In the US system of government - the House, Senate, and President need to agree on a Bill to make it law (Me thinks someone needs to watch School House Rock again..).
With that being said - only the House is in the hands of the Democrat party - the Senate and Presidency are in the hands of the Republican party. Can you say grid-lock boys and girls?
Not my experience through this last election cycle. Just saw a friend who was black-listed from posting because she chose to forward something from a "Secretary of State for CA" FB page. I read the post at it's source - NOTHING there that was either controversial or even partisan (and Partisan SHOULD BE OKAY!) Thought Police are ALREADY HERE!
Read what the guys said. They knew who owned the IP - and what that could mean. Once they got called on it - they folded because they do know who owns the IP. It would have been great if the company had instead licensed the name to them for a nominal fee... but they didn't want too. Fighting this was a losing proposition legally. Pissing in the wind.
Interesting point - but it was a lot more involved. IBM was just out of a years long case with the US government about them being a monopoly. They were walking on glass from that perspective. The were the 1000 lb elephant in the room - think Amazon or MS of not that long ago. They also learned a lesson from Apple and published technical schematics and the BIOS for the system! Apple didn't do that for the Mac, but had for the Apple II. Apple II was an open bus architecture - Mac not so much. IBM PC followed the open bus architecture paradigm and created a whole new industry. The clones were enabled by the concept of a Clean-room version of the BIOS becoming available. The rest as they say was history.
Yep - after CBS started playing commercials on their streaming service within TV shows that are available over-the-air I canceled my subscription. Only got it to watch Star Trek Discovery - and honestly it was the worst Trek yet! I've been a fan since the original show originally aired! I can live without this!
You mix two issues up - the "unlimited" plan they paid for includes getting a speed throttle at something like 22GB/month if I recall what I read correctly. So they got what they paid for. Verizon didn't turn OFF their data access - just made it go at a snails pace - those are NOT the same thing (If someone halls out limit theory and tries to equate snails to zero...well...)
I DO think that Fire Department should have answered with - I guess we'll not put your communications towers as a priority for us. They wouldn't ethically do that. You could also argue that Verizon has a "moral" obligation as a member of society to step up during an disaster (and this is a practical definition of such..)
But when you look at it objectively without a moral aspect to it - the business delivered exactly what the customer paid for....22GB had high speed...beyond that not so much.
First - my argument specifically refers to how the Court is likely to view the issue.
Second - do you believe in the Tooth Fairy too? The last time the US Constitution was amended was in the 1970s (I am old enough to remember the ERA, etc..) Not going to happen over this issue.
You are MUCH more likely to get Congress to intervene. That is the best way to go.
This really comes down to the Supremacy clause of the US Constitution...and when it boils down to that - the States loose the argument.
Here is the simple logic.
FCC was created by Congress as an independent agency which Congress has invested with the full authority of the Federal Government to manage all things Telecom. This makes sense when you consider radio propagation as the first reason for the FCC to exist, i.e. radio waves don't respect State boundaries. In a similar sense - long distance phone connections cross state boundaries - so any one state can't regulate this - it is Federally preempted. Finally - comes along the Internet - something invented by a US Government Agency as a side note. This entity crosses not just State borders but International borders... again the Federal Government is the only entity that has jurisdiction extra-territorially by the way the Constitution sets things up.
So - what have we learned... there is an already existent Federal preemption of Telecommunications, FCC wields this power, and FCC has full jurisdiction to make such rulings.
The only way you overturn something like this is if the FCC didn't Federal or its' own procedures in creating the regulation... it is even a question in my mind whether States have standing to challenge this!
All of the above is what I've learned from Groklaw;-) IMNAL!
I happen to live exactly within the affected neighborhood. Last week we had the first of what we're calling "Car-Magedon" occur here. Cal Trans in their infinite lack of wisdom chose to fix a large pot-hole in the 680 Freeway right as rush hour was starting block 2 of 4 lanes that leaves the Silicon Valley. This is the major artery that everyone is talking about in the article. Anyway - traffic was SO BAD that it took me 15 minutes to move 5 houses from the corner to get into my driveway. I snuck in to the traffic having luckily met up with my wife who had been waiting on our street for 45 minutes inching her way to our house - she let me cut in front of her! We had a linear parking lot in front of our house for around 4 hours.
As it goes now - we are seeing mile long lines queueing up to get on the 680 before it goes through the hills at the last couple of on-ramps. That is a nightly occurrence.
