Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.
But again, it isn't. While I was in the midst of moving, I had temporary accommodation in San Jose with a light rail station in front of my apartment. It was only 7 stops to get to work, where there was another station right in front of the building. I decided to give it a try.
Long story short: it reminded my why I hate public transport. It's slower: my travel time doubled. I have to work on their schedule: I have to wait for a train to come. Is that going to be 10 minutes? Or perhaps 25? While it's either hot or supercold outside. It just sucks.
And I didn't even mention the stupid rules they have:
- I'm not allowed to eat or drink anything;
- I can't have pepperspray on me;
- Not that I have one, but even if I had a firearm and CCW permit I would not be allowed to carry it;
Did I mention it's shitty expensive? Did I mention the amount of pandhandling bums? Did I mention the body odors of people from all over the world?
No thanks, I'll take my private transportation. Public transportation sucks.
To be clear, every ISP blocks multicast transport between Internet AS's except in a very few special circumstances
Wrong. Multicast needs to be explicitly enabled and configured to function properly. What you're saying is similar to saying that all ISPs block MPLS at their borders.
You don't even understand that you don't understand it.
They created this mess by blocking multicast and web caching to the home because they couldn't bill it. If multicast had been widely available then multiple people streaming the same thing at more or less the same time would not occupy any more of the net than one.
Nobody blocks multicast. Multicast simply doesn't work like that: it doesn't mean that people can simultaneously stream Youtube or Netflix. That would only work if two or more subscribers would start the same video at the same quality at the same time.
Furthermore, multicast addresses are limited to 224.0.0.0/4, or 268,435,454 addresses. Not to mention that there is no global multicast infrastructure in place.
If caching had remained in place, the bulk of the Internet would have remained clear.
And who do you think is blocking caching? Hint: it's not the ISP. The ISP wants to cache, but in order to do so the content must be clear-text. Oh wait: everyone is moving to HTTPS, which cannot easily be broken.
Back in 2013 I was working for a large telecom equipment provider on a joint project with a large CDN provider to build a CDN/TIC solution. Youtube, Netflix and all major streaming sites were supported and cached. Until [b]they[/b] decided to break caching by switching to HTTPS.
Your ignorance in this matter cannot be understated.
All of this means that skills acquired in a flight sim are supposed to translate to skills in actual aircraft, that is the point.
Except that it doesn't really do that. I hold a pilot license, a PPL. I also have an elaborate FSX setup with pretty much all the gear Saitek sells, including 9 of the little LCD screens. Yes, it's fun to "fly" a 737 in the Alps in the fog. Yes, it's fun to position a fighter jet at 60,000ft and see it tumble until the "air" is dense enough to create some lift.
But nothing on a consumer grade flight sim will provide you with any skill. I once had to land with a pretty decent crosswind in a 172. About 6 months after earning my license. Me and the pregnant misses on board. No FSX will be able to recreate the stress-induced focus that I needed to put that plane down safely. Just me, one hand on the throttle, one hand on the yoke, two feet on the pedals, and the runway in front of me.
The one and only exception to that would be that the sim helped me with my ground school. Ground school you say? Yes: especially navigation. Have your wife, bf, gf or friend position your plane in a random position in the country at 5000ft, and try to determine your position using ADF or VOR/DME. It really helps you understand those navaids.
The issue is requiring 1000-1500 hours of flight time before you can get an ATP certification which is a requirement to work for a commercial passenger airline. Before the changes after the Colgan Air crash you only needed 250 hours to be an FO with a regional carrier.
Today, many "fresh" pilots (those with a CPL and 250 hours) need to get a CFI and train other pilots in order to get the required experience. That's nothing else than a ponzi scheme. Once they have 1500 hours, they are eligible to fly at the airlines, but by that time they're "too old" and "too demanding".
Not to mention that a few years ago it was still very common to have young pilots pay to fly. The industry created the problem itself.
Just don't do illegal shit and you have nothing to worry about.
If you're inside a venue that does "illegal shit", you are not liable, and you are not "doing illegal shit". Yet, you justify the invasion of privacy as "nothing to worry about". You, good sir, are a moron.
See the pie charts on page 7 of this presentation.
You can't compare this with other countries. In Europe, most electronic payments are processed as debit, because credit cards are not so common as they are in the U.S.
In the U.S., you automatically get a debit card with your bank account. However, that debit card can also be run as credit (assuming you have sufficient balance). In that case, you don't need your pin code etc. In other words: your U.S. debit card can be run as both debit or credit. In (most) European countries, you'd have one debit card and if you want, a separate credit card. That credit card is not directly linked to your bank account either, it is a separate charge account which you pay once a month, kind of like with American Express.
