Tangential to the subject of the article....look at all the consumers of the news who posted "omg 10 years in prison!" whose naivete allowed them to (somewhat) read the article, believe the idea that he's going to get 10 years (not understanding the hyperbole common to news reporting), and be outraged.
Think of these naive and gullible news consumers next time you read about people being outraged (particularly non Americans commenting on American news) and how easily their feelings are accidentally or deliberately incited.
No, users who keep patronizing this pointless talking-shop need to re evaluate why the fuck they keep handing their eyeballs to Jack Dorsey to sell.
I admit, I am an Old (tm) who doesn't in the least understand why people are interested in everyone else's passing thoughts or the announcement they are standing in line for a latte.
I'm not sure it's an "object of fascination" so much as "something slightly distracting to while away the mind-numbing boredom of a long distance flight"? I see it as a digital equivalent to a cat-toy or one of those baby-mobiles, except for adult humans.
And I'm not arguing that there are desperately poor people in this country. Maybe if we focused our resources on helping them out of their ACTUAL misery instead of - as you put it - expanding benefits to those on the edge that don't really need it, we could make some progress.
But I guess it's important to lock down as many votes as one can but, isn't it?
Read it and weep. The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed. The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
And the final line of your post spits it out for real: You "hate Trump". Congrats. I'm sure that makes you special. Everyone? Everyone? Virtue being signaled! Everyone notice!
Poor as defined by the US "poverty line". Shouldn't you have signed in as "sophomoric pedant" instead of Anonymous Coward?
Read it and weep. The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed. The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet in a while.
Setting aside their naked effort to garner clicks by mentioning dragons, the analysis is puerile as well a backwards: rehashed sophomoric arguments from the cold war era, framed by a necessity to hew to the simile, rather than trying to glean useful insights through metaphor.
Much of the article discusses the issues of uni polarism (ie GoTs situation) which hasn't been relevant since what, 1947? and never will be again.
"people at the bottom of the economy are better off then those in the same situation in the US"
Aside from likely-covered healthcare, that's not actually true. The "poor" in the US are far more likely to have air conditioning, own their home, 1 or 2 cars, a computer, internet connection, and a number of other life pleasantries as well as a larger average living space than the European "middle class".
And remember, this is with a heavier tax burden and a country which has likely under-spent four decades on defense so when it matters....good luck with that.
"...However, the private sector does seem to have dipped its toes in hybrid long-haul truck powertrains. In 2017, truck engine maker Cummins announced that it would be developing a 100-mile-range electric semi with a diesel generator on board that could extend the battery range to 300 miles. Last September, the company debuted a hybrid electric and diesel or natural gas powertrain called the PowerDrive...."...and they haven't sold ANY because no serious freight company is willing to a) spend more than they have to on boutique technologies; b) sacrifice both weight capacity and RANGE (these have ranges of 100 miles, or 300 miles with a larger weight sacrifice). A typical truck 7mpg with 300gal tanks has a range of TWO THOUSAND miles and can be filled/turned in about 30 mins. These electric vehicles require 8 hours for full charge.
Sure perhaps some city buses or school buses will use the tech because (apparently) they don't have a bottom line to meet. But real trucking co's are already bled white by new rest hours, requirements to buy new eco-trucks (making the used sale value of their old units plummet), idling units, and a lack of drivers. It's not like there's a surplus of wealth in the business.
And trust me, you don't want to see the cumulative impact of even a 15% increase on transport costs across the supply chain.
Do they build their long term plans from what, skimming the covers of the ALWAYS overoptimistic Popular Mechanics?
No sober person who didn't have a dog in the hunt believed that autonomous vehicles were anywhere NEAR close to implementation. We still haven't solved fundamental problems with vision and processing on perfectly clear, dry days on sunny, empty California streets (where pretty nearly your dog could drive safely), to say NOTHING of the major effects of weather, night, redundancy, and the never-insignificant-in-American-contexts: LIABILITY.
If you think one company is going to seriously put truly autonomous vehicles on the road before they're essentially held-harmless if/when it runs over a kid, you don't understand corporations.
Political grandstanding by one party in congress, controlling one house, will not pass the other party, controlling the other house, nor the presidency (who has to sign it).
Second, even the original study itself is almost ridiculously vague - https://www.nature.com/article... : "...glaciers contributed 27 ± 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016..." 27 plus/minus 22? LOL the errorbar is nearly the size of the datum. What does that say about the data?
