Of course we're going to pour billions into companies, having no venture capital experience, and even without a proper vetting process that will be adhered to.
(Dis)credit to Bush for signing this into existence, but Obama's corrupt administration of course had to make it worse. His own people told him Solyndra was a bad investment, but he and Chu were chummy with the owners and it was a big political "green" score. It went through anyway even before legally mandated evaluations were finished. Any VC firm operating like this would be out of money fast.
I'm sure Solyndra was only the first. We'll be seeing more.
There is absolutely no threat by this ban save to the pockets of the greedy and unethical and its passage will go a long way toward less environmental toxins in many facets of industry.
How about a threat to the poor? Say now we spend $10 million to vaccinate a poor population. Now mercury is banned, we need vaccines that are more expensive to manufacture, and that $10 million will vaccinate fewer people. The "safer" versions have been around for decades, they're just more expensive to make (ten one-use vials vs. one ten-use vial are obviously more expensive to make) and less effective in the field, driving up the cost of vaccination.
Because of your ban, would you like to decide which kids get to die because they weren't vaccinated? Or would you like to pony up the extra manufacturing cost out of your own wallet in order to save them?
Her idea that unnecessary suffering is noble and brings one closer to Christ is pretty sick in my book. But she did dedicate her life to helping people, and inspired many others to do so. IMHO she deserved it.
The basic way that we interact with a PDA has not changed since early Palm devices.
You mean since early Apple Newton devices. You should have known that, having used them since they were created. The term "PDA" was coined for the Newton in 1992. The Psions before that were basically the old Radio Shack 100 shrunk down, no direct interaction with the screen.
but to make the accusation that Android copied Apple and not simply the companies that Apple copied themselves requires the burden of proof
Simply that early Android looked and acted like a Blackberry, and post-iPhone released Android looked and acted like an iPhone. Is that good enough?
There's inspiration used to make something greater, and there's just lazy copying. Android fell into the latter category, first trying to copy from RIM, then switching to Apple.
Work on Android as a phone that would be more location and preference aware started well before the iPhone was announced.
However, early Android versions looked like Blackberry copies. After the iPhone introduction, Google had almost a year to change that to an iPhone copy before releasing the beta.
The success of the iPhone has absolutely zero to do with any improvement to the UI.
The improved UI was part of the whole user friendliness. It's not just icons, it's the whole system, the way it's used. Plus, it was very, very polished. Apple made the smart phone easy, as you say. It's the same reason the iPod took off -- from geek toy to polished consumer product.
Again, don't just copy, make something better.
What made it a huge success was the marketing might of Apple to make it a device people wanted coupled with an App store that allowed people to actually use it to it's full potential.
Something since copied by everybody.
but they are not the most innovative company out there nor do they make the best products (particularly when value (real not hype) is considered).
I've found that many of their products are best in category, regardless of hype. I'm not even a long-time Apple fan, having bought my first Apple product in late 2006 -- a second-generation iPod Nano. The quality and value then hooked me.
Of course it depends on what you value. If it's just a spec sheet, probably not for you.
RIM did some great stuff in its day, and for that reason was wildly successful. Everybody was trying to copy RIM -- even Android looked to RIM for what to copy (not look to for inspiration for new directions, but simply copy).
But Apple didn't go that way, decided full touch with no keyboard was the way to go for a smart phone. Apple was wildly successful, thus everybody wanted to copy Apple, including Google, which changed Android's direction.
It was a misquote of Picasso, which comes from this by T. S. Eliot:
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn."
There you have the whole of the idea. Apple took the general IDEA of the GUI at Xerox, and made something much better from it. But Microsoft simply attempted a cheap rip-off of the Mac. Apple may have taken touch ideas from Palm and even the Prada, but made something wholly better and new. Android was just an inferior copy of the iPhone.
Microsoft and Google were bad poets. It took decades for Microsoft to come close overall to the beauty of what they were copying, and it'll be at least four years for Google. The original Mac and the iPhone were amazing for their times, while Windows 1 and Android 1 were total crap.
This manifests in hardware too. Jonny Ive uses the inspiration of Dieter Rams to make new great designs, while others tend to just try to copy Ive's designs.
The iPhone trademark had been filed in the 90s by a company that Cisco bought in 2000. The trademark hadn't been used in a phone since 2001, and had expired, except it was in an extended period when Cisco could still renew it by paying an extra fee.
To renew it, Cisco had to show the trademark was currently in use in commerce. The proof would be a photo of the retail packaging sent to the USPTO. So Cisco literally took an existing Linksys VOIP phone box, slapped an "iPhone" sticker on it, and sent that to the USPTO. In short, Cisco committed fraud to retrieve their abandoned trademark now that it had value to Apple.
