"Looks like about 20k per job. Probably 100k paying jobs..."

20k per quarter per employee is going to come out to around $40-$50k salaries. Not horrible, but considering their target is college graduates, it's not exactly something special.

Their fair share is obviously whatever things cost and I don't feel like paying for myself.

> "Where did you get the idea that it had been running for just a quarter of a year?"

From the quote in the summary of the economic adviser defending it:

"The low numbers didn't stop some state officials from defending the initiative. "Given the program was only up and running for basically one quarter of a year," Andrew Kennedy, a senior economic development aide to Governor Cuomo, told Capital New York, "I think 80 jobs is a good number that we can stand behind.""

Most five year olds choose to watch cartoons over live-action movies as well.

Delivery by truck was impractical at one point too. There's a solution to every problem. And because the truck won't be too far from the drone, you could probably find a way to detect jamming, which the FCC doesn't look to kindly upon.

Your FedxEx and UPS guys are already using drones with truck-based mobile launchpads?

Shit, my FedEx guy is still trying to figure out the "This Side Up" arrow on package.

It's not just the number of miles, but also the stop-go-stop-go-stop-go nature of deliveries that kill fuel consumption and increase wear and tear too.

Or AC was using the article to figure out today's date.

AC just assumed that Slashdot is continuing it's excellence in timely reporting of two year's ago news.

I believe you're thinking of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, not the DMCA

The trick is slowing light down to the speed of an unladen swallow

Because after 20 years of killing Nazis, I still haven't bought the full version of Wolf3d.

If the bugs weren't written by their peers, they'd be features.

Wolfram Alpha and Google equate 39 Manhattans to the following:

- 1,310 square miles
- 3,393 square kilometers
- 634,079.63 American football fields
- 475,193.28 Association football fields
- 0.85 Rhode Islands
- 1.7 Area Flattened By The Tunguska Event(s)
- 1.0 Acres Designated and Managed As Wilderness In The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
- 1.0 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- 1.0 Non-tidal watershed below Waterville on the Kennebec River, ME

That's just the SJ Sathanis in the background