Baloney, Social Security and Medicare were instituted by elected officials just like any other government policy. And the programs have so much support that Mitt Romney tried to run to the left of Obama in this case, claiming Obama was cutting Medicare whereas he (Romney) would not. If that's not a show of popular support, nothing is.
It's mostly "redistributing" money from people, to their older selves. It's effectively forced savings.
The bottom line is that the term "government spending" is highly misleading, since the government is exercising no discretion on how it is spent... the government simply sends it to individuals (mostly old folks) who decide what their individual priorities are and where to spend it.
Look at the screenshot in the article - they packed 64 fibers into a cable about the same bulk as Cat5 copper - even the connector, which has 64 'pins'. Just like when somebody makes a new multi-core chip that replaces an entire cluster - that's progress.
I am really glad this came up, because my WiFi at my house hasn't been working as well lately, and it gives me something to try... maybe manually placing it on a different channel will help.
Nice analogy... You know those cheesy ads BP is always running since the Gulf Coast disaster to rehabilitate their image? You could help them make a new one - "BP! We're just like paint huffers!!! You'll never stop us! BhaaHaHaHaHaaaa!!!"
Let's say you live in an apartment building and you can see 16 different SSIDs. Is it slow because there's a lot of data in total being transferred, or does CSMA just collapse (gridlock) so hardly anybody is getting anything? It seems like back when ethernet was actually used as a shared medium (hubs) throughput was good up to about 85% and then it would just die.
I realize that Apple has an actual presence in Ireland, with employees who do things, and get paid. But this story is about something else - using a secret deal in Singapore to book sales in Australia as profits in Ireland. It is those transactions, specifically, that I was referring to.
No. You won't be sharing an IP with people that connect to this, and it doesn't have anything to do with the router you probably have connected to your cable modem. As for "two physical connections back to the ISP," what would that mean, exactly? You are already on a shared circuit with at least a few of your neighbors. Every packet they send goes as far as your cable modem, but your modem can't/doesn't decrypt it (google BPI/SEC) and send it onto your LAN.
So long as this access point is separate from and invisible to my Internet access, I wouldn't mind. However since they are getting the use of my property and electricity, I would at least like reciprocity in the form of using these wherever else they occur, particularly from a smartphone (thus avoiding the need for a generous data plan). Comcast should also let the property owner decide whether this new access point runs in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz band, so as to avoid any slowdown of my own access point.
My experience maintaining a dual-seat Linux setup (with two NVidia cards) over the course of several years is that I absolutely avoid upgrading at almost all cost, because it ALWAYS breaks. And when I have to reboot, it is always video, or USB getting into some funky state.
Well, the discussion has to start with the fact that the invasion was prompted by a coup by pro-Western Ukrainians a week earlier. Can we just be honest about that that?
No, I am not claiming the election of the deposed Russian-aligned President was free and fair in the first place - I have no idea. But there is no question that the majority of people in Crimea consider themselves Russian and favored their elected President rather than the revolutionaries.
All that stuff is possible. It brings you right back to where you were before bitcoin, paying taxes and transaction fees for this nebulous thing we call "security."
The difference is that there do exist reliable places to store US Dollars. You don't have to store your lifetime savings in your wallette or buried in the back yard. There are banks, where professionals adhere to standards in securing it. And there's a deterrence to robbing them, because taxes pay for police to arrest people who rob banks. And when all that fails, the bank has insurance against being robbed. And when that fails, there's the FDIC, which has never failed. (Is it possible? Only in the type of event that would nullify property rights in general.)
They are hugely wasteful for what they are, but it's a pointless criticism without quantifying it on some scale. I would guess variations in individual resource consumption are dominated by a few specific things, like how much you drive/fly and your heating/cooling bill. Such things could easily equate to a few thousand Keurig packets per month.
And for the record, I mostly drink Taster's Choice instant coffee, and I think it's pretty good, too. So sue me.
