Utter nonsense. 300-400,000 km is NOTHING. The body may have salt corrosion if it's in the rust belt, but otherwise there is no reason for dilapidation unless the owner is a pig. My 1999 TDI has well over 300,000 km. The upholstery is fine, the interior is not torn or stained, the glovebox, sunroof, locks, and trunk release all work fine. The struts for the hatch and the hood are like new. Never touched a CV joint. Brakes and suspension have been (minimally) maintained and are fine.
The engine and transmission run like brand new and have never been touched outside of timing belts, fluid changes, and minor maintenance.
How do you store the car? Around where I live, few people have garages, and I've never had (or wanted) a car cover, so my cars will be exposed to the elements without cover for 24/365. That much exposure to sunlight and temperature changes tends to wreck the interior a lot faster than if your car is in a garage.
BEGIN RANT; What is it with you people and declaring things dead? BSD has been dying for decades and you still haven't got the clue. God has been dead for a freaking century. Right now “X is dead” should be read as “X has suffered a bit, maybe”.END RANT;
At least in Internet parlance, 'dead' doesn't mean "completely, 100% eradicated," it means "has shrunk to much to remain relevant, even if it's technically still around.
Does anyone else notice how in the US, every four or five years a big scary media and political blitz about North Korea occurs in which they are biggest threat etc etc..
Because North Korea likes to make apocalyptic threats and they actually do have nuclear weapons. They've learned that this sort of cage rattling has historically gotten them a lot of concessions, and it drums up national pride to stand up to the rest of the world. Then you also have other countries who help them (China) because they like that someone else is a thorn in the side of the Americans.
Not all of us. A lot of West Coast asses will be grass once Crazy Don vs. Crazy Jong gets going, but North Korea will be glowing long before they produce anything that can reach the rest of the U.S.
Well, he certainly got a ton of comments and attention on this submission. Maybe that was his point, like the "one weird trick to lose weight that doctors don't want you to know" clickbait that has started to infest my local newspaper's online site of late.
Ah, this is the example I was really hoping to find: The Incredibles US trailer focuses on comedy, slapstick, and action while the trailer for "Mister Incredible" features much more of his family and a focus on Parr's attempt to balance home life, reintegration with society, and suppression of his old life.
Flac is an open format. DRM maybe a reason to use mp3 over formats, but not flac.
Flac is great for listening to at home (on a computer, say), but the files are too large for me to fit my library on my phone, which is my usual music player for the car.
So I'll use flac as the master, then transcode to mp3 for upload. They both have their uses!
This sounds like American film trailers are becoming more like Japanese film trailers. The trailers are often cut to tell much of the plot, and since there's more of a focus on the interests of Japanese women (as opposed to the obsession with American teen boys) they tend to add more emotion to the trailer itself. This is maybe most stark in the trailers for animated films which have a long history in Japan as adult fare, but are still often relegated to the animation ghetto in the USA.
Compare these two trailers for Inside Out. The American version focuses on slackstick humor, while the Japanese trailer kicks you right in the feels and isn't afraid to spoil the plot.
If there was anything hard there, you can sure CNN would be a bit less lukewarm about this. They don't really have much of a friendship with the President. Hell, they ran with that unsubstantiated pee-party stuff the moment they heard about it. I'd like to think that they're a little more circumspect and will check out sources and stories better now, but I don't know if they are.
Who makes a big server that just accepts email from a few people?
At my previous dot-com jobs, it was pretty common to totally overbuild on critical infrastructure. They had cash to burn, and they either couldn't afford for it to go down, or else they put a powerful system together in the (usually futile) hope that it would be needed for future expansion.
Making a DNS request is a far cry from sending email to.
If, say, a server gets probed for weaknesses by hackers located in Russia, then that server is going to make DNS requests for those Russian IPs. It doesn't mean that server is sending tons of emails to Russia.
Are you thinking of the Trump Organization / Alfa Bank computer relationship that the FBI found "odd?" Even the CNN article on it didn't report much of interest:
Internet data shows that last summer, a computer server owned by Russia-based Alfa Bank repeatedly looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization -- far more than other companies did, representing 80% of all lookups to the Trump server. It's unclear if the Trump Organization server itself did anything in return. No one has produced evidence that the servers actually communicated. [...] The Times said the FBI had concluded there could be an "innocuous explanation." And cybersecurity experts told CNN this isn't how two entities would communicate if they wanted to keep things secret.
