if wind and solar were economical, they would be used.
You mean like in the Republican-led state of Kansas which generates roughly 30% of its electric needs from wind? Those Republicans must really love spending taxpayer money on all those subsidies.
At the rate wind generated electricity is growing, Kansas may have export electricity in the next decade. How horrible wind is so uneconomical.
Car accidents, strokes, and heart attacks spike in the days after the March time change.
Let's see. What else happens when there are more hours of daylight and the weather gets better? More people are out driving longer hours (car accidents) and people are cleaning up their yards, preparing their gardens/flower beds, doing odds and ends around the house and suddenly exercising to work off their winter fat (strokes and heart attacks).
But nope, changing one hour is the cause of everything. Nothing else matters.
If one hour change caused this much havoc then driving/flying between time zones should have the same effect yet oddly, it doesn't.
Here ya go. As you can see, at least one business, at the time of the writing, has already lost a customer because of Trump's weekly visits and others are losing money because they can't do business while he's in town.
As to the cost of Trump's flight down and everything involved, roughly $3 million each time. But since this is Trump, who whined about how many times Obama went golfing and the cost to the taxpayers, I'm sure this won't mean anything. I've seen on several pro-Trump sites and sites where people are favorable to Trump defending these costs because they're nothing but "liberal" hysterics, then turning around and saying if Obama did then Trump can do it despite these same people whining about it when Obama did it.
At least 50,000 Americans will lose their jobs this year because the president has yet to fulfill the promise he made to millions who voted for him.
You thought Trump would fulfill his "promises"? Remember when he said he'd put Hillary in jail? How about when he said he wouldn't have time to go golfing because he'd be too busy working? Mexico paying for the wall? Draining the swamp?
Like so many others who voted for Trump, you've been conned.
He said after the contract was signed. Presumably all permits would have been worked out by that time.
Also, while he's waiting on the permits and contract to be signed he could be loading up all the needed equipment, getting his people ready, making arrangements for passage on ships and/or planes, and getting the logistics down. Before the ink is dry he'd already have the stuff moving so if, as others above had said, it takes 20 days to get to Australia by boat, that leaves him 80 days to do the work.
Ambitious? Certainly. Doable? Only one way to find out.
show that the CIA can hack all manner of devices, including those made by Chinese companies.
Isn't that redundant? Aren't the vast majority of devices made in China, including the ones they've ripped off from everyone else? Of course they can be hacked, it's the same product with a different face.
We all know porn is big business in this country, and oddly, those who whine the loudest about porn's influence on society are the largest consumers of porn.
As far back as 2009, studies showed people in the Midwest and deep South, heavy bible-belt country, had larger amounts of porn consumption than other parts of the country. A more recent survey showed the same thing but also, in those places where same-sex marriage was outlawed, gay porn consumption was higher than other places, including where same-sex marriage is legal.
This bill will make it very interesting for those folks to explain why they're getting ads for sexual enhancers, condoms, lube and toys.
They sure seemed to rely on Data much more than their ship's onboard computer. One would think they would either upgrade the ship's computer to how Data was configured or just plug Data into the ship.
Despite the number of windows on the Enterprise, they still relied on an Android.
Obviously. That you think the government, any government, should be prohibited from using tools to monitor/spy/whatever on others would defeat the whole purpose of intelligence gathering. They have to use these means to find out what they don't know. It's their job.
Do you think Russia isn't doing the same thing? Are you going to whine about them doing this? How about Israel? What excuse will you use to justify them doing this but not the U.S.? How about we go back several thousand years and go after government agents of Egypt or Babylon who were using means at their disposal to do the same thing which would otherwise get citizens in trouble.
There's a reason people should seek legal help from real attorneys rather than some random stranger on the internet. Your comment clearly shows why this should be heeded.
What this country needs when it comes to cable and broadband providers is less competition and higher prices. Let's fall even further behind the rest of the industrialized world.
An Uber spokesperson told the FT that its current level of departures has been normal.
Sure, the levels are normal now, but that is not what the article, and recruiters, are saying. From the article:
the number of Uber employees looking to leave the ride-sharing company has spiked.
That means in the future departures should spike accordingly. Just because the Uber Cab Company doesn't see an issue now only means they aren't looking.
From my perspective, simulations. For example, a simulation showing the motion of water molecules when water is boiled. Not the current version where we have an approximation of the molecules as they are heated, but a simulation where each and every molecule and its motion within the mass is calculated and shown.
