But that's like saying (since you mentioned the Swiss) that you know a Swiss guy living in North Dakota that makes watches just as good as Swiss watches, so clearly Switzerland ain't all that great at watches... But there's certainly a cultural interest in Switzerland of making fine watches, and a long and storied history of them doing so.
To be fair, I'm saying that before someone put up a fence around Switzerland, the best swiss watchmakers escaped, and took their manufacturing equipment with them, and took up making watches in the same latitudes and climates. While there would certainly be differences between the new Finish watches made by ex-Swiss watchmakers on Swiss-made equipment, they'd be largely indistinguishable from the "new" Swiss watches.
You could certainly develop a preference for Finish or Swiss "Swiss" watches.
...the "mostly by Cubans in exile" is the important part.
As someone who occasionally orders Cuban cigars from the Swiss, I can tell you that they're simply not any better than the same cigar from the same company from their Dominican or Nicaraguan plants....especially since the same seeds grew the tobacco. Cigar Aficionado likes to perpetuate the mystique. They benefit from it.
Gross tonnage is ship volume and is THE measure of ship size.
The Titanic's GT was 46,000.
The top two Royal Caribbean ships are 225,000 and most of the rest of the pack weigh in at 140-150.
The're pretty much 4x or 3x the size (volume), and 20% longer.
Displacement is a different factor altogether, but even then...
Gross tonnage normally is a much higher value than displacement. This was not always the case; as the functions, engineering and architecture of ships have changed, the gross tonnage figures of the largest passenger ships have risen substantially, while the displacements of such ships have not. RMS Titanic, with a gross register tonnage of 46,329 GRT, but a displacement reported at over 52,000 tons, was heavier than contemporary 100,000 – 110,000 GT cruise ships which displace only around 50,000 tons.
CALEA only requires the backdoor to exist if it's technically possible. TFA is pretty clear that other manufacturers and carriers have chosen to implement end-to-end encryption that doesn't have the ability to be backdoored, and as such, there's no need to provide the (non-existent) backdoor to the feds.
The problem with Law in the United States is that it's based not on the SPIRIT of the law but the LETTER of the law, so if some lawyer happens to get some weird ruling then it's on the books and then it's citable as law... and so the system grows on itself.
The laws are Byzantine and increasingly unimportant, it's all about who can pay for the best representation, even basics like Civil Rights are virtually non-existent.
Watching this decline is disturbing and saddening.
Criminal law, I find, is pretty straightforward at the local and state level.
You don't 24/7 videotape a petty drug dealer to catch a petty drug dealer.
You do it to catch a much bigger criminal.
Do the police need a warrant to set up shop in the building across the street? If my neighbor is already recording the street in front of his house with his home security system, and volunteers to turn over angles that cover my house, do they need special permission to look at that? If my house is next to a traffic camera, can they look at all the background photos captured when someone runs a red light without getting a warrant?
I have a condo downtown by the ballpark, and parking on the streets behind it all have "neighborhood parking, by permit only" on them.
The particular neighborhood I was referencing is at 7th avenue and McDowell. On the corner there they built a plaza with 5 trendy "fast casual" restaurants in it. Jersey Mike's, Five Guys, How Do You Roll, Chipolte, and a ZOYO. Directly across the street they built out the plaza to include a NYPD Pizza and a PotBelly in the old "My Florist" building.
There's 65 parking spots for the small plaza. It's not enough.
The residents on Lynwood St petitioned to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted as soon as lunch visitors spilled over into their neighborhood. I understand WHY they did this (NIMBY, MOTHERFUCKERS), but I assume they'd just prefer that corner go back to check cashing.
Interesting. I've been driving in Phoenix for 30 years now and never realized the 7th street/ave lanes were there "forever." In my head, I imagined they got changed when the Deck Park Tunnel opened in 1990, which, since I'm getting old only imaged was "a decade or so ago."