Cisco didn't even start selling this re-labeled phone as an iPhone until AFTER Apple had been in negotiations with Cisco over the technically expired trademark. Cisco didn't really have a case, which is why they settled for a vague promise of "interoperability."
"In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem." -- Yang Xiaokun, Chinese diplomat, at the 2006 Internet Governance Forum in Athens
They'll lie right to your face and expect you to believe it. They're probably so used to their own people cowering in fear of calling out government lies they actually think we will too.
Newer ones being built have 100A, some even 200A. You can of course forget this on older homes, which often have only 60A. US homes also have 240V, which is usually used to run the water heater (if electric), the oven and the clothes dryer.
But think if half the homes in an area get electric cars. The grid itself in many places couldn't handle that load, even if individual homes could. As it is, some places get brown outs when everybody runs their A/C units at the same time.
The Department of Education doesn't educate one child. Its latest, greatest feat is implementing No Child Left Behind, which local educators generally hate, but administrators love.
The standardization function NIST is constitutionally mandated, and thus Dr. Paul would not support the dissolution of that function.
But you can split it back up. DHS contains things like customs, immigration and Coast Guard, which are legitimate, necessary, functions of the federal government.
However, I guess the Coast Guard could just be made a branch of the Navy. All the different border-related services such as USCIS, CBP, APHIS and ICE should be rolled into one department. Give protection details and anti-counterfeiting to the FBI.
Its weather duties do not require a whole agency. Eliminate it, and put all weather duties under the Department of Defense, which already has a legitimate national security reason to know the weather all over the world. Actually there is serious duplication right now, since the Navy and Air Force already employ a lot of meterologists.
My introduction (outside of history books) to "what the fuck were you thinking" started with the terrorist Yassir Arafat. He was followed by other non-deserving people such as Kofi Anan, Al Gore and Barack Obama.
But then there were very deserving people such as Carlos Belo and Muhammad Yunus. Extra credit for having the balls to give it to Liu Xiaobo over the opposition of a very irate Chinese government. That one reminds me of the awards to Aung San Suu Kyi and Lech Walesa, fighting for freedom in the face of an oppressive government.
Quite often states enter into standardization or other agreements between them. For example, you've probably heard of the Uniform Commercial Code. Check out the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
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Of course we're going to pour billions into companies, having no venture capital experience, and even without a proper vetting process that will be adhered to.
(Dis)credit to Bush for signing this into existence, but Obama's corrupt administration of course had to make it worse. His own people told him Solyndra was a bad investment, but he and Chu were chummy with the owners and it was a big political "green" score. It went through anyway even before legally mandated evaluations were finished. Any VC firm operating like this would be out of money fast.
I'm sure Solyndra was only the first. We'll be seeing more.
How about a threat to the poor? Say now we spend $10 million to vaccinate a poor population. Now mercury is banned, we need vaccines that are more expensive to manufacture, and that $10 million will vaccinate fewer people. The "safer" versions have been around for decades, they're just more expensive to make (ten one-use vials vs. one ten-use vial are obviously more expensive to make) and less effective in the field, driving up the cost of vaccination.
Because of your ban, would you like to decide which kids get to die because they weren't vaccinated? Or would you like to pony up the extra manufacturing cost out of your own wallet in order to save them?
Maybe pushing work back to the home region?
Her idea that unnecessary suffering is noble and brings one closer to Christ is pretty sick in my book. But she did dedicate her life to helping people, and inspired many others to do so. IMHO she deserved it.
You mean since early Apple Newton devices. You should have known that, having used them since they were created. The term "PDA" was coined for the Newton in 1992. The Psions before that were basically the old Radio Shack 100 shrunk down, no direct interaction with the screen.
Simply that early Android looked and acted like a Blackberry, and post-iPhone released Android looked and acted like an iPhone. Is that good enough?
There's inspiration used to make something greater, and there's just lazy copying. Android fell into the latter category, first trying to copy from RIM, then switching to Apple.
The iPhone doesn't work or look much like a pen-based N770, and the N800 came out the same time as the iPhone.
It's evil, it must be banned, period. These are idealist politicians we're talking about, reality need not apply.
It's just like the landmine ban, no exceptions, even for cases when the reasons for the ban don't apply (which is the reason the US didn't sign).
Work on Android as a phone that would be more location and preference aware started well before the iPhone was announced.
However, early Android versions looked like Blackberry copies. After the iPhone introduction, Google had almost a year to change that to an iPhone copy before releasing the beta.
The improved UI was part of the whole user friendliness. It's not just icons, it's the whole system, the way it's used. Plus, it was very, very polished. Apple made the smart phone easy, as you say. It's the same reason the iPod took off -- from geek toy to polished consumer product.
