Pie in the sky while American children in Appalachia go to bed hungry every night. Clean coal is as just possible as cost effective solar/wind and its made in America.
Perhaps, but clean coal doesn't pander to the special interests that paid for the current President's campaign and subsequent election.
Wake me up when he calls for higher gas taxes, cycling infrastructure, and high-speed rail.
Wake me when you two-wheeled fuckers learn how to pay for your own goddamn infrastructure, instead of piggy-backing on the taxes paid by we automobile operators that you have so much hatred for.
High speed rail, however, I feel we can all agree is a good idea.
"We don't have time for a meeting of the flat-earth society."
Not for nothing are the Republicans known as "the stupid party."
Really? And here I was, thinking that the "stupid" party was the group of Americans who still insist on parroting partisan rhetoric, despite the now obvious fact that differences between D & R are superficial at best.
False equivalence: Beach house communities =/= harbors.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting we start porting transport ships in the Hamptons? Bloomie and his fellow elitists would be ecstatic to have such neighbors, no?
>> Obama called for new efforts to deal with extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy.
Like move coastal populations so we aren't always on the hook for rebuilding people's beach houses?
Doubtful; the more likely circumstance is that he's intending to put every other taxpayer in the nation on the hook for the idiocy of coastal populations who refuse to be reasonable and move off the flood plain.
>> the plan calls for the end of U.S. support for financing coal power plants in foreign countries
We're doing what? And they wonder why taxpayers hate the federal government...
One reason of many.
Stuff like this is why I always have to shake my head when I hear people speculate about how great and well-operated a new government program will be, before it's even implemented; were y'all not paying attention when they fucked up every single other "new program" over the last 30 years?
Congrats, you've succeeded in opening your mouth and removing all doubt as to whether or not you're a fool. I guess you didn't take the time to actually read beyond the headline, else you would have thought better as the article points out that there were many Democrats who also voted against it. But hey, it's CBS, what do you expect?
FWIW, OP said nothing about one party or the other, and was very much right in doing so.
Why is thre a need to do this.. What does it matter?
Deception. The FTC is saying you can't make a paid-for ad look like a legitimate search result, because it's deceptive and unfair to both the consumer and other legitimate businesses who don't have the resources to pay Google boo-koo bucks for prime ad space. Not saying it's right or wrong, just pointing out the rationale.
As part of captialism if people get tired of getting the advertisements they will go to another search engine.
Ah, no, actually, that's a function of the free market, not capitalism in general, and as it should be abundantly clear at this point, there is not and never has been such a thing as a free market (that's not necessarily bad, BTW).
There is no reason for this.
Sure there is! It might not be a good one, or one you agree with, but there is a reason. There's always a reason.
1) How often are you opening your phone? WHY are you opening your phone so often that you need to have a screwdriver handy?
It's less a matter of frequency than it is a matter of location and circumstance. To whit, I don't keep a pentalobe driver in my "river adventure" toolbox (not cost-effective, despite the increased likelyhood of required dis-assembly due to device submersion in dihydrogen monoxide), but I do have a handful of phillips head drivers. Conversely, I don't really need to explain a reason to you, do I? It's my phone, not yours, and thus I'll do whatever I goddamn well please with it.
2) I've never, in my life, seen anyone who has given a fuck about the screws when buying a used device.
I have. So, I guess our anecdotes cancel each other out.
None of the reselling sites care, no one cares out side of the tiny group of slashdotters who aren't going to buy one anyway.
You seem to care, judging from the robustness of your emotional response. U mad, bro? Why u mad?
No one pays extra for phillips screws versus pentalobe because.... ALL THE REPAIR SITES ALREADY HAVE PENTALOBE DRIVERS to deal with all the phones they get that are normal.
"No one"
LOL. The way I see things, there's no faster way to marginalize your own opinion than to generalize. As for me, I'd much rather spend an extra $20 bucks when buying a device I can fix myself (say, replace a battery on) without having to go to a "repair site" and get raped with labor fees.
FYI: iPhone battery from Amazon: $8-12 cost to have iPhone battery installed, out of warranty, by an 'authorized merchant' (i.e. Apple): $80-120
I think anyone who comprehends basic arithmetic will understand why a 'self-repairable' device is preferable to many consumers.
What's idiotic - over tightening the screws on a delicate electronic device, or using 'moron-resistant' screws that are designed to prevent people from over tightening fasteners (which, in the case of delicate electronics, tends to have a "shit I broke it" effect)?
