Riiiight. I think you forgot about the Mexicans from Venezuela that are caravanning to the border. That or whatever the scare tactic of the week is. I'm pretty sure they are all safe.
I would love FaceID on an MBP.
I would prefer 17" rather than 16", but I'll take every bit I can get.
So yes. There are some people who want these features.
Problem with this method is, putting them in your spam blocker is bad for you, not them. They use a random number every time. Since they don't use the same number again anyway, you've just blocked a potential legitimate caller in the future, and not them. Spammer's next call will be from a different number.
Your Problem is not solved. You've created another one for yourself in the future when you meet a new friend, or try to do business with someone else, and they are blocked and you don't even know it.
I agree with your sentiment, however, in this case, these two things are not mutually exclusive. "Farming" is not one thing. "Farming" consists of many processes bringing hundreds of type of products to market, and each of these product have multiple steps in getting it to market.
It is not unreasonable to automate picking of many crops and continuing to add more to this while still requiring manual labor for other more delicate crops.
By the way, plenty of Republican business owners also want the border open to get cheaper labor to improve their profit margins.
There's no such thing as "one man (or woman) can make everything everyone needs." Not even close, and there never will be. Your fantasy "thought experiment" is an excuse for the socialist redistribution of wealth.
But society not collapsing. The sky is not falling. And even if it was, some wealth redistribution scheme would not stop it.
You are naive and idealistic. The writing is on the wall. The gap between the haves and have nots is growing wider and wider. History shows clearly that if the haves don't share, the pitchforks come out and the have nots create some colossal failure like Communist China or Soviet Russia. Some of the haves are cleverly seeing now that the extra cost of some taxes could prevent them from losing everything. As the world increases automation and globalization increasingly moves the job markets to foreign lands, then the have nots will increasingly become more and more of the population and get less and less until the inevitable pitchforks come out. You just have your head in the sand.
Taking money from those with jobs and giving to those without jobs. Haven't we tried that?
Your misconception here is very common. UBI does not take money from workers and give it to non-workers. It takes money from workers and gives it to everyone, including the workers. The amount of money given is not enough for a person to live comfortably. Very few people would be content to eat nothing but plain boiled beans and rice or live in a dirty closet with no phone or internet or tv. The people who are willing to live like that would likely be homeless now anyway and living off of your taxes anyway. It doesn't discourage people from getting jobs, it instead makes them "safer", so that they are not stuck in a job they don't like. They can start their own business more safely. They will still need to work in order to have a non-miserable life.
UBI is one possible solution to this economic problem that is heading for us. This consortium is merely doing studies to see if it might work or not.
Honestly, you should probably open your mind and try out a larger phone.
I thought the same thing as you, and groused about it. When I got the larger version on an upgrade I found it hard to hold and use... for about 5 days. In 2 weeks, whenever I pick up my mothers smaller iPhone5, it seems to slip out of my hands. It's too small to use now!
Unfortunately, the smaller form factor is now a thing of the past (Android or Apple). Best to go ahead and get used to you new world.:)
He is talking about general republican citizens' attitude towards government ability, not the actual ability of the government agency or who order it. This has nothing to do with the original article, though.
Yes, you can do far more on other devices, but a lot of people will never do more, so it is not necessary. There are a lot of applications where a finger touch screen simply works better than a keyboard. Given a little bit of Voice-to-Text a lot of people would hardly ever need a keyboard.
In general, when most people take a trip or buy gas, they don't buy the number of gallons they need to make the trip of X length. The will just fill up their tank and drive until it is empty and fill it again.
The Gallons/100miles is more useful when purchasing a car, as that lets you know how many gallons of gasoline you will need to spend over the life of the car. MPG leads to increasingly unintuitive views on the amount of fuel you will use over time.
Why pick one? Would it not be easy to have a safety feature where you could select one of several color options based on color impairment?
That would allow the 90%+ of us who don't suffer from this disability to have full range of safety, while allowing you other guys the ability to have as good as you can get as well. And that would accommodate the peoples that are not red-green blind as well.
I agree, TechReport.com 's System guide is updated quarterly and they really do a good job pf putting together systems that work at several price points.
