But now the Trump administration wants to undo an Obama-era regulation designed to make a wide array of specialty lightbulbs more energy efficient.
No.... 'Regulations' do not 'make' lightbulbs more energy efficient. The only thing regulations can do is to "require that specialty lightbulbs be manufactured to be more energy efficient in order to be legally sold."
Critics say if the reversal is finalized it will mean higher energy bills for consumers and more pollution.
Possibly. But let not ignore the probability that the newer light bulbs will also be considerably more expensive for consumers and, at least in my experience, they do not last nearly as long as advertised. Will the net result be more, less, or equally expensive to the consumer? That would be a question worth answering.
I listen to NPR on a regular basis because I once heard a smart man recommend that people should get news from all across the political spectrum. NPR's reporting has a definite bias to the left which they try to conceal by what they report and they report it.
No, but murder victim's sketchy ex-boyfriend who did DV once to someone else is not enough to get a search warrant or require him to provide DNA.
I would still say that it is not necessary to jump straight to a search warrant or try to do DNA comparison. How about.. talking to him / her? If a suspect is willing to provide information about their location, let them. There is also the possibility they may have information they don't already know about the victim that would be useful.
The investigators should be looking for evidence that excludes a suspect as well as evidence that connects a suspect. If the suspect was out of town on a work trip or vacation or whatever... that would mean that they need to look elsewhere. No search warrant or DNA required for that one.
The 10th is the murder victim's ex-boyfriend with a restraining order.
If that is the case, then that information should have been discovered in a... what's the term... hmmm... traditional investigation? DNA is not required to discover that information and identify a possible suspect.
"The tax on users of sites such as Facebook was first proposed by long-time leader Yoweri Museveni, who complained of online gossip in a March letter that urged finance minister to raise money 'to cope with the consequences'"
So.... exactly how will the government of Uganda use the revenue raised from the tax to "to cope with the consequences?" Perhaps to identify those who do not think like the government to "re-educate" them?
I also enjoy use of vague terms that are generally understood by everyone, but whose exact meaning in the context is left undefined. Then, if you disagree with the argument, you can immediately be deemed an outcast.
Like, "reasonable" or "common-sense legislation."
To the GP, what is "reasonable legislation" or "reasonable rent revenue?" What constitutes a "wealthy real-estate investors or corporations?" Who gets to determine it?
Yes. My Dell XPS M1330 (going on memory on the model as that was a few years ago) had problems with the Nvidia GPU and heat. The system fan would almost always run on high. There were also many mb failures reported. I put a copper shim between the GPU and the heat sink.
I used a copper tube strap for copper pipes from Menards. Pounded it flat and cut a piece to size.
I used news groups a lot in the 90s. After I went to a provider that didn't have decent news group coverage, I subscribed to (Free)Agent's service and even bought the full of Agent.
In the last 10 years, my use has decline to pretty much nothing.
Why must I be tolerant of intolerance? If Trump wants to ban Mexicans and Muslims, why am I not allowed to try to ban every trace of Trump?
Expressing the desire to do something (ban Mexicans and Muslims, in this example) is not the same as doing it.
The issue is not tolerance of intolerance. It is tolerance of other people's ideas and beliefs, whether or not you agree with them. Tolerance is, by definition, the willingness to allow (not necessarily accept) ideas which are contrary to your own. Acceptance of ideas which are similar to one's own is not tolerance; it is agreement.
You may certainly "ban every trace of Trump" within spaces you own or control. Attempting to do the same anywhere else (especially in my space), is simply an attempt to exert control over others and -that- is an act of intolerance.
It's probably pretty safe to say that you will not vote for Trump, assuming you are a US citizen. That's fine. I cannot see myself voting for him either, however, for different reasons.
If you do not find that argument compelling, let me try another one. Let him talk. If you are right and his ideas are so repugnant, then those ideas will simply die in the open air. To quote a well-know political commentator, "Sunlight kills bacteria."
There is a law about texting and driving but the chief said that the cops were exempt because they are trained professionals.
That's interesting. I would counter to the chief that because they are allowed to do something the general public is not allowed to do (as a result of being "trained professionals"), the consequences to them should be higher than the general public rather than being exempt.
The same way that we hold licensed engineer professionals to higher standards, law enforcement should be held to a higher standard with higher rewards for demonstrated competence and higher punishments for demonstrated failure.
