Hearing idiots speak is the price you pay for your own freedom of speech.
Being able call them idiots and to tell them to shut up and go away is liberty.
Far right wing blowhards want to keep their right of "free speech" as you describe it but take away our liberty to criticise them. This is why I detest the use of free speech to gain access to platforms and silence critics, it is the antithesis of free speech (which actually is "the government cannot arrest you for saying what you said") as it removes the right to critisise. The "free speech uber alles" crowd are the ones destroying free speech.
Just because it's not illegal for you to say stupid things does not mean I have to listen to it and silently agree with everything you say... which is exactly what the purveyors of hate and fake news want me to do.
Dude, if CRISPR can done in a home garage lab, you can bet your ass that people will flying to Asia to get this done on the cheap. Now granted, that's a big risk. But...this tech is getting cheaper, and where ever there's red tape, there's nothing a passport and a flight ticket can't fix.
Its not the red tape, but the private sector getting in the way. If you want surgery in Thailand, you'll get a western trained doctor in a hospital that has western levels of service.
The reason Asian nations like Thailand are so much cheaper than many more developed countries is because they compulsorily license many things that the private medical industry hold patients over a barrel for (the holding over a barrel is to allow easier access to your pockets) via the patent and legal systems.
(**) Meaning: With only 450 potential patients, there is no potential profit
There in lies the problem. This is why US health care is both more expensive than the UK's NHS and of a far lower quality. You built your health care system to produce profit, not heal people.
The private sector has never fixed health care, all they do are hard-on pills and placebo vitamins (which is where the profit is). Stop relying on them to find real cures.
That's kinda like saying the Turing machine was invented at a public university on public dime. So why is Intel charging $350 for a processor.
Intel are manufacturing, most of their costs cover manufacturing and incremental improvements. The better question you should as is, if the Turing machine was not invented at a university (and the integrated circuit invented at the Ministry of Defence) would Intel even make microprocessors and if they did... would they only be $350 for a high end model?. The difference is, Intel knows it owes everything it has to public research (Intel's problem is that it's a monopolist).
These companies take decades of publicly funded research, do the last 10 yards and sell it for ultra-inflated prices banking most of it as profit (OK, much of it is paying off the failed ED drug programmes). Yes they do need to be reigned in, companies like this are the reason "compulsory licensing" exists for pharmaceuticals in many nations, because if the government didn't allow someone else to manufacture the treatment for a reasonable price the cost would be out of reach for all but the countries ultra rich.
Lots of people will tell you that adverts have no effect on them,
These are the kind of people that advertising has the best effect on. People who refuse to believe they can be influenced.
Advertising has a huge effect on me, which is why I go out of my way to avoid/block it. However because I'm concious of the effect, I can control it somewhat. In fact I have a list of brands I'll never buy because one of their ads has really annoyed me.
These days, advertising is basically evil. The days when an advert was telling you about a product and giving you information to make an informed decision are long gone.
This... and its why we have an Advertising Standards Agency in the UK (and most other developed countries). I've never understood why Americans seem content to allow advertisers to lie through their teeth and leave determining the truth as an exercise to the reader (a reader who is poorly informed will have trouble divining the truth from propaganda, so it's a negative feedback loop)
It appears Spotify has not been able to put together a sustainable business model and they are unable to pay their suppliers.
This is the case with a lot of "disruptive" businesses founded in the last 8 years. They never had a plan to be profitable, they just had a plan to be disruptive. Ultimately they run out of other peoples money and die. Uber and their ilk are in the same boat. Netflix would be also... if they didn't smarten up and start making their own content which is the antithesis of the disruptive business model (but Netflix wasn't really disruptive, they worked with the existing industries).
People heralding spurious companies like Spotify and Uber had better not get used to it.
thats wonderful news, all the children born to music in the background should now be eligible for child support from these artists.
You've got that backwards, not only do the parents owe the artist, the child being the product of said music must forfiet a portion of all their earnings for life +70... because copyright uber alles.
