1) You are quibbling. Nuclear power generation is older than the 1950s; they just didn't build any yet, a lot thought goes into such things before they come to fruition. Nuclear power was sold as a space-age wonder of the future; not just a bomb-- it was WW2 that made the focus on finding the bomb but it was atomic ENERGY research in the 1930s to release that energy and IN THEORY it could make a good bomb; or maybe it would be just good for generating heat when put in practice.
2) Because no demo next-gen reactor designs have been created or proven; the military makes portable "mini" reactors with no reasonable budget caps-- they could have been trying this stuff out for decades and probably have been (its in their interest to do so.)
Nuclear physics is still HARD STUFF. decent returns could be far off into the future; possibly after Fusion is working.
no big deal; these features can become a FLAG option on grep and diff and I wouldn't care-- it could be useful; I just use perl for most stuff and grep for only really simple stuff. Ok, I'd probably still use perl... its my swiss army pocket knife I use to hammer everything;-)
In japan nissan has robotics to swap Leaf batteries faster than you can refill a gas car. The car is designed for a bottom swap already. Nissan is working for standards so this can be done in Japan with other electrics.
This is the only realistic solution; you pay rental+electric fee. Fuel cells are possible since chemical storage is higher density but the tech is a ways off-- eventually I don't see why it can't beat out mechanical energy extraction from chemical fuels. Electronic losses are almost nil compared to the heavy losses of combustion engines. If they could kill transmissions that would be a big benefit as well.
With removable battery packs STANDARD you make fuel cells and newer tech possible more cheaply. "refill" with a battery or a fuel cell or a higher range more expensive battery-- so now instead of regular or premium or diesel you choose short range, long range, or fuel cell...
Going on a long trip? swap battery packs and get credit for X amount of power left on the old one and pay for the more expensive long range one...
MOST people MOST the time do not need to travel far--- but all one needs to do for the rare situations is provide a work around solution involving rental. ME, I'm upset with every Nissan person I talk with-- they have no interest in designing for range extenders. If they merely put a charge port that is active while the car is driving I would be sold! I was looking at hooking up a mini trailer and putting a propane generator on it as a range extender. Would store almost forever until I needed it and then I'd hook it on and start the generator. (propane because its better for inactive engines, plus they run longer, last longer etc.) Unless somebody would finally sell a small propane turbine engine coupled to a generator...that isn't crazy expensive data center grade...
You people arguing for complete anarchy in this area should consider the complexity of the situation.
Free speech still happens in the USA just not equal distribution / coverage... The internet has been making that more fair (and the establishment hates this since they have working control of the press.) I totally disagree with the judge that the press has more right to slander than a citizen. If anything the 'press' is more dangerous and their slandering should be more subject to prosecution (as an organization they can afford to defend themselves more often.) Somebody can slander me with a degree of harm but Fox News could get me death threats or even killed (remember the recent abortion doctor assassination) all without using a legal definition of slander.
Today's corporate media is managed almost as well as a state owned media; the power they wield is greater because of the perceived independence and lack of any kind of system. Sure it is not totally controlled but working control is enough and can keep people suckered just as democracies often do (which are not well functioning democracies. Another big problem these days...)
FYI, in the USA, for the 1st century the government subsidized the press and it did make choices.. (about 3% of GDP)
Free assembly hasn't existed in a literal sense; they put permits that cost money and can deny you permission to assemble in public spaces (what is left of those spaces that hasn't been sold off.) If you think government recognition for press is so bad you should be up in arms on the assembly permits or free speech zones going on TODAY. This BS about cleaning out occupy protesters by abusing city ordinances and placing those ABOVE the constitutional right to free assembly is a larger blow against your rights.
I'm for any system which fairly classifies Fox News as not being news, forcing them to remove that from their title and from press passes. Propaganda today is light years ahead of hundreds of years ago; another Fascism can spring out of democracy with the aid of propaganda-- a "free" press didn't stop it last time. Sure a regulation system can go bad-- they all can, its the public's responsibility to prevent that; you think today's dysfunctional democracies are capable of doing anything important correctly???? I don't think adding such regulation would make things any worse than they are already; maybe they'd make it more obvious and upsetting to the public so we can get the democracy now.... I think it's going to have to get much worse before we have real reform-- the press is highly visible, having them degrade/reflect how bad things are is probably more of a service than the half-ass BS we get from the press today.
