By luck or whatever, so far the country is doing pretty well
By what measurement?
maybe despite Trump, maybe he's a jackass who also happens to sign off on good policies.
Name one.
The economy is good shape,
No, it isn't. Stocks are in a bubble right now and about to go back to free-fall, and the unemployment rate is a blatant lie only believed by the stunningly willfully ignorant. You have to be an expert cranial-navel alignment technician to buy that shit.
The shutdown sucks because both Trump and the Democrats have dug in their heels with exact opposite positions;
This is Trump's shutdown. He took ownership of it on national television, and no matter how badly you want to support him, he gets full responsibility.
"You guys are always getting pissed and say "THEY" but you then act like you don't understand that "they" is actually "YOU" because you conservatives are the ones who did all that defunding bullshit you're bitching about."
What are you on about? I'm so far to the left you can't even see me past all the Democrats from where you're sitting.
You jest [successfully] but removing every port and not providing a battery door, and moving to all soft buttons, would actually provide some measurable benefit. The only question is how to handle physical reset — perhaps a pair of MEMS reed switches, one at each end of the device, and in opposed orientation?
Republicans believe laws are things enforced by an armed government. They aren't suggestions, politicians and bureacrats don't get to follow them *when they feel like it*.
lol
Republicans are the gods of selective enforcement, and general hypocrisy. Oh, we can't have a controversial president name a supreme court justice. We have to let the next guy do it. Oh wait, it's our guy, so we have to make sure he names the next justice, hell or high water. Blah blah blah bull fucking shit.
If anybody else, individual or company, puts anything in the middle of the sidewalk, it's abandoned trash, and as far as I know, anybody can take it.
They're taking advantage of the way the law protects property. If you know who something belongs to, you just can't take it. It's illegal to damage it whether you know who it belongs to or not, or whether it's parked on the sidewalk or not. They're not the ones leaving them on the sidewalks, as they put them in designated locations when they put them on the street, so they're not parking them inappropriately either. They're really not breaking any laws, even if what they are doing is causing a negative impact. And it's not legal for you to willfully damage the scooters, or to run off with them. Sadly, because I'd like to use them to build RC vehicles myself.
Thinking about it, maybe they skimped on compass and put super secret GPS inside instead?
That's how the CDMA providers handled E911 requirements at first... even phones where you had no access to the GPS had a GPS receiver solely for E911 compliance. GSM got a waiver for a while and then did it with DTOA instead. But maybe they're just averaging out readings while removing anomalous ones, and doing constant live compass calibration instead of trying to account for declination with mathematics. There's something to be said for that approach, because you don't have to update declination.
What propotion of people does it have to affect before it's worth legislating?
Well, the questions are how much does it cost, and how much is being spent to prevent it? Because in this case it's not costing much since people can send things back (via trucks that are already in the neighborhood) and because it's not happening much to begin with. At least, so it appears. I'm open to statistics which challenge that idea. How's about just set some standards as to how much effort people have to spend to inform you of terms and conditions? No small print, anything which could be considered weaseling has to be done in large print up front in your advertisement to the point that it's an advertised feature.
The philosophy is that society doesn't function if you don't maintain it, and society is made up of individuals. People pushing a button for glad bags and getting hefty bags doesn't threaten society, especially if you can return the hefty bags.
GOP senators say a lot of things. What they never ever do is admit that they are condoning genocide, which is what's going on when they cite Israel as a potential model for the USA to follow. That wall only works as well as it does (which you will notice is not 100%) because of snipers and missiles. Do you WANT a future in which we're launching missiles at Mexico? Because that's the future you're promoting.
Any time anyone says "but Israel does it" you can tell they are morally bankrupt.
Everything you said is wrong except the conclusion. A physical wall is a jobs program, but it's a stupid one.
"Virtual walls are expensive to buy and maintain."
They are cheap when compared to real walls hundreds of miles long, which is what we're comparing to.
"not like the cameras will be simple IR illuminated CCD style you buy at a big box store. They'll be high resolution with thermal imaging."
If you get near a point, make it.
" They have to survive difficult environmental conditions. Hundreds of miles of fiber optics and fiber switchgear."
Drones aren't connected with fiber, noob. They're wireless. Otherwise they'd have a hard time reaching altitude. And you would use wireless back haul as well.
"Versus a physical barrier CBP can drive by and inspect for damage on occasion."
You don't even have to drive by and inspect drones. They will let you know if they require maintenance.
"Border walls do work (ask any resident of San Diego)"
What? Who told you that? And why do you think asking any resident of San Diego is a valid approach to information gathering on this subject?
