Eh... it's not a limit or anything. It's a general rating category. I'm honestly not sure how they arrive at those categories. The higher the rating, however, the beefier the suspension, mostly.
My old 3/4 ton Ford doesn't really break a sweat hauling 2 tons. (And those would be your 2,000 pound tons.)
Trouble is... if you try to tell a prospective employer that you have all those skills, they think you are either full of shit, or you threaten the jobs/self-esteem of the people interviewing you.
That's rich. I paid $10 for my dumb phone, and using it costs me $40 a month. A smart phone (picking a nice one at random) would cost me upwards of $500, and an extra $25 a month, minimum, for a data plan. Even supposing I buy a used device, there's no getting around the extra ~$300 (up to 3x that, what I've seen on some plans) a year for data... which is what it costs me to drive cross-country for a nice week's vacation.
And you're the frugal one? Sir, I do not think you know the meaning of this word!:)
Your answer to 1 is to waste time and resources waiting to get back to your precious desktop, and put the sharing of information with other people off until you get there.
Erm... yup. As I said, there is nothing so important that it has to be done *this instant*. It wasn't that long ago that people didn't carry cell phones. I remember my old man handling phone calls for business in the evenings and on weekends, and it worked just fine. I'm tempted some days to go back to that model, but I do carry a phone. But you (customer, boss, whatever) can wait 5 minutes or 30 minutes for a response to your email. If I'm driving between jobs, you're waiting til I get where I'm going. If I'm eating lunch, you're waiting til I'm done eating. No mere mortal interrupts my lunch! (Ya know... this is really more about setting boundaries than anything else.)
Just because something can be done faster... is not a reason to do it. Fast food, for instance. Slow food is better. At any rate, I don't see how this makes you more frugal than me.
Your answer to 2 is to waste time trapped in a traffic jam, because your precious desktop wasn't able to predict this.
I live in a metro area, too. Thing about metro areas is, the jams pretty much happen at the same times and places every day, with few exceptions. I manage to avoid them without electronic intervention. Frugality in this case involves planning my travel around the city at off-peak hours. If I had to drive at rush hour every day, there's no avoiding traffic anyway, so I'd plan some extra time. Heck, I'd wager I spend less time in traffic than most people, possibly including you and your expensive auxiliary brain.
On the rare occasion I'm stuck in a jam? Oh well. Shit happens and life goes on. I'm not a firefighter; nothing is going to burn down or explode if I'm a few minutes late. I just pull up my big boy britches and deal with it.
Your answer to 3 is, apparently, to either ignore the unfamiliar special, or make two more trips (one there, one back) after finding a suitable recipe on your precious desktop.
Wow... you really have a tough time with life, don't you? That has to be one of the most insignificant non-problems I've heard all week. I cannot think of one time in my entire life that I've stood in a grocery store near a special, and freaked out because I want to buy it but don't know how to cook it.
So... maybe you DO need a wee computer to do your thinking for you. Sorry to poke at you. It must be tough.
Know what I hate? People in my way. If I just carried an AK-47 around with me all the time, my life would be so much better. People would stay out of my way. I wouldn't actually shoot anyone, I promise... I just want some respect!
Point is, there will be backlash to people wearing internet-connected face-recognizing cameras, and it won't matter what the excuse.
But I do use my smartphone far more often than I anticipated -- if I want to Google some curiosity while sitting on the couch, find a recipe to use something that is on special at the grocery store, or if I'm chatting with someone (in real life) and I need to forward them an email, or document something with a photograph, or take a quick note without rounding up a pen and paper:
That's what concerns me, and why I don't get one. I'd keep finding more and more stuff I can do with it, and then pretty soon, I'm another little glowing screen zombie bumping into people in the supermarket because I'm fucking updating my goddamn Facebook status to tell everyone I'm buying olives and free-range soda pop at Whole Foods, and then I realize -- Holy shit OMG FML -- I have just become one of those little glowy-screen-zombie fuckers I dreaded. So I post my existential crisis on Google+ and Twitter it while I Instagram out a photo of this killer deal they have on red snapper. But wait! This app tells me that red snapper is cheaper at Trader Joes by a half a buck a pound, so I dash out to the car, bumping in to only 3 other Twatterers on the way out of the store, use my GPS nav to find my way the 4 blocks west to the other store.
