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  1. All they have to do is use a scratch system or recover from backup.

  2. At least change the name!

  3. Re: Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So if tracking is on, you are measured as low risk. If it is off you are high risk and have to pay more. Easy peasy!

  4. Re:Maybe the Amiricans won't mind on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. Once we get driverless cars etc. a EULA can easily become part of a car buying process. Which could involve things such as turning off tracking violating warranties. Or you pay an extra 15K use to get the "extended" warranty.

  5. You've won a brand new car! on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Free! Just sign this agreement allowing all your information to be harvested and sold.

  6. Re: Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not. If your car insurance company says you have to have tracking turned on or they will not take your business. There is nothing illegal about that.

  7. Re:Maybe the Amiricans won't mind on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or even better, ads in your social media feeds. Drive past chain restaurants. Lo and Behold! Coupons appear in you social media feeds!

  8. Re:Maybe the Amiricans won't mind on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not without violating a warranty or EULA.

  9. Re:Biased to white collar middle class on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Everything I know about it is from "Trainspotting"

  10. Biased to white collar middle class on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I guess in Britain the distinction is "O" level vs. "A" level. I would think "O" level would have a harder time applying for grants. They are not as socialized into the paper chase as much as "A" levels. Anyone with a few years of college would have a distinct advantage. Unless some of the educated classes were hired to to coach the others. Which would create jobs for them.

  11. A house is *not* an investment. It is affordable long term rent control. As time goes on the payments become a smaller percentage of income (you hope). If you are constantly playing monopoly, taking 2nd mortgages and HELOCS you *will* get screwed when the next bubble bursts.

    Anyone who tries to tell you a house is an investment is nothing more than a carnival barker trying to sucker in another mark.

  12. Oh boohoo. I'm not that young either and I do all of that. Your just too lazy to get entitled miserable ass into shape and buck up. You should see some of the college women I've met on the bus. They don't need a Mustang, just someone who knows how to talk to them.

  13. A major reason is due to air pollution, aka taking care of your citizens health. Also known as not permitting car companies to externalize costs, i.e. having some one else cover the cost of people sickened by your product.

  14. Re: Eliminate the commute? on Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How are you measuring productivity. I want metrics.

  15. You are confounding a homelessness problem with a transportation problem.

  16. Re:I'm not in Germany but... on Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Time in a car is dead time. On the bus I can read, write, take an online course, review my work email, etc. Commuting is much more efficient and a walk from a station to work serves as daily exercise. Oh, and it's cheaper if you look at it in costs per mile. Also safer.

  17. Re:I'm not in Germany but... on Germany Considers Free Public Transport in Fight To Banish Air Pollution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds like my truck!

    But being serious, all of that can be fixed by proper funding.

  18. Re:In other words... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Government debt == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    National debt == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    and budget surplus is exactly that. spending less than your receipts. There was a budget surplus in the 90's. Then it disappeared into tax cuts for the rich in a time of war. I don't understand how you cannot think something is wrong with that.

  19. Sounds like MBA BS on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Having worked for MBAs you can't fool me...

  20. Re:In other words... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Very disingenuous. National debt != government debt != budget deficits. Talking about a budget surplus does not equate.

    I see what you did here.....

  21. Re:In other words... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Ike ruthlessly capped military spending. He knew how the scumbags operated.

  22. "But as long as the same company can't purchase both airports, "

    Hahahahahahahahaha that's a good one. In every industry there has been consolidation to provide more efficienies (they never say for who. Prices will rise, services will suffer, quality will drop, and security will become an after thought. Because *that* is how the private sector thinks.

  23. Ummm... the entire point of airports is to service people from long distances.

  24. versus what they will do. Anyone can say they prefer A over B. But when the time comes will they really choose A. There are many companies out there that have been burned when market research said one thing, but what the customer did was something else. I guess what it comes down to is marketing and advertising. A fear campaign would work. Maybe.

  25. Re:The lone ranger on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I only saw the successful ones then. But in general the team player seems to e more common in my experience.