Government seems to be old technology poised for disruption. We could do that. It would give people more control and once that would happen, we wouldn't get into these useless wars that create terrorist organizations in the first place. Maybe a bit of direct democracy would be helpful? We can tally votes in real time. It would be so easy to have a system where someone says something stupid on the floor of congress, in the next minute everyone knows about it and before his ass hits the seat, he is already fired. How do you like that, Hillary?
I can confirm this, my wife T-boned a Volvo that run a red light in front of her. Our Honda Civic was totaled, the Volvo went into 540 degree spin. I've seen the Volvo and I could not tell where it was hit. Under very close inspection I found one place with slightly scratched paint. In contrast the whole front of the Civic was crumbled, the engine shifted, it was an unrepairable mess.
Why are we discussing the accusations thrown about by war criminals? Every director of CIA since at least Nixon's presidency has been responsible for war crimes. So why are we still listening to them? After all it is the CIA who is directly arming and training people who then immediately deflect to ISIS. That sounds like much more direct responsibility than anything Snowden might have done.
This post, to an old timer like me is absolutely excellent source of entertainment. Do you know the origin of the term FUD? I'd like to refer you to wikipedia, which has it more or less right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As for the G3,G4 and even G5, they were faster, in some case more than twice as fast even on Intel's own benchmark than contemporary Intel chips. But they were expensive and the economy of scale was in favor of Intel. If Apple wanted to ever compete on cost with comparable high end Wintel systems, they had to make the switch to Intel chips.
I rate myself as the 17th smartest person in this discussion and you the 136th out of 175. It is terrible I am 17th, I really should be first. But that does not change the fact that you are worse than me.... at least as long as I am the one doing the rating:)
It is only less common because in US nothing is decided by the courts. They are there just to rubber-stamp whatever the DA decides. All the bribery is moved to the DA office and is done largely through political contributions to a super pac. You just have no idea, how the US justice system actually works.
It is simply not accurate. The parent was right. You are being lied to by people who claim that Russia is the same country as Soviet Union was. Putin's part "United Russia" is a right wing party, did you know that? You know who is the opposition party? The communists. But for people in US, they are just all communists, because they never bother to learn.
So let me stop you right there. US justice system isn't just imperfect. It is... among the civilized nations... including Russia.... the most unjust system of them all. That is right. The most unjust. You still live under the impression of American Exceptionalism which blinds you to seeing what is plain in front of your face. I know they taught you in school that it is the best system in the world. They lied. It is not. It is, in fact, the worst.
No, they are not complex. They are in their essence very simple. They use just a handful of very easily explainable rules: 1) Everyone is guilty of something. 2) DA decides who to prosecute or not. 3) Jury verdict is random, anything can happen, even to innocent people. 4) Even smallest non violent victimless crimes carry huge minimum penalties the judge has to impose. 5) 95% of cases are plea bargained... so... 6) United States jails more people than the rest of the world combined.
The hypocrisy is astounding. You think that somehow the US kangaroo courts are any more just? Microsoft was even convicted of crimes and after much political pressure and bribes escaped with slap on the wrist. Probably also bullshit verdict, since it was under antitrust laws that have so much wiggle room? You really think there is any justice in US courts? Think again.
If you sit and put the computer on your lap, you will feel every ounce after a while. Extra 4 pounds and extra heat is not something great. Also when the computer is this heavy, it slides in your lap constantly. It is completely distracting. So you pretty much need to be chained to a desk. Why have a laptop at all then?
Your comment is saying essentially... there is a one person who does not care about some of the specs of the computer. What does such comment bring to the discussion?
And it's nice that you only use laptop as a desktop, but there are other people, who use them as laptops. For those batter time is important. I like being able to take my computer to a design meeting that can last hours without worrying about the charger. I like to go to a park to work. tether my computer to internet through phone and don't need any wires. And I'd prefer not to lug it behind me on a cart:) I care about the fact that my computer doesn't start to immediately overheat, as soon as I put it on my lap. Just.. you know... the things that you actually get a laptop for.
