This was always Kim's plan. This is what he wants. No pressure required.
He built up the nuclear and missile programmes to give himself a powerful bargaining chip. He traded insults with Trump to show that he could win the game of brinkmanship, and to build up political capital for when we wanted to talk peace.
Kim, while ruthless, brutal and guilty of crimes against humanity, has played a blinder here. What remains to be seen is if he wants to reform and open up North Korea, or something else.
Canada has a more attractive system because there is a better path to citizenship and family reunion.
Some people (not just in the US, in the UK too) seem to think that they can just get people in for a few years and then send them home. Good people won't come on those terms.
Same situation in the UK now. Brexit, a hostile environment and poor economic prospects. Engineers are leaving, and there is a sense of urgency because the future is so uncertain.
Same thing happened to me. Can't close the account unless i supply information I'm not willing to give them.
When they updated their terms and conditions it said if you don't accept them close your account. Obviously I can't, but I also don't agree to the new terms... Their support rep was useless.
So now they have my data illegally. Next month when the GDPR comes in I'm demanding they delete it, and when they refuse I'll claim some compensation.
They have found some stuff, like Cohen. Considering he gave up Hannity after being asked just twice, I can't see him staying loyal to Trump when facing a decade or more behind bars.
If it made sense to do that then it would make sense for the city to promote it. But it doesn't make sense, because what happens is that Waze keeps sending people there until a jam forms because the road and the intersections aren't designed for that volume of traffic. And because it's an urban area the number of injuries and accidents goes up too.
The main road might get a little faster, but at the same time the city now has less money to spend on maintaining and improving it because it has to handle all the diverted traffic causing mayhem as well.
Imagine if someone spotted some under-utilized internet trunk line somewhere and decided to start pumping traffic down it. But the router is old and low end, it can't cope. Either you convince them to stop sending traffic that way, or you spend money upgrading the router that then can't be spent upgrading the main backbone link, or you just ignore it and everyone, including the people who were using that line before it was discovered, get screwed.
You may get your wish now. ZTE isn't a small company and Chinese manufacturers have been shipping their own AOSP based systems for years. Maybe this is just the push they need to go world wide with them.
It also seems to have screwed Google's Go launch in the US pretty badly. Maybe they will look for a way around it, like moving their intellectual property to their Irish HQ so they can continue selling it to ZTE.
At this point asking you to turn off your ad-blocker is worse than asking you to turn off your anti-virus software just to install an emoji pack. It's an insane risk, not just of malware but of being tracked, having audio blasted at you, of having your bandwidth and battery wasted...
Even if you promise to be good today, what guarantee is that there you won't turn evil tomorrow?
To be fair their argument wasn't quite that stupid. They claimed that the pages were copyrighted works (true) and that ad-blockers were altering them, transforming them into a new unlicenced work. Kinda like if someone took a print magazine, stuck masking tape over all the adverts and sold it on as their own version.
A key point is that AdBlock Plus does actual profit from blocking ads. It takes money from advertisers to whitelist their ads and offers consultation services. So the transformed work has commercial value.
But as the court noted, this technology is different. The browser is under no obligation to render a page a certain way, and in fact often overrides the publisher's wishes with the user's preferences. Larger fonts, high contrast mode, text to speech etc. Disable image loading was a basic feature right back in the Mozaic browser days.
Plus there are many examples of similar technologies, such as the fast forward button on a DVR, the auto-volume limit system on a TV, earplugs, 3D glasses with two left lenses, photocopiers and the like.
Is there some classification that states something like "local through traffic only"? I don't know how you handle road classifications in the states, or if Waze can deal with non-standard signage etc.
I think you have the right idea, I'm just wondering if there is some practical reason why it can't be implemented.
Problem is if everyone acts selfishly it just makes the traffic worse all round. Yes, it might take you an extra 5 minutes to do the long way around that the city wants you to take, but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. There can be down-stream issues too, like excessive numbers of people trying to merge back onto the main route causing that to slow down too, excessive wear on local roads that are not able to handle the load, disruption to other local road users etc.
It's the classic tragedy of the commons that government is supposed to solve.
In this case there is a safety issue too. The road in question is extremely steep and a lot of vehicles have trouble with it, either lacking the power to go up at a reasonable speed or struggling to resist gravity on the way down.
Really liking AMD's offerings too. Great CPUs, great chipsets and a socket that won't be obsolete in a few months.
For a workstation I'd save up for a Threadripper though. It's not just the threads, it's the fact that you get so many more PCIe lanes. Loads of PCIe lanes effectively future proofs you because you will have enough expansion capability to add that 30GB/sec SSD or USB 4.0 controller. Also the IOMMU support is good so you can run Windows in a VM with near native GPU performance on a Linux host.
