Note that the cases collapsed because the standard of proof (beyond a reasonable doubt) could not be met, not because there is proof that the accuser lied. Very different things.
It seems like the majority lean to the right, being either Republican party members or having expressed conservative views in the past (e.g. several of the actors).
It's sad that a lot of men are now so paranoid they won't enjoy the company of women... Although why limit it to women, I mean a lot of these accusers are gay men so better just not be alone with anyone, ever.
In the UK it's the opposite. You generally have more rights if you buy online, because distance selling regulations mean you can return the item for any reason within 2 weeks or receipt. If it isn't faulty you have to pay return postage, that's it. Doesn't have to be in the original packaging either.
I generally prefer this to buying in physical shops, because all the physical shops are crap. Shops with salesmen are the worst. It doesn't have to be that way, in Japan I like physical shops and really enjoy shopping. For that reason I have little sympathy for shops that can't compete, although I guess maybe it's partially the manufacturers faults too for the terms they provide stock under.
Sorry to double reply, but I've noticed something important. You don't seem to understand what something not being proven beyond a reasonable doubt means.
The accuses is legally innocent, but doesn't mean that they didn't do the thing they are accused of. They may or may not have, we don't know.
I mention this because you seem to have assumed that all the accused men didn't do anything, but that all the accusing women definitely lied. Neither is a justified conclusion based on failure to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt.
For example, in Gomeshi's case he withdrew his lawsuit and paid CBS's legal fees, but in the later criminal trial the prosecution was unable to reach the standard of evidence required for a criminal conviction. From that you concluded that he was the victim of a lying accuser, despite there being evidence to the contrary, which is completely unjustified.
But if you really want to make that the case, why don't you tell me why all those women when I worked a bar as a cadet, just couldn't stop grabbing my ass and dick. And I had zero recourse to do anything about it, I could not make a complaint.
What is the point you are trying to make here? That if you were sexually assaulted and unable to complain then everyone else should also have to put up with it? That's an odd thing to say, surely you should be supporting efforts to end this kind of abuse.
Measuring the current delivery capability is easy, and in fact exactly what Apple does to detect when throttling is required. Since V=IR it's a simple matter of loading up the CPU to draw some fairly consistent current and measuring how much the battery voltage collapses.
It should be possible to do in an app if apps can measure battery voltage.
We need to have a realistic, nuanced view of historical figures. At the moment we tend to paint them as either a saint or a monster.
Bushnell did play a really important part in early video game history, no doubt. But he also abused his money and power and acted like a complete arse, contributing to a culture that pushed women away from that new and exciting industry. It's not just women either, he treated male Atari employees badly too, refusing to allow credits in games etc.
I don't think it's asking too much for people to understand that, and look at his work in that light.
Atari held board meetings in a hottub. There, the board would invite the women employees they wanted to have sex with up to the suite, and pressure them to strip naked with the men.
This is by Mr. Bushnellâ(TM)s own admission in the book "Ultimate History of Videogames." In fact, he boasts about it.
Considering that Feminism has been pushing for women to "do whatever they want" but have no responsibility when they fuck up, this isn't surprising.
No sure where you get strange ideas like that from, but in any case the argument here is that human beings shouldn't have to put up with being grabbed by the genitalia or otherwise sexually assaulted.
Having read about what guys like Weinstein and Nassar did, are you really saying that these complaints are without merit? Or for that matter, having read about what Bushnell admits to doing in his own autobiographical books...
in the UK that they just launched a public inquiry into the rampant number of false allegations
No, they didn't. That is fake news.
There have been problems with evidence that might help the defence not being turned over in good time, or at all.
First thing to note is that it isn't evidence that the allegations were false - if it was, there would be prosecutions. The standard of proof required is "beyond reasonable doubt", and the evidence in question means that the prosecution could not reach that level. However, it also doesn't reach the standard for proving that the accuser lied, because as you know even if you agree to have sex with someone you can withdraw consent at any time.
