I haven't figured out how it's bad yet, but I'm sure I will. Just give me a minute.
It means that Apple has just become another platform and it's not worth wasting a lot of resources over.
The whole "app" fad is coming crashing down as most phones are more than capable of doing most things you want in the browser. Certainly Android has had this capability for years. This means a company only has to manage 1 website instead of a myriad of apps in different stores with different programming languages.
Never mind all the Asian boat people from the 70's who came with only rags. I knew one who beat his kids for anything grade less than an A. Both kids are now successful engineers.
For an Asian kid, there are only four career options:
1. Doctor.
2. Lawyer.
3. Engineer.
4. Disgrace to the family.
So what you're saying is that you'd rather be mugged at gunpoint than having your credit card skimmed.
Yes, because:
1. I live in a country where you simply dont get mugged at gunpoint. 2. I know enough self defence that I can reliably beat most attackers unarmed. 3. Thanks to contactless, my cards are just as valuable to a mugger as cash.
Due to points 1 and 2, I don't worry about being mugged, due to point 3, after a long hiatus in the UK, mugging and pick pocketing is making a comeback. If a mugger gets my wallet, they only get whats in the wallet (I've disabled contactless on all of my cards, but a mugger doesn't know that), if a fraudulent party gets my card numbers, they can charge a hell of a lot more than what is in my wallet.
So there is no additional risk to carrying cash and a lowered risk from not sticking your card everywhere. The average person loses US$300 when their card is compromised. Card users also have to wear the cost of fraud even if their cards aren't compromised. This is done via fees.
"But I dont pay any fees", wrong again buck-knob. You pay fees, via the merchant who has to pay the bank to accept your card. These fees are passed onto you via higher prices. So by using cash, I'm doing my part to help prevent things from becoming more expensive.
Now, what will happen in 50 years, that is to be seen.
Ultimately it is not doctors who have to deal with misdiagnosis, its medical insurers, specifically liability insurance. The same will be true in 50 years, get misdiagnosed by Dr Robot MD, get payout same as if you're misdiagnosed by Dr Meatbag today.
For Fucks Sake America... Here in England and other civilised countries we can say "cock" on daytime TV. In fact probably a repeat of Top Gear on Dave with James May saying "Oh Cock" right now.
I honest didn't give a damn about all the weird stuff Uber and its CEO have been doing to various parties. All politics, embarrassments, etc. - don't care... As long as 1) the ride is cheaper, and 2) the drivers are good, that's fine.
Lets stop pretending you gave a shit about point number 2.
I've been in enough Ubers to realise that most of them drive worse than 3rd world taxi drivers. People only went with Uber because it was cheaper. If it is no longer cheaper, they will no longer have customers.
Someone travelling from a poor neighborhood to a fast food joint when the work shift starts will be asked to pay more than someone going from movie theater to starbucks, because the former might not have any other transportation and can be squeezed dry.
Not really.
This is Uber admitting they're losing money and charging people more because they think that people use Uber because of an irrational hatred of the taxi industry... erm... I mean loyalty, rather than the fact Uber was the lowest priced option.
Great, another long winded post from some baby boomer with rose tinted glasses.
Geez, and you wonder why the kids hide from everything?
Kids aren't hiding from having fun, they're hiding from you because they don't want to listen to another boring story about the "good old days" and how kids have it too easy these days. I'm old enough to remember scraping half my face off playing around with bike jumps constructed of whatever detritus we could find. I also vividly remember getting a giant fuck-off needle jag up my arse because of it.
So kids these days like video games, maybe you could try something as radical as trying to engage with your grand children instead of berating them about not living in your white picket fence fantasy that never existed in the real world.
Also, cops and robbers (as we called it in the commonwealth) has not been banned, kids still play British bulldog too, despite what the Daily Fail likes to tell you. So yeah, I'll get off your lawn now, its full of weeds and I'm afraid that your form of Miserable C*nts Syndrome is transmissible.
I thought female captains weren't allowed in the TOS (or earlier) time period? That was the whole reason Janis Lester had to swap bodies with Kirk in order to become captain.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Janice_Lester
That was well and truly thrown out of canon by ENT as the USS Columbia (Enterprises sister ship) had a female captain.
but the whole cultural/religious angle felt too forced.
