There's a big difference between artificial and fake. No one tried to FAKE an earthquake, it was simply artificial, as in man-made. Your title is horrible.
This...
FFS, this.
Seismometers in Mexico picked up movement in the ground like they're meant to that ended up being a false positive... NOT a false earthquake or a fake earthquake, even an artificial one is a stretch (but I'll let the AC slide as its not totally inaccurate). Seismometers pick up on a wide variety of non earthquake or volcano related events such as explosives, construction or stampedes.
I don't usually bemoan/.'s editorial standards, as low as they are, are still better than most sites... but this story isn't just lazy editing, it requires wilful ignorance.
The biggest CAD/3D models these days are for 3D buildings - like a new factory, airport or shopping center. Those CAD files can very easily become bigger than 64GB and not fit in RAM anymore. If you need to go to the construction site with a 98GB CAD model that can be inspected, how do you do that without a laptop that has 128GB RAM? Do you take a 35,000 USD dual Xeon CAD workstation with 3 GPUs that weighs 40 to 50 lbs and carry it to the construction site in a van? That's what these new laptops are for. Opening huge 3D CAD files away from the office desk - and very likely at a construction site.
The same way we've been doing it for years. Remote desktop. This was back in the day when having 2GB on your laptop was a lot and 16GB was good for a server. So the GIS applications would be on servers with the data and onsite work would be done remotely.
Internet is a lot faster today than back then Sonny Jim.
BTW, RAM was not the problem, GIS required huge map files, so you'd need an array of 120 GB disks to hold it all. Erm... Vacate my ground coverings forthwith.
. . . the Spanish Soccer Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
" Our chief weapon is mics... mics and GPS... GPS and mics.... Our two weapons are mics and GPS...and IP Addresses...."
The problem is if the UK or EU tries to fine them real money, Americans will get upset and cry that the evil Europeans are trying to punish American businesses.
Then they go on about some fantasy about what would happen if they picked up sticks and left... Which wont happen, the fantasy or the companies leaving.
I would disagree, yes there are two issues at play, but I'm not confusing one with the other.
There's no reason why a cashless society should be cheaper given that they start incurring transaction charges. Once cash has gone, who's to stop those charges going up? The recent change in the EU that ended separate credit card fees is even worse because this helps hide these fees. Personally I think card fees should be charged directly to the card holder rather than hiding it in the merchant's prices. This might introduce competition and an incencitve to shop around for card providers.
I couldn't agree with this more. Charges applied to merchants should be directly passed onto the customer. However banks and credit networks (Visa/MC/AMEX) explicitly do not permit it and are doing everything they can to get credit card surcharges banned by law in many countries so merchants have to hide how much cards are costing them (in the form of higher prices).
I'm not anti-credit mind you, all forms of payment have their place. If we lost cash, we'd definitely miss it. I treat credit like sugar, a little is OK but you don't want your diet being 95% sugar.
I always thought that prices that end.99 were playing a psychological trick that they appear at first glance a whole currency unit less. When it comes to pints, this is silly - who shops around for a pint? Pick a pub and order a drink. Change the scene if it's offensively expensive like £2/pint more than everywhere else around there. To be honest though, as a Londoner, I've rarely seen a pint ending.99. I think it's more expensive than Amersterdam because the cost of living is so much higher anyway.
Yes, that 99p is psychological pricing. Most people just look at the £5 and ignore the numbers after it. Even though everyone knows about it, it's still stupidly effective.
Although it's rare to see an actual.99 at a pub, plenty of Wetherspoons I've been to have had numbers like 3.25 or 3.72 to make them slightly cheaper than the pub round the corner owned by a bloke named Dave who charges 3.50 or 4 quid a pint (personally, I'd rather give the extra 30p to Dave, owner-operated pubs are one of the best things about England).
I compared Amsterdam to London because the COL is similar for many things, the Dutch pay more tax, but have more subsidised services so I think it evens out (they pay €0.72 for a 5p bag, so swings and roundabouts).
In civilised countries where we don't bother criminalising prositutes, they accept electronic payments like any other business.
I suspect you are confusing the US with a modern country.
What he means is "how are you going to pay a prostitute without your wife finding out sans cash"?
But seriously, the cheapest countries I've been to have been cash based. Without banks putting their sticky fingers over everything, business make more profit whilst customers get lower prices. Getting a pint in Central London is €6-10 and a prossie €3-500. In Central Amsterdam its €3-7 for a pint and some brass can be had for as little as €50.