Then I post on Facebook wondering how come I don't have any free time any more... and check it every 3 minutes to see who "liked" that and who didn't, and OMG! my sister in law just posted some new pictures (8,000 so far this month -- it's a newborn!) of her daughter -- so cute! So I like like like, right? Then I forget why I came to Trader Joe's, so I check my history... nope. Why did I come here? Aww, cute cat videos! Oh hell, I didn't check the NFL scores today, lemme do that real quick while I'm driving 10mph below the speed limit in the fast lane... etc etc etc.
Anyway, yeah. Basically, I don't want to become... you or any other little touchy screeny zombie. Because you know what? I plan my shopping. I download recipes, but I don't need them *at the store*. If I need to Google something, I get my ass off the couch and walk to my office. Same goes for forwarding emails. There is absolutely nothing internet-ish that is so fucking important that it can't wait til I get to my computer. There is nowhere, and no wait, so awfully boring that I can't amuse myself thinking, knitting, or reading a book.
Most of all, I live. Life is just fine without constant electronic distraction.
Sure, my friends tell me, "get a smart phone! You'll love it!" I'd probably love cocaine, too, which is why I don't try it.
Believe me, people DO use smartphones to do heavy surfing.
I don't own a "smart" phone, you insensitive clod!
But seriously, I don't. And I don't want one, either. As someone who does actual work on a computer, I'll stick with my 3x 24" LCDs. I'll be double-damned if I'm going to sit hunched over finger swiping trying to read tiny text on a goddamn *phone*.
It's fucking regression. These "smart" phones have screens the size computers did when I was a kid. Why would I want to go back to 1980?
People do everything (and more) on smartphones they do on PCs.
Try working with spreadsheets or writing code on your iPhone.
I'm sorry, but the whole idea of using a telephone as a general purpose computing device, while technically feasible, is just dumb. It's a trend for mindless consumers, and nothing more.
If more people are getting signed up for Medicaid, and lots of people are getting subsidies... where's the money for that going to come from?
Tax increases that we haven't seen yet. I'll wager your taxes are going to go up next year by more than you think you're saving.
Problem is, you numbskulls that drank the Obamacare Kool-Aid can't see past the end of your own noses, and don't know the history of how your government has operated in precisely the same fashion since sometime around the War Between the States.
It's the same shit. Politicians promise shit, but it won't cost shit. It always ends up costing, you dumbfuck. ALWAYS.
There are no exceptions. There never have been any exceptions. Getting something from the government comes out of your pocket, one way or another. How fucking stupid are you people?
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here.
Think about the whole drivetrain for a moment. Two drive motors instead of six. Steering by differential motor speeds, not steering motors or servos. Etc, etc, etc. Fewer motors, less wiring, fewer joints, fewer electronics, lighter weight all round... in exchange for some more moving parts on a track -- whose parts barely move, and are far less complex than motors, electronics, or steering knuckles. Yes, there are many parts in a track system. SIMPLE parts. It's a SIMPLE system. SIMPLE is less prone to failure on any planet.
My god... have some of you people never been around anything mechanical? Or just not heard of "KISS"? Or maybe you work for NAySAy.
Just got off the phone with one of my cousins who's working on a project for NASA. He says they run away from simplicity. What's wrong with simplicity? There's so bloody much to go wrong with Curiosity that it's a bloody miracle it's still working.
Do we, anywhere on Earth, need vehicles with 6 independently driven and steered wheels? No! Earth has dust, dirt, rocks, and cold and hot temperatures. So does Mars. We don't need to invent new forms of locomotion for it! (Unless you're trying to justify an enormous pork-ridden budget, I reckon.) We have figured out how to reliably transport stuff over the same terrain and conditions (Antarctica, Arizona), right here at home.
