Out of the entire "500-channel-universe" that people pay for on cable, most people only watch 4 or 5 channels heavily, the rest rarely. It's a different 4-or-5-channels for different people. Nobody denies that duplicating the entire "500-channel-universe" via streaming is very expensive. But getting your 2 or 3 or 4 favourite streaming services is usually a lot less expensive.
Please learn the ifference between *TRANSACTIONS* and *DEBTS*. Basically, they set up the system so that "food" preparation doesn't start until the transaction clears via the modem. E.g. you go to that Starbuck's mentioned in the article. Clerk rings up the order on the machine and waits for the final step... * "Will that be debit or credit?" * "No, it'll be cash" * "Sorry, we don't accept cash... next" * Clerk deletes partially-completed transaction on the machine. * No transaction, no debt, public or private.
The clerk moves on to next customer. And if you argue too much, they call in the cops on you for "disturbing the peace".
> That's simple. The fundamental rule has always been that > facts are universal, opinion is personal. Virtually every > respectable media outlet has a version of that doctrine.
Remember when "Virtually every respectable media outlet" was telling us that Sadam had Weapons of Mass Destruction? Not to mention "respectable" Robert Mueller https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A bunch of SJW/NPC types get together and "report" conservative videos on Youtube as "hate speech". And "the algorithm" deletes the video. Get ready for the same to happen with tweets.
> Get me a poettering-free linux with a non-stupid X and a decent > browser. Can you do it with an established distribution at all or > is it linux-from-scratch time with a whole lot of work tacked on top?
> The police had cause to come to the house, they had a call for help > and the caller provided an address. This is in effect their warrant.
Ex-bleeping-scuse me. Police knock on the door, a fat guy in shorts comes to answer it, and a police sniper scores a direct hit on the guy's head, killing him instantly. He was no threat to anybody. *EVEN IF THIS HAD BEEN A REAL HOSTAGE SITUATION*, the hostage taker is more likely to send a hostage to answer the door, than to answer it himself. The trigger-happy asshole who pulled the trigger is just as guilty as Barriss.
> What gets me is: both? The intended victim is also awaiting > trial? I'm sure there's some reason for that, I'm just curious.
Gamer A got mad at Gamer B. Gamer B gave out a false address. Gamer A then paid Barriss to do a fake 911 call to trigger a swat raid that killed an innocent resident at the wrong address. Both Gamer A (who paid for the 911 call) and Gamer B (who gave someone else's address) are being charged.
> Since a human being exposed for two days to even 10 > roentgens would only have an even chance of survival , the > radiation belt obviously present an obstacle to space flight." > > Yet they sent men to the Moon a mere 10 years later (take > note of the rustic '60s hardware and the narrow window they > shove anti-radiation shields
A few answers... 1) They did not spend "2 days" in the belts. They "rocketed through" at earth escape velocity. 2) You're talking about the radiation in space. The walls of the Apollo capsule cut down on the radiation passing through. 3) The flight path avoided the worst of the Van Allen belts (around earth's equator) by flying around it.
https://www.popsci.com/blog-ne... > Over the course of the lunar missions, astronauts were > exposed to doses lower than the yearly 5 rem average > experienced by workers with the Atomic Energy Commission > who regularly deal with radioactive materials.
> and geostationary satellites, invented by *a science fiction author*, the famous Arthur C. Clarke
Get serious already.. Physics 101. Since the time of Sir Isaac Newton (and his formulation of the law of gravity). it has been known that a satellite (natural or artificial) at a specific distance above the equator would revolve around the earth synchronously with the earth's rotation. Arthur C. Clarke "invented" nothing. He merely wrote a sci-fi story about the (mis)use of such a satellite to broadcast porn
> remain fully functional for decades in the midst of the 2nd radiation belt at ~22000 miles of altitude.
It's called "hardened circuitry". Consumer grade electronixs would die in a few months. One reason satellites are so expensive is that their circuitry is hardened against radiation. It could be done for your laptop... if you were willing to pay $50,000 for it.
> What about constellations that haven't updated their shapes > since the times of Ptolemy who himself, for his Almagest, > relied on even older, by about 500 years, documents?
> * How is it that daylight opacifies the sky so that no *light emitting* star is to be seen from Earth
Sigh... it does no such thing. Starlight is *VERY* faint. Our eyes (and cameras) only have a small dynamic range between the dimmest object they can resolve while not getting blinded (cameras overexposed) by brighter objects or background. Have you ever been out in the countryside at night at new moon and seen The Milky Way? Try it at night from a city with streetlights present You'll have a hard time seeing any stars. The stars are just as bright during the day as they are at night.
