Centimetres, a metric measure. The entire world (not just Europe) with the exception of Liberia, Myanmar and USA use it. I'm sure you must be proud to be part of the only 1st world nation still using the deprecated imperial measurements.
This sir, is completely and utterly not true.
The US uses US Customary Units. The Imperial system was established in the English parliament as the Weights and Measures act of 1824, near to some 50 years after the US cut the apron strings. To say they are advanced as the Imperial system is a utter falsification.
Care to share your setup? I've tackled Asterisk a few times and it's either prohibitively expensive (for home use, anyway - Digium's cheapest analog card is >$500) or unreasonably complex for someone with little background in telephony.
Switch to an IP voice provider. Then you just need an internet connection and a IP handest (or even a soft client). Only a fax machine requires an old style POTS analogue line in this day and age... and if you need a fax, get a separate line and a fax machine that doesn't accept calls.
I've set up Asterisk on an IP line for a few small businesses for just this purpose (killing spam and robocalls), just put it on a VM for no additional cost (well practically no running cost). Asterisk is not hard to set up at all and virtualising it makes backups and restores easy, all you need to do to kill most robocalls is to have an automated IVR menu that has a short welcome message (10-15 sec) and forces the user to press a key, something like "Welcome to Blah Co, Melbournes premier suppliers of organic, all natural, gluten free defence solutions. Please press 0 to talk to a representative."
At home, I've had my landline cut off for a decade. There is nothing I need it for and it's too expensive to robocall my mobile so I never get hassled.
BTW, if you really want the hardware for cheap, look second hand.
I have a simple but very effective screener for robo calls, built around the ObiHai 110. I connect the device between my incoming telephone line and my telephone. I then re-program it to send incoming calls to the Automatic Attendant, which I program to challenge the caller to press a key on his telephone keypad. If he doesn't he is a robo caller and doesn't get through. My phone doesn't even ring for robo calls.
Someday the robo callers will become intelligent enough to press a key when challenged, but until then my defense is adequate.
My main defence against robocalls is not having a landline telephone.
Its become completely unnecessary to have one in Australia as you can get landline internet without phone services these days. Cold calling mobile phones costs a lot more money so its not viable to do that. Even bulk SMS is too expensive (for once, the high cost of everything in Australia is working out in my favour).
As for corporate phones, every phone system these days has a provision for routing external calls to an IVR menu these days. All you need to do to kill robocalls is to have the welcome message go for 10-15 seconds and then force a keypress, the same as your method.
HTC actually has come up with a good way to handle this. They've moved many of their "factory" apps into the Play Store, so they can push updates that way independent of the carriers. I've even received lock screen and Sense (their "home screen" for those unfamiliar with it) updates though this method. The only thing they can't push is updates to Android itself this way.
This is what Google did with its applications ages ago and recommends manufacturers do. b
Google has solved the problem of carriers controlling updates to a large degree by uncoupling applications from the OS, I cant speak for HTC users as I've been on the Nexus phones for a few years now but for us, it's been a fantastic success (in fact Gmail updated itself last night). Like you said, the only thing they cant update this way is Android itself, but there are other ways around that (for nexus phones, the images can be downloaded and installed manually).
Either your passwords are weak, or you're really smart. That doesn't help me. I have just too many passwords to manage. Firefox stores it's passwords separately, but I don't know how much that helps. The truth is you have to trust the machine and the people who make it. Yea, I know that sux.
Most, if not all of my passwords are 5 characters.
I simply take a four letter word like "farm" and a number and capitalise the first letter so it becomes "Farm4". Then I simply multiply that to meet complexity requirements and add a special character corresponding to the number if need be so it becomes something like "Farm4farm4", "Farm4$farm4$" or "Farm4farm4farm4farm4farm4" but all I need to remember is "Farm4" and how many times it is duplicated.
The problem with most people is that they trust explicitly rather than being careful when they need to be and lax when high security is unnecessary. I break the cardinal password rule when dealing with things like online forums and sites that I consider disposable and have no access to sensitive information, I use the same password and let Firefox or Chrome remember it. When it comes to things like my bank, important email accounts, phone and Internet services, my work account, I use a unique password and I dont allow anything to remember it.
