From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:
* Drunk driving crashes continue to represent roughly one-third of fatalities, resulting in 9,967 deaths in 2014.
* Distracted driving accounted for 10 percent of all crash fatalities, killing 3,179 people in 2014.
* Drowsy driving accounted for 2.6 percent of all crash fatalities; at least 846 people died in these crashes in 2014.
Autopilot killed 1 person; ever. And it did so on a location where it was not intended to be used. The safety record doesn't mean nothing, but there is still room for improvement. The difference is now the improvement can be shared to all cars via an update. In a standard fatal accident, the improvements are much harder to act upon.
Reference: http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHT...
This. I'm a relatively well off white male, and I have encountered exactly this happening. Twice...
The first time, I was riding in my car with friends. Had we been drinking? Absolutely. But the driver didn't. He was a heart surgeon at OSU Hospital who was on call. He offered to drive the group because of the fact that he could not possibly drink anything. This was back in 2002. Why is that important? Oh, I don't know. Maybe because a few people crashed some planes in a some buildings, and the entire US turned against anyone who wasn't white. See, my friend, who was a well known heart surgeon, happened to look middle eastern. He was sober. Hadn't drank so much as a drop of alcohol... and he was forced to pull over to a parking lot.
In said parking lot, we were surrounded by 6 police cars and 3 paddy wagons. I was in the back seat, behind a window tinted so you couldn't see me. I had 5 other friends with me. An asian, the middle eastern who drove, an african american, and two other white friends. Every... single... minority was put in handcuffs in the backs of the cop cars. Not one of the whites were. I was mildly drunk, which means I was stupid enough to have no fear of what was happening. I yelled at the cops because of how they treated my friends. I scolded them for how my minority friends were treated differently than we were. I was given "fantastic" answers like, "would you like us to handcuff you too?!?!" to which I "smartly" replied, "yes, and lets explain to the courts why."
It turns out an asshole neighbor of mine saw a bunch of minorities getting into a car (my car!!!!), and reported it being stolen. Having nothing better to do, the entire Columbus, OH police department responded to the theft of a 1984 Chevy Suburban that had more rust than metal. They pulled my friends out, at gunpoint, by their necks and handcuffed them in the back of police cars.
Had things gone slightly different, I might be attending a friend's funeral. It frightens me both in how close I was to having a friend murdered by the police, and looking back and seeing how easily they would have justified it. Only because my friends did not assert their rights are they alive, and ironically, only because as a white male who did assert my rights were they freed.
There are bad people out there. There are great cops out there. The problem is, the police unions are so "pro cop" that any / all attempts to remove the bad cops from the force is null and void. They will protect a "bad cop" at the expense of 1,000,000 "good citizens" and won't think twice about it. I did file a report about what happened to my friends and I, and received a response that the police pulling my friends out at gunpoint was 100% justified because random citizen X reported my car as being stolen.
That was the first time... The second time... was even more "unfortunate". I'll simply say, I understand why poor people do not trust the police. I'm fairly well off, and have personally seen the abuses they are willing to do. The only difference is that I'm well off enough to be able to retaliate via the courts, and my friends often are not.
Same thing happens by Disney in FL. There's two intersecting roads, both named Celebration Pl (makes the crosswalk buttons fun since both buttons say, "Press to cross Celebration Pl"). Celebration Pl then intersects with Celebration Blvd on one end and Celebration Ave on the other. It's awesome since many GPS systems ignore or won't let you put in the suffix.
You create a single native interface in Android that takes a JSON string. The JSON string includes class name, method name, and parameters. The native interface decodes that and then executes the call through reflection.
The JavaScript gets updated by an AJAX call & eval, as another poster called out.
Just create a JavaScript binding using Reflection and a dynamic JavaScript string loaded remotely. It's actually frighteningly easy, and doesn't have the crazy restrictions on where it will / will not work as this app.
Actually, I think he's saying the person who can afford to work only 8 hours x 5 days is less tired and less likely to make mistakes than someone who must work 14 x 7. I don't think location had anything to do with his comment.
Heck, I had a Bright House modem that decided to jam all WiFi in my house, and it did it for free. That was a fun conversation with support. Trying to help a "just reboot" monkey to understand that when the modern was on, every WiFi networks within 100 meters on it became useless.
