I'm not surprised. Mitsubishi has been phoning it in since the '90s where their Automotive division is concerned.
They used to make very nice vehicles - and Chrysler used to import them branded as Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth models (Galant -> Dodge Challenger/Plymouth Sapporo - a very nice car for the time, then the Dodge Colt, Dodge's compact pickup trucks, etc.) and then the DiamondStar partnership was struck. Then they came out with the Starion which was a nice 2+2 "sports" car (a ponycar really) and marketed by Chrysler as the Dodge and Plymouth Conquest, Then came the 3000GT/Stealth and the Eclipse. Then Mitsubishi quit caring about their auto segment - quality dropped, they killed the sportscars, and they started parading the non-turbo FWD Eclipse as a serious sportscar (despite inferior performance and crappy handling), and they have been getting worse ever since, and dealerships have been abandoning the brand for makes that actually provide dealer support.
That they're not putting money into actual performance efficiency and emission controls and are instead cheating the system through ECU trickery and/or delivering "ringers" for certification testing doesn't surprise me at all.
If I could trade Mitsubishi's existence for any number of extinct marques (Saab, Studebaker/Avanti, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, AMC, De Tomaso Modena, Fisker, or heck, even Plymouth (with a product line distinct from Dodge's, like they used to have up through the mid-'70s - the Roadrunner/Satellite was sweet for a musclecar) I would trade for any one of the others to make a return, because Mitsubishi is an automaker that truly deserves to go under.
> I've done a lot of counseling sessions with people whose relationships and lives were ruined by the persons addiction to porn. I have yet to do a single one where sugary drinks, for example, caused it.
I'd suggest that death by diabetes doesn't do a swell job of fostering long-term relationships.;)
Even better would be for them to ignore the gag orders and issue press releases announcing the actions, to keep the government in check. They've never imprisoned a corporate entity for ignoring consumer protection laws, for fraud, engaging in usury, or denying warranty service on items, so why should pointing out when politicians do evil land them in prison? It's not like politicians are hypocrites, right? oh wait.. nvm.
> Americans can sue, but their cases are likely to be thrown out as they cannot show standing, or the government opts to exercise sovereign immunity. The reason we citizens lack standing is because the court orders are hidden, so we can't prove our rights were violated.
This is what makes Manning and Snowden heroes. The US government regularly shits on the constitution when it serves politicians' interests and they pretend that our system of checks and balances do not apply to them. I only wish they had dumped ALL data they had access to onto the Internet for public consumption.
Hopefully electricity will someday be "free" as part of basic national infrastructures and it is entirely possible that this could happen if we harness green/renewable power funded by taxes so that you can plug in anywhere and everywhere, at least during peak power production hours (daylight).
When you consider that probably 75% of drivers aim their side mirrors behind the car rather than the blind spots, eliminating them in favor of side view cameras is ideal. When you go out driving track how many drivers' faces you see in the side mirrors when you are behind them; you should never see the driver's face when you are in the same lane behind them, but you should when you get close in the lanes to either side. If you can see the driver's face when you are directly behind them, they're clueless fucks who have no business operating a 1.5-ton motorized weapon.
Government regs don't allow for it, even though cameras are superior. Why? Mirrors can't break like cameras do(?!?!), is the thinking behind it. There is some validity to it - you can always stick a crap mirror on the mount in a pinch if a mirror has broken. You lose that capability with a camera. I would like to see both - but smaller more aerodynamic, convex mirrors as a backup to full coverage and elimination of blind spots* through having the fixed-placement cameras cover the areas that actually need coverage.
There are down sides to cameras for rear view; you can easily have mirrors cut and even custom bent/curved mirrors made for any application, regardless of how long a car has been out of warranty. You can't always get replacement electronics or body/trim parts for cars even when they are under warranty, or even when a company has pledged to support a premium trim level of a halo car for 20+ years after production ends but kills the support due to internal corporate politics.
*blind spots: it seems >75% of drivers aim both side mirrors BEHIND the car. If you aim them properly I should never see your face in the side mirrors when I am behind you, because the mirrors are supposed to be aimed at the blind spots on either side of the car. Switching to cameras and LCD screens would eliminate this idiotic habit people have of ignoring their blind spots.
More accurately, Sanders would take about 40% of the shoes beyond the 100 and give them to the poor, college students, etc. and it will be less oppressive than it used to be in the USA because there is no way the top marginal rate will go back to >90%. It should, but it won't.
Yep... which I suppose means that intersex people need to avoid using any restrooms at all in North Carolina.
