Please note that it's the Republican Party more than the political right. The Republicans are a centrist party. The closest thing you will get to a politically "right" party these days are the Libertarian or Federalist parties.
on scale of left to right to 0-100 democrat party are maybe 60 and republicans are 80.
don't pretend you have a centrist party. if republicans are centrist then democrats are communists and you know very well that they aren't even close..
thats the scale if you look at globally, like, if you look in terms of what kind of politics you could be running in the country it's all right from the center.
I mean you could be just as well be trying to argue that democrats are a socialist party...
There's a difference between physically impossible and technologically impossible.
there's a long disconnect what physically makes sense to build and what hyperloop is proposing.
mostly materials. you see. if hyperloop could develop the materials they need, they would be better off selling them for other uses than their tube.
they don't have what their idea needs.
their idea itself is 100+ years old. seriously, the idea is as old as balls and they don't have the technology to make it as of now.
conceptually it's the same as having a flying car company that depends on some sound dampening and battery technology that doesn't yet exist and never might.
and uh tell me a little bit, but they did have transistors already invented when they made mission impossible?
I bet you don't actually live there though? prices of ferries? it's cheap as balls to go over already and when the catamarins run it's just couple of hours.
and if they were to build a tunnel, it would be far cheaper and almost just as fast to just drive it with 200kmh regular trains.
of course musk keeps saying that somehow hyperloop would be cheaper, in which case you could just replace all train routes with them.
tech hub or not, you would still be connecting it with just helsinki - if it were cheap enough it would allow to live in estonia and work in helsinki - this would be the main benefit, if you had to for some reason to commute the route.
you would find much better routes in europe with far more people willing to pay far more to travel between two places. the population of estonia is tiny and the booze-travel between estonia and finland is already around 10-30 euros per people.
Apple should offr the phones for two prices. Regular price, and at a $25 discount. With the discount you trade back your right to repair. It's a contract so it's legal. And it respects that apple does take on risks when fumble fingered "professionals" damage phones. Yet it's not a burden for people who care about the restriction will not be willing to pay.
you dumb fuck it doesn't make it legal because it's a "contract". what apple has done is said that the contract you make when buying an iphone already states that you lose support if you use 3rd party repairers. the 25 bucks change wouldn't change anything, not legally, not consumer protection perspective.
what your proposal would be, it would be just GIVING UP CONSUMER RIGHTS FOR A PETTY DISCOUNT - you can't do that! if it was possible to do that then your washing machine would have two prices, one that has consumer protection and warranty and another with 1000$ tacked on.
furthermore, APPLE ALREADY TRIED to pull that shit off in europe with extended warranty and not having their normal warranty cover the legal minimum.
in that case you would just lose some transmit speed...this is fucking stupid. it's a custom firmware for a router that sends stuff out over the LED. it's fucking stupid and COULD HAVE BEEN FUCKING MADE 17 YEARS AGO.
like, it doesn't prove anything. it just proves that you could do something that you already knew that could be done.
just to add.. existing high speed train routes and the routes that would require a tunnel would be served just fine with a regular train and couldn't make a profit with a regular train.
they will have to be cheap as pie between finland and estonia.
I seriously hope that finnish government doesn't put a dime towards this though. it's still unproven as fuck. they don't have a prototype. giving money towards a tunnel would be shady as fuck. furthermore, estonia - finland route is so fucking short that regular train going 200kmh would do just fine, just fine, if there was a tunnel.
and they have to be cheaper than 20 euros for a trip. which is basically cheaper than a comparable train route in finland. why? boats between finland and estonia are pretty darn cheap and will get you there in couple of hours anyways(!).
hmm.. because of the system dictating what was worth researching (temperature of Hell, which sins get you there and other wacky stuff) that advance was slowed by 2000 years.
on the other hand.. computers and such were researched for a need to have them - so is medicine. I find it pretty far fetched that this research would lead to us having a new type of semiconductor for example.
like, maybe you should choose your examples better because none of those came up from base-research that was not aimed to something - while some of the modern research, especially about space, is on the level of doing bible studies. especially exobiologists and all that bullshit - it is quite different even in context of being SCIENCE than metallurgy studies that people were doing at lets say 1850 or 1900.
one could argue that a lot of the research should be put into more what do we need scale.
still, it's kinda neat that they have to discover something cool about an exoplanet to hit the press now (vs. just discovering it). I wonder how much of the article is just guesswork though(to the point of if it is tidally locked or not and if it has a comet like tail or not).
and yeah the system dictates a lot of research-for-sake-of-research now towards quite a bit of busywork research, just for sake of semi-science.
