I'm giving up moderating hoping to wake some people up.
1) Nuclear power takes 10+ years to build. This is fact not some next gen "in 5 years" magical nuclear power which can go from permit to power in a year. By the time they build nuclear power, the coal plants will have been running too long. Global warming has time limits... which we probably passed already (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize how much we are screwed.)
2) Solar is cheaper than nuclear, has been for years now. Wind I believe did or will soon.
3) Nuclear is HEAVILY subsidized by government, it's totally dishonest. If you subsidized solar and wind that much they'd be so much cheaper it would be funny to look at anything else. (coal is subsidized too; even with automation killing about half their jobs natural gas is the main reason they can't compete and I don't think natural gas is subsidized as much as coal.)
4) Base power issues are almost solvable with an upgraded GRID. the transition process might take 10 years (depending on our motivation if we acted like this was WW3 it would be done in no time.) Natural Gas can fill the gap.
5) Battery storage is a new market. It is moving quickly. We could move to storage right now at higher prices-- we don't need to WAIT for the perfect solution-- which is a common trick used to delay progress. The time and cost wasted on nuclear can be put into battery storage power. If we are SERIOUS we can take the added expense on, it's pure BS to say we can't do something right now.
6) Nuclear regulation is poor and less of it won't help; more of it likely won't help either since it's just more of the same incompetence. They only people who seem capable of managing nuclear properly is our military. The worries about it being safe are totally justified. Sure newer stuff is better, the newest things actually being done NOW are way better but are they as safe as our growing incompetence? I think that is hard to predict... Maybe the "in 5 years" tech will be that safe but it's going to take too long to implement even with a faster build process because it's new tech that won't be proven for maybe the 10 years a conventional nuclear plant would take to build.
7) too many people. most problems are a result of too many people in the world. that is the topic that never gets discussed. we will have 10 billion people not long from now unless a bunch die off. (many years ago now everybody needed was born-- they will have kids at projected rates and that gives us 10 billion. known. already. trends have to drastically change for the basic stats to not be proven true.)
Nutrition labels on food were heavily fought by industry but that was the past when corruption (regulatory capture) was not as bad as it has been in recent decades.
Today, food labels wouldn't be implemented at all. Voluntary industry marketing labels on some products is all one would have. If it was passed in the 90s, we would have something like Energy Star where industry does it without punishment or oversight and the labels would be as inaccurate and unregulated as Energy Star is.
Do keep in mind that VW just was punished in a significant way (mostly because they are foreign) for cheating on recent regulations. So these things are not entirely useless.
I'm sure Energy Star doesn't cost that much; it is mostly an excuse to KILL it. Just like defunding PBS saves less than a pentagon rounding error. Hell, the Star Wars Program is STILL being funded (under less stupid names) and STILL doesn't work and costs about 50billion which is about the same amount Trump is asking to increase military spending.
What makes you think the Republicans haven't been hacked? It is up to the hackers.
Podesta probably wouldn't be known by most readers here if his email had not been hacked. Somebody had to target an operative with poor security.
Russia probably was into many systems, as were other groups. Could be a Bernie supporter who was more anti-establishment did nothing and now fears getting involved.
All presidents are encumbered; our system is designed to do that. Trump has had it easier than previous presidents with his party in control of just about everything; including strong support from police and won thanks to the FBI (and just about anything else given how thin the victory was.) Before you say the Supreme Court does not count realize that the court rarely responds to anything quickly and by the time most anything reaches them he already has appointed his party control over it.
Trumps problems largely have been of his own creation; not a result of the opposition. He has had less trouble picking people and they hype what they can but he's not even picked people to even be attacked at a normal pace. So that too his his fault.
Trumps "slow down" is completely his own fault. He isn't a black man who actually was blocked at every turn and filibustered more than anybody in history.
Tesla co-founder. Perhaps they are working together? I don't know why Tesla would try to recreate what their co-founder is already doing -- why not work with them? Old grudges? Planning on merging and the deal fell flat?
Ignoring MS history, their Internet Explorer:Edge is at the "edge" of supporting many standards and probably far from supporting as many as the other browsers meaning it does far less work. Besides their advantageous knowledge of their own OS and not needing any portable cross platform code... such as being able to decode video playback thru their OS in ways the others may not do.
I frankly don't care, I will never go back to a corporate controlled browser and support that nightmare again... Including google - it's only a matter of time before they get worse and abuse their dominance. Some people think google's turned towards the dark side already. Boards of directors are not permanent.
