An experimental artist did some work, pinned it up to the public noticeboard at the load library. He notice some people looking at it, so made more, kept pinning it up. Never kept any copies, just pinned the originals up. The noticeboard had plenty of empty space, and he was enjoying this. Some people even pinned up notes making comments on his work After a few years, the noticeboard was taken down, because the library had been been reorganising, and there were now bookshelves there.
The artist stood in front of the library, complaining to everyone who walked past 'they took down my artwork!!! its not fair!!'
Perhaps he should have gone to librarian and asked very nicely if they still had the old noticeboard content, because he had been foolish enough to not keep any copies, and would really like to actually have kept some of it.
But no, he just kept complaining to random passers by, hoping that would somehow help.
This looks a lot like punishment for the unwashed masses for their vote of no confidence in the Politicians (both sides) that the BRExit vote looked like. I see a large number of the voters in that were voting against the politicians in one of their few chances (elections are not, as you have to vote for politicians on one side or the other..) due to the complete lack of representation that seems to be in fashion these days, where bills are either pushed through to support loud minorities 'See! The Government does care!' or corporate sponsors 'We need to protect trade, the economy, jobs!'
It is interesting to watch the developing class wars between those in power and those not, however I am a little surprised that the UK is that close to the leading edge of it - racing to catch up to the US?
This is not spying, which implies some form of balance or power and care, this is just collecting the ability to go hunt for historical dirt on anyone who dares challenge the powerbase.
Left or Right? Socialist or Capitalist? That is long gone, what we have now is the building of totalitarian states with the illusion of democracy, and that is unfortunately a world wide (mostly) problem. It will not be controlled unless the masses can put aside the petty arguments bout side issues, and address this elephant in the room.
Unfortunately reality television, cooking competitions, and social justice for [insert this weeks cause] trumps that it seems. Sad times.
Putting diesel through a petrol engine does absolutely no damage at all other than stopping it running until it is drained out. Petrol in a diesel will most likely blow the head gasket at a minimum.. And often much worse. Just in case you thought you had a point.
Other than that.. You are an entitled moron. Second hand cars are a perfectly valid and sensible option for many consumers.
Fuel injectors get blocked because of a foreign object blocking them. No about of cleaning will stop this unlikely event happening in the future.. It is not a cumulative problem. Combined with the fact that usually they don't even bother reverse flushing the injectors (which is the only kind of clean that would matter) means you are just passing stupid tax unless an injector has actually become blocked.
Much more likely, this is a move by the bureaucrats controlling this area, who are having their budgets squeezed because central government (rightly or wrongly) feel they need to spend less, so are planning to cut the most newsworthy part of their service to get attention and protect their budgets.
That is how these things usually go. Publicly funded hospitals always cut patient services before anything else, Schools increase staff/child ratios, Transport cuts services at peak times, etc.
The only thing worse is unionised public servants, who really are on the double-take, since there is little downside to their bosses paying them more as it is 'free' money, and they get the double whammy of working for a votes government, AND having union muscle.
Welcome to another facet of the bleeding dry of the working middle class.
Unfortunately, if he thinks ' the design would allow them to be made as durable and safe as standard automotive wheels' them he has a nasty surprise coming. Of course technically he is probably partially correct - the rims would post no problem.
However the tyres themselves? Not a chance, sorry.
Standard modern tyres combine a lot of technology to make them work as well as they do in griping, and most of that technology basically results in them not having a round cross section. The main width of the tread is close to flat, the sidewalls and base contain strong reinforcing bands, the bead carries large loads and the tread depth varies greatly from the center to the edges - all of this contributes to their effectiveness.
His 'invention' required the tyre to return to being a true 'doughnut' torus shape, which is a TERRIBLE shape for a tyre if you want any traction, as the contact patch is tiny. His invention also requires the torus to rotate on itself, placing huge stress on the inner and outer surfaces as it rotates sideways, which will result is high wear and low lifespan.
Basically, sorry but it is a non-starter for anything outside short lifespan, low load and low speed applications, and problem that is already well solved with sidewinder/mechanum 'tyres' which are a group of cones, and suffer for less issues than his system would (although speed is still a major issue, and traction a medium one)
Still, the media will love it, and people will 'wow' at the example video. A set of car wheel skates/dollies let you push a car around like this at low speed quite easily already, and have been around for a long LONG time - and are about as practical.
I hear what you are saying, but I suspect you are missing one basic part of human psychology.
