Actually, when I said "half the stuff on your list" insurance was the only one I was allowing. The others really make no difference.
Also - this story is specifically about restricting a ride to the AIRPORT. Do you honestly think that such a ride deserves a different set of criteria than a ride to the bowling alley?
Given that I don't really give a darn about half the stuff on your list, how about let the consumer make those choices for themselves?
And nobody like his local mayor called him on it
The local SHERIFF bought these. The Sheriff is a county level official - mayor is a local/city level official. More importantly though, the Sheriff virtually everywhere is an *elected* official. Generally elected officials can do whatever they want (within some level of reason) without any recourse until they next election day.
Basically you're talking about someone with their own budget who can't be "fired" like a normal person could. Though I must admit that this seems like it would be unpopular at the polls. Democrats hate anything weapon related and Republicans while pro-military tend to be very anti-militarization of the local police (plus just anti-government spending in general). Seems like both sides will not be happy with this.
When you are making a profit on every unit and your competitor is making a loss on every unit, why would you object very much when the competitor takes the lead on number of units?
It depends. You allude to the big picture but never step back and take a look at it. Sony and Microsoft typically have taken a loss on the consoles specifically because they DO make a lot of money on games sales.
So if when the numbers are tallied MS and/or Sony are coming in higher net positive, then their strategy is still working better.
Netflix, being a newer company, strikes me as aware of the fact that regardless of what they do, their shows are going to be on the torrent sites. DRM will never prevent that, and I think they know that.
No - I'm 32. Cheap has nothing to do with it. I have no problem with people thinking I'm cheap, or thrifty. There is an all too accurate negative stereotype of Walmart shoppers though that I simply wish to avoid.
I've never seen a successful argument involves "the right to *not* . .
IE, "I have the right to not see gays kissing in the street.". "I have the right to not see a black man with a white woman.".
As soon as you have to frame your argument around "the right to not", you've already lost.
As an aside: what's with Americans and their guns? Sheesh, people, grow up. You don't need a plastic-or-metal penis to be a real man
Your mistake is that thinking guns have anything to do with a penis or being a "real man". Seriously how often do you think people sit around thinking about the size of their dick?
People like guns because they happen to like guns. Some people like golf, basketball, big trucks, or a whole host of other stuff without worrying about their mainhood.
I swear we need to define a new logical fallacy revolving around this.
If corporate found out, it would probably drill something like this into clerks' heads: "Samsung doesn't make the iPad; Apple does. Let me show you the Galaxy Tab."
Not always the best strategy. You have to understand that many people in the buying public view such corrections as you being overly pedantic. If they want a "Samsung iPad" and you tell them Samsung only makes the Galaxy Tab, many will get offended and walk away.
What else can you really compete on when you're selling basics like toilet paper and laundry detergent.
The last one: image. Wal-mart has picked up such a negative image that a lot of people will pay extra just to make sure they don't have to shop there. Heck I personally buy a lot of store-brand generics for lots of products, but I won't buy those at Walmart because I don't want anyone who might come in my home to see a Wal-mart store brand product in my house.
One thing stores can compete in too is in non-imported goods. I try to buy "Made in the USA" goods when I can - particularly for things like tools. The local hardware store runs about 15-20% more than Walmart but a LOT of what they carry is domestically produced, and even for the stuff that isn't, they generally filter out the "junk" that Walmart sells. If something is of low/poor quality, that store generally won't stock it. They also have knowledgeable people working there, which helps. You're not going to find a person with actual plumbing or electrical experience working the hardware section at Wal-mart.
By "printing" I'm assuming they mean to duplicate the template person entirely - including memories. That tech might not exist today, and we might never be able to, but if we could, it would certainly work great for this.
Depending on the data size it might be feasible to store the templates of a few dozen individuals. Half male, half female. All the varying skillsets. Send out a few hundred probes that would systematically search star systems and if it finds an uninhabited one that could sustain human life, touch down and print/deploy/grow/whatever its digitally stored crew to colonize the planet.
The same individuals might get duplicated on quite a few planets - possibly during different time frames. IE, a probe lands, one crew builds a society, persists for thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, and then finally perishes, whilst the other ones continue to search and might touch down and redeploy further duplicates of those individuals millions of years later.
Ultimately, the question of "are we alone" in the universe becomes meaningless. Is there other life elsewhere? Quite likely, but even if its NOT, life in the universe has begun - as evidenced by ourselves. Even if we're the only examples, we can spread life everywhere else.
That's because Verizon doesn't do SIM cards, like AT&T, T-Mobile, and the rest of the world.
Up until recently that was true, but all 4G LTE Verizon phones have SIM cards too.
Dang. Why is it that none of these devices are ever available on Verizon? Its the 2nd most popular carrier in the US, and yet we never get these straight-pay phones for it. Their "full price" phones you actually buy from them are prices basically at a premium/penalized rate to get you to renew the contract, while the $200-300 phones from Google and this are unavailable
Eh - still better. The northern hemisphere is far more populated and has much more land than the southern. All of North America, Europe, and Asia are in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as half of Africa, and a bit of South America. From a simple "number of lives" perspective it'd be better to hit the lower portion.
The only way I see the system working is one where there is no "driver override". I can just imagine how many crashes would occur becauase the driver as absolutely "sure" that the computer was about to crash while going 125 MPH (which computer drivers might be able to operate at just fine). They take control, are unable to pilot the vehicle at that speed, and then crash, blaming it on the computer.
Heck, ideally I wouldn't imagine that future automated cars would even have a steering wheel or direct controls (aside from temperature, entertainment, etc). I'd imagine it to more closely resemble a modernized version of a stagecoach - seats facing each other. Heck having the seats be reclineable for naps would be great too. Driving myself say, from New York to Austin is a 27 hour trip. Not really a good drive. However, if I could just punch in my destination to a Google Maps console in the car, kick back, take a nap, play on the computer, etc, it wouldn't be so bad.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
