There's a fairly massive barrier to entry there though. Maybe there're aircraft out there cheaper than Cessna's; but given that they're canonical and ubiquitous, I went looking for pricing on the 172. And it the cheapest model offered starts at $274,900. That being the cheapest, lowest-end, most bare-bones model available; stock, with no add-ons. That, of course, does not include the time and money for training to get your license.
I don't remember MP3 playback being built in to Mac OS or Windows in 1999 either. If I recall correctly, I was using SoundJam MP on the Mac and Winamp on Windows, both third-party software that were not bundled with the OS, back then.
For that matter, Tesla and its autopilot are not really valid test cases for "Are self-driving cars safer?". Misconceptions by idiots aside, Tesla's autopilot is functionally equivalent to every other autopilot in existence: a tool to reduce the workload for the pilot, but not something that allows for fully autonomous self-operation of the vehicle.
A better place to look for statistics is with Google's experiments with self-driving cars, which are designed to operate entirely without human control.
Well, the majority of the people do live in the cities. So what you call "pandering", I would call doing their goddamned jobs. People are what matter; not dirt.
If the lives of 10 other drivers are saved by the autopilot features then yes, it's a win even if those 5 Darwin themselves. And the data so far does indeed indicate that autopilot is a net win.
While I don't own a Tesla, I have read the owner's manual. It is made quite clear that Tesla's autopilot is the automotive equivalent of the definition that has been in use for every autopilot in existence since decades ago. There is no claim, or even implication, of Knight Rider like functionality.
It doesn't matter, really. As a self-described socialist democrat and significantly more progressive; Sanders is even more the polar opposite of the Trump people and representation of everything they hate than Clinton is. The only thing Sanders has in his favor, so far as those people are concerned, is his Y chromosome.
And while I am sure there is some small subset of the Trump people who are only misogynistic, but not racist, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic or isolationist; I doubt that would amount to enough defections from Trump to Sanders for the election to have gone the right way.
6th, actually. We surpassed France earlier this year.:-)
A few months ago, shortly before we knocked off France, Governor Brown had an awesome comeback when Rick Scott, Florida's governor, got a bit lippy with his misconceptions about our economy: "Rick, a fact you'd like to ignore: California is the 7th largest economic power in the world. We're competing with nations like Brazil and France, not states like Florida."
Well, that'd probably be the impetus to reform the godawful convoluted and archaic system of water rights (Some of which linger from back when California was still Mexico.); charge all water users in accordance with its actual value; and ban stupidly wasteful spray and flood irrigation in favor of modern drip systems. Then, we'd get along just fine without out-of-state water.
On the other hand; how would the rest of the US west of the Mississippi feel about giving up their dairy and produce?
Really, I think it was a mistake to stop the south from leaving in the first place. Sure, the bar should be set pretty high... like a 3/4ths or so supermajority vote with multiple affirmative referenda over a few years... to prevent secession at a whim. But it's pretty damn hypocritical to revere the text of the Declaration of Independence so and to go on with statements about the rights of self-determination in the rest of the world; but to deny the people of California or Texas or whatever other state to go their own way when the citizens decide that Washington DC isn't working for them.
You sure? I could swear I remember Rico being raised in the Philippines in the book, and BA only coming into play because his mother was on vacation there and died when the bugs hit it. His father most definitely stayed in the Philippines and survived the whole book tho.
I have little doubt that was at least part of Paul Verhoeven intention. His execution left much to be desired though. So I could easily forgive someone who watched it and thought it was just an extraordinarily poor attempt at rendering Heinlein's work onto the screen. Even if he'd done as good a job at satire as he did with, for example, Robocop; that would still miss a lot of the point of the book though. Heinlein's novel was very much more nuanced than the "military good, war good, only good bug is a dead bug" screed that Verhoeven seems to have taken away and wanted to tear down.
Remember, Paul Verhoeven has had a very much "hit or miss" career. When he did good... Robocop, Total Recall... he really nailed it. When he did bad... Showgirls, Starship Troopers... he knocked out some real stinkers.
You could just try ignoring them. Seriously, don't bother engaging them and go about living your life. You'll save yourself some stress, and you'll avoid validating them.
