How is that practical? They have three kids, which makes moving no small feat. They are both employed, so moving would only happen if they can both find new jobs in the same market.
On top of that, their employment - even as contractors - for facebook ends up ultimately being a red mark on their resumes. When they go to other markets, potential employers will know - at least in general terms - how much these people were paid and will not want to even interview them as they will not be able to afford to pay them that much.
Until facebook goes under, they're stuck. For better or for worse, that might not be too far away though.
Zuckerberg is still partying on the collective dimes of investors who don't understand how facebook works - or why it still doesn't make money. He isn't quite as good a conman as our conman in chief over at 1600 Pennsylvania (likely only from lack of experience) but you can be sure that when the facebook bubble finally bursts he will not be the one left holding the bag.
You're absolutely right, though my understanding is that the Concorde - the only commercial supersonic passenger plane to date - was primarily used by business travelers who just had to be able to make it from NYC to Paris and back in the same 24 hour day. It was too expensive and too impractical for the overwhelming majority of tourists (at least, those tourists who were not also lunatic dictators).
I don't expect that this new aircraft will do much for us tourists of the proletariat. We will still pay dearly for steerage class on regular aircraft and be treated like cattle along the way; we'll just have to hope to have funds and vacation time simultaneously for our excursions.
We were told that the Concorde was not commercially viable even when tickets were 5-10x the price of coach for the same route. What will this new design do to put the tickets into a price range that more consumers can justify paying? Otherwise we already have ways to hold meetings in France in the AM and make it to NYC in time for dinner, it's called videoconferencing.
They took aim but hit the wrong target. The program Microsoft needs to kill is Outlook. Thankfully it is not hard to convince people to switch to an open source alternative to paint.
On the flip side, the problems that come with Outlook will keep many an IT worker employed for the rest of their lives (presuming of course they can stand to fix them for that long).
Two things really grind my gears with the version of (K)Ubuntu (16.04.2 LTS) that I currently run:
CUPS crashes randomly. Yes, I've updated it since installing and it still crashes randomly. Yes, I've checked the logs and it logs nothing at all. My solution is to set up a cron job that runs every 10 minutes to restart it, which is tolerable but shouldn't be necessary. This problem did not exist in previous versions.
Sleeping my laptop locks a config file and prevents me from changing monitors until I move.config,.local, and.kde directories. I have not been able to find the locked file. Why is this important? Because I use a docking station at work but some times bring my work home where I use a different monitor configuration.
There are other less dramatic problems I've run into, but these are the two that eat the most of my time. Other than that Ubuntu has been a real pleasure.
Does anyone have a metric on how many unique iPhone users are out there?
There are roughly 700 million iPhones in active use. About 200 million of those are 2nd hand.
That is an interesting estimate, though it doesn't say much about the number of users. We don't know how many of those are in the hands of people who own multiple iPhones, how many are work phones, etc. It's a good start but not complete.
I think you're confusing Apple with Facebook. Apple's devices are just a conduit, while the actual surveillance data is all going through and being stored in Facebook. Blaming Apple for this would be like blaming BP gas for motor vehicle accidents; sure if it wasn't there at all it would be slightly more difficult but there were other more pressing factors.
And certainly, someone else would have combined all this into one device eventually regardless of whether or not Apple was the first to do it in a commercially successful way.
1.1 billion is an admirable number of phones to sell, no doubt about it. But how many users are represented by those 1.1 billion phones? It seems that few iPhone users buy just one and are happy about it; their model seems based in no small part on people buying a new iPhone (at least) every two-three years. The used market seems to have nearly evaporated for them due to the hysteria surrounding the new models, so it is generally fair to expect each phone to have only one owner before going to disposal.
Does anyone have a metric on how many unique iPhone users are out there?
The White-Tailed Deer (and likely other related species - I'm only personally familiar with this one) moves in a bounding manner, often with all four legs off the ground. What makes it that much different from the kangaroo in the eyes of the driverless car? Is it at in the height difference in terms of on the ground versus not on the ground?
He seems to serve up another impeachable offense on an almost weekly basis lately. Sure, we would need the GOP house and GOP senate to set aside partisan politics long enough to actually do what is right for the country, but as some point he will cross that bridge (and burn it down) and then he'll either be removed by force to forced to resign.
