Moderators modding this "Insightful" should note that further in the threat guruevi claims that those proposing codes of conduct intend to commit genocide and other acts of mass murder because... uh, reasons.
It's not really insightful either, rules of politeness and civility have been part of pretty much every organized forum involving more than a handful of people since... well, at least Roman times, if not earlier.
Nor does the fact the rule was misinterpreted mean much, this was done by one person, and done in an atmosphere in which a sizable group has decided that any rules about civility must be being done to suppress them and are lying about what those rules are, or believing the lies. The person concerned was not responsible for enforcing those rules, and was immediately told how ludicrous his interpretation was by those that were.
Calm down. The world isn't going to end because you can't call a programmer you don't like a fag, slut, or the N-word.
The highest salaries were achieved by women negotiating for a friend, followed closely by men negotiating for themselves, followed closely by men negotiating for themselves, and women negotiating for themselves far behind.
I guess this is why women get paid less, men never negotiate salaries for anyone but themselves, but women apparently are suckers and do;-)
As far as I'm aware Canada has a court system modeled on Britain's, where Judges don't generally render verdicts at all, but leave that to a Jury, or the defendant themselves if they choose to plead guilty.
(And, while it's not relevant here, while Jury Nullification is a thing, where a Jury refuses to issue a guilty verdict for a clearly guilty defendant on the grounds the law itself is unjust, it's also not supposed to be used except in extreme cases and a Judge who tells a jury of its existence - indeed, a lawyer who tells a jury of the principle, would be disciplined. But obviously that doesn't factor in here, where you appear to be accusing a Judge, not a jury, of hypocrisy.)
What state is this in? Everywhere I have been, they buyer selects the inspector, not the realtor.
Florida. And the buyer pays for the inspector, but the inspector is usually picked by the buyer's Realtor because their entire job is supposed to be to represent the buyer. Picking someone independent means you need to know what you're doing to begin with, which most people don't, so in practice virtually all HIs are beholden to Realtors.
Have bought 2/2 homes with home inspections. The inspections aren't worth shit. They more or less work for the Realtors, whose sole concern is making sure the house gets sold. We're still fixing stuff that never came up in the second home, you know, little things, like the wall full of mold, and the lack of working power in most outlets in the upper floor.
What's the point in increasing colour depth if every movie is going to be tinted teal and orange?
As far as getting rid of compression, I think you have no idea how much compression does. Even the system used for movie theaters (which is essentially Motion JPEG2000) reduces the necessary amount of data by more than 98%. H.264 is far more efficient than that.
That is certainly cheaper that the $7.95 monthly service charge found on most regular debit/credit cards.
I have never in my life had to pay a $7.95 monthly service charge (or any other service charge) on any non-prepaid credit or debit card, and I use normal banks (not credit unions) who you'd expect to screw you over if they had a chance, and started off in this country with no credit and have had periods of great credit (when I was single), and terrible credit (it's amazing what how a baby will wreck your organizational abilities...) Who the hell are you banking with?
That's great and all, but it doesn't explain why you typically have to pay (1) to get the card in the first place, and (2) to put money into the account. Some cards of this sort even have fees for taking money out - a problem that bit people whose employers started giving them prepaid cards to pay them wages, forcing them to pay fees that were high enough it made their net pay go below minimum wage.
A yearly "No use" fee makes sense. A periodic "You have a card" fee, coupled with a "You put some money in" fee or "You took some out" fee, does not.
While this is true, those types of credit card cost money (in addition to the credit, I mean) - they shouldn't, you're giving a bank somewhere an interest free loan, but they do. So your "solution" here is to tax the poor to put money in the pockets of the ridiculously rich.
Sounds like you put your blockquotes in the wrong place, but I can't find the post you're replying to that makes those claims.
Or you could be an apologist for evil, because you voted for it so you feel obliged to pretend it isn't doing what everyone reports its doing. I don't know. Which is it?
I don't know what 4K streams take to stream, but H.264 24fps 1080P's streaming rate is usually around 4-5Mbps including the audio. So, multiple that by four (for four times the number of pixels), and divide by two (because you should be using H.265 or some other next gen codec for this) and you get well under 10Mbps.