I'm with you - same age. The only advantage I have is that I went to High School with Maren Jensen who played the Commander's daughter... needless to say was a big fan of the show.
Your statements about Russian hacking causing enough damage to alter the outcome are factually not supportable.
Simple as that.
Trump won because he ran a smarter race for the electoral college vote. He also appealed to middle America which HRC ignored or insulted.
Now to the point of the original post, i.e. the House streaming being shut down - it is ALL political theatre just like the staging of the sit-down was. As for transparency - really? How is passing a 2000 page health care law behind closed doors that you have to vote for before you can read it transparent?
I just hope that Trump manages the Congressional tendency to spend spend spend by both parties. We need to get our debt under control. That is going to be a good trick in itself with all the promised infrastructure work, etc. I'm more likely to believe that THAT promise won't be met.
The other detail missing here is that 3i isn't fielded yet. That is something like Block 2F which is only installed in the Marine Corp unit right now. Oh by the way - There is only one unit of Marine F-35s that are "on-duty" right now - the entire rest of the fleet is under test/development.
Well - variable length instructions, variable length data path too. The S-ops were Huffman encoded, i.e. the most often used were the shortest. The B1700 had a about a 3:1 code density advantage over the IBM 360 in Cobol if my memory serves me. Yes - likely Transmeta's JIT compiler is closer to what this is about. I also worked on the Cydra 5 which was a VLIW machine - it's Achilles heal was solved by the JIT trick.
And the shape itself is nothing to write home about - the Model S besides looking Sexy has an extremely efficient shape wind-tunnel wise too.. this thing is just short of being a box.
Truth in Advertising - I live in the town where the Teslas are built and we have a HUGE number of them around here... plus I drive by their test track almost every day.
Maybe they are where they are partially because they force people out or actually fire them for the employees' political beliefs.
The CEO that stepped down because of a vocal bunch who didn't like his politics is the first to come to mind. He was one of the founders of Mozilla! Likely a big voice in it's innovation.
I also have a personal friend who helped a client in the British government - and he was let go because his boss got angry - the British government has been known to spy on some of it's inhabitants apparently, and helping the client doomed my friend.
This is actually a standard tactic to belittle your opponent in a debate. It is called an ad hominem attack. When someone argues in this fashion - they have actually lost the debate!
All I can say is that Weo is one of the smartest guys I know (his wife is no slouch either!)
He has been involved in Laser related research since I met both of them back in the 1980s. He also has some note from ham radio world where he and N6KL wrote something called ARESDATA that provided a real time database available on packet radio.
I was unemployed for about 6 months at the beginning of the down-turn 3-4 years ago.
I submitted maybe 10 resumes a day through Dice/HotJobs, etc. I live in Silicon Valley and have 30+ years as a chip designer. I learned a few things through the process. 1) Submitting your resume seems pointless. I NEVER received a call from that process. 2) Use your network of friends. I finally DID get a call from someone I'd worked with 15 years before and received a 2 month contract position that got me back into the job market. I maintained these relationships/contacts through LinkedIn. 3) I had kept my resume unsearchable because I was technically "furloughed" and my original company was still paying my family health insurance. I didn't want to loose that. As soon as I had the contractor position I formally terminated my relationship with my previous employer and was free to advertise. I got two interviews and one job offer within about a week of making the resume searchable on Dice. 4) Use/abuse head-hunters.They know where the jobs are!
How well is that going to work in CA where the big problem is just finding water at the moment? We won't talk about all of the incidence recently where millions of gallons were released like at UCLA (Uggh!).
Actually having been to a couple of wild-land fires with what was then called CDF in an auxiliary capacity I do have some knowledge of the process. The reality is that just plain H2O is used as often as retardant, and that all kinds of aircraft are put in to service for air-drops.
The big thing about the DC-10 is carries a lot of H2O! It is also going to be limited as to what areas it can drop in. CA is a hilly place and there are some terrain features where it wouldn't be safe to take such a large aircraft. We also have copters and smaller fixed wing aircraft in use. They all play a part.
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Seems to me this whole stream is academic.
In the US system of government - the House, Senate, and President need to agree on a Bill to make it law (Me thinks someone needs to watch School House Rock again..).
With that being said - only the House is in the hands of the Democrat party - the Senate and Presidency are in the hands of the Republican party. Can you say grid-lock boys and girls?
QED - Can't/Ain't gonna happen.
