The Verge is roughly The National Enquirer of Tech Journalism.
Basically you only read their shit if you're a voracious reader, the website was auto-loaded by some ad malware and your internet went down immediately afterward.
Otherwise, you'd get more value out of trying to read used toilet paper.
Basically the people running things are professional busybodies and buttinskies.
They basically rubberstamp everything that comes through. None of them actually read what they're pushing. They have aides do that and tell them yes/no. And all the aides are essentially "bought".
And the people actually making the decisions are unelected by the people and completely unaccoutable to ANYONE.
So these people are primarily there because they LIKE dicking around in other people's lives...oh and the big paycheck...
Liability of the automaker should not be eliminated. This is a buggy product, even today. And it's still insanely limited. So these automakers SHOULD share liability if their software fucks up and kills/injures someone.
This should NOT be subsidized. This is a buggy product as-is. And simply throwing money at it isn't going to debug it any faster.
The infrastructure for autonomous driving should be looked at when the product actually WORKS PROPERLY, and it finally makes sense. Doing so right now would be like declaring that personal rocket travel is here because someone shoved an ICBM up their ass sideways...
This sort of complete market capture for unlimited periods needs to die.
Rework the system to give these companies 10 years of sole manufacturing rights. Then 10 years of royalties on their drugs being mass-produced across the industry. After that, let competition decide the winnner. And if someone hits this sort of market capture, it then behooves competitors to produce their own brand, driving prices back down.
Yep. Individual specimens can be fine, even intelligent. But on the whole, "people" have the collective intelligence of someone in persistent vegetative state undergoing a full frontal lobotomy.
I've explained it to you. Several times. If you can't comprehend it at this point, I'm not translating it into sign language for you.
Howsabout we reverse it.
Why SHOULD streaming providers be FORCED to produce local/localized content? Why is VOLUNTARY production not good enough? And why must percentages be set?
And "Because you gotta to follow the rules" isn't an answer. Because I'm questioning the purpose and ideology BEHIND the rule.
Google already has enough of a stranglehold over the web.
And don't go with the Facebook Instant Articles or Apple News either.
While AMP is, ostensibly, an open-source project, the fact that it's leadership is in the hands of these corporate advertising giants should give anyone with a lick of sense pause.
Okay, the rule for XYZland is that you have to cut your balls off to do business in the country. But natives don't.
We're talking about logic and reason here.
These institutions want to use GOVERNMENT FORCE to MAKE content providers to make a set portion of their content localized. So, if you're a streaming provider in France, they want to FORCE you to make sure X% of your content was produced in France. The same for Germany. And Belgium. And Austria. And Finland. And Ireland. And Italy. And... Currently there are TWENTY EIGHT member states in the EU. And the EU wants to set the bar at 30-40% of total content PER MEMBER STATE...
The EU is supposed to be about globalism right? We're all "citizens of the world", right? If so, what the hell is going on with these protectionist localization requirements?
Europe isn't a backwater, although I doubt you can find it on a map.
I can find it just fine. It's the plot of land between Norway and Africa, between the Atlantic Ocean and Russia. It's the continent that's slowly being colonized by Islamists...
So, if it isn't a backwater now? Just wait a generation. It soon will be.
How long before companies just stand up and say "No" to this kind of buttinsky BS?
And if the governments cry too hard, simply yank service in that country to all save one video. That of a citizen of that country explaining how their government shoved their collective heads up their collective asses and telling the collective members of said government to eat a bag of dicks.
You don't seem to understand. Baseline IS the minimum plus a safety margin to prevent blackouts or brownouts for momentary bumps in demand. If you need to rapidly add power to the grid, you move to peaking plants. But you need a stable source of power for baseline. Nuclear, hydro, geothermal, coal. All of these are stable sources of power output,
Wind, solar are time and condition sensitive. Oil and gas fired turbines are dependable if more expensive forms of fuel used for peaking.
Power storage, flywheels, pumping water upstream/uphill, solar thermal reservoirs and battery storage can help smooth over the humps between baseline and when peaking comes online. But such things are limited by geography (lots of places in the US have no "uphill" to pump water to), situation (you can't just drop a solar thermal farm ANYWHERE), or expense (grid-scale battery capacity is RECOCKULOUSLY EXPENSIVE).
This really isn't that hard to grok. I'm unsure why you're having trouble (though I have a few guesses).
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The Verge is roughly The National Enquirer of Tech Journalism.
Basically you only read their shit if you're a voracious reader, the website was auto-loaded by some ad malware and your internet went down immediately afterward.
Otherwise, you'd get more value out of trying to read used toilet paper.
Not going to sign up for remote gaming services with shit latency and a false promise of said issues being eliminated "in a few years".
If you can just sell me the fucking game to install on my own PC whenever the fuck that I want? Screw you. I'll do without.
I'm completely adverse to being fucked in the ass without even the courtesy of a reach-around.
Let's just pile on yet ANOTHER multi-zillion dollar boondoggle!
Can California just have it's huge earthquake and slide off under the Pacific NOW?
Nothing of any real importance will be lost.
Because governments like the UK and US are at least (on some levels) elected by, and accountable to the people.
