How is defunding Government oversight of a high risk industry and replacing it with for-profit rubber stamping by private companies "taking actions to significantly improve the climate"?
I thought he was going to drain the swamp, instead all I am seeing is increased opportunities for politically connected individuals to profit off the system.
He did drain the swamp, all of it, straight into his administration. You may also want to feast your eyes on this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj...
Objectively you are the idiot. Or at the least delusional. Trump will not be removed or resign during his presidency. Mod me down but remember this comment when your delusional fantasy never comes true.
Good, him being impeached would do nothing other than give rise to a 'dagger in the back' legend and turn him into a martyr for the MAGA crowd. In any other democracy he would have been slapped with a no confidence vote in parliament followed by a new election but due to the nature of the US system you are stuck with him for another two years. Trump needs to be voted out of office in 2020, not just for the sake of the US but for the sake of the entire damn planet. The US is the Roman Empire of our time and we cannot afford to have an imbecile for an emperor. If, however, Trump is re-elected one can only hope that it will be healthy for the US to live through a full 8 years of his presidency as an object lesson in what it costs to indulge yourself with militant political tribalism and to vote for a president based on his entertainment value rather than his competence because that is really the only thing the bottom 90% in the USA are getting out of Trump. They are getting 'entertainment', they are being told what they want to hear while he slowly and methodically screws them over. Anybody who believes that a guy who lives in a glass tower named after himself and who shits into a gold plated toilet is 'a man of the people' and 'a friend of the little guy' is has less brains than an amoeba.
... after everybody else had written the idea off and left it on a shelf since 1982. Engineering prototypes are useless if you don't deem them worthy of being turned into production prototypes and manufactured in series and instead just drop them in a drawer to collect dust.
Apple are always on the lookout for ways to lock in their customers, and here's a new one.
Please explain how this is restrictive and increases user lock in? All they are doing is moving the damn SIM chips out of the plastic chips and putting them on the motherboard. With a nano SIM I can get private unlimited mobile data plan that I pay for myself. I'll be able to route all my private data consumption over that number, relegate the company number my boss insists that I have to be used for phone calls only and no longer have to worry about getting chewed out for blowing the data cap on the cheap-ass data plan the company put me on. Yeah, that is so incredibly restricting, I will definitely (not) be limiting my choices to phones with only one SIM next time I upgrade.
Is it serious ? Is it a disposable phone or what ?
How are you going to use SIM card when you travel into a foreign country ?
Have the secondary built in SIM chip programmed at the shop when you get your foreign data plan like they already do with the plastic SIM chips you stick in your phone? SIM chips are not particularly sophisticated pieces of technology. The Phone company will probably just send you an SMS with the chip settings which you then accept manually and the phone operating system handles the rest.
No, not at all, I'm having tremendous fun exploring the depth and severity of a Trumpkin's delusions.
Let me see,
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
I forget is it a delusion when you can't see something that's there or just denial ? Either way giving you a link to CNN set you off like a bomb.
Dude you linked to a report dated March 24, 2016.
I admitted my mistake, You not only can't acknowledge yours but you are bound and determined to compound it.
But please tell me how a report that says whoever took over would have this problem makes Trump uniquely evil.
One more time... yes linking to that report was indeed a mistake on your part since that report predicted everything Trump has done in terms of blowing up the national debt, except they underestimated how much Trump would blow it up and how quickly he has done it. I won't hold that against them since they probably assumed that whoever took over from Obama would actually be competent. As for Trump being uniquely evil you brought that up, I didn't, so please stop putting words in my mouth. All I did was point out that Trump is as consistent as a random number generator and that he has blown up the national debt with his unfunded tax cuts after promising to bring the deficit under control and I only did that after you decided to Conway me by changing the subject to how Obama is the master of deficits. Since you changed the subject to talk about Obama and the national debt it seemed only fair to point out that the party of small government and fiscal responsibility is every bit as irresponsible when it comes to increasing the national debt as the Democrats. Trump is shaping up to be particularly productive in that regard with his 1.5 trillion dollar deficit in 19 only months after Obama had at least gotten the deficit below the historical average but that is to be expected from a man like Trump who has bankrupted six casinos. I don't claim to understand why anybody thought it would be a good idea to trust a man who bankrupted six casinos to run one of the world's biggest and most complex economies but it will be interesting to observe how that experiment ends.
