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Garrand posted:I see that you are not SCs target audience. The point isn't to fly around and shoot poo poo otherwise they'd just go play freelancer. The point is to feel like your piloting your very own starship. To command or be part of a crew thats exploring the deepest recesses of space. Basically people who want to be in star trek, and the maintenance and minutiae of working a starship gives the feeling of being part of something greater than themselves alone. Except its a poorly-designed video game which means all that stuff will be tacked on poo poo if it ever comes out.
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Is it weird that I’ve got a pretty banger design of a 2-on-2 game because of the schadenfruede thread’s description of Star Citizen?
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chitoryu12 posted:...botany growing food and drugs in equal measure... When is there ever as much food as there is space weed?
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MrYenko posted:When is there ever as much food as there is space weed? I mean, especially when you get the SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE! munchies?
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The guy jumping off the rv and all the people surrounding him are, in all likelihood, very drunk. This is why they are doing things that seem perhaps ill-advised to you and I.
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Partially local schadenfreude, partially national: A trucker friend of mine is pissed that Tommorow is the day in which e-logs become mandatory for him and other truckers. Long story short, he and a few of his friends reveal themselves to be the kind of folks that e-logs most hurt: guys who have been fudging their numbers and driving when they should be sleeping. Like, nobody likes having their bosses tell them what to do. On the other hand, stuff like e-logs come about because people are driving when they should be sleeping, which is dangerous. On a another person's hand, the whole industry is so production-focused that most people feel like they have to fudge logs to keep up.
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So that's what's been going on; I work security at a freight yard, there's been a lot of fuss about something or other from the truckers lately.
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Nuevo posted:I think someone in this very thread mentioned that he hopped on the Flat Earth bandwagon mostly to get donations from other Flat Earthers to fund his crazy rocket.
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Pictured: a man who is just loving sick of his kidneys Unrelated: https://twitter.com/wwos/status/942570194387353600 Memento has a new favorite as of 05:08 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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Once again I'll post one of my all time favourites, angry man stuck in snow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTXUcoGdhw How some people get a car license and suck so bad at parking is beyond me, after driving for a while you should have plenty of practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7FqHJh6Ty4
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He's also a SovCit and tried to lodge legal papers claiming he owns OJ Simpson Zamboni_Rodeo posted:This will probably be the most No but see he's not claiming ownership over OJ Simpson the man but over OJ Simpson the person which is totally different because SovCits believe that people are simultaneously a physical entity and also a legal corporate entity and the law applies to each differently (which is why they think that traffic laws and everything else don't apply to them) Polaron posted:What I don't get about Flat Earth Rocketman is that he's hoping to hit, what, 1600 feet or so in order to see if the Earth curves? Strudel Man posted:I'm still skeptical about the existence of any actually sincere flat earthers, but he probably gets money this way from people who want to see him die. Which is, uh, something.
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Karate Bastard posted:I could have sworn there was a goto fail somewhere in there. Going from my efforts on a graphing calculator 20 years ago: give money get nothing goto 1 Kurieg posted:10: Person Gives them money poo poo
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Samizdata posted:You know, that's a Goon game, right? i do now. Might throw some money at it. Though my son doesnt follow instructions so id probably end up in jail for murder if i play it with him.....
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All the talk of multi player spaceships is reminding me how much I enjoyed Star Wars Galaxies :-( I collected blueprints and made everything needed for multi-crew ships (including mining the resources needed). Custom pink blasters for all the turrets...... SC can go suck it. Now I'm sad, so y'all can take pleasure from that.
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Samizdata posted:Antaeus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus . No idea why I knew that off the top of my head. Have you maybe seen the MST3K episode/old rear end Italian B-movie Hercules Unchained? He's pretty much the first mythical figure depicted.  (it's also one of the best episodes)
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oldpainless posted:The guy jumping off the rv and all the people surrounding him are, in all likelihood, very drunk. This is why they are doing things that seem perhaps ill-advised to you and I. Forget it, Jake, it’s Buffalo.
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Sex Hobbit posted:Have you maybe seen the MST3K episode/old rear end Italian B-movie Hercules Unchained? He's pretty much the first mythical figure depicted. The whole episode is up on youtube if anyone wants to check it out!
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MisterBibs posted:Partially local schadenfreude, partially national: I'm pretty sure a good reason those would be made mandatory is to force truck companies to stop exploiting the drivers so hard and making them endanger themselves and everyone else on the road or be fired and replaced with someone who will.
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I think the push back is that drivers get paid by the load so while employers don't really lose anything, truckers lose out on loads over time. It's a complicated issue and I don't know enough about it too make a well informed argument, but I can definitely see why being beholden to the clock AND being non Union would make it difficult to make ends meet if you were willing to sacrifice rest for money. I disagree with that position, though. It's just going to be a shame watching people resist protection provided in the interest of FREEDOM.
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Wasabi the J posted:I think the push back is that drivers get paid by the load so while employers don't really lose anything, truckers lose out on loads over time. I thought truckers paid by the load
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Inescapable Duck posted:I'm pretty sure a good reason those would be made mandatory is to force truck companies to stop exploiting the drivers so hard and making them endanger themselves and everyone else on the road or be fired and replaced with someone who will. And they're all going to be fired anyway once self driving trucks becomes a thing. 
