So the casual British terrorist just leaves their phone at home and claims to not have any social media accounts. Or is not having that suspicious? Does one have to have a Facebook account to enter the US? As if any of that has any impact on national security.
Rather than destroy the US tourism industry Trump should focus on much stricter gun control laws. There are significantly more people getting shot in the US each year than were killed by terrorists in the last decade. He needs to get his priorities straight!
Exactly! Most of these devices are not smart in a sense as that they make autonomous decisions that go beyond a programmable thermostat or a timer switch. The devices are more remote controls operated through smart phones...which are the real expense. Data plans are cost prohibitive.
If folks want to save on energy they should spend the money on better insulation rather than electronic toys.
The students have to pay for the half billion Dollar football stadiums where they have a 12 person coaching staff that each gets at least a million a year. College athletics is the biggest money waster for colleges....and the fact that expenses for administration grew 300% the past decade while expenses for academia were flat or declining.
Tuition pays for those who cannot speak in complete sentences, but look like fridge and can throw a ball far. And for those who did not get a degree, but got a job that makes getting a degree as expensive as possible.
To put it bluntly, fire all the fancy coaches and ditch half of the administrative staff. Cuts tuition in half right there!
Because Microsoft gives a damn about feedback. Even issues with thousands of Insiders complaining about do not get fixed. By now they have lost at least one insider, the last insider build broke all my Win 10 VMs beyond repair. Win 10 is and always was just a piece of crap.
The inept Republicans had six years to come up with a healthcare bill they can pass...but they spent measly two weeks to glue together a craptastic bill that had failure written all over it from the get go. Even Trump didn't like it. Now the OP wonders if they can pass H1B reform? No way! The administration made up of billionaires also has no interest in changing anything.
Even if there are changes and the minimum wage is increased and number of visa given out is reduced, it will not make a difference as far as jobs go. Rather than move workers to the US the work will go to India.
Taxing outsourcing may help. The move to Indian workers is not that they are better or equal (although many of them are), but they work for much less money. Remove the financial benefit for corporations and the issue will resolve itself. Another measure is drastically increase the insanely low filing fee. Currently, it is around 2k per application. Make that 150k and non-refundable and the debate about H1B will end really fast.
The franchise fee is not bullshit, but the cut your local politicians want to get from the deal. As cable TV provider they have to pay a per subscriber fee to be allowed to operate in a municipality. That fee is passed through. If you do not like that fee, tell your local politicians to do away with it. I am sure they will gladly do in conjunction with raising property taxes.
I compared what I pay for FiOS and what cord cutting would save me. Result: a measly few bucks. In return, I have to haggle with different providers and applications to get the TV content that I want....on one TV. Add a second TV and costs go up, adding a third analog TV and forget it.
In the end cord cutting costs the same and adds more complexity and inconvenience. YMMV.
The cloud does not fare any better than on-premise as it seems. Once such cloud providers issues are resolved rest assured that your ISP has a problem. Not much is gained running 2017 tech on a 1960s network.
In the EU, the vendors, merchants, and manufacturers are required by law to take that stuff back and give proof of proper professional recycling. Any store that sells such devices is required to take any device (no matter if it was bought there or not) back for recycling, no questions asked and no fees allowed. Sure, cost of new devices might increase a bit, but not as much given that there is still plenty of competition. It compels manufacturers also to design and build devices in such a way that they are easy and cheap to recycle. Plus, in the EU such devices have a minimum of 2 years manufacturer warranty....unlike the US where stuff is made only as good as necessary to circumvent lemon laws.
....like all of my packages that I am missing. I'm now on the third package that was never delivered and last place each of them registered is the exact same postal sorting facility in Jersey City. They must have a huge pile of unhandled mail and packages at that place. One of the missing packages came from Staten Island and had to go only a few hours up the Hudson.
Anyone who lives near that facility, can you do the world a favor, hop over the fence, and get our mail? Thanks!!
