I had the buffet in Cosmopolitan Las Vegas do the same thing. "We'll allow you to have a second dinner, no charge, if you remove your review from Yelp." It makes me wonder if this is common practice.
I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
Back when the Senate was appointed directly by the States, many times the states just left seats empty. It was a broken setup & restoring what had previously not worked, would be illogical.
> To be fair, the data of "young Ford" the algorithm had to work with is decades old. It would be really interesting to see what it could do with data from an actor of the "Blue-ray" era,
You spelled Blu-ray wrong. Also the data of young Ford from the 1970s/80s is in Ultra High Definition (aka film), so the data is not deficient.
I've had to replace the battery in my Honda Insight 3 times in 180,000 miles (I eventually jury-rigged the car to run on 12 volt without hybrid assist). They simply are not lasting as long as promised.
> Leaf batteries have proven to be good for 350k km+.
No they have not. In fact Nissan *bought back* many Leafs due to their batteries not lasting as long as promised. I'm kinda surprised you never heard of this issue:
> It's also only looking at CO2, and ignoring the other pollution
Take a look at Greenercars.org which measures a car's entire pollution from manufacturer to disposal. They have found a modern Chevrolet Cruze Diesel with NOx neutralization and Soot filters is just as clean as a Tesla Model S (but not as clean as smaller EVs like the Leaf or BMW i3).
> Diesels put out a lot of harmful particulate matter
They USED to do that, but since 2010 the EPA has required diesel cars to have NOx neutralizers and PM filters that bring the output to near zero. (Except of course for Volkswagen which refused to install the NOx filter and got caught.)
Some bureaucrats now want to use the same technology on Gasoline cars, for the same goal (drop NOx and PM to zero). .
> By the sounds of it: the self-driving car was apparently very inconsiderate and didn't let a Camry merge on - a very bad move
In my home state slowing down to allow a car to Merge will get you a ticket (very rare but I've seen it happen). THEIR LANE is the one that has the "Yield" sign so it is their job to do so, not the cars already in the main flow of traffic
California needs to add "Yield" signs to the end of its ramps. Growing-up in the northeast I saw those signs everywhere, but in California? Almost never. Californians have no clue they are supposed to yield. They don't know the basic rules of the road.
- Another thing common in other states is "Left Lane Passing Only" but those signs don't seem to exist in Cali, so people just hang out in the left lane, even when not passing.
- And one more complaint: Where are the minimum speed signs? Many states have posted "40/70" or "45/75" for their minimum/maximum speeds. Not California where I was pulled-over by a Cop for doing 50.... too slow. Who knew that was illegal? It isn't posted (and it isn't illegal in any of the other 49 states).
WHAT hit and run? There was NO hit (the Google car was never impacted). It reminds me of when I was cruising down the interstate, and the guy behind me was distracted (probably on his phone)...... he came up behind me very rapidly, suddenly saw my car with mere feet to spare, and turned hard to avoid me (eventually hitting the guard rail).
I thought "Should I stop?" and then remembered I'm in a flyover state where they own guns & quick to anger. So I kept going thinking "I didn't do anything wrong. I was in my lane, driving 65, never deviating from my course
"I can't help if the idiot CRASHED HIMSELF without any intervention by me." Same with the google car, which did not cause the Camry to crash.... the Camry driver crashed himself with reckless, uncontrolled swerving.
I just looked-up Tiffany. She actually had four top 10 hits. Two were remakes, and two were originals, though none of them were written by her. (In contrast Debbie Gibson was discovered at a mall, singing self-written songs.)
I don't think I would go see any of those groups. I liked NKOTB, Naughty by Nature, etc when I was a teen, but the music has not aged well. (And neither have they.)
> they never reached their potential - all due to the idiots on the board.
In this case it was Elon Musk who was the idiot, because he opened his mouth & violated the law. (He then demonstrated further idiocy by rejecting the U.S. offer to drop the case in exchange for a small fine.)
There are plugins for Firefox and Chrome where you just tap "download" and it rips an MP3 to your phone. Then you tap "play random" and you have a couple 100 songs on rotation.
> but still plug their holy ears should any not-properly-purchased music hit their virgin eardrums?
Your comment reminded me: I get into Las Vegas nightclubs for free, and hear the current hit music for free, since I don't spend any money. Would the music executives/producers consider this a form of piracy too? (I bet the greedy bastards do.)
Also: A lot of people will buy "Greatest Hits" compilations of music they heard when they were children and teens.... mainly for nostalgia (or because they think current music sucks). IOW the record companies lose money today on pirating kids, but they make it up later, when they sell these adults old hits from 20-30 years ago.
