We're judging the man for the stock in his self worth he places in his hair, and the poor choice to do what he does with his hair. It reflects on his personality, his motivations, and - yes - his judgement.
Obama gets a lot of shit for owning a closet full of the same suit. How would you have the PotUS spend his time - dealing with his hair and wardrobe, or actively engaging in world and US politics? Every man (or woman) only has 24 hours in a day; how they use it matters.
So...he's holding onto them so that she gets into office, and the expects that the congress (which will not change hands) will not impeach (house) and convict (senate) with the actual emails/facts on the table? But he's announcing them now rather than a surprise reveal on January 2x? And why does he not think that Trump will win the White House, and what will his course of action be if he does? I don't get his motives here, except as some play for himself in some twisted logic game?
On the subject of the actual indictment...
the leaked emails show that she overrode the Pentagon's reluctance to overthrow sovereign Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and that "they predicted the post-war outcome would be what it is, which is ISIS taking over the country."
Wait...so it's now illegal for the SoS to influence international policy (not illegal, afaik)? Or is it just that she was (presumably) wrong in pushing to remove Gaddafi because of the power vacuum it created (stupid, perhaps, but not illegal)? Or is it that emails on her server reveal the discussions about past operations within the government (again, unless classified, not illegal)?
"We'd study these things, but nobody is going to get filthy rich off of it so there's no real incentive to spend the money."
Wait - how much money is spent by the government and NFP cancer foundations on research? And we can't get a share of that to study promising medicines? Damn, we really are fucked as a society.
Walmart does this all the time online. Price mistake = product never ships. Since this is a license/virtual good, they're simply revoking the license and refunding your money 100%. That's what you "we should sue" idiots are missing that will fall flat as a pancake in court: They've caught an error and are giving you a full refund *plus* a store credit for your trouble. The judge would be laughing though his 2pm martini break.
This is a straight up price mistake - and an honest one at that - which was taken advantage of though quick action and social networking.
Honestly - it happens all the time - the decimal in the wrong place, keying error, a product page that is used for testing goes live before it's supposed to - it happens. Some places will honor their mistakes up to a point ("the first 100 people" or "one per order") but it's up to the merchant. I have no doubt that there is language in the EULA that allows them to correct mistakes.
The same can be said of traditional aircraft. There are, indeed, limits - some of which have been overcome and some of which still aren't quite practical (stored energy density for electrically driven aircraft, for example). Most of the things which make small flight vehicles "impossible" revolve around efficiency. There are limits to that, as well, but I'm not convinced that we are anywhere close to our limits.
MS has always rolled over where entertainment IP was involved. They're so absolutely frightened of the MPAA/RIAA's shadow they'll do just about anything to avoid conflict.
Powerful person provides money or knowledge to forward a political leader who he knows will provide access to power for personal or financial gain.
How ignorant of history do you have to be to realize that this has been the pattern of human politics since the emergence from primate tribes so small that the strongest alpha male became the leader buy killing or threatening to kill every other male strong enough to compete for alpha?
Every single, viable candidate for president has had the backing of massive financial wealth with the intent to influence politics or a cult following with the skills to sway the population. Do you think newspapers, when they were the key communications mechanism, stayed above that? Hell no. Do you think JP Morgan bailing out the US Treasury at the end of the 19th century was out of the goodness of his heart? Fuck no - he was in it for the power and the money, and he was rich enough that it worked and made him hat much richer and more powerful.
Julian needs to get off his high horse and realize that he's just telling ever single person who knows history what we ALREADY know. The people at the top are corrupt as sin, because that's how you get to the top. You're really just hoping you have a choice where one of the candidates has corruptions which match your personal desires.
Most of the US has sufficient view of the magical sky beasts we call satellites which can deliver perfectly acceptable* TV and email services.
*By acceptable, I'm referring to the level of discourse of cable TV stations - whether that meets your personal standard is an entirely different issue.
Actually, Waze is probably not to blame. Data on what is considered primary, secondary, and tertiary roads is given typically by the state department of transportation. While it's possible that there is an error in Waze due to an inaccurately coded street, it's just as likely that the original data was incorrect. At the OP suggested, just fix it and - even better - check with your DOT to see if they have the road identified incorrectly.
