There has been discussions about supersonic transports, compelling reason to have them? Back in the days when everyone dreamed of SSTs routinely flying about (along with the flying cars and moon bases) but it never happened. Is there a real need to go faster than Mach 1? What is total time going to airport, checking in, flight time, getting baggage, then traveling from airport to intended location? How much will it reduce from flight time of subsonic transports? Is it really necessary? Is there compelling business reasons? Business travelers are not incognito has they (or should have) internet connection via satellite (and if they have wifi on the airplane). Of course one reason is to reduce a 12 or 18 hour travel time to half of that (man, being in coach on long flights becomes an endurance contest).
Nothing wrong with building an X-plane, intent is to get real world performance data and experience with new aeronautical capabilities (also have real flight hardware to show off instead of artwork). Then let manufacturers decide if they want to build SSTs. Also consider if we don't think of building/selling quiet SSTs, someone else may corner the market. There have been several recent X-planes, all remote controlled, this will be a human rated vehicle and probably have other new stuff for test evaluation.
The old joke about airplanes don't go any faster nowadays even now in 21th century, "640 mph autta be enuf..."
Don't know. Back then I didn't pay attention to those that didn't understand. It was years later I read young people got it, old people did not. Here's another tidbit, in 1868 The Blue Danube was debuted in US (or was it 100 years before "2001" that Johann wrote the song?). Fast forward to now it is pretty much considered to use classical music for space movies (shudder to think that Lucas considered using disco music for Star Wars).
Speaking of dance, The Blue Danube is a great viennese waltz song though dance studios and competitions play a more straightforward timing since Johann's original score is more instrumental. Lately I've been getting pretty good dancing VW especially the right turns (used to be my phobia) and now right box turns are easier than left (naturally as Europeans refer right turns as natural turns). When "DJ" Dave plays VW at Starlite Ballroom dance parties, sometimes it is a long version (5 min) instead of usual 3 minute length. As making the laps, my partner would say, "this seems to be a long song." I'd reply "it's the endurance contest version."
Yep, I'm old enough to remember watching it when it premiered. Saw it at the Century theaters next to Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. These had the big panoramic screen, stereophonic sound, snazzafrazzic seats (yes, they were good), and poppaphonic popcorn (not really, borrowed the terms from Mad Magazine). It all made sense as we were going to the Moon, technology was racing ahead, etc. The Pan Am spaceplane, Hilton Hotel and Bell System on the space station was perfectly logical. I figured once I become an old man I can fly into space just like my grandfather when he was a little boy my age, airplanes were flimsy contraptions that barely got off the ground. By 1960s him and my grandmother conveniently fly to Europe on a Pan Am 707 with no special prep.
I never understood what the movie was about, still debated with friends for years and years. It wasn't until I read the book years later then it all made sense. But it took away the mystery what it was all about, kind of disappointing because if you didn't read the book then your imagination can go wild with ideas of what was Clarke and Kubrick portraying. It was something definite, not chaotic. Obviously the special effects made every other space movie look cheesy.
I do remember the classical music which matched perfectly to futuristic spaceflight. I didn't followed classic music, regarded it as that's the stuff old people listen to but it still made sense. I did read years ago many older people didn't get it (Strauss and space have nothing in common).
It still stands the test of time. Rather than many movies portraying when first encountering intelligent life elsewhere the actors pay usual "totally amazed." In 2001, "One thing certain it was deliberately buried. Oh, how about some coffee?" I think when or if we come across conclusive evidence of life outside earth probably images of some samples someplace, researcher will comment, "looks like rat turds to me. By the way, where you guys going for lunch today?"
I didn't get impression that it had negative reviews, only read about that till decades later. 1968 was same year of Apollo 8 which I clearly remembered watching it on TV (black and white with rabbit ears), this huge rocket slowly leaving the pad with these big long flames. Shortly after I thought "wow, they are ONE HUNDRED MILES into outer space!" For a ten year old in those years it felt like as far away as Andromenda Galaxy. Then later announcer said, "and that was the TLI burn that has sent them to the Moon." I also clearly remembered all of sudden EVERYTHING was different.
So 50 years later and 18% into the 21st century we are struggling to put someone at same altitude as where Gagarin been. And currently have to rent seats from the Russians.
