I gave up trying to find a program to run on my PC (wired to router) that would let me see what is connected to my router. It better not be anything other than my phone, tablet, or PC. But I don't know.
You mean they didn't put together a bidding process for a $2.8 billion dollar project which will come in at 437% overbudget and finally be ready in 2028?
Nice sound bite, but this can be a rational decision for a society to get things done. Heaving too much regulatory burden on business can slow or stop progress.
After all, most likely you have no problem with government spending wads of billions on things with little or no return, covering hurricane losses, propping up industries and Amtrack, or creating a colossal high speed rail in California, or spending more on a Boston subway or Denver air port automated luggage system than the moon landing* .
Not that I'm disagreeing with him/her. I don't like Nuclear because America doesn't have the balls to properly regulate and punish businessmen who flaunt safety. The risks are too great. It's not NIMBY. Make it public run or show me you're willing to throw people responsible for lesser disasters like oil spills in jail for 10-20 years and we'll talk. Until then it'll be like always: privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Nice sound bite, but ths can be a rational decision for
This is like Ford charging extra not for cachet but because they used the power of government to keep competition low.
Dealers in Michigan didn't want anyone opening on Saturdays, not because they valued their time off, but because forcing most to take a day off work to look at cars worked in their favor to rush people to buy.
If you look at voter state maps, the west, and northern east coast are the bulk of Democrats. So mostly concrete canyon dwellers decide the fate of the country. As if the concerns of same should dictate policy for everyone.
There was an article not too long ago about this technique.
In the Neal Stephenson book Reamde, they use a technique where a shredded sprays a book up into the air, where high speed cameras digitize each piece of confetti and then computers reassemble the pieces jigsaw-wise and OCR it.
TBH the media leads with this. When Mother Theresa was sainted recently, the lead NPR story mentioned it then a few sentences later launched into the "raging controversy going on in her town" over her, which consisted of an ancient bitchfest by Christopher Hitchens, and a guy who wrote a book six years ago.
You are all cogs instantiating the distribution of memeplexes.
There are people still alive in Europe who remember government shitting on people, and executing them for being the wrong sort, and burying them in mass graves.
I will take our system of a government created with limited powers, and no more, than one that responds with unlimited power to the whims of the people, which has considerably less confidence-building, historical success.
We don't have capatilism here, we have a Mercantilistic flavour of Corportism. Followers of true capatilism with open competition need not apply.
If you speak of crony capitalism and rent seeking, you have a sympathetic ear.
If you speak of government taxing and creating a competing "product", that is neither capitalism nor free market.
In any case, this isn't about that. It's about the federal government (and an unelected regulatory agency at that) pulling out of its ass it gets to tell states what laws it may permit localities to pass. Localities are creatures of the several states, and this would be an unconstitutional intrusion on the sovereign power of states to create their localities.
The judge even points out there is nothing in the law that clearly authorizes the FCC this power, so he doesn't even bother with the larger constitutional issue. But at a minimum, for the feds to assert this, Congress should be loud and clear about it. Then we'll talk.
Using the power of government to take taxes, then create competition, is the exact opposite of Free Market.
All competitors must rely on service quality and cost to convince free people to prefer their product. A government does not, and can force you to pay for the service whether you want it or not.
As added insult to injury, the company will pay taxes to support this "competitor".
I hope the flight wasn't for cancer, heart disease, or a stroke, because then your country's insurance cheaped out on what would have almost certainly been the superior US treatment.
There's a reason the rich often come to the US when the shit hits the fan.
Many countries that tightly control costs rely on other, freer nations to invent the stuff they give out for free.
Even big European drug companies' invention productivity is proportional to how much they sell into places like the US.
Cut that in the US and we all suffer. Loosen up in other nations, and we all prosper.
Death remains the primary threat to humans, as it always has. Only advancing tech fights that front in any significant manner. Free 1970 level care kills more than 2016 normal insurance.
No, you can't have both any more than you can rely on government to develop cell phones more powerful than desktops of 5 years ago.
This reminds me of people loading up trucks of ice and driving into hurricane zones and selling them for $20/bag.
"I'm here to help you!" screams the government! "You are outraged so I declare...it...illegal! * "
Great. Now no one has any ice.
Government: "Oops! We have a program for that!"
No you don't.
"We will make a program for that!"
Assembles bidding process, then a couple of fucking months later a train of refirigerator cars packed with ice pulls up. Nobody wants it, and there is no way to distribute it. After one year, it is declared unfit for human consumption and destroyed.
* In the style of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
You don't need vacuum tubes. That's such a horrible audio myth. They glow in the dark and look nice. Aside from that, they produce more distortion, more noise, use more power, are more fragile, and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics. They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
OTOH, if you just want to make vacuum tubes because.... you want to make vacuum tunes... have at it:)
Pretty much. Making your own vacuum tubes, indeed an entire amplifier, is way cool. Doing it because it is "better sounding" is asinine.
So, too, would be making your own Edison wax recorder set.
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I gave up trying to find a program to run on my PC (wired to router) that would let me see what is connected to my router. It better not be anything other than my phone, tablet, or PC. But I don't know.
The anniversary patch chose to install Friday when I shut down.
open source
You mean they didn't put together a bidding process for a $2.8 billion dollar project which will come in at 437% overbudget and finally be ready in 2028?
Nice sound bite, but this can be a rational decision for a society to get things done. Heaving too much regulatory burden on business can slow or stop progress.
