Sure, compared to today's cars it's nowhere near as safe, but it's going to be a tough sell telling others like me they can't drive their cars any more.
Unless Elon wants to pony up some of his own money to retrofit self drive tech into it. He seems to have plenty of money to throw around. Otherwise he should just shut the fsck up.
I dunno, I guess I'm the long pole. I hardly watch any OTA TV. I don't have cable TV, but I do have cable broadband.
Netflix streaming, a bit of Hulu, and bootlegging BBC iPlayer satisfy 99% of my viewing needs. I can get some of Comcast's streaming by virtue of my cable broadband.
Every time I visit my dad I flip through 300+ channels of crap and find nothing worth watching. Do people really pay $100s of dollars a month for this?
What's Apple going to bring to the table that all of the above doesn't give me? That's better than 300+ channels of crap? A superior viewing experience? Rounded corners on my 55" Sony XBR TV? Hookers and blow perhaps?
If the kid really wants to learn how to program, depending on how old they are, maybe Pascal or possibly Java.
Younger kids maybe Logo, if you can find it.
If you're going to force kids who aren't motivated or don't really want to learn it, then I suppose BASIC is okay.
It happens that I was just watching an episode of How Things Are Made about honey production on the Sci channel, and that said that bee frames were invented circa 1900, and before that harvesting honey meant killing all the bees.
Load up a couple trucks with tools, lumber, and labor; drive to the location, build the house. (Could that be prior art?)
Except we've already figured out that it's more economical, in many cases, to build the house in a factory, put the pieces (or the whole thing) on truck, and deliver it to the site.
Doesn't seem particularly innovative. Or novel. Maybe they're just trying to boost their patent portfolio. "I'll trade you a Charizard, an Honus Wagner, and 3D-print-on-a-truck for your 3D-print-on-a-drone"
Filed isn't awarded. Let's hope the USPTO sees through this and denies it.
If it said CHECK ID and you hadn't signed like that I'm not sure I would have been comfortable putting the transaction through without getting my boss to authorise it.
And if you and/or your boss declined, I'd have been perfectly comfortable walking out, leaving my multi-hundred dollar purchase on the belt for you to reshelve, and taken my business to someone who has a brain. Just sayin'.
No merchant who has ever checked my card, seen my "CHECK ID" 'signature', and checked my government issued photo ID has ever declined the sale. Some of them have even said "good idea." Despite whatever T&Cs the credit card issuer has between the merchant, or with me.
In the 8 years I worked in a supermarket I never saw Check ID written on a card. In fact I had never heard of the practice till now, so I think it must be a US centric thing.
No doubt because you have chip-and-pin and the occurrence of fraud is practically nil.
What happens when you get home and call your back and dispute the transaction? The signature receipt I have accepted is copied and sent to the bank, then your card is checked for verification. On the back of your card is CHECK ID and it looks absolutely nothing like the signature on the piece of paper. What happens then?
I've disputed transactions in the past. I've never had to show them the signature panel on my card. If you had checked my ID and confirmed it was actually me, then I'd say the odds of me disputing the transaction are exactly zero.
And the funny thing is, they are so blissfully unaware things are better elsewhere in the world because none of them ever go anywhere anymore.
Wow. I wonder what it is then that I've been doing. My trips to Japan, India, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, France, South Africa, etc., etc. must all be my imagination.
Stereotypes FTW.
Simply because your average pleb can't tell a genuine signature from a forgery.
If the standard plebe even looked at the signature panel on any of my cards, they'd see it says "CHECK ID" in big bold block letters.
Sometimes when the plebe doesn't check, I point it out to them. Before long it's not going to be sometimes – I'm going to fscking point it out to them every frikken time they don't check.
a process already used to make the chrome plating you might see on the engine and exhaust pipes of a motorcycle.
The exhaust pipes are nickel plated to give it the the shiny-shiny everyone likes. Chrome plating is transparent (think of it as a metallic clear coat) and is used to keep the nickel from oxidizing. Most aluminum motorcycle engines aren't plated, just highly polished. Note that I said most; no doubt some wag will jump in to claim I'm wrong and that a lot of bikes do have chromed [sic] engines.
The same is true for all that "chrome" on cars through the seventies – bumpers, door handles, all the other various shiny bits and pieces – it's nickel plated. (Or often it's polished stainless steel, or aluminized steel.)
Heck, the Trixter Xdream bike beats those Lifecycle pieces of crap hands down. Anything that can improve on that is a win IMO.
At least until all this damn snow melts and I can go out on a real bike.
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I have no plans to stop driving it.
Sure, compared to today's cars it's nowhere near as safe, but it's going to be a tough sell telling others like me they can't drive their cars any more.
Unless Elon wants to pony up some of his own money to retrofit self drive tech into it. He seems to have plenty of money to throw around. Otherwise he should just shut the fsck up.
