Not quite relevant. The purpose of this was to prevent studios which own a lot of cinemas to drown out the competition with their market power on account of only playing their own movies and no one else's content.
On the flip side that is exactly what exists here despite these laws. A Ford dealership sells Ford cars.
Semi-related, my local camera store has had this exact problem since the advent of the internet. I'm amazed they're still around.
Which makes you wonder why are they still around. You see it becomes a question of value. Do I go waste someone's time and then take my business online with a re-seller I've never seen who is in god knows where subject to god knows what laws, or do I spend a couple of hundred dollars extra to protect a major investment by buying locally, a product that I get instantly, where if I have a problem I can not only return it with ease but also deal with a living person rather than some RMA email service.
Unfortunately dealerships do nothing of the sort. Fuck them. You know what the opposite to a dealership model is? Tesla. Where you can go into the Tesla store, take a test drive, waste the sales clerk's time, and then leave buying your car on tesla.com all the while the people running the stores still happily take home a paycheck and don't try to heap on after market worthless "extras".
Except that this here is to protect dealerships and has nothing to do with presence in the state. The opposite of dealerships in the states is not no presence, but rather company shops.
You can try the no presence thing. Expect your marketshare to reflect that accordingly. That fig leaf of an argument self-regulates.
Much cheaper, access the vast majority of your target market more easily, wider reach... Just because they lose the odd customer or two doesn't make it silly. They would stick with it as a primary promotion medium if it wasn't working far better for them than their previous methods.
It took me straight into the account with zero authentication.
Actually it will have authenticated you based on your IP, location, machine details, past logins, cookies, and through tracking your web activities. They are quite clever about account access. Even something as basic as if you travel to another country and turn on your laptop before turning on your phone then your computer will prompt you for a login even if you still have an active session. But turn your phone on first and the security system suddenly knows you travelled somewhere and doesn't bother.
Why would they bother asking you to authenticate if they already know exactly who you are:-)
I'm sure the government is hugely interested in that I watched Sharknado 5 yesterday and 2 of my friends sent me a like.
Frankly I'm all for government spying. The more we can fill up their databases with completely worthless shit the more they may realise that trying to rake in everything about everyone is a losing strategy.
High-speed trains. TGV operator Thalys for example links the Netherlands and Germany.
Just to be pedantic there's no Thalys link between the Netherlands and Germany. There's a link between the Netherlands and Belgium, and one between Belgium and Germany, but really we're back to that being hugely impractical compared to just getting a DB operated ICE train directly over there, even taking the wonderful speed and service of the Thalys into account:-)... Not that Germany has any less cloud today.
Indeed. But let's look at that uninhabited area for a second.
- Firstly this is Japanese problem of land-space. There's no reason to build a nuclear reactor so close to a population centre in most of the world. - Secondly this is a generational problem. The reactor that melted down made that area uninhabitable was even older than that of Chernobyl. It's like complaining about car deaths in the 70s as a reason not to buy a car now ignoring that since the 70s we invented seatbelts, airbags, crumplezones, etc. The entire process and energy world has come a long way in inherently safer design. - Thirdly solar PV makes more land uninhabitable through normal operation than nuclear does. Coal mines are orders of magnitude larger to get the same amount of coal measured in mwh production than nuclear mines. 150000 people and that tiny spot in Japan is dwarfed by the number of people displaced, killed, and the area made uninhabitable by hydropower to say nothing of the few major accidents and the impact those had.
There is nothing artificial about its cost. Nuclear fission has failure modes that while rare, are extremely dangerous and expensive to mitigate
Sorry but you have no clue. At few of appealing to authority let me provide you some first hand experience. We installed brand spanking new safety systems in a Spanish nuclear plant on the west cost 9 years ago. While I was working on this project I also installed 3 brand spanking new identical safety systems (what is now Schneider sell the same system Nuclear 1E certified as is used by many chemical plants) each far larger than the one in the nuclear project. When we were done at the chemical plant I moved on to another project for an oil refinery again installing the same kind of system in almost identical manner with the same level safety, redundancy, care to mitigate common cause failure modes, etc. All while still working on this nuclear project. A year after we were done at the refinery we finally finished the nuclear project which by all accounts should have been straight forward given that in the industry most designs are pre-specified and certified products are few making vendor selecting quick and painless. The amount of paper we accumulated turned the office into one huge fire risk. I've never seen so many people involved sticking so many noses into a project while adding absolutely nothing other than overhead costs.
