For me, I prefer to spend my limited extra time with my quickly-aging kids, so the idea of whittling away my evening at several grocery stores does not appeal. As a bachelor I may have agreed with you.
Um, Trader Joes is primarily a packaged-goods store. It's the definition of junk. Yes, you can still "do the edges" like at any grocery store, but the edges are small at most of them.
"smug" people really arent any better than "trash"
If you are concerned about being "better" or "worse", then I suppose that matters.
I'm not defending the AC's terrible attitude, but he does have a point. I mean, does Target exist for any reason other than for a few pennies more you can shop at a store that is like Walmart except clean, organized, and with actual open lanes at checkout? It's not really the lower class people are avoiding, but lower class people are going to be more price sensitive in general and so will be at Walmart rather than Target (or, back on topic, Whole Foods).
No, Whole Foods has been in a bit of a financial pickle for a long time. They are down 50% off their peak in 2013. Their revenue growth has been steady, but their operating income flat or down. They have serious competition in the premium grocery store space now - competition with better logistics and lower overhead. People have been waiting for either a buyout, merger, acquisition, or a death spiral, and whaddayaknow?
They have dry-aged steaks (the real deal). And I really like their Kenyan coffee. Their produce and cheese department is above-average. But other than that, I hardly ever go in - the main problem is that it's not a one-stop shop... you still need to visit another grocery store. It's the same problem that I have with Trader Joe's.
I don't think you understand how private pensions work or how highly they are regulated. And no wonder, with an attitude like that you'll be plenty ignorant.
Yes. But this is overly burdensome and no private companies do anything like this.
I don't think it is overly burdensome in the long term going forward. It avoids the absurd game of promising non-existent benefits in exchange for lower salaries. What was burdensome was forcing them to make up for 25 years worth of bad behavior over a 5 year period. The change in rules should have been phased in more slowly, or even been subsidized with tax dollars.
Private companies do have to fund their pensions, and they are pretty highly regulated. They would never get away with a pay-as-you-go plan.
Furthermore the USPS was forced to do this by legislators who are trying to drive the U.S. Post Office out of business and privatize all delivery of mail and packages.
They can try to do that, but the federal government is forced to run a postal service by the constitution. It's about as privatized and independent as it is ever likely to be. Anyway, its a perfect illustration of why I say elsewhere that unfunded pensions are immoral - you and I living today cannot guarantee what politicians in the future will decide to do with the pensions. You can call the future politicians any name you like, but if they are unwilling or unable to keep our ancient promises, they will leave the retirees hanging. The solution is to actually pay people for the work they are doing. Unions and politicians hate this idea, because they would have to do more than talk and shake hands for photo ops.
Actually, the postal rules now closely mirror private rules. This is all about bringing government into line with what we demand from private companies.
what this says is maybe benefits should not be part of your job at all
Benefits are fine. What isn't fine is empty promises in lieu of compensation. It is an immoral practice to make someone work for a promise that you have no way to ensure is kept. It is an immoral practice to burden your children with debts just to fund your recurring expenses. There is nothing OK about unfunded benefits.
"Censorship" isn't bad. One of the great things about the forums here is the moderation/censorship system. We only forbid _government_ censorship, and even then mainly of political speech.
The 3-generation pension thing is a myth. They are simply required to fund the benefits that they promise existing workers given standard actuarial tables which estimate lifetime. I would like this rule extended to the entire government, as we are sitting on a liability time bomb. My beef with the treatment of the USPS is I don't think congress phased in the new rules slowly enough for the business to adjust - but no matter what it was going to be traumatic.
The problem with this statistic is that humans are in far better position to survive long-term than we were 20,000 years ago. We were demonstrably primitive back then, with no real ability to preserve food or build anything but stone and wood tools. Perhaps our large brains were used to catalog our environments, since we had to memorize every single thing and be masters of everything needed for survival? We had to be master warriors, master negotiators, learn to speak the language of any people we encounter, memorize every plant and animal, memorize all knowledge that was passed from the previous generation so as to not lose technology. It must have required a huge amount of intelligence.
I agree with you except for "extinction", if you mean "extinction of humans". There's almost no chance that humans will go extinct. We already live in the tropics and we already live in the extreme north. We'll protect valuable shorelines, migrate away from others, and agriculture will spread north. We won't go extinct.
