Elon was born in Africa, now he's American. Wouldn't that make him an African-American as well?
We may not have all been born in Africa, but we likely all originated from Africa... Does that make us all African-American? Or do you arbitrarily stop labeling at the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation? Or is the phrase "African-American" simply a modern euphemism for people that have retained a specific skin melanin phenotype/genotype?
Interestingly, you see it as some thing born out of modern society, but I see this whole thing as a modernization of the Geisha concept from Japanese history.
FWIW, originally Geisha were MEN, it was only later that the profession became dominated by women. Also despite common misconceptions being a Geisha isn't about being a prostitute or even an escort**, but a Geisha is considered an entertainer (focused on music and engaging conversation, not sex although that is not unheard of) who is professionally trains for it from a young age.
This "modernization" of the Geisha concept probably reflects a lot that has changed about society. Historically Geisha would only take on professional clients, who would want experience some refined entertainment in a personal context. Now people are more extroverted and casual and strangely things have evolved to cater to their desires. Such is the way of the world.
**Some prostitutes or escorts in japan may call themselves "Geisha", but that's not what Geisha are...
I don't have as much of a problem with playing a role where society conventionally expects someone to come with a date say, but I do have a huge problem with counterfeiting an important relationship, especially on a nonconsenting party: e.g., pretending to be a child's parent. And it comes down to the pain which only people you love can inflict on you.
Interesting you say this, because I know of several folks who's parents pretended to be "married", and pretended to be "parents", and by counterfeiting these important relationships probably inflected an unbearable level of pain on their non-consenting children. Other than divorce money (and perhaps some payments to lawyers and therapists), no money was exchanged for the privilege...
Just sayin' counterfeiting relationships happen in real life today, and actors are not even involved. One might questions if it is ethical, but don't pretend that similar levels of damage aren't being done today on a much larger scale by consenting adults. Who knows a rent-a-dad might be better than a real dad in some of these cases...
Compared to current state of countries like the US, Japan looks quite sane to me.
It may look "sane" from the outside, but Japan remains one of the most racist societies in the world.
* Many landlords won't rent apartments to non Japanese (even Japanese people born in the US) * Korean and Chinese people are treated especially harshly (probably because of historical issues) * Ethnic minorities (Ainu, Ryu/Okinawan) cultures are not well respected politically
For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. --Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 1
Of course it originally didn't mean what people think it means today. Following the Othello reference, it is meant to denote someone who is potentially aggressively expressing a thought or belief to appear to be faithful, but in reality has a subversive intent. Think of it the counterpart to another common Shakespearean phrase: "The lady doth protest too much."
A little investment and a whole lot of forward thinking can save these papers
Sounds like you've got it figured out... Why don't you start a kickstarter campaign and test our your ideas...
Wait, you don't think it's worth your time to come up with your forward thinking idea and risk a little capital investment? And how is it worth the time (and opportunity cost) of a Billionaire, who could just take that money and put it in the bank or the stock market or something that wouldn't take their time and require forward thinking.
In American Football, they call this point of the game "garbage time". The game is lost for local news, and they are simply going through the motions with the bench players. Nobody want to waste their energy (or money) on a lost cause. Of course the bench players are enthusiastic that they get to play and want to make a good show of it, but the experienced A-team has already looked at the score and conceded the game and are planning their next outing.
Monday morning QB is generally easier, but even given what we know today, I suspect it would be hard to figure out how to save the local news, even if we went back in time. The internet soaked up all their revenue sources (display ads and classifieds) and the deep-links bypassed any branding power they may have garnered even if they wanted to play in the new game. The only thing that seems to have had any traction at all are the surviving aggregation platforms like Patch (last one standing amongst all the dead ones), but I suspect that a last gasp model...
The problem with local news is that it depends on local funding. Everytime you spend $1 at Amazon, that's one less dollar that funds a locally owned business that might pay for local advertising in a local news organization. WE ARE KILLING LOCAL NEWS with our globalist choices. We just haven't come to terms with it yet...
