The original reason for DST: Stores and parks did not want to change the signs that said when they would open, but they wanted to be open during daylight.
I understand, but again, it's just not a good enough reason to engage in this ridiculous clock-changing ritual.
Carry a cellphone and chances are you can account for most of your movements during a typical day. If you use credit cards then you have another nearly unimpeachable set of data points to track your whereabouts at specific times.
I also don't recall the article stating that she had an alibi "ready to go". Where did that idea or claim come from?
Maybe she was framed. You gotta admit it would be a great way to get rid of her.
Yes, it would take a pretty motivated person to do something like this, but I've known people who wouldn't be above this kind of behavior if they had the skills to pull it off.
The only source of potential pushback I'm aware on this is parents who don't want their kids waiting for the bus in the dark (that happens with the DST-all-year option)
That's not nearly enough of a reason to keep playing this twice-a-year circle jerk with the clocks. It's just not.
Those parents will just have to grit their teeth and stop imagining every bad thing in the world that could possibly happen to their children. Maybe teach them not to stand next to the road in the dark (which they really should already be teaching them).
Seriously, I don't care what time they pick as long as they pick one and stick to it.
A dying man smells his favorite oatmeal raisin cookies cooking downstairs. It takes all the strength he has left but he gets up from the bed and crawls down the stairs.
He sees the cookies cooling on the counter and staggers over to them. As he reaches for one, his wife's wrinkled hand reaches out, smacks his and she yells:
"No, you can't have those! They're for the funeral!"
I should add that no one, literally NO ONE I know wants to continue with the DST bullshit. No one has ever wanted it as far back as I can recall. I honestly can't think of a single person in my entire life that thought it was a good thing.
Customers are a privilege too not a right or a cost.
Well...yes and no.
I've fired more than a few customers who were, for one reason or another, too much trouble to work with. I never missed their business and wouldn't take them back even if they offered to pay double.
Anti-vaxxers are incomprehensible to me- do they think these diseases just disappeared on their own? Diseases like polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, and rubella more or less disappeared because vaccines kept them from spreading and persisting.
Anti-vaxxers are just as idiotic as flat-earthers or chemtrail whackos, or the people who believe that Reptilians control a secret shadow government.
I suspect most of the uses for this welding will be at a very small scale (sensors, etc), and I think expansion might be more tolerable there.
I don't expect a lot of practical large-scale/mechanical applications or uses for it, but I've been wrong before. Who knows, maybe they'll build bridges using the technique.
Joining glass and metal like this has been kind of a "holy grail" for a lot of engineers and scientists, and is likely to enable the creation of some amazing stuff.
This technique is going to produce things that were previously impossible to manufacture; sensors, displays, and touch-sensitive controls, just to name a few. The process could end up being like the invention of the laser was- a solution looking for problems to solve.
When the first lasers became commercially available, a lot of engineers and designers had no idea what they might be good for (and rightfully so). Sure, lasers were cool, but what could you actually do with them?
It didn't take long to figure out the answer was "all sorts of cool shit". And laser LEDs took it to a new level; suddenly you could put an actual fucking laser in practically anything and it didn't require a lot of power. The future had arrived and it was full of lasers.
HIPAA applies only to the keepers, transmitters, or receivers of medical records. Observers (third parties) cannot violate HIPAA.
For example, if you're taking pictures in public of a child being treated by paramedics and they tell you that you cannot record them or the child "because of HIPAA", they are wrong.
Recording the entrance of a hospital (and the people coming and going) is not a violation of HIPAA.
If medical records are improperly handled or stored and you see them, you are not violating HIPAA- the keeper of the records is in violation of HIPAA rules.
Pretty sure if a company hired private detectives to follow millions of consumers around, documenting their daily habits, there would be a legal challenge.
They could challenge it all they want and they'd lose in court. As someone else pointed out, exactly what law is being broken by observing and recording public interactions?
Not gonna take the kids long to figure out which kids are poor and are receiving free pens...
Wait, you're against kids getting a free pen? That is a horrific occurrence, let us all bow our heads and pray that some sicko doesn't give them paper and textbooks too.
