The only person I knew with a car that old, took it out about twice a year, for parades. He rebuilt the engine every 5 years or so. When you count it, it wasn't too far off one engine rebuild every 10 miles. And I've heard people complain about changing spark plugs at 50,000 miles. My father was the same, remembering his first car he had for years, which was rebuilt many times.
For this old guy it was his regular car, he drove it every day. Not sure about engine rebuilds.
I prefer a horse. It trains you to treat your vehicle with respect.
And the old vehicles weren't "dependable" they were just treated with more care because they were so much more delicate. And were more likely to fail slow, though more often (running rough for a long time before finally failing).
I knew a guy who had a model T ford. It was his first car, from when he was a teenager. It still went well, had amazing torque.
The mass penalty / structural workarounds, and the low incentive (given how few fatal crashes there are with air travel) will see this being pushed to the "amusing thought" pile and no real further. Much like massive parachutes from a long time ago ( some people use them on their smaller planes though ).
But terrorists!!!
If one pod gets hijacked you just drop it and carry on.
If you want to play in the Apple walled garden, you have to play according to the rules. Pissing and moaning outside the walled garden doesn't get you preferential treatment.
Netflix doesn't get preferential treatment? Wait, does the Netflix app in the Apple store give Apple a cut of the subscription?
If you actually read you would have your answers. Apple stated why they weren't allowed to continue operating. Basically Spotify was trying to circumvent the App Store.
Aside from any hate for the NRA, I see no issue with this. Some people pulled a stunt giving off the false impression that they represented the NRA and Smith & Wesson.* The NRA requested a takedown, Surge complied with the takedown but screwed the pooch and brought down 38,000 sites instead of just the target.
They probably weren't confident enough in their litigation insurance so they panicked and shut everything down.
My wife has taken over the laptop, and she messages me a lot from the laptop. She'll be on some webpage and then send texts and things from a full keyboard.
If i have a phone, i have SMS. If I have a phone, i may or may not have Skype. If I actually had an MS Phone, this becomes a non-feature for me, and I'm pissed that MS decides to play these games.
If I have a phone I most definitely don't have Skype installed on it; I found it impossible to turn Skype off on my phone. Even if I sign out from it, when a Skype message arrives somehow Skype on the phone turns itself on again. Very very annoying and the only way I found to fix it is to remove Skype from the phone completely.
The Maori are PROUD of the fact they killed and ate all the previous owners of New Zealand. They were perfectly capable of genocide with limited hand weapons.
What you describe sounds more like 'political' limits involved with fighting relatives. Unless you can wipe them out really fast, they will influence common relations and gain time to recover.
Not talking about previous owners; other Maori tribes.
That's often the case, but not always. You're driving on a highway with no shoulder and one lane for each direction of traffic. The is an oncoming semi and you are right at the start of a narrow underpass. Now a group of pedestrians walks out from behind a support beam and in front of your car. Hit the support beam or hit the pedestrians or hit the semi. Lose, lose, lose.
Were the 3 "lose's" for the 3 pedestrians? Because they had no business being there and therefore they can die.
Plenty of obese neckbeards to throw. It's not like anybody will ever miss them.
Irrelevant to the question of whether it actually works. Which it doesn't.
Yeah I'm still not convinced. This really should have been the topic of a Mythbusters episode. I need to be convinced with some explosions, preferably with lots of fat person body-parts flying around.
Because when we automate war and remove the risk of losses on our side, it becomes too easy to just throw more robots into a situation.
The whole point of war is to make killing easy. If we didn't want that, we'd be fighting our strife for superiority on the soccer field.
The Maori of New Zealand had been fighting each other for a long time when the colonists showed up. They'd been trying very very hard to kill one another with no missile weapons whatsoever. No throwing spears (the taiaha wasn't thrown and its 'pointy' end wasn't actually the business end), no bows. The only weapons they used were close-quarters hand to hand.
When the colonists showed up and introduced muskets there was genocide among the Maori, tribes who got the muskets first would totally exterminate other tribes (which is what they'd wanted to do for ages, it was just too difficult to actually achieve the goal of total annihilation).
Thats what happens when fighting goes from hard to easy.
When your warfare involves having to literally run up to someone and whack them with a blunt object until they are dead you have to get your guys really really motivated and really really angry with the enemy, they have to really want to kill very very badly. Suddenly give them guns and that raw enthusiasm for killing now has an amazingly simple point-click outlet and you can expect them to get a bit, er, carried away.
