Probably none. (Couldn't find any news articles on it happening anyway.) GPS only provides a reference, the Internet just updates software and other references. The actual direction of the control is derived from a myriad of other sensors by sophisticated on-board software using historical information about the environment. That pre-loaded data, combined with cameras, LIDAR, RADAR, inertial sensors etc. are used to calculate the cars position, direction, environment, obstacles, traffic controls, etc.
"but if your salary was already 10 million then cutting it to 10% of that wouldn't make that much difference to you."
Bullshit.
Really? You really don't think a cut from 100k to 90k is going to hurt as bad as getting cut from 10m to 9m? Someone making 100k having to trim out $800/month could mean anywhere from "the amount of money saved gets slashed" to "potentially missing house/car/utility payments" depending on the household. On the other hand, losing 1m/year would range from "I only put 8m in my bank account this year" to "shoot, now I have to sell the Bentley".
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the person making 100k/year is FAR more likely to being close to overextended than the person making 10m/year. And correcting for an over-extension at 10m is way easier than a similar correction at 100k.
My official cutoff is the point where money does not matter in my life at all. At this point it would be somewhat double what I make today.
Yup, same boat (well, except for the "over 100k" part. Getting close, but not quite there) and still constantly worry about money. I don't live extravagantly, nicer house, 2 used but nice enough cars, etc, but it's still pretty easy to burn through that kind of money pretty quickly when you factor in a wife, couple of kids, college loans, etc. On the other hand, I remember making 50k/year thinking the exact same thing "at this point it would be somewhat double what I make today and I'll be set." I'm (nearly) double what I was at that point, and still not "set". Would I ever be set making 200k a year, or would I be in the same place thinking "if I only made 400k I'd be set"?
If I was older and had no debt, I might already be at the magic number.
I guess it depends on the theater. There is one near me, I don't remember the chain (AMC, maybe?), the prices aren't completely insane, the seating is reserved, all the seats are leather recliners. With pre-paid tickets the line to get in is usually shorter. With the big reclining chairs there is less room for people in the theater, so less people in the parking lot, less people in line for popcorn, less people to drive you nuts. If I want to see a movie in the theater that's the only one I'll go to. My only complaints: It's tough to go see a movie with more than 2 people on short notice. Generally have to get tickets a couple hours (or days if it's a popular movie) in advance. It's even tougher if you're going with a group and everybody wants to buy their own ticket. But, I'll take those problems over the ones you mentioned any day.
But I think they are misunderstanding why people go to the theaters. Unless I'm unique, I'm only going because it's a movie that the theater has something to add. Maybe it's the atmosphere, maybe its because the theater sound/display that makes the movie more intense. I'm certainly not going to the theater because I want to see a movie as soon as possible. They could release the movie for home consumption the same day as it was released in the theater and it wouldn't change my viewing habits. But I'm sure as hell not paying $25 or $50 (really? 50 dollars?) to rent it just because it's out sooner. I'd rather wait a couple months and get it out of Redbox for $2.
GP was referring to Hillary and Obama as the Status Quo, so that is what I was commenting on. GW was a jackass, how he got two terms is a mystery to me.
And you are a pussy for hiding behind AC. I'd be happy to have a civilized adult discussion, but you have to take off your diaper and put some big-boy pants on first.
...the rest of the Executive and Legislative branch's have to agree in order for troops to move from point a to point b.
Yeah, I paid attention in high school gov't class too, but thanks for the reminder.
Mattis can think whatever the hell he wants to think
And he was just nominated for an extremely high level position, and will be highly compensated for providing his thoughts and opinions to the people who do make decisions about such things. It is literally his job to recommend combat action against our perceived enemies. Is it really inconceivable that some of those recommendations he provides to the Executive and Legislative branches might just be that we should go "do something" about Iran, North Korea, Syria, or whoever? It may be true that his "public" and "private" demeanor are two completely different representations of his opinion. I guess time will tell, but it doesn't seem like someone that two-faced would last very long.
Because they can, and because people will pay for it. This has nothing to do with their level of expenditure to provide the service. This is the texting of the late 90s early 2000s, it certainly doesn't cost them 25c to transfer a text message, but people would pay it, so that's what they charged.
For the uninitiated, this is code for, "I voted for Trump, but I'm too ashamed to admit it."
