Yeah, I don't see them going after any school kids that lost or destroyed these cards. Flushing it in the toilet, microwaving it, lighting it on fire, etc. You know, typical kid stuff.
Because they aren't still trying to use them. If your card is damaged, you are told to get a new one. If you don't, then you get fined.
This is very much a case of the law being applied on a technicality in order to intimidate one person. When so many other cases where the technically applies are ignored.
Are you one of those FOTL nutters?
The full story is that he was told to get a replacement card (in accordance with the terms and conditions). He argued with the transit guard who had enough and issued him with a $220 fine and the instruction to buy a new Opal card. Idiot with stupid name decided to fight it and go to court, he lost in court because the transit authority was not being unreasonable and well within their rights. So idiot was slugged with the transit authorities court costs as well as the fine (In Australia, loser pays the court costs and winners legal fees, this system prevents companies from using the legal system to strong arm the little guy).
Criminal recidivists (and their crimes) are well known to authorities. I mean why harass millions of travelers at airports to catch dealers when they deal practically openly on city streets.
Really?
So the government of Botswana knows about all the criminals in Moldova?
Visas are used to enter a country and determine what permissions you have (I.E. in regards to employment and residency). These cameras are for leaving a country. Its still nothing but pointless security theatre (well, I'm sure someone is making money off it) but its got absolutely nothing to do with visas.
If a baker has to make cakes for gay weddings, YouTube has to offer an equal platform for diverse users that they might disagree with.
Sigh... Since when has being an idiot been a protected attribute?
There I said it, people who believe in conspiracy theories are idiots. Same with people who use the parent poster's excuse, they're also idiots.
So true. Here in the UK some councils deliberately set the phase of traffic lights to stay red longer , ostensibly to make crossing easier for pedestrians, but its common knowledge (especially in London) that its designed to cause traffic jams so car drivers stay away. Also one way streets and systems, dead-ended streets that were previously a through route and bus only streets are another way town planners can really fuck up the traffic flow. Which in a city like London which does have decent public transport they can just about get away with, but in other cities , eg Norwich, that only have buses it becomes a poor joke.
Sorry, but this conspiracy theory was blown out of the water long ago. The longer red phase (in the UK, there are a few seconds between the light going red and the other road going green) was a direct response to red light runners and has reduced traffic light collisions since.
Traffic issues in Norwich and Cambridge are the direct result of piss-poor planning. I live in Berkshire and it can handle the traffic volume it has (as long as people stay off the bloody phone) because county and city planners did a decent job of creating routes that work. London is really doing the best it can, but it's 9 million people inside the M25 getting ever more dense as you get closer to the centre.
The biggest traffic problem where I am is when someone at the lights is too busy with their head buried in their phone instead of paying attention to the green light in front of them. People behind them, being British, are too polite to beep.
Remember that the whole big advantage touted behind autonomous cars and any other shared form of transportation (shared cars as in lots of big cities including plain old non-autonomous shared cars, and even ride sharing systems as the mentioned Uber and Lyft), is that it *reduces* the number of cars on the road.
(Has been even studied, with some studies showing that 1 single shared (non-autonomous) car, replaces 4 cars).
The issue I have with that is that relies on 4 different people using the car at different times. In reality it doesn't work that way as people tend to work 9 to 5 and the problem with congestion isn't the number of registered cars, it's the number of cars at use at the same time during peak hours. Autonomous cars wont fix that because the same number of people will need to be going at the same time. Autonomous cars will not reduce congestion for this reason, also people don't like sharing cars. I know its a fantasy about everyone sharing autonomous cars propagated by Uber... but in reality everyone will own their own car because they simply don't want to have to deal with other people's mess in their regular transport.
Sharing commutes is a complete non-starter too because people don't want to have to shuttle about half the city to pick up other passengers, hence they will own their own car for their exclusive use. For people who are happy to share transport, we already have a device that can do that... They're called busses and trains, a bus can potentially remove 29-59 vehicles from the road, it rarely works that way.
Autonomous cars are not the magic bullet to congestion people think they are because their usage will be the same as non-autonomous cars.
.... for how, technologically, they are going to make this apparently magic filter?
