If she becomes the CEO of Uber, I am going to work for them, just so I might be sexually harassed by her. As of 15 minutes ago, they have not yet been officially informed about me starting there.
Not everything, just this. For me the biggest challenge will be actually building the thing. Not from a technical point, but from a political one. And that means that it will be dragged out and that could mean that it is no longer financially sound to do so, as the investment needs to be spread out over many more years.
And with 'everybody' you need to include the government as well. Seatbelts are required. We have laws concerning food. We have rules on how to behave in traffic, building codes and a whole lot more rules and regulations that are there to look after our safety.
We often will discuss if these rules are too strict or not strict enough and they differ from country to country (and sometimes from city to city). We have also seen that if these are not enforced, it means nothing. So what is needed is to set rules and enforce them. That can include specific rules for manufacturers, importers, stores, ISP's, customers and anybody else. e.g. the device needs to be sold with a random password set and the customer will be responsible for using a password. Deactivation would make them responsible.
I know it won't be enough as it does not include things like updates, yet it would be already much better than what we have now.
That is all great if you know if you are going to use certain features or not. Or can put a value or importance on them for yourself. You know that you do not use the smart features, so you know not to look at the info concerning it.
It becomes different if you do NOT know the importance of something. Perhaps it is something that is utterly useless even if it would work, perhaps it is something that you absolutely need. What if there is something seriously wrong with the left phalange. Does that influence you?
It becomes important when you decide if you want to buy something that you have not so much experience with.
I live in Europe and tend to exclude American reviews as their expectations are completely different. e.g. what Americans see as rude, Europeans see as professional. For hotels: I do not need a coffee maker.
Most people have no idea how addicted they are to TV or any of its replacements. Just don't watch any TV or related content (YouTube, Torrents stuff, DVDs...) for a week. Going to the movies you can do as long as it is part of a social gathering.
It is marketed that way. If I think of NCIS, I do not think about the production house or the cable company. If they think their branding is not apparent enough, they should talk to their marketing department.
Or do you think "Disney" when you say "Star Wars"?
I personally do not care if everybody gets paid. "But then they would not make anything anymore." For me, nothing of value will be lost, even if I enjoyed some of the content.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
Just make your own dumb tv. Just take a smart tv and not click on the smart part of it and do not connect it to anything over Wifi or network cable. BOOM! Dumb tv.
I use my tv as a monitor for several years now. Just 1920x1080 55" Philips I bought for 500EUR. It has 3 HDMI ports and some others as well as sound (that is shitty and I do not use) and a normal remote (That I only use to turn it on and off). I looked at the smart part once and just do not use it.
Now if you are really paranoid, you could see that it does not have Wifi and never connect the network cable to anything. If you are aftraid somebody might still come in to your house and connect it, you have serious issues that won't be solved by not buying a smart tv.
Just because something has a feature does not mean you have to use it.
I have a smart tv (Are there any others now?) and the only thing I use is the HDMI cable. Basically I use it as a monitor connected to a PC. The first reason is that the interface (I looked at it) is pretty useless to me.
My router only allows MAC addresses I allow and disallows by default anything else. There are no open routers that are open, so it can't use a neighbors router either.
For me there is a difference between driving and going somewhere. If I just want to get somewhere, I would not mind a self driving car. If I want to enjoy driving, I do it for driving and then obviously I do not want a self driving car.
At this moment I do not even own a car and do car sharing with cambio.be I would LOVE to have self driving cars. That way I do not need to walk to the car, but can just let it get to my door, get in and drive, do mu shopping. Get out at home and have it drive to wherever his tiny wheels take him into the wide world.
At other moments I would have it drive to me, I take over and enjoy the driving experience.
Commuting I do now with public transport, so no driving there.
In the time that there where still traders on the floor, I knew a person who was working on the floor in Frankfurt.
What they told me was at down moments, like between X-mas and new year, they would trade non-standard stuff. So not shares or the like. What they did was handle it just like they handle everything else; Buy low, sell high. It was just that the amounts where often lower.
Some of the things I was told that where traded where 10 square meters of pie, a truckload of X-mas trees and also 2 camels.
You have 10 second Everybody, except the last guy; made money from it. All you needed to do was have somebody buy it who thought that somebody else would buy it at an even higher price.
