Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs
No they aren't. Our founding principles are that we let some guilty people go free precisely because that's preferable than to possibly imprison innocent people. People using Fake IDs are an acceptable condition of not doing 'Papers please' checks on every law abiding citizen on every street corner.
Version Control. We should know WHICH politician(s) added this clause. If no one owns up to it, it gets stripped from the Bill. We need names on this type of crap.
It's called a 'loss leader' not 'synergy'. Googling around it seems that iTunes is starting to have some measurable share of Apple's profits, but it was clearly not something they intended to make money on. Once they became the entrenched standard they started renegotiating with the major labels, but it's purpose was to give people a good easy 'Apple' way to use the iPod.
But their primary market is hardware. They don't sell naked software. Just like iTunes, the business model isn't to sell songs...it's to sell iP/hone/ad/ods
a 'greater' LEO problem anyway, but yes it would seem the risk of a Kessler Syndrome type event affecting GPS would be lower. Hostile military action still remains as a threat I would think.
I would agree with you, but sometimes the sum of the pieces is greater than the total. I.e. you can test widget/process A for all manner of failures and B, C, D as well. But testing ALL of them for simultaneous failures simply isn't possible. And while I also agree that it won't 'stop' the military, it will significantly degrade it's effectiveness.
Which, when fighting a superior force is exactly what you want to do...and is exactly what our enemies would be facing and thus want to do.
I'm sure it's been thought out and planned, but sometimes a complete 'failure' isn't needed to actually cause enough problems to overcome your opponent.
The single biggest issue is GPS. How many 'smart' things simply stop working when our satellites are taken out (either by enemy...or just space junk cascading into the Kessler Syndrome/Effect)
I grew up in western NY in the 70s/80s. I can't for the life of me remember any outages of the frequency and duration that seem to occur nationwide today. I'm in the DC area now and the DC and MD side goes out with regularity, VA not quite as much - and the NOVEC COOP I'm currently under even less frequently than overall VA service.
My impression is there are significantly more frequent and severe outages in the last couple decades than the two before.
I don't know that that's a fair statement. Smart would seem to imply the ability to adjust to changing demands. Such as slowing down AC when a brownout might be imminent. It doesn't have to have energy storage to be 'smart'. Wouldn't hurt, but I don't know that that's what the 'smart' is meant to mean.
My only issue is comparing a newly built system and saying it's more reliable and more efficient when compared to our, on average, quite old infrastructure systems isn't exactly a solid comparison to say it's 'better'. I didn't RTFA so perhaps that's been factored in but it doesn't appear so at a quick glance.
like we did on desktops before the 1990s, and like we now do on smartphones
I get your point, but the above quote contradicts it. We've gone 'back' to the stovepipes of the pre 90s with phones and apps. I'd say it's a reasonable question to ask if technology has made stovepipe systems palatable and/or feasible now.
Or putting it another way, see Apple's superbowl commercial...sometimes having differences is a good thing. Of course sometimes its not, but knowing the difference is tough to deduce sometimes.
Your presence or non-presence in the market is incidental.
It's actually the reverse. If people can't opt out of a market, that market is not free at all. A free market requires the ability to say no. If everyone *has* to be involved in the market, the market is indeed skewed by 'perverse incentives' as you so tellingly put it.
If your 'market' is based on a 'market' that doesn't let people 'opt out' then it's not a free market.
And the healthcare market isn't free anyway since it's heavily regulated - and should be. If it wasn't we'd all have health insurance based in Delaware and service just as 'good' as your credit card companies. Not exactly a positive thing I don't believe...
While i don't disagree with your description, they aren't 'coalitions' by the standard political definition. There are different factions within the party are but all still Dem or GOP. A coalition is made up of distinctly separate parties with distinctly separate goals.
linky 4th largest party yet they are referred to as 'King Makers' because they can sway the vote enough that you need them in your coalition to win almost all of the time.
That's a 'rule' that is independent of the party wielding it. GOP is only a 'minority' party on paper. It's a duopoly by any rational definition. Anybody other than GOP/Tea and Dem is a minority party, but those two aren't by any stretch.
New Zealand has an interesting system from what I hear. you cast 2 votes, one for your rep and another for a party. The party vote is tallied nationally and Parties are given representational seats based on that tally.
So even if you'll never get your vote counted for your local 'locked in' Rep, your 'party' vote could still get smaller parties elected into the government and have at least some sway.
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Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs
No they aren't. Our founding principles are that we let some guilty people go free precisely because that's preferable than to possibly imprison innocent people. People using Fake IDs are an acceptable condition of not doing 'Papers please' checks on every law abiding citizen on every street corner.
Version Control. We should know WHICH politician(s) added this clause. If no one owns up to it, it gets stripped from the Bill. We need names on this type of crap.
