Swerving is most often, the wrong thing to do. It can easily get you killed, through a roll, head on, or into a tree, building, fire hydrant, etc., that won't move. I will never swerve on a two lane road. That's a conscious decision I've already made. I may, on a multi-lane, because I'm normally always aware if someone is beside me, and I don't typically pace anyone in the next lane.
As the next article points out, you would have seen her much (as much as a couple seconds) earlier live than in the video. The autonomous system clearly fucked up, and so did the "driver", who wasn't doing her job.
This! It's one of the first things I taught my kid when she was learning to drive. We have a long stretch of twisting two lane road with trees on the edge of both sides, and I see deer a couple times a week. You really need to make the decision in advance that you're just going to hit something if it pops up. Swerving on a road like that (people typically drive 40-45mph) is going to get you killed by either a tree (these are old growth, and don't budge) or head on collision. In my ~43 yrs of driving, I've hit a deer, dog and coyote. The first two survived...I didn't go back to look for Wiley...it was at ~70mph.
You can't base it on the video. Actual vision would have given the driver up to a couple more seconds than we had in watching the video...see the next story on this. Yes, the pedestrian was an idiot. Yes, the vehicle fucked up., but so did the "driver", who was negligent in playing with her cell phone instead of doing her job.
The follow up article to this indicates that the driver would have, had she not had her face buried in her cellphone. That "driver" is just as negligent in this case as Uber. She had a responsibility to be ready to take over...that was her sole purpose in being in that seat, and she failed.
Are they? I didn't see anything indicating that in the article, nor anything stating how long the hole remained except to call it temporary. What damage are you claiming? Should California sue SpaceX?
It's clear from the fact that you can't seem to give a response in a single post that you don't have the capacity to come to a logical conclusion on the state of American business. It's probably not working for you, so it must be bad, right? No, it's been working just fine for a couple centuries, and is still the driving force in the world economy. Don't like it? Then your most likely options (there might be some I missed) are 1. Suck it up in a crap position for the rest of your life. 2. Find someone to take care of you. 3. Leave. 4. Learn something about how to operate in the system, and advance in it...it actually works if you're not an idiot.
Who gives a shit what the media is parroting. They're doing that because it's a train wreck that gets them more eyeballs/revenue. That doesn't make it reality. The media is in their own bubble, like it or not, only 7% of the media identifies as conservative (that's from a Washington Post article you can look up), thus creating their own echo chamber...that's not good for either side.
They won't let you pick a fictional place to live. I kept trying to pick Arrakis and it was not accepted.
Don't be a meathead dingbat, everyone knows Archie Bunker lived in Queens, Alice Kramden was the one going to the moon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Makes sense, I prefer to socialize directly, not through some weird online broker that tries to insert unrelated noise regurgitated from some pop culture zeitgeist repository
That's great for you. I personally have friends and family on FB who live all over the US, and in a few other countries, some of who I only hear from once every few years. FB has allowed me to find old friends who I've lost contact with decades ago. A few of those folks go overboard posting crap that I don't care to see on a daily basis, so I simply change the settings on them...no need to end the friendship. I had a cousin post some shit about the MD school shooting not being covered by CNN yesterday, claiming that was their agenda...I corrected him. And so, yeah FB has plenty of warts, but it also provides a service that I haven't seen available elsewhere, and even if it were, how would you convince all of your peeps to shift to it?
Thanks for the advice, but I've done quite well for myself, and read that book a couple decades back. I'll be retiring very comfortably within the next year, thank you.
I'm not familiar with some of the terminology you're using, but it sounds like you're in some kind of government, or union job, where the position wages are already spelled out, with no wiggle room. I was talking purely about free market salary jobs.
Spoken like a true con artist. You've clearly never been involved in management. If you were, you'd know that managers don't care about your BS, unless it's directly applicable to the job...such as a used car dealer. They care about making deadlines, and sales, and widgets, and customers. If you're not making your targets, I as a manager would give you an applicable rating, and you'd be lucky to get a cost of living increase, but more likely none at all. I've personally been rating employees for over a decade, and we do so on a number of weighted factors, none of which involve BSing.
Interesting, but I'd argue that many people would refuse to work for companies that disclosed their salaries, and that would end up causing a shortage of companies bidding on contracts. I certainly would never work for a firm that disclosed my pay, and I frequently do bids on government contracts.
That all depends Ami. I'm all for people working their standard day, but occasionally there are critical things that pop up, and the people are willing to step up, and do those nights and weekends, to win a contract, or meet a critical deadline, are the ones who will always do better than the rest who have to go home. Flexibility is one of the things we rate people on during our annual reviews. But, we also make sure that our people take their PTO, and some of us managers actually give a shit about our people, and reward them accordingly. I've found that it pays off in the long run.
