Yes MORE valuable but..... more than what? People generally don't actually need timestamped documents, its a theoretical need to protect from a future issue that is likely to never happen. So most people, quite rightly, don't care.
I have never gotten anything notarized unless someone said to me "it has to be notarized". I imagine most people, again quite rightly, don't bother.
> Solutions in search of an actual problem in many cases from the sounds of it.
This. I was looking at one of them here to pick on: CertTime. Great IDEA sure. Timestamp. Nice.
Then there is this little note on the page about it: "Talked to the designer friends - No criticisms at all. Exactly as it should be. - and still no interest to use the service - Let me have a look later. "....still no interest to use the service.
Why? Because its a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone with half a brain who cares could easily timestamp a document. Hell, just emailing it would do that. Send it to yourself on gmail. If it ever came down to it, get logs from google. Time stamp accomplished.
Its a real problem that has such easy and obvious solutions that it doesn't need a new service.
Well, my PhD , like you know every PhD ever delivered is a Doctorate in Philosophy. While my chosen field is Data Science, and I know next to nothing about Philosophy, they still offer degrees beyond the Associates level for a reason.
Do you even have a point? As you state, your field is not philosophy, you did not study philosophy, your degree is not a philosophy degree.....the word philosophy is in the title. Perhaps you would like to become a catholic priest too and then point our how you are a father who has never concieved?
On second thought.....are you SURE you are not a philosopher?
Well actually I think its more the case that its likely true that such a person likely has insight and data about the failure that can help find the cause, even if he doesn't have the personal insight to understand it himself.
Kind of like, if a guy tells you his car is dead because of a blown gasket, you can hear it whenever you try to turn the engine over it makes this loud repeated clicking sound.
Now, it sounds to me like his car didn't start because the battery is almost dead and he likely has a problem with the alternator not charging it. It doesn't really matter that he thinks the gasket blew, he had enough information for someone who knows better to forumulate a better idea.
Seems like it might be better to ask many people who may have had different insights and tracked different data.
> The root issue is ultimately government regulations, which prevent these devices from being patched. > You can't simply patch a medical device because then it loses its FDA certification.
No. The issues are far deeper than that and have ALOT to do with the overall fragmentation of the entire medical industry and the culture of vulchers that fly around the clinical medical industry looking for ways to get their feet in the door to steady profits.
Here is what i saw from spending too long on thos front lines:
They are all trying to build an embeded solution they can charge for support on, they will generally work directly with the clinics, bypassing central IT as much as possible, and bring them in only at the end, and try to position them as the road blocks on the project because.... they want to keep all the support to themselves.
Then when IT patches all their systems and sees "hey this is an out of date linux box" the vendors sit on their thumbs and cry about FDA certification, as if the responsible thing to do wasn't to immediately contact the FDA about re-certifying. Oh no but that would cut into their profits!
Hell if they really cared, they would fix it, and tell the FDA that if they even try to levy a fine, they are going public with exactly what level of risk and vulnerabilities the FDA is effectively forcing people to accept. Who do you think would look bad after that exchange? "We fixed this problem to protect our patients in spite of the FDA trying to make us not" you think that isn't the kind of issue that would get an FDA head called before congress?
It is, but it never happens, because the profiteering industry likes the regulations the way they are because they don't like having to patch, its a bother.
However the fact we have to call them exceptions means something....the average isn't them. When someone says "actor" we should not think "Arnold" we should think "Oh you want seperate checks?" because thats who actors are. Hell I know a whole bunch of actors, they all make more at their day jobs.
> Our society doesn't value artistic expression as much as it does technological prowess, and that's really sad
I don't think this is true, in fact, i think its meaningless.
Do you value gold or water more? If gold, then tell me how you would live without water, if water, then tell me why you will not trade me equal weight in gold for water? These things each have value, and a number can be put on that value for trade purposes, but, their true values are not so easily compared.
People are willing to take out loans and forsake study of subjects which could more readily garauntee their income and yet, still get loans and support....I would say in some ways, we overvalue art. Especially in a day and age where more people than ever can not only produce their own but easily share it. Long gone are the days when the average artist was a student who spent his days copying the work of a master to be sold as his "prints".
