The first video toaster ran on an Amiga 2000, which came with a full 1 MB of RAM (not 1/4) and could be upgraded up to 9 MB. The guys working on seaQuest likely had them fully upgraded, or they may even have been using the Amiga 4000 version which came standard double the RAM of the 2000.
The problem is that everyone focuses on possible negative repercussions and ignores any which mat have been positive. If there is a 10 year lull in hurricanes, will anyone do a study to see if climate change is responsible? If such a study, by some miracle, actually gets done, will the news breathlessly report that climate change has caused a reduction in hurricanes?
Seeing as how every time there is a hurricane forecast to hit land in the US there are hardware stores out of plywood and generators and grocery stores out of bottled water and many food items and runs on gas stations, etc. I guess what you are saying is that they are all idiots. That actually isn't possible since the person of average intelligence by definition is not an idiot.
That's a non-sequitur. Shortages don't require everyone to be idiots; they only require enough idiots to cause a shortage.
If you try to stay here on earth and have an ever-growing pool of resources, you will fail. We already are using more than we can renew every year, by quite some margin.
I know. One of these days we might even run out of guano, and then how will we feed our growing empire?
Not when it comes to food insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need food at some point and the best way to ensure the best food for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to housing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need housing at some point and the best way to ensure the best houses for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to clothing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need clothing at some point and the best way to ensure the best clothes for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Ah it's the anonymous dude who just goes around randomly calling people "psychopathic". Nice to see you again buds. Where ya been? I've missed your particular brand of crazy.
More seriously, California Governor Jerry Brown also signed a bill today mandating that the value of PI be made exactly 3 by 2047. Mathematicians are very excited.
Yeah. This is why "NASA" is such an unpopular brand. Because their shit kept blowing up and killing astronauts.
Better be safe and just call it Rocky McRocketface. That way nobody will be able to report on it without giggling, no matter what kind of bad shit happens.
My mother lives in a rural town, not that tiny, maybe 20K population. She doesn't have cable so her only choice is 1mbps. It's great compared to her previous dialup or the spotty wifi connection to her neighbors (who have cable), but it's not broadband.
If her neighbours have cable then she also has the option of a cable connection; it's just a matter of running some coax in from the road. If the cable company wants to charge her an arm and a leg you could even run the cable yourself and just pay them to connect it. This is not remotely the same as not actually having access to high speed internet.
All the phones these days are listening all the time, as well. And they follow you around.
I have a lot more control over my phone. Use LineageOS with privacy guard, or the XPosed Framework installed on pretty much any Android based OS. Or just avoid installing apps which abuse your privacy in the first place.
If I was able to purchase one of these smart speakers and install an open source OS on it which doesn't automatically connect to google or Amazon all the time, I would be very interested in playing around with one of them. Until that's possible, there's no way I'll willingly use one.
If you live in a nation where the state regularly creates evidence then this tool changes nothing, and you're just whining about something new and unfamiliar.
If you do not live in such a state then it also changes nothing, and you're still whining about something new and unfiliar.
This can be a problem if it's generalized. Let's say that 77% of illegal immigrants in the US are from Latin America (71% from Mexico or Central America; 6% from South America). Does that mean that Latinos should face more scrutiny?
If you're specifically looking for illegal immigrants and if they truly do make up the overwhelming majority then yes, absolutely.
NO because that is racial profiling, and most Latinos in the US are here legally.
So what? "Scrutiny" does not mean "lock them all up". If you're looking for X, and most of X are in group Y, then the most productive use of your time is to look primarily at group Y. If you know that breast cancer occurs far more often in women than it does in men then it makes sense to screen women more often and more vigilantly than men. Calling that "profiling" does not make it wrong.
Google traffic itself was something NO ONE thought of
You must be joking. Dozens of GPS manufacturers (software and hardware) were providing traffic reporting services before google got in the game. Google just has an advantage because they can harvest location data from every phone on the road.
And that's not the fault of the person that drilled this hole but a flaw in the way this company handles such human error.
That's a pretty big assumption. I work in a place where making a 6-figure mistake will result in, at worst, a written reprimand, and most of the time not even that much. The entire culture is built around accountability and owning up to your mistakes. Yet we still occasionally get idiots trying to cover up mistakes instead of admitting to it and handling it properly.
Some people just hate admitting that they fucked up.
Because inconsistent enforcement means that, say, a black woman can make insanely racist and sexist comments, encouraging physical violence against white men, and not face any repercussions, while a white male gets a temporary ban for using the word "n*gger" in a completely non-offensive academic context.
It's not the rules that are the problem, but rather who enforces them. The jackasses who run and maintain those platforms have no problem with hate and violence when it's coming from people they agree with.
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No, but I do see some improvements which we could make to your budgeting habits ...
imo as a dev
lol
The first video toaster ran on an Amiga 2000, which came with a full 1 MB of RAM (not 1/4) and could be upgraded up to 9 MB. The guys working on seaQuest likely had them fully upgraded, or they may even have been using the Amiga 4000 version which came standard double the RAM of the 2000.
The problem is that everyone focuses on possible negative repercussions and ignores any which mat have been positive. If there is a 10 year lull in hurricanes, will anyone do a study to see if climate change is responsible? If such a study, by some miracle, actually gets done, will the news breathlessly report that climate change has caused a reduction in hurricanes?