Close. Very close. If by "very close" you mean voted for Hillary and Obama twice, then yeah, I guess you deciphered the code. Someone give this guy a medal.
I don't subscribe to the "not my president" bullshit, any more than I subscribed to the birther bullshit. Everybody's*** team wins once in a while, a balance that does reasonably well keeping our country in one piece. Conspiracy nutters and protesters (whiners) do nothing to further the cause of the people, the only serve as a distraction to real problems. *** everybody, except 3rd parties, and the Cleveland Browns.
As far as Trump, the only thing he has actually done so far is pick cabinet members. While I am not impressed by his selections, I am withholding my judgment against him to see what him and his administration actually DOES while in control. The fun part of the next four years is going to be watching all of the Trump supporters blaming Obama for everything that is still wrong with the country, the same way that Obama supporters blamed everything on Bush v2, the same way Bush supporters blamed everything on Clinton, the same way Y blamed everything on X. I just hope I'm not enjoying my "fun" without a job in a fucked up economy, or sending my kids off to the next world war.
It would be interesting to see a lawsuit for a company implementing a "copied" feature, where that feature was a component being omitted. Is that possible?
[1] The only way he can fuck up is if he ends up being just like Hillary or Obama.
Really? Is that REALLY the only way he can fuck up?
Disclaimer, I was not a Trump supporter, but I'm willing to give him a chance. But if you think being "more of the same" is the worst way he can fuck up I truly wonder how far your head is buried in the sand. What about wars, foreign relations, economy? As much as some people may not like it, the US does not exist in a vacuum. Things we do and say (and by "we" I mean our leadership) can have direct and severe consequences. What do you think is going to happen when the administration places a %50 tariff on Chinese made goods? Do you think our country is magically going to find the money to buy non-Chineese made goods, or come up with the extra cash to pay for them? Or worse, how is the world going to react when Mad Dog decides it's time to "finally do something" about North Korea or Afghanistan?
Yeah, I know, the likelihood of either of those happening is pretty slim, but WW3 is never not a possibility. And we just elected someone with zero political experience, and he's filling his cabinet with unstable and inexperienced people. Yeah, now that I think about it, Status Quo is definitely the worst thing that could happen.
If you are getting your news from Facebook you have already lost the battle.
A dude holding a cell phone asking leading questions to someone at some protest isn't "news", it's usually a biased asshole looking for their 2 minutes. Some article about Obama getting impeached or Trump punching a Mexican posted by my dumb ass cousin isn't "news", it's an "article" they picked up off one of their dumb ass friends feeds and shared without reading it.
It's way easier once you realize that pretty much everything news-like on Facebook is at best horrendously biased, and at worst 100% contrived. A BS filter is pretty easy to set up to flag everything as crap.
The labor force participation rate ticked down to 62.7 percent.
Come on man, it's right in the summary. But "statistically employed" isn't the term you are looking for, you are thinking of "Labor Underutilization"
If you don't care to actually google something, read this, it seems like a pretty reasonable explanation of what that number means and gives a whole bunch of other numbers and trends that are actually a more useful gauge of unemployment. link I have no idea if the source is reputable, but the charts are sourced from CBO numbers, so I assume it's accurate.
It's been my experience that most of the people unconcerned about the costs of a higher minimum wage never eat at McDonald's, never shop at Walmart, and basically aren't the poor people who will be hurt by it.
Really? What's your experience? Servants making your dinner and doing your shopping for you at only the finest stores? Meanwhile, the rest of us in reality shop where it's convenient and inexpensive and slum around a fast food joint once in a while when were too lazy to cook. And it's not going to take going to take food off my table when prices go up by a percent or two.
Go find someone making 8-10$/hour and ask them if they'd be OK paying 1% in exchange for getting a $5/hour raise.
And what's all this about "welfare and food stamps"?
I'm a democrat. I wholeheartedly support food stamps and welfare, when they are used as a safety net. I do not approve of them being used to subsidize shit wages so companies can turn a higher profit.
Because I'd be more than happy to pay 50c more for my burger meal if it means there are more people not living off the welfare and food stamps that you people hate so much.
