I introduced sardines to my daughters as desert, and only give it to them as a treat. Now they enjoy an inexpensive, healthy snack when other kids demand ice cream and chocolate. If that's not a hack, then I don't know what is.
No offence, but are your kids retarded, or do you just lock them up in the basement away from any other human contact?
I find it hard to believe they don't know what "sweet" tastes like.
Assuming each bagel is 87.4 grams and that each employee eats 1,125 bagels, that would make 210 lbs (or 95 kgs) of bagels consumed per employee each Thursday
And people wonder why there's an obesity crisis in the US.
Every publisher believes that the e-books don't really compete against one another in price because each one is unique. They aren't interchangeable...someone won't say "wow, I bet I can get this same book cheaper somewhere else..."
But they are wrong. Lately, people have been able to get the same book cheaper by buying a used physical copy (still cheaper even after shipping costs). But, apart from that, when the price of a book exceeds the potential customer's sense of the book's value, they absolutely will buy a completely different book instead.
No product is immune to market forces, which is a good thing, and price-fixing harms the majority.
I don't agree. There are certain authors whose books I buy as soon as they are published. In the past this meant buying a hardback edition which is more than twice the cost of a paperback.
Books and other works of creative art are NOT fungible. You can't just replace a novel by your favourite author with a cheaper alternative in the same genre..
The only vaguely plausible justificaitons I've heard for attaching your stuff to the internet is so that you can (for instance) interrogate your fridge while you're at work so you know what to buy when you go shopping on the way home, or turn off your central heating while you're five thousand miles away on holiday.
It all seems like utter bollocks to me anyway, but a home intranet seems even more pointless unless you live in Buckingham Palace or something. (How hard is it for a normal person to walk downstairs to the kitchen to turn on a coffee machine?)
Imagine, if you can, a world without war, it's easy if you try.
I can also imagine purple unicorns that vomit rainbows. The fact that I have a good imagination doesn't change reality.
The thing is, even given that there are conflicts in the world (a) wars are not the only way to deal with them and (b) whatever other countries do, your own can always refuse to initiate armed conflict.
The world would be a lot better with a reduced number of unnecessary armed conflicts, even if you can't avoid them entirely.
If it works it'll revolutionize aerial warfare and instantly make every Air Force in the world obsolete.
Yeah, IF.
History is full of revolutionary military technologies that will make armies/navies/air forces obsolete. The trouble is that the other guys don't just sit around twiddling their thumbs while you develop that technology. By the time your revolutionary technology is fit for service, the world has moved on.
See, that's the problem -- as long as they see themselves in either role, it won't work. Perhaps if they were isolated at youth, taught to fight each other, and then misled into thinking it was just a really good video game or simulation of some sort. I bet they could make a movie out of that.
No, it would suck as a movie, Hollywood would completely miss the point of the story. Better if it was a book. Or even a series of books - you could even narrate it from different points of view.
You appear to have omitted the word "terrible" before "book" in your post.
Ender's Game is perhaps the worst famous science fiction book I have ever read, and I've struggled through several Heinleins and A Canticle for Fucking Leibowitz.
Civilization will probably be greatly affected by something sometime, but there's no way to know what. Asteroid? Pandemic? Solar flare? Nuclear war? So it's important to plan _wisely_. Don't choose one catastrophe and focus all your effort on it, because it won't be the one that gets you.
So, once we have identified all known possible catastrophes, we can discount them. And there's nothing we can do about unknown catastrophes, so we just don't do anything at all.
going on yelp to say that you got ripped off is NOT basis for a libel suit
Yes. It is. And unless you can prove it's true it's also the basis for a libel suit that you will lose.
Saying you were "ripped off" is pretty much saying you were robbed, and therefore tantamount to criminal libel (if you have such a thing). It's certainly a serious accusation.
Seriously, by the time untethered augmented reality becomes a thing, automated cars will be the norm and you won't be able to get yourself run over if you tried.;-)
Yes, because there are no other potentially dangerous situations except ones involving cars.
The greek financial crisis was brought on by a neoliberal government....
Please do explain how a party that calls itself "Pan Hellenic Socialist Movement" which was in power in Greece for 9 of the past 14 legislative periods can possibly be labelled "neoliberal". Socialist parties can be called many things. Most definitely not neoliberal.
You can call your party whatever you want, it's what you actually do that matters. The government went along with the neoliberal austerity measures imposed by external creditors, which is why they lost to the anti-austerity left wing givernment at the last elections.
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I introduced sardines to my daughters as desert, and only give it to them as a treat. Now they enjoy an inexpensive, healthy snack when other kids demand ice cream and chocolate. If that's not a hack, then I don't know what is.
No offence, but are your kids retarded, or do you just lock them up in the basement away from any other human contact?
I find it hard to believe they don't know what "sweet" tastes like.
Oh look at Commander Killbuzz here, trampling on the spirit of the thread.
Congrats.
There's a difference between fucking around with your own stuff and fucking around with stuff owned by your employer (or any other person).
The bit of wire wrapped around the push-mower handle that keeps the engine brake from engaging the moment I release my grip on the handle.
Oh, it's for the safety of the children! Think of the puppies! No. Just, No.
Not only a hack but a macho-hack.
I bet you cut the seatbelts out of your car too.
Assuming each bagel is 87.4 grams and that each employee eats 1,125 bagels, that would make 210 lbs (or 95 kgs) of bagels consumed per employee each Thursday
And people wonder why there's an obesity crisis in the US.
Every publisher believes that the e-books don't really compete against one another in price because each one is unique. They aren't interchangeable...someone won't say "wow, I bet I can get this same book cheaper somewhere else..."
