I have seen the same thing...various city vehicles, street sweepers, even temporary street signs that have red and blue lights on them now. It's very confusing seeing several sets of red-n-blues slowly moving down the highway in the middle of the night, giant cloud of dust around them...at first it looks like some industrial accident happening but then it turns out to be frakking street cleaners! It basically makes everyone ignore red-n-blue even more, since now it might just be some city vehicle sitting there while the guy looks at some maps!
I did pass up the chance to buy a truck that used to be owned by a Federal Marshal, I kick myself all the time for not getting it...it still had all the kit in it from lights, external speakers, prisoner bar in the back, quick-draw gun holster...but I knew I would get in SO MUCH TROUBLE with it using the lights to make people get out of the fast lane!
Working at HP (in the ES department), I am glad to hear this kind of news. Meg has a very tough plan to implement; our team THINKS we're safe from this year's layoff (new team, ITIL requires us, we do SM for AA and soon UA too after the merger's done) and ANY investments in something new is a good thing, even if it fails. Go big or go home; at least we're trying to do something. A huge chunk of our services are VM based, 40-100 servers in a blade rack. If this works well, just my department has two huge datacenters that could use this right now...and I have no idea how many datacenters there are company-wide as we're basically what's left of SABRE / EDS. This is basically the single "golden ray of hope" of something actually new happening with our company!
nah, this is just the Rise of the MegaCorps, companies so powerful they will eventually become their own "country", just like ShadowRun )without the magick, unfortunately)
Looking at social media, and seeing who exactly is yelling "guns and revolution!" I would bet it would actually turn out to be WAY worse. Most everyone I see wanting "revolution" are conservative Christians who want their particular religion studied in public schools, evolution is "evil", pro-choice=murder, Obama is a Muslim/terrorist/socialist/fascist/Kenyan/alien/Satan, BENGHAZI!!!, warmongers, etc. If they got their way, the US would politically be more like Victorian England, with the Bush family as our new Monarchs.
must be nice. My apartment complex has been enforcing an illegal "exclusive" were only AT&T is provided, even though recently they said "whatever", now I face the task of trying to convince Cox to come in. I get a HUGE 2.4 down, 712k up. Kazakhstan has faster speeds than my apartments, and I have the "fastest" business connection available. Once AT&T got the place locked in, why ever upgrade?
getting their offices burned down, anthrax sprinkled into their lawns, fake SWAT calls to their house, putting their address and phone numbers on Craigslist and Backpage...
LOL, he must be jealous of Paul Allen owning the Blazers. Ballmer will never be as awesome as Allen of course, and Allen being on a recent Portlandia skit was side-splittingly funny...“I brought this idea to my financial advisors and they said no,” Allen said. “But I’m hoping you say yes.” Funny for one he doesn't need anyone's money as he's super loaded, two the actual uniform has their airport code (PDX) and a horrid line drawing with a small campfire on it...sometimes Portlandia's skits aren't the best but when they hit the nail they really drive it in! Now if only IFC would do another season of The Increasingly Poor Choices of Todd Margret! And MASSIVE PROPS to Allen for funding Scaled Composites for the X-Prize, if only more wealthy people like him invested in space aerotech...
All plastics are cellulose...and the acetone is pretty flammable too, even in the "vapor flash cloud" type of mini-fireball explosion LOL. Amazingly, even though I smoke at my workbench while doing this, I have yet to catch anything on fire by accident...
yeah, I was surprised how expensive they where. And the remover is only under $1 for 10-12oz...the clear ones don't smell nearly as horrid as the "colored" remover, I often have to leave the room if my gf breaks that out. I use that remover for all sorts of "cleaning", I have to clean off scissor blades after cutting duct tape, works pretty well...but once I spilled some on a keyboard and it melted the plastic "springs" underneath the keys!
As a fellow Tulsan, have you noticed an increase in the amount of people going under the speed limit in the "fast lane" on 169? We really need those signs like in Texas, "Slower traffic stay to the right". I've even been told by others that they do such things ON PURPOSE because they feel it's their responsibility to "enforce the speed limit" and try to keep everyone from speeding. Getting brake-checked is the worse, especially when there is no one in front or in the middle lane...they just don't want to move, and are butthurt since I don't want to have to speed up even more to get around them AND pass on the wrong side...I really hate to admit it, but now I've started passing people on the left anyway, then cutting back over to the fast lane right in front of them...sometimes I can see them looking totally surprised as they've been sitting on their phone and never even realized anyone was behind or passing them. And I drive a Jeep, it's not like some tiny car, and I always come up behind them and wait at least 30-60 seconds for them to react.
