Israel is a tiny country, really, so it's not a big deal really, but face it: internal combustion engines must go the way of the (dead) dinosaurs (that have been fueling them). Fossil fuels were always a limited resource, it'll run out eventually, and we see how destructive using it is in the long run. Just relax, ICE fans, you'll still have high-horsepower vehicles, and easier than with ICEs, and the maintenance will be a tiny fraction of what it used to be. Trust me, you'll like it just as much if not more so.
You're being sarcastic but the real joke here is that there are more people than you'd be comfortable with that actually believe things like that. Hint: they're the same people who tend to be anti-vaxxers and anti-science in general.
The so-called 'AI' in this case is just another tool the artist uses to create their art, not fundamentally different than using a brush, pencil, pen, or computer graphics program.
'What is and is not art' is as unanswerable a question as 'what is and is not pornography', or 'what is and is not funny', or 'what is love'. It is entirely subjective.
Nope. Nothing anyone can say will convince me otherwise. No one is posting shit about their day, or vacation photos, or any of the other shit people put on so-called 'social media' sites. The site owners decide what gets posted here and people can comment on those stories. So you see you're completely and totally wrong./subject
Trump attacks the Constitution, not defend it, like he's supposed to. He's attacked the 1st Amendment since before the election, and more lately he's attacked the 14th Amendment. He clearly and objectively doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution at all, it's just 'in the way' of being the authoritarian dictator that he wants to be.
Trump, that is. Any number of past Presidents, I'm certain, could have addressed the trade problems we have with China in such a way as to not wreck the U.S. economy in the process, but Trump is about as ham-fisted as anyone could be.
Gee, wonder how big their grant was to conduct this 'study', and what the money was actually spent on?/s
Facebook is not the real world, not by a longshot. It's closer to reality on a middling-bad acid trip, and that's on a good day.
Humans are a social species, and so-called 'social media' (especially Facebook) is about as ersatz as ersatz can get; it's like a bad Chinese knock-off of actual social interaction.
So the jury is in with their verdict: Kill your Facebook account, do it today, and start being actually social with people again. I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'll keep saying it: 'Social media' is cancerous, and now we see the proof. It needs to be surgically excised from your lives, and real social interaction is the chemo to fix the damage.
Well gee whiz I'm so sorry that everything that should happen doesn't happen OVERNIGHT just to please YOU.
FFS dude these things take TIME. Chill the hell out already and stop complaining so goddamned much.
The human brain *needs* a sense of meaning, or it goes crazy and punishes itself with depression.
A better way to put this is humans need a sense of purpose. Likely it's an extension of the drive to perpetuate the species; when you have no purpose, you're a burden on your species, specifically the resources that would otherwise keep a productive member of the species alive to reproduce, therefore a built-in 'kill switch' instinct comes into play.
I suspect you've never worked on cars much? Front wheel drive vehicles, the entire powertrain is one unit. In some cases it's actually more efficient to just drop the entire subframe, containing the engine, transaxle, front suspension/steering, etc, out from under the rest of the car, then separate the transaxle and do what you need to do, then put it all back. One of the reasons the engines tend to be transverse mounted.
How nice for you that you have nothing better to do with your time than take a chance you'll screw up and have to start from scratch again. Not like I haven't been fixing cars and motorcycles my entire life. No thanks. Soon as they have EV light pickups with enough range, I'm there.
Consider this: EV charging stations can be installed anywhere. Example: Combination parking meter and EV charging post. Park anywhere in a city, charge your EV while it's there. Apartment complex parking lots. Shopping center parking lots. Convenience store parking lots. Middle-of-nowhere charging stations with a dozen or more charging posts, no 'attendant' required (video security surveillance, like commercial fueling stations today). Anywhere you can get electric power.
Imagine this: 100 or so years ago, you had to sit there and wait for a station attendant to hand pump your gasoline. Then you had to hand crank your Model T or Model A engine to get it started. Wow, what a hassle!
Some time before that: horses could only go about 20 miles or so a day before having to rest! Also consider how much time it takes a horse to eat enough hay and oats to fuel itself! And you have to clean up after it, too! Suddenly having to recharge a nice, clean EV doesn't sound so bad, does it?
It'll just get better over time. We're in a transitional period with EVs; they're availble, the infrastructure is being installed, but it's just really getting started. Put your excuses aside and embrace the future. Think of this: 'fuel' costs for an EV will be a fraction of what gasoline costs. That help at all? Also see some of my other comments in this discussion.
As battery technology progresses energy density will likely improve, which means more range. As EV charging stations become more common, recharging won't be anywhere near as much a hassle. Also as battery technology improves recharge times will likely improve with it. 50 years from now it might very well take only as long to recharge your EV to 100% as it does now to fill your tank with gasoline.
