It costs the tacpayer nothing. It costs the government.
I won't dignify that with a response.
Capital is not destroyed. It only changes the owner. Get a clue.
Honestly do you have the slightest fucking clue as to what that program entailed? The cars that were turned in were required to be destroyed. It was only four years ago, your memory must really be shitty.
Strange, I always thought parallel universe meant it is another universe that is parallel to our own on a three dimensional plane. Or in other words, if our universe could be represented by a piece of paper, then another piece of paper laying on top of it is a parallel piece of paper, and where they physically converge with one another manifests as a sphere (like a black hole) similar to how if you were to poke a hole in a piece of paper, then a two dimensional being living in that paper would see a big empty circle.
In other words, even though in the future there is a Spok in a mirror universe, that Spok will wear a goatee, and was thus will not the same as the Spok from our universe will be. That also means that that mirror universe isn't a mirror after all. Since when do you look in the mirror and see a goatee, even after you shave yourself?
That program cost the taxpayers about $4 billion and even the most ardent environmentalists weren't impressed with the results. It also didn't improve the economy in any way as car sales over that period didn't result in a higher volume of sales (it just took away sales from previous and later months and combined them into the few months that the program was active.)
It also destroyed capital, which is always economically destructive (google the broken window fallacy) and in fact provided a measurable loss. Namely, used cars became that much more scarce, so their prices went way up, meaning that if you were poor, it became that much harder to get another car if yours had to be retired.
If they did, that would be a pretty clear cut violation of the enumerated powers of the federal governments.
At best they can set standards for new vehicles that are imported and/or sold across state lines (and do, via the NTSB) which is an enumerated power via the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. However those rules have no bearing for older or second hand vehicles.
Forcing electrical utilities to switch to separate billing for grid-tie and power consumption, so that customers that want to put solar panels on their roofs aren't shafted in order to have overnight electrical service from base-load power?
I think a better start would be to end NIMBY syndrome and go all nuclear. I personally live about 60 miles from the largest nuclear plant in the US, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'm not sure why nuclear bothers California so much that they pay Arizona a premium for our electrons to make up for their own inadequate supply...it would be considerably cheaper if they just made their own, and they could displace their coal plants in the process.
Fun is exactly what it has to be, or at least something that could be perceived as "cool." If it's not, the 5-8th grade group (especially inner city types) will mostly ignore it.
I'd consider focusing on the circuitry you can build in Minecraft. You could easily teach the fundamentals of electronics using its redstone mechanics. It can go from a simple circuit for a light switch to something as complex as this:
The way I see it, you gain the following advantages: - The potential things that can be built aren't limited by your materials budget. Real materials might get you a fancy strobe light, a speaker that beeps, or maybe a radio transmitter that transmits beeps...nothing terribly exciting to that age group. Minecraft can do much more. - You don't need to worry about buying new materials once a given class uses up a set of them. - The skills directly translate into real world electronics. - It's a video game, which usually appeals to younger kids.
The app is "The Weather Channel" and is built in to Windows Phone. The page I listed contains links to MS's hardware requirements, which are basically this:
1.5GHz dual core Qualcomm chip 1GB of RAM 4GB of NVRAM
I've had 9 Android devices, 10 if you count an HP Touchpad running Cyanogen. Other than one of the phones I've owned, I haven't had those problems. You're probably just buying shit hardware.
I think what he means is that users aren't permitted to sideload their own apps on Windows Phone or Windows RT. At least not without paying a minimum of $30,000 for a pack of 1000 sideload keys that can only be used once, meaning they can't be re-used if that device is lost/stolen/replaced/upgraded.
You're probably a Windows Phonie. FWIW I have a Windows Phone that I use as a backup phone, and honestly it's a piece of shit.
For example if I open the built in weather app, it takes 6 seconds to open, and when it finally opens I get...another load screen that lasts 5 seconds...and after that, I get a screen full of advertisements and a tiny bit of actual weather information.
Meanwhile here's a youtube video showing KitKat running quite smoothly on a Nexus One, which has a 1GHz single core CPU and 512MB of ram (And just so happens to be Google's minimum requirements.)
And before you make any comments about Android slowing down as you install apps, that's a relic of days past before Google required OEMs to support the TRIM function, thus as data was written and re-written, things slowed down over time, even if you rebooted. However that is no longer the case.
