the end user still pays an exorbitant amount ($1+) per kWh at the end of the month.
I know the dollar isn't worth much these days, but are these actual prices for energy in the US or maybe anywhere in Europe? I pay € 0,18 per kWh for my electricity and I was under the impression it is not more than € 0,25 over large parts of Europe.
Why is it price fixing when you react to what a competitor does? It's price fixing when you agree with your competitor what the price shoud be.
In Germany this practice is observable every day. Fuelstations are obliged by law to upload their prices to a system which offers that information as free data ( MTS-K). As a result you see fuelprices drop steadily during the day because everyone wants to be the cheapest. Only at the end of the day the prices rise again.
BTW: prices are not set by the fuelstation itself. They are set by the company that owns it and usually the fuelprice has no correlation to how much the proprietor of the fuelstation gets paid.
When a malicious app can have access to the gyroscope, why can't it read out the pressure of the screen? I don't even think there is a seperate access restriction for that because every app is controlled by the screen.
I would assume it would be very crude and inaccurate because a CRT monitor does not really move when you touch it. Was it a March issue of some computer magazine by any chance?
I don't know about the legal issues, but from a common-sense perspective it would make more sense for the captioning to be performed on-demand on a per-video basis; i.e. if a disabled student needs access to a particular video, he/she can request that it be captioned. The captioning is then added to that video and made available to everyone.
That way the ADA students get the captioning they need, and everyone else gets the benefit of the videos as well; plus the captioners don't spend a lot of their limited time captioning video that nobody will actually use the captions of; rather they spend their time captioning videos that actually need captioning sooner rather than later.
You know that will not work because when word gets out that this is the modus operandus, bogus requests will get made for each and every video in order to have every video captioned.
What I don't understand is that people can in such way take a situation hostage so that the end result is that no one has access.
"What, #random disability has no access? Than NO ONE has acces!"
That's like saying buses can't run because #random disability can not use them.
What happens when the government realizes that no one burns pirated moves to CD/DVD anymore since large HDD's are affordable now? Will they leave it as-is and tell the MPAA to kick rocks from now on forever... or will they eventually start taxing HDD sales, and other forms of storage sales.
They are way ahead of you. Since downloading in the Netherlands is legal (it is, by all means and measures, you are allowed to make a copy of a media for own use, even if you do not own the original media, but you can only make at for yourself, it is illegal to do it for others or to distribute your copy and it is illegal to download from illegal sources), there is a levy on unwritten media. So every empty CD or DVD you buy, every external harddrive (gotta love the law, only harddrives, not solid state drives because they are not mentioned), every mediaplayer, PC or laptop you buy, you pay a tax that gets divided by a NGO directly to copyrightholders.
We shouldn't let anyone into the country who can't write a procedure to tell if a Binary Search Tree is balanced, or doesn't know what an abstract class is.
Moreover, you should kick out everybody who can not identify a valid solution to check whether a Binary Search Tree is balanced from a banana.
And yet, this is, in a way, very similar to just flinging a baseball bat (or whatever) towards a group of people, isn't it?
Doesn't seem similar to me. Drone pilot intended to fly near people, not hit them with the drone. Hitting the people was an accident. If you throw a bat at a group of people, you intended to hit them with the bat.
If I intend to shoot that apple on top of your head with an arrow but hit you squarly in the face, is that then also "just" an accident?
Flying a drone above a mass of people is waiting for an accident to happen. While it may certainly be unintentional and an accident when a drone falls from the sky, but it is as much an accident as shooting fireworks inside a crowd. I would call it reckless endangerment.
It seems just basic common sense to require people that need to deal with the public, including in a safety context, to actually be able to converse in the national language.
It depends on how strict the requirements are. Most adults read at a 7th to 8th grade level, and around 20% of adults read at under a 5th grade level. Any reading / writing requirements which limits employment to a large percentage of the working class population are likely not in the public interest.
