After all, if I just bought one, I'm not terribly likely to buy another right away....
Unless we're talking consumables. Ads trying to sell me consumables is neither surprising nor especially annoying. Because I have mastered the secret to happiness - I ignore ALL ads....
A McDonald's on Gause Blvd can't try to poach workers from the McDonald's on Front Street....
Note that this is NOT about Arby's hiring your expert McDonald's people, it's about another McDonald's hiring them.
As to the legality, I really couldn't say. Depends on whether any two McDonald's are considered part of the same company or not. If not, then it's illegal. If so, then it's probably legal.
TFS says they're dropping the URL. Nothing about the database being deleted.
And then there's TFA, which says that the group that maintains the database are looking for someone else to host it. Again, no suggestion that the database is being deleted.
So, chill, people. It's not the end of the world. It's not even the end of medical science....
The left also want Assault Rifle bans (yes, assault rifles are a real thing. It's got to do with the speed of the bullet and how it tears through flesh leaving a wide hole).
Hmm, so my.30-06 single shot is an "assault rifle"? Because it can put a bullet downrange with the same sort of muzzle speed as an AR-15, and it will make a MUCH bigger hole than an AR-15 does.
Or my Lee Enfield. Yeah, it can be handloaded to the same sort of muzzle speeds as an AR-15. 100 year-old rifle, but an Assault Rifle! Way cool!
Note, by the by, that an AK-47 (or the semi-auto civilian version) does NOT have a terribly high muzzle speed. More like a.30-30 than a.30-06.
Note also that your definition of an Assault Rifle is based on absolutely no knowledge of the subject. Assault rifles were developed and used by the military because they allow soldiers to carry more ammo. Smaller ammo means easier to carry lots and lots of bullets. And a wounded soldier is generally just as out of it as a dead one....
with their children unable to hold pencils due to smartphone overuse
This struck me as interesting...
So, can you use a quill pen? How about clay tablet and stylus? If not, why not?
Face it, writing by hand is about to become a thing for historical societies. A keyboard is the new "pen and paper", until it's replaced by something better. And "better" doesn't mean going back to pencil and paper (or clay tablet and stylus)....
We need to keep repeating stories like this because we don't accept that they should be normal even if they are.
Why? Why does anyone really give a rat's ass whether the advertising they see is "targeted" or not? It's not like advertising generates a mysterious force that causes you to go out in zombie-mode and buy, buy, buy!
Personally, between the adblockers on my computers and my complete disinclination to buy much of anything, I can't really see this as doing anything except wasting some company's money....
If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it'd be > $20/hr. Instead it's about half what it was in the 70s inflation adjusted.
Umm, no.
In 1975, Minimum Wage was $2.10 per hour. Today, it's $7.25 per hour. For those who are math-challenged, the latter is 3.45x the former.
Inflation from 1975 to present is about a factor of 4.83.
And for those who are seriously math-challenged, 4.83 is NOT twice 3.45.
If Minimum Wage had kept up with inflation since then, it would be about $10/hour.
Caveats: I chose 1975 because the minimum Wage changed to $2.10 then, and for no other reason. Choosing a different start date could have a moderately dramatic effect on the numbers. Or not.
along with perhaps the ability to blank the plate if the vehicle is stolen (makes it it stick out more to law enforcement, for example).
Which just means that car thieves will swap the plates with another car right after they steal your car. Then the police can go chasing that other vehicle while they drive your car to a chop-shop or wherever....
With a sample of 7 billion, no one has lived past 115
The sample is rather larger than 7 billion, since it includes not just the people alive now, but the people who lived in the 20th century who are no longer alive. Probably closer to 15 billion than to 7.
And someone may have lived past 115 that we just missed. Say, some Buddhist Monk born in the 19th century, no birth certificate, no record of his death....
We are just too scared to develop it from the point of "highly dangerous" to "very safe".
We don't need to develop it from "highly dangerous", it hasn't been "highly dangerous" since well before the first Civilian nuke plant was built (before I was born).
Note that even accompanied by a cataclysm (Fukushima) or an insane test regime (Chernobyl), casualties were, essentially, nonexistant.
Chernobyl (the insane test regime) caused about 100 deaths among the people at the site at the time (mostly firefighters), and has definitely caused about a dozen thyroid cancer deaths since. It may have caused many more cancer deaths. Or not, since the most generous assumptions about Chernobyl-inspired cancer rates were just background noise compared to NORMAL cancer rates (back when Chernobyl happened, they predicted 40K-50K extra cancer deaths as a result, but the normal pre-Chernobyl cancer death rates in that population was expected to be 4M+....
Note that in the USA, the total number of nuclear power plant workers that have died due to radiation effects has been...three. In 60+ years....
Might want to find out how much help we gave the USSR. Hint: we sent them 10000+ tanks, and more airplanes than tanks. For a start...
The nation that lost the most people was the USSR. They lost ~14% of their population, because they fought the most brutal, relentless part of the war against the Nazi regime.
