Cities have to provide more services now and some services to a higher quality than what they did decades ago. Higher level governments have downloaded services onto cities in order to balance their budgets but didn't provide enough funding for it, if any at all.
The cost to provide water is more expensive over time as treatment is more complex to make it safe to drink. It wasn't that long ago that it was considered fine to dump raw sewage into any large lake, river, or ocean. Now the municipality has to pay to treat the sewage to usually at least a quality good enough to bath in (in Ontario). Waste handling costs more to pickup and dispose now. Dump sites are much more advanced to stop leaks. Recycling programs didn't 50 years ago. Many more things have become more advanced and expensive.
These are the people that just told everyone that Sharp stands for shit TVs with the lawsuit and wants the brand name back. Then they'll wonder why the sales have tanked along with the brand image in a couple quarters. It's not like there are a bunch of geniuses running the show over at Sharp.
And can they be sued for false negatives? If someone commits suicide but the family finds out that they system didn't flag them as a risk then are they at risk for a lawsuit? I'm sure that someone will sue but what the courts decide their responsibility was is a different matter.
I doubt the person would get locked away for the week but I'm sure that a visit from a social worker or someone with some training in spotting the signs of someone who might commit suicide soon would be sent. Which then leads into what happens if that person lets the person stay out and the suicide happens?
The creators of the program should have just thought about the legal problems and never built the thing or hope that they have some really good lawyers.
How about fixing the app first! I'm tired of having to clear up podcasts that haven't been removed if I listened to it on my computer. If I'm at my computer I'm going to listen to my podcast with my computer because I have better speakers attached to it. When I sync my phone those episodes are marked as played but aren't removed from the list. If I play an episode on the iPhone it gets marked as played and removed from the list. They took the ability to set the rating (it disappeared in Music too but there's only a setting to return it for Music). I swear that these people don't use the products they work on.
I'm just getting tired of Apple always adding in shiny new features while ignoring what needs to be fixed. I hate to think what changes they are going to make with iOS 11 that will make it more difficult to use. Things keep needing more steps to complete. It used to be about hiding the complexity and making the devices easy to use. That philosophy is gone in order to make more money.
It's not directly interesting to listeners. I know that CBC Radio dropped some of their podcasts because they couldn't get this information (how many times it was listened to, if any) and went to streaming only. It sucks for me because streaming doesn't work for me at all. I liked having the episodes just show up for me automatically but with streaming I always have to remember to go and listen to it. Then with streaming, at least with their system when it started, I had to use my cell data if I was out on the go. Maybe with these changes they will bring it back but I don't like my usage data being sent back so if I can't shut it off I'm going to find another podcast app.
Maybe if the US didn't have to make things so overly complicated on voting day by having electronic voting booths then you wouldn't have to worry about hacking. Hand the voter a couple of ballots, one for each thing they are voting for, and they put an X on each one. It's simple and it works. Secure and easy to (re)count.
But then there's this fascination of voting for so many positions. Like clerks. Why do you need to vote for clerks? They are part of the civil service. And some states elect judges. WTF? There's nothing to run on to be a judge. You apply the law without prejudice. At least you are supposed to. (Something else I don't understand about the US as you have judges that bring their own interpretation based on their beliefs.).
Cut down on the number of elected positions and you have a couple of ballots for people to mark which means they can use paper like many places in the world where it works quite well.
Some good news about China stealing the information because if they have taken the plans for the F-35 their fighter program will be set back by decades!
Documentaries by Iain Stewart from the BBC such as - Earth: The Power of the Planet - Rise of the Continents
Life on Mars (UK Edition) - A police drama with bits of comedy and a sci-fi twist. Set in the 1970s and good music
Ashes to Ashes - Follow up to Life on Mars and explains what finally happens to the characters.
