No, the laws are a "corporatocratic dreamboat in most of his decisions". As far as I can tell, Gorsuch rules based on the written law and not who he feels should win based on emotional pleas. If you don't like his decisions, change the laws.
True, but "they" is much less awkward with an indefinite subject, though. "The presenter cleared their voice and spoke" sounds almost as natural as his or her and is far better than using constructions like "his or her" or new words like "xis".
The problem with "Carly cleared their voice and spoke" is that it introduces ambiguity. Whose voice was cleared in that case? It doesn't have to be their own, Carly could be an otolaryngologist.
Single payer isn't the only alternative that avoids this issue. There are more direct ways to decouple employment from health insurance, like requiring employers to offer the cash value of health benefits for use toward a privately purchased plan and/or allow anyone to enroll in a corporate health plan at the full cost.
Just those two regulations would do a lot to eliminate the imbalance of information in employment benefits and health insurance costs that create the imbalance in power.
If I recall, not having the option to edit was an intentional decision. Since this site is about the users having technical threaded discussions, it makes sense to make the posts fixed as it preserves the integrity of the discussion (i.e. no going back to edit out the part where you were wrong)
Agreed, current high bitrate lossy compression is not audibly distinguishable from lossless. That's not to say lossless formats aren't useful. They're necessary for storing original recordings and CD rips so that they can later be used to make transcoded copies in whatever lossy compression formats are best at the time. So unless there's been a breakthrough in lossless compression that beats 320kbps mp3 for size, then streaming lossless files is just a waste of bandwidth.
Is there a good reason I should trust the authors of "WhatsApp"? And even if I did trust them, is there any measure of assurance that they couldn't be compelled to give up my data?
I could see it being rather difficult to manage certificates if there's no assumed trustworthy central authority to manage them. It's easy for a megacorp to sign their own certs and manage them (and have others accept them), but a small shop or individual would likely run into difficulty somewhere.
Nope. Only the NFL broadcasts live games on the major OTA networks as far as I'm aware. It varies by market, but MLB, NHL and NBA all mostly broadcast on local/regional cable channels.
Local networks pay the leagues/teams insane amounts of money (literally, billions of dollars) for exclusive broadcast rights in their region.
Those are great options as long as you don't want to watch your local team's games live, which happens to be the only reason I would want such a service.
Until they quit blacking out local sports, those services are useless to me.
It wouldn't be difficult to use that much data with HD streaming on a 90+ minute commute each way on public transit. Maybe that's not an average use case, but I wouldn't call it excessive.
They are banning the transport of all unicycles on the trans-Canada highway because someone is repeatedly claiming that people who use it keep stealing his unicycles.
No worries. It really doesn't detract from the point. A 40% increase in that span is still significant.
I'd hesitate to claim that this rate of change is unprecedented, though. The resolution of much of the historical data is on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of years, so we wouldn't be able to detect CO2 release rates faster than that. I wish we could. The geological history was active enough early on that it would give some nice insights into the sensitivities of the varying forcings.
Your reading comprehension (and the OPs understanding or sloppy writing) are what's lacking here.
It can be stated correctly in several different ways, e.g.: The current level is 140% of what it was (400/280=1.4) 200 years ago. The level has been raised by 43% (280+280*0.43=400) over 200 years.
The way it was stated is incorrect: The levels were raised by 140% (280+280*1.4=670) in 200 years.
That would mean that the current level is 670ppm, which is not the case.
Then you work for the wrong companies (or in the wrong industry entirely). I'm also an above average performer in my skill areas and if someone followed me around tracking everything I did, it would look like I'm slacking too, but my employer doesn't do that. They leave me alone to work or use my time as I see fit with the understanding that I get the things done that I need to and that I'll be there prepared & on time when I need to be. Unless an employee consistently logs less than 40hrs, they'll only start looking at charged vs logged time and how someone uses their computers if they aren't performing and that's mostly just in the worst cases to help identify what people can do to improve. The company can and will eventually use misuse of resources, tardiness or mis-logged time as cause to fire someone if they ignore their manager and continue to not produce at a reasonable level, but in that case they should be fired.
