It's not an option, it's fare price insurance. Essentially airlines have taken the 'insure everything' game that retailers found out was massively profitable years ago. Also they've taken to selling cheap trinkets, charging fees for everything, and recently playing commercials on the plane's loudspeaker forcing every one in the cabin to listen. (Which if they really cared about airline safety/security they wouldn't play as the commercials train me to ignore everything that comes over the loudspeaker)
None of this is good for consumers, the only way the airlines make money off insuring things is if we loose more of it in the long run, and none of these expenses are large enough to justify the payment. Just like the service plans at best buy.
The real benefit of artificial non-descript meat sausage will be ending overfishing? I'm assuming you mean when they come out with artificial fish meat, but I can't find any mention of that in the article.
There already are artificial flavors, even artificial meat flavors. McDonalds french fries are sprayed with it. The reason he wants to make this a burger isn't because they've made artificial cow, it's because the artificial meat has the consistency of ground beef at best.
It most certainly is. Vegetarian bacon, while good, does not taste like bacon. And bacon with all the fat removed does not taste like bacon. It may be good, but it's not bacon.
If they hadn't made this judgment, would there be anything stopping you or I from legally attaching GPS devices to government official's cars and recording their movements?
They should overturn the ruling and make it fair game for anyone to track anyone else. Then we can make google maps mashups for tracking each other and government officials.
While it's a fun turn-the-tables idea, because government is so much bigger, with more power and resources, this would still be incredibly unequal. You might be able to track a dozen government officials; the FBI could track every member of a political minority group (eg. the persecution of MLK).
>I imagine it's possible for some competitor to set up a similar arrangement.
In theory. Coca-Cola is rumored to be pretty friendly with US intelligence and would likely lobby against a competitor getting a similar coca import arrangement.
Sure, yeah, but lots of things you might want to do with a business require a permit or approval or waiver from the government. I'm not sure that is inherently unfair in practice.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but if not, why then would they regard their formula as such a secret that the only two people allowed to know it may not fly together in case the plane should go down? As a diversion form their business practices?
Especially when it also mentions the recipe is stored in a vault. BOTH recipe mixers could instantly cease to exist and the Coca Cola company would not miss a beat in terms of selling mass quantities of their product.
Probably but it's still unfair (if the deal really is exclusive). It's also interesting how many goods are never invented due to the fact that experimenting with many substances is prohibitively expensive.
Sounds like the Stepan Corporation has an effective monopoly on the manufacture of cocaine-free coca leaves. That really says nothing about a restriction on their use.
"In fact, the United States (and most other nations) expressly prohibits the sale and trade of coca leaves. In order for Coca-Cola to continue to exist in its current form, the company has a special arrangement with the Drug Enforcement Administration"
The article makes it seem as though Coca-Cola has an exclusive arrangement that involves funneling leaves through a chemicals company. It doesn't mention anything about Stepan being the only chemical company that can process the leaves for other reasons.
Sure, I guess if you fundamentally misunderstand MVC but not in the real world.
You don't have render your view on the server, using a js framework is perfectly fine in MVC. There are plenty of rails plugins to make this even easier and I whole-heartedly disagree with, "Rails-style MVC frameworks have a horrible routing solution for RESTFul JSON APIs". Rails has simple routing that works great for restful resources and auto renders json that can be easily overridden.
Having a unified/standardized REST interface for web services would no doubt be nice, but it's existence has little to nothing to do with MVC.
I think you're right that it doesn't have built-in simplification of vendor prefixes, but they are trivial to implement into mix-ins (the example on the page you linked shows how), and I suspect it's one of the first things people set up when starting with LESS
None of this is good for consumers, the only way the airlines make money off insuring things is if we loose more of it in the long run, and none of these expenses are large enough to justify the payment. Just like the service plans at best buy.