In my opinion the single biggest difference between Communist China and the rest of the failed Communist states (or Democracies for that matter) has been a peaceful leadership change every 10 years and a (unofficial but mostly adhered to) retirement age of 68 from the Party. This has allowed a constant flow of new leaders that have prevented stagnation, introduced new ideas and leadership styles. If they continue, this should lead to the consolidation of the rule of law and institutional memory as the primary drivers of the State
You don't seem to understand that what the FCC is doing is accepting 10/1 wireless links as a acceptable alternative to fixed line 25/3 broadband.
This allows companies to access grants and bid on projects meant to bring broadband to rural and under-served areas. You think anyone will be laying cable now that they can get away with a much cheaper alternative?
I'm afraid you sir are the gullible one
"counterfeit goods that are the exact same as the genuine article" only happens for rebranded off-the-shelf parts/products. Manufacturers would have to be incredibly stupid to risk lawsuits and loosing business by producing custom parts/products "after hours" for the gray/black markets
Many manufacturers use cheaper parts and looser quality control for products destined for lower price point markets. Often the only indication is a single letter on the model number. The manufacturers don't want these models to end up in the higher price point markets, eating at their profits and soiling their reputation. It is a scam they play on the developing world that sometimes ends up biting them in the ass
Contract law is king. All the manufacturer has to do is require the re-seller to sign a contract dictating terms such as minimum pricing as a prerequisite of sale. If the re-seller violates the contract then they are liable for damages.
Such contracts are the reason why you get the incredibly annoying "add the product to the cart to see the sale price"
If there is one lesson to be learned in Trump's age is that the medias ability to influence is severely overblown and can be easily countered with denial, misinformation and straight out lies. If one the richest Corporations in the world decides to own up to their mistakes instead of unleashing their PR department, then there is a lot more going on then a sensational media 'gate
Yes, but actual health care is a pretty big thing to have.
Socialized medicine is all fine and dandy until you're told you need to wait 6 months for your cancer treatment or pay for it yourself.
The waiting lists are for non-urgent or elective care, like a slow-growing benign tumor or a hip-replacement. The reason for that is so they can concentrate on people that need urgent care like maligned cancer without the astronomical healthcare costs we have here in U.S
So does a much flatter income distribution.
How does my neighbour not making more than me benefit me exactly?
Because when you have a small percentage of people making far more then everyone else in the area you get things like the insane San Francisco property prices, that price regular folk out of the market
Japan has been trying to do that for decades now without any success. Japan's population has shrunk by over a million in the past 5 years and it is on track to loose a full %35 by the end of the century. Japan is not alone, in fact every developed nation would have a declining population if it weren't for immigration. It is a simple fact that everywhere childhood mortality is low, families prefer to have fewer babies in order to concentrate their resources on them. The only place on earth still experiencing large population growth is the extremely poor sub-Saharan Africa
These idiot pharmaceutical companies are just going to bring massive government regulation down on their heads by pulling this shit for short-term gains.
These "idiots" specifically target Medicare which is forbidden by law from doing cost/benefit analysis or from negotiating costs, which means that while every private insurance provider will negotiate low costs or threaten to drop them from the covered list, Medicare has no choice but to pay whatever the asking price is.
This of course is by design, Big Pharma spends a lot of money on lobbyists and campaign contributions to keep the gravy train rolling
Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. In a socialist system this vitamin wouldn't even be available because it never would have been developed in the first place.
Tell that to the Colleges and Universities that actually perform most biotech research, largely backed by taxpayer funds. Socialize costs and privatize profits now that's good old American capitalist ingenuity for you
Inexpensive printers: The cost of new printers is quite low, but how long can the printer sit there without printing before it dies?
