I can't bother to find the reference, but within the last few days Exxon tried to get the case dropped on the grounds that the New York AG and other on the prosecution side are "biased" and out for personal gain. It's a 100% ad hominem attack, with a heaping pile of you're mean and you don't play fair as a side order. Like Exxon isn't a profit driven enterprise with an agenda of it's own.
The best reason I can figure out for this is that they are setting up for a long appeal process. If they can drag this out for decades think of all the additional profit to be made. This strategy worked out really well for them during the Exxon Valdez iol spill disaster, so why not try it again?
You want to know why software never really gets better? It's because "old timers" are deliberately flushed from the system, so there is no institutional memory. Over time the same mistakes get made over and over again because no one remembers what happened the last time.
This is not the same as hardware, because in real engineering work there are people who have a long time track record. (The phrase Software Engineering is an oxymoron.) Unfortunately the same short sighted behavior is starting to invade some engineering disciplines, so they will end up producing crap as well.
There were so many idiots talking like you on this thread that it was hard to pick one. I chose you because your language makes it clear that you have the mental capacity of a brick.
Suppose there was a Democrat running for election who said that it was OK to shoot at cops sometime. They would be toast within four hours of that hitting the internet. Not only would they have to withdraw from the race they were in, they would be kicked out of the Democratic Party. (By the way, the same goes for the Republican Party. Only not really because Republican make excuses for the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation where there were real guns and threats to the lives of federal employies.)
At any rate, Trump has on many occasions implied that violence is justified against undocumented people, including women and children. He also said he want's kick "Mexicans" out of the US, without considering if they are citizens or not.
Beyond that, he has incited violence against his opponent, which is is illegal, and a whisker away from calling for political assassination.
So his appeal to violence during the elections is just like saying it's OK to shoot at a cop. In some ways it is worse, because he is slyly talking about political assassination. And Theil is supporting him to the tune of $1.5 million, which means that Theil is OK with this level of expressed
violence.
So it doesn't make any difference who Ellen Pao is. If you stand with Trump, as does Thiel, you endorse political violence. It's not about political correctness, or stifling political speech, it's about supporting a democratic form of government. And you and Theil and Trump hate democracy and want to destroy it. You are an enemy of the United States just as much as the Islamic State or Al Qaeda.
I hope I didn't use too many big words for for you. To make it easy, I just called you a violent political thug who hates America. And I think you are really stupid.
So you don't like the message? Shoot the messinger!
This experiment was motivated by observations about moon mission astronauts. It's not like someone with an anti-manned space agenda pulled it out of their ass as an excuse.
The astronaut data is not definitive. The experiment is not definitive. No one is going to send more people outside the van Allen belts to see if their brains and hearts rot. But they are going to do more definitive tests to find out what is going on. Lots of tests, some of which will take a long time. It's not like the first manned Mars mission is lifting off next week, there is plenty of time to do the fundamental science. That is how science works. Trash talking a study and a publisher won't change anything.
Maybe the effect is not that bad. Maybe shielding will work, either physical shielding or electromagnetic shielding. Maybe drugs will need to be developed. Until the prerequisite experiments are done, and the science understood, it's premature to invest a lot of effort in solutions.
It's not that much different then building the rockets or designing and deploying a Mars base. It's equally nerdy, just in a another direction. One without explosions or dealing with the environment on Mars.
So why so hostile? No one said this was a show stopper. For example, it would be completely normal if biotechnology was as important for interplanetary travel as rocket motors.
You are reacting like a spoiled brat. No one is taking away your toy. Grow up.
Boeing/Lockheed/ULA is a textbook example of an inefficient entrenched monopoly. They are for all intents and purposes a part of the federal government. The revolving door means that after a stint at NASA or the USAF people side over to ULA and do the identical job. They end up with two pensions and nobody rocks the boat.
A telltale symptom is the mind boggling stagnation in rocket technology. Look at main lift engine development: ULA is using Russian engines designed in the cold war. The rocket cartel hasn't invested a dime in big lift vehicles since the early 90's.