Fase dichotomy. For phone sized electronics you're going to be using jewellers screwdrivers, and you're not going to be overtightening to the extent of damaging the phone. But they will still strip a percentage of the Phillips heads you use them on.
Yea, gotta concede that one to ya - I have the problem of thinking in automotive/industrial terms in most mechanical discussions, since those are the fields I'm trained in... industrial machines have some big fuckin' bolts, man.
Side note regarding the jewellers drivers: iFixIt has a really nice kit you can buy for around $50US, with all manner of different sizes of just about every type of fastener head you can think of. Plus the extension doubles as a T-handle, for those situations where you might need a bit more torque.
Probably because you're using the wrong size bit for the job.
No, it's because Phillips are designed to cam out, but it's a bad design because doing so damages the head.
I only seem to have the "stripping the screw head" problem when I use cheap fasteners (or an improperly sized bit), which leads me to believe it's less a design issue and more one of product quality. The expensive, higher end fasteners you can buy don't seem to have quite the stripping-out problem that I see with cheap, slave-labor produced versions.
And yes, I have had the same damn thing happen with cheap torx fasteners as well (good luck finding a bit to fit that now-smooth circle), so it's not like the problem is exclusive to phillips' head screws. Thing is, I can "fix" a stripped phillips head screw by using a chisel to turn it into a flathead fastener; can't really do that with odd ducks like pentalobe or torx.
Or, the little bugger is so rust-caked that it has become one with the surface it fastens to.
Sure it does. The more torque you can apply without stripping the head, the more likely you are to dislodge the rust. You're far more likely to be able to remove a Torx or Allen screw for example than a Phillips screw.
Not really; first, if the fastener is sufficiently rusted as to prevent it from being removed by conventional means, there's a high likelyhood that the head of the fastener is pretty messed up to - rust can make short work of the lobes on a torx screwhead, so that the first time you jam a wrench in and turn it, the hole rounds off; allen heads I've had similar issues with (oddly, while the torx seem to round the fastener, the allen's prefer to round the tool itself...). In my experience, most rusted-in fasteners are created equal, in that removing them requires plenty of forethought, finesse, and PB Buster.
be that as it may, phillips was designed to cam-out to prevent damage from over-tightening, which is idiotic for most of its current applications.
What's idiotic - over tightening the screws on a delicate electronic device, or using 'moron-resistant' screws that are designed to prevent people from over tightening fasteners (which, in the case of delicate electronics, tends to have a "shit I broke it" effect)?
the only reason other screw designs aren't more common is because they were patented (and sometimes marginally more expensive to produce).
Because phillips heads are easily damaged when screwing and unscrewing them.
Probably because you're using the wrong size bit for the job.
Or, the little bugger is so rust-caked that it has become one with the surface it fastens to. In which case, it doesn't really matter what kind of bit you use (unless it's an Easy-Out).
1) With the kit you receive a single pentalobe (is it a full driver, or just a driver bit?), which you can keep in one location. Conversely, for example, I own more phillips head screwdrivers than I care to count, spread out across at least 3 counties. Assuming you don't already own a pentalobe driver, what do you do if you lose the one driver/bit they send in the kit, or if you're no where near the toolbox you keep the pentalobe in?
2) Unless you're the type who keeps a device until it literally reaches its end-of-life, swapping the proprietary screws with non-proprietary ones is a major plus to aftermarket buyers interested in the model of phone you have. Heck, I can even see charging a slight premium for a "repairable iPhone" over one with the pentalobe fasteners.
Probably even more good reasons, but they escape me at the moment.
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You can have all the opinions you want. If you want me to seriously consider them...
Ah, there's the breakdown - you seem to be under the impression that the rest of the world gives a rat's ass what smarmy internet know-it-alls think.
We don't. In fact, we don't even care to see your 'credentials' - everything we need to know is laid plain and clear in the content of your posts.
Pie in the sky while American children in Appalachia go to bed hungry every night. Clean coal is as just possible as cost effective solar/wind and its made in America.
Perhaps, but clean coal doesn't pander to the special interests that paid for the current President's campaign and subsequent election.
Yea! I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you're shattering the bedrock under our homes with deadly chemicals under high pressure?
Wake me up when he calls for higher gas taxes, cycling infrastructure, and high-speed rail.
Wake me when you two-wheeled fuckers learn how to pay for your own goddamn infrastructure, instead of piggy-backing on the taxes paid by we automobile operators that you have so much hatred for.