I don't own any Apple products personally,but certainly you guys are smart enough to see the appeal. Apple's stuff just works and allows people who don't care about how the backend works to do whatever they want to do. The kind of person who uses Apple products is never going to compile their own source or futz with making something work. Openness does them no good, at least not in any direct sense.
the 10-20kW satellite, is not the production satellite, that is the proof of concept satellite.
Geosyncronous orbit would not really be good for this concept, as it would have darkness for some hours per day. perhaps a Lagrange point would be better? (I'm don't know anything about how hard it would be to put stuff in a Lagrange point)
You could probably find frequencies that would minimize saftey problems, but it could ba a concern
Sorry dude, I have been reading gm-volt.com and several other fans site every day for around 2 years now. I'm interested in the technology.
I never said the marketing in general was a fiasco, but rather the marketing blitz around the 230 mpg thing was a fiasco. It *was* a fiasco, as it was a bad way to calculate the mpg, no one understood it and everyone thought it was misleading. All kinds of industry sites jumped on it negatively.
If the 230mpg marketing worked so well, then why was the national campaign pull in under 24 hours after it was unveiled? Why aren't we still seeing the ads now?
I apologize if you don't think that is a marketing fiasco. I will not however insult you out-of-hand and call your post a fail. I'm not that rude.
Many authors give the first couple of books in a series for free on Kindle (the first one's always free) in the hopes that you will purchase more.
I wanted to be clear, that "the first one is always free" was intended to be a humorous insert. I didn't mean that All authors give one for free. Only some do. I realized that I might have been misunderstood.
You will not get an argument from me if you say that e-books should be cheaper, but...
Speaking as someone who does buy hundreds of books, it does indeed save money over time. Your supposition of saving $1.60 per book is a worst case scenario. I buy lots of books as they are new releases in hardback, and I save $15-20 on those. Many authors give the first couple of books in a series for free on Kindle (the first one's always free) in the hopes that you will purchase more. Those obviously save the full $7.99. This doesn't even count the free public domain books that would still cost you $7 in paperback. Also it's good to note the http://www.baen.com/library/Baen Free Library for loads of free modern SciFi and Fantasy. All Authors and Publishers aren't super greedy.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/KeyMasterOfGozerMy physical library is at 642 books right now, but it hasn't increased much in the past year since I bought my Kindle. The Kindle is way more convenient for me when I travel, and yes, I've saved more money in books than I spent on the device.
My biggest complaint is that I can't share my books with a friend. If the price per book was cheaper, as you say, then it would be easier for them to give a book a try.
Reading a book scrolling is a much harder way to read compared to flipping pages. Besides, if your e-ink scrolled you would eat your battery up as fast as... well, as fast as an LCD.
Saying you will wait for e-ink to scroll before you try it is like saying you won't buy a car until they hover, fly and go 500MPH.
But, I guess that's your prerogative.
Incidentally, my spell checker made me investigate... I've always heard the word pronounced "perogative", not with an extra "r" in there, but I realize now that I've never seen the word written down. Odd. Anyone have any light to shed on that?
Be a little serious. You are not paying $500 for PDF support, you are paying for the huge e-ink display on the DX. PDFs are a fixed page-size format. This makes a PDF difficult technically to render on a smaller screen. Whereas, I agree that the release of the Nook lit a fire under Amazon to get software designed to make a PDF work on a small screen, I think it's pretty harsh to imply that "The Man was keeping you down" or something.
The deletion issue is something to be concerned about, for sure. But the one deletion issue that happened was not pro-Vendor at all. The Vendor in question sold a book he didn't have rights to sell and was canned for it. Amazon was pro-Amazon, not pro-Vendor. They didn't want to be fined or sued, so they un-did the illegal sale. That said, Amazon handled it badly. You can backup your Kindle (I do) in case they get antsy again. You are crazy if you think the Nook doesn't have the same protections in it for B&N.
The Kindle DX (which is the one you would want for larger books like RPG manuals) has always had PDF support. A patch was release 2 weeks ago that put PDF support into the Kindle 2 as well. My guess is that was a direct response to the Nook.
I realize I am being a Kindle fanboy today. I just use my Kindle everyday and enjoy it, so I was keeping the info out there for you guys.
