I was worried that shopping for pickles and 32-packs of toilet paper would actually require me to engage the muscles in my hand to reach into my pocket and pull out a credit card. Those things aren't exactly light you know. Well, they are light, but thank God I won't have to go through all that any more. I'll be able to just cruise past the checkout in my mobility scooter and wave my Consumers Cellular phone and be on my way.
Naw man, for real. I got the '95 in that Aqua blue/green color. Bought it from the family of a WWII vet who passed away. It's got 43k miles on it. The radio just crapped out though. Drove it from Chicago to Hartford, CT last August, and I'm planning on taking it to Houston in a few weeks.
In a Libertarian Utopia, this sort of scam would have been less likely because nobody would have assumed that the FDA and other taxpayer funded agencies were doing their job and looking out for the public interest, when they actually weren't.
It sounds like what you're really saying is that in the absence of an FDA nobody would have ever known the blood tests were bogus.
But you bring up an interesting feature of a libertarian world: there can be no trust when it comes to anything that exceeds the expertise of the consumer. And there can be no trust of any new technology. Who's going to be the first to try radiation therapy for a tumor or a self-driving car?
"Libertarians" take note. Being free to scam others without consequence doesn't do a lot for the liberty of those being scammed.
It's not that libertarians think companies should be free to scam others without consequence. It's that they believe that by applying the magical fairy-dust of a "free market" that nobody will be able to scam because competition will create a perfect utopia where all the billionaires are good, the criminals are beautiful and the CEOs are all above average.
It doesn't take an hour and a half to pick up your bags and get to the city center, does it?
Yes, in a lot of cities it takes that long. But then there's also the question of what you're going to do with your car when you get to that airport or city center.
Tesla is not advertising auto drive cars but installing and developing a system that assists the driver in performing the task of driving.
Then maybe Musk shouldn't be calling it, "Tesla Autopilot 2.0". If we're talking about a glorified cruise control, then maybe it should be marketed as autopilot.
"Indeed, if anyone bothered to do the math (obviously, you did not) they would realize that of the over 1M auto deaths per year worldwide, approximately half a million people would have been saved if the Tesla autopilot was universally available.
Holy shit. And if they took a train instead, it could save approximately ONE MILLION LIVES.
Seriously, I understand that in an age of Martin Shkreli and Star of David dogwhistles, subtlety in manipulating opinion has become something of a lost art, but you would think that a genius billionaire and future Emperor of Mars could be a little less ham-handed.
The next time somebody acuses slashdot of misogyny I'm going to point to this thread. The guy uses experimental science to dubug an obvious scam and you respond with an ad hominem about to his (unrelated) gender politics ideas and you get a +5. Wow.
For the record, I'm not recommending anyone take Taylor Swift's opinions on string theory seriously either.
Even if what you say about him is true (and it isn't as far as I've seen), what bearing does that have on what he has said?
Let me ask your question a different way: Would you take investment advice from a homeless person? Would you be concerned if the surgeon who was about to operate on you had prison tattoos and canker sores?
Thunderf00t is a walking, talking canker sore. There are better places to get information about the viability (or not) of renewable energy methods.
Go lookup thunderf00t on YouTube for his explanation as to why solar roadways are a horrible stupid waste of money.
Thunderf00t (Phil Mason) is an unemployed gamergator post-doc who spends his life posting about someone named Anita (with whom he appears to be obsessed). Why would you get his explanation on anything other than tips about living comfortably in a basement?
Those older, better looking, better visibility, stronger cars impact you during a crash. The majority of the hit is sent through your body. The newer, ugly, weaker cars crumple during a crash absorbing most of the energy so your seat belt doesn't need to crush all your ribs to keep you in place.
In college, I drove a '72 Chrysler Imperial. Other cars used to bounce off me like the Von Erichs off of Andre the Giant. And, it had a bench seat in the front that was big enough to land a small plane on. I met my wife in that car, and by met, I mean "met" if you get my drift. Met in the biblical sense of boning.
Let's see you do that in a 2015 Chevy Cruze that's made of plastic and papier-mâché. (damn, I still can't get over the fact that Slashdot allows me to use those fruity European letters with the little hats on them. Thank you, new Slashdot owners.)
And that's just the way you like it, you bleeding heart SJW you.
We all know you're with Her.
DIAF.
Trump 2016.
Now THAT'S how you run a campaign. Not a stupid campaign, but a smart campaign. With the best people. And a social media strategy that's so terrific it'll make your head spin. A classy, classy social media strategy.
However, before air conditioning existed, people had to be creative when trying to stay comfortable in sweltering conditions.
Creativity can only take you so far. The population of Houston, Texas was about 200,000 until air conditioning became economical in the 1940s. Today the Houston area has 6.7 million people and there are over 2 million within the city limits.
There just wouldn't be people in a lot of parts of the country if it wasn't for air conditioning. Hell, even the Anasazi left Arizona, but now you can find millions of leather-bound octogenarians watching the Price is Right in their Phoenix-area units.
Q: What's the difference between a bank and a tech company?
A: The bank has smaller financial reserves.
As others have pointed out here, tech companies are banks. And banks are tech companies. They are both just mechanisms for siphoning off your wealth and productivity.
Hey Anonymous Coward, quick question. My brother is an author. How does he get paid for 'performing' his work?
