Well, big guys have big levers to actuate too, so that's part of it. But I also read once that a brontosaurus would take 3 seconds to feel a poke on its tail.
I find it sort of interesting that those B movie versions of Jack and the Beanstalk that show the slow, lumbering giants trying to squish Jack while he relatively darts around - were probably right.
They could offer to implement smartcards with integrated fingerprint readers. The smartcard verifies the print and the reader verifies the smartcard's attestation.
Then we'd know whether the tubemasters want the fingerprint data and/or the workers want to trade shifts off the books.
You're really bad at contextual reading, aren't you?
No, you're just really bad at analysis. Oh, see what I did there?
A vaccine is going to be really helpful for anybody who can stay isolated. That's millions of people. Writing off millions of people is just sociopathic.
You failed to read exemption "e" in your own link.
No, I'm well aware of that. The only permitted use of that data is for revenue collection. All other use is prohibited.
Since we are talking toll plazas, and since easy-pass is given a pass, you can bet they share it with the NSA, and police.
The AG regularly smacks down any PD's that try these things. If there is data being shared with the NSA, then either the AG is unaware or complicit in a crime.
One of our gubernatorial candidates is exploring those possibilities.
I'm a healthy skeptic, but this is literally the paranoid conspiracy-theorist's worse nightmare incarnate.
and the most troubling part is that the reality hasn't changed - it's just become apparent. The "tinfoil crowd" has been right all along.
I'm flabbergasted. In all seriousness, do we need to just move to a different country at some point?
A less drastic step is to join others who feel this way in the same country. There is strength in numbers, which is causing them to gather. Be careful of selection bias - a great many people (I'd dare say even the majority) are not paying attention and have no idea how extreme the situation is. And - also - 'cause holy shit - we're not even 10% of the way though the Snowden disclosures.
Is this the first time they crossed this line? Or have they done so before?
First time? The *entire premise* of the government model is to do some wrong in order to do (some other) right. "The ends justify the means" is baked in the cake.
If you mean a dedicated computer attached to a 27" screen - no way. There won't be a phone version of an iMac.
If you mean a integrated, proprietary, 27" Apple KVM that can wireless connect to an iPhone that's running in Desktop Mode (aka Mac Mode), then sure.
We have three years left on the rumored 10 year plan to phase out the Mac. 4GB of RAM on a phone? Nah. 16GB of RAM on a general purpose use-everywhere computing device? You betcha.
I swear, the way laws get passed in this country is like pushing any commit from a developer straight into production based on its commit message, without even a code review process.
Net impact: anybody who thinks that he is qualified to rule other people is not. Those who might potentially do the best job stay as far away from it as possible. The result is as expected.
I don't understand this new trend in making new hard drives with only 1-2 years warranty. The same goes for SSD.
Most of my hard drives have died either very quickly or after about 3 years. I would count on one replacement during the 5-year warranty. So, when they cut warranties to 1 year, it at least doubled the cost of hard drives.
Not sure where that plugs into the inflation calculator...
if I wind up in one of the smaller counties, the population is small enough that if I ran for public office
That is pretty important - one of the advantages we have here is that each House district is about 3000 people. The disadvantage, in most states, of county office, is that State law controls what a county can do, and the most a county officer can do to change those laws is to petition a legislator to do it for him.
But some county offices can have a large effect - sheriffs, judges, registrar of deeds - depending on your location and how they're structured.
And I don't see distance as a drawback -- what business does the state have regulating anything larger than a county, which in MT are about the size of NH?:)
your end-game is reasonable, but we gotta get from here to there.
It looks like a great form-factor, but "up to 5 hours" is the same as my laptop, with a similar i5. Almost there, though; I'm personally willing to lug a double-thick battery in something like that.
After 87 clicks, it appears that both the Acer 11.6" and the HP 14" have a 1,366 x 768 resolution. Better than the netbooks at n x 600, which was functionally useless for many software packages, but it looks like Intel still has the vendors by the balls on offering what they insist are "Ultrabook" resolutions, which cost an extra grand.
A 12"-ish fooBook with all-day battery life is "shut up and take my money" territory for me, and has been for the past decade, but so far nobody is biting (and I don't care if I have to replace ChromeOS to get it). I tried three generations of netbooks, but in the end they wound up as extra DNS servers. I love how the phablets have more resolution than the notebooks these days...
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Well, big guys have big levers to actuate too, so that's part of it. But I also read once that a brontosaurus would take 3 seconds to feel a poke on its tail.
I find it sort of interesting that those B movie versions of Jack and the Beanstalk that show the slow, lumbering giants trying to squish Jack while he relatively darts around - were probably right.
So just to be clear, if they don't accept a much more costly and flaky option, then they are really just spies?
I doubt $40 a head makes or breaks the union contract.
The issue is about having the fingerprint data.
They could offer to implement smartcards with integrated fingerprint readers. The smartcard verifies the print and the reader verifies the smartcard's attestation.
Then we'd know whether the tubemasters want the fingerprint data and/or the workers want to trade shifts off the books.
Seriously, other than nostalgia why are they still using corks when much better methods have existed for decades?
There's almost nothing rational in the entire wine economy.
You're really bad at contextual reading, aren't you?
No, you're just really bad at analysis. Oh, see what I did there?
