Stop eating so many cheese burgers and we won't need to have so many cows.
It's already started. America now has 1.2 billion pounds of excess cheese — and nowhere to put it. That sounds weird, but the jist of the story is that the US has a LOT of processed cheese. A ridiculous amount. This is because processed cheese lasts a very long time, so excess milk could be turned into processed cheese. There's plenty of excess milk because Americans are drinking much less milk: 149 lb/capita in 2017, down from 247 lb/capita in 1975. Less milk drinking == farm closures and dairy folks trying to figure out what to do with the cheese.
However, the rising tax (on gas or other taxable sources) to cover the infrastructure maintenance that EV do not pay are felt more directly by the poor.
Gas taxes have always been regressive, hitting the poor far harder than other segments of society. Look for gas taxes to be phased out and spread out through society in different ways. The existence of EVs isn't really going to change that.
Marketers have successfully convinced a gullible public that larger cars are "safer", that is why they buy SUVs. Coincidentally, they happen to be the most profitable cars to make.
When there are more SUVs on the road than small cars, SUVs are absolutely safer. In any collision between an SUV and a small car, the SUV wins.
Saturn's customers loved the Saturns, but there weren't that many customers. They always fell far short of sales goals. Saturn didn't compete with Toyota or Honda. Saturn's customers were GM customers, so instead of buying GM cars, they were buying Saturns. Saturn did not siphon away the Japanese market, which they needed to do to succeed. Due to the lack of sales targets (they came out right around the 1989 stock market crash and the 1990s recession), Saturn ended up siphoning money from the rest of GM. In as much as they were supposed to compete with the Japanese automakers, Saturn's costs were much higher, and the number of Japanese and Korean cars in the US skyrocketed. So what do you do, since GM was going bankrupt? You sell off the underperforming assets or shut them down. GM did this for Pontiac, Saab, Hummer, Oldsmobile, and Saturn. They sold the Saturn brand to Penske, who didn't build the cars themselves, but contracted with other automakers to create cars sold under the Saturn name. No one would buy that contract, so Penske backed out of the deal, and Saturn was done.
Saturn was an attempt to start over, with a tiny "independent" American company making low-margin small cars, an enormous new infrastructure, and a policy of never laying off workers. It should have surprised few that they could not compete.
Screaming right-wing the second anyone doesn't agree with you?
To be fair, "everyone in a union is lazy, the union it set up to encourage that, and they corrupt when not sleeping" is a fairly right-wing talking point.
When the CEO drains the pension fund to gamble on the stock market and looses big, retires and leaves it for the next couple of CEO's to ignore and suddenly all those retiring workers *surprise!* actually are still alive and want the pensions they contracted for but the company can't afford now, it's the Unions fault somehow.
Which is why private company pension funds were a horrible idea. It's pushing off today's costs (employees' retirements should be paid for when they work, not after they retire) so that the company can pay for it... sometime down the line. We don't have to pay for retirement now, someone else will pay for it later. That allowed companies to build up pension liabilities that would slow them compared to younger competitors that didn't yet have to pay out pensions, and after those pensions built up, encouraged companies to go bankrupt like any company does when it collapses under the weight of debt. An employee's retirement should not be provided by the company. That is, it shouldn't be a fund that the company itself has to pay out. It can be raided. It can vanish during a bankruptcy. For the most part, pensions for state and federal employees don't work that way, since the state and feds will be around forever. State and federal pensions have their own issues, but at least the employee can be reasonably secure in his retirement.
Posting arcticles critical of robotics? Arguing against technological progress? Crying for the days of people cranking bolts all day long for a living?
This is slashdot now? Pathetic.
There's nothing wrong with looking at technological progress and asking whether it helps or hurts the bottom line of the common man.
This seems to be more about stacking as many terms that make the eclipse extra super special than about the capacity to be impressed by the beauty of an eclipse itself.
They learned well from the Japanese. This title could have been any anime vampire show.
Netflix is blowing up, iTunes is just sitting around collecting 15% checks and doing jack shit for the money. Netflix doesn't need that kind of distributor.
Then pull their app out of the store.
I've been a subscriber of Netflix for over 10 years, since I started streaming I've been using their apps on the Playstation 3 and 4, the Roku, an iphone, and an android device. But now if I want to use it on an ipad or something I'd have to eat (or netflix would, same thing) a 15% fee for content that's not going over Apple's network? That would be ridiculous.