Super "fuck-ups" only sometimes remove themselves from the gene pool by accident; we have an award for the best ones of those every year...
I will not stop the ones who want to remove themselves from the gene pool who were lucky enough to not be near the disaster they caused.
Note- These "fuck-ups" are usually not incompetent, that is their best/last defense and people accept way too much from people who are incompetent-- its no wonder so many use it as an excuse. These are not people of character, not likely going to do much to remedy it (or make it worse-- like Mr. Burns trying to be good was more evil... well not that extreme its satire after all.)
I prefer suicide to the popular defense mechanisms we have today that lead them to repeat their actions and get well payed.
Shame is really a powerful emotion; I would argue it is not fear but shame that is the principle cause of honor suicide-- unbearable shame.
Americans are clueless. Iran has plenty of reason to hate the USA and it is justified. It will take time and a lot of old people dying off (oddly, it may take the USA longer to grow out of it than the victims.)
BTW, I'm one of the few informed Americans and I have no ties to Iran but that shouldn't need to be said to somebody who knows the history of the situation.
I'm skeptical of the whole concept-- we've heard about next gen safe clean nuclear forever -- LONGER than we've been hearing about clean coal or Roswell Aliens.
When a Chinese reactor goes bust do you think the people responsible will LIVE or have a nice life afterwards?? In Japan they no longer have the honor they once had in their leadership so the responsible ones do not kill themselves anymore; but there may be some shame. Its worse in the USA.
China may have troubles with quality control and corruption; but they have no trouble dealing out proper punishment which should deter some of the problems.
Besides if these "safe" nukes are feasible the leaks will be no worse than the drinking water, air, and arsenic apples in China...
True. They may not be exploited at the time you visit but when you return; it may not target your browser either. Sure, it is not fool proof; but blocking javascript completely isn't full protection either. ALLOWING flash is probably more of a risk anyhow.
If you dare to report information without permission and censorship, no law or principle will be safe to protect your life from being permanently harmed. The more blatant disregard of the rule of law the better... right up to the edge of the victim becoming a motivating character.
The fame and sex may not have been worth it but somebody had to take the brunt of the backlash of the power elite. Governments especially like to make symbolic examples of the small people to terrorize the others. By focusing largely on him the others have not got hit as badly. The drawback is a huge potential risk if they mismanage how they handle that small target. In a way, they make him more powerful by being the focus of Goliath.
In his case an outright assassination ("accident") would not be effective and would result in more people inspired to fill his role, so they make everybody FEAR being him-- a reporter/relay of leaks; the target audience. The leakers have been treated far worse for the same reasons-- to send a stronger message to potential leakers.
It is a form of terrorism. Instant death isn't so bad, many people rank fear of public speaking right up above instant death (ranking fear, obviously a rational person will overcome the emotion and choose to live on.) One doesn't need to threaten death to a group of people to MAKE them act the way you want and follow up with symbolic bombings. You can ruin a few symbolic people to make the rest conform.
USPS has been SELF funding by law for a long while. It is not losing money.
The USPS has been doing record 'business' but their losses are due to the GOP forcing them by law to pay for their pensions IN ADVANCE many decades (I think it was 45 years) in advance! This added an instant MASSIVE cost which makes their operating expenses be negative for years.
The mail is a public service; if it can't effectively be run non-profit then it has to be run AT A LOSS; just as it was when the FOUNDERS created it-- it was heavily subsidized back then (and for over a century.) The mailman used to be thought of as another public servant, like the fireman or policeman-- but unlike those, there was a fee for use (can you imagine the taxpayer cost and amount of junk if postage was free?? or how crazy it would be to pay a police of fire bill?? don't pay up, let the house burn...) We put money into police and fire after 9/11. With rising gas costs instead of investing in electric mail trucks we stick like 50 years of future pensions on their tab causing them to lower service, lay off people and raise rates during a depression.
2010 was the biggest year they ever had; they are not losing demand (ebay, netflix, mortgage issues etc.) Postage prices have RISEN to cover costs in gas etc.
FedEx costs like $5 to do anything; and the volume is far far lower (not physical volume.) maybe 1 time a week I see that truck on my street. I get 6+ items EVERY DAY on average and I'm as paperless as possible.
