I'm using the term used by the racist scum to mock them. Intent makes all the difference.
Has Trump ever used the term "brown people"? If he had, you'd think that it would be all over the internet, but the only people that I see using it are people like you.
2) They've spent the money to upgrade their network to handle the increased traffic ( LOL )
While it's very clever to say that ISPs never spend money, do you seriously believe that they've absorbed the massive changes to bandwidth consumption over the last ten years (including the rise of streaming video) without serious upgrades to their network? I can't find a good source for historical per-user average bandwidth usage, but I have no doubt that it has skyrocketed.
The Nexus 7 was a fantastic tablet, though. It was fast (for it's time), had a great screen, and showed how awesome Android can be when the carriers and phone manufacturers aren't allowed to load it down with bloatware.
It unfortunately showed how terrible Android can be when the manufacturer forces more and more bloated "updates" to the device.
It's male genital mutilation. Don't try to pass it off as 'healthy'.
There are health advantages -- and disadvantages -- that are quite well-documented. Just saying that "it's wrong" doesn't make those go away, you know, and is not going to be a strong argument in convincing people that don't share your belief that it's wrong.
Paragraph 1 deals with fraudulent FCC logo and failure to certify the device.
From paragraph 1: "Although sufficiently disturbing on its own, these devices are particularly problematic as they are perpetrating intellectual property theft and consumer fraud." He makes it clear that they are specifically targeting devices enabling piracy.
Paragraph 3 deals with fraudulent FCC logo and failure to certify the device.
From paragraph 3: "nine set top box distributors were referred to the FCC in October for enabling the unlawful streaming of copyrighted material, seven of which displayed the FCC logo, although there was no record of such compliance."
Anyone can read the letter and come to their own conclusions, of course, but it seems obvious to me that the reason why they're going after these particular devices is due to piracy, not primarily because of a lack of FCC authorization.
My first thought as well. I've got two Fire TV sticks, which are pretty decent platforms for running Kodi. Although you can't install it directly from Amazon's web store, it only takes a few minutes to sideload Kodi.
Ostensibly the FCC is complaining about boxes that don't have the appropriate FCC authorization; I would assume that Amazon's Fire TV has it. But they make it really clear in the letter that it's really the piracy angle that is the actual concern.
2) As long as there is no outright ban or special tax, ala the "soda tax", which is just stupid, on coffee, then labelling is, IMO, just spreading knowledge.
To which I would respond that:
1 - When you're slapping the label on absolutely everything, you're conditioning people to ignore the label. Which means that no actual knowledge is being spread.
2 - Forcing producers to stick a "scary" label on their products, when there isn't evidence to support that labeling, isn't right.
You know, whenever anybody asked me what I thought the biggest thing holding back the Go language was, the first thing that came to mind was the logo. This is truly an earth-shattering development.
That's partly because automating all ships could generate a ridiculous amount of revenue. According to the United Nations, 90 percent of the world's trade is carried by sea and 10.3 billion tons of products were shipped in 2016. According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, ships transported $1.5 trillion worth of cargo through U.S. ports in 2016. The world's 325 or so deep-sea shipping companies have a combined revenue of $10 billion.
Notice how none of these statistics address, at all, how much money there is in automating ships? Besides the hand-waving, the article doesn't address it at all.
I mean, I'm sure that there's some, but just because most cargo goes by sea doesn't necessarily mean anything in relation to whether automating ships can save any money or increase revenue.
Fair enough, but the jump between.17 and.0 seems odd unless there's some reason. Why not.18? Or.9 to.0 like everyone used to do it?
Linus's "meaningless" quote addresses his motivations: he doesn't want there to have to be a reason. He wants to discourage people from treating a "5.0" release any differently than they would treat a "4.17" release, because with the current kernel development model, every version increment is essentially equal.
0.0.xx releases should be bugfixes. 0.xx releases should be minor feature updates. X.00 releases should be releases that break, or significantly change, the ABI, or that add major functionality.
That's one way to do version numbers. That's how the Linux kernel used to do things. And Linus found that it didn't work very well for the kernel, so he changed to a different approach.
Well, until he's about 5ft tall or gets a copy of the key I think we'll be fine
On average, a boy will reach 5ft tall when he's 12 years old. If you think that he won't be able to figure out how to scale your fence several years before that, you've got some surprises coming up while raising your kid.