However I'll never use an external service to remember my password, not even for something I'd consider disposable like my OzHonda forum login. The recent LastPass hack has demonstrated why.
Will California now say that anyone renting out their spare bedroom is an Airbnb employee?
Pretty much.
AirBNB offers and arranges the service, takes the payment and pays the employee their cut. The people renting out the room just provide the service.
Aren't full-time eBay sellers doing the same thing, and shouldn't eBay have to make them employees too?
Nope and if you need it explained to you as to why, you've pretty much failed Introduction to Basic Economics (economics 101 for those in the US).
But here goes (because no doubt you have failed intro to basic econ), Ebay sellers are more akin to cottage industries and are already treated in this fashion. They're the online equivalent of people selling trinkets from a van at a swap meet or cupcakes from a stall at a school so they're subject to the same rules. This doesn't change just because they're doing it with a computer.
Because medallions create an artificial scarcity of taxis. And in any market, artificial scarcity creates cartels, which reduce competition and benefit no one but a tiny, well-connected minority of owners (and their paid-off politicians) at the expense of pretty much everyone else, including the consumers as well as the labor. NY and Chicago taxi companies are doing the same thing that DeBeers does mining diamonds, or that OPEC does with oil -- and like DeBeers et al, they've protected their cartel and kept it perfectly legal by buying off elected officials. I have no problem with common-sense taxi regulation related to safety and insurance -- but medallions are the biggest scam on the planet.
The central theme of your complaint is that medallions are expensive, not that they're unnecessary.
The thing is, in places with no regulations you have the problem of oversupply which either means you have hundreds of taxis sitting out of work as there is only so much demand or the oversupply problem is solved through other means. Usually this means that taxi operators set themselves up into gangs, fight over turf and if they become powerful enough, destroy public transport systems.
Taxi licensing systems prevent this by regulating supply and drivers as to prevent the formation of gangs.
I've lived in places where the "free market" regulated the industry, Phuket, Thailand. Paying off the cops was fantastic, as were the fact that every taxi ride was an adventure as you didn't know whether the drivers lack of driving skill or penchant to use the firearm he kept in the glove box would kill you first. You really need to live somewhere where regulations dont really exist to appreciate just how fucked up the notion of "the free market will fix it" really is.
Maybe if they were not exclusive to Uber, they might be considered non-employees. Otherwise, they are just like a pizza delivery guy, working for a pizza shop.
Nope.
Uber drivers are Uber employees on a casual basis. Paid for the time they work.
It would be the same if a delivery driver worked for a pizza shop and Chinese shop next door at the same time (assuming their contract of employment permitted this). In fact in Australia, this kind of arrangement is not unusual as it allows stores to split the costs of a delivery driver.
The only reason Uber does not want its employees to be listed as employees is because it gives the drivers some rights and Uber some obligations. This isn't an issue in Australia, but what does a full time Uber driver do for health care in the US?
But, with my non-humorous hat on, I would say MICROSOFT is the biggest problem on the internet.
Without Microsoft uncoupling the OS from the hardware, we'd still be in a land of 100's of barely compatible systems each with their own OS.
Who's to say that Linus would even have had the idea to code his own version of Minix if not for Microsoft's work in the 80's to make the OS a separate thing.
As much as the fanboys will hate it, I view Apple as the biggest threat in the future. They want to eliminate our ability to chose not only what computer we buy but also what we can do with our own computers. Apple are as bad, if not worse than Microsoft at paying lip service to open standards and co-opting them into ones that are dependent on their technologies.
Remember that the real damage that Microsoft did to computing and IT in general wasn't an insecure OS. It was vendor lock-in and sabotaging competitors. People are following Apple down the same path today.
This is going to be interesting to watch. If I understand the nature of the criminal complaint, there's a class of sexual crime that does not exist in the UK that he stands accused of in Sweden, and that this whole mess is going to be a giant can of worms.
What makes you think the UK govt is willing to step in for Assange, he's been a thorn in their side for ages so they'd be just as happy for any justification to throw him to the dogs.
