Plus, the antibiotics given to animals are very weak so you're comparing apples and oranges.
No. It's now be proven that some antibiotic resistances came from particular farms. And they are not 'weak': they are supposedly given in small quantities, but the 5$-hour workers shoveling it in the feeds don't necessarily respect the quantities. When you know that without antibiotics 1 out of 9 skin infections in humans lead to death, you really have to wonder if feeding this to cows is worth it.
And even if you do want a family WE getaway, 2300$ ?!? What do you do during this WE, snort coke with hookers and badly lose at poker or what ? I mean 50$ of gas to reach some forest, beach or mountain, 50$ in BBQ coal, food and booze, 10$ to sleep in a tent on some campground, 0$ to hike, climb or swim. Double those prices depending on local price of life but if 2300$, you are doing it wrong.
Unless the performance is really massively superior. Then you'll have some libs optimized for that beast, while the rest of the program runs on a normal frontend. Similar to what we are currently doing with CUDA and such.
You are correct that electric vehicles and automated driving are two different beasts and transitions to them won't necessarily happen at the same time. But to continue my analogy, there was a large infrastructure of photo shops, selling you film, processing your rolls, making your prints, etc, that almost entirely disappeared. Seen the disappearance of the current gas station in a short time would not be so surprising. It depends if they can transform into electric stations or if you'll be able to find charging cable everywhere (parking lots, on residential streets, etc). Once people figure out that they can fill up for 1$ instead of 1000$ and that they can sleep or watch porn on their commute instead of driving, the Rubicon will have been passed.
It happened in photography. All amateurs and pros in the early 2000 were all like "digital photography sucks. Quality sucks. It's more expensive than film. Etc... I'm not changing." Then after a certain number of early adopters and above all a certain threshold of quality/price, the change happened in the space of 2 years. Brand new film cameras that had a lifetime of well over a decade and previous high resale value suddenly dropped to near zero. In the meantime there were new digital models every 6 months so they had no resale values whatsoever. After a decade the market finally stabilized and now oldish digital cameras do have some resale value, similar to film cameras 2 decades ago, but film cameras are completely gone, I don't think there's a single model still being manufactured (the pricey Nikon F6 was the last one for a long time). So, yes, it can and it certainly will happen overnight.
I'm running, I and will only ever run, Win10 into a bunch of virtual machines on a solid Linux DEVICE. They are certainly not running on their own DEVICE. I have enough security concerns as it goes, thank you.
This causes a problem if the street is extended in the wrong direction, as happens from time to time.
I once raged looking for a number on a street that had been extended twice and the blockheads in charged had chosen the following numbering scheme (from the new start of the street): 200..299 1..199 300..1000
Your point 2 is right on the money, and I've been saying it from the very beginning of Android. Every app should present you with its requested permission and you MUST have the choice at this stage to fine grin every permission to yes/no/fake it. Not just "do not install the app". And also for every update that changes permissions.
Yes, there are apps that can change permissions of other apps, but you need to be root (my current phone doesn't currently have a root crack), and it's way too cumbersome to run on every app. Hence the flashlight app that asks only for flash and full screen, and then every update asks something more: network, location, camera, etc...
The Thing is the obligatory viewing during midwinter celebrations in Antarctica, when you are 5 months away from the closest possible rescue, and I can tell you that I've seen 300 pound grown men shake and cry halfway through the movie. Awesome.
I still think "why would anyone want something like that?" and don't understand the alleged success of the Eco / Home. I say alleged because I don't know anyone with one nor many people aware of them. But one thing for sure, next time I'm on the radio I'm going to yell "OK Google, order a barrel of lube and a dildo. Confirm."
...pretty extroverts and scammers will get money, ugly introverts will just rot. How about you implement a decent and universal medical care and education system instead ? Like everyone else, you know.
I just need something to work with the mechanical equipment it controls
Apparently you just don't need a run of the mill desktop linux distro, but some special purpose to control some hardware, right ? The good news is that all linux systems are more or less equivalent for that. The bad news is: what is you equipment ? Does it support Linux ? Do you need to write software for it or are you provided drivers ? If the latter you should ask your hardware provider what they recommend, not us.
Where is it written that a government *MUST* tax sales?
The way I see it is that if your taxe system is simple, plenty of people find workarounds and don't (legally) pay taxes. Then you close that loophole and tax what they were doing. Rinse, repeat and you end up with a 5 thousand page tax system only experts working for Apple understand and they are the only ones not (legally) paying taxes at this point. In other words I see this complexity of the tax system as necessary evil and advocates of 'flat tax' or other 'simple' systems as idiots.
