Laying fiber is a time and labor intense job. Hence, EXPENSIVE. And they found out just HOW expensive.
So now they're going to "concentrate on wireless". Yay. "Google FIBER is concentrating on WIRELESS".
Basically it sounds like they did a cost projection and figured out that they weren't going to have ANYTHING close to the penetration they'd initially planned. So Alphabet yanked most of their funding. So the company is running in maintenance mode. Working at supporting the few markets they have and flogging a small group of techs for ideas on how to expand coverage in those areas so they don't have to do anything more than maybe spend a few million on upgraded wifi access points.
It's depressing. But the mere threat of them moving into Chicago prompted my cable company to offer gigabit service at a reasonable price. So I guess they accomplished SOMETHING.
Gawker was in the business of making money by stirring up shit. They thought they were going to make a mint and burn up Hogan's fortune at the same time.
Ooops.
And it sure as hell couldn't have happened to a bigger group of assholes.
It's not so much that people think higher education is bad in and of itself.
It's that the culture and cult-like indoctrination present on many campuses is a toxic witch's brew of deliberate distortion of fact, intolerance, bullying, sexism, racism, etc masquerading as a "tolerance" movement.
Those who have infiltrated and perverted the higher education system in this country have managed to distort college from being a place of "diversity of thought and ideas" into "diversity of self-segregated communities".
And yes, it's actually now possible to emerge from college more stupid and useless than when one went in.
Been telecommuting since about 2008. Started out one day a week. About 2010, went to full-time telecommute. I'm the admin for the company's network and have everything set up so that I can do almost everything remotely. And, if it comes to the worst, I can drive in for an emergency.
It's frickin' great! The only thing is, you NEED to be able to self-start. Because being at home, there are lots of distractions.
Or are you just going to name-call like a little bitch?
The black community has more crime per-capita. And an officer's chance of being killed by a black individual are higher than their chances of being killed by aan individual of any other color. And, for a black man, the people he has to fear the most are his fellow blacks. Period.
If you can find stats that counter this argument, please release them!
Otherwise, shut the fuck up. Your intellectual superiors are talking.
You're definitely right. Cops are literally being paid to put their life on the line if/when needed. Just like people in the military, firemen, and anyone else paid to confront dangerous situations.
Putting your life on the line isn't the same thing as REQUIRING them to die.
"Remember, it's not an officer's job to die in the line of duty"
Thats where you are wrong.
BULLSHIT.
You're going to tell someone that you REQUIRE that they die in the performance of their duties? Fuck that noise. And I'm saying this as a former member of the US Armed Forces!
Is there a RISK of death? Sure. But that's a FAR different thing than telling someone they're REQUIRED to die.
In the end, it's the Lifesaver's Dilemma. If they die, there are people under their protection who are now endangered.
Cop is one of the highest paying jobs for someone without a college degree and just like crab fishing or undersea welding they are being paid to take the risk.
NOT the same thing as telling someone they're REQUIRED to die in the line of duty. If it happens, it happens. Sure. But expect cops to do everything in their power to minimize the possibility of that happening.
They are supposed to risk their lives
RISK. Not "throw away".
I'm not going to say that ALL cops are good and honorable. There are some badly trained cops out there. And there are contingent of thugs with badges out there too. But I'd be loathe to paint the entirety of our nation's police forces with your broad brush.
So they're basically putting their monitoring hardware and apps into your house, and mining the data for all they're worth. Tie it into Google Assistant and you basically have volunteered to bug your own home to the point where they know every last little detail of your private life.
Yeah. No thanks. I'd rather go with a more traditional provider where *I* can control what sort of data leaves my premises. If any.
Actually you can. You just can't go deep with a well. And may benefit more from horizontal loop placement which is a bit more labor intensive since you have to dig up the property a lot more.
If you want to talk about fear, look at the statistics.
Blacks are about 13% of the population. Blacks are responsible for about 46% of violent crimes overall.
In 2016, 46% of all cops killed were killed by black men. In 2015, 55% of all cops killed were killed by black men.