"the urbanized portion of Tijuana ends and the mountain terrain on both sides provides a good deterrent."
They don't go to the mountains because they can stay on the flat land and build tunnels. The wall might keep out refugees, but it won't keep out drugs. Only legalization and treatment can fix the drug problem, no wall will do that. Everything else overwhelmingly goes the other direction across the border, like money or guns. Meanwhile our foreign policy and our drug policy both actively create refugees...
It's more insidious than a deep state. They actually do this stuff right out in the open, but then they compromise education (mostly by not funding it, but also through other means) to produce low-information voters who will support them anyway. Talk about a race to the bottom.
Things are turning out exactly how I thought they would as a teenager. Lots of cool new tech, used to subjugate the people.
QR is OK, but not NFC. I don't trust that to be free of stupid, trivially fixed security holes that blow the system wide open. Taking a photo seems relatively safe. However, you'd need a pretty big QR code to actually encode the entire receipt.i like the idea of providing paper receipt on request, with a fee for failing to provide it. A big one.
"We might be lucky enough to witness multiple north and south poles, followed by a rapid reversal where every magnetic compass in the world will point the wrong way."
Or it might not be rapid. In which case, the real fun happens.
Translation: "I'm going to pretend anarchists are libertarians, then attack anarchists. See how I can win arguments? I'm a fucking moron."
Libertarianism isn't anarchism, but that's where it would naturally lead. You can't implement it anyway, so no worries there, but it is unfortunate to have the libertarians out there wasting their effort on sky pies.
There are only three things we need rules and regulations against: harm, fraud, and deprivation.
Why those three?
Because those are the only three things that you can do to a person. You can damage them, you can deceive them into making poor decisions based on your false information, or you can take something away from them or stand in the way of their getting it. Anything else is something someone does to themselves. Fraud is real, but there was no fraud here.
Let me get this straight: It's worth the risk of other people's lives so that YOU can spend less time in a vehicle?
In my experience, the majority of people will exceed the speed limit the majority of time that they can get away with it. Now to be fair, I only have experience driving in California, Texas, and Panama, and that last just for a few days, but that's what I've seen everywhere I've been and I've no reason to believe that most people would be substantially different anywhere else. Where the potential response from law enforcement is more significant, I'm sure the average deviation above the speed limit tends to be lower, but that doesn't speak to the speeds at which people would like to be traveling.
What I'd like is for there to be high-speed rail that serves these major commute corridors, or for there to be enough housing in the major job centers for people to live there. What I'm saying is that I don't think you can blame people for trying to claw some of their life back.
I'm not asking for perfection. The UI can still be messed up so it's not perfect.
I thought we were having a serious conversation about how networking is hard when it gets complex. To my mind we need a mesh internet in order to go forward, which comes with all kinds of new problems with routing. Multi-level web of trust, anyone? Good times.
How about you petition trump to build a wall on the northern boarder too. When you're economy collapses we don't need you as refugees.
Americans have guns, bombs, and trucks, to say nothing of backhoes and the like. You can't keep us out with a wall. You can't keep anyone out with a wall along a border that length, in fact. Or, for that matter, the length of the US-Mexico border.
personally, I prefer to live in a civilised wold where there are rules and regulations that keep it civilised.
False dichotomy. There's a lot of room between anarchy and where we are today, and one could reasonably choose a point in between those two without being a radical.
There are only three things we need rules and regulations against: harm, fraud, and deprivation. We can argue about where the lines should be, and how much text is required to cover all of the cases, and even how much we should protect people from themselves. But Amazon was very clear on how the devices functioned, and they are also very understanding about returns. As numerous people have pointed out in this discussion, they are actually possibly more prone to sending the customer an email asking them if they'd like an alternative than to actually sending it without asking. It's not clear who's being protected from anything here.
Ah yes, the "no true libertarian" argument, we've seen this bullshit before. All libertarians are idiots because they are ignoring human nature, which has not changed appreciably throughout recorded history. Libertarianism can only work in an environment free of bad actors, which means it's unworkable.
Libertarians are those who want police protection from those who they would abuse, and are incapable of understanding that if they can buy services that harm others, someone else with more money can do it to them just as easily as they can do it to someone else.
Unemployment insurance doesn't pay full wages. It pays much, much less. If people are living paycheck to paycheck then they can still wind up carless, evicted etc. relying on unemployment insurance.
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By luck or whatever, so far the country is doing pretty well
By what measurement?
maybe despite Trump, maybe he's a jackass who also happens to sign off on good policies.
Name one.
