If you looked at the tweets posted in another part of this thread plus read a bit more of the summary, you will notice these factors which are causing the investigation to be not so cut'n'dried:
Cyclist was pushing a bicycle laden with plastic bags.
Cyclist was on a median strip which is:
- Covered with bushes
- signed as not to be used by pedestrians
The pedestrian stepped out in front of vehicle
All of the above hinder sensor detection of the person as an obstacle with potential avoidance required.
Be interesting to see the video/IR footage though.
I think UBI needs to be higher than what you've stated - I'm in a higher cost country though, could just be my take. Marginal income tax thresholds are lowered slightly, so that anyone already making an ok wage pays back the UBI via extra taxes and has a net affect of $0 overall. Those on lower taxable incomes benefit, those on higher contribute more. You'd need to look at what deductions are claimable - we've got a lot of issues right now with that in Au. Removal of all health related care sounds weird - thought that should be covered by universal health cover. Studies seem to indicate Americans are paying up to 3x for the same level of health services as other nations, so socialising that could mean better overall coverage. Have fun de-privatising your health care!
Oh, don't forget the disruption when you make a few million public servants redundant - no need for a bunch of agencies working out who to give some money too when everyone gets UBI. That also translates to more money in the pot (eventually) from reduced headcount to increase the UBI.
I would hazard a guess that countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Some of these are in the EU.
I don't know why GP mentioned social republics when it was social democracies that was mentioned higher.:shrug:
It's about fucking time we recognized that if telcos want to compete for our business (instead of telling us what we can have as a monopoly) that the cabling which comes to our homes must be common and universal.
Free market my goddamned fucking ass... let the fuckers compete starting from the curb, and then we'll begin to see if there can be such a thing as a free market.
We tried that in Australia - fibre to the premise (FTTP) for everywhere financially viable (93% was the latest estimate), fixed wireless / satellite elsewhere. All centrally owned by a government backed entity, with eventually private investment. Was in rollout stage (slow, but on budget) and working OK until that government was voted out (for other reasons) and the new incoming government changed strategy to use the cheapest to connect technology (which typically excludes fibre) as the preferred connection type. This conveniently excludes TCO over the lifespan of the infrastructure, where fibre wins hands down. We're still on track for similar fixed line coverage, with ISPs competing over the one connection type, however the service capability of copper / HFC is absolute crap in comparison to fibre. We also have the inability to run high speed or even reliable services over non-fibre connections, so there goes revenue streams for SLA backed business connections, plus anything higher than 100Mb as that's the max the copper will allow.
So, there's good and bad to the single player entity for infrastructure. Done right it can be sensational. Done wrong, and it's a money pit.
In many cases it appears that government recognised that telcos would not rollout to their areas as it was non-profitable unless they had 100% captured market share to squeeze dry. Hence the government granted monopoly. The telco reneging on deals is the problem - currently under rectification here in some areas at least going by the summary. (Of course this is glossing over corruption on any level).
The words of our current PM, when they won government and switched from 93% fibre to the premise to a mish-mash of whatever technology seemed cheapest to deploy for that area. The result has been an explosion of additional costs to remediate the chosen technologies, such that both cost and completion time-frame are now worse than the 93% FTPP plan.
You know what is *not* included in the new cost model? Legislation and regulation costs & effort dealing with the vagaries of the mish-mash network that needs remediation, or for several chosen technologies (FTTC units and CoaxTTC), actual R&D for stuff that doesn't exist yet.
The concept that Life comes from Non-life is speculation which I would call wild.
I look around and conclude that either Life came from Non-life, or it was seeded from elsewhere that had life.
That second option also has the same conclusion.
Somewhere in the universe either Life came from non-Life, or there was extra-universe intervention by an outside agent (which again has the same two options for where they came from).
MS needed to push the dock and their Windows Phones as alternatives to bog standard desktops and laptops. If all you run is O365 and a browser, you don't need more power than what's in a phone - plus you save $$$ by not paying for Windows OS licences, and should have advanced device management via an MDM/Intune. MS were not working cross platform collaboratively enough.