I think this may be a sign that Sweden's getting sick of having this case open and just wants to see it resolved. They cant do that until they've spoken to Assange due to this outdated concept the Swedes hold on to called due process.
They own the copyright so it is their right to do this if they wish. It may be thuggish in your view, but it is their stuff to license and it's their job to enforce their license terms.
This is why I'm glad this kind of rent-seeking thuggery is illegal in my country.
A copyright holder is not permitted to cold call businesses to threaten legal action or extort license fees. They are not permitted to conduct raids and secret investigations and they are definitely not permitted to sue without evidence (further more, under the Australian legal system they'll be up for the defences legal costs if they try).
The BMI is a private corporation, they should not ever have the license or capabilities to enforce anything (that is the job of the police and judiciary). Even the private entities Australia permits to issue their own parking fines (mostly universities) have to get the police and courts to do the enforcement.
You're defending rent seekers, there's nothing correct or noble about that.
And yes, if you're left foot braking you're doing things horribly, horribly wrong.
Says you. Left foot braking has been proven to be quicker, therefore improves stopping distance and reduces chances of a crash.
Citation.
Here are the reasons you dont use left foot braking, especially in an emergency situation.
1. In an emergency, you use the left foot to brace yourself against the body of the car to prevent injury (for those of us who can drive properly, this means dont clutch in when you're going to crash for the same reason).
2. You're less likely to mistake the brake for the accelerator.
3. You're less likely to press the brake as you're accelerating. In the olden days, this only meant that the brake lights would come on as you rode the pedal. In modern cars this cuts the accelerator and increasing the risk of a collision with the person behind you.
Further more, in an emergency situation it doesn't help you stop faster as your reaction speed is still the same (this is the time it takes your brain to realise something is wrong and send a message to do something) and you are more likely to continue pressing the accelerator at the same time as the brake, in many cars this means you'll be accelerating and braking at the same time, which will increase the braking distance.
Further more, left foot braking under power (which is why you do it in racing cars) can induce oversteer in FWD cars (I personally have drifted a Honda Integra using this method) meaning the driver loses control over the rear wheels.
So I re-iterate, if you're left foot braking, you're doing it wrong.
They were only introduced in the 1840's and only became popular after the American Civil War. Prior to that, human beings had the right to move between nations as they desired,
Prior to the 1840's people didn't regularly cross borders and governments didn't provide services.
Passports were invented as a necessity to international travel opening up to the middle and lower classes.
I wouldn't want to give up my Australian Passport as it grants me a lot of rights, even in foreign countries.
The question shouldn't be "why should robots have passports?" it is "why should humans?"
Because you cant imagine the chaos of hundreds of thousands of undocumented border crossings.
I guarantee every solution you have to that is either going to be stupid, useless or a passport like system (or possibly all three at once).
This isn't a very smart fraud if it's true. The odds are the wear and tear cost on the vehicle FAR exceeds the value of the bonus.
The thing is, at least in western countries, that there's currently no shortage of starry-eyed suckers who have been enamoured by the Uber propaganda so they can afford to churn and burn. As people slowly figure out that they're not making money after the costs of running the vehicle or find their insurance wont pay out after an accident Uber can afford to dump them because there are still 2 others willing to take their place.
This wont last forever, eventually enough people will figure it out so all they'll be left with are the worst of the worst. Drivers that even the dodgiest courier company refuses to employ. This of course is assuming that an Uber driver doesn't cause a pileup in a country with sane laws like Australia and the UK and Uber is sued into bankruptcy by the insurance companies and local governments.
In third world nations where taxi's are already run by gangs and mafias, the Uber problem will be solved by having Uber drivers dragged out of their cars and beaten.
It is a cultural thing. Chinese are educated by copying others and have done so for centuries. They are awesome at testing with high scores in any schooling system and field (math, physics etc) because testing is simply copying the answer. But having them apply what they've learned is (generally) not feasible.
Chinese R&D (Remember and Duplicate).
Jokes aside, whilst a lot of Chinese educational institutions are set up for rote memorisation (this is the same across most of Asia) China still manages to produce quite a few people capable of creative and independent thought. Typically these people try to get into western universities where degrees have a good value. The sad thing is, a lot of the rote memorisation crowd are trying to do the same thing for the same reason.