A vaccine is going to be really helpful for anybody who can stay isolated. That's millions of people. Writing off millions of people is just sociopathic.
BTW, the 1918 flu killed 3-5% of the population not the 90% you quoted. Big diffrence
Anyone... I don't care if you vote for the fucking Nazis just get the current Reich out of office asap.
Don't waste your time until Duverger's Law is repealed. Since it's math, it's unlikely.
If you want to see change, push for Approval Voting at your local/State level.
You've watched too many zombie movies. You don't just napalm sick people. End of story.
Do zombie movies really turn people into sociopaths?
Knock that timetable out by a month and it's everyone.
Is your assumption that nobody has more than a month's worth of supplies? You should try visiting middle America sometime. Heck, especially Utah.
There are millions of people who will stay home for six months; some you'll see two years later.
You failed to read exemption "e" in your own link.
No, I'm well aware of that. The only permitted use of that data is for revenue collection. All other use is prohibited.
Since we are talking toll plazas, and since easy-pass is given a pass, you can bet they share it with the NSA, and police.
The AG regularly smacks down any PD's that try these things. If there is data being shared with the NSA, then either the AG is unaware or complicit in a crime.
One of our gubernatorial candidates is exploring those possibilities.
I'm a healthy skeptic, but this is literally the paranoid conspiracy-theorist's worse nightmare incarnate.
and the most troubling part is that the reality hasn't changed - it's just become apparent. The "tinfoil crowd" has been right all along.
I'm flabbergasted. In all seriousness, do we need to just move to a different country at some point?
A less drastic step is to join others who feel this way in the same country. There is strength in numbers, which is causing them to gather. Be careful of selection bias - a great many people (I'd dare say even the majority) are not paying attention and have no idea how extreme the situation is. And - also - 'cause holy shit - we're not even 10% of the way though the Snowden disclosures.
Is this the first time they crossed this line? Or have they done so before?
First time? The *entire premise* of the government model is to do some wrong in order to do (some other) right. "The ends justify the means" is baked in the cake.
Made by machines in $10B fab plants that need to be payed off before they are obsolete.
Shhh ... Marx was pretty sure that all the means of production we'll ever need had been already developed and built.
Welcome the NEW! 27 inch iPhone!
If you mean a dedicated computer attached to a 27" screen - no way. There won't be a phone version of an iMac.
If you mean a integrated, proprietary, 27" Apple KVM that can wireless connect to an iPhone that's running in Desktop Mode (aka Mac Mode), then sure.
We have three years left on the rumored 10 year plan to phase out the Mac. 4GB of RAM on a phone? Nah. 16GB of RAM on a general purpose use-everywhere computing device? You betcha.
I swear, the way laws get passed in this country is like pushing any commit from a developer straight into production based on its commit message, without even a code review process.
Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
Net impact: anybody who thinks that he is qualified to rule other people is not. Those who might potentially do the best job stay as far away from it as possible. The result is as expected.
Myself, I already know the transponder # is thrown out, making the trip anonymous.
f paying tolls were the primary motive for these things, they'd be available anonymously with pre-paid cards sold at 7-11 to refill them.
Next time you pull up to the toll plaza, pay attention to the license plate readers.
Not if you live in a sane jurisdiction.
I don't understand this new trend in making new hard drives with only 1-2 years warranty. The same goes for SSD.
Most of my hard drives have died either very quickly or after about 3 years. I would count on one replacement during the 5-year warranty. So, when they cut warranties to 1 year, it at least doubled the cost of hard drives.
Not sure where that plugs into the inflation calculator...
if I wind up in one of the smaller counties, the population is small enough that if I ran for public office
That is pretty important - one of the advantages we have here is that each House district is about 3000 people. The disadvantage, in most states, of county office, is that State law controls what a county can do, and the most a county officer can do to change those laws is to petition a legislator to do it for him.
But some county offices can have a large effect - sheriffs, judges, registrar of deeds - depending on your location and how they're structured.
And I don't see distance as a drawback -- what business does the state have regulating anything larger than a county, which in MT are about the size of NH? :)
your end-game is reasonable, but we gotta get from here to there.
oh, my bad, apparently I only thought "with 1080 resolution" but didn't actually type it...
They probably live in urban areas and are talking out their proverbial asses.
900 < 1080.
And, for Pete's sake, that's the same resolution as my MBP from 2006.
It looks like a great form-factor, but "up to 5 hours" is the same as my laptop, with a similar i5. Almost there, though; I'm personally willing to lug a double-thick battery in something like that.
If there are "good guys" at the NSA, they need to be moved to NIST instead. Nobody will ever trust the NSA to do good work again.
11" display
After 87 clicks, it appears that both the Acer 11.6" and the HP 14" have a 1,366 x 768 resolution. Better than the netbooks at n x 600, which was functionally useless for many software packages, but it looks like Intel still has the vendors by the balls on offering what they insist are "Ultrabook" resolutions, which cost an extra grand.
A 12"-ish fooBook with all-day battery life is "shut up and take my money" territory for me, and has been for the past decade, but so far nobody is biting (and I don't care if I have to replace ChromeOS to get it). I tried three generations of netbooks, but in the end they wound up as extra DNS servers. I love how the phablets have more resolution than the notebooks these days...