The title of the video is "Triggered SJW Attacks Picard, Instantly Regrets It". The person who posted it seems to think that the investigator is the SJW, but many of the comments think it is Picard.
The title is clearly tongue-in-cheek. The commenters who point out that Picard is fighting for "social justice" clearly miss the point; Picard isn't an SJW, he's just fighting for equality. Whereas (as another commenter points out) if you replace the word "Romulan" with"White Male" in the diatribes of the inquisitor she ends up sounding indistinguishable from a modern day SJW.
SJWs don't give a shit about actual equality; they care about identity politics. In that sense they have more in common with white nationalists than they do with rational human beings. The only difference lies in which races/groups they see as having more value.
The thing about snake oil is that it actually works if you believe it works.
No, it doesn't, any more than a perpetual motion machine works if you believe it works. You can convince yourself that it works. You can be very happy that you bought and congratulate yourself because "it works for you". But at the end of the day no amount of self delusion is going to change the fact that it objectively doesn't work.
Which begs the obvious question, do you have the slightest bit of credible evidence that non U.S. Citizens voting in significant numbers is a problem?
That's a cute bit of sleight of hand: allow people to vote without letting anyone ask them for proof of citizenship, then complain that there's no proof that non-citizens are voting.
To be fair, the cost overrun is about the cost of three F22 aircraft.
That's not even close to being true. The unit cost of an F22 is about $150 million. The existing fleet ended up costing the government more like $350 million each, but that's due to the fact that they decided to buy fewer of them after the R&D money had already been spent. Buying more would cost less.
Meanwhile the James Webb was originally budgeted at $500 million. Adjusting for inflation that's about $770 million. As of now the projected cost is $8.8 billion. That's an $8 billion overrun. That's the equivalent of 22 of the existing F-22 fighters, or the equivalent of buying an additional 53 of them now.
How about a duress password/etc that loads in "fake/misleading data" mode? You could have eg a drive with two encrypted partitions, password silently selects which one gets loaded, other one remains hidden (and encrypted).
That's what the Germans said about their Enigma machine.
Nonsense. They believed it was reasonably secure, but they knew it had some weaknesses and that the resultant messages could eventually be decrypted given enough manpower dedicated to the task. Which is why they kept making newer, more complex versions of it. Nobody believed that it would take "several lifetimes of the universe" to brute force an enigma message; they were just betting on it taking long enough for the encoded information to be stale and useless.
Even with the weaknesses inherent in the system the allies still had to develop an entirely new technology to decrypt (in a useful amount of time) the messages pumped out by the latter versions, AND they had to find procedural weaknesses in how the Germans were using the machines.
However, if the company is held responsible for each and every one of those remaining accidents, are they going to sell those cars? Probably not.
In a country with sane tort laws, yes, they will. They'll just run the statistics, roll the projected settlment payouts into the price of the car (or an annual usage fee), and carry on trying to further lower that cost. After all, that's what insurance companies do now more or less.
In a country in which you can get $20 million from a corporation because you spilled coffee on yourself? No, you're right, they probably wouldn't.
The 9/10ths of a cent gasoline tax came from a governor of Pennsylvania in the 1920s after he campaigned on a promise to not raise a taxes a"single red cent." Since reality (aka the deep state) requires paying for government services, he raised taxes 9/10ths of a red cent.
If you read a story like this and think to yourself "yeah, that's probably true" then it's painfully obvious that your bullshit detector is not just out of service but has been stripped for parts and sold off to fund a pyramid scheme.
We're willing to pay taxes toward that, and we're willing to support the minimal coercion that's needed to make sure all earners pay their share.
It's the second part of that which is the problem. It's "I want to be generous with other people's money".
You want to pay? Go right ahead. But what gives you the right to decide that others need to pay also?
Your rationale is no different than the ones given by the USSR. From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. So let's work the productive members of our society to death, and give the fruits of their labours to those who do nothing.
Putting a trusted timestamp on a screenshot doesn't prove it's legit; it just tells you that if I forged it, I did it prior to the date of the timestamp.
Autopilot is advertised to stay in the lane and maintain speed like adaptive cruise does.