When the DPT opened, 3rd street/avenue got their increased traffic and then neighbors did everything they could to push the traffic back to 7th/Central/7th.
And be there to do it, while it's happening, which means you and your zombie Waze army need to either all spoof GPS or be there at 3pm when evening traffic begins it's 5 hours of sucking.
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Your website/pricing stuff broke.. NMFP, you offered it 1 penny, I expect to get it for that price.
Expect into one hand. Shit into the other. See which one fills up faster.
By placing an order, you agree to the privacy policy and conditions of use.
"With respect to items sold by Amazon, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by Amazon is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item."
Yeah, I'm not sure why people don't understand this.
If you're a new Wazer, your reports have less weight. You get more weight as a Waze driver/reporter by submitting verified/thanked items.
If you wanted to fake the Waze system, you'd need multiple accounts generating real reports, or at least circle-jerk clicking/thanking other people's fake reports. Then, you'd move your GPS up the street at 3mph just before rush hour, while all your fake accounts all pressed "heavy traffic" together and thanked each other's reports.
In downtown Phoenix, there's a couple of heavily traffic streets that server the downtown corridor. They got busy enough that a decade or so ago, the city made the center lane one-way no-turns in the morning, and one-way the other way no-turns in the evening. 7th street - a mile east of Central, and 7th avenue - a mile west of Central.
[Phoenix is, largely, a grid. Major thoroughfares are every 8 streets, even on the east side, 16th, 24th, 32nd, 40th... and odd on the west side, 19th, 27th, 35th with the exception of immediately downtown where 7th is the major street both ways. Someone can say 35th and Camelback, and you know it's a west-side address.]
At the same time they make 7th street and avenue support an extra lane each way they put in HOV only exits on I-10 for 3rd street and 3rd avenue. Not only could you take an HOV-only exit, but you could take a less populated street. Those exits were so successful that the residents on 3rd street and 3rd avenue petitioned the city for speed bumps and roundabouts and reduced the number of entry and exit points to their neighborhoods to completely push all traffic back to 7th street and 7th avenue.
These same neighborhoods petition to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted when restaurants move into their neighborhoods, because, presumably, they'd prefer it go back to check cashing joints and "tarjetas de teléfono aquí" signs in the windows.
NIMBY MOTHERFUCKERS!
I live in a somewhat exclusive neighborhood in Phoenix -- the Ahwatukee foothills. They're extending a freeway around what is often referred to as the World's Largest Cul-de-sac. I'm going to miss my little city island, but the price of progress must be paid.
Waze only works if users are opting into telling their secrets.
It uses your actual travel times to determine the best paths to route other cars, and stops bypass routing traffic if the bypass gets slower.
You could lie to Waze, but the best way to do it would be to (a) build a reputation as a good "Wazer" by submitting tons of good data, and then (b) walk down your street at 3mph, pretending to be slow-moving traffic every day before rush hour.
It has to be as simple as, "it's pre-installed, and negotiates the highest security possible between any two (or more) parties having a conversation of any type."
I'm probably not either. I just want to know how much is it to get me from (A) and (B) with the least fussing and hassle. If it's a good deal, and it makes sense, I'll do it.
...but there's probably a segment of the population who's happy to play a game that gets them a cheaper ride at a discount with some hurdles. The question was probably if that segment of the market was big enough to be a viable alternative to Uber and Lyft....and it might be, in select large markets.
I've often wondered how it is that banks get away with plastering account numbers on every check
Since we're not quite done writing them, what, instead, do you propose we put on paper checks other than the routing number and account number so that the receiving bank can figure out what bank, and what account, to request funds from?
Concur. I happen to know what BGP is, but there's plenty of nerds for whom this site provides news that could have probably used a link - especially if they wanted to understand it better before reading the article. [...but after first posting.]
