It takes a couple of hours to get up to 5800RPM, but when that bitch is spinning don't even try to tilt your computer.

To further your point, if they really thought Eich was so bad they would quit using Javascript. But that would come at a *real* cost, unlike hounding him out of his position which can be done for free.

Makes it all the more pathetic.

The President saying "I'm opposed to gay marriage" does a hell of a lot more work than $1000 given to a losing campaign. Not. Even. Close.

They're opposed to Prop 8 yet in 2008:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pre...

Remember that Obama was also opposed to gay marriage when Eich was. Doesn't seem to have bothered too many people.

I'm impressed. You must be *real* popular over at Daily Kos.

Exactly! I bet 6 years ago when Obama was against gay marriage you were calling him a bigot and trying to publicly shame him too, right?

Right?

Oh.

So, I'm sure you refused to vote for Obama 6 years ago, right?

Part of the problem is that people who are familiar with "x" will tend to sympathize with others of their kind. Look at the problem we have holding any member of the criminal justice system - from street cops all the way to judges - liable for even the most egregious illegal acts. It's crazy.

Juries should be a mix of experts and non-experts alike, with the experts providing needed information for the others. There's no perfect way around it, but the current method of "throw out all jurors with an IQ over 75" is obviously subpar.

It would have been far less consequential to the economy as a whole to simply let the failed banks fail. I've explained this at length elsewhere but not only do we have the direct harm of paying money to a private entity to keep them in business we have the far larger harm of signaling to other 1%ers that they can do whatever the hell stupid shit they want and then whine until the government saves them. That is a much bigger problem. Much much bigger.

Markets only work when there's feedback, both positive and negative. Do a google search about people who can't sense pain. They harm themselves badly without realizing it. We're creating huge companies that are like that now by taking away their pain. It's a very wrong thing to do.

I grew up in a grocery store, quite literally, so I have way big expertise here. The problem with self checkouts isn't that customers suck, it's that the self-checkout doesn't trust the cashier (that's you in case you missed it) and so doesn't allow the kind of actions that make checking out fast.

All self-checkouts have a separate bagging area which is a large scale or set of scales which weigh the items that you put in the bags after you scan them. This means that you have to scan a single item then bag that item, wait for the scale to notice and acknowledge the change in weight, then you can go on to the next item. Scales typically don't register small changes in weight very well, and with 50 lbs. of stuff on a scale adding a typical item changes the weight by only 1%. That might not be enough to even cause movement of the scale for it to notice the weight change. When that happens, the automated checkout complains and the human cashier who is watching all of the automated checkouts has to intervene.

A regular cashier has no such inhibitions and simply scans each item as fast as he can with an audible beep to confirm that the item has been scanned. A good cashier will have items in both hands and run them over the scanner as fast as he can and simply rescan anything that causes no beep. This system allows the regular cashier to be around 10 times as fast - possibly even faster - than the self checkout.

If people could be trusted better, self checkouts could be made far better. In their current form they're borderline unusable for more than 2 or 3 items. In our local Walmart they removed them after the first year due to rampant theft around them, so it's a real problem.

People often think it's a problem similar to an ATM. When I was a kid and I wanted to deposit or withdraw money from my bank account I actually went into the bank with my savings book and saw a teller. The ATM actually sped this process up for the most part, but what it does is far simpler than the automated checkout and the user has far less control over the transaction. Think about it - it's not like you get a big bundle of cash and then tell the ATM how much you're taking. The ATM is more akin to a vending machine.

At Harris Teeter here and now Publix they're moving to "online ordering". At Harris Teeter you order online and later come by the store and they bring your stuff to your car. In time (yes, it's coming) someone will move to a warehouse setup with robots to pick most of the orders. Expect it. Self checkouts have reached their limit but the future is automation.

Wrong. Only in poorly regulated capitalism do entities deemed "too big to fail" by the government get propped up and continue doing the exact same stuff that caused them to fail in the first place while generously giving "campaign donations" back from the money given to the by the government.

In a true free market, GM went bankrupt and the pieces were bought by their smarter competitors. In a true free market, the big banks who had a bunch of failed mortgages went bankrupt and the pieces were bought by their smarter competitors.

Crony capitalism isn't the same as capitalism.

But, before hitting Silicon Valley, why not make a stop by the NBA?

I mean, asians and whites are dramatically underrepresented there. I'm sure you see this as a big problem, too.

Right, Jesse?

Um, Jesse?

It's the crappy software. Free isn't cheap enough, especially when you're 5 years too late to the party and a million apps behind.

Or, better yet, raise enough money to fix a real problem.

Right wing affiliation? Are you kidding? That gets you audited these days - look at Dr. Ben Carson as an example.