Primitive Voting promotes 2 party rule. The single biggest fix one can make is to put in a modern voting system which allows more than 2 parties to get access to power (and by modern I do not mean electronic!) Divide up the duopoly control over the system.
That is just 1 big thing; there are so many other problems wrong in the system (and the citizens) no single thing will fix it. The American Empire is falling after such a short run; I never read about one that turned it around.
Golf is elitist (expensive; often exclusive,) it is not racist.
Golf is not a sport - it is an evolved version of playing fetch with your dog.... except it is for 1. Usually, it is played in parallel with others so you can socialize while you all go fetch your balls. Actually, it is popular as a disguise for ass kissing.
Be the best PC tower (people used to buy MacBook Pros to run windows because they were good laptops.)
Rack mountable (pro desks have rack mounts) + angle brackets so it could be screwed to the bottom of a normal desk. Two standard 5.25" bays which could be rotated 90 (try using a DVD drive sideways, it's a pain) Keep the wind tunnel of fans which keeps it more quiet than any PC tower. Lose HD bays. Have MANY SSD slots instead. HD: Use the two 5.25 bays if it matters to you... put some screw mounts in clever ways and you could cram 3-4 HDs in that same space. Sell fancy front plates-- for USB, memory readers, etc. snap into that 5.25 bay. Figure out how to cram a few below a DVD drive face plate. Removable back plate (motherboard upgrades? seems impossible... they want you to buy a new system and keep using the old one? why not discourage old macs by promoting hardware upgrades? that would be "brave" new thinking!) The G4 tower case was one of the best; the flip out made it really nice to work with. They should combine the two.
The reasoning is that SSD storage has a better checksum system already in the hardware. I've not heard of bit rot problems with SSD-- just the things up and dying instantly and completely failing. SSD by design levels out the usage over the whole storage space while checking which seems to be a good thing.
Encrypted or compressed files amplify the damage done... APFS's heavy encryption support makes me feel better in that single bit errors will be better noticed.
I've experienced bit rot on HDs; detected and not detected... with mirrored raid. Even so, there is a small chance the rot will go undetected even with checksums - a chance which becomes less impossible as the amount of data rises - I've experienced undetected bit rot that passed the checking and also made it into backups as rsync detected the change with it's checksum and replaced the healthy backup (something I now use to scan for bit rot-- but figuring out which file is the bad one is another problem.)
Active scanning and checking seems to be the best protection IMHO; something which could be done better outside the FS. It would also seem that access to checksum failures would allow one to figure out if the backup failed or the source file; something I've not figured out yet (anybody? any unix commands allow access to the underlying FS information?)
Apple has become the computer version of anorexic.
I have fixed many Magsafe problems. It is mostly the lousy CABLE they use which can't handle normal long term use... it's like they designed it to not last over 5 years which was a long time for a computer over a decade ago. The adapters before that time often were weak as well but we didn't heavily use a macbook from 2000 to 2010.
The magsafe connector itself has some minor issues with age but I still feel it is worth it and not that difficult to clean.
I think they went with a softer weaker plastic to keep the connector from bumping out with a twist of the cable. Which might be more annoying... the least they could do is make it removable from the power brick so it can be replaced.
It is not a matter of diversity itself as much as having common threads shared by all which bind the society together enough to properly function. That has been lost and community does not exist anymore. I do not even know what it is because I had no exposure to it - only what I was told about and some tried to create and / or save.
We went TOO far fighting against the evils of conformity and uniformity of the 50s-60s but the fight was necessary. It just went too far.
While local communities and parents HAD more input into education in the past, there was a lot of uniformity in other ways. Uniform public education is a safe way to create common threads --- even the private schools were more uniform in the past (despite marketing to justify the added expense.) Every child; ethics used to be taught; civics used to be taught to everybody; the constitution actually studied instead of a little history around it and memorize the preamble. Everybody should read 1984 too. Certain books at certain grades for EVERBODY even private schools. Other counties doing better do this. Hell, some force kids to read books over the summer-- classical books. We used to ALLOW children to fail now we screw up the whole system because of them... parents are getting too much input ; the WRONG kind of input. Parents who neglect their kids in the important ways are right there to demand and blame the schools and force changes that make everything worse. In the past parents were involved differently with education but had to accept their brat was failing and take some responsibility... maybe actually punish the kid. Parenting of kids is the BIGGEST influence and that isn't done much today in between both parents working. "Success" also means different things today as well. If we as a society valued community if we could figure out what that even is.... we would consider success as including a common experience in education. So everybody had the basics.... but even that is a problem today where basic facts and reality can't even be shared in common.