Does your brother expect to be making money from his writing 30 years after he's dead? Because Spotify is still paying royalties for works where absolutely everyone involved in the recording has been dead that long.
If you reform copyrights, you'll have better, more plentiful music.
The political philosophies and positions of Scoop Jackson have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.
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I was worried that shopping for pickles and 32-packs of toilet paper would actually require me to engage the muscles in my hand to reach into my pocket and pull out a credit card. Those things aren't exactly light you know. Well, they are light, but thank God I won't have to go through all that any more. I'll be able to just cruise past the checkout in my mobility scooter and wave my Consumers Cellular phone and be on my way.
Naw man, for real. I got the '95 in that Aqua blue/green color. Bought it from the family of a WWII vet who passed away. It's got 43k miles on it. The radio just crapped out though. Drove it from Chicago to Hartford, CT last August, and I'm planning on taking it to Houston in a few weeks.
Show-off.
I want to see you try to hack my '95 Escort Wagon.
It sounds like what you're really saying is that in the absence of an FDA nobody would have ever known the blood tests were bogus.
But you bring up an interesting feature of a libertarian world: there can be no trust when it comes to anything that exceeds the expertise of the consumer. And there can be no trust of any new technology. Who's going to be the first to try radiation therapy for a tumor or a self-driving car?
It's not that libertarians think companies should be free to scam others without consequence. It's that they believe that by applying the magical fairy-dust of a "free market" that nobody will be able to scam because competition will create a perfect utopia where all the billionaires are good, the criminals are beautiful and the CEOs are all above average.
Yes, in a lot of cities it takes that long. But then there's also the question of what you're going to do with your car when you get to that airport or city center.
Then maybe Musk shouldn't be calling it, "Tesla Autopilot 2.0". If we're talking about a glorified cruise control, then maybe it should be marketed as autopilot.
So, have the programmers who "work on this full time" figured out how to handle sunlight? And weren't they working "this" full-time before?
Wait, you're saying they didn't have "detection and maps/GPS augmentation" before?
And maybe they shouldn't call it "autopilot" at all, since that's not what it's doing.
We have our first confirmed case of the rare disease, Slashdot Tourettes.
Yeah, someone who's last name rhymes with "tusk".
Holy shit. And if they took a train instead, it could save approximately ONE MILLION LIVES.
Seriously, I understand that in an age of Martin Shkreli and Star of David dogwhistles, subtlety in manipulating opinion has become something of a lost art, but you would think that a genius billionaire and future Emperor of Mars could be a little less ham-handed.
There's a big sign on the McDonald's on Prospect Ave that says they now sell something called a "Lobster Roll". Draw your own conclusions.
For the record, I'm not recommending anyone take Taylor Swift's opinions on string theory seriously either.
Let me ask your question a different way: Would you take investment advice from a homeless person? Would you be concerned if the surgeon who was about to operate on you had prison tattoos and canker sores?
Thunderf00t is a walking, talking canker sore. There are better places to get information about the viability (or not) of renewable energy methods.
Here is a picture of Thunderf00t:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nIzTNap...
That's what I said. He's unemployed.
Thunderf00t (Phil Mason) is an unemployed gamergator post-doc who spends his life posting about someone named Anita (with whom he appears to be obsessed). Why would you get his explanation on anything other than tips about living comfortably in a basement?
I hadn't thought of that.
Give us Unicode, you damn slacker Slashdot owners!
NO UNICODE...NO PEACE!
I just wanted to see if you were paying attention.
As long as I can use the cool Euroweenie letters with the funny hats and dots and fruity little marks, I don't really need full unicode support.
Mötley Crüe
Hüsker Dü
Amon Düül
Céline Dion
In college, I drove a '72 Chrysler Imperial. Other cars used to bounce off me like the Von Erichs off of Andre the Giant. And, it had a bench seat in the front that was big enough to land a small plane on. I met my wife in that car, and by met, I mean "met" if you get my drift. Met in the biblical sense of boning.
Let's see you do that in a 2015 Chevy Cruze that's made of plastic and papier-mâché. (damn, I still can't get over the fact that Slashdot allows me to use those fruity European letters with the little hats on them. Thank you, new Slashdot owners.)
Now THAT'S how you run a campaign. Not a stupid campaign, but a smart campaign. With the best people. And a social media strategy that's so terrific it'll make your head spin. A classy, classy social media strategy.
Creativity can only take you so far. The population of Houston, Texas was about 200,000 until air conditioning became economical in the 1940s. Today the Houston area has 6.7 million people and there are over 2 million within the city limits.
There just wouldn't be people in a lot of parts of the country if it wasn't for air conditioning. Hell, even the Anasazi left Arizona, but now you can find millions of leather-bound octogenarians watching the Price is Right in their Phoenix-area units.
Q: What's the difference between a bank and a tech company?
A: The bank has smaller financial reserves.
As others have pointed out here, tech companies are banks. And banks are tech companies. They are both just mechanisms for siphoning off your wealth and productivity.
Does your brother expect to be making money from his writing 30 years after he's dead? Because Spotify is still paying royalties for works where absolutely everyone involved in the recording has been dead that long.
If you reform copyrights, you'll have better, more plentiful music.
A real murderers row.