This started long before Nintendo. This started when Bill Gates had the bright idea to not sell DOS to IBM, but to "license" it. That was when we stepped from buying a product, to thinking we bought it, but legally only renting it.
It was on WHAT website? donaldjrtrump.com? Who the fsck would ever go there except people that would find that funny? Is it any worse than the officialized jokes that the Dems have against Trump? The Liberals have against the Tories? (Did I spell those correctly, my British brethren?) Blacks against whites? Whites against blacks? Labor against management? (Management doesn't really joke about labor. The love us.:-)
And yet, you have people leaving the comforts of their home to visit the African congo. You have people competing to be the first to Mars where they will die on a bleak, baren desert of a planet. Not what I would choose to do does not equate to stupid.
But, if it is in the cloud, at least you can count on some security expertise, vs the wife of a middle-east technical school graduate that Wasserman-Schultz had running the DNC's computers.
How many doctors get successfully sued? What happens to THAT small percentage of doctors?
The thing your statistic misses is that only a small percentage of the doctors make up that.3%, but those doctors are totally destroyed. In response, the doctors that are NOT part of that.3% go to extraordinary lengths, unreasonably expensive lengths, to make sure they don't wind up part of that.3%.
It's the tail wagging the dog, like how we all have to get cavity searched to ride an airplane, because of a few box knives over a decade ago.
I worked for a short stint at a medical company. They developed tests for cognitive ability to be used during medical trials. I automated QA for a web interface.
Their entire process was stilted by a need to generated literally several reams of paper in an attempt to overwhelm "investigators". I use quotes, because the FDA people would come in and make comments like a sheet of the eight page "script" was not signed, or was signed but the date was missing. I'm saying that the FDA people added actually zero value or quality to the product, but forced the company to have twice as many people to implement pointless manual processes.
Unless you've worked the industry, you can not comprehend the depth of wastefulness imposed by your beloved "regulations".
Look at the map, and you'll see that most of 'Bama is sparsely populated farmland. Look at the politics, and you have a candidate for the majority party being accused of child molestation. The minority party tends to do better is special elections, because the base for that party feels under siege. In this election, the minority party would be especially up in arms, in a special election which tends to have a VERY small turnout.
I wouldn't expect fraud to be needed for Jones to win.
GE fridge, its not quite 3 years old, the fan makes a noise because the bearings in it are stuffed I'm guessing, not worth getting it fixed, I hate GE now, GE of all companies should be-able to build a fridge with parts that last longer than 5 minutes. Will put up with it until I can afford to throw it away and buy something different.
I worked at GE for a while. Their appliance division in Louisville, KY is now owned by the Chinese. But,.... When they were still building appliances, they would have engineers build and test prototypes. After the reliability goals were obtained, the designs were passed to MBA's, purchasing agents, and accountants that would do what they called a "cost out". They were charged with finding cheaper suppliers, and the cheaper parts are what went into production. The only posters of "successful" employees I saw hung, were those in the "millionaire" club. People who had found a million dollars worth of savings in the way of cheaper parts.
Given the amount of bombing we do (aren't we still bombing seven different countries), that satellite would have to be carrying a LOT of missiles as payload.
Put the station in an orbit that swings closely past the moon and the earth. Scaled down chemical rockets would meet up and dock as it passed close. No need to necessarily carry supplies for people if food can be grown on the station, and it has oxygen generating capacity. The generated magnetic field could capture, accelerate and eject the solar wind as a "base" control rocket. Chemical or ion engines with fuel reserves would be for emergency maneuvering.
I'm sure xeon is chosen as the gas for a perfectly reasonable reason, but surrounding the ship with a magnetic field will allow it to manipulate the rarified material in the solar wind. If the vessel is a space station that has an orbit that passes close to the Earth on one side and close to the moon on the other, it doesn't require much fuel to maintain orbit. Chemical rockets would be used to meet up with it at the appropriate time in its orbit.
That is insightful to a point. Where the comparison trips up is that the "internet roads" are really *semi* private. They use land that was confiscated with the force of eminent domain to put up. Time-Warner, et. al., didn't go door to door making agreements with individual land owners in order to run cable lines across private property.
If that were the case, I would accept your analogy. As it is, I have to ask why the cable lines are private. IMNSHO, if the state uses eminent domain to confiscate property "for the public good", then said property and anything built upon it should remain with the state "for the public good."
Hypocrites or not, this is a good example of what will happen when the telecom companies, which have a de-facto monopoly in a specific area due to infrastructure costs, have the ability to charge differently and throttle the traffic going through the 50Mbps pipe I paid for based upon where that traffic originated.
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You hinted at it, but didn't quite get there.
This started long before Nintendo. This started when Bill Gates had the bright idea to not sell DOS to IBM, but to "license" it. That was when we stepped from buying a product, to thinking we bought it, but legally only renting it.
It was on WHAT website? donaldjrtrump.com? Who the fsck would ever go there except people that would find that funny? Is it any worse than the officialized jokes that the Dems have against Trump? The Liberals have against the Tories? (Did I spell those correctly, my British brethren?) Blacks against whites? Whites against blacks? Labor against management? (Management doesn't really joke about labor. The love us. :-)
Seriously, Ingraham needs to get a job.
