On Autoline After Hours a robot-programming gentleman said "Using robots to build cars is difficult. We nickname them Blind, Dumb, One-Armed Bobs because they can't see what they are doing. They have no intelligence. And they only have one arm so the tasks have to be extremely simple."
He then went on to explain there are many situations where the human is the better worker.
> republicans appear to value human lives at about 1.2 million (based on the regulations they pass). democrats and the courts appear to value human life at about $8 million
I just did 6 different google searches, and could not find anything about the "dollar value of workers" by regulations or parties. Can you provide a citation?
If no citation appears I will simply reject your claim as being made up. Thank you:-)
Why does it matter? If the item is damaged, you're not obligated to pay for it. U.S. Law is written to protect the customer from getting screwed by mail-order companies like amazon (or their delivery agents)
I've heard of people not RTFA but not reading the summary is a new one. It clearly states the scanner produces an error (because the package is Not in the system... it's a fake package).
Another reason the scanner produces an error is because Amazon doesn't want drivers to leave a bunch of empty boxes laying around..... they want the box to come back (hence the error generation).
Windows 10 already eats WAY too much of my internet connection on its stupid updates. (No I don't need an update of Internet Edge, because I never use it.... where's the stupid "turn updates off" option?) It slows everything down, such that I can't even load Youtube and watch a video until the update is finished.
Now they want to offload tempt files across my line too? Come on! I truly hate this company (and that hatred goes back to 1990).
Microsoft: Please stop sucking. Please treat your users & their computers with RESPECT instead of your personal servants.
BTW pretty much all my data on facebook is lies. I was not born April Fools Day and I don't work for the Babylon5 Interstellar Alliance. I abandoned Gmail and switched to Outlook, and then I quit google search to use startpage.com instead. (Also my phone is NOT a google phone, so they can't follow me everywhere I go.)
Not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.... don't put all your data in the same basket. (Or something.)
> corporations will form power structures of their own that are just like governments but without all that pesky "democracy" stuff
And I thought I was cynical:-o During the last 100 years (approximately 1910 to 2010) governments have killed over 100 million of their OWN citizens. Not foreign citizens but their own people. 100,000,000+ acts of genocide.
- How many citizens have corporations deliberately killed with gas chambers, firing squads, mass extermination? 10? 20? So essentially zero compared to 100,000,000.
I fear government more than corporations, and history backs me up. BTW you say corps are not democratic, but they have to answer to their customers (the voters). Your Dollars are your votes, and you vote for corporations you like when you buy a product. And do not vote for corporations you dislike, like Cheatwagen.
- Note: I listed Volkswagen because I voted for them in 2012 by buying a new Diesel Beetle, and then I learned they LIED to me and committed a CRIME against the government (both US and EU). So I am correcting my error and boycotting Volkswagen for the next 40 years, until the current generation of managers/engineers is no longer at the company.
Our dollars and euros are our votes for/against corporations.
> I'd much rather have my info in the hands [Donald Trump] than a mega corporation
Fixed that for you. I figure that will change your mind of who you trust. BTW the Russian government is ALSO "democratically elected" so I could have substituted "Vladimir Putin" in there instead. Or possibly the EU president "Jean-Claude Juncker"
I wouldn't trust any of these three with my data, especially since they command massive armies to arrest you at will. (Reference: the prison camps that President Roosevelt created to hold undesirable citizens.)
> Newspapers are paid for by advertisers, just like social media.
Well if that's true, why do we need people to "pay for journalism" as stated 3 posts above? The journalists can survive Today the same way the did from circa 1820 to 2000..... with advertising. (All they have to do is relocate from the paper to the web.)
Poison? The earth used to have 40% oxygen levels, and life survived just fine (and thrived). Vice-versa there was a point where CO2 was 5 times higher than current levels, and the poles were melted. It was called a "Tropic Age" and the dinosaurs absolutely loved it. (So did our ancenstors the proto-mammals.)
Please take a moment to learn the WHOLE history of this planet, not just this tiny 0.1% sliver in time.
His point was People want to post their creations in places where they get seen like Facebook, Youtube, rather than some obscure website like my prettycreation.com (which nobody sees or knows exists).
Under current law people get to post things on the popular social sites..... under the proposed law they won't be able to, as they will be constantly seeing their work pulled down (or account banned).