Interestingly, this whole debate started not because of safety or road maintenance worries but because people who thought they bought on a quiet street now find out that they live on a busier street and are annoyed at the traffic. They're willing to actively mess with day-to-day traffic to try and push the traffic onto someone else's street rather that take the (nominally) one time action of learning WHY the reroute is happening and work to fix it. Fixing it may mean going to your state representative and asking to raise your taxes so that proper road maintenance and expansion can be done on the primary streets to avoid exactly the situation they are in. I guarantee that nobody who is re-routed through a neighborhood to avoid an hours-long backup due to undersized primary roads or construction traffic is any happier having to change their travel. This reaction is a typical NIMBY reaction.
It would, but you'd be introducing another sensor for the sole purpose of validating a data point which has about a 1 in 100,000+ chance of occurring. With the cost of engineering, software tie in, parts and cabling, you're looking at millions of dollars to validate a very simple mechanical device. If you put one of these in, you need to also put in a brake sensor, and steering wheel sensor, an attentiveness sensor, a... the list goes on forever to create a fully redundant check on every sensor in the car. And then what happens if the sensor breaks? Do you have a sensor for your sensor to ensure its functioning? Do you immobilize the car until the sensor is fixed if there is a fault? How much cost will be associated with sensor failures and maintenance - not to mention poor press if your safety feature immobilizes even a single car (these are 1%ers we are inconveniencing, not some store clerk with a $500, 20 year old Camry that gets fidgety from time to time).
IIRC it takes about 150% of the annual salary of a typical white collar worker to train a replacement, plus the actual salary. So you're cutting 20% off the bottom, we presume you're replacing them with a better 20%, and you're paying 50% of the salary cost of the company in new training. That doesn't seem like a good idea unless the bottom 20% are really, really bad at what they do. In which case you should probably have started with firing all the hiring managers and HR department personnel who let those slackers in in the first place!
The US is spending over 1.5 Trillion on welfare programs. That works out to about $10,000/household/year.
The real reason it cannot work in the US is that there is no universal healthcare. Private, unsubsidized ACA-class health insurance costs are above that $10k/yr UBI level. Without that covered before the UBI, the system will always fail.
Most UBIs in the practical world (not this useless test) are in the $800-$1000/mo range - enough for basic food and shelter in "rest of the US"-like cost markets (i.e.not major cities with inflated costs of living). At that rate you're looking at less than $1.6B/yr. And the US is already spending that much on welfare programs every year.
I agree that the experiment is useless. Its not something that can be done on a small scale to see all the implications. It needs to be offered to everyone in a given population if you are to determine how the population actually reacts, and it needs to be in perpetuity if you are to find out how many people actually ditch their jobs for good.
You should replace it with a Kenwood system. They're built on Linux. Mine reboots itself 2-3x a week while driving/navigating, takes 45 seconds to start when the engine turns on, and requires updating the maps (for $150 a pop) every two years or the nav system simply refuses to operate.
Look, just because you have a way to transport the electricoity doesn't mean you can just store it and then bring it back out of storage when you need it...
Upgrade to 10, activate, then reinstall whatever you were working on before if you want to wait. You have to decide if the time ti takes to backup, upgrade, and then re-image to pre-upgrade is worth the potential of saving $100-200 (since upgrades will be, if you believe MS, perpetual to future OSes). At some point you'll be faced with a program which won't run under your current OS. Whether that happens before you plan to trash your current machine is the real question.
It's an OS. Each version, point or whole, will bring with it changes to services, telemetry, operations, drivers, etc. You can argue how stable version x is, or how secure, or how libertarian it is (at least compared to the limp-wristed commie version which is next up). In the long run, whatever you are on is going to be unsupported and unless you hold a degree in CS and prefer to spend your nights and weekends working on patches and new security exploits, you're probably better off upgrading with the pack.
I imagine there were people who fought tooth and nail against upgrading their gas lights to electricity, too.
Eliminate the headphone jack and switch to a $5/pc mfi certification/ip fee for all lightning cable-1/8" jack adapters and direct connect headphones. It's brilliant, I tell you! They can still just put the same cheap headphones with the lightning connector in the box - no wireless needed.
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Add and extra p and make it Napply and they can do some stylish word play on app to make it seem very new-computing hip.
We're judging the man for the stock in his self worth he places in his hair, and the poor choice to do what he does with his hair. It reflects on his personality, his motivations, and - yes - his judgement.
