Easily fixed, so long as the legislators don't try to overcook the law with too much complexity. The law should simply say, "You can have digital shelf price labels, but you can't change the price on those labels while the store is open to the public. If your store is open 24 hours a day, you can change the price between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., but you must make a clear announcement to everyone in the store immediately before the change and every five minutes until the change is completed, in every language commonly used in your area, stating that prices are about to change and the price displayed on the shelf when you picked up the item may not be the price you will be charged at checkout."
It preserves the supposed benefits of the digital labels, and ensures that customers have pricing transparency.
I'd even allow a carve-out for goods customarily sold at "market price," so long as the list of such goods is controlled by the state and price changes are limited to when the seller's wholesale price changes and current stock is exhausted.
DEFENSE Secretary. There has been no official name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War. That requires an act of Congress, not some nebulous "executive order".
I mean a de-beaked headcrab could have posited that this was likley a thing
I read "Cadmium Zinc Telluride," and all that comes to mind is a large, bright yellow Kia SUV.
Checks are inconvenient and hideously insecure, but they remain the one way for an American to (sort of) safely send money to a person or company without both parties physically present that doesn't necessarily result in third-party fees for either party. That's the problem banks have to solve to get rid of paper checks.
In my town, you can pay your taxes in cash (at the town hall, during limited hours, in person), by mailing in a check for the exact amount, or via credit card—which results in a 2.5% surcharge to cover the cost of using the credit-card network. Paying in person isn't a realistic option for most folks, as you'd need to take time off from work to do it. For a $2,500 property-tax bill, that's an extra $62.50, which isn't a negligible fee. Even factoring in the cost of the stamp and the envelope, it's way cheaper to mail them a check. The stamp is even cheaper than the cost for fuel and lost time to drive down and pay in cash.
And it'll get worse now that credit-card companies can charge different processing rates based on the rewards tier of your credit card, and merchants can pass along that variable rate as a surcharge to your bill...
Is this what clanker apologetics looks like?
Instead of 'video wall paper' can we just get the After Dark screensavers back into existence?
A "Model M" keyboard without the singular defining feature that makes the Model M iconic—the buckling-spring key mechanism.
What's next? A new Big Mac clone that only comes without any sauce?
...so whatever it is, it'll be rolled out half-baked with great fanfare, get forced onto various users by the sheer weight of Google's not-a-monopoly on just about everything, limp along for a year or two, and then Google will discover that the problem is more difficult than it first appeared, get bored, and kill it off in favor of the next exciting new half-baked thing.
This could be the greatest idea ever; Google's involvement is the kiss of death for it regardless, until proven otherwise. The odds aren't in the project's favor.
Well, Instapaper has been doing a fine job reading CNN's articles for me, both desktop and mobile... an extra click or two, but worth the effort.
It also depends on how effects-heavy the show was. Older shows shot on film and edited on film are pretty easy to re-scan in HD. Then you get to the 90s and you get shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation that were shot on film but edited on video—Paramount had to go back and re-edit the entire series, and redo a lot of the effects like phaser beams that were done with video paintboxes, to get an HD version.
One of the saddest cases is Babylon 5. The show was shot on film and protected for 16:9, because Straczynski saw HD coming. But the effects were done with early CGI, and so they were all rendered at 4:3 480i. And for various reasons including studio stupidity, nobody saved the raw CGI effects data, so it can't just be re-rendered on modern equipment—they'd have to redo all of the effects from scratch. When WB did a 16:9 DVD release, they didn't even bother re-rendering scenes with "video paintbox" effects like blaster fire; they just cropped the 4:3 480i down to 16:9 and upscaled those scenes (poorly).
From the great minds who broughhttps://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/03/182255/how-the-british-broke-their-own-economy#t us "It’s Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap" and "Inflation Is Your Fault"
I voted for Giant Asterioid in this last election and I feel cheated out of the world ending apocalpyse I was promised!
Function reject.
