I really think it's about that close too. What surprises me is that there isn't more movement to eliminating the pilot in commercial aircraft. It's to the point that the biggest threat to passenger safety is the pilot. We've seen at least two major catastrophes that were basically suicidal actions and that's leaving out the 9/11 attacks. Then there are the ones that are overtired or over medicated or intoxicated. I have the illusion of safety when in an automobile because I have control. If I die it's my fault and somehow I'm okay with that. When on a plane my life is in the hands of a total stranger. I'd feel just as comfortable if it was a computer system.
I'd think it'd be nice to know what companies and models it pertains to. A lot of people trust their phones for things like banking. I don't but I'm a little paranoid about money.
So true. It took me over two decades to figure it out. I had a breakdown and was basically out of it for 6 months and I finally learned to let things go. I still occasionally get a burst of rage but now I know what it is and kind of reset myself before it gets bad.
You sound unhinged. His control is very limited. This is why we have 3 branches of government you know, there's no such thing as a dictator. You sound as crazy as the far right nuts that ranted that Obama was going to declare the election void and stay in office. Or the far left nut jobs begging him to do just that. Why don't you go see a doctor and get some Xanax? Chill out.
No technology is perfect and no doubt people will still die in crashes but I think that overall the death total should drop over time as self drivers become the norm. When you consider around one third of highway deaths are alcohol related and then factor in things like cell phone usage and such you can see where autonomous vehicles should have an advantage. The problem is you can have drunks kill 10,000 people and the outcry from a few deaths due to sensor glitches in autonomous cars will drown that all out. They should be extremely sensitive to casualties as they start out. Take very few chances.
Most? I think it's not most are terrible. Some are terrible, some are bad, some are so-so, some are pretty fair, some are good and some are excellent. Having a self driving car suddenly lose it's capability to judge where the center of the road is would be equivalent to a stone drunk human for example. As long as it happens less often then you get a wasted driver on a per mile basis I'd guess it's safer. Still, we're talking about a "testing" program here. If I'm a company that wants to develop and build self-driving cars I'd be a little cautious about bad press from an accident involving a car with no operator. One single death due to a bad autonomous mistake will over reach the nearly 10K dead in 2014 from drunk drivers.
Self check-out. That's a new thing I hate too. I take a buggy full of crap up to the checkout at wally world. It's already one of my least favorite places. I get in line behind 8 other people at one of the two open checkouts.....out of 16 in the damn store. A lady comes by and tells me they have the self serve checkouts. I'm not a fan of providing the store with free labor but given the situation I decide I just want to get the fuck out of there quickly. I go over and start scanning my stuff and putting it in bags. The machine doesn't like scanning some of the stuff. Another nice lady comes over and tries to help me and the fucking machine hates her too. I was annoyed to start with but I start to enjoy it when she gets pissed off too. We finally move all my crap to another of the scanners. Amazingly this one works like a champ, all my crap scans fine and I get the total. Then the little box you stuff the money in doesn't want to work. I'm laughing my ass off now. I have a pretty weird sense of humor. They finally take me over to a real register and the manager runs my stuff through again. I don't know why really, and I leave. I think that was the most enjoyable trip to wally world ever.
You know, I can see the argument for climate change. I think moving to other renewabels such as wind and solar are great ideas and I'm all for it. I disagree with some of Trump's agenda but given that every university in the world seems to be researching climate change maybe we don't need quite that much money thrown at it by multiple government agencies. Regardless, the constant harping on impeaching Trump is way old already. As with all presidential candidates he has baggage and is imperfect. Feel free to hate him but I don't want or need your fucking forgiveness, feel free to kiss my ass.
I know, it's a sign of old age when you expect service with a smile when you give people money. Nowadays it's "please sir, if I give you some money will you let me eat in your establishment. I promise to grovel and kiss your feet if you'll just favor me by letting me give you money in return for being treated like shit." I think I like it better my way but to each his own.
Olive Garden isn't McDonald's. Although even there I expect a certain level of service. Considering the cuisine at McDonald's if I have to punch buttons on a Kiosk to get my food I'll just go home and have a Marie Callender's TV dinner. Without the service what is it really? Just some marginal food in a paper bag or on a plastic tray. Maybe this will wake the public up to they fact they're paying for garbage. I see a silver lining here.
I used to go to the Olive Garden occasionally when my wife forced me to. They started putting that shit on my table and I always took it off and put it on an empty table. After about my 4th visit the manager told me I had to leave it on the table. I got up and walked out and haven't been back. They can suck my dick. I'm a customer, not a fucking consumer. People that treat me like a consumer don't get my business. This modern thing of letting companies and restaurants and other businesses treat you like something to be sheared for maximum profit is anathema to me. When I sit at the table with a machine that takes up almost an entire place setting there that is inconvenient and an annoyance. It's like they make it so you can't possibly avoid it and that is unacceptable. You might like it and if so good for you. I assure you however that they'll lose at least a quarter of their business to people like me that want to be treated like a customer.
