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Americans are making 20% less than they used to (article says "Millennials" but I don't know about you but I took a paycut when the economy crashed in 2008).

Men and Women are now fighting among ourselves over 1-3% (a percentage that might just be due to men not taking time off for child rearing) while the ruling class is laughing all the way to the bank with that 20%.

This has been modus operandi for centuries: wedge issues. You find something to divide the working class into manageable chunks. Race, creed, sex. Hell, when the Japanese couldn't do it with race because they were all Japanese they made up classes based on jobs and kept books of them by name.

Don't fall for it. Demand better pay for all workers. Support the push for higher minimum wage. Vote in your primary for pro-Union, pro-worker candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Demand all workers get healthcare that isn't tied to your job so you can switch jobs at will.

We've got bigger fish to fry than this. Don't get into the trenches with your fellow workers fighting while the rich laugh at you

Well, women are all chimeras, but each cell should be the same as every other except for which X chromosomes are switched off, which appears random and is where the chimera comes from. And why all three color cats are female. https://www.google.com/search?...

It *is* true that blood tests of women who have been pregnant can pick up small amounts of the DNA of the fetus...but that's *SMALL* amounts. And that's blood tests, where the last time I read these tests used either spit or a biopsy from inside the cheek. (That was awhile ago, however, so check before you believe.)

There's also a small amount of expected mutation during development, so identical twins aren't really exactly the same. Somewhat well over 99% however.

I've never heard the term either and it is losing relevance.
It peaked in Nov 2005, it is about 34% as popular now.

https://trends.google.com/tren...

It's not the parents' fault. These companies were slow to add the concept of child accounts - accounts which had access to the apps purchased by the main account, but which had fewer privileges (including no purchase privilege). As a result, if you as a parent wanted to buy an app for your child's device, you had two choices. Either buy them on your account, and use your account on your child's device. Or buy them on your child's account (add your credit card info to their account). Both solutions end up with the child's device having access to purchase permission.

To be fair, the companies added the ability to require a passcode to be punched in before a purchase would go through. But then as you say, they also gave you the option to have the device remember the passcode so you wouldn't have to punch it in all the time.

Given that children are necessary for the species to survive, the proper solution is to allow child accounts. These are accounts which have access to apps purchased by the parent account, but which have no purchase privileges themselves. I can understand why the companies are reluctant to do it though - it means you can let your friends use the apps you buy by setting them up with a child account. Google added this capability a few years back (dunno about Facebook or Apple), but hasn't publicized it well. So many parents continue to use their main account on their children' devices.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Ad hominem fallacies aside (*) that doesn't change the fact that some programming languages are total shit.

What is THE purpose of a programming language? To communicate with a machine. You can communicate in an obtuse way, verbose way, in a precise way, in an ambiguous way, etc. There is a range of QUALITY. There is poor communication and there is good communication.

The reality is that ALL programming languages suck -- some just more then others. One of the properties of a good programming language is that it is consistent. i.e. See PHP is a fractal of bad design

> Sometimes I think you just hate any language that's actually useful ...

IF I was idealist I wouldn't use any programming language -- but that is not realistic. I'm a pragmatist -- things need to get implemented in the Real World TM. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to just blindly accept and ignore the problems of a language.

> ... extremely useful JavaScript ..

Let's talk about Javaschit.

Is it useful? Yes! It has become the new BASIC of the millennium. It is ubiquitous.

I'm NOT against useful languages -- I'm against the BAD DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of them.

Do you know how many man years are wasted tracking down bugs simply due to misspelling??? All because the language designer was too fucking lazy to make the KLUDGE "use strict"; the DEFAULT. It's as if NOTHING was learnt from the experience of BASIC. Gee, if only the computer could tell us about misspelled variable names, oh wait, they can! Good engineering is about FAIL EARLY. Javascript was never designed with that mindset -- it was literally hacked together in 10 days. And 20+ years later we are STILL paying the price.

On the other end of the spectrum we have over-engineered shit like Boost where a simple to Read and Write ~25 lines implementation of CRC32 turns into 1,100+ lines of Crap++. WHEN was the last time you _actually_ needed to modify a CRC implementation??? If you need a stronger hash than CRC32 then, chances are, you are probably using a DIFFERENT hash such as FNV, SHA1, etc. due to a) performance, or b) more cryptographically secure (i.e. less collisions.) reasons. The Boost guys have become so obsessed over one little tree that they COMPLETELY missed the entire fucking forest.

