Thus, when they start dinner at 10 p.m., it's merely 10 p.m. by their oddly set clocks. They're really starting somewhere between 7 and 9 p.m.
This. I just got back from Spain and at around 9:30 we were walking to dinner in time for sunset. This may not seem strange to those of you in northern latitudes, but Spain is far from northern.
Maybe in your part of Spain, but there are plenty of places where you most definitely do get a multi-hour lunch break + snooze. What I don't understand is the article talking about no one having a siester. That one is more foreign to me than the length of the lunchbreak.
it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain
I think this may be kind of the point. Catalonia has done a lot to try and distance itself from the rest of Spain, by passing local laws in direct contradiction to the opinion of much of Spain, e.g. as states were passing laws to protect bullfighting, Catalonia passed laws to ban it. Plus there's the whole independence referendum thing and the several constitutional challenges that were fought on keeping Catalonia as part of Spain.
Nothing to do with the iPhone. GPS receivers are active receivers that do a LOT of signal processing. The GPS signals were designed to beam through the atmosphere to fixed ground devices usually with very chunky or permanent supplies.
Power use didn't feature in the design conditions. A lot of modern EM design puts a lot of effort into the low-power portion of how to transmit, receive, encode and decode signals.
Nope. No breaching of road rules. Reread the example.
Re-read. You didn't stop even though you knew it was safe to do so. Breached a road rule. You may not have been at fault but your actions contributed to it and you can be certain if there's footage or details of you doing so that you're going to be partially to blame for entering an intersection you shouldn't have.
Not like the Tesla. That's the point.
The only thing separating Tesla from every other vehicle is that the data is remotely uploaded and Tesla is more than willing to share at every opportunity. The data is there, and in very great detail. People just don't bother with subpoenas for the data as fault is usually attributable without going through the legal process.
Well your insurance rates are certainly going to go down if you keel over from cardiac arrest.
Sorry I don't understand. What is this "insurance rate" thing you speak of? Is that the weird thing you Americans do where you pay to get medical attention?
Rightio, I conflated the message of talking of banning laser weapons with the existing conventions that ban laser weapons that blind enemies as their primary function.
This is the sort of thing that should have been a little bit of functionality added to a wristwatch and instead it spawned a whole class of useless cockrings
Look the fitbit is not supposed to go on your cock. It's nothing more than a bit of functionality added to a wristwatch. The product you are after is the We-Vibe Verge. That is the fitness tracker for love making, and it is also a vibrating cockring.
why do people care what their heart rate is 24 hours a day?
They don't. But what these things also do is tell you the time. The fact that you don't need to run off and change devices for the one or two hours when you do want your heartrate monitored is a bonus.
or even what it is while you're running? run as fast until your lungs hurt and you feel drained for the next day or so
Like holy shit you no nothing about running or training. Depending on what you're trying to achieve there's a very big difference in training regime that you're going for. Running as fast as you can till your lungs hurt will likely only achieve early cardiac arrest rather that improve insurance, improve speed, improve your body's efficiency or anything else positive*.
*each one of those are achieved by stressing your body in different ways which can be done most efficiently by... you guessed it... knowing what your speed, duration and heart-rate is while training.
Not to mention you're ignoring a whole world of additional information provided that further helps when training such as gait, imbalance, vertical oscillation, if you're cycling cadence, or if you have a home trainer the power.
Not a fad, but definitely a completely saturated niche market. If you don't have a fitness tracker already you're unlikely to get one. If you ever bought one, there's a good chance that it is on your wrist right now and there's little you would consider for upgrades which have anything to do with fitness.
Fitbit has basically cornered the market for anyone needing a low-cost fitness band counting steps and heartrate. Garmin, Tomtom and the GPS crowd have cornered the market on high-end special purpose monitoring (running, swimming, cycling etc) And Samsung / Apple dominate the small left over market that is the smartwatch, though even they are getting a bit of competition fitbit nowadays.
There's really very little left in which to enter the market.