I've tinkered and brought things in to school that I made before because I wanted to show them off. I was a kid, I liked my teacher, I wanted the teacher to be proud / impressed at what I did. It's not suspicious at all. Kids like feeling special / validated and seek out encouragement. Good teachers respond in kind.
The article said he showed it to his engineering teacher (who told him not to show it to anyone else). I suspect it's because the engineering teacher knew how his or her racist peers would react, and that's even sadder.
Many folks prefer to avoid ARMs, given that those are the types of loans that blew up the economy. $450 / month wouldn't even cover your FICA taxes in a month on a 100k salary, let alone the actual income ones.
If you're going to rant, you should at least rant with realistic numbers. A $500k house at 4.5% (which is still historically crazy low) interest is $2.5k / month. That's before the "TI" part of "PITI" which would probably add another $500 or so a month. So... about $3k.
Let's assume another $1k / month for 2 cars, gas, and insurance. Now we're at $4k. (PS: if you want to assume they don't have cars and can use public transportation, then the house costs will likely offset the car savings).
Let's hopefully believe they are putting some money away in a 401K. Another $1k / month, so now we're up to $5k.
About $2k are lost to taxes & health insurance. We've just hit $7k.
That leaves behind $2k / month in spending money. The chances of putting another $900 away every month seems unlikely, regardless of "basic budgeting skills and self control".
The good news is that they actually have that $2k per month in spending money... Most families can't pretend to have even that much.
Could they get a cheaper house and save $1k off of their housing costs to put away? Well, if you use $300k rather than $500k then the same search you used to justify slamming this hypothetical family now returns exactly 30 results for a 3 bedroom house, as opposed to "hundreds".
Even if it were true, and I'm not convinced that it is, that's actually a decent number. You'll always have your very rich who don't have to work and your very poor who choose not to, so 100%'s not realistic. Then subtract from that the fact that there still are a lot of single income households where the spouse takes care of the kids rather than working and 55% sounds like a good number over all.
Yeah, I'm holding on to Eclipse until the last possible moment. Android Studio is horribly slow for what I'm doing. The UI editor is much nicer, but I almost never use that aspect. Simply typing spikes AS up to 100% CPU and kills my laptop's battery when I try to code off A/C power. The compilation process is even worse. No errors until you compile, as opposed to Eclipse's immediate error-on-save feedback.
I find it funny that people consider Eclipse "slow" for Android development. In my experience, Eclipse runs like a coked out rabbit in comparison to Android Studio's three-legged sedated turtle.
Apparently you stopped following things back in 2006. California is not bankrupt and is doing quite fine financially. They chose actual economics over the "tickle down" nonsense of the likes of Texas and Kansas. With the massive drop in oil prices, Texas is hurting (their financial "success" during the recession was always due to rises in Oil & Gas rather than any special policy).
California has other issues, but they aren't financial.
If you have an unlimited plan, as I do, tethering isn't "allowed" on Verizon. Not to say it isn't possible... you just have to be more familiar with your device's workings than most people tend to be.
I don't know... I almost had the power cut at my house because some idiot called up and 1) asked to turn on power at my address and then 2) called back a few days later saying, "oops, I gave the wrong address, please turn power on at my correct address instead." So clearly, the power company went back, looked at the long-running multi-year record that I had with them, figured out the mistake, and silently fixed things; right? No... They marked the account as canceled and promptly mailed a letter saying my power will be turned off in 3 days if I do not call and set up a new account by then. If this can happen with something as critical as electricity, it's entirely possible Comcast really does have no idea who made these changes.
Having worked Tech Support for a dial-up ISP years ago, I can attest to the "100 idiots for every intelligent person" problem. You call and believe the CS rep to be an idiot, but you need to understand that the CS rep probably thinks the same about you. Don't get me wrong, in my experience, most CS reps *are* idiots. But having worked as one briefly, most customers are too.
I don't know... I find that iTunes pretty much sucks regardless of OS. In fact, I've actually found that the Home Sharing feature is more reliable from Apple TVs when iTunes is running on Windows than it is when iTunes is running on OSX.