How about tensile or compression strength of solids? Again, instead of an "object" being depicted we could depict how steel is deformed at the molecular level, including how impurities or additives affect its strength.
Wave motions (who knows, maybe the gun as well), atmospheric currents, ocean currents, stress and sound in a moving car/truck, how sub-atomic particles react to each including calculating the various forces at that level, and the list goes on. I'm not even scratching the surface of how this technology could be used.
How about real-time holographic images? Someone stands in front of the camera in New York giving their presentation and people around the world can see that person standing in their room as if that person was with them in real life. No elaborate set up at the receiving end, no screens or anything, just a simple projection of the person's image from a single camera (or something similar) which the receiving person can walk around as if it had all dimensions.
Whatever you can dream up would be the only limitation.
The default position since Trump got elected has been to blame him.
And the default position since Trump got elected has to been to hail him for the rise of the stock market, rising corporate profits, and better than expected GDP. So which is it? If he's going to get the kudos even though he's only been in office a few weeks he should also get the blame, right?
things (like the Yemen raid) which were planned and prepared during the Obama administration.
Planning is one thing, executing is another and it was Trump who gave the go ahead for the raid despite not going through the normal procedure to get an overview of what was to take place. From all reports Trump pulled this out of the hat and said, "Do it" without any thought or consideration. Even after they knew the raid had been compromised he went ahead with it. You can't blame Obama for this one. Trump said do it. He's the president and as the saying goes, "The buck stops here."
Since Trump got elected, we can just project everything on to him, even if it makes the people doing so look like raving lunatics.
The only one looking like a raving lunatic is Trump with his, "Fake news!" every time his words and deeds are reported, his ramblings about vote fraud despite him claiming in lawsuits to stop vote recounts there was no evidence of vote fraud so there was no need for a recount, his, "The press is the enemy of the American people" comments and of course his latest tirade-without-evidence, Obama wiretapped him during the campaign.
If Hillary had said any of the above you would be on here pointing out she was a lunatic, yet because Trump said it we're supposed to give him a pass?
After Uber's CEO was caught berating one of his own cab drivers because the driver dared to say he wasn't being paid enough and couldn't earn enough because of the money Uber siphons from his work, the easiest way to do away with whining humans is to replace them with robots.
Or in this case, cabs which don't talk back except to ask where the person wants to be dropped off at since the cab wasn't going the same direction as the person.
This sounds like BS. I used an ordinary user account on Windows 7, I'm an ordinary user on Windows 8, no problems. Hard to believe they broke it in Windows 10.
They didn't. I have my dad set to a general user account on his W10 machine and he has zero issues. Every program runs perfectly, even the one in DosBox.
On those occasions something needs installed or updated, I log into the administrator account, take care of it, then log off. Not a single issue so far.
That is not what I said. Read it in its complete context. As I said, one of the reasons the Founding Fathers wanted citizens to have weapons was because they intended them to be part of the militia. Nowhere did I say only those who were part of the militia should be the only ones to have weapons.
Madison's original wording makes this very clear. Citizens are allowed to bear arms with the understanding they should be drilled in the use of those weapons as part of the militia.
They genuinely believe that the right to bear arms is a good thing and the deaths that result, while tragic, are the price of freedom.
Here is the thing foreigners don't understand about guns in America. The reason we have an amendment to the Constitution which permits citizens to own guns is twofold:
1) The Founding Fathers, almost all of whom were British subjects, saw firsthand what happens when only the government has firearms. They can use those weapons to quell public outcry over anything, claiming the people were "rioting" or were "a threat to peace and order" because the people can't effectively fight back. If you read The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison and Jay all say the same basic thing: citizens who have weapons are more fully able to defend themselves from the government.
That may sound odd to Europeans, but if you look at your history you should be able to see the logic behind this amendment. The Founding Fathers used their own experiences to craft a document which (was supposed to) enshrined rights to people while limiting that of the government. However, as James Madison pointed out, there has been more abridgement of freedoms of the people by the silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations (paraphrased).
The second reason for the amendment, and one the NRA absolutely refuses to recognize, is those who had weapons were during that time required to register with the government so they could be called up as part of the militia. Unlike today, the Founding Fathers envisioned a small standing army, if at all, with the militia doing the brunt of the work to slow or repel foreign invaders or put down rebellion, as George Washington did during the Whiskey Rebellion.
Men who had firearms would register with their local government and if the need arose, they would be called up. The government maintained that list so they knew who they could call on.
