That's nice, but you're shooting the messenger instead of actually looking to see whether or not the information presented is true or false.
To give you another example: Project Veritas does a video on ACORN. Progressives flip their shit and call it fake, it's not. They then try the same with Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissues, organs and bodies. They then most recently try with the facebook "deboosting" and targeting particular viewpoints to supress them. In all cases, the media poisoned the well. The information wasn't fake. People believe it, people then most likely refuse to look at a particular point of view because 'reasons' that sound good. In turn, people accept a falsehood because someone created a talking point that the truth was uncomfortable for "insert group."
If there is a conflict of interest, but the truth is being presented and not disputed. That doesn't make the truth any less noteworthy.
Please give your Kelly Ann Conway impression a rest and and try to address the real problem which is that you are struggling to understand the concept of conflict of interests. Are you seriously trying to convince us that a single report written by a think tank which is funded by oil companies who have a vested interest in killing off the renewable energy industry is enough to completely discredit all renewables? That PowerPoint presentation should be taken with several table spoons of salt for that reason alone.
That's fine if you don't like the messenger. Here's what I'd like to know, was anything they said a lie?
You don't like the message so you kill the messenger, that does not change the truth. If they lied then what's the truth? Do you have counterexamples?
I have an issue with the idea that picking one single example of one town in Texas from a report made by an institute funded by people with vested interests in discrediting the renewable energy industry should be taken as the irrefutable truth. If you want to discredit renewables I won't even get up out of my armchair to answer the phone until you have got multiple sources of data that do not have a massive conflict of interest, like a conservative think tank funded by oil companies and your dataset consists of quite a lot more than a single town in Texas that signed some rather ill conceived long term fixed price contracts.
Because stating that renewables are not currently competitive and sufficient is the exact same thing as writing them off. Try real arguments instead of hyperbole.
America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.
It's currently technologically impossible for renewables to provide baseload power at a competitive, or even reasonable, price, and will not do so anytime in the near future no matter how much religious environmentalists claim otherwise.
Firstly, here is some background on your source:
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas.... In 2015, TPPF had total revenue of $10.8 million. Donors to the organisation include energy companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel interests.
That place is as likely to deliver an unbiased assessment of whatever went on in Georgetown Texas as mice re likely to give an unbiased assessment of cats. From what I can gather about Georgetown Texas from other sources, their problem seems to have been that they made some really badly advised long term fixed price contracts for renewable energy. That is too bad for Georgetown Texas but hardly a reason for the rest of us to write off wind and solar power and grid storage because a bunch of useful idiots at a conservative think tank funded by oil companies says so.
Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor.
You're missing availability. Piracy is better than having 10 bloody game stores independently running on a PC, multiple different libraries of music that can't talk to each other, multiple different services offering streaming etc...
That would be because app stores should really just be a front for web services that 3rd party clients plug into to buy and download/cache your purchases thus allowing you to have all your crap in one place instead of every service having its own client. The same incidentally goes for movie streaming services like Netflix. Having said that, he did point out that most of this music is DRM free now so there is nothing preventing you from keeping all your music in one place except laziness. Come to think of it, I'd actually be surprised if there aren't several music-managers on the market already that allow you to fuse your various proprietary music libraries into one UI pretty easily
Didn't we already have this discussion 8 years ago ???
Or over 15 years ago - when the iTunes music store first opened and started selling music for 99 cents.
Like who would pay 99 cents for a music track they could pirate for free? Yet, the convenience of just finding it and clicking buy was much easier than Napster and friends and hoping it wasn't a mislabeled track. Plus the convenience of having it in a minute after purchase.
Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide To Cope With Job...
Are you surprised? They have to spend their days wading through the torrent of raw stupidity that are Facebook comments every moment of every working day. That is bound to destroy your faith in humanity as a a species and drive you to the brink of suicidal depression.
This is where the person marks whether or not they are interested in seeing the film.
Super hero movies are boring. It's just 2+ hours of mindless action and CGI and a plot that was written for 8 year-olds. But what should I expect. This shit is based on comic books.
