(unless you don't know how to drive to begin with)
That describes 90% of all U.S. (and I suspect the world's) drivers.
If you're excluding German and English drivers.
I dont blame the drivers, it's the cars that coddle them.
No need to learn manual, just buy an auto. Cant park, we'll now we have self parking cars. Cant keep a constant speed, try cruise control. Cant keep a safe gap, adaptive cruise control. Cant be bothered using your mirrors, now we have rear and side proximity sensors.
We've been moving towards fully automated cars for years, it's only recently have people even noticed.
BTW, I drive a six speed manual without traction control. I drive a lot better than most because I dont expect my car to pull me out of dangerous situations I get myself into.
Rear wheel drive is not a problem. Read wheel drive with all the weight over the front wheels is a problem, especially in low traction situations. Ideal is really all wheel drive with weight distributed close to evenly.
And this is why high end sports and performance cars use the mid-rear configuration.
I think the armies are the biggest improvement by far from iv to v. No longer stacking units allows you to actually place your units in strategic locations (spearmen defending archers, etc).
Actually Civ 5 allows more of this. Spearmen sit in front of your archers, archers shoot over the spearmen. This and cities that can attack make it a game of turtles. Forget any other strategy.
Add to this the fact the AI is crap and you have the reason I still play Civ 4.
No, there's no good Linux HW tracking software. Why? Cause there's no good software for other platforms either. It's all "make-you-feel-good-software" which doesn't survive a simple OS reinstallation...
This.
What are my options for HW based tracking. After all, my stolen laptop will be sitting on a pawn shop shelf unpowered for some time.
Are you kidding? "Job Creators" will be the first people to whine about the corresponding tax increases to cover that kind of scheme.
People like to think money for this kind of stuff just comes from some magical pocket universe somewhere. That's not the case. Spain and Greece are great examples of this.
People need to get over this idea that the idle rich are "job creators".
It's the people who make products and provide services who create jobs and support the economy. For the most part, these people are not rich enough to be paying the top tax bracket.
"At 40 I still run circles around most people, younger and older. I never understand the 'young tech' thing."
It's nothing but club mentality. They think that young people are the ones who have fresh ideas. When in reality, it tends to be the people with experience who see new, better ways to do things. (Which makes a lot of sense, if you think about it.)
Study after study have shown that older programmers are on average more productive.
I dont think it's about age. You get a lot of young people that cant come up with a new idea to save their lives. I think it has more to do with the way that a person thinks, if a person looks at problems with a problem solving mindset (be it abstract or concrete) and works to develop new solutions from a young age, they'll continue to do that well into the senior years. Of course, as will all skills this will get better with practice/experience.
OTOH, you get the people who have learned things by rote memorisation, eventually even the slowest moving systems change and find themselves unable (or unwilling) to go through the whole rote memorisation thing again.
At 40 I still run circles around most people, younger and older. I never understand the 'young tech' thing.
Some people can. Others weren't very bright to begin with.
The idea that only young people understand new things is only reality for those who were never able to think for themselves in the first place. In their youth they simply aped their more capable peers, in mid life their more capable peers have eclipsed them.
People do bargain directly with each other now. The government isn't involved in that. But if good or services are sold, that transaction tends to be subject to taxes, although not always. And that does ignore the underground economy that tends to involve cash transactions.
Not sure about where you live, but here in Oz sales in non-cash forms can still be taxed.
I.E. if I paid you in chutney, the govt will still demand 10% (well 10% of the market value of the chutney).
Same for income, but we have a progressive rate for income tax, sales is a flat 10% so it's an easier example.
I could conduct business in foreign currency, bit coins or pig shit, this does not free me from tax obligations (and the ATO knows it).
Does the military actually use videogames for desensitization?
I think the military have been quite good at desensitising recruits for years before videogames.
What they use games for is to teach fighting as a team. The plus side is improving hand-eye co-ordination and situational awareness.
Cant provide a reference, but in the 80's a British tank platoon had one tank that was consistently outperforming all the other tanks. The CO was unable to find a reason for this, the tank crewmen were pretty similar to the rest, had received the same training, didn't have a particularly high IQ or an unusual background. It was eventually traced back the fact that crew played Battlezone during lunch.
American men are different than Japanese men, but it would be a huge mistake to think or imply that one is more desirable in Japan than the other. And reporting that American men can find a lady in Japan with little or no effort is completely wrong.
