I remember an article linking to some of the ads that were apparently on Facebook. I think I recall seeing maybe 2-3 of them. But what kind of surprised and shocked me - the amount of truth in the supposed Russian ads and memes as compared to typical political ads. I kept going, well...that's true. Ya, America did do that. Yup, that's mostly true to. Okay, so basically the issue is they created memes that were based on facts, and that further divided Americans. Heck, Americans are so divided, but most of the American memes on both the left and right are half truths and taken out of context. I started to actually feel that maybe we need more Russian news and input into our society.
The issue there was that we cleared out the deep rooted grasses to plant food for human consumption. Corn, gets subsidized for human consumption, and therefore has also become the big feed staple for cows....but get this...cows naturally eat G-R-A-S-S.
So the entire Midwest region's crops are sustained by the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer, which is fast being depleted. In fact, plant edible plants for human consumption is one of the worst climate disasters ever. Rather, we should be restoring the deep rooted drought hardy grasses to the Midwest, and grazing large and small ruminants - cattle, goats, and rabbits. Then eat the meat that is raised from a healthy biome.
Applying math to crop production without taking into account the various biomes leads to inaccurate data and meaningless conclusions.
Besides the confusing aspect of a) arresting an individual over a crime committed in another country, when it was NOT illegal in said country. b) the use of such to essentially incarcerate a political dissident, after the courts cleared said individual. And what is CLEARLY a sting operation, because this crap happens thousands of times a day and the government is neither aware of, nor cares about...but apparently knew all about this situation. d) which also points to the government illegally wiretapping a citizen
Just shows.....
1. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS A MAJOR SUPPORT OF RAPE & PROSTITUTION.
2. WE NEED 3D PRINTABLE GUNS....CAUSE.GOV IS UNTRUSTWORTHY
We have a four branched government, Executive, Legislative, Judicial, and the People.
The music cartels have ensured they now ALL get a chunk EVERY time:
See there are several music cartels, and they fall into a segment groups.
RIAA collects royalties for "recordings". So whenever you bought a vinyl record, cassette, or CD. They collected royalties for the artists. Let's say you wanted to do a cover of a song and release it on your album. You pay RIAA. But believe it or not, that doesn't necessarily mean you can play that cover live...nope...that's a different cartel. Oh, but let's also add, that the royalties are paid to the copyright holders. Which were usually the record labels themselves, (which formed RIAA), and have spent a century ripping off artists by tacking on fraudulent expenses and failing to pay.
Performance and broadcast rights. ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC collect the performance rights. This is what classic radio stations paid. They never paid RIAA ^^^ up above. It is also what most churches pay in order to display the words of the songs on projectors, or print them in hymnal books. It is also who you pay for music in your restaurant, elevator music, and I believe your "on hold" music. Oh, but get this...once again it goes to the copyright holder. And what goes to the artist, often goes to only a select few. Huh what? Well see these royalties go to those on record as having "written" the music/lyrics. So if the drummer wasn't involved in writing the song, he doesn't get paid.
***
When the advent of digital music and streaming came about it started to cause a bunch of issues for the cartels, as they kind of got into a turf war with each other and with artists. For example, record labels signed licensing deals with the like of iTunes. But while many artists only received 15% on an album sale, licensing deals were 50/50. But the record label cartels paid the artists as if they were sales.
Then you had the digital streaming radio. Were these broadcasts (hence under BMI/ASCAP/SESAC) or were these recordings (thus under RIAA). RIAA made an argument that buffering, and caching and the like constituted recording. Mind you, radio has done this with on-air delay for years. But RIAA didn't want to take on the broadcast radio, because gee, who would buy their albums if they never played them.
Thus was the DMCA and SoundExchange. Now here is the thing, SoundExchange required every online music broadcaster to pay them a royalty per play. But SoundExchange ONLY paid out based on certain number of plays, and those plays as a percentage as a whole. Now at the time 90% of the music played was by independents and micro-labels. But here's the thing, the big labels push a handful of artists and albums in any given season. Listen to yada yada radio, and count how many songs you ever hear. Probably 80% are the same 100 songs on a given station. Hence the popularity of college radio which might play a song from some obscure band once. So suddenly, these big stations start streaming. And their playlists do something interesting...