BTW, same thing happened on the Moon (Apollo camera images) with no atmosphere. The reflected glare off the moon's surface drowns out the stars when photographing the rover, etc. However, pointing up at the sky would see stars if no reflacted glare off mountains, etc..
Pale Moon started off as a Firefox fork, so they inherited a lot from FF. See release notes http://www.palemoon.org/releas... for v28.1.0 (2018-09-20)
* Removed Telemetry accumulation calls, automatic timers and stopwatches. This removes a very noticeable performance sink for all operations on all platforms.
"Turning off telemetry" merely means not sending the accumulated data to Mozilla. The data collection and crunching is still going on if you "turn off telemetry" in Firefox.
Pale Moon has physically ripped out the code. This means...
* faster browsing, because no cpu cycles are being used for data accumulation * less code for the developers to maintain * less attack surface
> The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for 12 cargo > transport missions, covering deliveries to 2016. SpaceX CRS-1, the first of the 12 planned > resupply missions, launched in October 2012, achieved orbit, berthed and remained on > station for 20 days, before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the > Pacific Ocean. CRS missions have flown approximately twice a year to the ISS since > then. In 2015, NASA extended the Phase 1 contracts by ordering an additional > three resupply flights from SpaceX. After further extensions late in 2015, SpaceX is > currently scheduled to fly a total of 20 missions. A second phase of contracts > (known as CRS2) were solicited and proposed in 2014. They were awarded in January > 2016, for cargo transport flights beginning in 2019 and expected to last through 2024.
Replace "Your Name" with your actual name. If your name is common, you'll obviously get some false positives. A similar search can be done for LinkedIn, MySpace, whatever by inserting the appropriate domain in the "site:" reference..
> Yep... up in Ontario we recently had a similar emergency alert system > put in place recently. The very first alert sent out was an amber alert
Correction; it was sent at "Presidential Alert" level ("Emergency Alert" in Canada) being (ab)used to send an "Amber Alert" message. They cannot be turned off in a phone with a stock ROM. My phone has the following alert levels...
* Emergency (cannot turn off) * Extreme * Severe * AMBER * WPAS Test alerts
* 2013 loss 74.01 Million * 2014 loss 294.04 Million * 2015 loss 888.66 Million * 2016 loss 773.05 Million * 2017 loss 2.24 Billion (With a "B")
So far in 2018 * Quarter ending Mar 31, 2018 loss 709.55 Million * Quarter ending June 30, 2018 loss 717.54 Million i.e. 1.427 Billion total loss first half of 2018
"Put paid to X" is an obscure idiom that means to end/destroy X, in this case, ending the practice of downloading bloatware. The writer was being fancy. They really should "eschew obfuscation".
> I don't recall the exact numbers, but something like > only 12% of High School Seniors have been on a date.
Society has changed and viruses have evolved. Showing my age here. Back in the mid-1960's 12 and 13 year olds were going on dates and screwing. No problem. Today if a pair of 15-year-olds get caught having consensual sex in a jurisdiction where age-of-consent is 16, they *BOTH* end up on the sex-offender-registry for life. And back in the 60's, condoms were made fun of. If you caught something, a few penicillin shots would cure it in a couple of weeks, and you were good to go. That was before herpes and aids. And don't get me started on "The Sharia Law of Date Rape". It's basically "I accuse thee, I accuse thee, I accuse thee" and the guy is instantly guilty. Is it any wonder guys are avoiding dating?
> And, only about 1/3 of current 16 year olds have a driver's license. (These numbers may be off, > but the general gist is right). That's.... odd... Among my group of peers, getting a DL was.. everything.. > It was freedom.. It was independence.. Most of my friends took the test on their birthday. I certainly did. > Spending a day at the DMV on your 16th birthday is what everyone did. Now... apparently not so much...
* age 16; written test and eye exam for "G1" licence, i.e. beginner's permit. Must have a person in front seat who has held a valid G licence for at least 4 years * cannot drive on major highways/expressways, unless the accompanying person in front seat is a provincially certified driving instructor * after 12 months (or 8 months if you train at a provincially certified driving school) you can do the G1 driver's test * if you pass that, you get a "G2" licence. You can now drive alone, etc, but there are still some restrictions if you're under 19. * keep your nose clean for 12 months and pass yet another test, and you get the full "G" driver's licence.
