Yeah..... I kind of got those two mixed up a little. Now that I think of it though, Ricky telling Jeannie that she has some splaining to do kind of works.
They must have not watched Star Trek then. Which means they have no credibility as scientists or geeks anyways right?:)
Not everything from Star Trek can be taken seriously. It's not like we give credence to the concept of Heisenberg Compensators when having a serious discussion about the possibility of matter transport.
Although I feel like handing in my geek card not knowing that Bussard collectors are actually theoretical.....
I don't think we need to worry about competition. We are already beaming out our TV broadcasts into space.
If you think about that.... it progresses from Hitler, to variety shows, to I Love Jeannie, some really weird shit in the 70s, stuff we want to forget about in the 80's, the beginnings of Idiocracy in the 90's... to Ghost Hunters, The Search for Bigfoot, and Snooki.
Any alien species that picks up those broadcasts is probably smart enough to stay away at all costs.
But after that point, learning most things mathematical is like jumping between baby steps
I would say very few things mathematical are like baby steps. Jumping from basic math to algebra requires some more complicated logic and the ability to conceptualize certain problems.
Working in geometry and trig into it requires different concepts as well.
Personally, there was a wall for making the leap into calculus. I made it, but I had problems with some particular logic, like a number never actually reaching zero. That was strange to me because I had problems conceptualizing anything that did not have some sort of physical application. Chemistry was a good example. The exponential rate of nuclear decay (IIRC) stated that mathematically it never reached zero, while common sense said that the last atom would eventually decay and reach zero.
Going from calculus to a lot more complicated math involved in quantum mechanics, topology, etc. requires even more skills to conceptualize abstract problems.
Baby steps implies that anybody can be Stephen Hawkings if they just stick to the road and keep grinding away. I am not so convinced. Perhaps it really does require a "beautiful" mind to make those steps.
Reality, however, is independent of your personal religion.
Not at all.
Most people don't have a "personal" religion. It conforms to a few templates, and generally, with a low rate of deviation.
Reality, as a philosophical term, simply refers to that which exists. Even that varies. Some people say that reality is comprised of your perceptions and that it is existence that represents the actual state independent of your perceptions. Only philosophers that are serious enough to study and interact with other philosophers tend to have more standardized terms.
In any case, religion motivates actions, actions have an affect on reality, and this results in reality being dependent on religion to a much greater extent than I personally find to be safe.
It's quite unfortunate and sad really. If what you said was true, the "reality" would be that we would have a society with laws and education based on logic, statistics, and common sense about what helps a society prosper without regard to some mythical bearded man in the sky, thetans from across the galaxy, or consequences that are not verifiable and never have been.
There is plenty of math that has no practical application for the vast majority of people in their daily lives. I did very well with chemistry class, but I can't remember much about it today. I have not had a job or a daily task in which I needed to remember Avagadros number of any of the Ideal Gas Laws.
Statistics on the other hand, is useful every day of your life. It not only reinforces logic, which is another skill lacking in society, but allows you to evaluate plenty of situations with more sophistication and make better decisions.
I am not as well versed in statistics as I would like, but it was quite recently that I found the standard deviation equation to be useful for some financial calculations. Using just the average gave me a number that was about 20% higher than the STD. Made a big difference in what I was trying to calculate and why.
Actually.... playing them for the same draw has some advantages.
Sounds strange, but there have been plenty of instances in which more than one person shares the jackpot. If there are 5 winning tickets, each person gets 20%. There have been some instances in which the split for was considerably more than 5.
They are just $1. If you are playing non-random choices getting an extra ticket increases your share of the pool.
It's a real edge case to be sure, but it's not like there are no advantages to playing the same numbers in the same draw. It's just a much greater gamble. Like putting $400 dollars down on rolling eight the hard way in craps.
CompUSA, before it went bankrupt, had some of the worst cashiers and managers of all time.
I have tried to purchase a $30-$40 dollar item before, handed the girl a $100 bill, and she handed me back ~$160 dollars in change. I just looked at her for a moment and then nicely asked if she wanted to double check that. She acted like I was trying to rip her off and failed the double check. Gave her a quick math lesson and walked off.
She needed the visual indications for what change to give me.
Quickest way to kill the idea.... logically at least.
