Boston actually has some of each. The Green Line (which is part of the subway system, though it goes above ground outside of downtown) is on rails and has overhead wires, and a few of the bus routes that go out from the Harvard University campus have overhead wires but drive on regular streets.
Was that a contract with a specified duration, or an at-will employment agreement? If it was a contract, then I'm surprised that California wouldn't allow agreed-upon penalties for terminating the contract early. If it was for at-will employment, then yeah, imposing a penalty for not giving two weeks notice would be unenforceable, since that directly contradicts the definition of at-will.
That seems rather simplistic, since cities are not self-sustainable at all - they're entirely dependent on products and supplies from the outside. Wall off a city, and people there will starve really fast. Wall off a farming community, and they'll probably last a while.
I think the point is that these small towns aren't farming communities. If they were farms, they would still be producing something that people in cities need. The person above was specifically talking about places with no industry at all anymore.
There is a balancing act at play here. You need some percentage of your population to work the farms needed to feed everybody. You can certainly talk about automating much of that... but frankly most city jobs are capable of being automated away as well.
While I applaud such measures [as a techno-nerd one of the most infuriating aspects of the economy for me is the enforced obsolescence] I cannot help but wonder - since the whole planet agrees on the basic principles of free market capitalism, which inevitably result in forced obsolescence and a race to the bottom ["best product for the most affordable price' is the same as "worst product for the highest possible price"] why do we then spend absolutely enormous amount of time, money and effort to STOP the system going to where it goes naturally based on its premises.
The problem in capitalism that this kind of regulation is trying to address is the ability to unload difficult-to-evaluate costs onto the general public. Generating twice as much waste doesn't cost the manufacturers anything, so there's no incentive for them to minimize it. One of the basic assumptions of capitalism is that the price of a product reflects the cost to produce it. Regulations like this attempt to make the cost more accurate.
As someone else pointed out, "landfill" has two different meanings. Boston's landfill is stuff like dirt and rocks that was used to fill parts of the river. This article is talking about the garbage dump kind of landfill.
The map is pretty impressive, though. I've lived in New England my entire life, and I never knew how large the Boston landfill area is until I looked at a map a few months ago.
You're right, you can file a complaint for anything, it just might get thrown the first time it gets in front of a judge. Thank you for clarifying for me.
Companies can put anything they want in a contract. If the company forces you to arbitration, you can challenge it in court.
There are three major problems with how the American legal system works with stuff like this:
You can't challenge it in court until you're actually harmed, i.e. get in a situation where you're forced into arbitration.
Court cases are expensive, and large companies have far more money than you do. A lot of litigation in the US is simply a competition to see which side is first to make the other side not want to pay any more.
Even if you win and the clause is determined to be unenforceable, the only penalty to the company is not being able to enforce the clause against you. They'll still include the clause in their contracts and hope that most other people don't fight it.
One of these things is not like the other. Just how hard does Rabois think a football coach works from February through June? A GM might be busy during the off season, but a coach has a lot of downtime.
Some still think of success in life as climbing some ladder. If you aren't going higher, then they think you're not succeeding.
My grandmother (when she was alive) would inevitably ask me if I got a promotion at work and would express disappointment when the answer was "no." What she didn't understand, though, was that me getting promoted would mean I'd be a manager, not a web developer. This would mean having to manage people (hiring, firing, making sure people do their work when they're supposed to, dealing with company politics) instead of working with code. I love working with code, but would HATE having to do the job of a manager. Why should I "climb the corporate ladder" if it means leaving a rung that I enjoy and moving into rungs that I hate?
I've been asked the same thing. My response was that I still got a significant raise every year. I don't really care about my title. "Senior" or "Lead" would be nice, but I have no desire to be a personnel manager. For some people, the title is what makes you important.
Mythbusters tested it several years ago, and they found somewhere in the 35-45 MPH range is where the drag from open windows becomes a bigger factor than running the AC.
Nintendo is the only console company that makes money on the hardware and software. Everyone else sells hardware as a loss leader for software. Ever wonder why new video games are $60 a pop?
Which is actually a pretty good price these days. Popular SNES games were $60 each, and that was 20+ years ago.
While I agree that a Raspberry Pi isn't "far cheaper" than this SNES Classic, your pricing is a bit too high. I just bought a RPi 3 kit with a case, AC adapter, HDMI cable, and 8 GB SD card for $65 at MicroCenter.
You want a failsafe mode that requires the Tesla to pull over and stop - you did read that the accident occurred at 74 MPH. At what point would the fucking car have enough time to safely pull over to the shoulder and not cause another goddamn accident.
I dunno, there might have been a couple opportunities some time during the 37.5 minutes that the car was in autonomous mode.
How about this - end this obsession with cars. It's never going to happen and in this litigious society any person driving something like this is going to get dragged through the courts unless they settle quick. And they will be paying out big.
I changed that up just a bit, and yet somehow we've figured out a scheme that makes it work.
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Ugh, UI fail. This is definitely not Redundant.
Here's a symbolic +1 Insightful.
Yes, KDE still puts minimize/maximize/close on the right end of the title bar by default. You can move individual buttons to wherever you want.
Boston actually has some of each. The Green Line (which is part of the subway system, though it goes above ground outside of downtown) is on rails and has overhead wires, and a few of the bus routes that go out from the Harvard University campus have overhead wires but drive on regular streets.
Who's responsibility will it be if someone gets hurt?