Meanwhile your vaunted Windows Phone requires more than twice the CPU, twice the RAM, in addition to four times the NAND capacity, just to load that piece of crap weather app really slowly. Microsoft even says so themselves:
I've always found AMT useful. It's turned off by default, so I'm not sure how it's a security risk. What I like about it is the following:
- Allows you to remotely manage client PCs in a work environment, up to and including re-formatting the HDD with a new OS, including being able to remotely mount a local ISO image to install the OS. - Works even when some of the most critical system components don't work, such as CPU, RAM, etc, as it's an independent subsystem. Even if you don't want the remote management features, this is a huge deal when you have a seemingly dead system and aren't sure exactly how to fix it. AMT helps you figure out the EXACT problem FAST, and you don't even have to have the computer in your hands to do so. - Integrates with LDAP (including Active Directory, Samba, etc) - Provides the ability to power on and remotely wipe the laptop if it was stolen and contains sensitive data.
It would be nice if we actually had a free market. Instead we have local franchise authorities everywhere that dictate who can and can't offer telecom services.
My personal theory is that a merger would be the best way to dissolve them. Here's why:
The content industry has been pushing for higher and higher re-transmission rates across the board, and usually they've succeeded because individual MSOs typically don't have enough bargaining power to resist higher rates each time the contracts are up for renewal. At the same time, the content industry has been resistant to non MSO (over the top, internet based) content delivery because they know that they risk disrupting their already very profitable cable model.
If a massive provider such as Comcast is able to get enough leverage that they can resist or even lower the retransmission payments, then I think that would basically force their hand to look for alternative distribution methods, thus killing the cable model in the process.
Otherwise think about what happens if we leave things as is: TWC is already well known to be a douchebag cable company, about the same as Comcast is. I'm not sure how approving the merger would change that for the worse.
The only question is what happens to their internet service vis a vis companies like Netflix. I think a solution to that, which Comcast would buy, is to have them lobby hard for Title II as a condition of merger approval (they have to lobby first and it has to become law first before any merger is approved, and even if such a law is overturned later, they still have to agree to Title II conditions for themselves for the next 30 years.)
You seem to be forgetting WWII, the repercussions of which are still - to this day - haunting many countries, especially in Europe.
Ok let's look at one of the countries that got hurt perhaps the worst by WWII: Japan. (Two nuclear bombs, starving population, totally decimated manufacturing infrastructure.) Meanwhile they're perhaps second only to the US as far as a high tech economy. They also rank very high on many income inequality lists.
While they might be statist in some respects, economically they are anything but, and in many respects they make the USA look like a command economy in comparison.
Also the US isn't the country with the highest income inequality in the developed world.
That has more to do with there being more opportunities in the US than anything else.
Virtually all of the world's top technology companies were founded in the US, most of them within the last 10-20 years as well. A lot of their founders were first to third generation Americans. Is that because Americans are overall smarter than say Scandinavians or Germans? Or maybe luckier? None of the above.
Those opportunities come from there not being a government telling you what you can't do, meaning there's no cap on your potential for economic growth.
That isn't a bad thing. That's a good thing. If the US was more of a statist country, there's no chance we'd be the economic powerhouse we presently are.
And by the way, anybody who see's how I live wouldn't consider me poor. Yet because my income is below the poverty level, I'm yet another point on a spreadsheet that a socialist uses to argue that there's too much income inequality. Money is not wealth. For example a pile of gold is useless to a sailor on a broken raft; what's more valuable is a compass, an outboard motor, and some gas.
As for me, I'm typing this message in front of a 55" Sony TV that I use as a PC monitor, on a high end gaming PC, my phone is a Galaxy Note 4, I have a Nexus 7 and an iPad, I drive a Buick Regal, I ride a Giant Sedona XL bike on sunny days, I live in a house that is bigger than I need it to be, I have a pool in my back yard.
Yet my income is well below the poverty level, so therefore I'm somehow wronged by the rich (rolleyes.)
Where you see income inequality, I see a nation where everybody (including the poor) is wealthy. Meanwhile this whole nonsense about income defining how happy one should be is just that.
Probably because this guy isn't associated with the Republican party in any official manner. TFA indicates that he worked for a company called Base Connect, which is currently under investigation for soliciting donations from senior citizens to political campaigns, and instead of giving the money to the campaigns, the company just pockets it.
In other words, he worked for a company that claims to be a Republican fundraiser, only it isn't actually one. Instead it's some kind of boiler room tele-fraud type company.
Yet somehow this got spun as being a big Republican conspiracy.
The reason this isn't big news is because it's literally a story of "Some guy raped his 5 year old daughter, got fired from his job, and is currently in jail. More news at 11." There wasn't anything sensational about it, so it didn't make national news.
Looking at TFA, this guy wasn't a Republican operative. It seems he worked for a company called Base Connect which is currently under investigation for defrauding senior citizens who vote Republican. They'd call in and get donations supposedly towards Republican politicians, and almost none of the money actually went towards those campaigns; instead the company just pocketed it.