Let's talk about C. It was a stupid decision to default every function as returning int. Why wasn't the return type mandatory? Having to run a "lint" program is a SYMPTOM. So why wasn't the CAUSES addressed?

Let's talk about C++. We are STILL waiting for modules -- something that has been standard in Pascal for 35+ years! Why aren't error messages _standardized_ ?? One of the few things MS Visual C++ does right -- is to provide an unique error code. This makes it easier to search for solutions. Go figure!

I am extremely vocal about shitty engineering practices because I'm tired of having to deal with other people's retarded designs and waste MY timing tracking down WTF is wrong with their broken, inconsistent, implementations.

If nothing is ever said about WHY said designs are crap then nothing will ever change.

I am only one voice out of many saying WHY PHP sucks (When even diehard PHP users say PHP needs to die you know there is a problem.)

People who use PHP are either ignorant, stupid, lazy or some combination of them. But that should come as no surprise -- it was designed for non-programmers. Gee and is there ANY wonder it has problems when any decent prog

Could be that road conditions do not let you travel at 100KM on average.
So most likely they think it was a road where 100KM was not possible. Here a 450KM trip that would take 12.5 hours. 70KM more added 8 hours travel time.

That actually could be the what is going on. The locals are taking route 14 in 4 hours, but the tourists are being directed along route 12 and 83 for what ever reason and take 12 hours. And I compared apples to oranges.

One possible reason is that the locals are geared up for long distance driving with long range fuel tanks, but rental cars don't have them, so the locals can safely do a straight shot along a route with limited fuel stops and the tourists are being directed to the route that has more fuel stops that suit their shorter range tanks.

That route looks like it goes across a section of unsealed road... Going 30 KPH would risk killing most vehicles on those rutted tracks, even a modded Land Cruiser would be plodding along. You'd be proper daft to be taking a rental Corolla on it.

Also, a lot of rental car agreements in Australia prohibit taking cars far outside metropolitan areas. Certainly most of the cheap ones (stop laughing, I mean cheap for Australia) and doubly so around Perth.

I realize I should explain my idea in my parent post.

Google must give extensive oversight into anything connected with the company. It did that in the beginning. It is doing that less and less now, in my opinion.

Think about one of the overall issues. Google has 85,050 employees. What a HUGE responsibility.

Could be that road conditions do not let you travel at 100KM on average.
So most likely they think it was a road where 100KM was not possible. Here a 450KM trip that would take 12.5 hours. 70KM more added 8 hours travel time.

That actually could be the what is going on. The locals are taking route 14 in 4 hours, but the tourists are being directed along route 12 and 83 for what ever reason and take 12 hours. And I compared apples to oranges.

One possible reason is that the locals are geared up for long distance driving with long range fuel tanks, but rental cars don't have them, so the locals can safely do a straight shot along a route with limited fuel stops and the tourists are being directed to the route that has more fuel stops that suit their shorter range tanks.

Could be that road conditions do not let you travel at 100KM on average.
So most likely they think it was a road where 100KM was not possible. Here a 450KM trip that would take 12.5 hours. 70KM more added 8 hours travel time.

Go onto https://myactivity.google.com/ and tell me how good you think your Android spyware device is.

I live in Belgium, we know not only how fries supposed to look, but also that double frying is the answer to soggy fries. And you are supposed to eat them like this

I think I just gained a kilo just looking at those images.

https://www.google.com/search?...
The last two power plants to be built in the US were the Watts Bar plant, which began construction in 1973, was completed in 1990, and didn't begin commercial operation until 1996, and the River Bend plant, which was built in 1977 and went online in 1986.Feb 16, 2010

Want to explain why it has been over 30 years since we have had a new nuclear plant go online? Could it be regulation, cost overruns due to the timeframe of regulations? Please, do explain why. And no, I did not pull numbers out of my ass. Care to provide a link proving me wrong.

Fortunately, Android users aren't as hamstrung as iOS users. You can convert your existing 32-bit Android apps to raw APK files. Save those on your computer and install them onto your older device by side-loading. Actually, I suspect when Google drops 32-bit-only apps from the Play store (making it impossible for 32-bit devices to use the Play store), other Android app repositories will take up the slack and continue to offer them. Depending on how many 32-bit devices are still in use in 2021, it might actually be a good opportunity to break the Play store's hegemony on Android apps.

