I've to see yet a valid objection about this change. All I see is "but my custom init scripts don't work anymore" and "init was it, init is it, and init will it be in all eternity".
init is a good solution in a constant environment, where you know beforehand what hardware is present, and where changes are seldom and will happen during scheduled downtimes. This is ok for most server environments and for cloud services. It is not workable for desktops and laptops, where hardware change on the fly is the norm with USB devices being plugged in and out, the network connectivity changing between different WiFi networks, LTE and ethernet, Bluetooth and different power saving modes which switch on and off different parts of the hardware.
Yes, you can try to play whack-a-mole and add custom init scripts for all the additional hardware and network configurations so they change on the fly, but it gets complex very soon, and it is error-prone, and you have long left the original runlevel concept that init used to define different states of the machine, because you would need hundreds of thousands of different runlevels given the possible number of combinations.
So if runlevels aren't the solution anymore, why keep the concept of init scripts, whose task it was to describe the differences between runlevels?
It has nothing to do with an alleged incompetence, it has to do with some basic functions of a telephone system.
Normally, you can send out only a caller ID that conforms to your PSTN connection. If you provide any other caller ID, it gets thrown out by the carrier and replaced by the default caller ID of your PSTN. This is all fine and dandy, if your PSTN connection is the actual origin of the call. But if you have call forwarding, this is no longer the case. If someone calls your desk phone at the office, but you are abroad, you can forward the call from your deskphone to your mobile. Nifty, right? But there is a problem: Your deskphone is not allowed to send out the caller ID of the original caller, as its PSTN connection is different than that of the original caller. So what you get on your mobile phone is the caller ID of your deskphone, but no information about the original caller as the carrier overwrites the information, rightly stating that your deskphone has no business sending a caller ID that does not belong to that connection.
There is a solution: CLIP no screening. The carrier allows the PSTN connection to send the original caller ID in a separate field: "User provided caller ID", which is different than the carrier provided caller ID. Your phone at home and your mobile phone will display the user provided caller ID rather than the carrier provided caller ID, because in most cases, this makes more sense. As long as your phone does not display both fields, this will lead to confusion if someone misuses the CLIP no screening feature.
Seven billion people have been enough to increase the CO2 in the atmosphere by 50%, from 270 ppm in the 1890s to 400 ppm today. Don't believe it? Then look up all the coal and oil we mined and extracted since then and calculate how much CO2 they release if two third of them are burned. And you will find out that adding that amount of CO2 to the atmosphere will increase the CO2 in the atmosphere by 130 ppm.
Yes, that's something you could calculate all by yourself. And now please argue that those additional 130 ppm in the atmosphere are not man-made!
Apparently, the bad code has been known to some secret services for some time. And that means that other secret services had the time to exploit the bad code and use it as an attack vector back against the NSA. I would be very wary to know that my opponent knows how shoddy my own code is. If for instance you can hijack encrypted communications, you can feed the communication any desinformation you want, and the original attacker believes it to be the real thing.
Trump will run the USA like a business, that's why he has my vote, although he hasn't announced privatisation of vast parts of the government yet, which I would really like.
And that is good because on average, every second business goes bankrupt after two years, right? Donald Trump has extensive experience in running businesses going bankrupt.
Then you went into a marriage without really knowing your partner, or having illiusionary ideas how to make it work anyway. So this marriage was a bad idea from your side from the beginning.
I don't get it. Where I live, adultery is just nothing. Even in divorce cases, adultery does not count. What counts is, if the broken marriage can be mended. If both sides agree that they don't want to continue with the marriage, and there is objective proof of the marriage being broken beyond repair (like the spouses living separated lives for more than a year), they can be divorced. It is never asked whose guilt it is.
The reasoning behind this is that the problem with a marriage not working is always on both sides. If you can't keep your partner faithful, and if you can't accept your partner being unfaithful, its considered your problem too, not just that of your partner.
401k and pensions are both "pyramid schemes", but in a completely different way than you might believe.
There is an important statement in economics, the Mackenroth Theorem (which is suspiciously absent from public discussions in the anglophone world):
Now, the clear statement is true, that all social expenses must always be covered by the national income of the current period. There is no other source and there has never been another source for the social costs, there is no accumulation from period to period, there are no "savings" in the private sense, there is simply nothing else than the current national income as a source of the social costs... Capital accumulation process and PAYG are therefore not that different in reality. Economically, there is only PAYG.
