Paranoid delusions which keep an elderly person miserable, disabled, and disconnected disabled from everyone (even families)?
Or a small chance a Parkinsons sufferer might die or have a radical improvement?
You can't have it both, sign a waiver before treatment and move on. Save and enjoy the few who are able to make it. Mourn and cherish the memories of those who didn't.
I don't know why you think it is misnamed. It is named exactly the same way that aircraft autopilots are. Aircraft autopilots also require an attentive pilot ready to take over, because aircraft autopilots will happily fly the airplane into obstructions, or can fail in a large number of other ways. In fact, "can disable autopilot" is a standard pilot checklist item, and it can be done in half a dozen different ways.
Seems like the Tesla "autopilot" is named just right.
I take it you've never flown as a pilot before. No really, it's ok because most people aren't pilots:P
My roadway is as big as the horizon. My fellow pilots in other planes are several hundred meters if not kilometers away. In my car, my fellow drivers are 1.5-2 meters away and my roadway is as big as the city planners decide to make it.
On larger jets, they have systems that monitor you with transponders and much more. If you're aiming to the ground, the system will shout at you in a Skybus or Boeing jet.
A few seconds of inattentiveness with autopilot on in a plane won't hurt anyone. Heck I read a book sometimes. A few seconds of inattentive in a passenger car (with or without Tesla autopilit) will at best cause a crash or worse kill you.
Call it cruise control assist and save a few live or call it MuskSense if you want something sexy and to achieve the same thing. Autopilot is just a terrible misnomer for what it really is.
My biggest annoyance with schools are their insistence on operating at weird hours. Starting classes at the weird hour of 7:45am and running till 2:30.
Schools should start at 9 and end at 5pm. Sports can and should operate during the school day. Students should also have more than ample time to finish all of their work in school with the added amount of time. The same goes for studying.
I finish and leave all of my work at work when I'm done. Unless it's Sunday night prep for a big trip the next day homework hasn't existed for me for years.
This way, kids get more sleep and quality family time. Add this in with year round schooling (longer winter and spring break terms) and separate classes for boys and girls, and we'd see improvements across the board.
The title should be: Forget Millennials, the Internet's Most Wanted Users Are Older -- and Poorer... IN CHINA"
Seeing as it's an authoritarian shithole that I can't invest in or run a business without greasing enough hands, why do I care about their fledgling internet companies' woes?
Pandora is already a public company. I'm willing to bet that they're suffering just as much if not more.
I've been a subscriber to Pandora since 2008. I loved the service and when the ads started, I hated it so much I shoveled out a paltry amount for the yearly service. I don't remember what it was, but it was stupid affordable enough for a broke college stupid.
The music industry really bends these guys over and abuses them. Their licensing costs are stupid high. This type of piracy depresses me because they're both struggling to make any sort of profit.
You know, if I search history back centuries, I can find horrors from any religion you'd care to name (and also horrors not supported by religion). As for your second link, while I abhor the Muslim penalties for apostasy, they don't apply to non-Muslims, and I can find lots of death penalties in the past for relatively small crimes. As far as a biased web site goes, that's not going to convince anybody.
Look, I don't like Islam, and I don't like current Muslim governments, but Islam is not nearly as bad as some people claim.
Every religion has had its horrors.
However, the only religion out there that enshrines violence and utter depravity against non-believers in its own f*cking holy books is Islam. There is nothing you can do to write off what is claimed in their own books. Islam is a violent death cult that converts others by the sword. When it fails to do so, it takes pot shots.
The best part about Christianity and Hinduism is the golden rule. In case you've forgotten it, it's simply: "Treat others the way you want to be treated."
When you apply that to Muslims who are attacking you, it gives you full breadth to defend yourself against attacks. The turn the other cheek lesson from Jesus was about not attacking someone who insults your honor which if you're aware of is still a huge problem in the middle east (honor killings). Scholars tend to forget Levantine cultures have always had an honor-based society.
The Rohingyan Muslims have for years been a constant thorn in the side of Burmese people and government. The Rohingyans have been attacking and killing the Buddhists in the region for well over a century now.
