Amazon for years has done what it can to clean goods and resell them if they have been returned. There are videos of former employees speaking about what Amazon does. If there are some shoes that have been obviously worn but still look new, they might throw an air freshener or ionizer at it. If a woman's bikini bottom looks new enough, they might repack it without putting a protective strip in it. The list goes on and on.
You can't have it both ways, Miss Mash. Either this kind of stuff is thrown out, or they try to make a recovery. And if they try to recover the goods, in reality, nasty things are going to happen.
This will have a great amount of blowback. Employers--if they actually use this--will see the one and only resume that a person has, never be able to find employees, and then make even more of a case for H-1B visa workers. The big thing about being able to get a job today is to rewrite your resume to satisfy the HR goons that have no idea what they are hiring for as well as to appear as a "turnkey solution" that can check off every single one of the requirements.
Training employees is a foreign concept these days. You have to know the tricks to get hired especially if you aren't well-connected. And if you are well-connected, the resume isn't going to matter all that much anyway.
What's great is FF unfortunately doesn't buy you a whole lot of privacy anymore. If you have logged in at some point to Facebook or Google, for instance, you already have invited the trojan horse in in the form of a cookie. That login might have been linked to a phone number which you are pretty much forced to give to open an account these days.
All that it takes from there is visiting a few websites. They already have the data and work with statistical correlation to know who it might be, you know, with a 99.7% certainty. Browsing habits, user agent, latency, and so on give them plenty of a fingerprint to go by.
Maybe BizX should be putting resources into hiring competent editors.
The arm will place a seismometer on the ground to detect "marsquakes" (think earthquakes, but on Mars, of course).
This appears to be written for the elementary school level. I think that using terminology like seismicity of geological origins (as opposed to flying something with kinetic energy into the surface for measurements) is more suited for an adult audience.
the path looks nothing like a straight line; but remember, the Earth is a sphere.
It's not a sphere. It can be approximated as an oblate spheroid with roughness. The faux editors here have no background in science, and the brash generalizations are rampant.
This type of flagrant error goes over their heads. There is certainly enough "unspheriness" of the earth to potentially throw off the result if the calculation were done with a spherical projection.
Take, for instance, the Kola borehole. It is not the deepest borehole on earth, but it is the closest borehole to the core of the earth.
You know, this is PRECISELY why government TLDs exist. The.com TLD stands for commercial.
Is France going after every TLD now?
How about france.bargains? france.coupons, anyone? Perhaps france.mom should be surrendered... france.singles certainly serves some governmental function Or france.tattoo, needed by the Ministry of Tattoos to license and sell tattoo services.
The French government knew that they would lose the case in any court other than their own, so they put pressure on someone with no rights to the TLD to seize the property of its rightful owner.
Exactly. And seven million gallons of water is nothing by manufacturing standards. Miss Mash's use of "siphon off" shows her bias against manufacturing and lack of understanding of the language. Ever talk to someone working at a Yokohama plant or International Paper factory? Here are a few claims on the amount of water needed for every-day items.
13. Making two pounds of paper requires 793 gallons of water—so think before you print!
15. Making two pounds of beef requires 4068 gallons of water. Feed for the livestock accounts for 99 percent of that massive footprint.
Pair of Jeans
It takes around 1,800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular ol' blue jeans. [2]
Cotton T-Shirt
Not as bad as jeans, it still takes a whopping 400 gallons of water to grow the cotton required for an ordinary cotton shirt.
Single Board of Lumber
5.4 gallons of water are used to grow enough wood for one lumber board. [3]
Barrel of Beer
In order to process a single barrel of beer (32 gallons of booze), 1,500 gallons of water are sucked down. [3]
To-Go Latte
It takes 53 gallons to make every latte, as I've noted before:
That sugar, doesn't that have to be grown as cane first? Hm. And then there's that plastic lid, which has to be created and distributed over hundreds of miles. And doesn't plastic require a pretty vast amount of water and oil to produce? Come to think of it, there's the sleeve and the cup itself too . ..
Gallon of Paint
Takes 13 gallons of water to make.
Individual Bottled Water
This irony shouldn't be lost on anyone: it takes 1.85 gallons of water to manufacture the plastic for the bottle in the average commercial bottle of water.
One Ton of . ..
Steel: 62,000 gallons of water
Cement: 1,360 gallons
One Pound of . ..
Wool: 101 gallons of water
Cotton: 101 gallons
Plastic: 24 gallons
Synthetic Rubber: 55 gallons
What is worse: not having an ample supply of pollinators, or not having pesticides?
