It's not similar and just because something has been done a certain way doesn't make it accurate. If it comes from a plant it is by definition not milk.
The English language disagrees with you since at least the 14th century. OED has it listed as being a noun for plant based secretions, "A milky juice or latex present in the stems or other parts of various plants, which exudes when the plant is cut...", since ~1398.
It seems just stupid to start advertising something I just bought. Why would I go buy another so soon?
Asked the same from a friend that is in the corporate social media business. What you are seeing is the first layer and still on your computer. Most people spend several days shopping for items on the internet and the keeping sites they have visited in mind boosts the probability that they'll buy that product. That is just your webpage picking up and displaying products from cookies on your computer from participating companies. No server is telling it to give you those ads. Sure, it seems stupid when you see ads for things you've already bought, but on average over most the population, it works.
As a Seattle-ite myself, the “homeless problem” here has little to do with Amazon. It is directly in the laps of a socialist City Council and liberal voters who roll out the red carpet with freebee’s for homeless, (like doctor staffed heroin shoot up sites with free needles) a hobbled police force that is not allowed to enforce laws, arrest drug deals, site or tow broken down vehicles, a “no chase, no confront” policy towards shoplifters, homeless encampments that allow drug use. And the list goes on and on. Meanwhile working citizens see taxes skyrocket for various “studies” and $12 million dollar per mile bike lanes
Ya, bullshit. The vast majority of the homeless (85%) lived here in Seattle before the became homeless. Property values, and rents have pretty much been going up 10% per year for more than 20 years now. All the cheap housing is being torn down or remodeled to make way for more expensive housing. Property owners, forced by rising property values and taxes, have been doubling rent without warning so they can remodel and charge that doubled rent. If you don't have a sizable nest egg stored up, moving is rough not only because you have to move, but there are less places similarly priced to the pre-doubled rent to move to. It's happened to lots of my working friends. It happened to several couples I know multiple times in the same year since Seattle rentals has never liked leases. Some have had to move in with family or friends to keep from being homeless. Even then, the typical office job just isn't able to keep up with the rents, especially if they have families or other obligations. Many are leaving because of this and because Seattle isn't the same as it was (although I heard the same thing in 2000, and that was true both times). It doesn't take much to see that people without a nestegg or support network will end up homeless, job or not.
Information doesn't want anything. It's inanimate. People might want certain information to be free, but there's some information that they'd only prefer see the light of day after the heat death of the universe renders such a thing impossible.
It's all related to the second law of thermodynamics. You can keep information from spreading, but that requires work.
On the trade war, it's important to be clear about who the participants in the war are and what their role is. It's not the US vs. China; it's the US government against the Chinese government...
Currently, it's looking like the US government against the rest of the world's economy. Tariffs against China, Canada, EU, and Mexico. We didn't join TPP. Certainly not trading with Russia. Looks like the US is not just playing chicken with China, but the rest of the world. We'll just have to deal, whereas everybody else can make up any trade with each other.
You think a minimum wage gas station attendant gives a fuck if a faceless corporate entity makes a profit or not? How cute!
He better... Lack of profit ==> Going out of business ==> Unemployed.
In fact, I think you've hit on a common issue in today's society, this demonization of the faceless, nameless rich people who employ the vast majority of us.
Doubtful. I've worked those jobs before. First off, the "rich" person probably wasn't nameless, but the owner/manager. Said owner/manager probably left instructions for what was to be done, which is normally give them a call and let them tell you what to do. Taking the initiative to do something like shut down the station probably would have got him fired because those were not the instructions left for him to follow. It probably took 90 minutes to realize something was wrong, call the manager/owner, who told him to call the cops, and then wait for them to arrive like the manager/owner told him. Too many of those people who run such things with minimum wage workers are not only micromanagers, but they are also really bad at it.
> Point being Toys R Us didn't die, it was murdered.
No, it died. The writing was on the wall for a long time.
The leveraged buyout was just a way to accelerate the inevitable.
Grandpa Bain holding the pillow over grandma's face till she died wasn't really murder, as she was old and probably would have have lasted another ten or twenty years at most.
The guy wasn't just corrupt, he was corrupt about some of the most petty things imaginable. I'll bet he was taking those $1500 worth of pens and selling them on eBay. He was so corrupt that there should now be a 20-year moratorium on anyone from Oklahoma having a job with the federal government, just to be on the safe side. You know, until we figure out what's going on.
