You are only talking about "forecasting" a number of hours ahead. The computer can just route around existing weather. It can even follow a route where radar is available for some acceptable portion of the journey. If they can't solve this problem, then they will be sunk - but I extremely skeptical that this will be what proves to be insurmountable.
I discovered this with a Black and Decker vaccuum. "Same" product, perhaps half the price at Walmart. Hmmm... turns out the only difference on the package was an added letter to the model number and some suspicious electrical rating difference that I can't recall. Buy both, take apart, and the motors are different (lower power)! Return Walmart version. The only thing I buy there now are Christmas lights, which for some reason are stupid cheap. Oh, and their solar garden lights beat the Dollar Tree price by 3 cents and you don't need to swap the harsh LED for a soft white.
we do not even have similar standards of living and labor laws within the United States.
Well, I think they are very similar. So we have different thresholds for "similar". No biggie. As I said, I don't really have much interest in dickering over the word "similar". My reference point is in comparison with the developing world - Mexico, China, Vietnam, and other places that we have existing or proposed trade agreements - not Mississippi.
It sounds like we agree on all of the other points.
I have to disagree that it is democratic. The only democratic institution in the EU (out of 7) is the Parliament, and it can't even introduce legislation, nor can most of what it passes take effect without approval by the member states. It essentially can only approve of what the rest of the EU has already agreed upon. The meat of the EU is in the other 6 institutions.
I think you'll find that he's voluntarily paying out most of his fortune to the Gate Foundation. Paying that money to the government instead of a charity would make him a fool, which he is not.
The civil servants proposing the laws in the UK, unless I have it wrong, answer directly to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister answers directly to the lower house of Parliament, right? And I believe also to the Queen in principle, though not in practice. So while there are civil servants involved, they are just working for the elected government.
In the EU, the civil servants who propose the legislation are a completely separate institution from Parliament and have no connection to the directly elected members of the EU.
Obviously the directly elected body is not what I am referring to. The European Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers or whatever they call it now), 27 of the 28 members of the European Commission, the Court of Justice, the Central Bank, and the Court of Auditors are all not democratically selected. Even the aforementioned Council of Ministers only has it's President selected by the Parliament. And of course, the EU being primarily a trade federation with relatively weak legislative powers, the European Parliament does not even really have much direct power at all. Most of the real business is conducted in the other 6 institutions that I mentioned. Forgive me if I got some details wrong - it's quite the birds nest for a colonial like myself to take in.
If you think a lawyer (using this occupation as a placeholder) in Mississippi and a lawyer in New York don't have largely similar standards of living when compared to lawyers in the rest of the world, then we are both using English but not using the same language. I don't want to turn the discussion into a semantic argument about the word "similar", so feel free to adjust my language such that it highlights the fact that a New Yorker and a Mississippian with the same skill set can each live in pretty much the same way relative to the rest of the local population. A Mississippian isn't going to move to NYC and take a job for half of the going rate in NYC, because the Mississippian wouldn't be able to live on that and would be better off back in Mississippi. In terms of material measures of wealth (size of house, car, dinners out, etc) the Mississippian probably exceeds his NYC counterpart because of the enormous cost-of-living difference.
But maybe the situation is different in Europe? I'm fairly ignorant about the living standards in, say, Bulgaria - but I suppose it's possible that Bulgarians are moving to rich countries and living 3-to-a-room and depressing wages. I have no idea. If that's the case, then I can certainly understand the animosity.
It's still regional in nature. Even the most dreamy-eyed EU proponents envision a "United States of Europe" sort of endgame and not "United States of the World".
I can believe that - we have a fair amount of that going around on this side of the pond, too. I'm not surprised that it is in homogeneous areas, either, as it is much easier to demonize people when you don't have much contact.
I wish I were informed enough to call them stupid. Fact is, I can sort of understand the distaste for the undemocratic nature of EU bureaucracy, and I've seen a lot of questionable rules and regulations over the years. I don't think pulling out is in the UK's economic interests, however, and I think any issues with the bureaucracy could have eventually been worked out through normal channels.
This isn't "globalist", it is exiting a regional trade pact. I have misgivings about free trade, but almost none of those apply to countries with similar standards of living, similar product safety requirements, similar financial rules, easy migration, and similar worker protections.
Yeah, that's when they finally abandoned it, but the decline started in the late 70s and they responded way too late despite the obvious success that the specialty vendors were having. The catalog was an enormous expense - my understanding (which could be wrong) is that the base of the Sears Tower was made so large in part to house the enormous press. In any event, once that decision was made it essentially removed them as a mail-order (and later internet) player. If their catalog dominance had somehow survived, the transition to e-commerce would have been much more natural.
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You are only talking about "forecasting" a number of hours ahead. The computer can just route around existing weather. It can even follow a route where radar is available for some acceptable portion of the journey. If they can't solve this problem, then they will be sunk - but I extremely skeptical that this will be what proves to be insurmountable.
You honestly don't think there is a market for the space between "overnight" and "two weeks"?
If only there was some way to predict and track storms?
That was the non-sarcastic version of my post. Some of the mods didn't get it.
