Not at all, just making an observation that "having a small carbon footprint", as a practical matter, is something practiced more by the affluent, who can better afford it. The poor, who are greater in number, tend to live further away from work and drive older, less efficient cars. It's hardly a secret.
Mind you, I'm sure that higher efficiency transportation will eventually trickle down.
Enh maybe. I'd say that really pandering to the audience would have Jar jar, mistaking it for a fruit, swallow a grenade early in Attack of the Clones. "Urrr, meesa feel" BOOM!
More specifically, make them commute two hours to work every day in older gas guzzling vehicles because none of them can afford Priuses. Because you have to be well off to afford to get good gas mileage. Or live close to your work.
I dunno, I read it as George doing a "jar jar binks" [1] on his neighbors. You don't like the idea of a studio on my ranch? Ok, how about LOW INCOME HOUSING? How do you like THEM apples?
[1] Referencing reports that Lucas specifically retaliated against fans' dislike of Jar Jar in the first film by giving him increased time in the subsequent films.
Graffiti was the fastest way I've ever input text into a PDA. Second fastest was the Blackberry keyboard. A very distant third is the Android virtual keyboard that most people are using now.
>The CFL hate here confused me until I got one that was designed to look like a bulb instead of long weird loops that just did the job. The early stuff was fine, the later stuff where marketers decided it needed to look like an incandesent bulb were the pieces of shit that took ages to warm up.
"Hate" is such an overused term.
I was an early adopter of CFLs, and of the three I bought around 1996, the first stopped working in 2005, the second a couple years later, and the third is still working in 2015. But the CFLs I've purchased after approx 2003, loop type or fake bulb type, last one to two years, no better than incandescents.
Besides using less electricity, the selling point of CFLs was longivity, and the early bulbs, after the bugs were worked out, really did meet that goal. But later they were value engineered to the point where you change them about as often as you change incandescent bulbs. (Which, I believe, was the actual goal of manufacturers.) And they still cost more. We were rooked.
I strongly suspect that IoT devices and appliances, sometime after they become common, will generally be value engineered to the point where failures are common. And we'll just accept it, like good little consumers. The "I" part of an "IoT" device is just another thing to go wrong.
Point. Said more generally, does IoT mean that the most common failure will be some malfunction in the "I" part of the device? That more complexity inevitably leads to more points of failure?
Will this be a pattern similar to that followed by CFLs? Early IoT devices will be buggy, but the bugs will be ironed out, followed by a short Golden Age, where the prices have fallen and the devices essentially last forever, followed by the inevitable Value Engineering, after which things fail randomly and often, with error modes never seen in non-IoT devices?
Good point. I guess the only relevance is that they are having their moment in the news for some politically correct drivel.
Mind you, I'm on your side on this. Just pointing out that some companies are trying to sell us on the idea that salary negotiation is *mean* and unfair to genders who are less able to negotiate. (And why this isn't in and of itself considered sexist is beyond me.)
Right. I was a contractor for several years, but got a FTE position when I decided to buy a home and raise a family, for precisely this reason. Took a hit in salary when I made the switch, but that's the price one pays.
The positive side, savings during the contracting days paid a hefty down payment on the house.
...I felt that HIllary would at least be entertaining, in a tawdry, back-room-deal sorta way. Since then it's been fairly apparent that she doesn't really have a clue about foreign policy, and sees positions of power as a goal for its own sake, with no idea what to do with it when she gets there. A Hillary presidency is something we would be talking about for decades to come, and not in a good way.
Calling it now. Hilldog gets elected and in short order works on removing the two term limit thing, becomes US first dictator for life.
I've wondered what would happen if one did that by executive order.
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Not at all, just making an observation that "having a small carbon footprint", as a practical matter, is something practiced more by the affluent, who can better afford it. The poor, who are greater in number, tend to live further away from work and drive older, less efficient cars. It's hardly a secret.
Mind you, I'm sure that higher efficiency transportation will eventually trickle down.
Enh maybe. I'd say that really pandering to the audience would have Jar jar, mistaking it for a fruit, swallow a grenade early in Attack of the Clones. "Urrr, meesa feel" BOOM!
But that may not have garnered a PG rating.
