How is having a publicly controlled government leveraging resources by the guidance of the public not in the public interest? The assertion that the profit motive inevitably leads to greater efficiency than transparent government is quite possibly the stupidest stupid idea in the history of stupid ideas. This free-wheelingly idiotic nugget of conservative short-sightedness serves as the single greatest example of our tragic inability to self-govern effectively.
Please stop acting as an argument against democracy. Whenever you speak, it's basically an assault on freedom.
It is, in fact, a realignment of the Universal Service provisions. That said, I'm not okay with this going to private companies if they retain exclusive rights to the developed infrastructure. The fiber/air should be government-owned and leased to private companies (or better still, just deployed as government-owned network service).
As we've demonstrated that forced competitive leasing by regulation is too frail (one congress can hose that up quickly), the only safe bet is persistent government ownership of the infrastructure that the *government* laid out. I know it's a crazy prospect, but maybe giving monopolistic freebies to enormous corporations isn't in the public's best interest.
The door hasn't been entirely shut on FTL entanglement communication, so I'm going to hold onto my bad sci fi novel.
Neutrino communication doesn't make sense for this. It makes *far* more sense to delegate preferences to local agents (i.e. algorithms on remote computers) with latent-update control. It's more responsive (the speed of light sucks) to co-locate, so the larger problem is finding ways to meaningfully encode one's preferences.
Anyway. We'll see WRT entanglement communication. If we prove that it's impossible, that's huge. If we demonstrate that it's possible, well, that's also huge.
Like many, I recommend paper and pen/pencil. More precisely, Moleskine (or, better still, Leuchtturm 1917) books have great features. They're bound, small, can have page numbers, and have pockets in the back for holding things like business cards (not in Asia, please!).
If it must be tech, I'd probably go with OneNote on a convertible tablet. It's fast, and the ability to record audio and video that can be played back with synchronized writing can be useful for figuring out *why* you wrote something in the first place.
Just track down jacket-pocket sized books and concentrate on the presentations. You'll get the proceedings anyway.
"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase"
At the very least, they're looking to coerce or bribe an Israeli intelligence informant. It's certainly well into the grey area. Their great efforts to set up a pseudo-independent StratCap StratFund for StratInsider StratTrading stinks of SEC violations if they leveraged information gained in one space (by its nature, illicit) for gains in another.
I think the most unnerving parts of this could be:
- They are sometimes used by the US government (and others), presumably to provide a hint of plausible deniability. - They're trading on markets using information gained via espionage, sometimes with information gained at the urging of government agencies. - They're all-around scary dudes with close ties to our government and our financial organizations.
We'll get more details, but those crazies with delusional rantings about shady para-governmental organizations with nearly boundless resources and a shortage of moral or ethical restriction? Yeah, they're going to be busy for a while.
Unless you want to use another term, a $40k bill to get it running again is fairly bricked.
The original blog poster has a $40,000 quote, and the Tesla manual clearly states that the battery system will require replacement if depleted and not immediately recharged after entering range mode or running to 0% in reserve. They're worried enough about this that they instruct you to contact them immediately if you cannot charge your car.
This should surprise just about no one, but, frankly, Tesla should have a low-charge relay pull or a manual lever for battery disconnect. Tesla doesn't appear to be arguing the point that their systems can fail in certain conditions, requiring costly replacement. Heck, they put it in the manual.
While there are a few different translations ("murder" being one of them), it's always felt like an apologist's way out to me.
If you look in the Torah, there are more detailed exceptions. It's not murder if the other party is armed in war, or if the victim is being punished for a capital crime (like, you know, adultery, or idolatry). So, yes, this little linguistic loophole is leveraged to afford room enough for wars to walk through, because they are the will of god.
You should read Numbers. The nation of Israel did quite a bit of killing, raping, and enslaving shortly after receiving the 10 commandments. I'm sure that was all God's will though, so, yeah... I'm sure that Christ's contradictions of established old-testament teachings were completely different.
