I just checked with GM. But for one single exception, literally every GM vehicle made including every model GMC, Buick, Cadillac and Chevvy comes with OnStar and you cannot buy the car without it.
The one single exception is the 2015 base model Chevvy Colorado. Good luck finding a base model.
Onstar is basically GM having the balls to charge the customer for the equipment that GM uses to gather personal data and to sell navigation and other services that mostly your phone already does for free.
It boggles my mind how gullible people are. I'm amazed that people don't all just refuse to buy any car with Onstar in.
>> The sad thing is, apparently a lot of Americans would agree, and believe security at any cost is an OK thing.
Yes I've also noticed exactly that. It seems to me that its mostly women that are not only happy to give up all freedom but actively want everything fully controlled by the government. I honestly wonder why thats true, why they trust the system so much, and what they are thinking. or not.
Interesting. I haven't seen quite the same in terms of female developers usually being better than average, but I've definitely seen that female developers are very rarely average. I worked as a contractor for a while so saw a lot of different cube farms and the pattern of female developers I kept seeing almost exclusively, is either "good to very good" (but never the best) or more often "very bad but the boss has a blind spot and/or keeps giving her free passes apparently just because she's female".
You've also got 5 tickets. Its just that someone else with 5 tickets is telling you that you only have 1 ticket and you're allowing yourself to believe them.
>> obviously, the tech world has a problem with sexism.
Sorry but its very not obvious to me. I've worked as a software developer for 35 years, for many different employers in several different fields and countries, and haven't yet seen anything other than environments that encourage women developers, treat and pay them equally, and mostly actually cut them more slack than the guys get. The girls were obviously getting an easier time than guys during my CS degree at university too.
"The truth is, if you are a woman, and someone threatens to murder you online, it's overwhelmingly likely that no help is coming, and you're on your own."
Why is she making this a gender-specific issue? Does anyone else see the inherent sexism and wrongness of her thinking here?
Unfortunately this is just another perfect example of a massive problem in society now from many women and most PeeCee media outlets blatantly promoting the idea that a politically correct society just automatically understands that a women's life and rights are somehow intrinsically more valuable/important than a man's, so women should get extra special protection just because vagina.
I've been driving for 35 years, Most of that time I've lived in or near major cities/traffic, driven to work and back every day, and in all that time have only ever been rear-ended once (by a dumb woman paying more attention to her Google smart phone than driving her giant SUV).
I was initially thought this must be a ridiculous stat that Google have made up in a lame attempt to justify getting human drivers off the road, but If the figure is actually true then something else must also be going on with that car, and/or the unpredictable way its driving. For me thats good enough reason on its own to make self-driving cars illegal and get them off the road.
I quite seriously expect the value of old pre-computerized cars to go up significantly just because of stuff like this, however you can bet the legislators will also keep finding new ways to get cars they cant spy with or control off the roads.
Netanyahu is a warmongering idiot. All he ever seems to do is passive-agressively invent reasons/excuses to stir up more shit and more reasons to use military force against muslims and steal more land.
I'm not suggesting the muslims are white as snow either but it boggles my mind why the US keeps sending money/arms to Israel and automatically backs them up no matter how blatantly they make trouble.
Israel is like the irritating little kid in the school playground that makes everyones lives hell, and only avoids getting a well-deserved pasting because he has a giant brother and knows to never go anywhere alone.
>> you might start wondering to what extent the data you generate while driving might be analyzed or shared with advertisers.
Fuck advertisers. I'm FAR more worried about them sharing it with my insurance company and law enforcement.
This is basically a way to force you to have the equivalent of one of those "safe driving" widgets in your OBD2 port all the time, and to completely automate sending you speeding tickets for every small infraction.
citation please...and anyway even if per-capita driving ratio has peaked, the number of 'capitas' is still growing i.e. the US population is still growing, (atlhough admittedly not by much) and the average age of cars on the road is rising, so the net result is we're still seeing an increasing number of cars on the road year-on-year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Either: 1) The artificial rhino horn has no more real benefit than the real one: Ignorant chinese masses will never question their long held beliefs so will just conclude the artificial horn doesn't work as well as the real one so demand for real rhino horn (and poaching) increases. or... they make an artificial rhino horn that has more (i.e. actually has some) benefit than the real one because they also included actual drugs in the mix. Ignorant chinese masses have their dumb belief that rhino horn actually does something confirmed so demand for real rhino horn (and poaching) increases.