Don't be so sure. I worked for one of the 5 biggest IT companies, and they thought Lotus Notes was an enterprise email solution.
To be fair, it wasn't that bad at email, especially if you were owned the platform, ie: IBM. It was used a fair bit in the enterprise before Microsoft had Outlook ready in '97.
Instead of having to manage the status of 10's of thousands of PCs (ordered, in transit, deployed, in hotswap pools, in storage awaiting disposal, disposed) I now check the O365 portal for the number of users with O365 licences.
What used to take several days (normally) to several months (when under audit) is now literally a few minutes work at any time. It is significantly easier to justify costs to the CFO when it comes to budget time - $X/user times number of users.
You bet I like an annual user subscription cost with automated federated user management to O365 portal. When you're already paying for an enterprise agreement, the cost increase to change to subscription models vs the reduced compliance effort is a no brainer.
The reason the gov relies on contractors so much is that it's self-imposed bureacracy inhibits adding manpower any other way. To add a military member or federal civilian into the manpower pool can require years worth of paperwork, whereas contracting can be done in weeks or months. On the flip side, to remove a federal civilian takes an act of God if they have tenure, but a contractor can be removed near instantly. In general, most of the problems the government faces are due to it's own self-imposed red tape and backroom deals done by entrenched officials that face no such hurdles.
The reason behind this is that public servants are meant to be able to provide honest advice to the mucky mucks upstairs - ministers, lords, congress, whatever works for your country - without the fear of being fired for providing that advice. Without the bureaucracy requiring performance management, 3 strikes, whatever it is you have - if you don't have it, you end up with Yes People following whatever direction is presented without question.
Now, whether it works in practice...it does, up to a certain level. Then you see the boards being stacked with Yes People (as at this level everyone is on a contract, not a public servant), and realise it doesn't really matter:/
It's not a problem with government, it's a problem with people causing or creating problems that then require government oversight or regulation. For example, the EPA was created because of environmental concerns about dumping/burning waste. That's an $8billion annual budget on making sure companies do the right thing.
You want it scaled back? Companies need to comply with the regulations enough that the number of FTEs can be dropped. It's a long timeline, but it does happen - especially when government changes and redundancies go up for grabs.
Storage is a real problem when you only have 16GB for system & apps. Many Google apps only let you remove Updates to their apps, however the base application remains installed and using up precious storage space. eg: I can remove Google Home, but not Google Docs (145MB!!). Google Play books is wasting 45MB for an app I can't remove. Remove all the updates and it's *only* 9.2MB Google Play games - from 33MB down to only 7.8MB yay. Movies and TV, from 45MB to 9.2MB. Google Play music? 58MB down to 10MB. Google Play Newstand from 50MB down to 9.1MB. Hangouts - another 73MB wasted, now down to 18MB.
If you leave auto-update on, all these are automatically pushed back to those ludicrous values.
Why push all this useless stuff to users that don't want it, and that take up space?
We're still supporting Lotus Approach databases, which was deprecated in favor of MS Office back in 2003. Yep, 15 years later and these groups still haven't moved to a newer program...
I'm running Win10 enterprise at work and all of the things you mention are disabled.
At home, sure it might be a problem for someone that needs to look at their start menu to figure out how to open an app. At work, all that crap is gone. Win10 not running on some hardware is a bigger problem for us - we needed to find devices running older chipsets that still have Win7 drivers as our Win10 migration is dragging out much longer than it should.
The budget for PT needs to be considered together with the budget for building out / upgrading roads to deal with extra cars. There's a project in my city to expand a 4 lane road to 6 lanes, over several kilometres. It will save commuters about 1-2 minute of time, and due to the complexity will cost in the region of $650 million dollars. That would cover a LOT of PT
I simply do not see how I would get a much as I generally buy weekly, some of it very bulky and heavy...home on a bike or public transport.
You probably wouldn't. If public transport does not already give you some viable options for various activities, having free public transport isn't going to be much of a big deal.
