These belong in public transport, where you have a relatively controlled environment running down predetermined routes
This. For all the talk about self-driving cars, it seem to be lost on people that freight trains still have human operators...and this is on a pre-determined path with little chance of a collision with another train.
No clue. Obviously I'm leaving out a lot of info here, and I don't know how much licensing and such cost for a taxi driver that Uber drivers don't seem to have to worry about (for the time being anyway).
Looks like they make less than they do driving a taxi full-time in Denver....
"The median annual Taxi Driver salary in Denver, CO is $33,803, as of May 31, 2016, with a range usually between $28,077-$41,255 not including bonus and benefit information" http://www1.salary.com/CO/Denv...
At $13.17 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, an Uber drive in Denver would pull in $27,394 at that rate, and that's WITHOUT benefits and bonuses.
There's a lot that I' assuming here, like a person working strictly full time as an Uber driver.....but if you were going to work strictly as a driver, you'd probably be better off driving a taxi.
"Zavodnik, a native of Ukraine who moved to the United States in 1987 under a grant of political asylum"
I'm assuming that he went to the U.S. to escape the U.S.S.R., but that fell to pieces a few years after arriving. I don't know what his current immigration status is, but wouldn't asylum eventually be revoked? Seems like you wouldn't get granted asylum from a government that no longer exist (barring the current political crisis with Crimea, which occurred over 20 years after he left).
You absolutely shouldn't, but that doesn't mean other people don't.
They're obviously far inferior to the Apple Watch.
I don't think that's the point as far as Pebble is concerned. Not everyone needs all of the functionality of an Apple Watch. I have a Pebble Steel, and it does exactly what I need it to...passive notifications delivered to me with a battery life spanning multiple days. I don't need a color display, speech control, or a touch screen.
How many of these women wear a hijab and still wear makeup? I see it all the time. Sure doesn't sound like something that someone yearning for humility would subscribe to.
The attacks that are the direct result of America and the rest of the EU funding global terrorism? Those attacks?
Last time I checked France is part of the EU....so the rest of the EU does it but France is somehow not responsible?
France has been one of the major players in the middle east for decades....I shouldn't have to mention their grabbing of Syria and Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire, their arms sales to Iraq and Libya, the French-Algerian war, or the Suez Crisis.
"The bill would make businesses come up with hours during which employees cannot check or send email"
I looked the article hoping to get more detail on this, but it's still sorta vague. I'm assuming this is hours based on an individual's work schedule? If it was a number of hours set in stone across the board, seems like a company with clients spread across the globe would be hurt pretty bad. Sure you could hire more people and implement shift-work....I know people that like to work odd hours, but once that person decides to get a family, it becomes more difficult because their spouse and kids are on a different schedule. Seems more stressful than having to deal with after-work e-mails.
I really wish people would get informed before making brash statements. We're all guilty of it....check out the TED Talk this doctor gave regarding his experience with Type 2/insulin resistance. He challenges the notion that everyone who has Type 2 is fat.
I'm a Type 1, and although I don't adhere to the rules as strictly as I should, I at least know what disease I have. The ones I really hate are the Type 2's who say that "I used to be Type 1, but after losing weight I moved to Type 2". No, you didn't. Just because you don't have to take insulin any longer doesn't mean you're now magically Type 2, because you were never Type 1. If people who have the disease can't get it right, how can we expect the general population to do it? Combine that with the nonsense being peddled by folks like Dr. Oz, and you end up with people believing bullshit like this:
It's not quite that simple....and this is straight from the source you provided.
"On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit."
I think programs like this are great, and we should encourage charity for these folks, but I've always been worried that the food/books/money/etc that is sent never makes it to the people that need it the most. How do we know that this stuff is actually making it to the schools, and not being used to line the pockets of a warlord or politician who receives the books and then just sells them?
Please keep in mind that I'm not trying to single out Africa....this could very well be true of any charity on the other side of the world, where you don't have direct contact with the people there.
This has been in the back of everyone's mind for quite awhile. One of the big arguments made by online retailers was that sales tax regulation varied too wildly from state-to-state....which is why you see quite a few states getting on board with the Streamlined Sales Tax project. You can bet that once South Dakota can prove that it works, other States will follow.
This happened to me too. I had to take off a semester to get surgery, spending about 6 months on crutches (birth-defect, long story). There was a class I was required to take that was only offered every-other semester....which just so happened to be the one that I missed. Not only that, this class was a pre-req for other classes. What should have taken me 4 1/2 years to complete actually took 5 1/2.
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These belong in public transport, where you have a relatively controlled environment running down predetermined routes
This. For all the talk about self-driving cars, it seem to be lost on people that freight trains still have human operators...and this is on a pre-determined path with little chance of a collision with another train.
Get lost with your "facts" and stuff. Europe can do no wrong!
No clue. Obviously I'm leaving out a lot of info here, and I don't know how much licensing and such cost for a taxi driver that Uber drivers don't seem to have to worry about (for the time being anyway).
Looks like they make less than they do driving a taxi full-time in Denver....
"The median annual Taxi Driver salary in Denver, CO is $33,803, as of May 31, 2016, with a range usually between $28,077-$41,255 not including bonus and benefit information"
http://www1.salary.com/CO/Denv...
At $13.17 an hour, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, an Uber drive in Denver would pull in $27,394 at that rate, and that's WITHOUT benefits and bonuses.