So it's a classic he said/she said situation and no-one can prove anything either way. Certainly you can't draw any conclusions from it, not being at all familiar with any of the cases or people involved. And in any case, do you know the percentage of cases that this affects? I'm guessing you don't or you wouldn't have used the adjective "rampant".
Quite a few have continued on with few/no consequences.
I agree that there should be investigations where they don't simply admit it like Bushnell did. That's only fair and proper. But it's not true to say that "most" of these allegations are not proven, as in most cases they were investigated and/or the accused admitted it.
Are there really that many parts of the world that don't have electricity? I mean apart from large very low population areas.
The real issue is not lack of electricity, it's that a lot of people live in buildings that make plugging in difficult, and their local governments are bad at fix it.
I seem to recall that they crippled third party SSDs initially too... That's right, essential TRIM support was disabled if it wasn't an official Apple part. They only stopped after customers complained.
I try to show him why the claim is false, and he ignores the data (for example the fact that per kilowatt hour produced nuclear has caused the least deaths) and simply moves on to state something else.
Without seeing this whole conversation it's impossible to say for sure, but for example this claim is often made and while factually correct is largely irrelevant and barely worthy of a response any more. It's basically cherry picking a statistic that nuclear wins on, while completely ignoring all the far more relevant stuff. It's what Conway called "alternative facts".
This leads us to another important point about the truth. While there are often many factual statistics, stories and anecdotes they don't add up to the truth. One of the biggest reasons why people don't trust politicians is that they abuse statistics this way all the time, and then claim to be telling the truth when they are in fact trying to mislead you.
You are basing your remaining battery capacity on Apple's down app. When they used that app to check my girlfriend's battery they found it had 87% remaining, but that didn't stop it from suddenly jumping from 50% charged to 2% charged, or randomly powering off.
I think all the app does is measure the amount of energy that the battery stores, not its ability to deliver high currents. As such even if your battery still stores 90% of its rated energy, it might not actually work properly in your phone.
Two screws, then you have to remove the display (!) which is _glued_ in. They recommend a hairdryer to soften the glue prior to removal, and caution that removing the screen destroys the waterproof seals. There there are bunch more screws and cables, and the battery is stuck down with adhesive too.
It's by no means easy for an ordinary, unskilled person to do.
The battery re-use and recycling market is going to be huge too. The chassis of most EVs will wear out before the battery, and I expect a lot of manufacturers will offer to buy the battery back and then install it in a new vehicle with the capacity electronically limited. So you 80kWh new car might have a used 100kWh battery in it, with a lifetime manufacturer guarantee.
That would also solve battery degradation worries that some people still have.
Japanese manufacturers mostly decided to focus on hybrid and more efficient ICE technology. Oh, and hydrogen. That turned out to be a huge mistake, because the world is going towards zero emission vehicles with large batteries. The writing is on the wall, only specialist niches will still use internal combustion engines in the relatively near future.
It's not like they can just throw an electric drive-train in either. Apart from converted ICE models tending to suck as EVs, the change affects not just the car manufacturer but all the support companies. There was a documentary on NHK about this recently. The people making gearboxes, clutches, engine control modules, and especially emission control system are all going into a panic as they see their core markets going away to be replaced with much simpler EV drivetrains. Worse still, because they missed the boat the ones that didn't already have a lot of patents on EV technology, and experience.
German manufacturers made the same mistakes, and their solution has been to buy in tech from China while they develop their own. But by buying in tech they are just pumping more money into Chinese R&D and Chinese patents.
In the next decade there will be a big switch from making ICE drivetrains to making battery packs and electric motors. It's adapt or die time, because by 2030 some EU countries will already have banned ICE sales and many more will be only a few years away from that. And today Mazda are mucking about with 20th century technology.
People don't go to Facebook specifically to get news, it's just on there because their friends re-post it. And once they have read the biased version, and seen other people liking and believing it, it cements the lie in their mind.
