Paying a middleman for content that is freely given at the source is stupid and offensive. As is defending the profits of "newspapers" that buy their stories and then charge viewers a premium for rehosting them with their logo at the top of the page.
Way to not demonstrate any understanding of that axiom. If self-driving cars are highly correlated with an increased number of accidents, is that not something to be concerned about?
The legitimacy of "that pesky Constitution and the actual body of law from it" is explicitly derived from the consent of the governed, just as the legitimacy of the "actual body of law from it" is derived from "that pesky Constitution". Just as a government that doesn't follow its constitution has no legitimate authority, a constitution that isn't supported by the people has no authority.
You're treating our government as if it is some immutable and permanent structure put here by God and unchallengeable by mere citizens, while the passage that I quoted clearly states how it is not that. (The passage which was written by the exact same people who wrote our Constitution and created our government.)
That's not surprising for someone like you, who is clearly enthralled with authority and in incapable of seeing that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. If the government reinterprets the Constitution to mean something with which the citizens disagree, then there is no consent of the governed and the government (and it's reinterpreted constitution) are illegitimate.
Replacing surface mount components is considerably faster than replacing through hole components. Replacing a passives takes a few seconds (heat with air, pick up with tweezers, drop new component, remove air) and replacing large multiple pin ICs is orders of magnitude faster (still seconds).
Repairing new electronics isn't more expensive because the reworking takes longer, it's more expensive because service manuals impossible to obtain, as the person you replied to stated. It also isn't considerably more expensive that it used to be, it's just considerably cheaper to replace a device than it used to be.
...the technology became so miniaturized that nobody could realistically repair anything anyway...
Miniaturization made the components smaller, but it didn't change the way the circuits work. If anything, the huge number of ICs used today have made the manufactured circuits much simpler and easier to understand (which is great because it's nearly impossible to get the schematics anymore).
There's still an electronics repair shop near my house and the owner absolutely repairs modern electronics. He doesn't just swap boards, either, he still replaces individual components. Electronic components these days are much smaller, but the concept is the same.
I've done a not insignificant amount of surgery on computers and phones and the like with a fine soldering pencil and a hot air gun. It's not difficult, it's just different. And tiny surface mount components are nice because they're cheaper and you can fit a huge number of components in a small space! You just need a good pair of tweezers and a loupe.
As a Coloradan, eastern Colorado is more featureless and boring to drive through than western Kansas. Eastern Kansas looks like Missouri and is actually quite pretty.
The precedent that's being renewed here is that it's all well and good to fuck with the common people, but doing the same to VIPs is unacceptable. It's funny that you mention Germany, as this exact same scenario played out there when Merkel was completely fine with German citizens being spied on, but threw a shit fit when it surfaced that she was being spied on as well.
The only outcome of this is the further solidification of our two-tier society where different rights exist for the ruling class and the hoi polloi.
You're talking about Clapper's NSA lying to Congress about spying on US citizens. That's blown over and nobody cares about that. This story is about Brennan's CIA spying on Senators. This is a totally different situation and is completely unforgivable.
They're putatively our representatives, but it's becoming more and more obvious that they actually aren't in any way representing us. Perhaps it's time for us to all stop pretending that the emperor is wearing clothes and get about fixing our system.
Anyway, they're currently in the process of renewing a law which supposedly authorizes spying on US citizens (while simultaneously complaining about being spied on), so the constitutional basis of any of this is questionable. Pretending that throwing a bureaucrat in jail, even if he is high ranking, will save our republic is a little silly.
I know that this trick isn't possible for everybody, but I find that actually working on something interesting leads to far fewer distractions. When I'm working on something I like, I don't care when a new email arrives and I don't have any interest in hitting Slashdot. (I am not working on something interesting at the moment.) Difficult work (either mentally or physically) also seems to makes it harder to get distracted.
Maybe people's jobs are just getting more boring and cluttered with seemingly worthless tasks.