You can usually tell if a business prefers cash because they price their products in whole numbers to reduce change, in Amsterdam it was about €5 or €5.20 for a pint, in central London, bars often priced things at £5.99.
When approaching stopped car at high velocity, do not hit car. Hopefully they can expand that feature to cover other stationary objects as well, but I can see how that might be a "2.0” kind of thing.
The logic of "do not hit parked car" is not the issue.
The issue is "is that a parked car or a leaf" and by the time computers have figured it out, they've hit it. OK if it was a leaf, shit if it was a parked car. In the rush to make self driving cars serious corners are being cut. The fact is that computers are not good at determining what objects are if given a long time to process the input data... They're even worse when they have to process it in less than a second. If an unidentified object in the road cant determine if what it's detected is a parked car or a leaf, it has two real options, stop or drive into it. If they choose stop, people will get annoyed and stop using the system, currently they're choosing to drive into it which means people are less annoyed, but sometimes killed when the system is wrong.
I've worked with image recognition from remote sensing, we're a long way off from real time object recognition. Right now if you want fast object recognition you need to limit it to specific criteria that must have quite tight tolerances and even then, false positive and negatives are right through the roof.
Yes, having no Internet access is a bad deal for Virginians, but maybe the state representative should be doing something about that instead of bitching to Amtrak.
Have you even been to West Virginia? High-speed internet service is a major technical challenge there because of the geography. It's really mountainous and sparsely-populated. You can barely even get 3G service outside the cities unless you're near an Interstate or state highway. Good places to put towers that effectively cover a large area few and far between.
On top of that, there is a complete lack of cell service, Wi-fi or even microwaves on the central-eastern side of the state because of the Green Bank Observatory. (If you don't know about this, read up on it because it's actually really interesting.)
Erm, many nations have similar or worse topographies... In fact just had a look at the Virginia topo... Its mostly flat. Just go have a look at Norway, they can get high speed internet to most of their people and the Fjords are far more of an obstacle than anything in Virginia as well as being more sparsely populated. There are places in Scotland that make Virginia look positively mild and again, they can get high speed broadband.
The problem is the US telecoms infrastructure is ruled by a few corporations who put their profit over service. Until that changes, things like this senator forcing Amtrack to hire people are the things you can expect because the telco's are beyond his reach, but Amtrack isn't.
Latency, kids lack money, and gamers hate EA anyway. It's not gonna happen, at least not with EA at the forefront. Maybe Valve can do it, but not EA.
Yes, but as long as the latest Call of Repetition: Modern Snorefare, Battlefied: Pay to Win and Washed Up Sportsman 18 keeps selling, they'll stay in business.
EA hasn't been in the business of making quality games for well over a decade. The people who pay £60 a year for FIFA wont care about latency... Hell I've played FIFA 17 on a PS4, it was already laggy as hell and loaded so slowly they had to have a minigame to prevent the players from finding something else to do. The shift to streaming wont be that hard for these games.
which they said unfairly pushed consumers to use Google's Shopping platform.
They have what now? As an European, this is the first time I am hearing about "google's shopping platform", ever
I'm guessing you run Adblock.
Google's "Shopping Platform" is when you google a product, Frite sauce for example, it brings up a bunch of vendors in a bar before the search result that sell frite sauce or something similar to it (or sometimes something completely unrelated, the algorithm isn't perfect).
Alternatively people aren't saying Lyft/Uber/etc are short term gigs, but instead viewed like a job. Since it's self-reported whether it's short term or not./p.
Uber are fast running out of suckers to drive for them as people are realising that you wont earn enough from Uber to cover the costs of running a Citroen C1, let alone a Focus sized car. Without a steady supply of new suckers to replace the old ones who've figured this out, customers are also leaving Uber.
This is the same for most "gig" economies. Very few places can support them, something like Deliveroo might work in large cities like London where population density makes it workable or university towns where there is a steady supply of students looking for extra cash but will never work in a for a town of 30,000 a mere 50 miles from London.
One has to ask: was this neutrino born sterile, or was it "fixed" because it lepton some poor physicist and left a meson his leg?
Well you've got the sterile neutrino that only reacts with gravity, not the other interactions in the standard model, then you've got the Incel neutrino which "involuntarily chooses" not to have any interactions with a model, standard or otherwise and spends most of its time slagging off the standard model on Neutrinos Going Their Own Way forums.
