Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 214
You ask these questions as if the answer to any of them would justify the act.
You ask these questions as if the answer to any of them would justify the act.
Try going into a bookstore and walking out with a book and not pay for it.
Pretty much explains M.S.'s design team. Start, no Start, Start, No Start. Tiles, no tiles.
It's like daytime TV now.
So you get a PC, a large hard drive, a high speed connection, spend hours searching for movies to down load when you could have just gone to the matinee and paid $7.
How many movies do you have to download to make the economics work?
A chimpanzee named Fred was eaten by a tiger after recklessly clapping his hands and making kissing sounds, attracting the tiger's attention.
Other members of the troop were unanimous in describing Fred as "not the sharpest stick in the jungle".
It's better than nothing.
Any anyone who would make an issue of it has waay too much time on their hands.
I'm having a hard time visualizing how this is going to work..
Will I see these things flying over my neighborhood at 300 feet and then drop down to my front door?
Will the package be left on the lawn?
If they have 20 deliveries to my 600 home neighborhood, will they send 20 drones or send a few drones multiple times?
What is the range of these drones?
Will they send a text or call and essentially say, "come and get it?"
Wind? Rain? Construction (cranes, concrete pumpers, other tall equipment. Trees?
Automated or manned? Will there be Job postings or drone pilots?
If you Plumber doesn't shoot you when you happen to pick up a pipe wrench, then yes, hats off to him too.
Now it's just 5 years of environmental studies, lawsuits and billion dollar "mitigation" measures.
In 2013, 101 firefighters died in the line of duty.
In 2013, about 110 police officers died...mostly in traffic accidents. Only 33 due to firearms and even among those few actually killed by bad guys.
Firefighters risk their lives on every call and are protected by nothing more than a thick coat and helmet and their brains.
The Police face risks on every call but most a boring and not dangerous. They are protected by firearms, theirs and their partners, ballistic vests, and overwhelming firepower when needed.
The Police kill innocent people all the time. Firefighters rescue innocent people all the time.
Hats off to Fire Fighters.
Flashbangs are the new Binkies
Maybe there is Google technology that Slashdot could use to prevent duplicate stories from appearing within days of each other.
Thick, aren't we?
These are things that were predicted to happen within a short time, yet have not. It is Alarmist information meant to sway public and official opinion. It is misinformation.
Pass these laws or you will never see now again. Make these changes or the Midwest will be ravaged by Tornadoes, etc.
Just off the first page of a Google search.
Hurricanes will increase in number and intensity.
Tornadoes will increase in number and intensity.
Britain will never see snow again.
Record low Hurricanes, Tornadoes, New York still hasn't flooded, and Britain just had record snowfall this last winter.
Counted the number of hurricanes lately?
How about tornadoes?
Is New York Underwater yet?
Britain will never see snow again.
Etc.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.