To really add insult to injury when we finally completed the project in 2009 a month later the vendor sent the site a lifecycle notice for the system saying it has entered into 1st stage extended support and plans should be made to replace it. We fucked around through artificial and absolutely worthless red tape for so long that the system we installed was obsolete the same month we turned it on.
But hey I was happy. It was all billable hours to me. When we bid on a project for AREVA a year later our partners preemptively through the entire office a party in anticipation of all the cash they'll be boondoggling yet again out of the nuclear industry.
Anyone who thinks that the costs aren't artificial clearly hasn't ever been anywhere near the industry.
Looking at emissions compared to coal is woefully dishonest in any case. Sure CO2 is a global problem, but both Coal and ICE cars are horrible polluters in many other health damaging ways. Even if an ICE car was more efficient than electric the best outcome for people in general would be to adopt electric anyway effectively pushing the pollution outside major population centres to an area where it affects fewer people.
Yes, Australia - land of wide, sun-drenched PV-friendly plains - has a horrible dependence on coal-fired power.
That may have something to do with PV and solar being a relatively recent development in a country which has a huge abundance of coal just laying around. It's also one of the countries to make the fastest and most dramatic switch having a solar production per capita second only to Germany thanks to government programs and lots of sun hitting roof tops. Complaining about the coal fired grid in Australia is doing it a disservice given how little dependence there is on the grid for many households.
Now the problem of having relatively high energy use per capita is quite another thing.
So I spent 3 weeks of winter in the arctic circle this year and we pulled up at the Esso station in Setermoen in Norway. There were 2 Teslas at the supercharger. I asked the guys getting their lunch at the servo about it, and one of them cracked a joke about engine block heaters.
It would seem people who whine about cold Teslas don't own cold Teslas and are just looking for excuses not to buy cold Teslas.
It's a CAR. Not a goddamn rolling mind-numbing entertainment center.
Yeah, only because it's still 2018 and we haven't figured out the latter in a safe way.
Driving is super fun. Commuting is probably the single worst continuous experience of our lives. Very VERY few people use their cars to drive. I think you'll find the vast majority of the world can't wait to relegate their "CAR" to the trash heap in favour of a "rolling mind-numbing entertainment centre".
Maybe there are deliberate file irregularities that Microsoft uses to try to force people to buy new versions of Microsoft Office. If the CEO always wants the latest version of Office, everyone else would then be forced to have the new version, also.
I often see this "the CEO" comment. The reality is the CEO doesn't give a shit and isn't in control of anything other than who a critical business partner is. And as a huge partner you'll find that if a company is large enough to have a CEO then it is large enough to simply pay a yearly contract fee to its partners for which the only decision about which version of the office suite to roll out depends entirely on how close the old one is to end of support.
Mind you if you hit that end of life point the CEO may question why a new version rolled out since it was within contract that you get it for no license fees anyway.
I remember all the whining how file format was the only reason various open source clones sucked. What's the excuse for anything less than 100% compatibility now?
You've never designed against a moving target have you?
I'm not so sure it does. 2 RX scripts per year per person doesn't seem crazy. We've averaged more than that as a family of 4 for a couple of years.
American right? I wasn't even given an opiates subscription last time I recovered from surgery abdominal surgery. Last time I took some basic 30mg codeine was 2 years ago after a tooth extraction (and that wasn't even the most recent one).
A lot of the drugs Americans seem to depend heavily on are carefully controlled or outright not available in other countries, and I'm not talking about 3rd world we can't afford it you're gonna die unavailable, but rather the 1st world why the heck would you want that take a cup of cement a vitamin and harden up kind of way.
An opiate every 5 days doesn't seem crazy? Wow. Just Wow.
Snide war comment aside, what is the USA good at? Same thing it's always been good at. Just because some small cheap parts manufacturer is now larger than the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips doesn't mean anything has changed.