The Republicans being ignorant and ideological have been purposely attacking this well run institution with baseless attacks. Just watch the ignorance displayed in the sadly entertaining reality show "GOP Presidential debates." A few do know better and are just trying to ruin it so a for-profit contributor to create another wonderful monopoly power like AT&T or Comcast because we love them... Instead of arguing we should make internet more like the post office (equal fair packet delivery) we are trying to prevent it from becoming a hostage to private mega corps (whose 'product' is in extremely high demand with no real competition making it a poor market for pop economics.)
YES! I 2nd that! But it should be better integrated and off by default -- they can try to hint users into using it by other means. I have NoScript on by default just because I was sick of white listing everything; but any site I feel bad about I blacklist. Its not as secure but it is doing something. Add a subscription list like AdBlock has and it wouldn't be so bad for people who want to help compile black and white lists. Normal users would get a blacklist with it always on by default and others who know better will know enough to flip the policy. The paranoid would turn off the subscription lists and do it all themselves.
I would like a power-user area to block certain DOM features completely. I do not trust canvas by default or most the newer DOM features by default; it should ask me to ok those when a site tries to use them. (the lists mentioned above could specify what is white or black listed not just whole domains etc.) Actually, I'm wary of CSS3 fonts because font render engines haven't been a focus of security and 3D drivers... you are lucky to have stable fast 3D; security? currently a pipe dream.
A DOM js access list by domain would be a lot like a sandbox system for websites.
Not in the real world; in my experience, understaffed IT depts are abused with forced 24/7 on-call outside the job description or not they are not properly compensated upfront for officially being on call all the time. Not to mention all the crazy demands put upon them. Extra hours happen routinely because management figures the extra cost is less than another employee. It is not greedy employees, they are the victims; especially, when the economy is bad. When I did it, I never got overtime and they thought little of making me put in the "comp time" (later they tried to limit comp time because we'd build up months of payed vacation time! I should have sued them before I left because it had to be illegal since the contract specified it.)
Overtime pay should be so high that management hires additional staff; actually, if you are concerned about greedy workers then it should contain a large TAX so then neither side can abuse the situation. Business people seem to hate TAX more than they hate their workers.
Doubles as a file server and uses only about 60W power! VIA mini + 2 HDs + Intel multi-port nic + boots from flash and almost is the size of a lunchbox. (I couldn't fit the HDs into the lunch box I bought for the project. next time...) An oversized Fanaflow fan and the thing is fairly quiet. Someday I may add a music server since it has audio out and I'm thinking about a bit torrent client (since my desktop uses way more power doing that.) I have a USB wifi nic but haven't bothered to play with it yet. Plus it runs from 12V DC (80W) so I can easily have a redundant power supply. Oh, if your curious, I made the case from sheet metal HVAC ducts and pop rivets.
While not as stable as I'd like, I can run snort as well. Otherwise it runs longer than the WRT54G did between crashes.
It is for gaming, OTHER people saw the potential outside that and started hacking and MS for fear of losing control over it then got involved so they could try to maintain a monopoly over the tech instead of everybody buying them for mac/linux from 3rd parties someday because I believe MS doesn't still own the tech behind it.
It is primarily for gaming and that is what got it subsidized into existence now; the actual inventors likely would have come to market somewhere else at a later date probably with less exposure. Various other techniques for 3d scanning existed and will still be invented and people have been and will come up with new ways to use it; the kinect is not a requirement its only 1 cheap solution brought to us sooner than what would likely have happened if MS wasn't trying to technically best Nintendo while missing that Nintendo's goals were not fixated on 1 tech which is why they did the motion thing and it was totally unexpected.
Economists are the witch doctors of today. Its far from science and closer to religion.
We have billions more people than we can sustain and increasing efficiency and automation. We already have had a new culture of wasteful consumption created to sustain jobs post WW2 because there was too little work and the rise of planned obsolescence which was insanity anytime just before that period.
Didn't Kinect come from a company MS bought the rights from? or did they buy the company? Is this the same brain trust or the MS brain trust?
Besides that question, I see this as an extension to the same limited thinking-- they saw nintendo and thought it was solely about capturing motion and that was popular. They see this merely as a new technology and went to throwing money at the same technical problem. Simple technical progression as usual. Is it not obvious MS would do this??? Then have somebody come up with obvious new technical abilities.
Nintendo on the other hand is not predictable and might do something quite innovative, as they have in the past. Nintendo was not trying for 1:1 mapping of motion; their goal is an emotional experience and what can be done to aid in doing that sort of thing. They are not stuck in the gradual progression of 1 technical problem; it is this TOTALLY different perspective that makes them come up with new things even when doing another mario or zelda game - its the same mario with some new ideas but the interaction with it changed a lot and gives a known fun experience in another way, possibly a better more engaging way-- but it is never about the technology itself.
