Sometimes people didn't want to abandon their famliar Windows XP environment.
[...]
I continued this up until Ubuntu released Unity as the default desktop.
My mother clicked the button to do a distribution upgrade (I always instructed her to install the updates ASAP), and she called to say "everything changed around on me".
This is pretty much it. I quit Ubuntu before the Unity debacle, I stopped updating Ubuntu when they decided to try to Mac-ify the UI. Moving the close, minimise and maximise buttons from the left to the right made it too unfriendly to use seeing as every other computer I used, Linux or Windows still had them on the left. I moved to Linux Mint when I got sick of the Update Me pop-ups.
There aren't individuals burning a single book, they just throw it in the garbage. Burning books is meant to draw attention, it is inherently a political activity.
Which is exactly what I meant.
And this is why I see a mass e-book deletion to be akin to a book burning, whether the aim is political or just to increase profits.
"If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you that it's actually better value to buy a pack of four when you're doing your next online shop? It's a long-term strategy,"
If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you to try some decent chocolate.
In Germany we have no free bags for at least 5 or 10 years (feels like forever) and there is no difficulties in bringing your own bags. Mostly it's a concious decision to go and buy groceries. Then you can just bring 2 bags from your home. And since when you have to wash every time a fabric bag? Everything you buy is packaged. If you not put like raw fruits in your bag the bag will not get dirty.
Yes, but that's in Germany where people are German, therefore organised and have given a little thought to what they will be doing for the day (OK, Germans often give it a lot of thought).
Most poster's here are Americans and Americans have terrible organisational skills, dont give any thought about what they are doing and complain bitterly that everything wasn't automagically provided afterwards.
BTW, we've had the canvas (fabric) bags along side plastic bags in Australia for years now. Plastic is still free in most stores (only a matter of time though) and the canvas bags are A$1. I prefer the canvas bags is that they are stronger (no more double and triple bagging crap), hold more (fewer bags needed) and dont shred your hands when carrying them. Above this they are reusable, I keep a few in my car just in case I go to the shop on the way home (or if I'm only getting 1 thing, I'll forgo the bag completely).
Supermarkets already charge for plastic bags in England.
Some do, mostly "low cost" stores - not Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or any of the major supermarkets I know of
Erm, they all charge.
Some charge directly, others build the cost into the price of the items you are buying.
It's like credit card surchages, credit addled morons complain bitterly about them but fail to realise that banks charge all businesses for accepting cards (Merchant Service Fees), the ones that dont pass the fees on as surcharges just build cost of the fees into the cost into the price of the crap you buy.
If the pool is fenced in but the lock on the gate is easy to pick?
In Australia you have to have your pool fenced in on all sides with a fence no less than 1.2 meters in height and a latch no less than 1.5 metres off the ground, vertical bars no more than 100mm apart and no horizontal bars that can be used for climbing, finally, no fixed climbable objects within 900 mm of the fence. If your fence meets these requirements you have no liability if they are bypassed.
There is no requirement for a lock (in fact, if you think about it that is a pretty bad idea).
Humans build morality based on sacramental associations. Book burning is an activity only bad people do. Deleting ebooks is an activity both good and bad people do. Ergo: book burning is likely a bad thing while deleting ebooks morally neutral.
That seems like a sensible analysis where one is appealing to sociology for the determination of good vs. evil.
I dont see a "book burning" under it's colloquial definition to be an individual activity.
When I think of a book burning I think of huge fires in Berlin streets with Nazi's throwing on hundreds of copies of undesirable texts, not a single person burning a single book to make more room in his bookshelf.
So I do see a parallel between book burning and a mass deletion of an ebook by a publisher (it has already happens, most ironically to copies of Nineteen Eighty-four) because they are both forms of censoring books and ultimately, control.
I read this as "Female Software Engineers may be even Scarier Than we Thought" and I couldn't wait to find out how in the world that was going to be quantified and/or justified.
I love geeks, scary or not.
It's not that they're scary, it's just that geeks are extremely timid.