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Autopilot killed 1 person; ever. And it did so on a location where it was not intended to be used. The safety record doesn't mean nothing, but there is still room for improvement. The difference is now the improvement can be shared to all cars via an update. In a standard fatal accident, the improvements are much harder to act upon. Reference: http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHT...
This. I'm a relatively well off white male, and I have encountered exactly this happening. Twice...
The first time, I was riding in my car with friends. Had we been drinking? Absolutely. But the driver didn't. He was a heart surgeon at OSU Hospital who was on call. He offered to drive the group because of the fact that he could not possibly drink anything. This was back in 2002. Why is that important? Oh, I don't know. Maybe because a few people crashed some planes in a some buildings, and the entire US turned against anyone who wasn't white. See, my friend, who was a well known heart surgeon, happened to look middle eastern. He was sober. Hadn't drank so much as a drop of alcohol... and he was forced to pull over to a parking lot.
In said parking lot, we were surrounded by 6 police cars and 3 paddy wagons. I was in the back seat, behind a window tinted so you couldn't see me. I had 5 other friends with me. An asian, the middle eastern who drove, an african american, and two other white friends. Every... single... minority was put in handcuffs in the backs of the cop cars. Not one of the whites were. I was mildly drunk, which means I was stupid enough to have no fear of what was happening. I yelled at the cops because of how they treated my friends. I scolded them for how my minority friends were treated differently than we were. I was given "fantastic" answers like, "would you like us to handcuff you too?!?!" to which I "smartly" replied, "yes, and lets explain to the courts why."
It turns out an asshole neighbor of mine saw a bunch of minorities getting into a car (my car!!!!), and reported it being stolen. Having nothing better to do, the entire Columbus, OH police department responded to the theft of a 1984 Chevy Suburban that had more rust than metal. They pulled my friends out, at gunpoint, by their necks and handcuffed them in the back of police cars.
Had things gone slightly different, I might be attending a friend's funeral. It frightens me both in how close I was to having a friend murdered by the police, and looking back and seeing how easily they would have justified it. Only because my friends did not assert their rights are they alive, and ironically, only because as a white male who did assert my rights were they freed.
There are bad people out there. There are great cops out there. The problem is, the police unions are so "pro cop" that any / all attempts to remove the bad cops from the force is null and void. They will protect a "bad cop" at the expense of 1,000,000 "good citizens" and won't think twice about it. I did file a report about what happened to my friends and I, and received a response that the police pulling my friends out at gunpoint was 100% justified because random citizen X reported my car as being stolen.
That was the first time... The second time... was even more "unfortunate". I'll simply say, I understand why poor people do not trust the police. I'm fairly well off, and have personally seen the abuses they are willing to do. The only difference is that I'm well off enough to be able to retaliate via the courts, and my friends often are not.
Sad... but true. Most people will view torture as "effective". Why? Because it works on 24.
I think you got that backwards.
Really? Do you have any references? That makes a ton of sense, but I'd love to read up and learn more about how they do it.
Same thing happens by Disney in FL. There's two intersecting roads, both named Celebration Pl (makes the crosswalk buttons fun since both buttons say, "Press to cross Celebration Pl"). Celebration Pl then intersects with Celebration Blvd on one end and Celebration Ave on the other. It's awesome since many GPS systems ignore or won't let you put in the suffix.
Had vs "left you" could be a significant difference. My parents have a net worth of about $300k, but I also have two brothers.
You create a single native interface in Android that takes a JSON string. The JSON string includes class name, method name, and parameters. The native interface decodes that and then executes the call through reflection.
The JavaScript gets updated by an AJAX call & eval, as another poster called out.
Just create a JavaScript binding using Reflection and a dynamic JavaScript string loaded remotely. It's actually frighteningly easy, and doesn't have the crazy restrictions on where it will / will not work as this app.
Actually, I think he's saying the person who can afford to work only 8 hours x 5 days is less tired and less likely to make mistakes than someone who must work 14 x 7. I don't think location had anything to do with his comment.
I like it because it doesn't create any wear on the USB connector.
Heck, I had a Bright House modem that decided to jam all WiFi in my house, and it did it for free. That was a fun conversation with support. Trying to help a "just reboot" monkey to understand that when the modern was on, every WiFi networks within 100 meters on it became useless.
He did.