Here's some diversity that might actually make for an interesting character on STar Trek: human characters that aren't all atheists/agnostics. Give me a Catholic science officer. Or maybe the weapons officer is a muslim and he goes Space Jihad on fuckers.
I'd like to think that by the 24th century, we'd be beyond things like that.
At an interview before ST:TNG launched he was asked by the interviewer about Patrick Stewart "By the 24th century, wouldn't they have found a cure for male pattern baldness". His response was"By the 24th century, no-one would care".
That's the brilliant thing about ST, its not the diversity, but the fact that they carry on as if none of it matters, living in a diverse environment is not even thought about and differences in skin colour are no big deal. ST, especially with the later series often touched the subject of spirituality but usually did so using the aliens instead of humans (the Prophets were a central plot line in DS9). I think this was a decision by the studios, writers tend to have fewer fears about offending snowflakes.
Related to this, the Mass Effect series of games had a few controversial choices, whilst gay characters got all the press, I thought it was the inclusion of how to react to one characters Christianity was the boldest thing they did.
Andreas Katsulas (RIP, died 11 years ago yesterday) spent 3 hours per shooting day in a makup chair to look like Ambassador G'Kar. Because this was expensive and time consuming, most of the aliens ended up looking quite human in most SciFi shows.
CGI hasn't changed this much, but we haven't had any Sci-Fi quite like Star Trek or Babylon 5 in many years so it hasn't been given a chance.
But Russia isn't really that interested in fighting ISIS. That's a side-effect of helping Assad. So no, Russia and Israel are not "on the same side",
Also it's pretty daft to think there are only two "sides" to a conflict. There are almost as many sides as there are interested parties in a war. Look at the amount of petty politicking happened between the Allies in WWII (not even bothering to include the USSR in that, just the western Allies).
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe.
A 31h work week is relaxed by any standards, even European ones. Not sure how that average came to be in the UK.
Most of Europe works 40h weeks, IT pros probably average at 40-50h weeks. France works 35h weeks.
What we do have in Europe is the luxury of payed vacation (about 30 days) plus an average of about 5 bank holidays per year.
Of course this varies a lot depending on the industry and EU country. The lower you are on the social ladder and the poorer the EU country, the less payed leave.
In the UK, you get 22 days of paid leave and 8 bank holidays (30 in total). many employers offer additional leave as part of the package.
The problem with UK IT is that we're constantly getting pressured to do more with less. Companies don't want to spend money to replace or upgrade equipment and opex budgets are slashed but the same C-levels will baulk if you tell them that you have to cut services because they cut the budget. In many cases, you're spending man hours to keep systems from falling apart when you know they could be upgraded or replaced to be more stable and less of a chore to manage.
Brexit is making this worse. Companies are all downgrading both revenue and profit, but not decreasing the amount of work that is being done although I'm sure that will change in the next 2 years with the layoffs that come with it.
There's a large corpus of games, animations, and so on, written in Flash. Unlike DRM and advertising, those are actually useful.
Not to mention vendors who still use it... Looking at you VMWare... who are killing off the very usable, solid, stable, fast and quite nice Vcentre thick client.
When speaking of sedans, I would actually argue they weigh less.
The trend of slimming cars down has been a recent phenomena. Cars have been getting bigger and heavier for decades as more and more features were added, this means engines had to be more powerful just to achieve the same speeds.
A MK1 Golf GTI had 108 HP, but it weighed only 870 KG. A MK6 golf has 200 HP but weighs 1500 KG. As the old wisdom from Lotus says, if you want to make a car faster, add lightness and simplify. This is why an Ariel Atom with a 2L turbo engine is faster than many supercars that sport many hundreds of horsepowers from their large engines. Lightness also helps with cornering, a lighter car requires less brakeforce and can not simply carry more speed into a corner, but emerge from the other side with most of that speed. Modern supercars have all kinds of electronic wizardry to achieve not quite the same thing.
I never understood this fascination with having stuff you can't use to its fullest extent.
It's like spending thousands of dollars on a water cooled over clocked triple GPU computer so you can check your email and play minesweeper.