I think its more correct to say that with the increase in liesure time and education, the barrier to entry to art has come down so far, that the monetary value of it is largely gone and only available in seriously life supporting ammounts to a very few....as it always was, its just more visible now with more people able to try to be "professionals".
I do think there is value to learning art, even if not much value in supporting more professional artists, I see nothing wrong with what used to be profession being more hobby. I don't see so much how society needs more professional artists, even if it could benefit from more people being artists, in fact, in some ways, I think the two are at odds with eachother, and it is far better as a wide spread hobby than a concentrated profession.
> The author says that rather than do that (get an ordinary job), he intentionally chose the (lack of) career path that he's on.
That was the part where I really found I couldn't relate at all. Especially the part when he describes writing, as opposed to gainful employment, as his value to society....maybe if society agreed, he would be able to pay his loan back?
I feel like I just watched this guy walk up to the roulette table, be told that anything but red or black is a stupid long shot, then argue when he loses his whole stack in one go because he put it all on double 0. By all means, toss a chip on there, but don't delude yourself into thinking it was a good bet compared to the guy who is already slowly losing his shirt with the safe bets....at least he gets to sit at the table for a while and get some drinks.
I mean I can relate in that....theres lots of things I would rather be doing than working on someone else's projects and systems. I have lots of interests and hobbies, many of which i have worked on with far more energy and passion than my day job (and many with less). I don't see what is so wrong with that, who ever said you can't work AND be a writer? What kind of idiot goes hod wild for a long shot and then cries when it doesn't pan out?
Its like, I know several actors, even a stand-up comic or two. You know what they all have in common? Day jobs.
Actually there is a rather hillarious video out on youtube, don't have time to find it now, I suppose someone else will and besmirch my upbringing for not posting it.
The entire video is based on people not understanding the concept of load. Basically the guy builds this massive (and by massive I mean "compared to its output") electrical generator in a basic config like you might do in order to demonstrate the princible of electrical generation rather than actually produce power.
Anyway, the entire thing boils down to him taking measurements with it under load, then removing the load and taking measurements, and comparing his results to show that his device was "over unity" because of some bullshit about magnets. (its hard to remember the BS he was spewing, I just remember laughing my ass off while I watched his "test")
Well as far as I understand from reading some battery charger spec sheets, many modern chargers actually provide a constant current rather than voltage for charging, stopping when the voltage required to maintain that current rises too high, which indicates its level of charge.
So while voltage is not charge, its entirely possible, and common, to measure the charge in the battery by relating it directly to a particular voltage, so in that context it is actually a measure of charge because it has a known relationship when used correctly.
In fact, this same measure was often used with lead acid batteries, especially car batteries, since measuring output voltage is often the most accessible way to determine whether is taking a charge or not.
In the end people have to choose for themselves and I do agree they should be able to choose what they want however, it is still up to the school to decide which programs it wants to offer, and how it markets them, and how it advises students.
Its like MLM marketing. Nobody is going to get rich being somebody else's sales associate in a trapazoid scheme. Yes, the individual investors are making bad financial choices and ultimately, its because of their choice to chase down a dead end false dream that leads them to financial ruin.
The MLM marketers selling it as a real viable way to make a living that will get you rich are still scum bags AND, I do think Universities, and really anyone with any decency, should hold themselves to a higher standard on the advice they give others, even when trying to make a buck off them.
While the colleges and universities in our country have plenty of faults to them, it is not their fault if students decide to major in philosophy and leave without good job prospects. What did this guy expect to find for employment?
Actually, as the experts in education, the people offering a product that they claim is supposed to be so good for your career prospects, I think it somewhat is their fault if they didn't educate students about the decision they were making an encourage them to make better ones.
You are right, this isn't the cause of the problems with socio-economic mobility but, as the job market has seriously changed, and the real needs we, as a society, have for universities has change, the schools have failed to really change, and expectations about the schools and what they do hasn't changed as it should have, and, it is partially their fault.
Fact is, when my parents were in school, ANY degree was good enough. You really could go get a philosophy degree because the jobs were mostly mid level office jobs and didn't require skill so much as the ability to read and learn a bit....perfect for people who had learned how to learn and could all read. Didn't matter what they studied then.
