They are probably planning to use batteries too. Mobile base stations and network hardware are already battery backed so that phone service doesn't stop in the event of a power cut. It's particularly important during a disaster when people might need to call the emergency services.
I don't know what he legal requirement is, or if there even is one in the US, but 24 hours of battery backup power isn't uncommon in many places. So given that they already have that in place, why not use it to smooth renewable energy and save themselves some significant cash in the process.
Used this way the batteries won't even age significantly faster, if at all. They have to be replaced for safety reasons on a schedule anyway.
This is true unfortunately and it's not limited to politics by any means. I was having a discussion yesterday on FB about energy policies and there was a guy arguing for '100 % solar'/renewable approach. I went in explaining to him why this is not feasible and would in fact do a lot of damage to the environment and that we should favor a mix of renewables and nuclear as that's the best combo to go with if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and effectively.
Right, you decided that your personal opinion was "the truth" and that he was just flat out factually wrong. That's a post-truth argument.
You both stated opinions. It's really important to understand that people can reach different conclusions to you, but that neither opinion is objectively true of false. Just because you think you are right does not make your opinions into facts.
He may have been a bad debater, but it's hard to know if you are accurately reporting his argument since you have decided he was objectively wrong, which is a basic mistake that undermines everything else you said.
It's sad when people think that Brietbart has more truthiness than CNN.
That was the plan all along. Convince people that the people telling the truth 99% of the time were liars, and that the ones bullshitting them were actually the only source of reliable information. That's why conspiracy theories are so popular now.
I think the original problem of phones crashing or the charge indicator suddenly going from 70% to 2% was just a genuine design flaw, a standard engineering cock-up due to lack of testing. Apple kind of has a history of similar mistakes over its whole product range.
It's the response that is problematic. Did they take advantage of the situation to both cover up the flaw and enrich themselves? It certainly looks that way. In some countries they appear to have a legal obligation to offer free replacements or 70%+ refunds.
Since Facebook has a rule against being a Russian government troll and misrepresenting yourself as an American, perhaps they should be asking what platform allows that kind of thing and why Reddit is full of batshit conspiracy theories.
I don't know why some people use Facebook when they clearly want 4chan or Gab. Did they even READ the Facebook ToS?!
I think they mostly lost to their own in-fighting and Trump, but it was so close it wouldn't have taken much to swing it. And as well as the trolls, they were hit with those carefully timed email leaks from Russian hackers.
This is what a post-truth world looks like. The truth is whatever you prefer it to be, and many people seem to prefer not to think of themselves as having been manipulated by Russian trolls. Or maybe they are just so far down the rabbit hole they can't climb back up yet.
No, because as I said, there are acute problems when "large" numbers come, but at worst it has relatively short term little negative effect (for skilled immigrants, e.g. EU nationals under Freedom of Movement) and in the longer term is a net benefit.
I just want to be sure I have your argument correct. Your arbitrary criteria (straight && white && male && human) selected exactly one (1) member of the cast, who turned out to be a bad guy (who may also have been instrumental in the good guys winning the war). Despite the fact that many other characters, including the black female lead who is a war criminal, are also bad guys you conclude that this is evidence that Discover is an "SJW" show, and as further proof that "SJWs" are evil.
And then a rant about how white men (including gay ones?) are oppressed...
ZHC are just the latest form of abuse. Before that it wasn't uncommon to see job adverts in the paper like "security guard, £100/week, 100 hours, bring own dog." Then limits on working hours and the minimum wage came in, so they looked for new ways to subvert the rules.
Studies showed that immigration had at most a very minor impact on jobs in certain areas only. The fact is that most of those immigrants do not come to do minimum wage and long hours. They are young and motivated enough to move to another country, and they want to improve their situations by getting better jobs too. Plus being there creates new employment opportunities, as with any increase in population.
Don't get me wrong, there are acute problems arising from immigration, but they can be dealt with. In general it doesn't suppress wages though, quite the opposite.
Stopping globalism would have delayed the inevitable for a few decades at most. The more workers are paid the more money can be spent on automation that is ultimately cheaper. That's exactly what happened in the industrial revolution.