I have spent quite some time around motor racing, including being a passenger with some very good track drivers (much better than I will ever be) is some very fast 2 seaters. There is one thing that will ALWAYs happen in such a situation, after a few laps the passenger will have a very sore braking leg. The reason is that it is pretty much impossible NOT to push your foot, even on a non-existent brake, as you hurtle beyond what you believe is the safe point towards a collision - unless you are unaware of the collision. You will literally try and push your foot through the floor trying to help the driver stop;)
Of course I think the truck driver is being rather 'creative' here also, however in this case the telemetry will tell pretty much all, and even if we never know, the powers that be will know the speed, control inputs, etc that the car had before, during, and after the crash.
None of this makes it any better for the driver, his family, the truck driver, or anyone else involved. But come on people, pointing the finger at Tesla really is a step too far. It is like blaming the national mint for a bank robbery.
Yes, I know, jealousy of Musk is a big motivation for you people to hate on him, however if we ignore that for a second..
The point here is someone knowingly placed their life in the hands of automation, and paid the price for that. Real world conditions mean that automation is NEVER perfect, and this is new automation at the cutting edge (sigh) of such things.
The larger issue to me is why the DRIVER did not notice a truck across the road in front of them. Are we to believe that the software should have spotted it, and yet it was so hard to spot that a driver who was paying attention could not? That would certainly stretch the bounds of credibility quite far.
It seems quite clear here that the driver was not watching the road ahead - in fact was ignoring it enough to not notice a whole, large truck trailer unit turn in front of them in clear view. In other words they were, unfortunately for them, doing something stupid.
But no, people are going to try and blame automation, because otherwise it would be a dead person at fault.. And that is just not nice, right? However, this is NOT a case where a driver jumped on the brakes and they did not work, or tried to turn the car and it went straight ahead (at least none of that is being claimed). It is a case where a driver of a car at speed was not aware of the road directly ahead of them, that makes this border on a darwin here folks..
Seriously, schools these days are run for the benefit of the administrators first, and the teachers second, the children are somewhere down in the double digits I suspect. For any changes in teaching you probably need to look at the question of 'will this reduce staff numbers, or make dealing with the teachers union easier' because those are the two primary questions.
We are seeing 5 and 6 year olds coming home proudly telling mummy that they have been 'learning mindcraft' at school today (replace the d with and e and you will find out what they were playing if it is not obvious). While it may contain a few ounces of educational content for somewhat older children, it is just being used as brain candy for those poor kids, and this will just be more of the same.
This is an old technique, known as 'hook them while they are young' for those who dont realise. It was what first made apple big (the old apple that was, late days of apple II and early days of mac) where they basically gave products to schools (these days they use Ipads, and for some reason often make more than retail for their efforts, which is a separate issue).
The ONLY solution is to tie the school up by continuously questioning the school at all levels, and it will take a lot of parents to do that. Teachers (well, the bad ones at least) HATE dealing with parents, as do the administrators. It is their weakness. You are NOT wasting their time if there is a real issue, and there is a hope (if small) that you can push change if they have to talk to you enough, because they will do anything to avoid that. You need enough parents doing it so that they cannot pick on a couple of individuals children as payback. Get organised. Terrifying that it comes to that, but there you go.
You have never driven a 760 BMW or an e55 AMG have you... Ie: you dont know what the fuck you are talking about.
FWIW, as you like pickup trucks, I am also willing to bet you would have trouble actually driving an e55 AMG, even with its automatic. You would probably wrap it round a tree at the first real corner, but I know a few 'non-drivers' who can make them sing.
Tell that to the whole BMW 7 series, which have had electronics (column positioned) gearbox controls exclusively for some time. for some STRANGE reason, that has not been a safety issue.. funny that. They also have an electronically controlled park brake, which has deep menu settings that control if it is on or off when idling stationary, etc.
All it takes is enough competence to CHECK that you have made a vehicle safe when its on an incline and there is a safety risk like, for example, YOU ARE GOING TO STAND BEHIND IT!
FFS you limp wristed morons, stop trying to blame 'the man' for every little fuckup/accident that happens out there. It is unfortunate this guy died, however he made a mistake, plus had some bad luck, and it went the worst way. Things like that happen. We could require cars to not let the driver open the door until the car was totally secured every time, which would make them even safer (until someone died from being trapped inside), but we dont...