Yes, but that's because over this side of the pond we administrators pit them against each other thunderdome style for our own amusement, two scientists enter, one scientist leaves. The actual research is quite safe.
As a general proposition they're generally pretty affordable to maintain. They're generally pretty high on the reliability charts and speaking from first hand experience the maintenance on them is generally pretty reasonable in comparison to other makes. I've got a Honda with around 180K miles on it and I expect to get to 250K baring something odd happening.
250K... Why would you get rid of a Honda that's barely broken in?
Honda Genuine(TM) parts have always been expensive, especially as models get superseded. Any decent mechanic worth the grease under his fingernails knows to use non-genuine parts (which are often just the same parts that are sold in a box that doesn't say Honda Genuine(TM) parts).
My first car was an EK Honda Civic, I bought it at 377,000 KM and sold it with 398,000 KM on the clock. Probably past half a million KM's by now and still going strong.
Lenovo, Samsung, and Huawei have several Android tablet products each and keep updating at least one of them every year. Tablet sales are upparently strong enough that these three plus Amazon are staying in the tablet business. The reason tablet sales are falling is because most people who wanted a tablet already got one, and they're keeping them for a long time since the tablet market is not suffering from must-replace-ecery year fad.
Also tablets are of limited use. They made sense when phones had 3-4" screens, but now they've got 5-7" screens the tablet doesn't really make sense any more. I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 and well, its only use is when I'm going on a long flight and I load it up with videos. Apart from that it cant do anything that my phone or computer cant do and both of those are more convenient and in the case of the computer, more ergonomic to use. For a lot of people, tablets have become single use devices.
> We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
No, it's really easy when it comes to phone calls - Got an illegal spam call? Report and person gets a hefty fine. Can't identify caller? Move punishment to the company that provides the call. Done.
There is no reason for someone dialling YOU to be anonymous to your telcom provider.
And no, there is no reason to make exceptions for any category of calls, be it political or non-profit.
Yes... But no-one is willing to enforce any of that in the US.
Hell, they're mostly hell bent on punishing anyone in Europe because the EU is enforcing things like this with the GDPR.
The best solution is to make mass calling more expensive. Here in the UK, I rarely get spam calls or texts to my mobile because its the sender that pays. My work landline is a different story, but we've recently programmed the PABX to drop any calls without caller ID and they've practically been eliminated. If it costs more money to spam call, spammers will stop doing it.
As she was pulled over in Ontario, your reply is utterly pointless.
The reasoning behind zero tolerance for any interaction with an electronic device while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle that isn't parked is that people, being the dummies they usually are, would often NOT finish their texting when the light turns green and would begin driving again while still dinking around on their device for a few more seconds. Through an intersection.
Even when stopped at a red light, you are still operating your vehicle, and thus are to remain alert to what is going on around you in the real world.
More often than not, Texters would not even notice that the light has gone green until someone behind them has beeped at them. Then they'll act indignant because they were beeped at.
You clearly don't know anything about how autopilots work on planes. The autopilot in most airplanes will make no attempt at all to avoid obstacles. You tell it where to go and depending on how sophisticated the autopilot is, you may be able to specify the altitude and climb and descent rates. In some cases they can track satellite or ground based navigation systems. If I tell my autopilot to descend to 500 feet and point it at a mountain, my airplane will crash into that mountain.
This,
As evidenced by the Germanwings flight. Homicidal/Suicidal pilot tells plane to fly right into mountain... plane flies right into mountain. Autopilot sytems require pilots to remain aware and ready to take control at a moments notice.
The difference between a plane and a car is that in a plane, a moments notice means you likely have 20-30 seconds minimum to fix the problem, a moments notice in a car means 2-3 seconds max to avoid a gruesome crash.
Pilots aren't lazy, when autopilot is on they're still doing a lot of work. They aren't sitting there watching movies and drinking coffee. All autopilot is doing is taking the job of keeping the plane level and straight from the pilot. So I think we do need to rename Tesla's "Autopilot" into what it really is, "Mode for lazy and incompetent people".
All the people complaining about the name "Autopilot" being misleading have one thing in common: They don't own or drive Teslas.
Tesla makes it extremely clear, when you buy the car, and every time you drive it, that Autopilot doesn't fully control the car, and the driver needs to stay alert and be ready to take control at any time.
