Or that Obama is the worst president ever BS. Obama is no different than any of the past presidents. If anything he's more to the right of Clinton but he's still middle of the road, grow federal government, grow executive power, just like every president before him.
The rich, depending on how rich, spend ridiculously small percentages of their income. The poor spend every dime. A consumption tax will immediately transfer the bulk of taxation to the poor and middle class. The Ultra rich like the idea of consumption taxes because 99.999% of their money is sitting in long term trusts making 10% and will never ever get spent.
It's funny to watch the hypocrisy in this thread though. Bush did the same thing. In fact he took it a step farther. If you didn't tow Bush's line in the White House as a reporter they would ask for the reporter to be replaced in the pool and if the employer refused they would stop taking questions from the reporter, permanently. I can vividly remember people defending this behavior, many are the same ones that are slamming Obama for it.
It's quite funny. Especially the ones that claim it's the worst thing the presidents office has ever seen.
Other than the battery and consumables like tires and brakes on an electric car isn't going to wear out like a gasoline car. Over a gas cars life the motor and movable parts wear and reach their life, motor, transmission etc. After 10 years it's not economical in a gasoline car to replace these major items because they cost more than the car is worth.
An electric car doesn't have these things. Even the brakes should last substantially longer than a gasoline car because of the regenerative braking and the electric motor itself, if it's quality built, should have a near infinite lifespan. I fully expect electric cars, if this battery survives to production, will have lives in the 20 year range routinely where most gasoline cars last about 10 on average. People will end up replacing them because the body, paint and interior are shot, not because the mechanical systems are gone. You'll still be replacing tires and windshield wipers but you won't ever do a coolant flush, transmission fluid flush, oil change or change a belt in an electric car. Maintenance will be reduced almost to nothing. It will likely be catastrophic to the entire mechanic profession.
Search for the spider goats in Google News. Last I saw they could extract the silk proteins from the milk but weren't able to combine them, they ended up with a big pile of the proteins and no way to weave them into silk. Though I believe they're still working on it there isn't high hope they will succeed. That's why they've begun talking about using silk worms, they are easy to setup (it's been done for centuries) and harvest silk and have they already have the necesary biological systems necessary to spin the proteins into silk fibers.
The plane that went down right after takeoff into water (I can't recall the city, but I think the body of water was the Hudson River). People survived that crash. Excluding that crash I don't think a single person has ever survived a water landing since we started using Jets. There is one crash in particular I recall where a (IIRC a hijacked Egyptian plane) jet after running out of fuel tried to land on the water just off a coast where it was filmed landing. Even with a gradual glide in path controlled landing the waves (or initial impact with the water) rocked the plane which dipped a wingtip into the water and then cartwheeled the plane which left no survivors. Honestly at 300-600 mph there is almost no chance of survival. I think the only reason people survived in the water landing I talked about above was because it was during takeoff and the plane hadn't reached a very high speed.
You can't fly without ID because they won't let you through security without it. There is no requirement that it be a drivers license, passports are accepted as well. BTW I'm not defending the policy.
You don't need to be a sociopath to beat a "lie detector". They are incredibly easy to "fool", not that there is anything to fool anyway because they aren't worth anything. Their only value is a that people think they do work because of all the propaganda and they convince people to submit to questioning without a lawyer present that they otherwise would never agree to.
They don't allow lie detectors to be used in court for precisely that reason, they are utterly unreliable.
Not in my experience, when was the last time you used Linux? My experience is that Linux often has the driver first and longer than windows. There are only a few areas in hardware where this isn't true. For example, windows server 2012 ripped out the entire scsi driver system. Try to install it on older SCSI based hardware and you will need a driver disk for 2008 because the abolished the entire driver tree for the older hardware. This isn't the only example, only the most recent I've run into. These days Linux often supports hardware or features months or even years before Windows.
Marx wrote many papers (three major ones I'm aware of) over a number of years all on the same thing with each subsequent paper being a revision of the original idea. People LOVE to talk about the first one, but not really any of the subsequent ones.
To use the HDMI logo/name you have to pay them. They probably have lower rates if you aren't using HDCP but to call it HDMI you will have to make sure it meets their requirements. You could probably build an HDMI port without the HDCP and not call it HDMI, but I'd wouldn't bet they don't have a patent or two in there so they can sue you dead.
