I think you are talking about someone else. This comment must be unrelated to this article.
We're talking about the mayor of NYC here. The guy who wants to ban large sodas. You know, the guy who paid several employees to travel out-of-state to lie on federal paperwork and purchase firearms and then transport them into other states without the required FFL license and then transfer those firearms to other individuals but was never charged for it because politicians gotta watch each others' backs and never do time for real crimes?
And frankly at the end of the day, I'd be glad as hell to be known as "that terrible CEO", as a single year's salary and separation compensation are significantly more than most people will make in decades
This is modded funny, but should be modded insightful.
This is America. Anything that makes it harder to commit election fraud gets colored as disenfranchisement and racist.
Police aren't allowed at polling places because minorities are scared of them. Meanwhile, the Black Panthers can stand outside polling places with clubs and not a thing is done about it.
There's a ton of execs that are, in fact, out to screw everyone including the company they work for, if the end result is their own personal benefit. Honestly it's one of the reasons our economy has kinda gone to poop.
Hell, look at the stock market. You think the guys trading stocks are doing anything BUT trying to make money for themselves? Hell no. That's their one motivation, and consequences be damned -- if they make money, it means the system works and the system is good.
That RC car, if produces in America, would still be 25 bucks. Yeah, you heard that right.
When has anything ever decreased in price by moving production to China? Don't be silly. Moving production to China doesn't lower prices, it increases profits.
He's not in China, either. I'd not be shocked if this guy was the same troll posting for the past several months an endless string of posts pointing out how novel and better everything in "Asia" is than in the West. Never any specific nation, simply "Asia", and always the dumbest drivel you could possibly imagine "only Asia has restaurants! only Asia invites friends over!".. It's less entertaining and humorous than the cleanmypc spam
Herpaderp, because Americans never go out with their friends. Ever. The concept is entirely foreign to us. ONLY ASIANS DO THIS! I know this is true, because some pretentious dbag posted it on slashdot!
The majority of the web is accessible on mobile devices already, without dedicated mobile sites being required. As time passes, mobile devices will become more capable, and soon there will be no need for a specialized mobile site -- there will be ONE standard, period. That's how it SHOULD BE, anyway.
Now, some companies and sites may currently wish to optimize a version for mobile viewing -- that's a business decision, a short-term solution. Government should be looking more long-term. 5, 10 years from now, our phones will be quite able to display any and all web content no differently than today's home computers.
This would be a large expenditure of money for a small niche of society that will only be relevant for a short period of time.. it's feel-goody everyday-typical politicking. that's all.
I mentioned above that I'm 6'2 -- that's relevant again here.
No way in hell any airline would do anything like that. Most flights I take I have to bow my head to walk down the center aisle. Or maybe I should rephrase -- maybe an airline would do something like that, but they'd be shutting out a sizable portion of the population. Already the things are designed with short and slim people in mind. Once you start standing-room only or lying-room only, you'd wind up with crap that's designed to maximize numbers and minimize space and that results in.. shit too small for me to fit in. It's bad enough that I have negative leg room on planes. Not no leg room, but physically impossible for me to sit with my knees facing forward. And I have short legs for my height.
except I'm 6'2 (that's 1.9m for you people who like measurements that are better in a lab but not as useful for human measurements). I'm 180lb.
That's hardly overweight, or oversized. Hell, I'm built *thin*. And don't think I don't get pissed at idiot engineers who design things for the "average" person -- they forget that short people can pretty simply adjust things to fit things larger than they are but large people can't adjust things to fit. The last time I was in a Mazda, the steering wheel bit into my thighs, with the seat the whole way back and the wheel inclined as high as possible.
But hey, keep making jokes about fat Americans when the thing in question is being built for the "average" person of 5'7, 150lb.
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If we'd actually build some modern reactors, we'd not really need Yucca, honestly. Most that waste can be burnt up for more energy. Eventually, sure, Yucca.. but a much lesser quantity would be stored there. Enough that it'd really not be an issue for decades whether or not we shove it in there or not.
Actually it's probably more likely that they have 4 shifts, not 3. 3 8-hour shifts makes a 24 hour day, but you then have those same sets of people working 7 days a week -- but if you rotate schedules, go to a 12 hour shift, it's really simple to have a plant running 24/7 with 4 crews of employees putting in 3-5 days per 'week', and if any critical employee can't show up on any given shift of any given day -- there's always 2 other employees not working the following shift who can be brought in to cover for them.
I remember the Good Ol' Days, before google.. back when you had to be really clever with what you searched for and how, or all your results would be porn (if you were good, only 1/3 would be). And then there was the pop-behind malware, silently opening pages of naked ladies behind your windows as you surfed..
People love their soap operas. that's all LOST was, that's all BSG was, that's all SGU was, that's all Heroes was, that's all True Blood was, that's.. that's all they are. Nothing interesting. Heavy on the over-hyped and ridiculously dramatic interpersonal relationships. "My goodness, this person said something rude to me, so I shall brood menacingly and later whine about it to some other fuck who will pat me on the back as we sob together about how terrible that rude person is like a bunch of teenage girls".