It's not much to look at, sadly, as the new build brings the start menu more in-lines with Windows 8. Also sadly, along with this change they require you to use Cortana in lieu of the normal start menu search. They replaced the regular WPF start menu with a XAML (metro app) start menu that depends on a bunch of metro stuff to work, and removing Cortana breaks it. There's a hidden registry setting to go back to the one found in previous builds, but I suspect Microsoft will remove it like they did the start menu from Windows 8.
Meanwhile I've found that you can presently "de-metro"ify this build with these three powershell commands:
Set-ItemProperty HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -Name "EnableXamlStartMenu" -Value 0 -Type DWord Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage logoff # logs you off so you can log back in to see the effect
(The first two lines are actually one line; should be 4 lines total)
After you do that, it very much resembles the Windows 7 start menu. But again, I am doubtful that Microsoft will leave all of this intact for the final release, much as they did with Windows 8. One can only hope, or perhaps fill it in as a big petition in the feedback app (the code above removes that app, so keep that in mind.)
If you're letting them drive on non-commercial licenses than that means that regular drivers are subsidizing Uber-drivers.
That's very much incorrect. If you drive more, your insurance company bills you more. Generally they're aware of how much you drive by one of two indicators:
1) How much you tell them you drive. (Yes, they do ask.) 2) What your odometer reads vs how long you've owned the car. They'll know this by looking at registration/emissions records.
As much as I've been bashing Microsoft lately for their major screwups, I've tested IE11 in the Windows 10 tech preview, and it seems even more standards compliant than the webkit/blink web browsers as far as the Acid3 test goes. Chrome for example has three distinct pauses on the acid3 test, whereas IE11 on Windows 10 has only one much shorter pause. For comparison, IE11 on Windows 7/8 fails the test at 92/100.
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No, I think Jesus in the mirror universe would be white instead of middle eastern.
It costs the tacpayer nothing. It costs the government.
I won't dignify that with a response.
Capital is not destroyed. It only changes the owner. Get a clue.
Honestly do you have the slightest fucking clue as to what that program entailed? The cars that were turned in were required to be destroyed. It was only four years ago, your memory must really be shitty.
Strange, I always thought parallel universe meant it is another universe that is parallel to our own on a three dimensional plane. Or in other words, if our universe could be represented by a piece of paper, then another piece of paper laying on top of it is a parallel piece of paper, and where they physically converge with one another manifests as a sphere (like a black hole) similar to how if you were to poke a hole in a piece of paper, then a two dimensional being living in that paper would see a big empty circle.
In other words, even though in the future there is a Spok in a mirror universe, that Spok will wear a goatee, and was thus will not the same as the Spok from our universe will be. That also means that that mirror universe isn't a mirror after all. Since when do you look in the mirror and see a goatee, even after you shave yourself?
We can call it Cash for Clunkers.
That program cost the taxpayers about $4 billion and even the most ardent environmentalists weren't impressed with the results. It also didn't improve the economy in any way as car sales over that period didn't result in a higher volume of sales (it just took away sales from previous and later months and combined them into the few months that the program was active.)
It also destroyed capital, which is always economically destructive (google the broken window fallacy) and in fact provided a measurable loss. Namely, used cars became that much more scarce, so their prices went way up, meaning that if you were poor, it became that much harder to get another car if yours had to be retired.
If they did, that would be a pretty clear cut violation of the enumerated powers of the federal governments.
At best they can set standards for new vehicles that are imported and/or sold across state lines (and do, via the NTSB) which is an enumerated power via the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. However those rules have no bearing for older or second hand vehicles.
Forcing electrical utilities to switch to separate billing for grid-tie and power consumption, so that customers that want to put solar panels on their roofs aren't shafted in order to have overnight electrical service from base-load power?
I think a better start would be to end NIMBY syndrome and go all nuclear. I personally live about 60 miles from the largest nuclear plant in the US, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'm not sure why nuclear bothers California so much that they pay Arizona a premium for our electrons to make up for their own inadequate supply...it would be considerably cheaper if they just made their own, and they could displace their coal plants in the process.
Fun is exactly what it has to be, or at least something that could be perceived as "cool." If it's not, the 5-8th grade group (especially inner city types) will mostly ignore it.
I'd consider focusing on the circuitry you can build in Minecraft. You could easily teach the fundamentals of electronics using its redstone mechanics. It can go from a simple circuit for a light switch to something as complex as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The way I see it, you gain the following advantages:
- The potential things that can be built aren't limited by your materials budget. Real materials might get you a fancy strobe light, a speaker that beeps, or maybe a radio transmitter that transmits beeps...nothing terribly exciting to that age group. Minecraft can do much more.
