In the UK such numbers just come up as "unknown", which is reasonable. The display should only show a number if there is a reasonably high level of confidence that it is genuine.
Are you really trying to justify your position by saying "you are just as bad"? Ignoring the debate over if Europeans or whatever subset "Eurosnobs" refers to, is that really your intended justification.
Apple seems to have a problem handling time. Recall that they had problems with alarms not working a few times near the start of the year, and a soft brick issue if the clock was reset to 1970.
I'd love to know where these problems are coming from. Are they using their own internal time handling library code? Because these issues are fairly unique to Apple, they don't affect the underlying BSD operating system that iOS is built on or any of the open source libraries preferred by Google.
What makes you think that people don't get wiser as they get older?
"Wiser" is too vague to be a useful metric. We should look at the way they tend to vote, since that was the issue cited as holding back progress.
While not all older people are conservative, there is a clear trend towards conservatism as people age. It's not clear to me that the trend is because they are "wiser". For example, at the time same-sex marriage become legal in many countries there was still a majority of over 65s opposed to it. If their numbers had swelled due to people living to 200 then it might have been another century or more until gay people got that right.
It seems that the reasons cited are things like religion and general disgust at homosexuality, neither of which seems very wise. But even if for the same of argument we say that it was a wise position to take, the statement was that they will hold back progression which is clearly true in this example.
You definitely make the best SJW type: a member of a formerly bloodthirsty colonizers who raped the planet for centuries, started two global wars, and now sits back on your ill gotten gains and judges others
You blame me for the sins of my forefathers and make sweeping generalizations, lumping me in with a group of 500,000,000 other people. And you accuse me of being an "SJW", a person who you define as unfairly apportioning blame and generalizing.
Let's just remind ourselves that you are going apeshit over a 1.8% increase one year compared to an overall 22% decrease since 1990. An increase that is not yet bucking the trend, or an indication that the trend will end, and at a time when most EU countries are pushing ahead with reducing emissions. And there is a good explanation as to why this is a temporary issue.
As you can see, there is a consistent downward trend. In the last couple of years things have stalled a little as parts of Europe start high levels of growth after the financial crash. So really it was artificially low post 2010, and this is something of a correction. But still, the overall trend is down.
We are on track to meet our Paris commitments as long as we keep working at it. We need to go even further than Paris of course.
Hardly, and depending on context "the EU" isn't even one single entity. But none the less, there are things that the EU does better than the US, and vice versa. Discussing them and learning from each other is a good thing, no?
Just force calls originating from outside the country to have their actual numbers displayed, rather than the caller ID ones.
Companies that have legitimate call centres outside the country will always have an exchange in country anyway, so as to allow for free/low cost calls to their number. In fact in many EU countries it's a legal requirement to have such a number - companies are not allowed to charge more than the cost of a local call to contact them, especially their help/service/complaints lines.
Rather than trying to build flying cars we should invest in enabling people to work at home, or at least near home.
Out of town shared office blocks, where you can have a private office with high speed internet so that you can just walk to work in the morning most days. Apartments with a home office as standard, or build the office space into the apartment block if people want that separation of work and home life.
Give companies an incentive to use these spaces. At the moment they can externalize the costs of travel to and from work to the employees, often even the cost of parking vehicles near the office.
And of course EV charging should be mandatory on all business premises where practical.
That's a very US-centric view. In the EU, for example, we have considerably more control over corporations. See our environmental and privacy protections, for example. We also tend to have more limits on the funding of political parties and the amount they can spend, which really helps keep things from getting as bad as the US.
Having said that, even in the US the corporations don't have total control. Look at emission limits on cars, surely if big oil and car manufacturers were running things those wouldn't exist.
To be fair they explain why in TFS, it's because they think that streaming services don't pay enough.
They may have a point there, streaming services don't adequately compensate artists. But the solution is not to hit the consumers, it's to force the streaming sites to pay up. It's hard for them because a lot of the services are based in the US outside Canadian jurisdiction, but there are ways to handle that.
Not seeing any data there on how many were successfully funded but turned out to be scams or didn't deliver. Strangely Kickstarter doesn't seem to collect that information, or maybe it was just a genuine oversight and they forgot to add it to their site.
Except when you have the cursor in a textbox, then it's for inserting tabs. Web browsers suck for entering code because they break the tab key.
Not even the usual overrides like ctrl-tab (change tab), shift-tab (tab backwards) or alt-tab (switch task on Windows) will override this. You end up having to copy/paste tabs from a proper text editor.
