I've always been a fan of the Oxford comma myself, even as an American writer. But every time I use it in my writing, inevitably I get pushback from my boss or editors that this is not correct grammar (it is). It's also a pet-peeve that my editors give me shit every time I start a sentence with a conjunction, which contrary to what your dumbass high school English teacher taught you, is perfectly grammatically acceptable. And my editors' high school English teachers can go fuck themselves.
Much as I want to side with the truckers on this one, no they're not right. In American English, it's quite clear that the two items were meant to be separate and no comma is required before the last conjunction.
I personally think it's bullshit that Maine has decided to carve out an exception to overtime laws for one specific interest group (no doubt one that regularly brib....ahem...."donates to the campaigns of" state political officials). I also think such obvious interest-group exceptions should be against Federal law, if it's not already. But hanging their hat on a comma that's not required in American English is a weak-as-fuck way to go about getting the overtime that they really do deserve.
BTW, if they drive any of this dairy out of state, they would fall under Federal trucking regulations, which don't provide for overtime at all (only 10-hour rest breaks for every 11 hours of driving and 70-hour-week limits). That's bullshit too.
The lawyers get paid, the company gets indemnified from future lawsuits, the victims get some shitty coupons.
I strongly suspect that most class action suits are engineered by the companies themselves. They get free immunity for a relatively small payout to some lawyers.
Modern SJW liberalism is VERY different from classic liberalism. I myself am a classic liberal who left the Democrat Party over this. I can no longer support a party that has abandoned the principles of true equality and liberty for a very warped version of "equality" based on simply reversing who gets discriminated against. The liberal ideal I always stood for was that of an integrated society where all groups lived as equals, in union and harmony. The new SJW ideal is that of a re-segregated society where formerly oppressed classes rule and everyone else lives as second-class citizens. No thanks.
Whoever happens to be in charge at the moment of course.
This is great when your party of choice is the one in charge, of course. It's not so great when their opposition wins in the next election and turns the tables on you.
Don't be silly. Hate speech in Germany is real simple. Here are some examples:
HATE SPEECH: Angela Merkel's immigration policy is stupid NOT HATE SPEECH: Angela Merkel's opponents are Nazi, baby-killing, racist, misogynist scum!
HATE SPEECH: I disagree with the principals of Islam and feel it's a real threat to our country and its identity. NOT HATE SPEECH: Christian priests are nothing but a bunch of molestors who should be hanged!
A lot of workplaces won't let you just power down the machinery before working on it, since powering one machine down would also necessitate shutting down an entire assembly line along with it, which would cost them production time (and money). That's why they have safeties on the machines.
While it's certainly likely for a new crop of Luddites to fly off the rails at every autonomous accident, I don't share your pessimism about what the outcome would be of their crackpot protests.
You just watch how fast legislation gets passed when CNN and every other media outlet does a week straight of coverage of the horrific tragedy caused by the first driverless semi to cause a major deadly crash. The first question every Congressman will be answering for weeks in every interview and press conference will be "What are you going to do to stop this from happening again?" Yes, people have accidents every day too. But Americans have come to accept that. But when a robo-truck kills, everyone and their brothers will freak the fuck out, the media will have a field day, and Congress will be falling over itself to pass anti-driverless legislation. Human drivers aren't going anywhere.
I would also want to make sure those tests reflect a wide variety of real-world driving conditions. An AI driving 1,000 miles on the relatively standardized interstate is WAY different than it driving 1,000 miles on poorly-marked country backroads in Bumfuck, Montana.
I have a friend who is a truck driver who worries about driverless trucks one day putting him out of work. I laughed and told him that the first time some driverless 80,000-pound semi has a software glitch and piles full speed into a busload of kids, his future employment will be secured forever.
In today's news, a North Korean businessman who was visiting the U.S. on a tourist visa was killed in a freak accident involving a driverless car in Los Angeles.
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I don't need to ask the writer because the meaning is perfectly clear to anyone not being willfully obtuse.
I've always been a fan of the Oxford comma myself, even as an American writer. But every time I use it in my writing, inevitably I get pushback from my boss or editors that this is not correct grammar (it is). It's also a pet-peeve that my editors give me shit every time I start a sentence with a conjunction, which contrary to what your dumbass high school English teacher taught you, is perfectly grammatically acceptable. And my editors' high school English teachers can go fuck themselves.
