No need to get nasty; the original headline was poorly phrased. This is a pretty common problem with headlines. For example, "17 Remain Dead in Morgue Shooting Spree", and "Dead Body Found in Cemetary", and "One-armed Man Applauds Kindness of Strangers".
This is the proper way to fix the original headline: Samsung To Reveal This Month What Caused the Galaxy Note 7 To Catch Fire
Also, the actors chosen for episodes 1-3 were terrible so when Lucasfilm decided to reboot series with fresh new actors as of episode 4 they did a much better job
I'm having a hard time believing you don't know episodes 4-6 were produced years before episodes 1-3.
I'm neither independently wealthy nor unemployed. Each night when I go to bed, I set my alarm. Each morning, I wake up 15 minutes before the alarm goes off. This has been going on for years; I can't remember the last time I was awakened by an alarm. I set the alarm "just in case", but the case never arises.
The problem isn't pseudonyms. The problem is that you can't distinguish one AC from another. You can't have a discussion beyond 1 post, 1 reply with someone using a non-unique identifier.
When Krischev predicted America would sell the Soviets the rope they would hang us with, he was far too pessemistic.
Actually, it was Vladimir Lenin who said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." On the subject of ropes and hanging, Nikita Khrushchev said, "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man." Also, learn to spell.
This is the second time I've seen this complaint. Don't you people (to be clear, by "you people" I am referring to the complainers) know how to use a dictionary?
Could have meant either, since they are both accepted spellings of the word that means, "to stop and refuse to proceed." The device you can use to verify this is called a "dictionary"; there are quite a few of them available online.
For most people, beer is an acquired taste. They have to drink it a number of times before they like it enough to be committed consumers. Would you consider that a compelling argument to ban the sale of beer?
Great plan Einstein. Meet the challenge of manual labor being replaced by automation by putting more people into manual labor. What could possibly go wrong.
What do you suppose the timeline is for automation to replace plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, carpenters, masons, and painters?
At work, I have a mid-2015 Macbook Pro Retina. IMHO it has a number of advantages over a desktop computer, even though I never go on the road for work, so that aspect of portability doesn't matter to me. When I'm at my desk, it's connected to a keyboard, mouse, and nice big monitor. Same when I'm working from home (hard to imagine lugging a desktop box home from work). I can take it to meetings to take notes or to give presentations. And I really have no complaints about its performance (2.8 GHz i7, 16 gigs of RAM, 1 gig SSD).
It's lovely to know that it only costs $300,000 to be able to threaten a billion people's online existence -- which means each account is only worth $0.0003 to hackers who can ruin your life online in a matter of minutes.
I love the smell of hyperbole in the morning.
Would the OP be happier if the database had commanded a much higher price?
There's simply no reason for most people who don't live in bumfuck to own a car. There'll be fleets of automated cars on the roads all the time, and you'll just order one from the fleet of your choice on your phone.
Sounds really convenient for when my wife asks me to go to the grocery store to pick up something she forgot to put on the list, or when I need to run a quick errand on my way to the restaurant at lunchtime, or when I need to go to the bank, the optometrist, the hardware store, and the pharmacy in one errand-running trip. Basically anything that involves driving a short distance, parking the car for 10 or 15 minutes, then getting back in the car to go to the next stop. Will a Uber car wait in the store's parking lot while I go in to make a purchase, or am I looking at summoning multiple cars in a short span of time to get done what I need to do? How much time am I going to spend waiting for rides? And if I do that on a regular basis, what will it do to my Uber rating?
If you argue that a traditional worker should be entitled to 4 weeks of paid holiday per year, then that's 1 hour of holiday per hour worked, right?
1 hour of holiday per hour worked?? No. Assuming a 40-hour week, 4 weeks of holiday per year is 3.07 hours of holiday accrual per week, or 0.077 hours per hour. 96 drive time hours would get you 7.38 holiday hours, which is pretty close to the 8 hours you stated.
My first reaction to this was, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it." Sort of like people moving into houses next to an airport, then complaining about the noise from aircraft taking off and landing.
Don't know what the final ruling might be on this, but it seems like if being an Uber driver is a job in the normal sense, then it would lose most of the flexibility that makes it attractive to people who do it at their convenience. I'm wondering what sort of benefits part-time workers in the UK are entitled to.
Does it matter? Most people have cell phones on them, so are tracked anyway.
Ah yes; a variation on the ever-popular nirvana fallacy, where solutions to problems are rejected because they are not perfect.
When was the last time your phone was more than a metre from you?