So, is knowing the stats, and taking extra precautions to control encounters during non-compliance situations racial profiling? Or is it common sense? Or is it both?
Remember, it's not an officer's job to die in the line of duty. And if it comes down to the officer being hurt or killed, or a violent/noncompliant suspect being hurt or killed, I'd much rather the officer come out of it alive and uninjured.
This is what frustrated me so terribly about public schooling. "Hurry up and wait for the slow kids."
Was worst in grade school, got only slightly better in high school, and college was simply more-of-same.
Even afterwards, classes for various forms of certification are just DREADFULLY slow.
As someone with ADD, being told to just stand there and hold my dick COMPLETELY destroys the learning experience, because it becomes so disjointed.
If I'd had something like Netflix to absorb information from, I might have done a lot better in school (blew out testing, but classwork destroyed my GPA).
They're simply going after large, cash-saturated companies to wring a payday out of them. The EU could not give less of a shit about "individual rights and interests" if they tried.
CPS has trouble graduating kids ALREADY. Less than 75% actually graduate. Over half of the graduates are simply not able to survive in college. And about 1/3rd of the remainder require extensive remedial courses before moving on to actual collegiate level classes.
This is CPS's way of using a trebuchet to fire the cart WAYYY out in front of a very sickly, spavined old horse.
All they're doing is setting these kids up for failure.
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He needs to shut the fuck up about mega-projects built on rainbows and unicorn farts and get the damn PROTOTYPES fully functional.
Same thing with his "solar farm and battery" in Nevada.
Same with his "Big Battery" project in Australia.
Laying fiber is a time and labor intense job. Hence, EXPENSIVE.
And they found out just HOW expensive.
So now they're going to "concentrate on wireless". Yay. "Google FIBER is concentrating on WIRELESS".
Basically it sounds like they did a cost projection and figured out that they weren't going to have ANYTHING close to the penetration they'd initially planned. So Alphabet yanked most of their funding. So the company is running in maintenance mode. Working at supporting the few markets they have and flogging a small group of techs for ideas on how to expand coverage in those areas so they don't have to do anything more than maybe spend a few million on upgraded wifi access points.
It's depressing. But the mere threat of them moving into Chicago prompted my cable company to offer gigabit service at a reasonable price. So I guess they accomplished SOMETHING.
Gawker was in the business of making money by stirring up shit. They thought they were going to make a mint and burn up Hogan's fortune at the same time.
Ooops.
And it sure as hell couldn't have happened to a bigger group of assholes.
If anything, Thiel's intervention, arguably, saved Hogan from losing his suit under "Them with the deepest pockets wins".
It's not so much that people think higher education is bad in and of itself.
It's that the culture and cult-like indoctrination present on many campuses is a toxic witch's brew of deliberate distortion of fact, intolerance, bullying, sexism, racism, etc masquerading as a "tolerance" movement.
Those who have infiltrated and perverted the higher education system in this country have managed to distort college from being a place of "diversity of thought and ideas" into "diversity of self-segregated communities".
And yes, it's actually now possible to emerge from college more stupid and useless than when one went in.
Been telecommuting since about 2008.
Started out one day a week.
About 2010, went to full-time telecommute.
I'm the admin for the company's network and have everything set up so that I can do almost everything remotely.
And, if it comes to the worst, I can drive in for an emergency.
It's frickin' great!
The only thing is, you NEED to be able to self-start. Because being at home, there are lots of distractions.
Yes.
However I am not paying month-to-month for it...
The difference is simple, but profound.
HELL FUCKING NO!
I am NOT going to rent my OS from Microsoft. Not now. Not EVER.
I'll believe it once all subsidies and penalties are accounted for.
Ah, quoting a phrase without actually understanding the import of it.
Please cite a reason why the FBI would need to skew statistics showing this information?
And, as for margin of error. This isn't a lab experiment. There's no "margin of error".
This is simple polling of actual events.
But continue on with your blather and name-calling.
It only highlights that you can't actually hold an argument.
