Most tablets are nothing more than streaming devices. You want a more powerful tablet? Then build a monster PC at home connected to fiber optic and stream what it does to your tablet.
Tablets are not going to do any heavy lifting until they figure out a better battery tech in which to drive all that hardware you are lusting after.
If the employee is unwilling to work for less than produces he will be fired. Now the government steps in and sets a minimum wage fare about what they are worth. So guess what happens? He will be fired and replaced with either another person that does produce more than he is paid or will be replaced by a machine that produces more than it costs to operate.
You could say they could pay their executives far less so they could pay the workers more, but last time I checked the workers don't own the company. It would be like paying your kids a $25,000 a year allowance each, while only keeping a few thousand for yourself. If the workers want more pay, they either need to buy into the company or up their value, just like all the executives did.
If people want a basic income, they need to get off their ass and earn it. If there are no jobs that pay well enough, they need to move, get better training, or start their own business (or all three). If that doesn't work then they need to make themselves important enough to family and friends (community) that said family and friends are willing to support them. If that still doesn't work for them then they should starve and make room in the world for people who are worth having around.
You have no right to a basic income unless you earn it. Using the government to extract an unearned basic income is called theft.
Lol you won't have beach front property, that will be up in Ohio. Arizona just like most of the Midwest and the South West will be back where it belongs, under water. I am so looking forward to doing a wreck dive on the Arch.
A new poll just in: The majority of Millennials don't even know what Capitalism is, nor Socialism, nor Communism, nor the current system which is the rape love child of fascism(socialism/cronyism) and the beaten and battered remains of capitalism.
It's just like all the Millennials think they are some sort of socialist, right up until you play twenty questions with them and realize they are either some sort of libertarian or social liberal (classical liberal, not the low-calorie Nazis we have now) combined with chunks of conservatism.
" told BBC News the extra tree growth would not compensate for global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, ocean acidification, the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the prediction of more severe tropical storms
Let's see global warming.....hasn't happened, (rounding error differences are noise not a trend)
rising sea levels....has happened, but at such a rate that we will not be living in "Water World" anytime in say the next 500 years.
melting glaciers.....has happened, but that's what glaciers do, they melt, it's pretty cyclic and there is nothing crazy going on there. Hint if they don't melt that is really, really bad. Both for run off that feeds our waterways and the fact that if they are growing continuously means we are entering an other ice age, which means that most everyone north of the equator is going to starve/freeze to death.
ocean acidification.....completely bogus,.1pH and only at the surface, You know as in where the ocean stops being the ocean and turns into air. This isn't occurring at all depths and it's kind of necessary to things say like all the algae that makes something like 70-80% of the breathable air on planet Earth.
loss of sea ice...yep we lost it and it came back again and then some. This is what ice does. It forms and then it melts. If it keeps building up that is a very, very, very bad thing.
There is an element of truth to that, but at the same time the older work tends to get more done in 20 hours than the younger ones do in 60. Of course the reward of getting your work done is usually more work, but the older worker is less likely to put up with that sort of bullshit even with a big jump in pay.
Depends on what you are doing and how good you are at doing it.
Some places are run by people who just want a pool of young ass to pull from or easily intimidated people to boss around. So unless you are the flavor they like and in your early twenties you are not going to get hired. Nor would probably want to work at that company.
After leaving the military the only ageism I get is "you want a job?! Oh thank God I don't have to deal with another fucktard kid that can't bother to show up on time, dress and look professional, follow instructions, and follow up on taskers. Yes oh yes please come work for me."
If you are competent and look the role (not as a dusty over weight fart) you will have no shortage of employment, doesn't matter how old you are.
Using lot's of thermometers to measure temperature is a great way to increase precision and overcome the errors in your methods, shoddy equipment, lazy grad students, dishonest scientists, but this only works if they are all in the same location. Using thousands of thermometers scattered around the country/world does not increase your precision in that sense. It does give you data points to come up with an overall average, but they don't just average all the values together, they make models that give different weights to different measurements to make a "more accurate" reading.
In other worlds they change the values to what they think they should read. That does not actually increase accuracy at all. Only better equipment and/or tighter control on the variables will increase accuracy.