Since you are too fucking stupid to use Google, here you go retard.

I guess the "Rox" in your name stands for what is in your head.

It's clear the iPhone 6-series has a hardware design defect that caused shutdowns when its CPU hit heavy loads when running on batteries with reduced capacity.

Hey buddy - ALL PHONES have this issue. Just try searching for "Android sudden shutdown battery".

What Apple did was say, hey lets make it so the phone only shuts down when it's truly out of power, by throttling back performance a little bit, rather than just suddenly die at 10 or 20% left just because you played a game or something, or the battery was getting old.

Instead of being lauded for helping phone users get the thing they treasure most above all else - battery life - Apple was pummeled for helping out users, and even though this criticism was utterly unfair, Apple took the high road and said "well how about cheap replacement batteries all around that restore full performance!".

Now you can choose which path you want phone to take battery wise -but of course because people are not utter morons they 99% choose to use the method Apple added that got them in such trouble, and which Android phone makers have added over time hoping you wouldn't notice and also ask for cheap replacement batteries.

You mad bro? I say no chance your words reflect reality

You bother to track ESPN's ratings over the past few years?

Hint: they dropped all their SJW "reporters" a few months ago. And once Jamele Hill et al were shitcanned, ratings came back up.

Imagine that.

Don't believe me? Google says, "Grow some balls and learn, you fucking pussy!"

This is wrong.

https://patents.google.com/pat... expires in 2027.

The FAT32 patents are mostly gone, which is nice. However, that doesn't help exFAT.

Trump lies

Sounds like essentially the same thing as what I'm using.
https://f-droid.org/en/package...

I'm sure I'll soon hit the problem of not being able to run more than one VPN at a time. I also don't like that it means there's always a notification telling me that it's running.

The one you mention says it doesn't support LTE, which makes it rather useless for me. I also like the idea of using open source apps from F-Droid when possible.
https://play.google.com/store/...

spawn campers and aim bots were on the beaches of Normandy? Cause that's the message I get playing a military shooter.

It's a video game. Lighten up, Francis.

on the rampage in New York. I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart (or stem).

one the right wing press ran with heavily. It's not an uncommon thing and I can't tell if there's anything to the stories. Too often when you've got a kid not getting treatment it's because of religious parents who want to take them home and pray until they die. There's a sizeable portion of folks on the right wing that support allowing this. Some of them are insane but well meaning but there's quite a few who are just using it as one more distraction and one more thing to get the rubes worked up about.

Its kinda amazing that we got so many comments without anybody bringing up the case that kicked this all off. Its an extremely emotional case that was played up in the media for sure. But the thing that always troubled me about that case is that the hospital initiated a legal action to take Justina without doing any medical due diligence. Apparently, this is a problem for folks that have the kind of mitochondrial condition that she had.

I think the hospital was worried about was a Munchausen by proxy situation. But, the parents had verifiable genetic proof that Justina had a specific medical condition and the hospital could have verified this with a single phone call. We know they didn't bother to verify this until after they had already completed legal action to take Justina due to the testimony of the geneticist (who was at the same university as the child abuse expert they called instead).

Nobody is claiming that the parents are religious nuts. They looked emotional distraught during the media coverage but wouldn't you be if the government had just effectively kidnapped your child and was refusing to give necessary medical care to her? Seriously, most parents would feel like burning down buildings in that situation.

I want to hear some sort of cogent hypothesis for WTF the hospital was thinking when they initiated (and completed) a legal action to take a child without doing even the most cursory due diligence to ensure a mistake wasn't taking place. Somehow, that sort of lack of judgement should be criminal and most folks would probably be OK with those who are convicted of such a crime being put to death. Given all of this, its disingenuous to act as if the hospital didn't make a huge mistake and is probably covering up their actions. That being said, DOS'ing the hospital is hardly the right response given the high chance you will kill innocent sick kids in the process. So fuck this guy but don't let the hospital off the hook for their huge mistake either.

one the right wing press ran with heavily. It's not an uncommon thing and I can't tell if there's anything to the stories. Too often when you've got a kid not getting treatment it's because of religious parents who want to take them home and pray until they die. There's a sizeable portion of folks on the right wing that support allowing this. Some of them are insane but well meaning but there's quite a few who are just using it as one more distraction and one more thing to get the rubes worked up about.