For those fearing a president Pence, it is worth noting that Trump is an incredibly vindictive son of a bitch. The odds of him not taking Pence down with him is slim to none. We'll more likely see a Nixon-esque departure where Pence is kicked out first so that the GOP can appoint a new VP to take over once Trump leaves for good.
Unfortunately that won't completely end the nightmare as the US government will be on the hook for security for all things Trump until at least the death of his youngest child, but at least the bleeding will end.
It's a couple paragraphs speculating a 22 second video clip of nothing. Do a google image search for the Atari Logo and you will be just as well informed.
Senator Rand Paul was there but he is not recorded as having done anything useful. He's an MD but he let others treat the wounded.
He's an ophthalmologist. He's qualified to give victims an eye exam.
Ophthalmology is more than just eye exams; eye exams are most commonly done by optometrists (ODs) in the US. Ophthalmologists have medical training and handle much more than just exams.
He's not the least bit qualified to provide emergency trauma care.
You've never heard of anyone experiencing trauma of the eye? There is a lot that goes with it, and a lot of training that an ophthalmologist needs to keep up on in order to maintain their license.
In addition, he's licensed to practice medicine in Kentucky. There's no indication that he ever got licensed in Washington, D.C. so even attempting to provide trauma care would have been illegal, even if he were medically qualified.
In this situation, no. The Good Samaritan law kicks in for this and allows anyone who is qualified to provide assistance. The victims didn't need a diagnosis (it was clear they had been shot) or long term care at that moment (as they would be going to a hospital next), they needed to be stabilized and prepared for transport. Any MD can do that.
Good Samaritan laws have been passed to create exceptions for the untrained innocent bystander because of how severe the AMA-backed laws actually are.
No, the Good Samaritan laws exist to encourage anyone with some amount of training to provide aid when a situation arises. Rand Paul was simply not providing any aid.
For that matter, he has taken open stances against the AMA - even going so far as to attempt once in the past to set up his own accreditation system to circumvent them - so why would he suddenly be concerned about them now?
Senator Rand Paul was there but he is not recorded as having done anything useful. He's an MD but he let others treat the wounded. He is not recorded as having done anything to attempt to stop the gunman or report the incident to emergency personnel.
Just because he said something happened doesn't mean it did. Cite an actual news source that has at least the slightest shred of credibility. The update in this summary, that cites Trump, only serves to discredit itself in so doing.
GOP having control of power right now as it drives sales down since they can't scare potential customers into thinking the government is going to take the guns away.
No, certain GOP hating liberals have already routed around that problem. Now they are shooting Republicans for being republicans.
The link you gave does not offer any political affiliation for the shooter. Yeah, he shot a GOP congress-critter but does that mean he did it because he was himself to the left of said congress-critter? For all we know the shooter could have been an angry tea partier who felt the congress-critter was too much of a compromising centrist.
After all, if the liberals really want to have guns taken away, why would they be carrying them around? Shooting someone from the party that is most associated with more guns in public would not be a useful step towards gun restriction.
Ammo is cheap and plentiful right now, so likely not much. Stores that sell guns and ammo are actually cursing the GOP having control of power right now as it drives sales down since they can't scare potential customers into thinking the government is going to take the guns away.
The people who are most interested in influencing elections this way would not see $400k as a large investment and could potentially recoup that in a single favorable tax bill.
While those are run by local parties in the US, there is still opportunity for an outside player to influence or interfere with them. When I went to the caucus this year I left knowing the result of my own precinct but nothing beyond that, and many people left without waiting to find out the result of their own precinct. Certainly the Russians knew early in the nomination process that Trump was by far the candidate most favorable to them; why would they not want to interfere at that point?
Did Harley actually make the collar themselves? It seems unlikely to me that they would have bothered to do that. We see all kinds of crap sold with the branding of popular brands (think of all the Ferrari watches and wallets that are sold today as an example).
How exactly people make Comey look like the bad guy here is beyond me.
Because that is what happens here on drudgedot. Comey is a bad guy for releasing information that paints a republican in a negative light. He was a hero of the highest order last year when he announced the continuation of the investigation into Hillary's email server two weeks prior to the 2016 election; but now he is traitorous scum for releasing information that suggests Trump is not the greatest leader since the Cretaceous.
