Brandishing a gun or owning a gun that could get stolen is more likely to get you shot than not carrying a gun.
That is why I was trained in CCW class never to brandish. If I draw, then I have already made the decision to shoot and I give no warning after drawing.
Our mass ownership of guns in this country has left us with a homicide rate that is on average 5 times greater than any other first world nation.
Not all homicides by firearm are unjustified yet they are counted for purposes of firearms related violence. Law enforcement uses firearms to kill attackers. Civilians lawfully defending themselves and others use firearms to kill attackers.
If firearms are the cause of the high homicide rate in the US, then how does that explain a similarly high rate of homicides committed with knives? And committed with blunt objects? And strangulations?
I want to be able to hard reset my device and get it setup without a reference. I don't want losing the paper where I wrote it's default password to brick the device on a hard reset.
Why does Ticketmaster have a convention? They control something north of 90% of the ticket market in the US; it is nearly impossible to go to a concert or professional sporting event anywhere in this country without them making money off of you. Who are they having a convention with?
Do you mean why do they control so many venues? Ticketmaster controls the market so well that the venues have to deal with them if they want to remain in business.
Edwards Theaters in California did the same thing. Within the area they controlled, they required film distributors to sell new releases only to them. Competing theaters in their area had to wait weeks and over time, Edwards bought them for low prices as they went out of business.
What I don't understand is why *artists* let this happen and give away much of the profit to scalpers or ticketmaster.
The artists are under the false impression that if they lower their ticket prices below equilibrium, then their fans who cannot pay equilibrium will be able to buy the tickets allowing the artist to gain goodwill. In practice they are just transferring their profits to unofficial and now official scalpers.
The goodwill argument as merit and sometimes shows up in other industries. Smith & Wesson for instance sold.44 magnum model 29 revolvers below equilibrium because they believed that selling them for the optimum price would have alienated customers.
Finally there will be a group that the console peasants can look down upon.
PC Master Race Console Peasants ???
Also, I laugh at the though of latency getting better. Higher bandwidth connections typically have *higher* latency because interleaving is used or extended for better noise rejection. And on top of this they are going to add compression and decompression latency? Hah! And wait for the ISPs to get involved "managing" their network.
Exactly that. Among other things I am a professional electrician, and I wonder how can be safe to have something like a radio frequency emitter strong enough to induce usable current in a coil (which is the operating principle of a transformer) leaning against a delicate electronic device (the cell phone). It's such a risky operation where so much can go wrong that I'm impressed how they might want this rather than a simple cable connecting the cell to a conventional charger.
It is not RF in the sense that most people think of it. It is induction at a frequency between about 200 and 400 kHz.
Compared to the government, the cigarette companies were honest. What is the difference between government and organized crime? Organized crime is more honest and the government expects the sanction of its victims.
Statements like this undercut your argument. The choir might like it, but it's not going to convince others.
Nobody likes to think have been supporting the bad guys or in this case, a police state. But they have been.
Battery capacity is somewhat nebulous. Operating the battery at a lower capacity extends operating life
Yeah, I totally agree with that. (And Tesla apparently have settings allowing the and user to artificially limit the battery to shallower cycles to extend their life). But the parent AC poster was saying that forcing a 60kWh vehicle to pack 75kWh was pushing it past what is safe for extended lifetime of the vehicle,.
Whereas 75kWh on these vehicle is still safe. They weren't limited to 60kWh for safety issue. They were limited for rebates.
If operating the batteries at increased capacity results in more failures before Tesla's warranty period of 8 years and in some cases 125,000 miles, then it makes sense to charge more.
I don't know what Google could do differently to help the cause of human rights in China. I don't see how staying out of the Chinese market could make things worse.
They could have started by expanding instead of disabling domain fronting.
Beyond that, fuck China. Implement secure services which bypass China's censorship. But I do not expect Google to do that when they are complicit in implementing the same thing in the US.
The newer stuff coming out about this are pretty surprising - it's crazy to think they would think they were close enough to having a working product that they would break the wall of secrecy to announce, when it seems like they had a fundamentally unworkable heating problem.
With companies jettisoning their engineering talent (or not listening to it because management knows better), I am not surprised at all. In the case of Apple, this is also reflected in their poor human factors engineering.