I can believe that 85% of productivity will be measured with metrics. But does that mean slaving away in a 110 degree warehouse under the very real threat of being fired if you don't hit your newly-doubled target for picking items from shelves is a game? Certainly not a fun game:
At the Allentown warehouse, Stephen Dallal, also a "picker," found that his output targets increased the longer he worked at the warehouse, doubling after six months. "It started with 75 pieces an hour, then 100 pieces an hour. Then 150 pieces an hour. They just got faster and faster." He too was written up for not meeting his targets and was fired. At the Seattle warehouse where the writer Vanessa Veselka worked as an underground union organizer, an American Stakhnovism pervaded the depot. When she was on the line as a packer and her output slipped, the "lead" was on to her with "I need more from you today. We're trying to hit 14,000 over these next few hours."
Here is why not: do baristas really need a college degree (in anything?) No. But if some graduates are desperate enough to apply, then they will probably get the job.
That would be my concern with this vocational degree. Would you know enough to be productive? For those types of jobs, yes. But would you win one of the limited number of positions available? Less likely.
This is the basic conundrum driving much of the college debt crisis - being qualified for a job doesn't mean you will get one. So it's an endless race of who can be the most qualified.
Chasing the latest gold rush is not really a career plan for an individual, much less a solution for the decline of the American middle class. The money isn't even that great once you factor in the "frontier" prices: "Rent in North Dakota City Exceeds New York, Los Angeles."
As much as fortunes have declined for college-educated Americans in the last few decades, people aren't taking these loans because they're stupid - blue collar has fared much worse.
Ah, this reminds me of another innovation that slashdot doesn't seem to have reported on yet:
"Corephotonics' dual-camera tech will change smartphone imaging." It gives cellphones more telephoto capability by having a color sensor with a wide-angle lens, and a monochrome sensor with a telephoto lens. The idea being that you're more sensitive to details in luminance than chrominance. (In fact many image formats allocate more bits to storing luminance than chrominance). It also makes sense since the longer focal length lens cannot be much larger (this is in a cellphone) so it gathers less light, and monochrome sensors are more sensitive (no color filter to absorb it). At close distances you would have a parallax problem, except then you're using the wide angle and probably don't use the telephoto image at all. I think it's really clever.
Even though I don't reboot my main linux system often, I find it benefits from a fast system drive because I use the computer for recording TV shows, which basically destroys the filesystem cache. (I.e. it dumps all the little files I'll actually be accessing again to store blocks of huge video files I really don't want cached). At least I think that's what happens.
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Baloney, Social Security and Medicare were instituted by elected officials just like any other government policy. And the programs have so much support that Mitt Romney tried to run to the left of Obama in this case, claiming Obama was cutting Medicare whereas he (Romney) would not. If that's not a show of popular support, nothing is.
The bottom line is that the term "government spending" is highly misleading, since the government is exercising no discretion on how it is spent... the government simply sends it to individuals (mostly old folks) who decide what their individual priorities are and where to spend it.
Look at the screenshot in the article - they packed 64 fibers into a cable about the same bulk as Cat5 copper - even the connector, which has 64 'pins'. Just like when somebody makes a new multi-core chip that replaces an entire cluster - that's progress.
I am really glad this came up, because my WiFi at my house hasn't been working as well lately, and it gives me something to try... maybe manually placing it on a different channel will help.
Nice analogy... You know those cheesy ads BP is always running since the Gulf Coast disaster to rehabilitate their image? You could help them make a new one - "BP! We're just like paint huffers!!! You'll never stop us! BhaaHaHaHaHaaaa!!!"
Let's say you live in an apartment building and you can see 16 different SSIDs. Is it slow because there's a lot of data in total being transferred, or does CSMA just collapse (gridlock) so hardly anybody is getting anything? It seems like back when ethernet was actually used as a shared medium (hubs) throughput was good up to about 85% and then it would just die.