Side note, the summary says just making chips for PCs is no longer enough. No longer enough for what? Just what is the major problem with being the worlds largest PC chip manufacturer? It's like saying Ferrari is not good racing car / premium car manufacturer just because Toyota sell more Camry Hatchbacks.
Come on guys, is nobody interested in the mechanics of this thing?
Engine does engine things at slightly different specs. Not really. Not to belittle the achievement but ultimately this is just moving design constraints around. I would be far more interested in a completely different or novel design, especially considering the physics based limitations of the otto cycle will prevent the kind of numbers they are hoping to achieve.
Each individually are not that interesting. However.
A blue moon, super moon and blood moon all coinciding on the same day is a truly rare event. Last time that happened was 156 years ago. We won't live to see it happen again.
But otherwise yes the star of the event is the full lunar eclipse which happens frequently enough.
While I just criticized the parent I too currently live in the Netherlands and you guys are nuts for the opposite reason. Yeah I think 1 in 3 people getting opiates is excessive. But likewise is the Dutch approach to pain management. Doctors aren't even able to write out a prescription for pseudoephedrine here because it's not a registered drug, yet it's available over the counter in all bordering countries. Codeine requires a prescription too and you don't normally get a prescription for anything, including surgery.
That said the Americans thought I was crazy coming out from surgery without a prescription and being told to get some Panadol Ultra (Paracetamol and Codeine) over the counter. Mind you the thinking was: If I needed anything tougher than that for pain management then I was not ready to be discharged from hospital yet.
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Not quite relevant. The purpose of this was to prevent studios which own a lot of cinemas to drown out the competition with their market power on account of only playing their own movies and no one else's content.
On the flip side that is exactly what exists here despite these laws. A Ford dealership sells Ford cars.
Semi-related, my local camera store has had this exact problem since the advent of the internet. I'm amazed they're still around.
Which makes you wonder why are they still around. You see it becomes a question of value. Do I go waste someone's time and then take my business online with a re-seller I've never seen who is in god knows where subject to god knows what laws, or do I spend a couple of hundred dollars extra to protect a major investment by buying locally, a product that I get instantly, where if I have a problem I can not only return it with ease but also deal with a living person rather than some RMA email service.
Unfortunately dealerships do nothing of the sort. Fuck them. You know what the opposite to a dealership model is? Tesla. Where you can go into the Tesla store, take a test drive, waste the sales clerk's time, and then leave buying your car on tesla.com all the while the people running the stores still happily take home a paycheck and don't try to heap on after market worthless "extras".
Except that this here is to protect dealerships and has nothing to do with presence in the state. The opposite of dealerships in the states is not no presence, but rather company shops.
You can try the no presence thing. Expect your marketshare to reflect that accordingly. That fig leaf of an argument self-regulates.
Taking control and functionality away from the web developer because browser developers think they know what's best for everyone.
Based on the internet I see today, yes they really know much better than nearly all web developers.
Pretty fucking silly if you ask me
Much cheaper, access the vast majority of your target market more easily, wider reach... Just because they lose the odd customer or two doesn't make it silly. They would stick with it as a primary promotion medium if it wasn't working far better for them than their previous methods.
It took me straight into the account with zero authentication.
Actually it will have authenticated you based on your IP, location, machine details, past logins, cookies, and through tracking your web activities. They are quite clever about account access. Even something as basic as if you travel to another country and turn on your laptop before turning on your phone then your computer will prompt you for a login even if you still have an active session. But turn your phone on first and the security system suddenly knows you travelled somewhere and doesn't bother.
Why would they bother asking you to authenticate if they already know exactly who you are :-)
I'm sure the government is hugely interested in that I watched Sharknado 5 yesterday and 2 of my friends sent me a like.
Frankly I'm all for government spying. The more we can fill up their databases with completely worthless shit the more they may realise that trying to rake in everything about everyone is a losing strategy.
High-speed trains. TGV operator Thalys for example links the Netherlands and Germany.
Just to be pedantic there's no Thalys link between the Netherlands and Germany. There's a link between the Netherlands and Belgium, and one between Belgium and Germany, but really we're back to that being hugely impractical compared to just getting a DB operated ICE train directly over there, even taking the wonderful speed and service of the Thalys into account :-) ... Not that Germany has any less cloud today.