Why am I envisioning you clutching a bottle of Trump Brand Cool-Aid with a warning from the Surgeon general on it: "Warning: May cause severe delusions and imaginary fact generation in certain types of right-wing snow flakes."
he only reason I posted AC because I didn't want to lose too much karma to being down modded by a bunch of Trumpkins.
t's Trump who's the old fart in the big white house and it's him you'll have to shake in hopes of getting a new result. If you shake him long enough, and if you're lucky enough, he won't bankrupt the US like he did those six hotels/casinos.
Tell me is the man keeping you down ?
No, not at all, I'm having tremendous fun exploring the depth and severity of a Trumpkin's delusions.
No, the report is right even though it was written while Trump was still a candidate. It basically predicted what I said,
Even before he was actually elected or took office. Amazing
Dude you linked to a report dated March 24, 2016. Trump wasn't even elected until November 2016 and that report you linked to still correctly predicde that whoever would take over from Obama would blow up the deficit. Turned out his they guy who took over form Obama was named Trump and he immediately blew up the deficit. One more time, If you want to throw reports at people get off your ass and read them first.
This is why we need stronger consumer protection. This isn't a weird, difficult, complex issue. In my mind, there's a very simple solution to this:
Make it illegal for digital media stores to remove access to anything that has been purchased. If, for some reason, they're unable to continue hosting it for streaming, they should be legally required to provide you with a DRM-free download.
Or else, they should be barred from using words like "buy" or "purchase". They can offer "long term rentals" with clear and explicit wording that access may be revoked at any time. Those disclaimers should not be buried in a EULA or terms of service. It should be legally required to be displayed obviously each time the long-term rental is offered.
You could debate some of the details, but the basic gist should be clear: Either provide people with what they "bought", or make it clear that they're not buying it.
What appears to be happening is that:
1) Users buy content, in this case a movie.
2) User deletes content from their device thinking it will be available on iCloud for restoring.
3) Apple loses the distribution rights.
4) User tries to restore content and gets a nasty surprise since Apple cannot restore the movies to the user's device because that would constitute 'an act of distribution' that Apple is no longer entitled to perform without violating the content owner's copyrights and which they'd get sued for by the content owner.
As TFA points out Apple and every other content reseller even warns this can happen in their EULA's and then goes on to ask: When was the last time you read a EULA? Which is an excellent question. I my case it's probably about 25 years and I didn't get through more than the first two paragraphs before giving up on the legalese. The lesson is don't delete stuff you bought from your devices. Personally I make copies of my content and crack the DRM if I have to just as a precaution against just this sort abuse of copyright law. What I'd like to see happen is that somebody would sue the damn content owners for charging people for a copy of their stuff and then forcing resellers to disappear it because you can bet your bottom dollar the content owner, on the advice of some slimy bean counter, is betting on a certain portion of users going out and buying another copy of the movie/song/album/whatever.... Being able to restore purchases you paid for from a cloud service even though distribution rights have run out seems like fair use to me. If anybody owes anybody a refund it's the content owner who owes Mr da Silva a refund because basically the content owner is a greedy twat and this whole sorry idiotic mess is his fault.
The only reason I posted AC because I didn't want to lose too much karma to being down modded by a bunch of Trumpkins.
Why am I envisioning Gollum holding a karma score ?
Why am I envisioning you clutching a bottle of Trump Brand Cool-Aid with a warning from the Surgeon general on it: "Warning: May cause severe delusions and imaginary fact generation in certain types of right-wing snow flakes."
. As for Trump's deficits that report dates to a time before Trump was even sworn in. Remarkably enough, despite this those charts are projecting deficits that exceed the historic deficit average for entire duration of presidency
So the report is wrong, but because it says bad things about Trump it's good enough for you ?
No, the report is right even though it was written while Trump was still a candidate. It basically predicted what I said, and what he has done so far with his tax cuts and spending sprees on the military, during Trump's reign he will have constant budget deficits and they will be higher than the historic average while Obama brought them down below the historic average. If you are going to throw reports at me read them first to make sure they don't prove my point for me.
I thought Boeing was moving out of Seattle. So I guess there won't be another generation of aviation workers there after they use these oldsters up.
That's just it, the company has been rather foolish in the way it's been handling production for quite some time now. And shockingly, providing bonuses for the half-assed work being done in North Carolina is having consequences.
It's beyond me why any of these people aren't looking for work elsewhere as it's clear that Boeing only cares about money and can't be bothered to think about the long term.
