Maps, the Most Popular Elements of In-flight Entertainment Systems, Are About To Get a Big Upgrade -- and Some Ads
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
That's when they reset the screen every 15 mins so that even if you turn down the brightness and contrasts (no way for the user to shut down the screen) it resets back to normal.
Budget airlines that used to run ads through their screens used to do this before they realised they'd save more money by not having seat back screens.
We've always known that games development was a brutal industry, ruled over by corporate overlords who want a product shipped ASAP. Fortunately this is changing as those massive games companies are starting to fail because people aren't buying Medal Of Snorefare 2001923 Modern Boredom or Generic Sports Reskinned for 20xx as much any more.
Essentially game development is now using a engine (like Unreal, etc) and hooking up scripts and creating assets. That is why so many "big" games look like clones at this point.
It's a bit more complex that that. However using a pre-existing engine is preferred because building a bespoke engine is so complicated that unless you've got millions in the bank and years to wait, its cheaper just to buy COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) engine and then build the game around that. This has actually been a huge boon for smaller games developers on PC, they can use Unreal or Unity to make a game on a shoestring budget compared to many the likes of EA, Ubisoft, et al. Consoles not so much as the gatekeepers (Sony/MS) are firmly in the corner of the big boys.
This is basically like the sports/super/hyper car industries these days. Noble automotive buys a Volvo, Yamaha or Ford engine, then builds a car designed to fit that with a bespoke frame and shell. So a company with limited resources can compete with the likes of VAG (VW/AUDI/Lambo) at the top end. We joke that Noble is "five blokes in a shed in Birmingham" but the M600 is a phenomenal car that I'd prefer over the Aventador or La Ferrari, it can only be that phenomenal because they're using a Volvo designed engine built by Yamaha.
Yes, PC sales are not as strong as the once were and tablet sales are increasing, but there is overlap between the two groups of users, and where a tablet does replace a PC or a laptop, its just until that person runs into a situation where they need to use a real application and not Twitter to the their friends or play stupid games.
The PC power curve has been flattening for years. Back in the 00's I used to buy a new PC every 2-3 years because they'd have improved that much that the old one was obsolete. Now I can keep a PC for 6+ years and maybe, only have to upgrade the graphics card once in that time. This is for a gamer.
For Joanne Average, who just uses it for word, internets and the odd bit of working from home, a i3 with 4GB of ram running an Intel integrated GPU will be good enough for a decade... well and truly long enough for them to decide an upgrade is fashionable, rather than necessary.
The thing is, businesses, who still buy the overwhelming majority of PC's are also realising this, upgrade cycles have become longer and many smaller businesses have adopted a "replace when dead" strategy as belts tighten. This doesn't mean they've stopped buying, it means they've stopped buying PC's as often.
He's a prince and he's the one complaining about other people being in fantasy land?
To be fair, he's the serving prince, meaning he was in the army and flew helicopters... So yeah, like most people fresh out of the army, he's not exactly in tune with normal society.
However he's also a private citizen and free to say what he likes. As a UK resident and commonwealth citizen, I am free to disagree with him. Prince Harry has no real power beyond being popular and he's not the most popular of the brothers.
Small-revenue airlines did not opt for the expansion pack and didn't get the fucking memo as to how to deal with a cray cray "AI" system that can fly the goddam plane better than a human.
"Stall," has a well-established definition and whatever method of detection works on other airlines is not the one Boeing uses.
The MCAS does more than just stall prevention. It changes the input of the pilot to make the aircraft feel like how a 737 NG responds in order to prevent the new 737-MAX from having a separate type certification and having to retrain pilots on it. The problem is the 737-MAX has a radical change from the 737-NG, in order to fit the larger CFM LEAP engines they couldn't put them under the wing, instead they put them higher and mounted them forward of the wing. This has the side effect of putting the thrust directly under the wing that can cause the aircraft to pitch up without a change in control surfaces or thrust.
Hence Boeing built in a stall prevention component into MCAS.
This is why it cant be fixed with a software patch, it's a hardware problem. I think Boeing are going to have to start using the older CFM56 engines which fit underwing until the plane can be redesigned.
