Funny, I've know a lot of Dutch people and as a people I love them. In fact I've met only one Dutch guy I didn't think highly of - I used to say that he messed up my opinion that the Dutch as a universally likeable people. I've worked with them, dated some, and sailed with one guy I literally trusted my life with.
Because we all drive Bentleys, Rolls-Royces and Jaguars in England...
Besides, the build quality is often awful. I saw a recent Rolls-Royce at the Bonhams auction at Goodwood earlier this year. The panels were completely asymmetric. A colleague of mine said you could always tell if an E-Type had been rebuilt - the shutlines were perfectly even, and they certainly didn't come out of the factory like that.
And guess what, your doctor is very likely to ask you about your alcohol intake too. According to a medical friend of mine they also tend to double what the patient says
I wish the UK had the free speech protections that the US has - it's great for filtering out assholes. For instance, take a colleague of mine. He [tried] starting a conversation with "Coons make up 40% of the prison population in the US". He is completely correct about the percentage, but he immediately allowed people around him to know that it's not worth getting involved as he's probably going to try pinning the reasons on race rather than social or financial reasons.
If you're going to be pedantic so will I. It depends on how the goal was defined. If I say "I'll do X, and I'll do within Y years", but end up managing to do X after Y+5 years, I've still met the goal of doing X.
Lots of people have already replied, but anyhow...
Nobody should be surprised by this. Elon Musk's deadlines are grossly optimistic. However he does tend to meet his goals, just a lot later than planned. This isn't such an issue when it comes for 70 million dollar rocket - it's almost expected, but he's going to have to more careful when dealing with consumers.
It doesn't matter if he's a horrible manipulative guy. The fact that any government can assume that somebody is guilty and take ownership of their assets so they can't afford to defend themselves properly is a horrific concept.
For some sure, but for a lot of us liberals it still does. I've never told said colleague to shut up when he starts talking about coons, sand n*ggers, spastics, etc. I just walk away - he's free to believe that some people are intellectually inferior based on the colour of their skin, and I'm free to think he's a horrible human being.
The reason they did this was to track people's routes through the system - Oyster will only give the end points, not where they changed stations. The Gizmodo article explains that, if you bothered to read it...
The Register did an article on this a few weeks ago and mentions that TFL did a good job anonymising the data:
Fortunately, TfL did it right: they used ICO guidelines to protect users' privacy by grabbing and tracking MAC addresses and then depersonalized them using a salt which then discarded at the end of each day. That in effect makes it impossible to know what the original MAC address was.
While I agree that Dyson's politics regarding Brexit are pretty bloody stupid, I think it's important to point out that he in fact opposes the government's desire to expel foreign students upon graduation.
People manage to survive car journeys that last multiple hours without needing to have have a walk. So what's the problem with requiring that people stay seated?
Kind of like how everyone will suffocate in an airliner when it suffers decompression? If only they had some method of providing oxygen to the passengers if that happened...
I thought that too, but then the difference is that it's easy to be light hearted about losing boosters that would have been lost anyway, whereas being light hearted about destroying customer's payloads doesn't come across so well.
Just in case somebody is thinking of taking this seriously. Macedonia has an average internet speed between 4 and 10 Mbps.
The idea that Macedonians don't have the ability to make websites is quite frankly insulting. Whether on not they can swing elections is of course debatable. However that wasn't the aim of the sites, the aim was to generate content that people wanted to read (or believe), and they appear to have succeeded.
Which would take them back to 1960s data-loss rates... Plus, I'm pretty sure they could afford it. What needs to be done is to make the data loss cost more than the savings made by not securing their information properly, which rarely happens in any industry.
For example, I knew of beef farmers in Ireland that were given a custodial sentence for "dusting" cattle (using clenbuterol or angel dust). Even after the fine and the cost of hiring farm relief it still financially worthwhile.
You could argue that by giving somebody a [false] bad credit rating (by carelessly using a different John Smith's records, or simply because they haven't borrowed enough money in the past) they are punishing that person. It's something that happens regularly and costs those people money, yet credit agencies are rarely taken to task over their conduct.
Not that I'm really disagreeing with you - rural areas are a massive obstacle when it comes to electric vehicles (and public spending is another obstacle) - but to nit pick some of your numbers. 80 miles isn't a out of the question for a vehicle with lots of battery space nowadays (add 50% to get 120 miles as the route is circular). Also you only get to travel 13 miles at 20mph over 40 minutes. Either your school trip took 4 hours, your bus travelled at an average of 120mph, or you lived a lot closer to school than you thought!
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Funny, I've know a lot of Dutch people and as a people I love them. In fact I've met only one Dutch guy I didn't think highly of - I used to say that he messed up my opinion that the Dutch as a universally likeable people. I've worked with them, dated some, and sailed with one guy I literally trusted my life with.
Because we all drive Bentleys, Rolls-Royces and Jaguars in England...
