That was the whole damned point of TFA! The human brain isn't equipped to deal with those sorts of problems until it is too late to actually prevent the problem.
We all know why T1 exists, but surely after a time or two, a note could be added to a customer's account. It would save everyone time if instead of plodding along, I could just confirm that the basic diagnostic/corrective steps have been tried.
It might even be OK if T1 had actual ability to diagnose anything or at least decide where the diagnosis needed to be done. Typically they are not even to the point of understanding that if their network is down, they won't be able to ping my modem even when it's working OK. Sadly, that's not just a matter of wasting a few minutes, that moves from actually looking at the problem to me having a service call scheduled for sometime next week and me knowing the person they send won't have the equipment or training to fix the actual problem.
It would also help if T1 wouldn't just make stuff up. Like claiming my modem is the only one down in the neighborhood when I know my next door neighbor is also down and got told the same thing 5 minutes ago. Even forgetting all of that, just having the ability to check on the known status of the network would help. I have had a T1 person swear blind the problem had to be my modem AS I spot a cherry picker pulling up and getting to work.
Could they at least have a note saying don't lie, he'll know?
That S. American tribe certainly did have a choice. They Knew an alternative to the Bic lighter and they knew they didn't know how to make a Bic lighter. They had at least one member (probably older) who knew how to make a fire without a lighter. Their brains weren't equipped to see the clear danger ahead so they didn't get a few younger members to learn from him before he died. And so that critical inflection point went sailing past and they became dependent on the outside world.
When I was in school, our A/C was regulated by an electric tea kettle, that we placed underneath the thermostat in order to trick it into keeping the room at a temperature below "Shake 'n Bake"
It's worth keeping in mind that every group has it's extremists. For every extremist that flushes once a day, there's 10-100 that simply choose a water conserving toilet when they need to replace the old one anyway.
The trick if you keep rainwater is to add a small amount of cooking oil to prevent mosquitoes.
Personally, I think they should build the desalination plant anyway, but it will need to either be solar powered or they'll need a nuclear plant to go with.
Logic fails abound. If you recycle water, you're ALSO not taking as much water OUT of the river or stream and you gain stability when the river or stream is unreliable.
Desalination is a good idea, but which can individuals make happen in spite of total inertia on the part of government? Which results in a lower cost to cash strapped consumers?
Do you REALLY believe that switching to CFL is the equivalent of living in a shack with a dirt floor flinging your poop into the back yard in a bag?
There are a number of ways that the U.S. seems hellbound to make itself a 3rd world country but none of them involve turning off a lamp in an un-occupied room or using less than 10 gallons of water to flush after you pee.
Well, if someone insists that the Earth is flat and the Moon is made of cheese and keeps getting the claw end of the hammer stuck in their forehead, what else can you say, they're just plain stupid and apparently missed out on that whole tool use thing.
The primitive cultures did choose to keep fishing and chopping, same as always. That they were unable to read the clear signs that their future was limited is the POINT of TFA. Of course TFA questions if chose is the right word for it given their inability to correctly consider the longer term.
When we have the ability to logically project a bad outcome but cannot as a whole bring ourselves to override the more primitive brain structures and take the natural and logical steps to correct the problem, what can it be called but unevolved?
Basic income has the advantage that it still leaves product development up to the market. It also still leaves an advantage to employment as long as it is truly a basic income rather than being means tested. Done well, it even simplifies things since it's hard for an employer to exploit people who can afford to quit.
The best I can think of is a game where they must tell someone EXACTLY how to do something with any ambiguity done comically wrong. Naturally, the latter part gets more strictly interpreted over time. Later, perhaps mention that computers are like that. I have no idea how to make that "culturally relevant".
Unless the comments have been censored, I just don't see it. There were many posts suggesting that the courts, law enforcement, and the DOJ have jumped the shark, but nothing that could reasonably be interpreted as a threat. That makes this read as an intimidation play against citizens making legitimate commentary and at the same time, a validation of the views they expressed.
