We should ban all occupations who have a single mass shooter among them. Food inspectors are clearly not safe, if San Bernardino has taught us anything.
You can do what you do right now: drive your kids in manually. You can put them on the bus. You can call a cab. No one is taking options away from you. For those of us who would rather pay a little less and carpool, we get an option. It's good, it maximizes efficiency. Things that cause congestion cost more.
I'm terribly confused. Do you use 4 different cars right now? Why is the robot car somehow less capable? If you have 4 person-trips occurring right now, and 4 person-trips occurring with the robot car, why do you feel this adds congestion to the roads?
Philly suburbs... not exactly Manhattan, but also not Podunk. City cabs in Philly are OK (if a little terrifying) downtown, but cabs are a PITA out here. You call dispatch on the phone, and every company has their own number. They always tell you 20 minutes. Sometimes it's true, sometimes they never come at all. Not sure why the private taxi companies haven't banded together and put out a proper dispatch app to make at least a token effort at improving the experience.
You kind of lost me. If you don't live somewhere with Uber, then you probably don't have many regular cabs, either. Those guys can be quite terrifying. I haven't had an Uber car as dirty or terrifying as a typical city cab yet. In my experience, if you can live without a car, then taking the occasional cab/Uber is far, far more cost effective than ownership. In NYC, the price of parking alone more than covered transit pass, Zip car, and the occasional cab ride. That's kind of a special case, but it's true to a lesser extent in any city with decent transit.
Haven't you used Uber? It tells you, with pretty high accuracy, how long it will take for a car to show up, how long the ride will take, and what the cost will be. You can summon your ride as you sit down for breakfast and by the time you are done it will be there. If you are out at dinner, you order the car when you get the check and it's there pretty much when you are ready for it. Surge pricing is a wonderful incentive to get people using cars when the roads are less busy, or to take a short trip to a train rather than to pay for a full commute. I think it is a great primary solution, and a natural evolution from services like Zipcar.
I'm not arguing against them per se - just pointing out that they make a tremendous impact on the free market. Your comment seems to support my assertion. I just don't like it when people make free market arguments in favor of corporations without at least acknowledging that limited liability may very well be the single largest example of government interference in the free market... though the granting of monopolies over "intellectual property" is a strong contender. It's hard to be anti-regulation if you are defending the largest regulation.
But since you asked... Perhaps a contract between buyer and seller where the buyer agrees not to sue the employees of the corporation in exchange for this super awesome new technology. Perhaps an employment contract which indemnifies the employee. Insurance. The world went along without until the middle of the 19th century.
Why are you making "business" liability a specific category? Absent the government, if a product sold by Mr. Smith kills someone, I hope Mr. Smith has purchased some local warlord for protection against the angry family of the victim. In an orderly society with civil courts, Mr. Smith would need to defend himself in court. I think the existence of civil courts is a completely separate concept from economic constructs like corporations.
If you live in the Philadelphia area, there is a convenience chain called "Wawa". They've been using automated kiosks for ordering for at least 10 years, and the experience is pretty smooth. Wawa is very beloved locally. As for the cleanliness issue, consider that you are also handling money, or at least letting someone handle your credit card - which you likely keep in your pockets next to your butt and genitalia. I suggest admitting that your immune system is probably pretty good and then cleaning your hands before touching your food.
Wendy's would not be able to "offshore" money earned here. That trick only works for IP-heavy companies that can pay "rights" to offshore subsidiary "rightsholders". Another reason to hate IP laws.
Yes, limited liability is actually a government intrusion on the free market. I'm always shocked by the number of "free market" advocates who defend limited liability corporations. I guess they've been around for a while so people assume they are a natural part of a free market, but they are not.
Better design is always to be encouraged, but let's not hold them to a different standard than a regular car. People do stupid shit every day in cars, and 30,000 die because of it every year. Let's apply the same standard here, or else make all cars idiot proof. This incident is analogous to turning on cruise control and then taking a nap. Yes, cruise control could be made safer, but we've had it for 40 years in its "stupid" state and accepted the consequences.
Just opened your thesis. For what you did, Word is fine. You didn't even use features like cross references or styles. It looks like you used spaces and tabs instead of justification. A picture pasted into the center of the page is indeed handled correctly. Using Word like a typewriter works fine, but some of us find that very frustrating.
Right, but that is a consistent policy isn't it? We have a low tolerance for high taxes, which is a good thing. We also have a high demand for spending, which is a bad thing.
Germany has a per-capita GDP of $46k vs the US with $53k. And this despite being completely devastated during the war. So they have pretty much kept up with US economic growth, in some periods even surpassing us.
But here's the rub - German revenues are roughly 40% of their GDP, while in the US it is 27%. In absolute terms, that's a per-capita contribution of $18.4k per person in Germany and $14.3 in the US. So, based on these numbers it seems that we in the us could pay AT LEAST an extra $4k each and still have German-like economic growth. That's over $1.2 trillion.
Feel free to pick apart my math or assumptions, but clearly it is possible to raise taxes and simultaneously raise revenue or Germany would not exist.
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We should ban all occupations who have a single mass shooter among them. Food inspectors are clearly not safe, if San Bernardino has taught us anything.
You can do what you do right now: drive your kids in manually. You can put them on the bus. You can call a cab. No one is taking options away from you. For those of us who would rather pay a little less and carpool, we get an option. It's good, it maximizes efficiency. Things that cause congestion cost more.
Is there a statistical danger presented by Uber drivers, or are we just relying on your unique lack of selection bias?