My phone is a convenience, not a leash. I only have it with me when I might need it, which isn't all that often. I typically put it in airplane mode when I'm in the car, unless I need it for navigation. It doesn't bother me at all that someone might not be able to hijack my attention any time they wish.
The OTA channels actually benefit because, for any number of reasons, it can be difficult to pick up their signal. Plus their ratings increase through the use of DVRs.
Except the broadcasters aren't all that happy about viewers who fast forward through their commercials.
TFS: "Comcast began charging these fees a few years ago, which have risen quickly. Just over a year ago, Comcast raised the Broadcast TV fee from $3 to $5 and the Regional Sports fee from $1 to $3. The two fees have thus gone from $4 to $12, combined, in little more than a year."
So, a practice that started "a few years ago" and has continued over the past year, has what to do with Trump?
Where in the 4th Amenment does it apply only to agents of law enforcement? TSA is already doing illegal searches.
TSA searches aren't illegal. The Supreme Court upheld this sort of thing as an exception to the 4th Amendment long ago. Same for sobriety checkpoints on the roads, random searches for mass transit, and other similar things.
Paying people to search bags for criminal evidence does not fall under the social exemption and is illegal.
Unlike a gift a bonus is usually a contractually agreed part of the salary. Which means the employer can't choose not to pay the bonus.
My employer is in California, which is an "at will" state. I don't have an employment contract that mentions compensation in any way. At the end of each calendar year the company publishes the rules by which profit-sharing bonuses (distributed to all employees, not just executives) are calculated. At the end of the fiscal year (4 months later), the calculations are run and the bonuses are paid. In the 9 years I've worked here, my bonuses have averaged around 7% of annual pay. The company is under no contractual obligation to do any of this, and could terminate the practice at any time. It's an employee retention device, and it works. Another retention device they use, though sparingly, is the stock option award that vests over 5 years.
I just don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, "Yay, government getting out of the way of innovation!" On the other hand, "Snyder is a Republican so this is obviously a gift to Big Auto in the name of trickle-down economics. Or something."
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No need to get nasty; the original headline was poorly phrased. This is a pretty common problem with headlines. For example, "17 Remain Dead in Morgue Shooting Spree", and "Dead Body Found in Cemetary", and "One-armed Man Applauds Kindness of Strangers".
This is the proper way to fix the original headline: Samsung To Reveal This Month What Caused the Galaxy Note 7 To Catch Fire
Also, the actors chosen for episodes 1-3 were terrible so when Lucasfilm decided to reboot series with fresh new actors as of episode 4 they did a much better job
I'm having a hard time believing you don't know episodes 4-6 were produced years before episodes 1-3.
I'm neither independently wealthy nor unemployed. Each night when I go to bed, I set my alarm. Each morning, I wake up 15 minutes before the alarm goes off. This has been going on for years; I can't remember the last time I was awakened by an alarm. I set the alarm "just in case", but the case never arises.
The problem isn't pseudonyms. The problem is that you can't distinguish one AC from another. You can't have a discussion beyond 1 post, 1 reply with someone using a non-unique identifier.
There are actually some people who are either happy or at least nonplussed to be alone.
You should look up the meaning of that word. Unless you really meant, "either happy or at least puzzled and confused," that is.
When Krischev predicted America would sell the Soviets the rope they would hang us with, he was far too pessemistic.
Actually, it was Vladimir Lenin who said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." On the subject of ropes and hanging, Nikita Khrushchev said, "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man." Also, learn to spell.
This is the second time I've seen this complaint. Don't you people (to be clear, by "you people" I am referring to the complainers) know how to use a dictionary?
I think you mean, "balked."
Could have meant either, since they are both accepted spellings of the word that means, "to stop and refuse to proceed." The device you can use to verify this is called a "dictionary"; there are quite a few of them available online.
For most people, beer is an acquired taste. They have to drink it a number of times before they like it enough to be committed consumers. Would you consider that a compelling argument to ban the sale of beer?
Oh, and here's the obligatory xkcd.
Ah, the sweet clear clarion call of ideological purity. Unless someone is 100% "good" (according to my way of thinking), they are 100% evil.
jobs that a monkey can do (plumbing, carpentry, drywall, yada yada)
I'm guessing you've never tried to do any of those, except yada yada.
Great plan Einstein. Meet the challenge of manual labor being replaced by automation by putting more people into manual labor. What could possibly go wrong.
What do you suppose the timeline is for automation to replace plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, carpenters, masons, and painters?