No, and that's why labor grades have salary ranges. You may have just been promoted into a new grade...would you expect to earn as much as someone in that same grade who's ready to be promoted to the next? That may be a bit extreme, but it's to make a point. I work for a Fortune 500 firm...When we do annual reviews, we compare people in the same labor grades on a group of several factors, as well as where they are in their pay range. There's a budget to spend on pay raises, and that budget gets spread across the team based upon those ratings. I get to see the numbers, and influence them, for several hundred people, and while I don't always agree with them, it's about as fair of a system as I could dream up.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but you and the parent seem to be implying at all work should have equal value. While hard work should have merit, working hard shouldn't necessarily get you more pay than someone who's work brings more value to the table. This is one of the reasons I've changed career paths a couple times in my 41 years of adult worklife. I was a computer technician back in the 70 - early 80s, and as hardware became cheaper, and more throw away/swap out, I saw the handwriting on the wall, and learned software. When your job is easy enough for anyone to do, you can expect to be paid like an average person.
It doesn't matter how many people are "working their asses off", when most of those positions are mindless and can be accomplished by anyone. That's exactly why they have to work their ass off, because they don't have an in demand skill.
Sensor that are connected to software that makes the decisions. That isn't infallible, does not necessarily move the blame onto the person. I have sensors in my car that flash at me to brake whenever I approach an onramp a bit faster than the software likes because it thinks I'm going to run into the guardrail. That's poor coding, when it can't tell by the angle of the steering wheel and lateral g-force that I'm not going to hit it.
My previous vehicle (Infiniti FX45) had a rangefinding cruise control system that would keep you at a distance from the vehicle in front of you. Frequently, if I was overtaking an 18 wheeler in the next lane, it would suddenly put on the brakes. That kind of shit can get you rear ended, but let's all keep trusting in these wonderful sensors that can do no wrong.
Having been a software developer for many years (prior to becoming a pointy haired manager), I won't be giving up full control to an automatic vehicle w/o the ability of human override any time soon.
Basically, Skype killed the need to have business man able to cross the world within hours - and these 3 business men where the only out of all passengers that actually had a practical use of Concord)
Interestingly, The Concorde stopped flying in 2003, the very year Skype launched. But that had zip to do with businessmen/women's reason for not using it. Business travel has not decreased. Did you know that millennials are the most frequent business travelers? https://skift.com/2016/10/27/m...
Thank you anonymous Russian troll. Quite seriously, there is no other logical source for that attack, but you're right, we don't know 100%. We just know that Russia has a long history of this shit, and that Putin has been strutting around bragging about his weaponry w/o provocation from others.
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Swerving is most often, the wrong thing to do. It can easily get you killed, through a roll, head on, or into a tree, building, fire hydrant, etc., that won't move. I will never swerve on a two lane road. That's a conscious decision I've already made. I may, on a multi-lane, because I'm normally always aware if someone is beside me, and I don't typically pace anyone in the next lane.
As the next article points out, you would have seen her much (as much as a couple seconds) earlier live than in the video. The autonomous system clearly fucked up, and so did the "driver", who wasn't doing her job.
This! It's one of the first things I taught my kid when she was learning to drive. We have a long stretch of twisting two lane road with trees on the edge of both sides, and I see deer a couple times a week. You really need to make the decision in advance that you're just going to hit something if it pops up. Swerving on a road like that (people typically drive 40-45mph) is going to get you killed by either a tree (these are old growth, and don't budge) or head on collision. In my ~43 yrs of driving, I've hit a deer, dog and coyote. The first two survived...I didn't go back to look for Wiley...it was at ~70mph.
Nobody has to work for them. Don't like the wage?...go flip burgers.
You can't base it on the video. Actual vision would have given the driver up to a couple more seconds than we had in watching the video...see the next story on this. Yes, the pedestrian was an idiot. Yes, the vehicle fucked up., but so did the "driver", who was negligent in playing with her cell phone instead of doing her job.
The follow up article to this indicates that the driver would have, had she not had her face buried in her cellphone. That "driver" is just as negligent in this case as Uber. She had a responsibility to be ready to take over...that was her sole purpose in being in that seat, and she failed.
".. still they are damaging to our eco system."
Are they? I didn't see anything indicating that in the article, nor anything stating how long the hole remained except to call it temporary. What damage are you claiming? Should California sue SpaceX?
It's clear from the fact that you can't seem to give a response in a single post that you don't have the capacity to come to a logical conclusion on the state of American business. It's probably not working for you, so it must be bad, right? No, it's been working just fine for a couple centuries, and is still the driving force in the world economy. Don't like it? Then your most likely options (there might be some I missed) are 1. Suck it up in a crap position for the rest of your life. 2. Find someone to take care of you. 3. Leave. 4. Learn something about how to operate in the system, and advance in it...it actually works if you're not an idiot.
Who gives a shit what the media is parroting. They're doing that because it's a train wreck that gets them more eyeballs/revenue. That doesn't make it reality. The media is in their own bubble, like it or not, only 7% of the media identifies as conservative (that's from a Washington Post article you can look up), thus creating their own echo chamber...that's not good for either side.
They won't let you pick a fictional place to live. I kept trying to pick Arrakis and it was not accepted.