Which is fine, I mean, you can probably have two or three TVs hooked up to a single Wifi router and have 4K video running on all three without the video stalling - and most modern cable Internet plans will have enough bandwidth to make that work. I'm not suggesting you should, I'm just saying it's possible.
I don't see how that's a problem. If others want to stream 4K, they can. I don't have the eyes to see the benefit myself (still happy with an old 720P Plasma TV) but it'll work for those who really must have it.
OK, agree with you it's not murder, but no, a human driver would not have killed the pedestrian. The video that came out shortly after the death has since been revealed to be highly misleading about the conditions that lead to the crash - there was more lighting, the pedestrian's path was clear 6 seconds before the accident, and the speed of the car was such that an emergency brake operation could have kicked in 1.3 seconds before the impact and prevented the accident. 4.7 seconds is plenty of time for a human driver to react.
(Oddly enough, the Volvo's own automatic emergency brake system, which had been disabled to avoid clashes with Uber's own system, would have prevented the accident according to the data available.)
It was very bad, and Uber is 100% liable, but it's hard to see how it's murder given it was clearly an accident.
There aren't many of us and we've never quite taken power from the Boomers. In terms of high profile examples of each:
Eddie Lampert - Boomer. The guy destroying Sears
Bill Gates - Boomer. Mixed legacy, he's left us with some terrible software infrastructure due to a monopolistic maximum power mindset over quality
Jeff Bezos - Borderline Boomer/Gen X. Successful, but with a mixed legacy
Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Gen X. Successful, and their company is mostly considered decent, with most abusive practices taking place after they let others take control.
Marissa Mayer - Gen X, she'll be blamed for Yahoo! failure but to be honest, it was failing anyway. At least she tried.
Jack Dorsey - Gen X. Urgh.
Mark Zuckerberg - Millennial. Absolute disaster for humanity. Worse than Dorsey
Jessica Alba - Millennial. Honestly, on this list because I'm having problems thinking of high profile Millennial business heads, which is kinda fine because you wouldn't expect there to be many. Still, successful, but her business is centered around organic diapers, so there's that. Still, at least she's not Zuckerberg or Dorsey.
Of this bunch, I'd say the boomers are the worst, Gen X has some successes, and it's too early to judge the Millennials.
A legal immigrant is one coming here to apply for Asylum - the ones we're taking the children from and putting in torture camps, or one with a valid visa - you know, like the ones we're cancelling with zero notice if the immigrant is coming from one of a handful of Islamic countries.
If you think Trump's policies are about legal vs illegal immigration, vs outright xenophobia, I have wall to sell you. Operative word: sell. You'll be paying for it.
FDR's spending extended the depression, it was ended by WWII.
Only because he wouldn't commit. WWII was where he and the government were forced to commit, hence the Depression ended. Before that there was a cycle of "Spend, OK, we don't like spending so let's stop even though the problem hasn't been fixed, OH FUCK, let's try again"
...which is more or less the same bullshit we had to put up with under Obama. Economists said "We need to spend X", Obama shat his pants and said "Oh, we can't do that, it's fiscally irresponsible to spend more than X/4, a number I just made up based upon the number of digits it has, Tom Friedman says so", and so the post-2008 Recession was needlessly extended when we could have fixed the economy AND fixed the US infrastructure problems at a time when interest rates were at historic lows.
(No, just because Trump and Bush are terrible doesn't mean Obama is good, he looks good compared to those two, but he's one of the most mediocre Presidents in history. There, I said it.)
This is what everyone's doing now, hiding ads in "lists of things" that aren't ads. Twitter started this, making tweets that are actual ads appear in your feed, distinguishable only by a small label at the bottom, and I've noticed numerous websites following suit.
I agree with the poster who said return these gifts on principle. It costs both Amazon and the advertiser if you do this, fucking both over. In the mean time I wish uBlock and AdBlock et al would get their acts together and start blocking this kind of content - it's usually easy, just not using CSS-style rules.
If you read the first sentence of the summary, it says the tunnel in question was planned to run under the 405 freeway. There are no houses on the freeway.
Does it go anywhere then?
It was likely either a cynical attempt to slow the project down and get bribes for stepping aside, or some uneducated people imagining that their houses will be shaking constantly from nearby tunneling.
