If you're that paranoid, then just don't order pizzas or stuff from Amazon and never answer your door unless the person has phoned you in advance and arranged a password.
Check the insurance policy on your car before rushing to Amazon to offer your services... Chances are that this is considered as a commercial usage of your car and you're not covered.
It's all part of the monopolistic government-delivery service-insurance industry complex that is ruining the Western world.
Most people living in big cities go to the opera, theatre, or big sporting event about as often as someone living in the countryside, i.e. once in a blue moon.
How many kinds of pizza are there that you can walk to?
Who gives a fuck? It's like asking how many different burger joints you need.
Do they have conveyor belt sushi restaurants in your town? Is there even a real Japanese restaurant
Probably. At least here in the UK, even medium sized towns have dozens of different types of restaurant including lots of different Asian cuisines.
Big cities have one real advantage: when you're young and single there are many more opportunities for meeting random sexual partners.
If I had to spend so much of my life at work that I considered a couple of hours a week doing grocery shopping or my laundry a noticeable intrusion on my free time, I'd rather kill myself.
Not all of us consider living at Google HQ the sum of human existence.
Same thing with the Detroit police department. They used homicide rate as a measure of effectiveness. The police started to classify homicides as suicides and accidents to make the metric look better.
I thought you were going to say they had a target, and if they didn't reach it they'd go out and shoot a couple of random passers by.
In my memory of my school years, group work inevitably devolved into the rest of the group chatting among themselves while I did the work anyway.
You are really not as clever as you think you are then.
I'm sorry, but in real life, you have to work with other people. And I much prefer getting other people to do work instead of me, even though I am definitely an introvert.
No, Social Media is actually ideal for introverts. It is far, far easier to post to your 500 facebook friends than talk to one human being face to face.
You might want to do your own research. WHO has enabled the use of DDT again. The study done by the crazy chick in the 60s was based on fabricated data. Google is your friend.
You can find countless links on Google proving that the Holocaust, 9/11 and the Moon Landings were all fabricated too.
I'll bet he could have designed it in an hour if he had a good 3D Printer and access to a Maker Faire. And he could have done a TED talk about it afterwards.
I imagine a 3D printed clock would be approximately as useful as a chocolate teapot. Even if you could control it from your iPhone in a Microbrew pub while combing your beard.
Find me one person that would not want to be the first human in all of history to drink water from a different planet.
You were presumably the sort of kid who stuck his finger in an electrical socket to see what would happen. I took the more scientific approach of asking my little sister to try first.
Icelandic definitely comes closest. It has changed remarkably little over the centuries. It has been said that Icelandic is to Old Norse, as Modern English is to Shakespearean English. Thus Icelanders can read Old Norse texts with a little practice.
If you are a native English speaker you can read Shakespeare with no practice at all. It's the fact that it's poetry that makes it seem "hard" to many people. They'd struggle equally with Walt Whitman.
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If you're that paranoid, then just don't order pizzas or stuff from Amazon and never answer your door unless the person has phoned you in advance and arranged a password.
I take it someone hates pizza delivery.
I've only ever had pizza delivered when I'm too drunk to walk, so my standards of food hygience have already gone out the window.
Came here for this. It most definitely is use for commercial purposes.
I would hope that Amazon has a way to mitigate that issue otherwise it's pretty cruddy to let people hang themselves without fair warning
No doubt it's covered by Amazon's own insurance, or whatever the Uber line is this week.
Check the insurance policy on your car before rushing to Amazon to offer your services... Chances are that this is considered as a commercial usage of your car and you're not covered.
It's all part of the monopolistic government-delivery service-insurance industry complex that is ruining the Western world.
How's the opera/theater/sporting events?
Most people living in big cities go to the opera, theatre, or big sporting event about as often as someone living in the countryside, i.e. once in a blue moon.
How many kinds of pizza are there that you can walk to?
Who gives a fuck? It's like asking how many different burger joints you need.
Do they have conveyor belt sushi restaurants in your town? Is there even a real Japanese restaurant
Probably. At least here in the UK, even medium sized towns have dozens of different types of restaurant including lots of different Asian cuisines.
Big cities have one real advantage: when you're young and single there are many more opportunities for meeting random sexual partners.
Not all of us consider living at Google HQ the sum of human existence.
Agreed, but they're using the word "value" purely in the financial sense, not as a measure of your worth as a human being or anything.
Become invaluable
No one is invaluable in a company, unless it's a one-man entrepreneurial band type of set up.
Same thing with the Detroit police department. They used homicide rate as a measure of effectiveness. The police started to classify homicides as suicides and accidents to make the metric look better.
I thought you were going to say they had a target, and if they didn't reach it they'd go out and shoot a couple of random passers by.
...can go tits up very quickly.
Well, you were talking about Kim Kardashian, right?
Wouldn't the expression be "arse over tit"?
only 1-2% of the worlds population
Wow, so only 100 miillion of you special snowflakes?
It's fucking uncanny how literally everyone posting here is a solitary genius surrounded by incompetent, lazy fools.
In my memory of my school years, group work inevitably devolved into the rest of the group chatting among themselves while I did the work anyway.
You are really not as clever as you think you are then.
I'm sorry, but in real life, you have to work with other people. And I much prefer getting other people to do work instead of me, even though I am definitely an introvert.
No, Social Media is actually ideal for introverts. It is far, far easier to post to your 500 facebook friends than talk to one human being face to face.
Things always clump. The whole planet is one big clump of dirt. Nano particles don't stay that way for very long.
You can't argue with scientific logic like that!
You might want to do your own research. WHO has enabled the use of DDT again. The study done by the crazy chick in the 60s was based on fabricated data. Google is your friend.
You can find countless links on Google proving that the Holocaust, 9/11 and the Moon Landings were all fabricated too.
It's only "pretty well known stuff" amongst anti-Environmentalist anti-government right wing nutjobs.
After an hour I'm ready for the bar and a fridge full of cold beers.
If you really don't want the sun on your skin, why not just wear some, you know, clothes?
I'll bet he could have designed it in an hour if he had a good 3D Printer and access to a Maker Faire. And he could have done a TED talk about it afterwards.
I imagine a 3D printed clock would be approximately as useful as a chocolate teapot. Even if you could control it from your iPhone in a Microbrew pub while combing your beard.
Harrison built his clocks in the 1700's (although apparently Slashdot only just heard about it).
That's actually not bad going by /. standards.
A is the simpler scenario that requires the fewest assumptions. Therefore, A.
Yes, but ridiculously elaborate conspiracy theories are more fun!
Find me one person that would not want to be the first human in all of history to drink water from a different planet.
You were presumably the sort of kid who stuck his finger in an electrical socket to see what would happen. I took the more scientific approach of asking my little sister to try first.
Icelandic definitely comes closest. It has changed remarkably little over the centuries. It has been said that Icelandic is to Old Norse, as Modern English is to Shakespearean English. Thus Icelanders can read Old Norse texts with a little practice.
If you are a native English speaker you can read Shakespeare with no practice at all. It's the fact that it's poetry that makes it seem "hard" to many people. They'd struggle equally with Walt Whitman.
Via patrino estas hamstro kaj via patro odoris sambuko.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of Sambuca?
Something not quite right there.