Comic books which were written for 8 year olds. Having said that, even bad superhero movies still beat “Atlas Shrugged”, the movie which is supposedly high literature.
And yet they continue to violate the GPDR and the Canadian Constitutional Right of Privacy.
Because you won't jail them.
Fines won't work.
The only thing these bozos learn from is what the EU does, fines, lots of fines in amounts so high it makes them squeal like boar on the end of a spear.
Huawei is not a private company. It is a state-run institution. The only private companies in China are small to medium operations. Everything big enough to be strategically important is owned and/or managed by the Chinese army or the Chinese Communist Party.
Americans tend to assume that the rest of the world is like the US, but it isn't. Here, we have private companies. They are usually willing to cooperate to some extent with the government, but they are still mostly privately owned and managed. That is approximately the current situation throughout most of Western Civilization, but it is actually quite rare elsewhere.
Most importantly, China does not run on that model at all. The Chinese Communist Party owns the government and military, which in turn owns almost all of the industry and technology.
Imagine if the NSA got into the business of building cell phone network equipment using chips produced by the Air Force Cyber Command's semiconductor foundry and financed as a joint venture by the CIA and the Pentagon. No big deal, right?
Huawei is not owned by the Chinese state. It is owned by the company's employees, Ren Zhengfei (founder & CEO) and some of the managers with the latter two probably owning a majority of the shares. The Company employees shares are managed by the employee union.
The US has squandered its credibility. I can't say that Huawei inspires me with trust, but US accusations mean nothing.
... and now that the US is being ruled by New York's village idiot and has decided to isolate itself, the EU is beginning to move closer to the fastest growing, and soon to be largest single economy in the world. The real irony of the situation is that this entire evolution is being driven by Trumpism and would not be happening if it wasn't for the Trump administration. American politics has devolved into a foot shooting contest.
If you look at the history of mathematics, Arabs and Greeks optimistically ended their math education in the third year of high school. The really interesting things were discovered after 1700, perhaps with the exception of calculus, which was discovered after 1600.
Really? It is fascinating to see that somebody managed to cram so much arrogance and ignorance combined into a single statement. Algebra is an invention with roots in ancient Babylonia and with contributions from the Greeks but that in it's modern form largely came from the Islamic world. It is considered to be a critical invention because it is the gate keeper to all higher mathematics. As for Geometry, where the Greeks made a a huge contribution, it is kind of descriptive of it's importance that one of the two times Isaac Newton was heard to laugh is when somebody asked what the point of Euclid's Elements element's was. Newton once said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants", he had a point. None of this stuff that you consider uninteresting was trivial or obvious at the time it was discovered and your 'interesting stuff' would not be possible without it.
You are more accurate than you know. From the article, it looks like he "represents" those who pay him:
The last time Rep. Livingston made headlines was in 2017 when he sponsored legislation that would make the contents of an insurance policy’s cover sheet and synopsis unenforceable if the long-form contract is different. According to the Arizona Capitol Times, one of Livingston’s fellow lawmakers questioned him on why he was bringing that legislation forward. Livingston reportedly said at the time that “citizens of the state of Arizona” had asked for it. When he was asked if those citizens were “connected to insurance agencies, companies, groups, special interests related to insurance,” Livingstone replied with a simple “yes.”
Well it was just a guess based on the motivations behind similar pieces of legislation on my side of the pond (regardless of the political leaning of the legislator), apparently things work depressingly similarly in the US.
Thanks for getting in early with how revolutionary and innovative apple is. However you forgot you mention how it will sell like hotcakes.
See, here comes the hyperbole of outrage. I didn't say this plan of theirs was revolutionary, I din't say it was innovative either... I just that it was a good idea (for them and their product line).
Later this year, Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac computers via a new software development kit that the company will release as early as June at its annual developer conference. Developers will still need to submit separate versions of the app to Apple's iOS and Mac App Stores, but the new kit will mean they don't have to write the underlying software code twice, said the people familiar with the plan. In 2020, Apple plans to expand the kit so iPhone applications can be converted into Mac apps in the same way.
Sounds like a sensible thing to do. Having said that, I am also looking forward to a long list of people chiming in here on Slashdot to explain to us how this is only one part of a vast malevolent Apple conspiracy against the public.
