a friend of mine commented "just once I wish Obama would show up at a press conference in overalls with 2 pitbulls on chains and rant like the angry black man the right accuses him of being"
But if I add a phone line I get all 3 for $90. (Or more accurately they give hefty discounts on the Internet and TV with the bundle) So yes I'm getting services for 'free' if you want to be anal about it.
That's 'forcing' you to get the bundle to get the best deal. Yes you have a 'choice' to pay more, but if you want the cheapest deal from a particular provider you are 'forced' to choose from what they offer.
In my case, I'm lucky enough to have both FIOS and Comcast servicing my street so I do have a 'choice' in ISP. Most people, however, don't have that choice and thus are 'forced' to deal with the only 'choice' that they have.
Of course you are also making a huge assumption. That Comcast/FIOS/ISPs are charging the minimum they can for Internet access. In which case the 'bundle' price would indeed be a loss for them. Except that since they are local monopolies in most places, the prices charged for internet and TV are far far far higher than what it actually costs them to provide it.
my idea is normal mirrors with small moveable cameras at the ends. Fold mirror in and now low drag and camera. If the camera fails then just fold it out again.
Impressive way to flip that around. Any restrictions on a person's behavior is equivalent to slavery? Seriously?
Think about what you're saying, that anyone should be able to anything they want? Anything? or should there be some rules governing behavior? Unless you're in favor of wild west anarchy, you're in favor of *some* type of regulation on society and the blessed free market capitalism.
and you don't think the *Japanese* have already marked this down as a sex toy possibility?
but seriously, expand your mind. This sort of thing has huge potential, just look at existing robo-skeletons already in use. That this initial prototype is unwieldy and rough? it's how progress is made
Free market capitalism is like a wild horse. Powerful, fast and strong.
Also not terribly productive until you put reigns on it and channel that strength towards useful goals.
Regulations are the reigns by which the power of the free market is harnessed and made productive.
And like reigns...to much is bad, but none is worse. But nuanced conversations like this with 'but free market' morons in the current GOP are next to impossible.
the problem is that Verizon has no competition and the FCC has classified them as an information service so they can't be regulated the way utilities are regulated. Phone services are still regulated, yet the phone service runs over the very same wires as the 'data'. It's all data now and so should be regulated like any other utility.
So yes the FCC is exactly where to complain about this.
A growing number of people don't live where they can get decent OTA reception. I'm close to 40 miles from the DC stations, not even accounting for terrain issues. OTA isn't viable at the outer reaches of a city...which is now bustling suburbs. I don't know of any stations that have multiple transmitters around major cities so the signal area is relatively fixed.
Or in NYC, just getting a signal through all the buildings is a challenge.
HVAC is either hefty voltage or natural gas. Neither is going to be 'user' plug and play. Electricity *might* get to that point but it's still something a qualified electrician needs to do for the long foreseeable future. Natural gas will always require trained professionals.
HVAC techs specifically are in demand because they must do everything that's required for HVAC: plumbing, electric, gas and minor construction.
Nobody builds Chernobyl-type reactors any more. That simply can't happen with most reactors.
And you don't think they said that older reactors 'simply cant fail' when they built them?
(b) there was this tsunami that killed twenty-five thousand people going on, disrupting a whole lot of things.
Wait, if the reactor can't fail, why are you bringing up environmental/situational issues? It shouldn't matter...
My point is you can't tell me the issues that will be faced in the future and therefore can't claim a nuclear reactor is 'safe'.
The 'potential' liability of nuclear is far far far greater than anything else. Operational issues are relevant and coal has many bad things about it...but it simply can't fail catastrophically. A plant can blow up, a waste lake can collapse and flood a single valley. Both sites you can safely walk on the very next day. Nuclear can't do that....and won't every be able to do that.
And as I've said in other posts, nuclear is going to be absolutely required for the next century or so...simply because the scale of climate change damage dwarfs even nuclear's problems. Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it less 'evil'.
Ahead of time, with plenty of warning that it's going to happen. This is an operational impact and while not small is entirely mitigatable. Fair scenarios aren't because by definition stuff has failed and you can't know what will be working or available.
And of course if you dismantle the damn you can also reclaim the land rather quickly.
Need we mention the fishing and recreation industries that now take advantage of the new lakes? There isn't a 'positive' side to a nuclear accident...