If you were in South Florida, I'm guessing you were driving on I-95 which really is the wild west, even compared to other US states and different highways in Florida. If you were to use the Florida Turnpike instead which is basically a parallel route, it's far more calm and usually much quicker to get somewhere because all the circus animals are being assholes for "free" on I-95.
Amazing what a tiny toll does for cleaning up behavior.
It was just Miami, I didn't get onto any of the interstates in Florida. A six lane dual carriageway is not something we see often here in the UK... However despite the signage there's always someone cutting from lane 3 to 1 in order to take a right.
Why would you publicly defame current or former employers? Not only is it rude, it's not graceful nor professional in any way to burn bridges on exit.
Usually it's because the employer did not handle your exit in any manner that could be remotely considered graceful or professional.
I left my last employer under such circumstances, I also managed to create enough problems that they ended up giving me 3 months of "gardening leave" in order to avoid a suit. That was one of two unwritten agreements between us, the other would be that they wouldn't give me a negative reference and I wouldn't slag off the company (which was struggling to find staff as it was).
I have nothing kind to say about that company, in fact I consider joining it the biggest mistake of my life, staying there the second biggest. However I'd only tell someone the company and the details in person.
It is a perfectly natural response to want some revenge on someone (or some company) that you feel has wronged you. Even though Google Maps no longer allows it (their house, their rules) there are plenty of options like Glassdoor, various social media, your own website.
Oh cool you're going to buy me a "Tesla (or other modern) adaptive" vehicle?
Not everybody has that luxury.
You can just keep a safe distance (2-3 seconds)* manually like the rest of us. This means simply not crawling up the arse of the vehicle in front. I have a modern BMW M240i, I didn't bother with things like ACC, AEB, Lane Assist because I pay attention to the road and am capable of driving safely.
* this is how you can tell the GP doesn't have ACC, distances are measured in seconds, not car lengths. The actual reaction and braking distance changes as with your speed.
On a motorway (or any other free flowing carriageway) they create traffic waves rather than jams. Traffic waves are when traffic slows down for a short while and then speeds up with no apparent cause. People doing the brake light shuffle cause these, same as people who lane weave.
Traffic jams are caused by people stopping unnecessarily (or sometimes poor road design).
Keeping a steady speed, and only accelerating and decelerating slowly helps other drivers to match speed when merging
This, also remember to create gaps earlier for the car in front to merge into (merge like a zipper), if you don't you end up stop/starting at the merge point as you have to bring the whole procession to a halt to let the guy in front in.
I was in Bangkok a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that people riding motorcycles and scooters in that city probably get places twice as fast as cars, because at every red light, people on two-wheeled vehicles split lanes and move to the front - this appears to be perfectly legal there. Every time a light turns green, there's a flock of motorcycles and scooters at the front of the line, riding until they catch up to the next red light, where they then filter to the front again.
Feel free to look at the road toll of Thailand any time. Last time I checked it was in excess of 25 per 100,000. To put that into perspective, the US is 10-12 per 100,000 and the UK is 3 per 100,000.
Filtering is legal here in the UK, but the main reason we get to places faster despite having narrower roads is because everyone by and large follows the rules, 2 or 4 wheels. Drivers tend to be more polite too.
Last time I drove in the US, lane and distance discipline was an absolute mess. It was like the wild west compared to the UK, lots of wide open spaces but no fucking rules (and it was Florida, so chances are someone was packing a six-gun).
I'm old enough (i.e., not middle-aged yet) to remember when "hate speech" was on the anti-free-speech fringes.
I'm old enough to remember when the old racist brigade was nought but a small group of sad men sitting in the corner of the local pub. They sat their in their corner muttering about "them" ("them", the target, changed over time, first it was Asians, then Arabs, then Muslims, however the hate always remained the same). They'd never venture out of their corner because no-one put up with their bullshit, you'd note that none of the local racist brigade had all of their teeth because back in those days if you were a hateful little twat that didn't keep their mouth shut, someone took it upon themselves to shut it for you.