What's going on is that Oklahoma is all about the corrupt good 'ol boy system stealing of things. They stole the land from the indians to make the state. Sooners stole the stolen land from the boomers. The state capital was stolen by OKC from Edmonds at gun point. The state capital was supposed to have a dome but the money for it was stolen and only recently was the dome built. Growing up the entire educational system was about stealing money for the football teams. It happened in my high school, the principal took all the money out of the school fund that was put there by honor students for their trip to Paris to throw a pizza party for the football team that never won a game. I got to college and found out from friends that similar things had happened at high schools all across the state. My roommate in the national guard had all sorts of stories of good 'ol boy system of promotions for political favors and stealing NG money including pensions and life insurance for Republican re-election campaigns. When I found out that it was an Oklahoman that had bought and stolen the Sonics from Seattle, I knew exactly how they went about stealing them even before I found out there had been lawsuits over it. The entire state was about the oligarchy of good 'ol boys enriching themselves at everybody else's expense. It's just one of the reasons why I fled that state as soon as I could.
Autonomous cars that transport people must satisfy two major safety requirements: 1) not kill or injure the people they are transporting and 2) not kill or injure other people on the road.
You missed the Third Law: 3) An Autonomous Car must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Two looks like an error, like a double period at the end of a sentence.. Like that. See? Two exclamation marks look like they could be the result of a mistake!! Like that. But three, three exclamation marks are sufficient to indicate enthusiasm, without risk of being perceived as a possible typographical error!!! See?!? More than that looks silly and four, five, or more, unavoidably look like this!!!!!1!!!!1!!11!1!!1!11!!! Just silly, and kind of childish or careless. So... three.
But sometimes you are trying to convey silly, childish enthusiasm!!!1!
..Or he's got a very dry sense of humor. Kind of hard to tell in print tho.
Judging by his other posts, I expect he is serious and the reason he hates Musk so much is because his space factory plans aren't being recognized for their genius and acted on by SpaceX.
Also, even if you could build such structures, would it be a practical thing to do?
Depends on what you are trying to do. While exploring what would actually be needed to terraform Mars and even giving it an atmosphere, just due to the amount of mass needed and distances involved, the energies needed are best described in units of total daily output of the sun. That is also where we'll need to get that energy, possibly by setting up very large collecting satellites to beam it to where it is needed around the solar system. It's pretty much the only way to get the energies needed to terraform a planet and even then we're speaking over thousands of years. Any such project would require such energy which would most likely be detectable by observing the light of the star in question.
Not my memory of paper bags,at all. lol I can count on one bag ripping or falling apart from some meat liquid and having all those nice groceries on the ground.every trip. I use cloth bags now don't rip they get messy watch them.
In my memory, they got used for kitchen trash sacks. Currently, they still do on the West Coast since most places have composting. Using paper grocery sacks is easier than buying compostable bags.
For the sake of argument, let's say one could get the temperature down to absolute zero. Let us further assume a single atom is subjected to this temperature.
Would one be able to "freeze" the atom so that its constituent parts would be immobile and visible? Or would it fall apart?
What happens to an atom at absolute zero?
From my 4000 level Quantum Mechanics course, a single atom cannot reach absolute zero. There are multiple forces at work here and the electron will not just fall into the nucleus or fly off but continues to move around the nucleus which causes a wiggle which means it has a temperature. We figured out what that temperature would be which ended up like something around 2/3 K. I'm sure it was a simplistic thought experiment that does not really express what is going on according to modern physics, but there you go.
Did a phone interview with Amazon once. Told him at the end that I wasn't interested. I could see right through what he was getting at, and it is exactly what you reference.
Friend of mine played that game for about five years at Amazon, jumping around internally. Finally decided what he wanted to do and found a job out of state with a well padded resume at a company that desired stability.
I hear this all the time but WTH actually does this? Anyone here at slashdot? Even when I was younger I did an all nighter just once or twice. I've been working 8 hour days the last 15 years.
My understanding would be Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. although I've only really heard from people that have worked at Amazon. They hire new young and eager workers who they can work and fire them when they burn out. However, just as many leave before that. It's all part of an understood system where new workers agree to be overworked while padding their resume and looking for a new job. This lastrs for an average of 18 months before they have found a new job or get laid off. They hopefully hop to a better paying job than does the same till they decide upon an exit strategy of looking for a place with less upward mobility but more stability once they have reached the desired salary and skillset.
1) Chinese manufacturers take our designs, make extras, and sell counterfeits as if they were original(*)
2) Chinese manufacturers steal our IP and trade secrets for other products
3) The Chinese violate licensing agreements (ie - hacked copies of software) and the government does nothing about it.
4) Chinese working in the US commit industrial espionage and send the information back to China
How to trade tariffs fix any of that?
