I'm aware of issues with the Osprey, but I'm not so sure you can tar the Harrier with the same brush. Yes. that aircraft has been responsible for a number of deaths, but the casualties weren't in the Harriers - they were in the other (e.g. Argentine) planes that the Harriers were shooting at.
I thought that self-driving cars still had to have a "driver" in them, ready to take control in the event of of an incident. Are these Uber cars going to come with an Uber "driver", or is the passenger expected to take over when* that incident happens?
What if that passenger does not hold a licence, or is not fit to drive through intoxication? Does the passenger get some sort of discount because they might be expected to step in and do a bit of driving?
Not directly, but how many lives have been endangered or ended as a result of the bad guys getting access to leaked information and then using it to their advantage?.
I'll be honest, I don't know the OP...but I can't believe that they do not benefit from any tax-funded services. POlice has been talked about extensively earlier in this thread, but I can think of plenty of other examples...
- Education system (although, given the stupidity of the "no taxes" remark, I suspect any journey through the education system was not entirely successful)
- Fire and rescue services (may not have used them, but I bet that if their house started burning down, they'd be wanting a big tax-funded fire truck to come to the rescue
- Healthcare? Not sure about this one, on the assumption OP is in the USA. As a Brit I've never really understood what, if any, of USA healthcare is government-funded.)
- Public transportation. Has the OP never used some form of public transport which receives some form of government subsidy
- Weather forecast? Again, not sure abut how it works in OP's territory, but here in UK weather forecast data is supplied to media, etc. by a government- (i.e. taxation-) funded agency
There are other examples, but that's all I can be bothered to type right now - I'm meant to be working, earning money with which to pay my fair share of taxes.
I can understand the principle behind this, but don't see why the message(s) put out by it should be cryptic. If something bad happened to me, I'd want a clear "Help! I've been kidnapped!!" message, not some cryptic "My first is in Kiitten but not in cat..." type of thing
Last time I got glasses I was offered the "blue blocker" coating, but given how much extra they wanted to charge for it versus perceived benefit, I decided not to bother.
A few weeks later I saw a story in the news that opticians were being told that they could no longer sell this coating on the strength of the "benefits" they were quoting, as they were judged to generally be bunk.
Yep. I rarely have time to watch TV as a primary activity. I sometimes have it on as an accompaniment, say breakfast time news while I'm getting ready for work in the morning, The thought of racking up 4.5 hours screen time per day seems like a dreadful waste of time to me
Sounds familiar. A few years ago I moved house and didn't take my TV with me. I never really missed it, but it made me realise how many conversations I had which were about TV. Started lose count of the number of times somebody said to me "Hey, last night did you see...err....oh, never mind...."
Still have the pips on BBC Radio 4 (UK) and World Service - a series of shorts and one long to mark the hour. Very rarely one less or one extra short for leap seconds.
Assuming you want to use Facebook Messenger, why wouldn't you want to just use the app? I can certainly understand not wanting to use Facebook Messenger (or not wanting to use Facebook at all), but why a strong preference for using messenger through a mobile browser?
When you install the app onto your phone, you grant it certain rights, like access to your address book. Just accessing the FB mobile site through a browser stops FB from getting access to stuff you might not want them to have access to.
I remember a case a few years ago when the FB allocated FB-specific email addresses to its users. The app would actually scan through the contacts list on your phone and if it recognised the email address of one of your contacts as being another FB user it would *automatically and silently* change the email details on your phone's contacts database to use the new FB-assigned address.
Pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new Windows PC is disable Windows updates.
If I learn about a specific update that figure I need, I'll install that manually (pretty rare TBH). PC sits behind plenty of firewallage alongside other trusted machines.
So far this has worked fine for me, while I have seen friends get their machines crippled by BSODs or endless reboot cycles because of some faulty Windows update that has installed automatically.
The sad thing is, this sort of thing has become the norm. A while ago, I stumbled on a feature in the Google Maps app on my Android phone, whereby it had a record/track-log of everywhere I've been.
My first thought was "hmm..that's interesting", rather than "err..that's creepy" - like I'm almost expecting apps to be snaffling my data
Well, it's not like youtube isn't monetized in other ways. Ask the people getting money FROM youtube for the views on their videos.
What are these "other ways"?. The only mechanism I have for getting revenue from YouTube in return for them hosting my videos and serving them up to people is a cut of the advertising revenue?
I kind of has some experience of this, in a different theatre.
Many years ago I worked in Belfast for a while (early 90s, during The Troubles). I noticed that there were often helicopters hovering around over the city centre and commented on this to a local guy that I was working with. He explained that they were basically military (or, at least, military-flown) helicopters on eavesdropping missions - flying over the city with ultra-sensitive listening kit, gathering intelligence from conversations going on between individuals.
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The only way I see of turning $600M revenue into a $100M loss is to spend $700M...what the actual f*** is there that costs that amount of money?
Some products are not revenue generators themselves, they are complementary products that support something else that generates revenue.
True, but I'm struggling to identify revenue-generating something else that Twitter is complementing.
I'm aware of issues with the Osprey, but I'm not so sure you can tar the Harrier with the same brush. Yes. that aircraft has been responsible for a number of deaths, but the casualties weren't in the Harriers - they were in the other (e.g. Argentine) planes that the Harriers were shooting at.