Heard that bit about the shoddy work too. The local airline bought a bunch of Boeings including some 787s and specified in the contract that they should be made in Seattle because they do better work and our airline is not alone in this. I have heard of other airlines refusing to accept aircraft made in other factories than the ones in Washington state, except I think the factory causing the problems was Charleston IIRC which is in South Carolina. If this is true Boeing would not be shooting themselves in the foot if they close down the facilities in Washington state, they'd be shooting their foot clean off.
Errr not Trump ? Little defensive there aren't you chief ?
Not really, just laying the ground work for pointing out that the Republicans are on track to match Obama. Bush was in eight years responsible for somewhat less than half of the current US debt, Obama added the second half in eight years, Clinton was responsible for much of the rest. So far Trump has added $1.46 trillion to the national debt in just 19 months and if that rate of debt collection continues he'll probably add more than even Obama did. This projection put Trump's national probable debt increase at 8-9 billion if he remains in office for 8 years and If things continue as they are doing today. That means that Trump will bring the US national debt to between ~29 billion by 2024. However, keep in mind this projection is six months old and Trump has already blown the projected debt increase for 2017 and 2018 combined in only 19 moths.
The new dongle costs $12, whereas the old dongle sold for just $9. "That also means Google's headphone adapter now costs more than Apple's equivalent adapter for the iPhone," The Verge notes.
Damn.... It'll be interesting to hear the Apple haters rationalise this.
I didn't realize you were an old fart. Sorry thought you actually wanted to know what was happening.
It's Trump who's the old fart in the big white house and it's him you'll have to shake in hopes of getting a new result. If you shake him long enough, and if you're lucky enough, he won't bankrupt the US like he did those six hotels/casinos.
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
Are you looking at what he does then?
Didn't he sign the bill that increased the sanctions on Russia that passed though Congress early in his term? I believe he did on 8/2/17. Now I hear lots of folks say that this was because he didn't have a choice given the margins it passed Congress with, but he signed it. See H.R.3364 on Tomas.gov for details.
So are you paying attention?
Paying attention??... Well... You said it yourself. The margins were so large the first time that bill passed it was obvious it was veto proof since Congress can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds supermajority in both houses. H.r.3364 passed the House with 419 votes to 3 against and the senate with 98 votes to 2 against. Trump had no choice but to sign. If he hand't signed Congress would have shoved that bill down his throat with a second vote and since Trump is always a winner he could not very well suffer that humiliations. At least Congress threw in some face-saving sanctions on Iran and N-Korea as a consolation prize and Trump let it go.
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
42% of rural Americans surveyed have no issue with access to broadband internet, and the number increases to 76% of those surveyed that either consider broadband access a minor or no problem.
Wow.
Back in 2008 a similar number of Americans surveyed had similar feeling about their personal healthcare - then the government stepped in and "fixed things".
It is easy to dismiss things you don't have as unnecessary. I've seen farmers turn their financial situation around by investing in tourism, setting up a website and renting out renovated buildings to tourists that were otherwise just rotting away due to neglect and disuse. Doing that, however, is a lot easier if you can offer your guests some semblance of a proper internet connection. Once you look at it from that angle the lack of a proper internet connection alluvasudden seems more of a problem than it used to. In that sense the internet and healthcare are similar. Making provisions for your personal healthcare in case you get sick is never a priority for people until they get sick which is when they run into the concept 'preexisting conditions'. That usually goes double for rural people since they are usually arch conservative, resent being told what to do regardless of how sound the advice may be because they buy into the Republican tripe that having no healthcare is 'freedom'. The reality of the healthcare issue usually only sinks in when they find that some family member has cancer or something and they have to mortgage the farm to pay for treatment. Allusiveness universal healthcare looks a lot less like liberal tyranny and a lot more like common sense than it used to but that is with 20/20 hindsight which does you no good.
Bluetooth audio is shit unless you have at least AptX and ideally AptX HD. So there are levels of compatibility.
Bluetooth is also a pain in the arse if you need to switch devices much. Unpair, re-pair every time. You can toggle Bluetooth on and off instead, but only if you have no other Bluetooth devices.