The original amendment, as proposed by James Madison, the guy who wrote the Constitution, was:
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
You can see how cutting out and rearranging a few words has people imaging the amendment to be something it is not.
This is why gun control is such a contentious issue. The Constitution, the supreme law of the land, says citizens are allowed to own firearms. Where the argument comes in is where to draw the line on a) who can own a gun (as a rule, anyone convicted of a criminal offense cannot) and b) what restrictions on gun ownership (type of weapon, amount of bullets, etc). As you have seen, some believe there should be no restrictions and others say there should be plenty of restrictions or even no ownership at all.
Every week there is at least one, usually more than one, article talking about how apps or software in general are leaking information or clogging up the works in one way or another.
Despite this, all we hear from manufacturers is they're going to rush headlong into installing every privacy leaking, control-without-control, wide-open-to-the-world piece of software into everything they can lay their hands on and worse, making it mandatory this software connects to the Net.
Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, once remarked about hotels who don't use real keys for their doors, instead having credit cards to unlock a door. While only a show, the comment has some truth behind it. There is no need to tie everything and anything together with software, especially when that software is not secured in any manner and the user has no control over it, such as in this article.
Don't be an ass. There is no patent on aspirin at this time.
But there was, wasn't there? Big Pharma patented an extract from a plant and made people pay for it during which time they spread FUD so people wouldn't use real willow bark to cure their headaches, didn't they?
"extracts from the Brazilian peppertree, which traditional healers in the Amazon have used for hundreds of years to treat skin and soft-tissue infections, have the power to stop methicillin-resistant MRSA infections in mice."
There will be those who will cheer this by saying we should look at more plants (or weeds in this case) and do more extracts to try and find ways to help people, but on the other hand will vehemently oppose trying to extract anything from marijuana which might help people because then that's someone trying to make a profit off a plant.
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It seems we have our first Runaway. Better check to make sure its circuits haven't been modified.
if wind and solar were economical, they would be used.
You mean like in the Republican-led state of Kansas which generates roughly 30% of its electric needs from wind? Those Republicans must really love spending taxpayer money on all those subsidies.
At the rate wind generated electricity is growing, Kansas may have export electricity in the next decade. How horrible wind is so uneconomical.
Car accidents, strokes, and heart attacks spike in the days after the March time change.
Let's see. What else happens when there are more hours of daylight and the weather gets better? More people are out driving longer hours (car accidents) and people are cleaning up their yards, preparing their gardens/flower beds, doing odds and ends around the house and suddenly exercising to work off their winter fat (strokes and heart attacks).
But nope, changing one hour is the cause of everything. Nothing else matters.
If one hour change caused this much havoc then driving/flying between time zones should have the same effect yet oddly, it doesn't.
Source?
Here ya go. As you can see, at least one business, at the time of the writing, has already lost a customer because of Trump's weekly visits and others are losing money because they can't do business while he's in town.
As to the cost of Trump's flight down and everything involved, roughly $3 million each time. But since this is Trump, who whined about how many times Obama went golfing and the cost to the taxpayers, I'm sure this won't mean anything. I've seen on several pro-Trump sites and sites where people are favorable to Trump defending these costs because they're nothing but "liberal" hysterics, then turning around and saying if Obama did then Trump can do it despite these same people whining about it when Obama did it.
So yeah, hypocrisy at its finest.
At least 50,000 Americans will lose their jobs this year because the president has yet to fulfill the promise he made to millions who voted for him.
You thought Trump would fulfill his "promises"? Remember when he said he'd put Hillary in jail? How about when he said he wouldn't have time to go golfing because he'd be too busy working? Mexico paying for the wall? Draining the swamp?
Like so many others who voted for Trump, you've been conned.
He said after the contract was signed. Presumably all permits would have been worked out by that time.
Also, while he's waiting on the permits and contract to be signed he could be loading up all the needed equipment, getting his people ready, making arrangements for passage on ships and/or planes, and getting the logistics down. Before the ink is dry he'd already have the stuff moving so if, as others above had said, it takes 20 days to get to Australia by boat, that leaves him 80 days to do the work.
Ambitious? Certainly. Doable? Only one way to find out.
show that the CIA can hack all manner of devices, including those made by Chinese companies.
Isn't that redundant? Aren't the vast majority of devices made in China, including the ones they've ripped off from everyone else? Of course they can be hacked, it's the same product with a different face.
