No it's kind of the point. China will develop anything you want at the quality you request. The fact most people go there looking for something cheap just skews the impressions. China will provide you with everything from a cheap mobile phone charger that will burn down your house, to fantastically made components for medical instruments, or in my case industrial safety systems.
You get what you pay for, China is not an exception.
He also said that to make a decent usable app for tablet you can't ever have an iPad mini, to use a phone properly it needs to be smaller than the hand. I suggest you don't put the goalposts down, you'll be running backwards and forwards across the entire field with them.
Epipens cost $100 each in Australia (that's $72USD). And that's without funding. Epipens are listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme so if you actually need them rather than just buying them off the shelf you get them with a doctor's prescription for $38 ($27USD)
Moviepass was founded in 2011. I have had subscriptions to a variety of cinemas on and off since 1995. Its one of the things I was worried about losing when I moved to the other side of the world where none of the chains I was used to existed.... took me about 2 weeks to find a similar offer from the local chain when I arrived in Europe.
I think I will start a car company with the goal of making the internal combustion engine popular.
In the meantime I am thorroughly enjoying the variety on the Switch, from the AAA titles, to the extensive independent market right along side the actual nostalgic titles that are available which you yourself seem to claim were interesting.
Ahhh yes, the old "it doesn't work in one scenario and therefore it's useless" line. Sir I hope you get run over by someone without ABS. The world could do with less of your style of thinking.
In the GP's defense, who the fuck quotes a minimum wage as a yearly figure, and why the hell put separators for the 1000s! All it does is confuse things when people thought you type $7.017 At the very least make it unambiguous $7,017.-
It would look scary until you actually look at the bug reports, or are they pull requests, or are they silly opinions, or even general bitching. I don't even know anymore since the bug tracker on systemd is a cesspool or irrelevant garbage with a few serious bugs actually mixed in.
That's before you consider scope. On the front page of the bug tracker there are only two bugs related to systemd rather than optional extra software that has been only recently developed and won't hurt your system if you leave out.
Mind you it's easier to sit and complain rather than contribute to solving the problem.
There's nothing wrong with the concept of the app store. There's is a problem with rent-seeking, and exerting excessive control and censorship on your platform.
Apt does none of that, most critically because apt is not an app store. It's an open package manager which you can link to any repository you damn well please.
Likewise you don't see people complaining about F-Droid either.
I've worked in tech and with the Chinese. We had to QC all of their work.
Oh? We simply paid them for quality rather than chasing the lowest bidder, lo and behold we never had any failures for anything we procured from them. If you need to QC other's work, it says more about your procurement strategy than some generic 1/7th of the population of the world.
Apple would've released large iPhones even if Steve was still alive. It was a popular trend and even they couldn't ignore it.
Not at all. Phablet and mini tablets were a popular trend long before Steve Jobs died as well. It took his death for Apple to actually start working on an release the iPad mini. Steve jobs was nothing if not relentlessly stubborn when it came to his beliefs. It what made Apple a once great and innovative company. They were never ones for jumping into trends.
There is no single incident but lost of smaller ones e.g. the Bhopal gas disaster plus lots of similar accidents
Please leave out the hyperbole. You don't hold up the worst disaster every and then mention "lots of similar incidents" when they are orders of magnitude smaller. Your example also is also one of the worst you can use in the name of evil capitalism. The deathtoll and the severity of the Bhopal disaster were nothing at all to do with the company or its profits, but rather from a government that failed to keep its citizens away from major hazard facilities which at the time were built in the middle of nowhere for a reason.
But we see this everywhere. One of the biggest risks in my own city is a Bunsfield type scenario for a local oil company. Projected deathtoll is in the many hundreds thanks to two skyscrapers and a popular entertainment district next to the tankfarm. Damn those evil capitalists.
Except when you look at aerial views of the area when the tank farm was built and old council maps you'll find a 1km major hazard exclusion zone around the facility, which some bright spark rezoned as a residential area.
is also true to say that I cannot really think of any incidents where socialism has lead to much of this either
Then maybe look towards major incidents in government run and owned chemical plants.
