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by magduf 7y ago
It IS a far better deal. Farmers should try only buying those, instead of throwing their money at a company that abuses them. The problem is that many farmers absolutely insist on buying only from John Deere, and then they complain abou
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by magduf 7y ago
And what's wrong with discriminatory hiring against negative health markers? It's perfectly legal to discriminate in other ways: employers are absolutely allowed to fire employees who are incompetent, for example. They're a
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by magduf 7y ago
>This "we" business is a very lazy argument. There are large numbers of people who have been against this system. It's not lazy at all; it's absolutely true. Those "large numbers" haven't been enough t
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by magduf 7y ago
>the act of insuring people should not be part of an employer's business. It shouldn't be (IMO), but it currently is, and there's no sign that's going to change soon. The American people have consistently voted to ke
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by magduf 7y ago
You can get electronics tools and supplies from techni-tool, probably cheaper than Fry's.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Many times someone from a certain religion might cost an employer more than someone who doesn't need religious prayer breaks. But legally employers can't act on that. They can't act on that, specifically because we have a
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by magduf 7y ago
>The chances that 100% of their cultural values/ideas are better is probably pretty slim. And most people are moving for economic reasons, not cultural ones (though the two are often tightly coupled). The reason the new country is e
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by magduf 7y ago
I would argue that the US is experiencing a lot of problems, particularly the rise of Trumpism, because there's now a large contingent of immigrants (many not-so-recent) who don't speak English and have a very different culture.
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by magduf 7y ago
I disagree; I think it IS their business. Healthier employees cost less to insure, and health insurance is a large cost of employing people. If the American people don't like this, then they need to vote for health insurance to be tot
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Maybe, but the problem is that smokers cost the company a lot more than non-smokers, due to this country's strange expectation that your employer should subsidize your health insurance. If we didn't have this idea that your abilit
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by magduf 7y ago
That too (that was an annoying thing about Fry's too; I had totally forgotten about that!), but the returns process at Fry's also treats you like a criminal, whereas Amazon's is easy and asks no questions.
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by magduf 7y ago
>In the US in particular, eyballing the number of cars and the number of pedestrians in images of places like New York etc that I've seen You sound like a non-American. Let me give you some advice: take everything you've ever
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by magduf 7y ago
>I have seen plenty of footage of people walking around large US cities. Where, in the movies? If you're talking about Manhattan, NYC, that place is absolutely nothing like the rest of America, except maybe for a few other large cit
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by magduf 7y ago
I used to live about 1 mile from my middle and high schools. There was a bus that most kids in my subdivision used, and I used it for a while, but eventually I realized that it took about as long to ride the bus to school as it did to just
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by magduf 7y ago
I used to live near the Fry's in Tempe, Arizona. Even 5-10 years ago, I didn't really like going there that much. Their prices weren't that great any more, and returning merchandise was a bad experience. It was clear their
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by magduf 7y ago
I think there's something here you're missing: What if it does get approved, but only by some countries? So, for instance, suppose the US approves it, but China and the EU don't? Then, it probably won't stay ground
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by magduf 7y ago
I think that 3rd pilot was key not just because of an extra person; IIRC, he had a vantage point the pilots didn't have, and saw what was going on with the trim wheels.
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by magduf 7y ago
The Han Chinese are, by far, the majority. Uyghurs are a small and unliked minority. What makes you think they're going to destabilize that nation? Did the poor treatment of black people in the US cause it to collapse? It did lead
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by magduf 7y ago
The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries were in many ways the opposite of modern China. They were not efficient at all, and their economies were absolutely terrible . China has its problems, but a moribund economy is not one of them.
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by magduf 7y ago
This is probably pretty normal historically. People start rebelling not just because of restrictions on freedom, but usually because their quality of life sucks. See what's happening in Hong Kong: they don't like the increasing
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by magduf 7y ago
>There are many concerning signals from China, not least the situation of Muslims and also the surveillance state. Why is the situation with Muslims concerning for China? For Muslims and for anyone who cares about human rights, sure, it
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by magduf 7y ago
>To your point, the GM issue was involved in 30 accidents in a couple years but no fatalities. The problem is obviously not a failure in a parking lot, but at speed. I'm not familiar with the specifics of that case, but having a low
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I remember that one; that was absolutely criminal because they were informed there was a problem, and refused to do a recall because it would cost money. Instead, they quietly changed the ignition switch to fix the design defect, but witho
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by magduf 7y ago
>in Japan, no less, which is famous for its harsh treatment of prisoners Worse than the USA? The only place on earth I've heard of that has good treatment for prisoners is western Europe.
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by magduf 7y ago
This doesn't sound like a big deal. Electronics normally can't function when system voltage is too low, and that can happen in a car if the battery is weak and the alternator isn't producing enough power (e.g., at very low s
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>We probably don't want (and Boeing doesn't want) to make 737 Max certification have a "Physical strength check" Actually, I think they absolutely should. And then it should be made illegal to have a plane that has a
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by magduf 7y ago
The 737 should have been retired decades ago. It's an utterly primitive aircraft, and its cockpit hasn't changed significantly since the 1960s. Newer Boeing aircraft don't have those trim wheels at all. Even the old DC-9 d
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by magduf 7y ago
EPS has been used in economy cars for years now; most cars on the market now probably have it. The few laggards that don't have EHPS (electro-hydraulic PS), where software runs a pump that pressurizes the hydraulic system. EPS has bee
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by magduf 7y ago
>However, once they get approval for a fix from all countries That's a big assumption. The planes are already unmanageable, even if MCAS is fixed: human pilots aren't strong enough to turn the trim wheels manually in an emerge
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by magduf 7y ago
That's not a loss of steering, that's a loss of power assist. You can still steer a vehicle just fine without power assist; you only need the assist at very low speeds.

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