What percentage of the heavy industry in the US is under the jurisdiction of state and local governments that have signed up to these carbon reduction plans?
If Facebook and other social media companies dont like these new laws they should shut down all their German operations and have no employees, no servers, no infrastructure and no business presence in Germany and then say "we no longer have a presence in Germany therefore German law doesn't apply to us"
Yeah Google, Apple, Facebook and all the other bay area tech companies should just write fat cheques to whichever local governments they need to lobby in order for get the zoning laws changed so high density can be built. Get some property developers (the sort of people who would love to build such high density buildings if it was possible to do so) to throw some money into the pot as well.
The way the current government in Australia is going, we will probably be using coal for a very long time. They somehow think that someone out there will actually build new coal fired power stations in Australia despite all the evidence suggesting that no-one is interested and everyone in the industry has plans to exit coal going forward.
Same here, the free WiFi at shopping centres and retail locations and elsewhere is just too much of a hassle. My phone may not be as fast but its much easier to deal with, no need to visit some stupid page that may require you to create an account or register your email for marketing BS, no need to agree to pages of legaleze, no need to do anything else special.
Whats likely happening in this case is that people are watching illegal copies of the new TV shows before Ten actually gets around to showing them (because Ten are stupid and only show the new episodes of good TV shows many months after they have already aired in the USA). Then when they finally show up on Ten, everyone has seen them and doesn't care anymore.
Oh well, in a couple of months the NBN will be hitting my area (apparently) and I will need a new router that is compatible with the VDSL2 FTTN gear. Then I can buy one that doesn't suck and put open source firmware on it that sucks even less:)
If you want a whole bunch of fairly generic parts, you want the Classic sets in the yellow boxes. Plenty of fairly generic parts like bricks, roof tiles, windows, doors, wheels, windscreens and other things.
LEGO has had weapons in sets since the first Castle sets in 1978 (swords, axes and lances as well as shields and armor) and guns (muskets and pistols) since the first Pirates sets in 1989.
As for "internally developed IPs", LEGO was licensing car and truck brands as well as oil companies and others as far back as 1955. And regarding the claims that they dont make original ideas anymore and only make licensed stuff, themes like City, Creator, Elves, Friends, Nexo Knights, NinjaGo and Technic will prove you wrong on that. (and that's just the themes that have had sets released in 2017).
In terms of manufacturing, LEGO does not have any factories in Malaysia (they have a theme park there but no factories). They also don't outsource the manufacture of most of their parts or packaging processes (there are some parts that are made by 3rd parties for various reasons but most of them are made directly by LEGO in LEGO-owned factories in Denmark, China, Mexico, the Czech Republic and elsewhere) .
They also still produce hundreds of general purpose parts like bricks and roof pieces and so on alongside many more special purpose parts that can be used for other things other than the purpose they were designed for. The set I am currently building uses a part originally created as a hammer for Thor in the Super Heroes sets but uses it as an architectural detail rather than a hammer.
As someone who has many thousands of LEGO pieces (old and new) and just spent all weekend at a big LEGO exhibition as an exhibitor, I can tell you that you clearly dont know anything about LEGO if you think that all they make is overpriced licensed crap.
You need to check out sets like the 10255 Assembly Square, 42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator, 10194 Emerald Night, 10210 Imperial Flagship and 70751 Temple of Airjitzu. None of these sets are licensed and all of them are full of useful parts (including basic bricks and things).
If all you want is basic simple generic parts then the Classic line has boxes full of bricks, wheels, windows, doors, roof pieces and other "simple" parts.
Oh and if you think that all the licensed sets are crap, you clearly haven't seen sets like the 42056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters or 10179 Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon.
Too bad TI isn't still making mobile SOCs that can compete with the latest from Qualcomm, the TI OMAP CPU in my Nokia N900 is largely blob free with the exception of the PowerVR GPU drivers and some stuff for the DSP to do hardware accelerated video and the documentation I have seen for it is extremely comprehensive for the most part.
Considering that the information regarding all this talks about current/recent Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, they definitely contain all sorts of stuff you cant control. Qualcomm are worse than Intel when it comes to publishing any kind of technical specs for their processors or providing anything beyond binary blobs for key parts of the system.
On some Snapdragon parts (likely including the high-end stuff involved here) the CPU cores running the "application processor" stuff (e.g. the Linux kernel and Android userland on an Android device) are actually under the control of another bunch of code running on a separate untouchable CPU core (or cores).
I dont think there is too much danger of AMD going bust at this point given that both the XBOX One and PlayStation 4 are using custom AMD 64 bit CPUs and AMD Radion GPUs and neither system looks like disappearing anytime soon.
Food, Inc is well worth watching and exposes what's REALLY going on in the US food system. From the Earth to the Moon is hands down the best documentary out there on the Apollo program and the moon landings. If you have ever wondered about the history of the things all around us, Modern Marvels has episodes on everything from Whiskey to glue to Computers. The Internets Own Boy (all about Aaron Swartz)
If cable companies stopped buying the expensive sport (or put it into a "sports" package and charged extra for it) then maybe they might not be loosing money on their cable operations as much as they do now.
