If you're going to wear a powerful computer on your face, other people shouldn't be able to give it commands.
If more people DO give random commands to these stupid glasses, maybe the new glassholes will stop wearing them. Seems like a net win to me.
Jobs was quite relentless, "fix it or your fired" he said, or something to that effect.
Hm, quality management skills right there. Glad I never worked for him.
currently the display device on my fridge consists of a couple of sheets of A4 with my daughter's school timetable printed out, attached with magnets. Insanely reliable, low initial cost, no running cost, very hard to hack, doesn't "phone home" and never displays adverts.
Great battery life, survives being dropped on the floor, survives getting wet, new pages can be bought (or recycled) from generic sources, used media is recyclable and compostable, the list goes on....
There are useful things you can do with a vertically mounted, easy cleanup, food/water proof screen in a kitchen for sure. - Now I am not sure building these features into an appliance you might keep for 15 years, is smart, maybe a better feature would just be a removable mount/plate that lets you install the 7 - 13" tablet of your choice on the door and then it might be smarter still integrate that into the cabinetry rather than the fridge but..
I think you're onto something here. If the fridge provided an easily-cleaned dock that could hold a tablet, maybe interface with the sensors and a camera in the fridge, that could be the best of both worlds. I'd never buy one, but the older I get the more I realise that my purchasing decisions are not like the decisions of most other consumers.
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There are good reasons to want a tablet in a central, accessible location in the kitchen. Apparently, Samsung isn't it, but that's not a condemnation of the idea.
Cheap laptop on the bench. This also has the advantage that you can close the lid and/or move it around. After dinner it will serve as the internet device while we are watching TV (because smartphones/touchscreens suck.)
Their problem is that they are fucking morons.
To be fair, education has been systematically dismantled in the USA since the 1980s.
Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War really shows where Trump's focus lies. "I've stopped 7 wars. No new wars while I was president."
Why rename the Dept of Defense to the Dept of War if his focus is on NOT going to war?
To be fair, the DoD has been focused on war more than defense for decades. At least now they are being honest about it.
> Texas and Florida prohibit local governments from mandating rest and water breaks.
bugs bunny should update the animation ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
Trump will cancel this cartoon because it says "Gulf of Mexico."
I assume the CIA or similar is looking into parachuting nudie magazines into the territory.
"96% of wind turbines are recyclable, but the blades are made of fiberglass, which is not normally recyclable (but it has been done)."
If it's not economically viable, then it probably won't get done. And governments it seems would rather bury the old blades in massive landfill, than take the hit of paying companies to make second-rate surfboards out of all that waste. Well that's what they are doing in Australia where land is still relatively abundant - they bury the fibreglass, at the same time as spruiking how recyclable they are in theory. It disgusts me really.
A used fibreglass wind turbine blade seems pretty inert. If less pollution is created by putting it in a hole (or leaving it in the desert) than "recycling," then sure, just dump it. I'd rather live next door to a dumped wind turbine blade than live downstream of the ash dump from a coal power station.
But in a gas gar there is likely to be a gas station near by. Even if you have to carry the gas yourself, at least it is doable.
I don't know where you are posting from, but they do seem to have electricity there.
That's you. If you're willing to suffer, that's your decision. Most people aren't like you and they won't subject themselves, their loved ones and children to freezing temperatures in the name of owning an EV.
16C, heated seats and steering wheel is "suffering" now? Cue the "four Yorkshiremen" sketch.
Next time buy a Ford than a Chevy I guess. (That's a joke, never buy American vehicles. That's another joke, always buy American.)
This I do like
A recent study concluded that areas with a high proportion of centenarians were usually areas with shoddy record keeping and/or high rates of pension fraud. In other words, many of the centenarians were actually younger than they claimed to be.
One study is here: https://www.biorxiv.org/conten...
Media coverage here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...
and here: https://allthatsinteresting.co...
Unless every country in the world does this simultaneously, those countries that implement such taxes will become uncompetitive and start losing out to those countries without such taxes. High emission activities will just be outsourced to countries with less regulation.
Couldn't the country importing the product just slap tariffs on anything that was produced in such countries?
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
