I neither said nor implied any such thing. If you are going 70MPH passing someone going 65, a properly executed pass takes about 30 seconds. It is entirely reasonable for someone going 70 to pass someone going 65.
During that 30 seconds, someone doing 80 will travel about 500 feet more than the person doing 70. If the person doing 80 was 500 feet behind the person doing 70 when the pass started, they will encounter each other at the very end of the pass for a very short time. At any time during that 30 seconds, the speeder could have adjusted his speed very slightly, no braking required, and avoided encountering the passer at all.
But, the idiot speeders don't do that. Instead, they assume that the passer is 'camped' in the left lane, and keep up their speed until they are forced to brake. And then the problems happen.
Maybe you are just really bad at estimating distance or time. At only 10MPH, 2 seconds is 30 feet. The average city street is about that width. So, if you are stopped at a red light behind other cars, and you manage to accelerate to 10MPH before entering the cross street, the car in front of you should have completely cleared the cross street before you enter it.
The funny thing is that the 'left lane laggards' that cause the problem are quite often speeders. I see this all the time. Someone in the right lane wants to pass, so they move into the left lane and start the pass. They are moving faster than the right lane, probably faster then the speed limit. They are not a 'laggard'. But then some aggressive speeder can't be bothered to notice (or care) that traffic is going slower, so he comes right up on the car in front and BRAKES. Now he is going slower than everyone else, even if only for a moment. Because he is not only going slower, but also showing his brake lights, the people behind him brake and slow, and pretty soon the line is at a dead stop.
Most Americans never need to know or care how long a mile is compared to a kilometer, and the people that do need to know or care don't have a problem with it. So no benefit there. Still waiting for ANY real benefit to Americans to justify the change. Haven't heard one yet.
You've done 2 coast to coast trips and didn't see a single speed limit sign? Not a single '1 mile to next exit' sign? No 'Big City 43 miles' signs? No 'Deer crossing next 2 miles'? No 'Left lane ends 1000ft'? None? You must be the most unobservant person ever, I hope you weren't driving.
All of that, and you still didn't answer the basic question: why do it? OK, the UK made the change. Exactly what impoved in anyone's life as a result of that change?
I guess you live in a world where there is no such thing as a mistake or error. Out here in the real world those things happen, and those of us who live here know how to deal with them. You don't.
Upon encountering this situation, a sane person would realize that there are three parties involved, and any of them could have made a mistake, and the logical place to start would be with who you made the purchase from.
Suppose I show up at your house and say I paid some guy $100 and he said I could stay there. Are you going to just let me stay there, or are you going to tell me to get lost? According to your odd theory, it is YOUR responsibility to let me stay there, because I paid SOMEONE ELSE.
Nobody says the metric system is difficult. What they say is that is different, and that there is no compelling reason to change. There is no denying that changing would have an enormous price tag, but nobody ever can list a single benefit that the average American would see from the change.
The only people that claim something is too hard are people such as yourself who can't seem to wrap their heads around anything that isn't a multiple of 10, and apparently also suck at fractions.
And nobody ever says 1mm is 3/64 of an inch. 1mm is 1mm, and 3/64 is 3/64 and they are not used interchangeably.
You are not making any sense. The ONLY party that 'sold' you anything was the OTA. Nobody else is responsible for 'granting' you a damn thing.
The request of your post is equally stupid. You completely skip over the most likely cause of an issue, a mistake, and leap directly to 'it must be fraud' and 'they dont care about providiing service'. WTF? By your own admission, you haven't even contacted the OTA to attempt to straighten it out, so how exactly do you make that ridiculous leap?
We use OTAs frequently (although we are booking direct more often now). We had an issue twice, and neither time was 'fraud'. The first time was a parking issue, similar to yours. Turns out that on the HOTELs web site it said parking was included, but that claim was NOT made on the OTA site. The OTA did NOT sell us parking, we just made the incorrect assumption that they did. Our mistake entirely. The second time was that the room we were given was not what we booked. Turned out the OTA sent the wrong info to the hotel. The OTA apologized and upgraded the room (to better than we booked) for free. In neither case would complaining to the HOTEL have accomplished anything, because in neither case did the HOTEL do anything wrong or have any culpability.
I don't know where you get the 'they can promise anything they want' thing from. The point is, the ONLY people you have any reasonable complaint against is whoever made you the offer and you PAID. If the hotel made the offer and you paid the hotel, then it is entirely reasonable to complain to the hotel and expect satisfaction. However, if an OTA made the offer and you paid the OTA, it is kind of asinine to expect the hotel to deal with that complaint.
What is 'those sites'? An OTA, or direct with the hotel? If it is an OTA, then you need to take the issue to the OTA, not the hotel. The hotel is not just going to honor some third parties claim.
The rewards club isn't so they can 'track' you, it is so they can entice you to stay there over competitors (customer loyalty). 'One more stay and you get a free night' kind of thing. The inital 'benefits' are just to get you into the program. No different than frequent flyer programs.