To see an extension of how much the members of the drudgedot groupthink despise reality just look back to how many of them swore around this time last year - or even significantly later - that they would never vote for Trump and are now cheerleading for him.
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How is that practical? They have three kids, which makes moving no small feat. They are both employed, so moving would only happen if they can both find new jobs in the same market.
On top of that, their employment - even as contractors - for facebook ends up ultimately being a red mark on their resumes. When they go to other markets, potential employers will know - at least in general terms - how much these people were paid and will not want to even interview them as they will not be able to afford to pay them that much.
Until facebook goes under, they're stuck. For better or for worse, that might not be too far away though.
Zuckerberg is still partying on the collective dimes of investors who don't understand how facebook works - or why it still doesn't make money. He isn't quite as good a conman as our conman in chief over at 1600 Pennsylvania (likely only from lack of experience) but you can be sure that when the facebook bubble finally bursts he will not be the one left holding the bag.
you cant videoconference tourism
You're absolutely right, though my understanding is that the Concorde - the only commercial supersonic passenger plane to date - was primarily used by business travelers who just had to be able to make it from NYC to Paris and back in the same 24 hour day. It was too expensive and too impractical for the overwhelming majority of tourists (at least, those tourists who were not also lunatic dictators).
I don't expect that this new aircraft will do much for us tourists of the proletariat. We will still pay dearly for steerage class on regular aircraft and be treated like cattle along the way; we'll just have to hope to have funds and vacation time simultaneously for our excursions.
We were told that the Concorde was not commercially viable even when tickets were 5-10x the price of coach for the same route. What will this new design do to put the tickets into a price range that more consumers can justify paying? Otherwise we already have ways to hold meetings in France in the AM and make it to NYC in time for dinner, it's called videoconferencing.
They took aim but hit the wrong target. The program Microsoft needs to kill is Outlook. Thankfully it is not hard to convince people to switch to an open source alternative to paint.
On the flip side, the problems that come with Outlook will keep many an IT worker employed for the rest of their lives (presuming of course they can stand to fix them for that long).
Mine are on the right hand side with Kubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. Is it perhaps a GNOME vs KDE thing?
There are other less dramatic problems I've run into, but these are the two that eat the most of my time. Other than that Ubuntu has been a real pleasure.
and terrestrial criminal activity
I couldn't help but wonder if it could also find extraterrestrial activity.
Does anyone have a metric on how many unique iPhone users are out there?
There are roughly 700 million iPhones in active use. About 200 million of those are 2nd hand.
That is an interesting estimate, though it doesn't say much about the number of users. We don't know how many of those are in the hands of people who own multiple iPhones, how many are work phones, etc. It's a good start but not complete.
I think you're confusing Apple with Facebook. Apple's devices are just a conduit, while the actual surveillance data is all going through and being stored in Facebook. Blaming Apple for this would be like blaming BP gas for motor vehicle accidents; sure if it wasn't there at all it would be slightly more difficult but there were other more pressing factors.
And certainly, someone else would have combined all this into one device eventually regardless of whether or not Apple was the first to do it in a commercially successful way.
1.1 billion is an admirable number of phones to sell, no doubt about it. But how many users are represented by those 1.1 billion phones? It seems that few iPhone users buy just one and are happy about it; their model seems based in no small part on people buying a new iPhone (at least) every two-three years. The used market seems to have nearly evaporated for them due to the hysteria surrounding the new models, so it is generally fair to expect each phone to have only one owner before going to disposal.
Does anyone have a metric on how many unique iPhone users are out there?
What else can I look forward to if I download this update?
The White-Tailed Deer (and likely other related species - I'm only personally familiar with this one) moves in a bounding manner, often with all four legs off the ground. What makes it that much different from the kangaroo in the eyes of the driverless car? Is it at in the height difference in terms of on the ground versus not on the ground?
He seems to serve up another impeachable offense on an almost weekly basis lately. Sure, we would need the GOP house and GOP senate to set aside partisan politics long enough to actually do what is right for the country, but as some point he will cross that bridge (and burn it down) and then he'll either be removed by force to forced to resign.
For those fearing a president Pence, it is worth noting that Trump is an incredibly vindictive son of a bitch. The odds of him not taking Pence down with him is slim to none. We'll more likely see a Nixon-esque departure where Pence is kicked out first so that the GOP can appoint a new VP to take over once Trump leaves for good.