Studies in stocks have revealed that Day Trading does not yield better results than the "buy an index stock & hold it" approach..... except that you wasted a lot of time on trades, whereas the "hold it" person spent almost not time to earn the same amount of money.
> California is already instituting emissions controls on agricultural machines
Emissions controls like catalytic converters typically convert carbon monixide (CO) to CO2, so the machine's output of CO2 actually goes Up rather than down. (And therefore makes global warming worse.)
The fact that you consider CO2 to be "pollution" is just... I have no words to express how truly mind boggling that is. CO2 is what keeps the plants alive. No CO2 == dead plants and nothing for us to eat.
CO2 is an absolutely Necessary part of life on this planet. It is no more a "pollutant" than water or oxygen.
> You're assuming the ONLY way to put content on the web is via the "social media" sites
I was actually thinking of sites like Youtube, not facebook. However the new EU legislation will affect your personal website too. If some company claims you are infringing, you will find yourself facing a lawsuit (and the web domain provider could pull your site completely).
> Trump is the biggest corporate-shill, trickle-down-economics president in history.
Yes true Trump is a shill (and why I didn't vote for him) but let's be completely honest: Obama was also bought-and-paid for by the Medical Insurance corporations. He received a combined total of $21 million for his 2008 campaign (and he returned the favor by passing Mandatory insurance purchases). Here were his other top corporate buddies that he helped bailout in 2009-10:
Let's face it... whether you vote R or D you are going to get a corporate-backed president or congress person. It is silly to deny it.
* Goldman Sachs $1,034,615 Harvard University $900,909 Microsoft Corp $854,717 * JPMorgan Chase & Co $847,895 Google Inc $817,855 * Citigroup Inc $755,057 * Time Warner $617,844 * Sidley Austin LLP $606,260 Stanford University $603,866 National Amusements Inc $579,098 Columbia University $570,839 Skadden, Arps et al $554,439 WilmerHale Llp $554,373 IBM Corp $534,470 * UBS AG $534,166 General Electric $532,031 * Morgan Stanley $528,182
It's because of them that I have websites constantly saying, "We use cookies on our website to track you" et cetera. I thought the US solution under DMCA was good:
- You upload something
- It gets taken down
- You respond by saying "This does not infringe copyright" and the item gets reinstated by the website (as required by DMCA).
- At that point the copyright claimant must either file a lawsuit and Prove in court that they are the legitimate owner.... or just let it go.
It provides a way for us average people to deal with takedown requests, without causing permanent harm. It appears the EU and the corporate donors will dismantle this regime, so you have NO way to reinstate legitimate uploads of yur own creation.
> Amazon search has been increasingly ignoring the input and just barfing out SPAM
Precisely. In the article they search for "Justin's peanut butter" because they want that specific item, but instead Amazon returns results for a bunch of Other peanut butters irrelevant to want the customer wants.
Just now I searched for "Bounty Basic towels" and instead I was hit with a bunch of brands I care nothing about. When I want cheap Basic Bounty, that's EXACTLY what I want.... not other junk,.
My favorite "tiny" Linux distribution is "Puppy" because it's just so cuuuute;-) And only needs 64 MB and a 486 CPU. Of course for actual real work Lubuntu is my preferred lightweight system.
- I had to laugh when the article said "we recommend 512 MB". I'm still running an ancient Pentium 4 with XP on that exact amount of memory. I figure: Until the power supply or hard drive dies, I'll just keep using this ancient unit to watch youtube, read Gmail, etc.
It's almost twenty years old! (Although my Sears TV has that beat... it surpassed 40 years a few months ago. I used to play Atari games on it!)
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On Autoline After Hours a robot-programming gentleman said "Using robots to build cars is difficult. We nickname them Blind, Dumb, One-Armed Bobs because they can't see what they are doing. They have no intelligence. And they only have one arm so the tasks have to be extremely simple."
He then went on to explain there are many situations where the human is the better worker.
> republicans appear to value human lives at about 1.2 million (based on the regulations they pass). democrats and the courts appear to value human life at about $8 million
I just did 6 different google searches, and could not find anything about the "dollar value of workers" by regulations or parties. Can you provide a citation?