And that is where now the end-user comes in. In Belgium many banks had shares from Lernout & Hauspie and when the banks noticed it was going to implode, they started selling it to their customers as fast as they could get people in. Didn't matter that people where putting up their life savings and their houses on the line. They lost it all. Well, not the banks, as they sold so much of them.
And still many people would go to these banks and say "I trust them, because we have been with them since my grand parents opened an account."
I myself am more loyal to my underwear than to my bank. I check every year if it is interesting to change banks or not and I have done so a few times already.
So yes, it is gamblers gambling on other gamblers. But they know they can always count on the gov to have their back or get into the husteling game and get some innocent bastard to cover for them.
I believe that is the essence of the trickle down economy.
All the examples sound really awesome. I am sure it will be used in reality to sell more crap to people. It will be used to sell phones that are thinner, not with a larger battery capacity, but just thinner. It will be used on marketing things we have not thought of yet. And it will be used to monitor us, so the companies know us even better and can sell even more stuff.
The Law of the Sea says the larger ship has right-of-way, so there is no dispute over who must get out of the way.
No, it doesn't. There are clear rules who has right of way. If you are in a small vessel, it is WISE to go out of the way, as you can maneuver better than a heavy ship. It does not mean it has right of way.
It starts with the fact that a commercial vessel has right of way over a commercial vessel. Next there are very specific maritime laws that determine who has right of way. (No vessel ever has absolute "right of way" over other vessels. Rather, there can be a "give way" (burdened) vessel and a "stand on" (privileged) vessel, or there may be two give way vessels with no stand on vessel)
A simple explanation of how stupid it would be is that you have NO idea how heavy a ship is. A smaller ship in length can easily be heavier than a much larger ship and you have no way of knowing.
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If she becomes the CEO of Uber, I am going to work for them, just so I might be sexually harassed by her. As of 15 minutes ago, they have not yet been officially informed about me starting there.
Not everything, just this. For me the biggest challenge will be actually building the thing. Not from a technical point, but from a political one.
And that means that it will be dragged out and that could mean that it is no longer financially sound to do so, as the investment needs to be spread out over many more years.
Please understand the difference between OR/AND. The 30 rounds do not become less lethal. It is just that they have an additional tool to kill.
And with 'everybody' you need to include the government as well. Seatbelts are required. We have laws concerning food. We have rules on how to behave in traffic, building codes and a whole lot more rules and regulations that are there to look after our safety.
We often will discuss if these rules are too strict or not strict enough and they differ from country to country (and sometimes from city to city). We have also seen that if these are not enforced, it means nothing.
So what is needed is to set rules and enforce them. That can include specific rules for manufacturers, importers, stores, ISP's, customers and anybody else. e.g. the device needs to be sold with a random password set and the customer will be responsible for using a password. Deactivation would make them responsible.
I know it won't be enough as it does not include things like updates, yet it would be already much better than what we have now.
And that is the reasons we have laws that require seatbelts and many other things that add cost to shiny things.
That is all great if you know if you are going to use certain features or not. Or can put a value or importance on them for yourself.
You know that you do not use the smart features, so you know not to look at the info concerning it.
It becomes different if you do NOT know the importance of something. Perhaps it is something that is utterly useless even if it would work, perhaps it is something that you absolutely need. What if there is something seriously wrong with the left phalange. Does that influence you?
It becomes important when you decide if you want to buy something that you have not so much experience with.
I live in Europe and tend to exclude American reviews as their expectations are completely different. e.g. what Americans see as rude, Europeans see as professional. For hotels: I do not need a coffee maker.
But those are things I know what I want/need
Most people have no idea how addicted they are to TV or any of its replacements. Just don't watch any TV or related content (YouTube, Torrents stuff, DVDs ...) for a week.
Going to the movies you can do as long as it is part of a social gathering.
I am sure most people will show signs of withdrawal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... for some extra info.
It is marketed that way. If I think of NCIS, I do not think about the production house or the cable company. If they think their branding is not apparent enough, they should talk to their marketing department.
Or do you think "Disney" when you say "Star Wars"?
I personally do not care if everybody gets paid. "But then they would not make anything anymore." For me, nothing of value will be lost, even if I enjoyed some of the content.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
For me it is the software that I DID write myself that I don't trust.
They want you to use the software that they have infiltrated and not that Ruski stuff where they have no access to.
No idea what you are saying, buy I agree. Fuck hive mind.
