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Good idea. Let's stop three hundred years ago.
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From Azdak's link:
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Management of big companies never make mistakes. Duly noted.
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If you think I've insulted cashiers, then you have completely misunderstood my point. Cashiering is a hard job. Stores are short sighted if they think they can save money by having their customers do the hard job of cashiering. Self-check is a failure not because customers are stupider than 5 year-olds but because…
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I'm glad my ignorance fascinates you. Your need to resort to insults fascinates me.
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Just to be clear, I'm not saying that cashiers are stupid or their job is easy. I'm saying that I'm not at all surprised that people who are not trained as cashiers and who don't spent hours every day practicing as cashiers are not efficient at checking themselves out. I look forward to the day when the "self-check"…
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Too stupid to deal with but smart enough to do the cashier's job. Fascinating.
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If that's true then all these rants about how hard a cashier's job is are BS.
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Don't blame your customers when your store tries to cut costs by having untrained people do a cashier's job and they fail miserably.
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Yep, that is what I'm saying. When you're in a place for the first time, it's hard to pick things out of the barrage of new information.
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It's a cultural thing. In some parts of the world, people are ranting about how some rude people try to put the money directly into the cashier's hand.
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What's obvious to simeone who spends eight hours a day there ain't obvious to someone walking in the first time.
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Obviously giant signs are a very ineffective way to communicate with your customers. More signs have never solved any problem just as more legal warnings have never protected idiots from their own idiocy.
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Ditto.
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Love it, Wendyapple!
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If Trayvon Martin had shot and killed someone, that would be relevant information at his trial. Unfortunately, he was killed without a trial.
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I think it was Drew Carey that had a bit that went something like this: You hate your job? There is a support group for that. It's called Everybody. They meet down at the bar. I don't hate my job actually, but if they didn't pay me I wouldn't do it.
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Note to self: Start knocking over the cars at the supermarket. They're full of credit cards.
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I for one welcome our new corn overlords!
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All orthodox Christian denominations assert that God is all-powerful. Witness the Nicene Creed: "We believe in one God the Father Almighty . . ." "Credimus in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem . . ." "Pistenomen eis ena Theon Patera pantokratora . . . " The Creed doesn't say anything about omniscience in particular, but (to…
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That was believed to be true about 100 years ago. Since then, quantum physics has found that complete knowledge of the present state of a system of atoms is not just unknown, it is fundamentally unknowable. That's the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
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Chihuahua or Great Dane, all domestic dogs are the same species: Canis lupus familiaris. (They're actually all the same subspecies of the gray wolf Canis lupus.) Since a species is defined by the ability to produce fertile offspring and selective breeding depends on fertile offspring, by definition selective breeding can…
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No argument.
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The most obvious difference is the couple hundred years! If the argument is that genetic engineering happens so fast that we can't foresee the unforeseen consequences, then you can't ignore the time factor. But aside from the couple hundred years, the difference that wigs people out is the cross-species element of GMOs…
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Artificial selection or selective breeding isn't usually included in the definition of genetic engineering techniques that produce genetically modified organisms. But you knew that!
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The ads on MFP use your browser history (and possibly location) to show something someone somewhere thinks will be relevant to you, leebesstoad. I've never seen Regent University. I'd guess it came up for you because you're relatively close to Virginia Beach. Here's the ad I had at the top of the page when I read your…
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I don't have an explanation for why an all powerful God would allow evil. That's a separate question from whether the existence of an all knowing God precludes free will and one I don't have a good answer for.
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"Up to date" and "already in hand" are meaningless to an omniscient being outside of time. That being can perfectly know our decisions even though we have free will because the omniscient being can see all of time simultaneously (so to speak).
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Just because I know the script doesn't mean I wrote the script. I don't understand why you think that an omniscient being knowing how we will exercise free will precludes the logical possibility of free will.
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For what it's worth, here's an example of a guy born in Argentina who has no Spanish ancestry but "self identifies" as Hispanic.