I'm in China at the moment. The Great Firewall is a real pain. Every network I connect to seems extent dodgy, with all sorts of weird inference. I usually use a VPN or Tor for all internet access, but here both are blocked.
The US is one of the most diverse, multicultural countries on earth. Okay, they do have a powerful domestic surveillance programme too, but are definitely more free than the Chinese.
A lot of people seem to want all that stuff. Draft men into the army? Great, toughen them up and get them interested in gun ownership. Race riots? Would prefer a full on race war but they are a good start.
Nixon... Well, they elected Trump. And now it's the Korean missile crisis.
Some people really seem to think that this stuff would make the country better.
In the UK housing is really unaffordable. We don't build enough houses, and older people see them as an asset which means they want to keep prices high.
In top of that, rents are very high too.
Many young people's only chance of owning a home is to wait for a relative to die and leave them some money. This creates a feedback loop where older people want their homes to remain expensive so they have more to pass on to their kids now that house prices are so high.
In top of that, university went from being free about 20 years ago to about 40-50k today. Student loans today are creating a huge black hole of bad debt for the next generation. Many, maybe the majority of students are never going to pay it all back.
So yeah, I wouldn't cite the UK as an example of a good system.
Most users rely on block lists. They don't have the ability to write good filters, and simple ones are bypassed by advertisers using easy tricks like having a semi random URL.
For many users they are 99% effective with zero effort.
This seems to be an automated porn scanner that they can throw on a PC they collected as evidence. I guess the idea is to save them some time looking for porn manually.
I seem to recall that deserts were one of the Windows 7 wallpaper packs. Windows 8 had them too and included by default, and Windows 10 displays a random landscape from Bing on the login screen.
Doxin' Dave's mistake is always to ignore the cost of installing and maintaining road surfaces. That's why guys maths never work, he never understands the value to governments that these roads offer.
The cost of the road surface itself is relatively small, compared to the cost of installing it, maintaining it, dealing with dust and noise it creates.
He also makes the mistake of comparing it to putting solar beside the road or on nearby roofing. If only road maintenance budgets worked like that.
Governments can take the long view on these things. Total cost over 30 years, other costs that commercial operations would simply externalise etc.
Both sides ran unpopular candidates. It's not like Trump had mass market appeal either, and in fact he lost the popular vote.
What screwed the Democrats was playing defence. They tried to defend Clinton, but Trump and the far right never do that. They always attack.
When someone points out a lie, they turn it around by accusing them of being fake news or attacking someone else unrelated (what-about-ism). They make it about someone else, look like the are winning.
That argument only works if you ignore Finn taking on Phasma, ignore that Leia is the mother of the big bad and seems to have done little to turn him back to the light, and that Poe has some totally un-toxic character growth.
That's how characters work in movies. Luke starts out as a whining teenager who enjoys shooting small animals, and it takes three movies for him to fully resolve his tendency to rush in. Empire is basically about how he is impatient, resulting in the loss of his hand.
More than 54 have jobs, and many of the rest are in training to prepare them for work. See, Germany doesn't just invite them in and then ignore them, it deals with the situation actively.
It's a huge problem for Japan. As the population becomes top heavy the tax base and care staff just are not there. They have the high costs of elderly care, and the high costs of raising children, resulting in fewer children and creating a feedback loop.
Buddy, it's Star Wars. It was always full of holes.
How did a stone age Ewok tribe defeat the Empire? Why did the Empire put its vital shield generator there and not properly defend it anyway? Why can't the Storm Troopers hit anything? Why give droids such silly personalities? Why does the Empire love ground assaults when it can just bombard stuff from orbit?
Realistically it was the best possible way to end Luke's story. Mark Hamil is too old to convincingly be an action hero now, it would have been CGI Yoda fights all over again. Or like Obe-Wan against Vader.
Instead they gave Luke a chance at redemption. They had to explain why he wasn't some huge force in the resistance, why he didn't take on Ren and Snoke himself.
This way Luke made a real difference and also wrapped up the Jedi religion with an acceptance that it ultimately failed. Now we get to see a post-Jedi universe, presumably a decade later in episode 9.
Seems like they toned the jokes down compared to the original trilogy, especially 4 and 6. In 4 they made a bigger deal out of R2 falling over than of the Death Star blowing up an entire planet. In 6 you had the Ewoks... Even Empire had a lot of C3P0 comic relief.
Apple uses much smaller batteries than most other high end phones. Those small batteries can't deliver as much power, and are apparently marginal to begin with so when they age the phone needs to throttle.
For example, the iPhone 6 has an 1800mAh battery. Other high end phones of that era had at least 2500mAh, many over 3000.
If you bought a new phone because the old one got slow, when all you needed was a new batter costing 1/10th as much even at Apple's official service charges, you were tricked into wasting a lot of money.
The subsidies for renewables are tiny compared to fossil and nuclear anyway. And renewables are now profitable without subsidy in some cases. As far as I'm aware no major fossil fuel plant has ever been profitable subsidy free.
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I'm in China at the moment. The Great Firewall is a real pain. Every network I connect to seems extent dodgy, with all sorts of weird inference. I usually use a VPN or Tor for all internet access, but here both are blocked.
The US is one of the most diverse, multicultural countries on earth. Okay, they do have a powerful domestic surveillance programme too, but are definitely more free than the Chinese.
It certainly doesn't have anything like Qubes' isolation or Tor built in like Tails.
It does have GNOME...
Musk fanboys I guess.
Meanwhile, I recently found out that the Tesla Model S and X don't have spend sensitive volume control. Cheap cars had that 15 years ago.
