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The quantity of self-described religious adherents who don't go to church, don't pray, and don't think much about the afterlife (until the due date visibly approaches) is frankly quite large. Belief != fervor. And, proportionally, there's quite a few places dedicated to bringing atheists together and promulgating their beliefs (tax exempt by the way).

As humans, we seek explanations, stake our identity in our beliefs, and pursue fellowship with those who share them. I know of at least one secular group in my city that explicitly claims to be a church ("The Church of Beethoven"). There are definitely distinctions between believing in historically established religion and believing in some form of modern secularism. But atheists like to phrase it as "We don't have any of the pitfalls of religion because we don't have religion" and it sounds an awful lot like monotheists claiming they don't have any of the pitfalls of being pagan.

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He may think that it's named after Corpus Christi, Texas.

We complain about lobbyists... but this is so much worse

I'm curious why you think this is.

We've just had an article about lobbyists that prevent Tesla from selling in Michigan without going through dealerships (which are universally hated), another recent article where lobbyists caused a town to lose it's working gigibit fibre internet.

For contrast, note that the democrats put up a billboard of Trump kissing Cruz, and naked statues of Trump in several cities.

Question 1: Why is this worse than what Democrats do, and

Question 2: Why is this worse than lobbyists who actually screw us over and make our lives miserable?

Really. I honestly want to know. Why should this be of any concern to anyone?

Which elected officials have stated that they want to confiscate guns?

learn to internet pls

Or shall I just assume you're being disingenuous?

AIDS and other STD's are free too -- doesn't mean I want them.

> Consumers could decline the upgrade,

Except _they_ couldn't if they had Automatic Updates turned on. It became a mandatory upgrade

Horse:
Many Muslims (like some Christian sects) consider pictorial representations of the human figure as violating the prohibition on graven images. As with those iconoclastic Christian sects that prohibition is most strictly observed when it comes to religious figures, possibly because of the quasi-worship of Christian saints Muslims witnessed among German knights in the Holy Land, which must have struck them (as it would later Protestants) as a kind of polytheism.

That's why when you look at the massive, elaborately decorated mosques you won't see a single human or animal figure. Instead you'll see elaborate geometrical figures and highly stylized calligraphy, which are the main visual form of Sunni artistic expression. To find any sort of art depicting people one must look to Shia dominated areas, such as Persia (Iran), which boasts many fine examples.

The universe is large, little man, and full of endless wonders; the time you have to fill your mind with those wonders is short.

Hillarie's many instances of deeply held racism are easy/ to find if you search just a little.

Not really.

Of that list of 11 items, 1 is racist (if it happened, 40 years ago), 2 is racist, though somewhat of a legitimate mistake in the middle of a bad crime wave, and she repented.

The rest are bombed jokes or comments where they're trying really hard to erase the context and nuance.

Trump on the other hand his blasting his dog whistle like a bull-horn.

Of course I don't know if Trump is racist or just exploiting racism for political gain, but it's racism.

Since you appear to be too stupid to understand my comment (which is of course to be expected from someone only able to play the race card in place of real argument), it's not that he has black friends and supporters (though that in itself is an indicator)

There are 10's of millions of black people in the US, I'm sure David Duke could find black supporters if he wanted them.

- it's that in actions taken over a long period at times when he was not running for office, he did not act against people based on color (or indeed gender). Real people are judged by actions, not just words or the words especially of others that hate them.

And it's only a very extreme racist who won't have friends of an ethnicity at all, modern racism is found in the form of stereotypes, different standards for other groups, and singling out or judging groups based on ethnicity.

If you are also so stupid as to equate the federal government investigating the actions of a company with the actions of using a nuclear arsenal against another nation;

I'm seriously unsure what the hell you're talking about.

if indeed you are that stupid who can be blamed but yourself, possibly your parents?

I'm seriously amused you followed up a weird random sentence with this.

But you've had long enough to correct any misapprehensions they might have fed you, so your delusions are of your own peculiar brand, or more likely fed to you by the rich eco-chamber that is the modern liberal press and parroting supporters.

With any luck, perhaps time you may be able to think for yourself once more, rather than simply vomited what is fed to you by your masters.

I'll let you have the last word, as the delusional people will chatter on so and I am busy with real work and life.

Ok thanks for that!

Hillarie's many instances of deeply held racism are easy/ to find if you search just a little.

She's an old white lady from the south, You do the math.

