So the AC is stating that a person is more likely a sociopath than someone who honestly is polite and grateful that people do what they say, rather than having some sort of expected entitlement over others.
That does indeed say something about the society they have grown up in.
I definitely didn't get that impression coming through my dell monitor, maybe it was due to the speed it loaded, thanks iinet, anyway I'm thirsty in a way only an ice cold coke can quench.
Sent from windows laptop....Seriously everything is one giant marketing exercise nowadays.
If non-auto-cars become unusable on public streets, how the hell am I supposed to get enough value out of the ones I already own, to be able to afford to replace them with 2 auto-cars?
FYI, if your answer involves a government subsidy, then you're already admitting to failure.
Well since I can't use a car analogy, I will use a recent example of real life instead.
"And if you switch over to digital TV, and cut off the analog TV signal, how the hell am I supposed to get enough value out of my old CRT tube TVs that I already own to afford to replace them?"
Answer: Too bad. It's not society's problem. And if we want we can force you by law into the below scenario You can pony up for a stop gap solution (TV set top box) which in this case, many companies will offer retro-fitting services for existing cars. You can pony up for a new TV and quit whining. You can go without. Plenty of people cope without their own private cars even if it is less convenient.
As far as "and there is in fact an enormous financial (and humanitarian) incentive" there is financial incentive for the people who will benefit from selling it, and the "humanitarian" incentive is practically non-existent these days -- unless it leads to corporate profits, increasingly nobody gives a fuck.
Are you seriously trying to say that the only financial incentive in self driving vehicles is to those selling them??? Savings are just as valid an incentive as revenue.
The biggest financial benefit in self driving vehicles is not private travel cars. It is long haul transport. There is big money in being able to keep a vehicle on the road for longer. The first company to get a long haul truck that does not need a driver (and either auto refuel, or stops at predefined stops where someone will refuel it) will dominate the logistics industry, a multi BILLION dollar industry.
The next big money is in public transport. How much will governments save (and tout their increased services) if they can run all their buses 24/7 for only the cost of fuel and repairs.
Then there is the taxi / short term loan car pool. Their main cost is drivers, as witnessed by Uber throwing money into the driverless research.
Lastly there is money in Joe six-pack being able to work the extra hour because they don't need to stop work to drop off/ pick up their child from school, and can just meet them at home.
Yes, there is money for those selling cars, but there is orders of magnitude greater savings for everyone else.
Leeching is ok as long as you don't seed. But how is that possible with Bittorrent? The moment you leech, you begin to seed anyway.
Purely a guess, IANAL but maybe it is a case of integer mathematics. Australian seeders may be able to seed 0.999999 of a copy. In this case they have not shared the movie, They have shared a collection of bits that is meaningless if it is not whole. So they should not be on the hook for anything.
That is what I would argue anyway. Again IANAL.
If everyone sets up their ratio rules right, there is only a minor net leeching from the country as a whole, which could hopefully be taken up by the international community / VPN etc
Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about whether American democracy is well-served by wealthy people who pour part of their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow.
BIll Gates: pours billions of his money directly to a cause to get something done (even if that something is against current research/ common good)
Others: pour billions into paying politicians so that the politicians will then pour billions of taxpayer dollars into a cause to get something done (even if that something is against the common good).
This is just standard US "democracy" at work. He is just removing the middleman.
A lighter metal means ship weighs less for a given size. Most of the weight of a ship is the metal. Air compartments below the waterline will help buoyancy but at the expense of ship size (and hence drag).
Reduced boat weight means reduced displacement which means greater carrying capacity / increased efficiency / higher top speed.
Given the size of the worldwide shipping industry and the size of the naval military this is quite an important breakthrough.
Someday we can hope the world will become a true meritocracy where people are only judged on their actions and merits
If we go to a meritocracy where sex is ignored, society will have to accept men and women will not be equal. So we are in a catch 22.
The clearest example here is sport (which is probably the closest to a meritocracy too). It is safe to say that for most sports men are biologically superior on average due to our body chemistry. A pure meritocracy means women must be treated identical to men and compete against them. This will wipe out sporting opportunities for all but a handful of the worlds female athletes.
Do we give women equal numbers of opportunities regardless of their relative ability by segregating them into their own league? Or do we treat them the same as men and acknowledge that this field will be 99.9% male dominated.... Now please re-read the above and: Substitute "sport" for a type of job (and "men" for "women" if you wish) - we are back in present day society where people scream discrimination because numbers aren't 50/50.
We are moving away from a meritocracy not towards in the name of equality. I find this strangely ironic in a way.
Ask Hillary Clinton what Bill is most famous for. Ask anyone. See what I mean?
NOT starting a war NOT campaigning on ending war related atrocities by his predecessor and then changing his mind.
That is what many people think of when they think of Bill Clinton. The guy who just did his job. If someone's biggest complaint about how you did a job is something not related to the job, you are doing alright.