MS always missed this stuff and throws money to make it up.
It is on netflix now. The name of the documentary on him is called "Burzynski."
Extremely interesting and fits well within the known corruption. Especially how the FDA is allowing clinical trials and previously allowed other trials and how officials mess things up on purpose, etc. Fits right into the patterns I've seen locally (read about state/nationally.) Could be this is merely the way they present it; mixing in truth with the lies or it may just be true. This guy has been on trial multiple times and the gov lost. You'd think they could do a better job at discrediting him if it was so simple and they'd not have their hands into it if they think he is an open/shut fraud case. Burzynski could be a total prick, who knows. But its not open and shut. I would expect his legal action to come from 1) his lawyers he's had budgeted for decades need something to do, 2) his more favorable status these days is under jeopardy by such critics (especially the ones he doesn't cure.)
His cancer cure isn't 100% (none are) and it isn't a cure - he doesn't claim it is - it just performs well enough to be out there with other more expensive drugs out there. I know, my mother had cancer; the costs even with insurance were crazy PLUS they didn't tell her until afterwards the drugs that made it hell only boosted her odds of recovery by 8%!! She has some permanent damage from those also toxic drugs.
HUGE amounts of money are involved and I'm not convinced many parties have any intention of curing anything more than necessary. This guy could be well intentioned or not; he doesn't appear to have been getting rich from it. True or not, the reality is that a real cure without mega profit would be suppressed if it could be (See Obi Wan in the british film "The Man in the White Suit" for some of the issues, I remember it because its the only film to touch of them I've seen; also entertaining is how they portray a genius science guy.)
I'm highly skeptical of the corrupt US health cartel; even when approved and "legit" we end up with disasters later on, then lawsuits, then we find out Merck was suppressing data and knew it was bad, etc. Then they sell the drugs to the 3rd world until caught again... Don't forget the cheap testing they do on unknowing poor people in Africa...
We should be spending more time on Faith Healers...
Planned obsolescence has been promoted in all aspects of life since post WW2 and now it is hard to imagine the world without it. That line of thinking has been creeping into everything even in areas where it doesn't seem to apply.
Does this play a factor on the perception of preventative maintenance or its frequent application? I think it probably does in at least a couple ways, don't you?
Sure beats the money going to a small group of bankers! At least those union people are numerous and actually do some labor between their breaks. Not to say that this is ok simply because there are worse groups to funnel money to but merely to put it into perspective. A fair amount of our politics is STILL about communities of real people voting for politicians to funnel money to them; not all the graft goes to the 1% (just a lot of it which is how most get into the 1% BTW... )
Some things pass simply to help some state get an influx of money; most our states in the USA are always broke and the few good states pay to prop those up, CA is one of those states BTW! In the EU they don't prop up their members, not much and not today. I refuse to get upset over a paying state (CA) getting some of their federal dollars returned; even if it is for something like this --- which is largely their own fault for letting the public land get robbed for short term gain so it costs 1000x more to buy a part of that land back again. My idiotic state sold off a lot of rail lines generations ago; making it prohibitively expensive to buy them back. I only wonder how long before our public road system is sold off for a short term gain! Our state fair grounds were already!! (and they've doubled admission and other fees + it actually costs the state now while before it brought in some money.)
Replace him with the GOP candidate who is even more Fascist and won't wimp out and cave in to Fascism but will openly promote those ideals (minus the negative terminology.)
They don't say trickle down anymore, its "job creators" and even the racists (with a bit of a brain) have migrated towards cultural and socioeconomic variations on social Darwinism to feed their dysfunctional emotional needs. Hell, classic racists like David Duke have a lawyer have a public relations man to look good... just your "friendly liberal KKK"... (that is an old song reference.)
The public can't handle rank voting or more than two rigged parties; those of us outside the 1 dimensional idiotic political spectrum have been upset longer than those of you who are finally being left behind as the whole thing shifts further towards despotism. If you only woke up sooner and in greater numbers... it wouldn't be too late.
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1) You are quibbling. Nuclear power generation is older than the 1950s; they just didn't build any yet, a lot thought goes into such things before they come to fruition. Nuclear power was sold as a space-age wonder of the future; not just a bomb-- it was WW2 that made the focus on finding the bomb but it was atomic ENERGY research in the 1930s to release that energy and IN THEORY it could make a good bomb; or maybe it would be just good for generating heat when put in practice.