Third, I'd say it's at least somewhat relevant to check historical data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Phanerozoic_Sea_Level.png ) which shows that we are currently at a sea-level low that is HISTORIC - our sea levels haven't been this low for 200+ MILLION YEARS. The 'average' sea level for earth is easily 100m higher than today. If the curve is at all predictive, it shows that sea levels were low 230ish MYa and again 550ish MYa, both low points were followed by relatively sudden increase in sea level. So what's happening now... is predictable.
Essentially, humanity evolved at low tide, now we're bitching that the tide's coming in and is giong to knock over our sandcastles.
...I mean, if they can rake in â14.3 bn "pure profit" just by sniffing through Ireland's tax deal with Apple, there's probably at least another â100bn out there in stuff they can creatively fine against. I mean, there might be countries that object to having their lack of sovereignty rubbed in their face, but the Irish certainly were servile enough that the EU would be encouraged to try again.
Who else read this immediately assuming/. misspelled the title, only figuring it out halfway through the blurb that they were discussing MOST, not Hubble?
If "Cosko "became angry" at Republican senators questioning Kavanaugh -- so he posted contact information for Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Orrin Hatch " (all Republicans) didn't convince you, then a quick check of Wiki would confirm:
Cocacola.com will of COURSE not let cocacola.amazon fall into anyone's hands, so essentially opening a new TLD means all the big name domains are nearly guaranteed to simply cough up the $ to grab their same moniker on all the new TLDs. It's like free money.
Slashdot Mirror
Tangential to the subject of the article....look at all the consumers of the news who posted "omg 10 years in prison!" whose naivete allowed them to (somewhat) read the article, believe the idea that he's going to get 10 years (not understanding the hyperbole common to news reporting), and be outraged.
Think of these naive and gullible news consumers next time you read about people being outraged (particularly non Americans commenting on American news) and how easily their feelings are accidentally or deliberately incited.
It be funnier still to subvert the captcha system:
Click on all the squares that contain:
- big black cocks
- hardcore lesbian fisting
- creampies
- genital mutilation
No, users who keep patronizing this pointless talking-shop need to re evaluate why the fuck they keep handing their eyeballs to Jack Dorsey to sell.
I admit, I am an Old (tm) who doesn't in the least understand why people are interested in everyone else's passing thoughts or the announcement they are standing in line for a latte.
Might be a touch of hyperbole there.
I'm not sure it's an "object of fascination" so much as "something slightly distracting to while away the mind-numbing boredom of a long distance flight"? I see it as a digital equivalent to a cat-toy or one of those baby-mobiles, except for adult humans.
It's no less arbitrary than any other definition.
And I'm not arguing that there are desperately poor people in this country. Maybe if we focused our resources on helping them out of their ACTUAL misery instead of - as you put it - expanding benefits to those on the edge that don't really need it, we could make some progress.
But I guess it's important to lock down as many votes as one can but, isn't it?
Ha ha.
"They disagree with my political sacred cows, therefore they MUST be wrong, d'oh!"
When your opponent attacks the messenger and not the facts, you know they know they're losing.
https://www.heritage.org/pover...
Poor as defined by the US "poverty line".
Read it and weep.
The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR.
By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed.
The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
And the final line of your post spits it out for real: You "hate Trump". Congrats. I'm sure that makes you special. Everyone? Everyone? Virtue being signaled! Everyone notice!
https://www.heritage.org/pover...
Poor as defined by the US "poverty line". Shouldn't you have signed in as "sophomoric pedant" instead of Anonymous Coward?
Read it and weep.
The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR.
By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed.
The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
Try harder?
When you say things like patriotism, honor, bravery, faith, etc are all risible and worthy only of mockery, what do you have left?
Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet in a while.
Setting aside their naked effort to garner clicks by mentioning dragons, the analysis is puerile as well a backwards: rehashed sophomoric arguments from the cold war era, framed by a necessity to hew to the simile, rather than trying to glean useful insights through metaphor.
Much of the article discusses the issues of uni polarism (ie GoTs situation) which hasn't been relevant since what, 1947? and never will be again.
Jack Ma is an ardent campaigner for the 996 work schedule...9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. The Chinese government certainly isn't objecting.
Let's see how partial our new generations are to socialism on those terms?
"people at the bottom of the economy are better off then those in the same situation in the US"
Aside from likely-covered healthcare, that's not actually true. The "poor" in the US are far more likely to have air conditioning, own their home, 1 or 2 cars, a computer, internet connection, and a number of other life pleasantries as well as a larger average living space than the European "middle class".
