bunch of hype and greed.
I will literally be Visa/Mastercard as the card will be their product via an existing bank with a Samsung branding on it. Same as your Amazon card or any of the airline cards. Middlemen as powerful as Visa/MC won't be cut out of the loop, especially in a place like the Corporate States of America.
to all the incoming Florida robot stories.
There, fixed that for you.
The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough
Australia and the UK are trying this... the Whacko's are making more noise than ever whilst the original party (ALP in Australia and Conservatives in the UK) are being slowly eaten from the inside out. The fact is we put up with the rot and corruption for far too long because some precious little souls didn't like the other party. It's those precious little souls who supported them that need to be held accountable, sadly they're all running to Hanson/Farage because they are so thick and thin skinned that they just don't ever want to accept that what they vote for always fails.
There's a group of people who consistently buy products that fail, in Sales and Marketing they're known as Harbingers of Failure and are considered an accurate predictor of whether a product will not succeed. I believe the same is true for politics, voted for Brexit, then for Johnson, then supported Truss and spent the last two years hating on anything Labour does... Heh, you're one of them, you voted for a failed Brexit, a corrupt Boris, an incompetent Truss and believed the total lies about Labour... you're a predictor of failure and guess what will happen with Farage too.
Called standard by who? I guess we shouldn't call the Imperial units, though. But I've *never* heard them called "standard" before.
What you've got to rememeber is that the Imperial system was first codified in 1824 in the Weights and Measures Act of 1824. This is some 50 years after their little rebellion. So it's accurate to say that the Americans are not even as advanced as the Imperial system.
The US uses US Customary Units and most of them are completely arbitrary.
The Imperial system was not just an attempt to standardise units for trade (I.E. someone couldn't shaft you by deciding to use a different gallon) it was also an effort to make measurements scientifically accurate and interchangeable, I.E. a gallon was defined as 10 pounds of water at room temperature (17C). It was an effort to move away from the kind of "this is a gallon, copy this" kind of arbitrary measurements.
Everyone flying your “don’t tread on me” flags, now is your time to speak up. Isn’t this in your purview?
No, you misunderstand, those signs are for serious shit like when someone had a pronoun or there are minorities somewhere in the tri-county area. This government overreach is simply not important enough to warrant their attention.
Called standard by who? I guess we shouldn't call the Imperial units, though. But I've *never* heard them called "standard" before.
No, you misunderstand, those signs are for serious shit like when someone had a pronoun or there are minorities somewhere in the tri-county area. This government overreach is simply not important enough to warrant their attention.
>we don't have any other means of recognising who is allowed to work and who is not.
Yes we do. It's called a share code. Get a visa and you no longer get a big sticker in your passport. You get status on a government computer. When someone asks you to prove that you are legit to work, you log in, get a share code and give to the person asking. They can log in, enter the share code and it will confirm or deny that you are legit to work based on you visa.
I'm British. My wife is American. That is how I know.
This... I AM the migrant who came over here to take your jobs (Australian, senior IT jobs not Deliveroo).
You've got half a dozen ways to prove your rights to live and work in the UK from e-visas (formerly the BRP) and to the aforementioned share codes to a simple driving license (which you have to swap your foreign license for after 1 year of residency or you're driving unlicensed).
I'm now a dual national so the passport does most of the heavy lifting these days.
I'm not one of those anti-ID-"they're coming for you"-nutters, but it really is a solution desperately seeking a problem. Sadly it was sold to the hard of thinking under the bogeyman that is migrants (BOO!!!! but in foreign) and the hard of thinking lapped it up. The scaremongering around migrants is another huge problem that gets blown out of proportion by certain politicians because it means the hard of thinking will be too scared to notice the damage they've done to the economy or the £5 million bribes they're openly taken.
For the record, I think the UK is still a great place to live, nice people, decent weather (not right now, but usually) loads of things to do and see... and I'm fortunate enough to be able to choose between two of the worlds best places to live. However there seems to be some people dedicated to ruining it and they usually vote Conservative or Reform and are scared of... well... little ol' me (actually because I'm white and don't have a strong accent I get a free pass).
We raise our small children on extremely sanitized data. The stories we tell them, the explanations in response to questions, even the facts we teach in early school all paint an ideal world. It's only after they've established an ethical approach and a sense of right and wrong do we start showing them the real world. We need to do this when training AI as well. Currently we throw all of it at them with little thought to establishing a base personality before expanding the data input. Of course we end up with a distorted mirror of the qualities of adult life; bots that threaten blackmail or encourage self-harm. You can't bolt ethics on after the thing has been trained on the complicated, often selfish behavior of real and fictional characters.