Free speech matters aside, what they are wanting to implement is actually technologically impossible without so many false positives as to render the technology utterly useless even at best.
Neither of these points matter because it'll never get past the Members of the European Parliament.
The European Union is a democracy, like any democratic body that means anyone can introduce a bill as long as it has one sponsor (with the EU, this doesn't even need to be a MEP). So all kinds of batshit crazy laws can be tabled and in Europe, they're all voted down. This doubly so as the EU isn't as pro-copyright as the US.
explain how it is that corn that kills bugs isn't poisonous?
Explain how chocolate which kills dogs isn't poisonous?
Bad example... Chocolate is poisonous. Humans can simply metabolise more of it. Chocolate contains Theobromine, which is the poisonous bit. However it has such a weak effect on us humans that it takes approximately 40 KG of milk chocolate to create a potentially fatal dose.
With pesticides, they're usually targeting a receptor or chemical that humans simply don't have.
The whole "gluten free" diet craze and celiac disease may be more of an allergy to genetically modified wheat than gluten
In Europe we basically have no GMO corn/wheat. Nevertheless quite a few people have problems with gluten.
For the most part "problems" with gluten in Europe are imagined... Same goes for anywhere else. Very few people actually have Celiac or a gluten intolerance and most people pretending gluten is a problem for them are just following a fad diet.
It's got nothing to do with whether wheat is GMO or not.
I predict there will be lots of Bali teenagers in quiet reflection in the immediate vicinity of these hotels.
It always surprises me that many Americans think every country is like theirs.
Most teenagers in Bali wont have high end phones because most Balinese make less than US$200 per month... and that's double what many other Indonesian provinces make so their parents cant afford to buy them phones and their job wont pay enough either. The overwhelming majority of Balinese teens will be out drinking, partying, having sex (and getting pregnant) like teenagers used to do.
It would be awesome if you could import real cities into a Sim City type game and improve and expand them.
Ahh who am I kidding? EA sucks and would ruin any chance of it being a decent game...
Sim City isn't the best city simulation type game anyway and hasn't been for a long time. "Cities Skylines" is the most popular and best in that genre. I don't think you can import cities from Google Maps- but you can import topographies into Skylines- and have a realistic topography to build your city on. So your city could be built on the realistic topography of London, New York, Oslo, or wherever.
Came here to say this. Cities: Skylines is your go to city simulator these days. There are already a lot of maps based on real cities. I think there's even one of Gabe Newell's head.
Are the Like police going to arrest me for voicing a contrary opinion... Am I to be thrown in the Poke-y for posting an anti-Facebook comment without even a trial in the News Feed court?
Or maybe Facebook is a private organisation free to set their own rules and if they dont want you there, they're free to tell you to bugger off which is in no way, in any country, impinging on your freedom of expression.
If you mean that Facebook has no business "influencing" opinions... then I assume you apply this equally to organisations like Fox News which are far more harmful in not just influencing opinions, but also release false information deliberately disguised as factual reporting.
But you wont... Your issue with Facebook is that they aren't telling you what you want to hear. That is also, not their problem.
....in their parts department, I can tell you that pretty much every model of car manufactured has some certain parts from some certain providers that are notorious for failing. This is what led to Toyota achieving such dominance today: they learned the "Barney Fife" lesson - "Nip it in the bud, Anj! Nip it in the bud!". They relentlessly send their engineers into their parts provider's lines to perform front-line QA and "kaizen" (continuous quality feedback). Tesla seems like they want to get there, and will - I believe - but as with all complex systems, there is lots to learn (and relearn) along the way.
This.
There is an oft quoted statistic used by GM fanboys that goes something like "Toyota has had more recalls than " which on the outside is true but in reality it's because Toyota will fix absolutely anything where as GM waits until it's killed 17 people and there is a risk of a lawsuit.
A toyota recall looks something like: In extreme conditions above 50C a mishandled seat adjustment handle may become loose if the planets align and you fail to find the jade monkey in time.
A GM recall looks like: During normal operation the bolts holding the wheel to the hub may sheer and cause the wheel to disconnect.