I'm curious, how much TV do you and your family watch in a month? I'm only asking, because the national average is 4:30 a day!. Realistically, if you are even anywhere near that (even say 1 hour/day) that's pretty damn cheap entertainment. There is literally no form of pay-for-use entertainment that is on-par with that.
Hell, if that four-and-a-half hours per day stat is accurate, $150/month for cable is still a good deal. I'm just trying to figure out how a person can spend that much time in front of a TV...
I've been so busy adult'ing this past decade I've not been keeping up.
Yeah. That's a hell of a realization isn't it? I had the same one a couple years ago when my son asked me to help him build a computer. Son: "Dad, whats a good video card?" Me: "..." Son: "..." Me: "Hell idk, I haven't bought one in 5 years" Son: "... Thanks. I'll just Google it." Me: "You'll make a good IT guy."
If you don't have at least one project you have worked on that you aren't proud of you probably aren't a programmer.
Mine is a steaming turd of a purchase order request "system". Written in VBS inside of Excel, talking to a MySQL database back end.
It's not pretty. It's not fast. It's not sustainable. But, it met the purpose of the request using the tools I had available to me. And it was better than what they were using at the time. 5 project managers all writing purchase orders, or not, off of their local computers. Most of the time the PO wouldn't get to the Accounts Payable person, and if they did it was usually a hard copy. There were no backups. Nobody knew how the database worked. Nobody knew how to re-install it, or where the source for it was. Many many dollars lost.
I would have never imagined they would still be using that system, this was 8 or 9 years ago. I have a feeling that's how most of these embarrassments work, a fast and messy fix to an immediate problem that will be "replaced eventually" that never gets touched again.
Either way... I'm assuming there is someone there that is smarter (and probably paid way more) than I am that has probably put some thought into this very problem.
Or have some sort of "blank" that isn't made of glass, probably not photo-voltaic, and is impact resistant but can be cut with traditional tools. Or maybe it's the same glass, just isn't p-v, that is cut using diamond tools.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably none. (Couldn't find any news articles on it happening anyway.) GPS only provides a reference, the Internet just updates software and other references. The actual direction of the control is derived from a myriad of other sensors by sophisticated on-board software using historical information about the environment. That pre-loaded data, combined with cameras, LIDAR, RADAR, inertial sensors etc. are used to calculate the cars position, direction, environment, obstacles, traffic controls, etc.
"but if your salary was already 10 million then cutting it to 10% of that wouldn't make that much difference to you."
Bullshit.
Really? You really don't think a cut from 100k to 90k is going to hurt as bad as getting cut from 10m to 9m? Someone making 100k having to trim out $800/month could mean anywhere from "the amount of money saved gets slashed" to "potentially missing house/car/utility payments" depending on the household. On the other hand, losing 1m/year would range from "I only put 8m in my bank account this year" to "shoot, now I have to sell the Bentley".
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the person making 100k/year is FAR more likely to being close to overextended than the person making 10m/year. And correcting for an over-extension at 10m is way easier than a similar correction at 100k.
My official cutoff is the point where money does not matter in my life at all. At this point it would be somewhat double what I make today.
Yup, same boat (well, except for the "over 100k" part. Getting close, but not quite there) and still constantly worry about money. I don't live extravagantly, nicer house, 2 used but nice enough cars, etc, but it's still pretty easy to burn through that kind of money pretty quickly when you factor in a wife, couple of kids, college loans, etc. On the other hand, I remember making 50k/year thinking the exact same thing "at this point it would be somewhat double what I make today and I'll be set." I'm (nearly) double what I was at that point, and still not "set". Would I ever be set making 200k a year, or would I be in the same place thinking "if I only made 400k I'd be set"?
If I was older and had no debt, I might already be at the magic number.
Yeah, I hear ya there!
I guess it depends on the theater. There is one near me, I don't remember the chain (AMC, maybe?), the prices aren't completely insane, the seating is reserved, all the seats are leather recliners. With pre-paid tickets the line to get in is usually shorter. With the big reclining chairs there is less room for people in the theater, so less people in the parking lot, less people in line for popcorn, less people to drive you nuts. If I want to see a movie in the theater that's the only one I'll go to. My only complaints: It's tough to go see a movie with more than 2 people on short notice. Generally have to get tickets a couple hours (or days if it's a popular movie) in advance. It's even tougher if you're going with a group and everybody wants to buy their own ticket. But, I'll take those problems over the ones you mentioned any day.