You and the other nincompoops can keep repeating that as much as you like, but repetition does not make something true. Here's how Tesla advertises their newest "self driving" cars:
"Build upon Enhanced Autopilot and order Full Self-Driving Capability on your Tesla. This doubles the number of active cameras from four to eight, enabling full self-driving in almost all circumstances, at what we believe will be a probability of safety at least twice as good as the average human driver. "
That's an advertisement for a package which is more capable than what he had in his car, and still they make it quite clear that it's not perfect, and it won't work in all circumstances. The only claim they make it that it will be safer than the average human driver overall; even if it occasionally drives into a wall, that claim could still be true.
What the hell are you expecting here? There will never be any system which can avoid 100% of all possible accidents. Which is why they never advertised it as being able to do that. This isn't an issue with Tesla selling more than they can deliver; it's an issue with idiots expecting computers to be perfect.
Autopilot on the other hand is supposed to keep you in the lane
No, it's not. It's supposed to do a whole bunch of things to assist you, but only if you're paying attention. It was never advertised as a "go to sleep and I'll drive for you" system, any more than cruise control was.
All "AUTOPILOT" does is conjure up images of planes flying themselves while pilots LEAVE THE FUCKING COCKPIT to go to the bathroom.
No pilot would ever do that exactly because the autopilot is just a simple program which only controls speed and heading. In the sky, with very few aircraft around you, it would be much safer to leave the controls than it would be in a car, on a highway, and yet aircrew always make sure that there is at least one pilot monitoring the controls at all times. If you hear "autopilot" and think "well, no humans required!" then you are badly misinformed.
It seems to me that the only point of having an autopilot would be so that you could take your hands off the wheel and not pay attention to the road. This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite autopilot that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment. Who the hell would sell a half-assed, half-baked "feature" like this?
It seems to me that the only point of having cruise control would be so that you could take your feet off the pedals and not pay attention to your speed. This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite cruise control that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment. Who the hell would sell a half-assed, half-baked "feature" like this?
What good is it even if they say you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel? It doesn't sound very auto to me.
I turned on cruise control and it drove right into a stopped car. What good is cruise control if I have to manually slow down? It doesn't sound very "in control" to me.
After all, the Founding Fathers could never had imagined that a 12 year old girl could be purchased anywhere on the continent with the click of a button. (Ironically, 12 year old girls were practically marriage material back then.)
Adding a button into the process doesn't change anything. It would have been FAR easier to purchase a 12 year old girl back in their time than it is today, especially given that age of consent laws were nonexistent, bordellos were considered a legitimate business, and girls as young as 11 worked as prostitutes.
Plus there was that whole "slavery" thing back then which meant that you could buy a black girl of any age you wanted whenever the hell you pleased.
the Liberal Party of Ontario is trying to buy votes by pushing a high-speed rail line from Windsor, to London, to Toronto specifically for commuters
I never knew anyone who commuted from London to Toronto. The very idea of it is insane, and you're a lunatic if you're actually doing it. You're also a lunatic if you believe that there are enough such maniacs to actually influence government spending priorities.
That said, if the government does end up building a high speed line then commuting from some of these areas will actually become a viable alternative. Which is why they proposed it. Not for lunatics like you who already do it, but to create an opportunity for others to work in and/or visit the GTA while living well outside of it.
Stop pretending that you're normal; you're giving people weird ideas about what Canada is actually like.
Do they really, though? Go read the product page for the "Gabriel" software. It's all fluff, and reads like one of those pages you might accidentally stumble upon when you use google and the results turn out to be just spam pages repeating the same key-phrase ad nauseum.
How many customers do they have? Does the software actually make use of the patents in questions? When did they begin development of this product?
As far as I can tell their "product" didn't come into existence until 2014, whereas they've been suing apple since 2010.
They certainly seem to fit definition of a patent troll. The fact that they eventually pumped out some software is mere window-dressing; most likely it's intended to lend them credibility rather than actually attract customers.
on top of that electric prices are in decline right now because of renewable energy.
Now that's some funny stuff right there. Electricity prices here have massively increased, thanks largely to a push by the provincial government to increase renewables.
~260million cars in the US. Say 100 million are electric by 2040. Today battery packs range from 30 - 100 kWh so by 2040 a 75kWh average capacity is a pretty good bet.....
Per capita energy use was 12kWh in 2014 across 350 million people is only 4.2TWh.
Selective math is selective. You try to look 22 years into the future and estimate both the number of EVs on the road AND their battery capacity. Then for some strange reason you look at electricity use in the past, as if 22 years from now, with a gargantuan number of EVs on the road, our electrical needs will be the same as they were 4 years ago.