Or it's a non-cynical attempt to stop a project that people fear will ultimately be expanded. Look, don't get me wrong, while I can't stand Musk and think this is ultimately a bullshit transportation project, I am nonetheless strongly anti-NIMBY. But the general concept that if you fear a project that ultimately comes to you, you take legal action at the beginning before that even happens, is a well practiced one. The NIMBYs on the Treasure Coast in Florida have been battling every aspect of the All Aboard Florida project for example, and the only reason they've not filed more lawsuits is lack of standing.
Ultimately I'd like a better environmental review process that can cut out NIMBYism (and maybe even make an equivalent of SLAPP for NIMBY lawsuits) but just because NIMBYism is evil doesn't mean they're not behind a lawsuit you don't understand.
Again, fuck Elon Musk. But yes, fuck NIMBYs too. They're even worse. Hopefully Musk will go bust and someone can buy his tunnels and use them for a London Underground Deep Level Tube Tunnel type thing (the trains should fit, they use a very limited loading gauge, but even if they don't you can probably make trains with similar dimensions that do.)
The UN climate report is a scientific publication, put together by scientists. It is not a "manifesto", a "manifesto" would do more than suggest we're pumping too much CO2 into the air, it would propose solutions.
Yeah, we all know that Al Gore and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez personally wrote every word of the UN report.
Seriously, how fucking stupid do you have to be to claim that the UN climate report, whose authors are on it, was written by politicians, presumably just because the UN, as a neutral agency that provides independent research and arbitration to ensure the world's governments do not make stupid, dangerous, decisions due to politics, commissioned it?
While this is true, their Internet service is usually $40-80 depending on plan, and the plans are generally good enough that one of the streaming services (YouTube TV, SlingTV, the "Live TV" add-on for HULU, etc) will work fine on it with the added advantage it'll work a little more smoothly than cable does these days (which only works "smoothly" if you're using it the same way you did in 1995 before DVRs came along.)
Getting your Internet from Comcast and getting your TV from somewhere else solves most of the problems associated with these price increases, which are mostly to do with Comcast and the TV channels making backroom agreements that aren't in your best interests. The Internet, even Comcast's version of it, is separate from all of that.
The 6502 was one of the most popular processors for personal computers in the late seventies and early eighties. The Commodore 64 would just have been one of them, and it was part of a family of personal computers starting with the Commodore PET that had a CPU in the 6502 family. Other two major personal computing platforms with chips in that CPU family were the Apple II series, Acorn's BBC series, and Atari's pre-ST personal computers.
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Moderators modding this "Insightful" should note that further in the threat guruevi claims that those proposing codes of conduct intend to commit genocide and other acts of mass murder because... uh, reasons.
It's not really insightful either, rules of politeness and civility have been part of pretty much every organized forum involving more than a handful of people since... well, at least Roman times, if not earlier.
Nor does the fact the rule was misinterpreted mean much, this was done by one person, and done in an atmosphere in which a sizable group has decided that any rules about civility must be being done to suppress them and are lying about what those rules are, or believing the lies. The person concerned was not responsible for enforcing those rules, and was immediately told how ludicrous his interpretation was by those that were.
Calm down. The world isn't going to end because you can't call a programmer you don't like a fag, slut, or the N-word.
You're replying to, and taking seriously, a joke, look at what I'm quoting.
I guess this is why women get paid less, men never negotiate salaries for anyone but themselves, but women apparently are suckers and do ;-)
As far as I'm aware Canada has a court system modeled on Britain's, where Judges don't generally render verdicts at all, but leave that to a Jury, or the defendant themselves if they choose to plead guilty.
(And, while it's not relevant here, while Jury Nullification is a thing, where a Jury refuses to issue a guilty verdict for a clearly guilty defendant on the grounds the law itself is unjust, it's also not supposed to be used except in extreme cases and a Judge who tells a jury of its existence - indeed, a lawyer who tells a jury of the principle, would be disciplined. But obviously that doesn't factor in here, where you appear to be accusing a Judge, not a jury, of hypocrisy.)
Florida. And the buyer pays for the inspector, but the inspector is usually picked by the buyer's Realtor because their entire job is supposed to be to represent the buyer. Picking someone independent means you need to know what you're doing to begin with, which most people don't, so in practice virtually all HIs are beholden to Realtors.