This is why I just roll my eyes when other cult of the climate spouts off sound bite numbers that are supposed to convince me that the sky is falling.
If they wanted a really good accurate picture of what is going on they need to park say a dozen satellites pretty far out and use those to measure the global average or vastly increase the number of automated land based sensors. I'd be more inclined to believe the results if there were thousands installed per every major population center to up the precision of their measurements. As it is now I see a lot of the conveniently place ones around Tampa are put in some pretty stupid locations that can't be giving accurate results. Under trees, right next to the road, where buildings can shade them for part of the day, etc.
A $10 WiFi linked weather sensor would be just the trick, then we could have millions of them installed globally and get better data to develop modeling that is half the worth of a turd.
"You're just wrong" is not an argument. Neither is your "the last 6 months were the hottest on record". That one has been bandied around for the better part of 10 years and without context means absolutely nothing.
Compared to what? By how much. A 1/10 of a degree, that is barely big enough to even be a rounding error, especially with the older recorded temperatures.
Again most articles like to compare the months to the 20th century average, which again is totally meaningless.
For example. We have two days the first is 0 degrees and the 2nd is 100 degrees. The average being 50. Now the 3td day is 75 degrees. Compared to the average we see a 25 degree increase even though the temperature actually dropped by 25 degrees. Depending on which day you compare it to you can show either.
That is a very simple example, but it holds true even with temperatures that are very close together.
Give me a whole slew of days and by picking my data sets I can still show you heating or cool vs. the average on the exact same day.
Now the various weather sciences have been recording temperatures since 1880 in the US. This is where the 20th century average comes from. Even if you compared it all on the same day at the same location you'd still come up with a wide range of numbers. Not all methods are equal. Older methods required people to be reliable and honest with their recordings. Did Bob the Scientist honestly record his numbers at the same time every day or did he screw off and just estimate now and then? Modern day issues have been temperature sensor placement and maintenance of said systems. In many cases both have been pretty poor.
The only time averages get interesting is when there is a very deep set of data points. 100 years is NOT a deep set of data points. The physical locations and environmental conditions on Earth are not static they vary a lot from year to year for millennia. Those kinds of variables do not make for accurate science.
Being hotter than the AVERAGE does NOT make it the hottest on record. It makes it above the average which means.........absolutely nothing. Now if all the days for the next say 2 years are above the average then that might begin to be interesting, but still might not mean anything statistically.
There needs to be an IQ and educational requirement to be a journalist. (Higher than the very minimal one required now.)
The only thing I ditched was cable. I am more likely to ditch my phone service or drop it to a bare bones plan than I am to get rid of my FIOS. I can operate at home, at school, at work, and most places in town off of WiFi with the phone.
If you are gaming, doing school, have kids, like to get your downloads in seconds/minutes, do heavy uploading, and watch a lot of movies you are not going to use a phone to do it.
Tethering to the phone works just fine, but is not robust enough to support everything going on at home.
If I was always on the go and never home, sure the internet would get dropped, but that's not the case.
The problem of homelessness is exacerbated by the extinction of large predators in North America, before that time there was no such thing as the homeless.
While that sounds bazar, essentially natural selection has been removed from our environment and now you are seeing the pile up of people near the edge of being unfit to survive lingering on due to social conditions. Even a hundred years ago things like starvation, exposure, and disease cleared out these groups of people on a regular basis. Now more people are crushed to death by soda machines than starve to death in the US.
The question now is what do we do with them (The chronic homeless)? Temporary homelessness is a different creature that is caused by a combination of poor decision making and simple bad luck on the individual's part compounded by asinine code and zoning rules made by city, county, and state governments that causes shortages of housing. Do we pour resources on a problem that will only grow if we do so? Do we let them be and have to step over bodies in the streets and have to shoot crack heads coming into our homes? Do we reintroduce large predators canine and feline species into our cities or take the dystopia approach and round up people soylent green style with large scooper garbage trucks? Go back to the early 1900's and force them into mental institutions. Go back even farther to the 1700-1800s and dump them off in a convenient 3rd world country? Continue on with our modern solution of prisons, shelters, and vagrants. Do we meet some place in the middle by offering them treatment, food, and shelter in exchange for sterilizing them?