This,
Also the reference about Japan being misogynistic is dead wrong. If anything it's highly matriarchal with married Japanese women assuming complete control of the finances and home.
Western men will have a much easier time with Filipino, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian) or Malay women. Especially Filipino. China, Japan and Korea have a deep culture of ultra-nationalism and marrying or even dating a different race is considered wrong. This extends to different Asian races, ethnic Chinese will be biased find Malay's or Filipino's. It's very feudal. Filipina's without a doubt will be the easiest Asian girlfriend to get, they speak decent English and have fewer cultural barriers however most Filipina's will still prefer to date a Filipino simply because that's who they're most comfortable with. It's just that the average westerner has a huge advantage in the Philippine's because our average wage is a lot higher than that of the average Filipino.
The reason a lot of people have the delusion that western men are more desired is mainly due to the Asian obsession with light skin (and the accompanying skin lightening treatments and products) as dark/tanned skin is associated with working outdoors which is associated with poverty. Light skin is associated with wealth (I.E. they spend most of their time out of the sun because they have enough money to be able to do this).
Having dated Thai's, Filipino's and a Korean girl. If you cant understand and accept a lot of cultural differences you'll get dumped very quickly. The concept of "face" frustrates me to no end, I know someone is lying out of their arse to me but I have to bite my tongue and listen to it because calling the twat out on his lies would make my GF lose face in front of her friends (causing conflict). This is the downside to dating a Thai, though there are plenty of upsides to compensate. It's pretty hard on an Australian as in Oz, I'm used to calling someone a twunt when they're acting like it.
If you've watched any of what passes for "news" from US news agencies at all in the past fifteen years, it's full of talking heads speculating on every possible thing
I'm happy here in the UK, enjoying the thousands of years of history.
Speaking of history, you obviously didn't pay attention in class. The UK is only 306 years old (Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707). And you folks complain about Americans not understanding the difference between England/Scotland/Wales, Britain and the UK.
You also didn't pay attention in that class. The UK is not a country rather it's an amalgamation of individual countries. The name is not the "United Kingdom" it's the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland whom each have their own parliaments. It's like saying the US is only as old as NATO because it's a member of NATO.
I would have pointed this out nicely, but you acted like such an pompous arse (yes, propper spelling, there is an R in there, an ass is a donkey) I couldn't help myself.
P.S. The Queen, her majesty Elizabeth the second, being a polite, proper and fair person would wish you and you nation well on this day of celebration, despite your ignorance and disrespectful attitude.
"England" may be 1000+ years old but 1) it's far from certain that it's the same "England" as today, and 2) it was a subsidiary of Normandy, Inc. for quite some time, pardon my Middle French.
If you're talking about the political establishment, the current monarchy is ultimately derived from William the Conqueror who took over the country in 1066, as this is the beginning of the Norman kings in England. If you're talking about its Establishment as a nation with geopolitical boundaries, we're talking several thousand years earlier under Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon rulers.
1066 was also the last time England was successfully invaded by a foreign military.
Historians consider it to be the same country despite the change in monarch. So it really depends if you're talking about geopolitical boundaries or political establishments.
I.E. my country of Australia was settled in 1788, but it wasn't a nation until 1901 making us 113 this year despite being settled for 200+ years. The reason was, prior to 26 Jan 1901 we were separate British colonies (6 colonies to be exact).
How will the tags be stolen when they're registered at check in? Another passenger couldn't use it to get another 20 KG on the plane at that point. They'd have to be stolen by handlers and this would be pretty stupid (although some are that stupid, they always get caught). Then what would they use it for? The person at the other end isn't going to pick up a bag that looks nothing like theirs.
Electronic tags will solve a few problems and speed up baggage sorting.
As long as you can still write your name on the outside (and better yet a LCD readout of your destination IATA code) it has all the same advantages of a paper system but can be machine sorted with near 100% accuracy.
I mean, who steals paper luggage tags? no-one because they're practically useless to anyone but the owner.
Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
This.
Why do you think Disney supports copyright extensions/abuses with such reckless abandon?
Because they dont want people doing to Disney what Disney did to Hans Christian Anderson.
All the major players spy on each other. Even their allies. I think it's expected to happen and only when it becomes public do the players pretend to be outraged.