It took two outsiders, Musk and Bezos, to inject life into the US space sector. They were both technologists with no ties to aerospace. They independently realized that new booster technology was the key to 21st century space flight, manned or unmanned. They both spent their own money to build new rockets from scratch. Yes, they got federal funding, but they spent a lot more then that. (ULA has been developing new upper stage rockets, but that is a much smaller effort then building a new launch system from scratch.)
When ULA woke up and realized they were at least six years behind SpaceX in engine design, they went to Blue Origin. Their next generation main lift stage will based on the Blue Origin design. That's called being asleep at the switch.
Don't start whining about NASA, feel sorry for them. They are constrained by politics and budgets. If Congress only gave them rubber band and paper clip money they would still be making a valiant effort to get into space somehow.
Speaking of Congress, ten House Republicans are trying to squash SpaceX. They claim to be "greatly concerned" about the recent pad explosion and want the USAF and NASA to cut SpaceX off. What they are actually doing is shilling for ULA. Who gives a rat's ass about US technological leadership or actual capitalism when there are campaign contributions and jobs to protect in their districts? Congress are the real jokers behind the rocket cartel.
Back in the early days of computers, when the world had many hardware architectures, there were machines that had co-designed hardware and software. They were designed from the ground up to avoid certain types of problems, and they worked really well.
Burroughs Large System stack machines were one example and Symbolics Lisp Machines were another. Burroughs had array descriptors that did bounds checking at run time and tagged memory. Tagging added non-user accessible bits to each memory word. The tag defined what kind of data the word contained and the hardware detected any attempt to use a memory value illegally. Symbolics machines also had tag bits, but their implementation was microcoded, so the tag interpretation was also in microcode.
Until computer implementations include features like tagged memory and hardware array bounds checking they will never be truly secure. Some problems cannot be addressed by an isolated software layer: they can only be made secure by hardware enforcement of fundamental features that prohibit some classes of software errors.
Wish I could mod you up. This is the first coherent non-flamebait post I have seen that succinctly describes what systemd is all about and makes a simple rational argument about why it is a problem.
You also show why "grey beards" are useful. "Been there, done that" can be mighty useful.
You understand the the claim of "murderous" Hillary Clinton is pure slander, don't you?
If you accept that charge then what about President George "My Pet Goat" Bush? He and his entire core team were in the Oval office when intelligence sources reported about a possible Al Qaeda attack on US soil. They thought it was unimportant and sloughed it off. It was completely ignored.
Based on the standard you apply to Clinton then Bush, Cheney and pretty much every person in that room should have been convicted of criminally failure to execute their duties of office. The President and Vice President and Secretary of State should have been hung and the rest sentenced to life in a federal penitentiary.
My conclusion is that you are all foul hypocrites who are so hyper-partisan that you put your party ideology above the national interests of the United States.
You are so bassackward that you are more then 100% wrong.
Here is real research by real academics who have actual PhD degrees and study the media. They are at one of the best universities on the planet: Harvard. This is the definitive definition of a qualified professional. They don't make shit up like Fox not-really-News.
The report shows that during the year 2015, major news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers—a high volume of media coverage preceded Trump’s rise in the polls. Trump’s coverage was positive in tone—he received far more “good press” than “bad press.” The volume and tone of the coverage helped propel Trump to the top of Republican polls.
The Democratic race in 2015 received less than half the coverage of the Republican race. Bernie Sanders’ campaign was largely ignored in the early months but, as it began to get coverage, it was overwhelmingly positive in tone. Sanders’ coverage in 2015 was the most favorable of any of the top candidates, Republican or Democratic. For her part, Hillary Clinton had by far the most negative coverage of any candidate. In 11 of the 12 months, her “bad news” outpaced her “good news,” usually by a wide margin, contributing to the increase in her unfavorable poll ratings in 2015.
