Didn't realize this was a flash issue, 90% of the time it's youtube just doing the run around to please content providers (i.e. on music videos - plays on atomic web brower with different user agent). Not that it matters, found a better and playable video around here of this story.
I see no abuses there nor the goverment forcing the banks to submit the depositor name to look up a serial number, nor promising to limit some type of liability as an incentive to look up serial numbers on each transaction. No sirree, won't happen.
(Btw, I assume they could do all this on current serial numbers but perhaps its easier on the OCR to have as described in the article).
Tesla motors' cars are bad examples. We don't have enough resources to make enough batteries to replace oil-based cars. Something like the now defunct Aptera was closer to a realistic stab to start with as a replacement (uses much less batteries by not trying to be a traditional, wind-pushing gas guzzler).
We also never moved from a higher density to a lower density energy source overall. It has always been to a higher density.
All of our alternatives are lower density (natural gas) and batteries drastically so.
Yes. Yes it is. You don't "run out" of a commodity, because as the price goes up, people use less. Perhaps you remember high school economics? Demand curves?
How'd that work out for Buffalo hides back in the day, whose tough leather was prized for many things, including belts for machines.
It is HARD. But 9 months on, almost 3 months off is stupid. It's an excercise in extremes. I envied my cousins in Germany growing up. Instead of being bored out of their brains for 3 months in the summer, they got a more moderate 6 weeks off, and then a more healthy 2-3 weeks at Christmas, and 2-3 weeks at Easter. It kinda mirrored what their parents got. Instead of Stateside, where we're all taught to be good little factory workers. Even the summers were originally for more work, out in the field.
I would gladly trade in the long stretch of summer for those type of breaks. Or even more radical, go for a 4 day school week, 3 day weekends (or maybe Wednesday off) and just cut it to a 4 week summer, and 2 weeks Xmas and 2 weeks Easter. Or whatever. Just space the days out somehow.
We're pretty much at peak point now. Actually, the most oil pumped was 2005 iirc. So the price will just continue to climb and the supply will continue to dwindle down. More and and more consumers will demand better mpg anyway. There are even reports that car sales are declining everywhere but China: http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/79493/demise-car
Good simple logos are hard to do. Look at FedEx. That needed an all new font just to get the subtle symbolism.
And simple is the right direction. If you look at art or old magazines, the designs of illustrations go from a type of baroque, all curvy and overdetailed to ever more simplified.
The problem with the new logo isn't that it's simple, it's that it's generic. The four colors always were. Google and eBay has similiar colors by now (although they incorporate it into the name itself). I think Microsft has the most generic logo out there for a major corporation and without the "Microsoft" next to it, most people wouldn't be able to place it -- unlike, say, a Mercedes Star or some such.
It's a mediocre idea. The reason is that these chairs will be floating out in the ocean one day. It's like that one company that does a single run of kitsch products made from used target bags or whatever (for target) like wallets and raincoats and stuff. Cute, but won't make any real dent. Plus the recollection effort itself will burn lots of fuel.
Years ago, in Germany, I saw a demonstration of a machine that took plastic and made it back into petroleum or a type of diesel fuel, to be more specific. Idk whatever came out of that, but that would be the real answer. Make plastic as valuable to recycle as metal. Then almost none of it will be accidentally floating in the ocean.
What if the DRM costs $$$ via increased customer support and returns (if possible)? Or just people avoiding buying their games? I know as a paying customer, I avoid companies that give me a hard time using their product, if possible and decent alternatives exist. Not so much games (I don't play) but utilities and the like.
Actually, being a member of the press is supposed to help you stay out of jail. Even judges think so, otherwise we'd be locking up every journalist that published classified documents.
I think your understanding of the First Amendment needs refreshing.
I believe freedom of the press applies to all Americans, and not just journalists - unless you can point me to any such similiar wording in the Constitution.
Needless to say, never connect the critical systems to the internet or to other computers connected to the net. Besides security concerns-- ever since consoles got internet connections/updates, what happened? It started a trend among publishers to have games were no longer tested as rigorously, pushed out the door, and depend on internet updates to fix any issues.
Idk how it can be double or triple the cost. At $16,500,000 for 2500 kindle(assuming that's correct), it's already at $6,600 per kindle. If the majority of the costs are just side costs, then iPads will just raise it marginally.
I hope for legislation reform and not business as usual after this. Of course, I'm probably being idealistic and don't want to live in a perpetual corptocracy.
Your license plate is always showing. I don't understand how anyone can claim it's private.
Think about what you're saying. Always showing. Always showing. Basically the government mandated license plates, fair enough. Now they have thousands of automatic readers. Not quite so fair, is it.