Seeing as how every time there is a hurricane forecast to hit land in the US there are hardware stores out of plywood and generators and grocery stores out of bottled water and many food items and runs on gas stations, etc. I guess what you are saying is that they are all idiots. That actually isn't possible since the person of average intelligence by definition is not an idiot.
That's a non-sequitur. Shortages don't require everyone to be idiots; they only require enough idiots to cause a shortage.
Health expenses, can come up suddenly and offer me absolutely no choice at all about how, when, or where I incur them.
Which is why you should have the option of buying insurance. Actual insurance, not the American subscription-healthcare model.
If you try to stay here on earth and have an ever-growing pool of resources, you will fail. We already are using more than we can renew every year, by quite some margin.
I know. One of these days we might even run out of guano, and then how will we feed our growing empire?
Not when it comes to food insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need food at some point and the best way to ensure the best food for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to housing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need housing at some point and the best way to ensure the best houses for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Not when it comes to clothing insurance. Voluntary insurance should be for things that are voluntary. Everyone is going to need clothing at some point and the best way to ensure the best clothes for the most people is to require everyone to pay into the pot and spread the cost. If you are a bit better off then congrats but you get to pay a bit more to help those who lack the means so we can minimize cost overall.
Ah it's the anonymous dude who just goes around randomly calling people "psychopathic". Nice to see you again buds. Where ya been? I've missed your particular brand of crazy.
More seriously, California Governor Jerry Brown also signed a bill today mandating that the value of PI be made exactly 3 by 2047. Mathematicians are very excited.
I don't want to live forever with a fixed set of resources. I want to live a reasonably long time with an ever growing pool of resources.
Yeah. This is why "NASA" is such an unpopular brand. Because their shit kept blowing up and killing astronauts.
Better be safe and just call it Rocky McRocketface. That way nobody will be able to report on it without giggling, no matter what kind of bad shit happens.
My mother lives in a rural town, not that tiny, maybe 20K population. She doesn't have cable so her only choice is 1mbps. It's great compared to her previous dialup or the spotty wifi connection to her neighbors (who have cable), but it's not broadband.
If her neighbours have cable then she also has the option of a cable connection; it's just a matter of running some coax in from the road. If the cable company wants to charge her an arm and a leg you could even run the cable yourself and just pay them to connect it. This is not remotely the same as not actually having access to high speed internet.
All the phones these days are listening all the time, as well. And they follow you around.
I have a lot more control over my phone. Use LineageOS with privacy guard, or the XPosed Framework installed on pretty much any Android based OS. Or just avoid installing apps which abuse your privacy in the first place.
If I was able to purchase one of these smart speakers and install an open source OS on it which doesn't automatically connect to google or Amazon all the time, I would be very interested in playing around with one of them. Until that's possible, there's no way I'll willingly use one.
This should be modded +5 insightful.
If you live in a nation where the state regularly creates evidence then this tool changes nothing, and you're just whining about something new and unfamiliar.
If you do not live in such a state then it also changes nothing, and you're still whining about something new and unfiliar.
This can be a problem if it's generalized. Let's say that 77% of illegal immigrants in the US are from Latin America (71% from Mexico or Central America; 6% from South America). Does that mean that Latinos should face more scrutiny?
If you're specifically looking for illegal immigrants and if they truly do make up the overwhelming majority then yes, absolutely.
NO because that is racial profiling, and most Latinos in the US are here legally.
So what? "Scrutiny" does not mean "lock them all up". If you're looking for X, and most of X are in group Y, then the most productive use of your time is to look primarily at group Y. If you know that breast cancer occurs far more often in women than it does in men then it makes sense to screen women more often and more vigilantly than men. Calling that "profiling" does not make it wrong.
The machine isn't stopping anyone. This isn't fucking RoboCop.
Google traffic itself was something NO ONE thought of
You must be joking. Dozens of GPS manufacturers (software and hardware) were providing traffic reporting services before google got in the game. Google just has an advantage because they can harvest location data from every phone on the road.
That's called paranoia and confirmation bias. But hey, if people are actually deleting Facebook for that reason, I'm all for it.
Most americans dont have a facebook account let alone a smartphone and data plan to even consider the privacy evading app
As of January 2018, 68% of Americans used Facebook, and 77% had a smartphone. Maybe the word "most" means something different in your language?
And that's not the fault of the person that drilled this hole but a flaw in the way this company handles such human error.
That's a pretty big assumption. I work in a place where making a 6-figure mistake will result in, at worst, a written reprimand, and most of the time not even that much. The entire culture is built around accountability and owning up to your mistakes. Yet we still occasionally get idiots trying to cover up mistakes instead of admitting to it and handling it properly.
Some people just hate admitting that they fucked up.
Why?
Because inconsistent enforcement means that, say, a black woman can make insanely racist and sexist comments, encouraging physical violence against white men, and not face any repercussions, while a white male gets a temporary ban for using the word "n*gger" in a completely non-offensive academic context.
It's not the rules that are the problem, but rather who enforces them. The jackasses who run and maintain those platforms have no problem with hate and violence when it's coming from people they agree with.
For being humorless cunts who try to ruin everything.
This is all being done in the name of "save the reef!!!!!!" when nature can fucking take care of itself without needlessly killing shit.
You must be new to this planet. The primary way that nature "takes care of itself" is by needlessly killing a fucktonne of shit.