The irony is, they spend decades and billions rubbishing Airbus for allegedly using computers to override pilot control which has not killed anyone via failure in over 30 years.... because the Airbus flight control computers are designed to throw back control under any ambiguity and say "sorry pilot, your plane now".
Simultaneous overspeed and stall warnings (making the pilots believe they were in a high speed stall).
To which the pilots responded to by giving the aircraft conflicting instructions and turning off the stall alarm. The incident was ruled to be pilot error over technical failure (which was the pitot tube issue that Airbus then fixed).
Thus far, the A330 has had 2 fatal incidents since it's introduction in 1992 with a combined total fatalities of under 300, both due to pilot error. The B737 max has had 2 fatal incidents with the same cause within six months of each other since it's launch in 2016, combined total fatalities of over 350, both due to the same computer error.
Mueller explicitly did NOT exonerate Trump. There's a world of difference between "he didn't do it" and "there's not enough evidence to justify trying to impeach a sitting president, when the Senate that would have to convict him obviously has no desire to do so".
Not to mention, we have NO idea what's actually in the report itself, since Barr refuses to allow it to be released, while misrepresenting its contents in a laughably short summary.
This.
I have no doubt Trump is up to it's orange scrotum in the collusion... However I also have no doubt it was being driven from Moscow and Trump was just a hapless idiot who thought he was benefiting from it...
That being said (probably enough to earn a downmod from a Trumpite SJW on it's own), the courts of any free nation need to maintain a high standard of evidence. If there is not sufficient evidence to convict, the by all means he should be acquitted even if reasonable doubt remains. A not guilty verdict is not an automatic exoneration, it's stating that you aren't guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Thus is what I think will appear out of the Muller report, lots of circumstantial evidence, testimony, et al. but not enough to actually convict beyond reasonable doubt. The investigation has already nailed a lot of people, Manafort, Flynn Cohen, several Russian nationals.
After spending trillions from our coffers and millions of lives to fight tyranny in the 20th century, we have become our own worst enemy. We don't support our best institutions, we betray our heritage, we don't have children and expect migrants to do our dirty work for us.
Had me up until here.
Western nations are definitely having children, less of them as there are becoming more expensive to raise and there is no need to rely on your children to support you in old age. That's the big difference in the west, kids aren't the retirement plan.
We keep importing immigrants because we want an underclass of cheap labour with few rights to do the jobs we are too lazy to do ourselves. Australia doesn't do this, hence when I lived in Perth I washed my own car, cleaned my own house and ignored the fecking garden hoping the heat and neglect would kill everything because I just couldn't be arsed.
Get your shit together Axios. As for this so called "disruption in games". It's bullshit. This article was most likely paid for by one of the bigs in the industry trying to push their streaming services. Also, game streaming is essentially a dead end in the US. The network infrastructure here has zero capacity to handle the amount of traffic a fully adopted game streaming service would generate.
This.
They've tried streaming before and it failed miserably, so much so, practically no-one noticed it. Do you remember OnLive, InstantAction or Gamefly... I had to look them up too, they either went insolvent or got bought up by one of the major industry players like Sony and were discontinued.
The fundamental problem is that whilst 30ms of network lag for netcode is quite good, 10ms of lag for input is going to see controllers launched at TV's with devastating regularity. This still has not been solved and wont be as long as we're still using non-quantum based networks.
Sounds like a way to make rules that will see that others are always at fault. The reason O think that us because it is two US and a japanese company.
It is telling if the company that gave up the patent for 3 ppint safety belts is not part of it.
Sounds like a health research group from the tobacco industry.
Actually it's more of a free ad for Toyota, GM and Ford.
The road rules (known as the Highway Code) here in the UK are very clear about what vehicles should be doing and when, when to go, when to stop, when to give way, what distance to maintain, when to indicate, how long to indicate for, so on and so forth up until who is at fault in a collision. Very little is ambiguous.
For self driving cars, the highway code simply needs to be turned into computer code. The problem is the highway code assumes the vehicle controller (A.K.A the driver, or at least the steering wheel attendant) can tell the difference between a leaf and a child or can determine which lane markings it's meant to remain within. Automatic systems can't do this yet... and likely not for a while.
