The same scientific studies have shown that having a passenger in the car with your talking is JUST as distracting as a phone conversation.
I'm of the opinion that if people have their hands the wheel and their eyes on the road it shouldn't matter. Texting takes both hands and eyes off the road, a phone to the ear or hands free does not.
Both of your claimed uses can be done after the fact with a subpoena from the cellular provider.
If I was a conspiracyst I would see this as an attempt by the state legislature to undo the recent supreme court that ruled that cell phones couldn't be searched without a warrant. Just throw in a moving violation and viola, a cell phone search!
There are very few states in the US that allow power companies to offload maintenance costs for the power plant into flat rate charges on the customer bill. Instead what will happen is that the per kwh cost of that coal power will rise and as it rises it will become even less competitive.
Individually owned solar, ie rooftop solar, is already generally charged a monthly fee to cover the grid maintenance costs they are no longer contributing to as part of their power purchases but none of that money is ever intended to cover maintenance on a power plant, the very idea is counter to whole idea of how the power markets work in the US. Everyone pays for the grid, and you only pay for the power you use. Traditionally in the past both costs were rolled into one regulated power price but in the future the only way it will be fair is for these costs to be itemized out and billed separately.
Power use has changed, demand no longer drives supply due to regulatory changes in the US power market companies can buy and sell demand which causes the demand curve to follow the supply curve rather than the traditional opposite.
On top of that wind is typically complementary to solar in that they tend to operate when the other isn't. And storage is getting so cheap at this point that it's nearing the price where it's competitive with the spot power market prices.
The 21st century power market is nothing like the one that existed in the 20th. People need to get over this and realize the market has changed. The assumption of the prior era no longer apply.
Your workaround won't work, the same federal law gives the feds sole authority to decide where the timezone boundaries are. No state can move to another timezone without congress writing a bill to allow it.
The OK google listening never leaves the phone, it's processed locally to save bandwidth and battery and doesn't send anything off the phone until it's recognized the OK google.
The reason it's just the pixel's is that the Pixel phones contain a special piece of Google produced silicon (ASIC) that can dramatically accelerate speech to text. They are some of the only phones with this extra AI chip it was also one of the huge selling points of the pixel as they use this same AI chip to do their photo magic.
1% is for ANY complication. Many of the Lasik complications are relatively minor. The most severe complications are extremely rare down in the.001% range.
But again, the risk of complication is increased or decreased based on your eyes physical parameters. You won't know how risky lasik is until you get this evaluated.
States can't change their timezone or the definition of their timezone. That's a power reserved at the federal level. They do have the choice to honor daylight savings time, 2 states don't participate (AZ is one).
But to change timezones or their offset from UMT you have to have an act of congress and up to this point it's never happened because of vested interests.
BIometrics should never be used in place of a password, they should only replace the identification, userID, Login, etc. It should never ever replace the password.
And there is one simple reason for that, biometrics can't be changed, and they are for the most part trivial to obtain. For example you leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. These very things make them good for identification and absolutely awful for authentication. Authentication should always be something in your head (password) and verified with something you have (OTP, etc).
On top of that every single one of these biometric identification technologies has been shown to be trivial to spoof in time. Biometrics are far too easy to obtain and should be relegated to identification, not authentication.
They already did. They banned _all_ robocalls and exempted political calls. In doing so they carved a huge loophole.
Want to make an illegal robocall legal? Stick a one sentence political message at the end, you've now got a perfectly legal robocall, even if 99.999999% of callers never hear that final sentence. You can't ban something and then carve an exception that's so broad it basically unbans the ban you just passed. That's what congress did here, the symbolically banned robocalls then carved the biggest exception they could think of.
Just like telemarketers Congress won't do anything about this until it gets so bad every american is getting robocalled at dinnertime.
It's because congress made robocalls illegal unless it's political. So now all the robocalls are political and growing rapidly in number.
Congress should have NEVER exempted political calls from the robocall ban, it left a loophole you can drive an aircraft carrier through and it's being exploited just like everyone said it would be. The only way you will stop robocalls is for the FCC to actually put some teeth into a ban through enforcement and severe financial penalties, oh and they have to ban ALL robocalls or they just stick a political message on the end and call it a political robocall.
