Comment Re:Not concerned (Score 1) 177
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.
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.
Most large companies outsource their transport to JB Hunt, Schneider, etc. Sure, the big letters say 'WalMart', but in smaller, DOT minimum sized font, it often has another name.
I personally have never killed anything larger than a bug in my life; I suspect a lot of other people haven't either. I've never had to, because there have always been other people who are willing to do those unpleasant tasks for me, in exchange for modest amounts of money.
You're safe; I'm sure in our dystopian zombie future, the phones will still need sanitizing.
'Proof' (and derivatives thereof) means almost nothing when related to Pudge, no matter how tangentially. Much like 'lie' means... I don't even know what, when related to Pudge.
WTF is this shit?
You are a prohibitionist. As such you are illogical, irrational, arrogant, and totally unreasonable.
Most people do not have a problem with the jackboot of authority, so long as it is on their feet rather than their neck.
Once again you are proving pudge right
This is the worst crime of all.
The hacker community is primarily a male dominated space, therefore it must be hostile and problematic, shitlord!
Perhaps we should start marketing the term "hackette", and include a pen-test ISO image with every Barbie Thumb Drive.
Seems to be the desperate approach in CS-land.
Those Barbie thumb drives already have them. Not my fault you haven't discovered it yet.
Go work for a contractor. Get to know the feds. Then your resume magically moves to the top in usajobs.gov.
You throw me the idol!
Throw me the whip and I'll throw you the idol!
The Emacs maintainer has called the statements irrelevant and won't affect their decision to merge the LLDB support.
Now that persuasion has failed, I suppose he could fork it.
Winner! This is BRILLIANT : )
This is the only time I have seen a *plausible* use of the "don't like it? fork it" on slashdot since my 1998 awakening to Slashdot*. The other 99.9% of the time the rest of you guys are just being jerks by asking us random non-coder slashdotters to fork stuff, like Firefox and Chrome. It's like being slapped in the face with a strawman and insult at the same time (fractaltiger *must be* lazy and dumb if he won't fork after pointing out some design flaw in that program, ignore its millions of lines of code).
Browsers change every month and are hugely un-maintainable by individual coders in the long term anyway
Judy Carne was best... sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me...
We need a sampled and mixed Milhouse Nixon on that line.
So, what's your remedy?
Respect!
Find out what it means to me.
Not bad, but I think Barb's was actually pretty good.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