Measles cases have has risen since 2000 as infected third world trash Illegal aliens bring the disease to the U.S.
Fixed.
Actually you'll find it's the trash locals that aren't vaccinated and travel to places where such diseases are active, then bring them back to developed nations to spread which are to blame.
Asylum seekers get checked for vaccinations at the border, if not present, are then vaccinated... Even if the program has to be run by volunteers like MSF (Doctors Without Borders).
I want to blame the technology companies a bit here; UX design is the root cause of a lot of these problems. It's bad enough on it's own, but companies like MS continually make radical UX changes between versions making it even worse.
The whole field of "UX" is the problem. It's a bollocks discipline made up by companies trying to disguise how their interfaces do not conform with HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) standards.
I was being demo'd a new product yesterday and their web interface was a "clean UX" design of white and very pale blues with very few harsh (read black) lines. I had trouble seeing this against the London skyline in the background which was as is so uncommon for London... completely fecking white. When I asked if they had a dark theme because the contrast made it difficult to read, you could hear the hipster UX designer grinding his teeth over the presenter. The seething rage that I'd dare question his "clean" design was so hot we could have turned off the building's heaters.
Microsoft, up until quite recently had managed to do quite good, readable UI's, One of the few things they did get right.
Right-wing kooks see vaccinations as a government conspiracy. Left-wing kooks see vaccinations as a corporate conspiracy. Moderates vaccinate their kids.
This,
This kind of nutty thinking is the fault of extremism, not of any particular left/right view. In Australia, Anti-Vax typically follows the well-off hippie crowds who aren't short of a few bob but are typically far left voters (well far left for Australians) which we call "Champagne Socialists" here in the UK. Australia tends not to have the far-right religious kooks that plague the US, at least not in the numbers the US has and the few that they have are far more concerned in getting the government to ban porn and filter the websites they don't like.
The opposition to extremists is not an opposing form of extremist, but rather moderates.
Well, at least the first sentence. The rest is true, but I was just going to stop at fuck no.
This.
Because like anything else "ad supported", they'll eventually start asking for money and blocking off people who don't pay. Of course the ads will not go away no matter how much you pay.
A lot of ISP's in countries with more lax justice systems already inject ads into their clients service.
However here in the UK, my mobile service is £6 per month, no contract, for 1.5 GB of data with unlimited calls and texts... And that by far is not the cheapest plan I could get (in fact it puts me on the most reliable network in the UK). Parting with £72 a year for hassle free and ad free service is a fair deal to me.
Totalitarians like to proclaim guilt-by-association, just like that. Regardless of truth, they proclaim guilt. And if anyone questions them for proclaiming guilt, that makes the questioner guilty too.
Yes, which is why White Supremacists are so quick to try to demonise and denigrate their opponents.
An assault rifle is a select fire automatic rifle with a detachable box magazine using a round shorter than most WWII and previous era bolt action rifles and longer than pistol rounds. It was named so by the Germans who first invented it, the Sturmgewehr 44 which means "assault rifle" in German as the rifle was designed for infantry assault and breakout. The name stuck because that's pretty much what the weapon is designed for.
You gun nuts really need to learn your history. Next thing you'll be asking is why is it called a revolver is called a "revolver".
You are staying in someone's house and they have no oversight by any authority.... what did you THINK was going to happen?
Actually you do.
Many countries have privacy acts specifically for accommodation providers which expressly prohibit the secret recording of guests, especially in private. As a hotelier put it to me once, cameras in the hallway, not in the rooms. Even then there are regulations as to how these recordings are to be secured and how long they can be kept for.
AirBNB is completely legal here in the UK, but operators are still responsible for complying with the laws. Recording people in private without express consent, let alone without their knowledge is quite illegal. Even in public areas, hidden cameras are a no-no.
My understanding is that this proposal makes the paper receipt *optional* if you give them an e-mail.
This.
However because it's California, the headline uses BANNED in big letters.
