Did you look at this? They said 4000 flights per year in the first year, increasing to 60,000 flights per year in year 14.
Yow.
That sure sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Now compare and contrast that to the 87,000 flights per day in the US alone right now. All of a sudden, it doesn't sound like quite that big a number, huh?
(Other environmental concerns notwithstanding, of course.)
As a long time resident of California, I can only say you give Californians far too much credit. They're far stupider than that. They believe what politicians tell them. Anything politicians tell them.
The only difference between hate speech and different ideas is whether or not you disagree with it enough to hurt someone over it. This has been the case since the dawn of time, and will never change.
Their criteria is what they think they'll make the most money on, and to hell with user preferences. I know this because I can tell it I'm not interested in a particular video, or entire category, then refresh the page, and that video or category will be back. Again and again and again, for months, even though I tell it I'm not interested every time.
There was a military experiment years ago trying to teach a computer to distinguish between friendly and enemy tanks. They showed it thousands of photos of each, and in the test bed, it was very, very accurate. When used under battlefield conditions, however, it went to hell in a handbasket.
Turned out they hadn't taught it to distinguish between US and Russian tanks, they had taught it to distinguish between high quality photos (used for marketing meetings with Congresscritters for funding), and crappy, grainy Polaroids (which was all they had of the Russian tanks).
They'll learn what you teach them, but what you teach them may not have anything to do with what you want them to learn.
The left (especially the party leadership for the Democrats) are acting more and more like they're building an extremist cult. They act increasingly deranged and disconnected from reality, and set increasingly insane and impossible goals. This is a necessary step to create a cult; it isolates the membership from the mainstream, to keep them from seeing how deranged their leadership is, and how deranged they, themselves are becoming. I suspect the party leadership has realized how screwed they are, and are just digging in, and trying to keep the money flowing in.
It's like the DNC is using Eric Hoffer's The True Believer as an instructional manual.
I'd be wondering right now whether they actually can't crack my iPhone, or if they're just saying that so that I will keep using it, thinking it's "safe."
Yeah, when criminals call you, they're the outlet for all your life's frustrations. Now matter how abusive you are, even if you threaten to rape their children to death in front of them, there is nothing they can do about it. Threaten to firebomb their office? They can't report it without identifying themselves.
As for signing up for their service, try Fake Name Generator, which will give you a complete fake identity, even a credit card number (guaranteed to be fake, but should pass the checksum).
I'm with you on that. I don't know anyone who has a phone number on the same exchange prefix as me, so any call from that prefix is 100% guaranteed to be a criminal trying to scam me. Job at Amazon scammers, mostly, and the occasional I'm calling from Microsoft criminal (though I haven't gotten one of those since I just started chanting "Criminal!" over and over, continuously, until they hung up).
The current interpretation of the Constitution requires and exemption for political calls, so far as the do not call list is concerned.
Spoofing caller ID, however, is a different matter. But then, Caller ID is useless anyway, since it's under the control of the caller.
Revamp the entire system to use ANI instead, with a system in place for the originating phone company and only the phone company to alter it (for things like PBX systems where multiple lines call out from the same place, but need only one Caller ID number reported) after verifying the identity of the company.
With criminal penalties for the phone company execs for collusion.
I have prescription polarized sunglasses (damned good ones, too). No, it doesn't work this way. Yeah, half the screens will go dark, being polarized one way. The other half will be largely unaffected. Which half depends on which way the glasses are polarized. The effect also varies with the angle at which you're viewing the screen. I regularly see screens dim, then brighten back up, as I walk by.
The only way to do this with polarization would be have two layers, at 90 degree angles. Which would render you completely blind, as no light of any kind would get through.
We've had it show up on the GSuite stuff at work, but still (so far) with the option to go back to the old view.
On the other hand, when it showed up on my personal email, the first time, there was a little pop-up that asked if I wanted to turn it off. But I guess that's too complicated for some people.
Sometimes, the results of the "research" is pretty overwhelming, and quoting it at length over and over again for each layperson who stumbles by is not an effective use of time.
While that's true, not doing so isn't an effective use of time, either. Claiming it exists, with no mention of where to find it, looks dishonest. And in politics, looks are everything.
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Somebody's Mommy didn't hug him enough when he was young, I guess.
Can't say I blame her.
"No" is correct.
Did you look at this? They said 4000 flights per year in the first year, increasing to 60,000 flights per year in year 14.
Yow.
That sure sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Now compare and contrast that to the 87,000 flights per day in the US alone right now. All of a sudden, it doesn't sound like quite that big a number, huh?
(Other environmental concerns notwithstanding, of course.)
As a long time resident of California, I can only say you give Californians far too much credit. They're far stupider than that. They believe what politicians tell them. Anything politicians tell them.