Let's put it another way. The government says the people commit crimes, so you need an identifying name on the back and front of your shirt/jacket. Then they implement machines every quarter mile, at every school, USPS, government building, townhall entrance, etc. And the Private stores/firms join in to get the benefit of robbers, limit liability (government carrot and stick), etc. Are your 4th amendment rights or privacy being violated? Did any one step in this scenario do so or just the sum of progression of steps?
In general, customs writs of assistance served as general search warrants that did not expire, allowing customs officials to search anywhere for smuggled goods without having to obtain a specific warrant. These writs became controversial when they were issued by courts in British America in the 1760s, especially the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Controversy over these general writs of assistance inspired the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which forbids general search warrants in the United States. In the United Kingdom, general writs of assistance continued to be issued until 1819.[6]
General writs of assistance played an important role in the increasing tensions that led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. In 1760, Great Britain began to enforce some of the provisions of the Navigation Acts by granting customs officers these writs. In New England, smuggling had become common. However, officers could not search a person's property without giving a reason. Colonists protested that the writs violated their rights as British subjects. The colonists had several problems with these writs. They were permanent and even transferable: a writ holder could assign them to another. Any place could be searched at the whim of the holder, and searchers were not responsible for any damage they caused. This put anyone who had such a writ above the law.
Idk, but between border control, the patriot act, and the drug wars, it seems to me that e have a whole lotta writs of assistance in this here "free" country.
Of course, having passed more of his budgets through Congress than Obama has (who can't even get Congressional Democrats to vote for his ideas in bill form), Ryan has had to be the adult in the room and actually consider the effects of things on the deficit and future entitlements.
White House officials said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the sponsor of the alternative, was using Obama's top-line spending and revenue numbers as a budget proposal, without any specifics. On the House floor, Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) agreed that Mulvaney's amendment was not, in fact, Obama's entire budget proposal. "This is politics at its absolute worst: presenting something as the President's budget without the policy detail, without the explanation to the American people about what's in the President's budget," he said. "And as a result, he presents a very misleading version of what the President has asked us to do."
He’s right about the rejection. After Obama submitted his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal on Feb. 13, 2012, House Republicans put it up for a floor vote.
The result: 414-0 against.
The same thing happened a year earlier in the Senate. That vote: 97-0 against. Democrats didn’t support the plan because it has been supplanted by another deficit-reduction plan Obama had later outlined. Republican leaders demanded a vote on Obama’s budget to show that Democrats don’t support any detailed budget blueprint, according to The Hill.
Such votes are taken "just as a means of embarrassing the president and his party," said Patrick Louis Knudsen, a senior fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation.
"Usually it’s brought up by the opposition party because they generally anticipate that a president’s budget won’t get very much support especially if it has controversial elements to it," he said.
Other experts agree. Said Steve Ellis, of Taxpayers for Common Sense: "That was pure political theater and was done to score rhetorical points."
Basically the votes were taken to score gotchas against the president. The one in the house by erasing all the details and just "basing" it on his big numbers. Of course no one would vote for that.
This VP pick shows that Romney is more interested in governing well and taking on serious issues than he is interested in short-term political gain from a couple of poll points in a swing state or two. Ryan was by far the best serious candidate for the VP job.
Paul Ryan: Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009) VVoted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006) Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005) Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004) Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011) Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008) Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011) Voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006) Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks. (Oct 2008) Voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. (Mar 2011 ) Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006) http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Ryan.htm/
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I don't think the article nor the summary states it's due to the gas.
Didn't realize this was a flash issue, 90% of the time it's youtube just doing the run around to please content providers (i.e. on music videos - plays on atomic web brower with different user agent). Not that it matters, found a better and playable video around here of this story.
Not sure I would call flash a "standard" though.
Thought the same exact thing. Don't know whichidiot marked you as a troll. On an iOS device myself. Happens way too often.
I see no abuses there nor the goverment forcing the banks to submit the depositor name to look up a serial number, nor promising to limit some type of liability as an incentive to look up serial numbers on each transaction. No sirree, won't happen.
(Btw, I assume they could do all this on current serial numbers but perhaps its easier on the OCR to have as described in the article).
Tesla motors' cars are bad examples. We don't have enough resources to make enough batteries to replace oil-based cars. Something like the now defunct Aptera was closer to a realistic stab to start with as a replacement (uses much less batteries by not trying to be a traditional, wind-pushing gas guzzler).
We also never moved from a higher density to a lower density energy source overall. It has always been to a higher density.
All of our alternatives are lower density (natural gas) and batteries drastically so.
One would assume any racist ones are smart enough to keep it hidden in today's society.
So we don't live on a finite planet? News to me, dude.
How'd that work out for Buffalo hides back in the day, whose tough leather was prized for many things, including belts for machines.