But oh, no, "let's go to thereapy". "We need Ritalin". "We need Adderall". "We need *understanding*."
then people wonder why this country got a bunch of druggies and nut jobs. I also see next article in the/. list is "Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules."
Starting classes at the weird hour of 7:45am and running till 2:30.
Some years ago a study was done (and there have been many many studies) for kids need to sleep in a little so they are more restful and ready to go when arriving for school. There is ***no reason*** classes end early that afternoon (very few need to get back to the farm to milk the cows). So not surprising vandalism and other juvenile pranks occur between 3 and 5 pm (got nothing else to do between schools out and dinner time).
And having three months off during summer... hey very few need to work on the family farm. However this country is steeped in tradition. So policy makers saying school kids need more schooling because we are falling behind (uhmmm, how about better teacher pay and resources such as books, papers, other supplies) so they add additional classes in the morning. Or propose classes during summer? Yeah, lots of luck adding that.
A 9-to-5 schedule should work better to condition youngsters that is how to deal with stuff when they get older. But then to make it really like what adults do, have it go much later and bring work home.
Will throw in my two cents into this fray... I saved this from another slashdotter:
Do not confuse Stalinism or Maoism with socialism, those first two where strictly police states with the masquerade of what ever political system they were pretending to be. This being no different to Nazism.
So want to see socialism, first the psychopaths have to go, quite simply they will corrupt any ism they are a part of, attempt to turn it into an authoritarian state where they have control and can dominate and exploit the citizens of that society.
Socialism is the system that the majority of people were born into, the family unit, a socialist government is basically about expanding the socialism of the family unit into the greater community to gain the all to obvious outcomes, a caring and sharing society of human beings and the extended family concept.
The 'Free Market' is straight up marketing lie because it is wholly and totally dependent upon nothing in that market ever being Free, everything 'owned' and 'controlled', so that those with the most can control and exploit those with the least. With everything that can be owned being owned, including all of the essentials to life, so that denial of life becomes the tool of exploitation of the not free at all market place of human lives.
Either we shift to socialism or die as a species, that is the choice, suck it up.
I see graffiti on bridges, signs, etc. but has any of this surveillance stuff get any of this as it occurs? Any arrests from video footage? Just wondering.
You have to go back to the Nixon/Ford/Carter/Reagan administrations for the bad planning there.
Yep, hear Dale Myers talk about how he was faced with situation in early 1970s the ***last*** manned spaceflight for US would have been the last Skylab mission (ASTP wasn't scheduled yet), https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but video war X will be fought with a vintage analog video recorder aimed at a monitor.
Yeow, I just did that the other day. I wanted to make a small video clip (90 seconds) of an episode of Kolchak The Night Stalker where he talks with an exterminator about rats.
Instead of camera aimed at monitor, I fed HDMI output to a HDMI to composite converter. Composite routed to a Firestore DVR.
Clip is for a safety manager to highlight PPE not used in 1974. Also to show where exterminator eating a sandwich while spraying bushes. Kolchak commented concern of poison on the sandwich but exterminator replied, "It's already loaded with chemicals and preservatives, what difference does it make."
I didn't go to keepvid because I don't want entire episode (YT has them all), only just that portion.
OK, download videos with proper and legal means... however, there are many unique videos online that finding the proper source to purchase is more difficult than finding Jimmy Hoffa.
The various copyright industries have been sitting on standards for a long time -
I was thinking from my experience with video is either composite like in the old days or SDI like what the pros use. Everything else seems to have baggage like it either doesn't connect or need to do various software configurations. I've worked with some USB video, it either works or it does not. Composite video works (unless your source or TV set goes bad, or break in cable). Same with SDI, the video is either there or something crapped out, HDMI is ok (but it has DRM baggage), not many if any TV sets have SDI inputs.
It lets users buy what they want, when they want it, at a decent price.
Exactly. I find many items can easily be purchased through Amazon where other sites either have horribly bureaucratic purchasing methods, websites that work only with certain browsers like IE 4.2.v3, or the buy button simply doesn't exist! Sometimes I get irked because Amazon makes use of "gig delivery services" (a Uber type of business model). But many times I have no choice because other companies seem to go out of their way to make buying from them difficult.
John Pike said someone sees a light in the sky. What is it? A weather phenomena? An airplane? A satellite? An alien spacecraft? Or just a light in the sky? It all depends on what movie you saw the night before.