It seems like someone at a fairly high level is going to be in huge trouble over this, although we'll never hear of it out here.
I doubt it; it will be the fault of engineering even if engineering originally objected. Or maybe they will find someone in lower management to fall on their sword.
That is a great point about charging bad having no stress, even though braided lightning cables hold up well over time I've absolutely had to get rid of cables that have died.
Unless Apple is removing them now, their product reviews are filled with complaints about cables breaking or fraying.
True, but since there are times when you really need charging to be as rapid as possible I'd rather have every normal charging spot act at maximum speed - even for a bedside sometimes you want a quick charge while taking a nap. So I have the 13W charging blocks plugged into a few common charging places around the house.
If only there was something they could do to prevent this problem like extending the operating time between charges with a larger battery. But that is impossible.
* Not having to plug and unplug the wire really is a convenience.
This is one aspect where I think Apple may have decided they just can't do a very good job eliminating common frustration, because it seems like with other flat chargers I've seen people use there's a small sweet spot where it's actually charging, and if the device gets moved off it's not charging, plus you have to take as much time as you would plugging in a cable to make sure it's in the right spot...
There are inductive chargers which allow this but they are more complex and expensive because they implement an array of inductive couplers. Apple wanted something more complex yet which would allow charging of multiple devices on the same pad without restrictions.
It's a lot slower than a wire. but the fundamental reason it really sucks is, THERE IS STILL A WIRE that goes to whatever wireless charging plate you have. I would way rather just have a small cable with me that I can plug into any USB slot, which are in quite a few places now, since I have to have a wire anyway.[/quote]
I would not mind it to save wear and tear on the physical charging connection.
The apple product in particular also did not seem very useful to me in that what I set stuff down by the bed at night I don't necessarily want everything flat. I have a stand I can leave the watch on to charge so it's at a nice angle to read, and even the phone I would prefer angled up so I could quickly glance to see in the morning if I have important messages waiting.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell a second device.
It is kind of funny to watch Apple stalinize a product though... it's like, dude, just admit it didn't work out!
You can read some more details about the technology at the links below:
It looks to me like Apple got scammed because of lack of engineering review. The tests were only done under small signal conditions where efficiency on the transmitter's side is not a problem.
But when buying the car it's possible to ask them to be artificially limited to 60kWh and get a rebate.
Battery capacity is somewhat nebulous. Operating the battery at a lower capacity extends operating life so in this case the same battery is a 60kWh extended life battery and a 75kWh extended range battery.
Is that like how government lottery sales increased school funding? It is too bad that money is fungible.
Mine was really a normative claim, but the school example is a good example of the reality. I have read articles about conservatives taking "school" money to fund tax cuts leaving the schools budget essentially unchanged. I guess they would argue that it prevented the school budget from being decreased, but it's clearly a scam.
I guess the real issue with the school example is that people got conned. They were motivated to change the law to increase the money for the schools, and instead it went to tax cuts. For cigarettes, the government spends money on these health issues, and that fungible money comes from somewhere, so accounting wise, it makes sense to say it comes from the tax. Of course, if the tax is greater then the money spent then it's also a scam. However, a lot of money is spent on smoking... The cigarette companies are exploiting a big externality.
Offhand I do not know of any examples where it did *not* work out this way; the dedicated funds displace general funds which then become political pork.
Along with that goes my aphorism: what is the difference between sin taxes and regular taxes? There is no difference; everything which is taxed is a sin.
Compared to the government, the cigarette companies were honest. What is the difference between government and organized crime? Organized crime is more honest and the government expects the sanction of its victims.
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Brandishing a gun or owning a gun that could get stolen is more likely to get you shot than not carrying a gun.
That is why I was trained in CCW class never to brandish. If I draw, then I have already made the decision to shoot and I give no warning after drawing.
Our mass ownership of guns in this country has left us with a homicide rate that is on average 5 times greater than any other first world nation.
Not all homicides by firearm are unjustified yet they are counted for purposes of firearms related violence. Law enforcement uses firearms to kill attackers. Civilians lawfully defending themselves and others use firearms to kill attackers.
