The best form of leadership is a Benign/Benovolent dictatorship, this means they are reasonably popular but can get things done and can make the unpopular decisions when needed
The reasons this works for a company, are the same ones that work for a country...... but if a company stops being profitable they go bust and disappear, whereas when a country does the equivilent you just get a classical dictator
Democracy is a terrible system of government, but it is the least bad system in the long term....
So Mobile phones are sold with very narrow margins, as they always have been, except for one or two premium products which are heavily marketed and sold at premium prices even though they are not much better than some of the others
They can fit a slightly bigger battery in the phone, so it will last slightly longer - But the DAC and extra circutry will make this die faster the Phone can be thinner - so it can more easily bend, and have a slimmer battery so it will die quicker Headphone port will still break if you yank the cord sideways. It will still get plugged up with pocket lint. - and will cost more to replace Your headphoens will now drain your battery faster... You can't charge and listen
So less convenient, for no gain except for a phone that is even thinner! (Because thinner is better....?)
Patents were introduced so that people would publish the idea rather then keep it secret for ever - It does not do this
Copyright was introduced so that people could make money out of an idea they had to reveal in order to use - It does not do this in most cases
Trademarks were to stop people passing off an inferior copy and damaging an established brand - It still does this but not when it is not established or a known brand
ISIS terrorists do not need to encrypt thier communication, they either speak in person, or communicate on open channels knowing they could be intercepted (but probably won't be)
The twitter accounts, youtube, etc.. are advertising to potential recruits not a way of organising themselves
Note the FBI have a website, they don't use it to communicate with their agents in the field, and agents oftne use unsecured communication known it could be intercepted...
Most people do not eat carbohydrate, protein, or saturated fat, they eat foods most of which contain several of them, and they have meals which contain a variety of foods
Some carbohydrates give humans no energy, some lots, and restricting intake to extremes has been shown to be harmful (as is too much)
Your recommended diet is impossible for most people to understand or follow, and is by anyone's information unbalanced, it is likely (with some exercise) to allow you to lose weight, but is not a diet you should stick to indefinately, your wieght may be fine but your health may not be...
If you are talking about the USA then you got to where you are because of engineering and resources, not innovation, that was mostly imported from outside (by refugees, and immigrants)
But yes do do have a government that disputes facts when they are inconvenient...
Most rear ended auto-car accidents had nothing to do with the auto car, any car in the same position would have been hit, but would not have bothered to report a very minor accident... the people doing this have just been getting away with it for years...
the nearest that an autocar has got to this is when one was stopped for driving "too slowly", it wasn't actually doing anything wrong, it was just the the police expected most drivers to speed and so got suspicious of a driver obeying the law (assumed they might be drunk)
The accident rate for auto cars is much less then manually driven cars already, and all the accidents involving auto cars are caused by people...and the auto car can easily prove this...
Once auto cars become more common the police and courts will not even bother looking at the evidence they will just charge the person willfully driving manually...
Make sure Google reports the driver who hit them to their insurance company, these are the same people who have always been causing all the minor accidents that no-one bothers reporting
This will finally get the bad drivers who don't pay attention off the roads...
The conventional power plants on the same coast of Japan were destroyed to thier foundations, meanwhile the Fukushima Daini, Just 12km from Fukushima Daiichi suffered almost no damage at all...
How do they put people in Jail in the USA for writing software in another country, to be used in another country
Do they put people in jail who use it in the USA.... and what do they do when either everytone is in Jail, or the only country using easily hacked encrytion...
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The best form of leadership is a Benign/Benovolent dictatorship, this means they are reasonably popular but can get things done and can make the unpopular decisions when needed
The reasons this works for a company, are the same ones that work for a country... ... but if a company stops being profitable they go bust and disappear, whereas when a country does the equivilent you just get a classical dictator
Democracy is a terrible system of government, but it is the least bad system in the long term ....
So Mobile phones are sold with very narrow margins, as they always have been, except for one or two premium products which are heavily marketed and sold at premium prices even though they are not much better than some of the others
Sounds like every othe industry ...
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Medicine is only expensive in the USA, the rest of the world does healthcare better and cheaper or worse and cheaper
NASA's budget is getting smaller .... but the rest of the world is spending as much or more on Space ...
