By that logic, reading books, watching movies, listening to TV and staring blankly out the window are all mind altering. ANY sensory input alters your mind ever so subtly.
If it's almost certain that some incidents weren't reported, then it's also almost certain that some of the incidents that WERE reported were blown out of proportion or fabricated entirely.
But you really can't add "All those that weren't recorded" without any kind of data. You might as well assume, then, that every female employee gets raped five times a day but is afraid to report it.
I still think it's a terrible injustice that there are so few female garbage collectors. Where's the feminine outrage that driving garbage trucks is primarily a male-dominated job?
I recently built a new computer, and while it was an absolute FEMALE DOG to get Windows 7 installed and running on a NVMe SSD it was still worth the hassle of not dealing with Windows 10's "LOL I PWN YOU!" behavior.
Elon Musk's net worth is right now above 20 billion USD. He can literally bankroll all of Tesla's losses out of his own pocket for a decade just with what he has NOW.
Unless something happens that shuts Tesla down hard so he decides to cut his losses, we won't see it bankrupt in the next year or two.
With one worldwide timezone that would become, "Siri, when are they going to bed in California relative to current time?" Doesn't seem like an improvement to me.
If you have to call someone on the other side of the globe (and trust me, a LOT of businesses have to do that), now you can't even do simple math to say, "Oh hey, California is nine hours ahead of me, and now it's noon for me. Maybe I shouldn't call right now." Instead you are going to HAVE to have a program or similar that'll show you what kind of sunlight people have where you're about to call, because you can't actually use the time for anything.
The internet has NOT done away with the circadian rhythm. Until it does, a single worldwide time zone is an even stupider idea than DST.
I wasn't saying that kids will be kids. I was responding to the GP's statement that soon we'd have rape games on our game consoles and PCs as a direct result of having violent games now.
Kids have always played variations of cops and robbers, cowboys and indians etc.
The whole "I kill you so I win and you lose" game is as old as our species. We have adapted it into a new kind of entertainment with the same basic premise.
How often do you see kids playing at raping each other compared to shooting imaginary fingerpistols at each other? Yes, even in Europe.
This one has the advantage of not requiring a reboot, which means you can plug the USB in, do the voice commands, remove the USB, and the owner that returns from the bathroom a moment later will be none the wiser - the screen comes back up right on the Facebook post they were reading before.
No, by handing your computer over you're consenting to have it REPAIRED, not combed through. If you call out a plumber to fix your kitchen sink you don't consent to having him rifle through your underwear drawer in your bedroom, even if you haven't locked the bedroom door while he's in your house.
Not only does the ToS apparently lie about how frequently your location gets polled, but why would I expect tracking of my every movement because I subscribe to something? I don't expect my subscription to WoW to include tracking wherever I am at any given point in time.
Aren't we doing the exact same thing with school students, training them to pass the tests rather than to apply the things they learn in the real world?
According to Tom's Hardware, a Geforce GTX 1080 runs between 600 to 1400 dollars. Each. Let's assume two in each machine at an average of 1000 dollars to get some quality gear without going overboard, that's 2000 dollars out of those 3000. Add in mobo, CPU, RAM, a hard drive etc. to have a working computer, which I assume these Bitcoin rigs are, and you quickly approach the 3000 target.
But hey, math and logic doesn't lead to "OMG corruption!" comments, so you just keep doing you.
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By that logic, reading books, watching movies, listening to TV and staring blankly out the window are all mind altering. ANY sensory input alters your mind ever so subtly.
If it's almost certain that some incidents weren't reported, then it's also almost certain that some of the incidents that WERE reported were blown out of proportion or fabricated entirely.
To quote the GP, your purchase didn't meet your legitimate, reasonable expectations by having dead pixels. The return/exchange was fair.
But you really can't add "All those that weren't recorded" without any kind of data. You might as well assume, then, that every female employee gets raped five times a day but is afraid to report it.
I still think it's a terrible injustice that there are so few female garbage collectors. Where's the feminine outrage that driving garbage trucks is primarily a male-dominated job?
Over there, on the other side of the Atlantic.
This.
I recently built a new computer, and while it was an absolute FEMALE DOG to get Windows 7 installed and running on a NVMe SSD it was still worth the hassle of not dealing with Windows 10's "LOL I PWN YOU!" behavior.
Elon Musk's net worth is right now above 20 billion USD. He can literally bankroll all of Tesla's losses out of his own pocket for a decade just with what he has NOW.
Unless something happens that shuts Tesla down hard so he decides to cut his losses, we won't see it bankrupt in the next year or two.
With one worldwide timezone that would become, "Siri, when are they going to bed in California relative to current time?" Doesn't seem like an improvement to me.
It is the sound of your death.
And not even that.
If you have to call someone on the other side of the globe (and trust me, a LOT of businesses have to do that), now you can't even do simple math to say, "Oh hey, California is nine hours ahead of me, and now it's noon for me. Maybe I shouldn't call right now." Instead you are going to HAVE to have a program or similar that'll show you what kind of sunlight people have where you're about to call, because you can't actually use the time for anything.
The internet has NOT done away with the circadian rhythm. Until it does, a single worldwide time zone is an even stupider idea than DST.
I wasn't saying that kids will be kids. I was responding to the GP's statement that soon we'd have rape games on our game consoles and PCs as a direct result of having violent games now.
Kids have always played variations of cops and robbers, cowboys and indians etc.
The whole "I kill you so I win and you lose" game is as old as our species. We have adapted it into a new kind of entertainment with the same basic premise.
How often do you see kids playing at raping each other compared to shooting imaginary fingerpistols at each other? Yes, even in Europe.
This one has the advantage of not requiring a reboot, which means you can plug the USB in, do the voice commands, remove the USB, and the owner that returns from the bathroom a moment later will be none the wiser - the screen comes back up right on the Facebook post they were reading before.
But it is. It's in the house.
No, by handing your computer over you're consenting to have it REPAIRED, not combed through. If you call out a plumber to fix your kitchen sink you don't consent to having him rifle through your underwear drawer in your bedroom, even if you haven't locked the bedroom door while he's in your house.
In the immortal words of EDI, "I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees."
Until we have mobile plans with no data cap whatsoever, playing music from local storage will ALWAYS be the better option.
Even then, we keep getting told that wireless bandwidth is quite limited - why then should we keep using it for the same data over and over?
Say what now?
Not only does the ToS apparently lie about how frequently your location gets polled, but why would I expect tracking of my every movement because I subscribe to something? I don't expect my subscription to WoW to include tracking wherever I am at any given point in time.
That's why you eat all the popcorn in the first half of the movie so you have a styrofoam container available.
Aren't we doing the exact same thing with school students, training them to pass the tests rather than to apply the things they learn in the real world?
Because I'm not part of the Bitcoin craze and honestly have no idea what mining them requires other than "awesome graphics cards".
2,000,000 / 600 = 3,333.33...
According to Tom's Hardware, a Geforce GTX 1080 runs between 600 to 1400 dollars. Each. Let's assume two in each machine at an average of 1000 dollars to get some quality gear without going overboard, that's 2000 dollars out of those 3000. Add in mobo, CPU, RAM, a hard drive etc. to have a working computer, which I assume these Bitcoin rigs are, and you quickly approach the 3000 target.
But hey, math and logic doesn't lead to "OMG corruption!" comments, so you just keep doing you.
Well, if it's a million dollars per day it's going to start hurting.
As the old saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of backup tapes racing down the freeway.