As far as I know every PS3 title can be decrypted and accessed since the root metldr keys (stored in unchangeable firmware) have been obtained which means every piece of the firmware can be decrypted in turn on down to the keys used to decrypt actual game disks (regardless of how old or new those disks are).
Not sure if Sony released a newer PS3 with new metldr keys but even if they did, just get the firmware update for the PS3 with the old metldr keys and work from that to get the latest keys for decrypting everything.
I haven't kept up with the latest developments in the PS3 hacking scene but I doubt there is any PS3 title out there (disk based or online) that can't be decrypted (actually signing things with the newer keys from after Sony fixed the flaws in their ECDSA implementation is another matter but you can always modify the firmware and game software to not do whatever it would normally do that would need those unobtainable private keys)
I use the ABC here in Australia as a source of news, both the website and the broadcast news. They don't spread FUD and BS or "fake news" (as far as I have seen anyway), they dont intentionally lie or twist the truth, they dont have to answer to advertisers or commercial interests and keep them happy and they are one of the few news outlets in the country still doing proper investigative journalism (4 Corners being the best example)
I also watch the PBS News Hour over on SBS as well as SBS World News.
On the other hand I refuse to go anywhere near ANY news outlet owned, run, controlled or influenced by Rupert Murdoch. The way he uses his newspaper empire to influence politicians and the voting public disgusts me and I wont have anything to do with it. I also will not subscribe to any Pay TV or streaming offerings owned or controlled by Mr Murdoch.
There is zero chance Microsoft can make a dent in the iOS/Android duopoly even in the markets where Windows Phone used to dominate back in the day (business etc) so why even bother trying?
Many of these booking sites (including all the big players) have clauses in the contracts that hotels sign when they list on the site that says they aren't allowed to offer the same thing cheaper anywhere else (including the hotels own site). Some jurisdictions have outlawed such practices but others (including here in Australia) haven't yet done so.
So the Hotels may not be able to offer a better deal if you book with them direct than they offer through the booking site without violating the contract.
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What percentage of the heavy industry in the US is under the jurisdiction of state and local governments that have signed up to these carbon reduction plans?
If Facebook and other social media companies dont like these new laws they should shut down all their German operations and have no employees, no servers, no infrastructure and no business presence in Germany and then say "we no longer have a presence in Germany therefore German law doesn't apply to us"
Yeah Google, Apple, Facebook and all the other bay area tech companies should just write fat cheques to whichever local governments they need to lobby in order for get the zoning laws changed so high density can be built. Get some property developers (the sort of people who would love to build such high density buildings if it was possible to do so) to throw some money into the pot as well.
The way the current government in Australia is going, we will probably be using coal for a very long time. They somehow think that someone out there will actually build new coal fired power stations in Australia despite all the evidence suggesting that no-one is interested and everyone in the industry has plans to exit coal going forward.
Same here, the free WiFi at shopping centres and retail locations and elsewhere is just too much of a hassle. My phone may not be as fast but its much easier to deal with, no need to visit some stupid page that may require you to create an account or register your email for marketing BS, no need to agree to pages of legaleze, no need to do anything else special.
Whats likely happening in this case is that people are watching illegal copies of the new TV shows before Ten actually gets around to showing them (because Ten are stupid and only show the new episodes of good TV shows many months after they have already aired in the USA). Then when they finally show up on Ten, everyone has seen them and doesn't care anymore.
Oh well, in a couple of months the NBN will be hitting my area (apparently) and I will need a new router that is compatible with the VDSL2 FTTN gear. Then I can buy one that doesn't suck and put open source firmware on it that sucks even less :)
But how much of that region locking is done in order to satisfy the BS that is "Canadian content regulations"?
Australia had CDMA as well under Telstra. That got shut down when 3G came along I believe.
Lets hope the absence of Netgear from the router list means my Netgear DGN2200M isn't vulnerable...
Yeah LEGO has awesome non-licensed sets starting as low as $5 (US RRP) and a huge range below $50 (US RRP)
That did happen, it got given away to someone who ended up using it more than me (I was there and I was happy to give it away).
All the stuff I have now is new stuff I bought as an adult.
If you want a whole bunch of fairly generic parts, you want the Classic sets in the yellow boxes.
Plenty of fairly generic parts like bricks, roof tiles, windows, doors, wheels, windscreens and other things.
LEGO has had weapons in sets since the first Castle sets in 1978 (swords, axes and lances as well as shields and armor) and guns (muskets and pistols) since the first Pirates sets in 1989.
As for "internally developed IPs", LEGO was licensing car and truck brands as well as oil companies and others as far back as 1955. And regarding the claims that they dont make original ideas anymore and only make licensed stuff, themes like City, Creator, Elves, Friends, Nexo Knights, NinjaGo and Technic will prove you wrong on that. (and that's just the themes that have had sets released in 2017).