Here in the U.S., my Bank of America card has the Visa logo, and is directly linked to my bank account. It can be run debit and credit. My Amex is not, I pay that bill separately. In Europe, my ABN AMRO card is debit only.
(I'm assuming here you're from the U.S.. If not, please specify)
I am an EU Citizen.
patently the most false form of democracy ever invented
I would argue the opposite. In my home country, I don't have direct representation. I can elect liberal, green or left, and those parties decide who gets to fill the parliamentary seats. The U.S. House of Representatives are just that: people who represent their constituents from their districts. The counter balance to those "populist"-by-design politicians is the Senate, where each State gets an equal amount of representatives (2).
Contrary to most EU democracies, in the U.S. there is a very delicate balance between legislative, executive and judicial bodies: each has enough power to block the other. In my home country, the Supreme Court equivalent cannot prevent laws from becoming active. The U.S. Supreme Court does have that power. The Executive Branch of the U.S. is headed by a (pretty much) directly elected President. In my home country, it is headed by the person chosen by the Politburo of the party that happened to receive the most votes. I.E.: no direct elections at all.
The EU wants nothing but more and more power, more and more money, and more and more legislation to justify their own existence. Not to mention that they want to meddle with foreign corporations.
The EU needs to get their stinky hands out of U.S. corporations. If it weren't for the U.S., you'd all be speaking Russian or German by now.
I'm going to stop you there since in 7 words you have effectively said all of the following
In fact, it is you who is ignorant. The EU was great until the early 2000s, when they started this "constitution" crap. It was voted out, and I was one of the people to vote against it, in May 2005. Did the politicians listen to my vote? No, they did not. They came up with a slightly altered version and decided to not put it up for a vote and pass it anyway.
The EU is nothing but a dictatorship that was voted out, but still managed to stay.
We need to do that with a number of companies. In fact, I think that the west needs to consider saying that any company that occupies say 50+% of a niche, can not be allowed in to do business,
And you're wondering why people refer to the EU as the EUSSR?
The EU is nothing but an irrelevant, undemocratic (because not directly elected), anti-capitalist (meddling with capitalist companies), authoritarian (because forcing ISPs to keep the data they want out of the hands of private companies, so they can give it to the police) institution where people are prosecuted for something as little as an "offensive" tweet.
And then you expect the rest of the world to take you seriously.
50 miles electric range is trivial to implement TODAY, zero innovation required.
I agree with you on that, Tesla can do 400 miles.
But that is irrelevant to my complaint. My issue is that the U.K. (or any) government does not get to dictate how motor companies choose to innovate. What if by 2025 Nikola Motors' fuel cell technology gets adopted by the industry?
By 2040 it will be difficult to find a new car with a combustion engine anyway, regardless of that the UK government does.
Yes, so you agree with me that this law is irrelevant anyway. Indeed. This is one of those laws, made up by pink-sunglassed greenies looking to find another reason to masturbate in the mirror. "Oh look what a great law I passed today *fapfapfap*". But in the end, they accomplished nothing.
it should be of no concern to anyone making or buying a car today.
That's putting your head in the sand. 100 years ago, the same was said about Hong Kong coming back under Chinese control. In the end, it is bad legislation that will affect people.
In other news: the U.K. is passing laws that the space industry must support interstellar travel by 2040, or be banned from entering the U.K.
Those stupid politicians need to understand that innovation cannot be legislated. But then again, frequent readers on/. know about my aversion against that Orwellian Police State anyway.
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Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.
But again, it isn't. While I was in the midst of moving, I had temporary accommodation in San Jose with a light rail station in front of my apartment. It was only 7 stops to get to work, where there was another station right in front of the building. I decided to give it a try.
Long story short: it reminded my why I hate public transport. It's slower: my travel time doubled. I have to work on their schedule: I have to wait for a train to come. Is that going to be 10 minutes? Or perhaps 25? While it's either hot or supercold outside. It just sucks.
And I didn't even mention the stupid rules they have:
- I'm not allowed to eat or drink anything;
- I can't have pepperspray on me;
- Not that I have one, but even if I had a firearm and CCW permit I would not be allowed to carry it;
Did I mention it's shitty expensive? Did I mention the amount of pandhandling bums? Did I mention the body odors of people from all over the world?
No thanks, I'll take my private transportation. Public transportation sucks.
To be clear, every ISP blocks multicast transport between Internet AS's except in a very few special circumstances
Wrong. Multicast needs to be explicitly enabled and configured to function properly. What you're saying is similar to saying that all ISPs block MPLS at their borders.
