You know you are advocating not using anything until a perfect safety record can be achieved, right? In that spirit, here is an incomplete list of things you should stop using immediately in order to not appear to be a hypocrite:
Any car, with autonomous driving capability or not Any motorized transport whatsoever Any aircraft Any boat Any animal-powered transport, including but not limited to horses, oxen, cattle, elephants, dogs, or humans Elevators, escalators / stair lifts Bicycles / tricycles Electricity Candles Natural gas Propane Gasoline Diesel Kerosene Whale oil Fire of any kind
Thank you. When one of these technologies achieves a perfect safety record, we'll let you know and remove it from the list.
So? Not like they are buying all the batteries and just sitting on them in a giant warehouse to deny competitors, or shooting them into space or something. They are buying them to put into cars for resale.
Oh no, Tesla out-maneuvered their competition by having a business partner (Panasonic) who did what was necessary to fulfill orders! For shame!
Each sale does not lose money, unless you are doing something incredibly stupid with your math, like thinking fixed capital costs to build massive factories are ongoing expenses for all time.
Or, you are spreading FUD. Either way, it doesn't look good on you.
Monopolistic? Don't be an idiot. It's basic supply and demand. And, Tesla has a monopoly on exactly nothing, except maybe a trade secret on generating fanboy hype. Neither does Panasonic.
There is simply not enough battery manufacturing to meet the current demand. So Tesla is locking up the supply they need by working with their manufacturing partner in a very legal and straightforward way that hundreds of businesses have done to obtain the materials they need, for basically all of history. And guess what? If demand is greater than supply, some other company can either outbid Tesla for the supply, or wait for more manufacturing to be built to increase the available supply. Just like any other product or material in any other market, ever.
Oh, I forgot - we are talking about Tesla, so OMG evil! Bad! Almost as bad as Apple, because reasons!
The carbon cost of this car is still far less than a vehicle that spews carbon out through the process of normal operation. If recharged with renewable energy, it is essentially a fixed value except tires and moving part lubricant. Even if charged with "fossil energy" the generation of that energy will be more efficient in extracting the energy from the fuel than a car engine would be, making the carbon footprint less.
A car with a petrol / diesel engine will use more lubricant (more moving parts), the same or more tire wear depending on traction control, drive train type, and engine size; and it will use far more petroleum products as engine oil, power steering fluid, brake fluid, transmission oil, and fuel.
The only thing you can trust Google to do with your data, is to index the holy ever-living shit out of it in order to show you advertising that is as close to what you are thinking about at any given moment as possible.
It's entirely possible that the data set available to app developers is not as complete as what the FaceID system uses for authentication purposes. After all, it does not make much sense to use super high resolution mapping for emoji nonsense, where you would definitely want it for authentication purposes.
At any rate, it's also plausible that the communication between the FaceID cameras and the Secure Enclave are secured with TPMS style hardware signing, as that's what they do with TouchID, so injecting any kind of data to bypass the authentication would require breaking that secure communication in the hardware too.
Yeah, all the megawatt-hours of solar power generated by SolarCity, now Tesla Energy, are no good at all.
He may not be deserving of the hero worship he gets from some people, but give some credit - that division of Tesla is the largest provider of residential solar in the US.
If this is totally successful and makes it into Mars orbit, it's position, velocity, and attitude will be known; you would have to do a whole lot of math and have perfect timing to have a collision with it on purpose, doing it by accidentally would be unbelievably improbable. Plus, any future launch that even comes within 100 km of it will have some form of attitude control and can adjust its own trajectory to not collide.
It's doubtful that the law would be valid if it outright said "except Tesla" in its language. So they tried to infer it by putting a price cap just under what a Tesla S costs. Then Tesla started offering a trim package that meets the law's price criteria.
What exactly is the problem again? Oh, what it said in the summary: this program is partially paid for by the German auto makers, and the German auto industry doesn't want to have that money going to Tesla. So let's fuck around with sock puppets in the government rather than build a competitive offering. Because clearly someone that was going to buy a Tesla is going to change their mind over this subsidy and get an electric VW Golf instead?
The next block to your fix is throttling https / 443, and outright blocking OpenVPN connections using anything else. Yes, this is stupid, but it also allows Comcast to be able to shake down^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H offer "fast lane service" to more companies and content providers, all in the name of protecting intellectual property rights.
Violating a court order is itself contempt of court. However, there's a hearing before any sentencing would be passed, as well as appeals and injunctive court orders from higher courts that find the initial court order to be unjust, etc.
You have no idea how a court order works. Combine that with your authoritarian wishes, and we get a real hum-dinger of a post.
Here's a hint - if court orders can be issued without public review (they basically are) and the FBI can just lock people up for not complying within an arbitrarily short time period without any legal hearing (what you are advocating) then I don't know what separates the United States from a dictatorship.
Please tell me why the style of gun is important in this case, and not why a documented deranged and unstable person was able to buy any style of gun at all.
