A&W in Canada has been selling a "beyond meet" burger since last year. It's not exactly like beef, but I think that it's a welcome difference from it's veggie patty. I'm fine with eating either one.
That's when Trump declared his 'national emergency" and funneled money away from the project.
Now the 'Space force' is limited to building radar systems to detect Mexican drug runners using catapults to fling their drugs over the new border wall.
Alas! it was an idea with such high aspirations...
Cash is legal tender. Plastic is not. If I offer you cash (in reasonable denominations) to pay a debt and you refuse it, then the debt is cancelled. That's the law in Canada. Canada inherits that from British common law -- just like the US but with a later fork. This is an ancient principle, so it's likely to be the same in the US unless there was an explicit change.
In this case (hair done), the debt is incurred so you don't even have the excuse of forward negotiation.
For completeness: The debt can be incurred before the product is taken. If you run the items through the cash register and say "Total: $19.56", I now have a functional debt. If I hand you a $20 and walk away, the debt is paid.
Of course: IANAL.. YMMV.
One specific incident. i had a programing problem that I couldn't solve. I was about to post to Usenet (80s) asking for advice. Just before I posted my problem I stopped and asked: "If someone else posted this problem, what would I tell them?"
I then followed my own advice, and it solved the problem that I couldn't solve on my own.
Yeah, not much use for it right now, but the Wright brothers' initial technology wasn't that useful, either. A century later, some people consider propeller driven aircraft reasonably functional..
The US government using Russian-made software to secure their machines is like the time that they
let Russian workers build the Moscow embassy. It ended up being so bug-ridden that they had to rebuild parts of the new building in order to have a secure zone.
Yeah!.. Same thing with Columbine, The Oklahoma bombing and Sandy Hook.
Hold on.. Those were all right wing white Christians. Nobody would have been afraid of being called racist for ratting out right wing white Christians!... So how did those people not get stopped? Because police were afraid to be seen taking down white kids? Should police be more nasty to white folk too?
Uhm, no. It's not about porn. It's about control over, and access to, what people say to each other in private.
The death toll in this attack is roughly equal to the number of people who have died in the UK because of DUI. The only difference is that DUI deaths are so common and so continuous that they're rarely front page news, much less international news.
In the US, you have on average, 650 gun deaths per week. 500 can be attributed to 'Christians'. Less than one per week can be attributed to 'Muslim Extremists'..
For me, the difference between an archive and a backup is that a backup is usually offline (i.e. unavailable and not intended to be available) while an archive is usually 'live' in some way.
It makes sense to me to make backups of your archives (although possibly at a lower frequency than your 'live' data). It also makes perfect sense to use your backups to make an archive.
By this rule 'live backups' that are (semi) online and available for users without other human interaction are actually archives. They don't technically become backups until you put them in vault or take them off-site. (and put them in storage).
The reason why I make this distinction is that archives (like RAID) are still vulnerable to online corruption.
That's $300/month. Still cheaper to buy a burner phone and forward my calls.
The big three cell companies in Canada have similar plans.. they suck. I'm with Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile since they got bought out). They have a plan for roaming in the US for about $10/month.
That's the kind of pricing that you should be paying. The cost of dealing with roamers for the companies are probably in the pennies per day. Those plans are almost 100% profit. The only reason why they get away with it is that "everybody does it".. and regulators allow them to get away with it because lawmakers are paid off by the companies making these massive profits (earned off of our backs).
It crosses our orbit which means that -- now that we know where it is -- we will probably notice that it comes 'near' earth on a semi-regular basis, and it may impact us sooner or later (sooner rather than later).. I, for one, am happy that it's not big enough to destroy more than a town or two if hits in a populated area -- rather than leaving a hole big enough to be noticed on a full-world map.
At the very least it's criminal mischief -- denying someone the legal use of their property. You can add all sorts of cyber crimes to the pool as well -- like using zombie servers means accessing (hundreds of) thousands of people's computers without authorization or permission.
The next thing to look at is whether or not this is just a dress rehearsal for a real attack. My guess is that this is just a test... They want to know what it takes to shut down a chunk of the internet. Next time will be the real act of 'terrorism'.
QOS is built into the Internet standard, and allow apps to self identify to qualify for a type of service.. -- but an ISP can't randomly (after payment!) put google mail ahead of hotmail, or charge people different for one vs the other.
