Why would anyone want 3D renderings of participants, I mean hell...we don't even ever turn the cameras on that we have now, you know?

I really don't wanna see 3D projections of "Todd" in his boxer shorts, unshaven...you know?

So have you given up flying?

Nope.

Does your house use natural gas?

Yes...HELL yes, keeps my electric bill reasonable...gas heat, gas water heater, gas clothes dryer, gas stovetop and oven.

Gas...the ONLY way to cook!!

Personally...I enjoy and plan to continue to enjoy the standard of living I grew up with and worked hard to attain.

I see no reason to give anything up.

But, you be you.

Found the American. Europeans, many of whom don't even own a car are laughing at how absurdly stupid your view is.

It's only stupid if you are an European that has no concept of how US cities and the country is laid out as a whole.

Everyone here is NOT in a densely packed urban center where public transport generally seems to work....

The US is a very large country, and the majority of the land is not occupied by dense urban type cities...not to mention the extreme diversity of weather, and land type spread across the states.

You're only stupid if you don't know about or take into considerations the VAST differences between tiny Europe countries and the US.

Firstly, we should not be using edge-case to inform policy. That's... silly.

Really?

They seem to be pushing it for all the new "trans" policies and rules for sports and bathroom use and don't mind that that is all "edge-case" to impose these on the majority of the world this is normal.

Or we could just do roundabouts everywhere.

I fucking HATE roundabouts....

Thankfully not many of them around, but in some newer areas I've driving they're trying them out...ugh.

Agreed. I see many people every day who stop their vehicle one or more car lengths behind the white line. Getting on their rear bumper generally induces them to move forward.

Yeah, it seems a LOT of folks driving big SUVs or Pickup trucks...do not know where the nose of their car actually is....

Sitting that high, they are stopping far short of the line because they're just going by how it looks from up there...not realizing they need to pull forward to actually hit the line.

It's annoying as hell.

Often if I'm at the front, I'll pull my car all the way to the proper line...and some times, especially if my window is open or the top down on my car, I'll look around at the car in the next lane...try to catch their eye...then look forward to where they should be, and where I am....and kinda look puzzled.

I'd say about 7 times out of 10 they will pull forward at least a little.

I guess everyone these days is getting their drivers license out of the same box of Cracker Jacks...as that you see this behavior ALL the damned time.

About how long a flight is that from the US?

There are probably more reflexive Japanophiles than Sinophobes here. This is mostly because of things Japan produced in the 80s and early 90s. There was a time when this news would inspire daydreams of cheaper PlayStations and waifus. Now, all I can think is "How long until somebody claims "Bitcoin can fix this."

Actually I was thinking.."Hey, does this mean a trip to Japan is now cheaper than it used to be?"

I'd love to go over there and try to buy up vintage camera gear at a reasonable price!!

I find this to be a "use it or lose it" proposition. I used to work with quite a few Indians and got to a point where talking with them was second nature, even with my spotty hearing - I wear a cochlear implant. In fact, at one point, my wife had a health scare, and the doctor was Indian. I had to translate for my wife, who wasn't familiar with Indian speakers. It was surreal that I had to translate for anyone else. But I stopped working with those fine folks over 10 years ago, and I had an Indian tech support agent on the phone the other day, and I had a really hard time understanding him. I'm out of practice.

That's the thing....

No matter which country you live in...you shouldn't have to "be in practice" to be able to translate what someone else is saying when your calling for support.

I expect when calling from the US, to speak to someone (or some thing) that speaks with a dialect/accent that a US English speaking citizen can readily understand.

Anyway I used to do a bit of video editing on it years ago with kdenlive when it was still pretty high end. So... I guess? I have a workstation that I use for video editing when I do video work. Obviously I have the big screen, mouse and graphics tablet, meaning a desk is ind of important plus of course shitloads of storage.

Oh, I have a desktop for major living too...but we're talking portable here, more specifically on this /. thread...the iPad.

My 2017 iPad Pro has been doing great, but it is finally starting to look a bit long in the tooth for what I'm wanting to do...

I want to be able to work with some medium format (digital) images, focus stacking those....I want to edit video, do some sound, color correction and Special Effects....in Davinci Resolve...and mine is a bit old now.

But I get the new iPad Pro.....load it up with 2 TB storage and max it out...and I can readily do things on it when on travels, or even down by the pool...that would make most laptops puke....I'm just saying, these things have their places and uses for the power you can load them up with....

Do I do all my editing on it...of course not. For long, very complex sessions, it's more comfy to sit in my office, in my chair with a large screen in front of me.

But at times, I might wanna continue one project while out...and this can more than allow me to do that, AND...it's small and lightweight and easy to carry around when out and about....something most laptops are not.

And now effing Hulu is playing ads even though I'm paying them!

Strange...I've never seen an ad on my Hulu....?

As annoying as I find the voice chat bots we already have;

At least the bots can speak English to there you can actually understand them....

On YT I've seen a couple of "reaction" videos where the observer absolutely freaks out over old videos of The Who smashing their instruments.

One of the best pictures I've ever seen:

This Guitar Has Seconds to Live...

[*] Fuck you fanbois. My boring old thinkpad laptop is still going strong at 14 with a fully patched OS. No hacks or pwnage required. I bought it run Linux and it still does.

For every tool, there is a use case.

Not everyone wants to lug around a large, clunky laptop everywhere.

I'm guessing that 14yr old Thinkpad isn't up to running some of the software I'm wanting to use, like Davinci Resolve, Affinity Photo...Procreate...etc.

Correction. US Government agencies can pass regulations with the force of law, completely outside of their authority. Only Congressional (CRA) and legal challenges serve to bound that. The regulations often cause irreversible effects, helpful, harmful, or otherwise in the meantime, even if they are eventually found to be an overreach, which rarely happens.

Thankfully....several cases have come through the court system to SCOTUS and others are in the pipeline, that are being used to slap the hands of the executive agencies to teach them NOT to overstep their authority from congress.

Recent victories like the one over the EPA and 'navigable waterways' are being used as precedent over new cases....so, slowly this is being addressed in some small fashion.