Crude forms (as in old technology by modern standards, not as in "ineffective") of AI are already in use, and not just recently either.
The last version of the Canadian frigates (first one hit the water in 1990), which are already being replaced with a newer version, used a set of in-house designed operating systems with triple redundancy (three specific OSes, each of which can operate the ship alone, and three independent networks, etc each of which can operate the ship alone). Although the details are not made public, rumour has it that they are various flavours of UNIX.
One feature of the ship is it can track and target threats (air, sea and subsea) and fire when all personnel are no longer physically capable of operating the ship. As in dead.
Most navies have built similar (and newer) ships since, with technology that operates the same way (including the US, UK, etc).
"... "A key question for you in this case is whether these patents cover the world wide web," Hadden told jurors. "They do not and that is because IBM did not invent the world wide web."..."
The patents could easily 'cover the world wide web' in a general sense while at the same time covering only a subset of it. Nor is Groupon a company whose product 'cover[s] the world wide web', it covers a subset of the world wide web.
IBM has no need to prove it 'invent[ed] the world wide web', it only has to prove it invented some processes for eCommerce and received patents for them (whether such patents should have been issued is another story, but none the less, they were granted, so that is a simple fact) and that Groupon has used these patented processes in it's business without obtaining a license authorizing their use.
World Wide Web does not equal eCommerce on the web, nor does eCommerce on the web equal the World Wide Web.
Sound like they have little to offer to defend themselves against the suit., and are trying to deflect the issue they are being sued over. Obviously an armchair assessment, but it looks bad for them to me.
Being able to multitask, which is now required for success in many cases, is also an ADHD behavior. Maybe we shouldn't judge people in the present based on how pre-technology people existed.
No-one can "multitask". Some people can serially mono-task, switching from one to the other frequently. But you cannot convince your brain to do two tasks that are not pure repetition at the same time, and even when that works, the error rate goes up considerably.
You are under the assumption that it's those with "dirty" cash buying the "special" book. It isn't.
Think about the crime movies you've seen. We can use Scarface (the early 80's version; there are earlier Scarface movies). Tony Montana's henchmen are dragging hockey bags full of cash into the crooked bank, and the crooked banker is buying it at a discount and mixing it with legitimate deposits. Classic currency source deception. But the banker isn't the guy who needs the money "laundered".
I'll give you another example. Here in Canada you can sell winning gambling tickets to certain unscrupulous persons. There is nationwide sports betting through the lottery system. Winning tickets are not particularly large, maybe a few thousand at most; typically a few hundred or less, and a skilled sports gambler can make money at it. So he sells his winning ticket to the previously mentioned suspicious character, at a discount (which is really a premium to the bettor).
Anyone can win at such a game with small amounts of cash, basically pocket money, and wow! I won $487.00! says the criminal. He paid maybe $600 for that ticket, cashes it in, done. Money laundered. Same thing can be done with Video Lottery Terminal tickets (every bar in Canada) and so on. If there is too much cash to launder, he has cronies cash them in, for a smaller cut.
Now lets go back to Amazon's secret book (or set of tools, or whatever... I've seen the massively inflated prices on all kinds of stuff). Who sells it? The Amazon equivalent of the Banker, the winning gambler, the rube who cashes in chits. Who buys it? Another associate of the actual criminal, who has nothing to tie them into the actual source of the money. What's the motivation? The vigorish between what dirty money is worth and what clean money is worth.
Isn't going to happen. Adobe was able to convert their owned software model to subscription because professional users are using the software daily. The cost is essentially irrelevant; they'd pay more if asked. And they buy the hardware and the OS necessary to run it, again regardless of cost and again they'd pay more if necessary.
The move to the subscription model, however, seriously dented their hobbyist market. This was preceded by a change in Adobe's longstanding upgrade policy, where owners of previous versions could always upgrade for about $150, regardless of the version spread. So casual users could skip a version or three and still see the value of the latest version. The change was only the previous version could then be upgraded. This had the desired effect for Pro users, who could justify not skipping a version and was essential for preparing them to accept the subscription model that followed (the version is essentially irrelevant in the subscription model; you use what is compatible with your hardware, or the latest version, at the same cost).
Some moved to Photoshop LE but not all, partly because Adobe is very reluctant to eat it's own lunch, so LE is always crippled in some way that a serious user might need. Adobe has always been half-hearted with it's development as a result.
