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Grognan posted:If automated trucks become a thing, I think banditry and highwaymen might make a comeback. Highwaymen are successful because the driver is willing to stop and let them take the goods in exchange for not getting killed. An autonomous driving truck has no incentive to stop, and if it detects someone is trying to unload cargo while it is in motion the truck can take a detour to the nearest police station.
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Joementum posted:Budget Committee passed the budget 22-13, a party-line vote. There was no vote on the OCO amendment, so no extra defense spending*. It's on to the House Rules Committee, now, and then the floor. Boehner got the Rules Committee to amend the budget to include the higher OCO value.
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Mar 19, 2015 16:50
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KomradeX posted:Well I've heard McDonald's is in decline but fast food as a whole I'm not sure. Especially with the expansion of "premium" fast food places like Five Guys or Shake Shack and I think those are doing well I know Shake Shack just had a pretty successful IPO back in February That's my understanding is the shift towards the "higher end". Five Guys, Chipotle, etc. as opposed to McDonalds / Burger King / White Castle. I doubt those lower end places will all up and vanish but the prices at Five Guys are pretty drat close to McDonalds for a meal anyway and the quality is significantly better. Basically go eat at Five Guys they loving rule. Old James posted:Highwaymen are successful because the driver is willing to stop and let them take the goods in exchange for not getting killed. An autonomous driving truck has no incentive to stop, and if it detects someone is trying to unload cargo while it is in motion the truck can take a detour to the nearest police station. Someone brought up the Maximum Overdrive documentary, but we have multiple documentaries on this new technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgphD_ZO_jI&t=240s  Joementum posted:Boehner got the Rules Committee to amend the budget to include the higher OCO value. How much is this budget going to play into the runup to the next set of elections in terms of hanging around Republican candidates necks? Are they already positioning to use it as a way to show their purity to the party, seeing as it's non-binding?
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Mar 19, 2015 16:51
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McDonalds' decline is more because there's not a single item they make that some ubiquitous competitor doesn't make better. Burger King has better burgers, a ton of places have better chicken or fish, Wendy's has better salads, etc. McDonalds just doesn't have anything going for it other than being able to undercut on price a little. The only thing anyone gets a craving for from McDonald's are their temporary items like shamrock shake and Mcrib, which no one would care about if they weren't scarce. And every town on the same street as McDonald's are like a dozen other fast food places. They are just a generic with no remaining brand power. I think their fall is being compensated for by the rise of other restaurants in general.
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Mar 19, 2015 16:52
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greatn posted:McDonalds' decline is more because there's not a single item they make that some ubiquitous competitor doesn't make better. The competitors, especially the new fast-casual chains, also at least pretend the food is decent quality and not nutritionally horrendous. McDonald's is too much of a fixture at the bottom of the barrel to pull that off and they've failed several times.
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Mar 19, 2015 16:55
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McDonald's has also over marketed itself for kids the last few decades , so people do not think its a teenager/adult kind of place nowadays. So its now more often full of screaming poo poo heads rather than other places, reinforcing that its a poo poo place to eat and talk.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:11
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McDonald's has been the bottom of the barrel for a long time, even in its prime. They survived on providing extremely cheap meals (think about how many poor people you've known who literally lived off of the Dollar Menu) and being just generic and edible enough to not outright drive customers away. Wendy's and Arby's and Steak n' Shake and In-N-Out all make far superior products, but McDonald's used the prominence of its brand and cheapness of the food to appeal to children, loyal consumers, and people who didn't have enough money for better food. They even spent a while trying to intentionally make their restaurants utilitarian, with hard plastic seating in a few bright primary colors and lots of white and yellow in the decor. Unfortunately for the big guy, McDonald's has failed to improve on its actual quality. Restaurants with better food and bigger portions can now compete with McDonald's for the price of a full meal (excluding things like the Dollar Menu), and even those with less money to spare are getting more of an interest in healthy and tasty food instead of just buying the cheapest poo poo in a bag they can get. McDonald's has tried to rebrand itself by redesigning the restaurants to have comfier and cozier interiors and offering newer menu items that try to emulate their betters, but they're coasting on brand name and market saturation. If the current trend continues, McDonald's will need to really turn itself around to avoid losing major ground.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:16
