I actually meant the really horrific effect that the ships slowed down and listed/dipped (in the same direction!) as they were disabled. I don't really care about the bombs. I assume that they were just actively pushed down.
the series finally confronting the really obvious idea that FTL can be used as a weapon
Yeah, in a stupid way that was unnecessarily delayed (wait until 2 other capital ships are destroyed and like 1/2 the small escape pods). And there are no hyperspace torpedoes. Or otherwise weaponized versions. Better to just say "it's impossible cause of BS reason" than open a can of worms that badly.
X-Wings flying like airplanes
You mean in three dimensions? Or the wings? Cause the wings thing doesn't bother me (seems like a fine way to spread your weapons out.) Or... I'm actually not sure what you're complaining about..
sound in space
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Cause, you know, movie SFX. It's not like there was a major plot point that hinged on hearing in space.
moon-sized space stations
I have 0 problems with that. Absent the prohibitive cost, I'm not sure of the issues.
capital ships that move as if they're in an ocean
I don't remember that being a big issue in the first three movies. But it certainly was an issue here.
It wasn't the plot that got me, it was the really bad (tactics/physics/etc) space battles. Star Wars practically defined impressive space battles. The latest one was... horrible. In ways avoided by earlier movies. Everything was done in 2D with spaceships effected by gravity. Dramatic concluding explosion with no forewarning that changed the in universe physics. The way that the bombs were released (in terms of the interior of the ship) made no sense.
Also, some of the "jokes" they threw into the dialog... but bad dialogue is at least tradition.
I'm not talking about prepayment of pension funds. I'm talking about how, uniquely among federal agencies, when new information changes the funds needed for prepayments such that the USPS overpayed, it neither gets a refund nor even to count those overpayments in a previous year as towards the payments required in a current/future year. The account is just permentantly overpaid. In 2012, it was to the tune of 11.2 billion
Guessing from your claim that this is a lie, I assume you're pretty conservative. There are a lot of sources, but even the Heritage Foundation has supported these claims.
In fairness, Pokemon Go's gameplay is entirely about your real world coordinates (determined by GPS). It's as a reasonable for that specific game to request access as Maps or a geocaching app.
The USPS using accounting standards no other group (corporation or government agency) meets with regard to its pension. If it calculated its pensions costs using normal methods, its profitable.
Yes, they either suffer from the same problems, implemented the same solution, or already slowed the CPU down whether they shipped. This is a hardware limitation (so it could be done in software, firmware or hardware.) But batteries that can power a CPU at 100% when new cannot power that CPU at 100% when old. So, either you have to prevent apps from using 100% of the CPU, or the battery randomly cuts out when it's eventually using 100% of the CPU.
First, Amazon does use UPS. UPS, FedEx and DHL outsource the non-profitable part of their deliveries to the USPS. Honestly, that's the subsidy Trump ought be railing against. (From a technical point of view. It may be better politically/rhetorically to choose one high profile customer like Amazon).
Second, subsidizing some things (like roads), even for megacorps like Amazon, is important. It makes it easier for those megacorps to start up, and their competitors to start up as well. However, the typical payoff for that is supposed to be corporate tax dollars over and above the subsidy from the successful megacorps.
Large tax breaks to corporations generally equate to those companies spending between 10 and 20% of the initial take on employees wages and bonus's.
[Citation needed]. There have been a couple of high profile raises to $15/hr (which turns out to be less of a change than you would think as a percentage of salary) and a few high profile one-time bonuses. These have been high-profile precisely because the vast majority of (esp. large) companies aren't changing incentive structures at all (maybe 5% of the Fortune500). And, they come exclusivey from heavily regulated industries (e.g. banking) or otherwise had pending regulatory decisions (e,g, AT&T) before the Trump administration.
Fascinating... the fake news is coming just as the Trump's Department of Justice is deciding if Comcast lived up to the negotiated antitrust terms it agreed to when it purchased NBCUniversal.
The consent decree imposed on Comcast for the NBCUniversal merger is set to expire soon. However, there is a lot of risk the federal government may extend it. Since Trump seems susceptible to flattery/buttering up, giving him credit for things seems a cheap way to curry favor.
Certainly, their statement should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm far more likely to get a Fire, now that I know I can just install a browser and play videos from that. I recall trying those mini-Android HDMI plug in things, and (at least when I tried them) full screen in browser video didn't work. Since that's all I wanted...
You're selling a gift card. With a lot of publicity. It's a good deal (if you believe the company can honor its plans). That's why. With Netflix or Hulu, you had to sell a new experience/good. That meant convincing people why they want it.
I bet I could get over 1M customers real quickly with a $10/mo gets you all the fast food you can eat. It would literally be people who spend $10+ a month opting for a cheaper option.
Net neutrality is a crisper line. Antitrust laws have a lot more judgement involved, which is usually siding with the corporation. Also, IIRC, antitrust complaints have to start from a competing company, but NN can start from a customer. Lastly, the FCC seems better able to do their job than the FTC. Maybe because there are competing big money interests who want NN, but don't want to start the *opoly accusations flying.