Full self diving got pushed back from this year to 2020 too. People who already paid for it a year ago and have a 5 year deal are screwed.
Something is very wrong with Tesla's engineering department.
They likely provided relevant industry experience. Coding at university is very different to doing it in a commercial environment.
Don't let that stop you blindly writing the entire course off though.
A lot of people seem to want all that stuff. Draft men into the army? Great, toughen them up and get them interested in gun ownership. Race riots? Would prefer a full on race war but they are a good start.
Nixon... Well, they elected Trump. And now it's the Korean missile crisis.
Some people really seem to think that this stuff would make the country better.
In the UK housing is really unaffordable. We don't build enough houses, and older people see them as an asset which means they want to keep prices high.
In top of that, rents are very high too.
Many young people's only chance of owning a home is to wait for a relative to die and leave them some money. This creates a feedback loop where older people want their homes to remain expensive so they have more to pass on to their kids now that house prices are so high.
In top of that, university went from being free about 20 years ago to about 40-50k today. Student loans today are creating a huge black hole of bad debt for the next generation. Many, maybe the majority of students are never going to pay it all back.
So yeah, I wouldn't cite the UK as an example of a good system.
It blocks it for me. Are you sure you didn't click it over to green at some point?
Most users rely on block lists. They don't have the ability to write good filters, and simple ones are bypassed by advertisers using easy tricks like having a semi random URL.
For many users they are 99% effective with zero effort.
In this case it sounds like they need to call on Private Browsing.
This seems to be an automated porn scanner that they can throw on a PC they collected as evidence. I guess the idea is to save them some time looking for porn manually.
I seem to recall that deserts were one of the Windows 7 wallpaper packs. Windows 8 had them too and included by default, and Windows 10 displays a random landscape from Bing on the login screen.
Doxin' Dave's mistake is always to ignore the cost of installing and maintaining road surfaces. That's why guys maths never work, he never understands the value to governments that these roads offer.
The cost of the road surface itself is relatively small, compared to the cost of installing it, maintaining it, dealing with dust and noise it creates.
He also makes the mistake of comparing it to putting solar beside the road or on nearby roofing. If only road maintenance budgets worked like that.
Governments can take the long view on these things. Total cost over 30 years, other costs that commercial operations would simply externalise etc.
Both sides ran unpopular candidates. It's not like Trump had mass market appeal either, and in fact he lost the popular vote.
What screwed the Democrats was playing defence. They tried to defend Clinton, but Trump and the far right never do that. They always attack.
When someone points out a lie, they turn it around by accusing them of being fake news or attacking someone else unrelated (what-about-ism). They make it about someone else, look like the are winning.
This is a great example from today: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
That's how you make an unpopular candidate win.
It's harmonised to make trade easier. All countries charge on the same day, although they still have their own timezones.
That argument only works if you ignore Finn taking on Phasma, ignore that Leia is the mother of the big bad and seems to have done little to turn him back to the light, and that Poe has some totally un-toxic character growth.
That's how characters work in movies. Luke starts out as a whining teenager who enjoys shooting small animals, and it takes three movies for him to fully resolve his tendency to rush in. Empire is basically about how he is impatient, resulting in the loss of his hand.
Brietbart is not a reliable source of information.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
More than 54 have jobs, and many of the rest are in training to prepare them for work. See, Germany doesn't just invite them in and then ignore them, it deals with the situation actively.
It's a huge problem for Japan. As the population becomes top heavy the tax base and care staff just are not there. They have the high costs of elderly care, and the high costs of raising children, resulting in fewer children and creating a feedback loop.
They need to get to at least a stable population.
Luke the Jedi Master would have been another CGI Yoda fight. What they did made sense, older Jedi use trickery and cunning instead of fighting.
And I thought that his ending was pretty dramatic.
Buddy, it's Star Wars. It was always full of holes.
How did a stone age Ewok tribe defeat the Empire? Why did the Empire put its vital shield generator there and not properly defend it anyway? Why can't the Storm Troopers hit anything? Why give droids such silly personalities? Why does the Empire love ground assaults when it can just bombard stuff from orbit?
Realistically it was the best possible way to end Luke's story. Mark Hamil is too old to convincingly be an action hero now, it would have been CGI Yoda fights all over again. Or like Obe-Wan against Vader.
Instead they gave Luke a chance at redemption. They had to explain why he wasn't some huge force in the resistance, why he didn't take on Ren and Snoke himself.
This way Luke made a real difference and also wrapped up the Jedi religion with an acceptance that it ultimately failed. Now we get to see a post-Jedi universe, presumably a decade later in episode 9.
Seems like they toned the jokes down compared to the original trilogy, especially 4 and 6. In 4 they made a bigger deal out of R2 falling over than of the Death Star blowing up an entire planet. In 6 you had the Ewoks... Even Empire had a lot of C3P0 comic relief.
Apple uses much smaller batteries than most other high end phones. Those small batteries can't deliver as much power, and are apparently marginal to begin with so when they age the phone needs to throttle.
For example, the iPhone 6 has an 1800mAh battery. Other high end phones of that era had at least 2500mAh, many over 3000.
The idea is you use a spare phone and put it somewhere that it hopefully won't be taken.
If you bought a new phone because the old one got slow, when all you needed was a new batter costing 1/10th as much even at Apple's official service charges, you were tricked into wasting a lot of money.
The subsidies for renewables are tiny compared to fossil and nuclear anyway. And renewables are now profitable without subsidy in some cases. As far as I'm aware no major fossil fuel plant has ever been profitable subsidy free.