I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
First of all, lots of repeaters are provisioned with backup power. Not all of them, but enough to serve in a pinch. Next, not all of us have only a 500 mw HT at our disposal. A 4-5 watt 2-meter transceiver, with the right antenna, can reach a very long way. We're making note of you and will make sure that you go to the back of the line when your iPhone has been off-line for 10 days or so.
The first sentence says "Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns". But then later says "The documents were the first page of a New York State resident income tax return, the first page of a New Jersey nonresident tax return and the first page of a Connecticut nonresident tax return." No federal tax information.
You just keep deluding yourself with ignorant assumptions, junior. Yes, ignorant. You have clearly demonstrated that you don't know the first thing about the relationship between a state tax return and a federal tax return. The important thing is that he's going to make sure that neither he nor any of his friends ever have to declare a loss again to avoid paying taxes. Then, with all that extra money in his pockets, he's going to "create jobs" for you. Jeezus, what a sucker.
Yes, yes...I'm sure Mr. Trump wants nuclear war...
No, you're not. But given his statements about it, are completely sure that he does not want it? Given the stakes, do you think it wise to even consider a candidate for this particular office when such doubt exists?
I beg to differ. We elect leaders. We expect them to have our best interests in mind when the make decisions or take action. That so many politicians will trade that responsibility for "popularity" is a huge part of the problem our nation faces today.
They won't lose any money, they just might not make as much. No company is entitled to continued steady profits.
That's communist talk there, mister. We paid good money to your elected officials to see to it that our profits continue. How dare you suggest that we are not then entitled to the representation that we paid for, fair and square.
Am I just paranoid, or does it seem that everywhere personal data is collected, it is abused?
You are not paranoid. Neither were the framers of the U.S. Constitution who built in protections against such abuse. Alas, irrational fear on the part of those elected by, and who then swore to defend the rights of, the citizens, have been steadily chipping away at those protections. The terrorists have won.
Surely, the board of directors at Yahoo had someone that they listened to when it came to security issues that had the potential to affect the profitability and viability of the company. Right? I mean, after all, that's a board's job, to see to those two things. [/heavy sarcasm]
Oh, STFU you Rand fan boy. This, right here, is a prime example of why your vaunted "free market" does not work. Did you RTFA? You know, the part about how HP sneaked this update in well before activating it? Free market's require informed consumers. Furthermore, it requires that what I thought I bought continues to be what I bought. Changing my property without my informed consent is all kinds of wrong.
Desert-dwelling sheep herders weren't ignorant! They knew all about herding and breeding sheep, what kinds of food they need etc. But they couldn't write, and therefore they couldn't have written the Bible.
I guess you never learned where most of the content of the Old Testament came from, then.
No mod points today, but... well played, sir. I could almost hear Colbert reading those lines. That you've whooshed a fair number of respondents here just makes it all the more enjoyable. Well played, indeed.
Uber is manipulating the media for free publicity by hinting at flying cars.
There is so much in the way of what Uber is suggesting that it is absurd for them to be making public statements about it. First of all... Uber. You know, the ride sharing service that let's people make a few extra bucks by giving rides in their fifteen-year old Chevy. I wonder which will come first, flying Uber cars or a town on Mars named Muskville.
When demand increases the rates increase. This is done by software, not some evil Mr. Burns figure at Uber.
Exactly, and even if it was, just STFU, you whiney liberal bitches. This is the sacred free market at work and it is a glorious thing to behold. How dare you suggest that it is somehow immoral to maximize profits by exploiting an increasing demand appearing against a limited supply.
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:)
You are mostly correct. Vacuum tubes are less efficient, produce more distortion (generally speaking), are less efficient and more fragile, and have shorter life expectancy that solid state components. However, a well designed vacuum tube amplifier will sound better to most listeners. The reason for this is the type of distortion produced. Our ears/brain "hear" a big difference between 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortion, and it is the former that those glowing glass devices are noted for.
Speaking for myself, and having built several amplifiers based on some of the most respected designs available to the DIY builder, I was absolutely astounded at how much better my first single ended triode (tube) amp sounded than anything I had ever heard. Mind you, I am no clueless audiophile snob. I don't hear a difference between 18 ga lamp cord speaker wires and overpriced, "oxygen-free", "audiophile-grade" speaker wires. I do hear a difference between solid state and an SET, and it is profound. Now, I will qualify that claim by noting that most SET amps are low-powered affairs, that demand rather special (highly efficient) speakers. They are not at their best with loud/complex program material, but when fed a well-recorded acapella vocal group, jazz or classical ensemble, or even some Steely Dan, the result is nothing less than breathtaking. The same can be said for tube-based headphone amps. Not every pair of headphones is a good match for this type of amp.