You're literally making the argument that Trump can't be racist because he has black friends.

Since you appear to be too stupid to understand my comment (which is of course to be expected from someone only able to play the race card in place of real argument), it's not that he has black friends and supporters (though that in itself is an indicator) - it's that in actions taken over a long period at times when he was not running for office, he did not act against people based on color (or indeed gender). Real people are judged by actions, not just words or the words especially of others that hate them.

If you are also so stupid as to equate the federal government investigating the actions of a company with the actions of using a nuclear arsenal against another nation; if indeed you are that stupid who can be blamed but yourself, possibly your parents? But you've had long enough to correct any misapprehensions they might have fed you, so your delusions are of your own peculiar brand, or more likely fed to you by the rich eco-chamber that is the modern liberal press and parroting supporters.

With any luck, perhaps time you may be able to think for yourself once more, rather than simply vomited what is fed to you by your masters.

I'll let you have the last word, as the delusional people will chatter on so and I am busy with real work and life.

This is why Chrome extensions exist: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjgckpbkoglidkeendpkolai?hl=en (Disclaimer: I haven't checked this out myself.)

The perks are crap.

No! You can test the new Glass before release!

The perks are crap.

Patent here: https://www.google.com/patents/US20120024859/
Pizza box here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb32PtDIYAAeWl_.jpg/

A retail paper bag, comprising: a bag container formed of white paper with at least 60% post-consumer content.

Now, take a look at the first claim for a paper cup:

A beverage receptacle comprising: an inner wall of cylindrical construction and having a fixed radius and having an outer surface and an inner surface, a spacer in connection with said outer surface, said spacer disposed upon said outer surface in a spiral configuration with radius corresponding to that of said inner wall, an outer wall of cylindrical construction and of larger diameter than said inner wall, said outerwall in connection with said spacer so as to form an air space between said inner and outer walls.

The first - the Apple claim - has nothing novel, nothing about construction, nothing about process. Just "a white paper bag with at least 60% post consumer content". I guess I can patent a pumpkin pie with at least 80% organic pumpkin content.

The second - the paper cup claim - talks about what it is, how it's built, what the important features are, why it's being done, and important ratios in-between. In other words, there's something there other than just "a cup that is insulated".

This is 100% a trash patent. Resume padding only. And Apple should be ashamed of filing it. Talk about intellectually void....

was purely motivated by his mixed race.

Could you offer some proof of this — something the rest of us, who do not have your powers of telepathy, can verify on their own? Something, that makes Trump's suspecting Obama's eligibility uniquely different from Clinton suspecting same? Or suspecting that McCain or Ted Cruz may not be eligible either?

You will need to provide substantial proof that the judge is racist before you can make a statement like that.

That judge has just awarded a scholarship to an illegal immigrant . Is it not fair to suspect, he may be biased against someone, who wishes to deport such illegal immigrants?

White judges are suspected of bias against Black defendants all the time (as are White juries) — why is it "racist" to suspect a Latino judge of similar bias against other races?

That Judge is apart of a group called "San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association", not the "La Raza" association

Distinction without difference. Any attempts to promote people based on their race automatically discriminates against other races and is thus racist — by definition.

That's pretty much racist.

"Pretty much" does not count.

directly attributed to anybody from the Middle East, who's appearances are starkly contrasted to caucasians.

The biggest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, which is about as far from the Middle East as is the US. Fail.

That happened in 1973. He took over his father's business in 1971.

So, he inherited a problem from his father. Big deal. Hillary Clinton's father was racist too

Except that was a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A YouTube clip with some talking-head talking about Trump is not proof, sorry. Maybe, he really forgot, who it was. Or, maybe, he lied. But that's not racism either way.

As for "disavowing" David Duke — wake me up, when Hillary Clinton "disavows" Al Sharpton, who is no less a racist than David Duke... Except she would not do that, because, whereas Duke's endorsement of Trump was unsolicited, Hillary actively sought Sharpton's. Maybe, if Trump ever went to a Duke's rally, you'd have had a point...

Fail.

Arguing if Bitcoin is money or money is _completely_ pointless:

Anything can be used as money.

Are governments going to start taxing virtual credits? /sarcasm "Here is your 1,000 gold coins in WoW. Too bad you don't have a way to collect them! Ha-Ha!"
Where does this insanity end??

Before money was invented people bartered with _their_ property.

Bitcoin is property. PERIOD.