Most every inkjet printer has a function which will flush a little ink to keep the head from clogging when not used regularly. You just must remember to not leave it powered off accidentally. According to tests Lexmark and HP use up quite a bit of ink for this process. Brother printers wasted the least ink during periods of inactivity
This is not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a specific type of investment fraud, it is not a generic term for highly speculative investment bubbles that will likely lead to huge losses for whomever gets caught holding the bag when the bubble explodes. In fact this is not even a crime. People are knowingly speculating on cryptocurrencies despite the warnings from nearly everyone outside the bubble both from government and private institutions including the FED chairwoman, the SEC, practically all economists, nearly all financial advisors, CEO's, and CFO's, etc,etc. That's the nature of bubbles, the fear of missing out on the frenzy drowns out peoples natural instinct of loss-aversion
Fanciful theory however Occam's razor principle strongly suggests this being a simple bug in the Bios implementation rather then malicious intent. Lenovo is on the hook for the motherboard replacement required to fix the locked Bios for any device that is still under warranty. Seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do just to stop people from being able to remove the Lenovo Server Engine
Products are designed around a set of requirements. All iPhones released in the last couple of years are rated for up to 13 hours of wireless video playback, which is pretty obvious the requirement Apple gives to its engineers for battery life. The engineers will then design the size of the iPhones battery to meet those requirments. Since the components have getting more energy efficient the size of the battery needed to meet those requirements has been decreasing. The iPhones depth size reduction is a consequence of a smaller battery being required rather then it being a primary design goal. If Apple was simply trying to build the thinnest phone it could then you would be seeing a sacrifice in battery life requirements
Helped against one evil (ISIS), allowed another to flourish (Al Assad's regime). Hard to tell if we won or if we lost. One thing we know for sure, during the latest rounds of the Syrian peace talks the U.S was not even invited to the table
Under normal circumstances yes, but this was after the fallout of the Harvey Weinstein scandal which spurred on on a torrent of women coming forward with their stories against a slew of high powered individuals from all walks of life, movie stars, tv personalities, giants of industry, politicians, celebrity Chefs and the President.
Most of them were decent enough to admit their faults and say I'm sorry. Not Trump thou, he denies behavior which he is on tape proudly boasting about. Heck now he wants to call it fake news even thou there are nearly a dozen witnesses, not to mention that it is on tape.
FYI a Presidental term is 4 years. He needs to earn that second term and if Trump's disapproval ratings are any indication he has about the same chances as a snowball in Texas
Fortunately the people of Alabama agreed that our public officials should be held to a higher moral standard than the Criminal Justice system which sets a very high bar for proving criminal culpability. Not even the trifecta of Trump, FOX news and Breitbart were enough to convince them otherwise
The statue of limitations on his alleged crimes ran out long ago. Alabama law was later changed to remove the statute of limitations for "any sex offense involving a victim under 16 years of age." However, the change only applied to crimes committed after 1985. The last of the accusations date from 1979, that means he can't be charged in Alabama's Criminal Court system.
That would have left a Senate ethics investigation as the only way to remove Roy Moore. The ethics committee could recommend expulsion after which you would need a 2./3 majority to proceed with the explusion. The GOP would have had to think long and hard about removing a Senator that was elected with his constituents being fully aware of his alleged behavior thou, as that would have more then likely caused a backlash from Alabama GOP voters and cost them dearly in subsequent elections. Despite loosing a seat in a already tiny majority (with the vice-president as the tie breaker it is now effectively 52-49), it is likely the GOP leadership is breathing a sigh of relief having dodged a political hand grande
Sure its incredibly easy to replace an iPhone battery. All you have to do is brute force a glass covered LCD out of its encasement. What could possibly go wrong?!
FYI: If you take it to a shop and they screw up and breaks the LCD, the replacement will be a cheap knockoff.
I wouldn't exactly say it's cooler, but it's something that any good theory of gravity is going to need to explain, and we need a new theory of gravity, because General Relativity doesn't play nice with quantum physics...but they both seem correct everywhere we can test either of them (usually, though, we can't test them in the same places).
Before a quantum gravity theory, first we need a more complete Quantum Mechanics theory
It has been demonstrated that it is impossible to renormalize gravity in Quantum field theory (part of QM) without the use of extra dimensions. At least not without the addition of Supersymetry to QM, a theory which has been taking a bruising lately from LHC data (the simplest SUSY model has already been ruled out.)