Everyone not in my religion must be in an insane cult, but my religion is the one true religion. Right?
While I agree that these distinctions exist, they're but one step past some of the stark differences between Christian denominations.
Christians often have a camaraderie with Jews because of what they see as a common history (and the "Jesus was a Jew" thing), and "Allah" does have the same fundamental meaning as "God" for Christians and Jews, at least from 30k feet.
Your frantic, accusatory reaction is, well, frankly, batshit. It's not contempt that the parent post has. It's indifference. Call off the knee-jerk AC posting and grow the hell up. Not everyone has to take your religion as seriously as you do. If they don't care, it's not a slam on you.
For a car analogy:
Ferrari 458, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Prius. All cars, so all basically the same thing. To a non-car person, well, yeah, they are. If they all had a common ancestry which they printed in their manuals, even more people would lump them together when compared with, say, blimps.
Every telescope made after 1971 has required federally mandated "Moon goggles" that are inserted just before the telescope is completed. It's plain as day, except visible at night.
It doesn't need to be in discovery to see devices in discovery mode, and plenty of people leave their BT on all the time. That said, I agree that this is likely BS.
Because their network isn't as far-reaching, or because they'll eventually screw phone users just like they did 4G wifi hotspot users?
I do quite a bit of informal checking on multiple carriers (I use Sprint and T-Mobile, my wife uses T-Mobile and AT&T). This weekend, with my brother and his Verizon handset in tow, it became pretty obvious that the big two have rolled out more on the west coast. Verizon was especially impressive. Never without signal. Never without solid data.
Bless T-Mobile for sticking around, but they'd better make the most of those new-found frequencies and roaming agreements. I'm tired of having to light up a cellular modem to make a text. That said, I'll probably *never* go back to AT&T.
I'm pretty sure that 'bonified' could reasonably be taken to be the past participle of 'bonify', which has fallen out of use, but means, roughly, "to convert into good." So this guy either means 'bona fide' or he's making a far more subtle point than first inspection would indicate.
I'm not going to deify the flag to the point of trying to determine what is okay for others. That you can wear the American flag as a diaper is what makes that flag so special in the first place.
Nationalism is a disease. Reverence for a symbol is religion. Be careful how you project your values onto others.
Yeah, but I'm just suggesting looking at it the other way. If they don't want to pay for something, but it gains you nothing to sit on it, it might be worth giving to them for the speculative goodwill.
Now, I'm not generally one to favor speculative work, nor am I one to trust in the good graces of others. Still, it may be worth considering.
Also consider that the cost of demonstrating competence is being asked to do more in the future. If this guy is just looking to collect a paycheck, that may not be that interesting to him.
The 12/21/2012 will be my 10th wedding anniversary, and we've been figuring on throwing a huge bash. We've considered renewing our vows, which may cause the world to end...
I guess I should start making plans now, as the 21st is a Friday. Gotta reserve a cool club or theater.
There's a balance here. Being all about the cash leaves a bad taste in your employer's mouth, sometimes worse than if you hadn't done anything above and beyond at all. Sometimes you bring something cool back to the farm and it helps with your career. Sometimes it's better to put it in your back pocket and walk away. There should be no hard rules here.
Businesses often call these "loss leaders," and they can be well worth it. It's an in-the-moment judgment call, but it's a judgment call.
Clearly, people got these because they are dumb. We know that they are dumb because they ride public transit. They ride public transit because they are poor. Dumb, poor, train people got sticks without understanding what they were for. They probably tried to eat them and left them in the train.
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Troll, moron, or moronic troll?
How is having a publicly controlled government leveraging resources by the guidance of the public not in the public interest? The assertion that the profit motive inevitably leads to greater efficiency than transparent government is quite possibly the stupidest stupid idea in the history of stupid ideas. This free-wheelingly idiotic nugget of conservative short-sightedness serves as the single greatest example of our tragic inability to self-govern effectively.
Please stop acting as an argument against democracy. Whenever you speak, it's basically an assault on freedom.