The government has no jurisdiction on taxing private property. Before you disagree with me look up Allodial Title.

Taxing "legal tender" is fine because you don't own the money. Trying making your own legal tender and see how fast THAT lasts. All you can do is use it.

The fact that Bitcoin can be used "as" money is beside the point -- anything _could_ be. Private currencies are NOT money in the legal sense. They are being used in lieu of since citizens don't have the right to issue legal tender. We DO have the right to issue private currency.

Governments do NOT create or "mint" bitcoin -- they are NOT the owners. So frak off trying to claim ownership over something you didn't create.

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Down-vote is NOT "I disagree" but that this "post is off-topic"

It's an example extra layer of scrutiny applied only when the candidate is black.

False. The scrutiny comes from the candidate's father being a non-citizen and the murky accounts of the candidate's birth. Donald Trump has questioned Ted Cruz's eligibility too — right or wrong, the scrutiny is not racist. Fail.

But more to the point lots of white judges are members of ethnic professional groups

Citations?

no one accuses them of being racist

False. White judges are suspected of bias against non-White defendants all the time. Whether the suspicions are grounded or "dumb", they aren't racist. Fail.

Notice the stream of negative stereotypes

Sorry, I do not see a stream of negative stereotypes — maybe, you should've posted actual quotes, as requested.

If David Duke and other white supremacists have repeatedly and enthusiastically endorsed you unlike anyone else in decades? Definitely yes.

Unlike Hillary's endorsement by Sharpton, Duke's endorsement of Trump was completely unsolicited. If you begin rejecting all such "endorsements", you may not have time to talk about anything else — it is a strategic mistake for a politician to hand off the initiative to the opponents this way.

It was a lot more BLM than anti-Semitism

It was not — he was talking about diamonds being sent from South Africa to Crown Heights, for example. He was not "for Blacks", he was "anti Jews" — and stirring up rioters. You give me an example of David Duke doing anything like it...

But even if it were "BLM" — that alone is as racist as it gets. It really is mind-boggling, that the same person in the same post would attack one politician for "stereotyping" Blacks and defend another doing the same (with murderous results too)...

However you spin it, Al Sharpton is certainly no lesser racist, than David Duke. And yet, Clinton actively sought his endorsement — but you still accuse Trump of racism over unsolicited endorsement by Duke? How do you walk around with so much hypocrisy on you — does it not interfere with regular bodily functions?

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The article doesn't say how much (in mg) needs to be loaded in to the pen, but here is one source at USP grade from a highly respected supplier, 200mg for $326.50 in the US. A quick google search suggests .3mg per injection so that 200mg should last quite a while.

FBI you say?

I happen to be aware of a local office.

Google maps has had multi-destination directions for years. I use it all the time:

https://www.google.com/maps/di...

If slashcode mangles the link, there's a + in a circle where you can add a destination.

Larry Ellison is a sociopath http://www.canadianbusiness.co... who has singlehandedly done more damage to the software world https://www.wired.com/2014/05/... than any other man since software became a thing. His self-aggrandizing attention-seeking narcissism https://books.google.com/books... proves that when you have money and you're a dick the media still loves you.

Larry Ellison is a liar.

If he says Amazon's lead is over you can rest assured knowing that three things are true:
1. Amazon's lead is not over
2. Larry is hoping to create a self-fulfilling prophecy so that it will be true
3. He's going for the free PR that he's getting by saying outrageous thing. It's a Trump thing.

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P.S. The subject line I wrote is "Ellison is a terrorist." Given all the explosives he's set off in Java, APIs, Harmony, etc. the man should be locked up.

In a sick way, I'm pleased to see Cisco's insistence on weakening KDEv1 has bitten them. The guys working on StrongSWAN or LibreSwan have long made an issue of many of the weakness Cisco & others forced into IPSec (and IKEv1 in particular).

Not that Cisco is alone in weakening IPsec and marketing it as a desirable feature... but it's sad that anybody has to suffer due to somebody telling an engineer to take off their engineer's hat and put on his manager's hat

For the non-english speakers a quid is equal to 1.3 bucks. https://encrypted.google.com/s...

This person is my go to example of what a man is.

Better not fap to him or you're gay!

Found the original release and FAQ and documentation. I actually wrote an extension that will convert that document into a LaTeX document, with actual post script Tamil font support. You could print in Tamil from the Madurai encoded Tamil document. Fun times, 26 years ago!

