... will Trump drop Florida into the Gulf for allowing Big Business to run roughshod over the population,... ?
By ignoring Climate Change Trump and his moronions will only need to let nature take its course – the Gulf will swallow Florida all by itself.
People who live in the economic engines, Tampa, Orlando, South Florida, Naples, Jacksonville, those whose livelihood, property and trade will get affected by rising tides, we all get a big collective fuck you from our remote state capitol.
Local governments in South Florida are all over the issue working right now on countermeasures, beach preservation barriers, pumps, etc. All by themselves, pretty much we are all by ourselves because the fuckers in Tallahassee are pretty much non-existent. They exist there just to appease rural Florida and snow birds (most of them away from the coasts.)
I've always been skeptical of South Florida politics, having a unique streak of banana republic corruption here and there. But on the other hand, I've been quite impressed by how city mayors have mobilized.
Because we don't give a shit what Rick Scott and his circle up in Tallahassee or the far fringe right morons think, we see the effects of climate change. We see this shit is real, the rising tides, ocean water creeping through our walkways and sewers, etc.
This is the type of thing for which state and federal governments ought to exist, to assist local governments in tackling these kind of things. But shit, no, that's not how we roll.
Whether we can deal with it by technical means, it remains to be seen. But no one can say we did not try. And none of these Repuke motherfuckers in Tallahassee have a fucking right to claim participation if we do get to deal with sea level rise successfully. Because unless they sent the invisible man to help us, our governor is with his bald head shoved right up his ass on his state capital, denying a reality we see down here every damned day.
I know, right? Half the cars in Florida are driverless now. My favorite is what I call the Florida Turn Signal. To make a lane change, a car starts edging over the line slowly. If no horns are blown, then they come the rest of then way. The Florida Turn Signal is "When I'm two feet into your lane, you know I'm coming over."
However, native Floridians do get a bad rap. The real problem is all the retired Yankees who move down there.
I'd trust these driverless vehicles a hell of a lot more than the snow-birds that fsck up the roads when it's too cold in their home state. Keep the coffin dodgers out of FL please.
As someone from South Florida, I agree with the sentiment. Seasonal upticks in traffic make bad situations even worse.
"Uber's business model relies on them pushing costs for car ownership, insurance, maintenance and yearly fees to their drivers."
No it doesn't. Their business model relies on easily connecting cargo (passengers, currently, but freight in the future) with transportation. As they say "they came up with a simple idea - tap a button, get a ride."
Using people with cars for transportation was a low-capital way to get started. But those drivers are paying all the vehicle costs you mention and still making a profit for themselves. Uber now has enough capital to start building their own infrastructure of self driving cars and retain that profit (or lower prices to keep competition at bay).
Would you work for Uber? Could you maintain your standard of living that way?
Florida voters narrowly (and surprisingly, to me) defeated a constitutional amendment that was funded by Florida Power & Light and other very interested parties that would have made it difficult and expensive to install solar power in the home. A rare victory for common sense in Florida.
We massively went after the misleading amendment as well as promoting amendment 2 for medical marijuana. And if it weren't for the large number of old guard snow birds who keep settling in Northern Florida, the state would have turned blue. But that's another story.
This time we wised up with the solar panel amendment.
Okay, stop right there. Solar is a DC source by very definition.
A definition is something artificially man-made to explain a certain term. Solar power is DC simply because there is no suitable design that produces AC.
So for all practical purposes, solar power is DC. Until a suitable (and commercially viable) A/C design exists, I'm more interested to see the OP's original question answered.
Honestly, I find using the location mightily irritating.
I want my language to always be English. Always. Which is what my OS is set to.
Then some shitty noob programmer comes along and checks my location, overrides my preferences and sets the language to whatever country I'm in. No thanks.
Jesus Christ man, location =/= locale. Truly, so much for techies.
A bill, pre-filed earlier this month by state lawmaker Bill Chumley, is called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act
South Carolina is at the bottom quin-tile in terms of median income and/or human development index. Me thinks them SC folks should revisit their priorities.
Sorry, I STILL can't figure out the hatred of Hillary Clinton. Dare I say that it was trumped up?
It doesn't matter if the hate is deserved or not. The hate is real, and it is a variable the DNC (and Hillary herself) refused to acknowledge.
We are talking about a constituency that contains people who truly believe Obama was born in Kenya, who believes Hillary was running a sex-ring out of a pizzeria, who believes Jade Helm and UN Agenda 21 are real, who think Noah's ark was an actual even in history, who are OK with letting Syrian orphans and Central American children die before spending a penny (all the while preparing their fucking Xmas nativity scenes and talking how much they love baby Jesus.)