Again, don't just copy, make something better.
Something since copied by everybody.
I've found that many of their products are best in category, regardless of hype. I'm not even a long-time Apple fan, having bought my first Apple product in late 2006 -- a second-generation iPod Nano. The quality and value then hooked me.
Of course it depends on what you value. If it's just a spec sheet, probably not for you.
RIM did some great stuff in its day, and for that reason was wildly successful. Everybody was trying to copy RIM -- even Android looked to RIM for what to copy (not look to for inspiration for new directions, but simply copy).
But Apple didn't go that way, decided full touch with no keyboard was the way to go for a smart phone. Apple was wildly successful, thus everybody wanted to copy Apple, including Google, which changed Android's direction.
It was a misquote of Picasso, which comes from this by T. S. Eliot:
There you have the whole of the idea. Apple took the general IDEA of the GUI at Xerox, and made something much better from it. But Microsoft simply attempted a cheap rip-off of the Mac. Apple may have taken touch ideas from Palm and even the Prada, but made something wholly better and new. Android was just an inferior copy of the iPhone.
Microsoft and Google were bad poets. It took decades for Microsoft to come close overall to the beauty of what they were copying, and it'll be at least four years for Google. The original Mac and the iPhone were amazing for their times, while Windows 1 and Android 1 were total crap.
This manifests in hardware too. Jonny Ive uses the inspiration of Dieter Rams to make new great designs, while others tend to just try to copy Ive's designs.
That's kind of the difference between all forms of government. Libertarianism also requires a lower amount of government power than most others.
The iPhone trademark had been filed in the 90s by a company that Cisco bought in 2000. The trademark hadn't been used in a phone since 2001, and had expired, except it was in an extended period when Cisco could still renew it by paying an extra fee.
To renew it, Cisco had to show the trademark was currently in use in commerce. The proof would be a photo of the retail packaging sent to the USPTO. So Cisco literally took an existing Linksys VOIP phone box, slapped an "iPhone" sticker on it, and sent that to the USPTO. In short, Cisco committed fraud to retrieve their abandoned trademark now that it had value to Apple.
Cisco didn't even start selling this re-labeled phone as an iPhone until AFTER Apple had been in negotiations with Cisco over the technically expired trademark. Cisco didn't really have a case, which is why they settled for a vague promise of "interoperability."
"In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem." -- Yang Xiaokun, Chinese diplomat, at the 2006 Internet Governance Forum in Athens
They'll lie right to your face and expect you to believe it. They're probably so used to their own people cowering in fear of calling out government lies they actually think we will too.
Newer ones being built have 100A, some even 200A. You can of course forget this on older homes, which often have only 60A. US homes also have 240V, which is usually used to run the water heater (if electric), the oven and the clothes dryer.
But think if half the homes in an area get electric cars. The grid itself in many places couldn't handle that load, even if individual homes could. As it is, some places get brown outs when everybody runs their A/C units at the same time.
in that home-made electric car.
So, no, the people can still pay cash for their politicians.
The Constitution specifically reserves to the federal government the power to coin money.
Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, "United States coins and currency are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."
Politicians won't look at the mission and necessity, but whether the money goes to their districts.
The Department of Education doesn't educate one child. Its latest, greatest feat is implementing No Child Left Behind, which local educators generally hate, but administrators love.
The standardization function NIST is constitutionally mandated, and thus Dr. Paul would not support the dissolution of that function.
But you can split it back up. DHS contains things like customs, immigration and Coast Guard, which are legitimate, necessary, functions of the federal government.
However, I guess the Coast Guard could just be made a branch of the Navy. All the different border-related services such as USCIS, CBP, APHIS and ICE should be rolled into one department. Give protection details and anti-counterfeiting to the FBI.
Its weather duties do not require a whole agency. Eliminate it, and put all weather duties under the Department of Defense, which already has a legitimate national security reason to know the weather all over the world. Actually there is serious duplication right now, since the Navy and Air Force already employ a lot of meterologists.
My introduction (outside of history books) to "what the fuck were you thinking" started with the terrorist Yassir Arafat. He was followed by other non-deserving people such as Kofi Anan, Al Gore and Barack Obama.
But then there were very deserving people such as Carlos Belo and Muhammad Yunus. Extra credit for having the balls to give it to Liu Xiaobo over the opposition of a very irate Chinese government. That one reminds me of the awards to Aung San Suu Kyi and Lech Walesa, fighting for freedom in the face of an oppressive government.
Quite often states enter into standardization or other agreements between them. For example, you've probably heard of the Uniform Commercial Code. Check out the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.