Now, well, that philosophy degree qualifies you to teach philosophy and fuck all else. The value of the products they offer varies greatly, and they still pretend a philosophy degree even matters. Frankly, I don't see why they should even offer philosophy beyond an associates; its just not worth it to the point it counts as a scam really.
> So why take that risk? It is the argument that most drug dealers make less than minimum wage > and live with their momma according to Freakeconomics.
This. also, most drug dealers I don't think see themselves as criminals. I mean when your supposed victim calls you up, drives over to you, and hands you money, its hard to call him a victim, especially when he is buying from you the same stuff you use yourself. Shit, drug dealers are probably some of the most honest salesmen out there, they actually believe in their product and personally use it!
People just look at bulk/retail price and think "dealers make bank", in fact, the dealer does the same calculation, but seldom factors in his own use and how much he is going to use while spending so much time with other users.
I was a pot dealer myself for a while, a "customer" coming over actually meant I spent an hour or two hanging out with someone I knew, and would smoke with, then they would leave, another would come, and I smoke with him.... my own use expanded to eat up a lot of the profits.
So I was meeting with people at a level that was downright disruptive to life, and to even come close to the money I was making at my legal day job I would have had to tripple or more the amount of business I was doing. It was very much NOT as lucrative as a decent office job.
But there is the.... fuck them. I smoke pot and I love it and I never, not even for a moment, considered myself a criminal any more than a jew in germany would have considered himself a "criminal". Have to act like one, but, never really been one.
This kid however, actually hurting people for money.... I have trouble even relating. On a technical level I understand its amusing but, to actually do it to people? Then claim to not want to be a criminal....that I don't get. This isn't a product you believe in, this isn't something you think should be legal and you are pissed at how you are treated over it....these are naked extortion tools.
Well I would tend to agree but, if Ross Ulbricht can get life in prison and have people justifing it based on crimes he wasn't even charged with, then I don't see why this is a problem.
Whats good for the goose is amazing for the gander.
Its not about their salaries but number of workers. TSA doesn't even just do airports, they have, like any good government jobs program, been expanding.
Also the TSA functions were privatized, and never were minimum wage jobs, they were every bit as effective, with much lower costs and far higher satisfaction by the paying customers, who they had very real incentives not to bother unless there was actually a reason.
However, in that time, they did not work in train stations, they did not claim authority over bus terminals, and they most certainly did not touch hardly anyone's junk.
You miss the real point. Those gaurds are not there to stop a real threat, they are not really even there to make people feel safe. They are there because making people feel safe is an easy way to justify jobs.
Jobs redistribute wealth which, granted, several countries could use some more mechanisms for, as the concentrations are a bit scary, but in this case, do it without providing any other benefit other than the redistribution.
However its very popular because its easy to justify and the only people who can point out it doesn't work have to openly admit they took contraband on the train. Basically the same is done here.
In Boston, the MBTA have a theater troupe which setups up at one station each day and insists on swabbing bags for explosives, but of course, if you don't want to be swabbed, you can just walk out and walk the 15 minutes (if that) to the next station.
No, he will try to repeat the experiment, gather data, and try to figure out what's going on. Maybe (most likely) there's a perfectly valid explanation within existing scientific frameworks, maybe it's a setup or measurement error, or maybe, just maybe, this is a new effect that hadn't been discovered yet
And maybe he will describe the effect so well in an equation that some bored patent clerk will call it a transformation and assume it is one of the fundamental laws of the universe....and then everybody will spend the next 100 years talking about him.
In a nation of laws, would it be acceptable for spies to have secret talks with the so called "Justice" department and get the green light to torture people, in spite of the various laws against it? Would a nation of laws allow agreements like that? "Don't worry, we wont prosecute, you are working for us"
A nation of laws might, change those laws, and legalize its spies using torture. Then it would be on the up and up. However, this country isn't that, and well.... turns out not just on that one issue.
This just is not, and really never was, a nation of laws.
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Keep your overpriced junk.