High speed rail, however, I feel we can all agree is a good idea.
Reich-whoosh.
Not for nothing are the Republicans known as "the stupid party."
Really? And here I was, thinking that the "stupid" party was the group of Americans who still insist on parroting partisan rhetoric, despite the now obvious fact that differences between D & R are superficial at best.
So where should be put our harbors?
False equivalence: Beach house communities =/= harbors.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting we start porting transport ships in the Hamptons? Bloomie and his fellow elitists would be ecstatic to have such neighbors, no?
>> Obama called for new efforts to deal with extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy.
Like move coastal populations so we aren't always on the hook for rebuilding people's beach houses?
Doubtful; the more likely circumstance is that he's intending to put every other taxpayer in the nation on the hook for the idiocy of coastal populations who refuse to be reasonable and move off the flood plain.
>> the plan calls for the end of U.S. support for financing coal power plants in foreign countries
We're doing what? And they wonder why taxpayers hate the federal government...
One reason of many.
Stuff like this is why I always have to shake my head when I hear people speculate about how great and well-operated a new government program will be, before it's even implemented; were y'all not paying attention when they fucked up every single other "new program" over the last 30 years?
Hmmm. IIRC GOP Blocks Bill to Punish Companies that Move Jobs Abroad.
Congrats, you've succeeded in opening your mouth and removing all doubt as to whether or not you're a fool. I guess you didn't take the time to actually read beyond the headline, else you would have thought better as the article points out that there were many Democrats who also voted against it. But hey, it's CBS, what do you expect?
FWIW, OP said nothing about one party or the other, and was very much right in doing so.
Why not?
I see no mention of any science degrees,
Huh, wasn't aware that "science degree holder" was a requirement for holding a valid opinion.
seceed, not succeed.
And no, no we can't; gotta find another way... perhaps a method of sending a 'vote of no confidence' to those in charge?
Personally, I think we should all stop paying federal taxes.
Why is thre a need to do this.. What does it matter?
Deception. The FTC is saying you can't make a paid-for ad look like a legitimate search result, because it's deceptive and unfair to both the consumer and other legitimate businesses who don't have the resources to pay Google boo-koo bucks for prime ad space. Not saying it's right or wrong, just pointing out the rationale.
As part of captialism if people get tired of getting the advertisements they will go to another search engine.
Ah, no, actually, that's a function of the free market, not capitalism in general, and as it should be abundantly clear at this point, there is not and never has been such a thing as a free market (that's not necessarily bad, BTW).
There is no reason for this.
Sure there is! It might not be a good one, or one you agree with, but there is a reason. There's always a reason.
1) How often are you opening your phone? WHY are you opening your phone so often that you need to have a screwdriver handy?
It's less a matter of frequency than it is a matter of location and circumstance. To whit, I don't keep a pentalobe driver in my "river adventure" toolbox (not cost-effective, despite the increased likelyhood of required dis-assembly due to device submersion in dihydrogen monoxide), but I do have a handful of phillips head drivers. Conversely, I don't really need to explain a reason to you, do I? It's my phone, not yours, and thus I'll do whatever I goddamn well please with it.
2) I've never, in my life, seen anyone who has given a fuck about the screws when buying a used device.
I have. So, I guess our anecdotes cancel each other out.
None of the reselling sites care, no one cares out side of the tiny group of slashdotters who aren't going to buy one anyway.
You seem to care, judging from the robustness of your emotional response. U mad, bro? Why u mad?
No one pays extra for phillips screws versus pentalobe because .... ALL THE REPAIR SITES ALREADY HAVE PENTALOBE DRIVERS to deal with all the phones they get that are normal.
"No one"
LOL. The way I see things, there's no faster way to marginalize your own opinion than to generalize. As for me, I'd much rather spend an extra $20 bucks when buying a device I can fix myself (say, replace a battery on) without having to go to a "repair site" and get raped with labor fees.
FYI:
iPhone battery from Amazon: $8-12
cost to have iPhone battery installed, out of warranty, by an 'authorized merchant' (i.e. Apple): $80-120
I think anyone who comprehends basic arithmetic will understand why a 'self-repairable' device is preferable to many consumers.
What's idiotic - over tightening the screws on a delicate electronic device, or using 'moron-resistant' screws that are designed to prevent people from over tightening fasteners (which, in the case of delicate electronics, tends to have a "shit I broke it" effect)?
