I hate to break it to you, but I worked in Europe for seven years in product development in the medical field. Medical device certification in the EU is a joke compared with the US. If you donâ(TM)t believe me, you can ask some Diesel engineers from VW. Or look at birth defects from sleeping pills in Europe.
The relationship between politics and industry in EU is much closer than it has historically been in the US. But that is rapidly changing under the current administration. If trends continue, maybe weâ(TM)ll have more planes fall from the sky or babies being born with flippers.
Nunes is from a family that primarily made it's money by ranching.....The cows were shipped to Iowa many years ago. Nunes has about as much connection to living, breathing cattle as Theresa May does.
But that hasn't stopped Nunez from collecting millions in federal agriculture subsidies for cattle he doesn't even own. Maybe the department of agriculture should count Nunez's cattle. We could all help him out, by dressing in cow suits and grazing near his home.
Nope, this has nothing to do with crony socialism. It's all about crony capitalism, and all you need to do is just follow the oil... The Koch Brothers own a refinery in Corpus Christi, TX. This refinery cannot process light Texas crude, but is rather designed to process heavy crude, such as that found in Venezuela. Since 1999, Koch Brothers have had a problem, Hugo Chavez and now Maduro, because they nationalized the oil industry and could arbitrarily set the price for their crude oil. The Kochs could either pay that price, or shut down their refinery. The Koch's had one other option, Canadian tar sands The Koch brothers lobbied for Phase 4 of the Keystone-XL Pipeline from Canada to Texas for their refinery. Koch Brothers Positioned To Be Big Winners If Keystone XL Pipeline Is Approved by David Sassoon.
The the mainstream media won't report on this, or just parts of it. Our right-wing media has turned Venezuela into a giant socialist red flag, that they wave in front of their viewers to blind them from the truth and keep them from demanding better health care or discredit young politicians who are trying to actually represent their constituents. The bigger picture is we have industrialists who have purchased a humanitarian crises to enhance their own bottom line. I was in Iraq twice, looking for WMDs and to "save babies from being ripped out of incubators" by Saddam Hussein, and although I am no longer in the military, I do know the U.S government actively worked to destabilize governments in the Middle East for economic reasons, and I have no reason to believe Venezuela is any different. Do some research and you will come to the same conclusion.
Up until very recently airline training in stall recovery emphasized minimum altitude loss. If you allowed the nose to drop, by reducing the AOA, you might loose too much altitude and fail the training event. You were supposed to use thrust and preserve altitude. This procedure works in an approach to a stall, where the airplane isnât yet in a stalled condition, but is ineffective in a fully developed stall. After Colgan Air, the industry has changed how Stall recovery is trained to, emphasizing reducing the angle of attack then recovery from the unusual attitude. Itâ(TM)s not that airline pilots forgot how to recover from a stall, itâ(TM)s more that they were trained in the Simulator wrongly and then utilized an inappropriate procedure in an actual emergency.
Could be muslim terrorists. Both crashed from heavily predominant Muslim countries.
Time for a Goodwin's Law 2.0: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of somebody blaming Islamic terrorists or Muslims in general approaches 1."
CEO compensation is closely tied to "shareholder value". Voicing concerns about a recession or loss of revenue is bad for "shareholder value" and CEO compensation. CEOs will never see a recession coming, at least not publicly, but I would expect many to quietly adjust their personal exposure.
Nope, I have to use a high-impedance piezo earphones for that, and they connect with screw posts on my Eddison. You kiddos with your 3.5 mm headphone jacks, Bluetooth, and all.
Come on Apple, you can do better. Where's a better product? Where did the SE 2 go? I'm sorry people aren't lining up to buy your latest models. Maybe your prices are just too damn high given our current economy and you don't have any compelling new features to sell.
Trolling is really just a cop out and a sign of desperation. It means you're all out of ideas and you have nothing new to offer. So you resort to trolling your rivals. We see this all the time in our politics, and now companies are trolling too and thinking it's normal? That's not cool.
could it be that of all people the right takes security more seriously than the pie-in-the-sky people ? Just an idea....
I very highly doubt the AfD has better computer security than anyone else, unless they've gone completely off line and are using carrier pigeons to pass notes written in invisible ink using some ancient Masonic code. Or the more likely scenario, the hackers are seeking to hurt one political party and assist another one in support their own external agenda, such as weakening Germany's involvement in the EU and in NATO.