The reason it is needlessly complex is it had to work around a draw-bridge (Strauss and Scherzer bascule) patent and so used a Rall bascule design. This design was abandoned after the patent ran out. Because it sucked. Pretty soon the bridge will be 90 years old, and they are stuck with 90 years of extra maintenance and downtime because of the patent situation in 1930.
Another way to look at this is that the people that decided to work around instead of license the patent didn't take into consideration the future value of the 90 years of extra maintenance and down time when they made their decision to not license the patent? Maybe it was pennywise-poundfoolish?
Of course for some people, their politics simply doesn't accept the idea that a patent is something that encourages the sharing of innovations. That's kind of like buying a knockoff widget and complaining that it isn't as reliable as the name-brand version and blaming your choice in product on the patent system...
Broadcom is a Singapore company that is trying to acquire (not merge with) *Brocade*.
To be extra confusing, The "new" Broadcom was a Singapore company named Avago, that bought a US based company named Broadcom and after they did that, they renamed themselves Broadcom (although their stock trading symbol is still AVGO). The "new" Broadcom (was Avago), is now trying to buy Brocade (another US based company).
Several billion 2 input NOR gates refute your statement.
FTFY. As any computer scientist should know, although it is possible to construct arbitrary logic out of NOR gates, it's really hard to construct most logic simply out of OR gates (even if you have several billion of them).
Of course, anywhere I've worked that let smokers take a break, also lets non-smokers.
The fact that many non-smokers choose to not take breaks should have no bearing on the people who do.
This shouldn't be seen as having a bearing on the people who take breaks (smoker or no-smoker), they are a reward for being a non-smoker since they only apply to people who don't smoke, and apparently do not penalize non-smokers who also take breaks whenever smokers take breaks.
FWIW, back in the day, even though I have always been a non-smoker, when I had many co-workers who smoked, often I would also go outside and stand up-wind from them to listen/chat. There was lots of company gossip/politics from other groups that you would miss by not going out there, so I considered it an *investment* of my break time to keep on top of things happening in other areas of the company.
Now there's not so many people smoking, and apparently not as much free flow of gossip near the water cooler (as it is *inside* and within earshot). Maybe that's an overall better outcome, but it's hard to say...
Was it just the casinos or everywhere? Many states like my own Florida have laws where there is only no smoking in restaurants, or bar/restaurants where the the percentage of food sales goes over a certain ratio. So yes in Florida you will find smoky casinos, bars, and even some bars that serve food. You also will find bars that do not allow smoking by management discretion.
As you might expect (if not being too cynical), Nevada (like most states) has similar Clean-air laws...
FWIW, some states (like Colorado) have gone further to protect the workers in Bars Restaurants and Casinos and prohibited smoking there as well (although there is a loophole in the law for establishments that sell more than $50K/year in tobacco allowing them to be considered cigar bars where smoking is allowed). Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to Casinos owned by Indian interests as they are considered part of tribes and are sovereign entities which for better or worse are allowed to make their own laws.
They are reproductions of frames from somebody's film or video production. Copyright law is there to prevent people from reproducing your work in whole or in part without your permission. A screen shot is a reproduction of part of the work. How are you not getting this?
Although copyrights technically apply, I suspect this would fall under a "fair-use" exemptions of the copyright statutes. A "fair-use" would be copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses are allowed without permission from the copyright owner.
Posting screen shots of TV shows on social media for the purpose of commenting on them has long been considered "fair-use" as far as I know...
If Apple goes through with designing their own, though, and offers it out under RAND, then that could be an enormous bargaining chip for Samsung down the road.
Why on earth would Apple want to give Samsung a bargaining chip against Qualcomm?
I can't imagine any scenario where Apple would offer a chip to a competitor. Even if they did, why on earth would be offer it under RAND?
Also, Samsung already supplies DRAM, NAND-Flash, and, OLED panels to Apple and in case you don't know Samsung also makes their own radio chip. Samsung already negotiated their own license with Qualcomm to make their own radio chips for their own phones. Samsung also has their own private legal dispute with Qualcomm over licencing radio-modem patents when selling their own Exynos SoC for use in non-Samsung phones which probably won't be alleviated by simply using someone else's (e.g., Apple's speculated) non-licensed radio chip.