Call me elitist, but you do not try logic with these people dude. Then can't fucking tell the difference between thinking and feelings. You can't reason with them when their emotional chip runs in "Asshole Overdrive" mode. You can only contain them. That is the sad truth
So when you see such an amount of distrust and hate coming out of their mind-gonads, all you can do is measure and either attack, contain or avoid depending on the magnitude of such emotions.
The DNC (and Hillary) failed at that. So much for being seasoned politicians.
You voted against the Orangutan now, but did you vote for the Gorilla before him?
Or is comparing peoples go ape only racism when he is Black?
I, for one, remember when George W. Bush was 'just like' a chimpanzee. And I welcome the freedom to compared president to ape that we lost under the fascist race-baiting Obama administration. Trump already made america a little bit better just being being elected.
I hope you hated hillary more than you liked your social security.
I don't count on social security at all. I have under no illusions to retire here (or retire ever). And our household does make good, white collar salaries mind you. My objective, as I told my wife last night, is to make it with our financials intact.
Because, if Trump ever does a 1/4 of what he promised, there will be financial repercussions. It's not rhetoric, it's fact. Hold down to your panties, here we go for a ride! A riiiiide I tell ya!
If he's the King of Birthers, it's only because Hillary tossed him the scimitar
I'm not saying HRC is an angel, she is a shitpile just like Trump. But your entire response amounts to "she did something stupid, so Trump gets to do something stupid too."
If that's how you want to role, go for it. I won't be the one to get in your way towards 3rd-grade levels of thinking.
94.5% of voters voted for one of the two worst major-party presidential candidates in history.
This country is getting what it deserves.
With 43% absenteeism, with the lowest turnout in the last 20 years. That 95.5% doesn't seem that impressive once you put it in its proper context. No matter what, both candidates were shit.
It's better than having Cliton in office. You dumbass Democrats should have voted Bernie, then this wouldn't have happened. But noooo.
And you fucking Republicans should have elected someone else, Kasick, Bush, even Cruz, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, you have to vote for the fucking King of Birthers.
Yes, only in America can you win by 3 million votes and still somehow lose. Thanks, Electoral College!
As someone who voted for Clinton (not as a vote for her, but a vote against the Orangegutan), don't thank the EC. Thank the DNC for crowning a fucking crook, HRC. The DNC lived in a fucking bubble not grasping how much hate there is for HRC.
It doesn't fucking matter if the hate is deserved or not. That's reality, and a politician should have had a pulse on it. Instead HRC chose ambition over country and against all logic, she went for it. From the moment she was nominated by the DNC, I knew the gig was (almost) over. I knew it when I cast my vote for her. You had to be living in a fucking bubble to not see it.
So here we are, today. The Electoral College did its work. Don't blame it for the output. Blame the input provided by both major parties. Garbage in, garbage out.
This is precisely why I don't rely on the cloud exclusively. It could be any company on any day, and your data is just history. Poof!
And that's why backups exists (specially incremental backups). Cloud providers (large, reputable ones, that is) do not disappear within 24 hours. They give you plenty of time to offload to another provider or to physical storage.
And with providers like AWS, redundancy pretty much nullifies most forms of data loss. Any data loss that you experience will most likely be a function of your application or your data management policies.
Why not? There's still people around here blaming Bush...
And why fucking not? I mean, dude, Gulf War II and Bush's inattention to economic indicators caused this mess. And I say this as a Republican who (mistakenly in hindsight) voted for him.
We'll see about all that in a year. We'll also see how blue states are likely getting these 50,000 jobs.
All of these jobs are related to venture capital. So it is very likely all of them will be in blue, metropolitan areas (sorry Rust Belt, no soup for you.)
Now, we need a push so that kids the math, writing and science skills they'll need because the schools are failing horribly at those - especially science. What good is them learning to code when they still come out of school thinking Evolution is "just a theory" and not a fact?
Or coming out of school without the basic math skills to succeed in a STEM field.
And this focus on STEM is horribly musguided. Everything builds on one another. Music and art education is just as important and helps with other subjects. Why while everyone in my data structures class were struggling, I learned it instantaneously by making analogies to music.
And also keep in mind that compared to the general population, more Noble winners play instruments. Interesting correlation between musicality and scientific creativity.
But code.org is about creating a pool of low cost labor and not our economic future.
And soon, computers won't need to be programmed, they'll be trained.
Someone has to build the computers and laid the underlying software to make them trainable. Oh, you think they can build and set themselves up to get trained, recursively, ad infinitum? Say hi to the Halting Problem.
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So what? He's not making a logical argument, jackass.
And neither do you, ergo the comment.
... will Trump drop Florida into the Gulf for allowing Big Business to run roughshod over the population,... ?
By ignoring Climate Change Trump and his moronions will only need to let nature take its course – the Gulf will swallow Florida all by itself.