Actually, no they are not, you are forgetting about a few factors including: transmission losses infrastructure loads required to delivery that much power to a significant percentage of the roading system infrastructure loads required to add enough generation capacity to power the additional power draw
I refer to infrastructure loads here specifically because too often people hide behind infrastructure 'costs', but the cost is not pixie dust, it is much much more than that, it is its own mountain of pollution, waste, environmental damage, financial hurt, and bureaucracy that any such transformational change requires - your gains have to exceed that before you even gain anything.
I also wonder why you think the cost of wind generation is dropping - it is not as if building large structures is magically getting cheaper, and generators have been a well known science running at close to maximum efficiency for a long, long time. Base costs of wind generation stabilized quite a lot time ago. Direct solar electric is dropping due to both efficiency gains and manufacturing scaling, but it needs to, it is still quite high.
If you want any significant growth in electric transportation, the ONLY viable power source is nuclear - is that a pill you are willing to swallow? I am , but I seem to be in a very clear minority on that.
Sorry to shoot down your rainbow unicorns, but the real world needs real solutions, not simplistic hand waving magic solutions.
Quite possibly because there is very little evidence of IQ being hereditary? Of course you are obviously sold that it is, I have my suspicions why..
However, IQ is almost certainly TRANSFERABLE to a reasonable extend, and smarter parents tend to *train* smarter children, however that has exactly zero to do with being hereditary.
Oh, and just to drive another nail in, if you think its high IQ people who are the ones leading success wave, then you have swallowed far far to much of someones fantasy.. success at present appears to mostly come from a combination of family power, mental acceptance that all rules are flexible if (and only if) you gain from them being so, and a view that others have basically zero value. In other words the wealthy narcissistic.
But you keep voting for them... good luck with that.
ROTFL, I found your dream port! http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/08EF/production/_84878220_028551249.jpg Because of course, pulling containers tidily is OCD, nothing to do with storage and access efficiency;)
We should keep in mind that we don't want to tarnish the reputation of such great physical challenges as darts.. Target shooting.. Professional poker.. Chess.. All of which are considered cheese by at least some people.
You are definately right.. The English language has a long history of having its words locked in stone with zero room for change or development.. Even if you do make a modification of the word to make the change clear!
Don't worry, they are needed to stop the whole building floating away, since all its concrete slabs only weight 212 tons in total;) This is really a new low in the example of 'believe anything because... APPLE!', really, this summary is glaringly ridiculous.
The good old USA is not a democracy. Really. Never had been. It is a democratic republic.. Which is a very very different thing. It's governing rules were set up from day one to guarantee control for those at the top.. Funnily enough the very people who made the rules.. And they did a fine job of it. It has never been a democracy.
And yet.. Somehow.. He seems to care more about the manipulation of democracy than you do.. Interesting. Isn't it. Trump is a childish idiot. Clinton is a corrupt weasel. Good luck America. Really. It's going to be rough.
So, apparently there are a solid number of people who are well aware of things this guy has been doing that are supposedly solidly covered by normal criminal law, and they have known for some time, and yet no charges have been pressed, no police have been involved, and no one has had a day in court?
Instead, we have people who can 'verify Anonymous victims' (no, really) and that makes a public and well organised smeer campaign the correct path forward? With media release level publicity and professional websites publicly collecting more anonymous accounts against this guy?
My god he really must have pissed in someones beer..
For all I know he is guilty as sin, however vigilante justice is now the socially accepted way of dealing with what should be reasonably simple criminal complaints? I am not sure that he is the worse offender in this particular circle of wrongness.
Just as he may well be guilty, he also has the right to face his accusers (in a court of law), have a legal defense, all those trappings of a just society that we all would demand, dont we? And when, as it seems people are quite certain, he is found guilty, he will be suitably punished.
But instead we have this - congratulations accusers, you have lowered yourselves to the level you claim he works on.
She claimed it was in autopilot.. It appears it was not. How does a sensor reading explain that? It's called arse covering and blame shifting.. People do it all the time. If she had described an unexpected acceleration while manually driving then the story may wash..
Why, because he does not believe in a mystical being floating somewhere that refuses to confirm or deny 'the rules' but will judge and punish/reward every single human when they die based on those rules? Or because he takes a more pragmatic path to considering a little further away from the normal 'on no, we are going to die, but we dont want to, god!' crowd, but still wants to perhaps believe in some purpose, therefore considers this to be a possibility? Or perhaps because he is willing to openly state what he HIMSELF may think, rather than hiding behind the skirts of an organised religion? Or because he is not making a claim that would lead to greater power for any particular involved group?