One thing is for sure: if SpaceX or Scaled Composites or Virgin Galactic were sending a rover to Mars, it would be better and cheaper. They'd choose things that work instead of things that make the most money for defense contractors.
I used to operate bulldozers for a living. There were times, ripping rock, when I was pretty sure *I* went home broken into little pieces at the end of a day... dozer would be fine. If it were the failure-prone locomotion method some of you seem to think it is, Caterpillar wouldn't have been using it for a century already.
You've never, in 30 years, unintentionally run a red light, or even taken your eyes off the road for a couple of seconds? Do you expect anyone to believe that?
There is distracted driving as a result of bad behavior, such as texting or putting on makeup while driving... then there's inadvertent, like maybe an object flying at your vehicle in your peripheral vision, or your kid screaming from the back seat, or any number of things that would not be a result of bad driving behavior.
That's what I was getting at -- there's a difference. It happens. I'll take back the brain comment if you'll admit to being a self-righteous twat.
In my misspent youth, I spent a number of years operating heavy machines, many with tracks. Anything from rubber-tracked skidloaders, to D10 bulldozers... in the Rocky Mountains.
I experienced and saw many tire/wheel failures... but never a track failure. It happens, but it's considerably more rare. Tracks not only provide better traction, better maneuverability, better stability, better slope capability, and lower ground pressure/better flotation, but they are more durable in rough/rocky conditions.
Just for your edification, it does require multiple part failures on one link to achieve track failure. If tracks on machinery were as vulnerable as you seem to think, there would be no bulldozers. Go look at a diagram of how they're made.
Give a country boy a little credit.
six independent wheels - so the failure of any two on opposite sides would not be a mission ender.
The odds are exactly the same that you'd lose two wheels on one side, as one on two sides. 2/6 wheels == 2/6 wheels.
Somehow, you got modded Insightful for some drivel best modded "faux intellectual sarcastic wanna-be know-it-all nonsense".
You know how many of those brilliant egghead scientists can't tie their own fucking shoelaces, or change a tire on their cars? Huh? I do.
I know plenty of the type, and I know full well how incompetent they are at everything but what their degree says. The Renaissance Man, the Jack-of-all-trades -- they are not. He be a rare creature indeed. Sure, I want brilliant scientists designing the test equipment, the rockets, etc.
So... let's think about this: the eggheads knew, from previous Mars missions, that Mars has sharp rocks. They built a machine with wheels that are vulnerable to sharp rocks!
Even the dumbest hillbilly doesn't go 4-wheeling with drag slicks, fergawshsakes.
So, umm... who's the idiot(s) here?
Hey, remember that one Mars mission that crashed & burned, because the brilliant scientists forgot to convert SAE units to metric (or vice-versa, I forgot)? I guess I'll concede there was a bit less derp this time. But would "Common Sense Internet Man" make a mistake like that?
Nah. That takes a team of highly educated geniuses.
I swear you nerds are stuck with obsolete knowledge and refuse to accept that things change.
That's a bit simplistic. It's more like this: remember the bailout General Motors got a few years back? What was it, $500 million, taxpayer money? Then they used it to build a new plant, IN MEXICO! That was the moment I say "Fuck GM from now until eternity!" I will never buy a GM product because of that.
Maybe I'll get an American made car, like a Toyota. Anyway... same idea goes for NIS....
Norton made such awful software for so long that they don't deserve a second chance. I don't even care if they do it right now; I'm still not going to recommend it to Windows users, unless it's someone I hate; and I'm not going to waste my time testing it to give an honest appraisal. They had their chance, and they blew it. You don't get a reputation like Norton's undeservedly.
So, for Windows users I like, I still do recommend MSE, and will continue to do so. It's just the least obtrusive and least awful of the lot. (For now, anyway. I used to push AVG but they got awful too.) There's no protecting Windows 100% anyway -- good effort is good enough.
