Re: Zuck
Just try posting about your serious adverse reaction to a vaccine. Those posts are aggressively blocked.
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Studies like this one have almost no value. The whole concept of self driving is fatally flawed. Driving requires a thinking driver and machines can't think. Human reflexes and attention span aren't sound enough to correct self driving errors when they inevitably happen.
Koroush Ghazi quote below is the best comment about Windows 10.
"Let’s talk about Windows 10, my least favorite subject right now. At the end of last year I announced that for personal and professional reasons, I would not be doing a TweakGuides Tweaking Companion for Windows 10, but that I would try to compile a brief Windows 10 tweak guide. Well I’ve tried, and I’m just not finding it possible to write a decent but brief guide. Windows 10 is an ever-changing, non-transparent, disjointed mess of an OS. Many of its annoyances can’t be successfully tweaked away, and those that can require pages and pages of explanation. Furthermore, any such guide would require constant editing over time as Microsoft alters Windows 10 on almost a monthly basis now."
"But perhaps the single biggest reason I’m not motivated to write a Windows 10 guide is that I’ve rapidly lost all respect for Microsoft, and consequently have lost a great deal of interest in anything to do with their products. Microsoft’s clumsy, desperate, visionless push to get PC users to adopt dumbed-down mobile-oriented apps purely for their own commercial benefit; the unrelentingly persistent, unethical, and highly deceptive way they’re trying to trick less tech-savvy Windows 7 and 8.1 users into “upgrading” to Windows 10; and their insistence on reducing user choice and control over Windows have all left a very bad taste in my mouth. This is an inept company struggling for relevance in the mobile era by shamelessly abusing its monopoly on desktop operating systems, and I don’t want to play any part in helping them do that."
Koroush Ghazi of Tweak Guides.com on Windows 10
Let’s talk about Windows 10, my least favorite subject right now. At the end of last year I announced that for personal and professional reasons, I would not be doing a TweakGuides Tweaking Companion for Windows 10, but that I would try to compile a brief Windows 10 tweak guide. Well I’ve tried, and I’m just not finding it possible to write a decent but brief guide. Windows 10 is an ever-changing, non-transparent, disjointed mess of an OS. Many of its annoyances can’t be successfully tweaked away, and those that can require pages and pages of explanation. Furthermore, any such guide would require constant editing over time as Microsoft alters Windows 10 on almost a monthly basis now.
But perhaps the single biggest reason I’m not motivated to write a Windows 10 guide is that I’ve rapidly lost all respect for Microsoft, and consequently have lost a great deal of interest in anything to do with their products. Microsoft’s clumsy, desperate, visionless push to get PC users to adopt dumbed-down mobile-oriented apps purely for their own commercial benefit; the unrelentingly persistent, unethical, and highly deceptive way they’re trying to trick less tech-savvy Windows 7 and 8.1 users into “upgrading” to Windows 10; and their insistence on reducing user choice and control over Windows have all left a very bad taste in my mouth. This is an inept company struggling for relevance in the mobile era by shamelessly abusing its monopoly on desktop operating systems, and I don’t want to play any part in helping them do that.
Finally, a tech writer who isn't a moron.
Self-driving cars don't care who they kill or main. The humans who produce self-driving cars don't care who their cars kill or maim. Computers cannot think. Computers can't anticipate in the same way that humans can. We are going to witness a fiasco caused by hubris and greed.
Some libertarians, like me, realize that markets must be regulated to prevent theft through collusion and market manipulation. Unfortunately, regulators can be corrupt so there is a need for transparency. Free markets are under attack from people who want government to set prices and allocate resources. Free markets are also under attack from proponents who want to be free to collude and manipulate.
Here in the good old USA only fools call the cops to help a friend. If your enemy needs assistance, consider calling out the swat team for help. View the award-winning film "Peace Officer" made by the sheriff who founded Utah's first Swat team that years later gunned down one of his family members. http://www.peaceofficerfilm.com/
A real friend would get in touch with mutual friends to find a better option. I'm sure that there had to be someone in San Francisco who cared for Murdock.
Windows 7 is the last Microsoft OS I'll ever use. I tried Windows 8 and despised it. When Windows XP support ended I had to install Linux on some older computers and I like it fine. I do favor Windows 7 for WMC and its DVR function but I'll be able to have the same functionality with Linux once Silicon Dust releases its DVR software.
The Great American Ponzi Economy doesn't work without larcenous investment bankers flogging vast quantities of phony paper. Real GDP is very small so politicians need the help of colluding banksters who generate paper income in the form of a bubble. The irony is that the more money the banksters steal the healthier the economy appears before the inevitable crash.