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Your source is wrong.

As to the rest:
1. A business principal is an owner, partner, or other person with a material fractional interest in the business and an ability to control. I don't know where you're getting your definition of business principal from, but they mean the same thing. BPC 16601 specifically states:

"For the purposes of this section, "owner of a business entity" means any partner, in the case of a business entity that is a partnership... or any member, in the case of a business entity that is
a limited liability company... or any owner of capital stock in the case of a business entity that is a corporation."

2. California does have a trade secrets exception; you need to read Muggill v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp -- Edwards v. Arthur Andersen expressly refused to eliminate that exception.

3. CEOs and other executive level staff are far more likely to have knowledge of trade secrets, and to be expected to use that knowledge in new positions. It is not a slam dunk that you can exclude an executive level employee from employment in another business (and you can't in businesses in different fields or positions with different responsibilities within the same field), but if the responsibilities of the new position require exploiting the old trade secret knowledge, you can effectively enjoin that use and, as a result, exlcude that person from that job.

I understand "bright line rule" just fine. I also understand that there is no bright line rule like the one that you suggest, that the BPA exceptions are broader than you believe, and that the trade secret exception to your so-called "bright line rule" still exists and is enforced in California.

I merely allow for the possibility that he could be excluded from the job (technically, performing certain job responsibilities) under California law, you're the one arguing that there's no possible way for that to happen. You're wrong. You can't point to one California court decision that states otherwise, and, no, court decisions which don't even discuss trade secrets issues do not suffice to show that Muggill does not apply.

you can't stop someone from working for a competitor just because you fear that they may reveal trade secrets

It all depends upon how objectively reasonable that fear is. I suggest that you begin by reading the cases that actually cite Muggill, rather than implicitly trusting a spamvertisement page that completely misrepresents the Dowell decision. That court said:

"Although we doubt the continued viability of the common law trade secret exception to covenants not to compete, we need not
resolve the issue here. Even assuming the exception exists, we agree with the trial court that it has no application here. This is
so because the noncompete and nonsolicitation clauses in the agreements are not narrowly tailored or carefully limited to the
protection of trade secrets, but are so broadly worded as to restrain competition"

The California Court of Appeal can doubt all it wants, but it can't overrule the California Supreme Court. Until the latter overrules Muggill, it remains the law.

They put insulation inside fuel tanks with racing cars too, for several reasons.
I found the patent for the airplane version: here.

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Cloud places have their use, but there is always the security question, and there is always the grave concern about data sitting on a remote site where you have zero physical control over it.

There's also the outage question. Microsoft's Azure has had two significant outages in the last 10 days. Companies using Google's Apps For Work suffered a 7+ hour outage of Gmail this week during (US) business hours. When your enterprise is built on one of these services, what do you do when it goes down? You wait. That's all you can do, sit there and wait and hope the services come back up soon. Sure, you'll get a credit against your SLA after the fact, but that doesn't offset the fact that your ability to conduct business was down for hours on end and there was absolutely nothing you could do about it.

At least when you're running services on premise, you have some control over the situation. You can investigate and resolve the problem yourself. Getting your company's service restored is the #1 priority, not priority #1852 among 5,000 other companies all suffering through the cloud outage.

While it probably would be challenging to hack a CA or trick one into issuing the necessary certificate for addons.mozilla.org

That depends on the CA, some are more easy to trick than others...

BBC did a pretty good article.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

But, not knowing what Aleppo is, would indicate that he doesn't keep up with the most basic of news, as it has been all over the news recently.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Hindus .......more gods you believe in, the more successful you are in life"

This assertion is completely false. Hindus believe there is One God with many Names.

Is it really that hard to understand that each human mind can have it's own conception of what we call a $DIETY or $GOD. The oldest Hindu scripture and the foundation of this religion/philosophy (and later, it's offshoot Buddhism (Buddha was born a Hindu but then decided to start a fresh Philosophy, without some of the superstitious aspects that had crept into Indian society by then), the RigVeda (indeed the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language) starts of saying essentially that there is One God, which People call by Many Names.

They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged Garutman.
To what is One, sages give many a title they call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan.
—Rigveda 1.164.46, Translated by Ralph Griffith[78][79]

This makes this philosophy (that existed incidentally before any of the religions, even Hinduism as it was named later by the Britishers and other colonizers) intrinsically and naturally pluralistic (Pluralism, open minded and tolerant.

pluralism definition. A conviction that various religious, ethnic, racial, and political groups should be allowed to thrive in a single society. In metaphysics, pluralism can also mean an alternative to dualism and monism.

