If we spin this as the TSA allowing for homosexual acts (especially on God-fearing straight folk!), could we use this to convince the GOP to support shutting it down? Toss in some terms like "limited government" if necessary.
Sadly, no.
Cognitive dissonance is very powerful and this sounds like a textbook case of "no true scotsman".
He wasn't a TSA agent, the brave defenders of 'Murica because no true TSA agent would do such a thing.
Obvious solution is to neuter all TSA agents.
Eunuchs admins?
They are paying Netflix AND a VPN provider. They are paying extra compared to the USA.
You dont need a VPN. Netflix recently opened in Oz, so I got an Oz account and just use a simple Firefox extension to watch Netflix in the US as the US has many times more shows than Australia (Oz has around 1500 titles, the US has 7500 titles).
However even with a VPN (which is what, $5 a month) it's still much cheaper than trying to get the content locally... IF you can get the content locally.
This is all set up so they can rake over the richer countries without entirely locking themselves out of the less wealthy countries.
And basically this is admitting that they're deliberately ripping off more wealthy countries...
But that's not true. A movie in Thailand costs as much as a movie in the United States... but both are cheaper than Europe who are miles cheaper than New Zealand and Australia. That explanation makes no sense when you consider reality, Thailand is much poorer than the US but Europe isn't significantly wealthier.
In a digital world with no borders, this not only makes no sense, but it's completely unenforceable.
The Libertardians will argue that they're charging what the market will bear. But what they forget is that the free market doesn't exist in the entertainment industry because they have a government granted (and occasionally enforced) monopoly. The fact is, the entertainment industry is charging beyond what the market will bear, however in decades past there was little we could do about it. Then we could get a suitcase of bootleg DVD's from Thailand and Bali... Then there was piracy, now doing end runs around geoblocking. All of this _is_ the market asserting itself against what it feels are unfair conditions (and by market I mean people, because that's what a market is comprised of).
Steam sales have repeatedly proven that low prices do more to affect piracy than anything else.
With ISPs now considered utilities,
In Australia ISP's have always been considered utilities.
As such, it is not the responsibility of the ISP to police what you do, nor interfere with what you do with its service.
Grey import in Australia is legal, the same applies to services that use geoblocking and other methods for price discrimination. However because the Australian courts cant stop it they turn a blind eye to people circumventing it.
For the life of me I can't understand how people get addicted to the stuff. I'd *much* rather be in pain than feeling nauseous.
The same drug can have radically different effects on different people. Sounds like you dont react well to morphine. Others will react differently.
My brother in law gets knocked out by small doses of doxylamine (over the counter sedative used in some pain killers) but I'm almost completely unaffected by a slightly higher dose.
Before dispensing pharmaceutical or medical advice please be aware of the limitations of what you say.
You really need to start taking your own advice.
Your sources come from brand name manufacturers. Of course they're going to claim generics dont work as well.
The FDA and it's counterparts in every other western country has a requirement that all generic pharmaceuticals are as safe and effective as the brand name pharmaceuticals they're competing against.
Studies have shown that generics are not only bioequivalent, but the lower cost leads to better adherence (I.E. patients "forget" to take the brand name medication more often).
are you sure not Tylenol? also Panadol, Mapap, Tempra, Feverall, Ofirmev, Acephen, Mejoralito, Xl-dol, Bf-paradac, Aypanal, Aphen, Nortemp, Apap, Ringl
Paracetamol == drug name.
Panadol == brand name.
I never ask for a pain reliever by it's brand name as brand name pain killers are more expensive than generics and the generics are just as effective.
Your talking about racism, this article is about internet trolls They are not the same.
Technically yes, you can be a troll without being racist. However you cant really a racist without being a troll. So there is a lot of overlap between the two concepts.
Ive been tagged a troll because of my views a few times.
As has happened to me a few times. But it's not common and amazingly I still have excellent karma. Normally I get modded "overrated" as that mod has a much lower chance of being corrected by another user with mod points than the troll mod does.