Get a lawyer to send them a letter saying you've already informed them multiple times you're not even a customer, and will now sue for harassment if they don't cease further communications with you.
There is no way the can target just terrorists, so this has bulk data collection of everyone in the UK written all over it. Normally I think Cameron is OK but on this point he's making himself look like a complete fool and is clearly a dangerous enemy of fundamental human rights. If nothing else he needs some basic lessons in information theory for even implying that its always possible to decrypt messages. Its not even possible to always know when some data just contains an encrypted message.
Pair programming is a crap idea that never works. The better programmer just gets held back and frustrated with the other programmers incompetence, and the worse programmer just stays out of their depth. What you can only ever get is a mediocre piece of work at best since the better programmer usually has to compromise for the sake of the worse programmer.
I don't understand why most Americans are paranoid enough about health insurance to give up everything just to stay covered by employee health just in case something happens. I mean really how likely is it that you're going to break an arm or something in a few months between jobs? And even if you do, ER legally can't just turn you away. I haven't actually checked but welfare/Obamacare probably has you covered if your income is low/zero too.
>> if you don't work the bullshit hours... you'll earn yourself a spot on the top of the list of people to be outsourced.
Not all employers are like that, and don't believe it if anyone tells you otherwise. If you already work for somewhere like that then you need to do one of 2 things: 1) Learn your lesson, deal with it while you find another job, and require a written clause covering free overtime in your next employment contract before you accept a start date,
or 2) Be happy and just accept that your current employer already knows they can and will treat you like their bitch whenever they want, and since you have already shown to them you don't have any balls or respect for yourself, the whole promotion/more pay thing will always just be a carrot they dangle but you can never reach.
Yes I do that too, and for similar reasons, and am also prepared to accept the side effects. And guess what its working fine for me.
I never worry about performance appraisals, since many if not most companies just have themfor use as psychological tools to (try to) undermine your confidence and thereby manipulate you into free overtime etc. Since I already know my own weak points/strengths/skills/capabilities I don't need anyone else to give me their impressions of me, and won't fall for being manipulated. Being paid is the only real evidence that you are actually of value to them.
I also never do what most employees do, just passively hope to be offered a pay rise next year. If/when I have cause to believe I legitimately now justify more money, I simply tell them I want to renegotiate my employment contract and give them the reasons. And you know what... it works, because instead of being a whiny bitch you're offering them a business deal and that's their language.
I can only do that because I view my employment contract as a mutually beneficial business deal between equals. Companies are not your parents and most aren't charities. They are only hiring you at all because of a simple profit vs cost formula: you are ultimately making them significantly more money than you cost them.
Many companies use talk of "loyalty to the employer/employee" and try to suggest their company has old fashioned values but they are mostly only doing so as a psychological tool to brain wash/pacify the more sheep-like employees into doing more for the company than they are paying for. You only find out how actually intangible their supposed loyalty is as soon as their latest calculations show the balance of the profit/cost formula of your employment has swung. I don't blame them one bit for firing people when the deal ceases to be beneficial, since I feel free to do just the same to them, and Its just the nature of "being in business". But I do blame employees for being naive enough to believe that somehow their situation is any different.
>> This assumption is not correct. The business can replace the employee,...just like the employee can replace the business.
>> and is rarely dependent on a single individual for its continued survival and well-being....Just as there are multiple employers out there, so the employee is in exactly the same boat.
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I just checked with GM.
But for one single exception, literally every GM vehicle made including every model GMC, Buick, Cadillac and Chevvy comes with OnStar and you cannot buy the car without it.
The one single exception is the 2015 base model Chevvy Colorado. Good luck finding a base model.
Onstar is basically GM having the balls to charge the customer for the equipment that GM uses to gather personal data and to sell navigation and other services that mostly your phone already does for free.
It boggles my mind how gullible people are. I'm amazed that people don't all just refuse to buy any car with Onstar in.