For me, there's bus stops outside my complex, on either side of the road going in both directions, at 10-15 minute intervals between buses. I can take the bus directly to and from a shopping centre to get groceries, so free PT would probably have us do that a couple times a week instead of driving once a week and loading up.
Now, getting to work would still be by car as I need to drop my boy off at daycare, and trying to do that then get to work by PT could take 2-3 hours each way.
I guess overall there's some positives to be had if the cost of managing excessive numbers of cars in a city exceeds the cost of providing PT for free.
Where property prices have escalated way out of control, a mere 30% of my income to pay mortgage and strata fees would be soooo nice - it's more like 50% right now.
At least slow wage growth drops that % down a smidgeon each year.
Customers that want the product can purchase it using any other method that the publisher decides to use. Steam is not the only way to purchase a game.
If the publisher didn't want to lose access to such a convenient sales platform, they should have abided by the Steam ToS.
Tesla's energy business saw an increase in sales of its Powerwall storage battery, Tesla said. The company expects sales of energy storage products to triple in sales and gross margins to improve in 2018.
This is where the real money is. Tesla cars are an moving advert for the non-sexy parts of the company. Who notices anything about Gigafactory 1 & 2?
And that same Australian government that commissioned the battery has now commissioned solar roofing for 50,000 houses from Tesla. No more free batteries required either after the first, now it's order taking and (you'd expect) profit making for that part of the Tesla group.
MS gets the same amount in SA regardless of what you're running, but they can cut costs by ditching older versions of product. Less testing, less security patching, less everything.
Sure you can pay on top of that for support for old products - like those organisations paying for WinXP support - but that doesn't mean MS is forced to give that org. Office 2019 for WinXP.
Until you have to manage multiple versions of products that stretch back over a few decades, you don't realise how much resources are spent on support. It's a massive PITA.
So from a business continuity point of view, the new versions of Windows, Office and Exchange are all now broken due to unwanted updates and/or incompatibilities?
Sounds like we escaped the Microsoft trap just in time...
Depends on your Microsoft + or - point of view. WinServer 2016, SCCM, Win10 & O365 users subscriptions + Exchange online, Power BI Pro, Dynamics, I don't know what else. Keep 'em all fairly close to the latest release and it all seems to work together OK.
Don't keep updated on both Windows & Office and things start breaking everywhere.
At what point can you stop updating though? Win7/8 + O2013 & WinServer 2012R2 + on-prem Exchange, that seems about it?
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Cyclist was pushing a bicycle laden with plastic bags.
Cyclist was on a median strip which is:
- Covered with bushes
- signed as not to be used by pedestrians
The pedestrian stepped out in front of vehicle
All of the above hinder sensor detection of the person as an obstacle with potential avoidance required.
Be interesting to see the video/IR footage though.
Marginal income tax thresholds are lowered slightly, so that anyone already making an ok wage pays back the UBI via extra taxes and has a net affect of $0 overall. Those on lower taxable incomes benefit, those on higher contribute more. You'd need to look at what deductions are claimable - we've got a lot of issues right now with that in Au.
Removal of all health related care sounds weird - thought that should be covered by universal health cover. Studies seem to indicate Americans are paying up to 3x for the same level of health services as other nations, so socialising that could mean better overall coverage. Have fun de-privatising your health care!
Oh, don't forget the disruption when you make a few million public servants redundant - no need for a bunch of agencies working out who to give some money too when everyone gets UBI. That also translates to more money in the pot (eventually) from reduced headcount to increase the UBI.
Tl:dr: UBI needs a *lot* of modelling.
I don't know why GP mentioned social republics when it was social democracies that was mentioned higher. :shrug:
It's about fucking time we recognized that if telcos want to compete for our business (instead of telling us what we can have as a monopoly) that the cabling which comes to our homes must be common and universal.
Free market my goddamned fucking ass ... let the fuckers compete starting from the curb, and then we'll begin to see if there can be such a thing as a free market.