Gerhard Mackenrot: The reform of the social policy by a german social plan. Berlin 1952
The interest you get from your savings is generated by other people. The return on your investment is generated by other poeple. The dividend you get from your 401k is generated by other people. The payouts you get from Social Security stems from taxes of other people. Whenever you get something without working for it, someone else was working for it.
The problem is that a company that shows loyality to its workers can be sued by the shareholders. And many of those shareholders are big pension funds, so it is actually a battle between people who work and people who are retired about the profits of a company, which is kinda ironic. If you are retiring from a company and get payouts form your 401k, you are basicly taking money away from your former colleagues who are still working there.
Actually, the U.S. consumes slightly more electrical power than it generates. Total consumption is about 4100 TWh. The missing energy is mainly imported from Canada.
Innocent until proven guilty is only valid in criminal cases. Liability insurance is for civil cases, and there preponderance of evidence is the rule. If you have enough money resources to pay for an incident where one of the people is left disabled for the rest of his life, I agree, you might drive without insurance. If not, then make sure someone pays for any possible damage before you get your car in public space.
I would calculate differently. You only need to charge what you consume. So the right point to start the calculation would be the miles driven per year per car. 15,000 miles per year driven with each of the 200 millions now electrical cars would give you 3*10^12 miles per year. An EV typically consumes 20 kWh per 100 miles, so we need 6*10^11 kWh or 600 GWh per year. The U.S. generates about 4,000 TWh per year.
The point is that charging of an empty EV car during a trip doesn't happen in a daily commute. Yes, it might take longer than refilling fuel, but it just isn't necessary that often. The problem with a gas car is that you have to go to the gas station every 400 or 500 miles, and there is no way to avoid that trip. With an EV, it might happen once or twice a year, so maybe every 5000 to 10000 miles, because normally, you just let the car charge when you don't use it anyway. And because most cars are sitting idle at least 20 hrs a day, there is plenty of time to recharge them, and charging stations are much easier to build and to operate than gas stations, thus many places already have them, and more will install them in the near future.
Hinkley Point C secured about 10 billion pound in subsidies, nevertheless EdF tries to get out of the building contract as they doubt they will make any profit. The original estimation for the price of an EPR at this size was 3 billion pound, now we are talking about 24,5 billion pound for the construction. The whole cost of Hinkley Point during its operation is estimated at 37 billion pound. At current energy prices, the warranties given for the price of energy coming from Hinkley Point C are estimated to cost close to 30 billion pound.
There are enough reasons to be in doubt about Hinkley Point C.
Your right to vote comes from the fact that you are a citizen of the United States, and not from the possession of any type of ID. If you couple the possession of an ID to the right to vote, then the ID has to be provided to every citizen of the United States without any further restrictions. The possession of the ID can not be a priviledge, otherwise it would run afoul the right to vote.
A driver's license gives you the priviledge to drive. It is voluntary, no one can be forced to get one. I didn't have a driver's license until the age of 27, because it wasn't necessary. But not exercising a priviledge shall never lead to the forfeiture of a right, which is not even connected to the priviledge. People are allowed to drive in the U.S. who are not allowed to vote (any non-citizen with a driver's license), and there are people allowed to vote which don't have a driver's license.
Those pesky activist judges always tell you that simple fact, but you continue to ignore it. Might it be because the judges are right and supported by the constitution, while your ideas are not?
Yes, this is a slow process. But it affects 90% of the population. It affects more than 100 million people in Bangladesh, as most of Bangladesh has less than 10 m elevation above sea level. Effectively, there will be no Bangladesh anymore. It affects the whole of Lousiana. It affects the whole of New York City. No, there are not enough hills in New York City to move up. New York City will be gone. Completely flooded. If within 50 years, about 6 billion people have to move, it means migrational movements of 120 million people each year. And not in the same town. In other countries.
You got some things quite messed up. The Earth is habitable because of the Greenhouse effect. Were the Earth just a black ball of Earth's diameter on Earth's orbit, it would have a surface temperature of 255 K, or slightly less than 0 F. So we can calculate, that the Greenhouse effect warms the Earth at least 35 K or 63 F. Measuring the actual radiation coming from the Earth gives results as if the Earth surface actually had only 228 K (about -50 F), mostly because the Earth's atmosphere reflects a large part of the Sun's radiation, and because on the other hand, it contains the Earth's radation, thus the Earth radiates less than the surface temperatures would suggest. Thus the Greenhouse effect is even larger.
