Since precisely the moment ganjadude realised thinking is hard, and that the world should be black and white in order to facilitate knee-jerk reactions based on gut feelings bolstered by pathetic media outlets and even worse politicians looking to cement their positions by pointing out as much badness as they can find, even stooping to blur the lines between those committing the badness and those who simply look like them.
The level of training German taxi drivers go through is far more rigorous than just paying for a medallion. In the US your argument makes a lot of sense (the taxis I've had in the US have usually been terrible), but in Germany it's just not the German way. Taxi drivers are highly regulated, and part of that is the extended driving test and accreditation process, which provides a great taxi service.
There is a more substantial difference, though. The concept of mitfahrgelegenheit ('car sharing', essentially) allows people who are travelling a certain route anyway pick up passengers. Those drivers are not being hired or chartered - they are simply sharing a pre-existing journey that would have been driven anyway. The drivers can recoup fuel costs and maybe a little more, but that's it. No-one is allowed to make a living from it, as far as I understand.
Translation: "My knowledge of the impacts of a changing climate are limited, but simply guessing, I think it'll be fine, and I'm so drenched in arrogance I can't possibly consider my guesses are wrong, even though they're not based on evidence, but a gut-feeling".
If they are doing anything with any level of complexity, they are very arguably using one wrongly. There are a reason lots of libraries exist for JS - implementations vary across browsers, and the base language is lacking some rather useful low-level features. If they are writing "pure JavaScript" and doing anything remotely complex, then they either bridged the gap themselves (by recreating the wheel, most likely incompletely), or are simply not using them (limiting compatibility).
I don't know why they would - the new pests they'd be covered in wouldn't help them, not would their tundra melting and becoming swampland (complete with even more pests). Their land isn't good for farming, and so they'd be screwed. Their hydroelectricity would suffer as their capacity lessened, too, making it far from awesome. This notion that cold countries would be "better" if Global Warming kicked in a bit more is verging on the childish.
The sheer number of times you've written about this scenario of the treacherous woman speaks volumes about your attitudes towards women in general. It's frightening.
So you'd fix something by doing the same thing. Genius..? It also makes sure that anyone who rapes anyone else would just kill their victims as that'd increase the likelihood they'd get away with it. What's wrong with your brain? You sound like an angry 13-year-old.
I'm sure you think you are, but to normal people you sound like another Elliot Rodgers waiting to happen. You sound so butt-hurt at women it's not even funny.
Or they could use the recorded music as advertising, as was originally the idea, and make their money by performing live and selling merchandise... Controversial, I know...
There is a difference between calling someone, say, a "poopie head" and accurately calling out someone with a history of xenophobic posts. Seriously. Check his history. It's disgraceful. Letting people know that his "contribution" to the discussion was not born from considered thought but from a kneejerk reaction to scary brown people is helping the discussion.
Your strategy of misunderstanding what's happening is most definitely not a major contribution to anything.
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You seem to have not read the "in Europe" part, which changes things considerably.
Since precisely the moment ganjadude realised thinking is hard, and that the world should be black and white in order to facilitate knee-jerk reactions based on gut feelings bolstered by pathetic media outlets and even worse politicians looking to cement their positions by pointing out as much badness as they can find, even stooping to blur the lines between those committing the badness and those who simply look like them.
You forgot one: "family".
*shudders*
The level of training German taxi drivers go through is far more rigorous than just paying for a medallion. In the US your argument makes a lot of sense (the taxis I've had in the US have usually been terrible), but in Germany it's just not the German way. Taxi drivers are highly regulated, and part of that is the extended driving test and accreditation process, which provides a great taxi service.
There is a more substantial difference, though. The concept of mitfahrgelegenheit ('car sharing', essentially) allows people who are travelling a certain route anyway pick up passengers. Those drivers are not being hired or chartered - they are simply sharing a pre-existing journey that would have been driven anyway. The drivers can recoup fuel costs and maybe a little more, but that's it. No-one is allowed to make a living from it, as far as I understand.
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Translation: "My knowledge of the impacts of a changing climate are limited, but simply guessing, I think it'll be fine, and I'm so drenched in arrogance I can't possibly consider my guesses are wrong, even though they're not based on evidence, but a gut-feeling".
If they are doing anything with any level of complexity, they are very arguably using one wrongly. There are a reason lots of libraries exist for JS - implementations vary across browsers, and the base language is lacking some rather useful low-level features. If they are writing "pure JavaScript" and doing anything remotely complex, then they either bridged the gap themselves (by recreating the wheel, most likely incompletely), or are simply not using them (limiting compatibility).
That's a pretty strong claim considering you have no evidence...
I don't know why they would - the new pests they'd be covered in wouldn't help them, not would their tundra melting and becoming swampland (complete with even more pests). Their land isn't good for farming, and so they'd be screwed. Their hydroelectricity would suffer as their capacity lessened, too, making it far from awesome. This notion that cold countries would be "better" if Global Warming kicked in a bit more is verging on the childish.
Read the IPCC reports, then you'd know how it is a big deal to everyone.
The sheer number of times you've written about this scenario of the treacherous woman speaks volumes about your attitudes towards women in general. It's frightening.
You are so eager to play the victim, and to make all men look like victims. You are pathetic. Elliot Rodgers 2.0!
Most rapists are men. The vast majority, in fact.
There you go again! You seem to have all kinds of issues relating to women. You might not be the best person to comment on stories like this.
You don't seem to trust women. You keep coming up with these scenarios which do more to illustrate your mental state than anything else...
So you'd fix something by doing the same thing. Genius..? It also makes sure that anyone who rapes anyone else would just kill their victims as that'd increase the likelihood they'd get away with it. What's wrong with your brain? You sound like an angry 13-year-old.
You seem to like talking about evil women... You might want to get some help.
I'm sure you think you are, but to normal people you sound like another Elliot Rodgers waiting to happen. You sound so butt-hurt at women it's not even funny.
That is still infinitely more money than is paid out-of-pocket in most of the civilised world.
Or they could use the recorded music as advertising, as was originally the idea, and make their money by performing live and selling merchandise... Controversial, I know...
YouTube was bought by Google - it was not developed there.
You are comparing a home computer to an automated driving system. Something tells me you are not being too honest in your comparison...
Copyright infringement for money is a criminal offense, fyi.
There is a difference between calling someone, say, a "poopie head" and accurately calling out someone with a history of xenophobic posts. Seriously. Check his history. It's disgraceful. Letting people know that his "contribution" to the discussion was not born from considered thought but from a kneejerk reaction to scary brown people is helping the discussion.
Your strategy of misunderstanding what's happening is most definitely not a major contribution to anything.