Folks, chill. The ban is about emissions not ICEs. If you have an emission neutral ICE, you're good. Also they don't want to ban them entirely, they just want to ban new ones after 2030. Your ICE car from 2029 (if those still exist) is still allowed on the streets after 2030.
I see a good chance for this law to be mostly cosmetic if it passes Bundesrat, Bundestag and perhaps European Parlament. If the experts are any bit of right, most new cars will be electric by then anyway.
The desire for religion must really be genetically programmed if influencial bigwigs like this dream up a new one after the old ones have been debunked. Truely amazing.
I'm not really interested in Samsung phones - I've always thought them thoroughly lacking in some important areas (design, UI) - but I have to say this whole batteries-on-fire thing is some spectacular PR disaster for the only true competitor to Apples iPhone line. Kinda makes me feel sorry for this company. AFAIHH the entire nation of South Korea is suffering with them.
I find it fascinating how these days companies can charge bizar amounts of money for things we have enjoyed for free for decades. IRC is a perfect solution and yet people buy into slack - itself an IRC rippoff with an OK web interface included.
Same with Office Products. Office365 costs 40 Euros per seat and month. And people are actually paying for this. Imagine Microsoft coming up with such a thing in the 90ies. People would've peed their pants laughing.
It's fascinating the way our entire society is being brainwashed into access culture. Scary but fascinating. Like sheep. And they don't even notice.
Living in Germany turks and people of turkish descent are a part of everyday life. We've got roughly 3 Million people with turkish heritage, many in 2nd and 3rd generation, and turkish is the second most spoken language here.
What I've long since discovered is that when Turks go dorky, they clear the bar for dorkyness in an instant. The video and the tacky pseudo-transformer it features is about as turkish as it gets in that regard.:-)
If you don't know what you're doing, you might want to stear clear of blackbox devices in your private LAN. I personally wouldn't trust an IOThingie that I didn't build myself with a Rasberry Pi, Arduino or something.
Oh, and not being able to find out if your device is part of a botnet counts as 'not knowing what you're doing'.
You mean the board actually stood up, walked over to the Rasberry Pi standing nearby and crushed it to pieces?... What happend to normal sentences like "Runs XYZ benchmark 5 times faster than the Rasberry Pi using half the energy" or something like that? Is this the effect the US political debate has on language? Probably.
Hanjin - a major korean shipping corp recently gone bankrupt - has massive containerships standing at sea, not allowed to run into harbours because the harbour authorities are afraid they won't see their fees. As a result, companies relying on their shipments done with Hanjin are on the brink of bankruptcy, because they can't deliver. And on it goes down the foodchain.
This is what happens if you cut it too thin and expect dirt-cheap stuff and services everywhere, every time and all the time. Same with Uber, Lyft, MyHammer and now this. This sort of race for the bottom line will end up with deflation and eventually a lot of companies and individuals going out of business.
Digital Homicide is known for this type of shit. I have lost count of the times Jim Sterling has brought them up whenever they were screwing around again.
It would be nice to see Valve/Steam finally getting up to some quality management and start kicking out the assholes and doucebags. Digital Homicide is a very good start.
Anyone who believes this is a fool. So-called 'self driving cars' are NOT going to be capable or safe to be unattended anytime in the next 5 years, or 10 years, or 20 years, because we do not have true AI and will not have true AI until we understand how our own brain works.
You're wrong. We don't need AI for self-driving cars. (You might call it AI, but that's another, academic discussion) What we need is cars that can drive themselves better than humans can. And those already exist. Even with Teslas mislabled autopilot and that one weird accident that happened due to wrong/irresposible handling of the car counted in, the death quota per kilometer is half that of human drivers. And that's in a definitely non-selfdriving car you can by right now in any mid-sized to large city.
In the war between Emacs and Vi I come down on Emacs' side, but this is beyond silly. And it goes to show that the GTK version is as pointless as I make it out to be. I only use Emacs in the CLI, and if I even chose to set up a speedy minimal linux system emphasising the CLI I will run it in CLI mode.
