Why? Do you just like seeing people seriously hurt in general? Or do you just don't like the idea of motorized transportation that isn't a full sized car or motorcycle. Because there was someone who slightly inconvenienced you with some unsafe driving.
Because most people riding these are under-aged, and blast down the sidewalk at top speed. Broken wrists and legs result.
is the cause of accidents. They talk about people injured by mechanical failures, and undoubtedly those occur.
But no mention of what percentage is caused by that, what percentage caused by rider error (which is likely rather higher) and what percentage is caused by other drivers (since it's illegal to ride these things on the sidewalk, which means you're in a bicycle lane or on the street). Most motorcycle accidents are cause by drivers of cars who never saw the bike. I suspect the same is true on these toys.
Scooters are worse.
* Very short wheelbase;
* Very small wheels;
* Extremely tight turning radius.
That's a formula for falling off. Now, it wasn't so bad with those "Razer" scooters, where you'd only break your wrist. But these things go much faster, and in most cities are forbidden from riding on the sidewalk. For example, CA vehicle code says so for anything motorized.
And 15 to 40 mph on the sidewalk is not a good idea in a neighborhood with old people walking dogs, and mommies with strollers. One rider almost broke my wife's arm, and acted like it was her fault for being "in his way".
No rider error required. These scooters are very prone to falling over, or going out of control. You might say that they are designed to be unsafe.
Bitcoin is useless until big players enter the game then suddenly it'll become vital for the country.
You're looking for something useless and dangerous ? Look no further than high frequency trading.
MOD PARENT UP.
On both points. The "big boys" are putting out articles like this, so that the "little people" all get out, ensuring that they have control of the game.
And yes, HFT is a crash (another) waiting to happen.
Content? Who cares about that? A 4K computer monitor makes you feel like a god. It is so much pixel real estate that people have trouble finding things to do with it.
Instead of 3 or 4 monitors, you can just have one big one set at 4K. Edit 8 pages at once! Workflows for graphics, music, and video are really enabled by all of those pixels!
After my first kindle (I'm on my 6th) I donated almost 5000 books to a local library and now I got a full new room I can use. I also got rid of my music tapes, my music cassettes, my music vinyl, my music CDs, my super8 films, my betamax, Video2000 and VHS tapes, my Laser-disks, DVDs and blurays,Ditto for my photo albums.
A small server does all that now.
Good riddance.
Are you backed up in duplicate on two, non co-located mirror servers or drives?
Do mining-specific cards still have the SLI edge connector?
Most certainly. Miners would build multi-bay PCI buses for this specific purpose. One CPU can mine using 16 or so graphics cards, as it's mainly just doling out the work to the GPUs.
If I had several GPU cards, then I'd definitely strap them all together with SLI connectors. In mining, it's a race to solve the next block, so a set of strapped cards would mean more parallel compute power, and thus better chances.
you brain has facts addled and mixed up like scrambled eggs.
Talc is a clay.
Talc is NOT a clay, as most people know clay. Talc is a layered silicate compound, not a layered aluminosilicate (which clays are). Talc is also NOT soluble in water. Talc is a sheet-stuctured, crystalline material -- making it clay-like, but not a clay in the usual sense of the word.
Asbestos (six minerals are in the category) have more fiber-based crystalline structures. Thus they break down into fibers (thin daggers), rather than the flakes of talc. Asbestos is not soluble in water, either, which is why thise little asbestos fibers hang around in people's lungs to cause mesothelioma (the daggers never dull).
No, no we don't ban asbestos. Never have, as it is naturally occuring. We ban synthetic substances all the time, but asbestos being banned is just silly, even if it makes a lot of sense to reduce our exposure to it.
Asbestos is found in all sorts of things in trace (and higher) levels. Ever wonder why companies are moving away from talcum powder? Any idea what's in your brake linings?
And where did that 'popcorn mica' packaging filler go? Ever wonder why it isn't used so much these days? Same as above: more than trace amounts of asbestos are typically found in mica.
Yeah, who give a shit about things like peoples health or the environment we live in. Lets just do whatever the fuck we want!
