Don't be ridiculous. There isn't a conspiracy to hook people on smoking by the government. The tobacco settlements are over dear old Uncle Sam has wrung just about as much money out of them as was possible.
Alcohol is actually the new poising. Consumption of that took a big hit after prohibition and did not recover until the mid sixties but has been steadily growing sense. Alcohol will be the next big public health crisis just like it is/was in post soviet Russia. I do think the government wants it that way. There is the token anti-drink and drive PSA once and awhile and states like to pass crazy low BAC rules for driving but there is No effort to really reduce the sale or availability of booze. Compared to tobacco the restrictions on marketing are highly lax.
Arguing that government should encourage vaping is silly. Find me one medical professional that will say using the common vaping products is good for you. I am sure you can find many who might say its mostly harmless and preferable to smoking so as such might be recommendable as a smoking cessation aide. I doubt you find any who would advise a non-smoker take up vaping or a former smoker should plan on being a life like vape user. The sensible thing to do is neither. Certainly our lungs were not made to inhale mass quantities of glycerine, water, and nicotine at high frequency. Some water sure, but not the the other two and probably not in that frequency and amount with regard to the water. How damaging is it, likely not very but still you'd probably have fewer respitory issues over the course of your life time if you abstain.
Well smart phones were not a thing when Sun started Java so what you are really saying is Sun never had a plan but might have got lucky if Google had not come along. Sun perhaps correctly had managed to make J2ME quite a thing in the feature phone mobile space. The alternative of writing highly hardware specific applications for each handset sucked. So I am sure that was a nice bit of revenue for them. Just like lots of software vendors made lots of money writing non-shitty shell replacements for DOS and Windows in the early 90's. Was it wrong for Microsoft to replace progman with explorer because it killed the market for the Norton Desktop (ndw)? Technology changes.
Stuff happens its called a free market. I would also suggest that Google could have very easily gone with an alternative platform. Mono springs to mind. It ran on Linux was clean enough to compile on many architectures and there were/are large numbers of developers with useful.Net experience. Arguably choosing Java probable helped Sun/Oracle by slowing the trend away from the Java ecosystem.
Hmm every cop I know personally would respond more like this:
congress critter: we err on the side of caution and don't prosecute most situations where a cop kills someone beat cop: Thank you for that our jobs are often difficult and hazardous and we really try to do a good job at treating everyone fairly and respectfully but, sometimes, we can be really wrong. We are professionals and certainly should be given at least the same presumption of innocence and prosecutorial digression everyone else gets and probably a little more because we are professionals and most of us know what we are doing. senator: we just authorized MRAP's and machine guns for you guys and hey while youre at it why not grenade launchers beat cop: I don't know when or how I'll ever get to use this in practice and I mostly would not want to be in the position of having to make the decision to do so let alone acting on it, but this stuff is fun as hell to play with at the range! Thanks! governor: license plate readers for everyone! also here are all the cameras, look at everything, just let no crime go unpunished or i have to get a real job next year beat cop: guys...im not arresting someone for tags that are expired in the same month...i dont care about every litterbug...this is just noise. Have you any idea how much extra paper work this is going to create, I won't have anytime to play^H^H^H^Hqualify on the machine guns or the grenade launchers the Senate approved. Also I am suppose to learn to use this new digital radio at some point....
Well this argument did not work for Weev. He ultimately got the conviction overturned on an unrelated technicality but AT&T did not protect the URLs he accessed and the prosecutor and court system still came down on him.
If you accept the precedent of the first trial than yes unless there is a statement some place that specifically identifies a www resource as "for use by the public" you can't legally access it without some kind of individual permission. Its a stupid vague law to begin with and the case would be a silly precedent but none the less. Until someone else tries it in court that is about what we have to go on.
The thing is no prosecutor will charge you for accessing slashdot.
Hmm so when someone access a URL that isn't authenticated, the argument it was public did not work for Weev. Remeber when the conviction was over turned it was on a technicality related to venue.
