I disagree. Wl there are plenty of professional offices which would LOVE too use this technology too schedule spends for clients and gather data to use in meetings. Call the dentist? Duplex answers, scheduled the spent, and asks what you'd liked to see the dentist for. It asks where it hurts or what the problem is. Have a human listener in the background who checks to be sure they aren't crank calls and voila, you've replaced the bored-sounding front desk person.
Finally Google has a product they can sell as a service. A hard, no BS service instead of a bunch of apps. Plenty of busy people will happily hire this to order food, make appointments, and gather basic data from clients for their business (if Google would guarantee the privacy of it somehow). "Where does it hurt?" "How much do you have in your 401k? Ok, what's the company match on your contributions?" This tech could legitimately disrupt a great deal of admin and professional "work" which should be automated anyway. Plenty of professional offices, such as dentists and finance people, would LOVE this; maybe not older people, but younger people saavy in tech and their young clients would probably really enjoy this or at least have no problem with it. Why would they? We already see a lot of automated stuff, we know it should be done by a computer instead some bored, forgetful, imperfect human who doesn't want to be tied to a phone all day. Plus, the headline is a massive fail. Horrifying? Really come on. It's uncanny and gives one pause, but when did slashdot start acting like it's 80 years old screaming "hey don't touch my computer you darn kids!"
I dunno, the Chinese instituted the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of 45 million Chinese peasants in just 4 years (1958-1962). They'd do it again if it were "for the good of China".
How about we compare some facts and figures before we start automatically thinking China is some kind of savior, ok?
Well, they had vision and drive! They should get something for their hard work. Stop complaining and start paying back your $150,000 of tuition, petunia.
Phew, I can't believe I just used up all my sarcasm and snark for one day in just 3 sentences. Everybody ok?
As a kid (and sometimes adult) I find myself reading things allowed in my head. I always had VERY high recall rates for reading things, I was (and kind of am) just slower at it. Although it's a smaller sample size perhaps, I'd be willing to believe this. Need to look at the study though:)
Pai doesn't care. All he has to do to get a cushy job later on is to say,"Well, we tried" to the telecom industry. If they get even a few bucks more out of this they'll hire him away into executive heaven after he leaves/is ousted. He's showing his loyalty to the bitter end and HE KNOWS this will never, ever get through. It's going to get sued into the turf 5 seconds after being enacted, and will probably die a long slow death in court.
Does ANYONE remember the Bushie administration? The same tactics were used! Do all kinds of things that will never work, but do enough of them and maybe a few will stick. When government fails to yield any benefit, turn around and tell your base,"Government doesn't work!" even though they've been intentionally obstructing the functioning of government and blame it on the next guy. Rinse and repeat!
Oh! And I know i'm not supposed to reply to my own post, but Chicago used to have an airport almost downtown! For the millions of dollars of business lost because Daley bulldozed the thing illegally in the middle of the night, they could have modernized that airport and had the executives fly into downtown just like they used to and been at their office a lot faster than this hyperloop stuff. Armchair opinion, of course.
First, after reading up on this it's practically unneeded. 20 minutes O'Hare to Downtown? The blue line El Train takes 45 minutes and costs hardly anything. If it took 5-10 minutes, maybe you'd have an argument.
Second, a car leaves every 15 minutes? you're going to need a rather steep cost of tickets to ride this thing. The private sector isn't going to invest billions if they can't make it back. What about upkeep, too? Is the city going to oversee it? Hire a Union (you bet yer sa-sij inna frunchroom there'll be one involved if it's Chicago)?
Third, above poster is correct: the actual cost of this will be about 3x the initial cost. Greasing palms in Chicago is how things get done, whether it's codified like a Union or not.
Fourth... Can someone please explain how any of this makes sense? Maybe it's the start of something great, but Chicago is in a bad spot right now. I'd half guess this is all just Rahm Emanuel grandstanding for political points rather than anything that will ever actually happen.
My one Chicago cent (the other gets taken by taxes and Union dues).
1) They'll just make the battery smaller, I'd guess. Why would a company whose job it is to sell hardware want that hardware to disrupt their product cycle (cynical, I know)?
2) DON'T charge you battery to 100% or discharge to near-zero. I don't have links, but there are some neat articles around the internet regarding the chemistry of li-ion batteries and charge/discharge. It's shown that charging to ~80% and discharging to only ~40% allows the battery to last far far longer; that's what I do, and so far it's working out very well.
Are we sure he isn't using a pseudonym? He's apparently "political propaganda", but instead of being just a symbol we gotta eat it. He's an agit pie. Boy do we ever have to eat it...
Your post feels like it is in itself propaganda. They already know if they did something bad they'd be wiped out instantly. Their political power comes from being loud and raucous, not from actions. China would no longer support them and the game would be up.