Call me when this ranks in the top 500 ways we waste energy or hurt the environment.
It’s an easy problem to fix though, just cache the music and age it out based on how often the user listens to a particular song. There is no reason to stream a track every time it is played except due to asinine concerns about piracy.
Once you've been breached you're at least 2-3 years too late to contain the issue. These "nation states" hackers typically aren't the best in the field. They get in through inept security IT people above all else.
Seems to me then that they are exploiting the biggest un-patched vulnerability in the system. That is not a sign of lacking skill, it is a sign of intelligence. You don't launch a frontal assault on the city walls thorough a hailstorm of arrows and cannon balls when you can sneak in through the sewers and surprise the defenders. What the Russians have done is send their intelligence services after best criminal hackers and confront them with a choice, either they drop everything and go to work for the intelligence services whenever they are needed while the security services make sure they suffer no unwanted attention over their side-business or... well let's just say that American shit-hole prisons are a luxury spa compared to Russian ones.
Will we see a return to the non craptacular keyboards that don't let dust freak them out?
The new keyboards work fine these days as long as you don't hammer them like blacksmith and clean them out with a dust buster or compressed air once in a while. If you are irked by the 'feel' of the thing you really are on you own. The next step in this arena will probably be fixed keys with haptic feedback. Call me schadenfreudig, but I am actually looking forward to the loud-voiced outpourings of religious indignation we'll get when those things hit the market.
If no, then I'll continue to stick with my aging 2015 Macbook Pro.
That's what I thought until I got a MBP with a fingerprint sensor. One can debate how secure that thing is but the convenience is un-debatable. Not a fan of the task bar thingy at the top of the keyboard though.
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That's nice, but you're shooting the messenger instead of actually looking to see whether or not the information presented is true or false.
To give you another example: Project Veritas does a video on ACORN. Progressives flip their shit and call it fake, it's not. They then try the same with Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissues, organs and bodies. They then most recently try with the facebook "deboosting" and targeting particular viewpoints to supress them. In all cases, the media poisoned the well. The information wasn't fake. People believe it, people then most likely refuse to look at a particular point of view because 'reasons' that sound good. In turn, people accept a falsehood because someone created a talking point that the truth was uncomfortable for "insert group."
If there is a conflict of interest, but the truth is being presented and not disputed. That doesn't make the truth any less noteworthy.
Please give your Kelly Ann Conway impression a rest and and try to address the real problem which is that you are struggling to understand the concept of conflict of interests. Are you seriously trying to convince us that a single report written by a think tank which is funded by oil companies who have a vested interest in killing off the renewable energy industry is enough to completely discredit all renewables? That PowerPoint presentation should be taken with several table spoons of salt for that reason alone.
That's fine if you don't like the messenger. Here's what I'd like to know, was anything they said a lie?
You don't like the message so you kill the messenger, that does not change the truth. If they lied then what's the truth? Do you have counterexamples?
I have an issue with the idea that picking one single example of one town in Texas from a report made by an institute funded by people with vested interests in discrediting the renewable energy industry should be taken as the irrefutable truth. If you want to discredit renewables I won't even get up out of my armchair to answer the phone until you have got multiple sources of data that do not have a massive conflict of interest, like a conservative think tank funded by oil companies and your dataset consists of quite a lot more than a single town in Texas that signed some rather ill conceived long term fixed price contracts.
Because stating that renewables are not currently competitive and sufficient is the exact same thing as writing them off. Try real arguments instead of hyperbole.
Really? https://www.bloomberg.com/news... ... that was three years ago and Bloomberg is hardly a bastion of tree hugging libtardism.
Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL.
Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Georgetown, Texas tried to go the renewables route. They ended up paying more and getting less.
Thanks to renewables, Australia ended up paying $500 a day per family for electricity.
America, the country that didn't sign the Paris accord, dropped CO2 emissions more than anyone else.
It's currently technologically impossible for renewables to provide baseload power at a competitive, or even reasonable, price, and will not do so anytime in the near future no matter how much religious environmentalists claim otherwise.