The Bluetooth unit in my iPhone can handle being connected to two devices at once. I usually just leave my bluetooth earbuds connected when I get into my car, the car's bluetooth unit connects just fine and the phone switches to the new output automatically. The only caveat here is getting earbuds with at least 8 hour battery life. As for audio quality I always get a chuckle out of people that complain about Bluetooth audio quality being shit, then pull out a set of $10 chorded earbuds and go about their business while enjoying the near live concert quality audio you get from a pair of cheap ass Sony earbuds. To get any kind of worthwhile audio experience you need to be wearing either quite high end earbuds or ear enclosing headphones that are designed to exclude external sound interference and cost very significantly more than $10.
Most of the plastic in the ocean comes from a handful of rivers. Put the giant trap in the mouths of those rivers, and you'll catch a lot more.
Yet the plastic shaming is aimed at the US and Europe.
Its like looking under a streetlamp for your lost keys when you know you didn't lose them there, but hey, the light's better.
No it isn't, so stop playing a victim. Article after article and paper after paper points out that sampling has shown that the vast majority of the material in the Pacific garbage patches, for example, is generated by China and about 10 other Asian countries, here the US is in 20th place. Basically he is right, plugging those sources of garbage would solve a huge part of the problem. This does not mean that plastic shaming is misplaced since use-once-and-throw-away plastic packaging is a huge problem, the need to solve it is pretty urgent and there is nothing wrong with pressuring politicos and industry to do that.
Eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the Pacific every year, mostly by third-world countries. This floating boom is estimated to collect 150,000lb (68 tons) a year. So to stand still, you'd need 8000000/68 of them, i.e. 117,647 multimillion-dollar floating booms. Let's be generous and say they cost $2m each. That's $235,294,118,000.
As there are 195 countries in the world, it would be cheaper and far more effective to use that $235bn so that each country in the world runs a $1bn campaign to recycle/replace all plastic. Though considering that most of the plastic comes from just 10 countries...
No, a global campaign to minimise the use of packaging plastic and recycle what cannot be done away with would only be a good start. One way to do that would be to float the idea to slap tariffs on the products of polluter countries (which should play well in the current White House) unless they clean up their act over a given grace period. Once the flow of plastic has been drastically reduced it will still be necessary to clean up the oceans. It is utterly impractical to send the bill for the clean up to these 10 countries however culpable they may be since most of them could ill afford the cleanup according to your numbers so the cleanup would never get done. It is, however, in everybody's interest to invest in such an ocean cleanup since we harvest the oceans for food and it's generally not a good idea to dump garbage into your food supply.
It used to be the case that any problem with the Apple products was the customer's fault.
For example the phone did not get signal because the customer was holding it wrong.
As we all know, Apple's management are incapable of sin.
Now Apple are recalling products? They've gone soft.
That's quite frankly a steaming pile of horse shit. I've used Apple products for close on 20 years and they have never given me a hard time over repairs and manufacturing defects. The last time was about a year ago was a keyboard change on my 12" MacBook. Once when I brought a MacBook Pro in for a HD upgrade they even swapped out the display while they had the thing in the shop because it had a manufacturing defect that made it cloudy.
Nuclear requires a large investment upfront but is very cheap in the long run.
Renewables seem cheap when you compare nameplate capacity but are _extremely_ expensive once you count the 3*nameplate capacity required to get to 70% energy delivered plus the full capacity backup and fuel for the remaining 30%. Hydro and other storage simply cannot cope with the long periods of low renewables production that happen frequently.
Really? According to the EIA natural gas, solar and onshore wind all have nuclear (even advanced nuclear) beaten pretty thoroughly in terms of LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) which is: "... an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total energy output of the asset over that lifetime.". It's kind of interesting to see the relative reductions in LCOE over the last 10 years, the numbers for nuclear have dropped to be sure but it is a linear reduction that only applies to the really new advanced plants, not the legacy plants and even then only the ones that don't go into insane cost overruns. The LCOE numbers for wind, and particularly solar, by comparisons have literally fallen off a cliff.
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How is defunding Government oversight of a high risk industry and replacing it with for-profit rubber stamping by private companies "taking actions to significantly improve the climate"?
I thought he was going to drain the swamp, instead all I am seeing is increased opportunities for politically connected individuals to profit off the system.
He did drain the swamp, all of it, straight into his administration. You may also want to feast your eyes on this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj...
Objectively you are the idiot. Or at the least delusional. Trump will not be removed or resign during his presidency. Mod me down but remember this comment when your delusional fantasy never comes true.
