Corporate policy is probably to push items that are about to expire first. They would directly lose money on expired items otherwise. It also tells me that they overstock too many items if the expiration date is too short, that whole logistics thing. Workers are just doing what they are being told to do, I would be surprised if they are that malicious or incompetent.

You are right though, who is going to want to buy week old bread online?

I hate to point it out to you naysayers, but he is probably the least likeliest to be hacked in the whole organization!

Take that you geeks of changing password every week!

Uber's business regardless of who the owner is, does not change because their owner is doing something else as well.

Being paid a portion of the sale, like a sales person who works on commission? They are not all contractors, some are employees.

You listed studies about these dangers, but somehow they are all from China, with only Chinese contributors with no details on their results. Combine that with China have a serious problems with a lack of peer review I am saying that I have some bias on the source of the information. Whether it is listed by the NIH or not is irrelevant.

If the information is not that common and your struggling to find something on the dangers of 5G usage, I find it unlikely that Mills Valley has some secret knowledge that they are objecting to the installation of the towers. It is more likely it is just NIMBY's attitude which shows up a lot in wealthy neighborhoods and towns when they can get away with it.

So you linked to a bunch of articles from purely China authors in Beijing. While I see a lot of quotes about dangers, I guess if I stick my head in a microwave for 20 or 30 minutes at a time I can understand having some DNA damage. What I don't see is is any explanation of why a microwave sitting my kitchen is danger.

Might as well be links to the dangers of Di-hydrogen Oxide and all the nasty effects it has.

There are to few people in government to be overseeing every little thing, so yes it is a good idea for people to have SOME ability to judge whether a review is fake or not.

It maybe a inferior product, but if it takes less energy to generate then starting from scratch you are still coming out ahead.

I used to do Perl programming, I had to move from Pittsburgh to Tucson, AZ because there were no Perl positions in Pittsburgh and had to move half-way across the country because they could find no one locally for the position. If you are Shenzhen, there are thousand chip programmers because there are literally a thousand companies with those sorts of jobs, of course there is no problem with finding someone there!

I can imagine most people would not know what a "pick and place machine" is. Why would people apply for a job just because a company is offering a salary? Most companies don't respond to most job applications and why waste time for applying for positions they barely know anything about? Where is the responsibility of the company to train and educate people they wish to employ?

Lets be honest, Microsoft has gone past peak. They have been desperately looking for a new business model and this is just another attempt to look at another money stream.

I guarantee that if this works to any degree, all versions of Windows will follow this model in the future, with shorter and shorter timelines. I guess I have been lucky to not really have problems with Windows, on the other hand I always turned off their auto-updates. If Microsoft convinces people to migrate to the cloud (for Office products) I have a hard time imagining that the Windows desktop will not be replaced with Linux at some point. That was always their biggest tie-in, once you lose that why not look at alternatives?

Finally, Trump told Apple what they needed to do. That was the problem with Apple, their management was totally clueless and had no idea what to do. They probably did not even have a meeting on the subject.

Now that Trump has finally spoken up and now they know what to do!

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I think this election cycle people are becoming more open to voting to non-incumbent candidates. There appears to be significant interest and activity in pushing new candidates with drastically different ideas. While not a landslide of new people, it is enough to give people confidence the status quo is no longer acceptable.

BMW says they are selling a new car, basically 6 to 9 months from now, big deal. Tesla always had competition, but never really good competition. The two I think of off the top of my head are the Leaf and the Volt. I know there is more but I am too lazy to list all of them. It is enough to say that right now, it is not a one company market and right now Tesla is controlling it.

Mercedes all said they are just getting start and aren't dedicating a factory because they don't want to over-commit to the market. They are procrastinating other manufacturers and let Tesla own a large market. If they were confident they could sell a large number of their cars they would be preparing long term instead of basically doing a limited production line.

When Tesla is able to actually meet market demand (they don't need a reservation list) what do you think people are going to buy Mercedes or Tesla? That will be interesting but it will be at least another 2 or 3 years before that happens.

Uh, no.

We have a person who was mad at Valve because he took away his easy income. It could have easily been a stock broker or a online scammer losing his income lashing out.

Maybe we should stop selling the american dream of easy money and a government with a "hands off" attitude to mental health.

Norway and Sweden have both been pretty successful at what they are doing, maybe they are better examples than China or Russia.