Presumably the air pollution is coming from some activities that raise living standards to afford clean water, public hospitals, health insurance, and reduced crime. Can we have a figure on how many lives are saved by air pollution as well?
Yes in an ideal world we can have both so it's important to recognize air pollution is more than an eyesore.
If you're going to take that line of logic, might as well label the deaths caused by air pollution as a good thing because it's a form of population control.
In fact, causing death is viewed by many governments as a necessary component of resource management, which is the reason we'll probably see some pointless volley of politics back and forth on this, but nothing actually done about the overall problem.
He didn't say "not NORMAL" he said "not NATURAL". Asshole.
Naked is exactly NATURAL. We are born naked.. That's what nature does.. Hence NATURAL.
Sure, a woman in the naked state is not the norm, but it is NATURAL.
Why the fuck can't you people understand certain words? NATURAL = FROM NATURE.
We may be born in that state, but there's not a fucking spot on this planet that is truly compatible with being naked, as our caveman ancestors discovered.
You can call it "natural" all you want, but ironically nature ain't fucking having it, which tends to beg the question of what is "normal" to survive.
Eh, are you crazy? wife = chick? That must be some new use of the word chick I was previously unaware of.
I don't recall my "honey" having anything to do with beekeeping, nor does my "baby" resemble her infant state in any way, so how about we lay off the attacks on wife slang already. You're making a grammar Nazi look tame by comparison.
...in which case they'd be charged with obstruction and destruction of evidence. No easy out here.
When accusations or justifications are truly baseless, it becomes difficult to identify "evidence" that may or may not have been destroyed, along with identifying any legal obstruction.
If I don't even have the Facebook app on my phone, but hold an account, am I to be accused of obstruction because I haven't made it pathetically easy to rape and pillage my personal information via my cellular device? I think not.
In Ancient Athens quite a lot of the population owned slaves and the town had silver mines so the government had plenty of income. People got paid, among other things, for attending the Agora i.e. the parliament every day or to judge cases (back then the judges were chosen by random lots).
So why not pay people to attend some kind of new lower chamber of parliament, like online, every day or something like that instead of the UBI?
We already do pay for that. It's called taxpayers footing the bill for mega-corps who have managed to lobby and loophole themselves out of that tax obligation.
That new low chamber of "parliament" is called social media, and the masses are online, every day, bringing plenty of opinion to shape society, no matter how real or fake.
"...A report released last week by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department disclosed that Speckman had a blood-alcohol level of 0.21, almost three times the legal limit "
As a parent, I cannot imagine the grief this father is dealing with right now, but I certainly I hope this lapse of common sense in a desperate attempt to blame the car is temporary, given this report released by Captain Obvious.
Unfortunately, the cars performance is not the main factor that caused a loss of life. One must not only be sober, but capable of handling a car that can deliver Fast and Furious performance. While I don't agree with this stupid and pointless race to ludicrous speed in the EV market right now, if you can't handle a car, then don't drive the fucking thing, no matter what technology is powering it.
Wireless charging tech that's years old now suddenly needs a consortium and a standard established? Uh, fucking why?
Oh, and given the revenue Apple enjoys by designing their power cords to not last worth a shit, I'm rather surprised they're even involved in this, regardless of the "courage" it takes to remove yet another interface.
"The use of water is also great news for both the environment and your bank account..."
The lack of corruption and greed would also be great news for capitalism, but much like a battery that lasts 10 years, we'll never see that shit happen to benefit the masses.
Don't ever fucking assume something that would last 10 years would end up being "good" for your bank account. In today's environment of overpriced disposable electronics and SaaS, promoting a long-term bargain is practically illegal.
Without a 100% perfection inbound firewall you're not coming anywhere near my brain interface.
Given the fact that your brain "interface" consists of recognized senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.), am I to assume you are devoid of all of these, or maintain some super-human ability to "firewall" off all input?
Experience and wisdom helps build those firewall rules, but we humans are far from perfect.
Oh, just stop it. Your desire to neither work nor think does not mean that people will stop working and thinking.
People won't stop thinking. At least I sure as hell hope not.
That said, the issue will become one of survival with a society that thrives on the concepts of education and employment as the recognized mechanisms to sustain life.
When there are no human jobs left, the reasons to educate a human start to dwindle, as does motivation.