My mother worked on the last analog telephone central in Czech Republic, which was put out of commission before the end of last century. Since then every single phone call has been processed by a computer. I doubt there are any analog telephone centrals left anywhere, because at the time you had one floor of entire building replaced by a machine that fit in a broom closet.
So this argument could be applied to every single service that is actually regulated by title II and so is moot.
Two factories make toilet paper, one introduces robots and doubles its production and also profit margins, the number of employees stays the same. There is no impact to those employees, but the other factory goes out of business. That is where the jobs get lost and that is what the study does not measure. Same amount of toilet paper is produced at twice efficiency and half of the jobs get lost in the overall economy.
Bay Area has shit public transport and highways that only work at times you don't need them. (Outside of 6am to 9am and 4pm to 7pm) So you always end up being stuck somewhere. And everything is too far. People from San Francisco will almost never travel out of the city, for example. You almost have to blackmail them to do it. You might be 20 minutes away from open country, but if you would actually leave work hour early and go there, its 2 hours to get from work to home and 2 hours to get from home to anywhere outside Bay Area. So its dark before you get anywhere.
Joking aside. Actually yes. It would absolutely surprise me. For the following two reasons:
1) British have lost all spine in 2003 with Iraq. Since then UK is a colony of US and nobody even protests or dares to. If the British do a single act of defiance to the US government that does not actually prove to be a result of infighting within the US government, then we can talk. Until then, no.
2) The paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is one of the owners of US. A group of wealthy people who control both the US government actions and the media, sidestepping the pesky 1st amendment. But he does not, in fact, directly control UK government, except as a proxy through the US government.
I hope this explanation helps you to understand the situation better and addresses your "no insight" comment.
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Government seems to be old technology poised for disruption. We could do that. It would give people more control and once that would happen, we wouldn't get into these useless wars that create terrorist organizations in the first place. Maybe a bit of direct democracy would be helpful? We can tally votes in real time. It would be so easy to have a system where someone says something stupid on the floor of congress, in the next minute everyone knows about it and before his ass hits the seat, he is already fired. How do you like that, Hillary?
This was terrible interview, absolutely weird questions. Thank you for making sure I will visit Slashdot even less now.
I can confirm this, my wife T-boned a Volvo that run a red light in front of her. Our Honda Civic was totaled, the Volvo went into 540 degree spin. I've seen the Volvo and I could not tell where it was hit. Under very close inspection I found one place with slightly scratched paint. In contrast the whole front of the Civic was crumbled, the engine shifted, it was an unrepairable mess.
Why are we discussing the accusations thrown about by war criminals? Every director of CIA since at least Nixon's presidency has been responsible for war crimes. So why are we still listening to them? After all it is the CIA who is directly arming and training people who then immediately deflect to ISIS. That sounds like much more direct responsibility than anything Snowden might have done.
This post, to an old timer like me is absolutely excellent source of entertainment. Do you know the origin of the term FUD? I'd like to refer you to wikipedia, which has it more or less right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As for the G3,G4 and even G5, they were faster, in some case more than twice as fast even on Intel's own benchmark than contemporary Intel chips. But they were expensive and the economy of scale was in favor of Intel. If Apple wanted to ever compete on cost with comparable high end Wintel systems, they had to make the switch to Intel chips.
Please, learn your history, young one.
Stop trying to prevent me from watching it. Let me pay the damn license fee for a legal login to that player that is not geo-locked.
This makes me really happy to have a dual citizenship in one of the EU countries. The right to be forgotten law will be awesome for this site.
I so wish that your education system would improve at least to the level of successfully teaching basic reading comprehension :)
I rate myself as the 17th smartest person in this discussion and you the 136th out of 175. It is terrible I am 17th, I really should be first. But that does not change the fact that you are worse than me. ... at least as long as I am the one doing the rating :)
It is only less common because in US nothing is decided by the courts. They are there just to rubber-stamp whatever the DA decides. All the bribery is moved to the DA office and is done largely through political contributions to a super pac. You just have no idea, how the US justice system actually works.