Being Human (UK Edition) - A vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf live together trying to have a normal life
This is Not My Life (New Zealand) - Drama with some sci-fi in it
The Almighty Johnsons (New Zealand) - Comedy where brothers are the Norse gods living in New Zealand
Underbelly (Australia) - Based on real life drug king/queen pins in various eras of Australia (1 season set in NZ)
Babylon 5 - Old. Set in space in a couple of hundred years from now. My favourite show. Graphics have aged but the story is still amazing as it carries over the whole 5 seasons (though the fifth season isn't the greatest). Creator planned out whole story before filming started so everything fits together.
The June 9, 2017 edition of the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast (from the people that research for the Qi show) talk about the British election and spend a lot of time on the fringe candidates such as Lord Buckethead, Mr. Fishfinger, and Elmo. It's a very good podcast in general too.
I know that the Brits like to push that commentary about standing all alone but they did have lots of help. I certainly don't mean to take away from their courageous stand. But the Commonwealth countries were there helping the UK throughout that time. Many Canadians lost their lives on convoy duty to keep critical supplies moving over from North America. Many of the pilots were from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and trained in Canada before fighting in the Battle of Britain. Soldiers came from all over the Commonwealth long before the US got bloodied.
Now it must have been terrible and a completely different experience for the citizens of the UK (and the rest of Europe, parts of Africa, and parts of Asia) than in North America and the rest of the world. I can certainly see how it would have seemed like being all alone. They were very lucky to have the right person come into leadership. I hate to imagine what someone like May would have done.
The UK has a proud history of fringe candidates running in elections. In May's riding there was Lord Buckethead who may have been the same person who ran in two other elections. There has been a Lord Buckethead running in those two elections but since they never took their bucket off of their head it's not known if it's the same person.
This is what you get in systems when there is no penalty when someone lies to try to get elected or to win a referendum. Toss the main leaders of the Leave side of the referendum into jail for 25 years for their lies and you will see it stop pretty quick. Toss May in there too for holding a snap election when she promised not to hold one when there wasn't a need for one. Toss Trump in for what he said he would do during his first 100 days but didn't do. Trudeau in Canada has broken some promises that could earn jail time. They get a trail to try to defend their actions but since some of the Leave side have admitted their lies it would be hard for them to get out of it.
Of course the big problem with this is that it requires the politicians to set it up and they aren't going to do something that would see them go to jail so easily.
I don't think Facebook knows the meaning of the word nice. There's always something in it for them. The trick is to find out what. Imagine if all government communication went through FB and if you wanted to talk to someone you needed to sign up with FB. Great way to get the holdouts to get on board.
Last week there was a city meeting about an infrastructure project that is going on and if you couldn't make it to the meeting they said you could watch it on FB. I didn't bother trying since I don't have an account. It would have been nice to see what was going on with the project but I wasn't curious enough to give away my privacy. But what happens later on when more important stuff is only available through FB? I hope that someone writes a law that says FB must not require an account and can't create hooks in order to track you while interacting with those services on FB but I doubt it.
Just because the physical stores are closed it doesn't mean the IT shop closes down. Financial reports are generated from the stores, orders to move stock are generated automatically, sales are analyzed, HR, payroll, orders to suppliers are created, etc. Oh yeah, the web site is running and taking orders 24/7.
And then you'll go to Home Depot. Same shit, different label. It's everyone, including me, who goes to these big box stores that validates their business model to squeeze every last cent out of the system for what it costs to deliver the goods to the customer.
If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place. Not that there are many of these stores around.
As an aside, have you ever noticed these coffee places that proudly announce their fair trade coffee but then still pay their employees minimum wage. If they were really living up to their values shouldn't they be paying their employees a living wage too?
But that's not how you get cheap food that Big Agri likes to produce. I agree with you but it's not going to happen because the big corporations won't go for it and most people won't go for it either because it means their burgers and steaks will go up in price. Packing cows into a feedlot, filling them full of antibiotics, and stuffing them full of GMO corn produces very relatively inexpensive meat but at a tremendous cost that we are starting to pay.