...The question is about the remaining 99.99% of humanity.
We really need to figure out how such a society could look like and we need to figure it out fast, because technology doesn't wait.
The answer already exists. We call it "Welfare" today. We'll give it a fancy name like "UBI" tomorrow, but make no mistake, it's the same exact shit, funded in the same shit way.
And when I say shit, I mean the fact that Greed N. Corruption will lobby to ensure fiscal responsibility will start and end at sustaining life, and not a penny more.
Forget the American dream. The Human plan will become nothing more than survival unless we Solve for Greed.
AI can and probably will ultimately make the concept of human employment extinct. And we probably need to accept that fact faster than any prediction, given the speed at which technology has accelerated just in the last couple of decades.
Humans need to first solve the problem of Greed. Otherwise, the chasm that separates the AI owners and wealthy overlords from the rest of the human race will continue to grow, and they won't give a shit about the demise of the irrelevant meatsack masses.
Hmm, notify the border patrol that you work for a national-security-level organization (and in this case a *government* agency *and* well-known), and that you will provide the PIN, but you *must* phone them first to notify of the potential breach of security. Get the full identification of the officers involved. Phone, explain, give all details of the officers involved, and wait for clearance to give up the PIN to border patrol.
You will wait for a while. But the officers in place will shit pepper bricks until the answering phone call happens either giving you permission, or telling them off.
This is actually a sound tactic, but often people crossing borders are dealing with a time-sensitive schedule, and such an action may create quite a delay which the traveler cannot afford. To bolster the policy, perhaps corporations need to also reimburse their employees for any additional expense incurred when protecting sensitive company information.
Note: if NASA has typical operational procedures for hardware security, border patrol caused the need for destruction of that phone. Once it is handled by someone below the required security clearance, it must be disposed of as it might have been tampered with.
I highly doubt the requisite cellular device held classified information, which protecting classified data becomes far more black and white in this case. This is likely a device that is authorized to carry highly sensitive corporate information, so security clearances may not be as much a factor as simply an unauthorized person handling company data. The real impact with dealing with CBP will be any additional federal security mandates that impose protections that are similar to protecting classified information with regards to disclosure. Again, very ironic that our Government is wanting to violate their own laws for the sake of the War on Terror.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment.
So now it's getting interesting. NASA forbids him to reveal the PIN code (and let's assume there's a law in place that underpins this).
The border inspection requires him to unlock it (and for the sake of the argument, let's just assume they have the legal right to do so - I'm sure the immigration official told the guy so, and being an authority figure, the scientist has or at least should have no reason to doubt this).
The result of this is that one law requires something another law forbids. Talking about being caught between a rock and a hard place!
Yes, it's one hell of a Catch-22. It will become very interesting once corporations adopt self-destructing MDM policies that automatically wipe the phone after X number of failed PIN attempts, as employees might be inclined to do exactly that to protect company data in situations where coercion is being introduced.
Our corporate devices are protected with an MDM policy that essentially wipes the phone after X number of failed attempts to unlock it.
I'm wondering how would he have fared if his nerves got the best of him and he accidentally wiped his device prior to handing it over. Or if he would have wiped his device on purpose if his company held a corporate policy against coercive acts designed to avoid data breaches.
This activity certainly begs the question as to what corporations should do in order to protect their data, which ironically it is often times US Government policy that mandates federal contractors protect sensitive data.
Thanks to the War on Terror for this bullshit Catch-22.
I believe he did the smart thing, and probably the best when it comes to making a stand.
Under protest unlock the phone, get it done, then report the incident to his employer (as breach of security - employer being NASA has a bit more standing) and report to the press (allowing for public outrage to ensue).
This way he has a fair chance of getting a lot of attention for the case - and it appears it worked, at least the story made it onto/.. If instead he had been held in jail at the border, it may have been a lot harder to get the story out quickly. Now the end result is the same...
When an individuals actions make the difference between a breach of security happening vs. not happening, I'd say the end result is not the same. I'm thinking NASA would agree, since they're the ones forced to do an investigation and assess impact right now over the transfer of sensitive information to unauthorized persons, which absolutely happened.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment. For his sake, let's hope that common sense prevails and his employer realizes the only entity truly responsible for this breach and coercion against a US Citizen is the US Government.
Eliminating left turns to save time at the expense of longer distance is plausible.
