I don't want to kill cops, but I also don't care about them any more than I care about people in general. This new program is a clear example of "mission creep", and the likely result will be more people opting out of the increasingly stupid and pointless alerts.
They could track them by electricity use. Venezuela gives away electricity for almost nothing, less than 1 cent/kwhr, which makes it an attractive place to run miners, as well as other activities that squander energy.
Why is it a bad business decision? If you have a Tesla, and you enjoy driving it, then why not get paid to do it? The electricity is cheaper than gas, and electric motors don't "wear out" like ICEs. The only maintenance is tire rotation/replacement, and wiper fluid.
But they aren't really comparable. WhatsApp is a messenger app. WeChat is that, plus much more.
In China, if you see a beggar on the street and you don't have any spare change, you can do a WeChat transfer from your phone directly to the bum's phone. You can't do that with WhatsApp.
In general, yes. But not with his base. 75% of Republicans think he is doing a good job. His approval rating is even higher with the wingnuts likely to vote in the primaries.
There are some GOP congresspeople concerned for their jobs
Most of them fear a primary challenge more than a general election defeat.
You mean buy condos that are 300sqft, and cost $250k-785k right?
There are three solutions to high housing prices: 1. Government price controls and rationing. This has an extremely poor track record. 2. Decrease demand, by sterilizing or shooting people, or maybe bring back smallpox. 3. Increase supply by building more houses to meet the demand, creating jobs and economic growth.
Americans have a knee jerk resistance to #3, partly out of self interest (current residents benefit from high prices), and partly out of a belief that actually building or accomplishing anything is wrong or evil. In SF, 95% of building permits were rejected last year... and most builders didn't even bother to apply.
Here's an idea, stop allowing stuff to be smuggled into prisons.
Most contraband is brought in by the guards. So who is going to watch the watchers?
Or do random sweeps for them
So who is going to run the sweep? The guards?
Your simplistic solutions are all based on the presumption that there are "good people" working in the prisons. Some employees may start off good, but they rarely stay that way.
Here's a better solution: Stop locking up so many people. Find more appropriate forms of punishment, such as wearing an ankle tracker while cleaning bedpans in nursing homes. Prison is expensive and often just hardens people to a life of crime.
the might of the whole galaxy was against the Jedi and they got killed off one by one
You say that like it was a bad thing. Look, the Jedi had NOTHING TO OFFER the people of the galaxy. The Empire brought peace and order. Building the Death Star created a Keynesian expansion that provided prosperity for trillions of people. Life was good. Then the Jedi destroyed all of that, killed the emperor, and the galactic economy collapsed. Soon people were reduced to scavenging the wreckage left behind by the golden age of empire. Of course the people turned against the Jedi. Can you blame them?
Of course, if you're not planning to remain in the jurisdiction with the car, this might not be much of a problem.
It is a problem. If the police are competent, they will rapidly get the stolen car into the system, so that other police will know it is stolen if they pull over the driver for some other infraction... which is common since car thieves tend to be stupid thrill seekers. You don't have to catch every thief every time, even a 10% arrest rate is enough to deter theft. That national rate is about 15%. The Bay Area is about half that.
If you want to steal cars to sell in Mexico, do it in Beverly Hills, or Palm Springs.
The police in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs can actually be fired for their incompetence, and are far more politically accountable than in the Bay Area.
It is 2017 and a lot of us don't live with our parents anymore. It is *extremely* common for people to want to know what is involved in it in 2017.
This may come as a shock to you, but I also live in 2017. Anybody that has even a 1% curiosity level of what "programming" is has a mountain of resources to learn from. They don't need to ask me... and they don't ask me, except at the most superficial level of "What do you do for a living?"
Haven't you heard? Anyone can do it. It should be taught in elementary school!
It is taught in elementary school. My kids learned Scratch in 4th grade, and Python in 6th grade. That means there are even fewer people that need to ask what it is.
The question asked was how to explain programming...
It is a non-problem. I have been a programmer for 35 years, and during all that time, I have never, not once, had a non-tech ask me to explain programming.
Anybody that actually wants to know can go to Wikipedia and read the computer programming page. After that, there are hundreds of books and websites where they can try it out for themselves.
... not how to avoid doing so in social interactions at a party.
You want to avoid it... which is easy because nobody is interested. If you start talking about coding at social events, you will soon notice that people stop talking to you and move to the other side of the room. If you want to avoid being a genetic dead end, you need to learn the art of conversation, and avoid talking about the technical details of your job.
I am not the least bit surprised that the liberal cesspit of SF has the highest car theft.