That's the kind of bullshit that causes companies to implement these Orwellian surveillance and control mechanisms.
You're right that hours on the job aren't what matter to the bottom line for the company, but in many cases it is extremely difficult or impossible to create a fair performance based compensation scheme that doesn't cause conflicts of interest. All you're doing by trying to get away with the minimum instead of just doing your job, is promoting greater levels of tracking and control to ensure that lazy bastards like you stay on task and generate some value in return for pay. If it wasn't for you and those like you, the rest of us could establish a relationship based on mutual trust with our employers that benefits all with greater flexibility and minimal restrictions.
I was okay with binge-on since it was no cost and offered benefits for both the wireless subscriber and T-Mobile. This is crossing the line whether it's about net neutrality or just value go the customer.
At least they aren't killing the grandfathered unlimited plans... yet. That's when they're guaranteed to lose me as a customer
It really is like your personal budgeting, except access to loans is quite a bit easier.
What Tesla is doing is borrowing money to invest in product development and increased production capacity. It looks like a loss on the books because they are currently spending more money on expansion than they are selling in product. But this occurs fairly frequently in healthy rapid growth companies where demand for their product greatly exceeds their ability to supply it. The idea is that as the production rates grow, the revenues will eventually overtake the investment costs and will ultimately generate similar or larger returns faster than by limiting growth to what can be achieved solely by reinvesting profits.
There is a vehicle in the works that will sell new for well under $10k: The Elio
It's anticipated base price is $6800, gets 84mpg hwy and has power door lock & AC/heat standard. They are currently building 23 engineering units for validation testing (safety, handling, ABS & PCM calibration, etc.) and plan to start full scale production in the second half of 2017.
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No, the laws are a "corporatocratic dreamboat in most of his decisions". As far as I can tell, Gorsuch rules based on the written law and not who he feels should win based on emotional pleas. If you don't like his decisions, change the laws.
True, but "they" is much less awkward with an indefinite subject, though. "The presenter cleared their voice and spoke" sounds almost as natural as his or her and is far better than using constructions like "his or her" or new words like "xis".
The problem with "Carly cleared their voice and spoke" is that it introduces ambiguity. Whose voice was cleared in that case? It doesn't have to be their own, Carly could be an otolaryngologist.
Single payer isn't the only alternative that avoids this issue. There are more direct ways to decouple employment from health insurance, like requiring employers to offer the cash value of health benefits for use toward a privately purchased plan and/or allow anyone to enroll in a corporate health plan at the full cost.
Just those two regulations would do a lot to eliminate the imbalance of information in employment benefits and health insurance costs that create the imbalance in power.
If I recall, not having the option to edit was an intentional decision. Since this site is about the users having technical threaded discussions, it makes sense to make the posts fixed as it preserves the integrity of the discussion (i.e. no going back to edit out the part where you were wrong)
Agreed, current high bitrate lossy compression is not audibly distinguishable from lossless. That's not to say lossless formats aren't useful. They're necessary for storing original recordings and CD rips so that they can later be used to make transcoded copies in whatever lossy compression formats are best at the time. So unless there's been a breakthrough in lossless compression that beats 320kbps mp3 for size, then streaming lossless files is just a waste of bandwidth.
They had a warrant, so ... yes, they would be allowed to use any keys on site to open locked areas. They can also force physical locks open.
Is there a good reason I should trust the authors of "WhatsApp"? And even if I did trust them, is there any measure of assurance that they couldn't be compelled to give up my data?
Can you point me to a trustworthy cert authority? How do I know I can trust them?
I could see it being rather difficult to manage certificates if there's no assumed trustworthy central authority to manage them. It's easy for a megacorp to sign their own certs and manage them (and have others accept them), but a small shop or individual would likely run into difficulty somewhere.
Nope. Only the NFL broadcasts live games on the major OTA networks as far as I'm aware. It varies by market, but MLB, NHL and NBA all mostly broadcast on local/regional cable channels.