So its not okay for you and I to access resources that are not explicitly advertiezed as for use by the public but your local cops can (or university researchers for that matter)? That is some BS right there.
These guys at Purdue are clearly a public menace and should be locked up!
I don't think I think a lot of people will travel a lot more and take lots more shorter trips.
Imagine: You are about to start dinner, you are currently sitting on the sofa watching the evening news. You know you are out of X. Today you make do with out X. Its not worth the time/effort of going to the grocery to get it. If the car is self driving, you shift the news to your smart phone and continue watching from the back seat of the car while it takes you to the grocery.
Or: Its 7pm on a Tuesday night. Little Timmy (11 years old) wants to go over to Bobbies to play for a couple hours. Today: "Forget it you'll have to do that at recess tomorrow". With a self driving car, you can program it take Timmy to Bobbies and send him on his way, you set permissions that he is able to use the "home" button when he is ready.
Or: You might to decide to have dinner with your parents after work. They live 100miles away. You can be there by 7:30. Today you don't do it. Four hours of driving is to much on a weeknight. Now though you can sit in the back seat and enjoy a nice cocktail after work and listen to news or read a book while you are taken there. After dinner you get back in your car, Using you laptop and wireless you balance your checkbook, go thru the mail you picked up on the way out, pay some bills. You are home by 11, in time for bed.
You're adding on more to do the same job or less & the IP stack + hosts already do the job with less
False I am adding more software to do the job right. IP stack can't because we don't live in a world where hostname -> ip address has anything close to a 1:1 relationship. Second there are lots of cases where I want some content but not all content from a given host. Sometimes sites won't work unless you allow at least some content from a given host, I can put in rules to smartly allow the scripts I need and still block the rest, can you? Smarter filtering like squid+privoxy lets me do this. The host file is just a hammer the task calls for forceps.
You might be satisfied with very marginal results and stuff being broken, that you have to either leave broken or accept all crap from the source. Maybe that is good enough for you. Its not for me.
I have off loaded all of this to a low power always on little arm box, the provides these functions to all the devices in my home. So there is no overhead on the machine I am useing, and that little arm box uses basically no power when idle. My time and having a good web experience is more valuable than the pennies a month it costs to run; it beats dickering with a hosts file constantly.
I ended up front ending it with squid configured with SSL Bump. There is lots of documentation on that, they you just configure squid to use privoxy as its upstream.
Squid can do lots of caching to which is nice in my situation. (allows multiple devices to benefit)
Much of the time maybe even most of the time that will work. If you have ever worked on a big project with an overseas team though you will know some phases need faster turn around than that.
Not everything can be pre-planned some things you have to deal with as they come. At somepoint even if it is after hours most people for their own sanity will want to follow so e-mail so that when a guy sends "Tried that got...." You can reply quickly with "Okay..Well..see if this will work...." and get the issue resolved. Otherwise. Its he sends that at 11a his time, 6 hours later you send a reply after he has gone home. You wait all day for him to get in at 4p your time and you have to leave in an hour, but he has a morning meeting and....
Suddenly what you used to be able to clear off your plate and take care of in a day or two now takes weeks.
Where did I say government bad. I thought i was suggesting that government actually retain control oft the property and build the infrastructure.
What I don't thing government should do is, take somoenes land and hand it to a private operator to do what they want with. I think Comcast should show up and the city or county should say okay we will multi mode fiber everywhere and you and anyone else who wants a slight of those frequencies to offer services can bid.
I'll tell you this though, for anyone that lives on metered internet you crazy not to use something to block ads and trackers. I use privoxy and it cuts my transfer utilization significantly.
Its certainly a much better approach the APK's never ending host file nonsense but I will accept APK's claim that even his method could help with caps if he has identified the ad servers adequately. That said privoxy is alot smarter and more granular its pretty easy to build regex pasterns against the invocation html for most ad systems and prevent requesting the resources. Which means you can block the ads without blocking the entire host or subnet.
APK's give it rest. Using the host file for content control is a 1990s solution. It might still work some of the time but there are many better methods around now. Please join the 21st century with the rest of us. I resisted too for a long time, but you'll like it here I promise.