The economy is good shape,
No, it isn't. Stocks are in a bubble right now and about to go back to free-fall, and the unemployment rate is a blatant lie only believed by the stunningly willfully ignorant. You have to be an expert cranial-navel alignment technician to buy that shit.
The shutdown sucks because both Trump and the Democrats have dug in their heels with exact opposite positions;
This is Trump's shutdown. He took ownership of it on national television, and no matter how badly you want to support him, he gets full responsibility.
"You guys are always getting pissed and say "THEY" but you then act like you don't understand that "they" is actually "YOU" because you conservatives are the ones who did all that defunding bullshit you're bitching about."
What are you on about? I'm so far to the left you can't even see me past all the Democrats from where you're sitting.
You jest [successfully] but removing every port and not providing a battery door, and moving to all soft buttons, would actually provide some measurable benefit. The only question is how to handle physical reset — perhaps a pair of MEMS reed switches, one at each end of the device, and in opposed orientation?
Republicans believe laws are things enforced by an armed government. They aren't suggestions, politicians and bureacrats don't get to follow them *when they feel like it*.
lol
Republicans are the gods of selective enforcement, and general hypocrisy. Oh, we can't have a controversial president name a supreme court justice. We have to let the next guy do it. Oh wait, it's our guy, so we have to make sure he names the next justice, hell or high water. Blah blah blah bull fucking shit.
If anybody else, individual or company, puts anything in the middle of the sidewalk, it's abandoned trash, and as far as I know, anybody can take it.
They're taking advantage of the way the law protects property. If you know who something belongs to, you just can't take it. It's illegal to damage it whether you know who it belongs to or not, or whether it's parked on the sidewalk or not. They're not the ones leaving them on the sidewalks, as they put them in designated locations when they put them on the street, so they're not parking them inappropriately either. They're really not breaking any laws, even if what they are doing is causing a negative impact. And it's not legal for you to willfully damage the scooters, or to run off with them. Sadly, because I'd like to use them to build RC vehicles myself.
El Paso's wall works, it cut illegal immigration by 89%. Not quite the 99% of Israel, but nothing to sneeze at either, eh?
So it keeps out the refugees, but not the bad hombres?
Thinking about it, maybe they skimped on compass and put super secret GPS inside instead?
That's how the CDMA providers handled E911 requirements at first... even phones where you had no access to the GPS had a GPS receiver solely for E911 compliance. GSM got a waiver for a while and then did it with DTOA instead. But maybe they're just averaging out readings while removing anomalous ones, and doing constant live compass calibration instead of trying to account for declination with mathematics. There's something to be said for that approach, because you don't have to update declination.
What propotion of people does it have to affect before it's worth legislating?
Well, the questions are how much does it cost, and how much is being spent to prevent it? Because in this case it's not costing much since people can send things back (via trucks that are already in the neighborhood) and because it's not happening much to begin with. At least, so it appears. I'm open to statistics which challenge that idea. How's about just set some standards as to how much effort people have to spend to inform you of terms and conditions? No small print, anything which could be considered weaseling has to be done in large print up front in your advertisement to the point that it's an advertised feature.
Thank God that kids today don't have to learn about either one.
Yeah, COBOL is all but dead, and they're not getting paid...
"The trouble with putting AI in robots is how do you get them to stop wanting to commit suicide?"
Give them genitals
The philosophy is that society doesn't function if you don't maintain it, and society is made up of individuals. People pushing a button for glad bags and getting hefty bags doesn't threaten society, especially if you can return the hefty bags.
GOP senators say a lot of things. What they never ever do is admit that they are condoning genocide, which is what's going on when they cite Israel as a potential model for the USA to follow. That wall only works as well as it does (which you will notice is not 100%) because of snipers and missiles. Do you WANT a future in which we're launching missiles at Mexico? Because that's the future you're promoting.
Any time anyone says "but Israel does it" you can tell they are morally bankrupt.
Everything you said is wrong except the conclusion. A physical wall is a jobs program, but it's a stupid one.
"Virtual walls are expensive to buy and maintain."
They are cheap when compared to real walls hundreds of miles long, which is what we're comparing to.
"not like the cameras will be simple IR illuminated CCD style you buy at a big box store. They'll be high resolution with thermal imaging."
If you get near a point, make it.
" They have to survive difficult environmental conditions. Hundreds of miles of fiber optics and fiber switchgear."
Drones aren't connected with fiber, noob. They're wireless. Otherwise they'd have a hard time reaching altitude. And you would use wireless back haul as well.
"Versus a physical barrier CBP can drive by and inspect for damage on occasion."