Making the journey shorter by eliminating left turns is not. So what is the article not telling us?
The reality here is the use of an algorithm is what created the considerable cost savings. The whole left turn gimmick was one of the main factors driving efficiency gains, resulting in 1,100 less trucks being needed to maintain deliveries. Miles not driven at all x 1,100 trucks = miles saved.
And yeah, the confusing way they explained it is bullshit.
When one of the tactics for those on slow connections is to employ ad blocking technology, one doesn't have to look far as to the impact on bandwidth. Couple that with the fucking telemetry bullshit infecting software these days, and the problem is obvious in both directions.
I find it odd that our society will label physically tracking everything a human does a crime, but virtually tracking and selling everything a human does is called capitalism.
Speaking of lying, ethics is yet another factor here. If Tesla holds a high ethical stance to be truthful with regards to recalls, as well as a mindset in playing it safe rather than rolling the dice, even an elevated number of Tesla recalls needs to be weighed fairly and accurately against other car vendors who arrogantly can afford to roll the dice, and have plenty of times in the past, skewing statistics.
With regards to taking ethics to the worst level, the word liar and Volkswagen are forever synonymous, so we've seen what other vendors are capable of.
You know HFCS has about the same fructose content as table sugar, right?
As with many things in life, moderation is key, which applies to fructose intake regardless of source.
That being said, you bet your ass I'm going to trust something like raw honey as an alternative over artificial sweetners and HFCS, because I know how pure unadulterated greed will manipulate facts for profit. 50 years ago your doctor would hand you a pack of cigarettes because they were still selling the idea they were safe. We've learned otherwise since then, at the cost of millions of lives, which highlights just how much greed doesn't care about manipulating facts.
The one I laugh about is if fructose is really so bad for you, then why is there a sweetener by a company called "wholesome" that's agave nectar, which is something like 90% fructose compare to HFCS which is about 50% fructose.
Products like agave nectar and honey are touted as better because they happen to be sweeter, with the notion that even higher levels of fructose will balance out against consuming less of the product. I would agree that "wholesome" may be pushing it for any sweetener.
There is a *WORLD* of difference between a genuine Celiac disease sufferer and trendy fad based gluten intolerance morons. The former I have all the sympathy in the world for. It is a really shitty condition to have.
If you truly have sympathy, then you would find little or no reason to argue against food manufacturers helping the overall community by labeling food products. Is there hype and bullshit driving vendors to want to start labeling every fucking thing they can as "gluten free" in order to drive profits? Sure, but there's also hype and bullshit in putting "pure" RO water in a bottle and selling it for $5 a bottle. Bottom line is labeling food to assist those who truly suffer is not a "fad" that should go away. Those purporting to hold a false diagnosis should, but I often wonder if forcing yourself to unnecessarily buy "gluten-free" products isn't punishment enough given the cost markup. Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.
The latter I regard in the same light as Apollo hoxars, anti-vaccination and all other conspiracy and fad based things. These people I consider idiots and morons. They are the sorts of people that allow "alternative facts" to thrive. They are on the same level as Holocaust denial and I have an absolute disdain for their beliefs, and I am perfectly willing to say so.
Agreed. With regards to food specifically, if we were to attack the portion of society who purports to hold a false diagnosis, we should probably target the much larger audience of morons who want to excuse being obese due to "overactive glands", or driving a demand that society should accept being overweight. Obesity kills a hell of a lot more humans that gluten ever will, and a "curvy" society full of "Dad bods" is still one that is killing itself prematurely.
No, that's not how cars have historically worked out...any significant change results in a noticeable spike in recalls and reliability complaints for a model year or so after the change. New platforms or changes to platforms are usually the most notable times for such issues, and "based on" is not enough to negate this being a platform change/introduction.
Uh, speaking of history, how has Tesla fared with regards to considerable recalls as compared to every other car manufacturer?
That might actually be a relevant component of the expected failure analysis that would preclude undue concern or even bullshit negative hype.
No manufacturer is perfect, that is true. But some may be considered a bit more reliable than others, bolstering confidence even with v1.0 designs.
