This is perhaps the thing that outsiders looking at the US find the hardest to understand. Universal health car is a given in every other first world country.
When I travelled the US back in 2008 I stayed at a B&B in Nakatosh, LA. The owner of the B&B had a mate of his working there in exchange for free accommodation and a little bit of money because his mate had a growth in his elbow that prevented him from working as a carpenter and was too expensive for him to get sorted. He was madly trying to save / scrape up the cash to get it sorted but he estimated it was another year before he could.
Sure if he had had more savings he could have been ok. But medical costs can be insane. So here I was looking at a guy in his 40s, with a skill that people use, that is stuck on the sidelines. Not only that but the intervention costs would be rising every day, so society had lost a productive member and exchanged it for a drain and was going to pay more to fix it in the future.
I live in a society where we have guaranteed medical care for everyone. I am also a relatively high income earner and my effective tax rate doesn't exceed 30%.
Median cloud cover in UAE ranges from 0% to 24% depending on the time of year. The air is very dry most of the time, so to have any measurable impact on rainfall you would need to raise the air a long way. There is a big step between creating localised wind and achieving rainfall
Bingham canyon is deeper, and Hull Rust is biggest overall, but even those open pit monstrosities aren't enough material to build a climate changing mountain.
How high and how wide would it have to be? Superpit in Australia is 3.7km long, 1.5km wide but only 470m deep and it is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. Would that amount of material be enough to have any measurable impact on the climate? And then there comes the challenge that any material that you use in this mountain will be loose aggregate, so you would need to retain all of it or have a really shallow slope dramatically increasing the volume of material needed. This is a major difference between building the pile and digging a hole.
As for the islands, all they dig was vacuum the sand off the bottom of the ocean in one place and pump it to another place. The total transfer distance was really small. I doubt you could get enough dirt from immediately around the base of the mound for that to be feasible so it would require huge logistics.
If the button is on the back I agree with you, if the button is on the front then no. I must be an outlier but I hate the hardware buttons on the iPhones and Samsungs. I prefer as small a bezel as possible.
That said I would have a thicker phone for a bigger battery....
That would be even more difficult to build and even more expensive than just piling the material up. Bulk material transfer conveyors and then stone blocks acting as a bund would likely be the most cost effective way of building it. Even assuming a labour cost of zero if the structure was hollow and self supporting it would be an unparalleled technical achievement. If you were just piling material it would be a massive logistics feat not so much a technical one.
The engineering challenges for this are insane. Just trying to move that much materiel would break the bank. I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of desal + irrigating the whole country comes in at a lower price....
Because it installs flawlessly in a short period of time. All the hardware I have encountered in the last 5 years just works without even finding a driver disk, or letting it connect to the internet. Because the user interface is sane, things work and the software is powerful. Because if you want you can run it off a USB stick and you can just take your whole OS instance and move from one computer to another.
Really? Which laptop? I haven't run into a wifi card that doesn't work with linux in years. And also which printer? Espon, Lexmark, HP, Samsung, Canon all have printer drivers for linux.
Sorry I've heard this meme pumped out every time someone talks about linux, but I'm just not buying it. Do you know what the last piece of hardware I had that didn't work out of the box with linux was? It was a random 3g usb modem supplied by Telstra that had a bizare chipset. It took me 15 minutes to get that working, most of that time was spent trying to figure out what the chipset actually was.
How exactly are we committing a crime in the US? I am in Australia. Netflix are providing access to me in Australia. I am making a trade with an Australian credit card and I am making the purchase in Australian dollars for an Australian account. All that is happening is that I connect to a VPN and Netflix provides me with different content. That they provide me with different content is their choice, not mine.
I frankly don't give a fuck what the DMCA states. Or in fact any other law on US books. I am not covered by them and I am not doing business under them.
GST, the only relevant tax, is only due on products with a value of over AU$1000. Consumers generally, there are exceptions, don't face state specific taxes in Australia so imports are processed for tax liability at the national border. I have imported multiple things that have exceeded that threshold, I receive notification from Customs that they are holding it pending payment of the GST liability. I pay it and they on ship it.
No not really. If they had bought the rights in perpetuity then it might have cost them say double the original price. The price of the initial consultation with a lawyer would have exceeded that easily. Also you have absolutely no control over what costs the other side are accumulating, so you could easily be out of pocket several orders of magnitude.
Doesn't change anything, unless there were penalty clauses specified in the contract for exceeding the license period.
If anything the contract will stand as a example of what the commercial worth of the photos are. I have no idea what legal system Austria uses however, as my original comment was targeting retchdog's comment that lawsuits shouldn't be for 'fair' pricing. Fair pricing is exactly the basis of many legal systems. It is the concept of making whole, rather than punishment.