When the Big A was created in 20th century, the creators got their start by taking apart stuff and putting them back together sometimes with mods (sometimes creating smoke with results). Though company and its philosophy has changed a lot, many products are basically tinker-proof.
from a few years ago:
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Insightful)
by Chris Johnson (580)
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
It is not hard, it is not expensive, and it is not difficult.
Yes and no. If you have the skill set and resources (i.e. high bandwidth) then having your own video site is great. I admit I have a youtube channel for my videos because I don't have the skill to build a site to host videos, a friend worked on setting up a site to have videos (tons of work, constantly being jerked around on bandwidth and storage space) and with low viewership it wasn't worth it. Some of my youtube videos have 10,000 views, others about 20. I was given opportunity to get money per view (I declined since these are either for non-profit activities or clips from favorite movies), I didn't miss much when YT demonetized most people.
I have had some videos taken down because music track in background, I found it interesting it was done by some oddball outfit that somehow gets ownership to manage music tracks. But few months later it reappears. I must have some boring videos because I haven't been caught up in all these takedown raids that have been going on the past year.
Kind of a late question and nothing to do with software but enforcing HOA rules, how much and what is practical? Some HOAs very relaxed. others have authority zealots. I read a couple on this list say HOA rules should be a minimum so focus only on important common areas (not have to be a cop for the complex). Of course there is always debate on what is important and what is not.
However with a condo with buildings like apartments, example of one unit has plumbing problems that cause flood water damage in another unit downstairs. Sometimes responsible party will have that repaired (and those responsible ensure they have HO6 insurance). Others do not so damaged unit wants the HOA board to take action. Or adjacent unit has a lot of noisy activities late at night, victimed unit wants HOA to take action. However with it being a condo, HOA doesn't have authority like landlord (you better do this or you kicked out). Besides writing a stern letter, impose fines? Under what legal authority if any? Some board members enjoy being cops, others want to avoid confrontation (latter understandably if unit in question is occupied by "large dudes").
At HOA board meetings, many attendees complain about certain units do this and that, what will the Board do about it? Or one unit is experiencing problems from another and they won't answer, Board says it cannot disclose contact information which person making the complaint finds it very troubling as it implies the Board will do nothing. Sometimes it seems Board can only say "you deal with it, it is none of our business" (analogous to single family homes where one house has problem people, the others have to deal with it by either banging on the door or calling the cops).
..how you can impose platform censorship under the name of preventing sex trafficking. Let's ignore all the rich and/or...
In some ways the rich were not ignored, i.e. recent sexual harrassment cases certain people in power were taken down (but some remain untouched). I also notice many websites have "escort services" so does this mean there will be a lot more work for law enforcement? I'm thinking the Trump policy for every one regulation, two have to be removed.
Trafficking appears a new term (paradigm shift) so instead of traditionally going after prostitutes (a victimless crime where both agree exchange of money for some "action"), it then shifts the focus to the ones that force the prostitutes to do business and take most of the money. i.e. a woman gets economically desperate, a pimp exploits her and gets most of the money and keeps her basically enslaved in the business.
Like many laws that seem to have good intentions, there is always some other angle of why it was sponsored. I don't think prostitution will ever be legalized in USA because there's just too many feel we need "high moral standards" i.e. ok to show people getting killed on TV but not ok to show people having sex.
Legalizing prostitution? Could there be a paradigm shift like how marijuana is being legalized? 50 years ago that would have been unthinkable.
Subject: [bayscan] remotely started car stolen, San Mateo about 0650 hrs
Date: Tue 02/06/18 09:41 AM
6:50 am, I heard on CHP amber (42.08) of silver BMW (or Mercedes?) was stolen after owner remotely started car on El Camino in San Mateo. The keyless car not expected to be far away.
I'd say good luck with that, it seems USA simply does not have the culture for public transportation (unlike Europe, Japan, etc). Especially in this era of dismantling govt agencies not sure if projects like Calif HSR will ever be completed as originally intended. Others add there also needs medium speed rail. Fluffernutter writes "Do any corporations in Silicon Valley really pay taxes?" No, and traffic in SF bay area getting super bad. Heh, a presentation about pod cars as alternative to transportation had a slide showing bumper to bumper traffic on Shoreline with a a Uber and a Google self driving car in the mess, a bicyclist passing everyone on the right. BART is virtually filled to capacity on many runs and difficult to scale up. In a earlier discussion about transportation someone commented everyone from govt, companies, commuters work on highway mods and plans to save 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there but can't wrap their heads a different strategy must be used. Sorry, no answers from me. Time to join the masses on highway.
