Everything you can buy can be misused. Prohibit the sales of everything, because selling someone something just provides them a means of "creating a wonderful race to the bottom."
Misuse wasn't the point of my comment. Lack of ability to use correctly was. It's amazing how much recycling improves when you provide people with recycling facilities. It's even more amazing at how much better it gets when you put enforcement costs on the supplier. Have you been to venice? They once had a huge garbage problem due to disposable packaging, but there was only a few takeaway shops in the city centre. Venice is quite clean now many thanks to the government forcing McDondals Subway and Burger King to sponsor garbage bins and collection services for the mess their product ultimately makes. I mean it's just as easy to kick them out, they are really only preying on conviencence anyway.
It's even more amazing at how much recycling improves when you pass the newly enforced cost down to the consumer and reward them for good practices as is the case with many glass and plastic bottles in Europe.
Sounds unfair, maybe. Go live in a polluted river in China if you want fair and government regulation free life.
No. The first past the post party based system created that prophecy. I just called it out for what actually happens.
In reality, there's a good chance you could get a significant portion of the country involved.
No. Just no. You can't even get the entire country to actually vote let alone get behind your cause during an election where the the two major parties produced the biggest turds of candidates in history. This was the independent time to shine, a time where people were dissolusioned at the election. End result 7 electorol votes. Out of 538 independents got 7, and they were divided up among the parties.
However, they all (like you), have simply assumed it's impossible, so they don't even try. Which then makes it's impossible.
I also assume it is impossible for my squishy body to survive going through a cycle in a trash compactor. This is what is called a safe assumption. The assumption alone and the lack of testing that assumption isn't what makes the premise impossible, the past data and science along with it does that. No 2 party FPTP system has ever escaped being 2 party without major changes in the governing / election process. The only thing you can do is prevent the FPTP system from devolving to a 2 party system, but they all trend that way over time.
Just because parties traditionally vote across party or coalition lines doesn't mean the entire practice of voting is moot. The phrase you will often hear is "crossing the floor". Worse still as the country goes from hung parliament to hung parliament a lot of decisions are actually down to independents, or minority parties like the greens, one nation, or unaffiliated.
Computer-controlled beamforming is a LOT different from Bose fakery.
Yes it is. Unfortunatley the only people who are capable of beam-forming in Apple are their marketing department which presumably had to come up with a name for the totally nothing at all like beam-forming thing that Apple engineers shat out and didn't realise the name was already taken.
"The company says that when two speakers are paired, they are capable of "delivering room-filling sound that is more spacious than a traditional stereo pair."
You gotta give it to Apple. Who you gonna believe, them or your own lying ears?
I believe Apple. Simple reason: They are right. Note that they never said anything about the quality of the sound. Systems that sound "spacious" are also notorious for being utter garbage for anything other than filling a showroom with background sound, ala Bose.
I fully believe Apple's claim, and will not buy their product as a result.
I worked at Intel in 2016. I luckily walked away before the big layoff
Explain something to me, what makes you lucky there?
I considered myself lucky to be part of layoffs. The tax advantages alone are incredible to say nothing of the government mandated payout. My own record was working at a company 1 day before the project got canned and I was made redundant. I have never earned so much for doing so little in so short of a time.
Do workers not get any protections in layoffs in the USA? No tax benefits? No payouts? No madatory benefits valued and paid? No pension contribution?
It does nothing of the sort. Making a public request to a company to remove a 3rd party product is not the same as forcing a company to include malware. By your definition there is no independent software not locally made or anywhere else made since you think that any government asking anything of any one without actually seeing the outcome automatically makes it non-independent.
I don't think you understand just how small carat is. With packaging a 1 carat diamond can be stored in a box smaller than 1cmcube. A trillion carats can fit in the living room of a large house to say nothing of the storage vault of a company whose parent has a market cap of over $20bn
As of 2017, 60% of ocean plastic pollution was generated by China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka, in that order, with China vastly outdoing the others. No EU country is within the top 20, which would indicate a very minuscule amount of plastic waste leaking into the oceans. If European governments want to waste a massive amount of resources to worry about this, the pollution generated is going to be more overall, not less.
Cool story bro. But it's not Chinese plastic that ends up in European landfills, dumped out at European beaches, in European rivers. It's not all about the ocean believe it or not, and a population of 750million people is able to do quite a bit of their damage without blaming someone else.
What you call virtue signalling others call leading by example and doing right by their local environment. It'll be such a tragedy that the EU will have an affect on the 40% of waste not coming from the countries you list. Tragedy!/sarcasm
If European governments want to waste a massive amount of resources to worry about this, the pollution generated is going to be more overall, not less.