People who live in the economic engines, Tampa, Orlando, South Florida, Naples, Jacksonville, those whose livelihood, property and trade will get affected by rising tides, we all get a big collective fuck you from our remote state capitol. Local governments in South Florida are all over the issue working right now on countermeasures, beach preservation barriers, pumps, etc. All by themselves, pretty much we are all by ourselves because the fuckers in Tallahassee are pretty much non-existent. They exist there just to appease rural Florida and snow birds (most of them away from the coasts.)
I've always been skeptical of South Florida politics, having a unique streak of banana republic corruption here and there. But on the other hand, I've been quite impressed by how city mayors have mobilized.
Because we don't give a shit what Rick Scott and his circle up in Tallahassee or the far fringe right morons think, we see the effects of climate change. We see this shit is real, the rising tides, ocean water creeping through our walkways and sewers, etc.
This is the type of thing for which state and federal governments ought to exist, to assist local governments in tackling these kind of things. But shit, no, that's not how we roll.
Whether we can deal with it by technical means, it remains to be seen. But no one can say we did not try. And none of these Repuke motherfuckers in Tallahassee have a fucking right to claim participation if we do get to deal with sea level rise successfully. Because unless they sent the invisible man to help us, our governor is with his bald head shoved right up his ass on his state capital, denying a reality we see down here every damned day.
I know, right? Half the cars in Florida are driverless now. My favorite is what I call the Florida Turn Signal. To make a lane change, a car starts edging over the line slowly. If no horns are blown, then they come the rest of then way. The Florida Turn Signal is "When I'm two feet into your lane, you know I'm coming over."
However, native Floridians do get a bad rap. The real problem is all the retired Yankees who move down there.
This.
I'd trust these driverless vehicles a hell of a lot more than the snow-birds that fsck up the roads when it's too cold in their home state. Keep the coffin dodgers out of FL please.
As someone from South Florida, I agree with the sentiment. Seasonal upticks in traffic make bad situations even worse.
So the fee on a driverless car is killing jobs?
What about the jobs that will be eliminated by these automobiles?
Amazing how you got modded down, but the clueless punk you replied to has been modded up.
"Uber's business model relies on them pushing costs for car ownership, insurance, maintenance and yearly fees to their drivers."
No it doesn't. Their business model relies on easily connecting cargo (passengers, currently, but freight in the future) with transportation. As they say "they came up with a simple idea - tap a button, get a ride."
Using people with cars for transportation was a low-capital way to get started. But those drivers are paying all the vehicle costs you mention and still making a profit for themselves. Uber now has enough capital to start building their own infrastructure of self driving cars and retain that profit (or lower prices to keep competition at bay).
Would you work for Uber? Could you maintain your standard of living that way?
^^^ Appeal to emotion.
Florida voters narrowly (and surprisingly, to me) defeated a constitutional amendment that was funded by Florida Power & Light and other very interested parties that would have made it difficult and expensive to install solar power in the home. A rare victory for common sense in Florida.
We massively went after the misleading amendment as well as promoting amendment 2 for medical marijuana. And if it weren't for the large number of old guard snow birds who keep settling in Northern Florida, the state would have turned blue. But that's another story.
This time we wised up with the solar panel amendment.
Okay, stop right there. Solar is a DC source by very definition.
A definition is something artificially man-made to explain a certain term. Solar power is DC simply because there is no suitable design that produces AC.
So for all practical purposes, solar power is DC. Until a suitable (and commercially viable) A/C design exists, I'm more interested to see the OP's original question answered.
Honestly, I find using the location mightily irritating.
I want my language to always be English. Always. Which is what my OS is set to.
Then some shitty noob programmer comes along and checks my location, overrides my preferences and sets the language to whatever country I'm in. No thanks.
Jesus Christ man, location =/= locale. Truly, so much for techies.
A bill, pre-filed earlier this month by state lawmaker Bill Chumley, is called the Human Trafficking Prevention Act
South Carolina is at the bottom quin-tile in terms of median income and/or human development index. Me thinks them SC folks should revisit their priorities.
Sorry, I STILL can't figure out the hatred of Hillary Clinton. Dare I say that it was trumped up?
It doesn't matter if the hate is deserved or not. The hate is real, and it is a variable the DNC (and Hillary herself) refused to acknowledge.
We are talking about a constituency that contains people who truly believe Obama was born in Kenya, who believes Hillary was running a sex-ring out of a pizzeria, who believes Jade Helm and UN Agenda 21 are real, who think Noah's ark was an actual even in history, who are OK with letting Syrian orphans and Central American children die before spending a penny (all the while preparing their fucking Xmas nativity scenes and talking how much they love baby Jesus.)