Where in the world does he think having the teams winning record being available makes it accountable? Just because everyone knows if his basketball team loses 10 games in a row it doesn't hold the people responsible for the losses to account and it certainly doesn't fix the problem. Accountability is taking responsibility for how things are. I don't see many coaches that get fired give up the remaining money on their contract. How many players give some of their money back for having a bad year? No matter what the players get paid. It doesn't matter if the team wins the league or comes in last they get the same amount of money (unless there's bonuses). If the team gets blown out at home do the fans get their tickets refunded for the bad performance? Of course not. That would be accountability.
I think Ballmer saw account in the word and thought it was like accounting.
So now Trump has started to sell, or at least he wants to, assets of the government. Doesn't this sound like a certain friend of his that sold the assets of another country to their rich elite in exchange for their loyalty? Of course the US doesn't have oil companies to sell but there are lots of other things that Trump can sell to the wealthy people of America. It won't help him stay President longer than 4 or 8 years but afterwards he could find himself on the boards of many companies owned by his new friends and earning generous compensation packages.
It's all about what Trump can grab and the US government is the worlds largest piggy bank. He's been breaking the law by using his position to influence people to use his businesses since he was elected. I wonder what else he's been doing to enhance his fortune.
Print the page and save it as a PDF. Does Windows have this ability built in yet? A long time ago I used to have to get a utility when I was using Windows to print to PDF. I think one of them was called CutePDF. Not as handy as sharing a link but it's something.
I want Rupert to walk 10 metres behind it my herd of elephants picking up what they leave the day after I've let the elephants gorged on fruit and vegetables. No shovel, gloves, or boots are allowed.
Trump walks behind the elephants at 5 metres in just a t-shirt and a pair of shorts.
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Cities have to provide more services now and some services to a higher quality than what they did decades ago. Higher level governments have downloaded services onto cities in order to balance their budgets but didn't provide enough funding for it, if any at all.
The cost to provide water is more expensive over time as treatment is more complex to make it safe to drink. It wasn't that long ago that it was considered fine to dump raw sewage into any large lake, river, or ocean. Now the municipality has to pay to treat the sewage to usually at least a quality good enough to bath in (in Ontario). Waste handling costs more to pickup and dispose now. Dump sites are much more advanced to stop leaks. Recycling programs didn't 50 years ago. Many more things have become more advanced and expensive.
Yes but these are the same type of programmers that think that doing the error checking in Javascript is good enough.
These are the people that just told everyone that Sharp stands for shit TVs with the lawsuit and wants the brand name back. Then they'll wonder why the sales have tanked along with the brand image in a couple quarters. It's not like there are a bunch of geniuses running the show over at Sharp.
And can they be sued for false negatives? If someone commits suicide but the family finds out that they system didn't flag them as a risk then are they at risk for a lawsuit? I'm sure that someone will sue but what the courts decide their responsibility was is a different matter.
I doubt the person would get locked away for the week but I'm sure that a visit from a social worker or someone with some training in spotting the signs of someone who might commit suicide soon would be sent. Which then leads into what happens if that person lets the person stay out and the suicide happens?
The creators of the program should have just thought about the legal problems and never built the thing or hope that they have some really good lawyers.
How about fixing the app first! I'm tired of having to clear up podcasts that haven't been removed if I listened to it on my computer. If I'm at my computer I'm going to listen to my podcast with my computer because I have better speakers attached to it. When I sync my phone those episodes are marked as played but aren't removed from the list. If I play an episode on the iPhone it gets marked as played and removed from the list. They took the ability to set the rating (it disappeared in Music too but there's only a setting to return it for Music). I swear that these people don't use the products they work on.
I'm just getting tired of Apple always adding in shiny new features while ignoring what needs to be fixed. I hate to think what changes they are going to make with iOS 11 that will make it more difficult to use. Things keep needing more steps to complete. It used to be about hiding the complexity and making the devices easy to use. That philosophy is gone in order to make more money.