I've never understood the mindset of steering-wheel attendants.
I have a powerful car. Electronically limited to 155 MPH (about 185 MPH derestricted), I'm buying an even more powerful car that is also limited to 155 MPH. I enjoy driving my current car even though I'll rarely get to 155 MPH because fun is not defined by reaching the maximum possible speed in a straight line.
Even in traffic I like having the extra power, why? because it makes it easier to get around steering-wheel attendants like you in their Priuses doing 15 MPH below the speed limit in the overtaking lane. I do enjoy doing 0-60 in less than 7 seconds, having sufficient power that when the zombie, lane blocking steering-wheel attendant i'm passing wakes up and drops their phone, they cant speed up enough to block me because I'm willing to go faster than they are. Beyond this, there are lots of places to have fun, track days, twisty B-roads, motorways at 4 in the morning, a nice cruise through picturesque countryside doesn't need to be fast to be enjoyed.
People like you don't understand passion because you don't have a passion of your own. My passion is motoring, I like everything from sporty Japanese Kei cars like a Honda S660 to Italian supercars to luxury European limousines to capable offroaders like a J70 Land Cruiser or LR Disco. My passion means I can enjoy cars, even when they're not at their limits. Few activities whilst wearing clothes are more satisfying to me than a nice bit of road on a nice day with a good car. What I don't have a passion for is Golf.
Now using your logic, because an amateur Golfist cant play like Tiger Woods, he should just give up and go home to sit in front of the television watching bloody reality-TV home renovation shows. However, having a passion of my own means that I wont say that even though I find Golf to be one of the most boring activities on the face of the planet. I mean I'm nodding off just thinking about it however if Golfing is your bag, if it's something you enjoy even if you're a bit shit at it then I say take your Golf Bats, go forth and enjoy yourself as much as you can.
TL;DR
Stop being bitter that others have a passion your don't understand. Also, take you Prius out of the overtaking lane, especially if you're not willing to do the speed limit and don't be a passhole.
I view it as "leftist" because it expanded the powers of government at the expense of the people.
The left in theory gives power to the people, while the right gives power to the aristocracy. The terms come from the French revolution.
In the US, it is more government versus the elite and corporations. But since the latter controls the former, its a moot point.
This,
It is authoritarian policies that give more power to the government and liberal (as in liberalism) polices that give more power to individuals.
Authoritarian and liberal policies can be anywhere on the left-right spectrum.
The DCMA and Copyright are definitely extreme right and extreme authoritarian as they're designed to empower corporations over everything else. The irony is that copyright was originally designed to empower individuals, it was still right leaning, but more liberal as it gave time limited monopolies to artists.
The market is overcrowded, but full of multiple copies (one per recruiter) of bogus job listings (person is already 'hired', now they need to go through motions.)
This. Indeed does a somewhat good job of aggregating jobs here in the UK but I still check some others like Jobserve. Most recruiters are too lazy to write separate job decriptions for each site so its easy to spot ones on different search engines. If LinkedIn wants to be a serious competitor, it needs to up its game in the search arena.
it's meant that all our checks and balances have collapsed
No it doesn't. Just because "people that think like me" didn't win elections does not mean ALL checks and balances are gone. They are still being eroded away slowly with bipartisan support.
Did you say we lost ALL our checks and balances after 2008 when the Democrats controlled the Congress and Executive? No? Ok then, stop the hyperbole.
Actually he got less votes than Hillary... but still got in. That indicates a problem with the system. In the Westminster system parties that dont get 50.00001% of the vote dont get their seats.
Obama won the popular vote and the EC... Unless you have irrefutable evidence of foul play, the only hyperbole is yours.
>"Cities will ban human drivers once the data confirms how dangerous they can be behind a wheel. This will spread to suburbs, and then beyond"
And those of us who ENJOY driving, especially motorcycles (which can likely never be self-driving) are royally screwed. But hey, I suppose a super-safe and boring life is so much more meaningful than a a free and enjoyable one with some risk....
That will never happen. We haven't even banned horses and they've been replaced for nearly 100 years in many countries.
Manual control of vehicles will face a massive backlash if banned because many people will perceive autonomous cars as driving slower than they do because they follow the road rules.
"Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership."
But In Europe, the average age of new car buyers is already over 50, has been climbing for years.
Citation?
Young people are still getting cars, despite the insurance market treating them as a cash cow here in the UK. Most people are leasing new cars instead of buying them.
Now let us consider a gasoline car. I'll assume an optimistic 10L/100km.
That's actually pretty bad for a modern car, most Euro and Japanese cars easily do under 7.5L/100 KM. Thats only about 35MPG, some ICE's do 60 MPG and we haven't even gotten to hybrids yet.
However the cost of having your Tesla towed because it ran out of battery 100 miles from home is about £:500. So it tends to even out. Plus you don't have to add WAT after the Tesla symbol.
Plus there's commercial vehicles, not just lorries and vans but anyone who's job requires travelling. Sorry, but ICE's are going to be with us for a while longer. In fact, the more popular EV's get, the more they are going to get taxed to make up for a shortfall in fuel tax revenue (which is used to build the roads) which will stunt their growth.
Already this last month, I went looking for a slim external hard drive case and the best one I found was... USB-C
I'm not sure how you managed to go shopping with your eyes shut...
I've just checked Amazon, Curry's, Argos and even Tesco's websites. Almost all hard drives are USB3 and very few are USB-C. In fact it's hard to find USB-C because so few computers use USB-C. I bought a new gaming boxen, 10 USB ports, none of them USB-C, a new ASUS laptop, no USB-C, a brand new Dell at work... no USB-C. Same with a Lenovo. All still using standard USB2 and 3 ports because thats what most peripherals are sold as and will be for some time.
The only storage device I have that is USB-C is a dual USB3/USB-C memory stick. I only bought that because it fits into my phone (Nexus 5X) and my computer (standard USB2 and 3). USB-C wont be taking over because USB-C is designed exclusively for mobile devices where space is at a premium.
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I haven't figured out how it's bad yet, but I'm sure I will. Just give me a minute.
It means that Apple has just become another platform and it's not worth wasting a lot of resources over.
The whole "app" fad is coming crashing down as most phones are more than capable of doing most things you want in the browser. Certainly Android has had this capability for years. This means a company only has to manage 1 website instead of a myriad of apps in different stores with different programming languages.
Never mind all the Asian boat people from the 70's who came with only rags. I knew one who beat his kids for anything grade less than an A. Both kids are now successful engineers.
For an Asian kid, there are only four career options:
1. Doctor.
2. Lawyer.
3. Engineer.
4. Disgrace to the family.
So what you're saying is that you'd rather be mugged at gunpoint than having your credit card skimmed.
Yes, because:
1. I live in a country where you simply dont get mugged at gunpoint.
2. I know enough self defence that I can reliably beat most attackers unarmed.
3. Thanks to contactless, my cards are just as valuable to a mugger as cash.
Due to points 1 and 2, I don't worry about being mugged, due to point 3, after a long hiatus in the UK, mugging and pick pocketing is making a comeback. If a mugger gets my wallet, they only get whats in the wallet (I've disabled contactless on all of my cards, but a mugger doesn't know that), if a fraudulent party gets my card numbers, they can charge a hell of a lot more than what is in my wallet.
So there is no additional risk to carrying cash and a lowered risk from not sticking your card everywhere. The average person loses US$300 when their card is compromised. Card users also have to wear the cost of fraud even if their cards aren't compromised. This is done via fees.
"But I dont pay any fees", wrong again buck-knob. You pay fees, via the merchant who has to pay the bank to accept your card. These fees are passed onto you via higher prices. So by using cash, I'm doing my part to help prevent things from becoming more expensive.
Now, what will happen in 50 years, that is to be seen.
Ultimately it is not doctors who have to deal with misdiagnosis, its medical insurers, specifically liability insurance. The same will be true in 50 years, get misdiagnosed by Dr Robot MD, get payout same as if you're misdiagnosed by Dr Meatbag today.
For Fucks Sake America... Here in England and other civilised countries we can say "cock" on daytime TV. In fact probably a repeat of Top Gear on Dave with James May saying "Oh Cock" right now.