If someone flying from Riyadh to Dulles decided to change airlines & airports at, say, Brussels, wouldn't the Belgians already be managing that differently?
I've only ever experienced clearing security again once mid-flight, and that was a change over from an international carrier to a domestic carrier that required among other things using a different terminal that wasn't connected from within the security zone.
I think more legally important is that torrenting relies on user "sharing" i.e. uploading and downloading the content, while streaming is a typically one way process.
Has anyone ever actually been charged for "downloading" content? I know we have hundreds of stories of people being done for uploading or making available.
First off, the surface would have to be nearly perfectly reflective.
That's not even remotely true. The amount of IR energy that needs to be reflected to cause blindness is so incredibly minute that even a reflection off a dull surface as it is heating up can cause blindness. There are off the shelf lasers available with this kind of ability to say nothing of industrial laser cutters or weapons.
But it's really irrelevant to this discussion. This weapon isn't designed to maim, it's designed to destroy. Every weapon that is designed to destroy has a side effect of being able to maim or kill.
Don't classify all laser weapons equally. Some laser weapons (like this one) are exactly like the bullets you are talking about.
Others (like every other one anyone has come up with so far) are effective only at blinding large populations without killing and are banned according to Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Wouldn't a rational person read / watch CNN, NYT, Breitbart, HuffPost, Reason, Zero Hedge, Mother Jones, Infowars, Final Call, etc...
No
Scary when Alex Jones says there were mass rapes and gropes on New Years in Germany and the NYTs (which you read daily) doesn't mention anything. You dismiss it as Alex Jones hysteria - and then months later it comes out that Alex Jones was right and the NYTs hid something horrible.
The moral of the story is read a little bit of everything and not get locked into a self-referencing echo chamber.
Not everything is worth reading nor does it need to be read to get completely unbiased views. Hateful lies, shock stories, and conspiracy theories do not make news "balanced".
Are there any other questions I can help you with?
My memories, what I have seen, heard, and otherwise experienced are mine
And as long as you keep *your* memories to *yourself* then you are talking about something very fundamentally different to what is being discussed here.
But then I don't expect this concept to be universally understood when the world has a very different approach to people's actions: e.g. USA: Smoke a joint, get charged, go to jail for a short period of time, do your time, end up with a public record, have that fuck up your life as you're unable to get a job because no one wants to hire a criminal. NL: Smoke a.... errr.... assault someone, get charged, go to jail, news papers aren't even legally allowed to identify you, do your time, return to the world as a normal functioning member of society where your sins of the past are of no one's concern.
But half the recreation areas you might pull off the road at will have a fee.
Recreation areas are a user benefits scenario only. It makes sense to have people pay a fee. They aren't infrastructure.
Toll roads happen because your government is held captive by the property developers.
Not at all. Toll roads happen because governments don't want to utter the phrase "raise taxes". It has nothing to do with property developers and the last few tolls that went in my local area were for tunnels where purchasing a few houses at either end and at the central exit way was such spare change in the scheme of the project that you wouldn't stop to pick it up if it fell out of your pockets.
Toll roads happen because people have a very selfish view of the world and are unable to see the bigger picture.
I'm surprised we don't have a third party stepping up here
We did. For years 3rd parties made lots of money selling these as extras on every server or high end workstation. Now that everyone gets it for "free" people are upset.
I had to install iTunes for my girlfriend last week, the Windows binary is now over 250Mb.
Look I hate to point out how she's not the right one for you but if she wanted iTunes installed that's a clue. The fact that you needed the Windows binary is another.
If on the other hand she needed it installed and couldn't do it herself because Wine kept throwing a fit then put a damn ring on it man!
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Thus, when they start dinner at 10 p.m., it's merely 10 p.m. by their oddly set clocks. They're really starting somewhere between 7 and 9 p.m.
This. I just got back from Spain and at around 9:30 we were walking to dinner in time for sunset. This may not seem strange to those of you in northern latitudes, but Spain is far from northern.
This isn't America. Most European workers aren't pushovers who will take whatever rules they are given.