Sure, someone could tell it was coming from your IP (though I'm guessing you use a VPN). But they can't do voice print analysis on an encrypted data stream, so they've got no actual information about you to tie to that IP address. Or am I misunderstanding?
YES YOU ARE! you see, APPLE STILL SURE AS FUCK does get your queries along with your ip address and possibly some other id data(to ensure it's a legit search and not a dos and so forth).
that's the whole point.. apple gets the data.
furthermore, a lot of the queries have to be matched with your apple id or whatever anyways to be useful.
anyways.. they said the privacy was in mind. that doesn't actually mean anything. it literally means nothing concrete.
*Would the same not be accomplished by simply running the game at Above Normal priority and with an elevated I/O priority? It doesn't really matter if background tasks are consuming CPU time the game or other foreground task leaves idle, so long as these tasks don't starve it of any time.*
ehm.. you can't fight with them. it's just that the new version has less limits on some config options.
reminds me of when I was trying to explain to some dolts that.. well, that it doesn't make mirc run any better if you run it on windows server rather than a normal windows and that they're stupid to install a version that has services they are not using anyways.
game mode and such - it's just bull. the real thing those do is tombstone some windows apps that you never ever ran or started in the first place.
seeriously. if they cannot view the info for free how the fuck could they index it for free and why would anyone of googles customers like that info to be there in the first place if they cannot access it.
My father died a while ago and left hundreds of video and audio tapes. Most of them crappy TV/radio shows that nobody needs. Somewhere among them are the only existing live recordings from my childhood. Do you really not understand the problem?
The problem is that you don't care enough to look through the labels/and or find the recordings? I mean, thats the real problem. not that you couldn't have scanned them - it's that you don't care and most people don't care.
as consumer pc's got faster and faster they couldn't keep up. they could not keep up with raw cpu nor with 3d acceleration - and yes having a 3d accelerator earlier than others was a big thing for sgi.
while it might have been on a shopping list for an effects studio in early 90's by late '90s it was out of the shopping list and sgi's fast decline around the turn of the millennium agrees. they could not keep up with speed.
*This example shows how Canonical abandoning the tablets, while sad, doesn't mean it's over. If there is a will to keep supporting these devices and make more, the software is still there to work with and improve instead of being lost.*..look. they should just port it to run with android drivers on android devices - basically just make an ui replacement.
anything else is doomed and stupid and has them doing that same thing anyways.
and windows rt was pretty much unsupported when it launched too so there's that. nobody ever gave a crap about it.
he WaPo has had it out for Trump ever since he threatened to cancel their press credentials.
..yeah and uh, you think it's actually hard to dig up shit on a dude who threatens to do that?
besides from the actual what the fuck of what the fuck does it even mean to "cancel their press credentials"? stop inviting them to the white house dinners? it doesn't mean jack shit but it shows that trump is both stupid and.. well, thinks such bullying could work, which makes him extra stupid.
