Worse still, they actively block repair shops from ordering and stocking parts. They are an abbomonation to the environment.
I call bullshit.
I bought a replacement battery for my wife's iPhone 6 from iFixit. It was reasonably priced and it arrived in a couple of days. But don't just take my anecdotal evidence as proof of anything.
How about a citation for this alleged blocking orders?
have you ever heard of Louis Rossman of Rossman group?
https://www.youtube.com/user/r...
Or ever heard of Jessa Jones from Ipad Rehab?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ooh look a video about apple having goods seized by customs???
you sir and probably just a silly troll or a pathetic apple fan boy
Why not focus on transcontinental hyper-loop shipping lanes.
High costs to build out the infrastructure, maybe? This is a proposal that can be adopted now as opposed to 10-15 years from now. Why should we let the perfect be the enemy of the good?
I say to both of you.. I seer your hyperloop and raise you one Thundefoot!
according to that article, they used LIGO laser to generate gravitational waves, but they state "it's so feeble you can't detect it directly". Spinning a large mass you say? Wouldn't spinning 2 dense masses around each other be more effective? Like the moon around the earth? Or a binary star? Spinning a large mass isn't as important as the density of the mass. At least that's what I remember in my college kinematics class. I'm not a physicist.
ok.. let me get this straight.. we've gone from spinning two fat fucks hitched up to a pulley system to... two stupid fat fucks hitched to a pulley system! will it work now?:P
spinning large mass around would make gravitomagnetic waves, but for making gravity waves take two large masses and spin them around each other. Detectable or useful? No. But this article's crank claims to make useful amounts which is nonsense.
so hitching up two fat fucks to a pulley system and spinning them around would work then?:P
Why give them money when they won't fix it? Any chip currently vulnerable was purchased before I knew the product was defective. I'm not going to give intel money for defective chips knowingly.
Think of it this way. If you have a chip slow enough that a new one would be an upgrade, why not go AMD and at least not be vulnerable to meltdown?
Problem is that it won't be viable for the rural population to go without, but at the same time launching satellites won't be economic when supported *solely* by the rural population.
I think they are *much* better served by sorting out a strategy for economicly viable high speed internet rather than continuing to try to find ways to have them not require internet so much. If they have satellite broadcast television and the urban population breaks from that, either way the rural population would be missing out.
the bit torrent protocol to update/steam/distribute?
what about the licenses that bittorrent inc have sold to the music and movie scene for their distribution.......
there are plenty of "legit" uses for bittorrent and they get blocked too?
According to the Law in the U.K., Uber is a Ride-Hail company.
again i refer you to this. https://www.uber.com/en-GB/dri...
this shows that to drive with them in Scotland you need a private hire license. the car also needs to pass a "private hire MOT" which checks for hygiene,mechanical soundness, safety and cosmetic condition. While it might be a "ride hailing service" under English law, it certainly isn't in Scotland.
English law != UK law
Sorry you are wrong.. In Scotland you MUST have at least a private hire license and be in a car that has passed the "private hire MOT" which not only tests the vehicles mechanical soundness but also safety, hygiene, cosmetic condition. and drivers have to get checks to gain their license too. https://www.uber.com/en-GB/dri... note how they will assist you to get your private hire license for Edinburgh where I am.
So legally,YES IT IS a taxi service in Scotland. English law does not apply in Scotland!
I'm Canadian (although mostly Scottish by ancestry). I once stayed in a bed and breakfast in Ireland.
The woman running it said "oh, you're American!" I said "well, Canadian actually." She said "basically the same thing." I said "sure, I guess that makes you English?"
I wish you had videos of that moment bud. That would have been hilarious!
The US has the money to provide UK-style healthcare out of the existing Medicare/Medicaid contributions. Obama had eight years to do it, instead he screwed up the private insurance market.
the US is 22 trillion in debt and rising:-)
So? The mandatory contributions to the public medical system in the US already bring in sufficient money to provide UK-style healthcare with no deficit or borrowing.
BUT.. you still won't get it or the fight will be longer and more arduous than you think due to America's hangover from the McCarthy era and the fact that in America it's "fuck you.. pay me" and "me me me fuck you" .
It's more of a "we we we" here with no fear ot McCarthy ghosts damning collectivism socialised healthcare as communism.. or to be more American "communistic" because you like to end words with "istic" so you sound smarter(hint..it doesn't work).
BUT.. if you are so MASSIVELY in debt... is that why President Fuckface Von Clownstick wants to raise the debt ceiling to borrow more to build his idiotic wall and be able to afford the tax cuts to the rich maybe.... maybe... give some genuinely shit cover to some people while still throwing millions of Americans under the bus going to NoCoversville... yeah.. America is so fantastic!.....
you know.. we have choice here too. We can get private policies and btw... I have a BUPA family plan, they are a massively cheaper here than over there.