I wish the UK would make it mandatory for receipts to be optional. Like many people here in the UK, when I pop to the shops for a bag of crisps I don't need a receipt so I'm happy to select "No" (or tell the cashier I don't want one). It'll save them being thrown on the passenger seat of my car until a point where it looks like I'm carpooling with an albino.
I've been to the US, popping into a CVS for a coke results in a receipt being half the length of the I-5. It's just wanton wastage that I'd rather not contribute to... But by all means, give us the option (with a default of no if you don't answer).
which again goes to question the logic behind an automated system based on sensors that could be faulty forcing correction while on manual flight control... but i am sure i don't understand as I am not an industry insider.
That is Airbuses model, if all 3 flight computers cant agree, they throw control back to the pilot and say "sorry, your plane now". A system that has been fantastically safe and Boeing has spend billions trying to rubbish.
The system in the 737 MAX is there because they've changed the position of the engines from under the wing to in front of the wing which pushes the thrust directly under the surface of the wing. This has the nasty side effect of being able to increase the pitch of the aircraft without the direction of the pilot or flight control computers up to a point where the engines might stall. The anti stall measure in the MCAS is there because of this and will over-ride the pilot so it's not like the Airbus system. It is, a bad hardware design and you can't simply patch out bad hardware design in software.
It's my hope that it doesn't take another fatal crash to realise this.
Pay the entire bill at the end of the month, never pay a cent of interest.
Such naivety.
You are paying for your credit card... You just don't know it.
You see for a merchant to accept a credit card or any card with a transaction done via credit, they have to pay a percentage of the transaction to at least three different parties, the issuing bank, the network provider (Mastercard/Visa/AMEX) and the merchants bank. Apple is trying to add a fourth party in here, they aren't the first, any branded card takes a chunk, supermarket, airline, tech company.
The merchant passes this cost on to you in the form of higher prices as the T&C's say that the merchant is not permitted to list these costs separately to a purchase price.
If you're letting your balance roll over, you are doing it wrong.
Credit cards can be a very handy tool, both for getting cash back as well as protecting yourself when purchasing items. Things like chargebacks and all the additional protections the card issuer grants are way better than walking around with a bunch of cash.
You actually think a bank is giving you free money?
Really?
I suppose right now your cognitive dissonance is fighting the fact that you've blindly believed that you're getting free money when in fact they're only returning a pittance of the money they took from you in the purchase in order to keep you using your card.
The thing about using other people's money is that they'll want their money back, plus some.
If you look at the EU, you'll find few of these cashback schemes exist because the EU has capped the percentage that are permitted to be charged to merchants at 1%. Banks are not going to give me 1% back when they aren't making at least 1.1% from me in the first place. Then again, so many other systems for instantaneous funds transfer exist here in the UK like debit cards and Faster Payments (instant direct bank transfers) that I haven't had to use a credit card here in almost 3 years.
A company like Apple with a huge hoard of capital and something like a monopoly on its products soon begins to act and think like a financial services company.
Except they're not.
They're just branding a card provided by Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is doing all the Financial Services stuff, Apple is taking money for being the brand.
It's no different to having a store or airline branded card. American Airlines doesn't issue the card, if you read the T&C's it'll be issued by a traditional bank like Goldman Sachs, BoA or Wells Fargo. Why go to the trouble of meeting the myriad of regulations when you can simply pay someone else to do it for you?
Of course Apple is spinning it like it's something different.
Thus management stops thinking about product innovation
Apple stopped thinking about that in the 80's at the very latest. Now they're just bandwagon jumping in the hopes they can push off everyone else.
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Maps, the Most Popular Elements of In-flight Entertainment Systems, Are About To Get a Big Upgrade -- and Some Ads
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
That's when they reset the screen every 15 mins so that even if you turn down the brightness and contrasts (no way for the user to shut down the screen) it resets back to normal.
Budget airlines that used to run ads through their screens used to do this before they realised they'd save more money by not having seat back screens.
Essentially game development is now using a engine (like Unreal, etc) and hooking up scripts and creating assets. That is why so many "big" games look like clones at this point.