The rate of complications for Lasik is extremely low, like less than 1% if you are using a "surgeon" with more than 15K procedures under their belt. But when the complications do happen they are often quite severe, up to and including blindness.
People should weight those risks, including getting a consultation to see what your personal risk of complications are. Various parameters, like the thickness of your retina and lens, can greatly modify those complication rates. To simply write off the procedure without knowing your personal risks is foolish.
What it means is that by restricting their own content to a single service (their own) they are going to watch their revenue plummet as all the people that would be happy paying a small fee to have it available on netflix instead simply subscribe a couple months a year and catch up then not pay the rest of the year. All these companies see pots of gold with their own streaming service because of netflix but they don't realize it's just a mirage and that people will do what a bunch of people I know do, they will subscribe to a single streaming service, but bounce around from service to service.
Sure Disney might get constant subscriptions from families with young children but that's actually a pretty limited market numbers wise. But everyone else will subscribe for a month, catch up and then move on to another service and then another. Rather than having everyone pay into the pot they will only get the subscribers who want the content that month. It's going to be a much much smaller pool of people, rather than the older system of getting $10 a month from every cable subscriber. I full expect that once this Disney streaming service goes live that the next quarter the Disney stock will crater after reporting revenue (unless they lie about it) and they'll jack the price up to something like $30 and then watch the subscriber base crater like their stock price.
They would be far better off to license their content as widely as possible.
Deleting your account has no effect on Facebook. They explicitly note they don't actually delete anything and they retain the rights to anything they've already got. Anything you give facebook they will never ever delete (unless you are a european and have the right to request deletion). People should read the TOS more often.
Yes you own the content. And you give Facebook a perpetual, transferable license to the content to use in any way they see fit.
So you still own the copyright, but they can use the photo any way they see fit and sell the picture to anyone to use, including commercially. Given that I'm not sure that it's that far off to say they own the photo. They own the rights to use it however they want.
They haven't done it yet, but mark my words, one of these days someones going to find their baby pictures in some advertising and try to sue and find out that facebook sold it and they gave Facebook the right to do this when they uploaded the photo to them.
Now costco and all the others the terms are written that you are giving them the rights to copy the photo around in their system and to make hard copies. You aren't giving them control, copyright or ownership, but that isn't true for Facebook. It's a perpetual, transferable license.
Keeping score on an international footing like you are pretending to do is fucking stupid.In fact it's beyond stupid, it's pure idiocy.
We are allies with France because they support the same values as the US. The only sane way to choose allies to to pick allies that share the same values vis-a-via freedom, democracy and free economies. It's the same reason we are allies with most of Europe, Japan and others. Certain people seem to think it's better to ally with Dictators and Totalitarian regimes, countries who given the opportunity would destroy our country as a threat to the power structure of those regimes.
I'm absolutely certain this system comes with the all the due process checks and balances necessary to ensure it's not abused by the wealthy and connected to punish those they disagree with.
In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list. This is one those tools the Chinese will use to abuse people who don't fall in line with the communist party or dare criticize the leadership.
The original article talks about the training session where they have to watch ISIS snuff video's and then tell the class why it violates facebooks TOS.
There is far worse out there than the shit you listed and it's all on facebook.
Bankruptcy shields them from legal payments just like any other creditor.
It's why suing a company for some huge verdict they can't pay is quite stupid, they just declare bankruptcy and the person that won the verdict goes into the unsecured creditor pool like anyone else where they will get pennies on the dollar if they are lucky.
They tried to shield assets from bond holders with an illegal asset divestiture right before declaring bankruptcy. It was properly struck down, the end result it what should have happened to begin with, a proper bankruptcy including the original assets.
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The same scientific studies have shown that having a passenger in the car with your talking is JUST as distracting as a phone conversation.
I'm of the opinion that if people have their hands the wheel and their eyes on the road it shouldn't matter. Texting takes both hands and eyes off the road, a phone to the ear or hands free does not.