You get geniuses and idiots in all cultures, I've worked with some absolutely brilliant Chinese engineers and some who are thick as two bricks.
But of course: If this was due to someone not following procedures or messing around with maintenance this can (and will) have consequences. I'm also pretty sure that one or more people will lose their job over that.
If someone was deliberately messing around with the files when they weren't meant to, that would be grounds for criminal negligence. They could end up in front of a court, not just out of work.
But I agree with your point, harsh punishments dont work as much as people pretend they do. But this incident will be investigated with the attention to detail that only an aviation security board can bring. There's no point in pre-judging anyone until they've completed their investigation, it could be negligence on part of the worker, company or just an event which no-one could have foreseen.
The A400 has been in service since 2009 and flying since 2007, this is the first incident.
>(yeah, I know, that means no left-foot braking, but if you're doing that in an SUV, you're probably doing it wrong).
Sooooooo... no offroading for your SUV?
SUV's arent built to go off road.
They dont have locking diffs, a low range gearbox and often, not even underside protection. Most SUV's dont even have full time AWD as they dont have a centre diff, they use systems like the Haldex Traction to transfer power from a latitudinally mounted engine (transverse mounted, AKA: east-west) that drives the front wheels 99% of the time.
Most SUV's are no more suited to going off road than your average Camry and get stumped by the first slightly damp grassy slope they come across.
And yes, if you're left foot braking you're doing things horribly, horribly wrong. Doubly so for heel-toe. There are very few times when you need to left foot brake or heel-toe and none of them are on the road. Keep the fancy foot work for the track and dance floor, drive properly on the road.
sure, also you get troubles installing osx on that hp-box,
I consider that a feature, not a bug.
I dont really want to be locked into a single ecosystem, I dual boot Linux and Windows, except for the box that runs ESXi but technically that also runs Windows and Linux in VMs. I haven't found a use for OSX that these two didn't cover... in fact I haven't really found a use for OSX at all.
Most of the TPP is your standard free trade agreement fare - removing tarriffs, stopping countries from favoring their local companies and punishing foreign ones, etc.
This isn't the part of the TPP that we object to.
I oppose protectionism because I've never seen an example of it that HASN'T been detrimental to the people they're trying to protect but I dont want US laws foisted onto Australia as they are in the TPP.
If the TPP only contained a trade partnership eliminating tariffs, trade restrictions and opening up the market then I and a lot of people wouldn't have an issue with it but it's not a just a trade treaty. The Intellectual Property provisions will force signatories to enforce US laws on IP. Also the fact it's being negotiated in secret is a clear sign that there are provisions in there they would rather not have people know.
Beyond this, it's a one sided treaty. Australia will be forced to drop it's tariffs on US goods but the US is maintaining a tariff on Australian agriculture.
The TPP is bad news all round if you're not an American company.
"Italian Fascism promoted a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy."
That was the PR, the reality was very different.
From the link to Wikipedia you posted
Italian Fascism was rooted in Italian nationalism and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay
In 1925, the PNF declared that Italy's Fascist state was to be totalitarian.[9] The term "totalitarian" had initially been used as a pejorative accusation by Italy's liberal opposition, that denounced the Fascist movement for seeking to create a total dictatorship.[9] However the Fascists responded by accepting that they were totalitarian, but presented totalitarianism from a positive viewpoint.
So in reality Fascist Italy was nothing like modern Democratic Germany. If anything, Germany is more democratic than most western nations providing more power to the people. Fascism resulted in the centralisation of power, power around Mussolini, power around Hitler in which the few gained and the majority simply lived in it.
So nice try to compare Germany to Fascism, however the Germans have a lot more experience with it than you and know well how to avoid it.
These particular dogs of war are slipping their leashes all over the world these days.
If you think your parliament knows everything your agencies are up to, you are sadly delusional.
When something this big is discovered in Australia, the politicians responsible are sacked. That tends to motivate them to do their jobs a little better.
No politician wants to be on the receiving end of a royal commission... and I predict a few of those after the Abbott government (and to be fair the Abbott govt fired the first shot with the Royal Commission into union corruption which was nothing more than a witch hunt for their political enemies).