Much as I want to side with the truckers on this one, no they're not right. In American English, it's quite clear that the two items were meant to be separate and no comma is required before the last conjunction.
I personally think it's bullshit that Maine has decided to carve out an exception to overtime laws for one specific interest group (no doubt one that regularly brib....ahem...."donates to the campaigns of" state political officials). I also think such obvious interest-group exceptions should be against Federal law, if it's not already. But hanging their hat on a comma that's not required in American English is a weak-as-fuck way to go about getting the overtime that they really do deserve.
BTW, if they drive any of this dairy out of state, they would fall under Federal trucking regulations, which don't provide for overtime at all (only 10-hour rest breaks for every 11 hours of driving and 70-hour-week limits). That's bullshit too.
The lawyers get paid, the company gets indemnified from future lawsuits, the victims get some shitty coupons.
I strongly suspect that most class action suits are engineered by the companies themselves. They get free immunity for a relatively small payout to some lawyers.
said pedophiles everywhere
Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
Yeah...but...but....millennial hipsters!
Also vinyl records sound better than CD's. The pops and cracks add character, man!
Than in an "open" office.
Modern SJW liberalism is VERY different from classic liberalism. I myself am a classic liberal who left the Democrat Party over this. I can no longer support a party that has abandoned the principles of true equality and liberty for a very warped version of "equality" based on simply reversing who gets discriminated against. The liberal ideal I always stood for was that of an integrated society where all groups lived as equals, in union and harmony. The new SJW ideal is that of a re-segregated society where formerly oppressed classes rule and everyone else lives as second-class citizens. No thanks.
Who defines "hate speech"?
Whoever happens to be in charge at the moment of course.
This is great when your party of choice is the one in charge, of course. It's not so great when their opposition wins in the next election and turns the tables on you.
Oh, and I almost forgot:
HATE SPEECH: Waving a German flag
NOT HATE SPEECH: Waving a Turkish flag
Don't be silly. Hate speech in Germany is real simple. Here are some examples:
HATE SPEECH: Angela Merkel's immigration policy is stupid
NOT HATE SPEECH: Angela Merkel's opponents are Nazi, baby-killing, racist, misogynist scum!
HATE SPEECH: I disagree with the principals of Islam and feel it's a real threat to our country and its identity.
NOT HATE SPEECH: Christian priests are nothing but a bunch of molestors who should be hanged!
A lot of workplaces won't let you just power down the machinery before working on it, since powering one machine down would also necessitate shutting down an entire assembly line along with it, which would cost them production time (and money). That's why they have safeties on the machines.
They're offshoring it to the U.S., where the jobs will be done by H-1B's from India. USA! USA! USA!
Are you really so naive as to think they're only using these tools against non-Americans?
Most people with half-a-brain already assumed that the CIA, NSA, and FBI were doing stuff like this. This merely confirmed our suspicions.
Paid drivers will be the minority within 5 years.
lol. Not even in *50* years.
While it's certainly likely for a new crop of Luddites to fly off the rails at every autonomous accident, I don't share your pessimism about what the outcome would be of their crackpot protests.
You just watch how fast legislation gets passed when CNN and every other media outlet does a week straight of coverage of the horrific tragedy caused by the first driverless semi to cause a major deadly crash. The first question every Congressman will be answering for weeks in every interview and press conference will be "What are you going to do to stop this from happening again?" Yes, people have accidents every day too. But Americans have come to accept that. But when a robo-truck kills, everyone and their brothers will freak the fuck out, the media will have a field day, and Congress will be falling over itself to pass anti-driverless legislation. Human drivers aren't going anywhere.
I would also want to make sure those tests reflect a wide variety of real-world driving conditions. An AI driving 1,000 miles on the relatively standardized interstate is WAY different than it driving 1,000 miles on poorly-marked country backroads in Bumfuck, Montana.
I have a friend who is a truck driver who worries about driverless trucks one day putting him out of work. I laughed and told him that the first time some driverless 80,000-pound semi has a software glitch and piles full speed into a busload of kids, his future employment will be secured forever.
In today's news, a North Korean businessman who was visiting the U.S. on a tourist visa was killed in a freak accident involving a driverless car in Los Angeles.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong, right?
To use one of BLM's favorite analogies: when a house is on fire, you devote more attention to that than the house that isn't on fire.
What about men raising kids? They don't count?
Anyone over the age of 12 still playing Nintendo games should be ashamed of themselves.