There are devices with a headphone socket that is sealed and waterproof ... this is not usually the entry point for water on most devices ...
They can fit a slightly bigger battery in the phone, so it will last slightly longer - But the DAC and extra circutry will make this die faster ...
the Phone can be thinner - so it can more easily bend, and have a slimmer battery so it will die quicker
Headphone port will still break if you yank the cord sideways. It will still get plugged up with pocket lint. - and will cost more to replace
Your headphoens will now drain your battery faster
You can't charge and listen
So less convenient, for no gain except for a phone that is even thinner! (Because thinner is better ....?)
...They do make them like they used to ... then they become larger, then they sell out to a large company
The expected radiation dose of living near a power station is 0.3 microsieverts a year ...that is a Coal fired station ... !
The 3 factors are
Something you know : Password
Something you have : Key
Something you are : Biometrics
also known as ...
Something you forgot
Something you lost
Something you cease to be
If everbody is speeding then the road layout is encouraging them to speed, redesign the road so 30 seems fast and people will drive slower
Which is why Apple sales are slowing ... people are finally getting the message
Patents were introduced so that people would publish the idea rather then keep it secret for ever - It does not do this
Copyright was introduced so that people could make money out of an idea they had to reveal in order to use - It does not do this in most cases
Trademarks were to stop people passing off an inferior copy and damaging an established brand - It still does this but not when it is not established or a known brand
ISIS terrorists do not need to encrypt thier communication, they either speak in person, or communicate on open channels knowing they could be intercepted (but probably won't be)
The twitter accounts, youtube, etc .. are advertising to potential recruits not a way of organising themselves
Note the FBI have a website, they don't use it to communicate with their agents in the field, and agents oftne use unsecured communication known it could be intercepted ...
Most people do not eat carbohydrate, protein, or saturated fat, they eat foods most of which contain several of them, and they have meals which contain a variety of foods
Some carbohydrates give humans no energy, some lots, and restricting intake to extremes has been shown to be harmful (as is too much)
Your recommended diet is impossible for most people to understand or follow, and is by anyone's information unbalanced, it is likely (with some exercise) to allow you to lose weight, but is not a diet you should stick to indefinately, your wieght may be fine but your health may not be ...
The driver who is aware of their surroundings but drives in places with crazy drivers will break a lot and sometimes hard, but not cause accidents
The driver who does not care about the car will break softly and ding other cars, and cause far more accidents ...
He thinks Google is more secure ... ?
So replacing one number with another ... which you need all the world governments to agree to do ...
You would care if it cost more to contact them via one method and less via another ...
I don't rember phone numbers but contacts have all thier numbers allocated to them so I can pick which to contact them on
The Paris terrorists used un-encrypted communications repeatedly prior and during the attacks ... so ... ?
If you are talking about the USA then you got to where you are because of engineering and resources, not innovation, that was mostly imported from outside (by refugees, and immigrants)
But yes do do have a government that disputes facts when they are inconvenient ...
Most rear ended auto-car accidents had nothing to do with the auto car, any car in the same position would have been hit, but would not have bothered to report a very minor accident ... the people doing this have just been getting away with it for years ...
the nearest that an autocar has got to this is when one was stopped for driving "too slowly", it wasn't actually doing anything wrong, it was just the the police expected most drivers to speed and so got suspicious of a driver obeying the law (assumed they might be drunk)
The accident rate for auto cars is much less then manually driven cars already, and all the accidents involving auto cars are caused by people...and the auto car can easily prove this...
Once auto cars become more common the police and courts will not even bother looking at the evidence they will just charge the person willfully driving manually ...
Make sure Google reports the driver who hit them to their insurance company, these are the same people who have always been causing all the minor accidents that no-one bothers reporting
This will finally get the bad drivers who don't pay attention off the roads ...
The conventional power plants on the same coast of Japan were destroyed to thier foundations, meanwhile the Fukushima Daini, Just 12km from Fukushima Daiichi suffered almost no damage at all ...
How do they put people in Jail in the USA for writing software in another country, to be used in another country
Do they put people in jail who use it in the USA. ... and what do they do when either everytone is in Jail, or the only country using easily hacked encrytion ...