Maybe in your part of Spain, but there are plenty of places where you most definitely do get a multi-hour lunch break + snooze. What I don't understand is the article talking about no one having a siester. That one is more foreign to me than the length of the lunchbreak.
it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain
I think this may be kind of the point. Catalonia has done a lot to try and distance itself from the rest of Spain, by passing local laws in direct contradiction to the opinion of much of Spain, e.g. as states were passing laws to protect bullfighting, Catalonia passed laws to ban it. Plus there's the whole independence referendum thing and the several constitutional challenges that were fought on keeping Catalonia as part of Spain.
Nothing to do with the iPhone. GPS receivers are active receivers that do a LOT of signal processing. The GPS signals were designed to beam through the atmosphere to fixed ground devices usually with very chunky or permanent supplies.
Power use didn't feature in the design conditions. A lot of modern EM design puts a lot of effort into the low-power portion of how to transmit, receive, encode and decode signals.
Nope. No breaching of road rules. Reread the example.
Re-read. You didn't stop even though you knew it was safe to do so. Breached a road rule. You may not have been at fault but your actions contributed to it and you can be certain if there's footage or details of you doing so that you're going to be partially to blame for entering an intersection you shouldn't have.
Not like the Tesla. That's the point.
The only thing separating Tesla from every other vehicle is that the data is remotely uploaded and Tesla is more than willing to share at every opportunity. The data is there, and in very great detail. People just don't bother with subpoenas for the data as fault is usually attributable without going through the legal process.
Well your insurance rates are certainly going to go down if you keel over from cardiac arrest.
Sorry I don't understand. What is this "insurance rate" thing you speak of? Is that the weird thing you Americans do where you pay to get medical attention?
Rightio, I conflated the message of talking of banning laser weapons with the existing conventions that ban laser weapons that blind enemies as their primary function.
Any other questions?
Do they also include static tin-foil hat disruptors, because I'm thinking the government is starting to ... know.
This is the sort of thing that should have been a little bit of functionality added to a wristwatch and instead it spawned a whole class of useless cockrings
Look the fitbit is not supposed to go on your cock. It's nothing more than a bit of functionality added to a wristwatch. The product you are after is the We-Vibe Verge. That is the fitness tracker for love making, and it is also a vibrating cockring.
why do people care what their heart rate is 24 hours a day?
They don't. But what these things also do is tell you the time. The fact that you don't need to run off and change devices for the one or two hours when you do want your heartrate monitored is a bonus.
or even what it is while you're running? run as fast until your lungs hurt and you feel drained for the next day or so
Like holy shit you no nothing about running or training. Depending on what you're trying to achieve there's a very big difference in training regime that you're going for. Running as fast as you can till your lungs hurt will likely only achieve early cardiac arrest rather that improve insurance, improve speed, improve your body's efficiency or anything else positive*.
*each one of those are achieved by stressing your body in different ways which can be done most efficiently by ... you guessed it ... knowing what your speed, duration and heart-rate is while training.
Not to mention you're ignoring a whole world of additional information provided that further helps when training such as gait, imbalance, vertical oscillation, if you're cycling cadence, or if you have a home trainer the power.
Not a fad, but definitely a completely saturated niche market. If you don't have a fitness tracker already you're unlikely to get one. If you ever bought one, there's a good chance that it is on your wrist right now and there's little you would consider for upgrades which have anything to do with fitness.
Fitbit has basically cornered the market for anyone needing a low-cost fitness band counting steps and heartrate.
Garmin, Tomtom and the GPS crowd have cornered the market on high-end special purpose monitoring (running, swimming, cycling etc)
And Samsung / Apple dominate the small left over market that is the smartwatch, though even they are getting a bit of competition fitbit nowadays.
There's really very little left in which to enter the market.
If someone flying from Riyadh to Dulles decided to change airlines & airports at, say, Brussels, wouldn't the Belgians already be managing that differently?
I've only ever experienced clearing security again once mid-flight, and that was a change over from an international carrier to a domestic carrier that required among other things using a different terminal that wasn't connected from within the security zone.