I don't really care if something gets through it; I get paid to fix the problems.
Non-customers (aka friends,family, and cheapskates) get converted to Linux.
How far has this thing managed to go now? Couple miles?
Tires are stupid anyway. Hey, news flash, PhD eggheads... try these things called "tracks". I'm pretty sure they'll work on Mars.
NASA (and whatever monkeyshine outfit built this piece of shit) has too many Pee Haych Dees, and not enough people with mechanical skill and common sense.
Here's government for ya. A multi-billion-dollar whiz-bang rover with the world's best scientific equipment... off on the shoulder with a flat tire. Wonder how long it'll take Triple-A to get there?
I would seriously consider founding a charity that promoted incentivized long-term birth control and sterilization. Cash for vasectomies, tubal ligations and implantable birth control. Breaking the generation cycle of poverty is trivial if you eliminate the next generation.
That, right there, goes farther than anything else to a solution, and I am 100% agreed.
However... the PR for doing something so sensible is pretty awful. Accusations of "eugenicist" (as if that's a bad thing) will come your way, and people will scream "Hitler!" The fact that you're trying to control the *poor* population will be lost because of the fact that many of said poor are non-white, so therefore you would be a racist puppy-kicker.
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Eh... it's not a limit or anything. It's a general rating category. I'm honestly not sure how they arrive at those categories. The higher the rating, however, the beefier the suspension, mostly.
My old 3/4 ton Ford doesn't really break a sweat hauling 2 tons. (And those would be your 2,000 pound tons.)
No, the F-150 is a 1/2 ton. The F-250 is a 3/4 ton.
Trouble is... if you try to tell a prospective employer that you have all those skills, they think you are either full of shit, or you threaten the jobs/self-esteem of the people interviewing you.
Actually, "A Team" = Hannibal + Face + ....
No.
Sorry, but no. Harbor Freight shit is nowhere near SnapOn.
You obviously do not use tools to make your living, or you wouldn't utter such nonsense.
Unless you're being facetious... maybe? :)
Hmm.
I think you're missing something: Frugality.
That's rich. I paid $10 for my dumb phone, and using it costs me $40 a month. A smart phone (picking a nice one at random) would cost me upwards of $500, and an extra $25 a month, minimum, for a data plan. Even supposing I buy a used device, there's no getting around the extra ~$300 (up to 3x that, what I've seen on some plans) a year for data... which is what it costs me to drive cross-country for a nice week's vacation.
And you're the frugal one? Sir, I do not think you know the meaning of this word! :)
Your answer to 1 is to waste time and resources waiting to get back to your precious desktop, and put the sharing of information with other people off until you get there.
Erm... yup. As I said, there is nothing so important that it has to be done *this instant*. It wasn't that long ago that people didn't carry cell phones. I remember my old man handling phone calls for business in the evenings and on weekends, and it worked just fine. I'm tempted some days to go back to that model, but I do carry a phone. But you (customer, boss, whatever) can wait 5 minutes or 30 minutes for a response to your email. If I'm driving between jobs, you're waiting til I get where I'm going. If I'm eating lunch, you're waiting til I'm done eating. No mere mortal interrupts my lunch! (Ya know... this is really more about setting boundaries than anything else.)
Just because something can be done faster... is not a reason to do it. Fast food, for instance. Slow food is better. At any rate, I don't see how this makes you more frugal than me.
Your answer to 2 is to waste time trapped in a traffic jam, because your precious desktop wasn't able to predict this.
I live in a metro area, too. Thing about metro areas is, the jams pretty much happen at the same times and places every day, with few exceptions. I manage to avoid them without electronic intervention. Frugality in this case involves planning my travel around the city at off-peak hours. If I had to drive at rush hour every day, there's no avoiding traffic anyway, so I'd plan some extra time. Heck, I'd wager I spend less time in traffic than most people, possibly including you and your expensive auxiliary brain.
