Telecom industry is doing just fine (there is this thing called the internet and mobile phone/data telecoms) but if you are a legacy telecom supplier selling voice switches and landline phones then you should have seen the writing on the wall many years ago.
Yeah. Looks like it doesn't actually do anything to prevent damage but you can watch it to see how much voltage and current it actually takes to fry your device. How many people actually know what voltages are safe for each of their devices? Also, why do they use the word "counterfeit"? I understand that some counterfeit devices could be defective and not follow the spec but others could meet the spec and be just fine. Also, some "genuine" devices might fry your device. Better to just call devices that don't meet the spec "defective" and leave it at that. Anyway... useless slashvertisement.
I always give service people a 10 (unless the service really sucked). They have shitty jobs and the ratings are just another stick to make their lives miserable. I won't play that game. Hopefully they can get a better job some day.
Had the same pressure from an Audi salesman a few years ago. Told me I had to rate him a 10. Well, I didn't because he gave me the usual car salesman sleazy misinformation/ scam dog and pony show as all car salesman are trained to do. He was pissed. Last car I bought was a Tesla. No scams. No pressure. Just helped me pick out the options. Best car buying experience ever. (No survey)
Yes. Now the US is shut out of the "benefits" of the TPP and China gains the leadership position. The TPP was deeply flawed but the flaws benefited the US greatly. Now they will benefit China. Trump's complete lack of understanding of geopolitics and economy has led him to this first (of many) stupid decisions... (how's the wall coming along, bozo)
Yes. Now China gets to assume the leadership role benefiting China rather than the US. It was never about what is good for "the little people" but rather which a$$hole gets to be in charge and reaps the profits. China wins.
"Economists have warned that many of Trump’s proposals — including suggestions that he would impose blanket double-digit tariffs on goods from Mexico and China — could backfire on the American economy by causing prices to rise or igniting a trade war,"
A retreat from the TPP now gives Beijing, which has been negotiating its own trade blocs, a chance to fill a void. Since Trump's election, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia have shifted toward China's proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which would also reduce tariffs — without many of the standards put in place by Obama's plan — and redirect Asian trade China's way. Other nations in the region are likely to follow suit.
Autopilot can be active at any time. It's especially good in heavy traffic. Works well on two lane roads as well as highways. They compared accidents driving with AP ON vs AP OFF.
People often make the argument that some individual terrorist/liberation movements are "special" in that they are driven by a core ideology which is irrational and has no connection to the real world and that the only solution is to "nuke them". Every liberation movement arises from an injustice which has the support of a broader group of people. ISIS would not be able to recruit anyone if it were just an irrational ideology. It draws from a large group of people who see some injustice. ISIS then magnifies and distorts that injustice to radicalize people to do all of the "irrational" actions. If you look at all liberation movements, they have this same characteristic. Small conflicts gave rise to movements (here's a long list of liberation/terrorist movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). There are also larger movements such as the Nazis in Europe where a very large group of people were suffering economic injustice, chose a scapegoat and performed "irrational" atrocities on a large scale. The voters for Trump in the US were similar. They perceived economic injustice; Trump provided a few handy scapegoats (Mexicans, Chinese, etc.) and they made an irrational vote to elect a charlatan who promptly betrayed them. It doesn't really matter that in each of these cases, the scapegoats were "innocent" and that there were other real causes of the injustice. All of these movements can be countered by addressing the injustice. This will dry up the source of recruits and the popular support for the movement. Bombing only makes things worse. However, often it will be difficult (or impossible) to address the underlying injustice. For instance, in the US, the neoliberal capitalist system which is creating economic injustice is so well entrenched that it will be extremely difficult to change. Similarly, the multiple complex injustices in the middle east are probably beyond the ability of anyone to address. That does not mean that bombing is the answer. Probably the best the US (and the West) can do is to try to remove themselves as a target by leaving the area and stop meddling in areas where we have no understanding or appreciation of the complex dynamics.
The Tesla "gearbox" is just a differential to connect the electric motor to the two drive shafts. There is no clutch. There is only one "gear". The electric motor has nearly flat torque from 0 rpm up to 16,000 rpm so they don't need to change gears.
The US has been occupying the middle east since WWII to protect our "strategic" oil reserves. Robert Fisk chronicles this in detail in his 1400 page book "The Great War for Civilisation, The Conquest of the Middle East". The history of western powers sending armies to the middle east goes back much further. The British had a terrible time chronicled in the book "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk which goes back to the early 19th century. For some reason, the West just does not learn.
http://fpif.org/u-s-empire-bas... "Thirty-six years into the U.S. base build-up in the Greater Middle East, military force has failed as a strategy for controlling the region, no less defeating terrorist organizations."
It's not just Iraq. The US has bases in most middle east countries. It's our oil, after all and we need to protect it. http://fpif.org/u-s-empire-bas...
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Telecom industry is doing just fine (there is this thing called the internet and mobile phone/data telecoms) but if you are a legacy telecom supplier selling voice switches and landline phones then you should have seen the writing on the wall many years ago.
Reminds me of the farmer who had the same ax for 25 years. He'd replaced the handle 4 times and the head twice... but it was the same ax.
Yeah. Looks like it doesn't actually do anything to prevent damage but you can watch it to see how much voltage and current it actually takes to fry your device. How many people actually know what voltages are safe for each of their devices?