Nothing to do with software, Davis Stirling website has lots of material about HOAs of what they can do, what they cannot do. Newsletters are educational and entertaining, https://www.davis-stirling.com...
I haven't followed much of these stories, I see lots of media and commentaries but no personal knowledge of situations calling for a SWAT team. It seems to me these events begin with one phone call from a single person that leads police to response like the military, similar to something looks funny so call in a airstrike with a few 2000lb bombs. If approaching this like the military, have a recon team to assess the situation before calling in the big stuff that leads to huge collateral damage. Or treat it like a crime instead of a war.
I see comments like this as example this country has lost confidence and trust in institutions (govt agencies, corporations, churches, non-profits). Yes, there are some pretty bad outfits but it seems these days everyone wants to trash everything from agencies that ensure your water supply doesn't go Flint to a simple church that has monthly dance parties. And yes we have tenants that say HOA board does nothing to get rid of HOA. Then with no rules or regulation everything will be beautiful like Somalia that has no rules or regulation.
Speaking of people, a story mentioned by a management company is one person work to get elected to the HOA board. His goal was to make the complex the best landscaping ever and he succeeded. He served only one year on the board. And the HOA finances and reserves ended with a zero.
ah yes, now that would be interesting, some way to distinguish between owner and renter tenant. Another situation of too many renters then banks will put place on the Do Not Loan list.
As the AC mentioned Fire Marshall, we've been made aware Fire Code prohibits things like bicycles and plants on stairways including put these under the stairs (which is very common in my complex).
Thanks for your reply with "plain spreadsheet in capable hands" that reinforces sensible people making reasonable decisions far superior than wizbang software. The scariest thing I feel is getting a nutjob on the BOD (we've had a few).
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There has been discussions about supersonic transports, compelling reason to have them? Back in the days when everyone dreamed of SSTs routinely flying about (along with the flying cars and moon bases) but it never happened. Is there a real need to go faster than Mach 1? What is total time going to airport, checking in, flight time, getting baggage, then traveling from airport to intended location? How much will it reduce from flight time of subsonic transports? Is it really necessary? Is there compelling business reasons? Business travelers are not incognito has they (or should have) internet connection via satellite (and if they have wifi on the airplane). Of course one reason is to reduce a 12 or 18 hour travel time to half of that (man, being in coach on long flights becomes an endurance contest).
Nothing wrong with building an X-plane, intent is to get real world performance data and experience with new aeronautical capabilities (also have real flight hardware to show off instead of artwork). Then let manufacturers decide if they want to build SSTs. Also consider if we don't think of building/selling quiet SSTs, someone else may corner the market. There have been several recent X-planes, all remote controlled, this will be a human rated vehicle and probably have other new stuff for test evaluation.
The old joke about airplanes don't go any faster nowadays even now in 21th century, "640 mph autta be enuf..."
Don't know. Back then I didn't pay attention to those that didn't understand. It was years later I read young people got it, old people did not. Here's another tidbit, in 1868 The Blue Danube was debuted in US (or was it 100 years before "2001" that Johann wrote the song?). Fast forward to now it is pretty much considered to use classical music for space movies (shudder to think that Lucas considered using disco music for Star Wars).
Speaking of dance, The Blue Danube is a great viennese waltz song though dance studios and competitions play a more straightforward timing since Johann's original score is more instrumental. Lately I've been getting pretty good dancing VW especially the right turns (used to be my phobia) and now right box turns are easier than left (naturally as Europeans refer right turns as natural turns). When "DJ" Dave plays VW at Starlite Ballroom dance parties, sometimes it is a long version (5 min) instead of usual 3 minute length. As making the laps, my partner would say, "this seems to be a long song." I'd reply "it's the endurance contest version."