That makes all of your math irrelevant. When you start with flawed premises no amount of math is going to produce a useful result.
But petrol has a ludicrous amount of volume that makes the ~3-27c/L profit worthwhile, even on the low end.
Stations around here make less than 1 cents per liter on average after credit card fees. They make more if you pay cash, but that's rare enough that we can probably just round up to 1 cent per liter.
On average a person might buy say 50 litres of gas. That's $0.5 per customer. That fillup takes about 5 minutes.
Say you have 8 pumps. If cars are constantly streaming in, literally bumper to bumper, your total profit is $1,152 per day. But, of course, that's not realistic; in the dead of night you'll have very few customers, and there are ebbs and flows throughout the day, so, if I'm being generous, you might see half of that. We're down to $576.
If you only have one employee working 24/7 at $10 per hour, you're down to $336 per day. That's $10,080 per month. Subtract from that your taxes, maintenance costs, utility costs, franchise fees, insurance, and countless other costs of doing business, and you're lucky if you see a third of that.
For smaller stations with only 4 pumps and even fewer customers the situation is far more grim. Their costs would easily exceed their profits.
If the gas stations in your area are making 27 cents per liter then sure, they are almost certainly doing very well on gas sales alone. That's not the case in North America, by any stretch of the imagination.
If that's common I'd say insanity is common in North America, in Europe you'd rather rent a broom closet than spend six hours a day driving.
It's not. I spent two decades of my life living in the same areas which he spoke about; the longest commute I ever had was about an hour and a half, which really sucked. I left that job exactly because I hated driving 3 hours every day.
The shortest commute I ever had was a 15 minute walk when I was living in downtown Toronto.
In North America we do generally have longer commutes than is typical in Europe. We also do tend to drive longer distances to visit family and friends, or for business trips, or just for sight seeing. We definitely drive more overall. But the idea that commuting 6 hours every day is in any way "normal"... that's just absurd.
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The title of the video is "Triggered SJW Attacks Picard, Instantly Regrets It". The person who posted it seems to think that the investigator is the SJW, but many of the comments think it is Picard.
The title is clearly tongue-in-cheek. The commenters who point out that Picard is fighting for "social justice" clearly miss the point; Picard isn't an SJW, he's just fighting for equality. Whereas (as another commenter points out) if you replace the word "Romulan" with"White Male" in the diatribes of the inquisitor she ends up sounding indistinguishable from a modern day SJW.
SJWs don't give a shit about actual equality; they care about identity politics. In that sense they have more in common with white nationalists than they do with rational human beings. The only difference lies in which races/groups they see as having more value.
I researched it and now I'm certain that you pulled it out of your ass. The actual number is 0.00375%.
The thing about snake oil is that it actually works if you believe it works.
No, it doesn't, any more than a perpetual motion machine works if you believe it works. You can convince yourself that it works. You can be very happy that you bought and congratulate yourself because "it works for you". But at the end of the day no amount of self delusion is going to change the fact that it objectively doesn't work.
Which begs the obvious question, do you have the slightest bit of credible evidence that non U.S. Citizens voting in significant numbers is a problem?
That's a cute bit of sleight of hand: allow people to vote without letting anyone ask them for proof of citizenship, then complain that there's no proof that non-citizens are voting.
To be fair, the cost overrun is about the cost of three F22 aircraft.
That's not even close to being true. The unit cost of an F22 is about $150 million. The existing fleet ended up costing the government more like $350 million each, but that's due to the fact that they decided to buy fewer of them after the R&D money had already been spent. Buying more would cost less.
Meanwhile the James Webb was originally budgeted at $500 million. Adjusting for inflation that's about $770 million. As of now the projected cost is $8.8 billion. That's an $8 billion overrun. That's the equivalent of 22 of the existing F-22 fighters, or the equivalent of buying an additional 53 of them now.
How about a duress password/etc that loads in "fake/misleading data" mode? You could have eg a drive with two encrypted partitions, password silently selects which one gets loaded, other one remains hidden (and encrypted).
Congrats, you just described TrueCrypt.
That's what the Germans said about their Enigma machine.
Nonsense. They believed it was reasonably secure, but they knew it had some weaknesses and that the resultant messages could eventually be decrypted given enough manpower dedicated to the task. Which is why they kept making newer, more complex versions of it. Nobody believed that it would take "several lifetimes of the universe" to brute force an enigma message; they were just betting on it taking long enough for the encoded information to be stale and useless.