It's frustrating because that kind of propaganda can take already unstable people who aren't getting the treatment they need and push them over the edge. You get it a lot with abortion and there's lots of abortion doctors who routinely fear for their lives, especially down south.

That said, like I said I can't tell if the Pelletier case is another example of that or if it's a real case of a hospital overreaching it's mandate. I'm inclined to think the former though as the few cases I've read about where the parents said "We just want to take our child to another doctor" it later came out they were lying.

Cough.

BEIJING — Electric car producer Tesla will build its first factory outside the United States in Shanghai, becoming the first wholly foreign-owned automaker in China.

Seriously, google it.

As for your PDF:

Chapter III Fuel Vehicle Vehicle Investment Project
Article 11
It is forbidden to construct the following fuel vehicle investment projects (not sold in China) Except for investment projects for sale of products):
(1) Newly built independent fuel vehicle enterprises;
(2) Existing automobile enterprises build fuel vehicle production in the category of passenger cars and commercial vehicles ability;
(3) The existing fuel automobile enterprises are relocated to other provinces as a whole (included in the national level) Development planning or projects that do not change the ownership structure of the company);
(4) Investing in fuel automobile enterprises that are specifically publicized by the industry management departments (enterprise) Except for investment projects in which the original shareholder invests or converts the enterprise into a non-independent legal entity)

Existing ICE automakers are pushing back against the rules, calling them impossible to meet.

China has made it clear what it expects its future to be, and it's electric. Not "several decades from now", but "very soon".

Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well?

1. all these countries also violate intellectual properties left and right. All developing countries, including the USA itself, violate intellectual propertiesen mass during the early days of its industrialization. (And they will all become patent trolls once they become developed.)
2. like the US, China has entered an era post low-end manufacturing and therefore boost its intellectual property protection as a way to move up the economic food chain. This is the real reason the US is so afraid of China now: once China plays the same IP games, the US will lose its competitive advantages.
3. many of those other countries, including those "democratic" ones, are more corrupted than the "communist" China.

You don't hear much about IP violations, or corruption, or human rights violation in those other countries or the US itself simply because China is currently the main arch-rival of the US and the West world.

The most bizarre thing about this is that all of this technical funding (well, at least a lot of it) is already in the request that the Trump Administration is making. Border walls do work (ask any resident of San Diego), and technology can be used in places where the border fencing is not necessary. (As an example, the border wall ends about 20 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean here as the urbanized portion of Tijuana ends and the mountain terrain on both sides provides a good deterrent.)

Here's more detail on the request from a few days ago. Really not sure what Pelosi is yelling about at this point, since a comprehensive mixed-focus border strengthening is ostensibly what both sides want:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-to-fund-border-operations/

Washington — As negotiations between lawmakers to reopen the government continue to be locked in a stalemate, the White House is standing firm on its $5.7 billion demand to construct a "steel barrier" along the U.S.-Mexico frontier. It is also asking for billions of dollars in additional funding for immigration judges and border security.

The administration's negotiating team, led by Vice President Mike Pence, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, have provided Democrats with an outline of their demands for a deal to end the partial shutdown.

In addition to President Trump's unwavering $5.7 billion request for border barrier funds, the White House is demanding $563 million for 75 additional immigration judges and support staff, $211 million to hire 750 additional Border Patrol officers, $571 million to deploy 2,000 law enforcement personnel, $4.2 billion for 52,000 detention beds, $675 million for inspection technology at ports of entry and $800 million for "humanitarian needs," which include funds for medical support, transportation, supplies and temporary facilities along the southwestern border.

none of them mean much. This is a political tactic to make the Dems look bad, see here.

this is a cold hearted calculation meant to make the Democrats look bad and likely to succeed because the GOP controls the media. The Dems have been complaining about this for years

"there are states in the US that have almost the same area as the ENTIRE EU."

Really?

According to a quick internet search...

https://www.google.com/search?...
EU area is 4,422,773 km2 (1,707,642 sq mi).

Largest state in USA is Alaska, including water it's 1,723,337 km2 (665,384.04 sq mi). Not even close to "almost the same area as the EU"!!

