Actually, no. Texas is going to be a swing state in a few cycles, because while some Texans are moving to the right, a lot of other folks are moving to the north, and they tend to vote Democratic. While Texas may be the craziest, it's not nearly as solid red as the current elected officials would suggest.
Seriously. I voted for the guy who said he's end the wars and raise taxes, because there's a deficit, yo. The guy who implemented the Heritage Foundation's plan for healthcare, which was based on the idea of individual responsibility paired with a fair and transparent dealing from the insurers. The guy who overthrew the Libyan government under force of arms with four American fatalities, and didn't do the same in Syria because he thought it was too risky. Oh, and he's on the right side on the inclusion of gays, women(!?), immigrants and host of other basic-human-freedom issues that used to be considered part of the conservative promise.
We need a conservative party in this country, and I'm not sure the GOP is going to be it. I think the best thing you could do as a conservative in this country is start electing Greens and then plan to be a Democrat for the next 50 years.
Over the past 100 years, the incumbent president has lost seats in the House every cycle but two. It's the fall-off from the coattails in the prior cycle. Anyone who expected otherwise wasn't all that serious.
The story of 2010 wasn't losing the house, it was losing the House to crazies. Dems got elected in '06 and '08, ejecting moderate Republicans. When the GOP took those seats back, it was with hard right candidates, almost exclusively (see XKCDs excellent chart on this).
As Nate Silver pointed out, many times, over the course of the campaign, predicting what will happen one day before the election is easy. Very easy. Most everyone gets that right.
Predicting what will happen in June is hard. And much more interesting.
They're so targeted to my interests, it actually adds value to the experience? It makes it easier and more intuitive to find the products I need? The costs would otherwise be passed on to the consumer?
Actually, costs aren't passed on. Apple and most other large cap companies are highly profitable. The prices, in the markets which are competitive, are set by consumers, with profits being whatever is leftover. Taxes would eat away at those profits. Right now, public institutions are laying off teachers and firefighters into massively high unemployment while profits are currently at record highs. Yeah, some taxes seems like a pretty good trade.
Inefficiency while delivering value to the public is preferable to organizations which are highly efficient at screwing people. Apple v Samsung may have been executed with great efficiency, but I'd rather have a subway system.
Google has control over it's own destiny to make new products and services. That requires a competitive mobile arena with low barriers to entry. Google's bet is that its services will be good enough to win in an open(ish) market. The carriers want to win the only way they know how: spectrum monopoly.
Free Geek teaches people (typically low wage, low education, high enthusiasm folks) to rehab computers, upgrade them from their parts bins, responsibly dispose of the rest, and load up some open source software.
They'd love to max out memory on their boxes, as it's usually the first thing to truly age out compared to current systems.
The funds I raise will cover professional editing and design, because I believe people use resources most when they're as beautiful as they are practical. Funds will also go toward publicity so that teachers will know that this free e-book exists.
Any funds raised beyond the initial goal will go toward putting the book online as a website and funding travel for presentations and additional research. I may also give myself a small stipend out of any additional funds.
Bullshit. If you make something available for free (and open and...) and still manage to support yourself we should be celebrating that and asking how we can replicate it. Because that means creators will be able to make a lot more Free and lot less Not Free and that is a good thing.
Am I the only one who thinks a 4% annual raise -- that's ~1.5% annually above inflation -- is a perfectly normal rate of increase? I would hope that a year of experience would be worth a 2% raise. That's going from $50k salary to $51k salary, with inflation adjustment. Not exactly Goldman Sachs.
The editorial hits the main points, but perhaps understates the importance of US ISPs being controlled by non-competitive private companies. This is a disaster. Aside from Verizon Fios (which - surprise! - has stalled), Americans haven't put new pipe in the ground in ten years. Google shouldn't be making headlines with a modest proposed fiber-to-house project in Kansas.
In the 1990s, backbone providers had to sell bandwidth to all last-mile-ISPs at the same rate. There were literally tens of thousands of ISPs to choose from nationwide. In the name of deregulation, this got nixed around 2000. Backbone providers -- who also had local ISPs -- could price their competition to death. And they did. In 2002, we have about a dozen ISPs. Not so bad... but then they met at a conference and literally divided up the major markets between them. So we have a couple cable providers... but none in the same markets. Unlike a government monopoly which is beholden to the public will (with varying degrees of success), we have a monopoly on information services that is contractually obligated to shareholders to push their own content offerings.