Repeating a false statement will not make it true. Stop ignoring facts and actually read the 2 1/2 page memorandum provided by the Deputy AG.
I think we're both right. Jeff Sessions sent a cover letter that he wrote along with the memorandum that Rosenstein wrote, where he made his formal recommendation to fire James Comey. He said it was based on his own evaluation, along with the recommendations from the deputy A.G.
I'm also curious about the breakdown of the conventional sources as well. What percentages are imports, how much of that is coal, how much natural gas, nuclear, hydro(?), etc.
Energy systems are only as good as their performance in high demand situations.
Rationing is possible, as in "some power-hungry industries stop when the weather is unusally calm and dark".
You can keep those occations to a minimum by installing excessive windmills - just stop those that aren't needed at the moment on windy days.
Most businesses will not be willing to put up with that. The costs would be astronomical. "Sorry folks, we have to send you home, the power is out today." So do you pay the people not to work that day? That's a huge hit that company will have to take, and it's an unpredictable one, causing uncertainty and instability in the market. Or do you not pay the people since no work is done? In that case they come after the politicians and demand a more stable energy grid without these outages, natural (no wind) or artificial (rationing). Solar and wind work when you pair them with enormous capacitors/batteries to eliminate the rationing situation.
Theoretically a player could refuse to play certain discs if the chain isn't encrypted
And certain player hardware, such as the Macbook Pro and the Roku Premiere, refuse to output any video signal at any time if it detects that something doesn't support HDCP.
I argued against a person claiming everyone agrees with them. That does not mean I believe the same thing, and a tiny amount of thought would indicate that I have no such delusion or would have claimed "my side is right" instead of "half disagree". You just took some "common" out of common sense.
I'd actually... really like to agree with you. You've seemed like a reasonable debater in the past, and I search for folks willing enough to have a debate without just going off the deep end, either from the left or the right. It's not easy to find voices like that these days.
Jeff Sessions is not the "assistant Attorney General", your facts are wrong.
That's true, you are correct that he is not the "assistant Attorney General," but he is the adviser who urged President Trump to fire Comey. The assistant AG signed on as well, but they both signed on. Why omit Session's involvement?
Lastly, President Trump has not yet nominated anyone. You are basing your position wrong doing in fantasy land. Who exactly is telling you his appointment is bad, imaginary friend got your ear? Do you believe you are tuned into the aliens and they told you his pick would be bad? Or are you simply believing bullshit spread by jackasses with a political motivation for spreading bullshit? Until reality hits, if you truly believe your imagination, seek medical attention and get on some medication as you are a danger to society.
I'm basing my skepticism based on the actual people that he has nominated, many approved, for other departments. Things have have already happened in the last six months. Could I be happy with whomever he chooses? Sure. I'm fine with his pick for the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, along with some other cabinet positions that no one cared about because they were hardly controversial. But some of the other picks were wacko enough to give me pause.
You and your opinion are at best 50% of the US view of the situation.
Because we are all tribal now. You'll support your tribe, right or wrong. In fact, 'wrong' can't even be a possibility anymore, you won't even consider it, because it's your tribe, and the group-think is strong. Before you think I'm singling you out, the Democrats have exactly the same problem going the other way. We are highly polarized, and we have a hard time conceiving of ever crossing the aisle to oppose someone from "our side." This is the America we live in now.
The newly appointed Deputy Attorney General provided the opinion that led to the dismissal
Interestingly, Jeff Sessions said he would recuse himself on all matters dealing with the Russia investigation, then he provides the opinion for the dismissal of the head of the agency investigating the Russia matter.
Reality check - When a director or chief of police is fired, the pending cases don't all vanish and go away. Operations don't all stop and agents and officers don't sit at home with nothing to do. A temporary head takes over (defined by the chain of command) until a new director/Chief comes in and heads the agency.
