixteen minutes if you are the designated scape goat of the day. You will then do the same to me and a thousand others. Net result, we have three traffic snarls and but 45 mins getting through them while driving twice as far.
Why? Bc f u i got mine. Even if i no longer do a year later bc everyone else does the same tragedy of the commons shit.
Road network capacity is vehicles over time. If you spend 2 minutes less on the road then you are taking less road capacity. Even if you add to congestion elsewhere, you are reducing congestion on your normal route, so you are not adding to overall congestion.
Unless you decide to engage in frequent behaviors that cause hard breaking for other vehicles (ie cutting people off) only on alternate routes and not on your main route, taking a longer but faster route should reduce overall congestion and help everyone get to their destinations faster.
As a 'good' alternate route is one that has little or no congestion, the preferred scenario of taking an alternate route should not involve additional congestion for anyone because you would want to select a route that is far enough below capacity that it is not congested to get the best speed.
Despite the explosion in the availability of information, historians of the future are going to have a bitch of a time figuring out what we were actually saying and thinking, because a lot of the evidence is being scrubbed, sanitized, or deleted. It's the digital equivalent of burning books, except it's all being done silently and out of sight. The only evidence being a broken link; or a "quote" in a forum posting which no longer matches the purported source, and you have no idea if the post is in error or if the source was edited.
Fortunately for future historians, Facebook and other social media have enough people spewing their opinions and reactions that even if Facebook was not keeping a permanent record of everything, there would still be abundant data available to them.
The only down side is that people who spew everything online and never bother to go back and fix their mistakes will probably be taken as representative of the rest of us...
Christians bakeries sell cakes to anyone but this one group. (illegal)
Except the bakery in question was willing to sell them any cake in the store or any cake in the catalog, the only thing they refused to do was to create a new 'gay wedding' cake design for them.
'refused to sell them a cake' was the sensationalist headline the couple was trying to create(after visiting most of the christian bakeries in the area), and even then it was only vaguely relevant to the only actual refusal they received.
If forcing someone to create and perform a creative work against their belief and against their will was ok, then any racist bastard could force [famous black musician] to write and perform a 'Blacks deserve to be slaves' anthem.
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Works with games on CD too. Similar price drops, and eventually there may be some re-release that has all the fixes too.
I prefer GOG.com, no worries about DRM, losing disks or running out of storage space.
All the older games come with pre-configured dosbox built in and connections are only needed for downloading new games/manuals.
(Sure, some games still have their built-in manual based DRM(spell lists for MM and KQ3 for example), but you get a digital copy of the manual, so not a big deal).
Perhaps not the latest and greatest, but most of those seem to be MMOs anyway, and I just don't want to invest the time needed to be competitive in that sort of environment.
Radioactive isotopes with long half-lives, even in minute quantities, are quite effective at causing cancer in humans if they're ingested. There is no such thing as "a little harmless pollution" with these substances.
You do realize that there are a number of naturally occurring radioactive elements?
Did you know the radioactive elements naturally present in the granite used to build Grand Central Station actually makes the background radiation in that station higher than what is allowed for any nuclear facility in the US?
Also, most materials and shielding used in a radioactive environment are considered to be 'hot' and need to be disposed of as nuclear waste even if those materials are less radioactive than the bananas in your grocery store.
Yes, Bananas are more radioactive than other fruits because they have more potassium in them. And if you don't eat enough potassium you get sick.
The claim that all radiation is harmful is an artifact of a study that found that 100x radiation would kill 100 people, and 1x radiation kills 1 person, made the blanket assumption that 0.01x radiation must kill 0.01 people.
There is literally nothing else that works like that.
Not poisons, not diseases, not blood loss, and not blunt force trauma.
In the 2008 political season the Obama campaign bragged about their data analytics and social networking, something they continued to brag about for 2012 (reference: https://www.technologyreview.c... ).
I do not remember if they used the same firm as the Trump campaign (Cambridge Analytica ) or not, but they did brag about scraping millions of users from Facebook.
The only major difference I am aware of, is that one campaign was loved and supported by both Facebook and the news networks, while the other is hated and reviled.
For Obama it was 'marketing genius' and for Trump is was a crime against Facebook users.
