That part actually makes sense. Skype allows you have have multiple accounts tied to the same email (some people might use that to separate contacts but maintain the same email). To make it easy to use, you don't have to verify the email belongs to you, but email is really only for password resets so it's not a big deal if you put a bogus email in.
How about this for a simple fix to still allow this multi-account feature: people can create as many accounts as they want to with the same email address, but in order to do that they need to be logged in to one of their existing accounts. You don't get to just sign up with a new account anonymously and use whatever email address is already linked to an account.
I'm comfortable with a calculation that just involves income taxes taken in versus federal money received. I understand Alaska is a special case, there's no need to justify that. I'm not sure why New Mexico pays so little and gets so much though unless that figure includes research money like the kind that goes to Los Alamos or White Sands. Mississippi is a different matter though. They're dead last on taxes paid per capita even though the state still pays between 10 and 20 billion per year (similar to Utah or Iowa). They're not within the top 5 states receiving the most federal money and they still manage to have a higher ratio than 48 other states.
Well, could the South rise again? I guess nobody will keep them from seceding this time.
At first glance, it would help the economy if they did. There are only 17 states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive back, and only one of them (Florida) is in the south. Mississippi takes back over double what they put in.
What is bad is America had no left wing candidate at all.
What's really bad is how even the electorate seems to completely disregard third-party candidates. There are plenty of actual left-wing candidates there if you care to take a look. It's not for a lack of candidates so much as a lack of coverage and awareness that those candidates are even running.
There's a difference between doing business, and killing the golden goose out of childish motive.
Are you referring to Samsung's supply contract with Apple, or Apple deciding to sue their supplier over the shape of their devices? Which one is more childish?
What exactly are you trying to suggest? Are you suggesting that Obama gets to be president 50.5% of the time, Romney 48.1% of the time, Gary Johnson 0.9% of the time, Jill Stein 0.3% of the time, and Roseann Barr gets to be president 0.05% of the time? Does Obama need to call up Roseann when he has a decision to make?
If Jobs was that much of a fucking genius he'd have single-handedly invented the iPhone and mobile internet in the 1960s wouldn't he?
When he was 5 years old? No, he wouldn't have. 5 year olds don't give a shit about creating new networking paradigms for the planet to use. His dad was showing him how to take apart and put together radios and TVs, it's fair to say that he was not concerned with creating a global network that can be accessed by a device that would need a power source and infrastructure that wasn't available yet.
I don't know where the rest of your rant is coming from. Jobs was not a solitary genius, and I didn't claim he was, he was an asshole who knew how to get things done. Of the 3 people I mentioned (Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs), Jobs ranks last on my personal list. I think Bill Gates is more responsible for moving progress forward than Jobs, by virtue of the fact that his early operating systems directly contributed to computers being common in households (and please spare me your Gates rant, I use the term "his operating system" for brevity). Elon Musk ranks second on my list, but most of that is speculative, I don't think he's done his best work yet. Once Musk lands himself on Mars then we can revisit this discussion. Jobs is the only guy we can look at and see his entire legacy at this point. He was a good salesman, sure, and he definitely helped move forward the consumer technology industry, but please spare me your bullshit rant. I'm not a Jobs fanboy, the only Apple product I own is a first-generation iPod photo. But that doesn't mean I don't recognize and accept his contributions the same way I do with Dennis Ritchie, Linus Torvalds, or even Bjarn Stroustrup.
None of the people I mentioned in this post are solely responsible for their accomplishments.
didn't it have some quite obvious maths that showed that if all cars in the USA were converted to electric, it would require 7,000 GWh of electricity just to charge them every day?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that we immediately replace all gas-powered cars with electric cars overnight using our existing infrastructure and power grid. It's going to take a long time, and our energy sector is going to come with it. More solar energy is absorbed by the earth every hour than humans use in a year. It's completely feasible to have an all-solar energy grid that powers everything we need it to and then some, it will just take a lot of time and significant investment to get anywhere near that point. It's just the case right now that we have an infrastructure built on supporting gas-powered vehicles. That is what needs to change. It's also safe to say that we haven't found every source of natural resources that this planet has to offer, and we haven't even begun to look outside of our planet for additional resources. Not to mention manufacturing our own from available materials.
In short, not only is it possible, but Elon Musk is right for doing his part to help push people in that direction. His direction isn't the only feasible one though, so feel free to compete with him.
That's of course the weird thing about being called car of the year. It needs the byline "for its target market".
