The margin between the major parties has been shrinking over the last 30 years, mostly due to ambivalence. It really matters less and less who you vote for as the deep pockets have already ensured that you have the choice of Tweedledee or Tweedledum, candidates who will do their bidding no matter what their party affiliation.
Here's my previous rant on the subject with U.S. presidential election data since 1980:
Even if AT&T didn't have to pay a $100M fine, couldn't they still have raised rates by $100M/number of customers regardless? They don't need to wait for a fine to do that. They should (and probably are) simply charging customers the most they feel they can get away with at any given time, but that has nothing to do with whether they received a fine. It's not as if customers are all of a sudden willing to tolerate higher rates because ATT was fined.
Absolutely true. In addition to this increase, they'll have an additional line item on their bill, with some nebulous "shenanigans fee" label, which will handle the FCC fines just nicely.
I initially thought this was shopped, but you can see the angle change where there are tall buildings. That's pretty cool video for something taken at 250 miles (400 km) up travelling at 4.75 miles/second (7.6 km/s).
That's right folks, you heard correctly...now you can sing along at high falsetto with your shower radio with the extraordinary power of a steamy shower and your grotty black-mold-covered flapping shower curtain!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some paperwork to file at the USPTO and multiple-martini lunches with venture capitalists to schedule.
Because their customers run punching-bag OSs like Microsoft?
This illustrates how fucking hard the problem of internet security is though. I don't believe a state sponsor did this; I'll bet it was one of the usual cast of scoundrels coupled with some social engineering at a weak point (maybe the new secretary at the front desk?). Big networks mean many points of potential weakness. When an infinite army of monkeys on computers wants in to your system, you cannot let your guard down for one freaking second, because the odds are eventually you are going to get pwned. The monkeys are occasionally smart.
TLA spyware is probably baked right into the hardware these days. Their hardware will probably run better and they won't generally detect it. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
My karma is good, so I think I need to off burn some excess. Mod me as you will.
What the TSA and every other TLA agency can't protect against: a previously law-abiding person who decides that they must act against America. Their first criminal act may be the one that kills. The 9/11 hijackers did nothing illegal until well after the cabin doors of their aircraft closed.
The TSA can't do shit against someone who has a brain and patience. Not. a. fucking. thing.
There are some really cool areas to bike in NYC, but they are not well interconnected. The High Line is beautiful, but is only 1.5 miles long. A nice walk, but not really worth breaking out a bike. Brooklyn Bridge, same deal. Central Park is bike-able, mostly, as is a lot of the shore front, but it is all scattered in short stretches which are more suited to walking. If you have the courage to mix it up on street level, rock on, there are a lot of painted bike lanes, but you run a heavy risk of sudden crushing death by a taxi helmed by someone from Durka-durkastan. At best, you're going to be weaving in and out of stopped cars for miles and miles, breathing the heady fumes of stopped taxies and buses.
Failures due to lack of inspection because the inspection activity is a PITA is a hard nut for engineers to crack. Big aircraft have hard-to-reach spots that require ladders and man-lifts to access. It just takes one lazy technician to skip an inspection to miss a flaw that leads to a failure.
This could be a good idea if it facilitates inspection of parts of the aircraft that are normally difficult to access (e.g. boroscopes for engine inspections is a similar idea). The top of a T-tail aircraft that would require a man-lift and some time to inspect something that is quickly and plainly visible once you are in position - this would be a perfect application of a quadcopter with a camera (fuck off with the "drone" meme, please. It's an RC copter with a GoPro).
If it makes it easier (and maybe fun) to do the right thing, cool. It sounds childish, but if you can make a critical job easy and fun, you increase the chances that the job gets done enormously. Some (not many) engineers think to design things in this way.
Very good point. 3D printing basically lets you remotely manufacture a part if the raw manufacturing materials are present on site. And it does jack shit to fuel your equipment.
One of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. military in the Iraq war was to be a driver in a convoy - the folks that had to haul fuel, water, and supplies through unfriendly country. I worry that some asshat in the Pentagon is going to read this article (written by asshats) and think that 3D printing magically makes supply lines invisible ("in the cloud, derp!"). The only result will be that the folks hauling fuel, water, supplies, and multicolored 3D printer filament spools will die in the next war.