College radio and independent streamers. 1,000 independent artists, each play 10 times = 10,000 plays
Big Music 10,000 plays, of a 100 artists. Big Music artists show up as 100 plays each.
SoundExchange did a couple of things, a minimum number of plays/royalty amount to receive a payout. And a time to claim such. Otherwise, it just went to the cartel. So basically, they now collect the royalties for all the independent bands, but never pay them out. Talk about piracy? Or even more so akin to the East India Company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They had succeeded once again in successfully !@#$% over the artists, the independents, college radio, and most consumers. But there were still dubious areas that the music cartels were fighting over. Hence this law, which basically ensures they ALL get a piece of the action everytime.
And once you understand all this, it's why you usually quit giving a !@#$% about all their hype on pira
1. Older workers have often been with the company for many years, and have higher salaries than freshly hired out of college workers.
2. Having been with the company longer, they usually have more than twice the annual vacation time. They also, often have a significant amount of accrued sick time, which they begin to increasingly use.
3. Health Benefits, younger workers tend to be healthier on average, and typically make use of health services at a less frequent rate, as such, they usually are less particular regarding the quality of health care packages. Their infrequent use often leads them to be unaware that certain health insurance plans require thousands upon thousands out of pocket. "Hey, I have insurance, no I've never used it. But I got it."
So companies like IBM, look at it like this. Worker #1 has been with us 22 years, total cost with benefits is $120,000. A new college grad hire with benefits is $60,000. So we can get two for the price of Worker #1.
They showed the market that ordinary folks would spend a $1,000 for a phone. The iPhone was $500 after the subsidy from a 2 year contract.
2006 - Blackberry 8700, $299 with contract
2006 - BlackBerry Pearl $199 with contract.
2006 - Palm Treo 680 $199 with contract
2006 - HTC's Pocket PC phones were around $250-$350 with contract, and they usually dropped significantly in price after 6 months
You see, Apple's biggest innovation was proving that consumers would pay the $500+ for a phone. It wasn't that other companies could not offer a phone with a bigger screen, etc. They just figured no one would pay those prices for a phone.
I keep seeing things listed after such and such date, but then confused....because well, I had such Samsung phones with such earlier.
a) I think this guy did not do diligence in his research. b) Simply counting Samsung and Google and ignoring ALL other androids is ludicrous. Keep it Android vs iOS.
******
Also not included: Features that existed before the smartphone era, like downloadable ringtones. They weren’t Apple’s, Samsung’s, or Google’s ideas in the first place.
My Palm IIIe Palm Pilot > an on-screen keyboard > the apps-on-a-Home-page design that we all use to this day
My HTC Pocket PC Phone > an on-screen keyboard > auto-rotate > apps-on-a-Home-page design
I guess I can give Apple ""lists that scroll as though with momentum"
Kicking Trump off Twitter would be the worst thing you could ever do. Please let me suggest a far more intelligent solution.
I propose that you don't silence Trump, you simply muffle him. Put him in a sound dampening box. Essentially, let him tweet all he wants...just don't publish most of them. Sure let a few go out now and then after review. And let a few other morons like Kanye West type folks see it and be able to reply so that Trump thinks he is getting replies. And show Trump metrics that he is getting thousands of views, retweets, and etc.
But it's all fake. With 90% of his tweets never reaching any ears. This is far more effective than banning. In fact, this would work great for all twitter trolls. Once identified, they are simply auto-censored. But they don't know it, cause a metrics show as the same, and few replies are let thru for reality's sake. (Think the Matrix, it can't be too perfect or they'll realize they've been silenced.)
"In an effort to curb the problem, recruiters have been changing their tactics and moving through the hiring process faster"
We have had this problem. Screened hundreds of candidates. Made offers to the handful of qualified. Even had a number of acceptances. But then they have to wait for suitability and background checks. Weeks pass. They go elsewhere.