On the rare occasion I'm stuck in a jam? Oh well. Shit happens and life goes on. I'm not a firefighter; nothing is going to burn down or explode if I'm a few minutes late. I just pull up my big boy britches and deal with it.
Your answer to 3 is, apparently, to either ignore the unfamiliar special, or make two more trips (one there, one back) after finding a suitable recipe on your precious desktop.
Wow... you really have a tough time with life, don't you? That has to be one of the most insignificant non-problems I've heard all week. I cannot think of one time in my entire life that I've stood in a grocery store near a special, and freaked out because I want to buy it but don't know how to cook it.
So... maybe you DO need a wee computer to do your thinking for you. Sorry to poke at you. It must be tough.
A large fine and possible prison sentence to stop someone from using it
There are always risks. Hell, you could be hanged for supporting the American colonial rebellion against England. Was it the right thing to do anyway?
Who cares?
Know what I hate? People in my way. If I just carried an AK-47 around with me all the time, my life would be so much better. People would stay out of my way. I wouldn't actually shoot anyone, I promise... I just want some respect!
Point is, there will be backlash to people wearing internet-connected face-recognizing cameras, and it won't matter what the excuse.
you can't make facial recognition technology disappear by punching people in the face.
No. But you can make one person at a time stop using it.
Glasshole...! Love it. I would give you points and even some internets if I hadn't posted in this thread.
The authors intend to allow people to opt-out of the recognition database.
Like Facebook lets you "opt out" of stuff?
Fair warning to Google Glass wearers in near future: people will sucker-punch you and destroy your toy.
I certainly won't guarantee your safety if I see you with one pointing in my direction.
But I do use my smartphone far more often than I anticipated -- if I want to Google some curiosity while sitting on the couch, find a recipe to use something that is on special at the grocery store, or if I'm chatting with someone (in real life) and I need to forward them an email, or document something with a photograph, or take a quick note without rounding up a pen and paper:
That's what concerns me, and why I don't get one. I'd keep finding more and more stuff I can do with it, and then pretty soon, I'm another little glowing screen zombie bumping into people in the supermarket because I'm fucking updating my goddamn Facebook status to tell everyone I'm buying olives and free-range soda pop at Whole Foods, and then I realize -- Holy shit OMG FML -- I have just become one of those little glowy-screen-zombie fuckers I dreaded. So I post my existential crisis on Google+ and Twitter it while I Instagram out a photo of this killer deal they have on red snapper. But wait! This app tells me that red snapper is cheaper at Trader Joes by a half a buck a pound, so I dash out to the car, bumping in to only 3 other Twatterers on the way out of the store, use my GPS nav to find my way the 4 blocks west to the other store.
Then I post on Facebook wondering how come I don't have any free time any more... and check it every 3 minutes to see who "liked" that and who didn't, and OMG! my sister in law just posted some new pictures (8,000 so far this month -- it's a newborn!) of her daughter -- so cute! So I like like like, right? Then I forget why I came to Trader Joe's, so I check my history... nope. Why did I come here? Aww, cute cat videos! Oh hell, I didn't check the NFL scores today, lemme do that real quick while I'm driving 10mph below the speed limit in the fast lane... etc etc etc.
Anyway, yeah. Basically, I don't want to become... you or any other little touchy screeny zombie. Because you know what? I plan my shopping. I download recipes, but I don't need them *at the store*. If I need to Google something, I get my ass off the couch and walk to my office. Same goes for forwarding emails. There is absolutely nothing internet-ish that is so fucking important that it can't wait til I get to my computer. There is nowhere, and no wait, so awfully boring that I can't amuse myself thinking, knitting, or reading a book.
Most of all, I live. Life is just fine without constant electronic distraction.
Sure, my friends tell me, "get a smart phone! You'll love it!" I'd probably love cocaine, too, which is why I don't try it.
Believe me, people DO use smartphones to do heavy surfing.
I don't own a "smart" phone, you insensitive clod!