Yep, I'm old enough to remember watching it when it premiered. Saw it at the Century theaters next to Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. These had the big panoramic screen, stereophonic sound, snazzafrazzic seats (yes, they were good), and poppaphonic popcorn (not really, borrowed the terms from Mad Magazine). It all made sense as we were going to the Moon, technology was racing ahead, etc. The Pan Am spaceplane, Hilton Hotel and Bell System on the space station was perfectly logical. I figured once I become an old man I can fly into space just like my grandfather when he was a little boy my age, airplanes were flimsy contraptions that barely got off the ground. By 1960s him and my grandmother conveniently fly to Europe on a Pan Am 707 with no special prep.
I never understood what the movie was about, still debated with friends for years and years. It wasn't until I read the book years later then it all made sense. But it took away the mystery what it was all about, kind of disappointing because if you didn't read the book then your imagination can go wild with ideas of what was Clarke and Kubrick portraying. It was something definite, not chaotic. Obviously the special effects made every other space movie look cheesy.
I do remember the classical music which matched perfectly to futuristic spaceflight. I didn't followed classic music, regarded it as that's the stuff old people listen to but it still made sense. I did read years ago many older people didn't get it (Strauss and space have nothing in common).
It still stands the test of time. Rather than many movies portraying when first encountering intelligent life elsewhere the actors pay usual "totally amazed." In 2001, "One thing certain it was deliberately buried. Oh, how about some coffee?" I think when or if we come across conclusive evidence of life outside earth probably images of some samples someplace, researcher will comment, "looks like rat turds to me. By the way, where you guys going for lunch today?"
I didn't get impression that it had negative reviews, only read about that till decades later. 1968 was same year of Apollo 8 which I clearly remembered watching it on TV (black and white with rabbit ears), this huge rocket slowly leaving the pad with these big long flames. Shortly after I thought "wow, they are ONE HUNDRED MILES into outer space!" For a ten year old in those years it felt like as far away as Andromenda Galaxy. Then later announcer said, "and that was the TLI burn that has sent them to the Moon." I also clearly remembered all of sudden EVERYTHING was different.
So 50 years later and 18% into the 21st century we are struggling to put someone at same altitude as where Gagarin been. And currently have to rent seats from the Russians.
But oh, no, "let's go to thereapy". "We need Ritalin". "We need Adderall". "We need *understanding*."
then people wonder why this country got a bunch of druggies and nut jobs. I also see next article in the /. list is "Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules."
Starting classes at the weird hour of 7:45am and running till 2:30.
Some years ago a study was done (and there have been many many studies) for kids need to sleep in a little so they are more restful and ready to go when arriving for school. There is ***no reason*** classes end early that afternoon (very few need to get back to the farm to milk the cows). So not surprising vandalism and other juvenile pranks occur between 3 and 5 pm (got nothing else to do between schools out and dinner time).
And having three months off during summer... hey very few need to work on the family farm. However this country is steeped in tradition. So policy makers saying school kids need more schooling because we are falling behind (uhmmm, how about better teacher pay and resources such as books, papers, other supplies) so they add additional classes in the morning. Or propose classes during summer? Yeah, lots of luck adding that.
A 9-to-5 schedule should work better to condition youngsters that is how to deal with stuff when they get older. But then to make it really like what adults do, have it go much later and bring work home.
Do not confuse Stalinism or Maoism with socialism, those first two where strictly police states with the masquerade of what ever political system they were pretending to be. This being no different to Nazism.
So want to see socialism, first the psychopaths have to go, quite simply they will corrupt any ism they are a part of, attempt to turn it into an authoritarian state where they have control and can dominate and exploit the citizens of that society.
Socialism is the system that the majority of people were born into, the family unit, a socialist government is basically about expanding the socialism of the family unit into the greater community to gain the all to obvious outcomes, a caring and sharing society of human beings and the extended family concept.
The 'Free Market' is straight up marketing lie because it is wholly and totally dependent upon nothing in that market ever being Free, everything 'owned' and 'controlled', so that those with the most can control and exploit those with the least. With everything that can be owned being owned, including all of the essentials to life, so that denial of life becomes the tool of exploitation of the not free at all market place of human lives.
Either we shift to socialism or die as a species, that is the choice, suck it up.
I see graffiti on bridges, signs, etc. but has any of this surveillance stuff get any of this as it occurs? Any arrests from video footage? Just wondering.