In terms of manufacturing, LEGO does not have any factories in Malaysia (they have a theme park there but no factories). They also don't outsource the manufacture of most of their parts or packaging processes (there are some parts that are made by 3rd parties for various reasons but most of them are made directly by LEGO in LEGO-owned factories in Denmark, China, Mexico, the Czech Republic and elsewhere) .
They also still produce hundreds of general purpose parts like bricks and roof pieces and so on alongside many more special purpose parts that can be used for other things other than the purpose they were designed for. The set I am currently building uses a part originally created as a hammer for Thor in the Super Heroes sets but uses it as an architectural detail rather than a hammer.
As someone who has many thousands of LEGO pieces (old and new) and just spent all weekend at a big LEGO exhibition as an exhibitor, I can tell you that you clearly dont know anything about LEGO if you think that all they make is overpriced licensed crap.
You need to check out sets like the 10255 Assembly Square, 42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator, 10194 Emerald Night, 10210 Imperial Flagship and 70751 Temple of Airjitzu. None of these sets are licensed and all of them are full of useful parts (including basic bricks and things).
If all you want is basic simple generic parts then the Classic line has boxes full of bricks, wheels, windows, doors, roof pieces and other "simple" parts.
Oh and if you think that all the licensed sets are crap, you clearly haven't seen sets like the 42056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters or 10179 Ultimate Collectors Series Millennium Falcon.
Too bad TI isn't still making mobile SOCs that can compete with the latest from Qualcomm, the TI OMAP CPU in my Nokia N900 is largely blob free with the exception of the PowerVR GPU drivers and some stuff for the DSP to do hardware accelerated video and the documentation I have seen for it is extremely comprehensive for the most part.
Considering that the information regarding all this talks about current/recent Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, they definitely contain all sorts of stuff you cant control. Qualcomm are worse than Intel when it comes to publishing any kind of technical specs for their processors or providing anything beyond binary blobs for key parts of the system.
On some Snapdragon parts (likely including the high-end stuff involved here) the CPU cores running the "application processor" stuff (e.g. the Linux kernel and Android userland on an Android device) are actually under the control of another bunch of code running on a separate untouchable CPU core (or cores).
I dont think there is too much danger of AMD going bust at this point given that both the XBOX One and PlayStation 4 are using custom AMD 64 bit CPUs and AMD Radion GPUs and neither system looks like disappearing anytime soon.
Food, Inc is well worth watching and exposes what's REALLY going on in the US food system.
From the Earth to the Moon is hands down the best documentary out there on the Apollo program and the moon landings.
If you have ever wondered about the history of the things all around us, Modern Marvels has episodes on everything from Whiskey to glue to Computers.
The Internets Own Boy (all about Aaron Swartz)
If cable companies stopped buying the expensive sport (or put it into a "sports" package and charged extra for it) then maybe they might not be loosing money on their cable operations as much as they do now.
As far as I know every PS3 title can be decrypted and accessed since the root metldr keys (stored in unchangeable firmware) have been obtained which means every piece of the firmware can be decrypted in turn on down to the keys used to decrypt actual game disks (regardless of how old or new those disks are).
Not sure if Sony released a newer PS3 with new metldr keys but even if they did, just get the firmware update for the PS3 with the old metldr keys and work from that to get the latest keys for decrypting everything.
I haven't kept up with the latest developments in the PS3 hacking scene but I doubt there is any PS3 title out there (disk based or online) that can't be decrypted (actually signing things with the newer keys from after Sony fixed the flaws in their ECDSA implementation is another matter but you can always modify the firmware and game software to not do whatever it would normally do that would need those unobtainable private keys)
I use the ABC here in Australia as a source of news, both the website and the broadcast news.
They don't spread FUD and BS or "fake news" (as far as I have seen anyway), they dont intentionally lie or twist the truth, they dont have to answer to advertisers or commercial interests and keep them happy and they are one of the few news outlets in the country still doing proper investigative journalism (4 Corners being the best example)
I also watch the PBS News Hour over on SBS as well as SBS World News.
On the other hand I refuse to go anywhere near ANY news outlet owned, run, controlled or influenced by Rupert Murdoch.
The way he uses his newspaper empire to influence politicians and the voting public disgusts me and I wont have anything to do with it. I also will not subscribe to any Pay TV or streaming offerings owned or controlled by Mr Murdoch.
You cant trust ANY Intel processor made in the last decade not to have all kinds of backdoors and hidden code you cant look at.
There is zero chance Microsoft can make a dent in the iOS/Android duopoly even in the markets where Windows Phone used to dominate back in the day (business etc) so why even bother trying?
Many of these booking sites (including all the big players) have clauses in the contracts that hotels sign when they list on the site that says they aren't allowed to offer the same thing cheaper anywhere else (including the hotels own site). Some jurisdictions have outlawed such practices but others (including here in Australia) haven't yet done so.
So the Hotels may not be able to offer a better deal if you book with them direct than they offer through the booking site without violating the contract.