I am boycotting Walgreens due to their willingness to hire pharmacists who can refuse to dispense medications based on their religious beliefs. Everyone (rational) should boycott them.
As someone who drives a Tesla with âoeautopilotâ features, I believe full self-drive is a long way off. For a start, from time to time, the Tesla does veer over the middle divider line, or worse, over the line at the edge of the road. On a long drive on a road with some curves, I expect this to happen once or twice. So even that stuff is not reliable. Heck if youâ(TM)re coming down a hill, the sensors donâ(TM)t even see the car in front of you sometimes because of the angles....going around a corner where there are âoesuddenlyâ stopped cars because of a traffic light is another issue....car only notices at the last moment!
But the bigger is issue is anticipation. If Iâ(TM)m driving on a street and there are kids playing with a football on the sidewalk, I know it makes sense to slow down, move a little further out into the road, just in case one of the kids runs out to get the ball. Or I see a truck stopped and I know thereâ(TM)s a possibility the driver might open the door, etc.
All these self-drive systems are reactive and I donâ(TM)t think thatâ(TM)s good enough for safe driving, even compared to people.
I drive a tesla so i have direct experience.
1) That hack is silly. If you are sitting in the driver seat, you can just rest your left knee against the steering wheel for a moment and that will be sufficient
2) Although you can in principle drive for hours handsfree (subject to that occasional wheel touching to prove youâ(TM)re still there), randomly (I have never noticed a pattern), the Tesla will still suddenly start to cross over the line and you HAVE to grab the wheel to stop it.
There is no way you can drive it without being attentive 100%
Except for the morality police...you know, the religious nuts who consider that they (through their voting) do actually have the right to control what you are allowed to do.
As a Tesla driver for several years, I can definitely attest to this problem. Itâ(TM)s very unpredictable but I have definitely had my car start to drive over the center line or off of the right lane. You really do have to keep an eye on it.
As a Tesla driver, I find the autopilot to be adequate, great for highway driving as well as start-stop traffic in NYC, for example. Having said that, Iâ(TM)ve had plenty of experiences where the car just starts to veer off the road, even when itâ(TM)s perfectly marked and you have to grab the wheel, which jerks the car and is very disconcerting for the passenger beside you. You canâ(TM)t NOT pay attention.
My biggest concern is the inability to anticipate a problem. Even if you have sensors that can see everything, you still have to notice such things as children playing and one might run out into the road very suddenly, after a ball perhaps. As a human, I see kids playing up ahead and will slow down and perhaps move further away from them. Until cars can do that kind of thing, they canâ(TM)t be considered safe for unattended operation.
Just because a car isn't top of the line doesn't mean it's not worth having. Of course one problem with buying MP3 albums is that they typically cost the same price regardless of how good is the music (which is also often a subjective opinion) and nobody wants to go to a sliding scale. It's a problem, but still, if you don't want to pay the asking price, you ain't entitled to the product.
That's a problem of consumer law and business practice. On quite a few occasions, I've bought a book for my Kindle and requested a refund a few days later because I decided/felt the book was no good. Amazon has always come through. They are of course able to remove the book from my Kindle. Having said that, they have also refunded me MP3 albums when I've decided I don't like them.
So it CAN be done.
Yeah yeah yeah, the money, time and intellectual effort put into the creation of something people want to later hear or watch aren't worth anything. Spare me the absurd attempts to rationalize theft to smooth your own conscience.
Why to a point? While one may applaud your willingness to be public with your habits, you can't infer or argue that others should therefore feel the same way.
Hmmm, pretty sure that....wait....let me check.....checking....yep.....what is it about the very first phrase of my answer did you not understand?
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"I can't talk generally about drugs that are advertised on TV"
I can't talk generally about drugs that are advertised on TV but I will say that it is a mistake to assume that the doctor knows everything. Apart from the old joke ("what do you call a student who comes last in medical school? Doctor!"), like computer science and many other domains, there's simply too much too learn. So if an educated consumer (and you need to be educated if you're dealing with medical issues) says to a doctor that he or she would like to be on a particular drug, the doctor should either be able to say yes or no (and why not if no) or do the research to be able to answer the question or refer patient to someone else who does know about the topic.
Is walking a privilege too? If you were walking somewhere and cameras were tracking you throughout, I think you'd be very uncomfortable. Don't see that being inside a car should change anything.
Someone needs to write a browser plugin that would just generate random sentences into the text field, leave them there for a few seconds and then erase them again. Let it run when your FB page is in a background tab.
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I would be interested in seeing that presentation, Iâ(TM)ve had the same concern for many years. Can you message me privately?
Youâ(TM)re probably better off buying $10k of Amazon stock!
I am boycotting Walgreens due to their willingness to hire pharmacists who can refuse to dispense medications based on their religious beliefs. Everyone (rational) should boycott them.