Nuclear isn't safer. It's only 'safer' until something goes wrong. Every reactor built was built 'to never fail' and yet we found ways to make them fail. New reactor designs may be 'more' resilient to our innate ability to screw something up, but that doesn't make it 'safer'.
Coal has massive 'operational' issues. It's failure scenarios are pretty mundane and localized.
Nuclear has some operational issues (storing waste being the biggest) but the failure issues are the big ones. They occur infrequently but unlike every single other source of fuel, render 100s of square miles uninhabitable for decades. Nothing else has that problem.
Nukes are unfortunately the only realistic answer in the short (100ish or so years) to solve this problem. Believe me, I *hate* nuclear, but I'm willing to realize that it's the lesser of short term evils at this point. Considering the massive damage climate change is going to wreak...it's not a high bar to be 'better' than that...
I haven't RTFR but while yes he's said he's involved, I wouldn't expect he'd have to tell them WHAT his involvement was...that's the prosecutions job.
The ruling (from accounts) seems to be separating the providing of the password from the contents of the drive - which is an unreasonable search. If they already know what he's done from what he's said, they could easily give him immunity for anything else found on the drive except what backs up what he's already said - then there's no 5th violation.
Also generally speaking, the warrant to search a drive has to be pretty damned specific, so if they already know what he did...it seems odd to request access to the drive.
A key is a physical object and as such can be compelled. You aren't participating in your testimony by providing the physical item; you have to provide LOTS of other information during disclosure so it's not like you can't be compelled to provide something that physically exists.
The difference here is that the key is theoretically in his mind and so he would have to participate in providing that; hence why it's generally been found that keys can be compelled but combinations on locks can't and similarly passwords can't be.
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Of course the amendments have been eroding for some time now...
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a friend of mine commented "just once I wish Obama would show up at a press conference in overalls with 2 pitbulls on chains and rant like the angry black man the right accuses him of being"
well you win the Internet Pedantic award today.
So Internet costs $60
TV costs $60
But if I add a phone line I get all 3 for $90. (Or more accurately they give hefty discounts on the Internet and TV with the bundle) So yes I'm getting services for 'free' if you want to be anal about it.
That's 'forcing' you to get the bundle to get the best deal. Yes you have a 'choice' to pay more, but if you want the cheapest deal from a particular provider you are 'forced' to choose from what they offer.
In my case, I'm lucky enough to have both FIOS and Comcast servicing my street so I do have a 'choice' in ISP. Most people, however, don't have that choice and thus are 'forced' to deal with the only 'choice' that they have.
Of course you are also making a huge assumption. That Comcast/FIOS/ISPs are charging the minimum they can for Internet access. In which case the 'bundle' price would indeed be a loss for them. Except that since they are local monopolies in most places, the prices charged for internet and TV are far far far higher than what it actually costs them to provide it.
not forced, but if you want the cheapest price you are forced into the bundle.
I have the same issue with Verizon. Have no serious need for a phone line but it's easily $30-40 cheaper with the bundle than without.
because most criminals are stupid...and thank god they are. The authorities are inept enough on their own.
My parents of pictures of me that would probably have sent to jail if they took them today
fuuuuuuck, mine were god damned MOVIES!
my idea is normal mirrors with small moveable cameras at the ends. Fold mirror in and now low drag and camera. If the camera fails then just fold it out again.
Impressive way to flip that around. Any restrictions on a person's behavior is equivalent to slavery? Seriously?
Think about what you're saying, that anyone should be able to anything they want? Anything? or should there be some rules governing behavior? Unless you're in favor of wild west anarchy, you're in favor of *some* type of regulation on society and the blessed free market capitalism.
Fingers? Those are dildos
and you don't think the *Japanese* have already marked this down as a sex toy possibility?
but seriously, expand your mind. This sort of thing has huge potential, just look at existing robo-skeletons already in use. That this initial prototype is unwieldy and rough? it's how progress is made
gah...I blame autocorrect...if I was on my phone....double gah!
Free market capitalism is like a wild horse. Powerful, fast and strong.
Also not terribly productive until you put reigns on it and channel that strength towards useful goals.
Regulations are the reigns by which the power of the free market is harnessed and made productive.
And like reigns...to much is bad, but none is worse. But nuanced conversations like this with 'but free market' morons in the current GOP are next to impossible.
the problem is that Verizon has no competition and the FCC has classified them as an information service so they can't be regulated the way utilities are regulated. Phone services are still regulated, yet the phone service runs over the very same wires as the 'data'. It's all data now and so should be regulated like any other utility.
