Comment Re:Success breeds success (Score 1) 118
no, but mitt romney does?
No, but he can become one in the afterlife if he has enough wives on Earth prior to his death.
no, but mitt romney does?
No, but he can become one in the afterlife if he has enough wives on Earth prior to his death.
I would switch, but then I'd have to rewrite my hosts files.
But how many of the entries on that page are hoaxes about being hoaxes?
Much like the turtles, it's hoaxes all the way down.
His Nexus 6 wrapped in toilet paper was hidden in the adjacent stall...
Hopefully a Roy, not a Leon.
This is a 'troll'? Somebody must have changed the moderation guidelines again.
No, this is about old stuff, so they are clearly trying to protect Earth Orbit Station.
Right next to you. And she's just waiting for something to do...
Weird coincidence: watched part of it last night. (Through Harry the cabbie. Too tired to watch any more)
This clunky spacebot has no style. Everybody knows that the ultimate vehicle for reentry and soft landing is shaped exactly like a 1959 Corvette.
Just don't bring the green orb with you.
Wait, we can have bread AND butter?!
But I like toast and jam.
Was this a Fareed original, or yet another of his pieces of plagiarism?
Pretty sure it means 'return on investment' in this context, but as they don't supply the cost of the investment, the location these salaries are drawn from, the number of years after the degree, etc, etc, etc, it's just another bit of Dice-tastic link bait.
I was clearly in your second group a few years back...
Maybe you just were not sexy enough, hm?
I'm too sexy for my hat, what do you think about that?
There are some owner operators as described, but most are beholden.
The problem with swapping drivers has to do with hours of service requirements. A bit too much detail to get into right now, unfortunately.
I should actually correct myself slightly: Wal-Mart (and others) have some in house drivers and some outsourced.
BTW, in discussions of the transport industry, don't get distracted/lied to by the companies. Some drivers think they are owner operators, when in practice, they aren't. They will lease/buy a truck from (as an example, all of the bigs do this) Schneider. As part of the lease terms, they can only accept loads from Schneider. It should be obvious that the 'owner' is an employee who has assumed much of the risk that the company would usually take on.
ShanghaiBill has a decent reply, but he misses a point: if the automated truck is cheaper, the big companies will drive that change in a heartbeat. The trick is that someone has to be convinced that they will be cheaper. They are unlikely to automatically accept that an automated truck is safer, faster, etc. One area where they are likely to be impressed is the possibility of 24 hour operations, rather than the 10 hour per day (rough) limits of human operated trucks. In addition to (possibly) being cheaper, this will allow faster shipments for more mundane goods (there are already plenty of ways to have fast shipping, but it is cost prohibitive to do for everything) which would offer them a competitive advantage. I suspect this last point will be the thin edge of the wedge.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.