Another Gentle “Nudge” . . .

Former HR Frau nee CEO Mary Barra Promises Over-The-Air Updates for Cars by 2020.

A new electrical architecture will make these updates possible she said before wailing reeeeeee for half an hour about the lack of transsexual female muslim assembly workers in the auto industry patriarchy.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/12916/gm-ceo-mary-barra-promises-over-the-air-updates-for-cars-by-2020

How is Mary Barra in charge of anything industrial. Might as well have made a chicken CEO of GM to virtue signal you’re not a speciesist. Both Mary and the chicken know the same amount about what’s going on under the hood.

Can you imagine slaving away in some auto industry office building. Having to listen to their smug clucking and reeeee squawking . And endless nonsensical hen pecking at your every turn.

I’m dreading the day when the Safety Mafia will decide that standard transmissions will be outlawed, since they require the driver to take one hand off the steering wheel (for a brief instant) and use their otherwise-idled foot to depress the clutch pedal to change gears.

After 30 years of driving, I STILL can’t get comfortable with an automatic transmission doing that simple work for me.

So if your car rolls over on its roof, and you have seat belts on & the bags have gone off, leaving you stuck in the car, and you are unable to get out, this new reg means you can’t use your phone to call for help. Outback Australia has roads that see one car in a day. Recently just this type of accident happened. It took 9 hours to find the car.
Our PIGS emphasize that if you see something happen on the road, to call the police. Of course you can’t do that if you can ‘t use the fucking phone because of some faraday cage. But that could be good, as it keeps more cops from abusing the motorist. And if it is raining and you are sitting in a parking lot waiting on someone, that now means you have to get out and stand in the rain to use the phone.

I took my first road trip with my new Garmin GPS system, Indianapolis to Panama City, Fla. By the end of the trip, we were calling it “Grandma.” It nagged me if I was tailgating (FORWARD COLLISION ALERT!), getting too close to the edge of the lane or speeding. It wildly overestimated my travel time, assuming I guess, that I drive the speed limit, which I hardly ever do. I was really starting to feel like I had a paranoid, naggy, pants-wetting side-seat-driver passenger. On the upside, it did warn me of a couple of red-light-camera intersections in Montgomery, Ala. … lights I wasn’t likely to run anyway because there was a lot of traffic and it would have been dangerous. My old Garmin didn’t do any of this stuff. It just gave me the route and when it thought I would arrive and was generally pretty close. I am hoping there is a way to shut off all the nanny alerts.

“Cry saaaaaaaaafety! . . . and let slip the dogs of control.”

Love that line! Mockery is an effective weapon for the resistance.

This is one of a very few true red pill free speech forums that exist anywhere. I can’t think of another libertarian site that allows such free laissez faire comments and ideas. I wish there was a section on the days lewrockwell articles so we could all comment on them. And other Alpha writer’s sites too….

Welcome to the epautos, voat, /pol/, cripple chan, 4chan, unmodded internet niggerfaggot…
https://i.imgtc.com/fnJyYbw.png

…anyone even a fat gay kike can say whatever they want…

Not true, it can be done…

On your iPhone, go to Settings > Notifications.
Scroll to the very bottom of the screen.
Under Government Alerts, turn the type of alert on or off.

All great reasons why I wouldn’t take ANY new vehicle even if you paid me.

I’ve learned all kinds of manners and customs. And can still conform to them, and maybe seem a part of them. BrentP says people know when you’re bullshitting, maybe in wise guy Chicago, but not most backwoods small town areas I grew up in. If they suspect, none have dared voice it.

Went to Catholic school until college. Made to attend Hebrew day school additionally for two years. Made to get a community college degree while in grade school. Take a year of Russian. A year of Chinese history. Latin. Spanish. Be a piano prodigy fancy boy. Spend summers on an uncle’s farm where only Afrikaans Dutch and German were spoken. (which I’m not at all fluent in)

There’s a million of us in America that aren’t really from anywhere. When we were in Europe, only the Romans ever acknowledged us. (Romani?) I don’t think my Mom’s even a legal citizen, she might have UK citizenship or Canadian. Grandma was rumoured to be Chicago mafia connected.

