I watch HGTV some times with my wife and they show a lot of Real Estate stuff about California. I about died when I saw a house there that might cost 120K here selling for over a million dollars. And it had next to no yard. My pool wouldn't fit on that lot.
There's internet in the sticks. It's almost everywhere. I've got 50MB here and no, I don't live on minimum wage. I'm retired, own my home and have between my wife and me a retirement income of about 3K a month. Cars are cheap enough unless you have to have a new one. I've got a 2001 and a 1998 Grand Marquis and both run well. A lot of middle America is like this, easy to make it on a decent middle class income. No adults I know works minimum wage. It's easy enough to make it on 30K or more. It's not only better than Somalia it's pretty damn good.
Given that he's on the board I take this as a sign that if you have a lot of Apple stock it might be time to start selling it off. People like Al get the word way ahead of everyone else.
I notice that many people range from inattentive to reckless. Today I went through a school zone during pick-up time and was driving about 30-35 in a 30 zone, and got my doors blown off by a Yukon that did a quick lane change immediately after passing me due to another "slow" car observing the speed limit. Yes, I know most drivers aren't reckless idiots and it just seems that way but enough are that I believe computer control would reduce accidents and especially severity of those accidents.
That's deaths per mile not accidents. I remember how people used to die in minor accidents when I was a child. Even a 35mph accident was serious when cars had metal dashes and no seat belts. The hood on cars in the 50s were made of heavy steel and would not bend. In a front end collision it would often break loose and come straight back decapitating the people in the front seat. Now they crumple. In the last few decades it's gotten to the point where most accidents don't even require first aid. Cars are vastly safer. Deaths per mile is down due to that more than anything. Tires are safer, airbags, handling is much better. Most deaths happen at speed now, often excessive. One thing autonomous cars shouldn't be doing is speeding. Accidents per mile is much higher than deaths per mile.
The thing is, I doubt it'll ever be 100% safe. There is always a chance of some kind of glitch or bug. If the goal is 100% we can hang it up now. But if you consider how dangerous letting people drive I think I'd be happy with 80%. I see people tweeting and texting all over the place and that's not even talking about people yapping on the phone, eating or reading a damn magazine! Then there are the people that just can't drive. They lack coordination or something. I think 80 percent is better than human. In 2015 over 35,000 people died in auto accidents and that's doesn't include those that are maimed, some never to walk again. I think autonomous vehicles could bring that number way down.
I had a friend that bragged about driving drunk. He did it all the time and he got away with it for years. He dodged the cops, payed them off a couple of times. Then he got in a bad accident and people nearly died. He was driving the wrong way on a 4 lane highway. I'm 57 now and I've known a lot of functional drunks. They all got progressively worse over the years as they aged. One went to work every day and drank himself to sleep every night for years. He occasionally took a week off and when he came back he was so screwed for a couple of days. Then he retired and died 18 months later. No reason to stop drinking since he wasn't working. Sure, people drive drunk all the time and it's not a problem, until it is.
This is very true and also technology makes being poor much more tolerable. Unless you live in an area with a high cost of living it's very inexpensive to have a place to live with many creature comforts. Food is fairly inexpensive, you typically see all kinds of poor people who suffer from obesity. Not so much in places like Somalia. For around 50 grand I can buy a decent double-wide on 2 acres of land with Central A/C Heat Pump, Dishwasher, Double-Door Fridge with Icemaker and water/ice in the door. 2,000 square feet of redneck heaven. Maybe 240 dollars a month. It's out in the sticks but so what, they've got fiber-optics with DSL for internet even out there and put a Dish on the roof and you've got more TV than you can watch. Life in the USA is good. I could afford it on minimum wage and most grown people here have no trouble getting a job in the 14 bucks an hour range. Two people working can live damn good. Better than nobility did 200 years ago.
I've seen government pour money into social programs and such with little if any impact over and over again. It sounds great, everyone likes the idea and then it's like, WTF? The space program in the 60s was terribly expensive but it ended up benefiting everyone in some way by pushing technology and expanding infrastructure. Building something like that has all kinds of benefits that filter around through society. We can dump that money into hospitals and a few years later all we'll have is more sick people. Lets make something.
Have a landing pad on the roof for it. I had a computer stolen by a driver a few years ago. I contacted the company and they didn't seem worried about it. I sent it to my sister and she heard the truck roll up. By the time she got to the door the truck was rolling away and the box was on the porch, empty. I told the woman at the UPS this and she said things got taken in transit a lot of times it might not have been the driver but she seemed stumped when I asked her why he put an open, empty, box on the porch.