Fase dichotomy. For phone sized electronics you're going to be using jewellers screwdrivers, and you're not going to be overtightening to the extent of damaging the phone. But they will still strip a percentage of the Phillips heads you use them on.
Yea, gotta concede that one to ya - I have the problem of thinking in automotive/industrial terms in most mechanical discussions, since those are the fields I'm trained in... industrial machines have some big fuckin' bolts, man.
Side note regarding the jewellers drivers: iFixIt has a really nice kit you can buy for around $50US, with all manner of different sizes of just about every type of fastener head you can think of. Plus the extension doubles as a T-handle, for those situations where you might need a bit more torque.
Probably because you're using the wrong size bit for the job.
No, it's because Phillips are designed to cam out, but it's a bad design because doing so damages the head.
I only seem to have the "stripping the screw head" problem when I use cheap fasteners (or an improperly sized bit), which leads me to believe it's less a design issue and more one of product quality. The expensive, higher end fasteners you can buy don't seem to have quite the stripping-out problem that I see with cheap, slave-labor produced versions.
And yes, I have had the same damn thing happen with cheap torx fasteners as well (good luck finding a bit to fit that now-smooth circle), so it's not like the problem is exclusive to phillips' head screws. Thing is, I can "fix" a stripped phillips head screw by using a chisel to turn it into a flathead fastener; can't really do that with odd ducks like pentalobe or torx.
Or, the little bugger is so rust-caked that it has become one with the surface it fastens to.
Sure it does. The more torque you can apply without stripping the head, the more likely you are to dislodge the rust. You're far more likely to be able to remove a Torx or Allen screw for example than a Phillips screw.
Not really; first, if the fastener is sufficiently rusted as to prevent it from being removed by conventional means, there's a high likelyhood that the head of the fastener is pretty messed up to - rust can make short work of the lobes on a torx screwhead, so that the first time you jam a wrench in and turn it, the hole rounds off; allen heads I've had similar issues with (oddly, while the torx seem to round the fastener, the allen's prefer to round the tool itself...). In my experience, most rusted-in fasteners are created equal, in that removing them requires plenty of forethought, finesse, and PB Buster.
be that as it may, phillips was designed to cam-out to prevent damage from over-tightening, which is idiotic for most of its current applications.
What's idiotic - over tightening the screws on a delicate electronic device, or using 'moron-resistant' screws that are designed to prevent people from over tightening fasteners (which, in the case of delicate electronics, tends to have a "shit I broke it" effect)?
the only reason other screw designs aren't more common is because they were patented (and sometimes marginally more expensive to produce).
Irrelevant.
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Because torx, hex(allen key), and Robertson are much less common than philips... Small torx, hex or robertson are not so easy to find.
Also, with phillips screws, you can substitute a small flathead or even the tip of a knife blade in a pinch.
Because phillips heads are easily damaged when screwing and unscrewing them.
Probably because you're using the wrong size bit for the job.
Or, the little bugger is so rust-caked that it has become one with the surface it fastens to. In which case, it doesn't really matter what kind of bit you use (unless it's an Easy-Out).
But once you have #1, why do you need to do #2?
I can think of a couple reasons right off:
1) With the kit you receive a single pentalobe (is it a full driver, or just a driver bit?), which you can keep in one location. Conversely, for example, I own more phillips head screwdrivers than I care to count, spread out across at least 3 counties. Assuming you don't already own a pentalobe driver, what do you do if you lose the one driver/bit they send in the kit, or if you're no where near the toolbox you keep the pentalobe in?
2) Unless you're the type who keeps a device until it literally reaches its end-of-life, swapping the proprietary screws with non-proprietary ones is a major plus to aftermarket buyers interested in the model of phone you have. Heck, I can even see charging a slight premium for a "repairable iPhone" over one with the pentalobe fasteners.
Probably even more good reasons, but they escape me at the moment.
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Only individuals acting on their own moral code can help
I agree comrade! So when are YOU going to put down your own money and/or life on the line to help your fellow individuals around the world?
How do you know he isn't already?
Part of what made the underground railroad so successful was the fact that asshats like you didn't know it existed until after the fact.
Why was there a leak of the G8 spying? That wasn't an illegal operation. Tell me why Snowden leaked that.
Perhaps because "Legal" and "Right" are not always the same thing?
Indeed; per the 14th Amendment, Section 1:
...No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Note the distinction between "citizens," which is defined in the first sentence of the section, and "person," which is thus meant to include the entire human race.