It's called a 'loss leader' not 'synergy'. Googling around it seems that iTunes is starting to have some measurable share of Apple's profits, but it was clearly not something they intended to make money on. Once they became the entrenched standard they started renegotiating with the major labels, but it's purpose was to give people a good easy 'Apple' way to use the iPod.
But their primary market is hardware. They don't sell naked software. Just like iTunes, the business model isn't to sell songs...it's to sell iP/hone/ad/ods
Windows CE
Windows ME
Windoes NT
CEMENT!
That's like saying you 'own' your tricycle so you're better at moving stuff than the guy who has a loan on his big rig...
My cousin used to work for HBO when they were a Mac shop. One of his quotes still rings true:
"Apple is a hardware company...they just haven't figured that out yet"
And still haven't apparently.
a 'greater' LEO problem anyway, but yes it would seem the risk of a Kessler Syndrome type event affecting GPS would be lower. Hostile military action still remains as a threat I would think.
I would agree with you, but sometimes the sum of the pieces is greater than the total. I.e. you can test widget/process A for all manner of failures and B, C, D as well. But testing ALL of them for simultaneous failures simply isn't possible. And while I also agree that it won't 'stop' the military, it will significantly degrade it's effectiveness.
Which, when fighting a superior force is exactly what you want to do...and is exactly what our enemies would be facing and thus want to do.
I'm sure it's been thought out and planned, but sometimes a complete 'failure' isn't needed to actually cause enough problems to overcome your opponent.
The single biggest issue is GPS. How many 'smart' things simply stop working when our satellites are taken out (either by enemy...or just space junk cascading into the Kessler Syndrome/Effect)
'nationwide' as in outages occur in every state but not all at the same time...
I grew up in western NY in the 70s/80s. I can't for the life of me remember any outages of the frequency and duration that seem to occur nationwide today. I'm in the DC area now and the DC and MD side goes out with regularity, VA not quite as much - and the NOVEC COOP I'm currently under even less frequently than overall VA service.
My impression is there are significantly more frequent and severe outages in the last couple decades than the two before.
Smart grids store energy in batteries
I don't know that that's a fair statement. Smart would seem to imply the ability to adjust to changing demands. Such as slowing down AC when a brownout might be imminent. It doesn't have to have energy storage to be 'smart'. Wouldn't hurt, but I don't know that that's what the 'smart' is meant to mean.
Since all the utility companies are private entities they all can and should start independently.
Heavily regulated. Regulations take time to change and update.
My only issue is comparing a newly built system and saying it's more reliable and more efficient when compared to our, on average, quite old infrastructure systems isn't exactly a solid comparison to say it's 'better'. I didn't RTFA so perhaps that's been factored in but it doesn't appear so at a quick glance.
like we did on desktops before the 1990s, and like we now do on smartphones
I get your point, but the above quote contradicts it. We've gone 'back' to the stovepipes of the pre 90s with phones and apps. I'd say it's a reasonable question to ask if technology has made stovepipe systems palatable and/or feasible now.
Or putting it another way, see Apple's superbowl commercial...sometimes having differences is a good thing. Of course sometimes its not, but knowing the difference is tough to deduce sometimes.
Your presence or non-presence in the market is incidental.
It's actually the reverse. If people can't opt out of a market, that market is not free at all. A free market requires the ability to say no. If everyone *has* to be involved in the market, the market is indeed skewed by 'perverse incentives' as you so tellingly put it.
If your 'market' is based on a 'market' that doesn't let people 'opt out' then it's not a free market.
And the healthcare market isn't free anyway since it's heavily regulated - and should be. If it wasn't we'd all have health insurance based in Delaware and service just as 'good' as your credit card companies. Not exactly a positive thing I don't believe...
While i don't disagree with your description, they aren't 'coalitions' by the standard political definition. There are different factions within the party are but all still Dem or GOP. A coalition is made up of distinctly separate parties with distinctly separate goals.
Healthcare is not and never will be a 'free market'.
A free market requires the ability to opt out of participating in the market. You can't do that with a broken leg.
Funny how smoke doesn't kill 60 people in the nearby vicinity in under 5 minutes.
Guns are dangerous and putting MORE of them in peoples hands is a recipe for disaster. Or do you think everybody drives great?
linky 4th largest party yet they are referred to as 'King Makers' because they can sway the vote enough that you need them in your coalition to win almost all of the time.
That's a 'rule' that is independent of the party wielding it. GOP is only a 'minority' party on paper. It's a duopoly by any rational definition. Anybody other than GOP/Tea and Dem is a minority party, but those two aren't by any stretch.
New Zealand has an interesting system from what I hear. you cast 2 votes, one for your rep and another for a party. The party vote is tallied nationally and Parties are given representational seats based on that tally.
So even if you'll never get your vote counted for your local 'locked in' Rep, your 'party' vote could still get smaller parties elected into the government and have at least some sway.
How about a party name that doesn't implicitly say the others are 'anti Justice'?