This pretty well seems to be the cable business response, to the Internet business making cable well obsolete. They went around and used their rights of way to make sure they were the Internet providers so they could make sure to get you coming or going.
Boy howdie did the telco industry really drop the ball. They should have aggressively laid fiber on their rights of way and brought out speeds coax cable was never going to compete with and priced them competitively. Hindsight is 20/20.
However the public sector really dropped the ball here too. High speed internet access is basically noncompetitive in the US because cities though it was a good idea to trample private property rights and grant rights of way to private companies. eminent domain should NEVER be used to give land to private enterprises. Its not right or fair. When it comes to things like fiber, telephone wires, electrical lines local governments (maybe counties for long haul lines and stuff) should build them and lease them out; or maybe decide not to build them if existing resident land owners want to vote to discourage development in certain areas.
I find its faster when I only have one or two items. Usually because there isn't a wait. I am most certainly not faster than an experienced checker that knows where the UPC codes on most items are, and if you have to do something like navigate produce lookup certainly not faster than someone who has memorized the codes.
Indexing it to inflation might be interesting in years like 2008-10. People won't like being told their wage is going down because we had a negative inflation rate.
For a fast food place, you need to consider the cost of the materials going in to the product, the cost of paying for and maintaining the building (with its utilities, parking lot, and everything else), etc.
The direct cost might not double if you double the cost of the labor you use but if we are talking about something like a minimum wage well it won't just affect you so those impacts are going to show up in almost all of the things you mention.
Maintaining the building, grounds crews are not notoriously highly paid, the work is hard so they do tend to get more than minimum wage but not much. Utilities, well utility workers are usually union and probably are well ahead of minimum wage, the inputs to the utility though might be impacted, etc. The thing is all those people are going to demand to make more when you bump the minimum wage up. Their unions will argue that their salary does not buy as many hamburgers at the Wendy's as it used to and the medical care they need later costs more because the hospital says they have to pay the nurses aides better etc.
Basic economics says you can't really create a minimum wage without creating lots of inflation. When we enacted it amid the depression we were in an otherwise deflationary environment, and nobody would argue otherwise. So the consequences were not really felt. Since then inflation has lead and wages increases have followed. The thing is now we are not in that situation. Officially inflation is not far below FED targets. Unofficially I think its quite a bit higher or recently has been. I think the basket of goods used to measure are not really representative of where the majority of Americans spend the money in terms of sector. My grocery bill keeps going up, I see a pretty steady linear trend in my HomeBank graphs there, when I zoom out to five years. I also know my shopping basket has not changed much. I won't be paying less to replace my car soon, than I had to pay seven years ago for the last one. The new car will probably be 'better' in a lot of ways but its marginal utility to me won't be really that different.
I suspect if you hike wages now at the lower end, the outcome will be that the middle class gets squeezed a little more, gradually pushing them down toward poverty and increasing the overall wealth gap. You will make some poor people less poor, you will make some working poor unemployment recipients. Middle class wages won't go up because the labor market is still somewhat soft. So the middle class loses, they consume less with less discretionary income and the rate of GDP growth shrinks or goes negative. The %1ers take a small but meaningless hit to their bottom line.
I try to be nice and let people in. If traffic is moving at 75 and you are stuck in the right lane and you see someone on the ramp, yes I think you should slow down to the posted speed or so (usually 65-70mph) maybe even 10mph below the posted rate to let them in.
They should also show some courtesy by attempting to reach a speed as near to what traffic is doing at which they can still panic stop on the should if they must. I don't expect them to redline it, but I should not have to warp my break rotors either just so they can merge when *I* have the right of way.
magine someone like Donald Trump, except he never ages, lives forever, is essentially unkillable, and he's getting really, really bored as the centuries roll by; what do you think he's going to do?
Very little Trump's ability to do anything depends entirely on people willing to go along with him because of his celebrity or his Daddy's money. I say his Daddy's because Trump could have got better ROI just buying the DOW and holding than he has with his 'empire'. I say this as a Trump supporter (well since Cruz dropped out).