Well, it doesn't. That is what TPP and the NAFTA renewal were supposed to do, create a group of singaturees to band together against Chinese counterfitting of IP. However, we dropped out of TPP and are not really interested in NAFTA anymore.
Sounds like a union. If an employee is fired, they can appeal to the union to get their job back. However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee.
I'm betting they implemented this process to avoid true unionization.
Considering the number one cause of unionization these days is bad management, sounds like a plan. If the problem really is the manager and not the employee, the coworkers will stick with her. Also sounds similar to what happens in Germany.
At what point, did drilling an oil well in the middle east, pumping out that oil, putting the oil on a ship, sail that oil filled ship across the ocean, unloading the oil in America, piping it to a refinery, refining it into some form of plastic, trucking that plastic to a factory, forming that plastic into an object, boxing that object up, putting that box into another truck and trucking it to a warehouse, then from the warehouse to a store, from the store to your house, to be opened, used once, and then thrown away, ALL BECOME EASYER THAN WASHING THE FUCKING FORK.
When minimum wage was enacted. Not saying we should drop minimum wage. Europe's solution is to make people pay the entire cost of disposing of that plastic fork. That makes it cheaper to pay somebody to wash dishes.
I doubt that. If the costs of washing something are greater than using disposable and just carrying out the trash at minimum wage, they will still be be at pretty much any other pay rate too. The labor of washing is always going to be more than just taking out the trash. When the price of disposable forks undercuts the costs of real forks, washing apparatus, and shop space for both is when disposable comes first. Especially considering that disposable forks must be kept around and stored anyway for take out foods as well as when dish washers break down (as somebody that has had that job, this happens a lot). Then there are other factors that come into play such as presentation. Especially in fast food, brand new disposable will appear more appealing and result in more return customers than presenting beat up industrial metal forks. Let's also not forget the costs of those forks being tossed out by customers who just don't care that much. Even in nice restaurants (especially in nice restaurants), dishware being tossed out by mistake (or stolen) is an issue.
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IVF and women say no. They don't really care about sex, yeah they enjoy it. But they really want a kid.
Sexbots for women will open jars, kill spiders, and take out the garbage. Then humanity really will go extinct.
More importantly, they'll be able to cook and groom themselves.
And don't deluded yourself. Whether the Americans , Russians or Chinese hit lunar soil first, the bulk of that ships gonna be Chinese tech anyway
If you mean "Chinese manufactured tech", sure.
More likely Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese manufactured tech assembled in a Chinese manufactured case in China.
If its not from a mammary gland, its not milk. Codex Alimentarius already has a defined standard...
Is this a Warhammer 40k reference? It sounds like one.
It's not similar and just because something has been done a certain way doesn't make it accurate. If it comes from a plant it is by definition not milk.
The English language disagrees with you since at least the 14th century. OED has it listed as being a noun for plant based secretions, "A milky juice or latex present in the stems or other parts of various plants, which exudes when the plant is cut...", since ~1398.
It seems just stupid to start advertising something I just bought. Why would I go buy another so soon?
Asked the same from a friend that is in the corporate social media business. What you are seeing is the first layer and still on your computer. Most people spend several days shopping for items on the internet and the keeping sites they have visited in mind boosts the probability that they'll buy that product. That is just your webpage picking up and displaying products from cookies on your computer from participating companies. No server is telling it to give you those ads. Sure, it seems stupid when you see ads for things you've already bought, but on average over most the population, it works.
As a Seattle-ite myself, the “homeless problem” here has little to do with Amazon. It is directly in the laps of a socialist City Council and liberal voters who roll out the red carpet with freebee’s for homeless, (like doctor staffed heroin shoot up sites with free needles) a hobbled police force that is not allowed to enforce laws, arrest drug deals, site or tow broken down vehicles, a “no chase, no confront” policy towards shoplifters, homeless encampments that allow drug use. And the list goes on and on. Meanwhile working citizens see taxes skyrocket for various “studies” and $12 million dollar per mile bike lanes
Ya, bullshit. The vast majority of the homeless (85%) lived here in Seattle before the became homeless. Property values, and rents have pretty much been going up 10% per year for more than 20 years now. All the cheap housing is being torn down or remodeled to make way for more expensive housing. Property owners, forced by rising property values and taxes, have been doubling rent without warning so they can remodel and charge that doubled rent. If you don't have a sizable nest egg stored up, moving is rough not only because you have to move, but there are less places similarly priced to the pre-doubled rent to move to. It's happened to lots of my working friends. It happened to several couples I know multiple times in the same year since Seattle rentals has never liked leases. Some have had to move in with family or friends to keep from being homeless. Even then, the typical office job just isn't able to keep up with the rents, especially if they have families or other obligations. Many are leaving because of this and because Seattle isn't the same as it was (although I heard the same thing in 2000, and that was true both times). It doesn't take much to see that people without a nestegg or support network will end up homeless, job or not.
