My primary phone is a VoIP line and doesn't have caller-id because I don't pay for it. It also detects spammers and redirects them to a "This line is disconnected". I do however have to pay for the time used to answer the phone which means spammers directly cost me money. Fuck off, assholes!
My phones are Verizon mobile phones, caller ID costs extra which isn't worth the cost. That said, this article means what to me (other than being paywalled so I just read the summary)?
I'm not really sure where the negative vibes came from; I thought it was better than "The Last Jedi" and a lot better than "Infinity Wars".
Ron Howard did a credible job as director (you can see what was done before him).
I think it really comes down to "Jedi Fatigue" and a really stupid release date (against "Infinity Wars" and "Deadpool 2").
I thought it was a pretty good movie, but the story seemed kind of like action pieces duct taped together, rather than a well thought out backstory of a pretty important character. Meaning, as a go watch a Han Solo adventure movie it was pretty good, as a go learn why Han Solo became who he was in Star Wars, it was OK but seemed lacking.
Well, with a Bolt or Tesla you have the 200 miles you need plus some extra and with a plug-in hybrid like a Volt it's a non issue. So if you're genuinely interested it's a solvable problem. Your situation isn't that common and I'm guessing probably temporary?
Anyway, EVs aren't for everybody but the range is less of an issue than a lot of people realize. I imagine those biweekly 200 mile trips of yours result in a healthy fuel bill. Even if you went the plug-in hybrid route you could go the first 50 miles or so on electricity which for me anyway is dirt cheap. I realize that's not the case for everyone. And with a car like the Volt, once the gas engine kicks in you're still getting 40+ mpg. You'd use less than 4 gallons of gas for the whole trip.
Temporary as in continuing for the next two or three years. The time to replace my older car is coming about the same time so I'll probably stick with my ICE cars for now, but the car buying time could come quicker than planned.
Chevy Bolt has a 238 mile range. Teslas can do 200+ miles. You could always go with a Plug-In hybrid which will use a gas engine once the battery is depleted. Another thing that people don't realize is how many charging stations there are around. Plugshare.com is one site/app that will show you the charging stations along your route and around your destination. Some are free, others you pay a fee for.
For example, my son makes periodic visits to his girlfriend at her college which is a 160 mile round trip. They have a free EV charging station. He may or may not be there long enough to get a full charge but if you have an EV that's roughly capable of 150 or 200 miles you can probably grab dinner somewhere and add enough miles to get you home. Chevy claims the Bolt's fast charging rate is 90 miles in 30 minutes. Not all stations are capable of charging at that rate but more are being added. VW as part of their settlement for their diesel scam has agreed to pour 2 billion into building out the fast charging network in the US.
Worse case scenario is that your stuck charging from a typical 120 volt outlet. Available nearly everywhere but you may need a very leisurely meal to get enough juice to get where your going.
I make the trip during work hours so I have to get back to work as soon as possible and stay for only 2 hours. No outlets of any kind in the normal parking lots I can use as a commuter but they do have charging stations in pay lots. I'd have to survey the pay lots a few times to make sure there are always openings though as I couldn't spend extra time trying to find a charging station elsewhere. Definitely a possibility, but requires more planning ahead than just stop at one of the many gas stations as needed on the way there or back.
Imagine that it was filtering for no people of color. Or, at Google, to filter for no white guys.
Your argument is like saying we'll post up a job on the bulletin board at the public court house nearby, yet we'll target under 30s online as well.
Clearly discrimination.
I wasn't saying discrimination in any form is OK, I'm saying there are laws against discrimination in employment, are there any laws that protect against advertising discrimination?
Well one thing I didn't toss in is I have a bi-weekly trip to meet my research adviser and that is close to a 200 mile round trip. Part of my issue with a break down and wanting a long range backup. Of course bi-weekly is compatible with a rental, though transferring the parking sticker is very painful. Though I suspect more EV options for this wont be too far into the future.
It depends of your need. In Québec for instance, electricity is very cheap, having a car that do ~50 miles and you can easily commute with it everyday and do all your standard groceries/shopping the week-end. All this with 0 gasoline (gas price is $4.50/gallon here). A lot of people have a second car with an ICE, like a Grand Caravan or whatever to haul the kids. EV cars are an efficient means of transportation
I'm 20 miles from work. I could do a 50 mile car but practically I'd want more like a 100 mile car. I'm also a little leery of having a low mileage car as backup if the primary breaks down... of course in the almost 10 years I've had my current primary car, it has broken down exactly 0 times so that is probably paranoia.