And it leaves Trump free to nominate someone 'critical' of the idea of Russian interference. That would be extremely brazen, but he's the guy who nominated a chief player in the recent financial collapse as Treasury Secretary, an Energy Secretary who said the department should be scrapped, an Education Secretary who will be in charge of student loan policy while her family owns firms involved in student loan collection, and an E.P.A. administrator who says human activities are not a great contributor to climate change. So... it's pretty clear that he's not going to really care if others think a nominee will look bad, or if a nominee has conflicts of interest with the core role of the job he or she is nominated to perform.
Comey got himself fired for basically, being bad at being Director of the FBI.
Says you. Says me and the rest of the world: Comey'sinvestigation is getting uncomfortably close to disclosing details of the Trump family alignment with Putin's thugs.
The way that Comey handled Hillary's emails was incompetence of the highest order, especially exemplified with his huge announcement right before the election, and then later retraction, about Anthony Weiner's laptop.
The only thing that should have given Comey immunity is something unrelated, the Russia collusion investigation. Otherwise, this would be a highly unusual, but entirely justifiable firing (another poster rightly pointed out that President Hillary Clinton would have been totally justified in firing Comey, and she would have certainly gotten away with it. It would have fueled the right-wing paranoia conspiracy machine, but anything Hillary would have done would do that). One angle that I haven't seen people address is that Comey's job security had a vested interest in ensuring that the Russia investigation continue. Or at least, it would have been reasonable to assume so, even if that didn't turn out to be the case. Because even if the firing was justified, it's going to cause major obstruction-of-justice problems for Donald Trump.
They voted for a health bill they didn't read, that was passed 24 hours after it was drafted. These are the people who loudly cried "we have to pass the bill to know what's in the bill (sic)" yet Obamacare got far more Congressional scrutiny than this new health law got.
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It seems money is your primary motivating factor
Of course it is. Money is the primary way in which people in civilizations exchange value.
Utter nonsense. 300-400,000 km is NOTHING. The body may have salt corrosion if it's in the rust belt, but otherwise there is no reason for dilapidation unless the owner is a pig. My 1999 TDI has well over 300,000 km. The upholstery is fine, the interior is not torn or stained, the glovebox, sunroof, locks, and trunk release all work fine. The struts for the hatch and the hood are like new. Never touched a CV joint. Brakes and suspension have been (minimally) maintained and are fine.
The engine and transmission run like brand new and have never been touched outside of timing belts, fluid changes, and minor maintenance.
How do you store the car? Around where I live, few people have garages, and I've never had (or wanted) a car cover, so my cars will be exposed to the elements without cover for 24/365. That much exposure to sunlight and temperature changes tends to wreck the interior a lot faster than if your car is in a garage.
Journalism is dead.
BEGIN RANT; What is it with you people and declaring things dead? BSD has been dying for decades and you still haven't got the clue. God has been dead for a freaking century. Right now “X is dead” should be read as “X has suffered a bit, maybe”.END RANT;
At least in Internet parlance, 'dead' doesn't mean "completely, 100% eradicated," it means "has shrunk to much to remain relevant, even if it's technically still around.
Does anyone else notice how in the US, every four or five years a big scary media and political blitz about North Korea occurs in which they are biggest threat etc etc..
Because North Korea likes to make apocalyptic threats and they actually do have nuclear weapons.
They've learned that this sort of cage rattling has historically gotten them a lot of concessions, and it drums up national pride to stand up to the rest of the world. Then you also have other countries who help them (China) because they like that someone else is a thorn in the side of the Americans.
Not all of us. A lot of West Coast asses will be grass once Crazy Don vs. Crazy Jong gets going, but North Korea will be glowing long before they produce anything that can reach the rest of the U.S.
Then why would the West Coast asses be grass?
We all know this is insane. BeauHD's playing a game to see how many /.'ers will spend time tying to refute a preposterous article.
cf. https://xkcd.com/386/
Well, he certainly got a ton of comments and attention on this submission. Maybe that was his point, like the "one weird trick to lose weight that doctors don't want you to know" clickbait that has started to infest my local newspaper's online site of late.
Storage space is no longer a problem? Maybe on a computer, but most people want their music mobile, and phones are absolutely storage limited.
