Right, and in typical technobabble fashion one has to jump through hoops to perform something so simple, once again showing why analog (a paper map) is better than a digital map.
Because humans are visual animals and process visual cues more quickly than verbal. It is much easier to have a printed map on 8.5" x 11" paper with your route highlighted than it is to try and concentrate on what some distant voice is telling you where to go.
To this day Google maps does not allow you to rotate whatever you're looking at so it is aligned N-S. For example, if you look at Manhattan, NY, its gridlines are neatly arrayed. However, the island itself does not point N-S. It is slightly askew.
There is no way (that I am aware of) to rotate the map so the gridlines run E-W and N-S so when you print out a close up view everything lines up neatly on the page. Instead, the picture runs off diagonally.
Outside of rotating, when you drag the line for your trip to a different route it regularly ends up doubling back on itself. When you try to drag the offending part to match where you want to go, it may double back again.
Sure, if you fiddle with it enough you can eventually get it to have one continuous line but generally it's faster to clear the entire page and start over.
Google maps has gone downhill over the years. What used to be an easy way to map or view where you want to go has been reduced to the typical shiny so prevalent on the web. Forget ease of use, so long as it's shiny.
The moment you see the charge hit your bill you contact your credit card company and have them do a chargeback. Tell them you've been trying to cancel with this company who refuses to honor your request and these are fraudulent charges.
The credit card company will remove the charge from your bill then attempt to collect from the other company.
Let's see. The stock market has been soaring under President Obama, unlike the Bush administration where it collapsed over 50%.
The job market is growing, unlike the Bush administration where over 14 million people lost their jobs.
Housing is picking up, unlike the Bush administration where millions lost their homes.
While interest rates have been kept artificially low to help Wall Street, at least $700 billion of taxpayer money hasn't been used so they could pay out their bonuses.
Last I looked, planes aren't slamming into buildings, unlike the Bush administration which ignored 8 months of daily warnings of an impending attack resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people in a few hours.
The guy who planned the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history is dead, unlike the Bush administration which let him escape when they refused every request from troops on the ground for more troops to block his escape from Tora Bora.
We haven't invaded and occupied a single country, unlike in the Bush administration which lied about needing to attack Iraq which cost us over $2 trillion and the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
All in all, not bad considering how bad a shape the country was in when Bush was in office.
The difference is the hotel paid him for his work with the understanding they could use the image for a specified period of time. The key point being they did pay him for his work.
When you pull down a file you haven't compensated the artist for their work. You're simply stealing.
If he's committed a crime, prove it, provide the evidence,
You know how the Innocent Project goes about proving people are not guilty of the crimes they are in jail for? They get the evidence. They go through the case, look at the evidence presented and so on. The people have said they are innocent all along and the Project showed they were telling the truth.
If this guy is innocent then he can work with them to show he is innocent. Let the Project see the evidence.
That said, if YOU were accused of having child porn I tend to think you would do everything in your power to show that wasn't the case. If you don't want child porn, think murder, rape or embezzlement.
While it is up to the prosecution to prove their case and show the evidence, they can make your life very uncomfortable and when it's all done and said, you can try to sue for false prosecution them but then you'd have to provide evidence why you shouldn't have been considered a criminal. That would mean showing the very evidence you didn't want to produce in the first place.
The US fought TWO wars in Iraq costing many hundreds of billions of dollars (maybe a trillion...I'm not up on the exact figures)
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq cost the U.S. $2+ TRILLION and that does not include the ongoing costs to pay for the medical expenses of the thousands of soldiers who were injured.
Blah, blah, blah. I make stupid decisions but not ones which endanger others.
Why should I have compassion for people who refuse to listen to or use common sense? Pick anything you like: alcohol, drug use, smoking, texting while driving, talking on the phone while driving, taking selfies while driving, driving with your wrist slung over the top of the steering wheel, the list goes. In every single case there are mountains of science to back up the dangers of all those activities yet millions of people every day ignore the evidence.
"George Burns smoked until he died in his 90s so I can smoke too!"