Funny you should mention "batshit insane"... you seem to believe illegal immigrants can vote, when not even Green Card holders can do that.
You need not be a citizen to be counted in the census, which is used to apportion state representatives(and electoral votes). And for the last few it did not even ask about legal status, allowing democratic 'sanctuary' cities and states increase their apparent population.
Democrats also consistently vote against any sort of voter ID requirements or any other method that would help prevent non-citizens from either using the name of a citizen to have their vote counted or registering to vote under their own name. (Motor-voter laws are a great way to register non-citizens to vote for example)
So, sure it is not legal for a non-citizen to vote in national elections, but even if those laws are followed, illegal immigrants are still useful for pulling more legislative and electoral votes into liberal areas.
At roughly 17 million sq km, Russia is almost twice the size of the next largest country (Canada at 9.98 million sqkm)
As such, one would expect them to have proportionally more randomly placed things happening within their territory.
Cain was a farmer and offered up fresh, moist fruits and vegetables while Able was a rancher/herder and offered up the carcasses of animals rich in fat.
Both were offering their best products, but the flames were bigger and brighter when consuming the fat bone and fur than they were when consuming the fresh, moist, vegetables, so it was assumed that God was more pleased by the one that burned better than the other.
Due to that assumption, Cain became jealous and killed his brother.
As far as I am aware, God was happy with both, at least until Cain committed murder.
You do know that the USA spends the most per capita on health insurance & has the worst healthcare outcomes, e.g. highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, don't you?
Indeed, the US counts every child born with a pulse as a live-birth regardless of how premature they may be or their chances of survival, while few other countries do so(I think most count anything less than 1 day as still-born). I had a nephew with, I think it was, 4 open heart surgeries before he died 1 week after being born. In most other countries he would have been counted as still-born and they would not have bothered.
This, combined with staggeringly high obesity rates, reduces the average life expectancy of a US citizen in spite of having the most advanced health technology in the world.
Of course defensive testing driven by multi-million dollar malpractice suits does nothing to help results and plenty to drive up costs.
I know of a couple of subreddits that are quite productive. /lfg (Looking for group)has a huge number of groups and players looking to play RPGs, with the most recent thread rarely more than a few minutes old (mostly D&D 5th however) /hfy (Humanity F- Yeah!)seems average more than a dozen original content stories posted per day
Not too sure about the rest of it, but the bit where I dipped my toes in seems to be quite lively.
When Trump makes a demand, the rest of the world gets nervous. (NAFTA and Paris accords for example)
When Obama made a demand, the rest of the world smirked. (bowing to tyrants, multiple 'red line's and Benghazi caused by a video for example)
Of the two, the reaction to Trump is not the reaction I would associate with having made the country a mockery of itself before the rest of the world.
Data would be like sunshine, if Facebook/Google/etc were capable of blocking out large portions of the sky to prevent the sun from shining on anyone else.
I do that.
I've got perhaps a 1/4 acre lot where I block out the sun for my exclusive use.
I hear Google, Apple, and Amazon all have some quite sizable areas where they block out the sun for the exclusive use of the company and it's employees.
On the other hand Disney has a quite sizable area near Orlando, FL where they sell short-term access to their sunlight(and things it reflects from) at fairly high prices.
My sister even has a multi-acre lot for her exclusive use where she uses her sunlight to grow fruit, vegetables and livestock(she calls it a 'Ranch').
Similarly, if you are providing any online services, you could easily collect any incidental data that passes through your systems for your own use.(might want an EULA, but that is not much of a requirement)
Over the last 300m years the ocean PH has averaged around 8.2
Today it is 8.1
ref: https://www.nationalgeographic...
the EPA recommends municipal drinking water be kept between 6.5 and 8.5
Ref: https://www.epa.gov/dwregdev/d...
If we continue this break-neck pace, the oceans will leave the EPA recommended range for municipal drinking water shortly before the earth is consumed by the sun.
(300m*16=4.8b Red Giant ~10b - current age(4.6b) = 5.4b giving us roughly 600m years between ocean ph dropping below 6.5 before the sun is a full-sized red giant)
Ref: https://study.com/academy/less...
