It's ironic that they should justify doing this with a poll, since when they moved them in the first place Shuttleworth specifically said that he didn't care what the users thought:
"No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions."
In most if not all states requiring employees to work overtime is not illegal, however the employer is required to pay the employee at a higher rate for these hours. There are some state laws that prohibit mandatory overtime for certain industries but for most employees this does not apply. As far as overtime laws go, you are better off in California than in most states. For example, if you work more than 8 hours in a day OR more than 7 consecutive days OR 40 hours in a week you are eligible for overtime pay, in most states only the latter applies. California also has mandated double-time rules (over 12 hours in a day or over 8 on your 7th consecutive day) which most states don't have. The US has pretty employer-friendly rules in general, California is probably the most employee-friendly of any of the states.
And more so, I also WANT end to end encryption on all my comms.
This is the point. All the people justifying encryption for their banking data, sexting data, etc. are barking up the wrong tree. We don't NEED to justify our communications to the government, I'll communicate any way I choose. Fuck the authoritarian assholes that think they can tell me what I can and can't do - I haven't done anything wrong and refuse to be treated like a vassal of the state. I am a free man and will do what I please and will work and vote against anyone who thinks it should be otherwise.
There is no "Russian collaboration," there never was.
How can you categorically state there was no "Russian collaboration" when Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort all attended a meeting specifically to collaborate with Russian nationals on Trump's campaign? This isn't some smear campaign by the "liberal media", these are things Trump Jr. admitted to.
What about if you are speaking to a Russian lawyer to assist your father's presidential campaign? That's illegal activity, shouldn't it be subject to some scrutiny, particularly when many other people in the campaign had Russian contacts which they failed to mention when asked by Congress?
Conservatives and religious people donate more money (a higher percentage of their income/assets, not just in terms of raw dollars) to charities and non-profits than liberals and atheists.
I don't know whether or not they feel smug when doing so.
A lot of religious donations aren't used for charity, but they are still tax deductible and are included as "charitable donations". Those donations build churches, pay pastors, gild statues, evangelize their church, and plenty of other things that have nothing to do with charity. Sure, there are many churches that do plenty of charitable work but there are also many that do none and those donations are just as tax deductible.
That all may be beside the point, since this article cites an MIT study that found that political affiliation didn't have a relationship with willingness to give, although conservatives gave more dollars in total (because they are richer) both sides give at about the same rate. Interestingly the article also states that "only 10% to 25% of church donations end up being spent on social welfare purposes" which backs up my point above, with religious donations excluded conservatives might give at a lower rate than liberals.
These people have chosen to live where the cost of living is among the highest in the country. They choose to work no-skill jobs there. They have chosen to have 3 children. Even though they make quite a bit of money, well over the median household income for the country, they are living paycheck to paycheck. This is in spite of not paying for a rent or mortgage, which is the number one expense for most families.
In the Bay area, most things don't cost significantly more than the rest of the country - you'll pay maybe 10-15% more for most items like gas, groceries, restaurants, etc. The cost of living disparity is primarily driven by housing cost but these people aren't paying that housing cost. They make almost $80k per year (assuming they are full time) and don't pay for housing and they STILL are doing stupid things like taking out payday loans? These people aren't underprivileged, they are just bad with money. Most other people in the country can live on less than that and additionally make a rent/mortgage payment. I don't see why it is Zuckerberg's fault that they suck at life.
'Right' (god, I hate how those misguides idiots stole the word 'right' for themselves; they are anything BUT right!)
The terms "left" and "right" to denote political affiliation didn't originate in the US, so I don't know who you think "stole" that word. The terms come from the French revolution, supporters of the king sat on the right side of the national assembly and supporters of the revolution sat on the left side.
The reply right above yours, posted 47 minutes before yours, has a link to the Apple site where they claim to have created 2 million jobs. This isn't a Trump number, it's an Apple number. It looks like they are counting the employees of any company that makes an IOS app as a job they created.
Yes, how the hell do you think existing power cables get to the "sea floor"? They enter from the shore then they go "through layers of marine environments", in fact they go through the environments where sea life is the most prevalent. If you have data that shows that electrical cables going to the the sea floor from a floating turbine harms sea life then please present it. Speculating on possible harm with no data and no plausible hypothesis doesn't help anyone.
