It's very clear that you didn't read the article, don't understand the arguments involved, but SOMEHOW feel entitled to spout your opinion.

Why?? Why not just read the article and become smarter? You don't need to show your ignorance off to the world, you can easily read the article, become non-ignorant and say something informed.

People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

see, here nobody accepts my belief system, they have moded both of my comments as "troll", yet I never troll here, I always say what I mean when it comes to tech, politics and economics. To mode my comments as "troll" means to declare that I do not believe and practice what I say or maybe that I am trying to start some sort of a riot. The former assumes that I am not serious, the latter assumes that everyone reading these comments camnot engage in civilized discourse, it is disgusting really, that people deny others their intentions or agency.

any amount of government, all of it makes me sick to my stomach, that is all I have to say on the topic.

Correct, government shouldn't be running services, this is up to the private individuals to satisfy needs at an agreed price. Years ago here I said that at some point in the 21st century we will see collapse of the government structures, we are observing it now. The next logical step is to have all services, no matter what they are to be done privately if needed. This is what I am rooting for, I am hoping to see it in this life time.

fuck ruzzia, fuck all ruzzians and triple fuck everyone doing business with the. Hopefully their scourge of s country collapses and breaks into small pieces and everyone there gets ass cancer of the 5th degree and dies a horrible death.

Now do USPS.

Paper mail is a waste of time except when it isn't, and for those times pay for FexEx!

so was my last speeding ticket.

The fines should be set high enough to so that the activity that results in them isn't more profitable than doing whatever the law says is the right thing. 400k is probably enough that it would have been better for the company to have given existing part time works a handful of additional hours a week to update price labels across the state.

Fines are not suppose to be excessively punitive or ruinous. If someone was really behaving outrageously or with real criminal intent we have have jails for that. This is that though, anyone who has been in Dollar General knows managements 'vision' how can we do the absolute minimum require to operate a retails store, right down to the bear florescent (maybe led in some newer facilities) tubes for over head light.

hows that again? AC

Lack of regulation - Nope they are getting fined because there are regulations.

Lack of enforcement - Nope they got audited thousands of times and fined!

Now you could argue they were not fined enough, I guess but clearly there is a regulation and clearly the regulators are checking up!

I live 'out in the county', that is dollar store country.

The typical Dollar General is a 60k foot store - sometimes bigger, and there are NEVER more than two employees working. Which means one person on the register and one other person to do any re-shelving, stock keeping, pricing, etc.

No way they are getting all that done.

We all know what masking is.

Hint if you are able to effectively mask a disability - its not really a 'disability'. Its just a 'condition' to whatever degree it is even real.

Now in your case the masking isn't effective. We can all tell you and the kids you are always babbling about are in fact severely retarded, like Tim Walz level retarded..

Just because an asset is fully depreciated on the books does not mean a business has to throw it away.

They may want to because a new asset might be more efficent, more reliable, have lower maintenance costs, and of course it might be safer which could translate in to lower insurance rates, and obviously a depreciation goes against profitability and therefore gains you some favorable tax treatment which shifts the margin at which you might replace a appreciable asset forward.

That said I worked a company about a decade ago that was running a punch press built in 1898 regularly. Pretty sure that was fully depreciated. It was still shaping metal cases just fine and nobody saw a reason to buy a new one.

I think we are just now experiencing an age of computing where decade+ old hardware really is really might do a given job as well as anything new. Depending on the scale other concerns like energy consumption might not be much a of a concern.

if you look at just PCs (server/data center applications are more complicated) from the mid 1970s up until maybe the mid 2000s, each generation was obviously a significant leap forward for the typical home user. Electron, more complex cryptography etc, mean that c2005 PC is pretty much hopeless, however by the time you get to 2015 or so you can still be using that system today if it was high-end at the time. For most business applications a 2017 or newer system if probably indistinguishable for the latest and greatest for all but most demanding users (recognize Slashdot bias probably means you're a demanding user) as far as Jim in AP is concerned when he selects re-calculate from the menu in Excel it was then, its fast now, and the pie chart he sends his VP to include in the executive briefing looks about the same in terms of resolution and color.

  It really is though quite a new thing for the response to 'new pcs' being 'why?'

Which is I think why this AI hype cycle seems outsides even as tech hype cycles go; If the industry can sell you AI accelerators, they don't really know what else to do...

This is much cheaper than actually going through the labor intensive process of psychoanalysis, so insurance companies like it.

I wonder when we'll see the Ritalin lawsuits.

... could be replaced by an email conversation.

But then, arguments would actually have to be made (from something other then enthusiasm), and could be considered dispassionately. And everything would be in writing. We can't have that!