2) Because no demo next-gen reactor designs have been created or proven; the military makes portable "mini" reactors with no reasonable budget caps-- they could have been trying this stuff out for decades and probably have been (its in their interest to do so.)
Nuclear physics is still HARD STUFF. decent returns could be far off into the future; possibly after Fusion is working.
no big deal; these features can become a FLAG option on grep and diff and I wouldn't care-- it could be useful; I just use perl for most stuff and grep for only really simple stuff. Ok, I'd probably still use perl... its my swiss army pocket knife I use to hammer everything ;-)
In japan nissan has robotics to swap Leaf batteries faster than you can refill a gas car. The car is designed for a bottom swap already. Nissan is working for standards so this can be done in Japan with other electrics.
This is the only realistic solution; you pay rental+electric fee. Fuel cells are possible since chemical storage is higher density but the tech is a ways off-- eventually I don't see why it can't beat out mechanical energy extraction from chemical fuels. Electronic losses are almost nil compared to the heavy losses of combustion engines. If they could kill transmissions that would be a big benefit as well.
With removable battery packs STANDARD you make fuel cells and newer tech possible more cheaply. "refill" with a battery or a fuel cell or a higher range more expensive battery-- so now instead of regular or premium or diesel you choose short range, long range, or fuel cell...
Going on a long trip? swap battery packs and get credit for X amount of power left on the old one and pay for the more expensive long range one...
MOST people MOST the time do not need to travel far--- but all one needs to do for the rare situations is provide a work around solution involving rental. ME, I'm upset with every Nissan person I talk with-- they have no interest in designing for range extenders. If they merely put a charge port that is active while the car is driving I would be sold! I was looking at hooking up a mini trailer and putting a propane generator on it as a range extender. Would store almost forever until I needed it and then I'd hook it on and start the generator. (propane because its better for inactive engines, plus they run longer, last longer etc.) Unless somebody would finally sell a small propane turbine engine coupled to a generator...that isn't crazy expensive data center grade...
You people arguing for complete anarchy in this area should consider the complexity of the situation.
Free speech still happens in the USA just not equal distribution / coverage... The internet has been making that more fair (and the establishment hates this since they have working control of the press.) I totally disagree with the judge that the press has more right to slander than a citizen. If anything the 'press' is more dangerous and their slandering should be more subject to prosecution (as an organization they can afford to defend themselves more often.) Somebody can slander me with a degree of harm but Fox News could get me death threats or even killed (remember the recent abortion doctor assassination) all without using a legal definition of slander.
Today's corporate media is managed almost as well as a state owned media; the power they wield is greater because of the perceived independence and lack of any kind of system. Sure it is not totally controlled but working control is enough and can keep people suckered just as democracies often do (which are not well functioning democracies. Another big problem these days...)
FYI, in the USA, for the 1st century the government subsidized the press and it did make choices.. (about 3% of GDP)
Free assembly hasn't existed in a literal sense; they put permits that cost money and can deny you permission to assemble in public spaces (what is left of those spaces that hasn't been sold off.) If you think government recognition for press is so bad you should be up in arms on the assembly permits or free speech zones going on TODAY. This BS about cleaning out occupy protesters by abusing city ordinances and placing those ABOVE the constitutional right to free assembly is a larger blow against your rights.
I'm for any system which fairly classifies Fox News as not being news, forcing them to remove that from their title and from press passes. Propaganda today is light years ahead of hundreds of years ago; another Fascism can spring out of democracy with the aid of propaganda-- a "free" press didn't stop it last time. Sure a regulation system can go bad-- they all can, its the public's responsibility to prevent that; you think today's dysfunctional democracies are capable of doing anything important correctly???? I don't think adding such regulation would make things any worse than they are already; maybe they'd make it more obvious and upsetting to the public so we can get the democracy now.... I think it's going to have to get much worse before we have real reform-- the press is highly visible, having them degrade/reflect how bad things are is probably more of a service than the half-ass BS we get from the press today.
Super "fuck-ups" only sometimes remove themselves from the gene pool by accident; we have an award for the best ones of those every year...
I will not stop the ones who want to remove themselves from the gene pool who were lucky enough to not be near the disaster they caused.
