Of course it's piracy that has brought Network 10 to it's knees.
The absolute shit they show has nothing to deal with it, of course.
It wasn't so long ago that Network 10 was actually a very profitable station that never did well in the ratings. Then the powers-that-be decided ratings were more important, shoved their profitable shows to 11 and proceeded to watch their profits implode. But let's blame the consumer for piracy rather than facing the uncomfortable reality that they blew it.
Eh, I just finished your copy of it. It wasn't that interesting.
Did you read the part where I died. Didn't seem realistic to me.
The bit where you snorted coffee up your nose after reading a Slashdot comment, the chair you are on falls backwards and you crack your skull open on a GameBoy you left lying around three weeks ago and couldn't be arsed picking up? Seemed realistic to me.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage.
Only if the government takes it tax revenue and buries it in the ground. In real governments, tax revenues are rapidly returned to the economy through the purchase of goods and services, such as roads and park cleaning.
In the case of carbon tax revenues, one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected. Or to subsidize particular kinds of medical care. Even the costs of administering such a program turn out to be jobs and salaries.
And as citizens and taxpayers, we agree to the economic leakage going into things such as parks and roads. But ultimately it is an economic distortion.
Take your example: one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected
What has actually changed here? Nothing. The pollution emitter is still emitting; the people living in this pollution as still living in this pollution, only now they have money to go seek medical treatment for the inevitable health issues.
Wages were paid, but nothing of economic value was created in the exchange.
Surely it is far better to mandate that polluter to reduce their pollution levels? Like what the CARB did to cars years ago to clean up LA?
We, the citizens, are effectively saying to polluters: clean up or get out. The Invisible Hand will guide the economy to a better place.
... sucking four trillion dollars out of the economy...
The economy is nothing but a gigantic mechanism of distributing wealth. How is changing the distribution "sucking" anything out? Whether it's fat pigs buying jewelry, military buying bombs, or poor people buying food, it's all supporting production and employing workers.
Economies generally work by the exchange of goods and services for money.
So, in each of your examples you are describing a functioning economy.
An economic leakage occurs when money that could be used to purchase good and services is instead send elsewhere. The result of the leakage reduces the money supply, which reduces the ability to purchase goods and services.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage. Money is being taken out of the normal economic system. Now governments may use this money to buy goods and services, or they may choose to distribute it in some other way. But it remains an economic distortion. Taxation != buying bombs, jewelry or food.
You going and earning a dollar actually means that you had something of value the other party wanted to exchange money for. It's a win-win scenario. Taxation, on the other hand, is the government coming and taking money from you, and you not getting anything in return. Likewise, the government giving you a dollar represents an economic transaction that couldn't happen elsewhere as the government had to appropriate the money from somewhere else.
Don't fall for the fallacy that governments print money. They don't. Governments issue and guarantee currency that has an agreed exchange value. The amount of currency in circulation (generally) represents the economic value of the economy. That's why governments issuing more currency inevitably leads to inflation, as there are more units of exchange (let's call them dollars) that represent the value of the economy, so the buying power of that unit of exchange falls.
So: this proposed tax extracts money from the economy and reduces economic activity because there less to spend. Assuming that the money is 100% redistributed to people, they can do less with the money because economic activity has fallen. Nothing good comes out of this.
The revenue can be used to foster growth in an equitable way, by returning the revenue as household rebates, supporting poorer sections of the population, managing transitional changes, investing in low-carbon infrastructure, and fostering technological change
The report doesn't mention how sucking four trillion dollars out of the economy actually impacts the climate in any way.
This concept is also know as "escalation of commitment", where you feel you're welded to an idea and backing down will cause you to look bad. It's especially common in groupthink scenarios.
The Challenger disaster is one that comes to mind almost immediately. Plenty of people thought the launch was a bad idea, but groupthink set in and the launch proceeded.
Had that problem too - the 16KB expansion glitching during typing. However, there was just enough space inside the ZX81, under the keyboard, to place the guts of that expansion module, and once the proper connections had been soldered, no more problems. All that thanks to my HAM dad.
That couldn't have been the standard Sinclair 16K pack... those RAM chips stood quite proud and the board was folded in half so it was quite long
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 back in '82. I still have it in the basement... Unfortunately it didn't work any more after an attempt to solder the infamously wobbly 16k RAM pack in place with a ribbon cable.