We all know porn is big business in this country, and oddly, those who whine the loudest about porn's influence on society are the largest consumers of porn.
As far back as 2009, studies showed people in the Midwest and deep South, heavy bible-belt country, had larger amounts of porn consumption than other parts of the country. A more recent survey showed the same thing but also, in those places where same-sex marriage was outlawed, gay porn consumption was higher than other places, including where same-sex marriage is legal.
This bill will make it very interesting for those folks to explain why they're getting ads for sexual enhancers, condoms, lube and toys.
yes, can't have them turrists using modern phones. Much easier to hack and spy the older ones...like our president uses.
This goes along with him doing business with an Iranian bank which funds terrorists or his dealings with Cuba while that country was under sanctions.
No big deal. It's only Trump.
They sure seemed to rely on Data much more than their ship's onboard computer. One would think they would either upgrade the ship's computer to how Data was configured or just plug Data into the ship.
Despite the number of windows on the Enterprise, they still relied on an Android.
Legality is EXTREMELY questionable. (ianal)
Obviously. That you think the government, any government, should be prohibited from using tools to monitor/spy/whatever on others would defeat the whole purpose of intelligence gathering. They have to use these means to find out what they don't know. It's their job.
Do you think Russia isn't doing the same thing? Are you going to whine about them doing this? How about Israel? What excuse will you use to justify them doing this but not the U.S.? How about we go back several thousand years and go after government agents of Egypt or Babylon who were using means at their disposal to do the same thing which would otherwise get citizens in trouble.
There's a reason people should seek legal help from real attorneys rather than some random stranger on the internet. Your comment clearly shows why this should be heeded.
What this country needs when it comes to cable and broadband providers is less competition and higher prices. Let's fall even further behind the rest of the industrialized world.
An Uber spokesperson told the FT that its current level of departures has been normal.
Sure, the levels are normal now, but that is not what the article, and recruiters, are saying. From the article:
the number of Uber employees looking to leave the ride-sharing company has spiked.
That means in the future departures should spike accordingly. Just because the Uber Cab Company doesn't see an issue now only means they aren't looking.
From my perspective, simulations. For example, a simulation showing the motion of water molecules when water is boiled. Not the current version where we have an approximation of the molecules as they are heated, but a simulation where each and every molecule and its motion within the mass is calculated and shown.
How about tensile or compression strength of solids? Again, instead of an "object" being depicted we could depict how steel is deformed at the molecular level, including how impurities or additives affect its strength.
Wave motions (who knows, maybe the gun as well), atmospheric currents, ocean currents, stress and sound in a moving car/truck, how sub-atomic particles react to each including calculating the various forces at that level, and the list goes on. I'm not even scratching the surface of how this technology could be used.
How about real-time holographic images? Someone stands in front of the camera in New York giving their presentation and people around the world can see that person standing in their room as if that person was with them in real life. No elaborate set up at the receiving end, no screens or anything, just a simple projection of the person's image from a single camera (or something similar) which the receiving person can walk around as if it had all dimensions.
Whatever you can dream up would be the only limitation.
The default position since Trump got elected has been to blame him.
And the default position since Trump got elected has to been to hail him for the rise of the stock market, rising corporate profits, and better than expected GDP. So which is it? If he's going to get the kudos even though he's only been in office a few weeks he should also get the blame, right?
things (like the Yemen raid) which were planned and prepared during the Obama administration.
Planning is one thing, executing is another and it was Trump who gave the go ahead for the raid despite not going through the normal procedure to get an overview of what was to take place. From all reports Trump pulled this out of the hat and said, "Do it" without any thought or consideration. Even after they knew the raid had been compromised he went ahead with it. You can't blame Obama for this one. Trump said do it. He's the president and as the saying goes, "The buck stops here."
Since Trump got elected, we can just project everything on to him, even if it makes the people doing so look like raving lunatics.
The only one looking like a raving lunatic is Trump with his, "Fake news!" every time his words and deeds are reported, his ramblings about vote fraud despite him claiming in lawsuits to stop vote recounts there was no evidence of vote fraud so there was no need for a recount, his, "The press is the enemy of the American people" comments and of course his latest tirade-without-evidence, Obama wiretapped him during the campaign.
If Hillary had said any of the above you would be on here pointing out she was a lunatic, yet because Trump said it we're supposed to give him a pass?