Company doesn't want to pay or offer anything to retain. Companies want to be cheap. Now the market is better, so they can't get away with their BS. Basically, there is a fundamental problem. Companies do not care about individuals. This has worked great for them since the 2008 Great Recession. Most companies have forgotten what it is like to have to be competitive. They're still reducing benefits, refusing telework, cutting back on personal time.
"While there's nothing wrong with accepting another job offer, bailing on an employer without notice could have lasting effects."
Honestly, there is very little reason to give notice. First off, I am not even sure references are routinely check for anything but high end jobs. Second, most companies simply state whether they were employed or not.
But here is the rub, for quite a while now, common practice at companies has been to essentially walk employees out the door the same day they give two weeks notice. Since this has become such common practice, why should employees risk being two weeks without a paycheck for the company's benefit?
So my thoughts on this - "Companies, you reap what you sow." So enjoy your BIG FU2U, and know this is your fault...not the employee market.
State files an eminent domain against the buildings on the basis that it is high value land. And as such, will be re-developed in in a fashion to ensure that the utilization of said land exceeds $200. [This has been done repeatedly across the nation. While eminent domain was once relegated exclusively toward public projects, it has since been expanded to private economic development.]
Recognizing that eminent domain is seldom popular with land holders, the state of California will be generously offering 500% of the stated values provided by Apple, Inc. Or... $1,000 for the buildings upon the land.
"eBay earned $407 million on revenues of $2.58 billion. Compared to the year-ago first quarter, profits were down 60.7 percent and revenue rose 12 percent"
Revenues up, profits down....first thing I would want to know is HOW MUCH did Executive Compensation increase during that time.
I purchased a Nissan Versa, rated at 38 MPG HWY. I have an approximately 100 mile daily commute largely over highway and back-country roads. (In otherwords, few stoplights, thought some areas of highway congestion.) Over two years, I averaged around 35.5 MPG - approximately 93% of expected HWY mileage. Not bad...
So I upgraded to a Nissan Rogue, rated at 31HWY / 25CITY, and a combined 27MPG. Same commute...and I averaged 23.5MPG, 75% of the rated HWY mileage. Even more abysmal, is the fact that I only managed 94% of the rated CITY mileage.
Here is the thing, this wasn't an anomaly. Almost every independent test was around the same, and most of the reports on fueleconomy.gov also were similar. Yet, these car manufacturers are allowed to print their own fraudulent estimates. https://www.edmunds.com/nissan... https://www.edmunds.com/nissan...
Is the government wants to know if you would pay $700 for an electric e-ink plate. That would allow them to track your vehicle for per mile taxing, and disable your license plate if your car is:
a) stolen (plate changes to the word STOLEN), useful for the first year until thieves simply start using their own plates.
b) EXPIRED - yup, if your inspection, emissions or registration expire, that is what your plate will read so cops pull you over quickly.
c) Behind on your taxes? Likely display a similar alert.
d) Insurance? Cause how long until the state wants the insurance company to send status alerts to them and your plated changes to UNINSURED. Pulled over again, even though your payment went thru - the system just didn't get updated over the 3-day weekend.
e) Benefit? You paid $700 for about a $100 of technology. Basically a Kindle + GPS marker. What other benefit is there for you? NONE...
"Small threat? When a drone is seen near an active fire, all aircraft are grounded until it is removed from the scene."
Blaming a blatant over-reaction as justification of threat determination is just stupid. And if they see a large bird over the forest - do they ground all the planes?
I am sure many large birds enter the air while fleeing a fire, and pose a similar equivalent risk to aircraft. So we should ground all fire fighting aircraft if anyone sees a large big in the air.
What if the drones are being used to monitor the progress and the direction of the fire in order to protect a home-owner's property.
The truth is, they're treating a mere drone in the air as if it is a hostile terrorist attack. And to be frank, the risk is minimal. Forests are huge, and even if a drone is flying while a air tanker is dousing flames, the odds are very slim of the drone impacting the aircraft.
