they payouts are likely to be so huge that some of the money will make it to the plantiff here. On the other hand much of that money will be spent on medical bills and, well, they guy is probably going to die. It's kind of a lose-lose.
there's a nice big paper trail where the big wigs were aware of risks and ignored them. That's probably the biggest issue. e.g. the paper trail doesn't being with "There are risks, we need to research them" and then end with "We researched them and they are safe". It begins with "There are risks, we need to bury them" and ends there.
roundup has other things besides glysophate in it, and it's likely those are the cancer causing compounds. e.g. Bayer is using glysophate as a red herring to get out of paying.
it's about charging you by the minute. I remember an interview with Activision's CEO where he was livid over how much time folks had spent playing Modern Warfare with only a single $60 purchase. He considered it theft.
Here's hoping the Indies and Gog don't go anywhere, though I've heard Gog is kinda hurting right now. That Witcher card game bombed and sales at the store have been slowing. They really need a hit with Cyberpunk 2077.
at least here in America. We've got a ton of wealthy plutocrats chompin' at the bit to sell us back the water they bought all the rights to.
Meanwhile California's got 6 desalinization plants doing fuck all and nobody's building more, even thought the entire west coast is about to run out of water. It's gonna be fun in a few years when you can buy a mansion in San Francisco for $100k because you spend $1 million/year bringing water in.
Sure, they'll fix it, 20 years after. You can't just spin up desalinization plants on the fly. It's not a web app. But like I said, somebody's gonna make a killing during those 20 years.
which sounds like a lot, but I paid $300 for a Voodoo Rush in 95. That's $500 in today's money and it wasn't a big deal back then.
I'm not sure if it's the $229 GTX 1060 6gbs or just plain the worse economy (it is a lot shittier, You could make $12/hr starting at a call center in my dirt poor town back then, which is $20/hr now for a job a high school dropout could get, now the same job pays $9.50/hr, or about $5.70/hr in today's money) but these prices didn't used to seem all that nuts.
All IT workers should Unionize and do it at least nationally if not Globally.
You can't win by yourself against a mega corp unless you happen to be in the.01% of math whizzes which, statistically, you're not. Time to stop playing at John Galt and join the real fight.
oppose Net Neutrality. Folks like Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer (though at the moment I think the party's base has dragged them in line).
Basically, there's a class of right wing Democrats who vote like Republicans on just about everything (except maybe Abortion & the ACA). These are typically called Corporate Democrats, "Clinton" Democrats of (if you're one of them) "New" Democrats. They're functionally identical to a Republican but run as Democrats.
This is why it's important to show up to your primary. There's right wingers on both sides and they both support the same right wing policies.
with AMD? One of the things I've read consistently is AMD does better in productivity apps that use the GPU. As near as anyone can tell the Radeon VII is just their high end professional GPU repackaged for gaming (which explains the stupidly large 16 GB of expensive ram).
As for stability, AMD really has got their act together, and the GPU power draw is just fine at idle. Nvidia wins out there once the GPU is under load, but if I'm loading my GPU I'm probably plugged in.
for a decent 256 GB from newegg without bulk pricing I expect an SSD. I at least expect a 7200 RPM hard disk. A 5400 RPM drive will hamstring the entire computer, OSX or not. It'll lead to a poor user experience.
This tells me Apple is confident enough in their brand to sell substandard merchandise for a premium.
where the GOP oppose the will of voters. Get enough of them and folks will stop voting for them.
Most Americans support a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, ending the 8 wars we're in, tuition free college and even a federal jobs program of one kind or another. This is one nail in the coffin of the guys who've been screwing us over since the 80s (and that goes for any Dems who don't vote for it, especially in the Senate).
it's to get the GOP on record as opposing net neutrality. Right now a lot of the ones that run in unsafe districts will tell you with straight face that they love Net Neutrality... much like Senator Palpatine Loved Democracy, but they can't stand those icky bureaucrats misusing the Telecom Act to force it and oh, if only there were a law.
This is put up or shut up time for those schmucks, and with how much cable money and AT&T cash they're sitting on it'll be shutup. In turn that'll be an issue in 2020 that might cost them their seat and give it to a Democrat. If that happens enough times then the Dems will pass the bill.
This is how the sausage is made. Don't like it? Go vote for a Democrat in 2020. And if you don't like the candidates vote in your primary dammit.
for my old GTX 240. It sucks. Some games wouldn't let you turn it off, and since there was no hardware acceleration it all ran on my CPU. I was running a GTX 240, you can bet my CPU couldn't do physx.
By all accounts Ray Tracing already cuts framerates in half. I can't imagine a world where this works.
Companies have to spend money complying with regulations. That's kind of the point. To force compliance. What the hell would the alternative be? I suppose we could nationalize their industries. But beyond that, well, that's just how laws work. It's like complaining the government doesn't set the speed on my car.
