Eh, a single malicious vehicle can block "dumb" intersections too if it just stops right there in the middle!
Actually that's the worst place to put it to block an intersection... you'll just change it from a junction into a roundabout. If you want to block an intersection, park it in the path of traffic.
However a quick glance of the summary says that the vehicle does not need to be in the intersection... or even a vehicle at all. Just a radio sending a control signal... and not even a malformed one, just spamming a legit signal.
I'm going to get modded down to oblivion, but I'm going to say something good about Uber. I don't use it much in the US, but used to live in Manila, Philippines and travel there about once per year. Having Uber there has been a godsend for me. The taxis there are often nasty and in poor repair, the drivers see an American and half the time start in on how their meter is broken, and, in general, they are a pain in the ass to hail unless you are at a mall and willing to stand in a long line.
I'm calling bollocks about living in Manila. Anyone who has lived in the Phils... or even holidayed there for any length of time knows that you never use the taxi meter... You don't ask about the meter, don't even think about it. Before you get in the taxi you tell the taxi driver where to go and what you will pay, I.E. "NAIA 600 peso, Salamat".
I've actually lived in the Philippines, you'll never get away from the fact you're white... but you can act like an ex-pat rather than a tourist.
I'd never use Uber but that goes double for South East Asia. You're going to get the worst of the worst. Come to think of it, I've seen your post before as I'm pretty sure I've pointed out the same thing before.
Just about everywhere has an app that does the same thing as Uber now, but instead of getting some dodgy person in a beat up Citroen on a fake Romanian license, you get a licensed driver in a registered taxi. In the UK I use Minicabit, in South America I use Easy Taxi. Uber is effectively dead now.
I wouldn't mind some lumen limits. I've been blinded too many times myself.
Brightness isn't the problem. It's vehicle height and headlight adjustment (as well as lazy people driving with their high beams on). Too many vehicles are being made stupidly high in the SUV craze but don't have their headlights adjusted downwards to prevent blinding drivers in normal sized cars. Manufacturers don't do this because it would make their vehicles unsafe to drive at night and lets face it, SUV drivers are terrible at the best of time.
Bose don't sound bad, but Beats do. Even the top of the line Beats can only be described as utter garbage suitable for only techno, rap, drum and bass, and any other music genre where it is preferential to drown out the sound with duff duff sounds.
Bose at least has best in class noise reduction. They have a purpose along side some nicer sounding headphones. I greatly prefer my Bose headphones to my Sennheiser Hd800s when in a noisy environment, just as an example.
Bose for sound quality is middle of the road. Same with Sennheiser. With Bose and Senn you generally get good low end headphones but the quality plataus at the more expensive ones. A £300 set of Senn headphones isn't usually much better than a £150 set.
However a £200 pair of Beats is noticeably worse than a £50 pair of Senns. Most of the money you pay for Beats is for the branding, these Apple headphones will be the same, in fact probably just rebranded Beats considering Apple already own them.
True high quality headphones will be from companies like Beyerdynamic or Grado Labs that produce professional equipment almost exclusively. You'll never find a pair of Beats in a recording studio unless they're worn by some tone deaf rapper/electronica play button presser. You'd be hard pressed to find a pair of Sennheiser HD800's.
I have a hard time understanding some EU initiatives. For example, encouraging immigration into EU from the 3rd world countries while nothing is organized in place. So that people have to sleep in parks, walk over the mountain passes without proper equipment, etc.
The EU isn't inviting in people from 3rd world countries, it's simply the easiest place to be smuggled into due to a large land border and the Mediterranean. Most of the refugees are legit, coming from war torn countries (in no small part to US and EU actions in the region). The EU is trying to organise things but they're facing opposition from ultra-nationalist elements within the EU.
Its similar to the US/Mexico border but about 500 times larger.
Or dumbing down the DJI quad-copters. The range of the DJI Spark in the US (FCC) is 2000 meters. In the EU (EC) it is 500 meters https://www.dji.com/products/c... . In reality it is even less, at about 200 meters the warnings began to appear on the screen that the video signal is too weak.