Have bought 2/2 homes with home inspections. The inspections aren't worth shit. They more or less work for the Realtors, whose sole concern is making sure the house gets sold. We're still fixing stuff that never came up in the second home, you know, little things, like the wall full of mold, and the lack of working power in most outlets in the upper floor.
What's the point in increasing colour depth if every movie is going to be tinted teal and orange?
As far as getting rid of compression, I think you have no idea how much compression does. Even the system used for movie theaters (which is essentially Motion JPEG2000) reduces the necessary amount of data by more than 98%. H.264 is far more efficient than that.
I have never in my life had to pay a $7.95 monthly service charge (or any other service charge) on any non-prepaid credit or debit card, and I use normal banks (not credit unions) who you'd expect to screw you over if they had a chance, and started off in this country with no credit and have had periods of great credit (when I was single), and terrible credit (it's amazing what how a baby will wreck your organizational abilities...) Who the hell are you banking with?
That's great and all, but it doesn't explain why you typically have to pay (1) to get the card in the first place, and (2) to put money into the account. Some cards of this sort even have fees for taking money out - a problem that bit people whose employers started giving them prepaid cards to pay them wages, forcing them to pay fees that were high enough it made their net pay go below minimum wage.
A yearly "No use" fee makes sense. A periodic "You have a card" fee, coupled with a "You put some money in" fee or "You took some out" fee, does not.
While this is true, those types of credit card cost money (in addition to the credit, I mean) - they shouldn't, you're giving a bank somewhere an interest free loan, but they do. So your "solution" here is to tax the poor to put money in the pockets of the ridiculously rich.
Sounds like you put your blockquotes in the wrong place, but I can't find the post you're replying to that makes those claims.
Or you could be an apologist for evil, because you voted for it so you feel obliged to pretend it isn't doing what everyone reports its doing. I don't know. Which is it?
I don't know what 4K streams take to stream, but H.264 24fps 1080P's streaming rate is usually around 4-5Mbps including the audio. So, multiple that by four (for four times the number of pixels), and divide by two (because you should be using H.265 or some other next gen codec for this) and you get well under 10Mbps.
Which is fine, I mean, you can probably have two or three TVs hooked up to a single Wifi router and have 4K video running on all three without the video stalling - and most modern cable Internet plans will have enough bandwidth to make that work. I'm not suggesting you should, I'm just saying it's possible.
I don't see how that's a problem. If others want to stream 4K, they can. I don't have the eyes to see the benefit myself (still happy with an old 720P Plasma TV) but it'll work for those who really must have it.
OK, agree with you it's not murder, but no, a human driver would not have killed the pedestrian. The video that came out shortly after the death has since been revealed to be highly misleading about the conditions that lead to the crash - there was more lighting, the pedestrian's path was clear 6 seconds before the accident, and the speed of the car was such that an emergency brake operation could have kicked in 1.3 seconds before the impact and prevented the accident. 4.7 seconds is plenty of time for a human driver to react.
(Oddly enough, the Volvo's own automatic emergency brake system, which had been disabled to avoid clashes with Uber's own system, would have prevented the accident according to the data available.)
It was very bad, and Uber is 100% liable, but it's hard to see how it's murder given it was clearly an accident.
There aren't many of us and we've never quite taken power from the Boomers. In terms of high profile examples of each:
Eddie Lampert - Boomer. The guy destroying Sears
Bill Gates - Boomer. Mixed legacy, he's left us with some terrible software infrastructure due to a monopolistic maximum power mindset over quality
Jeff Bezos - Borderline Boomer/Gen X. Successful, but with a mixed legacy
Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Gen X. Successful, and their company is mostly considered decent, with most abusive practices taking place after they let others take control.
Marissa Mayer - Gen X, she'll be blamed for Yahoo! failure but to be honest, it was failing anyway. At least she tried.
Jack Dorsey - Gen X. Urgh.
Mark Zuckerberg - Millennial. Absolute disaster for humanity. Worse than Dorsey
Jessica Alba - Millennial. Honestly, on this list because I'm having problems thinking of high profile Millennial business heads, which is kinda fine because you wouldn't expect there to be many. Still, successful, but her business is centered around organic diapers, so there's that. Still, at least she's not Zuckerberg or Dorsey.