It's like a classic grifter move. Friend tells you something that seems too good to be true, someone else convinces you it's real and you end up getting scammed.
Maybe you are using some really badly coded apps, but they should not fail when denied permissions. If they support any recent version of Android they will know that they were denied, and if not they just get an empty address book or blank device ID or "device has no camera" error etc.
Also, you can have two profiles. Android has supported this for years. Each profile gets its own personal details, address book etc. You can easily create a fake profile with dummy data.
So I've no idea why its decision is considered story-worthy
Probably because T-Mobile is somewhat different to most others, in that it consumes electricity in many different locations. Every base station needs its own supply, all over the country.
It's different to say a company that just does this for its HQ or some datacentres, T-Mobile has to put in place hundreds, maybe thousands of contracts to supply all its geographically diverse locations.
All T-Mobile has done is cause a bunch of people who would've bought electricity from this wind farm, to buy electricity from a coal or gas plant instead.
That's a common myth about buying only renewable energy. What actually happens is that it excludes fossil fuels from even bidding to supply that energy. From an investment point of view that makes renewables more attractive, as more and more of the market starts excluding fossil sources.
Thus more money goes into building more renewable capacity, we get more renewable energy, it becomes cheaper and more people start demanding it by excluding fossil.
Many of these renewable energy companies have a commitment to re-invest much of their profit into building more renewable energy too. Fossil suppliers typically don't do that - there just isn't demand.
T-Mobile headquarters is just outside of Seattle here in Western Washington. We're already 90%+ hydroelectric power in this region.
So what? They are talking about their entire network, nation wide.
Unless they are running every router, every exchange, every base station off really really really long extension cords from their HQ then most of their energy consumption won't be in Seattle.
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Note that the cases collapsed because the standard of proof (beyond a reasonable doubt) could not be met, not because there is proof that the accuser lied. Very different things.
There's a fairly extensive list here: https://www.ft.com/content/204...
It seems like the majority lean to the right, being either Republican party members or having expressed conservative views in the past (e.g. several of the actors).
It's sad that a lot of men are now so paranoid they won't enjoy the company of women... Although why limit it to women, I mean a lot of these accusers are gay men so better just not be alone with anyone, ever.
This scaremongering has got to stop.
In the UK it's the opposite. You generally have more rights if you buy online, because distance selling regulations mean you can return the item for any reason within 2 weeks or receipt. If it isn't faulty you have to pay return postage, that's it. Doesn't have to be in the original packaging either.
I generally prefer this to buying in physical shops, because all the physical shops are crap. Shops with salesmen are the worst. It doesn't have to be that way, in Japan I like physical shops and really enjoy shopping. For that reason I have little sympathy for shops that can't compete, although I guess maybe it's partially the manufacturers faults too for the terms they provide stock under.
Sorry to double reply, but I've noticed something important. You don't seem to understand what something not being proven beyond a reasonable doubt means.
The accuses is legally innocent, but doesn't mean that they didn't do the thing they are accused of. They may or may not have, we don't know.
I mention this because you seem to have assumed that all the accused men didn't do anything, but that all the accusing women definitely lied. Neither is a justified conclusion based on failure to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt.
For example, in Gomeshi's case he withdrew his lawsuit and paid CBS's legal fees, but in the later criminal trial the prosecution was unable to reach the standard of evidence required for a criminal conviction. From that you concluded that he was the victim of a lying accuser, despite there being evidence to the contrary, which is completely unjustified.
But if you really want to make that the case, why don't you tell me why all those women when I worked a bar as a cadet, just couldn't stop grabbing my ass and dick. And I had zero recourse to do anything about it, I could not make a complaint.
What is the point you are trying to make here? That if you were sexually assaulted and unable to complain then everyone else should also have to put up with it? That's an odd thing to say, surely you should be supporting efforts to end this kind of abuse.