No I would be much much more afraid of things really smart people who are content not being household names as long as they get pull the strings might do. Like say Trump's latest adviser Paul Manorfort.
Just like when some a-hole does not understand the on ramp is for accelerating and pulls out 20ft in front of you on the inner state doing 35, (because there was no room for you to move left). I have nearly rear ended people who have done that. Going 30mph slower than what everyone else is doing, in places where it isn't expected is just as dangerous.
Look if you are going to cut someone off at least try to be going at a somewhat similar velocity.
Well for starters their should have to be some evidence that there is influence. We don't put people away for driving under the influence of Cola because there isn't any evidence it impairs driving.
Obviously being stoned does impair driving, but if blood levels don't correspond to what is going on in the brain, than justice really demands one of two options.
A zero tolerance, IE if you show any THC in the blood you could potentially be very impaired so you can't drive for days after smoking. Not unreasonable, but probably more restrictive than the risks warrant.
A sobriety test method. You either can walk a strait line, say the alphabet backwards, or not.
Frankly I would support getting rid of all DUI laws in favor of a simple driving while unfit law. If you get pulled over for erratic or reckless driving, you should be asked to do the field sobriety tests used now, and additionally be able to answer 5 of 7 any of the questions from the states driving license exam correctly. If you fail you are driving while unfit and should loose you license, the first time! You should be free to immediately reapply for a license, and get one when you pass the exams. If you do it a second time their should be a prejudical waiting period of some kind, and the third time should land you in the slam.
Right because its more important to play some games, than prevent a global epidemic that will have life altering consequences for many.
Remember though the technocrats tell us recreational international travel and open boarders are a good thing. Frankly the modern Olympics are a travesty. The IOC has proven over and over again that scandal and graft are the only things they know how to do well. The coaches cheat, the athletes cheat; at least someone gets caught practically every games. The athletes have taken to nation shopping so many of the competitors are not really from the nation they compete for and often have not lived their long, making the idea its a competition between nations silly. Its millions of the same people who bitch all day about carbon foot prints piling on jets to fly to another content so they can see something they could get a better view of on TV.
Really we should do the world a favor and just shut this s*(&) down.
FACT: humans read familiar looking words looking at the first and last letters mostly. When you make the 'e' at the end all slanty that just re-enforces the likelyhood you'll read googe as google. I did the first time, and without the context of why is the a story, I would not have gone back.
She is trying to pass as "Sue Google"
Now I'll be surprised if Google does sue Sue Googe, for two reasons.
1) It will bring more attention and confusion if they get involved in a legal battle not less. The law may or may not be a little more murky about using what is and has been your own name, even when its similar to someones mark, I don't know. The court of public opinion however certainly is more murky. Its unclear how it will play to have Google "beating up on" an immigrant running for congress.
2) Google is a lot braver than most organizations when it comes to taking liberties with their own mark. Very few marketing departments would have the courage to do something like the doodle. Most are busy getting upset when someone puts the logo on an unapproved background color. You can get away with alot when you are a verb.
No web 2.0 was already a thing. We had already seen other VCS stuffs like CVS and SVN rise and fall in favor before. Most of us had been use VSS for years at work by then.
BK was adopted by a then 15+ year old Linux kernel project because it was better than CVS and SVN that had come before it. People were upset it was not OSS and it got replaced mostly because that was preventing people from contributing to Linux and making the management processes harder. BK would be today's Git, pretty clearly if it had been open sourced at the time. What isn't clear is if it could have been monetized effectively.
Why we are inclined to agree with you in principle there are still serious moral questions about using your platform to deliberately mislead the public about the popularity of various ideas and opinions.
Remember its you on the left that constantly advocate and pass legislation limiting various kinds of speech and associated. Well the best way to teach you to be remorseful for your ignorant way is probably for you to be hoist by your own petard.
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Don't be ridiculous. There isn't a conspiracy to hook people on smoking by the government. The tobacco settlements are over dear old Uncle Sam has wrung just about as much money out of them as was possible.