On that note, I would love to see all of NC's legislators and lobbyists (and all family members, ESPECIALLY spouses) who pushed for this bullshit law to undergo the following tests:
- Karyotype (especially screen for XXY, XX/XY, XXXY)
- Hormonal profiles (if hormones are required to normalize levels indicate as such), test for CAH, SW/CAH, PAIS, etc.
- MRI to screen for:
- presence of != 2 gonads
- presence of under-developed uterus
- didelphic uterus
- didelphic vagina
- if male, measurement of erect penis - if ~.5cm is externally exposed, they fall within intersex spectum
- evidence of any scar tissue indicating possibility of having had "normalizing" surgery as an infant
- review of medical records (especially between birth and age 3) looking for anything regarding hypospadias, undescended testicles, and also for anything described as "herniae" or "benign tumors" which lack the typical detailed descriptions which normally accompany such diagnoses.
- gynecomastia? Welcome to the club. Yeah this one is a stretch, but it would certainly make my point about idiotic superficial judgements
Any failure of the above, they get to join the rest of us intersex freaks and apparently not be allowed to use any public restroom at all in North Carolina, because we technically are neither male nor female. Given statistics there is bound to be at least two or three people among them who will learn they are the very same freaks they are oppressing (because IS folk get lumped into the same bucket as TS/TG/TV people). Even better would be to publicly announce the result of the screening failures accompanied with the daeshbag's vote for this oppressive legislation. If it turns out to be a male legislator's wife, have him publicly denigrated as a "fag" - or if it turns out he has any female anomalies, denigrate him as a "dyke.":-)
The problem with democracy is tyranny of the majority - because IS folk are a maginalized group within a marginalized group within a marginalized group of people, no one cares... until it affects them.
They could add a new one "Reddit has not received any reequests from these government agencies since MONTH DD, YYYY: CIA, NSA, TSA (etc). We are not allowed to comment on whether or not we have received any such requests from the FBI however we can tell you we have not received any requests for information from them between Month, DD, YYYY and now."
Or they should just say fuck it, exercise freedom of the press as it is an inalienable right reinforced by the first amendment and announce that there was an inquiry received, because we do not live under an oppressive regime.
It is a clean room reimplementation of the Java API, and as such is not really an issue as it has been ruled in court repeatedly that APIs cannot be copyrighted, which only further weakens Oracle's claim. I think the core issue is that Ellison is wanting another tropical island this year and wants Google to foot the bill through a frivolous lawsuit.;)
Weird... wasn't Java GPL'd at one point (2006-2007)? Oracle does not have a leg to stand on here even if Google were to take the whole stack and redistribute it. They would merely be required to make the source available - which they have done and it has led to derivatives/forks.
But, as Android is built on a Java _clone_ (Apache Harmony, soon OpenJDK) on top of Linux. Oracle's claim is even weaker.
Whistleblowing is likely the real motivation for this bill - I mean, the government has had advance warning of ter'rist attacks (9/11, Boston Marathon, etc.) and did precisely NOTHING with the information to stop the events from occurring.
You should be complaining to every app developer and store who won't let you download ginormous updates over cellular connections for the same reason Netflix is delivering lower bitrates over cellular connections.
This is not an incidence of "evil" on part of Netflix, but good. It would just be nice to have an option to disable this limit, but I can wrap my mind around why they do not (many would have their toddlers toggle the setting off, leading to "I had a huge bill for data overruns and it's Netflix's fault!" rants)
They were not "deliberately degrading videos for certain customers" but rather trying to be consumer-friendly by helping customers avoid costly data cap overruns.
It would be nice however if this were a configurable option in the player right next to the cc/subtitles option; I have an unlimited plan so I'd toggle it off.
I'm curious... do record contracts still include clauses requiring the artists to pay for "breakage?" Or, do they now scam artists into paying for "lost packets?"
I refuse to use self-service lines. Why the fuck am I going to work as a cashier and not get paid for it, and not even get a discount on the items? No, I want a human who is trying to make a living to ring up my items for me. If you try to "force" people to use self-checkout by having only one register + 6 self-checkout lanes open I'll leave the cart full of groceries and walk out and buy from your competitor instead.
If you're going to have robots running the fast food joint, I'll give it a miss and go to the salad bar at Whole Foods instead and I'll be better off with that healthier food choice anyhow.:)
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I'm not surprised.
Mitsubishi has been phoning it in since the '90s where their Automotive division is concerned.
