Because the form can be matched to the ID number on it and that ID is directly linked to the address the form was mailed to.
Therefore the address can be cross-checked to find deliberately false entries.
Since the penalty for false entries is higher than non submission it would make sense to use limited enforcement resources to target those that were deliberately false. All that said, given the whole debacle I expect there will be no fines or prosecutions out of this whole mess - it smacked of scare tactics in the first place anyway.
But that is the point, where the line is drawn is completely arbitrary, they select all phones made by apple because they all happen to have the same name but they limit the cars made by Volkswagen to the beetle.
If you look at "all phones sold", Samsung killed a billion just in the last 5 years. This article is purely statistics massaging wankery. The only achievement Apple have made here is managing to not change the name of their device in nearly 10 years.
I get the following autocomplete results for "Hillary in":
Hillary Indictment
Hillary Indictment Odds
Hillary Instagram
Hillary Interview
Is it possible you've previously searched for Hillary India and it is replaying your search?
I'm in basically the same boat as you on needed smartwatch functionality. Have a look at the Garmin Vivoactive. It's got the Phone/SMS notifications and Calendar but it uses some kind of E-ink screen so the battery life (with GPS off) is miles ahead of the iWatch. I've gone over a week without charging mine.
I think the general gist of the article hits the nail on the head - For the price of the iWatch, the added value is just not there. Sure there are a tonne of randomly fancy apps but why not just take your phone out of your pocket? The real power of a smartwatch is quickly seeing notifications and telling the time and the iWatch seems to be sub-optimal at those while cheaper options are doing just fine. Also: Battery life and water proofing are two super important features of watches that Apple seem to have forgotten.
It's too hard to install an electrical plug?!
Yes, in fact it is actually ILLEGAL for me to install an electrical plug in any place that would be accessible to an electric car. I live in an apartment block so the ownership of the parking spots are shared. In addition these vehicles often require specialist charging equipment. It's too hard to find a place to park?!
It's too hard to find a place to park with normal cars and I can park them on people's front lawns if I'm feeling like a dick, given a vehicle that requires a specialised charging bay to park in, parking becomes damn near impossible as adoption approaches 100% (There are now more public Tesla charging stations in NYC than gas stations)
And if the utilisation on those stations is 10X higher than the utilisation of gas pumps, then you will need not more, but 10X the number of. I suspect the figure will be much higher than 10X though I have no data to back that up. Every car has limitations. Most people can't afford to buy the biggest car that they might ever want to use for a once a year trip. Most people buy something that's economical and practical for their daily use and look at other options for their family vacation or visit to grandma. My daughter lives in the city and doesn't even own a car but finds it easy to rent one for the weekend when she visits... that's her definition of "freedom". I deliberately don't own a car either but if I was to buy one, for any purpose, I'd be looking at spending around $5000-$10000 for one. That is around the same price as a replacement BATTERY for a tesla vehicle. Cost is a seriously prohibitive factor for non-fossil vehicles right now.
Developers need X amount of users to bother making a rift game.
Users need X amount of games and Y price to bother buying a rift.
So the lower the price, the more users and so the more games. I was pretty happy to pay $300 for something that may not have any supported software. At $600, I'll wait until I see some killer games come out and since I'm not actively out there buying rift games there is less of a reason for developers to make those games at all.
Strangely he doesn't appear to know the value of a trillion grains of sand. Really, go dump 11000 (metric) tonnes of sand on miami beach and see if no one notices the change. , It's really weird, the US court system. You can be hit for 1000s of instances of copyright violation for a single bit torrent file but trillions of individual transactions don't count as "large"
I once heard about a study (woo third hand knowledge) that said in Schooling, boys tend to do better in co-ed environments and girls do better in all girl environments. I don't know if this productivity gain extends to grown men, but there are biological reasons why men would tend to perform better in the presence of women.
The morality of this is debateable but I expect the results on productivity would be positive. As was mentioned in the summary though, it could alienate the women in the team even more than usual.