Obama gets a lot of shit for owning a closet full of the same suit. How would you have the PotUS spend his time - dealing with his hair and wardrobe, or actively engaging in world and US politics? Every man (or woman) only has 24 hours in a day; how they use it matters.
So...he's holding onto them so that she gets into office, and the expects that the congress (which will not change hands) will not impeach (house) and convict (senate) with the actual emails/facts on the table? But he's announcing them now rather than a surprise reveal on January 2x? And why does he not think that Trump will win the White House, and what will his course of action be if he does? I don't get his motives here, except as some play for himself in some twisted logic game?
On the subject of the actual indictment...
the leaked emails show that she overrode the Pentagon's reluctance to overthrow sovereign Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and that "they predicted the post-war outcome would be what it is, which is ISIS taking over the country."
Wait...so it's now illegal for the SoS to influence international policy (not illegal, afaik)? Or is it just that she was (presumably) wrong in pushing to remove Gaddafi because of the power vacuum it created (stupid, perhaps, but not illegal)? Or is it that emails on her server reveal the discussions about past operations within the government (again, unless classified, not illegal)?
"We'd study these things, but nobody is going to get filthy rich off of it so there's no real incentive to spend the money."
Wait - how much money is spent by the government and NFP cancer foundations on research? And we can't get a share of that to study promising medicines?
Damn, we really are fucked as a society.
Walmart does this all the time online. Price mistake = product never ships. Since this is a license/virtual good, they're simply revoking the license and refunding your money 100%. That's what you "we should sue" idiots are missing that will fall flat as a pancake in court: They've caught an error and are giving you a full refund *plus* a store credit for your trouble. The judge would be laughing though his 2pm martini break.
This is a straight up price mistake - and an honest one at that - which was taken advantage of though quick action and social networking.
Honestly - it happens all the time - the decimal in the wrong place, keying error, a product page that is used for testing goes live before it's supposed to - it happens. Some places will honor their mistakes up to a point ("the first 100 people" or "one per order") but it's up to the merchant. I have no doubt that there is language in the EULA that allows them to correct mistakes.
I really hate how rock solid previous versions were
I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
The same can be said of traditional aircraft. There are, indeed, limits - some of which have been overcome and some of which still aren't quite practical (stored energy density for electrically driven aircraft, for example). Most of the things which make small flight vehicles "impossible" revolve around efficiency. There are limits to that, as well, but I'm not convinced that we are anywhere close to our limits.
Drones are evil, autopilot is good.
Except in cars. In cars, autopilot is evil.
MS has always rolled over where entertainment IP was involved. They're so absolutely frightened of the MPAA/RIAA's shadow they'll do just about anything to avoid conflict.
Powerful person provides money or knowledge to forward a political leader who he knows will provide access to power for personal or financial gain.
How ignorant of history do you have to be to realize that this has been the pattern of human politics since the emergence from primate tribes so small that the strongest alpha male became the leader buy killing or threatening to kill every other male strong enough to compete for alpha?
Every single, viable candidate for president has had the backing of massive financial wealth with the intent to influence politics or a cult following with the skills to sway the population. Do you think newspapers, when they were the key communications mechanism, stayed above that? Hell no. Do you think JP Morgan bailing out the US Treasury at the end of the 19th century was out of the goodness of his heart? Fuck no - he was in it for the power and the money, and he was rich enough that it worked and made him hat much richer and more powerful.
Julian needs to get off his high horse and realize that he's just telling ever single person who knows history what we ALREADY know. The people at the top are corrupt as sin, because that's how you get to the top. You're really just hoping you have a choice where one of the candidates has corruptions which match your personal desires.
Most of the US has sufficient view of the magical sky beasts we call satellites which can deliver perfectly acceptable* TV and email services.
*By acceptable, I'm referring to the level of discourse of cable TV stations - whether that meets your personal standard is an entirely different issue.
Another reason is that Posti recently launched a lawn mowing service which operates on Tuesdays.
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...
Actually, Waze is probably not to blame. Data on what is considered primary, secondary, and tertiary roads is given typically by the state department of transportation. While it's possible that there is an error in Waze due to an inaccurately coded street, it's just as likely that the original data was incorrect. At the OP suggested, just fix it and - even better - check with your DOT to see if they have the road identified incorrectly.