In this case, I actually do believe him. I think he was trying to make a funny. It's hard to tell on the Internet. Doing a is just too obvious, like making your own rimshot sound effect after telling a joke. But there are enough stupid people on the Internet, and enough genuinely oblivious people that it can be hard to tell, and the joke is kindof ruined by the "is he serious?" questions.
And that needs to change. Stockholder must become personally and solidary liable to the actions of the corporations the own stock of. Only owning bonds should not lead to personal liability.
Yeah, good job completely destroying the economy. And sending plenty of old grandmas to jail who didn't know they had any stock in their retirement fund. And plenty of others going to jail when someone on the board committed fraud that stockholders couldn't have known about. What a winner of an idea!
How long have the Democrats controlled the California legislature? Let's blame the Republicans anyway although honestly I would not expect any better of them and there is plenty of blame to tar both sides.
I'm not sure how many on Enron's corporate board were Republicans, but they controlled the prices by restricting energy supply. They had control of the power market in California by purchasing all power wholesale, then transmitting it out of state to create an in-state shortage. That's because California's market was partially deregulated, only partially. Consumer-level prices were capped, so price didn't affect demand in any way. The wholesale market was deregulated, so wholesalers could buy up power and charge any price. Enron shut down a number of plants at the time to force California energy regulators to purchase energy on the short-term spot market at a 800% markup. Many of Enron's actions were found to be illegal by the FERC, but Enron had already gone bankrupt by that point, so there was not much to do.
As for the political makeup, the California legislature was split close to even when the deregulation occurred in 1996, and deregulation was pushed by California's Republican governor. The state wasn't quite as blue then as it is now.
You drone 'enthusiasts' had a chance, way back in the beginning, to police your own, and prevent shit like this from happening in the first place, but NO, you couldn't be bothered, threw hissy-fits over the mere mention of regulation, refused to make it clear to everyone who bought a goddamned drone that there would be severe consequences for not being responsible
I see this sort of argument all the time, about the "drone community," the "gay community," muslims, any group that has an interest that is either slightly or majorly not shared with the mainstream. There's this weird notion that they're all one sort of hivemind, some collective where the collective is responsible for or even capable of policing the actions of everyone who shares that interest. It's nonsense. Why would a bunch of people in a large community, most of whom have never met or heard of each other, have any responsibility for what some rogue minority does?
People either care about them, or they don't. If they care about them, then there is MORE of a likelihood that they will be protected, but no guarantee. I know we're a nation of individuals, but it's the collective that decides the rights. Otherwise, they get eroded, slowly, bit by bit, and you don't get very many complaints.
Also, every open remote system that I've found that can do everything the Harmony can do work on IR. IR sucks, because you shouldn't have to point a remote at a listener. If you have a halfway-nice home theater setup, you're going to have things in cabinets that block IR signals. It should work on RF or Bluetooth, with IR blasters connected to those devices that need it and/or are hidden.
A few decades ago I admined an server on an IRC network. If you got a full list of channels, well... you saw channels with a lot of these sorts of titles. I know from conversations with other admins that the FBI liked these sorts of channels. They could just hop in, start collecting all sorts of logs with people offering up stuff and downloading other things. They were less pleased with well-meaning admins wading in and shutting those channels down. It made their jobs harder than when people were providing searchable kiddy porn so they could get busted.
Those areas could be a minefield of law enforcement. Why wouldn't they go after the low-hanging fruit? It's a lot easier even than to try to snoop the traffic.
False. That's only true since 1989. And before 1978, there was no way to rectify the omission of a copyright notice. So in 1923, no copyright notice equaled no copyright at all.
That was then, but copyright protections were enabled retroactively.
I suspect that they install fonts that you don't "need" so that if you ever come across content like that, you can see the characters instead of random boxes, even if you can't understand the characters. It's a perception thing -- those boxes it uses if it doesn't have a font, that just looks broken, and it gives people the feeling that someone forgot something, or the system was sloppily designed. But if they see it in a full character set they can't read? Well everyone understands that. That's expected.
I'm perfectly happy with web sites that do nothing until I click on a link. Everything I've seen that relies on JS tricks is just bad UX and we're better off without it. From the evidence before me, JS is used entirely to make the UX suck.