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But that's like saying (since you mentioned the Swiss) that you know a Swiss guy living in North Dakota that makes watches just as good as Swiss watches, so clearly Switzerland ain't all that great at watches... But there's certainly a cultural interest in Switzerland of making fine watches, and a long and storied history of them doing so.
To be fair, I'm saying that before someone put up a fence around Switzerland, the best swiss watchmakers escaped, and took their manufacturing equipment with them, and took up making watches in the same latitudes and climates. While there would certainly be differences between the new Finish watches made by ex-Swiss watchmakers on Swiss-made equipment, they'd be largely indistinguishable from the "new" Swiss watches.
You could certainly develop a preference for Finish or Swiss "Swiss" watches.
...the "mostly by Cubans in exile" is the important part.
As someone who occasionally orders Cuban cigars from the Swiss, I can tell you that they're simply not any better than the same cigar from the same company from their Dominican or Nicaraguan plants. ...especially since the same seeds grew the tobacco. Cigar Aficionado likes to perpetuate the mystique. They benefit from it.
Gross tonnage is ship volume and is THE measure of ship size.
The Titanic's GT was 46,000.
The top two Royal Caribbean ships are 225,000 and most of the rest of the pack weigh in at 140-150.
The're pretty much 4x or 3x the size (volume), and 20% longer.
Displacement is a different factor altogether, but even then...
Emphasis mine.
False.
CALEA only requires the backdoor to exist if it's technically possible. TFA is pretty clear that other manufacturers and carriers have chosen to implement end-to-end encryption that doesn't have the ability to be backdoored, and as such, there's no need to provide the (non-existent) backdoor to the feds.
You could probably fit 8-10 titanics in the AVERAGE modern cruise ship.
You probably couldn't, since their gross tonnage is only 3-4x larger.
Seems a fair distinction, and one worthy of a judge reviewing it, and something I can see going either way. ...which is why we have judges :)
Thanks.
At 882 feet, the modern 1100 foot super cruise ship doesn't kill it.
In gross tonnes, however, they're 3-4x larger.
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The problem with Law in the United States is that it's based not on the SPIRIT of the law but the LETTER of the law, so if some lawyer happens to get some weird ruling then it's on the books and then it's citable as law... and so the system grows on itself.
The laws are Byzantine and increasingly unimportant, it's all about who can pay for the best representation, even basics like Civil Rights are virtually non-existent.
Watching this decline is disturbing and saddening.
Criminal law, I find, is pretty straightforward at the local and state level.
I'm amazed anyone can do their taxes, however.
It is now cost effective for governments to micromanage EVERYONE'S life.
The cameras may be next-to-free, but the cost to review their video and type up laborious transcripts isn't...yet.
You don't 24/7 videotape a petty drug dealer to catch a petty drug dealer.
You do it to catch a much bigger criminal.
Do the police need a warrant to set up shop in the building across the street? If my neighbor is already recording the street in front of his house with his home security system, and volunteers to turn over angles that cover my house, do they need special permission to look at that? If my house is next to a traffic camera, can they look at all the background photos captured when someone runs a red light without getting a warrant?
I'm asking.
I have a condo downtown by the ballpark, and parking on the streets behind it all have "neighborhood parking, by permit only" on them.
The particular neighborhood I was referencing is at 7th avenue and McDowell. On the corner there they built a plaza with 5 trendy "fast casual" restaurants in it. Jersey Mike's, Five Guys, How Do You Roll, Chipolte, and a ZOYO. Directly across the street they built out the plaza to include a NYPD Pizza and a PotBelly in the old "My Florist" building.
There's 65 parking spots for the small plaza. It's not enough.
The residents on Lynwood St petitioned to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted as soon as lunch visitors spilled over into their neighborhood. I understand WHY they did this (NIMBY, MOTHERFUCKERS), but I assume they'd just prefer that corner go back to check cashing.