All too true. Which doesn't invalidate the OP's statement that they were allied with the Germans at the beginning of the War. Always remember that when Poland was invaded by Germany from the west, it was also invaded by the Soviets from the East....
Imprimis - it would be nice if you refrained from linking to sites that insist they be allowed to serve ads to me in order to see their article. Because I won't turn off my adblock unless it's to see an article about the End of the World which isn't being shown anywhere else.
Secundus - The headline suggests that SpaceX has something to do with the robot other than transporting it for the customer/maker. TFS seems to be saying that the robot was developed and built elsewhere.
I know that anything to do with Elon Musk is automatically newsworthy and all that (and a good excuse among many for a hate-fest), but taking a box built by (and programmed by) someone else to the ISS isn't really worth bringing the transporter into it.
Unless, if the AI had been transported by the Russians, the title would have been "Russians take AI robot to ISS", mentioning SpaceX was extraneous to the subject....
Why have a Federal gov't if all they do is bicker and redo/undo each others' laws and spending every cycle?
Because it keeps the people who live for the chance to tell someone else how to live something to do that's pretty much harmless. Much better than letting them indulge their desires to tell you what to do...
Plus, worse they still do price increases even if you have a contract. They've increased by monthly bill by $5 twice. I could break my contract because of that, but since I got a subsidized phone it would cost me hundreds of dollars to do that so I'm stuck.
Just curious...how much did you "save" with the subsidized phone"? And how long will it take to pay off at $10 per month (the amount you're "stuck" with paying because of price increases)?
Note that if it's a helluva long time, then you still got the better of the deal, what with the really cheap phone. If not, maybe you'll be smarter than to go for the "free phone" (or vastly reduced price, anyways) next time....
Somehow phone and cable companies get away with adding hidden fees instead of just having to raise the price a little. Why do we let them get away with that?
Don't tell me, let me guess: because their rates are regulated by the government, so they can't just raise the price?
$1.23/month would just about match inflation if the monthly bill were around $58/month. Which would about split the difference between their $40/month plan and their $80/month plan.
No opinion (and no real desire to go data diving to find out) as to the "normal" ratio of $40/month and $80/month plans, so I'll go with a guess of a 50-50 split (note, based on the download speeds of the plans, I'd guess more $80 plans than $40 plans, but that's just an unsubstantiated opinion).
So a Service Fee raises their annual rate to be in line with inflation. Color me horrified. No, wait, a better word might be "bored"....
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Hmm, seems like a really badly targeted ad to me.
After all, if I just bought one, I'm not terribly likely to buy another right away....
Unless we're talking consumables. Ads trying to sell me consumables is neither surprising nor especially annoying. Because I have mastered the secret to happiness - I ignore ALL ads....
That ignoring the AGW alarmists is a good thing for our kids? But, no, that's pretty much impossible, right?
So, why is it okay when Norway does it, but the height of evil when we do it?
A McDonald's on Gause Blvd can't try to poach workers from the McDonald's on Front Street....
Note that this is NOT about Arby's hiring your expert McDonald's people, it's about another McDonald's hiring them.
As to the legality, I really couldn't say. Depends on whether any two McDonald's are considered part of the same company or not. If not, then it's illegal. If so, then it's probably legal.
TFS says they're dropping the URL. Nothing about the database being deleted.
And then there's TFA, which says that the group that maintains the database are looking for someone else to host it. Again, no suggestion that the database is being deleted.
So, chill, people. It's not the end of the world. It's not even the end of medical science....
Hmm, so my .30-06 single shot is an "assault rifle"? Because it can put a bullet downrange with the same sort of muzzle speed as an AR-15, and it will make a MUCH bigger hole than an AR-15 does.
Or my Lee Enfield. Yeah, it can be handloaded to the same sort of muzzle speeds as an AR-15. 100 year-old rifle, but an Assault Rifle! Way cool!
Note, by the by, that an AK-47 (or the semi-auto civilian version) does NOT have a terribly high muzzle speed. More like a .30-30 than a .30-06.
Note also that your definition of an Assault Rifle is based on absolutely no knowledge of the subject. Assault rifles were developed and used by the military because they allow soldiers to carry more ammo. Smaller ammo means easier to carry lots and lots of bullets. And a wounded soldier is generally just as out of it as a dead one....
You left out a word in the above sentence. Which just confirms the intent of the above sentence....
This struck me as interesting...
So, can you use a quill pen? How about clay tablet and stylus? If not, why not?
Face it, writing by hand is about to become a thing for historical societies. A keyboard is the new "pen and paper", until it's replaced by something better. And "better" doesn't mean going back to pencil and paper (or clay tablet and stylus)....
People still have clocks? I use my phone for all my timekeeping & alarm needs....
Most used cars aren't ground up for scrap when sold/traded for the replacement. They're bought by someone else, and used for years more.
As an example, my cars average about ten years old right now. One of them is seven years old, but new to me (just bought it a month ago).
