> Peaches fresh from the tree or in treats like pie, jam and ice cream have been enjoyed by people for a long, long time. But, until now, it was not clear just how long it has been. Scientists said on Monday an analysis of well-preserved ancient peach pits traces the domestication of this sweet fruit back at least 7,500 years to China's lower Yangtze River Valley in the vicinity of Shanghai.
No longer will North American GMO foods be the only ones scorned by senseless European FUD panderers. Now they can rabble-rouse against the Chinese too for their shameless genetical manipulations. Let l’horticulteur de pêche avec le moins péché cast the first pit!
No, it is the only reasonable word.
The Brits cast stones.
We cast pits.
The article has a BrE traduction for the more insular readers.
@tchr I should expect them to use stone? I'd personally not use pit, possibly because of that, or because I'd subconsciously avoid the Dutch word, which is, you guessed it, pit.
Because of tariffs, you can't easily import them from America, so the markets are separated by this, so they can differentiate prices.
The price difference is not caused by the tariffs, since we both import the phones from China, but the tariffs allow Apple / resellers to differentiate prices, which they otherwise couldn't.
> Patricia Davidson, author of The Shopaholics Guide to Buying Online, agrees that while some of the cost could be down to market size, it is also a cultural phenomenon. "The problem is that we put up with it. It's a rip off," she says.
When asked the crucial question - whether they plan to make a bigger profit margin on consoles sold in the UK - neither company is willing to answer.
@tchrist That's what I have been saying all along, but it still doesn't explain why our market puts up with it, especially in submarkets with good competition. The console market is not very competitive, it is oligopolistic. But the smartphone market is not, so why?
I will disregard all reasons proffered by sellers like Microsoft altogether: they have an interest in deceiving us, as the article notes.
But you know what else sucks? There is literally nothing interesting in Apple's three big announcements. Bigger screens! Pay with your phone! Watches! Who cares! Android had these things as much as 4 years ago!
I was really hoping Apple would have something exciting to show.
Something I could envy, until Google et al copied it.
well, what goes into a price: mfr cost, taxes, tarrifs, advertising, overhead for whatever local markets demand, and profit
shipping
transaction costs
etc.
all of those things will vary on a market-by-market basis
oh, and demand
and lower prices can reduce demand, since the price is part of the marketing. If it has a low price, it must be crap, right?
"you get what you pay for"
So once you factor in all the costs, you might still set a higher-than-needed price simply because people will pay it, i.e. the demand is there
And with certain products you can't just choose a different one that's mostly the same. For some people it isn't enough to have a cell phone, or an android phone, or whatever. It has to be a Samsung, or an iPhone, or whatever.
They aren't fully interchangeable.
So that keeps the prices higher
The manufacturers release the products on a timetable, but offset from each other, and the prices don't vary much throughout the year, so they stay stable; each mfr releases at approx the price of the competitor's release. They just don't compete on price. Esp when the carriers subsidize the phones.
Australia is somewhat cheaper (€200), and Canada is a lot cheaper (€162).
Norway is somewhat more expensive (€243).
England somewhat cheaper (€200). Spain and Portugal are cheaper (€190)! Why? Most of Europe is like Holland and Denmark.
Hmm I see some patterns.
Iberia, England, Germany, Italy, are somewhat cheaper. France, Benelux, Scandinavia are the most expensive. Australia is fairly cheap. North America is very cheap. Korea is the same as Holland/Denmark.
Part of North America's cheapness is explained by the exclusion of VAT / sales tax. But by far not all.
@tchrist Possibly. Pits tend to be smaller stones like cherry-stones rather than large ones like peach-stones. We might actually talk of pitted cherries, but peaches get stoned.
One day, maybe, your hopeless romantic nature might turn into a hopeful romantic nature, and you'll stop being attracted to women you know won't reciprocate, and find someone who will.
@AndrewLeach - I've often wondered what happens to comments made to the user immediately before deletion (as with Anonymous today). Does the user still have access to them? It is strange to see such comments.
@medica I believe that the user can still see their deleted answer, in which case the comments will also be visible. But if not, and they ask "Where's my answer," then the comment is present and visible to those who can tell them where it went.
I am looking for a list of words that were used to mean something different from for what they are used now.
some words are such that whose meaning has changed completely and
some words have more than one meaning, but earlier one meaning was in popular use and nowadays another meaning is in p...
@AndrewLeach - That would make sense if a user can see their own deleted questions even without much rep. Early on, one of my answers was deleted, and when I tried to find it, all I saw was Alice and the notice that it didn't exist. Later, with more rep, I stumbled across it.
I know you're feeling no-nonsensy with Anonymous, but they can't learn if they can't see it. Might it be worth knowing for certain if they can see it?
As of right now, this is fixed: instead of a checkbox in the editor, you get two separate buttons in review to launch the editor:
"Improve Edit" works the same way as "Improve" has for years, sans the checkbox: it lets you add further changes to the existing edit, then approves it and submits ...
> This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must know what you are talking about. Look at the other answers that are up voted. They all disagree with you. Stop it.
That’s the Continental Divide where it is currently snowing. It should not remain rain when it reaches me in these nether regions. But tomorrow night, it might.
