... but there are quite proven medical benefits to having at least some amount of exposure to sunlight early in the day....
I'm in Florida and we have too much fucking sun here. If I didn't have responsibilities which require me to be awake during normal human hours, I'd be nocturnal because the only time this place is actually habitable during the summer, is at night.
Not only would I love to see DST abolished, but if Elon Musk could put a bunch of tinfoil in space or something to block out some of the sun over Florida, that would be great.
Except that it's much simpler to change the clock than to change every schedule, or worse, only part of the schedules.
Retail stores stay open later during the holiday shopping season, restaurants vary their hours during Friday/Saturday/Sunday, Walmart never closes, etc. It's not as if schedules are carved in stone. Around here, even the Target stores can't all agree on the same closing time.
If you want to get up an hour earlier in the spring/summer, ask you boss to let you come in an hour earlier or become self employed. It's a little unreasonable to expect an entire country to fall in line because you think it's the only way to get your employer to let you shift your work schedule with the changing daylight.
... you're missing a fundamental way that a capitalist economy works. Once a company gets sufficiently large, it's very difficult to dislodge them from their position.
It works that way by design. Would you also suggest people holding too much real estate be forced to sell at below market value, to give an opportunity to those who missed out on buying when land was cheaper? Even if it's a big "evil" company, the concept is still wealth redistribution, and that's the antithesis of capitalism.
A business should only be punished by the government for engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Simply being successful and winning at capitalism is not a crime.
If you're worried about power plugs, you should be worried about anything that plugs in, or even is battery powered.
Pretty much anything you connect to your network could be used to hack into the other machines you have on that network. Even the WiFi plug I bought for my lamp has been nagging me to update the firmware it runs.
On the other hand, those WiFi outlet switch thingies are just so damn convenient... Security was fun while it lasted.
You do know that the USA spends the most per capita on health insurance; has the worst healthcare outcomes
Yes, our healthcare system is a dumpster fire, and I really wanted to vote for the candidate who would work towards fixing this.
Unfortunately, I don't want the rest of the ultra-left shit sandwich served along with it. Free childcare, Green New Deal, breaking up companies because you fundamentally misunderstand the meaning of the word "monopoly", etc. If the only choice is this or Trump, sorry, I'll be playing Pokemon Go Fuck Both of Ya'll on election day.
She's got my vote. She's the only politician that I've ever heard suggest this.
Because it's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the internet operates. Anyone with the means to do so can launch a competitor to Facebook, Amazon, Google, or any other site on the internet. Online "real estate" is essentially unlimited, and it's all on equal footing. The concept of breaking up an internet-based entity is pure idiocy.
It is not the government's job to punish businesses for being too successful. Would you want your boss to lay you off so someone less fortunate could be given a shot at your job?
I agree that that is Warren's strategy, but I think that she just lost the nomination with this announcement. Until this announcement, she was my pick. (Keeping in mind that I'm just an observer of US politics.)
She lost me at "free childcare". Since then, she's supported the Green New Deal, and now this. She's gone way too far to the left for my tastes.
TFS is rather short on information. The original story mentioned that there's a pinhole so you can force a reset by inserting a paper clip.
So when your phone inevitably freezes up, you've gotta hunt down a paper clip. That's a pain in the ass enough as it is the few times you've gotta futz with the SIM card on phones which use the "paperclip eject" mechanism for the SIM tray.
Except to look at individual platforms narrowly misses the bigger picture - Facebook buys up all potential competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp so that even if users think that they've left for a competitor, in reality, Facebook continues to vacuum up their data and build their profiles.
Being able to buy up your competitors only works if they're willing to sell. What you're pointing out is the just the way capitalism is supposed to work.
A monopoly means that a business is preventing a competitor from competing by unfair business practices. If Facebook was preventing your competing social media network from registering a domain, connecting your servers to the internet, or dissuading advertisers from doing business with your platform - then you'd have a valid case to make that they're a monopoly.
If fraud is detected, block both the SIM as usual, and block the phone based on its IMEI number.
The global IMEI blacklist would do the job if Verizon was actually trying to prevent fraud. The real issue is the same situation that America Movil bitched about when people were unlocking and reselling TracFones - Verizon wants to offer carrier locked phones as a loss leader.
Verizon made a deal with the FCC so they have to make a new deal with them to change it.
Screw that. If Verizon no longer likes the terms they agreed to, the spectrum should go back up for auction. If the FCC wasn't so damn corrupt under the current administration, they'd tell Verizon to get bent.
If you're poor, you can end up spending more on all sorts of items, from utilities like gas and electricity to clothing and food. And largely because a lack of up front captital limits your choices.
Yup, too many people here missing the point that it's an analogy.
