Lets examine the logic shall we? (I know.. I know.. you HATE that)
a) LEGO used to just be blocks, and the just-blocks legos were used by both boys and girls
b) LEGO now makes engineering-type sets which boys prefer and home-making-type sets which girls prefer.
You then argue that:
1) It is marketing that moved us from (a) to (b)
2) We need to use marketing to undo the evils of marketing
3) Marketing is bad
4) Marketing is good
5) All hail marketing
If as you illogical morons argue that marketing is the problem, then the solution obviously isn't marketing, that in fact the worst thing to do would be to use the dark powers of marketing to control the minds of girls.
Then again, I never met a liberal that didnt want to enforce their will onto others by any means necessary.
The proper way to handle this, would be for the courts to be able to order a closed investigation, conducted by a forensic computer/network specialist within law enforcement, to look in to the Comcast customer's potential involvement from a technical aspect, in order to determine if it's reasonable to reveal their their identity to continue the case.
Except what is "reasonable" is considered a "fact", and its not law enforcement thats supposed to decide what the facts are. It is judges that determine what are and are not "facts."
Also, you're being rather optimistic about Intel being able to buy them with loose change. Intel is a much bigger firm, but not that much bigger.
Intel set aside $45 billion a few years ago just for stock buy-backs. Then another $20 billion about 6 months ago for the same purpose. Thats the sort of cash they accumulate that they dont have a good idea what to do with.
ARM has a market cap of only $25 billion, so I think that you have grossly failed in your assumptions.
Don't get me wrong.. ARM is an amazing company. Their profit per employee is quite impressive. Never-the-less, Intel is constantly looking for ways to invest that kind of money. They just don't think that ARM would be a good acquisition. Far cheaper to license ARM IP as needed than to buy it.
It possible to believe that tolerating some abuse is an acceptable price to pay to ensure that charity reaches the need without creating a culture that celebrates fraud.
I don't think that the word "charity" means what you think that it means.
I think infinity makes a bit more sense than zero. And max is the closest thing to infinity.
IEEE floating point has both positive and negative infinity, as well as positive and negative zero. IEEE also took the trouble to define division by these signed zeros as resulting in one of these signed infinities.
So strictly speaking, computers already can and do return a default value for division by zero. Its just not the value that this guy wants.
The way I am reading the comments, the issue is that the buggy SSD's are flagging physical blocks as RZAT or DRAT when a trim request on a logical block is ignored. The bug presents itself later if the SSD performs wear leveling that swaps out the logical block with another, the bug being leaving the physical block tagged RZAT or DRAT.
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Yes, "force of law" decisions. Make it sound sinister.
Funny that "force of law" only sounds sinister in some cases. Now go back to the books and figure out why it does in this case.
The problem with trans fats is that they are cheap and satisfying
I remember when it wasn't considered a problem to be satisfied inexpensively.
Some people are satisfied with transfats, while others are satisfied with telling others what to do. One of these has higher hidden costs, the supporters of the later telling us its the former.
"River, we're not telling people what to think. We're just trying to show them how."
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If I were interested I'm sure I could document every decision you make today, and criticize your wrong ones in 40 years. Yay.
Proves the point, doesnt it?
Do you really want people who will be shown to be wrong within 40 years to be making force-of-law decisions for you on the very things that they are wrong about? My guess is that its only not-a-big-deal when it doesnt directly effect your lifestyle choices.
CA uses 38 billion gallons of water per day. Well, as of 2010 they did. It may be more now. Or less. But not a lot more or less. So in the vicinity of 13.9 TRILLION gallons of water per year
You can't argue with them. The progressives do not know the difference between millions, billions, and trillions. Just look at the spending they support and how they support it if you doubt me. They speak as if trillions is just a little bit larger than millions.
Interesting that you're so certain his nth-great-grandchildren will be paying for it.