If firearms are the cause of the high homicide rate in the US, then how does that explain a similarly high rate of homicides committed with knives? And committed with blunt objects? And strangulations?
There is the possibility of unique passwords being issued with each device.
So instead of the devices being compromised one by one, they will all be compromised at once after the manufacturer is compromised.
I've also heard there are new laws in the planning that will require everyone in California be happy and rich.
Can't wait to see how those are enforced.
Everybody will be required to discard needles and feces in the streets. When everybody is special, nobody is.
Now instead of a default router password, users will be prompted to change it, thus setting it to 'Password2'.
I want to be able to hard reset my device and get it setup without a reference. I don't want losing the paper where I wrote it's default password to brick the device on a hard reset.
But think of the sales opportunities!
Why does Ticketmaster have a convention? They control something north of 90% of the ticket market in the US; it is nearly impossible to go to a concert or professional sporting event anywhere in this country without them making money off of you. Who are they having a convention with?
Do you mean why do they control so many venues? Ticketmaster controls the market so well that the venues have to deal with them if they want to remain in business.
Edwards Theaters in California did the same thing. Within the area they controlled, they required film distributors to sell new releases only to them. Competing theaters in their area had to wait weeks and over time, Edwards bought them for low prices as they went out of business.
What I don't understand is why *artists* let this happen and give away much of the profit to scalpers or ticketmaster.
The artists are under the false impression that if they lower their ticket prices below equilibrium, then their fans who cannot pay equilibrium will be able to buy the tickets allowing the artist to gain goodwill. In practice they are just transferring their profits to unofficial and now official scalpers.
The goodwill argument as merit and sometimes shows up in other industries. Smith & Wesson for instance sold .44 magnum model 29 revolvers below equilibrium because they believed that selling them for the optimum price would have alienated customers.
Finally there will be a group that the console peasants can look down upon.
PC Master Race
Console Peasants
???
Also, I laugh at the though of latency getting better. Higher bandwidth connections typically have *higher* latency because interleaving is used or extended for better noise rejection. And on top of this they are going to add compression and decompression latency? Hah! And wait for the ISPs to get involved "managing" their network.
Exactly that. Among other things I am a professional electrician, and I wonder how can be safe to have something like a radio frequency emitter strong enough to induce usable current in a coil (which is the operating principle of a transformer) leaning against a delicate electronic device (the cell phone). It's such a risky operation where so much can go wrong that I'm impressed how they might want this rather than a simple cable connecting the cell to a conventional charger.
It is not RF in the sense that most people think of it. It is induction at a frequency between about 200 and 400 kHz.
Nobody likes to think have been supporting the bad guys or in this case, a police state. But they have been.
Battery capacity is somewhat nebulous. Operating the battery at a lower capacity extends operating life
Yeah, I totally agree with that. (And Tesla apparently have settings allowing the and user to artificially limit the battery to shallower cycles to extend their life).
But the parent AC poster was saying that forcing a 60kWh vehicle to pack 75kWh was pushing it past what is safe for extended lifetime of the vehicle,.
Whereas 75kWh on these vehicle is still safe. They weren't limited to 60kWh for safety issue. They were limited for rebates.
If operating the batteries at increased capacity results in more failures before Tesla's warranty period of 8 years and in some cases 125,000 miles, then it makes sense to charge more.
...they moved their UPS and Generators from the cellar to the roof after Sandy.
Building codes often make it impractical to install generators where they would be the most resilient.
From even just TFS:
"Blizzard has stated: "playing on Linux or even a Mac while on an emulated Windows environment is not bannable.""
So, how did they break the TOS just by doing something that is actually already allowed?
The TOS was a lie.
Why would any expect Nintendo (or any company) to continue to store your data when you stopped paying for the service?
Why would Nintendo (or any company) expect me to resubscribe after they deleted my data?
I don't know what Google could do differently to help the cause of human rights in China. I don't see how staying out of the Chinese market could make things worse.
They could have started by expanding instead of disabling domain fronting.
Beyond that, fuck China. Implement secure services which bypass China's censorship. But I do not expect Google to do that when they are complicit in implementing the same thing in the US.
For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings.
Is that like how everyone at Google is able to freely express their opinions privately about diversity?