If you're consistently being modded as a troll, you have to accept that either you are a troll or your comments are completely unsuitable for this forum.
is the only safe solution.
Not the entire solution though.
If you want your data to be properly disaster proof, it needs to be stored in several secure/low risk offsite locations, preferably in several formats.
Not quite sure why it remains a viable solution for that reason alone,
You're confused because you're doing it wrong.
Tape is for long term storage. If you're restoring a large volume of data from tape either your backup systems were badly designed or you've had a serious failure that's made your nearline backups unavailable... As in you're server room burned down in which case you've accepted it will take some time to recover data.
Here in Saskatchewan, Canada, we measure distance in time.
For example:
Person 1: "How far is Calgary from Regina?"
Person 2: "Oh about 7 hours."
I'm not sure why we do this, but this is the honest truth. My wife used to work at a service station, and had people ask how far X was. They would look at her like she was an alien if they weren't from around here.
We do the same here in Australia because distance never takes traffic into account. Fremantle to Perth is 30 minutes on a Saturday arvo, but 50 minutes on Monday morning.
Why do you think that a vehicle that can see in 360 degrees around it in the visible spectrum, infrared spectrum, and LIDAR
Sounds like you've got zero experience using these technologies in the real world.
The first problem you have is that these technologies aren't as good as you think. Rain and snow tends to have a very negative effect on the LIDAR, IR and Visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (which are actually quite close to each other). There's some very good reasons Google is testing their cars in sunny, clement California.
The second problem you have is that these systems have a lag when decisions need to be made in real time. I've dealt with LIDAR terrain mapping, It takes hours for an analyst to get a good capture into a usable state. A capture that has a lot of cloud (most of the imagery I deal with is aerial) will take a lot longer. Sure you dont need that level of precision, but you're still going to end up with the computer being presented with incomplete data.
The third problem you have is that computers aren't predictive, humans are. The computer reacts to what has just happened. A human looks at the risks and evaluates them before they happen. Computers are reactive.
Something that always gets pointed out in favour of autonomous cars is the fact that they're predictable... Which is actually a bad thing when you're putting them into inherently unpredictable situations. So if a computer encounters a problem, it's designed to stop, that is predictable. When you're driving up a mountain road or even in moderate traffic, suddenly freezing is a very bad thing. Humans may not be as predictable but at least they have a chance of being able to make the right decision in an complex and unpredictable emergency, we can guarantee current software cant precisely because it's so predictable.
Please note, this isn't an argument against autonomous cars. It's an argument against the misconceptions people have about autonomous vehicles. We haven't even come close to replacing human controlled vehicles in areas that can be controlled to a pathological level like mine sites (and I've been hearing about the autonomous mine site since 1994) because the technology isn't as reliable as a human even after decades of development... And here's a news flash, it will be decades before you see fully autonomous vehicles on the road. We've come a long way, but there is still a long way to go before they're usable.
Your next car wont be autonomous, your next, next, next car wont be autonomous (and before you say that Mercedes has said... remember how many concept cars the industry puts out that never make it into production).
Fixed that or you.
People who come up with this crap usually live in urban areas and have never driven on anything but city streets and urban highways. I somehow don't see the autonomous car getting me up an old mining road in the Colorado Rockies that doesn't show up on any road map. I also don't see me trusting said car to pick it's way around, over and between the various obstacles like wash outs and large lose rocks that take some very careful driving to get over or around. Especially when there's a 1,000 foot drop on one side and a cliff face on the other. Routes like the Alpine Loop between Silverton and Lake City or the "road" to Argentine Pass to name just two places I've driven.
Cheers,
Dave
Whoa, hold on, that's getting way to advanced for autonomous cars. They're going to suck in city traffic too.
What the proponents of autonomous cars often ignore is the fact that they'll all be using the same navigation data, so that means they're all going to pick the same route without manual human intervention. Anyone who drives in a city who has half a brain knows that sometimes a longer route gets you where you want to go faster because it avoids congestion.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