However this has changed in recent years (very recent, as in the last decade). Given anonymity by the internet and emboldened by that anonymity making them think their bollocks was popular (see the old "silent majority" cliche) they've began operating openly. People have been telling them to shut up and go away but apparently, free speech(TM) protects them from any criticism (and entitles them to whatever platform they want).
Seeing as if you actually punched* a racist, xenophobe or other bigot these days, they'll run straight to the cops claiming assault on their Free Speeches(TM) the actual majority is now turning to law makers to make these miscreants go away.
If you need to see who is really threatening free speech, look at those using it to try to silence criticism of their views. The real "SJW's" are those who are using that term as an insult and claiming free speech means you cant contradict them or tell them their racist or otherwise bigoted views are not wanted. Here in the UK, the only people trying to convince me that I cant say something are the Daily Mail readers. I'd rather not see free speech thrown out, but as long as it's being used to silence critics, it's going to head that way.
* I do not, emphatically do not, recommend punching anyone, you'll likely just end up hurting your hand (yes most people cant punch to save their life), palm strikes, elbows and knees are far more effective (don't try kicking unless you've been taught how to do that either).
The sweet spot is well known - it's around 50-60. That's why insurance companies offer people in that age bracket the lowest rates - they have the fewest accidents.
No, the 45+ age bracket has the most political power, so they're the ones that could bring about a real inquiry into the insurance industry (which is sorely needed here in the UK). That's why they get the best rates.
Young people are highly represented in fatality and casualty statistics because they generally (are forced to by high insurance prices in the UK) to drive less safe cars. It costs thousands of pounds to insure a 19 year old, thousands more to do that on any kind of mid sized car. So they cant drive anything bigger than an old Fiesta until they're 26... which is the magic age for your first major insurance price drop. They aren't represented in significantly more crashes here in the UK than other age groups but are more represented in casualty and fatailty statistics. Young people tend to have more fatalities per crash and this is mainly due to them having to drive older, less safe cars.
Elderly drivers are more represented in crash statistics, but have fewer fatalities per crash.
But it's older people who can threaten the insurance regime's profit engine, so they never get targeted.
I often get better pricing booking directly through the hotel company website. I just did that an hour ago and got a better price that way than what Expedia was offering.
This.
Don't forget that Expedia and Priceline (there are only really two companies, most brands belong to them) charge the hotels commission for booking and in order to list them, make them sign an agreement not to advertise a lower price on their own web site. So a hotel is quite often happy to meet what you get online if you email or call them because you're going to pay that amount anyway but the hotel doesn't have to pay the commission. You'll also be further up the list for overbooking upgrades, better rooms and the terms and conditions will be more favourable to you.
The whole online travel agent business is a huge scam for hotels and hospitality providers. They're forced into lopsided agreements with agents and then charged if they want to remove negative reviews. If they dont pay, surprise, surprise, more negative reviews show up.
Given that there is only two companies doing online bookings, the headline is completely wrong. Google working with hotels isn't hurting competition, it's creating competition by challenging a duopoly. I'm certain Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they expect a payday but given how shady the other agents are, they're certainly doing some good.
So this is nothing unusual. Well, except it's Apple. That's the only thing that makes the story interesting at all.
So you're saying that in Chicago it is a common design feature of building roofs to channel falling ice and snow onto pedestrian walkways?
Because that's exactly what Apple did, they expressly built something that didn't comply with building codes to make it look like one of their products, we now see why these codes (namely the requirement to have gutters) are in place. If it were any other company they'd be backpedalling this fast, but because it's Apple and you know, Apple are special and the rules dont apply to them.
Any structural engineers who know this kind of construction and can shed some light on this issue?
I'm not an structural engineer, but I can tell you exactly what went wrong.