That applies to every other car, not just a Tesla. It should be implied that no car is for everyone. Look at their other cars of the year for past years. There's the Audi A7 for $60k, the Chevy Volt for $40k, the VW GTI for $24k, the Nissan GT-R, and the Audi R8 for $118k. Not a single one of those cars is marketed to every car buyer in the world. If everyone could be served by a single car then we wouldn't need more than one car model, would we?
I have checked it out there, and I have concluded that it is not ugly. Seriously.
Second off, it does not compare to Porsche in any real way, speed, agility, handling, comfort, all go to Porsche.
How about in fuel efficiency, or emissions? Or, depending on the Porsche, price? That's a weird comparison to make though, comparing a luxury electric sedan with a Porsche. I don't recall Elon Musk saying he wanted the S to go head-to-head with Porsche.
Next, its too expensive.
Right, a 911 Turbo for $135,000+ is much more economical.
I'll but a GTR or GT500 instead.
Not exactly a great car for a family of 4 though.
Count on a nice addition to your electric bill every month.
Not if you have a free charging station. You also get a gasoline bill of exactly $0.
It's weird. It's almost like you're not Tesla's target market.
A better response is probably to get out your phone and record him recording you. Apparently people don't know who he is. And apparently he also doesn't like being recorded.
I don't know what that is in reference to, the reason I "like" that case is because it lists the most defendants.
But kudos to any concerned citizens out there that opt to give any or all these people the vicious interminable screwing that karma requires.
That's what we have the court system for. The government will freeze their assets and take whatever they have more effectively than you or I, or whatever vigilante you're trying to encourage.
Try calling your insurance agent and explaining how your house burned down because of the flood.
Did you miss the story about the 6-alarm fire in Queens that burned down 80+ houses? Another newscaster in Jersey saw at least 26 individual fires during a helicopter flyover of the coast. Water is great for putting out fires, sure, but when it ruptures gas lines and creates electrical shorts it turns out that things burn down. There's also a video of a certain Con-Edison substation in lower Manhattan that had a less-than-optimal reaction to being submerged in water.
Take a look at the 5 cases, they are linked to in the article. I like this one:
Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff v. ELH Consulting, LLC, also d/b/a Proactive Planning Solutions; Purchase Power Solutions, LLC; Allied Corporate Connection, LLC; Complete Financial Strategies, LLC; 3Point14 Consulting, LLC, also d/b/a Elite Planning Group; Key Tech Software Solutions, LLC, also d/b/a Key One Solutions; Emory L. Holley IV a/k/a Jack Holley, individually and as the sole member of ELH Consulting, LLC; Lisa Miller, individually and as the sole member of Allied Corporate Connection, LLC, Complete Financial Strategies, LLC, and Purchase Power Solutions, LLC; Rares Stelea, individually and as the sole member of 3Point14 Consulting, LLC; and Justin Journay, individually and as the sole member of Key Tech Software Solutions, LLC, Defendants.
Over the 5 cases, in addition to the various corporate entities they name 12 individuals.
All 5 cases are linked in the article. As to "when", the cases are dated today, the 1st. As to "how", the cases include things like temporary restraining orders, permanent injunctions, and asset freezes that the FTC is requesting from the court.
I'd say the ability to permanently kill an opponent in multiplayer is more than a simple bug.
What is it, a complex bug? It sounds pretty simple to me, in fact it sounds like it's working as designed but in a non-user-friendly way (the server should indicate that it is in hardcore mode, for example, so that people know the consequences, and make them explicitly agree to join).
It sounds like you need to watch the South Park World of Warcraft episode again and come back to reality on how important a multiplayer character really is.
I don't know why they need a study to do this. If anyone has a pet, and that pet wants something from you or wants you to do something, it's looking at your eyes. Even if I just walk into a room and my cat wants to see who it is she still looks at my eyes.
I generally focus my gaze usually directly into their right eye (just pick one, doesn't really matter that much I don't think)
I had a roommate with eyes that focused in different directions, I would usually look at the eye that wasn't looking at me to make him keep shifting his gaze.
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That part actually makes sense. Skype allows you have have multiple accounts tied to the same email (some people might use that to separate contacts but maintain the same email). To make it easy to use, you don't have to verify the email belongs to you, but email is really only for password resets so it's not a big deal if you put a bogus email in.
How about this for a simple fix to still allow this multi-account feature: people can create as many accounts as they want to with the same email address, but in order to do that they need to be logged in to one of their existing accounts. You don't get to just sign up with a new account anonymously and use whatever email address is already linked to an account.
I have an email address that people assume doesn't exist
With a username like "junk"? Inconceivable! There's someone out there who's actually checking junk@junk.com?