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Old James posted:Highwaymen are successful because the driver is willing to stop and let them take the goods in exchange for not getting killed. An autonomous driving truck has no incentive to stop, and if it detects someone is trying to unload cargo while it is in motion the truck can take a detour to the nearest police station. But as a perfect machine it's programmed to avoid accidents. I get in front of it, my buddy goes alongside, and we play the world's safest game of chicken--we run it right off the road! Then we hop out of our trucks, bust the sucker open, and grab what we want. It's basically a victimless crime.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:18
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For that matter, has anyone really been inside a fast food place in the last decade or two? Taking orders is always a minority of what the staff is doing, compared to actually preparing them and bringing them to the customer. I mean, sure other things might see further automation, but places with ordering kiosks don't have substantially fewer workers for the same volume, they just reduce the telephone game of specifying that you want no mayo on the cheeseburger and extra mayo on the chicken and not the opposite.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:20
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My favorite local place near me just has you fill out a slip of paper with all the choices on it and hand it to the single cashier at the counter, who takes 3 seconds to ring it up, charges you, and passes it to the cooks. It's super efficient and lets them move very quickly with only a single cashier even during a lunch rush.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:21
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More details on the doc fix deal, the GOP gets the means testing they want to cover the 170 billion over a decade that repealing SGR will cost, the Dems are getting 2 years of funding for the Children's Health Care Program, which was slated to run out of money October 1st.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:31
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Joementum posted:Boehner got the Rules Committee to amend the budget to include the higher OCO value. These are the people who want you to believe they can quickly pass a health care reform bill that does not exist. Oy
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Mar 19, 2015 17:32
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greatn posted:McDonalds' decline is more because there's not a single item they make that some ubiquitous competitor doesn't make better. Burger King has better burgers, a ton of places have better chicken or fish, Wendy's has better salads, etc. The one thing McDonalds has over competitors is they have decent fries by comparison. Except places that have waffle or curly fries. In which case they win.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:38
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Party Plane Jones posted:The one thing McDonalds has over competitors is they have decent fries by comparison. Waffle fries are proof God still loves us.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:50
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Munkeymon posted:That's nice Aircraft are fully automated 90% of the time and have been for the better part of a century. Cars are just now approaching where aircraft were decades and decades ago. Full automation is further away than you might think. Driverless cars for interstates only already exist. (PS drones are under manual control for critical phases of flight and when they lose communications have a tendency to do things like crash in Iran)
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Mar 19, 2015 17:51
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DemeaninDemon posted:Waffle fries are proof God still loves us. This is the dumbest statement ever made
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Mar 19, 2015 17:51
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Can you guys make a truck chat thread? This is boring as gently caress.
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Mar 19, 2015 17:53
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site posted:Can you guys make a truck chat thread? This is boring as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4KsUihTy4
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Mar 19, 2015 17:58
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Fried Chicken posted:This is the dumbest statement ever made You don't like waffle fries? Monster.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:00
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hobbesmaster posted:Aircraft are fully automated 90% of the time and have been for the better part of a century. Cars are just now approaching where aircraft were decades and decades ago. Full automation is further away than you might think. Driverless cars for interstates only already exist. I don't know if that's true, but loving lol.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:04
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site posted:Can you guys make a truck chat thread? This is boring as gently caress. Yeah, this truck chat is getting over the top.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:04
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agent_wildflower posted:Yeah, this truck chat is getting over the top. 
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Mar 19, 2015 18:06
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In non burger/trucking news, the media has noticed that Scott Walker is actively campaigning on the success of a program he is planning on gutting.quote:"We invested not only more money in rural health care, we put more money in to train primary care physicians and other health care assistants. And then we put money in our hospitals to help do residencies, so that we weren’t just training — we were actually getting physicians to do their residencies at rural hospitals," Walker said at the Ag Summit on March 7. quote:If state funding is cut off, there is "no way" to keep the program running, Crouse said.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:07
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DemeaninDemon posted:You don't like waffle fries? Monster. They're proof that god loves us enough that he wants us to meet him sooner. 
