yea, the texas law is similar to NYS as well. it even goes one step further. as long as your car isnt moving, you can look at your phone. this includes not only stopped at a stop light, but sitting in traffic as well.
Obviously this wasnt in Texas, because the laws in texas specifically exempt people who are not actually MOVING from the distracted driving laws. if you move a motor vehicle while you are looking at a phone, you will get fined, but sitting at a stop light, you wont.
i had an acura integra a couple years ago (it was one of the really old models). it actually got stuck on one of the bigger speed bumps and i had to push the car to get it off. speed bumps are bullshit.
i have absolutely no problems with my mobile data speed( which is like 120mbit/s), my issues are A. latency(which is 100+ms) and B. my 2gigabyte data cap...i use between 600 and 1k per month.
if a company is paying you, then by law they can dictate what you can do (with obvious restrictions) during company time. obviously california is best for their workers compared to other states, but even there, companies can fire you for not working your 8 hr days.
my daily driver is linux and i constantly run into issues where i have to start searching the ubuntu forums or even more obscure stuff off google in order to fix problems. i would totally pay a premium for a machine running linux that just... works... but i dont think any amount of r&d on the company that makes the hardware will fix that... this is mostly an issue with just how unreliable linux is on the desktop (people are obviously working on this, but not a huge amount of money is going into it)
the problem of our highways isnt the lack of space on the highway, it is the shitty ass human drivers on the highway. in a perfect world, as long as there is an inch of space in front of you, you should be able to drive at whatever speed you want... why? because the person in front of you is doing the same. the problem we have is that human drivers cant seem to match the speed of the guy in front of them, so they hit their brakes, forcing everyone behind them to hit their brakes as well. Another issue is people constantly shifting lanes to 'get in the better lane'... this also causes slowdowns for everyone behind them. People have no idea how to merge onto highways. also because of the above points, there are always accidents on highways, causing major slowdowns. in 10 years when self driving cars are mandatory, highways will become a lot more efficient.
There was someone who tested this at some point and found that people couldnt tell the difference between gold plated copper wire and a coathanger in terms of sound quality .
i try to have secure passwords for everything, but some of the things i have issues with are all of the changing requirements for each website, password length limits, etc. It is hard enough to come up with secure passwords that are different for every site that you can still remember. (usually involving some sort of algorithm that changes the password on a site-by-site basis but still is rememberable).
It is far more difficult to remember hundreds of passwords when 20 of them have a password character limit that is below 20, 20 of them have ridiculously long lists of requirements ranging from 'must be 8 characters or higher' to 'can not have any consecutive digits or consecutive characters' to even shit like ' can not use any special characters'
i would say he is probably close to the right value actually, because the vast majority of each religion isnt actually that religious. most christians believe in evolution.
the biggest issue with linux is driver support from the major hardware companies. in windows i can plug in any nvidia gpu and it will just work. it will have SLI multimonitor support, overclocking support etc. on linux, i can with a lot of effort turn on SLI, but i CANT turn on SLI AND have multi-monitors working because nvidia disabled that feature for everything other than the workstation cards. i also cant smoothly overclock through a gui like MSI afterburner.
i disagree. i am totally fine with static banner ads and in page ads. the only reason i use adblock is to block all of the ads that do full screen popups, malware ads and video ads.
I checked out the new torrent time thing. It is definitely malware. It sets up a windows service and turns itself on. While it is running, your computer won't sleep because it sets a 30 second wake timer.
The reason we have the right to wield guns is not to defend ourselves against other people. It is to defend ourselves against the government. If only the government can have weapons, it quickly becomes impossible to fight for other rights being taken from you.
People say 'you don't need assault weapons to defend yourself', but in actuality, that is exactly what you need to defend yourself against the government.
for sure, hourly wages adjusted for inflation have stayed flat for 20 years, but the cost of living has been increasing over that same period, so essentially it is the same as saying hourly wages (in percentage of cost of living) have been decreasing.
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yea, the texas law is similar to NYS as well. it even goes one step further. as long as your car isnt moving, you can look at your phone. this includes not only stopped at a stop light, but sitting in traffic as well.