...Elon Musk compare local dealers to a mafia protection racket subverting the democratic process.
Was anyone really surprised?
I dunno, I guess I'm the long pole. I hardly watch any OTA TV. I don't have cable TV, but I do have cable broadband.
Netflix streaming, a bit of Hulu, and bootlegging BBC iPlayer satisfy 99% of my viewing needs. I can get some of Comcast's streaming by virtue of my cable broadband.
Every time I visit my dad I flip through 300+ channels of crap and find nothing worth watching. Do people really pay $100s of dollars a month for this?
What's Apple going to bring to the table that all of the above doesn't give me? That's better than 300+ channels of crap? A superior viewing experience? Rounded corners on my 55" Sony XBR TV? Hookers and blow perhaps?
TV has jumped the shark. Now get off my lawn.
Meh.
If the kid really wants to learn how to program, depending on how old they are, maybe Pascal or possibly Java. Younger kids maybe Logo, if you can find it. If you're going to force kids who aren't motivated or don't really want to learn it, then I suppose BASIC is okay.
It happens that I was just watching an episode of How Things Are Made about honey production on the Sci channel, and that said that bee frames were invented circa 1900, and before that harvesting honey meant killing all the bees.
Load up a couple trucks with tools, lumber, and labor; drive to the location, build the house. (Could that be prior art?)
Except we've already figured out that it's more economical, in many cases, to build the house in a factory, put the pieces (or the whole thing) on truck, and deliver it to the site.
Doesn't seem particularly innovative. Or novel. Maybe they're just trying to boost their patent portfolio. "I'll trade you a Charizard, an Honus Wagner, and 3D-print-on-a-truck for your 3D-print-on-a-drone"
Filed isn't awarded. Let's hope the USPTO sees through this and denies it.
Oops, no, not Harry Reid. My bad
Don't forget:
Mitch McConnell
Harry Reid
Ted Cruz
Fox News (or Faux News) is an entertainment program with a history of saying things that are provocative, to an audience that doesn't know any better.
There, fixed that for you
If it said CHECK ID and you hadn't signed like that I'm not sure I would have been comfortable putting the transaction through without getting my boss to authorise it.
And if you and/or your boss declined, I'd have been perfectly comfortable walking out, leaving my multi-hundred dollar purchase on the belt for you to reshelve, and taken my business to someone who has a brain. Just sayin'. No merchant who has ever checked my card, seen my "CHECK ID" 'signature', and checked my government issued photo ID has ever declined the sale. Some of them have even said "good idea." Despite whatever T&Cs the credit card issuer has between the merchant, or with me.
In the 8 years I worked in a supermarket I never saw Check ID written on a card. In fact I had never heard of the practice till now, so I think it must be a US centric thing.
No doubt because you have chip-and-pin and the occurrence of fraud is practically nil.
What happens when you get home and call your back and dispute the transaction? The signature receipt I have accepted is copied and sent to the bank, then your card is checked for verification. On the back of your card is CHECK ID and it looks absolutely nothing like the signature on the piece of paper. What happens then?
I've disputed transactions in the past. I've never had to show them the signature panel on my card. If you had checked my ID and confirmed it was actually me, then I'd say the odds of me disputing the transaction are exactly zero.
But the cashiers aren't obligated to check your ID to validate the signature, so you don't have much call to get mad at them because of that.
Wrong. The merchant's agreement says they are required to check. There's anecdotal evidence that CC companies audit merchants for compliance.
And the funny thing is, they are so blissfully unaware things are better elsewhere in the world because none of them ever go anywhere anymore.
Wow. I wonder what it is then that I've been doing. My trips to Japan, India, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, France, South Africa, etc., etc. must all be my imagination. Stereotypes FTW.
Simply because your average pleb can't tell a genuine signature from a forgery.
If the standard plebe even looked at the signature panel on any of my cards, they'd see it says "CHECK ID" in big bold block letters. Sometimes when the plebe doesn't check, I point it out to them. Before long it's not going to be sometimes – I'm going to fscking point it out to them every frikken time they don't check.
a process already used to make the chrome plating you might see on the engine and exhaust pipes of a motorcycle.
The exhaust pipes are nickel plated to give it the the shiny-shiny everyone likes. Chrome plating is transparent (think of it as a metallic clear coat) and is used to keep the nickel from oxidizing. Most aluminum motorcycle engines aren't plated, just highly polished. Note that I said most; no doubt some wag will jump in to claim I'm wrong and that a lot of bikes do have chromed [sic] engines.
The same is true for all that "chrome" on cars through the seventies – bumpers, door handles, all the other various shiny bits and pieces – it's nickel plated. (Or often it's polished stainless steel, or aluminized steel.)
Heck, the Trixter Xdream bike beats those Lifecycle pieces of crap hands down. Anything that can improve on that is a win IMO. At least until all this damn snow melts and I can go out on a real bike.
All those 1%ers need something to spend their money on.