How nice for you. But you have a system in which the government provides a basic level of healthcare through government-run institutions, controls costs strictly, and permits a thriving national market for supplementary and private insurance.
That's not what the US healthcare debate is about. The US healthcare debate is about providing everybody the same top-notch medical care regardless of income without meaningful cost controls on providers. And then people pretend that such a "universal healthcare system" is anything like the UK system.
The US has the money to provide UK-style healthcare out of the existing Medicare/Medicaid contributions. Obama had eight years to do it, instead he screwed up the private insurance market.
you know.. we have choice here too. We can get private policies and btw... I have a BUPA family plan, they are a massively cheaper here than over there. you guys get humped for healthcare.
Those waiting times are for routine diagnostics and proceedures. When it comething more serious then things speed up...
I got treatment for cancer a few years back(nothing terminal but scary nonetheless), I went with the NHS at the Western General in Edinburgh and the place is AMAZING. the staff , facilities and support are first rate. Recuperative care...... that was with BUPA.
Not everyone can afford private but if you can then why not?
Stephen Hawking credits the NHS with saving his life and is currently in a war of words with the Health Secretary over how important the NHS is
You can piss and moan about how shitty our universal healthcare is... yet we have it and you don't.
our people DO get care when they need it and in Scotland, even the prescriptions medicines are free for children, the disabled, unemployed, students and even some people on lower incomes.
I more than happily pay my National insurance contributions every month. It pays for any medical emergency that may happen to me or my family but also helps pay for unemployment benefit should I become unemployed. Everyone here at some point or points in their life will have reason to thank the NHS for being there and never having to worry about deductibles or prescription medicine prices. if people need treatment they will get it... unlike the US where deductibles and prescriptions fees will get in the way IF people have insurance at all.
So we appreciate social healthcare as do many places worldwide. A healthy workforce is a happy workforce. a happy workforce is a more productive workforce. so it makes sense from an employers side too.
He is making an allegation that the police arrested him for standing in a field. the allegation is that they arrested him with no legal grounds for erm... being on someone's grounds... legally..so the alternative way of putting it "Photographer alleges police arrested him for standing in a field ".. clearer?
I can tell you that in the US my friends and colleagues have been harassed by police for standing on the road with a camera. They were required to deleted the pictures and leave the area or be arrested. Outside of the US we have been harassed and required to delete photos of public buildings.
The laws prohibiting photography in the world where everyone fears terrorism more than they value freedom are sometimes pretty vague and give the police excessive power to harass.
I have no doubt that standing in a field with a camera, especially if that field were next to a sensitive target, would get a photographer arrested.
nah man.. the only thing they are sensitive up that way is any evidence of sheep molestation on an industrial scale getting out;)
The proof he is a news photographer appear to be a three year old photo of the Northern lights public in a small regional newspaper.
well that and his credit saying "SPP" which is Scottish Provincial Press who own rather a lot of the little local papers up in the highlands. so yeah.. he's press. not everyone works a national paper
Could be worse: it could be Hillary, and with her new wars, new taxes, and new free speech restrictions.
and our horribly awful healthcare system
If you like the UK healthcare system, it means cutting per-patient Medicare/Medicaid spending in half, making most doctors government employees, cutting the average doctor salaries in half, introducing waiting times of many months, and limiting services to the elderly. If you think that results in a better healthcare system, you're a fool.
you must be referring to the NHS in England. In Scotland it performs much better.
It's legal to take a photo of anything you like in the UK, as long as you're stood on publicly accessible property when you take it.
Really? I got my city and guilds in photography AV Tech back in the mid 80's and during that course we got some law applicable to photography.
There re corcumstances where it would in fact be "Assault by photography" here in Scotland if you are on public land or private land it matters not for this. If you use long lenses to invade someone's personal privacy where they are at home and have a reasonable expection of privacy.
Mostly it has historically been the paparazzi that have fallen foul of this. But yeah.. you can be arrested to taking photo's from public land... context is all and sweeping generalizations are usually off the mark.
Crown land, military land and otherwise selected special exceptions exist. Exceptions can also be applied for and HAVE to be for things like T in the Park and festivals like it. At one T in the park someone remembered this wee fact and demanded their "right to roam" under Scottish law and,as the organisers had forgotton to apply for exemption they had to open the gates.. I shit you not.
However, as said, there ARE most certaily exceptions and Royal residences are amongst them. You can usually pay for tours though when royalty are not in residence.