Just make your own dumb tv. Just take a smart tv and not click on the smart part of it and do not connect it to anything over Wifi or network cable. BOOM! Dumb tv.
I use my tv as a monitor for several years now. Just 1920x1080 55" Philips I bought for 500EUR. It has 3 HDMI ports and some others as well as sound (that is shitty and I do not use) and a normal remote (That I only use to turn it on and off). I looked at the smart part once and just do not use it.
Now if you are really paranoid, you could see that it does not have Wifi and never connect the network cable to anything. If you are aftraid somebody might still come in to your house and connect it, you have serious issues that won't be solved by not buying a smart tv.
Just because something has a feature does not mean you have to use it.
I have a smart tv (Are there any others now?) and the only thing I use is the HDMI cable. Basically I use it as a monitor connected to a PC. The first reason is that the interface (I looked at it) is pretty useless to me.
My router only allows MAC addresses I allow and disallows by default anything else. There are no open routers that are open, so it can't use a neighbors router either.
For me there is a difference between driving and going somewhere. If I just want to get somewhere, I would not mind a self driving car. If I want to enjoy driving, I do it for driving and then obviously I do not want a self driving car.
At this moment I do not even own a car and do car sharing with cambio.be I would LOVE to have self driving cars. That way I do not need to walk to the car, but can just let it get to my door, get in and drive, do mu shopping. Get out at home and have it drive to wherever his tiny wheels take him into the wide world.
At other moments I would have it drive to me, I take over and enjoy the driving experience.
Commuting I do now with public transport, so no driving there.
The question is not about THEIR driving abilities. The question is if it will be better than YOUR driving abilities.
That is why I don't use escalators. Can you imagine being stuck on those for hours?
In the time that there where still traders on the floor, I knew a person who was working on the floor in Frankfurt.
What they told me was at down moments, like between X-mas and new year, they would trade non-standard stuff. So not shares or the like. What they did was handle it just like they handle everything else; Buy low, sell high. It was just that the amounts where often lower.
Some of the things I was told that where traded where 10 square meters of pie, a truckload of X-mas trees and also 2 camels.
You have 10 second Everybody, except the last guy; made money from it. All you needed to do was have somebody buy it who thought that somebody else would buy it at an even higher price.
And that is where now the end-user comes in. In Belgium many banks had shares from Lernout & Hauspie and when the banks noticed it was going to implode, they started selling it to their customers as fast as they could get people in. Didn't matter that people where putting up their life savings and their houses on the line. They lost it all. Well, not the banks, as they sold so much of them.
And still many people would go to these banks and say "I trust them, because we have been with them since my grand parents opened an account."
I myself am more loyal to my underwear than to my bank. I check every year if it is interesting to change banks or not and I have done so a few times already.
So yes, it is gamblers gambling on other gamblers. But they know they can always count on the gov to have their back or get into the husteling game and get some innocent bastard to cover for them.
I believe that is the essence of the trickle down economy.
The NSA will be sooo pissed that we locked them out. And with that all the other agencies all over the world.
You know that in the Feudal system what the Kings did was completely legal, right? So fighting it at that level will hardly solve anything.
All the examples sound really awesome. I am sure it will be used in reality to sell more crap to people.
It will be used to sell phones that are thinner, not with a larger battery capacity, but just thinner.
It will be used on marketing things we have not thought of yet. And it will be used to monitor us, so the companies know us even better and can sell even more stuff.
The future is awesome.
No, it doesn't. There are clear rules who has right of way.
If you are in a small vessel, it is WISE to go out of the way, as you can maneuver better than a heavy ship. It does not mean it has right of way.
It starts with the fact that a commercial vessel has right of way over a commercial vessel. Next there are very specific maritime laws that determine who has right of way. (No vessel ever has absolute "right of way" over other vessels. Rather, there can be a "give way" (burdened) vessel and a "stand on" (privileged) vessel, or there may be two give way vessels with no stand on vessel)
A simple explanation of how stupid it would be is that you have NO idea how heavy a ship is. A smaller ship in length can easily be heavier than a much larger ship and you have no way of knowing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for a very basic idea and links to the rest.
As this very basic idea is wrong, I need to assume that you also have no idea about the rest.
Dispose of the WIFI dongle? Why not just edit the MAC?
It is only paranoia if you THINK you are being followed.