But seriously, I don't. And I don't want one, either. As someone who does actual work on a computer, I'll stick with my 3x 24" LCDs. I'll be double-damned if I'm going to sit hunched over finger swiping trying to read tiny text on a goddamn *phone*.
It's fucking regression. These "smart" phones have screens the size computers did when I was a kid. Why would I want to go back to 1980?
People do everything (and more) on smartphones they do on PCs.
Try working with spreadsheets or writing code on your iPhone.
I'm sorry, but the whole idea of using a telephone as a general purpose computing device, while technically feasible, is just dumb. It's a trend for mindless consumers, and nothing more.
Gordon Brown might have a lot to apologize for, but I'm reasonably certain that persecuting Turing isn't one of them.
Except, and I hate to be a wet blanket, but the people who did the things that need apologizing for are long dead, too.
*Those* people (the young and working poor) are going right on Medicaid, or getting heavy subsidies.
So, umm... still freeloading on the system. /me bangs head on desk...
If more people are getting signed up for Medicaid, and lots of people are getting subsidies... where's the money for that going to come from?
Tax increases that we haven't seen yet. I'll wager your taxes are going to go up next year by more than you think you're saving.
Problem is, you numbskulls that drank the Obamacare Kool-Aid can't see past the end of your own noses, and don't know the history of how your government has operated in precisely the same fashion since sometime around the War Between the States.
It's the same shit. Politicians promise shit, but it won't cost shit. It always ends up costing, you dumbfuck. ALWAYS.
There are no exceptions. There never have been any exceptions. Getting something from the government comes out of your pocket, one way or another. How fucking stupid are you people?
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here.
OMG... seriously? Another one?
Think about the whole drivetrain for a moment. Two drive motors instead of six. Steering by differential motor speeds, not steering motors or servos. Etc, etc, etc. Fewer motors, less wiring, fewer joints, fewer electronics, lighter weight all round... in exchange for some more moving parts on a track -- whose parts barely move, and are far less complex than motors, electronics, or steering knuckles. Yes, there are many parts in a track system. SIMPLE parts. It's a SIMPLE system. SIMPLE is less prone to failure on any planet.
My god... have some of you people never been around anything mechanical? Or just not heard of "KISS"? Or maybe you work for NAySAy.
Just got off the phone with one of my cousins who's working on a project for NASA. He says they run away from simplicity. What's wrong with simplicity? There's so bloody much to go wrong with Curiosity that it's a bloody miracle it's still working.
Do we, anywhere on Earth, need vehicles with 6 independently driven and steered wheels? No! Earth has dust, dirt, rocks, and cold and hot temperatures. So does Mars. We don't need to invent new forms of locomotion for it! (Unless you're trying to justify an enormous pork-ridden budget, I reckon.) We have figured out how to reliably transport stuff over the same terrain and conditions (Antarctica, Arizona), right here at home.
One thing is for sure: if SpaceX or Scaled Composites or Virgin Galactic were sending a rover to Mars, it would be better and cheaper. They'd choose things that work instead of things that make the most money for defense contractors.
I used to operate bulldozers for a living. There were times, ripping rock, when I was pretty sure *I* went home broken into little pieces at the end of a day... dozer would be fine. If it were the failure-prone locomotion method some of you seem to think it is, Caterpillar wouldn't have been using it for a century already.
You've never, in 30 years, unintentionally run a red light, or even taken your eyes off the road for a couple of seconds? Do you expect anyone to believe that?
There is distracted driving as a result of bad behavior, such as texting or putting on makeup while driving... then there's inadvertent, like maybe an object flying at your vehicle in your peripheral vision, or your kid screaming from the back seat, or any number of things that would not be a result of bad driving behavior.
That's what I was getting at -- there's a difference. It happens. I'll take back the brain comment if you'll admit to being a self-righteous twat.
In my misspent youth, I spent a number of years operating heavy machines, many with tracks. Anything from rubber-tracked skidloaders, to D10 bulldozers... in the Rocky Mountains.