Unfortunately that won't completely end the nightmare as the US government will be on the hook for security for all things Trump until at least the death of his youngest child, but at least the bleeding will end.
This is how it should have been played out
It's a couple paragraphs speculating a 22 second video clip of nothing. Do a google image search for the Atari Logo and you will be just as well informed.
Senator Rand Paul was there but he is not recorded as having done anything useful. He's an MD but he let others treat the wounded.
He's an ophthalmologist. He's qualified to give victims an eye exam.
Ophthalmology is more than just eye exams; eye exams are most commonly done by optometrists (ODs) in the US. Ophthalmologists have medical training and handle much more than just exams.
He's not the least bit qualified to provide emergency trauma care.
You've never heard of anyone experiencing trauma of the eye? There is a lot that goes with it, and a lot of training that an ophthalmologist needs to keep up on in order to maintain their license.
In addition, he's licensed to practice medicine in Kentucky. There's no indication that he ever got licensed in Washington, D.C. so even attempting to provide trauma care would have been illegal, even if he were medically qualified.
In this situation, no. The Good Samaritan law kicks in for this and allows anyone who is qualified to provide assistance. The victims didn't need a diagnosis (it was clear they had been shot) or long term care at that moment (as they would be going to a hospital next), they needed to be stabilized and prepared for transport. Any MD can do that.
Good Samaritan laws have been passed to create exceptions for the untrained innocent bystander because of how severe the AMA-backed laws actually are.
No, the Good Samaritan laws exist to encourage anyone with some amount of training to provide aid when a situation arises. Rand Paul was simply not providing any aid.
For that matter, he has taken open stances against the AMA - even going so far as to attempt once in the past to set up his own accreditation system to circumvent them - so why would he suddenly be concerned about them now?
Senator Rand Paul was there but he is not recorded as having done anything useful. He's an MD but he let others treat the wounded. He is not recorded as having done anything to attempt to stop the gunman or report the incident to emergency personnel.
Just because he said something happened doesn't mean it did. Cite an actual news source that has at least the slightest shred of credibility. The update in this summary, that cites Trump, only serves to discredit itself in so doing.
GOP having control of power right now as it drives sales down since they can't scare potential customers into thinking the government is going to take the guns away.
No, certain GOP hating liberals have already routed around that problem. Now they are shooting Republicans for being republicans.
The link you gave does not offer any political affiliation for the shooter. Yeah, he shot a GOP congress-critter but does that mean he did it because he was himself to the left of said congress-critter? For all we know the shooter could have been an angry tea partier who felt the congress-critter was too much of a compromising centrist.
After all, if the liberals really want to have guns taken away, why would they be carrying them around? Shooting someone from the party that is most associated with more guns in public would not be a useful step towards gun restriction.
Ammo is cheap and plentiful right now, so likely not much. Stores that sell guns and ammo are actually cursing the GOP having control of power right now as it drives sales down since they can't scare potential customers into thinking the government is going to take the guns away.
The people who are most interested in influencing elections this way would not see $400k as a large investment and could potentially recoup that in a single favorable tax bill.
While those are run by local parties in the US, there is still opportunity for an outside player to influence or interfere with them. When I went to the caucus this year I left knowing the result of my own precinct but nothing beyond that, and many people left without waiting to find out the result of their own precinct. Certainly the Russians knew early in the nomination process that Trump was by far the candidate most favorable to them; why would they not want to interfere at that point?
Did Harley actually make the collar themselves? It seems unlikely to me that they would have bothered to do that. We see all kinds of crap sold with the branding of popular brands (think of all the Ferrari watches and wallets that are sold today as an example).
How exactly people make Comey look like the bad guy here is beyond me.
Because that is what happens here on drudgedot. Comey is a bad guy for releasing information that paints a republican in a negative light. He was a hero of the highest order last year when he announced the continuation of the investigation into Hillary's email server two weeks prior to the 2016 election; but now he is traitorous scum for releasing information that suggests Trump is not the greatest leader since the Cretaceous.
To see an extension of how much the members of the drudgedot groupthink despise reality just look back to how many of them swore around this time last year - or even significantly later - that they would never vote for Trump and are now cheerleading for him.