You have to go back to the Nixon/Ford/Carter/Reagan administrations for the bad planning there.
Yep, hear Dale Myers talk about how he was faced with situation in early 1970s the ***last*** manned spaceflight for US would have been the last Skylab mission (ASTP wasn't scheduled yet), https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but video war X will be fought with a vintage analog video recorder aimed at a monitor.
Yeow, I just did that the other day. I wanted to make a small video clip (90 seconds) of an episode of Kolchak The Night Stalker where he talks with an exterminator about rats.
Instead of camera aimed at monitor, I fed HDMI output to a HDMI to composite converter. Composite routed to a Firestore DVR.
Clip is for a safety manager to highlight PPE not used in 1974. Also to show where exterminator eating a sandwich while spraying bushes. Kolchak commented concern of poison on the sandwich but exterminator replied, "It's already loaded with chemicals and preservatives, what difference does it make."
I didn't go to keepvid because I don't want entire episode (YT has them all), only just that portion.
OK, download videos with proper and legal means... however, there are many unique videos online that finding the proper source to purchase is more difficult than finding Jimmy Hoffa.
The various copyright industries have been sitting on standards for a long time -
I was thinking from my experience with video is either composite like in the old days or SDI like what the pros use. Everything else seems to have baggage like it either doesn't connect or need to do various software configurations. I've worked with some USB video, it either works or it does not. Composite video works (unless your source or TV set goes bad, or break in cable). Same with SDI, the video is either there or something crapped out, HDMI is ok (but it has DRM baggage), not many if any TV sets have SDI inputs.
It lets users buy what they want, when they want it, at a decent price.
Exactly. I find many items can easily be purchased through Amazon where other sites either have horribly bureaucratic purchasing methods, websites that work only with certain browsers like IE 4.2.v3, or the buy button simply doesn't exist! Sometimes I get irked because Amazon makes use of "gig delivery services" (a Uber type of business model). But many times I have no choice because other companies seem to go out of their way to make buying from them difficult.
John Pike said someone sees a light in the sky. What is it? A weather phenomena? An airplane? A satellite? An alien spacecraft? Or just a light in the sky? It all depends on what movie you saw the night before.
When the Big A was created in 20th century, the creators got their start by taking apart stuff and putting them back together sometimes with mods (sometimes creating smoke with results). Though company and its philosophy has changed a lot, many products are basically tinker-proof.
not theirs (the top people at Uber in their posh offices).
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Insightful)
by Chris Johnson (580)
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important. If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
As they say, a cult.
It is not hard, it is not expensive, and it is not difficult.
Yes and no. If you have the skill set and resources (i.e. high bandwidth) then having your own video site is great. I admit I have a youtube channel for my videos because I don't have the skill to build a site to host videos, a friend worked on setting up a site to have videos (tons of work, constantly being jerked around on bandwidth and storage space) and with low viewership it wasn't worth it. Some of my youtube videos have 10,000 views, others about 20. I was given opportunity to get money per view (I declined since these are either for non-profit activities or clips from favorite movies), I didn't miss much when YT demonetized most people.
I have had some videos taken down because music track in background, I found it interesting it was done by some oddball outfit that somehow gets ownership to manage music tracks. But few months later it reappears. I must have some boring videos because I haven't been caught up in all these takedown raids that have been going on the past year.
Kind of a late question and nothing to do with software but enforcing HOA rules, how much and what is practical? Some HOAs very relaxed. others have authority zealots. I read a couple on this list say HOA rules should be a minimum so focus only on important common areas (not have to be a cop for the complex). Of course there is always debate on what is important and what is not.
However with a condo with buildings like apartments, example of one unit has plumbing problems that cause flood water damage in another unit downstairs. Sometimes responsible party will have that repaired (and those responsible ensure they have HO6 insurance). Others do not so damaged unit wants the HOA board to take action. Or adjacent unit has a lot of noisy activities late at night, victimed unit wants HOA to take action. However with it being a condo, HOA doesn't have authority like landlord (you better do this or you kicked out). Besides writing a stern letter, impose fines? Under what legal authority if any? Some board members enjoy being cops, others want to avoid confrontation (latter understandably if unit in question is occupied by "large dudes").