No manufacturer is free of flaws, no process can eliminate them completely, what matters is how a company deals with it. During GM's ignition fiasco, they kept ignoring the problem until the government was about to step in. I once got a recall for my 8 yr old Honda Integra, because of 2 cases of a brake master cylinder failing, they replaced every single one on every single car that used that part.
The tradition hasn't been as consistent over time as you think.
Tradition: how I think things used to be.
Of course traditions change over time... because people change overtime. So any ideas of "tradition" from anti-liberals are more nostalgia than fact, imaginations of a "white picket fence" fantasy that never really existed.
The pollution in the USA was never even close to that in China today. THis is mainly due to climate differences.
Actually its due to the US going through the same phase with a much lower population density. Europe, notably the British started industrialisng in the 1700's, the US started in the 1800's. China started in the 1950's, industrailisation meant industries that spouted huge amounts of pollution, for example, people in China were encouraged to have metalworks in their back yards (which produced copious amounts of low quality pig iron). The US and Europe did similar things but with the population densities being much lower, the problem didn't happen nearly as quickly.
London started putting in pollution restrictions in the 1850's when much of the US was still agrarian. When the Chinese were building backyard smelters, the clean air act of 1952 came in. China is catching up to the UK in the 50's with their legislation because they're having the same problem as we had (see: the great smog of London).
Also, anti-chinese sentiments are nationalist, not racist. Conflating the two is a rather basic error.
Its not racism because Chinese is not a race? Seems to be the usual racist logic.
Also it's both. Racial and nationalist. Trying to pretend the two are mutually exclusive is disingenuous at best, but outright lying is a better description.
Also the irony of arguing that it's not one kind of bigotry because it's another, completely related form of bigotry is clearly lost on you. Its the difference between being an arsehole and being an arsehole because one form of irrational bigotry isn't any better than the other.
Reinventing the wheel might be great, unless of course all you need is a wheel.
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
If they really want to do something new with sound they should make their stupid music app play FLAC. Isnt that the whole point of getting sound over W1 headphones? (AKA"special blutetooth")
Seriously, for such an innovator this is rubbish.
Spotted your problem. You seem to think that Apple is an innovator, not a marketer.
And you don't go there [fast food] for the culinary experience, you go there for standardized grub.
Actually, you go to a fast food place because you want something tasty, cheap and now. Emphasis on the now part.
whatever you think the service is I think it's a small auxiliary. The service is not why I go to your steakhouse and poor service probably won't make me leave as long as the product tastes to high heaven. And the product can be made by a robot.
To you perhaps... but not to most people. To most people service is as important as the food. If I get bad service at a restaurant, I certainly wont be going back not matter how good the food is.
I may be late to the party, but I've only just recently learned about White Day - a holiday by and for Japanese confectionery companies, which occurs one month after Valentine's Day. Then idea is that girls should give boys chocolate on Valentine's Day, and boys should give girls reciprocal white chocolate (or marshmallows) one month later on White Day.
It may not have occurred to you... but Japan doesn't have Easter. This sounds like their take on it.
In other words, it's a cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell candy, built on top of another cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell greeting cards. Apparently it got so popular in Japan that it has now spread to quite a few other Asian countries.
This is my submission for "most manufactured" holiday.
The most manufactured "holidays" have to be Christmas and Easter. Easter is all about selling chocolate eggs in copious quantities. Christmas is about sellting cheap tat and expensive toys. They've got no meaning besides chocolate and gifts.
It's crazy anyway. Why not just get up earlier? For decades I worked from 6 to 2:30. When I got off work I had plenty of daylight. My kids got out of school at 3:15 and I picked them up on the way home. No problems. Then one day my work decided that 6 was too early despite the fact the work force had come to love it. Our new manager didn't like getting up that early and shit on all of us.
Because I don't want to get up at 6 AM like a crazy person. I like staying up late and having a bit of a lie in.
Here in the UK, during the middle of summer in London, the sun rises at 4:00 AM and sets at 23:00. If it weren't for daylight saving (British Summer Time or BST) that sun would be up at 3 in the fucking morning. I'll take my extra hour of sleep. BST wouldn't work during the winter either as dawn would be around 8-9 AM instead of 7-8 AM.