However, this development would likely be akin to a lifetime-employment act/windfall for the lawyers involved. Which is the saddest part about this whole line of speculation.
Do not give politicians bad ideas, for they will adopt them.
As I recall, DST idea was a cruel joke *made* by a politician (Benjamin Franklin).
Mr Franklin's meme "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." seemed to be at odds with his observation of Parisian culture (who he observed generally slept in and stayed out late). So he made an elaborate joke at the at the expense of the Parisians about how much money they could collectively save by restricting access to candles at night and "forcing" them to wake up when the sun rose.
Of course *other* politicians took the joke seriously and adopted this screwed up idea of a crazy scheme to force people to wake up when the sun rises...
Technically, it is saving time, in the same way decreasing the rate of increase counts as "Cost Cutting".
Do not give politicians bad ideas, for they will adopt them.
Technically, it's saving *Daylight* not time...
In summer months there is more daylight, so rather than "waste" daylight hours in the early morning, we save those daylight hours for the evening.
Of course in practice, it's a cluster f*k as now some people need to awaken in the dark morning as the quantized 1-hour change overshoots the increase in the morning daylight for many latitudes, but we all get long summer evenings before it gets dark in exchange for this punishment. It mostly depends on if you are a morning person, or not if this is net bad for you...
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned around and offered to license their non-Qualcomm radio at cost to anyone else who wants to use it.
Apple isn't designing a radio chip (yet). AFAIK, They are talking about designing in exclusively Intel (formerly infineon), or maybe even MediaTek radio chips. They have used Intel radios on previous phones (in markets that didn't value CDMA techology like USA and Korea), so it's no stretch to say they will do that in all their markets (and live with performance of inferior CDMA radios from these other suppliers).
I don't think Apple has the authority to license Intel and MediaTek modems at cost. Also since alternate phone manufacturers (other than Samsung) don't design their own SoCs, they are generally dependent on Qualcomm SoC and Qualcomm bundles their modems with their SoCs, so they can't afford to piss off Qualcomm,
Also a few (of the many) reasons that Apple designed their own SoC is so that could put in secret features so that it would be difficult to knock-off features of their phones (other than rounded corners). I doubt they would be selling radio chips that they designed for precisely the same reason. Thus the chance of this happening is pretty much nil, to imaginary i...
In the Moon there are Plutonium traces from the past lunar missions.
On the Earth, there are Plutonium traces from the past nuclear accidents/tests.
At least on the Moon, we *know* that radiation exposure from any Plutonium contamination is orders of magnitude lower than exposure someone would get from *natural* radiation sources (e.g. cosmic rays, solar particles, etc) since unlike the Earth, the Moon has no magnetic field to protect it.
But I still don't know why it is a news here... If the population of the country is 4x times the U.S. population, why wouldn't it be a surprise if their sale become higher at some point? Or they (phone companies) are trying to encourage Americans to own 2+ smartphone each now, so that Americans can brag about being the largest or second largest again?
Of course we have a "cell-phone gap" and this time it is more than likely actually real.
Then again, just like our "fast-food" culture, I have no idea why they would be willingly following us down this rabbit hole given the potential consequences...
I say we cede the high ground to China and India on this front...
""Tech's biggest companies are placing huge bets on artificial intelligence (Warning: may be paywalled;"
And also no paywall, if you delete your cookies after the allowed number of articles. These 'paywalls' are a joke.
Security should be provided at an appropriate level given the value of the object being protected... Given the articles they are protecting, I think they are doing a bang-up job...;^)
BitCoin doesn't have dollars. It has yaun as the main currency. With the Chinese having to store cash somewhere, BTC has only started to go up in value.