This is a given.
Everyone spies on everyone else and they pretend that they're shocked when someone finds out.
But I was under the impression that the outrage with Snowden was that he revealed that the US was spying on it's own citizens.
With a "computer monitor", how does one receive OTA TV (ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS) or route the audio in an HDMI signal to speakers?
TV capture card and sound card.
I've had a Mythbuntu based PC that has been doing that since I built it in 2008. The entire thing cost me A$350 including the case and capture card. I can output the sound on HDMI, line out or both.
In retrospect, I should have saved $42 on the capture card as I never use it. Nothing worth watching on TV.
The median reported taxable income of a taxi driver in the US is around $32,000.
TFTFY.
Taxi drivers are one of the few professions where wide scale tax evasion is extremely simple, if you take every 2nd or 3rd job as cash you simply dont report that income (or at least the majority of it, if you're smart you report 20%ish of your cash earnings to prevent the tax office from being suspicious).
"Passengers and drivers rate each other after every ride. If you rate a driver below 4 stars, youâ(TM)ll never be matched with that driver again. If a driver's average falls below 4½ out of 5 stars, they are removed from the Lyft community. It's our way of maintaining high-quality standards."
Can anyone tell me what the point is of a 5 star rating system if anything below 4.5 stars gets you kicked out? All this is going to end up doing is artificially inflating ratings. Basically everyone will be a five star driver or a zero star. It makes no sense whatsoever. I would think any logical system would have at least 3 stratas of "Excellent/Well above average", "OK", and "Average, but would ride with again".
It's like video game reviews in commercial magazines, no game scores below 80% so 80% becomes the new zero.
So essentially, this "5 star" rating system is a 0.5 star rating system.
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(unless you don't know how to drive to begin with)
That describes 90% of all U.S. (and I suspect the world's) drivers.
If you're excluding German and English drivers.
I dont blame the drivers, it's the cars that coddle them.
No need to learn manual, just buy an auto. Cant park, we'll now we have self parking cars. Cant keep a constant speed, try cruise control. Cant keep a safe gap, adaptive cruise control. Cant be bothered using your mirrors, now we have rear and side proximity sensors.
We've been moving towards fully automated cars for years, it's only recently have people even noticed.
BTW, I drive a six speed manual without traction control. I drive a lot better than most because I dont expect my car to pull me out of dangerous situations I get myself into.
Rear wheel drive is not a problem. Read wheel drive with all the weight over the front wheels is a problem, especially in low traction situations. Ideal is really all wheel drive with weight distributed close to evenly.
And this is why high end sports and performance cars use the mid-rear configuration.
The indie scene is already fixing the industry. The big guys can adapt or die.
By "adapt" I assume you mean "by out almost finished Indie games" then yes, I suspect they'll adapt quite cheaply.
I think the armies are the biggest improvement by far from iv to v. No longer stacking units allows you to actually place your units in strategic locations (spearmen defending archers, etc).
Actually Civ 5 allows more of this. Spearmen sit in front of your archers, archers shoot over the spearmen. This and cities that can attack make it a game of turtles. Forget any other strategy.
Add to this the fact the AI is crap and you have the reason I still play Civ 4.
No, there's no good Linux HW tracking software. Why? Cause there's no good software for other platforms either. It's all "make-you-feel-good-software" which doesn't survive a simple OS reinstallation...
This.
What are my options for HW based tracking. After all, my stolen laptop will be sitting on a pawn shop shelf unpowered for some time.
Are you kidding? "Job Creators" will be the first people to whine about the corresponding tax increases to cover that kind of scheme.
People like to think money for this kind of stuff just comes from some magical pocket universe somewhere. That's not the case. Spain and Greece are great examples of this.
People need to get over this idea that the idle rich are "job creators".
It's the people who make products and provide services who create jobs and support the economy. For the most part, these people are not rich enough to be paying the top tax bracket.
"At 40 I still run circles around most people, younger and older. I never understand the 'young tech' thing."
It's nothing but club mentality. They think that young people are the ones who have fresh ideas. When in reality, it tends to be the people with experience who see new, better ways to do things. (Which makes a lot of sense, if you think about it.)
Study after study have shown that older programmers are on average more productive.