Please call it what it is.. Communism. Perhaps not by force, but it's still communism.
LOL, you had me going for a while- I actually thought you were serious, but this gave it away. Well played, sir, well played indeed.
You know what else is communism? When someone plays a radio and other people nearby get to hear the music for free. Next thing you know they want affordable healthcare and a living wage! That's the kind of socialist-commie-pinko hooliganism that's destroying America.
"But Comcast declined to describe the recent fix in any way, saying that information could help attackers."
Translation:
"But Comcast declined to describe the recent fix in any way, saying that information could help attackers even more than Comcast did with a bonehead move like setting all PINs to '0000'."
Alternate translation:
"Ha ha ha, fuck you!" said Comcast executives as they snorted cocaine off an underage hookers ass.
I know plenty of old people who have adapted, embraced modern technology and ideas...
Yes, like me. I'm a pretty techy guy and I use it daily. I'm in a tech field doing tech stuff. When I go home there's lots of fun tech stuff to play with (for example, I just got a 3D printer and I'm in the process of tricking it out).
But here's the thing: tech doesn't rule my life, and I don't start to shake if I can't find my phone or if the battery is low. I don't fondle my phone 24/7 like a lot of people do.
There's a difference between embracing technology and giving it blowjobs.
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The original reason for DST: Stores and parks did not want to change the signs that said when they would open, but they wanted to be open during daylight.
I understand, but again, it's just not a good enough reason to engage in this ridiculous clock-changing ritual.
Mmmmm, I disagree.
Carry a cellphone and chances are you can account for most of your movements during a typical day. If you use credit cards then you have another nearly unimpeachable set of data points to track your whereabouts at specific times.
I also don't recall the article stating that she had an alibi "ready to go". Where did that idea or claim come from?
Maybe she was framed. You gotta admit it would be a great way to get rid of her.
Yes, it would take a pretty motivated person to do something like this, but I've known people who wouldn't be above this kind of behavior if they had the skills to pull it off.
Nothing is stopping you from fucking with your own clocks twice a year but the rest of us have better things to do.
The only source of potential pushback I'm aware on this is parents who don't want their kids waiting for the bus in the dark (that happens with the DST-all-year option)
That's not nearly enough of a reason to keep playing this twice-a-year circle jerk with the clocks. It's just not.
Those parents will just have to grit their teeth and stop imagining every bad thing in the world that could possibly happen to their children. Maybe teach them not to stand next to the road in the dark (which they really should already be teaching them).
Seriously, I don't care what time they pick as long as they pick one and stick to it.
A dying man smells his favorite oatmeal raisin cookies cooking downstairs. It takes all the strength he has left but he gets up from the bed and crawls down the stairs.
He sees the cookies cooling on the counter and staggers over to them. As he reaches for one, his wife's wrinkled hand reaches out, smacks his and she yells:
"No, you can't have those! They're for the funeral!"
"Mr Quintana died the next day."
Well at least he got that part of it right.
I'm only surprised that the robot didn't hand him a "How To Cope With Your Impending Death" pamphlet.
I should add that no one, literally NO ONE I know wants to continue with the DST bullshit. No one has ever wanted it as far back as I can recall. I honestly can't think of a single person in my entire life that thought it was a good thing.
If this ever comes up for a vote I'll be first in line to abolish DST and the pointless back-and-forth with the clocks.
It's stupid and serves no purpose except to fuck up everyone's schedule twice a year.
Customers are a privilege too not a right or a cost.
Well...yes and no.
I've fired more than a few customers who were, for one reason or another, too much trouble to work with. I never missed their business and wouldn't take them back even if they offered to pay double.
The fact is that the customer isn't always right.
Anti-vaxxers are incomprehensible to me- do they think these diseases just disappeared on their own? Diseases like polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, and rubella more or less disappeared because vaccines kept them from spreading and persisting.
Anti-vaxxers are just as idiotic as flat-earthers or chemtrail whackos, or the people who believe that Reptilians control a secret shadow government.
Awesome stuff, and some precision flying was needed too.
....there's always a "but".