I mean he is just doing one stupid thing after another so whats there to not be critical about.
furthermore, about the Russian connection - probably he was just having business dealings with some rich Russians who were doing some lobbying - but the way things are in Russia you're not a rich Russian for a long time if you're not in Putins good books so it's arguable then if Trumps lackeys were dealing with Russia as a country or not.
whats even more stupider is that Trump seems to think that the russkies are as important as they were in the 70s, because that two big powers thinking fits his head well - but the truth of the matter is that Trump would have no actual need to have any Russian connections and they would not really help him with doing politics or business all that much at all - but since Trump is pretty stupid(and a shitty business partner for everyone) he just might as well.
ughh you really think organizations would put the money into doing this to botnet victims or such? fuck no.
they would be using it to hack back at the eevil chinese or competitors they "think" the attack came from.
the whole concept in the elected idiots head who came up with this actually depends on "Black Ice" kind of "protection software".
which doesn't exist really. he does not understand hacking and furthermore there exists already ways to stop an attack you know the IP address for and this new stuff would not do anything about it easier, faster or safer.
it's not like USA was doing much really anyways and could have KEPT DOING JUST AS THEY ARE DOING even while staying technically in the paris deal.
because the deal is just.. well, it's an intent deal.
it's not real. it doesn't impose anything that usa actually has to do or some big bully will come and do something to them if they stay in the deal.
on that the announcement is really baffling.
however we know that Musk is peeved because he wants gasoline cars to have a penalty tax just the same as other countries have (what he fails to understand is that teslas cars are going to get car taxed the same as others pretty soon in the countries where they're half price compared to gasoline luxury cars of the same price in usa).
Maserati ghibli s in usa is the base tesla price. in Finland the ghibli s is roughly 50 000 euros more expensive than the base tesla. and the base tesla sucks in range.
catcalling, such as whistling, is pretty much never about power. catcallers don't have any power. if they had power they would just ask them to their office. or do you think that construction workers have POWER?
it doesn't make any sense really, this case. like, there isn't a single happening or something, she was basically suing the general culture in the company.
the catcalling incident was "âoeThey all started hooting and hollering and whistling,â she said. âoeThat canâ(TM)t happen without somebody noticing ⦠Itâ(TM)s disturbing.â ". thats from a platform above while she walked with some other woman. dunno if the platform was construction workers in which case yeah I might believe it happening OR she just copied it off family guy.
And we will lock up every single one of the people who do what you describe, in a prison which will make them wish they'd never tried it. There'a always room in prison, especially when you are housed in a 5 x 10 foot solitary cell.
So go ahead, motherfucker. We will be happy to show you some American hospitality.
for people who think this is stupid, it is. you can't just lock up people in solitary for that and in the amounts he describes and furthermore some people don't even know the name of some town 15 years ago they lived in for a little while that got then bombed to shit and would need to know the county it was in and shit.
how is it different to provide a passcode vs. to provide the information in your head about your crime?
it allows government to search but in no way does it say that you have to tell them where you put the key and which individuals you confessed your crime to.
look, in some countries you're supposed to actually testify against yourself and provide help and not remain silent..
now the dude is doing 180 days for something they supposedly cannot prove? if they didn't have enough proof already how do they have the proof to necessiate the search?
*If it changes internal US policies in ANY way it's the same as a law in practice*..
so.. a new senator joining the senate to replace someone needs a new law? the stupid fucking thing about trump leaving the treaty is that HE DID NOT ACTUALLY NEED TO FUCKING BE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT, ignoring it would have been much better for him.
by the way you should be complaining about deciding to join new battlefronts without 2/3rds.
and again Musk is peeved because the only way Tesla is going to enter decent profits would be if trump suddenly announced euro style emission taxes on cars - which would hike up prices of non hybrids and non electrics 50%. no joke.
They could give him a normal sentence and then try him for procuring murder but it's a waste of time and money.
have fun fighting your parallel constructed evidence that shows you soliciting for murder because they can't be bothered to...
you know what - who the fuck knows who even solicited for what since he was hacked for a while without proper warrant?
how about you get life sentence for jaywalking to "reflect that you wanted to hire a hitman to kill the president of the usa" - because it's a waste of money to prosecute you for the actual more serious crime you're being accused of to get the evidence for your jaywalking?
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Please note that it's the Republican Party more than the political right. The Republicans are a centrist party. The closest thing you will get to a politically "right" party these days are the Libertarian or Federalist parties.
on scale of left to right to 0-100 democrat party are maybe 60 and republicans are 80.
don't pretend you have a centrist party. if republicans are centrist then democrats are communists and you know very well that they aren't even close..
thats the scale if you look at globally, like, if you look in terms of what kind of politics you could be running in the country it's all right from the center.
