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Comment Re:I want to talk to a person! (Score 1) 127

Every fast food restaurant that makes you use a kiosk to order I've found there are interface design problems that make it difficult for a non-frequent user to navigate through. Ordering from a menu and a human cashier is so much easier and faster than these poorly designed kiosks.

The bigger issue though is that the kiosk ticket printer is always out of paper. And -- the kiosk is not designed to recognize when the printer is out of paper, nor inform the employees to restock the paper, nor inform the customer that their order cannot be printed, but the order screen assumes you got your receipt anyway and giving no consideration to the matter, it instantly resets back to the home screen after your order is supposedly finalized, making it so you have no receipt, no record of your order, no order number, no indication at all of whether or not your order was successfully processed. Whoever designed these systems are utter morons. I won't set foot inside a McDonald's or Taco Bell again because of the problems those kiosks have.

Comment Re:This is a real problem (Score 1) 79

Campaign signs can't be forbidden in the U.S. The ACLU has made it clear that if a town tries to enforce its sign laws on your signs that are on your property, it will fight the town in court based on free speech. Therefore there is nothing anyone can do about the spammy proliferation of campaign signs placed on private property, besides complain about it on the internet. So don't tell us we should mount a campaign against it, such campaigning would go nowhere.

This is aside from the far more widespread problem of campaign signs being placed illegally on other people's property and on public property. But no one seems to want to talk about that problem for some reason. Everyone would rather fret over the far smaller percentage of signs placed legally on your own property.

Comment Reddit opinions shift with the winds (Score 1) 45

I've noticed that Reddit opinion can go one way in a post, then weeks or months later there will be another post on the exact same topic and the general opinion could just as easily go the same way or swing the opposite way. It seems to depend how the sentiment starts off in the comments for that post, then everyone piles on the bandwagon. Which indicates that the behavior of the masses is based more on following a trend than on forming opinions based on facts. It's disheartening.

Comment Re:too much auto-everything (Score 1) 84

One reason is because idiot auto engineers decided to illuminate the dashboard at all times instead of putting them on the headlight switch. So with LED DRLs lighting the way, oblivious drivers have no indication that the rest of their exterior lights are off. Before LEDs, they were doing the same thing with those god-awful high-beam DRLs.

Comment Re:No backups or was it an time bomb that took 2 w (Score 2) 135

"He makes money at it" is not an excuse for engaging in unethical or criminal activity. It disturbs me how many people in this country share your philosophy.

Cold-call telemarketing is not a legitimate profession, no matter whether you're a high level exec or a low-level phone monkey. The good news is now these people can go get ethical jobs, so it's win-win.

Comment Re:Brand (Score 1) 243

Summary tries to beat it into our heads that we don't want any more Terminator movies. Not true. We just don't want to see bad movies. This one does not seem to offer anything worth clamoring for, so it can wait for the Blu-ray. It doesn't give off the sense of style and dread of the first two. And whatever happened to a cast that focuses on a simple "here's the bad guy, this is the good guy, these two are the victims to be saved"? Now it's a GoT-like mess of random characters from all over the place that instead of advancing the pursuit of justice and escape from evil, they're just there for drama. Go away drama, bring back action.

Comment Re:What an asshole (Score 1) 161

Depends on the state. In Oregon you're technically supposed to stop on yellow if you can. But,

"In most states, as long as the front of your vehicle entered the intersection before the light turned red, you haven't broken the stoplight law."
source: https://www.nolo.com/legal-enc...

Banning people from simply "being" in an intersection when the light turns red, often because traffic wouldn't allow you to turn left until after the red, is a recipe for an unwinnable situation.

Comment Re:Don't they know when to quit? (Score 1) 60

It's always the last job that gets you caught. In other words, criminals don't quit until they get caught, unless they're really smart about it, but most smart people are smart enough to not be criminals. It's a little bit like a ponzi scam, you should cash out at the peak, but no one knows when peak will happen until after it has already happened.

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