Ah, this is the example I was really hoping to find: The Incredibles US trailer focuses on comedy, slapstick, and action while the trailer for "Mister Incredible" features much more of his family and a focus on Parr's attempt to balance home life, reintegration with society, and suppression of his old life.
That Jack Sparrow [...] will resolve the issue
Uhhhh....
after a brief [...] fight ensues.
You clearly haven't seen the Pirates of the Caribbean movies!
Flac is an open format. DRM maybe a reason to use mp3 over formats, but not flac.
Flac is great for listening to at home (on a computer, say), but the files are too large for me to fit my library on my phone, which is my usual music player for the car.
So I'll use flac as the master, then transcode to mp3 for upload. They both have their uses!
This sounds like American film trailers are becoming more like Japanese film trailers. The trailers are often cut to tell much of the plot, and since there's more of a focus on the interests of Japanese women (as opposed to the obsession with American teen boys) they tend to add more emotion to the trailer itself. This is maybe most stark in the trailers for animated films which have a long history in Japan as adult fare, but are still often relegated to the animation ghetto in the USA.
Compare these two trailers for Inside Out. The American version focuses on slackstick humor, while the Japanese trailer kicks you right in the feels and isn't afraid to spoil the plot.
Also, the Trailers Always Spoil trope from TV Tropes is always a good read on this.
Who pays any attention to CNN?
If there was anything hard there, you can sure CNN would be a bit less lukewarm about this. They don't really have much of a friendship with the President. Hell, they ran with that unsubstantiated pee-party stuff the moment they heard about it. I'd like to think that they're a little more circumspect and will check out sources and stories better now, but I don't know if they are.
Who makes a big server that just accepts email from a few people?
At my previous dot-com jobs, it was pretty common to totally overbuild on critical infrastructure. They had cash to burn, and they either couldn't afford for it to go down, or else they put a powerful system together in the (usually futile) hope that it would be needed for future expansion.
Making a DNS request is a far cry from sending email to.
If, say, a server gets probed for weaknesses by hackers located in Russia, then that server is going to make DNS requests for those Russian IPs. It doesn't mean that server is sending tons of emails to Russia.
Are you thinking of the Trump Organization / Alfa Bank computer relationship that the FBI found "odd?" Even the CNN article on it didn't report much of interest:
AC, you've been shitposting all over the story repeatedly using the phrase "green shit" and "eco loons." Please stop.
Repeating a false statement will not make it true. Stop ignoring facts and actually read the 2 1/2 page memorandum provided by the Deputy AG.
I think we're both right. Jeff Sessions sent a cover letter that he wrote along with the memorandum that Rosenstein wrote, where he made his formal recommendation to fire James Comey. He said it was based on his own evaluation, along with the recommendations from the deputy A.G.
I'm still trying to figure out how Solyndra was a 'scandal.'
I'm also curious about the breakdown of the conventional sources as well. What percentages are imports, how much of that is coal, how much natural gas, nuclear, hydro(?), etc.
Energy systems are only as good as their performance in high demand situations.
Rationing is possible, as in "some power-hungry industries stop when the weather is unusally calm and dark".
You can keep those occations to a minimum by installing excessive windmills - just stop those that aren't needed at the moment on windy days.
Most businesses will not be willing to put up with that. The costs would be astronomical.
"Sorry folks, we have to send you home, the power is out today." So do you pay the people not to work that day? That's a huge hit that company will have to take, and it's an unpredictable one, causing uncertainty and instability in the market. Or do you not pay the people since no work is done? In that case they come after the politicians and demand a more stable energy grid without these outages, natural (no wind) or artificial (rationing).
Solar and wind work when you pair them with enormous capacitors/batteries to eliminate the rationing situation.
Interesting, it took 5 minutes for this comment to even show up ?
I see this is all the time in Slashdot stories now when I start a new comment thread.
Theoretically a player could refuse to play certain discs if the chain isn't encrypted
And certain player hardware, such as the Macbook Pro and the Roku Premiere, refuse to output any video signal at any time if it detects that something doesn't support HDCP.
It's Smurfs 2. What else could you possibly want?
What could I WANT?
Gargamel to finally eradicate all of those damn Smurfs! Is that a bit much to ask? Perhaps so.
Wasn't that Avatar?
I guess we just had to wait awhile.