Really? There is some serious competition in the battery sales world. The desire for range on electric cars alone should be enough to get one built. If the existing companies wont build it someone will. That's too big an improvement to ignore.
There was a cop in Atlanta I think that made a point of getting people stopped at lights or stop signs that were texting. He got droves of them. Most people believe it's only while you're moving but that's not the case. If I have to use my phone I've gotten to where I just pull over in a parking lot or something. I had a case where I was trying to unlock it so I could call and I ran right through a red light. Thank God no one was in the intersection. That cured me. My arrogance in thinking I was superior could have been a disaster.
I started my married life in 1980 with a 12" black and white TV which got little use. A few years later I got a 19" color set and when my kids were toddlers I got rid of that and got a 27" model. When the kids were in middle school that died and I got a 32" model. My kids howled about TVs for their rooms and I told them if they got straight A report cards they could have one. Never happened. Finally my kids left home and now I have 2 TVs. I don't know why, we almost never watch the one in the bedroom. My grandkids come over now and monopolize the living room TV but, since they're grandkids I don't mind. I never really felt like I needed more than one TV. I can only watch one at a time and I would never let my kids watch TV where I couldn't see what they were watching.
It depends on the environment. In a place with very few women the likelihood of ugly women getting hit on rises exponentially. Everything is relative. Beauty is after all, in the eye of the beholder. Typically there are always going to be some creepy bosses that think for some reason they have a right to expect favors from women that work for them. These guys should be removed for the good of everyone including the company. I really do not understand why a company is willing to expose themselves to the expense of litigation and the humiliation of being publicly outed as a misogynistic organization. All to allow some perv to grope and harass his employees.
Only recording a conversation you are not party to is illegal. If someone is trying to coerce you a recording is exactly what you need to do. It's trivial now to wire yourself for sound. I think it's wrong to take one persons word to destroy someone's career. If there is actual evidence I think the fucker should be blacklisted so he never manages anyone again.
I wonder if they still teach the map course to infantry. They should since in a real war the satellites will be one of the first things to go. No more GPS.
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I really think it's about that close too. What surprises me is that there isn't more movement to eliminating the pilot in commercial aircraft. It's to the point that the biggest threat to passenger safety is the pilot. We've seen at least two major catastrophes that were basically suicidal actions and that's leaving out the 9/11 attacks. Then there are the ones that are overtired or over medicated or intoxicated. I have the illusion of safety when in an automobile because I have control. If I die it's my fault and somehow I'm okay with that. When on a plane my life is in the hands of a total stranger. I'd feel just as comfortable if it was a computer system.
Never mind, I should have read the damn article. Headline is a little misleading.
I'd think it'd be nice to know what companies and models it pertains to. A lot of people trust their phones for things like banking. I don't but I'm a little paranoid about money.
So true. It took me over two decades to figure it out. I had a breakdown and was basically out of it for 6 months and I finally learned to let things go. I still occasionally get a burst of rage but now I know what it is and kind of reset myself before it gets bad.
My favorite is "I hope your asshole grows shut."
You sound unhinged. His control is very limited. This is why we have 3 branches of government you know, there's no such thing as a dictator. You sound as crazy as the far right nuts that ranted that Obama was going to declare the election void and stay in office. Or the far left nut jobs begging him to do just that. Why don't you go see a doctor and get some Xanax? Chill out.
No technology is perfect and no doubt people will still die in crashes but I think that overall the death total should drop over time as self drivers become the norm. When you consider around one third of highway deaths are alcohol related and then factor in things like cell phone usage and such you can see where autonomous vehicles should have an advantage. The problem is you can have drunks kill 10,000 people and the outcry from a few deaths due to sensor glitches in autonomous cars will drown that all out. They should be extremely sensitive to casualties as they start out. Take very few chances.
Most? I think it's not most are terrible. Some are terrible, some are bad, some are so-so, some are pretty fair, some are good and some are excellent. Having a self driving car suddenly lose it's capability to judge where the center of the road is would be equivalent to a stone drunk human for example. As long as it happens less often then you get a wasted driver on a per mile basis I'd guess it's safer. Still, we're talking about a "testing" program here. If I'm a company that wants to develop and build self-driving cars I'd be a little cautious about bad press from an accident involving a car with no operator. One single death due to a bad autonomous mistake will over reach the nearly 10K dead in 2014 from drunk drivers.
I can see a potential there. I walk in, pick up what I want and walk out. No phone, no credit card, equals free stuff. Technology is wonderful.