It is simply not accurate. The parent was right. You are being lied to by people who claim that Russia is the same country as Soviet Union was. Putin's part "United Russia" is a right wing party, did you know that? You know who is the opposition party? The communists. But for people in US, they are just all communists, because they never bother to learn.
So let me stop you right there. US justice system isn't just imperfect. It is ... among the civilized nations... including Russia.... the most unjust system of them all. That is right. The most unjust. You still live under the impression of American Exceptionalism which blinds you to seeing what is plain in front of your face. I know they taught you in school that it is the best system in the world. They lied. It is not. It is, in fact, the worst.
No, they are not complex. They are in their essence very simple. They use just a handful of very easily explainable rules: ... so...
1) Everyone is guilty of something.
2) DA decides who to prosecute or not.
3) Jury verdict is random, anything can happen, even to innocent people.
4) Even smallest non violent victimless crimes carry huge minimum penalties the judge has to impose.
5) 95% of cases are plea bargained
6) United States jails more people than the rest of the world combined.
The hypocrisy is astounding. You think that somehow the US kangaroo courts are any more just? Microsoft was even convicted of crimes and after much political pressure and bribes escaped with slap on the wrist. Probably also bullshit verdict, since it was under antitrust laws that have so much wiggle room? You really think there is any justice in US courts? Think again.
If you sit and put the computer on your lap, you will feel every ounce after a while. Extra 4 pounds and extra heat is not something great. Also when the computer is this heavy, it slides in your lap constantly. It is completely distracting. So you pretty much need to be chained to a desk. Why have a laptop at all then?
Your comment is saying essentially... there is a one person who does not care about some of the specs of the computer. What does such comment bring to the discussion?
And it's nice that you only use laptop as a desktop, but there are other people, who use them as laptops. For those batter time is important. I like being able to take my computer to a design meeting that can last hours without worrying about the charger. I like to go to a park to work. tether my computer to internet through phone and don't need any wires. And I'd prefer not to lug it behind me on a cart :) I care about the fact that my computer doesn't start to immediately overheat, as soon as I put it on my lap. Just .. you know... the things that you actually get a laptop for.
Except that the Lenovo is twice as heavy and battery lasts half as long.
... it is not April again...
My mother worked on the last analog telephone central in Czech Republic, which was put out of commission before the end of last century. Since then every single phone call has been processed by a computer. I doubt there are any analog telephone centrals left anywhere, because at the time you had one floor of entire building replaced by a machine that fit in a broom closet.
So this argument could be applied to every single service that is actually regulated by title II and so is moot.
And since you are the only one and since I don't have you in friends, I don't have any friends on Google+, so why would I be there?
Two factories make toilet paper, one introduces robots and doubles its production and also profit margins, the number of employees stays the same. There is no impact to those employees, but the other factory goes out of business. That is where the jobs get lost and that is what the study does not measure. Same amount of toilet paper is produced at twice efficiency and half of the jobs get lost in the overall economy.
When I say I am in mood for strawberry, I mean strawberry, not beetle wings. Is that really so much to ask?
... but if they really want to clean up their act, they have to stop their partnership with Nestle right now.
Bay Area has shit public transport and highways that only work at times you don't need them. (Outside of 6am to 9am and 4pm to 7pm) So you always end up being stuck somewhere. And everything is too far. People from San Francisco will almost never travel out of the city, for example. You almost have to blackmail them to do it. You might be 20 minutes away from open country, but if you would actually leave work hour early and go there, its 2 hours to get from work to home and 2 hours to get from home to anywhere outside Bay Area. So its dark before you get anywhere.
Joking aside. Actually yes. It would absolutely surprise me. For the following two reasons:
1) British have lost all spine in 2003 with Iraq. Since then UK is a colony of US and nobody even protests or dares to. If the British do a single act of defiance to the US government that does not actually prove to be a result of infighting within the US government, then we can talk. Until then, no.
2) The paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is one of the owners of US. A group of wealthy people who control both the US government actions and the media, sidestepping the pesky 1st amendment. But he does not, in fact, directly control UK government, except as a proxy through the US government.
I hope this explanation helps you to understand the situation better and addresses your "no insight" comment.