Firstly, here is some background on your source:
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. ... In 2015, TPPF had total revenue of $10.8 million. Donors to the organisation include energy companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel interests.
That place is as likely to deliver an unbiased assessment of whatever went on in Georgetown Texas as mice re likely to give an unbiased assessment of cats. From what I can gather about Georgetown Texas from other sources, their problem seems to have been that they made some really badly advised long term fixed price contracts for renewable energy. That is too bad for Georgetown Texas but hardly a reason for the rest of us to write off wind and solar power and grid storage because a bunch of useful idiots at a conservative think tank funded by oil companies says so.
If these did become popular ....
Package thieves will have a field day with these things unless they install an auto targeting taser array and a 360 degree teargas dispenser system.
Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor.
You're missing availability. Piracy is better than having 10 bloody game stores independently running on a PC, multiple different libraries of music that can't talk to each other, multiple different services offering streaming etc ...
That would be because app stores should really just be a front for web services that 3rd party clients plug into to buy and download/cache your purchases thus allowing you to have all your crap in one place instead of every service having its own client. The same incidentally goes for movie streaming services like Netflix. Having said that, he did point out that most of this music is DRM free now so there is nothing preventing you from keeping all your music in one place except laziness. Come to think of it, I'd actually be surprised if there aren't several music-managers on the market already that allow you to fuse your various proprietary music libraries into one UI pretty easily
Or over 15 years ago - when the iTunes music store first opened and started selling music for 99 cents.
Like who would pay 99 cents for a music track they could pirate for free? Yet, the convenience of just finding it and clicking buy was much easier than Napster and friends and hoping it wasn't a mislabeled track. Plus the convenience of having it in a minute after purchase.
... and not having to worry about malware.
Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide To Cope With Job ...
Are you surprised? They have to spend their days wading through the torrent of raw stupidity that are Facebook comments every moment of every working day. That is bound to destroy your faith in humanity as a a species and drive you to the brink of suicidal depression.
This is where the person marks whether or not they are interested in seeing the film.
Super hero movies are boring. It's just 2+ hours of mindless action and CGI and a plot that was written for 8 year-olds. But what should I expect. This shit is based on comic books.
Comic books which were written for 8 year olds. Having said that, even bad superhero movies still beat “Atlas Shrugged”, the movie which is supposedly high literature.
Fortunately India, which is where production is largely being moved to, is known for its quality drinking water.
Pepsi Max, new flavour and now with intestinal parasites.
Hard time in prison.
We all know it.
And yet they continue to violate the GPDR and the Canadian Constitutional Right of Privacy.
Because you won't jail them.
Fines won't work.
The only thing these bozos learn from is what the EU does, fines, lots of fines in amounts so high it makes them squeal like boar on the end of a spear.
Huawei is not a private company. It is a state-run institution. The only private companies in China are small to medium operations. Everything big enough to be strategically important is owned and/or managed by the Chinese army or the Chinese Communist Party.
Americans tend to assume that the rest of the world is like the US, but it isn't. Here, we have private companies. They are usually willing to cooperate to some extent with the government, but they are still mostly privately owned and managed. That is approximately the current situation throughout most of Western Civilization, but it is actually quite rare elsewhere.
Most importantly, China does not run on that model at all. The Chinese Communist Party owns the government and military, which in turn owns almost all of the industry and technology.
Imagine if the NSA got into the business of building cell phone network equipment using chips produced by the Air Force Cyber Command's semiconductor foundry and financed as a joint venture by the CIA and the Pentagon. No big deal, right?
Huawei is not owned by the Chinese state. It is owned by the company's employees, Ren Zhengfei (founder & CEO) and some of the managers with the latter two probably owning a majority of the shares. The Company employees shares are managed by the employee union.
The US has squandered its credibility. I can't say that Huawei inspires me with trust, but US accusations mean nothing.
... and now that the US is being ruled by New York's village idiot and has decided to isolate itself, the EU is beginning to move closer to the fastest growing, and soon to be largest single economy in the world. The real irony of the situation is that this entire evolution is being driven by Trumpism and would not be happening if it wasn't for the Trump administration. American politics has devolved into a foot shooting contest.
