Since uber is not like a traditional cab company with a fixed number of drivers, they can easily increase supply of drivers during high demand times to ensure proper supply.
Okay, I'll bite. HOW can Uber "easily increase supply of drivers during high demand"?
I'm going to have to assume you think that Uber has the legal authority to require, for instance, that I (or you, for that matter) work for them during high demand times, whether you want to or not. Alas, that's not the case. Uber can't require me to work for them at all, much less during high demand times.
They know a big part of why we did not achieve the outcomes we sought in the Asia proxy conflicts with the USSR is because of the erosion of support at home.
If they "know that", they're horribly mistaken.
The reason we didn't achieve the outcomes we sought is that we allowed the enemy a safe place - as long as we drew a line and said "we won't go past here to get you" (38th parallel, anyone?), the enemy could not be defeated in any meaningful sense. All they had to do is retreat past our no-go line, and rest, recover, resupply, and get ready for next time.
Now, have we done that here? Arguably, yes. Which will allow for another 20 year war that we'll lose in the end. But frightening the home-folks doesn't lose you wars, that just encourages the home-folks to call for more effort to be made to destroy the "bad guys"....
So, you're saying that because some atheists have done bad things, one shouldn't condemn people who murder in the name of religion? Or we shouldn't point out religious fanaticism is a bad idea?
One shouldn't spend one's time talking about how terrible religious fanaticism is when atheistic fanaticism has killed 100x as many people this century alone.
Note that it is arguable that the Black Death killed more people than Mao and Stalin did (plus Hitler, of course, but he was small potatoes compared to Stalin and Mao), but there aren't any other human die-offs that even come close....
Note that governments to not have Rights. Only people have Rights. Governments have Powers.
Note also that a government's Powers extend pretty much as far as their firepower extends. If the men with guns can make you obey, then the government's laws matter. Otherwise, not so much.
Back when AOL was still in it's heyday, I was dismayed to discover that not only did one of my real life friends apparently not know how to spell "awesome", but he was somewhere in the mid 600s of people to spell it wrong in the particular manner that he misspelled it.
Fortunately, you're in the even larger group that can't distinguish between "its" and "it's" reliably. HINT: "it's" is a contraction of "it is", "its" is a possessive.
My I'm in a pissy mood today. I guess that whole post-pancreas thing is getting me down again.
You see this pop up every time you see a study to which someone viscerally disagrees.
Note that I agree with the results of the study. Identifying young jackasses by user name isn't generally hard.
Nonetheless, I agree with GP's comment. Most studies of this sort, for a variety of reasons, aren't worth the (metaphorical) paper they're printed on....
We "cut the cord" almost 2 years ago. We only have internet through our provider. Over the last two years we've received some crazy decent offers from them to "add on" tv service ($10/mo for basic cable) + a cable box (at no charge). At first, for a year, then 2 years, then indefinitely at no charge for the box.
This pretty much matches my experience. We've been "internet only" for nearly four years, and still get those offers. They're not happy campers....
That's a good comparison. The Post Office has to serve everywhere, from big cities to remote islands, and at the same charge.
Note that the Postal Service is a government institution.
So, raise your hands if you want internet access to be a government provided service. After all, they'd NEVER do something like monitor every website you visit and every email you send, right?
I'm sure there was more to the story, but that's all I ever heard the details on.
Indeed. The bill in question was NOT intended to define pi to be 3.0, the math in the bill actually defined pi to be 9.0. Which is probably why noone understood it....
What is different about the extension approval process that it see more success than the creation of newer, safer reactors? Why aren't they (the anti-nuke people) willing/able to pursuit the more logical course of action--the denial of operating extensions for obsolete, unsafe reactors?
Probably a mix of things...
First off, I suspect most of them don't actually know that their local power is coming from nuclear. Of those that do, well, shutting them down means no power for their TVs, stoves, things like that. It also means spending a lot of money (and raising power tariffs to pay for it) to build new coal plants to replace them (no, the power grid is still not capable of operating with no Base Load, and solar and wind still don't constitute Base Load).
But NEW nuclear plants don't hurt them at all to delay - it doesn't affect their electricity prices or lifestyle in any way, however slight.