It's a bit more complex that that. However using a pre-existing engine is preferred because building a bespoke engine is so complicated that unless you've got millions in the bank and years to wait, its cheaper just to buy COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) engine and then build the game around that. This has actually been a huge boon for smaller games developers on PC, they can use Unreal or Unity to make a game on a shoestring budget compared to many the likes of EA, Ubisoft, et al. Consoles not so much as the gatekeepers (Sony/MS) are firmly in the corner of the big boys.
This is basically like the sports/super/hyper car industries these days. Noble automotive buys a Volvo, Yamaha or Ford engine, then builds a car designed to fit that with a bespoke frame and shell. So a company with limited resources can compete with the likes of VAG (VW/AUDI/Lambo) at the top end. We joke that Noble is "five blokes in a shed in Birmingham" but the M600 is a phenomenal car that I'd prefer over the Aventador or La Ferrari, it can only be that phenomenal because they're using a Volvo designed engine built by Yamaha.
Yes, PC sales are not as strong as the once were and tablet sales are increasing, but there is overlap between the two groups of users, and where a tablet does replace a PC or a laptop, its just until that person runs into a situation where they need to use a real application and not Twitter to the their friends or play stupid games.
The PC power curve has been flattening for years. Back in the 00's I used to buy a new PC every 2-3 years because they'd have improved that much that the old one was obsolete. Now I can keep a PC for 6+ years and maybe, only have to upgrade the graphics card once in that time. This is for a gamer.
For Joanne Average, who just uses it for word, internets and the odd bit of working from home, a i3 with 4GB of ram running an Intel integrated GPU will be good enough for a decade... well and truly long enough for them to decide an upgrade is fashionable, rather than necessary.
The thing is, businesses, who still buy the overwhelming majority of PC's are also realising this, upgrade cycles have become longer and many smaller businesses have adopted a "replace when dead" strategy as belts tighten. This doesn't mean they've stopped buying, it means they've stopped buying PC's as often.
He's a prince and he's the one complaining about other people being in fantasy land?
To be fair, he's the serving prince, meaning he was in the army and flew helicopters... So yeah, like most people fresh out of the army, he's not exactly in tune with normal society.
However he's also a private citizen and free to say what he likes. As a UK resident and commonwealth citizen, I am free to disagree with him. Prince Harry has no real power beyond being popular and he's not the most popular of the brothers.
Small-revenue airlines did not opt for the expansion pack and didn't get the fucking memo as to how to deal with a cray cray "AI" system that can fly the goddam plane better than a human.
"Stall," has a well-established definition and whatever method of detection works on other airlines is not the one Boeing uses.
The MCAS does more than just stall prevention. It changes the input of the pilot to make the aircraft feel like how a 737 NG responds in order to prevent the new 737-MAX from having a separate type certification and having to retrain pilots on it. The problem is the 737-MAX has a radical change from the 737-NG, in order to fit the larger CFM LEAP engines they couldn't put them under the wing, instead they put them higher and mounted them forward of the wing. This has the side effect of putting the thrust directly under the wing that can cause the aircraft to pitch up without a change in control surfaces or thrust.
Hence Boeing built in a stall prevention component into MCAS.
This is why it cant be fixed with a software patch, it's a hardware problem. I think Boeing are going to have to start using the older CFM56 engines which fit underwing until the plane can be redesigned.
The irony is, they spend decades and billions rubbishing Airbus for allegedly using computers to override pilot control which has not killed anyone via failure in over 30 years.... because the Airbus flight control computers are designed to throw back control under any ambiguity and say "sorry pilot, your plane now".
Simultaneous overspeed and stall warnings (making the pilots believe they were in a high speed stall).
To which the pilots responded to by giving the aircraft conflicting instructions and turning off the stall alarm. The incident was ruled to be pilot error over technical failure (which was the pitot tube issue that Airbus then fixed).
Thus far, the A330 has had 2 fatal incidents since it's introduction in 1992 with a combined total fatalities of under 300, both due to pilot error. The B737 max has had 2 fatal incidents with the same cause within six months of each other since it's launch in 2016, combined total fatalities of over 350, both due to the same computer error.
