There are only three states left in the USA that have gas station attendants. The rest are what are called "C-store" employees. Burger King isn't a good example either.
You can divide people into categories that include, self-determining, sheep, and "other". Labels for these three categories are: successful, not successful, and don't care/have challenges/co-dependent dysfunctionals.
Of these, there are wage slaves, contractors, independently financed, and complete dependents.
Automation serves each of these categories and distinctions differently. For some, it will aid them and/or give them dignity, and for others, it will replace a need for varying degrees of heretofore human skills. Automation != progress. Automation == automation. Progress occurs when all people are lifted, including the 1/3rd of the world's population, who are poor or disadvantaged, and the other 1/3rd fraction who are or have been mentally ill. When automation aids those fractions, e.g. the planet & its population, that's progress, that's justice.
Although some CEOs believe any PR is good PR, this will not end well for them. The screwed up. The problem was reported. It was fixed. That was reported. But they go for the throat of the reporter anyway.
Everyone wants microservices payments to be the next get-rich-quick scheme. So long as they can drain your account and charge you a micro-fee, they're happy.
We're ever-so-trained to let organizations do that micro-skim thing. Look at your phone bill for any questions.
And to trust google to both keep things secure, and not push this service from a cliff as so many failed google programs is lunacy.
Get out of banks, get into an S&L or better still, a credit union. Banks suck, and in today's unregulated climate, they're out for any nickel or micro-penny they can steal.
Agreed. The easiest way to stanch this problem is to never surf to Salon.com. Problem solved.
When wired.com did their adblocker wall, I kissed them goodbye, and found out how my day improved.
I'll subscribe to content that I really need. But the madness and security danger poised by ads, not to mention their often dubious origin motivates me to use Privacy Badger and that plus no-script in another browser.
Publishers can tell me I suck. Fine. I'll go elsewhere. Publishing on the web has a lot of flawed models, and Salon.com just found another one.
One day a VM or container will contain enough guts to safely run the apps in less than a hypervisor mode. Until then, the answer for all three is: Not really. Better still, it shouldn't happen. One flaw in Windows affects Windows, but rarely MacOS or Linux/BSDs. One well-done flaw can kill/maim one host, but not all three.
T-Mobile has $50/70 all you can eat plans. Don't watch Netflix on them, but you can surf otherwise with impunity/no restrictions. A number of other providers have them, too. Are they broadband replacements? It's important here to disambiguate the phrase broadband into realistic download speeds. Broadband is an electronics term used to describe something that's a data rate and so fails as a useful metric, IMHO.
Digital Cities, Loma Linda CA, others, have all done muni-/regional-data/voice/channelized TV in your ideal situation. That model is fought strenuously by the carriers/telcos at the local, state, and federal levels. Their suppliers align themselves with the carriers, too-- are they going to bite the hand that feeds them? Nope.
I'm fortunate enough to have lots of data services, including my phone if I'm traveling. It's not ideal. Ten years ago, it was simply impossible because it didn't really exist.
And none of what you cite has happened yet. It's now a part of case law, flawed (or not) as it might be. For now, it has a chilling effect on speech, somewhere in the fulcrum between original rights holders/copyright owners of a photo, and those that might disseminate the photo.
The web has serious ambiguity problems as regards the use of photos on other sites. Take Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap(stuff), and more. Unless one reads the ToS of each site and acts appropriately, the copyright endowed to art creators can be easily stanches. There is much Fair Use precedent to cover text, but there is much more that is ambiguous and perhaps abused, rather than a portion of free speech via/backed by Fair Use.
A US Federal Judge is more powerful than the POTUS in some very specific ways. The appellate route is viciously expensive, and may not produce results that are good precedents. The US Congress can't be relied upon to get out of its own way these days, and so even a single ruling has a large reverberation.
You're not going to talk Shuttleworth out of such things. Telemetry and pseudo-anonymous information is the great peek under your skirt that marketers die for.
If you must (and you should), you can already null-route the 127+ Windows straws into your system's brain, as well as Apple's 11 major MacOS routes.
It's only a matter of time until the whimpering processes cry you a river, not having touched the mothership. So many industries have become barnacles and parasites on your data, that killing such information will be impossible.