Microsoft lost because they had a contract with Sun which said they wouldn't modify the Java Runtime to be incompatible with the standard. They did exactly that. Sun was pretty much guaranteed a win because they had a contract with MS.
Would Sun win if MS had never signed a contract and done a clean room implementation of Java and not called it Java? That I suppose would depend on whether API's are copyrightable which is what Google is asking the court to review.
The peace prize is a popularity contest, nothing more. Get over it. They've given the peace prize to people that were at one time terrorists that killed innocent civilians. That should be all the evidence you need that it's about popularity, not about bringing peace.
We shouldn't be looking backwards to the basis of every invention because that's pretty much an infinite chain backwards. The should be awarding the prize for revolutionary work that dramatically advances a discipline. The Blue LED was revolutionary. Without it we wouldn't have LED lighting or even White LED's. It also wasn't easy to find the right makeup to generate blue. Lots of people were working on this for several decades and these are the guys that succeeded. IMO an award for something that took decades to invent with millions of dollars and dozens of researchers working on it is worthy of a Nobel because the solution was clearly non-trivial.
Now maybe they should give this guy a Nobel as well or make him a part of the prize but LEDs were not that revolutionary (as in remaking society) as inventing the blue LED was. Blue LED's changed the world, the invention of the LED laid the groundwork for that but without Blue LED's we wouldn't have LED lighting (unless it was green or red lighting), and IMO billions of dollars of R&D wouldn't have been poured into advancing LED's without Blue.
There isn't anything else as lucrative. That's the point. Drugs are the lifeblood of US gangs. Yes there are some in Mexico that derive revenue from other sources but when you talking about your average US street gang drugs are their only business and the only one that pays even in the ballpark.
It would be better if we simply legalized drugs and taxed them. We'd eliminate overnight the drug gangs, reduce our prison population and increase tax revenue. We spend 12 BILLION dollars a year on drug enforcement, we could recover that and probably double it by legalizing and taxing.
Next time they tell you social security and medicare are going bankrupt keep in mind that by legalizing drugs we could eliminate that problem.
I had to refresh my memory of the case. The only reason this was allowed was because the guy voluntarily submitted to questioning then stopped when certain questions were reached. Though I disagree with the supreme court on this there is a significant difference between what you claimed and what precedent this sets. He unwillingness to talk to the police would not have been allowed to be discussed at trial had he not consented to the interview in the first place. The entire justification for allowing this at trial was because he consented to the questioning then stopped the interview when they asked certain questions. Had he refused to talk to the police from the get go and hired a lawyer he would have never been in this position.
It's a pretty simple rule, don't talk to the police without counsel.
There are no theoretical limitations, but there very well could be engineering limitations. We won't know that until we actually build ITER because even though engineering is a science it's mostly a practical applied science. The entire point of ITER is to see if the engineering can be worked out at a power plant scale. ITER is so expensive because they don't know how to engineer them yet. This will mean they will vastly over design it so nothing very bad happens. After running it for a while they will have a better understanding of the actual forces/energy and the upper limits of those inputs and the design can be fine tuned and costs reduced.
The fact is a tokamak of this scale just isn't understood that well (engineering, not the theory). They will be breaking all kinds of new ground in many different fields with ITER and that's expensive. But even if it doesn't work they will learn unbelievable amounts from it. I expect there will massive developments in many fields not the least of which will be material science as a results of this reactor.
Exactly. VT being part of the kernel is just carryover from ancient history and should have been fixed a long time ago. There is absolutely no reason the kernel should be deciding on terminal colors. This should be in userspace and I'm happy it's finally being fixed.
You know who else advocates breaking POSIX? Linus. Frankly I've never understood why the kernel managed VT anyway. It should be in userspace. Maybe there is an argument it shouldn't be part of SystemD but frankly it's a good thing that this is moving out of the kernel. The kernel shouldn't be managing this stuff anyway.
During this call, he says that he mentioned that Comcast’s billing and accounting issues should probably be investigated by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a private-sector oversight operation.
Such an investigation would trigger all sorts of follow on process from multiple jurisdictions as he just made the claim they are violating accounting standards (the only thing that gives our economy and investors confidence in the system). Such claims are not taken lightly by anyone, particularly the IRS who views claims of accounting irregularity as a indicator of possible tax law violations and would probably trigger at the least an audit or more probably even a full blow investigation (as in men with guns coming in a seizing all your files). This doesn't even include state investigations or an investigation by the Consumer protection bureau. Just the announcement of an investigation would cost them millions. He did not make a minor threat here, he went nuclear. It was incredibly stupid on his part (he should have known better) but did NOT justify them getting him fired by calling his employer.