I've noticed that AMD's GPUs now only support Windows 7 and Windows 10. They dropped support for 8.1! The last good version before the spyware came in...
In the example I gave of that episode of Star Trek the guy who posted the video and half the commentators were using "SJW" to refer to the conservative woman leading the witch hunt. She was a classic "hawk" character, overly concerned with national security and more than willing to destroy innocent lives in its name.
Picard is clearly on the left. Strong supporter of a post-capitalist, post-feminist, not quite post-racial society and a strong ally of the poor guy being persecuted. He believes strongly in social justice and says as much in his speech. Picard won't have any of her anti-Romulan racism and is happy to call her a villain when she deserves it.
I think you are right actually. My mistake. In any case, 30+ days plus bank holidays plus buy-back option is negotiable I find, although on the continent a lot of companies just give everyone the buy back option anyway.
I'm Europe holiday buy-back schemes are popular for these reasons. You have the option to buy extra holiday time and it comes out of your salary, so it's effectively unpaid but you have a right to it.
Then again in the UK you get 25 days minimum plus national holidays by law, and I'm up to 30 days with the option to buy an extra 5.
Yeah, that's basically it. You get a block and building number, but it can be tricky to find the right building. They seemed to be one of the first to get detailed mapping and 3D building models though.
Sat navs have been doing this for at least 15 years. Maybe they didn't speak the name of the landmark, but they would display it on the screen.
I distinctly remember seeing Japanese models with 3D maps that had brand names on the textures around 2004/2005. Japan doesn't really have street names...
Those are your ideas about what an SJW is. But other people clearly have other definitions. That's the issue here, no one knows that's what you mean when you say SJW, they just fill in whatever they prefer and nod along.
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This was always Kim's plan. This is what he wants. No pressure required.
He built up the nuclear and missile programmes to give himself a powerful bargaining chip. He traded insults with Trump to show that he could win the game of brinkmanship, and to build up political capital for when we wanted to talk peace.
Kim, while ruthless, brutal and guilty of crimes against humanity, has played a blinder here. What remains to be seen is if he wants to reform and open up North Korea, or something else.
Canada has a more attractive system because there is a better path to citizenship and family reunion.
Some people (not just in the US, in the UK too) seem to think that they can just get people in for a few years and then send them home. Good people won't come on those terms.
Same situation in the UK now. Brexit, a hostile environment and poor economic prospects. Engineers are leaving, and there is a sense of urgency because the future is so uncertain.
Thanks, that's really interesting.
Same thing happened to me. Can't close the account unless i supply information I'm not willing to give them.
When they updated their terms and conditions it said if you don't accept them close your account. Obviously I can't, but I also don't agree to the new terms... Their support rep was useless.
So now they have my data illegally. Next month when the GDPR comes in I'm demanding they delete it, and when they refuse I'll claim some compensation.
They have found some stuff, like Cohen. Considering he gave up Hannity after being asked just twice, I can't see him staying loyal to Trump when facing a decade or more behind bars.
Thing is, a lot of people don't even want a landline any more. I don't, I just want broadband and mobile.
How about instead of mucking about with VOIP on landlines, BT offer gigabit fibre to everyone and stop making me pay for a phone service I don't want?
Well, quite. I don't think it's that easy to solve.
If it made sense to do that then it would make sense for the city to promote it. But it doesn't make sense, because what happens is that Waze keeps sending people there until a jam forms because the road and the intersections aren't designed for that volume of traffic. And because it's an urban area the number of injuries and accidents goes up too.
The main road might get a little faster, but at the same time the city now has less money to spend on maintaining and improving it because it has to handle all the diverted traffic causing mayhem as well.
Imagine if someone spotted some under-utilized internet trunk line somewhere and decided to start pumping traffic down it. But the router is old and low end, it can't cope. Either you convince them to stop sending traffic that way, or you spend money upgrading the router that then can't be spent upgrading the main backbone link, or you just ignore it and everyone, including the people who were using that line before it was discovered, get screwed.
You may get your wish now. ZTE isn't a small company and Chinese manufacturers have been shipping their own AOSP based systems for years. Maybe this is just the push they need to go world wide with them.
It also seems to have screwed Google's Go launch in the US pretty badly. Maybe they will look for a way around it, like moving their intellectual property to their Irish HQ so they can continue selling it to ZTE.
Google would be legally required to block them. Same as if ZTE set up another company to buy Google services and sell them on to ZTE.