This is because in the EU you're not permitted to lie in advertising. DJI were caught doing this (by the FCC first) about the range of their drones but the FCC didn't prosecute them. The EC did, DJI decided to be dicks about it and put in the warnings, IIRC they're easy to bypass.
Why don't they all (U.S. included) just fix their existing tax laws so that these companies can't use loopholes and accounting tricks to launder their profits through countries like Ireland that give them preferential tax treatment?
That is what the EU is trying to do. The problem is they need to differentiate between the companies that are using licensing to arrange a Dutch/Irish sandwich and the companies who are genuinely spending money on licensing and fees to overseas companies in order to simply operate. The only fair way to do this is to identify the abusers of the system and punish them, starting with the biggest, most prolific abusers so they can be held up as warnings.
It will be interesting if some of these services try just dropping their presence in the countries in question. Close any offices, shut down any data centers, not take adds from or sell services to any operation in the country in question.
Sure it might hurt their bottom line a tad. But it would cause severe pain to the countries' own businesses.
But they'll never do that because:
1. They're making too much money.
2. They're making too much money.
3. They're making too much money.
4. They rely on legal protections to keep making that money.
5. They will give the market to their competition.
The EU is worth more than the US, I've got to love that American fantasy that companies will simply up sticks and leave profitable markets because they have been asked to pay their tax. Remember that the reason Google left China wasn't that it was unprofitable, it was that the Chinese government continually changed the laws against Google. The minute that Apple or Facebook pull out of the EU, the EU revokes all of their patent, trademark and copyright protection.
Maybe the companies should have thought about that before trying to game the rules against the interests of the people who make the rules.
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
But it's nice to know that enlightened European companies never try to take advantage of loopholes in the various European countries' tax laws.
They try and then get smacked down hard... every few years someone forgets and get another smacking. It must be nice living somewhere where corporate interests are treated better than citizens.
I'm sure the EU have a nice name for this tax but it's really the "tax for not paying your tax, tax".
The human labour intensive component of making burgers is the assembly. As yet we don't have an effective automated method of putting on salad or condiments. So even stores that use conveyor grills (or robots) will still require staff to make the burgers.
However I see this specific experiment doomed to failure because Flippy sounds too much like Clippy (but the publicity will be worth it, I've never heard of CaliBurger).
Personally, this answer seems to me to mean that the law is unnecessary. I long ago learned to pay attention to advertising qualifiers such as "up to" and "as much as", etc..
Actually that's exactly why its needed. Most people dont pay attention to advertising qualifiers. "Up to" is designed to deceive the reader, more so that "up to" will be in small print and 24 MB will be in massive print.
Fibre and cable broadband are capable of delivering their max line speed (I.E. if it's advertised at 50 Mb/s you can achieve that on the local loop). Most broadband in Australia is ADSL, with ADSL connection speed varies based on your distance from the exchange and line quality so an "up to" of a theoretical maximum is not indicative of service quality.
I'm going to stop you there. It appears you have no idea of what is happening over here.
The EU isn't going to fall in a heap. That was the dream propaganda of the Leave campaign. Brexit didn't start a domino effect, in fact it's quite the opposite. Watching how badly Brexit has unfolded it's made them more committed. The far-right hasn't been anywhere near successful in any of the elections, hell all they've done is manage to create a bit of a mess in Italy... which was a mess to begin with. Front National in France got 2 seats and whilst AfD has already fractured with their election leader Frauke Petry leaving the party on day 1. Even with the mess in Italy, none of them are even considering leaving the EU, their demands are that refugees are distributed throughout the EU and that an alternative to the Euro should be "looked at".
I live in the UK, Brexit has been an absolute disaster and our leaders seem to be walking around with their heads so far up their own arses its not funny any more. They're on another fucking planet as they're continually going on about a soft Irish border, remaining in the customs union and free market when the EU has flat out said none of those are going to happen. If you're out, you're out. And our negotiators are a special kind of incompetent, Davis and Boris are blithering idiots who spent 6 months claiming we wont be paying a divorce bill up until the point where Theresa May came in and agreed to pay the amount asked for by the EU. Everything in the UK is now more expensive and wages haven't grown, the outlook isn't better as food prices are set to rise whilst wages are set to decline (both in actual £'s and vs inflation)
The EU collapsing is a fantasy of some far-right delusionals and has zero prospect of happening in reality.