Frankly until some sort of real solution is chosen this is going to linger on forever.
This sounds more like the potential for an interesting moisture sensor rather than as a new source for bulk electricity.
A thin layer of grapheme, cheap to print onto throw away limited use sensors has plenty of valuable applications.
So now when you lose your phone, you will have no money, no way to get into your car, have no idea where you are (GPS/map) and no ability to contact someone you can help because you have no clue what anyone's phone numbers are any more, and then on top of that just hand Volvo the key to everything about you since it's a godamn app on your phone and of course would need access to everything, just because.
How about not only no, but go fuck a goat Volvo no.
I for one do not buy into this whole my car is a smart phone bullshit. My car is a car. With a very strong emphasis on the world "MY". If it get's to the point where that is not that case anymore then I'll just drive my old beast until it rusts out from underneath me and give a double middle finger to the car companies on ever buying another.
When they had their convention here in Tampa last time around and they tried to say that no one could carry in the public areas around their convention, they were told correctly to fuck off.
The only "guns" there were restricted were super soakers filled with cat piss and other various fluids taken from protesters.
As far as the arenas. States still seem to think people get a little too nuts drinking beer and watching sporting events to have firearms at the same time. The only rule down here in Florida that let's them get around that is that the government owned building has to provide armed security if they are going to restrict private carry, so you can actually carry in most government offices since they don't provide security services.
Personally I'd like to see them put their money where their mouth is and let everyone carry.
I don't think anyone is going to assassinate the candidates, but their might be more than a few idiot protestors that will get shot as well as a few of the mouth breathers on the pro-side.
I used to think that, but the WiFi they have around (3rd time college student, I'm older than most of my teachers) here on the USF campus seems to work very well. As long as you are in or near a building you can connect quickly and get a decent rate of bandwidth. The library is the only place that seems to have problems, but that is 6 floors of students studying along with hundreds if not thousands walking by between classes, each with 2-3 devices on their person. The network gear must pretty insane to hand that kind of loading.
Certainly beats the gear they had while I was deployed for the Air Force that would just collapse from even a modest load of a hundred people in the area.
Around the house I only use wifi for portable devices. Anything that sits in a permanent spot gets its own network cable.
Yes I agree too much sexism. They need to hire men based on their looks to walk around doing nothing but looking good and talking. Instead of forcing them to seek employment based on their competence at the job and brains.
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Tablets are not going to do any heavy lifting until they figure out a better battery tech in which to drive all that hardware you are lusting after.
You are confused. The police shoot criminals, not hit them with baseball bats.
You could say they could pay their executives far less so they could pay the workers more, but last time I checked the workers don't own the company. It would be like paying your kids a $25,000 a year allowance each, while only keeping a few thousand for yourself. If the workers want more pay, they either need to buy into the company or up their value, just like all the executives did.
You have no right to a basic income unless you earn it. Using the government to extract an unearned basic income is called theft.
Lol you won't have beach front property, that will be up in Ohio. Arizona just like most of the Midwest and the South West will be back where it belongs, under water. I am so looking forward to doing a wreck dive on the Arch.
It's just like all the Millennials think they are some sort of socialist, right up until you play twenty questions with them and realize they are either some sort of libertarian or social liberal (classical liberal, not the low-calorie Nazis we have now) combined with chunks of conservatism.
http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/c...
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...
Let's see global warming.....hasn't happened, (rounding error differences are noise not a trend) .1pH and only at the surface, You know as in where the ocean stops being the ocean and turns into air. This isn't occurring at all depths and it's kind of necessary to things say like all the algae that makes something like 70-80% of the breathable air on planet Earth.
rising sea levels....has happened, but at such a rate that we will not be living in "Water World" anytime in say the next 500 years.
melting glaciers.....has happened, but that's what glaciers do, they melt, it's pretty cyclic and there is nothing crazy going on there. Hint if they don't melt that is really, really bad. Both for run off that feeds our waterways and the fact that if they are growing continuously means we are entering an other ice age, which means that most everyone north of the equator is going to starve/freeze to death.
ocean acidification.....completely bogus,
loss of sea ice...yep we lost it and it came back again and then some. This is what ice does. It forms and then it melts. If it keeps building up that is a very, very, very bad thing.