This is an attempt to recover those users, although in my opinion it's already too late. There are numerous very capable and inexpensive apps on mobile platforms, tablets, and on desktop / laptop for casual users. A few, still inexpensive, examples don't take a back seat to Adobe's Pro apps. Marketing might draw a few but that market is over as far as the reputation and allure goes.
With Linux I think the problem is simply the uptake rate is too low to make it viable, and we're not even talking Adobe level stuff. Corel tried and failed to earn enough to make it viable, and although CorelDraw is a quirky and somewhat unstable app, it certainly does the job if you are determined. I don't see any other player trying again, unfortunately for Linux users. Wine or an emulated OS are basically going to be the options going forward, or of course Gimp if it meets your needs.
Neither my mother's nor my father's, nor my brother's estates went through probate.
In the case of my father, he bequeathed cash to both his children, via accounts of $10,000, which is some kind of statutory limit. My sister and I had certified cheques in our hands about two weeks after death. The remaining property went to my mother. The estate did not require Probate.
In the case of my mother, who died later, she bequeathed cash disbursement from what remained in her retirement account, which exceeded six figures, to five children and eight nieces and nephews. The estate did not require Probate.
My brother died with no debt, unmarried, and his estate did not require Probate.
What may make Probate necessary is when there are Estate Taxes due, which is a common situation for residents of the US.
In Canada the Executor simply files a final return, which does not need to be professionally filed. It simply covers the period from the last return to the date of death. There are no Estate Taxes in Canada; 100% of your assets can be bequeathed.
Alive or dead I am responsible for my wife's debts and her mine.
There is no way an estate can go through probate in 3 weeks.
I don't know the law / regulations in the UK, but in Canada a will does not automatically require Probate. Examples: You name an executor, and are unmarried and died with no debt, or all your property (and it's debt) is bequeathed to a spouse.
The technical conversion is a little daunting for the math challenged (5/9 or 9/5 +/- 32) but the back of the envelope math is easy... double it and add 30 (or to go from F to C, subtract 30 first, then divide by 2).
So 30C is 2x 30 + 30 or 90. Actual conversion? 86F Or 90F is 90 - 30 = 60/2 = 30C. Actual conversion? 32.2C
The "Heat Wave" reports about "Canada" are really about Eastern Canada, where temperatures above 28C [86F] generally cause panic of sorts, and will trigger weather warnings in Toronto.
Out here in Western Canada (prairies and the coast) temperatures around that number get you a "it's warm out" and "enjoy the sunshine" from the TV weatherman. Today it was 32C [90F] with the Humidex at 40 [104F] and nobody blinked, nobody keeled over dead, and everyone just enjoyed the weather. I believe that is the same as the highest temperature all week in Montreal where the "heat wave death" news reports apparently come from.
Normal temperatures in my city range from -40C [-40F] wintertime to +40C [104F] summertime air temperatures, with rare occurrences (say, 10 year highs and lows) a little beyond. The Humidex of course would be higher.
It all comes down to what people are used to... I remember the panic in the UK this year at the London Marathon where temperatures reached a record high of 28C [82F] and the BBC was warning about the heat and urging everyone from participants to spectators to keep hydrated.
When I first read this story the "apology" from Facebook read a little differently.
"It looks like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on Facebook that didn't go against our Community Standards. We want to apologize and let you know that we've restored your content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action."
The reason I mention it, is when I read it, the words stood out to me.. namely "didn't go against our Community Standards".
It most certainly DOES go against their "Community Standards". Now, it should get an exception because it's History, and Newsworthy and probably a few other reasons. But no, not because it doesn't go against their Community Standards, because as those Standards are written, it clearly does.
Really, what kind of Do-Gooder has the time and energy to upload twenty videos every day? Sure, they're persistent, but there's a limit even with that crowd.
This is the oldest process and biggest non-secret of the entire recycling industry.
What do you do with product sent for recycling that you can't recycle? (Three guesses, first two don't count).
Does the reason why you can't recycle it change what you do with it? (Three guesses, first two don't count).
Too much product returned for recycling is just as common as non-recyclable material contaminating the recycle stream. Like, this had to be figured out on day one, a bazillion years ago (they've been recycling aluminum for almost as long as they've been smelting aluminum).