I would assume that Australia already has laws against false advertising. So, this would be redundant. I do not see how this is any worse than much other false advertising.
Yes, but they're currently getting around that by advertising the maximum theoretical speed which technically isn't a lie, I.E. up to "24 Mb" for ADSL 2. What this bill will do is force them to advertise the average speed of customers which would be closer to 7 Mbit/s.
It should be noted that the bill was tabled by Andrew Wilkie, an independent and long time parliamentarian who actually represents average people. One of the few members of the Australian parliament who deserves the title "the Honourable".
OK I'm curious enough to ask, but too lazy to care if Google doesn't give me an immediate answer (seriously, I googled "notch" and most of the results were clickbait or about Markus Persson).
So WTF is a notch?
This was in response to VW faking their exhaust emissions. These cities were wondering where all the pollution was coming from, since all the cars tested clean. Now they know that they all fail emission standards. The only way to solve the problem is ban the cars. The owners need to sue VW.
Although that's a serious issue, this is more in response to increasing pollution in urban centres in Germany. A lot of this pollution comes from older (pre-Euro5) automobiles. Euro5 was introduced in 2011, so they're targetting cars older than 7 years. The cheating VW cars could meet Euro5 but not Euro6 so even then, this isn't even going to affect them until 2020 when it changes to all pre-Euro6 vehicles.
VW really got off with a slap on the wrist in Germany for Dieselgate.
There's nothing stopping you from cycling in the snow. Get some decent tires a good jacket and go for it. According to you you'll have an entire lane to yourself.
There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.
Public transport is designed by the city to be a sustainable solution for a city. By extension taxi regulations are for the same purpose. If you use a service that you find is 'better' but is not beholden to some sort of overall city planning then you are likely contributing to something that is a bigger problem for someone in your city. Previous generations understood this and were willing to play along for the sake of everyone. Apparently millenials just want it cheap and clean and easy and don't care about the problems, so history is doomed to repeat itself.
True... but that isn't Uber's problem.
The problem is Uber drivers have no idea what they're doing. They're relying entirely on GPS which direct them down the fastest logical route without taking into account the traffic. Because they lack local knowledge and are reliant on their GPS for everything they end up congesting routes.
I try never to use Uber as they're a scummy company that will be first against the wall when the revolution comes... but the boss was paying so I didn't get a say. So driver turns up, barely speaks English and proceeds to get straight onto the M3 (even after we both told him to take the A30) and got stuck in traffic because the GPS told him to (ignoring the two blokes with local knowledge). He also didn't appreciate it when I told my boss the train would have been faster, even with two changes.
Wasn't much cheaper than a Minicab, worse experience.
I'm guessing that's fast enough for one person on the entire flight to stream Netflix. As soon as a second passenger tries it, you're both competing for the same limited bandwidth.
Bandwidth isn't the issue with satellite... its latency.
As long as netflix is using UTP for streaming (IIRC, it does) several people should be able to pull down a standard def stream... A full A380 might have some issues though. 25 Mbps is easily achievable with satellite... return pings of less than 400ms not so much.
but what about towing a two-axle mobile stable with two horses in it, steep uphill?
Meh, even Tesla's current induction motor fleet does that sort of stuff just fine. Watch Björn Nýland's videos, he tows huge things through mountains all the time.
I dislike Tesla's as much as the next car enthusiast (and the fact they're pretty much the motoring equivalent of the Cult of Apple).
However the reason the Teslas cant tow very much is because the chassis isn't designed for towing. All the torque in the world cant help you if the chassis snaps in half. The high weight of the car doesn't help (which coincidentally will still prevent it from posting a decent time at the Nurburgring, handling is said to be wallowy at best).
I've got an 11 year old router still plugging away just fine.
I've still got a HTC Dream. Still works, can still make phone calls, use data... so on so forth. Sure its slow compared to modern phones and battery life is crap, but it still works. I keep it more for nostalgia though.