If they are looking for something around a 3rd-5th grade reading level I could understand that. If they are looking for an 8th grade reading level the law is ridiculous and will likely only serve to limit access to non-native speakers and those without higher education (IMHO).
Understanding a language is more than x-grade level teachings. If you live in a country for all your life, you could have skipped school alltogether without any impairment to the understanding of the country's language.
OTOH: as a non-native to the country you may need years and years of learning to be able to understand the locals.
Apart of some very often used sites where I have to enter my user details every time I access them (like my webmail my computer at home and at work) I can't even tell you my password because I don't remember it. I have to write my passwords down in a file and look them up every time I have to use them. That goes for my Facebook profile (which is logged in on my home computer but I can't access it at work because I don't remember the password) to virtually every webshop I ever bought something and online newspapers.
So, are they really going to deny me entry if I genuinely don't know the password?
USA, the land of the free and the home of the brave? I don't think so. The land of the opressed and the home of the frightend.
I do see a general trend in that direction, and that worries me also. Forget about puritan America (that is a lost cause anyway), I see similar trends in Europe. Morals were definitely a lot looser in the 70's, both in Europe and the US. A number of countries in the Middle East have already suffered this trend.
I am torn over this issue. As a conservative, I do think the prevalence of pornography and the accessibility of these images is harmful to society on the whole.
As a conservative myself, I yearn for the good-old-days back in the seventies when you could buy Playboy at the magazine rack of your local supermarket, streakers would crash sporting events, and you didn't get put on sexual predator registries for life and banned from ever living near schools or parks just for taking a piss in public.
I guess there are 1970's conservatives and 1940's conservatives.:D
They take a while to charge? Do you even own a TESLA?
It takes ~15m if you're higher than 25% battery. It's 20m if it's dead flat. Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
20 minutes to charge from an empty battery? Have there been significant improvements in charging rates recently? All available videos about Tesla charging on youtube show 1 hour+ times for a complete charge. Tesla themselves say it will take 80 minutes. The maximum a supercharger will give you is some 120 kW, and that will only happen on an empty battery, so the quickest you could charge a 60 kW Tesla is 30 minutes, a 100 kW Tesla would need a minimum of 50 minutes. And I have mentioned that 120 kW only happens on an empty battery so real life charging times will be like Tesla states: about 80 minutes for a full charge.
Not 20.
Do you even own a Tesla or have you ever taken an interest in or read about the technology?
I agree that they tend to box you into your own little echo chamber if you let them, but I am frequently annoyed and even somewhat offended by what people sometimes post on my FB.
Then don't let people post on your FB. Even though the principle is no different then sending you offending letters, on FB I believe you can at least block people from posting on your page.
But in principle: you don't get it, do you? This is not about recognizing that this is a historic picture, this is about the fact that if this was a current newspicture, it would be censored by Facebook. Facebook would ignore it, deny it, say this never happened. And therefore American attacts on Vietnamese villages never happened.
Do you get it now? That is wat censorship does. Any censorship. It rewrites history to suit the storytellers. Facebook / Marc Zuckerberg = Carver Media Group Network / Elliot Carver.
Looking at the rampant gun-ownership in the States, it seems to me that a lot of people do think guns are cool. Last saturday there was an incident in the Netherlands where a suspected gunman wearing a balaclava was spotted on the beach. It turned out to be a 15 year old German kid who was walking around with a (legal in Germany not legal in the Netherlands) fake steel lookalike automatic rifle.
15 years old. Almost suicide by cop. Way cool man.
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the end user still pays an exorbitant amount ($1+) per kWh at the end of the month.
I know the dollar isn't worth much these days, but are these actual prices for energy in the US or maybe anywhere in Europe? I pay € 0,18 per kWh for my electricity and I was under the impression it is not more than € 0,25 over large parts of Europe.
Why is it price fixing when you react to what a competitor does? It's price fixing when you agree with your competitor what the price shoud be.
