They think their peashooters are going to protect them from a "rogue Federal government".
It sure seems to work in Afghanistan and Iraq . . . their "peashooters" are protecting them very well from a "rogue American government."
This also defeated the US military in Vietnam . . . but the US generals forgot about that. They also bragged that M1 Abrams tanks, helicopter gunships and Predator drone strikes would easily defeat the insurgents in a few weeks.
Um, how many years now has the US military been in Afghanistan and Iraq . . . ? Oh, yeah, Obama promised that the US would be out of the wars there in his first year of office.
Yes, the USA most certainly has the best military equipment in the world, and could beat anyone in a conventional war . . .
. . . which is exactly why their adversaries fight guerilla and terrorist wars against them.
A bunch of fanatical folks with "peashooter" Kalashnikov's under their pillow cases are most difficult to entirely eradicate.
Just about everything humans do is damaging to our ecosystem.
Time for the space elevator inventions? Back in the '60 they were already being a vision of modern surface to space freighters.
Time for the Star Trek space transporter inventions? Back in the '60 they were already being a vision of modern surface to space freighters . . . on television.
I guess we could also ask if it's time for flying cars and fusion power . . . which have been just 10 years away, since the '60s . . .
What slackers. In Seattle we work 110 hours a week.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
Cool Hand Luke Voice: "Lotsa white pussycat photos down here in the private data, Boss!"
Two Facebook employees were named as co-authors of the study, alongside researchers from Cambridge, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.
. . . and each of the authors passed it on to their friends . . . under the condition that they, "Not give it to anyone else . . . "
. . . which means, who knows how many copies of this are floating around . . . ?
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin
TV comedians and news broadcasters and Hollywood actors like Obama.
TV comedians and news broadcasters and Hollywood actors love Trump.
TV comedians now receive their jokes via Twitter, instead from their writing staff.
Broadcast news is never dull and boring any more. There is always something bizarre and outrageous to report. And if there isn't, they can easily make up some fake news. There's so much of it now, that no one can really tell the difference any more between real and fake news.
Doesnt the car have sensors that could have detected the person and her bike with bags?
The car's sensors are probably lasers, radars, sonars, light detectors, microphones . . . but, alas, . . . no nose.
A smell detector probably could have smelled that bag lady in enough time to brake.
A nose would be very useful in an AI car. It could smell if the brakes were getting too hot, or if the backseat passengers ignited themselves while freebasing crack.
For people who didn't see why they should care about who uses thier data or how it's used, thinking they had noting to hide and it wouldn't affect them, I hope you learned a lesson.
I highly doubt that anyone has learned a lesson:
"No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -- H. L. Mencken.
Often paraphrased as:
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Why did the Facebook execs take their story to Twitter . . . ?
Easy they want to calm the great masses of their user base, whose reading comprehension can't deal with anything longer than a Twitter message. The Facebook execs don't care about what other, more intelligent, folks think. They are a lost cause for Facebook anyway.
But most folks would react:
"Facebook was hacked? No, it wasn't . . . their management said so on Twitter!"
"Oh, look! Facebook! Baby pictures and ponies!"
Do most folks in the US care about what Facebook is up to . . . ? Or do they want to know what the Kardashians are up to . . . ?
I'd think that Pinkertons and other corporate surveillance firms would only be deployed in case of a concrete suspicion, otherwise it'd be prohibitively expensive.
Prohibitively expensive to us . . . is chump change to Facebook and Google.
I could imagine a Pinkerton sales rep, with a lot of chutzpah giving a pitch to Facebook and Google execs, where Pinkerton just plays a few recordings or what they . . . overheard . . . in bars and cafes packed with Facebook and Google employees.
"Just look at what you can learn from what your employees are saying openly in public places! No illegal bugging necessary! Just simply pay us a small fee to have one of our employees loaf and snoop around all day in bars and cafes!"
Hey, the next trend will be bars and cafes, with Maxwell Smart "Cones of Silence" . . . !
In the former East Germany, folks always whispered in restaurants. With 1 in 10 folks there being "informal paid informants" the the DDR's secret police, the Stasi . . . you didn't want to let the next table know about what you were talking about.