First time I come home from really spicy Mexican food or some questionable Indian curry, in my glass house, with my glass toilet... and I think the neighbors would kill the idea. Or me. I think I know which one would be first.
You would *think* that seeing what you really don't want to see would stop the idea in its tracks... but.... explain spandex and banana hammocks where they have no reason being in the first place. If we have not already created laws banning the "inappropriate use of spandex", it's not going to stop this idea.
Think I am kidding? I just had somebody forward me "People of Walmart" in a YouTube video. Improper use of spandex indeed....
I don't think I took anything out of context, and I think you are being a little pedantic.
However, his point was that protecting your HOME from collapsing and killing you during an earthquake is a marketing ploy, so bringing up highways is completely irrelevant as far as whether or not earthquake-proofing a house is a waste of money
Both are structures. To say "completely irrelevant" is quite a stretch. The reason why you earthquake-proof any structure is to prevent collapse. That is where you get the majority of the damage to the structure, and where fatalities start to rise considerably. Falling objects inside the structure are far less dangerous.
To say fire is the leading cause of death is just strange when common sense and news reports over the last 50 years say otherwise.
yes, the people crushed on the highways in OAKLAND, not SF
You're wrong. It was SF.
I know. I was there and saw bodies being carried out.
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
A wing nut (named after an actual nut) is a nut with two ears or wings on each side. It is made to operate without tools.
I have seen a lot of different toilets, but most of them with wingnuts don't have them on the top, but on the bottom. It's usually a plastic bolt through the toilet and the wingnut is below. You are right.. you don't need tools for a wingnut. They are made for fingers. However.....
The reason why your statement is do damn funny is because in order to grab the wingnut with your hand, you would need to reach behind you, and below you, and start swiveling the wingnut off. Even more funny because of how long the bolts are, and downright hilarious because once there is no more pressure the bolt will spin with your hand unless you use two hands to grab the bolt to keep it from twisting along with the wingnut.
You need to do all of that... while having your ass glued to the toilet seat, facing the wrong direction, and probably not having a long enough reach for one hand, let alone two hands....
But... I could be wrong.... you could be the reincarnation of Houdini:)
So you would wear the toilet seat on your ass for a couple of weeks? That just makes the joke funnier.
You will have problems with your skin much sooner than that. I know from experience......
Some assholes in college, who now lie in shallow graves in a nameless field, put a bunch of military grade experimental duct tape on my back while I was sleeping.
It hurt so bad trying to rip it off, that I decided to wait a couple of days and just see if it would start to fall off. Didn't work out that way. I ended up losing some skin, and all the hair, no matter what.
Your skin will not do so well. Trust me.
Just get the surgery and use the time recuperating to plan your delicious bloody vengeance.
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
He said collapsed structures were not as responsible for deaths as the resultant fires were. Most deaths I have ever heard about were about collapsed structures crushing and trapping people. San Francisco is a really good example of that.
and that honestly doesn't have much to do with whether or not one should bother levitating the house.
Really? Levitating the house is done so that it does not collapse, or otherwise get destroyed.....which would result in people dying.
An awful lot of people died from being crushed to death in collapsed freeways in San Francisco in the large earth quake in the late 80's. Not so much from fires if I recall correctly.
A UTC formatted time stamp always contains a time zone, so it always represents a time local to somewhere. Even if it is missing the time zone it just means that it is local to Greenwich I think since you would have to assume it to be -0/+0.
The poster was saying to base it off UTC or something other than local time. In that context it does not make sense because UTC always refers to a time zone somewhere. Your local time zone would be as good as any other place.
I assume by multibyte strings you mean Unicode right? I agree with that. There is no real reason why we should not be moving to Unicode everywhere.
Everything internally is UTC or at last based on something other than local time
That does not make any sense to me. Everything in UTC format represents a "local" time. That is what the EDT/EST is for, or the -400. It is able to indicate time zones. It can also indicate DST if you use it right.
Perhaps you mean that all time is stored relative to zero, or a single time zone regardless of where you actually are? A lot of global companies do that. I store everything in the Pacific/Los Angeles time zone. Time zone is just a preference for reports and interfaces. I process the time at the API level and return the time in the requested time zone, or Pacific by default. All times are formatted to indicate the time zone anyways, so the locale settings can still be applied.
The only time you deal with locale settings is just before outputting the values and just after inputting them.