Alcohol is actually the new poising. Consumption of that took a big hit after prohibition and did not recover until the mid sixties but has been steadily growing sense. Alcohol will be the next big public health crisis just like it is/was in post soviet Russia. I do think the government wants it that way. There is the token anti-drink and drive PSA once and awhile and states like to pass crazy low BAC rules for driving but there is No effort to really reduce the sale or availability of booze. Compared to tobacco the restrictions on marketing are highly lax.
Arguing that government should encourage vaping is silly. Find me one medical professional that will say using the common vaping products is good for you. I am sure you can find many who might say its mostly harmless and preferable to smoking so as such might be recommendable as a smoking cessation aide. I doubt you find any who would advise a non-smoker take up vaping or a former smoker should plan on being a life like vape user. The sensible thing to do is neither. Certainly our lungs were not made to inhale mass quantities of glycerine, water, and nicotine at high frequency. Some water sure, but not the the other two and probably not in that frequency and amount with regard to the water. How damaging is it, likely not very but still you'd probably have fewer respitory issues over the course of your life time if you abstain.
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Well smart phones were not a thing when Sun started Java so what you are really saying is Sun never had a plan but might have got lucky if Google had not come along. Sun perhaps correctly had managed to make J2ME quite a thing in the feature phone mobile space. The alternative of writing highly hardware specific applications for each handset sucked. So I am sure that was a nice bit of revenue for them. Just like lots of software vendors made lots of money writing non-shitty shell replacements for DOS and Windows in the early 90's. Was it wrong for Microsoft to replace progman with explorer because it killed the market for the Norton Desktop (ndw)? Technology changes.
Stuff happens its called a free market. I would also suggest that Google could have very easily gone with an alternative platform. Mono springs to mind. It ran on Linux was clean enough to compile on many architectures and there were/are large numbers of developers with useful .Net experience. Arguably choosing Java probable helped Sun/Oracle by slowing the trend away from the Java ecosystem.
Hmm every cop I know personally would respond more like this:
congress critter: we err on the side of caution and don't prosecute most situations where a cop kills someone
beat cop: Thank you for that our jobs are often difficult and hazardous and we really try to do a good job at treating everyone fairly and respectfully but, sometimes, we can be really wrong. We are professionals and certainly should be given at least the same presumption of innocence and prosecutorial digression everyone else gets and probably a little more because we are professionals and most of us know what we are doing.
senator: we just authorized MRAP's and machine guns for you guys and hey while youre at it why not grenade launchers
beat cop: I don't know when or how I'll ever get to use this in practice and I mostly would not want to be in the position of having to make the decision to do so let alone acting on it, but this stuff is fun as hell to play with at the range! Thanks!
governor: license plate readers for everyone! also here are all the cameras, look at everything, just let no crime go unpunished or i have to get a real job next year
beat cop: guys...im not arresting someone for tags that are expired in the same month...i dont care about every litterbug...this is just noise. Have you any idea how much extra paper work this is going to create, I won't have anytime to play^H^H^H^Hqualify on the machine guns or the grenade launchers the Senate approved. Also I am suppose to learn to use this new digital radio at some point....
Well this argument did not work for Weev. He ultimately got the conviction overturned on an unrelated technicality but AT&T did not protect the URLs he accessed and the prosecutor and court system still came down on him.
If you accept the precedent of the first trial than yes unless there is a statement some place that specifically identifies a www resource as "for use by the public" you can't legally access it without some kind of individual permission. Its a stupid vague law to begin with and the case would be a silly precedent but none the less. Until someone else tries it in court that is about what we have to go on.
The thing is no prosecutor will charge you for accessing slashdot.
Hmm so when someone access a URL that isn't authenticated, the argument it was public did not work for Weev. Remeber when the conviction was over turned it was on a technicality related to venue.
So its not okay for you and I to access resources that are not explicitly advertiezed as for use by the public but your local cops can (or university researchers for that matter)? That is some BS right there.
These guys at Purdue are clearly a public menace and should be locked up!