It should be a misdemeanor. Impact should be a felony.
1) How hard is it for Iran or N. Korea to send someone to buy some ZTE phones. Doh?
"the ban prevents ZTE from using common Qualcomm processors, and certified Android devices with Google Mobile Services software."
Seriously, there are nearly 50 millions smartphones in Iran. NOTHING about this jeopardizes national security.
2) Even if they gave software code. I mean, come on, why would the likes of N. Korea with their super (if you believe the BS U.S. propaganda) programmers even need such. I mean, sure...you can buy into that if you really believe all these hacks blames on N. Korea as some outlandishlsy extreme only capable by a nation state with a mere 28 WEBSITES could be responsible.
Let's try not to be stupid, and let our political biases further our stupidity.
First off, if you have small children. MicroUSB was a nightmare. The cables failed so quickly, and often the charging port itself would fail within a year's time making the device useless.
My kids now have USB Type C phones. The cables endure several months of small children. The devices are still going strong. They charge faster, are more reliable. Even the cheap ones off Amazon and from $5 Below.
So you know what? They might not have lived up to the hype. It might be confusing as to how to achieve the highest data transfer rates and fastest charging. That said, even the base ones are a 1,000x better than MicroUSB.
So I pretty much call it as "Hell ya, this is way effing better, success."
.VFS4G but that assumes this will only ever be used for GIT, which is probably a bad way to name something..GIFTS (GIT/FS).VITFS (Virtual IT File System).GIT,.VIT.GIVFS (GIt Virtual File System)
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I remember an article linking to some of the ads that were apparently on Facebook. I think I recall seeing maybe 2-3 of them. But what kind of surprised and shocked me - the amount of truth in the supposed Russian ads and memes as compared to typical political ads. I kept going, well...that's true. Ya, America did do that. Yup, that's mostly true to. Okay, so basically the issue is they created memes that were based on facts, and that further divided Americans. Heck, Americans are so divided, but most of the American memes on both the left and right are half truths and taken out of context. I started to actually feel that maybe we need more Russian news and input into our society.
His mistake, he should of put a put on all their stocks. ;-)
I mean....global warming, the planet is getting hotter, less deaths from air pollution. ;-P
Google the Great American Dust Bowl...
The issue there was that we cleared out the deep rooted grasses to plant food for human consumption. Corn, gets subsidized for human consumption, and therefore has also become the big feed staple for cows....but get this...cows naturally eat G-R-A-S-S.
So the entire Midwest region's crops are sustained by the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer, which is fast being depleted. In fact, plant edible plants for human consumption is one of the worst climate disasters ever. Rather, we should be restoring the deep rooted drought hardy grasses to the Midwest, and grazing large and small ruminants - cattle, goats, and rabbits. Then eat the meat that is raised from a healthy biome.
Applying math to crop production without taking into account the various biomes leads to inaccurate data and meaningless conclusions.
Removable battery, memory card, nice design, best phone I've ever owned. Dual cameras are amazing.
None of the storage issues I routinely had with my iPhones and Samsung Galaxies.
***
Did I mention the free projectors I got with purchase to boot? But is the V40 5G?
Besides the confusing aspect of a) arresting an individual over a crime committed in another country, when it was NOT illegal in said country. b) the use of such to essentially incarcerate a political dissident, after the courts cleared said individual. And what is CLEARLY a sting operation, because this crap happens thousands of times a day and the government is neither aware of, nor cares about...but apparently knew all about this situation. d) which also points to the government illegally wiretapping a citizen
Just shows.....
1. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS A MAJOR SUPPORT OF RAPE & PROSTITUTION.
2. WE NEED 3D PRINTABLE GUNS....CAUSE .GOV IS UNTRUSTWORTHY
We have a four branched government, Executive, Legislative, Judicial, and the People.
The music cartels have ensured they now ALL get a chunk EVERY time:
See there are several music cartels, and they fall into a segment groups.
