You may not agree with it, but surely you must understand it?
They dont understand it because they've never lived anywhere without taxi regulations. They don't know what an unregulated industry actually looks like.
I have lived in places where the government simply didn't give a shit about taxi drivers. It may seem nice now, but eventually oversupply has to be dealt with. If the government doesn't do it then the drivers themselves will and their methods are far less pleasant than overpriced taxi medallions. Where I used to live, we called them a Mafia because that is exactly the way they acted. They had territories, there were fights between rival taxi gangs, if a driver picked up a fare outside his territory he would be beaten up (they at least had the courtesy to wait until the passenger had exited the vehicle, but this was only due to the concept of "face" in their society).
The net result of this for a paying customer was higher prices. They wouldn't even turn on the engine for less than US$5 when the minimum wage in that province was US$3.5 and this province had the highest min wages in the country. To get across town you'd be looking at Australian taxi prices. Unprovoked violence against passengers was not unusual in a place where unprovoked violence was unusual. Every driver carried a gun and none of them knew how to drive safely.
Many dont understand the dislike we have of Uber, this is because they have never seen what Uber will inevitably become. When driver income is threatened, drivers will organise and that turns out bad for the customer. Given Uber's track record of "we're not a transport company" chances are they'll ignore it.
I was not liking that either, but there's a brand at Costco (San Fran I think) that makes fully biodegradable k-kup compatible single serves. The bottoms are just filter, and the top is a corn-plastic ring and some kind of high-strength paper. Works great, dolphins agree!
Its still incredibly wasteful. All those extra resources just so you can make a crap cup of coffee.
Once you learn how to make a proper espresso you will look upon pod machines with disdain and disgust. Personally given the choice between pod and instant, I'll take instant. They're both crap but the instant is faster, cheaper, less wasteful and doesn't make me feel like a hipster.
You want to fix the problem, make it "single price", where insurance pays what cash pays. Right now, "negotiated pricing" is fraudulent pricing.
Actually, single payer fixes that as well because it essentially means you have one customer. Ergo, the customer has a lot of power to set terms. Even in countries with both public and private health care systems, the public system sets the ceiling for prices and a minimum floor for service, so if a private institution wants to charge more, they need to provide greater service and service that is worth the price being asked of it. Basically it eliminates the "you pay what we say because you're too sick or powerless to negotiate" that causes that kind of fraudulent pricing.
So every patient receives the buying power of an entire country. Any funny business and it will be investigated.
Single payer also cuts down on hospital administration and allows health care workers to get on with their job of caring for patients.
Single payer would bring this under taxpayer control.
The hell it would. Single payer would put it under the control of a HUGE bureaucracy. Bureaucracies, as they get bigger, NEVER lead to more transparency or control by taxpayers. In fact, they lead to exactly the opposite, less visibility into what's actually going on, less control because they are hard to change.
Reality disagrees with your assertion.
Just about every country that has a public health system run by the government spends less on health care than the United States does. Hell, we spend less on health care than the United States Government alone spends on health care per person, not even thinking about counting the amount of private monies spent.
If you don't think an American can handle it, just outsource it to Australia, Canada, the UK or anywhere else that spends less on health care than you do. We've literally got decades of experience with reasonable cost health care provision.
Can you explain further, please? Does NHS pay for medical treatement no matter what? Or is there such a concept as, "your negligence or malice directly caused this medical expense that otherwise would not have happened, so yes you are liable?".
With most countries, liability is decided by the courts, not the doctors and insurers. So you can count on the medical professionals caring for you, but the state or insurers may sue you for some of the cost if it is warranted (and there are damn few cases where it is). The only limitations on the NHS, as with most countries is with eligibility, only citizens, tax paying permanent residents and people who are citizens or permanent residents of countries with reciprocal agreements with the NHS are covered. As an Australian, I can travel to the UK and be covered under the NHS because Australia and UK have a reciprocal agreement with medical systems (so an Englishman is covered under Australia's medicare in Australia)
However even if you're ineligible, they're not going to leave you to die on the pavement. They'll just issue you with a bill afterwards and because the NHS has no profit motive, it wont be as high as countries with an entirely private system.