This so-called "Genocide" is the response to constant acts of violent Jihad against otherwise peaceful Buddhists that have been going on for years. Shame that the media has been ignoring the plight of these peaceful Buddhists finally snapping and defending themselves against this onslaught of Arabic barbarism.
Make no mistake, the Rohingyans brought it upon themselves for their inability to peacefully live alongside Buddhists.
Father owns a fishing business in a classic New England fishing town.
The size of his catch each year since 1980 has been the same size. The average fish size (which he keeps track of) has a plus/minus deviation of about a quarter kilo each year. That's 150 tons each haul.
More alarmist bullshite, just like the Mercury claims to try and clamp down on an otherwise very healthy blue collar trade.
I've grown to trust Google less and less. After the Damore letter and now this, i'm seriously considering switching to an alternative email service.
Thankfully, adblocking keeps most of their shenanigans at bay, but just the other day I discovered Google Maps Timeline. WTF is this?!
Why, it's a complete list of every location i've been to logged by Google for the past 4 years. Google even had the audacity to post one of their little surveys next to it.
"Does Google make it easy to control your private data?"
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Example: in June, I had some nasty issue in the foot (some acute tendon swelling -- can't read the doctor's handwriting), it made walking so painful I had trouble going 100 meters to a shop. After a long time of waiting, I finally got admitted by a first-contact doctor, only whom could give me a referral to the actual doctor with an ability to heal me. For fucking February! So instead of using the system I fully paid for with my taxes, I went to a commercial doctor instead. The problem was fixed after just a few days of physical therapy. In the public system, waiting times for physical therapy are 18-24 months. Same for most specializations, including those life-saving like cardio (24 months).
But that was the "good old times". Since then, the health system pretty much collapsed. Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
For politicians, the health system is only a cost; the money can be better spent for something with a bigger chance of getting them votes or power. Thus, those of us who can afford a doctor have to pay twice, while the poor get fucked just the same.
This times ten.
It's a dirty little secret that people in America keep getting lied to about. Everyone here who has even a halfway decent job gets private health insurance for themselves and their families.
NHS, great for emergency care, shite for anything else.
I'd be curious to see how they plan on cooling the thing. Yes there's lots of ice at the poles, but is there enough water anywhere else to be useable to cool the thing?
Germany is not importing power. We export about 1/3rd of our power generation.
We mostly are a transit country for exports into our neighbours, some charts show this as import, but they usulally have also transit charts or export charts.
Classic reply of a bad parent, "But think of the kid's socialization!"
If their friends don't invite them to a party because of a lack of a phone, they're bad friends plain and simple.
Secondly, how the hell are these kids supposed to get to these parties? Drive a car? They're 12 year olds and no, I don't live in a major city where public transit is viable. My kids' friends live scattered all over the town I live in.
Stop being weak and do some parenting FFS. No wonder kids are a mess these days.
I have a friend who works for an insurance company. They've noticed over the past year that there has been an increase in accidents. Doing further research into each accident, they've discovered that people have been over relying on driver assist features.
One story he told me was about a guy who slammed his car into the rear of a late 1960s Thunderbird which was stopped at a light in his new BMW. He apparently had gotten so used to the automatic braking system that he just never bothered to hit the brake. This being the one time it just didn't work for some reason.
Call me a Luddite, I don't care. I don't trust computers and I don't trust cars driven by them, especially in this post-NSA car hacking world.
Children do not need phones, let alone smartphones.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are." Seriously? You're that bad of a parent that you haven't the foggiest idea where your kids are? Here was what my kid was like back in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Wake up - take the bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Here's what a non-busy day looked like: wake up - bus- school - bus- home.
Wow! It's like somehow I was in the immediate vicinity of a responsible adult at all times and my parents knew my safety was ok. Mind-blowing isn't it?
And to think, flip phones were a thing at this time too. I didn't get my first phone until I got my first driver's license which at that time makes intelligent sense.
Phones cost excessive amounts of money on top of a monthly contract. Why should I pay extra cash each month to have my kid screw around on social media and have easy accessibility to porn at my expense? I had to work to see porn when I was a teen. Today it's too darn easy!
