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a wildfire in California was burning the highway and houses but the firefighting planes had to abort because the sky was full of loving camera drones and they're not allowed to fly near them
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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. Now a sane person might say "I guess that's the reason that car rental companies exist." and take it as a lesson learned; but this is Silicon Valley so his proposed solution to abuses like this is for someone, Google, to build a service that gathers information from all the "sharing" and social media sites and tracks people to make sure they are trustworthy. What could go possibly go wrong with a pervasive, privately run, unaccountable surveillance apparatus with the ability to limit your purchase of goods and services? the only thing wrong with the nsa is that it's funded by taxes not vc all hail the sharing (information about our neighbors) economy
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Jul 18, 2015 15:45
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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. Now a sane person might say "I guess that's the reason that car rental companies exist." and take it as a lesson learned; but this is Silicon Valley so his proposed solution to abuses like this is for someone, Google, to build a service that gathers information from all the "sharing" and social media sites and tracks people to make sure they are trustworthy. What could go possibly go wrong with a pervasive, privately run, unaccountable surveillance apparatus with the ability to limit your purchase of goods and services? "Clearly he didn’t care to adhere to the expectations of the sharing economy."
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Jul 18, 2015 15:50
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you know what, i'm ok with the "sharing economy" as long as it never leaves california and idiots like this keep getting viciously owned by it as long as i can watch
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Jul 18, 2015 15:51
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oh my god the entire article is greatquote:Jim was my expected inevitability. In a game of Russian roulette, he was the bullet that fell into the chamber just before the trigger was pulled. Jim was the alarm clock that shook me violently awake into the real world, a society where not all of its citizens are respectful and courteous. quote:What’s particularly infuriating about the experience is the financial burden that I am left with. RelayRides has been helpful in the repair process and I will be reimbursed for the costs of most of the damage. However, they weren’t able to make the situation absolutely and completely mitigated. quote:Jim represents the person who does not belong in the sharing economy. quote:However, this siloed approach has one fundamental flaw — Jim can still go rent a car from other peer-to-peer rental platforms like Getaround and FlightCar without restriction. Heck, he can even go score a place on Airbnb to host a raging party, or rent a jetski on Fun2Rent and sink it off the coast of Mexico. quote:If we don’t protect the sanctity of the sharing economy, it becomes nothing more than a commodity game. It will no longer be about utilizing idle resources, forming friendships, and providing delightful experiences. Owners will be in it for the income, and renters will use it for the cost savings. ahahahahahahahhaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Jul 18, 2015 15:54
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Someone needs to write a modern day On The Road about a group of friends that tears around the country doing poo poo like this. Renting an AirBNB and throwing a wild jazz party, getting a car via RelayRides and thrashing it.
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Jul 18, 2015 16:03
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uncurable mlady posted:If we don’t protect the sanctity of the sharing economy, it becomes nothing more than a commodity game. It will no longer be about utilizing idle resources, forming friendships, and providing delightful experiences. Owners will be in it for the income, and renters will use it for the cost savings. we must secure the sancitity of the sharing economy, and a future for manchildren
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Jul 18, 2015 16:06
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Luigi Thirty posted:a wildfire in California was burning the highway and houses but the firefighting planes had to abort because the sky was full of loving camera drones and they're not allowed to fly near them lol my friend works on an oil tanker, at one point they were approaching a U.S. port on a nice sunny Sunday afternoon and had no about three drones above their deck, including one that went by the bridge window, about three feet away I can't see why we need to regulate those things, amateurs flying electrical machines right above an oil tanker can't possibly be an issue
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Jul 18, 2015 16:28
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I finally understand why the second amendment exists
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Nintendo Kid posted:we must secure the sancitity of the sharing economy, and a future for manchildren because the sanctity of the white sharing economy must not perish from the earth
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Jul 18, 2015 17:38
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Tusen Takk posted:i was going to do computer engineering but then i took the intro to electrical engineering and while it was cool and good i was really, really bad at it yea same mostly. the EE classes were really interesting and cool but I couldn't do the math and did not do well in the classes. so I did poli sci and now I program computes. :[
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Jul 18, 2015 17:52
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remember in 2002 when the hot poo poo was the video of dudes thrashing a rental car with nitrous on a drag strip in 2015 the hot poo poo is PAID articles detailing how a guy became a rental car company and got his poo poo thrashed
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Jul 18, 2015 17:55
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Bell Labs engineer predicting the future in 1948:quote:...whenever a baby is born anywhere in the world, he is given at birth a... telephone number for life [and]... a watch-like device with ten little buttons on one side and a screen on the other.... when he wishes to talk with anyone in the world, he will pull out the device and [call] his friend. Then turning the device over, he will hear the voice of his friend and see his face on the screen, in color and in three dimensions. If he does not see and hear him he will know that the friend is dead.
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Jul 18, 2015 19:38
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Jonny 290 posted:remember in 2002 when the hot poo poo was the video of dudes thrashing a rental car with nitrous on a drag strip I pay for Pando to support the schadenfreude economy
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Jul 18, 2015 19:57
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eschaton posted:I pay for Pando to support the schadenfreude economy 
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Jul 18, 2015 20:35
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i prefer others to pay for my ability to schadenfreude the hell out of the sharing economy
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Jul 18, 2015 20:36
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Luigi Thirty posted:a wildfire in California was burning the highway and houses but the firefighting planes had to abort because the sky was full of loving camera drones and they're not allowed to fly near them quote:Five drones were initially spotted over the fire, which consumed five homes and more than a dozen cars as motorists frantically fled on foot through the Cajon Pass. jfc
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Jul 18, 2015 20:37
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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. Now a sane person might say "I guess that's the reason that car rental companies exist." and take it as a lesson learned; but this is Silicon Valley so his proposed solution to abuses like this is for someone, Google, to build a service that gathers information from all the "sharing" and social media sites and tracks people to make sure they are trustworthy. What could go possibly go wrong with a pervasive, privately run, unaccountable surveillance apparatus with the ability to limit your purchase of goods and services? locust economoy companies are very good at finding naive schlubs to bear the cost of their business. greg muender seems like quite the mark.