Self check-out. That's a new thing I hate too. I take a buggy full of crap up to the checkout at wally world. It's already one of my least favorite places. I get in line behind 8 other people at one of the two open checkouts.....out of 16 in the damn store. A lady comes by and tells me they have the self serve checkouts. I'm not a fan of providing the store with free labor but given the situation I decide I just want to get the fuck out of there quickly. I go over and start scanning my stuff and putting it in bags. The machine doesn't like scanning some of the stuff. Another nice lady comes over and tries to help me and the fucking machine hates her too. I was annoyed to start with but I start to enjoy it when she gets pissed off too. We finally move all my crap to another of the scanners. Amazingly this one works like a champ, all my crap scans fine and I get the total. Then the little box you stuff the money in doesn't want to work. I'm laughing my ass off now. I have a pretty weird sense of humor. They finally take me over to a real register and the manager runs my stuff through again. I don't know why really, and I leave. I think that was the most enjoyable trip to wally world ever.
you evidently didn't read it.
You know, I can see the argument for climate change. I think moving to other renewabels such as wind and solar are great ideas and I'm all for it. I disagree with some of Trump's agenda but given that every university in the world seems to be researching climate change maybe we don't need quite that much money thrown at it by multiple government agencies. Regardless, the constant harping on impeaching Trump is way old already. As with all presidential candidates he has baggage and is imperfect. Feel free to hate him but I don't want or need your fucking forgiveness, feel free to kiss my ass.
I know, it's a sign of old age when you expect service with a smile when you give people money. Nowadays it's "please sir, if I give you some money will you let me eat in your establishment. I promise to grovel and kiss your feet if you'll just favor me by letting me give you money in return for being treated like shit." I think I like it better my way but to each his own.
Olive Garden isn't McDonald's. Although even there I expect a certain level of service. Considering the cuisine at McDonald's if I have to punch buttons on a Kiosk to get my food I'll just go home and have a Marie Callender's TV dinner. Without the service what is it really? Just some marginal food in a paper bag or on a plastic tray. Maybe this will wake the public up to they fact they're paying for garbage. I see a silver lining here.
I used to go to the Olive Garden occasionally when my wife forced me to. They started putting that shit on my table and I always took it off and put it on an empty table. After about my 4th visit the manager told me I had to leave it on the table. I got up and walked out and haven't been back. They can suck my dick. I'm a customer, not a fucking consumer. People that treat me like a consumer don't get my business. This modern thing of letting companies and restaurants and other businesses treat you like something to be sheared for maximum profit is anathema to me. When I sit at the table with a machine that takes up almost an entire place setting there that is inconvenient and an annoyance. It's like they make it so you can't possibly avoid it and that is unacceptable. You might like it and if so good for you. I assure you however that they'll lose at least a quarter of their business to people like me that want to be treated like a customer.
Really? There is some serious competition in the battery sales world. The desire for range on electric cars alone should be enough to get one built. If the existing companies wont build it someone will. That's too big an improvement to ignore.
Just build new ones.
He just isn't quite Goodenough.
Actually texting on a phone should be considered reckless driving. No need for a new law, that's a broad brush.
There was a cop in Atlanta I think that made a point of getting people stopped at lights or stop signs that were texting. He got droves of them. Most people believe it's only while you're moving but that's not the case. If I have to use my phone I've gotten to where I just pull over in a parking lot or something. I had a case where I was trying to unlock it so I could call and I ran right through a red light. Thank God no one was in the intersection. That cured me. My arrogance in thinking I was superior could have been a disaster.
I started my married life in 1980 with a 12" black and white TV which got little use. A few years later I got a 19" color set and when my kids were toddlers I got rid of that and got a 27" model. When the kids were in middle school that died and I got a 32" model. My kids howled about TVs for their rooms and I told them if they got straight A report cards they could have one. Never happened. Finally my kids left home and now I have 2 TVs. I don't know why, we almost never watch the one in the bedroom. My grandkids come over now and monopolize the living room TV but, since they're grandkids I don't mind. I never really felt like I needed more than one TV. I can only watch one at a time and I would never let my kids watch TV where I couldn't see what they were watching.
It depends on the environment. In a place with very few women the likelihood of ugly women getting hit on rises exponentially. Everything is relative. Beauty is after all, in the eye of the beholder. Typically there are always going to be some creepy bosses that think for some reason they have a right to expect favors from women that work for them. These guys should be removed for the good of everyone including the company. I really do not understand why a company is willing to expose themselves to the expense of litigation and the humiliation of being publicly outed as a misogynistic organization. All to allow some perv to grope and harass his employees.
Only recording a conversation you are not party to is illegal. If someone is trying to coerce you a recording is exactly what you need to do. It's trivial now to wire yourself for sound. I think it's wrong to take one persons word to destroy someone's career. If there is actual evidence I think the fucker should be blacklisted so he never manages anyone again.
The number one rule is don't shit where you eat. Even a dog doesn't shit where it eats.
I wonder if they still teach the map course to infantry. They should since in a real war the satellites will be one of the first things to go. No more GPS.