Besides, you get a lot more positive publicity when you scream about how dangerous this NEW THING is than when you scream about the dangers of something that's been operating with no problems for longer than you've been alive....
or we may of had more Fukushima like plans owned by MR buns where safety is cut in the name of profit.
Two things:
1) "may have". NOT "may of". Makes you look illiterate.
2) If the death rate from nuclear power were 1000 times as high as it currently is, it would still be safer than coal or oil. If it were ten times safer than it is, it would still be safer than rooftop solar.
So, why are you advocating replacing nuclear with other power sources that are far less safe than nuclear???
What, it's impossible for a pharma company to start up outside the USA?
Your assumption is that it's only the evil of the US pharma companies that are keeping new antibiotics and such from being developed. If that were true, then it should be relatively easy to come up with startup money to do a pharma company in, say, Europe (or China, or India) that could just rake in the money while charging a fraction as much as American companies do.
So, why hasn't it happened? And why haven't YOU started one up if it's so easy?
I don't think the point was about untested materials, but about failures that had never been observed before. If a building in New York City is damaged because the steel beams buckle when exposed to the radiation emitted by the venom of a newly-discovered species of South American tree frog, I doubt the engineers and architects would be blamed for using steel beams.
No, but they'd probably be blamed for not planning for a proper environment for the tree frogs....
(and with an almost spotless cosmonaut safety record for the last 40 years, unlike some other nations).
Umm, you DO know, don't you, that the Russians lost two capsules full of men in ~120 flights, right?
And that the USA lost two shuttles full of men in 135 flights, right?
And that 2/135 is SMALLER than 2/120, right?
In other words, the failure rates of the Russian and American launches is just about the same (Sorry, the fact that American failures were on international TV (unlike the Russian), does NOT make American failures more common - just more visible to the ignorant....
Let's assume that the message is one million bytes long. Just take the 1st one million bytes of the OTP and exclusive or each byte of the message with the corresponding byte of the OTP to create each byte of the message.
Note that better practice is to always send the same length of message. Don't give them anything to work with, since just the amount of info you're sending back and forth is useful to the enemy if known.
And if you really want to be an ass, send random bytes containing no info whatsoever once in a while, just to screw with their heads....
Other than the "clear and present danger" exception for things like yelling fire in a theater
Note that the whole "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" thing was actually "FALSELY yelling fire in a crowded theatre". The issue being the "falsely" part, not the yelling part.
The fact that he's waited till a year before he leaves office shows he's not terribly serious about it. If he'd been serious, he'd have been working toward it for the last seven years. Or at least the last three years (he hasn't been eligible for reelection that long, so why not?)....
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What about my told? That's what i want to know....
War only works when ONE of the leaders thinks he's not part of it....
Okay, I'll bite. HOW can Uber "easily increase supply of drivers during high demand"?
I'm going to have to assume you think that Uber has the legal authority to require, for instance, that I (or you, for that matter) work for them during high demand times, whether you want to or not. Alas, that's not the case. Uber can't require me to work for them at all, much less during high demand times.
If they "know that", they're horribly mistaken.
The reason we didn't achieve the outcomes we sought is that we allowed the enemy a safe place - as long as we drew a line and said "we won't go past here to get you" (38th parallel, anyone?), the enemy could not be defeated in any meaningful sense. All they had to do is retreat past our no-go line, and rest, recover, resupply, and get ready for next time.
Now, have we done that here? Arguably, yes. Which will allow for another 20 year war that we'll lose in the end. But frightening the home-folks doesn't lose you wars, that just encourages the home-folks to call for more effort to be made to destroy the "bad guys"....
One shouldn't spend one's time talking about how terrible religious fanaticism is when atheistic fanaticism has killed 100x as many people this century alone.
Note that it is arguable that the Black Death killed more people than Mao and Stalin did (plus Hitler, of course, but he was small potatoes compared to Stalin and Mao), but there aren't any other human die-offs that even come close....
Note that governments to not have Rights. Only people have Rights. Governments have Powers.
Note also that a government's Powers extend pretty much as far as their firepower extends. If the men with guns can make you obey, then the government's laws matter. Otherwise, not so much.