Parents these days are weak. Tell little Timmy and Tia no you're not getting a phone. It's that easy! If you really want to know where they are (going against my entire thesis here), get them a cheap flip phone. Yes, they still make them.
My kid the other day (he's 7) asked for me an iPhone and I laughed at him. I said back to him, "How are you going to pay for it?" Ended that question really quick.
Children do not need phones, let alone smartphones.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are."
Seriously? You're that bad of a parent that you haven't the foggiest idea where your kids are? Here was what my childhood was like back in the 2000s.
Wake up - take bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Here's what a non busy day looked like: wake up - bus- school - bus- home.
Wow! It's like somehow I was in the immediate vacinity of a responsible adult at all times and my parents knew my safety was ok. Mind blowing isn't it?
And to think, flip phones were a thing too during this time. I didn't get my first phone until I got my first driver's license which at that time makes intelligent sense.
Phones cost excessive amounts of money too on top of a monthly contract. Why should I pay extra cash each month to have my kid dick around on social media at my expense?
Parents these days are weak. Tell little Timmy and Tia no you're not getting a phone. It's that easy! If you really want to know where they are, (and using this as a lame excuse when in reality you spoil your kids with expensive electronics) buy them a crappy flip phone. Yes, they still make news ones.
When my kid is old enough to ask for a smartphone before the age of 16, my answer will be, "Ok, how are you paying for the cell service?"
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The better question that should be asked:
What new phone doesn't reduce my hardware features and battery life?
I already gave up physical qwerty phones. I'll be damned if I lose my headphone jack!
This has got to be the funniest thing Zuckerberg has ever said.
Hopefully Facebook won't even exist by that time anyway.
Paranoid delusions which keep an elderly person miserable, disabled, and disconnected disabled from everyone (even families)?
Or a small chance a Parkinsons sufferer might die or have a radical improvement?
You can't have it both, sign a waiver before treatment and move on. Save and enjoy the few who are able to make it. Mourn and cherish the memories of those who didn't.
I picked it up from Google about a month ago. Once I figured out the controls, I was immersed.
Seriously a very addictive game. How did I miss this?
Yeah the graphics are dated and what amazed me in design of the space station has begun to irritate me.
Still a great game. Speaking to my whole afternoon trying to begin the reactor self destruct. Well worth a playthrough!
The intentionally misnamed "autopilot"
I don't know why you think it is misnamed. It is named exactly the same way that aircraft autopilots are. Aircraft autopilots also require an attentive pilot ready to take over, because aircraft autopilots will happily fly the airplane into obstructions, or can fail in a large number of other ways. In fact, "can disable autopilot" is a standard pilot checklist item, and it can be done in half a dozen different ways.
Seems like the Tesla "autopilot" is named just right.
I take it you've never flown as a pilot before. No really, it's ok because most people aren't pilots :P
My roadway is as big as the horizon. My fellow pilots in other planes are several hundred meters if not kilometers away.
In my car, my fellow drivers are 1.5-2 meters away and my roadway is as big as the city planners decide to make it.
On larger jets, they have systems that monitor you with transponders and much more. If you're aiming to the ground, the system will shout at you in a Skybus or Boeing jet.
A few seconds of inattentiveness with autopilot on in a plane won't hurt anyone. Heck I read a book sometimes.
A few seconds of inattentive in a passenger car (with or without Tesla autopilit) will at best cause a crash or worse kill you.
Call it cruise control assist and save a few live or call it MuskSense if you want something sexy and to achieve the same thing. Autopilot is just a terrible misnomer for what it really is.
For not wasting my time posting otherwise bad joke summaries of fake stories on the front page today.
My biggest annoyance with schools are their insistence on operating at weird hours. Starting classes at the weird hour of 7:45am and running till 2:30.
Schools should start at 9 and end at 5pm. Sports can and should operate during the school day. Students should also have more than ample time to finish all of their work in school with the added amount of time. The same goes for studying.
I finish and leave all of my work at work when I'm done. Unless it's Sunday night prep for a big trip the next day homework hasn't existed for me for years.
