Cash and debit are far cheaper than credit. The problem is banks have addicted people to credit using rewards programs and charged the merchant to accept cards (which well and truly pays for them and some).
People are "addicted" to the idea that some fraction of the increases in productivity show up as increased income. That hasn't been true for a long while. Cheap credit has been used to mask this robbery of the working class, but now the ride is over and the bill is in the mail. And since middle-class buying power is no longer supporting the economy, it's slowly collapsing.
Oh well. At least future historians should find it interesting to compare this collapse to the collapse of communistic economies, seeing how they happened just a few decades apart, and were caused by failures to keep up the opposite sides of a complete economic system, supply for communism and demand for capitalism.
If you're using mirrors, why not simply point the panels down?
Speaking of mirrors, how about covering your root with an optical cable and pointing both ends on a solar panel that sits on the inside somewhere, presumably water-cooled?
This man is a victem of the politically moderated speech problem. He stated his beliefs and was then considered anti-female and anti black.
So who moderated his speech? No one. He was allowed to speak his mind, and then other people were allowed to decide whether they wanted to continue associating with him in light of what he revealed of himself.
Now, if you want to argue that being shunned for your opinions is censorship, fine, but do understand that there are implications for other people's freedom of association.
The notion of non-offensive speech is killing free speech.
And yet no one silenced Watson. They simply stopped listening to him.
Even if they were dragging planets with them (is it possible for planets to orbit that fast?)
Fast? From the viewpoint of orbiting planets, the star is at rest and it's the rest of the universe that's moving.
wouldn't the planets have been sterilized by the conditions at the center of whatever galaxies they came from?
Even if they weren't, any lifeform that somehow leaves its home planet is unlikely to survive hitting another at 100,000 km/s. Unless our yellow star gives it new superpowers as plot demands, of course.
Ultimately, the tweets serve more as a constant reminder that people DO get caught regularly and so, hopefully a few who read the tweets will skew their cost/benefit judgement since the perceived risk is higher, and opt to not drive drunk or not drink in the first place.
So this will be very effective convincing those people who calmly consider the long-term consequences of their actions while drunk.
It's not good for throughput, though: since you can only have one aisle at a time "open", it's good for things like tools or library books where you have a large archive but only rarely retrieve any individual item.
But of course you can have any ratio of alleys to shelves. Just keep tabs on how many alleys you have at use at once on average and concentrate popular items on the same alleys. You can even put that "users who purchased this also often purchase these" database to use and group so an order can be completed by minimum number of alley accesses.
You can even get help from compiler technology. Think of shelves as main memory and alleys as registers. You can only operate on values in registers, and there's very limited bandwidth available moving stuff between them and main memory. Given this, a recorded access pattern, and weights for both latency (how long it takes to complete individual order) and throughput, what is the optimal strategy for moving the alleys? How many should you have, given a limited floorspace budget and a cost for not having a particular item stocked?
I just wonder what people who were already in such dire straits as to put up with Amazon warehouse abuse are going to do instead.
Well, traditionally a combination of desperate people and victim-blaming has led to unrest and eventually to a revolution. The possible responses to this are social security or a police state. The political situation in the US makes the former impossible, and all signs from the actions of intelligence agencies to the build-up of military gear for the police point to the country preparing to fight a war against its citizens, so I guess we're in for stormy weather.
This system (which brings the shelves to the workers, as workers are MUCH better at plucking small, irregularly-shaped items out of boxes) has fascinating challenges all of it's own, mainly related to traffic control, safety, and where to put the shelves after you are done. (A fixed location is very inefficient, but neither do you want to stick the shelf in the first available space.)
The most space-efficient system I've ever seen was in a library and had shelves that moved sideways on rails. There were no space whatsoever between adjancent shelves. You had a single alley and moved that to where you needed it by moving the shelves.
Before a government implements policy to go after stone drivers to prevent accidental death, it needs to be shown that stoners cause accidents! You can't just assume that.
It is sufficient to show that driving while impaired causes accidents, and that cannabis causes impairment. You don't have to prove this separately for every single mind-altering substance or other source of impairment, any more than you need to prove "icy roads are slippery" separately for every single road.
Frankly, comments like yours make me wonder if they're some kind of underhanded anti-legalization tactic. It's hard to imagine anyone who has ever actually used pot or observed the effects on third parties to argue absurd bullshit like that in good faith.
Think about musicians though. It's certainly possible to execute very precise muscle movements with precision and control while stoned. Why shouldn't you be able to drive?
Because driving is not about motor skills but paying attention to your surroundings, which pot interferes with rather severely. Try playing, say, Grand Theft Auto while stoned and see for yourself.
How many Domino's Pizza delivery drivers drive while stoned?
Do you have any proof to back your allegation, or are you simply slandering?