It's funny how trends come in waves. This has all happened before, and no doubt it'll happen again. Now, the detractors call it "SJW". I don't know what they call themselves. But in the 1990s, it was the exact thing, only we all called it "political correctness". And you know what? The 1990s college kids eventually graduated, found out that the BS doesn't fly in the real-world workplace, and grew the fuck up. The "SJW" people will eventually do the same thing, everyone will forget about it the same way we've already forgotten about emo (Ha! Made you remember. I bet it's been years.), and in another two decades it'll be back with another new name. And boy, are the 1990s back in force. JNCOs are back. Kikwear is in business again. Raves are happening again. Nine Inch Nails played in San Francisco recently. And I swear to the gods... I saw a group of kids in the mall today who looked exact-fracking-ly like a garage ska band from when I was in high school.
Even if they did, it'd be all but meaningless. It really doesn't how good the security is on vanilla Android, running on Google-designed hardware, and unmolested by custom carrier garbage; when those are a tiny fraction of Android phones. Maybe Google will defend the integrity of the Pixel the same way Apple defended the iPhone. But last I heard, the largest seller by far of Android handsets was still Samsung: Crap hardware, with their own crap modifications to the Android software, plus even more crap added by the carriers.
Bull. You can't disassociate the candidate from the campaign.
"crooked" Hillary Clinton "goofy" Elizabeth Warren, aka (in his mind) Pocahontas Declarations of intent and history of sexually assaulting women, with the claim that it's okay so long as he has a TicTac first.
Xenophobia goes far beyond the call to close the borders to all muslims, itself an abomination. What about the trade wars he wants to start and the treaties he wants to abrogate.
Look. I *live* in a border state... the largest border state in the union; indeed, the largest state IN the union. I count hispanics amongst my friends, neighbors, and coworkers. I can say without reservation that we are richer, personally, culturally, and economically, by having them here. We're hardly doing badly. We recently knocked off France to become the sixth largest economy in the entire world. And we are most definitely going Hillary in November.
This is nothing more than a stupid-ass canard that Trump and his alt-right goonsquad are clinging to in order to distract from the real issues and the fact that they have no answers and their entire campaign is built around racism, misogyny, and xenophobic isolationism.
The title should be fairly self-explanatory. But it is a fairly new thing. In traditional parlance, it's about halfway between executive producer (secures and handles the money but doesn't take creative role) and line producer (tends to the tedious day-to-day details but doesn't have the bandwidth to look at the big picture.).
The only real loss there is MagSafe. It's removal is a major negative against these new MacBooks as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, I really wish they'd rolled out MagSafe across all their ports and adapters rather than just the power connection. It just makes so much damn sense, particularly on any mobile device. For the life of me, I've no idea why they didn't.
Yeah. And if you were even a pretend audiophile, you'd be making the same complaint about:
1) mp3/AAC audio files (lossy compression) 2) Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, or any other streaming service (lossy compression plus buffering and internet streaming artifacts) 3) The cheap little D/A chipset that's compact and low-power enough to fit in any phone. (Not isolated enough from other electronics to prevent artifacts) 4) The cheap little amp circuit that's compact and low-power enough to fit in any phone. (More of the above.) 5) The fact that the vast bulk of 3.5mm corded headphones are crap, even if you're listening to lossless audio on a high-end stereo with good D/A conversion and a tube amp. 6) The fact that even if the headphones themselves are good, the actual cable on most 3.5mm headphones is woefully sucepptable to picking up electrinoc noise from just about anything.
Since you failed to make any of these complaints, but zeroed in on the one thing that's unique (for now) to Apple; it's pretty clear that you aren't even a real poseur, much less a ture audiophile. You're just looking for an excuse, any excuse, to bitch about Apple. Nothing but more of the same that you lot have been doing pretty much since there's *been* an Apple. I hear that profits are down vs. last year. For your next trick, will you be bringing the "beleaguered" and "shut it down and return the money to the shareholders" lines back out of the closet? Maybe you can even go for the "only idiots too dumb to use the command line use a mouse" routine too.
His statement was that Mexican's are rapists and murders, but allowed that some of them are good people. Deconstructing that, he's categorized them as criminals in general, but allowed that a minority are exceptions to the generalization. Sure, take out all of the editorialization. A lot of it is sensationalism, But just analyse the text of his actual statements, and he's still about as bad as they come.
Oh, and you could certainly say that that reporter was not "safely attacked". But it was still clearly assault. And if you or I went up to a woman and pulled that stunt, we'd be prosecuted for it, and that would be entirely appropriate.