We're already watching HTC, Motorola, and Samsung follow suit
So when the very first half of your very first sentence is demonstrably wrong, I won't believe you me about any of the rest of what you said. In the mean time Samsung will remain on my to buy list complete with it's headphone jacks, and HTC... well I'm sure I can avoid that one model that they trialed without it, I mean it's not like they have a myriad of other concurrent models to chose from if that one feature is a killer feature for you. Kind of like Motorola released a bunch of phones at the same time and a single model omitted the jack too. Oh noes!
Apple has one model of smartphone; the iPhone. Design changes are therefore inherently an all-or-nothing decision, and their profit margins driven by an undying legion of iLemmings allows them to sustain enough corporate arrogance (a.k.a. "courage") to push a take-it-or-leave-it design change. You are fortunate to still have choice with other vendors, but this hardly discredits the obvious; they are following with certain design changes, as no one removed the headphone jack prior to the iEvent that started it all. They are merely afforded the option to trial it instead of fucking over their entire customer base all at once by limiting hardware models to one.
A headphone jack is merely the tip of the iceberg. Watch as vendors also follow suit when it comes to laptop design. Apple has already demonstrated the obscene profit that can be made by sealing a laptop case shut and soldering every-fucking-thing directly to the chassis, mandating upgrade options at time of purchase, and utterly destroying the concept of waiting until upgrade costs are driven down, along with the entire 3rd party upgrade market.
Cash is King, driven by those who have designed their products to deliver it. Businesses follow models that deliver maximum success and returns. That's hardly a concept up for debate.
...They don't deserve to feel better about themselves; they're crass, ignorant halfwits and don't need their idiotic beliefs affirmed anymore than they already are. And that goes for the stupid assed "gluten free" thing too. Almost no one on earth has celiac disease, and anyone that does can take care of that themselves...
Almost no one on earth? In America alone, there are 3 million people who do. Not that any of them would expect an apology from a crass person such as yourself who doesn't believe simple statistics.
Regarding taking care of that "themselves", gluten is found all over our damn food supply. And much like those who suffer from epilepsy, a fucking warning label can often make all the difference in the world.
You had a valid point, right up until your ignorance showed up. And no, I don't have celiac disease or epilepsy. I'm merely fortunate enough to not suffer from a compassion deficiency.
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Presumably the air pollution is coming from some activities that raise living standards to afford clean water, public hospitals, health insurance, and reduced crime. Can we have a figure on how many lives are saved by air pollution as well?
Yes in an ideal world we can have both so it's important to recognize air pollution is more than an eyesore.
If you're going to take that line of logic, might as well label the deaths caused by air pollution as a good thing because it's a form of population control.
In fact, causing death is viewed by many governments as a necessary component of resource management, which is the reason we'll probably see some pointless volley of politics back and forth on this, but nothing actually done about the overall problem.
He didn't say "not NORMAL" he said "not NATURAL". Asshole.
Naked is exactly NATURAL. We are born naked.. That's what nature does.. Hence NATURAL.
Sure, a woman in the naked state is not the norm, but it is NATURAL.
Why the fuck can't you people understand certain words? NATURAL = FROM NATURE.
We may be born in that state, but there's not a fucking spot on this planet that is truly compatible with being naked, as our caveman ancestors discovered.
You can call it "natural" all you want, but ironically nature ain't fucking having it, which tends to beg the question of what is "normal" to survive.
Eh, are you crazy? wife = chick? That must be some new use of the word chick I was previously unaware of.
I don't recall my "honey" having anything to do with beekeeping, nor does my "baby" resemble her infant state in any way, so how about we lay off the attacks on wife slang already. You're making a grammar Nazi look tame by comparison.
...in which case they'd be charged with obstruction and destruction of evidence. No easy out here.
When accusations or justifications are truly baseless, it becomes difficult to identify "evidence" that may or may not have been destroyed, along with identifying any legal obstruction.
If I don't even have the Facebook app on my phone, but hold an account, am I to be accused of obstruction because I haven't made it pathetically easy to rape and pillage my personal information via my cellular device? I think not.
In Ancient Athens quite a lot of the population owned slaves and the town had silver mines so the government had plenty of income. People got paid, among other things, for attending the Agora i.e. the parliament every day or to judge cases (back then the judges were chosen by random lots).
So why not pay people to attend some kind of new lower chamber of parliament, like online, every day or something like that instead of the UBI?
We already do pay for that. It's called taxpayers footing the bill for mega-corps who have managed to lobby and loophole themselves out of that tax obligation.