I'm comfortable with a calculation that just involves income taxes taken in versus federal money received. I understand Alaska is a special case, there's no need to justify that. I'm not sure why New Mexico pays so little and gets so much though unless that figure includes research money like the kind that goes to Los Alamos or White Sands. Mississippi is a different matter though. They're dead last on taxes paid per capita even though the state still pays between 10 and 20 billion per year (similar to Utah or Iowa). They're not within the top 5 states receiving the most federal money and they still manage to have a higher ratio than 48 other states.
Well, could the South rise again? I guess nobody will keep them from seceding this time.
At first glance, it would help the economy if they did. There are only 17 states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive back, and only one of them (Florida) is in the south. Mississippi takes back over double what they put in.
They already did, it's the Texas one. The first 20 listed signers come from:
TX
WV
VA
IN
MO
FL
OH
CO
I also like the petition to "allow" New York to secede (which voted Democrat). The first 20 listed signers there come from:
ND (the creator)
TX
PA
NY
IN
AR
KS
GA
AL
IN
What is bad is America had no left wing candidate at all.
What's really bad is how even the electorate seems to completely disregard third-party candidates. There are plenty of actual left-wing candidates there if you care to take a look. It's not for a lack of candidates so much as a lack of coverage and awareness that those candidates are even running.
These people are too stupid to even know what they're asking for.
That might be true, but many of them probably do know the difference between "succeed" and "secede".
There's a difference between doing business, and killing the golden goose out of childish motive.
Are you referring to Samsung's supply contract with Apple, or Apple deciding to sue their supplier over the shape of their devices? Which one is more childish?
What exactly are you trying to suggest? Are you suggesting that Obama gets to be president 50.5% of the time, Romney 48.1% of the time, Gary Johnson 0.9% of the time, Jill Stein 0.3% of the time, and Roseann Barr gets to be president 0.05% of the time? Does Obama need to call up Roseann when he has a decision to make?
If Jobs was that much of a fucking genius he'd have single-handedly invented the iPhone and mobile internet in the 1960s wouldn't he?
When he was 5 years old? No, he wouldn't have. 5 year olds don't give a shit about creating new networking paradigms for the planet to use. His dad was showing him how to take apart and put together radios and TVs, it's fair to say that he was not concerned with creating a global network that can be accessed by a device that would need a power source and infrastructure that wasn't available yet.
I don't know where the rest of your rant is coming from. Jobs was not a solitary genius, and I didn't claim he was, he was an asshole who knew how to get things done. Of the 3 people I mentioned (Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs), Jobs ranks last on my personal list. I think Bill Gates is more responsible for moving progress forward than Jobs, by virtue of the fact that his early operating systems directly contributed to computers being common in households (and please spare me your Gates rant, I use the term "his operating system" for brevity). Elon Musk ranks second on my list, but most of that is speculative, I don't think he's done his best work yet. Once Musk lands himself on Mars then we can revisit this discussion. Jobs is the only guy we can look at and see his entire legacy at this point. He was a good salesman, sure, and he definitely helped move forward the consumer technology industry, but please spare me your bullshit rant. I'm not a Jobs fanboy, the only Apple product I own is a first-generation iPod photo. But that doesn't mean I don't recognize and accept his contributions the same way I do with Dennis Ritchie, Linus Torvalds, or even Bjarn Stroustrup.
None of the people I mentioned in this post are solely responsible for their accomplishments.
The ones who make the world go around are the entrepreneurs who run the small businesses that comprise the bulk of the economy.
That's true, those people do make the world go around. But people like Jobs, Musk, Gates, etc are the people who make the world move forward.
didn't it have some quite obvious maths that showed that if all cars in the USA were converted to electric, it would require 7,000 GWh of electricity just to charge them every day?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that we immediately replace all gas-powered cars with electric cars overnight using our existing infrastructure and power grid. It's going to take a long time, and our energy sector is going to come with it. More solar energy is absorbed by the earth every hour than humans use in a year. It's completely feasible to have an all-solar energy grid that powers everything we need it to and then some, it will just take a lot of time and significant investment to get anywhere near that point. It's just the case right now that we have an infrastructure built on supporting gas-powered vehicles. That is what needs to change. It's also safe to say that we haven't found every source of natural resources that this planet has to offer, and we haven't even begun to look outside of our planet for additional resources. Not to mention manufacturing our own from available materials.
In short, not only is it possible, but Elon Musk is right for doing his part to help push people in that direction. His direction isn't the only feasible one though, so feel free to compete with him.
That's of course the weird thing about being called car of the year. It needs the byline "for its target market".
