I put a new trigger group in my S&W M&P15T and I had to fit the disconnector, which involved lightly milling it. According to the directions, there was a definite possibility of over-milling it which would turn it from semi-auto to full auto. They even had a discounted exchange program to get a new disconnector if you went too far, which was probably something they did to both be helpful AND to keep BATFE from concluding it was a machine gun kit.
It's not the same as using a select-fire trigger group, but to the BATFE it would be just another illegal machine gun. IIRC, civilian ARs won't accept select fire trigger groups due to the "high shelf" on the inside of the lower. As you note, fixing this would be a non-trivial task for the typical person.
You can't just go to a web site because the web site's developers/owners have decided they want to run scripts from a dozen different domains and the tool that did the primary site decided that since everything works well on his 8-core desktop with 64 gigs of RAM, why it will work on everyone's desktop, especially since they all have super-large displays, too.
Some websites get it and produce a mobilized version of their web site which runs well on a small device. But it seems most are locked into a big, clumsy, hostile user interface that doesn't scale (physically) that an app for a mobile device becomes necessary for sanity.
The current political and business climate would never allow for this, but would it ever make sense to run the infrastructure side of wireless as a highly regulated public utility, in the manner of electric utilities (ie, basically give them a fixed, 15% pricing margin, regulated by a board with public meetings and documentation).
But have these entities only sell wireless "service" to the actual resellers, which would act as the carriers generally do now in terms of selling wireless services to users.
The infrastructure side would simply be a fixed-profit business, with maintenance, network costs, tower expansion, etc all built into the business model up front, along with regulatory requirements that would require that wireless and backhaul capacity be mandated to maintain X% overhead. Actual technologies could then be regulated as well, so that all towers used the same wireless technology so that any phone from any "wireless reseller" would work, with no network lockout.
The wireless retail sellers would then be competing on actual customer service and business efficiency, since wireless data volumes/minutes would be sold at a regulated price at the wholesale level and there would be no technology lock-in (eg, CDMA vs. GSM vs. HSPA+ vs. LTE, etc).
You would still have innovation in the industry in terms of handset hardware and the resellers would not have any way to manipulate pricing (ie, starve capital investment for short-term profit, then jack up prices to complain about infrastructure overuse). Back-end network innovation is limited anyway, since I don't think carriers actually develop wireless technologies in-house, and the debate over those kinds of upgrades would be done in public before the utility commissions versus the bogus marketingspeak of carriers ("Now!!! We had 3G, now we're offering the new 4H, and soon the 5K speeds!!!!111).
That "Syrians shoot down Turkish jet" story stunk to high heaven.
The media reported it as an F4 Phantom -- WTF are the Turks doing flying an F4 Phantom? Great plane in 1970, but long in the tooth these days, even with upgrades. The Turks have been BUILDING F-16s under license for quite a while and have one of the largest NATO F-16 inventories.
The media reported it was a "research flight" -- research on what?? Research on wasting your time coming up with F4 Phantom upgrades?
It still is pretty murky why the Turks would be flying an unarmed, old plane on a "research" mission so close to the airspace of a country engaged in suppressing an internal revolt, especially one like Syria with a history of belligerence, even if their past relationship with Syria was better.
The Turks have lived in a dodgy neighborhood for too long to just suddenly decide to fly an old plane on a research mission so close to unfriendly territory.
In my experience (and I know the plural of experience is not data) with Arizona, some of the most strident negative opinions about immigrants were from people who were of obvious Hispanic heritage.
Even the people you'd normally characterize as "conservative" (white, carry a handgun, etc) always struck me as more socially and interpersonally "liberal" -- ie, they weren't bible thumpers, most were OK with legalizing marijuana to stem the drug cartels and gangs, not hung up on the usual hard-ass conservative things.
In fact in some of the rural areas, it was kind of hard to tell the "conservative desert rats" from the "desert hippies". They both kind of look alike, dress alike, etc. About the biggest difference was the conservative guys usually had guns and the liberals usually not.
Overall I considered most of the "conservatives" to be more libertarian than the kind of white and uptight, Jesus H. Christ christian conservatives, like Michelle Bachmann or that type.
I've worked with more than one company that has wanted to actually return to using PPTP after bad experiences with IPSec client VPNs.
It's typically because the client software blows or isn't available on their platform or hasn't been updated for an OS rev change (we saw this with Vista/Win7).