Measuring the current delivery capability is easy, and in fact exactly what Apple does to detect when throttling is required. Since V=IR it's a simple matter of loading up the CPU to draw some fairly consistent current and measuring how much the battery voltage collapses.
It should be possible to do in an app if apps can measure battery voltage.
We need to have a realistic, nuanced view of historical figures. At the moment we tend to paint them as either a saint or a monster.
Bushnell did play a really important part in early video game history, no doubt. But he also abused his money and power and acted like a complete arse, contributing to a culture that pushed women away from that new and exciting industry. It's not just women either, he treated male Atari employees badly too, refusing to allow credits in games etc.
I don't think it's asking too much for people to understand that, and look at his work in that light.
Atari held board meetings in a hottub. There, the board would invite the women employees they wanted to have sex with up to the suite, and pressure them to strip naked with the men.
This is by Mr. Bushnellâ(TM)s own admission in the book "Ultimate History of Videogames." In fact, he boasts about it.
Considering that Feminism has been pushing for women to "do whatever they want" but have no responsibility when they fuck up, this isn't surprising.
No sure where you get strange ideas like that from, but in any case the argument here is that human beings shouldn't have to put up with being grabbed by the genitalia or otherwise sexually assaulted.
Having read about what guys like Weinstein and Nassar did, are you really saying that these complaints are without merit? Or for that matter, having read about what Bushnell admits to doing in his own autobiographical books...
in the UK that they just launched a public inquiry into the rampant number of false allegations
No, they didn't. That is fake news.
There have been problems with evidence that might help the defence not being turned over in good time, or at all.
First thing to note is that it isn't evidence that the allegations were false - if it was, there would be prosecutions. The standard of proof required is "beyond reasonable doubt", and the evidence in question means that the prosecution could not reach that level. However, it also doesn't reach the standard for proving that the accuser lied, because as you know even if you agree to have sex with someone you can withdraw consent at any time.
So it's a classic he said/she said situation and no-one can prove anything either way. Certainly you can't draw any conclusions from it, not being at all familiar with any of the cases or people involved. And in any case, do you know the percentage of cases that this affects? I'm guessing you don't or you wouldn't have used the adjective "rampant".
The problem is most of these allegations haven't been proven.
The FT has a list of guys who were accused and what happened to them: https://www.ft.com/content/204...
Quite a few have continued on with few/no consequences.
I agree that there should be investigations where they don't simply admit it like Bushnell did. That's only fair and proper. But it's not true to say that "most" of these allegations are not proven, as in most cases they were investigated and/or the accused admitted it.
Right, so it's only showing capacity, not current delivery capability. This it is worthless for diagnosing this issue.
remote parts of Alaska or Antarctica
Are there really that many parts of the world that don't have electricity? I mean apart from large very low population areas.
The real issue is not lack of electricity, it's that a lot of people live in buildings that make plugging in difficult, and their local governments are bad at fix it.
I seem to recall that they crippled third party SSDs initially too... That's right, essential TRIM support was disabled if it wasn't an official Apple part. They only stopped after customers complained.
I try to show him why the claim is false, and he ignores the data (for example the fact that per kilowatt hour produced nuclear has caused the least deaths) and simply moves on to state something else.
Without seeing this whole conversation it's impossible to say for sure, but for example this claim is often made and while factually correct is largely irrelevant and barely worthy of a response any more. It's basically cherry picking a statistic that nuclear wins on, while completely ignoring all the far more relevant stuff. It's what Conway called "alternative facts".
This leads us to another important point about the truth. While there are often many factual statistics, stories and anecdotes they don't add up to the truth. One of the biggest reasons why people don't trust politicians is that they abuse statistics this way all the time, and then claim to be telling the truth when they are in fact trying to mislead you.
You are basing your remaining battery capacity on Apple's down app. When they used that app to check my girlfriend's battery they found it had 87% remaining, but that didn't stop it from suddenly jumping from 50% charged to 2% charged, or randomly powering off.
