nothing about it looks remotely car like, it looks like a flying blender / head decapitator.
I watched the Jetsons when I was a kid, and since then I have been waiting 50 years for my flying car. Now it is finally here, and the millennials are whining about its appearance? Look, I don't care if it is ugly, just put the damn thing into production. I will buy the first one off the assembly line.
If this thing qualifies as a flying car, then so does a helicopter.
A conventional helicopter requires a highly trained pilot, and cannot fly from my neighborhood to the grocery store. It is not a replacement for a car.
So does "car" now mean absolutely whatever the author of some tedious think piece wants it to?
If an average person can use it to travel from a random point A to another random point B, then it is reasonable to call it a "car", since it provides personal transportation that currently requires a car.
In addition, they act like the politicos are even bright enough to use this!
Have you ever talked privately with a politician? They tend to be very intelligent and inquisitive, and likely wouldn't be where they are if they weren't. They just act stupid in public so people will vote for them. If they come across as a smarty-pants know-it-all, they will lose. Example: Hillary.
Anyway, this does not require politicians to be smart. They just need to have a smart staffer set it up for them.
2. Make sure that things like lights, door locks, etc. ALL have manual overrides.
Whether an IoT device has a manual override should be up to the device manufacturer, not mandated by Amazon.
I have an Amazon Echo, along with many IoT devices. The door locks, light switches, and even the built-in speaker all have manual overrides. The security cameras do not, but that doesn't matter because there is no reason to ever manually operate a security camera. If you want it off, just unplug it. All of these devices can be operated directly from my cellphone in addition to voice control through Alexa.
But Amazon seems to have a new(?) series of TV Ads that I saw this morning that proclaims that Alexa can recognize different voices.
I have an Echo. If I say "Alexa play some music", she will select something I like, such as Waylon Jennings. If my daughter says the same thing, it will play something she likes, like Bruno Mars. So there is clearly some individual voice recognition.
In Europe you even have in-cell phone and entertainment systems but recidivism statistics are the same.
Bullcrap. The recidivism rate in America is 68%. In Norway it is 20%. No other European country does as well as Norway, but they all do better than America.
I highly doubt that access to family has anything to do with the choice of being a career criminal or they wouldn't end up in prison in the first place.
Inmates are far more likely to come from broken and abusive families.
Inmates that have regular communication with their families and friends have lower recidivism rates, and have fewer disciplinary problems in prison. Making phone calls and visits more difficult is very stupid public policy.
About 8% of US inmates are in private for-profit prisons.
South Carolina, which the TFA says has the worst problem with cellphones, has no private prisons.
Oklahoma, listed as the second worst, does use private prisons.
For a supposedly free nation, we incarcerate a lot of people.
America's incarceration rate is about 4 times the first world average.
Incarceration rates vary widely by state, and increases in the incarceration rate are not positively correlated with reductions in crime. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate. Maine has the lowest.
is there some reason why 'that would annihilate the company' would be considered a defect rather than a feature?
There are currently 3 credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and Transunion. Going from 3 to 2 would reduce competition, and raise prices. That is not in the best interest of consumers. It is already clear that everyone directly involved in this debacle is going to lose their jobs, and Equifax will be under completely different management. So what is the point of shutting Equifax down and putting 9500 employees out of work?
Make it a $1,000 fine per person per day for not notifying them...
You need to get a firmer grip on reality. Equifax's net income last year was $488M. There were 143M people compromised. So even $3 per person per year would likely bankrupt them.
We will only see wide adoption of the technologies if almost all of the worst drivers can afford it. That isn't going to happen any time soon.
Why not? The sensors and actuators add very little to the cost of a car. The software has a marginal cost of zero. Once you factor in insurance, SDCs will likely be cheaper than conventional cars.
the same way that ciggarete compsniex provef that smoking wzs healthy?
The cigarette companies were successfully sued for $206 BILLION, which was the largest legal settlement in history, and much of that was justified by their intentionally misleading lies. So they are not very good examples of corporations that lied and "got away with it".
The financial oligarchy controls all levels of government, now and before alike.
If this was true, Jeb Bush would be president. The FO would have prefered even Hillary to Donald. Do you really think that Goldman Sachs wanted the US out of TPP?
So you negotiate with two dudes to keep them on board, so you, what, just give across the board raises to women ?
Yes, that would be one solution.
Is it just men/women ? Is it blacks/whites/latinos/asian?
Yes, race as well as gender is a protected class.
Or is it now chinese/japanese/vietnamese/australian/european whatever that we have to keep equal ?
Yes, national origin is also a protected class.
Should we make sure that short and tall have "equal" pay (across averages, I guess?) - fat and skinny ? Ugly and good looking ?
Height and attractiveness are not protected classes, so you can discriminate there. Obesity may be protected under the ADA, but that only requires "accommodation", not equal pay.
I will continue to not worry about it.
If you are a CEO, work in HR, or even work as a manager, then you need to understand the law. If you are a leaf on the org chart, then ignorance is bliss.