Nice in theory. But the reality is that either Trump or Clinton is going to be president. The closest thing to a viable 3rd-party I've seen in my lifetime (and I was a kid at the time) was Perot in the early '90s. He had much better numbers than either Johnson or Stein and even he got soundly trounced.
And Johnson and Stein have their own issues. Johnson is woefully ignorant on foreign affairs, to the point that I have to believe that it's willful. He just plays it off in an "aw shucks" manner as opposed to Trump's overt cluelessness. And Stein is an economically ignorant, anti-science, anti-vaxxer loon.
If the Republicans hadn't presented a candidate that's just so bloody overwhelmingly and irredeemably awful... like if they'd nominated Kasich, Graham, Pataki, or even Jeb; I might have been inclined to just leave that part of my ballot blank and say "a pox on all your houses". But they didn't. They didn't just offer up one of the unreasonable and terrible candidates from their lineup. They chose absolutely the worst one out of the whole lot.
So I'm voting strategically. I may not like the 2-party system. Hell, I think there'd be a lot to be said for scrapping the whole thing in favor of a Westminster-style parliamentary system where minor parties can cooperate and have a reasonable shot at shuffling the majors aside and forming a coalition government. But the 2-party system is what we have. And it's ignorant to not recognize and understand that.
Putin doesn't have to be a madman though. He's an old-school ex-KGB totalitarian thug. And he's on-record as pining for the "good old" days of the cold war, the KGB, and the USSR, describing the dissolution of the latter as: "The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century". That makes him plenty loathsome and dangerous even as a 100% sane and rational actor.
You know, there is a reason that a huge chunk of those eastern European countries that Russia dominated during the cold war have been so anxious to strengthen western ties, and even join NATO in some cases, these last couple decades. And it's not because the Russians are awesome and peace-loving and all-around good neighbors to have at their doorstep.
I'm not saying that the US is all peaches-and-cream. We have our share of domestic problems, and engage in too much foreign adventurism. But compared to Russia? Come on.
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There's a fairly massive barrier to entry there though. Maybe there're aircraft out there cheaper than Cessna's; but given that they're canonical and ubiquitous, I went looking for pricing on the 172. And it the cheapest model offered starts at $274,900. That being the cheapest, lowest-end, most bare-bones model available; stock, with no add-ons. That, of course, does not include the time and money for training to get your license.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Trump has a rubber-stamp congress, and is a single retirement or death away from having a rubber-stamp Supreme Court.
How do you figure that for a lame duck presidency?
I don't remember MP3 playback being built in to Mac OS or Windows in 1999 either. If I recall correctly, I was using SoundJam MP on the Mac and Winamp on Windows, both third-party software that were not bundled with the OS, back then.
For that matter, Tesla and its autopilot are not really valid test cases for "Are self-driving cars safer?". Misconceptions by idiots aside, Tesla's autopilot is functionally equivalent to every other autopilot in existence: a tool to reduce the workload for the pilot, but not something that allows for fully autonomous self-operation of the vehicle.
A better place to look for statistics is with Google's experiments with self-driving cars, which are designed to operate entirely without human control.
Well, the majority of the people do live in the cities. So what you call "pandering", I would call doing their goddamned jobs. People are what matter; not dirt.
If the lives of 10 other drivers are saved by the autopilot features then yes, it's a win even if those 5 Darwin themselves. And the data so far does indeed indicate that autopilot is a net win.
While I don't own a Tesla, I have read the owner's manual. It is made quite clear that Tesla's autopilot is the automotive equivalent of the definition that has been in use for every autopilot in existence since decades ago. There is no claim, or even implication, of Knight Rider like functionality.
It doesn't matter, really. As a self-described socialist democrat and significantly more progressive; Sanders is even more the polar opposite of the Trump people and representation of everything they hate than Clinton is. The only thing Sanders has in his favor, so far as those people are concerned, is his Y chromosome.
And while I am sure there is some small subset of the Trump people who are only misogynistic, but not racist, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic or isolationist; I doubt that would amount to enough defections from Trump to Sanders for the election to have gone the right way.
6th, actually. We surpassed France earlier this year. :-)
A few months ago, shortly before we knocked off France, Governor Brown had an awesome comeback when Rick Scott, Florida's governor, got a bit lippy with his misconceptions about our economy: "Rick, a fact you'd like to ignore: California is the 7th largest economic power in the world. We're competing with nations like Brazil and France, not states like Florida."