The point of the EU is to create a free trade zone with a level playing field. Where it breaks down is when new countries join and temporarily have much lower wages. Ireland and Spain were like that when they joined, but quickly came up to similar levels to the other members. The same is happening with newer members like Poland and Bulgaria, but there is definitely an argument to be made for some initial controls on movement of labour. In fact some countries did have just such controls, but the UK decided not to implement them.
What it really boils down to is that there are some acute problems that need to be addressed, but the longer term issues resulting from inevitable improvements in technology and increased globalisation are largely separate and can only be solved with socialism. The rich hate socialism, and have managed to convince a lot of less well off people to hate it as well through the politics of envy and blame.
Why would lab grown meat be inferior? It should be much better. It can be kept sterile so no need to pump it full of antibiotics or wash it in chlorine. It should be possible to tailor it to your tastes, precisely controlling the fat content, the texture, the size and shape...
Besides which, most meat consumed in the West is just minced up. Burgers, fillets, crap like that. Most people already can't afford to eat prime meat on a regular basis.
Hopefully it's the start of a trend where people have woken up to the fact that ICOs are scams and companies can't raise millions of dollars just by changing their name to "Cypto [oldname] Blockchain [meme]" any more.
Vorbis is very widely supported, even on cheap hardware. Open source made it possible - those boxes typically run some kind of embedded Linux and throw in some free audio and video decoding libraries that support Vorbis.
I think GPU manufacturers might drop MPEG support soon. The CPU is powerful enough to decode 4k anyway, and you can probably implement a good amount of acceleration in shaders anyway which makes it an option and not part of the base cost. Why add a few bucks to the cost of your GPU just to support unnecessary hardware decoding of MPEG? Laptops don't have BluRay drives any more so there isn't even a battery life advantage now that YouTube and Netflix ditched it.
MPEG will live on in broadcast TV. With 8k coming in a couple of years that will almost certainly be broadcast as some kind of MPEG stream. Of course current 4k broadcasting is all MPEG 4. But for the internet, it's days do seem to be numbered.
Side note, I had a look at some 8k TVs recently. They were inferior to the earlier demos because the compression artefacts were very noticeable. Current BluRay 8k streams are woefully inadequate. It will be interesting to see what they use for broadcast.
The UK has a minimum wage, and McDonalds just pays everyone the same anyway - no one negotiates their McDonalds burger flipper salary. And actually the biggest thing to push down wages, which were growing during the Blair years, has been zero hour contracts. Nothing to do with immigration at all.
I accept that immigration does need to be managed better than it has been. Not stopped or reduced, just managed to alleviate some of the short term problems.
An in the long run, this reduction and Brexit in general will make the whole country worse off anyway. It's not going to fix anything, even if someone these jobs are not automated away.
What about Saru and Sarek? They are still good guy, competent straight white males. Well, okay, we are assuming Saru is straight, we have no indication either way.
Do you want to add a 4th arbitrary requirement to your claim, that the character has to be human?
Stamets is white and male and one of the purest good guy characters in the show. In fact he and Saru are the only two who aren't really tainted.
I mean, if we are talking arbitrary complaints we could say that the black female character is a criminal, the white female character is timid and ditzy, the dark skinned male character is deceptive and a spy... Which all disprove your SJW narrative, under which surely those characters should all be Mary Sues.
Well, that was pretty stupid of them. It's currently the 9th highest grossing film of all time, and the only ones that made much more than that are all quite old. The highest grossing film ever is Avatar, which made only $2.9bn. So expecting $3.1bn is a tad unrealistic.
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They are probably planning to use batteries too. Mobile base stations and network hardware are already battery backed so that phone service doesn't stop in the event of a power cut. It's particularly important during a disaster when people might need to call the emergency services.
I don't know what he legal requirement is, or if there even is one in the US, but 24 hours of battery backup power isn't uncommon in many places. So given that they already have that in place, why not use it to smooth renewable energy and save themselves some significant cash in the process.
Used this way the batteries won't even age significantly faster, if at all. They have to be replaced for safety reasons on a schedule anyway.