That new low chamber of "parliament" is called social media, and the masses are online, every day, bringing plenty of opinion to shape society, no matter how real or fake.
"...A report released last week by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department disclosed that Speckman had a blood-alcohol level of 0.21, almost three times the legal limit "
As a parent, I cannot imagine the grief this father is dealing with right now, but I certainly I hope this lapse of common sense in a desperate attempt to blame the car is temporary, given this report released by Captain Obvious.
Unfortunately, the cars performance is not the main factor that caused a loss of life. One must not only be sober, but capable of handling a car that can deliver Fast and Furious performance. While I don't agree with this stupid and pointless race to ludicrous speed in the EV market right now, if you can't handle a car, then don't drive the fucking thing, no matter what technology is powering it.
Wireless charging tech that's years old now suddenly needs a consortium and a standard established? Uh, fucking why?
Oh, and given the revenue Apple enjoys by designing their power cords to not last worth a shit, I'm rather surprised they're even involved in this, regardless of the "courage" it takes to remove yet another interface.
"The use of water is also great news for both the environment and your bank account..."
The lack of corruption and greed would also be great news for capitalism, but much like a battery that lasts 10 years, we'll never see that shit happen to benefit the masses.
Don't ever fucking assume something that would last 10 years would end up being "good" for your bank account. In today's environment of overpriced disposable electronics and SaaS, promoting a long-term bargain is practically illegal.
Some high bandwidth interface to the brain...
Without a 100% perfection inbound firewall you're not coming anywhere near my brain interface.
Given the fact that your brain "interface" consists of recognized senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.), am I to assume you are devoid of all of these, or maintain some super-human ability to "firewall" off all input?
Experience and wisdom helps build those firewall rules, but we humans are far from perfect.
Oh, just stop it. Your desire to neither work nor think does not mean that people will stop working and thinking.
People won't stop thinking. At least I sure as hell hope not.
That said, the issue will become one of survival with a society that thrives on the concepts of education and employment as the recognized mechanisms to sustain life.
When there are no human jobs left, the reasons to educate a human start to dwindle, as does motivation.
...The question is about the remaining 99.99% of humanity.
We really need to figure out how such a society could look like and we need to figure it out fast, because technology doesn't wait.
The answer already exists. We call it "Welfare" today. We'll give it a fancy name like "UBI" tomorrow, but make no mistake, it's the same exact shit, funded in the same shit way.
And when I say shit, I mean the fact that Greed N. Corruption will lobby to ensure fiscal responsibility will start and end at sustaining life, and not a penny more.
Forget the American dream. The Human plan will become nothing more than survival unless we Solve for Greed.
AI can and probably will ultimately make the concept of human employment extinct. And we probably need to accept that fact faster than any prediction, given the speed at which technology has accelerated just in the last couple of decades.
Humans need to first solve the problem of Greed. Otherwise, the chasm that separates the AI owners and wealthy overlords from the rest of the human race will continue to grow, and they won't give a shit about the demise of the irrelevant meatsack masses.
Hmm, notify the border patrol that you work for a national-security-level organization (and in this case a *government* agency *and* well-known), and that you will provide the PIN, but you *must* phone them first to notify of the potential breach of security. Get the full identification of the officers involved. Phone, explain, give all details of the officers involved, and wait for clearance to give up the PIN to border patrol.
You will wait for a while. But the officers in place will shit pepper bricks until the answering phone call happens either giving you permission, or telling them off.
This is actually a sound tactic, but often people crossing borders are dealing with a time-sensitive schedule, and such an action may create quite a delay which the traveler cannot afford. To bolster the policy, perhaps corporations need to also reimburse their employees for any additional expense incurred when protecting sensitive company information.
Note: if NASA has typical operational procedures for hardware security, border patrol caused the need for destruction of that phone. Once it is handled by someone below the required security clearance, it must be disposed of as it might have been tampered with.
I highly doubt the requisite cellular device held classified information, which protecting classified data becomes far more black and white in this case. This is likely a device that is authorized to carry highly sensitive corporate information, so security clearances may not be as much a factor as simply an unauthorized person handling company data. The real impact with dealing with CBP will be any additional federal security mandates that impose protections that are similar to protecting classified information with regards to disclosure. Again, very ironic that our Government is wanting to violate their own laws for the sake of the War on Terror.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment.