Or, most likely, because he does not agree with your own personal worldview?
This is almost certainly targeted at plugging in to your macbook when 'docked' Perhaps you can tell me how you normally upgrade the GPU in your macbook? I would be interested to know.
More to the point, it fits in perfectly with Apples closed systems mentality - do you think you will be able to plug this monitor into a pc? anything else ? nope, it is just another extension of their ecosystem to close the gaps in the walls. Will fit also in nicely with the DRM club also - good luck getting a signal off that.
I suspect their BIG target is iphones, where the integrated GPUs just dont have the required performance to drive big monitors like this, but having an external GPU then does make even more sense.
So, you take your pick - the Apple way or Standards, so, nothing really changing, they are just moving monitors inside the walled 'garden'.
For macbook use, it probably makes some sense, for other applications, probably less so.
I would however suggest that you have a common cause with some group, due to your use of a several highly derogatory terms for people who apparently do not agree with you, but hey.
More to the point, I think a major reason people are giving the responses they are to this long slow train wreck of Theranos is how Ms Holmes was held up to be such a glowing example of the truth and light behind women in business by certain groups. It has become quite apparently that this particular train wreck mostly comes down to her belief that hype and contacts has a billion dollar market value, and others supporting her in this. It is quite clear looking back at the hype machine that a good quantity of that has come from 'And look, she is a woman!', so that is a factor, one that she was quite happy to play.
The takeaway here should really be 'step carefully before you raise someone to sainthood for your cause'. This is of course a common mistake, especially these days (by many many different types of groups of course).
The interesting part comes next - Do the people who truly believe in their cause try and shout down any detraction of her as being sexist, or do they quietly admit there is some egg-on-face here and that she was not the saint she was held up to be. Time will tell.
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'Trump has not yet promised to maximise the protection of our position and profits, Which, of course, Hillary has done!'
I hope everyone is enjoying this episode of dumb and dumber. thank god its just a tv sitcom... oh, wait..
Let me tell you a story..
An experimental artist did some work, pinned it up to the public noticeboard at the load library.
He notice some people looking at it, so made more, kept pinning it up. Never kept any copies, just pinned the originals up.
The noticeboard had plenty of empty space, and he was enjoying this.
Some people even pinned up notes making comments on his work
After a few years, the noticeboard was taken down, because the library had been been reorganising, and there were now bookshelves there.
The artist stood in front of the library, complaining to everyone who walked past 'they took down my artwork!!! its not fair!!'
Perhaps he should have gone to librarian and asked very nicely if they still had the old noticeboard content, because he had been foolish enough to
not keep any copies, and would really like to actually have kept some of it.
But no, he just kept complaining to random passers by, hoping that would somehow help.
This looks a lot like punishment for the unwashed masses for their vote of no confidence in the Politicians (both sides) that the BRExit vote looked like.
I see a large number of the voters in that were voting against the politicians in one of their few chances (elections are not, as you have to vote for
politicians on one side or the other..) due to the complete lack of representation that seems to be in fashion these days, where bills are either pushed through
to support loud minorities 'See! The Government does care!' or corporate sponsors 'We need to protect trade, the economy, jobs!'
It is interesting to watch the developing class wars between those in power and those not, however I am a little surprised that the UK is that close to the leading edge of it - racing to catch up to the US?
This is not spying, which implies some form of balance or power and care, this is just collecting the ability to go hunt for historical dirt on anyone who dares challenge the powerbase.
Left or Right? Socialist or Capitalist? That is long gone, what we have now is the building of totalitarian states with the illusion of democracy, and that is
unfortunately a world wide (mostly) problem. It will not be controlled unless the masses can put aside the petty arguments bout side issues, and address
this elephant in the room.
Unfortunately reality television, cooking competitions, and social justice for [insert this weeks cause] trumps that it seems. Sad times.
rot13: V frr jung lbh qvq gurer, jbbfu.
Putting diesel through a petrol engine does absolutely no damage at all other than stopping it running until it is drained out.
Petrol in a diesel will most likely blow the head gasket at a minimum.. And often much worse.
Just in case you thought you had a point.
Other than that.. You are an entitled moron. Second hand cars are a perfectly valid and sensible option for many consumers.
Sorry but you don't have a clue..