So instead, let's send them *interesting* information. std-dev thwarting, bell-curve crunching, tasty data. Serves the bastards right.
That's because most Cisco equipment had plentiful backdoors, unenforced password barriers/complexities, and holes like a screen door.... that is, those that didn't have a quick trip to the NSA on their way to offshore clientele. Look up the CVEs. They're frightening. Do you think these were stupid programmers?
As shown above, the USA is great at playing this game, to the denials of other phone vendors whose phones are said to be totally secure, but are in fact sieves.
Other successful models say: easements and right-of-ways can become either municipally-owned, perhaps maintained, and so long as you keep things tidy, the wires, preferably fiber, are for all via varying distribution methodologies.
There are certainly gaps. Having a somewhat homogeneous "4G" or "5G" infrastructure is still another problem, although it's still my contention that the data communications portion of cable infrastructure is a utility, and deserves what was once Title II status to make it a regulated utility.
4G in many areas is great. Yes, there are lots of areas where it doesn't but they tend to favorably map where cable systems are lain, because of the population densities. Rural service, well, that's still a problem.
Internet and phone service, needed communications infrastructure, qualifies for classification as a utility.
This said, your phone as a tethering device to the the Internet qualifies as an alternative, and you excluded it. Entertainment (TV) doesn't elevate cable companies to a utility, rather, communications do. Entertainment isn't life and death. Not being able to call 911 is life and death.
In a more perfect world, the communities would own the poles and the wires and the easements, and you could pick Comcast, Spectrum, or whomever to be your provider, as a few communities now offer. But states like the short-term revenue from franchising and letting utilities "own" the wires. If we nationalized Layer 1 of the ISO/OSI stack, then you could have your choices. Until then, we're balkanized by the choices made by your legislators.
The average joe and jane in this country doesn't know how many billions of dollars are spent on "private" airports, that they can't use, have no real access to, because they can't afford private aviation. It's a rich person's game.
Businesses, in a self-aggrandizement, believe that they should be able to justify (and TAX-DEDUCT) their $500/hr flights to Podunkia USA, instead of flying to a nearby major airport and paying for a car rental, and of course, plowing through the insane public airport security that's required by the unwashed masses. Go through an X-Ray detector? You must be high. These guys bypass it all, a privileged class, and the government finances it.
The school financing argument is a fail; these are not comparable items.
You odd ad hominem that you finished with distinguishes you as defending your own turf. I was a private pilot. I know how much federal loot goes into preserving general aviation at the cost of so much more.
I dislike and am no friend of airlines/carriers/cabals either. But general aviation today allows a private pathway for the rich to not have to join the unwashed masses in the total messes that is today's aviation security morass.
Billions are poured into this private highway. The taxes in gen-av fuel taxes, tie-downs, FBO, and other ostensible profit centers don't even begin to cover the costs of it..... and let the rich pay in their Cessnas, Pipers, etc all the way up to Citations and more. Gouge? Yes, private aviation really doesn't pay for itself in the same way that commercial trucks do.
Not really. Your citation doesn't take into account how they operate at all. Take a look at sunken capital costs vs depreciation vs their revenue model. It's true that financing helps them along, but not to the extent that you imply, at all.
And find me a private business that doesn't have investors, bank notes, lots of debt glue, and sunken costs. Comparing the two is pretty juvenile. I'm not a big fan of bonds, but they're tempered against ratings and underwriter considerations and are a viable method of finance for public entities. Look at the litigation that surrounds failures if you had any questions. Most airport corporate entities have stellar ratings and are good lending/bonding risks. Subtracting one bond effort for another isn't a very good method of comparing operating revenues vs finance.
And governments and airport authorities do a fine job. Give it to the private sector and watch the costs become base*profit margin. The private sector shouldn't be necessary at all; they already are the contractors for lots of services. These are PUBLIC assets, not to be sold to the gleaners.
You're moving the argument into areas that have nothing to do with airports and public finance. Lots of great airports have come online in the past decade, along with stellar remodel jobs. It's folly to attempt to finesse some sort of glamor of the 1960s when the world has changed quite a bit since that era. Instead, get the private airports off the public dole.
