we all know they're doing it. It's not hard to follow the money. Sure, it might not be 100% sure it's in a Swiss bank instead of the Cayman Islands, but does it really matter?
I guess what I'm saying is, all this corruption is right out in the open and we pretend it's not. We're not trading privacy for billionaires being able to stash cash overseas. We could have both any time we want. We just don't seem to want to. We've got other priorities.
but you'll pay $100 bucks for that RX480 or R9 380X. I spent a few months trying to snipe one. I did eventually get an older 580 of all things, but it took a while.
The trouble with those workstations is making sure you get one with a PCI-E slot. A lot of them don't have one because they don't need them. Or if they do they're a severely cut down slot because the assumption is you're not putting anything in there except a basic card. The point of those workstations is usually the CPU and RAM.
And plan on doing a lot of research/hunting. The Xeon naming convention is a mess processors numbers don't give any indication of performance. Finally, do not plan on just moving components around willy nilly. Power supplies in those units often have weird specs or requirements.
I looked into an old workstation before the Ryzen's came out and CPU prices were still jacked and it just didn't seem worth it. Even now a console is still, dollar per frame, the cheaper option. That should be expected, since they're heavily subsidized and the games often write to bare metal.
costs $600-$800. A Ryzen 2400G is about the closest you could get and it can barely do 720p/60 in e-sports titles like Rocket League. With ram prices being lower you could build one for about $150 (board/CPU) + $50 (ram, dual channel if you want to hit playable framerates) + $50 (7200 rpm hard drive, a must) + $50 (case and a cheap power supply) + $50 (keyboard/mouse/gamepad). If you don't pirate your OS add $100 (you can find shady Win 10 keys for $20 bucks online otherwise, and I've heard they work).
So you're pushing $400 to hit 720p/60 in low tier titles and you've had to shop around to do that. I can do more than that on a stock PS4 for $200 bucks. I can get a PS4 pro for $400 and do entry level 4k.
And if you want 1080p/60 in AAA titles? $300 for board/CPU (a Ryzen 2600x + decent board), $50 for ram, $100 for hard disk + SSD (trust me, you'll need it), $100 for a decent case/power supply and $200 for your GPU. You should probably buy nVidia since you skimped a bit on your power supply, but if you plunk another $30-$40 down you can get an RX580 and knock $20 off your GPU. It's mostly a wash.
Talk to me in 10 years when integrated graphics can do 1080p/60 in AAA titles, if that happens (it might, there's new tech for doing a the GPU side in a CPU). For now the cost of building a gaming PC is too high. It's something you do because it's cool and you want to or you want/need a PC for work/school and the added cost to get a gaming PC makes it competitive.
it's not about how big they'll be, it's about having one less carrier. Also, T-Mobile was the "uncarrier". And as cringey as that sounds it really did count for something. They were spiraling downhill fast and then switched to unlimited talk/text/data while everyone else was using nasty tricks to get you to go over limit and hit you with a $300 bill once or twice a year. I switched to T-Mobile when AT&T bought out Cricket for just that reason, and while Cricket didn't go the way of AT&T's metering and overcharges it's mostly because T-Mobile's strong competition wouldn't let them.
It's not just that we're reducing competition, it's that we have a recent example in our mind's of why we need competition.
to the 8 people who use windows live tiles. Once that researcher has control of Suzy Pottingblock of West Virginia's Mid 2000s Pentium 4 based computer and her recipe for egg salad (to say nothing of her extensive collection of crotchet stitches) he will dominate the world's pot lucks. And as we all know that's the first step to world conquest. Alexander the Great taught us that much.
India's government is strongly nationalist and has their own manufacturing base. They basically told Apple you're either making your phones here or you're not selling them here.
The US and Europe can't do that because the mega corps want to pocket the extra $50-$100 bucks per phone needed to make them without borderline slave labor and a reckless disregard for environmental safety.
by law you can see exactly what makes it and submit corrections to it that they must either honor or prove invalid. Also your credit score just says how likely you are to pay bills and how much money they can loan you until you can't pay it. If they've really got 16000 points of data they can do a hell of a lot more than that.
if I decide I see you as the opposite gender you identify on can I call you that?
Also gender is more fluid than folks realize, see here. Basically, Gender seems more binary than it is because doctors have been identifying intersex babies and using drugs and surgery to "fix" them.
As for higher incidences of self harm, well, I know some trans people. They've been shit on their hole lives and transitioning didn't make that better, it just made them feel more comfortable in their own skin. Imagine being a guy and everyone looks at you funny because you show up to work wearing pants. That's what their lives are like. That doesn't go away when they transition. If anything it gets worse ("Back! Back! Dude looks like a lady!"). So yeah, they're gonna have issues....