Can you imagine what a government run Twitter would be like? Oh wait, you can, just head over to gab.ai. They even started a video streaming site and it's exactly the kind of Nazi propaganda fountain of hateful bile you would expect.
That's the problem with these platforms dedicated to freeze peach. They become do shitty so quickly that most people don't want to be there, and thus they are useless for spreading the message to the masses. Most of the people moaning about sites like YouTube taking down really extreme content don't really care about the free speech angle, that's just a tool they use to try to get on the popular platforms where their message will be heard.
Otherwise why not satisfy themselves with gab.ai and 8chan?
I thought Democrats were the ones pushing for social programmes like mandatory, low cost healthcare. Also greater regulation of companies to protect individuals, like this proposal.
What makes me doubt it is how blatant it would have been. The Chinese government would have had to develop and manufacture this chip, and then get it installed on Supermicro boards which means either getting Supermicro in on it or getting the factory in on it, because I can't see them being able to alter the PCB CAD files and get a part added to the bill of materials without anyone noticing. I mean everything on the BOM has to be paid for, someone has to check the manufactured boards meet the layout and that all parts were correctly placed etc.
Even if they did all that, it was bound to be discovered sooner or later and couldn't be passed off as a genuine mistake. The NSA and GCHQ at least make some effort at deniability, which is why when we see ridiculous bugs like Goto Fail we wonder if it was deliberate.
And in the end there is no need to add an extra chip. Most firmware is riddled with security flaws anyway, just waiting to be found, or you can probably just bribe/pressure someone to insert one for you. The Chinese security services almost certainly have read access to the source code. The chip itself seems rather small to be doing much anyway, I mean 6 pins gives you power and maybe one bus like I2C or SPI to talk to something. No support hardware like timing crystals or power regulation for high performance.
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In the UK such numbers just come up as "unknown", which is reasonable. The display should only show a number if there is a reasonably high level of confidence that it is genuine.
Are you really trying to justify your position by saying "you are just as bad"? Ignoring the debate over if Europeans or whatever subset "Eurosnobs" refers to, is that really your intended justification.
Apple seems to have a problem handling time. Recall that they had problems with alarms not working a few times near the start of the year, and a soft brick issue if the clock was reset to 1970.
I'd love to know where these problems are coming from. Are they using their own internal time handling library code? Because these issues are fairly unique to Apple, they don't affect the underlying BSD operating system that iOS is built on or any of the open source libraries preferred by Google.
What makes you think that people don't get wiser as they get older?
"Wiser" is too vague to be a useful metric. We should look at the way they tend to vote, since that was the issue cited as holding back progress.
While not all older people are conservative, there is a clear trend towards conservatism as people age. It's not clear to me that the trend is because they are "wiser". For example, at the time same-sex marriage become legal in many countries there was still a majority of over 65s opposed to it. If their numbers had swelled due to people living to 200 then it might have been another century or more until gay people got that right.
It seems that the reasons cited are things like religion and general disgust at homosexuality, neither of which seems very wise. But even if for the same of argument we say that it was a wise position to take, the statement was that they will hold back progression which is clearly true in this example.
You definitely make the best SJW type: a member of a formerly bloodthirsty colonizers who raped the planet for centuries, started two global wars, and now sits back on your ill gotten gains and judges others
You blame me for the sins of my forefathers and make sweeping generalizations, lumping me in with a group of 500,000,000 other people. And you accuse me of being an "SJW", a person who you define as unfairly apportioning blame and generalizing.
Let's just remind ourselves that you are going apeshit over a 1.8% increase one year compared to an overall 22% decrease since 1990. An increase that is not yet bucking the trend, or an indication that the trend will end, and at a time when most EU countries are pushing ahead with reducing emissions. And there is a good explanation as to why this is a temporary issue.
Here are the official stats: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/...
As you can see, there is a consistent downward trend. In the last couple of years things have stalled a little as parts of Europe start high levels of growth after the financial crash. So really it was artificially low post 2010, and this is something of a correction. But still, the overall trend is down.
We are on track to meet our Paris commitments as long as we keep working at it. We need to go even further than Paris of course.
Because you looked at one year's data and ignored a decades long trend to make your point, that's why.
Hardly, and depending on context "the EU" isn't even one single entity. But none the less, there are things that the EU does better than the US, and vice versa. Discussing them and learning from each other is a good thing, no?
Just force calls originating from outside the country to have their actual numbers displayed, rather than the caller ID ones.
Companies that have legitimate call centres outside the country will always have an exchange in country anyway, so as to allow for free/low cost calls to their number. In fact in many EU countries it's a legal requirement to have such a number - companies are not allowed to charge more than the cost of a local call to contact them, especially their help/service/complaints lines.
