You need to look at the speedo in EVs, which is why the Leaf puts it right in your eye line. The usual audio feedback for speed isn't there.
Most normal modern cars I've driven have very little audio feedback for speed already. If I didn't have a speedo I'd have a hard job knowing whether I'm going 50 or 100 mph on a motorway.
I'm sure it's different if you're in a Ferrari or something.
You are all Cars which lock the drivers in. You can't get out! No! Noo! Nooo! No you cant get out, no! No says the car which doesn't let you out. YOU MICROSOFT CONTROLLED CARS!!!
Someone's made a news year's resolution to avoid mentioning cows.
I live in a rural area where pretty much everybody owns multiple guns, and a great many carry them as a matter of routine.
In rural areas of the UK most farmers and a lot of other people have guns for pest control, hunting or whatever. What they don't do is stick a shotgun down their trousers when they go to a pub.
Do you want to guess who else minds likely work that way? I'll give you a hint. They might be the victims of previous mass shootings. I can only guess but i would wager that most of the dead in France's terrorist attacks and at the mass shootings all around the world wished they had the means to save their own life shortly before being killed by the shooters. Do you think they sat there and said I'm anti gun so kill me and get it over with? Of course you don't. But outside of wishing the killers would leave them alone, don't you think they wished for anything that could help them? Even anti gun people wish someone with a gun (likely the cops ) would show up in time to save their lives.
OK, so everyone has to walk around like a soldier on patrol in Iraq or Afghanistan 24/7?
This is why I always wear full body armour and carry a couple of light machine guns and RPGs with me when I go shopping. You never know when you're going to have to be "that guy" who has to save the bus full of orphans from terrorists.
But their aims and methods are far from secret. They're feeding and controlling the military-industrial complex.
Secret society conspiracies only make sense if they are doing something hidden. It would only be news if there was a worldwide conspiracy to abolish wars or poverty or something.
So from that wikipedia article, democracy peaked in the 1880s because everyone in the US could afford the same guns the government had?
It obviously depends on your definition of democracy, but I'm pretty sure that at least if I were black, female or poor I'd rather have today's democracy than that of the 1880s.
I think we all realise that life was probably great if you were a rich healthy WASP male in the Nineteenth Century. The point of democracy is what it's like for the other 99%.
I know we're all talking about mass shootings here (which makes a change), but the overwhelmingly more likely scenario is that they will kill themselves. If you own a gun, the most likely person that it will kill is yourself, statistically speaking.
That is actually another good argument for severely restricting gun ownership, although no doubt it's infringing your right to self harm.
I was taught pretty much the same set of rules as listed above at school in the UK in the late '90s. It wasn't compulsory, but most people did at least a token amount of time on the range and got taught all of this. Of course, we weren't bringing our own guns into school - we had to get them from the armoury at the start of each practice and put them back at the end and the key was held by a member of staff and never loaned to students.
Why would anyone cancel a lifetime membership in this, or anything for that matter?
You decided it was worthless, so you want your $299.95 back... suppose you are 25 years old, and you bought a lifetime membership with an expectency of living 75 more years, so you purchased approximately 900 months of service, and you want to cancel after 24 months.... That should get you a refund of $291
I suppose you think that if you died tomorrow your heirs would get a refund of the balance too?
Unless they worded their T&C really stupidly, I doubt you've got a chance.
Unlike most IQ tests I ever took, the tests on Lumosity actually correlated pretty well with my own experience of where I do well and where I don't do well. For example, games which require switching tasks rapidly is not something I can do. The games which required that did expose it. I got very high scores on numerical skills and much lower ones on vocabulary ones. This all may seem very general, but when I played their games, I did find that they targeted very specific cognitive functions. The question is whether playing the games can improve those functions or is it only testing them. They claimed they improved them. And, I guess, they can't back that up. But the tests were more accurate than anything else I've seen anywhere (and I have looked).
The more IQ tests you do, the better you get at them and the higher your IQ score becomes.
Why are there so many people who think they have 150+ IQs? Because if you troll around the internet doing IQ tests for long enough, eventually you'll find one that you get a 150+ score on, even without the tests being rigged in some way.
the wrinkle cream ads are always very carefully worded and cite some (highly unscientific and subjective) survey for which the results could presumably be produced on demand.