Except that fair pricing of loss or damages is the fundamental basis for many justice systems. If this case was being heard in Australia, for example, the settlement would not exceed probable losses.
For a specific close to home example, DBC, the owners of Dallas Buyers Club, won a case to get the details of ISP subscribers who they believed had pirated the movie. But before they could go on their merry way demanding $1000s of dollars, the judge wanted to see their demand letters and advised the demands could not be more than actual losses. He estimated those losses to be no more than the full price of a DVD + legal costs. It worked out at around AU$60.
But that doesn't make it ok to lock him up indefinitely. They can't prove their case. That is the end of it. Charge him with refusing to obey a court order, and find him guilty of that. If that means he goes away for 2 years, then fine. But you can't imprison someone without a conviction. That is wrong.
Who knows. Maybe there is a full on conspiracy here and there isn't child porn on there but state secrets of his true employer, Mossad. Or it could be KFC's secret herbs and spices recipe. Or it could be child porn. Or he could be an officer of the law who is standing on principle and saying fuck off you're not allowed to do this.
Clearly they don't have enough evidence to convict him. So at this stage he hasn't been found guilty of the main crime. However he is refusing to co-operate with a court, but it seems crazy that that could mean he dies in prison.
State owned/= socialist. State owned just means the biggest bully in town. The reason they have so many state owned organisations is that is where the initial capital was concentrated. If it was socialist every person in the country would receive some kind of dividend from it. They don't.
The issue will be where you set the line for very early term. It is very possible for a woman to be unaware she is pregnant for a lot longer than what I suspect many would consider early term.
There isn't an easy way to split this argument as both sides sit with fundamentally opposed positions. Even then both sides have massive levels of graduation between what is acceptable and what isn't. For example, the morning after pill, ok or not? And for pro-choice people, 12 weeks is ok, 20 weeks getting a bit close for comfort there, 28 weeks nope thats wrong.
Add in to that things like Chromosomal abnormalities and the puddle of mud gets worse.
Interestingly though there is a correlation between a countries wealth and the availability of legal abortions.
You might have fuck-all but you have a job that means you get to eat. You might be living in a shitty house in a crap neighbourhood but at least you are surviving. Especially if you have dependants moving is a huge gamble.
Slashdot Mirror
This is perhaps the thing that outsiders looking at the US find the hardest to understand. Universal health car is a given in every other first world country.
When I travelled the US back in 2008 I stayed at a B&B in Nakatosh, LA. The owner of the B&B had a mate of his working there in exchange for free accommodation and a little bit of money because his mate had a growth in his elbow that prevented him from working as a carpenter and was too expensive for him to get sorted. He was madly trying to save / scrape up the cash to get it sorted but he estimated it was another year before he could.
Sure if he had had more savings he could have been ok. But medical costs can be insane. So here I was looking at a guy in his 40s, with a skill that people use, that is stuck on the sidelines. Not only that but the intervention costs would be rising every day, so society had lost a productive member and exchanged it for a drain and was going to pay more to fix it in the future.
I live in a society where we have guaranteed medical care for everyone. I am also a relatively high income earner and my effective tax rate doesn't exceed 30%.
Median cloud cover in UAE ranges from 0% to 24% depending on the time of year. The air is very dry most of the time, so to have any measurable impact on rainfall you would need to raise the air a long way. There is a big step between creating localised wind and achieving rainfall
Bingham canyon is deeper, and Hull Rust is biggest overall, but even those open pit monstrosities aren't enough material to build a climate changing mountain.
How high and how wide would it have to be? Superpit in Australia is 3.7km long, 1.5km wide but only 470m deep and it is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. Would that amount of material be enough to have any measurable impact on the climate? And then there comes the challenge that any material that you use in this mountain will be loose aggregate, so you would need to retain all of it or have a really shallow slope dramatically increasing the volume of material needed. This is a major difference between building the pile and digging a hole.
As for the islands, all they dig was vacuum the sand off the bottom of the ocean in one place and pump it to another place. The total transfer distance was really small. I doubt you could get enough dirt from immediately around the base of the mound for that to be feasible so it would require huge logistics.
How do you use your touch screen phone if not with your fingers?
If the button is on the back I agree with you, if the button is on the front then no. I must be an outlier but I hate the hardware buttons on the iPhones and Samsungs. I prefer as small a bezel as possible.
That said I would have a thicker phone for a bigger battery....
That would be even more difficult to build and even more expensive than just piling the material up. Bulk material transfer conveyors and then stone blocks acting as a bund would likely be the most cost effective way of building it. Even assuming a labour cost of zero if the structure was hollow and self supporting it would be an unparalleled technical achievement. If you were just piling material it would be a massive logistics feat not so much a technical one.
The engineering challenges for this are insane. Just trying to move that much materiel would break the bank. I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of desal + irrigating the whole country comes in at a lower price....