Are you somehow thinking that EV charging stations are going to have to be built from the ground up, like they were petroleum fueling stations? I'd hope you've looked around you more than that. EV charging stations can be put anywhere; they can be installed at gas stations, even, without having to rip out the pumps. Places I've worked have them installed in their parking lots. There's three Whole Foods stores in my area, and they have them installed in their parking lot. You can get one installed at your house, if you want faster charging, for a few thousand dollars. Not having to have massive underground tanks for flammable, explosive, highly toxic liquid fuel, all the leak monitoring equipment, pumps, and so on that a gas station requires makes EV charging orders of magnitude cheaper. All you need is the charging post and some cabling to electric power. Any convenience store can install them in their parking lot. I've heard of apartment complexes that install them. As EV acceptance becomes more and more common there will be an incentive to install charging stations everywhere because the convenience of them will mean extra income for the property owner, and require essentially zero maintenance or labor costs (no need for a human attendant). And, again: if you own your own home and have the desire or need you can buy an 'at home' model high-capacity charging station for your garage, and the cost to recharge is paid on your electric bill. Compare that to having barrels of highly flammable gasoline or diesel in your garage. To my eyes there's no comparison, EV charging wins every time.
..use plastic any more than absolutely necessary, and use cash and checks as often as possible.
Several years ago a breach of a payment system hit locations I used to use plastic at. Prior to that I had my eye on the news, week after week, of escalating rates of breaches of payment and data systems. Luckily for me none of my accounts or identity information was affected by the payment system breach at places I then frequented, but it was clear that no merchant or payment system provider was capable of safeguarding me and my accounts, therefore I had to take matters into my own hands, instituting an aggressive program of paying cash whenever possible, using plastic only when I have no other choice, and writing checks when possible.
The Equifax breach just cemented my opinion: if a company that large and important to our financial infrastructure can't even secure their systems against criminal activities, then perhaps nobody can. I continue to use cash for everything possble, and continue to look for ways to stop using electronic payment systems entirely.
I have and will continue to urge people who care about protecting themselves and their accounts to wean themselves off using plastic as soon and as much as possible, until the day comes that the financial sector can effectively secure them against criminal intrusion.
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You just more or less self-identified as not understanding any of it.
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Israel is a tiny country, really, so it's not a big deal really, but face it: internal combustion engines must go the way of the (dead) dinosaurs (that have been fueling them). Fossil fuels were always a limited resource, it'll run out eventually, and we see how destructive using it is in the long run. Just relax, ICE fans, you'll still have high-horsepower vehicles, and easier than with ICEs, and the maintenance will be a tiny fraction of what it used to be. Trust me, you'll like it just as much if not more so.
You're being sarcastic but the real joke here is that there are more people than you'd be comfortable with that actually believe things like that. Hint: they're the same people who tend to be anti-vaxxers and anti-science in general.
Correct.
The so-called 'AI' in this case is just another tool the artist uses to create their art, not fundamentally different than using a brush, pencil, pen, or computer graphics program.
'What is and is not art' is as unanswerable a question as 'what is and is not pornography', or 'what is and is not funny', or 'what is love'. It is entirely subjective.
Go back to 4chan.
Nope. Nothing anyone can say will convince me otherwise. No one is posting shit about their day, or vacation photos, or any of the other shit people put on so-called 'social media' sites. The site owners decide what gets posted here and people can comment on those stories. So you see you're completely and totally wrong. /subject
This is not social media, this is a news site with commenting. Get off it, troll.
Trump attacks the Constitution, not defend it, like he's supposed to. He's attacked the 1st Amendment since before the election, and more lately he's attacked the 14th Amendment. He clearly and objectively doesn't give a fuck about the Constitution at all, it's just 'in the way' of being the authoritarian dictator that he wants to be.
Trump, that is. Any number of past Presidents, I'm certain, could have addressed the trade problems we have with China in such a way as to not wreck the U.S. economy in the process, but Trump is about as ham-fisted as anyone could be.
Do I need to elaborate?
Gee, wonder how big their grant was to conduct this 'study', and what the money was actually spent on? /s
Facebook is not the real world, not by a longshot. It's closer to reality on a middling-bad acid trip, and that's on a good day.
Humans are a social species, and so-called 'social media' (especially Facebook) is about as ersatz as ersatz can get; it's like a bad Chinese knock-off of actual social interaction.
So the jury is in with their verdict: Kill your Facebook account, do it today, and start being actually social with people again. I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'll keep saying it: 'Social media' is cancerous, and now we see the proof. It needs to be surgically excised from your lives, and real social interaction is the chemo to fix the damage.
Well gee whiz I'm so sorry that everything that should happen doesn't happen OVERNIGHT just to please YOU.
FFS dude these things take TIME. Chill the hell out already and stop complaining so goddamned much.