People like us who buy things that last, take care of them so they do last and generally shop for value for money rather than "Ooooh! shiny" just have to accept that we're not Apple customers.
Meanwhile, Apple customers need to realise they're Apple bitches and the iPimp has ordered you to upgrade.
I mean, if you are on welfare and you only have shitty options for jobs I really can't blame people for staying on welfare.
It's my personal impression, as someone in the Get-Off-My-Lawn age, that there is less stigma about being unemployed these day, as way back when.
When I was growing up, if someone in my town was unemployed, it was a scandal. But now, after the Dot.Com bust, and the Sub-Prime recession, being unemployed is more of a "Hey, shit happens!" bagatelle.
During the Sub-Prime recession I saw a spot on CNN reporting that more middle-class folks were applying for Food Stamps . . . something that they would have been embarrassed to do earlier. But folks now figure, "Hey, the government is picking up the tab, and I am entitled to it!"
I'm not quite in the Get-Orf-My-Land age but back when I was a lad if you were a long term unemployed, it usually meant turning to petty crime. I'm pretty sure it still does.
Middle class and corporate welfare is costing the US (as well as the UK and Australia) many more times that of unemployment, stud and disability benefits put together.
I know 1984 was about the extreme left, but these days the Newspeak seems to be coming from the other side (saving the internet, fake news, alternative facts, clean coal,... the list grows every day).
Curious, I always thought it was a parable of the resurrection of ultra right-wing Nazism..
It wasn't about the left or the right it was about extreme authoritarianism.
Not quite.
1984 was a diatribe against fascism (extreme right wing authoritarianism). Hence he used references to Nazis (IngSoc being English Socialism, being neither English nor Socialist was a reference to National Socialism which wasn't Socialist in the slightest, same as using a Jewish name and depiction for the 2 minutes hate).
Animal Farm was Orwell's diatribe against Communism (extreme left wing authoritarianism). Hence he used references to Soviet Russia (Trotsky pigs, Leon Trotsky was an early Bolshevik who was ousted by Stalin after Lenin's death).
Orwell was a social democrat and supported a freer, more open society. He was equally opposed to fascism and communism.
Roger Stone, Trumpy advisor, already warned that getting rid of The Donald would result in Civil War.
I'm happy to call his bluff and take the chance.
Yep. Most of them are too lazy to go to war over Donald Trump. Hardline Conservatives send other people's children off to war, they don't go to war themselves. On the off chance they can organise any kind of protest (would probably be a sit in, I cant see any of them marching for long) I give it about 23 minutes before they start arguing amongst themselves badly enough that they've forgotten why their civil war-ing in the first place.
Car washes put more physical stress on the sensors than rain and road grime. I mean, surely you can't read this and think, "Oh, so these cars' sensors fall off in the rain." The issue is the indiscriminate srubbing of automated car washes.
And like some others have pointed out, it's an easy issue. Don't take your car to a car wash. They're the very definition of a first world market.
This is just another example of these cars not being ready for prime time. If the sensors are that fragile, they risk becoming dislodged in relatively calm Berkshire. Weather in the UK can already damage parking sensors but cars can do without those.
I've said it for a while, autonomous cars look good because they've only ever been tested in sunny California... they need to be able to work on the back roads of Cornwall and suburban streets of London before they're ready for prime time and people already complain about the narrow lanes of Cornwall setting off AEB systems because they cant tell the difference between a car and an overhanging leaf.
How cute. Uber's only attractive point was being cheaper than regulated taxi services. Their next most attractive point was an irrational hatred of taxi services because of high prices.
Uber only achieved lower prices because they ignored the regulations of the taxi industry. Seeing as you clearly dont know much about South East Asia let me hit you with the clue by four.
The market is pretty much unregulated as it is. They have to pay protection money to the police and city hall... then that's it. Taxi's also have turf wars, so Uber drivers will be dragged out of their cars and beaten for picking up in another gangs territory (this is the reason we had to regulate taxis in western nations). Uber is doomed to fail here because they have no idea what is actually going on... which is par for the course as far as Uber is concerned.
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Eh, a single malicious vehicle can block "dumb" intersections too if it just stops right there in the middle!