I don't suppose there's any chance that the cost of the police buying this with taxpayer money will be made up with reduced collisions, accidents, injuries/fatalities, etc.? My knee-jerk reaction would be that it will not, and they're probably just using it as an excuse to get some new fancy cars. 32 new cars pulling people over at times a regular police cruiser would not, just for texting while driving, doesn't seem like it's going to make huge changes in driver behavior... or any changes at all.
The thing about knee-jerk reactions is that they're normally wrong.
Texting whilst driving is one of the worst things you can do on the roads and having driven in the US, most drivers are barely competent to begin with. If we took 100 experienced US drivers and gave them a Western Australian driving test, I'd be surprised if 2 passed. The WA test hinges on vehicle control, looking and signalling, three skills that US motorists seem to lack in spades. If we made them take the test in a manual, I'd be surprised if 1 passed (I passed in a manual, flow gets a lot harder when you've got to understand how gears work).
You're right that it is driver behaviour that needs to change, ultimately fines dont cut it in this regard. People who text and drive are dangerous (doubly so if you're naive enough to think you're capable of doing it safely, Dunning-Kruger in effect) and not just to themselves but to others. Repeated tests have shown that texting whilst driving has a very negative affect of driving abilities. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to get though to people is to take their phones and cars away, so unless suspensions are issued, people will keep writing this off under the old revenue conspiracy theory and as you pointed out, refuse to change habits.
Really, its not a question of if new vehicles will be effective, rather its a question of whether the punishments are effective and from what I saw driving in the US no-one seems to care about the punishments for anything.
So, uh... WHY are there rules on fonts? Seems about as important as powdered wigs. I find some of those font restrictions are just an excuse to lazily reduce workloads. "You used form TP-27, not TP-27.1, so we threw it out. No they're not the same, TP-27.1 has a dot and then a number after it!"
To ensure that it's legible, for example:
Il|
Tell me which one is the upper case "i", lower case "L" and which is the vertical bar without changing it from Slashdot's default font.
Sure you can argue that it's easy to change it to Courier or another font that will show the difference but when you read documents for most of the day fixing up the mistakes of others is tedious, well to be frank, it's a pain in the arse.
Yes. If you're not a preschooler you would understand that two wrongs don't make a right. Revenge is evil you twit.
Yeah, then tell us why the death penalty closely corresponds with the bible belt?
Because it seems like a lot of religious people feel that revenge and two wrongs making a right is how it's supposed to be done.
I cant see anything incorrect with the GP's post, in fact nothing you've said has managed to contradict his point. All you've demonstrated is that the religious people in the bible belt are evil twits with the maturity level of a preschooler...
Maybe "Dropping Anchor" is code for wire tapping without permission. The old "a boat dropped anchor on the cable" so the internet is a trickle in Australia for 3 months trick.
Fixed that for you, the last time someone accidentally dropped an anchor on the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable between Indonesia and Australia it took months to get it fixed.
The US doesn't really need oil from the middle east. Europe and Asia do.
Singapore doesn't.
They are a major oil trading hub in SE Asia. Singapore and Malaysia are swimming in the stuff, so much so Australia gets all of it's petrol from Singapore (which is one of the reasons petrol in Oz is so expensive, Singapore Tapis consistently US$0.20 more expensive than Brent Crude or West Texas Intermediate).
However both Singapore and South Korea are major trading partners with the US.
let me list off a few of the more cherished past times of monarchial rule...just for a kinds reference.
1. Blasphemy: as a law the crown can and does have you executed for everything from a simple expletive to your atheism or lack of church attendance. Criticism of the monarchy, as exemplified in thailand, is very punishable by death.
2. Grinding poverty and inequality: Monarchial rule begets serfdom and a midevil class structure. furthermore that class is infected upon your name for generations. Kings decide what you can and cannot eat with hunting laws, and who you can and cannot marry by proxy of the church. in the past, even certain hats and colors were banned by monarchies.
3. forced rule: In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government. If you want to see what this is like, visit North Korea.
You do know that you can have all of these in other forms of government, even representative governments (I.E. Iran).
Secondly, most monarchies these days are constitutional monarchies which means they have a functional democratic government that rules instead of the monarch. Absolute monarchies are rare, Saudi Arabia is probably the biggest example although they are closer to a theocracy. Most oppressive governments tend to be despotisms. Not that the article is proposing a Monarchy in either form, from the sounds of it they want a meritocracy.
