Non-IT News Thread

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.

scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.

But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.

But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.

Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.

But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.

Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.

I get zero from the later. I would seriously rather that the service did not exist.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.

But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.

Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.

I get zero from the later. I would seriously rather that the service did not exist.

I do a fare amount of trading through the mail. Most of that trading is one to two patches. They are typically under one ounce and cost me a first class stamp. That same envelope would cost me like $5 with UPS, or like 7-8 times as much.

MattSpeller

Beautiful pictures of bare dies

http://www.righto.com/2016/06/inside-tiny-rfid-chip-that-runs-san.html

Modern RFID chip sitting on a 1983 Intel 8051. Click on the below pic to enlarge, it's gorgeous

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OOHKXAsc4CQ/V2zArMgF28I/AAAAAAAA4DU/xGN3iZGWGxoBgLXo-wAHzr3igym5wXCNACHM/s9999/chip-0014.png

tonyshowoff

@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Beautiful pictures of bare dies

http://www.righto.com/2016/06/inside-tiny-rfid-chip-that-runs-san.html

Modern RFID chip sitting on a 1983 Intel 8051. Click on the below pic to enlarge, it's gorgeous

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OOHKXAsc4CQ/V2zArMgF28I/AAAAAAAA4DU/xGN3iZGWGxoBgLXo-wAHzr3igym5wXCNACHM/s9999/chip-0014.png

GAH ILLUMINATI ZIONIST PLOT!

nadnerB

It's election time in Australia. the twitter tag #ausvotes now also includes a sausage sizzle emoji (on election day aka the democracy sausage) instead of a ballot box emoji.

Also, #democracysausage is trending

nadnerB

https://twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI/status/748676246993793024
(links to...)
https://election.google.com.au/?center=-26.539285,131.314157

scottalanmiller

Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36710768

coliver

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

Kelly

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

coliver

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

tonyshowoff

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

coliver

@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.

It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.

I don't doubt that. Just from looking at the data presented on this website it looks like there is a massive issue.

Kelly

Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.

coliver

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

Interesting perspective.

coliver

http://satwcomic.com/art/brexit-to-the-right.png

Haha. The last panel.

scottalanmiller

Dallas police officer has been killed in the protest going on in Dallas just now.

scottalanmiller

I'm in bed but my news alerts keep going off. Five Dallas police now killed by snipers.