I dont think it's about age. You get a lot of young people that cant come up with a new idea to save their lives. I think it has more to do with the way that a person thinks, if a person looks at problems with a problem solving mindset (be it abstract or concrete) and works to develop new solutions from a young age, they'll continue to do that well into the senior years. Of course, as will all skills this will get better with practice/experience.
OTOH, you get the people who have learned things by rote memorisation, eventually even the slowest moving systems change and find themselves unable (or unwilling) to go through the whole rote memorisation thing again.
At 40 I still run circles around most people, younger and older. I never understand the 'young tech' thing.
Some people can. Others weren't very bright to begin with.
The idea that only young people understand new things is only reality for those who were never able to think for themselves in the first place. In their youth they simply aped their more capable peers, in mid life their more capable peers have eclipsed them.
And you thought autoplay ads with sound were bad, just wait, autoplay ads with smells are coming. And then will come the trolling....
Now you will know I've farted in your general direction.
People do bargain directly with each other now. The government isn't involved in that. But if good or services are sold, that transaction tends to be subject to taxes, although not always. And that does ignore the underground economy that tends to involve cash transactions.
Not sure about where you live, but here in Oz sales in non-cash forms can still be taxed.
I.E. if I paid you in chutney, the govt will still demand 10% (well 10% of the market value of the chutney).
Same for income, but we have a progressive rate for income tax, sales is a flat 10% so it's an easier example.
I could conduct business in foreign currency, bit coins or pig shit, this does not free me from tax obligations (and the ATO knows it).
Does the military actually use videogames for desensitization?
I think the military have been quite good at desensitising recruits for years before videogames.
What they use games for is to teach fighting as a team. The plus side is improving hand-eye co-ordination and situational awareness.
Cant provide a reference, but in the 80's a British tank platoon had one tank that was consistently outperforming all the other tanks. The CO was unable to find a reason for this, the tank crewmen were pretty similar to the rest, had received the same training, didn't have a particularly high IQ or an unusual background. It was eventually traced back the fact that crew played Battlezone during lunch.
American men are different than Japanese men, but it would be a huge mistake to think or imply that one is more desirable in Japan than the other. And reporting that American men can find a lady in Japan with little or no effort is completely wrong.
This,
Also the reference about Japan being misogynistic is dead wrong. If anything it's highly matriarchal with married Japanese women assuming complete control of the finances and home.
Western men will have a much easier time with Filipino, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian) or Malay women. Especially Filipino. China, Japan and Korea have a deep culture of ultra-nationalism and marrying or even dating a different race is considered wrong. This extends to different Asian races, ethnic Chinese will be biased find Malay's or Filipino's. It's very feudal. Filipina's without a doubt will be the easiest Asian girlfriend to get, they speak decent English and have fewer cultural barriers however most Filipina's will still prefer to date a Filipino simply because that's who they're most comfortable with. It's just that the average westerner has a huge advantage in the Philippine's because our average wage is a lot higher than that of the average Filipino.
The reason a lot of people have the delusion that western men are more desired is mainly due to the Asian obsession with light skin (and the accompanying skin lightening treatments and products) as dark/tanned skin is associated with working outdoors which is associated with poverty. Light skin is associated with wealth (I.E. they spend most of their time out of the sun because they have enough money to be able to do this).
Having dated Thai's, Filipino's and a Korean girl. If you cant understand and accept a lot of cultural differences you'll get dumped very quickly. The concept of "face" frustrates me to no end, I know someone is lying out of their arse to me but I have to bite my tongue and listen to it because calling the twat out on his lies would make my GF lose face in front of her friends (causing conflict). This is the downside to dating a Thai, though there are plenty of upsides to compensate. It's pretty hard on an Australian as in Oz, I'm used to calling someone a twunt when they're acting like it.
If you've watched any of what passes for "news" from US news agencies at all in the past fifteen years, it's full of talking heads speculating on every possible thing
FTFY.
Fixed that FTFY for you.
So you've never read any of them.
That wasn't a question. Some of these "fairy tales" are quite long.
And if time is a good reason, why cant we do what we like with Disney's older works, I mean it's from dozens of years ago.
Yeah and they're hiding 80% of their mansions too.
Nah, the depreciation is tax deductible.
Honestly, France beat the British. Not America.
Ultimately, this war the British won because the French monarch went bankrupt which lead to the revolution in France and the rise of Napoleon.
I'm happy here in the UK, enjoying the thousands of years of history.