Sunk costs should still be amortised for usage, so the GP's point stands.
They already built the aircraft/train, so why should tickets include maintenance/replacement of the plane/train? So yes you own a car, but it will lose more of it's value if you take that trip. If you don't take the trip it will be longer between having to buy a replacement car (or you will get marginally higher resale for your car being low mileage). So there is still cost associated, it is not a sunk cost in the truest sense.
Similarly yes you pay for insurance, but you might be able to save money moving to a mileage based policy and not drive.
Next time they put me on morphine, I am so hacking into this...:^D
And when you cause that overflow and your morphine level goes to -1 and you lose all your pain relief, I hope the doctors and nurses take their sweet time fixing it. You will then learn:
1. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Curiosity and knowledge come at a price, and you must be prepared to pay that. 2. 1337 satisfaction pain 3. The medical staff are busy enough without some patient trying to break their equipment.
It's not enough to be the worst customer service in the USA, they want to improve their "poor ratings" to be the worst company in the entire world (while still only operating in a single country).
Their internet service will become so bad that they will bring the entire internet down with them, drawing in poor reviews from all corners of the globe.
Subtle things like... - Not being so darn stubborn when a salesperson sells a 12 month project to be delivered in 3 months. - Taking up leave days, even though running behind on schedule. - No longer working late or taking work home. - Generally being cheerful and somehow more "care free".
So other than the first point, an employee is about to leave when they try to strike some kind of sensible work life balance... says something pretty sad about our industry.
Toy... or a rapid prototyping device that can speed up development of a manufactured product, saving the company fairly large sums of money and more importantly time (as more companies succeed or fail by being first to market).
Slashdot Mirror
Or since MEAN ignores the OS and webserver, we have some license to reorder things. suggestions:
PATFAJ
FATJAP
or
AAJPTF
I particularly like how the last one rolls off the tongue. I want to see 100 managers all in a room trying to recite this latest buzzword.
So the AC is stating that a person is more likely a sociopath than someone who honestly is polite and grateful that people do what they say, rather than having some sort of expected entitlement over others.
That does indeed say something about the society they have grown up in.
I definitely didn't get that impression coming through my dell monitor, maybe it was due to the speed it loaded, thanks iinet, anyway I'm thirsty in a way only an ice cold coke can quench.
Sent from windows laptop. ...Seriously everything is one giant marketing exercise nowadays.
If non-auto-cars become unusable on public streets, how the hell am I supposed to get enough value out of the ones I already own, to be able to afford to replace them with 2 auto-cars?
FYI, if your answer involves a government subsidy, then you're already admitting to failure.
Well since I can't use a car analogy, I will use a recent example of real life instead.
"And if you switch over to digital TV, and cut off the analog TV signal, how the hell am I supposed to get enough value out of my old CRT tube TVs that I already own to afford to replace them?"
Answer: Too bad. It's not society's problem. And if we want we can force you by law into the below scenario
You can pony up for a stop gap solution (TV set top box) which in this case, many companies will offer retro-fitting services for existing cars.
You can pony up for a new TV and quit whining.
You can go without. Plenty of people cope without their own private cars even if it is less convenient.
and remember... this actually happened.
As far as "and there is in fact an enormous financial (and humanitarian) incentive" there is financial incentive for the people who will benefit from selling it, and the "humanitarian" incentive is practically non-existent these days -- unless it leads to corporate profits, increasingly nobody gives a fuck.
Are you seriously trying to say that the only financial incentive in self driving vehicles is to those selling them??? Savings are just as valid an incentive as revenue.
The biggest financial benefit in self driving vehicles is not private travel cars. It is long haul transport. There is big money in being able to keep a vehicle on the road for longer. The first company to get a long haul truck that does not need a driver (and either auto refuel, or stops at predefined stops where someone will refuel it) will dominate the logistics industry, a multi BILLION dollar industry.
The next big money is in public transport. How much will governments save (and tout their increased services) if they can run all their buses 24/7 for only the cost of fuel and repairs.
Then there is the taxi / short term loan car pool. Their main cost is drivers, as witnessed by Uber throwing money into the driverless research.
Lastly there is money in Joe six-pack being able to work the extra hour because they don't need to stop work to drop off/ pick up their child from school, and can just meet them at home.
Yes, there is money for those selling cars, but there is orders of magnitude greater savings for everyone else.
Leeching is ok as long as you don't seed. But how is that possible with Bittorrent? The moment you leech, you begin to seed anyway.
Purely a guess, IANAL but maybe it is a case of integer mathematics. Australian seeders may be able to seed 0.999999 of a copy. In this case they have not shared the movie, They have shared a collection of bits that is meaningless if it is not whole. So they should not be on the hook for anything.
That is what I would argue anyway. Again IANAL.