The industrialization of warfare in Europe was similar and look where that went. Oh and when the Ottoman Turks saw how easy the Europeans had made warfare they felt the need to upgrade their military and that ultimately led to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire (because they needed to educate their soldiery to make them more effective at industrialized warfare, more education led to more dissatisfaction, which led to revolution).
When was the last time you saw a Greek Phalanx used in a battle?
A Greek Phalanx would be fucking awesome for crowd control though. Especially if you don't care about the casualties among the protesters/demonstrators.
It was only a matter of time, computers are able to keep complete situational awareness while analyzing what the target is doing. The only question is how long until we can trust them to work totally autonomously. THAT probably won't come for a while.
Um, yeah totally unsurprising that a raspberry pi 2 is capable of this level of realtime AI...
The most interesting thing about LOTR is the dialogs. If LOTR is just a dumbed down action movie for you then I just can feel sorry for you.
Well I did read the books. Once. The dialog was boring as hell in them as well. Or is page after page of the word 'ere' being used several times per sentence and genealogy the point of the story?
The action was the only good thing about those movies, they were grossly padded out. The trilogy would have made a decent 90 minute movie.
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Why can Facebook decide to pull a video but a baker can't decide not to bake a cake?
A baker can't decide not to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
The only person I knew with a car that old, took it out about twice a year, for parades. He rebuilt the engine every 5 years or so. When you count it, it wasn't too far off one engine rebuild every 10 miles. And I've heard people complain about changing spark plugs at 50,000 miles. My father was the same, remembering his first car he had for years, which was rebuilt many times.
For this old guy it was his regular car, he drove it every day. Not sure about engine rebuilds.
I prefer a horse. It trains you to treat your vehicle with respect.
And the old vehicles weren't "dependable" they were just treated with more care because they were so much more delicate. And were more likely to fail slow, though more often (running rough for a long time before finally failing).
I knew a guy who had a model T ford. It was his first car, from when he was a teenager. It still went well, had amazing torque.
The 'best' way to reduce boarding times would be to have the roof of the aircraft open up and drop passengers directly into their seats...
The mass penalty / structural workarounds, and the low incentive (given how few fatal crashes there are with air travel) will see this being pushed to the "amusing thought" pile and no real further. Much like massive parachutes from a long time ago ( some people use them on their smaller planes though ).
But terrorists!!!
If one pod gets hijacked you just drop it and carry on.
Facebook gets preferential treatment. Why shouldn't Spotify?
Citation please?
If Facebook does get preferential treatment from Apple, let's look at the numbers: Facebook (1600M+ users) vs. Spotify (75M+ users).
Which company would Apple benefit the most from — the whale or the minnow?
Netflix?
If you want to play in the Apple walled garden, you have to play according to the rules. Pissing and moaning outside the walled garden doesn't get you preferential treatment.
Netflix doesn't get preferential treatment? Wait, does the Netflix app in the Apple store give Apple a cut of the subscription?
If you actually read you would have your answers. Apple stated why they weren't allowed to continue operating. Basically Spotify was trying to circumvent the App Store.
Netflix doesn't?
Very few people give a fuck, or "wonder" why the US isn't more popular internationally.
I get the impression that many 'Murcans would like very much if the US were LESS popular internationally!
Aside from any hate for the NRA, I see no issue with this. Some people pulled a stunt giving off the false impression that they represented the NRA and Smith & Wesson.* The NRA requested a takedown, Surge complied with the takedown but screwed the pooch and brought down 38,000 sites instead of just the target.
They probably weren't confident enough in their litigation insurance so they panicked and shut everything down.
My wife has taken over the laptop, and she messages me a lot from the laptop. She'll be on some webpage and then send texts and things from a full keyboard.
If i have a phone, i have SMS. If I have a phone, i may or may not have Skype. If I actually had an MS Phone, this becomes a non-feature for me, and I'm pissed that MS decides to play these games.
If I have a phone I most definitely don't have Skype installed on it; I found it impossible to turn Skype off on my phone. Even if I sign out from it, when a Skype message arrives somehow Skype on the phone turns itself on again. Very very annoying and the only way I found to fix it is to remove Skype from the phone completely.