So now it's getting interesting. NASA forbids him to reveal the PIN code (and let's assume there's a law in place that underpins this).
The border inspection requires him to unlock it (and for the sake of the argument, let's just assume they have the legal right to do so - I'm sure the immigration official told the guy so, and being an authority figure, the scientist has or at least should have no reason to doubt this).
The result of this is that one law requires something another law forbids. Talking about being caught between a rock and a hard place!
Yes, it's one hell of a Catch-22. It will become very interesting once corporations adopt self-destructing MDM policies that automatically wipe the phone after X number of failed PIN attempts, as employees might be inclined to do exactly that to protect company data in situations where coercion is being introduced.
Our corporate devices are protected with an MDM policy that essentially wipes the phone after X number of failed attempts to unlock it.
I'm wondering how would he have fared if his nerves got the best of him and he accidentally wiped his device prior to handing it over. Or if he would have wiped his device on purpose if his company held a corporate policy against coercive acts designed to avoid data breaches.
This activity certainly begs the question as to what corporations should do in order to protect their data, which ironically it is often times US Government policy that mandates federal contractors protect sensitive data.
Thanks to the War on Terror for this bullshit Catch-22.
I believe he did the smart thing, and probably the best when it comes to making a stand.
Under protest unlock the phone, get it done, then report the incident to his employer (as breach of security - employer being NASA has a bit more standing) and report to the press (allowing for public outrage to ensue).
This way he has a fair chance of getting a lot of attention for the case - and it appears it worked, at least the story made it onto /.. If instead he had been held in jail at the border, it may have been a lot harder to get the story out quickly. Now the end result is the same...
When an individuals actions make the difference between a breach of security happening vs. not happening, I'd say the end result is not the same. I'm thinking NASA would agree, since they're the ones forced to do an investigation and assess impact right now over the transfer of sensitive information to unauthorized persons, which absolutely happened.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment. For his sake, let's hope that common sense prevails and his employer realizes the only entity truly responsible for this breach and coercion against a US Citizen is the US Government.
Eliminating left turns to save time at the expense of longer distance is plausible.
Making the journey shorter by eliminating left turns is not. So what is the article not telling us?
The reality here is the use of an algorithm is what created the considerable cost savings. The whole left turn gimmick was one of the main factors driving efficiency gains, resulting in 1,100 less trucks being needed to maintain deliveries. Miles not driven at all x 1,100 trucks = miles saved.
And yeah, the confusing way they explained it is bullshit.
When one of the tactics for those on slow connections is to employ ad blocking technology, one doesn't have to look far as to the impact on bandwidth. Couple that with the fucking telemetry bullshit infecting software these days, and the problem is obvious in both directions.
I find it odd that our society will label physically tracking everything a human does a crime, but virtually tracking and selling everything a human does is called capitalism.
And to me, a non-celiac, I welcome having every thing in a food on the label. I want to know what i am eating.
Absolutely. Sadly we have to practically demand this information today.
No he does not, since he is lying.
Speaking of lying, ethics is yet another factor here. If Tesla holds a high ethical stance to be truthful with regards to recalls, as well as a mindset in playing it safe rather than rolling the dice, even an elevated number of Tesla recalls needs to be weighed fairly and accurately against other car vendors who arrogantly can afford to roll the dice, and have plenty of times in the past, skewing statistics.
With regards to taking ethics to the worst level, the word liar and Volkswagen are forever synonymous, so we've seen what other vendors are capable of.
You know HFCS has about the same fructose content as table sugar, right?
As with many things in life, moderation is key, which applies to fructose intake regardless of source.
That being said, you bet your ass I'm going to trust something like raw honey as an alternative over artificial sweetners and HFCS, because I know how pure unadulterated greed will manipulate facts for profit. 50 years ago your doctor would hand you a pack of cigarettes because they were still selling the idea they were safe. We've learned otherwise since then, at the cost of millions of lives, which highlights just how much greed doesn't care about manipulating facts.
The one I laugh about is if fructose is really so bad for you, then why is there a sweetener by a company called "wholesome" that's agave nectar, which is something like 90% fructose compare to HFCS which is about 50% fructose.
Products like agave nectar and honey are touted as better because they happen to be sweeter, with the notion that even higher levels of fructose will balance out against consuming less of the product. I would agree that "wholesome" may be pushing it for any sweetener.