I just say my Mom’s adopted and my Dad’s from Poland. I look the part, and can speak English well without an accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6ZryveN1s

Every Xmas you’d get boxes of used stuff or new in opened boxes stuff. Extremely valuable stuff.

At any given time, Dad was a citizen of multiple states, has little houses and utilities bills in various names. One time at football practice I saw him with some other lady, maybe also a wife or realtor or other sales lady who love our kind of extra business. I still have dozens of things in my own name. I’m originally not the only Tor here. But now I’m probably alone, though others may have the logins and verified devices for banking utilities virtual existence several places.

Like everyone else, I’ve been taken down a peg or two or thousand. What little money I personally have left is in Berkshire Hathaway, which has done great under Trump so far, but who knows. My Dad is the chemist in breaking bad, except for industry, in things like sugar free foodstuffs. The coating that makes french fries brown faster with less frying. All kinds of cash consulting and Polish mafia bartering.

Being 50 going blind and being cash poor is the worst feeling. I might give up work and homeschool my youngest and maybe some relative’s kids. Texas is cool about that. Going back to Vegas every so often is cool. You can legally grow pot plants, at least for now. For your own use of course.

Is it NAP to lie about things. I don’t see any alternative, unless I want to be divorced and broke. And that’s the fastest way to legal trouble there is. If you’re going to break rules, go big and really break them. Just don’t hurt or harm any people, ever. Unless it’s self-defense.

I used to do hands on things. Now it’s just the office grunt work. Soullessly doing payroll paying business taxes creating reports, sometimes double booking reports a good picture for the bank a poor picture for the state. Being inside all the time is no way to live. I miss being outside on the jobsites. It sucks when you’re old and growing useless and everyone just pretends to listen because you’re paying for shit. Everythings gone green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgHSxWnhqk . what are those things palm trees?

Therea some dirty plates and a glass of milk wrinkled and nearly blind
I lay and rousing with anger in I cry for food, don’t take us to the hospital, I say as do my demented parents down the long hall in the master bedroom we do as we please drawing down the nest eggs I still remember when the ambulance men lifted Mom to the stretcher– Is this what you call making me comfortable? For a moment her mind was clear– Oh you think you’re smart
you young people, and I agree and Dad’s ribaldly singing “I Used To Live In Chicago…” but I’ll tell you, you don’t know anything. Then we started. we passed a long row
of oaks. The Livable Forest they said about Kingwood. She looked at them awhile out of
the ambulance window and said,

What are all those fuzzy looking things out there? Trees? Well, I’m tired of them and rolled her head away.

Regarding safety contraptions, you can *still* get away from them relatively easily in modern cars, but only if you get a bare-bones work truck or commuter car. (Think F-150XL or Nissan Versa…)

The modern smartphone traces its roots back to the personal digital assistant, or PDA. Many of us had Palm Pilots, Windows CE palmtops and a few even had Apple Newtons back in the 1990s. They were mostly a flop, although Palm had some success for a few years.

The key word in personal digital assistant is assistant. They were designed to be like a little secretary for those of us who didn’t have the office cred to have one. Of course they weren’t anywhere near up to the task, perennially deaf, dumb, blind and not too bright. Over the years they have become much better, but it has been a tough slog. I’d say now they’re about to the level of a recent business school graduate at her first day on the job. Not much of an assistant, but at least she’s fun to look at and a pretty good flirt.

Of course that secretary is (well, might be) trainable. And if you’re willing to work with her she might even get to be a great asset to your work life. Eventually she’ll figure out that you shouldn’t be interrupted if you are on a conference call with the VP, unless it’s your operations manager -because he knows not to bring anything to you at that time unless it’s truly urgent. But that’s a fairly complicated rule. Or that your profanity in the memo you dictated needs to be scrubbed before sending it out, unless you sound REALLY pissed off. Or that you shouldn’t be bothered because you’re driving, unless it’s the wife asking you to pick up the stuff on the shopping list she just emailed you.