Interesting. I've been driving in Phoenix for 30 years now and never realized the 7th street/ave lanes were there "forever." In my head, I imagined they got changed when the Deck Park Tunnel opened in 1990, which, since I'm getting old only imaged was "a decade or so ago."
When the DPT opened, 3rd street/avenue got their increased traffic and then neighbors did everything they could to push the traffic back to 7th/Central/7th.
And be there to do it, while it's happening, which means you and your zombie Waze army need to either all spoof GPS or be there at 3pm when evening traffic begins it's 5 hours of sucking.
Their offer is conditional, and states clearly:
Your website/pricing stuff broke .. NMFP, you offered it 1 penny, I expect to get it for that price.
Expect into one hand. Shit into the other. See which one fills up faster.
we don't have any pennies
They are colloquially known as pennies
Got it, thanks :)
Those "real road planners" have numerous freeway entrances and exits in residential areas. Only in LA can you have:
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freeway onramp
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Yeah, I'm not sure why people don't understand this.
If you're a new Wazer, your reports have less weight. You get more weight as a Waze driver/reporter by submitting verified/thanked items.
If you wanted to fake the Waze system, you'd need multiple accounts generating real reports, or at least circle-jerk clicking/thanking other people's fake reports. Then, you'd move your GPS up the street at 3mph just before rush hour, while all your fake accounts all pressed "heavy traffic" together and thanked each other's reports.
In downtown Phoenix, there's a couple of heavily traffic streets that server the downtown corridor. They got busy enough that a decade or so ago, the city made the center lane one-way no-turns in the morning, and one-way the other way no-turns in the evening. 7th street - a mile east of Central, and 7th avenue - a mile west of Central.
[Phoenix is, largely, a grid. Major thoroughfares are every 8 streets, even on the east side, 16th, 24th, 32nd, 40th... and odd on the west side, 19th, 27th, 35th with the exception of immediately downtown where 7th is the major street both ways. Someone can say 35th and Camelback, and you know it's a west-side address.]
At the same time they make 7th street and avenue support an extra lane each way they put in HOV only exits on I-10 for 3rd street and 3rd avenue. Not only could you take an HOV-only exit, but you could take a less populated street. Those exits were so successful that the residents on 3rd street and 3rd avenue petitioned the city for speed bumps and roundabouts and reduced the number of entry and exit points to their neighborhoods to completely push all traffic back to 7th street and 7th avenue.
These same neighborhoods petition to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted when restaurants move into their neighborhoods, because, presumably, they'd prefer it go back to check cashing joints and "tarjetas de teléfono aquí" signs in the windows.
NIMBY MOTHERFUCKERS!
I live in a somewhat exclusive neighborhood in Phoenix -- the Ahwatukee foothills. They're extending a freeway around what is often referred to as the World's Largest Cul-de-sac. I'm going to miss my little city island, but the price of progress must be paid.
Waze only works if users are opting into telling their secrets.
It uses your actual travel times to determine the best paths to route other cars, and stops bypass routing traffic if the bypass gets slower.
You could lie to Waze, but the best way to do it would be to (a) build a reputation as a good "Wazer" by submitting tons of good data, and then (b) walk down your street at 3mph, pretending to be slow-moving traffic every day before rush hour.
It has to be as simple as, "it's pre-installed, and negotiates the highest security possible between any two (or more) parties having a conversation of any type."
Godwin in 2. Not bad, Slashdot.
You're not the market for this app then.
I'm probably not either. I just want to know how much is it to get me from (A) and (B) with the least fussing and hassle. If it's a good deal, and it makes sense, I'll do it.
I've often wondered how it is that banks get away with plastering account numbers on every check
Since we're not quite done writing them, what, instead, do you propose we put on paper checks other than the routing number and account number so that the receiving bank can figure out what bank, and what account, to request funds from?
Concur. I happen to know what BGP is, but there's plenty of nerds for whom this site provides news that could have probably used a link - especially if they wanted to understand it better before reading the article. [...but after first posting.]