Interestingly, this whole debate started not because of safety or road maintenance worries but because people who thought they bought on a quiet street now find out that they live on a busier street and are annoyed at the traffic. They're willing to actively mess with day-to-day traffic to try and push the traffic onto someone else's street rather that take the (nominally) one time action of learning WHY the reroute is happening and work to fix it. Fixing it may mean going to your state representative and asking to raise your taxes so that proper road maintenance and expansion can be done on the primary streets to avoid exactly the situation they are in. I guarantee that nobody who is re-routed through a neighborhood to avoid an hours-long backup due to undersized primary roads or construction traffic is any happier having to change their travel. This reaction is a typical NIMBY reaction.
It would, but you'd be introducing another sensor for the sole purpose of validating a data point which has about a 1 in 100,000+ chance of occurring. With the cost of engineering, software tie in, parts and cabling, you're looking at millions of dollars to validate a very simple mechanical device. If you put one of these in, you need to also put in a brake sensor, and steering wheel sensor, an attentiveness sensor, a... the list goes on forever to create a fully redundant check on every sensor in the car. And then what happens if the sensor breaks? Do you have a sensor for your sensor to ensure its functioning? Do you immobilize the car until the sensor is fixed if there is a fault? How much cost will be associated with sensor failures and maintenance - not to mention poor press if your safety feature immobilizes even a single car (these are 1%ers we are inconveniencing, not some store clerk with a $500, 20 year old Camry that gets fidgety from time to time).
IIRC it takes about 150% of the annual salary of a typical white collar worker to train a replacement, plus the actual salary. So you're cutting 20% off the bottom, we presume you're replacing them with a better 20%, and you're paying 50% of the salary cost of the company in new training. That doesn't seem like a good idea unless the bottom 20% are really, really bad at what they do. In which case you should probably have started with firing all the hiring managers and HR department personnel who let those slackers in in the first place!
"...he didn't do the scoring, and has no idea how the scores work. He also does not know who does do the scoring."
Translation: he gave you a zero.
The US is spending over 1.5 Trillion on welfare programs. That works out to about $10,000/household/year.
The real reason it cannot work in the US is that there is no universal healthcare. Private, unsubsidized ACA-class health insurance costs are above that $10k/yr UBI level. Without that covered before the UBI, the system will always fail.
Most UBIs in the practical world (not this useless test) are in the $800-$1000/mo range - enough for basic food and shelter in "rest of the US"-like cost markets (i.e.not major cities with inflated costs of living). At that rate you're looking at less than $1.6B/yr. And the US is already spending that much on welfare programs every year.
I agree that the experiment is useless. Its not something that can be done on a small scale to see all the implications. It needs to be offered to everyone in a given population if you are to determine how the population actually reacts, and it needs to be in perpetuity if you are to find out how many people actually ditch their jobs for good.
You should replace it with a Kenwood system. They're built on Linux. Mine reboots itself 2-3x a week while driving/navigating, takes 45 seconds to start when the engine turns on, and requires updating the maps (for $150 a pop) every two years or the nav system simply refuses to operate.
Look, just because you have a way to transport the electricoity doesn't mean you can just store it and then bring it back out of storage when you need it...
oh, you meant - nevermind.
Upgrade to 10, activate, then reinstall whatever you were working on before if you want to wait. You have to decide if the time ti takes to backup, upgrade, and then re-image to pre-upgrade is worth the potential of saving $100-200 (since upgrades will be, if you believe MS, perpetual to future OSes). At some point you'll be faced with a program which won't run under your current OS. Whether that happens before you plan to trash your current machine is the real question.
It's an OS. Each version, point or whole, will bring with it changes to services, telemetry, operations, drivers, etc. You can argue how stable version x is, or how secure, or how libertarian it is (at least compared to the limp-wristed commie version which is next up). In the long run, whatever you are on is going to be unsupported and unless you hold a degree in CS and prefer to spend your nights and weekends working on patches and new security exploits, you're probably better off upgrading with the pack.
I imagine there were people who fought tooth and nail against upgrading their gas lights to electricity, too.
Eliminate the headphone jack and switch to a $5/pc mfi certification/ip fee for all lightning cable-1/8" jack adapters and direct connect headphones. It's brilliant, I tell you! They can still just put the same cheap headphones with the lightning connector in the box - no wireless needed.