It's not blocked. It's simply not configured.
They created this mess by blocking multicast and web caching to the home because they couldn't bill it. If multicast had been widely available then multiple people streaming the same thing at more or less the same time would not occupy any more of the net than one.
Nobody blocks multicast. Multicast simply doesn't work like that: it doesn't mean that people can simultaneously stream Youtube or Netflix. That would only work if two or more subscribers would start the same video at the same quality at the same time.
Furthermore, multicast addresses are limited to 224.0.0.0/4, or 268,435,454 addresses. Not to mention that there is no global multicast infrastructure in place.
If caching had remained in place, the bulk of the Internet would have remained clear.
And who do you think is blocking caching? Hint: it's not the ISP. The ISP wants to cache, but in order to do so the content must be clear-text. Oh wait: everyone is moving to HTTPS, which cannot easily be broken.
Back in 2013 I was working for a large telecom equipment provider on a joint project with a large CDN provider to build a CDN/TIC solution. Youtube, Netflix and all major streaming sites were supported and cached. Until [b]they[/b] decided to break caching by switching to HTTPS.
Your ignorance in this matter cannot be understated.
I live in a "socialist" country and things aren't that bad.
The problem with socialism is that at some point, the government will run out of other people's money to spend.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/g...
You may wish to rethink linking to a website where I have to click "Load More" 20,000 times before being to read the whole article.
All of this means that skills acquired in a flight sim are supposed to translate to skills in actual aircraft, that is the point.
Except that it doesn't really do that. I hold a pilot license, a PPL. I also have an elaborate FSX setup with pretty much all the gear Saitek sells, including 9 of the little LCD screens. Yes, it's fun to "fly" a 737 in the Alps in the fog. Yes, it's fun to position a fighter jet at 60,000ft and see it tumble until the "air" is dense enough to create some lift.
But nothing on a consumer grade flight sim will provide you with any skill. I once had to land with a pretty decent crosswind in a 172. About 6 months after earning my license. Me and the pregnant misses on board. No FSX will be able to recreate the stress-induced focus that I needed to put that plane down safely. Just me, one hand on the throttle, one hand on the yoke, two feet on the pedals, and the runway in front of me.
The one and only exception to that would be that the sim helped me with my ground school. Ground school you say? Yes: especially navigation. Have your wife, bf, gf or friend position your plane in a random position in the country at 5000ft, and try to determine your position using ADF or VOR/DME. It really helps you understand those navaids.
To me, FSX/X-Plane is just for fun.
pushing to normalize pedophilia
No, you're getting this all wrong. We need to cure pedophilia. There is actually a very simple cure for it. And it only costs about 5 cents.
The issue is requiring 1000-1500 hours of flight time before you can get an ATP certification which is a requirement to work for a commercial passenger airline. Before the changes after the Colgan Air crash you only needed 250 hours to be an FO with a regional carrier.
Today, many "fresh" pilots (those with a CPL and 250 hours) need to get a CFI and train other pilots in order to get the required experience. That's nothing else than a ponzi scheme. Once they have 1500 hours, they are eligible to fly at the airlines, but by that time they're "too old" and "too demanding".
Not to mention that a few years ago it was still very common to have young pilots pay to fly. The industry created the problem itself.
Soccer games
Football. When you touch a round ball only with your foot, it's football. When you hold an egg shaped object in your hands, it's hand-egg.
It's Football vs Hand-egg. Not "sucker" vs "football".
Just don't do illegal shit and you have nothing to worry about.
If you're inside a venue that does "illegal shit", you are not liable, and you are not "doing illegal shit". Yet, you justify the invasion of privacy as "nothing to worry about". You, good sir, are a moron.
School is not mandatory in the U.S. Education is, but you can choose to home-school.
You're probably thinking of securelevels. /quote
I stand corrected.
Various tools exist to allow you to create read only versions of your system.
Various OSes already implement that by default. Have a look at FreeBSD's runlevels.
Lying in court.
Even IF she was lying in court, that's irrelevant. She is a defendant. She can lie all day long.
See the pie charts on page 7 of this presentation.
You can't compare this with other countries. In Europe, most electronic payments are processed as debit, because credit cards are not so common as they are in the U.S.
In the U.S., you automatically get a debit card with your bank account. However, that debit card can also be run as credit (assuming you have sufficient balance). In that case, you don't need your pin code etc. In other words: your U.S. debit card can be run as both debit or credit. In (most) European countries, you'd have one debit card and if you want, a separate credit card. That credit card is not directly linked to your bank account either, it is a separate charge account which you pay once a month, kind of like with American Express.