There is a *WORLD* of difference between a genuine Celiac disease sufferer and trendy fad based gluten intolerance morons. The former I have all the sympathy in the world for. It is a really shitty condition to have.
If you truly have sympathy, then you would find little or no reason to argue against food manufacturers helping the overall community by labeling food products. Is there hype and bullshit driving vendors to want to start labeling every fucking thing they can as "gluten free" in order to drive profits? Sure, but there's also hype and bullshit in putting "pure" RO water in a bottle and selling it for $5 a bottle. Bottom line is labeling food to assist those who truly suffer is not a "fad" that should go away. Those purporting to hold a false diagnosis should, but I often wonder if forcing yourself to unnecessarily buy "gluten-free" products isn't punishment enough given the cost markup. Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.
The latter I regard in the same light as Apollo hoxars, anti-vaccination and all other conspiracy and fad based things. These people I consider idiots and morons. They are the sorts of people that allow "alternative facts" to thrive. They are on the same level as Holocaust denial and I have an absolute disdain for their beliefs, and I am perfectly willing to say so.
Agreed. With regards to food specifically, if we were to attack the portion of society who purports to hold a false diagnosis, we should probably target the much larger audience of morons who want to excuse being obese due to "overactive glands", or driving a demand that society should accept being overweight. Obesity kills a hell of a lot more humans that gluten ever will, and a "curvy" society full of "Dad bods" is still one that is killing itself prematurely.
No, that's not how cars have historically worked out...any significant change results in a noticeable spike in recalls and reliability complaints for a model year or so after the change. New platforms or changes to platforms are usually the most notable times for such issues, and "based on" is not enough to negate this being a platform change/introduction.
Uh, speaking of history, how has Tesla fared with regards to considerable recalls as compared to every other car manufacturer?
That might actually be a relevant component of the expected failure analysis that would preclude undue concern or even bullshit negative hype.
No manufacturer is perfect, that is true. But some may be considered a bit more reliable than others, bolstering confidence even with v1.0 designs.
We're already watching HTC, Motorola, and Samsung follow suit
So when the very first half of your very first sentence is demonstrably wrong, I won't believe you me about any of the rest of what you said. In the mean time Samsung will remain on my to buy list complete with it's headphone jacks, and HTC ... well I'm sure I can avoid that one model that they trialed without it, I mean it's not like they have a myriad of other concurrent models to chose from if that one feature is a killer feature for you. Kind of like Motorola released a bunch of phones at the same time and a single model omitted the jack too. Oh noes!
Apple has one model of smartphone; the iPhone. Design changes are therefore inherently an all-or-nothing decision, and their profit margins driven by an undying legion of iLemmings allows them to sustain enough corporate arrogance (a.k.a. "courage") to push a take-it-or-leave-it design change. You are fortunate to still have choice with other vendors, but this hardly discredits the obvious; they are following with certain design changes, as no one removed the headphone jack prior to the iEvent that started it all. They are merely afforded the option to trial it instead of fucking over their entire customer base all at once by limiting hardware models to one.
A headphone jack is merely the tip of the iceberg. Watch as vendors also follow suit when it comes to laptop design. Apple has already demonstrated the obscene profit that can be made by sealing a laptop case shut and soldering every-fucking-thing directly to the chassis, mandating upgrade options at time of purchase, and utterly destroying the concept of waiting until upgrade costs are driven down, along with the entire 3rd party upgrade market.
Cash is King, driven by those who have designed their products to deliver it. Businesses follow models that deliver maximum success and returns. That's hardly a concept up for debate.
...They don't deserve to feel better about themselves; they're crass, ignorant halfwits and don't need their idiotic beliefs affirmed anymore than they already are. And that goes for the stupid assed "gluten free" thing too. Almost no one on earth has celiac disease, and anyone that does can take care of that themselves...
Almost no one on earth? In America alone, there are 3 million people who do. Not that any of them would expect an apology from a crass person such as yourself who doesn't believe simple statistics.
Regarding taking care of that "themselves", gluten is found all over our damn food supply. And much like those who suffer from epilepsy, a fucking warning label can often make all the difference in the world.
You had a valid point, right up until your ignorance showed up. And no, I don't have celiac disease or epilepsy. I'm merely fortunate enough to not suffer from a compassion deficiency.