The *MINIMUM* timeline is age 18 without a provincially certified driving school, or 17 years and 8 months with a provincialy certified driving school.
And a driver's licence means nothing of you don't have a car. Back in the 1960's a do-it-yourself mechanic, or a local garage could keep an old clunker running. With today's computerized cars, only dealers can even read the diagnostics, let alone tune or repair the settings.
Try to get a used car for under $5,000 today. Oh, and forget about part time jobs at a fast food joint. Adults have taken them as 2nd jobs to make ends meet. And did I mention sky high insurance for young drivers?
If she hadn't run her own email server for official business, and then unilaterally deleted thousands of emails when found out, there wouldn't have been any general reason for Comey to be involved in the first place.
The specific reason for Comey's last-minute investigation was that sensitive emails were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner (known for his weiner pics). He was the husband of Huma Abadin, Hillary's personal assistant. An irdinary American would've been jailed like Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
> And don't get me started on "ban paper bags, use plastic > bags instead" in the 1990's to "ban plastic bags, use paper > bags and pay per bag instead" in the 2010's.
> It's not a brown bag lunch, it's a "sack lunch." The Office for Civil Rights > in Seattle, Washington has suggested that government workers refrain > from using the common term because it could be offensive to some people,
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Out of the entire "500-channel-universe" that people pay for on cable, most people only watch 4 or 5 channels heavily, the rest rarely. It's a different 4-or-5-channels for different people. Nobody denies that duplicating the entire "500-channel-universe" via streaming is very expensive. But getting your 2 or 3 or 4 favourite streaming services is usually a lot less expensive.
I was expecting that "Cambridge Anal-ytica" would re-open as "Oxford Vaginal-ytica"
> Their sales start dropping and they simply start increasing prices to keep increasing profits.
Ahh yes, the cable company model, as they respond to a declining subscriber base.
Only crAPPy crAPPS can crAPP all over your privacy.
> For all debts, public and private.
Please learn the ifference between *TRANSACTIONS* and *DEBTS*. Basically, they set up the system so that "food" preparation doesn't start until the transaction clears via the modem. E.g. you go to that Starbuck's mentioned in the article. Clerk rings up the order on the machine and waits for the final step...
* "Will that be debit or credit?"
* "No, it'll be cash"
* "Sorry, we don't accept cash... next"
* Clerk deletes partially-completed transaction on the machine.
* No transaction, no debt, public or private.
The clerk moves on to next customer. And if you argue too much, they call in the cops on you for "disturbing the peace".
> Half of all people are of below average intelligence
And 90% seem to be ignorant of the difference between median and mean (average).
> That's simple. The fundamental rule has always been that
> facts are universal, opinion is personal. Virtually every
> respectable media outlet has a version of that doctrine.
Remember when "Virtually every respectable media outlet" was telling us that Sadam had Weapons of Mass Destruction? Not to mention "respectable" Robert Mueller https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A bunch of SJW/NPC types get together and "report" conservative videos on Youtube as "hate speech". And "the algorithm" deletes the video. Get ready for the same to happen with tweets.
> Get me a poettering-free linux with a non-stupid X and a decent
> browser. Can you do it with an established distribution at all or
> is it linux-from-scratch time with a whole lot of work tacked on top?
Gentoo https://gentoo.org/get-started... has systemd as an option, not a requirement. If that's too much like LFS for you, there's Devuan https://devuan.org/ which was forked from Debian. Like Debian, it is also the base for several specialized spin-offs https://devuan.org/os/partners...
> The police had cause to come to the house, they had a call for help
> and the caller provided an address. This is in effect their warrant.
Ex-bleeping-scuse me. Police knock on the door, a fat guy in shorts comes to answer it, and a police sniper scores a direct hit on the guy's head, killing him instantly. He was no threat to anybody. *EVEN IF THIS HAD BEEN A REAL HOSTAGE SITUATION*, the hostage taker is more likely to send a hostage to answer the door, than to answer it himself. The trigger-happy asshole who pulled the trigger is just as guilty as Barriss.
> What gets me is: both? The intended victim is also awaiting
> trial? I'm sure there's some reason for that, I'm just curious.
Gamer A got mad at Gamer B. Gamer B gave out a false address. Gamer A then paid Barriss to do a fake 911 call to trigger a swat raid that killed an innocent resident at the wrong address. Both Gamer A (who paid for the 911 call) and Gamer B (who gave someone else's address) are being charged.