I don't think you are seeing the bigger picture here. Although lots of BTC are being "purchased" with yuan in China, for the people buying it, the goal isn't to hold any wealth in yuan, but to extricate themselves from yuan holdings (e.g, convert to USD or Euro or real-estate in a foreign country). This is because China makes it really hard to convert out of yuan holdings for Chinese citizens (even if the yuan were earned "legitimately"). This is why China has recently cracked down on BTC exchanges.
Before BTC, many chinese were using real-estate in order to convert their yuan holdings. Although real-estate is technically not deflationary (you can mostly build more), the expansion rate was not high enough for expatriating Chinese yuan. Then the govt cracked down, and now not so much. BTC being a even more deflationary resource, the run-up is also demand driven. Whenever the chinese-illuminati decide on a new popular mechanism for yuan expatriation (or if by some miracle, the govt decides to loosen the grip on then yuan), the demand driven expansion in BTC will go away.
Not saying that people didn't make a bunch of money during the run-up of real-estate, but at least there is a floor with real-estate (people need places to live). Not so much for BTC, so when it falls, there is no safety net (meaning there is probably no waiting it out for a recovery).
There was hacking in Ferris as well: Ferris changed his absentee record from his bedroom while Principal Rooney watched, dumbfounded, in his office. Ferris then complains that his parents gave his sister a car, but all he got was a computer.
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Elon was born in Africa, now he's American. Wouldn't that make him an African-American as well?
We may not have all been born in Africa, but we likely all originated from Africa...
Does that make us all African-American? Or do you arbitrarily stop labeling at the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation? Or is the phrase "African-American" simply a modern euphemism for people that have retained a specific skin melanin phenotype/genotype?
Interestingly, you see it as some thing born out of modern society, but I see this whole thing as a modernization of the Geisha concept from Japanese history.
FWIW, originally Geisha were MEN, it was only later that the profession became dominated by women. Also despite common misconceptions being a Geisha isn't about being a prostitute or even an escort**, but a Geisha is considered an entertainer (focused on music and engaging conversation, not sex although that is not unheard of) who is professionally trains for it from a young age.
This "modernization" of the Geisha concept probably reflects a lot that has changed about society. Historically Geisha would only take on professional clients, who would want experience some refined entertainment in a personal context. Now people are more extroverted and casual and strangely things have evolved to cater to their desires. Such is the way of the world.
**Some prostitutes or escorts in japan may call themselves "Geisha", but that's not what Geisha are...
I don't have as much of a problem with playing a role where society conventionally expects someone to come with a date say, but I do have a huge problem with counterfeiting an important relationship, especially on a nonconsenting party: e.g., pretending to be a child's parent. And it comes down to the pain which only people you love can inflict on you.
Interesting you say this, because I know of several folks who's parents pretended to be "married", and pretended to be "parents", and by counterfeiting these important relationships probably inflected an unbearable level of pain on their non-consenting children. Other than divorce money (and perhaps some payments to lawyers and therapists), no money was exchanged for the privilege...
Just sayin' counterfeiting relationships happen in real life today, and actors are not even involved. One might questions if it is ethical, but don't pretend that similar levels of damage aren't being done today on a much larger scale by consenting adults. Who knows a rent-a-dad might be better than a real dad in some of these cases...
Compared to current state of countries like the US, Japan looks quite sane to me.
It may look "sane" from the outside, but Japan remains one of the most racist societies in the world.
* Many landlords won't rent apartments to non Japanese (even Japanese people born in the US)
* Korean and Chinese people are treated especially harshly (probably because of historical issues)
* Ethnic minorities (Ainu, Ryu/Okinawan) cultures are not well respected politically
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asi...
I'm sorry you tried to use Japan to make your point, because I think it is lost because of that...
Doesn't anyone remember any Shakespeare?
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
--Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 1
Of course it originally didn't mean what people think it means today. Following the Othello reference, it is meant to denote someone who is potentially aggressively expressing a thought or belief to appear to be faithful, but in reality has a subversive intent. Think of it the counterpart to another common Shakespearean phrase: "The lady doth protest too much."