If no citation appears I will simply reject your claim as being made up. Thank you :-)
Why does it matter? If the item is damaged, you're not obligated to pay for it. U.S. Law is written to protect the customer from getting screwed by mail-order companies like amazon (or their delivery agents)
I've heard of people not RTFA but not reading the summary is a new one. It clearly states the scanner produces an error (because the package is Not in the system... it's a fake package).
Another reason the scanner produces an error is because Amazon doesn't want drivers to leave a bunch of empty boxes laying around..... they want the box to come back (hence the error generation).
> Cons
> Work environment is so bad you literally might be shot by a co-worker
It makes me wonder if this review was posted by the shooter, just prior to his going on the attack.
Windows 10 already eats WAY too much of my internet connection on its stupid updates. (No I don't need an update of Internet Edge, because I never use it.... where's the stupid "turn updates off" option?) It slows everything down, such that I can't even load Youtube and watch a video until the update is finished.
Now they want to offload tempt files across my line too? Come on! I truly hate this company (and that hatred goes back to 1990).
Microsoft: Please stop sucking. Please treat your users & their computers with RESPECT instead of your personal servants.
Insightful.
BTW pretty much all my data on facebook is lies. I was not born April Fools Day and I don't work for the Babylon5 Interstellar Alliance. I abandoned Gmail and switched to Outlook, and then I quit google search to use startpage.com instead. (Also my phone is NOT a google phone, so they can't follow me everywhere I go.)
Not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.... don't put all your data in the same basket. (Or something.)
> corporations will form power structures of their own that are just like governments but without all that pesky "democracy" stuff
And I thought I was cynical :-o During the last 100 years (approximately 1910 to 2010) governments have killed over 100 million of their OWN citizens. Not foreign citizens but their own people. 100,000,000+ acts of genocide.
- How many citizens have corporations deliberately killed with gas chambers, firing squads, mass extermination? 10? 20? So essentially zero compared to 100,000,000.
I fear government more than corporations, and history backs me up. BTW you say corps are not democratic, but they have to answer to their customers (the voters). Your Dollars are your votes, and you vote for corporations you like when you buy a product. And do not vote for corporations you dislike, like Cheatwagen.
- Note: I listed Volkswagen because I voted for them in 2012 by buying a new Diesel Beetle, and then I learned they LIED to me and committed a CRIME against the government (both US and EU). So I am correcting my error and boycotting Volkswagen for the next 40 years, until the current generation of managers/engineers is no longer at the company.
Our dollars and euros are our votes for/against corporations.
> I'd much rather have my info in the hands [Donald Trump] than a mega corporation
Fixed that for you. I figure that will change your mind of who you trust. BTW the Russian government is ALSO "democratically elected" so I could have substituted "Vladimir Putin" in there instead. Or possibly the EU president "Jean-Claude Juncker"
I wouldn't trust any of these three with my data, especially since they command massive armies to arrest you at will. (Reference: the prison camps that President Roosevelt created to hold undesirable citizens.)
I'd prefer a private entity like Google or Apple, than a government entity that has police & soldiers & jails to make your life miserable.
It is true hurricanes move slower, but I was mostly debunking the "hurricanes are bigger" claim in the title and elsewhere.
They are the same size as 30 years ago.
> Newspapers are paid for by advertisers, just like social media.
Well if that's true, why do we need people to "pay for journalism" as stated 3 posts above? The journalists can survive Today the same way the did from circa 1820 to 2000..... with advertising. (All they have to do is relocate from the paper to the web.)
Poison? The earth used to have 40% oxygen levels, and life survived just fine (and thrived). Vice-versa there was a point where CO2 was 5 times higher than current levels, and the poles were melted. It was called a "Tropic Age" and the dinosaurs absolutely loved it. (So did our ancenstors the proto-mammals.)
Please take a moment to learn the WHOLE history of this planet, not just this tiny 0.1% sliver in time.
His point was People want to post their creations in places where they get seen like Facebook, Youtube, rather than some obscure website like my prettycreation.com (which nobody sees or knows exists).
Under current law people get to post things on the popular social sites..... under the proposed law they won't be able to, as they will be constantly seeing their work pulled down (or account banned).