If I search for 'hotels in NYC' then I expect to see a list of hotels in NYC, not Expedia or Travelocity. Not sure what problem you are trying to invent.
If they don't sell rooms to the OTAs then their hotel will never be seen by anyone using an OTA (which is a LOT of people). If they DO sell to the OTA then people using the OTA will see the hotel as an option, but only for the rooms bought by the OTA.
Because many people use the OTAs. If a hotel doesn't sell any rooms to the OTAs then those people never even see the hotel as an option. 'Getting better at selling capacity themselves' is exactly what they are doing now.
Being a threat, and due process (or lack thereof) have nothing to do with it. 'If you get caught shoplifting you will be prosecuted' is a threat, and is not extortion. 'Pay me $400 or I tell the cops you stole' could be extortion.
Extortion requires you to gain something through coersion. In the first statement, the person making the statement is not gaining anything, and there is no coersion. In the second statement, there is both potential gain and coersion.
In the ISP case, there is neither gain nor coersion.
In order to make a machine to do the same thing, you would first have to know what it is you are looking for. And we don't know that. Sure, you can make a detector to smell a gas leak, we know what gas smells like. And you can make a detector to smell BAC, we know what that smells like. But we have no idea what the dogs are smelling when they smell cancer.
You can imitate a human eye pretty easily with a single light sensor and some processing. The human nose is not a single sensor (like an eye), it is thousands of sensors, all detecting different molecules. And until you can replicate that (and we aren't even close), you can't use machine learning to do what a dog is doing when he detects a 'cancer smell'.
You do realize that the reason for the 'segregated TV packages' is so that you don't have to pay for things you don't want or need, right? By far, MOST complaints about cable TV pricing is not about things people DON'T get, it is about having to pay for things they DON'T want. People don't want LESS granularity in cable, they want MORE.
To be clear, any program that can write files can set things in nvram through that filesystem (the data does need a 4 byte attribute prepended to it). The only program I can think of that specifically changes nvram is efibootmgr (there is a man page for that), but even that is just using the efivars filesystem.
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You conveniently left out the 'if that speed is lower than the posted speed limit' part.
I neither said nor implied any such thing. If you are going 70MPH passing someone going 65, a properly executed pass takes about 30 seconds. It is entirely reasonable for someone going 70 to pass someone going 65.
During that 30 seconds, someone doing 80 will travel about 500 feet more than the person doing 70. If the person doing 80 was 500 feet behind the person doing 70 when the pass started, they will encounter each other at the very end of the pass for a very short time. At any time during that 30 seconds, the speeder could have adjusted his speed very slightly, no braking required, and avoided encountering the passer at all.
But, the idiot speeders don't do that. Instead, they assume that the passer is 'camped' in the left lane, and keep up their speed until they are forced to brake. And then the problems happen.
Maybe you are just really bad at estimating distance or time. At only 10MPH, 2 seconds is 30 feet. The average city street is about that width. So, if you are stopped at a red light behind other cars, and you manage to accelerate to 10MPH before entering the cross street, the car in front of you should have completely cleared the cross street before you enter it.
The funny thing is that the 'left lane laggards' that cause the problem are quite often speeders. I see this all the time. Someone in the right lane wants to pass, so they move into the left lane and start the pass. They are moving faster than the right lane, probably faster then the speed limit. They are not a 'laggard'. But then some aggressive speeder can't be bothered to notice (or care) that traffic is going slower, so he comes right up on the car in front and BRAKES. Now he is going slower than everyone else, even if only for a moment. Because he is not only going slower, but also showing his brake lights, the people behind him brake and slow, and pretty soon the line is at a dead stop.
Most Americans never need to know or care how long a mile is compared to a kilometer, and the people that do need to know or care don't have a problem with it. So no benefit there. Still waiting for ANY real benefit to Americans to justify the change. Haven't heard one yet.
You've done 2 coast to coast trips and didn't see a single speed limit sign? Not a single '1 mile to next exit' sign? No 'Big City 43 miles' signs? No 'Deer crossing next 2 miles'? No 'Left lane ends 1000ft'? None? You must be the most unobservant person ever, I hope you weren't driving.
All of that, and you still didn't answer the basic question: why do it? OK, the UK made the change. Exactly what impoved in anyone's life as a result of that change?
I guess you live in a world where there is no such thing as a mistake or error. Out here in the real world those things happen, and those of us who live here know how to deal with them. You don't.
Upon encountering this situation, a sane person would realize that there are three parties involved, and any of them could have made a mistake, and the logical place to start would be with who you made the purchase from.
Suppose I show up at your house and say I paid some guy $100 and he said I could stay there. Are you going to just let me stay there, or are you going to tell me to get lost? According to your odd theory, it is YOUR responsibility to let me stay there, because I paid SOMEONE ELSE.