ANY gun could have been used in that tragedy, but it's interesting that everyone wants to focus on a particular semi-auto rifle with a vertical magazine because of the way it looks, and not the way it functions.
Yet, nobody is out there yelling and screaming about that configuration. It's always "assault weapons" whatever that means - there is no actual definition for that term.
Let's fix the system that allows someone that was documented to be mentally unstable and violent from being able to get a gun, before we start limiting the freedoms of people that already follow the law.
Many people with guns don't feel the need to walk around armed all the time. I have guns, and I have a concealed carry permit. I almost never carry. I do if I'm going into a known situation where there could be a problem - selling something on Craigslist where the meetup is in some strip mall parking lot, etc.
When it comes to the home,I do have a shotgun in the bedroom ready to go if I hear someone coming in my house at night - the magazine tube has 8 shells in it, and the chamber is empty. The international language of the racking of a round into a 12-gauge is pretty clear to most people. And, that's the intruder's last warning.
The argument goes that the second amendment is used to protect the other nine. It's a pretty grim outlook if that becomes necessary, but there you have it. Note that I don't agree with that - we have many avenues to fix the current government abuses that don't require violence.
I've never understood why the two major political parties are defenders of certain amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the two sets have a slight overlap. I would think that each and every one of these basic protections would be the core foundation of each party platform.
You probably won't miss it that much once you pin the throttle, blink, and you're going 80.
With that kind of torque / horsepower, you would never be able to get that kind of acceleration - the gearbox couldn't shift fast enough, even if it's a double-clutch auto. And especially not a torque converter.
I wouldn't say it's "ok" but it definitely is better than if your diesel takes a shit on you in the middle of the desert. Only idiots argue against reasonable redundancy.
Why would an IT department care what you do with your own connection?
Oh, you interpreted my comment as "IT should be the work police" when it was really meant as "IT will get the blame if all the streamers clog the network to the point that actual services suffer"
Sounds like you forgot that bandwidth isn't infinite, and actually costs money.
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You know you are advocating not using anything until a perfect safety record can be achieved, right? In that spirit, here is an incomplete list of things you should stop using immediately in order to not appear to be a hypocrite:
Any car, with autonomous driving capability or not
Any motorized transport whatsoever
Any aircraft
Any boat
Any animal-powered transport, including but not limited to horses, oxen, cattle, elephants, dogs, or humans
Elevators, escalators / stair lifts
Bicycles / tricycles
Electricity
Candles
Natural gas
Propane
Gasoline
Diesel
Kerosene
Whale oil
Fire of any kind
Thank you. When one of these technologies achieves a perfect safety record, we'll let you know and remove it from the list.
Oh Oracle is indeed all evil. Just not because of that - they are all evil because of many other things.
So? Not like they are buying all the batteries and just sitting on them in a giant warehouse to deny competitors, or shooting them into space or something. They are buying them to put into cars for resale.
Oh no, Tesla out-maneuvered their competition by having a business partner (Panasonic) who did what was necessary to fulfill orders! For shame!
Why does anyone give a shit?
Each sale does not lose money, unless you are doing something incredibly stupid with your math, like thinking fixed capital costs to build massive factories are ongoing expenses for all time.
Or, you are spreading FUD. Either way, it doesn't look good on you.
Monopolistic? Don't be an idiot. It's basic supply and demand. And, Tesla has a monopoly on exactly nothing, except maybe a trade secret on generating fanboy hype. Neither does Panasonic.
There is simply not enough battery manufacturing to meet the current demand. So Tesla is locking up the supply they need by working with their manufacturing partner in a very legal and straightforward way that hundreds of businesses have done to obtain the materials they need, for basically all of history. And guess what? If demand is greater than supply, some other company can either outbid Tesla for the supply, or wait for more manufacturing to be built to increase the available supply. Just like any other product or material in any other market, ever.
Oh, I forgot - we are talking about Tesla, so OMG evil! Bad! Almost as bad as Apple, because reasons!
The carbon cost of this car is still far less than a vehicle that spews carbon out through the process of normal operation. If recharged with renewable energy, it is essentially a fixed value except tires and moving part lubricant. Even if charged with "fossil energy" the generation of that energy will be more efficient in extracting the energy from the fuel than a car engine would be, making the carbon footprint less.
A car with a petrol / diesel engine will use more lubricant (more moving parts), the same or more tire wear depending on traction control, drive train type, and engine size; and it will use far more petroleum products as engine oil, power steering fluid, brake fluid, transmission oil, and fuel.
The only thing you can trust Google to do with your data, is to index the holy ever-living shit out of it in order to show you advertising that is as close to what you are thinking about at any given moment as possible.
"And then there is Apple" - yeah, ok.
It's entirely possible that the data set available to app developers is not as complete as what the FaceID system uses for authentication purposes. After all, it does not make much sense to use super high resolution mapping for emoji nonsense, where you would definitely want it for authentication purposes.
