I just hate how everything Musk now says is treated as gospel here on/.
I respect the hell out of the guy and what he's working towards.. but can we get rid of the "Tesla is so awesome" article quota? A lot of what is reported here about Tesla is about as innovative as Apple's rounded corner.
I can't find it now but there's an annual get together at a lake in Ohio that celebrates cars that can also travel in the water.
You'd be surprised... I mean, lifeguards (those that work at the community pool) do not make much but are trained in life saving techniques.
Most event staff probably have training on the defibrillator machines (they aren't that hard to use) and I imagine most of these venues have medics on site during large events.
I got a different impression on the intent of the congresswoman. Her 'suggestion' was merely trying to raise a point that drug testing the poor is stupid because results have shown that drug use among that group is far below the national average. It's a program (championed by Republicans) that is costing the government more money.
To me, I can feel the sarcasm simply by reading her statements...
I would like to add something to your excellent post.
In theory, the roads to belong to all of us. However depending on your municipality, how the funds for road maintenance are distributed often coincide with how much tax the residents on that road pay.
When you take a quiet residential street and suddenly increase the volume 100 fold, do you think they are going to take away highway maintenance funds to repair that, especially when it was not meant to be a detour around construction?
I feel the residents have a very legitimate reason to be upset. Now, who they should be upset with is more easily debated. Patience in our society is gone, everyone looking for a shortcut.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Remember the simpler times when you turned a tv on and it just displayed exactly what you wanted?
About once a month my current TV will become unresponsive to all controls (remote and buttons on the back). My only course of action is to pull everything from the wall and unplug the damn thing for 30 seconds.
At least it doesn't play ads. Our current one is connected to the internet only because my wife cannot figure out the Roku or the Xbox One to stream......
When a show is specifically made for women viewers yet most of the reviews come from men, you don't see how that could potentially be a problem?
Just going by the data, there are clearly not as many women giving reviews.. their collective voice is drown out by males. I'm not saying that makes anyone more or less special, it just means that the results are easy to skew.
If I go to a southern Baptist church and ask them their opinion on gays getting married, do you think I'll get a acceptance rate that is similar to nationwide average?
There are not enough women giving reviews to sabotage anything. Even if the viewership were equally split between men and women, many women would probably not log in simply to give something a bad rating.
Where I live, $31k/year would be enough.. probably would have to rent an apartment vs buy a house, but it's doable. The problem with renting long term, you don't build equity.
I'm grossly simplifying the issue but I believe anyone that is working 40 hours per week should have the luxury to not have to worry about paying the bills where they live (obviously living within their means). There is such a heavy reliance on minimum wage service jobs.
Minimum wage should be tied to some sort of living index of where the business is physically located.
$15/hr working 40 hour weeks, 52 weeks per year is still only $31,200, before taxes. How would your life be making that money? What if you made that much money while trying to live in NYC, or LA?
Get over your notion that people wanting a living wage is somehow the problem. If minimum wage kept up with inflation over the years, wouldn't we already be at or past $15/hr? Prices for goods keeps up with inflation but labor wages don't? Hmm..
When I competed in this in the early 90s, we had two brothers on our team that both finished top 10 on the individual portion.
They then had a pyramid style competition to determine the individual winner. Our teammate was one of the last two standing. In the final, he buzzed in too early on multiple occasions (had to wait until they were done reading the question) and was DQ'd from answering that question. He knew the answer before the question was done. The other kid then had 30 seconds to work out it on his own, eventually getting it right.
He also ended up teaching our high school physics class because our teacher was not qualified. Smartest person I've ever known, extremely socialable as well. Very humble too.
Maybe they should find a study that compares Tesla's designs to that of Volvo or Honda or any other OE out there.
It's a slashvertisement in that they lead the reader to believe that no other manufacturer cares about safety. It's been a constant theme to celebrate everything one of Elon Musk's companies do.. even if it's been done before.
Let's say you are curious if your neighbor locks their windows. One day you decided to walk around their house, checking all the doors and windows. You find one that's open. A few days later you see that neighbor and tell them "oh, by the way your bedroom window is unlocked."
