Texas - as Red and GOP as you can get.... Isn't is interesting that the GOP is constantly screaming how the open market can solve all problems and "Government IS the problem!". Yet, when an new idea threatens any cashflow to the existing oligarchy, the first thing the GOP does is to kill it with "Government IS the Problem" regulation. Hypocritical fuck wads.
The article has many intertwined ideas that need to be separated. First, Military air taxis- The military can do what ever it wants if it's willing to take the risk. What the military does has little to no bearing on commercial carriers are allowed to do. The military doesn't work on a cost justification or profit basis
Second - There is a big difference between whats technically possible, vs whats commercially viable.
We're "close" , if not there to this being technically possible. However, for an aircraft - including electric quad type copters - to move beyond private user "experimental" designation to commercial is a huge, long, really REALLY expensive process. Remember "Uber for air planes" got slapped down hard years ago by the FAA. A private pilot is NOT a commercial pilot. This will be no different.
Given all the air checks, balances, engineers, certification of parts, rebuilds required after X hours of air time, the notion of a $43 cost per ride is nonsense.
Factor in Just 1 pigeon causing a crash over a city resulting in ground fatalities will kill the idea permanently, and might financially bankrupt what ever company is pushing this. And Cities will ban flights instantly.
Bottom line.. this is fantasy.
The biggest reason Harris is DOA on the national stage is she's pushing reparations to atone the "original sin" of slavery in America. Since those dollars will be extracted from the donor class, she's toast, even on the democratic ticket.
Studies like these, no matter how definitive, no longer matter in the US. Decades is slashing taxes, gutting education, economic stratification, demise of stable middle class, and oligarchical fed misinformation has eviscerated critical thinking skills for the general population.
Exacerbated by the rise of the web giving any dolt the power to publish any crazy unsubstantiated thought, armchair WebMD physicians, and instant gratification un-social media the US has plunged into ignorant tribalism. The masses only believe utterances from another member of their self selected tribe, no matter how ludicrous - Fox, MSNBC, or Flat Earth Society for that matter, what ever "tribe" you've associated yourself with, anything said contrary to the mantra of the tribe is not only to be disbelieved, but the messenger attacked and discredited at any cost. It's identical to religious faith; the definition of which is unfettered belief no matter the preponderance of evidence to the contrary. A sad period of post intellectualism.
This is the same nonsense the music industry used against file sharing - which was complete nonsense. The primary assumption being that everyone "sharing" an account would actually pay.
If -anyone- really cared about security, you wouldn't post mind-numbing personal details about yourself on social media. You wouldn't buy an always on spyware devices like Alexa or Google home, or Nest (Wait? What? NEST has a microphone? - yep), you wouldn't tolerate smart phones and apps constantly digesting your behavior and movement.
So long as you don't care about your privacy, corporations won't either.
If you can't convince the GOP global warming is real, corporations are not people and trickle down economics is a complete failure - this is just back ground babble.
Perhaps, in our hyper sensitive, over victimized culture, people are tired of changes made solely in the name of "equality". The original Captain Marvel was a white man,,, we certainly can't have another successful movie featuring a white male, we need to change things up a bit. . Like "Ghost Busters for girls" (Ghostbusters 2016) or Ocean's 8 - the sound of flopping can still resounds.
The statement is BS.. You're not automating if " layoffs will continue to work at PepsiCo until late April as they train their replacements".. You don't train your automated replacements. You're outsourcing existing high priced labor to cheap (aka illegal?) labor.
Did anything happen to FB? Did they change any practices? Did they stop gathering data from non-members? Did it effect their long term revue or stock?
The answer to all is a "no"... there's no consequences for corporate oligarchs.
Welcome the Theocracy of the United States. Where decisions are based in theology rather than capitalism, science or common sense. Sort of like those countries in the middle east the US has been at war with for almost 20 years.....
If indeed f "deep learning" has hit the wall with current languages.... perhaps the hardware itself in it's current configuration isn't up to the task.
Since all languages simply compile to machine code, which runs on an OS making hardware calls, a top level restriction implies a deep level constraint.