And now, so many organizations have been breached, public, private, corporate, even small operations that people try to think about security because:
Most everyone in the USA (I'll take my home country as an example) knows someone who's credit info has been snarfed (Equifax), military security/secrets info (OPM breach), health (how many insurers and hospitals now?) that it's almost impossible to be an American without having the taint of having your privacy for sale somewhere behind Tor.
The average civilian knows little about what to do, and leaves security trust to others. Now they trust them as much any more, and for good reason. We as a professional community have failed at security, and we're being laughed at, and for good reason.
You presume that they were at the top of their game at Amazon, whose business model surrounds finding high-margin industries, and sucking away the distribution to attempt to use supply chain and logistics and increased selection to justify margins. Take any of those pieces away, and Amazon leaves that industry segment alone.
Amazon is NOT starting at the top, and so there IS some place for them to go. Amazon is far more of a McJob than they'll admit.
It's not a huge risk, it's a money-making public asset. Airports are gold mines. Besides gate fees, there are lots of bucks to be made renting space, parking spaces, food/taxes, fuel/taxes, and far more.
Other nations might sell off their assets, and they're idiots.
Instead, sell off and stop the tax monies to private airports, thousands of them that serve general aviation, and make them stand on their own feet without tax dollar support. Make private aviation have to pay its own dues, rather than shifting the cost to the cattle car carriers we call airlines.
The only thing that's insane is the poster. Don't get me wrong, it's nice that you can scroll a map, size it, and use different overlays. It's hardwork. But insanely cool? Nope. Just good work over a long ride.
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There are only three states left in the USA that have gas station attendants. The rest are what are called "C-store" employees. Burger King isn't a good example either.
You can divide people into categories that include, self-determining, sheep, and "other". Labels for these three categories are: successful, not successful, and don't care/have challenges/co-dependent dysfunctionals.
Of these, there are wage slaves, contractors, independently financed, and complete dependents.
Automation serves each of these categories and distinctions differently. For some, it will aid them and/or give them dignity, and for others, it will replace a need for varying degrees of heretofore human skills. Automation != progress. Automation == automation. Progress occurs when all people are lifted, including the 1/3rd of the world's population, who are poor or disadvantaged, and the other 1/3rd fraction who are or have been mentally ill. When automation aids those fractions, e.g. the planet & its population, that's progress, that's justice.
Although some CEOs believe any PR is good PR, this will not end well for them. The screwed up. The problem was reported. It was fixed. That was reported. But they go for the throat of the reporter anyway.
It's pretty ugly karma.
C'mon. Imagine the ego involved.
Ok, Tim Cook: you thought the Apple Watch would last. Nyah nyah and effyou.
Tim Cook probably dropped $100M on the Apple Watch. Bezos et al get it for half that price.
What great options they are, too /sarcasm
Everyone wants microservices payments to be the next get-rich-quick scheme. So long as they can drain your account and charge you a micro-fee, they're happy.
We're ever-so-trained to let organizations do that micro-skim thing. Look at your phone bill for any questions.
And to trust google to both keep things secure, and not push this service from a cliff as so many failed google programs is lunacy.
Get out of banks, get into an S&L or better still, a credit union. Banks suck, and in today's unregulated climate, they're out for any nickel or micro-penny they can steal.
... all the while cruising on Pirate Bay for an updated copy of his favorite porn.
Agreed. The easiest way to stanch this problem is to never surf to Salon.com. Problem solved.
When wired.com did their adblocker wall, I kissed them goodbye, and found out how my day improved.
I'll subscribe to content that I really need. But the madness and security danger poised by ads, not to mention their often dubious origin motivates me to use Privacy Badger and that plus no-script in another browser.
Publishers can tell me I suck. Fine. I'll go elsewhere. Publishing on the web has a lot of flawed models, and Salon.com just found another one.
One day a VM or container will contain enough guts to safely run the apps in less than a hypervisor mode. Until then, the answer for all three is: Not really. Better still, it shouldn't happen. One flaw in Windows affects Windows, but rarely MacOS or Linux/BSDs. One well-done flaw can kill/maim one host, but not all three.