> Since a human being exposed for two days to even 10
> roentgens would only have an even chance of survival , the
> radiation belt obviously present an obstacle to space flight."
>
> Yet they sent men to the Moon a mere 10 years later (take
> note of the rustic '60s hardware and the narrow window they
> shove anti-radiation shields
A few answers...
1) They did not spend "2 days" in the belts. They "rocketed through" at earth escape velocity.
2) You're talking about the radiation in space. The walls of the Apollo capsule cut down on the radiation passing through.
3) The flight path avoided the worst of the Van Allen belts (around earth's equator) by flying around it.
https://www.popsci.com/blog-ne...
> Over the course of the lunar missions, astronauts were
> exposed to doses lower than the yearly 5 rem average
> experienced by workers with the Atomic Energy Commission
> who regularly deal with radioactive materials.
> and geostationary satellites, invented by *a science fiction author*, the famous Arthur C. Clarke
Get serious already.. Physics 101. Since the time of Sir Isaac Newton (and his formulation of the law of gravity). it has been known that a satellite (natural or artificial) at a specific distance above the equator would revolve around the earth synchronously with the earth's rotation. Arthur C. Clarke "invented" nothing. He merely wrote a sci-fi story about the (mis)use of such a satellite to broadcast porn
> remain fully functional for decades in the midst of the 2nd radiation belt at ~22000 miles of altitude.
It's called "hardened circuitry". Consumer grade electronixs would die in a few months. One reason satellites are so expensive is that their circuitry is hardened against radiation. It could be done for your laptop... if you were willing to pay $50,000 for it.
> What about constellations that haven't updated their shapes
> since the times of Ptolemy who himself, for his Almagest,
> relied on even older, by about 500 years, documents?
They *DO* change... ve-r-r-r-r-y slowly. Try 150,000 years... https://www.wired.com/2015/03/...
> * How is it that daylight opacifies the sky so that no *light emitting* star is to be seen from Earth
Sigh... it does no such thing. Starlight is *VERY* faint. Our eyes (and cameras) only have a small dynamic range between the dimmest object they can resolve while not getting blinded (cameras overexposed) by brighter objects or background. Have you ever been out in the countryside at night at new moon and seen The Milky Way? Try it at night from a city with streetlights present You'll have a hard time seeing any stars. The stars are just as bright during the day as they are at night.
BTW, same thing happened on the Moon (Apollo camera images) with no atmosphere. The reflected glare off the moon's surface drowns out the stars when photographing the rover, etc. However, pointing up at the sky would see stars if no reflacted glare off mountains, etc..
WTF does the US government have *TWO* agencies giving out their own *DIFFERENT* "official global temperature anomalies"???
Pale Moon started off as a Firefox fork, so they inherited a lot from FF. See release notes http://www.palemoon.org/releas... for v28.1.0 (2018-09-20)
* Removed Telemetry accumulation calls, automatic timers and stopwatches. This removes a very noticeable performance sink for all operations on all platforms.
"Turning off telemetry" merely means not sending the accumulated data to Mozilla. The data collection and crunching is still going on if you "turn off telemetry" in Firefox.
Pale Moon has physically ripped out the code. This means...
* faster browsing, because no cpu cycles are being used for data accumulation
* less code for the developers to maintain
* less attack surface
Yup. They've been doing so for years. It's a moneymaker for them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for 12 cargo
> transport missions, covering deliveries to 2016. SpaceX CRS-1, the first of the 12 planned
> resupply missions, launched in October 2012, achieved orbit, berthed and remained on
> station for 20 days, before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the
> Pacific Ocean. CRS missions have flown approximately twice a year to the ISS since
> then. In 2015, NASA extended the Phase 1 contracts by ordering an additional
> three resupply flights from SpaceX. After further extensions late in 2015, SpaceX is
> currently scheduled to fly a total of 20 missions. A second phase of contracts
> (known as CRS2) were solicited and proposed in 2014. They were awarded in January
> 2016, for cargo transport flights beginning in 2019 and expected to last through 2024.
Just because you don't have an FB account, don't feel safe. Someone may be impersonating you.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
https://www.timesunion.com/new...
Go to Google search and enter the search string
"Your Name" site:facebook.com
Replace "Your Name" with your actual name. If your name is common, you'll obviously get some false positives. A similar search can be done for LinkedIn, MySpace, whatever by inserting the appropriate domain in the "site:" reference..