Indeed. But let's look at that uninhabited area for a second.
- Firstly this is Japanese problem of land-space. There's no reason to build a nuclear reactor so close to a population centre in most of the world.
- Secondly this is a generational problem. The reactor that melted down made that area uninhabitable was even older than that of Chernobyl. It's like complaining about car deaths in the 70s as a reason not to buy a car now ignoring that since the 70s we invented seatbelts, airbags, crumplezones, etc. The entire process and energy world has come a long way in inherently safer design.
- Thirdly solar PV makes more land uninhabitable through normal operation than nuclear does. Coal mines are orders of magnitude larger to get the same amount of coal measured in mwh production than nuclear mines. 150000 people and that tiny spot in Japan is dwarfed by the number of people displaced, killed, and the area made uninhabitable by hydropower to say nothing of the few major accidents and the impact those had.
There is nothing artificial about its cost. Nuclear fission has failure modes that while rare, are extremely dangerous and expensive to mitigate
Sorry but you have no clue. At few of appealing to authority let me provide you some first hand experience. We installed brand spanking new safety systems in a Spanish nuclear plant on the west cost 9 years ago. While I was working on this project I also installed 3 brand spanking new identical safety systems (what is now Schneider sell the same system Nuclear 1E certified as is used by many chemical plants) each far larger than the one in the nuclear project. When we were done at the chemical plant I moved on to another project for an oil refinery again installing the same kind of system in almost identical manner with the same level safety, redundancy, care to mitigate common cause failure modes, etc. All while still working on this nuclear project. A year after we were done at the refinery we finally finished the nuclear project which by all accounts should have been straight forward given that in the industry most designs are pre-specified and certified products are few making vendor selecting quick and painless. The amount of paper we accumulated turned the office into one huge fire risk. I've never seen so many people involved sticking so many noses into a project while adding absolutely nothing other than overhead costs.
To really add insult to injury when we finally completed the project in 2009 a month later the vendor sent the site a lifecycle notice for the system saying it has entered into 1st stage extended support and plans should be made to replace it. We fucked around through artificial and absolutely worthless red tape for so long that the system we installed was obsolete the same month we turned it on.
But hey I was happy. It was all billable hours to me. When we bid on a project for AREVA a year later our partners preemptively through the entire office a party in anticipation of all the cash they'll be boondoggling yet again out of the nuclear industry.
Anyone who thinks that the costs aren't artificial clearly hasn't ever been anywhere near the industry.
Looking at emissions compared to coal is woefully dishonest in any case. Sure CO2 is a global problem, but both Coal and ICE cars are horrible polluters in many other health damaging ways. Even if an ICE car was more efficient than electric the best outcome for people in general would be to adopt electric anyway effectively pushing the pollution outside major population centres to an area where it affects fewer people.
Yes, Australia - land of wide, sun-drenched PV-friendly plains - has a horrible dependence on coal-fired power.
That may have something to do with PV and solar being a relatively recent development in a country which has a huge abundance of coal just laying around. It's also one of the countries to make the fastest and most dramatic switch having a solar production per capita second only to Germany thanks to government programs and lots of sun hitting roof tops. Complaining about the coal fired grid in Australia is doing it a disservice given how little dependence there is on the grid for many households.
Now the problem of having relatively high energy use per capita is quite another thing.
Next time someone whines about a cold Tesla
So I spent 3 weeks of winter in the arctic circle this year and we pulled up at the Esso station in Setermoen in Norway. There were 2 Teslas at the supercharger. I asked the guys getting their lunch at the servo about it, and one of them cracked a joke about engine block heaters.
It would seem people who whine about cold Teslas don't own cold Teslas and are just looking for excuses not to buy cold Teslas.
It's a CAR. Not a goddamn rolling mind-numbing entertainment center.
Yeah, only because it's still 2018 and we haven't figured out the latter in a safe way.
Driving is super fun. Commuting is probably the single worst continuous experience of our lives. Very VERY few people use their cars to drive. I think you'll find the vast majority of the world can't wait to relegate their "CAR" to the trash heap in favour of a "rolling mind-numbing entertainment centre".