"Marijuana is harmless so ignore the guy who blew his brains out after smoking a joint or the other guy who killed his wife after eating a Mary Jane edible."
"Getting drunk is fun and there's nothing you can do to show otherwise!"
"I drive one handed all the time and never have any problems. I'm a perfect driver."
Compassion is reserved for those, who, through no fault of their own, come into unfortunate circumstances. The three year old who has leukemia deserves compassion. The kid with spina bifida deserves compassion. The guy who loses a leg to a shark deserves compassion. The people attacked by ISL or Boka Haram deserve compassion. The kids raped by Catholic priests deserve compassion.
People who refuse to the use two pounds of grey matter rattling around in their skull and get injured or killed do not deserve compassion. They had the capacity to protect themselves but chose not to.
In this case it's the government trying to protect a whole bunch of us from someone being an idiot.
Wouldn't letting people see the result of being more enamored with ones cell phone than their surroundings teach a larger group of people a valuable lesson? "This is what happens when you don't pay attention."
In nature, when one animal encounters a bad situation, and it survives, it tells its friends and neighbors. Those in turn don't do what the first animal did. It's called learning. Those that fail to learn, die.
Besides, with over 7 billion people on the planet, does it matter if a few are removed from the gene pool because of their own stupidity?
Because it's the government job to protect every person from every single possible calamity which may befall that person rather than encouraging people to take responsibility for themselves.
Essentially, you're admitting people are too stupid to take care of themselves so Big Brother has to do so.
Are these the kind of people we want to perpetuate our species? Ones who can't think or act for themselves?
Bzzzt, wrong! The first Amendment only applies to the United States, and not just citizens but any person within its borders. How do I know this? I read the damn thing.
Here is the opening to the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Note the last twelve words: do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Nowhere is it said our Constitution applies to everyone everywhere. It is solely for those within the United States.
is creating negative value because someone else has to clean up all the mess they make.
Like the mess I and my team have to clean up every day because of the negative value created by developers?
Having us clean up their mess is not creating value because it takes time away from us by not allowing us to do the things which need to be done. Instead, we have to spend our time finding ways around the cruft developers have created or explaining to people why the latest and greatest software has less functionality than the previous versions. (Google maps for a simple example).
These are communications majors who make $10/HR at McDonald's, not senior developers making 150k.
And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
and Medicare does not pay for them, nor do most insurers.
No, why would insurance pay for something which is medically necessary or might improve the quality of a person's life. You're only paying to them to do. . . well, I'm not really sure what we're paying insurance companies to do. They never want to pay for anything, always making you pay and pay and pay, then pay some more.
Insurance companies. We're like the mafia, only legal.
Granted, this would take a heck of a lot more effort to accomplish than an autonomous bus, but it would have huge ripple effects when it came to transportation, food and pollution.
The idea of punishing people into working is even more stupid. Did you never read any Dickens?
That's who you're using to state your case?
The reality is that a basic income simply supplies security
It also means people will be happy to leech off others knowing they will be guaranteed this income. There is no incentive to do anything other than the minimum because they'll still get paid.
Why bother inventing something when you'll still get paid for not inventing? Why bother making a process more efficient when you'll still get paid no matter how many people have to do the work?
If you're going to reference Dickens I'll reference the numerous stories written by others wherein a society where people don't have to do anything falls into disrepair and collapse.
As the saying goes, it's easy to be generous with other people's money.
So you're looking forward to someone who will triple the national debt and raise taxes seven times?
Wow, you must have really enjoyed Bush Jr.: 50% decline in the stock market, worst recession in 80 years, 14+ million people losing their jobs, millions losing their homes, $700 billion given to Wall Street so they could pay out their bonuses, not to mention ignoring seven months of daily warnings of an impending attack which led to the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history (3,000 dead in a few hours).
What torture? What he is experiencing doesn't even register on the scale of torture.
Solitary confinement is a human rights violation.
No, it's not. It serves two purposes. 1) to prevent people like him from harming others as they have already done and 2) prevent others from harming him because of what they have done.