Sincerely,
The World.
It is, in fact, a realignment of the Universal Service provisions. That said, I'm not okay with this going to private companies if they retain exclusive rights to the developed infrastructure. The fiber/air should be government-owned and leased to private companies (or better still, just deployed as government-owned network service).
As we've demonstrated that forced competitive leasing by regulation is too frail (one congress can hose that up quickly), the only safe bet is persistent government ownership of the infrastructure that the *government* laid out. I know it's a crazy prospect, but maybe giving monopolistic freebies to enormous corporations isn't in the public's best interest.
The door hasn't been entirely shut on FTL entanglement communication, so I'm going to hold onto my bad sci fi novel.
Neutrino communication doesn't make sense for this. It makes *far* more sense to delegate preferences to local agents (i.e. algorithms on remote computers) with latent-update control. It's more responsive (the speed of light sucks) to co-locate, so the larger problem is finding ways to meaningfully encode one's preferences.
Anyway. We'll see WRT entanglement communication. If we prove that it's impossible, that's huge. If we demonstrate that it's possible, well, that's also huge.
Entanglement communication is far more interesting. Spooky, distant, simultaneous communication? Yes please.
Just imagine courriers delivering what amounts to communication fuel. This is a bad sci fi novel waiting to happen.
You place it in your huge, flat, ranch house. Houses are seriously huge in some parts of Texas.
This is an ITC ruling. It's far from over.
It's a civil matter, rather than a criminal one. You can only presume inanity.
Like many, I recommend paper and pen/pencil. More precisely, Moleskine (or, better still, Leuchtturm 1917) books have great features. They're bound, small, can have page numbers, and have pockets in the back for holding things like business cards (not in Asia, please!).
If it must be tech, I'd probably go with OneNote on a convertible tablet. It's fast, and the ability to record audio and video that can be played back with synchronized writing can be useful for figuring out *why* you wrote something in the first place.
Just track down jacket-pocket sized books and concentrate on the presentations. You'll get the proceedings anyway.
Maybe we should ban sitcoms with fat dudes who score disproportionately hot women. That's just promoting the idea that it's alright to be a fat dude.
"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase"
At the very least, they're looking to coerce or bribe an Israeli intelligence informant. It's certainly well into the grey area. Their great efforts to set up a pseudo-independent StratCap StratFund for StratInsider StratTrading stinks of SEC violations if they leveraged information gained in one space (by its nature, illicit) for gains in another.
I think the most unnerving parts of this could be:
- They are sometimes used by the US government (and others), presumably to provide a hint of plausible deniability.
- They're trading on markets using information gained via espionage, sometimes with information gained at the urging of government agencies.
- They're all-around scary dudes with close ties to our government and our financial organizations.
We'll get more details, but those crazies with delusional rantings about shady para-governmental organizations with nearly boundless resources and a shortage of moral or ethical restriction? Yeah, they're going to be busy for a while.
Since Aggregability is NP-Hard, this should surprise exactly nobody (who reads papers on complexity).
Unless you want to use another term, a $40k bill to get it running again is fairly bricked.
The original blog poster has a $40,000 quote, and the Tesla manual clearly states that the battery system will require replacement if depleted and not immediately recharged after entering range mode or running to 0% in reserve. They're worried enough about this that they instruct you to contact them immediately if you cannot charge your car.
Read the comments at ITWorld.
This should surprise just about no one, but, frankly, Tesla should have a low-charge relay pull or a manual lever for battery disconnect. Tesla doesn't appear to be arguing the point that their systems can fail in certain conditions, requiring costly replacement. Heck, they put it in the manual.
Simple answer: plug in your car.
And, yes, I still want one.
While there are a few different translations ("murder" being one of them), it's always felt like an apologist's way out to me.
If you look in the Torah, there are more detailed exceptions. It's not murder if the other party is armed in war, or if the victim is being punished for a capital crime (like, you know, adultery, or idolatry). So, yes, this little linguistic loophole is leveraged to afford room enough for wars to walk through, because they are the will of god.