Actually that's the worst place to put it to block an intersection... you'll just change it from a junction into a roundabout. If you want to block an intersection, park it in the path of traffic.
However a quick glance of the summary says that the vehicle does not need to be in the intersection... or even a vehicle at all. Just a radio sending a control signal... and not even a malformed one, just spamming a legit signal.
I'm going to get modded down to oblivion, but I'm going to say something good about Uber. I don't use it much in the US, but used to live in Manila, Philippines and travel there about once per year. Having Uber there has been a godsend for me. The taxis there are often nasty and in poor repair, the drivers see an American and half the time start in on how their meter is broken, and, in general, they are a pain in the ass to hail unless you are at a mall and willing to stand in a long line.
I'm calling bollocks about living in Manila. Anyone who has lived in the Phils... or even holidayed there for any length of time knows that you never use the taxi meter... You don't ask about the meter, don't even think about it. Before you get in the taxi you tell the taxi driver where to go and what you will pay, I.E. "NAIA 600 peso, Salamat".
I've actually lived in the Philippines, you'll never get away from the fact you're white... but you can act like an ex-pat rather than a tourist.
I'd never use Uber but that goes double for South East Asia. You're going to get the worst of the worst. Come to think of it, I've seen your post before as I'm pretty sure I've pointed out the same thing before.
Just about everywhere has an app that does the same thing as Uber now, but instead of getting some dodgy person in a beat up Citroen on a fake Romanian license, you get a licensed driver in a registered taxi. In the UK I use Minicabit, in South America I use Easy Taxi. Uber is effectively dead now.
I wouldn't mind some lumen limits. I've been blinded too many times myself.
Brightness isn't the problem. It's vehicle height and headlight adjustment (as well as lazy people driving with their high beams on). Too many vehicles are being made stupidly high in the SUV craze but don't have their headlights adjusted downwards to prevent blinding drivers in normal sized cars. Manufacturers don't do this because it would make their vehicles unsafe to drive at night and lets face it, SUV drivers are terrible at the best of time.
Bose don't sound bad, but Beats do. Even the top of the line Beats can only be described as utter garbage suitable for only techno, rap, drum and bass, and any other music genre where it is preferential to drown out the sound with duff duff sounds.
Bose at least has best in class noise reduction. They have a purpose along side some nicer sounding headphones. I greatly prefer my Bose headphones to my Sennheiser Hd800s when in a noisy environment, just as an example.
Bose for sound quality is middle of the road. Same with Sennheiser. With Bose and Senn you generally get good low end headphones but the quality plataus at the more expensive ones. A £300 set of Senn headphones isn't usually much better than a £150 set.
However a £200 pair of Beats is noticeably worse than a £50 pair of Senns. Most of the money you pay for Beats is for the branding, these Apple headphones will be the same, in fact probably just rebranded Beats considering Apple already own them.
True high quality headphones will be from companies like Beyerdynamic or Grado Labs that produce professional equipment almost exclusively. You'll never find a pair of Beats in a recording studio unless they're worn by some tone deaf rapper/electronica play button presser. You'd be hard pressed to find a pair of Sennheiser HD800's.
I have a hard time understanding some EU initiatives. For example, encouraging immigration into EU from the 3rd world countries while nothing is organized in place. So that people have to sleep in parks, walk over the mountain passes without proper equipment, etc.
The EU isn't inviting in people from 3rd world countries, it's simply the easiest place to be smuggled into due to a large land border and the Mediterranean. Most of the refugees are legit, coming from war torn countries (in no small part to US and EU actions in the region). The EU is trying to organise things but they're facing opposition from ultra-nationalist elements within the EU.
Its similar to the US/Mexico border but about 500 times larger.
Or dumbing down the DJI quad-copters. The range of the DJI Spark in the US (FCC) is 2000 meters. In the EU (EC) it is 500 meters https://www.dji.com/products/c... . In reality it is even less, at about 200 meters the warnings began to appear on the screen that the video signal is too weak.
This is because in the EU you're not permitted to lie in advertising. DJI were caught doing this (by the FCC first) about the range of their drones but the FCC didn't prosecute them. The EC did, DJI decided to be dicks about it and put in the warnings, IIRC they're easy to bypass.