Not my experience through this last election cycle. Just saw a friend who was black-listed from posting because she chose to forward something from a "Secretary of State for CA" FB page. I read the post at it's source - NOTHING there that was either controversial or even partisan (and Partisan SHOULD BE OKAY!) Thought Police are ALREADY HERE!
Read what the guys said. They knew who owned the IP - and what that could mean. Once they got called on it - they folded because they do know who owns the IP. It would have been great if the company had instead licensed the name to them for a nominal fee... but they didn't want too. Fighting this was a losing proposition legally. Pissing in the wind.
Interesting point - but it was a lot more involved. IBM was just out of a years long case with the US government about them being a monopoly. They were walking on glass from that perspective. The were the 1000 lb elephant in the room - think Amazon or MS of not that long ago. They also learned a lesson from Apple and published technical schematics and the BIOS for the system! Apple didn't do that for the Mac, but had for the Apple II. Apple II was an open bus architecture - Mac not so much. IBM PC followed the open bus architecture paradigm and created a whole new industry. The clones were enabled by the concept of a Clean-room version of the BIOS becoming available. The rest as they say was history.
Yeah - I believe it was on NBC wasn't it?
Yep - after CBS started playing commercials on their streaming service within TV shows that are available over-the-air I canceled my subscription. Only got it to watch Star Trek Discovery - and honestly it was the worst Trek yet! I've been a fan since the original show originally aired! I can live without this!
You beat me to pointing out the obvious. No it isn't part of the "Valley" In fact it is on the other side of the hills that form the "Valley."
Actually - you are wrong on this one - We the People already sold the Spectrum... so Verizon owns it now.
That cow is truly out of the barn.
You mix two issues up - the "unlimited" plan they paid for includes getting a speed throttle at something like 22GB/month if I recall what I read correctly. So they got what they paid for. Verizon didn't turn OFF their data access - just made it go at a snails pace - those are NOT the same thing (If someone halls out limit theory and tries to equate snails to zero...well...)
I DO think that Fire Department should have answered with - I guess we'll not put your communications towers as a priority for us. They wouldn't ethically do that. You could also argue that Verizon has a "moral" obligation as a member of society to step up during an disaster (and this is a practical definition of such..)
But when you look at it objectively without a moral aspect to it - the business delivered exactly what the customer paid for....22GB had high speed...beyond that not so much.
First - my argument specifically refers to how the Court is likely to view the issue.
Second - do you believe in the Tooth Fairy too? The last time the US Constitution was amended was in the 1970s (I am old enough to remember the ERA, etc..) Not going to happen over this issue.
You are MUCH more likely to get Congress to intervene. That is the best way to go.
This really comes down to the Supremacy clause of the US Constitution...and when it boils down to that - the States loose the argument.
Here is the simple logic.
FCC was created by Congress as an independent agency which Congress has invested with the full authority of the Federal Government to manage all things Telecom. This makes sense when you consider radio propagation as the first reason for the FCC to exist, i.e. radio waves don't respect State boundaries. In a similar sense - long distance phone connections cross state boundaries - so any one state can't regulate this - it is Federally preempted. Finally - comes along the Internet - something invented by a US Government Agency as a side note. This entity crosses not just State borders but International borders... again the Federal Government is the only entity that has jurisdiction extra-territorially by the way the Constitution sets things up.
So - what have we learned... there is an already existent Federal preemption of Telecommunications, FCC wields this power, and FCC has full jurisdiction to make such rulings.
The only way you overturn something like this is if the FCC didn't Federal or its' own procedures in creating the regulation... it is even a question in my mind whether States have standing to challenge this!
All of the above is what I've learned from Groklaw ;-) IMNAL!
Yes - we do verilog now (in the US anyway).
Today's FPGAs are so big that we synthesize entire Systems on Chip including the processors into them.
I happen to live exactly within the affected neighborhood. Last week we had the first of what we're calling "Car-Magedon" occur here. Cal Trans in their infinite lack of wisdom chose to fix a large pot-hole in the 680 Freeway right as rush hour was starting block 2 of 4 lanes that leaves the Silicon Valley. This is the major artery that everyone is talking about in the article. Anyway - traffic was SO BAD that it took me 15 minutes to move 5 houses from the corner to get into my driveway. I snuck in to the traffic having luckily met up with my wife who had been waiting on our street for 45 minutes inching her way to our house - she let me cut in front of her! We had a linear parking lot in front of our house for around 4 hours.