One sat Two sats Red sats Blue sats. Black sats Blue sats Old sats New sats. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot Of sats there are. Yes. Some are red. And some are blue. Some are old. And some are new. Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad. Some are thin. And some are fat. The fat one has A yellow hat. From there to here, from here to there, Funny things Are everywhere.
You can't make a moral case for corporate tax law - the government gives out arbitrary tax breaks all the time without any regard to the morality of it all. In a representative democracy, your "fair share" is decided by the political process, not moral imperative.
I have little sympathy for the American public when it comes to corporate loopholes. They vote over and over again for a candidate from one of the two major parties - both of which are firmly on a corporate leash. This is the result, and criticism of Mr. Cook simply isn't justifiable. It's fine to say "I think Apple should pay more taxes" - it's quite another to say "I think Apple is a tax evader"... they clearly are not or there would be fines and imprisonment.
Not all GMOs are inter-species. Sometimes they simply engineer a trait that they want. This can be done by waiting for nature to make a mutation, or by bombarding plants with radiation to force mutations. GMOs can be just a faster way to get there. You are painting with too broad a brush. If you are worried about interspecies gene splicing, then talk about that. It's like saying that you don't like the internal combustion engine because you have something against gasoline.
I don't think we need that noise while we don't even understand one tenth of what happens in nature.
If we used such caution in every human enterprise, we progress very slowly. International trade and human settlement has done far more to change ecosystems than any GMO crop. Hell, traditional agriculture has literally changed the face of the planet. Corn (maize) is not native to anywhere and it's grown everywhere. Wheat is from the middle east and is grown everywhere. Sugar cane is from Asia and is grown everywhere. Yucca is a South American crop that is grown in Asia and Africa. Singling out GMOs is just bizarre.
GMO are also for monoculture or monoculture and roundup etc. so we can also ban them just for that : to say fuck you.
This makes no sense at all. There is no logic here. Any seed that Monsanto and the other big seed makers market will be a "monoculture" of sorts. This has nothing to do with how they were bred or developed. Maybe you have a problem with food crops being sprayed with Roundup? Fine - ban that... Round Up Ready is just a subset of GMOs in general, and not all Round Up Ready crops are food crops (e.g. cotton).
We somehow feed people without GMO anyway,
No, people are starving right now. And as countries develop, people consume even more, which will put further strain on limited land and resources.
It is easy to show the anti-vaxxers are full of shit and that vaccinations have huge benefits
Agreed!
GMO benefits? I don't know.
Farmers do, and that's why they buy them even though use of GMOs often comes with onerous restrictions. If GMOs were not worthwhile, they wouldn't last long on the market, which is full of alternatives.
Don't call people idiots unless you yourself are willing to talk about the whole story. Direction is very important. NASA does not draw a sphere around the ISS, they draw a "pizza box". The pizza box is 50 km wide, but only 1.5 km tall. This is because stuff in space is not likely to change altitude very quickly, but it is moving very quickly within it's orbit. So, the AC is actually correct and a 4-6km altitude difference would take this thing well out of harms' way. If it was anywhere within the pizza box at any time, which it does not appear was the case, then yeah - it would be a near miss by violating NASA's safety zone.
I work on several projects with hundreds of different contributors. I just use whatever is there (sometimes within the same file!). So count me as "both" - though I prefer 2 spaces in general. I have to admit using a lot of 4 spaces in Python since that's what the editors seem to default to and it looks nice.
The problem is you don't know what everyone's indent has been set to. I work with files that have tabs that were clearly set to 2, 3, 4, and 8 spaces. I favor 2, but don't really care one whit. If the file uses tabs, I use tabs - if the file uses spaces, I use spaces. My editors all handle this just fine (sometimes with a manual tweak). However, if the file is already a mix of tabs and spaces, then I go with spaces. My OCD would like to change them, but that makes the diff tools show waaaaaay too many changes. Don't poke a crusty turd.
I've only checked it with speedtest sites. I'm not sure how else to check it. Upstream speed is rarely my bottleneck. I've seen torrents get about that high, but honestly it's not something I think about much. If there is a specific test you'd like to see let me know and I'll run it.
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For me, I prefer to spend my limited extra time with my quickly-aging kids, so the idea of whittling away my evening at several grocery stores does not appeal. As a bachelor I may have agreed with you.
Um, Trader Joes is primarily a packaged-goods store. It's the definition of junk. Yes, you can still "do the edges" like at any grocery store, but the edges are small at most of them.
"smug" people really arent any better than "trash"
If you are concerned about being "better" or "worse", then I suppose that matters.