Fuel injectors get blocked because of a foreign object blocking them. No about of cleaning will stop this unlikely event happening in the future.. It is not a cumulative problem.
Combined with the fact that usually they don't even bother reverse flushing the injectors (which is the only kind of clean that would matter) means you are just passing stupid tax unless an injector has actually become blocked.
Much more likely, this is a move by the bureaucrats controlling this area, who are having their budgets squeezed because central government (rightly or wrongly) feel they need to spend less, so are planning to cut the most newsworthy part of their service to get attention and protect their budgets.
That is how these things usually go. Publicly funded hospitals always cut patient services before anything else, Schools increase staff/child ratios, Transport cuts services at peak times, etc.
The only thing worse is unionised public servants, who really are on the double-take, since there is little downside to their bosses paying them more as it is 'free' money, and they get the double whammy of working for a votes government, AND having union muscle.
Welcome to another facet of the bleeding dry of the working middle class.
Unfortunately, if he thinks ' the design would allow them to be made as durable and safe as standard automotive wheels' them he has a nasty surprise coming.
Of course technically he is probably partially correct - the rims would post no problem.
However the tyres themselves? Not a chance, sorry.
Standard modern tyres combine a lot of technology to make them work as well as they do in griping, and most of that technology basically results in them not having a round cross section. The main width of the tread is close to flat, the sidewalls and base contain strong reinforcing bands, the bead carries large loads and the tread depth varies greatly from the center to the edges - all of this contributes to their effectiveness.
His 'invention' required the tyre to return to being a true 'doughnut' torus shape, which is a TERRIBLE shape for a tyre if you want any traction, as the contact patch is tiny. His invention also requires the torus to rotate on itself, placing huge stress on the inner and outer surfaces as it rotates sideways, which will result is high wear and low lifespan.
Basically, sorry but it is a non-starter for anything outside short lifespan, low load and low speed applications, and problem that is already well solved with sidewinder/mechanum 'tyres' which are a group of cones, and suffer for less issues than his system would (although speed is still a major issue, and traction a medium one)
Still, the media will love it, and people will 'wow' at the example video. A set of car wheel skates/dollies let you push a car around like this at low speed quite easily already, and have been around for a long LONG time - and are about as practical.
I hear what you are saying, but I suspect you are missing one basic part of human psychology.
I have spent quite some time around motor racing, including being a passenger with some very good track drivers (much better than I will ;)
ever be) is some very fast 2 seaters. There is one thing that will ALWAYs happen in such a situation, after a few laps the passenger will
have a very sore braking leg. The reason is that it is pretty much impossible NOT to push your foot, even on a non-existent brake, as you
hurtle beyond what you believe is the safe point towards a collision - unless you are unaware of the collision. You will literally try and push
your foot through the floor trying to help the driver stop
Of course I think the truck driver is being rather 'creative' here also, however in this case the telemetry will tell pretty much all, and even if we
never know, the powers that be will know the speed, control inputs, etc that the car had before, during, and after the crash.
None of this makes it any better for the driver, his family, the truck driver, or anyone else involved.
But come on people, pointing the finger at Tesla really is a step too far. It is like blaming the national mint for a bank robbery.
Yes, I know, jealousy of Musk is a big motivation for you people to hate on him, however if we ignore that for a second..
The point here is someone knowingly placed their life in the hands of automation, and paid the price for that. Real world
conditions mean that automation is NEVER perfect, and this is new automation at the cutting edge (sigh) of such things.
The larger issue to me is why the DRIVER did not notice a truck across the road in front of them. Are we to believe that
the software should have spotted it, and yet it was so hard to spot that a driver who was paying attention could not? That
would certainly stretch the bounds of credibility quite far.
It seems quite clear here that the driver was not watching the road ahead - in fact was ignoring it enough to not notice a
whole, large truck trailer unit turn in front of them in clear view. In other words they were, unfortunately for them, doing
something stupid.
But no, people are going to try and blame automation, because otherwise it would be a dead person at fault.. And that is
just not nice, right? However, this is NOT a case where a driver jumped on the brakes and they did not work, or tried
to turn the car and it went straight ahead (at least none of that is being claimed). It is a case where a driver of a car
at speed was not aware of the road directly ahead of them, that makes this border on a darwin here folks..
Are you new to this?
Seriously, schools these days are run for the benefit of the administrators first, and the teachers second, the children are somewhere down in the double digits I suspect. For any changes in teaching you probably need to look at the question of 'will this reduce staff numbers, or make dealing with the teachers union easier' because those are the two primary questions.
