TWO FRIENDS ARE DRIVING HOME after a night on the town. A
few miles from their freeway exit, they see a sign that reads “Drug
Checkpoint 1 Mile Ahead.” There is nothing to worry about—neither
party is carrying contraband and the driver is sober. But their exit is
only a few miles away and the weary travelers want to avoid the hassle
of a stop. The driver takes the first exit he sees after the sign; much to
his surprise, he encounters a drug checkpoint located at the bottom
of the off-ramp. The bewildered driver turns to his companion and
asks; “Can they do that?”
Regardless of whether law enforcement can use such tactics, they
have.
Where I live, it's a four to eight hour time expenditure to physically attend a driver's license renewal... every other 6 yr renewal, they allow me to renew online. For my last visit to the DMV, I arrived 90 minutes early (last year) and was 65th in line, so in addition to the $35ish fee, the time cost was still a half day.
Your argument is identical to the one that says we should stop ordering everything online and shop brick and mortar stores where we can to keep humans employed in jobs they're eventually going to lose, anyway.
Actually, the world has replaced ditch diggers with the operators of trenching equipment...
Technology and innovation have reduced the need for ditch diggers, but there are still advantages in many circumstances to hand-digging, not the least of which is careful locating of existing subterranean water, gas, data, electrical, and sewer lines. The time cost saved by mechanical excavation is often quickly undone by necessitating additional repairs to buried utilities.
...and lament the collapse of the American system of public schools that resulted when the right-wing had to choose between education for the underclass or betraying their values voters.
One of the wonderful remnants of our formerly cutting edge system of democracy in the US is that an individual is still not restricted by a social class assignment. Here, you can still get out from under.
The megaretailers devised a workaround to avoid Indian protectionist trade policies, and the government closes the loophole that allowed Walmart & Amazon to exploit the intent of the legislation.
Unless your beef is with a developing nation's right to grow domestic industry, this is what noncorrupted government is supposed to do.
Richer nations using poorer nations as waste dumps is the tragedy of the commons equivalent of that guy throwing his burger wrapper out the car window on the highway because he doesn't want it in his vehicle.
Tossing your trash out of your immediate line of sight still dirties up the same rock we all live on.
Though I'm never to ever be confused with someone you should seek out for financial advice, isn't the proper PR move here to game the lack of interest with a less damning press release?
Something like "We're considering the advantages of keeping the company private"
as opposed to, the rather telling, "We tried to sell out, but nobody wants us."
This. Unlike the realm of sensory perception available to humans and other living organisms, this technology appears to rely upon refraction of light off of a surface facing the camera(s).
The advantage of any tech that mimics the senses of sentient creatures is processing speed, as it now routinely surpasses organic abilities. Perhaps the real leap forward is the yet to be refined sensory abilities beyond what discovered life is capable of.
Ultimately what the Oxford study found was that there is no consistent good or bad effect, and although a very slight negative effect was noted, it was small enough that factors like having a single parent or needing to wear glasses were far more important.
Great. Those of us having a single parent and needing to wear glasses may be statistical outliers in the realm of no hope.
It's that transponder that talks to these new satellites, making it possible to know exactly where more than 10,000 flights currently flying are.
So, perhaps in the event of transponder malfunction?
The fallacy of absolutes is why we can now only rate products as idiot-resistant, since idiot-proof only lasts until we encounter a more consummate idiot.
Your personal and financial information is like a secret... if more folks than you know the details, it's no longer safe.
Being as careful as you can won't hurt you. Have your bank replace your credit and debit cards regularly. Have a card just for hotel & auto reservations, meals, and high risk/low reward expenses like internet pron.
Mostl reasonably advanced nations use (and misuse) cozy relationships with domestic corporations to advance the agendas of their homegrown information gathering services.
Still, those with totalitarian powers are much more ripe for pervasive abuse.
"The glut, which at 900,000 cubic yards is the largest in U.S. history, means that there is enough cheese sitting in cold storage to wrap around the U.S. Capitol,"
Awesome! The artist Christo merely wrapped the German Parliament in cloth. Wrapping the US Capitol in cheese would absolutely top that!
Now, if we also have a surplus of bacon . . . we could also wrap it in that, and fry that bastard, and have lunch for the rest of the year!
The beauty of this situation is that the pork is already on the inside.
It's also worthy of consideration why we are so prone to sharply demarcate anthropogenic advancements from otherwise natural or biological development.
Mankind is the result of a natural, biological process... it follows that advancements made by the planet's big-brained hairless monkeys are of nature.
I find myself, principally, reluctant to favor party line direction, (and it even pains me to type it) in any way, shape, or form... fortuitively, I still enjoy that particular freedom.
I could certainly be in much direr straits. We are blessed, to be raised, in the wessed.
Your loyalty is admirable, yet, you are clearly too intelligent to rally behind this Trump fellow, partisan affiliation aside... the democrats are inherently flawed, but so are the republicans.
Arguing on the side of one or the other means you fall prey to the illusion that fealty to one of the two is admirable, rather than playing into the hands of the folks who seek to minimize the efforts of the minority still not politically uninterested.
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There is.
TWO FRIENDS ARE DRIVING HOME after a night on the town. A few miles from their freeway exit, they see a sign that reads “Drug Checkpoint 1 Mile Ahead.” There is nothing to worry about—neither party is carrying contraband and the driver is sober. But their exit is only a few miles away and the weary travelers want to avoid the hassle of a stop. The driver takes the first exit he sees after the sign; much to his surprise, he encounters a drug checkpoint located at the bottom of the off-ramp. The bewildered driver turns to his companion and asks; “Can they do that?” Regardless of whether law enforcement can use such tactics, they have.
(Assuming I could draw at all legibly) I could draw a ring in a pictionary game, then add a ball and chain to narrow the ring type down.