- ZONING - we don't have diversity in our communities. A small town had drunks, poor, rich, etc. they would interact to some degree -- sure racial boundaries were stronger but you still had communities within those boundaries. Now we don't even have a community within the groups we identify with.
-LAWYERS - it should be as shameful as a prostitute and as likely to be elected to office.
REALITY: WE CAN NOT GROW FOREVER. Human intelligence has severe limitations we dare not admit. Resources are limited. You can not birth your way to success. Necessary jobs are extremely limited; that is why we created consumerism and promote fashion and those too are limited (at best growth until resource limits are reached, some are logically capped, such as popular art.) A.I. will eventually remove ALL necessary jobs, but far before that point it will remove most jobs. A.I. will also remove the need for cheap labor; so the idea of a large peasant class is out dated; they will need to be culled significantly. (I don't think nice solutions to this will prevail when sociopaths are so well rewarded in our societies.)
States are weak; given enough time and/or corporate opposition states can be overpowered. Huge multi-state corporations like our ISP monopoly or duopoly powers have more influence than they do at a federal level. This is why local public community ISPs are illegal in some states where the rights of communities are infringed upon.
RIGHT TO REPAIR has been showing just how powerless states are even when their overly represented rural citizens are worked up. Right to repair didn't matter enough until John Deer started fucking over farmers.
It is stupid to think that only one party wants more federal power. Both parties resort to federal power when necessary to achieve their goals. It can be argued the liberals resort to it MORE because their issues are more often social justice issues; therefore, they are about human rights and those belong as far reaching as possible (even if you do not recognize those rights; then such localization talk is just a really opposition tactic to limit the scope of such rights -- such as free speech zones...)
Think Tanks are almost entirely purposed with creating biased academic like support for propaganda purposes. They do not seek truth, only as much truth that supports their paid positions and maybe invent clever fake science to undermine confuse actual science -- smoking is actually good for you! Some people they hire are honest but believe in the same things and if that changes they are fired. Others are just intellectual whores who sell their minds out for money, arguably worse than a whore.
Think Tanks owe their huge numbers to the Vietnam era where the elite and their corporations realized the power of academic institutions to influence public policy with troublesome facts, cogent arguments, and tenure protected free speech. An effort was put together to counter the mostly selfless honest intelligent free speech and a Nixon man led the charge in a warped paranoid view only a religious zealot could have.
A professor somewhere should get news time even more for a group of them but a think tank shouldn't get anymore attention than corporate spokes person... and they get too much attention already.
My TV's Netflix app simply wraps a customized browser loading a local web app which uses ajax to talk with netflix. Then they used some sort of browser plug in or modification to get to whatever video library the device supported.
Why wouldn't netflix use a similar approach for all it's apps from toaster to xbox??
You can make a local web app that would fool almost anybody with a properly customized browser (using local OS library means it wouldn't take much ram since it's likely loaded anyhow.)
Less development and support related issues; every device has some working browser library and video decoder if hardware support is available.
The public and the press failing to defend against lawyer politicians exploiting and creating loopholes may never be able to protect it 100%. As far as T bonds... the only more stable thing I can think of is gold... and they USED to be almost as good as gold before Nixon. What else can they do with excess funds they need to save? We have an inflation based system, they can't just dump dollars into a vault! Using it to help support the monetary system arguably makes it more secure in helping prop up a system that if it failed would make things extremely difficult for S.S.A. I can see the argument.
The fact remains that it is not liability, it is not part of the normal budget. Most the money is paid out not saved and as the Social Security Admin letters you get from time to time in the mail point out in simple terms--- the payout will go down if there are not enough funds coming in. So mismanagement results in people getting 70% or whatever lower amount in X years. A decrease in population would ALSO result in similar situations.
Social Security was designed to keep the elderly and unemployable out of poverty - that is the civilized and moral thing to do. You can fight over how much above that or how to define that all you want. Which is done--- the upper middle class and wealthy do not want to pay their fair share so we spend all our debates fighting over everything else. A lot of people think it is supposed to support their lifestyle. We also never set things pegged on inflation in the law... or cost of living... which would kill most issues off-- everything would be automatic and some minor variations could just be ignored without "fixing" but then perfection is often the enemy of good... politicians would constantly be trying to ruin a good thing under the excuse it's not perfect.
Social Security is NOT a liability it is self funded. It is separate and NOT hidden and not budgeted. You risk harm to it by misleading people to think it is a budget item. Medicare and Medicad are knock off programs which are not as well designed or protected but still are not normal budget items.