I can't find the article now, I believe it was some Seeking Alpha investment nonsense, but I remember reading something in the last couple years about how he was very unhappy at Radeon and there were major flaws with Vega that needed to be smoothed over (heat generation in particular); once Vega was launched he would probably leave due to internal politics. It seems like it might be a FUD piece but I've been wondering what would happen to him after Vega and now I guess we know.
I talked to a number of cinephile friends who, along with myself, saw Get Out as genuinely abysmal. It pandered, it was predictable, and most importantly it merely kept up stereotypes and fears that are genuinely abhorrent and useless in this day and age. It was poorly-directed, but did have a good lead. Everyone else was wooden, beige, and the even the humor wasn't really any good. The only reason it got eyeballs was because it was a social justice issue; what it tried to do has been done elsewhere and better.
I was embarrassed at the theater, with people yelling and screaming that, "Whitey should DIE! Yeah fuck whitey!" It was a racist, violent movie that has no business in a theater.
Nice enough sets, though.
BR2049? Another overpumped piece of junk, it's what a teenager would create if they made bladerunner: It beats the viewer over the head to feel something; it makes the most amateur mistakes in cinema: It narrates instead of illustrating.
Blech. Those two movies, along with the wooden, strangely emotionless "Lucky" last weekend have now completely put me off modern movies. I promised a friend I'd see "Mother" but I've not much hope there, either.
Um, Gardasil can't remove HPV, it just guards against it if the person hasn't gotten it yet. It needs to be administered before a person is ever exposed to HPV... so that has to be at a very young age. Given how new Gardasil is, I rather doubt there's much long term data to show if it's effective.
15% of women with genital warts? Reduced to.5%? In what, 6 years? I find that... hard to believe.
I've spoken with a prominent/nationally recognized ENT doc on this subject at length. He told me flat out that Gardasil is mostly a scam and wouldn't recommend his patients get it. He quoted the statistics, stating HPV diagnosis methods, what is known/unknown, and all the types of HPV, and which cause difficulties.
Nearly everyone in the world has some form of HPV. Who it effects, why, how, and when are still a mystery. Given how many people have it, and how few people get any symptoms let alone have complications, the cost and fear made by pharmas over it is maybe not worth it.
At the end of the day, Gardasil is mostly a scare tactic used to drive pharmaceutical revenue.
What's significant is that this happened in the wake of a very close Special Election that would have put a Democrat, John Ossoff, in the mix for Georgia. The Russian thing? Whatever. It gets spun this way so it's seen as conspiracy theory, working up Dems while Repubs just call it hooey (classic media, polarizing the issue) instead of the deeply troubling issue that anyone could get behind: Another significant Georgia election has likely been rigged (it has a history of election tampering; Jimmy Carter got in office due to findings omassive election fraud on the Republican side).
It was pretty strange that it looked like Ossoff could win, but suddenly didn't.
Correction: This is how Jimmy Carter got in. Georgia has a long history of election tampering, and when large flaws were discovered they brought Jimmy in. The rest is history (and btw, I just moved to Atlanta last year and people think THE WORLD of Jimmy Carter, so I don't understand the distaste for bringing in another Dem).
The court order doesn't actually matter in this case. Ars Technica has an update to their story on this, and a commenter cites the law: These guys knowingly broke the law.
Untrue. a court order to preserve evidence is NOT necessary; oh it heightens the requirements surrounding any and all bits and pieces which could be associated with the case, but once a party has been notified they are pretty much legally fucked. This is from updates elsewhere on the Net, and the law, showing that these dipshits are (hopefully) in a lot of trouble.
Excuse me, but I know people who've done that for years, come back to the U.S. and been horrified at how terrible the quality of life here is in comparison (even holding a job, etc) They'd actually much rather be back in those mud huts. Mud huts and bugs aren't that bad. Different than the xenophobic ideas we're brainwashed to believe? Yes. A bit hard to live, and poor? Yes. However, the quality of life isn't de facto awful and can be quite relaxing and enlightening.
I posit it's parasitic, not trying to kill the masses. The rich understand this! Keep the masses alive juuuuuuust enough to get by, and miserable enough to keep working hard, pissed about whatever DemoPublican is on the TV, or cultural or moral issue has been put out there. keep them quiet with sports and media. Meanwhile, the dollars keep floooowing in. The only way to stop them is similar to what was in The Greening of America and the Luddites: Stop working for the machine and it grinds to a halt. Problem is, it's getting harder and harder. The super-rich can afford to live a loooong time in their fortresses and private islands without paying a cent to the plebs...
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I disagree.
Wl there are plenty of professional offices which would LOVE too use this technology too schedule spends for clients and gather data to use in meetings.
Call the dentist? Duplex answers, scheduled the spent, and asks what you'd liked to see the dentist for. It asks where it hurts or what the problem is.