I realize that Apple has an actual presence in Ireland, with employees who do things, and get paid. But this story is about something else - using a secret deal in Singapore to book sales in Australia as profits in Ireland. It is those transactions, specifically, that I was referring to.
The only prize in the race to the bottom is just a smidgen of grease and crumbs, like when the peanut butter is empty.
No. You won't be sharing an IP with people that connect to this, and it doesn't have anything to do with the router you probably have connected to your cable modem. As for "two physical connections back to the ISP," what would that mean, exactly? You are already on a shared circuit with at least a few of your neighbors. Every packet they send goes as far as your cable modem, but your modem can't/doesn't decrypt it (google BPI/SEC) and send it onto your LAN.
Hmpf. Seems like they should deduct a couple bucks per month from your bill then, for power if nothing else.
It's no different than your neighbors who are using their own Comcast account right now, doing who knows what.
So long as this access point is separate from and invisible to my Internet access, I wouldn't mind. However since they are getting the use of my property and electricity, I would at least like reciprocity in the form of using these wherever else they occur, particularly from a smartphone (thus avoiding the need for a generous data plan). Comcast should also let the property owner decide whether this new access point runs in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz band, so as to avoid any slowdown of my own access point.
My experience maintaining a dual-seat Linux setup (with two NVidia cards) over the course of several years is that I absolutely avoid upgrading at almost all cost, because it ALWAYS breaks. And when I have to reboot, it is always video, or USB getting into some funky state.
No, I am not claiming the election of the deposed Russian-aligned President was free and fair in the first place - I have no idea. But there is no question that the majority of people in Crimea consider themselves Russian and favored their elected President rather than the revolutionaries.
Doesn't saying that just give you a warm fuzzy about hiring me as a babysitter?
Radio Shack is already 100x bigger than that niche could ever support, regardless of how much they commit to it.
All that stuff is possible. It brings you right back to where you were before bitcoin, paying taxes and transaction fees for this nebulous thing we call "security."
The difference is that there do exist reliable places to store US Dollars. You don't have to store your lifetime savings in your wallette or buried in the back yard. There are banks, where professionals adhere to standards in securing it. And there's a deterrence to robbing them, because taxes pay for police to arrest people who rob banks. And when all that fails, the bank has insurance against being robbed. And when that fails, there's the FDIC, which has never failed. (Is it possible? Only in the type of event that would nullify property rights in general.)
And for the record, I mostly drink Taster's Choice instant coffee, and I think it's pretty good, too. So sue me.
That would be my concern with this vocational degree. Would you know enough to be productive? For those types of jobs, yes. But would you win one of the limited number of positions available? Less likely.
This is the basic conundrum driving much of the college debt crisis - being qualified for a job doesn't mean you will get one. So it's an endless race of who can be the most qualified.
In the meanwhile, tens of millions of people will be killed by the pollution. But then, after that, I'll be fine.
As much as fortunes have declined for college-educated Americans in the last few decades, people aren't taking these loans because they're stupid - blue collar has fared much worse.
Ah, this reminds me of another innovation that slashdot doesn't seem to have reported on yet: "Corephotonics' dual-camera tech will change smartphone imaging." It gives cellphones more telephoto capability by having a color sensor with a wide-angle lens, and a monochrome sensor with a telephoto lens. The idea being that you're more sensitive to details in luminance than chrominance. (In fact many image formats allocate more bits to storing luminance than chrominance). It also makes sense since the longer focal length lens cannot be much larger (this is in a cellphone) so it gathers less light, and monochrome sensors are more sensitive (no color filter to absorb it). At close distances you would have a parallax problem, except then you're using the wide angle and probably don't use the telephoto image at all. I think it's really clever.
Even though I don't reboot my main linux system often, I find it benefits from a fast system drive because I use the computer for recording TV shows, which basically destroys the filesystem cache. (I.e. it dumps all the little files I'll actually be accessing again to store blocks of huge video files I really don't want cached). At least I think that's what happens.