We tried that in Australia - fibre to the premise (FTTP) for everywhere financially viable (93% was the latest estimate), fixed wireless / satellite elsewhere. All centrally owned by a government backed entity, with eventually private investment. Was in rollout stage (slow, but on budget) and working OK until that government was voted out (for other reasons) and the new incoming government changed strategy to use the cheapest to connect technology (which typically excludes fibre) as the preferred connection type. This conveniently excludes TCO over the lifespan of the infrastructure, where fibre wins hands down.
We're still on track for similar fixed line coverage, with ISPs competing over the one connection type, however the service capability of copper / HFC is absolute crap in comparison to fibre. We also have the inability to run high speed or even reliable services over non-fibre connections, so there goes revenue streams for SLA backed business connections, plus anything higher than 100Mb as that's the max the copper will allow.
So, there's good and bad to the single player entity for infrastructure. Done right it can be sensational. Done wrong, and it's a money pit.
In many cases it appears that government recognised that telcos would not rollout to their areas as it was non-profitable unless they had 100% captured market share to squeeze dry. Hence the government granted monopoly. The telco reneging on deals is the problem - currently under rectification here in some areas at least going by the summary. (Of course this is glossing over corruption on any level).
This isn't about Equifax is it?
The result has been an explosion of additional costs to remediate the chosen technologies, such that both cost and completion time-frame are now worse than the 93% FTPP plan.
You know what is *not* included in the new cost model?
Legislation and regulation costs & effort dealing with the vagaries of the mish-mash network that needs remediation, or for several chosen technologies (FTTC units and CoaxTTC), actual R&D for stuff that doesn't exist yet.
The concept that Life comes from Non-life is speculation which I would call wild.
I look around and conclude that either Life came from Non-life, or it was seeded from elsewhere that had life.
That second option also has the same conclusion.
Somewhere in the universe either Life came from non-Life, or there was extra-universe intervention by an outside agent (which again has the same two options for where they came from).
MS needed to push the dock and their Windows Phones as alternatives to bog standard desktops and laptops. If all you run is O365 and a browser, you don't need more power than what's in a phone - plus you save $$$ by not paying for Windows OS licences, and should have advanced device management via an MDM/Intune.
MS were not working cross platform collaboratively enough.
Don't be so sure. I worked for one of the 5 biggest IT companies, and they thought Lotus Notes was an enterprise email solution.
To be fair, it wasn't that bad at email, especially if you were owned the platform, ie: IBM. It was used a fair bit in the enterprise before Microsoft had Outlook ready in '97.
What used to take several days (normally) to several months (when under audit) is now literally a few minutes work at any time.
It is significantly easier to justify costs to the CFO when it comes to budget time - $X/user times number of users.
You bet I like an annual user subscription cost with automated federated user management to O365 portal. When you're already paying for an enterprise agreement, the cost increase to change to subscription models vs the reduced compliance effort is a no brainer.
The reason the gov relies on contractors so much is that it's self-imposed bureacracy inhibits adding manpower any other way. To add a military member or federal civilian into the manpower pool can require years worth of paperwork, whereas contracting can be done in weeks or months. On the flip side, to remove a federal civilian takes an act of God if they have tenure, but a contractor can be removed near instantly. In general, most of the problems the government faces are due to it's own self-imposed red tape and backroom deals done by entrenched officials that face no such hurdles.
The reason behind this is that public servants are meant to be able to provide honest advice to the mucky mucks upstairs - ministers, lords, congress, whatever works for your country - without the fear of being fired for providing that advice.
Without the bureaucracy requiring performance management, 3 strikes, whatever it is you have - if you don't have it, you end up with Yes People following whatever direction is presented without question.
Now, whether it works in practice...it does, up to a certain level. Then you see the boards being stacked with Yes People (as at this level everyone is on a contract, not a public servant), and realise it doesn't really matter :/
For example, the EPA was created because of environmental concerns about dumping/burning waste. That's an $8billion annual budget on making sure companies do the right thing.
You want it scaled back? Companies need to comply with the regulations enough that the number of FTEs can be dropped. It's a long timeline, but it does happen - especially when government changes and redundancies go up for grabs.
