You're talking like the free market system has a hope in hell of working with dairy in an efficient way. There's a reason why most countries regulate the dairy market.
Woosh!
No, I'm saying government intervention has messed things up in the free market system and THAT'S why it's not working efficiently.
Look, let us stipulate, up front, that Trump's fascination with coal is mostly political. Not that he's not doing something, he is, it's just that if you are paying attention to the reality of things, coal is just too expensive to use. Trump's administration is backing off the EPA's mandates in order to keep from killing coal faster than it's already dying, but make no mistake, coal is a fuel that simply won't last much longer for electric power generation. Trump is making it possible to keep existing coal plants on line longer, but eventually they will wear out and be replaced with other sources.
Regardless of the politics of this, if you look at fuel prices and future projections for various sources, natural gas is literally wiping the floor with EVERYTHING else out there. Nuclear, Wind, Solar AND coal are more expensive over the total expected lifecycle of a generation plan than natural gas. THAT is why coal is dying and there is little anybody can do to stop this.
Gov like to control price, production, quota, tax, import, export, subsidies... the end result is always the same: too much or not enough.
Ask the Russians how well this central planning thing works... Oh that's right, that country split up because it's economy died and now days few folks are alive that experienced what it does to you, unless you happen to live in Venezuela right now....
You are exactly correct. This isn't a problem with capitalism, but government intervention.
The government is PAYING farmers to produce milk... Disrupting the natural supply and demand curbs.. Over 70% of producer's profits come from the government, so we are getting loads of extra production that cannot be used.
Capitalism is doing that it does best and producing what it can sell, only in this case the government is paying for a bunch of it so we have more than we can use. Yet again another way government wastes your money....
Are you trolling or do you actually believe that protecting the environment for future generations requires harming the economy?
It's not an either or situation here. We can be both careful about our environment and develop our economy, in fact we largely are. We've come a LONG way from the start of the industrialization age here in the USA where pollution wasn't a concern at all, nobody cared, to where we are today. We've cleaned up our air, water and land in many respects and undone much of the mindless damage we caused previously.
However, the PROBLEM is the suggested solutions being advanced for today's environmental problems all seem to be rooted in something other than actually helping the environment and usually involve an all or nothing approach. They are unbalanced, don't consider the economics of the situation or the impact to the average person. For instance, advocates that say we should stop burring fossil fuels... There is zero way that we could do that, even with a decade's notice, without collapsing our economy in a bad way. Yet, I hear this discussed all the time.
How many ways can you be wrong? Shesh, China is burning more and more coal and destroying their environment at a frightening pace of late. Yes, they produce a lot of the "green" stuff they sell to us, but they are making a huge environmental impact while they do and polluting with reckless abandon as they industrialize their country.
Don't hold them up as a paragon of environmental virtue.. They are literally a mess... Worse than the US ever was.
Go read "The Mythical Man Month" and get back to me. There is no silver bullet. Programing is hard, regardless of how you do it. This was true in 1970, it's true today and it will be true 100 years from now. This is not a comment on how much software does or the tools used to create it, but the effort needed to produce programs.
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions
Economic development is a poor excuse.
Is it? Shall we just forget economic development and go back to pre-1900's non-industrialized ways of living that don't pollute enough to cause global warming? If we do that, are you going to volunteer to pick the 2/3rds of the worlds population that we will have to eliminate? Are you willing to die?
I may be pushing the logical limits of my argument a bit, but that's pretty much what you are saying, that we need to forego economic development and the standard of living that it allows. I'm not so sure that's a good idea.
Do we need to be careful and not squander our environment and resources, but we simply cannot sacrifice our economy and thus our freedom and security either.
Hmmm.. You mean the $7,500 tax credit for 200K vehicles or the $500 Million loan that they paid off? Or the sum total of 2 Billion in federal money Tesla has enjoyed?
Actually the ROI was JUST the interest on the half a billion, which was low and federally guaranteed and is more than washed out by the half a billion dollars in tax credits handed out so far (which we are still going to give out, though to a lesser degree for awhile yet).
I think Tesla's share holders have made more money than the Fed on this venture....And they haven't made all that much yet really.
Yes, Thank you. Why? Because instead of suppressing our economy and lowering emissions by making us all poorer in actual standards of living, he has got the economy growing faster than inflation and our population for the first time in at least a decade.
Now I'm all for being careful with the environment though conservation and technological means to reduce emissions as much as we can, but I'm for a strong economy that keeps us competitive with the rest of the world as it's of strategic importance. We cannot unilaterally disarm, either militarily or economically if we wish to preserve both our freedoms and a reasonable standard of living for ourselves and our posterity.