Except being old is a legally protected class, just like being Black or female. Filter against Californians or beekeepers or people who drive red cars all you want. If you filter based on a protected class you have legal liability.
Legally protected for jobs, but legally protected for targeted ads?
"Twitter in this case is either a public forum or not"
It seems clear to me Trump is using twitter as a public forum, and the fact that twitter is a private company doesn't change the fact that Trump is effectively using it as a public forum.
Kind of like it is perfectly legal to have a chemistry lab, when those chemicals being mixed don't produce an illegal drug?
That is one of my problems with Pandora. When I'm sitting coding I do like having something familiar for background noise, but the rest of the time I would really like a bit more variety than is provided.
And, in a labor camp, you don't get a choice....I"ve yet to see any area of work in the US where they hold a gun to your head, and force you to stay as an employee against your will and not allowing you to quit and seek out alternative employment.
Or, have I missed something these past few decades?
I do take issue with overly broad do not compete clauses. I get not taking specific skills learned at a job to another job and profiting from it. However when all a contracting company does is to skim off the paycheck they get for a contractor from the customer company, I really don't see a company having the right to say anything you learned on the job was provided by them. Not the same as holding a gun to your head or preventing you from working for anyone else in general but still legally preventing leaving and working for specific other companies.
The DVD/BD catalog is vastly superior to the streaming catalog. About once a year, I get onto a chat with Netflix and we go through my queue (of around 15 to 20 movies) to see what is available in the streaming catalog, and typically there's only 1 or 2 titles available on streaming out of my queue. Until Netflix can offer up a statistically significant number (is 80% too much to ask for?) of movies in my queue via streaming, I'll stick with the DVD/BD subscription thanks.
Agreed, I have both streaming and DVD but I'd sooner drop streaming than I would DVD as I find interesting stuff to watch in streaming, but what I really want is usually only available on DVD. This will be more true once I finally get through all of the Star Trek series, just something I feel I should do once in my life.
But do the amber alerts do anything if there are too many of them?
If you receive a few per day, virtually any kid you see is probably going to match at least a couple of the reports you got in the last week. Should you report every case of a kid crying to the police as a possible sighting? After all, there was an amber alert.
Even getting a couple a day wouldn't bother me if it wasn't for the loud klaxon they use for the alert. There may be a way to switch it to simple vibrate but the alert sound annoyed me so much I just wanted it off.
I think 10 bumper stickers should be more than enough to uniquely identify most cars.
You obviously have not visited the Fremont area of Seattle.
Yeah but even if multiple cars of the same make/model have the same 10 bumper stickers, I don't think they will be in the same place. At least I assume the algorithm includes sticker positioning, not just identification.
One thing to me is it seems like Bird or Segway are way too easy to just let the thing go in a mostly straight line and ignore the world around you (as the summary complains about). Something like a Onewheel seems like you have to pay attention to what you are doing or end up doing a face plant.
Also speed is kind of a thing. Segway is faster than walking but hardly enough to be worth the bother. The Onewheel looks like it moves at a good enough pace to be worthwhile. All in all though, I still like regular bicycles.
I said "excellent". No company would let an employee like that go. There would be no point. The problem with you people is you think everyone is "excellent".
Sure they would. If the "excellent" employee is being payed what they are worth, the company might decide that 2 mediocre employees could do the same job cheaper. Or maybe even farm it out to a bunch of barely passable contractors in Bangalore.
Yep, where I work I've seen plenty of experienced employees get replaced by interns. The experienced employee could get a lot of work done quickly but cost money, the intern cost much less but most produced almost no work.
They're fun to "find/replace" when some old type-writer-using geezer has put them in one of our document templates. Another favourite of mine is the guy who puts spaces after an opening bracket ( like so).
Don't know if it is my dyslexia or just how I read but if I see function(variable), my brain just filters out the open parenthesis at first glance and reads everything as functionvariable. If I write it as function ( variable ), it just reads better for me, particularly when I start getting into complex logic conditions.
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It isn't a universal ban on all plastic bags, only disposable grocery/shopping bags that stores hand out for free.
It's perfectly workable.
What do you think everyone uses for kitty litter disposal bags? I refuse to pay for my plastic bags!
I'm willing to accept a solar and battery install from Bill Gates in my house, to help his investment in energy storage, of course.
In Star Wars he was a reluctant hero with one foot in the bad side.
"Greedo never shot at all."
I will say that is one thing Disney got right with the new Star Wars movie.
