Re: Bollocks
Ah, so what you're saying is that AI is best at replacing the chief execs :-)
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My main browser is Vivaldi running uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Noscript. Secondary browser is Chromium (I'm on Linux) with the same set, only a little tighter on the Noscript and I run social media on there. Firefox is the last browser and runs only Faceache, and that's also got the facebook container on it.
I find this useful for bypassing pages that have pop ups to stop me from using blockers... I firstly block the message element, and then when the page is usually covered by a transparent black, so I simply block that element as well, and then I can usually get at the page underneath. So I'm using the blockers to block the anti-blocker blockers, and I get access to the un-blocked page as a result.
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate. I'm warning you! He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
King Arthur: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
We use bottled water as it tastes better than tap water ... and part of the problem is who knows what's in that ... and it's easier to put in the fridge in summer as she needs a good supply of chilled water to keep her cool. The filtration jugs that we've tried are useless and we go through filters like... er... water.
I feel that this has been presented by the news in general without any balance. I mean, even getting out of bed in the morning is a risk. I wonder how much plastic is in my milk bottles, but there are issues with alternatives as well.
I'm not totally sure either, but I do know that if I'm going to speak my mind, I have to be prepared to accept that I'm going to put some people's noses out of joint :-) ... comes with the territory and I'm not too bothered about it.
But I do believe that if they keep pushing this, then Musk is the kind of person who is liable to throw his toys out of the pram, abandon the country, blame the unions and still get a good nights sleep.
I wouldn't like to play chicken with Musk. He doesn't blink that often, even when facing a precipice.
I sometimes have visions of Musk, astride a nuclear missile freshly dropped out of a plane, waving his stetson and shouting "Yeee haaa!" on his way to his impending doom... and damn anyone who is unfortunate enough to be in the blast radius.
Just a bit of a check on one aspect of what you're saying. - "That's exactly why anyone working for Musk should be in a union;"
You're making decisions here on behalf of Musk's employees. Give them the legal power to make their own mind up, let them make their own mind up, and the legal muscle to have a union if they want one.
And yeah, I'm not Musk's greatest fan either.
First off... full marks for representing someone and getting a result.
> If the union exists, membership isn't obstructed and nobody joins it, you have a point.
The problem is that unions can use muscle they don't have once they are in a place, and can achieve results that the staff who aren't members, don't actually want.
I've been places where unions have done things that both the union members and the non-union members don't want to happen. Militant unions are just as bad for employees as militant employers.
If a company was run reasonably and the employees didn't want a union, then why should a union be there in the first place?
Unions should only be where the employees feel they want them.
We're basically saying the same thing... and you're calling me naive?
In this case, the union is forcing itself on the employer. The way I read it is... "If you don't have a union in Tesla, we'll starve you until you do." ... that's not acceptable. It has to be driven by the employees. If they don't want one, then why should a union force itself into Tesla.
I'm a union person. I've been a rep and stood alongside people in arguments with management. To a fair degree I agree with him. If the people in a company feel they don't need a union and the company is treating people fairly, then crack on. The only time I've been needed as a rep is when one side or the other, have gone militant and mutual respect has broken down. The lords and peasants thing is a bad analogy, though. Even with unions present, people rise within good companies.
Unions from outside the company forcing Tesla (and their workers) to have a union when they don't want one, I disagree with. That a union can force other people outside a company, to cripple that company from outside... that's not right IMHO.
In this case, however, there does seem to be a union inside Tesla which is having issues and negotiations aren't working, which have triggered sympathy strikes. So I feel like I don't have the full facts here.
"Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace" was a very interesting read on engagement and although they went full employee ownership, it proves that there are different ways of engaging employees and company operations.
The way I read the thing a while ago, Meta would not necessarily stop using someone's personal data for themselves; just stop it from being used by other parties.
On the one hand, that would make sense because even if they're not serving you ads they're still serving you groups you might like, subjects of interest, etc. but there is no oversight on what they will continue to use your data for.
Facing that kind of scenario, I'm not going to pony up.
His rockets aren't, but the payloads he carries for his customers are.
If it's deemed to risky (I know... rockets are always risky) then his customers won't get insurance for their payloads, or it will cost them too many arms and legs on top of what it usually costs, and they won't fly with him.