I don't even know what more to say. I don't want a device that requires somebody else's service to work. I don't want to invest in a future brick, and not just a future brick, but one I can't even use to design my own things and decide whether or not its 100% private?
No, I pay you for the device, then you get copies of all my designs? Everything I work on? AND if you decide you don't care any more, or have enough designs copied, you can just switch it all off and everyone is shit out of luck?
Anyone who pays good money for this, I hope they understand the real limitations and risks before they buy their future brick.
Clearly you have never been there, all he can smell is cow shit. There aint no money out that way and what money there is, can drive itself around just fine.
Who would call uber for anything when NOTHING is within a 30-45 minute one way drive? Nobody who would need it could ever afford an uber ride, and the uber driver would would have a 30 min ride himself to get anywhere.
Uber finally did something that has convinced me not to ever use their service. I know it has an opt out but, I have no interest in any service that wants to track me and use me to advertise to my friends.
If I want to give them some word of mouth to my friends, I will do that when I choose, thanks.
I don't give a shit about skirting regulation or attacking the comfortable regulated complancency of the taxi cab industry. This however, this disgusts me.
That doesn't sound like any of my several jury duties. However, mine all went like this. We come in, sit down, a judge comes in, explains to us how the whole purpose of a jury pool is to scare people into settling cases.
Then a couple of hours later, they return, announce that all of the cases today have settled, and send everyone home.
They sure to imprison a lot of people and call up a lot of jurors for the number of cases that actually ever see a jury; which is sad, I don't think this type of system makes for a very good meat grinder.
So, its not just a device, but a device that needs an external service to operate?
As impressive as what it does is, that is a huge turn off for me. Admittedly I look at it from a hobbiest perspective where I prefer my open source 3d printer because I can understand all its parts and tinker with it, even if I don't generally choose to do so, I can.
I don't like the idea of a device that might cease to work because the cloud service it depends on no longer functions. If he is worried about how open source companies have disappointed customers by overpromising, then I don't see this as setting up for success in that arena.
That is unless the "cloud computing" part is a component any customer with one could spin up himself in a generic cloud providers environment....ok then, but, I would have trouble justifying buying a device with externally held "secret sauce".
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Yes MORE valuable but..... more than what? People generally don't actually need timestamped documents, its a theoretical need to protect from a future issue that is likely to never happen. So most people, quite rightly, don't care.
I have never gotten anything notarized unless someone said to me "it has to be notarized". I imagine most people, again quite rightly, don't bother.
> Solutions in search of an actual problem in many cases from the sounds of it.
This. I was looking at one of them here to pick on: CertTime. Great IDEA sure. Timestamp. Nice.
Then there is this little note on the page about it: ....still no interest to use the service.
"Talked to the designer friends - No criticisms at all. Exactly as it should be. - and still no interest to use the service - Let me have a look later. "
Why? Because its a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone with half a brain who cares could easily timestamp a document. Hell, just emailing it would do that. Send it to yourself on gmail. If it ever came down to it, get logs from google. Time stamp accomplished.
Its a real problem that has such easy and obvious solutions that it doesn't need a new service.
Do you even have a point? As you state, your field is not philosophy, you did not study philosophy, your degree is not a philosophy degree.....the word philosophy is in the title. Perhaps you would like to become a catholic priest too and then point our how you are a father who has never concieved?
On second thought.....are you SURE you are not a philosopher?
Well actually I think its more the case that its likely true that such a person likely has insight and data about the failure that can help find the cause, even if he doesn't have the personal insight to understand it himself.
Kind of like, if a guy tells you his car is dead because of a blown gasket, you can hear it whenever you try to turn the engine over it makes this loud repeated clicking sound.
Now, it sounds to me like his car didn't start because the battery is almost dead and he likely has a problem with the alternator not charging it. It doesn't really matter that he thinks the gasket blew, he had enough information for someone who knows better to forumulate a better idea.
Seems like it might be better to ask many people who may have had different insights and tracked different data.
> The root issue is ultimately government regulations, which prevent these devices from being patched.
> You can't simply patch a medical device because then it loses its FDA certification.