The Maori are PROUD of the fact they killed and ate all the previous owners of New Zealand. They were perfectly capable of genocide with limited hand weapons.
What you describe sounds more like 'political' limits involved with fighting relatives. Unless you can wipe them out really fast, they will influence common relations and gain time to recover.
Not talking about previous owners; other Maori tribes.
Kill the pedestrians and the people in the car. Try and keep the numbers equal.
Welcome to digital morality.
Kill everyone, let robot God sort them out.
That's often the case, but not always.
You're driving on a highway with no shoulder and one lane for each direction of traffic. The is an oncoming semi and you are right at the start of a narrow underpass. Now a group of pedestrians walks out from behind a support beam and in front of your car. Hit the support beam or hit the pedestrians or hit the semi. Lose, lose, lose.
Were the 3 "lose's" for the 3 pedestrians? Because they had no business being there and therefore they can die.
Plenty of obese neckbeards to throw. It's not like anybody will ever miss them.
Irrelevant to the question of whether it actually works. Which it doesn't.
Yeah I'm still not convinced. This really should have been the topic of a Mythbusters episode.
I need to be convinced with some explosions, preferably with lots of fat person body-parts flying around.
The English-speaking world is just devolving into a long winded bunch of mad cunts.
Fixed that for you.
The whole point of war is to make killing easy. If we didn't want that, we'd be fighting our strife for superiority on the soccer field.
The Maori of New Zealand had been fighting each other for a long time when the colonists showed up. They'd been trying very very hard to kill one another with no missile weapons whatsoever. No throwing spears (the taiaha wasn't thrown and its 'pointy' end wasn't actually the business end), no bows. The only weapons they used were close-quarters hand to hand.
When the colonists showed up and introduced muskets there was genocide among the Maori, tribes who got the muskets first would totally exterminate other tribes (which is what they'd wanted to do for ages, it was just too difficult to actually achieve the goal of total annihilation).
Thats what happens when fighting goes from hard to easy.
When your warfare involves having to literally run up to someone and whack them with a blunt object until they are dead you have to get your guys really really motivated and really really angry with the enemy, they have to really want to kill very very badly. Suddenly give them guns and that raw enthusiasm for killing now has an amazingly simple point-click outlet and you can expect them to get a bit, er, carried away.
The industrialization of warfare in Europe was similar and look where that went. Oh and when the Ottoman Turks saw how easy the Europeans had made warfare they felt the need to upgrade their military and that ultimately led to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire (because they needed to educate their soldiery to make them more effective at industrialized warfare, more education led to more dissatisfaction, which led to revolution).
When was the last time you saw a Greek Phalanx used in a battle?
A Greek Phalanx would be fucking awesome for crowd control though. Especially if you don't care about the casualties among the protesters/demonstrators.
Even more the computer that runs the AI is probably twice the size of the plane it is flying.
Its a raspberry pi 2. Its smaller than a pack of playing cards.
It was only a matter of time, computers are able to keep complete situational awareness while analyzing what the target is doing. The only question is how long until we can trust them to work totally autonomously. THAT probably won't come for a while.
Um, yeah totally unsurprising that a raspberry pi 2 is capable of this level of realtime AI...
Which is why it's such a boring trilogy for those who aren't looking for history lessons for an imaginary world, but actually wanted to read a story.
Exactly!
The movies had decent special effects and scenery so that was great, didn't need to sit through several hours of twaddle to get the best out of them!
The whole point is the characters and the dialog and the drama. "Action scenes" are the most boring part.
No, the whole point of LOTR was the history behind the story and the languages Tolkien invented.
Or are you just talking about Peter Jacksons attempts at making movies?
The most interesting thing about LOTR is the dialogs. If LOTR is just a dumbed down action movie for you then I just can feel sorry for you.
Well I did read the books. Once. The dialog was boring as hell in them as well. Or is page after page of the word 'ere' being used several times per sentence and genealogy the point of the story?
The action was the only good thing about those movies, they were grossly padded out. The trilogy would have made a decent 90 minute movie.
Honestly, most TV and movies these days can be watched at 2x or greater speed.
I watched the whole Lord of the Rings series at 7x speed. I don't think I missed much, the dialog is meaningless drivel. I slow down for the action.
Wonder how Canada would react to that?
Trumps going to annex Canada.