I can already see it: "We're offering you $X" "Well, I guess I'm gonna go work elsewhere" "Wait!!! We can talk about this...actually nevermind, we can't >."
You can negotiate with individuals. You just need to make sure that the average salary for men and the average for women is the same if they are doing the same work.
How about different men paid systematically different for the same work?
If they are members of a Protected Class then it is illegal to pay them systematically differently for the same work. Protected classes include race, gender, religion, etc. So if you pay black men and white men systematically differently for the same work, that is illegal.
If the difference is not legal protected, then you can discriminate. For instance, you can pay tall men less than short men since height is not a legally protected class. You can refuse to hire smokers. You can fire someone for wearing a nose ring. None of these are protected.
Disclaimer: I am not saying this is the way it "should be". I am just saying that, according to the law, this is the way it is.
So basically, if a man goes to boss and says 'My value to this company is under-recognized and I want a raise', the boss must either deny it or then give everyone the same raise?
No, not "everyone". Only members of legally protected classes. You can't pay men and women systematically differently for the same work. You can't pay blacks and whites systematically differently for the same work.
If men are more likely to do that (and evidence suggests they are; facts don't stop being facts because they offend social justice), it would become systemic eventually.
Indeed, and that is illegal.
If women of equal merit asked for the same amounts at the same rate but were more likely to be denied, that would be discrimination, but that's a different scenario.
It is discrimination whether they "ask for it" or not. YOU CAN NOT PAY MEN AND WOMEN SYSTEMATICALLY DIFFERENTLY FOR THE SAME WORK. If you pay men more because they "ask for it" then you are breaking the law and you are going to get sued.
HR needs to periodically review average salaries for every legally protected class. If there is a systematic difference in pay, then they need to fix that. They can give raises to the underpaid, or withhold raises from the overpaid, offset the differences in bonuses, or whatever. But what they can't do is PAY MEN AND WOMEN SYSTEMATICALLY DIFFERENTLY FOR THE SAME WORK. That is illegal.
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nothing about it looks remotely car like, it looks like a flying blender / head decapitator.
I watched the Jetsons when I was a kid, and since then I have been waiting 50 years for my flying car. Now it is finally here, and the millennials are whining about its appearance? Look, I don't care if it is ugly, just put the damn thing into production. I will buy the first one off the assembly line.
If this thing qualifies as a flying car, then so does a helicopter.
A conventional helicopter requires a highly trained pilot, and cannot fly from my neighborhood to the grocery store. It is not a replacement for a car.
So does "car" now mean absolutely whatever the author of some tedious think piece wants it to?
If an average person can use it to travel from a random point A to another random point B, then it is reasonable to call it a "car", since it provides personal transportation that currently requires a car.
Disclaimer: I want one.
In addition, they act like the politicos are even bright enough to use this!
Have you ever talked privately with a politician? They tend to be very intelligent and inquisitive, and likely wouldn't be where they are if they weren't. They just act stupid in public so people will vote for them. If they come across as a smarty-pants know-it-all, they will lose. Example: Hillary.
Anyway, this does not require politicians to be smart. They just need to have a smart staffer set it up for them.
There's no 'she'. It's an 'it'.
"Alexa, are you a girl?"
"I am female in character."
2. Make sure that things like lights, door locks, etc. ALL have manual overrides.
Whether an IoT device has a manual override should be up to the device manufacturer, not mandated by Amazon.
I have an Amazon Echo, along with many IoT devices. The door locks, light switches, and even the built-in speaker all have manual overrides. The security cameras do not, but that doesn't matter because there is no reason to ever manually operate a security camera. If you want it off, just unplug it. All of these devices can be operated directly from my cellphone in addition to voice control through Alexa.
But Amazon seems to have a new(?) series of TV Ads that I saw this morning that proclaims that Alexa can recognize different voices.
I have an Echo. If I say "Alexa play some music", she will select something I like, such as Waylon Jennings. If my daughter says the same thing, it will play something she likes, like Bruno Mars. So there is clearly some individual voice recognition.
Do you ever fly? What do you suggest other than petroleum-based fuel?
Biofuels work fine in jet engines.
Scramjets run on hydrogen.
Just another reason to get rid of it.
Sure, we should phase out oil. But this solar plant has nothing to do with that.
Phasing out oil requires better* car batteries, not better solar panels.
*better = cheaper, lighter, more capacity, faster charging. But especially cheaper.
In Europe you even have in-cell phone and entertainment systems but recidivism statistics are the same.
Bullcrap. The recidivism rate in America is 68%. In Norway it is 20%. No other European country does as well as Norway, but they all do better than America.
I highly doubt that access to family has anything to do with the choice of being a career criminal or they wouldn't end up in prison in the first place.
Inmates are far more likely to come from broken and abusive families.
The sooner oil producing terrorist sponsoring states go broke, the better for our security - Saudi Arabia.
Oil is used for transportation, not generating electricity.
China is also the largest builder of new coal plants... Just sayin...
Per capita, China consumes half as much coal as America.
An island is a very cost-effective method of incarceration.