By way of boasting, the state I live in has an area (not including water as do those figures above) 2,529,875 square kilometres (976,790 sq mi). So, my state alone is more than half the size of the entire EU. . . and larger than Alaska and Texas together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Welcome to Western Australia, try not to get lost...

Isn't there such a thing as fair use.

No, not for trademarks. You are thinking of copyright, which has nothing to do with this dispute.

This is false. Descriptive and nominative fair use are well-established defenses to trademark infringement. A defendant may also assert parody and other 1st Amendment-based defenses. See, for example, Mattel's failed suit against the band who sang "Barbie Girl".

it's only because the GOP has been actively sabotaging the government that this is a problem. This entire shutdown mess is entirely a creation of the GOP.

And I see what you did there with your anecdote where you tell a story with the most obnoxious person anyone can imagine (Big SUV, detailing, of course a Lady because there's a meme for that). Let that rub off on anyone who complains about the shutdown.

I mean, if we're gonna talk about obnoxious folks in the shutdown there's this gem. But there's also a lot of folks trying to figure out how to afford gas. Real Wages are down yet like the article says the GOP base is thrilled. Meanwhile it's not free to go to work. That "hurting the people he's supposed to hurt" lady (meme intended) has a 7 hour commute. Some folks need money for daycare too. Screw this noise.

Just how old is Nancy Pelosi anyway? 82 or something? When's that last time that privileged white woman 1%er babbled something incoherent? Last night?

And yeah, Pelosi really does babble incoherent crap - it ain't that hard to find if you have the balls to look. But the "non-biased" media actually covers for her.

Kinda like they covered up Hillary!'s alcoholism by saying she "was a great napper".

Before the current FAANG mega-corp parasites sunk their collective tendrils into the world wide web, the internet served as a wondrous gateway into fresh and novel place. Hobby site linked to special interest site, linked to that unique repository of esoterica only yourself and a few hundred other weirdos like yourself even knew existed much less hung out on forming a tight nit community of like minds.
Then the dot com boom happened and the incipience of corporate controlled dystopia was born. Slowly they grew from an online book store and a simple search box to the behemoths we are saddled with today. Of course you could opt in for a while then as their power and their "like" buttons and "+1" buttons spread, their gaze increased in purview from your search history and the missives you sent to your friends to today where literally everything you say and do is tracked, tied to your real world identity, just sitting in a database waiting to be weaponized for whatever nefarious scheme the net giants can dream.

You cannot opt out as they are everywhere. Yeah, sure, some intrepid fools^H^H^H^H souls with too much time on their hand can make a valiant effort to escape the botnet but with shadow profiles, collusion with ISP's and even governments in some cases, there is no practical escape and be able to use anything resembling a world wide information network.

So what have we done? We've leaned in even harder bringing the botnet into meat space with Uber, Shipt, Byrd, and their ilk under the moniker "sharing economy". I'm not arguing that these services don't have value, merely suggesting we see the big picture and ask "at what cost"

People, Slashdot, that once great bastion of hell raising bathing geeks in its glowing green light since 1996, you, each and every one of you can be part of the solution. Hacker News as a space for honest discussion is long lost to the shills and mega corp employees. They are arrogantly proud of their ignorant echo chamber. But this sight, still one of the best independent communities on the net is still a beacon of hope. No more centralized trash!

You want to stream movies and not line the pockets of yet another group of sillycon valley elites? Easy, use the beast against itself. Fire up your script blockers, you ad blocker, your cookie blockers, turn off your javascript and point your browser to the heart of the beast.
http://www.google.com/
In the box, type these word:
intitle:"index of" star wars
If the rotting reanimated corpse of Lucas' bastardized creations turns your stomach, just replace the last two words with a phrase of your choice. HIt the enter key and the revolution begins.

We take back the internet.

You know what else you can do? You make make a search for bacon return data about eggs, or make a search for Obama return results only from fox.com.

Now add something without putting it in the search box, you smart-ass know it all.

I'm reversing the sentences of your post in my reply (disclosure to others)

With all of the problems around strangers and kids, I can't believe that the industry is so pigheaded on making this a standard feature.

Nearly everyone doesn't and can't use phones that way. No phone company will spend time and money on a feature that only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of their customers would like.
That said, I'm one of those lucky few who can and does exactly this, so maybe this will help:

I would prefer to just whitelist my contacts at this point. If I don't know you, I don't want to take a phone call from a seemingly random number.