This is why there were never any Nuremberg-style trials after the liberation of East Germany . . . they would have needed to lock up 10% of the population! Not even the US or China would be able to top that figure!
"...no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,..."
It's right there for you in the TFS:
from any mobile devices that veered too close to the scene of a crime
"Hey, there was a murder in New York City last weekend. Google's records show that you were also in NYC, along with millions of other potential suspects. That is enough probable cause for the police to beat you to a pulp."
This is going to end like the former East Germany secret police, the Stasi. They were collecting so much information . . . that they couldn't even seriously analyze it all.
Now if the police could broadcast the locations of crime scenes, we could all stay way clear of them. Otherwise, the police might as well pick up random people off the street and see if they can beat out a confession of them.
I don't have any doubts that EV is the future . . . and I don't have any doubts that some automobile manufacturers will have tremendous success doing it.
I do, however, have doubts that Fiat, Ford and GM will be able to have success. They're still too stuck in the internal combustion engine world. Even if the boss says that they are going electric, there will be internal inertia and resistance . . . intentionally or unintentionally.
It kinda sort reminds me of how some folks inside IBM never accepted that the dominate age of the mainframe in the IT world was gone.
Ford in the EV business sounds like Microsoft in the mobile world. Ford wants to go from 0 mph to 100 mph in 2 seconds. They are getting into the game late, and you don't turn around a company like Ford overnight.
All the might and finance from Microsoft couldn't help them make any progress in the mobile world once Android and Apple had piled up all the experience.
...would be a genuine low emissions, super high efficiency diesel engine under the hydrid package. Good electronics and battery tech mean you could optimize the diesel's operating parameters.
Don't say that word! That's the one word that the Knight of the Ni Automobile Industry can't hear right now!
Lots of folk have looked for the Holy Grail . . . and the results have been . . . well . . . not so great. When Ford says they are "going all-in on hybrids", it sounds to me like they are making a risky bet, with unsure hands. I'd rather hear them say something like, "we have solid plans for the long-term success of our coming hybrid products."
Taking risky bets is what business, especially venture capitalism is all about. However, when a venture capital business fails, the investors lose. If Ford fails, the US taxpayer will be on the hook, because Ford is too big to fail.
Yeah, bailing out GM was maybe a good idea . . . but the government did not force them to ditch the executives who made all the bad decisions. The same thing happened on Wall Street.
We'll just have to wait and see what they roll out . . . and if potential customers like what they see.
All these local/town governments were set up with rules dating from 50 years ago, and they've never changed or adapted since.
They don't want to change or adapt . . . it's right there in TFS:
The official reasoning for the moratorium is to "protect and enhance the City's natural, historic, cultural and electrical resources."
. . . "in the purity of their precious bodily fluids!"
What will they do when that whippersnapper Elon Musk comes to town, with his newfangled cars that will sap the City's natural, historic, cultural and electrical resources . . . ?
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. . . beaming down while wearing a red shirt does NOT seem to be a good idea.
Folks dressed like that never seem to last too long.
They think their peashooters are going to protect them from a "rogue Federal government".
It sure seems to work in Afghanistan and Iraq . . . their "peashooters" are protecting them very well from a "rogue American government."
This also defeated the US military in Vietnam . . . but the US generals forgot about that. They also bragged that M1 Abrams tanks, helicopter gunships and Predator drone strikes would easily defeat the insurgents in a few weeks.
Um, how many years now has the US military been in Afghanistan and Iraq . . . ? Oh, yeah, Obama promised that the US would be out of the wars there in his first year of office.
Yes, the USA most certainly has the best military equipment in the world, and could beat anyone in a conventional war . . .
. . . which is exactly why their adversaries fight guerilla and terrorist wars against them.
A bunch of fanatical folks with "peashooter" Kalashnikov's under their pillow cases are most difficult to entirely eradicate.
... still they are damaging to our eco system.
Just about everything humans do is damaging to our ecosystem.
Time for the space elevator inventions? Back in the '60 they were already being a vision of modern surface to space freighters.
Time for the Star Trek space transporter inventions? Back in the '60 they were already being a vision of modern surface to space freighters . . . on television.
I guess we could also ask if it's time for flying cars and fusion power . . . which have been just 10 years away, since the '60s . . .
