It's more of a fundamental difference in how civil law works. In America, you can put wording in your terms and conditions that ostensibly requires your customers to bend over backwards and kick themselves in the gonads while whistling Dixie, for three hours every Sunday morning. Your customers will then proceed to not bother to read the terms and conditions and not actually do any of the weird junk said terms and conditions supposedly require. As long as you don't try to actually enforce any of it, it'll probably never go to court, and your terms and conditions will probably never be officially ruled unenforceable.
Under Australian consumer law it's unlawful to even make some of these claims, like "no refunds for any reason" and the ACCC will take you to court for even trying.
the economy sucks for workers right now. The unemployment rate is always bogus but the 'gig' economy means millions of people are being counted as working because they drive for Uber just enough to pay rent.
Enough to pay the rent? I believe in the OECD stats you're considered employed if you work just one hour a week.
That said, I agree that 80% will only get worse, as females learn to avoid the sterile males, or mate multiple times, or whatever it takes to be among the 20%.
Why should the 80% get worse? I suspect that figure is determined only by the ratio of sterilized to unsterilized males in the environment. BTW, from my reading, most females mate only once but can produce up to three batches of eggs from that mating (needing three blood meals), but males can mate multiple times with different females.
A group of Tesla owners on the Dutch-Belgium Tesla Forum are gathering data from over 350 Tesla vehicles across the world and frequently updating it in a public Google file.
We have previously reported on the data, but they have since added many more vehicles and those vehicles have been driving a lot more – completing more battery cycles.
The data clearly shows that for the first 50,000 miles (100,000 km), most Tesla battery packs will lose about 5% of their capacity, but after the 50,000-mile mark, the capacity levels off and it looks like it could be difficult to make a pack degrade by another 5%.
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot.
No, this is only the case for mildly hot climates. In very hot climates, people generally dress in several layers of insulating clothing to keep the heat out.
Ask a Bedouin whether undressing in the heat of the desert is smart.
The desert environment combines very hot temperatures with very low humidity, so the evaporation of sweat has a profound cooling effect. The air inside their robes is substantially cooler than the air outside. This tactic will NOT work in a climate with high heat and high humidity. Try wearing Bedouin robes in the amazon jungle and see how long you last.
My 29 year old Supra has been the cheapest car to maintain of the five my family owns (in the few years since I rebuilt the engine) and has the highest mileage in those five years. The other four are an Audi, a Volvo, a Honda and an Acura, in descending order of expenses.
There's no point in comparing a 29 year old car to anything modern. They're from different worlds.
It's also a violation of the no Easter Egg policy that Microsoft instated for security reasons.
They're not strictly easter eggs as there is no code involved; they're simply graphic features in plain sight. They're also only in dev versions not meant for release.
I'd also worry about blocking sites. Here in Canada, they're trying to get permission to block sites because of piracy. Thing is their site blocking is usually to broad and once they're blocking sites, they can block them for political reasons. Block the other parties site or even worse, target certain neighbourhoods and block (or really slow down) the voters registration sites.
Your basic point is correct, but in most other countries with this kind of censorship, the ISPs only implement DNS blocking which can be avoided by choosing a DNS other than the one provided by your ISP. However Russia and China are more hard core in their censorship activities.
Sailboats have actually advanced a long way in recent decades. A modern clipper ship would look quite different from the old ones.
The advantage to wind powered ships is that they don't need fuel! Think of the money the industry would save.
They don't use sails to replace the usual motors but to supplement them. If you do an image search for maps of trade winds you'll find that on some routes in some directions, the wind blows from behind for most of the trip. Some prototypes have reported a 15% or greater reduction in fuel consumption using sail.
The sails are all computer controlled and furled/unfurled by motors. The ships may use more conventional mast styles or some designs use large kite sails.
There was a piece on Australian TV about Walmart removing Cosmopolitan magazine from the shelves. It seems the group that pestered them into it were masquerading as part of the #MeToo movement but they had recently undergone a name change, and were actually another right wing religious organization riding on #MeToo's coat tails.