Don't forget their new Inbox app for Gmail! Now with Gmail Go, you can have 3 apps to do the one task!
Storage is a real problem when you only have 16GB for system & apps. Many Google apps only let you remove Updates to their apps, however the base application remains installed and using up precious storage space.
eg: I can remove Google Home, but not Google Docs (145MB!!).
Google Play books is wasting 45MB for an app I can't remove. Remove all the updates and it's *only* 9.2MB
Google Play games - from 33MB down to only 7.8MB yay.
Movies and TV, from 45MB to 9.2MB.
Google Play music? 58MB down to 10MB.
Google Play Newstand from 50MB down to 9.1MB.
Hangouts - another 73MB wasted, now down to 18MB.
If you leave auto-update on, all these are automatically pushed back to those ludicrous values.
Why push all this useless stuff to users that don't want it, and that take up space?
Luxury!!!
We're still supporting Lotus Approach databases, which was deprecated in favor of MS Office back in 2003.
Yep, 15 years later and these groups still haven't moved to a newer program...
At home, sure it might be a problem for someone that needs to look at their start menu to figure out how to open an app.
At work, all that crap is gone. Win10 not running on some hardware is a bigger problem for us - we needed to find devices running older chipsets that still have Win7 drivers as our Win10 migration is dragging out much longer than it should.
The budget for PT needs to be considered together with the budget for building out / upgrading roads to deal with extra cars. There's a project in my city to expand a 4 lane road to 6 lanes, over several kilometres. It will save commuters about 1-2 minute of time, and due to the complexity will cost in the region of $650 million dollars.
That would cover a LOT of PT
I simply do not see how I would get a much as I generally buy weekly, some of it very bulky and heavy...home on a bike or public transport.
You probably wouldn't. If public transport does not already give you some viable options for various activities, having free public transport isn't going to be much of a big deal.
For me, there's bus stops outside my complex, on either side of the road going in both directions, at 10-15 minute intervals between buses. I can take the bus directly to and from a shopping centre to get groceries, so free PT would probably have us do that a couple times a week instead of driving once a week and loading up.
Now, getting to work would still be by car as I need to drop my boy off at daycare, and trying to do that then get to work by PT could take 2-3 hours each way.
I guess overall there's some positives to be had if the cost of managing excessive numbers of cars in a city exceeds the cost of providing PT for free.
At least slow wage growth drops that % down a smidgeon each year.
If the publisher didn't want to lose access to such a convenient sales platform, they should have abided by the Steam ToS.
Tesla's energy business saw an increase in sales of its Powerwall storage battery, Tesla said. The company expects sales of energy storage products to triple in sales and gross margins to improve in 2018.
This is where the real money is. Tesla cars are an moving advert for the non-sexy parts of the company. Who notices anything about Gigafactory 1 & 2?
And that same Australian government that commissioned the battery has now commissioned solar roofing for 50,000 houses from Tesla. No more free batteries required either after the first, now it's order taking and (you'd expect) profit making for that part of the Tesla group.
as long as the checks clear.
MS gets the same amount in SA regardless of what you're running, but they can cut costs by ditching older versions of product. Less testing, less security patching, less everything.
Sure you can pay on top of that for support for old products - like those organisations paying for WinXP support - but that doesn't mean MS is forced to give that org. Office 2019 for WinXP.
Until you have to manage multiple versions of products that stretch back over a few decades, you don't realise how much resources are spent on support. It's a massive PITA.
So from a business continuity point of view, the new versions of Windows, Office and Exchange are all now broken due to unwanted updates and/or incompatibilities?
Sounds like we escaped the Microsoft trap just in time...
Depends on your Microsoft + or - point of view. WinServer 2016, SCCM, Win10 & O365 users subscriptions + Exchange online, Power BI Pro, Dynamics, I don't know what else. Keep 'em all fairly close to the latest release and it all seems to work together OK.
Don't keep updated on both Windows & Office and things start breaking everywhere.
At what point can you stop updating though? Win7/8 + O2013 & WinServer 2012R2 + on-prem Exchange, that seems about it?