Separate taxes fund those programs and they go up or down based upon what the public puts into them. Not borrowed money. Social Security can never go bankrupt by design, it simply has less money to work with and goes down. If morons like the parent poster believe the lies they'll let crazy schemes to borrow against such programs or schemes to STEAL from them. Medicare and Medicad have suffered instead of improved to be more like social security and they should never be allowed to be morphed into anything like the failed spending process the rest of the government uses.
The whole monetary system we have as a big ponzi scheme; the debt isn't that big of a deal when the whole world system is huuuge a mess. Limiting factors on endless growth are beginning to impact our systems and fundamental changes will have to be made to any kind of system to adapt.
If you want to help medicad and medicare, you'd be addressing problems OUTSIDE of those programs because they are not the cause of the problems. Problems which impact our EXPENSIVE private health insurance too.
I'm an American, I've seen how little reason there is and how public discourse has eroded into total pointlessness beginning with the 80, maybe before that...
The psychological definitions which have been around for decades are not even remotely used in the law. The legal definitions are ignorant at best, every man is a pedophile according to US law. Since human sexuality is based upon fertility not age, as soon as a child passes puberty nature indicates adulthood has arrived; this clashes with cultural beliefs (which changed themselves over time... and we only think the last 50 years was "the way always has been.")
Science has been showing and will only get closer to proving that pedophiles are BORN. It's a natural defect just like homosexuality. Furthermore, evidence shows that pedophiles simply have a lower threshold of attraction, they are still into adults. They do not go rape adults anymore than normal - but if they are going to one would assume that they would prefer an easier target. It is not P.C. these days but that is actual reality and eventually science will beat back the SJW. We can not even have a discussion of science in this country - it changes entirely how one views the problem and even if we could get people educated, the public discourse is idiotic just dealing with easy problems. Reality has a way of messing with your ignorant beliefs and people need to toughen up more.
The inability to control one's impulses should be considered an illness (in the most extreme it is.) Rapists must be included. Not a crime; but insanity where "can do harm to themselves or others" is the reason we put them into hospitals in the civilized world (not the USA, we put them in jail with sane people.) If you can't cure a rapist (of adults or children or animals) then they can't be allowed out in society. It is that simple, no need to make distinctions between victims. Sure you lose the comfort of feeling righteous for punishing evil in god's name (which is a form of blasphemy, BTW) but you can feel safer knowing those sick people will not be released having learned better how to not get caught next time.
WikiLeaks became the news before, on purpose with the intent to DISTRACT and change the conversations to the messengers instead of the messages. On top of that to send a signal to any future leakers or publishers or press.
WikiLeaks worked with 3 serious news organizations with their big leak before that got all the news and all we heard was attacks on Wikileaks and Manning. Discussing the act of leaking and punishment etc, purposely to take away from discussing the leaks themselves. The information itself when known justifies the leaking of it; so the goal is to avoid it and focus on imagined damages etc and attribution of BLAME to the wrong groups of people.
We hardly hear about Smith these days because he had many parts to his working capitalism which are NOT allowed today ironically in the name of capitalism! Smith also had an idea for negative taxes...
You can't have government prevent monopoly power without keeping capital small enough to restrain it from corrupting and subverting government!
Today, individuals can subvert government as well as many more corporations.
Despite a history in the USA of weak corporations, a subsidized press around 3% of GDP (yes both existed before Lincoln) and a wealthy income tax of 90%. As those measures were lost the nation started it's downfall costing upon past successes. Now we are losing momentum and the idiot masses are building a wall ignoring that the majority of lost middle class jobs are due to pre-A.I. automation with 3rd world labor only delaying that automation by a short time period.
The ONLY reason this happened now and not decades ago is because chipped modern farm equipment has been causing huge problems. It has to do with the fact that farmers like to be able to fix their own stuff or have a local fix it or even mix parts. It is important to their business to be able to do things like this.
The reason it took a small number of farmers to get this to happen is because of how our political system places too much emphasis upon geography vs population. All that rural representation is mighty powerful... it's also a much less diverse area so the people there are more like minded and easier to represent.... and manipulate.
YES their will still be special chipped parts at unfair prices! but that fight will come later on and be lost only if the farmers get screwed over enough.
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I'm giving up moderating hoping to wake some people up.
1) Nuclear power takes 10+ years to build. This is fact not some next gen "in 5 years" magical nuclear power which can go from permit to power in a year. By the time they build nuclear power, the coal plants will have been running too long. Global warming has time limits... which we probably passed already (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize how much we are screwed.)