If you're job can be done with a shell script, it's time to upgrade your skills.
Who says they're not trained? Consider the clientele of walmart. I'm sure a significant percentage are trained in using a cash register.
A smart traveler would overstay their VISA, and then purposely get caught. Free flight home?
And yet, you have people leaving the comforts of their home to visit the African congo. You have people competing to be the first to Mars where they will die on a bleak, baren desert of a planet. Not what I would choose to do does not equate to stupid.
Isn't that the came as co-location or even a content distribution network?
The requirements for jobs on Monster.com, et. al.
"Better" requires a definition and something to compare against.
But, if it is in the cloud, at least you can count on some security expertise, vs the wife of a middle-east technical school graduate that Wasserman-Schultz had running the DNC's computers.
Vehicles that are paid off generally are not "on the brink of repossession" or require "automatic payments".
How many doctors get successfully sued? What happens to THAT small percentage of doctors?
The thing your statistic misses is that only a small percentage of the doctors make up that .3%, but those doctors are totally destroyed. In response, the doctors that are NOT part of that .3% go to extraordinary lengths, unreasonably expensive lengths, to make sure they don't wind up part of that .3%.
It's the tail wagging the dog, like how we all have to get cavity searched to ride an airplane, because of a few box knives over a decade ago.
I worked for a short stint at a medical company. They developed tests for cognitive ability to be used during medical trials. I automated QA for a web interface.
Their entire process was stilted by a need to generated literally several reams of paper in an attempt to overwhelm "investigators". I use quotes, because the FDA people would come in and make comments like a sheet of the eight page "script" was not signed, or was signed but the date was missing. I'm saying that the FDA people added actually zero value or quality to the product, but forced the company to have twice as many people to implement pointless manual processes.
Unless you've worked the industry, you can not comprehend the depth of wastefulness imposed by your beloved "regulations".
Bullshit. You've just changed the middleman to a government bureaucrat.
FTS: "They do not have . . . editors to check and verify information sent in by reporters on the ground"
Given the quality and bias of news that is passed on to the public, neither do these 'news' agencies.
The didn't "prove" that Clinton is guilty of graft, because Bill had a meeting with Loretta.
That last statement is not a "fact". It is an opinionated red-herring.
Look at the map, and you'll see that most of 'Bama is sparsely populated farmland. Look at the politics, and you have a candidate for the majority party being accused of child molestation. The minority party tends to do better is special elections, because the base for that party feels under siege. In this election, the minority party would be especially up in arms, in a special election which tends to have a VERY small turnout.
I wouldn't expect fraud to be needed for Jones to win.
GE fridge, its not quite 3 years old, the fan makes a noise because the bearings in it are stuffed I'm guessing, not worth getting it fixed, I hate GE now, GE of all companies should be-able to build a fridge with parts that last longer than 5 minutes. Will put up with it until I can afford to throw it away and buy something different.
I worked at GE for a while. Their appliance division in Louisville, KY is now owned by the Chinese. But, .... When they were still building appliances, they would have engineers build and test prototypes. After the reliability goals were obtained, the designs were passed to MBA's, purchasing agents, and accountants that would do what they called a "cost out". They were charged with finding cheaper suppliers, and the cheaper parts are what went into production. The only posters of "successful" employees I saw hung, were those in the "millionaire" club. People who had found a million dollars worth of savings in the way of cheaper parts.
Guess why your appliance is a POS.
Or...(depending on where you live)
Put it on the side of the road with a $10 "For Sale" sign on it. Someone will steal it before morning.
Given the amount of bombing we do (aren't we still bombing seven different countries), that satellite would have to be carrying a LOT of missiles as payload.
Except that the military is one of the few functions actually assigned to the federal government.
Put the station in an orbit that swings closely past the moon and the earth. Scaled down chemical rockets would meet up and dock as it passed close. No need to necessarily carry supplies for people if food can be grown on the station, and it has oxygen generating capacity. The generated magnetic field could capture, accelerate and eject the solar wind as a "base" control rocket. Chemical or ion engines with fuel reserves would be for emergency maneuvering.
I'm sure xeon is chosen as the gas for a perfectly reasonable reason, but surrounding the ship with a magnetic field will allow it to manipulate the rarified material in the solar wind. If the vessel is a space station that has an orbit that passes close to the Earth on one side and close to the moon on the other, it doesn't require much fuel to maintain orbit. Chemical rockets would be used to meet up with it at the appropriate time in its orbit.
That is insightful to a point. Where the comparison trips up is that the "internet roads" are really *semi* private. They use land that was confiscated with the force of eminent domain to put up. Time-Warner, et. al., didn't go door to door making agreements with individual land owners in order to run cable lines across private property.
If that were the case, I would accept your analogy. As it is, I have to ask why the cable lines are private. IMNSHO, if the state uses eminent domain to confiscate property "for the public good", then said property and anything built upon it should remain with the state "for the public good."
Hypocrites or not, this is a good example of what will happen when the telecom companies, which have a de-facto monopoly in a specific area due to infrastructure costs, have the ability to charge differently and throttle the traffic going through the 50Mbps pipe I paid for based upon where that traffic originated.