On a related note, what exactly is it that makes these "trained professionals" better at texting while driving than the general public? Do they go through specialized training where they learn techniques of scanning the road while manipulating the phone? Do they go through a practical exercise and exam that involves a closed course with obstacles and are graded to a time standard and number of cones that can be hit? I am really curious about this.
"If you close one account, we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete your sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true."
Patents now also don't protect the inventor, but rather some corporations.
The worse part is having to hear that litany about capitalism being good, when it's carefully avoided by said corporations...
First, it's not a matter of patent. It's copyright. There is a big difference. Second, the artist had the "protection" up to the point where they signed to contract to allow the distribution. If the artist is getting paid for use of their product (music, in this case) and the terms do not give them the ability to control to whom the usage is sold, then they have nothing to say about the usage.
Capitalism is good. The artist got / gets revenue for usage of their product in exchange for giving up some level of control. The level of control is determined by the contract which they signed. They had a choice; sign, don't sign, or negotiate to get the level of control they want.
Meanwhile, aren't asshole politicians using copyright music during their campaigning, even against the express desires of the artists?
That depends. If an artist signs a contract with distributer xyz (not sure if that if the correct term for the industry) and xyz sells / licenses usage of the catalog of artist's music to someone, I would assume the artist loses the ability to approve / deny usage of their music. It depends on the terms of the different contracts.
If an artist doesn't want to lose control of the usage of their product (music), they need to either have terms that allow them some control or just not sign the contract. Of course, they would also lose the revenue.
Unless your contract allows control, you cannot have it both ways.
Actually, it probably can be quantified, just not necessarily easy.
Example. The poster said that their market is a niche, so the market is not very large, but they probably are known. The competitors for their product are probably also known. First, identify (within a ballpark accuracy) everyone's market percentage. Identify (again, within a ballpark accuracy), the growth rate of their product and everyone else's product.
Then, how is their product and market growth comparing to everyone else's? If it is below the rest, then why? Maybe it can be attributed to the UI, maybe not. If they are losing customers, why?
A few years a go, I read a few books about computer history. I suspect that I saw his name, but I don't remember any mention of his being from South Dakota. Being a SD native, this is nice. I see he also served in the US Navy during WWII.
Another name to add alongside Ernest Lawrence and Joe Foss.
I worked at the North Sioux City facility from late 1990 to mid-96. It was my first full-time job after college. I started in manufacturing for about 6 months, then moved to tech support for a number of years before going to a couple of other places in the company.
It was an interesting place to work and I have a lot of memories of working there. At first, the parking lot was still gravel and didn't get paved until the new manufacturing building was finished. Up until then, the existing building had at least 2, maybe 3 additions put on it. They had a monthly bonus program. It wasn't that much, but it seemed to give everybody an extra motivation to do better, that they had some skin in the game. I don't mean just push more systems out the door, although that was part of it, of course. But just to do their jobs better because it could affect the bottom line. The parking lot of actually a bit of a point of pride, i.e if we had a choice between the two, we would rather have a bigger monthly bonus over a paved parking lot. There was a story that Ted Waitt wanted to leave his spot gravel, but it was too much of a pain so they didn't. Maybe true, maybe not. I never interacted with him or his brother, although I did see them many times in the early days. Not so much later on.
There was also a sense of purpose in the first few years I was there. When I worked tech support (especially consumer before going to corporate support), I remember talking to people who was happy to be able to afford a computer to help them run their small businesses that they would not otherwise have been able to buy.
The cow spotted boxes. Yeah, at first, I remember thinking that it was dumb. It got people's attention and I talked to people who had bought from them after seeing many deliveries in their neighborhoods. I remember seeing all of our competitors with the ads in Computer Shopper. Back then, Computer Shopper was like the Montgomery Wards catalog for geeks. Talk about dating myself. -sigh- Over time, the number of competitors dwindled. I remember the owner of at least one of them saying that he was going to bury Gateway 2000. That business closed a couple of years later.
I remember when I started, working with ESDI drives, 5 1/2 floppy drives, Windows 3.0 (oh, the horror), motherboards with DIPP memory (up to 72 DIPP chips of horror for a whopping 8 meg of ram). I also remember in the early days, having production waiting on a shipment of something (motherboard, hard drives, etc.) to land at the Sioux City airport so that it could be trucked to North Sioux City. Talk about "Just in time inventory." I think that was the first time I heard that term and that was probably 1991.