Why don't they all (U.S. included) just fix their existing tax laws so that these companies can't use loopholes and accounting tricks to launder their profits through countries like Ireland that give them preferential tax treatment?
That is what the EU is trying to do. The problem is they need to differentiate between the companies that are using licensing to arrange a Dutch/Irish sandwich and the companies who are genuinely spending money on licensing and fees to overseas companies in order to simply operate. The only fair way to do this is to identify the abusers of the system and punish them, starting with the biggest, most prolific abusers so they can be held up as warnings.
It will be interesting if some of these services try just dropping their presence in the countries in question. Close any offices, shut down any data centers, not take adds from or sell services to any operation in the country in question.
Sure it might hurt their bottom line a tad. But it would cause severe pain to the countries' own businesses.
But they'll never do that because:
1. They're making too much money.
2. They're making too much money.
3. They're making too much money.
4. They rely on legal protections to keep making that money.
5. They will give the market to their competition.
The EU is worth more than the US, I've got to love that American fantasy that companies will simply up sticks and leave profitable markets because they have been asked to pay their tax. Remember that the reason Google left China wasn't that it was unprofitable, it was that the Chinese government continually changed the laws against Google. The minute that Apple or Facebook pull out of the EU, the EU revokes all of their patent, trademark and copyright protection.
Maybe the companies should have thought about that before trying to game the rules against the interests of the people who make the rules.
There's an old saying - "it takes two to tango".
But it's nice to know that enlightened European companies never try to take advantage of loopholes in the various European countries' tax laws.
They try and then get smacked down hard... every few years someone forgets and get another smacking. It must be nice living somewhere where corporate interests are treated better than citizens.
I'm sure the EU have a nice name for this tax but it's really the "tax for not paying your tax, tax".
The human labour intensive component of making burgers is the assembly. As yet we don't have an effective automated method of putting on salad or condiments. So even stores that use conveyor grills (or robots) will still require staff to make the burgers.
However I see this specific experiment doomed to failure because Flippy sounds too much like Clippy (but the publicity will be worth it, I've never heard of CaliBurger).
Personally, this answer seems to me to mean that the law is unnecessary. I long ago learned to pay attention to advertising qualifiers such as "up to" and "as much as", etc..
Actually that's exactly why its needed. Most people dont pay attention to advertising qualifiers. "Up to" is designed to deceive the reader, more so that "up to" will be in small print and 24 MB will be in massive print. Fibre and cable broadband are capable of delivering their max line speed (I.E. if it's advertised at 50 Mb/s you can achieve that on the local loop). Most broadband in Australia is ADSL, with ADSL connection speed varies based on your distance from the exchange and line quality so an "up to" of a theoretical maximum is not indicative of service quality.
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OK, much ado over nothing. I'm looking at the Nokia 8 (Android One) for my next phone when the ol' Nexus 5x gives up the ghost so I'm not affected.
I now live in Canada,
I'm going to stop you there. It appears you have no idea of what is happening over here.
The EU isn't going to fall in a heap. That was the dream propaganda of the Leave campaign. Brexit didn't start a domino effect, in fact it's quite the opposite. Watching how badly Brexit has unfolded it's made them more committed. The far-right hasn't been anywhere near successful in any of the elections, hell all they've done is manage to create a bit of a mess in Italy... which was a mess to begin with. Front National in France got 2 seats and whilst AfD has already fractured with their election leader Frauke Petry leaving the party on day 1. Even with the mess in Italy, none of them are even considering leaving the EU, their demands are that refugees are distributed throughout the EU and that an alternative to the Euro should be "looked at".
I live in the UK, Brexit has been an absolute disaster and our leaders seem to be walking around with their heads so far up their own arses its not funny any more. They're on another fucking planet as they're continually going on about a soft Irish border, remaining in the customs union and free market when the EU has flat out said none of those are going to happen. If you're out, you're out. And our negotiators are a special kind of incompetent, Davis and Boris are blithering idiots who spent 6 months claiming we wont be paying a divorce bill up until the point where Theresa May came in and agreed to pay the amount asked for by the EU. Everything in the UK is now more expensive and wages haven't grown, the outlook isn't better as food prices are set to rise whilst wages are set to decline (both in actual £'s and vs inflation)
The EU collapsing is a fantasy of some far-right delusionals and has zero prospect of happening in reality.