Mine was a ZX-81 as well. My 16K pack survived my soldering. I was quite proud of a hack I did that mapped a speaker into the ROM copy area. Basically a few gates to trigger in the correct address range and a flip-flop to control the speaker. A simple POKE could turn it on and off. After that, some assembly code to play different pitches, and I was set to add sound to my games!
If Hollywood was creating a stream of innovative, original movies that might only appeal to a percentage of the viewing audience, his argument might have some merit. But when the Hollywood model is sequel after sequel with the odd reboot thrown in so we can make more sequels, I want to know if a movie is crap.
I can remember CHiPs when it first screened on TV. Couldn't tell you any storylines, but I'm pretty certain it was nothing like the drek I'm seeing advertised now. I don't need to see a Rotten Tomatoes score to avoid that one, but I'll be interested to see how low it can go!
To me, Ratner complaining about Rotten Tomatoes warning me away from his film is kind of like the pregnancy test kit manufacturers complaining about Australia's TGA (Therapeutic Good Administration; kind of like the FDA) warning that stick pregnancy test kit's don't work (as happened recently). Instead of railing against web sites that inform consumers about the quality of his product, Ratner might be better served if he made a better product.
You know, kind of like how the free market generally works.
It was cheap, and people already had familiarity with it's BASIC via the ZX-80 and ZX-81. Coming from those machines, the Spectrum represented a technicolor nirvana.
Us old-timers who grew up with Sinclair machines are shocked: late, under-performing and funky keys and you expected anything different?!
Every Sinclair machine has had a horrible keyboard: the ZX-80 and ZX-81 was diabolical; the Spectrum 16K / 48K awful; and the Spectrum+ & QL merely horrible.
Every single machine was late, buggy and idiosyncratic enough to make you wonder if Sir Clive simply should get a better dealer.
BUT they were cheap and relatively robust. The BASIC manuals were typically better than anything else available. There was lots of software and other people who owned them. As an introduction to computing, the Sinclair machines were wonderful. I credit my ZX-81 for being the launch-point for where I am today (ERP technical consultant).
A drone is a complex shape and its weight is distributed over a comparatively large area.
For anything other than a toy-grade drone, the primary mass is the battery, which is concentrated in one area.
While crashing it will be taking a complex path to the ground.
Complex path? They fall straight down. My worst crash came from an in-air propeller failure: it disintegrated. The three remaining propellers and the flight controller worked hard to stabilize the machine, but even with all those forces working hard it dropped like a rock.
If it truly was an accident and everyone was acting in good faith I think this is a rather severe overreach by the sentencing party.
Even if it was, it was highly preventable. The risk of failure of these things is well known - the battery can run out and it can plummet and fall on someone's head. Or in this case, a poor pilot can crash the thing into a wall and have it fall on someone's head.
In other words, avoid flying the things above crowds of people because the high risk of injury. The FAA and the drone's instruction manual should make that pretty damn clear.
As a drone pilot, I know that the danger of a decent camera machine simply running out of juice and falling out of the sky is minimal. The pilot gets multiple warnings, and the machine will auto-land if necessarily: just have a look on YouTube for people racing into rivers, lakes and oceans to save the machine as it descends.
However: a decent camera platform is GPS stabilized. Think for a moment how well your stand-alone GPS unit functions with moderately tall buildings around: I can see my position jumping around by half a block at times. So the machine thinks it is hovering at a certain location, and the GPS suddenly says it's much further away. The machine will try to get back to it's position, and that's when you get a building hit, which trashes your props and causes the machine to fall to earth.
So: You DON'T fly over people; you DON'T fly where GPS / GLONASS is sketchy.
The really stupid thing is that for all the shaking-up that has been done to world leaders, the One China policy remains; Israel is still scolded; refugees are still being accepted; and there is no replacement for Obamacare on the horizon. For all the bravado, he has achieved nothing at the cost of the US's image and brand. Put another way, far from being the anti-Obama he portrayed himself to be, he has arrived at exactly the same policy positions.
