I fully believe that Pepsi would rather nobody had heard of the idea in the first place. They don't need an article mentioning them to remind people that they exist, and they don't want their brand associated with destroying the night sky. Articles like this tell people that they explored something horrible, so it does not work in their favor even though they've dropped it... only less in their disfavor than if they hadn't.
To be fair to the maligned megacorp, they said none of that, you were the one who said it all. They released a simple purely factual statement about their decision, in response to inquiries. They did not launch a new advertising campaign about their responsible choices or make any attempt to turn their decision into a marketing technique.
DARPA developed the Onion routing the Tor project uses, too -- way back in the 1990s. The US military is always keen to enable private communications between dissidents and demonstrators in disliked nations, and also for Americans organizing activities in said nations. That such tools also happen to be able to protect Americans from the US government is not sufficient reason to kill the projects, apparently. We can only hope the ability of foreign hackers to acquire decryption keys will prevent their use.
Finland has the power to declare war, Rhode Island doesn't. Finland also has the power to block a lot of EU actions that require unanimous consent, whereas nothing in the USA except for changing senate representation requires unanimous consent of states.
While both the USA and EU are fundamentally undemocratic structures, I'd much rather see the USA reform into a more EU-like structure because the EU does provide significantly more autonomy. Not to mention an escape hatch (article 50).
"The idea that an adult can turn on a listening device while a child is, say, in the bathroom or in their bedroom is not good."
Seriously, what is the big deal about listening to a kid poop? If a pedophile has some weird fetish for that, they can already go to any public restroom and site quietly in a stall listening to kids poop in the other stalls. Or if the kid is masturbating, well, same thing. If pedo fetishist really wants to volunteer to work for law enforcement in order to have the chance to listen to kids in bathrooms, so be it. Society has more important things to worry about, like keeping tabs on violent criminal teens before their trials.
The point of the LEO internet fleets don't have to be identified from the ground. Hit any of them with the signal, then let them work out the route between themselves. (As opposed to current satellite internet where you do have to hit a specific satellite precisely with a directional antenna.)
Ok, your daughter is running from an assailant, and the drunk assailant jumps into his car to chase her down. His car refuses to let him drive drunk, so she escapes. Good job protecting her safety.
Suspicious, the team of students surveyed the parking lots of the various churches during hours of worship and counted the cars in the parking lots.
Conclusion? "60% of the population did not attend church in the last week, 20% of the population did, and 20% were liars."
Or each empty car they looked at in the parking lot brought 20% more people in it than the researchers assumed, or 20% more people walked or biked to church than they assumed. or some combination thereof. That's just terrible research to not even try to count how many people attended and look at the parking lot instead.
That's just terribly lazy and pathetic research there.
It was definitely explosive and the headline is entirely correct.
"The explosive device, called the Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI), was released from Hayabusa-2 on Friday. The SCI, a 14kg conical container, was packed with plastic explosive intended to punch a 10m-wide hole in the asteroid.
Because of the debris that would have been thrown up in this event, Hayabusa-2 manoeuvred itself before the detonation to the far side of 800m-wide Ryugu - out of harm's way and out of sight." (BBC article)
You think rich people are going to live on 4 acres with 300 other people?
They do it in Manhattan penthouses already, so it's more plausible than the poor living on an island where the only way to get anywhere else is an expensive ferry service.
If the rich want to live trapped on packed, flat, floating islands... well, go have fun. I'll stay here in the foothills with vast open spaces and topography to explore.
As it happens I haven't bought a DVD in years and don't own a TV or subscribe to any streaming services, but I bow to your clearly more charming personality. Perhaps you should teach classes to share your evident gift.
Amazon sells all the physical DVDs already, and has the delivery infrastructure already. They could have a catalog with every movie in it, just by buying from their own inventory when someone wants to rent a previously-unrented DVD. And it'd be a great backup for their lackluster Prime video streaming selection.
Perhaps they're just afraid of cannibalizing their DVD sales.
They'll never quit releasing physical media, because there are a lot of people who will buy the physical media for a favorite movie after watching the stream. Even if perpetual streaming access were assured, it's a collectible and conversation piece.
No need to change the name, because none of the countries that have the Amazon river call it that, since they don't speak English. It's el río Amazonas. They can register that.amazonas gTLD.
The only way I've ever used goo.gl is 4) To SMS somebody an insanely long (keyword-stuffed) article URL you're looking at on your PC without having to type out the whole damn thing on a horrible little touchscreen.
