Comment Re: I don't really buy it (Score 2) 422
Well, the details of the lawsuit aren't public, but there are other grounds besides not being paid; for example, "abusive layoff". It's France.
Well, the details of the lawsuit aren't public, but there are other grounds besides not being paid; for example, "abusive layoff". It's France.
The article says that employees were let go due to falling revenue in 2013. In 2014 revenue rose and the former employees sued and won. The judgement forced the company into bankruptcy. The article says nothing about the laid off employees not getting paid.
I've had the 'starvation mode' discussion with people in the past. I lost 45 pounds at a rate of about 1-1/2 lbs/week by cutting my intake by an estimated 500 calories per day. There were people who responded essentially with "Can't be true -- after a couple of weeks your body would go into starvation mode and the weight loss would stop." While that might be true for some individuals with unusual metabolisms, it's not true in general. 500 calories is the difference between a burger and fries, and a burger and a side of fruit. Or the difference between a burrito slathered with sauce and cheese, and a salad. A year later, and the weight is still off; I have more energy, and my diet is definitely healthier by a long stretch.
I've never, ever heard someone choosing a phone based on it having iOS or Android.
Well then, let me introduce myself. A few months after my wife got an iPhone 4, I got one too, just so I could answer her "How do I
Read the Bible and see just how fucked up that book is, and try to understand how that appears from an outsider's perspective.
Yeah. Maybe what's important isn't so much what the books say, but what the fanatical believers actually do.
Too bad the only floppies he wants are shareware. I still have the 5-1/4" media for Windows 1.0 that came with my first PC.
If you can call that "living." Think of the bacteria!
I believe you may have stumbled upon a new cause for PETA.
Rhode Island is supposed to be an island. The rising sea levels are only helping it to achieve its natural state!
Probably not enough rise to make that happen.
Although it is believed that the melting of floating ice shelves will not raise sea levels, technically, there is a small effect because sea water is ~2.6% more dense than fresh water combined with the fact that ice shelves are overwhelmingly "fresh" (having virtually no salinity); this causes the volume of the sea water needed to displace a floating ice shelf to be slightly less than the volume of the fresh water contained in the floating ice. Therefore, when a mass of floating ice melts, sea levels will increase; however, this effect is small enough that if all extant sea ice and floating ice shelves were to melt, the corresponding sea level rise is estimated to be ~4 cm.
However, if and when these ice shelves melt sufficiently, they no longer impede glacier flow off the continent, so that glacier flow would accelerate. This new source of ice volume would flow down from above sea level, thus resulting in its total mass contributing to sea rise.
It's a fad, and will be nothing but a memory in 10 years
Keurig shipped their first brewing machines in 1998; Nespresso, in 1988. Probably not a fad.
So, if we just add wifi we can have the Internet of Keurigs?
Yes. But what we really need is the Keurig of Internets.
* internet advises people to drink 2-3 L of fluids per day. * 365 days per year, 70 year lifespan -> 70k liters -> 70 m^3 over lifetime. * 7b ppl alive today. Everybody alive today will drink 500 m^3 of fluids. * the handwavey estimate is that half of the people who have ever lived are alive today. if this is true, then the entire human species has drunk 1000 m^3 of water. * the volume of the ocean is 1.3 10^9 km^3 -> 1.3 10^18 m^3.
You say "7b ppl alive today", but then multiply 70m^3 by 7. Either b=1, or your estimate is off by just a smidge, or 9 orders of magnitude.
Either way, most of the water we drink has not been previously drunk by another human. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, are a different story (obligatory xkcd).
The reason houses have so many windows is so that people have an escape route in the event of a fire. If it weren't for that requirement, you could make houses much more energy-efficient by reducing their number. Do you really need a window in a bathroom, for instance? Heck no.
The window in my downstairs bathroom is so small that no one capable of climbing to its height would be able to fit through. On the other hand, I might be able to barely squeeze through the window in my upstairs bathroom, but I'd probably break my neck in the fall to the ground.
One can be "in the right" and still not have done the right thing.
Pretty much what I was thinking. Back when the Earth was a molten mass and I was taking Driver Education in high school, there was a lot of emphasis on "defensive driving"; in other words, expect the other guy to do the wrong thing, and be ready for it. When you have a mix of self-driving and human-operated cars on the road, the self-driving ones better have some extremely conservative defensive driving skills.
You say he is a cow, yet you are the one making cow noises. How odd.
Memory fault - where am I?