As it goes now - we are seeing mile long lines queueing up to get on the 680 before it goes through the hills at the last couple of on-ramps. That is a nightly occurrence.
I'm with you - same age. The only advantage I have is that I went to High School with Maren Jensen who played the Commander's daughter... needless to say was a big fan of the show.
Your statements about Russian hacking causing enough damage to alter the outcome are factually not supportable.
Simple as that.
Trump won because he ran a smarter race for the electoral college vote. He also appealed to middle America which HRC ignored or insulted.
Now to the point of the original post, i.e. the House streaming being shut down - it is ALL political theatre just like the staging of the sit-down was. As for transparency - really? How is passing a 2000 page health care law behind closed doors that you have to vote for before you can read it transparent?
I just hope that Trump manages the Congressional tendency to spend spend spend by both parties. We need to get our debt under control. That is going to be a good trick in itself with all the promised infrastructure work, etc. I'm more likely to believe that THAT promise won't be met.
The other detail missing here is that 3i isn't fielded yet. That is something like Block 2F which is only installed in the Marine Corp unit right now. Oh by the way - There is only one unit of Marine F-35s that are "on-duty" right now - the entire rest of the fleet is under test/development.
Well - variable length instructions, variable length data path too. The S-ops were Huffman encoded, i.e. the most often used were the shortest. The B1700 had a about a 3:1 code density advantage over the IBM 360 in Cobol if my memory serves me. Yes - likely Transmeta's JIT compiler is closer to what this is about. I also worked on the Cydra 5 which was a VLIW machine - it's Achilles heal was solved by the JIT trick.
Yep - the B1700 did this in the 1970s. Been there, done that... (I was a CPU engineer on one of them.)
It is frigging ugly in that paint job.
And the shape itself is nothing to write home about - the Model S besides looking Sexy has an extremely efficient shape wind-tunnel wise too.. this thing is just short of being a box.
Truth in Advertising - I live in the town where the Teslas are built and we have a HUGE number of them around here... plus I drive by their test track almost every day.
Uhm - that wasn't the National Geographic Survey reporting - it was the EPA.
However - I do get the sarcasm ;-)
Maybe they are where they are partially because they force people out or actually fire them for the employees' political beliefs.
The CEO that stepped down because of a vocal bunch who didn't like his politics is the first to come to mind. He was one of the founders of Mozilla! Likely a big voice in it's innovation.
I also have a personal friend who helped a client in the British government - and he was let go because his boss got angry - the British government has been known to spy on some of it's inhabitants apparently, and helping the client doomed my friend.
This is actually a standard tactic to belittle your opponent in a debate. It is called an ad hominem attack. When someone argues in this fashion - they have actually lost the debate!
QED: Climate change is false ;-)
All I can say is that Weo is one of the smartest guys I know (his wife is no slouch either!)
He has been involved in Laser related research since I met both of them back in the 1980s. He also has some note from ham radio world where he and N6KL wrote something called ARESDATA that provided a real time database available on packet radio.
I was unemployed for about 6 months at the beginning of the down-turn 3-4 years ago.
I submitted maybe 10 resumes a day through Dice/HotJobs, etc. I live in Silicon Valley and have 30+ years as a chip designer. I learned a few things through the process.
1) Submitting your resume seems pointless. I NEVER received a call from that process.
2) Use your network of friends. I finally DID get a call from someone I'd worked with 15 years before and received a 2 month contract position that got me back into the job market. I maintained these relationships/contacts through LinkedIn.
3) I had kept my resume unsearchable because I was technically "furloughed" and my original company was still paying my family health insurance. I didn't want to loose that. As soon as I had the contractor position I formally terminated my relationship with my previous employer and was free to advertise. I got two interviews and one job offer within about a week of making the resume searchable on Dice.
4) Use/abuse head-hunters.They know where the jobs are!
Steve
How well is that going to work in CA where the big problem is just finding water at the moment? We won't talk about all of the incidence recently where millions of gallons were released like at UCLA (Uggh!).
Actually having been to a couple of wild-land fires with what was then called CDF in an auxiliary capacity I do have some knowledge of the process. The reality is that just plain H2O is used as often as retardant, and that all kinds of aircraft are put in to service for air-drops.
The big thing about the DC-10 is carries a lot of H2O! It is also going to be limited as to what areas it can drop in. CA is a hilly place and there are some terrain features where it wouldn't be safe to take such a large aircraft. We also have copters and smaller fixed wing aircraft in use. They all play a part.
Steve