Apple did what Apple always does and puts the design before the function. The designers told the engineers what it had to look like and the engineers were told to shut up and do their jobs. They probably went through a fair few engineers as they're not known for their ability to shut up and do something they think is wrong.
Age based ads targeting comic books to teenagers, ok. Age based ads targeting IT jobs to Millennials but excluding people aged 40 is a problem.
That isn't a fine line.
Comic book == optional.
Job == mandatory.
The reason we have anti-discrimination laws are to prevent workers from being excluded because of an attribute that an employer may find undesirable but has no bearing on competency or work quality... such as being old enough to know how to demand to be paid what we're worth.
Which might explain the lack of updates for the MacBook Air and Mac mini: they're the ones that will transition first. Let's hope this also brings much lower price tags.
I have hope for a date with Eiza Gonzales... I think mine has a better chance of coming true.
Speaking purely as a biotechnologist with no interest in creating world ending viruses (virii?).
Viruses is the correct plural in English, you got that right.
Conjugating a word to ii is only for pluralising certain Latin words ending in "ius" and has largely been replaced by standard English conjugation, I.E. the plural of genius is still geniuses.
You know, we spend more on education than just about any other country. There is always a hue-and-cry for single-payer medicine to control costs, but we have, essentially, single-payer education, and costs are high - and the results aren't very promising. Maybe those poor school results aren't a result of "gutted budgets" (even though they tend to be the highest in the world), but a bankrupt mentality of how to educate, and what forms the basis of a good education?
If you're spending so much on Education and aren't managing to have a decent education system, you need to look at how the system is run. The problem with Education in the US is the same with health care. the US govt spends twice what the UK govt does per person per annum on health care but does not provide the same standard of service as the NHS and the US health care recipient has to pay out of pocket. The problem is the US health care system is made to fit an ideology that does not support an affordable health care system... the US education system is the same, designed to fit the ideology of those who control the purse strings, not to service those who need or want education.
To fix education in the US, you need to do what we did in Australia or the UK and take control away from the Government and let the service be measured and guided by its results. Of course this means that some bible basher congressman from East Texas cant ban schools from teaching things like Evolution.
How about these: "Copy and paste this. DO NOT SHARE"
Defeats the purpose.
Clickbait and scammers... erm... I mean legitimate marketing companies are using shares and likes these to track their ads and the users who click on them in order to target them with more malware... erm I mean perfectly harmless advertising.
People need money. Not employment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who finds enough things to do with my time, what I need is money. If you allow me to hold slaves, I am fairly sure I can ensure 100% of them will be working.
This, you can do all kinds of funky calculations to show different employment figures (either to make the govt of the day look good or bad), but the real test is how much disposable income you have (money after taxes) and how much discretionary income you have (money after taxes and essentials). Ultimately we want more people to have a high level of discretionary income.
They could track them by electricity use. Venezuela gives away electricity for almost nothing, less than 1 cent/kwhr, which makes it an attractive place to run miners, as well as other activities that squander energy.
That way they'll find all the pot growers as well.
Venezuela is a bad place to run a bitcoin mine because basics like water and electricity are... transient things. if you were running a bitcoin mining farm, you wouldn't be relying on government electricity
This is just another pointless edict from a despotic government (that wont be overthrown any time soon as the Vz govt controls the military).
If you're thinking of mining coin in South America, I'd recommend next door in Colombia. Some of their cities have near western levels of services, it's dirt cheap to live there, the people are friendly and in many cases, even like Gringos, at the very least you wont get stabbed for a can of beans, the government is considerably less corrupt (but still corrupt enough to let you get away with a lot) and you can get a Miss Universe there for $50 easy.
Apple is now just another Sony, IBM, Microsoft, etc.
Apple has always been another Microsoft... Just not as successful. They've been trying for the last 15 years to get away with the kinds of things that bought the courts to Microsoft's door for anti-competitive behaviour but have failed at it miserably. Now their cult of personality is gone all you're left with is just another company trying to lock you in and not doing a very good job of it.