People's health? Asbestos is hands down the greatest fire retardant ever discovered; it's only cancer causing when breathed in shredded microfiber form. Banning it everywhere no matter what is wild overreaction. More asbestos installed safely would prevent fires and improve heath.
Maybe. But it is the removal of the asbestos -- in a fire where particles form an aerosol -- or when the building is torn down -- that it gets into the air. I've been in plenty of buildings with asbestos. They were built long ago, and the stuff is fine while it remains undisturbed.
US buildings are primarily 'throw-away', meaning that the building will probably come down within 50 years, creating an asbestos problem.
There have been many. What happens is they get flooded with people from 3rd world countries, willing to do the work for pennies an hour. If you want to work as a "gigger" for tech stuff, then you'll be competing against people from Vietnam willing to do the same fork for $1/hour.
For some things, but not all. . . I edit warble-garble text into correct English, which no $1/hr person is likely to be capable of.
I use FlexJobs.com, which vets the companies that list jobs to avoid the above-listed problem, and for other good reasons.
... Amazon's reputation will be completely unharmed by a delivery strike.
People are not that smart.
In any case, it is Amazon's responsibility to HIRE people to deliver packages. I've heard gripes about missed/lost/late/damaged packages, but none have ever been aimed at the drivers. I didn't blame my driver when a 46" display arrived nearly folded in half––he was only one of many, many people to handle the package between the vendor and me.
But don't forget that UPS drivers are Teamsters, and won't take kindly to a bunch of amateurs taking a bite out of their livelihoods.
Teamsters do not mess around. Amazon is powerful, but so are the Teamsters.
A week-long strike of Amazon deliveries would put a dent in Amazon's reputation for already bad customer service and unfulfilled promises of next-day delivery, etc.
If I had $10,000 lying around, I would not purchase an Amazon delivery franchise just to get a job. That would be stupid.
If I did it, Amazon would be my boss. Amazon is an extremely shitty boss that screws everyone harder the loser-down the totem pole they are.
Amazon should simply contract with existing providers. If those providers do not want to expand, then Amazon has to do something. Externalizing all of the risk of a business venture, while being shackled to Amazon Corporate's whims is a sickening proposition from a sick mind.
Note that they scan and capture every plate they see, regardless of its status.
3. Don't live in a neighborhood with a lot of deadbeats.
Notice that you can accomplish 1, 2 & 3 just by choosing not to be poor.
These databases, by their very nature, have a strong socioeconomic bias against the poor, or anyone living near them. Scanners undoubtedly stick to high-traffic locations.
While I've no doubt that these plate-trollers patrol poorer neighborhoods more than wealthy (garaged) ones. Parking structures are undoubtedly gold mines, as are the interstates, especially if approached exit-by-exit, rather than blanket, but that is for the plate scanners to decide. At a guess, their patrolling (Google-maps-like car) is planned, coordinated, and repeated at regular intervals.
In cities, high-end cars go from garage-to-garage, never being parked on a public street. I hear that some people don't bother to register their expensive cars for this reason. Now that the undetectability no longer holds, as they can be caught driving, that will slowly end. At least there's that.
Which would indicate every plate scanned ends up in a database. Regardless whether it's on some "wanted" list. And that data is passed on, used for purposes other than what it was gathered for.
That seems like an enormous invasion of privacy.
Yes, it is a terrible invasion of privacy. But it is performed by private companies; you can do it, too (I inquired). Or go through a PI to get access to the database---info is not sold to us plebs).
The problem in the US with this is that it is an industry that arose suddenly (started data-aggregating suddenly). Them selling to law enforcement is bad enough. Law enforcement then relying upon unverified data, that was obtained through a short-circuit of the 4th amendment, bought from a private, 3rd-party's database does not sit right.
It fulfills, TODAY, one of the functions off the infamous Panopticon – in this case turned on all people with cars in the US. It's tagging and tracking.
It enables law-enforcement engaging in citizen spying while doing an end-run around constitutional protections. The cheap collection of granular data on a person's (car's) where-a bouts over spans of time, acquired retroactively, without the need for suspicion of any crime; past or present; nor to get a warrant for the info.
FTA & 4th Amendment (USA): ""The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,..."