> Yep... up in Ontario we recently had a similar emergency alert system
> put in place recently. The very first alert sent out was an amber alert
Correction; it was sent at "Presidential Alert" level ("Emergency Alert" in Canada) being (ab)used to send an "Amber Alert" message. They cannot be turned off in a phone with a stock ROM. My phone has the following alert levels...
* Emergency (cannot turn off)
* Extreme
* Severe
* AMBER
* WPAS Test alerts
https://www.marketwatch.com/in...
Annual consolidated net income
* 2013 loss 74.01 Million
* 2014 loss 294.04 Million
* 2015 loss 888.66 Million
* 2016 loss 773.05 Million
* 2017 loss 2.24 Billion (With a "B")
So far in 2018
* Quarter ending Mar 31, 2018 loss 709.55 Million
* Quarter ending June 30, 2018 loss 717.54 Million
i.e. 1.427 Billion total loss first half of 2018
"Put paid to X" is an obscure idiom that means to end/destroy X, in this case, ending the practice of downloading bloatware. The writer was being fancy. They really should "eschew obfuscation".
>> "Hey, you, get off of my cloud."
> When I was your age, kids got yelled at for being on lawns and that's
> the way we liked it! Now I gotta yell at kids on clouds? I don't like it!
I think you missed the reference. This is about the Rolling Stones song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> any politician opposing Facebook can say goodbye to any chance of being elected.
Donal says "Hi"
> I don't recall the exact numbers, but something like
> only 12% of High School Seniors have been on a date.
Society has changed and viruses have evolved. Showing my age here. Back in the mid-1960's 12 and 13 year olds were going on dates and screwing. No problem. Today if a pair of 15-year-olds get caught having consensual sex in a jurisdiction where age-of-consent is 16, they *BOTH* end up on the sex-offender-registry for life. And back in the 60's, condoms were made fun of. If you caught something, a few penicillin shots would cure it in a couple of weeks, and you were good to go. That was before herpes and aids. And don't get me started on "The Sharia Law of Date Rape". It's basically "I accuse thee, I accuse thee, I accuse thee" and the guy is instantly guilty. Is it any wonder guys are avoiding dating?
> And, only about 1/3 of current 16 year olds have a driver's license. (These numbers may be off,
> but the general gist is right). That's.... odd... Among my group of peers, getting a DL was.. everything..
> It was freedom.. It was independence.. Most of my friends took the test on their birthday. I certainly did.
> Spending a day at the DMV on your 16th birthday is what everyone did. Now... apparently not so much...
Here in Ontario, Canada, things are extremely different. https://www.ontario.ca/page/ge...
* age 16; written test and eye exam for "G1" licence, i.e. beginner's permit. Must have a person in front seat who has held a valid G licence for at least 4 years
* cannot drive on major highways/expressways, unless the accompanying person in front seat is a provincially certified driving instructor
* after 12 months (or 8 months if you train at a provincially certified driving school) you can do the G1 driver's test
* if you pass that, you get a "G2" licence. You can now drive alone, etc, but there are still some restrictions if you're under 19.
* keep your nose clean for 12 months and pass yet another test, and you get the full "G" driver's licence.
The *MINIMUM* timeline is age 18 without a provincially certified driving school, or 17 years and 8 months with a provincialy certified driving school.
And a driver's licence means nothing of you don't have a car. Back in the 1960's a do-it-yourself mechanic, or a local garage could keep an old clunker running. With today's computerized cars, only dealers can even read the diagnostics, let alone tune or repair the settings.
Try to get a used car for under $5,000 today. Oh, and forget about part time jobs at a fast food joint. Adults have taken them as 2nd jobs to make ends meet. And did I mention sky high insurance for young drivers?
Property values go up or down due to natural cycles... bad.
Temperatures go up or down due to natural cycles... bad.
If she hadn't run her own email server for official business, and then unilaterally deleted thousands of emails when found out, there wouldn't have been any general reason for Comey to be involved in the first place.
The specific reason for Comey's last-minute investigation was that sensitive emails were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner (known for his weiner pics). He was the husband of Huma Abadin, Hillary's personal assistant. An irdinary American would've been jailed like Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
> And don't get me started on "ban paper bags, use plastic
> bags instead" in the 1990's to "ban plastic bags, use paper
> bags and pay per bag instead" in the 2010's.
Paper bags are OK, but not brown bags in Seatlle, Washington. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/...
> It's not a brown bag lunch, it's a "sack lunch." The Office for Civil Rights
> in Seattle, Washington has suggested that government workers refrain
> from using the common term because it could be offensive to some people,