Don't be a meathead dingbat, everyone knows Archie Bunker lived in Queens, Alice Kramden was the one going to the moon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Makes sense, I prefer to socialize directly, not through some weird online broker that tries to insert unrelated noise regurgitated from some pop culture zeitgeist repository
That's great for you. I personally have friends and family on FB who live all over the US, and in a few other countries, some of who I only hear from once every few years. FB has allowed me to find old friends who I've lost contact with decades ago. A few of those folks go overboard posting crap that I don't care to see on a daily basis, so I simply change the settings on them...no need to end the friendship. I had a cousin post some shit about the MD school shooting not being covered by CNN yesterday, claiming that was their agenda...I corrected him. And so, yeah FB has plenty of warts, but it also provides a service that I haven't seen available elsewhere, and even if it were, how would you convince all of your peeps to shift to it?
Thanks for the advice, but I've done quite well for myself, and read that book a couple decades back. I'll be retiring very comfortably within the next year, thank you.
I'm not familiar with some of the terminology you're using, but it sounds like you're in some kind of government, or union job, where the position wages are already spelled out, with no wiggle room. I was talking purely about free market salary jobs.
Spoken like a true con artist. You've clearly never been involved in management. If you were, you'd know that managers don't care about your BS, unless it's directly applicable to the job...such as a used car dealer. They care about making deadlines, and sales, and widgets, and customers. If you're not making your targets, I as a manager would give you an applicable rating, and you'd be lucky to get a cost of living increase, but more likely none at all. I've personally been rating employees for over a decade, and we do so on a number of weighted factors, none of which involve BSing.
Please learn the difference between "your" and "you're".
Yur a moron.
Interesting, but I'd argue that many people would refuse to work for companies that disclosed their salaries, and that would end up causing a shortage of companies bidding on contracts. I certainly would never work for a firm that disclosed my pay, and I frequently do bids on government contracts.
That all depends Ami. I'm all for people working their standard day, but occasionally there are critical things that pop up, and the people are willing to step up, and do those nights and weekends, to win a contract, or meet a critical deadline, are the ones who will always do better than the rest who have to go home. Flexibility is one of the things we rate people on during our annual reviews. But, we also make sure that our people take their PTO, and some of us managers actually give a shit about our people, and reward them accordingly. I've found that it pays off in the long run.
So the fact that half of my workload is fixing the other guy's fuckups means I should be paid... the same?
Are you certain someone isn't saying the same about yours?
No, and that's why labor grades have salary ranges. You may have just been promoted into a new grade...would you expect to earn as much as someone in that same grade who's ready to be promoted to the next? That may be a bit extreme, but it's to make a point. I work for a Fortune 500 firm...When we do annual reviews, we compare people in the same labor grades on a group of several factors, as well as where they are in their pay range. There's a budget to spend on pay raises, and that budget gets spread across the team based upon those ratings. I get to see the numbers, and influence them, for several hundred people, and while I don't always agree with them, it's about as fair of a system as I could dream up.
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but you and the parent seem to be implying at all work should have equal value. While hard work should have merit, working hard shouldn't necessarily get you more pay than someone who's work brings more value to the table. This is one of the reasons I've changed career paths a couple times in my 41 years of adult worklife. I was a computer technician back in the 70 - early 80s, and as hardware became cheaper, and more throw away/swap out, I saw the handwriting on the wall, and learned software. When your job is easy enough for anyone to do, you can expect to be paid like an average person.
It doesn't matter how many people are "working their asses off", when most of those positions are mindless and can be accomplished by anyone. That's exactly why they have to work their ass off, because they don't have an in demand skill.
Sensor that are connected to software that makes the decisions. That isn't infallible, does not necessarily move the blame onto the person. I have sensors in my car that flash at me to brake whenever I approach an onramp a bit faster than the software likes because it thinks I'm going to run into the guardrail. That's poor coding, when it can't tell by the angle of the steering wheel and lateral g-force that I'm not going to hit it.
My previous vehicle (Infiniti FX45) had a rangefinding cruise control system that would keep you at a distance from the vehicle in front of you. Frequently, if I was overtaking an 18 wheeler in the next lane, it would suddenly put on the brakes. That kind of shit can get you rear ended, but let's all keep trusting in these wonderful sensors that can do no wrong.
Having been a software developer for many years (prior to becoming a pointy haired manager), I won't be giving up full control to an automatic vehicle w/o the ability of human override any time soon.
"If the operator was drunk or playing with their cell phone and the accident could have been avoided, that's pretty monstrous."
FTFY
So, in your opinion, we should just pick and choose which laws we'd like to obey and which we wish to ignore. In other words, anarchy, right?
Basically, Skype killed the need to have business man able to cross the world within hours - and these 3 business men where the only out of all passengers that actually had a practical use of Concord)
Interestingly, The Concorde stopped flying in 2003, the very year Skype launched. But that had zip to do with businessmen/women's reason for not using it. Business travel has not decreased. Did you know that millennials are the most frequent business travelers?
https://skift.com/2016/10/27/m...
Thank you anonymous Russian troll. Quite seriously, there is no other logical source for that attack, but you're right, we don't know 100%. We just know that Russia has a long history of this shit, and that Putin has been strutting around bragging about his weaponry w/o provocation from others.