China would be more than willing to sacrifice their environment to rule us, Russia would to. Do you really believe that the fall of the USA would be a good thing for the world? That death and wide spread destruction would not follow our demise? What's worse then?
Fredrick Brooks was absolutely correct. There is no silver bullet in programming.
I think the problem described above "buy something" has an analog in the Object Oriented programming mind set, where the process of buying something can be defined in more and more detail... So you abstract "Buy something".... "In a store" or "online"... "Using a credit card"..... Just like we abstracted "Vehicle" which is "A Car" has "an engine" and the like.
Brooks was right, programming takes effort and AI isn't the answer.
I believe you are mostly correct about the HLR/VLR, but I think the cell company has more information than just what tower you are hitting or which MSC you happen to be in. (BTW, it's really the MSC's VLR that has this information, the HLR is where your handset is registered and it knows what MSC you are in so inbound calls can be routed to the right MSC to be delivered to your handset. The local MSC to your handset has a VLR (Visitor Location Register) which is about where your handset happens to be right now so when that call arrives they know what cell gets the call so they can assign a slot and deliver it to your phone.
These days they have quite a bit more information about the handset's location, including a signal strength and apparent direction from the cell tower, from which they can make a pretty good estimate of your location. They need this information to more accurately transmit and receive from your handset at the higher data rates while not consuming excessive expensive spectrum space. These days cell towers have electronically steerable arrays for antennas, so they can better use their available spectrum space to service more phones at higher data rates.
If a couple of criminals get burned by their phones' location, I'm not going to cry any rivers.
Until you become a criminal by violating some unfair or unconstitutional law and they track you down....
The problem here is that it's illegal to track down a criminal using this data without a warrant. That folks can do this and bypass the need for a warrant may not be a problem to you now, but the camel's nose is in the tent if we let this happen w/o complaint and you may wish you'd said something.
You have any ideas what they might want in return?
At this point, the Dems are just looking for a way to save face against someone that shows them for the idiots they are.
Then this carnival ride is going to be a wild one that won't end any time soon. I personally hoped that once Nancy got her speakership, there would be some whining and the democrats would eventually cave. Given Trump's scheduled news conference, I have a feeling that he's going to drop a bomb of some kind (declare an emergency, get the military to build it or something) and attempt to push the democrats off dead center on this. If they don't cave, their only choice will be investigations and possible impeachment proceedings to try to divert attention from their duplicity...
Personally I don't understand how this can continue, even if Trump is a total but head, seems that 5.6 Billion is a small price to pay money wise and the longer this plays out the worse it will play for the democrats politically. The democrats are hoping that Mueller comes up with something really worth impeachment or for some unforced error from Trump's side or this will drag out, giving time for Trump to gain some PR traction with the "we where for it but are now oppose it" sound bites.
So eventually the democrats will lose even if they don't fold, but Trump can only win. You can tell when we get close to that point because the democrats will pull out all the stops and go full Kavanagh on this, committing wholesale political suicide en mass. Trump may not get his "wall" but he will assure himself of re-election in 2020 pretty much any way this plays out, sans some actual content from Mueller or another unforced error by Trump.
I'm running Windows Media Center with my cable card network tuner on Windows 7 until the guide updates stop, then I will likely just convert to another guide provider until I cannot buy Xbox 360's anymore or the hardware takes a dump.... At which point I will review my options and likely end up with some streaming service option and drop cable totally.
But that's not because I don't want to run Linux.. Only that I don't have any other option but WMC as it's the only option for protected content unless I want to spend an arm and a leg on a TiVo DVR setup and pay the monthly fees.
I'm not in disagreement with you on this. I think the White House should have 100% say in who gets access to what and when for what ever reason they choose to do so as well. What I was trying to do was put a fine point on what the court ruling was, not what my opinion was.
The US Appeals court ruling is but a small step here. Yes, it means FOR NOW their ruling must be followed, but I seriously doubt this won't be appealed to SCOTUS. Will SCOTUS take it up? Who knows, but somebody is going to ask them to.
As they say, it's not over until it's over and if recent history of US Appeals court rulings is any indicator, even from district 4, this isn't really over quite yet.
Oh yes they can... A private company can do what it wants with its platform and in this case the Government cannot hold them criminally liable for it..
Unless you mean they cannot block Trump for practical and profit reasons... In which case, I agree. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot profit wise if they did do this.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the White House could disallow cameras or reporters in general on premises.