From now on, sticking with cars made before this stupid concept went into effect.
Why... does it have to be Voyager...
More specifically, make them commute two hours to work every day in older gas guzzling vehicles because none of them can afford Priuses. Because you have to be well off to afford to get good gas mileage. Or live close to your work.
I dunno, I read it as George doing a "jar jar binks" [1] on his neighbors. You don't like the idea of a studio on my ranch? Ok, how about LOW INCOME HOUSING? How do you like THEM apples?
[1] Referencing reports that Lucas specifically retaliated against fans' dislike of Jar Jar in the first film by giving him increased time in the subsequent films.
Um, yeah, no.
Graffiti was the fastest way I've ever input text into a PDA. Second fastest was the Blackberry keyboard. A very distant third is the Android virtual keyboard that most people are using now.
I'm pretty sure I remember how to do graffiti, and it's still better than any handwriting input I've ever used.
> Separating children and teenagers into 'boys and girls' keeps reinforcing the idea that these are part of some black and white, unchanging reality.
I see what you did there.
to the girls and boys why they have been separated?
Because, gender equality.
And some will just buy it.
It starts.
>The CFL hate here confused me until I got one that was designed to look like a bulb instead of long weird loops that just did the job. The early stuff was fine, the later stuff where marketers decided it needed to look like an incandesent bulb were the pieces of shit that took ages to warm up.
"Hate" is such an overused term.
I was an early adopter of CFLs, and of the three I bought around 1996, the first stopped working in 2005, the second a couple years later, and the third is still working in 2015. But the CFLs I've purchased after approx 2003, loop type or fake bulb type, last one to two years, no better than incandescents.
Besides using less electricity, the selling point of CFLs was longivity, and the early bulbs, after the bugs were worked out, really did meet that goal. But later they were value engineered to the point where you change them about as often as you change incandescent bulbs. (Which, I believe, was the actual goal of manufacturers.) And they still cost more. We were rooked.
I strongly suspect that IoT devices and appliances, sometime after they become common, will generally be value engineered to the point where failures are common. And we'll just accept it, like good little consumers. The "I" part of an "IoT" device is just another thing to go wrong.
Point. Said more generally, does IoT mean that the most common failure will be some malfunction in the "I" part of the device? That more complexity inevitably leads to more points of failure?
Will this be a pattern similar to that followed by CFLs? Early IoT devices will be buggy, but the bugs will be ironed out, followed by a short Golden Age, where the prices have fallen and the devices essentially last forever, followed by the inevitable Value Engineering, after which things fail randomly and often, with error modes never seen in non-IoT devices?
Or, "But Dave, you're already in the house. You came home hours ago."
You knew there was one.
It seemed like he was enjoying his job a little too much.
> That company is of relevance HOW ?
Good point. I guess the only relevance is that they are having their moment in the news for some politically correct drivel.
Mind you, I'm on your side on this. Just pointing out that some companies are trying to sell us on the idea that salary negotiation is *mean* and unfair to genders who are less able to negotiate. (And why this isn't in and of itself considered sexist is beyond me.)
Right. I was a contractor for several years, but got a FTE position when I decided to buy a home and raise a family, for precisely this reason. Took a hit in salary when I made the switch, but that's the price one pays.
The positive side, savings during the contracting days paid a hefty down payment on the house.
Nope, can't negotiate salary anymore. For gender equality, you know. Not for the benefit of the hiring company. Really.
...I felt that HIllary would at least be entertaining, in a tawdry, back-room-deal sorta way. Since then it's been fairly apparent that she doesn't really have a clue about foreign policy, and sees positions of power as a goal for its own sake, with no idea what to do with it when she gets there. A Hillary presidency is something we would be talking about for decades to come, and not in a good way.
Calling it now. Hilldog gets elected and in short order works on removing the two term limit thing, becomes US first dictator for life.
I've wondered what would happen if one did that by executive order.
I especially look forward to a spectacular melt-down at some press conference.
So yeah, go HIllary.
Here's thing. You almost had me convinced until this statement.
Yeah, except she's already done it, as a candidate and as secretary of state.
I kinda suspect that she was given a job in the administration in exchange for going quiet.
It appears so.