But they'll cost too much, prices I'm seeing are on the order of $2K, give or take. I just can't see spending that much on a phone.
Maybe someday, but not until they reach a sane price point (for me, at least).
"QuadrigaCX's Crypto Accounts Were Emptied Months Before CEO's Mysterious Death, Putting Fate of $137 Million In Doubt"
I have no doubt as to what happened to it.
Solved in 1906. See also: vacuum tube.
I think this is something different altogether.
Yes, you could join metal and glass before to some degree, but this sounds like it's a technique that forms a different kind of bond or join.
I suspect most of the uses for this welding will be at a very small scale (sensors, etc), and I think expansion might be more tolerable there.
I don't expect a lot of practical large-scale/mechanical applications or uses for it, but I've been wrong before. Who knows, maybe they'll build bridges using the technique.
Joining glass and metal like this has been kind of a "holy grail" for a lot of engineers and scientists, and is likely to enable the creation of some amazing stuff.
This technique is going to produce things that were previously impossible to manufacture; sensors, displays, and touch-sensitive controls, just to name a few. The process could end up being like the invention of the laser was- a solution looking for problems to solve.
When the first lasers became commercially available, a lot of engineers and designers had no idea what they might be good for (and rightfully so). Sure, lasers were cool, but what could you actually do with them?
It didn't take long to figure out the answer was "all sorts of cool shit". And laser LEDs took it to a new level; suddenly you could put an actual fucking laser in practically anything and it didn't require a lot of power. The future had arrived and it was full of lasers.
HIPAA is widely misunderstood.
HIPAA applies only to the keepers, transmitters, or receivers of medical records. Observers (third parties) cannot violate HIPAA.
For example, if you're taking pictures in public of a child being treated by paramedics and they tell you that you cannot record them or the child "because of HIPAA", they are wrong.
Recording the entrance of a hospital (and the people coming and going) is not a violation of HIPAA.
If medical records are improperly handled or stored and you see them, you are not violating HIPAA- the keeper of the records is in violation of HIPAA rules.
As long as you keep that cookie, they know it is you and that wherever you go, you asked to not be tracked.
So they track you in order to....not track you?
Pretty sure if a company hired private detectives to follow millions of consumers around, documenting their daily habits, there would be a legal challenge.
They could challenge it all they want and they'd lose in court. As someone else pointed out, exactly what law is being broken by observing and recording public interactions?
"Would I be breaking the law if John D. has not given me explicit permission to do this?"
No, you would not be breaking the law.
Repeat after me: "There is no expectation of privacy in public, PERIOD."
Anything that can been observed from a public vantage point can be recorded, noted, drawn, sketched, photographed, etc etc etc.
Not gonna take the kids long to figure out which kids are poor and are receiving free pens...
Wait, you're against kids getting a free pen? That is a horrific occurrence, let us all bow our heads and pray that some sicko doesn't give them paper and textbooks too.
Please call it what it is.. Communism. Perhaps not by force, but it's still communism.
LOL, you had me going for a while- I actually thought you were serious, but this gave it away. Well played, sir, well played indeed.
You know what else is communism? When someone plays a radio and other people nearby get to hear the music for free. Next thing you know they want affordable healthcare and a living wage! That's the kind of socialist-commie-pinko hooliganism that's destroying America.
"But Comcast declined to describe the recent fix in any way, saying that information could help attackers."
Translation:
"But Comcast declined to describe the recent fix in any way, saying that information could help attackers even more than Comcast did with a bonehead move like setting all PINs to '0000'."
Alternate translation:
"Ha ha ha, fuck you!" said Comcast executives as they snorted cocaine off an underage hookers ass.
I know plenty of old people who have adapted, embraced modern technology and ideas...
Yes, like me. I'm a pretty techy guy and I use it daily. I'm in a tech field doing tech stuff. When I go home there's lots of fun tech stuff to play with (for example, I just got a 3D printer and I'm in the process of tricking it out).
But here's the thing: tech doesn't rule my life, and I don't start to shake if I can't find my phone or if the battery is low. I don't fondle my phone 24/7 like a lot of people do.
There's a difference between embracing technology and giving it blowjobs.