At work, I have a mid-2015 Macbook Pro Retina. IMHO it has a number of advantages over a desktop computer, even though I never go on the road for work, so that aspect of portability doesn't matter to me. When I'm at my desk, it's connected to a keyboard, mouse, and nice big monitor. Same when I'm working from home (hard to imagine lugging a desktop box home from work). I can take it to meetings to take notes or to give presentations. And I really have no complaints about its performance (2.8 GHz i7, 16 gigs of RAM, 1 gig SSD).
It's lovely to know that it only costs $300,000 to be able to threaten a billion people's online existence -- which means each account is only worth $0.0003 to hackers who can ruin your life online in a matter of minutes.
I love the smell of hyperbole in the morning.
Would the OP be happier if the database had commanded a much higher price?
Except that not the line. It's 'badges - we don't need no badges'.
And yes, it's a great film.
Close, but no cigar. "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
There's simply no reason for most people who don't live in bumfuck to own a car. There'll be fleets of automated cars on the roads all the time, and you'll just order one from the fleet of your choice on your phone.
Sounds really convenient for when my wife asks me to go to the grocery store to pick up something she forgot to put on the list, or when I need to run a quick errand on my way to the restaurant at lunchtime, or when I need to go to the bank, the optometrist, the hardware store, and the pharmacy in one errand-running trip. Basically anything that involves driving a short distance, parking the car for 10 or 15 minutes, then getting back in the car to go to the next stop. Will a Uber car wait in the store's parking lot while I go in to make a purchase, or am I looking at summoning multiple cars in a short span of time to get done what I need to do? How much time am I going to spend waiting for rides? And if I do that on a regular basis, what will it do to my Uber rating?
It pops up in mammals and primates around the world.
I see what they did there.
If you argue that a traditional worker should be entitled to 4 weeks of paid holiday per year, then that's 1 hour of holiday per hour worked, right?
1 hour of holiday per hour worked?? No. Assuming a 40-hour week, 4 weeks of holiday per year is 3.07 hours of holiday accrual per week, or 0.077 hours per hour. 96 drive time hours would get you 7.38 holiday hours, which is pretty close to the 8 hours you stated.
My first reaction to this was, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it." Sort of like people moving into houses next to an airport, then complaining about the noise from aircraft taking off and landing.
Don't know what the final ruling might be on this, but it seems like if being an Uber driver is a job in the normal sense, then it would lose most of the flexibility that makes it attractive to people who do it at their convenience. I'm wondering what sort of benefits part-time workers in the UK are entitled to.
Does it matter? Most people have cell phones on them, so are tracked anyway.
Ah yes; a variation on the ever-popular nirvana fallacy, where solutions to problems are rejected because they are not perfect.
When was the last time your phone was more than a metre from you?
My phone is a convenience, not a leash. I only have it with me when I might need it, which isn't all that often. I typically put it in airplane mode when I'm in the car, unless I need it for navigation. It doesn't bother me at all that someone might not be able to hijack my attention any time they wish.
The OTA channels actually benefit because, for any number of reasons, it can be difficult to pick up their signal. Plus their ratings increase through the use of DVRs.
Except the broadcasters aren't all that happy about viewers who fast forward through their commercials.
TFS: "Comcast began charging these fees a few years ago, which have risen quickly. Just over a year ago, Comcast raised the Broadcast TV fee from $3 to $5 and the Regional Sports fee from $1 to $3. The two fees have thus gone from $4 to $12, combined, in little more than a year."
So, a practice that started "a few years ago" and has continued over the past year, has what to do with Trump?
Where in the 4th Amenment does it apply only to agents of law enforcement? TSA is already doing illegal searches.
TSA searches aren't illegal. The Supreme Court upheld this sort of thing as an exception to the 4th Amendment long ago. Same for sobriety checkpoints on the roads, random searches for mass transit, and other similar things.
Paying people to search bags for criminal evidence does not fall under the social exemption and is illegal.
Unlike a gift a bonus is usually a contractually agreed part of the salary. Which means the employer can't choose not to pay the bonus.
My employer is in California, which is an "at will" state. I don't have an employment contract that mentions compensation in any way. At the end of each calendar year the company publishes the rules by which profit-sharing bonuses (distributed to all employees, not just executives) are calculated. At the end of the fiscal year (4 months later), the calculations are run and the bonuses are paid. In the 9 years I've worked here, my bonuses have averaged around 7% of annual pay. The company is under no contractual obligation to do any of this, and could terminate the practice at any time. It's an employee retention device, and it works. Another retention device they use, though sparingly, is the stock option award that vests over 5 years.
I just don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, "Yay, government getting out of the way of innovation!" On the other hand, "Snyder is a Republican so this is obviously a gift to Big Auto in the name of trickle-down economics. Or something."