The problem you have is that you want it *raw* and unprocessed. It can't be, because as I said you would need to store it *first* and that does not solve the problem of DST though anyways.
Wherever you are getting the time from, it had to be read from a system. That system had to be configured for its UTC timezone, and have DST configured.
You have two choices:
1) Represent the time in the EST time zone with -400 or -500. 2) Represent the time in the EST time zone with EDT or EST.
#1 results in a data record in which you only know the time zone, but not the state of DST at the moment it was recorded. The difference between -400 or -500 does not allow us to conclude if it was DST responsible, or if the event actually occurred in a different time zone. #2 results in a data record in which you explicitly know that it was the -400 time zone, but that it was also when DST was off or on.
I would think you would want to represent the state of DST in the time stamp. When you go to process locale settings for the output you have information that is quite valuable and definitive. Not everywhere in the world even uses DST. It would be useful to know right from the UTC format if it was recorded in a DST time zone and if DST was actually on.
There is no way to store the time stamps "untouched". It has to be, otherwise you have ambiguous values with respect to DST. It's simpler to just store DST state information in the time stamp itself and if it is missing, add it. That way you can always be sure about the time.
It is still a nightmare though. Just for a different programmer and not you. You have to approach the problem by reading the time first, then deciding on how to store it. That means you need to rely on that system, and some may be better than others. I would think most systems are relying on Linux and the zoneinfo files to get the time correctly.
So some programmer still needs to deal with the fallout from the fucktarded Congress Critters that decided to tank millions of devices worldwide that depended on DST being constant year by year.
Anybody wondering why UTC "solves" the problem it is because it allows you to specify time zones. You can specify EDT on the east coast of the US when DST is active and EST when it is not. This allows you to store the time with not just the time zone, but actually say whether or not the time had DST applied to it already.
Of course, this once again, relies on whether the system and code performing the reading and storage of time has DST operating correctly and stores EDT instead of EST when appropriate. Just having -400 or -500 at the end is insufficient to fully account for DST and allow the "OS" the ability to interpret it correctly.
Relying on the "OS" all the time is not the greatest idea too. It could very well be inconsistent across different platforms. If the data is intended for reports and displays I would rather convert it at the API level in a consistent fashion and transmit that in any kind of response document that is requested.
What you are forgetting is that driving is complex. We take it for granted all the time. Combine somebody with a poor attention span, coordination, reflexes, and limited understanding of physics and you have a bad driver.
I have known some bad drivers and they are not rationalizing any of their behavior, nor intending anyone else harm at all. They are just bad drivers.
Cutting somebody off can be attributed to poor situational awareness just as much as a premeditated action.
Same goes for speeding. While there may not be anyone else in the lane, and very few people on the road, it takes some sophistication to understand why it so dangerous to be doing 120mph. Sometimes a law is not enough for people. Sure, they are breaking the law. Are they intending harm? No. They just don't understand physics and reaction times. They can't see how their actions could harm others.
It's not that simple. To say all traffic violations are an indicator of morality is specious at best.
They are beyond redemption, but not alone. It's good somebody is bringing that up.
*EVERY* carrier is fucking over the consumer with over sold bandwidth, unrealistic caps, and deceptive marketing practices.
It's more problematic with wireless carriers since they have real problems trying to over sell it because everyone is breaking down the door at the same time for the non-existent bandwidth.
Same thing has happened to Clear in more than a couple of markets. They overloaded their networks so badly their 4G operates no better than 3G.
I hope they destroy AT&T over this, and stick their head on a spike. Maybe put some fear into Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint from pulling the exact same crap.
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Yeah..... I kind of got those two mixed up a little. Now that I think of it though, Ricky telling Jeannie that she has some splaining to do kind of works.
That reminds of me of the Infinite Improbability Drive :)
My absolute favorite sci-fi propulsion device of all time.
They must have not watched Star Trek then. Which means they have no credibility as scientists or geeks anyways right? :)
Not everything from Star Trek can be taken seriously. It's not like we give credence to the concept of Heisenberg Compensators when having a serious discussion about the possibility of matter transport.
Although I feel like handing in my geek card not knowing that Bussard collectors are actually theoretical.....
I don't think we need to worry about competition. We are already beaming out our TV broadcasts into space.