This research covers 2015, but things didn't change much up to the national political party conventions. The most explosive material wasn't reported until after the first debate, and much of it is coming from online upstarts like Buzzfeed.
The mainstream news organizations have been completely missing until very recently. The information about Trump's income tax claim could have been uncovered by the NY Times at any time in the last two years, but it wasn't. He was getting a free ride from the entire mainstream press until a few weeks ago.
I know that Republicans have an extreme aversion to facts and departed reality many years ago, but the real world doesn't care what you think. It has a nasty habit of showing up when least expected and wreaking havoc on fools who ignore it. With any luck real world facts will finally catch up with Trump and pound him into dust. If that doesn't happen then the whole world is going on an extremely terrible ride.
This seems to be a very good low acceleration long haul thruster, similar to other competing ion drives. They are all of a type. Neumann seem to have done their homework in figuring out how to match solar panel output to mission profiles.
However, ion thrust technology has some real problems when it comes to moving people around the solar system: transit time. If you look at this description, it turns out that the fastest travel time from Earth to Mars they quote is seven months. That's not from LEO but from a station at L5 to a Mars orbit where there is another orbiting station. Getting out of the gravity well is assigned to chemical rockets. This architecture requires a lot of infrastructure investment. Without these stations it's likely the transit time are much longer, closer to the 9/18 month burn and coast transfer orbits.
Long term exposure to weightlessness is not good for humans. For example, space station cosmonauts (tweaked you on that one) have long term vision problems. Even worse is the radiation exposure outside the Van Allen belts. The manned mission to Mars community, including NASA, seem to be underestimating the seriousness of this problem. It's not just about cancer. There are other long term problems like heart disease and general decline in health and longevity. For example, the long term effects of exposure to radiation from Chernobyl have been terrible in affected areas in Belarus and the Ukraine. (There is a huge coverup over this situation, so you don't hear anything about it. Even the World Health Organization seems to want to sweep it under the rug.)
It's surprising that no one here has made any comparison to the recently released road-map from SpaceX. They propose a 30 day transit time without needing any orbital infrastructure either at Earth or at Mars. They are further along then Neumann, having their first generation hardware already proving itself in space flight, while Neumann is only now doing a flight test. Even so, it's unclear if ion or chemical engines are the best way to send humans to Mars, assuming that is a good idea in the first place,
Looking at the specs, if the Neumann system works as advertised it would be well suited for exploring the outer solar system. If paired with an RTG It would allow significant size missions to the outer planets that could go into orbit and not be limited to flybys. They confidently describe continuous acceleration for years at a time with a single fuel slug weighing in at a few kilograms. Even though manned missions to Mars are more glamorous, exploring the solar system is equally important in the long run.
Space-X is about optimization for launch systems, not optimization of a rocket. That's why they are so focused on reuse. It's the best way to bring down system costs in the long run.
For example, the Saturn V used two different kinds of fuel: LOX with RP-1 and liquid hydrogen. This optimized performance for the 1st stage booster vs the upper stages. This increased the cost and complexity of the ground support. SpaceX uses only one kind of fuel for all stages. This reduces complexity and cost.
If you build a booster stage that is robust enough to return with only aerobreaking, it is going to weigh more and be more complex. You pay for that extra weight for every launch. Note that some of the structure is only used for re-entry and is dead weight on the way up. Breaking with the engines means they are used both on the way up and the way down.
As Musk points out in his presentation, fuel is the cheapest component of the launch system. Therefor it makes economic sense to use more fuel to land the launch stages, which are the expensive components.
The people at SpaceX are not dumb. They came up with a different solution because they framed the problem differently. Rockets are hard, and there is not a single best way to build them. There are a lot of projects that use vertical powered landing: McDonald-Douglas DC-X and Blue Origin New Shepard are examples and NASA funded various prototypes. Aerobreaking is not the only reasonable option.