This is the major failure of software. Much like the T-1000, it is sent out on a mission in read-only mode (really old movie reference but this crowd should get it). Most don’t trust tech companies with our privacy. Nor should we as they’ve shown to be pretty bad at protecting it. And that’s one big reason why they’re still no where near powerful enough to make even simple decisions about interrupting us. The default mode is to treat it all like it’s super urgent. If these things could be trained easily to know what’s important to us a lot of the problem will fix itself. But making things trainable for users is hard to do and is a hard sell anyway, so instead we get more flash and less substance. Someone who doesn’t know you, nor understands how you work or want to work, makes the decision.

Historically because phones have always rung when someone dials the number (unless you had a secretary), they have to continue to ring no matter what. And remember back in the old days phone calls were expensive. Cell phone calls could be as much as $1 a minute, so either talk for a few minutes or eat lunch, your choice. Just the fact that your phone was ringing was enough to know someone was willing to pay money to talk to you. Now calls are free. So there’s no cost to spammers, scammers and politicians who want to bother you. And the caller ID signaling system was set up with the default set to “always trust” no matter where the caller says they come from, so now caller ID is pretty much worthless too.

If I trusted Apple a little more, I’d be more inclined to let them look at my contact list and pool it with everyone else’s so we can have a decent whitelist. That would eliminate 90% of the spammers. But then there’d be the “paid callers” who would pay Apple to get on the white list so they could continue to bother us all the time. I could even imagine the phone would tell you that it was a paid caller and let you reject it, but the damage would still be done. Because even though I do think Apple’s employees want to do good work and make my life better, they are much more interested in keeping the stock up and the cash flowing. And the last thing the cellular companies want is to have your phone screen incoming calls, even when they’re free. That’s just not in their mindset. Apple screwing around with the phone “app” on their devices is tantamount to heresy, because that’s just the way it’s always been. And Apple doesn’t want to put any effort into the phone app because customers don’t seem to care about the phone app, and are stuck in the mindset that anyone, anywhere should be able to dial my number and bother me.

It’s a screwed up situation. Maybe it’s time to scrap the voice telephone call and move on.

Several years ago a safety lockout was mandated by Congress. (Can anyone remember what it was exactly?) Anyway, Congress was swarmed with complaints about it and they withdrew the legislation. Boycotts work. And speaking up/writing complaint letters work.

I’m a bit conflicted on the idea that newer iphones will not function while you’re in motion. The number of people compulsively, constantly dicking with those things behind the wheel (and elsewhere) is utterly frightening, and the distraction level is far worse than driving drunk. (At least when you’re drunk you know you’re loaded, and you pay EXTRA-careful attention to the road instead of taking your eyes off it!) Watching other people in a state of total self-absorption with those phones is disgusting… almost like watching somebody masturbate behind the wheel. So, on one hand (heh) I say, “Shut ’em off!”

On the other hand, how will the phone know that you’re a passenger instead of the driver? Will passenger phones shut down as well when the car is moving?

Personally I avoid all this crap by 1) using an old style flip-phone that is nearly always OFF 2) using maps, road atlases and road signs to get where I’m going instead of asking the phone for constant instructions.

I don’t own a cell phone, so what does that make me? Anti-social? Maybe a deviant….yes, that’s it I’m deviant, I don’t own one of those dreaded little beasts. So maybe that also make me a suspect for all kinds of deviant behaviors like believing in privacy, natural rights, the right to be left alone, the right to not being robbed at gunpoint by government goon thugs, aka cops and IRS; the right to exercise liberty and freedom from the control of narcissistic megalomaniacs.
So now, everyone , beware….I’m a domestic terrorist threat to you all!
All because I don’t own a cell phone.
I don’t own a drone either, although I do fly R/C planes.
I also raise my own food……horrors!
I drive an 11 year old T&C minivan, with the check engine light constantly on. More horrors.
At least I have some semblance of freedom, what ever that may now be allowed, that is before they strap me down and reprogram me.
I don’t even own a flat screen.