I argued against a person claiming everyone agrees with them. That does not mean I believe the same thing, and a tiny amount of thought would indicate that I have no such delusion or would have claimed "my side is right" instead of "half disagree". You just took some "common" out of common sense.
I'd actually ... really like to agree with you. You've seemed like a reasonable debater in the past, and I search for folks willing enough to have a debate without just going off the deep end, either from the left or the right. It's not easy to find voices like that these days.
Jeff Sessions is not the "assistant Attorney General", your facts are wrong.
That's true, you are correct that he is not the "assistant Attorney General," but he is the adviser who urged President Trump to fire Comey. The assistant AG signed on as well, but they both signed on. Why omit Session's involvement?
Lastly, President Trump has not yet nominated anyone. You are basing your position wrong doing in fantasy land. Who exactly is telling you his appointment is bad, imaginary friend got your ear? Do you believe you are tuned into the aliens and they told you his pick would be bad? Or are you simply believing bullshit spread by jackasses with a political motivation for spreading bullshit? Until reality hits, if you truly believe your imagination, seek medical attention and get on some medication as you are a danger to society.
I'm basing my skepticism based on the actual people that he has nominated, many approved, for other departments. Things have have already happened in the last six months. Could I be happy with whomever he chooses? Sure. I'm fine with his pick for the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, along with some other cabinet positions that no one cared about because they were hardly controversial. But some of the other picks were wacko enough to give me pause.
You and your opinion are at best 50% of the US view of the situation.
Because we are all tribal now. You'll support your tribe, right or wrong. In fact, 'wrong' can't even be a possibility anymore, you won't even consider it, because it's your tribe, and the group-think is strong. Before you think I'm singling you out, the Democrats have exactly the same problem going the other way. We are highly polarized, and we have a hard time conceiving of ever crossing the aisle to oppose someone from "our side." This is the America we live in now.
The newly appointed Deputy Attorney General provided the opinion that led to the dismissal
Interestingly, Jeff Sessions said he would recuse himself on all matters dealing with the Russia investigation, then he provides the opinion for the dismissal of the head of the agency investigating the Russia matter.
Reality check - When a director or chief of police is fired, the pending cases don't all vanish and go away. Operations don't all stop and agents and officers don't sit at home with nothing to do. A temporary head takes over (defined by the chain of command) until a new director/Chief comes in and heads the agency.
And it leaves Trump free to nominate someone 'critical' of the idea of Russian interference. That would be extremely brazen, but he's the guy who nominated a chief player in the recent financial collapse as Treasury Secretary, an Energy Secretary who said the department should be scrapped, an Education Secretary who will be in charge of student loan policy while her family owns firms involved in student loan collection, and an E.P.A. administrator who says human activities are not a great contributor to climate change. So... it's pretty clear that he's not going to really care if others think a nominee will look bad, or if a nominee has conflicts of interest with the core role of the job he or she is nominated to perform.
Comey got himself fired for basically, being bad at being Director of the FBI.
Says you. Says me and the rest of the world: Comey'sinvestigation is getting uncomfortably close to disclosing details of the Trump family alignment with Putin's thugs.
The way that Comey handled Hillary's emails was incompetence of the highest order, especially exemplified with his huge announcement right before the election, and then later retraction, about Anthony Weiner's laptop.
The only thing that should have given Comey immunity is something unrelated, the Russia collusion investigation. Otherwise, this would be a highly unusual, but entirely justifiable firing (another poster rightly pointed out that President Hillary Clinton would have been totally justified in firing Comey, and she would have certainly gotten away with it. It would have fueled the right-wing paranoia conspiracy machine, but anything Hillary would have done would do that). One angle that I haven't seen people address is that Comey's job security had a vested interest in ensuring that the Russia investigation continue. Or at least, it would have been reasonable to assume so, even if that didn't turn out to be the case. Because even if the firing was justified, it's going to cause major obstruction-of-justice problems for Donald Trump.
They'll just blame Obama for all that.
They voted for a health bill they didn't read, that was passed 24 hours after it was drafted. These are the people who loudly cried "we have to pass the bill to know what's in the bill (sic)" yet Obamacare got far more Congressional scrutiny than this new health law got.