It's not directly interesting to listeners. I know that CBC Radio dropped some of their podcasts because they couldn't get this information (how many times it was listened to, if any) and went to streaming only. It sucks for me because streaming doesn't work for me at all. I liked having the episodes just show up for me automatically but with streaming I always have to remember to go and listen to it. Then with streaming, at least with their system when it started, I had to use my cell data if I was out on the go. Maybe with these changes they will bring it back but I don't like my usage data being sent back so if I can't shut it off I'm going to find another podcast app.
Maybe if the US didn't have to make things so overly complicated on voting day by having electronic voting booths then you wouldn't have to worry about hacking. Hand the voter a couple of ballots, one for each thing they are voting for, and they put an X on each one. It's simple and it works. Secure and easy to (re)count.
But then there's this fascination of voting for so many positions. Like clerks. Why do you need to vote for clerks? They are part of the civil service. And some states elect judges. WTF? There's nothing to run on to be a judge. You apply the law without prejudice. At least you are supposed to. (Something else I don't understand about the US as you have judges that bring their own interpretation based on their beliefs.).
Cut down on the number of elected positions and you have a couple of ballots for people to mark which means they can use paper like many places in the world where it works quite well.
Some good news about China stealing the information because if they have taken the plans for the F-35 their fighter program will be set back by decades!
Documentaries by Iain Stewart from the BBC such as
- Earth: The Power of the Planet
- Rise of the Continents
Life on Mars (UK Edition) - A police drama with bits of comedy and a sci-fi twist. Set in the 1970s and good music
Ashes to Ashes - Follow up to Life on Mars and explains what finally happens to the characters.
Being Human (UK Edition) - A vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf live together trying to have a normal life
This is Not My Life (New Zealand) - Drama with some sci-fi in it
The Almighty Johnsons (New Zealand) - Comedy where brothers are the Norse gods living in New Zealand
Underbelly (Australia) - Based on real life drug king/queen pins in various eras of Australia (1 season set in NZ)
Babylon 5 - Old. Set in space in a couple of hundred years from now. My favourite show. Graphics have aged but the story is still amazing as it carries over the whole 5 seasons (though the fifth season isn't the greatest). Creator planned out whole story before filming started so everything fits together.
I prefer Zooqle compared to TPB as it shows the media info of the file and it groups the torrents by resolution for each episode.
The June 9, 2017 edition of the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast (from the people that research for the Qi show) talk about the British election and spend a lot of time on the fringe candidates such as Lord Buckethead, Mr. Fishfinger, and Elmo. It's a very good podcast in general too.
I know that the Brits like to push that commentary about standing all alone but they did have lots of help. I certainly don't mean to take away from their courageous stand. But the Commonwealth countries were there helping the UK throughout that time. Many Canadians lost their lives on convoy duty to keep critical supplies moving over from North America. Many of the pilots were from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and trained in Canada before fighting in the Battle of Britain. Soldiers came from all over the Commonwealth long before the US got bloodied.
Now it must have been terrible and a completely different experience for the citizens of the UK (and the rest of Europe, parts of Africa, and parts of Asia) than in North America and the rest of the world. I can certainly see how it would have seemed like being all alone. They were very lucky to have the right person come into leadership. I hate to imagine what someone like May would have done.
The UK has a proud history of fringe candidates running in elections. In May's riding there was Lord Buckethead who may have been the same person who ran in two other elections. There has been a Lord Buckethead running in those two elections but since they never took their bucket off of their head it's not known if it's the same person.
You should look at the DUP with which May just partnered with. They are the hard-core Republicans.
Not enough to kick her to the curb though.