What are they suppose to think? You may have had the best intention but went about it in a completely creepy manner. What you could have done is go to them ahead of time and say "there have been some reports of break-ins lately, are you sure all your doors and windows are locked?"
I hope you don't think I would have voted for Cruz.. because that's not the case. I was simply providing my experiences in Ohio, talking to rank and file Republicans.
I am glad that Trump beat out Cruz.. I'm sad that it came down to those 2.. but the lesser of the two evils will get the nomination.
I would have liked to have seen Sanders vs Kasich. That would have been best case scenario with the candidates we had to choose from.
I do not disagree with you. Being a resident of Ohio, most people here do not understand the danger of Cruz. Many people I've spoken with who vote only Republican cannot stand Trump.. He's been vilified by everyone (rightly so) but Cruz has largely been ignored. I believe most Ohio voters for Kasich would have gone to Cruz. Winning Ohio delegates could have changed the momentum.
All speculation, of course. Personally, my top 3 would have been Kasich, Bush, Trump.. sadly.
There are nerds of many types. Space/SciFi, computer hardware, computer software, robotics.. etc. You don't have to be an expert in every field to be a nerd.
Besides my Fortan 90 class that I took in 1998 and very basic HTML that I learned from my Geocities webpage, I have very limited coding knowledge. Doesn't make me less of a nerd, just means I don't consume as much Mt. Dew or Doritos.
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I just hate how everything Musk now says is treated as gospel here on /.
I respect the hell out of the guy and what he's working towards.. but can we get rid of the "Tesla is so awesome" article quota? A lot of what is reported here about Tesla is about as innovative as Apple's rounded corner.
I can't find it now but there's an annual get together at a lake in Ohio that celebrates cars that can also travel in the water.
You'd be surprised... I mean, lifeguards (those that work at the community pool) do not make much but are trained in life saving techniques.
Most event staff probably have training on the defibrillator machines (they aren't that hard to use) and I imagine most of these venues have medics on site during large events.
I got a different impression on the intent of the congresswoman. Her 'suggestion' was merely trying to raise a point that drug testing the poor is stupid because results have shown that drug use among that group is far below the national average. It's a program (championed by Republicans) that is costing the government more money.
To me, I can feel the sarcasm simply by reading her statements...
dos equis is good but I prefer negra modelo when I'm in Mexico.
I would like to add something to your excellent post.
In theory, the roads to belong to all of us. However depending on your municipality, how the funds for road maintenance are distributed often coincide with how much tax the residents on that road pay.
When you take a quiet residential street and suddenly increase the volume 100 fold, do you think they are going to take away highway maintenance funds to repair that, especially when it was not meant to be a detour around construction?
I feel the residents have a very legitimate reason to be upset. Now, who they should be upset with is more easily debated. Patience in our society is gone, everyone looking for a shortcut.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
I always knew that my string of poor life decisions was not my doing.
(I'm randomly flipping off the sky right now.)
Remember the simpler times when you turned a tv on and it just displayed exactly what you wanted?
About once a month my current TV will become unresponsive to all controls (remote and buttons on the back). My only course of action is to pull everything from the wall and unplug the damn thing for 30 seconds.
At least it doesn't play ads. Our current one is connected to the internet only because my wife cannot figure out the Roku or the Xbox One to stream......
Yes - I do not believe the US has a large scale internet forum troll brigade.
We just have a fuckton of morons that are willing to do it for free.
When a show is specifically made for women viewers yet most of the reviews come from men, you don't see how that could potentially be a problem?
Just going by the data, there are clearly not as many women giving reviews.. their collective voice is drown out by males. I'm not saying that makes anyone more or less special, it just means that the results are easy to skew.
If I go to a southern Baptist church and ask them their opinion on gays getting married, do you think I'll get a acceptance rate that is similar to nationwide average?
Are you new to the internet?
There are not enough women giving reviews to sabotage anything. Even if the viewership were equally split between men and women, many women would probably not log in simply to give something a bad rating.
