A lot of these "hippie favorite" power sources are being crazy overrated of late. People have just stopped talking about it because they're tired of getting shouted down by the naive hippies and their allies who will not brook even the mildest criticism of their unrealistic dreams of a world where everything is powered by wind and solar alone. Dare to stand up an any environmental impact meeting and point out that the physics of many of these technologies just aren't there and that you have to factor in manufacturing costs and impacts, and pretty soon you've got some trust-fund asshole in dreadlocks screaming that you must be a plant from Big Oil.
Some lessons are just best learned the hard way. I just wish they could be learned without wasting my tax dollars on more unrealistic schemes that are going to amount to little, if anything, useful in the end. I'd rather see at least some tax money going to tested technology, like nuclear, that really DOES have great unrealized potential.
I haven't RTFA either, but I suspect that someone along the line is overstating the point to attract attention
Basically, the test in question was a bribery test. People from cultures more attuned to bribery (euphemistically referred to as "gift-giving" in the study) turned out to be faster to use it and more generous with their offers. Big surprise. The more developed your country is, the less likely you are to try to openly bribe a stranger with cash. Again, big surprise. This couldn't possibly shock anyone who has been to the third world before (and had to pay regular bribes to the locals for everyday shit like "passing through your village").
If Nintendo is making all the right moves (as you seem to contend), why has their stock been dropping steadily for the last 5 years (from a high of over $72 to $12 now)? Obviously SOMEONE thinks they're screwing up, and it ain't just me. Maybe it has something to do with headlines like this and this?
They've cruised on their name, they've went with gimmicks, they've stubbornly stuck with being the kids console, they've put only a half-hearted effort into online play, they've all-but-resigned themselves to staying in the last gen, etc. And, most woefully of all, they seem to have put little to no thought into WHERE THEY FIT IN NOW.
Methinks they need something they probably haven't had in a long time--a conclave of their board and big-wigs to ask themselves some fundamental questions about what their mission is, how they are going to accomplish it, and how they're going to compete in the modern gaming market.
Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
No, you're not looking at it from their perspective. Here is the timeline as they see it:
U.S. declares us part of The Axis of Evil, then proceeds to invade one of the other members of that Axis. The U.S. then becomes bogged down in that other country (thanks in part to our heroic support of the insurgency). This leaves us (and the third member of the Axis) with a brief window to develop nukes, before the U.S. can regroup and prepare invasions for us too.
Of course, left unsaid in all of this is... would Iran ever use a nuke?
Iran wants nukes for the same reason that the North Korea wants them, to keep the U.S. from ever invading their legs of the "Axis of Evil" (like they did with Iraq). And if you're a smaller country about the only way to ensure that the U.S. can't and won't invade is to have nukes.
So it's very unlikely that Iran would ever use its nukes. Merely having them would achieve their objective (stopping any invasion).
He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself. And every time it looks like Linux might achieve even a modicum of success, his overinflated ego is always there to ruin it.
Someone needs to tell him that it's hard enough to get people to adopt your OS with 3 million competing distros, much less with the leadership of an egotistical ass who takes every opportunity to scream like bipolar child at anyone who tries to actually help. The only thing Garrett was doing in this case was recognizing a problem going forward, and fixing it. And Torvalds tears his head off for it. He thinks everything has to be a big heroic stand--with him as hero, of course.
Westboro Baptist Church is made up up maybe a dozen individuals in a nation of hundreds of millions. Radical Islam is now a significant majority in many Muslim countries, and a significant minority in many more.
It's a battle between secular democratic government and koran-thumping nutballs who want to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else at sword point.
They're not getting privileged treatment. Enforcing civil contracts is one of the primary functions of government and has been since the Romans were still enjoying gladiator matches.
The major carriers will unlock after contract and the DMCA has a specific exclusion for legacy phones.
And of course, once again, no one made you a slave to begin with. YOU agreed to the terms. YOU had the option to buy the more expensive unlocked version. YOU are the cheap-ass who decided to buy the subsidized one.
Yeah, just like you actually bought your house. But the mortgage company still makes you send them money each month, requires you carry insurance on it, and would be pretty pissed if you tried to burn it down.
See, we "bitch and moan" because we bought a phone, and then the government told us we are not allowed to do what we want with the phone.
No, you bought a subsidized phone under a contract. You're free to unlock it as soon as you fulfill that contract, or you're free to buy the unsubsidized/unlocked version in the first place and never enter the fucking contract in the first place.
What you're asking for is to have your cake and eat it too. If you want freedom, BUY THE UNLOCKED PHONE!
The law in question specifically states that it's only illegal to unlock your phone during the contract period . After that, you are of course free to do what you want with it. This petition is for cheapskates who want to buy subsidized phones, but not fulfill their contract.
You go to buy a phone Carrier offers you the unlocked version for $600 or the 2-year contract version for $150 You buy the $150 model For the next two years you bitch and moan because you can't unlock the phone and switch carriers.
I love the fact that it still has an analog out. Seriously, anyone buying a PS4 or Xbox 720 and using a composite cable for it should be pilloried. What's sad is that is probably what it will come with too (because they're too cheap to include a $3 HDMI cable).
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A lot of these "hippie favorite" power sources are being crazy overrated of late. People have just stopped talking about it because they're tired of getting shouted down by the naive hippies and their allies who will not brook even the mildest criticism of their unrealistic dreams of a world where everything is powered by wind and solar alone. Dare to stand up an any environmental impact meeting and point out that the physics of many of these technologies just aren't there and that you have to factor in manufacturing costs and impacts, and pretty soon you've got some trust-fund asshole in dreadlocks screaming that you must be a plant from Big Oil.