Of course had the police shot him this would have saved the taxpayers the money they are pouring down the black hole to keep him around. He is without a doubt guilty. There is no reason to keep him around since he will never be a productive member of society.
But as always, it's easy to be generous with other people's money.
since I don't have car accidents, floods or house fires but you do,
Neither do I and every time I'm forced to hand over my money to an insurance company it's a complete loss to my finances because I will never see any of that money again. Just like a business, I should be allowed to write off the cost of this insurance since it is a cost to me.
Currently you pay three times as much as your insurance is worth, so that people who can't afford insurance can be treated in the emergency room for "free".
Thank you for pointing out that I'm supposed to take care of other people but I have no say in how they live their lives to prevent them from needing to go to the emergency room in the first place. Can't talk about personal responsibility, can we? No, that's a dirty word because it means people would have to first take care of themselves before being able to leech off everyone else.
Further, you pointing out I'm being overcharged so others can continue to smoke, be alcoholics, do drugs or be obese is exactly the point I'm making. What you and everyone else on here (mostly) want is for people to be free to live their lives as they want without any consequences for their actions. None whatsoever and the moment any attempt is made to make people responsible for their actions you are the very person to whine and cry about the big, bad government stepping into someone's personal life.
Yet, you want that same big, bad government to force me to hand over my money, something I've worked for so I can live my life as I want, so others can continue to poison or destroy themselves without forcing them to change their lives. Because it's none of the government's business what people do with their lives, right? Except when it comes to them crying they need help because they've made bad choices, then suddenly that big, bad government must come to their rescue without question.
You must have cheered when George Bush handed over $700 billion of taxpayer money to the folks on Wall Street so they could pay out their bonuses.
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Right, and in typical technobabble fashion one has to jump through hoops to perform something so simple, once again showing why analog (a paper map) is better than a digital map.
Why are you printing?
Because humans are visual animals and process visual cues more quickly than verbal. It is much easier to have a printed map on 8.5" x 11" paper with your route highlighted than it is to try and concentrate on what some distant voice is telling you where to go.
To this day Google maps does not allow you to rotate whatever you're looking at so it is aligned N-S. For example, if you look at Manhattan, NY, its gridlines are neatly arrayed. However, the island itself does not point N-S. It is slightly askew.
There is no way (that I am aware of) to rotate the map so the gridlines run E-W and N-S so when you print out a close up view everything lines up neatly on the page. Instead, the picture runs off diagonally.
Outside of rotating, when you drag the line for your trip to a different route it regularly ends up doubling back on itself. When you try to drag the offending part to match where you want to go, it may double back again.
Sure, if you fiddle with it enough you can eventually get it to have one continuous line but generally it's faster to clear the entire page and start over.
Google maps has gone downhill over the years. What used to be an easy way to map or view where you want to go has been reduced to the typical shiny so prevalent on the web. Forget ease of use, so long as it's shiny.
Unfortunately, the local bookstores have gone out of business in my area. I can't spend an afternoon browsing the shelves to find something new.
Are you sure? Neil Gaiman just celebrated Independent Bookstore Day and we know he's an authority on such things.
The moment you see the charge hit your bill you contact your credit card company and have them do a chargeback. Tell them you've been trying to cancel with this company who refuses to honor your request and these are fraudulent charges.
The credit card company will remove the charge from your bill then attempt to collect from the other company.
Rinse and repeat each month.
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Let's see. The stock market has been soaring under President Obama, unlike the Bush administration where it collapsed over 50%.
The job market is growing, unlike the Bush administration where over 14 million people lost their jobs.
Housing is picking up, unlike the Bush administration where millions lost their homes.
While interest rates have been kept artificially low to help Wall Street, at least $700 billion of taxpayer money hasn't been used so they could pay out their bonuses.
Last I looked, planes aren't slamming into buildings, unlike the Bush administration which ignored 8 months of daily warnings of an impending attack resulting in the deaths of 3,000 people in a few hours.
The guy who planned the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history is dead, unlike the Bush administration which let him escape when they refused every request from troops on the ground for more troops to block his escape from Tora Bora.