That applies to every other car, not just a Tesla. It should be implied that no car is for everyone. Look at their other cars of the year for past years. There's the Audi A7 for $60k, the Chevy Volt for $40k, the VW GTI for $24k, the Nissan GT-R, and the Audi R8 for $118k. Not a single one of those cars is marketed to every car buyer in the world. If everyone could be served by a single car then we wouldn't need more than one car model, would we?
First and foremost, its ugly. Seriously Ugly, check it out here : http://www.teslamotors.com/models
I have checked it out there, and I have concluded that it is not ugly. Seriously.
Second off, it does not compare to Porsche in any real way, speed, agility, handling, comfort, all go to Porsche.
How about in fuel efficiency, or emissions? Or, depending on the Porsche, price? That's a weird comparison to make though, comparing a luxury electric sedan with a Porsche. I don't recall Elon Musk saying he wanted the S to go head-to-head with Porsche.
Next, its too expensive.
Right, a 911 Turbo for $135,000+ is much more economical.
I'll but a GTR or GT500 instead.
Not exactly a great car for a family of 4 though.
Count on a nice addition to your electric bill every month.
Not if you have a free charging station. You also get a gasoline bill of exactly $0.
It's weird. It's almost like you're not Tesla's target market.
Oh, and there is that all important question of how they hold up in a hurricane.
That's not really all that important. What's more important is whether or not I have to ship the thing to California for maintenance or repairs.
That's not so much a "leak", and more of a "take this". They probably even get paid for it.
A better response is probably to get out your phone and record him recording you. Apparently people don't know who he is. And apparently he also doesn't like being recorded.
following me around doesn't prove anything, except that you're an asshole with entirely too much free time.
In Seattle? That's hard to believe!
/. 's not your personal army.
I don't know what that is in reference to, the reason I "like" that case is because it lists the most defendants.
But kudos to any concerned citizens out there that opt to give any or all these people the vicious interminable screwing that karma requires.
That's what we have the court system for. The government will freeze their assets and take whatever they have more effectively than you or I, or whatever vigilante you're trying to encourage.
Try calling your insurance agent and explaining how your house burned down because of the flood.
Did you miss the story about the 6-alarm fire in Queens that burned down 80+ houses? Another newscaster in Jersey saw at least 26 individual fires during a helicopter flyover of the coast. Water is great for putting out fires, sure, but when it ruptures gas lines and creates electrical shorts it turns out that things burn down. There's also a video of a certain Con-Edison substation in lower Manhattan that had a less-than-optimal reaction to being submerged in water.
Take a look at the 5 cases, they are linked to in the article. I like this one:
Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff v. ELH Consulting, LLC, also d/b/a Proactive Planning Solutions; Purchase Power Solutions, LLC; Allied Corporate Connection, LLC; Complete Financial Strategies, LLC; 3Point14 Consulting, LLC, also d/b/a Elite Planning Group; Key Tech Software Solutions, LLC, also d/b/a Key One Solutions; Emory L. Holley IV a/k/a Jack Holley, individually and as the sole member of ELH Consulting, LLC; Lisa Miller, individually and as the sole member of Allied Corporate Connection, LLC, Complete Financial Strategies, LLC, and Purchase Power Solutions, LLC; Rares Stelea, individually and as the sole member of 3Point14 Consulting, LLC; and Justin Journay, individually and as the sole member of Key Tech Software Solutions, LLC, Defendants.
Over the 5 cases, in addition to the various corporate entities they name 12 individuals.
All 5 cases are linked in the article. As to "when", the cases are dated today, the 1st. As to "how", the cases include things like temporary restraining orders, permanent injunctions, and asset freezes that the FTC is requesting from the court.
I'd say the ability to permanently kill an opponent in multiplayer is more than a simple bug.
What is it, a complex bug? It sounds pretty simple to me, in fact it sounds like it's working as designed but in a non-user-friendly way (the server should indicate that it is in hardcore mode, for example, so that people know the consequences, and make them explicitly agree to join).
It sounds like you need to watch the South Park World of Warcraft episode again and come back to reality on how important a multiplayer character really is.
I don't know why they need a study to do this. If anyone has a pet, and that pet wants something from you or wants you to do something, it's looking at your eyes. Even if I just walk into a room and my cat wants to see who it is she still looks at my eyes.
I generally focus my gaze usually directly into their right eye (just pick one, doesn't really matter that much I don't think)
I had a roommate with eyes that focused in different directions, I would usually look at the eye that wasn't looking at me to make him keep shifting his gaze.