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Hearing idiots speak is the price you pay for your own freedom of speech.
Being able call them idiots and to tell them to shut up and go away is liberty.
Far right wing blowhards want to keep their right of "free speech" as you describe it but take away our liberty to criticise them. This is why I detest the use of free speech to gain access to platforms and silence critics, it is the antithesis of free speech (which actually is "the government cannot arrest you for saying what you said") as it removes the right to critisise. The "free speech uber alles" crowd are the ones destroying free speech.
Just because it's not illegal for you to say stupid things does not mean I have to listen to it and silently agree with everything you say... which is exactly what the purveyors of hate and fake news want me to do.
Dude, if CRISPR can done in a home garage lab, you can bet your ass that people will flying to Asia to get this done on the cheap. Now granted, that's a big risk. But...this tech is getting cheaper, and where ever there's red tape, there's nothing a passport and a flight ticket can't fix.
Its not the red tape, but the private sector getting in the way. If you want surgery in Thailand, you'll get a western trained doctor in a hospital that has western levels of service.
The reason Asian nations like Thailand are so much cheaper than many more developed countries is because they compulsorily license many things that the private medical industry hold patients over a barrel for (the holding over a barrel is to allow easier access to your pockets) via the patent and legal systems.
(**) Meaning: With only 450 potential patients, there is no potential profit
There in lies the problem. This is why US health care is both more expensive than the UK's NHS and of a far lower quality. You built your health care system to produce profit, not heal people.
The private sector has never fixed health care, all they do are hard-on pills and placebo vitamins (which is where the profit is). Stop relying on them to find real cures.
That's kinda like saying the Turing machine was invented at a public university on public dime. So why is Intel charging $350 for a processor.
Intel are manufacturing, most of their costs cover manufacturing and incremental improvements. The better question you should as is, if the Turing machine was not invented at a university (and the integrated circuit invented at the Ministry of Defence) would Intel even make microprocessors and if they did... would they only be $350 for a high end model?. The difference is, Intel knows it owes everything it has to public research (Intel's problem is that it's a monopolist).
These companies take decades of publicly funded research, do the last 10 yards and sell it for ultra-inflated prices banking most of it as profit (OK, much of it is paying off the failed ED drug programmes). Yes they do need to be reigned in, companies like this are the reason "compulsory licensing" exists for pharmaceuticals in many nations, because if the government didn't allow someone else to manufacture the treatment for a reasonable price the cost would be out of reach for all but the countries ultra rich.
Lots of people will tell you that adverts have no effect on them,
These are the kind of people that advertising has the best effect on. People who refuse to believe they can be influenced. Advertising has a huge effect on me, which is why I go out of my way to avoid/block it. However because I'm concious of the effect, I can control it somewhat. In fact I have a list of brands I'll never buy because one of their ads has really annoyed me.
These days, advertising is basically evil. The days when an advert was telling you about a product and giving you information to make an informed decision are long gone.
This... and its why we have an Advertising Standards Agency in the UK (and most other developed countries). I've never understood why Americans seem content to allow advertisers to lie through their teeth and leave determining the truth as an exercise to the reader (a reader who is poorly informed will have trouble divining the truth from propaganda, so it's a negative feedback loop)
It appears Spotify has not been able to put together a sustainable business model and they are unable to pay their suppliers.
This is the case with a lot of "disruptive" businesses founded in the last 8 years. They never had a plan to be profitable, they just had a plan to be disruptive. Ultimately they run out of other peoples money and die. Uber and their ilk are in the same boat. Netflix would be also... if they didn't smarten up and start making their own content which is the antithesis of the disruptive business model (but Netflix wasn't really disruptive, they worked with the existing industries).
People heralding spurious companies like Spotify and Uber had better not get used to it.
thats wonderful news, all the children born to music in the background should now be eligible for child support from these artists.
You've got that backwards, not only do the parents owe the artist, the child being the product of said music must forfiet a portion of all their earnings for life +70... because copyright uber alles.