Thirdly, the King of Thailand gives a royal pardon to everyone convicted of leste majesty and has several times asked for it to be removed from the books. The "democratically" (snigger all you like at that one) elected government has disobeyed him. This is because the King of Thailand has no real power but the leste majesty laws get used by rival political families, almost all the political corruption stems from the powerful political and business families like the Shintawatra's or the Nana's. Thailand is far from being a democracy (constitutional monarchy), but if you think it's an absolute monarch you clearly dont know anything about Thailand or monarchies.
A. This endless fund raising was banned and your elected officials just got on with government. A fixed sum might be given by the state to all political parties raising over X votes. The law might not apply to nascent parties who were getting started and not yet in a position of power.
Really the fixed sum should be divided equally across all political parties in the electorate. That way they have to compete using the quality of their message, not the frequency of it.
Nah. Just send them to the hereditary monarchial paradise of North Korea.
I don't know if they will like it there or not, but either way we will never have to hear about it again from them.
North Korea isn't a monarchy, it's a despotism.
This is why Americans shouldn't comment on other forms of government, they've only ever had democracy and in 200 years still haven't managed to get it right.
American here. I have a question for you – I know the Queen is the head of state and theoretically has vast powers. However, she seems to have delegated most of those powers. Beyond a tourist attraction what does she do? I live close enough to Canada, another one of her domains, but I can’t figure out what she does.
Mostly ceremonial roles.
The monarchy is more of a figurehead than a head of state.
In Canada the queen has a representative called the Governor General who carries out the Queens duties in the Queens name. One of the more important ones is dissolving parliament before an election (the last act of a Prime Minister is to ask the Governor General to dissolve parliament).
What counter example? As you point out, after 2 AM is *after* closing. Therefore beer=good, no beer=bad.
Jokes aside, the OP kind of has a point.
Forcing all bars to close at exactly the same time forces all the people out onto the street at the same time. Just through sheer volume you've increased the risk of a fight starting.
It would be better for bars to stagger their closing times or at least close later to allow patrons to leave of their own accord. From a barman's perspective, it's much easier to chuck out 10 really drunk people at 4 AM than 50 slightly drunk people at 2 AM. The only places I've seen where violence can be controlled when 100's of drunks are turfed out at once are in third world nations where violence control is really a whole bunch of locals looking for any excuse to put the boot into a Farang/Gringo/Foreigner and even this wont stop violence, it just normally makes sure it ends up with someone getting shot or stabbed. So more people become afraid to start fights when they know it'll be 20 on 1, however you've got no way to stop the 20 from going to far.
Then again, if we just stopped the insecure pricks who thinks that you "looked at his woman" at the door, we could all get maggoted in peace and happiness.
Kids should break a few rules. That's part of growing up. Getting alerted on it and going all batshit crazy about it are two different things. I'll respond appropriately when my kid sneaks her first beer or stays out past curfew or pretends her friends parents are home when she stays the night somewhere. Now that I'm an old man, I know I didn't get nearly as much past my parents as I thought I did.:)
+1
But unfortunately this system is designed for those who go batshit crazy.
Admittedly the nerd in me like tracking my own car, not just location and speed but a whole bunch of engine statistics including fuel usage, intake pressure, boost pressure, G forces and more. To this effect I already have a bluetooth OBDII dongle and a el cheap-o Android tablet with Torque installed in the glove box. If I wanted to track the car remotely I guess I could use a slightly less el cheap-o tablet or phone with 3G capabilities.
However I would emphatically not trust another company to do the same thing end to end.
Or perhaps everybody from the dock workers to those who stock the shelves full of goods have to be paid twice as much there as they do in the USA. Somebody will bear that cost, and it's usually the consumer.
Then explain why I can personally import electronics from overseas for half the cost.
When I pay for shipping, the dock workers still get paid. The only ones who get cut out are the distributors artificially setting the high prices.