But yet, people still keep treating it as a self-driving system and switch off.
So Tesla aren't doing a good enough job there. In fact, I doubt that they're doing anything more than checking a statutorily required box. Meanwhile all of their marketing is telling people that they can put Autopilot on and switch themselves off... And guess what people are doing, we're continually told that Tesla alegedly "says Autopilot doesn't fully control the car" but in reality, they're dedicated to giving people the idea that it is.
I'm going to channel Krytens "Smug Mode" here and point out I predicted this. I said that automated cars had a good record because they'd been backed up by professional drivers and only tested in optimal conditions... and as soon as the average person gets a hold of them, we'd start seeing more and more collisions from drivers that weren't paying attention.
How do classic brick & mortar retailers deal with this . . . ?
If I march into Wallgreens and buy a bottle of vitamins, and the vitamins turn out to be a Dead Russian cocktail of ricin, polonium and nerve gas . . . is Wallgreens on the hook . . . ? Or can they say,
"We bought a large discount lot of them on the Darknet, and don't know how to contact the seller. But the seller is liable, not us".
Actually Wallgreens would be off the hook.
Firstly because they'd pass the buck to their supplier, which is 100% legal, the product was missold to Wallgreens as well and secondly, because the FDA is responsible for ensuring that food and medical products are safe for human consumption.
Amazon is not representing these products, they are simply providing a platform for them to be sold.
You seem to think that sticking the term "corporate" something means that it is right wing;
It is, the left wing equivalent is co-oprative, not corporate.
What the Nazis actually did is what leftists in general do: they tightly regulated businesses, highly taxed unearned income, controlled prices and wages, engaged in massive redistribution, massively expanded government welfare systems,
In other words, you dont know anything about what the Nazi's did.
The Nazis tied themselves to indrustrial titans like Porsche, Krupp and Henschel, they were high ranking party members who wrote polities in favour of themselves. Alfred Krupp was an SS member from 1931... Why would one of Germany's most wealthy industrialists join a socialist party?
The Nazi's didn't regulate business, they removed regulation. The Nazis wanted to regulate people's thoughts to ensure they were pure (which is why Orwell's diatribe on Nazi Fascism, Nineteet Eighty-Four had thought crime as a primary theme). Businesses could do as they please, up to and including using slave labour from the concentration camps.
Tax rates, Nazi's lowered corporate tax rates several times. That was key to the "Reinhardt Program" in 1933. Taxes were increased for all, but mostly for individuals in 1936 to pay for increased military spending, during the war, no major country had low tax rates.
As for redistribution and social programs, again never happened. The closest thing the Nazi's had to a social program was Action T4, the systematic forced euthanasia of anyone who might be a burden to the state, the sick, the elderly, the infirm, the mentally ill and handicapped.
The Nazis did eliminate foreign investment, but that is a very right wing philosophy and it fits in with their xenophobic tendencies.
You don't have a clue what the Nazi's did. You just listed a bunch of thing you didn't like and tried to call them Nazi. The way the Nazi's ran their economy makes the Republicans look like communists in comparison.
false, nazis were corporate fascists. hilarious the people that only believed what came out of Hitler's mouth compared to what he and the Nazis actually did. No, they were not socialists, if you believe their label you're as dumb as a typical american consumer.
This, if you believe that the Nazis were socialist because that is part of a translation of their name, then Kim Jong Un must be the elected leader of the Democratic Republic of (North) Korea.
Fascism itself has no enforced fiscal ideology like Communism, but most end up being capitalist because it fits in best with the other parts of Fascist ideology. I'm pretty sure that Hitler never expunged what we'd consider to be Socialist views.
Nazi Germany were definitely a corporate state, many industrialists like Porsche, Henschel and the Krupps were high ranking Nazi officials (Alfred Krupp joined the SS in 1931) and in many cases, decided policy. Hitler was happy to oblige as he desperately wanted to be considered one of them (but never really was, he was tolerated, but not treated as an equal).
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There's a big difference between artificial and fake. No one tried to FAKE an earthquake, it was simply artificial, as in man-made. Your title is horrible.
This...
/.'s editorial standards, as low as they are, are still better than most sites... but this story isn't just lazy editing, it requires wilful ignorance.
FFS, this.