The Scotsman will kill you if you call him an Englishman, the Englishman won't.
Aye right.. Scotsman here.. A Scotsman will simply tell you to fuck off is accused of being English.
Same applies the other way round...
Just as i am telling you to fuck off right now for that bollocks:-)
As for the next disaster, I wonder how many military could volunteer to help if they're all busy doing all the farming, road repair, oil refining, communications infrastructure, and power generation for the entire United States
hmmm... interesting as providing power generation for the whole US isn't at all what I said but hey.. take that idea and run with it if ity makes you feel better:-)
I am tired of hearing that the only people who serve our nation are those who join the military machine. I am tired of the great body of hard-working, dedicated Americans being looked down upon because they chose to serve on the front-lines of our nation's greatest needs, to provide the very life-blood that keeps us going. I am tired of being told that there are so very few men of notable worth, that they are unimportant because they did not simply chose a particular job to get started out of high school.
I NEVER said only those that join the military serve the nation.. NEVER ONCE.. but again , you took it and ran with it:-)
I am not looking down upon anyone at all,. where did you draw that from?? me denying the theory that walmart and MacDonalds bods are not on a level or higher in serving their natiuon as military??.. well yes i said that but not to the denigration of the workers in those two places.
You seem to have quite a high level of butthurt about you in this matter eh?
As for your welfare bill..LOL.. that's some seriously weak sauce and I mean SERIOUSLY bud
even my ten year old flames better bait than that me laddo!:-)
From where I stand, McDonalds register operators and WalMart shelf stockers perform some of the most important service for our country. Without the people driving the trucks and maintaining the roads and power service, the military would collapse in a week--right behind the collapse of America as a whole.
hmm you are aware that there are ( I'll use British here but this works for America too...) Army engineers who an fix the road, fix and maintain the trucks. The army,navy and air force have rather good logistics and you know.. have lots of portable generators and stuff that can keep the unit going to assist in whatever is going on.
mind you.. you are obviously flamebait/trolling to have come up with such a retarded response. If not.. then wait till the next natural disaster hits your area or civil disorder escalates like it seems and you will soon come to appreciate the men and women who volunteer to serve.. unlike you
at least a cushy retirement package after only 20 years in the service.
Speaking as an Ex-Serviceman myself.. I EARNED my pension as does every other service man and woman by virtue of their service for their country.
Yet another amateur contortionist A La Steve Bannon methinks...
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Worse still, they actively block repair shops from ordering and stocking parts. They are an abbomonation to the environment.
I call bullshit. I bought a replacement battery for my wife's iPhone 6 from iFixit. It was reasonably priced and it arrived in a couple of days. But don't just take my anecdotal evidence as proof of anything. How about a citation for this alleged blocking orders?
have you ever heard of Louis Rossman of Rossman group? https://www.youtube.com/user/r... Or ever heard of Jessa Jones from Ipad Rehab? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ooh look a video about apple having goods seized by customs??? you sir and probably just a silly troll or a pathetic apple fan boy
Why not focus on transcontinental hyper-loop shipping lanes.
High costs to build out the infrastructure, maybe? This is a proposal that can be adopted now as opposed to 10-15 years from now. Why should we let the perfect be the enemy of the good?
I say to both of you.. I seer your hyperloop and raise you one Thundefoot!
according to that article, they used LIGO laser to generate gravitational waves, but they state "it's so feeble you can't detect it directly". Spinning a large mass you say? Wouldn't spinning 2 dense masses around each other be more effective? Like the moon around the earth? Or a binary star? Spinning a large mass isn't as important as the density of the mass. At least that's what I remember in my college kinematics class. I'm not a physicist.
ok.. let me get this straight.. we've gone from spinning two fat fucks hitched up to a pulley system to... two stupid fat fucks hitched to a pulley system! will it work now? :P
spinning large mass around would make gravitomagnetic waves, but for making gravity waves take two large masses and spin them around each other. Detectable or useful? No. But this article's crank claims to make useful amounts which is nonsense.
so hitching up two fat fucks to a pulley system and spinning them around would work then? :P
Why give them money when they won't fix it? Any chip currently vulnerable was purchased before I knew the product was defective. I'm not going to give intel money for defective chips knowingly.
Think of it this way. If you have a chip slow enough that a new one would be an upgrade, why not go AMD and at least not be vulnerable to meltdown?
AMD still have a problem with Spectre bud ;)
Problem is that it won't be viable for the rural population to go without, but at the same time launching satellites won't be economic when supported *solely* by the rural population.
