You're joking right? I was at Tesco's the other night and the carpark was almost completely dark. The biggest light source was the light coming out of the shop itself.
There's less emphasis on school sports over here, but those O levels (now renamed GCSEs are made infinitely easier) and A levels are continually being dumbed down to meet government targets. Before long you'll only have to spell your own name to get an A grade.
AGAINST: if it were possible to read under 12 layers of overwriting, wouldn't the drive manufacturers boost density by writing the same spot 12 times?
Yes, but you'd need to take apart your hard disk and bring in a forensic analyst to actually get any data off it. And there'd be no random access, you could only write to the top layer.
Streetlights won't help reduce the glare of oncoming cars' headlights in the least
Of course it will. When I drive past someone at night on a lit road, I can see everything beyond them. On a dark road, nothing but black. Don't try telling me I'm wrong, I drive on unlit roads pretty much every day.
No they're not. I often drive at night on unlit roads, in the rain, and even with cats eyes and headlights, you can barely see fifty yards ahead in a straight line. You can't see all the imperfections in the road, you can barely see the side of the road, and you can't see corners until you're on them. It's like driving blind.
Rubbish. I drive on an unlit road to work at night, and when another car is coming the other way, when you pass you can't see five yards in front of you because of the glare of the headlights of the other car. I don't know how you consider this safe.
Worse still, if you're walking, you can't see a damn thing, including potholes and cracks in the pavement. It'd be very easy to accidently stray into the road and be run over.
But of course seeing alpha centauri in your amateur telescope is more important than safety, right?
Then pay for it yourself. Seriously, become a CEO in a company, or start your own company. Then you can throw money around however you want, but you'll be responsible for the consequences.
How is it stupid? Without copyright law, there is no TV industry at all. If you all pirate shows, then there won't be any to watch at all. Maybe you want a world where every TV programme is filmed on a mobile phone and uploaded to youtube or something for free.
Except the students aren't being better taught, the exams are just getting easier. A lot of stuff that used to be taught at A-level is taught at university level nowadays. It's all about grade inflation to make the government look good. And before when you had one chance at the exam, now you can retake them over and over again until you get them right.
There was a village in Britain which only got connected to the grid last year. They managed with generators before then. I'd bet there are many places even today in the developed world which don't have mains electricity.
What makes you think obscure rural areas in Asia have good broadband access? If you think cable companies are being lazy or short-sighted in not running five miles of fibre-obtics so they can sell broadband to Farmer Giles for $20 a month, then maybe there's a business opportunity for you.
Yes you are correct that wal-mart has no obligation to fulfill people's needs and wants, and I want to know why they aren't obligated.
Why should they be? Walmart has an agreement to pay people a certain amount for stacking shelves. A company is not your parents, it doesn't exist to look after you or to give you what you want. It exists to exchange money in return for work. If that money isn't enough to give you the lifestyle you want, then get another job. No-one owes you a living.
If you can't tell the difference between two people, why should one be treated any different than the other?
I'm pretty sure that if you allowed the mechanic to the accountant's job, he wouldn't be very good at it. Accountants get paid more because it's a harder, rarer skill. Mechanics are ten a penny. If a mechanic wants a sports car, maybe he should train to be an accountant.
I think it's a demographic thing. People who smoke tend to drink.
Yet before the ban, the non-smokers were all saying that they couldn't go out because of all the smoke. Now the ban has come in, the pubs are all empty.
Once a smoking ban goes into effect there is an initial dip in patrons which recovers shortly after. I recall someone did a Case study of the smoking laws in British Colombia, Canada and the net effect was a drop in patrons initially and a recovery up to pre-ban numbers after.
In Ireland, one in three pubs went bust. One thing that the anti-smoking lobby failed to predict, is that now instead of smelling of smoke, pubs smell of sweat and farts, which is far worse.
Why, who said that stacking shelves at Walmart was supposed to be a full-time career? Walmart is for students, and adults who just need a bit of extra money. If you want a career to sustain yourself, get a proper job.
Those mom & pop stores which pay lower wages, hire through nepotism, have poor opening hours, high prices and little variety of goods. They're being 'destroyed' because people don't want to shop there.
lowers the real estate value of business districts
How is that? Supermarkets are often on retail parks surrounded by many other shops.
People don't choose to work at Wal-Mart; they're forced to
How is that? What is Walmart doing to stop people moving elsewhere, working somewhere else, or learning a trade?
Maybe. However, the usual reason why I eat "simulated meat-products" is as a result of the lack of imagination on behalf of the meat eaters (well cooks/chefs really). The vegetarian option at the kind of restaurant that serves $20 steaks is likely to be a "simulated meat-product".
If you're a vegetarian why the hell are you going to a steakhouse? The reason vegetarian meals are boring is because vegetables are boring, tasteless food with little texture.