The liability is handled quite differently. CC liability is usually limited to $50 or $0 (it's pushed onto the merchant) Most importantly, the CC company will not make you pay/charge interest while they ask the merchant for proof. Debit card liability is tricker, I believe there's more of an onus on you. But certainly, in that case, you're trying to get money back. They won't front you the funds while they try to resolve it. So, if there's fraud, that may mean you don't have the cash to do X with a debit card, whereas with a credit card it only means you may not have the credit on a specific card (I don't know if disputes count against your credit limit while they are in place. Probably).
Yup, let's put our trust in antitrust law. As Sinclair Broadcasting is doubling its size, Disney is swallowing up Fox (except a couple channels), the number of major airlines have shrunk to four which act in seeming concert with regard to bag fees, and AT&T is merging with Time Warner.
Not that it wouldn't be nice if antitrust laws were enforced. I just cannot remember the last time they were in the US (with the exception of MS bundling IE)
But like most people, they're tempted by only the positives of a course of action and blindly ignore the negatives.
I think what you mean is that the executives think an action will result in the stock price going up now, and will be able to jump ship before the negative long term consequences catch up with them.
Yeah, I would expect he'd get a visit. All transactions 10k or over are reported to the IRS. Depositing 5k twice a day instead of 10k once a day should trigger an alert that you're trying to work around the system. Cause that's what a drug dealer would try to do (if they were laundering money badly). They'd have receipts too.
Let me guess, he had to spend a few hours explaining to them what was going on, and a few more with the bank official.
In general, it feels like open-carry advocates who get upset when the police talk to them when they open-carry. Duh, the police should. Not that they should prevent you from doing something legal, but they should a least talk to those doing something suspicious.
And he should have talked to the bank ahead of time so that they knew to expect deposits like that.
The tax cut had a 1.8 - 2+ trillion dollar price tag. Don't worry though, they've already passed more legislation increasing the cost by at lease another 200 billion. So, it's at least a 2 trillion bill (over the next decade alone). And that's if they let the middle class tax cuts expire in 2023 as planned.
Obama did choose Pai to serve on the FCC at the recommendation from McConnell that Obama could have ignored. Obama had all the discretion in the world to pick any other Republican but he chose Pai.
He did not legally have to choose Pai, but presidents have deferred to Senate leadership to fill "their" seats of the opposition party for decades.So, I think, in a very real way, he did have to.
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No, that wasn't the issue at all. It was carrying forward issues from the switchover in '74 with regard to payrates and such.
I actually meant the really horrific effect that the ships slowed down and listed/dipped (in the same direction!) as they were disabled. I don't really care about the bombs. I assume that they were just actively pushed down.
Yeah, in a stupid way that was unnecessarily delayed (wait until 2 other capital ships are destroyed and like 1/2 the small escape pods). And there are no hyperspace torpedoes. Or otherwise weaponized versions. Better to just say "it's impossible cause of BS reason" than open a can of worms that badly.
You mean in three dimensions? Or the wings? Cause the wings thing doesn't bother me (seems like a fine way to spread your weapons out.) Or... I'm actually not sure what you're complaining about..
Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Cause, you know, movie SFX. It's not like there was a major plot point that hinged on hearing in space.
I have 0 problems with that. Absent the prohibitive cost, I'm not sure of the issues.
I don't remember that being a big issue in the first three movies. But it certainly was an issue here.
It wasn't the plot that got me, it was the really bad (tactics/physics/etc) space battles. Star Wars practically defined impressive space battles. The latest one was... horrible. In ways avoided by earlier movies. Everything was done in 2D with spaceships effected by gravity. Dramatic concluding explosion with no forewarning that changed the in universe physics. The way that the bombs were released (in terms of the interior of the ship) made no sense.
Also, some of the "jokes" they threw into the dialog... but bad dialogue is at least tradition.
I'm not talking about prepayment of pension funds. I'm talking about how, uniquely among federal agencies, when new information changes the funds needed for prepayments such that the USPS overpayed, it neither gets a refund nor even to count those overpayments in a previous year as towards the payments required in a current/future year. The account is just permentantly overpaid. In 2012, it was to the tune of 11.2 billion
Guessing from your claim that this is a lie, I assume you're pretty conservative. There are a lot of sources, but even the Heritage Foundation has supported these claims.
In fairness, Pokemon Go's gameplay is entirely about your real world coordinates (determined by GPS). It's as a reasonable for that specific game to request access as Maps or a geocaching app.
The USPS using accounting standards no other group (corporation or government agency) meets with regard to its pension. If it calculated its pensions costs using normal methods, its profitable.
Yes, they either suffer from the same problems, implemented the same solution, or already slowed the CPU down whether they shipped. This is a hardware limitation (so it could be done in software, firmware or hardware.) But batteries that can power a CPU at 100% when new cannot power that CPU at 100% when old. So, either you have to prevent apps from using 100% of the CPU, or the battery randomly cuts out when it's eventually using 100% of the CPU.
