you would get bored of that after a week or so, then you would head outside and do something constructive with your time
I think the point is that he's unlikely to be a brilliant research scientist on the verge of curing cancer or discovering time travel (or whatever) at the moment anyway.
The fact that you can have a virtual j-pop starlet says more about how crappy j-pop is than anything sensible about the relationship between computers and art.
they're going to be selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year.
LOL!
No, it must be true because their market valuation is based on them being (essentially) the only car manufacturer in five years time. And the market is never wrong.
When I took Introduction to Computers in the early 1990's, the instructor informed us that 4GB with a 32-bit CPU was all the memory we would ever need.
For our younger readers, back in the early 1990s home computer RAM was measured in Megabytes, and 4GB would have seemed ridiculously, almost impossibly huge.
I had a couple of friends who were wonderful people in real life, but posted a steady stream of toxic sludge that I didn't want to block because I wanted to "be open to other viewpoints."
This seems more like some mad right wing conception of how "liberals" think than reality.
Hint: past a certain purely theoretical point, the correct response to Fascism is to crush it to death, not blindly accept what its proponents are claiming.
He contends that people became a lot less violent in the 20th century because television and books allowed them to know more about each other. I remember thinking when I read it, "umm what about Northern Ireland, those people knew each other pretty well"
Just because you live next door to someone doesn't mean you know them well.
rather disturbing that Burger King has better quality chicken than Subway.
Why? They're both fast food outlets, it's not like Subway is some sort of Michelin Starred restaurant and Burger King is a dodgy bloke selling kebabs in a layby off the M6.
If the studies are correct, you can't sue a news reporter for reporting factually correct news.
In America, truth is an absolute defense against libel. In the UK it is not, and you can be found guilty if someone's feelings were hurt. I don't know about Canada.
This is nonsense.
The problem with UK libel law is that truth is a defence, but the burden of proof is on the defendant.
Good luck with this policy. At best a few sailors or marines will be busted each year for their stupidity, but the vast majority of incidents will never see any enforcement.
I've never been in the armed services but I was under the impression that one of the most important rules for those in authority was do not give orders that one knows will not be followed. Issuing orders that won't be followed helps destroy one's own authority.
If you think that following orders is a question of only choosing the ones you agree with, you really don't want to consider a career in the armed services.
This is one of those cases where we're fighting against reality, instead of dealing with it. What this study shows is that people really, really want to make calls (and probably texts and messages etc) while driving their cars. So what we need to do, instead of trying to stop them from doing it, is provide technology that makes it easy for them to do these things safely. For a start, we ought to mandate that all cars have a certain minimum standard of hands-free phone kit, that can be controlled without taking the hands off the wheel or eyes far from the dash - it's not rocket science, the technology has been around for ages, we just need standards to be set, and insurance companies encouraged to increase premiums for cars lacking certified kit.
The point is that it is trivial to set up a hands free system nowadays, but people still often can't be bothered even when the facility is built right into the car.
People will, for the most part, do what they want to do. Changing behavior is very difficult and laws are often quite ineffective at affecting the change desired.
Here in the UK, if you get caught drink driving, you lose your licence for a year, get up to a GBP5000 fine and receive a criminal conviction as standard. It is also not unlikely you'll get a short prison sentence.
There is massively less drink driving here than thirty or forty years ago. It really isn't worth the risk.
Whether you agree with it or not, the law most certainly has changed people's behaviour.
The difference between Tesla and Tilt (and all the other internet startups) is that Tesla is at least manufacturing and delivering goods.
The problem is that Tesla's valuation is based on future profits accumulating from being the world's largest and most profitable car company, which would be fine if they were currently the world's largest and most profitable car company.
The point about a 419 scam isn't that you're being suckered into giving the scammer your bank details, as there is no way that knowing your bank account and name should let them draw money from your account. The actual point is that some people are stupid/greedy enough to actually pay the scammers.
If your bank is so insecure that giving me a cheque or bank transfer with your details on lets me empty your account, the problem is with your bank. (This is ignoring any additional social engineering done to get your password or whatever).
The other band-aid is that the potatoes which would have been on the ship would have been treated with a chemical (chlorpropham or maleic hydrazide) to prevent them from budding.
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you would get bored of that after a week or so, then you would head outside and do something constructive with your time
I think the point is that he's unlikely to be a brilliant research scientist on the verge of curing cancer or discovering time travel (or whatever) at the moment anyway.
The fact that you can have a virtual j-pop starlet says more about how crappy j-pop is than anything sensible about the relationship between computers and art.
It would just kind of suck if all the best spots were Tesla only.
First mover advantage? Not exactly uncommon.
It may not be uncommon, but neither are cartels or monopolies in an unregulated market. They still suck for consumers.
they're going to be selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year.
LOL!
No, it must be true because their market valuation is based on them being (essentially) the only car manufacturer in five years time. And the market is never wrong.
