30 seconds running up to the door, 30 seconds for the idiot to figure out how to use the signature pad, that's one minute more than he has to deliver this package.
Take a look at the ridiculous delivery time specifications these people get and you'll quickly understand why the only way they can keep their job is to do a crappy job. It's not the driver, it's the delivery service that's shit.
It's probably the most efficient way to ensure that not only your packages will be stolen but also pretty much anything stored in your garage. There is SO much wrong with this that I don't even know where to start.
First, the delivery guy. You have to trust this guy to be honest enough not to think that your new tools would look way better in his garage.
Then, his schedule. How fast does your automatic garage door open? Mine takes quite a few seconds to open. And about as long to close. Now couple this with the average delivery guy not even having the time to sensibly deliver your package to the front door, more often than not you get it delivered in good old paper boy fashion, i.e. chucked towards the door with more or less aim. Even if you're home. Because getting your signature takes time he doesn't have. Now let's ponder for a moment whether he is going to wait for your garage door to fully open and fully close again. What you may expect is that as soon as that package can somehow be squeezed in the crack opened, he will do just that, hop into his car and be on his way. Whether the garage door closes? Not his problem. It's yours.
And I don't even want to get started on the fairly shoddy state of security such IoT solutions are generally in. Probably anyone who has at least a passing interest in electronics will figure out a way to hack this.
plus such a device can be used with other competing services.
Yeah, like that's gonna happen. Rest assured that whatever company starts developing something like that will ensure that it can be used by them and by them only. In other words, be prepared to have a delivery box for every big online retailer and for the smaller ones one for every parcel delivery service in your front yard.
They're already so detached from reality that not getting insane revenue for investment is already a loss. In other words, compensate me for not fulfilling what I expected from you with no reason!
In this world? No, we're used to getting bailed out when we gambled away our money! Bail us out! Now! We're investors! We're important! Too big to fail!
Investors now want to get their investment risk reimbursed by court mandate when they found out that they misinterpreted the expectations for Bitcoins?
Fuck, we're lucky they didn't get that bright idea back when they misjudged what dot.com would be like. If this flies, you can essentially be a complete illiterate idiot and throw your money about as you please, if your investments take off, you get to cash in big ("as a compensation for the big risk you took", yeah, right), and if it turns out that you had no idea what you're doing, the courts will bail you out.
This is dangerous bullshit, and people readily believe it.
Yes, people die of cancer. Yes, there is a high risk involved with the therapy because, yes, chemotherapy is poisoning your body and radiation therapy is bombarding it with ionizing radiation (hint: that's the kind of radiation that's really good at killing people).
The reason we subject patients to this is that this gives them a chance for survival. By now we're pretty good at finding just the right dosage to kill the cancer and not the patient. This is very dependent on the patient and his or her physiology and that alone should tell you that it's not something that you as a complete layman should do at home.
Since doctors are not by default sadists that thrive on inflicting pain and suffering on their patients (well, maybe with the exception of dentists), they don't do this because it's easy for them or because it makes them shitloads of money (it's not. If you want shitloads of money as a medical professional, get your very own MRT, aka the money printing machine. Oncology is the field where you spend hours and hours with every patient, desperately trying to figure out JUST that special sweet spot where you JUST don't kill him while getting rid of his cancer). They do this because it's the only chance.
If you're stupid enough to instead rely on water and sugar to cure you, you pretty much save your oncologist a lot of time, and your retirement insurance a lot of money.
You don't think that this will change anything, do you? If people by now don't get that it's quackery, they won't, ever. We're at the point where they WANT it to work, no matter whether it does. I don't really get that, but I've seen it in politics a lot. People vote for a politician and no matter how much he turns out to be inapt, a crook or simply and plainly unfit for the office, they defend him, call anything brought forth against him fake news and slander, even if the solid proof is right there at hand, even if the buffoon boasts about it himself.
Reality doesn't matter anymore. What matters is how it makes you feel.
"He who cures is right" is one of the arguments I get to hear quite often. It cures, after all, doesn't it? I feel better when I take it, so it's good.
That's why I started Pizzapathy now. Whenever I have a headache, I eat a pizza tonno. And 2 to 20 hours later it's gone. Sometimes it gets worse, that shows me that the therapy is working. That's the initial worsening. Then, I immediately eat another pizza tonno and it's gone. Occasionally it doesn't work. But that's probably due to the pizza not having been stored correctly, or maybe someone made a mistake in the manufacturing process because usually, at the very least 9 out of 10 times, it works.
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So ... the difference is basically that I'd instead have a choice? Because now it's locked into "don't have your stuff locally and get updates".
Any chance to get one of those builds?
Hmm... I don't know. Time to call their marketing department and let them know they sorely lack an important information sticker!
30 seconds running up to the door, 30 seconds for the idiot to figure out how to use the signature pad, that's one minute more than he has to deliver this package.
Take a look at the ridiculous delivery time specifications these people get and you'll quickly understand why the only way they can keep their job is to do a crappy job. It's not the driver, it's the delivery service that's shit.