RIAA collects royalties for "recordings". So whenever you bought a vinyl record, cassette, or CD. They collected royalties for the artists. Let's say you wanted to do a cover of a song and release it on your album. You pay RIAA. But believe it or not, that doesn't necessarily mean you can play that cover live...nope...that's a different cartel. Oh, but let's also add, that the royalties are paid to the copyright holders. Which were usually the record labels themselves, (which formed RIAA), and have spent a century ripping off artists by tacking on fraudulent expenses and failing to pay.
Performance and broadcast rights. ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC collect the performance rights. This is what classic radio stations paid. They never paid RIAA ^^^ up above. It is also what most churches pay in order to display the words of the songs on projectors, or print them in hymnal books. It is also who you pay for music in your restaurant, elevator music, and I believe your "on hold" music. Oh, but get this...once again it goes to the copyright holder. And what goes to the artist, often goes to only a select few. Huh what? Well see these royalties go to those on record as having "written" the music/lyrics. So if the drummer wasn't involved in writing the song, he doesn't get paid.
***
When the advent of digital music and streaming came about it started to cause a bunch of issues for the cartels, as they kind of got into a turf war with each other and with artists. For example, record labels signed licensing deals with the like of iTunes. But while many artists only received 15% on an album sale, licensing deals were 50/50. But the record label cartels paid the artists as if they were sales.
Then you had the digital streaming radio. Were these broadcasts (hence under BMI/ASCAP/SESAC) or were these recordings (thus under RIAA). RIAA made an argument that buffering, and caching and the like constituted recording. Mind you, radio has done this with on-air delay for years. But RIAA didn't want to take on the broadcast radio, because gee, who would buy their albums if they never played them.
Thus was the DMCA and SoundExchange. Now here is the thing, SoundExchange required every online music broadcaster to pay them a royalty per play. But SoundExchange ONLY paid out based on certain number of plays, and those plays as a percentage as a whole. Now at the time 90% of the music played was by independents and micro-labels. But here's the thing, the big labels push a handful of artists and albums in any given season. Listen to yada yada radio, and count how many songs you ever hear. Probably 80% are the same 100 songs on a given station. Hence the popularity of college radio which might play a song from some obscure band once. So suddenly, these big stations start streaming. And their playlists do something interesting...
College radio and independent streamers.
1,000 independent artists, each play 10 times = 10,000 plays
Big Music
10,000 plays, of a 100 artists. Big Music artists show up as 100 plays each.
SoundExchange did a couple of things, a minimum number of plays/royalty amount to receive a payout. And a time to claim such. Otherwise, it just went to the cartel. So basically, they now collect the royalties for all the independent bands, but never pay them out. Talk about piracy? Or even more so akin to the East India Company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They had succeeded once again in successfully !@#$% over the artists, the independents, college radio, and most consumers. But there were still dubious areas that the music cartels were fighting over. Hence this law, which basically ensures they ALL get a piece of the action everytime.
And once you understand all this, it's why you usually quit giving a !@#$% about all their hype on pira
Total cost....
1. Older workers have often been with the company for many years, and have higher salaries than freshly hired out of college workers.
2. Having been with the company longer, they usually have more than twice the annual vacation time. They also, often have a significant amount of accrued sick time, which they begin to increasingly use.
3. Health Benefits, younger workers tend to be healthier on average, and typically make use of health services at a less frequent rate, as such, they usually are less particular regarding the quality of health care packages. Their infrequent use often leads them to be unaware that certain health insurance plans require thousands upon thousands out of pocket. "Hey, I have insurance, no I've never used it. But I got it."
So companies like IBM, look at it like this. Worker #1 has been with us 22 years, total cost with benefits is $120,000. A new college grad hire with benefits is $60,000. So we can get two for the price of Worker #1.
They showed the market that ordinary folks would spend a $1,000 for a phone. The iPhone was $500 after the subsidy from a 2 year contract.
2006 - Blackberry 8700, $299 with contract
2006 - BlackBerry Pearl $199 with contract.