Why waste the money on a couple of hours of an only slightly less shitty experience? Personally I can afford intercontinental business / first class travel. But generally I spend money on something more productive like using $100 bills to light expensive cigars.
Okay, no I don't but the point is being made. Having flown first class intercontinental a few times it's still an miserable shithouse experience and I'd much rather just buy a nice watch or check into a michelin star restaurant when I get to my destination.
All the more reason to enjoy europe where your tax dollars go into things that directly benefit you rather than bombs or "Spaceforce". Though Spaceforce does sound awesome.
Socialism is centralized control of production, and the only places you see this in Europe are in healthcare and, in a few places, petroleum extraction
You don't know much about Europe if those are the only examples you could come up with. There are a very large number of state owned / controlled components of major european countries that is easily more "socialism" than providing healthcare as a service rather than as a profit centre.
Cool story. Just ran the same experiment. No satellites, step closer to the window, more satellites, step even closer, look at that even more. The frequencies used by GPS have fucking absymal material penetration and are easily defeated by even trivial amounts of construction around you. How cyclone proof is your house made of paper? Or maybe move into the civilised world where among buildings but none the less outside of them you're often lucky to a fix at all.
By the way given you need a theoretically perfect horizon view to get a fix on 15 GPS satellites, congradulations you've outed your bullshit.
You don't need to afford health care in the U.S. to take advantage of it.
I didn't say people weren't treated because they couldn't afford it. I said they are in financial or legal trouble as a result of it.
Also the health insurance of the 90% is useless. Many of the policies can't even cover basic things let alone serious accidents. Oh and don't you dare get something that requires ongoing treatment. Health insurances only like customers who don't claim.
Anecdote: A colleage of mine got t-boned by someone who ran a red light. After the pathetically small insurance of the person at fault ran out the bills ran into his own insurance, when that didn't cover it either he had to lawyer up and take on his company's insurance as advised by the company itself since he was in a company car at the time.
Oh you should see the premium on his car insurance now for daring to be in an accident caused by someone else.
Your system is fucked. No sorry that's not right. Your system is fucking, it's you yourselfs being fucked.
I would tell you your data is flawed, but you are thoroughly caught in your filter-bubble, so that is just a waste of time. You are _incapable_ of seeing what is.
Yep like I said, all of history if fake news to you nutters.
You are comparing apples and oranges. In the Netherlands, swimming is far more common. There is water everywhere, they go swim everywhere.
Errr no. Sorry not even remotely. The vast majority of the country is perfectly dry as far as ability to swim is concerned. Most people do not swim in the canals, and large numbers of lakes are off limits in summer due to algae, but rather people swim at a few usually crowded public pools or at a select few beaches, beaches where you will see a large number of cars with white licenseplates with a little D listed under the EU symbol.
The Dutch do engage in a lot of water activities, but most of those do not take place in the water, rather on the water, or my favourite: trying to jump over water without getting wet.
I imagine the defence argument would be that bitcoin or whatever is not currency, it's goods. Thus the bank should only have to buy him the amount of bitcoins he had at the time, which now only costs $78 because the price collapsed.
Again I still don't see that as a valid arguement unless he was able to freely sell the thing he didn't have. He was prevent from extracting the value of the item at the time of the loss.
In the same way that if you lost a car because of their mistake they wouldn't give you the purchase price of the car when you bought it five years ago
We're not talking about purchase price. We're talking about value at the time of the loss. If we spent 10 years legally arguging about the car I expect the value to be defined as the value at the time when you stole it from me + any inflation, and not the scrap value it is now worth because the local council has banned diesels in the city, or whatever else could cause the value to drop.
Again I don't see the status of bitcoins (currencies vs physical items vs imaginary property) as having any bearing on its value determination.
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No it's kind of the point. China will develop anything you want at the quality you request. The fact most people go there looking for something cheap just skews the impressions. China will provide you with everything from a cheap mobile phone charger that will burn down your house, to fantastically made components for medical instruments, or in my case industrial safety systems.
You get what you pay for, China is not an exception.
Not really, it sounds like something where you have to wear really silly looking spandex suits.