Look for the Supreme Court to take this up in 5-10 years. Closer to 10––they just recently realized that photos can potentially be Photoshopped before introduction into Exhibits, and put some controls in place. Let them get caught up with audio and video being entirely fake-able first. Then they might get around to this topic.
IANAL. Any lawyer please chime in if we do indeed have a reasonable expectation of privacy against recording our license plates (public vehicle tags) on a continual basis. Warrant lets cops to do it; openly legal for private organizations to do it;. It is questionable whether the use of the 'continual-monitoring' private databases accessed by cops – when done without a warrrant or probable cause – is a breach of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. Given the article, I'd hazard a guess that this has not yet been ironed out fully in case law.
The homeless in Venice/Santa Monica/Brentwood tend to have cell phones.
I've seen plenty with them. They'll even ask you for money while they are on their damned phones! That is, the homeless think as little of you as you do of them.
Since these are often left on the street randomly, how are these different from other litter?
According to LA County Law, as unsecured property on Public Property are considered "Abandoned Property". That is: Litter. Litter can be safely removed (although I wouldn't go around stealing scooters).
People park them across doorways or just randomly in the street or usually the sidewalk – right in the way of foot traffic. Oh, and on Private Property. Finders Keepers. Bird's business model relies upon "Private Taking of a Public Good" on a massive scale.
As soon as pumping/dumping stops working for the Chinese they'll just cash in and retire (if they've got any sense). That moment will be the end of Bitcoin.
The end of Bitcoin would be brought about by the cost to verify a transaction came to exceed transactions.
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You doing "gig economy" means you can't do anything better. Period.
Many with disabilities cannot work a 40-hour week. No one chooses to have a disability.
Why?
Do you just like seeing people seriously hurt in general? Or do you just don't like the idea of motorized transportation that isn't a full sized car or motorcycle. Because there was someone who slightly inconvenienced you with some unsafe driving.
Because most people riding these are under-aged, and blast down the sidewalk at top speed. Broken wrists and legs result.
I have scanned and OCRed a few key books of mine so that I can do just that.
It's soooooo much faster than the index or table of contents for just find a keyword.
is the cause of accidents. They talk about people injured by mechanical failures, and undoubtedly those occur.
But no mention of what percentage is caused by that, what percentage caused by rider error (which is likely rather higher) and what percentage is caused by other drivers (since it's illegal to ride these things on the sidewalk, which means you're in a bicycle lane or on the street). Most motorcycle accidents are cause by drivers of cars who never saw the bike. I suspect the same is true on these toys.
Scooters are worse.
* Very short wheelbase;
* Very small wheels;
* Extremely tight turning radius.
That's a formula for falling off. Now, it wasn't so bad with those "Razer" scooters, where you'd only break your wrist. But these things go much faster, and in most cities are forbidden from riding on the sidewalk. For example, CA vehicle code says so for anything motorized.
And 15 to 40 mph on the sidewalk is not a good idea in a neighborhood with old people walking dogs, and mommies with strollers. One rider almost broke my wife's arm, and acted like it was her fault for being "in his way".
No rider error required. These scooters are very prone to falling over, or going out of control. You might say that they are designed to be unsafe.
Bitcoin is useless until big players enter the game then suddenly it'll become vital for the country.
You're looking for something useless and dangerous ? Look no further than high frequency trading.
MOD PARENT UP.
On both points. The "big boys" are putting out articles like this, so that the "little people" all get out, ensuring that they have control of the game.
And yes, HFT is a crash (another) waiting to happen.
Content? Who cares about that? A 4K computer monitor makes you feel like a god. It is so much pixel real estate that people have trouble finding things to do with it.
Instead of 3 or 4 monitors, you can just have one big one set at 4K. Edit 8 pages at once! Workflows for graphics, music, and video are really enabled by all of those pixels!
After my first kindle (I'm on my 6th) I donated almost 5000 books to a local library and now I got a full new room I can use.
I also got rid of my music tapes, my music cassettes, my music vinyl, my music CDs, my super8 films, my betamax, Video2000 and VHS tapes, my Laser-disks, DVDs and blurays,Ditto for my photo albums.
A small server does all that now.