I'm not sure what they are fishing for. The authors are with the Center for Climate and Security (http://climateandsecurity.org/staff/), but don't have any obvious reasons to be 3D printing shills (which is possibly why the article reads like crap). The Center for Climate and Security has a lot of generals and admirals on its board of trustees. I'm wondering if this isn't some wild backdoor appropriations move. I'm actually interested to see if any of them are holding a lot of stock in 3D printing development firms. There is money at the bottom of this somewhere.
3D printing! It slices, it dices, it cures erectile dysfunction (even yours!), it fucking prints money! It. will. save. the. world.
Whoa Sparky...slow down. Breathe.
3D printing may be useful, great, but kill the hyperbole. It is a technology, and all technologies have a niche. Be a 3D printing fanbois all you want, but you cannot jam 3D printing into places where it is not wanted or is not useful. The users will know the difference and 3D printing will settle into its niche naturally.
The water used in the boilers is desalinated and extremely pure (not just in the nuclear navy, but in any boiler). The steam used for the propulsion turbines is used in a nearly closed loop system, with minimal top ups needed.
Using superheated steam to shoot aircraft off the carrier is very inefficient energy-wise. Every shot is like dumping 1400 lbs of steam overboard (it's a lot of energy, far more than the kinetic energy imparted to the aircraft). It is far more efficient to run an electrical generator and charge a capacitor bank to deliver the load, and it is a lot easier to maintain than the steam service piping to the catapults.
That is a strangely satisfying thing to see, launching a car off the deck like that. A bus loaded with politicians would have been better, but they probably can't do that.
The 13-year-old me in my brain says there is a lot of play potential in this. "Gee, I wonder if it can launch $THIS off the deck? Let's do it!". Something like the Red Bull Flugtag
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He's going to semi-retire and run a Tesla showroom in Arabia Planitia. That will probably be easier than opening a showroom in Texas.
The margin between the major parties has been shrinking over the last 30 years, mostly due to ambivalence. It really matters less and less who you vote for as the deep pockets have already ensured that you have the choice of Tweedledee or Tweedledum, candidates who will do their bidding no matter what their party affiliation.
Here's my previous rant on the subject with U.S. presidential election data since 1980:
Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US
The statistics on the previous N coin-tosses will not tell you who will win on the N+1 toss.
But you still clicked the link and watched. Hmmm...
Fine, go ahead Russia, spend a chunk of your GDP and put some boots on the Moon and fact check the U.S.
Oh yeah, make sure to make some more nuclear missiles. That's not cheap either, but security!
But wait...weren't these exact activities what caused the USSR to bankrupt themselves back in the 90's? Just checking.
No hate Russia, but you need to rein in your rhetoric. You have been beaten by playing this hand before.
Sorry, have to say this...WHOOSH!
Here's why various moon rocks have gone missing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGhKzUUaME
Even if AT&T didn't have to pay a $100M fine, couldn't they still have raised rates by $100M/number of customers regardless? They don't need to wait for a fine to do that. They should (and probably are) simply charging customers the most they feel they can get away with at any given time, but that has nothing to do with whether they received a fine. It's not as if customers are all of a sudden willing to tolerate higher rates because ATT was fined.
Absolutely true. In addition to this increase, they'll have an additional line item on their bill, with some nebulous "shenanigans fee" label, which will handle the FCC fines just nicely.
I initially thought this was shopped, but you can see the angle change where there are tall buildings. That's pretty cool video for something taken at 250 miles (400 km) up travelling at 4.75 miles/second (7.6 km/s).
I predict next year, AT&T's rates will magically go up by $100,000,000 divided by the number of their customers.
AT&T now knows the cost of cheating; next to nothing. And they can now budget for it.
The winner here is AT&T.
..it's the only way to be...wait, oh damn, that won't work.
Never mind.
...the Power Shower (tm) Curtain!
That's right folks, you heard correctly...now you can sing along at high falsetto with your shower radio with the extraordinary power of a steamy shower and your grotty black-mold-covered flapping shower curtain!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some paperwork to file at the USPTO and multiple-martini lunches with venture capitalists to schedule.
Capitalism FTW!
"how long till someone links imaging processing software with the guidance system so they____obey_____?"
Until the Tequila Tanks ran dry. But that was still an impressive mission duration.
Oh God! HTTPS! I'm fucking invisible now! Thank you Slashdot! (SIGNAL LOST)....
Should have used Kapersky..
Oh, wait...nevermind
Because their customers run punching-bag OSs like Microsoft? This illustrates how fucking hard the problem of internet security is though. I don't believe a state sponsor did this; I'll bet it was one of the usual cast of scoundrels coupled with some social engineering at a weak point (maybe the new secretary at the front desk?). Big networks mean many points of potential weakness. When an infinite army of monkeys on computers wants in to your system, you cannot let your guard down for one freaking second, because the odds are eventually you are going to get pwned. The monkeys are occasionally smart.