I fully believe they Google'd the guy. He basically threatened them with reporting them to the IRS and SEC for violating accounting standards, and he didn't just threaten a nobody, he threatened another accountant. Very very serious allegations. They likely ran those accusations right to their legal department who did a full investigation and realized he worked for someone that worked for them. A quick call to a partner threatening to pull the account and the guy is fired.
I completely believe this happened even without knowing their side of the story. Even if he did mention who he worked for it would have been irrelevant and treated just the same way it would have been if he was talking to low level support. Without Comcast releasing the actual call recordings we shouldn't trust any spin they put on it, nor should we outright believe everything the guy says. But the fact is they called his employer and got him fired. There is almost nothing he could have said on the phone to them to justify that.
That was more a documentary on how police take innocent statements and turn them against you to make you look guilty. People should understand that when the police take his exclamation of disbelief and remove the context and emotion and read that back in court as an admission of guilt by the defendant that this is not only used in real life but used frequently and is precisely why you should never ever talk to the police without a lawyer present.
What terrible recommendation. Attic fan? An attic fan is only appropriate in very limited circumstances which depend not on your climate but how airflow in the attic works.
A properly sealed attic with a continuous ridge vent and soffit vents would have it's airflow damaged badly by an attic fan which would reduce the life of the roof and increase energy costs. I had R-40 blown into my attic recently and the insulation contractor recommended some gable vents, the gable vents I'd just recently had sealed up by a very competent roofing contractor who had just upgraded my attic to breathe properly. I almost fired the insulation contractor on the spot for such a stupid suggestion as it indicated he didn't know what he was doing.
You had a pretty good post right up to the point. Though I wouldn't diss on PV as heavily as you did I agree completely that you shouldn't be investigating PV until you've done the insulation (or at least do them at the same time). In fact you should do a whole house energy audit before you do PV and work in all the efficiency gains before you do PV.
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Or that Obama is the worst president ever BS. Obama is no different than any of the past presidents. If anything he's more to the right of Clinton but he's still middle of the road, grow federal government, grow executive power, just like every president before him.
The rich, depending on how rich, spend ridiculously small percentages of their income. The poor spend every dime. A consumption tax will immediately transfer the bulk of taxation to the poor and middle class. The Ultra rich like the idea of consumption taxes because 99.999% of their money is sitting in long term trusts making 10% and will never ever get spent.
It's funny to watch the hypocrisy in this thread though. Bush did the same thing. In fact he took it a step farther. If you didn't tow Bush's line in the White House as a reporter they would ask for the reporter to be replaced in the pool and if the employer refused they would stop taking questions from the reporter, permanently. I can vividly remember people defending this behavior, many are the same ones that are slamming Obama for it.
It's quite funny. Especially the ones that claim it's the worst thing the presidents office has ever seen.
Other than the battery and consumables like tires and brakes on an electric car isn't going to wear out like a gasoline car. Over a gas cars life the motor and movable parts wear and reach their life, motor, transmission etc. After 10 years it's not economical in a gasoline car to replace these major items because they cost more than the car is worth.
An electric car doesn't have these things. Even the brakes should last substantially longer than a gasoline car because of the regenerative braking and the electric motor itself, if it's quality built, should have a near infinite lifespan. I fully expect electric cars, if this battery survives to production, will have lives in the 20 year range routinely where most gasoline cars last about 10 on average. People will end up replacing them because the body, paint and interior are shot, not because the mechanical systems are gone. You'll still be replacing tires and windshield wipers but you won't ever do a coolant flush, transmission fluid flush, oil change or change a belt in an electric car. Maintenance will be reduced almost to nothing. It will likely be catastrophic to the entire mechanic profession.
Search for the spider goats in Google News. Last I saw they could extract the silk proteins from the milk but weren't able to combine them, they ended up with a big pile of the proteins and no way to weave them into silk. Though I believe they're still working on it there isn't high hope they will succeed. That's why they've begun talking about using silk worms, they are easy to setup (it's been done for centuries) and harvest silk and have they already have the necesary biological systems necessary to spin the proteins into silk fibers.