As a result we have lower speeds and much, much higher prices than our friends in Asia and Europe. ( http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ ) More troubling is the prospect of political filtering. Want information on breaking DRM? Not via our pipe, buddy.
By allowing the car to switch between DC or AC current as the situation requires. DC requires more hardware on the charging unit, but allows much faster charging because the car doesn't have to manage heat from conversion.
You're asking Slashdot for a Apple vs Microsoft comparison on a product none of us have used? Well that's surely going to be reasonable and fact based discussion.
The important thing is that we live in a world where "rogue geoengineer" is a profession. I assume he's got an icecave where dude hangs out with Julian Assange and the rest of the League of Gray-hat Supervillians.
This is less of a censorship issue as a service interruption issue. The service was down for about an hour.
The DMCA is deeply fucked and this illustrates how broken it is. But this particular event did massive harm to the hosting companies reputation of reliability -- which is pretty much the only thing it sells -- while the blogs in question were restored in entirely, other than the apparently copyrighted page in question. No hosting company is look at this and saying, "That's how we'll do it!"
There are censorship issues today, real ones, but they are aimed at the fringes where authors are pressured, official accounts are bullshit or information is hidden. Look at, for instance, Apple's refusal to allow an app that pushed notifications when the US killed someone with a drone attack. Meanwhile Microsoft is looking at that and saying "Let's lock down Metro apps!"
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Actually, no. Texas is going to be a swing state in a few cycles, because while some Texans are moving to the right, a lot of other folks are moving to the north, and they tend to vote Democratic. While Texas may be the craziest, it's not nearly as solid red as the current elected officials would suggest.
Seriously. I voted for the guy who said he's end the wars and raise taxes, because there's a deficit, yo. The guy who implemented the Heritage Foundation's plan for healthcare, which was based on the idea of individual responsibility paired with a fair and transparent dealing from the insurers. The guy who overthrew the Libyan government under force of arms with four American fatalities, and didn't do the same in Syria because he thought it was too risky. Oh, and he's on the right side on the inclusion of gays, women(!?), immigrants and host of other basic-human-freedom issues that used to be considered part of the conservative promise.
We need a conservative party in this country, and I'm not sure the GOP is going to be it. I think the best thing you could do as a conservative in this country is start electing Greens and then plan to be a Democrat for the next 50 years.
Not when you're in debt. It's a subtle but system-wide benefit for those folks.
Pics or it didn't happen. Hang on, someone's at my door...
Please refrain from predicting 2014 election outcomes for at least another week.
Over the past 100 years, the incumbent president has lost seats in the House every cycle but two. It's the fall-off from the coattails in the prior cycle. Anyone who expected otherwise wasn't all that serious.
The story of 2010 wasn't losing the house, it was losing the House to crazies. Dems got elected in '06 and '08, ejecting moderate Republicans. When the GOP took those seats back, it was with hard right candidates, almost exclusively (see XKCDs excellent chart on this).
As Nate Silver pointed out, many times, over the course of the campaign, predicting what will happen one day before the election is easy. Very easy. Most everyone gets that right.
Predicting what will happen in June is hard. And much more interesting.
They're so targeted to my interests, it actually adds value to the experience? It makes it easier and more intuitive to find the products I need? The costs would otherwise be passed on to the consumer?
Fuck you.
Actually, costs aren't passed on. Apple and most other large cap companies are highly profitable. The prices, in the markets which are competitive, are set by consumers, with profits being whatever is leftover. Taxes would eat away at those profits. Right now, public institutions are laying off teachers and firefighters into massively high unemployment while profits are currently at record highs. Yeah, some taxes seems like a pretty good trade.
Parent is currently modded +2 Troll. [slowclap]
Inefficiency while delivering value to the public is preferable to organizations which are highly efficient at screwing people. Apple v Samsung may have been executed with great efficiency, but I'd rather have a subway system.