Mueller explicitly did NOT exonerate Trump. There's a world of difference between "he didn't do it" and "there's not enough evidence to justify trying to impeach a sitting president, when the Senate that would have to convict him obviously has no desire to do so".
Not to mention, we have NO idea what's actually in the report itself, since Barr refuses to allow it to be released, while misrepresenting its contents in a laughably short summary.
This. I have no doubt Trump is up to it's orange scrotum in the collusion... However I also have no doubt it was being driven from Moscow and Trump was just a hapless idiot who thought he was benefiting from it...
That being said (probably enough to earn a downmod from a Trumpite SJW on it's own), the courts of any free nation need to maintain a high standard of evidence. If there is not sufficient evidence to convict, the by all means he should be acquitted even if reasonable doubt remains. A not guilty verdict is not an automatic exoneration, it's stating that you aren't guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Thus is what I think will appear out of the Muller report, lots of circumstantial evidence, testimony, et al. but not enough to actually convict beyond reasonable doubt. The investigation has already nailed a lot of people, Manafort, Flynn Cohen, several Russian nationals.
After spending trillions from our coffers and millions of lives to fight tyranny in the 20th century, we have become our own worst enemy. We don't support our best institutions, we betray our heritage, we don't have children and expect migrants to do our dirty work for us.
Had me up until here.
Western nations are definitely having children, less of them as there are becoming more expensive to raise and there is no need to rely on your children to support you in old age. That's the big difference in the west, kids aren't the retirement plan.
We keep importing immigrants because we want an underclass of cheap labour with few rights to do the jobs we are too lazy to do ourselves. Australia doesn't do this, hence when I lived in Perth I washed my own car, cleaned my own house and ignored the fecking garden hoping the heat and neglect would kill everything because I just couldn't be arsed.
Get your shit together Axios. As for this so called "disruption in games". It's bullshit. This article was most likely paid for by one of the bigs in the industry trying to push their streaming services. Also, game streaming is essentially a dead end in the US. The network infrastructure here has zero capacity to handle the amount of traffic a fully adopted game streaming service would generate.
This.
They've tried streaming before and it failed miserably, so much so, practically no-one noticed it. Do you remember OnLive, InstantAction or Gamefly... I had to look them up too, they either went insolvent or got bought up by one of the major industry players like Sony and were discontinued.
The fundamental problem is that whilst 30ms of network lag for netcode is quite good, 10ms of lag for input is going to see controllers launched at TV's with devastating regularity. This still has not been solved and wont be as long as we're still using non-quantum based networks.
You can't treat us like common people!
TFTFY
Sounds like a way to make rules that will see that others are always at fault. The reason O think that us because it is two US and a japanese company.
It is telling if the company that gave up the patent for 3 ppint safety belts is not part of it.
Sounds like a health research group from the tobacco industry.
Actually it's more of a free ad for Toyota, GM and Ford.
The road rules (known as the Highway Code) here in the UK are very clear about what vehicles should be doing and when, when to go, when to stop, when to give way, what distance to maintain, when to indicate, how long to indicate for, so on and so forth up until who is at fault in a collision. Very little is ambiguous.
For self driving cars, the highway code simply needs to be turned into computer code. The problem is the highway code assumes the vehicle controller (A.K.A the driver, or at least the steering wheel attendant) can tell the difference between a leaf and a child or can determine which lane markings it's meant to remain within. Automatic systems can't do this yet... and likely not for a while.
Measles cases have has risen since 2000 as infected third world trash Illegal aliens bring the disease to the U.S.
Fixed.
Actually you'll find it's the trash locals that aren't vaccinated and travel to places where such diseases are active, then bring them back to developed nations to spread which are to blame.
Asylum seekers get checked for vaccinations at the border, if not present, are then vaccinated... Even if the program has to be run by volunteers like MSF (Doctors Without Borders).
I want to blame the technology companies a bit here; UX design is the root cause of a lot of these problems. It's bad enough on it's own, but companies like MS continually make radical UX changes between versions making it even worse.
The whole field of "UX" is the problem. It's a bollocks discipline made up by companies trying to disguise how their interfaces do not conform with HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) standards.
