From approx 1984 - 1995, I worked in various hotels & restaurants in a big city and I lost count of the number of people who mistook me for another guy who also worked in the biz - one person came right up to me, shook my hand and said it was great to see me again and how he'd enjoyed working with me for several years.
I had no idea who the hell he was or who he thought I was. But after that, I started being much nicer to people because my double seemed to have left a really positive impression on people in a rough & competitive business so I thought he was doing me a favor and I should at least try to return it.
Since I left that city and got out of hospitality, it's never happened again.
IIRC, one of them did have a gun. The UK has a population of ~66 million yet TOTAL police shootings in the past few decades is in the dozens where CA or TX rack up that number in weeks or a few months. The city of London, England had ZERO fatal police shootings between 2011 & 2014
They're far from perfect and the tendency to withhold the identity of officers who opened fire is worrisome - but the *relative* rarity of police shootings in the UK ( and most of Europe) makes me wonder why American cops are so quick to transform into executioners
"They hid! While Lee Rigby was having his head chopped off, they were staying on the other side of the crowd" Bullshit. Unarmed officers showed up 9 minutes after the emerg call at 14:20h by which point Rigby was already dead and been dragged into the road. Armed unit took another 5 minutes to arrive.
I'm sure there are flaming assholes in every country, profession, demographic but UK cops, compared to America's Finest, have shown phenomal restraint under some dangerous situations.
For example, when 2 Nigerian terrorist knocked down offduty soldier Lee Rigby with a car then beheaded him with a cleaver, the unarmed cops didn't shit themselves but set up a cordon and guided passerbys away until the armed unit showed up and took both assailants alive, only shooting to wound, despite being rushed by both assailants with weapons in hand, performing 1st aid on one and getting them medical aid.
By contrast , Officer Brelo of the Cleveland PD fired 49 shots ( his fellow cops fired a total of 90 more ) into the car, windshield and bodies of 2 African-Americans. His final 15 bullets were discharged WHILE HE WAS STANDING ON THE HOOD - but he claimed to be afraid for his life???
The black community is and has been doing plenty for a long time. What they don't have control over is themselves and their young men being stopped, frisked, arrested & incarcerated for things where white men don't get hassled, go free, get probation or lesser sentences.
Once you're in the system, everything in your life changes. You can't simply serve your time and have your life reset like it's a video game. Your job prospects are affected, every traffic stop becomes a major event, you can be refused housing or denied renting an apartment, credit terms, bank loans, even your college application is under greater scrutiny.
Former convicts end up leaving jail in debt - and I'm not talking about owing a few hundred or a few thousand for cigarettes & snacks but 10s or even 100s of thousands for the burden of keeping you locked up, while you were making thirteen cents / hr in prison labor.
It's used to be that "paying your debt to society" meant serving your time & walking the straight & narrow after. Nowadays, the sentence is just the 1st installment and you don't get prime interest rates for the $20k - $50k for the time you spent in the State Hilton
I've seen enough merge / double lane change accidents to know that "most" drivers are *not* aware of what's going on around them. And I'm sure that motorcyclists will feel safer when more sensor-equipped cars can identify them and alert or react accordingly.
"I think it's likely that in the next few years more people will die because of the Tesla Autopilot than would have died without it"
No, not likely. It's almost certain that Autopilot will be the *cause* of some deaths but it'll also be responsible for saving many more lives. The same guy who died in the tractor-trailer crash posted a video some months back that the car's reaction likely saved his life.
This time around, he was driving very irresponsibly and the truck he hit was executing a maneuver that isn't allowed in sane jurisdictions - something that Florida has rarely been confused with.
"More high IQ people with a culture of intellectual curiosity means more advancement.
More low IQ people with a culture of conquest, rape and domination... not so much.
Reality is racist and cultural supremacist."
The reality is that conquest, rape & domination have been practiced by many societies going back thousands of years and into the present. Were the Romans "low IQ people"? They had slaves and their conquest & domination are the stuff of history & legend. You'd have to very naive to think that they did not rape.
A fair point, which I think also implies the growth may be coming almost entirely from the less-developed world. A more interesting stat is the dominance of Chrome over all other browsers and the fact that *Safari* is ahead of Firefox???
" yes, the racist noble savages argument" Whatever your opinion on native peoples, the fact remains that Europeans were invaders & conquerors who nearly exterminated the indigenous peoples.
That is hilarious, especially considering that prior to SP2, it was possible and even common for new XP machines that were connected to the internet to get remotely hacked while installing updates.