Yeah but pew pew pew! Also some people love silly spandex suits, just type that word into pornhub. .... Errr. so says a friend of mine.
He also said that to make a decent usable app for tablet you can't ever have an iPad mini, to use a phone properly it needs to be smaller than the hand. I suggest you don't put the goalposts down, you'll be running backwards and forwards across the entire field with them.
Epipens cost $100 each in Australia (that's $72USD). And that's without funding. Epipens are listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme so if you actually need them rather than just buying them off the shelf you get them with a doctor's prescription for $38 ($27USD)
I believe they have succeeded in their goal
Moviepass was founded in 2011. I have had subscriptions to a variety of cinemas on and off since 1995. Its one of the things I was worried about losing when I moved to the other side of the world where none of the chains I was used to existed .... took me about 2 weeks to find a similar offer from the local chain when I arrived in Europe.
I think I will start a car company with the goal of making the internal combustion engine popular.
I'm sorry the happy person inside you died.
In the meantime I am thorroughly enjoying the variety on the Switch, from the AAA titles, to the extensive independent market right along side the actual nostalgic titles that are available which you yourself seem to claim were interesting.
Ahhh yes, the old "it doesn't work in one scenario and therefore it's useless" line. Sir I hope you get run over by someone without ABS. The world could do with less of your style of thinking.
In the GP's defense, who the fuck quotes a minimum wage as a yearly figure, and why the hell put separators for the 1000s! All it does is confuse things when people thought you type $7.017 At the very least make it unambiguous $7,017.-
Debian died the moment they picked up systemd.
Yeah look how dead it isn't.
It would look scary until you actually look at the bug reports, or are they pull requests, or are they silly opinions, or even general bitching. I don't even know anymore since the bug tracker on systemd is a cesspool or irrelevant garbage with a few serious bugs actually mixed in.
That's before you consider scope. On the front page of the bug tracker there are only two bugs related to systemd rather than optional extra software that has been only recently developed and won't hurt your system if you leave out.
Mind you it's easier to sit and complain rather than contribute to solving the problem.
Well 30% of $0 doesn't work out to much
Indeed it doesn't when you ignore the initial fee. 30% is just on the profits, it doesn't get you into the app store.
There's nothing wrong with the concept of the app store. There's is a problem with rent-seeking, and exerting excessive control and censorship on your platform.
Apt does none of that, most critically because apt is not an app store. It's an open package manager which you can link to any repository you damn well please.
Likewise you don't see people complaining about F-Droid either.
I've worked in tech and with the Chinese. We had to QC all of their work.
Oh? We simply paid them for quality rather than chasing the lowest bidder, lo and behold we never had any failures for anything we procured from them. If you need to QC other's work, it says more about your procurement strategy than some generic 1/7th of the population of the world.
People are tired of the status quo. So change came in someone outside the political system.
I know, right. Last time I saw a rat I too burnt my entire house down.
I know, but lets face it you wish you were part of that cartoon. Spaceforce!
Apple would've released large iPhones even if Steve was still alive. It was a popular trend and even they couldn't ignore it.
Not at all. Phablet and mini tablets were a popular trend long before Steve Jobs died as well. It took his death for Apple to actually start working on an release the iPad mini. Steve jobs was nothing if not relentlessly stubborn when it came to his beliefs. It what made Apple a once great and innovative company. They were never ones for jumping into trends.
There is no single incident but lost of smaller ones e.g. the Bhopal gas disaster plus lots of similar accidents
Please leave out the hyperbole. You don't hold up the worst disaster every and then mention "lots of similar incidents" when they are orders of magnitude smaller. Your example also is also one of the worst you can use in the name of evil capitalism. The deathtoll and the severity of the Bhopal disaster were nothing at all to do with the company or its profits, but rather from a government that failed to keep its citizens away from major hazard facilities which at the time were built in the middle of nowhere for a reason.
But we see this everywhere. One of the biggest risks in my own city is a Bunsfield type scenario for a local oil company. Projected deathtoll is in the many hundreds thanks to two skyscrapers and a popular entertainment district next to the tankfarm. Damn those evil capitalists.