Fortunately, you're in the even larger group that can't distinguish between "its" and "it's" reliably. HINT: "it's" is a contraction of "it is", "its" is a possessive.
My I'm in a pissy mood today. I guess that whole post-pancreas thing is getting me down again.
Note that I agree with the results of the study. Identifying young jackasses by user name isn't generally hard.
Nonetheless, I agree with GP's comment. Most studies of this sort, for a variety of reasons, aren't worth the (metaphorical) paper they're printed on....
This pretty much matches my experience. We've been "internet only" for nearly four years, and still get those offers. They're not happy campers....
Note that the Postal Service is a government institution.
So, raise your hands if you want internet access to be a government provided service. After all, they'd NEVER do something like monitor every website you visit and every email you send, right?
Indeed. The bill in question was NOT intended to define pi to be 3.0, the math in the bill actually defined pi to be 9.0. Which is probably why noone understood it....
Costs money to build a new plant when you shut the old one down. Even if the new plant is coal, oil, natural gas, solar, or wind. Lots of it.
And time. Mustn't forget that part.
So still cheaper to extend the life of an existing plant than to build a new one (even if the new one is NOT nuclear).
Probably a mix of things...
First off, I suspect most of them don't actually know that their local power is coming from nuclear. Of those that do, well, shutting them down means no power for their TVs, stoves, things like that. It also means spending a lot of money (and raising power tariffs to pay for it) to build new coal plants to replace them (no, the power grid is still not capable of operating with no Base Load, and solar and wind still don't constitute Base Load).
But NEW nuclear plants don't hurt them at all to delay - it doesn't affect their electricity prices or lifestyle in any way, however slight.
Besides, you get a lot more positive publicity when you scream about how dangerous this NEW THING is than when you scream about the dangers of something that's been operating with no problems for longer than you've been alive....
Two things:
1) "may have". NOT "may of". Makes you look illiterate.
2) If the death rate from nuclear power were 1000 times as high as it currently is, it would still be safer than coal or oil. If it were ten times safer than it is, it would still be safer than rooftop solar.
So, why are you advocating replacing nuclear with other power sources that are far less safe than nuclear???
What, it's impossible for a pharma company to start up outside the USA?
Your assumption is that it's only the evil of the US pharma companies that are keeping new antibiotics and such from being developed. If that were true, then it should be relatively easy to come up with startup money to do a pharma company in, say, Europe (or China, or India) that could just rake in the money while charging a fraction as much as American companies do.
So, why hasn't it happened? And why haven't YOU started one up if it's so easy?
No, but they'd probably be blamed for not planning for a proper environment for the tree frogs....
Umm, you DO know, don't you, that the Russians lost two capsules full of men in ~120 flights, right?
And that the USA lost two shuttles full of men in 135 flights, right?
And that 2/135 is SMALLER than 2/120, right?
In other words, the failure rates of the Russian and American launches is just about the same (Sorry, the fact that American failures were on international TV (unlike the Russian), does NOT make American failures more common - just more visible to the ignorant....
Come now, we've been questioning the origin of everything since we could talk. What do you think "religion" is all about?
Note that better practice is to always send the same length of message. Don't give them anything to work with, since just the amount of info you're sending back and forth is useful to the enemy if known.
And if you really want to be an ass, send random bytes containing no info whatsoever once in a while, just to screw with their heads....
I'll bite - how?
Seriously, what is there about AM radio that filters out opposing viewpoints?
Or are you jst trying to suggest the the Left is too stupid to use AM?
Note that the whole "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" thing was actually "FALSELY yelling fire in a crowded theatre". The issue being the "falsely" part, not the yelling part.
Are you, perchance, referring to the Department of Redundancy Department (DRD)?
Well, the easiest way to make sure inflation doesn't eat all/most of it up is if the amount of the BLS is indexed to inflation.
Do remember that "price increase" is NOT the same as "inflation". So some prices may rise as a result without having anything to do with inflation...
The people of the US do not care about China. We pay so little attention to China you'd think we were talking about Zimbabwe most of the time.
The fact that he's waited till a year before he leaves office shows he's not terribly serious about it. If he'd been serious, he'd have been working toward it for the last seven years. Or at least the last three years (he hasn't been eligible for reelection that long, so why not?)....