They used to make very nice vehicles - and Chrysler used to import them branded as Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth models (Galant -> Dodge Challenger/Plymouth Sapporo - a very nice car for the time, then the Dodge Colt, Dodge's compact pickup trucks, etc.) and then the DiamondStar partnership was struck. Then they came out with the Starion which was a nice 2+2 "sports" car (a ponycar really) and marketed by Chrysler as the Dodge and Plymouth Conquest, Then came the 3000GT/Stealth and the Eclipse. Then Mitsubishi quit caring about their auto segment - quality dropped, they killed the sportscars, and they started parading the non-turbo FWD Eclipse as a serious sportscar (despite inferior performance and crappy handling), and they have been getting worse ever since, and dealerships have been abandoning the brand for makes that actually provide dealer support.
That they're not putting money into actual performance efficiency and emission controls and are instead cheating the system through ECU trickery and/or delivering "ringers" for certification testing doesn't surprise me at all.
If I could trade Mitsubishi's existence for any number of extinct marques (Saab, Studebaker/Avanti, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, AMC, De Tomaso Modena, Fisker, or heck, even Plymouth (with a product line distinct from Dodge's, like they used to have up through the mid-'70s - the Roadrunner/Satellite was sweet for a musclecar) I would trade for any one of the others to make a return, because Mitsubishi is an automaker that truly deserves to go under.
Yeah we get the joke... but it's not true. It's a portmanteau of "Star" and "Orion" and "Arion" (a mythological horse).
> I've done a lot of counseling sessions with people whose relationships and lives were ruined by the persons addiction to porn. I have yet to do a single one where sugary drinks, for example, caused it.
I'd suggest that death by diabetes doesn't do a swell job of fostering long-term relationships. ;)
Even better would be for them to ignore the gag orders and issue press releases announcing the actions, to keep the government in check. They've never imprisoned a corporate entity for ignoring consumer protection laws, for fraud, engaging in usury, or denying warranty service on items, so why should pointing out when politicians do evil land them in prison? It's not like politicians are hypocrites, right? oh wait.. nvm.
> Americans can sue, but their cases are likely to be thrown out as they cannot show standing, or the government opts to exercise sovereign immunity. The reason we citizens lack standing is because the court orders are hidden, so we can't prove our rights were violated.
This is what makes Manning and Snowden heroes. The US government regularly shits on the constitution when it serves politicians' interests and they pretend that our system of checks and balances do not apply to them. I only wish they had dumped ALL data they had access to onto the Internet for public consumption.
Hopefully electricity will someday be "free" as part of basic national infrastructures and it is entirely possible that this could happen if we harness green/renewable power funded by taxes so that you can plug in anywhere and everywhere, at least during peak power production hours (daylight).
When you consider that probably 75% of drivers aim their side mirrors behind the car rather than the blind spots, eliminating them in favor of side view cameras is ideal. When you go out driving track how many drivers' faces you see in the side mirrors when you are behind them; you should never see the driver's face when you are in the same lane behind them, but you should when you get close in the lanes to either side. If you can see the driver's face when you are directly behind them, they're clueless fucks who have no business operating a 1.5-ton motorized weapon.
Government regs don't allow for it, even though cameras are superior. Why? Mirrors can't break like cameras do(?!?!), is the thinking behind it. There is some validity to it - you can always stick a crap mirror on the mount in a pinch if a mirror has broken. You lose that capability with a camera. I would like to see both - but smaller more aerodynamic, convex mirrors as a backup to full coverage and elimination of blind spots* through having the fixed-placement cameras cover the areas that actually need coverage.
There are down sides to cameras for rear view; you can easily have mirrors cut and even custom bent/curved mirrors made for any application, regardless of how long a car has been out of warranty. You can't always get replacement electronics or body/trim parts for cars even when they are under warranty, or even when a company has pledged to support a premium trim level of a halo car for 20+ years after production ends but kills the support due to internal corporate politics.
*blind spots: it seems >75% of drivers aim both side mirrors BEHIND the car. If you aim them properly I should never see your face in the side mirrors when I am behind you, because the mirrors are supposed to be aimed at the blind spots on either side of the car. Switching to cameras and LCD screens would eliminate this idiotic habit people have of ignoring their blind spots.
More accurately, Sanders would take about 40% of the shoes beyond the 100 and give them to the poor, college students, etc. and it will be less oppressive than it used to be in the USA because there is no way the top marginal rate will go back to >90%. It should, but it won't.
> The total mass of all humans on earth is somewhere between 300 and 400 megatons.
With >200 megatons being us Americans, thanks to McDonalds, etc. ;)
Yep... which I suppose means that intersex people need to avoid using any restrooms at all in North Carolina.
On that note, I would love to see all of NC's legislators and lobbyists (and all family members, ESPECIALLY spouses) who pushed for this bullshit law to undergo the following tests:
- Karyotype (especially screen for XXY, XX/XY, XXXY)
- Hormonal profiles (if hormones are required to normalize levels indicate as such), test for CAH, SW/CAH, PAIS, etc.