The most "fun" I've had is when driving my gf's turbo-charged Jetta...lost track of how many people try to "race" me. Mostly young males, who soon realize that I didn't even have it on "S"...and most of them can't really maneuver well at speed since their rice-burner might go fast going forward but lacks the steering control system, proper center of gravity, properly inflated tires, etc since their car wasn't designed to maneuver lanes at 80-100mph. Once a kid nearly wiped out from his backend loosing traction and started fishtailing in the middle lane in front of a semi...luckily he got it under control, would have been at least a 5-6+ car accident; I was already out in front of him and watched it, stomach flip-flopping.
what really gets me is how this would work in relationship to security clearances. One of the major points is to make sure that you can't be compromised by "bad things" in your past. Seems like the FBI doing this destroys that entire idea...
He has worked deep in telecom, and with Verizon. He already knows all of this, and is just playing a game with us. This is all a show, smoke and mirrors. Wheeler and gang decided this long ago, probably before he was ever appointed. I've watched the way the FCC treated anyone at their "public comments meeting" that stood up and spoke out - they where all escorted out of the room without even finishing what they were saying.
This is all lip service. Every single American could march in the street, and threaten to burn down every FCC office, TV station and radio broadcast system, and net neutrality will still loose. However, the blow back from this could be intense. "fast lanes" for corps sounds like a very juicy target, thanks for separating all those packets for Anonymous.
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I would have blasted them with my horn for those entire 15 minutes, right behind them.
If he had some type of directional antenna on it too, no one would probably have ever noticed.
I have seen the same thing...various city vehicles, street sweepers, even temporary street signs that have red and blue lights on them now. It's very confusing seeing several sets of red-n-blues slowly moving down the highway in the middle of the night, giant cloud of dust around them...at first it looks like some industrial accident happening but then it turns out to be frakking street cleaners! It basically makes everyone ignore red-n-blue even more, since now it might just be some city vehicle sitting there while the guy looks at some maps!
I did pass up the chance to buy a truck that used to be owned by a Federal Marshal, I kick myself all the time for not getting it...it still had all the kit in it from lights, external speakers, prisoner bar in the back, quick-draw gun holster...but I knew I would get in SO MUCH TROUBLE with it using the lights to make people get out of the fast lane!
Oklahoma abandoned the vehicle inspection sticker several years ago. Not saying it was a good idea, but there is at least one state...
and it helps that Batman is the richest person in Gotham
Working at HP (in the ES department), I am glad to hear this kind of news. Meg has a very tough plan to implement; our team THINKS we're safe from this year's layoff (new team, ITIL requires us, we do SM for AA and soon UA too after the merger's done) and ANY investments in something new is a good thing, even if it fails. Go big or go home; at least we're trying to do something. A huge chunk of our services are VM based, 40-100 servers in a blade rack. If this works well, just my department has two huge datacenters that could use this right now...and I have no idea how many datacenters there are company-wide as we're basically what's left of SABRE / EDS. This is basically the single "golden ray of hope" of something actually new happening with our company!
That was the CIA, not the NSA. Bit of a difference. Not that it's any less worse, but let's at least blame the correct secret organization.
" who are they really targeting?" Let's just assume everyone until we confirm otherwise.
Seems like we've moved beyond the Wild West days on the net, and now we're in the Robber Barron stage...
"You could make one of Google's self-driving cars into a killbot" CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
the main difference? The AI can do it WAY faster, without regret!
The idea of the AI having a "will" is basically the idea behind Neuromancer!
"AI realizes it is unable to stop the commenters because it can't even perform a delete command and kills itself."