Even longer fan. Had an Apple//e back when it was new. Apple's been down this road before, and almost went out of business because they (1) thought they had the best products and ignored the competition, (2) assumed they could charge customers whatever they wanted, and (3) had the slowest upgrade cycle in the industry. I see a lot of parallels between Apple today under Tim Cook and Apple in the post- pre- Steve Jobs era and they're making the same false assumptions. I suspect the people at the top have their billions, so they could care less about the long-term health of the company.
There is nothing in the Bay Area that is remotely close to being a "slum". The 3 bedroom house is worth at least $1.5M.
What makes the home worth $1.5M? Location, that's it. The structure could be a total wreck, and the land on which it sits, would still be worth 1.5M. Ancient Rome had slums too, and I'm sure many sat on valuable real estate.
The housing prices are so high that you can't live there with a low-wage job. People just move to somewhere else.
Yes. And even if you could theoretically afford it, why bother? What's the point to working if you just give everything away in rent, taxes, debt/mortgage payments. That's basically just indentured servitude by other means.
Bluetooth headphones were made for making phone calls, not listening to music....
I agree, but only to a point. I use high-quality wired headphones on my home stereo, as it was designed specifically for rendering music with the highest-fidelity possible. That would be lost with a bluetooth headphone. OTOH, no iPhone and other small portable device is really audiophile quality, and I don't think bluetooth is necessarily any better or worse on such a device.
In other words, a Computer can beat the best human chess player. But a computer will never invent Chess. Or in the real world, a Computer may help diagnose a disease based on symptoms and observation, but it will never discover a new kind of cure.
....Some people make poor choices and that isn't a justification for an economic policy that doesn't make sense. A national minimum wage of $15 an hour make zero sense.....
So you're saying anyone working at minimum wage made poor choices. Everybody has to start out somewhere, and I would argue that minimum wage jobs are far better than living off the dole. Some people are motivated, and I personally know one person who worked his way up from burger flipper to manager to franchise owner and he is doing very well. Did he make a poor choice becoming a burger flipper and staying there? I know other people who will probably always be stuck at minimum wage, some are not very intelligent, some are handicapped, some had bad family backgrounds and never had good educational opportunities. We need to stop punishing poor- or working- people. Not for their sake, but for our own as a stable and prosperous country. There are many wealthy children who are lazy and make far worse choices, but they don't seem to ever face any consequences.
You should never measure tax cuts against deficits and debt..... They should only be measured against TAX REVENUES. If you cut taxes and overall revenues go up, (because the economy is stimulated and growth drives it) then the tax cut is a benefit to the country as a whole......
Your statement is mathematically provable. Just calculate the required economic growth required to increase tax revenues at the lower tax rate. If the required economic growth is greater than the projected growth due to the stimulus effects, then the tax cut is revenue positive. The problem with all these tax cuts, going all the way back to Reagan is the required economic growth to maintain revenue neutrality has always been much greater than the stimulative effect and the net result is increased government debt. But you won't ever see Paul Ryan or any other GOP congressman openly show how much economic growth would be required to maintain revenue neutrality. That is because they know the tax cuts will explode the deficit without significant government spending reductions.
Minimum wage adjusted for inflation was $11.68 in 1968. A $15 minimum wage would only be $3.32 more, which is less than a dollar per decade pay raise. Today's federal minimum wage is $7.25, even though health care, housing, education, transportation, etc. are all much, much, much more expensive. This is the reason there's a major disconnect across all party lines, between the well-to-do in our society and people who barely manage to get by.
In another year, your life's savings will have evaporated in the worst market meltdown in history, and Bitcoin will be the only form of money that still works reliably.
You're making it very easy to not feel sorry for you.
BitCoin requires a network infrastructure to function. If civilization ends, or there's a major currency collapse, that infrastructure will not be there.
Imho Bitcoin, block chain, etc. are all just a digital version of the old pyramid scheme because both require exponential growth to succeed, create an illusion of creating wealth, and their participants are completely emotional in defending their legitimacy and will throw out 10000 excuses why the powers that be don't want Bitcoin, etc to succeed or how it will "change everything". Bitcoin mining produces nothing of value and consumes valuable resources; the 21st century equivalent of spinning hay into gold. But even if blockchain did manage to produce a viable alternative to cash, it doesn't solve any problem that most people have. If you work for a living, you're getting paid in Dollars, Euros, Pesos, etc. You still have to convert that to a digital currency in order to complete a transaction in that currency. Why bother, as most people take the path of least resistance and will just buy in their Dollars, etc. International transactions, the same, there are far more efficient ways to convert Dollars to Euros, etc. than to go Dollar -> BTC -> Euro. At least when I go direct Dollar to Euro, I know what I'm getting on the other side. With BTC in the middle, it's a crap shoot and the transaction cost is much higher.