The #1 thing he could do right now to show some statesmanship is to get to California, stand by the Oroville Dam and declare US infrastructure be his priority. Forget the Great Wall of Mexico. Here is a genuine crisis that is symptomatic of a deeper problem, and here is a genuine crisis handed to him on a silver platter. He want to build? Build. He wants a short-term sugar high on jobs? Employ people to build. Yes thre is a cost; but what the heck; borrow the money. He could probably borrow enough to do most of this work and still be able to say he didn't raise the national debt as much as Obama did.
But instead, he tweets about Nordstrom and how unfair they are to Ivanka.
You're wrong. It's illegal for a private citizen to engage in diplomacy for the US.
You're absolutely right. But that isn't what undid him.
1. He lied to Pence about his son having a security clearance, causing Pence to repeat that lie publicly 2. He lied about the content of his conversation with the Russian ambassador.
#1 put him in Pence's sights. #2 ensured the outcome.
We can debate how much influence the Russians really did have, but I'd say the Wikileaks emails did Clinton tangible harm.
Hillary won the "popular" vote by several million votes. The flyover states that handed Trump the presidency were never going to vote for her anyway; all Trump did was encourage them out to vote en masse.
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Of course it's piracy that has brought Network 10 to it's knees.
The absolute shit they show has nothing to deal with it, of course.
It wasn't so long ago that Network 10 was actually a very profitable station that never did well in the ratings. Then the powers-that-be decided ratings were more important, shoved their profitable shows to 11 and proceeded to watch their profits implode. But let's blame the consumer for piracy rather than facing the uncomfortable reality that they blew it.
I assume the TSA will now be assuming liability for every laptop now put into checked luggage.
I wonder how my employment contract will now stand up, where it reads that laptops must not be checked but carried into the cabin.
Eh, I just finished your copy of it. It wasn't that interesting.
Did you read the part where I died. Didn't seem realistic to me.
The bit where you snorted coffee up your nose after reading a Slashdot comment, the chair you are on falls backwards and you crack your skull open on a GameBoy you left lying around three weeks ago and couldn't be arsed picking up? Seemed realistic to me.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage.
Only if the government takes it tax revenue and buries it in the ground. In real governments, tax revenues are rapidly returned to the economy through the purchase of goods and services, such as roads and park cleaning.
In the case of carbon tax revenues, one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected. Or to subsidize particular kinds of medical care. Even the costs of administering such a program turn out to be jobs and salaries.
And as citizens and taxpayers, we agree to the economic leakage going into things such as parks and roads. But ultimately it is an economic distortion.
Take your example: one can imagine spending them on housing subsidies for people who live in factory/plant exhaust plumes, essentially causing the polluter to compensate the people being most directly affected
What has actually changed here? Nothing. The pollution emitter is still emitting; the people living in this pollution as still living in this pollution, only now they have money to go seek medical treatment for the inevitable health issues.
Wages were paid, but nothing of economic value was created in the exchange.
Surely it is far better to mandate that polluter to reduce their pollution levels? Like what the CARB did to cars years ago to clean up LA?
We, the citizens, are effectively saying to polluters: clean up or get out. The Invisible Hand will guide the economy to a better place.
Which should be a major hint that "conservative" and "liberal" are meaningless buzzwords used to divide voters
And thus why in Australia we have "small - l" and "big - l" liberals.
Small-l liberal: A person of liberal political and social beliefs.
Big-l Liberal: A member of the Liberal party.
The economy is nothing but a gigantic mechanism of distributing wealth. How is changing the distribution "sucking" anything out? Whether it's fat pigs buying jewelry, military buying bombs, or poor people buying food, it's all supporting production and employing workers.
Economies generally work by the exchange of goods and services for money.
So, in each of your examples you are describing a functioning economy.
An economic leakage occurs when money that could be used to purchase good and services is instead send elsewhere. The result of the leakage reduces the money supply, which reduces the ability to purchase goods and services.
This proposed tax (like all other taxes) is an economic leakage. Money is being taken out of the normal economic system. Now governments may use this money to buy goods and services, or they may choose to distribute it in some other way. But it remains an economic distortion. Taxation != buying bombs, jewelry or food.
You going and earning a dollar actually means that you had something of value the other party wanted to exchange money for. It's a win-win scenario. Taxation, on the other hand, is the government coming and taking money from you, and you not getting anything in return. Likewise, the government giving you a dollar represents an economic transaction that couldn't happen elsewhere as the government had to appropriate the money from somewhere else.