I've seen a lot of silly stuff come out of the Emacs camp, but adding webkit to Emacs take the nonsense to a new level in my book.
We are improving the world. It's just that the ignorant idiots keep f*cking things up.
Examples: We build free open architecture computers and advocate them. They buy iPhones. We build and promote free software. They use Windows and pay bizar abmounts of subscription fees for office programms. (Hardly believable but, seriously, no joke.) We tell them man-made climate change is a real thing and we need to react and they say it's all made up because of... reasons... We build and promote electric cars and high-tech bicycles. They buy the next big Porsche Cheyenne. We explain to them that a public transport system built with half the money spent on private cars would be something like a Star Trek utopia of transport. They clog up the cities with stacks and rows of parked private cars. We tell then not to use Facebook and WhatsCrap, but rather Diaspora and Jabber. They don't give a flying f*ck. (Well, my daughter does. Smart girl. Daddy loves you.) We tell them nuclear fission doesn't add up, but they just do what energy powermongers want. We tell then voting machines are a very very bad idea. What do they do? Build and deploy voting machines....
It's like I've always said: Powerful tools in dumb hands is always the biggest problem of technological advancement.
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"Thank you for purchasing our pure gold Rolls Royce offering at the bargain price of 3500 000 Euros."
Who had this stupid idea?
Important detail.
Folks, chill. The ban is about emissions not ICEs. If you have an emission neutral ICE, you're good. Also they don't want to ban them entirely, they just want to ban new ones after 2030. Your ICE car from 2029 (if those still exist) is still allowed on the streets after 2030.
I see a good chance for this law to be mostly cosmetic if it passes Bundesrat, Bundestag and perhaps European Parlament.
If the experts are any bit of right, most new cars will be electric by then anyway.
The desire for religion must really be genetically programmed if influencial bigwigs like this dream up a new one after the old ones have been debunked.
Truely amazing.
I'm not really interested in Samsung phones - I've always thought them thoroughly lacking in some important areas (design, UI) - but I have to say this whole batteries-on-fire thing is some spectacular PR disaster for the only true competitor to Apples iPhone line.
Kinda makes me feel sorry for this company. AFAIHH the entire nation of South Korea is suffering with them.
The battery will have blown the headphone jack a million miles away.
See? No headphone jack.
Told you so.
Samsung had replacable batteries until recently. That ditches their one single selling point in my book.
Other than that, their case design is bad and looks cheap on top of that and their UI is bad.
Motorola, HTC, OnePlus and Huawei beat Samsung anytime in my book.
I find it fascinating how these days companies can charge bizar amounts of money for things we have enjoyed for free for decades. IRC is a perfect solution and yet people buy into slack - itself an IRC rippoff with an OK web interface included.
Same with Office Products. Office365 costs 40 Euros per seat and month. And people are actually paying for this. Imagine Microsoft coming up with such a thing in the 90ies. People would've peed their pants laughing.
It's fascinating the way our entire society is being brainwashed into access culture. Scary but fascinating. Like sheep. And they don't even notice.
Living in Germany turks and people of turkish descent are a part of everyday life. We've got roughly 3 Million people with turkish heritage, many in 2nd and 3rd generation, and turkish is the second most spoken language here.
What I've long since discovered is that when Turks go dorky, they clear the bar for dorkyness in an instant. :-)
The video and the tacky pseudo-transformer it features is about as turkish as it gets in that regard.
If you don't know what you're doing, you might want to stear clear of blackbox devices in your private LAN.
I personally wouldn't trust an IOThingie that I didn't build myself with a Rasberry Pi, Arduino or something.
Oh, and not being able to find out if your device is part of a botnet counts as 'not knowing what you're doing'.
My 2 Eurocents.
Do you really want to know?
Then analyse your LAN traffic. Wireshark and Co. are you friends.
You're welcome. Captain Obvious was glad to help.
You mean the board actually stood up, walked over to the Rasberry Pi standing nearby and crushed it to pieces? ...
What happend to normal sentences like "Runs XYZ benchmark 5 times faster than the Rasberry Pi using half the energy" or something like that?
Is this the effect the US political debate has on language? Probably.
