This hacker just demonstrated what gun advocates and critics of smart guns have been saying for years. The use of a gun is to stop a person or animal, often in a life or death situation. Guns are a powerful tool, and have historically relied on training to ensure gun safety and proper use. Smart guns attempt to take away some of that responsibility from the owner and in the process sacrifice key functionality. Guns have been developed over hundreds of years, and the modern gun is both extremely simple (relative to other technologies) and very reliable. As soon as you start adding other technologies, there are unintended consequences (or intended if you are a bit more cynical).
I am a firm believer in a constitutional amendment that subjects lawmakers first and foremost to their own legislation, and this is just another example of where that would be an excellent idea. I think that the every politician who voted to require smart guns who is armed, and every armed bodyguard that they have (all the gun grabbing libtard politicians are armed and/or have armed bodyguards BTW; classic do as I say, not as I do) should be required to carry only smart guns first and foremost. Tax dollars well spent in my opinion. That way they can experience the problems first hand (running out of battery or malfunctioning or being jammed by a wide band transmitter etc.) when their lives depend on it. After the first few politicians have their guns fail when their lives depend on it, I suspect their positions will change.
"However once in college the professors will often go, this is an education institution not a job placement firm, or vocational school."
And this is a fundamental problem with state run schools and tenure. Either the student is the customer or they aren't. If they are the customer, a simple complaint of any professor that spouts that kind of shit would result in disciplinary action or termination. The sad fact though is that colleges in general have moved so far into the brainwashing domain that only small vestiges remain from the days when college was about preparing you for a good job in the private sector. Professors today are far more concerned with making sure you engage in the proper group think than teaching the skill set needed for entering the work force.
Having worked with many degreed "engineers" from Asia and India, there is a huge variation in competence. Typically those that went through grad school in the US are solid engineers, however, those still in their home country are usually sub par for the field.
The article contains the problem. Engineering is very popular in India, thus, there are a lot of people getting the degree who have no business being engineers (this happens with any popular/trendy profession). However, engineering requires a certain mindset and a certain inherent intelligence. https://www.quora.com/How-do-t... If you don't have an IQ of at least 120 or higher, you will likely not do well as an engineer (your best hope is to get rapidly promoted to management, I have seen it happen numerous times). Since the median IQ is theoretically 100, and engineering is popular, you wind up with a sizable fraction who were able to cram their way through school, but who don't have the inherent capacity to do the job.
Hopefully with internships this will become more apparent to the affected students, allowing them to shift into other valuable but less intelligence intensive fields before they spend all 4 years on a field that they won't be successful in.
It seems like it would be a better solution to set up an array of directional antennas (since most of these calls are coming from VHF radios) and ignore the calls giving a location that is more than 90 degrees off from the vectored location of the radio origination signal. Keeping a voice print of the call and nailing these asshats for felonies if/when they ever do get caught is also a good idea though. Let them enjoy PMITA prison for 6 months and they will learn not to prank emergency services.
Yes, your smart phone has an integrated GPS that determines your location. Triangulating from cell towers is Hollywood fantasy and due to the uncertainty of signal strength due to things like weather, terrain, time of day etc, cell triangulation by cell tower is usually only grossly accurate (something like a 300m radius), whereas your GPS can give location down to less than a foot, and include elevation (though the consumer grade GPS has limitations on the accuracy you get while moving and while not connected to a network for security reasons). And yes, your cell often sends your location via GPS to your provider (and many other companies when you use their apps) and it also provides your GPS location with the new enhancements to e911 to help make sure that your call is routed to the correct first responders.
The reason Nixon was forced out in the end was that there as actually a criminal act (the Watergate break-in). So far there is zero evidence of criminal activity (meeting with someone, anyone, who says they have evidence that your political rival is engaged in criminal activity is not only perfectly legal, it is also your civic duty).
I might think the Russian investigation was legitimate if there were evidence that someone:
1. Actually hacked the election, which did not happen. 2. Actually had evidence of a criminal act of Trump during the election cycle (even working with a foreign power is not a crime, or Bill Clinton would have been impeached for working with China to get elected and Ted Kennedy would have gone to jail for soliciting Russian interference in the Regan re-election).