I think all the app does is measure the amount of energy that the battery stores, not its ability to deliver high currents. As such even if your battery still stores 90% of its rated energy, it might not actually work properly in your phone.
Lies. Look at this guide to replace an iPhone 8 Plus battery: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/i...
Two screws, then you have to remove the display (!) which is _glued_ in. They recommend a hairdryer to soften the glue prior to removal, and caution that removing the screen destroys the waterproof seals. There there are bunch more screws and cables, and the battery is stuck down with adhesive too.
It's by no means easy for an ordinary, unskilled person to do.
The battery re-use and recycling market is going to be huge too. The chassis of most EVs will wear out before the battery, and I expect a lot of manufacturers will offer to buy the battery back and then install it in a new vehicle with the capacity electronically limited. So you 80kWh new car might have a used 100kWh battery in it, with a lifetime manufacturer guarantee.
That would also solve battery degradation worries that some people still have.
This is more likely to hurt Mazda than help them.
Japanese manufacturers mostly decided to focus on hybrid and more efficient ICE technology. Oh, and hydrogen. That turned out to be a huge mistake, because the world is going towards zero emission vehicles with large batteries. The writing is on the wall, only specialist niches will still use internal combustion engines in the relatively near future.
It's not like they can just throw an electric drive-train in either. Apart from converted ICE models tending to suck as EVs, the change affects not just the car manufacturer but all the support companies. There was a documentary on NHK about this recently. The people making gearboxes, clutches, engine control modules, and especially emission control system are all going into a panic as they see their core markets going away to be replaced with much simpler EV drivetrains. Worse still, because they missed the boat the ones that didn't already have a lot of patents on EV technology, and experience.
German manufacturers made the same mistakes, and their solution has been to buy in tech from China while they develop their own. But by buying in tech they are just pumping more money into Chinese R&D and Chinese patents.
In the next decade there will be a big switch from making ICE drivetrains to making battery packs and electric motors. It's adapt or die time, because by 2030 some EU countries will already have banned ICE sales and many more will be only a few years away from that. And today Mazda are mucking about with 20th century technology.
People don't go to Facebook specifically to get news, it's just on there because their friends re-post it. And once they have read the biased version, and seen other people liking and believing it, it cements the lie in their mind.
It's like a classic grifter move. Friend tells you something that seems too good to be true, someone else convinces you it's real and you end up getting scammed.
Maybe you are using some really badly coded apps, but they should not fail when denied permissions. If they support any recent version of Android they will know that they were denied, and if not they just get an empty address book or blank device ID or "device has no camera" error etc.
Also, you can have two profiles. Android has supported this for years. Each profile gets its own personal details, address book etc. You can easily create a fake profile with dummy data.
So I've no idea why its decision is considered story-worthy
Probably because T-Mobile is somewhat different to most others, in that it consumes electricity in many different locations. Every base station needs its own supply, all over the country.
It's different to say a company that just does this for its HQ or some datacentres, T-Mobile has to put in place hundreds, maybe thousands of contracts to supply all its geographically diverse locations.
All T-Mobile has done is cause a bunch of people who would've bought electricity from this wind farm, to buy electricity from a coal or gas plant instead.
That's a common myth about buying only renewable energy. What actually happens is that it excludes fossil fuels from even bidding to supply that energy. From an investment point of view that makes renewables more attractive, as more and more of the market starts excluding fossil sources.
Thus more money goes into building more renewable capacity, we get more renewable energy, it becomes cheaper and more people start demanding it by excluding fossil.
Many of these renewable energy companies have a commitment to re-invest much of their profit into building more renewable energy too. Fossil suppliers typically don't do that - there just isn't demand.
T-Mobile headquarters is just outside of Seattle here in Western Washington. We're already 90%+ hydroelectric power in this region.
So what? They are talking about their entire network, nation wide.
Unless they are running every router, every exchange, every base station off really really really long extension cords from their HQ then most of their energy consumption won't be in Seattle.
Or you could sell them clean technology.