It looks like it has an onboard LiPo charger and connector, but I'm not sure if it's integrated enough to be able to shutdown gracefully. Since it's based on a phone SoC, it probably is.
I agree about the lack of HDMI, too. I'll never use it and it shaves off considerable cost and space.
Who needs a display? For small job, low power ARM servers and embedded controllers that need more power than an Arduino can supply, this thing looks nice.
All the display hardware in the RPi and Beaglebone does for me is waste power and drive up the cost.
I think if you examine the US Constitution for the acceptable means to alter its contents that executive orders and laws passed by Congress are not among them.
.... keeping in mind that what liberty requires in regard to restrictions may be different than what the mob believes.
Considering that our country was founded on the idea of consent of the governed, I'd say that "what the mob believes" regarding what liberty requires is exactly where that line falls. In the US, every government action that doesn't respect the will of the people undermines the legitimacy of the government a little more.
You don't have to get very far into the Declaration of Independence to find:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Authoritarians, of both the "left" and "right" wings, love to use government force. The authoritarian-libertarian axis is completely unrepresented in the left-right political spectrum.
Almost all of the politicians in DC are somewhat, to extremely, authoritarian. Most citizens are considerably less authoritarian than our politicians and many citizens are very libertarian. As long as everybody is totally obsessed with the left-right dichotomy, though, and assumed that the other wing embodied authoritarianism, we'll keep getting more and more authoritarians in our system.
They also manufactured their competition by announcing so early. Instead of being the first to market, they're going to be Johnny-come-lately to a market segment that they carved out (at least for this iteration of VR).
Their competition gets to ride along on the hype that Occulus pumped out and if the competition fouls up the implementation then the scene is soured for Occulus, too. Very poor business planning.
I typically get explanation-of-benefits that runs like, "X-Ray radiology 800$, Paid by insurance company 100$, discount to insurance 685$, you owe them 15$". Any one without an insurance will be billed 800$. No body would pay such an insane bill.
I think most places will give a discount if you're uninsured, too.
I wonder if this "discount" issue isn't really about tax breaks. In Hollywood accounting style, the hospital can claim that they are taking a loss on every procedure. The discounts could be written off as charity or losses of some kind.
Stuff like that will never get to court unless you're contesting something huge, like a $50000 bill. In my experience, just calling and contesting the bill is enough to get them to start significantly cutting down the balance. There's no use fighting individual patients over a couple thousand dollars when >90% of the patients (or their insurance) will pay without complaint.
Also, so much of the various provider bills are double charged and flat-out manufactured that it's simpler to just drop charges than have to concoct a plausible explanation for them.
Well, if the government handling it is out of the question, I guess we're left with vigilante actions and hired private "enforcers". That's a much better solution, right?
The quintessential dead man's switch, the "let go and it detonates" trigger, can also be bypassed by grabbing the dead man's hand (just like your "if They manage to get the laptop with the key still in it, it keeps working" argument). There's nothing in the definition of a dead man's switch that depends on it being unable to be defeated. Fiction throughout the ages is filled with methods of defeating various dead man's switches.
If the key is attached to the user's wrist and the user is separated from the computer without the key being first separated from the user, the switch is activated.
Why would getting a reactor into orbit be particularly difficult and why would it be difficult to design one that doesn't kill the crew?
I'll assume that you're thinking it will irradiate them, but with no need to carry any propellant for the trip, there is suddenly a huge allowance for shielding for the reactor. That sort of addresses the second point, too.
This is why having multiple different means of communication is important in case of emergencies. You mention cell service being down or spotty, but amateur radio is not immune to unavailability either. There are many places in the US (and the world), where you will not be able to reliably reach somebody with ham radio (especially VHF and UHF, but even HF if you're limited in what you can carry or conditions are too bad). In some of those places, phone service may work fine.
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Paying a middleman for content that is freely given at the source is stupid and offensive. As is defending the profits of "newspapers" that buy their stories and then charge viewers a premium for rehosting them with their logo at the top of the page.
