4300 years ago...
I guess the Sixth Dynasty of Old Kingdom Egypt didn't notice they got washed away, and went on building their pyramids like nothing had happened.
And Sargon must have clung to the side of the ark - or snuck on disguised as a dinosaur - so he could get back to building his empire as soon as the ground dried out.
I reckon the author is better at manipulating reality than he is at manipulating search results.
All boys so there was no hanky-panky.
How did that work out for him?
A taxi can get you almost anywhere in less than half the time.
That problem isn't the taxi's problem, it is a train problem. I could design a bus system in New York that would Eliminate the need for Taxis.
Most links on slashdot are underlined to me.
Poke around with a mouse sometime over many of the two lines of text above each post... many things are clickable, and are not underlined until you hover over them.
In IOS the indicator that something could be interacted with was meant to be similar to an underline, in that buttons took on the tint color for the app - so when you saw that color you would know you could press.
I personally prefer outlines either, but it's not Ive's fault if some designers did not follow those guidelines in UI designs with textual buttons.
If you want fair competition, you have to do it under the same rules as everyone else.
Uber is under the same rules - might makes right.
Both taxis and Uber have drivers working for a large organization with lots of money trying to compete. It's just that governments fight competition through fear and intimidation; companies like Uber fight competition through better service.
If you like fear and oppressive rule, by all means cheer the taxis on.
In their quest for telling a compelling story,
Can someone tell me how this isn't just unseemly science rather than bad science? Sure it might seem like you are "cheating", but if the data tells you something that you didn't expect going in and you change your hypothesis along the way, you still are presenting data and you simply just took a shortcut publishing your second paper and just tossed-out your initial attempt at writing a paper.
To me, bad science would be cherry-picking your data to fit your original hypothesis (or perhaps your ideology or world view).
Honestly, we've had this current system for so long, would it really hurt to try another one?
We've had the old system in place since the dawn of the Industrial Age. It no longer suits our needs because we don't need Industrial Education. YET, we are fighting to keep it, rather than use the metrics we have available under the information age to have appropriate education for every student at all times. We no longer need Teachers, but we rather need facilitators, to help kids maximize their potential at the time they can attain it. The methods of Industrial education do not afford us the ability to teach the smart kids like they are smart, and the slower kids like they need.
This is going to require a huge shakeup of status quo.
Competition in government granted monopolies (ahem "Franchise Agreements"). Good one!
That's why we must preserve what little is left, for its rarity makes it finite and precious.
I like that better than adopting a defeatist attitude and assuming all is lost.
" I'd rather see an injection as the corpse looks less... mutilated and gory."
Less Exotic.
It starts out that way. And then, it doesn't end up that way. Franchise agreements always end up hurting the public in the long run.
If you want to fix the streets of New York City, implement better public transportation. New York could use a nice bus system.
If licenses weren't numbered, the proliferation of taxis would render city streets unnavigable.
That is utter bullshit. It is fear mongering at its worse. What is the worst possible thing is to have Government Granted Franchise agreements, whereby politicians can be bought and paid for by those companies buying up such agreements. The public is never served by such agreements in the long run.
Improperly secured networks. Yes, you can use "internet connected" networks, but if you don't secure them properly, a simple PTP VPN tunnel connection, would allow for transactions ONLY (via VPN). If you don't allow any inbound, or outbound traffic, other than what transverses across the VPN, you can't have this kind of thing happen.
That it got this far without being summarily rejected is problematic all by itself.
The FTC does not, and should not, do summary rejections. Even evil corporations have a right to due process.
In general I would agree with you, but not in this case. That they are natural monopolies would be grounds for a summary rejection. There's no reason that cannot be a special exception.
Competition in government granted monopolies (ahem "Franchise Agreements"). Good one!
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