Local networks pay the leagues/teams insane amounts of money (literally, billions of dollars) for exclusive broadcast rights in their region.
I don't have cable so NBA and NFL aren't an option, but I do know that MLB.tv has blackouts of any live local games during the season.
Those are great options as long as you don't want to watch your local team's games live, which happens to be the only reason I would want such a service.
Until they quit blacking out local sports, those services are useless to me.
It wouldn't be difficult to use that much data with HD streaming on a 90+ minute commute each way on public transit. Maybe that's not an average use case, but I wouldn't call it excessive.
This (also terrible) analogy is more analogous:
They are banning the transport of all unicycles on the trans-Canada highway because someone is repeatedly claiming that people who use it keep stealing his unicycles.
No worries. It really doesn't detract from the point. A 40% increase in that span is still significant.
I'd hesitate to claim that this rate of change is unprecedented, though. The resolution of much of the historical data is on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of years, so we wouldn't be able to detect CO2 release rates faster than that. I wish we could. The geological history was active enough early on that it would give some nice insights into the sensitivities of the varying forcings.
Your reading comprehension (and the OPs understanding or sloppy writing) are what's lacking here.
It can be stated correctly in several different ways, e.g.:
The current level is 140% of what it was (400/280=1.4) 200 years ago.
The level has been raised by 43% (280+280*0.43=400) over 200 years.
The way it was stated is incorrect:
The levels were raised by 140% (280+280*1.4=670) in 200 years.
That would mean that the current level is 670ppm, which is not the case.
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If they are from before 12/31/2010, then yes.
Because it's really supernatural gas. You're burning the ghosts of dead dinosaurs!!!!
Then you work for the wrong companies (or in the wrong industry entirely). I'm also an above average performer in my skill areas and if someone followed me around tracking everything I did, it would look like I'm slacking too, but my employer doesn't do that. They leave me alone to work or use my time as I see fit with the understanding that I get the things done that I need to and that I'll be there prepared & on time when I need to be. Unless an employee consistently logs less than 40hrs, they'll only start looking at charged vs logged time and how someone uses their computers if they aren't performing and that's mostly just in the worst cases to help identify what people can do to improve. The company can and will eventually use misuse of resources, tardiness or mis-logged time as cause to fire someone if they ignore their manager and continue to not produce at a reasonable level, but in that case they should be fired.
That's the kind of bullshit that causes companies to implement these Orwellian surveillance and control mechanisms.
You're right that hours on the job aren't what matter to the bottom line for the company, but in many cases it is extremely difficult or impossible to create a fair performance based compensation scheme that doesn't cause conflicts of interest. All you're doing by trying to get away with the minimum instead of just doing your job, is promoting greater levels of tracking and control to ensure that lazy bastards like you stay on task and generate some value in return for pay. If it wasn't for you and those like you, the rest of us could establish a relationship based on mutual trust with our employers that benefits all with greater flexibility and minimal restrictions.
The real challenge is setting the difficulty to Easy and trying to lose.
I was okay with binge-on since it was no cost and offered benefits for both the wireless subscriber and T-Mobile. This is crossing the line whether it's about net neutrality or just value go the customer.
At least they aren't killing the grandfathered unlimited plans ... yet. That's when they're guaranteed to lose me as a customer
It really is like your personal budgeting, except access to loans is quite a bit easier.
What Tesla is doing is borrowing money to invest in product development and increased production capacity. It looks like a loss on the books because they are currently spending more money on expansion than they are selling in product. But this occurs fairly frequently in healthy rapid growth companies where demand for their product greatly exceeds their ability to supply it. The idea is that as the production rates grow, the revenues will eventually overtake the investment costs and will ultimately generate similar or larger returns faster than by limiting growth to what can be achieved solely by reinvesting profits.
There is a vehicle in the works that will sell new for well under $10k: The Elio
It's anticipated base price is $6800, gets 84mpg hwy and has power door lock & AC/heat standard. They are currently building 23 engineering units for validation testing (safety, handling, ABS & PCM calibration, etc.) and plan to start full scale production in the second half of 2017.