But then most listeners think that the.mp3 material going through their Beats headpones is "hi-fi", so anyone who can make a buck off that crowd by "sticking tubes in the circuit" is just as guilty of taking money from suckers as is the manufacturer selling a $900 cable that "...increases warmth and air..." In other words, the worth of a given technology is in how it's implemented and not nearly so much in the nature of the components.
"Free market" does not mean a market free from government regulation.
In the truest sense of the term, it does. It's all a myth of course, because it assumes that those making the purchasing decisions have all the information that they need to choose wisely. The FDA was born because consumers clearly lacked such insight and were suffering, even dying for it. Despite what that fuckwit Trump is saying, some government regulation is not just necessary, it is welcome.
This, folks, is why you should pay attention to who runs for state attorney general.
Companies get away with this bullshit because private individuals can't hold them to account. It'd cost more than $9100, even counting your time as free, to fight this as an individual. So companies know they can do to you what they please.
This is why we have consumer protection laws, to protect people from bullshit they can't afford to litigate. A shot across the bow from your state's consumer protection bureau counts for a lot more than an angry contract termination call. And if your state AG's office doesn't have a consumer protection division, or if there aren't consumer protection laws in your state, well you're SOL until someone changes that.
But, but.. Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem St. Reagan said so. Besides, the free market will fix this. It always magically corrects all wrongs done to consumers by companies whose only obligation is to their shareholders.
So... how's my Rand fan-boy impression coming along?
Elected officials, corrupted by a virtually limitless supply of money in the form of campaign contributions and inducements by lobbyists, do the bidding of those who pay for their "service". Business as usual. Do something different, or STFU about it.
Yeah, confiscating all of their assets is a great way to encourage others to do it! What an example you'll be setting for them about the benefits of doing business in your jurisdiction.
I bet you could even pull it off in just five years with the right planning.
That whooshing sound you hear is the patently obvious point sailing right over your head. Seize the cable plant and adopt the public utility model. That will be a great way to encourage others to live up to the terms of the agreements they negotiate, not to mention a clear message to others to not to try similar bullshit in the future. Verizon had their shot, they missed, or more likely never intended to deliver at all. Fuck them and their shareholders. Regulations either have teeth or they don't.
Although BofA is HQ'd in Charlotte, NC it was historically a California company and has a large presence in Washington and Oregon--states where pot is either legal or decriminalized and widely used. Just sayin'.
Reality (virtual, the real deal, or otherwise) is for people who can't handle drugs. Just sayin'.
...I have to ask, how will this impact my royalty share compensation through ACX? I'll wager that I know the answer and this is just another way that Amazon is taking advantage of my work without compensating me for it.
For a site about News for Nerds,/. certainly has a lot of luddites.
People unemployed by technical innovations don't suddenly remain unemployed for life, we have this thing called supply and demand that says their labor is reallocated towards the next-best end.
As usual, the reality is just a bit more nuanced than that. At the point a worker is replaced by a machine, because the machine works cheaper, the value of the labor once done by that work has been reduced. The skill, knowledge and ability that the worker had that related to his former job are now in less demand. It is tempting, but inaccurate to say something like, "He's a skilled tradesman. Those skills can be applied to other jobs." It was those skills that were replaced by a machine. Without acquiring new skills, of the kind less likely to be replaced by automation, he is less marketable. That makes his wages, if he does find another job, go down. His former employer has virtually zero incentive to retrain him. Conservatives will argue that taxpayers shouldn't pay for that retraining. The newly unemployed worker likely can't afford, in the middle of his working years, heaven forbid near the end of them, to retrain in a skill that will likely gain him a position equivalent to the one he lost.
It is far from a "Luddite" view to observe that the practical reality is that a large portion of workers displaced by automation, or by off-shoring, for that matter, will never regain the income that they lost. It is absolutely unrealistic to suggest, as you have, that there is a "greener pasture" for every worker so displaced.
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I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
First of all, lots of repeaters are provisioned with backup power. Not all of them, but enough to serve in a pinch. Next, not all of us have only a 500 mw HT at our disposal. A 4-5 watt 2-meter transceiver, with the right antenna, can reach a very long way. We're making note of you and will make sure that you go to the back of the line when your iPhone has been off-line for 10 days or so.
Another crap article.