2) Solar is cheaper than nuclear, has been for years now. Wind I believe did or will soon.
3) Nuclear is HEAVILY subsidized by government, it's totally dishonest. If you subsidized solar and wind that much they'd be so much cheaper it would be funny to look at anything else. (coal is subsidized too; even with automation killing about half their jobs natural gas is the main reason they can't compete and I don't think natural gas is subsidized as much as coal.)
4) Base power issues are almost solvable with an upgraded GRID. the transition process might take 10 years (depending on our motivation if we acted like this was WW3 it would be done in no time.) Natural Gas can fill the gap.
5) Battery storage is a new market. It is moving quickly. We could move to storage right now at higher prices-- we don't need to WAIT for the perfect solution-- which is a common trick used to delay progress. The time and cost wasted on nuclear can be put into battery storage power. If we are SERIOUS we can take the added expense on, it's pure BS to say we can't do something right now.
6) Nuclear regulation is poor and less of it won't help; more of it likely won't help either since it's just more of the same incompetence. They only people who seem capable of managing nuclear properly is our military. The worries about it being safe are totally justified. Sure newer stuff is better, the newest things actually being done NOW are way better but are they as safe as our growing incompetence? I think that is hard to predict... Maybe the "in 5 years" tech will be that safe but it's going to take too long to implement even with a faster build process because it's new tech that won't be proven for maybe the 10 years a conventional nuclear plant would take to build.
7) too many people. most problems are a result of too many people in the world. that is the topic that never gets discussed. we will have 10 billion people not long from now unless a bunch die off. (many years ago now everybody needed was born-- they will have kids at projected rates and that gives us 10 billion. known. already. trends have to drastically change for the basic stats to not be proven true.)
Nutrition labels on food were heavily fought by industry but that was the past when corruption (regulatory capture) was not as bad as it has been in recent decades.
Today, food labels wouldn't be implemented at all. Voluntary industry marketing labels on some products is all one would have. If it was passed in the 90s, we would have something like Energy Star where industry does it without punishment or oversight and the labels would be as inaccurate and unregulated as Energy Star is.
Do keep in mind that VW just was punished in a significant way (mostly because they are foreign) for cheating on recent regulations. So these things are not entirely useless.
I'm sure Energy Star doesn't cost that much; it is mostly an excuse to KILL it. Just like defunding PBS saves less than a pentagon rounding error. Hell, the Star Wars Program is STILL being funded (under less stupid names) and STILL doesn't work and costs about 50billion which is about the same amount Trump is asking to increase military spending.
What makes you think the Republicans haven't been hacked? It is up to the hackers.
Podesta probably wouldn't be known by most readers here if his email had not been hacked. Somebody had to target an operative with poor security.
Russia probably was into many systems, as were other groups. Could be a Bernie supporter who was more anti-establishment did nothing and now fears getting involved.
All presidents are encumbered; our system is designed to do that. Trump has had it easier than previous presidents with his party in control of just about everything; including strong support from police and won thanks to the FBI (and just about anything else given how thin the victory was.) Before you say the Supreme Court does not count realize that the court rarely responds to anything quickly and by the time most anything reaches them he already has appointed his party control over it.
Trumps problems largely have been of his own creation; not a result of the opposition. He has had less trouble picking people and they hype what they can but he's not even picked people to even be attacked at a normal pace. So that too his his fault.
Trumps "slow down" is completely his own fault. He isn't a black man who actually was blocked at every turn and filibustered more than anybody in history.
subject correction. was in too much of a hurry.
Clearly the billionaire and his voters know nothing about swamps. As far as "dem 'gaters" -- dangerous creatures don't exist in most swamps.
The white house website hosting that information instead? About as likely as his tax records being released.
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Tesla co-founder. Perhaps they are working together? I don't know why Tesla would try to recreate what their co-founder is already doing -- why not work with them? Old grudges? Planning on merging and the deal fell flat?
Ignoring MS history, their Internet Explorer:Edge is at the "edge" of supporting many standards and probably far from supporting as many as the other browsers meaning it does far less work. Besides their advantageous knowledge of their own OS and not needing any portable cross platform code... such as being able to decode video playback thru their OS in ways the others may not do.
I frankly don't care, I will never go back to a corporate controlled browser and support that nightmare again... Including google - it's only a matter of time before they get worse and abuse their dominance. Some people think google's turned towards the dark side already. Boards of directors are not permanent.