Most of these were small shops that couldn't afford the freight on a dedicated VPN setup and were stuck with whatever their firewall would do. Cisco's IPSec implementation seems widely supported, but you have to be willing to pay for it, otherwise the next best choice if you have a weird platform is PPTP.
I wish there was a vendor-neutral SSL VPN implementation, but they all do it differently.
My 2007 Volvo with collision avoidance already detects stationary objects.
One of the advantages is that besides the in-cabin warning, it pre-charges the braking hydraulics so you get maximum braking power with minimum physical braking effort, giving you that fraction of a second stopping advantage in addition to the warning.
You better be good with the bat, because if you're not you better be prepared to get it shoved up your ass or get beat half dead with it. The value a gun brings to the table, especially a shotgun, is that you don't need to be an expert marksman, and a single shot can do a lot of damage. Firing and evening missing can be quite a good way to discourage an attacker -- the muzzle blast and noise will have a debilitating effect in an enclosed space.
I agree about dogs for the most part, although I think their untrained usefulness would vary highly from dog to dog and breed to breed. Dogs have a weird way of sensing threats and larger dogs with breed-specific guarding history might actually be of some value. Generally, though, if your dog isn't over 75 pounds and isn't a breed with guarding history it's not going to be worth much.
My pit bull mix is 100 pounds and scares the fuck out of strangers and door-door solicitors, but will happily play catch in the back yard with total strangers who walk by when he's outside on his run. I don't have a lot of faith he'd do more than bark if someone broke in, but it's not a chance I would take with 100 pounds of dog, which is probably the real value of keeping a dog.
Got a letter just this morninâ(TM) it was emailed from Mountain View It was PDF'd and neatly written offerinâ(TM) me this better job Better job at higher wages, expenses paid and an iPhone But Iâ(TM)m on fiber here locally and I canâ(TM)t quit, Iâ(TM)m a star
Hah-ha I come on webcam grinnin,â(TM) wearinâ(TM) goggles and a hat Itâ(TM)s a web show and Iâ(TM)m a hero of the Internet set Iâ(TM)m the number one attraction in every Facebook profile Iâ(TM)m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Mountain View, thanks a lot
CHORUS: Kansas City star, thatâ(TM)s what I are Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my network I run a big old Juniper with fiber optics, got Ciscos in the rack I got credit down at the computer store And my PFY tells me jokes Iâ(TM)m the number one attraction in every Facebook profile Iâ(TM)m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Mountain View, thanks a lot
Are there any tools for doing this with a hypervisor or some other 100% emulated environment, or perhaps kernel trace modules that are capable of this in a way hard or impossible for a process to detect?
I would have thought by now that there would be completely invisible debugging environments via whatever method was necessary to accomplish it, either designed specifically for the security trade or for reverse engineering markets.
Haven't you stayed in a hotel for work just a day longer than you wanted, gotten bored, and started taking things apart?
Vent covers, everything related to the TV, wall jacks, I pulled the whole place apart as much as I could. I didn't find anything interesting at this hotel (a Hyatt in Irvine that seemed like it was from the late 70s and very low tech), but in more modern ones I can see trying hack the TV and internet access, etc.
...on the bottom? That really doesn't make much sense, unless part of the connector shrink is removing the line level output from the connector and moving it to the headphone jack. But this would require one of those bizarre connectors like the original iPods had for wired remote functions, and that doesn't seem Apple like.
The dock connector needs to be redesigned, although one of the iDevice's strengths has been a fairly long run with a common connector.
You should be considering how and where you are going to convincingly deliver 1,000 of these devices to the top 50 banks as if they were part of the normal office supply delivery.
I recommend branch offices rather than corporate HQ. Stuff like power strips are always in short supply, and at branch offices they'd happily accept (and without any questions) an accidental delivery of 3 from the office supply company via FedEx. And at branch offices I've done work in, there's always a little more do-it-yourself IT spirit, and I can see people happily plugging the Ethernet "surge suppressor" inline with their PC.
My question is -- how many are there like this out there already? Does anyone have the pockets deep enough to send out 10,000 like this to a focused group of targets? It starts to make even a successful activation rate of 0.05% look interesting.
A modern Corvette is faster than a modern sedan, but only very slightly.
Lap times on the Nürburgring give a stock, modern Corvette only a 20 second advantage (7:35 vs. 7:55), roughly 4 percent over the BMW M5, Mercedes E63 AMG and Porsche Panamera Turbo, which while all fast cars are technically luxury sedans.
Back in 1970 that margin would likely have been 100% or more between a luxury sedan and a sports car.