One way to reduce the amount of traffic on roads is to fund rail way more. It is not only cheaper to maintain than highways, but also much more efficient to operate.
The problem with any infrastructure project is that once it is built it is forgotten. Instead, right after the ribbon cutting make plans on how to replace the structure and set funds aside.
They were always incompetent. The factor here is money, as long as people only bitch about Windows and keep buying it nothing will change. You think Microsoft makes bad product? Then stop buying it!
Munich never really switched fully to Linux. They also made matters more complicated by not using an off the shelf distro and instead rolling their own.
Nevertheless, it does show that desktop Linux is lacking tremendously in user experience and that support of especially MSO formats is sorely lacking. I use LO and once in a while I get a docx file that is unreadable when opened in LO. For some part due to MSO not fully complying with OOXML despite Microsoft ramming this horrific format through standards bodies, but also that FOSS is notorious for "we do it because we like it that way" and "not invented here" attitude.
How many times did I try to make the switch myself just to find that it takes hours just to set up a network share that can also be accessed by Windows systems? Or the not that unusual hardware like a Brother network printer that has craptastic hardware support under Linux. Or the inexplicable need by desktop managers to ape the look and feel of OS X. Don't get me wrong, for free the Linux distros are excellent, especially when running on low cost SBCs like a Pi 3. Using a Pi and Linux one can build a desktop system for less money than what a Win 10 license costs, not to speak from the large amount of free software. Nevertheless, Linux desktops will be a niche as long as UX, file format and hardware support do not improve significantly.
...than just question that part of the EO. Senators should stop waving clearly unqualified and utterly inept chronic liars through into cabinet positions. Are the Republican Senators so afraid of orange Trump that they just fold like a cheap tent? What do I expect from folks who for a year outright refused to do their job!?
If they do not want the TSA guys to look into their accounts they can say they don't have one. Or is that a new rule now that you have to have a Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+ account in order to enter the US?
...just get the bat out and hit everyone with fines and sanctions that disagrees. Ryan should spend his time better on actual business. Never saw a House that inactive as under the spineless Ryan. Seems as that his agenda has only one point: make sure nothing gets done.
And how many thousand jobs were lost during that time? We have a GE maintenance facility around the corner that will close up shop soon leaving about 100 unemployed. Did anyone see Trump flying in to save those jobs? Before anyone can take credit for anything the net gain is important. Besides that, the Obama administration put the economy in about the best state it could be in after the economic disaster that Bush left. Especially when it comes to unemployment (and no matter how one counts it), it won't get much better.
"The Left failed to deliver for the Rust Belt and we got Trump." - Sad, but true, and it sums up what amounts to either dangerous naivety or sheer stupidity. Does anyone think Trump will bring a single job back to the Rust Belt? If yes, to where? To the ruins of the factories that had to close in 80s under Reagonomics (which is the same that Trump proposes)? Even if factories open and start making stuff, the employees need to be able to operate modern machinery, have programming skills, IT knowledge, and so forth. The times where a high school diploma was enough are long gone and won't come back. Even if those employees are present and acquire the skills, how are raw materials and later manufactured goods supposed to get transported? Streets and bridges are in shambles, the federal government constantly refuses to invest into rail (up into the 70s the US had the densest and most modern rail network in the world), and banking exclusively on only oil based transportation (trucks) is not unsustainable, it is expensive and notoriously bad for the environment (especially since there are basically no emissions regulations for trucks...yet folks go berserk over VW's cheating). Leaves companies that have to make the investment and they definitely will not build new factories in the Rust Belt, but in the Bible Belt were unions and with that worker rights were tossed out by state laws, where taxes are low, where income levels are low, and where any environmental restrictions are fairly weak. That means if there are any jobs moving back to the US, massive investments into infrastructure are needed, favorable economic conditions have to be guaranteed for decades, thousands over thousands of people have to get trained, and it will not be in those regions where unemployment is high. So in order to make the Trump fans happy they would need to be relocated to where the jobs might be.Who will pay for that? How many tax incentives and subsidies are needed? How will the funding be secured for all that? What other programs will get cut to free up funds? Where will these people live if affordable housing is not guaranteed, especially when realty prices will skyrocket with new factories getting built and workers needing a place to live?