Others have commented about failure rate of components. Yeah, I remember some of that. Not to excuse the problems inflicted on customers, but that was the very early days of WD IDE hard drives. I'm not sure if the first ones were 20 MB or 40 MB. Some of the boards (sound cards especially come to mind) had different revisions that just showed up with little, if any, documentation. Drivers... yeah... drivers were problematic. Motherboard BIOSes. This was before they were flashable and chips that were socketed (if you were lucky), but an upgraded BIOS meant swapping out the whole motherboard.
The company kept growing and the quality of some people definitely went down along with the sense of purpose. On the other hand, the manufacturing line had a number of improvements that did raise the overall quality. I think the Waitts (directly or indirectly) made some poor choices of hiring some key people to help manage the growth. I remember a few people from some big name companies at the time (HP, maybe... definitely one from Compaq who came and left). That's not to say that all of them were bad, it's just the bad ones that stick in my memory. There were also consultants, like Ernst & Young. They would bring in a team consisting of some very junior people who we
You are vastly overestimating how much typical customers know/care about the labor practices of the businesses that they patronize.
For a lot of people and businesses, I think you are absolutely right. Originally, I was not going to say who my bank is, but.. what the heck...
It's USAA.
They quite proudly proclaim that a very high percentage of their customers stay for life. They have been in the "Top 100 Companies to Work For" for many years.
Given that their target customers are current / former service members & veterans, I think they recognize that it would be a disaster to outsource any part of their operation.
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But now the Trump administration wants to undo an Obama-era regulation designed to make a wide array of specialty lightbulbs more energy efficient.
No.... 'Regulations' do not 'make' lightbulbs more energy efficient. The only thing regulations can do is to "require that specialty lightbulbs be manufactured to be more energy efficient in order to be legally sold."
Critics say if the reversal is finalized it will mean higher energy bills for consumers and more pollution.
Possibly. But let not ignore the probability that the newer light bulbs will also be considerably more expensive for consumers and, at least in my experience, they do not last nearly as long as advertised. Will the net result be more, less, or equally expensive to the consumer? That would be a question worth answering.
I listen to NPR on a regular basis because I once heard a smart man recommend that people should get news from all across the political spectrum. NPR's reporting has a definite bias to the left which they try to conceal by what they report and they report it.
No, but murder victim's sketchy ex-boyfriend who did DV once to someone else is not enough to get a search warrant or require him to provide DNA.
I would still say that it is not necessary to jump straight to a search warrant or try to do DNA comparison.
How about.. talking to him / her? If a suspect is willing to provide information about their location, let them. There is also the possibility they may have information they don't already know about the victim that would be useful.
The investigators should be looking for evidence that excludes a suspect as well as evidence that connects a suspect.
If the suspect was out of town on a work trip or vacation or whatever... that would mean that they need to look elsewhere.
No search warrant or DNA required for that one.
The 10th is the murder victim's ex-boyfriend with a restraining order.
If that is the case, then that information should have been discovered in a ... what's the term... hmmm... traditional investigation?
DNA is not required to discover that information and identify a possible suspect.
A few years ago, my girlfriend and I were in Minneapolis for a concert and we stopped at the Bakken Museum.
If you are in the area, I would recommend visiting it. It was very interesting to see the history of pacemakers and similar devices.
"The tax on users of sites such as Facebook was first proposed by long-time leader Yoweri Museveni, who complained of online gossip in a March letter that urged finance minister to raise money 'to cope with the consequences'"
So.... exactly how will the government of Uganda use the revenue raised from the tax to "to cope with the consequences?"
Perhaps to identify those who do not think like the government to "re-educate" them?
Frankly, if we still had a decent human like Holder as Attorney General,...
Did he do anything about this during the 6 years that he was the Attorney General?
If the answer is "no,", then why do you think it would be different now? Besides wishful thinking?
It's not "Here, here..." you moron, it's "Hear, hear."
Yes, you are correct. Thank you for that.
Was it really necessary to call me a moron?
Oh, that's right. You are a anonymous coward, so that explains it.
Here, here.
I also enjoy use of vague terms that are generally understood by everyone, but whose exact meaning in the context is left undefined. Then, if you disagree with the argument, you can immediately be deemed an outcast.
Like, "reasonable" or "common-sense legislation."
To the GP, what is "reasonable legislation" or "reasonable rent revenue?"
What constitutes a "wealthy real-estate investors or corporations?"