But the actual size of the Greenhouse effect is very dependent on the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere, as different gases have different properties in reflecting or absorbing thermal radiation. A slight change in the chemical composition will change the size of the Greenhouse effect, but as the Greenhouse effect is very large (more than 60 K or 108 F), even small changes in the strength of the Greenhouse effect will yield strong variation in the surface temperature of the Earth. This is part of what is called climate change. Another part is the changed weather patterns coming from different energy levels in the atmosphere caused by different absorbtion grades for thermal radiation, changed cloud patterns which will change the reflective properties of Earth's atmosphere and many more.
Yes, a much higher level of Greenhouse effects would probably melt the ice in Antarctica. But the molten ice will be added to the oceans as water, and their levels will rise and flood all coastal regions of the Earth. Sadly 90% of the population of the Earth lives in or close to the coastal regions, which means that most regions inhabited today will be lost to the ocean if Antarctica's ice shield melts. Yes we might get inhabitable additonal land, but only because at the same time, we lose much more land somewhere else, which causes huge migration movements, as people have to move to new places with their old places being flooded. All the infrastructure will have to be adapted to the new population distribution, all the industries have to move, all the traffic infrastructure, utilities, administration, even country borders. And because of the sheer amount of migration, most people will become migrants, and other people in whose land they migrate, will be angry and fear the loss of their lifestyle, their culture and even their property and life. And more politicans will rise who demand desparate measures against all those migration, and people will get armed and shoot on sight to defend themselves against the unruly migrators. Yeah! Civil war!
A wrist watch is mainly jewellery, or a jewel-like accessoir. Yes, you can use it to tell the time, but numerous other devices do it too. I stopped wearing a watch when I had to have a mobile with me all the time because of being on call. The time telling part of the wrist watch became superfluous. The wrist watch was invented when the air plane pioneers wanted to have a way to tell the time without taking the hands off the air plane steering. Thus they started to bind pocket watches around their wrists. The same happened when the first racing drivers wanted the same. Thus Louis Cartier designed the first real wrist watches. But that was in the 1910s.
As watches are now ubiquitous, the wristwatch lost its utility. Now it's just a fashion statement. Yes, some people still use it to tell the time, but that's more out of habit.
The T model is a quite late design, and it could built on nearly 150 years of car experience. The first car ever was Nicholas Cugnot's steam carriage of 1769. It was a trike. So was Étienne Lenoir's Hippomobile one century later, and Benz' Patent Motorwagen of 1886. It took some time for the Ackermann steering geometry to find wide use in cars, and only then the four wheeled cars took of. Even the introduction of the steering wheel took its time. Another important idea was to have the engine sitting on the front axle while the passenger and bagage are located on the rear axle, which allowed for good load balancing. The ignition magneto and the carburetor were important additions to the gas engine to allow for compact, lightweight engines suitable for a car.
As you can see, a T model is a very advanced iteration of a car, no wonder it looks quite similar to a modern car conceptually.
The e-mails have already been stolen, the server has been offline for quite some time.
There is no proof of that. It's only known that they have been deleted on Hillary Clinton's email server. It's neither known if they are deleted on the other side of the respective communication (remember, each email has a Sender: and a Recipient: field), nor if any third party got knowledge of their contents. It might still be possible to recover the emails by either finding them on the other side of the respective email conversation, or by finding a place where a hitherto unknown copy of them is located.
Thus Trump explicitely asked a foreign power to steal probably classified US governmental information and promised a reward.
A guided bus system is no train. It's just busses, slightly adapted so they can be passively steered in the concrete rails. If the concrete rails end, it's a normal bus with normal steering.
Technologically, the railbusses are derived from regular busses, not street cars or trains. They just use steel wheels and don't have active steering. On the other hand, there are so many inbetweens from railbound trains to roadbound cars, that an arbitrary rule like "if it has steel wheels, it's a train" don't make any sense. There are trains which run on rubber tires along concrete rails like the Alweg Monorails, or Lyon's Metro Line D, which are clearly trains. On the other hand, there are real busses running on concrete rails, so called guided bus systems.
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init is a good solution in a constant environment, where you know beforehand what hardware is present, and where changes are seldom and will happen during scheduled downtimes. This is ok for most server environments and for cloud services. It is not workable for desktops and laptops, where hardware change on the fly is the norm with USB devices being plugged in and out, the network connectivity changing between different WiFi networks, LTE and ethernet, Bluetooth and different power saving modes which switch on and off different parts of the hardware.
Yes, you can try to play whack-a-mole and add custom init scripts for all the additional hardware and network configurations so they change on the fly, but it gets complex very soon, and it is error-prone, and you have long left the original runlevel concept that init used to define different states of the machine, because you would need hundreds of thousands of different runlevels given the possible number of combinations.