But, still, the average Web UX is vastly better than the average mobile app UX, so it's go that going for it. Sadly, mobile app UX brain damage is starting to leak into web design, so all hope will eventually be lost.
Meh, I don't have a problem with, say, Slashdot's UX, where comments aren't loaded until you click on them (except for the first few lines, and any comments that meet the threshold for inlining). That sort of JS UX is fine with me.
This reminds me of the graphs of computer performance that they used to print in Byte Magazine. It would show a huge increase, because the graph was cut off to show the numbers from 90% to 100%.
Really, that graph you show is just as meaningless.
Climate scientists, assuming you believe them, will tell you that a swing of 10C (the graph's scale) is an enormous amount, having a huge effect on global temperature variations and weather patterns. They'll tell you 2C is a pretty big number too.
The Trump-Russia Dossier was first paid for indirectly by the Republicans to Fusion GPS, dirt to use against him during the primaries, as part of opposition research on other Republicans. When Trump became the presidential nominee, the Free Beacon dropped funding and the DNC picked it up. It IS worth noting that the Dossier was not in the form that we know it until Democrats hired Fusion GPS. Nobody paid "the Russians" for this.
I'm not sure why you'd say money was "laundered" through Perkins Coie, they were the attorney firm of record for the Clinton campaign, and paying a firm for opposition research is as legal for Democrats as it was for the Republicans. It's hard to launder money when you're reporting it on your public campaign finance reports.
Ah, that's funny. Was actually trying to be funny... And you guys really think someone did not hear enough of the global warming on earth, he really think that's on Saturn?? And got -1 for that!! My gosh, the level gets pathetic around here...
Slashdot's sense of humor has drained away over the last decade. There are a lot of folks with mod points and anger issues. I think they're mostly newer (registered post-2010) and come from other sites where it's common to down-mod if you disagree, and every joke is played totally straight. That's the wrong way to do it.:-(
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Stop eating so many cheese burgers and we won't need to have so many cows.
It's already started. America now has 1.2 billion pounds of excess cheese — and nowhere to put it. That sounds weird, but the jist of the story is that the US has a LOT of processed cheese. A ridiculous amount. This is because processed cheese lasts a very long time, so excess milk could be turned into processed cheese. There's plenty of excess milk because Americans are drinking much less milk: 149 lb/capita in 2017, down from 247 lb/capita in 1975. Less milk drinking == farm closures and dairy folks trying to figure out what to do with the cheese.
However, the rising tax (on gas or other taxable sources) to cover the infrastructure maintenance that EV do not pay are felt more directly by the poor.
Gas taxes have always been regressive, hitting the poor far harder than other segments of society. Look for gas taxes to be phased out and spread out through society in different ways. The existence of EVs isn't really going to change that.
Marketers have successfully convinced a gullible public that larger cars are "safer", that is why they buy SUVs. Coincidentally, they happen to be the most profitable cars to make.
When there are more SUVs on the road than small cars, SUVs are absolutely safer. In any collision between an SUV and a small car, the SUV wins.
Saturn's customers loved the Saturns, but there weren't that many customers. They always fell far short of sales goals.
Saturn didn't compete with Toyota or Honda. Saturn's customers were GM customers, so instead of buying GM cars, they were buying Saturns. Saturn did not siphon away the Japanese market, which they needed to do to succeed. Due to the lack of sales targets (they came out right around the 1989 stock market crash and the 1990s recession), Saturn ended up siphoning money from the rest of GM. In as much as they were supposed to compete with the Japanese automakers, Saturn's costs were much higher, and the number of Japanese and Korean cars in the US skyrocketed.
So what do you do, since GM was going bankrupt? You sell off the underperforming assets or shut them down. GM did this for Pontiac, Saab, Hummer, Oldsmobile, and Saturn. They sold the Saturn brand to Penske, who didn't build the cars themselves, but contracted with other automakers to create cars sold under the Saturn name. No one would buy that contract, so Penske backed out of the deal, and Saturn was done.
Saturn was an attempt to start over, with a tiny "independent" American company making low-margin small cars, an enormous new infrastructure, and a policy of never laying off workers. It should have surprised few that they could not compete.
Screaming right-wing the second anyone doesn't agree with you?