Make your own obvious point about allocation of resources in late-stage capitalism.
Google has control over it's own destiny to make new products and services. That requires a competitive mobile arena with low barriers to entry. Google's bet is that its services will be good enough to win in an open(ish) market. The carriers want to win the only way they know how: spectrum monopoly.
Google's approach is better for consumers.
Free Geek teaches people (typically low wage, low education, high enthusiasm folks) to rehab computers, upgrade them from their parts bins, responsibly dispose of the rest, and load up some open source software.
They'd love to max out memory on their boxes, as it's usually the first thing to truly age out compared to current systems.
http://www.freegeekchicago.org/
Quoting money commitments:
The funds I raise will cover professional editing and design, because I believe people use resources most when they're as beautiful as they are practical. Funds will also go toward publicity so that teachers will know that this free e-book exists.
Any funds raised beyond the initial goal will go toward putting the book online as a website and funding travel for presentations and additional research. I may also give myself a small stipend out of any additional funds.
Free open ebook, paying in the Amazon/Apple closed ecosystem.
Bullshit. If you make something available for free (and open and...) and still manage to support yourself we should be celebrating that and asking how we can replicate it. Because that means creators will be able to make a lot more Free and lot less Not Free and that is a good thing.
> (4-6% annual raises, EVERY YEAR)
Am I the only one who thinks a 4% annual raise -- that's ~1.5% annually above inflation -- is a perfectly normal rate of increase? I would hope that a year of experience would be worth a 2% raise. That's going from $50k salary to $51k salary, with inflation adjustment. Not exactly Goldman Sachs.
The editorial hits the main points, but perhaps understates the importance of US ISPs being controlled by non-competitive private companies. This is a disaster. Aside from Verizon Fios (which - surprise! - has stalled), Americans haven't put new pipe in the ground in ten years. Google shouldn't be making headlines with a modest proposed fiber-to-house project in Kansas.
In the 1990s, backbone providers had to sell bandwidth to all last-mile-ISPs at the same rate. There were literally tens of thousands of ISPs to choose from nationwide. In the name of deregulation, this got nixed around 2000. Backbone providers -- who also had local ISPs -- could price their competition to death. And they did. In 2002, we have about a dozen ISPs. Not so bad... but then they met at a conference and literally divided up the major markets between them. So we have a couple cable providers... but none in the same markets. Unlike a government monopoly which is beholden to the public will (with varying degrees of success), we have a monopoly on information services that is contractually obligated to shareholders to push their own content offerings.
As a result we have lower speeds and much, much higher prices than our friends in Asia and Europe. ( http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/ ) More troubling is the prospect of political filtering. Want information on breaking DRM? Not via our pipe, buddy.
And this is just landline.
> HTTP would thus remain a niche protocol mainly for graphics heavy content.
You were right. However, graphics heavy content is the format strongly preferred by humans.
> I'd be cool with a sheath that opens and closes while mating
Filthiest battery charger post ever.
By allowing the car to switch between DC or AC current as the situation requires. DC requires more hardware on the charging unit, but allows much faster charging because the car doesn't have to manage heat from conversion.
You're asking Slashdot for a Apple vs Microsoft comparison on a product none of us have used? Well that's surely going to be reasonable and fact based discussion.
The important thing is that we live in a world where "rogue geoengineer" is a profession. I assume he's got an icecave where dude hangs out with Julian Assange and the rest of the League of Gray-hat Supervillians.
This is less of a censorship issue as a service interruption issue. The service was down for about an hour.
The DMCA is deeply fucked and this illustrates how broken it is. But this particular event did massive harm to the hosting companies reputation of reliability -- which is pretty much the only thing it sells -- while the blogs in question were restored in entirely, other than the apparently copyrighted page in question. No hosting company is look at this and saying, "That's how we'll do it!"
There are censorship issues today, real ones, but they are aimed at the fringes where authors are pressured, official accounts are bullshit or information is hidden. Look at, for instance, Apple's refusal to allow an app that pushed notifications when the US killed someone with a drone attack. Meanwhile Microsoft is looking at that and saying "Let's lock down Metro apps!"