Good, him being impeached would do nothing other than give rise to a 'dagger in the back' legend and turn him into a martyr for the MAGA crowd. In any other democracy he would have been slapped with a no confidence vote in parliament followed by a new election but due to the nature of the US system you are stuck with him for another two years. Trump needs to be voted out of office in 2020, not just for the sake of the US but for the sake of the entire damn planet. The US is the Roman Empire of our time and we cannot afford to have an imbecile for an emperor. If, however, Trump is re-elected one can only hope that it will be healthy for the US to live through a full 8 years of his presidency as an object lesson in what it costs to indulge yourself with militant political tribalism and to vote for a president based on his entertainment value rather than his competence because that is really the only thing the bottom 90% in the USA are getting out of Trump. They are getting 'entertainment', they are being told what they want to hear while he slowly and methodically screws them over. Anybody who believes that a guy who lives in a glass tower named after himself and who shits into a gold plated toilet is 'a man of the people' and 'a friend of the little guy' is has less brains than an amoeba.
What Apple did was bring it to market first.
... after everybody else had written the idea off and left it on a shelf since 1982. Engineering prototypes are useless if you don't deem them worthy of being turned into production prototypes and manufactured in series and instead just drop them in a drawer to collect dust.
Apple are always on the lookout for ways to lock in their customers, and here's a new one.
Please explain how this is restrictive and increases user lock in? All they are doing is moving the damn SIM chips out of the plastic chips and putting them on the motherboard. With a nano SIM I can get private unlimited mobile data plan that I pay for myself. I'll be able to route all my private data consumption over that number, relegate the company number my boss insists that I have to be used for phone calls only and no longer have to worry about getting chewed out for blowing the data cap on the cheap-ass data plan the company put me on. Yeah, that is so incredibly restricting, I will definitely (not) be limiting my choices to phones with only one SIM next time I upgrade.
Is it serious ? Is it a disposable phone or what ?
How are you going to use SIM card when you travel into a foreign country ?
Have the secondary built in SIM chip programmed at the shop when you get your foreign data plan like they already do with the plastic SIM chips you stick in your phone? SIM chips are not particularly sophisticated pieces of technology. The Phone company will probably just send you an SMS with the chip settings which you then accept manually and the phone operating system handles the rest.
No, not at all, I'm having tremendous fun exploring the depth and severity of a Trumpkin's delusions.
Let me see,
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
I forget is it a delusion when you can't see something that's there or just denial ? Either way giving you a link to CNN set you off like a bomb.
Dude you linked to a report dated March 24, 2016.
I admitted my mistake, You not only can't acknowledge yours but you are bound and determined to compound it.
But please tell me how a report that says whoever took over would have this problem makes Trump uniquely evil.
One more time ... yes linking to that report was indeed a mistake on your part since that report predicted everything Trump has done in terms of blowing up the national debt, except they underestimated how much Trump would blow it up and how quickly he has done it. I won't hold that against them since they probably assumed that whoever took over from Obama would actually be competent. As for Trump being uniquely evil you brought that up, I didn't, so please stop putting words in my mouth. All I did was point out that Trump is as consistent as a random number generator and that he has blown up the national debt with his unfunded tax cuts after promising to bring the deficit under control and I only did that after you decided to Conway me by changing the subject to how Obama is the master of deficits. Since you changed the subject to talk about Obama and the national debt it seemed only fair to point out that the party of small government and fiscal responsibility is every bit as irresponsible when it comes to increasing the national debt as the Democrats. Trump is shaping up to be particularly productive in that regard with his 1.5 trillion dollar deficit in 19 only months after Obama had at least gotten the deficit below the historical average but that is to be expected from a man like Trump who has bankrupted six casinos. I don't claim to understand why anybody thought it would be a good idea to trust a man who bankrupted six casinos to run one of the world's biggest and most complex economies but it will be interesting to observe how that experiment ends.
Why am I envisioning you clutching a bottle of Trump Brand Cool-Aid with a warning from the Surgeon general on it: "Warning: May cause severe delusions and imaginary fact generation in certain types of right-wing snow flakes."
he only reason I posted AC because I didn't want to lose too much karma to being down modded by a bunch of Trumpkins.
t's Trump who's the old fart in the big white house and it's him you'll have to shake in hopes of getting a new result. If you shake him long enough, and if you're lucky enough, he won't bankrupt the US like he did those six hotels/casinos.
Tell me is the man keeping you down ?
No, not at all, I'm having tremendous fun exploring the depth and severity of a Trumpkin's delusions.
