Laptops have real OS's. I needed to put a new ROM on an Android phone once when overseas (reasons are complicated, but this was the only solution). I couldn't have done that with a tablet. It wasn't my primary phone; it was one I was using as a backup with a local SIM, but it made my life a lot easier to have it rather than pay through the nose for roaming data service.
For surfing, a tablet is fine. But there are lots of things that require a real OS to do, and old laptops (mine is at least 7 years old) are better than brand-new tablets for those tasks. My next laptop will be an Apple so I can run Bootcamp and have both OSX and Windows available for whatever I need.
It's sort of like signs saying "POSTED: NO TRESPASSING". They're not technically mandatory in a lot of places, but if you have them up every X meters, nobody can deny in court that they were trespassing when they walked over your fence.
Your friend the renter has exclusive control over his apartment, with minor exceptions for the maintenance thereof. He is the person who can authorize someone else to enter. The landlord, outside of fairly narrow exceptions for maintaining the property (often subject to prior notice to the tenant except in emergencies), cannot do so. The no-sharing policy is unenforceable because it is invalid; the renter has the right to loan a key to someone (yes, even if subletting is prohibited, he can legally loan his key to someone else, e.g. for petsitting).
The differentiation is: who controls access? In this case, the company owned the computers, and the dude accessing them did not have permission to access them. I'm not a fan of the way CFAA is used, but this is a pretty clear violation.
3.5 hrs flying? Something's wrong with the analysis. I put up with TSA in the US and can get from my garage to an airport slightly farther away than that (not enough to matter) in - tops - two hours. It doesn't take an hour and a half to pick up your bags and get to the city center, does it?
The only real negative I've noticed with Uber is new drivers who can't read the directions in real time. I ended up directing a guy the other day - literally telling him how to get from A to B, even though it was on his smartphone screen. He lived there, and I've never been there before, but I know how to read a Google Maps display in real time, and he doesn't. I settled on just doing the navigator duty. Nice guy, though. Wish him well.
An alternative way to view it is that the government gives you every single moment of your life by not executing you at birth. From a certain perspective, true, but from the average person's perspective, that's not how it works.
When the government pays you your own money, it's not really an expenditure.
If incompetence and corruption are beneficial to 51% of voters, they will always win. In practice, the number needed is much smaller. Your point isn't invalid, just incomplete.
In theory, this is a wonderful solution. In practice, I remember being on a call with a tier-3 support person who still had to follow scripts. He'd ask me to ping, or whatever, and I'd say "yeah, it timed out". And he would say "what does the actual error message say?" Dude, we were just discussing some of the finer points of subnetting. I'm not a guru by any means, but FFS anyone who even knows what a subnet is is probably qualified to tell you that the damned thing timed out.
I recently got fiber from a local provider. It's fantastic. And the techs who did the install were great - they asked me how I wanted the wireless set up, and I said "turn it off, turn it all off, and if you can't do full bridge mode then DMZ my router, I don't even want to know yours exists. All I want is an Ethernet port and a DHCP server, and feel free to give me a static IP and skip the DHCP server." Alas, I had to settle for DMZ.
I've seen some pretty poorly run municipal services, though. It is absolutely possible for many city services to be cheaper, better, and easier than privately provided ones - but it is by no means guaranteed.
There is often a strategic element to delaying trial, on the part of the defendant. If he's reasonably certain that he will be convicted, it is highly advantageous to delay the trial for years, because nearly all sentences include credit for time served. If you were arrested, put on trial two weeks later, and sentenced a week after that to three years, you do most of your sentence in prison - more dangerous, almost certainly far from family for visits, etc. But if you delay the trial for two and a half years, lose, and then get sentenced two months later, you only have four months left to serve - and you did the first 32 months in county/city lockup, which is a much easier stretch. Bonus: because you have less than a year left on your sentence, they almost certainly won't even bother sending you to the state prison. You'll do the whole time in local jail.
I understand your point about corner cases, but maximum range on an EV is fairly short, and there is a real infrastructure problem if you're not at home with your own charger. The last long road trip I took was last September, 3800 miles/6100 km in eight days. Since then, I've taken four or five that would exceed one-way max range each way, and at least ten that would exceed it round-trip, with no way to guarantee that the hotel has some way for me to charge while I'm there overnight. If you're doing it at least once a month on average, it's not a what-if scenario. It's a "well, when..." scenario.
That said, I might buy one - but only because we have my wife's diesel to take on road trips. I think EV's are great, but there's a long way to go before they become daily drivers for most.
If you think that there are mechanisms by which healthcare costs can be cut in half, I suggest applying for the CEO position at your nearest hospital. There are some efficiencies to be wrung out of the system, but there aren't many. If you quit paying doctors anything - if they were slaves forced to feed and house themselves on income outside of their medical work, and every employee they have was forced to do the same, and all the property owners and utility companies that provided them with clinic space and services were forced to do it for free - you could cut 20% off our healthcare costs. TANSTAAFL. Also, good luck finding doctors after you do that.