I take it you are Dutch? Because you must be smoking a lot of weed to come up with that conclusion.
They aren't the ones disposing of their products, so it seems reasonable that they aren't responsible for consumers who dispose of them inappropriately.
And by logical extension don't provide consumers with even the means creating a wonderful race to the bottom.
Why should the manufacturers be responsible for preventing people from being jackasses and throwing their garbage wherever they please?
Because otherwise you don't close the circle. Make manufactures accountable for the waste and you may see a startling trend, like things built to last, or actual recycling done rather than recycling collected and then given to some other manufacturer because we couldn't be bothered.
Necessity is the mother of invention,... or innovation. People by n large are very difficult to stop being jackarses, but watch how quickly things turn around when you affect the profits of those feeding the jackarseery.
I think it has far more to do with this weird obsession with serving food on granite slates and other weird non plate like things. That and no restaurant I know sharpens the guest knives.
Here's an easy guide to slashdot: You are either red or blue. There's no in-between. If a discussion doesn't fit in red vs blue, then you're either a racist or a SJW with nothing in between. If the argument is purely about government without mentioning politics (you're probably not on Slashdot) but then everything is someone else's fault, and every solution another country comes up with is automatically socialism.
Oh and don't you dare try to find a middle ground. Your Karma will be decimated as a result. The only thing this site agrees on is Ajat Pai is a douchebag.
It resulted in things like ministers and senior bureaucrats without a high school education being selected.
It could be worse, they could have law degrees, or even better credentials, like the Australian Minister for Women being a chauvinist who appointed the least number of women in his cabinet in quite a long time.
Seems excessive if you want to just fire up one Linux app. What next, copy and past the output back into Windows? Why would you run Windows in a VM anyway? Anyone being remotely targeted by WSL is likely running Linux in the VM.
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Why would you write your password on a $100 bill? You may accidentally spend it. :-P
Everything you can buy can be misused. Prohibit the sales of everything, because selling someone something just provides them a means of "creating a wonderful race to the bottom."
Misuse wasn't the point of my comment. Lack of ability to use correctly was. It's amazing how much recycling improves when you provide people with recycling facilities. It's even more amazing at how much better it gets when you put enforcement costs on the supplier. Have you been to venice? They once had a huge garbage problem due to disposable packaging, but there was only a few takeaway shops in the city centre. Venice is quite clean now many thanks to the government forcing McDondals Subway and Burger King to sponsor garbage bins and collection services for the mess their product ultimately makes. I mean it's just as easy to kick them out, they are really only preying on conviencence anyway.
It's even more amazing at how much recycling improves when you pass the newly enforced cost down to the consumer and reward them for good practices as is the case with many glass and plastic bottles in Europe.
Sounds unfair, maybe. Go live in a polluted river in China if you want fair and government regulation free life.
You've created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
No. The first past the post party based system created that prophecy. I just called it out for what actually happens.
In reality, there's a good chance you could get a significant portion of the country involved.
No. Just no. You can't even get the entire country to actually vote let alone get behind your cause during an election where the the two major parties produced the biggest turds of candidates in history. This was the independent time to shine, a time where people were dissolusioned at the election. End result 7 electorol votes. Out of 538 independents got 7, and they were divided up among the parties.
However, they all (like you), have simply assumed it's impossible, so they don't even try. Which then makes it's impossible.
I also assume it is impossible for my squishy body to survive going through a cycle in a trash compactor. This is what is called a safe assumption. The assumption alone and the lack of testing that assumption isn't what makes the premise impossible, the past data and science along with it does that. No 2 party FPTP system has ever escaped being 2 party without major changes in the governing / election process. The only thing you can do is prevent the FPTP system from devolving to a 2 party system, but they all trend that way over time.
online vote = vote at work the bosses way or fired!
a) illegal.
b) this isn't online.
c) completley irrelevant given what we're talking about here is not voting for government, but government voting.
Just because parties traditionally vote across party or coalition lines doesn't mean the entire practice of voting is moot. The phrase you will often hear is "crossing the floor". Worse still as the country goes from hung parliament to hung parliament a lot of decisions are actually down to independents, or minority parties like the greens, one nation, or unaffiliated.
Computer-controlled beamforming is a LOT different from Bose fakery.
Yes it is. Unfortunatley the only people who are capable of beam-forming in Apple are their marketing department which presumably had to come up with a name for the totally nothing at all like beam-forming thing that Apple engineers shat out and didn't realise the name was already taken.
You gotta give it to Apple. Who you gonna believe, them or your own lying ears?
