Yeah, there is some complaint from the older crowd about how they no longer look like work trucks and are styled to resemble 18-wheelers, but so long as they still do the job and last through the work... as a Ford bigot, I think they stopped looking like real work trucks after 1997, and when I got mine I specifically looked for '97 or older, both for various features and so it wouldn't make my eyes bleed. (My F350 is a 1991. Previous truck was a 1978.)
For trucks-as-status-symbols, tho, we can't hold a burnt match to the Japanese in the 1980s. Back then a friend made a good living scrounging up used pickups for export to Japan... but they had to be fullsized, king-cab, and dually, and preferably loaded with all the options. Had to be pretty, but didn't have to run well... because the buyers didn't (and couldn't) drive them anyway. Those trucks literally sat out front of the house as status symbols and nothing else.
So I kinda laughed when the best used truck I found was a king-cab dually. Wasn't quite what I was looking for, but damn, it's an *awesome* work truck.
Mainly agreed with the analysis of the lawyer mindset etc.
Whatever it was that I saw about Hillary's bar exam woes was fairly specific (named places and events), not a vague allegation, so most likely true; I just have no idea where I saw it (while skimming the morning news, most likely). But what wasn't stated was whether this is typical or unusual -- since in some professions it's not unusual to fail the licensing exam several times.
I don't particularly give a damn about that; I'm more interested in her current competence, which to my eye is gravely lacking.
Yep, given enough time in the limelight, everyone says dumb shit and can be cherrypicked.
When I hear of some company agreeing to suicidal terms like this, my first thought is always "exit strategy". What percentage of Yahoo's revenue would those payments be?
I read somewhere that she got some sort of special dispensation to pass the bar, or had multiple fails or something, but I don't know how significant that is... some professions are just like that.
Word around from folks who knew Arkansas politics back when Bill ran for Pres was that he didn't actually care one way or the other, but she wanted to be Mrs. President, so off they went to the races.
That's a good point, how are these cameras going to deal with nighttime headlight glare?? I can change my head's angle vs my side mirrors to mitigate this. What does a camera do?
Except you'd have to refocus when your eyes shifted back to looking at the road. Normal mirrors, since you focus at the perceived distance, keep your focus "long".
Here in farm-and-ranch country, trucks aren't status symbols. I drive an F350 because I need the hauling capacity almost every time I drive it. Next time you complain about the price of food, remember that some rancher needed a truck to haul the hay to feed the cows, and he can't do that if he's losing money because the truck was so damned expensive.
Have it your way. What I saw (as a 28 year veteran of Los Angeles freeways) was the Tesla making a mistake that tells me it's not ready for prime time; you evidently don't see it that way, but think any of a number of other mistakes might be better?
My point was that Tesla didn't do very well at "seeing" a potential problem that wasn't immediately adjacent; any reasonably-good driver does that routinely and automatically. Has nothing to do with being "overconfident". Indeed, if you don't notice such things, either you have no business driving, or you're a Russian.
Further, the Tesla reacted with a last-instant swerve that could have caused a cascade wreck if there'd been a car in the lane to its right.
Well, all I can say is that I, as driver, would have reacted to that boom truck's path a helluva lot sooner than the Tesla did -- just drop back a tish so I'm not in his sideways blind spot, no swerving or honking required.
I think I'd file this whole thing under "automation makes us dumber".:(
Same with most of the world, other than western Europe and its immediate descendants. We're so damn law-abiding that we expect the rest of the world to be equally ethical, and it just ain't so. In most of the world, people are out for their own advantage any way they can, and sucks to be you.
This guy could also be from anywhere in Africa or the Middle East (to me his syntax sounds like a native Arabic speaker).