2006 - Palm Treo 680 $199 with contract
2006 - HTC's Pocket PC phones were around $250-$350 with contract, and they usually dropped significantly in price after 6 months
You see, Apple's biggest innovation was proving that consumers would pay the $500+ for a phone. It wasn't that other companies could not offer a phone with a bigger screen, etc. They just figured no one would pay those prices for a phone.
I keep seeing things listed after such and such date, but then confused....because well, I had such Samsung phones with such earlier.
a) I think this guy did not do diligence in his research.
b) Simply counting Samsung and Google and ignoring ALL other androids is ludicrous. Keep it Android vs iOS.
******
Also not included: Features that existed before the smartphone era, like downloadable ringtones. They weren’t Apple’s, Samsung’s, or Google’s ideas in the first place.
My Palm IIIe Palm Pilot
> an on-screen keyboard
> the apps-on-a-Home-page design that we all use to this day
My HTC Pocket PC Phone
> an on-screen keyboard
> auto-rotate
> apps-on-a-Home-page design
I guess I can give Apple ""lists that scroll as though with momentum"
Kicking Trump off Twitter would be the worst thing you could ever do. Please let me suggest a far more intelligent solution.
I propose that you don't silence Trump, you simply muffle him. Put him in a sound dampening box. Essentially, let him tweet all he wants...just don't publish most of them. Sure let a few go out now and then after review. And let a few other morons like Kanye West type folks see it and be able to reply so that Trump thinks he is getting replies. And show Trump metrics that he is getting thousands of views, retweets, and etc.
But it's all fake. With 90% of his tweets never reaching any ears. This is far more effective than banning. In fact, this would work great for all twitter trolls. Once identified, they are simply auto-censored. But they don't know it, cause a metrics show as the same, and few replies are let thru for reality's sake. (Think the Matrix, it can't be too perfect or they'll realize they've been silenced.)
"In an effort to curb the problem, recruiters have been changing their tactics and moving through the hiring process faster"
We have had this problem. Screened hundreds of candidates. Made offers to the handful of qualified. Even had a number of acceptances. But then they have to wait for suitability and background checks. Weeks pass. They go elsewhere.
Company doesn't want to pay or offer anything to retain. Companies want to be cheap. Now the market is better, so they can't get away with their BS. Basically, there is a fundamental problem. Companies do not care about individuals. This has worked great for them since the 2008 Great Recession. Most companies have forgotten what it is like to have to be competitive. They're still reducing benefits, refusing telework, cutting back on personal time.
"While there's nothing wrong with accepting another job offer, bailing on an employer without notice could have lasting effects."
Honestly, there is very little reason to give notice. First off, I am not even sure references are routinely check for anything but high end jobs. Second, most companies simply state whether they were employed or not.
But here is the rub, for quite a while now, common practice at companies has been to essentially walk employees out the door the same day they give two weeks notice. Since this has become such common practice, why should employees risk being two weeks without a paycheck for the company's benefit?
So my thoughts on this - "Companies, you reap what you sow."
So enjoy your BIG FU2U, and know this is your fault...not the employee market.
State files an eminent domain against the buildings on the basis that it is high value land. And as such, will be re-developed in in a fashion to ensure that the utilization of said land exceeds $200.
[This has been done repeatedly across the nation. While eminent domain was once relegated exclusively toward public projects, it has since been expanded to private economic development.]
Recognizing that eminent domain is seldom popular with land holders, the state of California will be generously offering 500% of the stated values provided by Apple, Inc. Or... $1,000 for the buildings upon the land.
Let's see how quickly they back up on that one...
I've long thought aerial CO2 bombs would be helpful...except for the squirrels.
"eBay earned $407 million on revenues of $2.58 billion. Compared to the year-ago first quarter, profits were down 60.7 percent and revenue rose 12 percent"
Revenues up, profits down....first thing I would want to know is HOW MUCH did Executive Compensation increase during that time.
- Jason
How dare they!!!
I purchased a Nissan Versa, rated at 38 MPG HWY. I have an approximately 100 mile daily commute largely over highway and back-country roads. (In otherwords, few stoplights, thought some areas of highway congestion.) Over two years, I averaged around 35.5 MPG - approximately 93% of expected HWY mileage. Not bad...