Japan exported more than 1.6 million vehicles to America in 2015, while the U.S. sold less than 19,000 vehicles to Japan, accounted for about.03% of the five million cars and light trucks sold in Japan.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
I couldn't find the import limits, but remember seeing a limit on how many cars per maker was allowed. Not sure if thats still a trade issue.
Of course, the new theory is Americans gave up importing cars, because Japan has high tastes and want quality customer service and its too hard to serve them.
OK, there are only a few American cars that Japan wants... but American manufacturers refuse to make them LHD to accommodate Japan. European manufacturers import into Japan because they focus on desirable high end cars like Porsche or Lamborghini. With developed countries, we should be building high end autos that cant be built in undeveloped countries. That is why the trade seems so one way, it doesn't matter about the tariffs in Japan or China to BMW, Lamborgini or Jaguar because these cars are desirable enough to have a high price tag. The US needs to play catch up as only a few American cars are desirable to non-Americans, the Corvette is the only one that springs to mind immediately and that is simply because it's a cheap Fezza, however the price of converting one to LHD is not worth it.
China and Japan could drop all trade barriers and the US wouldn't sell any more cars to them because US cars aren't any better or desirable.
...was learning there are Chinese car manufacturers.
Yes, and thanks to protectionist tariffs imposed by the Chinese government they are universally shit and overpriced, similar situation in Thailand where there's up to 200% in tariffs and fees on imported cars. Would you pay US$44,500 for a Toyota Camry, because that's the Thai price (THB 1,399,000). That is the cost of high tariffs. Tariffs rarely punish the seller, they're applied after import so they only punish the buyer.
Anyway, back to Chinese cars, manufacturers like Roewe, Geely, Great Wall are producing old designs that are relatively reliable because they're basically 25 yr old Japanese or Korean cars built new. However they're hideously overpriced compared to what we pay here because they don't have to compete with imported cars.
BTW, I'd rather buy an old Jag than a new Chevy... They have the same chance of breaking down but the Jag is a far nicer place to sit whilst waiting for the tow truck.
You can't have free trade if its free trade in only one direction.
Basically you're describing almost every US FTA in existence.
One of the best things Trump ever did was pull out of the Trans Pacific Partnership... For Australia. The TPP was so lopsided and foisted so many US laws and rules on other nations it's not funny. Now the US is out of it, it's a trade agreement between Australian, Asia and Canada which pretty much covers existing trade agreements (at least of Oz, not sure about our brothers from the frozen north). The US stood to gain a huge amount of influence over local politics by the TPP.
The truth is not boring, its just that you never get to hear the interesting truths.
The old saying goes, "Truth is stranger than fiction" and that is quite true, but fiction is far more pleasing than the truth. So many prefer to live in a world of fiction.
The problem is that many "news" agencies like the Daily Mail and Fox News have trained their reader/viewership to reject news that is based on facts and written in neutral (as in non-inflammatory) language as fake whilst accepting biased, opinion based news written to incite anger as true.
This is a case of people confirming their own bias.
1) Fake news organisation publishes fallacious and thought terminating cliche ridden piece about $thingYouDontLike.
2) Joe the biggot reads piece, shares on Twunter with the byline "Oh my Setekh, this is totally true about $thingIDontLike #PoliticianIDontLike #ThingIDontLike #LikeTotallyAndNotMadeUp #Selfie ".
3) Jane the slightly lesser biggot re-twunts it, then John the casually racist does the same and it eventually reaches Sally the well intentioned but not that bright who believes it because she doesn't question the facts presented when they're popular. Unfortunately there are a lot of people like Sally in the world.
It spreads because its written to be inflammatory and prevent us from thinking about the information critically, which is why it works well on those that aren't that bright however it's initially spread by people who simply want to confirm their own bias. Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are perfect for this because their entire business model revolves around keeping you in an echo chamber so you don't want to leave. If Facebook really did crack down on fake news, users would leave in droves.
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Yeah, I don't see them going after any school kids that lost or destroyed these cards. Flushing it in the toilet, microwaving it, lighting it on fire, etc. You know, typical kid stuff.
Because they aren't still trying to use them. If your card is damaged, you are told to get a new one. If you don't, then you get fined.