And how do you know he hasnâ(TM)t?
As someone who drives a Tesla with âoeautopilotâ features, I believe full self-drive is a long way off. For a start, from time to time, the Tesla does veer over the middle divider line, or worse, over the line at the edge of the road. On a long drive on a road with some curves, I expect this to happen once or twice. So even that stuff is not reliable. Heck if youâ(TM)re coming down a hill, the sensors donâ(TM)t even see the car in front of you sometimes because of the angles....going around a corner where there are âoesuddenlyâ stopped cars because of a traffic light is another issue....car only notices at the last moment! But the bigger is issue is anticipation. If Iâ(TM)m driving on a street and there are kids playing with a football on the sidewalk, I know it makes sense to slow down, move a little further out into the road, just in case one of the kids runs out to get the ball. Or I see a truck stopped and I know thereâ(TM)s a possibility the driver might open the door, etc. All these self-drive systems are reactive and I donâ(TM)t think thatâ(TM)s good enough for safe driving, even compared to people.
I drive a tesla so i have direct experience. 1) That hack is silly. If you are sitting in the driver seat, you can just rest your left knee against the steering wheel for a moment and that will be sufficient 2) Although you can in principle drive for hours handsfree (subject to that occasional wheel touching to prove youâ(TM)re still there), randomly (I have never noticed a pattern), the Tesla will still suddenly start to cross over the line and you HAVE to grab the wheel to stop it. There is no way you can drive it without being attentive 100%
Except for the morality police...you know, the religious nuts who consider that they (through their voting) do actually have the right to control what you are allowed to do.
Sigh, it also doesnt help if manufacturers are hacked
As a Tesla driver for several years, I can definitely attest to this problem. Itâ(TM)s very unpredictable but I have definitely had my car start to drive over the center line or off of the right lane. You really do have to keep an eye on it.
As a Tesla driver, I find the autopilot to be adequate, great for highway driving as well as start-stop traffic in NYC, for example. Having said that, Iâ(TM)ve had plenty of experiences where the car just starts to veer off the road, even when itâ(TM)s perfectly marked and you have to grab the wheel, which jerks the car and is very disconcerting for the passenger beside you. You canâ(TM)t NOT pay attention. My biggest concern is the inability to anticipate a problem. Even if you have sensors that can see everything, you still have to notice such things as children playing and one might run out into the road very suddenly, after a ball perhaps. As a human, I see kids playing up ahead and will slow down and perhaps move further away from them. Until cars can do that kind of thing, they canâ(TM)t be considered safe for unattended operation.
Just because a car isn't top of the line doesn't mean it's not worth having. Of course one problem with buying MP3 albums is that they typically cost the same price regardless of how good is the music (which is also often a subjective opinion) and nobody wants to go to a sliding scale. It's a problem, but still, if you don't want to pay the asking price, you ain't entitled to the product.
That's a problem of consumer law and business practice. On quite a few occasions, I've bought a book for my Kindle and requested a refund a few days later because I decided/felt the book was no good. Amazon has always come through. They are of course able to remove the book from my Kindle. Having said that, they have also refunded me MP3 albums when I've decided I don't like them. So it CAN be done.
Yeah yeah yeah, the money, time and intellectual effort put into the creation of something people want to later hear or watch aren't worth anything. Spare me the absurd attempts to rationalize theft to smooth your own conscience.
If it's such crap, then why are people bothering to steal it?
C.A.R. Hoare's undergraduate degree was in Classics and Philosophy.
Why to a point? While one may applaud your willingness to be public with your habits, you can't infer or argue that others should therefore feel the same way.
Crashplan lets you use an encryption key that (I assume) they can't decrypt.
Hmmm, pretty sure that....wait....let me check.....checking....yep.....what is it about the very first phrase of my answer did you not understand? ------- "I can't talk generally about drugs that are advertised on TV"
I can't talk generally about drugs that are advertised on TV but I will say that it is a mistake to assume that the doctor knows everything. Apart from the old joke ("what do you call a student who comes last in medical school? Doctor!"), like computer science and many other domains, there's simply too much too learn. So if an educated consumer (and you need to be educated if you're dealing with medical issues) says to a doctor that he or she would like to be on a particular drug, the doctor should either be able to say yes or no (and why not if no) or do the research to be able to answer the question or refer patient to someone else who does know about the topic.
I just set up a couple of sonic walls with site-to-site VPN enabled
Is walking a privilege too? If you were walking somewhere and cameras were tracking you throughout, I think you'd be very uncomfortable. Don't see that being inside a car should change anything.
Most of those business jerks are responsible for the pay checks of the tech worker!
Damn it, they're moving? I thought it was my car!
I already laughed him off the stage.
Someone needs to write a browser plugin that would just generate random sentences into the text field, leave them there for a few seconds and then erase them again. Let it run when your FB page is in a background tab.