QFT was widely believed to be truly fundamental but largely due to the continued failures of quantization of general relativity, the consensus is that it is only a very good low-energy approximation and there has to be something more fundamental (like Newton's laws are an approximation of GR which work for non-relativistic speeds and low gravitational fields)
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In my opinion the single biggest difference between Communist China and the rest of the failed Communist states (or Democracies for that matter) has been a peaceful leadership change every 10 years and a (unofficial but mostly adhered to) retirement age of 68 from the Party. This has allowed a constant flow of new leaders that have prevented stagnation, introduced new ideas and leadership styles. If they continue, this should lead to the consolidation of the rule of law and institutional memory as the primary drivers of the State
You don't seem to understand that what the FCC is doing is accepting 10/1 wireless links as a acceptable alternative to fixed line 25/3 broadband. This allows companies to access grants and bid on projects meant to bring broadband to rural and under-served areas. You think anyone will be laying cable now that they can get away with a much cheaper alternative? I'm afraid you sir are the gullible one
"counterfeit goods that are the exact same as the genuine article" only happens for rebranded off-the-shelf parts/products. Manufacturers would have to be incredibly stupid to risk lawsuits and loosing business by producing custom parts/products "after hours" for the gray/black markets
Many manufacturers use cheaper parts and looser quality control for products destined for lower price point markets. Often the only indication is a single letter on the model number. The manufacturers don't want these models to end up in the higher price point markets, eating at their profits and soiling their reputation. It is a scam they play on the developing world that sometimes ends up biting them in the ass
Such contracts are the reason why you get the incredibly annoying "add the product to the cart to see the sale price"
Its the .com craze all over again
If there is one lesson to be learned in Trump's age is that the medias ability to influence is severely overblown and can be easily countered with denial, misinformation and straight out lies. If one the richest Corporations in the world decides to own up to their mistakes instead of unleashing their PR department, then there is a lot more going on then a sensational media 'gate
1.) Unless your phone has been infected with cryptomining malware, the single biggest drain of battery power will always be the display.
2.) The 2 most important factors in battery life are recharge cycles and temperature conditions.
In short, to maximaize battery life, move to somewhere with temperate weather and turn on the screen as little as possible.
For yourself, and the tiny fractions of users like you
For most of us battery degradation is a very real concern and your post is just an idiotic rant
Yes, but actual health care is a pretty big thing to have.
Socialized medicine is all fine and dandy until you're told you need to wait 6 months for your cancer treatment or pay for it yourself.
The waiting lists are for non-urgent or elective care, like a slow-growing benign tumor or a hip-replacement. The reason for that is so they can concentrate on people that need urgent care like maligned cancer without the astronomical healthcare costs we have here in U.S
So does a much flatter income distribution.
How does my neighbour not making more than me benefit me exactly?
Because when you have a small percentage of people making far more then everyone else in the area you get things like the insane San Francisco property prices, that price regular folk out of the market
Japan has been trying to do that for decades now without any success. Japan's population has shrunk by over a million in the past 5 years and it is on track to loose a full %35 by the end of the century. Japan is not alone, in fact every developed nation would have a declining population if it weren't for immigration. It is a simple fact that everywhere childhood mortality is low, families prefer to have fewer babies in order to concentrate their resources on them. The only place on earth still experiencing large population growth is the extremely poor sub-Saharan Africa
These idiot pharmaceutical companies are just going to bring massive government regulation down on their heads by pulling this shit for short-term gains .
These "idiots" specifically target Medicare which is forbidden by law from doing cost/benefit analysis or from negotiating costs, which means that while every private insurance provider will negotiate low costs or threaten to drop them from the covered list, Medicare has no choice but to pay whatever the asking price is.
This of course is by design, Big Pharma spends a lot of money on lobbyists and campaign contributions to keep the gravy train rolling
Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. In a socialist system this vitamin wouldn't even be available because it never would have been developed in the first place.