First, Amazon does use UPS. UPS, FedEx and DHL outsource the non-profitable part of their deliveries to the USPS. Honestly, that's the subsidy Trump ought be railing against. (From a technical point of view. It may be better politically/rhetorically to choose one high profile customer like Amazon).
Second, subsidizing some things (like roads), even for megacorps like Amazon, is important. It makes it easier for those megacorps to start up, and their competitors to start up as well. However, the typical payoff for that is supposed to be corporate tax dollars over and above the subsidy from the successful megacorps.
[Citation needed]. There have been a couple of high profile raises to $15/hr (which turns out to be less of a change than you would think as a percentage of salary) and a few high profile one-time bonuses. These have been high-profile precisely because the vast majority of (esp. large) companies aren't changing incentive structures at all (maybe 5% of the Fortune500). And, they come exclusivey from heavily regulated industries (e.g. banking) or otherwise had pending regulatory decisions (e,g, AT&T) before the Trump administration.
Fascinating... the fake news is coming just as the Trump's Department of Justice is deciding if Comcast lived up to the negotiated antitrust terms it agreed to when it purchased NBCUniversal.
The consent decree imposed on Comcast for the NBCUniversal merger is set to expire soon. However, there is a lot of risk the federal government may extend it. Since Trump seems susceptible to flattery/buttering up, giving him credit for things seems a cheap way to curry favor.
Certainly, their statement should be taken with a grain of salt.
How does "set top box now just runs FireFox, whatever website video in full screen" get distorted in your mind to "set top boxes are locking you in"?
It's actually the great unburdening of a special app for every website.
I'm far more likely to get a Fire, now that I know I can just install a browser and play videos from that. I recall trying those mini-Android HDMI plug in things, and (at least when I tried them) full screen in browser video didn't work. Since that's all I wanted...
You're selling a gift card. With a lot of publicity. It's a good deal (if you believe the company can honor its plans). That's why. With Netflix or Hulu, you had to sell a new experience/good. That meant convincing people why they want it.
I bet I could get over 1M customers real quickly with a $10/mo gets you all the fast food you can eat. It would literally be people who spend $10+ a month opting for a cheaper option.
Net neutrality is a crisper line. Antitrust laws have a lot more judgement involved, which is usually siding with the corporation. Also, IIRC, antitrust complaints have to start from a competing company, but NN can start from a customer. Lastly, the FCC seems better able to do their job than the FTC. Maybe because there are competing big money interests who want NN, but don't want to start the *opoly accusations flying.
The liability is handled quite differently. CC liability is usually limited to $50 or $0 (it's pushed onto the merchant) Most importantly, the CC company will not make you pay/charge interest while they ask the merchant for proof. Debit card liability is tricker, I believe there's more of an onus on you. But certainly, in that case, you're trying to get money back. They won't front you the funds while they try to resolve it. So, if there's fraud, that may mean you don't have the cash to do X with a debit card, whereas with a credit card it only means you may not have the credit on a specific card (I don't know if disputes count against your credit limit while they are in place. Probably).
Yup, let's put our trust in antitrust law. As Sinclair Broadcasting is doubling its size, Disney is swallowing up Fox (except a couple channels), the number of major airlines have shrunk to four which act in seeming concert with regard to bag fees, and AT&T is merging with Time Warner.
Not that it wouldn't be nice if antitrust laws were enforced. I just cannot remember the last time they were in the US (with the exception of MS bundling IE)
I think what you mean is that the executives think an action will result in the stock price going up now, and will be able to jump ship before the negative long term consequences catch up with them.
Maybe outside the US. In the US, with just the numbers on the card, you're typically just limited to the funds in the account.
Debit cards are dangerous.
Actually, just chip, no pin
Yeah, I would expect he'd get a visit. All transactions 10k or over are reported to the IRS. Depositing 5k twice a day instead of 10k once a day should trigger an alert that you're trying to work around the system. Cause that's what a drug dealer would try to do (if they were laundering money badly). They'd have receipts too.
Let me guess, he had to spend a few hours explaining to them what was going on, and a few more with the bank official.
In general, it feels like open-carry advocates who get upset when the police talk to them when they open-carry. Duh, the police should. Not that they should prevent you from doing something legal, but they should a least talk to those doing something suspicious.
And he should have talked to the bank ahead of time so that they knew to expect deposits like that.
The tax cut had a 1.8 - 2+ trillion dollar price tag. Don't worry though, they've already passed more legislation increasing the cost by at lease another 200 billion. So, it's at least a 2 trillion bill (over the next decade alone). And that's if they let the middle class tax cuts expire in 2023 as planned.
He did not legally have to choose Pai, but presidents have deferred to Senate leadership to fill "their" seats of the opposition party for decades.So, I think, in a very real way, he did have to.
Sorry, the processors compete on price. The networks (Visa/Mastercard) and the banks do not.
Can we wait on the Tesla news until it's less than 2 years out?