Why? Americans are still paying interest on the debt accrued for the civil war. Thats 150 years and counting now, commonly accepted to be 6 generations. The Federal government was almost debt-free before the war, and hasnt been almost debt free ever since.
If the other 115 million homes in the country each also got a "free" $34000 in money for the same purpose... the government would have to borrow 3.9 TRILLION dollars (about 25% of the current federal debt).. luckily so far out great great great grandchildren only have to pay for a few greedy selfish fucks.
Libertarians engage in magical thinking that somehow the wealthy and powerful to not step on everyone, take everything from everyone, and destroy everyone else.
Yep. I nailed it. You just wanted to rant against libertarians where none were even mentioned. And even now all you are doing is parroting.
Your statement that the money was "stolen" by use of government force is incorrect, self centered, and shallow.
Taken from poor people to give to a middle class person for the purpose of benefiting only that middle class person is theft.
Self-centered is ranting about libertarians while doing it.
stealing from other for personal gain using government force.
You dont seem to understand what personal gain is, however you managed to parrot a long list of anti-libertarian bulletpoints frequently given by progressives to defend arguments against taxation. Its almost as if you can't think for yourself... did I say almost? Yeah... I take that back.
I'm always astonished at the high price of solar power in the USA.
Why? Its basic economics.
If you think $5K is a good deal, you wont mind that its actually $10K so long as the other $5K isnt your own money. It doesnt matter that the extra $5K is actually going to be borrowed by the government, a debt that will have to be services by your children, and their children, and their children, and their children....
It would take a customer with principles to refuse to make the deal. We have seen that this customer in particular does not have principles since he claimed that his installation has already paid for itself, when in reality it isn't even half way there yet (using his own numbers) and in actuality can never pay for itself (since his great great great grandchildren will stil be paying interest on it, long after his panels are garbage.)
Actually, a great improvement for this would be auto-update functionality so they could push out updates anytime. That way we will always have the most up to date historical data!
The GHCN releases historic data daily. It contains adjustments daily. Past data changes frequently.
You can download the data daily, compare and contrast, witness this for yourself.
Sometimes years worth of station data disappears from their releases, only to re-materialize a month or two later. These mysterious disappearances often coincide with a press release a week or two later about new temperature records being broken. Most of the past adjustments are downward. The adjustments look nothing like a normal distribution either: not a small bias.
There is nothing scientific about whats happening here.
You described a situation where the raw data was adjusted twice for good reasons, now explain the other 20 times that it was adjusted.
Please explain why the same data is adjusted multiple times per year, every year. Lets hear it... do not avoid this fact, because I am an eye witness to it.
the only way to deal with errors in data collection of those past measurements is to apply corrections.
How many times are you allowed to correct a specific data point?
Suppose its 1962 and I have measured the temperature on a specific day and write it down. This is a data point. Three decades later someone pushing the AGW theory comes in and says that my thermometer wasn't accurate and adjusts the data down. A few years later another guy pushing that AGW theory adjusts the adjusted figure down again. A few years later they are adjusting the adjusted data down by small amounts every few weeks and have been doing it ever since.
This is what is essentially happening. The only things not true in the above paragraph is that in reality it wasn't I that collected any data points, and that they are doing it to most of the data points. You can prove this to yourself by downloading their adjusted data and watch as the same past data points get altered multiple times per year.
You are claiming that the only way to deal with errors is to do this. You are fucking lying.
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Lets examine the logic shall we? (I know.. I know.. you HATE that)
a) LEGO used to just be blocks, and the just-blocks legos were used by both boys and girls
b) LEGO now makes engineering-type sets which boys prefer and home-making-type sets which girls prefer.
You then argue that:
1) It is marketing that moved us from (a) to (b)
2) We need to use marketing to undo the evils of marketing
3) Marketing is bad
4) Marketing is good
5) All hail marketing
If as you illogical morons argue that marketing is the problem, then the solution obviously isn't marketing, that in fact the worst thing to do would be to use the dark powers of marketing to control the minds of girls.