Call me elitist, but you do not try logic with these people dude. Then can't fucking tell the difference between thinking and feelings. You can't reason with them when their emotional chip runs in "Asshole Overdrive" mode. You can only contain them. That is the sad truth
So when you see such an amount of distrust and hate coming out of their mind-gonads, all you can do is measure and either attack, contain or avoid depending on the magnitude of such emotions.
The DNC (and Hillary) failed at that. So much for being seasoned politicians.
You voted against the Orangutan now, but did you vote for the Gorilla before him?
Or is comparing peoples go ape only racism when he is Black?
I, for one, remember when George W. Bush was 'just like' a chimpanzee. And I welcome the freedom to compared president to ape that we lost under the fascist race-baiting Obama administration. Trump already made america a little bit better just being being elected.
Suuuuure.
I hope you hated hillary more than you liked your social security.
I don't count on social security at all. I have under no illusions to retire here (or retire ever). And our household does make good, white collar salaries mind you. My objective, as I told my wife last night, is to make it with our financials intact.
Because, if Trump ever does a 1/4 of what he promised, there will be financial repercussions. It's not rhetoric, it's fact. Hold down to your panties, here we go for a ride! A riiiiide I tell ya!
If he's the King of Birthers, it's only because Hillary tossed him the scimitar
I'm not saying HRC is an angel, she is a shitpile just like Trump. But your entire response amounts to "she did something stupid, so Trump gets to do something stupid too."
If that's how you want to role, go for it. I won't be the one to get in your way towards 3rd-grade levels of thinking.
94.5% of voters voted for one of the two worst major-party presidential candidates in history.
This country is getting what it deserves.
With 43% absenteeism, with the lowest turnout in the last 20 years. That 95.5% doesn't seem that impressive once you put it in its proper context. No matter what, both candidates were shit.
I hate when I fucked up html tags. This is what I was trying to link: image in twitter.
It's better than having Cliton in office. You dumbass Democrats should have voted Bernie, then this wouldn't have happened. But noooo.
And you fucking Republicans should have elected someone else, Kasick, Bush, even Cruz, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, you have to vote for the fucking King of Birthers.
She did win the popular vote though.
Yes, only in America can you win by 3 million votes and still somehow lose. Thanks, Electoral College!
As someone who voted for Clinton (not as a vote for her, but a vote against the Orangegutan), don't thank the EC. Thank the DNC for crowning a fucking crook, HRC. The DNC lived in a fucking bubble not grasping how much hate there is for HRC.
It doesn't fucking matter if the hate is deserved or not. That's reality, and a politician should have had a pulse on it. Instead HRC chose ambition over country and against all logic, she went for it. From the moment she was nominated by the DNC, I knew the gig was (almost) over. I knew it when I cast my vote for her. You had to be living in a fucking bubble to not see it.
So here we are, today. The Electoral College did its work. Don't blame it for the output. Blame the input provided by both major parties. Garbage in, garbage out.
This is precisely why I don't rely on the cloud exclusively. It could be any company on any day, and your data is just history. Poof!
And that's why backups exists (specially incremental backups). Cloud providers (large, reputable ones, that is) do not disappear within 24 hours. They give you plenty of time to offload to another provider or to physical storage.
And with providers like AWS, redundancy pretty much nullifies most forms of data loss. Any data loss that you experience will most likely be a function of your application or your data management policies.
Why not? There's still people around here blaming Bush...
And why fucking not? I mean, dude, Gulf War II and Bush's inattention to economic indicators caused this mess. And I say this as a Republican who (mistakenly in hindsight) voted for him.
We'll see about all that in a year. We'll also see how blue states are likely getting these 50,000 jobs.
All of these jobs are related to venture capital. So it is very likely all of them will be in blue, metropolitan areas (sorry Rust Belt, no soup for you.)
Only fair.
It is only fair if Americans build it or purchase it. The fact that this isn't at this moment so should tell you something.
Now, we need a push so that kids the math, writing and science skills they'll need because the schools are failing horribly at those - especially science. What good is them learning to code when they still come out of school thinking Evolution is "just a theory" and not a fact?
Or coming out of school without the basic math skills to succeed in a STEM field.
And this focus on STEM is horribly musguided. Everything builds on one another. Music and art education is just as important and helps with other subjects. Why while everyone in my data structures class were struggling, I learned it instantaneously by making analogies to music.
And also keep in mind that compared to the general population, more Noble winners play instruments. Interesting correlation between musicality and scientific creativity.
But code.org is about creating a pool of low cost labor and not our economic future.
And soon, computers won't need to be programmed, they'll be trained.
Someone has to build the computers and laid the underlying software to make them trainable. Oh, you think they can build and set themselves up to get trained, recursively, ad infinitum? Say hi to the Halting Problem.
What do you consider "socialist countries"?
On an unrelated note, I've known people in this country who think Germany and Japan are socialist countries. I shit you not. #fuckingsad.