Comment Color me surprised (Score 1) 126
People actually use the Windows Store? Wow.
People actually use the Windows Store? Wow.
It's evil because it's incredibly dangerous -- even worse than tailgating.. Motorcycles are hard to see to begin with. Having them dart out from nowhere and eliminate the buffer space around my car is a recipe for disaster. I don't want to be the driver who accidentally injures or kills a motorcyclist because he got too close to me.
Legal or not, lane-splitting is just downright evil.
The reason is public transport sucks and the blocks are too large to make walking a viable option.
That's the case where we live as well.
If I lived somewhere where a car wasn't necessary I would still be pushing my kids HARD to get their license asap.
I tried, but I can't actually force her.
I agree with you, at least for the near to mid future. I know that I personally have no desire for a self-driving car. It would be gee-whiz cool for a while, sure, but I'd very quickly want to drive my own car again. There are just too many situations where I want the car to be in a very specific place, and it would just be easier to put it there myself rather than try to explain it to a machine. I suspect a large majority of people feel the same.
But in a couple of decades that could very well change.
15 years after driverless cars are released your going to have a whole generation of people who never learned to drive a car.
We are well on our way there already in some places, no driverless car needed. My daughter is 20-something, and she as well as about 25% of her friends don't know how to drive and have no interest in learning. The percentage of people who have no interest in driving is even higher in the 16-20 year old bracket.
Sortof. But even if this were 100% true, it still doesn't solve the problem that systemd is present.
That sounds like a truly excellent reason to stop using Gnome.
I have to admit, I've never understood this fetishism for boot times. Boot times stopped being unreasonably long years ago. Why do people still care about modest improvements in speed to something that doesn't happen that often?
If flying were always voluntarily, I'd never fly again. As it is, I fly about twice a year, involuntarily. Regardless of that, though, it absolutely is the government violating my privacy. That I technically "consent" to it doesn't make it any less of a privacy invasion.
Even here, many of the highly rated comments are really just wisecracks which might be funny, but don't add anything to the discussion.
So? The point is that the readers here value those comments. The system works. Whether or not you think they should be valued is beside the point. A different site, with different readers, will value different kinds of comments.
Don't kill commenting just because Jezebel has a terrible commenting system. I've long known that Jezebel's system was bad from the perspective of a commenter, now I know that it's awful from the other side of the fence as well.
We finally got to the point where we have an effective standard and I no longer had to use all the various adapters to be able to plug various devices in. Now Type-C USB comes along to ruin that? Reversibility is a minor advance at best, certainly not enough to be worth giving up having to go back to cable adapters and such.
If you spend time in an urban area, basically anything remotely "downtown" then it is a BIG win.
This must depend on which urban area you live in. In mine, this is not a big win at all. It's a bit pointless, since you're almost always in range of a public wifi hotspot anyway.
determining the RL identities of the bullies likely would reduce bullying, as they could be held socially and legally accountable for what they are doing.
I don't see any reason to think this is true. The RL identities of most bullies are already known to those being bullied, yet the bullying persists.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