They're generally along the lines of "85% of the 70 women we asked said that X cream improved the appearance of their skin". Well yes, and if I wash my face with water it does too.
Idiot. Redo your math now and compare the total fine (which by the way is tax deductible) against their total income, not one months. That's $11M/month for however many months they operated fraudulently (likely several years).
Yes, there should be a -1 Factually Incorrect mod.
Catholicism is shrinking very fast. I'd say about half Brazilians are Catholic by now. The other half is evangelical
That is not an improvement.
Catholicism has its obvious blind spots concerning women's reproductive rights, but at least they otherwise believe in science and reason. Evangelical Christians are not much better than Scientologists.
Seems to me you're making a pretty big assumption yourself. Consider: from a sufficiently "zoomed in" perspective your brain is nothing more than a large clonal colony of specialized single-cell organisms supported by an even larger and more varied colony in symbiosis with far, far more non-related microbes, with no evidence to be seen of this "mind" thing you claim exists.
Similarly, simply because we see no direct evidence of a mind in the ecological superorganism does not mean it doesn't exist, it may simply operate from a reference point that we cannot relate to.
Gaia's getting pissed off with AGW and has decided to post on slashdot.
You can also shove your shitty Ph.D up your lower middle class anus. Because I have one too, and I don't give a fuck about it. And I'm really rich [and arguably smarter than you, since I don't go around bragging about my fucking USP Ph.D], traitor asshole.
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Why are you upset about other people's content? It doesn't matter. Don't watch it.
*sigh*
Because some videos you'd actually like to watch are ruined by being in a shitty little vertical format.
Then make people have to pay to not see the ads. Say $10/year. Problems solved.
Except your user base suddenly dwindles to a few dozen.
The Chevy MyLink is actually based on QNX (what Ford just switched to), not Microsoft.
I'm not sure how, but that's still Microsoft's fault.
You need to look at the speedo in EVs, which is why the Leaf puts it right in your eye line. The usual audio feedback for speed isn't there.
Most normal modern cars I've driven have very little audio feedback for speed already. If I didn't have a speedo I'd have a hard job knowing whether I'm going 50 or 100 mph on a motorway.
I'm sure it's different if you're in a Ferrari or something.
You are all Cars which lock the drivers in. You can't get out! No! Noo! Nooo! No you cant get out, no! No says the car which doesn't let you out. YOU MICROSOFT CONTROLLED CARS!!!
Someone's made a news year's resolution to avoid mentioning cows.
And a "declaration" by Donald Trump now has the force of law of a skidmark on a wino's toe rag.
Self defense.
When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
Wow, I wish I lived in a Bruce Willis movie too.
I live in a rural area where pretty much everybody owns multiple guns, and a great many carry them as a matter of routine.
In rural areas of the UK most farmers and a lot of other people have guns for pest control, hunting or whatever. What they don't do is stick a shotgun down their trousers when they go to a pub.
Worse still will be when companies run checks on prospective employees using that database.
And yes, it will happen.
Ever sought medical help for depression? You're flagged. Good luck getting a decent job after that.
In that case, your society has more worrying problems than a few idiots having guns.
Do you want to guess who else minds likely work that way? I'll give you a hint. They might be the victims of previous mass shootings. I can only guess but i would wager that most of the dead in France's terrorist attacks and at the mass shootings all around the world wished they had the means to save their own life shortly before being killed by the shooters. Do you think they sat there and said I'm anti gun so kill me and get it over with? Of course you don't. But outside of wishing the killers would leave them alone, don't you think they wished for anything that could help them? Even anti gun people wish someone with a gun (likely the cops ) would show up in time to save their lives.
OK, so everyone has to walk around like a soldier on patrol in Iraq or Afghanistan 24/7?
Talk about the terrorists winning.
This is why I always wear full body armour and carry a couple of light machine guns and RPGs with me when I go shopping. You never know when you're going to have to be "that guy" who has to save the bus full of orphans from terrorists.
It's just the Old Boys' network
But their aims and methods are far from secret. They're feeding and controlling the military-industrial complex.
Secret society conspiracies only make sense if they are doing something hidden. It would only be news if there was a worldwide conspiracy to abolish wars or poverty or something.