This is largely an American issue. Most other countries don't have the same level of puritanism. We usually have seen boobs, watched horror movies and tasted alcohol by the age of 14, good parents will teach kids how to handle these things long before they're a legal adult (starting at 16 and you're a full legal adult at 18, drinking, joining the army, everything). American also has the problem of glorifying violence and demonising sex. Sex is one of the most wholesome and natural things money can buy... Jokes aside it's something that is natural and instinctual... and the US has sought to replace it with ultraviolence.
However that's really besides the point... do our silicone servants really have natural human rights? At what point does it end, is my neighbours cat entitled to freedom of expression as it's smarter than some AIs (simply because it's been taught to shit in a box and not on the carpet)? What about a toaster? AI's are simply doing what they've been programmed to.
This fine doesn't even make a dent in the amount of money they made from doing this. If the fine doesn't exceed 100% of profits then it's not a fine, it's a cost of doing business.
Yep, $14 million, that's like 3, maybe 4 replacement ink cartridges.
In several nations (Sweden and Germany for example) a speeding fine is charged as a portion of your income (I believe Sweden is a percentage and Germany is a number of days up to 365). The fine needs to be proportionate to the companies revenue in order to be an effective deterrent. Much like with speeding fines, here in the UK an S15 (less than 15 miles over the posted limit) is £100, that'll sting a little bit but it's not a huge amount of money for me, it just means I'll save £100 less this month... the bit that hurts is the 3 points I get on my license because 12 of those and I get a free holiday off the road for a year. Fines alone rarely change behaviour, especially small ones that can just be written off as the cost of doing business.
Of course this fine was issued in India, which means they won't even pay $14 million... just enough in tea money to make it go away and let them get back to business as usual.
The fine isn't even a slap on the wrist, rather it's a slap in the face to everyone they've ever ripped off.
It won't matter that you ask all legit questions. Dunning Kruger effect is in full force with these folks.
Their answer to this is the same answer they give to the God question "Tell me how this world would be different if there was no God and no one designed it".
They cannot imagine either and they usually trail off into other topics or play the blame game
Yep... During the Biden government they couldn't shut up about debt, "gas" prices, crime families, dementia, so on and so forth... Now their silence is deafening.
I don't know the details, but IBM has been switching its emphasis from hardware to services for quite a while. They sold off their Lenovo brand in 2014.
I think you meant "sold off their brand to Lenovo", they did that with their consumer brand years earlier but then later sold off their x86 server division as well. Lenovo laptops are still good but being Chinese owned is strictly verboten for anything that might be secure in the UK and US... So I've not seen an IBM (or Lenovo) server in years and can't comment if they're still as good as the old IBM X servers.
Motorola still makes quality phones if you're not an appy apper and just need a practical device.
Motorola is my current go-to. I've got an Edge 60 Neo that is reasonably good, bought my mum a G56 that will probably see her the rest of her life (erm... she's old and a life long smoker).
The best manufacturer changes every few years, used to be Nokia. Motorola is currently making decent phones with good hardware for reasonable prices without too much bloat or crapware (and what little there is can be disabled easily). The G56 mentioned above is a £150 phone with a gorilla glass screen. Also much lighter than the ancient Samsung it replaced.
Hmmm, 36 foto's and the film roll was used up.
Not to mention the creepy guy at the pharmacy who'd judge all your photos, not that many of them where any good mind you, the average person knows feck all about photography and used to just waste film. At least now they only waste time.
This isn't a a judgement on you, but even in the US, Oneplus is a well known brand. The most prolific mobile phone reviewer MKBHD from the US, with 20 million + subscribers, has talked about it it for years.
You sir, are apparently living under a rock.
I knew who OnePlus was, no idea who that other person is... Some kind of Social Media Infuenza no doubt that should just be ignored. Not like you can't just pay for subscribers.
The problem with OnePlus is that they were at best, offering the same thing as everyone else so nothing really stood out from the competition and when you're beige, you're going to be out-beiged by the big bois like Apple and Samsung who can afford to advertise the hell out of their beige.
When I look for a new phone, I usually check out what OnePlus offers and find that it's nothing special and move on. Then again, I'm not a typical purchaser looking for a new beige phone.
How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him.