Please take a moment to read this old article: "The plaintiffs (musicians) claimed compensation for use of work listed on what are known in the Canadian recording industry as pending lists. These lists, accumulated over many years, contain works for which no licence was obtained and no compensation paid........ the action could have been worth up to $6-billion."
In other words the music industry owed 6 billion dollars to musicians for non-payment of songs they used w/o compensation. - LINK https://business.financialpost... And the followup: The record industry only paid 50 million of the 6000 million owed to artists: https://entertainment.slashdot...
- The Music Industry wants to scold us commoners, and yet THEY are far worse at screwing the musicians than we are.
Beat me to it. I was just about to post "Sounds like Made-up Statistics". I used to download music from piratebay, but not anymore. I get a ton of song in my Amazon Prime account, and if the song is not there, it's available from Youtube or Vimeo or some other legitimate source.
> The most popular form of copyright infringement is stream-ripping (32%)... from sites like YouTube at a low-quality bit rate.
So basically the modern version of Cassette-recording off the radio. Even if the stream-ripping was blocked, these people have NO intention of buying the music legally. Claiming these customers as "lost sales" is ridiculous. (Especially since many of them are children or teens with no money.)
You can sit at work & listen to classic SIDtunes that used to play in videogames or demos. There are also music emulators you can download for classic Nintendo, Sega, Playstation consoles & integrate with Winamp
I'm so tired of businesses thinking they can screw-over customers & get away with it. I'd also like to sue the telemarketer that keeps calling my cellphone every day, even though I told them "Put me on you Do Not Call list". Per US Law if they continue calling, then they can be fined in small claims.
If she's not visible in the video, then she's not visible to human eyes either. She did not become visible until the headlights were on her. (And also: Why in hell was she crossing the road? SHE has eyes too. She should have seen the headlights coming & avoided the car.)
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Well the reviews are supposed to be neutral, so people can trust what they are buying. Amazon is betraying that trust in the reviews.
I had the buffet in Cosmopolitan Las Vegas do the same thing. "We'll allow you to have a second dinner, no charge, if you remove your review from Yelp." It makes me wonder if this is common practice.
Russian ads... fake news... losing customer data to hacks... caught lying to advertisers about # of views.
How much more punishment can this company take, before it goes down?
I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
Back when the Senate was appointed directly by the States, many times the states just left seats empty. It was a broken setup & restoring what had previously not worked, would be illogical.
> To be fair, the data of "young Ford" the algorithm had to work with is decades old. It would be really interesting to see what it could do with data from an actor of the "Blue-ray" era,
You spelled Blu-ray wrong. Also the data of young Ford from the 1970s/80s is in Ultra High Definition (aka film), so the data is not deficient.
I've had to replace the battery in my Honda Insight 3 times in 180,000 miles (I eventually jury-rigged the car to run on 12 volt without hybrid assist). They simply are not lasting as long as promised.
> Leaf batteries have proven to be good for 350k km+.
No they have not. In fact Nissan *bought back* many Leafs due to their batteries not lasting as long as promised. I'm kinda surprised you never heard of this issue:
Note this is just article of many. I don't have time or room to list all ~100 of them: https://www.greencarreports.co...
> It's also only looking at CO2, and ignoring the other pollution
Take a look at Greenercars.org which measures a car's entire pollution from manufacturer to disposal. They have found a modern Chevrolet Cruze Diesel with NOx neutralization and Soot filters is just as clean as a Tesla Model S (but not as clean as smaller EVs like the Leaf or BMW i3).
> Diesels put out a lot of harmful particulate matter
They USED to do that, but since 2010 the EPA has required diesel cars to have NOx neutralizers and PM filters that bring the output to near zero. (Except of course for Volkswagen which refused to install the NOx filter and got caught.)
Some bureaucrats now want to use the same technology on Gasoline cars, for the same goal (drop NOx and PM to zero).
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> By the sounds of it: the self-driving car was apparently very inconsiderate and didn't let a Camry merge on - a very bad move
In my home state slowing down to allow a car to Merge will get you a ticket (very rare but I've seen it happen). THEIR LANE is the one that has the "Yield" sign so it is their job to do so, not the cars already in the main flow of traffic
California needs to add "Yield" signs to the end of its ramps. Growing-up in the northeast I saw those signs everywhere, but in California? Almost never. Californians have no clue they are supposed to yield. They don't know the basic rules of the road.