Warren Buffet is an old school investor who's long admitted he doesn't understand tech so feel free to find another example. Or explain just how a book-and-toothbrushes online store became the biggest name in The Cloud, even though they've never really courted the bread-and-butter enterprise market and heavyweights like M$, HP, IBM, Oracle & Google are playing catchup 10 years on.
FFS, did you just the compare the revenue of ONE fucking guy to company that's 40 yrs old and has 100,000+ employees?
Perhaps you can dial down your own smugness and tell us how M$ is playing catchup to VMware & Amazon, the latter being a online version of your general country store. It's like VW losing to Walmart in automotive innovation
A bigger war chest doesn't guarantee victory or Microsoft would have eliminated ALL comers 15 years ago. Scratch that - the only player in any industry attached to IT would be IBM. Google has a *HUGE WAR CHEST* (tm) too
I know of only a few companies using Azure - and all of them are Microsoft consultants. Most of the enterprise shops I deal with are on private cloud using Redhat or VMware, or Openstack with Rackspace or Dell or are on AWS.
"They use consumer HDDs" And I assume software RAID? Consumer HDDs attached to a hardware RAID adapter is a very risky proposition, even when using OBR10
I worked for years for a healthcare company that used Compaq / HP as their managed services provider right down to desktops & laptops (network hardware was mostly Cisco with some 3Com and Foundry ). I would rather have you all killed than suffer such a fate.
Brazilians are all about the bass, not much treble.
Not only is their female ideal bigger in the butt & smaller in the chest that typical NorthAm beauty standards but I've heard it's the place where you're most likely to have anal sex *on the 1st date* and their idea of lesbian porn ( well, for hetero male audience ) isn't much more than 2 or more women performing analingus on each other for 1/2 an hour
No, you're wrong & he's right. Autonomous commercial vehicles will be among the soonest to arrive but I think companies will be careful as to which jobs & routes they get.
"it isnt going to happen fo 30 years at least." - nope, disagree. In 30 yrs time, there'll be only very few that *won't* be autonomous
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From approx 1984 - 1995, I worked in various hotels & restaurants in a big city and I lost count of the number of people who mistook me for another guy who also worked in the biz - one person came right up to me, shook my hand and said it was great to see me again and how he'd enjoyed working with me for several years.
I had no idea who the hell he was or who he thought I was. But after that, I started being much nicer to people because my double seemed to have left a really positive impression on people in a rough & competitive business so I thought he was doing me a favor and I should at least try to return it.
Since I left that city and got out of hospitality, it's never happened again.
Smolin & Woit have been harping on this a long time.
Go read The Trouble with Physics and Not Even Wrong, both published in 2006
They might be right or they could be (not even) wrong.
IIRC, one of them did have a gun.
The UK has a population of ~66 million yet TOTAL police shootings in the past few decades is in the dozens where CA or TX rack up that number in weeks or a few months.
The city of London, England had ZERO fatal police shootings between 2011 & 2014
They're far from perfect and the tendency to withhold the identity of officers who opened fire is worrisome - but the *relative* rarity of police shootings in the UK ( and most of Europe) makes me wonder why American cops are so quick to transform into executioners
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
....feel that M$, SCO and Apple aren't such a bad bunch after all
"They hid! While Lee Rigby was having his head chopped off, they were staying on the other side of the crowd"
Bullshit.
Unarmed officers showed up 9 minutes after the emerg call at 14:20h by which point Rigby was already dead and been dragged into the road.
Armed unit took another 5 minutes to arrive.
I'm sure there are flaming assholes in every country, profession, demographic but UK cops, compared to America's Finest, have shown phenomal restraint under some dangerous situations.
For example, when 2 Nigerian terrorist knocked down offduty soldier Lee Rigby with a car then beheaded him with a cleaver, the unarmed cops didn't shit themselves but set up a cordon and guided passerbys away until the armed unit showed up and took both assailants alive, only shooting to wound, despite being rushed by both assailants with weapons in hand, performing 1st aid on one and getting them medical aid.
By contrast , Officer Brelo of the Cleveland PD fired 49 shots ( his fellow cops fired a total of 90 more ) into the car, windshield and bodies of 2 African-Americans. His final 15 bullets were discharged WHILE HE WAS STANDING ON THE HOOD - but he claimed to be afraid for his life???
The black community is and has been doing plenty for a long time. What they don't have control over is themselves and their young men being stopped, frisked, arrested & incarcerated for things where white men don't get hassled, go free, get probation or lesser sentences.
Once you're in the system, everything in your life changes. You can't simply serve your time and have your life reset like it's a video game.
