please don't sue.
Hate speech is not a crime in the United States. You are free to express all the hatred that you want. Some schools have administrative penalties for hate speech, but the courts have thrown out many of those policies. Suing for hate speech makes about as much sense as trying to apply RICO to completely legal activities. There is silliness from both sides here.
The issue of enforcing standards is a serious one.
It's also easily corrected. Pass a law that states the following:
1. Food inspectors may arrive without notice, in plain clothes.
2. Upon arrival, inspectors may compel mobile business owners to remain stationary for a period of up to fifteen minutes to permit inspection (How long can inspecting a one-room business take?)
3. Inspectors may pose as customers to purchase sample product.
4. Require both the business license and the health dept inspection certificate to be publicly displayed in a conspicuous location, so any informed customer can phone in a violation. Note: Nearly all jurisdictions already do this. Next time you are in a restaurant or at a food truck, look for the permits, and you will see them 99% of the time, often taped to a side wall or sometimes on the ceiling. Before I buy from a food cart, I check, and the only time I didn't see the permits was an ice cream hand cart. But I didn't care since everything he was selling was pre-packaged anyway.
Storage is the only solution to that problem.
Storage is NOT the only solution.
Another solution is demand shifting. Homes and businesses can shift their power needs to off-peak periods. Energy sucking appliances can be programmed to only run when the electricity price falls below a threshold. So you load your clothes dryer, or dishwasher, but they don't run until hours later. Your refrigerator and freezer can pre-chill during off peak hours and coast through peak hours. Businesses can receive incentives to move some of their shifts earlier or later.
Yet another solution is a wider grid, and long distance transmission, so local surpluses can be sold to customers located far away, or even in other timezones.
Somebody needs to read The Mythical Man Month. Adding more hackers to a late hacking project just makes it later.
This is not the same situation as described in MMM. They are not adding more random programmers to a team. The outside programmers are already part of the team, and already know their roles, and how to coordinate and communicate with their teammates.
And how does the school district get the student account information?
1. Create a fake account using the picture of a really cute 16 year old girl claiming to be new at the school.
2. Request to friend a few boys. 99% of them will accept.
3. Follow the friends of friends network to connect to everyone else.
In a few days, you should have every student with a Facebook account. My daughter is in high school. She has over 600 Facebook friends, and she will just automatically accept any friend request from any other student at her school. I think this is pretty typical for HS students.
Enclosed stove with a stack and convection-based oxygenating of fuel, been done for thousands of years in various places in asia and africa.
The stove in the article looks exactly like the cookstoves we made from coffee cans when I was in the girl scouts*. They work well, and are a big improvement over an open fire, but I don't see anything new about it.
*Yes, I was a male girl scout. My mom was the scout leader, and my sisters were already girl scouts, so she signed me up too. My mom was a tough scout leader. Years later, I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and it was a piece of cake compared to my mom's girl scout troop. -- Semper Fi, and Be Prepared.
In some places a few dollars a week is a good living for something you can do as a hobby.
Anyone that is able to write good code can make a decent living anywhere in the world. I have hired contract programmers from China, Pakistan, India, etc. If they are any good, they can easily make a few hundred USD a week. You aren't hiring rice farmers.
The root of the problem is that crime rates have fallen dramatically over the last two decades, while the number of police officers has not. The cops don't have enough real crime to deal with, so they fill the vacuum with make believe crime instead. The solution is to either reduce the number of police, or to refocus them on community policing and crime reduction rather than "making arrests".
Lectures aren't a stupid teaching method
Yes they are.
they're a compromise between having individual tutors and having everybody learning out of a book.
Many people learn better out of the book, or online, but have to attend lectures anyway, because there might be a pop quiz or the lecturer might mention something not in the book that is on the final exam. If lecturers were required to teach the same material as the book, and use only pre-scheduled quizes and tests, then many people would have no use for them.
Their credit card is debited for the cost of the damages.
Some of the posited undesirable behaviors would not cause actual damage.
If no repairs or cleaning is required, and no expense in incurred, then why would the behaviors be "undesirable" to a profit seeking company?
Also, damage or disablement could be performed by people who have not supplied payment (i.e. people who have just entered the cab
You pay online, or at least suppy a CC number, before the cab is dispatched.
or people who are outside the cab).
Why would that be any different than vandalism of a parked car? It is a problem, but not a problem that is new or different than an existing problem that we have learned to live with.
Because, eventually, society is going to get fed up with not being able to do anything without having advertisements shoved in their faces every second, and will actively revolt by deliberately avoiding any and all businesses whose adverts pissed them off.
Or maybe Google will learn to detect which ads you don't like and send you only ads that you find entertaining, or for products that you really do want to learn more about. For instance I would like to see more ads for metal lathes and band saw blades, but almost never see them even though I frequently visit metal working websites.
What happens when someone breaks the rules?
Their credit card is debited for the cost of the damages. Was this supposed to be a hard question?
Perhaps whoever fantasized that scenario imagined Google would pay for Tesla in Google shares instead of money.
Except that the author specifically says "cash" earlier in the same sentence.
Because we, the people, end up bailing out these irresponsible fuckers who have turned Wallstreet into a casino.
Except the bailout that nothing whatsoever to do with HFT. It also had nothing to do with Wall Street being a "casino". In fact, it was the exact opposite. The banks underestimated the systemic (non-random) risk.
It seems this would be a simple job for a 3D printer -- 1) get the person's fingerprint; 2) print it out as a 3D object; 3) ??? 4) profit!!
Except that wouldn't work because 1) 3D printers don't have sufficient resolution; 2) Most modern fingerprint scanners look for a pulse.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