If everyone sets up their ratio rules right, there is only a minor net leeching from the country as a whole, which could hopefully be taken up by the international community / VPN etc
"... helping companies better understand what triggers heated calls."
No it doesn't. A robot pre-programmed for being angry can only help companies understand the best ways to endure / pacify angry callers.
Yay for treating the symptoms of bad customer service without even attempting to touch the cause.
Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about whether American democracy is well-served by wealthy people who pour part of their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow.
BIll Gates: pours billions of his money directly to a cause to get something done (even if that something is against current research/ common good)
Others: pour billions into paying politicians so that the politicians will then pour billions of taxpayer dollars into a cause to get something done (even if that something is against the common good).
This is just standard US "democracy" at work. He is just removing the middleman.
A lighter metal means ship weighs less for a given size. Most of the weight of a ship is the metal. Air compartments below the waterline will help buoyancy but at the expense of ship size (and hence drag).
Reduced boat weight means reduced displacement which means greater carrying capacity / increased efficiency / higher top speed.
Given the size of the worldwide shipping industry and the size of the naval military this is quite an important breakthrough.
Someday we can hope the world will become a true meritocracy where people are only judged on their actions and merits
If we go to a meritocracy where sex is ignored, society will have to accept men and women will not be equal. So we are in a catch 22.
The clearest example here is sport (which is probably the closest to a meritocracy too). It is safe to say that for most sports men are biologically superior on average due to our body chemistry. A pure meritocracy means women must be treated identical to men and compete against them. This will wipe out sporting opportunities for all but a handful of the worlds female athletes.
Do we give women equal numbers of opportunities regardless of their relative ability by segregating them into their own league? Or do we treat them the same as men and acknowledge that this field will be 99.9% male dominated. ... Now please re-read the above and:
Substitute "sport" for a type of job (and "men" for "women" if you wish) - we are back in present day society where people scream discrimination because numbers aren't 50/50.
We are moving away from a meritocracy not towards in the name of equality. I find this strangely ironic in a way.
or TLDR: Nature vs Nurture - both play a role
Ask Hillary Clinton what Bill is most famous for. Ask anyone. See what I mean?
NOT starting a war
NOT campaigning on ending war related atrocities by his predecessor and then changing his mind.
That is what many people think of when they think of Bill Clinton. The guy who just did his job.
If someone's biggest complaint about how you did a job is something not related to the job, you are doing alright.
Sunk costs should still be amortised for usage, so the GP's point stands.
They already built the aircraft/train, so why should tickets include maintenance/replacement of the plane/train? So yes you own a car, but it will lose more of it's value if you take that trip. If you don't take the trip it will be longer between having to buy a replacement car (or you will get marginally higher resale for your car being low mileage). So there is still cost associated, it is not a sunk cost in the truest sense.
Similarly yes you pay for insurance, but you might be able to save money moving to a mileage based policy and not drive.
Apple got a patent on making their product a certain shape (rounded corners).
Big pharma didn't want to miss out on the action, but they sure took their time to catch up.
2. 1337 satisfaction < pain
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Next time they put me on morphine, I am so hacking into this... :^D
And when you cause that overflow and your morphine level goes to -1 and you lose all your pain relief, I hope the doctors and nurses take their sweet time fixing it. You will then learn:
1. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Curiosity and knowledge come at a price, and you must be prepared to pay that.
2. 1337 satisfaction pain
3. The medical staff are busy enough without some patient trying to break their equipment.
And they embrace failure, so they get an "F" for their "apping apps".
Therefore they love...
Guess that term does skew towards the younger crowd. But why are they looking to hire 16 year olds?
It's not enough to be the worst customer service in the USA, they want to improve their "poor ratings" to be the worst company in the entire world (while still only operating in a single country).
Their internet service will become so bad that they will bring the entire internet down with them, drawing in poor reviews from all corners of the globe.
I could see a few use in education (anatomy,...)
Can't wait to see what happens when you let high school students print 3d anatomy parts...
"What do you mean it can't print a 100 ft penis? Why not?"
miles? gallons? imperial gallons? Use real units...
How many rods does it get to the hogshead?
Starbucks instant coffee is pretty fantastic, ...
So you are saying their instant coffee tastes nothing like their regular coffee?
Subtle things like...
- Not being so darn stubborn when a salesperson sells a 12 month project to be delivered in 3 months.
- Taking up leave days, even though running behind on schedule.
- No longer working late or taking work home.
- Generally being cheerful and somehow more "care free".
So other than the first point, an employee is about to leave when they try to strike some kind of sensible work life balance... says something pretty sad about our industry.
Toy... or a rapid prototyping device that can speed up development of a manufactured product, saving the company fairly large sums of money and more importantly time (as more companies succeed or fail by being first to market).
I know which one my company views 3D printing as.
or make them motion-sick:
Alternate 15 and 70 signs every few hundred metres
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