Please/. no more articles about Bitcoin market movements. This has nothing to do with science, technology, or news for nerds that matters. No matter where an asset moves, up, down, sideways, - unexercised options are always worthless.
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I hate to break it to you, but I worked in Europe for seven years in product development in the medical field. Medical device certification in the EU is a joke compared with the US. If you donâ(TM)t believe me, you can ask some Diesel engineers from VW. Or look at birth defects from sleeping pills in Europe. The relationship between politics and industry in EU is much closer than it has historically been in the US. But that is rapidly changing under the current administration. If trends continue, maybe weâ(TM)ll have more planes fall from the sky or babies being born with flippers.
Nunes is from a family that primarily made it's money by ranching.....The cows were shipped to Iowa many years ago. Nunes has about as much connection to living, breathing cattle as Theresa May does.
But that hasn't stopped Nunez from collecting millions in federal agriculture subsidies for cattle he doesn't even own. Maybe the department of agriculture should count Nunez's cattle. We could all help him out, by dressing in cow suits and grazing near his home.
The the mainstream media won't report on this, or just parts of it. Our right-wing media has turned Venezuela into a giant socialist red flag, that they wave in front of their viewers to blind them from the truth and keep them from demanding better health care or discredit young politicians who are trying to actually represent their constituents. The bigger picture is we have industrialists who have purchased a humanitarian crises to enhance their own bottom line. I was in Iraq twice, looking for WMDs and to "save babies from being ripped out of incubators" by Saddam Hussein, and although I am no longer in the military, I do know the U.S government actively worked to destabilize governments in the Middle East for economic reasons, and I have no reason to believe Venezuela is any different. Do some research and you will come to the same conclusion.
Up until very recently airline training in stall recovery emphasized minimum altitude loss. If you allowed the nose to drop, by reducing the AOA, you might loose too much altitude and fail the training event. You were supposed to use thrust and preserve altitude. This procedure works in an approach to a stall, where the airplane isnât yet in a stalled condition, but is ineffective in a fully developed stall. After Colgan Air, the industry has changed how Stall recovery is trained to, emphasizing reducing the angle of attack then recovery from the unusual attitude. Itâ(TM)s not that airline pilots forgot how to recover from a stall, itâ(TM)s more that they were trained in the Simulator wrongly and then utilized an inappropriate procedure in an actual emergency.
Could be muslim terrorists. Both crashed from heavily predominant Muslim countries.
Time for a Goodwin's Law 2.0: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of somebody blaming Islamic terrorists or Muslims in general approaches 1."
CEO compensation is closely tied to "shareholder value". Voicing concerns about a recession or loss of revenue is bad for "shareholder value" and CEO compensation. CEOs will never see a recession coming, at least not publicly, but I would expect many to quietly adjust their personal exposure.
"that I still use a 1/8" headphone jack."
For your phone or your portable wax-roll player?
Nope, I have to use a high-impedance piezo earphones for that, and they connect with screw posts on my Eddison. You kiddos with your 3.5 mm headphone jacks, Bluetooth, and all.
Me to Apple, "What's up with the jack, Jack?"
Your Apple Tax dollars at work!
Thanks for proving my point.
Trolling is really just a cop out and a sign of desperation. It means you're all out of ideas and you have nothing new to offer. So you resort to trolling your rivals. We see this all the time in our politics, and now companies are trolling too and thinking it's normal? That's not cool.
could it be that of all people the right takes security more seriously than the pie-in-the-sky people ? Just an idea....
I very highly doubt the AfD has better computer security than anyone else, unless they've gone completely off line and are using carrier pigeons to pass notes written in invisible ink using some ancient Masonic code. Or the more likely scenario, the hackers are seeking to hurt one political party and assist another one in support their own external agenda, such as weakening Germany's involvement in the EU and in NATO.
I've been a long time Apple fan. ...
Even longer fan. Had an Apple //e back when it was new. Apple's been down this road before, and almost went out of business because they (1) thought they had the best products and ignored the competition, (2) assumed they could charge customers whatever they wanted, and (3) had the slowest upgrade cycle in the industry. I see a lot of parallels between Apple today under Tim Cook and Apple in the post- pre- Steve Jobs era and they're making the same false assumptions. I suspect the people at the top have their billions, so they could care less about the long-term health of the company.
Nice, so live adjacent to slum housing.
There is nothing in the Bay Area that is remotely close to being a "slum". The 3 bedroom house is worth at least $1.5M.
What makes the home worth $1.5M? Location, that's it. The structure could be a total wreck, and the land on which it sits, would still be worth 1.5M. Ancient Rome had slums too, and I'm sure many sat on valuable real estate.