That's what everyone says. But they still slavishly vote against the opposing side rather than voting for a particular candidate.
I don't.
Guess what? I at least get the peace of mind knowing that my vote didn't go to the Trumps or Clintons of the world. You don't even get that. I'm satisfied with my choices.
You threw your vote away by not playing by the rules of our 2-party society.
You want to see what the "playing by the rules of our 2-party society" looks like? Take a look at the 2 major-party candidates last presidential election.
Voting for somebody that you don't want to be elected -- that's what sounds like a wasted vote to me.
Now if you want to say that education is underfunded overall, then you probably have a stronger case.
Except that's not true. The U.S. spends more on education (in terms of money per pupil) than almost any other country. Teacher salaries, on the other hand, lag behind.
I don't have any good numbers for how much of our overall education spending is being spent on stuff like fancy tablets, but it certainly can't be helping. If you could, for instance, attract a better caliber of teacher by paying them $10K more, I suspect that would have a bigger influence than spending that money on buying everyone iPads.
I am pretty sure not a single person voted based on something they saw on Facebook on any other social media.
Really? Out of 120 million-plus voters in 2016, you think that not a single one made their decision based on social media posts?
I mean, I agree that blaming election results on social media propaganda is mostly just an attempt to deflect attention from the real reasons that the Democrats managed to lose the election, but I'm also pretty sure that some people really do vote based on what they read on Facebook. Some people vote based on what the space aliens tell them to do, after all.
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You said "Trump & Co." That includes Trump, if you haven't noticed.
"People like you" are the people who use the term "brown people" like you just did.
I'm using the term used by the racist scum to mock them. Intent makes all the difference.
Has Trump ever used the term "brown people"? If he had, you'd think that it would be all over the internet, but the only people that I see using it are people like you.
2) They've spent the money to upgrade their network to handle the increased traffic ( LOL )
While it's very clever to say that ISPs never spend money, do you seriously believe that they've absorbed the massive changes to bandwidth consumption over the last ten years (including the rise of streaming video) without serious upgrades to their network? I can't find a good source for historical per-user average bandwidth usage, but I have no doubt that it has skyrocketed.
The Nexus 7 was a fantastic tablet, though. It was fast (for it's time), had a great screen, and showed how awesome Android can be when the carriers and phone manufacturers aren't allowed to load it down with bloatware.
It unfortunately showed how terrible Android can be when the manufacturer forces more and more bloated "updates" to the device.
It's wrong to force the mutilation on a young child. Let them decide for themselves when they are old enough.
I certainly understand your position. Anyone who doesn't share it, however, is not likely to be convinced by a "you're wrong, I'm right" argument.
If you're not trying to convince anyone, then that doesn't matter, of course.
It's male genital mutilation. Don't try to pass it off as 'healthy'.
There are health advantages -- and disadvantages -- that are quite well-documented. Just saying that "it's wrong" doesn't make those go away, you know, and is not going to be a strong argument in convincing people that don't share your belief that it's wrong.
Paragraph 1 deals with fraudulent FCC logo and failure to certify the device.
From paragraph 1: "Although sufficiently disturbing on its own, these devices are particularly problematic as they are perpetrating intellectual property theft and consumer fraud." He makes it clear that they are specifically targeting devices enabling piracy.
Paragraph 3 deals with fraudulent FCC logo and failure to certify the device.
From paragraph 3: "nine set top box distributors were referred to the FCC in October for enabling the unlawful streaming of copyrighted material, seven of which displayed the FCC logo, although there was no record of such compliance."
Anyone can read the letter and come to their own conclusions, of course, but it seems obvious to me that the reason why they're going after these particular devices is due to piracy, not primarily because of a lack of FCC authorization.
My first thought as well. I've got two Fire TV sticks, which are pretty decent platforms for running Kodi. Although you can't install it directly from Amazon's web store, it only takes a few minutes to sideload Kodi.
Ostensibly the FCC is complaining about boxes that don't have the appropriate FCC authorization; I would assume that Amazon's Fire TV has it. But they make it really clear in the letter that it's really the piracy angle that is the actual concern.
And you better believe they're out there hoping for impulse buys. Nobody _needs_ an AR-15. You _want_ one.
What does that have to do with impulse buys? Whether or not you "need" something has nothing to do with whether you planned the purchase in advance.
