There is zero history of 'driverless cars' to use for comparative evidence. There is no chance in hell that I want to be on a snow covered road in January with driverless cars programmed by some twenty-something in Southern California around me.
Let's wait awhile before 'driverless cars' is considered a panacea for car crashes.
In the linked article, the part that caught my eye was: "âoeThis new report underscores the importance of our safety mission."
Yeah. A NHTSA bureaucrat says that. The presentation was dude justifying his job.
For the inhospitable desert part, you just put the fence near the edge of the desert. They want to sneak in there, fine, but stay in there. And buzzards will patrol it for free.
Post-graduate degrees can indicate somebody who instead of going out and finding a real job, decided it would be more rewarding to hang out in the labs at the University for a few years. The fortunate Post-grads find gainful work within the University Hive, as they obtain faculty positions. The less fortunate ones have put off coping with the real world for longer than most, and often have priced themselves out of the job market. I've worked with a few Ph.D. engineers before. It often isn't pretty. They worry about peculiar things, like the brand of their desktop computer, more than regular grunts.
Are 'IT Workers' really STEM, though? I thought IT was more like the data janitors. Modern day file clerks. The people who keep the laser printer humming and tell the wire-puller monkeys where to remove the ceiling tiles.
The Utility companies want the ability to turn down your thermostat when they feel it's necessary. Or turn up your thermostat, if it's summertime. At this point in places they offer some sort of a 'price break' if you enable this.
Let's wait awhile. Before too long, it will be 'anti-social' if you don't voluntarily let them take this control. Eventually it will become mandatory, or over-the-top expensive not to get into that pricing arrangement. You want to be a decent person, don't you, citizen?
The East German wall was put up to keep the East Germans from escaping Communism. Countless people died trying to get over the wall to the West. Is there any documented case of somebody trying to escape INTO East Germany over the wall?
Irrational fear of technology WOULD be what would make me 'luddite' as you use the term.
Problem is, we don't fear technology. Just ways that it's applied. For instance, I have no innate fear of a gun, but if the wrong person points it at me that changes.
Do you work for one of the Big Data operators? It really seems like it bugs you when we dis Big Data in this thread.
On the bright side, I'm looking forward to the instructions on how to run Debian on my blender.
I remember awhile back reading the instructions on how to install NetBSD on one of my old Powerbooks. The problem is, the NetBSD kernel and base OS is supported on it, but only the serial console. So I suppose I could hook my Powerbook up to my old VT-220 in order to boot it up and then ssh or telnet into it to run software on it. But it's a Powerbook. With a 68xxx processor.
Similar anecdotes will apply to many of the 'Install Debian on your...' howtos.
GP probably knows quite well where he is. The point is it's nobody else's business where he is and just because there's a little clicky on a menu in the phone that says the GPS is disabled doesn't mean that it's the case in all circumstances. Nothing that the big telecom providers, and Google and the like have been doing recently inspires our confidence.
Soon there may be websites with information on how to disable features you don't like on your eDevices. With informative pages that feature nice illustrations showing were to drill with a #44 drill bit and how deeply, to disable the GPS and no other function on the phone.
The time is certainly right for sites like that to emerge.
But yeah, duh, we're all luddites if we don't bow and kiss the ring.
I don't want an UltraSparc. It was 64 bits and all, but noisy and it consumed a LOT of power. So I didn't buy and install it. In fact, I gave it to Goodwill.
Still, it's refreshing to know that there are other people like me who don't want a 'smart home' and will speak up on the topic. And their detractors are okay, too, I suppose.
I used to think that Open Source development methods would lead to convergence. Software could only get better, as people maintained it and continued to make it better.
Unfortunately, there is always the ego factor. People want THEIR stuff in there and that older idiot's code needs to be snipped out and replaced. Far be it for anybody to learn to communicate through their code and build something coherent for other people to build on. It happens, and some of the 'leading' projects have grown better through an evolutionary process. But it's the exception.
The gasoline has to be mixed in the right proportion with air for it to be highly combustible. Though, if you watch a lot of old police chase shows on TV, you might not know.
Hydrogen is extremely reactive, the instant it leaks out.
A lot of the most interesting websites I frequent are created and maintained by individuals who are enthusiastic about the topic of the page, and create the web content for no renumeration.
Yes, that should bring a 'chill' down the spine of all you 'web programmers' who want to do it for a living. But remember there will always be sucky web pages you can develop for people who pay you to do so.
The NRA isn't a government-run organization. Certainly if their membership is opposed to secret meetings they can and should take it up within the NRA organization.
If the agents involved in the negotiations are private individuals, fine. They are entitled to their privacy. If government agents are involved, they are engaged in the People's Business and we are all entitled to oversee what they're up to.
More importantly you;re doing that thing conservatives do where they attack a major element of public policy but offer no replacements.
It isn't necessary to supply a new parasite when what you're trying to do is excise a parasite. You're doing what statist liberals do: assuming that there's a necessary 'major element of public policy.'
It's all a bunch of wankers wet-dreaming that denouncing Federal power will magically result in Federal power disappearing.
When you cut off a parasite's supply of resources (power, funding, etc.) it goes away. Unfortunately, you're right that the bloodsuckers in government won't just disappear if we defund them.
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There is zero history of 'driverless cars' to use for comparative evidence. There is no chance in hell that I want to be on a snow covered road in January with driverless cars programmed by some twenty-something in Southern California around me.
Let's wait awhile before 'driverless cars' is considered a panacea for car crashes.
In the linked article, the part that caught my eye was: "âoeThis new report underscores the importance of our safety mission."
Yeah. A NHTSA bureaucrat says that. The presentation was dude justifying his job.
