Comment ... Will Carry the Most Powerful Time Machine ... (Score 3, Funny) 128
How did the miss this title?
"The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Time Machine Ever Launched"
Tim S.
For the last 30-40 years popular media in the US has been promoting stupidity and turning dumb people into stars, making them famous, and in some cases rich.
I'm hoping that the pendulum has swung as far as it's going and will start to swing back the other way, but I'm probably foolish to think we've reached peak stoopid.
Stupid has no limits. Tim S.
The word also means a low-level worker. In Nelson's navy a powder monkey was a boy who would run down to the magazine to fetch ammunition. Today we have grease monkeys, code monkeys and editing monkeys.
How is this not automated? Should just be a computer program that does "find the N points such that each point is the closest point to exactly P/N people."
That is, make a Voronoi diagram on population, not geometric distance.
No politics involved at all, but probably people wouldn't like it...
Meltdown?
Without subsidy the USPS will need to scale down massively, they can't compete in a free market environment.
The USPS is not subsidized by the US government/taxpayers. Their rates are set by the government, but they operate entirely on the funds that they generate directly.
Even then, they'll always run losses because the international treaties rapes every western postal service. If Trump wants to do something useful he should unilaterally get the US out of the treaty of Bern.
The USPS is profitable. The reported shortfall in their budget was due to congress passing a new requirement (which only applied to the USPS) that they pre-fund their retirement account fully within five years. Meaning that the full retirement package for every postal service employee is fully paid. If every employee retired now (even if they were just hired and thus are not eligible for retirement benefits...) the full amount of their retirement pension is covered.
It is not a bad thing, but it was done in such a way as to make the USPS look bad.
The world would be a better place without Facebook and Twitter. It would result in less outrage politics, less radicalization of loaners, less keeping up with Jonses, less depressed people, less echo chambers, safer roads, better sleep. If deleting Facebook and Twitter was a pill, we would all be taking it instead of vitamins.
So, is less radicalization of bankers a good or a bad thing?
Tim S.
"less radicalization of loaners"
It isn't the interference that is the issue. It is that Russia pwned the US election process to put in a bubble headed wanna be dictator as president and empower a fringe nationalist movement that is pushing the US towards civil war that is the problem. It is one thing to push a vote but to turn the world's superpower into a banana republic on the verge of breakup is not only a concern but a slap in the face to anyone who ever cared about this country.
"it is turtles all the way down."
First, it's only _one_ turtle the Great A'Tuin. Second, there's also 4 elephants in between.
BLISS is ignorance.