Way to not demonstrate any understanding of that axiom. If self-driving cars are highly correlated with an increased number of accidents, is that not something to be concerned about?
The legitimacy of "that pesky Constitution and the actual body of law from it" is explicitly derived from the consent of the governed, just as the legitimacy of the "actual body of law from it" is derived from "that pesky Constitution". Just as a government that doesn't follow its constitution has no legitimate authority, a constitution that isn't supported by the people has no authority.
You're treating our government as if it is some immutable and permanent structure put here by God and unchallengeable by mere citizens, while the passage that I quoted clearly states how it is not that. (The passage which was written by the exact same people who wrote our Constitution and created our government.)
That's not surprising for someone like you, who is clearly enthralled with authority and in incapable of seeing that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. If the government reinterprets the Constitution to mean something with which the citizens disagree, then there is no consent of the governed and the government (and it's reinterpreted constitution) are illegitimate.
Replacing surface mount components is considerably faster than replacing through hole components. Replacing a passives takes a few seconds (heat with air, pick up with tweezers, drop new component, remove air) and replacing large multiple pin ICs is orders of magnitude faster (still seconds).
Repairing new electronics isn't more expensive because the reworking takes longer, it's more expensive because service manuals impossible to obtain, as the person you replied to stated. It also isn't considerably more expensive that it used to be, it's just considerably cheaper to replace a device than it used to be.
...the technology became so miniaturized that nobody could realistically repair anything anyway...
Miniaturization made the components smaller, but it didn't change the way the circuits work. If anything, the huge number of ICs used today have made the manufactured circuits much simpler and easier to understand (which is great because it's nearly impossible to get the schematics anymore).
There's still an electronics repair shop near my house and the owner absolutely repairs modern electronics. He doesn't just swap boards, either, he still replaces individual components. Electronic components these days are much smaller, but the concept is the same.
I've done a not insignificant amount of surgery on computers and phones and the like with a fine soldering pencil and a hot air gun. It's not difficult, it's just different. And tiny surface mount components are nice because they're cheaper and you can fit a huge number of components in a small space! You just need a good pair of tweezers and a loupe.
As a Coloradan, eastern Colorado is more featureless and boring to drive through than western Kansas. Eastern Kansas looks like Missouri and is actually quite pretty.
The precedent that's being renewed here is that it's all well and good to fuck with the common people, but doing the same to VIPs is unacceptable. It's funny that you mention Germany, as this exact same scenario played out there when Merkel was completely fine with German citizens being spied on, but threw a shit fit when it surfaced that she was being spied on as well.
The only outcome of this is the further solidification of our two-tier society where different rights exist for the ruling class and the hoi polloi.
You're talking about Clapper's NSA lying to Congress about spying on US citizens. That's blown over and nobody cares about that. This story is about Brennan's CIA spying on Senators. This is a totally different situation and is completely unforgivable.
They're putatively our representatives, but it's becoming more and more obvious that they actually aren't in any way representing us. Perhaps it's time for us to all stop pretending that the emperor is wearing clothes and get about fixing our system.
Anyway, they're currently in the process of renewing a law which supposedly authorizes spying on US citizens (while simultaneously complaining about being spied on), so the constitutional basis of any of this is questionable. Pretending that throwing a bureaucrat in jail, even if he is high ranking, will save our republic is a little silly.
What tricks do you use to keep yourself on task?
I know that this trick isn't possible for everybody, but I find that actually working on something interesting leads to far fewer distractions. When I'm working on something I like, I don't care when a new email arrives and I don't have any interest in hitting Slashdot. (I am not working on something interesting at the moment.) Difficult work (either mentally or physically) also seems to makes it harder to get distracted.
Maybe people's jobs are just getting more boring and cluttered with seemingly worthless tasks.
It looks like it has an onboard LiPo charger and connector, but I'm not sure if it's integrated enough to be able to shutdown gracefully. Since it's based on a phone SoC, it probably is.
I agree about the lack of HDMI, too. I'll never use it and it shaves off considerable cost and space.