Note- These "fuck-ups" are usually not incompetent, that is their best/last defense and people accept way too much from people who are incompetent-- its no wonder so many use it as an excuse. These are not people of character, not likely going to do much to remedy it (or make it worse-- like Mr. Burns trying to be good was more evil... well not that extreme its satire after all.)
I prefer suicide to the popular defense mechanisms we have today that lead them to repeat their actions and get well payed.
Shame is really a powerful emotion; I would argue it is not fear but shame that is the principle cause of honor suicide-- unbearable shame.
Americans are clueless. Iran has plenty of reason to hate the USA and it is justified. It will take time and a lot of old people dying off (oddly, it may take the USA longer to grow out of it than the victims.)
BTW, I'm one of the few informed Americans and I have no ties to Iran but that shouldn't need to be said to somebody who knows the history of the situation.
I'm skeptical of the whole concept-- we've heard about next gen safe clean nuclear forever -- LONGER than we've been hearing about clean coal or Roswell Aliens.
When a Chinese reactor goes bust do you think the people responsible will LIVE or have a nice life afterwards?? In Japan they no longer have the honor they once had in their leadership so the responsible ones do not kill themselves anymore; but there may be some shame. Its worse in the USA.
China may have troubles with quality control and corruption; but they have no trouble dealing out proper punishment which should deter some of the problems.
Besides if these "safe" nukes are feasible the leaks will be no worse than the drinking water, air, and arsenic apples in China...
True. They may not be exploited at the time you visit but when you return; it may not target your browser either. Sure, it is not fool proof; but blocking javascript completely isn't full protection either. ALLOWING flash is probably more of a risk anyhow.
I noticed this shift as well. Sneaky clever.
If you dare to report information without permission and censorship, no law or principle will be safe to protect your life from being permanently harmed. The more blatant disregard of the rule of law the better... right up to the edge of the victim becoming a motivating character.
The fame and sex may not have been worth it but somebody had to take the brunt of the backlash of the power elite. Governments especially like to make symbolic examples of the small people to terrorize the others. By focusing largely on him the others have not got hit as badly. The drawback is a huge potential risk if they mismanage how they handle that small target. In a way, they make him more powerful by being the focus of Goliath.
In his case an outright assassination ("accident") would not be effective and would result in more people inspired to fill his role, so they make everybody FEAR being him-- a reporter/relay of leaks; the target audience. The leakers have been treated far worse for the same reasons-- to send a stronger message to potential leakers.
It is a form of terrorism. Instant death isn't so bad, many people rank fear of public speaking right up above instant death (ranking fear, obviously a rational person will overcome the emotion and choose to live on.) One doesn't need to threaten death to a group of people to MAKE them act the way you want and follow up with symbolic bombings. You can ruin a few symbolic people to make the rest conform.
USPS has been SELF funding by law for a long while. It is not losing money.
The USPS has been doing record 'business' but their losses are due to the GOP forcing them by law to pay for their pensions IN ADVANCE many decades (I think it was 45 years) in advance! This added an instant MASSIVE cost which makes their operating expenses be negative for years.
The mail is a public service; if it can't effectively be run non-profit then it has to be run AT A LOSS; just as it was when the FOUNDERS created it-- it was heavily subsidized back then (and for over a century.) The mailman used to be thought of as another public servant, like the fireman or policeman-- but unlike those, there was a fee for use (can you imagine the taxpayer cost and amount of junk if postage was free?? or how crazy it would be to pay a police of fire bill?? don't pay up, let the house burn...) We put money into police and fire after 9/11. With rising gas costs instead of investing in electric mail trucks we stick like 50 years of future pensions on their tab causing them to lower service, lay off people and raise rates during a depression.
2010 was the biggest year they ever had; they are not losing demand (ebay, netflix, mortgage issues etc.) Postage prices have RISEN to cover costs in gas etc.
FedEx costs like $5 to do anything; and the volume is far far lower (not physical volume.) maybe 1 time a week I see that truck on my street. I get 6+ items EVERY DAY on average and I'm as paperless as possible.
The Republicans being ignorant and ideological have been purposely attacking this well run institution with baseless attacks. Just watch the ignorance displayed in the sadly entertaining reality show "GOP Presidential debates." A few do know better and are just trying to ruin it so a for-profit contributor to create another wonderful monopoly power like AT&T or Comcast because we love them... Instead of arguing we should make internet more like the post office (equal fair packet delivery) we are trying to prevent it from becoming a hostage to private mega corps (whose 'product' is in extremely high demand with no real competition making it a poor market for pop economics.)