So if runlevels aren't the solution anymore, why keep the concept of init scripts, whose task it was to describe the differences between runlevels?
Normally, you can send out only a caller ID that conforms to your PSTN connection. If you provide any other caller ID, it gets thrown out by the carrier and replaced by the default caller ID of your PSTN. This is all fine and dandy, if your PSTN connection is the actual origin of the call. But if you have call forwarding, this is no longer the case. If someone calls your desk phone at the office, but you are abroad, you can forward the call from your deskphone to your mobile. Nifty, right? But there is a problem: Your deskphone is not allowed to send out the caller ID of the original caller, as its PSTN connection is different than that of the original caller. So what you get on your mobile phone is the caller ID of your deskphone, but no information about the original caller as the carrier overwrites the information, rightly stating that your deskphone has no business sending a caller ID that does not belong to that connection.
There is a solution: CLIP no screening. The carrier allows the PSTN connection to send the original caller ID in a separate field: "User provided caller ID", which is different than the carrier provided caller ID. Your phone at home and your mobile phone will display the user provided caller ID rather than the carrier provided caller ID, because in most cases, this makes more sense. As long as your phone does not display both fields, this will lead to confusion if someone misuses the CLIP no screening feature.
I recommend the Internal Energy Statistics of the EIA.
Yes, that's something you could calculate all by yourself. And now please argue that those additional 130 ppm in the atmosphere are not man-made!
Apparently, the bad code has been known to some secret services for some time. And that means that other secret services had the time to exploit the bad code and use it as an attack vector back against the NSA. I would be very wary to know that my opponent knows how shoddy my own code is. If for instance you can hijack encrypted communications, you can feed the communication any desinformation you want, and the original attacker believes it to be the real thing.
Trump will run the USA like a business, that's why he has my vote, although he hasn't announced privatisation of vast parts of the government yet, which I would really like.
And that is good because on average, every second business goes bankrupt after two years, right? Donald Trump has extensive experience in running businesses going bankrupt.
Then you went into a marriage without really knowing your partner, or having illiusionary ideas how to make it work anyway. So this marriage was a bad idea from your side from the beginning.
The reasoning behind this is that the problem with a marriage not working is always on both sides. If you can't keep your partner faithful, and if you can't accept your partner being unfaithful, its considered your problem too, not just that of your partner.
There is an important statement in economics, the Mackenroth Theorem (which is suspiciously absent from public discussions in the anglophone world):
Now, the clear statement is true, that all social expenses must always be covered by the national income of the current period. There is no other source and there has never been another source for the social costs, there is no accumulation from period to period, there are no "savings" in the private sense, there is simply nothing else than the current national income as a source of the social costs ... Capital accumulation process and PAYG are therefore not that different in reality. Economically, there is only PAYG.
Gerhard Mackenrot: The reform of the social policy by a german social plan. Berlin 1952
The interest you get from your savings is generated by other people. The return on your investment is generated by other poeple. The dividend you get from your 401k is generated by other people. The payouts you get from Social Security stems from taxes of other people. Whenever you get something without working for it, someone else was working for it.
The problem is that a company that shows loyality to its workers can be sued by the shareholders. And many of those shareholders are big pension funds, so it is actually a battle between people who work and people who are retired about the profits of a company, which is kinda ironic. If you are retiring from a company and get payouts form your 401k, you are basicly taking money away from your former colleagues who are still working there.
Actually, the U.S. consumes slightly more electrical power than it generates. Total consumption is about 4100 TWh. The missing energy is mainly imported from Canada.
Innocent until proven guilty is only valid in criminal cases. Liability insurance is for civil cases, and there preponderance of evidence is the rule. If you have enough money resources to pay for an incident where one of the people is left disabled for the rest of his life, I agree, you might drive without insurance. If not, then make sure someone pays for any possible damage before you get your car in public space.
I would calculate differently. You only need to charge what you consume. So the right point to start the calculation would be the miles driven per year per car. 15,000 miles per year driven with each of the 200 millions now electrical cars would give you 3*10^12 miles per year. An EV typically consumes 20 kWh per 100 miles, so we need 6*10^11 kWh or 600 GWh per year. The U.S. generates about 4,000 TWh per year.