I mean you could be just as well be trying to argue that democrats are a socialist party...
There's a difference between physically impossible and technologically impossible.
there's a long disconnect what physically makes sense to build and what hyperloop is proposing.
mostly materials. you see. if hyperloop could develop the materials they need, they would be better off selling them for other uses than their tube.
they don't have what their idea needs.
their idea itself is 100+ years old. seriously, the idea is as old as balls and they don't have the technology to make it as of now.
conceptually it's the same as having a flying car company that depends on some sound dampening and battery technology that doesn't yet exist and never might.
and uh tell me a little bit, but they did have transistors already invented when they made mission impossible?
I bet you don't actually live there though? prices of ferries? it's cheap as balls to go over already and when the catamarins run it's just couple of hours.
and if they were to build a tunnel, it would be far cheaper and almost just as fast to just drive it with 200kmh regular trains.
of course musk keeps saying that somehow hyperloop would be cheaper, in which case you could just replace all train routes with them.
tech hub or not, you would still be connecting it with just helsinki - if it were cheap enough it would allow to live in estonia and work in helsinki - this would be the main benefit, if you had to for some reason to commute the route.
you would find much better routes in europe with far more people willing to pay far more to travel between two places. the population of estonia is tiny and the booze-travel between estonia and finland is already around 10-30 euros per people.
Apple should offr the phones for two prices. Regular price, and at a $25 discount. With the discount you trade back your right to repair. It's a contract so it's legal. And it respects that apple does take on risks when fumble fingered "professionals" damage phones. Yet it's not a burden for people who care about the restriction will not be willing to pay.
you dumb fuck it doesn't make it legal because it's a "contract". what apple has done is said that the contract you make when buying an iphone already states that you lose support if you use 3rd party repairers. the 25 bucks change wouldn't change anything, not legally, not consumer protection perspective.
what your proposal would be, it would be just GIVING UP CONSUMER RIGHTS FOR A PETTY DISCOUNT - you can't do that! if it was possible to do that then your washing machine would have two prices, one that has consumer protection and warranty and another with 1000$ tacked on.
furthermore, APPLE ALREADY TRIED to pull that shit off in europe with extended warranty and not having their normal warranty cover the legal minimum.
in that case you would just lose some transmit speed. ..this is fucking stupid. it's a custom firmware for a router that sends stuff out over the LED. it's fucking stupid and COULD HAVE BEEN FUCKING MADE 17 YEARS AGO.
like, it doesn't prove anything. it just proves that you could do something that you already knew that could be done.
just to add.. existing high speed train routes and the routes that would require a tunnel would be served just fine with a regular train and couldn't make a profit with a regular train.
they will have to be cheap as pie between finland and estonia.
I seriously hope that finnish government doesn't put a dime towards this though. it's still unproven as fuck. they don't have a prototype. giving money towards a tunnel would be shady as fuck. furthermore, estonia - finland route is so fucking short that regular train going 200kmh would do just fine, just fine, if there was a tunnel.
and they have to be cheaper than 20 euros for a trip. which is basically cheaper than a comparable train route in finland. why? boats between finland and estonia are pretty darn cheap and will get you there in couple of hours anyways(!).
hmm.. because of the system dictating what was worth researching (temperature of Hell, which sins get you there and other wacky stuff) that advance was slowed by 2000 years.
on the other hand.. computers and such were researched for a need to have them - so is medicine. I find it pretty far fetched that this research would lead to us having a new type of semiconductor for example.
like, maybe you should choose your examples better because none of those came up from base-research that was not aimed to something - while some of the modern research, especially about space, is on the level of doing bible studies. especially exobiologists and all that bullshit - it is quite different even in context of being SCIENCE than metallurgy studies that people were doing at lets say 1850 or 1900.
one could argue that a lot of the research should be put into more what do we need scale.
still, it's kinda neat that they have to discover something cool about an exoplanet to hit the press now (vs. just discovering it). I wonder how much of the article is just guesswork though(to the point of if it is tidally locked or not and if it has a comet like tail or not).
and yeah the system dictates a lot of research-for-sake-of-research now towards quite a bit of busywork research, just for sake of semi-science.