Since people seem to be far more familiar with car analogies, there's already a perfect one for this. Go to any buy-here-pay-here car dealer and it will become immediately obvious how much the poor overpay for absolute garbage.
Libertarianism's problem is that those who can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps are going to support candidates who lean more socialist, and those who got theirs (or those who are temporarily embarrassed millionaires*) are well served by the conservative candidates.
* Yeah, I realize it's a fallacy. It seems more likely the "have nots" who vote Republican do so because they feel they work very hard for the little bit they do earn, and don't like the idea that "deadbeats" are getting money for being lazy.
Why does your kid need a $500 plus phone to bring to school?
A quick check of Swappa reveals a used iPhone 7 is worth about $200. Adjusted for inflation (I'm 40), that would've been like me having a $120 gadget at school, when I was 16.
Doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. Sorry grandpa, you're just getting old like the rest of us.
If you want to change their votes, perhaps you could start by listening to their concerns, instead of telling them they are too stupid to vote properly.
The problem is, if the Democrats came out and said (for example) "Hey, we've been doing some soul searching and it turns out coal really isn't so bad", it would just appear to be disingenuous pandering to the Trump supporters, but would seriously piss off the environmentalists. The whole reason politics has become so polarized as of late is both sides are afraid of appearing "weak" to their base supporters, even if it costs them the ability to swing a few votes from the other side.
The myth that Republicans vote against their own interests is based on two fallacies: 1. That they share your views about what their "best interests" are. They don't.
If you support political positions which objectively worsen your standard of living - you're voting against your own best interests. If your standard of living has dropped, yet you still support the same party - you might want to read up on cogitative dissonance.
2. That poor states like Mississippi voted 100% Republican. Guess what? They didn't. Poor people in red states vote blue. It is the middle class where the Democrats lost.
Therein lies the problem our current implementation of Democracy. You only need a platform that >50% of the people who actually get off their ass and go vote feels is working well enough, to claim victory. If you really wanted to see parties attempting to cross the isle and work with everyone, require a bigger majority to win, and run off the election (as many times as necessary) if you don't get it the first time.
It will obviously never happen, because no politician would risk *any* controversial positions, if they knew they needed 60% (or thereabouts) of the vote to win.
Zero rating was originally going to be banned by the FCC under the General Conduct Rule, but when the FCC changed leadership the agency promptly green lighted and encouraged the industry to engage in zero rating practices before it began its repeal of net neutrality.
Elections have consequences. If you want a different outcome in 2020, work on getting the people who didn't vote off their asses and to the polls.
I'm also thoroughly convinced it's an exercise in futility attempting to convince Trump supporters to stop voting against their own best interests. Seems like as long as they get their cup full of "liberal tears", the world could burn down around them and they'd still be satisfied because their side was victorious. You'd have better luck teaching a pig to sing.
Flying drones in and around stadiums is prohibited starting one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events:
Major League Baseball
National Football League
NCAA Division One Football
NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series races
Specifically, UAS operations are prohibited within a radius of three nautical miles of the stadium or venue.
The part the FAA left out is that this is all subject to change, depending on how much security theater they deem is necessary for a specific sportsball event. Granted, drone pilots are supposed to check NOTAMs before flying, but it's a little unreasonable to expect any restrictions to be active days before an event.
The airport drone scares are largely a ploy to get hobbyists out of the airspace which will be used for commercial delivery drones. Today will be the next generation's "good old days", when humans could still earn slave wages by delivering crap for Uber Eats and Amazon.
Bonus round: I don't think the concept of purchasing movies is going to be around for too much longer, either. Hollywood has been pushing for a full-on subscription/pay-per-view business model ever since Circuit City's ill-fated Divx disc format.
I didn't say you can't get a small Android phone. The point was small flagship caliber phones are no longer made. You can get something small if you want a terrible CPU and camera (which reviews state is the case with that phone).
We're even expanding the use of coal for things like cooking pizzas. Seriously. Not sure if the pizza delivery drivers roll coal while they deliver your coal-fired-pizza, but I wouldn't be surprised either.
No matter the we have to use MORE fuel to produce the power for my car as long as it is not consumed where my car is.
It depends where you live. In many places in the USA, you'd probably be "greener" by skipping the EV, buying the cheapest (ICE powered) economy car instead, and putting the money you saved towards photovoltaics on the roof of your home. The photovoltaics will also yield a better ROI than the EV.
Sad fact is, we've still got a way to go before EVs are anything more than a way for the rich (and rich-ish) to feel smug about their vehicle choice.
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I'm in Florida and we have too much fucking sun here. If I didn't have responsibilities which require me to be awake during normal human hours, I'd be nocturnal because the only time this place is actually habitable during the summer, is at night.
Not only would I love to see DST abolished, but if Elon Musk could put a bunch of tinfoil in space or something to block out some of the sun over Florida, that would be great.