After all, most likely you have no problem with government spending wads of billions on things with little or no return, covering hurricane losses, propping up industries and Amtrack, or creating a colossal high speed rail in California, or spending more on a Boston subway or Denver air port automated luggage system than the moon landing* .
* Exaggeration, but a small one.
Not that I'm disagreeing with him/her. I don't like Nuclear because America doesn't have the balls to properly regulate and punish businessmen who flaunt safety. The risks are too great. It's not NIMBY. Make it public run or show me you're willing to throw people responsible for lesser disasters like oil spills in jail for 10-20 years and we'll talk. Until then it'll be like always: privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Nice sound bite, but ths can be a rational decision for
I don't think you understand what he is saying.
If Ford can do that, so much the better.
This is like Ford charging extra not for cachet but because they used the power of government to keep competition low.
Dealers in Michigan didn't want anyone opening on Saturdays, not because they valued their time off, but because forcing most to take a day off work to look at cars worked in their favor to rush people to buy.
If you look at voter state maps, the west, and northern east coast are the bulk of Democrats. So mostly concrete canyon dwellers decide the fate of the country. As if the concerns of same should dictate policy for everyone.
There was an article not too long ago about this technique.
In the Neal Stephenson book Reamde, they use a technique where a shredded sprays a book up into the air, where high speed cameras digitize each piece of confetti and then computers reassemble the pieces jigsaw-wise and OCR it.
This technique is even more advanced.
TBH the media leads with this. When Mother Theresa was sainted recently, the lead NPR story mentioned it then a few sentences later launched into the "raging controversy going on in her town" over her, which consisted of an ancient bitchfest by Christopher Hitchens, and a guy who wrote a book six years ago.
You are all cogs instantiating the distribution of memeplexes.
* Largest DDoS attack mitigated to date: 321 Gbps, 71.5 Mpps
Lol. Looks like we're gonna need a bigger boat.
Should that be counted?
Some probably clicked accidentally, and it should not be.
Some probably clicked, went "Ugh!" and closed it. Probably should be.
On balance, it probably should not be. Non-scandal.
Thank you.
And the government is more rotten to people than an edgy 14 year old playing crook.
Local municipalities have no rights but what their state legislators and state constitution give them.
They are creations of the state, and not of the federal government.
There are people still alive in Europe who remember government shitting on people, and executing them for being the wrong sort, and burying them in mass graves.
I will take our system of a government created with limited powers, and no more, than one that responds with unlimited power to the whims of the people, which has considerably less confidence-building, historical success.
We don't have capatilism here, we have a Mercantilistic flavour of Corportism. Followers of true capatilism with open competition need not apply.
If you speak of crony capitalism and rent seeking, you have a sympathetic ear.
If you speak of government taxing and creating a competing "product", that is neither capitalism nor free market.
In any case, this isn't about that. It's about the federal government (and an unelected regulatory agency at that) pulling out of its ass it gets to tell states what laws it may permit localities to pass. Localities are creatures of the several states, and this would be an unconstitutional intrusion on the sovereign power of states to create their localities.
The judge even points out there is nothing in the law that clearly authorizes the FCC this power, so he doesn't even bother with the larger constitutional issue. But at a minimum, for the feds to assert this, Congress should be loud and clear about it. Then we'll talk.
Capitalism trumps Free Market.
Using the power of government to take taxes, then create competition, is the exact opposite of Free Market.
All competitors must rely on service quality and cost to convince free people to prefer their product. A government does not, and can force you to pay for the service whether you want it or not.
As added insult to injury, the company will pay taxes to support this "competitor".
I hope the flight wasn't for cancer, heart disease, or a stroke, because then your country's insurance cheaped out on what would have almost certainly been the superior US treatment.
There's a reason the rich often come to the US when the shit hits the fan.
Providing a minimal care level is one thing. It's when you outlaw buying better care on top of it that it becomes a problem.
It's like having a social security retirement plan, and then outlawing saving money independently for retirement.
Many countries that tightly control costs rely on other, freer nations to invent the stuff they give out for free.
Even big European drug companies' invention productivity is proportional to how much they sell into places like the US.
Cut that in the US and we all suffer. Loosen up in other nations, and we all prosper.
Death remains the primary threat to humans, as it always has. Only advancing tech fights that front in any significant manner. Free 1970 level care kills more than 2016 normal insurance.
No, you can't have both any more than you can rely on government to develop cell phones more powerful than desktops of 5 years ago.
This reminds me of people loading up trucks of ice and driving into hurricane zones and selling them for $20/bag.
"I'm here to help you!" screams the government! "You are outraged so I declare...it...illegal! * "
Great. Now no one has any ice.
Government: "Oops! We have a program for that!"
No you don't.
"We will make a program for that!"
Assembles bidding process, then a couple of fucking months later a train of refirigerator cars packed with ice pulls up. Nobody wants it, and there is no way to distribute it. After one year, it is declared unfit for human consumption and destroyed.
* In the style of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
It's only been a couple of decades that your attitude has not held legal sway, jailing men who like being "fucked in the ass".
You owned all history up until then, and still do on most of the planet.
Good riddance.
In robot voice: Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty apes!
You don't need vacuum tubes. That's such a horrible audio myth. They glow in the dark and look nice. Aside from that, they produce more distortion, more noise, use more power, are more fragile, and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics. They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
OTOH, if you just want to make vacuum tubes because.... you want to make vacuum tunes... have at it :)
Pretty much. Making your own vacuum tubes, indeed an entire amplifier, is way cool. Doing it because it is "better sounding" is asinine.
So, too, would be making your own Edison wax recorder set.