I experienced and saw many tire/wheel failures... but never a track failure. It happens, but it's considerably more rare. Tracks not only provide better traction, better maneuverability, better stability, better slope capability, and lower ground pressure/better flotation, but they are more durable in rough/rocky conditions.
Just for your edification, it does require multiple part failures on one link to achieve track failure. If tracks on machinery were as vulnerable as you seem to think, there would be no bulldozers. Go look at a diagram of how they're made.
Give a country boy a little credit.
six independent wheels - so the failure of any two on opposite sides would not be a mission ender.
The odds are exactly the same that you'd lose two wheels on one side, as one on two sides. 2/6 wheels == 2/6 wheels.
Somehow, you got modded Insightful for some drivel best modded "faux intellectual sarcastic wanna-be know-it-all nonsense".
You know how many of those brilliant egghead scientists can't tie their own fucking shoelaces, or change a tire on their cars? Huh? I do.
I know plenty of the type, and I know full well how incompetent they are at everything but what their degree says. The Renaissance Man, the Jack-of-all-trades -- they are not. He be a rare creature indeed. Sure, I want brilliant scientists designing the test equipment, the rockets, etc.
So... let's think about this: the eggheads knew, from previous Mars missions, that Mars has sharp rocks. They built a machine with wheels that are vulnerable to sharp rocks!
Even the dumbest hillbilly doesn't go 4-wheeling with drag slicks, fergawshsakes.
So, umm... who's the idiot(s) here?
Hey, remember that one Mars mission that crashed & burned, because the brilliant scientists forgot to convert SAE units to metric (or vice-versa, I forgot)? I guess I'll concede there was a bit less derp this time. But would "Common Sense Internet Man" make a mistake like that?
Nah. That takes a team of highly educated geniuses.
I swear you nerds are stuck with obsolete knowledge and refuse to accept that things change.
That's a bit simplistic. It's more like this: remember the bailout General Motors got a few years back? What was it, $500 million, taxpayer money? Then they used it to build a new plant, IN MEXICO! That was the moment I say "Fuck GM from now until eternity!" I will never buy a GM product because of that.
Maybe I'll get an American made car, like a Toyota. Anyway... same idea goes for NIS....
Norton made such awful software for so long that they don't deserve a second chance. I don't even care if they do it right now; I'm still not going to recommend it to Windows users, unless it's someone I hate; and I'm not going to waste my time testing it to give an honest appraisal. They had their chance, and they blew it. You don't get a reputation like Norton's undeservedly.
So, for Windows users I like, I still do recommend MSE, and will continue to do so. It's just the least obtrusive and least awful of the lot. (For now, anyway. I used to push AVG but they got awful too.) There's no protecting Windows 100% anyway -- good effort is good enough.
I don't really care if something gets through it; I get paid to fix the problems.
Non-customers (aka friends,family, and cheapskates) get converted to Linux.
How far has this thing managed to go now? Couple miles?
Tires are stupid anyway. Hey, news flash, PhD eggheads... try these things called "tracks". I'm pretty sure they'll work on Mars.
NASA (and whatever monkeyshine outfit built this piece of shit) has too many Pee Haych Dees, and not enough people with mechanical skill and common sense.
Here's government for ya. A multi-billion-dollar whiz-bang rover with the world's best scientific equipment... off on the shoulder with a flat tire. Wonder how long it'll take Triple-A to get there?
We don't have Jerry Reed to make a new song for all these fancy new eee-lectric autymobiles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ
I would seriously consider founding a charity that promoted incentivized long-term birth control and sterilization. Cash for vasectomies, tubal ligations and implantable birth control. Breaking the generation cycle of poverty is trivial if you eliminate the next generation.
That, right there, goes farther than anything else to a solution, and I am 100% agreed.
However... the PR for doing something so sensible is pretty awful. Accusations of "eugenicist" (as if that's a bad thing) will come your way, and people will scream "Hitler!" The fact that you're trying to control the *poor* population will be lost because of the fact that many of said poor are non-white, so therefore you would be a racist puppy-kicker.