To develop the next -real- AI, requires a different hardware approach running some as of yet unconvinced OS - followed by a language.
This is not just a "you tube" problem, we've entered a period of anti-intellectual tribalism. It's not just "flat eathers", we have an increase in "climate change deniers", Washington State declared a measles emergency - from anti-vaxers.. We have FauxNoise, Breitbart and Alex Jones constantly spouting "conspiracy" and "deep state" nonsense. Scientists are vilified and personally attacked - . Many can no longer differentiate what they like or what the tribe mentality is vs VS fact and truth.
oh, a "taxes is theft" dolt.... Someone who doesn't want first responders, public schools, roads, bridges, highways, jails, parks or anything for the public good. Lets just to back to the lawless old west days.
It's not a way to organize a society, it's a way to fund things of public benefit. Even the found fathers recognized the need for taxation to fund the Continental Army. There's allot of people who want no taxes, but that is in effect saying you don't want first responders, public schools, jails or infrastructure - roads, bridges, etc. It's cheaper and safer to pay for public schools than to deal with the hoards of uneducated, unemployable hoodlums that would be rampant in society.
What we have is no longer capitalism. Our elected "representatives" are owned and beholden to the oligarchy donor class who put and keeps them in office. If the elected ones don't keep the stream of payola flowing to the donor class, someone else gets elected who will. It's that simple. The only way to fix this is campaign finance reform.
This is EXACTLY what is happening in Seattle. Old retirees on fixed incomes can no longer afford to pay property taxes on homes they spent their lives and raised their children in. Plus the Socialistic City Council in Seattle wants to hit every owner with a "beautification levy"... They want to spend $200M making the park prettier and charge all the residents a 10% value of the house levy.
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Hasn't stopped the flow of "reparations" to Native Americans... poorest areas in the Country.
Texas - as Red and GOP as you can get.... Isn't is interesting that the GOP is constantly screaming how the open market can solve all problems and "Government IS the problem!". Yet, when an new idea threatens any cashflow to the existing oligarchy, the first thing the GOP does is to kill it with "Government IS the Problem" regulation. Hypocritical fuck wads.
The article has many intertwined ideas that need to be separated. First, Military air taxis- The military can do what ever it wants if it's willing to take the risk. What the military does has little to no bearing on commercial carriers are allowed to do. The military doesn't work on a cost justification or profit basis
Second - There is a big difference between whats technically possible, vs whats commercially viable.
We're "close" , if not there to this being technically possible. However, for an aircraft - including electric quad type copters - to move beyond private user "experimental" designation to commercial is a huge, long, really REALLY expensive process. Remember "Uber for air planes" got slapped down hard years ago by the FAA. A private pilot is NOT a commercial pilot. This will be no different.
Given all the air checks, balances, engineers, certification of parts, rebuilds required after X hours of air time, the notion of a $43 cost per ride is nonsense.
Factor in Just 1 pigeon causing a crash over a city resulting in ground fatalities will kill the idea permanently, and might financially bankrupt what ever company is pushing this. And Cities will ban flights instantly.
Bottom line.. this is fantasy.
The biggest reason Harris is DOA on the national stage is she's pushing reparations to atone the "original sin" of slavery in America. Since those dollars will be extracted from the donor class, she's toast, even on the democratic ticket.
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means....
Studies like these, no matter how definitive, no longer matter in the US. Decades is slashing taxes, gutting education, economic stratification, demise of stable middle class, and oligarchical fed misinformation has eviscerated critical thinking skills for the general population.
Exacerbated by the rise of the web giving any dolt the power to publish any crazy unsubstantiated thought, armchair WebMD physicians, and instant gratification un-social media the US has plunged into ignorant tribalism. The masses only believe utterances from another member of their self selected tribe, no matter how ludicrous - Fox, MSNBC, or Flat Earth Society for that matter, what ever "tribe" you've associated yourself with, anything said contrary to the mantra of the tribe is not only to be disbelieved, but the messenger attacked and discredited at any cost. It's identical to religious faith; the definition of which is unfettered belief no matter the preponderance of evidence to the contrary. A sad period of post intellectualism.