No they don't. One of the biggest drains on retirement savings for 401k plans is the fees charged by Wall Street. Given the end of defined benefit pensions, and the general under funding of pensions by government and business, the only hope most people have is their Wall Street based savings and home ownership, if they have not already been locked out of the housing market.
Wall Street is a rigged game: heads the insiders win, tails everyone else in the entire world looses. Remember 2008? Wall Street has ended up way ahead, and the rest of the economy is just now beginning to recover. Home owners who were victimized got squat and the bankers were bailed out. That bailout is still going on. It's called a zero interest prime lending rate. A blind poodle with diabetes can make a profit with a zero interest rate. Wall Street love the current setup. Free Money!!!
Meanwhile the gap between the very rich and everyone else is accelerating. It's a fact. So just how stupid do you have to be to support a system that is so massively corrupt?
Even though I got modded down to -1000000 for calling Trump (and his supporters) racist, here is a real time/real world example. This happened right after I put up my post, and it's a morning news story today (September 23rd).
Kathy Miller called the Black Lives Matter movement ‘a stupid waste of time’ and said low African American voter turnout could be due to ‘the way they’re raised’,
Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was “no racism” during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.
Kathy Miller, who is white and chair of the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.
Trump is like Romney: they both think a lot of people in this country are intrinsically inferior, and they base their opinion on wealth and race. They're rich white boys who were 'born on third base and think they hit a home run', and that regular people are scum.
So Kathy Miller resigned, but that is irrelevant. Her racist remarks are completely in line with how Trump is promoting his campaign. She just said out loud what Trump and many Republicans believe. It's a revival of the White Citizens Councils of the 1950's, which were the cleaned up version of the KKK.
What the hell are you blathering about. You think you have a rebuttal because you use the phrase "intolerant left"?
Trump and his supporters are white supremacists. They clearly think that "mexicans", i.e. anyone who is poor and speaks Spanish, doesn't belong in the US no matter where they were born. They think that all Muslims are terrorists. Trump just endorsed unlimited police "stop and search" policy, which translate to harassing black people whenever they are outside, and even sometimes when they are just being in the privacy of their own homes.
So it is factually correct that a Trump Presidency is not the same as a Clinton Presidency for a very large number of Americans. And if you don't or won't acknowledge that reality then you are just as much of a racists scum as Trump himself.
Remember that Hitler was not the creator of Nazi ideology or the fascist political style. The first big fascist political leader was Mussolini. If you look at a historical comparison, it is reasonable to compare Trump to Mussolini. Both have the same bombastic political style, both are ultra-nationalists and are eager to use violence in foreign policy and both were intrinsically racists. Hitler supercharged the racism into antisemitism. Mussolini had much less vicious antisemitic views, but he acceded to Hitler after he came to power.
So it is reasonable to call Trump a fascist if you have Mussolini as a model.
Angular 2 works with JavaScript. You don't have to switch to TypeScript to use it. There's even a tutorial for Angular 2 with JavaScript on the Angular site.
Your decision making process would be better if your opinions had a better factual basis. On the other hand, this is Slashdot and facts don't count for much around here. You fit right in.
Escalating fines. If a company makes a few mistakes, the consequence should be small. If they make a lot of mistakes the consequence should be large.
If the fine per instance is too small, it will have no impact. Just take a look at how banks behave if you want to see how useless small fines are. The fines will have to be big enough so that they add up to significant amounts or the fine schedule needs to be non-linear.
Unfortunately hell will freeze over before anything happens to limit the damage caused by the DCMA.
"which was going completely unused 99% of the time"
In the universe I live in, I can't leave my house without seeing a kid using wired ear buds. They're ubiquitous. Current market statistics say that almost half of those people are using iPhones.
What universe do you live in? I've never been there.
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The best reason I can figure out for this is that they are setting up for a long appeal process. If they can drag this out for decades think of all the additional profit to be made. This strategy worked out really well for them during the Exxon Valdez iol spill disaster, so why not try it again?