But the constitution doesn't go into detail on what those impeachable offenses are, just "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors". High crimes are crimes against the state by a person in a position of power, like bribery or corruption. If 1/2 House decides that firing Comey was obstruction of justice (another "high crime") and 2/3 of the Senate agrees, then what he did is an impeachable offense whether or not it rises to the level of a criminal offense.
"Dragon 2 (also Crew Dragon, Dragon V2, or formerly DragonRider) is the second version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will be a human-rated vehicle able to make a terrestrial soft landing" "Designed to ferry astronauts to space"
The Dragon 2 capsule is being developed for commercial crew, and the proposed Red Dragon mission intended to use that capsule for the lander. Red Dragon was a side project to the main goal of SpaceX building a man-rated capsule.
In other news, the US has decided to outsource all henhouse guarding in the country to We Are Foxes, Inc. Proponents claim this will save the country eleventy kajillion dollars per year.
The point is that SpaceX is planning on using this version of Dragon for the commercial crew program, so NASA's requirements are VERY relevant to what SpaceX decides to develop. Since NASA's requirements for powered landings are more than SpaceX wanted to meet, they decided not to spend the money to do it.
More reusable than Falcon-9, in fact, since the Falcon 9 throws away the second stage (which tends to be the more expensive part).
Nope, that's just wrong. In a rocket, the most expensive parts are the engines, generally followed by the capsule (which in SpaceX's case is also recovered and reused). The second stage only has 1 engine, the first stage has 9. But don't take my word for it, here is what Elon said about the relative costs:
The most revolutionary thing about the new Falcon 9 is the potential ability to recover the boost stage which is almost three-quarters of the cost of the rocket.
Fair enough, but it seems that the easy way to avoid breaking the treaty is to apply the laser long enough to kill... an interesting side effect of the law; that death is more acceptable than blinding.
It is the intent of the law. In normal warfare, it is preferable to seriously wound an enemy soldier rather than kill them. Your enemy only loses 1 soldier if you kill them, but if you wound a soldier the enemy additionally has to expend resources to take care of them. It's way too easy to do this with laser weapons so it's better for all sides to just agree not to do that.
Really? It's a direct quote by Sessions but since it's from the evil "liberal media" you immediately dismiss it? Fine, here's the same fucking story from Fox News, so that partisan shitheads like you can believe it. It's people like you, who only believe facts if they are reported by their "team" that make shit like asset forfeiture (and "economic policies, a congress too willing to tax-and-spend-like-the-world's-gonna-end, and special legislative 'regulations' that really do more to protect a single corporate interest") possible. Try actually analyzing the issues yourself instead of just parroting what the party puppetmasters distribute as their "talking points" and you'll be a lot better off, and so will the country.
Maybe he dosent want to kill innocent bystanders or steal thier money with asset forfeiture.
With Sessions at the helm, asset forfeiture is going to get even worse. Sessions said "we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures". If you think the american public is being robbed now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
But that number is a double conversion again, they convert all energy usage in the UK to "oil equivalent units" and then he then converts that amount of oil to kWh instead of using actual electricity and oil consumption numbers. I'm not paying $500 to the UN to view their statistics, but if their methodology for the US is also to convert all energy usage to oil I don't think it's a valid comparison.
Your phone doesn't have a 120 volt battery, so you can't compare mAh between your hypothetical battery bank and your "1 phone" unit. Better just to keep the phone battery capacity in Wh, your 3000 mAh battery is nominally 3.7 volts so it holds 11.1 Wh. By your calculation you need 5.5 trillion Wh so you will need in the neighborhood of 495.5 billion phones instead of the 15.2 billion you calculated.
A better comparison would be Tesla powerwalls, since that is probably what Elon used in his calculations. They hold 14,000 Wh and measure 1150 mm x 755 mm x 155 mm. We will need 392.9 million of them to supply your 5.5 trillion Wh. We can fit 2248759 of them in our square mile, so we will need to stack up 147 units, so 22.7 meters high. Pretty tall, but not out of the realm of possibility. Certainly would be a big cooling challenge!