Even with the weaknesses inherent in the system the allies still had to develop an entirely new technology to decrypt (in a useful amount of time) the messages pumped out by the latter versions, AND they had to find procedural weaknesses in how the Germans were using the machines.
However, if the company is held responsible for each and every one of those remaining accidents, are they going to sell those cars? Probably not.
In a country with sane tort laws, yes, they will. They'll just run the statistics, roll the projected settlment payouts into the price of the car (or an annual usage fee), and carry on trying to further lower that cost. After all, that's what insurance companies do now more or less.
In a country in which you can get $20 million from a corporation because you spilled coffee on yourself? No, you're right, they probably wouldn't.
The 9/10ths of a cent gasoline tax came from a governor of Pennsylvania in the 1920s after he campaigned on a promise to not raise a taxes a"single red cent." Since reality (aka the deep state) requires paying for government services, he raised taxes 9/10ths of a red cent.
If you read a story like this and think to yourself "yeah, that's probably true" then it's painfully obvious that your bullshit detector is not just out of service but has been stripped for parts and sold off to fund a pyramid scheme.
I don't like Windows either, but I hardly consider it ransomware. Just install Ubuntu which is free.
I'm not permitted to use Linux at work, so it certainly feels like I'm being held hostage.
We're willing to pay taxes toward that, and we're willing to support the minimal coercion that's needed to make sure all earners pay their share.
It's the second part of that which is the problem. It's "I want to be generous with other people's money".
You want to pay? Go right ahead. But what gives you the right to decide that others need to pay also?
Your rationale is no different than the ones given by the USSR. From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. So let's work the productive members of our society to death, and give the fruits of their labours to those who do nothing.
Putting a trusted timestamp on a screenshot doesn't prove it's legit; it just tells you that if I forged it, I did it prior to the date of the timestamp.
Autopilot is advertised to stay in the lane and maintain speed like adaptive cruise does.
You and the other nincompoops can keep repeating that as much as you like, but repetition does not make something true. Here's how Tesla advertises their newest "self driving" cars:
"Build upon Enhanced Autopilot and order Full Self-Driving Capability on your Tesla. This doubles the number of active cameras from four to eight, enabling full self-driving in almost all circumstances, at what we believe will be a probability of safety at least twice as good as the average human driver. "
That's an advertisement for a package which is more capable than what he had in his car, and still they make it quite clear that it's not perfect, and it won't work in all circumstances. The only claim they make it that it will be safer than the average human driver overall; even if it occasionally drives into a wall, that claim could still be true.
What the hell are you expecting here? There will never be any system which can avoid 100% of all possible accidents. Which is why they never advertised it as being able to do that. This isn't an issue with Tesla selling more than they can deliver; it's an issue with idiots expecting computers to be perfect.
Autopilot on the other hand is supposed to keep you in the lane
No, it's not. It's supposed to do a whole bunch of things to assist you, but only if you're paying attention. It was never advertised as a "go to sleep and I'll drive for you" system, any more than cruise control was.
All "AUTOPILOT" does is conjure up images of planes flying themselves while pilots LEAVE THE FUCKING COCKPIT to go to the bathroom.
No pilot would ever do that exactly because the autopilot is just a simple program which only controls speed and heading. In the sky, with very few aircraft around you, it would be much safer to leave the controls than it would be in a car, on a highway, and yet aircrew always make sure that there is at least one pilot monitoring the controls at all times. If you hear "autopilot" and think "well, no humans required!" then you are badly misinformed.
And yet your "AI" crashed and killed someone. What idiots. Enough with the AI BS. It ain't happening.
You're the only one stupid enough to all it an AI. Tesla has been very clear about their softwares abilities and limitations.
It seems to me that the only point of having an autopilot would be so that you could take your hands off the wheel and not pay attention to the road. This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite autopilot that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment. Who the hell would sell a half-assed, half-baked "feature" like this?
It seems to me that the only point of having cruise control would be so that you could take your feet off the pedals and not pay attention to your speed. This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite cruise control that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment. Who the hell would sell a half-assed, half-baked "feature" like this?
What good is it even if they say you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel? It doesn't sound very auto to me.
I turned on cruise control and it drove right into a stopped car. What good is cruise control if I have to manually slow down? It doesn't sound very "in control" to me.
After all, the Founding Fathers could never had imagined that a 12 year old girl could be purchased anywhere on the continent with the click of a button. (Ironically, 12 year old girls were practically marriage material back then.)