At this point asking you to turn off your ad-blocker is worse than asking you to turn off your anti-virus software just to install an emoji pack. It's an insane risk, not just of malware but of being tracked, having audio blasted at you, of having your bandwidth and battery wasted...
Even if you promise to be good today, what guarantee is that there you won't turn evil tomorrow?
To be fair their argument wasn't quite that stupid. They claimed that the pages were copyrighted works (true) and that ad-blockers were altering them, transforming them into a new unlicenced work. Kinda like if someone took a print magazine, stuck masking tape over all the adverts and sold it on as their own version.
A key point is that AdBlock Plus does actual profit from blocking ads. It takes money from advertisers to whitelist their ads and offers consultation services. So the transformed work has commercial value.
But as the court noted, this technology is different. The browser is under no obligation to render a page a certain way, and in fact often overrides the publisher's wishes with the user's preferences. Larger fonts, high contrast mode, text to speech etc. Disable image loading was a basic feature right back in the Mozaic browser days.
Plus there are many examples of similar technologies, such as the fast forward button on a DVR, the auto-volume limit system on a TV, earplugs, 3D glasses with two left lenses, photocopiers and the like.
Is there some classification that states something like "local through traffic only"? I don't know how you handle road classifications in the states, or if Waze can deal with non-standard signage etc.
I think you have the right idea, I'm just wondering if there is some practical reason why it can't be implemented.
Problem is if everyone acts selfishly it just makes the traffic worse all round. Yes, it might take you an extra 5 minutes to do the long way around that the city wants you to take, but if everyone takes the shortcut it ends up taking everyone 30 minutes more. There can be down-stream issues too, like excessive numbers of people trying to merge back onto the main route causing that to slow down too, excessive wear on local roads that are not able to handle the load, disruption to other local road users etc.
It's the classic tragedy of the commons that government is supposed to solve.
In this case there is a safety issue too. The road in question is extremely steep and a lot of vehicles have trouble with it, either lacking the power to go up at a reasonable speed or struggling to resist gravity on the way down.
Really liking AMD's offerings too. Great CPUs, great chipsets and a socket that won't be obsolete in a few months.
For a workstation I'd save up for a Threadripper though. It's not just the threads, it's the fact that you get so many more PCIe lanes. Loads of PCIe lanes effectively future proofs you because you will have enough expansion capability to add that 30GB/sec SSD or USB 4.0 controller. Also the IOMMU support is good so you can run Windows in a VM with near native GPU performance on a Linux host.
I've noticed that AMD's GPUs now only support Windows 7 and Windows 10. They dropped support for 8.1! The last good version before the spyware came in...
The future is autonomous cars. (it ain't gonnna happen. This is tech bro hubris, we can't make people-level AI now)
Google already did it.
100% robot factories are possible. (Nope. Elon figured that out.)
Panasonic has had "lights out" factories making TVs for a couple of decades now.
The rest is accurate though.
In the example I gave of that episode of Star Trek the guy who posted the video and half the commentators were using "SJW" to refer to the conservative woman leading the witch hunt. She was a classic "hawk" character, overly concerned with national security and more than willing to destroy innocent lives in its name.
Picard is clearly on the left. Strong supporter of a post-capitalist, post-feminist, not quite post-racial society and a strong ally of the poor guy being persecuted. He believes strongly in social justice and says as much in his speech. Picard won't have any of her anti-Romulan racism and is happy to call her a villain when she deserves it.
I think you are right actually. My mistake. In any case, 30+ days plus bank holidays plus buy-back option is negotiable I find, although on the continent a lot of companies just give everyone the buy back option anyway.
I'm Europe holiday buy-back schemes are popular for these reasons. You have the option to buy extra holiday time and it comes out of your salary, so it's effectively unpaid but you have a right to it.
Then again in the UK you get 25 days minimum plus national holidays by law, and I'm up to 30 days with the option to buy an extra 5.
Yeah, that's basically it. You get a block and building number, but it can be tricky to find the right building. They seemed to be one of the first to get detailed mapping and 3D building models though.
Sat navs have been doing this for at least 15 years. Maybe they didn't speak the name of the landmark, but they would display it on the screen.
I distinctly remember seeing Japanese models with 3D maps that had brand names on the textures around 2004/2005. Japan doesn't really have street names...
Those are your ideas about what an SJW is. But other people clearly have other definitions. That's the issue here, no one knows that's what you mean when you say SJW, they just fill in whatever they prefer and nod along.
See, immediately modded as troll. No one can agree, and even questioning it triggers some people.