And societies based on the rule of law only work when people largely understand the rules to be fair and applicable to all. The "some animals are more equal than others" crap doesn't fly for long in a mature modern democracy.
Except it does, all the time. Any society where you can hire a lawyer makes those who can afford better ones more equal than those who have to settle for public defenders. Any society where court can order you to pay damages or where cases can drag on for more than a day is even worse, since the rich can afford that while the poor can't. Nixon didn't sit a single day in jail, nor will the people behind this. And of course a lot of laws - such as copyright law, jaywalking laws, drug laws, etc. - are more or less ignored by the citizenry.
Rule of law is a nice idea, but neither society, people nor the law itself are really up to the standards it requires.
Perhaps. But: you are going to die. Almost anything you might do prior to that is going to leave its mark on your body, as will doing nothing, and that includes your brain. Does this mean football is a good deal? Maybe, maybe not, but you'll have to actually think it through before you can rightfully judge it. Because even if you do end up with brain damage, that doesn't mean all the good times you had from the game - or the money you earned playing it - were worthless. Muhammed Ali got Parkinson, but he also got world heavyweight boxing championship, and he'll be no deader than any of the rest of us.
The first amendment lists no such exceptions. If people panic and harm others, that is on them and no one else.
Thus making the First Amendment a terror not just to a would-be tyrant, but also to Joe Average. I guess taking a popular law to absurd extremes to artificially inflate the cost is one way of getting it overturned.
... but have huge amounts of evidence that indicae they're not THAT wrong.
General Relativity is based on a locally flat spacetime, or more precisely, that curvature of spacetime nears zero as scale nears zero, while Quantum Mechanics is based on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which means energy - and thus curvature - nears infinite as scale nears zero. Physics is not economics; two theories that claim the exact opposite things can't both be right.
And of course this is all assuming we're not living in The Matrix, in which case our concept of physics isn't necessarily even remotely related to the "real" world.
Too bad the state forces men into such cuckolded manginosity by making it nearly impossible to say 'no' to unreasonable women without losing everything.
The state forced him to marry? Do libertarians seriously believe this crap?
If you're saying a male toddler prefers to chew on toy trucks while a female toddler prefers to chew on dollies because of socialization... then you've created an orthodoxy that cannot be falsified.
And if you're saying that male toddlers prefer trucks over dolls without socialization, you're either saying that male toddlers prefer hard toys over squishy ones - which is easily tested for with truck plushies - or that human genome includes genes that encode trucks, which is... pretty weird.
So maybe you should make less condescending noise about other people being crazy cultists, when your own stated beliefs are either irrelevant to the subject or only make sense if one assumes humans are orks from WH40K.
The science of contraception is a liberal world view?
In the war between our tribe and our enemy there can be no neutral ground. Any claim that isn't part of our tribe's identity and thus a pure, sweet truth, must be part of our enemy's and thus a vile, contemptuous lie. There can be no compromise with such Pure Evil. There can be no giving up any part of our cause, no show of weakness by ever admitting we were wrong. No matter what the cost to actual human beings, we will get our way.
But hey, at least people can change their ideological tribe, so it's a step up from ethnic ones!
I fucking hate CFLs, they give me serious headaches.
I wonder if there would be a market for no-flicker CFLs - it's not that hard to turn AC into steady-voltage DC - or if it's spectrum-based? How do LEDs work for you?
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People are "addicted" to the idea that some fraction of the increases in productivity show up as increased income. That hasn't been true for a long while. Cheap credit has been used to mask this robbery of the working class, but now the ride is over and the bill is in the mail. And since middle-class buying power is no longer supporting the economy, it's slowly collapsing.
Oh well. At least future historians should find it interesting to compare this collapse to the collapse of communistic economies, seeing how they happened just a few decades apart, and were caused by failures to keep up the opposite sides of a complete economic system, supply for communism and demand for capitalism.
If you're using mirrors, why not simply point the panels down?
Speaking of mirrors, how about covering your root with an optical cable and pointing both ends on a solar panel that sits on the inside somewhere, presumably water-cooled?
So who moderated his speech? No one. He was allowed to speak his mind, and then other people were allowed to decide whether they wanted to continue associating with him in light of what he revealed of himself.
Now, if you want to argue that being shunned for your opinions is censorship, fine, but do understand that there are implications for other people's freedom of association.
And yet no one silenced Watson. They simply stopped listening to him.
If you ever become famous, this sentence will most certainly get remembered and misinterpreted.
Fast? From the viewpoint of orbiting planets, the star is at rest and it's the rest of the universe that's moving.
Even if they weren't, any lifeform that somehow leaves its home planet is unlikely to survive hitting another at 100,000 km/s. Unless our yellow star gives it new superpowers as plot demands, of course.
So this will be very effective convincing those people who calmly consider the long-term consequences of their actions while drunk.