This is what you get in systems when there is no penalty when someone lies to try to get elected or to win a referendum. Toss the main leaders of the Leave side of the referendum into jail for 25 years for their lies and you will see it stop pretty quick. Toss May in there too for holding a snap election when she promised not to hold one when there wasn't a need for one. Toss Trump in for what he said he would do during his first 100 days but didn't do. Trudeau in Canada has broken some promises that could earn jail time. They get a trail to try to defend their actions but since some of the Leave side have admitted their lies it would be hard for them to get out of it.
Of course the big problem with this is that it requires the politicians to set it up and they aren't going to do something that would see them go to jail so easily.
I don't think Facebook knows the meaning of the word nice. There's always something in it for them. The trick is to find out what. Imagine if all government communication went through FB and if you wanted to talk to someone you needed to sign up with FB. Great way to get the holdouts to get on board.
Last week there was a city meeting about an infrastructure project that is going on and if you couldn't make it to the meeting they said you could watch it on FB. I didn't bother trying since I don't have an account. It would have been nice to see what was going on with the project but I wasn't curious enough to give away my privacy. But what happens later on when more important stuff is only available through FB? I hope that someone writes a law that says FB must not require an account and can't create hooks in order to track you while interacting with those services on FB but I doubt it.
Just because the physical stores are closed it doesn't mean the IT shop closes down. Financial reports are generated from the stores, orders to move stock are generated automatically, sales are analyzed, HR, payroll, orders to suppliers are created, etc. Oh yeah, the web site is running and taking orders 24/7.
And then you'll go to Home Depot. Same shit, different label. It's everyone, including me, who goes to these big box stores that validates their business model to squeeze every last cent out of the system for what it costs to deliver the goods to the customer.
If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place. Not that there are many of these stores around.
As an aside, have you ever noticed these coffee places that proudly announce their fair trade coffee but then still pay their employees minimum wage. If they were really living up to their values shouldn't they be paying their employees a living wage too?
But that's not how you get cheap food that Big Agri likes to produce. I agree with you but it's not going to happen because the big corporations won't go for it and most people won't go for it either because it means their burgers and steaks will go up in price. Packing cows into a feedlot, filling them full of antibiotics, and stuffing them full of GMO corn produces very relatively inexpensive meat but at a tremendous cost that we are starting to pay.
Where in the world does he think having the teams winning record being available makes it accountable? Just because everyone knows if his basketball team loses 10 games in a row it doesn't hold the people responsible for the losses to account and it certainly doesn't fix the problem. Accountability is taking responsibility for how things are. I don't see many coaches that get fired give up the remaining money on their contract. How many players give some of their money back for having a bad year? No matter what the players get paid. It doesn't matter if the team wins the league or comes in last they get the same amount of money (unless there's bonuses). If the team gets blown out at home do the fans get their tickets refunded for the bad performance? Of course not. That would be accountability.
I think Ballmer saw account in the word and thought it was like accounting.
So now Trump has started to sell, or at least he wants to, assets of the government. Doesn't this sound like a certain friend of his that sold the assets of another country to their rich elite in exchange for their loyalty? Of course the US doesn't have oil companies to sell but there are lots of other things that Trump can sell to the wealthy people of America. It won't help him stay President longer than 4 or 8 years but afterwards he could find himself on the boards of many companies owned by his new friends and earning generous compensation packages.
It's all about what Trump can grab and the US government is the worlds largest piggy bank. He's been breaking the law by using his position to influence people to use his businesses since he was elected. I wonder what else he's been doing to enhance his fortune.
He probably thinks all of the wires in the sky needs replacing as he heard recently that the planes are fly by wire.
Print the page and save it as a PDF. Does Windows have this ability built in yet? A long time ago I used to have to get a utility when I was using Windows to print to PDF. I think one of them was called CutePDF. Not as handy as sharing a link but it's something.
I want Rupert to walk 10 metres behind it my herd of elephants picking up what they leave the day after I've let the elephants gorged on fruit and vegetables. No shovel, gloves, or boots are allowed.
Trump walks behind the elephants at 5 metres in just a t-shirt and a pair of shorts.