Indeed, not just tolerant, but accepting of other faiths, since it believes (not just believes, but practically tells the practitioner to experience the truth for him/herself by Direct experience/intuition through Yoga/meditation and other techniques and find out for oneself with the help of a spiritual Teacher) that practically each thinking mind can have it's own name, form and concept of the Truth (as they preferred to call it (that which is not False)), but the Absolute Truth (call it the Divine Mother (Hindus also worship the Divine in its Feminine form - Shakti or simply Divine Power lies beyond the conception of the normal planes of consciousness (those who have reached it describe it as Sat-Chid-Ananda, (translated it simply means the direct experience of that which is Existence-Knowedge-Bliss - Pure Consciousness, once again call it God, Shiva, Jesus, or by any other name, just don't kill each other over $IT) and can be experienced in higher planes of expanded consciousness.

This experience is pretty much each street level druggie is unconsciously craving and trying to kill/OD him/herself over instead of reaching it through safer, tried and tested means like (e.g. Yoga, because they take more persistence and effort. Also, Yoga is just a Path, as there are others, as Buddhism, Christianity, and other $RELIGIONS and what not theoretically, each person as on his own Spiritual Journey over lifetimes of Incarnations) that have helped millions of others reach it safely and surely in this very lifetime, if not the next, and the next, and the next, .... ad infinitum.

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Apparently you've been reading some pretty slanted crap if you think that volcanic pockets don't exist.

Google volcanic pocket. All you'll get is hits on pistols and PDAs.

For starters, check out Yellowstone.

I live at Yellowstone. It's not a volcanic pocket. It's sitting on a tremendous surge of magma from deep in the Earth's crust. And humanity isn't doing a thing to depressurize that.

Humans don't amount tp shit when it comes to the planet's atmosphere. If we were to stop all gas emissions right now, the planet would be completely equalised within a year.

Some stuff that would take longer: CO2, methane, and the variety of CFCs.

On their own hosting? You mean Google Code?

Google Code Project Hosting offered a free collaborative development environment for open source projects.
In 2016 the service was shut down, see this post for more info. Projects hosted on Google Code remain available in the Google Code Archive.

your link

Turns out someone's been fixing blurred lines for a while now

Or not. I love the weasely " In January of this year in China, a Tesla ploughed into the back of a stationary truck at speed, killing the driver. Should that incident prove to be related to Autopilot...". Well, yes, in the same way that if a train were to crash tomorrow you could write "Should that incident be related to the Galaxy 7..." without any evidence that it was involved at all.

Here's a Google Transmangle of the original article in Chinese:

https://translate.google.com/t...

Basically, the evidence that autopilot was in use was... um... his dad thinks it must have been because his son is a good driver and wouldn't have hit that truck. And he wants to "prove" it by... showing that the car's speed wasn't changing.

Whether the autopilot was on or off in a given situation is logged and easy to recover. Any reporter who suggests that an incident was "due to autopilot" without at first finding out whether the system was even on is being grossly irresponsible.

Your fallacy, like all institutionalized Churches, is assuming Free Will and Fate are mutually exclusive.

They are both true.

One truth does not negate another truth. This is the very definition of a paradox.

Here is an example to illustrate. Take a Quincunx (or Galton Board) and flip it vertically:

Picture
Flash Animation

In this analogy:

* Fate = Gravity,
* Free-Will = Choice to move left or right

e.g.

* You are fated to die.
* You have free-will to die sooner or later. i.e. You can commit suicide (and thus get placed in God's Penalty Box) or live a long life trying to do the 1 and only commandment to the best of your ability.

The choice is yours.
For a limited time. (TM)

> This is the core of Atheistic Libertarianism,

Trading the ignorance of Theism for the arrogance of Atheism is still blindness.

i.e.
Theism is the color-blind man proselytizing to others his faith that "colors" exist.
Atheism is the blind man telling everyone else they are crazy and irrational.
The mystic is the one seeing in color wondering "When will both sides will shut up and stop arguing their relative truth and realize a) the fact that everyone has faith in their beliefs, and b) experimental knowledge one lives is the only real truth."