If it got built. Throwing money down a hole isn't just a corporation thing; governments do it too. And it's got the problem of patronage, too. Corporations don't let it slide when a third of the city doesn't pay their water bills, but governments do.
And in Mississippi, there's a private company offering gigabit fiber-to-the-home for $70/mo. Gigabit to their Level3 uplink, but speedtest routinely shows I'm getting over 600 Mbps symmetrical (in fact, upstream usually a bit faster) to just about any location.
Most of their service is to places that already have high-speed lines running through for other reasons (so the uplink isn't just for them), but they are willing to go into communities off the beaten path if support is there.
e-ink displays are not for skimming - they're for reading. They're a specialized market. I'd rather read on my iPad than my Kindle, generally, but the Kindle has amazing battery life and can be read in full sun. There really is no substitute for it, other than having servants who will bring you printed books on command. It's always been marketed to people who read lots of books, for that reason. E.g., my wife, who reads 2-3 books a week.
You can be thin eating lots of carbs, and you can be thin eating lots of fats, but you can't be thin eating lots of both. And ribeye + Bearnaise is a lot tastier to me than chicken breast + brown rice.
Or sucralose. The liquid stuff from Amazon is pretty good.
Stevia just has this really... odd taste to me. Not the same as the saccharin aftertaste, but just as annoying. Erythritol is pretty good, though. I've even used it to make zabaglione.
You suggested in another post you were doing low-carb. 150 g/day isn't low-carb except by comparison to a standard American diet. Try 20. Maybe it works for you, maybe it doesn't. But it's worth trying for a month or so.
It certainly did the trick for me. I lost about eighty pounds and I've kept it off for four years. Typical day for me in maintenance mode is under 50 g, with lots of days down in the 20 g range. After this long, I find I prefer ketosis - in addition to killing hunger, it's solved a lifelong problem with afternoon sleepiness. It's also made me a much better cook.
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Getting fired isn't fun, but it beats the hell out of going to prison.
Don't stick your dick in crazy unless it's crazy hot, and it doesn't know your name, where you work, or where you live.
Laptops have real OS's. I needed to put a new ROM on an Android phone once when overseas (reasons are complicated, but this was the only solution). I couldn't have done that with a tablet. It wasn't my primary phone; it was one I was using as a backup with a local SIM, but it made my life a lot easier to have it rather than pay through the nose for roaming data service.
For surfing, a tablet is fine. But there are lots of things that require a real OS to do, and old laptops (mine is at least 7 years old) are better than brand-new tablets for those tasks. My next laptop will be an Apple so I can run Bootcamp and have both OSX and Windows available for whatever I need.
It's sort of like signs saying "POSTED: NO TRESPASSING". They're not technically mandatory in a lot of places, but if you have them up every X meters, nobody can deny in court that they were trespassing when they walked over your fence.
Your friend the renter has exclusive control over his apartment, with minor exceptions for the maintenance thereof. He is the person who can authorize someone else to enter. The landlord, outside of fairly narrow exceptions for maintaining the property (often subject to prior notice to the tenant except in emergencies), cannot do so. The no-sharing policy is unenforceable because it is invalid; the renter has the right to loan a key to someone (yes, even if subletting is prohibited, he can legally loan his key to someone else, e.g. for petsitting).
The differentiation is: who controls access? In this case, the company owned the computers, and the dude accessing them did not have permission to access them. I'm not a fan of the way CFAA is used, but this is a pretty clear violation.
You really should link to instructions on how to do that, as most people don't know about this.
3.5 hrs flying? Something's wrong with the analysis. I put up with TSA in the US and can get from my garage to an airport slightly farther away than that (not enough to matter) in - tops - two hours. It doesn't take an hour and a half to pick up your bags and get to the city center, does it?
The only real negative I've noticed with Uber is new drivers who can't read the directions in real time. I ended up directing a guy the other day - literally telling him how to get from A to B, even though it was on his smartphone screen. He lived there, and I've never been there before, but I know how to read a Google Maps display in real time, and he doesn't. I settled on just doing the navigator duty. Nice guy, though. Wish him well.
Like you've ever had anything other than heavily-diluted crack. You'd do it for a rock or two. Though there's probably more than one STD involved.
Your criminology is correct, but your slang is not. A "hood rat" is a skanky girl from the hood who sleeps around, not a wannabe gangster.
An alternative way to view it is that the government gives you every single moment of your life by not executing you at birth. From a certain perspective, true, but from the average person's perspective, that's not how it works.
When the government pays you your own money, it's not really an expenditure.
If incompetence and corruption are beneficial to 51% of voters, they will always win. In practice, the number needed is much smaller. Your point isn't invalid, just incomplete.
