Bah! The Googlemind offers a very limited selection of live goat porn and will never actually select it for you, no matter how much you might wish it to do so. The Bingmind, on the other hand, has found its one true calling and will deliver up whatever nastiness you can imagine and probably quite a few you haven't, as well. Bing has already won the porn search wars before google was even aware they were being fought, and has therefore won the internet as well. Sorry Google, better luck next time.
You'll likely have to obey airspace restrictions, which is more likely to lead to you not being able to operate your drone anywhere near a large airport, stadiums or sporting events or other aircraft. I'm a bit hazy on the actual distances off the top of my head -- it's been a couple off years since I've read the FARs, and I'm only incidentally involved with the airspace anyway.
Oh yeah, and you'll probably also have to read all the FAA Regulations. It sounds like they're being somewhat rewritten at the moment, so it's probably a good idea to review them after they're done anyway. If you have a question, they probably answer them. Of course, that only pertains to US airspaces. Other countries have their own regulatory bodies, so if you're operating outside the USA, you probably won't be affected, anyway.
I'm all for it, as long as part of the tax law requires people to be allowed to share and download whatever content they want without restrictions. That would fix a lot of what's wrong with the copyright system.
Here I thought Musk's plan was to get investigated by the SEC, thus causing Tesla's shares to tank, which in turn would make it much less expensive to take the company private.
Your brother should have stayed in his old job until the new one was a done deal, worked 40 hours a week and taken whatever layoff terms were offered. Usually there's a package in return for a promise not to sue them, and he'd be eligible for unemployment at some point (If a layoff package offers some months of salary, it's usually after that many months, IIRC.) He'd be in a much better position whether the new job comes through or not. It probably will, but he's going to be a lot more stressed about it until he starts. Companies will also routinely contest unemployment claims on flimsy grounds (best to keep emails and have everything in writing,) which they can do with no penalty. Apparently a lot of people give up and don't appeal the denial.
No one teaches you any of this stuff, and picking it up as you go isn't fun. Your brother could probably file a complaint with the state labor board about the mandatory overtime, if it continues beyond a certain amount of time that probably varies from state to state. I work on a fixed hourly rate and never get asked to work overtime, so I don't know what that is in my state off the top of my head.
Most people let the company dictate the terms of their employment and will allow the company to walk all over them in the process. There generally isn't any need for that, but it can be hard to figure that out for yourself. If most people knew a bit about basic labor regulations, they wouldn't even need unions. Of course, the unions are the reason most of those regulations are even there in the first place.
I was forced to take THREE in college, for some reason, and have never it since then. When Y2K reared its ugly head, I set my asking price for COBOL programming to $300 an hour. Never had any takers. Nowadays I reckon I'd be pretty rusty at it but if someone wants to pay me $3000 a day plus expenses, I suppose I could dust off an old textbook.
I use Advanced Call Blocker. It has a number of handy options it can block on, including not accepting calls that aren't in your contacts. You can also blacklist entire area codes, calls without caller ID and bunches of other stuff. I set incoming calls to go to my voicemail unless they're in my contacts list. It's also easy to disable if you order out for pizza or something.
I suppose speech-to-text has gotten good enough that you don't have to type your texts out anymore. I often get them when I'm driving, though. I suppose I could find a text app that reads them out with text-to-speech too. And it'd be great if I didn't have to look at the phone and could just dictate my response and have the phone send it back. Wait a minute...
What? Clearly we like it this way, or we'd do something about it. Just like everyone else has.
I have a couple of solutions that might work. Now the knee jerk reaction is "Oh, let's just get rid of all the guns!" And it seems like that mostly works, and allows authorities to focus on the people who seem to be trying to get guns, but the minute you say that, the gun people are all like "Weeeeh! Then only criminals will have guns! Weeeeh! We have to have guns to revolt against the government if we need to! Weeeh!" I dunno. Hard to focus on the message over all that weeeehing. And clearly these people have never been napalmed by a government-run military that, despite the fact that those same people say the government sucks at running anything, is really well armed, really well run and quite capable of overwhelming whatever little pea-shooters civilians have. But I won't even suggest it, you know, to avoid the weeehing.
Since we can't do that *cough*, we could just give everyone guns and mandate that everyone carry them and be trained in their use. Then if someone starts shooting, everyone can start shooting back. Doesn't that sound like fun? It'll be just like the wild wild west, and there's got to be a reason that is one of the most romanticized periods in US history. I'm sure the NRA would be completely behind this plan if they weren't going out of business for... what did they do again? Insurance fraud or something? Illegally influence US elections on behalf of Russian oligarchs? Honestly, it's getting pretty difficult to keep up. Well, whatever god damn shenanigans were going on over there that's causing them to go out of business now, anyway.
Another possible option would be mandatory military service for all US citizens from their 19th birthday to their 24th birthday. And mandatory reserve status for anyone who wants to own a gun. Then you could apply the GI bill to their education, it's got militias right in the thing, solves the current recruitment problem and everyone gets a healthy dose of perspective that they were otherwise lacking when they come out of high school. I think that covers all the bases.