In fact businesses have started drop shipping cameras. You still go into a brick and mortar store and speak to a real salesdrone, buy the camera in store, it gets shipped to you instead of being held out the back. The store owner still makes money, the salesdrone still gets paid, the dock worker still unloads the ship (and gets paid), all local taxes are paid... Again, the only people getting cut out are the companies who own the local distribution rights who artificially set high prices, so if your theory was remotely true, why is the drop shipped camera half price?
The cause of this is actually Australia's ridiculously high minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Oh bullshit. No it's not. The cause of it is price gouging and rampant profiteering. It doesn't cost one red cent more to send a container ship full of widgets from Singapore or any of a dozen Chinese ports to Australia than it does to send it to Seattle, San Francisco, or LA. Australia's high prices for plastic crap have nothing to do with their minimum wage and everything to do with logistics and the US's Most Favored Nation status with China.
This, and the relaxation of importation laws are proving this.
Why is a new PC game $80 in Australia but $40 in the US. What causes the cost difference? Nothing, I can import the US version for $45, the difference is entirely artificial and imposed by the importers. Camera's are another good example. A DSLR used to cost twice the price than in Asia or the US, then Australians started to import them (legally). When local retailers figured this out, they changed their business model to drop ship cameras from overseas cutting out the local supplier who set high prices (and this is entirely legal in Oz).
Australia's high minimum wage is ensuring that fewer Australians live below the poverty line.
I recently travelled to the US, I found gratuity (tipping) to be nothing but a hidden tax. It would be better to pay them a wage they could live off. And before anyone counters with the "tipping gets better service", I also travelled to several Latin American countries where tipping is not the norm, service was just as good (its a cultural thing).
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Sometimes people didn't want to abandon their famliar Windows XP environment.
[...]
I continued this up until Ubuntu released Unity as the default desktop.
My mother clicked the button to do a distribution upgrade (I always instructed her to install the updates ASAP), and she called to say "everything changed around on me".
This is pretty much it. I quit Ubuntu before the Unity debacle, I stopped updating Ubuntu when they decided to try to Mac-ify the UI. Moving the close, minimise and maximise buttons from the left to the right made it too unfriendly to use seeing as every other computer I used, Linux or Windows still had them on the left. I moved to Linux Mint when I got sick of the Update Me pop-ups.
Of course Tesla is getting lots of press,
Tesla's failures are getting a lot of press because Musk wanted Tesla's successes to get a lot of press.
Musk cant have it both ways, Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Ford on the other hand, well we almost expect recalls from them.
There aren't individuals burning a single book, they just throw it in the garbage. Burning books is meant to draw attention, it is inherently a political activity.
Which is exactly what I meant.
And this is why I see a mass e-book deletion to be akin to a book burning, whether the aim is political or just to increase profits.
"If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you that it's actually better value to buy a pack of four when you're doing your next online shop? It's a long-term strategy,"
If you're somebody who on average buys one bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk on impulse once a week, can I encourage you to try some decent chocolate.
In Germany we have no free bags for at least 5 or 10 years (feels like forever) and there is no difficulties in bringing your own bags. Mostly it's a concious decision to go and buy groceries. Then you can just bring 2 bags from your home. And since when you have to wash every time a fabric bag? Everything you buy is packaged. If you not put like raw fruits in your bag the bag will not get dirty.
Yes, but that's in Germany where people are German, therefore organised and have given a little thought to what they will be doing for the day (OK, Germans often give it a lot of thought).
Most poster's here are Americans and Americans have terrible organisational skills, dont give any thought about what they are doing and complain bitterly that everything wasn't automagically provided afterwards.
BTW, we've had the canvas (fabric) bags along side plastic bags in Australia for years now. Plastic is still free in most stores (only a matter of time though) and the canvas bags are A$1. I prefer the canvas bags is that they are stronger (no more double and triple bagging crap), hold more (fewer bags needed) and dont shred your hands when carrying them. Above this they are reusable, I keep a few in my car just in case I go to the shop on the way home (or if I'm only getting 1 thing, I'll forgo the bag completely).
Supermarkets already charge for plastic bags in England.
Some do, mostly "low cost" stores - not Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or any of the major supermarkets I know of
Erm, they all charge.
Some charge directly, others build the cost into the price of the items you are buying.