This is very much a case of the law being applied on a technicality in order to intimidate one person. When so many other cases where the technically applies are ignored.
Are you one of those FOTL nutters?
The full story is that he was told to get a replacement card (in accordance with the terms and conditions). He argued with the transit guard who had enough and issued him with a $220 fine and the instruction to buy a new Opal card. Idiot with stupid name decided to fight it and go to court, he lost in court because the transit authority was not being unreasonable and well within their rights. So idiot was slugged with the transit authorities court costs as well as the fine (In Australia, loser pays the court costs and winners legal fees, this system prevents companies from using the legal system to strong arm the little guy).
Criminal recidivists (and their crimes) are well known to authorities. I mean why harass millions of travelers at airports to catch dealers when they deal practically openly on city streets.
Really? So the government of Botswana knows about all the criminals in Moldova? Visas are used to enter a country and determine what permissions you have (I.E. in regards to employment and residency). These cameras are for leaving a country. Its still nothing but pointless security theatre (well, I'm sure someone is making money off it) but its got absolutely nothing to do with visas.
If a baker has to make cakes for gay weddings, YouTube has to offer an equal platform for diverse users that they might disagree with.
Sigh... Since when has being an idiot been a protected attribute? There I said it, people who believe in conspiracy theories are idiots. Same with people who use the parent poster's excuse, they're also idiots.
"they want to slow everything down"
So true. Here in the UK some councils deliberately set the phase of traffic lights to stay red longer , ostensibly to make crossing easier for pedestrians, but its common knowledge (especially in London) that its designed to cause traffic jams so car drivers stay away. Also one way streets and systems, dead-ended streets that were previously a through route and bus only streets are another way town planners can really fuck up the traffic flow. Which in a city like London which does have decent public transport they can just about get away with, but in other cities , eg Norwich, that only have buses it becomes a poor joke.
Sorry, but this conspiracy theory was blown out of the water long ago. The longer red phase (in the UK, there are a few seconds between the light going red and the other road going green) was a direct response to red light runners and has reduced traffic light collisions since.
Traffic issues in Norwich and Cambridge are the direct result of piss-poor planning. I live in Berkshire and it can handle the traffic volume it has (as long as people stay off the bloody phone) because county and city planners did a decent job of creating routes that work. London is really doing the best it can, but it's 9 million people inside the M25 getting ever more dense as you get closer to the centre.
The biggest traffic problem where I am is when someone at the lights is too busy with their head buried in their phone instead of paying attention to the green light in front of them. People behind them, being British, are too polite to beep.
Remember that the whole big advantage touted behind autonomous cars and any other shared form of transportation (shared cars as in lots of big cities including plain old non-autonomous shared cars, and even ride sharing systems as the mentioned Uber and Lyft), is that it *reduces* the number of cars on the road.
(Has been even studied, with some studies showing that 1 single shared (non-autonomous) car, replaces 4 cars).
The issue I have with that is that relies on 4 different people using the car at different times. In reality it doesn't work that way as people tend to work 9 to 5 and the problem with congestion isn't the number of registered cars, it's the number of cars at use at the same time during peak hours. Autonomous cars wont fix that because the same number of people will need to be going at the same time. Autonomous cars will not reduce congestion for this reason, also people don't like sharing cars. I know its a fantasy about everyone sharing autonomous cars propagated by Uber... but in reality everyone will own their own car because they simply don't want to have to deal with other people's mess in their regular transport.
Sharing commutes is a complete non-starter too because people don't want to have to shuttle about half the city to pick up other passengers, hence they will own their own car for their exclusive use. For people who are happy to share transport, we already have a device that can do that... They're called busses and trains, a bus can potentially remove 29-59 vehicles from the road, it rarely works that way.
Autonomous cars are not the magic bullet to congestion people think they are because their usage will be the same as non-autonomous cars.
Free speech matters aside, what they are wanting to implement is actually technologically impossible without so many false positives as to render the technology utterly useless even at best.
Neither of these points matter because it'll never get past the Members of the European Parliament.