Good times, eh?
You should read Numbers. The nation of Israel did quite a bit of killing, raping, and enslaving shortly after receiving the 10 commandments. I'm sure that was all God's will though, so, yeah... I'm sure that Christ's contradictions of established old-testament teachings were completely different.
Everyone not in my religion must be in an insane cult, but my religion is the one true religion. Right?
While I agree that these distinctions exist, they're but one step past some of the stark differences between Christian denominations.
Christians often have a camaraderie with Jews because of what they see as a common history (and the "Jesus was a Jew" thing), and "Allah" does have the same fundamental meaning as "God" for Christians and Jews, at least from 30k feet.
Your frantic, accusatory reaction is, well, frankly, batshit. It's not contempt that the parent post has. It's indifference. Call off the knee-jerk AC posting and grow the hell up. Not everyone has to take your religion as seriously as you do. If they don't care, it's not a slam on you.
For a car analogy:
Ferrari 458, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Prius. All cars, so all basically the same thing. To a non-car person, well, yeah, they are. If they all had a common ancestry which they printed in their manuals, even more people would lump them together when compared with, say, blimps.
Every telescope made after 1971 has required federally mandated "Moon goggles" that are inserted just before the telescope is completed. It's plain as day, except visible at night.
It doesn't need to be in discovery to see devices in discovery mode, and plenty of people leave their BT on all the time. That said, I agree that this is likely BS.
Because their network isn't as far-reaching, or because they'll eventually screw phone users just like they did 4G wifi hotspot users?
I do quite a bit of informal checking on multiple carriers (I use Sprint and T-Mobile, my wife uses T-Mobile and AT&T). This weekend, with my brother and his Verizon handset in tow, it became pretty obvious that the big two have rolled out more on the west coast. Verizon was especially impressive. Never without signal. Never without solid data.
Bless T-Mobile for sticking around, but they'd better make the most of those new-found frequencies and roaming agreements. I'm tired of having to light up a cellular modem to make a text. That said, I'll probably *never* go back to AT&T.
I'm pretty sure that 'bonified' could reasonably be taken to be the past participle of 'bonify', which has fallen out of use, but means, roughly, "to convert into good." So this guy either means 'bona fide' or he's making a far more subtle point than first inspection would indicate.
I'm not going to deify the flag to the point of trying to determine what is okay for others. That you can wear the American flag as a diaper is what makes that flag so special in the first place.
Nationalism is a disease. Reverence for a symbol is religion. Be careful how you project your values onto others.
Yeah, but I'm just suggesting looking at it the other way. If they don't want to pay for something, but it gains you nothing to sit on it, it might be worth giving to them for the speculative goodwill.
Now, I'm not generally one to favor speculative work, nor am I one to trust in the good graces of others. Still, it may be worth considering.
Also consider that the cost of demonstrating competence is being asked to do more in the future. If this guy is just looking to collect a paycheck, that may not be that interesting to him.
The 12/21/2012 will be my 10th wedding anniversary, and we've been figuring on throwing a huge bash. We've considered renewing our vows, which may cause the world to end...
I guess I should start making plans now, as the 21st is a Friday. Gotta reserve a cool club or theater.
There's a balance here. Being all about the cash leaves a bad taste in your employer's mouth, sometimes worse than if you hadn't done anything above and beyond at all. Sometimes you bring something cool back to the farm and it helps with your career. Sometimes it's better to put it in your back pocket and walk away. There should be no hard rules here.
Businesses often call these "loss leaders," and they can be well worth it. It's an in-the-moment judgment call, but it's a judgment call.
Dude. Stop with the brain hurt.
Clearly, people got these because they are dumb. We know that they are dumb because they ride public transit. They ride public transit because they are poor. Dumb, poor, train people got sticks without understanding what they were for. They probably tried to eat them and left them in the train.
Because they're dumb, poor, non-computer people.
QED.
Now I have to go catch a train home.