One can do this on Android and iPhone fairly easily.

Android, free app called "Call Blocker"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vladlee.callblocker&hl=en_US

Lets you only allow calls from contacts and a whitelist you can make.
There are lots of other apps to do basically this but I've only used this one.

iPhone is built in but is unintuitively is under settings and then "do not disturb"
Turn do not disturb on, and set to always silence.
Lower down is an "allow calls from" that overrides DnD, change it from none to contacts. Or check/uncheck contact groups if you use them.

The phone won't ring or display the call, but they will show up in your missed call log still.

I guess that you are Person C. Pleased to meet you.

I hate explaining my dumb jokes but in the best spirit of tearing down walls -- here you go:

https://sites.google.com/site/putinpoutines/

Where is that cited? I didn't go into extreme detail, but I didn't see anything like that when reading the study. I didn't even see a list of "real news"

From the article: "Researchers then checked links posted to their timelines against a list of web domains that have historically shared fake news, as compiled by BuzzFeed reporter Craig Silverman."

There was an embedded link to a google doc spreadsheet with the list of "fake" and "real" news, along with share counts.
https://docs.google.com/spread...

Who knew "Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton" qualified as "Real news", worthy of being shared shared 623,000 by the intellectual elites too smart to fall for "fake news"

Google search
I would like to remove my personal information from Google's search results
I would like to file a request to delist information per European data protection laws (Right to be Forgotten)

takes you to https://www.google.com/webmast...

Fill that in.

You just tell Google your name...

How? Start here.

So if you are over 65 and on Facebook, you are reading and sharing news. A lot of it is fake apparently. Is that just because you are sharing tons of news in general?

If you are less than 65, you are on Facebook to do other things rather than mostly deal with news info... like post photos of yourself or snoop on your friends and family... maybe play Facebook video games that give PC viruses.

The study's stats are kind of weird... only 49% of the people agreed to let their profile be looked at. After that, they say 11% of oldies shared fake stuff, whereas 8% of non-over-65 people shared. Of those 11% of oldies over 65, apparently they shared twice as much fake news as the 45-65 category, and 7 times as much as the younger generation. But ... do people under 30 even care about news? My guess is most do not and share NO "news" articles.

This is interesting... I've been wondering if there are sites that "usually do fake news"... and they say yes. If you look on the article, it links to this
https://docs.google.com/spread...

Which says all the well known names are doing real news:
Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Post, New York times, CNN,Wall Street Journal,Vox,FOX News,New York times, New Yor Daily News, NBC News

These guys apparently often do fake news:

Ending the Fed
The Political Insider
Denver Guardian
World News Daily Report
Conservative State
Burrard Street Journal
abcnews.com.co
Liberty News
Yes I'm Right
Twitchy
World News Daily Report
World Politic US
USA Newsflash
Breitbart
Donald Trump News
World Politic US

Winning Democrats
DC Clothesline
Departed.co
Every News Here
Biz Standard News
Burrard Street Journal
American News
Biz Standard News
NC Scooper
American News
Conservative Tribune
Heavier Metal
Empire News
National Report
YourNewswire
Heavier Metal
YourNewswire
United Media Publishing
Heavier Metal
Adobo Chronicles

American Military News
Reel News Network
Empire News
LGBTQ Nation
The News Nerd
Celebricity
The Political Insider
Daily Currant
National Report
Superstation95
Celebricity
USA Daily Politics
World News Daily Report
TMZ Hip Hop
USA News Flash
Satira Tribune
NC Scooper
Satira Tribunes
National Report

Can't find it now, but I've seen a video (not animation) of this idea in action using a drone plane. It would fly to the wire and sort of stall over it so that it would fall backwards and a hook near the front bottom would snag the wire. After charging, it would then fly straight up to get off of the wire.

I think it would be cool if someone were to release drones like this "to the wild" that just flew around following power lines, charging when necessary, taking random videos or pictures, and acting as a server on any public WiFi it could connect to. About the smartest thing it might have to do is connect to a weather server now and then to know when it should just hang on the power line for a while to avoid a passing storm.

You know what else you can do? You make make a search for bacon return data about eggs, or make a search for Obama return results only from fox.com.

Fascinating.