It's like credit card surchages, credit addled morons complain bitterly about them but fail to realise that banks charge all businesses for accepting cards (Merchant Service Fees), the ones that dont pass the fees on as surcharges just build cost of the fees into the cost into the price of the crap you buy.
If the pool is fenced in but the lock on the gate is easy to pick?
In Australia you have to have your pool fenced in on all sides with a fence no less than 1.2 meters in height and a latch no less than 1.5 metres off the ground, vertical bars no more than 100mm apart and no horizontal bars that can be used for climbing, finally, no fixed climbable objects within 900 mm of the fence. If your fence meets these requirements you have no liability if they are bypassed.
There is no requirement for a lock (in fact, if you think about it that is a pretty bad idea).
Humans build morality based on sacramental associations. Book burning is an activity only bad people do. Deleting ebooks is an activity both good and bad people do. Ergo: book burning is likely a bad thing while deleting ebooks morally neutral.
That seems like a sensible analysis where one is appealing to sociology for the determination of good vs. evil.
I dont see a "book burning" under it's colloquial definition to be an individual activity.
When I think of a book burning I think of huge fires in Berlin streets with Nazi's throwing on hundreds of copies of undesirable texts, not a single person burning a single book to make more room in his bookshelf.
So I do see a parallel between book burning and a mass deletion of an ebook by a publisher (it has already happens, most ironically to copies of Nineteen Eighty-four) because they are both forms of censoring books and ultimately, control.
I read this as "Female Software Engineers may be even Scarier Than we Thought" and I couldn't wait to find out how in the world that was going to be quantified and/or justified.
I love geeks, scary or not.
It's not that they're scary, it's just that geeks are extremely timid.
I don't suppose there's any chance that the cost of the police buying this with taxpayer money will be made up with reduced collisions, accidents, injuries/fatalities, etc.? My knee-jerk reaction would be that it will not, and they're probably just using it as an excuse to get some new fancy cars. 32 new cars pulling people over at times a regular police cruiser would not, just for texting while driving, doesn't seem like it's going to make huge changes in driver behavior... or any changes at all.
The thing about knee-jerk reactions is that they're normally wrong.
Texting whilst driving is one of the worst things you can do on the roads and having driven in the US, most drivers are barely competent to begin with. If we took 100 experienced US drivers and gave them a Western Australian driving test, I'd be surprised if 2 passed. The WA test hinges on vehicle control, looking and signalling, three skills that US motorists seem to lack in spades. If we made them take the test in a manual, I'd be surprised if 1 passed (I passed in a manual, flow gets a lot harder when you've got to understand how gears work).
You're right that it is driver behaviour that needs to change, ultimately fines dont cut it in this regard. People who text and drive are dangerous (doubly so if you're naive enough to think you're capable of doing it safely, Dunning-Kruger in effect) and not just to themselves but to others. Repeated tests have shown that texting whilst driving has a very negative affect of driving abilities. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to get though to people is to take their phones and cars away, so unless suspensions are issued, people will keep writing this off under the old revenue conspiracy theory and as you pointed out, refuse to change habits.
Really, its not a question of if new vehicles will be effective, rather its a question of whether the punishments are effective and from what I saw driving in the US no-one seems to care about the punishments for anything.
So, uh... WHY are there rules on fonts? Seems about as important as powdered wigs. I find some of those font restrictions are just an excuse to lazily reduce workloads. "You used form TP-27, not TP-27.1, so we threw it out. No they're not the same, TP-27.1 has a dot and then a number after it!"
To ensure that it's legible, for example:
Il|
Tell me which one is the upper case "i", lower case "L" and which is the vertical bar without changing it from Slashdot's default font.
Sure you can argue that it's easy to change it to Courier or another font that will show the difference but when you read documents for most of the day fixing up the mistakes of others is tedious, well to be frank, it's a pain in the arse.
Yeah, then tell us why the death penalty closely corresponds with the bible belt?
Because it seems like a lot of religious people feel that revenge and two wrongs making a right is how it's supposed to be done.
I cant see anything incorrect with the GP's post, in fact nothing you've said has managed to contradict his point. All you've demonstrated is that the religious people in the bible belt are evil twits with the maturity level of a preschooler...