OTOH, we dont have the issue of "well you're costing us too much and threatening our profits, so we're not going to insure you any more".
Not sure about the 24th century, but if you asked an engineer today if he put the batteries in the right way around you'd like get a punch in the head captain or not.
Russia Today is quite literally government controlled and run propaganda. Can you honestly make that claim about the US media?
Yes, the US media are propaganda mouthpieces of their own recognizance.
At least the Russian propaganda is honest about being propaganda.
Every Eastern European I've met has told me this, "the difference between American propaganda and Russian propaganda is that we [Russians] didn't beleive our propaganda".
It could use a few commas, but it's not terrible. "Sitting an exam" is standard Australian English, I presume. In Europe, it's commonly called "writing an exam" (they started moving from written answers to psychometry much more recently). Maybe "sitting an exam" doesn't make literal sense, but neither does "taking an exam" really; I mean, where are you taking it?
I've always thought it was "taking" in the same way you take a pill or a sick day, not as in taking a doughnut.
So, now that we're all frothing at the mouth and getting our pitchforks, has anyone bothered to check if other smart watches or fitness trackers have same issues or it's only Apple's?
Just curious if this is something endemic to the entire category or only the technology Apple used in their watch.
Nope, it's just Apple.
Both the Samsung and Fitbit products dont have the same issue. Not sure about the Motorola watch, but I'd say its a safe bet that it's not happening there either.
The H1B program is making the problem worse. The corporations have the choice of training an American or hiring a fully trained foreigner.
The problem with that statement is that the foreigner is not going to be fully trained.
The kinds of places that you get H-1B workers (457 visas in Australia) from are the kind of places that have trouble with the word no. So it's an exercise for the listener to determine if "yes" means "yes I do" or "yes I don't".
However once they have the contract, that doesn't matter (to the off-shore provider).
Any Indian who is fully qualified is making plans to get a proper job in the US, Europe, Canada or Australia (well maybe not Australia any more) and not trying to work for an off-shoring consultancy. These people know that they can get the same as an American or European worker and have no desire to be abused by cheapskates.
If the iPad (I assume you were just trying to make a stupid joke there) crashes mid flight, you reboot it. Then you take the co-pilots iPad.
Sigh,
You've missed the point. The iCrud was crashing due to bad data. Lets ignore how bad the OS must be that a PDF file was making the OS reboot for a second and look at the fact that all the company issued iCruds will be identical.
If one crashes due to a corrupt file, then the co-pilots will also crash. Its a massive single point of failure. This effectively grounded their entire 737 fleet.
What the GP was saying is why isn't there a backup in a different format, even if it's electronic on a different device such as an Android or Windows. I think we all know the answer is cost savings.
Honestly, the Apple-ness of this is completely irrelevant, and you know damned well it is.
Actually it's entirely relevant.
An application took down the entire OS. This is exactly the thing we derided Microsoft for allowing for so long. I've been working with Android, including some very dodgy hacked versions for my Motorola Milestone and I've never had an application crash the OS. Sure applications have crashed but that would be back to the home screen (androids version of a crash to desktop) but never had it take down the entire OS. Even in modern Windows it's very hard for an application to cause the OS to reboot.
So first off, it demonstrates the application was not properly sandboxed by the OS.
Secondly, I thought this was exactly the kind of thing Apple's "well curated" walled garden is meant to prevent.
So not only is it difficult for the same thing to happen on Windows, Linux or Android, but Apple is supposed to have extra protection against this kind of thing.
I don't have an irrational hate for Uber... I have a well reasoned dislike for a company who says "la la la, we're not listening, your laws don't apply because we're awesome".
I have a rational dislike for Uber because I've lived in a place with unregulated taxi services where anyone can become a driver.
In other words, I've seen the end game for Uber.
The best case scenario is to compensate for too many drivers and not enough fares they form gangs and territories of their own. Drivers will not be able to pick up fares outside their territory. Drivers who are not members of a gang will be threatened and intimidated... Thats the best case scenario.
Beyond the best case you have the artificial rigging of fares. In Phuket, a taxi driver wont switch on the engine for less than 200 baht... which is the minimum wage there. In most places I've travelled, the biggest threats you encounter are these taxi gangs as they are prone to violence when they dont get their own way.