Exactly. Replace the hypothetical "high-risk scenarios such as terrorist barricades" with the actual use case: "black man walking down street".
No, it's a UFO from outer space disguised as a flying car disguised as a weather balloon.
This is not the same as hardware, because in real engineering work there are people who have a long time track record. (The phrase Software Engineering is an oxymoron.) Unfortunately the same short sighted behavior is starting to invade some engineering disciplines, so they will end up producing crap as well.
Suppose there was a Democrat running for election who said that it was OK to shoot at cops sometime. They would be toast within four hours of that hitting the internet. Not only would they have to withdraw from the race they were in, they would be kicked out of the Democratic Party. (By the way, the same goes for the Republican Party. Only not really because Republican make excuses for the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation where there were real guns and threats to the lives of federal employies.)
At any rate, Trump has on many occasions implied that violence is justified against undocumented people, including women and children. He also said he want's kick "Mexicans" out of the US, without considering if they are citizens or not.
Beyond that, he has incited violence against his opponent, which is is illegal, and a whisker away from calling for political assassination.
So his appeal to violence during the elections is just like saying it's OK to shoot at a cop. In some ways it is worse, because he is slyly talking about political assassination. And Theil is supporting him to the tune of $1.5 million, which means that Theil is OK with this level of expressed violence.
So it doesn't make any difference who Ellen Pao is. If you stand with Trump, as does Thiel, you endorse political violence. It's not about political correctness, or stifling political speech, it's about supporting a democratic form of government. And you and Theil and Trump hate democracy and want to destroy it. You are an enemy of the United States just as much as the Islamic State or Al Qaeda.
I hope I didn't use too many big words for for you. To make it easy, I just called you a violent political thug who hates America. And I think you are really stupid.
This experiment was motivated by observations about moon mission astronauts. It's not like someone with an anti-manned space agenda pulled it out of their ass as an excuse.
The astronaut data is not definitive. The experiment is not definitive. No one is going to send more people outside the van Allen belts to see if their brains and hearts rot. But they are going to do more definitive tests to find out what is going on. Lots of tests, some of which will take a long time. It's not like the first manned Mars mission is lifting off next week, there is plenty of time to do the fundamental science. That is how science works. Trash talking a study and a publisher won't change anything.
Maybe the effect is not that bad. Maybe shielding will work, either physical shielding or electromagnetic shielding. Maybe drugs will need to be developed. Until the prerequisite experiments are done, and the science understood, it's premature to invest a lot of effort in solutions.
It's not that much different then building the rockets or designing and deploying a Mars base. It's equally nerdy, just in a another direction. One without explosions or dealing with the environment on Mars.
So why so hostile? No one said this was a show stopper. For example, it would be completely normal if biotechnology was as important for interplanetary travel as rocket motors.
You are reacting like a spoiled brat. No one is taking away your toy. Grow up.
A telltale symptom is the mind boggling stagnation in rocket technology. Look at main lift engine development: ULA is using Russian engines designed in the cold war. The rocket cartel hasn't invested a dime in big lift vehicles since the early 90's.
It took two outsiders, Musk and Bezos, to inject life into the US space sector. They were both technologists with no ties to aerospace. They independently realized that new booster technology was the key to 21st century space flight, manned or unmanned. They both spent their own money to build new rockets from scratch. Yes, they got federal funding, but they spent a lot more then that. (ULA has been developing new upper stage rockets, but that is a much smaller effort then building a new launch system from scratch.)
When ULA woke up and realized they were at least six years behind SpaceX in engine design, they went to Blue Origin. Their next generation main lift stage will based on the Blue Origin design. That's called being asleep at the switch.
Don't start whining about NASA, feel sorry for them. They are constrained by politics and budgets. If Congress only gave them rubber band and paper clip money they would still be making a valiant effort to get into space somehow.