Information wants to be free.
Information doesn't want anything. It's inanimate. People might want certain information to be free, but there's some information that they'd only prefer see the light of day after the heat death of the universe renders such a thing impossible.
It's all related to the second law of thermodynamics. You can keep information from spreading, but that requires work.
On the trade war, it's important to be clear about who the participants in the war are and what their role is. It's not the US vs. China; it's the US government against the Chinese government...
Currently, it's looking like the US government against the rest of the world's economy. Tariffs against China, Canada, EU, and Mexico. We didn't join TPP. Certainly not trading with Russia. Looks like the US is not just playing chicken with China, but the rest of the world. We'll just have to deal, whereas everybody else can make up any trade with each other.
All it takes to thwart any laser based weaponry is to come covered in something that reflects and scatters light well.
Try moving around on a sunny day in reflective gear to see how well that works on a battlefield.
Try using smoke which is already used to mask tactical troop movements and line of sight.
You think a minimum wage gas station attendant gives a fuck if a faceless corporate entity makes a profit or not? How cute!
He better... Lack of profit ==> Going out of business ==> Unemployed.
In fact, I think you've hit on a common issue in today's society, this demonization of the faceless, nameless rich people who employ the vast majority of us.
Doubtful. I've worked those jobs before. First off, the "rich" person probably wasn't nameless, but the owner/manager. Said owner/manager probably left instructions for what was to be done, which is normally give them a call and let them tell you what to do. Taking the initiative to do something like shut down the station probably would have got him fired because those were not the instructions left for him to follow. It probably took 90 minutes to realize something was wrong, call the manager/owner, who told him to call the cops, and then wait for them to arrive like the manager/owner told him. Too many of those people who run such things with minimum wage workers are not only micromanagers, but they are also really bad at it.
> Point being Toys R Us didn't die, it was murdered.
No, it died. The writing was on the wall for a long time.
The leveraged buyout was just a way to accelerate the inevitable.
Grandpa Bain holding the pillow over grandma's face till she died wasn't really murder, as she was old and probably would have have lasted another ten or twenty years at most.
The guy wasn't just corrupt, he was corrupt about some of the most petty things imaginable. I'll bet he was taking those $1500 worth of pens and selling them on eBay. He was so corrupt that there should now be a 20-year moratorium on anyone from Oklahoma having a job with the federal government, just to be on the safe side. You know, until we figure out what's going on.
What's going on is that Oklahoma is all about the corrupt good 'ol boy system stealing of things. They stole the land from the indians to make the state. Sooners stole the stolen land from the boomers. The state capital was stolen by OKC from Edmonds at gun point. The state capital was supposed to have a dome but the money for it was stolen and only recently was the dome built. Growing up the entire educational system was about stealing money for the football teams. It happened in my high school, the principal took all the money out of the school fund that was put there by honor students for their trip to Paris to throw a pizza party for the football team that never won a game. I got to college and found out from friends that similar things had happened at high schools all across the state. My roommate in the national guard had all sorts of stories of good 'ol boy system of promotions for political favors and stealing NG money including pensions and life insurance for Republican re-election campaigns. When I found out that it was an Oklahoman that had bought and stolen the Sonics from Seattle, I knew exactly how they went about stealing them even before I found out there had been lawsuits over it. The entire state was about the oligarchy of good 'ol boys enriching themselves at everybody else's expense. It's just one of the reasons why I fled that state as soon as I could.
Could we just dig out Eisenhower and put him into office again? Even as a corpse he's more competent than #Tweety.
Hell, can we just bring in a clone of Teddy Roosevelt?
Autonomous cars that transport people must satisfy two major safety requirements: 1) not kill or injure the people they are transporting and 2) not kill or injure other people on the road.
You missed the Third Law: 3) An Autonomous Car must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Two looks like an error, like a double period at the end of a sentence.. Like that. See? Two exclamation marks look like they could be the result of a mistake!! Like that. But three, three exclamation marks are sufficient to indicate enthusiasm, without risk of being perceived as a possible typographical error!!! See?!? More than that looks silly and four, five, or more, unavoidably look like this!!!!!1!!!!1!!11!1!!1!11!!! Just silly, and kind of childish or careless. So... three.
But sometimes you are trying to convey silly, childish enthusiasm!!!1!
..Or he's got a very dry sense of humor. Kind of hard to tell in print tho.