There are several reasons why the SF Bay Area is number 1: 1. Lots of nice cars. 2. Close enough to Mexico. In Tijuana there are no checks in the southbound direction. You can just drive across. 3. Strong police unions, and thus no way to motivate or replace the apathetic and inept police. By the time they type up the report, the car is in Mexico. 4. No political pressure to fix the problem. Local politics tend to fixate on other issues, such as whether the city's health care plan should cover sex change operations for transgender public employees,
Sounds like something a bomb would be much better at handling.
Not really. The Vegas shooter killed 58. The Boston Marathon bombers killed 3.
An active shooter is almostly always going to be more effective than a bomb. Even the Virginia Tech shooter killed 32, and that was with a handgun. Very few bombings get anywhere near that.
The Oklahoma City bombing killed 168, but that was with a truck bomb, which was logistically difficult even at the time, and would be much more so today with additional restrictions in place. Also, like the Madrid and London tube bombings, it involved multiple perps.
Anybody can buy a bump stock, and they are easy to use. Building a bomb requires much more expertise, and if you do it wrong, you often don't get a second chance. Explosives are not very forgiving.
There's a difference between natural forced selection breeding between plants GMO and Monsanto doing it in the lab at the molecular level breeding plants with spiders GMO.
Except you just made that up. Monsanto has not put spider DNA into any plant based product that they sell.
Can you cite a better example of what you are objecting to that isn't total BS?
How is that different from the stock market? If I'm making money, someone is losing money
Nonsense. The stock market can go up when productivity improvements (or tax cuts) increase profits. It is not zero sum. In a growing economy, everyone can be a winner.
Bitcoin is negative sum, because someone has to pay for the electricity. Bitcoin mining is a lot more expensive than growing tulips.
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Doubt it will happen
Indeed. They are already backpedaling after the marketing department had a talk with the engineers.
I don't want to kill cops, but I also don't care about them any more than I care about people in general. This new program is a clear example of "mission creep", and the likely result will be more people opting out of the increasingly stupid and pointless alerts.
I wonder how they'll track miners.
They could track them by electricity use. Venezuela gives away electricity for almost nothing, less than 1 cent/kwhr, which makes it an attractive place to run miners, as well as other activities that squander energy.
Would anyone think it an outrage if Mercedez or BMW stopped giving away free gas for commercial use?
They would if it was promised when they bought the car. Tesla is altering the deal, just like Darth Vader.
only that it was a bad business decision.
Why is it a bad business decision? If you have a Tesla, and you enjoy driving it, then why not get paid to do it? The electricity is cheaper than gas, and electric motors don't "wear out" like ICEs. The only maintenance is tire rotation/replacement, and wiper fluid.
At no point did I claim not to know what Office, Facebook or Linux is.
WhatsApp is used by more people than Facebook, and has WAY more users than Office or non-Android Linux.
If you don't know what WhatsApp is, you are seriously out of touch, and you shouldn't expect Slashdot articles to be dumbed down to accommodate you.
Disclaimer: I think WhatsApp is stupid. I don't use it. But I certainly know what it is.
Since it also says "Facebook", this isn't the "most used messenger". The most used one is something Chinese, WeeChat or something similar.
WhatsApp daily users: ~ 1 Billion.
WeChat daily users: ~ 700 Million
But they aren't really comparable. WhatsApp is a messenger app. WeChat is that, plus much more.
In China, if you see a beggar on the street and you don't have any spare change, you can do a WeChat transfer from your phone directly to the bum's phone. You can't do that with WhatsApp.
Trump's approval rating is in the gutter
In general, yes. But not with his base. 75% of Republicans think he is doing a good job. His approval rating is even higher with the wingnuts likely to vote in the primaries.
There are some GOP congresspeople concerned for their jobs
Most of them fear a primary challenge more than a general election defeat.
You mean buy condos that are 300sqft, and cost $250k-785k right?
There are three solutions to high housing prices:
1. Government price controls and rationing. This has an extremely poor track record.
2. Decrease demand, by sterilizing or shooting people, or maybe bring back smallpox.
3. Increase supply by building more houses to meet the demand, creating jobs and economic growth.
Americans have a knee jerk resistance to #3, partly out of self interest (current residents benefit from high prices), and partly out of a belief that actually building or accomplishing anything is wrong or evil. In SF, 95% of building permits were rejected last year ... and most builders didn't even bother to apply.
They are, but there just tiny. Almost like a mobile home one would find in a trailer park.
That is almost certainly because of some stupid zoning regulation. In the absence of some prohibition, builders tend to build what people want to buy.
Here's an idea, stop allowing stuff to be smuggled into prisons.
Most contraband is brought in by the guards. So who is going to watch the watchers?
Or do random sweeps for them
So who is going to run the sweep? The guards?
Your simplistic solutions are all based on the presumption that there are "good people" working in the prisons. Some employees may start off good, but they rarely stay that way.
Here's a better solution: Stop locking up so many people. Find more appropriate forms of punishment, such as wearing an ankle tracker while cleaning bedpans in nursing homes. Prison is expensive and often just hardens people to a life of crime.