Seismometers in Mexico picked up movement in the ground like they're meant to that ended up being a false positive... NOT a false earthquake or a fake earthquake, even an artificial one is a stretch (but I'll let the AC slide as its not totally inaccurate). Seismometers pick up on a wide variety of non earthquake or volcano related events such as explosives, construction or stampedes.
I don't usually bemoan
Paper bags? How did people survive before plastic bags were invented?
We used cloth, string or hessian bags, otherwise things were put into a box which was a pain in the arse to carry.
You had a head? Pure luxury! Why we were still dealing with being one-celled organisms!
Organisms? Pah! I had to coalesce celestial gasses into a star.
The biggest CAD/3D models these days are for 3D buildings - like a new factory, airport or shopping center. Those CAD files can very easily become bigger than 64GB and not fit in RAM anymore. If you need to go to the construction site with a 98GB CAD model that can be inspected, how do you do that without a laptop that has 128GB RAM? Do you take a 35,000 USD dual Xeon CAD workstation with 3 GPUs that weighs 40 to 50 lbs and carry it to the construction site in a van? That's what these new laptops are for. Opening huge 3D CAD files away from the office desk - and very likely at a construction site.
The same way we've been doing it for years. Remote desktop. This was back in the day when having 2GB on your laptop was a lot and 16GB was good for a server. So the GIS applications would be on servers with the data and onsite work would be done remotely.
Internet is a lot faster today than back then Sonny Jim.
BTW, RAM was not the problem, GIS required huge map files, so you'd need an array of 120 GB disks to hold it all. Erm... Vacate my ground coverings forthwith.
. . . the Spanish Soccer Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
" Our chief weapon is mics... mics and GPS... GPS and mics.... Our two weapons are mics and GPS...and IP Addresses ...."
And a complete inability to play football.
FFS people, its a check box that asks if you want to stop by a kebab shop... Stick a design patent on it and move on.
... per incident.
That's the damages? Seriously?
The problem is if the UK or EU tries to fine them real money, Americans will get upset and cry that the evil Europeans are trying to punish American businesses.
Then they go on about some fantasy about what would happen if they picked up sticks and left... Which wont happen, the fantasy or the companies leaving.
You're confusing different issues here.
I would disagree, yes there are two issues at play, but I'm not confusing one with the other.
There's no reason why a cashless society should be cheaper given that they start incurring transaction charges. Once cash has gone, who's to stop those charges going up? The recent change in the EU that ended separate credit card fees is even worse because this helps hide these fees. Personally I think card fees should be charged directly to the card holder rather than hiding it in the merchant's prices. This might introduce competition and an incencitve to shop around for card providers.
I couldn't agree with this more. Charges applied to merchants should be directly passed onto the customer. However banks and credit networks (Visa/MC/AMEX) explicitly do not permit it and are doing everything they can to get credit card surcharges banned by law in many countries so merchants have to hide how much cards are costing them (in the form of higher prices).
I'm not anti-credit mind you, all forms of payment have their place. If we lost cash, we'd definitely miss it. I treat credit like sugar, a little is OK but you don't want your diet being 95% sugar.
I always thought that prices that end .99 were playing a psychological trick that they appear at first glance a whole currency unit less. When it comes to pints, this is silly - who shops around for a pint? Pick a pub and order a drink. Change the scene if it's offensively expensive like £2/pint more than everywhere else around there. To be honest though, as a Londoner, I've rarely seen a pint ending .99. I think it's more expensive than Amersterdam because the cost of living is so much higher anyway.
Yes, that 99p is psychological pricing. Most people just look at the £5 and ignore the numbers after it. Even though everyone knows about it, it's still stupidly effective.
.99 at a pub, plenty of Wetherspoons I've been to have had numbers like 3.25 or 3.72 to make them slightly cheaper than the pub round the corner owned by a bloke named Dave who charges 3.50 or 4 quid a pint (personally, I'd rather give the extra 30p to Dave, owner-operated pubs are one of the best things about England).
Although it's rare to see an actual
I compared Amsterdam to London because the COL is similar for many things, the Dutch pay more tax, but have more subsidised services so I think it evens out (they pay €0.72 for a 5p bag, so swings and roundabouts).
How do prostitutes handle a cashless economy?
In civilised countries where we don't bother criminalising prositutes, they accept electronic payments like any other business.
I suspect you are confusing the US with a modern country.
What he means is "how are you going to pay a prostitute without your wife finding out sans cash"?