But of course you can have any ratio of alleys to shelves. Just keep tabs on how many alleys you have at use at once on average and concentrate popular items on the same alleys. You can even put that "users who purchased this also often purchase these" database to use and group so an order can be completed by minimum number of alley accesses.
You can even get help from compiler technology. Think of shelves as main memory and alleys as registers. You can only operate on values in registers, and there's very limited bandwidth available moving stuff between them and main memory. Given this, a recorded access pattern, and weights for both latency (how long it takes to complete individual order) and throughput, what is the optimal strategy for moving the alleys? How many should you have, given a limited floorspace budget and a cost for not having a particular item stocked?
Well, traditionally a combination of desperate people and victim-blaming has led to unrest and eventually to a revolution. The possible responses to this are social security or a police state. The political situation in the US makes the former impossible, and all signs from the actions of intelligence agencies to the build-up of military gear for the police point to the country preparing to fight a war against its citizens, so I guess we're in for stormy weather.
The most space-efficient system I've ever seen was in a library and had shelves that moved sideways on rails. There were no space whatsoever between adjancent shelves. You had a single alley and moved that to where you needed it by moving the shelves.
It is sufficient to show that driving while impaired causes accidents, and that cannabis causes impairment. You don't have to prove this separately for every single mind-altering substance or other source of impairment, any more than you need to prove "icy roads are slippery" separately for every single road.
Frankly, comments like yours make me wonder if they're some kind of underhanded anti-legalization tactic. It's hard to imagine anyone who has ever actually used pot or observed the effects on third parties to argue absurd bullshit like that in good faith.
Because driving is not about motor skills but paying attention to your surroundings, which pot interferes with rather severely. Try playing, say, Grand Theft Auto while stoned and see for yourself.
Do you have any proof to back your allegation, or are you simply slandering?
Except it does, all the time. Any society where you can hire a lawyer makes those who can afford better ones more equal than those who have to settle for public defenders. Any society where court can order you to pay damages or where cases can drag on for more than a day is even worse, since the rich can afford that while the poor can't. Nixon didn't sit a single day in jail, nor will the people behind this. And of course a lot of laws - such as copyright law, jaywalking laws, drug laws, etc. - are more or less ignored by the citizenry.
Rule of law is a nice idea, but neither society, people nor the law itself are really up to the standards it requires.
It's impossible to tell a genuine insane rant from a "joke".
Fun fact: one of the first Smurf stories was about a disease-type zombie apocalypse nearly destroying the Smurf civilization.
Perhaps. But: you are going to die. Almost anything you might do prior to that is going to leave its mark on your body, as will doing nothing, and that includes your brain. Does this mean football is a good deal? Maybe, maybe not, but you'll have to actually think it through before you can rightfully judge it. Because even if you do end up with brain damage, that doesn't mean all the good times you had from the game - or the money you earned playing it - were worthless. Muhammed Ali got Parkinson, but he also got world heavyweight boxing championship, and he'll be no deader than any of the rest of us.
Thus making the First Amendment a terror not just to a would-be tyrant, but also to Joe Average. I guess taking a popular law to absurd extremes to artificially inflate the cost is one way of getting it overturned.
General Relativity is based on a locally flat spacetime, or more precisely, that curvature of spacetime nears zero as scale nears zero, while Quantum Mechanics is based on Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which means energy - and thus curvature - nears infinite as scale nears zero. Physics is not economics; two theories that claim the exact opposite things can't both be right.
And of course this is all assuming we're not living in The Matrix, in which case our concept of physics isn't necessarily even remotely related to the "real" world.
Obviously "state forces" only refers to people who freely chose whatever the state presumably would had otherwise forced on them. Obviously.
What specific law, custom and fallacies would those be?
It fails miserably, then, for most people's cursive is utterly indecipherable.
And you know this... how?
The state forced him to marry? Do libertarians seriously believe this crap?
Ah. So how's Ubisoft treating you?
And if you're saying that male toddlers prefer trucks over dolls without socialization, you're either saying that male toddlers prefer hard toys over squishy ones - which is easily tested for with truck plushies - or that human genome includes genes that encode trucks, which is... pretty weird.
So maybe you should make less condescending noise about other people being crazy cultists, when your own stated beliefs are either irrelevant to the subject or only make sense if one assumes humans are orks from WH40K.
In the war between our tribe and our enemy there can be no neutral ground. Any claim that isn't part of our tribe's identity and thus a pure, sweet truth, must be part of our enemy's and thus a vile, contemptuous lie. There can be no compromise with such Pure Evil. There can be no giving up any part of our cause, no show of weakness by ever admitting we were wrong. No matter what the cost to actual human beings, we will get our way.
But hey, at least people can change their ideological tribe, so it's a step up from ethnic ones!
I wonder if there would be a market for no-flicker CFLs - it's not that hard to turn AC into steady-voltage DC - or if it's spectrum-based? How do LEDs work for you?