This way, kids get more sleep and quality family time. Add this in with year round schooling (longer winter and spring break terms) and separate classes for boys and girls, and we'd see improvements across the board.
This is a US based sight... so no.
The title should be: Forget Millennials, the Internet's Most Wanted Users Are Older -- and Poorer ... IN CHINA"
Seeing as it's an authoritarian shithole that I can't invest in or run a business without greasing enough hands, why do I care about their fledgling internet companies' woes?
I just discovered the first System Shock. One of the most intense games I've ever played. Wow!
This is something that will only be forced on poor people. Excuse me while I turn on every electronic device I can possibly get my hands on!
Pandora is already a public company. I'm willing to bet that they're suffering just as much if not more.
I've been a subscriber to Pandora since 2008. I loved the service and when the ads started, I hated it so much I shoveled out a paltry amount for the yearly service. I don't remember what it was, but it was stupid affordable enough for a broke college stupid.
The music industry really bends these guys over and abuses them. Their licensing costs are stupid high. This type of piracy depresses me because they're both struggling to make any sort of profit.
Say hello to my little ad removing friends. Haven't seen an ad on YouTube for quite awhile.
You know, if I search history back centuries, I can find horrors from any religion you'd care to name (and also horrors not supported by religion). As for your second link, while I abhor the Muslim penalties for apostasy, they don't apply to non-Muslims, and I can find lots of death penalties in the past for relatively small crimes. As far as a biased web site goes, that's not going to convince anybody.
Look, I don't like Islam, and I don't like current Muslim governments, but Islam is not nearly as bad as some people claim.
Every religion has had its horrors.
However, the only religion out there that enshrines violence and utter depravity against non-believers in its own f*cking holy books is Islam. There is nothing you can do to write off what is claimed in their own books. Islam is a violent death cult that converts others by the sword. When it fails to do so, it takes pot shots.
The best part about Christianity and Hinduism is the golden rule. In case you've forgotten it, it's simply: "Treat others the way you want to be treated."
When you apply that to Muslims who are attacking you, it gives you full breadth to defend yourself against attacks. The turn the other cheek lesson from Jesus was about not attacking someone who insults your honor which if you're aware of is still a huge problem in the middle east (honor killings). Scholars tend to forget Levantine cultures have always had an honor-based society.
The Rohingyan Muslims have for years been a constant thorn in the side of Burmese people and government. The Rohingyans have been attacking and killing the Buddhists in the region for well over a century now.
This so-called "Genocide" is the response to constant acts of violent Jihad against otherwise peaceful Buddhists that have been going on for years. Shame that the media has been ignoring the plight of these peaceful Buddhists finally snapping and defending themselves against this onslaught of Arabic barbarism.
Make no mistake, the Rohingyans brought it upon themselves for their inability to peacefully live alongside Buddhists.
Father owns a fishing business in a classic New England fishing town.
The size of his catch each year since 1980 has been the same size. The average fish size (which he keeps track of) has a plus/minus deviation of about a quarter kilo each year. That's 150 tons each haul.
More alarmist bullshite, just like the Mercury claims to try and clamp down on an otherwise very healthy blue collar trade.
Sounds like the solution to this problem is to pull ones head out of his/her ass... erm phone while walking around.
I've grown to trust Google less and less. After the Damore letter and now this, i'm seriously considering switching to an alternative email service.
Thankfully, adblocking keeps most of their shenanigans at bay, but just the other day I discovered Google Maps Timeline. WTF is this?!
Why, it's a complete list of every location i've been to logged by Google for the past 4 years. Google even had the audacity to post one of their little surveys next to it.
"Does Google make it easy to control your private data?"
Hell to the NO!
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Example: in June, I had some nasty issue in the foot (some acute tendon swelling -- can't read the doctor's handwriting), it made walking so painful I had trouble going 100 meters to a shop. After a long time of waiting, I finally got admitted by a first-contact doctor, only whom could give me a referral to the actual doctor with an ability to heal me. For fucking February! So instead of using the system I fully paid for with my taxes, I went to a commercial doctor instead. The problem was fixed after just a few days of physical therapy. In the public system, waiting times for physical therapy are 18-24 months. Same for most specializations, including those life-saving like cardio (24 months).