If you think about that.... it progresses from Hitler, to variety shows, to I Love Jeannie, some really weird shit in the 70s, stuff we want to forget about in the 80's, the beginnings of Idiocracy in the 90's... to Ghost Hunters, The Search for Bigfoot, and Snooki.
Any alien species that picks up those broadcasts is probably smart enough to stay away at all costs.
But after that point, learning most things mathematical is like jumping between baby steps
I would say very few things mathematical are like baby steps. Jumping from basic math to algebra requires some more complicated logic and the ability to conceptualize certain problems.
Working in geometry and trig into it requires different concepts as well.
Personally, there was a wall for making the leap into calculus. I made it, but I had problems with some particular logic, like a number never actually reaching zero. That was strange to me because I had problems conceptualizing anything that did not have some sort of physical application. Chemistry was a good example. The exponential rate of nuclear decay (IIRC) stated that mathematically it never reached zero, while common sense said that the last atom would eventually decay and reach zero.
Going from calculus to a lot more complicated math involved in quantum mechanics, topology, etc. requires even more skills to conceptualize abstract problems.
Baby steps implies that anybody can be Stephen Hawkings if they just stick to the road and keep grinding away. I am not so convinced. Perhaps it really does require a "beautiful" mind to make those steps.
Reality, however, is independent of your personal religion.
Not at all.
Most people don't have a "personal" religion. It conforms to a few templates, and generally, with a low rate of deviation.
Reality, as a philosophical term, simply refers to that which exists. Even that varies. Some people say that reality is comprised of your perceptions and that it is existence that represents the actual state independent of your perceptions. Only philosophers that are serious enough to study and interact with other philosophers tend to have more standardized terms.
In any case, religion motivates actions, actions have an affect on reality, and this results in reality being dependent on religion to a much greater extent than I personally find to be safe.
It's quite unfortunate and sad really. If what you said was true, the "reality" would be that we would have a society with laws and education based on logic, statistics, and common sense about what helps a society prosper without regard to some mythical bearded man in the sky, thetans from across the galaxy, or consequences that are not verifiable and never have been.
That cannot be emphasized enough.
There is plenty of math that has no practical application for the vast majority of people in their daily lives. I did very well with chemistry class, but I can't remember much about it today. I have not had a job or a daily task in which I needed to remember Avagadros number of any of the Ideal Gas Laws.
Statistics on the other hand, is useful every day of your life. It not only reinforces logic, which is another skill lacking in society, but allows you to evaluate plenty of situations with more sophistication and make better decisions.
I am not as well versed in statistics as I would like, but it was quite recently that I found the standard deviation equation to be useful for some financial calculations. Using just the average gave me a number that was about 20% higher than the STD. Made a big difference in what I was trying to calculate and why.
Actually.... playing them for the same draw has some advantages.
Sounds strange, but there have been plenty of instances in which more than one person shares the jackpot. If there are 5 winning tickets, each person gets 20%. There have been some instances in which the split for was considerably more than 5.
They are just $1. If you are playing non-random choices getting an extra ticket increases your share of the pool.
It's a real edge case to be sure, but it's not like there are no advantages to playing the same numbers in the same draw. It's just a much greater gamble. Like putting $400 dollars down on rolling eight the hard way in craps.
I know a guy who married into wealth. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a test...
In his case the alphabet probably helped him more. Specifically, licking it.
That might actually be required.
CompUSA, before it went bankrupt, had some of the worst cashiers and managers of all time.
I have tried to purchase a $30-$40 dollar item before, handed the girl a $100 bill, and she handed me back ~$160 dollars in change. I just looked at her for a moment and then nicely asked if she wanted to double check that. She acted like I was trying to rip her off and failed the double check. Gave her a quick math lesson and walked off.
She needed the visual indications for what change to give me.
I think if I agreed I would be reprogramming my cell phone camera to 'record' a 24/7 feed of YouPorn.
Your hands must get really tired.....
Quickest way to kill the idea.... logically at least.
First time I come home from really spicy Mexican food or some questionable Indian curry, in my glass house, with my glass toilet... and I think the neighbors would kill the idea. Or me. I think I know which one would be first.
You would *think* that seeing what you really don't want to see would stop the idea in its tracks... but.... explain spandex and banana hammocks where they have no reason being in the first place. If we have not already created laws banning the "inappropriate use of spandex", it's not going to stop this idea.