Glacial period, not Ice Age.
The current age is an ice age(The entire Quaternary period is an ice age, as can be seen by year-round polar ice-caps, those ice-caps did not exist for a majority of the history of life on earth).
It would be great for biodiversity if we moved away from being too cold for plants for much of the year for large parts of the planet. A warmer climate leads to more prolific and productive plants which in turn lead to more energy available for other forms of life.
Sure change sucks for established species, but if you want increased biodiversity, then you want a warmer climate which can support it.
Only problem is with the birthrate dropping fairly significantly in the US, stopping immigration puts us in the same position China and Japan are finding themselves in - way too many older folks and way to few workers. Here, however, we don't have the social structure in most families where the kids take care of the parents. So be careful what you wish for - you might just get it.
The US leads the world in legal immigration(More than #2-5 combined), plenty to make up for the less than replacement birth rate.
Illegal immigrants are, by definition criminals, and can easily be coerced into worse crimes, assuming they are not already stealing identities and other crimes which may be necessary to support their illegal presence in this country.
I'm all for legal immigration(Wife is Canadian, and we went through the entire process), but illegal immigration is bad for both the person and the country(great for lots of criminal organizations though).
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I expect that there are any number of developers who would be happy to address those issues if their managers would only put enough time into the schedule to do so (and not go-back and demand enough additional features to squeeze it back out of the schedule).
Just voted Democrat all the way down, baby! If they lose tonight, I am screwed!
That has been the democrat platform for nearly 150 years, ever since the 14th amendment and other federal statutes overturned their Jim-Crow laws and they lost their 'keep those blacks in their place' platform.
I am sure they will be glad to see their propaganda is still working in your case.
Why doesn't Netflix go back to what was working? This internal created programing is mostly crap, can't imagine its cheaper then buying really good produced shows and movies. Amazon has basically done the same thing, spending a ton of money on internal productions. Both need to go back to being a content streamer not a production house making failed original content.
Due to:
1) Price gouging by content owners
2) Content owners pulling their content and making competing services
It is probably not only a great deal safer in the long run, but probably cheaper in both the short and long-term to make their own content
Not to mention
3) different constraints on streaming vs broadcast
As this lets them make episodes that do not need to exactly match the current broadcast episode length, or even the length of previous episodes for the same series.
(including explicit material for some series/episodes that could not be broadcast)
Also, the opportunity cost is very different as Netflix is not constrained to 'time-slots' and they can keep things running/available even if they are only marginally popular/profitable because the cost for keeping it available on their servers is effectively zero(if it is theirs), and 'broadcast' costs scale with popularity.
When I was single, I kept my pantry stocked with meals that took less time off my computer to prepare than it would take me to get in my car and drive to the end of the block.
Occasionally I would cook more involved dishes, but not usually.
I also never ate out by myself as it took too much time away from other things.(Social eating was different because as an introvert I would force myself to do social things even when they felt like a waste of time, because otherwise I would never engage in activities where I might meet someone)
If you plan ahead, it is easy to cut total prep-time(including shopping) to less than the time lost to eating out(mostly transit, but also lines, ordering, paying, and any time needed to set-up or tear-down your work environment if you bring it with you)
Now that I am married(and she likes to cook), I spend even less time cooking.(I also eat out a lot more, but once again, not alone)
The only exception I have had to this policy is business trips with meal reimbursement(with caps), as opposed to a straight per-diem, as that makes doing things efficiently too much of a headache to bother with.
When they re-use a block-4 booster they:
1) remove the landing legs(need to be replaced if the second launch will carry them, Block 5 legs are reuseable)
2) wipe off the soot over the welding seams and inspect those seams(the rest of the soot stays on for the second launch)
3) Replace the grid-fins(if they were aluminum and will be used on the second launch, titanium ones are reusable)
4) perform a new static fire test
5) attach a new second stage with new payload and fairing(they currently are working on Second Stage and Fairing reuse, but I am not aware of them actually having done so as of yet)
6) refill fuel tanks and launch
Labor fallows the laws of supply and demand as assuredly as everything else. Why you think this would be otherwise is beyond me.
Because I can read labor charts? So then explain why wage growth for regular emoyees when indexed against inflation has essentially been flat while CEO pay has gone up 1000% when inflation is taken into account.