The only difference between hate speech and different ideas is whether or not you disagree with it enough to hurt someone over it. This has been the case since the dawn of time, and will never change.
When you hate seeing opinions you disagree with, everything removed will, obviously, be hate speech.
Nobody ever claimed Europeans were honest, either.
That's not a problem with the app, and changing the app won't make "most people" any less stupid and gullible.
If that's what they're peddling right now, you don't.
Then YouTube lies to me when it tells me they have noted the input and will reflect it in future recommendations.
Moron.
Very, very poorly.
Their criteria is what they think they'll make the most money on, and to hell with user preferences. I know this because I can tell it I'm not interested in a particular video, or entire category, then refresh the page, and that video or category will be back. Again and again and again, for months, even though I tell it I'm not interested every time.
There was a military experiment years ago trying to teach a computer to distinguish between friendly and enemy tanks. They showed it thousands of photos of each, and in the test bed, it was very, very accurate. When used under battlefield conditions, however, it went to hell in a handbasket.
Turned out they hadn't taught it to distinguish between US and Russian tanks, they had taught it to distinguish between high quality photos (used for marketing meetings with Congresscritters for funding), and crappy, grainy Polaroids (which was all they had of the Russian tanks).
They'll learn what you teach them, but what you teach them may not have anything to do with what you want them to learn.
The left (especially the party leadership for the Democrats) are acting more and more like they're building an extremist cult. They act increasingly deranged and disconnected from reality, and set increasingly insane and impossible goals. This is a necessary step to create a cult; it isolates the membership from the mainstream, to keep them from seeing how deranged their leadership is, and how deranged they, themselves are becoming. I suspect the party leadership has realized how screwed they are, and are just digging in, and trying to keep the money flowing in.
It's like the DNC is using Eric Hoffer's The True Believer as an instructional manual.
Look at the NPC. It's almost like they don't have any other response to a story, except ORANGE MAN BAD.
It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it results in ongoing, continuous hallucinations.
If you found that unpredictable, you haven't been paying attention for the entire existence of the internet.
I'd be wondering right now whether they actually can't crack my iPhone, or if they're just saying that so that I will keep using it, thinking it's "safe."
Which have the exact same issues.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were demonstrating TDS, for those less sophisticated you and I.
Yeah, when criminals call you, they're the outlet for all your life's frustrations. Now matter how abusive you are, even if you threaten to rape their children to death in front of them, there is nothing they can do about it. Threaten to firebomb their office? They can't report it without identifying themselves.
As for signing up for their service, try Fake Name Generator, which will give you a complete fake identity, even a credit card number (guaranteed to be fake, but should pass the checksum).
I'm with you on that. I don't know anyone who has a phone number on the same exchange prefix as me, so any call from that prefix is 100% guaranteed to be a criminal trying to scam me. Job at Amazon scammers, mostly, and the occasional I'm calling from Microsoft criminal (though I haven't gotten one of those since I just started chanting "Criminal!" over and over, continuously, until they hung up).
I haven't noticed the difference. They ramped up for me well before the election, during the Obama administration.
You should see your doctor about your TDS.
The current interpretation of the Constitution requires and exemption for political calls, so far as the do not call list is concerned.
Spoofing caller ID, however, is a different matter. But then, Caller ID is useless anyway, since it's under the control of the caller.
Revamp the entire system to use ANI instead, with a system in place for the originating phone company and only the phone company to alter it (for things like PBX systems where multiple lines call out from the same place, but need only one Caller ID number reported) after verifying the identity of the company.
With criminal penalties for the phone company execs for collusion.
But it'll never happen.
LED screens (and all other backlit screens) certainly are polarized, to reduce glare.
I have prescription polarized sunglasses (damned good ones, too). No, it doesn't work this way. Yeah, half the screens will go dark, being polarized one way. The other half will be largely unaffected. Which half depends on which way the glasses are polarized. The effect also varies with the angle at which you're viewing the screen. I regularly see screens dim, then brighten back up, as I walk by.
The only way to do this with polarization would be have two layers, at 90 degree angles. Which would render you completely blind, as no light of any kind would get through.
We've had it show up on the GSuite stuff at work, but still (so far) with the option to go back to the old view.
On the other hand, when it showed up on my personal email, the first time, there was a little pop-up that asked if I wanted to turn it off. But I guess that's too complicated for some people.
Sometimes, the results of the "research" is pretty overwhelming, and quoting it at length over and over again for each layperson who stumbles by is not an effective use of time.
While that's true, not doing so isn't an effective use of time, either. Claiming it exists, with no mention of where to find it, looks dishonest. And in politics, looks are everything.