I'm not defending the AC's terrible attitude, but he does have a point. I mean, does Target exist for any reason other than for a few pennies more you can shop at a store that is like Walmart except clean, organized, and with actual open lanes at checkout? It's not really the lower class people are avoiding, but lower class people are going to be more price sensitive in general and so will be at Walmart rather than Target (or, back on topic, Whole Foods).
No, Whole Foods has been in a bit of a financial pickle for a long time. They are down 50% off their peak in 2013. Their revenue growth has been steady, but their operating income flat or down. They have serious competition in the premium grocery store space now - competition with better logistics and lower overhead. People have been waiting for either a buyout, merger, acquisition, or a death spiral, and whaddayaknow?
They have dry-aged steaks (the real deal). And I really like their Kenyan coffee. Their produce and cheese department is above-average. But other than that, I hardly ever go in - the main problem is that it's not a one-stop shop... you still need to visit another grocery store. It's the same problem that I have with Trader Joe's.
I don't think you understand how private pensions work or how highly they are regulated. And no wonder, with an attitude like that you'll be plenty ignorant.
Yes. But this is overly burdensome and no private companies do anything like this.
I don't think it is overly burdensome in the long term going forward. It avoids the absurd game of promising non-existent benefits in exchange for lower salaries. What was burdensome was forcing them to make up for 25 years worth of bad behavior over a 5 year period. The change in rules should have been phased in more slowly, or even been subsidized with tax dollars.
Private companies do have to fund their pensions, and they are pretty highly regulated. They would never get away with a pay-as-you-go plan.
Furthermore the USPS was forced to do this by legislators who are trying to drive the U.S. Post Office out of business and privatize all delivery of mail and packages.
They can try to do that, but the federal government is forced to run a postal service by the constitution. It's about as privatized and independent as it is ever likely to be. Anyway, its a perfect illustration of why I say elsewhere that unfunded pensions are immoral - you and I living today cannot guarantee what politicians in the future will decide to do with the pensions. You can call the future politicians any name you like, but if they are unwilling or unable to keep our ancient promises, they will leave the retirees hanging. The solution is to actually pay people for the work they are doing. Unions and politicians hate this idea, because they would have to do more than talk and shake hands for photo ops.
That should also be illegal.
Actually, the postal rules now closely mirror private rules. This is all about bringing government into line with what we demand from private companies.
what this says is maybe benefits should not be part of your job at all
Benefits are fine. What isn't fine is empty promises in lieu of compensation. It is an immoral practice to make someone work for a promise that you have no way to ensure is kept. It is an immoral practice to burden your children with debts just to fund your recurring expenses. There is nothing OK about unfunded benefits.
"Censorship" isn't bad. One of the great things about the forums here is the moderation/censorship system. We only forbid _government_ censorship, and even then mainly of political speech.
The 3-generation pension thing is a myth. They are simply required to fund the benefits that they promise existing workers given standard actuarial tables which estimate lifetime. I would like this rule extended to the entire government, as we are sitting on a liability time bomb. My beef with the treatment of the USPS is I don't think congress phased in the new rules slowly enough for the business to adjust - but no matter what it was going to be traumatic.
The problem with this statistic is that humans are in far better position to survive long-term than we were 20,000 years ago. We were demonstrably primitive back then, with no real ability to preserve food or build anything but stone and wood tools. Perhaps our large brains were used to catalog our environments, since we had to memorize every single thing and be masters of everything needed for survival? We had to be master warriors, master negotiators, learn to speak the language of any people we encounter, memorize every plant and animal, memorize all knowledge that was passed from the previous generation so as to not lose technology. It must have required a huge amount of intelligence.
I agree with you except for "extinction", if you mean "extinction of humans". There's almost no chance that humans will go extinct. We already live in the tropics and we already live in the extreme north. We'll protect valuable shorelines, migrate away from others, and agriculture will spread north. We won't go extinct.
One sat
Two sats
Red sats
Blue sats.
Black sats
Blue sats
Old sats
New sats.
This one has a little star.
This one has a little car.
Say! What a lot
Of sats there are.
Yes. Some are red. And some are blue.
Some are old. And some are new.
Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very, very bad.
Why are they
Sad and glad and bad?
I do not know.
Go ask your dad.
Some are thin.
And some are fat.
The fat one has
A yellow hat.
From there to here, from here to there,
Funny things
Are everywhere.