There's a lot that I' assuming here, like a person working strictly full time as an Uber driver.....but if you were going to work strictly as a driver, you'd probably be better off driving a taxi.
I think the best place to start would be mandatory drug test for Congress.
you can call 911 and (holy shit) they actually listen to you, review whatever evidence you have, and begin an investigation!
You sound white.
Did anyone else notice this?
"Zavodnik, a native of Ukraine who moved to the United States in 1987 under a grant of political asylum"
I'm assuming that he went to the U.S. to escape the U.S.S.R., but that fell to pieces a few years after arriving. I don't know what his current immigration status is, but wouldn't asylum eventually be revoked? Seems like you wouldn't get granted asylum from a government that no longer exist (barring the current political crisis with Crimea, which occurred over 20 years after he left).
Why should I care about this?
You absolutely shouldn't, but that doesn't mean other people don't.
They're obviously far inferior to the Apple Watch.
I don't think that's the point as far as Pebble is concerned. Not everyone needs all of the functionality of an Apple Watch. I have a Pebble Steel, and it does exactly what I need it to...passive notifications delivered to me with a battery life spanning multiple days. I don't need a color display, speech control, or a touch screen.
being humble in front of Allah
How many of these women wear a hijab and still wear makeup? I see it all the time. Sure doesn't sound like something that someone yearning for humility would subscribe to.
Maybe we should organize a strike ?
In France?!?! No way that would happen... ;-)
The attacks that are the direct result of America and the rest of the EU funding global terrorism? Those attacks?
Last time I checked France is part of the EU....so the rest of the EU does it but France is somehow not responsible?
France has been one of the major players in the middle east for decades....I shouldn't have to mention their grabbing of Syria and Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire, their arms sales to Iraq and Libya, the French-Algerian war, or the Suez Crisis.
"The bill would make businesses come up with hours during which employees cannot check or send email"
I looked the article hoping to get more detail on this, but it's still sorta vague. I'm assuming this is hours based on an individual's work schedule? If it was a number of hours set in stone across the board, seems like a company with clients spread across the globe would be hurt pretty bad. Sure you could hire more people and implement shift-work....I know people that like to work odd hours, but once that person decides to get a family, it becomes more difficult because their spouse and kids are on a different schedule. Seems more stressful than having to deal with after-work e-mails.
From the Ars article:
"55.5 percent of drug-free people passed the walk-and-turn test perfectly"
Only 55% of the sober people passed the test? That's the scary part.
We know how to transplant the pancreas.
And the article you quoted has this to say:
"All transplantation patients need lifelong immunosuppression"
Thanks but no thanks. I'll keep my Type 1 and all it's complications instead of the immonosuppression therapy.
I really wish people would get informed before making brash statements. We're all guilty of it....check out the TED Talk this doctor gave regarding his experience with Type 2/insulin resistance. He challenges the notion that everyone who has Type 2 is fat.
https://www.ted.com/talks/pete...
I'm a Type 1, and although I don't adhere to the rules as strictly as I should, I at least know what disease I have. The ones I really hate are the Type 2's who say that "I used to be Type 1, but after losing weight I moved to Type 2". No, you didn't. Just because you don't have to take insulin any longer doesn't mean you're now magically Type 2, because you were never Type 1. If people who have the disease can't get it right, how can we expect the general population to do it? Combine that with the nonsense being peddled by folks like Dr. Oz, and you end up with people believing bullshit like this:
http://draxe.com/how-to-revers...
It's not quite that simple....and this is straight from the source you provided.
"On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit."
Ford wasn't unionized until 1941.
The ones that I particularly hate are the books that are written by the prof who teaches the class....the prices for those border on extortion.
The best classes I've taken are the ones that didn't require a book ;-)
I think programs like this are great, and we should encourage charity for these folks, but I've always been worried that the food/books/money/etc that is sent never makes it to the people that need it the most. How do we know that this stuff is actually making it to the schools, and not being used to line the pockets of a warlord or politician who receives the books and then just sells them?
Please keep in mind that I'm not trying to single out Africa....this could very well be true of any charity on the other side of the world, where you don't have direct contact with the people there.
So if this guy was French, could he not only sue his parents, but the estate of Kurt Cobain?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes - lets squabble about this little blue marble, when there are quadrillions of tons of rare earths to be found in the asteroid belt.
But then you'll ruin the fragile ecosystem of those asteroids!
Yes I'm joking, but I fully expect some people to start protesting asteroid mining for this very reason once we actually start to do it.
Louisiana has over 1000 sales tax districts
I know, I live there :-) I worked on the State software for it, we probably know each other.
This has been in the back of everyone's mind for quite awhile. One of the big arguments made by online retailers was that sales tax regulation varied too wildly from state-to-state....which is why you see quite a few states getting on board with the Streamlined Sales Tax project. You can bet that once South Dakota can prove that it works, other States will follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Traditional college does have some merit. I remember hearing Elon Musk say this on 20 Under 20:
"College is a great place to meet girls...that's why I went"
This happened to me too. I had to take off a semester to get surgery, spending about 6 months on crutches (birth-defect, long story). There was a class I was required to take that was only offered every-other semester....which just so happened to be the one that I missed. Not only that, this class was a pre-req for other classes. What should have taken me 4 1/2 years to complete actually took 5 1/2.
I was able to finish in 3 years, and potential employers did take notice in a very positive way.
This is an excellent point. Obviously I'm not in that scenario, but this is something that stands out when I interview prospective employees.