Adding a button into the process doesn't change anything. It would have been FAR easier to purchase a 12 year old girl back in their time than it is today, especially given that age of consent laws were nonexistent, bordellos were considered a legitimate business, and girls as young as 11 worked as prostitutes.
Plus there was that whole "slavery" thing back then which meant that you could buy a black girl of any age you wanted whenever the hell you pleased.
You apparently haven't been living here for a while then.
Article from last year:
"Average commute time in Toronto longest in country at 34 minutes"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
the Liberal Party of Ontario is trying to buy votes by pushing a high-speed rail line from Windsor, to London, to Toronto specifically for commuters
I never knew anyone who commuted from London to Toronto. The very idea of it is insane, and you're a lunatic if you're actually doing it. You're also a lunatic if you believe that there are enough such maniacs to actually influence government spending priorities.
That said, if the government does end up building a high speed line then commuting from some of these areas will actually become a viable alternative. Which is why they proposed it. Not for lunatics like you who already do it, but to create an opportunity for others to work in and/or visit the GTA while living well outside of it.
Stop pretending that you're normal; you're giving people weird ideas about what Canada is actually like.
Sounds like they have a software product.
Do they really, though? Go read the product page for the "Gabriel" software. It's all fluff, and reads like one of those pages you might accidentally stumble upon when you use google and the results turn out to be just spam pages repeating the same key-phrase ad nauseum.
How many customers do they have? Does the software actually make use of the patents in questions? When did they begin development of this product?
As far as I can tell their "product" didn't come into existence until 2014, whereas they've been suing apple since 2010.
They certainly seem to fit definition of a patent troll. The fact that they eventually pumped out some software is mere window-dressing; most likely it's intended to lend them credibility rather than actually attract customers.
on top of that electric prices are in decline right now because of renewable energy.
Now that's some funny stuff right there. Electricity prices here have massively increased, thanks largely to a push by the provincial government to increase renewables.
Math time!
~260million cars in the US. Say 100 million are electric by 2040. Today battery packs range from 30 - 100 kWh so by 2040 a 75kWh average capacity is a pretty good bet. ....
Per capita energy use was 12kWh in 2014 across 350 million people is only 4.2TWh.
Selective math is selective. You try to look 22 years into the future and estimate both the number of EVs on the road AND their battery capacity. Then for some strange reason you look at electricity use in the past, as if 22 years from now, with a gargantuan number of EVs on the road, our electrical needs will be the same as they were 4 years ago.
That makes all of your math irrelevant. When you start with flawed premises no amount of math is going to produce a useful result.
But petrol has a ludicrous amount of volume that makes the ~3-27c /L profit worthwhile, even on the low end.
Stations around here make less than 1 cents per liter on average after credit card fees. They make more if you pay cash, but that's rare enough that we can probably just round up to 1 cent per liter.
On average a person might buy say 50 litres of gas. That's $0.5 per customer. That fillup takes about 5 minutes.
Say you have 8 pumps. If cars are constantly streaming in, literally bumper to bumper, your total profit is $1,152 per day. But, of course, that's not realistic; in the dead of night you'll have very few customers, and there are ebbs and flows throughout the day, so, if I'm being generous, you might see half of that. We're down to $576.
If you only have one employee working 24/7 at $10 per hour, you're down to $336 per day. That's $10,080 per month. Subtract from that your taxes, maintenance costs, utility costs, franchise fees, insurance, and countless other costs of doing business, and you're lucky if you see a third of that.
For smaller stations with only 4 pumps and even fewer customers the situation is far more grim. Their costs would easily exceed their profits.
If the gas stations in your area are making 27 cents per liter then sure, they are almost certainly doing very well on gas sales alone. That's not the case in North America, by any stretch of the imagination.
If that's common I'd say insanity is common in North America, in Europe you'd rather rent a broom closet than spend six hours a day driving.
It's not. I spent two decades of my life living in the same areas which he spoke about; the longest commute I ever had was about an hour and a half, which really sucked. I left that job exactly because I hated driving 3 hours every day.
The shortest commute I ever had was a 15 minute walk when I was living in downtown Toronto.
In North America we do generally have longer commutes than is typical in Europe. We also do tend to drive longer distances to visit family and friends, or for business trips, or just for sight seeing. We definitely drive more overall. But the idea that commuting 6 hours every day is in any way "normal" ... that's just absurd.