Trickle down economy does not work, never worked, and will never work...unless the trickle is forced by taxing corporations and spending the money to support lower or no income households. Look at Kansas, corporate tax rate was cut, companies did not generate more jobs than they would have done anyway, budget fell short by quite a bit, state employees were fired, and funding especially for education took a big hit. It made a few rich people richer who moved the extra cash to the Bermudas or who knows where, but not into Kansas.
The best solution is to find industries that can make use of the skills available in the hard hit areas. Look at the Ruhr Region, up into the 60s dominated by coal mines and steel mills. Except for maybe a few steel factories that focus on special steel products the mines are all closed by now and the steel mills are torn down. With help from state and federal government the large areas were transformed into warehousing and transport hubs making use of the extensive rail lines already in place as well as the growing inland ports. Renewable energy is a new but old industry, allowing mine electricians to directly apply their skills. Old mine shafts are turned into hydro energy storage facilities, requiring the exact skills that miners have. Over the past decades top of line universities were founded so that the next generation does not have to move away to get excellent education. That now fosters startups and moves R&D departments to the region. A lot of money was also invested into the arts as well as into reforming brownfields into public spaces and parks. Ultimately, the number of jobs is about the same now as it was in the 60s, with a good chance to surpass that number in the next decade. THAT is a success story, one that only worked because federal and state governments encour
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So the casual British terrorist just leaves their phone at home and claims to not have any social media accounts. Or is not having that suspicious? Does one have to have a Facebook account to enter the US? As if any of that has any impact on national security. Rather than destroy the US tourism industry Trump should focus on much stricter gun control laws. There are significantly more people getting shot in the US each year than were killed by terrorists in the last decade. He needs to get his priorities straight!
Exactly! Most of these devices are not smart in a sense as that they make autonomous decisions that go beyond a programmable thermostat or a timer switch. The devices are more remote controls operated through smart phones...which are the real expense. Data plans are cost prohibitive. If folks want to save on energy they should spend the money on better insulation rather than electronic toys.
The students have to pay for the half billion Dollar football stadiums where they have a 12 person coaching staff that each gets at least a million a year. College athletics is the biggest money waster for colleges....and the fact that expenses for administration grew 300% the past decade while expenses for academia were flat or declining. Tuition pays for those who cannot speak in complete sentences, but look like fridge and can throw a ball far. And for those who did not get a degree, but got a job that makes getting a degree as expensive as possible. To put it bluntly, fire all the fancy coaches and ditch half of the administrative staff. Cuts tuition in half right there!
Because Microsoft gives a damn about feedback. Even issues with thousands of Insiders complaining about do not get fixed. By now they have lost at least one insider, the last insider build broke all my Win 10 VMs beyond repair. Win 10 is and always was just a piece of crap.
The inept Republicans had six years to come up with a healthcare bill they can pass ...but they spent measly two weeks to glue together a craptastic bill that had failure written all over it from the get go. Even Trump didn't like it. Now the OP wonders if they can pass H1B reform? No way! The administration made up of billionaires also has no interest in changing anything.
Even if there are changes and the minimum wage is increased and number of visa given out is reduced, it will not make a difference as far as jobs go. Rather than move workers to the US the work will go to India.
Taxing outsourcing may help. The move to Indian workers is not that they are better or equal (although many of them are), but they work for much less money. Remove the financial benefit for corporations and the issue will resolve itself. Another measure is drastically increase the insanely low filing fee. Currently, it is around 2k per application. Make that 150k and non-refundable and the debate about H1B will end really fast.
