It also dovetails nicely with the anti-Johnny Foreigner rhetoric that the Conservative Party love to engage in.
Having said that I think Uber are taking the wrong approach here. Simply donate lots of cash to the Conservative Party (cheap to do as Sterling plummets) making it clear what is required in turn and it will happen. Note that it doesn't really matter who is in government, just have to send the money to the correct place.
They could get some tips from Google, who got out of their tax bill for two superbowl tickets and travel costs from UK to attend it.
to make racially insensitive remarks or to heap insults on some random basket of deplorables with no threat of being exposed during his next election campaign.
You comment as if such things would adversely affect a politician's election campaign. That doesn't seem to always be the case.
Paltry? I don't think I have ever seen that adjective applied to the Eastern Front. I'm more used to seeing it described along the lines of "The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history."
The intent of VR is not to emulate human interaction, but to artificially immerse people in environments to which most don't have ready access: flight simulation, museum tours, product design, etc. that are filled with adverts. The purpose of AR is to overlay more adverts on everyone's existing experience: navigation, shopping, and the like.
It makes it sound like a personal medical condition rather than someone else having a memory failure.
I guess it's just an aspect of fame\notoriety. You don't forget that someone you were personally acquainted with is dead, but someone you knew of but never actually met is a different matter.
I think the clue is in the summary where it says the shareholders are "mostly foreign institutions", i.e. corporations. For a corporation quarterly figures seem to be more important then long term considerations. Once the lawsuit payout has boosted one quarter's income and secured an executive bonus then it won't matter if the dividends or share value are reduced. Someone else's problem.
Conservatives have a working majority. They won't be immune to civil service sabotage but it doesn't matter how anyone else votes; they only lose if their own MPs rebel.
I'm neither a conspiracy nutter nor a high profile public figure (does this Tom DeLonge count as both?) but I'm willing to bet that the former message the latter via all sorts of medium all the time.
If Wikileaks have got something interesting then reveal that, not this nonsense.
Apparently this is what "getting our sovereignty back by voting for Brexit means" - secretive dictatorship.
I had initially thought it was mostly an influential faction wanting rid of pesky EU legislation like environmental constraints and employee rights. Funny how things can start getting worse than you expect.
We can only hope there are enough decent Conservatives
I don't think "decent Conservatives" exist. They now have well over a decade of government ahead and the real sociopaths are going to be vying to pin any Brexit problems on May to get those keys to No. 10 for themselves.
But offering them money to research "breaking out" is pretty stupid.
They, like too many people, are afflicted by specialsnowflakeitis, the condition that just might bring about the end of the species.
And they haven't thought it through. If they are in a simulation then all their wealth is simulated and they would have nothing after a hypothetical transfer from the simulation to a higher reality. But I guess their specialsnowflakeitis would see them through wherever they end up.
I thought they removed it to improve water resistance, or at least claimed so.
But more likely the decision was solely based on the fact that it would marginally reduce production costs. Anything a company does is always for the bottom line.
Some will have a problem. It's all other religious texts that are fairy tales. The religious texts for the religion that their parents indoctrinated them into are most definitely not fairy tales. To them anyway. And they can get quite irate over the suggestion that all religious texts are just the same.
Scribes annotation - "We can probably get the children to believe this, maybe even their children but I think the joke will be over by the time the children's children's children are born.
People find they can abuse a system for personal monetary gain, so they do.
There will be solutions to these existing abuses but I suspect that the drivers will be able to devise new ones faster than the Uber developers can mitigate against them.
I suspect shafting their own customer base certainly does take some courage.
Not to Apple it doesn't. This comment thread will be full of statements from the Apple customer base with proclamations ranging from "it's not at all inconvenient" to "it's actually a good thing".
One day Apple might actually go to far in shafting their customer base, but today is not that day.
Well somewhere there will be a database that ties the number plate to your name and address. Actually probably several databases not all subject to the same degree of security. Then the absence of the vehicle outside said address would be a good indicator of the premises being empty.
And security breaches aren't the only problem for these databases, in the UK those permitted to access the official database have been known to access it unofficially.
And I would also expect that people well versed in scams and frauds could provide a far longer list than I can of how it could cause problems for you.
And the reason for the Lib Dem destruction is in propping up a coalition government that nobody liked. The electorate punished them and not the larger partner of the coalition. Strange. Or maybe demonstration of just how much control the right wing media has over a large portion of the electorate.
The implosion of Labour is hilarious. The party is collapsing because it's got too many MPs who wanted to be in the Conservative Party but somehow joined Labour, presumably by mistake.
The Conservatives may be divided over Brexit but the upcoming constituency boundary changes mean we're going to have a Conservative government for another 20 years or more. Just have to prepare to get health insurance when they finally get to dismantle the NHS and I should be fine.
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It also dovetails nicely with the anti-Johnny Foreigner rhetoric that the Conservative Party love to engage in.
Having said that I think Uber are taking the wrong approach here. Simply donate lots of cash to the Conservative Party (cheap to do as Sterling plummets) making it clear what is required in turn and it will happen. Note that it doesn't really matter who is in government, just have to send the money to the correct place.