As it is, the Russian investigation is a witch hunt by partisans (nearly all of the people working under Mueller are either big Democrat donors or have previously WORKED FOR DEMOCRATS DIRECTLY.) Anyone who thinks that is fair is full of shit. The goal of the investigation is to try to find any crime so they can steal the election from Trump. If they can, they will catch him jaywalking 15 years ago and call it a high crime and try to get him impeached. In this day and age, every one of us probably breaks 5 laws a day so given enough time with unlimited resources, they will find something on Trump. Anyone who doesn't think this is true is either ignorant or lying.
The smartest thing for Trump to do is require them to report their findings to congress after 8 months of investigating (in a week or two) on the original allegation (Russian interference). If there is no evidence, you end the investigation for lack of evidence of any crime after 8 months of investigating and give Meuller a verbal spanking on the way out for trying to expand his investigation past it's original mandate and maybe open an investigation into Mueller, the other Democrat operative investigators and any collusion they had with that leaking piece of shit Comey who created this mess by not publicly announcing in February that Trump was not suspected of any wrongdoing regarding Russia after he told him in private on 3 separate occasions and then created the Muller investigation by leaking his notes which contained classified information in an attempt to set up Muller as a special prosecutor, which it did.
Yes, the president is immune to contempt of court, but not the FCC.
The FCC is not part of the executive branch:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (47 U.S.C. 151 and 47 U.S.C. 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. It reports directly to congress.
So no, it is not on Trump that the FCC is violating legal FOI requests and is in contempt of court. And it's members are not immune from contempt of court charges.
Sorry, that article has zero evidence of any Trump wrongdoing. He was a real estate developer. Organized crime sometimes used real estate investment to launder their money. That is the only factual evidence contained in that article, everything else is innuendo.
Please cite some actual evidence, not just regurgitating your left wing propaganda. Saying you are transparent (like Obama did) is not the same as being transparent. The Obama administration was the least transparent presidency in modern times, cutting out reporters regularly, using white house staff to photograph and film instead of reporters so they could control and "produce" events to their liking, stonewalling FOIs (there are still dozens pending from the Obama administration days) lying to judges so they can spy on AP and other reporters, and the list goes on.
Actually, the current administration is the most transparent in decades. The last administration was the least transparent based on actual facts and historical evidence (as opposed to liberal propaganda). Furthermore, the current ADMINISTRATION is populist in most of it's positions, as opposed to the Republican party in general who is much more pro business as you indicated.
Do what happens to anyone else when they disobey a court order. Send in the US Marshalls (FOI go through federal court I believe) and arrest everyone there and throw them in jail for a week for contempt of court. Then haul them before the judge and let them explain how they are going to meet the FOI and give them a week to do it. If they don't do it or make good faith progress, throw them back in jail and lose the key. Also revoke any position they hold for failure to discharge their office. That may happen automatically if they are charged and convicted of contempt of court.
If you plan ahead to do violence and then show up and do violence, we don't put up with that shit in the USA. Obama did for 8 years, but that ship has sailed. The best way to deal with rioters and looters is the national guard with live ammunition. Hooligan is just another name for thug.
You are regurgitating a lie. This is not what happened, and I challenge you to find actual people that can demonstrate they were credentialed journalists or had other proven legitimate reason for being there who were charged. This is just complete fabrication by the lefties to further inflame the microcephallics on the left.
Good, it's about damn time that the fascist progressives get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They chose to break the law. Obama and his DOJ were lawless enablers, Trump and his administration believe in the rule of law.
The rioters conspired to riot, damage property and assault people, now they are facing jail time. Cry me a river. If you want to have a peaceful protest, that is your right, but as soon as you hide your face and start destroying property and assaulting people, you deserve what you get.
I predict a court challenge in 3, 2, 1... Seriously, Etherium, Bitcoin and the like are unique mathematical stores of value, more similar to that rare drop you got in your MMO than a security instrument.