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Also, they took away the ability to even change them in Unity as of 16.04. An Ubuntu dev had this to say when someone filed a bug about it:
"The window controls in Unity are on the left. It is not a setting, it's where the designers chose to place them. This will not change."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
It's ironic that they should justify doing this with a poll, since when they moved them in the first place Shuttleworth specifically said that he didn't care what the users thought:
"No. This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But we are not voting on design decisions."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
In most if not all states requiring employees to work overtime is not illegal, however the employer is required to pay the employee at a higher rate for these hours. There are some state laws that prohibit mandatory overtime for certain industries but for most employees this does not apply. As far as overtime laws go, you are better off in California than in most states. For example, if you work more than 8 hours in a day OR more than 7 consecutive days OR 40 hours in a week you are eligible for overtime pay, in most states only the latter applies. California also has mandated double-time rules (over 12 hours in a day or over 8 on your 7th consecutive day) which most states don't have. The US has pretty employer-friendly rules in general, California is probably the most employee-friendly of any of the states.
Not sure if you're serious, but if you are, more readable title would be:
"Tesla factory workers pushing for a union have sent a letter of requests to company's board members"
And more so, I also WANT end to end encryption on all my comms.
This is the point. All the people justifying encryption for their banking data, sexting data, etc. are barking up the wrong tree. We don't NEED to justify our communications to the government, I'll communicate any way I choose. Fuck the authoritarian assholes that think they can tell me what I can and can't do - I haven't done anything wrong and refuse to be treated like a vassal of the state. I am a free man and will do what I please and will work and vote against anyone who thinks it should be otherwise.
There is no "Russian collaboration," there never was.
How can you categorically state there was no "Russian collaboration" when Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort all attended a meeting specifically to collaborate with Russian nationals on Trump's campaign? This isn't some smear campaign by the "liberal media", these are things Trump Jr. admitted to.
What about if you are speaking to a Russian lawyer to assist your father's presidential campaign? That's illegal activity, shouldn't it be subject to some scrutiny, particularly when many other people in the campaign had Russian contacts which they failed to mention when asked by Congress?
Conservatives and religious people donate more money (a higher percentage of their income/assets, not just in terms of raw dollars) to charities and non-profits than liberals and atheists.
I don't know whether or not they feel smug when doing so.
A lot of religious donations aren't used for charity, but they are still tax deductible and are included as "charitable donations". Those donations build churches, pay pastors, gild statues, evangelize their church, and plenty of other things that have nothing to do with charity. Sure, there are many churches that do plenty of charitable work but there are also many that do none and those donations are just as tax deductible.
That all may be beside the point, since this article cites an MIT study that found that political affiliation didn't have a relationship with willingness to give, although conservatives gave more dollars in total (because they are richer) both sides give at about the same rate. Interestingly the article also states that "only 10% to 25% of church donations end up being spent on social welfare purposes" which backs up my point above, with religious donations excluded conservatives might give at a lower rate than liberals.
These people have chosen to live where the cost of living is among the highest in the country. They choose to work no-skill jobs there. They have chosen to have 3 children. Even though they make quite a bit of money, well over the median household income for the country, they are living paycheck to paycheck. This is in spite of not paying for a rent or mortgage, which is the number one expense for most families.
In the Bay area, most things don't cost significantly more than the rest of the country - you'll pay maybe 10-15% more for most items like gas, groceries, restaurants, etc. The cost of living disparity is primarily driven by housing cost but these people aren't paying that housing cost. They make almost $80k per year (assuming they are full time) and don't pay for housing and they STILL are doing stupid things like taking out payday loans? These people aren't underprivileged, they are just bad with money. Most other people in the country can live on less than that and additionally make a rent/mortgage payment. I don't see why it is Zuckerberg's fault that they suck at life.
'Right' (god, I hate how those misguides idiots stole the word 'right' for themselves; they are anything BUT right!)
The terms "left" and "right" to denote political affiliation didn't originate in the US, so I don't know who you think "stole" that word. The terms come from the French revolution, supporters of the king sat on the right side of the national assembly and supporters of the revolution sat on the left side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The reply right above yours, posted 47 minutes before yours, has a link to the Apple site where they claim to have created 2 million jobs. This isn't a Trump number, it's an Apple number. It looks like they are counting the employees of any company that makes an IOS app as a job they created.
Yes, how the hell do you think existing power cables get to the "sea floor"? They enter from the shore then they go "through layers of marine environments", in fact they go through the environments where sea life is the most prevalent. If you have data that shows that electrical cables going to the the sea floor from a floating turbine harms sea life then please present it. Speculating on possible harm with no data and no plausible hypothesis doesn't help anyone.