But they are wrong. Lately, people have been able to get the same book cheaper by buying a used physical copy (still cheaper even after shipping costs). But, apart from that, when the price of a book exceeds the potential customer's sense of the book's value, they absolutely will buy a completely different book instead.
No product is immune to market forces, which is a good thing, and price-fixing harms the majority.
I don't agree. There are certain authors whose books I buy as soon as they are published. In the past this meant buying a hardback edition which is more than twice the cost of a paperback.
Books and other works of creative art are NOT fungible. You can't just replace a novel by your favourite author with a cheaper alternative in the same genre..
It all seems like utter bollocks to me anyway, but a home intranet seems even more pointless unless you live in Buckingham Palace or something. (How hard is it for a normal person to walk downstairs to the kitchen to turn on a coffee machine?)
Imagine, if you can, a world without war, it's easy if you try.
I can also imagine purple unicorns that vomit rainbows. The fact that I have a good imagination doesn't change reality.
The thing is, even given that there are conflicts in the world (a) wars are not the only way to deal with them and (b) whatever other countries do, your own can always refuse to initiate armed conflict.
The world would be a lot better with a reduced number of unnecessary armed conflicts, even if you can't avoid them entirely.
If it works it'll revolutionize aerial warfare and instantly make every Air Force in the world obsolete.
Yeah, IF.
History is full of revolutionary military technologies that will make armies/navies/air forces obsolete. The trouble is that the other guys don't just sit around twiddling their thumbs while you develop that technology. By the time your revolutionary technology is fit for service, the world has moved on.
I tend to ignore GDP as an indicator because it's utterly useless
Maybe in some respects, but it's fine as a means of comparison.
Saying that the cost of this plane is the same as the GDP of Australia has nothing to do with problems of defining economic growth
Why do we have a $1 trillion plane? I'm not saying it's a lot of money--it's only about $100bn every year
I think even besotted fans of fighter jets would admit that it is, in fact, quite a lot of money.
I think they probably should have just executed them
Cool, then you're on the same moral level as ISIL.
See, that's the problem -- as long as they see themselves in either role, it won't work. Perhaps if they were isolated at youth, taught to fight each other, and then misled into thinking it was just a really good video game or simulation of some sort. I bet they could make a movie out of that.
No, it would suck as a movie, Hollywood would completely miss the point of the story. Better if it was a book. Or even a series of books - you could even narrate it from different points of view.
You appear to have omitted the word "terrible" before "book" in your post.
Ender's Game is perhaps the worst famous science fiction book I have ever read, and I've struggled through several Heinleins and A Canticle for Fucking Leibowitz.
*golfclap*
Same way we "know" that 80% of rape victims never report it.
We pull a number out of our ass that will help promote the current agenda.
Yeah, those evil SJWs and feminazis with their "anti-rape" agenda. Whatever happened to free choice?
Oh, wait...
Civilization will probably be greatly affected by something sometime, but there's no way to know what. Asteroid? Pandemic? Solar flare? Nuclear war? So it's important to plan _wisely_. Don't choose one catastrophe and focus all your effort on it, because it won't be the one that gets you.
So, once we have identified all known possible catastrophes, we can discount them. And there's nothing we can do about unknown catastrophes, so we just don't do anything at all.
going on yelp to say that you got ripped off is NOT basis for a libel suit
Yes. It is. And unless you can prove it's true it's also the basis for a libel suit that you will lose.
Saying you were "ripped off" is pretty much saying you were robbed, and therefore tantamount to criminal libel (if you have such a thing). It's certainly a serious accusation.
Seriously, by the time untethered augmented reality becomes a thing, automated cars will be the norm and you won't be able to get yourself run over if you tried. ;-)
Yes, because there are no other potentially dangerous situations except ones involving cars.
there's always idiots who see all the worst of it, the worst that have little to no chance of ever happening.
Yeah, I think peripheral vision is just some great big liberal anti-free market conspiracy.
Earlier adopters profit from the rise in value as Bitcoin becomes better understood and in turn demanded by the public at large.
So it's a pyramid scheme.
All adopters benefit from the usefulness of a reliable and widely-accepted decentralized peer-to-peer currency.
Right, so they benefit but not in a way that actually makes them any money, they're basically unpaid marketers who draw in more mug punters.
It's a pyramid scheme.
Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of bitcoin, has never spent a bitcoin
He may be a selfless humanitarian, who cares? I'm sure other early adopters have made money off this scam.
However, it is mathematically impossible to pay back the principal + interest from a pool of money containing only the principal.
Not if the original pool grows. Which it does.
That is not one of the two options.
"So would you rather be tortured horribly to death over four days or five days?"
"I'll just pass on the torture and death altogether thanks".
"Oh, ok, I hadn't thought of that".
Suits you for trying to make an economic agreement with people you KNOW are scum.
Hey, don't be so hard on the Germans.
The greek financial crisis was brought on by a neoliberal government ....
Please do explain how a party that calls itself "Pan Hellenic Socialist Movement" which was in power in Greece for 9 of the past 14 legislative periods can possibly be labelled "neoliberal". Socialist parties can be called many things. Most definitely not neoliberal.
You can call your party whatever you want, it's what you actually do that matters. The government went along with the neoliberal austerity measures imposed by external creditors, which is why they lost to the anti-austerity left wing givernment at the last elections.
The solution, as always, is to get rid of democracy.
Thanks, Adolf!
Isn't the idea to develop a propulsion system that allows for interstellar travel before that happens?
Unless someone works out a way of travelling faster than the speed of light, interstellar travel will never happen.