Tell that to the Colleges and Universities that actually perform most biotech research, largely backed by taxpayer funds. Socialize costs and privatize profits now that's good old American capitalist ingenuity for you
Watch out for your own best interest. Your employer will be doing the same
Inexpensive printers: The cost of new printers is quite low, but how long can the printer sit there without printing before it dies? Most every inkjet printer has a function which will flush a little ink to keep the head from clogging when not used regularly. You just must remember to not leave it powered off accidentally. According to tests Lexmark and HP use up quite a bit of ink for this process. Brother printers wasted the least ink during periods of inactivity
This is not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a specific type of investment fraud, it is not a generic term for highly speculative investment bubbles that will likely lead to huge losses for whomever gets caught holding the bag when the bubble explodes. In fact this is not even a crime. People are knowingly speculating on cryptocurrencies despite the warnings from nearly everyone outside the bubble both from government and private institutions including the FED chairwoman, the SEC, practically all economists, nearly all financial advisors, CEO's, and CFO's, etc,etc. That's the nature of bubbles, the fear of missing out on the frenzy drowns out peoples natural instinct of loss-aversion
Fanciful theory however Occam's razor principle strongly suggests this being a simple bug in the Bios implementation rather then malicious intent. Lenovo is on the hook for the motherboard replacement required to fix the locked Bios for any device that is still under warranty. Seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do just to stop people from being able to remove the Lenovo Server Engine
Products are designed around a set of requirements. All iPhones released in the last couple of years are rated for up to 13 hours of wireless video playback, which is pretty obvious the requirement Apple gives to its engineers for battery life. The engineers will then design the size of the iPhones battery to meet those requirments. Since the components have getting more energy efficient the size of the battery needed to meet those requirements has been decreasing. The iPhones depth size reduction is a consequence of a smaller battery being required rather then it being a primary design goal. If Apple was simply trying to build the thinnest phone it could then you would be seeing a sacrifice in battery life requirements
Anybody know if the issue is a bug in the driver code or is the driver inadvertently exposing a faulty bios implementations
Helped against one evil (ISIS), allowed another to flourish (Al Assad's regime). Hard to tell if we won or if we lost. One thing we know for sure, during the latest rounds of the Syrian peace talks the U.S was not even invited to the table
FYI a Presidental term is 4 years. He needs to earn that second term and if Trump's disapproval ratings are any indication he has about the same chances as a snowball in Texas
Fortunately the people of Alabama agreed that our public officials should be held to a higher moral standard than the Criminal Justice system which sets a very high bar for proving criminal culpability. Not even the trifecta of Trump, FOX news and Breitbart were enough to convince them otherwise
That would have left a Senate ethics investigation as the only way to remove Roy Moore. The ethics committee could recommend expulsion after which you would need a 2./3 majority to proceed with the explusion. The GOP would have had to think long and hard about removing a Senator that was elected with his constituents being fully aware of his alleged behavior thou, as that would have more then likely caused a backlash from Alabama GOP voters and cost them dearly in subsequent elections. Despite loosing a seat in a already tiny majority (with the vice-president as the tie breaker it is now effectively 52-49), it is likely the GOP leadership is breathing a sigh of relief having dodged a political hand grande
FYI: If you take it to a shop and they screw up and breaks the LCD, the replacement will be a cheap knockoff.
I wouldn't exactly say it's cooler, but it's something that any good theory of gravity is going to need to explain, and we need a new theory of gravity, because General Relativity doesn't play nice with quantum physics...but they both seem correct everywhere we can test either of them (usually, though, we can't test them in the same places).
Before a quantum gravity theory, first we need a more complete Quantum Mechanics theory
It has been demonstrated that it is impossible to renormalize gravity in Quantum field theory (part of QM) without the use of extra dimensions. At least not without the addition of Supersymetry to QM, a theory which has been taking a bruising lately from LHC data (the simplest SUSY model has already been ruled out.)
QFT was widely believed to be truly fundamental but largely due to the continued failures of quantization of general relativity, the consensus is that it is only a very good low-energy approximation and there has to be something more fundamental (like Newton's laws are an approximation of GR which work for non-relativistic speeds and low gravitational fields)
AT&t cellular internet has a datacap of 1Terabyte after which it gets very expensive. tethering via cell phone is even more expensive
DirecTv and Dish are Satellite and suffer from slow speeds and very high latency, not good for anything unless you live in the Bush
Frontier DSL is very slow.
that leaves Cable as the only real choice which is how you get your internet, as does most of the country.
Stop pretending you have real alternatives