Sure, someone could tell it was coming from your IP (though I'm guessing you use a VPN). But they can't do voice print analysis on an encrypted data stream, so they've got no actual information about you to tie to that IP address. Or am I misunderstanding?
YES YOU ARE! you see, APPLE STILL SURE AS FUCK does get your queries along with your ip address and possibly some other id data(to ensure it's a legit search and not a dos and so forth).
that's the whole point.. apple gets the data.
furthermore, a lot of the queries have to be matched with your apple id or whatever anyways to be useful.
anyways.. they said the privacy was in mind. that doesn't actually mean anything. it literally means nothing concrete.
*Would the same not be accomplished by simply running the game at Above Normal priority and with an elevated I/O priority? It doesn't really matter if background tasks are consuming CPU time the game or other foreground task leaves idle, so long as these tasks don't starve it of any time.*
ehm.. you can't fight with them. it's just that the new version has less limits on some config options.
reminds me of when I was trying to explain to some dolts that.. well, that it doesn't make mirc run any better if you run it on windows server rather than a normal windows and that they're stupid to install a version that has services they are not using anyways.
game mode and such - it's just bull. the real thing those do is tombstone some windows apps that you never ever ran or started in the first place.
they should buy the advertisement on google.
seeriously. if they cannot view the info for free how the fuck could they index it for free and why would anyone of googles customers like that info to be there in the first place if they cannot access it.
My father died a while ago and left hundreds of video and audio tapes. Most of them crappy TV/radio shows that nobody needs. Somewhere among them are the only existing live recordings from my childhood. Do you really not understand the problem?
The problem is that you don't care enough to look through the labels /and or find the recordings? I mean, thats the real problem. not that you couldn't have scanned them - it's that you don't care and most people don't care.
Irrelevant. If he'd won by just 1 vote in each of the close states, he still would have won.
it is actually quite relevant because he keeps insisting he got more actual votes and because of voter fraud he did not win by even more.
which is of course bullshit, but on trumps general level of bullshit quite minor.
even wikipedia agrees.
as consumer pc's got faster and faster they couldn't keep up. they could not keep up with raw cpu nor with 3d acceleration - and yes having a 3d accelerator earlier than others was a big thing for sgi.
while it might have been on a shopping list for an effects studio in early 90's by late '90s it was out of the shopping list and sgi's fast decline around the turn of the millennium agrees. they could not keep up with speed.
*This example shows how Canonical abandoning the tablets, while sad, doesn't mean it's over. If there is a will to keep supporting these devices and make more, the software is still there to work with and improve instead of being lost.* ..look. they should just port it to run with android drivers on android devices - basically just make an ui replacement.
anything else is doomed and stupid and has them doing that same thing anyways.
and windows rt was pretty much unsupported when it launched too so there's that. nobody ever gave a crap about it.
he WaPo has had it out for Trump ever since he threatened to cancel their press credentials.
..yeah and uh, you think it's actually hard to dig up shit on a dude who threatens to do that?
besides from the actual what the fuck of what the fuck does it even mean to "cancel their press credentials"? stop inviting them to the white house dinners? it doesn't mean jack shit but it shows that trump is both stupid and .. well, thinks such bullying could work, which makes him extra stupid.