Pontifex man, pontifex was my main time killer for a long stretch way back when, I bought poly bridge out of pontifex nostalgia: https://www.chroniclogic.com/p... - seems like they are still atround too and have released a bunch of follow up games. Hmmm, may need to buy some of these.
Pontifex has more content than poly bridge and is only 1Mb!
I live in a high density development, don't own a car and tend to stay at home for vacation (though I'm not opposed to flying overseas/going out of state whenever I can afford to.)
A very real problem is perfectionism, the attitude of "if we can't make it right, we shouldn't try to make it better" is one of the most limiting ways of thinking that people can indulge in. This is what the article is saying, that we shouldn't be so fixated on a perfect solution that we miss a short term "good enough" answer.
One of the reasons I voted for Liberal over Labour was that labour wanted to put EVEN WORSE censorship legislation in place. This blocking was coming regardless of what the Australian people would have chosen if they were properly informed about it.
Actually the data being use to claim there is a pause is the Satellite data set (RSS) which I believe has full Global coverage. The data being used to claim "hottest year ever" is (this year) the GISS Which is the interpolated data the GP mentions.
Most people trust that the climate scientists are using reasonable methods to determine the interpolation of station data but when the two data sets vary, it raises questions about which is correct.
Picture twins, brother and sister. Sister gets to play with the lights at the whitehouse but brother does not.
Now picture a group of friends with half girls and half boys. Same problem: You're saying to the boys that it is OK to exclude someone because of their gender, kind of not the message that you want to send when trying to improve gender equality.
From what I can see, the neural map resembles a set of logic gates. X input pass through the net and produces Y output. It's damn cool but I personally cannot see how it is in any way different from existing robotic constructs using integrated circuits.
As they say in the article, the key will be in scaling the system. Will it be able to replicate complex and/or learned behaviours, I'd love to see a robot with a built in reward system similar to dopamine and the ensuing pavlovian responses.
As an example: Magic the gathering cards.
US site: http://sales.starcitygames.com...
AU site:http://shop.goodgames.com.au/trading-card-games/magic-the-gathering/boosters-and-boxes/magic-2014-core-set-booster-box.html
So with a $65 difference I'll happily take that $30 shipping hit.
Note: Good games is one of the biggest games store franchise in the country and their prices are about the lowest you'll get.
Actually, it is perfectly reasonable in the case of electronic devices because the behaviour is different than expected when compared to an original chip. This causes the legitimate manufacturer to be placed in a bad light if the counterfeit chip does something catastrophically unexpected. Better for this to happen in the controlled environment of a driver update than when you're wherever these chips are in operation.
The true car analogy is if your car needs an oil change and the dealership discover counterfeit parts, they will void your warranty and likely declare your car not roadworthy if the parts are known to be bad - essentially bricking it.
And before you say the fake chips work perfectly fine, the fact that they can be bricked by the manufacturer of the original without bricking the legit version immediately reveals that to not be true.
It's this attitude that I don't get. Because of this guy, Facebook are reviewing a newly demonstrated to be unfair rule that they have always had in place.
All this guy did was force Facebook to generally apply a rule they were until recently applying selectively. The real ire should be directed at Facebook for having a stupid rule rather than at the guy who caused them to actually enforce it.
I guess though his stated reasons for wanting the rule enforced are bigoted so perhaps the hate levelled at him is justified in that sense.
No, but immediately jumping to the conclusion that this haulout has a completely different cause than all previously documented cases of the same phenomena seems a bit silly.
The fact that there have been mass walrus haulouts recorded as early as 1972, indicating fairly clearly that the more recent changes in arctic climate are not the cause of said haulouts?
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Because the form can be matched to the ID number on it and that ID is directly linked to the address the form was mailed to.
Therefore the address can be cross-checked to find deliberately false entries.
Since the penalty for false entries is higher than non submission it would make sense to use limited enforcement resources to target those that were deliberately false. All that said, given the whole debacle I expect there will be no fines or prosecutions out of this whole mess - it smacked of scare tactics in the first place anyway.
and just like that the Olympics became invisible to two whole generations because a third older generation want to maintain control of distribution.