And even then, the sports cars are much more like luxury cars -- with AC, leather, automatic transmissions, stereos, quiet rides, etc.
Maybe, but sometimes unrealistic expectations drives innovation -- it used to be considered stupid to expect multimegabit internet access at home, now its considerd a baseline.
It used to be a norm in the automotive industry that luxury and performance were seperate -- you could have a Corvette or a Cadillac. One had a rough ride but was fast and handled well. The other was big and would haul four people in comfort, but handled like a Chris-Craft. Now you can buy a four door luxury sedan that will outperform a '70s Corvette and still haul four people in luxury.
A time will come where some kind of technology enables a smartphone sized device to present a tablet-sized display (well, it's already here if they'd embed a pico projector into a phone, and projection was considered suitable).
It would seem that the Supreme Court would have nearly infinite latitude to rule that some subject X is in fact a Bill of Rights issue and void any congressional attempts to limit its powers.
I took a political science course my senior year in college regarding the Supreme Court and the takeaway on limiting the court's powers seemed to be largely restricted to "packing" the court by raising the number of justices and then appointing friendly justices to the new slots until you had a solid majority.
While I'm sure Walmart's retail sales are probably solid, they kind of seem to be past their glory days somewhat. Many areas still resist a Wal Mart opening, there has been a lot of bad press and some court losses over labor practices, and so on. Lots of competion online from Amazon and in-store from Target, whose stores don't have the look or feel of a third-world bazaar.
Facebook, while still widely used, recently had some bad press about a slight downtick in membership, their IPO was something of a clusterfuck and the stock price has continued to decline as people speculate about their future and ability to generate revenue growth while facing constant bad press over repeated and widely criticized changes that undo privacy settings or expose information users had assumed was private.
So two companies kind of past their peak, facing pressure and uncertainty. I see why they turn to each other, but individually neither one seems to really burnish the reputation of the other, especially for Facebook, for whom a partnership seems to create a small-town, low-income kind of image.
What's so funny is that your analogy is completely wrong.
Calories are not calories and are metabolized differently. 5000 kcals of 70% fat/25% protein/5% carbs will be metabolized far differently than 5000 kcals of the recommended high-carb/low fat diet.
Even among the obese with metabolic syndrome, 5000 kcals of a high-fat, low-carb diet will be tough to sustain -- the leptin response will make them so full and satiated they will stop overeating. And without all the carbs, they will start burning their own fat for energy and get down to a much leaner body type.
I think the disposal fees should instead be collected as an excise tax on the importer/manufacturer of the devices rather than the retail consumer.
This rolls the cost of disposal directly into the cost of the product, regardless of the point of purchase, and doesn't become another added "tax" that people see on a receipt and then wrangle to evade.
I'm also paranoid that retailers would see it as an excuse to mimic airlines or banks and start tacking on other, bogus fees every time you bought something. Green fee, recycling fee, kiss my ass fee, etc.
I think the value in metacritic isn't the "score" but the variation across all reviews. You could have two titles with identical "80" scores, which would otherwise indicate both titles are equally well liked.
That being said, one title could have all of its reviews be between 70 and 90, while the other could have a lot of low scores and a lot of high scores. The high variation in scores tells you that there's something about that title that's amiss.
It would be interesting to see statistics compiled for reviewers, too. Do some reviewers always deviate above the average? Below? I would think a reviewer with a higher variability of ratings would be more trustworthy than one who was consistent with their reviews.
Unrealistic assumption -- all commercially developable land for factories is already owned and the owners are unlikely to accept "options" from speculators looking to flip the property.
People who own factory-sized blocs of land aren't stupid nor are they represented by real estate agents that stupid.
Also, if it's THAT significant, I'd like to welcome the property speculators to my little friend named "eminent domain" who will merely take the property for a fraction of its speculated value for the new factory.
Government is supposed to be open, period. The only time it's not is to preserve the privacy of citizens, employees or for bona fide national security purposes.
Which is why most states have open meeting and sunshine laws that require official minutes be kept any time officials meet to discuss policy and to require public notice of meetings so that the public can attend.
Of course, all politicians dislike this. They want to cut sweetheart deals with businesses and contributors, make decisions for political purposes without those political purposes being made public, etc, etc.
Anything less than open government is just an invitation for abuse and corruption.