Dunno then. Sounds like there might have been hardware issues around the wireless card but without seeing it it's impossible to tell.
As for the printer Linux supports all the same standards that windows does for network printing, really don't understand how that didn't work.
Because it installs flawlessly in a short period of time. All the hardware I have encountered in the last 5 years just works without even finding a driver disk, or letting it connect to the internet. Because the user interface is sane, things work and the software is powerful. Because if you want you can run it off a USB stick and you can just take your whole OS instance and move from one computer to another.
Really? Which laptop? I haven't run into a wifi card that doesn't work with linux in years. And also which printer? Espon, Lexmark, HP, Samsung, Canon all have printer drivers for linux.
Sorry I've heard this meme pumped out every time someone talks about linux, but I'm just not buying it. Do you know what the last piece of hardware I had that didn't work out of the box with linux was? It was a random 3g usb modem supplied by Telstra that had a bizare chipset. It took me 15 minutes to get that working, most of that time was spent trying to figure out what the chipset actually was.
How exactly are we committing a crime in the US? I am in Australia. Netflix are providing access to me in Australia. I am making a trade with an Australian credit card and I am making the purchase in Australian dollars for an Australian account. All that is happening is that I connect to a VPN and Netflix provides me with different content. That they provide me with different content is their choice, not mine.
I frankly don't give a fuck what the DMCA states. Or in fact any other law on US books. I am not covered by them and I am not doing business under them.
GST, the only relevant tax, is only due on products with a value of over AU$1000. Consumers generally, there are exceptions, don't face state specific taxes in Australia so imports are processed for tax liability at the national border. I have imported multiple things that have exceeded that threshold, I receive notification from Customs that they are holding it pending payment of the GST liability. I pay it and they on ship it.
No not really. If they had bought the rights in perpetuity then it might have cost them say double the original price. The price of the initial consultation with a lawyer would have exceeded that easily. Also you have absolutely no control over what costs the other side are accumulating, so you could easily be out of pocket several orders of magnitude.
Doesn't change anything, unless there were penalty clauses specified in the contract for exceeding the license period.
If anything the contract will stand as a example of what the commercial worth of the photos are. I have no idea what legal system Austria uses however, as my original comment was targeting retchdog's comment that lawsuits shouldn't be for 'fair' pricing. Fair pricing is exactly the basis of many legal systems. It is the concept of making whole, rather than punishment.
Except that fair pricing of loss or damages is the fundamental basis for many justice systems. If this case was being heard in Australia, for example, the settlement would not exceed probable losses.
For a specific close to home example, DBC, the owners of Dallas Buyers Club, won a case to get the details of ISP subscribers who they believed had pirated the movie. But before they could go on their merry way demanding $1000s of dollars, the judge wanted to see their demand letters and advised the demands could not be more than actual losses. He estimated those losses to be no more than the full price of a DVD + legal costs. It worked out at around AU$60.
But that doesn't make it ok to lock him up indefinitely. They can't prove their case. That is the end of it. Charge him with refusing to obey a court order, and find him guilty of that. If that means he goes away for 2 years, then fine. But you can't imprison someone without a conviction. That is wrong.
Who knows. Maybe there is a full on conspiracy here and there isn't child porn on there but state secrets of his true employer, Mossad. Or it could be KFC's secret herbs and spices recipe. Or it could be child porn. Or he could be an officer of the law who is standing on principle and saying fuck off you're not allowed to do this.
Frankly we don't know.
Fair and reasonable punishment?
Clearly they don't have enough evidence to convict him. So at this stage he hasn't been found guilty of the main crime. However he is refusing to co-operate with a court, but it seems crazy that that could mean he dies in prison.
State owned /= socialist. State owned just means the biggest bully in town. The reason they have so many state owned organisations is that is where the initial capital was concentrated. If it was socialist every person in the country would receive some kind of dividend from it. They don't.
The issue will be where you set the line for very early term. It is very possible for a woman to be unaware she is pregnant for a lot longer than what I suspect many would consider early term.
There isn't an easy way to split this argument as both sides sit with fundamentally opposed positions. Even then both sides have massive levels of graduation between what is acceptable and what isn't. For example, the morning after pill, ok or not? And for pro-choice people, 12 weeks is ok, 20 weeks getting a bit close for comfort there, 28 weeks nope thats wrong.
Add in to that things like Chromosomal abnormalities and the puddle of mud gets worse.
Interestingly though there is a correlation between a countries wealth and the availability of legal abortions.
Consider this in the context of SteamOS and steamboxes.
You might have fuck-all but you have a job that means you get to eat. You might be living in a shitty house in a crap neighbourhood but at least you are surviving. Especially if you have dependants moving is a huge gamble.