No. The issues are far deeper than that and have ALOT to do with the overall fragmentation of the entire medical industry and the culture of vulchers that fly around the clinical medical industry looking for ways to get their feet in the door to steady profits.
Here is what i saw from spending too long on thos front lines:
They are all trying to build an embeded solution they can charge for support on, they will generally work directly with the clinics, bypassing central IT as much as possible, and bring them in only at the end, and try to position them as the road blocks on the project because.... they want to keep all the support to themselves.
Then when IT patches all their systems and sees "hey this is an out of date linux box" the vendors sit on their thumbs and cry about FDA certification, as if the responsible thing to do wasn't to immediately contact the FDA about re-certifying. Oh no but that would cut into their profits!
Hell if they really cared, they would fix it, and tell the FDA that if they even try to levy a fine, they are going public with exactly what level of risk and vulnerabilities the FDA is effectively forcing people to accept. Who do you think would look bad after that exchange? "We fixed this problem to protect our patients in spite of the FDA trying to make us not" you think that isn't the kind of issue that would get an FDA head called before congress?
It is, but it never happens, because the profiteering industry likes the regulations the way they are because they don't like having to patch, its a bother.
> ** Obvious exceptions: Wealthy actors, musicians, etc....
However the fact we have to call them exceptions means something....the average isn't them. When someone says "actor" we should not think "Arnold" we should think "Oh you want seperate checks?" because thats who actors are. Hell I know a whole bunch of actors, they all make more at their day jobs.
> Our society doesn't value artistic expression as much as it does technological prowess, and that's really sad
I don't think this is true, in fact, i think its meaningless.
Do you value gold or water more? If gold, then tell me how you would live without water, if water, then tell me why you will not trade me equal weight in gold for water? These things each have value, and a number can be put on that value for trade purposes, but, their true values are not so easily compared.
People are willing to take out loans and forsake study of subjects which could more readily garauntee their income and yet, still get loans and support....I would say in some ways, we overvalue art. Especially in a day and age where more people than ever can not only produce their own but easily share it. Long gone are the days when the average artist was a student who spent his days copying the work of a master to be sold as his "prints".
I think its more correct to say that with the increase in liesure time and education, the barrier to entry to art has come down so far, that the monetary value of it is largely gone and only available in seriously life supporting ammounts to a very few....as it always was, its just more visible now with more people able to try to be "professionals".
I do think there is value to learning art, even if not much value in supporting more professional artists, I see nothing wrong with what used to be profession being more hobby. I don't see so much how society needs more professional artists, even if it could benefit from more people being artists, in fact, in some ways, I think the two are at odds with eachother, and it is far better as a wide spread hobby than a concentrated profession.
> The author says that rather than do that (get an ordinary job), he intentionally chose the (lack of) career path that he's on.
That was the part where I really found I couldn't relate at all. Especially the part when he describes writing, as opposed to gainful employment, as his value to society....maybe if society agreed, he would be able to pay his loan back?
I feel like I just watched this guy walk up to the roulette table, be told that anything but red or black is a stupid long shot, then argue when he loses his whole stack in one go because he put it all on double 0. By all means, toss a chip on there, but don't delude yourself into thinking it was a good bet compared to the guy who is already slowly losing his shirt with the safe bets....at least he gets to sit at the table for a while and get some drinks.
I mean I can relate in that....theres lots of things I would rather be doing than working on someone else's projects and systems. I have lots of interests and hobbies, many of which i have worked on with far more energy and passion than my day job (and many with less). I don't see what is so wrong with that, who ever said you can't work AND be a writer? What kind of idiot goes hod wild for a long shot and then cries when it doesn't pan out?
Its like, I know several actors, even a stand-up comic or two. You know what they all have in common? Day jobs.
Actually there is a rather hillarious video out on youtube, don't have time to find it now, I suppose someone else will and besmirch my upbringing for not posting it.
The entire video is based on people not understanding the concept of load. Basically the guy builds this massive (and by massive I mean "compared to its output") electrical generator in a basic config like you might do in order to demonstrate the princible of electrical generation rather than actually produce power.