Yeah, as if no bad shit has happened since Malthus. And as if we didn't get much better, more frequence, and readier access to data since then either.
This thread, I reddit and facepalmed.
It is HARD. But 9 months on, almost 3 months off is stupid. It's an excercise in extremes. I envied my cousins in Germany growing up. Instead of being bored out of their brains for 3 months in the summer, they got a more moderate 6 weeks off, and then a more healthy 2-3 weeks at Christmas, and 2-3 weeks at Easter. It kinda mirrored what their parents got. Instead of Stateside, where we're all taught to be good little factory workers. Even the summers were originally for more work, out in the field.
I would gladly trade in the long stretch of summer for those type of breaks. Or even more radical, go for a 4 day school week, 3 day weekends (or maybe Wednesday off) and just cut it to a 4 week summer, and 2 weeks Xmas and 2 weeks Easter. Or whatever. Just space the days out somehow.
I think we let Washington DC have a lot of power...... which implies a certain amount of trust.
We're pretty much at peak point now. Actually, the most oil pumped was 2005 iirc. So the price will just continue to climb and the supply will continue to dwindle down. More and and more consumers will demand better mpg anyway. There are even reports that car sales are declining everywhere but China:
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/79493/demise-car
If it uses the same resolution as the iPad 1/2, the fragmentation should be pretty minimal in terms of apps and the like.
Someone tell them what the "board" in room & board means, I don't think they know.
Good simple logos are hard to do. Look at FedEx. That needed an all new font just to get the subtle symbolism.
And simple is the right direction. If you look at art or old magazines, the designs of illustrations go from a type of baroque, all curvy and overdetailed to ever more simplified.
The problem with the new logo isn't that it's simple, it's that it's generic. The four colors always were. Google and eBay has similiar colors by now (although they incorporate it into the name itself). I think Microsft has the most generic logo out there for a major corporation and without the "Microsoft" next to it, most people wouldn't be able to place it -- unlike, say, a Mercedes Star or some such.
It's a mediocre idea. The reason is that these chairs will be floating out in the ocean one day. It's like that one company that does a single run of kitsch products made from used target bags or whatever (for target) like wallets and raincoats and stuff. Cute, but won't make any real dent. Plus the recollection effort itself will burn lots of fuel.
Years ago, in Germany, I saw a demonstration of a machine that took plastic and made it back into petroleum or a type of diesel fuel, to be more specific. Idk whatever came out of that, but that would be the real answer. Make plastic as valuable to recycle as metal. Then almost none of it will be accidentally floating in the ocean.
What if the DRM costs $$$ via increased customer support and returns (if possible)? Or just people avoiding buying their games? I know as a paying customer, I avoid companies that give me a hard time using their product, if possible and decent alternatives exist. Not so much games (I don't play) but utilities and the like.
I believe freedom of the press applies to all Americans, and not just journalists - unless you can point me to any such similiar wording in the Constitution.
Needless to say, never connect the critical systems to the internet or to other computers connected to the net. Besides security concerns-- ever since consoles got internet connections/updates, what happened? It started a trend among publishers to have games were no longer tested as rigorously, pushed out the door, and depend on internet updates to fix any issues.
Idk how it can be double or triple the cost. At $16,500,000 for 2500 kindle(assuming that's correct), it's already at $6,600 per kindle. If the majority of the costs are just side costs, then iPads will just raise it marginally.
I hope for legislation reform and not business as usual after this. Of course, I'm probably being idealistic and don't want to live in a perpetual corptocracy.
Think about what you're saying. Always showing. Always showing. Basically the government mandated license plates, fair enough. Now they have thousands of automatic readers. Not quite so fair, is it.
Let's put it another way. The government says the people commit crimes, so you need an identifying name on the back and front of your shirt/jacket. Then they implement machines every quarter mile, at every school, USPS, government building, townhall entrance, etc. And the Private stores/firms join in to get the benefit of robbers, limit liability (government carrot and stick), etc. Are your 4th amendment rights or privacy being violated? Did any one step in this scenario do so or just the sum of progression of steps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_assistance
Idk, but between border control, the patriot act, and the drug wars, it seems to me that e have a whole lotta writs of assistance in this here "free" country.
Sigh, no.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/06/mitt-romney/romney-says-obama-failed-pass-budget/
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/218931-house-clobbers-obama-budget-proposal-in-0-414-vote
From both articles:
Basically the votes were taken to score gotchas against the president. The one in the house by erasing all the details and just "basing" it on his big numbers. Of course no one would vote for that.
Paul Ryan:
Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)
VVoted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006)
Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011) Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008)
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act's roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011)
Voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006)
Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks. (Oct 2008)
Voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. (Mar 2011
)
Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006)
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Ryan.htm/