My primary phone is a VoIP line and doesn't have caller-id because I don't pay for it. It also detects spammers and redirects them to a "This line is disconnected". I do however have to pay for the time used to answer the phone which means spammers directly cost me money. Fuck off, assholes!
My phones are Verizon mobile phones, caller ID costs extra which isn't worth the cost. That said, this article means what to me (other than being paywalled so I just read the summary)?
I'm not really sure where the negative vibes came from; I thought it was better than "The Last Jedi" and a lot better than "Infinity Wars".
Ron Howard did a credible job as director (you can see what was done before him).
I think it really comes down to "Jedi Fatigue" and a really stupid release date (against "Infinity Wars" and "Deadpool 2").
I thought it was a pretty good movie, but the story seemed kind of like action pieces duct taped together, rather than a well thought out backstory of a pretty important character. Meaning, as a go watch a Han Solo adventure movie it was pretty good, as a go learn why Han Solo became who he was in Star Wars, it was OK but seemed lacking.
Personally I liked the Han Solo trilogy as a backstory better than the movie, but that's just me: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
Well, with a Bolt or Tesla you have the 200 miles you need plus some extra and with a plug-in hybrid like a Volt it's a non issue. So if you're genuinely interested it's a solvable problem. Your situation isn't that common and I'm guessing probably temporary?
Anyway, EVs aren't for everybody but the range is less of an issue than a lot of people realize. I imagine those biweekly 200 mile trips of yours result in a healthy fuel bill. Even if you went the plug-in hybrid route you could go the first 50 miles or so on electricity which for me anyway is dirt cheap. I realize that's not the case for everyone. And with a car like the Volt, once the gas engine kicks in you're still getting 40+ mpg. You'd use less than 4 gallons of gas for the whole trip.
Temporary as in continuing for the next two or three years. The time to replace my older car is coming about the same time so I'll probably stick with my ICE cars for now, but the car buying time could come quicker than planned.
Chevy Bolt has a 238 mile range. Teslas can do 200+ miles. You could always go with a Plug-In hybrid which will use a gas engine once the battery is depleted. Another thing that people don't realize is how many charging stations there are around. Plugshare.com is one site/app that will show you the charging stations along your route and around your destination. Some are free, others you pay a fee for.
For example, my son makes periodic visits to his girlfriend at her college which is a 160 mile round trip. They have a free EV charging station. He may or may not be there long enough to get a full charge but if you have an EV that's roughly capable of 150 or 200 miles you can probably grab dinner somewhere and add enough miles to get you home. Chevy claims the Bolt's fast charging rate is 90 miles in 30 minutes. Not all stations are capable of charging at that rate but more are being added. VW as part of their settlement for their diesel scam has agreed to pour 2 billion into building out the fast charging network in the US.
Worse case scenario is that your stuck charging from a typical 120 volt outlet. Available nearly everywhere but you may need a very leisurely meal to get enough juice to get where your going.
I make the trip during work hours so I have to get back to work as soon as possible and stay for only 2 hours. No outlets of any kind in the normal parking lots I can use as a commuter but they do have charging stations in pay lots. I'd have to survey the pay lots a few times to make sure there are always openings though as I couldn't spend extra time trying to find a charging station elsewhere. Definitely a possibility, but requires more planning ahead than just stop at one of the many gas stations as needed on the way there or back.
Imagine that it was filtering for no people of color. Or, at Google, to filter for no white guys.
Your argument is like saying we'll post up a job on the bulletin board at the public court house nearby, yet we'll target under 30s online as well.
Clearly discrimination.
I wasn't saying discrimination in any form is OK, I'm saying there are laws against discrimination in employment, are there any laws that protect against advertising discrimination?
Well one thing I didn't toss in is I have a bi-weekly trip to meet my research adviser and that is close to a 200 mile round trip. Part of my issue with a break down and wanting a long range backup. Of course bi-weekly is compatible with a rental, though transferring the parking sticker is very painful. Though I suspect more EV options for this wont be too far into the future.
Leaf is definitely an option. I prefer a little larger vehicle but at least it is bigger than a Smart car.
It depends of your need. In Québec for instance, electricity is very cheap, having a car that do ~50 miles and you can easily commute with it everyday and do all your standard groceries/shopping the week-end. All this with 0 gasoline (gas price is $4.50/gallon here).
A lot of people have a second car with an ICE, like a Grand Caravan or whatever to haul the kids.
EV cars are an efficient means of transportation
I'm 20 miles from work. I could do a 50 mile car but practically I'd want more like a 100 mile car. I'm also a little leery of having a low mileage car as backup if the primary breaks down... of course in the almost 10 years I've had my current primary car, it has broken down exactly 0 times so that is probably paranoia.