They just can't throw out the ones that they don't like but allow the rest in.
You would only have a point if the Supreme Court allowed cameras from CNN but not from Fox, as-is you just failed to see the point.
Actually.... You are mostly right, with just a bit of clarification..
The White House was told it couldn't subjectively decide who gets a press pass and who doesn't. It was told that it needed an objective set of rules that it follows in this decision making process and not some "You are being rude!" subjective criteria for tossing a reporter to the curb. I believe we have a set of rules now for White House press pass holders, and the craziness of press briefings has abated at least a bit.
Personally, I think we should just go to a press pool with three reporters (News Paper, TV, Radio) for normal White House briefings and take a given number of questions in turn from all three, allowing one follow-up each. But I seriously doubt the President and the Press would go for that as both want the spectacle for different reasons.
I'm guessing they may make the impeachment mistake if this drags on too long, but for everybody's sake I hope they don't mess things up with that.
Personally, I think they should ask for the DACA fix or some other pet program to offset their political loss at granting the 5.6 Billion, but I'm at a loss to figure what they want badly enough to loose this hand on the border wall. You have any ideas what they might want in return?
For some... Usually it's votes are power and power can be parlayed into money if those in power wish, but votes are expensive too when you try to buy them. Also, power can be used for good and not profit, though rare in political circles, it does happen.
Same reason democrats weren't infuriated when they couldn't keep their doctor or insurance plan?
I kept my doctor and plan. Everyone I know kept their doctor and plan. I heard about someone from the media who had to give up one of the minimal emergency plans. I don't see your analogy, given Trump now wants me to pay for his vanity project.
Well allow me to introduce myself.. I lost my plan AND my doctor because of the ACA. What's more, I pay more for my healthcare now too. So now you cannot make your claim that you know nobody who...
BTW, it's not a vanity project, it's a campaign promise that he's trying to make good on. Imagine trying to fulfill your campaign promises.. What a concept... Like him or not, want what he is trying to do or not, this is unique among political operatives these days.
Slashdot Mirror
We are in hot water now... DEEP hot water..
You're talking like the free market system has a hope in hell of working with dairy in an efficient way. There's a reason why most countries regulate the dairy market.
Woosh!
No, I'm saying government intervention has messed things up in the free market system and THAT'S why it's not working efficiently.
Shesh.. That clean coal is dying canard again..
Look, let us stipulate, up front, that Trump's fascination with coal is mostly political. Not that he's not doing something, he is, it's just that if you are paying attention to the reality of things, coal is just too expensive to use. Trump's administration is backing off the EPA's mandates in order to keep from killing coal faster than it's already dying, but make no mistake, coal is a fuel that simply won't last much longer for electric power generation. Trump is making it possible to keep existing coal plants on line longer, but eventually they will wear out and be replaced with other sources.
Regardless of the politics of this, if you look at fuel prices and future projections for various sources, natural gas is literally wiping the floor with EVERYTHING else out there. Nuclear, Wind, Solar AND coal are more expensive over the total expected lifecycle of a generation plan than natural gas. THAT is why coal is dying and there is little anybody can do to stop this.
Gov like to control price, production, quota, tax, import, export, subsidies... the end result is always the same: too much or not enough.
Ask the Russians how well this central planning thing works... Oh that's right, that country split up because it's economy died and now days few folks are alive that experienced what it does to you, unless you happen to live in Venezuela right now....
You are exactly correct. This isn't a problem with capitalism, but government intervention.
The government is PAYING farmers to produce milk... Disrupting the natural supply and demand curbs.. Over 70% of producer's profits come from the government, so we are getting loads of extra production that cannot be used.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dairy-subsidies-government-farm-programs-surplus-cheese/
Capitalism is doing that it does best and producing what it can sell, only in this case the government is paying for a bunch of it so we have more than we can use. Yet again another way government wastes your money....
is for baby cows.
Moooo!
I love cheese! Just not a million pounds of it. No Whey...
Are you trolling or do you actually believe that protecting the environment for future generations requires harming the economy?
It's not an either or situation here. We can be both careful about our environment and develop our economy, in fact we largely are. We've come a LONG way from the start of the industrialization age here in the USA where pollution wasn't a concern at all, nobody cared, to where we are today. We've cleaned up our air, water and land in many respects and undone much of the mindless damage we caused previously.
However, the PROBLEM is the suggested solutions being advanced for today's environmental problems all seem to be rooted in something other than actually helping the environment and usually involve an all or nothing approach. They are unbalanced, don't consider the economics of the situation or the impact to the average person. For instance, advocates that say we should stop burring fossil fuels... There is zero way that we could do that, even with a decade's notice, without collapsing our economy in a bad way. Yet, I hear this discussed all the time.