>> The sad thing is, apparently a lot of Americans would agree, and believe security at any cost is an OK thing.
Yes I've also noticed exactly that. It seems to me that its mostly women that are not only happy to give up all freedom but actively want everything fully controlled by the government. I honestly wonder why thats true, why they trust the system so much, and what they are thinking. or not.
Lisa Monaco is a cluleless moron.
>> "he should ... Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and â" importantly â" accept the consequences of his actions"
Read: he should point out our faults then just let us take whatever revenge we feel like.
She is a total moron. How do such people ever get such responsible jobs?
I completely agree.
Actually yours is a better summary of exactly the point I was trying to make.
Interesting. I haven't seen quite the same in terms of female developers usually being better than average, but I've definitely seen that female developers are very rarely average. I worked as a contractor for a while so saw a lot of different cube farms and the pattern of female developers I kept seeing almost exclusively, is either "good to very good" (but never the best) or more often "very bad but the boss has a blind spot and/or keeps giving her free passes apparently just because she's female".
...or maybe you're just mixing with the wrong guys.
You've also got 5 tickets. Its just that someone else with 5 tickets is telling you that you only have 1 ticket and you're allowing yourself to believe them.
>> obviously, the tech world has a problem with sexism.
Sorry but its very not obvious to me.
I've worked as a software developer for 35 years, for many different employers in several different fields and countries, and haven't yet seen anything other than environments that encourage women developers, treat and pay them equally, and mostly actually cut them more slack than the guys get.
The girls were obviously getting an easier time than guys during my CS degree at university too.
This line shows it all for me:
"The truth is, if you are a woman, and someone threatens to murder you online, it's overwhelmingly likely that no help is coming, and you're on your own."
Why is she making this a gender-specific issue?
Does anyone else see the inherent sexism and wrongness of her thinking here?
Unfortunately this is just another perfect example of a massive problem in society now from many women and most PeeCee media outlets blatantly promoting the idea that a politically correct society just automatically understands that a women's life and rights are somehow intrinsically more valuable/important than a man's, so women should get extra special protection just because vagina.
You might as well ask Do you text while driving?
It amounts to the same thing.
Personal convenience over following the rules.
I've been driving for 35 years, Most of that time I've lived in or near major cities/traffic, driven to work and back every day, and in all that time have only ever been rear-ended once (by a dumb woman paying more attention to her Google smart phone than driving her giant SUV).
I was initially thought this must be a ridiculous stat that Google have made up in a lame attempt to justify getting human drivers off the road, but If the figure is actually true then something else must also be going on with that car, and/or the unpredictable way its driving. For me thats good enough reason on its own to make self-driving cars illegal and get them off the road.
>> I will go to any extent necessary, to never allow this on my vehicle.
I completely echo your sentiment but already see that the car manufacturers and legislators are already removing such freedoms of choice from us. New US laws have already been made that all new cars must include tech to spy on drivers and new tech is being added to remotely control cars.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ne...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...
http://rt.com/news/remote-car-...
I quite seriously expect the value of old pre-computerized cars to go up significantly just because of stuff like this, however you can bet the legislators will also keep finding new ways to get cars they cant spy with or control off the roads.
Netanyahu is a warmongering idiot. All he ever seems to do is passive-agressively invent reasons/excuses to stir up more shit and more reasons to use military force against muslims and steal more land.
I'm not suggesting the muslims are white as snow either but it boggles my mind why the US keeps sending money/arms to Israel and automatically backs them up no matter how blatantly they make trouble.
Israel is like the irritating little kid in the school playground that makes everyones lives hell, and only avoids getting a well-deserved pasting because he has a giant brother and knows to never go anywhere alone.
>> you might start wondering to what extent the data you generate while driving might be analyzed or shared with advertisers.
Fuck advertisers. I'm FAR more worried about them sharing it with my insurance company and law enforcement.
This is basically a way to force you to have the equivalent of one of those "safe driving" widgets in your OBD2 port all the time, and to completely automate sending you speeding tickets for every small infraction.