- MRI to screen for:
- presence of != 2 gonads
- presence of under-developed uterus
- didelphic uterus
- didelphic vagina
- if male, measurement of erect penis - if ~.5cm is externally exposed, they fall within intersex spectum
- evidence of any scar tissue indicating possibility of having had "normalizing" surgery as an infant
- review of medical records (especially between birth and age 3) looking for anything regarding hypospadias, undescended testicles, and also for anything described as "herniae" or "benign tumors" which lack the typical detailed descriptions which normally accompany such diagnoses.
- gynecomastia? Welcome to the club. Yeah this one is a stretch, but it would certainly make my point about idiotic superficial judgements
Any failure of the above, they get to join the rest of us intersex freaks and apparently not be allowed to use any public restroom at all in North Carolina, because we technically are neither male nor female. Given statistics there is bound to be at least two or three people among them who will learn they are the very same freaks they are oppressing (because IS folk get lumped into the same bucket as TS/TG/TV people). Even better would be to publicly announce the result of the screening failures accompanied with the daeshbag's vote for this oppressive legislation. If it turns out to be a male legislator's wife, have him publicly denigrated as a "fag" - or if it turns out he has any female anomalies, denigrate him as a "dyke." :-)
The problem with democracy is tyranny of the majority - because IS folk are a maginalized group within a marginalized group within a marginalized group of people, no one cares... until it affects them.
> The law also limits the definition of sex to the sex at birth,
So, intersex folk need to avoid using any restroom at all in North Carolina. >_>
They could add a new one "Reddit has not received any reequests from these government agencies since MONTH DD, YYYY: CIA, NSA, TSA (etc). We are not allowed to comment on whether or not we have received any such requests from the FBI however we can tell you we have not received any requests for information from them between Month, DD, YYYY and now."
Or they should just say fuck it, exercise freedom of the press as it is an inalienable right reinforced by the first amendment and announce that there was an inquiry received, because we do not live under an oppressive regime.
It is a clean room reimplementation of the Java API, and as such is not really an issue as it has been ruled in court repeatedly that APIs cannot be copyrighted, which only further weakens Oracle's claim. I think the core issue is that Ellison is wanting another tropical island this year and wants Google to foot the bill through a frivolous lawsuit. ;)
Weird... wasn't Java GPL'd at one point (2006-2007)? Oracle does not have a leg to stand on here even if Google were to take the whole stack and redistribute it. They would merely be required to make the source available - which they have done and it has led to derivatives/forks.
But, as Android is built on a Java _clone_ (Apache Harmony, soon OpenJDK) on top of Linux. Oracle's claim is even weaker.
Whistleblowing is likely the real motivation for this bill - I mean, the government has had advance warning of ter'rist attacks (9/11, Boston Marathon, etc.) and did precisely NOTHING with the information to stop the events from occurring.
You should be complaining to every app developer and store who won't let you download ginormous updates over cellular connections for the same reason Netflix is delivering lower bitrates over cellular connections.
This is not an incidence of "evil" on part of Netflix, but good. It would just be nice to have an option to disable this limit, but I can wrap my mind around why they do not (many would have their toddlers toggle the setting off, leading to "I had a huge bill for data overruns and it's Netflix's fault!" rants)
They were not "deliberately degrading videos for certain customers" but rather trying to be consumer-friendly by helping customers avoid costly data cap overruns.
It would be nice however if this were a configurable option in the player right next to the cc/subtitles option; I have an unlimited plan so I'd toggle it off.
> What is this weird US obsession with calling a police officer a peace officer?
It makes fascism sound appealing:
Militarized, barely-trained powerongering trigger-happy police are peace officers.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
I love Big Brother.
I'm curious... do record contracts still include clauses requiring the artists to pay for "breakage?" Or, do they now scam artists into paying for "lost packets?"
The long road down to the chemist is just peanuts to space. Space is vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big.
That's the modern Trumpublican thinking!
I refuse to use self-service lines. Why the fuck am I going to work as a cashier and not get paid for it, and not even get a discount on the items? No, I want a human who is trying to make a living to ring up my items for me. If you try to "force" people to use self-checkout by having only one register + 6 self-checkout lanes open I'll leave the cart full of groceries and walk out and buy from your competitor instead.
If you're going to have robots running the fast food joint, I'll give it a miss and go to the salad bar at Whole Foods instead and I'll be better off with that healthier food choice anyhow. :)
Maybe we should go back to paper maps, because those were never a distraction. >_>
> The major option available seems to be Bing Maps; is that good enough?
I dunno. If you ask it to navigate you to L.A., do you end up in NYC?