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I put a new trigger group in my S&W M&P15T and I had to fit the disconnector, which involved lightly milling it. According to the directions, there was a definite possibility of over-milling it which would turn it from semi-auto to full auto. They even had a discounted exchange program to get a new disconnector if you went too far, which was probably something they did to both be helpful AND to keep BATFE from concluding it was a machine gun kit.
It's not the same as using a select-fire trigger group, but to the BATFE it would be just another illegal machine gun. IIRC, civilian ARs won't accept select fire trigger groups due to the "high shelf" on the inside of the lower. As you note, fixing this would be a non-trivial task for the typical person.
You can't just go to a web site because the web site's developers/owners have decided they want to run scripts from a dozen different domains and the tool that did the primary site decided that since everything works well on his 8-core desktop with 64 gigs of RAM, why it will work on everyone's desktop, especially since they all have super-large displays, too.
Some websites get it and produce a mobilized version of their web site which runs well on a small device. But it seems most are locked into a big, clumsy, hostile user interface that doesn't scale (physically) that an app for a mobile device becomes necessary for sanity.
The current political and business climate would never allow for this, but would it ever make sense to run the infrastructure side of wireless as a highly regulated public utility, in the manner of electric utilities (ie, basically give them a fixed, 15% pricing margin, regulated by a board with public meetings and documentation).
But have these entities only sell wireless "service" to the actual resellers, which would act as the carriers generally do now in terms of selling wireless services to users.
The infrastructure side would simply be a fixed-profit business, with maintenance, network costs, tower expansion, etc all built into the business model up front, along with regulatory requirements that would require that wireless and backhaul capacity be mandated to maintain X% overhead. Actual technologies could then be regulated as well, so that all towers used the same wireless technology so that any phone from any "wireless reseller" would work, with no network lockout.
The wireless retail sellers would then be competing on actual customer service and business efficiency, since wireless data volumes/minutes would be sold at a regulated price at the wholesale level and there would be no technology lock-in (eg, CDMA vs. GSM vs. HSPA+ vs. LTE, etc).
You would still have innovation in the industry in terms of handset hardware and the resellers would not have any way to manipulate pricing (ie, starve capital investment for short-term profit, then jack up prices to complain about infrastructure overuse). Back-end network innovation is limited anyway, since I don't think carriers actually develop wireless technologies in-house, and the debate over those kinds of upgrades would be done in public before the utility commissions versus the bogus marketingspeak of carriers ("Now!!! We had 3G, now we're offering the new 4H, and soon the 5K speeds!!!!111).
Between its official censorship and now this, does Australia actually practice a kind of quiet, democratic kind of authoritarianism?
That "Syrians shoot down Turkish jet" story stunk to high heaven.
The media reported it as an F4 Phantom -- WTF are the Turks doing flying an F4 Phantom? Great plane in 1970, but long in the tooth these days, even with upgrades. The Turks have been BUILDING F-16s under license for quite a while and have one of the largest NATO F-16 inventories.
The media reported it was a "research flight" -- research on what?? Research on wasting your time coming up with F4 Phantom upgrades?
It still is pretty murky why the Turks would be flying an unarmed, old plane on a "research" mission so close to the airspace of a country engaged in suppressing an internal revolt, especially one like Syria with a history of belligerence, even if their past relationship with Syria was better.
The Turks have lived in a dodgy neighborhood for too long to just suddenly decide to fly an old plane on a research mission so close to unfriendly territory.
In my experience (and I know the plural of experience is not data) with Arizona, some of the most strident negative opinions about immigrants were from people who were of obvious Hispanic heritage.
Even the people you'd normally characterize as "conservative" (white, carry a handgun, etc) always struck me as more socially and interpersonally "liberal" -- ie, they weren't bible thumpers, most were OK with legalizing marijuana to stem the drug cartels and gangs, not hung up on the usual hard-ass conservative things.
In fact in some of the rural areas, it was kind of hard to tell the "conservative desert rats" from the "desert hippies". They both kind of look alike, dress alike, etc. About the biggest difference was the conservative guys usually had guns and the liberals usually not.
Overall I considered most of the "conservatives" to be more libertarian than the kind of white and uptight, Jesus H. Christ christian conservatives, like Michelle Bachmann or that type.
I've worked with more than one company that has wanted to actually return to using PPTP after bad experiences with IPSec client VPNs.
It's typically because the client software blows or isn't available on their platform or hasn't been updated for an OS rev change (we saw this with Vista/Win7).
Most of these were small shops that couldn't afford the freight on a dedicated VPN setup and were stuck with whatever their firewall would do. Cisco's IPSec implementation seems widely supported, but you have to be willing to pay for it, otherwise the next best choice if you have a weird platform is PPTP.