Also, why do they use the word "counterfeit"? I understand that some counterfeit devices could be defective and not follow the spec but others could meet the spec and be just fine. Also, some "genuine" devices might fry your device.
Better to just call devices that don't meet the spec "defective" and leave it at that.
Anyway... useless slashvertisement.
So how does it prevent my device from getting fried?
How does a monitor prevent a device from being destroyed?
So, how does this device prevent your device from being destroyed?
I always give service people a 10 (unless the service really sucked).
They have shitty jobs and the ratings are just another stick to make their lives miserable. I won't play that game. Hopefully they can get a better job some day.
Had the same pressure from an Audi salesman a few years ago. Told me I had to rate him a 10.
Well, I didn't because he gave me the usual car salesman sleazy misinformation/ scam dog and pony show as all car salesman are trained to do.
He was pissed.
Last car I bought was a Tesla. No scams. No pressure. Just helped me pick out the options. Best car buying experience ever. (No survey)
I've found that the Mercury Reader extension effectively removes ads and defeats the "Please unblock ads on our special site" message.
Are they working on an orangutan chimera? If so, I know a good place to start.
Yes.
Now the US is shut out of the "benefits" of the TPP and China gains the leadership position.
The TPP was deeply flawed but the flaws benefited the US greatly. Now they will benefit China.
Trump's complete lack of understanding of geopolitics and economy has led him to this first (of many) stupid decisions... (how's the wall coming along, bozo)
Yes.
Now China gets to assume the leadership role benefiting China rather than the US.
It was never about what is good for "the little people" but rather which a$$hole gets to be in charge and reaps the profits. China wins.
Trump kills TPP, giving China its first big win
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Economists have warned that many of Trump’s proposals — including suggestions that he would impose blanket double-digit tariffs on goods from Mexico and China — could backfire on the American economy by causing prices to rise or igniting a trade war,"
A retreat from the TPP now gives Beijing, which has been negotiating its own trade blocs, a chance to fill a void. Since Trump's election, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia have shifted toward China's proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which would also reduce tariffs — without many of the standards put in place by Obama's plan — and redirect Asian trade China's way. Other nations in the region are likely to follow suit.
Autopilot can be active at any time. It's especially good in heavy traffic. Works well on two lane roads as well as highways.
They compared accidents driving with AP ON vs AP OFF.
You can turn the autopilot on at any time. Divided highway or narrow two lane roads. It's especially good in traffic.
They do?
They compared crashes with autopilot on to crashes with autopilot off. Same car and driver. Car crashes. .. was autopilot on or off.
People often make the argument that some individual terrorist/liberation movements are "special" in that they are driven by a core ideology which is irrational and has no connection to the real world and that the only solution is to "nuke them".
Every liberation movement arises from an injustice which has the support of a broader group of people. ISIS would not be able to recruit anyone if it were just an irrational ideology. It draws from a large group of people who see some injustice. ISIS then magnifies and distorts that injustice to radicalize people to do all of the "irrational" actions.
If you look at all liberation movements, they have this same characteristic. Small conflicts gave rise to movements (here's a long list of liberation/terrorist movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). There are also larger movements such as the Nazis in Europe where a very large group of people were suffering economic injustice, chose a scapegoat and performed "irrational" atrocities on a large scale. The voters for Trump in the US were similar. They perceived economic injustice; Trump provided a few handy scapegoats (Mexicans, Chinese, etc.) and they made an irrational vote to elect a charlatan who promptly betrayed them.
It doesn't really matter that in each of these cases, the scapegoats were "innocent" and that there were other real causes of the injustice.
All of these movements can be countered by addressing the injustice. This will dry up the source of recruits and the popular support for the movement. Bombing only makes things worse.
However, often it will be difficult (or impossible) to address the underlying injustice. For instance, in the US, the neoliberal capitalist system which is creating economic injustice is so well entrenched that it will be extremely difficult to change. Similarly, the multiple complex injustices in the middle east are probably beyond the ability of anyone to address. That does not mean that bombing is the answer. Probably the best the US (and the West) can do is to try to remove themselves as a target by leaving the area and stop meddling in areas where we have no understanding or appreciation of the complex dynamics.
I believe that the DeVos schools are very expensive. They're just not any good.
We need DeVos Charter Schools to drag everyone down to the same level as our failed inner city schools.
Make America Dumb Again!
The Tesla "gearbox" is just a differential to connect the electric motor to the two drive shafts. There is no clutch. There is only one "gear".
The electric motor has nearly flat torque from 0 rpm up to 16,000 rpm so they don't need to change gears.
The US has been occupying the middle east since WWII to protect our "strategic" oil reserves. Robert Fisk chronicles this in detail in his 1400 page book "The Great War for Civilisation, The Conquest of the Middle East".
The history of western powers sending armies to the middle east goes back much further. The British had a terrible time chronicled in the book "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk which goes back to the early 19th century.
For some reason, the West just does not learn.
http://fpif.org/u-s-empire-bas...
"Thirty-six years into the U.S. base build-up in the Greater Middle East, military force has failed as a strategy for controlling the region, no less defeating terrorist organizations."
It's not just Iraq. The US has bases in most middle east countries.
It's our oil, after all and we need to protect it.
http://fpif.org/u-s-empire-bas...
So, nothing to do with all of the US troops and bases occupying their territory?