Another alternative is that we can just keep doing what we're doing, letting any crazy jackass get all the guns and ammo they want. This is probably what will happen.
No it wouldn't. The suffering is actually more entertaining than most of the movies we would have gone to see anyway. Everyone should just tell them "Keep going, Movie Pass! You can do it!" and pop up some more popcorn to eat while watching them flail about trying to make it work.
I wouldn't work for 'em at this point, though. I'd' be surprised if the payroll checks haven't already started bouncing.
It's always an observation over time thing. The most simple one is just that they win too much. If you're just a lucky fucker, they'll ban you. If you vary your bets in such a way that you're more likely to win big on hands that are statistically in your favor (Which is what the card counters do,) they'll ban you. If you've noticed a pattern in any of their games and exploit it in any way to make more money than you should, they'll ban you. They don't need any proof to ban you, so they don't have to claim to know anything.
It's only a problem if you're playing the house, which is for chumps anyway. The house stacks the odds in their favor, and this is just one of the ways they do that. I don't fault them for it, they're still a lot cleaner than state lotteries. Don't get me wrong, the fat lot of them are a bunch of assholes (Most of them would probably agree with me,) but on the asshole continuum, lotteries are way down by the goatse guy.
That would be a nice change. And there is no "Law of Similars." Those words put together like that make me want to punch someone in the face. I'm usually pretty nice about not shitting on other people's religions, but that ends at the point where you start giving cancer patients water and telling them it will cure their cancer.
Turns out it was just some dumb fucking lawyer and as soon as the mistake was pointed out, they corrected it. We really didn't need jump to calling them "bitches" and "goat fuckers" right out of the gate like we did! I'm sure there are almost no goats being fucked over there!
Wine's gotten pretty good. Back in the day I used to use it to run Morrowind, but it was glitchy. Now it runs stuff like Skyrim, WoW and No Man's Sky flawlessly. You still have to check it on a case-by-case basis, but it seems like it's pretty solid.
"Due to not being able to communicate with the guys delivering more water, we had to severely throttle our water bandwidth right after saving all the sprint and T-Mobile towers. I'm afraid all the Verizon ones burned down."
For a company whose first rule was "don't be evil," they sure have being pretty evil lately. I wonder if some of those Google employees are now asking themselves if they want to keep working at a place where they've had to revolt twice in less than a year (The first one being over AI in military contracts.)
Flying is actually pretty easy. Landing, on the other hand... I'm pretty sure if I put a real plane down like the ones I've done in flight sims, it'd probably result in some carnage. I wouldn't be comfortable having to land a real plane, and I've landed a parachute over 500 times. Hell, I'm still actually pretty bad landing a parachute.
I guess it mostly boils down to the legality of the EULA, but in this case it's easy enough to argue that the programs in question do economic harm to the company and might also violate some criminal statutes WRT unauthorized access to computer networks and copyright derivative works. That's a whole lot of something to throw at the wall to see what sticks. Violating the EULA of a single player game and possibly even distributing code to do the same might have a different answer, although you can always paint copyright violations with a pretty broad brush. (IANAL, I'm a developer and I have to pay attention to these sorts of things.)
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Bah! The Googlemind offers a very limited selection of live goat porn and will never actually select it for you, no matter how much you might wish it to do so. The Bingmind, on the other hand, has found its one true calling and will deliver up whatever nastiness you can imagine and probably quite a few you haven't, as well. Bing has already won the porn search wars before google was even aware they were being fought, and has therefore won the internet as well. Sorry Google, better luck next time.
Oh yeah, and you'll probably also have to read all the FAA Regulations. It sounds like they're being somewhat rewritten at the moment, so it's probably a good idea to review them after they're done anyway. If you have a question, they probably answer them. Of course, that only pertains to US airspaces. Other countries have their own regulatory bodies, so if you're operating outside the USA, you probably won't be affected, anyway.
I do want a self-flying car. One I can take to 13000 feet, exit from in my wingsuit and have it return to its parking spot while I'm landing.
I'm all for it, as long as part of the tax law requires people to be allowed to share and download whatever content they want without restrictions. That would fix a lot of what's wrong with the copyright system.
Here I thought Musk's plan was to get investigated by the SEC, thus causing Tesla's shares to tank, which in turn would make it much less expensive to take the company private.
Bah, just give the Earth a couple of centuries, it'll catch up!
No one teaches you any of this stuff, and picking it up as you go isn't fun. Your brother could probably file a complaint with the state labor board about the mandatory overtime, if it continues beyond a certain amount of time that probably varies from state to state. I work on a fixed hourly rate and never get asked to work overtime, so I don't know what that is in my state off the top of my head.
Most people let the company dictate the terms of their employment and will allow the company to walk all over them in the process. There generally isn't any need for that, but it can be hard to figure that out for yourself. If most people knew a bit about basic labor regulations, they wouldn't even need unions. Of course, the unions are the reason most of those regulations are even there in the first place.
I was forced to take THREE in college, for some reason, and have never it since then. When Y2K reared its ugly head, I set my asking price for COBOL programming to $300 an hour. Never had any takers. Nowadays I reckon I'd be pretty rusty at it but if someone wants to pay me $3000 a day plus expenses, I suppose I could dust off an old textbook.