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Jul 18, 2015 20:39
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i am in favor of charging these chucklefucks with the full cost of the flights and damage done due to the uncontrolled fire.
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Jul 18, 2015 20:45
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Shifty Pony posted:i am in favor of charging these chucklefucks with the full cost of the flights and damage done due to the uncontrolled fire. i am in favor of designating them as terrorists and launching drone strikes within the usa in fact let's just redefine california as part of afghanistan and get going
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Jul 18, 2015 20:49
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would be cool if there was a like a cool EMP move that made a cool rippling bubble and a bassy sound that the feds deployed that disabled all the drones at once. that would own. big fire? swaming with drones? *cool sound effect and blue tinted bubble* bring in the planes jed!!
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Jul 18, 2015 20:53
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fight fires with the blood of manchildren.
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Jul 18, 2015 21:31
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the gods are angry. we must sacrifice more virgins.
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Jul 18, 2015 21:35
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just deploy gun drones to annihilate their weaker cousins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs
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eschaton posted:5 lol my plan is just to cram it full of dumb situations that i read in articles extrapolated for maximum stupidity. like in 2016, a camera drone nearly kills you trying to take photos for a blog, in 2020 the sky is full of amazon drones delivering packages, and in 2025 squads of drones are flying around like world war 2 bombers with armed drones protecting amazon drones from pirate drones An Industry Forever Masturbating.z8 posted:simulate
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Luigi Thirty posted:a wildfire in California was burning the highway and houses but the firefighting planes had to abort because the sky was full of loving camera drones and they're not allowed to fly near them loving hell  the part where they were loving tailing/flying around the firefighters is just infuriating.
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Jul 18, 2015 22:03
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thanks so whoever recommended that sharing economy 3 part podcast several hundred pages ago. i've listened to the first part and half of the second and the story with the tech bros not liking uber because they don't realize how cool he is and the story of a chipotle line full of delivery guys gave me a headache
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Jul 18, 2015 23:00
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I like to imagine one of the firefighter planes just going lol and dumping several swimming pools of water on the drones, killing them all.
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Jul 18, 2015 23:24
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:I like to imagine one of the firefighter planes just going lol and dumping several swimming pools of water on the drones, killing them all. this but the people who were controlling the drones
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Jul 18, 2015 23:30
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Jul 18, 2015 23:49
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i'm p. sure the reason for banning all airflights of any kind (including military) when a 4 oz. plastic drone is seen within 50 miles of a fire is that the fire departments don't have the money to fight them so they found an easy scapegoat.
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i'm p. sure the reason for banning all airflights of any kind (including military) when a 4 oz. plastic drone is seen within 50 miles of a fire is that the fire departments don't have the money to fight them so they found an easy scapegoat. FAA regulations say if a drone is in uncontrolled airspace it's closed to fixed-wing aircraft due to the risk of the drone striking the plane and causing it to crash I think
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Jul 19, 2015 00:05
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i mean, i'm sure that a butterfly can take down the f-35, but the other helicopters and planes that do that stuff are made of a bit firmer stuff that can usually take a hit from a handful of plastic parts that weigh less than a rodent
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Jul 19, 2015 00:07
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when people say 'drones' that covres devices which range from the tiny ones you buy at the mall to aluminum-frame kits with enough mass to gently caress up light aircraft and engines.
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Jul 19, 2015 00:09
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i'm p. sure the reason for banning all airflights of any kind (including military) when a 4 oz. plastic drone is seen within 50 miles of a fire is that the fire departments don't have the money to fight them so they found an easy scapegoat. the flights were already on their way and had to dump their loads (heh) because they cant actually land with all that weight or something so one retarded drone operator can cause a colossal amount of waste
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i mean, i'm sure that a butterfly can take down the f-35, but the other helicopters and planes that do that stuff are made of a bit firmer stuff that can usually take a hit from a handful of plastic parts that weigh less than a rodent Hitting a plastic and metal object at 200mph sucks no matter where it hits, dude. And you think the pilots should be shouldered with this risk? Go jiggle your thrustmaster, bucko!
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Jul 19, 2015 00:27
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sure, if someone is using a chinese replica of a RQ-4 GlobalHawk and dive-bombing fire command, then yeah that's obvs a big problem, but everyone is flipping out over those Mattel SkyDancers being pulled by infants in their backyard is a little suspicious.
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Beast of Bourbon posted:sure, if someone is using a chinese replica of a RQ-4 GlobalHawk and dive-bombing fire command, then yeah that's obvs a big problem, but everyone is flipping out over those Mattel SkyDancers being pulled by infants in their backyard is a little suspicious. ok
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Luigi Thirty posted:lol my plan is just to cram it full of dumb situations that i read in articles extrapolated for maximum stupidity. like in 2016, a camera drone nearly kills you trying to take photos for a blog, in 2020 the sky is full of amazon drones delivering packages, and in 2025 squads of drones are flying around like world war 2 bombers with armed drones protecting amazon drones from pirate drones Lol
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