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Javaschit, noun, a fucked up programming language designed and implemented in only 10 days. HTML5 requires the "use strict" hack to turn on type safety! WTF?!

Ireland is a sovern nation. If they set the tax rates on certain entities at whatever they like, they are welcome to do so. Apple paid every bit of tax they were legally required to pay. The EU has issues with Ireland, and they are taking it out on Apple because they are a juicy target. This has nothing to do with unpaid taxes, or they would be going after all of the companies using the Irish tax system to pay less taxes.

You actually contradict yourself repeatedly with what you wrote, do you even realize it?

Shockingly, AOI doesn't pay taxes. Anywhere. The holding company had a net income of $30 billion from 2009 to 2012, but has not declared tax residency in any jurisdiction.

Apple had a tax holiday for the first 10 years in Ireland. They paid no taxes to the Irish government.

So, do they declare themselves stateless, or take advantage of tax laws that are on the books and perfectly legal in the host country? What taxes did they fail to pay? Why do these taxes only apply to Apple and not the thousands of other corporations? Why is the EU dictating the taxes a company should be paying in a country where they paid every cent in required taxes? If the EU cares so much about what each country's tax laws are, why don't they just write the tax laws for the countries? Why is Ikea allowed to benefit from the tax laws of Sweden, while Apple is an evil tax avoider?

An EU ruling, which makes no sense doesn't justify itself. If the US decided that Maryland didn't collect enough taxes from me, why would the US have any authority to tell me to pay more taxes to Maryland if I follow the laws of Maryland and pay every cent of taxes owed to the country.

It seems you are willfully ignorant that this is special treatment for a single company.

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Where is the EU ruling that Ikea needs to pay billions of Euros in taxes? There are literally (not figuratively) thousands of companies using tax loopholes in Europe to pay little to no tax, but we are focusing on Apple, why?

I am not saying that what Apple is doing isn't scummy, I am saying that they aren't the only one, but they are being singled out.

You claim willful ignorance on my part, but how do you explain your ignorance of the other companies, and your focus on ONLY Apple in this?

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Google is constructing a complicated matrix of permissions to render the existing permissions system irrelevant. So my specific declaration of shenanigans was because your photos from the Camera app sends the photo to Google Maps. Camera has GPS permission turned off, but I can't use Maps without it. In order to disable the Camera/Maps off, I have to turn location history off which also disables Map's arrival time estimations. Meanwhile disabling web search history removes the ability for me to tag "Home" and "work" locations.

It's time we get a third phone OS, accountable and controlled to no one. Linux Phone OS anybody?

You don't need to eliminate truck drivers to eliminate most of the jobs. If you can make a truck that can drive in fully automated mode on the interstate, then you can make a truck that has a bunk for the driver to sleep in and can go 24/7, with a driver only doing the parts near built-up areas. That could easily eliminate half (possibly more than half) of truck driving jobs.

Several responses to that. 1) None of that is going to happen within 5 years. We aren't even close technologically no matter what Elon Musk claims. 2) Even if the technology were ready today (which it isn't) it would take far longer than 5 years for it to roll out. A full rollout will cost hundreds of billions of dollars (probably trillions actually) and will take many years to accomplish. Economically it is going to take quite a long time to happen even if the technology is perfect from day one - which it won't be. 3) There are about 2.5-3 millions trucks that require a CDL on US roads (about 1.6 million tractor trailers). No more 800,000 are used for non-local operations. So no, you wouldn't eliminate even close to half of truck driving jobs even under the most idealistic assumptions just by somehow miraculously eliminating long haul trucking jobs.

I take it you've not used customer support recently. Remember all of those humans who used to follow a script in call centres? Now they're tier 2 support - a chat bot is tier 1 and if you divert from the script too much it will elevate you to tier 2.

That is a FAR cry from chatbots actually replacing 6% of the workforce. We already have that today and if Siri and Cortana are indicators of state of the art, those call center jobs are safe for many years yet to come.

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If this isn't a double peak I don't know what is. You are right. The trend is down and probably will never go back up.

How about turning off TouchWiz as well.

It must be hard not knowing how to download and install software

The so called 'security researcher' got confused with Google Nearby https://support.google.com/acc... . Google also moved core android OS functions into Google Play Services so core functions could be updated without rolling an entire android update(which the oem would never do). Moving the location provider was part of the this rework, so everyone could get the latest google maps turn by turn directions and provide a consistent api to developers http://lifehacker.com/why-goog....