If you were in South Florida, I'm guessing you were driving on I-95 which really is the wild west, even compared to other US states and different highways in Florida. If you were to use the Florida Turnpike instead which is basically a parallel route, it's far more calm and usually much quicker to get somewhere because all the circus animals are being assholes for "free" on I-95.
Amazing what a tiny toll does for cleaning up behavior.
It was just Miami, I didn't get onto any of the interstates in Florida. A six lane dual carriageway is not something we see often here in the UK... However despite the signage there's always someone cutting from lane 3 to 1 in order to take a right.
Why would you publicly defame current or former employers? Not only is it rude, it's not graceful nor professional in any way to burn bridges on exit.
Usually it's because the employer did not handle your exit in any manner that could be remotely considered graceful or professional.
I left my last employer under such circumstances, I also managed to create enough problems that they ended up giving me 3 months of "gardening leave" in order to avoid a suit. That was one of two unwritten agreements between us, the other would be that they wouldn't give me a negative reference and I wouldn't slag off the company (which was struggling to find staff as it was).
I have nothing kind to say about that company, in fact I consider joining it the biggest mistake of my life, staying there the second biggest. However I'd only tell someone the company and the details in person.
It is a perfectly natural response to want some revenge on someone (or some company) that you feel has wronged you. Even though Google Maps no longer allows it (their house, their rules) there are plenty of options like Glassdoor, various social media, your own website.
Oh cool you're going to buy me a "Tesla (or other modern) adaptive" vehicle? Not everybody has that luxury.
You can just keep a safe distance (2-3 seconds)* manually like the rest of us. This means simply not crawling up the arse of the vehicle in front. I have a modern BMW M240i, I didn't bother with things like ACC, AEB, Lane Assist because I pay attention to the road and am capable of driving safely.
* this is how you can tell the GP doesn't have ACC, distances are measured in seconds, not car lengths. The actual reaction and braking distance changes as with your speed.
Brake lights cause traffic jams.
On a motorway (or any other free flowing carriageway) they create traffic waves rather than jams. Traffic waves are when traffic slows down for a short while and then speeds up with no apparent cause. People doing the brake light shuffle cause these, same as people who lane weave.
Traffic jams are caused by people stopping unnecessarily (or sometimes poor road design).
Keeping a steady speed, and only accelerating and decelerating slowly helps other drivers to match speed when merging
This, also remember to create gaps earlier for the car in front to merge into (merge like a zipper), if you don't you end up stop/starting at the merge point as you have to bring the whole procession to a halt to let the guy in front in.
I was in Bangkok a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that people riding motorcycles and scooters in that city probably get places twice as fast as cars, because at every red light, people on two-wheeled vehicles split lanes and move to the front - this appears to be perfectly legal there. Every time a light turns green, there's a flock of motorcycles and scooters at the front of the line, riding until they catch up to the next red light, where they then filter to the front again.
Feel free to look at the road toll of Thailand any time. Last time I checked it was in excess of 25 per 100,000. To put that into perspective, the US is 10-12 per 100,000 and the UK is 3 per 100,000.
Filtering is legal here in the UK, but the main reason we get to places faster despite having narrower roads is because everyone by and large follows the rules, 2 or 4 wheels. Drivers tend to be more polite too.
Last time I drove in the US, lane and distance discipline was an absolute mess. It was like the wild west compared to the UK, lots of wide open spaces but no fucking rules (and it was Florida, so chances are someone was packing a six-gun).
I'm old enough (i.e., not middle-aged yet) to remember when "hate speech" was on the anti-free-speech fringes.
I'm old enough to remember when the old racist brigade was nought but a small group of sad men sitting in the corner of the local pub. They sat their in their corner muttering about "them" ("them", the target, changed over time, first it was Asians, then Arabs, then Muslims, however the hate always remained the same). They'd never venture out of their corner because no-one put up with their bullshit, you'd note that none of the local racist brigade had all of their teeth because back in those days if you were a hateful little twat that didn't keep their mouth shut, someone took it upon themselves to shut it for you.