I got 30+ mbps but everyone's at work or school right now. I'll be curious what it shows at 8pm tonight.
They do work, get paid, pay taxes.. that's life.
The real bitch is the airline not actually paying in cash, but something they consider a cash equivalent.
Where I live, $31k/year would be enough.. probably would have to rent an apartment vs buy a house, but it's doable. The problem with renting long term, you don't build equity.
I'm grossly simplifying the issue but I believe anyone that is working 40 hours per week should have the luxury to not have to worry about paying the bills where they live (obviously living within their means). There is such a heavy reliance on minimum wage service jobs.
Minimum wage should be tied to some sort of living index of where the business is physically located.
$15/hr working 40 hour weeks, 52 weeks per year is still only $31,200, before taxes. How would your life be making that money? What if you made that much money while trying to live in NYC, or LA?
Get over your notion that people wanting a living wage is somehow the problem. If minimum wage kept up with inflation over the years, wouldn't we already be at or past $15/hr? Prices for goods keeps up with inflation but labor wages don't? Hmm..
When I competed in this in the early 90s, we had two brothers on our team that both finished top 10 on the individual portion.
They then had a pyramid style competition to determine the individual winner. Our teammate was one of the last two standing. In the final, he buzzed in too early on multiple occasions (had to wait until they were done reading the question) and was DQ'd from answering that question. He knew the answer before the question was done. The other kid then had 30 seconds to work out it on his own, eventually getting it right.
He also ended up teaching our high school physics class because our teacher was not qualified. Smartest person I've ever known, extremely socialable as well. Very humble too.
You still have to pick the top 4 finishers, in order.
If it's that easy, place a $2 bet on the next big race using the odds.
Odds makers are not dumb. If a superfecta pays 700 to 1, you can be damn sure it's very difficult to get right.
Maybe they should find a study that compares Tesla's designs to that of Volvo or Honda or any other OE out there.
It's a slashvertisement in that they lead the reader to believe that no other manufacturer cares about safety. It's been a constant theme to celebrate everything one of Elon Musk's companies do.. even if it's been done before.
Let's say you are curious if your neighbor locks their windows. One day you decided to walk around their house, checking all the doors and windows. You find one that's open. A few days later you see that neighbor and tell them "oh, by the way your bedroom window is unlocked."
What are they suppose to think? You may have had the best intention but went about it in a completely creepy manner. What you could have done is go to them ahead of time and say "there have been some reports of break-ins lately, are you sure all your doors and windows are locked?"
I hope you don't think I would have voted for Cruz.. because that's not the case. I was simply providing my experiences in Ohio, talking to rank and file Republicans.
I am glad that Trump beat out Cruz.. I'm sad that it came down to those 2.. but the lesser of the two evils will get the nomination.
I would have liked to have seen Sanders vs Kasich. That would have been best case scenario with the candidates we had to choose from.
It's weird. My wife upgraded months ago on her laptap because she got a few notices and finally clicked "accept".
I, on the other hand, received only 1 pop-up notice and haven't seen anything since. I have an icon in the task bar but no more pop-ups.
Go figure.
"not being Trump"
I do not disagree with you. Being a resident of Ohio, most people here do not understand the danger of Cruz. Many people I've spoken with who vote only Republican cannot stand Trump.. He's been vilified by everyone (rightly so) but Cruz has largely been ignored. I believe most Ohio voters for Kasich would have gone to Cruz. Winning Ohio delegates could have changed the momentum.
All speculation, of course. Personally, my top 3 would have been Kasich, Bush, Trump.. sadly.
If Kasich had dropped out earlier, maybe Cruz could have won more delegates.
It's good that Kasich stopped Cruz, the far more dangerous candidate.
There are nerds of many types. Space/SciFi, computer hardware, computer software, robotics.. etc. You don't have to be an expert in every field to be a nerd.
Besides my Fortan 90 class that I took in 1998 and very basic HTML that I learned from my Geocities webpage, I have very limited coding knowledge. Doesn't make me less of a nerd, just means I don't consume as much Mt. Dew or Doritos.