Unregulated taxis are the domain of 3rd world shitholes mainly because in the developed world, we realised what a problem they were many generations ago and started to regulate them.
gotta love the government. stifling innovation for generations.....
What is innovative about an illegal taxi service?
These have been running in third world countries that I've been visiting for decades. They haven't caught on in the west as we tend not to like the violence and terrible driving that comes along with it.
He recognizes that most University students today are someones precious little snowflake. That someone might stop sending checks, students may transfer and worse the best prospective students might choose other institutions where there is not a perception their on-time graduation plans might be derailed by capricious professor.
But he clearly failed his economics and academic course.
When it becomes known that you can pass your course by simply paying, your degrees become worthless.
There are a fair few countries where we consider an education gained there to be completely worthless because of the corruption in academia. Sounds like the administrator hasn't considered the damage this could do to his school.
Couldn't this system be easily defeated by using an inflatable person or maybe even just a stick with a cut out of Bill Oddie's face glued on the top, resting on your passengers seat?
Nope. Good brakes don't make crashes. Poor braking behavior does.
Nope. Poor breaking behaviour doesn't cause crashes, people not keeping a safe distance causes crashes.
In most sane countries you are required to keep a distance long enough that the car in front can perform an emergency stop without you hitting it. If you do hit it, you've caused the accident (and in Oz, will get hit with a negligent/careless driving charge).
I cant control how badly the people around me drive, but I can control the way I drive and take steps to minimise and avoid accidents. Keeping a safe distance is one of the simplest things I can do.
You're an idiot. The middle class isn't being drained via taxation. Taxes are lower right now than at any point in the last century. It's the stagnation of wages that's causing the middle class to have problems. It's amazing how people will assert something as true that can be debunked with five seconds of Google searching.
Dear god man,
Dont let reality or the facts get in the way of a good anti-immigrant rant.
"But the engineer, whose aim is to maximize safety within a series of material constraints, cannot be distracted by how you and I feel."
and that boys and girls is how American car manufacturers rationalize producing the crap that they produce.
This is not surprising. GM or Ford would have to be one fscked corporation to walk out of a meeting with the mandate "let's make crap cars". Instead they manage to convince that their junk "had to be done this way", even though most other foreign car manufactures have much lower design failure rates.
American manufacturers decided to make cheap cars and rely on bells and whistles to make their cars look advanced rather than actual engineering. They also tend to rely heavily on advertising and faux patriotism to sell the Korean designed, Mexican manufactured cars in the US because Ford/Chevrolet is 'Merican.
Every time a car is built down to a price they have an issue with reliability.
The shitty test you're talking about didn't even *test* aspartame, it tested saccharine, which hasn't been in a diet drink for several decades. More shitty "science" that shitty newspapers can't bother to actually do 2.5 seconds of research on. The last major saccharine based diet drink was Tab. Try ordering one today. You'll look like Marty McFly in 1955.
This.
Artificial sweeteners are recommended for diabetics because you dont process it, you pass it. Things like Aspartame, Xylitol and Stevia (I know Stevia is natural, but it's in the same class of sugar alternative) dont tend to increase the amount of sugar in your blood.
The reason a lot of people who drink died soft drinks dont appear to be losing weight is because they're eating wrong AND not exercising. Switching from sugary soft drinks to artificially sweetened soft drinks is a good thing as long as you're eating a healthy diet and getting a bit of exercise as it cuts out a huge source of sugar, but on it's own it will do nothing.
The thing that annoys me here is that I like the taste of Pepsi Max over Coke Zero, I hope they haven't ruined it thanks to some peoples irrational fear of something they dont understand.
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They dont understand it because they've never lived anywhere without taxi regulations. They don't know what an unregulated industry actually looks like.
I have lived in places where the government simply didn't give a shit about taxi drivers. It may seem nice now, but eventually oversupply has to be dealt with. If the government doesn't do it then the drivers themselves will and their methods are far less pleasant than overpriced taxi medallions. Where I used to live, we called them a Mafia because that is exactly the way they acted. They had territories, there were fights between rival taxi gangs, if a driver picked up a fare outside his territory he would be beaten up (they at least had the courtesy to wait until the passenger had exited the vehicle, but this was only due to the concept of "face" in their society).