I ask because this whole intern thing wasn’t a thing when I was in school, and now everybody is doing it.
One of the things I asked during my interview process, where they mentioned having summer interns, is whether the kids got paid anything or whether they were freebies.
We are also in a very, very specific niche market, so we don't get that many students to begin with. Basically you must have a masters in compiler design to so much as be able to apply.
> Internships do not have special legal status: an employer cannot dodge the minimum wage simply by classifying a temporary worker as an intern. But there are some exceptions. Most countries with minimum-wage laws have carve-outs for public bodies.
> (That is why Barack Obama can employ hundreds of unpaid White House interns, even as he tweets about the need to raise the minimum wage.) Similarly, non-profit organisations usually get a free pass: charities are allowed to hire volunteers, which is how they classify their unpaid interns.
> “DON’T talk to the press. Have a good attitude. Always say yes. You are not here to change the world.” And ladies, please, “Do not put us in a position to remind or suggest what qualifies as proper attire.”
> “The whole fashion industry would crumble without interns,” says one who spent four unpaid months working for a tyrannical photographer, who demanded that his drinks be served no warmer than 4°C.
1. It clashes with mauve 2. It's not got its own youtube channel 3. It's sexist 4. Genocide excludes most of the letters of the alphabet 5. It affects global warming in poor countries 6. Only rich people can do it 7. Hitler
> Unpaid internships are becoming the norm. According to NACE, they make up nearly half the internships undertaken in America. “We presumed we were going to get paid,” says Lee Becker, a professor of journalism at Georgia University who earned money during stints on the Kentucky Post and the Wichita Eagle-Beacon in the 1960s. By 1997 only 57% of American journalism students said they could find a paid internship. By 2010 the figure had fallen to 34%, where it has remained since. “These days, no one is going to pay if they don’t have to,” Mr Becker says. In Britain the National Council for t…
@MattЭллен Ah, yes, those are ugly. They do not go well with my personal tune (it is constantly broadcast from a tiny microphone on my shoulder wherever I go).
Apocalypse means "revelation" in Greek, from Greek καλύπτω (kalupto) "hide" and ἀπό- (apo-) "un-". It was so used in the New Testament: the last book is called Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου in Greek, Revelation of John, in which the Last Judgement is revealed to John, the time when the Christian God will en...
@tchrist Unpaid internships are becoming the norm in the USA. In the UK, they are illegal and interns must be paid at least the National Minimum Wage appropriate to their age.
> In Britain the National Council for the Training of Journalists found that entrants to the profession had done seven weeks of internships or work-shadowing on average, 92% of it unpaid.
> In Britain the National Council for the Training of Journalists found that entrants to the profession had done seven weeks of internships or work-shadowing on average, 92% of it unpaid.
NPR just ran a story a few minutes ago about how one of the big problems down in Missouri where the current race ugliness is occurring is that over 20% of the budget is paid for by extraordinary court fees. You pay for everything, including even pleading guilty, which has its own charge. And when you cannot pay, they throw you in debtors prison.
Not many lad who once delivered newspapers from their bikes before school every morning go on to become journalists. They know the unjustness of the economic situation.
> The employer doesn’t have to pay the minimum wage if an internship only involves shadowing an employee, ie no work is carried out by the intern and they are only observing.
@AndrewLeach I see loopholes...
Or at least circumstances that are difficult to verify.
Especially if both parties want the unpaid internship...
But at least it's good they have a law, I suppose.
> Ferguson collected $2.6 million in court fines and fees last year. That was the city's second largest source of income. Or about 21 percent of its total budget.
They just make up fees, and then if you don’t pay, off with your head.
@Cerberus I think so, too.
> A yearlong NPR investigation, "Guilty and Charged", described the explosion of fees charged to criminal defendants across the country to fund government as the court dockets have grown crowded and there's been a 700 percent increase in the prison population over 40 years.
Courts should not have an interest in punishing or prosecuting people, they shouldn't charge people anything. If they have to, it should be a fixed rate independent of how the case progresses.
> Defendants are now charged for a long list of government services that were once free — including ones that are constitutionally required.
> And, the NPR stories showed, when poor people have trouble paying, they sometimes go to jail — even though debtors prisons were outlawed in the United States nearly 200 years ago and more than 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that judges cannot send people to jail just because they are too poor to pay their court fines.
So it’s still happening.
And what poor person can afford an attorney smart enough to argue them out of debtors prison?
I have heard about this. It is not just in that state. It is everywhere.
> For example, NPR found, in at least 43 states and the District of Columbia, defendants can be billed for a public defender; in at least 41 states, inmates can be charged room and board for jail and prison stays and in at least 44 states, offenders can get billed for their own probation and parole supervision.
I am looking for a list of words that were used to mean something different from for what they are used now.
some words are such that whose meaning has changed completely and
some words have more than one meaning, but earlier one meaning was in popular use and nowadays another meaning is in p...
As of right now, this is fixed: instead of a checkbox in the editor, you get two separate buttons in review to launch the editor:
"Improve Edit" works the same way as "Improve" has for years, sans the checkbox: it lets you add further changes to the existing edit, then approves it and submits ...
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