We are seeing 5 and 6 year olds coming home proudly telling mummy that they have been 'learning mindcraft' at school today (replace the d with and e and you will find out what they were playing if it is not obvious). While it may contain a few ounces of educational content for somewhat older children, it is just being used as brain candy for those poor kids, and this will just be more of the same.
This is an old technique, known as 'hook them while they are young' for those who dont realise. It was what first made apple big (the old apple that was, late days of apple II and early days of mac) where they basically gave products to schools (these days they use Ipads, and for some reason often make more than retail for their efforts, which is a separate issue).
The ONLY solution is to tie the school up by continuously questioning the school at all levels, and it will take a lot of parents to do that. Teachers (well, the bad ones at least) HATE dealing with parents, as do the administrators. It is their weakness. You are NOT wasting their time if there is a real issue, and there is a hope (if small) that you can push change if they have to talk to you enough, because they will do anything to avoid that. You need enough parents doing it so that they cannot pick on a couple of individuals children as payback. Get organised. Terrifying that it comes to that, but there you go.
You have never driven a 760 BMW or an e55 AMG have you...
Ie: you dont know what the fuck you are talking about.
FWIW, as you like pickup trucks, I am also willing to bet you would have trouble actually driving an e55 AMG, even with its automatic.
You would probably wrap it round a tree at the first real corner, but I know a few 'non-drivers' who can make them sing.
Tell that to the whole BMW 7 series, which have had electronics (column positioned) gearbox controls exclusively for some time.
for some STRANGE reason, that has not been a safety issue.. funny that.
They also have an electronically controlled park brake, which has deep menu settings that control if it is on or off when idling stationary, etc.
All it takes is enough competence to CHECK that you have made a vehicle safe when its on an incline and there is a safety risk like, for example,
YOU ARE GOING TO STAND BEHIND IT!
FFS you limp wristed morons, stop trying to blame 'the man' for every little fuckup/accident that happens out there. It is unfortunate this guy died,
however he made a mistake, plus had some bad luck, and it went the worst way. Things like that happen. We could require cars to not let the driver
open the door until the car was totally secured every time, which would make them even safer (until someone died from being trapped inside), but we dont...
Actually, no they are not, you are forgetting about a few factors including:
transmission losses
infrastructure loads required to delivery that much power to a significant percentage of the roading system
infrastructure loads required to add enough generation capacity to power the additional power draw
I refer to infrastructure loads here specifically because too often people hide behind infrastructure 'costs', but the cost is not pixie dust, it is much much more than that, it is its own mountain of pollution, waste, environmental damage, financial hurt, and bureaucracy that any such transformational change requires - your gains have to exceed that before you even gain anything.
I also wonder why you think the cost of wind generation is dropping - it is not as if building large structures is magically getting cheaper, and generators have been a well known science running at close to maximum efficiency for a long, long time. Base costs of wind generation stabilized quite a lot time ago.
Direct solar electric is dropping due to both efficiency gains and manufacturing scaling, but it needs to, it is still quite high.
If you want any significant growth in electric transportation, the ONLY viable power source is nuclear - is that a pill you are willing to swallow?
I am , but I seem to be in a very clear minority on that.
Sorry to shoot down your rainbow unicorns, but the real world needs real solutions, not simplistic hand waving magic solutions.
Quite possibly because there is very little evidence of IQ being hereditary?
Of course you are obviously sold that it is, I have my suspicions why..
However, IQ is almost certainly TRANSFERABLE to a reasonable extend, and smarter parents tend to *train* smarter children, however
that has exactly zero to do with being hereditary.
Oh, and just to drive another nail in, if you think its high IQ people who are the ones leading success wave, then you have swallowed far far
to much of someones fantasy.. success at present appears to mostly come from a combination of family power, mental acceptance that
all rules are flexible if (and only if) you gain from them being so, and a view that others have basically zero value.
In other words the wealthy narcissistic.
But you keep voting for them... good luck with that.
ROTFL, I found your dream port! ;)
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/08EF/production/_84878220_028551249.jpg
Because of course, pulling containers tidily is OCD, nothing to do with storage and access efficiency
Fecking Moron.
Exactly!
We should keep in mind that we don't want to tarnish the reputation of such great physical challenges as darts.. Target shooting.. Professional poker.. Chess.. All of which are considered cheese by at least some people.