I would assume that Australia already has laws against false advertising. So, this would be redundant. I do not see how this is any worse than much other false advertising.
Yes, but they're currently getting around that by advertising the maximum theoretical speed which technically isn't a lie, I.E. up to "24 Mb" for ADSL 2. What this bill will do is force them to advertise the average speed of customers which would be closer to 7 Mbit/s.
It should be noted that the bill was tabled by Andrew Wilkie, an independent and long time parliamentarian who actually represents average people. One of the few members of the Australian parliament who deserves the title "the Honourable".
OK I'm curious enough to ask, but too lazy to care if Google doesn't give me an immediate answer (seriously, I googled "notch" and most of the results were clickbait or about Markus Persson). So WTF is a notch?
This was in response to VW faking their exhaust emissions. These cities were wondering where all the pollution was coming from, since all the cars tested clean. Now they know that they all fail emission standards. The only way to solve the problem is ban the cars. The owners need to sue VW.
Although that's a serious issue, this is more in response to increasing pollution in urban centres in Germany. A lot of this pollution comes from older (pre-Euro5) automobiles. Euro5 was introduced in 2011, so they're targetting cars older than 7 years. The cheating VW cars could meet Euro5 but not Euro6 so even then, this isn't even going to affect them until 2020 when it changes to all pre-Euro6 vehicles. VW really got off with a slap on the wrist in Germany for Dieselgate.
There's nothing stopping you from cycling in the snow. Get some decent tires a good jacket and go for it. According to you you'll have an entire lane to yourself.
There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.
d. I work hard enough that I can afford a car.
Public transport is designed by the city to be a sustainable solution for a city. By extension taxi regulations are for the same purpose. If you use a service that you find is 'better' but is not beholden to some sort of overall city planning then you are likely contributing to something that is a bigger problem for someone in your city. Previous generations understood this and were willing to play along for the sake of everyone. Apparently millenials just want it cheap and clean and easy and don't care about the problems, so history is doomed to repeat itself.
True... but that isn't Uber's problem.
The problem is Uber drivers have no idea what they're doing. They're relying entirely on GPS which direct them down the fastest logical route without taking into account the traffic. Because they lack local knowledge and are reliant on their GPS for everything they end up congesting routes.
I try never to use Uber as they're a scummy company that will be first against the wall when the revolution comes... but the boss was paying so I didn't get a say. So driver turns up, barely speaks English and proceeds to get straight onto the M3 (even after we both told him to take the A30) and got stuck in traffic because the GPS told him to (ignoring the two blokes with local knowledge). He also didn't appreciate it when I told my boss the train would have been faster, even with two changes.
Wasn't much cheaper than a Minicab, worse experience.
I'm guessing that's fast enough for one person on the entire flight to stream Netflix. As soon as a second passenger tries it, you're both competing for the same limited bandwidth.
Bandwidth isn't the issue with satellite... its latency.
As long as netflix is using UTP for streaming (IIRC, it does) several people should be able to pull down a standard def stream... A full A380 might have some issues though. 25 Mbps is easily achievable with satellite... return pings of less than 400ms not so much.
Meh, even Tesla's current induction motor fleet does that sort of stuff just fine. Watch Björn Nýland's videos, he tows huge things through mountains all the time.
I dislike Tesla's as much as the next car enthusiast (and the fact they're pretty much the motoring equivalent of the Cult of Apple). However the reason the Teslas cant tow very much is because the chassis isn't designed for towing. All the torque in the world cant help you if the chassis snaps in half. The high weight of the car doesn't help (which coincidentally will still prevent it from posting a decent time at the Nurburgring, handling is said to be wallowy at best).
I've got an 11 year old router still plugging away just fine.
I've still got a HTC Dream. Still works, can still make phone calls, use data... so on so forth. Sure its slow compared to modern phones and battery life is crap, but it still works. I keep it more for nostalgia though.