And remember, this is with a heavier tax burden and a country which has likely under-spent four decades on defense so when it matters....good luck with that.
...it's almost like I already said: venues where apparently bottom line profit isn't the main motivator, they might work.
L2Read, dipshit.
"...However, the private sector does seem to have dipped its toes in hybrid long-haul truck powertrains. In 2017, truck engine maker Cummins announced that it would be developing a 100-mile-range electric semi with a diesel generator on board that could extend the battery range to 300 miles. Last September, the company debuted a hybrid electric and diesel or natural gas powertrain called the PowerDrive. ..." ...and they haven't sold ANY because no serious freight company is willing to a) spend more than they have to on boutique technologies; b) sacrifice both weight capacity and RANGE (these have ranges of 100 miles, or 300 miles with a larger weight sacrifice). A typical truck 7mpg with 300gal tanks has a range of TWO THOUSAND miles and can be filled/turned in about 30 mins. These electric vehicles require 8 hours for full charge.
Sure perhaps some city buses or school buses will use the tech because (apparently) they don't have a bottom line to meet. But real trucking co's are already bled white by new rest hours, requirements to buy new eco-trucks (making the used sale value of their old units plummet), idling units, and a lack of drivers. It's not like there's a surplus of wealth in the business.
And trust me, you don't want to see the cumulative impact of even a 15% increase on transport costs across the supply chain.
Do they build their long term plans from what, skimming the covers of the ALWAYS overoptimistic Popular Mechanics?
No sober person who didn't have a dog in the hunt believed that autonomous vehicles were anywhere NEAR close to implementation. We still haven't solved fundamental problems with vision and processing on perfectly clear, dry days on sunny, empty California streets (where pretty nearly your dog could drive safely), to say NOTHING of the major effects of weather, night, redundancy, and the never-insignificant-in-American-contexts: LIABILITY.
If you think one company is going to seriously put truly autonomous vehicles on the road before they're essentially held-harmless if/when it runs over a kid, you don't understand corporations.
Nobody who VOLUNTARILY PLACED AN ALWAYS-ON MICROPHONE IN THEIR HOME is seriously complaining about the privacy violation here, are they?
Political grandstanding by one party in congress, controlling one house, will not pass the other party, controlling the other house, nor the presidency (who has to sign it).
Thank God for divided government.
First, data useless without comparison data.
Second, even the original study itself is almost ridiculously vague - https://www.nature.com/article... : "...glaciers contributed 27 ± 22 millimetres to global mean sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016..." 27 plus/minus 22? LOL the errorbar is nearly the size of the datum. What does that say about the data?
Third, I'd say it's at least somewhat relevant to check historical data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Phanerozoic_Sea_Level.png ) which shows that we are currently at a sea-level low that is HISTORIC - our sea levels haven't been this low for 200+ MILLION YEARS. The 'average' sea level for earth is easily 100m higher than today. If the curve is at all predictive, it shows that sea levels were low 230ish MYa and again 550ish MYa, both low points were followed by relatively sudden increase in sea level. So what's happening now ... is predictable.
Essentially, humanity evolved at low tide, now we're bitching that the tide's coming in and is giong to knock over our sandcastles.
But then I guess that makes me a 'denier'?
The last set of samples was taken 3 YEARS ago and they're only publishing now?
That's slow even for government labs.
Well, we wanted "life in space"...
...I mean, if they can rake in â14.3 bn "pure profit" just by sniffing through Ireland's tax deal with Apple, there's probably at least another â100bn out there in stuff they can creatively fine against.
I mean, there might be countries that object to having their lack of sovereignty rubbed in their face, but the Irish certainly were servile enough that the EU would be encouraged to try again.
...makes even the most good willed post suspicious, especially in this field.
Who else read this immediately assuming /. misspelled the title, only figuring it out halfway through the blurb that they were discussing MOST, not Hubble?
Go read a European news site, then ?
Precisely.
If "Cosko "became angry" at Republican senators questioning Kavanaugh -- so he posted contact information for Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Orrin Hatch " (all Republicans) didn't convince you, then a quick check of Wiki would confirm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maggie Hassan is a democrat.
Of course it is, it's revenue farming.
Cocacola.com will of COURSE not let cocacola.amazon fall into anyone's hands, so essentially opening a new TLD means all the big name domains are nearly guaranteed to simply cough up the $ to grab their same moniker on all the new TLDs. It's like free money.