"RoddyVision, please make all the cars look like hot rods and all the people walking look like babes on roller skates."
Sorry, but all RoddyVision allows you to do is pierce the alien signal and allow you to see things as they really are. Side affects include chronic migraines and an unfortunate tendency to run out of bubblegum.
One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.
I'm planning on replacing one of my cars with one.
I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.
I hope they get burned for as much as allowed by law in these lawsuits.
Eh? There will be no burning. The Powers That Be REALLY want this data. TPTB are the ones who do the burning. There is zero chance of any burning here. There is also zero chance that this will stop. It will just be buried and hidden but otherwise fully operational.
The fact that it can remotely disable the vehicle is a complete violation of a person's free will. Such a device should not be sold in a country that has Freedom as one of its founding principles.
Buyers were also not aware of the depth of the tracking and how it would dramatically affect their insurance rates.
You are correct; however, a little skepticism goes a long way. Asking questions like: Why does my car need a constant Internet connection? What data is being passed through that connection? Why are you collecting all of this "telemetry" data? What do you intend to do with that data?
Of course, none of the sales people would offer real answers, so at that point, cycnicism should have set in. Duh, of fucking COURSE they were going to sell all of that data. It was NEVER in question. They are doing even worse things with that data than changing your insurance rates, but yeah, go ahead and keep driving modern cars that send EVERYTHING to the manufacturer. (note that everything includes the contents of your phone if you connect it to the car)
You should see the shit they still allow in our food
More specifically, do not look up "fillers". Oh my god.
It's says a lot about American society that the only ones to successfully cut through he bullshit introduce the metric system is the US military
...to an extent. Sure, the Army and Marines measure ground distances in kilometers and e.g. elevation in meters, and all services describe their weapons in terms of millimeters, but beyond that? The USAF and Navy still use nautical miles for distance, knots for speed, and feet for elevation. The navy still uses yards for range.
is also the only entity int he US that seems to be able to get Americans of all political, racial and religious persuasions to coexist and cooperate in the same space
This is more accurate, and the reason is simple: those guys only see one color, and that's green (or blue for the Navy and Air Force) and there are no atheists in foxholes.
Every AG in every red state will be in one or more big zoom meetings by the end of the week preparing to kill this with fire.
Yep. Thus helping the blue states to maintain their dominance in technology work.
So you better start paying me better.
Why? Just go die like everyone else that is undesirable. Your usefulness to society has expired. Go away. Society does not need you or want you. Gone on, get now. Don't make this harder than it needs to be.
You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.
Everything else you said makes sense; however, this attack on the OP is unwarranted. They were talking about the purpose of the UN and you came up with a suitable response. Assuming he was talking about the purpose of the UN merely in order to prolong the murder of Muslims is a step WAY too far. OP has/had a valid point: The UN should not be visiting sovereign countries with force. Your point was also valid: The UN created this situation, they have a responsibility to fix it.
Personal attacks are NOT useful and will prevent useful conversation from occurring. Don't do that.
IANAL. However, I suspect that conflating right-to-work and non-compete is naïve. Union law is from an entirely different legal foundation, and even age, than IP based non-compete contracts. A trivial attempt to find legal views on this corroborates my suspicion:
Non-Competes: Myths, Misconceptions & Lies
1) Non-competes are unenforceable in “right-to-work” states like Texas. FALSE
Right-to-work laws govern whether employment may be conditioned on an employee’s union membership, or lack thereof. Although a “right-to-work” may sound like it implies that all employees have a guaranteed privilege to freely seek work and be employed, this phrase is actually unrelated to non-competition laws (which allow reasonable limitations on an employee’s traditionally unrestrained mobility in our free market). Completely distinct from the enforceability of non-competes, right-to-work laws protect employees from being denied employment because they are members in a union (or because they choose not to be members or make payments to a union). Thus, the notion of employees having a “right-to-work” is strictly limited to protecting an employee’s right to participate, or choose not to participate, in a labor union or organization by prohibiting such choice from affecting the employee’s “right” to employment. Because the notion of right-to-work is completely unrelated to non-compete limitations, non-competes are still enforceable in right-to-work states like Texas.
So, unless you are a lawyer, take a breath and accept that perhaps you aren't qualified for this guesswork.
Yes, it took specific legislation to ban them in blue states. However, "right to work" laws, as present in red states, already banned them, just not explicitly, more "your employment contract cannot bind you after you cease working for that employer".
IE, what I've seen a couple times, they have to keep the employee "employed' for the non-compete period, including paying them.
See California, largest state in the union, setting the precedent. Colorado followed. Blue states.
And again, these were legislative acts.
It is funny how you think that it is the red states that will kill this. Noncompetes are already not enforceable in many right-to-work states. It's the blue states where noncompete clauses had weight.
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