Why? Why does anyone really give a rat's ass whether the advertising they see is "targeted" or not? It's not like advertising generates a mysterious force that causes you to go out in zombie-mode and buy, buy, buy!
Personally, between the adblockers on my computers and my complete disinclination to buy much of anything, I can't really see this as doing anything except wasting some company's money....
Rein. If you can't spell it, don't use it....
Umm, no.
In 1975, Minimum Wage was $2.10 per hour. Today, it's $7.25 per hour. For those who are math-challenged, the latter is 3.45x the former.
Inflation from 1975 to present is about a factor of 4.83.
And for those who are seriously math-challenged, 4.83 is NOT twice 3.45.
If Minimum Wage had kept up with inflation since then, it would be about $10/hour.
Caveats: I chose 1975 because the minimum Wage changed to $2.10 then, and for no other reason. Choosing a different start date could have a moderately dramatic effect on the numbers. Or not.
As I recall, we tried the electroshock therapy thing a long time ago.
It worked, if you defined "worked" to include "turned them into vegetables". Somehow, I doubt that that's what TFA had in mind though....
Which just means that car thieves will swap the plates with another car right after they steal your car. Then the police can go chasing that other vehicle while they drive your car to a chop-shop or wherever....
The sample is rather larger than 7 billion, since it includes not just the people alive now, but the people who lived in the 20th century who are no longer alive. Probably closer to 15 billion than to 7.
And someone may have lived past 115 that we just missed. Say, some Buddhist Monk born in the 19th century, no birth certificate, no record of his death....
We don't need to develop it from "highly dangerous", it hasn't been "highly dangerous" since well before the first Civilian nuke plant was built (before I was born).
Note that even accompanied by a cataclysm (Fukushima) or an insane test regime (Chernobyl), casualties were, essentially, nonexistant.
Chernobyl (the insane test regime) caused about 100 deaths among the people at the site at the time (mostly firefighters), and has definitely caused about a dozen thyroid cancer deaths since. It may have caused many more cancer deaths. Or not, since the most generous assumptions about Chernobyl-inspired cancer rates were just background noise compared to NORMAL cancer rates (back when Chernobyl happened, they predicted 40K-50K extra cancer deaths as a result, but the normal pre-Chernobyl cancer death rates in that population was expected to be 4M+....
Note that in the USA, the total number of nuclear power plant workers that have died due to radiation effects has been...three. In 60+ years....
Might want to find out how much help we gave the USSR.
Hint: we sent them 10000+ tanks, and more airplanes than tanks. For a start...
All too true. Which doesn't invalidate the OP's statement that they were allied with the Germans at the beginning of the War. Always remember that when Poland was invaded by Germany from the west, it was also invaded by the Soviets from the East....
So, keeping Uber off the roads should reduce pedestrian fatalities by, oh, 0.07% this year, eh?
Based on the number of people killed by cars with drivers in 2017, of course. No statistics available for the whole country for 2018 yet....
Does "the heard" include everyone who can't spell "herd" properly? Just curious.
Imprimis - it would be nice if you refrained from linking to sites that insist they be allowed to serve ads to me in order to see their article. Because I won't turn off my adblock unless it's to see an article about the End of the World which isn't being shown anywhere else.
Secundus - The headline suggests that SpaceX has something to do with the robot other than transporting it for the customer/maker. TFS seems to be saying that the robot was developed and built elsewhere.
I know that anything to do with Elon Musk is automatically newsworthy and all that (and a good excuse among many for a hate-fest), but taking a box built by (and programmed by) someone else to the ISS isn't really worth bringing the transporter into it.
Unless, if the AI had been transported by the Russians, the title would have been "Russians take AI robot to ISS", mentioning SpaceX was extraneous to the subject....
Because it keeps the people who live for the chance to tell someone else how to live something to do that's pretty much harmless. Much better than letting them indulge their desires to tell you what to do...
Just curious...how much did you "save" with the subsidized phone"? And how long will it take to pay off at $10 per month (the amount you're "stuck" with paying because of price increases)?
Note that if it's a helluva long time, then you still got the better of the deal, what with the really cheap phone. If not, maybe you'll be smarter than to go for the "free phone" (or vastly reduced price, anyways) next time....
Don't tell me, let me guess: because their rates are regulated by the government, so they can't just raise the price?
As opposed to now, when we have to die when our lungs stop working, you mean?
Hmm. Wonder how evil that is. Let's see...
$1.23/month would just about match inflation if the monthly bill were around $58/month. Which would about split the difference between their $40/month plan and their $80/month plan.
No opinion (and no real desire to go data diving to find out) as to the "normal" ratio of $40/month and $80/month plans, so I'll go with a guess of a 50-50 split (note, based on the download speeds of the plans, I'd guess more $80 plans than $40 plans, but that's just an unsubstantiated opinion).
So a Service Fee raises their annual rate to be in line with inflation. Color me horrified. No, wait, a better word might be "bored"....