The European Union is a democracy, like any democratic body that means anyone can introduce a bill as long as it has one sponsor (with the EU, this doesn't even need to be a MEP). So all kinds of batshit crazy laws can be tabled and in Europe, they're all voted down. This doubly so as the EU isn't as pro-copyright as the US.
explain how it is that corn that kills bugs isn't poisonous?
Explain how chocolate which kills dogs isn't poisonous?
Bad example... Chocolate is poisonous. Humans can simply metabolise more of it. Chocolate contains Theobromine, which is the poisonous bit. However it has such a weak effect on us humans that it takes approximately 40 KG of milk chocolate to create a potentially fatal dose.
With pesticides, they're usually targeting a receptor or chemical that humans simply don't have.
The whole "gluten free" diet craze and celiac disease may be more of an allergy to genetically modified wheat than gluten
In Europe we basically have no GMO corn/wheat. Nevertheless quite a few people have problems with gluten.
For the most part "problems" with gluten in Europe are imagined... Same goes for anywhere else. Very few people actually have Celiac or a gluten intolerance and most people pretending gluten is a problem for them are just following a fad diet.
It's got nothing to do with whether wheat is GMO or not.
I predict there will be lots of Bali teenagers in quiet reflection in the immediate vicinity of these hotels.
It always surprises me that many Americans think every country is like theirs.
Most teenagers in Bali wont have high end phones because most Balinese make less than US$200 per month... and that's double what many other Indonesian provinces make so their parents cant afford to buy them phones and their job wont pay enough either. The overwhelming majority of Balinese teens will be out drinking, partying, having sex (and getting pregnant) like teenagers used to do.
It would be awesome if you could import real cities into a Sim City type game and improve and expand them.
Ahh who am I kidding? EA sucks and would ruin any chance of it being a decent game...
Sim City isn't the best city simulation type game anyway and hasn't been for a long time. "Cities Skylines" is the most popular and best in that genre. I don't think you can import cities from Google Maps- but you can import topographies into Skylines- and have a realistic topography to build your city on. So your city could be built on the realistic topography of London, New York, Oslo, or wherever.
Came here to say this. Cities: Skylines is your go to city simulator these days. There are already a lot of maps based on real cities. I think there's even one of Gabe Newell's head.
... controlling speech. Period.
And Facebook does that how?
Are the Like police going to arrest me for voicing a contrary opinion... Am I to be thrown in the Poke-y for posting an anti-Facebook comment without even a trial in the News Feed court?
Or maybe Facebook is a private organisation free to set their own rules and if they dont want you there, they're free to tell you to bugger off which is in no way, in any country, impinging on your freedom of expression.
If you mean that Facebook has no business "influencing" opinions... then I assume you apply this equally to organisations like Fox News which are far more harmful in not just influencing opinions, but also release false information deliberately disguised as factual reporting.
But you wont... Your issue with Facebook is that they aren't telling you what you want to hear. That is also, not their problem.
....in their parts department, I can tell you that pretty much every model of car manufactured has some certain parts from some certain providers that are notorious for failing. This is what led to Toyota achieving such dominance today: they learned the "Barney Fife" lesson - "Nip it in the bud, Anj! Nip it in the bud!". They relentlessly send their engineers into their parts provider's lines to perform front-line QA and "kaizen" (continuous quality feedback). Tesla seems like they want to get there, and will - I believe - but as with all complex systems, there is lots to learn (and relearn) along the way.
This.
There is an oft quoted statistic used by GM fanboys that goes something like "Toyota has had more recalls than " which on the outside is true but in reality it's because Toyota will fix absolutely anything where as GM waits until it's killed 17 people and there is a risk of a lawsuit.
A toyota recall looks something like: In extreme conditions above 50C a mishandled seat adjustment handle may become loose if the planets align and you fail to find the jade monkey in time.
A GM recall looks like: During normal operation the bolts holding the wheel to the hub may sheer and cause the wheel to disconnect.
No manufacturer is free of flaws, no process can eliminate them completely, what matters is how a company deals with it. During GM's ignition fiasco, they kept ignoring the problem until the government was about to step in. I once got a recall for my 8 yr old Honda Integra, because of 2 cases of a brake master cylinder failing, they replaced every single one on every single car that used that part.
The tradition hasn't been as consistent over time as you think.