It obviously depends on your definition of democracy, but I'm pretty sure that at least if I were black, female or poor I'd rather have today's democracy than that of the 1880s.
I think we all realise that life was probably great if you were a rich healthy WASP male in the Nineteenth Century. The point of democracy is what it's like for the other 99%.
I know we're all talking about mass shootings here (which makes a change), but the overwhelmingly more likely scenario is that they will kill themselves. If you own a gun, the most likely person that it will kill is yourself, statistically speaking.
That is actually another good argument for severely restricting gun ownership, although no doubt it's infringing your right to self harm.
I was taught pretty much the same set of rules as listed above at school in the UK in the late '90s. It wasn't compulsory, but most people did at least a token amount of time on the range and got taught all of this. Of course, we weren't bringing our own guns into school - we had to get them from the armoury at the start of each practice and put them back at the end and the key was held by a member of staff and never loaned to students.
Eton Rifles, eh?
This promises to be a good show.
Why would anyone cancel a lifetime membership in this, or anything for that matter?
You decided it was worthless, so you want your $299.95 back... suppose you are 25 years old, and you bought a lifetime membership with an expectency of living 75 more years, so you purchased approximately 900 months of service, and you want to cancel after 24 months.... That should get you a refund of $291
I suppose you think that if you died tomorrow your heirs would get a refund of the balance too?
Unless they worded their T&C really stupidly, I doubt you've got a chance.
Unlike most IQ tests I ever took, the tests on Lumosity actually correlated pretty well with my own experience of where I do well and where I don't do well. For example, games which require switching tasks rapidly is not something I can do. The games which required that did expose it. I got very high scores on numerical skills and much lower ones on vocabulary ones. This all may seem very general, but when I played their games, I did find that they targeted very specific cognitive functions. The question is whether playing the games can improve those functions or is it only testing them. They claimed they improved them. And, I guess, they can't back that up. But the tests were more accurate than anything else I've seen anywhere (and I have looked).
The more IQ tests you do, the better you get at them and the higher your IQ score becomes.
Why are there so many people who think they have 150+ IQs? Because if you troll around the internet doing IQ tests for long enough, eventually you'll find one that you get a 150+ score on, even without the tests being rigged in some way.
the wrinkle cream ads are always very carefully worded and cite some (highly unscientific and subjective) survey for which the results could presumably be produced on demand.
They're generally along the lines of "85% of the 70 women we asked said that X cream improved the appearance of their skin". Well yes, and if I wash my face with water it does too.
Idiot. Redo your math now and compare the total fine (which by the way is tax deductible) against their total income, not one months. That's $11M/month for however many months they operated fraudulently (likely several years).
Yes, there should be a -1 Factually Incorrect mod.
I want this extra shit like I want shards of glass hammered in to the head of my dick.
Protip: don't buy it.
Protip...I see what you did there.
Catholicism is shrinking very fast. I'd say about half Brazilians are Catholic by now. The other half is evangelical
That is not an improvement.
Catholicism has its obvious blind spots concerning women's reproductive rights, but at least they otherwise believe in science and reason. Evangelical Christians are not much better than Scientologists.
Seems to me you're making a pretty big assumption yourself. Consider: from a sufficiently "zoomed in" perspective your brain is nothing more than a large clonal colony of specialized single-cell organisms supported by an even larger and more varied colony in symbiosis with far, far more non-related microbes, with no evidence to be seen of this "mind" thing you claim exists.
Similarly, simply because we see no direct evidence of a mind in the ecological superorganism does not mean it doesn't exist, it may simply operate from a reference point that we cannot relate to.
Gaia's getting pissed off with AGW and has decided to post on slashdot.
Plus the women are smoking hot, so I can see how it is hard to say no to them when they throw themselves at you.
You're just being cruel now.
I have a vision of a thousand nerds rushing to buy plane tickets to Rio de Janeiro.
You can also shove your shitty Ph.D up your lower middle class anus. Because I have one too, and I don't give a fuck about it. And I'm really rich [and arguably smarter than you, since I don't go around bragging about my fucking USP Ph.D], traitor asshole.
Pretty good going for a thirteen year old.