"To determine whether particular instances of throttling are deceptive, we would first evaluate what claims an ISP made to consumers"
That sure doesn't sound like it's requiring disclosure -- it sounds like they're just requiring that ISPs not claim to be neutral if they aren't.
If there is something unexplained that somehow requires an actual disclosure instead of just silence, the article is unclear about how exactly the disclosure would be required to work. Would it just be another line buried in a legalese terms of service that nobody reads, or are they actually required to promote the information in some way?
"In previous years, the FTC has sued both TracFone and AT&T for failing to adequately disclose throttling on unlimited data plans."
^ This sounds like a different issue: unlimited mobile data plans that throttle you when you exceed a soft cap. I don't see how that kind of thing has anything to do with net neutrality, except I guess when they choose to exempt certain partners from the throttling when over the cap.
You think it's a good thing for everybody in the world to become an investment banker or similar economic parasite, and everything else (such as actually making things, researching or teaching) is a waste because it pays less?
Money does not equal success. This will simply lead to pressuring students into more lucrative majors while completely neglecting the rest of the university. Might as well just open a trade school.
Funny thing about that is the going rate for someone to cut your grass or clean your house is about $30/hour here in Dallas.
You pay $30 an hour, but for every hour of work there's another hour or more of searching for the work, making arrangements with you, and of course driving who knows how far to you and back. And then sometimes there's a middleman taking a cut too.
That's because, as the wikipedia page says, it's not supported by Microsoft IE/Edge. In a few years when pre-chromium Edge is nearly extinct you'll start to see a lot more animated PNGs used.
"The ban would prohibit grocery stores from providing plastic bags for most purchases, something California has been doing since a statewide ban was approved in 2016."
^ As a California resident, I know that's a lie. Plastic bags are available in just about every grocery store for 10 cents. Even at self-checkout usually.
That said, the bags you pay 10 cents for can be re-used hundreds of times -- I've been using the same 10 cent bags for years. So perhaps in that sense single-use bags that disintegrate after use are gone. So the outrage-causing tragedy here must either be that we have better quality bags or that they cost an obscene 10 cents which is like a day's pay for a Victorian sweatshop worker.
It snows on Mars even today. Not very much, and it's uncertain whether the H2O snow ever reaches the ground (probably only in unusual downdraft events), but it happens. And overnight frosts are common. Go back a billion years and you have enough atmosphere for rain -- especially during a warm period where the CO2 currently frozen into the polar cap was in the air.
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I fully believe that Pepsi would rather nobody had heard of the idea in the first place. They don't need an article mentioning them to remind people that they exist, and they don't want their brand associated with destroying the night sky. Articles like this tell people that they explored something horrible, so it does not work in their favor even though they've dropped it... only less in their disfavor than if they hadn't.
To be fair to the maligned megacorp, they said none of that, you were the one who said it all. They released a simple purely factual statement about their decision, in response to inquiries. They did not launch a new advertising campaign about their responsible choices or make any attempt to turn their decision into a marketing technique.
DARPA developed the Onion routing the Tor project uses, too -- way back in the 1990s. The US military is always keen to enable private communications between dissidents and demonstrators in disliked nations, and also for Americans organizing activities in said nations. That such tools also happen to be able to protect Americans from the US government is not sufficient reason to kill the projects, apparently. We can only hope the ability of foreign hackers to acquire decryption keys will prevent their use.
Finland has the power to declare war, Rhode Island doesn't. Finland also has the power to block a lot of EU actions that require unanimous consent, whereas nothing in the USA except for changing senate representation requires unanimous consent of states.
While both the USA and EU are fundamentally undemocratic structures, I'd much rather see the USA reform into a more EU-like structure because the EU does provide significantly more autonomy. Not to mention an escape hatch (article 50).
"The idea that an adult can turn on a listening device while a child is, say, in the bathroom or in their bedroom is not good."
Seriously, what is the big deal about listening to a kid poop? If a pedophile has some weird fetish for that, they can already go to any public restroom and site quietly in a stall listening to kids poop in the other stalls. Or if the kid is masturbating, well, same thing. If pedo fetishist really wants to volunteer to work for law enforcement in order to have the chance to listen to kids in bathrooms, so be it. Society has more important things to worry about, like keeping tabs on violent criminal teens before their trials.
The point of the LEO internet fleets don't have to be identified from the ground. Hit any of them with the signal, then let them work out the route between themselves. (As opposed to current satellite internet where you do have to hit a specific satellite precisely with a directional antenna.)
Ok, your daughter is running from an assailant, and the drunk assailant jumps into his car to chase her down. His car refuses to let him drive drunk, so she escapes. Good job protecting her safety.