There is an element of truth to that, but at the same time the older work tends to get more done in 20 hours than the younger ones do in 60. Of course the reward of getting your work done is usually more work, but the older worker is less likely to put up with that sort of bullshit even with a big jump in pay.
Some places are run by people who just want a pool of young ass to pull from or easily intimidated people to boss around. So unless you are the flavor they like and in your early twenties you are not going to get hired. Nor would probably want to work at that company.
After leaving the military the only ageism I get is "you want a job?! Oh thank God I don't have to deal with another fucktard kid that can't bother to show up on time, dress and look professional, follow instructions, and follow up on taskers. Yes oh yes please come work for me."
If you are competent and look the role (not as a dusty over weight fart) you will have no shortage of employment, doesn't matter how old you are.
In other worlds they change the values to what they think they should read. That does not actually increase accuracy at all. Only better equipment and/or tighter control on the variables will increase accuracy.
This is why I just roll my eyes when other cult of the climate spouts off sound bite numbers that are supposed to convince me that the sky is falling.
If they wanted a really good accurate picture of what is going on they need to park say a dozen satellites pretty far out and use those to measure the global average or vastly increase the number of automated land based sensors. I'd be more inclined to believe the results if there were thousands installed per every major population center to up the precision of their measurements. As it is now I see a lot of the conveniently place ones around Tampa are put in some pretty stupid locations that can't be giving accurate results. Under trees, right next to the road, where buildings can shade them for part of the day, etc.
A $10 WiFi linked weather sensor would be just the trick, then we could have millions of them installed globally and get better data to develop modeling that is half the worth of a turd.
Compared to what? By how much. A 1/10 of a degree, that is barely big enough to even be a rounding error, especially with the older recorded temperatures.
Again most articles like to compare the months to the 20th century average, which again is totally meaningless.
For example. We have two days the first is 0 degrees and the 2nd is 100 degrees. The average being 50. Now the 3td day is 75 degrees. Compared to the average we see a 25 degree increase even though the temperature actually dropped by 25 degrees. Depending on which day you compare it to you can show either.
That is a very simple example, but it holds true even with temperatures that are very close together.
Give me a whole slew of days and by picking my data sets I can still show you heating or cool vs. the average on the exact same day. Now the various weather sciences have been recording temperatures since 1880 in the US. This is where the 20th century average comes from. Even if you compared it all on the same day at the same location you'd still come up with a wide range of numbers. Not all methods are equal. Older methods required people to be reliable and honest with their recordings. Did Bob the Scientist honestly record his numbers at the same time every day or did he screw off and just estimate now and then? Modern day issues have been temperature sensor placement and maintenance of said systems. In many cases both have been pretty poor.
The only time averages get interesting is when there is a very deep set of data points. 100 years is NOT a deep set of data points. The physical locations and environmental conditions on Earth are not static they vary a lot from year to year for millennia. Those kinds of variables do not make for accurate science.
Face palm.
Being hotter than the AVERAGE does NOT make it the hottest on record. It makes it above the average which means.........absolutely nothing. Now if all the days for the next say 2 years are above the average then that might begin to be interesting, but still might not mean anything statistically.
There needs to be an IQ and educational requirement to be a journalist. (Higher than the very minimal one required now.)
If you are gaming, doing school, have kids, like to get your downloads in seconds/minutes, do heavy uploading, and watch a lot of movies you are not going to use a phone to do it.
Tethering to the phone works just fine, but is not robust enough to support everything going on at home.
If I was always on the go and never home, sure the internet would get dropped, but that's not the case.
While that sounds bazar, essentially natural selection has been removed from our environment and now you are seeing the pile up of people near the edge of being unfit to survive lingering on due to social conditions. Even a hundred years ago things like starvation, exposure, and disease cleared out these groups of people on a regular basis. Now more people are crushed to death by soda machines than starve to death in the US.