No, the report is right even though it was written while Trump was still a candidate. It basically predicted what I said,
Even before he was actually elected or took office. Amazing
Dude you linked to a report dated March 24, 2016. Trump wasn't even elected until November 2016 and that report you linked to still correctly predicde that whoever would take over from Obama would blow up the deficit. Turned out his they guy who took over form Obama was named Trump and he immediately blew up the deficit. One more time, If you want to throw reports at people get off your ass and read them first.
This is why we need stronger consumer protection. This isn't a weird, difficult, complex issue. In my mind, there's a very simple solution to this:
Make it illegal for digital media stores to remove access to anything that has been purchased. If, for some reason, they're unable to continue hosting it for streaming, they should be legally required to provide you with a DRM-free download.
Or else, they should be barred from using words like "buy" or "purchase". They can offer "long term rentals" with clear and explicit wording that access may be revoked at any time. Those disclaimers should not be buried in a EULA or terms of service. It should be legally required to be displayed obviously each time the long-term rental is offered.
You could debate some of the details, but the basic gist should be clear: Either provide people with what they "bought", or make it clear that they're not buying it.
What appears to be happening is that:
1) Users buy content, in this case a movie.
2) User deletes content from their device thinking it will be available on iCloud for restoring.
3) Apple loses the distribution rights.
4) User tries to restore content and gets a nasty surprise since Apple cannot restore the movies to the user's device because that would constitute 'an act of distribution' that Apple is no longer entitled to perform without violating the content owner's copyrights and which they'd get sued for by the content owner.
As TFA points out Apple and every other content reseller even warns this can happen in their EULA's and then goes on to ask: When was the last time you read a EULA? Which is an excellent question. I my case it's probably about 25 years and I didn't get through more than the first two paragraphs before giving up on the legalese. The lesson is don't delete stuff you bought from your devices. Personally I make copies of my content and crack the DRM if I have to just as a precaution against just this sort abuse of copyright law. What I'd like to see happen is that somebody would sue the damn content owners for charging people for a copy of their stuff and then forcing resellers to disappear it because you can bet your bottom dollar the content owner, on the advice of some slimy bean counter, is betting on a certain portion of users going out and buying another copy of the movie/song/album/whatever.... Being able to restore purchases you paid for from a cloud service even though distribution rights have run out seems like fair use to me. If anybody owes anybody a refund it's the content owner who owes Mr da Silva a refund because basically the content owner is a greedy twat and this whole sorry idiotic mess is his fault.
The only reason I posted AC because I didn't want to lose too much karma to being down modded by a bunch of Trumpkins.
Why am I envisioning Gollum holding a karma score ?
Why am I envisioning you clutching a bottle of Trump Brand Cool-Aid with a warning from the Surgeon general on it: "Warning: May cause severe delusions and imaginary fact generation in certain types of right-wing snow flakes."
. As for Trump's deficits that report dates to a time before Trump was even sworn in. Remarkably enough, despite this those charts are projecting deficits that exceed the historic deficit average for entire duration of presidency
So the report is wrong, but because it says bad things about Trump it's good enough for you ?
No, the report is right even though it was written while Trump was still a candidate. It basically predicted what I said, and what he has done so far with his tax cuts and spending sprees on the military, during Trump's reign he will have constant budget deficits and they will be higher than the historic average while Obama brought them down below the historic average. If you are going to throw reports at me read them first to make sure they don't prove my point for me.
I thought Boeing was moving out of Seattle. So I guess there won't be another generation of aviation workers there after they use these oldsters up.
That's just it, the company has been rather foolish in the way it's been handling production for quite some time now. And shockingly, providing bonuses for the half-assed work being done in North Carolina is having consequences.
It's beyond me why any of these people aren't looking for work elsewhere as it's clear that Boeing only cares about money and can't be bothered to think about the long term.
Heard that bit about the shoddy work too. The local airline bought a bunch of Boeings including some 787s and specified in the contract that they should be made in Seattle because they do better work and our airline is not alone in this. I have heard of other airlines refusing to accept aircraft made in other factories than the ones in Washington state, except I think the factory causing the problems was Charleston IIRC which is in South Carolina. If this is true Boeing would not be shooting themselves in the foot if they close down the facilities in Washington state, they'd be shooting their foot clean off.
And who added the first half of that debt?
Errr not Trump ? Little defensive there aren't you chief ?