If your MEPs or these various committee chairs are malfeasant, there's exactly FUCK-ALL you can do about it. You have ZERO redress.
https://youtu.be/RbUGej05bLA
Watch this video. It basically explains the structure of the EU baldly enough.
https://youtu.be/RbUGej05bLA
Give it a watch.
Basically the people running things are professional busybodies and buttinskies.
They basically rubberstamp everything that comes through.
None of them actually read what they're pushing. They have aides do that and tell them yes/no. And all the aides are essentially "bought".
And the people actually making the decisions are unelected by the people and completely unaccoutable to ANYONE.
So these people are primarily there because they LIKE dicking around in other people's lives...oh and the big paycheck...
Exactly.
Yep.
"We want to encourage diversity of ideas."
JAMES DAMORE
"Whoopsie!"
Man they need an AWFUL big shovel for all that bullshit.
Sorry.
Liability of the automaker should not be eliminated. This is a buggy product, even today. And it's still insanely limited.
So these automakers SHOULD share liability if their software fucks up and kills/injures someone.
This should NOT be subsidized. This is a buggy product as-is. And simply throwing money at it isn't going to debug it any faster.
The infrastructure for autonomous driving should be looked at when the product actually WORKS PROPERLY, and it finally makes sense.
Doing so right now would be like declaring that personal rocket travel is here because someone shoved an ICBM up their ass sideways...
This sort of complete market capture for unlimited periods needs to die.
Rework the system to give these companies 10 years of sole manufacturing rights.
Then 10 years of royalties on their drugs being mass-produced across the industry.
After that, let competition decide the winnner.
And if someone hits this sort of market capture, it then behooves competitors to produce their own brand, driving prices back down.
Because this shit is insane.
#LivingInFuckingCaves!
Yep. Individual specimens can be fine, even intelligent.
But on the whole, "people" have the collective intelligence of someone in persistent vegetative state undergoing a full frontal lobotomy.
Translation: You can't justify it with anything other than chauvinism. Fair enough.
I invite you to watch this.
https://youtu.be/JbyjL9tazxQ
Let's see how long before the Chicago store is picked BARE.
I've explained it to you. Several times.
If you can't comprehend it at this point, I'm not translating it into sign language for you.
Howsabout we reverse it.
Why SHOULD streaming providers be FORCED to produce local/localized content? Why is VOLUNTARY production not good enough? And why must percentages be set?
And "Because you gotta to follow the rules" isn't an answer. Because I'm questioning the purpose and ideology BEHIND the rule.
Google already has enough of a stranglehold over the web.
And don't go with the Facebook Instant Articles or Apple News either.
While AMP is, ostensibly, an open-source project, the fact that it's leadership is in the hands of these corporate advertising giants should give anyone with a lick of sense pause.
I'm not "making shit up" dumbass.
I presented you with an educational example, stripped of partisanship-inducing terms.
Yet you still don't get it.
Okay, strike 3. You're out.
Okay, the rule for XYZland is that you have to cut your balls off to do business in the country. But natives don't.
We're talking about logic and reason here.
These institutions want to use GOVERNMENT FORCE to MAKE content providers to make a set portion of their content localized.
So, if you're a streaming provider in France, they want to FORCE you to make sure X% of your content was produced in France.
The same for Germany. And Belgium. And Austria. And Finland. And Ireland. And Italy. And...
Currently there are TWENTY EIGHT member states in the EU.
And the EU wants to set the bar at 30-40% of total content PER MEMBER STATE...
The EU is supposed to be about globalism right? We're all "citizens of the world", right?
If so, what the hell is going on with these protectionist localization requirements?
Sorry, it's bullshit.
Also, with shit like this, doesn't it put a lie to globalism?
If we're all "one world", why does the government need to FORCE a content-oriented business to make localized content in this manner?
Europe isn't a backwater, although I doubt you can find it on a map.
I can find it just fine. It's the plot of land between Norway and Africa, between the Atlantic Ocean and Russia. It's the continent that's slowly being colonized by Islamists...
So, if it isn't a backwater now? Just wait a generation. It soon will be.
How long before companies just stand up and say "No" to this kind of buttinsky BS?
And if the governments cry too hard, simply yank service in that country to all save one video.
That of a citizen of that country explaining how their government shoved their collective heads up their collective asses and telling the collective members of said government to eat a bag of dicks.
You don't seem to understand. Baseline IS the minimum plus a safety margin to prevent blackouts or brownouts for momentary bumps in demand.
If you need to rapidly add power to the grid, you move to peaking plants.
But you need a stable source of power for baseline.
Nuclear, hydro, geothermal, coal. All of these are stable sources of power output,
Wind, solar are time and condition sensitive.
Oil and gas fired turbines are dependable if more expensive forms of fuel used for peaking.
Power storage, flywheels, pumping water upstream/uphill, solar thermal reservoirs and battery storage can help smooth over the humps between baseline and when peaking comes online. But such things are limited by geography (lots of places in the US have no "uphill" to pump water to), situation (you can't just drop a solar thermal farm ANYWHERE), or expense (grid-scale battery capacity is RECOCKULOUSLY EXPENSIVE).
This really isn't that hard to grok. I'm unsure why you're having trouble (though I have a few guesses).