In Germany this practice is observable every day. Fuelstations are obliged by law to upload their prices to a system which offers that information as free data ( MTS-K). As a result you see fuelprices drop steadily during the day because everyone wants to be the cheapest. Only at the end of the day the prices rise again.
BTW: prices are not set by the fuelstation itself. They are set by the company that owns it and usually the fuelprice has no correlation to how much the proprietor of the fuelstation gets paid.
When a malicious app can have access to the gyroscope, why can't it read out the pressure of the screen? I don't even think there is a seperate access restriction for that because every app is controlled by the screen.
I would assume it would be very crude and inaccurate because a CRT monitor does not really move when you touch it. Was it a March issue of some computer magazine by any chance?
I don't know about the legal issues, but from a common-sense perspective it would make more sense for the captioning to be performed on-demand on a per-video basis; i.e. if a disabled student needs access to a particular video, he/she can request that it be captioned. The captioning is then added to that video and made available to everyone.
That way the ADA students get the captioning they need, and everyone else gets the benefit of the videos as well; plus the captioners don't spend a lot of their limited time captioning video that nobody will actually use the captions of; rather they spend their time captioning videos that actually need captioning sooner rather than later.
You know that will not work because when word gets out that this is the modus operandus, bogus requests will get made for each and every video in order to have every video captioned.
What I don't understand is that people can in such way take a situation hostage so that the end result is that no one has access.
"What, #random disability has no access? Than NO ONE has acces!"
That's like saying buses can't run because #random disability can not use them.
Does an analog meter measure the amount of energy correctly? If yes: it's criminal to impose a mandatory change to the new meter.
What happens when the government realizes that no one burns pirated moves to CD/DVD anymore since large HDD's are affordable now? Will they leave it as-is and tell the MPAA to kick rocks from now on forever... or will they eventually start taxing HDD sales, and other forms of storage sales.
They are way ahead of you. Since downloading in the Netherlands is legal (it is, by all means and measures, you are allowed to make a copy of a media for own use, even if you do not own the original media, but you can only make at for yourself, it is illegal to do it for others or to distribute your copy and it is illegal to download from illegal sources), there is a levy on unwritten media. So every empty CD or DVD you buy, every external harddrive (gotta love the law, only harddrives, not solid state drives because they are not mentioned), every mediaplayer, PC or laptop you buy, you pay a tax that gets divided by a NGO directly to copyrightholders.
Successful troll is successful.
We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive
My head literally reels with the notion that they need to hear unexpected reboots are disruptive to know they're disruptive!!!! What??!!
In my experience, product managers and system operators are the least likely to understand what the user actually want.
This is completely justified.
We shouldn't let anyone into the country who can't write a procedure to tell if a Binary Search Tree is balanced, or doesn't know what an abstract class is.
Moreover, you should kick out everybody who can not identify a valid solution to check whether a Binary Search Tree is balanced from a banana.
And yet, this is, in a way, very similar to just flinging a baseball bat (or whatever) towards a group of people, isn't it?
Doesn't seem similar to me. Drone pilot intended to fly near people, not hit them with the drone. Hitting the people was an accident. If you throw a bat at a group of people, you intended to hit them with the bat.
If I intend to shoot that apple on top of your head with an arrow but hit you squarly in the face, is that then also "just" an accident?
Flying a drone above a mass of people is waiting for an accident to happen. While it may certainly be unintentional and an accident when a drone falls from the sky, but it is as much an accident as shooting fireworks inside a crowd. I would call it reckless endangerment.
It seems just basic common sense to require people that need to deal with the public, including in a safety context, to actually be able to converse in the national language.
It depends on how strict the requirements are. Most adults read at a 7th to 8th grade level, and around 20% of adults read at under a 5th grade level. Any reading / writing requirements which limits employment to a large percentage of the working class population are likely not in the public interest.