Why do they do it in countries without prison telephone monopolies?
1. So they can make calls when they want.
2. So they can receive calls as well as make them.
3. So that nobody is listening in.
Part of going to a funeral is to talk with the other people who knew the deceased person, give your support, etc.
Why can't you do that with Twitter?
An obvious solution is to build some more houses.
the might of the whole galaxy was against the Jedi and they got killed off one by one
You say that like it was a bad thing. Look, the Jedi had NOTHING TO OFFER the people of the galaxy. The Empire brought peace and order. Building the Death Star created a Keynesian expansion that provided prosperity for trillions of people. Life was good. Then the Jedi destroyed all of that, killed the emperor, and the galactic economy collapsed. Soon people were reduced to scavenging the wreckage left behind by the golden age of empire. Of course the people turned against the Jedi. Can you blame them?
Of course, if you're not planning to remain in the jurisdiction with the car, this might not be much of a problem.
It is a problem. If the police are competent, they will rapidly get the stolen car into the system, so that other police will know it is stolen if they pull over the driver for some other infraction ... which is common since car thieves tend to be stupid thrill seekers. You don't have to catch every thief every time, even a 10% arrest rate is enough to deter theft. That national rate is about 15%. The Bay Area is about half that.
A marathon is a lot of people running and is miles. Comparing it to a small area, packed in, standing room only concert is misleading at best.
The bombs targeted the crowd at the finish line.
If you want to steal cars to sell in Mexico, do it in Beverly Hills, or Palm Springs.
The police in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs can actually be fired for their incompetence, and are far more politically accountable than in the Bay Area.
It is 2017 and a lot of us don't live with our parents anymore. It is *extremely* common for people to want to know what is involved in it in 2017.
This may come as a shock to you, but I also live in 2017. Anybody that has even a 1% curiosity level of what "programming" is has a mountain of resources to learn from. They don't need to ask me ... and they don't ask me, except at the most superficial level of "What do you do for a living?"
Haven't you heard? Anyone can do it. It should be taught in elementary school!
It is taught in elementary school. My kids learned Scratch in 4th grade, and Python in 6th grade. That means there are even fewer people that need to ask what it is.
The question asked was how to explain programming ...
It is a non-problem. I have been a programmer for 35 years, and during all that time, I have never, not once, had a non-tech ask me to explain programming.
Anybody that actually wants to know can go to Wikipedia and read the computer programming page. After that, there are hundreds of books and websites where they can try it out for themselves.
... not how to avoid doing so in social interactions at a party.
You want to avoid it ... which is easy because nobody is interested. If you start talking about coding at social events, you will soon notice that people stop talking to you and move to the other side of the room. If you want to avoid being a genetic dead end, you need to learn the art of conversation, and avoid talking about the technical details of your job.
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1. Has nothing whatsoever to do with Monsanto.
2. Not used in plants.
3. Not a product, just R&D.
Care to try again?
I am not the least bit surprised that the liberal cesspit of SF has the highest car theft.
There are several reasons why the SF Bay Area is number 1:
1. Lots of nice cars.
2. Close enough to Mexico. In Tijuana there are no checks in the southbound direction. You can just drive across.
3. Strong police unions, and thus no way to motivate or replace the apathetic and inept police. By the time they type up the report, the car is in Mexico.
4. No political pressure to fix the problem. Local politics tend to fixate on other issues, such as whether the city's health care plan should cover sex change operations for transgender public employees,
Sounds like something a bomb would be much better at handling.
Not really. The Vegas shooter killed 58. The Boston Marathon bombers killed 3.
An active shooter is almostly always going to be more effective than a bomb. Even the Virginia Tech shooter killed 32, and that was with a handgun. Very few bombings get anywhere near that.
The Oklahoma City bombing killed 168, but that was with a truck bomb, which was logistically difficult even at the time, and would be much more so today with additional restrictions in place. Also, like the Madrid and London tube bombings, it involved multiple perps.
Anybody can buy a bump stock, and they are easy to use. Building a bomb requires much more expertise, and if you do it wrong, you often don't get a second chance. Explosives are not very forgiving.
There's a difference between natural forced selection breeding between plants GMO and Monsanto doing it in the lab at the molecular level breeding plants with spiders GMO.
Except you just made that up. Monsanto has not put spider DNA into any plant based product that they sell.
Can you cite a better example of what you are objecting to that isn't total BS?
How is that different from the stock market? If I'm making money, someone is losing money
Nonsense. The stock market can go up when productivity improvements (or tax cuts) increase profits. It is not zero sum. In a growing economy, everyone can be a winner.
Bitcoin is negative sum, because someone has to pay for the electricity. Bitcoin mining is a lot more expensive than growing tulips.