But seriously, the cheapest countries I've been to have been cash based. Without banks putting their sticky fingers over everything, business make more profit whilst customers get lower prices. Getting a pint in Central London is €6-10 and a prossie €3-500. In Central Amsterdam its €3-7 for a pint and some brass can be had for as little as €50.
You can usually tell if a business prefers cash because they price their products in whole numbers to reduce change, in Amsterdam it was about €5 or €5.20 for a pint, in central London, bars often priced things at £5.99.
When approaching stopped car at high velocity, do not hit car. Hopefully they can expand that feature to cover other stationary objects as well, but I can see how that might be a "2.0” kind of thing.
The logic of "do not hit parked car" is not the issue.
The issue is "is that a parked car or a leaf" and by the time computers have figured it out, they've hit it. OK if it was a leaf, shit if it was a parked car. In the rush to make self driving cars serious corners are being cut. The fact is that computers are not good at determining what objects are if given a long time to process the input data... They're even worse when they have to process it in less than a second. If an unidentified object in the road cant determine if what it's detected is a parked car or a leaf, it has two real options, stop or drive into it. If they choose stop, people will get annoyed and stop using the system, currently they're choosing to drive into it which means people are less annoyed, but sometimes killed when the system is wrong.
I've worked with image recognition from remote sensing, we're a long way off from real time object recognition. Right now if you want fast object recognition you need to limit it to specific criteria that must have quite tight tolerances and even then, false positive and negatives are right through the roof.
Yes, having no Internet access is a bad deal for Virginians, but maybe the state representative should be doing something about that instead of bitching to Amtrak.
Have you even been to West Virginia? High-speed internet service is a major technical challenge there because of the geography. It's really mountainous and sparsely-populated. You can barely even get 3G service outside the cities unless you're near an Interstate or state highway. Good places to put towers that effectively cover a large area few and far between.
On top of that, there is a complete lack of cell service, Wi-fi or even microwaves on the central-eastern side of the state because of the Green Bank Observatory. (If you don't know about this, read up on it because it's actually really interesting.)
Erm, many nations have similar or worse topographies... In fact just had a look at the Virginia topo... Its mostly flat. Just go have a look at Norway, they can get high speed internet to most of their people and the Fjords are far more of an obstacle than anything in Virginia as well as being more sparsely populated. There are places in Scotland that make Virginia look positively mild and again, they can get high speed broadband.
The problem is the US telecoms infrastructure is ruled by a few corporations who put their profit over service. Until that changes, things like this senator forcing Amtrack to hire people are the things you can expect because the telco's are beyond his reach, but Amtrack isn't.
Latency, kids lack money, and gamers hate EA anyway. It's not gonna happen, at least not with EA at the forefront. Maybe Valve can do it, but not EA.
Yes, but as long as the latest Call of Repetition: Modern Snorefare, Battlefied: Pay to Win and Washed Up Sportsman 18 keeps selling, they'll stay in business.
EA hasn't been in the business of making quality games for well over a decade. The people who pay £60 a year for FIFA wont care about latency... Hell I've played FIFA 17 on a PS4, it was already laggy as hell and loaded so slowly they had to have a minigame to prevent the players from finding something else to do. The shift to streaming wont be that hard for these games.
Gamers forgot EA a long time ago.
which they said unfairly pushed consumers to use Google's Shopping platform.
They have what now? As an European, this is the first time I am hearing about "google's shopping platform", ever
I'm guessing you run Adblock.
Google's "Shopping Platform" is when you google a product, Frite sauce for example, it brings up a bunch of vendors in a bar before the search result that sell frite sauce or something similar to it (or sometimes something completely unrelated, the algorithm isn't perfect).
Adblock effectively gets rid of it.
Alternatively people aren't saying Lyft/Uber/etc are short term gigs, but instead viewed like a job. Since it's self-reported whether it's short term or not./p.
Uber are fast running out of suckers to drive for them as people are realising that you wont earn enough from Uber to cover the costs of running a Citroen C1, let alone a Focus sized car. Without a steady supply of new suckers to replace the old ones who've figured this out, customers are also leaving Uber. This is the same for most "gig" economies. Very few places can support them, something like Deliveroo might work in large cities like London where population density makes it workable or university towns where there is a steady supply of students looking for extra cash but will never work in a for a town of 30,000 a mere 50 miles from London.
One has to ask: was this neutrino born sterile, or was it "fixed" because it lepton some poor physicist and left a meson his leg?