That would require them to admit they were wrong about something, and that'll never happen.
I use Advanced Call Blocker. It has a number of handy options it can block on, including not accepting calls that aren't in your contacts. You can also blacklist entire area codes, calls without caller ID and bunches of other stuff. I set incoming calls to go to my voicemail unless they're in my contacts list. It's also easy to disable if you order out for pizza or something.
I suppose speech-to-text has gotten good enough that you don't have to type your texts out anymore. I often get them when I'm driving, though. I suppose I could find a text app that reads them out with text-to-speech too. And it'd be great if I didn't have to look at the phone and could just dictate my response and have the phone send it back. Wait a minute...
I have a couple of solutions that might work. Now the knee jerk reaction is "Oh, let's just get rid of all the guns!" And it seems like that mostly works, and allows authorities to focus on the people who seem to be trying to get guns, but the minute you say that, the gun people are all like "Weeeeh! Then only criminals will have guns! Weeeeh! We have to have guns to revolt against the government if we need to! Weeeh!" I dunno. Hard to focus on the message over all that weeeehing. And clearly these people have never been napalmed by a government-run military that, despite the fact that those same people say the government sucks at running anything, is really well armed, really well run and quite capable of overwhelming whatever little pea-shooters civilians have. But I won't even suggest it, you know, to avoid the weeehing.
Since we can't do that *cough*, we could just give everyone guns and mandate that everyone carry them and be trained in their use. Then if someone starts shooting, everyone can start shooting back. Doesn't that sound like fun? It'll be just like the wild wild west, and there's got to be a reason that is one of the most romanticized periods in US history. I'm sure the NRA would be completely behind this plan if they weren't going out of business for... what did they do again? Insurance fraud or something? Illegally influence US elections on behalf of Russian oligarchs? Honestly, it's getting pretty difficult to keep up. Well, whatever god damn shenanigans were going on over there that's causing them to go out of business now, anyway.
Another possible option would be mandatory military service for all US citizens from their 19th birthday to their 24th birthday. And mandatory reserve status for anyone who wants to own a gun. Then you could apply the GI bill to their education, it's got militias right in the thing, solves the current recruitment problem and everyone gets a healthy dose of perspective that they were otherwise lacking when they come out of high school. I think that covers all the bases.
Another alternative is that we can just keep doing what we're doing, letting any crazy jackass get all the guns and ammo they want. This is probably what will happen.
My oceanside property in Colorado should be doing great in a couple of decades!
I wouldn't work for 'em at this point, though. I'd' be surprised if the payroll checks haven't already started bouncing.
It's only a problem if you're playing the house, which is for chumps anyway. The house stacks the odds in their favor, and this is just one of the ways they do that. I don't fault them for it, they're still a lot cleaner than state lotteries. Don't get me wrong, the fat lot of them are a bunch of assholes (Most of them would probably agree with me,) but on the asshole continuum, lotteries are way down by the goatse guy.
Kids these days with their "measels". Now smallpox and polio, there were some diseases!
That would be a nice change. And there is no "Law of Similars." Those words put together like that make me want to punch someone in the face. I'm usually pretty nice about not shitting on other people's religions, but that ends at the point where you start giving cancer patients water and telling them it will cure their cancer.
Turns out it was just some dumb fucking lawyer and as soon as the mistake was pointed out, they corrected it. We really didn't need jump to calling them "bitches" and "goat fuckers" right out of the gate like we did! I'm sure there are almost no goats being fucked over there!
Wine's gotten pretty good. Back in the day I used to use it to run Morrowind, but it was glitchy. Now it runs stuff like Skyrim, WoW and No Man's Sky flawlessly. You still have to check it on a case-by-case basis, but it seems like it's pretty solid.
"Due to not being able to communicate with the guys delivering more water, we had to severely throttle our water bandwidth right after saving all the sprint and T-Mobile towers. I'm afraid all the Verizon ones burned down."
Back to showing people our penises in person, are we?
For a company whose first rule was "don't be evil," they sure have being pretty evil lately. I wonder if some of those Google employees are now asking themselves if they want to keep working at a place where they've had to revolt twice in less than a year (The first one being over AI in military contracts.)
Flying is actually pretty easy. Landing, on the other hand... I'm pretty sure if I put a real plane down like the ones I've done in flight sims, it'd probably result in some carnage. I wouldn't be comfortable having to land a real plane, and I've landed a parachute over 500 times. Hell, I'm still actually pretty bad landing a parachute.
I guess it mostly boils down to the legality of the EULA, but in this case it's easy enough to argue that the programs in question do economic harm to the company and might also violate some criminal statutes WRT unauthorized access to computer networks and copyright derivative works. That's a whole lot of something to throw at the wall to see what sticks. Violating the EULA of a single player game and possibly even distributing code to do the same might have a different answer, although you can always paint copyright violations with a pretty broad brush. (IANAL, I'm a developer and I have to pay attention to these sorts of things.)
I'd eminent domain that shit for $200 and build a homeless shelter there.