We survive.
T-Mobile has $50/70 all you can eat plans. Don't watch Netflix on them, but you can surf otherwise with impunity/no restrictions. A number of other providers have them, too. Are they broadband replacements? It's important here to disambiguate the phrase broadband into realistic download speeds. Broadband is an electronics term used to describe something that's a data rate and so fails as a useful metric, IMHO.
Digital Cities, Loma Linda CA, others, have all done muni-/regional-data/voice/channelized TV in your ideal situation. That model is fought strenuously by the carriers/telcos at the local, state, and federal levels. Their suppliers align themselves with the carriers, too-- are they going to bite the hand that feeds them? Nope.
I'm fortunate enough to have lots of data services, including my phone if I'm traveling. It's not ideal. Ten years ago, it was simply impossible because it didn't really exist.
Monopolies are at the root of capitalistic evil.
And none of what you cite has happened yet. It's now a part of case law, flawed (or not) as it might be. For now, it has a chilling effect on speech, somewhere in the fulcrum between original rights holders/copyright owners of a photo, and those that might disseminate the photo.
The web has serious ambiguity problems as regards the use of photos on other sites. Take Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap(stuff), and more. Unless one reads the ToS of each site and acts appropriately, the copyright endowed to art creators can be easily stanches. There is much Fair Use precedent to cover text, but there is much more that is ambiguous and perhaps abused, rather than a portion of free speech via/backed by Fair Use.
A US Federal Judge is more powerful than the POTUS in some very specific ways. The appellate route is viciously expensive, and may not produce results that are good precedents. The US Congress can't be relied upon to get out of its own way these days, and so even a single ruling has a large reverberation.
You're not going to talk Shuttleworth out of such things. Telemetry and pseudo-anonymous information is the great peek under your skirt that marketers die for.
If you must (and you should), you can already null-route the 127+ Windows straws into your system's brain, as well as Apple's 11 major MacOS routes.
It's only a matter of time until the whimpering processes cry you a river, not having touched the mothership. So many industries have become barnacles and parasites on your data, that killing such information will be impossible.
So instead, let's send them *interesting* information. std-dev thwarting, bell-curve crunching, tasty data. Serves the bastards right.
That's because most Cisco equipment had plentiful backdoors, unenforced password barriers/complexities, and holes like a screen door.... that is, those that didn't have a quick trip to the NSA on their way to offshore clientele. Look up the CVEs. They're frightening. Do you think these were stupid programmers?
As shown above, the USA is great at playing this game, to the denials of other phone vendors whose phones are said to be totally secure, but are in fact sieves.
Other successful models say: easements and right-of-ways can become either municipally-owned, perhaps maintained, and so long as you keep things tidy, the wires, preferably fiber, are for all via varying distribution methodologies.
There are certainly gaps. Having a somewhat homogeneous "4G" or "5G" infrastructure is still another problem, although it's still my contention that the data communications portion of cable infrastructure is a utility, and deserves what was once Title II status to make it a regulated utility.
4G in many areas is great. Yes, there are lots of areas where it doesn't but they tend to favorably map where cable systems are lain, because of the population densities. Rural service, well, that's still a problem.
I would argue that cable TV isn't a utility.
Internet and phone service, needed communications infrastructure, qualifies for classification as a utility.
This said, your phone as a tethering device to the the Internet qualifies as an alternative, and you excluded it. Entertainment (TV) doesn't elevate cable companies to a utility, rather, communications do. Entertainment isn't life and death. Not being able to call 911 is life and death.
In a more perfect world, the communities would own the poles and the wires and the easements, and you could pick Comcast, Spectrum, or whomever to be your provider, as a few communities now offer. But states like the short-term revenue from franchising and letting utilities "own" the wires. If we nationalized Layer 1 of the ISO/OSI stack, then you could have your choices. Until then, we're balkanized by the choices made by your legislators.
The average joe and jane in this country doesn't know how many billions of dollars are spent on "private" airports, that they can't use, have no real access to, because they can't afford private aviation. It's a rich person's game.