I think they are *much* better served by sorting out a strategy for economicly viable high speed internet rather than continuing to try to find ways to have them not require internet so much. If they have satellite broadcast television and the urban population breaks from that, either way the rural population would be missing out.
5G as a possibility?
the bit torrent protocol to update/steam/distribute? what about the licenses that bittorrent inc have sold to the music and movie scene for their distribution....... there are plenty of "legit" uses for bittorrent and they get blocked too?
No, it's private hire in the rest of the UK too.
There's no such thing as "ride-hail company" in UK law.
cheers Basil.. i had a feeling there was an element of "madupium" in that OP!
According to the Law in the U.K., Uber is a Ride-Hail company.
again i refer you to this. https://www.uber.com/en-GB/dri... ,mechanical soundness, safety and cosmetic condition. While it might be a "ride hailing service" under English law, it certainly isn't in Scotland.
this shows that to drive with them in Scotland you need a private hire license. the car also needs to pass a "private hire MOT" which checks for hygiene
English law != UK law
Legally it's not.
Here in the UK, taxi driving and private-hire driving both require a special driving licence, with a background-check. Uber drivers don't have these.
Sorry you are wrong.. In Scotland you MUST have at least a private hire license and be in a car that has passed the "private hire MOT" which not only tests the vehicles mechanical soundness but also safety, hygiene, cosmetic condition. and drivers have to get checks to gain their license too. ,YES IT IS a taxi service in Scotland. English law does not apply in Scotland!
https://www.uber.com/en-GB/dri... note how they will assist you to get your private hire license for Edinburgh where I am.
So legally
I'm Canadian (although mostly Scottish by ancestry). I once stayed in a bed and breakfast in Ireland.
The woman running it said "oh, you're American!" I said "well, Canadian actually." She said "basically the same thing." I said "sure, I guess that makes you English?"
I wish you had videos of that moment bud. That would have been hilarious!
So? The mandatory contributions to the public medical system in the US already bring in sufficient money to provide UK-style healthcare with no deficit or borrowing.
BUT.. you still won't get it or the fight will be longer and more arduous than you think due to America's hangover from the McCarthy era and the fact that in America it's "fuck you.. pay me" and "me me me fuck you" .
It's more of a "we we we" here with no fear ot McCarthy ghosts damning collectivism socialised healthcare as communism.. or to be more American "communistic" because you like to end words with "istic" so you sound smarter(hint..it doesn't work).
BUT.. if you are so MASSIVELY in debt... is that why President Fuckface Von Clownstick wants to raise the debt ceiling to borrow more to build his idiotic wall and be able to afford the tax cuts to the rich maybe.... maybe... give some genuinely shit cover to some people while still throwing millions of Americans under the bus going to NoCoversville... yeah.. America is so fantastic!.....
How nice for you. But you have a system in which the government provides a basic level of healthcare through government-run institutions, controls costs strictly, and permits a thriving national market for supplementary and private insurance.
That's not what the US healthcare debate is about. The US healthcare debate is about providing everybody the same top-notch medical care regardless of income without meaningful cost controls on providers. And then people pretend that such a "universal healthcare system" is anything like the UK system.
The US has the money to provide UK-style healthcare out of the existing Medicare/Medicaid contributions. Obama had eight years to do it, instead he screwed up the private insurance market.
the US is 22 trillion in debt and rising :-)
you know.. we have choice here too. We can get private policies and btw... I have a BUPA family plan, they are a massively cheaper here than over there. you guys get humped for healthcare.
Those waiting times are for routine diagnostics and proceedures. When it comething more serious then things speed up...
I got treatment for cancer a few years back(nothing terminal but scary nonetheless), I went with the NHS at the Western General in Edinburgh and the place is AMAZING. the staff , facilities and support are first rate. Recuperative care...... that was with BUPA.
Not everyone can afford private but if you can then why not?
Stephen Hawking credits the NHS with saving his life and is currently in a war of words with the Health Secretary over how important the NHS is
You can piss and moan about how shitty our universal healthcare is... yet we have it and you don't.
our people DO get care when they need it and in Scotland, even the prescriptions medicines are free for children, the disabled, unemployed, students and even some people on lower incomes.
I more than happily pay my National insurance contributions every month. It pays for any medical emergency that may happen to me or my family but also helps pay for unemployment benefit should I become unemployed. Everyone here at some point or points in their life will have reason to thank the NHS for being there and never having to worry about deductibles or prescription medicine prices. if people need treatment they will get it... unlike the US where deductibles and prescriptions fees will get in the way IF people have insurance at all.