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Centimetres, a metric measure. The entire world (not just Europe) with the exception of Liberia, Myanmar and USA use it. I'm sure you must be proud to be part of the only 1st world nation still using the deprecated imperial measurements.
This sir, is completely and utterly not true.
The US uses US Customary Units. The Imperial system was established in the English parliament as the Weights and Measures act of 1824, near to some 50 years after the US cut the apron strings. To say they are advanced as the Imperial system is a utter falsification.
Care to share your setup? I've tackled Asterisk a few times and it's either prohibitively expensive (for home use, anyway - Digium's cheapest analog card is >$500) or unreasonably complex for someone with little background in telephony.
Switch to an IP voice provider. Then you just need an internet connection and a IP handest (or even a soft client). Only a fax machine requires an old style POTS analogue line in this day and age... and if you need a fax, get a separate line and a fax machine that doesn't accept calls.
I've set up Asterisk on an IP line for a few small businesses for just this purpose (killing spam and robocalls), just put it on a VM for no additional cost (well practically no running cost). Asterisk is not hard to set up at all and virtualising it makes backups and restores easy, all you need to do to kill most robocalls is to have an automated IVR menu that has a short welcome message (10-15 sec) and forces the user to press a key, something like "Welcome to Blah Co, Melbournes premier suppliers of organic, all natural, gluten free defence solutions. Please press 0 to talk to a representative."
At home, I've had my landline cut off for a decade. There is nothing I need it for and it's too expensive to robocall my mobile so I never get hassled.
BTW, if you really want the hardware for cheap, look second hand.
I have a simple but very effective screener for robo calls, built around the ObiHai 110. I connect the device between my incoming telephone line and my telephone. I then re-program it to send incoming calls to the Automatic Attendant, which I program to challenge the caller to press a key on his telephone keypad. If he doesn't he is a robo caller and doesn't get through. My phone doesn't even ring for robo calls.
Someday the robo callers will become intelligent enough to press a key when challenged, but until then my defense is adequate.
My main defence against robocalls is not having a landline telephone.
Its become completely unnecessary to have one in Australia as you can get landline internet without phone services these days. Cold calling mobile phones costs a lot more money so its not viable to do that. Even bulk SMS is too expensive (for once, the high cost of everything in Australia is working out in my favour).
As for corporate phones, every phone system these days has a provision for routing external calls to an IVR menu these days. All you need to do to kill robocalls is to have the welcome message go for 10-15 seconds and then force a keypress, the same as your method.
Well, it's worked really well for Hollywood, if by really well, you mean a safe bet but nothing groundbreaking
The problem with sequels is that they often fail as they have to have original scripts.
Now remakes, there's a safe bet.
Or if you prefer the Parents post in infographic form.
HTC actually has come up with a good way to handle this. They've moved many of their "factory" apps into the Play Store, so they can push updates that way independent of the carriers. I've even received lock screen and Sense (their "home screen" for those unfamiliar with it) updates though this method. The only thing they can't push is updates to Android itself this way.
This is what Google did with its applications ages ago and recommends manufacturers do.
b Google has solved the problem of carriers controlling updates to a large degree by uncoupling applications from the OS, I cant speak for HTC users as I've been on the Nexus phones for a few years now but for us, it's been a fantastic success (in fact Gmail updated itself last night). Like you said, the only thing they cant update this way is Android itself, but there are other ways around that (for nexus phones, the images can be downloaded and installed manually).
Either your passwords are weak, or you're really smart. That doesn't help me. I have just too many passwords to manage. Firefox stores it's passwords separately, but I don't know how much that helps. The truth is you have to trust the machine and the people who make it. Yea, I know that sux.
Most, if not all of my passwords are 5 characters.
I simply take a four letter word like "farm" and a number and capitalise the first letter so it becomes "Farm4". Then I simply multiply that to meet complexity requirements and add a special character corresponding to the number if need be so it becomes something like "Farm4farm4", "Farm4$farm4$" or "Farm4farm4farm4farm4farm4" but all I need to remember is "Farm4" and how many times it is duplicated.