Most older phones and including almost all android phones won't have this problem cause they are dogs performance wise.
Rather than writing 2 paragraphs, next time just go with "I have no clue". It's shorter and gets your point across just as well.
Maybe there are deliberate file irregularities that Microsoft uses to try to force people to buy new versions of Microsoft Office. If the CEO always wants the latest version of Office, everyone else would then be forced to have the new version, also.
I often see this "the CEO" comment. The reality is the CEO doesn't give a shit and isn't in control of anything other than who a critical business partner is. And as a huge partner you'll find that if a company is large enough to have a CEO then it is large enough to simply pay a yearly contract fee to its partners for which the only decision about which version of the office suite to roll out depends entirely on how close the old one is to end of support.
Mind you if you hit that end of life point the CEO may question why a new version rolled out since it was within contract that you get it for no license fees anyway.
I remember all the whining how file format was the only reason various open source clones sucked. What's the excuse for anything less than 100% compatibility now?
You've never designed against a moving target have you?
You must have tried the new version and evaluated it very quickly!
Not necessarily. If a new version doesn't come with a ground up re-write then a lot of the old version's opinions will continue to apply.
That said the GP was obviously talking out of their arse. It's a perfectly capable suite.
I'm not so sure it does. 2 RX scripts per year per person doesn't seem crazy. We've averaged more than that as a family of 4 for a couple of years.
American right? I wasn't even given an opiates subscription last time I recovered from surgery abdominal surgery. Last time I took some basic 30mg codeine was 2 years ago after a tooth extraction (and that wasn't even the most recent one).
A lot of the drugs Americans seem to depend heavily on are carefully controlled or outright not available in other countries, and I'm not talking about 3rd world we can't afford it you're gonna die unavailable, but rather the 1st world why the heck would you want that take a cup of cement a vitamin and harden up kind of way.
An opiate every 5 days doesn't seem crazy? Wow. Just Wow.
What do you mean? That's like half the world! 50% chance you don't even nee to go anywhere.
Oh man rub some salt in the wound why don't you.
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TGV train to Germany doesn't seem that impractical?
What are you talking about? Walking to France just to catch a train to Germany is hugely impractical. ;-)
Snide war comment aside, what is the USA good at? Same thing it's always been good at. Just because some small cheap parts manufacturer is now larger than the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips doesn't mean anything has changed.
Side note, the summary says just making chips for PCs is no longer enough. No longer enough for what? Just what is the major problem with being the worlds largest PC chip manufacturer? It's like saying Ferrari is not good racing car / premium car manufacturer just because Toyota sell more Camry Hatchbacks.
Come on guys, is nobody interested in the mechanics of this thing?
Engine does engine things at slightly different specs. Not really. Not to belittle the achievement but ultimately this is just moving design constraints around. I would be far more interested in a completely different or novel design, especially considering the physics based limitations of the otto cycle will prevent the kind of numbers they are hoping to achieve.
Each individually are not that interesting. However.
A blue moon, super moon and blood moon all coinciding on the same day is a truly rare event. Last time that happened was 156 years ago. We won't live to see it happen again.
But otherwise yes the star of the event is the full lunar eclipse which happens frequently enough.
Step 1: Drive somewhere without cloud cover.
Step 2: Realize you no longer have a job due to mandatory meetings today.
Step 3: Sigh
Meetings are easily moved. However since I am currently in the Netherlands it's that "somewhere without cloud" that is woefully impractical :)
I live in the Netherlands by the way.
While I just criticized the parent I too currently live in the Netherlands and you guys are nuts for the opposite reason. Yeah I think 1 in 3 people getting opiates is excessive. But likewise is the Dutch approach to pain management. Doctors aren't even able to write out a prescription for pseudoephedrine here because it's not a registered drug, yet it's available over the counter in all bordering countries. Codeine requires a prescription too and you don't normally get a prescription for anything, including surgery.
That said the Americans thought I was crazy coming out from surgery without a prescription and being told to get some Panadol Ultra (Paracetamol and Codeine) over the counter. Mind you the thinking was: If I needed anything tougher than that for pain management then I was not ready to be discharged from hospital yet.