Primitive Voting promotes 2 party rule. The single biggest fix one can make is to put in a modern voting system which allows more than 2 parties to get access to power (and by modern I do not mean electronic!) Divide up the duopoly control over the system.
That is just 1 big thing; there are so many other problems wrong in the system (and the citizens) no single thing will fix it. The American Empire is falling after such a short run; I never read about one that turned it around.
I remember when the slashdot had less idiots.
Golf is elitist (expensive; often exclusive,) it is not racist.
Golf is not a sport - it is an evolved version of playing fetch with your dog.... except it is for 1. Usually, it is played in parallel with others so you can socialize while you all go fetch your balls. Actually, it is popular as a disguise for ass kissing.
Be the best PC tower (people used to buy MacBook Pros to run windows because they were good laptops.)
Rack mountable (pro desks have rack mounts) + angle brackets so it could be screwed to the bottom of a normal desk.
Two standard 5.25" bays which could be rotated 90 (try using a DVD drive sideways, it's a pain)
Keep the wind tunnel of fans which keeps it more quiet than any PC tower.
Lose HD bays. Have MANY SSD slots instead.
HD: Use the two 5.25 bays if it matters to you... put some screw mounts in clever ways and you could cram 3-4 HDs in that same space.
Sell fancy front plates-- for USB, memory readers, etc. snap into that 5.25 bay. Figure out how to cram a few below a DVD drive face plate.
Removable back plate (motherboard upgrades? seems impossible... they want you to buy a new system and keep using the old one? why not discourage old macs by promoting hardware upgrades? that would be "brave" new thinking!)
The G4 tower case was one of the best; the flip out made it really nice to work with. They should combine the two.
The reasoning is that SSD storage has a better checksum system already in the hardware. I've not heard of bit rot problems with SSD-- just the things up and dying instantly and completely failing. SSD by design levels out the usage over the whole storage space while checking which seems to be a good thing.
Encrypted or compressed files amplify the damage done... APFS's heavy encryption support makes me feel better in that single bit errors will be better noticed.
I've experienced bit rot on HDs; detected and not detected... with mirrored raid. Even so, there is a small chance the rot will go undetected even with checksums - a chance which becomes less impossible as the amount of data rises - I've experienced undetected bit rot that passed the checking and also made it into backups as rsync detected the change with it's checksum and replaced the healthy backup (something I now use to scan for bit rot-- but figuring out which file is the bad one is another problem.)
Active scanning and checking seems to be the best protection IMHO; something which could be done better outside the FS. It would also seem that access to checksum failures would allow one to figure out if the backup failed or the source file; something I've not figured out yet (anybody? any unix commands allow access to the underlying FS information?)
Apple has become the computer version of anorexic.
I have fixed many Magsafe problems. It is mostly the lousy CABLE they use which can't handle normal long term use... it's like they designed it to not last over 5 years which was a long time for a computer over a decade ago. The adapters before that time often were weak as well but we didn't heavily use a macbook from 2000 to 2010.
The magsafe connector itself has some minor issues with age but I still feel it is worth it and not that difficult to clean.
I think they went with a softer weaker plastic to keep the connector from bumping out with a twist of the cable. Which might be more annoying... the least they could do is make it removable from the power brick so it can be replaced.
It is not a matter of diversity itself as much as having common threads shared by all which bind the society together enough to properly function. That has been lost and community does not exist anymore. I do not even know what it is because I had no exposure to it - only what I was told about and some tried to create and / or save.
We went TOO far fighting against the evils of conformity and uniformity of the 50s-60s but the fight was necessary. It just went too far.
While local communities and parents HAD more input into education in the past, there was a lot of uniformity in other ways.
Uniform public education is a safe way to create common threads --- even the private schools were more uniform in the past (despite marketing to justify the added expense.) Every child; ethics used to be taught; civics used to be taught to everybody; the constitution actually studied instead of a little history around it and memorize the preamble. Everybody should read 1984 too. Certain books at certain grades for EVERBODY even private schools. Other counties doing better do this. Hell, some force kids to read books over the summer-- classical books. We used to ALLOW children to fail now we screw up the whole system because of them... parents are getting too much input ; the WRONG kind of input. Parents who neglect their kids in the important ways are right there to demand and blame the schools and force changes that make everything worse. In the past parents were involved differently with education but had to accept their brat was failing and take some responsibility... maybe actually punish the kid. Parenting of kids is the BIGGEST influence and that isn't done much today in between both parents working. "Success" also means different things today as well. If we as a society valued community if we could figure out what that even is.... we would consider success as including a common experience in education. So everybody had the basics.... but even that is a problem today where basic facts and reality can't even be shared in common.