A little investment and a whole lot of forward thinking can save these papers
Sounds like you've got it figured out... Why don't you start a kickstarter campaign and test our your ideas...
Wait, you don't think it's worth your time to come up with your forward thinking idea and risk a little capital investment? And how is it worth the time (and opportunity cost) of a Billionaire, who could just take that money and put it in the bank or the stock market or something that wouldn't take their time and require forward thinking.
In American Football, they call this point of the game "garbage time". The game is lost for local news, and they are simply going through the motions with the bench players. Nobody want to waste their energy (or money) on a lost cause. Of course the bench players are enthusiastic that they get to play and want to make a good show of it, but the experienced A-team has already looked at the score and conceded the game and are planning their next outing.
Monday morning QB is generally easier, but even given what we know today, I suspect it would be hard to figure out how to save the local news, even if we went back in time. The internet soaked up all their revenue sources (display ads and classifieds) and the deep-links bypassed any branding power they may have garnered even if they wanted to play in the new game. The only thing that seems to have had any traction at all are the surviving aggregation platforms like Patch (last one standing amongst all the dead ones), but I suspect that a last gasp model...
The problem with local news is that it depends on local funding. Everytime you spend $1 at Amazon, that's one less dollar that funds a locally owned business that might pay for local advertising in a local news organization. WE ARE KILLING LOCAL NEWS with our globalist choices. We just haven't come to terms with it yet...
The reason it is needlessly complex is it had to work around a draw-bridge (Strauss and Scherzer bascule) patent and so used a Rall bascule design. This design was abandoned after the patent ran out. Because it sucked. Pretty soon the bridge will be 90 years old, and they are stuck with 90 years of extra maintenance and downtime because of the patent situation in 1930.
Another way to look at this is that the people that decided to work around instead of license the patent didn't take into consideration the future value of the 90 years of extra maintenance and down time when they made their decision to not license the patent? Maybe it was pennywise-poundfoolish?
Of course for some people, their politics simply doesn't accept the idea that a patent is something that encourages the sharing of innovations. That's kind of like buying a knockoff widget and complaining that it isn't as reliable as the name-brand version and blaming your choice in product on the patent system...
Broadcom is a Singapore company that is trying to acquire (not merge with) *Brocade*.
To be extra confusing, The "new" Broadcom was a Singapore company named Avago, that bought a US based company named Broadcom and after they did that, they renamed themselves Broadcom (although their stock trading symbol is still AVGO). The "new" Broadcom (was Avago), is now trying to buy Brocade (another US based company).
OR It isn't a binary statement.
Several billion 2 input NOR gates refute your statement.
FTFY. As any computer scientist should know, although it is possible to construct arbitrary logic out of NOR gates, it's really hard to construct most logic simply out of OR gates (even if you have several billion of them).
Me too.
Of course, anywhere I've worked that let smokers take a break, also lets non-smokers.
The fact that many non-smokers choose to not take breaks should have no bearing on the people who do.
This shouldn't be seen as having a bearing on the people who take breaks (smoker or no-smoker), they are a reward for being a non-smoker since they only apply to people who don't smoke, and apparently do not penalize non-smokers who also take breaks whenever smokers take breaks.
FWIW, back in the day, even though I have always been a non-smoker, when I had many co-workers who smoked, often I would also go outside and stand up-wind from them to listen/chat. There was lots of company gossip/politics from other groups that you would miss by not going out there, so I considered it an *investment* of my break time to keep on top of things happening in other areas of the company.
Now there's not so many people smoking, and apparently not as much free flow of gossip near the water cooler (as it is *inside* and within earshot). Maybe that's an overall better outcome, but it's hard to say...
Was it just the casinos or everywhere? Many states like my own Florida have laws where there is only no smoking in restaurants, or bar/restaurants where the the percentage of food sales goes over a certain ratio. So yes in Florida you will find smoky casinos, bars, and even some bars that serve food. You also will find bars that do not allow smoking by management discretion.
As you might expect (if not being too cynical), Nevada (like most states) has similar Clean-air laws...