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Mar 19, 2015 18:07
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Winners take it all, losers take the fall.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:07
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Aerox posted:In non burger/trucking news, the media has noticed that Scott Walker is actively campaigning on the success of a program he is planning on gutting. Walker's stupidity is only surpassed by his incredibly lack of any sort of shame.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:11
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Radish posted:Walker's stupidity is only surpassed by his incredibly lack of any sort of shame. edit: I mean, it's a basic human emotion so he must have had it at some point, and then did away with it somehow. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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Mar 19, 2015 18:13
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hobbesmaster posted:Aircraft are fully automated 90% of the time and have been for the better part of a century. What I was trying to get at is that if an autopilot can handle a situation where part of the wing suddenly goes missing (https://youtu.be/QJkIONTzbNM?t=35s), then we ought to be able to make one that keeps a truck on the road if it loses a tire, too.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:19
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Samurai Sanders posted:I wanna know how politicians so thoroughly shed their shame before trying for office. Is there some training course or something on how to do it? Psychopathy is a gift from birth.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:22
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Samurai Sanders posted:I wanna know how politicians so thoroughly shed their shame before trying for office. Is there some training course or something on how to do it? Not if you're genetically pre-disposed to being a total sociopath. efb; DemeaninDemon posted:
Fixed that for you.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:22
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Rep. Mark Takano did his red pen routine again, this time with a Rubio op-ed piece on Net Neutrality. 
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Mar 19, 2015 18:23
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Aerox posted:In non burger/trucking news, the media has noticed that Scott Walker is actively campaigning on the success of a program he is planning on gutting. "I'm gonna wreck it!" - Scott "Wreck It Ralph" Walker
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Mar 19, 2015 18:24
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Fried Chicken posted:These are the people who want you to believe they can quickly pass a health care reform bill that does not exist. Oy I'm not sure they can even pass their own budget now. Sneaking stuff like this in always, always pisses off the budget hawks and Boehner's going to lose votes over it. Normally, you'd guess that he has a whip count showing that he's safe, but with how he handled the DHS funding, who knows?
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Mar 19, 2015 18:25
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Joementum posted:Rep. Mark Takano did his red pen routine again, this time with a Rubio op-ed piece on Net Neutrality. Can I get a link to this?
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Mar 19, 2015 18:27
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Joementum posted:Rep. Mark Takano did his red pen routine again, this time with a Rubio op-ed piece on Net Neutrality. 
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Mar 19, 2015 18:29
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AlternateNu posted:Not if you're genetically pre-disposed to being a total sociopath. Hmmm both are delicious. So aside from decades of poo poo Wisconsin will have can Walker have any lasting impact? Like he feels more like the 2016 version of Rick Perry.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:30
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Party Plane Jones posted:The one thing McDonalds has over competitors is they have decent fries by comparison. What they actually have is consistency. Smaller chains are pretty good about this too but you can go anywhere in the country and your burger will be made almost exactly the same. You don't have to worry about the lovely BK on this side of town, or the Carl's Jr that overcooks every burger, or the Jack in the Box that's always out of everything. This is a direct consequence of the way McDonalds corporate micromanages franchises, and is the reason they're suing Seattle over the minimum wage schedule and facing lawsuits in several other places relating to their characterization of franchisees as separate from the corporate parent.
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CommieGIR posted:Can I get a link to this? Marco, please don’t draft essays on your return flight from Iowa. See me in my office and I’ll walk you through Net Neutrality.
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Radbot posted:Which is why it's rare to see semis on interstate routes like 70, right? They're a shitload rarer than trucks are on, say, European highways. And it's all down to how America is in the top 2 or 3 countries worldwide for amount of freight hauled by train.
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Old James posted:Highwaymen are successful because the driver is willing to stop and let them take the goods in exchange for not getting killed. An autonomous driving truck has no incentive to stop, and if it detects someone is trying to unload cargo while it is in motion the truck can take a detour to the nearest police station. I'm just picturing an 18 wheeler sitting outside a police station beeping its horn in morse code all excitedly and it is adorable. Also all you'd have to do to stop it would be drive in front of it and slow down right? The sensors would think there was a car in front of it and tell it to slow down no? Like trick it into thinking it was in a traffic jam. And what happens when a sensor goes out on the road? Or it has a mechanical problem? From where do they dispatch the repair men? Will they have a service center in every city or will a new industry crop up?
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