The human brain *needs* a sense of meaning, or it goes crazy and punishes itself with depression.
A better way to put this is humans need a sense of purpose . Likely it's an extension of the drive to perpetuate the species; when you have no purpose, you're a burden on your species, specifically the resources that would otherwise keep a productive member of the species alive to reproduce, therefore a built-in 'kill switch' instinct comes into play.
I suspect you've never worked on cars much? Front wheel drive vehicles, the entire powertrain is one unit. In some cases it's actually more efficient to just drop the entire subframe, containing the engine, transaxle, front suspension/steering, etc, out from under the rest of the car, then separate the transaxle and do what you need to do, then put it all back. One of the reasons the engines tend to be transverse mounted.
How nice for you that you have nothing better to do with your time than take a chance you'll screw up and have to start from scratch again. Not like I haven't been fixing cars and motorcycles my entire life. No thanks. Soon as they have EV light pickups with enough range, I'm there.
Consider this: EV charging stations can be installed anywhere. Example: Combination parking meter and EV charging post. Park anywhere in a city, charge your EV while it's there. Apartment complex parking lots. Shopping center parking lots. Convenience store parking lots. Middle-of-nowhere charging stations with a dozen or more charging posts, no 'attendant' required (video security surveillance, like commercial fueling stations today). Anywhere you can get electric power.
Fewer moving parts means fewer things to wear and break.
Imagine this: 100 or so years ago, you had to sit there and wait for a station attendant to hand pump your gasoline. Then you had to hand crank your Model T or Model A engine to get it started. Wow, what a hassle!
Some time before that: horses could only go about 20 miles or so a day before having to rest! Also consider how much time it takes a horse to eat enough hay and oats to fuel itself! And you have to clean up after it, too! Suddenly having to recharge a nice, clean EV doesn't sound so bad, does it?
It'll just get better over time. We're in a transitional period with EVs; they're availble, the infrastructure is being installed, but it's just really getting started. Put your excuses aside and embrace the future. Think of this: 'fuel' costs for an EV will be a fraction of what gasoline costs. That help at all? Also see some of my other comments in this discussion.
As battery technology progresses energy density will likely improve, which means more range. As EV charging stations become more common, recharging won't be anywhere near as much a hassle. Also as battery technology improves recharge times will likely improve with it. 50 years from now it might very well take only as long to recharge your EV to 100% as it does now to fill your tank with gasoline.
Are you somehow thinking that EV charging stations are going to have to be built from the ground up, like they were petroleum fueling stations? I'd hope you've looked around you more than that. EV charging stations can be put anywhere; they can be installed at gas stations, even, without having to rip out the pumps. Places I've worked have them installed in their parking lots. There's three Whole Foods stores in my area, and they have them installed in their parking lot. You can get one installed at your house, if you want faster charging, for a few thousand dollars. Not having to have massive underground tanks for flammable, explosive, highly toxic liquid fuel, all the leak monitoring equipment, pumps, and so on that a gas station requires makes EV charging orders of magnitude cheaper. All you need is the charging post and some cabling to electric power. Any convenience store can install them in their parking lot. I've heard of apartment complexes that install them. As EV acceptance becomes more and more common there will be an incentive to install charging stations everywhere because the convenience of them will mean extra income for the property owner, and require essentially zero maintenance or labor costs (no need for a human attendant). And, again: if you own your own home and have the desire or need you can buy an 'at home' model high-capacity charging station for your garage, and the cost to recharge is paid on your electric bill. Compare that to having barrels of highly flammable gasoline or diesel in your garage. To my eyes there's no comparison, EV charging wins every time.
..use plastic any more than absolutely necessary, and use cash and checks as often as possible.
Several years ago a breach of a payment system hit locations I used to use plastic at. Prior to that I had my eye on the news, week after week, of escalating rates of breaches of payment and data systems. Luckily for me none of my accounts or identity information was affected by the payment system breach at places I then frequented, but it was clear that no merchant or payment system provider was capable of safeguarding me and my accounts, therefore I had to take matters into my own hands, instituting an aggressive program of paying cash whenever possible, using plastic only when I have no other choice, and writing checks when possible.
The Equifax breach just cemented my opinion: if a company that large and important to our financial infrastructure can't even secure their systems against criminal activities, then perhaps nobody can. I continue to use cash for everything possble, and continue to look for ways to stop using electronic payment systems entirely.
I have and will continue to urge people who care about protecting themselves and their accounts to wean themselves off using plastic as soon and as much as possible, until the day comes that the financial sector can effectively secure them against criminal intrusion.
They should be allowed to slow at a stop sign or red signal, check for cross traffic/pedestrians, then go.
Google 'Idaho stop'; it's exactly what you're describing, and is the law in Idaho. Seems to work for them.