The newer stuff coming out about this are pretty surprising - it's crazy to think they would think they were close enough to having a working product that they would break the wall of secrecy to announce, when it seems like they had a fundamentally unworkable heating problem.
With companies jettisoning their engineering talent (or not listening to it because management knows better), I am not surprised at all. In the case of Apple, this is also reflected in their poor human factors engineering.
It seems like someone at a fairly high level is going to be in huge trouble over this, although we'll never hear of it out here.
I doubt it; it will be the fault of engineering even if engineering originally objected. Or maybe they will find someone in lower management to fall on their sword.
Machining channels which involve firearm parts are another.
No, there aren't, and never were, it's wasteful of power.
It is wasteful but since the power levels involved are low, the waste is not significant.
That is a great point about charging bad having no stress, even though braided lightning cables hold up well over time I've absolutely had to get rid of cables that have died.
Unless Apple is removing them now, their product reviews are filled with complaints about cables breaking or fraying.
* It's not much slower than regular charging.
True, but since there are times when you really need charging to be as rapid as possible I'd rather have every normal charging spot act at maximum speed - even for a bedside sometimes you want a quick charge while taking a nap. So I have the 13W charging blocks plugged into a few common charging places around the house.
If only there was something they could do to prevent this problem like extending the operating time between charges with a larger battery. But that is impossible.
* Not having to plug and unplug the wire really is a convenience.
This is one aspect where I think Apple may have decided they just can't do a very good job eliminating common frustration, because it seems like with other flat chargers I've seen people use there's a small sweet spot where it's actually charging, and if the device gets moved off it's not charging, plus you have to take as much time as you would plugging in a cable to make sure it's in the right spot...
There are inductive chargers which allow this but they are more complex and expensive because they implement an array of inductive couplers. Apple wanted something more complex yet which would allow charging of multiple devices on the same pad without restrictions.
It's a lot slower than a wire. but the fundamental reason it really sucks is, THERE IS STILL A WIRE that goes to whatever wireless charging plate you have. I would way rather just have a small cable with me that I can plug into any USB slot, which are in quite a few places now, since I have to have a wire anyway.[/quote]
I would not mind it to save wear and tear on the physical charging connection.
The apple product in particular also did not seem very useful to me in that what I set stuff down by the bed at night I don't necessarily want everything flat. I have a stand I can leave the watch on to charge so it's at a nice angle to read, and even the phone I would prefer angled up so I could quickly glance to see in the morning if I have important messages waiting.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell a second device.
It is kind of funny to watch Apple stalinize a product though... it's like, dude, just admit it didn't work out!
You can read some more details about the technology at the links below:
https://appleinsider.com/artic...
https://www.wirelesspowerconso...
It looks to me like Apple got scammed because of lack of engineering review. The tests were only done under small signal conditions where efficiency on the transmitter's side is not a problem.
The batteries are actually 75kWh batteries.
But when buying the car it's possible to ask them to be artificially limited to 60kWh and get a rebate.
Battery capacity is somewhat nebulous. Operating the battery at a lower capacity extends operating life so in this case the same battery is a 60kWh extended life battery and a 75kWh extended range battery.
Mine was really a normative claim, but the school example is a
good example of the reality. I have read articles about conservatives
taking "school" money to fund tax cuts leaving the schools budget
essentially unchanged. I guess they would argue that it prevented the
school budget from being decreased, but it's clearly a scam.
I guess the real issue with the school example is that people got
conned. They were motivated to change the law to increase the money
for the schools, and instead it went to tax cuts. For cigarettes, the
government spends money on these health issues, and that fungible
money comes from somewhere, so accounting wise, it makes sense to say
it comes from the tax. Of course, if the tax is greater then the
money spent then it's also a scam. However, a lot of money is spent
on smoking... The cigarette companies are exploiting a big
externality.
Offhand I do not know of any examples where it did *not* work out this way; the dedicated funds displace general funds which then become political pork.
Along with that goes my aphorism: what is the difference between sin taxes and regular taxes? There is no difference; everything which is taxed is a sin.
Compared to the government, the cigarette companies were honest. What is the difference between government and organized crime? Organized crime is more honest and the government expects the sanction of its victims.