TLA spyware is probably baked right into the hardware these days. Their hardware will probably run better and they won't generally detect it. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
My karma is good, so I think I need to off burn some excess. Mod me as you will.
What the TSA and every other TLA agency can't protect against: a previously law-abiding person who decides that they must act against America. Their first criminal act may be the one that kills. The 9/11 hijackers did nothing illegal until well after the cabin doors of their aircraft closed.
The TSA can't do shit against someone who has a brain and patience. Not. a. fucking. thing.
There are some really cool areas to bike in NYC, but they are not well interconnected. The High Line is beautiful, but is only 1.5 miles long. A nice walk, but not really worth breaking out a bike. Brooklyn Bridge, same deal. Central Park is bike-able, mostly, as is a lot of the shore front, but it is all scattered in short stretches which are more suited to walking. If you have the courage to mix it up on street level, rock on, there are a lot of painted bike lanes, but you run a heavy risk of sudden crushing death by a taxi helmed by someone from Durka-durkastan. At best, you're going to be weaving in and out of stopped cars for miles and miles, breathing the heady fumes of stopped taxies and buses.
Failures due to lack of inspection because the inspection activity is a PITA is a hard nut for engineers to crack. Big aircraft have hard-to-reach spots that require ladders and man-lifts to access. It just takes one lazy technician to skip an inspection to miss a flaw that leads to a failure.
This could be a good idea if it facilitates inspection of parts of the aircraft that are normally difficult to access (e.g. boroscopes for engine inspections is a similar idea). The top of a T-tail aircraft that would require a man-lift and some time to inspect something that is quickly and plainly visible once you are in position - this would be a perfect application of a quadcopter with a camera (fuck off with the "drone" meme, please. It's an RC copter with a GoPro).
If it makes it easier (and maybe fun) to do the right thing, cool. It sounds childish, but if you can make a critical job easy and fun, you increase the chances that the job gets done enormously. Some (not many) engineers think to design things in this way.
Very good point. 3D printing basically lets you remotely manufacture a part if the raw manufacturing materials are present on site . And it does jack shit to fuel your equipment.
One of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. military in the Iraq war was to be a driver in a convoy - the folks that had to haul fuel, water, and supplies through unfriendly country. I worry that some asshat in the Pentagon is going to read this article (written by asshats) and think that 3D printing magically makes supply lines invisible ("in the cloud, derp!"). The only result will be that the folks hauling fuel, water, supplies, and multicolored 3D printer filament spools will die in the next war.
I'm not sure what they are fishing for. The authors are with the Center for Climate and Security (http://climateandsecurity.org/staff/), but don't have any obvious reasons to be 3D printing shills (which is possibly why the article reads like crap). The Center for Climate and Security has a lot of generals and admirals on its board of trustees. I'm wondering if this isn't some wild backdoor appropriations move. I'm actually interested to see if any of them are holding a lot of stock in 3D printing development firms. There is money at the bottom of this somewhere.
3D printing! It slices, it dices, it cures erectile dysfunction (even yours!), it fucking prints money! It. will. save. the. world.
Whoa Sparky...slow down. Breathe.
3D printing may be useful, great, but kill the hyperbole. It is a technology, and all technologies have a niche. Be a 3D printing fanbois all you want, but you cannot jam 3D printing into places where it is not wanted or is not useful. The users will know the difference and 3D printing will settle into its niche naturally.
The water used in the boilers is desalinated and extremely pure (not just in the nuclear navy, but in any boiler). The steam used for the propulsion turbines is used in a nearly closed loop system, with minimal top ups needed. Using superheated steam to shoot aircraft off the carrier is very inefficient energy-wise. Every shot is like dumping 1400 lbs of steam overboard (it's a lot of energy, far more than the kinetic energy imparted to the aircraft). It is far more efficient to run an electrical generator and charge a capacitor bank to deliver the load, and it is a lot easier to maintain than the steam service piping to the catapults.
That is a strangely satisfying thing to see, launching a car off the deck like that. A bus loaded with politicians would have been better, but they probably can't do that.
The 13-year-old me in my brain says there is a lot of play potential in this. "Gee, I wonder if it can launch $THIS off the deck? Let's do it!". Something like the Red Bull Flugtag