"My wife and I made a Nissan Leaf our second vehicle."
And therein lies the problem. The way Electric cars are right now you really wind up needing two vehicles. This reinforces my point that it isn't solving the core issue, and that it's way out of the price range of most regular people.
That's quite a bad assumption. I think most people are perfectly capable of managing their finances and making informed choices, and that your statement is mind-blowingly stupid. What kind of idiot comes up with an entire theory based on witnessing one couple?
The fact remains that 80 miles of range isn't enough for a lot of people.
...and they all suck. Bad range, and terrible charge. People continue to buy gas cars because these issues are still not addressed in cars they could potentially afford.
"Electric cars may seem like a niche product that only wealthy people can afford"
That's because it's exactly what they are, and exactly why adoption is utter shit. People praise Elon musk for leading this charge towards Electric cars but if nobody can afford them he isn't changing anything.
If learning to make makeshift firearms, explosives, traps, poisons, and other such things interests you, The Poor Man's James Bond is a better series of books. While I don't agree with taking the Anarchist's Cookbook away categorically, it is a pretty dangerous publication in that the instructions (particularly those dealing with explosives) are not very well written, leave out critical steps and safety information. They could potentially cause serious harm or death to the person trying to make them if they do the process like the author outlines.
Remember, this book was written by a pissed off kid during the Vietnam War. He wasn't an expert with practical hands-on experience. It was something he wrote by researching topics at the public library, and then kept submitting it to publishers until one accepted him.
They say they don't have a "carte blanche to just spy on people", but the issue becomes when you can effectively make everything classified nobody can check to see if you're following the rules. From the Snowden leaks it's obvious they do not follow the rules.
No, fuck all that crying. It SHOULD be difficult for them. Anyone with as much power as the NSA should have to account for every damn thing they do on domestic and friendly soil. Fuck the delusional workers who think they're doing the public a great service. It's time for them to wake up and understand that they're goddamn pawns in the game of circumventing democracy so the rich and powerful can stay rich and powerful.
The NSA broke the public trust in a major way, and they deserve all the criticism and skepticism they get.
Car audio makers need to rethink pricing for in-dash infotainment systems. Most are starting at $500 for hardware that has low resolution resistive touchscreen displays and processors that are more than 5 years out of date. At present, no Android head unit is worth buying because it's marked up so horribly - sometimes by as much as 1000%.
I haven't used any kind of social media over the last decade and it hasn't impacted my life one bit. People who need to get ahold of me just call, text, or IM. This idea that we somehow need social networking is misguided. We don't.
"The part of the NSA that does domestic surveillance is relatively small and not nearly as intrusive as the tinfoil hatters want to believe."
There's this guy named Snowden who showed us just how much complete bullshit this really is. Their domestic surveillance may not be as hardcore as their foreign, but it's still pretty damn hardcore. We don't really need tinfoil hats for this one - the evidence was provided.
People didn't trust the government before Snowden either. The only difference here is that Snowden offered us definitive evidence that what we all suspected was going on really was going on. Fuck the NSA. It has strayed so far from its actual purpose I hope it drowns in its lack of educated help. At this point, even tech companies with a strict profit motive are more trustworthy than the US government.
(George Lucas stumbles across the shielded containment room to press up against the glass in a strained effort where an emotional JJ Abrams is on his knees looking inward. A single tear streaks down the left side of his face, clinging to his chin)
George Lucas (wheezing, seeming exhausted): Franchise... out of danger...?
One thing people seem to constantly forget is that most of the people in star wars films - especially ep1 - 3, are fucking terrible actors. The very few that weren't were already well known.
I honestly think it's a topic worth pursuing, I just don't think it's a topic worth discussing if you have no background in it. It's like me offering up my concerned opinions about the Large Hadron Collider when the closest I've ever been to high energy particle collisions is high school physics. It bothers me that we place any stock at all in the uninformed opinions of famous people.
We have plenty of machine learning experts, and none of these people fit in to that category. We listen to them because they're celebrities, not because they know anything useful about the topic.
It's odd that you should say that, because I was hired at a radio shack 10 years ago (which was now The Source by this point) under similar circumstances. I spent a lot of time servicing overpriced PCs and Laptops. The only difference is that I chose to leave for a development job 6 months later which paid better and allowed me to not have to feel guilty about every customer I served "the radio shack way".
Honestly, leaving them was the best thing I ever did for myself. I moved to a town that didn't suck, tripled my income, and furthered a career I've been with ever since. I look back on my days there as "necessary to achieve escape velocity from a shitty town". It was ultimately what gave me the incentive to leave that dead end place. Thanks Source!
Not that I'm a fan of news meda slipping even further down the drain, but TFA talks about editorial judgement and accuracy like it's not already massively broken for all the reasons he states. There's nothing to suggest that Facebook would actually make the situation worse, or better, than it already is.
The problem is that we don't want anyone to control the news with money, and by proxy, control the integrity of the news. However, the money to keep it going has to come from somewhere and we don't seem to trust anyone. It will always be in peril until a neutral source for revenue can be found.
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How many of them still have a gas powered car?
I'm going to go ahead and assume it's all of them.
"My wife and I made a Nissan Leaf our second vehicle."
And therein lies the problem. The way Electric cars are right now you really wind up needing two vehicles. This reinforces my point that it isn't solving the core issue, and that it's way out of the price range of most regular people.
I agree, they're better than they were, but the fact remains that they still suck.