Not really, just laying the ground work for pointing out that the Republicans are on track to match Obama. Bush was in eight years responsible for somewhat less than half of the current US debt, Obama added the second half in eight years, Clinton was responsible for much of the rest. So far Trump has added $1.46 trillion to the national debt in just 19 months and if that rate of debt collection continues he'll probably add more than even Obama did. This projection put Trump's national probable debt increase at 8-9 billion if he remains in office for 8 years and If things continue as they are doing today. That means that Trump will bring the US national debt to between ~29 billion by 2024. However, keep in mind this projection is six months old and Trump has already blown the projected debt increase for 2017 and 2018 combined in only 19 moths.
The new dongle costs $12, whereas the old dongle sold for just $9. "That also means Google's headphone adapter now costs more than Apple's equivalent adapter for the iPhone," The Verge notes.
Damn .... It'll be interesting to hear the Apple haters rationalise this.
Don't you mean ::Shakes Old Fart:: ??
I didn't realize you were an old fart. Sorry thought you actually wanted to know what was happening.
It's Trump who's the old fart in the big white house and it's him you'll have to shake in hopes of getting a new result. If you shake him long enough, and if you're lucky enough, he won't bankrupt the US like he did those six hotels/casinos.
It's the Russian Mob that keeps The Trump Organization afloat. The Russian government doesn't have the money.
There is a difference between the Russian Government and the Russian Mob?
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
Are you looking at what he does then?
Didn't he sign the bill that increased the sanctions on Russia that passed though Congress early in his term? I believe he did on 8/2/17. Now I hear lots of folks say that this was because he didn't have a choice given the margins it passed Congress with, but he signed it. See H.R.3364 on Tomas.gov for details.
So are you paying attention?
Paying attention?? ... Well ... You said it yourself. The margins were so large the first time that bill passed it was obvious it was veto proof since Congress can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds supermajority in both houses. H.r.3364 passed the House with 419 votes to 3 against and the senate with 98 votes to 2 against. Trump had no choice but to sign. If he hand't signed Congress would have shoved that bill down his throat with a second vote and since Trump is always a winner he could not very well suffer that humiliations. At least Congress threw in some face-saving sanctions on Iran and N-Korea as a consolation prize and Trump let it go.
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
::Shakes Magic 8 Ball:: You may rely on it
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08...
Don't you mean ::Shakes Old Fart:: ??
...I'm sure all of Trump's detractors will agree that he has done the right thing and it's about time.
Won't they?
When it comes to Trump you get all the consistency of a magic 8 ball. If somebody shakes the old fart between now and the election we will get a totally different reaction to any election meddling from what he's rambling about now. In the absence of any consistency in this White House I'll believe he's willing to slap sanctions on Russia it when I see him do it.
42% of rural Americans surveyed have no issue with access to broadband internet, and the number increases to 76% of those surveyed that either consider broadband access a minor or no problem.
Wow.
Back in 2008 a similar number of Americans surveyed had similar feeling about their personal healthcare - then the government stepped in and "fixed things".
It is easy to dismiss things you don't have as unnecessary. I've seen farmers turn their financial situation around by investing in tourism, setting up a website and renting out renovated buildings to tourists that were otherwise just rotting away due to neglect and disuse. Doing that, however, is a lot easier if you can offer your guests some semblance of a proper internet connection. Once you look at it from that angle the lack of a proper internet connection alluvasudden seems more of a problem than it used to. In that sense the internet and healthcare are similar. Making provisions for your personal healthcare in case you get sick is never a priority for people until they get sick which is when they run into the concept 'preexisting conditions'. That usually goes double for rural people since they are usually arch conservative, resent being told what to do regardless of how sound the advice may be because they buy into the Republican tripe that having no healthcare is 'freedom'. The reality of the healthcare issue usually only sinks in when they find that some family member has cancer or something and they have to mortgage the farm to pay for treatment. Allusiveness universal healthcare looks a lot less like liberal tyranny and a lot more like common sense than it used to but that is with 20/20 hindsight which does you no good.
One pair of Bluetooth headphones, there, problem solved.
and different problems introduced.
Yeah, plugging in a pair of Bluetooth headphones at the end of the day ... what an unbearable burden.
Bluetooth audio is shit unless you have at least AptX and ideally AptX HD. So there are levels of compatibility.
