Comment Re:Lobbying and Contributions (Score 1, Interesting) 441
This is a 'troll'? Somebody must have changed the moderation guidelines again.
This is a 'troll'? Somebody must have changed the moderation guidelines again.
No, this is about old stuff, so they are clearly trying to protect Earth Orbit Station.
Right next to you. And she's just waiting for something to do...
Weird coincidence: watched part of it last night. (Through Harry the cabbie. Too tired to watch any more)
This clunky spacebot has no style. Everybody knows that the ultimate vehicle for reentry and soft landing is shaped exactly like a 1959 Corvette.
Just don't bring the green orb with you.
Wait, we can have bread AND butter?!
But I like toast and jam.
Was this a Fareed original, or yet another of his pieces of plagiarism?
Pretty sure it means 'return on investment' in this context, but as they don't supply the cost of the investment, the location these salaries are drawn from, the number of years after the degree, etc, etc, etc, it's just another bit of Dice-tastic link bait.
I was clearly in your second group a few years back...
Maybe you just were not sexy enough, hm?
I'm too sexy for my hat, what do you think about that?
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?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