And we all know that employers are not abusing the H1B and other visa programs to increase the labor pool and keep wages low, and no one would ever look the other way as to the work authorization(aka immigration status) of someone who offers to do a job at a lower rate.
Except AM and FM radio are currently doing a lot better than television:
https://www.washingtontimes.co...
AM radio has been pretty steady for a while, and it seems more likely that adding cell antennas to radio towers is just an additional revenue stream.
If AM radio is dying, it is because of the crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games. ...
Perhaps because that is what most listeners want?
As opposed to NPR which could not stay on the air without government subsidies.
Ever consider that main-stream and 'kook' might not be where you think they are?
I want my flying car! It was first teased in 1926 and everyone is STILL using regular old cars with petrol engines and 4 wheels!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_(aircraft)
What do you mean? They have been in use since before WWII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want one, go get a licence and buy one.
($250K-$1.7M)
There are laws designed to keep capitalism from going full psycho, but since money and politics are intertwined, the forces of capitalism are able to subvert those too (or more concretely, the most powerful capitalists are highly motivated to use the power of their money to subvert them).
We need a system where power and money is separated and independent, and where empathy, which is invaluable for any functioning society, is rewarded instead of discouraged.
Any time authority(aka power) and resource distribution(aka money) are separated, authority is used to adjust resource distribution so that it is primarily directed towards those with authority.
or if you prefer: any time power wants more money, it goes and gets it, therefore separating them never lasts.
Overall conditions will inherently get WORSE as time optimized routing increases. If my app drives my car ten miles farther to avoid a constant traffic snarl that takes 12 minutes to ge through, i save two minutes. My car drives another ten miles. I am disrupting traffic at my usual places plus ten miles of circuitous but time optimal for me. Maybe i make a hundred people one second slower for each extra mile i drive. That's a thousand people seconds. Which means my saving two minutes just cost you sixteen minutes if you are the designated scape goat of the day. You will then do the same to me and a thousand others. Net result, we have three traffic snarls and but 45 mins getting through them while driving twice as far.
Why?
Bc f u i got mine. Even if i no longer do a year later bc everyone else does the same tragedy of the commons shit.
Road network capacity is vehicles over time.
If you spend 2 minutes less on the road then you are taking less road capacity. Even if you add to congestion elsewhere, you are reducing congestion on your normal route, so you are not adding to overall congestion.
Unless you decide to engage in frequent behaviors that cause hard breaking for other vehicles (ie cutting people off) only on alternate routes and not on your main route, taking a longer but faster route should reduce overall congestion and help everyone get to their destinations faster.
As a 'good' alternate route is one that has little or no congestion, the preferred scenario of taking an alternate route should not involve additional congestion for anyone because you would want to select a route that is far enough below capacity that it is not congested to get the best speed.
Despite the explosion in the availability of information, historians of the future are going to have a bitch of a time figuring out what we were actually saying and thinking, because a lot of the evidence is being scrubbed, sanitized, or deleted. It's the digital equivalent of burning books, except it's all being done silently and out of sight. The only evidence being a broken link; or a "quote" in a forum posting which no longer matches the purported source, and you have no idea if the post is in error or if the source was edited.
Fortunately for future historians, Facebook and other social media have enough people spewing their opinions and reactions that even if Facebook was not keeping a permanent record of everything, there would still be abundant data available to them.
The only down side is that people who spew everything online and never bother to go back and fix their mistakes will probably be taken as representative of the rest of us...
I should point out:
Christians bakeries sell cakes to anyone but this one group. (illegal)
Except the bakery in question was willing to sell them any cake in the store or any cake in the catalog, the only thing they refused to do was to create a new 'gay wedding' cake design for them.
'refused to sell them a cake' was the sensationalist headline the couple was trying to create(after visiting most of the christian bakeries in the area), and even then it was only vaguely relevant to the only actual refusal they received.
If forcing someone to create and perform a creative work against their belief and against their will was ok, then any racist bastard could force [famous black musician] to write and perform a 'Blacks deserve to be slaves' anthem.
(where create = write song/design cake and perform = perform song/bake cake)