Besides, the build quality is often awful. I saw a recent Rolls-Royce at the Bonhams auction at Goodwood earlier this year. The panels were completely asymmetric. A colleague of mine said you could always tell if an E-Type had been rebuilt - the shutlines were perfectly even, and they certainly didn't come out of the factory like that.
And guess what, your doctor is very likely to ask you about your alcohol intake too. According to a medical friend of mine they also tend to double what the patient says
I wish the UK had the free speech protections that the US has - it's great for filtering out assholes. For instance, take a colleague of mine. He [tried] starting a conversation with "Coons make up 40% of the prison population in the US". He is completely correct about the percentage, but he immediately allowed people around him to know that it's not worth getting involved as he's probably going to try pinning the reasons on race rather than social or financial reasons.
Pah, I laugh at their 3-10mbit connection. I had a 9.6k modem that was a million times faster than that over 25 years ago!
If you're going to be pedantic so will I. It depends on how the goal was defined. If I say "I'll do X, and I'll do within Y years", but end up managing to do X after Y+5 years, I've still met the goal of doing X.
Yeah, but that's an aeroplane. Cars are much easier... /s
Lots of people have already replied, but anyhow...
Nobody should be surprised by this. Elon Musk's deadlines are grossly optimistic. However he does tend to meet his goals, just a lot later than planned. This isn't such an issue when it comes for 70 million dollar rocket - it's almost expected, but he's going to have to more careful when dealing with consumers.
It doesn't matter if he's a horrible manipulative guy. The fact that any government can assume that somebody is guilty and take ownership of their assets so they can't afford to defend themselves properly is a horrific concept.
Not for a long time though.
For some sure, but for a lot of us liberals it still does. I've never told said colleague to shut up when he starts talking about coons, sand n*ggers, spastics, etc. I just walk away - he's free to believe that some people are intellectually inferior based on the colour of their skin, and I'm free to think he's a horrible human being.
The reason they did this was to track people's routes through the system - Oyster will only give the end points, not where they changed stations. The Gizmodo article explains that, if you bothered to read it...
The Register did an article on this a few weeks ago and mentions that TFL did a good job anonymising the data:
Fortunately, TfL did it right: they used ICO guidelines to protect users' privacy by grabbing and tracking MAC addresses and then depersonalized them using a salt which then discarded at the end of each day. That in effect makes it impossible to know what the original MAC address was.
I have a colleague who said "fucking liberals" when I told him it's stupid to think that electric car technology isn't going to improve in the future.
To him, liberal is just an insult, he has no idea what it actually means.
While I agree that Dyson's politics regarding Brexit are pretty bloody stupid, I think it's important to point out that he in fact opposes the government's desire to expel foreign students upon graduation.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Explain why.
Or Kinder Surprise...
If I recall correctly, it had some structural issues where it broke in two.
People manage to survive car journeys that last multiple hours without needing to have have a walk. So what's the problem with requiring that people stay seated?
You're right, let's not ponder an idea because of "the terrorists". While you're at it, why don't you send them a card saying "we give in, you won"
Kind of like how everyone will suffocate in an airliner when it suffers decompression? If only they had some method of providing oxygen to the passengers if that happened...
I thought that too, but then the difference is that it's easy to be light hearted about losing boosters that would have been lost anyway, whereas being light hearted about destroying customer's payloads doesn't come across so well.
Just in case somebody is thinking of taking this seriously. Macedonia has an average internet speed between 4 and 10 Mbps.
The idea that Macedonians don't have the ability to make websites is quite frankly insulting. Whether on not they can swing elections is of course debatable. However that wasn't the aim of the sites, the aim was to generate content that people wanted to read (or believe), and they appear to have succeeded.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/...
http://www.dospeedtest.com/spe...
Which would take them back to 1960s data-loss rates... Plus, I'm pretty sure they could afford it. What needs to be done is to make the data loss cost more than the savings made by not securing their information properly, which rarely happens in any industry.
For example, I knew of beef farmers in Ireland that were given a custodial sentence for "dusting" cattle (using clenbuterol or angel dust). Even after the fine and the cost of hiring farm relief it still financially worthwhile.
You could argue that by giving somebody a [false] bad credit rating (by carelessly using a different John Smith's records, or simply because they haven't borrowed enough money in the past) they are punishing that person. It's something that happens regularly and costs those people money, yet credit agencies are rarely taken to task over their conduct.
Not that I'm really disagreeing with you - rural areas are a massive obstacle when it comes to electric vehicles (and public spending is another obstacle) - but to nit pick some of your numbers. 80 miles isn't a out of the question for a vehicle with lots of battery space nowadays (add 50% to get 120 miles as the route is circular). Also you only get to travel 13 miles at 20mph over 40 minutes. Either your school trip took 4 hours, your bus travelled at an average of 120mph, or you lived a lot closer to school than you thought!