Speaking of history, you obviously didn't pay attention in class. The UK is only 306 years old (Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707). And you folks complain about Americans not understanding the difference between England/Scotland/Wales, Britain and the UK.
You also didn't pay attention in that class. The UK is not a country rather it's an amalgamation of individual countries. The name is not the "United Kingdom" it's the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland whom each have their own parliaments. It's like saying the US is only as old as NATO because it's a member of NATO.
I would have pointed this out nicely, but you acted like such an pompous arse (yes, propper spelling, there is an R in there, an ass is a donkey) I couldn't help myself.
P.S. The Queen, her majesty Elizabeth the second, being a polite, proper and fair person would wish you and you nation well on this day of celebration, despite your ignorance and disrespectful attitude.
"England" may be 1000+ years old but 1) it's far from certain that it's the same "England" as today, and 2) it was a subsidiary of Normandy, Inc. for quite some time, pardon my Middle French.
If you're talking about the political establishment, the current monarchy is ultimately derived from William the Conqueror who took over the country in 1066, as this is the beginning of the Norman kings in England. If you're talking about its Establishment as a nation with geopolitical boundaries, we're talking several thousand years earlier under Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon rulers.
1066 was also the last time England was successfully invaded by a foreign military.
Historians consider it to be the same country despite the change in monarch. So it really depends if you're talking about geopolitical boundaries or political establishments.
I.E. my country of Australia was settled in 1788, but it wasn't a nation until 1901 making us 113 this year despite being settled for 200+ years. The reason was, prior to 26 Jan 1901 we were separate British colonies (6 colonies to be exact).
How will the tags be stolen when they're registered at check in? Another passenger couldn't use it to get another 20 KG on the plane at that point. They'd have to be stolen by handlers and this would be pretty stupid (although some are that stupid, they always get caught). Then what would they use it for? The person at the other end isn't going to pick up a bag that looks nothing like theirs.
Electronic tags will solve a few problems and speed up baggage sorting.
As long as you can still write your name on the outside (and better yet a LCD readout of your destination IATA code) it has all the same advantages of a paper system but can be machine sorted with near 100% accuracy.
I mean, who steals paper luggage tags? no-one because they're practically useless to anyone but the owner.
Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
This.
Why do you think Disney supports copyright extensions/abuses with such reckless abandon?
Because they dont want people doing to Disney what Disney did to Hans Christian Anderson.
All the major players spy on each other. Even their allies. I think it's expected to happen and only when it becomes public do the players pretend to be outraged.
This is a given.
Everyone spies on everyone else and they pretend that they're shocked when someone finds out.
But I was under the impression that the outrage with Snowden was that he revealed that the US was spying on it's own citizens.
With a "computer monitor", how does one receive OTA TV (ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS) or route the audio in an HDMI signal to speakers?
TV capture card and sound card.
I've had a Mythbuntu based PC that has been doing that since I built it in 2008. The entire thing cost me A$350 including the case and capture card. I can output the sound on HDMI, line out or both.
In retrospect, I should have saved $42 on the capture card as I never use it. Nothing worth watching on TV.
The median reported taxable income of a taxi driver in the US is around $32,000.
TFTFY.
Taxi drivers are one of the few professions where wide scale tax evasion is extremely simple, if you take every 2nd or 3rd job as cash you simply dont report that income (or at least the majority of it, if you're smart you report 20%ish of your cash earnings to prevent the tax office from being suspicious).
Gas is free in the USA?
I believe petrol is subsidised in the US.
So the state loses money when people buy petrol and dont use it for a taxable purpose.
"Passengers and drivers rate each other after every ride. If you rate a driver below 4 stars, youâ(TM)ll never be matched with that driver again. If a driver's average falls below 4½ out of 5 stars, they are removed from the Lyft community. It's our way of maintaining high-quality standards."
Can anyone tell me what the point is of a 5 star rating system if anything below 4.5 stars gets you kicked out? All this is going to end up doing is artificially inflating ratings. Basically everyone will be a five star driver or a zero star. It makes no sense whatsoever. I would think any logical system would have at least 3 stratas of "Excellent/Well above average", "OK", and "Average, but would ride with again".
It's like video game reviews in commercial magazines, no game scores below 80% so 80% becomes the new zero.
So essentially, this "5 star" rating system is a 0.5 star rating system.