We can also see boobs.
In this case, I believe the 3 AM Vuvuzela Orchestra in D-minor outside their bedroom window is more appropriate.
Surely A-major would be better. Politicians being older have poorer hearing in the higher frequencies.
Personally I'd prefer the 1812 Overture be played outside their homes... preferably with a full cannon fusillade of live ammo.
I honest didn't give a damn about all the weird stuff Uber and its CEO have been doing to various parties. All politics, embarrassments, etc. - don't care... As long as 1) the ride is cheaper, and 2) the drivers are good, that's fine.
Lets stop pretending you gave a shit about point number 2.
I've been in enough Ubers to realise that most of them drive worse than 3rd world taxi drivers. People only went with Uber because it was cheaper. If it is no longer cheaper, they will no longer have customers.
Someone travelling from a poor neighborhood to a fast food joint when the work shift starts will be asked to pay more than someone going from movie theater to starbucks, because the former might not have any other transportation and can be squeezed dry.
Not really.
This is Uber admitting they're losing money and charging people more because they think that people use Uber because of an irrational hatred of the taxi industry... erm... I mean loyalty, rather than the fact Uber was the lowest priced option.
Geez, and you wonder why the kids hide from everything?
Kids aren't hiding from having fun, they're hiding from you because they don't want to listen to another boring story about the "good old days" and how kids have it too easy these days. I'm old enough to remember scraping half my face off playing around with bike jumps constructed of whatever detritus we could find. I also vividly remember getting a giant fuck-off needle jag up my arse because of it.
So kids these days like video games, maybe you could try something as radical as trying to engage with your grand children instead of berating them about not living in your white picket fence fantasy that never existed in the real world.
Also, cops and robbers (as we called it in the commonwealth) has not been banned, kids still play British bulldog too, despite what the Daily Fail likes to tell you. So yeah, I'll get off your lawn now, its full of weeds and I'm afraid that your form of Miserable C*nts Syndrome is transmissible.
I thought female captains weren't allowed in the TOS (or earlier) time period? That was the whole reason Janis Lester had to swap bodies with Kirk in order to become captain. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Janice_Lester
That was well and truly thrown out of canon by ENT as the USS Columbia (Enterprises sister ship) had a female captain.
but the whole cultural/religious angle felt too forced.
Here's some diversity that might actually make for an interesting character on STar Trek: human characters that aren't all atheists/agnostics. Give me a Catholic science officer. Or maybe the weapons officer is a muslim and he goes Space Jihad on fuckers.
I'd like to think that by the 24th century, we'd be beyond things like that.
At an interview before ST:TNG launched he was asked by the interviewer about Patrick Stewart "By the 24th century, wouldn't they have found a cure for male pattern baldness". His response was"By the 24th century, no-one would care".
That's the brilliant thing about ST, its not the diversity, but the fact that they carry on as if none of it matters, living in a diverse environment is not even thought about and differences in skin colour are no big deal. ST, especially with the later series often touched the subject of spirituality but usually did so using the aliens instead of humans (the Prophets were a central plot line in DS9). I think this was a decision by the studios, writers tend to have fewer fears about offending snowflakes.
Related to this, the Mass Effect series of games had a few controversial choices, whilst gay characters got all the press, I thought it was the inclusion of how to react to one characters Christianity was the boldest thing they did.
2 words: Babylon 5.
Andreas Katsulas (RIP, died 11 years ago yesterday) spent 3 hours per shooting day in a makup chair to look like Ambassador G'Kar. Because this was expensive and time consuming, most of the aliens ended up looking quite human in most SciFi shows.
CGI hasn't changed this much, but we haven't had any Sci-Fi quite like Star Trek or Babylon 5 in many years so it hasn't been given a chance.
But Russia isn't really that interested in fighting ISIS. That's a side-effect of helping Assad. So no, Russia and Israel are not "on the same side",
Also it's pretty daft to think there are only two "sides" to a conflict. There are almost as many sides as there are interested parties in a war. Look at the amount of petty politicking happened between the Allies in WWII (not even bothering to include the USSR in that, just the western Allies).
Dragon-file - We are totally workaholics, compared to much of Europe.