So we appreciate social healthcare as do many places worldwide. A healthy workforce is a happy workforce. a happy workforce is a more productive workforce. so it makes sense from an employers side too.
He is making an allegation that the police arrested him for standing in a field. the allegation is that they arrested him with no legal grounds for erm... being on someone's grounds... legally..so the alternative way of putting it "Photographer alleges police arrested him for standing in a field ".. clearer?
I can tell you that in the US my friends and colleagues have been harassed by police for standing on the road with a camera. They were required to deleted the pictures and leave the area or be arrested. Outside of the US we have been harassed and required to delete photos of public buildings.
The laws prohibiting photography in the world where everyone fears terrorism more than they value freedom are sometimes pretty vague and give the police excessive power to harass.
I have no doubt that standing in a field with a camera, especially if that field were next to a sensitive target, would get a photographer arrested.
nah man.. the only thing they are sensitive up that way is any evidence of sheep molestation on an industrial scale getting out ;)
The proof he is a news photographer appear to be a three year old photo of the Northern lights public in a small regional newspaper.
well that and his credit saying "SPP" which is Scottish Provincial Press who own rather a lot of the little local papers up in the highlands. so yeah.. he's press. not everyone works a national paper
Could be worse: it could be Hillary, and with her new wars, new taxes, and new free speech restrictions.
If you like the UK healthcare system, it means cutting per-patient Medicare/Medicaid spending in half, making most doctors government employees, cutting the average doctor salaries in half, introducing waiting times of many months, and limiting services to the elderly. If you think that results in a better healthcare system, you're a fool.
you must be referring to the NHS in England. In Scotland it performs much better.
It's legal to take a photo of anything you like in the UK, as long as you're stood on publicly accessible property when you take it.
Really? I got my city and guilds in photography AV Tech back in the mid 80's and during that course we got some law applicable to photography.
There re corcumstances where it would in fact be "Assault by photography" here in Scotland if you are on public land or private land it matters not for this. If you use long lenses to invade someone's personal privacy where they are at home and have a reasonable expection of privacy.
Mostly it has historically been the paparazzi that have fallen foul of this. But yeah.. you can be arrested to taking photo's from public land... context is all and sweeping generalizations are usually off the mark.
Try accessing the lands around Balmoral.
Crown land, military land and otherwise selected special exceptions exist. Exceptions can also be applied for and HAVE to be for things like T in the Park and festivals like it. At one T in the park someone remembered this wee fact and demanded their "right to roam" under Scottish law and ,as the organisers had forgotton to apply for exemption they had to open the gates.. I shit you not.
However, as said, there ARE most certaily exceptions and Royal residences are amongst them. You can usually pay for tours though when royalty are not in residence.
England, Scotland, what's the difference?
The Scotsman will kill you if you call him an Englishman, the Englishman won't.
Aye right.. Scotsman here.. A Scotsman will simply tell you to fuck off is accused of being English. :-)
Same applies the other way round...
Just as i am telling you to fuck off right now for that bollocks
they are never called "peacekeepers" or "peace officer" here bud.. just Police Officer.. well not just that.. but that's the official title!
hmmm... interesting as providing power generation for the whole US isn't at all what I said but hey.. take that idea and run with it if ity makes you feel better :-)
I NEVER said only those that join the military serve the nation.. NEVER ONCE.. but again , you took it and ran with it :-) :-)
I am not looking down upon anyone at all,. where did you draw that from?? me denying the theory that walmart and MacDonalds bods are not on a level or higher in serving their natiuon as military??.. well yes i said that but not to the denigration of the workers in those two places.
You seem to have quite a high level of butthurt about you in this matter eh?
As for your welfare bill..LOL.. that's some seriously weak sauce and I mean SERIOUSLY bud
even my ten year old flames better bait than that me laddo!
From where I stand, McDonalds register operators and WalMart shelf stockers perform some of the most important service for our country. Without the people driving the trucks and maintaining the roads and power service, the military would collapse in a week--right behind the collapse of America as a whole.
hmm you are aware that there are ( I'll use British here but this works for America too...) Army engineers who an fix the road, fix and maintain the trucks. The army ,navy and air force have rather good logistics and you know.. have lots of portable generators and stuff that can keep the unit going to assist in whatever is going on.
mind you.. you are obviously flamebait/trolling to have come up with such a retarded response. If not.. then wait till the next natural disaster hits your area or civil disorder escalates like it seems and you will soon come to appreciate the men and women who volunteer to serve.. unlike you
Speaking as an Ex-Serviceman myself.. I EARNED my pension as does every other service man and woman by virtue of their service for their country.
Yet another amateur contortionist A La Steve Bannon methinks...