Hey, it's not all bad news. In Canada, we import garbage paper from the US, because we can't get enough from domestic use to incorporate recycled content at the desired % (not because Canadians don't recycle paper, because we don't use as much as would be required; we'd import it even if recycling was 100% compliance).
And then there are cost considerations. Sometimes the recycled product costs more to recycle than you can get for it as post-consumer waste. So you either sell it at a loss or send it to the landfill. This is rocket science?
Maybe some people here lived in the third world, or the educational / public service equivalent in the first world, but all my life... we're talking back to High School in the early 1970's... you could call "Information Services" at my local public library and get a real, live librarian answer any question... and I mean ANY question... usually within about two minutes. Sometimes they would ask for your number to call you back. Never waited more than a half hour in my life. Made a lot of money on bets that way, mind you.
Come the 21st century, Information Services still survives where I live. If Google Assistant (or any other online assistant, for that matter) has the right answer, they will check it. But, often enough, they are wrong and the real, live librarian gets you the right answer instead. How about where you live?
We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
Our justice system is great at nailing people on pin-eyed technicality bullshit like sending Matthew Charles to prison a second time for a crime he already served his time for. And exactly what was it that Martha Stewart did?
Unfortunately, the same system also allows real criminals to get away with it over and over again.
Martha Stewart, a *former licensed Stock Broker*, knowingly committed the crime of insider trading. That's what she did.
I left home at age 16, which was the age of majority in Canada in the 70's. That also meant you were legally an Adult before the courts, would be sent to an adult prison if you somehow strayed too far, but you couldn't legally sign a contract until you were 18.
I worked a full-time job pumping gas 4~Midnight five days a week (sundays and mondays off) and also attended High School during the day. Minimum wage was $1.10/hour; I made $1.25, which meant I could afford to pay half my income in rent.
Can't own a home, so you live with your parents? You've got to be kidding.
For some unknown reason, probably dating back to the creation of the USPTO, in the United States an Industrial Design (a form of IP) is, uniquely, referred to as a Design "Patent", even though it's not a patent but instead describes some aspect of a product or item's appearance. For example if you try to copy a Ferrari you will be infringing on the Industrial Design (Design Patent in the US), not on some functional mechanism.
One rather famous Design Patent is for the Q-Ray Bracelet, which covers the shape of the bracelet itself, but in advertising it's implied that there is a "Patent" on it's function as a healing device. There isn't.
Every other nation on Earth refers to this form of IP as a (registered) Industrial Design.
Every single car I was interested in was belittled and not picked, but oh boy do they love Lexus and BMW sedans and similar styled vehicles. If you prefer another type or make of vehicle look elsewhere for unbiased opinion.
There is no such thing as an "unbiased opinion". The sooner you rid yourself of that fallacy, the sooner you will find reviews from all sources... yes even CR... more valuable.
If you read the summary (yeah, I know...) you would have also read that CR (whom I have no love for, as they get so much wrong about so many things) also confirmed the performance of their Model3 by borrowing a consumer-owned Model3 and repeating their tests. Result was essentially no difference; the first braking event was similar to the CR event at 133 feet and all subsequent events were longer, again similar to CR's 150+ feet results.
There was a strange element to this... CR tried a change in the routine, by making the initial stopping event then (rather than driving for 1 mile to cool then re-testing the brakes) letting the Model3 rest overnight before the second brake test. The second test still had an unusually long stopping distance, again essentially the same as the previous results with their standard test regimen on the two cars under test (theirs and the consumer's).
TESLA (and all things TESLA, like stock prices, what Wall Street thinks, who is buying and selling, financial analysis, current and future models, a half dozen Musk-related businesses that are not TESLA but invoke a brief note about TESLA none the less, and... oh yes... TESLA accidents that might involve self-driving features, and TESLA accidents where self-driving mode was confirmed at the time of the accident, and any story about electric automobiles or self-driving vehicles by any manufacturer will invariably invoke some reference to TESLA.
All of this is not some conspiracy to "call out" TESLA when it's cars are involved in accidents while other, rather ordinary autos from mainstream manufacturers are less widely reported (but do make local news; which is a broad hint as to what is going on).
What is the public interest in TESLA versus, say, a Hyundai SUV that left the road in rural Arkansas? And by "public interest" I'm not referring to the political sense, I'm referring to how many people want to read the story and how many people do read the story, and how much advertising revenue you can obtain from the TESLA story versus the Arkansas story.