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Riiiight. I think you forgot about the Mexicans from Venezuela that are caravanning to the border. That or whatever the scare tactic of the week is. I'm pretty sure they are all safe.
Exactly! We should also get rid of the other old rules, like the First Amendment and such.
I would love FaceID on an MBP. I would prefer 17" rather than 16", but I'll take every bit I can get. So yes. There are some people who want these features.
Problem with this method is, putting them in your spam blocker is bad for you, not them. They use a random number every time. Since they don't use the same number again anyway, you've just blocked a potential legitimate caller in the future, and not them. Spammer's next call will be from a different number.
Your Problem is not solved. You've created another one for yourself in the future when you meet a new friend, or try to do business with someone else, and they are blocked and you don't even know it.
I agree with your sentiment, however, in this case, these two things are not mutually exclusive. "Farming" is not one thing. "Farming" consists of many processes bringing hundreds of type of products to market, and each of these product have multiple steps in getting it to market.
It is not unreasonable to automate picking of many crops and continuing to add more to this while still requiring manual labor for other more delicate crops.
By the way, plenty of Republican business owners also want the border open to get cheaper labor to improve their profit margins.
There's no such thing as "one man (or woman) can make everything everyone needs." Not even close, and there never will be. Your fantasy "thought experiment" is an excuse for the socialist redistribution of wealth.
Whoooosh!
But society not collapsing. The sky is not falling.
And even if it was, some wealth redistribution scheme would not stop it.
You are naive and idealistic. The writing is on the wall. The gap between the haves and have nots is growing wider and wider. History shows clearly that if the haves don't share, the pitchforks come out and the have nots create some colossal failure like Communist China or Soviet Russia. Some of the haves are cleverly seeing now that the extra cost of some taxes could prevent them from losing everything. As the world increases automation and globalization increasingly moves the job markets to foreign lands, then the have nots will increasingly become more and more of the population and get less and less until the inevitable pitchforks come out. You just have your head in the sand.
Taking money from those with jobs and giving to those without jobs. Haven't we tried that?
Your misconception here is very common. UBI does not take money from workers and give it to non-workers. It takes money from workers and gives it to everyone, including the workers. The amount of money given is not enough for a person to live comfortably. Very few people would be content to eat nothing but plain boiled beans and rice or live in a dirty closet with no phone or internet or tv. The people who are willing to live like that would likely be homeless now anyway and living off of your taxes anyway. It doesn't discourage people from getting jobs, it instead makes them "safer", so that they are not stuck in a job they don't like. They can start their own business more safely. They will still need to work in order to have a non-miserable life.
UBI is one possible solution to this economic problem that is heading for us. This consortium is merely doing studies to see if it might work or not.
Honestly, you should probably open your mind and try out a larger phone.
I thought the same thing as you, and groused about it. When I got the larger version on an upgrade I found it hard to hold and use... for about 5 days. In 2 weeks, whenever I pick up my mothers smaller iPhone5, it seems to slip out of my hands. It's too small to use now!
Unfortunately, the smaller form factor is now a thing of the past (Android or Apple). Best to go ahead and get used to you new world. :)
He is talking about general republican citizens' attitude towards government ability, not the actual ability of the government agency or who order it. This has nothing to do with the original article, though.
Yes, you can do far more on other devices, but a lot of people will never do more, so it is not necessary. There are a lot of applications where a finger touch screen simply works better than a keyboard. Given a little bit of Voice-to-Text a lot of people would hardly ever need a keyboard.
Yes. Rosa Parks should have just gone to the back of the bus. That was the Rule.
So you are saying it would be cheaper to string copper wire across the ocean to transmit the power?
Would the Transmission Lines need to be literal?
Maybe you could use transmission lines to the Ocean, and use the power to store the energy as Hydrogen for piping or shipment to use for fuels cells?
Maybe the old Space array option of Microwave Satellite distribution?
In general, when most people take a trip or buy gas, they don't buy the number of gallons they need to make the trip of X length. The will just fill up their tank and drive until it is empty and fill it again.
The Gallons/100miles is more useful when purchasing a car, as that lets you know how many gallons of gasoline you will need to spend over the life of the car. MPG leads to increasingly unintuitive views on the amount of fuel you will use over time.
Why pick one? Would it not be easy to have a safety feature where you could select one of several color options based on color impairment?