I think more legally important is that torrenting relies on user "sharing" i.e. uploading and downloading the content, while streaming is a typically one way process.
Has anyone ever actually been charged for "downloading" content? I know we have hundreds of stories of people being done for uploading or making available.
First off, the surface would have to be nearly perfectly reflective.
That's not even remotely true. The amount of IR energy that needs to be reflected to cause blindness is so incredibly minute that even a reflection off a dull surface as it is heating up can cause blindness. There are off the shelf lasers available with this kind of ability to say nothing of industrial laser cutters or weapons.
But it's really irrelevant to this discussion. This weapon isn't designed to maim, it's designed to destroy. Every weapon that is designed to destroy has a side effect of being able to maim or kill.
Don't classify all laser weapons equally. Some laser weapons (like this one) are exactly like the bullets you are talking about.
Others (like every other one anyone has come up with so far) are effective only at blinding large populations without killing and are banned according to Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Point being, no news source is balanced.
True. But there are some that are so unbalanced that even the drunks who can't stand without support from a wall are laughing at them.
Where's that?
Russia for example, China for another.
And is Breitbart worse than CNN?
Yes
Wouldn't a rational person read / watch CNN, NYT, Breitbart, HuffPost, Reason, Zero Hedge, Mother Jones, Infowars, Final Call, etc...
No
Scary when Alex Jones says there were mass rapes and gropes on New Years in Germany and the NYTs (which you read daily) doesn't mention anything. You dismiss it as Alex Jones hysteria - and then months later it comes out that Alex Jones was right and the NYTs hid something horrible.
Here's one link to just one of NYT's stories covering the gropings: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
The moral of the story is read a little bit of everything and not get locked into a self-referencing echo chamber.
Not everything is worth reading nor does it need to be read to get completely unbiased views. Hateful lies, shock stories, and conspiracy theories do not make news "balanced".
Are there any other questions I can help you with?
My memories, what I have seen, heard, and otherwise experienced are mine
And as long as you keep *your* memories to *yourself* then you are talking about something very fundamentally different to what is being discussed here.
But then I don't expect this concept to be universally understood when the world has a very different approach to people's actions:
e.g.
USA: Smoke a joint, get charged, go to jail for a short period of time, do your time, end up with a public record, have that fuck up your life as you're unable to get a job because no one wants to hire a criminal.
NL: Smoke a.... errr.... assault someone, get charged, go to jail, news papers aren't even legally allowed to identify you, do your time, return to the world as a normal functioning member of society where your sins of the past are of no one's concern.
But half the recreation areas you might pull off the road at will have a fee.
Recreation areas are a user benefits scenario only. It makes sense to have people pay a fee. They aren't infrastructure.
Toll roads happen because your government is held captive by the property developers.
Not at all. Toll roads happen because governments don't want to utter the phrase "raise taxes". It has nothing to do with property developers and the last few tolls that went in my local area were for tunnels where purchasing a few houses at either end and at the central exit way was such spare change in the scheme of the project that you wouldn't stop to pick it up if it fell out of your pockets.
Toll roads happen because people have a very selfish view of the world and are unable to see the bigger picture.
used for trustworthy IT infrastructure
Infrastructure is exactly the kind of IT that has had these exact things for 2 decades. Just built into the motherboard instead of the CPU.
I'm surprised we don't have a third party stepping up here
We did. For years 3rd parties made lots of money selling these as extras on every server or high end workstation. Now that everyone gets it for "free" people are upset.
What merits? First you brings us the merits, then we'll discuss them.
We don't all
No, but all enough that the alternative market is pretty much non-existent.
I had to install iTunes for my girlfriend last week, the Windows binary is now over 250Mb.
Look I hate to point out how she's not the right one for you but if she wanted iTunes installed that's a clue.
The fact that you needed the Windows binary is another.
If on the other hand she needed it installed and couldn't do it herself because Wine kept throwing a fit then put a damn ring on it man!