I don't think I think a lot of people will travel a lot more and take lots more shorter trips.
Imagine: You are about to start dinner, you are currently sitting on the sofa watching the evening news. You know you are out of X. Today you make do with out X. Its not worth the time/effort of going to the grocery to get it. If the car is self driving, you shift the news to your smart phone and continue watching from the back seat of the car while it takes you to the grocery.
Or: Its 7pm on a Tuesday night. Little Timmy (11 years old) wants to go over to Bobbies to play for a couple hours. Today: "Forget it you'll have to do that at recess tomorrow". With a self driving car, you can program it take Timmy to Bobbies and send him on his way, you set permissions that he is able to use the "home" button when he is ready.
Or: You might to decide to have dinner with your parents after work. They live 100miles away. You can be there by 7:30. Today you don't do it. Four hours of driving is to much on a weeknight. Now though you can sit in the back seat and enjoy a nice cocktail after work and listen to news or read a book while you are taken there. After dinner you get back in your car, Using you laptop and wireless you balance your checkbook, go thru the mail you picked up on the way out, pay some bills. You are home by 11, in time for bed.
All things self driving cars could let you do.
I'll feed the trolls today.
You're adding on more to do the same job or less & the IP stack + hosts already do the job with less
False I am adding more software to do the job right. IP stack can't because we don't live in a world where hostname -> ip address has anything close to a 1:1 relationship. Second there are lots of cases where I want some content but not all content from a given host. Sometimes sites won't work unless you allow at least some content from a given host, I can put in rules to smartly allow the scripts I need and still block the rest, can you? Smarter filtering like squid+privoxy lets me do this. The host file is just a hammer the task calls for forceps.
You might be satisfied with very marginal results and stuff being broken, that you have to either leave broken or accept all crap from the source. Maybe that is good enough for you. Its not for me.
I have off loaded all of this to a low power always on little arm box, the provides these functions to all the devices in my home. So there is no overhead on the machine I am useing, and that little arm box uses basically no power when idle. My time and having a good web experience is more valuable than the pennies a month it costs to run; it beats dickering with a hosts file constantly.
I ended up front ending it with squid configured with SSL Bump. There is lots of documentation on that, they you just configure squid to use privoxy as its upstream.
Squid can do lots of caching to which is nice in my situation. (allows multiple devices to benefit)
Much of the time maybe even most of the time that will work. If you have ever worked on a big project with an overseas team though you will know some phases need faster turn around than that.
Not everything can be pre-planned some things you have to deal with as they come. At somepoint even if it is after hours most people for their own sanity will want to follow so e-mail so that when a guy sends "Tried that got...." You can reply quickly with "Okay..Well..see if this will work...." and get the issue resolved. Otherwise. Its he sends that at 11a his time, 6 hours later you send a reply after he has gone home. You wait all day for him to get in at 4p your time and you have to leave in an hour, but he has a morning meeting and ....
Suddenly what you used to be able to clear off your plate and take care of in a day or two now takes weeks.
Where did I say government bad. I thought i was suggesting that government actually retain control oft the property and build the infrastructure.
What I don't thing government should do is, take somoenes land and hand it to a private operator to do what they want with. I think Comcast should show up and the city or county should say okay we will multi mode fiber everywhere and you and anyone else who wants a slight of those frequencies to offer services can bid.
I'll tell you this though, for anyone that lives on metered internet you crazy not to use something to block ads and trackers. I use privoxy and it cuts my transfer utilization significantly.
Its certainly a much better approach the APK's never ending host file nonsense but I will accept APK's claim that even his method could help with caps if he has identified the ad servers adequately. That said privoxy is alot smarter and more granular its pretty easy to build regex pasterns against the invocation html for most ad systems and prevent requesting the resources. Which means you can block the ads without blocking the entire host or subnet.
APK's give it rest. Using the host file for content control is a 1990s solution. It might still work some of the time but there are many better methods around now. Please join the 21st century with the rest of us. I resisted too for a long time, but you'll like it here I promise.