Yeah, if there is a single person reading these comments who is surprised that Facebook implements features to raise ad revenue, THAT would be news.
Soooo, you should probably not hire that service then. Failing to see the problem.
What makes you think that you'd get bus-like prices for private transportation?
Before you said you didn't live in a place with Uber - how did you have a shooting?
It doesn't get any less news than this.
I'm terribly confused. Do you use 4 different cars right now? Why is the robot car somehow less capable? If you have 4 person-trips occurring right now, and 4 person-trips occurring with the robot car, why do you feel this adds congestion to the roads?
Philly suburbs... not exactly Manhattan, but also not Podunk. City cabs in Philly are OK (if a little terrifying) downtown, but cabs are a PITA out here. You call dispatch on the phone, and every company has their own number. They always tell you 20 minutes. Sometimes it's true, sometimes they never come at all. Not sure why the private taxi companies haven't banded together and put out a proper dispatch app to make at least a token effort at improving the experience.
Ha! You got an "informative" vote.
You kind of lost me. If you don't live somewhere with Uber, then you probably don't have many regular cabs, either. Those guys can be quite terrifying. I haven't had an Uber car as dirty or terrifying as a typical city cab yet. In my experience, if you can live without a car, then taking the occasional cab/Uber is far, far more cost effective than ownership. In NYC, the price of parking alone more than covered transit pass, Zip car, and the occasional cab ride. That's kind of a special case, but it's true to a lesser extent in any city with decent transit.
Haven't you used Uber? It tells you, with pretty high accuracy, how long it will take for a car to show up, how long the ride will take, and what the cost will be. You can summon your ride as you sit down for breakfast and by the time you are done it will be there. If you are out at dinner, you order the car when you get the check and it's there pretty much when you are ready for it. Surge pricing is a wonderful incentive to get people using cars when the roads are less busy, or to take a short trip to a train rather than to pay for a full commute. I think it is a great primary solution, and a natural evolution from services like Zipcar.
I'm not arguing against them per se - just pointing out that they make a tremendous impact on the free market. Your comment seems to support my assertion. I just don't like it when people make free market arguments in favor of corporations without at least acknowledging that limited liability may very well be the single largest example of government interference in the free market... though the granting of monopolies over "intellectual property" is a strong contender. It's hard to be anti-regulation if you are defending the largest regulation.
But since you asked... Perhaps a contract between buyer and seller where the buyer agrees not to sue the employees of the corporation in exchange for this super awesome new technology. Perhaps an employment contract which indemnifies the employee. Insurance. The world went along without until the middle of the 19th century.
Isn't that the one with all the running dead chickens under water and paying shekels for touching girls?
Why are you making "business" liability a specific category? Absent the government, if a product sold by Mr. Smith kills someone, I hope Mr. Smith has purchased some local warlord for protection against the angry family of the victim. In an orderly society with civil courts, Mr. Smith would need to defend himself in court. I think the existence of civil courts is a completely separate concept from economic constructs like corporations.
It is indeed terrible when we learn stuff with taxpayer dollars. All learning should be the exclusive purview of government-chartered corporations.
If you live in the Philadelphia area, there is a convenience chain called "Wawa". They've been using automated kiosks for ordering for at least 10 years, and the experience is pretty smooth. Wawa is very beloved locally. As for the cleanliness issue, consider that you are also handling money, or at least letting someone handle your credit card - which you likely keep in your pockets next to your butt and genitalia. I suggest admitting that your immune system is probably pretty good and then cleaning your hands before touching your food.
Wendy's would not be able to "offshore" money earned here. That trick only works for IP-heavy companies that can pay "rights" to offshore subsidiary "rightsholders". Another reason to hate IP laws.
Yes, limited liability is actually a government intrusion on the free market. I'm always shocked by the number of "free market" advocates who defend limited liability corporations. I guess they've been around for a while so people assume they are a natural part of a free market, but they are not.
Better design is always to be encouraged, but let's not hold them to a different standard than a regular car. People do stupid shit every day in cars, and 30,000 die because of it every year. Let's apply the same standard here, or else make all cars idiot proof. This incident is analogous to turning on cruise control and then taking a nap. Yes, cruise control could be made safer, but we've had it for 40 years in its "stupid" state and accepted the consequences.
Do they write a lot of anything? I suspect they mostly fill in the blanks in templates. But I'm completely ignorant.
Just opened your thesis. For what you did, Word is fine. You didn't even use features like cross references or styles. It looks like you used spaces and tabs instead of justification. A picture pasted into the center of the page is indeed handled correctly. Using Word like a typewriter works fine, but some of us find that very frustrating.
Word's styles are better, but it makes up for this by making tables and pictures infuriating. Scientific papers are painful in Word.
Right, but that is a consistent policy isn't it? We have a low tolerance for high taxes, which is a good thing. We also have a high demand for spending, which is a bad thing.
Germany has a per-capita GDP of $46k vs the US with $53k. And this despite being completely devastated during the war. So they have pretty much kept up with US economic growth, in some periods even surpassing us.
But here's the rub - German revenues are roughly 40% of their GDP, while in the US it is 27%. In absolute terms, that's a per-capita contribution of $18.4k per person in Germany and $14.3 in the US. So, based on these numbers it seems that we in the us could pay AT LEAST an extra $4k each and still have German-like economic growth. That's over $1.2 trillion.
Feel free to pick apart my math or assumptions, but clearly it is possible to raise taxes and simultaneously raise revenue or Germany would not exist.