I'm in no way connected to the USPS.
YES! I 2nd that! But it should be better integrated and off by default -- they can try to hint users into using it by other means. I have NoScript on by default just because I was sick of white listing everything; but any site I feel bad about I blacklist. Its not as secure but it is doing something. Add a subscription list like AdBlock has and it wouldn't be so bad for people who want to help compile black and white lists. Normal users would get a blacklist with it always on by default and others who know better will know enough to flip the policy. The paranoid would turn off the subscription lists and do it all themselves.
I would like a power-user area to block certain DOM features completely. I do not trust canvas by default or most the newer DOM features by default; it should ask me to ok those when a site tries to use them. (the lists mentioned above could specify what is white or black listed not just whole domains etc.) Actually, I'm wary of CSS3 fonts because font render engines haven't been a focus of security and 3D drivers... you are lucky to have stable fast 3D; security? currently a pipe dream.
A DOM js access list by domain would be a lot like a sandbox system for websites.
Sperm shaped? WTF? It looks like a small aircraft without the wings -- there was so much hate for something truly different.
I'm hoping they open source the designs or enough leaks out so somebody can put out a kit car or something. I'd bite.
YouTube has ads?
When did that happen?
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Not in the real world; in my experience, understaffed IT depts are abused with forced 24/7 on-call outside the job description or not they are not properly compensated upfront for officially being on call all the time. Not to mention all the crazy demands put upon them. Extra hours happen routinely because management figures the extra cost is less than another employee. It is not greedy employees, they are the victims; especially, when the economy is bad. When I did it, I never got overtime and they thought little of making me put in the "comp time" (later they tried to limit comp time because we'd build up months of payed vacation time! I should have sued them before I left because it had to be illegal since the contract specified it.)
Overtime pay should be so high that management hires additional staff; actually, if you are concerned about greedy workers then it should contain a large TAX so then neither side can abuse the situation. Business people seem to hate TAX more than they hate their workers.
I'm running it at home.
Doubles as a file server and uses only about 60W power! VIA mini + 2 HDs + Intel multi-port nic + boots from flash and almost is the size of a lunchbox. (I couldn't fit the HDs into the lunch box I bought for the project. next time...) An oversized Fanaflow fan and the thing is fairly quiet. Someday I may add a music server since it has audio out and I'm thinking about a bit torrent client (since my desktop uses way more power doing that.) I have a USB wifi nic but haven't bothered to play with it yet. Plus it runs from 12V DC (80W) so I can easily have a redundant power supply. Oh, if your curious, I made the case from sheet metal HVAC ducts and pop rivets.
While not as stable as I'd like, I can run snort as well. Otherwise it runs longer than the WRT54G did between crashes.
I don't think the USA agreed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and I can't see them doing so in a meaningful way these days.
It is for gaming, OTHER people saw the potential outside that and started hacking and MS for fear of losing control over it then got involved so they could try to maintain a monopoly over the tech instead of everybody buying them for mac/linux from 3rd parties someday because I believe MS doesn't still own the tech behind it.
It is primarily for gaming and that is what got it subsidized into existence now; the actual inventors likely would have come to market somewhere else at a later date probably with less exposure. Various other techniques for 3d scanning existed and will still be invented and people have been and will come up with new ways to use it; the kinect is not a requirement its only 1 cheap solution brought to us sooner than what would likely have happened if MS wasn't trying to technically best Nintendo while missing that Nintendo's goals were not fixated on 1 tech which is why they did the motion thing and it was totally unexpected.
Economists are the witch doctors of today. Its far from science and closer to religion.
We have billions more people than we can sustain and increasing efficiency and automation. We already have had a new culture of wasteful consumption created to sustain jobs post WW2 because there was too little work and the rise of planned obsolescence which was insanity anytime just before that period.
Didn't Kinect come from a company MS bought the rights from? or did they buy the company? Is this the same brain trust or the MS brain trust?
Besides that question, I see this as an extension to the same limited thinking-- they saw nintendo and thought it was solely about capturing motion and that was popular. They see this merely as a new technology and went to throwing money at the same technical problem. Simple technical progression as usual. Is it not obvious MS would do this??? Then have somebody come up with obvious new technical abilities.