Nobody says the metric system is difficult. What they say is that is different, and that there is no compelling reason to change. There is no denying that changing would have an enormous price tag, but nobody ever can list a single benefit that the average American would see from the change.
The only people that claim something is too hard are people such as yourself who can't seem to wrap their heads around anything that isn't a multiple of 10, and apparently also suck at fractions.
And nobody ever says 1mm is 3/64 of an inch. 1mm is 1mm, and 3/64 is 3/64 and they are not used interchangeably.
The whole reason Apple does this is so people don't realize their battery is dying and begin to wonder why they can't replace such a simple thing.
Well if you 'like dealing with the hotel', why did you not BOOK with the hotel and eliminate the whole damn problem? Too cheap?
You are not making any sense. The ONLY party that 'sold' you anything was the OTA. Nobody else is responsible for 'granting' you a damn thing.
The request of your post is equally stupid. You completely skip over the most likely cause of an issue, a mistake, and leap directly to 'it must be fraud' and 'they dont care about providiing service'. WTF? By your own admission, you haven't even contacted the OTA to attempt to straighten it out, so how exactly do you make that ridiculous leap?
We use OTAs frequently (although we are booking direct more often now). We had an issue twice, and neither time was 'fraud'. The first time was a parking issue, similar to yours. Turns out that on the HOTELs web site it said parking was included, but that claim was NOT made on the OTA site. The OTA did NOT sell us parking, we just made the incorrect assumption that they did. Our mistake entirely. The second time was that the room we were given was not what we booked. Turned out the OTA sent the wrong info to the hotel. The OTA apologized and upgraded the room (to better than we booked) for free. In neither case would complaining to the HOTEL have accomplished anything, because in neither case did the HOTEL do anything wrong or have any culpability.
I don't know where you get the 'they can promise anything they want' thing from. The point is, the ONLY people you have any reasonable complaint against is whoever made you the offer and you PAID. If the hotel made the offer and you paid the hotel, then it is entirely reasonable to complain to the hotel and expect satisfaction. However, if an OTA made the offer and you paid the OTA, it is kind of asinine to expect the hotel to deal with that complaint.
What is 'those sites'? An OTA, or direct with the hotel? If it is an OTA, then you need to take the issue to the OTA, not the hotel. The hotel is not just going to honor some third parties claim.
The rewards club isn't so they can 'track' you, it is so they can entice you to stay there over competitors (customer loyalty). 'One more stay and you get a free night' kind of thing. The inital 'benefits' are just to get you into the program. No different than frequent flyer programs.
If I search for 'hotels in NYC' then I expect to see a list of hotels in NYC, not Expedia or Travelocity. Not sure what problem you are trying to invent.
If they don't sell rooms to the OTAs then their hotel will never be seen by anyone using an OTA (which is a LOT of people). If they DO sell to the OTA then people using the OTA will see the hotel as an option, but only for the rooms bought by the OTA.
Because many people use the OTAs. If a hotel doesn't sell any rooms to the OTAs then those people never even see the hotel as an option. 'Getting better at selling capacity themselves' is exactly what they are doing now.
Being a threat, and due process (or lack thereof) have nothing to do with it. 'If you get caught shoplifting you will be prosecuted' is a threat, and is not extortion. 'Pay me $400 or I tell the cops you stole' could be extortion.
Extortion requires you to gain something through coersion. In the first statement, the person making the statement is not gaining anything, and there is no coersion. In the second statement, there is both potential gain and coersion.
In the ISP case, there is neither gain nor coersion.
In order to make a machine to do the same thing, you would first have to know what it is you are looking for. And we don't know that. Sure, you can make a detector to smell a gas leak, we know what gas smells like. And you can make a detector to smell BAC, we know what that smells like. But we have no idea what the dogs are smelling when they smell cancer.
You can imitate a human eye pretty easily with a single light sensor and some processing. The human nose is not a single sensor (like an eye), it is thousands of sensors, all detecting different molecules. And until you can replicate that (and we aren't even close), you can't use machine learning to do what a dog is doing when he detects a 'cancer smell'.
You do realize that the reason for the 'segregated TV packages' is so that you don't have to pay for things you don't want or need, right? By far, MOST complaints about cable TV pricing is not about things people DON'T get, it is about having to pay for things they DON'T want. People don't want LESS granularity in cable, they want MORE.
Are you really unaware how many people have mobility and/or dexterity problems? Just getting to and 'flicking a switch' can be risky and painful.
To be clear, any program that can write files can set things in nvram through that filesystem (the data does need a 4 byte attribute prepended to it). The only program I can think of that specifically changes nvram is efibootmgr (there is a man page for that), but even that is just using the efivars filesystem.
Don't know about a man page, but the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars filesystem contains the efi nvram. Read and write.
Update the BIOS on managed systems. Set things in NVRAM (boot order, secure boot keys, etc).