Except that it's much simpler to change the clock than to change every schedule, or worse, only part of the schedules.
Retail stores stay open later during the holiday shopping season, restaurants vary their hours during Friday/Saturday/Sunday, Walmart never closes, etc. It's not as if schedules are carved in stone. Around here, even the Target stores can't all agree on the same closing time.
If you want to get up an hour earlier in the spring/summer, ask you boss to let you come in an hour earlier or become self employed. It's a little unreasonable to expect an entire country to fall in line because you think it's the only way to get your employer to let you shift your work schedule with the changing daylight.
... you're missing a fundamental way that a capitalist economy works. Once a company gets sufficiently large, it's very difficult to dislodge them from their position.
It works that way by design. Would you also suggest people holding too much real estate be forced to sell at below market value, to give an opportunity to those who missed out on buying when land was cheaper? Even if it's a big "evil" company, the concept is still wealth redistribution, and that's the antithesis of capitalism.
A business should only be punished by the government for engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Simply being successful and winning at capitalism is not a crime.
If you're worried about power plugs, you should be worried about anything that plugs in, or even is battery powered.
Pretty much anything you connect to your network could be used to hack into the other machines you have on that network. Even the WiFi plug I bought for my lamp has been nagging me to update the firmware it runs.
On the other hand, those WiFi outlet switch thingies are just so damn convenient... Security was fun while it lasted.
You do know that the USA spends the most per capita on health insurance; has the worst healthcare outcomes
Yes, our healthcare system is a dumpster fire, and I really wanted to vote for the candidate who would work towards fixing this.
Unfortunately, I don't want the rest of the ultra-left shit sandwich served along with it. Free childcare, Green New Deal, breaking up companies because you fundamentally misunderstand the meaning of the word "monopoly", etc. If the only choice is this or Trump, sorry, I'll be playing Pokemon Go Fuck Both of Ya'll on election day.
If you want to advertise on the web you will either use facebook or you use Google as the middle man.
I'm counting two places to advertise. You might want to look up why it's called a monopoly.
She's got my vote. She's the only politician that I've ever heard suggest this.
Because it's based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the internet operates. Anyone with the means to do so can launch a competitor to Facebook, Amazon, Google, or any other site on the internet. Online "real estate" is essentially unlimited, and it's all on equal footing. The concept of breaking up an internet-based entity is pure idiocy.
It is not the government's job to punish businesses for being too successful. Would you want your boss to lay you off so someone less fortunate could be given a shot at your job?
I agree that that is Warren's strategy, but I think that she just lost the nomination with this announcement. Until this announcement, she was my pick. (Keeping in mind that I'm just an observer of US politics.)
She lost me at "free childcare". Since then, she's supported the Green New Deal, and now this. She's gone way too far to the left for my tastes.
They're a few years too late, someone else already did it.
TFS is rather short on information. The original story mentioned that there's a pinhole so you can force a reset by inserting a paper clip.
So when your phone inevitably freezes up, you've gotta hunt down a paper clip. That's a pain in the ass enough as it is the few times you've gotta futz with the SIM card on phones which use the "paperclip eject" mechanism for the SIM tray.
They sure went full user-hostile on this design.
Millennials are people born 1985-2005. Generations are 20 years.
Actually, it's not quite so cut-and-dried as this. There really isn't a whole lot of agreement on the exact start and end years of a generation.
Except to look at individual platforms narrowly misses the bigger picture - Facebook buys up all potential competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp so that even if users think that they've left for a competitor, in reality, Facebook continues to vacuum up their data and build their profiles.
Being able to buy up your competitors only works if they're willing to sell. What you're pointing out is the just the way capitalism is supposed to work.
A monopoly means that a business is preventing a competitor from competing by unfair business practices. If Facebook was preventing your competing social media network from registering a domain, connecting your servers to the internet, or dissuading advertisers from doing business with your platform - then you'd have a valid case to make that they're a monopoly.
FTC, Your base belong to the Zuck.
Perhaps you need to look up the definition of the word monopoly. Nothing prevents users from leaving the site for competing social media platforms, and in fact the younger generation doesn't really like Facebook.
If fraud is detected, block both the SIM as usual, and block the phone based on its IMEI number.
The global IMEI blacklist would do the job if Verizon was actually trying to prevent fraud. The real issue is the same situation that America Movil bitched about when people were unlocking and reselling TracFones - Verizon wants to offer carrier locked phones as a loss leader.
Verizon made a deal with the FCC so they have to make a new deal with them to change it.
Screw that. If Verizon no longer likes the terms they agreed to, the spectrum should go back up for auction. If the FCC wasn't so damn corrupt under the current administration, they'd tell Verizon to get bent.