Don't fall for the fallacy that governments print money. They don't. Governments issue and guarantee currency that has an agreed exchange value. The amount of currency in circulation (generally) represents the economic value of the economy. That's why governments issuing more currency inevitably leads to inflation, as there are more units of exchange (let's call them dollars) that represent the value of the economy, so the buying power of that unit of exchange falls.
So: this proposed tax extracts money from the economy and reduces economic activity because there less to spend. Assuming that the money is 100% redistributed to people, they can do less with the money because economic activity has fallen. Nothing good comes out of this.
Climate change politics are increasingly about wealth redistribution.
Truer words were never said, particularly by someone with so little grasp of the truth.
You think the OP is clueless? Then check out this article: $4 trillion carbon tax is needed
In the report, there is this gem:
The revenue can be used to foster growth in an equitable way, by returning the revenue as household rebates, supporting poorer sections of the population, managing transitional changes, investing in low-carbon infrastructure, and fostering technological change
The report doesn't mention how sucking four trillion dollars out of the economy actually impacts the climate in any way.
Looks like wealth redistribution to me.
Why would we need this?
For soulless movies. Like Transformers. Or (judging by the trailers) Baby Driver and Atomic Blonde.
Yeah, and the recent employees thought that "bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly" was a rap song
I was taught "Bishop Brown raped our ..." so we knew where brown and black lay in the scheme of things. But that was 30 years ago....
This issue was patched in the march security rollup. If you don't apply patches within 2 months, I can't help you.
See also why xp needs to be gone.
That would be the Windows XP that Microsoft released a patch for, right?
This concept is also know as "escalation of commitment", where you feel you're welded to an idea and backing down will cause you to look bad. It's especially common in groupthink scenarios.
The Challenger disaster is one that comes to mind almost immediately. Plenty of people thought the launch was a bad idea, but groupthink set in and the launch proceeded.
Had that problem too - the 16KB expansion glitching during typing. However, there was just enough space inside the ZX81, under the keyboard, to place the guts of that expansion module, and once the proper connections had been soldered, no more problems. All that thanks to my HAM dad.
That couldn't have been the standard Sinclair 16K pack... those RAM chips stood quite proud and the board was folded in half so it was quite long
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 back in '82. I still have it in the basement... Unfortunately it didn't work any more after an attempt to solder the infamously wobbly 16k RAM pack in place with a ribbon cable.
Mine was a ZX-81 as well. My 16K pack survived my soldering. I was quite proud of a hack I did that mapped a speaker into the ROM copy area. Basically a few gates to trigger in the correct address range and a flip-flop to control the speaker. A simple POKE could turn it on and off. After that, some assembly code to play different pitches, and I was set to add sound to my games!
Use XMing as an X server. It works ok - well enough for me to use GAMBAS on Windows 10.
If Hollywood was creating a stream of innovative, original movies that might only appeal to a percentage of the viewing audience, his argument might have some merit. But when the Hollywood model is sequel after sequel with the odd reboot thrown in so we can make more sequels, I want to know if a movie is crap.
I can remember CHiPs when it first screened on TV. Couldn't tell you any storylines, but I'm pretty certain it was nothing like the drek I'm seeing advertised now. I don't need to see a Rotten Tomatoes score to avoid that one, but I'll be interested to see how low it can go!
To me, Ratner complaining about Rotten Tomatoes warning me away from his film is kind of like the pregnancy test kit manufacturers complaining about Australia's TGA (Therapeutic Good Administration; kind of like the FDA) warning that stick pregnancy test kit's don't work (as happened recently). Instead of railing against web sites that inform consumers about the quality of his product, Ratner might be better served if he made a better product.
You know, kind of like how the free market generally works.
Azure: failed to compete with aws/ec3/rackspace.
And yet we're seeing an uptick in Azure installations for Dynamics 365 for both new clients and existing AX2012 clients.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "compete", but Azure has already become a critical piece for many, many companies.
I mean, there are plenty of bits of progress that don't take us back to the dark ages being proposed.
For example, lets invest heavily in solar, wind and nuclear power.
Even those are opposed by the coal/oil drilling nut jobs.
Q: What did South Australia have before candles?
A: Electricity.