We haven't invaded and occupied a single country, unlike in the Bush administration which lied about needing to attack Iraq which cost us over $2 trillion and the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
All in all, not bad considering how bad a shape the country was in when Bush was in office.
The difference is the hotel paid him for his work with the understanding they could use the image for a specified period of time. The key point being they did pay him for his work.
When you pull down a file you haven't compensated the artist for their work. You're simply stealing.
Exactly. Just like car dealers should be able to lock you out of your car if you don't come in for a service notice or upgrade to your software.
Win/win situation: the dealer gets more business and users get more apps!
If he's committed a crime, prove it, provide the evidence,
You know how the Innocent Project goes about proving people are not guilty of the crimes they are in jail for? They get the evidence. They go through the case, look at the evidence presented and so on. The people have said they are innocent all along and the Project showed they were telling the truth.
If this guy is innocent then he can work with them to show he is innocent. Let the Project see the evidence.
That said, if YOU were accused of having child porn I tend to think you would do everything in your power to show that wasn't the case. If you don't want child porn, think murder, rape or embezzlement.
While it is up to the prosecution to prove their case and show the evidence, they can make your life very uncomfortable and when it's all done and said, you can try to sue for false prosecution them but then you'd have to provide evidence why you shouldn't have been considered a criminal. That would mean showing the very evidence you didn't want to produce in the first place.
The US fought TWO wars in Iraq costing many hundreds of billions of dollars (maybe a trillion...I'm not up on the exact figures)
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq cost the U.S. $2+ TRILLION and that does not include the ongoing costs to pay for the medical expenses of the thousands of soldiers who were injured.
Didn't Uber just win a legal case stating the people who drive for them are not their employees but freelancers?
If they're not Uber employees why is Uber trying to compensate these people for an insignificant wait time for someone hailing one of their cabs?
Blah, blah, blah. I make stupid decisions but not ones which endanger others.
Why should I have compassion for people who refuse to listen to or use common sense? Pick anything you like: alcohol, drug use, smoking, texting while driving, talking on the phone while driving, taking selfies while driving, driving with your wrist slung over the top of the steering wheel, the list goes. In every single case there are mountains of science to back up the dangers of all those activities yet millions of people every day ignore the evidence.
"George Burns smoked until he died in his 90s so I can smoke too!"
"Marijuana is harmless so ignore the guy who blew his brains out after smoking a joint or the other guy who killed his wife after eating a Mary Jane edible."
"Getting drunk is fun and there's nothing you can do to show otherwise!"
"I drive one handed all the time and never have any problems. I'm a perfect driver."
Compassion is reserved for those, who, through no fault of their own, come into unfortunate circumstances. The three year old who has leukemia deserves compassion. The kid with spina bifida deserves compassion. The guy who loses a leg to a shark deserves compassion. The people attacked by ISL or Boka Haram deserve compassion. The kids raped by Catholic priests deserve compassion.
People who refuse to the use two pounds of grey matter rattling around in their skull and get injured or killed do not deserve compassion. They had the capacity to protect themselves but chose not to.
In this case it's the government trying to protect a whole bunch of us from someone being an idiot.
Wouldn't letting people see the result of being more enamored with ones cell phone than their surroundings teach a larger group of people a valuable lesson? "This is what happens when you don't pay attention."
In nature, when one animal encounters a bad situation, and it survives, it tells its friends and neighbors. Those in turn don't do what the first animal did. It's called learning. Those that fail to learn, die.
Besides, with over 7 billion people on the planet, does it matter if a few are removed from the gene pool because of their own stupidity?
Because it's the government job to protect every person from every single possible calamity which may befall that person rather than encouraging people to take responsibility for themselves.
Essentially, you're admitting people are too stupid to take care of themselves so Big Brother has to do so.
Are these the kind of people we want to perpetuate our species? Ones who can't think or act for themselves?
Bzzzt, wrong! The first Amendment only applies to the United States, and not just citizens but any person within its borders. How do I know this? I read the damn thing.
Here is the opening to the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Note the last twelve words: do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Nowhere is it said our Constitution applies to everyone everywhere. It is solely for those within the United States.