Then the city put a smoking ban on bars and I went out a lot more.
Nice single data point. It's sort of outweighed by the fact that countries that introduce smoking bans see large proportions of their bars shut down. Apparently all the non-smokers who said they'd go out more if smoking was banned were just lying.
Issue 1: If everyone went to college and technical school, there wouldn't be anybody to serve you McDonalds hamburgers. That, or you'd be paying $18.95 for a Number 2.
Except they don't. Most people lack ambition. If you lack ambition, then you stay amongst the minimum-wage set. If every single person worked their balls off and had a dozen qualifications, then people on minimum wage could legitimately moan about the lack of opportunities. However, most people are lazy, so there's no fucking excuses, there are opportunities everywhere.
People value family as well. Perhaps they'd like to live near their family, which happens to live in a rural area. Doctorate degrees don't mean shit when the only jobs in a 50-mile radius of their family involves Wal-Mart, pumping gas, or fast-food.
If you're not willing to move away from your dead-end backwater for the sake of going to the parents' house for Sunday dinner, then that's your own decision and you live by it. But don't turn round and complain that there are no decent jobs in the area you've chosen to live in.
And, it gets expensive to move your ass somewhere else. Relocating stipends are given on a company-by-company basis, so you can't guarantee it to the new graduate, either.
Boo-fucking hoo. Peasants went to America in cramped, filthy conditions on ships for weeks at a time, and you can't hire a fucking van for a weekend? A note to people moaning about being on minimum wage: society doesn't owe you a living.
That's a beautiful thought, but it doesn't work like that in practice. One of the reasons why is that there is usually not an unlimited supply of jobs that one is able to get. Do you really think anyone would go get at job at Walmart in the first place if there's something better? We all need some things to survive and to live a decent life (you only get one) and some people apparently have to work at Walmart to get those things, there's the gun.
Why do they have to work at Walmart? Walmart is not the only employer in the world. If it's the only shop in Bumfuck Idaho, population 5000, then go somewhere else. There are millions of companies to work for. If you can't find one, make your own living. Start a business, learn a trade, go to school. Anything. Don't just sit there whining that no-one drops a decent job into your lap.
Once upon a time, people travelled for thousands of miles across the Atlantic, risking disease, starvation and death. When they arrived, they had no home, no money and no job prospects. Yet they travelled all that way and took all those risks to make a better living for themselves. Today, Americans whine that they can't drop out of school, stay in their hillbilly town and that they can't get a job better than stacking shelves.
It's not Walmart's fault that small-town Americans have no ambition or drive.
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I can see the reflectors. Problem is, you can't see anything else.
You're joking right? I was at Tesco's the other night and the carpark was almost completely dark. The biggest light source was the light coming out of the shop itself.
There's less emphasis on school sports over here, but those O levels (now renamed GCSEs are made infinitely easier) and A levels are continually being dumbed down to meet government targets. Before long you'll only have to spell your own name to get an A grade.
And try being a pedestrian on an unlit road.
No they're not. I often drive at night on unlit roads, in the rain, and even with cats eyes and headlights, you can barely see fifty yards ahead in a straight line. You can't see all the imperfections in the road, you can barely see the side of the road, and you can't see corners until you're on them. It's like driving blind.
Rubbish. I drive on an unlit road to work at night, and when another car is coming the other way, when you pass you can't see five yards in front of you because of the glare of the headlights of the other car. I don't know how you consider this safe.
Worse still, if you're walking, you can't see a damn thing, including potholes and cracks in the pavement. It'd be very easy to accidently stray into the road and be run over.
But of course seeing alpha centauri in your amateur telescope is more important than safety, right?
Then pay for it yourself. Seriously, become a CEO in a company, or start your own company. Then you can throw money around however you want, but you'll be responsible for the consequences.
Except the students aren't being better taught, the exams are just getting easier. A lot of stuff that used to be taught at A-level is taught at university level nowadays. It's all about grade inflation to make the government look good. And before when you had one chance at the exam, now you can retake them over and over again until you get them right.
There was a village in Britain which only got connected to the grid last year. They managed with generators before then. I'd bet there are many places even today in the developed world which don't have mains electricity.
What makes you think obscure rural areas in Asia have good broadband access? If you think cable companies are being lazy or short-sighted in not running five miles of fibre-obtics so they can sell broadband to Farmer Giles for $20 a month, then maybe there's a business opportunity for you.
What if it's launched from a sub?
Once upon a time, people travelled for thousands of miles across the Atlantic, risking disease, starvation and death. When they arrived, they had no home, no money and no job prospects. Yet they travelled all that way and took all those risks to make a better living for themselves. Today, Americans whine that they can't drop out of school, stay in their hillbilly town and that they can't get a job better than stacking shelves.
It's not Walmart's fault that small-town Americans have no ambition or drive.
Don't you ever get tired of trolling, after all these years?