Who gets to determine it?
Yes. My Dell XPS M1330 (going on memory on the model as that was a few years ago) had problems with the Nvidia GPU and heat. The system fan would almost always run on high. There were also many mb failures reported. I put a copper shim between the GPU and the heat sink.
I used a copper tube strap for copper pipes from Menards. Pounded it flat and cut a piece to size.
Ta-da. Problem solved.
...then perhaps it really isn't a problem.
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
- Shimon Peres
I used news groups a lot in the 90s. After I went to a provider that didn't have decent news group coverage, I subscribed to (Free)Agent's service and even bought the full of Agent.
In the last 10 years, my use has decline to pretty much nothing.
Excellent
Why must I be tolerant of intolerance? If Trump wants to ban Mexicans and Muslims, why am I not allowed to try to ban every trace of Trump?
Expressing the desire to do something (ban Mexicans and Muslims, in this example) is not the same as doing it.
The issue is not tolerance of intolerance. It is tolerance of other people's ideas and beliefs, whether or not you agree with them. Tolerance is, by definition, the willingness to allow (not necessarily accept) ideas which are contrary to your own. Acceptance of ideas which are similar to one's own is not tolerance; it is agreement.
You may certainly "ban every trace of Trump" within spaces you own or control. Attempting to do the same anywhere else (especially in my space), is simply an attempt to exert control over others and -that- is an act of intolerance.
It's probably pretty safe to say that you will not vote for Trump, assuming you are a US citizen. That's fine. I cannot see myself voting for him either, however, for different reasons.
If you do not find that argument compelling, let me try another one. Let him talk. If you are right and his ideas are so repugnant, then those ideas will simply die in the open air. To quote a well-know political commentator, "Sunlight kills bacteria."
There is a law about texting and driving but the chief said that the cops were exempt because they are trained professionals.
That's interesting. I would counter to the chief that because they are allowed to do something the general public is not allowed to do (as a result of being "trained professionals"), the consequences to them should be higher than the general public rather than being exempt.
The same way that we hold licensed engineer professionals to higher standards, law enforcement should be held to a higher standard with higher rewards for demonstrated competence and higher punishments for demonstrated failure.
On a related note, what exactly is it that makes these "trained professionals" better at texting while driving than the general public? Do they go through specialized training where they learn techniques of scanning the road while manipulating the phone? Do they go through a practical exercise and exam that involves a closed course with obstacles and are graded to a time standard and number of cones that can be hit? I am really curious about this.
Indeed, strictly speaking, Earth itself should not exist, according to the computer model, according to the story in Discover Magazine.
If a known state cannot be shown as being implied by the theory, then how can the theory be valid?
"If you close one account, we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete your sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true."
But, what if Allah doesn't will it?
crap... i screwed up the quoting.
The first two lines were supposed to be a quote from the parent. My bad.
Patents now also don't protect the inventor, but rather some corporations.
The worse part is having to hear that litany about capitalism being good, when it's carefully avoided by said corporations...
First, it's not a matter of patent. It's copyright. There is a big difference.
Second, the artist had the "protection" up to the point where they signed to contract to allow the distribution. If the artist is getting paid for use of their product (music, in this case) and the terms do not give them the ability to control to whom the usage is sold, then they have nothing to say about the usage.
Capitalism is good. The artist got / gets revenue for usage of their product in exchange for giving up some level of control. The level of control is determined by the contract which they signed. They had a choice; sign, don't sign, or negotiate to get the level of control they want.
Meanwhile, aren't asshole politicians using copyright music during their campaigning, even against the express desires of the artists?
That depends. If an artist signs a contract with distributer xyz (not sure if that if the correct term for the industry) and xyz sells / licenses usage of the catalog of artist's music to someone, I would assume the artist loses the ability to approve / deny usage of their music. It depends on the terms of the different contracts.
If an artist doesn't want to lose control of the usage of their product (music), they need to either have terms that allow them some control or just not sign the contract. Of course, they would also lose the revenue.
Unless your contract allows control, you cannot have it both ways.
Not being familiar with the subject, that threw me completely off when I read it.
Are you sure it didn't "trew" you off?
Actually, it probably can be quantified, just not necessarily easy.
Example. The poster said that their market is a niche, so the market is not very large, but they probably are known. The competitors for their product are probably also known. First, identify (within a ballpark accuracy) everyone's market percentage. Identify (again, within a ballpark accuracy), the growth rate of their product and everyone else's product.