Feel free to substitute in band practice, football practice, detention, etc etc if you prefer. Generally the bus runs once and if for some reason the student isn't on it, it falls to the parents.
The fact that children can't drive is often the one and only rational reason there isn't a car for the kids.
It's not that hard to picture a scenario where car pooling would make sense if the car could drive itself for a leg of the round trip and result in less vehicle miles driven.
As I pointed out earlier, if autonomous vehicles are allowed on the road without a qualified driver on-board, it might reduce DUIs.
A very good reason would be people who are medically disqualified to drive, for example, epileptics with inadequately controlled seizures. In many places, a single seizure results in mandatory suspension of your drivers license until you are seizure free for 6 months. Then, there's the blind and the elderly.
In my experience, companies implement whatever the manager (who was kicked in the head too many times as a child) thinks will be good, then insists to the users that they really wanted it.
I don't know where you live, but PERVASIVE MASS TRANSIT?!? That's a real knee slapper!
As for walking a little, no that doesn't normally hurt, but when it's pouring down rain, I'd rather not walk several blocks in it. Then there's those days after work where you feel worn out and just want to sleep on the way home.
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That was the whole damned point of TFA! The human brain isn't equipped to deal with those sorts of problems until it is too late to actually prevent the problem.
Step 1, find a way for the NOC to let T1 know there is a known problem in an area and preferably, an estimate of the time to a fix.
Step 2, give T1 a way to ping other modems on the same circuit to quickly and easily decide where the problem is.
That could save days of customer time not to mention a lot of contractor hours making useless calls to individual homes.
We all know why T1 exists, but surely after a time or two, a note could be added to a customer's account. It would save everyone time if instead of plodding along, I could just confirm that the basic diagnostic/corrective steps have been tried.
It might even be OK if T1 had actual ability to diagnose anything or at least decide where the diagnosis needed to be done. Typically they are not even to the point of understanding that if their network is down, they won't be able to ping my modem even when it's working OK. Sadly, that's not just a matter of wasting a few minutes, that moves from actually looking at the problem to me having a service call scheduled for sometime next week and me knowing the person they send won't have the equipment or training to fix the actual problem.
It would also help if T1 wouldn't just make stuff up. Like claiming my modem is the only one down in the neighborhood when I know my next door neighbor is also down and got told the same thing 5 minutes ago. Even forgetting all of that, just having the ability to check on the known status of the network would help. I have had a T1 person swear blind the problem had to be my modem AS I spot a cherry picker pulling up and getting to work.
Could they at least have a note saying don't lie, he'll know?
So, Russia and China just happened to crack these files at the very same time?
Further, the files Snowden took from the NSA (U.S.) exposed MI6 (UK) agents in Russia?!?
I wonder what terribly embarrassing thing was about to be published in the UK that MI6 doesn't want people paying attention to?
That S. American tribe certainly did have a choice. They Knew an alternative to the Bic lighter and they knew they didn't know how to make a Bic lighter. They had at least one member (probably older) who knew how to make a fire without a lighter. Their brains weren't equipped to see the clear danger ahead so they didn't get a few younger members to learn from him before he died. And so that critical inflection point went sailing past and they became dependent on the outside world.
When I was in school, our A/C was regulated by an electric tea kettle, that we placed underneath the thermostat in order to trick it into keeping the room at a temperature below "Shake 'n Bake"
It's worth keeping in mind that every group has it's extremists. For every extremist that flushes once a day, there's 10-100 that simply choose a water conserving toilet when they need to replace the old one anyway.
The trick if you keep rainwater is to add a small amount of cooking oil to prevent mosquitoes.
Personally, I think they should build the desalination plant anyway, but it will need to either be solar powered or they'll need a nuclear plant to go with.
Logic fails abound. If you recycle water, you're ALSO not taking as much water OUT of the river or stream and you gain stability when the river or stream is unreliable.