And I think that's an insult to preschoolers.
Small
Cheap
Easy to repair
Pick two.
The Mac only has one of those three. If you want two you need to choose something else.
well there woudl be an entire department in every insurance company that analyzed the data to try and get out of paying out on a claim.
Not where I live.
It would be illegal for an insurance company to use that data to adjust the claim. They have to follow the law in determining who is at fault.
Then again I live in one of those backwards nations who regulated insurers instead of letting insurers write laws.
Maybe "Dropping Anchor" is code for wire tapping without permission. The old "a boat dropped anchor on the cable" so the internet is a trickle in Australia for 3 months trick.
Fixed that for you, the last time someone accidentally dropped an anchor on the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable between Indonesia and Australia it took months to get it fixed.
The US doesn't really need oil from the middle east. Europe and Asia do.
Singapore doesn't.
They are a major oil trading hub in SE Asia. Singapore and Malaysia are swimming in the stuff, so much so Australia gets all of it's petrol from Singapore (which is one of the reasons petrol in Oz is so expensive, Singapore Tapis consistently US$0.20 more expensive than Brent Crude or West Texas Intermediate).
However both Singapore and South Korea are major trading partners with the US.
let me list off a few of the more cherished past times of monarchial rule...just for a kinds reference.
1. Blasphemy: as a law the crown can and does have you executed for everything from a simple expletive to your atheism or lack of church attendance. Criticism of the monarchy, as exemplified in thailand, is very punishable by death.
2. Grinding poverty and inequality: Monarchial rule begets serfdom and a midevil class structure. furthermore that class is infected upon your name for generations. Kings decide what you can and cannot eat with hunting laws, and who you can and cannot marry by proxy of the church. in the past, even certain hats and colors were banned by monarchies.
3. forced rule: In an absolute monarchy, the monarch rules as an autocrat, with absolute power over the state and government. If you want to see what this is like, visit North Korea.
You do know that you can have all of these in other forms of government, even representative governments (I.E. Iran).
Secondly, most monarchies these days are constitutional monarchies which means they have a functional democratic government that rules instead of the monarch. Absolute monarchies are rare, Saudi Arabia is probably the biggest example although they are closer to a theocracy. Most oppressive governments tend to be despotisms. Not that the article is proposing a Monarchy in either form, from the sounds of it they want a meritocracy.
Thirdly, the King of Thailand gives a royal pardon to everyone convicted of leste majesty and has several times asked for it to be removed from the books. The "democratically" (snigger all you like at that one) elected government has disobeyed him. This is because the King of Thailand has no real power but the leste majesty laws get used by rival political families, almost all the political corruption stems from the powerful political and business families like the Shintawatra's or the Nana's. Thailand is far from being a democracy (constitutional monarchy), but if you think it's an absolute monarch you clearly dont know anything about Thailand or monarchies.
A. This endless fund raising was banned and your elected officials just got on with government. A fixed sum might be given by the state to all political parties raising over X votes. The law might not apply to nascent parties who were getting started and not yet in a position of power.
Really the fixed sum should be divided equally across all political parties in the electorate. That way they have to compete using the quality of their message, not the frequency of it.
Nah. Just send them to the hereditary monarchial paradise of North Korea.
I don't know if they will like it there or not, but either way we will never have to hear about it again from them.
North Korea isn't a monarchy, it's a despotism.
This is why Americans shouldn't comment on other forms of government, they've only ever had democracy and in 200 years still haven't managed to get it right.
American here. I have a question for you – I know the Queen is the head of state and theoretically has vast powers. However, she seems to have delegated most of those powers. Beyond a tourist attraction what does she do? I live close enough to Canada, another one of her domains, but I can’t figure out what she does.
Mostly ceremonial roles.
The monarchy is more of a figurehead than a head of state.
In Canada the queen has a representative called the Governor General who carries out the Queens duties in the Queens name. One of the more important ones is dissolving parliament before an election (the last act of a Prime Minister is to ask the Governor General to dissolve parliament).
What counter example? As you point out, after 2 AM is *after* closing. Therefore beer=good, no beer=bad.