Musk making some fuss over what is in essence a reflection of the public's appetite for everything TESLA is, at best, naive, and at worst, contrived.
50% penetration to turn off analog radio is inherently prejudicial (both have 50% penetration but one is promoted while the other demoted) but that is not what is actually happening (so far). I do find this regulation suspect... why was this not a topic of study or discussion on an official level (perhaps annually) before? And when I ask the question to myself, the answer is basically it must have been analog radio lobbying that asked for such a threshold prior to discussion.
In any case, this doesn't mean analog radio will be depreciated, just that the discussion shall begin as to what and when, if ever. Also the penetration of digital radio was already high in the UK as pretty much every radio sold in the UK in the last decade has the ability to receive digital broadcasts as well as analog, so this does not necessarily mean anything to another jurisdiction.
I'm in Canada. Doctors are required by law to report any medical condition that may affect one's ability to operate a motor vehicle, and such a report triggers an immediate suspension of your driving license. (Driving while Suspended carries the same penalties as Impaired Driving).
In my case, at age 57, due to a mix of medication my doctor prescribed me, I began experiencing dizzy spells. Combined with low blood pressure (which is actually good, as you age, but when I was a young adult I would get a dizzy spell for about 1~3 seconds if I stood up quickly from a seating position) I fell and hit my head while in the doctor's office, and he sent the report (and paid for a taxi home for me).
Now my Driver's License is pretty much exactly like how all Pilot's Licenses work... it's dependent on a medical. I take the medical every year (the licensing agency pays the fee to the doctor) and if I pass (I always do) then I can renew my Driver's for a year. This will never go away; I will be doing this for the rest of my life.
Note that the medical also includes a vision test, which I also always pass (20:20 & 15:20), but should I fail then there would be a requirement to get another medical from an optometrist, and I know many drivers who cannot see as well as I can and don't wear corrective lenses. But they don't need a medical to drive.
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Crude forms (as in old technology by modern standards, not as in "ineffective") of AI are already in use, and not just recently either.
The last version of the Canadian frigates (first one hit the water in 1990), which are already being replaced with a newer version, used a set of in-house designed operating systems with triple redundancy (three specific OSes, each of which can operate the ship alone, and three independent networks, etc each of which can operate the ship alone). Although the details are not made public, rumour has it that they are various flavours of UNIX.
One feature of the ship is it can track and target threats (air, sea and subsea) and fire when all personnel are no longer physically capable of operating the ship. As in dead.
Most navies have built similar (and newer) ships since, with technology that operates the same way (including the US, UK, etc).
Sounds like an AI weapon system to me.
And what the fuck is a Bumping Right?
It's when an employee has some kind of tenure with the company, so that they can take another's job, and that other person gets laid off.
" ... "A key question for you in this case is whether these patents cover the world wide web," Hadden told jurors. "They do not and that is because IBM did not invent the world wide web." ..."
The patents could easily 'cover the world wide web' in a general sense while at the same time covering only a subset of it. Nor is Groupon a company whose product 'cover[s] the world wide web', it covers a subset of the world wide web.
IBM has no need to prove it 'invent[ed] the world wide web', it only has to prove it invented some processes for eCommerce and received patents for them (whether such patents should have been issued is another story, but none the less, they were granted, so that is a simple fact) and that Groupon has used these patented processes in it's business without obtaining a license authorizing their use.
World Wide Web does not equal eCommerce on the web, nor does eCommerce on the web equal the World Wide Web.
Sound like they have little to offer to defend themselves against the suit., and are trying to deflect the issue they are being sued over. Obviously an armchair assessment, but it looks bad for them to me.
Being able to multitask, which is now required for success in many cases, is also an ADHD behavior. Maybe we shouldn't judge people in the present based on how pre-technology people existed.
No-one can "multitask". Some people can serially mono-task, switching from one to the other frequently. But you cannot convince your brain to do two tasks that are not pure repetition at the same time, and even when that works, the error rate goes up considerably.
You are under the assumption that it's those with "dirty" cash buying the "special" book. It isn't.
Think about the crime movies you've seen. We can use Scarface (the early 80's version; there are earlier Scarface movies). Tony Montana's henchmen are dragging hockey bags full of cash into the crooked bank, and the crooked banker is buying it at a discount and mixing it with legitimate deposits. Classic currency source deception. But the banker isn't the guy who needs the money "laundered".