For the inhospitable desert part, you just put the fence near the edge of the desert. They want to sneak in there, fine, but stay in there. And buzzards will patrol it for free.
Post-graduate degrees can indicate somebody who instead of going out and finding a real job, decided it would be more rewarding to hang out in the labs at the University for a few years. The fortunate Post-grads find gainful work within the University Hive, as they obtain faculty positions. The less fortunate ones have put off coping with the real world for longer than most, and often have priced themselves out of the job market. I've worked with a few Ph.D. engineers before. It often isn't pretty. They worry about peculiar things, like the brand of their desktop computer, more than regular grunts.
Are 'IT Workers' really STEM, though? I thought IT was more like the data janitors. Modern day file clerks. The people who keep the laser printer humming and tell the wire-puller monkeys where to remove the ceiling tiles.
Good. You've identified the parties that Target can sue, after they've had their day in court answering the class action suit.
The Utility companies want the ability to turn down your thermostat when they feel it's necessary. Or turn up your thermostat, if it's summertime. At this point in places they offer some sort of a 'price break' if you enable this.
Let's wait awhile. Before too long, it will be 'anti-social' if you don't voluntarily let them take this control. Eventually it will become mandatory, or over-the-top expensive not to get into that pricing arrangement. You want to be a decent person, don't you, citizen?
Or, to convince the kind of person stupid enough to think a diamond is important to enter a relationship with you.
The East German wall was put up to keep the East Germans from escaping Communism. Countless people died trying to get over the wall to the West. Is there any documented case of somebody trying to escape INTO East Germany over the wall?
Irrational fear of technology WOULD be what would make me 'luddite' as you use the term.
Problem is, we don't fear technology. Just ways that it's applied. For instance, I have no innate fear of a gun, but if the wrong person points it at me that changes.
Do you work for one of the Big Data operators? It really seems like it bugs you when we dis Big Data in this thread.
On the bright side, I'm looking forward to the instructions on how to run Debian on my blender.
I remember awhile back reading the instructions on how to install NetBSD on one of my old Powerbooks. The problem is, the NetBSD kernel and base OS is supported on it, but only the serial console. So I suppose I could hook my Powerbook up to my old VT-220 in order to boot it up and then ssh or telnet into it to run software on it. But it's a Powerbook. With a 68xxx processor.
Similar anecdotes will apply to many of the 'Install Debian on your...' howtos.
GP probably knows quite well where he is. The point is it's nobody else's business where he is and just because there's a little clicky on a menu in the phone that says the GPS is disabled doesn't mean that it's the case in all circumstances. Nothing that the big telecom providers, and Google and the like have been doing recently inspires our confidence.
Soon there may be websites with information on how to disable features you don't like on your eDevices. With informative pages that feature nice illustrations showing were to drill with a #44 drill bit and how deeply, to disable the GPS and no other function on the phone.
The time is certainly right for sites like that to emerge.
But yeah, duh, we're all luddites if we don't bow and kiss the ring.
I don't want an UltraSparc. It was 64 bits and all, but noisy and it consumed a LOT of power. So I didn't buy and install it. In fact, I gave it to Goodwill.
Still, it's refreshing to know that there are other people like me who don't want a 'smart home' and will speak up on the topic. And their detractors are okay, too, I suppose.
I used to think that Open Source development methods would lead to convergence. Software could only get better, as people maintained it and continued to make it better.
Unfortunately, there is always the ego factor. People want THEIR stuff in there and that older idiot's code needs to be snipped out and replaced. Far be it for anybody to learn to communicate through their code and build something coherent for other people to build on. It happens, and some of the 'leading' projects have grown better through an evolutionary process. But it's the exception.
It would cease to be produced the moment the lawyers put the squeeze on the distribution points and organizations hosting the non-commercial software.
You get paid twice for doing it twice. Duh.
The gasoline has to be mixed in the right proportion with air for it to be highly combustible. Though, if you watch a lot of old police chase shows on TV, you might not know.
Hydrogen is extremely reactive, the instant it leaks out.
Won't you think of the homeless, and all the nice shady space that will be created?
A lot of the most interesting websites I frequent are created and maintained by individuals who are enthusiastic about the topic of the page, and create the web content for no renumeration.
Yes, that should bring a 'chill' down the spine of all you 'web programmers' who want to do it for a living. But remember there will always be sucky web pages you can develop for people who pay you to do so.
We know what kind of soap we prefer, and just buy more of it. Why is that hard to understand?
The NRA isn't a government-run organization. Certainly if their membership is opposed to secret meetings they can and should take it up within the NRA organization.
But the Government is all of ours.
If the agents involved in the negotiations are private individuals, fine. They are entitled to their privacy. If government agents are involved, they are engaged in the People's Business and we are all entitled to oversee what they're up to.
More importantly you;re doing that thing conservatives do where they attack a major element of public policy but offer no replacements.
It isn't necessary to supply a new parasite when what you're trying to do is excise a parasite. You're doing what statist liberals do: assuming that there's a necessary 'major element of public policy.'
It's all a bunch of wankers wet-dreaming that denouncing Federal power will magically result in Federal power disappearing.
When you cut off a parasite's supply of resources (power, funding, etc.) it goes away. Unfortunately, you're right that the bloodsuckers in government won't just disappear if we defund them.
When schools spend $50M on a new building, the contractor is probably an alumnus, or somebody politically connected in some fashion.
It was better than those times one sees people typing out 'wallah!'
Which is really scary.
Fire all the HR drones. They want fucking wallpaper, let them work for interior decorating contractors.
Every good job I have gotten, I obtained in spite of the fucking HR people. Somebody inside the company wanted me working there, and routed around HR.