Thus you've lost the debate.
CITATION REQUIRED!
Do you want to actually counter his argument?
Or are you just going to name-call like a little bitch?
The black community has more crime per-capita. And an officer's chance of being killed by a black individual are higher than their chances of being killed by aan individual of any other color. And, for a black man, the people he has to fear the most are his fellow blacks. Period.
If you can find stats that counter this argument, please release them!
Otherwise, shut the fuck up. Your intellectual superiors are talking.
You're definitely right. Cops are literally being paid to put their life on the line if/when needed. Just like people in the military, firemen, and anyone else paid to confront dangerous situations.
Putting your life on the line isn't the same thing as REQUIRING them to die.
"Remember, it's not an officer's job to die in the line of duty"
Thats where you are wrong.
BULLSHIT.
You're going to tell someone that you REQUIRE that they die in the performance of their duties?
Fuck that noise.
And I'm saying this as a former member of the US Armed Forces!
Is there a RISK of death? Sure.
But that's a FAR different thing than telling someone they're REQUIRED to die.
In the end, it's the Lifesaver's Dilemma. If they die, there are people under their protection who are now endangered.
Cop is one of the highest paying jobs for someone without a college degree and just like crab fishing or undersea welding they are being paid to take the risk.
NOT the same thing as telling someone they're REQUIRED to die in the line of duty.
If it happens, it happens. Sure. But expect cops to do everything in their power to minimize the possibility of that happening.
They are supposed to risk their lives
RISK. Not "throw away".
I'm not going to say that ALL cops are good and honorable. There are some badly trained cops out there. And there are contingent of thugs with badges out there too. But I'd be loathe to paint the entirety of our nation's police forces with your broad brush.
So they're basically putting their monitoring hardware and apps into your house, and mining the data for all they're worth.
Tie it into Google Assistant and you basically have volunteered to bug your own home to the point where they know every last little detail of your private life.
Yeah. No thanks. I'd rather go with a more traditional provider where *I* can control what sort of data leaves my premises. If any.
Actually you can. You just can't go deep with a well. And may benefit more from horizontal loop placement which is a bit more labor intensive since you have to dig up the property a lot more.
It's also an excellent argument for an indoor, heated pool...
And maybe even a hot tub.
How many were actively fighting with you or trying to grab your weapon?
If you want to talk about fear, look at the statistics.
Blacks are about 13% of the population.
Blacks are responsible for about 46% of violent crimes overall.
In 2016, 46% of all cops killed were killed by black men.
In 2015, 55% of all cops killed were killed by black men.
So, is knowing the stats, and taking extra precautions to control encounters during non-compliance situations racial profiling?
Or is it common sense?
Or is it both?
Remember, it's not an officer's job to die in the line of duty. And if it comes down to the officer being hurt or killed, or a violent/noncompliant suspect being hurt or killed, I'd much rather the officer come out of it alive and uninjured.
Period.
Now say that in a Scottish accent!
Someone's trying to get bought for an exorbitant price...
This is what frustrated me so terribly about public schooling.
"Hurry up and wait for the slow kids."
Was worst in grade school, got only slightly better in high school, and college was simply more-of-same.
Even afterwards, classes for various forms of certification are just DREADFULLY slow.
As someone with ADD, being told to just stand there and hold my dick COMPLETELY destroys the learning experience, because it becomes so disjointed.
If I'd had something like Netflix to absorb information from, I might have done a lot better in school (blew out testing, but classwork destroyed my GPA).
No they're not.
They're simply going after large, cash-saturated companies to wring a payday out of them.
The EU could not give less of a shit about "individual rights and interests" if they tried.
CPS has trouble graduating kids ALREADY. Less than 75% actually graduate.
Over half of the graduates are simply not able to survive in college.
And about 1/3rd of the remainder require extensive remedial courses before moving on to actual collegiate level classes.
This is CPS's way of using a trebuchet to fire the cart WAYYY out in front of a very sickly, spavined old horse.
All they're doing is setting these kids up for failure.