Nintendo on the other hand is not predictable and might do something quite innovative, as they have in the past. Nintendo was not trying for 1:1 mapping of motion; their goal is an emotional experience and what can be done to aid in doing that sort of thing. They are not stuck in the gradual progression of 1 technical problem; it is this TOTALLY different perspective that makes them come up with new things even when doing another mario or zelda game - its the same mario with some new ideas but the interaction with it changed a lot and gives a known fun experience in another way, possibly a better more engaging way-- but it is never about the technology itself.
MS always missed this stuff and throws money to make it up.
It is on netflix now. The name of the documentary on him is called "Burzynski."
Extremely interesting and fits well within the known corruption. Especially how the FDA is allowing clinical trials and previously allowed other trials and how officials mess things up on purpose, etc. Fits right into the patterns I've seen locally (read about state/nationally.) Could be this is merely the way they present it; mixing in truth with the lies or it may just be true. This guy has been on trial multiple times and the gov lost. You'd think they could do a better job at discrediting him if it was so simple and they'd not have their hands into it if they think he is an open/shut fraud case. Burzynski could be a total prick, who knows. But its not open and shut. I would expect his legal action to come from 1) his lawyers he's had budgeted for decades need something to do, 2) his more favorable status these days is under jeopardy by such critics (especially the ones he doesn't cure.)
His cancer cure isn't 100% (none are) and it isn't a cure - he doesn't claim it is - it just performs well enough to be out there with other more expensive drugs out there. I know, my mother had cancer; the costs even with insurance were crazy PLUS they didn't tell her until afterwards the drugs that made it hell only boosted her odds of recovery by 8%!! She has some permanent damage from those also toxic drugs.
HUGE amounts of money are involved and I'm not convinced many parties have any intention of curing anything more than necessary. This guy could be well intentioned or not; he doesn't appear to have been getting rich from it. True or not, the reality is that a real cure without mega profit would be suppressed if it could be (See Obi Wan in the british film "The Man in the White Suit" for some of the issues, I remember it because its the only film to touch of them I've seen; also entertaining is how they portray a genius science guy .)
I'm highly skeptical of the corrupt US health cartel; even when approved and "legit" we end up with disasters later on, then lawsuits, then we find out Merck was suppressing data and knew it was bad, etc. Then they sell the drugs to the 3rd world until caught again... Don't forget the cheap testing they do on unknowing poor people in Africa...
We should be spending more time on Faith Healers...
Planned obsolescence has been promoted in all aspects of life since post WW2 and now it is hard to imagine the world without it. That line of thinking has been creeping into everything even in areas where it doesn't seem to apply.
Does this play a factor on the perception of preventative maintenance or its frequent application? I think it probably does in at least a couple ways, don't you?
Sure beats the money going to a small group of bankers! At least those union people are numerous and actually do some labor between their breaks. Not to say that this is ok simply because there are worse groups to funnel money to but merely to put it into perspective. A fair amount of our politics is STILL about communities of real people voting for politicians to funnel money to them; not all the graft goes to the 1% (just a lot of it which is how most get into the 1% BTW... )
Some things pass simply to help some state get an influx of money; most our states in the USA are always broke and the few good states pay to prop those up, CA is one of those states BTW! In the EU they don't prop up their members, not much and not today. I refuse to get upset over a paying state (CA) getting some of their federal dollars returned; even if it is for something like this --- which is largely their own fault for letting the public land get robbed for short term gain so it costs 1000x more to buy a part of that land back again. My idiotic state sold off a lot of rail lines generations ago; making it prohibitively expensive to buy them back. I only wonder how long before our public road system is sold off for a short term gain! Our state fair grounds were already!! (and they've doubled admission and other fees + it actually costs the state now while before it brought in some money.)
for larger orgs this is a bigger factor; even smaller places its the owners who they must serve
Replace him with the GOP candidate who is even more Fascist and won't wimp out and cave in to Fascism but will openly promote those ideals (minus the negative terminology.)
They don't say trickle down anymore, its "job creators" and even the racists (with a bit of a brain) have migrated towards cultural and socioeconomic variations on social Darwinism to feed their dysfunctional emotional needs. Hell, classic racists like David Duke have a lawyer have a public relations man to look good... just your "friendly liberal KKK"... (that is an old song reference.)
The public can't handle rank voting or more than two rigged parties; those of us outside the 1 dimensional idiotic political spectrum have been upset longer than those of you who are finally being left behind as the whole thing shifts further towards despotism. If you only woke up sooner and in greater numbers... it wouldn't be too late.