That would allow the 90%+ of us who don't suffer from this disability to have full range of safety, while allowing you other guys the ability to have as good as you can get as well. And that would accommodate the peoples that are not red-green blind as well.
I agree, TechReport.com 's System guide is updated quarterly and they really do a good job pf putting together systems that work at several price points.
I don't own any Apple products personally,but certainly you guys are smart enough to see the appeal. Apple's stuff just works and allows people who don't care about how the backend works to do whatever they want to do. The kind of person who uses Apple products is never going to compile their own source or futz with making something work. Openness does them no good, at least not in any direct sense.
Sorry dude, I have been reading gm-volt.com and several other fans site every day for around 2 years now. I'm interested in the technology.
I never said the marketing in general was a fiasco, but rather the marketing blitz around the 230 mpg thing was a fiasco. It *was* a fiasco, as it was a bad way to calculate the mpg, no one understood it and everyone thought it was misleading. All kinds of industry sites jumped on it negatively.
If the 230mpg marketing worked so well, then why was the national campaign pull in under 24 hours after it was unveiled? Why aren't we still seeing the ads now?
I apologize if you don't think that is a marketing fiasco. I will not however insult you out-of-hand and call your post a fail. I'm not that rude.
Actually, GM *DIDN'T* come up with the 230 number, the EPA did. GM just turned it into a marketing fiasco.
I wanted to be clear, that "the first one is always free" was intended to be a humorous insert. I didn't mean that All authors give one for free. Only some do. I realized that I might have been misunderstood.
You will not get an argument from me if you say that e-books should be cheaper, but...
Speaking as someone who does buy hundreds of books, it does indeed save money over time. Your supposition of saving $1.60 per book is a worst case scenario. I buy lots of books as they are new releases in hardback, and I save $15-20 on those. Many authors give the first couple of books in a series for free on Kindle (the first one's always free) in the hopes that you will purchase more. Those obviously save the full $7.99. This doesn't even count the free public domain books that would still cost you $7 in paperback. Also it's good to note the http://www.baen.com/library/Baen Free Library for loads of free modern SciFi and Fantasy. All Authors and Publishers aren't super greedy.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/KeyMasterOfGozerMy physical library is at 642 books right now, but it hasn't increased much in the past year since I bought my Kindle. The Kindle is way more convenient for me when I travel, and yes, I've saved more money in books than I spent on the device.
My biggest complaint is that I can't share my books with a friend. If the price per book was cheaper, as you say, then it would be easier for them to give a book a try.
Reading a book scrolling is a much harder way to read compared to flipping pages. Besides, if your e-ink scrolled you would eat your battery up as fast as... well, as fast as an LCD.
Saying you will wait for e-ink to scroll before you try it is like saying you won't buy a car until they hover, fly and go 500MPH.
But, I guess that's your prerogative.
Incidentally, my spell checker made me investigate... I've always heard the word pronounced "perogative", not with an extra "r" in there, but I realize now that I've never seen the word written down. Odd. Anyone have any light to shed on that?
Be a little serious. You are not paying $500 for PDF support, you are paying for the huge e-ink display on the DX. PDFs are a fixed page-size format. This makes a PDF difficult technically to render on a smaller screen. Whereas, I agree that the release of the Nook lit a fire under Amazon to get software designed to make a PDF work on a small screen, I think it's pretty harsh to imply that "The Man was keeping you down" or something.
The deletion issue is something to be concerned about, for sure. But the one deletion issue that happened was not pro-Vendor at all. The Vendor in question sold a book he didn't have rights to sell and was canned for it. Amazon was pro-Amazon, not pro-Vendor. They didn't want to be fined or sued, so they un-did the illegal sale. That said, Amazon handled it badly. You can backup your Kindle (I do) in case they get antsy again. You are crazy if you think the Nook doesn't have the same protections in it for B&N.
The Kindle DX (which is the one you would want for larger books like RPG manuals) has always had PDF support. A patch was release 2 weeks ago that put PDF support into the Kindle 2 as well. My guess is that was a direct response to the Nook.
I realize I am being a Kindle fanboy today. I just use my Kindle everyday and enjoy it, so I was keeping the info out there for you guys.