Speaking of Congress, ten House Republicans are trying to squash SpaceX. They claim to be "greatly concerned" about the recent pad explosion and want the USAF and NASA to cut SpaceX off. What they are actually doing is shilling for ULA. Who gives a rat's ass about US technological leadership or actual capitalism when there are campaign contributions and jobs to protect in their districts? Congress are the real jokers behind the rocket cartel.
He is about as useful in the world as smallpox or Ebola. He should be permanently eliminated for the good of all mankind.
A whole new way to reach out and touch some one.
Burroughs Large System stack machines were one example and Symbolics Lisp Machines were another. Burroughs had array descriptors that did bounds checking at run time and tagged memory. Tagging added non-user accessible bits to each memory word. The tag defined what kind of data the word contained and the hardware detected any attempt to use a memory value illegally. Symbolics machines also had tag bits, but their implementation was microcoded, so the tag interpretation was also in microcode.
Until computer implementations include features like tagged memory and hardware array bounds checking they will never be truly secure. Some problems cannot be addressed by an isolated software layer: they can only be made secure by hardware enforcement of fundamental features that prohibit some classes of software errors.
You also show why "grey beards" are useful. "Been there, done that" can be mighty useful.
If you accept that charge then what about President George "My Pet Goat" Bush? He and his entire core team were in the Oval office when intelligence sources reported about a possible Al Qaeda attack on US soil. They thought it was unimportant and sloughed it off. It was completely ignored.
Based on the standard you apply to Clinton then Bush, Cheney and pretty much every person in that room should have been convicted of criminally failure to execute their duties of office. The President and Vice President and Secretary of State should have been hung and the rest sentenced to life in a federal penitentiary.
My conclusion is that you are all foul hypocrites who are so hyper-partisan that you put your party ideology above the national interests of the United States.
You are the one who sucks.
Here is real research by real academics who have actual PhD degrees and study the media. They are at one of the best universities on the planet: Harvard. This is the definitive definition of a qualified professional. They don't make shit up like Fox not-really-News.
This research covers 2015, but things didn't change much up to the national political party conventions. The most explosive material wasn't reported until after the first debate, and much of it is coming from online upstarts like Buzzfeed.
The mainstream news organizations have been completely missing until very recently. The information about Trump's income tax claim could have been uncovered by the NY Times at any time in the last two years, but it wasn't. He was getting a free ride from the entire mainstream press until a few weeks ago.
I know that Republicans have an extreme aversion to facts and departed reality many years ago, but the real world doesn't care what you think. It has a nasty habit of showing up when least expected and wreaking havoc on fools who ignore it. With any luck real world facts will finally catch up with Trump and pound him into dust. If that doesn't happen then the whole world is going on an extremely terrible ride.
Sorry, I mistyped a 30 day trip time for SpaceX when it should have be 90 days.
And if any of that highly radioactive material ends up on Earth, we'll just store it in your back yard.
However, ion thrust technology has some real problems when it comes to moving people around the solar system: transit time. If you look at this description, it turns out that the fastest travel time from Earth to Mars they quote is seven months. That's not from LEO but from a station at L5 to a Mars orbit where there is another orbiting station. Getting out of the gravity well is assigned to chemical rockets. This architecture requires a lot of infrastructure investment. Without these stations it's likely the transit time are much longer, closer to the 9/18 month burn and coast transfer orbits.
Long term exposure to weightlessness is not good for humans. For example, space station cosmonauts (tweaked you on that one) have long term vision problems. Even worse is the radiation exposure outside the Van Allen belts. The manned mission to Mars community, including NASA, seem to be underestimating the seriousness of this problem. It's not just about cancer. There are other long term problems like heart disease and general decline in health and longevity. For example, the long term effects of exposure to radiation from Chernobyl have been terrible in affected areas in Belarus and the Ukraine. (There is a huge coverup over this situation, so you don't hear anything about it. Even the World Health Organization seems to want to sweep it under the rug.)