You can't make a moral case for corporate tax law - the government gives out arbitrary tax breaks all the time without any regard to the morality of it all. In a representative democracy, your "fair share" is decided by the political process, not moral imperative.
I have little sympathy for the American public when it comes to corporate loopholes. They vote over and over again for a candidate from one of the two major parties - both of which are firmly on a corporate leash. This is the result, and criticism of Mr. Cook simply isn't justifiable. It's fine to say "I think Apple should pay more taxes" - it's quite another to say "I think Apple is a tax evader"... they clearly are not or there would be fines and imprisonment.
I never disagreed - even called it a wart. But it's not exactly crippling.
Your "tiny legal loopholes" are still the law, and you'd be a fool to pay more than the law says you should. The answer to loopholes is to plug them.
(Or frankly, to abolish the corporate tax and instead tax actual people at full income tax rates.)
GMO can spread random genes.
Not all GMOs are inter-species. Sometimes they simply engineer a trait that they want. This can be done by waiting for nature to make a mutation, or by bombarding plants with radiation to force mutations. GMOs can be just a faster way to get there. You are painting with too broad a brush. If you are worried about interspecies gene splicing, then talk about that. It's like saying that you don't like the internal combustion engine because you have something against gasoline.
I don't think we need that noise while we don't even understand one tenth of what happens in nature.
If we used such caution in every human enterprise, we progress very slowly. International trade and human settlement has done far more to change ecosystems than any GMO crop. Hell, traditional agriculture has literally changed the face of the planet. Corn (maize) is not native to anywhere and it's grown everywhere. Wheat is from the middle east and is grown everywhere. Sugar cane is from Asia and is grown everywhere. Yucca is a South American crop that is grown in Asia and Africa. Singling out GMOs is just bizarre.
GMO are also for monoculture or monoculture and roundup etc. so we can also ban them just for that : to say fuck you.
This makes no sense at all. There is no logic here. Any seed that Monsanto and the other big seed makers market will be a "monoculture" of sorts. This has nothing to do with how they were bred or developed. Maybe you have a problem with food crops being sprayed with Roundup? Fine - ban that... Round Up Ready is just a subset of GMOs in general, and not all Round Up Ready crops are food crops (e.g. cotton).
We somehow feed people without GMO anyway,
No, people are starving right now. And as countries develop, people consume even more, which will put further strain on limited land and resources.
It is easy to show the anti-vaxxers are full of shit and that vaccinations have huge benefits
Agreed!
GMO benefits? I don't know.
Farmers do, and that's why they buy them even though use of GMOs often comes with onerous restrictions. If GMOs were not worthwhile, they wouldn't last long on the market, which is full of alternatives.
Ha! I wish it was my analogy - I think "pizza box" is the NASA term :) Douglas Adams would approve.
If this was sarcastic, kudos. If you were trying to make a coherent argument, then this would pretty much illustrate bluefoxlucid's point.
Don't call people idiots unless you yourself are willing to talk about the whole story. Direction is very important. NASA does not draw a sphere around the ISS, they draw a "pizza box". The pizza box is 50 km wide, but only 1.5 km tall. This is because stuff in space is not likely to change altitude very quickly, but it is moving very quickly within it's orbit. So, the AC is actually correct and a 4-6km altitude difference would take this thing well out of harms' way. If it was anywhere within the pizza box at any time, which it does not appear was the case, then yeah - it would be a near miss by violating NASA's safety zone.
I work on several projects with hundreds of different contributors. I just use whatever is there (sometimes within the same file!). So count me as "both" - though I prefer 2 spaces in general. I have to admit using a lot of 4 spaces in Python since that's what the editors seem to default to and it looks nice.
Haha, yup. This. Don't sweat the small stuff.
The problem is you don't know what everyone's indent has been set to. I work with files that have tabs that were clearly set to 2, 3, 4, and 8 spaces. I favor 2, but don't really care one whit. If the file uses tabs, I use tabs - if the file uses spaces, I use spaces. My editors all handle this just fine (sometimes with a manual tweak). However, if the file is already a mix of tabs and spaces, then I go with spaces. My OCD would like to change them, but that makes the diff tools show waaaaaay too many changes. Don't poke a crusty turd.
I'm sure you pay more taxes than you owe.
I've only checked it with speedtest sites. I'm not sure how else to check it. Upstream speed is rarely my bottleneck. I've seen torrents get about that high, but honestly it's not something I think about much. If there is a specific test you'd like to see let me know and I'll run it.