The plane that went down right after takeoff into water (I can't recall the city, but I think the body of water was the Hudson River). People survived that crash. Excluding that crash I don't think a single person has ever survived a water landing since we started using Jets. There is one crash in particular I recall where a (IIRC a hijacked Egyptian plane) jet after running out of fuel tried to land on the water just off a coast where it was filmed landing. Even with a gradual glide in path controlled landing the waves (or initial impact with the water) rocked the plane which dipped a wingtip into the water and then cartwheeled the plane which left no survivors. Honestly at 300-600 mph there is almost no chance of survival. I think the only reason people survived in the water landing I talked about above was because it was during takeoff and the plane hadn't reached a very high speed.
You can't fly without ID because they won't let you through security without it. There is no requirement that it be a drivers license, passports are accepted as well. BTW I'm not defending the policy.
You don't need to be a sociopath to beat a "lie detector". They are incredibly easy to "fool", not that there is anything to fool anyway because they aren't worth anything. Their only value is a that people think they do work because of all the propaganda and they convince people to submit to questioning without a lawyer present that they otherwise would never agree to.
They don't allow lie detectors to be used in court for precisely that reason, they are utterly unreliable.
Not in my experience, when was the last time you used Linux? My experience is that Linux often has the driver first and longer than windows. There are only a few areas in hardware where this isn't true. For example, windows server 2012 ripped out the entire scsi driver system. Try to install it on older SCSI based hardware and you will need a driver disk for 2008 because the abolished the entire driver tree for the older hardware. This isn't the only example, only the most recent I've run into. These days Linux often supports hardware or features months or even years before Windows.
Marx wrote many papers (three major ones I'm aware of) over a number of years all on the same thing with each subsequent paper being a revision of the original idea. People LOVE to talk about the first one, but not really any of the subsequent ones.
To use the HDMI logo/name you have to pay them. They probably have lower rates if you aren't using HDCP but to call it HDMI you will have to make sure it meets their requirements. You could probably build an HDMI port without the HDCP and not call it HDMI, but I'd wouldn't bet they don't have a patent or two in there so they can sue you dead.
Microsoft lost because they had a contract with Sun which said they wouldn't modify the Java Runtime to be incompatible with the standard. They did exactly that. Sun was pretty much guaranteed a win because they had a contract with MS.
Would Sun win if MS had never signed a contract and done a clean room implementation of Java and not called it Java? That I suppose would depend on whether API's are copyrightable which is what Google is asking the court to review.
The peace prize is a popularity contest, nothing more. Get over it. They've given the peace prize to people that were at one time terrorists that killed innocent civilians. That should be all the evidence you need that it's about popularity, not about bringing peace.
We all stand on the shoulders of Giants.
We shouldn't be looking backwards to the basis of every invention because that's pretty much an infinite chain backwards. The should be awarding the prize for revolutionary work that dramatically advances a discipline. The Blue LED was revolutionary. Without it we wouldn't have LED lighting or even White LED's. It also wasn't easy to find the right makeup to generate blue. Lots of people were working on this for several decades and these are the guys that succeeded. IMO an award for something that took decades to invent with millions of dollars and dozens of researchers working on it is worthy of a Nobel because the solution was clearly non-trivial.
Now maybe they should give this guy a Nobel as well or make him a part of the prize but LEDs were not that revolutionary (as in remaking society) as inventing the blue LED was. Blue LED's changed the world, the invention of the LED laid the groundwork for that but without Blue LED's we wouldn't have LED lighting (unless it was green or red lighting), and IMO billions of dollars of R&D wouldn't have been poured into advancing LED's without Blue.
There isn't anything else as lucrative. That's the point. Drugs are the lifeblood of US gangs. Yes there are some in Mexico that derive revenue from other sources but when you talking about your average US street gang drugs are their only business and the only one that pays even in the ballpark.
It would be better if we simply legalized drugs and taxed them. We'd eliminate overnight the drug gangs, reduce our prison population and increase tax revenue. We spend 12 BILLION dollars a year on drug enforcement, we could recover that and probably double it by legalizing and taxing.
Next time they tell you social security and medicare are going bankrupt keep in mind that by legalizing drugs we could eliminate that problem.