The problem with most people is that they trust explicitly rather than being careful when they need to be and lax when high security is unnecessary. I break the cardinal password rule when dealing with things like online forums and sites that I consider disposable and have no access to sensitive information, I use the same password and let Firefox or Chrome remember it. When it comes to things like my bank, important email accounts, phone and Internet services, my work account, I use a unique password and I dont allow anything to remember it.
However I'll never use an external service to remember my password, not even for something I'd consider disposable like my OzHonda forum login. The recent LastPass hack has demonstrated why.
Will California now say that anyone renting out their spare bedroom is an Airbnb employee?
Pretty much. AirBNB offers and arranges the service, takes the payment and pays the employee their cut. The people renting out the room just provide the service.
Aren't full-time eBay sellers doing the same thing, and shouldn't eBay have to make them employees too?
Nope and if you need it explained to you as to why, you've pretty much failed Introduction to Basic Economics (economics 101 for those in the US). But here goes (because no doubt you have failed intro to basic econ), Ebay sellers are more akin to cottage industries and are already treated in this fashion. They're the online equivalent of people selling trinkets from a van at a swap meet or cupcakes from a stall at a school so they're subject to the same rules. This doesn't change just because they're doing it with a computer.
Because medallions create an artificial scarcity of taxis. And in any market, artificial scarcity creates cartels, which reduce competition and benefit no one but a tiny, well-connected minority of owners (and their paid-off politicians) at the expense of pretty much everyone else, including the consumers as well as the labor. NY and Chicago taxi companies are doing the same thing that DeBeers does mining diamonds, or that OPEC does with oil -- and like DeBeers et al, they've protected their cartel and kept it perfectly legal by buying off elected officials. I have no problem with common-sense taxi regulation related to safety and insurance -- but medallions are the biggest scam on the planet.
The central theme of your complaint is that medallions are expensive, not that they're unnecessary.
The thing is, in places with no regulations you have the problem of oversupply which either means you have hundreds of taxis sitting out of work as there is only so much demand or the oversupply problem is solved through other means. Usually this means that taxi operators set themselves up into gangs, fight over turf and if they become powerful enough, destroy public transport systems.
Taxi licensing systems prevent this by regulating supply and drivers as to prevent the formation of gangs.
I've lived in places where the "free market" regulated the industry, Phuket, Thailand. Paying off the cops was fantastic, as were the fact that every taxi ride was an adventure as you didn't know whether the drivers lack of driving skill or penchant to use the firearm he kept in the glove box would kill you first. You really need to live somewhere where regulations dont really exist to appreciate just how fucked up the notion of "the free market will fix it" really is.
You can't let "natural" forces limit how may taxis are on the road, it'd be constant deadlock because the road is a commons.
Seriously? Are you actually trying to make this point?
Are you seriously trying to refute it.
If so, please exercise your free market right to start up a taxi service in unregulated Phuket and see how far you get.
Maybe if they were not exclusive to Uber, they might be considered non-employees. Otherwise, they are just like a pizza delivery guy, working for a pizza shop.
Nope. Uber drivers are Uber employees on a casual basis. Paid for the time they work.
It would be the same if a delivery driver worked for a pizza shop and Chinese shop next door at the same time (assuming their contract of employment permitted this). In fact in Australia, this kind of arrangement is not unusual as it allows stores to split the costs of a delivery driver.
The only reason Uber does not want its employees to be listed as employees is because it gives the drivers some rights and Uber some obligations. This isn't an issue in Australia, but what does a full time Uber driver do for health care in the US?
Without Microsoft uncoupling the OS from the hardware, we'd still be in a land of 100's of barely compatible systems each with their own OS.
Who's to say that Linus would even have had the idea to code his own version of Minix if not for Microsoft's work in the 80's to make the OS a separate thing.
As much as the fanboys will hate it, I view Apple as the biggest threat in the future. They want to eliminate our ability to chose not only what computer we buy but also what we can do with our own computers. Apple are as bad, if not worse than Microsoft at paying lip service to open standards and co-opting them into ones that are dependent on their technologies.