A 31h work week is relaxed by any standards, even European ones. Not sure how that average came to be in the UK.
Most of Europe works 40h weeks, IT pros probably average at 40-50h weeks. France works 35h weeks.
What we do have in Europe is the luxury of payed vacation (about 30 days) plus an average of about 5 bank holidays per year.
Of course this varies a lot depending on the industry and EU country. The lower you are on the social ladder and the poorer the EU country, the less payed leave.
In the UK, you get 22 days of paid leave and 8 bank holidays (30 in total). many employers offer additional leave as part of the package.
The problem with UK IT is that we're constantly getting pressured to do more with less. Companies don't want to spend money to replace or upgrade equipment and opex budgets are slashed but the same C-levels will baulk if you tell them that you have to cut services because they cut the budget. In many cases, you're spending man hours to keep systems from falling apart when you know they could be upgraded or replaced to be more stable and less of a chore to manage.
Brexit is making this worse. Companies are all downgrading both revenue and profit, but not decreasing the amount of work that is being done although I'm sure that will change in the next 2 years with the layoffs that come with it.
There's a large corpus of games, animations, and so on, written in Flash. Unlike DRM and advertising, those are actually useful.
Not to mention vendors who still use it... Looking at you VMWare... who are killing off the very usable, solid, stable, fast and quite nice Vcentre thick client.
When speaking of sedans, I would actually argue they weigh less.
The trend of slimming cars down has been a recent phenomena. Cars have been getting bigger and heavier for decades as more and more features were added, this means engines had to be more powerful just to achieve the same speeds.
A MK1 Golf GTI had 108 HP, but it weighed only 870 KG. A MK6 golf has 200 HP but weighs 1500 KG. As the old wisdom from Lotus says, if you want to make a car faster, add lightness and simplify. This is why an Ariel Atom with a 2L turbo engine is faster than many supercars that sport many hundreds of horsepowers from their large engines. Lightness also helps with cornering, a lighter car requires less brakeforce and can not simply carry more speed into a corner, but emerge from the other side with most of that speed. Modern supercars have all kinds of electronic wizardry to achieve not quite the same thing.
I never understood this fascination with having stuff you can't use to its fullest extent.
It's like spending thousands of dollars on a water cooled over clocked triple GPU computer so you can check your email and play minesweeper.
I've never understood the mindset of steering-wheel attendants.
I have a powerful car. Electronically limited to 155 MPH (about 185 MPH derestricted), I'm buying an even more powerful car that is also limited to 155 MPH. I enjoy driving my current car even though I'll rarely get to 155 MPH because fun is not defined by reaching the maximum possible speed in a straight line.
Even in traffic I like having the extra power, why? because it makes it easier to get around steering-wheel attendants like you in their Priuses doing 15 MPH below the speed limit in the overtaking lane. I do enjoy doing 0-60 in less than 7 seconds, having sufficient power that when the zombie, lane blocking steering-wheel attendant i'm passing wakes up and drops their phone, they cant speed up enough to block me because I'm willing to go faster than they are. Beyond this, there are lots of places to have fun, track days, twisty B-roads, motorways at 4 in the morning, a nice cruise through picturesque countryside doesn't need to be fast to be enjoyed.
People like you don't understand passion because you don't have a passion of your own. My passion is motoring, I like everything from sporty Japanese Kei cars like a Honda S660 to Italian supercars to luxury European limousines to capable offroaders like a J70 Land Cruiser or LR Disco. My passion means I can enjoy cars, even when they're not at their limits. Few activities whilst wearing clothes are more satisfying to me than a nice bit of road on a nice day with a good car. What I don't have a passion for is Golf.
Now using your logic, because an amateur Golfist cant play like Tiger Woods, he should just give up and go home to sit in front of the television watching bloody reality-TV home renovation shows. However, having a passion of my own means that I wont say that even though I find Golf to be one of the most boring activities on the face of the planet. I mean I'm nodding off just thinking about it however if Golfing is your bag, if it's something you enjoy even if you're a bit shit at it then I say take your Golf Bats, go forth and enjoy yourself as much as you can.
TL;DR
Stop being bitter that others have a passion your don't understand.