This pretty well seems to be the cable business response, to the Internet business making cable well obsolete. They went around and used their rights of way to make sure they were the Internet providers so they could make sure to get you coming or going.
Boy howdie did the telco industry really drop the ball. They should have aggressively laid fiber on their rights of way and brought out speeds coax cable was never going to compete with and priced them competitively. Hindsight is 20/20.
However the public sector really dropped the ball here too. High speed internet access is basically noncompetitive in the US because cities though it was a good idea to trample private property rights and grant rights of way to private companies. eminent domain should NEVER be used to give land to private enterprises. Its not right or fair. When it comes to things like fiber, telephone wires, electrical lines local governments (maybe counties for long haul lines and stuff) should build them and lease them out; or maybe decide not to build them if existing resident land owners want to vote to discourage development in certain areas.
I find its faster when I only have one or two items. Usually because there isn't a wait. I am most certainly not faster than an experienced checker that knows where the UPC codes on most items are, and if you have to do something like navigate produce lookup certainly not faster than someone who has memorized the codes.
Indexing it to inflation might be interesting in years like 2008-10. People won't like being told their wage is going down because we had a negative inflation rate.
For a fast food place, you need to consider the cost of the materials going in to the product, the cost of paying for and maintaining the building (with its utilities, parking lot, and everything else), etc.
The direct cost might not double if you double the cost of the labor you use but if we are talking about something like a minimum wage well it won't just affect you so those impacts are going to show up in almost all of the things you mention.
Maintaining the building, grounds crews are not notoriously highly paid, the work is hard so they do tend to get more than minimum wage but not much. Utilities, well utility workers are usually union and probably are well ahead of minimum wage, the inputs to the utility though might be impacted, etc. The thing is all those people are going to demand to make more when you bump the minimum wage up. Their unions will argue that their salary does not buy as many hamburgers at the Wendy's as it used to and the medical care they need later costs more because the hospital says they have to pay the nurses aides better etc.
Basic economics says you can't really create a minimum wage without creating lots of inflation. When we enacted it amid the depression we were in an otherwise deflationary environment, and nobody would argue otherwise. So the consequences were not really felt. Since then inflation has lead and wages increases have followed. The thing is now we are not in that situation. Officially inflation is not far below FED targets. Unofficially I think its quite a bit higher or recently has been. I think the basket of goods used to measure are not really representative of where the majority of Americans spend the money in terms of sector. My grocery bill keeps going up, I see a pretty steady linear trend in my HomeBank graphs there, when I zoom out to five years. I also know my shopping basket has not changed much. I won't be paying less to replace my car soon, than I had to pay seven years ago for the last one. The new car will probably be 'better' in a lot of ways but its marginal utility to me won't be really that different.
I suspect if you hike wages now at the lower end, the outcome will be that the middle class gets squeezed a little more, gradually pushing them down toward poverty and increasing the overall wealth gap. You will make some poor people less poor, you will make some working poor unemployment recipients. Middle class wages won't go up because the labor market is still somewhat soft. So the middle class loses, they consume less with less discretionary income and the rate of GDP growth shrinks or goes negative. The %1ers take a small but meaningless hit to their bottom line.
I just wish it have been Carl's Junior - so I could finally order my "Extra Bigass Fries"
I try to be nice and let people in. If traffic is moving at 75 and you are stuck in the right lane and you see someone on the ramp, yes I think you should slow down to the posted speed or so (usually 65-70mph) maybe even 10mph below the posted rate to let them in.
They should also show some courtesy by attempting to reach a speed as near to what traffic is doing at which they can still panic stop on the should if they must. I don't expect them to redline it, but I should not have to warp my break rotors either just so they can merge when *I* have the right of way.
magine someone like Donald Trump, except he never ages, lives forever, is essentially unkillable, and he's getting really, really bored as the centuries roll by; what do you think he's going to do?
Very little Trump's ability to do anything depends entirely on people willing to go along with him because of his celebrity or his Daddy's money. I say his Daddy's because Trump could have got better ROI just buying the DOW and holding than he has with his 'empire'. I say this as a Trump supporter (well since Cruz dropped out).