So when every yahoo on your segment fires up BitTorrent your VoIP stops working? No thank you.
They're making all of this GPL code available on a commercial basis. I believe that this makes them responsible for making a source repository available. (been a while since I (re) read the pertinent sections of the GPL.
That's about $3/account. I'm pretty sure that they made more than $3 per improperly opened account. My guess is that they're going to wait for people to complain, and hope that most people don't take the time to go through the bureaucratic process needed to claim the refunds (a process that will probably be much more involved than the one needed to open the fake accounts in the first place.
You find me a bank that's not making money! They were making money. They just weren't making enough money for the executives' liking -- so they were pressured into increasing their profits 'or else'.
Executives and senior managers got their bonuses, and the line staff ultimately got the shaft.
Is a gun responsible for a shooting? If I build a Rube-Goldberg machine to drop a rock on your head, is the machine responsible?
In this case, doing harm was the intent of the machine and/or it's programming. As such, the maker is clearly responsible. If the harm was unintended/unexpected and there were no clear negligence, then I'd have a completely different conversation on this.
Things get more difficult as you get further away from the original source, but -- generally speaking -- if the result is generally what you intended from an action (or series of actions), then it's pretty clear that you're responsible. This is even true where there is a human intermediary. If I pay a hitman to kill my ex wife, I can still be arrested for first degree murder -- even if he kills the wrong person by mistake.
While I have no problem with Google nailing pedos on the net, the problem I have with them searching through private images to do so is that it opens up a slippery slope for searching for other content that certain people might find 'subversive'... like being a Bernie supporter, or wanting to turn in certain kinds of corruption.
The privacy of private information that Google has access to needs to remain sacrosanct or there will be a huge pile of people walking away from Google.
That's interesting because you haven't provided any details about the subjects for which he is supposedly spreading ignorance. It looks to me like a symptom of you, yourself, being a victim of ignorance spreading about Sanders.
Have you been to his site to examine what his actual principles and platforms are?
Lots of people knew nothing of him a year ago. Many people still do.. The mainstream press (et al) continue to deny him coverage, and spread obfuscating data about what he stands for.
Doesn't have to just be scientific knowledge that you can spread ignorance about.
It looks to me like the main reason why the DOE turned sour on Thorium was that it was essentially useless for weapons production. As we've backed away from Uranium plants as seeds for the weapons industry, thorium should have looked better. Unfortunately we now have all of the sunk investment in Uranium technology. The MBAs like to chase their sunk investments.
From a financial prospective, it's also harder to lock in LFTR plants to your fuel source. The fuel for Uranium plants is very specific, so you can say "buy your fuel from us, or your plants go BOOM." Thorium plants, on the other hand, can (and should) reprocess their fuel on site, and just need to replenish the spent thorium to keep going... Not a good source of continuous high-margin sales for a plant manufacturer like Uranium plants are.
..... There is no point in backing wind/solar with ordinary hydro because you might as well just use the ordinary hydro and forget the wind/solar.
No. You use the wind/solar instead of hydro when they're available. This preserves the Hydro as on-demand for peak times and/or when wind/solar are unavailable. If wind/solar are ever more than enough to handle the region's power, then you can look at pumping storage, but we're nowhere near that point right now.
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They've also just come out with a beyond-meat type sausage patty for their breakfast menu.
A&W in Canada has been selling a "beyond meet" burger since last year. It's not exactly like beef, but I think that it's a welcome difference from it's veggie patty. I'm fine with eating either one.
Now the 'Space force' is limited to building radar systems to detect Mexican drug runners using catapults to fling their drugs over the new border wall.
Alas! it was an idea with such high aspirations ...
Cash is legal tender. Plastic is not. If I offer you cash (in reasonable denominations) to pay a debt and you refuse it, then the debt is cancelled. That's the law in Canada. Canada inherits that from British common law -- just like the US but with a later fork. This is an ancient principle, so it's likely to be the same in the US unless there was an explicit change. In this case (hair done), the debt is incurred so you don't even have the excuse of forward negotiation. For completeness: The debt can be incurred before the product is taken. If you run the items through the cash register and say "Total: $19.56", I now have a functional debt. If I hand you a $20 and walk away, the debt is paid. Of course: IANAL .. YMMV.
I then followed my own advice, and it solved the problem that I couldn't solve on my own.