I wonder if there's something like that going on here? Maybe some nasty little group of religious bigots is harassing Amazon behind the scenes.
This is nothing like what3words where codes with small variations are likely to be on different continents. For example "hers.post.back" is in Kent, England and "hers.spot.back" is in Tennessee USA. Actually I have trouble figuring out just what what3words is good for.
Google's system only took 6 characters to locate the entrance to my building on Google maps and 8 characters to locate the entrance to a local shopping mall. I mention the mall because yesterday I saw a man collapsed on the floor inside and people calling the ambulance. This would have been a compact way to specify which of the many entrances was closest to the patient.
there are multiple tiers of the license. How much you need depends on what chemicals you work with. If you're a dude (most of us/.ers are) you have no idea how crazy some of chemicals they work with are. The stuff women will do to get straight hair if they're born with curly or curly hair if they're born with straight is absurd. Come to think of it, every girl I've ever met wants the opposite type of hair they were born with....
There's also questions of hygiene, such as how often you clean your hands, equipment, towels, environment etc. Some of the stuff being done by cosmetologists blends over into the quasi-medical, like Botox injections, mild chemical peels, laser, IPL or waxing hair removal (in sensitive places). etc.
If I was a woman I'd be in favor of at least some basic qualifications for the people working on me.
I have used Hotspot Shield a couple of times to get around simple geoblocking of articles on sites, but no one in their would use it for anything requiring serious security.
I wouldn't be so certain about that. One time pads have existed as long as writing itself, yet ciphers were always far more common for cryptography, only being replaced by computer-based cryptography. If unbreakable one-time pads were universal what were all those code breakers doing? The (now) famous Venona operation was engaged in breaking spy codes. The Walker Ring used a rotor encipherment gadget.
The Venona project was all about breaking "one time codes". Under the pressure of Nazi invasion the Soviets in WW2 made a big whoopsie and reprinted some of their one time pads (but shuffled and mixed the pages with others), making them ultimately breakable in part.
The pads produced during that time were used after the World War ended and into the cold war era. It's thought that none of the people that produced the pads were game to admit it to their superiors as they would have been sent to Siberia or executed.
Irrigating an area the size of the United States would be quite the project. Who is going to pay? And how are we going to coordinate a massive engineering project in a region with no stable government?
Well we know who is going to pay if we don't do something soon. All of us.
No need. Just don't pay for that service and the modem don't broadcast anymore.
It is opt in as you have to opt into paying for that service.
You only have to pay if you want them to provide a service to you. I doesn't mean they aren't continuously siphoning telematics and location information off your car for their benefit.
Unless he finds a bigger fool to sell it too before the bubble bursts.
Yes I am sad I didn't get in on this bubble at the beginning but not that sad. Let's face it: Bitcoin is no longer behaving like a currency. It's now a speculative game like tulips.
Alas I am late to this game and you should never enter a market when it looks like the bubble is about to burst. Not that sad anyway because it's a gamble. If you're kicking yourself for missing the Bitcoin bubble why not invest in some other cryptocurrency now? Yeah. I thought so.
And the best time to buy into real estate was always 20 years ago.
i'd agree with everything you mentioned aside from the blue water navy -- it turns out that having a very long, very pointy spear is a handy thing to have when it comes to foreign policy
Preferably a navy that doesn't keep running into other ships, at least not intentionally.
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It's more of a fundamental difference in how civil law works. In America, you can put wording in your terms and conditions that ostensibly requires your customers to bend over backwards and kick themselves in the gonads while whistling Dixie, for three hours every Sunday morning. Your customers will then proceed to not bother to read the terms and conditions and not actually do any of the weird junk said terms and conditions supposedly require. As long as you don't try to actually enforce any of it, it'll probably never go to court, and your terms and conditions will probably never be officially ruled unenforceable.
