First sentence is very insightful. Amazon has essentially refreshed the Sears Catalog business to a level that Sears itself eschewed when it's clueless managers shutdown catalog operations just at the dawn of the web commerce age. Had their management been a little foreseeing, they might have leveraged the web to combine with their, at that time, peerless consumer distribution network around the country. Instead they blundered along while Jeff Bezos went from being a cheapest books seller to seller of everything imaginable. By the way, Sears Holdings is closing several hundred stores a quarter and likely will not be a corporation by end of 2018, if not sooner.
Wow, I thought party lines had been eliminated by the early 80s after the consent decree opened up competition to AT&T, driving the cost down for individual service so that there wasn't a savings for sharing the line. Our family never had one, but a friend's family did and it was interesting for them to coordinate phone usage with the other families. It was common for them to pick up the handset and loudly say are you done yet?. I'm sure there were lots of affairs uncovered by people stealthily listening to the neighbors...
It needs more than a discreet vent panel to fight the mold. I recently got rid of a front-loader which I inherited and it was awful to keep cleaning the gasket and the mold never really died nor dried. Switched to a modern top loader and am so much happier, we can even soak a load of clothes now - which could never be done in a front loader.
Apparently the bidding was halted at $800, since the news reports don't tell of any higher offer prior to UA Express resorting to the computer random selection. This was a long simmering process failure, it should have been decided long before boarding time so that customers could be inconvenienced - aka reaccomodated - without their knowledge rather than be forced into a stalemated auction. The result would have been similar, four people would be pissed off to stay in Chi-town overnight, but no bloodshed would have been required.
An excellent point, those first three people decided not to question their selection to be #REACCOMODATED whilst the last man felt his opportunity cost was much more valuable than waiting an entire day. UA definitely should have determined their own crew deployment need ahead of the flight time and simply bumped four random passengers prior to the opening of the boarding door. I've not been bumped in recent memory, but have observed this happen on nearly every flight I've taken, and while there is consternation at the gate counter there isn't a need to drag a man bloodily through the corridors.
well, I'm a curmudgeonly boomer who has been suspicious of IoT since the start, and am satisfied I still have manual light switches and such like you. It's ridiculous to entrust your home (castle) to anyone else, cuz they don't care a whit for you, just the buck or two they will swindle from you before they go lights out.
That would truly suck if Grisak locked up the fella's garage door to prevent him opening it. I'd hope this fella didn't neglect installing the override latch to disengage the motor and open the door manually. I know what Garadget I'm never going to buy.
What in the heck is an assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps? Perhaps that is the real problematic issue with BPS, not the map projections. Fire this person, eliminate his department and associated staff, then use some of the cost savings to buy new globes for each classroom.
Transchronism had been employed most effectively by the late Jack Benny, who regularly celebrated the "nth anniversary of my 39th birthday" beginning in 1933.
it's always going to be about republicans and democrats, and the ways they have been politically manipulating each other as well as every other country on the planet
You don't seem to understand what "settled" means. "Settled" doesn't mean that new evidence is rejected;
Apparently you don't understand how the AGWCC folk intend to use the term settled science, as we can see new evidence contrary to their pet positions being consistently and continually rejected, even to the point now that they want to use USA RICO law to persecute those who have the temerity to hold an opposing position.
Telco carriers have known the problem of the last mile to the house for many decades. In fact, this very issue of the extraordinary cost of stringing wire to every home scuttled the proposed merger of MCI & British Telecom about 20 years ago. I laughed heartily when I heard Google claim they could drastically reduce the cost of laying fibre to the house, when recalling how MCI declared to Congress it would cost $900M/annually to attempt to break into the local telephone market, this back in the 90's when copper was still vying with fibre, which scared off BT to let Worldcom swoop in and wreck MCI.
Seems Google/Alphabet/xyz-eieio have suddenly got religion on the money sink that they embarked upon.
Toyota took some supersize lumps a few years ago when their sedans were suspected of uncontrollable runaway acceleration, leading to deadly crashes. They were hammered daily for many months as their engineers desperately looked for why their vehicles, particularly the favorite Camry, would suffer these episodes. I never saw the chief of Toyota accusing the press of bad reporting. Elon is likely trying to create a diversion to distract people noticing that it is quite a colossal challenge to scale up from manufacturing a few thousand vehicles per year to 500k by 2018.
An aeronautical engineer at my first job once told me that smoke is the most vital component of all devices, thus our job was to ensure the smoke didn't get out otherwise the device would stop working.
Once the driver is gone, the price will fall dramatically.
Yeah, that'll be the day. No, the price won't fall dramatically, indeed it will like increase so as to expand the revenue stream for Lyft/Uber/XYZ.
Also, think of all those drivers who will now be out of work, the shared ride service drivers, regular taxi drivers, bus drivers, delivery drivers, over the road truckers. How are they gonna afford the nominal $10 bucks a ride, presuming the price stays the same?
Fatal driver-piloted automobile crashes make the news every single day of the year, usually several times each day.
No matter what software update is disseminated by Tesla Motors, there will always be a bug or fault that can and will lead to another fatal crash. Just a matter of time.
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First sentence is very insightful. Amazon has essentially refreshed the Sears Catalog business to a level that Sears itself eschewed when it's clueless managers shutdown catalog operations just at the dawn of the web commerce age. Had their management been a little foreseeing, they might have leveraged the web to combine with their, at that time, peerless consumer distribution network around the country. Instead they blundered along while Jeff Bezos went from being a cheapest books seller to seller of everything imaginable. By the way, Sears Holdings is closing several hundred stores a quarter and likely will not be a corporation by end of 2018, if not sooner.