That's quite a bad assumption. I think most people are perfectly capable of managing their finances and making informed choices, and that your statement is mind-blowingly stupid. What kind of idiot comes up with an entire theory based on witnessing one couple?
The fact remains that 80 miles of range isn't enough for a lot of people.
...and they all suck. Bad range, and terrible charge. People continue to buy gas cars because these issues are still not addressed in cars they could potentially afford.
"Electric cars may seem like a niche product that only wealthy people can afford"
That's because it's exactly what they are, and exactly why adoption is utter shit. People praise Elon musk for leading this charge towards Electric cars but if nobody can afford them he isn't changing anything.
If learning to make makeshift firearms, explosives, traps, poisons, and other such things interests you, The Poor Man's James Bond is a better series of books. While I don't agree with taking the Anarchist's Cookbook away categorically, it is a pretty dangerous publication in that the instructions (particularly those dealing with explosives) are not very well written, leave out critical steps and safety information. They could potentially cause serious harm or death to the person trying to make them if they do the process like the author outlines.
Remember, this book was written by a pissed off kid during the Vietnam War. He wasn't an expert with practical hands-on experience. It was something he wrote by researching topics at the public library, and then kept submitting it to publishers until one accepted him.
They say they don't have a "carte blanche to just spy on people", but the issue becomes when you can effectively make everything classified nobody can check to see if you're following the rules. From the Snowden leaks it's obvious they do not follow the rules.
No, fuck all that crying. It SHOULD be difficult for them. Anyone with as much power as the NSA should have to account for every damn thing they do on domestic and friendly soil. Fuck the delusional workers who think they're doing the public a great service. It's time for them to wake up and understand that they're goddamn pawns in the game of circumventing democracy so the rich and powerful can stay rich and powerful.
The NSA broke the public trust in a major way, and they deserve all the criticism and skepticism they get.
Car audio makers need to rethink pricing for in-dash infotainment systems. Most are starting at $500 for hardware that has low resolution resistive touchscreen displays and processors that are more than 5 years out of date. At present, no Android head unit is worth buying because it's marked up so horribly - sometimes by as much as 1000%.
I haven't used any kind of social media over the last decade and it hasn't impacted my life one bit. People who need to get ahold of me just call, text, or IM. This idea that we somehow need social networking is misguided. We don't.
"The part of the NSA that does domestic surveillance is relatively small and not nearly as intrusive as the tinfoil hatters want to believe."
There's this guy named Snowden who showed us just how much complete bullshit this really is. Their domestic surveillance may not be as hardcore as their foreign, but it's still pretty damn hardcore. We don't really need tinfoil hats for this one - the evidence was provided.
People didn't trust the government before Snowden either. The only difference here is that Snowden offered us definitive evidence that what we all suspected was going on really was going on. Fuck the NSA. It has strayed so far from its actual purpose I hope it drowns in its lack of educated help. At this point, even tech companies with a strict profit motive are more trustworthy than the US government.
(George Lucas stumbles across the shielded containment room to press up against the glass in a strained effort where an emotional JJ Abrams is on his knees looking inward. A single tear streaks down the left side of his face, clinging to his chin)
George Lucas (wheezing, seeming exhausted): Franchise ... out of danger...?
...Nintendo couldn't further alienate its fanbase, they pull this stupid shit. It's no shock they're starting to suffer the slow death.
One thing people seem to constantly forget is that most of the people in star wars films - especially ep1 - 3, are fucking terrible actors. The very few that weren't were already well known.
"Let's say every company gets about three innovation tokens."
Bullshit hypothetical statements are bullshit.
I honestly think it's a topic worth pursuing, I just don't think it's a topic worth discussing if you have no background in it. It's like me offering up my concerned opinions about the Large Hadron Collider when the closest I've ever been to high energy particle collisions is high school physics. It bothers me that we place any stock at all in the uninformed opinions of famous people.
We have plenty of machine learning experts, and none of these people fit in to that category. We listen to them because they're celebrities, not because they know anything useful about the topic.
Not one of them is an expert in AI systems.
It's odd that you should say that, because I was hired at a radio shack 10 years ago (which was now The Source by this point) under similar circumstances. I spent a lot of time servicing overpriced PCs and Laptops. The only difference is that I chose to leave for a development job 6 months later which paid better and allowed me to not have to feel guilty about every customer I served "the radio shack way".
Honestly, leaving them was the best thing I ever did for myself. I moved to a town that didn't suck, tripled my income, and furthered a career I've been with ever since. I look back on my days there as "necessary to achieve escape velocity from a shitty town". It was ultimately what gave me the incentive to leave that dead end place. Thanks Source!
"At least Zuckerberg does not fucking pretend to be a reputable media publication with journalistic standard"
Now if he'd just stop pretending to be an honest business man who has his user's interests at heart we'd be getting somewhere.
Not that I'm a fan of news meda slipping even further down the drain, but TFA talks about editorial judgement and accuracy like it's not already massively broken for all the reasons he states. There's nothing to suggest that Facebook would actually make the situation worse, or better, than it already is.
The problem is that we don't want anyone to control the news with money, and by proxy, control the integrity of the news. However, the money to keep it going has to come from somewhere and we don't seem to trust anyone. It will always be in peril until a neutral source for revenue can be found.
This is true. He's largely down on BMW as well, but when he got to the 2005 M3 he couldn't stop singing the praises.
All that said, the guy is still a pompous asshat that did deserve to be fired.
I gotta agree. People don't really realize what a pompous asshat clarkson really is.