I mean he is just doing one stupid thing after another so whats there to not be critical about.
furthermore, about the Russian connection - probably he was just having business dealings with some rich Russians who were doing some lobbying - but the way things are in Russia you're not a rich Russian for a long time if you're not in Putins good books so it's arguable then if Trumps lackeys were dealing with Russia as a country or not.
whats even more stupider is that Trump seems to think that the russkies are as important as they were in the 70s, because that two big powers thinking fits his head well - but the truth of the matter is that Trump would have no actual need to have any Russian connections and they would not really help him with doing politics or business all that much at all - but since Trump is pretty stupid(and a shitty business partner for everyone) he just might as well.
ughh you really think organizations would put the money into doing this to botnet victims or such? fuck no.
they would be using it to hack back at the eevil chinese or competitors they "think" the attack came from.
the whole concept in the elected idiots head who came up with this actually depends on "Black Ice" kind of "protection software".
which doesn't exist really. he does not understand hacking and furthermore there exists already ways to stop an attack you know the IP address for and this new stuff would not do anything about it easier, faster or safer.
it's not like USA was doing much really anyways and could have KEPT DOING JUST AS THEY ARE DOING even while staying technically in the paris deal.
because the deal is just .. well, it's an intent deal.
it's not real. it doesn't impose anything that usa actually has to do or some big bully will come and do something to them if they stay in the deal.
on that the announcement is really baffling.
however we know that Musk is peeved because he wants gasoline cars to have a penalty tax just the same as other countries have (what he fails to understand is that teslas cars are going to get car taxed the same as others pretty soon in the countries where they're half price compared to gasoline luxury cars of the same price in usa).
Maserati ghibli s in usa is the base tesla price. in Finland the ghibli s is roughly 50 000 euros more expensive than the base tesla. and the base tesla sucks in range.
catcalling, such as whistling, is pretty much never about power. catcallers don't have any power. if they had power they would just ask them to their office. or do you think that construction workers have POWER?
it doesn't make any sense really, this case. like, there isn't a single happening or something, she was basically suing the general culture in the company.
the catcalling incident was "âoeThey all started hooting and hollering and whistling,â she said. âoeThat canâ(TM)t happen without somebody noticing ⦠Itâ(TM)s disturbing.â ". thats from a platform above while she walked with some other woman. dunno if the platform was construction workers in which case yeah I might believe it happening OR she just copied it off family guy.
And we will lock up every single one of the people who do what you describe, in a prison which will make them wish
they'd never tried it. There'a always room in prison, especially when you are housed in a 5 x 10 foot solitary cell.
So go ahead, motherfucker. We will be happy to show you some American hospitality.
for people who think this is stupid, it is. you can't just lock up people in solitary for that and in the amounts he describes and furthermore some people don't even know the name of some town 15 years ago they lived in for a little while that got then bombed to shit and would need to know the county it was in and shit.
but whats scary is that cia does that randomly.
that's for police to find out.
how is it different to provide a passcode vs. to provide the information in your head about your crime?
it allows government to search but in no way does it say that you have to tell them where you put the key and which individuals you confessed your crime to.
look, in some countries you're supposed to actually testify against yourself and provide help and not remain silent..
now the dude is doing 180 days for something they supposedly cannot prove? if they didn't have enough proof already how do they have the proof to necessiate the search?
*If it changes internal US policies in ANY way it's the same as a law in practice*..
so.. a new senator joining the senate to replace someone needs a new law? the stupid fucking thing about trump leaving the treaty is that HE
DID NOT ACTUALLY NEED TO FUCKING BE DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT, ignoring it would have been much better for him.
by the way you should be complaining about deciding to join new battlefronts without 2/3rds.
and again Musk is peeved because the only way Tesla is going to enter decent profits would be if trump suddenly announced euro style emission taxes on cars - which would hike up prices of non hybrids and non electrics 50%. no joke.
They could give him a normal sentence and then try him for procuring murder but it's a waste of time and money.
have fun fighting your parallel constructed evidence that shows you soliciting for murder because they can't be bothered to...
you know what - who the fuck knows who even solicited for what since he was hacked for a while without proper warrant?
how about you get life sentence for jaywalking to "reflect that you wanted to hire a hitman to kill the president of the usa" - because it's a waste of money to prosecute you for the actual more serious crime you're being accused of to get the evidence for your jaywalking?
okay so everybody just switch to "I am engineering".
thats great. by the way, I want to know if slashdot servers are hosted in oregon so I can know what to call myself.