It has EVERTHING to do with using buses for transport. If the bus only works in an ideal situation, then it's useless to most people. And if most people decide it's useless, then the special cases where it would work probably will as well.
The Japanese have an easier time of it because of their population density. Walk-bus-train-bullet train-airplane works very well when all the aspects connect. But even then, with significant ticket prices, they spend huge amounts propping up the bullet train network.
What you will eventually end up with, if this should continue, is local communities "blocking" their local streets. I've seen this in the San Fernando Valley in Californnia, Pre-Internet, where a suburban community will cut off a street entering it, or only the entering lane, with a concrete berm and a huge sign saying "NO ENTRY". This is solely put in place because of commuters using the street to bypass traffic. Or the gated communities becoming more prevalent.
Simply because shipping, as a whole, is increasing. So even if you add robots, the overall workload is increasing. Primarily because people are buying everything online.
You kinda just proved his point.... Now decide if you're a weirdo, contrarian, or douche. wait, you started with not contrarian douche, so you're a weirdo.
I work in education. We signed a statement, as part of our training, that holds us legally liable to report child abuse, child pornography, etc. we can be sued/fired if it occurs, we knew about it, and didn't report it. It's a California State Law, however, not federal I think the point is, there are people outside law enforcement who are required to report certain things. https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/a...
The McDonalds kiosks are a nightmare: Nobody ever uses them, staff have to be dedicated to TRY to get people to use them, Half the time they're out of receipts and you give up, the other half the time you pay cash and have to use the counter-person anyway.
But more importantly, they're a failure because they put the impetus for resolving problems on the purchaser, not the staff. If I use a kiosk and can't find my item/can't order what I want, the problem becomes mine.I have to fix it, I feel silly if I can't. If I order from a person, the problem immediately becomes theirs. They have at least some training on this, and understand the system better.
All kiosks do in McDonalds is make people feel dumb. The last thing you want to do, as a business, is have your customers associate shopping there with feeling embarrassed and stupid.
One point, on universal healthcare, that is usually ignored: The US spends MASSIVE amounts of money funding health care, which in turn allows health care companies to use it as a sponge: Making up for profits lost in other markets. They can charge less in France because they make up for it in the US. I personally am in favor of single payer healthcare in the US, being a US citizen, but once that money making machine is gone, do you really think costs across the world won't increase significantly? If I was British/French/Canadian/etc, I'd be praying the US never nationalizes health care.
That was the main point of the novel: aliens show up, give us lots of advanced crap, then "Oh, BTW, we need help fighting these guys who almost killed us off and are coming for you too".
Look, we get that you hate the US. Now back a better horse than Venezuala. You are, almost, a perfect example of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". But, just for the record: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Venezuala will not use a proper cryptocurrency for the same reason their national currency is in the dumpster: They cannot afford to NOT interfere with their monetary supply.
Nah, his point is sound: If guns are removed completely, but homicides/murders remain the same, you've just changed the method of death. So addressing the gun violence isn't the solution. Addressing the cause of the violence is.
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It's just virtue signalling, it's all the rage now.
It has EVERTHING to do with using buses for transport.
If the bus only works in an ideal situation, then it's useless to most people. And if most people decide it's useless, then the special cases where it would work probably will as well.
The Japanese have an easier time of it because of their population density. Walk-bus-train-bullet train-airplane works very well when all the aspects connect. But even then, with significant ticket prices, they spend huge amounts propping up the bullet train network.
Yes, How DARE they build things anywhere! and how DARE they attempt to increase traffic flow. Barbarians!
What you will eventually end up with, if this should continue, is local communities "blocking" their local streets. I've seen this in the San Fernando Valley in Californnia, Pre-Internet, where a suburban community will cut off a street entering it, or only the entering lane, with a concrete berm and a huge sign saying "NO ENTRY". This is solely put in place because of commuters using the street to bypass traffic.
Or the gated communities becoming more prevalent.
Simply because shipping, as a whole, is increasing. So even if you add robots, the overall workload is increasing. Primarily because people are buying everything online.
You kinda just proved his point.... Now decide if you're a weirdo, contrarian, or douche. wait, you started with not contrarian douche, so you're a weirdo.
Do you really believe that? the rest of the world is a giant heap of peace, and the US is a treadmill?
Why would you want them to?
Do you WANT them concentrating on other things?
Wow, that was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the article title, and look: the first post matches!
I work in education. We signed a statement, as part of our training, that holds us legally liable to report child abuse, child pornography, etc. we can be sued/fired if it occurs, we knew about it, and didn't report it. It's a California State Law, however, not federal
I think the point is, there are people outside law enforcement who are required to report certain things. https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/a...
I don't see the benefit of this over a HUD.
Is essentially basic In-N-Out ripoff, Check out their menu and compare.
This is just a publicity stunt
The McDonalds kiosks are a nightmare: Nobody ever uses them, staff have to be dedicated to TRY to get people to use them, Half the time they're out of receipts and you give up, the other half the time you pay cash and have to use the counter-person anyway.
But more importantly, they're a failure because they put the impetus for resolving problems on the purchaser, not the staff. If I use a kiosk and can't find my item/can't order what I want, the problem becomes mine.I have to fix it, I feel silly if I can't.
If I order from a person, the problem immediately becomes theirs. They have at least some training on this, and understand the system better.
All kiosks do in McDonalds is make people feel dumb. The last thing you want to do, as a business, is have your customers associate shopping there with feeling embarrassed and stupid.
One point, on universal healthcare, that is usually ignored: The US spends MASSIVE amounts of money funding health care, which in turn allows health care companies to use it as a sponge: Making up for profits lost in other markets. They can charge less in France because they make up for it in the US.
I personally am in favor of single payer healthcare in the US, being a US citizen, but once that money making machine is gone, do you really think costs across the world won't increase significantly?
If I was British/French/Canadian/etc, I'd be praying the US never nationalizes health care.
you left out the part where he will not ever stop until you are dead.
Assuming that they're forced to partner with an American company and not own more than 49% of the entity.
That was the main point of the novel: aliens show up, give us lots of advanced crap, then "Oh, BTW, we need help fighting these guys who almost killed us off and are coming for you too".
Or becomes a Vampire, and Wil Smith comes along to save us all.
Criminals are not allowed to have guns.
I think you're thinking of regular old maturity, and not emotional maturity.
Look, we get that you hate the US. Now back a better horse than Venezuala. You are, almost, a perfect example of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
But, just for the record: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Venezuala will not use a proper cryptocurrency for the same reason their national currency is in the dumpster: They cannot afford to NOT interfere with their monetary supply.
Nah, his point is sound: If guns are removed completely, but homicides/murders remain the same, you've just changed the method of death. So addressing the gun violence isn't the solution. Addressing the cause of the violence is.
For Jeff Bezos' Lex Luthor lair.