FWIW, some states (like Colorado) have gone further to protect the workers in Bars Restaurants and Casinos and prohibited smoking there as well (although there is a loophole in the law for establishments that sell more than $50K/year in tobacco allowing them to be considered cigar bars where smoking is allowed). Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to Casinos owned by Indian interests as they are considered part of tribes and are sovereign entities which for better or worse are allowed to make their own laws.
screenshots are not photos
They are reproductions of frames from somebody's film or video production. Copyright law is there to prevent people from reproducing your work in whole or in part without your permission. A screen shot is a reproduction of part of the work. How are you not getting this?
Although copyrights technically apply, I suspect this would fall under a "fair-use" exemptions of the copyright statutes. A "fair-use" would be copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses are allowed without permission from the copyright owner.
Posting screen shots of TV shows on social media for the purpose of commenting on them has long been considered "fair-use" as far as I know...
The voter turnout for the 2016 election was not a 20-year low.
FTFY. Turnout in 1996: 51.7% (Clinton vs Dole). Peak in 2008: 61.6% (Obama vs McCain) back down in 2012: 58.6%, then up again in 2016: 60.2%...
Source: http://www.electproject.org/ho...
The problem was not how many people voted, but that they were
A) intentionally misinformed
Clearly, as you are helping to demonstrate
and B) given a poor choice of candidates.
Well, duh. Isn't that always the case?
"Why a hyperloop? State officials estimate Colorado's population will grow by nearly 50% in the next 20 years."
Why a duck? The state flower of Colorado is the Venus Flytrap.
I'm alright, how are you? I'm a stranger here myself, but you see we need this "duck" to avoid the mousetrap...
As for the state flower of Colorado, based on these types of "projects", I think it's already weed... ;^(
If Apple goes through with designing their own, though, and offers it out under RAND, then that could be an enormous bargaining chip for Samsung down the road.
Why on earth would Apple want to give Samsung a bargaining chip against Qualcomm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
I can't imagine any scenario where Apple would offer a chip to a competitor. Even if they did, why on earth would be offer it under RAND?
Also, Samsung already supplies DRAM, NAND-Flash, and, OLED panels to Apple and in case you don't know Samsung also makes their own radio chip. Samsung already negotiated their own license with Qualcomm to make their own radio chips for their own phones. Samsung also has their own private legal dispute with Qualcomm over licencing radio-modem patents when selling their own Exynos SoC for use in non-Samsung phones which probably won't be alleviated by simply using someone else's (e.g., Apple's speculated) non-licensed radio chip.
However, this development would likely be akin to a lifetime-employment act/windfall for the lawyers involved. Which is the saddest part about this whole line of speculation.
Do not give politicians bad ideas, for they will adopt them.
As I recall, DST idea was a cruel joke *made* by a politician (Benjamin Franklin).
Mr Franklin's meme "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." seemed to be at odds with his observation of Parisian culture (who he observed generally slept in and stayed out late). So he made an elaborate joke at the at the expense of the Parisians about how much money they could collectively save by restricting access to candles at night and "forcing" them to wake up when the sun rose.
Of course *other* politicians took the joke seriously and adopted this screwed up idea of a crazy scheme to force people to wake up when the sun rises...
Technically, it is saving time, in the same way decreasing the rate of increase counts as "Cost Cutting".
Do not give politicians bad ideas, for they will adopt them.
Technically, it's saving *Daylight* not time...
In summer months there is more daylight, so rather than "waste" daylight hours in the early morning, we save those daylight hours for the evening.
Of course in practice, it's a cluster f*k as now some people need to awaken in the dark morning as the quantized 1-hour change overshoots the increase in the morning daylight for many latitudes, but we all get long summer evenings before it gets dark in exchange for this punishment. It mostly depends on if you are a morning person, or not if this is net bad for you...
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned around and offered to license their non-Qualcomm radio at cost to anyone else who wants to use it.