I think most dystopian movies start with the same tag line.....
I think Musk has the same opinion of his hookers... or is that Trump.. I get them confused.
FaceBook! The Trusted brand of the internet - what could possibly go wrong?
No, they won't sell your purchase history to anyone...
This is the same nonsense the music industry used against file sharing - which was complete nonsense. The primary assumption being that everyone "sharing" an account would actually pay.
If -anyone- really cared about security, you wouldn't post mind-numbing personal details about yourself on social media. You wouldn't buy an always on spyware devices like Alexa or Google home, or Nest (Wait? What? NEST has a microphone? - yep), you wouldn't tolerate smart phones and apps constantly digesting your behavior and movement.
So long as you don't care about your privacy, corporations won't either.
If you can't convince the GOP global warming is real, corporations are not people and trickle down economics is a complete failure - this is just back ground babble.
Perhaps, in our hyper sensitive, over victimized culture, people are tired of changes made solely in the name of "equality". The original Captain Marvel was a white man,,, we certainly can't have another successful movie featuring a white male, we need to change things up a bit. . Like "Ghost Busters for girls" (Ghostbusters 2016) or Ocean's 8 - the sound of flopping can still resounds.
The statement is BS.. You're not automating if " layoffs will continue to work at PepsiCo until late April as they train their replacements".. You don't train your automated replacements. You're outsourcing existing high priced labor to cheap (aka illegal?) labor.
Did anything happen to FB? Did they change any practices? Did they stop gathering data from non-members? Did it effect their long term revue or stock?
The answer to all is a "no"... there's no consequences for corporate oligarchs.
It's not like we're from caves with constant open fires with meat roasting since the dawn of man or any... oh, wait... oops.
Welcome the Theocracy of the United States. Where decisions are based in theology rather than capitalism, science or common sense. Sort of like those countries in the middle east the US has been at war with for almost 20 years.....
If indeed f "deep learning" has hit the wall with current languages.... perhaps the hardware itself in it's current configuration isn't up to the task.
Since all languages simply compile to machine code, which runs on an OS making hardware calls, a top level restriction implies a deep level constraint.
To develop the next -real- AI, requires a different hardware approach running some as of yet unconvinced OS - followed by a language.
This is not just a "you tube" problem, we've entered a period of anti-intellectual tribalism. It's not just "flat eathers", we have an increase in "climate change deniers", Washington State declared a measles emergency - from anti-vaxers.. We have FauxNoise, Breitbart and Alex Jones constantly spouting "conspiracy" and "deep state" nonsense. Scientists are vilified and personally attacked - . Many can no longer differentiate what they like or what the tribe mentality is vs VS fact and truth.
oh, a "taxes is theft" dolt.... Someone who doesn't want first responders, public schools, roads, bridges, highways, jails, parks or anything for the public good. Lets just to back to the lawless old west days.
It's not a way to organize a society, it's a way to fund things of public benefit. Even the found fathers recognized the need for taxation to fund the Continental Army.
There's allot of people who want no taxes, but that is in effect saying you don't want first responders, public schools, jails or infrastructure - roads, bridges, etc. It's cheaper and safer to pay for public schools than to deal with the hoards of uneducated, unemployable hoodlums that would be rampant in society.
The deal was chased, brokered and accepted by the Governor of NY, Andrew Quomo.. who is a democrat. Stop being a paranoid FauxNoise zombie..
What we have is no longer capitalism. Our elected "representatives" are owned and beholden to the oligarchy donor class who put and keeps them in office. If the elected ones don't keep the stream of payola flowing to the donor class, someone else gets elected who will. It's that simple. The only way to fix this is campaign finance reform.
This is EXACTLY what is happening in Seattle. Old retirees on fixed incomes can no longer afford to pay property taxes on homes they spent their lives and raised their children in. Plus the Socialistic City Council in Seattle wants to hit every owner with a "beautification levy" ... They want to spend $200M making the park prettier and charge all the residents a 10% value of the house levy.
Boeing had a record year in 2018 and 2019 looks even better. The current platform is the 777x