As long as he didn't aid/abet and just published what he was given passively then he's protected by longstanding case law around journalism.
If he crossed that line at any point then he's done for. This is one of the reasons you go to school for Journalism. A big part of your education is law. You have to know exactly what you can and can't publish.
That's the entire point of Sanctuary Cities. They provide sanctuary to otherwise "illegal" immigrants.
For my money I'm far more concerned about legal immigrants. H1-B and H2-Bs take jobs Americans want. I could even live with that if we had a single payer medical system, a robust safety net and tuition free colleges. In other words, if I was getting benefits from the wealth generated by immigration.
I mean, realistically birthrates are down and like it or not will likely continue to drop. That appears to be what happens in modern, industrialized societies. So if you're planing on retiring you need immigrants to keep the economy going so your investments aren't rendered worthless.
I mean, this really isn't that far out there. In the 60s there were Senate hearings over advertising to children where experts made it clear that kids couldn't tell adverts from actual programming, but they were brushed aside. There's all the smoking adverts too, not just to kids but the outright lies to adults. Or the tricks used by marketers to make Diamond engagement rings seem like a thousand year old tradition when they invented it themselves in the 30s. Oh, and Santa Claus was made up to sell Coke.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure if this should be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's seems pretty par for the course. I suppose you could say it's harder to avoid, but to be honest I'm not an astronomy nerd and can't remember the last time I went stargazing.
yes, the bailouts were better than nothing, but there were much better alternatives to both. The first is stopping out of control gambling on the part of massive banking institutions in the first place. But failing that we can provide bail out from the other end of the equation: the individual borrowers. For example, the government could have bought people's mortgages at low or zero interest to the borrower, allowing people to keep their homes while keeping the economy strong. And if all else fails, rather than just handing out money we can buy out the failing companies, nationalize them, then privatize them later when the economy calms down.
There was a bit of apprehension because, well, immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crimes, so the only way this wouldn't backfire on Trump is if he took immigrants accused of violent crimes and released them intentionally. Yes, it does happen, albeit rarely, and yes, it's absolute madness to even suggest the President of the United States would do such a thing to score cheap political points, but in the era of Trump it seems like anything goes.
because he's obsessed with mechanical things, like most boys his age were in the 70s. This was pre-computers for most folks, and droids were thought of as machines more than PCs by the general population (myself included).
He didn't pick up lightsabre battles quickly. He didn't use a lightsabre until Empire and got the snot beat out of him. Even when he used the sabre on the Skiff and beat down Vader in Jedi he was leaning heavily on his Force powers (and rage when he beat Vader, who's rage had started to falter and with it his dark side powers).
He shot down the Tie Fighters because he was supposed to. You try attacking a ship without really hitting it so it can get away, see if you can avoid all the fire while not really targetting it.
And as for the Death Star, again, leaning on the force. Well, that and wamp rat bullseyeing. He'd been doing that kind of shooting his whole life.
Luke had an arc and explanations for everything he did. With Rey they just skipped all that to get to the "good part". The whole thing looked like they didn't know for sure if Disney would give 'em another movie or not. I know that sounds crazy, but this is Disney we're talking about here. If the move had just done "ok" it mighta been years before they tried again and with a different director, cast, etc. Disney is very much about maximizing profit from everything they touch.
We borrowed money to bail the banks out then leveraged that debt to trick the middle class into accepting Austerity. They're about to do it again too. Trump deregulated the banks. They've gone back to high risk loans that they then sell off to other companies who then try to sell them off to a "Greater Fool". Eventually interest rates will go up, the loans will get defaulted on and the economy will collapse. It'll probably happen shortly after the election if Trump gets reelected (his Fed is keeping rates low to stop it so that he can get re elected).
I'm really, really hoping we put a lefty like Sanders or Warren in office who will actually take steps to prevent a recession for real by reigning in the banks.
and he's the libbiest lib who ever libbed. You can have money. You can have a lot of money. It's when you have so much that other folks can't live and breath because you're choking the life out of them like a gaggle of weeds that we take exception.
We won't be satisfied until every American has healthcare as a human right, makes a living wage for 40 hours of work a week, can send his/her kids to college and we're not fighting endless wars. Oh, and can we please stop destroying the environment for a quick buck? And I don't just mean the climate, lets do something about the lead in our drinking water while we're at it.
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we all know they're doing it. It's not hard to follow the money. Sure, it might not be 100% sure it's in a Swiss bank instead of the Cayman Islands, but does it really matter?
I guess what I'm saying is, all this corruption is right out in the open and we pretend it's not. We're not trading privacy for billionaires being able to stash cash overseas. We could have both any time we want. We just don't seem to want to. We've got other priorities.
but you'll pay $100 bucks for that RX480 or R9 380X. I spent a few months trying to snipe one. I did eventually get an older 580 of all things, but it took a while.