Alcatraz was closed because of excessive costs.
And it suits the primary goal of a prison: keep that idiot away from everybody else.
Most inmates are convicted of non-violent offenses, and are not a physical threat to other people.
Inmates that have regular communication with their families and friends have lower recidivism rates, and have fewer disciplinary problems in prison. Making phone calls and visits more difficult is very stupid public policy.
The problem is the for profit prison system.
About 8% of US inmates are in private for-profit prisons.
South Carolina, which the TFA says has the worst problem with cellphones, has no private prisons.
Oklahoma, listed as the second worst, does use private prisons.
For a supposedly free nation, we incarcerate a lot of people.
America's incarceration rate is about 4 times the first world average.
Incarceration rates vary widely by state, and increases in the incarceration rate are not positively correlated with reductions in crime. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate. Maine has the lowest.
is there some reason why 'that would annihilate the company' would be considered a defect rather than a feature?
There are currently 3 credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and Transunion. Going from 3 to 2 would reduce competition, and raise prices. That is not in the best interest of consumers. It is already clear that everyone directly involved in this debacle is going to lose their jobs, and Equifax will be under completely different management. So what is the point of shutting Equifax down and putting 9500 employees out of work?
Make it a $1,000 fine per person per day for not notifying them ...
You need to get a firmer grip on reality. Equifax's net income last year was $488M. There were 143M people compromised. So even $3 per person per year would likely bankrupt them.
We will only see wide adoption of the technologies if almost all of the worst drivers can afford it. That isn't going to happen any time soon.
Why not? The sensors and actuators add very little to the cost of a car. The software has a marginal cost of zero. Once you factor in insurance, SDCs will likely be cheaper than conventional cars.
the same way that ciggarete compsniex provef that smoking wzs healthy?
The cigarette companies were successfully sued for $206 BILLION, which was the largest legal settlement in history, and much of that was justified by their intentionally misleading lies. So they are not very good examples of corporations that lied and "got away with it".
The financial oligarchy controls all levels of government, now and before alike.
If this was true, Jeb Bush would be president. The FO would have prefered even Hillary to Donald. Do you really think that Goldman Sachs wanted the US out of TPP?
So you negotiate with two dudes to keep them on board, so you, what, just give across the board raises to women ?
Yes, that would be one solution.
Is it just men/women ? Is it blacks/whites/latinos/asian?
Yes, race as well as gender is a protected class.
Or is it now chinese/japanese/vietnamese/australian/european whatever that we have to keep equal ?
Yes, national origin is also a protected class.
Should we make sure that short and tall have "equal" pay (across averages, I guess?) - fat and skinny ? Ugly and good looking ?
Height and attractiveness are not protected classes, so you can discriminate there. Obesity may be protected under the ADA, but that only requires "accommodation", not equal pay.
I will continue to not worry about it.
If you are a CEO, work in HR, or even work as a manager, then you need to understand the law. If you are a leaf on the org chart, then ignorance is bliss.
I can already see it: "We're offering you $X" "Well, I guess I'm gonna go work elsewhere" "Wait!!! We can talk about this...actually nevermind, we can't >."
You can negotiate with individuals. You just need to make sure that the average salary for men and the average for women is the same if they are doing the same work.
explain how the Labor Participation Rate has fallen to 62.9%
Demographics: Boomers are retiring.
How about different men paid systematically different for the same work?
If they are members of a Protected Class then it is illegal to pay them systematically differently for the same work. Protected classes include race, gender, religion, etc. So if you pay black men and white men systematically differently for the same work, that is illegal.
If the difference is not legal protected, then you can discriminate. For instance, you can pay tall men less than short men since height is not a legally protected class. You can refuse to hire smokers. You can fire someone for wearing a nose ring. None of these are protected.
Disclaimer: I am not saying this is the way it "should be". I am just saying that, according to the law, this is the way it is.
So basically, if a man goes to boss and says 'My value to this company is under-recognized and I want a raise', the boss must either deny it or then give everyone the same raise?
No, not "everyone". Only members of legally protected classes. You can't pay men and women systematically differently for the same work. You can't pay blacks and whites systematically differently for the same work.
If men are more likely to do that (and evidence suggests they are; facts don't stop being facts because they offend social justice), it would become systemic eventually.
Indeed, and that is illegal.
If women of equal merit asked for the same amounts at the same rate but were more likely to be denied, that would be discrimination, but that's a different scenario.
It is discrimination whether they "ask for it" or not. YOU CAN NOT PAY MEN AND WOMEN SYSTEMATICALLY DIFFERENTLY FOR THE SAME WORK. If you pay men more because they "ask for it" then you are breaking the law and you are going to get sued.
HR needs to periodically review average salaries for every legally protected class. If there is a systematic difference in pay, then they need to fix that. They can give raises to the underpaid, or withhold raises from the overpaid, offset the differences in bonuses, or whatever. But what they can't do is PAY MEN AND WOMEN SYSTEMATICALLY DIFFERENTLY FOR THE SAME WORK. That is illegal.