But I think they are misunderstanding why people go to the theaters. Unless I'm unique, I'm only going because it's a movie that the theater has something to add. Maybe it's the atmosphere, maybe its because the theater sound/display that makes the movie more intense. I'm certainly not going to the theater because I want to see a movie as soon as possible. They could release the movie for home consumption the same day as it was released in the theater and it wouldn't change my viewing habits. But I'm sure as hell not paying $25 or $50 (really? 50 dollars?) to rent it just because it's out sooner. I'd rather wait a couple months and get it out of Redbox for $2.
What can go wrong - look at "W" Bush
GP was referring to Hillary and Obama as the Status Quo, so that is what I was commenting on. GW was a jackass, how he got two terms is a mystery to me.
I am truly amazed at how stupid you are.
And you are a pussy for hiding behind AC. I'd be happy to have a civilized adult discussion, but you have to take off your diaper and put some big-boy pants on first.
...the rest of the Executive and Legislative branch's have to agree in order for troops to move from point a to point b.
Yeah, I paid attention in high school gov't class too, but thanks for the reminder.
Mattis can think whatever the hell he wants to think
And he was just nominated for an extremely high level position, and will be highly compensated for providing his thoughts and opinions to the people who do make decisions about such things. It is literally his job to recommend combat action against our perceived enemies. Is it really inconceivable that some of those recommendations he provides to the Executive and Legislative branches might just be that we should go "do something" about Iran, North Korea, Syria, or whoever? It may be true that his "public" and "private" demeanor are two completely different representations of his opinion. I guess time will tell, but it doesn't seem like someone that two-faced would last very long.
Why extra
Because they can, and because people will pay for it. This has nothing to do with their level of expenditure to provide the service. This is the texting of the late 90s early 2000s, it certainly doesn't cost them 25c to transfer a text message, but people would pay it, so that's what they charged.
For the uninitiated, this is code for, "I voted for Trump, but I'm too ashamed to admit it."
Close. Very close. If by "very close" you mean voted for Hillary and Obama twice, then yeah, I guess you deciphered the code. Someone give this guy a medal.
I don't subscribe to the "not my president" bullshit, any more than I subscribed to the birther bullshit. Everybody's*** team wins once in a while, a balance that does reasonably well keeping our country in one piece. Conspiracy nutters and protesters (whiners) do nothing to further the cause of the people, the only serve as a distraction to real problems.
*** everybody, except 3rd parties, and the Cleveland Browns.
As far as Trump, the only thing he has actually done so far is pick cabinet members. While I am not impressed by his selections, I am withholding my judgment against him to see what him and his administration actually DOES while in control. The fun part of the next four years is going to be watching all of the Trump supporters blaming Obama for everything that is still wrong with the country, the same way that Obama supporters blamed everything on Bush v2, the same way Bush supporters blamed everything on Clinton, the same way Y blamed everything on X. I just hope I'm not enjoying my "fun" without a job in a fucked up economy, or sending my kids off to the next world war.
It would be interesting to see a lawsuit for a company implementing a "copied" feature, where that feature was a component being omitted. Is that possible?
What ever made you think you could trust a doctor with a computer?
Or running a national housing development program, for that matter.
[1] The only way he can fuck up is if he ends up being just like Hillary or Obama.
Really? Is that REALLY the only way he can fuck up?
Disclaimer, I was not a Trump supporter, but I'm willing to give him a chance. But if you think being "more of the same" is the worst way he can fuck up I truly wonder how far your head is buried in the sand. What about wars, foreign relations, economy? As much as some people may not like it, the US does not exist in a vacuum. Things we do and say (and by "we" I mean our leadership) can have direct and severe consequences. What do you think is going to happen when the administration places a %50 tariff on Chinese made goods? Do you think our country is magically going to find the money to buy non-Chineese made goods, or come up with the extra cash to pay for them? Or worse, how is the world going to react when Mad Dog decides it's time to "finally do something" about North Korea or Afghanistan?
Yeah, I know, the likelihood of either of those happening is pretty slim, but WW3 is never not a possibility. And we just elected someone with zero political experience, and he's filling his cabinet with unstable and inexperienced people. Yeah, now that I think about it, Status Quo is definitely the worst thing that could happen.
judge the crazyness of a community, to discover its particular bias and use that to feed into the community
Wait. Are you saying this is another attempt by Facebook to collect more data about us? Say it aint so!