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I'm surprised that the horse reacted so calmly. Doing stupid stunts with a horse is a great way to get injured and then stepped on/kicked on top of it.
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Wasabi the J posted:I think the push back is that drivers get paid by the load so while employers don't really lose anything, truckers lose out on loads over time. Truckers in the US are often paid by the mile. At least over-the-road (long distance) drivers are. They're mad because if you restrict their hours, then it's less miles you can drive. That and I think the logs don't really take into account time spent sitting on a dock, so a trucker could spend 2-3 hours doing nothing while getting unloaded, not getting paid, but counting against their hours for the day.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Truckers in the US are often paid by the mile. At least over-the-road (long distance) drivers are. They're mad because if you restrict their hours, then it's less miles you can drive. That and I think the logs don't really take into account time spent sitting on a dock, so a trucker could spend 2-3 hours doing nothing while getting unloaded, not getting paid, but counting against their hours for the day. I used to be a driver manager so I know this well! There are two time restrictions. They cannot drive more than 11 hours a day and cannot work a total of more than 14 hours a day. So once you start your clock for the day, you must be shut down and parked by 14 hours after that. So while sitting in a dock, your 14 will still be running down, but not the 11 hour drive time. The fact is, it’s a poo poo job with poo poo pay that hasn’t really risen since the 70s. You’re working 14 hour days for maybe $60k if you get good, consistent long haul freight (most make closer to 40k in my experience). But when thinking about that $60k remember you’re also away from home for weeks or months at a time sleeping in a cramped truck and having to live out of truck stops where they charge $8-$10 for a 15 minute shower so a lot gets eaten up by living expenses. And you only make that money if the freight is available and some days you may get dispatched two short loads with live loads/unloads on both ends and end up getting only 200 miles in rather than the 500 you could do it you have a 1200 mile load. And if you’re a company driver, you can’t refuse loads because you don’t like them. But with self driving trucks they’ll soon all be out of jobs anyway and we’ll have the same issue we have with coal miners. Very few skills outside of their industry and limited job prospects for people often living in rural areas. Anyway, the laws are good and protect the safety of both the drivers and other people on the road. People should not be driving 80k lbs at 66 mph when they’ve been working for over 14 hours, but when it cuts your check I can see why that would be frustrating. It’s more the industry itself that shits all over it’s workers rather than the drivers are assholes.
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^^ Yeah, some of the ways to get around it was usually to buy your own rig and then go into business for yourself, but I'm not sure how feasible that is anymore. I think the gas price spike of the last decade killed off most of people doing that for a living. Also, I'm still doubtful we're living in a future where self-driving trucks is anything but a pipe dream. It's just a nice way to keep a union from forming by threatening to flip over the checkerboard because if truckers unionize then that's less money in retail pockets.Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well the 'flat earth community' certainly seems very very upset with the outcome either way and a whole bunch of them are turning on him now and posting youtube videos ranting about how he's a scam artist and how this is all a conspiracy to discredit the other flat earthers. They're just sick of having to defend steam rocket man's insanity when they have enough problems getting laughed at for their own. And I"m sure this guy won't die. But he'll be so hosed up that we'll probably get some 'please help me pay my mental bills broken legs and skin grafts cost money' panhandling. Mad Doctor Cthulhu has a new favorite as of 14:57 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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I don't know what amuses me more, that this guy is trying to climb on a horse by stepping off a platform made of bricks, or that instead of a well-built platform he decided to use a poorly-built jenga tower made of bricks.
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My favorite Dad.
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SquirrelFace posted:But with self driving trucks they’ll soon all be out of jobs anyway and we’ll have the same issue we have with coal miners. Very few skills outside of their industry and limited job prospects for people often living in rural areas. They could become Uber drivers! Oh wait, driverless uber cars... Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Also, I'm still doubtful we're living in a future where self-driving trucks is anything but a pipe dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0Kzb3haK8
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Ak Gara posted:They could become Uber drivers! Oh wait, driverless uber cars... How driverless is it if it still requires someone to be aboard?
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I think the idea is that it's a precursor to actual autonomous trucks.
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It would be better if public transportation became so efficient that people thought driving would be too much of a hassle. That's how you get everyone to be on automated vehicles. But no, rich people don't want the minorities coming to their neighborhoods.
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Dillbag posted:The only way autonomous vehicles work in reality is if every vehicle is autonomous. Pretty sure that driving insurance pricing will quickly push for that once we hit a critical mass.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:How driverless is it if it still requires someone to be aboard? Still need someone to blame when it flattens a van full of preschoolers.
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Mu Zeta posted:It would be better if public transportation became so efficient that people thought driving would be too much of a hassle. That's how you get everyone to be on automated vehicles. But no, rich people don't want the minorities coming to their neighborhoods. Hey, Seattle just got a new train today that's a step in the right direction! This spoiler will make you sad do not mouse over it It crashed opening day onto a highway and killed a bunch of people.
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