I'll give you another example. Here in Canada you can sell winning gambling tickets to certain unscrupulous persons. There is nationwide sports betting through the lottery system. Winning tickets are not particularly large, maybe a few thousand at most; typically a few hundred or less, and a skilled sports gambler can make money at it. So he sells his winning ticket to the previously mentioned suspicious character, at a discount (which is really a premium to the bettor).
Anyone can win at such a game with small amounts of cash, basically pocket money, and wow! I won $487.00! says the criminal. He paid maybe $600 for that ticket, cashes it in, done. Money laundered. Same thing can be done with Video Lottery Terminal tickets (every bar in Canada) and so on. If there is too much cash to launder, he has cronies cash them in, for a smaller cut.
Now lets go back to Amazon's secret book (or set of tools, or whatever ... I've seen the massively inflated prices on all kinds of stuff). Who sells it? The Amazon equivalent of the Banker, the winning gambler, the rube who cashes in chits. Who buys it? Another associate of the actual criminal, who has nothing to tie them into the actual source of the money. What's the motivation? The vigorish between what dirty money is worth and what clean money is worth.
Done.
Isn't going to happen. Adobe was able to convert their owned software model to subscription because professional users are using the software daily. The cost is essentially irrelevant; they'd pay more if asked. And they buy the hardware and the OS necessary to run it, again regardless of cost and again they'd pay more if necessary.
The move to the subscription model, however, seriously dented their hobbyist market. This was preceded by a change in Adobe's longstanding upgrade policy, where owners of previous versions could always upgrade for about $150, regardless of the version spread. So casual users could skip a version or three and still see the value of the latest version. The change was only the previous version could then be upgraded. This had the desired effect for Pro users, who could justify not skipping a version and was essential for preparing them to accept the subscription model that followed (the version is essentially irrelevant in the subscription model; you use what is compatible with your hardware, or the latest version, at the same cost).
Some moved to Photoshop LE but not all, partly because Adobe is very reluctant to eat it's own lunch, so LE is always crippled in some way that a serious user might need. Adobe has always been half-hearted with it's development as a result.
This is an attempt to recover those users, although in my opinion it's already too late. There are numerous very capable and inexpensive apps on mobile platforms, tablets, and on desktop / laptop for casual users. A few, still inexpensive, examples don't take a back seat to Adobe's Pro apps. Marketing might draw a few but that market is over as far as the reputation and allure goes.
With Linux I think the problem is simply the uptake rate is too low to make it viable, and we're not even talking Adobe level stuff. Corel tried and failed to earn enough to make it viable, and although CorelDraw is a quirky and somewhat unstable app, it certainly does the job if you are determined. I don't see any other player trying again, unfortunately for Linux users. Wine or an emulated OS are basically going to be the options going forward, or of course Gimp if it meets your needs.
In addition to my previous comment:
Neither my mother's nor my father's, nor my brother's estates went through probate.
In the case of my father, he bequeathed cash to both his children, via accounts of $10,000, which is some kind of statutory limit. My sister and I had certified cheques in our hands about two weeks after death. The remaining property went to my mother. The estate did not require Probate.
In the case of my mother, who died later, she bequeathed cash disbursement from what remained in her retirement account, which exceeded six figures, to five children and eight nieces and nephews. The estate did not require Probate.
My brother died with no debt, unmarried, and his estate did not require Probate.
What may make Probate necessary is when there are Estate Taxes due, which is a common situation for residents of the US.
In Canada the Executor simply files a final return, which does not need to be professionally filed. It simply covers the period from the last return to the date of death. There are no Estate Taxes in Canada; 100% of your assets can be bequeathed.
Alive or dead I am responsible for my wife's debts and her mine.
There is no way an estate can go through probate in 3 weeks.
I don't know the law / regulations in the UK, but in Canada a will does not automatically require Probate.
Examples:
You name an executor, and are unmarried and died with no debt, or all your property (and it's debt) is bequeathed to a spouse.
I'm pretty sure Henry Ford figured this out 100 years ago. And probably others ...
The technical conversion is a little daunting for the math challenged (5/9 or 9/5 +/- 32) but the back of the envelope math is easy ... double it and add 30 (or to go from F to C, subtract 30 first, then divide by 2).
So 30C is 2x 30 + 30 or 90. Actual conversion? 86F /2 = 30C. Actual conversion? 32.2C
Or 90F is 90 - 30 = 60
Close enough.