Who needs a display? For small job, low power ARM servers and embedded controllers that need more power than an Arduino can supply, this thing looks nice.
All the display hardware in the RPi and Beaglebone does for me is waste power and drive up the cost.
I think if you examine the US Constitution for the acceptable means to alter its contents that executive orders and laws passed by Congress are not among them.
A foot? That's like a sixth of a womp rat! There's no way you'd make it that port with such crappy accuracy.
"Consent of the governed" doesn't mean the same thing as "mob rule". In no way does your example follow from the passage that I quoted.
.... keeping in mind that what liberty requires in regard to restrictions may be different than what the mob believes.
Considering that our country was founded on the idea of consent of the governed, I'd say that "what the mob believes" regarding what liberty requires is exactly where that line falls. In the US, every government action that doesn't respect the will of the people undermines the legitimacy of the government a little more.
You don't have to get very far into the Declaration of Independence to find:
Authoritarians, of both the "left" and "right" wings, love to use government force. The authoritarian-libertarian axis is completely unrepresented in the left-right political spectrum.
Almost all of the politicians in DC are somewhat, to extremely, authoritarian. Most citizens are considerably less authoritarian than our politicians and many citizens are very libertarian. As long as everybody is totally obsessed with the left-right dichotomy, though, and assumed that the other wing embodied authoritarianism, we'll keep getting more and more authoritarians in our system.
They also manufactured their competition by announcing so early. Instead of being the first to market, they're going to be Johnny-come-lately to a market segment that they carved out (at least for this iteration of VR).
Their competition gets to ride along on the hype that Occulus pumped out and if the competition fouls up the implementation then the scene is soured for Occulus, too. Very poor business planning.
I typically get explanation-of-benefits that runs like, "X-Ray radiology 800$, Paid by insurance company 100$, discount to insurance 685$, you owe them 15$". Any one without an insurance will be billed 800$. No body would pay such an insane bill.
I think most places will give a discount if you're uninsured, too.
I wonder if this "discount" issue isn't really about tax breaks. In Hollywood accounting style, the hospital can claim that they are taking a loss on every procedure. The discounts could be written off as charity or losses of some kind.
Stuff like that will never get to court unless you're contesting something huge, like a $50000 bill. In my experience, just calling and contesting the bill is enough to get them to start significantly cutting down the balance. There's no use fighting individual patients over a couple thousand dollars when >90% of the patients (or their insurance) will pay without complaint.
Also, so much of the various provider bills are double charged and flat-out manufactured that it's simpler to just drop charges than have to concoct a plausible explanation for them.
Well, if the government handling it is out of the question, I guess we're left with vigilante actions and hired private "enforcers". That's a much better solution, right?
Or it can harvest at least 500 Wh more before the panels stop working. That's the most accurate reading of the statement.
At least they referred to Watt-hours as energy. I guess that's an improvement over normal science reporting.
The quintessential dead man's switch, the "let go and it detonates" trigger, can also be bypassed by grabbing the dead man's hand (just like your "if They manage to get the laptop with the key still in it, it keeps working" argument). There's nothing in the definition of a dead man's switch that depends on it being unable to be defeated. Fiction throughout the ages is filled with methods of defeating various dead man's switches.
If the key is attached to the user's wrist and the user is separated from the computer without the key being first separated from the user, the switch is activated.
Why would getting a reactor into orbit be particularly difficult and why would it be difficult to design one that doesn't kill the crew?
I'll assume that you're thinking it will irradiate them, but with no need to carry any propellant for the trip, there is suddenly a huge allowance for shielding for the reactor. That sort of addresses the second point, too.
This is why having multiple different means of communication is important in case of emergencies. You mention cell service being down or spotty, but amateur radio is not immune to unavailability either. There are many places in the US (and the world), where you will not be able to reliably reach somebody with ham radio (especially VHF and UHF, but even HF if you're limited in what you can carry or conditions are too bad). In some of those places, phone service may work fine.