They could get some tips from Google, who got out of their tax bill for two superbowl tickets and travel costs from UK to attend it.
to make racially insensitive remarks or to heap insults on some random basket of deplorables with no threat of being exposed during his next election campaign.
You comment as if such things would adversely affect a politician's election campaign. That doesn't seem to always be the case.
from a paltry German invasion.
Paltry? I don't think I have ever seen that adjective applied to the Eastern Front. I'm more used to seeing it described along the lines of "The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history."
Eh? I think the Green Party where you live must be very different from the Green Party where I live.
Shouldn't that be...
The intent of VR is not to emulate human interaction, but to artificially immerse people in environments to which most don't have ready access: flight simulation, museum tours, product design, etc. that are filled with adverts. The purpose of AR is to overlay more adverts on everyone's existing experience: navigation, shopping, and the like.
It makes it sound like a personal medical condition rather than someone else having a memory failure.
I guess it's just an aspect of fame\notoriety. You don't forget that someone you were personally acquainted with is dead, but someone you knew of but never actually met is a different matter.
I think the clue is in the summary where it says the shareholders are "mostly foreign institutions", i.e. corporations. For a corporation quarterly figures seem to be more important then long term considerations. Once the lawsuit payout has boosted one quarter's income and secured an executive bonus then it won't matter if the dividends or share value are reduced. Someone else's problem.
Conservatives have a working majority. They won't be immune to civil service sabotage but it doesn't matter how anyone else votes; they only lose if their own MPs rebel.
I'm neither a conspiracy nutter nor a high profile public figure (does this Tom DeLonge count as both?) but I'm willing to bet that the former message the latter via all sorts of medium all the time.
If Wikileaks have got something interesting then reveal that, not this nonsense.
Apparently this is what "getting our sovereignty back by voting for Brexit means" - secretive dictatorship.
I had initially thought it was mostly an influential faction wanting rid of pesky EU legislation like environmental constraints and employee rights. Funny how things can start getting worse than you expect.
We can only hope there are enough decent Conservatives
I don't think "decent Conservatives" exist. They now have well over a decade of government ahead and the real sociopaths are going to be vying to pin any Brexit problems on May to get those keys to No. 10 for themselves.
And will probably care as much as if he'd been handed the documents in person, i.e. not at all.
But offering them money to research "breaking out" is pretty stupid.
They, like too many people, are afflicted by specialsnowflakeitis, the condition that just might bring about the end of the species.
And they haven't thought it through. If they are in a simulation then all their wealth is simulated and they would have nothing after a hypothetical transfer from the simulation to a higher reality. But I guess their specialsnowflakeitis would see them through wherever they end up.
Says AC...
I thought they removed it to improve water resistance, or at least claimed so.
But more likely the decision was solely based on the fact that it would marginally reduce production costs. Anything a company does is always for the bottom line.
But their absence would not mean no tourist dollars. Tourists don't avoid Versailles because the French got rid of their monarchy.
They only have 140 characters to fill, so I guess they manage.
Some will have a problem. It's all other religious texts that are fairy tales. The religious texts for the religion that their parents indoctrinated them into are most definitely not fairy tales. To them anyway. And they can get quite irate over the suggestion that all religious texts are just the same.
There was a joke doing the rounds after the Brexit referendum...
USA and UK are competing to be the most stupid country. UK have just taken the lead but USA still have a trump card to play.
What might it say?
Scribes annotation - "We can probably get the children to believe this, maybe even their children but I think the joke will be over by the time the children's children's children are born.
You're one of the Microsoft lawyers, aren't you?
People find they can abuse a system for personal monetary gain, so they do.
There will be solutions to these existing abuses but I suspect that the drivers will be able to devise new ones faster than the Uber developers can mitigate against them.
BBC 80's sitcom reference isn't going to work well here.
And the Google drone that came up with the name can't have tried entering it on IMDB when checking for other use.
I suspect shafting their own customer base certainly does take some courage.
Not to Apple it doesn't. This comment thread will be full of statements from the Apple customer base with proclamations ranging from "it's not at all inconvenient" to "it's actually a good thing".
One day Apple might actually go to far in shafting their customer base, but today is not that day.
Well somewhere there will be a database that ties the number plate to your name and address. Actually probably several databases not all subject to the same degree of security. Then the absence of the vehicle outside said address would be a good indicator of the premises being empty.
And security breaches aren't the only problem for these databases, in the UK those permitted to access the official database have been known to access it unofficially.
And I would also expect that people well versed in scams and frauds could provide a far longer list than I can of how it could cause problems for you.
And the reason for the Lib Dem destruction is in propping up a coalition government that nobody liked. The electorate punished them and not the larger partner of the coalition. Strange. Or maybe demonstration of just how much control the right wing media has over a large portion of the electorate.
The implosion of Labour is hilarious. The party is collapsing because it's got too many MPs who wanted to be in the Conservative Party but somehow joined Labour, presumably by mistake.
The Conservatives may be divided over Brexit but the upcoming constituency boundary changes mean we're going to have a Conservative government for another 20 years or more. Just have to prepare to get health insurance when they finally get to dismantle the NHS and I should be fine.