What slackers. In Seattle we work 110 hours a week.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
Look, BMW just doesn't want to do this, because of profit factors, not because they are not capable of making a profit doing it.
IBM sold its ThinkPad brand to Lenovo, because "it could not be made profitable" . . . even though the IBM ThinkPads were already made in China.
Lenovo seems to be doing fairly well with ThinkPads.
"Aleksandr Spectre"? Are you fucking kidding me?
Cool Hand Luke Voice: "Lotsa white pussycat photos down here in the private data, Boss!"
Two Facebook employees were named as co-authors of the study, alongside researchers from Cambridge, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.
. . . and each of the authors passed it on to their friends . . . under the condition that they, "Not give it to anyone else . . . "
. . . which means, who knows how many copies of this are floating around . . . ?
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -- Benjamin Franklin
If only there was some way to run multiple operating systems on the same hardware. /s
If you are using Intel, you already ARE running multiple operating systems.
You are running whatever you installed yourself . . .
. . . and you are running the NSA's Intel Management Engine SpyOS . . .
You assume they would have listened and learned.
Those who listened and learned . . . have been sacked.
Those responsible for the sacking . . . have also been sacked.
TV comedians and news broadcasters and Hollywood actors like Obama.
TV comedians and news broadcasters and Hollywood actors love Trump.
TV comedians now receive their jokes via Twitter, instead from their writing staff.
Broadcast news is never dull and boring any more. There is always something bizarre and outrageous to report. And if there isn't, they can easily make up some fake news. There's so much of it now, that no one can really tell the difference any more between real and fake news.
Sorry you found out about Facebook's business model.
The Zuck apologizes, but still claims:
"I did NOT have sex with your private data!"
Uh, what do you call a trillion or two in student debt?
Money wasted on spring breaks in Cancun.
I'm an Amazon kid
"We be Amazon . . . and shit."
No, it just sound right.
After all having all those brick and mortar stores has done wonders for Barnes and Nobles and Waldenbooks.
Who says that Bezos is planning on using them for stores . . . ?
Now that the Zuck has been knocked out as the darling candidate for the 2020 presidential election, maybe Bezos is planning to run?
All those empty stores in prime locations would make excellent campaign local HQs.
Actually, considering the latest Facebook scandal . . . I believe Oprah orchestrated it all to eliminate the Zuck as competition to her.
Doesnt the car have sensors that could have detected the person and her bike with bags?
The car's sensors are probably lasers, radars, sonars, light detectors, microphones . . . but, alas, . . . no nose.
A smell detector probably could have smelled that bag lady in enough time to brake.
A nose would be very useful in an AI car. It could smell if the brakes were getting too hot, or if the backseat passengers ignited themselves while freebasing crack.
If you don't appear . . . and don't answer questions . . . you don't commit perjury.
Hey, even a US government IRS employee refused to testify in front of Congress. Of course, Zuck just sent his lawyer.
He's not going to say anything in public or on the record until his legal team has sorted their strategy out.
. . . African robots are cheaper than US robots.
How many people die ONLY because of lead exposure?
How many people die ONLY because of smoking?
How many people die ONLY because of diabetes?
I'm quite sure that living causes death.
I haven't yet met anyone who has survived life.
And remember . . . today is the last day of your life, so far . . .
For people who didn't see why they should care about who uses thier data or how it's used, thinking they had noting to hide and it wouldn't affect them, I hope you learned a lesson.
I highly doubt that anyone has learned a lesson:
"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -- H. L. Mencken.
Often paraphrased as:
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Why did the Facebook execs take their story to Twitter . . . ?
Easy they want to calm the great masses of their user base, whose reading comprehension can't deal with anything longer than a Twitter message. The Facebook execs don't care about what other, more intelligent, folks think. They are a lost cause for Facebook anyway.
But most folks would react:
"Facebook was hacked? No, it wasn't . . . their management said so on Twitter!"
"Oh, look! Facebook! Baby pictures and ponies!"
Do most folks in the US care about what Facebook is up to . . . ? Or do they want to know what the Kardashians are up to . . . ?
I'd think that Pinkertons and other corporate surveillance firms would only be deployed in case of a concrete suspicion, otherwise it'd be prohibitively expensive.