Good riddance.
Are you backed up in duplicate on two, non co-located mirror servers or drives?
I hope so.
Do mining-specific cards still have the SLI edge connector?
Most certainly. Miners would build multi-bay PCI buses for this specific purpose. One CPU can mine using 16 or so graphics cards, as it's mainly just doling out the work to the GPUs.
If I had several GPU cards, then I'd definitely strap them all together with SLI connectors. In mining, it's a race to solve the next block, so a set of strapped cards would mean more parallel compute power, and thus better chances.
Rising sea levels is a fact, but it isn't causing massive flooding.
Ahem. Have you read the news today? Or last week? Or last year? Or 10 years ago?
"Massive flooding" is far more frequent in monsoons, hurricanes, and regular-old thunderstorms.
You are wrong.
Let's bring back lead-based paints and gasoline.
It creates jobs you know.
My Municipal Airport sells ONLY leaded aviation fuel for piston-engine planes.
you brain has facts addled and mixed up like scrambled eggs.
Talc is a clay.
Talc is NOT a clay, as most people know clay. Talc is a layered silicate compound, not a layered aluminosilicate (which clays are). Talc is also NOT soluble in water. Talc is a sheet-stuctured, crystalline material -- making it clay-like, but not a clay in the usual sense of the word.
Asbestos (six minerals are in the category) have more fiber-based crystalline structures. Thus they break down into fibers (thin daggers), rather than the flakes of talc. Asbestos is not soluble in water, either, which is why thise little asbestos fibers hang around in people's lungs to cause mesothelioma (the daggers never dull).
Clay examples:
Kaolinite (i.e., kaolin)
Bentonite
Attagulpite
No, no we don't ban asbestos. Never have, as it is naturally occuring. We ban synthetic substances all the time, but asbestos being banned is just silly, even if it makes a lot of sense to reduce our exposure to it.
Asbestos is found in all sorts of things in trace (and higher) levels. Ever wonder why companies are moving away from talcum powder? Any idea what's in your brake linings?
And where did that 'popcorn mica' packaging filler go? Ever wonder why it isn't used so much these days? Same as above: more than trace amounts of asbestos are typically found in mica.
Yeah, who give a shit about things like peoples health or the environment we live in. Lets just do whatever the fuck we want!
People's health? Asbestos is hands down the greatest fire retardant ever discovered; it's only cancer causing when breathed in shredded microfiber form. Banning it everywhere no matter what is wild overreaction. More asbestos installed safely would prevent fires and improve heath.
Maybe. But it is the removal of the asbestos -- in a fire where particles form an aerosol -- or when the building is torn down -- that it gets into the air. I've been in plenty of buildings with asbestos. They were built long ago, and the stuff is fine while it remains undisturbed.
US buildings are primarily 'throw-away', meaning that the building will probably come down within 50 years, creating an asbestos problem.
There have been many. What happens is they get flooded with people from 3rd world countries, willing to do the work for pennies an hour. If you want to work as a "gigger" for tech stuff, then you'll be competing against people from Vietnam willing to do the same fork for $1/hour.
For some things, but not all. . . I edit warble-garble text into correct English, which no $1/hr person is likely to be capable of.
I use FlexJobs.com, which vets the companies that list jobs to avoid the above-listed problem, and for other good reasons.
People are not that smart.
In any case, it is Amazon's responsibility to HIRE people to deliver packages. I've heard gripes about missed/lost/late/damaged packages, but none have ever been aimed at the drivers. I didn't blame my driver when a 46" display arrived nearly folded in half––he was only one of many, many people to handle the package between the vendor and me.
But don't forget that UPS drivers are Teamsters, and won't take kindly to a bunch of amateurs taking a bite out of their livelihoods.
Teamsters do not mess around. Amazon is powerful, but so are the Teamsters.
A week-long strike of Amazon deliveries would put a dent in Amazon's reputation for already bad customer service and unfulfilled promises of next-day delivery, etc.
If you answer to a corporation and not your customers, it's a franchise.
It's basically Amazon Avon.
Amazon Survivor(TM) would be a more apt name. Most everybody will lose.