2) As long as there is no outright ban or special tax, ala the "soda tax", which is just stupid, on coffee, then labelling is, IMO, just spreading knowledge.
To which I would respond that:
1 - When you're slapping the label on absolutely everything, you're conditioning people to ignore the label. Which means that no actual knowledge is being spread.
2 - Forcing producers to stick a "scary" label on their products, when there isn't evidence to support that labeling, isn't right.
The typewriter is dead, please donÃ(TM)t bring two spaces back.
Could we please get rid of smart quotes, though?
Yeah, except no. It doesn't happen.
It's easy to be sure of that, when you and your sort have made it impossible to determine if someone voted illegally.
You know, whenever anybody asked me what I thought the biggest thing holding back the Go language was, the first thing that came to mind was the logo. This is truly an earth-shattering development.
That's partly because automating all ships could generate a ridiculous amount of revenue. According to the United Nations, 90 percent of the world's trade is carried by sea and 10.3 billion tons of products were shipped in 2016. According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, ships transported $1.5 trillion worth of cargo through U.S. ports in 2016. The world's 325 or so deep-sea shipping companies have a combined revenue of $10 billion.
Notice how none of these statistics address, at all, how much money there is in automating ships? Besides the hand-waving, the article doesn't address it at all.
I mean, I'm sure that there's some, but just because most cargo goes by sea doesn't necessarily mean anything in relation to whether automating ships can save any money or increase revenue.
Fair enough, but the jump between .17 and .0 seems odd unless there's some reason. Why not .18? Or .9 to .0 like everyone used to do it?
Linus's "meaningless" quote addresses his motivations: he doesn't want there to have to be a reason. He wants to discourage people from treating a "5.0" release any differently than they would treat a "4.17" release, because with the current kernel development model, every version increment is essentially equal.
0.0.xx releases should be bugfixes. 0.xx releases should be minor feature updates. X.00 releases should be releases that break, or significantly change, the ABI, or that add major functionality.
That's one way to do version numbers. That's how the Linux kernel used to do things. And Linus found that it didn't work very well for the kernel, so he changed to a different approach.
Well, until he's about 5ft tall or gets a copy of the key I think we'll be fine
On average, a boy will reach 5ft tall when he's 12 years old. If you think that he won't be able to figure out how to scale your fence several years before that, you've got some surprises coming up while raising your kid.
This will likely censor smaller entities with politically unpopular views...
...Which is exactly what they want. Mission accomplished.
That's what everyone says. But they still slavishly vote against the opposing side rather than voting for a particular candidate.
I don't.
Guess what? I at least get the peace of mind knowing that my vote didn't go to the Trumps or Clintons of the world. You don't even get that. I'm satisfied with my choices.
You threw your vote away by not playing by the rules of our 2-party society.
You want to see what the "playing by the rules of our 2-party society" looks like? Take a look at the 2 major-party candidates last presidential election.
Voting for somebody that you don't want to be elected -- that's what sounds like a wasted vote to me.
Imagine the havoc someone could cause sending misinformation from a presidential aide's account:
Imagine the havoc someone could cause sending misinformation from the President's Twitter account! ...on second thought, not much imagination required.
Now if you want to say that education is underfunded overall, then you probably have a stronger case.
Except that's not true. The U.S. spends more on education (in terms of money per pupil) than almost any other country. Teacher salaries, on the other hand, lag behind.
I don't have any good numbers for how much of our overall education spending is being spent on stuff like fancy tablets, but it certainly can't be helping. If you could, for instance, attract a better caliber of teacher by paying them $10K more, I suspect that would have a bigger influence than spending that money on buying everyone iPads.
I am pretty sure not a single person voted based on something they saw on Facebook on any other social media.
Really? Out of 120 million-plus voters in 2016, you think that not a single one made their decision based on social media posts?
I mean, I agree that blaming election results on social media propaganda is mostly just an attempt to deflect attention from the real reasons that the Democrats managed to lose the election, but I'm also pretty sure that some people really do vote based on what they read on Facebook. Some people vote based on what the space aliens tell them to do, after all.
At least if I type "Kody" into Google, the first result is for https://kodi.tv/.
I always drive as if people are going to jump in front of me.
It is physically impossible to always stop if someone jumps in front of you. Your argument is with Isaac Newton, not with me.