- Another thing common in other states is "Left Lane Passing Only" but those signs don't seem to exist in Cali, so people just hang out in the left lane, even when not passing.
- And one more complaint: Where are the minimum speed signs? Many states have posted "40/70" or "45/75" for their minimum/maximum speeds. Not California where I was pulled-over by a Cop for doing 50.... too slow. Who knew that was illegal? It isn't posted (and it isn't illegal in any of the other 49 states).
WHAT hit and run? There was NO hit (the Google car was never impacted). It reminds me of when I was cruising down the interstate, and the guy behind me was distracted (probably on his phone)...... he came up behind me very rapidly, suddenly saw my car with mere feet to spare, and turned hard to avoid me (eventually hitting the guard rail).
I thought "Should I stop?" and then remembered I'm in a flyover state where they own guns & quick to anger. So I kept going thinking "I didn't do anything wrong. I was in my lane, driving 65, never deviating from my course
"I can't help if the idiot CRASHED HIMSELF without any intervention by me." Same with the google car, which did not cause the Camry to crash.... the Camry driver crashed himself with reckless, uncontrolled swerving.
Arbitration clauses don't stop you from rejecting the Arbitrator's solution & going to court.
Wow you had a generous upbringing. My parents always said "no" to me. Basically I got 2 CDs a year: 1 from my parents; 1 from my brother. The end.
Who is Tyler's dad?
I just looked-up Tiffany. She actually had four top 10 hits. Two were remakes, and two were originals, though none of them were written by her. (In contrast Debbie Gibson was discovered at a mall, singing self-written songs.)
I don't think I would go see any of those groups. I liked NKOTB, Naughty by Nature, etc when I was a teen, but the music has not aged well. (And neither have they.)
> they never reached their potential - all due to the idiots on the board.
In this case it was Elon Musk who was the idiot, because he opened his mouth & violated the law. (He then demonstrated further idiocy by rejecting the U.S. offer to drop the case in exchange for a small fine.)
There are plugins for Firefox and Chrome where you just tap "download" and it rips an MP3 to your phone. Then you tap "play random" and you have a couple 100 songs on rotation.
> but still plug their holy ears should any not-properly-purchased music hit their virgin eardrums?
Your comment reminded me: I get into Las Vegas nightclubs for free, and hear the current hit music for free, since I don't spend any money. Would the music executives/producers consider this a form of piracy too? (I bet the greedy bastards do.)
Also: A lot of people will buy "Greatest Hits" compilations of music they heard when they were children and teens.... mainly for nostalgia (or because they think current music sucks). IOW the record companies lose money today on pirating kids, but they make it up later, when they sell these adults old hits from 20-30 years ago.
Please take a moment to read this old article: "The plaintiffs (musicians) claimed compensation for use of work listed on what are known in the Canadian recording industry as pending lists. These lists, accumulated over many years, contain works for which no licence was obtained and no compensation paid........ the action could have been worth up to $6-billion."
In other words the music industry owed 6 billion dollars to musicians for non-payment of songs they used w/o compensation. - LINK https://business.financialpost... And the followup: The record industry only paid 50 million of the 6000 million owed to artists: https://entertainment.slashdot...
- The Music Industry wants to scold us commoners, and yet THEY are far worse at screwing the musicians than we are.
Beat me to it. I was just about to post "Sounds like Made-up Statistics". I used to download music from piratebay, but not anymore. I get a ton of song in my Amazon Prime account, and if the song is not there, it's available from Youtube or Vimeo or some other legitimate source.
> The most popular form of copyright infringement is stream-ripping (32%)... from sites like YouTube at a low-quality bit rate.
So basically the modern version of Cassette-recording off the radio. Even if the stream-ripping was blocked, these people have NO intention of buying the music legally. Claiming these customers as "lost sales" is ridiculous. (Especially since many of them are children or teens with no money.)
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>Would you call photo albums meaningless?
Photo albums show my family, and family is far far more important than some stupid trophies I got in Final Fantasy 11
You can sit at work & listen to classic SIDtunes that used to play in videogames or demos. There are also music emulators you can download for classic Nintendo, Sega, Playstation consoles & integrate with Winamp
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I'm so tired of businesses thinking they can screw-over customers & get away with it. I'd also like to sue the telemarketer that keeps calling my cellphone every day, even though I told them "Put me on you Do Not Call list". Per US Law if they continue calling, then they can be fined in small claims.
If she's not visible in the video, then she's not visible to human eyes either. She did not become visible until the headlights were on her. (And also: Why in hell was she crossing the road? SHE has eyes too. She should have seen the headlights coming & avoided the car.)