- ZONING - we don't have diversity in our communities. A small town had drunks, poor, rich, etc. they would interact to some degree -- sure racial boundaries were stronger but you still had communities within those boundaries. Now we don't even have a community within the groups we identify with.
-LAWYERS - it should be as shameful as a prostitute and as likely to be elected to office.
REALITY: WE CAN NOT GROW FOREVER. Human intelligence has severe limitations we dare not admit. Resources are limited. You can not birth your way to success. Necessary jobs are extremely limited; that is why we created consumerism and promote fashion and those too are limited (at best growth until resource limits are reached, some are logically capped, such as popular art.) A.I. will eventually remove ALL necessary jobs, but far before that point it will remove most jobs. A.I. will also remove the need for cheap labor; so the idea of a large peasant class is out dated; they will need to be culled significantly. (I don't think nice solutions to this will prevail when sociopaths are so well rewarded in our societies.)
States are weak; given enough time and/or corporate opposition states can be overpowered. Huge multi-state corporations like our ISP monopoly or duopoly powers have more influence than they do at a federal level. This is why local public community ISPs are illegal in some states where the rights of communities are infringed upon.
RIGHT TO REPAIR has been showing just how powerless states are even when their overly represented rural citizens are worked up. Right to repair didn't matter enough until John Deer started fucking over farmers.
It is stupid to think that only one party wants more federal power. Both parties resort to federal power when necessary to achieve their goals. It can be argued the liberals resort to it MORE because their issues are more often social justice issues; therefore, they are about human rights and those belong as far reaching as possible (even if you do not recognize those rights; then such localization talk is just a really opposition tactic to limit the scope of such rights -- such as free speech zones...)
Think Tanks are almost entirely purposed with creating biased academic like support for propaganda purposes. They do not seek truth, only as much truth that supports their paid positions and maybe invent clever fake science to undermine confuse actual science -- smoking is actually good for you! Some people they hire are honest but believe in the same things and if that changes they are fired. Others are just intellectual whores who sell their minds out for money, arguably worse than a whore.
Think Tanks owe their huge numbers to the Vietnam era where the elite and their corporations realized the power of academic institutions to influence public policy with troublesome facts, cogent arguments, and tenure protected free speech. An effort was put together to counter the mostly selfless honest intelligent free speech and a Nixon man led the charge in a warped paranoid view only a religious zealot could have.
A professor somewhere should get news time even more for a group of them but a think tank shouldn't get anymore attention than corporate spokes person... and they get too much attention already.
I know when my brother got onto the computer while running a SIM game all sorts of disasters would happen to mess things up.
Does this explain Trump?
My TV's Netflix app simply wraps a customized browser loading a local web app which uses ajax to talk with netflix. Then they used some sort of browser plug in or modification to get to whatever video library the device supported.
Why wouldn't netflix use a similar approach for all it's apps from toaster to xbox??
You can make a local web app that would fool almost anybody with a properly customized browser (using local OS library means it wouldn't take much ram since it's likely loaded anyhow.)
Less development and support related issues; every device has some working browser library and video decoder if hardware support is available.
The public and the press failing to defend against lawyer politicians exploiting and creating loopholes may never be able to protect it 100%. As far as T bonds... the only more stable thing I can think of is gold... and they USED to be almost as good as gold before Nixon. What else can they do with excess funds they need to save? We have an inflation based system, they can't just dump dollars into a vault! Using it to help support the monetary system arguably makes it more secure in helping prop up a system that if it failed would make things extremely difficult for S.S.A. I can see the argument.
The fact remains that it is not liability, it is not part of the normal budget. Most the money is paid out not saved and as the Social Security Admin letters you get from time to time in the mail point out in simple terms--- the payout will go down if there are not enough funds coming in. So mismanagement results in people getting 70% or whatever lower amount in X years. A decrease in population would ALSO result in similar situations.
Social Security was designed to keep the elderly and unemployable out of poverty - that is the civilized and moral thing to do. You can fight over how much above that or how to define that all you want. Which is done--- the upper middle class and wealthy do not want to pay their fair share so we spend all our debates fighting over everything else. A lot of people think it is supposed to support their lifestyle. We also never set things pegged on inflation in the law... or cost of living... which would kill most issues off-- everything would be automatic and some minor variations could just be ignored without "fixing" but then perfection is often the enemy of good... politicians would constantly be trying to ruin a good thing under the excuse it's not perfect.