Nobody fucking acts like that in real life, and if they do, if you do find someone like that -- nobody fucking likes them. But hey, great TV, aint?
Stop buying coffee from coffee shops, for one -- if you buy ground coffee and use a drip or percolating coffee pot, it's absurdly cheap. 4-5 cents a cup, iirc. I've got a coffee grinder and french press, but I buy bags of beans as opposed to freshly roasted because those.. those are absurdly pricey, honestly. At least around here. Works out to about 60 cents for my pot of coffee, which is about 3 cups of deliciousness. Jumps to about 1.50 a pot if I get the fresh roasted beans, which still isn't that bad compared to Starbucks or some such but is more than I care to spend, since I'm quite happy with the bags.
Over a month I'll spend probably $50 on my coffee. That's not that bad, considering my consumption is above average.
Find somewhere in Asia that isn't Japan and S. Korea that even pretends to know what rights are.
Somewhere has to be the bottom of the heap of "free" nations, anyway. I should have added Israel to that list, in retrospect -- but Japan and S. Korea still have all the rest of Asia beat, and Africa is just a fucking joke of a continent.
10 years ago I might've included Russia on that list, but... I hesitate, today.
Let's be fair, they might be slightly better -- there's less food to be stolen and local girls to rape inside my computer, so by that fact alone it'd have to be a better job.
The US isn't perfect, no one is saying that. No one is saying the US is the best. Compared to THOSE countries? Compared to the amount of freedom that can be found on MOST of the planet? Yes, the fucking US is better than that.
Jesus fucking christ and this drivel was modded INSIGHTFUL? You want some real problems with limitations and outright lack of free speech, travel *outside* the US for once in your miserable, small and meaningless little fucking life.
You've got most of Europe, the northern part of North America, Australia, and Japan & S. Korea. The rest of the world is pretty much fucking *shit*, and your rights mean *nothing*.
But hey, I'm sure you're right. I'm sure the US is every bit as much of an authoritarian shithole with no respect for human rights as China and North Korea. Totally.
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Bloomberg?
Reasonable?
I think you are talking about someone else. This comment must be unrelated to this article.
We're talking about the mayor of NYC here. The guy who wants to ban large sodas. You know, the guy who paid several employees to travel out-of-state to lie on federal paperwork and purchase firearms and then transport them into other states without the required FFL license and then transfer those firearms to other individuals but was never charged for it because politicians gotta watch each others' backs and never do time for real crimes?
That guy?
Reasonable? The fuck is wrong with YOU?
Eh, zombies aren't entirely played out.
We haven't had a zombie that sparkles when it gets shot in the head yet. That will signal the end.
And frankly at the end of the day, I'd be glad as hell to be known as "that terrible CEO", as a single year's salary and separation compensation are significantly more than most people will make in decades
This is modded funny, but should be modded insightful.
This is America. Anything that makes it harder to commit election fraud gets colored as disenfranchisement and racist.
Police aren't allowed at polling places because minorities are scared of them. Meanwhile, the Black Panthers can stand outside polling places with clubs and not a thing is done about it.
Welcome to America.
So you're a Romulan. Got it.
Right.
There's a ton of execs that are, in fact, out to screw everyone including the company they work for, if the end result is their own personal benefit. Honestly it's one of the reasons our economy has kinda gone to poop.
Hell, look at the stock market. You think the guys trading stocks are doing anything BUT trying to make money for themselves? Hell no. That's their one motivation, and consequences be damned -- if they make money, it means the system works and the system is good.
Assuming that belief in "luck" is, in fact, a sane belief.
PROTIP: It's a half-step above consulting chicken entrails.
Actually.... no.
That RC car, if produces in America, would still be 25 bucks.
Yeah, you heard that right.
When has anything ever decreased in price by moving production to China? Don't be silly. Moving production to China doesn't lower prices, it increases profits.
He's not in China, either. I'd not be shocked if this guy was the same troll posting for the past several months an endless string of posts pointing out how novel and better everything in "Asia" is than in the West. Never any specific nation, simply "Asia", and always the dumbest drivel you could possibly imagine "only Asia has restaurants! only Asia invites friends over!".. It's less entertaining and humorous than the cleanmypc spam
Herpaderp, because Americans never go out with their friends. Ever. The concept is entirely foreign to us. ONLY ASIANS DO THIS! I know this is true, because some pretentious dbag posted it on slashdot!
No, no that's not what this is about at all.
The majority of the web is accessible on mobile devices already, without dedicated mobile sites being required. As time passes, mobile devices will become more capable, and soon there will be no need for a specialized mobile site -- there will be ONE standard, period. That's how it SHOULD BE, anyway.
Now, some companies and sites may currently wish to optimize a version for mobile viewing -- that's a business decision, a short-term solution. Government should be looking more long-term. 5, 10 years from now, our phones will be quite able to display any and all web content no differently than today's home computers.
This would be a large expenditure of money for a small niche of society that will only be relevant for a short period of time..
it's feel-goody everyday-typical politicking. that's all.
Not to say it was, but it could have been an insulin pump or colonoscopy bag
I mentioned above that I'm 6'2 -- that's relevant again here.