Apple isn't designing a radio chip (yet). AFAIK, They are talking about designing in exclusively Intel (formerly infineon), or maybe even MediaTek radio chips. They have used Intel radios on previous phones (in markets that didn't value CDMA techology like USA and Korea), so it's no stretch to say they will do that in all their markets (and live with performance of inferior CDMA radios from these other suppliers).
I don't think Apple has the authority to license Intel and MediaTek modems at cost. Also since alternate phone manufacturers (other than Samsung) don't design their own SoCs, they are generally dependent on Qualcomm SoC and Qualcomm bundles their modems with their SoCs, so they can't afford to piss off Qualcomm,
Also a few (of the many) reasons that Apple designed their own SoC is so that could put in secret features so that it would be difficult to knock-off features of their phones (other than rounded corners). I doubt they would be selling radio chips that they designed for precisely the same reason. Thus the chance of this happening is pretty much nil, to imaginary i...
In the Moon there are Plutonium traces from the past lunar missions.
On the Earth, there are Plutonium traces from the past nuclear accidents/tests.
At least on the Moon, we *know* that radiation exposure from any Plutonium contamination is orders of magnitude lower than exposure someone would get from *natural* radiation sources (e.g. cosmic rays, solar particles, etc) since unlike the Earth, the Moon has no magnetic field to protect it.
But I still don't know why it is a news here... If the population of the country is 4x times the U.S. population, why wouldn't it be a surprise if their sale become higher at some point? Or they (phone companies) are trying to encourage Americans to own 2+ smartphone each now, so that Americans can brag about being the largest or second largest again?
Of course we have a "cell-phone gap" and this time it is more than likely actually real.
Then again, just like our "fast-food" culture, I have no idea why they would be willingly following us down this rabbit hole given the potential consequences...
I say we cede the high ground to China and India on this front...
You can now buy motherboards with 19 x1 PCIe slots for crypto currency mining.
Need for slots w/o need for speed...
Finally: biology is a vast frontier but the NIH wants cures. You don't have to fully understand cancer to kill it.
Interesting, that's the same line of reasoning that hawks take before promoting a war.
Geopolitics is a vast frontier, but the Military wants wins. You don't have to fully understand your enemy to kill them.
I guess that shows that sometimes things are more similar than you think.
""Tech's biggest companies are placing huge bets on artificial intelligence (Warning: may be paywalled;"
And also no paywall, if you delete your cookies after the allowed number of articles.
These 'paywalls' are a joke.
Security should be provided at an appropriate level given the value of the object being protected... ;^)
Given the articles they are protecting, I think they are doing a bang-up job...
BitCoin doesn't have dollars. It has yaun as the main currency. With the Chinese having to store cash somewhere, BTC has only started to go up in value.
I don't think you are seeing the bigger picture here. Although lots of BTC are being "purchased" with yuan in China, for the people buying it, the goal isn't to hold any wealth in yuan, but to extricate themselves from yuan holdings (e.g, convert to USD or Euro or real-estate in a foreign country). This is because China makes it really hard to convert out of yuan holdings for Chinese citizens (even if the yuan were earned "legitimately"). This is why China has recently cracked down on BTC exchanges.
Before BTC, many chinese were using real-estate in order to convert their yuan holdings. Although real-estate is technically not deflationary (you can mostly build more), the expansion rate was not high enough for expatriating Chinese yuan. Then the govt cracked down, and now not so much. BTC being a even more deflationary resource, the run-up is also demand driven. Whenever the chinese-illuminati decide on a new popular mechanism for yuan expatriation (or if by some miracle, the govt decides to loosen the grip on then yuan), the demand driven expansion in BTC will go away.
Not saying that people didn't make a bunch of money during the run-up of real-estate, but at least there is a floor with real-estate (people need places to live). Not so much for BTC, so when it falls, there is no safety net (meaning there is probably no waiting it out for a recovery).
Enjoy the boom whilst it lasts...
There was hacking in Ferris as well: Ferris changed his absentee record from his bedroom while Principal Rooney watched, dumbfounded, in his office. Ferris then complains that his parents gave his sister a car, but all he got was a computer.
You can watch it here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...