Social Security is NOT a liability it is self funded. It is separate and NOT hidden and not budgeted. You risk harm to it by misleading people to think it is a budget item. Medicare and Medicad are knock off programs which are not as well designed or protected but still are not normal budget items.
Separate taxes fund those programs and they go up or down based upon what the public puts into them. Not borrowed money. Social Security can never go bankrupt by design, it simply has less money to work with and goes down. If morons like the parent poster believe the lies they'll let crazy schemes to borrow against such programs or schemes to STEAL from them. Medicare and Medicad have suffered instead of improved to be more like social security and they should never be allowed to be morphed into anything like the failed spending process the rest of the government uses.
The whole monetary system we have as a big ponzi scheme; the debt isn't that big of a deal when the whole world system is huuuge a mess. Limiting factors on endless growth are beginning to impact our systems and fundamental changes will have to be made to any kind of system to adapt.
If you want to help medicad and medicare, you'd be addressing problems OUTSIDE of those programs because they are not the cause of the problems. Problems which impact our EXPENSIVE private health insurance too.
I'm an American, I've seen how little reason there is and how public discourse has eroded into total pointlessness beginning with the 80, maybe before that...
The psychological definitions which have been around for decades are not even remotely used in the law. The legal definitions are ignorant at best, every man is a pedophile according to US law. Since human sexuality is based upon fertility not age, as soon as a child passes puberty nature indicates adulthood has arrived; this clashes with cultural beliefs (which changed themselves over time... and we only think the last 50 years was "the way always has been.")
Science has been showing and will only get closer to proving that pedophiles are BORN. It's a natural defect just like homosexuality. Furthermore, evidence shows that pedophiles simply have a lower threshold of attraction, they are still into adults. They do not go rape adults anymore than normal - but if they are going to one would assume that they would prefer an easier target. It is not P.C. these days but that is actual reality and eventually science will beat back the SJW. We can not even have a discussion of science in this country - it changes entirely how one views the problem and even if we could get people educated, the public discourse is idiotic just dealing with easy problems. Reality has a way of messing with your ignorant beliefs and people need to toughen up more.
The inability to control one's impulses should be considered an illness (in the most extreme it is.) Rapists must be included. Not a crime; but insanity where "can do harm to themselves or others" is the reason we put them into hospitals in the civilized world (not the USA, we put them in jail with sane people.) If you can't cure a rapist (of adults or children or animals) then they can't be allowed out in society. It is that simple, no need to make distinctions between victims. Sure you lose the comfort of feeling righteous for punishing evil in god's name (which is a form of blasphemy, BTW) but you can feel safer knowing those sick people will not be released having learned better how to not get caught next time.
WikiLeaks became the news before, on purpose with the intent to DISTRACT and change the conversations to the messengers instead of the messages. On top of that to send a signal to any future leakers or publishers or press.
WikiLeaks worked with 3 serious news organizations with their big leak before that got all the news and all we heard was attacks on Wikileaks and Manning. Discussing the act of leaking and punishment etc, purposely to take away from discussing the leaks themselves. The information itself when known justifies the leaking of it; so the goal is to avoid it and focus on imagined damages etc and attribution of BLAME to the wrong groups of people.
We hardly hear about Smith these days because he had many parts to his working capitalism which are NOT allowed today ironically in the name of capitalism! Smith also had an idea for negative taxes...
You can't have government prevent monopoly power without keeping capital small enough to restrain it from corrupting and subverting government!
Today, individuals can subvert government as well as many more corporations.
Despite a history in the USA of weak corporations, a subsidized press around 3% of GDP (yes both existed before Lincoln) and a wealthy income tax of 90%. As those measures were lost the nation started it's downfall costing upon past successes. Now we are losing momentum and the idiot masses are building a wall ignoring that the majority of lost middle class jobs are due to pre-A.I. automation with 3rd world labor only delaying that automation by a short time period.
correction: "there" will still be special chipped parts
Stupid autocorrect messed up my post! At least I didn't have a trackpad click and combine sentences together this time.
The ONLY reason this happened now and not decades ago is because chipped modern farm equipment has been causing huge problems. It has to do with the fact that farmers like to be able to fix their own stuff or have a local fix it or even mix parts. It is important to their business to be able to do things like this.
The reason it took a small number of farmers to get this to happen is because of how our political system places too much emphasis upon geography vs population. All that rural representation is mighty powerful... it's also a much less diverse area so the people there are more like minded and easier to represent.... and manipulate.
YES their will still be special chipped parts at unfair prices! but that fight will come later on and be lost only if the farmers get screwed over enough.