To be fair, "everyone in a union is lazy, the union it set up to encourage that, and they corrupt when not sleeping" is a fairly right-wing talking point.
When the CEO drains the pension fund to gamble on the stock market and looses big, retires and leaves it for the next couple of CEO's to ignore and suddenly all those retiring workers *surprise!* actually are still alive and want the pensions they contracted for but the company can't afford now, it's the Unions fault somehow.
Which is why private company pension funds were a horrible idea. It's pushing off today's costs (employees' retirements should be paid for when they work, not after they retire) so that the company can pay for it... sometime down the line. We don't have to pay for retirement now, someone else will pay for it later. That allowed companies to build up pension liabilities that would slow them compared to younger competitors that didn't yet have to pay out pensions, and after those pensions built up, encouraged companies to go bankrupt like any company does when it collapses under the weight of debt.
An employee's retirement should not be provided by the company. That is, it shouldn't be a fund that the company itself has to pay out. It can be raided. It can vanish during a bankruptcy. For the most part, pensions for state and federal employees don't work that way, since the state and feds will be around forever. State and federal pensions have their own issues, but at least the employee can be reasonably secure in his retirement.
Posting arcticles critical of robotics? Arguing against technological progress? Crying for the days of people cranking bolts all day long for a living?
This is slashdot now? Pathetic.
There's nothing wrong with looking at technological progress and asking whether it helps or hurts the bottom line of the common man.
This seems to be more about stacking as many terms that make the eclipse extra super special than about the capacity to be impressed by the beauty of an eclipse itself.
They learned well from the Japanese. This title could have been any anime vampire show.
Why does the Christian Broadcasting Network have an onion in their logo?
Because when they were founded by old grandpa, that was the style at the time.
Netflix is blowing up, iTunes is just sitting around collecting 15% checks and doing jack shit for the money. Netflix doesn't need that kind of distributor.
Then pull their app out of the store.
I've been a subscriber of Netflix for over 10 years, since I started streaming I've been using their apps on the Playstation 3 and 4, the Roku, an iphone, and an android device. But now if I want to use it on an ipad or something I'd have to eat (or netflix would, same thing) a 15% fee for content that's not going over Apple's network? That would be ridiculous.
In this case, I actually do believe him. I think he was trying to make a funny.
It's hard to tell on the Internet. Doing a is just too obvious, like making your own rimshot sound effect after telling a joke. But there are enough stupid people on the Internet, and enough genuinely oblivious people that it can be hard to tell, and the joke is kindof ruined by the "is he serious?" questions.
Is this the new fad, apologists for comcast and shitty companies.
Accuracy is more important than torches and pitchforks.
And that needs to change. Stockholder must become personally and solidary liable to the actions of the corporations the own stock of.
Only owning bonds should not lead to personal liability.
Yeah, good job completely destroying the economy. And sending plenty of old grandmas to jail who didn't know they had any stock in their retirement fund. And plenty of others going to jail when someone on the board committed fraud that stockholders couldn't have known about. What a winner of an idea!
How long have the Democrats controlled the California legislature? Let's blame the Republicans anyway although honestly I would not expect any better of them and there is plenty of blame to tar both sides.
I'm not sure how many on Enron's corporate board were Republicans, but they controlled the prices by restricting energy supply. They had control of the power market in California by purchasing all power wholesale, then transmitting it out of state to create an in-state shortage. That's because California's market was partially deregulated, only partially. Consumer-level prices were capped, so price didn't affect demand in any way. The wholesale market was deregulated, so wholesalers could buy up power and charge any price. Enron shut down a number of plants at the time to force California energy regulators to purchase energy on the short-term spot market at a 800% markup. Many of Enron's actions were found to be illegal by the FERC, but Enron had already gone bankrupt by that point, so there was not much to do.
As for the political makeup, the California legislature was split close to even when the deregulation occurred in 1996, and deregulation was pushed by California's Republican governor. The state wasn't quite as blue then as it is now.
fuck off you god damn paid troll
Having reason to question a pushed narrative is not being "a paid troll."