>> per capita driving has peaked in the U.S
citation please. ..and anyway even if per-capita driving ratio has peaked, the number of 'capitas' is still growing i.e. the US population is still growing, (atlhough admittedly not by much) and the average age of cars on the road is rising, so the net result is we're still seeing an increasing number of cars on the road year-on-year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Either:
1) The artificial rhino horn has no more real benefit than the real one: Ignorant chinese masses will never question their long held beliefs so will just conclude the artificial horn doesn't work as well as the real one so demand for real rhino horn (and poaching) increases.
or...
they make an artificial rhino horn that has more (i.e. actually has some) benefit than the real one because they also included actual drugs in the mix. Ignorant chinese masses have their dumb belief that rhino horn actually does something confirmed so demand for real rhino horn (and poaching) increases.
Get a lawyer to send them a letter saying you've already informed them multiple times you're not even a customer, and will now sue for harassment if they don't cease further communications with you.
There is no way the can target just terrorists, so this has bulk data collection of everyone in the UK written all over it.
Normally I think Cameron is OK but on this point he's making himself look like a complete fool and is clearly a dangerous enemy of fundamental human rights.
If nothing else he needs some basic lessons in information theory for even implying that its always possible to decrypt messages. Its not even possible to always know when some data just contains an encrypted message.
Pair programming is a crap idea that never works. The better programmer just gets held back and frustrated with the other programmers incompetence, and the worse programmer just stays out of their depth. What you can only ever get is a mediocre piece of work at best since the better programmer usually has to compromise for the sake of the worse programmer.
I don't understand why most Americans are paranoid enough about health insurance to give up everything just to stay covered by employee health just in case something happens.
I mean really how likely is it that you're going to break an arm or something in a few months between jobs? And even if you do, ER legally can't just turn you away.
I haven't actually checked but welfare/Obamacare probably has you covered if your income is low/zero too.
>> if you don't work the bullshit hours ... you'll earn yourself a spot on the top of the list of people to be outsourced.
Not all employers are like that, and don't believe it if anyone tells you otherwise.
If you already work for somewhere like that then you need to do one of 2 things:
1) Learn your lesson, deal with it while you find another job, and require a written clause covering free overtime in your next employment contract before you accept a start date,
or
2) Be happy and just accept that your current employer already knows they can and will treat you like their bitch whenever they want, and since you have already shown to them you don't have any balls or respect for yourself, the whole promotion/more pay thing will always just be a carrot they dangle but you can never reach.
>> most folks are in debt up to their eyeballs
Even so that just proves my point that its all ultimately self-inflicted. No one forced you to buy that 72" TV with your credit card.
Yes I do that too, and for similar reasons, and am also prepared to accept the side effects. And guess what its working fine for me.
I never worry about performance appraisals, since many if not most companies just have themfor use as psychological tools to (try to) undermine your confidence and thereby manipulate you into free overtime etc. Since I already know my own weak points/strengths/skills/capabilities I don't need anyone else to give me their impressions of me, and won't fall for being manipulated. Being paid is the only real evidence that you are actually of value to them.
I also never do what most employees do, just passively hope to be offered a pay rise next year. If/when I have cause to believe I legitimately now justify more money, I simply tell them I want to renegotiate my employment contract and give them the reasons. And you know what... it works, because instead of being a whiny bitch you're offering them a business deal and that's their language.
I can only do that because I view my employment contract as a mutually beneficial business deal between equals. Companies are not your parents and most aren't charities. They are only hiring you at all because of a simple profit vs cost formula: you are ultimately making them significantly more money than you cost them.
Many companies use talk of "loyalty to the employer/employee" and try to suggest their company has old fashioned values but they are mostly only doing so as a psychological tool to brain wash/pacify the more sheep-like employees into doing more for the company than they are paying for. You only find out how actually intangible their supposed loyalty is as soon as their latest calculations show the balance of the profit/cost formula of your employment has swung. I don't blame them one bit for firing people when the deal ceases to be beneficial, since I feel free to do just the same to them, and Its just the nature of "being in business". But I do blame employees for being naive enough to believe that somehow their situation is any different.
>> This assumption is not correct. The business can replace the employee, ...just like the employee can replace the business.
>> and is rarely dependent on a single individual for its continued survival and well-being. ...Just as there are multiple employers out there, so the employee is in exactly the same boat.