The bees can hold out for another few years while the supply chain catches up. I cannot say the same about enough crops to feed a full populace without pesticides.
There is a good reason that the "cradle of civilization" was in an arid semi-desert region: blight and pests are of little problem only in those climates, and in those areas nearly all the modern crops came to be. What can be grown in Iraq without pesticides cannot be grown in most of France without pesticides.
You know what else effects Europe that hasn't happened here in a few generations: famine.
Lenin was said to have killed millions through policy change that created famine.
What will farmers do without pesticides? What will farmers do when they have to flee to the X number of approved and less effective pesticides? Yields are guaranteed to go down, pesticide prices will go through the roof, and famine will ensue. It is a sad state of affairs in Europe that there is no warning given for this. A transition period of a few years is needed.
There will be far too many unforeseen consequences from the politicans' swift moves. Billions of varroa mites will be high-fiving each other over the ultimate troll.
The last "known link" to the 19th century died a few years ago. Navi Tajima was 117 and died in 2018. She was born in the 20th century. She was born the better part of a year into the 20th century.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Just because you don't have to understand enough to produce a source file that gets compiled, linked, and then run does NOT mean you are not engaged in "programming" something.
Teaching Alexa a skill REQUIRES that you understand the necessary sequence required to convey to the device what you are asking it to do. IF you don't follow the sequence, Alexa won't do what you want. Alexa is going to just give you a crash course in how to program it any time it isn't sure what you want. This isn't all that different than what I do all day... write code, compile code, deal with the errors if any, link and run to see if it works... The only difference is you are just talking and the repertoire Alexa understands is extremely limited.
SO I'm calling bullhokey... You may not know going in how Alexa has to be programed, but if you try, Alexa will TRAIN you how to program, then accept your program once you understand how to say it.
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Amazon for years has done what it can to clean goods and resell them if they have been returned. There are videos of former employees speaking about what Amazon does. If there are some shoes that have been obviously worn but still look new, they might throw an air freshener or ionizer at it. If a woman's bikini bottom looks new enough, they might repack it without putting a protective strip in it. The list goes on and on.
You can't have it both ways, Miss Mash. Either this kind of stuff is thrown out, or they try to make a recovery. And if they try to recover the goods, in reality, nasty things are going to happen.
This will have a great amount of blowback. Employers--if they actually use this--will see the one and only resume that a person has, never be able to find employees, and then make even more of a case for H-1B visa workers. The big thing about being able to get a job today is to rewrite your resume to satisfy the HR goons that have no idea what they are hiring for as well as to appear as a "turnkey solution" that can check off every single one of the requirements.
Training employees is a foreign concept these days. You have to know the tricks to get hired especially if you aren't well-connected. And if you are well-connected, the resume isn't going to matter all that much anyway.
What's great is FF unfortunately doesn't buy you a whole lot of privacy anymore. If you have logged in at some point to Facebook or Google, for instance, you already have invited the trojan horse in in the form of a cookie. That login might have been linked to a phone number which you are pretty much forced to give to open an account these days.
All that it takes from there is visiting a few websites. They already have the data and work with statistical correlation to know who it might be, you know, with a 99.7% certainty. Browsing habits, user agent, latency, and so on give them plenty of a fingerprint to go by.
Thank you for your input, Creepy Al.
Intel had some ad for the 286 saying it was too much for a single user..
It is true that married men make more money than single men, but that's still an odd way to market it.
He was found face down. He is dead, and it looks like he did not die of herpes or his attempted cure.
Hah "turbo herpes".
So that's what the turbo button does!
The arm will place a seismometer on the ground to detect "marsquakes" (think earthquakes, but on Mars, of course).
This appears to be written for the elementary school level. I think that using terminology like seismicity of geological origins (as opposed to flying something with kinetic energy into the surface for measurements) is more suited for an adult audience.
the path looks nothing like a straight line; but remember, the Earth is a sphere.
It's not a sphere. It can be approximated as an oblate spheroid with roughness. The faux editors here have no background in science, and the brash generalizations are rampant.
This type of flagrant error goes over their heads. There is certainly enough "unspheriness" of the earth to potentially throw off the result if the calculation were done with a spherical projection.
Take, for instance, the Kola borehole. It is not the deepest borehole on earth, but it is the closest borehole to the core of the earth.
You know, this is PRECISELY why government TLDs exist. The .com TLD stands for commercial.
Is France going after every TLD now?