Anyway, the entire thing boils down to him taking measurements with it under load, then removing the load and taking measurements, and comparing his results to show that his device was "over unity" because of some bullshit about magnets. (its hard to remember the BS he was spewing, I just remember laughing my ass off while I watched his "test")
Well as far as I understand from reading some battery charger spec sheets, many modern chargers actually provide a constant current rather than voltage for charging, stopping when the voltage required to maintain that current rises too high, which indicates its level of charge.
So while voltage is not charge, its entirely possible, and common, to measure the charge in the battery by relating it directly to a particular voltage, so in that context it is actually a measure of charge because it has a known relationship when used correctly.
In fact, this same measure was often used with lead acid batteries, especially car batteries, since measuring output voltage is often the most accessible way to determine whether is taking a charge or not.
In the end people have to choose for themselves and I do agree they should be able to choose what they want however, it is still up to the school to decide which programs it wants to offer, and how it markets them, and how it advises students.
Its like MLM marketing. Nobody is going to get rich being somebody else's sales associate in a trapazoid scheme. Yes, the individual investors are making bad financial choices and ultimately, its because of their choice to chase down a dead end false dream that leads them to financial ruin.
The MLM marketers selling it as a real viable way to make a living that will get you rich are still scum bags AND, I do think Universities, and really anyone with any decency, should hold themselves to a higher standard on the advice they give others, even when trying to make a buck off them.
Actually, as the experts in education, the people offering a product that they claim is supposed to be so good for your career prospects, I think it somewhat is their fault if they didn't educate students about the decision they were making an encourage them to make better ones.
You are right, this isn't the cause of the problems with socio-economic mobility but, as the job market has seriously changed, and the real needs we, as a society, have for universities has change, the schools have failed to really change, and expectations about the schools and what they do hasn't changed as it should have, and, it is partially their fault.
Fact is, when my parents were in school, ANY degree was good enough. You really could go get a philosophy degree because the jobs were mostly mid level office jobs and didn't require skill so much as the ability to read and learn a bit....perfect for people who had learned how to learn and could all read. Didn't matter what they studied then.
Now, well, that philosophy degree qualifies you to teach philosophy and fuck all else. The value of the products they offer varies greatly, and they still pretend a philosophy degree even matters. Frankly, I don't see why they should even offer philosophy beyond an associates; its just not worth it to the point it counts as a scam really.
> So why take that risk? It is the argument that most drug dealers make less than minimum wage
> and live with their momma according to Freakeconomics.
This. also, most drug dealers I don't think see themselves as criminals. I mean when your supposed victim calls you up, drives over to you, and hands you money, its hard to call him a victim, especially when he is buying from you the same stuff you use yourself. Shit, drug dealers are probably some of the most honest salesmen out there, they actually believe in their product and personally use it!
People just look at bulk/retail price and think "dealers make bank", in fact, the dealer does the same calculation, but seldom factors in his own use and how much he is going to use while spending so much time with other users.
I was a pot dealer myself for a while, a "customer" coming over actually meant I spent an hour or two hanging out with someone I knew, and would smoke with, then they would leave, another would come, and I smoke with him.... my own use expanded to eat up a lot of the profits.
So I was meeting with people at a level that was downright disruptive to life, and to even come close to the money I was making at my legal day job I would have had to tripple or more the amount of business I was doing. It was very much NOT as lucrative as a decent office job.
But there is the.... fuck them. I smoke pot and I love it and I never, not even for a moment, considered myself a criminal any more than a jew in germany would have considered himself a "criminal". Have to act like one, but, never really been one.
This kid however, actually hurting people for money.... I have trouble even relating. On a technical level I understand its amusing but, to actually do it to people? Then claim to not want to be a criminal....that I don't get. This isn't a product you believe in, this isn't something you think should be legal and you are pissed at how you are treated over it....these are naked extortion tools.
Well I would tend to agree but, if Ross Ulbricht can get life in prison and have people justifing it based on crimes he wasn't even charged with, then I don't see why this is a problem.
Whats good for the goose is amazing for the gander.
Its not about their salaries but number of workers. TSA doesn't even just do airports, they have, like any good government jobs program, been expanding.