Then again, I never met a liberal that didnt want to enforce their will onto others by any means necessary.
Except what is "reasonable" is considered a "fact", and its not law enforcement thats supposed to decide what the facts are. It is judges that determine what are and are not "facts."
Also, you're being rather optimistic about Intel being able to buy them with loose change. Intel is a much bigger firm, but not that much bigger.
Intel set aside $45 billion a few years ago just for stock buy-backs. Then another $20 billion about 6 months ago for the same purpose. Thats the sort of cash they accumulate that they dont have a good idea what to do with.
ARM has a market cap of only $25 billion, so I think that you have grossly failed in your assumptions.
Don't get me wrong.. ARM is an amazing company. Their profit per employee is quite impressive. Never-the-less, Intel is constantly looking for ways to invest that kind of money. They just don't think that ARM would be a good acquisition. Far cheaper to license ARM IP as needed than to buy it.
Even Walmart or McDonalds require you to apply online and will communicate with you via email.
I guess then that the shortage of workers due to only taking internet applications has forced them to raise wages, right?
No? Then something about your argument is complete shit. You figure out what it is.
So lets double down and get even more tax payer money in on the game...
I am failing to see your logic, perhaps because I am not looking so desperately for a reason to justify this move by the fcc.
It possible to believe that tolerating some abuse is an acceptable price to pay to ensure that charity reaches the need without creating a culture that celebrates fraud.
I don't think that the word "charity" means what you think that it means.
I think infinity makes a bit more sense than zero. And max is the closest thing to infinity.
IEEE floating point has both positive and negative infinity, as well as positive and negative zero. IEEE also took the trouble to define division by these signed zeros as resulting in one of these signed infinities.
So strictly speaking, computers already can and do return a default value for division by zero. Its just not the value that this guy wants.
Hmmm ... is there any evidence of this "Illumitaxi" conspiracy?
Yes. $1,000,000 taxi medallions.
His argument was the fact that this is not a choice for those on the lower income scale.
Amazing bit of "logic" you have.
The way I am reading the comments, the issue is that the buggy SSD's are flagging physical blocks as RZAT or DRAT when a trim request on a logical block is ignored. The bug presents itself later if the SSD performs wear leveling that swaps out the logical block with another, the bug being leaving the physical block tagged RZAT or DRAT.
Yes, "force of law" decisions. Make it sound sinister.
Funny that "force of law" only sounds sinister in some cases. Now go back to the books and figure out why it does in this case.
The problem with trans fats is that they are cheap and satisfying
I remember when it wasn't considered a problem to be satisfied inexpensively.
Some people are satisfied with transfats, while others are satisfied with telling others what to do. One of these has higher hidden costs, the supporters of the later telling us its the former.
"River, we're not telling people what to think. We're just trying to show them how."
If I were interested I'm sure I could document every decision you make today, and criticize your wrong ones in 40 years. Yay.
Proves the point, doesnt it?
Do you really want people who will be shown to be wrong within 40 years to be making force-of-law decisions for you on the very things that they are wrong about? My guess is that its only not-a-big-deal when it doesnt directly effect your lifestyle choices.
First they came for the socialists...
Swift 77.6%
C++11 75.6%
Rust 73.8%
Go 72.5%
Clojure 71.0%
Scala 70.6%
Swift, 6.6% more loved than Clojure, and a full 7% more loved than Scala.
Yep, sure sounds like a selling point.
..and you propose that the solution to living in an inconvenient place is to continue living in an inconvenient place...
CA uses 38 billion gallons of water per day. Well, as of 2010 they did. It may be more now. Or less. But not a lot more or less. So in the vicinity of 13.9 TRILLION gallons of water per year
You can't argue with them. The progressives do not know the difference between millions, billions, and trillions. Just look at the spending they support and how they support it if you doubt me. They speak as if trillions is just a little bit larger than millions.