Humans can make intuitive leaps that might baffle machine learning algorithms.
Depends.
Where I live, it's a four to eight hour time expenditure to physically attend a driver's license renewal... every other 6 yr renewal, they allow me to renew online. For my last visit to the DMV, I arrived 90 minutes early (last year) and was 65th in line, so in addition to the $35ish fee, the time cost was still a half day.
Your argument is identical to the one that says we should stop ordering everything online and shop brick and mortar stores where we can to keep humans employed in jobs they're eventually going to lose, anyway.
Humans are unlikely to shed the selfish gene.
Have you ever seen the inside of a meat packing plant? None of those people want to be there.
Well, maybe this one guy.
Actually, the world has replaced ditch diggers with the operators of trenching equipment...
Technology and innovation have reduced the need for ditch diggers, but there are still advantages in many circumstances to hand-digging, not the least of which is careful locating of existing subterranean water, gas, data, electrical, and sewer lines. The time cost saved by mechanical excavation is often quickly undone by necessitating additional repairs to buried utilities.
...and lament the collapse of the American system of public schools that resulted when the right-wing had to choose between education for the underclass or betraying their values voters.
One of the wonderful remnants of our formerly cutting edge system of democracy in the US is that an individual is still not restricted by a social class assignment. Here, you can still get out from under.
Depends.
$15 an hour in Omaha, NE would be a good deal more attractive than $25 an hour in the SF Bay area.
Downside? Once folks are mandated a living wage for holding a job, automation and robotic replacement become incrementally more attractive.
The megaretailers devised a workaround to avoid Indian protectionist trade policies, and the government closes the loophole that allowed Walmart & Amazon to exploit the intent of the legislation.
Unless your beef is with a developing nation's right to grow domestic industry, this is what noncorrupted government is supposed to do.
Tossing your trash out of your immediate line of sight still dirties up the same rock we all live on.
Though I'm never to ever be confused with someone you should seek out for financial advice, isn't the proper PR move here to game the lack of interest with a less damning press release?
Something like "We're considering the advantages of keeping the company private"
as opposed to, the rather telling, "We tried to sell out, but nobody wants us."
Hope the security is strong with you.
Fancy Bear just authorized unlimited overtime.
This. Unlike the realm of sensory perception available to humans and other living organisms, this technology appears to rely upon refraction of light off of a surface facing the camera(s).
The advantage of any tech that mimics the senses of sentient creatures is processing speed, as it now routinely surpasses organic abilities. Perhaps the real leap forward is the yet to be refined sensory abilities beyond what discovered life is capable of.
Ultimately what the Oxford study found was that there is no consistent good or bad effect, and although a very slight negative effect was noted, it was small enough that factors like having a single parent or needing to wear glasses were far more important.
Great. Those of us having a single parent and needing to wear glasses may be statistical outliers in the realm of no hope.
Twice in one day they get looked into ... must be rough for Huawei
At the rate that multiple international jurisdictions are initiating investigations, this isn't as large an uptick in frequency as you'd think.
Perhaps in advertising, where you could star in a slightly plagiarized Mayhem pitch testing products that are resistant to failure by pilot error.
"Assembly and implementation so simple an ISO certified idiot can do it!"
It's that transponder that talks to these new satellites, making it possible to know exactly where more than 10,000 flights currently flying are.
So, perhaps in the event of transponder malfunction?
The fallacy of absolutes is why we can now only rate products as idiot-resistant, since idiot-proof only lasts until we encounter a more consummate idiot.
Until this little startup begins to threaten a fraction of 1% of market share, and then Google and Amazon deploy the workaround models.
I choose streaming to avoid the commercials. a 20-22 minutes show takes 30 minutes to watch on Network TV.
It's like when your significant other makes an extravagant purchase, and focuses on how much was saved due to the item being on sale...
Your personal and financial information is like a secret... if more folks than you know the details, it's no longer safe.
Being as careful as you can won't hurt you. Have your bank replace your credit and debit cards regularly. Have a card just for hotel & auto reservations, meals, and high risk/low reward expenses like internet pron.
Still, those with totalitarian powers are much more ripe for pervasive abuse.
"The glut, which at 900,000 cubic yards is the largest in U.S. history, means that there is enough cheese sitting in cold storage to wrap around the U.S. Capitol,"
Awesome! The artist Christo merely wrapped the German Parliament in cloth. Wrapping the US Capitol in cheese would absolutely top that!
Now, if we also have a surplus of bacon . . . we could also wrap it in that, and fry that bastard, and have lunch for the rest of the year!
The beauty of this situation is that the pork is already on the inside.
Hmmmm...Yes indeed, if science can be considered a product.
Sadly, the price he asked was too high for many, since to benefit, you had to be willing to pay attention.
Perhaps we should give the product-hawking celebrities the benefit of the doubt... and a bonus anti-tiger rock for their trouble.
It's also worthy of consideration why we are so prone to sharply demarcate anthropogenic advancements from otherwise natural or biological development.
Mankind is the result of a natural, biological process... it follows that advancements made by the planet's big-brained hairless monkeys are of nature.
I find myself, principally, reluctant to favor party line direction, (and it even pains me to type it) in any way, shape, or form... fortuitively, I still enjoy that particular freedom.
I could certainly be in much direr straits. We are blessed, to be raised, in the wessed.
Come on.
Your loyalty is admirable, yet, you are clearly too intelligent to rally behind this Trump fellow, partisan affiliation aside... the democrats are inherently flawed, but so are the republicans.
Arguing on the side of one or the other means you fall prey to the illusion that fealty to one of the two is admirable, rather than playing into the hands of the folks who seek to minimize the efforts of the minority still not politically uninterested.