Someone mentioned that most of the cargo will get moved to smaller ships anyway. Would it be more feasible to do the transshipping out in the harbor instead of upgrading the docks? (No idea how much crane power is needed or if that can be afloat)
Have it your way. But to me your reasoning sounds like the basic tenet of modern leftism, with its belief that all humans are interchangeable widgets, and that if only conditions can be made everywhere equally good, all men will improve to the same perfect state.
"These are attributes of the brain's structure and anatomy; it's not a mass of arbitrary intelligence. Consequentially, all humans with the same facilities are capable of the same understanding."
This is only so if all human brains are identical -- which is demonstrably not so even with regard to basics like total mass.
As to poverty==dumb, I have probably known more smart poor people than smart rich people. And economic stats indicate that at least in America, poverty is not a permanent condition; most "poor" people rise above it at some point (and some "rich" people descend to it); if poverty dictated low intelligence, this couldn't happen. There's also the problem that frequently the environments richest in readily-available natural resources have produced the most backward or anti-educational civilizations, while relatively resource-poor areas have done the opposite.
It's quite definitely heritable in animals, and where a gene pool shows variation, intelligence can be readily bred for; why should humans be different?
And human intelligence (in the broad masses, not just the pinprick samples of IQ tests), as well as cooperative civilization, seems to correlate fairly well with certain gene pools; personally I think the more-selfless "civilization" genes came from the Neanderthal crosses.
One of my primary selection factors in my line of working dogs (presently in its 14th generation) is cooperative intelligence. At this point I seldom get one that's merely "average"; by comparison, other folks' dogs often seem downright thick.
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Yeah, there is some complaint from the older crowd about how they no longer look like work trucks and are styled to resemble 18-wheelers, but so long as they still do the job and last through the work... as a Ford bigot, I think they stopped looking like real work trucks after 1997, and when I got mine I specifically looked for '97 or older, both for various features and so it wouldn't make my eyes bleed. (My F350 is a 1991. Previous truck was a 1978.)
For trucks-as-status-symbols, tho, we can't hold a burnt match to the Japanese in the 1980s. Back then a friend made a good living scrounging up used pickups for export to Japan... but they had to be fullsized, king-cab, and dually, and preferably loaded with all the options. Had to be pretty, but didn't have to run well... because the buyers didn't (and couldn't) drive them anyway. Those trucks literally sat out front of the house as status symbols and nothing else.
So I kinda laughed when the best used truck I found was a king-cab dually. Wasn't quite what I was looking for, but damn, it's an *awesome* work truck.
Mainly agreed with the analysis of the lawyer mindset etc.
Whatever it was that I saw about Hillary's bar exam woes was fairly specific (named places and events), not a vague allegation, so most likely true; I just have no idea where I saw it (while skimming the morning news, most likely). But what wasn't stated was whether this is typical or unusual -- since in some professions it's not unusual to fail the licensing exam several times.
I don't particularly give a damn about that; I'm more interested in her current competence, which to my eye is gravely lacking.
Yep, given enough time in the limelight, everyone says dumb shit and can be cherrypicked.
No idea, but it was an occasional topic on SoylentNews in its early stages. There everyone has 5 points per day.
Don't know. Might be more that I consistently mod up.
A few years ago I had apparently unlimited mod points for about six months (spend 'em all, immediately get 15 more).
Yeah, I was gonna say... this is excellent transparency for what's doubtless going on already!
When I hear of some company agreeing to suicidal terms like this, my first thought is always "exit strategy". What percentage of Yahoo's revenue would those payments be?
I never mod down (and I have mod points almost all the time). What am I doing wrong??
Totally agree with you there.
I read somewhere that she got some sort of special dispensation to pass the bar, or had multiple fails or something, but I don't know how significant that is... some professions are just like that.
Word around from folks who knew Arkansas politics back when Bill ran for Pres was that he didn't actually care one way or the other, but she wanted to be Mrs. President, so off they went to the races.
Her undergrad degree is reportedly in political science. How is that not among her top identities?
I'd say she's self-preservation smart; not so sure about other facets.