Businesses, in a self-aggrandizement, believe that they should be able to justify (and TAX-DEDUCT) their $500/hr flights to Podunkia USA, instead of flying to a nearby major airport and paying for a car rental, and of course, plowing through the insane public airport security that's required by the unwashed masses. Go through an X-Ray detector? You must be high. These guys bypass it all, a privileged class, and the government finances it.
The school financing argument is a fail; these are not comparable items.
No. Unequivocally: No.
You odd ad hominem that you finished with distinguishes you as defending your own turf. I was a private pilot. I know how much federal loot goes into preserving general aviation at the cost of so much more.
I dislike and am no friend of airlines/carriers/cabals either. But general aviation today allows a private pathway for the rich to not have to join the unwashed masses in the total messes that is today's aviation security morass.
Billions are poured into this private highway. The taxes in gen-av fuel taxes, tie-downs, FBO, and other ostensible profit centers don't even begin to cover the costs of it..... and let the rich pay in their Cessnas, Pipers, etc all the way up to Citations and more. Gouge? Yes, private aviation really doesn't pay for itself in the same way that commercial trucks do.
Your wisdom is lost in your delivery.
Not really. Your citation doesn't take into account how they operate at all. Take a look at sunken capital costs vs depreciation vs their revenue model. It's true that financing helps them along, but not to the extent that you imply, at all.
And find me a private business that doesn't have investors, bank notes, lots of debt glue, and sunken costs. Comparing the two is pretty juvenile. I'm not a big fan of bonds, but they're tempered against ratings and underwriter considerations and are a viable method of finance for public entities. Look at the litigation that surrounds failures if you had any questions. Most airport corporate entities have stellar ratings and are good lending/bonding risks. Subtracting one bond effort for another isn't a very good method of comparing operating revenues vs finance.
And governments and airport authorities do a fine job. Give it to the private sector and watch the costs become base*profit margin. The private sector shouldn't be necessary at all; they already are the contractors for lots of services. These are PUBLIC assets, not to be sold to the gleaners.
You're moving the argument into areas that have nothing to do with airports and public finance. Lots of great airports have come online in the past decade, along with stellar remodel jobs. It's folly to attempt to finesse some sort of glamor of the 1960s when the world has changed quite a bit since that era. Instead, get the private airports off the public dole.
Users DO do stupid things. They're users.
And now, so many organizations have been breached, public, private, corporate, even small operations that people try to think about security because:
Most everyone in the USA (I'll take my home country as an example) knows someone who's credit info has been snarfed (Equifax), military security/secrets info (OPM breach), health (how many insurers and hospitals now?) that it's almost impossible to be an American without having the taint of having your privacy for sale somewhere behind Tor.
The average civilian knows little about what to do, and leaves security trust to others. Now they trust them as much any more, and for good reason. We as a professional community have failed at security, and we're being laughed at, and for good reason.
You presume that they were at the top of their game at Amazon, whose business model surrounds finding high-margin industries, and sucking away the distribution to attempt to use supply chain and logistics and increased selection to justify margins. Take any of those pieces away, and Amazon leaves that industry segment alone.
Amazon is NOT starting at the top, and so there IS some place for them to go. Amazon is far more of a McJob than they'll admit.
It's not a huge risk, it's a money-making public asset. Airports are gold mines. Besides gate fees, there are lots of bucks to be made renting space, parking spaces, food/taxes, fuel/taxes, and far more.
Other nations might sell off their assets, and they're idiots.
Instead, sell off and stop the tax monies to private airports, thousands of them that serve general aviation, and make them stand on their own feet without tax dollar support. Make private aviation have to pay its own dues, rather than shifting the cost to the cattle car carriers we call airlines.
The only thing that's insane is the poster. Don't get me wrong, it's nice that you can scroll a map, size it, and use different overlays. It's hardwork. But insanely cool? Nope. Just good work over a long ride.
People tend to criticize more than praise. Anger, bile, trolling, all these are in plentiful supply, and seemingly with little effort.
Add to this brew, millions of un-vetted users in the form of bots, where posts can be searched as they spread, and bots can attack each post at will.
This won't end well.