Judging by his other posts, I expect he is serious and the reason he hates Musk so much is because his space factory plans aren't being recognized for their genius and acted on by SpaceX.
Also, even if you could build such structures, would it be a practical thing to do?
Depends on what you are trying to do. While exploring what would actually be needed to terraform Mars and even giving it an atmosphere, just due to the amount of mass needed and distances involved, the energies needed are best described in units of total daily output of the sun. That is also where we'll need to get that energy, possibly by setting up very large collecting satellites to beam it to where it is needed around the solar system. It's pretty much the only way to get the energies needed to terraform a planet and even then we're speaking over thousands of years. Any such project would require such energy which would most likely be detectable by observing the light of the star in question.
Not my memory of paper bags,at all. lol I can count on one bag ripping or falling apart from some meat liquid and having all those nice groceries on the ground.every trip. I use cloth bags now don't rip they get messy watch them.
In my memory, they got used for kitchen trash sacks. Currently, they still do on the West Coast since most places have composting. Using paper grocery sacks is easier than buying compostable bags.
For the sake of argument, let's say one could get the temperature down to absolute zero. Let us further assume a single atom is subjected to this temperature.
Would one be able to "freeze" the atom so that its constituent parts would be immobile and visible? Or would it fall apart?
What happens to an atom at absolute zero?
From my 4000 level Quantum Mechanics course, a single atom cannot reach absolute zero. There are multiple forces at work here and the electron will not just fall into the nucleus or fly off but continues to move around the nucleus which causes a wiggle which means it has a temperature. We figured out what that temperature would be which ended up like something around 2/3 K. I'm sure it was a simplistic thought experiment that does not really express what is going on according to modern physics, but there you go.
Did a phone interview with Amazon once. Told him at the end that I wasn't interested. I could see right through what he was getting at, and it is exactly what you reference.
Friend of mine played that game for about five years at Amazon, jumping around internally. Finally decided what he wanted to do and found a job out of state with a well padded resume at a company that desired stability.
I hear this all the time but WTH actually does this? Anyone here at slashdot? Even when I was younger I did an all nighter just once or twice. I've been working 8 hour days the last 15 years.
My understanding would be Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. although I've only really heard from people that have worked at Amazon. They hire new young and eager workers who they can work and fire them when they burn out. However, just as many leave before that. It's all part of an understood system where new workers agree to be overworked while padding their resume and looking for a new job. This lastrs for an average of 18 months before they have found a new job or get laid off. They hopefully hop to a better paying job than does the same till they decide upon an exit strategy of looking for a place with less upward mobility but more stability once they have reached the desired salary and skillset.
1) Chinese manufacturers take our designs, make extras, and sell counterfeits as if they were original(*) 2) Chinese manufacturers steal our IP and trade secrets for other products 3) The Chinese violate licensing agreements (ie - hacked copies of software) and the government does nothing about it. 4) Chinese working in the US commit industrial espionage and send the information back to China
How to trade tariffs fix any of that?
Well, it doesn't. That is what TPP and the NAFTA renewal were supposed to do, create a group of singaturees to band together against Chinese counterfitting of IP. However, we dropped out of TPP and are not really interested in NAFTA anymore.
I'm surprised that Trump doesn't understand how these things work, this is literally first year global business and trade strategy.
I'd be really surprised if he did.
Sounds like a union. If an employee is fired, they can appeal to the union to get their job back. However, I've never seen a case where the union didn't side with the employee. I'm betting they implemented this process to avoid true unionization.
Considering the number one cause of unionization these days is bad management, sounds like a plan. If the problem really is the manager and not the employee, the coworkers will stick with her. Also sounds similar to what happens in Germany.
When minimum wage was enacted. Not saying we should drop minimum wage. Europe's solution is to make people pay the entire cost of disposing of that plastic fork. That makes it cheaper to pay somebody to wash dishes.
I doubt that. If the costs of washing something are greater than using disposable and just carrying out the trash at minimum wage, they will still be be at pretty much any other pay rate too. The labor of washing is always going to be more than just taking out the trash. When the price of disposable forks undercuts the costs of real forks, washing apparatus, and shop space for both is when disposable comes first. Especially considering that disposable forks must be kept around and stored anyway for take out foods as well as when dish washers break down (as somebody that has had that job, this happens a lot). Then there are other factors that come into play such as presentation. Especially in fast food, brand new disposable will appear more appealing and result in more return customers than presenting beat up industrial metal forks. Let's also not forget the costs of those forks being tossed out by customers who just don't care that much. Even in nice restaurants (especially in nice restaurants), dishware being tossed out by mistake (or stolen) is an issue.