Of this bunch, I'd say the boomers are the worst, Gen X has some successes, and it's too early to judge the Millennials.
A legal immigrant is one coming here to apply for Asylum - the ones we're taking the children from and putting in torture camps, or one with a valid visa - you know, like the ones we're cancelling with zero notice if the immigrant is coming from one of a handful of Islamic countries.
If you think Trump's policies are about legal vs illegal immigration, vs outright xenophobia, I have wall to sell you. Operative word: sell. You'll be paying for it.
Only because he wouldn't commit. WWII was where he and the government were forced to commit, hence the Depression ended. Before that there was a cycle of "Spend, OK, we don't like spending so let's stop even though the problem hasn't been fixed, OH FUCK, let's try again"
(No, just because Trump and Bush are terrible doesn't mean Obama is good, he looks good compared to those two, but he's one of the most mediocre Presidents in history. There, I said it.)
That's easy for you to say!
No, it isn't. The "ads" have been moved from where they should be to look like regular content. That's deceptive, not pandering to user requests.
This is what everyone's doing now, hiding ads in "lists of things" that aren't ads. Twitter started this, making tweets that are actual ads appear in your feed, distinguishable only by a small label at the bottom, and I've noticed numerous websites following suit.
I agree with the poster who said return these gifts on principle. It costs both Amazon and the advertiser if you do this, fucking both over. In the mean time I wish uBlock and AdBlock et al would get their acts together and start blocking this kind of content - it's usually easy, just not using CSS-style rules.
Does it go anywhere then?
Or it's a non-cynical attempt to stop a project that people fear will ultimately be expanded. Look, don't get me wrong, while I can't stand Musk and think this is ultimately a bullshit transportation project, I am nonetheless strongly anti-NIMBY. But the general concept that if you fear a project that ultimately comes to you, you take legal action at the beginning before that even happens, is a well practiced one. The NIMBYs on the Treasure Coast in Florida have been battling every aspect of the All Aboard Florida project for example, and the only reason they've not filed more lawsuits is lack of standing.
Ultimately I'd like a better environmental review process that can cut out NIMBYism (and maybe even make an equivalent of SLAPP for NIMBY lawsuits) but just because NIMBYism is evil doesn't mean they're not behind a lawsuit you don't understand.
Again, fuck Elon Musk. But yes, fuck NIMBYs too. They're even worse. Hopefully Musk will go bust and someone can buy his tunnels and use them for a London Underground Deep Level Tube Tunnel type thing (the trains should fit, they use a very limited loading gauge, but even if they don't you can probably make trains with similar dimensions that do.)
The UN climate report is a scientific publication, put together by scientists. It is not a "manifesto", a "manifesto" would do more than suggest we're pumping too much CO2 into the air, it would propose solutions.
Yeah, we all know that Al Gore and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez personally wrote every word of the UN report.
Seriously, how fucking stupid do you have to be to claim that the UN climate report, whose authors are on it, was written by politicians, presumably just because the UN, as a neutral agency that provides independent research and arbitration to ensure the world's governments do not make stupid, dangerous, decisions due to politics, commissioned it?
While this is true, their Internet service is usually $40-80 depending on plan, and the plans are generally good enough that one of the streaming services (YouTube TV, SlingTV, the "Live TV" add-on for HULU, etc) will work fine on it with the added advantage it'll work a little more smoothly than cable does these days (which only works "smoothly" if you're using it the same way you did in 1995 before DVRs came along.)
Getting your Internet from Comcast and getting your TV from somewhere else solves most of the problems associated with these price increases, which are mostly to do with Comcast and the TV channels making backroom agreements that aren't in your best interests. The Internet, even Comcast's version of it, is separate from all of that.
Yeah, plus we can start giving people tails, which I think would be really useful but alas evolution has "decided" we don't need for some reason.
Also a hand on the end of that tail, perhaps a symmetrical one with two thumbs, would be pretty useful.
The 6502 was one of the most popular processors for personal computers in the late seventies and early eighties. The Commodore 64 would just have been one of them, and it was part of a family of personal computers starting with the Commodore PET that had a CPU in the 6502 family. Other two major personal computing platforms with chips in that CPU family were the Apple II series, Acorn's BBC series, and Atari's pre-ST personal computers.