But that was the "good old times". Since then, the health system pretty much collapsed. Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
For politicians, the health system is only a cost; the money can be better spent for something with a bigger chance of getting them votes or power. Thus, those of us who can afford a doctor have to pay twice, while the poor get fucked just the same.
This times ten.
It's a dirty little secret that people in America keep getting lied to about. Everyone here who has even a halfway decent job gets private health insurance for themselves and their families.
NHS, great for emergency care, shite for anything else.
I'd be curious to see how they plan on cooling the thing. Yes there's lots of ice at the poles, but is there enough water anywhere else to be useable to cool the thing?
Germany is not importing power.
We export about 1/3rd of our power generation.
We mostly are a transit country for exports into our neighbours, some charts show this as import, but they usulally have also transit charts or export charts.
Get a damn clue, moron.
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Classic reply of a bad parent, "But think of the kid's socialization!"
If their friends don't invite them to a party because of a lack of a phone, they're bad friends plain and simple.
Secondly, how the hell are these kids supposed to get to these parties? Drive a car? They're 12 year olds and no, I don't live in a major city where public transit is viable. My kids' friends live scattered all over the town I live in.
Stop being weak and do some parenting FFS. No wonder kids are a mess these days.
I have a friend who works for an insurance company. They've noticed over the past year that there has been an increase in accidents. Doing further research into each accident, they've discovered that people have been over relying on driver assist features.
One story he told me was about a guy who slammed his car into the rear of a late 1960s Thunderbird which was stopped at a light in his new BMW. He apparently had gotten so used to the automatic braking system that he just never bothered to hit the brake. This being the one time it just didn't work for some reason.
Call me a Luddite, I don't care. I don't trust computers and I don't trust cars driven by them, especially in this post-NSA car hacking world.
Children do not need phones, let alone smartphones.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are."
Seriously? You're that bad of a parent that you haven't the foggiest idea where your kids are? Here was what my kid was like back in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Wake up - take the bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Here's what a non-busy day looked like: wake up - bus- school - bus- home.
Wow! It's like somehow I was in the immediate vicinity of a responsible adult at all times and my parents knew my safety was ok. Mind-blowing isn't it?
And to think, flip phones were a thing at this time too. I didn't get my first phone until I got my first driver's license which at that time makes intelligent sense.
Phones cost excessive amounts of money on top of a monthly contract. Why should I pay extra cash each month to have my kid screw around on social media and have easy accessibility to porn at my expense? I had to work to see porn when I was a teen. Today it's too darn easy!
Parents these days are weak. Tell little Timmy and Tia no you're not getting a phone. It's that easy! If you really want to know where they are (going against my entire thesis here), get them a cheap flip phone. Yes, they still make them.
My kid the other day (he's 7) asked for me an iPhone and I laughed at him. I said back to him, "How are you going to pay for it?"
Ended that question really quick.
Children do not need phones, let alone smartphones.
I commonly see this weak excuse from parents claiming they, "want to know where their children are."
Seriously? You're that bad of a parent that you haven't the foggiest idea where your kids are? Here was what my childhood was like back in the 2000s.
Wake up - take bus to school - school - sports practice - ride home with family friends - home.
Here's what a non busy day looked like: wake up - bus- school - bus- home.
Wow! It's like somehow I was in the immediate vacinity of a responsible adult at all times and my parents knew my safety was ok. Mind blowing isn't it?
And to think, flip phones were a thing too during this time. I didn't get my first phone until I got my first driver's license which at that time makes intelligent sense.
Phones cost excessive amounts of money too on top of a monthly contract. Why should I pay extra cash each month to have my kid dick around on social media at my expense?
Parents these days are weak. Tell little Timmy and Tia no you're not getting a phone. It's that easy! If you really want to know where they are, (and using this as a lame excuse when in reality you spoil your kids with expensive electronics) buy them a crappy flip phone. Yes, they still make news ones.
When my kid is old enough to ask for a smartphone before the age of 16, my answer will be, "Ok, how are you paying for the cell service?"