More H-1b visas! Send them our way since they're so good at securing their own networks.
is creating negative value because someone else has to clean up all the mess they make.
Like the mess I and my team have to clean up every day because of the negative value created by developers?
Having us clean up their mess is not creating value because it takes time away from us by not allowing us to do the things which need to be done. Instead, we have to spend our time finding ways around the cruft developers have created or explaining to people why the latest and greatest software has less functionality than the previous versions. (Google maps for a simple example).
These are communications majors who make $10/HR at McDonald's, not senior developers making 150k.
And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
and Medicare does not pay for them, nor do most insurers.
No, why would insurance pay for something which is medically necessary or might improve the quality of a person's life. You're only paying to them to do. . . well, I'm not really sure what we're paying insurance companies to do. They never want to pay for anything, always making you pay and pay and pay, then pay some more.
Insurance companies. We're like the mafia, only legal.
Fewer people.
Granted, this would take a heck of a lot more effort to accomplish than an autonomous bus, but it would have huge ripple effects when it came to transportation, food and pollution.
The idea of punishing people into working is even more stupid. Did you never read any Dickens?
That's who you're using to state your case?
The reality is that a basic income simply supplies security
It also means people will be happy to leech off others knowing they will be guaranteed this income. There is no incentive to do anything other than the minimum because they'll still get paid.
Why bother inventing something when you'll still get paid for not inventing? Why bother making a process more efficient when you'll still get paid no matter how many people have to do the work?
If you're going to reference Dickens I'll reference the numerous stories written by others wherein a society where people don't have to do anything falls into disrepair and collapse.
As the saying goes, it's easy to be generous with other people's money.
But the three year old being raped isn't a concern while you're fapping away, right?
So you're looking forward to someone who will triple the national debt and raise taxes seven times?
Wow, you must have really enjoyed Bush Jr.: 50% decline in the stock market, worst recession in 80 years, 14+ million people losing their jobs, millions losing their homes, $700 billion given to Wall Street so they could pay out their bonuses, not to mention ignoring seven months of daily warnings of an impending attack which led to the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history (3,000 dead in a few hours).
but that doesn't mean he has to be tortured
What torture? What he is experiencing doesn't even register on the scale of torture.
Solitary confinement is a human rights violation.
No, it's not. It serves two purposes. 1) to prevent people like him from harming others as they have already done and 2) prevent others from harming him because of what they have done.
Of course had the police shot him this would have saved the taxpayers the money they are pouring down the black hole to keep him around. He is without a doubt guilty. There is no reason to keep him around since he will never be a productive member of society.
But as always, it's easy to be generous with other people's money.
since I don't have car accidents, floods or house fires but you do,
Neither do I and every time I'm forced to hand over my money to an insurance company it's a complete loss to my finances because I will never see any of that money again. Just like a business, I should be allowed to write off the cost of this insurance since it is a cost to me.
Currently you pay three times as much as your insurance is worth, so that people who can't afford insurance can be treated in the emergency room for "free".
Thank you for pointing out that I'm supposed to take care of other people but I have no say in how they live their lives to prevent them from needing to go to the emergency room in the first place. Can't talk about personal responsibility, can we? No, that's a dirty word because it means people would have to first take care of themselves before being able to leech off everyone else.
Further, you pointing out I'm being overcharged so others can continue to smoke, be alcoholics, do drugs or be obese is exactly the point I'm making. What you and everyone else on here (mostly) want is for people to be free to live their lives as they want without any consequences for their actions. None whatsoever and the moment any attempt is made to make people responsible for their actions you are the very person to whine and cry about the big, bad government stepping into someone's personal life.
Yet, you want that same big, bad government to force me to hand over my money, something I've worked for so I can live my life as I want, so others can continue to poison or destroy themselves without forcing them to change their lives. Because it's none of the government's business what people do with their lives, right? Except when it comes to them crying they need help because they've made bad choices, then suddenly that big, bad government must come to their rescue without question.
You must have cheered when George Bush handed over $700 billion of taxpayer money to the folks on Wall Street so they could pay out their bonuses.