Have a human listener in the background who checks to be sure they aren't crank calls and voila, you've replaced the bored-sounding front desk person.
Finally Google has a product they can sell as a service. A hard, no BS service instead of a bunch of apps.
Plenty of busy people will happily hire this to order food, make appointments, and gather basic data from clients for their business (if Google would guarantee the privacy of it somehow). "Where does it hurt?" "How much do you have in your 401k? Ok, what's the company match on your contributions?" This tech could legitimately disrupt a great deal of admin and professional "work" which should be automated anyway.
Plenty of professional offices, such as dentists and finance people, would LOVE this; maybe not older people, but younger people saavy in tech and their young clients would probably really enjoy this or at least have no problem with it. Why would they? We already see a lot of automated stuff, we know it should be done by a computer instead some bored, forgetful, imperfect human who doesn't want to be tied to a phone all day.
Plus, the headline is a massive fail. Horrifying? Really come on. It's uncanny and gives one pause, but when did slashdot start acting like it's 80 years old screaming "hey don't touch my computer you darn kids!"
Um... or they might be for it because it's working now? There are lots of potential reasons.
Has no one mentioned Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?
Well someone should do that!
Yeah... those bastards killed one of the great radio stations of all time: Rock 103.5 in Chicago. Historic radio station.
As far as I'm concerned, let these places fail. Sadly... what'll replace them is likely right-wing media ownership. Looking forward to that...
I dunno, the Chinese instituted the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of 45 million Chinese peasants in just 4 years (1958-1962). They'd do it again if it were "for the good of China".
How about we compare some facts and figures before we start automatically thinking China is some kind of savior, ok?
Well, they had vision and drive! They should get something for their hard work. Stop complaining and start paying back your $150,000 of tuition, petunia.
Phew, I can't believe I just used up all my sarcasm and snark for one day in just 3 sentences. Everybody ok?
My immediate reply to the AG could have been,"Yeah? Well I know your wife already has your dick in her handbag, so good luck!"
Get them now with a smaller fine so later they can't be hit with a huge one.
Smart, FCC, since you're the ones helping them consolidate and grow.
As a kid (and sometimes adult) I find myself reading things allowed in my head. I always had VERY high recall rates for reading things, I was (and kind of am) just slower at it. :)
Although it's a smaller sample size perhaps, I'd be willing to believe this. Need to look at the study though
Pai doesn't care. All he has to do to get a cushy job later on is to say,"Well, we tried" to the telecom industry. If they get even a few bucks more out of this they'll hire him away into executive heaven after he leaves/is ousted. He's showing his loyalty to the bitter end and HE KNOWS this will never, ever get through. It's going to get sued into the turf 5 seconds after being enacted, and will probably die a long slow death in court.
Does ANYONE remember the Bushie administration? The same tactics were used! Do all kinds of things that will never work, but do enough of them and maybe a few will stick. When government fails to yield any benefit, turn around and tell your base,"Government doesn't work!" even though they've been intentionally obstructing the functioning of government and blame it on the next guy. Rinse and repeat!
Oh! And I know i'm not supposed to reply to my own post, but Chicago used to have an airport almost downtown! For the millions of dollars of business lost because Daley bulldozed the thing illegally in the middle of the night, they could have modernized that airport and had the executives fly into downtown just like they used to and been at their office a lot faster than this hyperloop stuff.
Armchair opinion, of course.
First, after reading up on this it's practically unneeded. 20 minutes O'Hare to Downtown? The blue line El Train takes 45 minutes and costs hardly anything. If it took 5-10 minutes, maybe you'd have an argument.
Second, a car leaves every 15 minutes? you're going to need a rather steep cost of tickets to ride this thing. The private sector isn't going to invest billions if they can't make it back. What about upkeep, too? Is the city going to oversee it? Hire a Union (you bet yer sa-sij inna frunchroom there'll be one involved if it's Chicago)?
Third, above poster is correct: the actual cost of this will be about 3x the initial cost. Greasing palms in Chicago is how things get done, whether it's codified like a Union or not.
Fourth... Can someone please explain how any of this makes sense? Maybe it's the start of something great, but Chicago is in a bad spot right now. I'd half guess this is all just Rahm Emanuel grandstanding for political points rather than anything that will ever actually happen.
My one Chicago cent (the other gets taken by taxes and Union dues).
1) They'll just make the battery smaller, I'd guess. Why would a company whose job it is to sell hardware want that hardware to disrupt their product cycle (cynical, I know)?
2) DON'T charge you battery to 100% or discharge to near-zero. I don't have links, but there are some neat articles around the internet regarding the chemistry of li-ion batteries and charge/discharge. It's shown that charging to ~80% and discharging to only ~40% allows the battery to last far far longer; that's what I do, and so far it's working out very well.
Are we sure he isn't using a pseudonym?
He's apparently "political propaganda", but instead of being just a symbol we gotta eat it. He's an agit pie.