Your job prospects are affected, every traffic stop becomes a major event, you can be refused housing or denied renting an apartment, credit terms, bank loans, even your college application is under greater scrutiny.
Former convicts end up leaving jail in debt - and I'm not talking about owing a few hundred or a few thousand for cigarettes & snacks but 10s or even 100s of thousands for the burden of keeping you locked up, while you were making thirteen cents / hr in prison labor.
It's used to be that "paying your debt to society" meant serving your time & walking the straight & narrow after. Nowadays, the sentence is just the 1st installment and you don't get prime interest rates for the $20k - $50k for the time you spent in the State Hilton
I've seen enough merge / double lane change accidents to know that "most" drivers are *not* aware of what's going on around them.
And I'm sure that motorcyclists will feel safer when more sensor-equipped cars can identify them and alert or react accordingly.
"I think it's likely that in the next few years more people will die because of the Tesla Autopilot than would have died without it"
No, not likely. It's almost certain that Autopilot will be the *cause* of some deaths but it'll also be responsible for saving many more lives.
The same guy who died in the tractor-trailer crash posted a video some months back that the car's reaction likely saved his life.
This time around, he was driving very irresponsibly and the truck he hit was executing a maneuver that isn't allowed in sane jurisdictions - something that Florida has rarely been confused with.
"More high IQ people with a culture of intellectual curiosity means more advancement.
More low IQ people with a culture of conquest, rape and domination ... not so much.
Reality is racist and cultural supremacist."
The reality is that conquest, rape & domination have been practiced by many societies going back thousands of years and into the present.
Were the Romans "low IQ people"? They had slaves and their conquest & domination are the stuff of history & legend.
You'd have to very naive to think that they did not rape.
A fair point, which I think also implies the growth may be coming almost entirely from the less-developed world.
A more interesting stat is the dominance of Chrome over all other browsers and the fact that *Safari* is ahead of Firefox???
I beg to differ - http://www.recode.net/2016/4/2...
" yes, the racist noble savages argument"
Whatever your opinion on native peoples, the fact remains that Europeans were invaders & conquerors who nearly exterminated the indigenous peoples.
That is hilarious, especially considering that prior to SP2, it was possible and even common for new XP machines that were connected to the internet to get remotely hacked while installing updates.
Warren Buffet is an old school investor who's long admitted he doesn't understand tech so feel free to find another example.
Or explain just how a book-and-toothbrushes online store became the biggest name in The Cloud, even though they've never really courted the bread-and-butter enterprise market and heavyweights like M$, HP, IBM, Oracle & Google are playing catchup 10 years on.
FFS, did you just the compare the revenue of ONE fucking guy to company that's 40 yrs old and has 100,000+ employees?
Perhaps you can dial down your own smugness and tell us how M$ is playing catchup to VMware & Amazon, the latter being a online version of your general country store.
It's like VW losing to Walmart in automotive innovation
A bigger war chest doesn't guarantee victory or Microsoft would have eliminated ALL comers 15 years ago.
Scratch that - the only player in any industry attached to IT would be IBM.
Google has a *HUGE WAR CHEST* (tm) too
I know of only a few companies using Azure - and all of them are Microsoft consultants.
Most of the enterprise shops I deal with are on private cloud using Redhat or VMware, or Openstack with Rackspace or Dell or are on AWS.
"They use consumer HDDs"
And I assume software RAID? Consumer HDDs attached to a hardware RAID adapter is a very risky proposition, even when using OBR10
Yeah, that *might* be plausible - if you never change operating systems.
So 20 yrs, hmmm, you're still on Windows 95?? How's that working out for you?
I worked for years for a healthcare company that used Compaq / HP as their managed services provider right down to desktops & laptops (network hardware was mostly Cisco with some 3Com and Foundry ). I would rather have you all killed than suffer such a fate.
Then you know many idiots. I despised Vista but Windows 7 is one OS that M$ got right
Brazilians are all about the bass, not much treble.
Not only is their female ideal bigger in the butt & smaller in the chest that typical NorthAm beauty standards but I've heard it's the place where you're most likely to have anal sex *on the 1st date* and their idea of lesbian porn ( well, for hetero male audience ) isn't much more than 2 or more women performing analingus on each other for 1/2 an hour
No, you're wrong & he's right. Autonomous commercial vehicles will be among the soonest to arrive but I think companies will be careful as to which jobs & routes they get.
"it isnt going to happen fo 30 years at least." - nope, disagree. In 30 yrs time, there'll be only very few that *won't* be autonomous
I think you meant to write Anonymous Canadian