No way in hell any airline would do anything like that. Most flights I take I have to bow my head to walk down the center aisle.
Or maybe I should rephrase -- maybe an airline would do something like that, but they'd be shutting out a sizable portion of the population. Already the things are designed with short and slim people in mind. Once you start standing-room only or lying-room only, you'd wind up with crap that's designed to maximize numbers and minimize space and that results in.. shit too small for me to fit in.
It's bad enough that I have negative leg room on planes. Not no leg room, but physically impossible for me to sit with my knees facing forward. And I have short legs for my height.
Shit's terrible.
HYUK HYUK HYUK
gosh you're funny!
except I'm 6'2 (that's 1.9m for you people who like measurements that are better in a lab but not as useful for human measurements).
I'm 180lb.
That's hardly overweight, or oversized. Hell, I'm built *thin*. And don't think I don't get pissed at idiot engineers who design things for the "average" person -- they forget that short people can pretty simply adjust things to fit things larger than they are but large people can't adjust things to fit. The last time I was in a Mazda, the steering wheel bit into my thighs, with the seat the whole way back and the wheel inclined as high as possible.
But hey, keep making jokes about fat Americans when the thing in question is being built for the "average" person of 5'7, 150lb.
If we'd actually build some modern reactors, we'd not really need Yucca, honestly. Most that waste can be burnt up for more energy. Eventually, sure, Yucca.. but a much lesser quantity would be stored there. Enough that it'd really not be an issue for decades whether or not we shove it in there or not.
Actually it's probably more likely that they have 4 shifts, not 3. 3 8-hour shifts makes a 24 hour day, but you then have those same sets of people working 7 days a week -- but if you rotate schedules, go to a 12 hour shift, it's really simple to have a plant running 24/7 with 4 crews of employees putting in 3-5 days per 'week', and if any critical employee can't show up on any given shift of any given day -- there's always 2 other employees not working the following shift who can be brought in to cover for them.
You think Audie Murphy did some incredible shit, check out Leo Major ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Major )
The level of unreality is outstanding. Pretty sure he's actually Wolverine.
I remember the Good Ol' Days, before google..
back when you had to be really clever with what you searched for and how, or all your results would be porn (if you were good, only 1/3 would be).
And then there was the pop-behind malware, silently opening pages of naked ladies behind your windows as you surfed..
Internet so tame these days, so safe..
People love their soap operas. that's all LOST was, that's all BSG was, that's all SGU was, that's all Heroes was, that's all True Blood was, that's.. that's all they are. Nothing interesting. Heavy on the over-hyped and ridiculously dramatic interpersonal relationships. "My goodness, this person said something rude to me, so I shall brood menacingly and later whine about it to some other fuck who will pat me on the back as we sob together about how terrible that rude person is like a bunch of teenage girls".
Nobody fucking acts like that in real life, and if they do, if you do find someone like that -- nobody fucking likes them. But hey, great TV, aint?
Greatest spoiler of all time:
It was Kevin Spacey all along!
The real question is, what movie am I spoiling?
Stop buying coffee from coffee shops, for one -- if you buy ground coffee and use a drip or percolating coffee pot, it's absurdly cheap. 4-5 cents a cup, iirc. I've got a coffee grinder and french press, but I buy bags of beans as opposed to freshly roasted because those.. those are absurdly pricey, honestly. At least around here. Works out to about 60 cents for my pot of coffee, which is about 3 cups of deliciousness. Jumps to about 1.50 a pot if I get the fresh roasted beans, which still isn't that bad compared to Starbucks or some such but is more than I care to spend, since I'm quite happy with the bags.
Over a month I'll spend probably $50 on my coffee. That's not that bad, considering my consumption is above average.
Find somewhere in Asia that isn't Japan and S. Korea that even pretends to know what rights are.
Somewhere has to be the bottom of the heap of "free" nations, anyway. I should have added Israel to that list, in retrospect -- but Japan and S. Korea still have all the rest of Asia beat, and Africa is just a fucking joke of a continent.
10 years ago I might've included Russia on that list, but... I hesitate, today.
Let's be fair, they might be slightly better -- there's less food to be stolen and local girls to rape inside my computer, so by that fact alone it'd have to be a better job.
Letting the US is better?
Compared to N. Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia?
Um, YES, IT IS FUCKING BETTER!
The US isn't perfect, no one is saying that. No one is saying the US is the best. Compared to THOSE countries? Compared to the amount of freedom that can be found on MOST of the planet? Yes, the fucking US is better than that.
Jesus fucking christ and this drivel was modded INSIGHTFUL? You want some real problems with limitations and outright lack of free speech, travel *outside* the US for once in your miserable, small and meaningless little fucking life.
You've got most of Europe, the northern part of North America, Australia, and Japan & S. Korea. The rest of the world is pretty much fucking *shit*, and your rights mean *nothing*.
But hey, I'm sure you're right. I'm sure the US is every bit as much of an authoritarian shithole with no respect for human rights as China and North Korea. Totally.
Fucking idiot.
$7 is one super-sized meal. Actually, it's a bit over $7. I don't think they have *any* value meal offerings for less than 4-and-change, plus tax.