Robots should be part of it for the dangerous work but we need to send people too. What's life without risk? There's no shortage of volunteers willing to risk all for the opportunity. I'd like to see a serious effort to build a serious ship designed for system exploration that would hold at least a dozen people and sustain them for 10 years. To go to Mars and other places and orbit there and conduct experiments and explore. It's crazy that we put people on the moon over 4 decades ago and haven't done shit since. It's like we got there, looked around and said okay, that's it! Then went back home to stay.
Idiot. He isn't dividing anything. He's taking advantage of the divide that was here. The vast majority of middle America has been seething for decades in resentment. He just tapped into it. They didn't have a leader as the Republican Cucks in DC are just as much whores as the Democrats. Now Trump volunteered to lead them. Is he full of shit? Most likely. Is he the only person to address their anger? Yes. I'm just enjoying watching him shake up the bullshit up there. The fucking press who are bigger whores than Congress and all the establishment whores like McCain. It's been a hoot.
Digital has solved this for the future. Once you have music in digital format it's yours for perpetuity. I don't mind buying music from a new artist but I do have a problem with the extended range of copyright. It's messing the system up too. I often see stories where someone is sued because a couple of lines uses the same lick from another song 40 years ago. That's fucking crazy. How do you write music when you have to check millions of songs over decades to make sure you haven't accidentally gotten a few lines of music that's been done before?
My favorite. It warped my upbringing as a child. I fondly remember Sir Rodney yelling "Halt, or I'll shoot!" then the twang of the bow and his squire saying "Lucky for you he halted or you would have missed." Such a fun read on Sunday morning.
I had a 1084S but it was stolen. The bad thing is the bastards that stole it didn't even know what it was most likely. Probably threw it away when it wouldn't work with their PC. It worked with both my C64 and Amiga. I wanted to use my 64 the other day to look for something on a disk and I have no monitor.
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I don't envy them that.
I watch HGTV some times with my wife and they show a lot of Real Estate stuff about California. I about died when I saw a house there that might cost 120K here selling for over a million dollars. And it had next to no yard. My pool wouldn't fit on that lot.
Panels are the cheapest part of a Solar setup. The controllers and other electronics are pricey and then the damn batteries!
How about electrical storage? Batteries are the most expensive part of being off grid. My annual power bill runs about 2.4K
There's internet in the sticks. It's almost everywhere. I've got 50MB here and no, I don't live on minimum wage. I'm retired, own my home and have between my wife and me a retirement income of about 3K a month. Cars are cheap enough unless you have to have a new one. I've got a 2001 and a 1998 Grand Marquis and both run well. A lot of middle America is like this, easy to make it on a decent middle class income. No adults I know works minimum wage. It's easy enough to make it on 30K or more. It's not only better than Somalia it's pretty damn good.
Given that he's on the board I take this as a sign that if you have a lot of Apple stock it might be time to start selling it off. People like Al get the word way ahead of everyone else.
One thing for sure, the computers are getting better and the humans are at best about the same as always.
I notice that many people range from inattentive to reckless. Today I went through a school zone during pick-up time and was driving about 30-35 in a 30 zone, and got my doors blown off by a Yukon that did a quick lane change immediately after passing me due to another "slow" car observing the speed limit. Yes, I know most drivers aren't reckless idiots and it just seems that way but enough are that I believe computer control would reduce accidents and especially severity of those accidents.
That's deaths per mile not accidents. I remember how people used to die in minor accidents when I was a child. Even a 35mph accident was serious when cars had metal dashes and no seat belts. The hood on cars in the 50s were made of heavy steel and would not bend. In a front end collision it would often break loose and come straight back decapitating the people in the front seat. Now they crumple. In the last few decades it's gotten to the point where most accidents don't even require first aid. Cars are vastly safer. Deaths per mile is down due to that more than anything. Tires are safer, airbags, handling is much better. Most deaths happen at speed now, often excessive. One thing autonomous cars shouldn't be doing is speeding. Accidents per mile is much higher than deaths per mile.
I drive in a car on roads with people that aren't that safe. I'd rather a computer was driving those cars.
The thing is, I doubt it'll ever be 100% safe. There is always a chance of some kind of glitch or bug. If the goal is 100% we can hang it up now. But if you consider how dangerous letting people drive I think I'd be happy with 80%. I see people tweeting and texting all over the place and that's not even talking about people yapping on the phone, eating or reading a damn magazine! Then there are the people that just can't drive. They lack coordination or something. I think 80 percent is better than human. In 2015 over 35,000 people died in auto accidents and that's doesn't include those that are maimed, some never to walk again. I think autonomous vehicles could bring that number way down.