Under Australian consumer law it's unlawful to even make some of these claims, like "no refunds for any reason" and the ACCC will take you to court for even trying.
There is only so much time we can protests. There is too much evil going on right now, FCC stupidity is on the low end of things at the moment.
The time to protest was at the last US elections, and most of the eligible voters sat on their asses and didn't bother to vote.
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the economy sucks for workers right now. The unemployment rate is always bogus but the 'gig' economy means millions of people are being counted as working because they drive for Uber just enough to pay rent.
Enough to pay the rent? I believe in the OECD stats you're considered employed if you work just one hour a week.
That said, I agree that 80% will only get worse, as females learn to avoid the sterile males, or mate multiple times, or whatever it takes to be among the 20%.
Why should the 80% get worse? I suspect that figure is determined only by the ratio of sterilized to unsterilized males in the environment. BTW, from my reading, most females mate only once but can produce up to three batches of eggs from that mating (needing three blood meals), but males can mate multiple times with different females.
completly... mosquito's are food and this just destroy's food that others depend on THEN those animals depend on those animals for food...
Hasn't Australia learnt.. they always lose against nature Australia vs rabbits Australia vs Frogs ...
Except there are many species of mosquito in Australia and these fuckers are imported feral pests from Africa. Get it?
A group of Tesla owners on the Dutch-Belgium Tesla Forum are gathering data from over 350 Tesla vehicles across the world and frequently updating it in a public Google file. We have previously reported on the data, but they have since added many more vehicles and those vehicles have been driving a lot more – completing more battery cycles. The data clearly shows that for the first 50,000 miles (100,000 km), most Tesla battery packs will lose about 5% of their capacity, but after the 50,000-mile mark, the capacity levels off and it looks like it could be difficult to make a pack degrade by another 5%.
https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-data/
The trend line currently suggests that the average battery pack could cycle through over 300,000 km (186,000) before coming close to 90% capacity.
The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot.
No, this is only the case for mildly hot climates. In very hot climates, people generally dress in several layers of insulating clothing to keep the heat out.
Ask a Bedouin whether undressing in the heat of the desert is smart.
The desert environment combines very hot temperatures with very low humidity, so the evaporation of sweat has a profound cooling effect. The air inside their robes is substantially cooler than the air outside. This tactic will NOT work in a climate with high heat and high humidity. Try wearing Bedouin robes in the amazon jungle and see how long you last.
My 29 year old Supra has been the cheapest car to maintain of the five my family owns (in the few years since I rebuilt the engine) and has the highest mileage in those five years. The other four are an Audi, a Volvo, a Honda and an Acura, in descending order of expenses.
There's no point in comparing a 29 year old car to anything modern. They're from different worlds.
It's also a violation of the no Easter Egg policy that Microsoft instated for security reasons.
They're not strictly easter eggs as there is no code involved; they're simply graphic features in plain sight. They're also only in dev versions not meant for release.
I'd also worry about blocking sites. Here in Canada, they're trying to get permission to block sites because of piracy. Thing is their site blocking is usually to broad and once they're blocking sites, they can block them for political reasons. Block the other parties site or even worse, target certain neighbourhoods and block (or really slow down) the voters registration sites.
Your basic point is correct, but in most other countries with this kind of censorship, the ISPs only implement DNS blocking which can be avoided by choosing a DNS other than the one provided by your ISP. However Russia and China are more hard core in their censorship activities.
Sailboats have actually advanced a long way in recent decades. A modern clipper ship would look quite different from the old ones.
The advantage to wind powered ships is that they don't need fuel! Think of the money the industry would save.
They don't use sails to replace the usual motors but to supplement them. If you do an image search for maps of trade winds you'll find that on some routes in some directions, the wind blows from behind for most of the trip. Some prototypes have reported a 15% or greater reduction in fuel consumption using sail.
The sails are all computer controlled and furled/unfurled by motors. The ships may use more conventional mast styles or some designs use large kite sails.
Here's an old article on a kite sail : https://newatlas.com/cargill-s...