Here in the U.S., my Bank of America card has the Visa logo, and is directly linked to my bank account. It can be run debit and credit. My Amex is not, I pay that bill separately. In Europe, my ABN AMRO card is debit only.
he had to train his replacement
Moral of the story: never train your replacement.
I don't care about two weeks of extra pay or whatever else they're offering. Why help your boss fire you?
changing IMEI is 3 months to 5 years, rape is 6 months to 10 years
Minimum and maximum codified sentences do not reflect the average sentence handed down by courts.
(I'm assuming here you're from the U.S.. If not, please specify)
I am an EU Citizen.
patently the most false form of democracy ever invented
I would argue the opposite. In my home country, I don't have direct representation. I can elect liberal, green or left, and those parties decide who gets to fill the parliamentary seats. The U.S. House of Representatives are just that: people who represent their constituents from their districts. The counter balance to those "populist"-by-design politicians is the Senate, where each State gets an equal amount of representatives (2).
Contrary to most EU democracies, in the U.S. there is a very delicate balance between legislative, executive and judicial bodies: each has enough power to block the other. In my home country, the Supreme Court equivalent cannot prevent laws from becoming active. The U.S. Supreme Court does have that power. The Executive Branch of the U.S. is headed by a (pretty much) directly elected President. In my home country, it is headed by the person chosen by the Politburo of the party that happened to receive the most votes. I.E.: no direct elections at all.
The EU wants nothing but more and more power, more and more money, and more and more legislation to justify their own existence. Not to mention that they want to meddle with foreign corporations.
The EU needs to get their stinky hands out of U.S. corporations. If it weren't for the U.S., you'd all be speaking Russian or German by now.
I'm going to stop you there since in 7 words you have effectively said all of the following
In fact, it is you who is ignorant. The EU was great until the early 2000s, when they started this "constitution" crap. It was voted out, and I was one of the people to vote against it, in May 2005. Did the politicians listen to my vote? No, they did not. They came up with a slightly altered version and decided to not put it up for a vote and pass it anyway.
The EU is nothing but a dictatorship that was voted out, but still managed to stay.
And my passport says "European Union".
We need to do that with a number of companies. In fact, I think that the west needs to consider saying that any company that occupies say 50+% of a niche, can not be allowed in to do business,
And you're wondering why people refer to the EU as the EUSSR?
The EU is nothing but an irrelevant, undemocratic (because not directly elected), anti-capitalist (meddling with capitalist companies), authoritarian (because forcing ISPs to keep the data they want out of the hands of private companies, so they can give it to the police) institution where people are prosecuted for something as little as an "offensive" tweet.
And then you expect the rest of the world to take you seriously.
The GPDR explicitly states that it applies to data from people who are in the EU.
Which is irrelevant to a U.S. based company without presence in the EU.
If you expect the government to pay for the consequences, they should also have the right to prevent.
"The Government" is not paying for anything. It's the tax-payer's money, taken by threat of force.
That said, this is yet another indication that the freedom of speech is non-existent in the U.K.
50 miles electric range is trivial to implement TODAY, zero innovation required.
I agree with you on that, Tesla can do 400 miles.
But that is irrelevant to my complaint. My issue is that the U.K. (or any) government does not get to dictate how motor companies choose to innovate. What if by 2025 Nikola Motors' fuel cell technology gets adopted by the industry?
By 2040 it will be difficult to find a new car with a combustion engine anyway, regardless of that the UK government does.
Yes, so you agree with me that this law is irrelevant anyway. Indeed. This is one of those laws, made up by pink-sunglassed greenies looking to find another reason to masturbate in the mirror. "Oh look what a great law I passed today *fapfapfap*". But in the end, they accomplished nothing.
it should be of no concern to anyone making or buying a car today.
That's putting your head in the sand. 100 years ago, the same was said about Hong Kong coming back under Chinese control. In the end, it is bad legislation that will affect people.
/. know about my aversion against that Orwellian Police State anyway.
In other news: the U.K. is passing laws that the space industry must support interstellar travel by 2040, or be banned from entering the U.K.
Those stupid politicians need to understand that innovation cannot be legislated. But then again, frequent readers on
I think it's the other way around now
Indeed. a few months ago the headline was exactly reversed:
ANTI-TRUMP TECH WORKERS ARE DITCHING THE U.S. FOR CANADA
âoeWeâ(TM)re seeing a reverse brain drain for the first time.â
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
So, which one is it? Judging by the housing prices still shooting upwards, I think it's more that Canadians are coming here than vice versa.