Who's responsible now? Hint: unless the driver is impaired (e.g. by alcohol or other drugs), the answer is an insurance company.
So there will be no human operator to ensure if the automation fails that no one gets, for example, ran over?
What is there that ensures that if the human operator fails that no one gets run over?
Was that a contract with a specified duration, or an at-will employment agreement?
It was an open-ended contract.
I could see how a court would consider an open-ended contract to be equivalent to at-will employment.
Was that a contract with a specified duration, or an at-will employment agreement? If it was a contract, then I'm surprised that California wouldn't allow agreed-upon penalties for terminating the contract early. If it was for at-will employment, then yeah, imposing a penalty for not giving two weeks notice would be unenforceable, since that directly contradicts the definition of at-will.
That seems rather simplistic, since cities are not self-sustainable at all - they're entirely dependent on products and supplies from the outside. Wall off a city, and people there will starve really fast. Wall off a farming community, and they'll probably last a while.
I think the point is that these small towns aren't farming communities. If they were farms, they would still be producing something that people in cities need. The person above was specifically talking about places with no industry at all anymore.
There is a balancing act at play here. You need some percentage of your population to work the farms needed to feed everybody. You can certainly talk about automating much of that... but frankly most city jobs are capable of being automated away as well.
Isn't it down to something like 1% now?
...he used to be an "ordinary" person as well.
He was? Didn't his parents buy him a spot at Harvard?
Meanwhile on Facebook: Turkeydance is now friends with NAMBLA...
What's wrong with the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?
Thinks they support this for YOUR benefit.
It is them using YOU for their own benefit.
Because for every stance on an issue, only one party can possibly benefit?
While I applaud such measures [as a techno-nerd one of the most infuriating aspects of the economy for me is the enforced obsolescence] I cannot help but wonder - since the whole planet agrees on the basic principles of free market capitalism, which inevitably result in forced obsolescence and a race to the bottom ["best product for the most affordable price' is the same as "worst product for the highest possible price"] why do we then spend absolutely enormous amount of time, money and effort to STOP the system going to where it goes naturally based on its premises.
The problem in capitalism that this kind of regulation is trying to address is the ability to unload difficult-to-evaluate costs onto the general public. Generating twice as much waste doesn't cost the manufacturers anything, so there's no incentive for them to minimize it. One of the basic assumptions of capitalism is that the price of a product reflects the cost to produce it. Regulations like this attempt to make the cost more accurate.
Jesus saves!
And takes half damage from the fireball.
As someone else pointed out, "landfill" has two different meanings. Boston's landfill is stuff like dirt and rocks that was used to fill parts of the river. This article is talking about the garbage dump kind of landfill.
The map is pretty impressive, though. I've lived in New England my entire life, and I never knew how large the Boston landfill area is until I looked at a map a few months ago.
Yeah, how difficult and expensive could it possibly be to try to find a job and housing hundreds of miles away from your current home?
You're right, you can file a complaint for anything, it just might get thrown the first time it gets in front of a judge. Thank you for clarifying for me.
There are three major problems with how the American legal system works with stuff like this:
One of these things is not like the other. Just how hard does Rabois think a football coach works from February through June? A GM might be busy during the off season, but a coach has a lot of downtime.
Belichick is also the GM.
Some still think of success in life as climbing some ladder. If you aren't going higher, then they think you're not succeeding.
My grandmother (when she was alive) would inevitably ask me if I got a promotion at work and would express disappointment when the answer was "no." What she didn't understand, though, was that me getting promoted would mean I'd be a manager, not a web developer. This would mean having to manage people (hiring, firing, making sure people do their work when they're supposed to, dealing with company politics) instead of working with code. I love working with code, but would HATE having to do the job of a manager. Why should I "climb the corporate ladder" if it means leaving a rung that I enjoy and moving into rungs that I hate?
I've been asked the same thing. My response was that I still got a significant raise every year. I don't really care about my title. "Senior" or "Lead" would be nice, but I have no desire to be a personnel manager. For some people, the title is what makes you important.
Mythbusters tested it several years ago, and they found somewhere in the 35-45 MPH range is where the drag from open windows becomes a bigger factor than running the AC.
Hey we learned a book doesn't stop a .50 caliber round.
You could have learned that a long time ago by watching Death Wish 3.
Or Police Squad!
I still connect with Kopete. I think it's using XMPP. I guess I'll see what happens later today.
Nintendo is the only console company that makes money on the hardware and software. Everyone else sells hardware as a loss leader for software. Ever wonder why new video games are $60 a pop?
Which is actually a pretty good price these days. Popular SNES games were $60 each, and that was 20+ years ago.
While I agree that a Raspberry Pi isn't "far cheaper" than this SNES Classic, your pricing is a bit too high. I just bought a RPi 3 kit with a case, AC adapter, HDMI cable, and 8 GB SD card for $65 at MicroCenter.
You want a failsafe mode that requires the Tesla to pull over and stop - you did read that the accident occurred at 74 MPH. At what point would the fucking car have enough time to safely pull over to the shoulder and not cause another goddamn accident.
I dunno, there might have been a couple opportunities some time during the 37.5 minutes that the car was in autonomous mode.
How about this - end this obsession with cars. It's never going to happen and in this litigious society any person driving something like this is going to get dragged through the courts unless they settle quick. And they will be paying out big.
I changed that up just a bit, and yet somehow we've figured out a scheme that makes it work.
And yell bloody murder when somebody says something that hurts their feelings...
How's that War on Christmas going?