And you are apparently unfamiliar with judging a government based on it's actions and historical facts, not it's branding (60% of which was done 20 years later by socialist and communist professors looking for a way to draw moral equivalence between the atrocities on the left committed by the likes of Stalin and Mao and the utter lack of similar atrocities on the right).
$9 per soda, $4 for milk duds and $10 for a medium popcorn adds up fast. The last time I took the family, they wanted the full movie experience, just like they get at home (we usually make popcorn and have a soda on movie night). That was pretty close to the total damage. I spend about $10 on the same movie food at home (4x cold soda $2.50 for a 2L bottle, 1 large batch of popcorn with lots of butter and salt $2, some candy; skittles, M&Ms, milk duds, junior mints $2).
Alternatively, just because you wish 100,000,000 people weren't murdered by the left in the last 100 years globally doesn't make it untrue. I don't want anything about the left or the right, other than to know history and know the truth, and I am trying to explain it to those like you who have been lied to and brainwashed by liberal academics and the media with ulterior motives.
Nazi Germany was diametrically opposed to individualism, regardless of the propaganda you were fed, based on what they actually did: i.e. rounded up anyone who disagreed with them and put them in concentration camps. On the run up to Hitlers rise to power and the start of WW2, nearly all of the prisoners in concentration camps (some 27,000 people) were political prisoners/dissidents...
Individualism definition: a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
From the Holocaust museum website: "Unlike Western liberals or nationalists, the Nazis did not find value in individuality. For the Nazis, individualism was an egotistic, culture-corroding, Jewish value that would tear apart the fabric of the communal nation. The Nazis insisted that the individual had value only in his or her membership in the collective racial community."
No limited government country where most of the power is reserved to the individuals has ever lost their country to a dictator or had a holocaust. To put it simply, any government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take it all away. Does that mean that big government always leads to dictatorship? No. But historically, the socialist and communist countries have nearly always devolved into murderous dictatorships and murdered millions of their citizens brutally, while countries like the US with limited government have not. All it takes is one evil, charismatic leader in a country where government controls everything and you are living in a dictatorship.
Actually, California wouldn't get much of a tsunami from a quake in the CSZ, because it's coastline is parallel or at a negative angle to the path that the pulse wave would take. Take a look at California on a spherical map. Eureka and Trinidad would get clobbered, but everything south of the cape of California would be shielded from most of a tsunami (and most of California is south of that).
No, sorry, all the issues you cite are not what the big tech companies care about, they care about two things: 1. their costs (which include labor costs) and they care about 2. labor availability.
The primary reason that Silicon Valley is what it is is due to the large pool of talent that exists there. You are much more likely to get an on-shoring factory to come to your town than an actual tech company, because the factory requires far fewer people with advanced degrees to run than the core business of something like Apple or Google who needs literally thousands of MS/PhD degreed people to work on the various projects.
Now that I would believe, which is one of the reasons why my family only drinks RO filtered water (made by my RO filter under my sink). That and I prefer not to drink the chemical waste from the aluminum fabrication process (sodium fluoride)...
Not sure if that is the cause, but the issue you describe is related to the fact that most fruits and vegetables these days are grown far away, and to save money on refrigeration, the fruit is picked green and allowed to ripen in transit. The downside is that the chemical processes are not the same as ripening on the tree/vine/etc. and you wind up with highly acidic produce lacking in some nutrients.
Nationalism is not a uniquely right wing trait (see Communist China/Russia/North Korea/etc.) furthermore, nationalism is a necessary, healthy thing unless the underpinning country is corrupt or evil. Sorry, nice try though.
The Nazis were definitely not supporters of individualism (they would shoot you or throw you in a concentration camp if you didn't do what Hitler wanted and kiss his boots). Strike two.
The Nazis were able to become villains because of the power concentrated in the government. If they had had a weak national government and a well armed Jewish minority, things would have turned out very differently. Strike three.
Just because you believe or have been feed a line of BS doesn't make it so.
Thanks, I was not familiar with this product, I will check it out (though I prefer Amazon, since the randos on Ebay would sell you a ziplock bag and call it fire retardant if they thought they could get away with it.)