Think I am kidding? I just had somebody forward me "People of Walmart" in a YouTube video. Improper use of spandex indeed....
I don't think I took anything out of context, and I think you are being a little pedantic.
However, his point was that protecting your HOME from collapsing and killing you during an earthquake is a marketing ploy, so bringing up highways is completely irrelevant as far as whether or not earthquake-proofing a house is a waste of money
Both are structures. To say "completely irrelevant" is quite a stretch. The reason why you earthquake-proof any structure is to prevent collapse. That is where you get the majority of the damage to the structure, and where fatalities start to rise considerably. Falling objects inside the structure are far less dangerous.
To say fire is the leading cause of death is just strange when common sense and news reports over the last 50 years say otherwise.
yes, the people crushed on the highways in OAKLAND, not SF
You're wrong. It was SF.
I know. I was there and saw bodies being carried out.
You did not think that through did you? :D
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
A wing nut (named after an actual nut) is a nut with two ears or wings on each side. It is made to operate without tools.
I have seen a lot of different toilets, but most of them with wingnuts don't have them on the top, but on the bottom. It's usually a plastic bolt through the toilet and the wingnut is below. You are right.. you don't need tools for a wingnut. They are made for fingers. However.....
The reason why your statement is do damn funny is because in order to grab the wingnut with your hand, you would need to reach behind you, and below you, and start swiveling the wingnut off. Even more funny because of how long the bolts are, and downright hilarious because once there is no more pressure the bolt will spin with your hand unless you use two hands to grab the bolt to keep it from twisting along with the wingnut.
You need to do all of that... while having your ass glued to the toilet seat, facing the wrong direction, and probably not having a long enough reach for one hand, let alone two hands....
But... I could be wrong.... you could be the reincarnation of Houdini :)
So you would wear the toilet seat on your ass for a couple of weeks? That just makes the joke funnier.
You will have problems with your skin much sooner than that. I know from experience......
Some assholes in college, who now lie in shallow graves in a nameless field, put a bunch of military grade experimental duct tape on my back while I was sleeping.
It hurt so bad trying to rip it off, that I decided to wait a couple of days and just see if it would start to fall off. Didn't work out that way. I ended up losing some skin, and all the hair, no matter what.
Your skin will not do so well. Trust me.
Just get the surgery and use the time recuperating to plan your delicious bloody vengeance.
You did not think that through did you? :D
Imagine yourself glued to the toilet seat. Completely stuck.
Are you saying you keep a tool kit next to the toilet so you can reach behind you and blindly fumble with the caps and get a wrench, or whatever on to the top of the bolt, and then turn it behind you?
I would film that and put up on YouTube. Hilarious.
That has nothing to do with structures.
A double decker freeway is not a structure?
You're correcting something he didn't say
He said collapsed structures were not as responsible for deaths as the resultant fires were. Most deaths I have ever heard about were about collapsed structures crushing and trapping people. San Francisco is a really good example of that.
and that honestly doesn't have much to do with whether or not one should bother levitating the house.
Really? Levitating the house is done so that it does not collapse, or otherwise get destroyed.....which would result in people dying.
An awful lot of people died from being crushed to death in collapsed freeways in San Francisco in the large earth quake in the late 80's. Not so much from fires if I recall correctly.
You mean the possibility of gluing your roommates ass to the toilet seat forever?
This lock is stable over time, high temperatures, high forces and with harsh chemical treatment.
If they can figure out how to get it to bond like that to human skin... game over man. That April Fool's joke will require surgery.
I can already see new scenes for JackAss 4.
You mean universal? That just means a standard.
A UTC formatted time stamp always contains a time zone, so it always represents a time local to somewhere. Even if it is missing the time zone it just means that it is local to Greenwich I think since you would have to assume it to be -0/+0.
The poster was saying to base it off UTC or something other than local time. In that context it does not make sense because UTC always refers to a time zone somewhere. Your local time zone would be as good as any other place.
strings are all multibyte
I assume by multibyte strings you mean Unicode right? I agree with that. There is no real reason why we should not be moving to Unicode everywhere.
Everything internally is UTC or at last based on something other than local time
That does not make any sense to me. Everything in UTC format represents a "local" time. That is what the EDT/EST is for, or the -400. It is able to indicate time zones. It can also indicate DST if you use it right.