The housing prices are so high that you can't live there with a low-wage job. People just move to somewhere else.
Yes. And even if you could theoretically afford it, why bother? What's the point to working if you just give everything away in rent, taxes, debt/mortgage payments. That's basically just indentured servitude by other means.
Bluetooth headphones were made for making phone calls, not listening to music....
I agree, but only to a point. I use high-quality wired headphones on my home stereo, as it was designed specifically for rendering music with the highest-fidelity possible. That would be lost with a bluetooth headphone. OTOH, no iPhone and other small portable device is really audiophile quality, and I don't think bluetooth is necessarily any better or worse on such a device.
In other words, a Computer can beat the best human chess player. But a computer will never invent Chess. Or in the real world, a Computer may help diagnose a disease based on symptoms and observation, but it will never discover a new kind of cure.
....Some people make poor choices and that isn't a justification for an economic policy that doesn't make sense. A national minimum wage of $15 an hour make zero sense.....
So you're saying anyone working at minimum wage made poor choices. Everybody has to start out somewhere, and I would argue that minimum wage jobs are far better than living off the dole. Some people are motivated, and I personally know one person who worked his way up from burger flipper to manager to franchise owner and he is doing very well. Did he make a poor choice becoming a burger flipper and staying there? I know other people who will probably always be stuck at minimum wage, some are not very intelligent, some are handicapped, some had bad family backgrounds and never had good educational opportunities. We need to stop punishing poor- or working- people. Not for their sake, but for our own as a stable and prosperous country. There are many wealthy children who are lazy and make far worse choices, but they don't seem to ever face any consequences.
You should never measure tax cuts against deficits and debt..... They should only be measured against TAX REVENUES. If you cut taxes and overall revenues go up, (because the economy is stimulated and growth drives it) then the tax cut is a benefit to the country as a whole......
Your statement is mathematically provable. Just calculate the required economic growth required to increase tax revenues at the lower tax rate. If the required economic growth is greater than the projected growth due to the stimulus effects, then the tax cut is revenue positive. The problem with all these tax cuts, going all the way back to Reagan is the required economic growth to maintain revenue neutrality has always been much greater than the stimulative effect and the net result is increased government debt. But you won't ever see Paul Ryan or any other GOP congressman openly show how much economic growth would be required to maintain revenue neutrality. That is because they know the tax cuts will explode the deficit without significant government spending reductions.
Minimum wage adjusted for inflation was $11.68 in 1968. A $15 minimum wage would only be $3.32 more, which is less than a dollar per decade pay raise. Today's federal minimum wage is $7.25, even though health care, housing, education, transportation, etc. are all much, much, much more expensive. This is the reason there's a major disconnect across all party lines, between the well-to-do in our society and people who barely manage to get by.
In another year, your life's savings will have evaporated in the worst market meltdown in history, and Bitcoin will be the only form of money that still works reliably.
You're making it very easy to not feel sorry for you.
BitCoin requires a network infrastructure to function. If civilization ends, or there's a major currency collapse, that infrastructure will not be there.
Blockchain is new in the cloud.....
My last manager was still looking for networking tokens. Not really, but it was a funny thought.
And in another year, will be the fastest dying US job.
Only when people finally realize you can't spin straw into gold.
So you're saying "blockchain developer" could have gone from one to 33 openings.
Imho Bitcoin, block chain, etc. are all just a digital version of the old pyramid scheme because both require exponential growth to succeed, create an illusion of creating wealth, and their participants are completely emotional in defending their legitimacy and will throw out 10000 excuses why the powers that be don't want Bitcoin, etc to succeed or how it will "change everything". Bitcoin mining produces nothing of value and consumes valuable resources; the 21st century equivalent of spinning hay into gold. But even if blockchain did manage to produce a viable alternative to cash, it doesn't solve any problem that most people have. If you work for a living, you're getting paid in Dollars, Euros, Pesos, etc. You still have to convert that to a digital currency in order to complete a transaction in that currency. Why bother, as most people take the path of least resistance and will just buy in their Dollars, etc. International transactions, the same, there are far more efficient ways to convert Dollars to Euros, etc. than to go Dollar -> BTC -> Euro. At least when I go direct Dollar to Euro, I know what I'm getting on the other side. With BTC in the middle, it's a crap shoot and the transaction cost is much higher.
Please /. no more articles about Bitcoin market movements. This has nothing to do with science, technology, or news for nerds that matters. No matter where an asset moves, up, down, sideways, - unexercised options are always worthless.