Well you've got the sterile neutrino that only reacts with gravity, not the other interactions in the standard model, then you've got the Incel neutrino which "involuntarily chooses" not to have any interactions with a model, standard or otherwise and spends most of its time slagging off the standard model on Neutrinos Going Their Own Way forums.
"Many boffins died to bring us this information."
Yes, but that's because over this side of the pond we administrators pit them against each other thunderdome style for our own amusement, two scientists enter, one scientist leaves. The actual research is quite safe.
Are Honda's expensive to maintain?
As a general proposition they're generally pretty affordable to maintain. They're generally pretty high on the reliability charts and speaking from first hand experience the maintenance on them is generally pretty reasonable in comparison to other makes. I've got a Honda with around 180K miles on it and I expect to get to 250K baring something odd happening.
250K... Why would you get rid of a Honda that's barely broken in?
Honda Genuine(TM) parts have always been expensive, especially as models get superseded. Any decent mechanic worth the grease under his fingernails knows to use non-genuine parts (which are often just the same parts that are sold in a box that doesn't say Honda Genuine(TM) parts).
My first car was an EK Honda Civic, I bought it at 377,000 KM and sold it with 398,000 KM on the clock. Probably past half a million KM's by now and still going strong.
Lenovo, Samsung, and Huawei have several Android tablet products each and keep updating at least one of them every year. Tablet sales are upparently strong enough that these three plus Amazon are staying in the tablet business. The reason tablet sales are falling is because most people who wanted a tablet already got one, and they're keeping them for a long time since the tablet market is not suffering from must-replace-ecery year fad.
Also tablets are of limited use. They made sense when phones had 3-4" screens, but now they've got 5-7" screens the tablet doesn't really make sense any more. I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 and well, its only use is when I'm going on a long flight and I load it up with videos. Apart from that it cant do anything that my phone or computer cant do and both of those are more convenient and in the case of the computer, more ergonomic to use. For a lot of people, tablets have become single use devices.
> We DO have laws against these sorts of spam calls in the US. We also have laws against people sending email spam too. Actually managing to enforce these laws is a different matter entirely.
No, it's really easy when it comes to phone calls - Got an illegal spam call? Report and person gets a hefty fine. Can't identify caller? Move punishment to the company that provides the call. Done.
There is no reason for someone dialling YOU to be anonymous to your telcom provider.
And no, there is no reason to make exceptions for any category of calls, be it political or non-profit.
Yes... But no-one is willing to enforce any of that in the US.
Hell, they're mostly hell bent on punishing anyone in Europe because the EU is enforcing things like this with the GDPR.
The best solution is to make mass calling more expensive. Here in the UK, I rarely get spam calls or texts to my mobile because its the sender that pays. My work landline is a different story, but we've recently programmed the PABX to drop any calls without caller ID and they've practically been eliminated. If it costs more money to spam call, spammers will stop doing it.
As she was pulled over in Ontario, your reply is utterly pointless.
The reasoning behind zero tolerance for any interaction with an electronic device while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle that isn't parked is that people, being the dummies they usually are, would often NOT finish their texting when the light turns green and would begin driving again while still dinking around on their device for a few more seconds. Through an intersection.
Even when stopped at a red light, you are still operating your vehicle, and thus are to remain alert to what is going on around you in the real world.
More often than not, Texters would not even notice that the light has gone green until someone behind them has beeped at them. Then they'll act indignant because they were beeped at.
You clearly don't know anything about how autopilots work on planes. The autopilot in most airplanes will make no attempt at all to avoid obstacles. You tell it where to go and depending on how sophisticated the autopilot is, you may be able to specify the altitude and climb and descent rates. In some cases they can track satellite or ground based navigation systems. If I tell my autopilot to descend to 500 feet and point it at a mountain, my airplane will crash into that mountain.
This, As evidenced by the Germanwings flight. Homicidal/Suicidal pilot tells plane to fly right into mountain... plane flies right into mountain. Autopilot sytems require pilots to remain aware and ready to take control at a moments notice.
The difference between a plane and a car is that in a plane, a moments notice means you likely have 20-30 seconds minimum to fix the problem, a moments notice in a car means 2-3 seconds max to avoid a gruesome crash.
