"Humans are fallible. You can't dismiss user reports. You can review them skeptically, or examine them for trends."
Agreed. For example, if you have a hundred times the number of reported cases of unintended acceleration of all other automakers combined. You might want to review it.
Retort to conspiracy theory: This is a Toyota problem. They paid off the NHTSA people to get the scope of the investigation limited to accelerations of less than one second. This has nothing to do with GM, it has to do with Toyota fucking up and getting caught.These cases have been in the courts and Toyota keeps citing user error.
It's a real problem. Innovation and entrepreneurship is of huge importance to the American economy and the lack of affordable medical coverage is stopping people from being the creative engine that we need.
I hate to see what my costs would be given my athletic injuries and tests that I've had because of them. I'm guessing I'd be denied coverage as part of an individual policy.
I haven't heard this make it into the mainstream press, but it needs to get there.
On the off chance you find something decent, budget that rates will explode over the next couple years. In Michigan people who buy their insurance individually were hit by a 56% increase this year. Other states have similar problems.
Chinese companies copied part for part GM cars and as far as I know, nothing came of it. You could literally take the door off the Chevy and put a door from the Chinese car company on it. We don't impose any trade sanctions, we just keep buying their stuff.
I'd find the link but I don't have time.
Hopefully this google flap will get people to pay attention to how they are catching up.
Where every single tiny loop hole in the law is exploited to the fullest by the large cooperations and everyone else has to obey the spirit of the law because they can't setup the giant shell game that is required to avoid paying taxes. How many fully owned separate legal entities comprise Amazon? It's all one giant cooperation for all intents but they break it up into a ton of little pieces to get around the spirit of the law. Leaving everyone else to have to make up for Amazon skips out on paying. It's not a level playing field.
It reminds me of the ownership structure of Ikea, which is extremely complex, but ultimately results in almost no taxes. Which is great for Ikea, but horrible for everyone else who has to pick up Ikea's share.
I wonder if they will see the kind of occasional attack I see. Our recursive name servers occasionally get very hard by a botnet looking up ridiculous numbers of mx records. I wonder if they will do anything to prevent it.
I know one of my friends told her supervisor of porn she found on her "hand me down computer" that came from the new director of a major metropolitan museum. There was no investigation, no action taken, no nothing.
Seriously, WoW saved me thousands of dollars over the 2 years I was addicted to it. I stopped going out. I stopped taking my lady out. I stopped seeing friends. Of course all those things are bad, but I've never had such a tremendous rise in my savings.
I was a pretty social guy before WoW, I probably went out 4 times a week. Let's say that each night was $20-40 dollars.
So WoW equaled about $15 a month. Going out was probably closer to $500 a month. So that's about $485 dollars in savings.
Or course I had no real life except the PVP ladder grind. I'm lucky my lady friend didn't abandon me. Luckily I was able to recover from my addiction.
In Detroit here we had a 1.2 BILLION dollar deal that was approved by city council only after someone got a $5,000 or $10,000 bribe. You might have heard of Monica Conyers or perhaps her husband, John Conyers.
The way it works here is you hire a "consultant" who supposedly puts you in touch with the right people. What actually happens is the consultant pockets half of the consultant fee, and gives the other half to the person you want to influence. And then the vote changes.
A few people are already on their way to jail, but it's nothing compared to the cost to the city and the hundreds of workers who lost their jobs as a result of the deal.
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There were enough accidents caused by this that State Farm notified the NHTSA that there was a problem with Toyotas.
"Humans are fallible. You can't dismiss user reports. You can review them skeptically, or examine them for trends."
Agreed. For example, if you have a hundred times the number of reported cases of unintended acceleration of all other automakers combined. You might want to review it.
Question: Why is there a congressional case about this?
Answer: The 911 call. Toyota not fixing the problem.
http://consumerist.com/2009/10/toyota-911-call-of-familys-fatal-lexus-crash-due-to-gas-pedal-stuck-on-floormats.html
Retort to conspiracy theory: This is a Toyota problem. They paid off the NHTSA people to get the scope of the investigation limited to accelerations of less than one second. This has nothing to do with GM, it has to do with Toyota fucking up and getting caught.These cases have been in the courts and Toyota keeps citing user error.
Dismissing user reports is what got Toyota in trouble in the first place. Keep doing that. See how far it gets you.