The trouble with those workstations is making sure you get one with a PCI-E slot. A lot of them don't have one because they don't need them. Or if they do they're a severely cut down slot because the assumption is you're not putting anything in there except a basic card. The point of those workstations is usually the CPU and RAM.
And plan on doing a lot of research/hunting. The Xeon naming convention is a mess processors numbers don't give any indication of performance. Finally, do not plan on just moving components around willy nilly. Power supplies in those units often have weird specs or requirements.
I looked into an old workstation before the Ryzen's came out and CPU prices were still jacked and it just didn't seem worth it. Even now a console is still, dollar per frame, the cheaper option. That should be expected, since they're heavily subsidized and the games often write to bare metal.
costs $600-$800. A Ryzen 2400G is about the closest you could get and it can barely do 720p/60 in e-sports titles like Rocket League. With ram prices being lower you could build one for about $150 (board/CPU) + $50 (ram, dual channel if you want to hit playable framerates) + $50 (7200 rpm hard drive, a must) + $50 (case and a cheap power supply) + $50 (keyboard/mouse/gamepad). If you don't pirate your OS add $100 (you can find shady Win 10 keys for $20 bucks online otherwise, and I've heard they work).
So you're pushing $400 to hit 720p/60 in low tier titles and you've had to shop around to do that. I can do more than that on a stock PS4 for $200 bucks. I can get a PS4 pro for $400 and do entry level 4k.
And if you want 1080p/60 in AAA titles? $300 for board/CPU (a Ryzen 2600x + decent board), $50 for ram, $100 for hard disk + SSD (trust me, you'll need it), $100 for a decent case/power supply and $200 for your GPU. You should probably buy nVidia since you skimped a bit on your power supply, but if you plunk another $30-$40 down you can get an RX580 and knock $20 off your GPU. It's mostly a wash.
Talk to me in 10 years when integrated graphics can do 1080p/60 in AAA titles, if that happens (it might, there's new tech for doing a the GPU side in a CPU). For now the cost of building a gaming PC is too high. It's something you do because it's cool and you want to or you want/need a PC for work/school and the added cost to get a gaming PC makes it competitive.
On PR Concerns.
FTFY.
Now this guy? This guy gets it.
With a VPN,
Oh, you mean how the gov't would implement it. Does anyone really care?
to live in a country so free of economic and social problems that your politicians can focus on pointless stuff like this.
it's not about how big they'll be, it's about having one less carrier. Also, T-Mobile was the "uncarrier". And as cringey as that sounds it really did count for something. They were spiraling downhill fast and then switched to unlimited talk/text/data while everyone else was using nasty tricks to get you to go over limit and hit you with a $300 bill once or twice a year. I switched to T-Mobile when AT&T bought out Cricket for just that reason, and while Cricket didn't go the way of AT&T's metering and overcharges it's mostly because T-Mobile's strong competition wouldn't let them.
It's not just that we're reducing competition, it's that we have a recent example in our mind's of why we need competition.
they have the misfortune of doing this in a major election cycle. They'll be bled for everything they're worth.
to the 8 people who use windows live tiles. Once that researcher has control of Suzy Pottingblock of West Virginia's Mid 2000s Pentium 4 based computer and her recipe for egg salad (to say nothing of her extensive collection of crotchet stitches) he will dominate the world's pot lucks. And as we all know that's the first step to world conquest. Alexander the Great taught us that much.
India's government is strongly nationalist and has their own manufacturing base. They basically told Apple you're either making your phones here or you're not selling them here.
The US and Europe can't do that because the mega corps want to pocket the extra $50-$100 bucks per phone needed to make them without borderline slave labor and a reckless disregard for environmental safety.
by law you can see exactly what makes it and submit corrections to it that they must either honor or prove invalid. Also your credit score just says how likely you are to pay bills and how much money they can loan you until you can't pay it. If they've really got 16000 points of data they can do a hell of a lot more than that.
if I decide I see you as the opposite gender you identify on can I call you that?
Also gender is more fluid than folks realize, see here. Basically, Gender seems more binary than it is because doctors have been identifying intersex babies and using drugs and surgery to "fix" them.
As for higher incidences of self harm, well, I know some trans people. They've been shit on their hole lives and transitioning didn't make that better, it just made them feel more comfortable in their own skin. Imagine being a guy and everyone looks at you funny because you show up to work wearing pants. That's what their lives are like. That doesn't go away when they transition. If anything it gets worse ("Back! Back! Dude looks like a lady!"). So yeah, they're gonna have issues....
and true 16 bit. None of this "8 bit CPU with 16 bit graphics".
