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Comment Re:The Best (Score 1) 218

I will agree that this is the case...

I got a new Nissan 2024 with pro-pilot. It was a base option for the model but i was wary since I just wanted cruise control.

however, I love the pro pilot. The steering part is a bit scarier than I would like but the automatic radar for speeding up and such. It really reduces the strain on the legs.. I do worry about falling asleep now where I didnt before.

Earth

Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains, Exposing Millions of Americans To Extreme Pollution Levels (stanford.edu) 58

Wildfire smoke now exposes millions of Americans each year to dangerous levels of fine particulate matter, lofting enough soot across parts of the West in recent years to erase much of the air quality gains made over the last two decades. From a report: Those are among the findings of a new Stanford University study published Sept. 22 in Environmental Science & Technology that focuses on a type of particle pollution known as PM2.5, which can lodge deep in our lungs and even get into our bloodstream. Using statistical modeling and artificial intelligence techniques, the researchers estimated concentrations of PM2.5 specifically from wildfire smoke in sharp enough detail to reveal variations within individual counties and individual smoke events from coast to coast from 2006 to 2020.

"We found that people are being exposed to more days with wildfire smoke and more extreme days with high levels of fine particulate matter from smoke," said lead study author Marissa Childs, who worked on the research as a PhD student in Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Unlike other major pollutant sources, wildfire smoke is considered an 'eexceptional event' under the Clean Air Act, she explained, "which means an increasing portion of the particulate matter that people are exposed to is unregulated."

Comment Hmmm.. Having just flown from Europe (Score 1) 106

I find this interesting. All my flights were booked solid and we are talking March 7th. The airports were jammed packed and the passport control was long lines.

None of the flights had been changed as I booked at least a month before so.. I am not sure where this empty is happening?

Comment Re:3 million is nothing (Score 1) 478

Exactly how many times do people get to vote on this? There has to be some sort of end to it. The original vote was fraught with.. Fake News? and what about the next vote and the next vote? no matter who wins, the loser can cry foul. Nothing will ever get done if a vote can be constantly in flux. It is why the referendum was done, it ended the speculation. The decision was made, its done. Live with the consequences as nothing so far has been unexpected.

Voting matters and each Vote should count and be respected. Now, if you are out of the EU and finished Brexit, then you can have a Vote to go back into the EU since you already accomplished the purpose of the first vote.

Comment Re:Good government management (Score 1) 365

Not caring one way or another but I will point out that sounds like a Political Talking point. Take the money and hire..
How does Tax Incentives = Actual Money? your comment was insightful? There has to be money to be made for Tax Incentives to actually kick in.

Now there is ZERO new money.

Now, what would Amazon replace? Zero money? 3 billion dollar money? 10 billion money? Unless Amazon destroyed something, there was 25k in new jobs to be taxed by the city + anything over the Tax Incentives from amazon corporate. Guess how much Amazon would have made.. 17 billion is one number.. so then the City lost 14 billion in taxable revenues.

Any corporate landlord gives incentives to move in (in a good economy) such as "Configuration" help. ie: you move in, here is 100k for your new cubicles because we will make it up in 6 months.

Comment Re:Yeah but .... (Score 1) 264

In the deleted scenes from the Original Blade Runner discussion of MetaPhysics was a major focus. The original movie asked what is it to be alive, to be sentient, to be a slave, to meet your maker, to want more life, to kill your maker, to face death, to be nothing after you die.. etc. This movie dealt with this from the standpoint of the replicants being able to be "Fully Human".. ie: pure racism. However, no matter what the MetaPhysics and the "Isms" shown.. It is still about a man and his family.. personal interactions. the JOI bot, each replicant believing they were the child and wishing so much to be so.

To wish is to have a soul?

Comment Why complain about a great "sequel" (Score 5, Interesting) 264

This sequel was a slow rolling dramatic tale and I will say.. IT WORKED.

SPOILERS ahead.

I mean it!! Spoilers ahead!!

Seriously.. SPOILERS.

I have to say.. Spoilers cause spaces are removed.

Yes.. SPOILERs..

1. I loved that every Replicant felt that they were the "One"
2. The death scene at the end was just.. perfect. The falling Snow.
3. Everyone wanted a piece of the Child.. and yet... that is the real human condition... everyone wants to use you.
4. In the end, this is a story about a Dad and a daughter. What they represent, does not matter.

I wanted to cheer the ending as it was.. just perfect.

Comment But does it have a removable Battery? (Score 2) 95

Seriously. I have both the NOTE 3 and 4 and love them. The NOTE 4 and 3 are fantastic. Modular pieces of hardware inside makes simple replacement of power/usb ports. Replaceable Battery and MicroSD card slot. Simple things that mean a whole lot. I use the Headphone Jack to fly on planes with my serious noise cancelling headset. The NOTE's are Rooted and easy to update.

So.. I am wondering: Is Samsung going to be smart and get my money back by putting simple things that make our life better? Did the NOTE 4 removable battery/MicroSD and easy maintenance cause Samsung to lose money? NO.. It just made life easier for the consumer. I blame Apple for "teaching" samsung to lock down hardware as a way to make money. I still use the older phones until I get a better NOTE!

Comment Audio Loudness increase.. (Score 1) 277

When will Android allow for the 100% + loudness increase? People who are partially deaf have a hard enough time with the ear pieces... but also the increasingly loud environment can override bluetooth earpieces. To combat that, ever increasing hardware is purchased and Rooting overrides some of the locks by Samsung, etc.

However, Allow android to overdrive the hardware would fix a lot of issues. Let the consumer, ME, make the choice.

VLC really is nice in Windows because it does somehow overdrive the sound. I get more out of it + Windows + max device than any other item.

Maybe others have solutions? See Root ROMS that have increased Audio to know that this is a problem.

Comment Re:Causation has been proven (Score 1) 213

Please site where CTE is rare among the general population?

If I suspect a person has had a concussion, could I then get the brain CTE testing? I think its significant that 1 NFL brain, suspected of having CTE, did not. The sample was of NFL brains that were checked because they were thought to have CTE. Where is the control group of samples in the NFL?

Comment Re:Windows... (Score 1) 352

There are many cases where the back end is more important than the GUI processing. This is a RT case problem where most of the products that have this issue just dedicate hardware to the backend processing and separate the GUI using message parsing, DDS, or some other way of clearly marking the boundaries.

Having a single hardware set with processors doing both GUI and high end back processing end up having issues. Graphics Chips are a result of taking the backend software and pushing it to hardware to speed it up. Either way, GUI processing is still limited.

Poor Dumb Human time becomes less important than auto detecting a Torpedo coming at you.

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