You drone 'enthusiasts' had a chance, way back in the beginning, to police your own, and prevent shit like this from happening in the first place, but NO, you couldn't be bothered, threw hissy-fits over the mere mention of regulation, refused to make it clear to everyone who bought a goddamned drone that there would be severe consequences for not being responsible
I see this sort of argument all the time, about the "drone community," the "gay community," muslims, any group that has an interest that is either slightly or majorly not shared with the mainstream. There's this weird notion that they're all one sort of hivemind, some collective where the collective is responsible for or even capable of policing the actions of everyone who shares that interest. It's nonsense. Why would a bunch of people in a large community, most of whom have never met or heard of each other, have any responsibility for what some rogue minority does?
So what does guarantee your rights, then?
Nothing.
People either care about them, or they don't. If they care about them, then there is MORE of a likelihood that they will be protected, but no guarantee. I know we're a nation of individuals, but it's the collective that decides the rights. Otherwise, they get eroded, slowly, bit by bit, and you don't get very many complaints.
Also, every open remote system that I've found that can do everything the Harmony can do work on IR. IR sucks, because you shouldn't have to point a remote at a listener. If you have a halfway-nice home theater setup, you're going to have things in cabinets that block IR signals. It should work on RF or Bluetooth, with IR blasters connected to those devices that need it and/or are hidden.
A few decades ago I admined an server on an IRC network. If you got a full list of channels, well... you saw channels with a lot of these sorts of titles. I know from conversations with other admins that the FBI liked these sorts of channels. They could just hop in, start collecting all sorts of logs with people offering up stuff and downloading other things. They were less pleased with well-meaning admins wading in and shutting those channels down. It made their jobs harder than when people were providing searchable kiddy porn so they could get busted.
Those areas could be a minefield of law enforcement. Why wouldn't they go after the low-hanging fruit? It's a lot easier even than to try to snoop the traffic.
False. That's only true since 1989. And before 1978, there was no way to rectify the omission of a copyright notice. So in 1923, no copyright notice equaled no copyright at all.
That was then, but copyright protections were enabled retroactively.
I suspect that they install fonts that you don't "need" so that if you ever come across content like that, you can see the characters instead of random boxes, even if you can't understand the characters. It's a perception thing -- those boxes it uses if it doesn't have a font, that just looks broken, and it gives people the feeling that someone forgot something, or the system was sloppily designed. But if they see it in a full character set they can't read? Well everyone understands that. That's expected.
I'm perfectly happy with web sites that do nothing until I click on a link. Everything I've seen that relies on JS tricks is just bad UX and we're better off without it. From the evidence before me, JS is used entirely to make the UX suck.
But, still, the average Web UX is vastly better than the average mobile app UX, so it's go that going for it. Sadly, mobile app UX brain damage is starting to leak into web design, so all hope will eventually be lost.
Meh, I don't have a problem with, say, Slashdot's UX, where comments aren't loaded until you click on them (except for the first few lines, and any comments that meet the threshold for inlining). That sort of JS UX is fine with me.
This reminds me of the graphs of computer performance that they used to print in Byte Magazine. It would show a huge increase, because the graph was cut off to show the numbers from 90% to 100%.
Really, that graph you show is just as meaningless.
Climate scientists, assuming you believe them, will tell you that a swing of 10C (the graph's scale) is an enormous amount, having a huge effect on global temperature variations and weather patterns. They'll tell you 2C is a pretty big number too.
The Trump-Russia Dossier was first paid for indirectly by the Republicans to Fusion GPS, dirt to use against him during the primaries, as part of opposition research on other Republicans. When Trump became the presidential nominee, the Free Beacon dropped funding and the DNC picked it up. It IS worth noting that the Dossier was not in the form that we know it until Democrats hired Fusion GPS. Nobody paid "the Russians" for this.
I'm not sure why you'd say money was "laundered" through Perkins Coie, they were the attorney firm of record for the Clinton campaign, and paying a firm for opposition research is as legal for Democrats as it was for the Republicans. It's hard to launder money when you're reporting it on your public campaign finance reports.
Ah, that's funny. Was actually trying to be funny... And you guys really think someone did not hear enough of the global warming on earth, he really think that's on Saturn?? And got -1 for that!! My gosh, the level gets pathetic around here...
Slashdot's sense of humor has drained away over the last decade. There are a lot of folks with mod points and anger issues. I think they're mostly newer (registered post-2010) and come from other sites where it's common to down-mod if you disagree, and every joke is played totally straight. That's the wrong way to do it. :-(