Also the TSA functions were privatized, and never were minimum wage jobs, they were every bit as effective, with much lower costs and far higher satisfaction by the paying customers, who they had very real incentives not to bother unless there was actually a reason.
However, in that time, they did not work in train stations, they did not claim authority over bus terminals, and they most certainly did not touch hardly anyone's junk.
You miss the real point. Those gaurds are not there to stop a real threat, they are not really even there to make people feel safe. They are there because making people feel safe is an easy way to justify jobs.
Jobs redistribute wealth which, granted, several countries could use some more mechanisms for, as the concentrations are a bit scary, but in this case, do it without providing any other benefit other than the redistribution.
However its very popular because its easy to justify and the only people who can point out it doesn't work have to openly admit they took contraband on the train. Basically the same is done here.
In Boston, the MBTA have a theater troupe which setups up at one station each day and insists on swabbing bags for explosives, but of course, if you don't want to be swabbed, you can just walk out and walk the 15 minutes (if that) to the next station.
And maybe he will describe the effect so well in an equation that some bored patent clerk will call it a transformation and assume it is one of the fundamental laws of the universe....and then everybody will spend the next 100 years talking about him.
or I really just wanted to say "all he can smell is cow shit".
Because this is not a nation of laws at all.
In a nation of laws, would it be acceptable for spies to have secret talks with the so called "Justice" department and get the green light to torture people, in spite of the various laws against it? Would a nation of laws allow agreements like that? "Don't worry, we wont prosecute, you are working for us"
A nation of laws might, change those laws, and legalize its spies using torture. Then it would be on the up and up. However, this country isn't that, and well.... turns out not just on that one issue.
This just is not, and really never was, a nation of laws.
Keep your overpriced junk.
I don't even know what more to say. I don't want a device that requires somebody else's service to work. I don't want to invest in a future brick, and not just a future brick, but one I can't even use to design my own things and decide whether or not its 100% private?
No, I pay you for the device, then you get copies of all my designs? Everything I work on? AND if you decide you don't care any more, or have enough designs copied, you can just switch it all off and everyone is shit out of luck?
Anyone who pays good money for this, I hope they understand the real limitations and risks before they buy their future brick.
Clearly you have never been there, all he can smell is cow shit. There aint no money out that way and what money there is, can drive itself around just fine.
Who would call uber for anything when NOTHING is within a 30-45 minute one way drive? Nobody who would need it could ever afford an uber ride, and the uber driver would would have a 30 min ride himself to get anywhere.
Please I have taken the cabs in my areas a couple of times, I hever never once been impressed by the quality of cars, and only occasionally drivers.
Never tried uber, if they pass inspection they can't be much worst.
Uber finally did something that has convinced me not to ever use their service. I know it has an opt out but, I have no interest in any service that wants to track me and use me to advertise to my friends.
If I want to give them some word of mouth to my friends, I will do that when I choose, thanks.
I don't give a shit about skirting regulation or attacking the comfortable regulated complancency of the taxi cab industry. This however, this disgusts me.
When it comes to drones we have a hell of a lot more to fear from the ones coming out of Pennsylvania ave than the ones flying over it.
That doesn't sound like any of my several jury duties. However, mine all went like this. We come in, sit down, a judge comes in, explains to us how the whole purpose of a jury pool is to scare people into settling cases.
Then a couple of hours later, they return, announce that all of the cases today have settled, and send everyone home.
They sure to imprison a lot of people and call up a lot of jurors for the number of cases that actually ever see a jury; which is sad, I don't think this type of system makes for a very good meat grinder.
So, its not just a device, but a device that needs an external service to operate?
As impressive as what it does is, that is a huge turn off for me. Admittedly I look at it from a hobbiest perspective where I prefer my open source 3d printer because I can understand all its parts and tinker with it, even if I don't generally choose to do so, I can.
I don't like the idea of a device that might cease to work because the cloud service it depends on no longer functions. If he is worried about how open source companies have disappointed customers by overpromising, then I don't see this as setting up for success in that arena.
That is unless the "cloud computing" part is a component any customer with one could spin up himself in a generic cloud providers environment....ok then, but, I would have trouble justifying buying a device with externally held "secret sauce".