The first sentence says "Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns". But then later says "The documents were the first page of a New York State resident income tax return, the first page of a New Jersey nonresident tax return and the first page of a Connecticut nonresident tax return." No federal tax information.
You just keep deluding yourself with ignorant assumptions, junior. Yes, ignorant. You have clearly demonstrated that you don't know the first thing about the relationship between a state tax return and a federal tax return. The important thing is that he's going to make sure that neither he nor any of his friends ever have to declare a loss again to avoid paying taxes. Then, with all that extra money in his pockets, he's going to "create jobs" for you. Jeezus, what a sucker.
Yes, yes...I'm sure Mr. Trump wants nuclear war...
No, you're not. But given his statements about it, are completely sure that he does not want it? Given the stakes, do you think it wise to even consider a candidate for this particular office when such doubt exists?
I beg to differ. We elect leaders. We expect them to have our best interests in mind when the make decisions or take action. That so many politicians will trade that responsibility for "popularity" is a huge part of the problem our nation faces today.
They won't lose any money, they just might not make as much. No company is entitled to continued steady profits.
That's communist talk there, mister. We paid good money to your elected officials to see to it that our profits continue. How dare you suggest that we are not then entitled to the representation that we paid for, fair and square.
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Am I just paranoid, or does it seem that everywhere personal data is collected, it is abused?
You are not paranoid. Neither were the framers of the U.S. Constitution who built in protections against such abuse. Alas, irrational fear on the part of those elected by, and who then swore to defend the rights of, the citizens, have been steadily chipping away at those protections. The terrorists have won.
Surely, the board of directors at Yahoo had someone that they listened to when it came to security issues that had the potential to affect the profitability and viability of the company. Right? I mean, after all, that's a board's job, to see to those two things. [/heavy sarcasm]
Oh, STFU you Rand fan boy. This, right here, is a prime example of why your vaunted "free market" does not work. Did you RTFA? You know, the part about how HP sneaked this update in well before activating it? Free market's require informed consumers. Furthermore, it requires that what I thought I bought continues to be what I bought. Changing my property without my informed consent is all kinds of wrong.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers.
These are people of the land.
The common clay of the new West.
You know... morons.
I see your point, "Jim". Sometimes, a dashing urbanite like myself loses sight of that.
It's the Climate Change Alarmists who behave more like religious zealots.
Just sayin'...
Damn straight. The worst of what's coming won't happen until most of us are dead, so party on. Who gives a fuck about our great grandchildren, right?
Desert-dwelling sheep herders weren't ignorant! They knew all about herding and breeding sheep, what kinds of food they need etc. But they couldn't write, and therefore they couldn't have written the Bible.
I guess you never learned where most of the content of the Old Testament came from, then.
No mod points today, but... well played, sir. I could almost hear Colbert reading those lines. That you've whooshed a fair number of respondents here just makes it all the more enjoyable. Well played, indeed.
There is so much in the way of what Uber is suggesting that it is absurd for them to be making public statements about it. First of all... Uber. You know, the ride sharing service that let's people make a few extra bucks by giving rides in their fifteen-year old Chevy. I wonder which will come first, flying Uber cars or a town on Mars named Muskville.
Amazon may just as well shutdown today.. Larry says it's done.
Looks like Larry's been reading the Trump presidential campaign playbook.
Headline should read "Uber Increases Driver Pay to Help Meet Emergency Demand."
And to you deadbeats who can't afford the new "enhanced rates" to get out of harm's way, we say, "Tough shit. Get a job."
When demand increases the rates increase. This is done by software, not some evil Mr. Burns figure at Uber.
Exactly, and even if it was, just STFU, you whiney liberal bitches. This is the sacred free market at work and it is a glorious thing to behold. How dare you suggest that it is somehow immoral to maximize profits by exploiting an increasing demand appearing against a limited supply.
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 :)
You are mostly correct. Vacuum tubes are less efficient, produce more distortion (generally speaking), are less efficient and more fragile, and have shorter life expectancy that solid state components. However, a well designed vacuum tube amplifier will sound better to most listeners. The reason for this is the type of distortion produced. Our ears/brain "hear" a big difference between 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortion, and it is the former that those glowing glass devices are noted for.