At any rate, it's also plausible that the communication between the FaceID cameras and the Secure Enclave are secured with TPMS style hardware signing, as that's what they do with TouchID, so injecting any kind of data to bypass the authentication would require breaking that secure communication in the hardware too.
Sending it up empty is not an option - lifting nothing doesn't demonstrate heavy lift capability.
Yeah, all the megawatt-hours of solar power generated by SolarCity, now Tesla Energy, are no good at all.
He may not be deserving of the hero worship he gets from some people, but give some credit - that division of Tesla is the largest provider of residential solar in the US.
Never use GPS again if you are anti-space. Or watch live TV.
Both brought to you by satellites.
If this is totally successful and makes it into Mars orbit, it's position, velocity, and attitude will be known; you would have to do a whole lot of math and have perfect timing to have a collision with it on purpose, doing it by accidentally would be unbelievably improbable. Plus, any future launch that even comes within 100 km of it will have some form of attitude control and can adjust its own trajectory to not collide.
Rocket scientists aren't fucking idiots.
It's doubtful that the law would be valid if it outright said "except Tesla" in its language. So they tried to infer it by putting a price cap just under what a Tesla S costs. Then Tesla started offering a trim package that meets the law's price criteria.
What exactly is the problem again? Oh, what it said in the summary: this program is partially paid for by the German auto makers, and the German auto industry doesn't want to have that money going to Tesla. So let's fuck around with sock puppets in the government rather than build a competitive offering. Because clearly someone that was going to buy a Tesla is going to change their mind over this subsidy and get an electric VW Golf instead?
So if Charter decided to throttle Netflix to 50% of the throughput I currently get, it would still be 3x faster than the next competitor.
How am I supposed to "shop around" when there is no competition? And more to the point, how is Netflix supposed to shop around being extorted?
Because that pipe is on government granted easements, and operated under government regulation, and subsidised by government?
They should be thrilled we are only asking them to treat all traffic the same.
The next block to your fix is throttling https / 443, and outright blocking OpenVPN connections using anything else. Yes, this is stupid, but it also allows Comcast to be able to shake down^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H offer "fast lane service" to more companies and content providers, all in the name of protecting intellectual property rights.
They won't lose any either, as their subscribers have essentially the choice between Comcast, and no internet service.
Violating a court order is itself contempt of court. However, there's a hearing before any sentencing would be passed, as well as appeals and injunctive court orders from higher courts that find the initial court order to be unjust, etc.
You have no idea how a court order works. Combine that with your authoritarian wishes, and we get a real hum-dinger of a post.
Here's a hint - if court orders can be issued without public review (they basically are) and the FBI can just lock people up for not complying within an arbitrarily short time period without any legal hearing (what you are advocating) then I don't know what separates the United States from a dictatorship.
Please tell me why the style of gun is important in this case, and not why a documented deranged and unstable person was able to buy any style of gun at all.
ANY gun could have been used in that tragedy, but it's interesting that everyone wants to focus on a particular semi-auto rifle with a vertical magazine because of the way it looks, and not the way it functions.
Do you know how much more damage this asshole could have done if he chose an auto-loader shotgun that can use 25-round drum magazines instead?
Yet, nobody is out there yelling and screaming about that configuration. It's always "assault weapons" whatever that means - there is no actual definition for that term.
Let's fix the system that allows someone that was documented to be mentally unstable and violent from being able to get a gun, before we start limiting the freedoms of people that already follow the law.
Many people with guns don't feel the need to walk around armed all the time. I have guns, and I have a concealed carry permit. I almost never carry. I do if I'm going into a known situation where there could be a problem - selling something on Craigslist where the meetup is in some strip mall parking lot, etc.
When it comes to the home,I do have a shotgun in the bedroom ready to go if I hear someone coming in my house at night - the magazine tube has 8 shells in it, and the chamber is empty. The international language of the racking of a round into a 12-gauge is pretty clear to most people. And, that's the intruder's last warning.
The argument goes that the second amendment is used to protect the other nine. It's a pretty grim outlook if that becomes necessary, but there you have it. Note that I don't agree with that - we have many avenues to fix the current government abuses that don't require violence.
I've never understood why the two major political parties are defenders of certain amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the two sets have a slight overlap. I would think that each and every one of these basic protections would be the core foundation of each party platform.
You probably won't miss it that much once you pin the throttle, blink, and you're going 80.
With that kind of torque / horsepower, you would never be able to get that kind of acceleration - the gearbox couldn't shift fast enough, even if it's a double-clutch auto. And especially not a torque converter.
I wouldn't say it's "ok" but it definitely is better than if your diesel takes a shit on you in the middle of the desert. Only idiots argue against reasonable redundancy.
Why would an IT department care what you do with your own connection?
Oh, you interpreted my comment as "IT should be the work police" when it was really meant as "IT will get the blame if all the streamers clog the network to the point that actual services suffer"
Sounds like you forgot that bandwidth isn't infinite, and actually costs money.