But that is the point, where the line is drawn is completely arbitrary, they select all phones made by apple because they all happen to have the same name but they limit the cars made by Volkswagen to the beetle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you look at "all phones sold", Samsung killed a billion just in the last 5 years. This article is purely statistics massaging wankery. The only achievement Apple have made here is managing to not change the name of their device in nearly 10 years.
I get the following autocomplete results for "Hillary in":
Hillary Indictment
Hillary Indictment Odds
Hillary Instagram
Hillary Interview
Is it possible you've previously searched for Hillary India and it is replaying your search?
I believe the answer to "don't do that" in the US is "it's a free country, I'll hang my washing out when I want"
Hence the law saying it's not a free country in this very narrow circumstance.
I'm in basically the same boat as you on needed smartwatch functionality. Have a look at the Garmin Vivoactive. It's got the Phone/SMS notifications and Calendar but it uses some kind of E-ink screen so the battery life (with GPS off) is miles ahead of the iWatch. I've gone over a week without charging mine.
I think the general gist of the article hits the nail on the head - For the price of the iWatch, the added value is just not there. Sure there are a tonne of randomly fancy apps but why not just take your phone out of your pocket? The real power of a smartwatch is quickly seeing notifications and telling the time and the iWatch seems to be sub-optimal at those while cheaper options are doing just fine. Also: Battery life and water proofing are two super important features of watches that Apple seem to have forgotten.
You seem to be being intentionally dense here.
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It's too hard to install an electrical plug?!
Yes, in fact it is actually ILLEGAL for me to install an electrical plug in any place that would be accessible to an electric car. I live in an apartment block so the ownership of the parking spots are shared. In addition these vehicles often require specialist charging equipment
It's too hard to find a place to park?!
It's too hard to find a place to park with normal cars and I can park them on people's front lawns if I'm feeling like a dick, given a vehicle that requires a specialised charging bay to park in, parking becomes damn near impossible as adoption approaches 100%
(There are now more public Tesla charging stations in NYC than gas stations)
And if the utilisation on those stations is 10X higher than the utilisation of gas pumps, then you will need not more, but 10X the number of. I suspect the figure will be much higher than 10X though I have no data to back that up.
Every car has limitations. Most people can't afford to buy the biggest car that they might ever want to use for a once a year trip. Most people buy something that's economical and practical for their daily use and look at other options for their family vacation or visit to grandma. My daughter lives in the city and doesn't even own a car but finds it easy to rent one for the weekend when she visits... that's her definition of "freedom".
I deliberately don't own a car either but if I was to buy one, for any purpose, I'd be looking at spending around $5000-$10000 for one. That is around the same price as a replacement BATTERY for a tesla vehicle. Cost is a seriously prohibitive factor for non-fossil vehicles right now.
It's a critical mass thing.
Developers need X amount of users to bother making a rift game.
Users need X amount of games and Y price to bother buying a rift.
So the lower the price, the more users and so the more games. I was pretty happy to pay $300 for something that may not have any supported software. At $600, I'll wait until I see some killer games come out and since I'm not actively out there buying rift games there is less of a reason for developers to make those games at all.
Umm, yeah they do, read the summary again:
"Amazon's in-house medical team, which is staffed with EMTs and other medical personnel."
Strangely he doesn't appear to know the value of a trillion grains of sand. Really, go dump 11000 (metric) tonnes of sand on miami beach and see if no one notices the change.
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It's really weird, the US court system. You can be hit for 1000s of instances of copyright violation for a single bit torrent file but trillions of individual transactions don't count as "large"
I once heard about a study (woo third hand knowledge) that said in Schooling, boys tend to do better in co-ed environments and girls do better in all girl environments.
I don't know if this productivity gain extends to grown men, but there are biological reasons why men would tend to perform better in the presence of women.