Also, take you Prius out of the overtaking lane, especially if you're not willing to do the speed limit and don't be a passhole.
I view it as "leftist" because it expanded the powers of government at the expense of the people.
The left in theory gives power to the people, while the right gives power to the aristocracy. The terms come from the French revolution.
In the US, it is more government versus the elite and corporations. But since the latter controls the former, its a moot point.
This,
It is authoritarian policies that give more power to the government and liberal (as in liberalism) polices that give more power to individuals.
Authoritarian and liberal policies can be anywhere on the left-right spectrum.
The DCMA and Copyright are definitely extreme right and extreme authoritarian as they're designed to empower corporations over everything else. The irony is that copyright was originally designed to empower individuals, it was still right leaning, but more liberal as it gave time limited monopolies to artists.
The market is overcrowded, but full of multiple copies (one per recruiter) of bogus job listings (person is already 'hired', now they need to go through motions.)
This. Indeed does a somewhat good job of aggregating jobs here in the UK but I still check some others like Jobserve. Most recruiters are too lazy to write separate job decriptions for each site so its easy to spot ones on different search engines. If LinkedIn wants to be a serious competitor, it needs to up its game in the search arena.
it's meant that all our checks and balances have collapsed
No it doesn't. Just because "people that think like me" didn't win elections does not mean ALL checks and balances are gone. They are still being eroded away slowly with bipartisan support.
Did you say we lost ALL our checks and balances after 2008 when the Democrats controlled the Congress and Executive? No? Ok then, stop the hyperbole.
Actually he got less votes than Hillary... but still got in. That indicates a problem with the system. In the Westminster system parties that dont get 50.00001% of the vote dont get their seats.
Obama won the popular vote and the EC... Unless you have irrefutable evidence of foul play, the only hyperbole is yours.
>"Cities will ban human drivers once the data confirms how dangerous they can be behind a wheel. This will spread to suburbs, and then beyond"
And those of us who ENJOY driving, especially motorcycles (which can likely never be self-driving) are royally screwed. But hey, I suppose a super-safe and boring life is so much more meaningful than a a free and enjoyable one with some risk....
That will never happen. We haven't even banned horses and they've been replaced for nearly 100 years in many countries.
Manual control of vehicles will face a massive backlash if banned because many people will perceive autonomous cars as driving slower than they do because they follow the road rules.
"Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership."
But In Europe, the average age of new car buyers is already over 50, has been climbing for years.
Citation?
Young people are still getting cars, despite the insurance market treating them as a cash cow here in the UK. Most people are leasing new cars instead of buying them.
Now let us consider a gasoline car. I'll assume an optimistic 10L/100km.
That's actually pretty bad for a modern car, most Euro and Japanese cars easily do under 7.5L/100 KM. Thats only about 35MPG, some ICE's do 60 MPG and we haven't even gotten to hybrids yet.
However the cost of having your Tesla towed because it ran out of battery 100 miles from home is about £:500. So it tends to even out. Plus you don't have to add WAT after the Tesla symbol.
Plus there's commercial vehicles, not just lorries and vans but anyone who's job requires travelling. Sorry, but ICE's are going to be with us for a while longer. In fact, the more popular EV's get, the more they are going to get taxed to make up for a shortfall in fuel tax revenue (which is used to build the roads) which will stunt their growth.
I'm not sure how you managed to go shopping with your eyes shut...
I've just checked Amazon, Curry's, Argos and even Tesco's websites. Almost all hard drives are USB3 and very few are USB-C. In fact it's hard to find USB-C because so few computers use USB-C. I bought a new gaming boxen, 10 USB ports, none of them USB-C, a new ASUS laptop, no USB-C, a brand new Dell at work... no USB-C. Same with a Lenovo. All still using standard USB2 and 3 ports because thats what most peripherals are sold as and will be for some time.
The only storage device I have that is USB-C is a dual USB3/USB-C memory stick. I only bought that because it fits into my phone (Nexus 5X) and my computer (standard USB2 and 3). USB-C wont be taking over because USB-C is designed exclusively for mobile devices where space is at a premium.
Steve Jobs dies and everyone in Apple forgets how to think different.
Fixed that for you.