Tradition: how I think things used to be.
Of course traditions change over time... because people change overtime. So any ideas of "tradition" from anti-liberals are more nostalgia than fact, imaginations of a "white picket fence" fantasy that never really existed.
The pollution in the USA was never even close to that in China today. THis is mainly due to climate differences.
Actually its due to the US going through the same phase with a much lower population density. Europe, notably the British started industrialisng in the 1700's, the US started in the 1800's. China started in the 1950's, industrailisation meant industries that spouted huge amounts of pollution, for example, people in China were encouraged to have metalworks in their back yards (which produced copious amounts of low quality pig iron). The US and Europe did similar things but with the population densities being much lower, the problem didn't happen nearly as quickly. London started putting in pollution restrictions in the 1850's when much of the US was still agrarian. When the Chinese were building backyard smelters, the clean air act of 1952 came in. China is catching up to the UK in the 50's with their legislation because they're having the same problem as we had (see: the great smog of London).
You drive 2 miles? You could cycle that in less than 10 mins
I could also run a straight razor carefully over my love spuds each morning... there's good a reason why I don't do that either.
Also, anti-chinese sentiments are nationalist, not racist. Conflating the two is a rather basic error.
Its not racism because Chinese is not a race? Seems to be the usual racist logic.
Also it's both. Racial and nationalist. Trying to pretend the two are mutually exclusive is disingenuous at best, but outright lying is a better description.
Also the irony of arguing that it's not one kind of bigotry because it's another, completely related form of bigotry is clearly lost on you. Its the difference between being an arsehole and being an arsehole because one form of irrational bigotry isn't any better than the other.
Visionary? Magical? Great innovation?
Reinventing the wheel might be great, unless of course all you need is a wheel.
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
If they really want to do something new with sound they should make their stupid music app play FLAC. Isnt that the whole point of getting sound over W1 headphones? (AKA"special blutetooth")
Seriously, for such an innovator this is rubbish.
Spotted your problem. You seem to think that Apple is an innovator, not a marketer.
And you don't go there [fast food] for the culinary experience, you go there for standardized grub.
Actually, you go to a fast food place because you want something tasty, cheap and now. Emphasis on the now part.
whatever you think the service is I think it's a small auxiliary. The service is not why I go to your steakhouse and poor service probably won't make me leave as long as the product tastes to high heaven. And the product can be made by a robot.
To you perhaps... but not to most people. To most people service is as important as the food. If I get bad service at a restaurant, I certainly wont be going back not matter how good the food is.
I may be late to the party, but I've only just recently learned about White Day - a holiday by and for Japanese confectionery companies, which occurs one month after Valentine's Day. Then idea is that girls should give boys chocolate on Valentine's Day, and boys should give girls reciprocal white chocolate (or marshmallows) one month later on White Day.
It may not have occurred to you... but Japan doesn't have Easter. This sounds like their take on it.
In other words, it's a cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell candy, built on top of another cynical manufactured holiday intended to sell greeting cards. Apparently it got so popular in Japan that it has now spread to quite a few other Asian countries.
This is my submission for "most manufactured" holiday.
The most manufactured "holidays" have to be Christmas and Easter. Easter is all about selling chocolate eggs in copious quantities. Christmas is about sellting cheap tat and expensive toys. They've got no meaning besides chocolate and gifts.
It's crazy anyway. Why not just get up earlier? For decades I worked from 6 to 2:30. When I got off work I had plenty of daylight. My kids got out of school at 3:15 and I picked them up on the way home. No problems. Then one day my work decided that 6 was too early despite the fact the work force had come to love it. Our new manager didn't like getting up that early and shit on all of us.
Because I don't want to get up at 6 AM like a crazy person. I like staying up late and having a bit of a lie in.
Here in the UK, during the middle of summer in London, the sun rises at 4:00 AM and sets at 23:00. If it weren't for daylight saving (British Summer Time or BST) that sun would be up at 3 in the fucking morning. I'll take my extra hour of sleep. BST wouldn't work during the winter either as dawn would be around 8-9 AM instead of 7-8 AM.
Japan exported more than 1.6 million vehicles to America in 2015, while the U.S. sold less than 19,000 vehicles to Japan, accounted for about .03% of the five million cars and light trucks sold in Japan.