I believe Apple. Simple reason: They are right. Note that they never said anything about the quality of the sound. Systems that sound "spacious" are also notorious for being utter garbage for anything other than filling a showroom with background sound, ala Bose.
I fully believe Apple's claim, and will not buy their product as a result.
I worked at Intel in 2016. I luckily walked away before the big layoff
Explain something to me, what makes you lucky there?
I considered myself lucky to be part of layoffs. The tax advantages alone are incredible to say nothing of the government mandated payout. My own record was working at a company 1 day before the project got canned and I was made redundant. I have never earned so much for doing so little in so short of a time.
Do workers not get any protections in layoffs in the USA? No tax benefits? No payouts? No madatory benefits valued and paid? No pension contribution?
It does nothing of the sort. Making a public request to a company to remove a 3rd party product is not the same as forcing a company to include malware. By your definition there is no independent software not locally made or anywhere else made since you think that any government asking anything of any one without actually seeing the outcome automatically makes it non-independent.
because they're running out of vault space
I don't think you understand just how small carat is. With packaging a 1 carat diamond can be stored in a box smaller than 1cmcube. A trillion carats can fit in the living room of a large house to say nothing of the storage vault of a company whose parent has a market cap of over $20bn
That is incredibly common and rings are often bought oversized. Resizing a ring is trivial both in cost and effort.
You use SSDs because you're worried someone will put a speaker 4" away from your computer emitting a sound roughtly as loud as a chainsaw?
I think you have bigger worries than data loss.
Nope. People just wait for stupid decision to be announced by Tim Cook first.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... but evidently Apple will.
As of 2017, 60% of ocean plastic pollution was generated by China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka, in that order, with China vastly outdoing the others. No EU country is within the top 20, which would indicate a very minuscule amount of plastic waste leaking into the oceans. If European governments want to waste a massive amount of resources to worry about this, the pollution generated is going to be more overall, not less.
Cool story bro. But it's not Chinese plastic that ends up in European landfills, dumped out at European beaches, in European rivers. It's not all about the ocean believe it or not, and a population of 750million people is able to do quite a bit of their damage without blaming someone else.
What you call virtue signalling others call leading by example and doing right by their local environment. It'll be such a tragedy that the EU will have an affect on the 40% of waste not coming from the countries you list. Tragedy! /sarcasm
If European governments want to waste a massive amount of resources to worry about this, the pollution generated is going to be more overall, not less.
I take it you are Dutch? Because you must be smoking a lot of weed to come up with that conclusion.
They aren't the ones disposing of their products, so it seems reasonable that they aren't responsible for consumers who dispose of them inappropriately.
And by logical extension don't provide consumers with even the means creating a wonderful race to the bottom.
Why should the manufacturers be responsible for preventing people from being jackasses and throwing their garbage wherever they please?
Because otherwise you don't close the circle. Make manufactures accountable for the waste and you may see a startling trend, like things built to last, or actual recycling done rather than recycling collected and then given to some other manufacturer because we couldn't be bothered.
Necessity is the mother of invention, ... or innovation. People by n large are very difficult to stop being jackarses, but watch how quickly things turn around when you affect the profits of those feeding the jackarseery.
I think it's partially a liability thing
I think it has far more to do with this weird obsession with serving food on granite slates and other weird non plate like things. That and no restaurant I know sharpens the guest knives.
Hard to keep up these days.
Here's an easy guide to slashdot:
You are either red or blue. There's no in-between.
If a discussion doesn't fit in red vs blue, then you're either a racist or a SJW with nothing in between.
If the argument is purely about government without mentioning politics (you're probably not on Slashdot) but then everything is someone else's fault, and every solution another country comes up with is automatically socialism.
Oh and don't you dare try to find a middle ground. Your Karma will be decimated as a result. The only thing this site agrees on is Ajat Pai is a douchebag.
Plastic is inert.
So is asbestos. Free tip: Don't ever classify something complicated by a single simple property.
I take it you don't live in Europe? :-)
Yep but being pedantic and missing the point is always pedantic and missing the point.
Are you mad? One fire and it's all gone. Carve it into a stone tablet if its important.
It resulted in things like ministers and senior bureaucrats without a high school education being selected.
It could be worse, they could have law degrees, or even better credentials, like the Australian Minister for Women being a chauvinist who appointed the least number of women in his cabinet in quite a long time.
Seems excessive if you want to just fire up one Linux app. What next, copy and past the output back into Windows? Why would you run Windows in a VM anyway? Anyone being remotely targeted by WSL is likely running Linux in the VM.
Why would I want this?
If you don't know why you want this then how do you know that nothing of value was gained?