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It's a real problem. Innovation and entrepreneurship is of huge importance to the American economy and the lack of affordable medical coverage is stopping people from being the creative engine that we need.
I hate to see what my costs would be given my athletic injuries and tests that I've had because of them. I'm guessing I'd be denied coverage as part of an individual policy.
I haven't heard this make it into the mainstream press, but it needs to get there.
On the off chance you find something decent, budget that rates will explode over the next couple years. In Michigan people who buy their insurance individually were hit by a 56% increase this year. Other states have similar problems.
If addiction was really easy get over, we wouldn't have problems with crack cocaine, gambling and alcoholism.
Chinese companies copied part for part GM cars and as far as I know, nothing came of it. You could literally take the door off the Chevy and put a door from the Chinese car company on it. We don't impose any trade sanctions, we just keep buying their stuff.
I'd find the link but I don't have time.
Hopefully this google flap will get people to pay attention to how they are catching up.
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Looking around I have yet to see a single friend of mine with pirated apps. I'm just saying.
I should probably read my own posts before hitting submit.
I thought google had their own file system named the google files system.
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
The chinese government might take notice if google stopped purchasing server hardware from China, otherwise I doubt they care.
I'm very curious as to this latest round of hacking attempts, I want to know who and what the target is.
You are right, I just looked it up.
It looked bigger than a compact last year when I saw it at the auto show.
First off, it's not a compact car.
I think you missed the the one defining feature it has over a Corolla that's the whole reason for buying the car.
It's a different target market.
New tech = expensive. Get over it. It always will be. Do think we always had $500 laptops?
http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/12/stella-artois-le-bar-guide-3d-augmented-reality-app.html
Ikea is worse than I remember. The nonprofit ownership gave away 1.7 million dollars in 2004 and has a net worth of 36 billion.
That's .005%
You probably give a larger % to charity by just walking by a Salvation Army ringer once or twice during the holidays.
Where every single tiny loop hole in the law is exploited to the fullest by the large cooperations and everyone else has to obey the spirit of the law because they can't setup the giant shell game that is required to avoid paying taxes. How many fully owned separate legal entities comprise Amazon? It's all one giant cooperation for all intents but they break it up into a ton of little pieces to get around the spirit of the law. Leaving everyone else to have to make up for Amazon skips out on paying. It's not a level playing field.
It reminds me of the ownership structure of Ikea, which is extremely complex, but ultimately results in almost no taxes. Which is great for Ikea, but horrible for everyone else who has to pick up Ikea's share.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA
Look it up under corporate structure.
I wonder if they will see the kind of occasional attack I see. Our recursive name servers occasionally get very hard by a botnet looking up ridiculous numbers of mx records. I wonder if they will do anything to prevent it.
You don't have one???
I know one of my friends told her supervisor of porn she found on her "hand me down computer" that came from the new director of a major metropolitan museum. There was no investigation, no action taken, no nothing.
Seriously, WoW saved me thousands of dollars over the 2 years I was addicted to it. I stopped going out. I stopped taking my lady out. I stopped seeing friends. Of course all those things are bad, but I've never had such a tremendous rise in my savings.
I was a pretty social guy before WoW, I probably went out 4 times a week. Let's say that each night was $20-40 dollars.
So WoW equaled about $15 a month. Going out was probably closer to $500 a month. So that's about $485 dollars in savings.
Or course I had no real life except the PVP ladder grind. I'm lucky my lady friend didn't abandon me. Luckily I was able to recover from my addiction.
HA! That's nothing.
In Detroit here we had a 1.2 BILLION dollar deal that was approved by city council only after someone got a $5,000 or $10,000 bribe. You might have heard of Monica Conyers or perhaps her husband, John Conyers.
The way it works here is you hire a "consultant" who supposedly puts you in touch with the right people. What actually happens is the consultant pockets half of the consultant fee, and gives the other half to the person you want to influence. And then the vote changes.
A few people are already on their way to jail, but it's nothing compared to the cost to the city and the hundreds of workers who lost their jobs as a result of the deal.
It's a fact in public life that if the people around you are dirty, some of that dirt will rub off on you, whether or not you are involved.
Once the public's trust is broken, it's very hard to earn it back.
What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.marketwatch.com/m/story/25fdbe85-c490-42a4-9fea-50984f155661/0
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10474750/1/obamas-it-guru-returns-to-work.html