If you look at the history of mathematics, Arabs and Greeks optimistically ended their math education in the third year of high school. The really interesting things were discovered after 1700, perhaps with the exception of calculus, which was discovered after 1600.
Really? It is fascinating to see that somebody managed to cram so much arrogance and ignorance combined into a single statement. Algebra is an invention with roots in ancient Babylonia and with contributions from the Greeks but that in it's modern form largely came from the Islamic world. It is considered to be a critical invention because it is the gate keeper to all higher mathematics. As for Geometry, where the Greeks made a a huge contribution, it is kind of descriptive of it's importance that one of the two times Isaac Newton was heard to laugh is when somebody asked what the point of Euclid's Elements element's was. Newton once said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants", he had a point. None of this stuff that you consider uninteresting was trivial or obvious at the time it was discovered and your 'interesting stuff' would not be possible without it.
You are more accurate than you know. From the article, it looks like he "represents" those who pay him:
Well it was just a guess based on the motivations behind similar pieces of legislation on my side of the pond (regardless of the political leaning of the legislator), apparently things work depressingly similarly in the US.
Thanks for getting in early with how revolutionary and innovative apple is. However you forgot you mention how it will sell like hotcakes.
See, here comes the hyperbole of outrage. I didn't say this plan of theirs was revolutionary, I din't say it was innovative either ... I just that it was a good idea (for them and their product line).
Later this year, Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac computers via a new software development kit that the company will release as early as June at its annual developer conference. Developers will still need to submit separate versions of the app to Apple's iOS and Mac App Stores, but the new kit will mean they don't have to write the underlying software code twice, said the people familiar with the plan. In 2020, Apple plans to expand the kit so iPhone applications can be converted into Mac apps in the same way.
Sounds like a sensible thing to do. Having said that, I am also looking forward to a long list of people chiming in here on Slashdot to explain to us how this is only one part of a vast malevolent Apple conspiracy against the public.
Bill 1475 was introduced by Republican State Senator David Livingston
I presumed it'd be a Republican to do this.
Call me when this ranks in the top 500 ways we waste energy or hurt the environment.
It’s an easy problem to fix though, just cache the music and age it out based on how often the user listens to a particular song. There is no reason to stream a track every time it is played except due to asinine concerns about piracy.
Once you've been breached you're at least 2-3 years too late to contain the issue. These "nation states" hackers typically aren't the best in the field. They get in through inept security IT people above all else.
Seems to me then that they are exploiting the biggest un-patched vulnerability in the system. That is not a sign of lacking skill, it is a sign of intelligence. You don't launch a frontal assault on the city walls thorough a hailstorm of arrows and cannon balls when you can sneak in through the sewers and surprise the defenders. What the Russians have done is send their intelligence services after best criminal hackers and confront them with a choice, either they drop everything and go to work for the intelligence services whenever they are needed while the security services make sure they suffer no unwanted attention over their side-business or ... well let's just say that American shit-hole prisons are a luxury spa compared to Russian ones.
Will we see a return to the non craptacular keyboards that don't let dust freak them out?
The new keyboards work fine these days as long as you don't hammer them like blacksmith and clean them out with a dust buster or compressed air once in a while. If you are irked by the 'feel' of the thing you really are on you own. The next step in this arena will probably be fixed keys with haptic feedback. Call me schadenfreudig, but I am actually looking forward to the loud-voiced outpourings of religious indignation we'll get when those things hit the market.
If no, then I'll continue to stick with my aging 2015 Macbook Pro.
That's what I thought until I got a MBP with a fingerprint sensor. One can debate how secure that thing is but the convenience is un-debatable. Not a fan of the task bar thingy at the top of the keyboard though.
Neat! ... Windows ...
HERETIC!!!
Well, that settles it then.
To my mind yes, I've seen those three dogs eat all kinds of disgusting crap, including poop.
Looks like the dollar stores sell various kinds of canned goods. Nutrionally, there's not much difference between canned and fresh.
My brother in law bought some canned meat from a pound store once, even the dogs would not eat it.