Wow, I thought party lines had been eliminated by the early 80s after the consent decree opened up competition to AT&T, driving the cost down for individual service so that there wasn't a savings for sharing the line. Our family never had one, but a friend's family did and it was interesting for them to coordinate phone usage with the other families. It was common for them to pick up the handset and loudly say are you done yet?. I'm sure there were lots of affairs uncovered by people stealthily listening to the neighbors...
Draft Horses == Organic AT-ATs
did they not get a climate change permit from EPA to allow the horses to break wind whilst pulling the loads?
It needs more than a discreet vent panel to fight the mold. I recently got rid of a front-loader which I inherited and it was awful to keep cleaning the gasket and the mold never really died nor dried. Switched to a modern top loader and am so much happier, we can even soak a load of clothes now - which could never be done in a front loader.
Apparently the bidding was halted at $800, since the news reports don't tell of any higher offer prior to UA Express resorting to the computer random selection. This was a long simmering process failure, it should have been decided long before boarding time so that customers could be inconvenienced - aka reaccomodated - without their knowledge rather than be forced into a stalemated auction. The result would have been similar, four people would be pissed off to stay in Chi-town overnight, but no bloodshed would have been required.
An excellent point, those first three people decided not to question their selection to be #REACCOMODATED whilst the last man felt his opportunity cost was much more valuable than waiting an entire day. UA definitely should have determined their own crew deployment need ahead of the flight time and simply bumped four random passengers prior to the opening of the boarding door. I've not been bumped in recent memory, but have observed this happen on nearly every flight I've taken, and while there is consternation at the gate counter there isn't a need to drag a man bloodily through the corridors.
the vast, vast majority of folks who have garage doors watch the door fully close before leaving the home. it's called personal responsibility.
well, I'm a curmudgeonly boomer who has been suspicious of IoT since the start, and am satisfied I still have manual light switches and such like you. It's ridiculous to entrust your home (castle) to anyone else, cuz they don't care a whit for you, just the buck or two they will swindle from you before they go lights out.
That would truly suck if Grisak locked up the fella's garage door to prevent him opening it. I'd hope this fella didn't neglect installing the override latch to disengage the motor and open the door manually. I know what Garadget I'm never going to buy.
What in the heck is an assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps? Perhaps that is the real problematic issue with BPS, not the map projections. Fire this person, eliminate his department and associated staff, then use some of the cost savings to buy new globes for each classroom.
so you're sayin' : size matters
Transchronism had been employed most effectively by the late Jack Benny, who regularly celebrated the "nth anniversary of my 39th birthday" beginning in 1933.
it's always going to be about republicans and democrats, and the ways they have been politically manipulating each other as well as every other country on the planet
yup, coward can't handle the truth. you must be KKK, right?
Sure, the way Democrat party has been doing for at least 150 years since Reconstruction
You don't seem to understand what "settled" means. "Settled" doesn't mean that new evidence is rejected;
Apparently you don't understand how the AGWCC folk intend to use the term settled science, as we can see new evidence contrary to their pet positions being consistently and continually rejected, even to the point now that they want to use USA RICO law to persecute those who have the temerity to hold an opposing position.
Telco carriers have known the problem of the last mile to the house for many decades. In fact, this very issue of the extraordinary cost of stringing wire to every home scuttled the proposed merger of MCI & British Telecom about 20 years ago. I laughed heartily when I heard Google claim they could drastically reduce the cost of laying fibre to the house, when recalling how MCI declared to Congress it would cost $900M/annually to attempt to break into the local telephone market, this back in the 90's when copper was still vying with fibre, which scared off BT to let Worldcom swoop in and wreck MCI.
Seems Google/Alphabet/xyz-eieio have suddenly got religion on the money sink that they embarked upon.
Puttin' The Snowman outta business....
Toyota took some supersize lumps a few years ago when their sedans were suspected of uncontrollable runaway acceleration, leading to deadly crashes. They were hammered daily for many months as their engineers desperately looked for why their vehicles, particularly the favorite Camry, would suffer these episodes. I never saw the chief of Toyota accusing the press of bad reporting. Elon is likely trying to create a diversion to distract people noticing that it is quite a colossal challenge to scale up from manufacturing a few thousand vehicles per year to 500k by 2018.
An aeronautical engineer at my first job once told me that smoke is the most vital component of all devices, thus our job was to ensure the smoke didn't get out otherwise the device would stop working.
You're making pointless presumptions about people actually having money "to spend less" of when they have no work opportunity
Once the driver is gone, the price will fall dramatically.
Yeah, that'll be the day. No, the price won't fall dramatically, indeed it will like increase so as to expand the revenue stream for Lyft/Uber/XYZ.
Also, think of all those drivers who will now be out of work, the shared ride service drivers, regular taxi drivers, bus drivers, delivery drivers, over the road truckers. How are they gonna afford the nominal $10 bucks a ride, presuming the price stays the same?
The analogous message would then be:
Semi, Semi, Semi. Engage brakes. Semi, Semi, Semi. Engage brakes.
Would that be effective enough?
Fatal driver-piloted automobile crashes make the news every single day of the year, usually several times each day. No matter what software update is disseminated by Tesla Motors, there will always be a bug or fault that can and will lead to another fatal crash. Just a matter of time.