It certainly does. It means that much less carbon is extracted from oil wells to meet the fuel demand.
Pretending that a fuel has to be carbon-negative is moving the goalposts stupidly far. Carbon neutral fuel is plenty helpful.
Or each empty car they looked at in the parking lot brought 20% more people in it than the researchers assumed, or 20% more people walked or biked to church than they assumed. or some combination thereof. That's just terrible research to not even try to count how many people attended and look at the parking lot instead.
That's just terribly lazy and pathetic research there.
It was definitely explosive and the headline is entirely correct.
"The explosive device, called the Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI), was released from Hayabusa-2 on Friday. The SCI, a 14kg conical container, was packed with plastic explosive intended to punch a 10m-wide hole in the asteroid.
Because of the debris that would have been thrown up in this event, Hayabusa-2 manoeuvred itself before the detonation to the far side of 800m-wide Ryugu - out of harm's way and out of sight." (BBC article)
They do it in Manhattan penthouses already, so it's more plausible than the poor living on an island where the only way to get anywhere else is an expensive ferry service.
If the rich want to live trapped on packed, flat, floating islands... well, go have fun. I'll stay here in the foothills with vast open spaces and topography to explore.
As it happens I haven't bought a DVD in years and don't own a TV or subscribe to any streaming services, but I bow to your clearly more charming personality. Perhaps you should teach classes to share your evident gift.
Amazon sells all the physical DVDs already, and has the delivery infrastructure already. They could have a catalog with every movie in it, just by buying from their own inventory when someone wants to rent a previously-unrented DVD. And it'd be a great backup for their lackluster Prime video streaming selection.
Perhaps they're just afraid of cannibalizing their DVD sales.
They'll never quit releasing physical media, because there are a lot of people who will buy the physical media for a favorite movie after watching the stream. Even if perpetual streaming access were assured, it's a collectible and conversation piece.
No need to change the name, because none of the countries that have the Amazon river call it that, since they don't speak English. It's el río Amazonas. They can register that .amazonas gTLD.
And apparently I can't read because that was #1.
The only way I've ever used goo.gl is
4) To SMS somebody an insanely long (keyword-stuffed) article URL you're looking at on your PC without having to type out the whole damn thing on a horrible little touchscreen.
"To determine whether particular instances of throttling are deceptive, we would first evaluate what claims an ISP made to consumers"
That sure doesn't sound like it's requiring disclosure -- it sounds like they're just requiring that ISPs not claim to be neutral if they aren't.
If there is something unexplained that somehow requires an actual disclosure instead of just silence, the article is unclear about how exactly the disclosure would be required to work. Would it just be another line buried in a legalese terms of service that nobody reads, or are they actually required to promote the information in some way?
"In previous years, the FTC has sued both TracFone and AT&T for failing to adequately disclose throttling on unlimited data plans."
^ This sounds like a different issue: unlimited mobile data plans that throttle you when you exceed a soft cap. I don't see how that kind of thing has anything to do with net neutrality, except I guess when they choose to exempt certain partners from the throttling when over the cap.
You think it's a good thing for everybody in the world to become an investment banker or similar economic parasite, and everything else (such as actually making things, researching or teaching) is a waste because it pays less?
Money does not equal success. This will simply lead to pressuring students into more lucrative majors while completely neglecting the rest of the university. Might as well just open a trade school.
You pay $30 an hour, but for every hour of work there's another hour or more of searching for the work, making arrangements with you, and of course driving who knows how far to you and back. And then sometimes there's a middleman taking a cut too.
That's because, as the wikipedia page says, it's not supported by Microsoft IE/Edge. In a few years when pre-chromium Edge is nearly extinct you'll start to see a lot more animated PNGs used.
"The ban would prohibit grocery stores from providing plastic bags for most purchases, something California has been doing since a statewide ban was approved in 2016."
^ As a California resident, I know that's a lie. Plastic bags are available in just about every grocery store for 10 cents. Even at self-checkout usually.
That said, the bags you pay 10 cents for can be re-used hundreds of times -- I've been using the same 10 cent bags for years. So perhaps in that sense single-use bags that disintegrate after use are gone. So the outrage-causing tragedy here must either be that we have better quality bags or that they cost an obscene 10 cents which is like a day's pay for a Victorian sweatshop worker.
It snows on Mars even today. Not very much, and it's uncertain whether the H2O snow ever reaches the ground (probably only in unusual downdraft events), but it happens. And overnight frosts are common. Go back a billion years and you have enough atmosphere for rain -- especially during a warm period where the CO2 currently frozen into the polar cap was in the air.