- You don't need to worry about buying new materials once a given class uses up a set of them.
- The skills directly translate into real world electronics.
- It's a video game, which usually appeals to younger kids.
The app is "The Weather Channel" and is built in to Windows Phone. The page I listed contains links to MS's hardware requirements, which are basically this:
1.5GHz dual core Qualcomm chip
1GB of RAM
4GB of NVRAM
I've had 9 Android devices, 10 if you count an HP Touchpad running Cyanogen. Other than one of the phones I've owned, I haven't had those problems. You're probably just buying shit hardware.
I think what he means is that users aren't permitted to sideload their own apps on Windows Phone or Windows RT. At least not without paying a minimum of $30,000 for a pack of 1000 sideload keys that can only be used once, meaning they can't be re-used if that device is lost/stolen/replaced/upgraded.
You're probably a Windows Phonie. FWIW I have a Windows Phone that I use as a backup phone, and honestly it's a piece of shit.
For example if I open the built in weather app, it takes 6 seconds to open, and when it finally opens I get...another load screen that lasts 5 seconds...and after that, I get a screen full of advertisements and a tiny bit of actual weather information.
Meanwhile here's a youtube video showing KitKat running quite smoothly on a Nexus One, which has a 1GHz single core CPU and 512MB of ram (And just so happens to be Google's minimum requirements.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And before you make any comments about Android slowing down as you install apps, that's a relic of days past before Google required OEMs to support the TRIM function, thus as data was written and re-written, things slowed down over time, even if you rebooted. However that is no longer the case.
Meanwhile your vaunted Windows Phone requires more than twice the CPU, twice the RAM, in addition to four times the NAND capacity, just to load that piece of crap weather app really slowly. Microsoft even says so themselves:
https://dev.windowsphone.com/e...
You were saying?
I've always found AMT useful. It's turned off by default, so I'm not sure how it's a security risk. What I like about it is the following:
- Allows you to remotely manage client PCs in a work environment, up to and including re-formatting the HDD with a new OS, including being able to remotely mount a local ISO image to install the OS.
- Works even when some of the most critical system components don't work, such as CPU, RAM, etc, as it's an independent subsystem. Even if you don't want the remote management features, this is a huge deal when you have a seemingly dead system and aren't sure exactly how to fix it. AMT helps you figure out the EXACT problem FAST, and you don't even have to have the computer in your hands to do so.
- Integrates with LDAP (including Active Directory, Samba, etc)
- Provides the ability to power on and remotely wipe the laptop if it was stolen and contains sensitive data.
So what's so controversial about it?
It would be nice if we actually had a free market. Instead we have local franchise authorities everywhere that dictate who can and can't offer telecom services.
My personal theory is that a merger would be the best way to dissolve them. Here's why:
The content industry has been pushing for higher and higher re-transmission rates across the board, and usually they've succeeded because individual MSOs typically don't have enough bargaining power to resist higher rates each time the contracts are up for renewal. At the same time, the content industry has been resistant to non MSO (over the top, internet based) content delivery because they know that they risk disrupting their already very profitable cable model.
If a massive provider such as Comcast is able to get enough leverage that they can resist or even lower the retransmission payments, then I think that would basically force their hand to look for alternative distribution methods, thus killing the cable model in the process.
Otherwise think about what happens if we leave things as is: TWC is already well known to be a douchebag cable company, about the same as Comcast is. I'm not sure how approving the merger would change that for the worse.
The only question is what happens to their internet service vis a vis companies like Netflix. I think a solution to that, which Comcast would buy, is to have them lobby hard for Title II as a condition of merger approval (they have to lobby first and it has to become law first before any merger is approved, and even if such a law is overturned later, they still have to agree to Title II conditions for themselves for the next 30 years.)
The only way I can figure is for each task you want to do, you have to search the Google
That's the way I've always done it with every scripting language (including bash.) Usually the most helpful examples are on stackexchange.
Dunno I'm just going by Microsoft's own terminology. They tend to refer to "legacy" apps as WPF and metro apps as XAML.
You seem to be forgetting WWII, the repercussions of which are still - to this day - haunting many countries, especially in Europe.
Ok let's look at one of the countries that got hurt perhaps the worst by WWII: Japan. (Two nuclear bombs, starving population, totally decimated manufacturing infrastructure.) Meanwhile they're perhaps second only to the US as far as a high tech economy. They also rank very high on many income inequality lists.