You don't even have to drive by and inspect drones. They will let you know if they require maintenance.
"Border walls do work (ask any resident of San Diego)"
What? Who told you that? And why do you think asking any resident of San Diego is a valid approach to information gathering on this subject?
"the urbanized portion of Tijuana ends and the mountain terrain on both sides provides a good deterrent."
They don't go to the mountains because they can stay on the flat land and build tunnels. The wall might keep out refugees, but it won't keep out drugs. Only legalization and treatment can fix the drug problem, no wall will do that. Everything else overwhelmingly goes the other direction across the border, like money or guns. Meanwhile our foreign policy and our drug policy both actively create refugees...
It's more insidious than a deep state. They actually do this stuff right out in the open, but then they compromise education (mostly by not funding it, but also through other means) to produce low-information voters who will support them anyway. Talk about a race to the bottom.
Things are turning out exactly how I thought they would as a teenager. Lots of cool new tech, used to subjugate the people.
QR is OK, but not NFC. I don't trust that to be free of stupid, trivially fixed security holes that blow the system wide open. Taking a photo seems relatively safe. However, you'd need a pretty big QR code to actually encode the entire receipt.i like the idea of providing paper receipt on request, with a fee for failing to provide it. A big one.
"We might be lucky enough to witness multiple north and south poles, followed by a rapid reversal where every magnetic compass in the world will point the wrong way."
Or it might not be rapid. In which case, the real fun happens.
Translation: "I'm going to pretend anarchists are libertarians, then attack anarchists. See how I can win arguments? I'm a fucking moron."
Libertarianism isn't anarchism, but that's where it would naturally lead. You can't implement it anyway, so no worries there, but it is unfortunate to have the libertarians out there wasting their effort on sky pies.
There are only three things we need rules and regulations against: harm, fraud, and deprivation.
Why those three?
Because those are the only three things that you can do to a person. You can damage them, you can deceive them into making poor decisions based on your false information, or you can take something away from them or stand in the way of their getting it. Anything else is something someone does to themselves. Fraud is real, but there was no fraud here.
Let me get this straight: It's worth the risk of other people's lives so that YOU can spend less time in a vehicle?
In my experience, the majority of people will exceed the speed limit the majority of time that they can get away with it. Now to be fair, I only have experience driving in California, Texas, and Panama, and that last just for a few days, but that's what I've seen everywhere I've been and I've no reason to believe that most people would be substantially different anywhere else. Where the potential response from law enforcement is more significant, I'm sure the average deviation above the speed limit tends to be lower, but that doesn't speak to the speeds at which people would like to be traveling.
What I'd like is for there to be high-speed rail that serves these major commute corridors, or for there to be enough housing in the major job centers for people to live there. What I'm saying is that I don't think you can blame people for trying to claw some of their life back.
I'm not asking for perfection. The UI can still be messed up so it's not perfect.
I thought we were having a serious conversation about how networking is hard when it gets complex. To my mind we need a mesh internet in order to go forward, which comes with all kinds of new problems with routing. Multi-level web of trust, anyone? Good times.
How about you petition trump to build a wall on the northern boarder too. When you're economy collapses we don't need you as refugees.
Americans have guns, bombs, and trucks, to say nothing of backhoes and the like. You can't keep us out with a wall. You can't keep anyone out with a wall along a border that length, in fact. Or, for that matter, the length of the US-Mexico border.
personally, I prefer to live in a civilised wold where there are rules and regulations that keep it civilised.
False dichotomy. There's a lot of room between anarchy and where we are today, and one could reasonably choose a point in between those two without being a radical.
There are only three things we need rules and regulations against: harm, fraud, and deprivation. We can argue about where the lines should be, and how much text is required to cover all of the cases, and even how much we should protect people from themselves. But Amazon was very clear on how the devices functioned, and they are also very understanding about returns. As numerous people have pointed out in this discussion, they are actually possibly more prone to sending the customer an email asking them if they'd like an alternative than to actually sending it without asking. It's not clear who's being protected from anything here.
Ah yes, the "no true libertarian" argument, we've seen this bullshit before. All libertarians are idiots because they are ignoring human nature, which has not changed appreciably throughout recorded history. Libertarianism can only work in an environment free of bad actors, which means it's unworkable.
Libertarians are those who want police protection from those who they would abuse, and are incapable of understanding that if they can buy services that harm others, someone else with more money can do it to them just as easily as they can do it to someone else.
Unemployment insurance doesn't pay full wages. It pays much, much less. If people are living paycheck to paycheck then they can still wind up carless, evicted etc. relying on unemployment insurance.