I had a philosophy professor who regularly went into recursive levels of stories and never got lost. The good thing is that his stories were absolutely hilarious (that's where I first learned about tentacle porn for instance). And he was also a good professor. Surprisingly.
Is that a good idea ? If you park in sunny areas it'll be unbearably hot even if you park with the front of the car away from the sun (current strategy). And if you roll-over: glass all around you even more than before with the side/front windows...
There are entire countries where billboards are illegal (Brazil), countries where they are illegal outside of cities (France), and many cities where they are forbidden (like my own). Why ? Well, it breaks down to this: either they work or they don't work. If they don't work, then what's the point ? Get rid of them. If they work, then it means they steal some of your attention span while you should be paying attention to your driving, so they should be illegal. And they are ugly.
As an embedded developer I've been asked to sit on interviews a few times. I usually ask one 'trick question': "what is a volatile in C". If they don't know, then I'm pretty sure they have never read a hardware register. And none ever answered. Obviously we ended up hiring the asshole with fascist and complotist views... Sigh...
I know that, but a direct message or, better, a public shaming in a new discussion such as this one. This is too important. Antibiotics shouldn't be given as animal food, and I'm beginning to think that they shouldn't be given to animals at all, period.
No matter how many studies about antibiotics resistance, still in the US they keep on feeding antibiotics to cattle to make them grow slightly faster to make slightly more money. All this at the long term risk of killing most of us. No, that's not hyperbole: before the invention of antibiotics, one skin infection out of 9 was deadly. Yes, a bit of pus in a scrape, deadly one time out of 9, let that soak in (the idea, not the pus).
I remember a discussion about that here on./ a decade ago where a moron was defending this feeding, saying "no studies have shown any risk". Then a few years later some studies started tracing out the DNA origin of some resistances and pinpointed them to some US industrial farms, I wanted to find our exchange of posts and rub it in "told you so", but./ message search sucks ass and I could never find them.
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Perhaps if the NSA concentrated on cyber security instead of cyber attacks, this might not have happened?
And not leaving identified cyber-vulnerabilities in commonly used cyber-software... Do I use cyber too much ?
Well said.
Plus, the antibiotics given to animals are very weak so you're comparing apples and oranges.
No. It's now be proven that some antibiotic resistances came from particular farms. And they are not 'weak': they are supposedly given in small quantities, but the 5$-hour workers shoveling it in the feeds don't necessarily respect the quantities. When you know that without antibiotics 1 out of 9 skin infections in humans lead to death, you really have to wonder if feeding this to cows is worth it.
And even if you do want a family WE getaway, 2300$ ?!? What do you do during this WE, snort coke with hookers and badly lose at poker or what ? I mean 50$ of gas to reach some forest, beach or mountain, 50$ in BBQ coal, food and booze, 10$ to sleep in a tent on some campground, 0$ to hike, climb or swim. Double those prices depending on local price of life but if 2300$, you are doing it wrong.
See what you can remember about the insects of your youth...
Unless the performance is really massively superior. Then you'll have some libs optimized for that beast, while the rest of the program runs on a normal frontend. Similar to what we are currently doing with CUDA and such.
You are correct that electric vehicles and automated driving are two different beasts and transitions to them won't necessarily happen at the same time. But to continue my analogy, there was a large infrastructure of photo shops, selling you film, processing your rolls, making your prints, etc, that almost entirely disappeared. Seen the disappearance of the current gas station in a short time would not be so surprising. It depends if they can transform into electric stations or if you'll be able to find charging cable everywhere (parking lots, on residential streets, etc). Once people figure out that they can fill up for 1$ instead of 1000$ and that they can sleep or watch porn on their commute instead of driving, the Rubicon will have been passed.
It happened in photography. All amateurs and pros in the early 2000 were all like "digital photography sucks. Quality sucks. It's more expensive than film. Etc... I'm not changing." Then after a certain number of early adopters and above all a certain threshold of quality/price, the change happened in the space of 2 years. Brand new film cameras that had a lifetime of well over a decade and previous high resale value suddenly dropped to near zero. In the meantime there were new digital models every 6 months so they had no resale values whatsoever. After a decade the market finally stabilized and now oldish digital cameras do have some resale value, similar to film cameras 2 decades ago, but film cameras are completely gone, I don't think there's a single model still being manufactured (the pricey Nikon F6 was the last one for a long time). So, yes, it can and it certainly will happen overnight.