So yes the FCC is exactly where to complain about this.
A growing number of people don't live where they can get decent OTA reception. I'm close to 40 miles from the DC stations, not even accounting for terrain issues. OTA isn't viable at the outer reaches of a city...which is now bustling suburbs. I don't know of any stations that have multiple transmitters around major cities so the signal area is relatively fixed.
Or in NYC, just getting a signal through all the buildings is a challenge.
call center employees are being thrown under the bus
but it's a really nice bus that the CEO's are riding...does anything else really matter?
HVAC is either hefty voltage or natural gas. Neither is going to be 'user' plug and play. Electricity *might* get to that point but it's still something a qualified electrician needs to do for the long foreseeable future. Natural gas will always require trained professionals.
HVAC techs specifically are in demand because they must do everything that's required for HVAC: plumbing, electric, gas and minor construction.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!
Well, yes, yes we are. (filter error: 'Don't use so many caps' I'm QUOTING the OP you moronic filter bastard!)
Nobody builds Chernobyl-type reactors any more. That simply can't happen with most reactors.
And you don't think they said that older reactors 'simply cant fail' when they built them?
(b) there was this tsunami that killed twenty-five thousand people going on, disrupting a whole lot of things.
Wait, if the reactor can't fail, why are you bringing up environmental/situational issues? It shouldn't matter...
My point is you can't tell me the issues that will be faced in the future and therefore can't claim a nuclear reactor is 'safe'.
The 'potential' liability of nuclear is far far far greater than anything else. Operational issues are relevant and coal has many bad things about it...but it simply can't fail catastrophically. A plant can blow up, a waste lake can collapse and flood a single valley. Both sites you can safely walk on the very next day. Nuclear can't do that....and won't every be able to do that.
And as I've said in other posts, nuclear is going to be absolutely required for the next century or so...simply because the scale of climate change damage dwarfs even nuclear's problems. Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it less 'evil'.
Ahead of time, with plenty of warning that it's going to happen. This is an operational impact and while not small is entirely mitigatable. Fair scenarios aren't because by definition stuff has failed and you can't know what will be working or available.
And of course if you dismantle the damn you can also reclaim the land rather quickly.
Need we mention the fishing and recreation industries that now take advantage of the new lakes? There isn't a 'positive' side to a nuclear accident...
the problem is nuclear has risks like nothing else we've ever done; see failure conditions above.
Nuclear isn't safer. It's only 'safer' until something goes wrong. Every reactor built was built 'to never fail' and yet we found ways to make them fail. New reactor designs may be 'more' resilient to our innate ability to screw something up, but that doesn't make it 'safer'.
Coal has massive 'operational' issues. It's failure scenarios are pretty mundane and localized.
Nuclear has some operational issues (storing waste being the biggest) but the failure issues are the big ones. They occur infrequently but unlike every single other source of fuel, render 100s of square miles uninhabitable for decades. Nothing else has that problem.
Nukes are unfortunately the only realistic answer in the short (100ish or so years) to solve this problem. Believe me, I *hate* nuclear, but I'm willing to realize that it's the lesser of short term evils at this point. Considering the massive damage climate change is going to wreak...it's not a high bar to be 'better' than that...
Indeed they should. but can you imagine the number of password/pin resets the average Joe would then generate?
That's because the power is generated as close the user as possible.
The cognitive dissonance of complaining about renewables by saying power should be generated closer to the user is stunning....
:)
Doesn't get much closer than my roof
And the cost to transfer all that gasoline/coal/oil? Certainly not negligible.
I haven't RTFR but while yes he's said he's involved, I wouldn't expect he'd have to tell them WHAT his involvement was...that's the prosecutions job.
The ruling (from accounts) seems to be separating the providing of the password from the contents of the drive - which is an unreasonable search. If they already know what he's done from what he's said, they could easily give him immunity for anything else found on the drive except what backs up what he's already said - then there's no 5th violation.
Also generally speaking, the warrant to search a drive has to be pretty damned specific, so if they already know what he did...it seems odd to request access to the drive.
A key is a physical object and as such can be compelled. You aren't participating in your testimony by providing the physical item; you have to provide LOTS of other information during disclosure so it's not like you can't be compelled to provide something that physically exists.
The difference here is that the key is theoretically in his mind and so he would have to participate in providing that; hence why it's generally been found that keys can be compelled but combinations on locks can't and similarly passwords can't be.
BR Of course the amendments have been eroding for some time now...