I was being demo'd a new product yesterday and their web interface was a "clean UX" design of white and very pale blues with very few harsh (read black) lines. I had trouble seeing this against the London skyline in the background which was as is so uncommon for London... completely fecking white. When I asked if they had a dark theme because the contrast made it difficult to read, you could hear the hipster UX designer grinding his teeth over the presenter. The seething rage that I'd dare question his "clean" design was so hot we could have turned off the building's heaters.
Microsoft, up until quite recently had managed to do quite good, readable UI's, One of the few things they did get right.
Not true, stop repeating this. It's not a partisan issue.
Indeed. Anti-vaccination beliefs don't follow the usual political polarization.
Right-wing kooks see vaccinations as a government conspiracy. Left-wing kooks see vaccinations as a corporate conspiracy. Moderates vaccinate their kids.
This,
This kind of nutty thinking is the fault of extremism, not of any particular left/right view. In Australia, Anti-Vax typically follows the well-off hippie crowds who aren't short of a few bob but are typically far left voters (well far left for Australians) which we call "Champagne Socialists" here in the UK. Australia tends not to have the far-right religious kooks that plague the US, at least not in the numbers the US has and the few that they have are far more concerned in getting the government to ban porn and filter the websites they don't like.
The opposition to extremists is not an opposing form of extremist, but rather moderates.
There is no definition for curvy.
Go to http://okcupid.com/ and set your preferences to "curvy" girls.
American curvy girls are fat
European curvy girls have "big tits/big ass" and are either normal weight or just slightly above average .. as in "curvy".
How a fat girl can think she has curves is beyond me :P
A minor point of order sir, "curvy" European girls are also fat. Americans are of European stock.
You must be thinking of Latinas, sadly a place where butt implants are a serious thing.
Came here to post this EXACT comment.
Well, at least the first sentence. The rest is true, but I was just going to stop at fuck no.
This.
Because like anything else "ad supported", they'll eventually start asking for money and blocking off people who don't pay. Of course the ads will not go away no matter how much you pay.
A lot of ISP's in countries with more lax justice systems already inject ads into their clients service.
However here in the UK, my mobile service is £6 per month, no contract, for 1.5 GB of data with unlimited calls and texts... And that by far is not the cheapest plan I could get (in fact it puts me on the most reliable network in the UK). Parting with £72 a year for hassle free and ad free service is a fair deal to me.
Many countries do. The UK has the secretive "Cleanfeed" system, and the list of blocked sites is not published.
Such a system however, is stupidly easy to bypass.
Not even China with all their resources has successfully managed to stop people from reaching banned material.
Given the current state of things here in the UK, we've got bigger problems to worry about though.
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes
Totalitarians like to proclaim guilt-by-association, just like that. Regardless of truth, they proclaim guilt. And if anyone questions them for proclaiming guilt, that makes the questioner guilty too.
Yes, which is why White Supremacists are so quick to try to demonise and denigrate their opponents.
An assault rifle is a select fire automatic rifle with a detachable box magazine using a round shorter than most WWII and previous era bolt action rifles and longer than pistol rounds. It was named so by the Germans who first invented it, the Sturmgewehr 44 which means "assault rifle" in German as the rifle was designed for infantry assault and breakout. The name stuck because that's pretty much what the weapon is designed for.
You gun nuts really need to learn your history. Next thing you'll be asking is why is it called a revolver is called a "revolver".
Yours Sarcastically,
Capt. F Obvious.
We need to get back in touch with freedom of the press and everyones right to their own soap box.
Is somebody stopping you from putting up a web site that says whatever you want it to say? Is that what's happening?
Yes, but if they start their own website paying for their own hosting it means they cant trick unsuspecting users into viewing their content.
Or is somebody saying that you can't say whatever YOU want on THEIR soap box?
Surely not. Are suggesting that these people aren't entitled to any platform they so desire?
Next thing you'll be saying is Free Speech doesn't make you immune to criticism.
You are staying in someone's house and they have no oversight by any authority.... what did you THINK was going to happen?
Actually you do.