Robots are stealing all of our autism jobs!
I discovered this with a Black and Decker vaccuum. "Same" product, perhaps half the price at Walmart. Hmmm... turns out the only difference on the package was an added letter to the model number and some suspicious electrical rating difference that I can't recall. Buy both, take apart, and the motors are different (lower power)! Return Walmart version. The only thing I buy there now are Christmas lights, which for some reason are stupid cheap. Oh, and their solar garden lights beat the Dollar Tree price by 3 cents and you don't need to swap the harsh LED for a soft white.
I'd re-title the article, "Changes to government-granted monopoly rules could earn music industry $16.5 billion instead of a mere $15.5 billion."
For a bunch of people who 100% depend on the government to supply them with a living they sure do get uppity.
That looks like just a VPN service.
I'll borrow my wife's.
we do not even have similar standards of living and labor laws within the United States.
Well, I think they are very similar. So we have different thresholds for "similar". No biggie. As I said, I don't really have much interest in dickering over the word "similar". My reference point is in comparison with the developing world - Mexico, China, Vietnam, and other places that we have existing or proposed trade agreements - not Mississippi.
It sounds like we agree on all of the other points.
I have to disagree that it is democratic. The only democratic institution in the EU (out of 7) is the Parliament, and it can't even introduce legislation, nor can most of what it passes take effect without approval by the member states. It essentially can only approve of what the rest of the EU has already agreed upon. The meat of the EU is in the other 6 institutions.
Can one pay for a cloud service anonymously?
That's his point - make his effective tax rate higher. But not just his, all people with his level of income.
I think you'll find that he's voluntarily paying out most of his fortune to the Gate Foundation. Paying that money to the government instead of a charity would make him a fool, which he is not.
The civil servants proposing the laws in the UK, unless I have it wrong, answer directly to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister answers directly to the lower house of Parliament, right? And I believe also to the Queen in principle, though not in practice. So while there are civil servants involved, they are just working for the elected government.
In the EU, the civil servants who propose the legislation are a completely separate institution from Parliament and have no connection to the directly elected members of the EU.
Obviously the directly elected body is not what I am referring to. The European Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers or whatever they call it now), 27 of the 28 members of the European Commission, the Court of Justice, the Central Bank, and the Court of Auditors are all not democratically selected. Even the aforementioned Council of Ministers only has it's President selected by the Parliament. And of course, the EU being primarily a trade federation with relatively weak legislative powers, the European Parliament does not even really have much direct power at all. Most of the real business is conducted in the other 6 institutions that I mentioned. Forgive me if I got some details wrong - it's quite the birds nest for a colonial like myself to take in.
If you think a lawyer (using this occupation as a placeholder) in Mississippi and a lawyer in New York don't have largely similar standards of living when compared to lawyers in the rest of the world, then we are both using English but not using the same language. I don't want to turn the discussion into a semantic argument about the word "similar", so feel free to adjust my language such that it highlights the fact that a New Yorker and a Mississippian with the same skill set can each live in pretty much the same way relative to the rest of the local population. A Mississippian isn't going to move to NYC and take a job for half of the going rate in NYC, because the Mississippian wouldn't be able to live on that and would be better off back in Mississippi. In terms of material measures of wealth (size of house, car, dinners out, etc) the Mississippian probably exceeds his NYC counterpart because of the enormous cost-of-living difference.
But maybe the situation is different in Europe? I'm fairly ignorant about the living standards in, say, Bulgaria - but I suppose it's possible that Bulgarians are moving to rich countries and living 3-to-a-room and depressing wages. I have no idea. If that's the case, then I can certainly understand the animosity.
It's still regional in nature. Even the most dreamy-eyed EU proponents envision a "United States of Europe" sort of endgame and not "United States of the World".
I can believe that - we have a fair amount of that going around on this side of the pond, too. I'm not surprised that it is in homogeneous areas, either, as it is much easier to demonize people when you don't have much contact.
And the EU is currently more democratic than the UK.
The Queen would like a word with you.
I wish I were informed enough to call them stupid. Fact is, I can sort of understand the distaste for the undemocratic nature of EU bureaucracy, and I've seen a lot of questionable rules and regulations over the years. I don't think pulling out is in the UK's economic interests, however, and I think any issues with the bureaucracy could have eventually been worked out through normal channels.
This isn't "globalist", it is exiting a regional trade pact. I have misgivings about free trade, but almost none of those apply to countries with similar standards of living, similar product safety requirements, similar financial rules, easy migration, and similar worker protections.
Email was never a secure communications medium, and opting out of Comcast's contextual ads is as simple as not using their web client.
Yeah, that's when they finally abandoned it, but the decline started in the late 70s and they responded way too late despite the obvious success that the specialty vendors were having. The catalog was an enormous expense - my understanding (which could be wrong) is that the base of the Sears Tower was made so large in part to house the enormous press. In any event, once that decision was made it essentially removed them as a mail-order (and later internet) player. If their catalog dominance had somehow survived, the transition to e-commerce would have been much more natural.
Uhhh, no shit? What about any of these ideas seems like a good one to you?