After Uber's CEO was caught berating one of his own cab drivers because the driver dared to say he wasn't being paid enough and couldn't earn enough because of the money Uber siphons from his work, the easiest way to do away with whining humans is to replace them with robots.
Or in this case, cabs which don't talk back except to ask where the person wants to be dropped off at since the cab wasn't going the same direction as the person.
Wasn't there a recent story about how Uber is doomed?
Oh right, here it is.
This sounds like BS. I used an ordinary user account on Windows 7, I'm an ordinary user on Windows 8, no problems. Hard to believe they broke it in Windows 10.
They didn't. I have my dad set to a general user account on his W10 machine and he has zero issues. Every program runs perfectly, even the one in DosBox.
On those occasions something needs installed or updated, I log into the administrator account, take care of it, then log off. Not a single issue so far.
That is not what I said. Read it in its complete context. As I said, one of the reasons the Founding Fathers wanted citizens to have weapons was because they intended them to be part of the militia. Nowhere did I say only those who were part of the militia should be the only ones to have weapons.
Madison's original wording makes this very clear. Citizens are allowed to bear arms with the understanding they should be drilled in the use of those weapons as part of the militia.
They genuinely believe that the right to bear arms is a good thing and the deaths that result, while tragic, are the price of freedom.
Here is the thing foreigners don't understand about guns in America. The reason we have an amendment to the Constitution which permits citizens to own guns is twofold:
1) The Founding Fathers, almost all of whom were British subjects, saw firsthand what happens when only the government has firearms. They can use those weapons to quell public outcry over anything, claiming the people were "rioting" or were "a threat to peace and order" because the people can't effectively fight back. If you read The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison and Jay all say the same basic thing: citizens who have weapons are more fully able to defend themselves from the government.
That may sound odd to Europeans, but if you look at your history you should be able to see the logic behind this amendment. The Founding Fathers used their own experiences to craft a document which (was supposed to) enshrined rights to people while limiting that of the government. However, as James Madison pointed out, there has been more abridgement of freedoms of the people by the silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations (paraphrased).
The second reason for the amendment, and one the NRA absolutely refuses to recognize, is those who had weapons were during that time required to register with the government so they could be called up as part of the militia. Unlike today, the Founding Fathers envisioned a small standing army, if at all, with the militia doing the brunt of the work to slow or repel foreign invaders or put down rebellion, as George Washington did during the Whiskey Rebellion.
Men who had firearms would register with their local government and if the need arose, they would be called up. The government maintained that list so they knew who they could call on.
The original amendment, as proposed by James Madison, the guy who wrote the Constitution, was:
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
You can see how cutting out and rearranging a few words has people imaging the amendment to be something it is not.
This is why gun control is such a contentious issue. The Constitution, the supreme law of the land, says citizens are allowed to own firearms. Where the argument comes in is where to draw the line on a) who can own a gun (as a rule, anyone convicted of a criminal offense cannot) and b) what restrictions on gun ownership (type of weapon, amount of bullets, etc). As you have seen, some believe there should be no restrictions and others say there should be plenty of restrictions or even no ownership at all.
Every week there is at least one, usually more than one, article talking about how apps or software in general are leaking information or clogging up the works in one way or another.
Despite this, all we hear from manufacturers is they're going to rush headlong into installing every privacy leaking, control-without-control, wide-open-to-the-world piece of software into everything they can lay their hands on and worse, making it mandatory this software connects to the Net.
Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, once remarked about hotels who don't use real keys for their doors, instead having credit cards to unlock a door. While only a show, the comment has some truth behind it. There is no need to tie everything and anything together with software, especially when that software is not secured in any manner and the user has no control over it, such as in this article.
Don't be an ass. There is no patent on aspirin at this time.
But there was, wasn't there? Big Pharma patented an extract from a plant and made people pay for it during which time they spread FUD so people wouldn't use real willow bark to cure their headaches, didn't they?
Once they have a product to sell at a great profit, they will spread FUD to prevent people from using real dandelions to cure their disease.
Like they do with aspirin so people won't use willow bark?
"extracts from the Brazilian peppertree, which traditional healers in the Amazon have used for hundreds of years to treat skin and soft-tissue infections, have the power to stop methicillin-resistant MRSA infections in mice."
There will be those who will cheer this by saying we should look at more plants (or weeds in this case) and do more extracts to try and find ways to help people, but on the other hand will vehemently oppose trying to extract anything from marijuana which might help people because then that's someone trying to make a profit off a plant.
Like Werner Von Braun?
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