If I was building in Louisiana after 2005, my house would be a houseboat, on dry land, with pylons, and the back of the garage would have a boat in it.
And all the sofa cushions should be flotation devices.
This Google Fiber they're talking about has nothing to do with the Project Fi wireless service, does it? I've been using Project Fi after dumping AT&T, and I'm really liking it. But then, after AT&T, I'd probably be really liking two tin cans connected by a string, so the bar is pretty low.
Let Asians build the world's fastest trains and the continent-wide energy systems we can only dream about. We have lawsuit AI technology we can use to rob each other blind as we cash those unemployment checks.
But at least this new automated-lawsuit system will keep a lot of lawyers employed.
Why? As soon as a machine can do a task for me (presumably with superior ability) what is the point in me also knowing how to do that task?
What's the point in learning how to orient yourself to your environment without using your short-battery life phone? You're joking, right?
When the zombie apocalypse comes and EMP weapons have wiped out your GPS, it will be fun watching sweet summer children like you stumble around blindly.
If a human driver, using the same map and their set of eyes, can't get the guy to his front door, what makes him think a car programmed by humans will be any better, especially by humans who have never seen the place you're going to?
When I was in college, and for the first couple of years of grad school, I drove a taxicab. Not a fruity Uber car, but an honest-to-god hack. For part of that time, I drove an actual Checker Marathon, which may have been the finest automobile ever built.
Decades later, I can still find my way around that city (Chicago), to any address and give you the best route. If you dropped me blindfolded anywhere within the Chicago city limits, I could find my way (as long as I was allowed to take the blindfold off after you dropped me). If there are Uber drivers who can't find their ass with both hands, it has nothing to do with maps. Maps? Pshaw. Learn your town and don't rely on the goddamn Google maps for everything. Learn how to navigate by the stars like we did back in my day (only partly kidding).
Absolutely correct. What people forget is that the Mississippi used to have flood plains all along its path. When there was heavy rain anywhere along its course, the waters would raise and it would overflow its banks depositing rich soil and silt all along the way. Now, we've replaced the flood plains with housing developments and mini-malls.
That's not so much the case in the Baton Rouge area because of the protected Atchafalaya Basin and the big lock between it and the Mississippi. In other parts of the Midwest, though, you're absolutely right. Wetlands are for water, not for strip malls, oil pipelines or fracking sites.
One record exists for a flood in 1927 [wikipedia.org], another for the flood in 1995 [wikipedia.org], yet another for the flood in 2011. [wikipedia.org]
So, the flooding is becoming more frequent due to climate change?
That's not what the article you linked to says. All it really says is that Fox gets a big market share because they're one of the few (if not the only) major media outlet that doesn't skew to the Left.
But the media does in fact skew to the Right. Think about the ownership of the mainstream media outlets. Military contractors, warmongers, Rupert Murdoch (and his Saudi friends), the whole lot of them.
If you take a view through the actual political positions espoused in the mainstream media rather than through the "Overton window", you will see that the mainstream media and NPR and the BBC, are all right-leaning. Even the (supposedly liberal) NY Times and Washington Post were cheerleading George W. Bush during the run-up to the Iraq War.
How did anyone even notice that there had been a nuclear accident in New Mexico? It already looks like Fallout 3. I'm pretty sure there are already feral ghouls and radscorpions there.
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There are at least 20 big US cities with lower elevation than Baton Rouge, LA, and most of them are coastal.
And all the sofa cushions should be flotation devices.
Really. The financial press makes the tech press look like Joseph fucking Pulitzer.
This Google Fiber they're talking about has nothing to do with the Project Fi wireless service, does it? I've been using Project Fi after dumping AT&T, and I'm really liking it. But then, after AT&T, I'd probably be really liking two tin cans connected by a string, so the bar is pretty low.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is worth over $6 billion. The loss belongs strictly to the investors. The company's doing fine, otherwise.
This is why Uber is not a public company. It's a money laundering operation.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/28...
http://investorplace.com/ipo-p...
You can turn off the +1 karma bonus in your account settings. At least the option was there the last time I looked.
Show of hands: Who here is surprised by this? Now who here is grateful for this?
But at least this new automated-lawsuit system will keep a lot of lawyers employed.
Oh wait...
I'll bet there are a lot of things you don't see.
What's the point in learning how to orient yourself to your environment without using your short-battery life phone? You're joking, right?
When the zombie apocalypse comes and EMP weapons have wiped out your GPS, it will be fun watching sweet summer children like you stumble around blindly.
When I was in college, and for the first couple of years of grad school, I drove a taxicab. Not a fruity Uber car, but an honest-to-god hack. For part of that time, I drove an actual Checker Marathon, which may have been the finest automobile ever built.
Decades later, I can still find my way around that city (Chicago), to any address and give you the best route. If you dropped me blindfolded anywhere within the Chicago city limits, I could find my way (as long as I was allowed to take the blindfold off after you dropped me). If there are Uber drivers who can't find their ass with both hands, it has nothing to do with maps. Maps? Pshaw. Learn your town and don't rely on the goddamn Google maps for everything. Learn how to navigate by the stars like we did back in my day (only partly kidding).
That's not so much the case in the Baton Rouge area because of the protected Atchafalaya Basin and the big lock between it and the Mississippi. In other parts of the Midwest, though, you're absolutely right. Wetlands are for water, not for strip malls, oil pipelines or fracking sites.
So, the flooding is becoming more frequent due to climate change?
Baton Rouge (where the flooding occurred) is not below sea level. It sits 56' above sea level.
Whoosh.
The removal of the headphone jack is basically the same as killing whales for oil.
It's bad for the environment, makes people mad but is a profit center for Apple and their "strategic partners".
Fuck Apple and fuck Tim Cook.
But always trust a mason jar.
But the media does in fact skew to the Right. Think about the ownership of the mainstream media outlets. Military contractors, warmongers, Rupert Murdoch (and his Saudi friends), the whole lot of them.
If you take a view through the actual political positions espoused in the mainstream media rather than through the "Overton window", you will see that the mainstream media and NPR and the BBC, are all right-leaning. Even the (supposedly liberal) NY Times and Washington Post were cheerleading George W. Bush during the run-up to the Iraq War.
This is known as the "but white people eat fried chicken and watermelon too!" argument.
It is a rhetorical device used most often by racists who get caught with their dicks out. It is seldom persuasive.
Where is the "SLASHDOT IS FBI" guy? I figured he'd be all over this story.
Maybe he's thinking about going back to being the "cows say moo" guy.
The media in the US actually skews to the Right.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/...
Have you considered the possibility that racism, bigotry, and sexism are not really "dissent"?
Do you think I can get this "Ludacris" mode retrofitted onto my '95 Mazda Protege?
https://youtu.be/G9ITtVbx-c4
I'm not a Musk-car fan, but knowing it has a Ludacris mode makes me really want one.
How did anyone even notice that there had been a nuclear accident in New Mexico? It already looks like Fallout 3. I'm pretty sure there are already feral ghouls and radscorpions there.
But anyway, any excuse to play this:
https://youtu.be/GFfaR3I--zI
I am also worth $90 billion, give or take $90 billion.