If I had $10,000 lying around, I would not purchase an Amazon delivery franchise just to get a job. That would be stupid.
If I did it, Amazon would be my boss. Amazon is an extremely shitty boss that screws everyone harder the loser-down the totem pole they are.
Amazon should simply contract with existing providers. If those providers do not want to expand, then Amazon has to do something. Externalizing all of the risk of a business venture, while being shackled to Amazon Corporate's whims is a sickening proposition from a sick mind.
Some device that masks your license plate number from the scanner.
ANPR Circumvention.
Note that they scan and capture every plate they see, regardless of its status.
3. Don't live in a neighborhood with a lot of deadbeats.
Notice that you can accomplish 1, 2 & 3 just by choosing not to be poor.
These databases, by their very nature, have a strong socioeconomic bias against the poor, or anyone living near them. Scanners undoubtedly stick to high-traffic locations.
While I've no doubt that these plate-trollers patrol poorer neighborhoods more than wealthy (garaged) ones. Parking structures are undoubtedly gold mines, as are the interstates, especially if approached exit-by-exit, rather than blanket, but that is for the plate scanners to decide. At a guess, their patrolling (Google-maps-like car) is planned, coordinated, and repeated at regular intervals.
In cities, high-end cars go from garage-to-garage, never being parked on a public street. I hear that some people don't bother to register their expensive cars for this reason. Now that the undetectability no longer holds, as they can be caught driving, that will slowly end. At least there's that.
Which would indicate every plate scanned ends up in a database. Regardless whether it's on some "wanted" list. And that data is passed on, used for purposes other than what it was gathered for.
That seems like an enormous invasion of privacy.
Yes, it is a terrible invasion of privacy. But it is performed by private companies; you can do it, too (I inquired). Or go through a PI to get access to the database---info is not sold to us plebs).
The problem in the US with this is that it is an industry that arose suddenly (started data-aggregating suddenly). Them selling to law enforcement is bad enough. Law enforcement then relying upon unverified data, that was obtained through a short-circuit of the 4th amendment, bought from a private, 3rd-party's database does not sit right.
It fulfills, TODAY, one of the functions off the infamous Panopticon – in this case turned on all people with cars in the US. It's tagging and tracking.
It enables law-enforcement engaging in citizen spying while doing an end-run around constitutional protections. The cheap collection of granular data on a person's (car's) where-a bouts over spans of time, acquired retroactively, without the need for suspicion of any crime; past or present; nor to get a warrant for the info.
FTA & 4th Amendment (USA): ""The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, ..."
Look for the Supreme Court to take this up in 5-10 years. Closer to 10––they just recently realized that photos can potentially be Photoshopped before introduction into Exhibits, and put some controls in place. Let them get caught up with audio and video being entirely fake-able first. Then they might get around to this topic.
IANAL. Any lawyer please chime in if we do indeed have a reasonable expectation of privacy against recording our license plates (public vehicle tags) on a continual basis. Warrant lets cops to do it; openly legal for private organizations to do it;. It is questionable whether the use of the 'continual-monitoring' private databases accessed by cops – when done without a warrrant or probable cause – is a breach of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. Given the article, I'd hazard a guess that this has not yet been ironed out fully in case law.
The homeless in Venice/Santa Monica/Brentwood tend to have cell phones.
I've seen plenty with them. They'll even ask you for money while they are on their damned phones! That is, the homeless think as little of you as you do of them.
Since these are often left on the street randomly, how are these different from other litter?
According to LA County Law, as unsecured property on Public Property are considered "Abandoned Property". That is: Litter. Litter can be safely removed (although I wouldn't go around stealing scooters).
People park them across doorways or just randomly in the street or usually the sidewalk – right in the way of foot traffic. Oh, and on Private Property. Finders Keepers.
Bird's business model relies upon "Private Taking of a Public Good" on a massive scale.
So MS should just fork it, and not destroy what used to have a reasonable interface for single users.
. . . Oh. I just looked. They already did.
As soon as pumping/dumping stops working for the Chinese they'll just cash in and retire (if they've got any sense). That moment will be the end of Bitcoin.
The end of Bitcoin would be brought about by the cost to verify a transaction came to exceed transactions.