At HOA board meetings, many attendees complain about certain units do this and that, what will the Board do about it? Or one unit is experiencing problems from another and they won't answer, Board says it cannot disclose contact information which person making the complaint finds it very troubling as it implies the Board will do nothing. Sometimes it seems Board can only say "you deal with it, it is none of our business" (analogous to single family homes where one house has problem people, the others have to deal with it by either banging on the door or calling the cops).
..how you can impose platform censorship under the name of preventing sex trafficking. Let's ignore all the rich and/or ...
In some ways the rich were not ignored, i.e. recent sexual harrassment cases certain people in power were taken down (but some remain untouched). I also notice many websites have "escort services" so does this mean there will be a lot more work for law enforcement? I'm thinking the Trump policy for every one regulation, two have to be removed.
Trafficking appears a new term (paradigm shift) so instead of traditionally going after prostitutes (a victimless crime where both agree exchange of money for some "action"), it then shifts the focus to the ones that force the prostitutes to do business and take most of the money. i.e. a woman gets economically desperate, a pimp exploits her and gets most of the money and keeps her basically enslaved in the business.
Like many laws that seem to have good intentions, there is always some other angle of why it was sponsored. I don't think prostitution will ever be legalized in USA because there's just too many feel we need "high moral standards" i.e. ok to show people getting killed on TV but not ok to show people having sex.
Legalizing prostitution? Could there be a paradigm shift like how marijuana is being legalized? 50 years ago that would have been unthinkable.
Subject: [bayscan] remotely started car stolen, San Mateo about 0650 hrs
Date: Tue 02/06/18 09:41 AM
6:50 am, I heard on CHP amber (42.08) of silver BMW (or Mercedes?) was stolen after owner remotely started car on El Camino in San Mateo. The keyless car not expected to be far away.
I'd say good luck with that, it seems USA simply does not have the culture for public transportation (unlike Europe, Japan, etc). Especially in this era of dismantling govt agencies not sure if projects like Calif HSR will ever be completed as originally intended. Others add there also needs medium speed rail. Fluffernutter writes "Do any corporations in Silicon Valley really pay taxes?" No, and traffic in SF bay area getting super bad. Heh, a presentation about pod cars as alternative to transportation had a slide showing bumper to bumper traffic on Shoreline with a a Uber and a Google self driving car in the mess, a bicyclist passing everyone on the right. BART is virtually filled to capacity on many runs and difficult to scale up. In a earlier discussion about transportation someone commented everyone from govt, companies, commuters work on highway mods and plans to save 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there but can't wrap their heads a different strategy must be used. Sorry, no answers from me. Time to join the masses on highway.
Nothing to do with software, Davis Stirling website has lots of material about HOAs of what they can do, what they cannot do. Newsletters are educational and entertaining, https://www.davis-stirling.com...
I haven't followed much of these stories, I see lots of media and commentaries but no personal knowledge of situations calling for a SWAT team. It seems to me these events begin with one phone call from a single person that leads police to response like the military, similar to something looks funny so call in a airstrike with a few 2000lb bombs. If approaching this like the military, have a recon team to assess the situation before calling in the big stuff that leads to huge collateral damage. Or treat it like a crime instead of a war.
I see comments like this as example this country has lost confidence and trust in institutions (govt agencies, corporations, churches, non-profits). Yes, there are some pretty bad outfits but it seems these days everyone wants to trash everything from agencies that ensure your water supply doesn't go Flint to a simple church that has monthly dance parties. And yes we have tenants that say HOA board does nothing to get rid of HOA. Then with no rules or regulation everything will be beautiful like Somalia that has no rules or regulation.
Nice outline of software tools.
Speaking of people, a story mentioned by a management company is one person work to get elected to the HOA board. His goal was to make the complex the best landscaping ever and he succeeded. He served only one year on the board. And the HOA finances and reserves ended with a zero.
ah yes, now that would be interesting, some way to distinguish between owner and renter tenant. Another situation of too many renters then banks will put place on the Do Not Loan list.
As the AC mentioned Fire Marshall, we've been made aware Fire Code prohibits things like bicycles and plants on stairways including put these under the stairs (which is very common in my complex).
Thanks for your reply with "plain spreadsheet in capable hands" that reinforces sensible people making reasonable decisions far superior than wizbang software. The scariest thing I feel is getting a nutjob on the BOD (we've had a few).