Both of your claimed uses can be done after the fact with a subpoena from the cellular provider.
If I was a conspiracyst I would see this as an attempt by the state legislature to undo the recent supreme court that ruled that cell phones couldn't be searched without a warrant. Just throw in a moving violation and viola, a cell phone search!
There are very few states in the US that allow power companies to offload maintenance costs for the power plant into flat rate charges on the customer bill. Instead what will happen is that the per kwh cost of that coal power will rise and as it rises it will become even less competitive.
Individually owned solar, ie rooftop solar, is already generally charged a monthly fee to cover the grid maintenance costs they are no longer contributing to as part of their power purchases but none of that money is ever intended to cover maintenance on a power plant, the very idea is counter to whole idea of how the power markets work in the US. Everyone pays for the grid, and you only pay for the power you use. Traditionally in the past both costs were rolled into one regulated power price but in the future the only way it will be fair is for these costs to be itemized out and billed separately.
Power use has changed, demand no longer drives supply due to regulatory changes in the US power market companies can buy and sell demand which causes the demand curve to follow the supply curve rather than the traditional opposite.
On top of that wind is typically complementary to solar in that they tend to operate when the other isn't. And storage is getting so cheap at this point that it's nearing the price where it's competitive with the spot power market prices.
The 21st century power market is nothing like the one that existed in the 20th. People need to get over this and realize the market has changed. The assumption of the prior era no longer apply.
Your workaround won't work, the same federal law gives the feds sole authority to decide where the timezone boundaries are. No state can move to another timezone without congress writing a bill to allow it.
The OK google listening never leaves the phone, it's processed locally to save bandwidth and battery and doesn't send anything off the phone until it's recognized the OK google.
The reason it's just the pixel's is that the Pixel phones contain a special piece of Google produced silicon (ASIC) that can dramatically accelerate speech to text. They are some of the only phones with this extra AI chip it was also one of the huge selling points of the pixel as they use this same AI chip to do their photo magic.
1% is for ANY complication. Many of the Lasik complications are relatively minor. The most severe complications are extremely rare down in the .001% range.
But again, the risk of complication is increased or decreased based on your eyes physical parameters. You won't know how risky lasik is until you get this evaluated.
States can't change their timezone or the definition of their timezone. That's a power reserved at the federal level. They do have the choice to honor daylight savings time, 2 states don't participate (AZ is one).
But to change timezones or their offset from UMT you have to have an act of congress and up to this point it's never happened because of vested interests.
Because daylight earlier in the morning helps people wake up. I know it helps me.
Permanent day light savings time would be fine with me though. But congress is the only one that can change it. Individual states can't.
BIometrics should never be used in place of a password, they should only replace the identification, userID, Login, etc. It should never ever replace the password.
And there is one simple reason for that, biometrics can't be changed, and they are for the most part trivial to obtain. For example you leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. These very things make them good for identification and absolutely awful for authentication. Authentication should always be something in your head (password) and verified with something you have (OTP, etc).
On top of that every single one of these biometric identification technologies has been shown to be trivial to spoof in time. Biometrics are far too easy to obtain and should be relegated to identification, not authentication.
They already did. They banned _all_ robocalls and exempted political calls. In doing so they carved a huge loophole.
Want to make an illegal robocall legal? Stick a one sentence political message at the end, you've now got a perfectly legal robocall, even if 99.999999% of callers never hear that final sentence. You can't ban something and then carve an exception that's so broad it basically unbans the ban you just passed. That's what congress did here, the symbolically banned robocalls then carved the biggest exception they could think of.
Just like telemarketers Congress won't do anything about this until it gets so bad every american is getting robocalled at dinnertime.
It's because congress made robocalls illegal unless it's political. So now all the robocalls are political and growing rapidly in number.
Congress should have NEVER exempted political calls from the robocall ban, it left a loophole you can drive an aircraft carrier through and it's being exploited just like everyone said it would be. The only way you will stop robocalls is for the FCC to actually put some teeth into a ban through enforcement and severe financial penalties, oh and they have to ban ALL robocalls or they just stick a political message on the end and call it a political robocall.