I've tinkered and brought things in to school that I made before because I wanted to show them off. I was a kid, I liked my teacher, I wanted the teacher to be proud / impressed at what I did. It's not suspicious at all. Kids like feeling special / validated and seek out encouragement. Good teachers respond in kind.
The article said he showed it to his engineering teacher (who told him not to show it to anyone else). I suspect it's because the engineering teacher knew how his or her racist peers would react, and that's even sadder.
Many folks prefer to avoid ARMs, given that those are the types of loans that blew up the economy. $450 / month wouldn't even cover your FICA taxes in a month on a 100k salary, let alone the actual income ones.
If you're going to rant, you should at least rant with realistic numbers. A $500k house at 4.5% (which is still historically crazy low) interest is $2.5k / month. That's before the "TI" part of "PITI" which would probably add another $500 or so a month. So... about $3k.
Let's assume another $1k / month for 2 cars, gas, and insurance. Now we're at $4k. (PS: if you want to assume they don't have cars and can use public transportation, then the house costs will likely offset the car savings).
Let's hopefully believe they are putting some money away in a 401K. Another $1k / month, so now we're up to $5k.
About $2k are lost to taxes & health insurance. We've just hit $7k.
That leaves behind $2k / month in spending money. The chances of putting another $900 away every month seems unlikely, regardless of "basic budgeting skills and self control".
The good news is that they actually have that $2k per month in spending money... Most families can't pretend to have even that much.
Could they get a cheaper house and save $1k off of their housing costs to put away? Well, if you use $300k rather than $500k then the same search you used to justify slamming this hypothetical family now returns exactly 30 results for a 3 bedroom house, as opposed to "hundreds".
I'd prefer a war on drugs refund. Way more was spent there.
"Only about 55% of job-able people are working"
Even if it were true, and I'm not convinced that it is, that's actually a decent number. You'll always have your very rich who don't have to work and your very poor who choose not to, so 100%'s not realistic. Then subtract from that the fact that there still are a lot of single income households where the spouse takes care of the kids rather than working and 55% sounds like a good number over all.
Yeah, I'm holding on to Eclipse until the last possible moment. Android Studio is horribly slow for what I'm doing. The UI editor is much nicer, but I almost never use that aspect. Simply typing spikes AS up to 100% CPU and kills my laptop's battery when I try to code off A/C power. The compilation process is even worse. No errors until you compile, as opposed to Eclipse's immediate error-on-save feedback. I find it funny that people consider Eclipse "slow" for Android development. In my experience, Eclipse runs like a coked out rabbit in comparison to Android Studio's three-legged sedated turtle.
Apparently you stopped following things back in 2006. California is not bankrupt and is doing quite fine financially. They chose actual economics over the "tickle down" nonsense of the likes of Texas and Kansas. With the massive drop in oil prices, Texas is hurting (their financial "success" during the recession was always due to rises in Oil & Gas rather than any special policy). California has other issues, but they aren't financial.
If you have an unlimited plan, as I do, tethering isn't "allowed" on Verizon. Not to say it isn't possible... you just have to be more familiar with your device's workings than most people tend to be.
I don't know... I almost had the power cut at my house because some idiot called up and 1) asked to turn on power at my address and then 2) called back a few days later saying, "oops, I gave the wrong address, please turn power on at my correct address instead." So clearly, the power company went back, looked at the long-running multi-year record that I had with them, figured out the mistake, and silently fixed things; right? No... They marked the account as canceled and promptly mailed a letter saying my power will be turned off in 3 days if I do not call and set up a new account by then. If this can happen with something as critical as electricity, it's entirely possible Comcast really does have no idea who made these changes.
Having worked Tech Support for a dial-up ISP years ago, I can attest to the "100 idiots for every intelligent person" problem. You call and believe the CS rep to be an idiot, but you need to understand that the CS rep probably thinks the same about you. Don't get me wrong, in my experience, most CS reps *are* idiots. But having worked as one briefly, most customers are too.
Just about every supermarket everywhere disagrees with you... http://smallbusiness.chron.com...
I don't know... I find that iTunes pretty much sucks regardless of OS. In fact, I've actually found that the Home Sharing feature is more reliable from Apple TVs when iTunes is running on Windows than it is when iTunes is running on OSX.