No I would be much much more afraid of things really smart people who are content not being household names as long as they get pull the strings might do. Like say Trump's latest adviser Paul Manorfort.
Which causes accidents!
Just like when some a-hole does not understand the on ramp is for accelerating and pulls out 20ft in front of you on the inner state doing 35, (because there was no room for you to move left). I have nearly rear ended people who have done that. Going 30mph slower than what everyone else is doing, in places where it isn't expected is just as dangerous.
Look if you are going to cut someone off at least try to be going at a somewhat similar velocity.
constitutes "under influence"
Well for starters their should have to be some evidence that there is influence. We don't put people away for driving under the influence of Cola because there isn't any evidence it impairs driving.
Obviously being stoned does impair driving, but if blood levels don't correspond to what is going on in the brain, than justice really demands one of two options.
A zero tolerance, IE if you show any THC in the blood you could potentially be very impaired so you can't drive for days after smoking. Not unreasonable, but probably more restrictive than the risks warrant.
A sobriety test method. You either can walk a strait line, say the alphabet backwards, or not.
Frankly I would support getting rid of all DUI laws in favor of a simple driving while unfit law. If you get pulled over for erratic or reckless driving, you should be asked to do the field sobriety tests used now, and additionally be able to answer 5 of 7 any of the questions from the states driving license exam correctly. If you fail you are driving while unfit and should loose you license, the first time! You should be free to immediately reapply for a license, and get one when you pass the exams. If you do it a second time their should be a prejudical waiting period of some kind, and the third time should land you in the slam.
Right because its more important to play some games, than prevent a global epidemic that will have life altering consequences for many.
Remember though the technocrats tell us recreational international travel and open boarders are a good thing. Frankly the modern Olympics are a travesty. The IOC has proven over and over again that scandal and graft are the only things they know how to do well. The coaches cheat, the athletes cheat; at least someone gets caught practically every games. The athletes have taken to nation shopping so many of the competitors are not really from the nation they compete for and often have not lived their long, making the idea its a competition between nations silly. Its millions of the same people who bitch all day about carbon foot prints piling on jets to fly to another content so they can see something they could get a better view of on TV.
Really we should do the world a favor and just shut this s*(&) down.
FACT: humans read familiar looking words looking at the first and last letters mostly. When you make the 'e' at the end all slanty that just re-enforces the likelyhood you'll read googe as google. I did the first time, and without the context of why is the a story, I would not have gone back.
She is trying to pass as "Sue Google"
Now I'll be surprised if Google does sue Sue Googe, for two reasons.
1) It will bring more attention and confusion if they get involved in a legal battle not less. The law may or may not be a little more murky about using what is and has been your own name, even when its similar to someones mark, I don't know. The court of public opinion however certainly is more murky. Its unclear how it will play to have Google "beating up on" an immigrant running for congress.
2) Google is a lot braver than most organizations when it comes to taking liberties with their own mark. Very few marketing departments would have the courage to do something like the doodle. Most are busy getting upset when someone puts the logo on an unapproved background color. You can get away with alot when you are a verb.
The Internet was sort of in its infancy
No web 2.0 was already a thing. We had already seen other VCS stuffs like CVS and SVN rise and fall in favor before. Most of us had been use VSS for years at work by then.
BK was adopted by a then 15+ year old Linux kernel project because it was better than CVS and SVN that had come before it. People were upset it was not OSS and it got replaced mostly because that was preventing people from contributing to Linux and making the management processes harder. BK would be today's Git, pretty clearly if it had been open sourced at the time. What isn't clear is if it could have been monetized effectively.
Dear, facebook
Why we are inclined to agree with you in principle there are still serious moral questions about using your platform to deliberately mislead the public about the popularity of various ideas and opinions.
Remember its you on the left that constantly advocate and pass legislation limiting various kinds of speech and associated. Well the best way to teach you to be remorseful for your ignorant way is probably for you to be hoist by your own petard.
Enjoy.