Obviously this wasnt in Texas, because the laws in texas specifically exempt people who are not actually MOVING from the distracted driving laws. if you move a motor vehicle while you are looking at a phone, you will get fined, but sitting at a stop light, you wont.
i had an acura integra a couple years ago (it was one of the really old models). it actually got stuck on one of the bigger speed bumps and i had to push the car to get it off. speed bumps are bullshit.
if the government says it is legal, it is legal by definition.
i have absolutely no problems with my mobile data speed( which is like 120mbit/s), my issues are A. latency(which is 100+ms) and B. my 2gigabyte data cap...i use between 600 and 1k per month.
people lucky enough to have google fiber get 1000/1000 and no cap for 70$
if a company is paying you, then by law they can dictate what you can do (with obvious restrictions) during company time. obviously california is best for their workers compared to other states, but even there, companies can fire you for not working your 8 hr days.
i dont know about you guys, but my bank password has a maximum limit of 16 characters.
my daily driver is linux and i constantly run into issues where i have to start searching the ubuntu forums or even more obscure stuff off google in order to fix problems. i would totally pay a premium for a machine running linux that just... works... but i dont think any amount of r&d on the company that makes the hardware will fix that... this is mostly an issue with just how unreliable linux is on the desktop (people are obviously working on this, but not a huge amount of money is going into it)
the problem of our highways isnt the lack of space on the highway, it is the shitty ass human drivers on the highway. in a perfect world, as long as there is an inch of space in front of you, you should be able to drive at whatever speed you want... why? because the person in front of you is doing the same. the problem we have is that human drivers cant seem to match the speed of the guy in front of them, so they hit their brakes, forcing everyone behind them to hit their brakes as well. Another issue is people constantly shifting lanes to 'get in the better lane'... this also causes slowdowns for everyone behind them. People have no idea how to merge onto highways. also because of the above points, there are always accidents on highways, causing major slowdowns. in 10 years when self driving cars are mandatory, highways will become a lot more efficient.
There was someone who tested this at some point and found that people couldnt tell the difference between gold plated copper wire and a coathanger in terms of sound quality .
The location line can be turned on using the dconf editor.
would have taken more than twice as long AND would have cost him another $100k
i try to have secure passwords for everything, but some of the things i have issues with are all of the changing requirements for each website, password length limits, etc. It is hard enough to come up with secure passwords that are different for every site that you can still remember. (usually involving some sort of algorithm that changes the password on a site-by-site basis but still is rememberable).
It is far more difficult to remember hundreds of passwords when 20 of them have a password character limit that is below 20, 20 of them have ridiculously long lists of requirements ranging from 'must be 8 characters or higher' to 'can not have any consecutive digits or consecutive characters' to even shit like ' can not use any special characters'
if you are on android they do....
i would say he is probably close to the right value actually, because the vast majority of each religion isnt actually that religious. most christians believe in evolution.
i would say 'most men' dont like sports either. i like playing sports but i hate watching them.
even in texas, where the cost of living is super cheap, 50k is only the bottom of the middle class.
the biggest issue with linux is driver support from the major hardware companies. in windows i can plug in any nvidia gpu and it will just work. it will have SLI multimonitor support, overclocking support etc. on linux, i can with a lot of effort turn on SLI, but i CANT turn on SLI AND have multi-monitors working because nvidia disabled that feature for everything other than the workstation cards. i also cant smoothly overclock through a gui like MSI afterburner.
i disagree. i am totally fine with static banner ads and in page ads. the only reason i use adblock is to block all of the ads that do full screen popups, malware ads and video ads.
and even if you kill the process, it turns itself back on.
No, but even after you close your browser, not just the page, it is still going.
I checked out the new torrent time thing. It is definitely malware. It sets up a windows service and turns itself on. While it is running, your computer won't sleep because it sets a 30 second wake timer.
The reason we have the right to wield guns is not to defend ourselves against other people. It is to defend ourselves against the government. If only the government can have weapons, it quickly becomes impossible to fight for other rights being taken from you.
People say 'you don't need assault weapons to defend yourself', but in actuality, that is exactly what you need to defend yourself against the government.
for sure, hourly wages adjusted for inflation have stayed flat for 20 years, but the cost of living has been increasing over that same period, so essentially it is the same as saying hourly wages (in percentage of cost of living) have been decreasing.