The franchise fee is not bullshit, but the cut your local politicians want to get from the deal. As cable TV provider they have to pay a per subscriber fee to be allowed to operate in a municipality. That fee is passed through. If you do not like that fee, tell your local politicians to do away with it. I am sure they will gladly do in conjunction with raising property taxes.
I compared what I pay for FiOS and what cord cutting would save me. Result: a measly few bucks. In return, I have to haggle with different providers and applications to get the TV content that I want....on one TV. Add a second TV and costs go up, adding a third analog TV and forget it. In the end cord cutting costs the same and adds more complexity and inconvenience. YMMV.
The cloud does not fare any better than on-premise as it seems. Once such cloud providers issues are resolved rest assured that your ISP has a problem. Not much is gained running 2017 tech on a 1960s network.
....AMD mainboards are noticeably less expensive. Intel is the synonym for overpriced.
NYT does not strike me to be a failing business. At least NYT does not have to resort to stiffing contractors like Trump to turn a profit.
Microsoft dropping Patch Tuesday is disappointing!
Check your front porch...they brought it back!
In the EU, the vendors, merchants, and manufacturers are required by law to take that stuff back and give proof of proper professional recycling. Any store that sells such devices is required to take any device (no matter if it was bought there or not) back for recycling, no questions asked and no fees allowed. Sure, cost of new devices might increase a bit, but not as much given that there is still plenty of competition. It compels manufacturers also to design and build devices in such a way that they are easy and cheap to recycle. Plus, in the EU such devices have a minimum of 2 years manufacturer warranty....unlike the US where stuff is made only as good as necessary to circumvent lemon laws.
....like all of my packages that I am missing. I'm now on the third package that was never delivered and last place each of them registered is the exact same postal sorting facility in Jersey City. They must have a huge pile of unhandled mail and packages at that place. One of the missing packages came from Staten Island and had to go only a few hours up the Hudson. Anyone who lives near that facility, can you do the world a favor, hop over the fence, and get our mail? Thanks!!
One way to reduce the amount of traffic on roads is to fund rail way more. It is not only cheaper to maintain than highways, but also much more efficient to operate. The problem with any infrastructure project is that once it is built it is forgotten. Instead, right after the ribbon cutting make plans on how to replace the structure and set funds aside.
I am sure Trump will protest because the wind turbines will impact the view from his new arctic resort and golf club.
They were always incompetent. The factor here is money, as long as people only bitch about Windows and keep buying it nothing will change. You think Microsoft makes bad product? Then stop buying it!
Munich never really switched fully to Linux. They also made matters more complicated by not using an off the shelf distro and instead rolling their own. Nevertheless, it does show that desktop Linux is lacking tremendously in user experience and that support of especially MSO formats is sorely lacking. I use LO and once in a while I get a docx file that is unreadable when opened in LO. For some part due to MSO not fully complying with OOXML despite Microsoft ramming this horrific format through standards bodies, but also that FOSS is notorious for "we do it because we like it that way" and "not invented here" attitude. How many times did I try to make the switch myself just to find that it takes hours just to set up a network share that can also be accessed by Windows systems? Or the not that unusual hardware like a Brother network printer that has craptastic hardware support under Linux. Or the inexplicable need by desktop managers to ape the look and feel of OS X. Don't get me wrong, for free the Linux distros are excellent, especially when running on low cost SBCs like a Pi 3. Using a Pi and Linux one can build a desktop system for less money than what a Win 10 license costs, not to speak from the large amount of free software. Nevertheless, Linux desktops will be a niche as long as UX, file format and hardware support do not improve significantly.
How many private sellers or buyers can process credit cards? I can't! Please provide practical alternatives!
...than just question that part of the EO. Senators should stop waving clearly unqualified and utterly inept chronic liars through into cabinet positions. Are the Republican Senators so afraid of orange Trump that they just fold like a cheap tent? What do I expect from folks who for a year outright refused to do their job!?