As for the IRS, it's been heavily manipulated by the GOP. Seriously, it has. They massively cut funding to audits for big companies and the wealthy while writing requirements into law that the IRS audits a certain number of "low income earners", e.g. poor people. This is a calculated attack on the working class to make them hate the IRS and taxation so that they can in turn use that hate to get tax cuts for themselves and their wealthy donors.
Finally, ask how important the overall stats of airline travel are to the families of the dead after they find out this was no accident.
The CS dept of my local university is filled with folks on visas. They go to school while also working for a company that sponsored them. It lets the company do an end run around H1-B limits because they're not "work" visas they're "student" visas. The "students" already know the material (they were trained overseas) so they can keep up with a full time job + school.
It kinda sucks. It displaces an American student and a job...
"regulation" implies a neutral third party. The Credit Card Industry has PCI. Video Games have ESRB. Movies the MPA. None of those things are as immediately lethal as a busted airplane though.
But I wouldn't call it "regulatory capture" either, since Boeing were left to their own devices. They didn't have anything to capture.
No, what we have here is plain, good 'ole deregulation. These days regulation > deregulation is automatic in most people's minds. Between this, Flint Mi, and the 2008 crash I hope folks are starting to change their minds in that regard.
and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Like I said, the guy in my example committed a crime and got away with it because nobody particularly cared to prosecute him (nobody important anyway).
in practice it usually means Wells Fargo can drag the case out another few years, adding significantly to the cost. Meaning that even if he wins it'll be a pyrrhic victory where most of the money goes to lawyers.
In lawsuits it's not always about winning outright, it's about outlasting the other side.
they don't. Their loans are insured and they're too big to fail. And if all else fails the ruling class takes care of their own. How do you think Trump survived multiple bankruptcies and bad business decisions and always came out a millionaire?
The world does not operate on fairness. The sooner you accept that the sooner we can start actually fixing things.
is that if you've got a nicer car your phone syncs to it and you can control it from the dash, which is perfectly legal. If I can change the channel on my radio why can't I do it on my phone sitting in a dash holder?
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they payouts are likely to be so huge that some of the money will make it to the plantiff here. On the other hand much of that money will be spent on medical bills and, well, they guy is probably going to die. It's kind of a lose-lose.
there's a nice big paper trail where the big wigs were aware of risks and ignored them. That's probably the biggest issue. e.g. the paper trail doesn't being with "There are risks, we need to research them" and then end with "We researched them and they are safe". It begins with "There are risks, we need to bury them" and ends there.
roundup has other things besides glysophate in it, and it's likely those are the cancer causing compounds. e.g. Bayer is using glysophate as a red herring to get out of paying.
it's about charging you by the minute. I remember an interview with Activision's CEO where he was livid over how much time folks had spent playing Modern Warfare with only a single $60 purchase. He considered it theft.
Here's hoping the Indies and Gog don't go anywhere, though I've heard Gog is kinda hurting right now. That Witcher card game bombed and sales at the store have been slowing. They really need a hit with Cyberpunk 2077.
at least here in America. We've got a ton of wealthy plutocrats chompin' at the bit to sell us back the water they bought all the rights to.
Meanwhile California's got 6 desalinization plants doing fuck all and nobody's building more, even thought the entire west coast is about to run out of water. It's gonna be fun in a few years when you can buy a mansion in San Francisco for $100k because you spend $1 million/year bringing water in.
Sure, they'll fix it, 20 years after. You can't just spin up desalinization plants on the fly. It's not a web app. But like I said, somebody's gonna make a killing during those 20 years.
which sounds like a lot, but I paid $300 for a Voodoo Rush in 95. That's $500 in today's money and it wasn't a big deal back then.
I'm not sure if it's the $229 GTX 1060 6gbs or just plain the worse economy (it is a lot shittier, You could make $12/hr starting at a call center in my dirt poor town back then, which is $20/hr now for a job a high school dropout could get, now the same job pays $9.50/hr, or about $5.70/hr in today's money) but these prices didn't used to seem all that nuts.
it's just that with the 24/hr news cycle the papers report preliminary surveys as though they're research. See here
All IT workers should Unionize and do it at least nationally if not Globally.
.01% of math whizzes which, statistically, you're not. Time to stop playing at John Galt and join the real fight.
You can't win by yourself against a mega corp unless you happen to be in the
when you explain the benefits (or, in the case of Medicare for All, that it's several trillion cheaper than our current system).
Yeah, you can game polls, but you can't game reality. The folks down in North Carolina just got a lesson in that.
oppose Net Neutrality. Folks like Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer (though at the moment I think the party's base has dragged them in line).