Japan taxes engine size and emissions. The annual tax on a vehicle with a 4-liter engine, an American pickup, is ¥76,500. Japan is the only developed country in the world with such a tax, so over a 10-year period, it would add up to the equivalent of a 12 percent import tariff.
I couldn't find the import limits, but remember seeing a limit on how many cars per maker was allowed. Not sure if thats still a trade issue.
Of course, the new theory is Americans gave up importing cars, because Japan has high tastes and want quality customer service and its too hard to serve them.
OK, there are only a few American cars that Japan wants... but American manufacturers refuse to make them LHD to accommodate Japan. European manufacturers import into Japan because they focus on desirable high end cars like Porsche or Lamborghini. With developed countries, we should be building high end autos that cant be built in undeveloped countries. That is why the trade seems so one way, it doesn't matter about the tariffs in Japan or China to BMW, Lamborgini or Jaguar because these cars are desirable enough to have a high price tag. The US needs to play catch up as only a few American cars are desirable to non-Americans, the Corvette is the only one that springs to mind immediately and that is simply because it's a cheap Fezza, however the price of converting one to LHD is not worth it.
China and Japan could drop all trade barriers and the US wouldn't sell any more cars to them because US cars aren't any better or desirable.
...was learning there are Chinese car manufacturers.
Yes, and thanks to protectionist tariffs imposed by the Chinese government they are universally shit and overpriced, similar situation in Thailand where there's up to 200% in tariffs and fees on imported cars. Would you pay US$44,500 for a Toyota Camry, because that's the Thai price (THB 1,399,000). That is the cost of high tariffs. Tariffs rarely punish the seller, they're applied after import so they only punish the buyer.
Anyway, back to Chinese cars, manufacturers like Roewe, Geely, Great Wall are producing old designs that are relatively reliable because they're basically 25 yr old Japanese or Korean cars built new. However they're hideously overpriced compared to what we pay here because they don't have to compete with imported cars.
BTW, I'd rather buy an old Jag than a new Chevy... They have the same chance of breaking down but the Jag is a far nicer place to sit whilst waiting for the tow truck.
You can't have free trade if its free trade in only one direction.
Basically you're describing almost every US FTA in existence.
One of the best things Trump ever did was pull out of the Trans Pacific Partnership... For Australia. The TPP was so lopsided and foisted so many US laws and rules on other nations it's not funny. Now the US is out of it, it's a trade agreement between Australian, Asia and Canada which pretty much covers existing trade agreements (at least of Oz, not sure about our brothers from the frozen north). The US stood to gain a huge amount of influence over local politics by the TPP.
Isn't the source... the movie/TV industry?
Wait... aren't those evil, money hating lefties supporting the Democrats?
The truth is not boring, its just that you never get to hear the interesting truths.
The old saying goes, "Truth is stranger than fiction" and that is quite true, but fiction is far more pleasing than the truth. So many prefer to live in a world of fiction. The problem is that many "news" agencies like the Daily Mail and Fox News have trained their reader/viewership to reject news that is based on facts and written in neutral (as in non-inflammatory) language as fake whilst accepting biased, opinion based news written to incite anger as true.
This is a case of people confirming their own bias.
1) Fake news organisation publishes fallacious and thought terminating cliche ridden piece about $thingYouDontLike.
2) Joe the biggot reads piece, shares on Twunter with the byline "Oh my Setekh, this is totally true about $thingIDontLike #PoliticianIDontLike #ThingIDontLike #LikeTotallyAndNotMadeUp #Selfie ".
3) Jane the slightly lesser biggot re-twunts it, then John the casually racist does the same and it eventually reaches Sally the well intentioned but not that bright who believes it because she doesn't question the facts presented when they're popular. Unfortunately there are a lot of people like Sally in the world.
It spreads because its written to be inflammatory and prevent us from thinking about the information critically, which is why it works well on those that aren't that bright however it's initially spread by people who simply want to confirm their own bias. Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are perfect for this because their entire business model revolves around keeping you in an echo chamber so you don't want to leave. If Facebook really did crack down on fake news, users would leave in droves.