Remember that the real damage that Microsoft did to computing and IT in general wasn't an insecure OS. It was vendor lock-in and sabotaging competitors. People are following Apple down the same path today.
What makes you think the UK govt is willing to step in for Assange, he's been a thorn in their side for ages so they'd be just as happy for any justification to throw him to the dogs.
I think this may be a sign that Sweden's getting sick of having this case open and just wants to see it resolved. They cant do that until they've spoken to Assange due to this outdated concept the Swedes hold on to called due process.
This is why I'm glad this kind of rent-seeking thuggery is illegal in my country.
A copyright holder is not permitted to cold call businesses to threaten legal action or extort license fees. They are not permitted to conduct raids and secret investigations and they are definitely not permitted to sue without evidence (further more, under the Australian legal system they'll be up for the defences legal costs if they try).
The BMI is a private corporation, they should not ever have the license or capabilities to enforce anything (that is the job of the police and judiciary). Even the private entities Australia permits to issue their own parking fines (mostly universities) have to get the police and courts to do the enforcement.
You're defending rent seekers, there's nothing correct or noble about that.
And yes, if you're left foot braking you're doing things horribly, horribly wrong.
Says you. Left foot braking has been proven to be quicker, therefore improves stopping distance and reduces chances of a crash.
Citation.
Here are the reasons you dont use left foot braking, especially in an emergency situation.
1. In an emergency, you use the left foot to brace yourself against the body of the car to prevent injury (for those of us who can drive properly, this means dont clutch in when you're going to crash for the same reason).
2. You're less likely to mistake the brake for the accelerator.
3. You're less likely to press the brake as you're accelerating. In the olden days, this only meant that the brake lights would come on as you rode the pedal. In modern cars this cuts the accelerator and increasing the risk of a collision with the person behind you.
Further more, in an emergency situation it doesn't help you stop faster as your reaction speed is still the same (this is the time it takes your brain to realise something is wrong and send a message to do something) and you are more likely to continue pressing the accelerator at the same time as the brake, in many cars this means you'll be accelerating and braking at the same time, which will increase the braking distance.
Further more, left foot braking under power (which is why you do it in racing cars) can induce oversteer in FWD cars (I personally have drifted a Honda Integra using this method) meaning the driver loses control over the rear wheels.
So I re-iterate, if you're left foot braking, you're doing it wrong.
Prior to the 1840's people didn't regularly cross borders and governments didn't provide services.
Passports were invented as a necessity to international travel opening up to the middle and lower classes.
I wouldn't want to give up my Australian Passport as it grants me a lot of rights, even in foreign countries.
The question shouldn't be "why should robots have passports?" it is "why should humans?"
Because you cant imagine the chaos of hundreds of thousands of undocumented border crossings.
I guarantee every solution you have to that is either going to be stupid, useless or a passport like system (or possibly all three at once).
Is he a yoot?
Its called a "ute"
This isn't a very smart fraud if it's true. The odds are the wear and tear cost on the vehicle FAR exceeds the value of the bonus.
The thing is, at least in western countries, that there's currently no shortage of starry-eyed suckers who have been enamoured by the Uber propaganda so they can afford to churn and burn. As people slowly figure out that they're not making money after the costs of running the vehicle or find their insurance wont pay out after an accident Uber can afford to dump them because there are still 2 others willing to take their place.
This wont last forever, eventually enough people will figure it out so all they'll be left with are the worst of the worst. Drivers that even the dodgiest courier company refuses to employ. This of course is assuming that an Uber driver doesn't cause a pileup in a country with sane laws like Australia and the UK and Uber is sued into bankruptcy by the insurance companies and local governments.
In third world nations where taxi's are already run by gangs and mafias, the Uber problem will be solved by having Uber drivers dragged out of their cars and beaten.
It is a cultural thing. Chinese are educated by copying others and have done so for centuries. They are awesome at testing with high scores in any schooling system and field (math, physics etc) because testing is simply copying the answer. But having them apply what they've learned is (generally) not feasible.
Chinese R&D (Remember and Duplicate).