It's not just a case of how deep Musk's paper pockets are.
Musk's wealth is mostly paper. If confidence is lost, then that will take a dent. With it, will go the funds for his various enterprises.
He is lighting an awful lot of money on fire. A chunk of it is other people's money. At some point, people will stop giving him money to use a cigar lighter fodder.
...especially when put alongside the LTT backpack. On top of their regular backpack for $249.99 - https://www.lttstore.com/products/backpack - they now have a luxury backpack for $599.99 - https://www.lttstore.com/products/luxe-backpack
I'll admit to springing for the regular backpack (whish I hadn't) but the Luxe version is too bonkers even for me - "All Luxe Backpacks are built to order. Estimated ship date is 6 months after your order (~April 2024). Your card will be charged in full when you place your order." - I think not.
And... get this... "All items will ship together, so any other items in your cart will be held until your Luxe Backpack is produced & ready to ship."
He can stir the pot as much as he likes. ""Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X" ... I did have one browser tab permanently on twitter. I closed it yesterday and now I'm spending no time on twitter. Congratulations Musk.
The only reason that my time spent on X was increasing, was scrolling through posts trying to find anything that was interesting. The increasing amount of time finding nothing of interest equals... no time spent on the platform at all.
...because I have firewalls, etc. at home and I don't want one of their routers. But there seems to be very little reliable information on what they will install in people's homes and how to interface existing equipment.
The last thing I need is for someone to come in, install stuff and then be faced with extra cost to get different equipment or re-configure my home systems before I can talk on the internet or use my phone again. And who do I call to tell them that my mobile phone reception is rubbish? Hopefully more information will come in time, as I have a relative in Salisbury who is less than impressed with their so called success there.
...however they've been sending the notices to the e-mails of the accounts... in other words, the notices have probably gone to the kids instead of the parents. Microsoft probably don't care... box ticked from their point of view, and the regulator is probably clueless as to what's happened.
I have tried e-mailing a copy to el-reg but apparently my e-mails have been blocked, so, meh.
Grateful for a link to these records to learn a bit more. I'm obviously not using the right terms on google.
I have to admit I can't get my head around how such a record would work in terms of response to scratching. Even with the magnetic clutch on my SL, it's difficult to decently scratch a record. Imagining adding in the latency of AD conversion, processing, etc. has got the old brain cells wondering, "How do they do that?"
"If you make your customer your enemy, you have profoundly screwed the pooch." ... but that's exactly what they want to do. The pooch is there to be screwed out of as much money as possible. That's why they see nothing wrong with what they're doing.
The problem is those who offer up what they do, who don't want money in return, will be impacted because those who want the pooch to bend over and take it, are in the vast majority; and lets face it, nothing comes for free these days. Every web renewal I have to weigh up the cost of my personal web domains and wonder if I can afford to keep them running in these cash strapped times.
I gave up on things as well. The most recent example was American McGee's Alice whereas the protection system prevents me running it on the OS because the patches made the old CD protection fail. There is a command that can be run on Windows 7, I think, but even then it was a pain and I worry that the CD hasn't got much life left in it.
I did write a physical letter to Andrew Wilson of EA games, to make patches available on their web site for people to play the older games without having to cope with the copy protection, but I didn't get a response.
If the manufacturers/studios are not engaged then you have to resort to hacking anyway. Either that or the "no CD" hacks which, themselves, are a risk.
I think we should just resign ourselves to the fact that many games are just going to die because even though the companies aren't making any money from these titles any more, they still don't want other people to continue to enjoy the legacy of games. They'd rather we continue to spend money on the new stuff.
I had the debut carbon with an acrylic platter. Replaced the ortofon cartridge with an AT.
Now I've got an SL-1200 Mk7 and ported the cart over. £800-ish in silver from Richer Sounds. Enjoying it much more. Don't need the DJ stuff, but the non-DJ versions were going £1K+
Speakers, Castle Durham 900 bookshelf. Nice rich sound for not much cash on ebay. (£70 in 2016)
Do they actually believe that anyone takes that seriously? Once data has gone... it's out the barn door, into the field, over the hills and looooong gone. Even John Wayne with the longest lasso known to the human race ain't going to be rounding that steer up.