The "Heat Wave" reports about "Canada" are really about Eastern Canada, where temperatures above 28C [86F] generally cause panic of sorts, and will trigger weather warnings in Toronto.
Out here in Western Canada (prairies and the coast) temperatures around that number get you a "it's warm out" and "enjoy the sunshine" from the TV weatherman. Today it was 32C [90F] with the Humidex at 40 [104F] and nobody blinked, nobody keeled over dead, and everyone just enjoyed the weather. I believe that is the same as the highest temperature all week in Montreal where the "heat wave death" news reports apparently come from.
Normal temperatures in my city range from -40C [-40F] wintertime to +40C [104F] summertime air temperatures, with rare occurrences (say, 10 year highs and lows) a little beyond. The Humidex of course would be higher.
It all comes down to what people are used to ... I remember the panic in the UK this year at the London Marathon where temperatures reached a record high of 28C [82F] and the BBC was warning about the heat and urging everyone from participants to spectators to keep hydrated.
When I first read this story the "apology" from Facebook read a little differently.
"It looks like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on Facebook that didn't go against our Community Standards. We want to apologize and let you know that we've restored your content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action."
The reason I mention it, is when I read it, the words stood out to me .. namely "didn't go against our Community Standards".
It most certainly DOES go against their "Community Standards". Now, it should get an exception because it's History, and Newsworthy and probably a few other reasons. But no, not because it doesn't go against their Community Standards, because as those Standards are written, it clearly does.
What else to add? Is /. now "News for Fashionistas? Does a chipset setting determine the colour? Because if it doesn't, this is garbage news.
Really, what kind of Do-Gooder has the time and energy to upload twenty videos every day? Sure, they're persistent, but there's a limit even with that crowd.
This is the oldest process and biggest non-secret of the entire recycling industry.
What do you do with product sent for recycling that you can't recycle? (Three guesses, first two don't count).
Does the reason why you can't recycle it change what you do with it? (Three guesses, first two don't count).
Too much product returned for recycling is just as common as non-recyclable material contaminating the recycle stream. Like, this had to be figured out on day one, a bazillion years ago (they've been recycling aluminum for almost as long as they've been smelting aluminum).
Hey, it's not all bad news. In Canada, we import garbage paper from the US, because we can't get enough from domestic use to incorporate recycled content at the desired % (not because Canadians don't recycle paper, because we don't use as much as would be required; we'd import it even if recycling was 100% compliance).
And then there are cost considerations. Sometimes the recycled product costs more to recycle than you can get for it as post-consumer waste. So you either sell it at a loss or send it to the landfill. This is rocket science?
Maybe some people here lived in the third world, or the educational / public service equivalent in the first world, but all my life ... we're talking back to High School in the early 1970's ... you could call "Information Services" at my local public library and get a real, live librarian answer any question ... and I mean ANY question ... usually within about two minutes. Sometimes they would ask for your number to call you back. Never waited more than a half hour in my life. Made a lot of money on bets that way, mind you.
Come the 21st century, Information Services still survives where I live. If Google Assistant (or any other online assistant, for that matter) has the right answer, they will check it. But, often enough, they are wrong and the real, live librarian gets you the right answer instead. How about where you live?
We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
Our justice system is great at nailing people on pin-eyed technicality bullshit like sending Matthew Charles to prison a second time for a crime he already served his time for. And exactly what was it that Martha Stewart did?
Unfortunately, the same system also allows real criminals to get away with it over and over again.
Martha Stewart, a *former licensed Stock Broker*, knowingly committed the crime of insider trading. That's what she did.
No bullshit.
I left home at age 16, which was the age of majority in Canada in the 70's. That also meant you were legally an Adult before the courts, would be sent to an adult prison if you somehow strayed too far, but you couldn't legally sign a contract until you were 18.
I worked a full-time job pumping gas 4~Midnight five days a week (sundays and mondays off) and also attended High School during the day. Minimum wage was $1.10/hour; I made $1.25, which meant I could afford to pay half my income in rent.
Can't own a home, so you live with your parents? You've got to be kidding.
For some unknown reason, probably dating back to the creation of the USPTO, in the United States an Industrial Design (a form of IP) is, uniquely, referred to as a Design "Patent", even though it's not a patent but instead describes some aspect of a product or item's appearance. For example if you try to copy a Ferrari you will be infringing on the Industrial Design (Design Patent in the US), not on some functional mechanism.