Except being old is a legally protected class, just like being Black or female. Filter against Californians or beekeepers or people who drive red cars all you want. If you filter based on a protected class you have legal liability.
Legally protected for jobs, but legally protected for targeted ads?
"Twitter in this case is either a public forum or not"
It seems clear to me Trump is using twitter as a public forum, and the fact that twitter is a private company doesn't change the fact that Trump is effectively using it as a public forum.
Kind of like it is perfectly legal to have a chemistry lab, when those chemicals being mixed don't produce an illegal drug?
Did not know about mixing streams, I will have to look into this.
That is one of my problems with Pandora. When I'm sitting coding I do like having something familiar for background noise, but the rest of the time I would really like a bit more variety than is provided.
And, in a labor camp, you don't get a choice....I"ve yet to see any area of work in the US where they hold a gun to your head, and force you to stay as an employee against your will and not allowing you to quit and seek out alternative employment.
Or, have I missed something these past few decades?
I do take issue with overly broad do not compete clauses. I get not taking specific skills learned at a job to another job and profiting from it. However when all a contracting company does is to skim off the paycheck they get for a contractor from the customer company, I really don't see a company having the right to say anything you learned on the job was provided by them. Not the same as holding a gun to your head or preventing you from working for anyone else in general but still legally preventing leaving and working for specific other companies.
The DVD/BD catalog is vastly superior to the streaming catalog. About once a year, I get onto a chat with Netflix and we go through my queue (of around 15 to 20 movies) to see what is available in the streaming catalog, and typically there's only 1 or 2 titles available on streaming out of my queue. Until Netflix can offer up a statistically significant number (is 80% too much to ask for?) of movies in my queue via streaming, I'll stick with the DVD/BD subscription thanks.
Agreed, I have both streaming and DVD but I'd sooner drop streaming than I would DVD as I find interesting stuff to watch in streaming, but what I really want is usually only available on DVD. This will be more true once I finally get through all of the Star Trek series, just something I feel I should do once in my life.
But do the amber alerts do anything if there are too many of them?
If you receive a few per day, virtually any kid you see is probably going to match at least a couple of the reports you got in the last week. Should you report every case of a kid crying to the police as a possible sighting? After all, there was an amber alert.
Even getting a couple a day wouldn't bother me if it wasn't for the loud klaxon they use for the alert. There may be a way to switch it to simple vibrate but the alert sound annoyed me so much I just wanted it off.
I think 10 bumper stickers should be more than enough to uniquely identify most cars.
You obviously have not visited the Fremont area of Seattle.
Yeah but even if multiple cars of the same make/model have the same 10 bumper stickers, I don't think they will be in the same place. At least I assume the algorithm includes sticker positioning, not just identification.
If you RTFA, Subarus are not supported. Interestingly, the system is only able to support up to 10 bumper stickers.
I think 10 bumper stickers should be more than enough to uniquely identify most cars.
One thing to me is it seems like Bird or Segway are way too easy to just let the thing go in a mostly straight line and ignore the world around you (as the summary complains about). Something like a Onewheel seems like you have to pay attention to what you are doing or end up doing a face plant.
Also speed is kind of a thing. Segway is faster than walking but hardly enough to be worth the bother. The Onewheel looks like it moves at a good enough pace to be worthwhile. All in all though, I still like regular bicycles.
I said "excellent". No company would let an employee like that go. There would be no point. The problem with you people is you think everyone is "excellent".
Sure they would. If the "excellent" employee is being payed what they are worth, the company might decide that 2 mediocre employees could do the same job cheaper. Or maybe even farm it out to a bunch of barely passable contractors in Bangalore.
Yep, where I work I've seen plenty of experienced employees get replaced by interns. The experienced employee could get a lot of work done quickly but cost money, the intern cost much less but most produced almost no work.
Surprises me that Google doesn't have a full built in pig Latin translator, just the auto correct?
I don't care if its function(variable) or function ( variable ). But if you do function ( variable), you will need to be stabbed.
Just force them to spend a week reading code with no white space.
They're fun to "find/replace" when some old type-writer-using geezer has put them in one of our document templates. Another favourite of mine is the guy who puts spaces after an opening bracket ( like so).
Don't know if it is my dyslexia or just how I read but if I see function(variable), my brain just filters out the open parenthesis at first glance and reads everything as functionvariable. If I write it as function ( variable ), it just reads better for me, particularly when I start getting into complex logic conditions.