Then, how is their product and market growth comparing to everyone else's? If it is below the rest, then why? Maybe it can be attributed to the UI, maybe not. If they are losing customers, why?
An interesting book is How to Measure Anything which could be helpful.
Full disclosure. I do know the author, but receive no financial benefits. I didn't even get a free copy.
A few years a go, I read a few books about computer history. I suspect that I saw his name, but I don't remember any mention of his being from South Dakota. Being a SD native, this is nice. I see he also served in the US Navy during WWII.
Another name to add alongside Ernest Lawrence and Joe Foss.
First, my condolences to his family.
I worked at the North Sioux City facility from late 1990 to mid-96. It was my first full-time job after college. I started in manufacturing for about 6 months, then moved to tech support for a number of years before going to a couple of other places in the company.
It was an interesting place to work and I have a lot of memories of working there. At first, the parking lot was still gravel and didn't get paved until the new manufacturing building was finished. Up until then, the existing building had at least 2, maybe 3 additions put on it. They had a monthly bonus program. It wasn't that much, but it seemed to give everybody an extra motivation to do better, that they had some skin in the game. I don't mean just push more systems out the door, although that was part of it, of course. But just to do their jobs better because it could affect the bottom line. The parking lot of actually a bit of a point of pride, i.e if we had a choice between the two, we would rather have a bigger monthly bonus over a paved parking lot. There was a story that Ted Waitt wanted to leave his spot gravel, but it was too much of a pain so they didn't. Maybe true, maybe not. I never interacted with him or his brother, although I did see them many times in the early days. Not so much later on.
There was also a sense of purpose in the first few years I was there. When I worked tech support (especially consumer before going to corporate support), I remember talking to people who was happy to be able to afford a computer to help them run their small businesses that they would not otherwise have been able to buy.
The cow spotted boxes. Yeah, at first, I remember thinking that it was dumb. It got people's attention and I talked to people who had bought from them after seeing many deliveries in their neighborhoods. I remember seeing all of our competitors with the ads in Computer Shopper. Back then, Computer Shopper was like the Montgomery Wards catalog for geeks. Talk about dating myself. -sigh- Over time, the number of competitors dwindled. I remember the owner of at least one of them saying that he was going to bury Gateway 2000. That business closed a couple of years later.
I remember when I started, working with ESDI drives, 5 1/2 floppy drives, Windows 3.0 (oh, the horror), motherboards with DIPP memory (up to 72 DIPP chips of horror for a whopping 8 meg of ram). I also remember in the early days, having production waiting on a shipment of something (motherboard, hard drives, etc.) to land at the Sioux City airport so that it could be trucked to North Sioux City. Talk about "Just in time inventory." I think that was the first time I heard that term and that was probably 1991.
Others have commented about failure rate of components. Yeah, I remember some of that. Not to excuse the problems inflicted on customers, but that was the very early days of WD IDE hard drives. I'm not sure if the first ones were 20 MB or 40 MB. Some of the boards (sound cards especially come to mind) had different revisions that just showed up with little, if any, documentation. Drivers... yeah... drivers were problematic. Motherboard BIOSes. This was before they were flashable and chips that were socketed (if you were lucky), but an upgraded BIOS meant swapping out the whole motherboard.
The company kept growing and the quality of some people definitely went down along with the sense of purpose. On the other hand, the manufacturing line had a number of improvements that did raise the overall quality. I think the Waitts (directly or indirectly) made some poor choices of hiring some key people to help manage the growth. I remember a few people from some big name companies at the time (HP, maybe... definitely one from Compaq who came and left). That's not to say that all of them were bad, it's just the bad ones that stick in my memory. There were also consultants, like Ernst & Young. They would bring in a team consisting of some very junior people who we
You are vastly overestimating how much typical customers know/care about the labor practices of the businesses that they patronize.
For a lot of people and businesses, I think you are absolutely right.
Originally, I was not going to say who my bank is, but.. what the heck...
It's USAA.
They quite proudly proclaim that a very high percentage of their customers stay for life.
They have been in the "Top 100 Companies to Work For" for many years.
Given that their target customers are current / former service members & veterans, I think they recognize that it would be a disaster to outsource any part of their operation.
If my bank ever did this, they would lose a customer and most of their other customers
Fortunately, I never have to worry about that, because they know how the PR disaster would end.