What the hell is a “sail fawn”?

Gently nudge?
“For your own good.”? That’s what The Captain said at the opening of this famous clip, which is most famous for 9 of the words spoken. However, watch it, take it ALL in. We are there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452XjnaHr1A

I’ve probably mentioned this before, but the ultimate techno-safety horror story is “With Folded Hands,” written seven decades ago and gradually coming true.

I kind of like Nissan’s idea of turning the car into a Faraday cage; at least then the PTB couldn’t hack the computer and drive the car into a tree. The radio wouldn’t work but I still have a portable CD player to provide tunes for long road trips.

There is still hope. Texas just shut down the heroes’ “Waze Traps” on I-35 with a uniform “No Texting While Driving” law that makes allowances for using a phone for other purposes such as navigation.

For now, the ubiquitous cell phone is technically optional. I cannot give it up because my business runs around it, but when that changes the cell phone goes away. And you can drive old iron which has nothing but the visceral essence of the open road. No buzzers, no blinking lights, no seat belts. And most of the time within your own home you are left alone.

The real race is between those awakening to the nightmare and refusing to go along, and to the mewling domesticated mass who want nothing more than for their betters to be reduced to their pathetic, sniveling level of ignorance and servility.

The time is going to come where men of conscience are going to have to push back hard. The whiny marxists/statists/fascists and the bully boy traffic cops are going to have a very harsh awakening at that point. Claire Wolfe was right- we’re at that awkward stage where it is too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards. But they are making it later by the second…

At least for now, when you try to use the iPhone when it thinks you’re driving, a button pops up that says “I’m not driving”. If you press that, you can use the phone. I saw this myself in the iOS 11 developer preview. You can also disable the feature altogether in settings, at least for now. Apple wants to sell iPhones, they’ll make these things enabled by default, but they’ll avoid user revolt and allow you to turn that stuff off.

Also, if you go to settings->notifications, you can turn off amber alerts and emergency alerts too.

Third Amendment | Constitution

Amendment III. No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Hasn’t this Constitutional Right also now fallen? “Your” phone and car are in fact agents of the government. “Soldier” sentinels reporting on you and keeping copious notes about you and your activities that will report you to Dear Leader whenever Dear Leader and his agents seek to kidnap and cage you.

The world we live in would give Orwell nightmares. Big Brother was confined to telescreens and microphones. Dear Leader is in your pocket and under the hood of your car always.

It is like a rapidly mutating virus infecting every aspect of “your” – if you can even refer to your own life as yours anymore. In college, I did my senior thesis on the affect of technology on society. 20 Years ago I feared there would be a point where countermeasures no longer would be effective. I believe we are near the cusp of that occurring.

The only counter that will eventually be left is simply not giving a fuck. Instead of fearing the knock in the night, accepting its eventuality and not giving a damn. They can only take your liberty and property so much before they take your life. Though, the Soviets who are idolized so much by “our” elite did figure a way to turn your own body into a torture chamber that there was no escape from – Pharmacological torture, using Sulfazin to literally set your internal organs on fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacological_torture

Isn’t it wonderful to live in a free country?

Fed-X scanners have had that feature for at least 5 years now. Plus the scanner automatically sends your location back to the terminal so they always know where you are. This is also true of UPS, USPS, and most trucking companies.

There are not very many steps before “nudge” becomes a hard shove. From there, it’s incremental til you find yourself in a camp.

If iOS 11 bricks the phone when it’s moving at a certain speed, whether or not a passenger may be fiddling with it — who knows? — watch the rate of jailbreaking shoot through the roof.