Perhaps you mean that all time is stored relative to zero, or a single time zone regardless of where you actually are? A lot of global companies do that. I store everything in the Pacific/Los Angeles time zone. Time zone is just a preference for reports and interfaces. I process the time at the API level and return the time in the requested time zone, or Pacific by default. All times are formatted to indicate the time zone anyways, so the locale settings can still be applied.
The only time you deal with locale settings is just before outputting the values and just after inputting them.
The problem you have is that you want it *raw* and unprocessed. It can't be, because as I said you would need to store it *first* and that does not solve the problem of DST though anyways.
Wherever you are getting the time from, it had to be read from a system. That system had to be configured for its UTC timezone, and have DST configured.
You have two choices:
1) Represent the time in the EST time zone with -400 or -500.
2) Represent the time in the EST time zone with EDT or EST.
#1 results in a data record in which you only know the time zone, but not the state of DST at the moment it was recorded. The difference between -400 or -500 does not allow us to conclude if it was DST responsible, or if the event actually occurred in a different time zone.
#2 results in a data record in which you explicitly know that it was the -400 time zone, but that it was also when DST was off or on.
I would think you would want to represent the state of DST in the time stamp. When you go to process locale settings for the output you have information that is quite valuable and definitive. Not everywhere in the world even uses DST. It would be useful to know right from the UTC format if it was recorded in a DST time zone and if DST was actually on.
There is no way to store the time stamps "untouched". It has to be, otherwise you have ambiguous values with respect to DST. It's simpler to just store DST state information in the time stamp itself and if it is missing, add it. That way you can always be sure about the time.
Fast food meals?
Some of those bastards were pretty fast... and just about everything was food.
Oh look, the monkey is capable of primitive thinking!
LOL. Being in the IT department we actually have a poster with that title :)
It is still a nightmare though. Just for a different programmer and not you. You have to approach the problem by reading the time first, then deciding on how to store it. That means you need to rely on that system, and some may be better than others. I would think most systems are relying on Linux and the zoneinfo files to get the time correctly.
So some programmer still needs to deal with the fallout from the fucktarded Congress Critters that decided to tank millions of devices worldwide that depended on DST being constant year by year.
Anybody wondering why UTC "solves" the problem it is because it allows you to specify time zones. You can specify EDT on the east coast of the US when DST is active and EST when it is not. This allows you to store the time with not just the time zone, but actually say whether or not the time had DST applied to it already.
Of course, this once again, relies on whether the system and code performing the reading and storage of time has DST operating correctly and stores EDT instead of EST when appropriate. Just having -400 or -500 at the end is insufficient to fully account for DST and allow the "OS" the ability to interpret it correctly.
Relying on the "OS" all the time is not the greatest idea too. It could very well be inconsistent across different platforms. If the data is intended for reports and displays I would rather convert it at the API level in a consistent fashion and transmit that in any kind of response document that is requested.
Yes, it is not intentional in many cases.
What you are forgetting is that driving is complex. We take it for granted all the time. Combine somebody with a poor attention span, coordination, reflexes, and limited understanding of physics and you have a bad driver.
I have known some bad drivers and they are not rationalizing any of their behavior, nor intending anyone else harm at all. They are just bad drivers.
Cutting somebody off can be attributed to poor situational awareness just as much as a premeditated action.
Same goes for speeding. While there may not be anyone else in the lane, and very few people on the road, it takes some sophistication to understand why it so dangerous to be doing 120mph. Sometimes a law is not enough for people. Sure, they are breaking the law. Are they intending harm? No. They just don't understand physics and reaction times. They can't see how their actions could harm others.
It's not that simple. To say all traffic violations are an indicator of morality is specious at best.
They are beyond redemption, but not alone. It's good somebody is bringing that up.
*EVERY* carrier is fucking over the consumer with over sold bandwidth, unrealistic caps, and deceptive marketing practices.
It's more problematic with wireless carriers since they have real problems trying to over sell it because everyone is breaking down the door at the same time for the non-existent bandwidth.
Same thing has happened to Clear in more than a couple of markets. They overloaded their networks so badly their 4G operates no better than 3G.
I hope they destroy AT&T over this, and stick their head on a spike. Maybe put some fear into Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint from pulling the exact same crap.