The truth is whatever you prefer it to be,
This is true unfortunately and it's not limited to politics by any means. I was having a discussion yesterday on FB about energy policies and there was a guy arguing for '100 % solar'/renewable approach. I went in explaining to him why this is not feasible and would in fact do a lot of damage to the environment and that we should favor a mix of renewables and nuclear as that's the best combo to go with if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and effectively.
Right, you decided that your personal opinion was "the truth" and that he was just flat out factually wrong. That's a post-truth argument.
You both stated opinions. It's really important to understand that people can reach different conclusions to you, but that neither opinion is objectively true of false. Just because you think you are right does not make your opinions into facts.
He may have been a bad debater, but it's hard to know if you are accurately reporting his argument since you have decided he was objectively wrong, which is a basic mistake that undermines everything else you said.
It's sad when people think that Brietbart has more truthiness than CNN.
That was the plan all along. Convince people that the people telling the truth 99% of the time were liars, and that the ones bullshitting them were actually the only source of reliable information. That's why conspiracy theories are so popular now.
I think the original problem of phones crashing or the charge indicator suddenly going from 70% to 2% was just a genuine design flaw, a standard engineering cock-up due to lack of testing. Apple kind of has a history of similar mistakes over its whole product range.
It's the response that is problematic. Did they take advantage of the situation to both cover up the flaw and enrich themselves? It certainly looks that way. In some countries they appear to have a legal obligation to offer free replacements or 70%+ refunds.
Since Facebook has a rule against being a Russian government troll and misrepresenting yourself as an American, perhaps they should be asking what platform allows that kind of thing and why Reddit is full of batshit conspiracy theories.
I don't know why some people use Facebook when they clearly want 4chan or Gab. Did they even READ the Facebook ToS?!
I think they mostly lost to their own in-fighting and Trump, but it was so close it wouldn't have taken much to swing it. And as well as the trolls, they were hit with those carefully timed email leaks from Russian hackers.
This is what a post-truth world looks like. The truth is whatever you prefer it to be, and many people seem to prefer not to think of themselves as having been manipulated by Russian trolls. Or maybe they are just so far down the rabbit hole they can't climb back up yet.
Interesting that they are investigating potential defrauding of investors, where as in Europe it's potential defrauding of customers.
Where do you draw the line? Should work-shy children who never worked a day in their lives but get FREE education have to pay in first?
No, because as I said, there are acute problems when "large" numbers come, but at worst it has relatively short term little negative effect (for skilled immigrants, e.g. EU nationals under Freedom of Movement) and in the longer term is a net benefit.
Holy shit dude.
I just want to be sure I have your argument correct. Your arbitrary criteria (straight && white && male && human) selected exactly one (1) member of the cast, who turned out to be a bad guy (who may also have been instrumental in the good guys winning the war). Despite the fact that many other characters, including the black female lead who is a war criminal, are also bad guys you conclude that this is evidence that Discover is an "SJW" show, and as further proof that "SJWs" are evil.
And then a rant about how white men (including gay ones?) are oppressed...
Man, why do I keep forgetting AC's advice?
All that would do is put huge numbers of disabled people and people with childhood problems on the streets.
The system is fine, it's just the politics of anger. Shit like "Benefits Street" that makes people rage at the TV.
ZHC are just the latest form of abuse. Before that it wasn't uncommon to see job adverts in the paper like "security guard, £100/week, 100 hours, bring own dog." Then limits on working hours and the minimum wage came in, so they looked for new ways to subvert the rules.
Studies showed that immigration had at most a very minor impact on jobs in certain areas only. The fact is that most of those immigrants do not come to do minimum wage and long hours. They are young and motivated enough to move to another country, and they want to improve their situations by getting better jobs too. Plus being there creates new employment opportunities, as with any increase in population.
Don't get me wrong, there are acute problems arising from immigration, but they can be dealt with. In general it doesn't suppress wages though, quite the opposite.
Thanks AC, sometimes you offer me great insight and wisdom. I should not have forgotten your previous advice on this matter.