If they are looking for something around a 3rd-5th grade reading level I could understand that. If they are looking for an 8th grade reading level the law is ridiculous and will likely only serve to limit access to non-native speakers and those without higher education (IMHO).
Understanding a language is more than x-grade level teachings. If you live in a country for all your life, you could have skipped school alltogether without any impairment to the understanding of the country's language.
OTOH: as a non-native to the country you may need years and years of learning to be able to understand the locals.
Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.
Apart of some very often used sites where I have to enter my user details every time I access them (like my webmail my computer at home and at work) I can't even tell you my password because I don't remember it. I have to write my passwords down in a file and look them up every time I have to use them. That goes for my Facebook profile (which is logged in on my home computer but I can't access it at work because I don't remember the password) to virtually every webshop I ever bought something and online newspapers.
So, are they really going to deny me entry if I genuinely don't know the password?
USA, the land of the free and the home of the brave? I don't think so. The land of the opressed and the home of the frightend.
Never had problems with failing harddrives and subsequent dataloss since.
Maybe for companies, but for home users it's free. Maybe you need a google account, but that's also free.
It is just what we need. More oligarchs. Robert Michels looks to be more right by the decade.
I do see a general trend in that direction, and that worries me also. Forget about puritan America (that is a lost cause anyway), I see similar trends in Europe. Morals were definitely a lot looser in the 70's, both in Europe and the US. A number of countries in the Middle East have already suffered this trend.
As a conservative myself, I yearn for the good-old-days back in the seventies when you could buy Playboy at the magazine rack of your local supermarket, streakers would crash sporting events, and you didn't get put on sexual predator registries for life and banned from ever living near schools or parks just for taking a piss in public.
I guess there are 1970's conservatives and 1940's conservatives. :D
They take a while to charge? Do you even own a TESLA? It takes ~15m if you're higher than 25% battery. It's 20m if it's dead flat. Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
20 minutes to charge from an empty battery? Have there been significant improvements in charging rates recently? All available videos about Tesla charging on youtube show 1 hour+ times for a complete charge. Tesla themselves say it will take 80 minutes. The maximum a supercharger will give you is some 120 kW, and that will only happen on an empty battery, so the quickest you could charge a 60 kW Tesla is 30 minutes, a 100 kW Tesla would need a minimum of 50 minutes. And I have mentioned that 120 kW only happens on an empty battery so real life charging times will be like Tesla states: about 80 minutes for a full charge.
Not 20.
Do you even own a Tesla or have you ever taken an interest in or read about the technology?
Phil the Shill?
I'll take 'em!
I agree that they tend to box you into your own little echo chamber if you let them, but I am frequently annoyed and even somewhat offended by what people sometimes post on my FB.
Then don't let people post on your FB. Even though the principle is no different then sending you offending letters, on FB I believe you can at least block people from posting on your page.
But in principle: you don't get it, do you? This is not about recognizing that this is a historic picture, this is about the fact that if this was a current newspicture, it would be censored by Facebook. Facebook would ignore it, deny it, say this never happened. And therefore American attacts on Vietnamese villages never happened.
Do you get it now? That is wat censorship does. Any censorship. It rewrites history to suit the storytellers. Facebook / Marc Zuckerberg = Carver Media Group Network / Elliot Carver.
His latest GIF novel (as the term suggests, a novel constructed with animated GIFs) was also mostly saved to the blog.
And nothing of value was lost.
GIF novel. I have several of them I think. All at 25 fps. Some call them movies.
Looking at the rampant gun-ownership in the States, it seems to me that a lot of people do think guns are cool. Last saturday there was an incident in the Netherlands where a suspected gunman wearing a balaclava was spotted on the beach. It turned out to be a 15 year old German kid who was walking around with a (legal in Germany not legal in the Netherlands) fake steel lookalike automatic rifle.
15 years old. Almost suicide by cop. Way cool man.