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This hacker just demonstrated what gun advocates and critics of smart guns have been saying for years. The use of a gun is to stop a person or animal, often in a life or death situation. Guns are a powerful tool, and have historically relied on training to ensure gun safety and proper use. Smart guns attempt to take away some of that responsibility from the owner and in the process sacrifice key functionality. Guns have been developed over hundreds of years, and the modern gun is both extremely simple (relative to other technologies) and very reliable. As soon as you start adding other technologies, there are unintended consequences (or intended if you are a bit more cynical).
I am a firm believer in a constitutional amendment that subjects lawmakers first and foremost to their own legislation, and this is just another example of where that would be an excellent idea. I think that the every politician who voted to require smart guns who is armed, and every armed bodyguard that they have (all the gun grabbing libtard politicians are armed and/or have armed bodyguards BTW; classic do as I say, not as I do) should be required to carry only smart guns first and foremost. Tax dollars well spent in my opinion. That way they can experience the problems first hand (running out of battery or malfunctioning or being jammed by a wide band transmitter etc.) when their lives depend on it. After the first few politicians have their guns fail when their lives depend on it, I suspect their positions will change.
"However once in college the professors will often go, this is an education institution not a job placement firm, or vocational school."
And this is a fundamental problem with state run schools and tenure. Either the student is the customer or they aren't. If they are the customer, a simple complaint of any professor that spouts that kind of shit would result in disciplinary action or termination. The sad fact though is that colleges in general have moved so far into the brainwashing domain that only small vestiges remain from the days when college was about preparing you for a good job in the private sector. Professors today are far more concerned with making sure you engage in the proper group think than teaching the skill set needed for entering the work force.
Having worked with many degreed "engineers" from Asia and India, there is a huge variation in competence. Typically those that went through grad school in the US are solid engineers, however, those still in their home country are usually sub par for the field.
The article contains the problem. Engineering is very popular in India, thus, there are a lot of people getting the degree who have no business being engineers (this happens with any popular/trendy profession). However, engineering requires a certain mindset and a certain inherent intelligence. https://www.quora.com/How-do-t... If you don't have an IQ of at least 120 or higher, you will likely not do well as an engineer (your best hope is to get rapidly promoted to management, I have seen it happen numerous times). Since the median IQ is theoretically 100, and engineering is popular, you wind up with a sizable fraction who were able to cram their way through school, but who don't have the inherent capacity to do the job.
Hopefully with internships this will become more apparent to the affected students, allowing them to shift into other valuable but less intelligence intensive fields before they spend all 4 years on a field that they won't be successful in.
It seems like it would be a better solution to set up an array of directional antennas (since most of these calls are coming from VHF radios) and ignore the calls giving a location that is more than 90 degrees off from the vectored location of the radio origination signal. Keeping a voice print of the call and nailing these asshats for felonies if/when they ever do get caught is also a good idea though. Let them enjoy PMITA prison for 6 months and they will learn not to prank emergency services.
Ummm, wow. No and no.
Yes, your smart phone has an integrated GPS that determines your location. Triangulating from cell towers is Hollywood fantasy and due to the uncertainty of signal strength due to things like weather, terrain, time of day etc, cell triangulation by cell tower is usually only grossly accurate (something like a 300m radius), whereas your GPS can give location down to less than a foot, and include elevation (though the consumer grade GPS has limitations on the accuracy you get while moving and while not connected to a network for security reasons). And yes, your cell often sends your location via GPS to your provider (and many other companies when you use their apps) and it also provides your GPS location with the new enhancements to e911 to help make sure that your call is routed to the correct first responders.
The reason Nixon was forced out in the end was that there as actually a criminal act (the Watergate break-in). So far there is zero evidence of criminal activity (meeting with someone, anyone, who says they have evidence that your political rival is engaged in criminal activity is not only perfectly legal, it is also your civic duty).
I might think the Russian investigation was legitimate if there were evidence that someone:
1. Actually hacked the election, which did not happen.
2. Actually had evidence of a criminal act of Trump during the election cycle (even working with a foreign power is not a crime, or Bill Clinton would have been impeached for working with China to get elected and Ted Kennedy would have gone to jail for soliciting Russian interference in the Regan re-election).