Yeah, not much use for it right now, but the Wright brothers' initial technology wasn't that useful, either. A century later, some people consider propeller driven aircraft reasonably functional..
or $60K for each New York job. Not sure if it's worth it.
The US government using Russian-made software to secure their machines is like the time that they let Russian workers build the Moscow embassy. It ended up being so bug-ridden that they had to rebuild parts of the new building in order to have a secure zone.
Hold on.. Those were all right wing white Christians. Nobody would have been afraid of being called racist for ratting out right wing white Christians! ... So how did those people not get stopped? Because police were afraid to be seen taking down white kids? Should police be more nasty to white folk too?
The death toll in this attack is roughly equal to the number of people who have died in the UK because of DUI. The only difference is that DUI deaths are so common and so continuous that they're rarely front page news, much less international news.
In the US, you have on average, 650 gun deaths per week. 500 can be attributed to 'Christians'. Less than one per week can be attributed to 'Muslim Extremists'..
By this rule 'live backups' that are (semi) online and available for users without other human interaction are actually archives. They don't technically become backups until you put them in vault or take them off-site. (and put them in storage).
The reason why I make this distinction is that archives (like RAID) are still vulnerable to online corruption.
That's the kind of pricing that you should be paying. The cost of dealing with roamers for the companies are probably in the pennies per day. Those plans are almost 100% profit. The only reason why they get away with it is that "everybody does it" .. and regulators allow them to get away with it because lawmakers are paid off by the companies making these massive profits (earned off of our backs).
It crosses our orbit which means that -- now that we know where it is -- we will probably notice that it comes 'near' earth on a semi-regular basis, and it may impact us sooner or later (sooner rather than later).. I, for one, am happy that it's not big enough to destroy more than a town or two if hits in a populated area -- rather than leaving a hole big enough to be noticed on a full-world map.
The next thing to look at is whether or not this is just a dress rehearsal for a real attack. My guess is that this is just a test... They want to know what it takes to shut down a chunk of the internet. Next time will be the real act of 'terrorism'.
So when every yahoo on your segment fires up BitTorrent your VoIP stops working? No thank you.
Basic prioritization: 1. Realtime Communications Traffic (VoIP) 2. Remote interactive sessions (RDP/SSH/Games/etc..) .....
They're making all of this GPL code available on a commercial basis. I believe that this makes them responsible for making a source repository available. (been a while since I (re) read the pertinent sections of the GPL.
Cynical?? yep!
Executives and senior managers got their bonuses, and the line staff ultimately got the shaft.
In this case, doing harm was the intent of the machine and/or it's programming. As such, the maker is clearly responsible. If the harm was unintended/unexpected and there were no clear negligence, then I'd have a completely different conversation on this.
Things get more difficult as you get further away from the original source, but -- generally speaking -- if the result is generally what you intended from an action (or series of actions), then it's pretty clear that you're responsible. This is even true where there is a human intermediary. If I pay a hitman to kill my ex wife, I can still be arrested for first degree murder -- even if he kills the wrong person by mistake.
The privacy of private information that Google has access to needs to remain sacrosanct or there will be a huge pile of people walking away from Google.
Again, no real details. e.g. What does he say that 'other "advanced nations" do' that are 'also nonsense'?
That's interesting because you haven't provided any details about the subjects for which he is supposedly spreading ignorance. It looks to me like a symptom of you, yourself, being a victim of ignorance spreading about Sanders.
Have you been to his site to examine what his actual principles and platforms are?
That's because Sanders is spreading ignorance.
Doesn't have to just be scientific knowledge that you can spread ignorance about.
From a financial prospective, it's also harder to lock in LFTR plants to your fuel source. The fuel for Uranium plants is very specific, so you can say "buy your fuel from us, or your plants go BOOM." Thorium plants, on the other hand, can (and should) reprocess their fuel on site, and just need to replenish the spent thorium to keep going... Not a good source of continuous high-margin sales for a plant manufacturer like Uranium plants are.
..... There is no point in backing wind/solar with ordinary hydro because you might as well just use the ordinary hydro and forget the wind/solar.
No. You use the wind/solar instead of hydro when they're available. This preserves the Hydro as on-demand for peak times and/or when wind/solar are unavailable. If wind/solar are ever more than enough to handle the region's power, then you can look at pumping storage, but we're nowhere near that point right now.