Aren't portable/wearable devices their core products now? I'm looking at their last quarter's financial report; they sold 4.9 million Macs, 9.3 million iPads (but made more off the Macs), and over 45 million iPhones. So it looks like they're a phone maker that also sells a few computers on the side.
TPP wasn't about media copyrights, pharmaceutical patents, corporations or consumers. The whole point was establishing an anti-China trading bloc - aligning China's neighbors with the US and against China. You could even say it's about influence and power, not trade.
And two States do it that way. Maine and... well, I forget the other. Colorado maybe? Anyhow, that's a question for each individual State. They could all do it if they wanted to. And yeah, I think they should.
If Cali wasn't part of the US, it would be cut off from the rest of the economy and fall right apart. Completely apart, just take a look at the electoral map (http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california) and then you can tell me how California seceeds when half its territory and a third of its voters went for Trump. Where would LA get it's water from?
It maintains the relevance of smaller States. What candidate would waste time in Wyoming, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, etc., when only California and the Northeast corridor count? The rest of the voters would be completely ignored by the candidates. You want to talk about fairness? Tell me how it's fair to leave most of the States without an electoral voice?
Easy to say from California. Not so easy if you're in one of the States that would be sidelined in any future elections. California and the North East would determine everything, everyone else would be ignored.
It would be the end of Federalism, the end of State's rights, and the end of any candidate caring about States that aren't on the East or West coasts. Not that it would be possible to do it, amending the Constitution requires 2/3rds of States, and this would hurt 2/3rds of the States and they know it.
Because the answer is No. It would require a Constitutional amendment, which requires 2/3rds of the States. The small States will not agree to be written off in every future election. Without the Electoral College, candidates would completely ignore every State outside California and the Northeast Corridor, and Middle America would be left out in the cold.
Duh, obviously. Forget that millennials are the ones most likely to get their news from Facebook and that they trend to the left, fake news (that wasn't coming from the Clinton campaign) must be why Trump won. What's the alternative explanation? That the media and pollsters completely missed the boat? Can't be! They're experts. Obviously they know what the American people think, feel and want better than the American people do.
better to use local frames of reference? If converting between the frames was a chore I could see an argument, but adding or subtracting an integer according to a well known conversion table is so simple that there's just no reason to do away with it.
Not so easily. The base 60 system we use for time dates back to the discovery of mathematics in ancient Sumeria. Making it the oldest system of measurement in existence. It is a universal construct shared by all human societies. Changing it would be no simple matter, as France discovered.
You may as well try to decimalize circles - a circle being 360 degrees for the same reason there are 60 seconds in a minute.
UBI is incredibly expensive. I would expect automation to decrease costs, but in the end be profit neutral. Fewer people working means less revenue for government, and there is already not enough coming in to cover the cost of UBI.
I could see automation creating a surplus of basic goods that could be directly provided, but not UBI.
Facebook isn't a Real Estate listing service. They're a social media and advertising platform. I would expect that they rely on advertisers to know and follow their industry's rules, and simply hadn't considered that their platform could be used to advertise Real Estate in a way that violates the FHA. I doubt the FHA was even on their radar. Why would it be?
Suing Facebook over this just seems silly. For one, can anyone show that this actually happened outside the ProPublica report? Did anyone bring it to Facebook's attention before filing a lawsuit? Does their TOS for advertisers include language about making sure ads aren't violating applicable laws? If so, they're already in the clear, but it shouldn't take much to get them to go a little further and block the option for real estate ads.
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It's a good joke, I'm just blown away by the fact that someone believed it.
Yeah, where's this "waterproof external speaker" nonsense coming from?
Step 3: Profit.
Aren't portable/wearable devices their core products now? I'm looking at their last quarter's financial report; they sold 4.9 million Macs, 9.3 million iPads (but made more off the Macs), and over 45 million iPhones. So it looks like they're a phone maker that also sells a few computers on the side.
Do you know where I get them? Should be pretty obvious...
iHop.
Apple glasses will fail because they're the wrong color.
I can see it as theoretically possible, but exploiting it seems damn near impossible. If it's actually doable, I'm blown right the hell away.
TPP wasn't about media copyrights, pharmaceutical patents, corporations or consumers. The whole point was establishing an anti-China trading bloc - aligning China's neighbors with the US and against China. You could even say it's about influence and power, not trade.
And two States do it that way. Maine and ... well, I forget the other. Colorado maybe? Anyhow, that's a question for each individual State. They could all do it if they wanted to. And yeah, I think they should.
Oh, and I almost forgot - doesn't most of California's agricultural output come from those red districts?
If Cali wasn't part of the US, it would be cut off from the rest of the economy and fall right apart. Completely apart, just take a look at the electoral map (http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california) and then you can tell me how California seceeds when half its territory and a third of its voters went for Trump. Where would LA get it's water from?
It maintains the relevance of smaller States. What candidate would waste time in Wyoming, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, etc., when only California and the Northeast corridor count? The rest of the voters would be completely ignored by the candidates. You want to talk about fairness? Tell me how it's fair to leave most of the States without an electoral voice?
Easy to say from California. Not so easy if you're in one of the States that would be sidelined in any future elections. California and the North East would determine everything, everyone else would be ignored.
It would be the end of Federalism, the end of State's rights, and the end of any candidate caring about States that aren't on the East or West coasts. Not that it would be possible to do it, amending the Constitution requires 2/3rds of States, and this would hurt 2/3rds of the States and they know it.
Because the answer is No. It would require a Constitutional amendment, which requires 2/3rds of the States. The small States will not agree to be written off in every future election. Without the Electoral College, candidates would completely ignore every State outside California and the Northeast Corridor, and Middle America would be left out in the cold.
Duh, obviously. Forget that millennials are the ones most likely to get their news from Facebook and that they trend to the left, fake news (that wasn't coming from the Clinton campaign) must be why Trump won. What's the alternative explanation? That the media and pollsters completely missed the boat? Can't be! They're experts. Obviously they know what the American people think, feel and want better than the American people do.
better to use local frames of reference? If converting between the frames was a chore I could see an argument, but adding or subtracting an integer according to a well known conversion table is so simple that there's just no reason to do away with it.
I agree, except for the sysadmin part. I hate trying to read UTC logs. But then all my systems are in the same time zone.
You may as well try to decimalize circles - a circle being 360 degrees for the same reason there are 60 seconds in a minute.
But good news for Garfield!
And I'm 99% sure that it was here on /. that I read it.
France tried that. It was disastrous.
I could see automation creating a surplus of basic goods that could be directly provided, but not UBI.
You mean every other English language channel?
Suing Facebook over this just seems silly. For one, can anyone show that this actually happened outside the ProPublica report? Did anyone bring it to Facebook's attention before filing a lawsuit? Does their TOS for advertisers include language about making sure ads aren't violating applicable laws? If so, they're already in the clear, but it shouldn't take much to get them to go a little further and block the option for real estate ads.