Interesting that you're so certain his nth-great-grandchildren will be paying for it.
Why? Americans are still paying interest on the debt accrued for the civil war. Thats 150 years and counting now, commonly accepted to be 6 generations. The Federal government was almost debt-free before the war, and hasnt been almost debt free ever since.
... the government would have to borrow 3.9 TRILLION dollars (about 25% of the current federal debt) .. luckily so far out great great great grandchildren only have to pay for a few greedy selfish fucks.
If the other 115 million homes in the country each also got a "free" $34000 in money for the same purpose
Libertarians engage in magical thinking that somehow the wealthy and powerful to not step on everyone, take everything from everyone, and destroy everyone else.
Yep. I nailed it. You just wanted to rant against libertarians where none were even mentioned. And even now all you are doing is parroting.
Your statement that the money was "stolen" by use of government force is incorrect, self centered, and shallow.
Taken from poor people to give to a middle class person for the purpose of benefiting only that middle class person is theft.
Self-centered is ranting about libertarians while doing it.
stealing from other for personal gain using government force.
You dont seem to understand what personal gain is, however you managed to parrot a long list of anti-libertarian bulletpoints frequently given by progressives to defend arguments against taxation. Its almost as if you can't think for yourself... did I say almost? Yeah... I take that back.
I'm always astonished at the high price of solar power in the USA.
Why? Its basic economics.
If you think $5K is a good deal, you wont mind that its actually $10K so long as the other $5K isnt your own money. It doesnt matter that the extra $5K is actually going to be borrowed by the government, a debt that will have to be services by your children, and their children, and their children, and their children....
It would take a customer with principles to refuse to make the deal. We have seen that this customer in particular does not have principles since he claimed that his installation has already paid for itself, when in reality it isn't even half way there yet (using his own numbers) and in actuality can never pay for itself (since his great great great grandchildren will stil be paying interest on it, long after his panels are garbage.)
you missed an opportunity.
The opportunity to steal from others for personal gain, using government force.
so I've more than covered the cost of the installation.
Interesting perspective. When other people pay over 50% for your stuff (they paid $34000, you paid $31000), you dont bother counting that.
More evidence that greenies are selfish pricks that are also bad at math.
Actually, a great improvement for this would be auto-update functionality so they could push out updates anytime. That way we will always have the most up to date historical data!
The GHCN releases historic data daily. It contains adjustments daily. Past data changes frequently.
You can download the data daily, compare and contrast, witness this for yourself.
Sometimes years worth of station data disappears from their releases, only to re-materialize a month or two later. These mysterious disappearances often coincide with a press release a week or two later about new temperature records being broken. Most of the past adjustments are downward. The adjustments look nothing like a normal distribution either: not a small bias.
There is nothing scientific about whats happening here.
That is not "essentially happening".
You described a situation where the raw data was adjusted twice for good reasons, now explain the other 20 times that it was adjusted.
Please explain why the same data is adjusted multiple times per year, every year. Lets hear it... do not avoid this fact, because I am an eye witness to it.
the only way to deal with errors in data collection of those past measurements is to apply corrections.
How many times are you allowed to correct a specific data point?
Suppose its 1962 and I have measured the temperature on a specific day and write it down. This is a data point. Three decades later someone pushing the AGW theory comes in and says that my thermometer wasn't accurate and adjusts the data down. A few years later another guy pushing that AGW theory adjusts the adjusted figure down again. A few years later they are adjusting the adjusted data down by small amounts every few weeks and have been doing it ever since.
This is what is essentially happening. The only things not true in the above paragraph is that in reality it wasn't I that collected any data points, and that they are doing it to most of the data points. You can prove this to yourself by downloading their adjusted data and watch as the same past data points get altered multiple times per year.
You are claiming that the only way to deal with errors is to do this. You are fucking lying.