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I'm all for people wearing name badges in the office. One of the hardest things when changing job is learning lots of new names.
Stopping globalism would have delayed the inevitable for a few decades at most. The more workers are paid the more money can be spent on automation that is ultimately cheaper. That's exactly what happened in the industrial revolution.
The point of the EU is to create a free trade zone with a level playing field. Where it breaks down is when new countries join and temporarily have much lower wages. Ireland and Spain were like that when they joined, but quickly came up to similar levels to the other members. The same is happening with newer members like Poland and Bulgaria, but there is definitely an argument to be made for some initial controls on movement of labour. In fact some countries did have just such controls, but the UK decided not to implement them.
What it really boils down to is that there are some acute problems that need to be addressed, but the longer term issues resulting from inevitable improvements in technology and increased globalisation are largely separate and can only be solved with socialism. The rich hate socialism, and have managed to convince a lot of less well off people to hate it as well through the politics of envy and blame.
Why would lab grown meat be inferior? It should be much better. It can be kept sterile so no need to pump it full of antibiotics or wash it in chlorine. It should be possible to tailor it to your tastes, precisely controlling the fat content, the texture, the size and shape...
Besides which, most meat consumed in the West is just minced up. Burgers, fillets, crap like that. Most people already can't afford to eat prime meat on a regular basis.
Hopefully it's the start of a trend where people have woken up to the fact that ICOs are scams and companies can't raise millions of dollars just by changing their name to "Cypto [oldname] Blockchain [meme]" any more.
Vorbis is very widely supported, even on cheap hardware. Open source made it possible - those boxes typically run some kind of embedded Linux and throw in some free audio and video decoding libraries that support Vorbis.
I think GPU manufacturers might drop MPEG support soon. The CPU is powerful enough to decode 4k anyway, and you can probably implement a good amount of acceleration in shaders anyway which makes it an option and not part of the base cost. Why add a few bucks to the cost of your GPU just to support unnecessary hardware decoding of MPEG? Laptops don't have BluRay drives any more so there isn't even a battery life advantage now that YouTube and Netflix ditched it.
MPEG will live on in broadcast TV. With 8k coming in a couple of years that will almost certainly be broadcast as some kind of MPEG stream. Of course current 4k broadcasting is all MPEG 4. But for the internet, it's days do seem to be numbered.
Side note, I had a look at some 8k TVs recently. They were inferior to the earlier demos because the compression artefacts were very noticeable. Current BluRay 8k streams are woefully inadequate. It will be interesting to see what they use for broadcast.
The UK has a minimum wage, and McDonalds just pays everyone the same anyway - no one negotiates their McDonalds burger flipper salary. And actually the biggest thing to push down wages, which were growing during the Blair years, has been zero hour contracts. Nothing to do with immigration at all.
I accept that immigration does need to be managed better than it has been. Not stopped or reduced, just managed to alleviate some of the short term problems.
An in the long run, this reduction and Brexit in general will make the whole country worse off anyway. It's not going to fix anything, even if someone these jobs are not automated away.
Are you must spamming this everywhere? Do I have another /. stalker?
What about Saru and Sarek? They are still good guy, competent straight white males. Well, okay, we are assuming Saru is straight, we have no indication either way.
Do you want to add a 4th arbitrary requirement to your claim, that the character has to be human?
Stamets is white and male and one of the purest good guy characters in the show. In fact he and Saru are the only two who aren't really tainted.
I mean, if we are talking arbitrary complaints we could say that the black female character is a criminal, the white female character is timid and ditzy, the dark skinned male character is deceptive and a spy... Which all disprove your SJW narrative, under which surely those characters should all be Mary Sues.
They are blaming Romanians and hoping that Brexit will magically give them a better job.
They expected it to make around $2.5-3.1B
Well, that was pretty stupid of them. It's currently the 9th highest grossing film of all time, and the only ones that made much more than that are all quite old. The highest grossing film ever is Avatar, which made only $2.9bn. So expecting $3.1bn is a tad unrealistic.
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Maybe you are right, they are terribly upset with their $1.26 billion so far, on a film still showing in cinemas and not out on DVD yet.