Except when you look at aerial views of the area when the tank farm was built and old council maps you'll find a 1km major hazard exclusion zone around the facility, which some bright spark rezoned as a residential area.
is also true to say that I cannot really think of any incidents where socialism has lead to much of this either
Then maybe look towards major incidents in government run and owned chemical plants.
To be able to escape economy class airlines.....
Why waste the money on a couple of hours of an only slightly less shitty experience? Personally I can afford intercontinental business / first class travel. But generally I spend money on something more productive like using $100 bills to light expensive cigars.
Okay, no I don't but the point is being made. Having flown first class intercontinental a few times it's still an miserable shithouse experience and I'd much rather just buy a nice watch or check into a michelin star restaurant when I get to my destination.
All the more reason to enjoy europe where your tax dollars go into things that directly benefit you rather than bombs or "Spaceforce". Though Spaceforce does sound awesome.
Socialism is centralized control of production, and the only places you see this in Europe are in healthcare and, in a few places, petroleum extraction
You don't know much about Europe if those are the only examples you could come up with. There are a very large number of state owned / controlled components of major european countries that is easily more "socialism" than providing healthcare as a service rather than as a profit centre.
Cool story. Just ran the same experiment. No satellites, step closer to the window, more satellites, step even closer, look at that even more.
The frequencies used by GPS have fucking absymal material penetration and are easily defeated by even trivial amounts of construction around you. How cyclone proof is your house made of paper? Or maybe move into the civilised world where among buildings but none the less outside of them you're often lucky to a fix at all.
By the way given you need a theoretically perfect horizon view to get a fix on 15 GPS satellites, congradulations you've outed your bullshit.
You don't need to afford health care in the U.S. to take advantage of it.
I didn't say people weren't treated because they couldn't afford it. I said they are in financial or legal trouble as a result of it.
Also the health insurance of the 90% is useless. Many of the policies can't even cover basic things let alone serious accidents. Oh and don't you dare get something that requires ongoing treatment. Health insurances only like customers who don't claim.
Anecdote: A colleage of mine got t-boned by someone who ran a red light. After the pathetically small insurance of the person at fault ran out the bills ran into his own insurance, when that didn't cover it either he had to lawyer up and take on his company's insurance as advised by the company itself since he was in a company car at the time.
Oh you should see the premium on his car insurance now for daring to be in an accident caused by someone else.
Your system is fucked. No sorry that's not right. Your system is fucking, it's you yourselfs being fucked.
I would tell you your data is flawed, but you are thoroughly caught in your filter-bubble, so that is just a waste of time. You are _incapable_ of seeing what is.
Yep like I said, all of history if fake news to you nutters.
You are comparing apples and oranges. In the Netherlands, swimming is far more common. There is water everywhere, they go swim everywhere.
Errr no. Sorry not even remotely. The vast majority of the country is perfectly dry as far as ability to swim is concerned. Most people do not swim in the canals, and large numbers of lakes are off limits in summer due to algae, but rather people swim at a few usually crowded public pools or at a select few beaches, beaches where you will see a large number of cars with white licenseplates with a little D listed under the EU symbol.
The Dutch do engage in a lot of water activities, but most of those do not take place in the water, rather on the water, or my favourite: trying to jump over water without getting wet.
I imagine the defence argument would be that bitcoin or whatever is not currency, it's goods. Thus the bank should only have to buy him the amount of bitcoins he had at the time, which now only costs $78 because the price collapsed.
Again I still don't see that as a valid arguement unless he was able to freely sell the thing he didn't have. He was prevent from extracting the value of the item at the time of the loss.
In the same way that if you lost a car because of their mistake they wouldn't give you the purchase price of the car when you bought it five years ago
We're not talking about purchase price. We're talking about value at the time of the loss. If we spent 10 years legally arguging about the car I expect the value to be defined as the value at the time when you stole it from me + any inflation, and not the scrap value it is now worth because the local council has banned diesels in the city, or whatever else could cause the value to drop.
Again I don't see the status of bitcoins (currencies vs physical items vs imaginary property) as having any bearing on its value determination.