Some lessons are just best learned the hard way. I just wish they could be learned without wasting my tax dollars on more unrealistic schemes that are going to amount to little, if anything, useful in the end. I'd rather see at least some tax money going to tested technology, like nuclear, that really DOES have great unrealized potential.
I'm thinking Ron may have been doing most unprofessional things at the scanner monitor. Perhaps ween him off the free peep show slowly.
I haven't RTFA either, but I suspect that someone along the line is overstating the point to attract attention
Basically, the test in question was a bribery test. People from cultures more attuned to bribery (euphemistically referred to as "gift-giving" in the study) turned out to be faster to use it and more generous with their offers. Big surprise. The more developed your country is, the less likely you are to try to openly bribe a stranger with cash. Again, big surprise. This couldn't possibly shock anyone who has been to the third world before (and had to pay regular bribes to the locals for everyday shit like "passing through your village").
Most of the Arab Spring countries had pretty decent militaries too. Didn't stop them from being overthrown.
If Nintendo is making all the right moves (as you seem to contend), why has their stock been dropping steadily for the last 5 years (from a high of over $72 to $12 now)? Obviously SOMEONE thinks they're screwing up, and it ain't just me. Maybe it has something to do with headlines like this and this?
Face it, they're NOT on the right path right now.
They've cruised on their name, they've went with gimmicks, they've stubbornly stuck with being the kids console, they've put only a half-hearted effort into online play, they've all-but-resigned themselves to staying in the last gen, etc. And, most woefully of all, they seem to have put little to no thought into WHERE THEY FIT IN NOW.
Methinks they need something they probably haven't had in a long time--a conclave of their board and big-wigs to ask themselves some fundamental questions about what their mission is, how they are going to accomplish it, and how they're going to compete in the modern gaming market.
At least you could appeal to the FCC, if your ISP made a mistake.
Well, at least consumers now have an obscure gubernatorial candidate, who stands no chance of winning either the primary or election, on their side. Guess that beats *nothing*.
The US has not invaded Iran.
No, you're not looking at it from their perspective. Here is the timeline as they see it:
U.S. declares us part of The Axis of Evil, then proceeds to invade one of the other members of that Axis. The U.S. then becomes bogged down in that other country (thanks in part to our heroic support of the insurgency). This leaves us (and the third member of the Axis) with a brief window to develop nukes, before the U.S. can regroup and prepare invasions for us too.
Of course, left unsaid in all of this is... would Iran ever use a nuke?
Iran wants nukes for the same reason that the North Korea wants them, to keep the U.S. from ever invading their legs of the "Axis of Evil" (like they did with Iraq). And if you're a smaller country about the only way to ensure that the U.S. can't and won't invade is to have nukes.
So it's very unlikely that Iran would ever use its nukes. Merely having them would achieve their objective (stopping any invasion).
He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself. And every time it looks like Linux might achieve even a modicum of success, his overinflated ego is always there to ruin it.
Someone needs to tell him that it's hard enough to get people to adopt your OS with 3 million competing distros, much less with the leadership of an egotistical ass who takes every opportunity to scream like bipolar child at anyone who tries to actually help. The only thing Garrett was doing in this case was recognizing a problem going forward, and fixing it. And Torvalds tears his head off for it. He thinks everything has to be a big heroic stand--with him as hero, of course.
Westboro Baptist Church is made up up maybe a dozen individuals in a nation of hundreds of millions. Radical Islam is now a significant majority in many Muslim countries, and a significant minority in many more.
It's a battle between secular democratic government and koran-thumping nutballs who want to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else at sword point.
They're not getting privileged treatment. Enforcing civil contracts is one of the primary functions of government and has been since the Romans were still enjoying gladiator matches.
a fair deal is one in which you can buy something and do whatever you want with it.
Yeah, that's called BUYING AN UNLOCKED PHONE, and you can do it at pretty much any carrier (and on just about any model phone) in the U.S.
The major carriers will unlock after contract and the DMCA has a specific exclusion for legacy phones.
And of course, once again, no one made you a slave to begin with. YOU agreed to the terms. YOU had the option to buy the more expensive unlocked version. YOU are the cheap-ass who decided to buy the subsidized one.
All the major U.S. carriers will unlock after contract and the DMCA provides a specific exclusion for "legacy" phones (i.e. off-contract).
I actually bought the phone.
Yeah, just like you actually bought your house. But the mortgage company still makes you send them money each month, requires you carry insurance on it, and would be pretty pissed if you tried to burn it down.
See, we "bitch and moan" because we bought a phone, and then the government told us we are not allowed to do what we want with the phone.
No, you bought a subsidized phone under a contract. You're free to unlock it as soon as you fulfill that contract, or you're free to buy the unsubsidized/unlocked version in the first place and never enter the fucking contract in the first place.
What you're asking for is to have your cake and eat it too. If you want freedom, BUY THE UNLOCKED PHONE!
What I want is the government out of the business of protecting private contracts.
Uh, that's one of the primary functions of the entire U.S. civil court system, and has been for hundreds of years now.
The law in question specifically states that it's only illegal to unlock your phone during the contract period . After that, you are of course free to do what you want with it. This petition is for cheapskates who want to buy subsidized phones, but not fulfill their contract.
No, what we have now is:
You go to buy a phone
Carrier offers you the unlocked version for $600 or the 2-year contract version for $150
You buy the $150 model
For the next two years you bitch and moan because you can't unlock the phone and switch carriers.
Oh, you want it unlocked AND dirt cheap....Well, pick one.
4K is going to require some *SERIOUS* GPU muscle. I doubt the PS4, with those specs, could handle it.
I love the fact that it still has an analog out. Seriously, anyone buying a PS4 or Xbox 720 and using a composite cable for it should be pilloried. What's sad is that is probably what it will come with too (because they're too cheap to include a $3 HDMI cable).