Many countries have privacy acts specifically for accommodation providers which expressly prohibit the secret recording of guests, especially in private. As a hotelier put it to me once, cameras in the hallway, not in the rooms. Even then there are regulations as to how these recordings are to be secured and how long they can be kept for.
AirBNB is completely legal here in the UK, but operators are still responsible for complying with the laws. Recording people in private without express consent, let alone without their knowledge is quite illegal. Even in public areas, hidden cameras are a no-no.
My understanding is that this proposal makes the paper receipt *optional* if you give them an e-mail.
This.
However because it's California, the headline uses BANNED in big letters.
I wish the UK would make it mandatory for receipts to be optional. Like many people here in the UK, when I pop to the shops for a bag of crisps I don't need a receipt so I'm happy to select "No" (or tell the cashier I don't want one). It'll save them being thrown on the passenger seat of my car until a point where it looks like I'm carpooling with an albino.
I've been to the US, popping into a CVS for a coke results in a receipt being half the length of the I-5. It's just wanton wastage that I'd rather not contribute to... But by all means, give us the option (with a default of no if you don't answer).
which again goes to question the logic behind an automated system based on sensors that could be faulty forcing correction while on manual flight control... but i am sure i don't understand as I am not an industry insider.
That is Airbuses model, if all 3 flight computers cant agree, they throw control back to the pilot and say "sorry, your plane now". A system that has been fantastically safe and Boeing has spend billions trying to rubbish.
The system in the 737 MAX is there because they've changed the position of the engines from under the wing to in front of the wing which pushes the thrust directly under the surface of the wing. This has the nasty side effect of being able to increase the pitch of the aircraft without the direction of the pilot or flight control computers up to a point where the engines might stall. The anti stall measure in the MCAS is there because of this and will over-ride the pilot so it's not like the Airbus system. It is, a bad hardware design and you can't simply patch out bad hardware design in software.
It's my hope that it doesn't take another fatal crash to realise this.
Pay the entire bill at the end of the month, never pay a cent of interest.
Such naivety.
You are paying for your credit card... You just don't know it.
You see for a merchant to accept a credit card or any card with a transaction done via credit, they have to pay a percentage of the transaction to at least three different parties, the issuing bank, the network provider (Mastercard/Visa/AMEX) and the merchants bank. Apple is trying to add a fourth party in here, they aren't the first, any branded card takes a chunk, supermarket, airline, tech company.
The merchant passes this cost on to you in the form of higher prices as the T&C's say that the merchant is not permitted to list these costs separately to a purchase price.
If you're letting your balance roll over, you are doing it wrong.
Credit cards can be a very handy tool, both for getting cash back as well as protecting yourself when purchasing items. Things like chargebacks and all the additional protections the card issuer grants are way better than walking around with a bunch of cash.
You actually think a bank is giving you free money?
Really?
I suppose right now your cognitive dissonance is fighting the fact that you've blindly believed that you're getting free money when in fact they're only returning a pittance of the money they took from you in the purchase in order to keep you using your card.
The thing about using other people's money is that they'll want their money back, plus some.
If you look at the EU, you'll find few of these cashback schemes exist because the EU has capped the percentage that are permitted to be charged to merchants at 1%. Banks are not going to give me 1% back when they aren't making at least 1.1% from me in the first place. Then again, so many other systems for instantaneous funds transfer exist here in the UK like debit cards and Faster Payments (instant direct bank transfers) that I haven't had to use a credit card here in almost 3 years.
A company like Apple with a huge hoard of capital and something like a monopoly on its products soon begins to act and think like a financial services company.
Except they're not.
They're just branding a card provided by Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is doing all the Financial Services stuff, Apple is taking money for being the brand.
It's no different to having a store or airline branded card. American Airlines doesn't issue the card, if you read the T&C's it'll be issued by a traditional bank like Goldman Sachs, BoA or Wells Fargo. Why go to the trouble of meeting the myriad of regulations when you can simply pay someone else to do it for you?
Of course Apple is spinning it like it's something different.
Thus management stops thinking about product innovation
Apple stopped thinking about that in the 80's at the very latest. Now they're just bandwagon jumping in the hopes they can push off everyone else.