It's not a problem offroad. On public streets I imagine the law might frown on it.
I had a friend that bragged about driving drunk. He did it all the time and he got away with it for years. He dodged the cops, payed them off a couple of times. Then he got in a bad accident and people nearly died. He was driving the wrong way on a 4 lane highway. I'm 57 now and I've known a lot of functional drunks. They all got progressively worse over the years as they aged. One went to work every day and drank himself to sleep every night for years. He occasionally took a week off and when he came back he was so screwed for a couple of days. Then he retired and died 18 months later. No reason to stop drinking since he wasn't working. Sure, people drive drunk all the time and it's not a problem, until it is.
We could call it Bastille Day.
Rich people used to build things. Now they scavage. They take all the things that greater men built and tear them apart for profit.
This is very true and also technology makes being poor much more tolerable. Unless you live in an area with a high cost of living it's very inexpensive to have a place to live with many creature comforts. Food is fairly inexpensive, you typically see all kinds of poor people who suffer from obesity. Not so much in places like Somalia. For around 50 grand I can buy a decent double-wide on 2 acres of land with Central A/C Heat Pump, Dishwasher, Double-Door Fridge with Icemaker and water/ice in the door. 2,000 square feet of redneck heaven. Maybe 240 dollars a month. It's out in the sticks but so what, they've got fiber-optics with DSL for internet even out there and put a Dish on the roof and you've got more TV than you can watch. Life in the USA is good. I could afford it on minimum wage and most grown people here have no trouble getting a job in the 14 bucks an hour range. Two people working can live damn good. Better than nobility did 200 years ago.
I actually found a TV with composite hookups. It's a 14" model and should be perfect. It has S video also. I thought they were all thrown out.
I've seen government pour money into social programs and such with little if any impact over and over again. It sounds great, everyone likes the idea and then it's like, WTF? The space program in the 60s was terribly expensive but it ended up benefiting everyone in some way by pushing technology and expanding infrastructure. Building something like that has all kinds of benefits that filter around through society. We can dump that money into hospitals and a few years later all we'll have is more sick people. Lets make something.
A perfect example.
Have a landing pad on the roof for it. I had a computer stolen by a driver a few years ago. I contacted the company and they didn't seem worried about it. I sent it to my sister and she heard the truck roll up. By the time she got to the door the truck was rolling away and the box was on the porch, empty. I told the woman at the UPS this and she said things got taken in transit a lot of times it might not have been the driver but she seemed stumped when I asked her why he put an open, empty, box on the porch.
Robots should be part of it for the dangerous work but we need to send people too. What's life without risk? There's no shortage of volunteers willing to risk all for the opportunity. I'd like to see a serious effort to build a serious ship designed for system exploration that would hold at least a dozen people and sustain them for 10 years. To go to Mars and other places and orbit there and conduct experiments and explore. It's crazy that we put people on the moon over 4 decades ago and haven't done shit since. It's like we got there, looked around and said okay, that's it! Then went back home to stay.
Idiot. He isn't dividing anything. He's taking advantage of the divide that was here. The vast majority of middle America has been seething for decades in resentment. He just tapped into it. They didn't have a leader as the Republican Cucks in DC are just as much whores as the Democrats. Now Trump volunteered to lead them. Is he full of shit? Most likely. Is he the only person to address their anger? Yes. I'm just enjoying watching him shake up the bullshit up there. The fucking press who are bigger whores than Congress and all the establishment whores like McCain. It's been a hoot.
Digital has solved this for the future. Once you have music in digital format it's yours for perpetuity. I don't mind buying music from a new artist but I do have a problem with the extended range of copyright. It's messing the system up too. I often see stories where someone is sued because a couple of lines uses the same lick from another song 40 years ago. That's fucking crazy. How do you write music when you have to check millions of songs over decades to make sure you haven't accidentally gotten a few lines of music that's been done before?
My favorite. It warped my upbringing as a child. I fondly remember Sir Rodney yelling "Halt, or I'll shoot!" then the twang of the bow and his squire saying "Lucky for you he halted or you would have missed." Such a fun read on Sunday morning.
I had a 1084S but it was stolen. The bad thing is the bastards that stole it didn't even know what it was most likely. Probably threw it away when it wouldn't work with their PC. It worked with both my C64 and Amiga. I wanted to use my 64 the other day to look for something on a disk and I have no monitor.