You are definately right.. The English language has a long history of having its words locked in stone with zero room for change or development.. Even if you do make a modification of the word to make the change clear!
You convinced me!
Don't worry, they are needed to stop the whole building floating away, since all its concrete slabs only weight 212 tons in total ;)
This is really a new low in the example of 'believe anything because... APPLE!', really, this summary is glaringly ridiculous.
You really don't know?
The good old USA is not a democracy. Really. Never had been.
It is a democratic republic.. Which is a very very different thing.
It's governing rules were set up from day one to guarantee control for those at the top.. Funnily enough the very people who made the rules.. And they did a fine job of it.
It has never been a democracy.
And yet.. Somehow.. He seems to care more about the manipulation of democracy than you do..
Interesting. Isn't it.
Trump is a childish idiot.
Clinton is a corrupt weasel.
Good luck America. Really. It's going to be rough.
So, apparently there are a solid number of people who are well aware of things this guy has been doing
that are supposedly solidly covered by normal criminal law, and they have known for some time, and yet
no charges have been pressed, no police have been involved, and no one has had a day in court?
Instead, we have people who can 'verify Anonymous victims' (no, really) and that makes a public and well
organised smeer campaign the correct path forward? With media release level publicity and professional
websites publicly collecting more anonymous accounts against this guy?
My god he really must have pissed in someones beer..
For all I know he is guilty as sin, however vigilante justice is now the socially accepted way of dealing with
what should be reasonably simple criminal complaints? I am not sure that he is the worse offender in
this particular circle of wrongness.
Just as he may well be guilty, he also has the right to face his accusers (in a court of law), have a legal defense,
all those trappings of a just society that we all would demand, dont we? And when, as it seems people are quite
certain, he is found guilty, he will be suitably punished.
But instead we have this - congratulations accusers, you have lowered yourselves to the level you claim he works on.
She claimed it was in autopilot.. It appears it was not. How does a sensor reading explain that?
It's called arse covering and blame shifting.. People do it all the time.
If she had described an unexpected acceleration while manually driving then the story may wash..
Why, because he does not believe in a mystical being floating somewhere that refuses to confirm or deny 'the rules' but will judge and punish/reward every single human when they die based on those rules?
Or because he takes a more pragmatic path to considering a little further away from the normal 'on no, we are going to die, but we dont want to, god!' crowd, but still wants to perhaps believe in some purpose, therefore considers this to be a possibility?
Or perhaps because he is willing to openly state what he HIMSELF may think, rather than hiding behind the skirts of an organised religion?
Or because he is not making a claim that would lead to greater power for any particular involved group?
Or, most likely, because he does not agree with your own personal worldview?
Right or wrong, good on him for talking about it.
This is almost certainly targeted at plugging in to your macbook when 'docked'
Perhaps you can tell me how you normally upgrade the GPU in your macbook? I would be interested to know.
More to the point, it fits in perfectly with Apples closed systems mentality - do you think you will be able to plug this monitor
into a pc? anything else ? nope, it is just another extension of their ecosystem to close the gaps in the walls.
Will fit also in nicely with the DRM club also - good luck getting a signal off that.
I suspect their BIG target is iphones, where the integrated GPUs just dont have the required performance to drive big monitors
like this, but having an external GPU then does make even more sense.
So, you take your pick - the Apple way or Standards, so, nothing really changing, they are just moving monitors inside the walled 'garden'.
For macbook use, it probably makes some sense, for other applications, probably less so.
I would however suggest that you have a common cause with some group, due to your use of a several highly derogatory terms for people who apparently do not agree with you, but hey.
More to the point, I think a major reason people are giving the responses they are to this long slow train wreck of Theranos is how Ms Holmes was held up to be such a glowing example of the truth and light behind women in business by certain groups. It has become quite apparently that this particular train wreck mostly comes down to her belief that hype and contacts has a billion dollar market value, and others supporting her in this. It is quite clear looking back at the hype machine that a good quantity of that has come from 'And look, she is a woman!', so that is a factor, one that she was quite happy to play.
The takeaway here should really be 'step carefully before you raise someone to sainthood for your cause'. This is of course a common mistake, especially these days (by many many different types of groups of course).
The interesting part comes next - Do the people who truly believe in their cause try and shout down any detraction of her as being sexist, or do they quietly admit there is some egg-on-face here and that she was not the saint she was held up to be. Time will tell.