The net result of this for a paying customer was higher prices. They wouldn't even turn on the engine for less than US$5 when the minimum wage in that province was US$3.5 and this province had the highest min wages in the country. To get across town you'd be looking at Australian taxi prices. Unprovoked violence against passengers was not unusual in a place where unprovoked violence was unusual. Every driver carried a gun and none of them knew how to drive safely.
Many dont understand the dislike we have of Uber, this is because they have never seen what Uber will inevitably become. When driver income is threatened, drivers will organise and that turns out bad for the customer. Given Uber's track record of "we're not a transport company" chances are they'll ignore it.
I was not liking that either, but there's a brand at Costco (San Fran I think) that makes fully biodegradable k-kup compatible single serves. The bottoms are just filter, and the top is a corn-plastic ring and some kind of high-strength paper. Works great, dolphins agree!
Its still incredibly wasteful. All those extra resources just so you can make a crap cup of coffee.
Once you learn how to make a proper espresso you will look upon pod machines with disdain and disgust. Personally given the choice between pod and instant, I'll take instant. They're both crap but the instant is faster, cheaper, less wasteful and doesn't make me feel like a hipster.
Single Payer doesn't solve the problem.
You want to fix the problem, make it "single price", where insurance pays what cash pays. Right now, "negotiated pricing" is fraudulent pricing.
Actually, single payer fixes that as well because it essentially means you have one customer. Ergo, the customer has a lot of power to set terms. Even in countries with both public and private health care systems, the public system sets the ceiling for prices and a minimum floor for service, so if a private institution wants to charge more, they need to provide greater service and service that is worth the price being asked of it. Basically it eliminates the "you pay what we say because you're too sick or powerless to negotiate" that causes that kind of fraudulent pricing.
So every patient receives the buying power of an entire country. Any funny business and it will be investigated.
Single payer also cuts down on hospital administration and allows health care workers to get on with their job of caring for patients.
Single payer would bring this under taxpayer control.
The hell it would. Single payer would put it under the control of a HUGE bureaucracy. Bureaucracies, as they get bigger, NEVER lead to more transparency or control by taxpayers. In fact, they lead to exactly the opposite, less visibility into what's actually going on, less control because they are hard to change.
Reality disagrees with your assertion.
Just about every country that has a public health system run by the government spends less on health care than the United States does. Hell, we spend less on health care than the United States Government alone spends on health care per person, not even thinking about counting the amount of private monies spent.
If you don't think an American can handle it, just outsource it to Australia, Canada, the UK or anywhere else that spends less on health care than you do. We've literally got decades of experience with reasonable cost health care provision.
Can you explain further, please? Does NHS pay for medical treatement no matter what? Or is there such a concept as, "your negligence or malice directly caused this medical expense that otherwise would not have happened, so yes you are liable?".
With most countries, liability is decided by the courts, not the doctors and insurers. So you can count on the medical professionals caring for you, but the state or insurers may sue you for some of the cost if it is warranted (and there are damn few cases where it is). The only limitations on the NHS, as with most countries is with eligibility, only citizens, tax paying permanent residents and people who are citizens or permanent residents of countries with reciprocal agreements with the NHS are covered. As an Australian, I can travel to the UK and be covered under the NHS because Australia and UK have a reciprocal agreement with medical systems (so an Englishman is covered under Australia's medicare in Australia)
However even if you're ineligible, they're not going to leave you to die on the pavement. They'll just issue you with a bill afterwards and because the NHS has no profit motive, it wont be as high as countries with an entirely private system.
OTOH, we dont have the issue of "well you're costing us too much and threatening our profits, so we're not going to insure you any more".
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What gamer in their right mind installs their games on their system drive.
Doubly so for their SteamApps folder. I don't want to have to re-download 100 odd GB of games when windows goes tits up.
"reverse the polarity"
Not sure about the 24th century, but if you asked an engineer today if he put the batteries in the right way around you'd like get a punch in the head captain or not.