But the constitution doesn't go into detail on what those impeachable offenses are, just "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors". High crimes are crimes against the state by a person in a position of power, like bribery or corruption. If 1/2 House decides that firing Comey was obstruction of justice (another "high crime") and 2/3 of the Senate agrees, then what he did is an impeachable offense whether or not it rises to the level of a criminal offense.
f you own private property, you have property rights from the center of the earth to outer space.
Nope, at least not according to the Supreme Court. Check out US v. Causby. You have rights to the first 365-500 feet. Spoiler:
I'm not mixing up things. From the wiki page:
"Red Dragon is a planned unmanned SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule for low-cost Mars lander missions"
From the Dragon 2 page:
"Dragon 2 (also Crew Dragon, Dragon V2, or formerly DragonRider) is the second version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will be a human-rated vehicle able to make a terrestrial soft landing"
"Designed to ferry astronauts to space"
The Dragon 2 capsule is being developed for commercial crew, and the proposed Red Dragon mission intended to use that capsule for the lander. Red Dragon was a side project to the main goal of SpaceX building a man-rated capsule.
In other news, the US has decided to outsource all henhouse guarding in the country to We Are Foxes, Inc. Proponents claim this will save the country eleventy kajillion dollars per year.
FTFA:
"In 2015 solar provided 6% of Hawaii's electricity."
Wow. 6%. Pretty underwhelming.
The point is that SpaceX is planning on using this version of Dragon for the commercial crew program, so NASA's requirements are VERY relevant to what SpaceX decides to develop. Since NASA's requirements for powered landings are more than SpaceX wanted to meet, they decided not to spend the money to do it.
More reusable than Falcon-9, in fact, since the Falcon 9 throws away the second stage (which tends to be the more expensive part).
Nope, that's just wrong. In a rocket, the most expensive parts are the engines, generally followed by the capsule (which in SpaceX's case is also recovered and reused). The second stage only has 1 engine, the first stage has 9. But don't take my word for it, here is what Elon said about the relative costs:
Fair enough, but it seems that the easy way to avoid breaking the treaty is to apply the laser long enough to kill... an interesting side effect of the law; that death is more acceptable than blinding.
It is the intent of the law. In normal warfare, it is preferable to seriously wound an enemy soldier rather than kill them. Your enemy only loses 1 soldier if you kill them, but if you wound a soldier the enemy additionally has to expend resources to take care of them. It's way too easy to do this with laser weapons so it's better for all sides to just agree not to do that.
Really? It's a direct quote by Sessions but since it's from the evil "liberal media" you immediately dismiss it? Fine, here's the same fucking story from Fox News, so that partisan shitheads like you can believe it. It's people like you, who only believe facts if they are reported by their "team" that make shit like asset forfeiture (and "economic policies, a congress too willing to tax-and-spend-like-the-world's-gonna-end, and special legislative 'regulations' that really do more to protect a single corporate interest") possible. Try actually analyzing the issues yourself instead of just parroting what the party puppetmasters distribute as their "talking points" and you'll be a lot better off, and so will the country.
Maybe he dosent want to kill innocent bystanders or steal thier money with asset forfeiture.
With Sessions at the helm, asset forfeiture is going to get even worse. Sessions said "we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures". If you think the american public is being robbed now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Doesn't help the suspect if they are already dead.
But that number is a double conversion again, they convert all energy usage in the UK to "oil equivalent units" and then he then converts that amount of oil to kWh instead of using actual electricity and oil consumption numbers. I'm not paying $500 to the UN to view their statistics, but if their methodology for the US is also to convert all energy usage to oil I don't think it's a valid comparison.
Your phone doesn't have a 120 volt battery, so you can't compare mAh between your hypothetical battery bank and your "1 phone" unit. Better just to keep the phone battery capacity in Wh, your 3000 mAh battery is nominally 3.7 volts so it holds 11.1 Wh. By your calculation you need 5.5 trillion Wh so you will need in the neighborhood of 495.5 billion phones instead of the 15.2 billion you calculated.
A better comparison would be Tesla powerwalls, since that is probably what Elon used in his calculations. They hold 14,000 Wh and measure 1150 mm x 755 mm x 155 mm. We will need 392.9 million of them to supply your 5.5 trillion Wh. We can fit 2248759 of them in our square mile, so we will need to stack up 147 units, so 22.7 meters high. Pretty tall, but not out of the realm of possibility. Certainly would be a big cooling challenge!