If they do not want the TSA guys to look into their accounts they can say they don't have one. Or is that a new rule now that you have to have a Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+ account in order to enter the US?
...just get the bat out and hit everyone with fines and sanctions that disagrees. Ryan should spend his time better on actual business. Never saw a House that inactive as under the spineless Ryan. Seems as that his agenda has only one point: make sure nothing gets done.
Is it really that simple? Just ignore facts and deny reality and all problems go away? Maybe the ignorant Republicans are on to something...
And how many thousand jobs were lost during that time? We have a GE maintenance facility around the corner that will close up shop soon leaving about 100 unemployed. Did anyone see Trump flying in to save those jobs? Before anyone can take credit for anything the net gain is important. Besides that, the Obama administration put the economy in about the best state it could be in after the economic disaster that Bush left. Especially when it comes to unemployment (and no matter how one counts it), it won't get much better.
"The Left failed to deliver for the Rust Belt and we got Trump." - Sad, but true, and it sums up what amounts to either dangerous naivety or sheer stupidity. Does anyone think Trump will bring a single job back to the Rust Belt? If yes, to where? To the ruins of the factories that had to close in 80s under Reagonomics (which is the same that Trump proposes)? Even if factories open and start making stuff, the employees need to be able to operate modern machinery, have programming skills, IT knowledge, and so forth. The times where a high school diploma was enough are long gone and won't come back. Even if those employees are present and acquire the skills, how are raw materials and later manufactured goods supposed to get transported? Streets and bridges are in shambles, the federal government constantly refuses to invest into rail (up into the 70s the US had the densest and most modern rail network in the world), and banking exclusively on only oil based transportation (trucks) is not unsustainable, it is expensive and notoriously bad for the environment (especially since there are basically no emissions regulations for trucks...yet folks go berserk over VW's cheating). Leaves companies that have to make the investment and they definitely will not build new factories in the Rust Belt, but in the Bible Belt were unions and with that worker rights were tossed out by state laws, where taxes are low, where income levels are low, and where any environmental restrictions are fairly weak. That means if there are any jobs moving back to the US, massive investments into infrastructure are needed, favorable economic conditions have to be guaranteed for decades, thousands over thousands of people have to get trained, and it will not be in those regions where unemployment is high. So in order to make the Trump fans happy they would need to be relocated to where the jobs might be.Who will pay for that? How many tax incentives and subsidies are needed? How will the funding be secured for all that? What other programs will get cut to free up funds? Where will these people live if affordable housing is not guaranteed, especially when realty prices will skyrocket with new factories getting built and workers needing a place to live? Trickle down economy does not work, never worked, and will never work...unless the trickle is forced by taxing corporations and spending the money to support lower or no income households. Look at Kansas, corporate tax rate was cut, companies did not generate more jobs than they would have done anyway, budget fell short by quite a bit, state employees were fired, and funding especially for education took a big hit. It made a few rich people richer who moved the extra cash to the Bermudas or who knows where, but not into Kansas. The best solution is to find industries that can make use of the skills available in the hard hit areas. Look at the Ruhr Region, up into the 60s dominated by coal mines and steel mills. Except for maybe a few steel factories that focus on special steel products the mines are all closed by now and the steel mills are torn down. With help from state and federal government the large areas were transformed into warehousing and transport hubs making use of the extensive rail lines already in place as well as the growing inland ports. Renewable energy is a new but old industry, allowing mine electricians to directly apply their skills. Old mine shafts are turned into hydro energy storage facilities, requiring the exact skills that miners have. Over the past decades top of line universities were founded so that the next generation does not have to move away to get excellent education. That now fosters startups and moves R&D departments to the region. A lot of money was also invested into the arts as well as into reforming brownfields into public spaces and parks. Ultimately, the number of jobs is about the same now as it was in the 60s, with a good chance to surpass that number in the next decade. THAT is a success story, one that only worked because federal and state governments encour