I wish there was a vendor-neutral SSL VPN implementation, but they all do it differently.
My 2007 Volvo with collision avoidance already detects stationary objects.
One of the advantages is that besides the in-cabin warning, it pre-charges the braking hydraulics so you get maximum braking power with minimum physical braking effort, giving you that fraction of a second stopping advantage in addition to the warning.
You better be good with the bat, because if you're not you better be prepared to get it shoved up your ass or get beat half dead with it. The value a gun brings to the table, especially a shotgun, is that you don't need to be an expert marksman, and a single shot can do a lot of damage. Firing and evening missing can be quite a good way to discourage an attacker -- the muzzle blast and noise will have a debilitating effect in an enclosed space.
I agree about dogs for the most part, although I think their untrained usefulness would vary highly from dog to dog and breed to breed. Dogs have a weird way of sensing threats and larger dogs with breed-specific guarding history might actually be of some value. Generally, though, if your dog isn't over 75 pounds and isn't a breed with guarding history it's not going to be worth much.
My pit bull mix is 100 pounds and scares the fuck out of strangers and door-door solicitors, but will happily play catch in the back yard with total strangers who walk by when he's outside on his run. I don't have a lot of faith he'd do more than bark if someone broke in, but it's not a chance I would take with 100 pounds of dog, which is probably the real value of keeping a dog.
Got a letter just this morninâ(TM) it was emailed from Mountain View
It was PDF'd and neatly written offerinâ(TM) me this better job
Better job at higher wages, expenses paid and an iPhone
But Iâ(TM)m on fiber here locally and I canâ(TM)t quit, Iâ(TM)m a star
Hah-ha I come on webcam grinnin,â(TM) wearinâ(TM) goggles and a hat
Itâ(TM)s a web show and Iâ(TM)m a hero of the Internet set
Iâ(TM)m the number one attraction in every Facebook profile
Iâ(TM)m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Mountain View, thanks a lot
CHORUS:
Kansas City star, thatâ(TM)s what I are
Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my network
I run a big old Juniper with fiber optics, got Ciscos in the rack
I got credit down at the computer store
And my PFY tells me jokes
Iâ(TM)m the number one attraction in every Facebook profile
Iâ(TM)m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Mountain View, thanks a lot
Are there any tools for doing this with a hypervisor or some other 100% emulated environment, or perhaps kernel trace modules that are capable of this in a way hard or impossible for a process to detect?
I would have thought by now that there would be completely invisible debugging environments via whatever method was necessary to accomplish it, either designed specifically for the security trade or for reverse engineering markets.
Haven't you stayed in a hotel for work just a day longer than you wanted, gotten bored, and started taking things apart?
Vent covers, everything related to the TV, wall jacks, I pulled the whole place apart as much as I could. I didn't find anything interesting at this hotel (a Hyatt in Irvine that seemed like it was from the late 70s and very low tech), but in more modern ones I can see trying hack the TV and internet access, etc.
...on the bottom? That really doesn't make much sense, unless part of the connector shrink is removing the line level output from the connector and moving it to the headphone jack. But this would require one of those bizarre connectors like the original iPods had for wired remote functions, and that doesn't seem Apple like.
The dock connector needs to be redesigned, although one of the iDevice's strengths has been a fairly long run with a common connector.
Showing up in corporate parking lots?
You should be considering how and where you are going to convincingly deliver 1,000 of these devices to the top 50 banks as if they were part of the normal office supply delivery.
I recommend branch offices rather than corporate HQ. Stuff like power strips are always in short supply, and at branch offices they'd happily accept (and without any questions) an accidental delivery of 3 from the office supply company via FedEx. And at branch offices I've done work in, there's always a little more do-it-yourself IT spirit, and I can see people happily plugging the Ethernet "surge suppressor" inline with their PC.
My question is -- how many are there like this out there already? Does anyone have the pockets deep enough to send out 10,000 like this to a focused group of targets? It starts to make even a successful activation rate of 0.05% look interesting.
A modern Corvette is faster than a modern sedan, but only very slightly.
Lap times on the Nürburgring give a stock, modern Corvette only a 20 second advantage (7:35 vs. 7:55), roughly 4 percent over the BMW M5, Mercedes E63 AMG and Porsche Panamera Turbo, which while all fast cars are technically luxury sedans.
Back in 1970 that margin would likely have been 100% or more between a luxury sedan and a sports car.
