It never ceases to amaze how religion makes billions of people feel incredible guilt for getting wealth while inherently hording wealth itself.
"God to test me" - sorry if it's not intended this way but it sounds very much like you believe your life is only worthy if it is spent in a continuous struggle. If so that is fucked up.
This is why I dismiss any smart features in a TV. The industry is notorious for orphaning their products.
So very much this. We have a TV with a Netflix app that can't watch Netflix. We have another TV with a SteamLink app that I can't play games with because a firmware update was rolled out that bound left stick up and down to the volume control on the TV making it impossible to play games using SteamLink. That was incidentally the last firmware update released.
For companies which largely have no problem supporting mobile phones for years on end they fucking suck at this TV thing.
There are multiple reasons, but I think the biggest is that a different interactive screen ate TV's lunch.
Not so much ate the lunch, but invited people over for brunch beforehand leaving them full and uninterested for a second meal. We're talking about a feature being pushed only in the last 10ish years. The interesting part about that is that by this time everyone already had a phone.
And to whomever said this comment is overrated I suggest you do a bit of research into human failure analysis. You'll find the 1 in 10 year mistake of any given repetitive task to be widely used not just in science literature, but in industry hazard analysis as well. You may think this doesn't apply to you but all you're really trying to convince us of is that you're not a normal human being.
Yeah, for once the complaining about the decline of Slashdot isn't just a bunch of old man shouting at clouds. It's actually by design. The site is dying.
KISS is dead.
Yeah so are the people who applied it. Died in a car accident easily preventable by advanced intelligent driving systems.
I'm all for an anti-tracking rant, but the reality is simple cars are the most dangerous. There's a reason it's effectively mandatory to have forward facing range finding systems in all cars in Europe these days along with the computers that are able to process that data.
And it's a stick shift.
Uah, that sounds needlessly complex. You have a gearbox? Why not just have a motor spin the wheels directly like a modern Hyundai? Next you're going to tell me your car has an engine with 2000 parts instead of a simple rotating coil sitting withing a couple of magnets.
Err
There's a reason why the UK's economic growth started trailing the rest of the EU right around 2016, and I wouldn't call the EU "booming". The point is that it had a negative impact, reversing those numbers don't make something booming.
The classic one is the "bendy banana" rule, which governs the acceptable ripeness of bananas sold there.
See even there you're not even correct in what the rules are, and that's the problem. Most of the discourse is disconnected from reality.
In reality, no banana of any shape was ever "unacceptable" for sale. The ruling was that bananas grown from within the EU (Spain, France and Portugal) needed to apply the same classification and labelling rules and bananas from outside the EU which means the only practical difference is that a straight banana from Spain will have "Class 2" written next to the label in size 4 font, as it sits next to other straight bananas imported from other countries.
Most of what is said about the EU is fucking stupid.
That said some things actually are fucking stupid. There's a lovely collective facepalm right now as Virgin Gin isn't allowed to be called Gin anymore because the regulations governing alcohol say to be called Gin it has to have certain ingredients in it. That kind of thing is stupid. No government is immune from that.
Thankfully most of the crap the US is doing can be rolled back by the next president. If president A can wave his hand one direction, president B can wave it the other way. Most of Trumps crap is temporary. Brexit, on the other hand
A wind farm under construction and sanctioned by the previous administration has been put on hold by the current one saddling one international company with $6.4bn in debt. The flip-flopping of policies is almost worse than just sticking with bad policies for any investment that is looking to extend for longer than an election cycle.
I've posted this before, but the company I work for has cancelled major investment in construction projects in the USA including not just green energy projects, but traditional energy projects as well. The USA now sits on our projects risk register along side unstable shitholes like Libya. We are now far more comfortable investing in Iraq than the USA. No really, let that sink in. It'll take a decade or more for this opinion to change.
Brexit was thinly disguised racism.
That's horseshit. The reality is Brexit is the same as every political movement to the direction of those who make false promises based on lies. The issue is, most of the time the people pushing those lies are racists themselves.
Half of the population of the UK don't want to kick coloured people out, they want better lives, and are too dumb to realise that what they voted for was a lie. This is the downside of a discourse that is centered around the heart vs the brain.
Heart: Your life sucks, it's all these foreigner's faults, Brexit is the solution that will make your life better.
Brain: Brexit won't make your life better, actually we don't know what it will do, it's uncharted waters.
Those were the two campaigns. Which statement evokes any kind of emotional response from you? The one that says your life will be better with this one neat trick, or the one that says this may be a bad idea?
Absolutely, they may post about it on Facebook while a camera points at their face, why should they care about the TV?
The reality is that most people simply consider it a downgrade. Why fix a camera used only for communication into the living room when you already have one in your hand which is portable.
Did you type this on your phone with the camera pointed at your face? The real reason is, we don't need it. The same reason I don't have a webcam on my home PC despite video calling family members weekly, I don't need it, I already have it in my hand, and I can get up and walk around with that one.
What am I missing here?
The percentage of idiots in the population hasn't changed, but the percentage of cars that enable the idiots to do truly dangerous things has. That's the problem being solved. Virtually all EVs have insane acceleration, which means half of new cars in China go into the hands of a group which statistically contains a lot of morons.
Some countries have recognised the fact that people are untrustworthy idiots and do things like limit the power to weight ratio of the driving license in some conditions. E.g. In Queensland Australia P-platers (first 3 years of driving) are limited to vehicles of 130kW/t precisely because cars with high acceleration are dangerous in the hands of idiots.
Much like the people who think turning ESC off is cool there's a reason cars legally need to "forget" this setting between drives.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