The point is that charging of an empty EV car during a trip doesn't happen in a daily commute. Yes, it might take longer than refilling fuel, but it just isn't necessary that often. The problem with a gas car is that you have to go to the gas station every 400 or 500 miles, and there is no way to avoid that trip. With an EV, it might happen once or twice a year, so maybe every 5000 to 10000 miles, because normally, you just let the car charge when you don't use it anyway. And because most cars are sitting idle at least 20 hrs a day, there is plenty of time to recharge them, and charging stations are much easier to build and to operate than gas stations, thus many places already have them, and more will install them in the near future.
There are enough reasons to be in doubt about Hinkley Point C.
A driver's license gives you the priviledge to drive. It is voluntary, no one can be forced to get one. I didn't have a driver's license until the age of 27, because it wasn't necessary. But not exercising a priviledge shall never lead to the forfeiture of a right, which is not even connected to the priviledge. People are allowed to drive in the U.S. who are not allowed to vote (any non-citizen with a driver's license), and there are people allowed to vote which don't have a driver's license.
Those pesky activist judges always tell you that simple fact, but you continue to ignore it. Might it be because the judges are right and supported by the constitution, while your ideas are not?
Yes, this is a slow process. But it affects 90% of the population. It affects more than 100 million people in Bangladesh, as most of Bangladesh has less than 10 m elevation above sea level. Effectively, there will be no Bangladesh anymore. It affects the whole of Lousiana. It affects the whole of New York City. No, there are not enough hills in New York City to move up. New York City will be gone. Completely flooded. If within 50 years, about 6 billion people have to move, it means migrational movements of 120 million people each year. And not in the same town. In other countries.
But the actual size of the Greenhouse effect is very dependent on the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere, as different gases have different properties in reflecting or absorbing thermal radiation. A slight change in the chemical composition will change the size of the Greenhouse effect, but as the Greenhouse effect is very large (more than 60 K or 108 F), even small changes in the strength of the Greenhouse effect will yield strong variation in the surface temperature of the Earth. This is part of what is called climate change. Another part is the changed weather patterns coming from different energy levels in the atmosphere caused by different absorbtion grades for thermal radiation, changed cloud patterns which will change the reflective properties of Earth's atmosphere and many more.
Yes, a much higher level of Greenhouse effects would probably melt the ice in Antarctica. But the molten ice will be added to the oceans as water, and their levels will rise and flood all coastal regions of the Earth. Sadly 90% of the population of the Earth lives in or close to the coastal regions, which means that most regions inhabited today will be lost to the ocean if Antarctica's ice shield melts. Yes we might get inhabitable additonal land, but only because at the same time, we lose much more land somewhere else, which causes huge migration movements, as people have to move to new places with their old places being flooded. All the infrastructure will have to be adapted to the new population distribution, all the industries have to move, all the traffic infrastructure, utilities, administration, even country borders. And because of the sheer amount of migration, most people will become migrants, and other people in whose land they migrate, will be angry and fear the loss of their lifestyle, their culture and even their property and life. And more politicans will rise who demand desparate measures against all those migration, and people will get armed and shoot on sight to defend themselves against the unruly migrators. Yeah! Civil war!
This is a long and less funny version of The grapes are sour.
So was happens if the bomb that blows up your house was transported via the I-85? Do you sue the Department of Transportation?
As watches are now ubiquitous, the wristwatch lost its utility. Now it's just a fashion statement. Yes, some people still use it to tell the time, but that's more out of habit.
As you can see, a T model is a very advanced iteration of a car, no wonder it looks quite similar to a modern car conceptually.
The e-mails have already been stolen, the server has been offline for quite some time.
There is no proof of that. It's only known that they have been deleted on Hillary Clinton's email server. It's neither known if they are deleted on the other side of the respective communication (remember, each email has a Sender: and a Recipient: field), nor if any third party got knowledge of their contents. It might still be possible to recover the emails by either finding them on the other side of the respective email conversation, or by finding a place where a hitherto unknown copy of them is located.
Thus Trump explicitely asked a foreign power to steal probably classified US governmental information and promised a reward.
A guided bus system is no train. It's just busses, slightly adapted so they can be passively steered in the concrete rails. If the concrete rails end, it's a normal bus with normal steering.
Technologically, the railbusses are derived from regular busses, not street cars or trains. They just use steel wheels and don't have active steering. On the other hand, there are so many inbetweens from railbound trains to roadbound cars, that an arbitrary rule like "if it has steel wheels, it's a train" don't make any sense. There are trains which run on rubber tires along concrete rails like the Alweg Monorails, or Lyon's Metro Line D, which are clearly trains. On the other hand, there are real busses running on concrete rails, so called guided bus systems.