While they might be statist in some respects, economically they are anything but, and in many respects they make the USA look like a command economy in comparison.
Also the US isn't the country with the highest income inequality in the developed world.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
But nice talking points anyways, I'm sure they make you feel good about yourself.
That has more to do with there being more opportunities in the US than anything else.
Virtually all of the world's top technology companies were founded in the US, most of them within the last 10-20 years as well. A lot of their founders were first to third generation Americans. Is that because Americans are overall smarter than say Scandinavians or Germans? Or maybe luckier? None of the above.
Those opportunities come from there not being a government telling you what you can't do, meaning there's no cap on your potential for economic growth.
That isn't a bad thing. That's a good thing. If the US was more of a statist country, there's no chance we'd be the economic powerhouse we presently are.
And by the way, anybody who see's how I live wouldn't consider me poor. Yet because my income is below the poverty level, I'm yet another point on a spreadsheet that a socialist uses to argue that there's too much income inequality. Money is not wealth. For example a pile of gold is useless to a sailor on a broken raft; what's more valuable is a compass, an outboard motor, and some gas.
As for me, I'm typing this message in front of a 55" Sony TV that I use as a PC monitor, on a high end gaming PC, my phone is a Galaxy Note 4, I have a Nexus 7 and an iPad, I drive a Buick Regal, I ride a Giant Sedona XL bike on sunny days, I live in a house that is bigger than I need it to be, I have a pool in my back yard.
Yet my income is well below the poverty level, so therefore I'm somehow wronged by the rich (rolleyes.)
Where you see income inequality, I see a nation where everybody (including the poor) is wealthy. Meanwhile this whole nonsense about income defining how happy one should be is just that.
Probably because this guy isn't associated with the Republican party in any official manner. TFA indicates that he worked for a company called Base Connect, which is currently under investigation for soliciting donations from senior citizens to political campaigns, and instead of giving the money to the campaigns, the company just pockets it.
In other words, he worked for a company that claims to be a Republican fundraiser, only it isn't actually one. Instead it's some kind of boiler room tele-fraud type company.
Yet somehow this got spun as being a big Republican conspiracy.
The reason this isn't big news is because it's literally a story of "Some guy raped his 5 year old daughter, got fired from his job, and is currently in jail. More news at 11." There wasn't anything sensational about it, so it didn't make national news.
Looking at TFA, this guy wasn't a Republican operative. It seems he worked for a company called Base Connect which is currently under investigation for defrauding senior citizens who vote Republican. They'd call in and get donations supposedly towards Republican politicians, and almost none of the money actually went towards those campaigns; instead the company just pocketed it.
It's not much to look at, sadly, as the new build brings the start menu more in-lines with Windows 8. Also sadly, along with this change they require you to use Cortana in lieu of the normal start menu search. They replaced the regular WPF start menu with a XAML (metro app) start menu that depends on a bunch of metro stuff to work, and removing Cortana breaks it. There's a hidden registry setting to go back to the one found in previous builds, but I suspect Microsoft will remove it like they did the start menu from Windows 8.
Meanwhile I've found that you can presently "de-metro"ify this build with these three powershell commands:
Set-ItemProperty HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -Name "EnableXamlStartMenu" -Value 0 -Type DWord
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online
Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
logoff # logs you off so you can log back in to see the effect
(The first two lines are actually one line; should be 4 lines total)
After you do that, it very much resembles the Windows 7 start menu. But again, I am doubtful that Microsoft will leave all of this intact for the final release, much as they did with Windows 8. One can only hope, or perhaps fill it in as a big petition in the feedback app (the code above removes that app, so keep that in mind.)
http://i.imgur.com/880f17Q.png
It's very much up to date and I still get that result. This is even running chrome on a bare metal system, with Windows 10 running inside of a VM.
By the way, when I say pause, I more or less mean distinctly slowing down and then speeding up, as opposed to being a fluid motion.
If you're letting them drive on non-commercial licenses than that means that regular drivers are subsidizing Uber-drivers.
That's very much incorrect. If you drive more, your insurance company bills you more. Generally they're aware of how much you drive by one of two indicators:
1) How much you tell them you drive. (Yes, they do ask.)
2) What your odometer reads vs how long you've owned the car. They'll know this by looking at registration/emissions records.
As much as I've been bashing Microsoft lately for their major screwups, I've tested IE11 in the Windows 10 tech preview, and it seems even more standards compliant than the webkit/blink web browsers as far as the Acid3 test goes. Chrome for example has three distinct pauses on the acid3 test, whereas IE11 on Windows 10 has only one much shorter pause. For comparison, IE11 on Windows 7/8 fails the test at 92/100.