The question now is what do we do with them (The chronic homeless)? Temporary homelessness is a different creature that is caused by a combination of poor decision making and simple bad luck on the individual's part compounded by asinine code and zoning rules made by city, county, and state governments that causes shortages of housing. Do we pour resources on a problem that will only grow if we do so? Do we let them be and have to step over bodies in the streets and have to shoot crack heads coming into our homes? Do we reintroduce large predators canine and feline species into our cities or take the dystopia approach and round up people soylent green style with large scooper garbage trucks? Go back to the early 1900's and force them into mental institutions. Go back even farther to the 1700-1800s and dump them off in a convenient 3rd world country? Continue on with our modern solution of prisons, shelters, and vagrants. Do we meet some place in the middle by offering them treatment, food, and shelter in exchange for sterilizing them?
Frankly until some sort of real solution is chosen this is going to linger on forever.
Population: " OH NO!! WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?"
Scientists/Politicians " WE JUST NEED LOTS OF YOUR MONEY AND FREEDOM."
Population: "..........uh how about no."
Scientists/Politicians: "WE ARE ALL DOOMED EVERYTHING IS GOING TO GOTO HELL"
Population: "Fuck off"
Twenty years later
Scientists/Politicians: "WE HAVE A NEW PROBLEM!!!!!!!"
Population: "WHAT'S WRONG!!!???"
Scientists/Politicians: "IT'S TOTALLY NEW PROBLEM...cough...cough that's just like the old one that nothing ever came of cough...cough"
Population".................let me guess all you need is my money and freedom"
Scientist/Politicians "YES HOW DID YOU KNOW?"
Population "Fuck off".
Twenty Years later.......
This sounds more like the potential for an interesting moisture sensor rather than as a new source for bulk electricity. A thin layer of grapheme, cheap to print onto throw away limited use sensors has plenty of valuable applications.
So now when you lose your phone, you will have no money, no way to get into your car, have no idea where you are (GPS/map) and no ability to contact someone you can help because you have no clue what anyone's phone numbers are any more, and then on top of that just hand Volvo the key to everything about you since it's a godamn app on your phone and of course would need access to everything, just because.
How about not only no, but go fuck a goat Volvo no.
I for one do not buy into this whole my car is a smart phone bullshit. My car is a car. With a very strong emphasis on the world "MY". If it get's to the point where that is not that case anymore then I'll just drive my old beast until it rusts out from underneath me and give a double middle finger to the car companies on ever buying another.
The only "guns" there were restricted were super soakers filled with cat piss and other various fluids taken from protesters.
As far as the arenas. States still seem to think people get a little too nuts drinking beer and watching sporting events to have firearms at the same time. The only rule down here in Florida that let's them get around that is that the government owned building has to provide armed security if they are going to restrict private carry, so you can actually carry in most government offices since they don't provide security services.
Personally I'd like to see them put their money where their mouth is and let everyone carry.
I don't think anyone is going to assassinate the candidates, but their might be more than a few idiot protestors that will get shot as well as a few of the mouth breathers on the pro-side.
Yes. No need to build special storage facilities for the waste when there are places like Detroit to dump it.
If drug dealers, and people smugglers, and terrorists are such a problem then stop pussy footing around and just kill them all.
If not then fuck off you bunch of control freaks. People like you should have been smothered in the crib.
Certainly beats the gear they had while I was deployed for the Air Force that would just collapse from even a modest load of a hundred people in the area.
Around the house I only use wifi for portable devices. Anything that sits in a permanent spot gets its own network cable.
Nope.
Yes I agree too much sexism. They need to hire men based on their looks to walk around doing nothing but looking good and talking. Instead of forcing them to seek employment based on their competence at the job and brains.
Bus 1hr 5 minutes. Riding the bus, not only do I have to pay, I have to travel based on their schedule which is completely inconvient.
It would be better use of my time and money to just to walk or bike. My fat ass could use the excercise anyway.
Other reasons not to ride the bus:
Poor/crazy people. There is no shortage of them near college campuses.
The bus is typically pretty gross.