Russia Today is quite literally government controlled and run propaganda. Can you honestly make that claim about the US media?
Yes, the US media are propaganda mouthpieces of their own recognizance.
At least the Russian propaganda is honest about being propaganda.
Every Eastern European I've met has told me this, "the difference between American propaganda and Russian propaganda is that we [Russians] didn't beleive our propaganda".
Virtual anime girlfriends* are finally here!
Hows the van running Dr Krieger.
you're wearing it wrong
You're inked wrong.
It could use a few commas, but it's not terrible. "Sitting an exam" is standard Australian English, I presume. In Europe, it's commonly called "writing an exam" (they started moving from written answers to psychometry much more recently). Maybe "sitting an exam" doesn't make literal sense, but neither does "taking an exam" really; I mean, where are you taking it?
I've always thought it was "taking" in the same way you take a pill or a sick day, not as in taking a doughnut.
So, now that we're all frothing at the mouth and getting our pitchforks, has anyone bothered to check if other smart watches or fitness trackers have same issues or it's only Apple's?
Just curious if this is something endemic to the entire category or only the technology Apple used in their watch.
Nope, it's just Apple.
Both the Samsung and Fitbit products dont have the same issue. Not sure about the Motorola watch, but I'd say its a safe bet that it's not happening there either.
The H1B program is making the problem worse. The corporations have the choice of training an American or hiring a fully trained foreigner.
The problem with that statement is that the foreigner is not going to be fully trained.
The kinds of places that you get H-1B workers (457 visas in Australia) from are the kind of places that have trouble with the word no. So it's an exercise for the listener to determine if "yes" means "yes I do" or "yes I don't".
However once they have the contract, that doesn't matter (to the off-shore provider).
Any Indian who is fully qualified is making plans to get a proper job in the US, Europe, Canada or Australia (well maybe not Australia any more) and not trying to work for an off-shoring consultancy. These people know that they can get the same as an American or European worker and have no desire to be abused by cheapskates.
You're the guy that tells children Santa isn't real and explains magic tricks to spoil the illusion aren't you?
You're the guy who tells children that Pacifcially and Yous are acceptable words aren't you?.
Sure, his 10 yr old might not believe in the Easter bunny or be easily entertained by card tricks... But they can construct a sentence.
If the iPad (I assume you were just trying to make a stupid joke there) crashes mid flight, you reboot it. Then you take the co-pilots iPad.
Sigh,
You've missed the point. The iCrud was crashing due to bad data. Lets ignore how bad the OS must be that a PDF file was making the OS reboot for a second and look at the fact that all the company issued iCruds will be identical.
If one crashes due to a corrupt file, then the co-pilots will also crash. Its a massive single point of failure. This effectively grounded their entire 737 fleet.
What the GP was saying is why isn't there a backup in a different format, even if it's electronic on a different device such as an Android or Windows. I think we all know the answer is cost savings.
Honestly, the Apple-ness of this is completely irrelevant, and you know damned well it is.
Actually it's entirely relevant.
An application took down the entire OS. This is exactly the thing we derided Microsoft for allowing for so long. I've been working with Android, including some very dodgy hacked versions for my Motorola Milestone and I've never had an application crash the OS. Sure applications have crashed but that would be back to the home screen (androids version of a crash to desktop) but never had it take down the entire OS. Even in modern Windows it's very hard for an application to cause the OS to reboot.
So first off, it demonstrates the application was not properly sandboxed by the OS.
Secondly, I thought this was exactly the kind of thing Apple's "well curated" walled garden is meant to prevent.
So not only is it difficult for the same thing to happen on Windows, Linux or Android, but Apple is supposed to have extra protection against this kind of thing.
I don't have an irrational hate for Uber ... I have a well reasoned dislike for a company who says "la la la, we're not listening, your laws don't apply because we're awesome".
I have a rational dislike for Uber because I've lived in a place with unregulated taxi services where anyone can become a driver.
In other words, I've seen the end game for Uber.
The best case scenario is to compensate for too many drivers and not enough fares they form gangs and territories of their own. Drivers will not be able to pick up fares outside their territory. Drivers who are not members of a gang will be threatened and intimidated... Thats the best case scenario.