The rate of complications for Lasik is extremely low, like less than 1% if you are using a "surgeon" with more than 15K procedures under their belt. But when the complications do happen they are often quite severe, up to and including blindness.
People should weight those risks, including getting a consultation to see what your personal risk of complications are. Various parameters, like the thickness of your retina and lens, can greatly modify those complication rates. To simply write off the procedure without knowing your personal risks is foolish.
What it means is that by restricting their own content to a single service (their own) they are going to watch their revenue plummet as all the people that would be happy paying a small fee to have it available on netflix instead simply subscribe a couple months a year and catch up then not pay the rest of the year. All these companies see pots of gold with their own streaming service because of netflix but they don't realize it's just a mirage and that people will do what a bunch of people I know do, they will subscribe to a single streaming service, but bounce around from service to service.
Sure Disney might get constant subscriptions from families with young children but that's actually a pretty limited market numbers wise. But everyone else will subscribe for a month, catch up and then move on to another service and then another. Rather than having everyone pay into the pot they will only get the subscribers who want the content that month. It's going to be a much much smaller pool of people, rather than the older system of getting $10 a month from every cable subscriber. I full expect that once this Disney streaming service goes live that the next quarter the Disney stock will crater after reporting revenue (unless they lie about it) and they'll jack the price up to something like $30 and then watch the subscriber base crater like their stock price.
They would be far better off to license their content as widely as possible.
Deleting your account has no effect on Facebook. They explicitly note they don't actually delete anything and they retain the rights to anything they've already got. Anything you give facebook they will never ever delete (unless you are a european and have the right to request deletion). People should read the TOS more often.
Yes you own the content. And you give Facebook a perpetual, transferable license to the content to use in any way they see fit.
So you still own the copyright, but they can use the photo any way they see fit and sell the picture to anyone to use, including commercially. Given that I'm not sure that it's that far off to say they own the photo. They own the rights to use it however they want.
They haven't done it yet, but mark my words, one of these days someones going to find their baby pictures in some advertising and try to sue and find out that facebook sold it and they gave Facebook the right to do this when they uploaded the photo to them.
Now costco and all the others the terms are written that you are giving them the rights to copy the photo around in their system and to make hard copies. You aren't giving them control, copyright or ownership, but that isn't true for Facebook. It's a perpetual, transferable license.
Keeping score on an international footing like you are pretending to do is fucking stupid.In fact it's beyond stupid, it's pure idiocy.
We are allies with France because they support the same values as the US. The only sane way to choose allies to to pick allies that share the same values vis-a-via freedom, democracy and free economies. It's the same reason we are allies with most of Europe, Japan and others. Certain people seem to think it's better to ally with Dictators and Totalitarian regimes, countries who given the opportunity would destroy our country as a threat to the power structure of those regimes.
I'm absolutely certain this system comes with the all the due process checks and balances necessary to ensure it's not abused by the wealthy and connected to punish those they disagree with.
In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list. This is one those tools the Chinese will use to abuse people who don't fall in line with the communist party or dare criticize the leadership.
The original article talks about the training session where they have to watch ISIS snuff video's and then tell the class why it violates facebooks TOS.
There is far worse out there than the shit you listed and it's all on facebook.
Ah the talk tough on the internet gig. You got that down pat.
Now go watch some ISIS snuff video's and kiddie porn for 8 hours a day and see how well you cope with it if you aren't a psychopath.
Before or after matters not.
They get in line with the unsecured creditors. Might be at the front of the list but definitely not in the secured creditor group.
Bankruptcy shields them from legal payments just like any other creditor.
It's why suing a company for some huge verdict they can't pay is quite stupid, they just declare bankruptcy and the person that won the verdict goes into the unsecured creditor pool like anyone else where they will get pennies on the dollar if they are lucky.
They tried to shield assets from bond holders with an illegal asset divestiture right before declaring bankruptcy. It was properly struck down, the end result it what should have happened to begin with, a proper bankruptcy including the original assets.
The goal here is the for the local teleco's to abandon the rural market by claiming the cellular network provides equivalent or better service.