One rather famous Design Patent is for the Q-Ray Bracelet, which covers the shape of the bracelet itself, but in advertising it's implied that there is a "Patent" on it's function as a healing device. There isn't.
Every other nation on Earth refers to this form of IP as a (registered) Industrial Design.
Every single car I was interested in was belittled and not picked, but oh boy do they love Lexus and BMW sedans and similar styled vehicles. If you prefer another type or make of vehicle look elsewhere for unbiased opinion.
There is no such thing as an "unbiased opinion". The sooner you rid yourself of that fallacy, the sooner you will find reviews from all sources ... yes even CR ... more valuable.
If you read the summary (yeah, I know ...) you would have also read that CR (whom I have no love for, as they get so much wrong about so many things) also confirmed the performance of their Model3 by borrowing a consumer-owned Model3 and repeating their tests. Result was essentially no difference; the first braking event was similar to the CR event at 133 feet and all subsequent events were longer, again similar to CR's 150+ feet results.
There was a strange element to this ... CR tried a change in the routine, by making the initial stopping event then (rather than driving for 1 mile to cool then re-testing the brakes) letting the Model3 rest overnight before the second brake test. The second test still had an unusually long stopping distance, again essentially the same as the previous results with their standard test regimen on the two cars under test (theirs and the consumer's).
TESLA (and all things TESLA, like stock prices, what Wall Street thinks, who is buying and selling, financial analysis, current and future models, a half dozen Musk-related businesses that are not TESLA but invoke a brief note about TESLA none the less, and ... oh yes ... TESLA accidents that might involve self-driving features, and TESLA accidents where self-driving mode was confirmed at the time of the accident, and any story about electric automobiles or self-driving vehicles by any manufacturer will invariably invoke some reference to TESLA.
All of this is not some conspiracy to "call out" TESLA when it's cars are involved in accidents while other, rather ordinary autos from mainstream manufacturers are less widely reported (but do make local news; which is a broad hint as to what is going on).
What is the public interest in TESLA versus, say, a Hyundai SUV that left the road in rural Arkansas? And by "public interest" I'm not referring to the political sense, I'm referring to how many people want to read the story and how many people do read the story, and how much advertising revenue you can obtain from the TESLA story versus the Arkansas story.
Musk making some fuss over what is in essence a reflection of the public's appetite for everything TESLA is, at best, naive, and at worst, contrived.
So, just like Brexit? /rimshot
You confuse an Either / Or referendum with a consumer market penetration level?
50% penetration to turn off analog radio is inherently prejudicial (both have 50% penetration but one is promoted while the other demoted) but that is not what is actually happening (so far). I do find this regulation suspect ... why was this not a topic of study or discussion on an official level (perhaps annually) before? And when I ask the question to myself, the answer is basically it must have been analog radio lobbying that asked for such a threshold prior to discussion.
In any case, this doesn't mean analog radio will be depreciated, just that the discussion shall begin as to what and when, if ever. Also the penetration of digital radio was already high in the UK as pretty much every radio sold in the UK in the last decade has the ability to receive digital broadcasts as well as analog, so this does not necessarily mean anything to another jurisdiction.
I'm in Canada. Doctors are required by law to report any medical condition that may affect one's ability to operate a motor vehicle, and such a report triggers an immediate suspension of your driving license. (Driving while Suspended carries the same penalties as Impaired Driving).
In my case, at age 57, due to a mix of medication my doctor prescribed me, I began experiencing dizzy spells. Combined with low blood pressure (which is actually good, as you age, but when I was a young adult I would get a dizzy spell for about 1~3 seconds if I stood up quickly from a seating position) I fell and hit my head while in the doctor's office, and he sent the report (and paid for a taxi home for me).
Now my Driver's License is pretty much exactly like how all Pilot's Licenses work ... it's dependent on a medical. I take the medical every year (the licensing agency pays the fee to the doctor) and if I pass (I always do) then I can renew my Driver's for a year. This will never go away; I will be doing this for the rest of my life.
Note that the medical also includes a vision test, which I also always pass (20:20 & 15:20), but should I fail then there would be a requirement to get another medical from an optometrist, and I know many drivers who cannot see as well as I can and don't wear corrective lenses. But they don't need a medical to drive.