Jokes aside, whilst a lot of Chinese educational institutions are set up for rote memorisation (this is the same across most of Asia) China still manages to produce quite a few people capable of creative and independent thought. Typically these people try to get into western universities where degrees have a good value. The sad thing is, a lot of the rote memorisation crowd are trying to do the same thing for the same reason.
You get geniuses and idiots in all cultures, I've worked with some absolutely brilliant Chinese engineers and some who are thick as two bricks.
If someone was deliberately messing around with the files when they weren't meant to, that would be grounds for criminal negligence. They could end up in front of a court, not just out of work. But I agree with your point, harsh punishments dont work as much as people pretend they do. But this incident will be investigated with the attention to detail that only an aviation security board can bring. There's no point in pre-judging anyone until they've completed their investigation, it could be negligence on part of the worker, company or just an event which no-one could have foreseen. The A400 has been in service since 2009 and flying since 2007, this is the first incident.
>(yeah, I know, that means no left-foot braking, but if you're doing that in an SUV, you're probably doing it wrong).
Sooooooo... no offroading for your SUV?
SUV's arent built to go off road.
They dont have locking diffs, a low range gearbox and often, not even underside protection. Most SUV's dont even have full time AWD as they dont have a centre diff, they use systems like the Haldex Traction to transfer power from a latitudinally mounted engine (transverse mounted, AKA: east-west) that drives the front wheels 99% of the time.
Most SUV's are no more suited to going off road than your average Camry and get stumped by the first slightly damp grassy slope they come across.
And yes, if you're left foot braking you're doing things horribly, horribly wrong. Doubly so for heel-toe. There are very few times when you need to left foot brake or heel-toe and none of them are on the road. Keep the fancy foot work for the track and dance floor, drive properly on the road.
I consider that a feature, not a bug.
I dont really want to be locked into a single ecosystem, I dual boot Linux and Windows, except for the box that runs ESXi but technically that also runs Windows and Linux in VMs. I haven't found a use for OSX that these two didn't cover... in fact I haven't really found a use for OSX at all.
This isn't the part of the TPP that we object to.
I oppose protectionism because I've never seen an example of it that HASN'T been detrimental to the people they're trying to protect but I dont want US laws foisted onto Australia as they are in the TPP.
If the TPP only contained a trade partnership eliminating tariffs, trade restrictions and opening up the market then I and a lot of people wouldn't have an issue with it but it's not a just a trade treaty. The Intellectual Property provisions will force signatories to enforce US laws on IP. Also the fact it's being negotiated in secret is a clear sign that there are provisions in there they would rather not have people know.
Beyond this, it's a one sided treaty. Australia will be forced to drop it's tariffs on US goods but the US is maintaining a tariff on Australian agriculture.
The TPP is bad news all round if you're not an American company.
What we need is a business environment like Germany's where government, business and labor all work together for society's overall prosperity.
That's the definition of Italian Fascism.
"Italian Fascism promoted a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy."
That was the PR, the reality was very different.
From the link to Wikipedia you posted
Italian Fascism was rooted in Italian nationalism and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay
In 1925, the PNF declared that Italy's Fascist state was to be totalitarian.[9] The term "totalitarian" had initially been used as a pejorative accusation by Italy's liberal opposition, that denounced the Fascist movement for seeking to create a total dictatorship.[9] However the Fascists responded by accepting that they were totalitarian, but presented totalitarianism from a positive viewpoint.
So in reality Fascist Italy was nothing like modern Democratic Germany. If anything, Germany is more democratic than most western nations providing more power to the people. Fascism resulted in the centralisation of power, power around Mussolini, power around Hitler in which the few gained and the majority simply lived in it.
So nice try to compare Germany to Fascism, however the Germans have a lot more experience with it than you and know well how to avoid it.
Awww, how cute. You still think that's true.
These particular dogs of war are slipping their leashes all over the world these days.
If you think your parliament knows everything your agencies are up to, you are sadly delusional.
When something this big is discovered in Australia, the politicians responsible are sacked. That tends to motivate them to do their jobs a little better. No politician wants to be on the receiving end of a royal commission... and I predict a few of those after the Abbott government (and to be fair the Abbott govt fired the first shot with the Royal Commission into union corruption which was nothing more than a witch hunt for their political enemies).