That's the mechanism, not the legitimate use case.
Rather than trying to build flying cars we should invest in enabling people to work at home, or at least near home.
Out of town shared office blocks, where you can have a private office with high speed internet so that you can just walk to work in the morning most days. Apartments with a home office as standard, or build the office space into the apartment block if people want that separation of work and home life.
Give companies an incentive to use these spaces. At the moment they can externalize the costs of travel to and from work to the employees, often even the cost of parking vehicles near the office.
And of course EV charging should be mandatory on all business premises where practical.
If the cost of not-drowing-in-Waterworld is to actually make many modern conveniences so expensive and unobtainable
It's not.
In fact it's probably cheaper overall, it's just that there are a lot of powerful people opposed to the re-balancing because they lose out.
That's a very US-centric view. In the EU, for example, we have considerably more control over corporations. See our environmental and privacy protections, for example. We also tend to have more limits on the funding of political parties and the amount they can spend, which really helps keep things from getting as bad as the US.
Having said that, even in the US the corporations don't have total control. Look at emission limits on cars, surely if big oil and car manufacturers were running things those wouldn't exist.
To be fair they explain why in TFS, it's because they think that streaming services don't pay enough.
They may have a point there, streaming services don't adequately compensate artists. But the solution is not to hit the consumers, it's to force the streaming sites to pay up. It's hard for them because a lot of the services are based in the US outside Canadian jurisdiction, but there are ways to handle that.
I leaned something. Thanks.
Not seeing any data there on how many were successfully funded but turned out to be scams or didn't deliver. Strangely Kickstarter doesn't seem to collect that information, or maybe it was just a genuine oversight and they forgot to add it to their site.
Or even easier, just don't turn it on.
A few weeks ago a message appeared asking if I wanted to turn it on. I declined. That's all.
Except when you have the cursor in a textbox, then it's for inserting tabs. Web browsers suck for entering code because they break the tab key.
Not even the usual overrides like ctrl-tab (change tab), shift-tab (tab backwards) or alt-tab (switch task on Windows) will override this. You end up having to copy/paste tabs from a proper text editor.
Can you imagine what a government run Twitter would be like? Oh wait, you can, just head over to gab.ai. They even started a video streaming site and it's exactly the kind of Nazi propaganda fountain of hateful bile you would expect.
That's the problem with these platforms dedicated to freeze peach. They become do shitty so quickly that most people don't want to be there, and thus they are useless for spreading the message to the masses. Most of the people moaning about sites like YouTube taking down really extreme content don't really care about the free speech angle, that's just a tool they use to try to get on the popular platforms where their message will be heard.
Otherwise why not satisfy themselves with gab.ai and 8chan?
I thought Democrats were the ones pushing for social programmes like mandatory, low cost healthcare. Also greater regulation of companies to protect individuals, like this proposal.
Of course modding anyone who disagrees with you as -1 troll isn't an attack on free speech at all.
What if no one wants to sell you advertising space or give you a column in their newspaper?
What if you have been barred from every karaoke place in the country?
What if the FCC won't grant you a HAM or broadcast licence?
None of it is a violation of your free speech.
Kickstarters fall into one of 3 categories.
75% blatant rip-off, no chance/intention of delivering
20% not confident to ask for enough, or just funding a hobby
5% actual costed business plan
Used boards are on eBay right now. Anyone with a few hundred bucks could investigate.
What makes me doubt it is how blatant it would have been. The Chinese government would have had to develop and manufacture this chip, and then get it installed on Supermicro boards which means either getting Supermicro in on it or getting the factory in on it, because I can't see them being able to alter the PCB CAD files and get a part added to the bill of materials without anyone noticing. I mean everything on the BOM has to be paid for, someone has to check the manufactured boards meet the layout and that all parts were correctly placed etc.
Even if they did all that, it was bound to be discovered sooner or later and couldn't be passed off as a genuine mistake. The NSA and GCHQ at least make some effort at deniability, which is why when we see ridiculous bugs like Goto Fail we wonder if it was deliberate.
And in the end there is no need to add an extra chip. Most firmware is riddled with security flaws anyway, just waiting to be found, or you can probably just bribe/pressure someone to insert one for you. The Chinese security services almost certainly have read access to the source code. The chip itself seems rather small to be doing much anyway, I mean 6 pins gives you power and maybe one bus like I2C or SPI to talk to something. No support hardware like timing crystals or power regulation for high performance.