Well, that'd probably be the impetus to reform the godawful convoluted and archaic system of water rights (Some of which linger from back when California was still Mexico.); charge all water users in accordance with its actual value; and ban stupidly wasteful spray and flood irrigation in favor of modern drip systems. Then, we'd get along just fine without out-of-state water.
On the other hand; how would the rest of the US west of the Mississippi feel about giving up their dairy and produce?
Really, I think it was a mistake to stop the south from leaving in the first place. Sure, the bar should be set pretty high... like a 3/4ths or so supermajority vote with multiple affirmative referenda over a few years... to prevent secession at a whim. But it's pretty damn hypocritical to revere the text of the Declaration of Independence so and to go on with statements about the rights of self-determination in the rest of the world; but to deny the people of California or Texas or whatever other state to go their own way when the citizens decide that Washington DC isn't working for them.
You sure? I could swear I remember Rico being raised in the Philippines in the book, and BA only coming into play because his mother was on vacation there and died when the bugs hit it. His father most definitely stayed in the Philippines and survived the whole book tho.
> The entire movie is biting satire
I have little doubt that was at least part of Paul Verhoeven intention. His execution left much to be desired though. So I could easily forgive someone who watched it and thought it was just an extraordinarily poor attempt at rendering Heinlein's work onto the screen. Even if he'd done as good a job at satire as he did with, for example, Robocop; that would still miss a lot of the point of the book though. Heinlein's novel was very much more nuanced than the "military good, war good, only good bug is a dead bug" screed that Verhoeven seems to have taken away and wanted to tear down.
Remember, Paul Verhoeven has had a very much "hit or miss" career. When he did good... Robocop, Total Recall... he really nailed it. When he did bad... Showgirls, Starship Troopers... he knocked out some real stinkers.
You could just try ignoring them. Seriously, don't bother engaging them and go about living your life. You'll save yourself some stress, and you'll avoid validating them.
It's funny how trends come in waves. This has all happened before, and no doubt it'll happen again. Now, the detractors call it "SJW". I don't know what they call themselves. But in the 1990s, it was the exact thing, only we all called it "political correctness". And you know what? The 1990s college kids eventually graduated, found out that the BS doesn't fly in the real-world workplace, and grew the fuck up. The "SJW" people will eventually do the same thing, everyone will forget about it the same way we've already forgotten about emo (Ha! Made you remember. I bet it's been years.), and in another two decades it'll be back with another new name. And boy, are the 1990s back in force. JNCOs are back. Kikwear is in business again. Raves are happening again. Nine Inch Nails played in San Francisco recently. And I swear to the gods... I saw a group of kids in the mall today who looked exact-fracking-ly like a garage ska band from when I was in high school.
Even if they did, it'd be all but meaningless. It really doesn't how good the security is on vanilla Android, running on Google-designed hardware, and unmolested by custom carrier garbage; when those are a tiny fraction of Android phones. Maybe Google will defend the integrity of the Pixel the same way Apple defended the iPhone. But last I heard, the largest seller by far of Android handsets was still Samsung: Crap hardware, with their own crap modifications to the Android software, plus even more crap added by the carriers.
People are what matters, not dirt.
Bull. You can't disassociate the candidate from the campaign.
"crooked" Hillary Clinton
"goofy" Elizabeth Warren, aka (in his mind) Pocahontas
Declarations of intent and history of sexually assaulting women, with the claim that it's okay so long as he has a TicTac first.
Xenophobia goes far beyond the call to close the borders to all muslims, itself an abomination. What about the trade wars he wants to start and the treaties he wants to abrogate.
Look. I *live* in a border state... the largest border state in the union; indeed, the largest state IN the union. I count hispanics amongst my friends, neighbors, and coworkers. I can say without reservation that we are richer, personally, culturally, and economically, by having them here. We're hardly doing badly. We recently knocked off France to become the sixth largest economy in the entire world. And we are most definitely going Hillary in November.
Even the other Democratic candidate considers it a non-issue, and has said so since the very beginning of the primaries campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is nothing more than a stupid-ass canard that Trump and his alt-right goonsquad are clinging to in order to distract from the real issues and the fact that they have no answers and their entire campaign is built around racism, misogyny, and xenophobic isolationism.