How about france.bargains?
france.coupons, anyone?
Perhaps france.mom should be surrendered...
france.singles certainly serves some governmental function
Or france.tattoo, needed by the Ministry of Tattoos to license and sell tattoo services.
The French government knew that they would lose the case in any court other than their own, so they put pressure on someone with no rights to the TLD to seize the property of its rightful owner.
Al Yankovic sure does have a dark side...
13. Making two pounds of paper requires 793 gallons of water—so think before you print!
15. Making two pounds of beef requires 4068 gallons of water. Feed for the livestock accounts for 99 percent of that massive footprint.
Source
Pair of Jeans
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It takes around 1,800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular ol' blue jeans. [2]
Cotton T-Shirt
Not as bad as jeans, it still takes a whopping 400 gallons of water to grow the cotton required for an ordinary cotton shirt.
Single Board of Lumber
5.4 gallons of water are used to grow enough wood for one lumber board. [3]
Barrel of Beer
In order to process a single barrel of beer (32 gallons of booze), 1,500 gallons of water are sucked down. [3]
To-Go Latte
It takes 53 gallons to make every latte, as I've noted before:
That sugar, doesn't that have to be grown as cane first? Hm. And then there's that plastic lid, which has to be created and distributed over hundreds of miles. And doesn't plastic require a pretty vast amount of water and oil to produce? Come to think of it, there's the sleeve and the cup itself too . .
Gallon of Paint
Takes 13 gallons of water to make.
Individual Bottled Water
This irony shouldn't be lost on anyone: it takes 1.85 gallons of water to manufacture the plastic for the bottle in the average commercial bottle of water.
One Ton of . .
Steel: 62,000 gallons of water
Cement: 1,360 gallons
One Pound of . .
Wool: 101 gallons of water
Cotton: 101 gallons
Plastic: 24 gallons
Synthetic Rubber: 55 gallons
Source
I served the state for a number of years as entomologist.
What is worse: not having an ample supply of pollinators, or not having pesticides?
The bees can hold out for another few years while the supply chain catches up. I cannot say the same about enough crops to feed a full populace without pesticides.
There is a good reason that the "cradle of civilization" was in an arid semi-desert region: blight and pests are of little problem only in those climates, and in those areas nearly all the modern crops came to be. What can be grown in Iraq without pesticides cannot be grown in most of France without pesticides.
You know what else effects Europe that hasn't happened here in a few generations: famine.
Lenin was said to have killed millions through policy change that created famine.
What will farmers do without pesticides? What will farmers do when they have to flee to the X number of approved and less effective pesticides? Yields are guaranteed to go down, pesticide prices will go through the roof, and famine will ensue. It is a sad state of affairs in Europe that there is no warning given for this. A transition period of a few years is needed.
There will be far too many unforeseen consequences from the politicans' swift moves. Billions of varroa mites will be high-fiving each other over the ultimate troll.
There is literally NO ESCAPE KEY, so they abandoned a lot of users to begin with when they switched a few years ago. It has gotten pretty bad.
The last "known link" to the 19th century died a few years ago. Navi Tajima was 117 and died in 2018. She was born in the 20th century. She was born the better part of a year into the 20th century.
Sorry to break it to you, ma'am.
"...Will Wait To Screw Us"
I love the headline.
But why not just make it "Comcast Sucks!"
Martin Shkreli got off scot-free in my book. These people should be hanged for all the deaths they cause to people who can't afford their drugs.
Big Pharma is JUST LIKE big insurance, folks. They write the laws in their own favor.
Or add "NO THROUGH TRAFFIC" signs on the roads that they desire no through traffic to be on. This is exactly why signage and traffic laws exist.
Everything that Waze is doing is legal. There just isn't any room for argument from municipalities as there might be with AirBNB and Uber.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Just because you don't have to understand enough to produce a source file that gets compiled, linked, and then run does NOT mean you are not engaged in "programming" something.
Teaching Alexa a skill REQUIRES that you understand the necessary sequence required to convey to the device what you are asking it to do. IF you don't follow the sequence, Alexa won't do what you want. Alexa is going to just give you a crash course in how to program it any time it isn't sure what you want. This isn't all that different than what I do all day... write code, compile code, deal with the errors if any, link and run to see if it works... The only difference is you are just talking and the repertoire Alexa understands is extremely limited.
SO I'm calling bullhokey... You may not know going in how Alexa has to be programed, but if you try, Alexa will TRAIN you how to program, then accept your program once you understand how to say it.