Speaking for myself, and having built several amplifiers based on some of the most respected designs available to the DIY builder, I was absolutely astounded at how much better my first single ended triode (tube) amp sounded than anything I had ever heard. Mind you, I am no clueless audiophile snob. I don't hear a difference between 18 ga lamp cord speaker wires and overpriced, "oxygen-free", "audiophile-grade" speaker wires. I do hear a difference between solid state and an SET, and it is profound. Now, I will qualify that claim by noting that most SET amps are low-powered affairs, that demand rather special (highly efficient) speakers. They are not at their best with loud/complex program material, but when fed a well-recorded acapella vocal group, jazz or classical ensemble, or even some Steely Dan, the result is nothing less than breathtaking. The same can be said for tube-based headphone amps. Not every pair of headphones is a good match for this type of amp.
But then most listeners think that the .mp3 material going through their Beats headpones is "hi-fi", so anyone who can make a buck off that crowd by "sticking tubes in the circuit" is just as guilty of taking money from suckers as is the manufacturer selling a $900 cable that "...increases warmth and air..." In other words, the worth of a given technology is in how it's implemented and not nearly so much in the nature of the components.
"Free market" does not mean a market free from government regulation.
In the truest sense of the term, it does. It's all a myth of course, because it assumes that those making the purchasing decisions have all the information that they need to choose wisely. The FDA was born because consumers clearly lacked such insight and were suffering, even dying for it. Despite what that fuckwit Trump is saying, some government regulation is not just necessary, it is welcome.
This, folks, is why you should pay attention to who runs for state attorney general.
Companies get away with this bullshit because private individuals can't hold them to account. It'd cost more than $9100, even counting your time as free, to fight this as an individual. So companies know they can do to you what they please.
This is why we have consumer protection laws, to protect people from bullshit they can't afford to litigate. A shot across the bow from your state's consumer protection bureau counts for a lot more than an angry contract termination call. And if your state AG's office doesn't have a consumer protection division, or if there aren't consumer protection laws in your state, well you're SOL until someone changes that.
But, but.. Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem St. Reagan said so. Besides, the free market will fix this. It always magically corrects all wrongs done to consumers by companies whose only obligation is to their shareholders.
So... how's my Rand fan-boy impression coming along?
Elected officials, corrupted by a virtually limitless supply of money in the form of campaign contributions and inducements by lobbyists, do the bidding of those who pay for their "service". Business as usual. Do something different, or STFU about it.
Yeah, confiscating all of their assets is a great way to encourage others to do it! What an example you'll be setting for them about the benefits of doing business in your jurisdiction.
I bet you could even pull it off in just five years with the right planning.
That whooshing sound you hear is the patently obvious point sailing right over your head. Seize the cable plant and adopt the public utility model. That will be a great way to encourage others to live up to the terms of the agreements they negotiate, not to mention a clear message to others to not to try similar bullshit in the future. Verizon had their shot, they missed, or more likely never intended to deliver at all. Fuck them and their shareholders. Regulations either have teeth or they don't.
Although BofA is HQ'd in Charlotte, NC it was historically a California company and has a large presence in Washington and Oregon--states where pot is either legal or decriminalized and widely used. Just sayin'.
Reality (virtual, the real deal, or otherwise) is for people who can't handle drugs. Just sayin'.
Because Christians don't like nude or sex.
Oh, they like it just fine. They just won't admit it, and the absolutely hate anyone who will.
...I have to ask, how will this impact my royalty share compensation through ACX? I'll wager that I know the answer and this is just another way that Amazon is taking advantage of my work without compensating me for it.
For a site about News for Nerds, /. certainly has a lot of luddites.
People unemployed by technical innovations don't suddenly remain unemployed for life, we have this thing called supply and demand that says their labor is reallocated towards the next-best end.
As usual, the reality is just a bit more nuanced than that. At the point a worker is replaced by a machine, because the machine works cheaper, the value of the labor once done by that work has been reduced. The skill, knowledge and ability that the worker had that related to his former job are now in less demand. It is tempting, but inaccurate to say something like, "He's a skilled tradesman. Those skills can be applied to other jobs." It was those skills that were replaced by a machine. Without acquiring new skills, of the kind less likely to be replaced by automation, he is less marketable. That makes his wages, if he does find another job, go down. His former employer has virtually zero incentive to retrain him. Conservatives will argue that taxpayers shouldn't pay for that retraining. The newly unemployed worker likely can't afford, in the middle of his working years, heaven forbid near the end of them, to retrain in a skill that will likely gain him a position equivalent to the one he lost.
It is far from a "Luddite" view to observe that the practical reality is that a large portion of workers displaced by automation, or by off-shoring, for that matter, will never regain the income that they lost. It is absolutely unrealistic to suggest, as you have, that there is a "greener pasture" for every worker so displaced.
Try again.