"I didn’t think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows." -Bart Simpson
There was a piece on Australian TV about Walmart removing Cosmopolitan magazine from the shelves. It seems the group that pestered them into it were masquerading as part of the #MeToo movement but they had recently undergone a name change, and were actually another right wing religious organization riding on #MeToo's coat tails.
I wonder if there's something like that going on here? Maybe some nasty little group of religious bigots is harassing Amazon behind the scenes.
Even his joking twitter posts still have more credibility then Trump's real ones. :)
Not to mention what3words location
This is nothing like what3words where codes with small variations are likely to be on different continents. For example "hers.post.back" is in Kent, England and "hers.spot.back" is in Tennessee USA. Actually I have trouble figuring out just what what3words is good for.
Google's system only took 6 characters to locate the entrance to my building on Google maps and 8 characters to locate the entrance to a local shopping mall. I mention the mall because yesterday I saw a man collapsed on the floor inside and people calling the ambulance. This would have been a compact way to specify which of the many entrances was closest to the patient.
there are multiple tiers of the license. How much you need depends on what chemicals you work with. If you're a dude (most of us /.ers are) you have no idea how crazy some of chemicals they work with are. The stuff women will do to get straight hair if they're born with curly or curly hair if they're born with straight is absurd. Come to think of it, every girl I've ever met wants the opposite type of hair they were born with....
There's also questions of hygiene, such as how often you clean your hands, equipment, towels, environment etc. Some of the stuff being done by cosmetologists blends over into the quasi-medical, like Botox injections, mild chemical peels, laser, IPL or waxing hair removal (in sensitive places). etc.
If I was a woman I'd be in favor of at least some basic qualifications for the people working on me.
I have used Hotspot Shield a couple of times to get around simple geoblocking of articles on sites, but no one in their would use it for anything requiring serious security.
I wouldn't be so certain about that. One time pads have existed as long as writing itself, yet ciphers were always far more common for cryptography, only being replaced by computer-based cryptography. If unbreakable one-time pads were universal what were all those code breakers doing? The (now) famous Venona operation was engaged in breaking spy codes. The Walker Ring used a rotor encipherment gadget.
The Venona project was all about breaking "one time codes". Under the pressure of Nazi invasion the Soviets in WW2 made a big whoopsie and reprinted some of their one time pads (but shuffled and mixed the pages with others), making them ultimately breakable in part.
The pads produced during that time were used after the World War ended and into the cold war era. It's thought that none of the people that produced the pads were game to admit it to their superiors as they would have been sent to Siberia or executed.
Irrigating an area the size of the United States would be quite the project. Who is going to pay? And how are we going to coordinate a massive engineering project in a region with no stable government?
Well we know who is going to pay if we don't do something soon. All of us.
No need. Just don't pay for that service and the modem don't broadcast anymore.
It is opt in as you have to opt into paying for that service.
You only have to pay if you want them to provide a service to you. I doesn't mean they aren't continuously siphoning telematics and location information off your car for their benefit.
Having a smart phone makes your teenagers unhappy. So the solution is obvious, take their phones away from them and they'll all be ecstatic. :-)
Unless he finds a bigger fool to sell it too before the bubble bursts.
Yes I am sad I didn't get in on this bubble at the beginning but not that sad. Let's face it: Bitcoin is no longer behaving like a currency. It's now a speculative game like tulips.
Alas I am late to this game and you should never enter a market when it looks like the bubble is about to burst. Not that sad anyway because it's a gamble. If you're kicking yourself for missing the Bitcoin bubble why not invest in some other cryptocurrency now? Yeah. I thought so.
And the best time to buy into real estate was always 20 years ago.
They are just quoting the President.
. . . who is just quoting Fox.
i'd agree with everything you mentioned aside from the blue water navy -- it turns out that having a very long, very pointy spear is a handy thing to have when it comes to foreign policy
Preferably a navy that doesn't keep running into other ships, at least not intentionally.