In theory, this is a wonderful solution. In practice, I remember being on a call with a tier-3 support person who still had to follow scripts. He'd ask me to ping, or whatever, and I'd say "yeah, it timed out". And he would say "what does the actual error message say?" Dude, we were just discussing some of the finer points of subnetting. I'm not a guru by any means, but FFS anyone who even knows what a subnet is is probably qualified to tell you that the damned thing timed out.
I recently got fiber from a local provider. It's fantastic. And the techs who did the install were great - they asked me how I wanted the wireless set up, and I said "turn it off, turn it all off, and if you can't do full bridge mode then DMZ my router, I don't even want to know yours exists. All I want is an Ethernet port and a DHCP server, and feel free to give me a static IP and skip the DHCP server." Alas, I had to settle for DMZ.
I've seen some pretty poorly run municipal services, though. It is absolutely possible for many city services to be cheaper, better, and easier than privately provided ones - but it is by no means guaranteed.
Well, you could always run Windows 7 on a dedicated box. Inconvenient, but useful.
There is often a strategic element to delaying trial, on the part of the defendant. If he's reasonably certain that he will be convicted, it is highly advantageous to delay the trial for years, because nearly all sentences include credit for time served. If you were arrested, put on trial two weeks later, and sentenced a week after that to three years, you do most of your sentence in prison - more dangerous, almost certainly far from family for visits, etc. But if you delay the trial for two and a half years, lose, and then get sentenced two months later, you only have four months left to serve - and you did the first 32 months in county/city lockup, which is a much easier stretch. Bonus: because you have less than a year left on your sentence, they almost certainly won't even bother sending you to the state prison. You'll do the whole time in local jail.
I understand your point about corner cases, but maximum range on an EV is fairly short, and there is a real infrastructure problem if you're not at home with your own charger. The last long road trip I took was last September, 3800 miles/6100 km in eight days. Since then, I've taken four or five that would exceed one-way max range each way, and at least ten that would exceed it round-trip, with no way to guarantee that the hotel has some way for me to charge while I'm there overnight. If you're doing it at least once a month on average, it's not a what-if scenario. It's a "well, when..." scenario.
That said, I might buy one - but only because we have my wife's diesel to take on road trips. I think EV's are great, but there's a long way to go before they become daily drivers for most.
If you think that there are mechanisms by which healthcare costs can be cut in half, I suggest applying for the CEO position at your nearest hospital. There are some efficiencies to be wrung out of the system, but there aren't many. If you quit paying doctors anything - if they were slaves forced to feed and house themselves on income outside of their medical work, and every employee they have was forced to do the same, and all the property owners and utility companies that provided them with clinic space and services were forced to do it for free - you could cut 20% off our healthcare costs. TANSTAAFL. Also, good luck finding doctors after you do that.
If it got built. Throwing money down a hole isn't just a corporation thing; governments do it too. And it's got the problem of patronage, too. Corporations don't let it slide when a third of the city doesn't pay their water bills, but governments do.
And in Mississippi, there's a private company offering gigabit fiber-to-the-home for $70/mo. Gigabit to their Level3 uplink, but speedtest routinely shows I'm getting over 600 Mbps symmetrical (in fact, upstream usually a bit faster) to just about any location.
Most of their service is to places that already have high-speed lines running through for other reasons (so the uplink isn't just for them), but they are willing to go into communities off the beaten path if support is there.
e-ink displays are not for skimming - they're for reading. They're a specialized market. I'd rather read on my iPad than my Kindle, generally, but the Kindle has amazing battery life and can be read in full sun. There really is no substitute for it, other than having servants who will bring you printed books on command. It's always been marketed to people who read lots of books, for that reason. E.g., my wife, who reads 2-3 books a week.
Given the refresh rate of e-ink, I'm thinking more in terms of wallpaper that changes at a whim.
You can be thin eating lots of carbs, and you can be thin eating lots of fats, but you can't be thin eating lots of both. And ribeye + Bearnaise is a lot tastier to me than chicken breast + brown rice.
Or sucralose. The liquid stuff from Amazon is pretty good.
Stevia just has this really... odd taste to me. Not the same as the saccharin aftertaste, but just as annoying. Erythritol is pretty good, though. I've even used it to make zabaglione.
You suggested in another post you were doing low-carb. 150 g/day isn't low-carb except by comparison to a standard American diet. Try 20. Maybe it works for you, maybe it doesn't. But it's worth trying for a month or so.
It certainly did the trick for me. I lost about eighty pounds and I've kept it off for four years. Typical day for me in maintenance mode is under 50 g, with lots of days down in the 20 g range. After this long, I find I prefer ketosis - in addition to killing hunger, it's solved a lifelong problem with afternoon sleepiness. It's also made me a much better cook.