Jokes aside, the OP kind of has a point.
Forcing all bars to close at exactly the same time forces all the people out onto the street at the same time. Just through sheer volume you've increased the risk of a fight starting.
It would be better for bars to stagger their closing times or at least close later to allow patrons to leave of their own accord. From a barman's perspective, it's much easier to chuck out 10 really drunk people at 4 AM than 50 slightly drunk people at 2 AM. The only places I've seen where violence can be controlled when 100's of drunks are turfed out at once are in third world nations where violence control is really a whole bunch of locals looking for any excuse to put the boot into a Farang/Gringo/Foreigner and even this wont stop violence, it just normally makes sure it ends up with someone getting shot or stabbed. So more people become afraid to start fights when they know it'll be 20 on 1, however you've got no way to stop the 20 from going to far.
Then again, if we just stopped the insecure pricks who thinks that you "looked at his woman" at the door, we could all get maggoted in peace and happiness.
My boss tracking where I go with company-provided assets makes sense.
Commercial systems already exist to do this, with far better fleet management than LoJack.
But these are aimed at fleets, LoJack seem to be aiming this at consumers.
Glad I live in one of those evil nations that regulates the insurance industry and makes this downright illegal.
Kids should break a few rules. That's part of growing up. Getting alerted on it and going all batshit crazy about it are two different things. I'll respond appropriately when my kid sneaks her first beer or stays out past curfew or pretends her friends parents are home when she stays the night somewhere. Now that I'm an old man, I know I didn't get nearly as much past my parents as I thought I did. :)
+1 But unfortunately this system is designed for those who go batshit crazy.
Admittedly the nerd in me like tracking my own car, not just location and speed but a whole bunch of engine statistics including fuel usage, intake pressure, boost pressure, G forces and more. To this effect I already have a bluetooth OBDII dongle and a el cheap-o Android tablet with Torque installed in the glove box. If I wanted to track the car remotely I guess I could use a slightly less el cheap-o tablet or phone with 3G capabilities.
However I would emphatically not trust another company to do the same thing end to end.
Or perhaps everybody from the dock workers to those who stock the shelves full of goods have to be paid twice as much there as they do in the USA. Somebody will bear that cost, and it's usually the consumer.
Then explain why I can personally import electronics from overseas for half the cost.
When I pay for shipping, the dock workers still get paid. The only ones who get cut out are the distributors artificially setting the high prices.
In fact businesses have started drop shipping cameras. You still go into a brick and mortar store and speak to a real salesdrone, buy the camera in store, it gets shipped to you instead of being held out the back. The store owner still makes money, the salesdrone still gets paid, the dock worker still unloads the ship (and gets paid), all local taxes are paid... Again, the only people getting cut out are the companies who own the local distribution rights who artificially set high prices, so if your theory was remotely true, why is the drop shipped camera half price?
Well the answer is simple, your theory is wrong.
The cause of this is actually Australia's ridiculously high minimum wage of $15 an hour.
Oh bullshit. No it's not. The cause of it is price gouging and rampant profiteering. It doesn't cost one red cent more to send a container ship full of widgets from Singapore or any of a dozen Chinese ports to Australia than it does to send it to Seattle, San Francisco, or LA. Australia's high prices for plastic crap have nothing to do with their minimum wage and everything to do with logistics and the US's Most Favored Nation status with China.
This, and the relaxation of importation laws are proving this.
Why is a new PC game $80 in Australia but $40 in the US. What causes the cost difference? Nothing, I can import the US version for $45, the difference is entirely artificial and imposed by the importers. Camera's are another good example. A DSLR used to cost twice the price than in Asia or the US, then Australians started to import them (legally). When local retailers figured this out, they changed their business model to drop ship cameras from overseas cutting out the local supplier who set high prices (and this is entirely legal in Oz).
Australia's high minimum wage is ensuring that fewer Australians live below the poverty line.
I recently travelled to the US, I found gratuity (tipping) to be nothing but a hidden tax. It would be better to pay them a wage they could live off. And before anyone counters with the "tipping gets better service", I also travelled to several Latin American countries where tipping is not the norm, service was just as good (its a cultural thing).