Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 184
They don't have the discipline or ethical framework to be accountants.
Comment Re:"super intelligence technology" (Score 1) 108
I can't help but think there must be some form of blackmail or extortion going on with this.
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 72
Pretty sure that one human employee could scan groceries 4 times faster than people doing it themselves, so those self-check registers are saving them... absolutely nothing.
How long it takes customers to scan only cost them more if it causes there to be fewer sales, and there is zero evidence to support that it does.
And they are seeing a lot more "shrinkage", although I'm not sure whether it is due to intentional or accidental failure to scan items.
I guarantee you that they are accounting for shrink, and that the savings on labor expense is far greater than even increased shrink.
Comment Re:Where i live... (Score 1) 113
The claim wasn't about total energy used, though - it was about efficiency.
Comment Re:architecture (Score 1) 40
Los Angeles? It's huge, and the architecture varies wildly as is. This museum is perfectly fine there.
Comment Re: Paying higher taxes to make up for the shortfa (Score 1) 179
If you exclude all taxes besides federal income taxes, you get skewed results.
Comment Re:measurement ? (Score 1) 66
Yes, they have teams of people who do exactly that. Metropolitan Council has a master water supply plan that includes this information for every municipal water source in the seven county region. I personally know people who are on the team that does that. Very, very smart people with lots of field experience and scientific know-how.
Comment Re:They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 1) 263
Most of the rest of the world is at lower latitudes than than North America and Europe, so they don't see the same variability of daylight. China is the big exception, but they only have one time zone, so they've got their own relationship with time that isn't really comparable to the rest of the world.
Comment Re:They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 2) 263
*The former fucks with our sleep schedules
Comment Re:They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 1) 263
Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,
Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying.
The latter fucks with our sleep schedules, while the latter does not.
Comment Re: They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 1) 263
Your statement is not a refutation of the one you're responding to. He was talking about Standard Time, not a standard schedule. You can sleep more in the winter than in the summer on Standard Time just as easily as you can on DST.
Comment Re:They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 3, Funny) 263
Sunlight in the morning makes it much easier to wake up, and much safer to get to work and school. Hardly useless.
Comment Re:DST is Dumb (Score 1) 263
I guess I've been hallucinating windows all these years ...
Comment Re:I'd prefer Standard Time (Score 1) 263
The last time we tried it, the country pretty quickly decided that it would not, in fact, be better.
Comment BOOOOOOOOO!!! (Score 1) 263
As a natural night owl, nothing sucks more than having to wake up before it's light out. Our bodies are not made for that. If the issue is to get rid of the time changes, standard time would be much more sensible.