I remember the 1870's* when the Industrial Revolution was to mean "the end of employment"
Only if you were a Utopian Socialist. Meanwhile, the actual capitalists just used it to multiply their profits.
And who builds those robotic factories? Or the roads to and from those factories? Or the power-lines or power-plants used to power those factories?
Other robots, presumably.
When I took Introduction to Computers in the early 1990's, the instructor informed us that 4GB with a 32-bit CPU was all the memory we would ever need.
For our younger readers, back in the early 1990s home computer RAM was measured in Megabytes, and 4GB would have seemed ridiculously, almost impossibly huge.
I had a couple of friends who were wonderful people in real life, but posted a steady stream of toxic sludge that I didn't want to block because I wanted to "be open to other viewpoints."
This seems more like some mad right wing conception of how "liberals" think than reality.
Hint: past a certain purely theoretical point, the correct response to Fascism is to crush it to death, not blindly accept what its proponents are claiming.
He contends that people became a lot less violent in the 20th century because television and books allowed them to know more about each other. I remember thinking when I read it, "umm what about Northern Ireland, those people knew each other pretty well"
Just because you live next door to someone doesn't mean you know them well.
If you hated someone in 1970... you just avoided them.
The statistics for murder and violent crime tend to suggest that in 1970 you were probably more likely to batter or kill them than nowadays.
the resurgence of leftist philosophies over the past decade or so
Yeah, Brexit, Trump, Marine Le Pen, the lefties are taking over the world.
it never even occurred to him to just go and politely ask someone closer to the top?
Have you ever actually had a job in anything other than a one man band?
Adding ethylene glycol to white wine improves its taste, but I doubt that you really want to drink it.
If adding antifreeze to your wine improves its taste, you should maybe consider changing your brand of wine.
rather disturbing that Burger King has better quality chicken than Subway.
Why? They're both fast food outlets, it's not like Subway is some sort of Michelin Starred restaurant and Burger King is a dodgy bloke selling kebabs in a layby off the M6.
If the studies are correct, you can't sue a news reporter for reporting factually correct news.
In America, truth is an absolute defense against libel. In the UK it is not, and you can be found guilty if someone's feelings were hurt. I don't know about Canada.
This is nonsense.
The problem with UK libel law is that truth is a defence, but the burden of proof is on the defendant.
But it is definitely true that the Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) gets positive reviews for their flavor.
"Yummy! 5 out of 5 would use ag-aaarrrggghhh"
Good luck with this policy. At best a few sailors or marines will be busted each year for their stupidity, but the vast majority of incidents will never see any enforcement.
I've never been in the armed services but I was under the impression that one of the most important rules for those in authority was do not give orders that one knows will not be followed. Issuing orders that won't be followed helps destroy one's own authority.
If you think that following orders is a question of only choosing the ones you agree with, you really don't want to consider a career in the armed services.
This is one of those cases where we're fighting against reality, instead of dealing with it. What this study shows is that people really, really want to make calls (and probably texts and messages etc) while driving their cars. So what we need to do, instead of trying to stop them from doing it, is provide technology that makes it easy for them to do these things safely. For a start, we ought to mandate that all cars have a certain minimum standard of hands-free phone kit, that can be controlled without taking the hands off the wheel or eyes far from the dash - it's not rocket science, the technology has been around for ages, we just need standards to be set, and insurance companies encouraged to increase premiums for cars lacking certified kit.
The point is that it is trivial to set up a hands free system nowadays, but people still often can't be bothered even when the facility is built right into the car.
People will, for the most part, do what they want to do. Changing behavior is very difficult and laws are often quite ineffective at affecting the change desired.
Here in the UK, if you get caught drink driving, you lose your licence for a year, get up to a GBP5000 fine and receive a criminal conviction as standard. It is also not unlikely you'll get a short prison sentence.
There is massively less drink driving here than thirty or forty years ago. It really isn't worth the risk.
Whether you agree with it or not, the law most certainly has changed people's behaviour.
The difference between Tesla and Tilt (and all the other internet startups) is that Tesla is at least manufacturing and delivering goods.
The problem is that Tesla's valuation is based on future profits accumulating from being the world's largest and most profitable car company, which would be fine if they were currently the world's largest and most profitable car company.
But it's jam tomorrow.
If your bank is so insecure that giving me a cheque or bank transfer with your details on lets me empty your account, the problem is with your bank. (This is ignoring any additional social engineering done to get your password or whatever).
The other band-aid is that the potatoes which would have been on the ship would have been treated with a chemical (chlorpropham or maleic hydrazide) to prevent them from budding.
There is no nerd like a potato nerd.
Martian: Robinson Crusoe.
Yes, in the sense that Star Wars is the Illiad.
He who controls the spice controls the universe!
You seem to have accidentally cross-posted from a "worst sci-fi movie by a great director" thread.
I'd say that means banning anyone from a Turkish IP from rating this movie, ever.
So they just get their friends or family in other countries to rate it instead.