How many ways can you be wrong? Shesh, China is burning more and more coal and destroying their environment at a frightening pace of late. Yes, they produce a lot of the "green" stuff they sell to us, but they are making a huge environmental impact while they do and polluting with reckless abandon as they industrialize their country.
Don't hold them up as a paragon of environmental virtue.. They are literally a mess... Worse than the US ever was.
Go read "The Mythical Man Month" and get back to me. There is no silver bullet. Programing is hard, regardless of how you do it. This was true in 1970, it's true today and it will be true 100 years from now. This is not a comment on how much software does or the tools used to create it, but the effort needed to produce programs.
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions
Economic development is a poor excuse.
Is it? Shall we just forget economic development and go back to pre-1900's non-industrialized ways of living that don't pollute enough to cause global warming? If we do that, are you going to volunteer to pick the 2/3rds of the worlds population that we will have to eliminate? Are you willing to die?
I may be pushing the logical limits of my argument a bit, but that's pretty much what you are saying, that we need to forego economic development and the standard of living that it allows. I'm not so sure that's a good idea.
Do we need to be careful and not squander our environment and resources, but we simply cannot sacrifice our economy and thus our freedom and security either.
Tesla made you a nice return on your investment.
Hmmm.. You mean the $7,500 tax credit for 200K vehicles or the $500 Million loan that they paid off? Or the sum total of 2 Billion in federal money Tesla has enjoyed?
Actually the ROI was JUST the interest on the half a billion, which was low and federally guaranteed and is more than washed out by the half a billion dollars in tax credits handed out so far (which we are still going to give out, though to a lesser degree for awhile yet).
I think Tesla's share holders have made more money than the Fed on this venture....And they haven't made all that much yet really.
Thank you Mr Trump.
Yes, Thank you. Why? Because instead of suppressing our economy and lowering emissions by making us all poorer in actual standards of living, he has got the economy growing faster than inflation and our population for the first time in at least a decade.
Now I'm all for being careful with the environment though conservation and technological means to reduce emissions as much as we can, but I'm for a strong economy that keeps us competitive with the rest of the world as it's of strategic importance. We cannot unilaterally disarm, either militarily or economically if we wish to preserve both our freedoms and a reasonable standard of living for ourselves and our posterity.
China would be more than willing to sacrifice their environment to rule us, Russia would to. Do you really believe that the fall of the USA would be a good thing for the world? That death and wide spread destruction would not follow our demise? What's worse then?
Argue with Brooks.. Every time I see somebody try, they are proven wrong and Brooks right.
That's not to say it's not possible you are right, only that I'm not going to believe you over Brooks until you have some kind of proof.
Fredrick Brooks was absolutely correct. There is no silver bullet in programming.
I think the problem described above "buy something" has an analog in the Object Oriented programming mind set, where the process of buying something can be defined in more and more detail... So you abstract "Buy something".... "In a store" or "online"... "Using a credit card"..... Just like we abstracted "Vehicle" which is "A Car" has "an engine" and the like.
Brooks was right, programming takes effort and AI isn't the answer.
I believe you are mostly correct about the HLR/VLR, but I think the cell company has more information than just what tower you are hitting or which MSC you happen to be in. (BTW, it's really the MSC's VLR that has this information, the HLR is where your handset is registered and it knows what MSC you are in so inbound calls can be routed to the right MSC to be delivered to your handset. The local MSC to your handset has a VLR (Visitor Location Register) which is about where your handset happens to be right now so when that call arrives they know what cell gets the call so they can assign a slot and deliver it to your phone.
These days they have quite a bit more information about the handset's location, including a signal strength and apparent direction from the cell tower, from which they can make a pretty good estimate of your location. They need this information to more accurately transmit and receive from your handset at the higher data rates while not consuming excessive expensive spectrum space. These days cell towers have electronically steerable arrays for antennas, so they can better use their available spectrum space to service more phones at higher data rates.
It's part of the TOS you sign with your carrier.
If a couple of criminals get burned by their phones' location, I'm not going to cry any rivers.
Until you become a criminal by violating some unfair or unconstitutional law and they track you down....
The problem here is that it's illegal to track down a criminal using this data without a warrant. That folks can do this and bypass the need for a warrant may not be a problem to you now, but the camel's nose is in the tent if we let this happen w/o complaint and you may wish you'd said something.
You have any ideas what they might want in return?