People like us who buy things that last, take care of them so they do last and generally shop for value for money rather than "Ooooh! shiny" just have to accept that we're not Apple customers.
Meanwhile, Apple customers need to realise they're Apple bitches and the iPimp has ordered you to upgrade.
I mean, if you are on welfare and you only have shitty options for jobs I really can't blame people for staying on welfare.
It's my personal impression, as someone in the Get-Off-My-Lawn age, that there is less stigma about being unemployed these day, as way back when.
When I was growing up, if someone in my town was unemployed, it was a scandal. But now, after the Dot.Com bust, and the Sub-Prime recession, being unemployed is more of a "Hey, shit happens!" bagatelle.
During the Sub-Prime recession I saw a spot on CNN reporting that more middle-class folks were applying for Food Stamps . . . something that they would have been embarrassed to do earlier. But folks now figure, "Hey, the government is picking up the tab, and I am entitled to it!"
I'm not quite in the Get-Orf-My-Land age but back when I was a lad if you were a long term unemployed, it usually meant turning to petty crime. I'm pretty sure it still does.
Middle class and corporate welfare is costing the US (as well as the UK and Australia) many more times that of unemployment, stud and disability benefits put together.
I know 1984 was about the extreme left, but these days the Newspeak seems to be coming from the other side (saving the internet, fake news, alternative facts, clean coal, ... the list grows every day).
Curious, I always thought it was a parable of the resurrection of ultra right-wing Nazism..
It wasn't about the left or the right it was about extreme authoritarianism.
Not quite.
1984 was a diatribe against fascism (extreme right wing authoritarianism). Hence he used references to Nazis (IngSoc being English Socialism, being neither English nor Socialist was a reference to National Socialism which wasn't Socialist in the slightest, same as using a Jewish name and depiction for the 2 minutes hate).
Animal Farm was Orwell's diatribe against Communism (extreme left wing authoritarianism). Hence he used references to Soviet Russia (Trotsky pigs, Leon Trotsky was an early Bolshevik who was ousted by Stalin after Lenin's death).
Orwell was a social democrat and supported a freer, more open society. He was equally opposed to fascism and communism.
Roger Stone, Trumpy advisor, already warned that getting rid of The Donald would result in Civil War.
I'm happy to call his bluff and take the chance.
Yep. Most of them are too lazy to go to war over Donald Trump. Hardline Conservatives send other people's children off to war, they don't go to war themselves. On the off chance they can organise any kind of protest (would probably be a sit in, I cant see any of them marching for long) I give it about 23 minutes before they start arguing amongst themselves badly enough that they've forgotten why their civil war-ing in the first place.
Car washes put more physical stress on the sensors than rain and road grime. I mean, surely you can't read this and think, "Oh, so these cars' sensors fall off in the rain." The issue is the indiscriminate srubbing of automated car washes.
And like some others have pointed out, it's an easy issue. Don't take your car to a car wash. They're the very definition of a first world market.
This is just another example of these cars not being ready for prime time. If the sensors are that fragile, they risk becoming dislodged in relatively calm Berkshire. Weather in the UK can already damage parking sensors but cars can do without those.
I've said it for a while, autonomous cars look good because they've only ever been tested in sunny California... they need to be able to work on the back roads of Cornwall and suburban streets of London before they're ready for prime time and people already complain about the narrow lanes of Cornwall setting off AEB systems because they cant tell the difference between a car and an overhanging leaf.
Being cheap is only one of the attractive point of Uber's service.
The other is ease of use.
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How cute. Uber's only attractive point was being cheaper than regulated taxi services. Their next most attractive point was an irrational hatred of taxi services because of high prices.
Uber only achieved lower prices because they ignored the regulations of the taxi industry. Seeing as you clearly dont know much about South East Asia let me hit you with the clue by four.
The market is pretty much unregulated as it is. They have to pay protection money to the police and city hall... then that's it. Taxi's also have turf wars, so Uber drivers will be dragged out of their cars and beaten for picking up in another gangs territory (this is the reason we had to regulate taxis in western nations). Uber is doomed to fail here because they have no idea what is actually going on... which is par for the course as far as Uber is concerned.