It's surprising that no one here has made any comparison to the recently released road-map from SpaceX. They propose a 30 day transit time without needing any orbital infrastructure either at Earth or at Mars. They are further along then Neumann, having their first generation hardware already proving itself in space flight, while Neumann is only now doing a flight test. Even so, it's unclear if ion or chemical engines are the best way to send humans to Mars, assuming that is a good idea in the first place,
Looking at the specs, if the Neumann system works as advertised it would be well suited for exploring the outer solar system. If paired with an RTG It would allow significant size missions to the outer planets that could go into orbit and not be limited to flybys. They confidently describe continuous acceleration for years at a time with a single fuel slug weighing in at a few kilograms. Even though manned missions to Mars are more glamorous, exploring the solar system is equally important in the long run.
For example, the Saturn V used two different kinds of fuel: LOX with RP-1 and liquid hydrogen. This optimized performance for the 1st stage booster vs the upper stages. This increased the cost and complexity of the ground support. SpaceX uses only one kind of fuel for all stages. This reduces complexity and cost.
If you build a booster stage that is robust enough to return with only aerobreaking, it is going to weigh more and be more complex. You pay for that extra weight for every launch. Note that some of the structure is only used for re-entry and is dead weight on the way up. Breaking with the engines means they are used both on the way up and the way down.
As Musk points out in his presentation, fuel is the cheapest component of the launch system. Therefor it makes economic sense to use more fuel to land the launch stages, which are the expensive components.
The people at SpaceX are not dumb. They came up with a different solution because they framed the problem differently. Rockets are hard, and there is not a single best way to build them. There are a lot of projects that use vertical powered landing: McDonald-Douglas DC-X and Blue Origin New Shepard are examples and NASA funded various prototypes. Aerobreaking is not the only reasonable option.
Wall Street is a rigged game: heads the insiders win, tails everyone else in the entire world looses. Remember 2008? Wall Street has ended up way ahead, and the rest of the economy is just now beginning to recover. Home owners who were victimized got squat and the bankers were bailed out. That bailout is still going on. It's called a zero interest prime lending rate. A blind poodle with diabetes can make a profit with a zero interest rate. Wall Street love the current setup. Free Money!!!
Meanwhile the gap between the very rich and everyone else is accelerating. It's a fact. So just how stupid do you have to be to support a system that is so massively corrupt?
Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was 'no racism' before Obama
Trump is like Romney: they both think a lot of people in this country are intrinsically inferior, and they base their opinion on wealth and race. They're rich white boys who were 'born on third base and think they hit a home run', and that regular people are scum.
So Kathy Miller resigned, but that is irrelevant. Her racist remarks are completely in line with how Trump is promoting his campaign. She just said out loud what Trump and many Republicans believe. It's a revival of the White Citizens Councils of the 1950's, which were the cleaned up version of the KKK.
Trump and his supporters are white supremacists. They clearly think that "mexicans", i.e. anyone who is poor and speaks Spanish, doesn't belong in the US no matter where they were born. They think that all Muslims are terrorists. Trump just endorsed unlimited police "stop and search" policy, which translate to harassing black people whenever they are outside, and even sometimes when they are just being in the privacy of their own homes.
So it is factually correct that a Trump Presidency is not the same as a Clinton Presidency for a very large number of Americans. And if you don't or won't acknowledge that reality then you are just as much of a racists scum as Trump himself.
So it is reasonable to call Trump a fascist if you have Mussolini as a model.
Your decision making process would be better if your opinions had a better factual basis. On the other hand, this is Slashdot and facts don't count for much around here. You fit right in.
If the fine per instance is too small, it will have no impact. Just take a look at how banks behave if you want to see how useless small fines are. The fines will have to be big enough so that they add up to significant amounts or the fine schedule needs to be non-linear.
Unfortunately hell will freeze over before anything happens to limit the damage caused by the DCMA.
In the universe I live in, I can't leave my house without seeing a kid using wired ear buds. They're ubiquitous. Current market statistics say that almost half of those people are using iPhones.
What universe do you live in? I've never been there.