At this point, the Dems are just looking for a way to save face against someone that shows them for the idiots they are.
Then this carnival ride is going to be a wild one that won't end any time soon. I personally hoped that once Nancy got her speakership, there would be some whining and the democrats would eventually cave. Given Trump's scheduled news conference, I have a feeling that he's going to drop a bomb of some kind (declare an emergency, get the military to build it or something) and attempt to push the democrats off dead center on this. If they don't cave, their only choice will be investigations and possible impeachment proceedings to try to divert attention from their duplicity...
Personally I don't understand how this can continue, even if Trump is a total but head, seems that 5.6 Billion is a small price to pay money wise and the longer this plays out the worse it will play for the democrats politically. The democrats are hoping that Mueller comes up with something really worth impeachment or for some unforced error from Trump's side or this will drag out, giving time for Trump to gain some PR traction with the "we where for it but are now oppose it" sound bites.
So eventually the democrats will lose even if they don't fold, but Trump can only win. You can tell when we get close to that point because the democrats will pull out all the stops and go full Kavanagh on this, committing wholesale political suicide en mass. Trump may not get his "wall" but he will assure himself of re-election in 2020 pretty much any way this plays out, sans some actual content from Mueller or another unforced error by Trump.
I'm running Windows Media Center with my cable card network tuner on Windows 7 until the guide updates stop, then I will likely just convert to another guide provider until I cannot buy Xbox 360's anymore or the hardware takes a dump.... At which point I will review my options and likely end up with some streaming service option and drop cable totally.
But that's not because I don't want to run Linux.. Only that I don't have any other option but WMC as it's the only option for protected content unless I want to spend an arm and a leg on a TiVo DVR setup and pay the monthly fees.
I'm not in disagreement with you on this. I think the White House should have 100% say in who gets access to what and when for what ever reason they choose to do so as well. What I was trying to do was put a fine point on what the court ruling was, not what my opinion was.
The US Appeals court ruling is but a small step here. Yes, it means FOR NOW their ruling must be followed, but I seriously doubt this won't be appealed to SCOTUS. Will SCOTUS take it up? Who knows, but somebody is going to ask them to.
As they say, it's not over until it's over and if recent history of US Appeals court rulings is any indicator, even from district 4, this isn't really over quite yet.
Facebook can't block trump
Oh yes they can... A private company can do what it wants with its platform and in this case the Government cannot hold them criminally liable for it..
Unless you mean they cannot block Trump for practical and profit reasons... In which case, I agree. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot profit wise if they did do this.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the White House could disallow cameras or reporters in general on premises. They just can't throw out the ones that they don't like but allow the rest in. You would only have a point if the Supreme Court allowed cameras from CNN but not from Fox, as-is you just failed to see the point.
Actually.... You are mostly right, with just a bit of clarification..
The White House was told it couldn't subjectively decide who gets a press pass and who doesn't. It was told that it needed an objective set of rules that it follows in this decision making process and not some "You are being rude!" subjective criteria for tossing a reporter to the curb. I believe we have a set of rules now for White House press pass holders, and the craziness of press briefings has abated at least a bit.
Personally, I think we should just go to a press pool with three reporters (News Paper, TV, Radio) for normal White House briefings and take a given number of questions in turn from all three, allowing one follow-up each. But I seriously doubt the President and the Press would go for that as both want the spectacle for different reasons.
I'm guessing they may make the impeachment mistake if this drags on too long, but for everybody's sake I hope they don't mess things up with that.
Personally, I think they should ask for the DACA fix or some other pet program to offset their political loss at granting the 5.6 Billion, but I'm at a loss to figure what they want badly enough to loose this hand on the border wall. You have any ideas what they might want in return?
Votes are money.
For some... Usually it's votes are power and power can be parlayed into money if those in power wish, but votes are expensive too when you try to buy them. Also, power can be used for good and not profit, though rare in political circles, it does happen.
Same reason democrats weren't infuriated when they couldn't keep their doctor or insurance plan?
I kept my doctor and plan. Everyone I know kept their doctor and plan. I heard about someone from the media who had to give up one of the minimal emergency plans. I don't see your analogy, given Trump now wants me to pay for his vanity project.
Well allow me to introduce myself.. I lost my plan AND my doctor because of the ACA. What's more, I pay more for my healthcare now too. So now you cannot make your claim that you know nobody who...
BTW, it's not a vanity project, it's a campaign promise that he's trying to make good on. Imagine trying to fulfill your campaign promises.. What a concept... Like him or not, want what he is trying to do or not, this is unique among political operatives these days.