Pilots aren't lazy, when autopilot is on they're still doing a lot of work. They aren't sitting there watching movies and drinking coffee. All autopilot is doing is taking the job of keeping the plane level and straight from the pilot. So I think we do need to rename Tesla's "Autopilot" into what it really is, "Mode for lazy and incompetent people".
All the people complaining about the name "Autopilot" being misleading have one thing in common: They don't own or drive Teslas.
Tesla makes it extremely clear, when you buy the car, and every time you drive it, that Autopilot doesn't fully control the car, and the driver needs to stay alert and be ready to take control at any time.
But yet, people still keep treating it as a self-driving system and switch off.
So Tesla aren't doing a good enough job there. In fact, I doubt that they're doing anything more than checking a statutorily required box. Meanwhile all of their marketing is telling people that they can put Autopilot on and switch themselves off... And guess what people are doing, we're continually told that Tesla alegedly "says Autopilot doesn't fully control the car" but in reality, they're dedicated to giving people the idea that it is.
I'm going to channel Krytens "Smug Mode" here and point out I predicted this. I said that automated cars had a good record because they'd been backed up by professional drivers and only tested in optimal conditions... and as soon as the average person gets a hold of them, we'd start seeing more and more collisions from drivers that weren't paying attention.
How do classic brick & mortar retailers deal with this . . . ?
If I march into Wallgreens and buy a bottle of vitamins, and the vitamins turn out to be a Dead Russian cocktail of ricin, polonium and nerve gas . . . is Wallgreens on the hook . . . ? Or can they say,
"We bought a large discount lot of them on the Darknet, and don't know how to contact the seller. But the seller is liable, not us".
Actually Wallgreens would be off the hook.
Firstly because they'd pass the buck to their supplier, which is 100% legal, the product was missold to Wallgreens as well and secondly, because the FDA is responsible for ensuring that food and medical products are safe for human consumption.
Amazon is not representing these products, they are simply providing a platform for them to be sold.
You seem to think that sticking the term "corporate" something means that it is right wing;
It is, the left wing equivalent is co-oprative, not corporate.
What the Nazis actually did is what leftists in general do: they tightly regulated businesses, highly taxed unearned income, controlled prices and wages, engaged in massive redistribution, massively expanded government welfare systems,
In other words, you dont know anything about what the Nazi's did.
The Nazis tied themselves to indrustrial titans like Porsche, Krupp and Henschel, they were high ranking party members who wrote polities in favour of themselves. Alfred Krupp was an SS member from 1931... Why would one of Germany's most wealthy industrialists join a socialist party?
The Nazi's didn't regulate business, they removed regulation. The Nazis wanted to regulate people's thoughts to ensure they were pure (which is why Orwell's diatribe on Nazi Fascism, Nineteet Eighty-Four had thought crime as a primary theme). Businesses could do as they please, up to and including using slave labour from the concentration camps.
Tax rates, Nazi's lowered corporate tax rates several times. That was key to the "Reinhardt Program" in 1933. Taxes were increased for all, but mostly for individuals in 1936 to pay for increased military spending, during the war, no major country had low tax rates.
As for redistribution and social programs, again never happened. The closest thing the Nazi's had to a social program was Action T4, the systematic forced euthanasia of anyone who might be a burden to the state, the sick, the elderly, the infirm, the mentally ill and handicapped.
The Nazis did eliminate foreign investment, but that is a very right wing philosophy and it fits in with their xenophobic tendencies.
You don't have a clue what the Nazi's did. You just listed a bunch of thing you didn't like and tried to call them Nazi. The way the Nazi's ran their economy makes the Republicans look like communists in comparison.
false, nazis were corporate fascists. hilarious the people that only believed what came out of Hitler's mouth compared to what he and the Nazis actually did. No, they were not socialists, if you believe their label you're as dumb as a typical american consumer.
This, if you believe that the Nazis were socialist because that is part of a translation of their name, then Kim Jong Un must be the elected leader of the Democratic Republic of (North) Korea.
Fascism itself has no enforced fiscal ideology like Communism, but most end up being capitalist because it fits in best with the other parts of Fascist ideology. I'm pretty sure that Hitler never expunged what we'd consider to be Socialist views.
Nazi Germany were definitely a corporate state, many industrialists like Porsche, Henschel and the Krupps were high ranking Nazi officials (Alfred Krupp joined the SS in 1931) and in many cases, decided policy. Hitler was happy to oblige as he desperately wanted to be considered one of them (but never really was, he was tolerated, but not treated as an equal).