Prohibitively expensive to us . . . is chump change to Facebook and Google.
I could imagine a Pinkerton sales rep, with a lot of chutzpah giving a pitch to Facebook and Google execs, where Pinkerton just plays a few recordings or what they . . . overheard . . . in bars and cafes packed with Facebook and Google employees.
"Just look at what you can learn from what your employees are saying openly in public places! No illegal bugging necessary! Just simply pay us a small fee to have one of our employees loaf and snoop around all day in bars and cafes!"
Hey, the next trend will be bars and cafes, with Maxwell Smart "Cones of Silence" . . . !
In the former East Germany, folks always whispered in restaurants. With 1 in 10 folks there being "informal paid informants" the the DDR's secret police, the Stasi . . . you didn't want to let the next table know about what you were talking about.
This is why there were never any Nuremberg-style trials after the liberation of East Germany . . . they would have needed to lock up 10% of the population! Not even the US or China would be able to top that figure!
Unplug.
In Putinist Amerika . . . Facebook and Google plugin into you ! Disconnect -- have you tried it?
Facebook and Google are designed and operate like a good brain tumor . . . they're connected to too many vital bodily functions.
You can never even consciously use Facebook or Google, and they will still have quite an impressive dossier on you, without you knowing about it.
"...no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, ..."
It's right there for you in the TFS:
from any mobile devices that veered too close to the scene of a crime
"Hey, there was a murder in New York City last weekend. Google's records show that you were also in NYC, along with millions of other potential suspects. That is enough probable cause for the police to beat you to a pulp."
This is going to end like the former East Germany secret police, the Stasi. They were collecting so much information . . . that they couldn't even seriously analyze it all.
Now if the police could broadcast the locations of crime scenes, we could all stay way clear of them. Otherwise, the police might as well pick up random people off the street and see if they can beat out a confession of them.
I don't have any doubts that EV is the future . . . and I don't have any doubts that some automobile manufacturers will have tremendous success doing it.
I do, however, have doubts that Fiat, Ford and GM will be able to have success. They're still too stuck in the internal combustion engine world. Even if the boss says that they are going electric, there will be internal inertia and resistance . . . intentionally or unintentionally.
It kinda sort reminds me of how some folks inside IBM never accepted that the dominate age of the mainframe in the IT world was gone.
Ford in the EV business sounds like Microsoft in the mobile world. Ford wants to go from 0 mph to 100 mph in 2 seconds. They are getting into the game late, and you don't turn around a company like Ford overnight.
All the might and finance from Microsoft couldn't help them make any progress in the mobile world once Android and Apple had piled up all the experience.
...would be a genuine low emissions, super high efficiency diesel engine under the hydrid package. Good electronics and battery tech mean you could optimize the diesel's operating parameters.
Don't say that word! That's the one word that the Knight of the Ni Automobile Industry can't hear right now!
Lots of folk have looked for the Holy Grail . . . and the results have been . . . well . . . not so great. When Ford says they are "going all-in on hybrids", it sounds to me like they are making a risky bet, with unsure hands. I'd rather hear them say something like, "we have solid plans for the long-term success of our coming hybrid products."
Taking risky bets is what business, especially venture capitalism is all about. However, when a venture capital business fails, the investors lose. If Ford fails, the US taxpayer will be on the hook, because Ford is too big to fail.
Yeah, bailing out GM was maybe a good idea . . . but the government did not force them to ditch the executives who made all the bad decisions. The same thing happened on Wall Street.
We'll just have to wait and see what they roll out . . . and if potential customers like what they see.
All these local/town governments were set up with rules dating from 50 years ago, and they've never changed or adapted since.
They don't want to change or adapt . . . it's right there in TFS:
The official reasoning for the moratorium is to "protect and enhance the City's natural, historic, cultural and electrical resources."
. . . "in the purity of their precious bodily fluids!"
What will they do when that whippersnapper Elon Musk comes to town, with his newfangled cars that will sap the City's natural, historic, cultural and electrical resources . . . ?
Do I have to tell google, or does google just sift through their data and surmise?
Probably . . . neither.
Google will probably expect the media companies to provide them with subscriber lists . . .
. . . which Google will promptly resell.