If you're poor, you can end up spending more on all sorts of items, from utilities like gas and electricity to clothing and food. And largely because a lack of up front captital limits your choices.
Yup, too many people here missing the point that it's an analogy.
Since people seem to be far more familiar with car analogies, there's already a perfect one for this. Go to any buy-here-pay-here car dealer and it will become immediately obvious how much the poor overpay for absolute garbage.
(I have yet to see a libertarian win however)
Libertarianism's problem is that those who can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps are going to support candidates who lean more socialist, and those who got theirs (or those who are temporarily embarrassed millionaires*) are well served by the conservative candidates.
* Yeah, I realize it's a fallacy. It seems more likely the "have nots" who vote Republican do so because they feel they work very hard for the little bit they do earn, and don't like the idea that "deadbeats" are getting money for being lazy.
Why does your kid need a $500 plus phone to bring to school?
A quick check of Swappa reveals a used iPhone 7 is worth about $200. Adjusted for inflation (I'm 40), that would've been like me having a $120 gadget at school, when I was 16.
Doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. Sorry grandpa, you're just getting old like the rest of us.
If you want to change their votes, perhaps you could start by listening to their concerns, instead of telling them they are too stupid to vote properly.
The problem is, if the Democrats came out and said (for example) "Hey, we've been doing some soul searching and it turns out coal really isn't so bad", it would just appear to be disingenuous pandering to the Trump supporters, but would seriously piss off the environmentalists. The whole reason politics has become so polarized as of late is both sides are afraid of appearing "weak" to their base supporters, even if it costs them the ability to swing a few votes from the other side.
The myth that Republicans vote against their own interests is based on two fallacies:
1. That they share your views about what their "best interests" are. They don't.
If you support political positions which objectively worsen your standard of living - you're voting against your own best interests. If your standard of living has dropped, yet you still support the same party - you might want to read up on cogitative dissonance.
2. That poor states like Mississippi voted 100% Republican. Guess what? They didn't. Poor people in red states vote blue. It is the middle class where the Democrats lost.
Therein lies the problem our current implementation of Democracy. You only need a platform that >50% of the people who actually get off their ass and go vote feels is working well enough, to claim victory. If you really wanted to see parties attempting to cross the isle and work with everyone, require a bigger majority to win, and run off the election (as many times as necessary) if you don't get it the first time.
It will obviously never happen, because no politician would risk *any* controversial positions, if they knew they needed 60% (or thereabouts) of the vote to win.
Zero rating was originally going to be banned by the FCC under the General Conduct Rule, but when the FCC changed leadership the agency promptly green lighted and encouraged the industry to engage in zero rating practices before it began its repeal of net neutrality.
Elections have consequences. If you want a different outcome in 2020, work on getting the people who didn't vote off their asses and to the polls.
I'm also thoroughly convinced it's an exercise in futility attempting to convince Trump supporters to stop voting against their own best interests. Seems like as long as they get their cup full of "liberal tears", the world could burn down around them and they'd still be satisfied because their side was victorious. You'd have better luck teaching a pig to sing.
According to the FAA's own UAS guidelines:
Flying drones in and around stadiums is prohibited starting one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events:
Major League Baseball
National Football League
NCAA Division One Football
NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series races
Specifically, UAS operations are prohibited within a radius of three nautical miles of the stadium or venue.
source
The part the FAA left out is that this is all subject to change, depending on how much security theater they deem is necessary for a specific sportsball event. Granted, drone pilots are supposed to check NOTAMs before flying, but it's a little unreasonable to expect any restrictions to be active days before an event.
The airport drone scares are largely a ploy to get hobbyists out of the airspace which will be used for commercial delivery drones. Today will be the next generation's "good old days", when humans could still earn slave wages by delivering crap for Uber Eats and Amazon.
Bonus round:
I don't think the concept of purchasing movies is going to be around for too much longer, either. Hollywood has been pushing for a full-on subscription/pay-per-view business model ever since Circuit City's ill-fated Divx disc format.
I didn't say you can't get a small Android phone. The point was small flagship caliber phones are no longer made. You can get something small if you want a terrible CPU and camera (which reviews state is the case with that phone).
We're even expanding the use of coal for things like cooking pizzas. Seriously.
Not sure if the pizza delivery drivers roll coal while they deliver your coal-fired-pizza, but I wouldn't be surprised either.
Only in 'merica
No matter the we have to use MORE fuel to produce the power for my car as long as it is not consumed where my car is.
It depends where you live. In many places in the USA, you'd probably be "greener" by skipping the EV, buying the cheapest (ICE powered) economy car instead, and putting the money you saved towards photovoltaics on the roof of your home. The photovoltaics will also yield a better ROI than the EV.
Sad fact is, we've still got a way to go before EVs are anything more than a way for the rich (and rich-ish) to feel smug about their vehicle choice.