If you are getting your news from Facebook you have already lost the battle.
A dude holding a cell phone asking leading questions to someone at some protest isn't "news", it's usually a biased asshole looking for their 2 minutes. Some article about Obama getting impeached or Trump punching a Mexican posted by my dumb ass cousin isn't "news", it's an "article" they picked up off one of their dumb ass friends feeds and shared without reading it.
It's way easier once you realize that pretty much everything news-like on Facebook is at best horrendously biased, and at worst 100% contrived. A BS filter is pretty easy to set up to flag everything as crap.
The labor force participation rate ticked down to 62.7 percent.
Come on man, it's right in the summary. But "statistically employed" isn't the term you are looking for, you are thinking of "Labor Underutilization"
If you don't care to actually google something, read this, it seems like a pretty reasonable explanation of what that number means and gives a whole bunch of other numbers and trends that are actually a more useful gauge of unemployment. link I have no idea if the source is reputable, but the charts are sourced from CBO numbers, so I assume it's accurate.
If he's in a box, technically "haul" would an accurate verb.
Do you often eat burgers?
Yes
It's been my experience that most of the people unconcerned about the costs of a higher minimum wage never eat at McDonald's, never shop at Walmart, and basically aren't the poor people who will be hurt by it.
Really? What's your experience? Servants making your dinner and doing your shopping for you at only the finest stores? Meanwhile, the rest of us in reality shop where it's convenient and inexpensive and slum around a fast food joint once in a while when were too lazy to cook. And it's not going to take going to take food off my table when prices go up by a percent or two.
Go find someone making 8-10$/hour and ask them if they'd be OK paying 1% in exchange for getting a $5/hour raise.
And what's all this about "welfare and food stamps"?
I'm a democrat. I wholeheartedly support food stamps and welfare, when they are used as a safety net. I do not approve of them being used to subsidize shit wages so companies can turn a higher profit.
Because I'd be more than happy to pay 50c more for my burger meal if it means there are more people not living off the welfare and food stamps that you people hate so much.
Hell, if that four-and-a-half hours per day stat is accurate, $150/month for cable is still a good deal. I'm just trying to figure out how a person can spend that much time in front of a TV...
You forgot the solar panels in your cost. That may skew the numbers a hair in the other direction.
I've been so busy adult'ing this past decade I've not been keeping up.
Yeah. That's a hell of a realization isn't it? I had the same one a couple years ago when my son asked me to help him build a computer.
Son: "Dad, whats a good video card?"
Me: "..."
Son: "..."
Me: "Hell idk, I haven't bought one in 5 years"
Son: "... Thanks. I'll just Google it."
Me: "You'll make a good IT guy."
If you don't have at least one project you have worked on that you aren't proud of you probably aren't a programmer.
Mine is a steaming turd of a purchase order request "system". Written in VBS inside of Excel, talking to a MySQL database back end.
It's not pretty. It's not fast. It's not sustainable. But, it met the purpose of the request using the tools I had available to me. And it was better than what they were using at the time. 5 project managers all writing purchase orders, or not, off of their local computers. Most of the time the PO wouldn't get to the Accounts Payable person, and if they did it was usually a hard copy. There were no backups. Nobody knew how the database worked. Nobody knew how to re-install it, or where the source for it was. Many many dollars lost.
I would have never imagined they would still be using that system, this was 8 or 9 years ago. I have a feeling that's how most of these embarrassments work, a fast and messy fix to an immediate problem that will be "replaced eventually" that never gets touched again.
I was tasked with getting 10,000 lines a day out
I smell BS. Impossible task during an 8 hour day. (1 line of code every 3 seconds, assuming you never took a break.)
Comparing internet to the Army, roads, police, fire...sounds like you just made a pretty strong argument for gov't funded broadband.
Either way... I'm assuming there is someone there that is smarter (and probably paid way more) than I am that has probably put some thought into this very problem.
Or have some sort of "blank" that isn't made of glass, probably not photo-voltaic, and is impact resistant but can be cut with traditional tools. Or maybe it's the same glass, just isn't p-v, that is cut using diamond tools.