Studies in stocks have revealed that Day Trading does not yield better results than the "buy an index stock & hold it" approach..... except that you wasted a lot of time on trades, whereas the "hold it" person spent almost not time to earn the same amount of money.
> California is already instituting emissions controls on agricultural machines
Emissions controls like catalytic converters typically convert carbon monixide (CO) to CO2, so the machine's output of CO2 actually goes Up rather than down. (And therefore makes global warming worse.)
The fact that you consider CO2 to be "pollution" is just... I have no words to express how truly mind boggling that is. CO2 is what keeps the plants alive. No CO2 == dead plants and nothing for us to eat.
CO2 is an absolutely Necessary part of life on this planet. It is no more a "pollutant" than water or oxygen.
> journalism never established a culture over the last 200 years of habituating people to pay money directly for the content.
Except that people DID pay money for journalism. They subscribed to newspapers for ~100 dollars a year, and that trend goes back to the 1820s or so.
> You're assuming the ONLY way to put content on the web is via the "social media" sites
I was actually thinking of sites like Youtube, not facebook. However the new EU legislation will affect your personal website too. If some company claims you are infringing, you will find yourself facing a lawsuit (and the web domain provider could pull your site completely).
> Trump is the biggest corporate-shill, trickle-down-economics president in history.
Yes true Trump is a shill (and why I didn't vote for him) but let's be completely honest: Obama was also bought-and-paid for by the Medical Insurance corporations. He received a combined total of $21 million for his 2008 campaign (and he returned the favor by passing Mandatory insurance purchases). Here were his other top corporate buddies that he helped bailout in 2009-10:
Let's face it... whether you vote R or D you are going to get a corporate-backed president or congress person. It is silly to deny it.
* Goldman Sachs $1,034,615
Harvard University $900,909
Microsoft Corp $854,717
* JPMorgan Chase & Co $847,895
Google Inc $817,855
* Citigroup Inc $755,057
* Time Warner $617,844
* Sidley Austin LLP $606,260
Stanford University $603,866
National Amusements Inc $579,098
Columbia University $570,839
Skadden, Arps et al $554,439
WilmerHale Llp $554,373
IBM Corp $534,470
* UBS AG $534,166
General Electric $532,031
* Morgan Stanley $528,182
It's because of them that I have websites constantly saying, "We use cookies on our website to track you" et cetera. I thought the US solution under DMCA was good:
- You upload something
- It gets taken down
- You respond by saying "This does not infringe copyright" and the item gets reinstated by the website (as required by DMCA).
- At that point the copyright claimant must either file a lawsuit and Prove in court that they are the legitimate owner.... or just let it go.
It provides a way for us average people to deal with takedown requests, without causing permanent harm. It appears the EU and the corporate donors will dismantle this regime, so you have NO way to reinstate legitimate uploads of yur own creation.
That study is interesting, but so too is this one, which shows Atlantic Hurricanes have NOT increased in size for the last 30 years:
Graph (it's a flat line): https://s.w-x.co/wu/storm-size...
Original Link:
https://www.wunderground.com/c...
This study shows hurricanes have NOT increased in size (contrary to the title): https://www.wunderground.com/c...
"Tropical cyclone size does not appear to have changed significantly over the past 35 years."
Graph (it's a flat line): https://s.w-x.co/wu/storm-size...
> Amazon search has been increasingly ignoring the input and just barfing out SPAM
Precisely. In the article they search for "Justin's peanut butter" because they want that specific item, but instead Amazon returns results for a bunch of Other peanut butters irrelevant to want the customer wants.
Just now I searched for "Bounty Basic towels" and instead I was hit with a bunch of brands I care nothing about. When I want cheap Basic Bounty, that's EXACTLY what I want.... not other junk,.
My favorite "tiny" Linux distribution is "Puppy" because it's just so cuuuute ;-) And only needs 64 MB and a 486 CPU. Of course for actual real work Lubuntu is my preferred lightweight system.
- I had to laugh when the article said "we recommend 512 MB". I'm still running an ancient Pentium 4 with XP on that exact amount of memory. I figure: Until the power supply or hard drive dies, I'll just keep using this ancient unit to watch youtube, read Gmail, etc.
It's almost twenty years old! (Although my Sears TV has that beat... it surpassed 40 years a few months ago. I used to play Atari games on it!)