HAHAHAHA, that's the best ever. Now, we have a suicidal, impotent AI!
nah, this is just the Rise of the MegaCorps, companies so powerful they will eventually become their own "country", just like ShadowRun )without the magick, unfortunately)
Looking at social media, and seeing who exactly is yelling "guns and revolution!" I would bet it would actually turn out to be WAY worse. Most everyone I see wanting "revolution" are conservative Christians who want their particular religion studied in public schools, evolution is "evil", pro-choice=murder, Obama is a Muslim/terrorist/socialist/fascist/Kenyan/alien/Satan, BENGHAZI!!!, warmongers, etc. If they got their way, the US would politically be more like Victorian England, with the Bush family as our new Monarchs.
must be nice. My apartment complex has been enforcing an illegal "exclusive" were only AT&T is provided, even though recently they said "whatever", now I face the task of trying to convince Cox to come in. I get a HUGE 2.4 down, 712k up. Kazakhstan has faster speeds than my apartments, and I have the "fastest" business connection available. Once AT&T got the place locked in, why ever upgrade?
getting their offices burned down, anthrax sprinkled into their lawns, fake SWAT calls to their house, putting their address and phone numbers on Craigslist and Backpage...
It IS obvious to most people, just like Tom Wheeler used to (and still basically does) work for Verizon.
If your wanting to run servers, get a "business connection". It's a bit more $, but static IPs, not much RIAA monitoring, nothing blocked...
LOL, he must be jealous of Paul Allen owning the Blazers. Ballmer will never be as awesome as Allen of course, and Allen being on a recent Portlandia skit was side-splittingly funny...“I brought this idea to my financial advisors and they said no,” Allen said. “But I’m hoping you say yes.” Funny for one he doesn't need anyone's money as he's super loaded, two the actual uniform has their airport code (PDX) and a horrid line drawing with a small campfire on it...sometimes Portlandia's skits aren't the best but when they hit the nail they really drive it in! Now if only IFC would do another season of The Increasingly Poor Choices of Todd Margret! And MASSIVE PROPS to Allen for funding Scaled Composites for the X-Prize, if only more wealthy people like him invested in space aerotech...
All plastics are cellulose...and the acetone is pretty flammable too, even in the "vapor flash cloud" type of mini-fireball explosion LOL. Amazingly, even though I smoke at my workbench while doing this, I have yet to catch anything on fire by accident...
yeah, I was surprised how expensive they where. And the remover is only under $1 for 10-12oz...the clear ones don't smell nearly as horrid as the "colored" remover, I often have to leave the room if my gf breaks that out. I use that remover for all sorts of "cleaning", I have to clean off scissor blades after cutting duct tape, works pretty well...but once I spilled some on a keyboard and it melted the plastic "springs" underneath the keys!
As a fellow Tulsan, have you noticed an increase in the amount of people going under the speed limit in the "fast lane" on 169? We really need those signs like in Texas, "Slower traffic stay to the right". I've even been told by others that they do such things ON PURPOSE because they feel it's their responsibility to "enforce the speed limit" and try to keep everyone from speeding. Getting brake-checked is the worse, especially when there is no one in front or in the middle lane...they just don't want to move, and are butthurt since I don't want to have to speed up even more to get around them AND pass on the wrong side...I really hate to admit it, but now I've started passing people on the left anyway, then cutting back over to the fast lane right in front of them...sometimes I can see them looking totally surprised as they've been sitting on their phone and never even realized anyone was behind or passing them. And I drive a Jeep, it's not like some tiny car, and I always come up behind them and wait at least 30-60 seconds for them to react.
The most "fun" I've had is when driving my gf's turbo-charged Jetta...lost track of how many people try to "race" me. Mostly young males, who soon realize that I didn't even have it on "S"...and most of them can't really maneuver well at speed since their rice-burner might go fast going forward but lacks the steering control system, proper center of gravity, properly inflated tires, etc since their car wasn't designed to maneuver lanes at 80-100mph. Once a kid nearly wiped out from his backend loosing traction and started fishtailing in the middle lane in front of a semi...luckily he got it under control, would have been at least a 5-6+ car accident; I was already out in front of him and watched it, stomach flip-flopping.
what really gets me is how this would work in relationship to security clearances. One of the major points is to make sure that you can't be compromised by "bad things" in your past. Seems like the FBI doing this destroys that entire idea...
He has worked deep in telecom, and with Verizon. He already knows all of this, and is just playing a game with us. This is all a show, smoke and mirrors. Wheeler and gang decided this long ago, probably before he was ever appointed. I've watched the way the FCC treated anyone at their "public comments meeting" that stood up and spoke out - they where all escorted out of the room without even finishing what they were saying.
This is all lip service. Every single American could march in the street, and threaten to burn down every FCC office, TV station and radio broadcast system, and net neutrality will still loose. However, the blow back from this could be intense. "fast lanes" for corps sounds like a very juicy target, thanks for separating all those packets for Anonymous.