That's a good point, how are these cameras going to deal with nighttime headlight glare?? I can change my head's angle vs my side mirrors to mitigate this. What does a camera do?
Except you'd have to refocus when your eyes shifted back to looking at the road. Normal mirrors, since you focus at the perceived distance, keep your focus "long".
Here in farm-and-ranch country, trucks aren't status symbols. I drive an F350 because I need the hauling capacity almost every time I drive it. Next time you complain about the price of food, remember that some rancher needed a truck to haul the hay to feed the cows, and he can't do that if he's losing money because the truck was so damned expensive.
In my observation, maintenance now costs 3 to 10 times (in raw dollars) what it did 40 years ago, depending on what you're fixing.
And the newer the vehicle, the more expensive the maintenance. You may not need it as often but it'll cost way more than the inflation difference.
Have it your way. What I saw (as a 28 year veteran of Los Angeles freeways) was the Tesla making a mistake that tells me it's not ready for prime time; you evidently don't see it that way, but think any of a number of other mistakes might be better?
My point was that Tesla didn't do very well at "seeing" a potential problem that wasn't immediately adjacent; any reasonably-good driver does that routinely and automatically. Has nothing to do with being "overconfident". Indeed, if you don't notice such things, either you have no business driving, or you're a Russian.
Further, the Tesla reacted with a last-instant swerve that could have caused a cascade wreck if there'd been a car in the lane to its right.
Well, all I can say is that I, as driver, would have reacted to that boom truck's path a helluva lot sooner than the Tesla did -- just drop back a tish so I'm not in his sideways blind spot, no swerving or honking required.
I think I'd file this whole thing under "automation makes us dumber". :(
Same with most of the world, other than western Europe and its immediate descendants. We're so damn law-abiding that we expect the rest of the world to be equally ethical, and it just ain't so. In most of the world, people are out for their own advantage any way they can, and sucks to be you.
This guy could also be from anywhere in Africa or the Middle East (to me his syntax sounds like a native Arabic speaker).
Someone mentioned that most of the cargo will get moved to smaller ships anyway. Would it be more feasible to do the transshipping out in the harbor instead of upgrading the docks? (No idea how much crane power is needed or if that can be afloat)
Have it your way. But to me your reasoning sounds like the basic tenet of modern leftism, with its belief that all humans are interchangeable widgets, and that if only conditions can be made everywhere equally good, all men will improve to the same perfect state.
"These are attributes of the brain's structure and anatomy; it's not a mass of arbitrary intelligence.
Consequentially, all humans with the same facilities are capable of the same understanding."
This is only so if all human brains are identical -- which is demonstrably not so even with regard to basics like total mass.
As to poverty==dumb, I have probably known more smart poor people than smart rich people. And economic stats indicate that at least in America, poverty is not a permanent condition; most "poor" people rise above it at some point (and some "rich" people descend to it); if poverty dictated low intelligence, this couldn't happen. There's also the problem that frequently the environments richest in readily-available natural resources have produced the most backward or anti-educational civilizations, while relatively resource-poor areas have done the opposite.
It's quite definitely heritable in animals, and where a gene pool shows variation, intelligence can be readily bred for; why should humans be different?
And human intelligence (in the broad masses, not just the pinprick samples of IQ tests), as well as cooperative civilization, seems to correlate fairly well with certain gene pools; personally I think the more-selfless "civilization" genes came from the Neanderthal crosses.
One of my primary selection factors in my line of working dogs (presently in its 14th generation) is cooperative intelligence. At this point I seldom get one that's merely "average"; by comparison, other folks' dogs often seem downright thick.
Hmm. Ya know, you're right...
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Subject: They're at it again
Disposition: spambinned
rinse and repeat thousands of times...
There's been an animated "crazed shooter with assault rifle" emoticon in common use on various forums for years.
Far as I know, it's never actually killed anyone.
Maybe it needs more frames.