However this has changed in recent years (very recent, as in the last decade). Given anonymity by the internet and emboldened by that anonymity making them think their bollocks was popular (see the old "silent majority" cliche) they've began operating openly. People have been telling them to shut up and go away but apparently, free speech(TM) protects them from any criticism (and entitles them to whatever platform they want).
Seeing as if you actually punched* a racist, xenophobe or other bigot these days, they'll run straight to the cops claiming assault on their Free Speeches(TM) the actual majority is now turning to law makers to make these miscreants go away.
If you need to see who is really threatening free speech, look at those using it to try to silence criticism of their views. The real "SJW's" are those who are using that term as an insult and claiming free speech means you cant contradict them or tell them their racist or otherwise bigoted views are not wanted. Here in the UK, the only people trying to convince me that I cant say something are the Daily Mail readers. I'd rather not see free speech thrown out, but as long as it's being used to silence critics, it's going to head that way.
* I do not, emphatically do not, recommend punching anyone, you'll likely just end up hurting your hand (yes most people cant punch to save their life), palm strikes, elbows and knees are far more effective (don't try kicking unless you've been taught how to do that either).
The sweet spot is well known - it's around 50-60. That's why insurance companies offer people in that age bracket the lowest rates - they have the fewest accidents.
No, the 45+ age bracket has the most political power, so they're the ones that could bring about a real inquiry into the insurance industry (which is sorely needed here in the UK). That's why they get the best rates.
Young people are highly represented in fatality and casualty statistics because they generally (are forced to by high insurance prices in the UK) to drive less safe cars. It costs thousands of pounds to insure a 19 year old, thousands more to do that on any kind of mid sized car. So they cant drive anything bigger than an old Fiesta until they're 26... which is the magic age for your first major insurance price drop. They aren't represented in significantly more crashes here in the UK than other age groups but are more represented in casualty and fatailty statistics. Young people tend to have more fatalities per crash and this is mainly due to them having to drive older, less safe cars.
Elderly drivers are more represented in crash statistics, but have fewer fatalities per crash.
But it's older people who can threaten the insurance regime's profit engine, so they never get targeted.
I often get better pricing booking directly through the hotel company website. I just did that an hour ago and got a better price that way than what Expedia was offering.
This.
Don't forget that Expedia and Priceline (there are only really two companies, most brands belong to them) charge the hotels commission for booking and in order to list them, make them sign an agreement not to advertise a lower price on their own web site. So a hotel is quite often happy to meet what you get online if you email or call them because you're going to pay that amount anyway but the hotel doesn't have to pay the commission. You'll also be further up the list for overbooking upgrades, better rooms and the terms and conditions will be more favourable to you.
The whole online travel agent business is a huge scam for hotels and hospitality providers. They're forced into lopsided agreements with agents and then charged if they want to remove negative reviews. If they dont pay, surprise, surprise, more negative reviews show up.
Given that there is only two companies doing online bookings, the headline is completely wrong. Google working with hotels isn't hurting competition, it's creating competition by challenging a duopoly. I'm certain Google isn't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they expect a payday but given how shady the other agents are, they're certainly doing some good.
So this is nothing unusual. Well, except it's Apple. That's the only thing that makes the story interesting at all.
So you're saying that in Chicago it is a common design feature of building roofs to channel falling ice and snow onto pedestrian walkways?
Because that's exactly what Apple did, they expressly built something that didn't comply with building codes to make it look like one of their products, we now see why these codes (namely the requirement to have gutters) are in place. If it were any other company they'd be backpedalling this fast, but because it's Apple and you know, Apple are special and the rules dont apply to them.
I'm not an structural engineer, but I can tell you exactly what went wrong.
Apple did what Apple always does and puts the design before the function. The designers told the engineers what it had to look like and the engineers were told to shut up and do their jobs. They probably went through a fair few engineers as they're not known for their ability to shut up and do something they think is wrong.