Boy do we ever have to eat it...
Your post feels like it is in itself propaganda. They already know if they did something bad they'd be wiped out instantly. Their political power comes from being loud and raucous, not from actions. China would no longer support them and the game would be up.
I can't find the article now, I believe it was some Seeking Alpha investment nonsense, but I remember reading something in the last couple years about how he was very unhappy at Radeon and there were major flaws with Vega that needed to be smoothed over (heat generation in particular); once Vega was launched he would probably leave due to internal politics.
It seems like it might be a FUD piece but I've been wondering what would happen to him after Vega and now I guess we know.
I talked to a number of cinephile friends who, along with myself, saw Get Out as genuinely abysmal. It pandered, it was predictable, and most importantly it merely kept up stereotypes and fears that are genuinely abhorrent and useless in this day and age.
It was poorly-directed, but did have a good lead. Everyone else was wooden, beige, and the even the humor wasn't really any good. The only reason it got eyeballs was because it was a social justice issue; what it tried to do has been done elsewhere and better.
I was embarrassed at the theater, with people yelling and screaming that, "Whitey should DIE! Yeah fuck whitey!" It was a racist, violent movie that has no business in a theater.
Nice enough sets, though.
BR2049? Another overpumped piece of junk, it's what a teenager would create if they made bladerunner: It beats the viewer over the head to feel something; it makes the most amateur mistakes in cinema: It narrates instead of illustrating.
Blech. Those two movies, along with the wooden, strangely emotionless "Lucky" last weekend have now completely put me off modern movies.
I promised a friend I'd see "Mother" but I've not much hope there, either.
Um, Gardasil can't remove HPV, it just guards against it if the person hasn't gotten it yet. It needs to be administered before a person is ever exposed to HPV... so that has to be at a very young age. Given how new Gardasil is, I rather doubt there's much long term data to show if it's effective.
15% of women with genital warts? Reduced to .5%? In what, 6 years? I find that... hard to believe.
I've spoken with a prominent/nationally recognized ENT doc on this subject at length. He told me flat out that Gardasil is mostly a scam and wouldn't recommend his patients get it. He quoted the statistics, stating HPV diagnosis methods, what is known/unknown, and all the types of HPV, and which cause difficulties.
Nearly everyone in the world has some form of HPV. Who it effects, why, how, and when are still a mystery. Given how many people have it, and how few people get any symptoms let alone have complications, the cost and fear made by pharmas over it is maybe not worth it.
At the end of the day, Gardasil is mostly a scare tactic used to drive pharmaceutical revenue.
What's significant is that this happened in the wake of a very close Special Election that would have put a Democrat, John Ossoff, in the mix for Georgia. The Russian thing? Whatever. It gets spun this way so it's seen as conspiracy theory, working up Dems while Repubs just call it hooey (classic media, polarizing the issue) instead of the deeply troubling issue that anyone could get behind: Another significant Georgia election has likely been rigged (it has a history of election tampering; Jimmy Carter got in office due to findings omassive election fraud on the Republican side).
It was pretty strange that it looked like Ossoff could win, but suddenly didn't.
Correction: This is how Jimmy Carter got in. Georgia has a long history of election tampering, and when large flaws were discovered they brought Jimmy in. The rest is history (and btw, I just moved to Atlanta last year and people think THE WORLD of Jimmy Carter, so I don't understand the distaste for bringing in another Dem).
The court order doesn't actually matter in this case. Ars Technica has an update to their story on this, and a commenter cites the law: These guys knowingly broke the law.
Untrue. a court order to preserve evidence is NOT necessary; oh it heightens the requirements surrounding any and all bits and pieces which could be associated with the case, but once a party has been notified they are pretty much legally fucked.
This is from updates elsewhere on the Net, and the law, showing that these dipshits are (hopefully) in a lot of trouble.
Excuse me, but I know people who've done that for years, come back to the U.S. and been horrified at how terrible the quality of life here is in comparison (even holding a job, etc) They'd actually much rather be back in those mud huts. Mud huts and bugs aren't that bad. Different than the xenophobic ideas we're brainwashed to believe? Yes. A bit hard to live, and poor? Yes. However, the quality of life isn't de facto awful and can be quite relaxing and enlightening.
I posit it's parasitic, not trying to kill the masses. The rich understand this!
Keep the masses alive juuuuuuust enough to get by, and miserable enough to keep working hard, pissed about whatever DemoPublican is on the TV, or cultural or moral issue has been put out there. keep them quiet with sports and media.
Meanwhile, the dollars keep floooowing in.
The only way to stop them is similar to what was in The Greening of America and the Luddites: Stop working for the machine and it grinds to a halt. Problem is, it's getting harder and harder. The super-rich can afford to live a loooong time in their fortresses and private islands without paying a cent to the plebs...