It's probably the most efficient way to ensure that not only your packages will be stolen but also pretty much anything stored in your garage. There is SO much wrong with this that I don't even know where to start.
First, the delivery guy. You have to trust this guy to be honest enough not to think that your new tools would look way better in his garage.
Then, his schedule. How fast does your automatic garage door open? Mine takes quite a few seconds to open. And about as long to close. Now couple this with the average delivery guy not even having the time to sensibly deliver your package to the front door, more often than not you get it delivered in good old paper boy fashion, i.e. chucked towards the door with more or less aim. Even if you're home. Because getting your signature takes time he doesn't have. Now let's ponder for a moment whether he is going to wait for your garage door to fully open and fully close again. What you may expect is that as soon as that package can somehow be squeezed in the crack opened, he will do just that, hop into his car and be on his way. Whether the garage door closes? Not his problem. It's yours.
And I don't even want to get started on the fairly shoddy state of security such IoT solutions are generally in. Probably anyone who has at least a passing interest in electronics will figure out a way to hack this.
Thanks, but no, thanks.
Which is nice, until you wonder how to get that 100" TV home from work now.
plus such a device can be used with other competing services.
Yeah, like that's gonna happen. Rest assured that whatever company starts developing something like that will ensure that it can be used by them and by them only. In other words, be prepared to have a delivery box for every big online retailer and for the smaller ones one for every parcel delivery service in your front yard.
...or the wife.
Is that the homeopathy of audio production? Copy from tape to tape to tape to tape to increase the quality?
Why, did he resign?
They're already so detached from reality that not getting insane revenue for investment is already a loss. In other words, compensate me for not fulfilling what I expected from you with no reason!
In this world? No, we're used to getting bailed out when we gambled away our money! Bail us out! Now! We're investors! We're important! Too big to fail!
Investors now want to get their investment risk reimbursed by court mandate when they found out that they misinterpreted the expectations for Bitcoins?
Fuck, we're lucky they didn't get that bright idea back when they misjudged what dot.com would be like. If this flies, you can essentially be a complete illiterate idiot and throw your money about as you please, if your investments take off, you get to cash in big ("as a compensation for the big risk you took", yeah, right), and if it turns out that you had no idea what you're doing, the courts will bail you out.
Ok, subtract it from 100, not subtract 100... Not that that made any more sense, I guess. Never post before your first coffee...
Anyone know the PH value of that?
My girlfriend also said that a small dick is no problem.
OK... well... still... I'd prefer she had none at all.
Because we had one in January and March last year. And considering that they happen like once in 3 years, it's kinda impossible to happen this year.
That would be a cool name for a rock band.
He sure wouldn't have with the old Twitter character limit.
I find the nutrition value way more funny.
Just recently I found "calorie free" water. And was sorely disappointed as people actually bought it.
So... it's all basic water. Unless heavily carbonated.
So ... people buying water with regular carbonic acid are stupider than the goofballs paying premium for the "alcaline" water?
This is dangerous bullshit, and people readily believe it.
Yes, people die of cancer. Yes, there is a high risk involved with the therapy because, yes, chemotherapy is poisoning your body and radiation therapy is bombarding it with ionizing radiation (hint: that's the kind of radiation that's really good at killing people).
The reason we subject patients to this is that this gives them a chance for survival. By now we're pretty good at finding just the right dosage to kill the cancer and not the patient. This is very dependent on the patient and his or her physiology and that alone should tell you that it's not something that you as a complete layman should do at home.
Since doctors are not by default sadists that thrive on inflicting pain and suffering on their patients (well, maybe with the exception of dentists), they don't do this because it's easy for them or because it makes them shitloads of money (it's not. If you want shitloads of money as a medical professional, get your very own MRT, aka the money printing machine. Oncology is the field where you spend hours and hours with every patient, desperately trying to figure out JUST that special sweet spot where you JUST don't kill him while getting rid of his cancer). They do this because it's the only chance.
If you're stupid enough to instead rely on water and sugar to cure you, you pretty much save your oncologist a lot of time, and your retirement insurance a lot of money.
You don't think that this will change anything, do you? If people by now don't get that it's quackery, they won't, ever. We're at the point where they WANT it to work, no matter whether it does. I don't really get that, but I've seen it in politics a lot. People vote for a politician and no matter how much he turns out to be inapt, a crook or simply and plainly unfit for the office, they defend him, call anything brought forth against him fake news and slander, even if the solid proof is right there at hand, even if the buffoon boasts about it himself.
Reality doesn't matter anymore. What matters is how it makes you feel.
"He who cures is right" is one of the arguments I get to hear quite often. It cures, after all, doesn't it? I feel better when I take it, so it's good.
That's why I started Pizzapathy now. Whenever I have a headache, I eat a pizza tonno. And 2 to 20 hours later it's gone. Sometimes it gets worse, that shows me that the therapy is working. That's the initial worsening. Then, I immediately eat another pizza tonno and it's gone. Occasionally it doesn't work. But that's probably due to the pizza not having been stored correctly, or maybe someone made a mistake in the manufacturing process because usually, at the very least 9 out of 10 times, it works.
He who cures is right!
Europe here. It's not.