Desalination is a good idea, but which can individuals make happen in spite of total inertia on the part of government? Which results in a lower cost to cash strapped consumers?
Do you REALLY believe that switching to CFL is the equivalent of living in a shack with a dirt floor flinging your poop into the back yard in a bag?
There are a number of ways that the U.S. seems hellbound to make itself a 3rd world country but none of them involve turning off a lamp in an un-occupied room or using less than 10 gallons of water to flush after you pee.
Well, if someone insists that the Earth is flat and the Moon is made of cheese and keeps getting the claw end of the hammer stuck in their forehead, what else can you say, they're just plain stupid and apparently missed out on that whole tool use thing.
The primitive cultures did choose to keep fishing and chopping, same as always. That they were unable to read the clear signs that their future was limited is the POINT of TFA. Of course TFA questions if chose is the right word for it given their inability to correctly consider the longer term.
When we have the ability to logically project a bad outcome but cannot as a whole bring ourselves to override the more primitive brain structures and take the natural and logical steps to correct the problem, what can it be called but unevolved?
They can just do an AOL/Time kinda deal where on paper AMD buys Xilinx but 'mysteriously' it's Xilinx's management that ends up in charge.
Basic income has the advantage that it still leaves product development up to the market. It also still leaves an advantage to employment as long as it is truly a basic income rather than being means tested. Done well, it even simplifies things since it's hard for an employer to exploit people who can afford to quit.
Someone is in office, and he is a member of the lost and wandering political zombie party that was the Democratic party when it was still alive.
The best I can think of is a game where they must tell someone EXACTLY how to do something with any ambiguity done comically wrong. Naturally, the latter part gets more strictly interpreted over time. Later, perhaps mention that computers are like that. I have no idea how to make that "culturally relevant".
Glad you're not bitter about that shit.
Ever so sorry that my failure to obsessive/compulsively pound the refresh button has so mortally wounded your delicate sensibilities.
They don't care what *I* smoke, I don't live in China.
Just as you didn't pick up on Johanw not living in China.
Unless the comments have been censored, I just don't see it. There were many posts suggesting that the courts, law enforcement, and the DOJ have jumped the shark, but nothing that could reasonably be interpreted as a threat. That makes this read as an intimidation play against citizens making legitimate commentary and at the same time, a validation of the views they expressed.
As for item 1, it is said that any decent DA can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Feel free to substitute in band practice, football practice, detention, etc etc if you prefer. Generally the bus runs once and if for some reason the student isn't on it, it falls to the parents.
The fact that children can't drive is often the one and only rational reason there isn't a car for the kids.
It's not that hard to picture a scenario where car pooling would make sense if the car could drive itself for a leg of the round trip and result in less vehicle miles driven.
As I pointed out earlier, if autonomous vehicles are allowed on the road without a qualified driver on-board, it might reduce DUIs.
A very good reason would be people who are medically disqualified to drive, for example, epileptics with inadequately controlled seizures. In many places, a single seizure results in mandatory suspension of your drivers license until you are seizure free for 6 months. Then, there's the blind and the elderly.
In my experience, companies implement whatever the manager (who was kicked in the head too many times as a child) thinks will be good, then insists to the users that they really wanted it.
At one time, sure but it's evolved a good bit since then. No modern brewer brews the beer for survival with no care for the taste and enjoyment.
I don't know where you live, but PERVASIVE MASS TRANSIT?!? That's a real knee slapper!
As for walking a little, no that doesn't normally hurt, but when it's pouring down rain, I'd rather not walk several blocks in it. Then there's those days after work where you feel worn out and just want to sleep on the way home.
We condemn the entire industry because those are just a drop in the bucket of bad experiances. It seems the bad apples spoil the remaining 10%.
Now, treat your health insurance and retirement as taxes on your U.S. income since those are covered in Germany by the taxes.