And even then, the sports cars are much more like luxury cars -- with AC, leather, automatic transmissions, stereos, quiet rides, etc.
Maybe, but sometimes unrealistic expectations drives innovation -- it used to be considered stupid to expect multimegabit internet access at home, now its considerd a baseline.
It used to be a norm in the automotive industry that luxury and performance were seperate -- you could have a Corvette or a Cadillac. One had a rough ride but was fast and handled well. The other was big and would haul four people in comfort, but handled like a Chris-Craft. Now you can buy a four door luxury sedan that will outperform a '70s Corvette and still haul four people in luxury.
A time will come where some kind of technology enables a smartphone sized device to present a tablet-sized display (well, it's already here if they'd embed a pico projector into a phone, and projection was considered suitable).
It would seem that the Supreme Court would have nearly infinite latitude to rule that some subject X is in fact a Bill of Rights issue and void any congressional attempts to limit its powers.
I took a political science course my senior year in college regarding the Supreme Court and the takeaway on limiting the court's powers seemed to be largely restricted to "packing" the court by raising the number of justices and then appointing friendly justices to the new slots until you had a solid majority.
While I'm sure Walmart's retail sales are probably solid, they kind of seem to be past their glory days somewhat. Many areas still resist a Wal Mart opening, there has been a lot of bad press and some court losses over labor practices, and so on. Lots of competion online from Amazon and in-store from Target, whose stores don't have the look or feel of a third-world bazaar.
Facebook, while still widely used, recently had some bad press about a slight downtick in membership, their IPO was something of a clusterfuck and the stock price has continued to decline as people speculate about their future and ability to generate revenue growth while facing constant bad press over repeated and widely criticized changes that undo privacy settings or expose information users had assumed was private.
So two companies kind of past their peak, facing pressure and uncertainty. I see why they turn to each other, but individually neither one seems to really burnish the reputation of the other, especially for Facebook, for whom a partnership seems to create a small-town, low-income kind of image.
What's so funny is that your analogy is completely wrong.
Calories are not calories and are metabolized differently. 5000 kcals of 70% fat/25% protein/5% carbs will be metabolized far differently than 5000 kcals of the recommended high-carb/low fat diet.
Even among the obese with metabolic syndrome, 5000 kcals of a high-fat, low-carb diet will be tough to sustain -- the leptin response will make them so full and satiated they will stop overeating. And without all the carbs, they will start burning their own fat for energy and get down to a much leaner body type.
I think the disposal fees should instead be collected as an excise tax on the importer/manufacturer of the devices rather than the retail consumer.
This rolls the cost of disposal directly into the cost of the product, regardless of the point of purchase, and doesn't become another added "tax" that people see on a receipt and then wrangle to evade.
I'm also paranoid that retailers would see it as an excuse to mimic airlines or banks and start tacking on other, bogus fees every time you bought something. Green fee, recycling fee, kiss my ass fee, etc.
Obviously the chocolate ration is being increased again. Last year it was 30 grams, this year it is 25 grams.
I think the value in metacritic isn't the "score" but the variation across all reviews. You could have two titles with identical "80" scores, which would otherwise indicate both titles are equally well liked.
That being said, one title could have all of its reviews be between 70 and 90, while the other could have a lot of low scores and a lot of high scores. The high variation in scores tells you that there's something about that title that's amiss.
It would be interesting to see statistics compiled for reviewers, too. Do some reviewers always deviate above the average? Below? I would think a reviewer with a higher variability of ratings would be more trustworthy than one who was consistent with their reviews.
Unrealistic assumption -- all commercially developable land for factories is already owned and the owners are unlikely to accept "options" from speculators looking to flip the property.
People who own factory-sized blocs of land aren't stupid nor are they represented by real estate agents that stupid.
Also, if it's THAT significant, I'd like to welcome the property speculators to my little friend named "eminent domain" who will merely take the property for a fraction of its speculated value for the new factory.
I hope so.
Government is supposed to be open, period. The only time it's not is to preserve the privacy of citizens, employees or for bona fide national security purposes.
Which is why most states have open meeting and sunshine laws that require official minutes be kept any time officials meet to discuss policy and to require public notice of meetings so that the public can attend.
Of course, all politicians dislike this. They want to cut sweetheart deals with businesses and contributors, make decisions for political purposes without those political purposes being made public, etc, etc.
Anything less than open government is just an invitation for abuse and corruption.
You're behind the times. Up and Sideways are actually a tax now.