Age based ads targeting comic books to teenagers, ok. Age based ads targeting IT jobs to Millennials but excluding people aged 40 is a problem.
That isn't a fine line.
Comic book == optional.
Job == mandatory.
The reason we have anti-discrimination laws are to prevent workers from being excluded because of an attribute that an employer may find undesirable but has no bearing on competency or work quality... such as being old enough to know how to demand to be paid what we're worth.
Which might explain the lack of updates for the MacBook Air and Mac mini: they're the ones that will transition first. Let's hope this also brings much lower price tags.
I have hope for a date with Eiza Gonzales... I think mine has a better chance of coming true.
Speaking purely as a biotechnologist with no interest in creating world ending viruses (virii?).
Viruses is the correct plural in English, you got that right.
Conjugating a word to ii is only for pluralising certain Latin words ending in "ius" and has largely been replaced by standard English conjugation, I.E. the plural of genius is still geniuses.
You know, we spend more on education than just about any other country. There is always a hue-and-cry for single-payer medicine to control costs, but we have, essentially, single-payer education, and costs are high - and the results aren't very promising. Maybe those poor school results aren't a result of "gutted budgets" (even though they tend to be the highest in the world), but a bankrupt mentality of how to educate, and what forms the basis of a good education?
If you're spending so much on Education and aren't managing to have a decent education system, you need to look at how the system is run. The problem with Education in the US is the same with health care. the US govt spends twice what the UK govt does per person per annum on health care but does not provide the same standard of service as the NHS and the US health care recipient has to pay out of pocket. The problem is the US health care system is made to fit an ideology that does not support an affordable health care system... the US education system is the same, designed to fit the ideology of those who control the purse strings, not to service those who need or want education.
To fix education in the US, you need to do what we did in Australia or the UK and take control away from the Government and let the service be measured and guided by its results. Of course this means that some bible basher congressman from East Texas cant ban schools from teaching things like Evolution.
How about these: "Copy and paste this. DO NOT SHARE"
Defeats the purpose.
Clickbait and scammers... erm... I mean legitimate marketing companies are using shares and likes these to track their ads and the users who click on them in order to target them with more malware... erm I mean perfectly harmless advertising.
Unemployment is down? Great. How about earnings?
People need money. Not employment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who finds enough things to do with my time, what I need is money. If you allow me to hold slaves, I am fairly sure I can ensure 100% of them will be working.
This, you can do all kinds of funky calculations to show different employment figures (either to make the govt of the day look good or bad), but the real test is how much disposable income you have (money after taxes) and how much discretionary income you have (money after taxes and essentials). Ultimately we want more people to have a high level of discretionary income.
I wonder how they'll track miners.
They could track them by electricity use. Venezuela gives away electricity for almost nothing, less than 1 cent/kwhr, which makes it an attractive place to run miners, as well as other activities that squander energy.
That way they'll find all the pot growers as well.
Venezuela is a bad place to run a bitcoin mine because basics like water and electricity are... transient things. if you were running a bitcoin mining farm, you wouldn't be relying on government electricity
This is just another pointless edict from a despotic government (that wont be overthrown any time soon as the Vz govt controls the military).
If you're thinking of mining coin in South America, I'd recommend next door in Colombia. Some of their cities have near western levels of services, it's dirt cheap to live there, the people are friendly and in many cases, even like Gringos, at the very least you wont get stabbed for a can of beans, the government is considerably less corrupt (but still corrupt enough to let you get away with a lot) and you can get a Miss Universe there for $50 easy.
Apple is now just another Sony, IBM, Microsoft, etc.
Apple has always been another Microsoft... Just not as successful. They've been trying for the last 15 years to get away with the kinds of things that bought the courts to Microsoft's door for anti-competitive behaviour but have failed at it miserably. Now their cult of personality is gone all you're left with is just another company trying to lock you in and not doing a very good job of it.