This prophetic cartoon was drawn in the 70s...
I'm running, I and will only ever run, Win10 into a bunch of virtual machines on a solid Linux DEVICE. They are certainly not running on their own DEVICE. I have enough security concerns as it goes, thank you.
This causes a problem if the street is extended in the wrong direction, as happens from time to time.
I once raged looking for a number on a street that had been extended twice and the blockheads in charged had chosen the following numbering scheme (from the new start of the street): 200..299 1..199 300..1000
Your point 2 is right on the money, and I've been saying it from the very beginning of Android. Every app should present you with its requested permission and you MUST have the choice at this stage to fine grin every permission to yes/no/fake it. Not just "do not install the app". And also for every update that changes permissions.
Yes, there are apps that can change permissions of other apps, but you need to be root (my current phone doesn't currently have a root crack), and it's way too cumbersome to run on every app. Hence the flashlight app that asks only for flash and full screen, and then every update asks something more: network, location, camera, etc...
How about you change the shape of the lightsail to form a parabola and use that to focus the antenna signal ?
The Thing is the obligatory viewing during midwinter celebrations in Antarctica, when you are 5 months away from the closest possible rescue, and I can tell you that I've seen 300 pound grown men shake and cry halfway through the movie. Awesome.
I still think "why would anyone want something like that?" and don't understand the alleged success of the Eco / Home. I say alleged because I don't know anyone with one nor many people aware of them. But one thing for sure, next time I'm on the radio I'm going to yell "OK Google, order a barrel of lube and a dildo. Confirm."
...pretty extroverts and scammers will get money, ugly introverts will just rot. How about you implement a decent and universal medical care and education system instead ? Like everyone else, you know.
I just need something to work with the mechanical equipment it controls
Apparently you just don't need a run of the mill desktop linux distro, but some special purpose to control some hardware, right ? The good news is that all linux systems are more or less equivalent for that. The bad news is: what is you equipment ? Does it support Linux ? Do you need to write software for it or are you provided drivers ? If the latter you should ask your hardware provider what they recommend, not us.
Where is it written that a government *MUST* tax sales?
The way I see it is that if your taxe system is simple, plenty of people find workarounds and don't (legally) pay taxes. Then you close that loophole and tax what they were doing. Rinse, repeat and you end up with a 5 thousand page tax system only experts working for Apple understand and they are the only ones not (legally) paying taxes at this point. In other words I see this complexity of the tax system as necessary evil and advocates of 'flat tax' or other 'simple' systems as idiots.
I had a philosophy professor who regularly went into recursive levels of stories and never got lost. The good thing is that his stories were absolutely hilarious (that's where I first learned about tentacle porn for instance). And he was also a good professor. Surprisingly.
Their new cars feature full glass roofs.
Is that a good idea ? If you park in sunny areas it'll be unbearably hot even if you park with the front of the car away from the sun (current strategy). And if you roll-over: glass all around you even more than before with the side/front windows...
There are entire countries where billboards are illegal (Brazil), countries where they are illegal outside of cities (France), and many cities where they are forbidden (like my own). Why ? Well, it breaks down to this: either they work or they don't work. If they don't work, then what's the point ? Get rid of them. If they work, then it means they steal some of your attention span while you should be paying attention to your driving, so they should be illegal. And they are ugly.
The rest is either bullshit or used to differentiate between models.
As an embedded developer I've been asked to sit on interviews a few times. I usually ask one 'trick question': "what is a volatile in C". If they don't know, then I'm pretty sure they have never read a hardware register. And none ever answered. Obviously we ended up hiring the asshole with fascist and complotist views... Sigh...
I know that, but a direct message or, better, a public shaming in a new discussion such as this one. This is too important. Antibiotics shouldn't be given as animal food, and I'm beginning to think that they shouldn't be given to animals at all, period.
No matter how many studies about antibiotics resistance, still in the US they keep on feeding antibiotics to cattle to make them grow slightly faster to make slightly more money. All this at the long term risk of killing most of us. No, that's not hyperbole: before the invention of antibiotics, one skin infection out of 9 was deadly. Yes, a bit of pus in a scrape, deadly one time out of 9, let that soak in (the idea, not the pus).
./ a decade ago where a moron was defending this feeding, saying "no studies have shown any risk". Then a few years later some studies started tracing out the DNA origin of some resistances and pinpointed them to some US industrial farms, I wanted to find our exchange of posts and rub it in "told you so", but ./ message search sucks ass and I could never find them.
I remember a discussion about that here on