The title should be fairly self-explanatory. But it is a fairly new thing. In traditional parlance, it's about halfway between executive producer (secures and handles the money but doesn't take creative role) and line producer (tends to the tedious day-to-day details but doesn't have the bandwidth to look at the big picture.).
The only real loss there is MagSafe. It's removal is a major negative against these new MacBooks as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, I really wish they'd rolled out MagSafe across all their ports and adapters rather than just the power connection. It just makes so much damn sense, particularly on any mobile device. For the life of me, I've no idea why they didn't.
Your dealer is behind the times. Mine takes credit cards and ApplePay thanks to Square.
> audio on BT is fucking shite.
Yeah. And if you were even a pretend audiophile, you'd be making the same complaint about:
1) mp3/AAC audio files (lossy compression)
2) Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, or any other streaming service (lossy compression plus buffering and internet streaming artifacts)
3) The cheap little D/A chipset that's compact and low-power enough to fit in any phone. (Not isolated enough from other electronics to prevent artifacts)
4) The cheap little amp circuit that's compact and low-power enough to fit in any phone. (More of the above.)
5) The fact that the vast bulk of 3.5mm corded headphones are crap, even if you're listening to lossless audio on a high-end stereo with good D/A conversion and a tube amp.
6) The fact that even if the headphones themselves are good, the actual cable on most 3.5mm headphones is woefully sucepptable to picking up electrinoc noise from just about anything.
Since you failed to make any of these complaints, but zeroed in on the one thing that's unique (for now) to Apple; it's pretty clear that you aren't even a real poseur, much less a ture audiophile. You're just looking for an excuse, any excuse, to bitch about Apple. Nothing but more of the same that you lot have been doing pretty much since there's *been* an Apple. I hear that profits are down vs. last year. For your next trick, will you be bringing the "beleaguered" and "shut it down and return the money to the shareholders" lines back out of the closet? Maybe you can even go for the "only idiots too dumb to use the command line use a mouse" routine too.
His statement was that Mexican's are rapists and murders, but allowed that some of them are good people. Deconstructing that, he's categorized them as criminals in general, but allowed that a minority are exceptions to the generalization. Sure, take out all of the editorialization. A lot of it is sensationalism, But just analyse the text of his actual statements, and he's still about as bad as they come.
Oh, and you could certainly say that that reporter was not "safely attacked". But it was still clearly assault. And if you or I went up to a woman and pulled that stunt, we'd be prosecuted for it, and that would be entirely appropriate.
Nice in theory. But the reality is that either Trump or Clinton is going to be president. The closest thing to a viable 3rd-party I've seen in my lifetime (and I was a kid at the time) was Perot in the early '90s. He had much better numbers than either Johnson or Stein and even he got soundly trounced.
And Johnson and Stein have their own issues. Johnson is woefully ignorant on foreign affairs, to the point that I have to believe that it's willful. He just plays it off in an "aw shucks" manner as opposed to Trump's overt cluelessness. And Stein is an economically ignorant, anti-science, anti-vaxxer loon.
If the Republicans hadn't presented a candidate that's just so bloody overwhelmingly and irredeemably awful... like if they'd nominated Kasich, Graham, Pataki, or even Jeb; I might have been inclined to just leave that part of my ballot blank and say "a pox on all your houses". But they didn't. They didn't just offer up one of the unreasonable and terrible candidates from their lineup. They chose absolutely the worst one out of the whole lot.
So I'm voting strategically. I may not like the 2-party system. Hell, I think there'd be a lot to be said for scrapping the whole thing in favor of a Westminster-style parliamentary system where minor parties can cooperate and have a reasonable shot at shuffling the majors aside and forming a coalition government. But the 2-party system is what we have. And it's ignorant to not recognize and understand that.
Putin doesn't have to be a madman though. He's an old-school ex-KGB totalitarian thug. And he's on-record as pining for the "good old" days of the cold war, the KGB, and the USSR, describing the dissolution of the latter as: "The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century". That makes him plenty loathsome and dangerous even as a 100% sane and rational actor.
You know, there is a reason that a huge chunk of those eastern European countries that Russia dominated during the cold war have been so anxious to strengthen western ties, and even join NATO in some cases, these last couple decades. And it's not because the Russians are awesome and peace-loving and all-around good neighbors to have at their doorstep.
I'm not saying that the US is all peaches-and-cream. We have our share of domestic problems, and engage in too much foreign adventurism. But compared to Russia? Come on.