As it is, the Russian investigation is a witch hunt by partisans (nearly all of the people working under Mueller are either big Democrat donors or have previously WORKED FOR DEMOCRATS DIRECTLY.) Anyone who thinks that is fair is full of shit. The goal of the investigation is to try to find any crime so they can steal the election from Trump. If they can, they will catch him jaywalking 15 years ago and call it a high crime and try to get him impeached. In this day and age, every one of us probably breaks 5 laws a day so given enough time with unlimited resources, they will find something on Trump. Anyone who doesn't think this is true is either ignorant or lying.
The smartest thing for Trump to do is require them to report their findings to congress after 8 months of investigating (in a week or two) on the original allegation (Russian interference). If there is no evidence, you end the investigation for lack of evidence of any crime after 8 months of investigating and give Meuller a verbal spanking on the way out for trying to expand his investigation past it's original mandate and maybe open an investigation into Mueller, the other Democrat operative investigators and any collusion they had with that leaking piece of shit Comey who created this mess by not publicly announcing in February that Trump was not suspected of any wrongdoing regarding Russia after he told him in private on 3 separate occasions and then created the Muller investigation by leaking his notes which contained classified information in an attempt to set up Muller as a special prosecutor, which it did.
Yes, the president is immune to contempt of court, but not the FCC.
The FCC is not part of the executive branch:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (47 U.S.C. 151 and 47 U.S.C. 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. It reports directly to congress.
So no, it is not on Trump that the FCC is violating legal FOI requests and is in contempt of court. And it's members are not immune from contempt of court charges.
Sorry, that article has zero evidence of any Trump wrongdoing. He was a real estate developer. Organized crime sometimes used real estate investment to launder their money. That is the only factual evidence contained in that article, everything else is innuendo.
Feel free to cite actual facts. Your libtard bias/innuendo doesn't count for shit in the real world.
Please cite some actual evidence, not just regurgitating your left wing propaganda. Saying you are transparent (like Obama did) is not the same as being transparent. The Obama administration was the least transparent presidency in modern times, cutting out reporters regularly, using white house staff to photograph and film instead of reporters so they could control and "produce" events to their liking, stonewalling FOIs (there are still dozens pending from the Obama administration days) lying to judges so they can spy on AP and other reporters, and the list goes on.
Actually, the current administration is the most transparent in decades. The last administration was the least transparent based on actual facts and historical evidence (as opposed to liberal propaganda). Furthermore, the current ADMINISTRATION is populist in most of it's positions, as opposed to the Republican party in general who is much more pro business as you indicated.
Do what happens to anyone else when they disobey a court order. Send in the US Marshalls (FOI go through federal court I believe) and arrest everyone there and throw them in jail for a week for contempt of court. Then haul them before the judge and let them explain how they are going to meet the FOI and give them a week to do it. If they don't do it or make good faith progress, throw them back in jail and lose the key. Also revoke any position they hold for failure to discharge their office. That may happen automatically if they are charged and convicted of contempt of court.
If you plan ahead to do violence and then show up and do violence, we don't put up with that shit in the USA. Obama did for 8 years, but that ship has sailed. The best way to deal with rioters and looters is the national guard with live ammunition. Hooligan is just another name for thug.
You are regurgitating a lie. This is not what happened, and I challenge you to find actual people that can demonstrate they were credentialed journalists or had other proven legitimate reason for being there who were charged. This is just complete fabrication by the lefties to further inflame the microcephallics on the left.
Good, it's about damn time that the fascist progressives get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They chose to break the law. Obama and his DOJ were lawless enablers, Trump and his administration believe in the rule of law.
The rioters conspired to riot, damage property and assault people, now they are facing jail time. Cry me a river. If you want to have a peaceful protest, that is your right, but as soon as you hide your face and start destroying property and assaulting people, you deserve what you get.
I predict a court challenge in 3, 2, 1... Seriously, Etherium, Bitcoin and the like are unique mathematical stores of value, more similar to that rare drop you got in your MMO than a security instrument.