You know what else you can do? You make make a search for bacon return data about eggs, or make a search for Obama return results only from fox.com.

Fascinating.

At first I thought this was about SEOs or something, but it is a legit attack/bug/thing. I've never seen anyone post about this issue before.
This just allows you to attach any info panel to any search result. So you could make one:
"Where was Obama Born" and have it show a full width info box about the planet Mars. Which definitely makes it seem that Google says he was born on Mars.
https://www.google.com/search?...

This would be good for businesses too. Make a URL for "What is the best restaurant in Chicago" with the info panel for you business, and put that link on your site.

This will totally get fixed. I guess it will bet set that if you go to a url with a search and info panel, ensure that the info panel would display with that search.

You can have a tiny little Facebook app installed with no account.

Wanna bet?

Here is a one source that debunks your thesis that there is no restriction on free speech on campuses. https://www.google.com/

I've never had a Google account, so I don't know what the Google Play Store app looks like, but the Yalp Store app certainly can pull that information from the website. Also going to the website in a browser, I see a "View details" link under the Permissions heading, and clicking that gives a list.

So at least the information is available, but due to ignorance I can't argue with your "in a clear place".

The company I work for is all in on Google apps. The standard for email is GMail, we use Google Calendar, we use Google Drive to share files, we use Google apps for collaborating on spreadsheets or word processor documents, and most people use Google Slides for presenting. For remote meetings we use Google Hangouts. We also use web-based software such as Slack and an issue tracker.

Because of all this, a Chromebook is an excellent solution for many people in our company.

The best thing about a Chromebook is that it Just Works. It's locked-down nature means you really don't need to worry about malware, and it automatically downloads security updates. (Unlike Windows 10, ChromeOS never forces you to take an update while you are in the middle of a meeting or presentation.)

Also, if you are using "cloud" storage apps like the Google apps, then if anything happens to the Chromebook, the data will all be backed up. Your employee would be able to just get a new Chromebook and could get sorted out and back to work very quickly.

Because your business is too small to have a dedicated IT department, using all Google apps would have significant advantages. And those apps are IMHO about as easy to use as Microsoft apps or MacOS apps.

As a bonus, if you standardize on Google apps, then your employee has the option of installing some of the apps on her phone (maybe just GMail). I have everything installed on my phone, including Google Hangouts, and I can deal with a lot of possible emergencies with just my phone. I like that.

The one question mark I have is whether bibliography software is available for a Chromebook. A Chromebook does have Linux app support now, plus Android app support, and there are web-based bibliography systems, so... maybe?

Also, some people strongly disapprove of Google, feeling that Google track too much about what you do with their software. If you have a philosophical objection to Google you may not want a Chromebook solution.

I agree with all the people saying not to skimp but to get something nice. If you do this, I'd recommend one of Google's own branded products... the top of the line would be a Google Pixelbook which gets very favorable reviews.

P.S. I personally own a Samsung Chromebook Plus with a non-Intel CPU (a hexa-core OP1 running ARM instructions). I've been happy with it... IMHO it looks a lot like an Apple product but it has a much better keyboard. It's half the cost of a Pixelbook but not as fancy. Like the Pixelbook it's just a touch over 1 kg and has long battery life. It does come with a stylus and it has a storage silo for the stylus.

A particular demogrant, yeah. This one is self-managing and doesn't attempt to supply income to cover basic needs; rather it supplies a share of all income by way of pay-in-pay-out (you pay X% in, you get R/p out for R revenue and p population).

Essentially it's a negative income tax. The zero point is ((R/p)/X%): if the premium is 2% and the payment is $1,400/year, the break-even for a one-adult household is $70,000 and for a two-adult household is $140,000. Everyone below that point is getting a net-benefit, although when you add in the general taxes the middle point is lower.

The middle-point follows GNI/C, rather than inflation; so does the payment. That means it grows faster than inflation. It's perpetually revenue-neutral and can't go insolvent (the design is such that it would survive the Great Depression--although it would more-likely prevent it).

Generally, a UBI tries to provide people support. This doesn't support households; it supports economies. Welfare and social insurances support households.

In Maryland, there's interest in a millionaire's tax, and I've proposed a State-level policy at 2% that substitutes as one. I've actually proposed quite a bit.

Better tell Google that.

https://support.google.com/web...