So I upgraded to a Nissan Rogue, rated at 31HWY / 25CITY, and a combined 27MPG. Same commute...and I averaged 23.5MPG, 75% of the rated HWY mileage. Even more abysmal, is the fact that I only managed 94% of the rated CITY mileage.
Here is the thing, this wasn't an anomaly. Almost every independent test was around the same, and most of the reports on fueleconomy.gov also were similar. Yet, these car manufacturers are allowed to print their own fraudulent estimates.
https://www.edmunds.com/nissan...
https://www.edmunds.com/nissan...
So yes, fuel economy was fudged by Nissan.
Is the government wants to know if you would pay $700 for an electric e-ink plate. That would allow them to track your vehicle for per mile taxing, and disable your license plate if your car is:
a) stolen (plate changes to the word STOLEN), useful for the first year until thieves simply start using their own plates.
b) EXPIRED - yup, if your inspection, emissions or registration expire, that is what your plate will read so cops pull you over quickly.
c) Behind on your taxes? Likely display a similar alert.
d) Insurance? Cause how long until the state wants the insurance company to send status alerts to them and your plated changes to UNINSURED. Pulled over again, even though your payment went thru - the system just didn't get updated over the 3-day weekend.
e) Benefit? You paid $700 for about a $100 of technology. Basically a Kindle + GPS marker. What other benefit is there for you? NONE...
This all benefits the state....
"Small threat? When a drone is seen near an active fire, all aircraft are grounded until it is removed from the scene."
Blaming a blatant over-reaction as justification of threat determination is just stupid. And if they see a large bird over the forest - do they ground all the planes?
I am sure many large birds enter the air while fleeing a fire, and pose a similar equivalent risk to aircraft. So we should ground all fire fighting aircraft if anyone sees a large big in the air.
What if the drones are being used to monitor the progress and the direction of the fire in order to protect a home-owner's property.
The truth is, they're treating a mere drone in the air as if it is a hostile terrorist attack. And to be frank, the risk is minimal. Forests are huge, and even if a drone is flying while a air tanker is dousing flames, the odds are very slim of the drone impacting the aircraft.
It should be a misdemeanor. Impact should be a felony.
So then the Federal government should be forced to drop the Schedule C classification.
Things to consider...
1) How hard is it for Iran or N. Korea to send someone to buy some ZTE phones. Doh?
"the ban prevents ZTE from using common Qualcomm processors, and certified Android devices with Google Mobile Services software."
Seriously, there are nearly 50 millions smartphones in Iran. NOTHING about this jeopardizes national security.
2) Even if they gave software code. I mean, come on, why would the likes of N. Korea with their super (if you believe the BS U.S. propaganda) programmers even need such. I mean, sure...you can buy into that if you really believe all these hacks blames on N. Korea as some outlandishlsy extreme only capable by a nation state with a mere 28 WEBSITES could be responsible.
Let's try not to be stupid, and let our political biases further our stupidity.
First off, if you have small children. MicroUSB was a nightmare. The cables failed so quickly, and often the charging port itself would fail within a year's time making the device useless.
My kids now have USB Type C phones. The cables endure several months of small children. The devices are still going strong. They charge faster, are more reliable. Even the cheap ones off Amazon and from $5 Below.
So you know what? They might not have lived up to the hype. It might be confusing as to how to achieve the highest data transfer rates and fastest charging. That said, even the base ones are a 1,000x better than MicroUSB.
So I pretty much call it as "Hell ya, this is way effing better, success."
.VFS4G but that assumes this will only ever be used for GIT, which is probably a bad way to name something. .GIFTS (GIT/FS) .VITFS (Virtual IT File System) .GIT, .VIT .GIVFS (GIt Virtual File System)
But did it support a 100 or more users?
You see, it clearly is now a wholly new patentable game because obviously supporting more users makes it TOTALLY different.
USPO - Oh, wow...you're totally right. Patent granted.