Have a look at the South Australian experiment in renewable energy: http://search.abc.net.au/s/sea...
Why the Spectrum?
It was cheap, and people already had familiarity with it's BASIC via the ZX-80 and ZX-81. Coming from those machines, the Spectrum represented a technicolor nirvana.
Us old-timers who grew up with Sinclair machines are shocked: late, under-performing and funky keys and you expected anything different?!
Every Sinclair machine has had a horrible keyboard: the ZX-80 and ZX-81 was diabolical; the Spectrum 16K / 48K awful; and the Spectrum+ & QL merely horrible.
Every single machine was late, buggy and idiosyncratic enough to make you wonder if Sir Clive simply should get a better dealer.
BUT they were cheap and relatively robust. The BASIC manuals were typically better than anything else available. There was lots of software and other people who owned them. As an introduction to computing, the Sinclair machines were wonderful. I credit my ZX-81 for being the launch-point for where I am today (ERP technical consultant).
That's easy. Schedule a task to start and stop the windows update service.
Don't forget BITS. WUService might do the checking, bit it's BITS that actually moves the data.
A drone is a complex shape and its weight is distributed over a comparatively large area.
For anything other than a toy-grade drone, the primary mass is the battery, which is concentrated in one area.
While crashing it will be taking a complex path to the ground.
Complex path? They fall straight down. My worst crash came from an in-air propeller failure: it disintegrated. The three remaining propellers and the flight controller worked hard to stabilize the machine, but even with all those forces working hard it dropped like a rock.
Even if it was, it was highly preventable. The risk of failure of these things is well known - the battery can run out and it can plummet and fall on someone's head. Or in this case, a poor pilot can crash the thing into a wall and have it fall on someone's head.
In other words, avoid flying the things above crowds of people because the high risk of injury. The FAA and the drone's instruction manual should make that pretty damn clear.
As a drone pilot, I know that the danger of a decent camera machine simply running out of juice and falling out of the sky is minimal. The pilot gets multiple warnings, and the machine will auto-land if necessarily: just have a look on YouTube for people racing into rivers, lakes and oceans to save the machine as it descends.
However: a decent camera platform is GPS stabilized. Think for a moment how well your stand-alone GPS unit functions with moderately tall buildings around: I can see my position jumping around by half a block at times. So the machine thinks it is hovering at a certain location, and the GPS suddenly says it's much further away. The machine will try to get back to it's position, and that's when you get a building hit, which trashes your props and causes the machine to fall to earth.
So: You DON'T fly over people; you DON'T fly where GPS / GLONASS is sketchy.
He should have known better.
This is like a presidency on amphetamines.
This is like a presidency at amature hour.
The really stupid thing is that for all the shaking-up that has been done to world leaders, the One China policy remains; Israel is still scolded; refugees are still being accepted; and there is no replacement for Obamacare on the horizon. For all the bravado, he has achieved nothing at the cost of the US's image and brand. Put another way, far from being the anti-Obama he portrayed himself to be, he has arrived at exactly the same policy positions.
The #1 thing he could do right now to show some statesmanship is to get to California, stand by the Oroville Dam and declare US infrastructure be his priority. Forget the Great Wall of Mexico. Here is a genuine crisis that is symptomatic of a deeper problem, and here is a genuine crisis handed to him on a silver platter. He want to build? Build. He wants a short-term sugar high on jobs? Employ people to build. Yes thre is a cost; but what the heck; borrow the money. He could probably borrow enough to do most of this work and still be able to say he didn't raise the national debt as much as Obama did.
But instead, he tweets about Nordstrom and how unfair they are to Ivanka.
You're wrong.
It's illegal for a private citizen to engage in diplomacy for the US.
You're absolutely right. But that isn't what undid him.
1. He lied to Pence about his son having a security clearance, causing Pence to repeat that lie publicly
2. He lied about the content of his conversation with the Russian ambassador.
#1 put him in Pence's sights. #2 ensured the outcome.
We can debate how much influence the Russians really did have, but I'd say the Wikileaks emails did Clinton tangible harm.
Hillary won the "popular" vote by several million votes. The flyover states that handed Trump the presidency were never going to vote for her anyway; all Trump did was encourage them out to vote en masse.
I fail to see the impact of Wikileaks here.