Basically, there's a class of right wing Democrats who vote like Republicans on just about everything (except maybe Abortion & the ACA). These are typically called Corporate Democrats, "Clinton" Democrats of (if you're one of them) "New" Democrats. They're functionally identical to a Republican but run as Democrats.
This is why it's important to show up to your primary. There's right wingers on both sides and they both support the same right wing policies.
with AMD? One of the things I've read consistently is AMD does better in productivity apps that use the GPU. As near as anyone can tell the Radeon VII is just their high end professional GPU repackaged for gaming (which explains the stupidly large 16 GB of expensive ram).
As for stability, AMD really has got their act together, and the GPU power draw is just fine at idle. Nvidia wins out there once the GPU is under load, but if I'm loading my GPU I'm probably plugged in.
for a decent 256 GB from newegg without bulk pricing I expect an SSD. I at least expect a 7200 RPM hard disk. A 5400 RPM drive will hamstring the entire computer, OSX or not. It'll lead to a poor user experience.
This tells me Apple is confident enough in their brand to sell substandard merchandise for a premium.
where the GOP oppose the will of voters. Get enough of them and folks will stop voting for them.
Most Americans support a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, ending the 8 wars we're in, tuition free college and even a federal jobs program of one kind or another. This is one nail in the coffin of the guys who've been screwing us over since the 80s (and that goes for any Dems who don't vote for it, especially in the Senate).
it's to get the GOP on record as opposing net neutrality. Right now a lot of the ones that run in unsafe districts will tell you with straight face that they love Net Neutrality... much like Senator Palpatine Loved Democracy, but they can't stand those icky bureaucrats misusing the Telecom Act to force it and oh, if only there were a law.
This is put up or shut up time for those schmucks, and with how much cable money and AT&T cash they're sitting on it'll be shutup. In turn that'll be an issue in 2020 that might cost them their seat and give it to a Democrat. If that happens enough times then the Dems will pass the bill.
This is how the sausage is made. Don't like it? Go vote for a Democrat in 2020. And if you don't like the candidates vote in your primary dammit.
for my old GTX 240. It sucks. Some games wouldn't let you turn it off, and since there was no hardware acceleration it all ran on my CPU. I was running a GTX 240, you can bet my CPU couldn't do physx.
By all accounts Ray Tracing already cuts framerates in half. I can't imagine a world where this works.
Companies have to spend money complying with regulations. That's kind of the point. To force compliance. What the hell would the alternative be? I suppose we could nationalize their industries. But beyond that, well, that's just how laws work. It's like complaining the government doesn't set the speed on my car.
As for the IRS, it's been heavily manipulated by the GOP. Seriously, it has. They massively cut funding to audits for big companies and the wealthy while writing requirements into law that the IRS audits a certain number of "low income earners", e.g. poor people. This is a calculated attack on the working class to make them hate the IRS and taxation so that they can in turn use that hate to get tax cuts for themselves and their wealthy donors.
Finally, ask how important the overall stats of airline travel are to the families of the dead after they find out this was no accident.
The CS dept of my local university is filled with folks on visas. They go to school while also working for a company that sponsored them. It lets the company do an end run around H1-B limits because they're not "work" visas they're "student" visas. The "students" already know the material (they were trained overseas) so they can keep up with a full time job + school.
It kinda sucks. It displaces an American student and a job...
"regulation" implies a neutral third party. The Credit Card Industry has PCI. Video Games have ESRB. Movies the MPA. None of those things are as immediately lethal as a busted airplane though.
But I wouldn't call it "regulatory capture" either, since Boeing were left to their own devices. They didn't have anything to capture.
No, what we have here is plain, good 'ole deregulation. These days regulation > deregulation is automatic in most people's minds. Between this, Flint Mi, and the 2008 crash I hope folks are starting to change their minds in that regard.
and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Like I said, the guy in my example committed a crime and got away with it because nobody particularly cared to prosecute him (nobody important anyway).
Is it web scale?
in practice it usually means Wells Fargo can drag the case out another few years, adding significantly to the cost. Meaning that even if he wins it'll be a pyrrhic victory where most of the money goes to lawyers. In lawsuits it's not always about winning outright, it's about outlasting the other side.
You can use facts to prove anything even remotely true - Homer J. Simpson.
they don't. Their loans are insured and they're too big to fail. And if all else fails the ruling class takes care of their own. How do you think Trump survived multiple bankruptcies and bad business decisions and always came out a millionaire?
The world does not operate on fairness. The sooner you accept that the sooner we can start actually fixing things.
is that if you've got a nicer car your phone syncs to it and you can control it from the dash, which is perfectly legal. If I can change the channel on my radio why can't I do it on my phone sitting in a dash holder?
Get a warrant. And yes, that means showing probable cause for a warrant.