I thought that self-driving cars still had to have a "driver" in them, ready to take control in the event of of an incident. Are these Uber cars going to come with an Uber "driver", or is the passenger expected to take over when* that incident happens?
What if that passenger does not hold a licence, or is not fit to drive through intoxication? Does the passenger get some sort of discount because they might be expected to step in and do a bit of driving?
* note 'when', not 'if'
He has killed no one.
Not directly, but how many lives have been endangered or ended as a result of the bad guys getting access to leaked information and then using it to their advantage?.
I hereby patent everything. Give me all your money.
I've already patented patents. You give me all of your money
Indeed...bunch of over-sensitive melon farmers
I'll be honest, I don't know the OP...but I can't believe that they do not benefit from any tax-funded services. POlice has been talked about extensively earlier in this thread, but I can think of plenty of other examples...
- Education system (although, given the stupidity of the "no taxes" remark, I suspect any journey through the education system was not entirely successful)
- Fire and rescue services (may not have used them, but I bet that if their house started burning down, they'd be wanting a big tax-funded fire truck to come to the rescue
- Healthcare? Not sure about this one, on the assumption OP is in the USA. As a Brit I've never really understood what, if any, of USA healthcare is government-funded.)
- Public transportation. Has the OP never used some form of public transport which receives some form of government subsidy
- Weather forecast? Again, not sure abut how it works in OP's territory, but here in UK weather forecast data is supplied to media, etc. by a government- (i.e. taxation-) funded agency
There are other examples, but that's all I can be bothered to type right now - I'm meant to be working, earning money with which to pay my fair share of taxes.
...neither did you sign a contract to receive the services which are paid for by those tax dollars...but you use them anyway.
27 virgins could be correct. If millions of martyrs turn up at once, it's bound to affect the market rate....supply & demand, and all that
I can understand the principle behind this, but don't see why the message(s) put out by it should be cryptic. If something bad happened to me, I'd want a clear "Help! I've been kidnapped!!" message, not some cryptic "My first is in Kiitten but not in cat..." type of thing
Last time I got glasses I was offered the "blue blocker" coating, but given how much extra they wanted to charge for it versus perceived benefit, I decided not to bother. A few weeks later I saw a story in the news that opticians were being told that they could no longer sell this coating on the strength of the "benefits" they were quoting, as they were judged to generally be bunk.
Could well be placebo effect, but if you're getting the result you wanted then that's good
Camera = surveillance = Evil
but...
3D printed = super cool
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I'm confused
Yep. I rarely have time to watch TV as a primary activity. I sometimes have it on as an accompaniment, say breakfast time news while I'm getting ready for work in the morning, The thought of racking up 4.5 hours screen time per day seems like a dreadful waste of time to me
Sounds familiar. A few years ago I moved house and didn't take my TV with me. I never really missed it, but it made me realise how many conversations I had which were about TV. Started lose count of the number of times somebody said to me "Hey, last night did you see...err....oh, never mind...."
Still have the pips on BBC Radio 4 (UK) and World Service - a series of shorts and one long to mark the hour. Very rarely one less or one extra short for leap seconds.
Assuming you want to use Facebook Messenger, why wouldn't you want to just use the app? I can certainly understand not wanting to use Facebook Messenger (or not wanting to use Facebook at all), but why a strong preference for using messenger through a mobile browser?
When you install the app onto your phone, you grant it certain rights, like access to your address book. Just accessing the FB mobile site through a browser stops FB from getting access to stuff you might not want them to have access to.
I remember a case a few years ago when the FB allocated FB-specific email addresses to its users. The app would actually scan through the contacts list on your phone and if it recognised the email address of one of your contacts as being another FB user it would *automatically and silently* change the email details on your phone's contacts database to use the new FB-assigned address.
Pretty much the first thing I do when I get a new Windows PC is disable Windows updates.
If I learn about a specific update that figure I need, I'll install that manually (pretty rare TBH). PC sits behind plenty of firewallage alongside other trusted machines.
So far this has worked fine for me, while I have seen friends get their machines crippled by BSODs or endless reboot cycles because of some faulty Windows update that has installed automatically.
1 computer = 1 computer
many computers connected = 1 intranet (or 1 LAN)
many intranets connected = 1 internet (or 1 WAN)
many internets connected = 1 Internet
The sad thing is, this sort of thing has become the norm. A while ago, I stumbled on a feature in the Google Maps app on my Android phone, whereby it had a record/track-log of everywhere I've been.
My first thought was "hmm..that's interesting", rather than "err..that's creepy" - like I'm almost expecting apps to be snaffling my data
Good point, well made...wish I had mod points
Well, it's not like youtube isn't monetized in other ways. Ask the people getting money FROM youtube for the views on their videos.
What are these "other ways"?. The only mechanism I have for getting revenue from YouTube in return for them hosting my videos and serving them up to people is a cut of the advertising revenue?
I kind of has some experience of this, in a different theatre. Many years ago I worked in Belfast for a while (early 90s, during The Troubles). I noticed that there were often helicopters hovering around over the city centre and commented on this to a local guy that I was working with. He explained that they were basically military (or, at least, military-flown) helicopters on eavesdropping missions - flying over the city with ultra-sensitive listening kit, gathering intelligence from conversations going on between individuals.
I'll take two. Can I get one of them gift-wrapped?