And you are apparently unfamiliar with judging a government based on it's actions and historical facts, not it's branding (60% of which was done 20 years later by socialist and communist professors looking for a way to draw moral equivalence between the atrocities on the left committed by the likes of Stalin and Mao and the utter lack of similar atrocities on the right).
$9 per soda, $4 for milk duds and $10 for a medium popcorn adds up fast. The last time I took the family, they wanted the full movie experience, just like they get at home (we usually make popcorn and have a soda on movie night). That was pretty close to the total damage. I spend about $10 on the same movie food at home (4x cold soda $2.50 for a 2L bottle, 1 large batch of popcorn with lots of butter and salt $2, some candy; skittles, M&Ms, milk duds, junior mints $2).
Alternatively, just because you wish 100,000,000 people weren't murdered by the left in the last 100 years globally doesn't make it untrue. I don't want anything about the left or the right, other than to know history and know the truth, and I am trying to explain it to those like you who have been lied to and brainwashed by liberal academics and the media with ulterior motives.
Nazi Germany was diametrically opposed to individualism, regardless of the propaganda you were fed, based on what they actually did: i.e. rounded up anyone who disagreed with them and put them in concentration camps. On the run up to Hitlers rise to power and the start of WW2, nearly all of the prisoners in concentration camps (some 27,000 people) were political prisoners/dissidents...
Individualism definition: a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
From the Holocaust museum website:
"Unlike Western liberals or nationalists, the Nazis did not find value in individuality. For the Nazis, individualism was an egotistic, culture-corroding, Jewish value that would tear apart the fabric of the communal nation. The Nazis insisted that the individual had value only in his or her membership in the collective racial community."
No limited government country where most of the power is reserved to the individuals has ever lost their country to a dictator or had a holocaust. To put it simply, any government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take it all away. Does that mean that big government always leads to dictatorship? No. But historically, the socialist and communist countries have nearly always devolved into murderous dictatorships and murdered millions of their citizens brutally, while countries like the US with limited government have not. All it takes is one evil, charismatic leader in a country where government controls everything and you are living in a dictatorship.
Actually, California wouldn't get much of a tsunami from a quake in the CSZ, because it's coastline is parallel or at a negative angle to the path that the pulse wave would take. Take a look at California on a spherical map. Eureka and Trinidad would get clobbered, but everything south of the cape of California would be shielded from most of a tsunami (and most of California is south of that).
No, sorry, all the issues you cite are not what the big tech companies care about, they care about two things:
1. their costs (which include labor costs) and they care about
2. labor availability.
The primary reason that Silicon Valley is what it is is due to the large pool of talent that exists there. You are much more likely to get an on-shoring factory to come to your town than an actual tech company, because the factory requires far fewer people with advanced degrees to run than the core business of something like Apple or Google who needs literally thousands of MS/PhD degreed people to work on the various projects.
Now that I would believe, which is one of the reasons why my family only drinks RO filtered water (made by my RO filter under my sink). That and I prefer not to drink the chemical waste from the aluminum fabrication process (sodium fluoride)...
Not sure if that is the cause, but the issue you describe is related to the fact that most fruits and vegetables these days are grown far away, and to save money on refrigeration, the fruit is picked green and allowed to ripen in transit. The downside is that the chemical processes are not the same as ripening on the tree/vine/etc. and you wind up with highly acidic produce lacking in some nutrients.
Nationalism is not a uniquely right wing trait (see Communist China/Russia/North Korea/etc.) furthermore, nationalism is a necessary, healthy thing unless the underpinning country is corrupt or evil. Sorry, nice try though.
The Nazis were definitely not supporters of individualism (they would shoot you or throw you in a concentration camp if you didn't do what Hitler wanted and kiss his boots). Strike two.
The Nazis were able to become villains because of the power concentrated in the government. If they had had a weak national government and a well armed Jewish minority, things would have turned out very differently. Strike three.
Just because you believe or have been feed a line of BS doesn't make it so.
Thanks, I was not familiar with this product, I will check it out (though I prefer Amazon, since the randos on Ebay would sell you a ziplock bag and call it fire retardant if they thought they could get away with it.)