The morality of this is debateable but I expect the results on productivity would be positive. As was mentioned in the summary though, it could alienate the women in the team even more than usual.
Pontifex man, pontifex was my main time killer for a long stretch way back when, I bought poly bridge out of pontifex nostalgia :
https://www.chroniclogic.com/p... - seems like they are still atround too and have released a bunch of follow up games. Hmmm, may need to buy some of these.
Pontifex has more content than poly bridge and is only 1Mb!
I live in a high density development, don't own a car and tend to stay at home for vacation (though I'm not opposed to flying overseas/going out of state whenever I can afford to.)
A very real problem is perfectionism, the attitude of "if we can't make it right, we shouldn't try to make it better" is one of the most limiting ways of thinking that people can indulge in. This is what the article is saying, that we shouldn't be so fixated on a perfect solution that we miss a short term "good enough" answer.
Also, it's harder to recover the plane/engine to figure out what went wrong. I can completely understand a limitation on over water flights.
One of the reasons I voted for Liberal over Labour was that labour wanted to put EVEN WORSE censorship legislation in place. This blocking was coming regardless of what the Australian people would have chosen if they were properly informed about it.
I know when my stuff turns into plasma I consider it pretty destroyed,
Actually the data being use to claim there is a pause is the Satellite data set (RSS) which I believe has full Global coverage. The data being used to claim "hottest year ever" is (this year) the GISS Which is the interpolated data the GP mentions.
Most people trust that the climate scientists are using reasonable methods to determine the interpolation of station data but when the two data sets vary, it raises questions about which is correct.
Picture twins, brother and sister. Sister gets to play with the lights at the whitehouse but brother does not.
Now picture a group of friends with half girls and half boys. Same problem: You're saying to the boys that it is OK to exclude someone because of their gender, kind of not the message that you want to send when trying to improve gender equality.
From what I can see, the neural map resembles a set of logic gates. X input pass through the net and produces Y output. It's damn cool but I personally cannot see how it is in any way different from existing robotic constructs using integrated circuits.
As they say in the article, the key will be in scaling the system. Will it be able to replicate complex and/or learned behaviours, I'd love to see a robot with a built in reward system similar to dopamine and the ensuing pavlovian responses.
Why would the constitution need to be amended to allow regulation of the right to bear arms?
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Seems that regulation is baked right in.
As an example: Magic the gathering cards. US site: http://sales.starcitygames.com... AU site:http://shop.goodgames.com.au/trading-card-games/magic-the-gathering/boosters-and-boxes/magic-2014-core-set-booster-box.html So with a $65 difference I'll happily take that $30 shipping hit. Note: Good games is one of the biggest games store franchise in the country and their prices are about the lowest you'll get.
Actually, it is perfectly reasonable in the case of electronic devices because the behaviour is different than expected when compared to an original chip. This causes the legitimate manufacturer to be placed in a bad light if the counterfeit chip does something catastrophically unexpected. Better for this to happen in the controlled environment of a driver update than when you're wherever these chips are in operation.
The true car analogy is if your car needs an oil change and the dealership discover counterfeit parts, they will void your warranty and likely declare your car not roadworthy if the parts are known to be bad - essentially bricking it.
And before you say the fake chips work perfectly fine, the fact that they can be bricked by the manufacturer of the original without bricking the legit version immediately reveals that to not be true.
It's this attitude that I don't get. Because of this guy, Facebook are reviewing a newly demonstrated to be unfair rule that they have always had in place.
All this guy did was force Facebook to generally apply a rule they were until recently applying selectively. The real ire should be directed at Facebook for having a stupid rule rather than at the guy who caused them to actually enforce it.
I guess though his stated reasons for wanting the rule enforced are bigoted so perhaps the hate levelled at him is justified in that sense.
No, but immediately jumping to the conclusion that this haulout has a completely different cause than all previously documented cases of the same phenomena seems a bit silly.
The fact that there have been mass walrus haulouts recorded as early as 1972, indicating fairly clearly that the more recent changes in arctic climate are not the cause of said haulouts?