Why does anyone trust Google anymore? They are so far beyond evil it's not even funny.
Yeah. Facebook and WhatsCrap are much more trustworthy.
Purism
System76
Tuxedo Computers
Luckyly we have those now.
... but if you need a cable, it's not teleportation.
Just sayin'.
... the more fragile it becomes.
Hanjin - a major korean shipping corp recently gone bankrupt - has massive containerships standing at sea, not allowed to run into harbours because the harbour authorities are afraid they won't see their fees. As a result, companies relying on their shipments done with Hanjin are on the brink of bankruptcy, because they can't deliver. And on it goes down the foodchain.
This is what happens if you cut it too thin and expect dirt-cheap stuff and services everywhere, every time and all the time. Same with Uber, Lyft, MyHammer and now this. This sort of race for the bottom line will end up with deflation and eventually a lot of companies and individuals going out of business.
Achtung Schweinhund! Ich habe kein Polenüberfallenversicherung für meinem Strassenbahnhalestellemittelstoff.
Jawohl Herr Stabsobergruppentruppstandartenscharführer!
It was so expensive, they even used a clothes iron as a prop on the ship's bridge.
Yes. That iron ("Bügeleisen" in German) actually has cult status. It's basically a national heritage. :-)
Digital Homicide is known for this type of shit. I have lost count of the times Jim Sterling has brought them up whenever they were screwing around again.
It would be nice to see Valve/Steam finally getting up to some quality management and start kicking out the assholes and doucebags. Digital Homicide is a very good start.
Anyone who believes this is a fool. So-called 'self driving cars' are NOT going to be capable or safe to be unattended anytime in the next 5 years, or 10 years, or 20 years, because we do not have true AI and will not have true AI until we understand how our own brain works.
You're wrong. We don't need AI for self-driving cars. (You might call it AI, but that's another, academic discussion)
What we need is cars that can drive themselves better than humans can. And those already exist. Even with Teslas mislabled autopilot and that one weird accident that happened due to wrong/irresposible handling of the car counted in, the death quota per kilometer is half that of human drivers. And that's in a definitely non-selfdriving car you can by right now in any mid-sized to large city.
I suggest you get up-to-date on things.
You're welcome.
In the war between Emacs and Vi I come down on Emacs' side, but this is beyond silly.
And it goes to show that the GTK version is as pointless as I make it out to be. I only use Emacs in the CLI, and if I even chose to set up a speedy minimal linux system emphasising the CLI I will run it in CLI mode.
I've seen a lot of silly stuff come out of the Emacs camp, but adding webkit to Emacs take the nonsense to a new level in my book.
"Foreign race without galactic signature."
Not exactly french, but maybe close enough, depending on your point of view. :-)
I guess the German "sz" ligature does look a bit like a "b".
Should've seen that coming, sorry.
"ß" is the letter, a ligature for "sz" that is a common member of the german glyph alphabet.
But you can substitute it with two "s"es in a pinch.
We are improving the world. It's just that the ignorant idiots keep f*cking things up.
Examples: ... reasons ... ...
We build free open architecture computers and advocate them. They buy iPhones.
We build and promote free software. They use Windows and pay bizar abmounts of subscription fees for office programms. (Hardly believable but, seriously, no joke.)
We tell them man-made climate change is a real thing and we need to react and they say it's all made up because of
We build and promote electric cars and high-tech bicycles. They buy the next big Porsche Cheyenne.
We explain to them that a public transport system built with half the money spent on private cars would be something like a Star Trek utopia of transport. They clog up the cities with stacks and rows of parked private cars.
We tell then not to use Facebook and WhatsCrap, but rather Diaspora and Jabber. They don't give a flying f*ck. (Well, my daughter does. Smart girl. Daddy loves you.)
We tell them nuclear fission doesn't add up, but they just do what energy powermongers want.
We tell then voting machines are a very very bad idea. What do they do? Build and deploy voting machines.
It's like I've always said:
Powerful tools in dumb hands is always the biggest problem of technological advancement.
They phones get so warm you don't need gloves.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud*
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.