I'm still kind of on the fence about CD-ROM vs cartridge though...
As long as he didn't aid/abet and just published what he was given passively then he's protected by longstanding case law around journalism.
If he crossed that line at any point then he's done for. This is one of the reasons you go to school for Journalism. A big part of your education is law. You have to know exactly what you can and can't publish.
That's the entire point of Sanctuary Cities. They provide sanctuary to otherwise "illegal" immigrants.
For my money I'm far more concerned about legal immigrants. H1-B and H2-Bs take jobs Americans want. I could even live with that if we had a single payer medical system, a robust safety net and tuition free colleges. In other words, if I was getting benefits from the wealth generated by immigration.
I mean, realistically birthrates are down and like it or not will likely continue to drop. That appears to be what happens in modern, industrialized societies. So if you're planing on retiring you need immigrants to keep the economy going so your investments aren't rendered worthless.
I mean, this really isn't that far out there. In the 60s there were Senate hearings over advertising to children where experts made it clear that kids couldn't tell adverts from actual programming, but they were brushed aside. There's all the smoking adverts too, not just to kids but the outright lies to adults. Or the tricks used by marketers to make Diamond engagement rings seem like a thousand year old tradition when they invented it themselves in the 30s. Oh, and Santa Claus was made up to sell Coke.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure if this should be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's seems pretty par for the course. I suppose you could say it's harder to avoid, but to be honest I'm not an astronomy nerd and can't remember the last time I went stargazing.
yes, the bailouts were better than nothing, but there were much better alternatives to both. The first is stopping out of control gambling on the part of massive banking institutions in the first place. But failing that we can provide bail out from the other end of the equation: the individual borrowers. For example, the government could have bought people's mortgages at low or zero interest to the borrower, allowing people to keep their homes while keeping the economy strong. And if all else fails, rather than just handing out money we can buy out the failing companies, nationalize them, then privatize them later when the economy calms down.
competitors have been caught buying bad reviews for each other.
Not to mention Cobra of GI Joe fame. And Fred Pohl's "Space Merchants" comes to mind.
Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren’t possible”.
Shamelessly stolen from here
they had a good laugh and the mayors have said sure, send 'em on over
There was a bit of apprehension because, well, immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crimes, so the only way this wouldn't backfire on Trump is if he took immigrants accused of violent crimes and released them intentionally. Yes, it does happen, albeit rarely, and yes, it's absolute madness to even suggest the President of the United States would do such a thing to score cheap political points, but in the era of Trump it seems like anything goes.
because he's obsessed with mechanical things, like most boys his age were in the 70s. This was pre-computers for most folks, and droids were thought of as machines more than PCs by the general population (myself included).
He didn't pick up lightsabre battles quickly. He didn't use a lightsabre until Empire and got the snot beat out of him. Even when he used the sabre on the Skiff and beat down Vader in Jedi he was leaning heavily on his Force powers (and rage when he beat Vader, who's rage had started to falter and with it his dark side powers).
He shot down the Tie Fighters because he was supposed to. You try attacking a ship without really hitting it so it can get away, see if you can avoid all the fire while not really targetting it.
And as for the Death Star, again, leaning on the force. Well, that and wamp rat bullseyeing. He'd been doing that kind of shooting his whole life.
Luke had an arc and explanations for everything he did. With Rey they just skipped all that to get to the "good part". The whole thing looked like they didn't know for sure if Disney would give 'em another movie or not. I know that sounds crazy, but this is Disney we're talking about here. If the move had just done "ok" it mighta been years before they tried again and with a different director, cast, etc. Disney is very much about maximizing profit from everything they touch.
We borrowed money to bail the banks out then leveraged that debt to trick the middle class into accepting Austerity. They're about to do it again too. Trump deregulated the banks. They've gone back to high risk loans that they then sell off to other companies who then try to sell them off to a "Greater Fool". Eventually interest rates will go up, the loans will get defaulted on and the economy will collapse. It'll probably happen shortly after the election if Trump gets reelected (his Fed is keeping rates low to stop it so that he can get re elected).
I'm really, really hoping we put a lefty like Sanders or Warren in office who will actually take steps to prevent a recession for real by reigning in the banks.
and he's the libbiest lib who ever libbed. You can have money. You can have a lot of money. It's when you have so much that other folks can't live and breath because you're choking the life out of them like a gaggle of weeds that we take exception.
We won't be satisfied until every American has healthcare as a human right, makes a living wage for 40 hours of work a week, can send his/her kids to college and we're not fighting endless wars. Oh, and can we please stop destroying the environment for a quick buck? And I don't just mean the climate, lets do something about the lead in our drinking water while we're at it.