I had to refresh my memory of the case. The only reason this was allowed was because the guy voluntarily submitted to questioning then stopped when certain questions were reached. Though I disagree with the supreme court on this there is a significant difference between what you claimed and what precedent this sets. He unwillingness to talk to the police would not have been allowed to be discussed at trial had he not consented to the interview in the first place. The entire justification for allowing this at trial was because he consented to the questioning then stopped the interview when they asked certain questions. Had he refused to talk to the police from the get go and hired a lawyer he would have never been in this position.
It's a pretty simple rule, don't talk to the police without counsel.
There are no theoretical limitations, but there very well could be engineering limitations. We won't know that until we actually build ITER because even though engineering is a science it's mostly a practical applied science. The entire point of ITER is to see if the engineering can be worked out at a power plant scale. ITER is so expensive because they don't know how to engineer them yet. This will mean they will vastly over design it so nothing very bad happens. After running it for a while they will have a better understanding of the actual forces/energy and the upper limits of those inputs and the design can be fine tuned and costs reduced.
The fact is a tokamak of this scale just isn't understood that well (engineering, not the theory). They will be breaking all kinds of new ground in many different fields with ITER and that's expensive. But even if it doesn't work they will learn unbelievable amounts from it. I expect there will massive developments in many fields not the least of which will be material science as a results of this reactor.
Exactly. VT being part of the kernel is just carryover from ancient history and should have been fixed a long time ago. There is absolutely no reason the kernel should be deciding on terminal colors. This should be in userspace and I'm happy it's finally being fixed.
Did Pottering bully you or something? You hate the guy and I doubt you've ever even met him.
You know who else advocates breaking POSIX? Linus. Frankly I've never understood why the kernel managed VT anyway. It should be in userspace. Maybe there is an argument it shouldn't be part of SystemD but frankly it's a good thing that this is moving out of the kernel. The kernel shouldn't be managing this stuff anyway.
Such an investigation would trigger all sorts of follow on process from multiple jurisdictions as he just made the claim they are violating accounting standards (the only thing that gives our economy and investors confidence in the system). Such claims are not taken lightly by anyone, particularly the IRS who views claims of accounting irregularity as a indicator of possible tax law violations and would probably trigger at the least an audit or more probably even a full blow investigation (as in men with guns coming in a seizing all your files). This doesn't even include state investigations or an investigation by the Consumer protection bureau. Just the announcement of an investigation would cost them millions. He did not make a minor threat here, he went nuclear. It was incredibly stupid on his part (he should have known better) but did NOT justify them getting him fired by calling his employer.
I fully believe they Google'd the guy. He basically threatened them with reporting them to the IRS and SEC for violating accounting standards, and he didn't just threaten a nobody, he threatened another accountant. Very very serious allegations. They likely ran those accusations right to their legal department who did a full investigation and realized he worked for someone that worked for them. A quick call to a partner threatening to pull the account and the guy is fired.
I completely believe this happened even without knowing their side of the story. Even if he did mention who he worked for it would have been irrelevant and treated just the same way it would have been if he was talking to low level support. Without Comcast releasing the actual call recordings we shouldn't trust any spin they put on it, nor should we outright believe everything the guy says. But the fact is they called his employer and got him fired. There is almost nothing he could have said on the phone to them to justify that.
That was more a documentary on how police take innocent statements and turn them against you to make you look guilty. People should understand that when the police take his exclamation of disbelief and remove the context and emotion and read that back in court as an admission of guilt by the defendant that this is not only used in real life but used frequently and is precisely why you should never ever talk to the police without a lawyer present.
What terrible recommendation. Attic fan? An attic fan is only appropriate in very limited circumstances which depend not on your climate but how airflow in the attic works.
A properly sealed attic with a continuous ridge vent and soffit vents would have it's airflow damaged badly by an attic fan which would reduce the life of the roof and increase energy costs. I had R-40 blown into my attic recently and the insulation contractor recommended some gable vents, the gable vents I'd just recently had sealed up by a very competent roofing contractor who had just upgraded my attic to breathe properly. I almost fired the insulation contractor on the spot for such a stupid suggestion as it indicated he didn't know what he was doing.
You had a pretty good post right up to the point. Though I wouldn't diss on PV as heavily as you did I agree completely that you shouldn't be investigating PV until you've done the insulation (or at least do them at the same time). In fact you should do a whole house energy audit before you do PV and work in all the efficiency gains before you do PV.