Beyond the best case you have the artificial rigging of fares. In Phuket, a taxi driver wont switch on the engine for less than 200 baht... which is the minimum wage there. In most places I've travelled, the biggest threats you encounter are these taxi gangs as they are prone to violence when they dont get their own way.
Unregulated taxis are the domain of 3rd world shitholes mainly because in the developed world, we realised what a problem they were many generations ago and started to regulate them.
gotta love the government. stifling innovation for generations.....
What is innovative about an illegal taxi service?
These have been running in third world countries that I've been visiting for decades. They haven't caught on in the west as we tend not to like the violence and terrible driving that comes along with it.
Man, no wonder Americans can't figure out metric ... people like you keep confusing the crap out of them.
And it's "metre" not "meter" .. another Americansism which is incorrect.
This,
A metre is a measurement, a meter is something you measure with.
He recognizes that most University students today are someones precious little snowflake. That someone might stop sending checks, students may transfer and worse the best prospective students might choose other institutions where there is not a perception their on-time graduation plans might be derailed by capricious professor.
But he clearly failed his economics and academic course.
When it becomes known that you can pass your course by simply paying, your degrees become worthless.
There are a fair few countries where we consider an education gained there to be completely worthless because of the corruption in academia. Sounds like the administrator hasn't considered the damage this could do to his school.
Couldn't this system be easily defeated by using an inflatable person or maybe even just a stick with a cut out of Bill Oddie's face glued on the top, resting on your passengers seat?
Nope. Good brakes don't make crashes. Poor braking behavior does.
Nope. Poor breaking behaviour doesn't cause crashes, people not keeping a safe distance causes crashes.
In most sane countries you are required to keep a distance long enough that the car in front can perform an emergency stop without you hitting it. If you do hit it, you've caused the accident (and in Oz, will get hit with a negligent/careless driving charge).
I cant control how badly the people around me drive, but I can control the way I drive and take steps to minimise and avoid accidents. Keeping a safe distance is one of the simplest things I can do.
You're an idiot. The middle class isn't being drained via taxation. Taxes are lower right now than at any point in the last century. It's the stagnation of wages that's causing the middle class to have problems. It's amazing how people will assert something as true that can be debunked with five seconds of Google searching.
Dear god man,
Dont let reality or the facts get in the way of a good anti-immigrant rant.
"But the engineer, whose aim is to maximize safety within a series of material constraints, cannot be distracted by how you and I feel."
and that boys and girls is how American car manufacturers rationalize producing the crap that they produce.
This is not surprising. GM or Ford would have to be one fscked corporation to walk out of a meeting with the mandate "let's make crap cars". Instead they manage to convince that their junk "had to be done this way", even though most other foreign car manufactures have much lower design failure rates.
American manufacturers decided to make cheap cars and rely on bells and whistles to make their cars look advanced rather than actual engineering. They also tend to rely heavily on advertising and faux patriotism to sell the Korean designed, Mexican manufactured cars in the US because Ford/Chevrolet is 'Merican.
Every time a car is built down to a price they have an issue with reliability.
The shitty test you're talking about didn't even *test* aspartame, it tested saccharine, which hasn't been in a diet drink for several decades. More shitty "science" that shitty newspapers can't bother to actually do 2.5 seconds of research on. The last major saccharine based diet drink was Tab. Try ordering one today. You'll look like Marty McFly in 1955.
This.
Artificial sweeteners are recommended for diabetics because you dont process it, you pass it. Things like Aspartame, Xylitol and Stevia (I know Stevia is natural, but it's in the same class of sugar alternative) dont tend to increase the amount of sugar in your blood.
The reason a lot of people who drink died soft drinks dont appear to be losing weight is because they're eating wrong AND not exercising. Switching from sugary soft drinks to artificially sweetened soft drinks is a good thing as long as you're eating a healthy diet and getting a bit of exercise as it cuts out a huge source of sugar, but on it's own it will do nothing.
The thing that annoys me here is that I like the taste of Pepsi Max over Coke Zero, I hope they haven't ruined it thanks to some peoples irrational fear of something they dont understand.