Bluetooth is also a pain in the arse if you need to switch devices much. Unpair, re-pair every time. You can toggle Bluetooth on and off instead, but only if you have no other Bluetooth devices.
The Bluetooth unit in my iPhone can handle being connected to two devices at once. I usually just leave my bluetooth earbuds connected when I get into my car, the car's bluetooth unit connects just fine and the phone switches to the new output automatically. The only caveat here is getting earbuds with at least 8 hour battery life. As for audio quality I always get a chuckle out of people that complain about Bluetooth audio quality being shit, then pull out a set of $10 chorded earbuds and go about their business while enjoying the near live concert quality audio you get from a pair of cheap ass Sony earbuds. To get any kind of worthwhile audio experience you need to be wearing either quite high end earbuds or ear enclosing headphones that are designed to exclude external sound interference and cost very significantly more than $10.
Most of the plastic in the ocean comes from a handful of rivers. Put the giant trap in the mouths of those rivers, and you'll catch a lot more.
Yet the plastic shaming is aimed at the US and Europe.
Its like looking under a streetlamp for your lost keys when you know you didn't lose them there, but hey, the light's better.
No it isn't, so stop playing a victim. Article after article and paper after paper points out that sampling has shown that the vast majority of the material in the Pacific garbage patches, for example, is generated by China and about 10 other Asian countries, here the US is in 20th place. Basically he is right, plugging those sources of garbage would solve a huge part of the problem. This does not mean that plastic shaming is misplaced since use-once-and-throw-away plastic packaging is a huge problem, the need to solve it is pretty urgent and there is nothing wrong with pressuring politicos and industry to do that.
Eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the Pacific every year, mostly by third-world countries. This floating boom is estimated to collect 150,000lb (68 tons) a year. So to stand still, you'd need 8000000/68 of them, i.e. 117,647 multimillion-dollar floating booms. Let's be generous and say they cost $2m each. That's $235,294,118,000.
As there are 195 countries in the world, it would be cheaper and far more effective to use that $235bn so that each country in the world runs a $1bn campaign to recycle/replace all plastic. Though considering that most of the plastic comes from just 10 countries...
No, a global campaign to minimise the use of packaging plastic and recycle what cannot be done away with would only be a good start. One way to do that would be to float the idea to slap tariffs on the products of polluter countries (which should play well in the current White House) unless they clean up their act over a given grace period. Once the flow of plastic has been drastically reduced it will still be necessary to clean up the oceans. It is utterly impractical to send the bill for the clean up to these 10 countries however culpable they may be since most of them could ill afford the cleanup according to your numbers so the cleanup would never get done. It is, however, in everybody's interest to invest in such an ocean cleanup since we harvest the oceans for food and it's generally not a good idea to dump garbage into your food supply.
It used to be the case that any problem with the Apple products was the customer's fault. For example the phone did not get signal because the customer was holding it wrong. As we all know, Apple's management are incapable of sin.
Now Apple are recalling products? They've gone soft.
That's quite frankly a steaming pile of horse shit. I've used Apple products for close on 20 years and they have never given me a hard time over repairs and manufacturing defects. The last time was about a year ago was a keyboard change on my 12" MacBook. Once when I brought a MacBook Pro in for a HD upgrade they even swapped out the display while they had the thing in the shop because it had a manufacturing defect that made it cloudy.
Right, why buy an iPhone when you can get an Android phone? Like a Samsung Galaxy Note 7?
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Yeah, I kind of like the incendiary grenade function on the Galaxy Note 7. Too expensive though, I quickly went back to Molotov cocktails.
Nuclear requires a large investment upfront but is very cheap in the long run.
Renewables seem cheap when you compare nameplate capacity but are _extremely_ expensive once you count the 3*nameplate capacity required to get to 70% energy delivered plus the full capacity backup and fuel for the remaining 30%. Hydro and other storage simply cannot cope with the long periods of low renewables production that happen frequently.
Really? According to the EIA natural gas, solar and onshore wind all have nuclear (even advanced nuclear) beaten pretty thoroughly in terms of LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) which is: "... an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total energy output of the asset over that lifetime.". It's kind of interesting to see the relative reductions in LCOE over the last 10 years, the numbers for nuclear have dropped to be sure but it is a linear reduction that only applies to the really new advanced plants, not the legacy plants and even then only the ones that don't go into insane cost overruns. The LCOE numbers for wind, and particularly solar, by comparisons have literally fallen off a cliff.