LOL editor... if they were an actual editor, the summary wouldn't duplicate sentences in the summary. I'm just waiting for a dupe post of the article so we can have a dupe of the dupe.
From the summary (as posted when I posted this, in case the monkeys try to ninja-fix it):
Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine. Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, but only if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks. Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine.
It may be an old argument, but it's still a good one. Does your cryptobit collection actually have value as a currency if you can't buy real things with it easily?
Note: there is a difference between an investment, and currency. You can't buy groceries with stocks and bonds either, but they don't pretend to be a currency.
User replaceable batteries in the same form factor would result in smaller batteries because of the additional shielding, casing, latches, connectors, wires. If the volume inside the phone is the same, and you have to add all of that due to safety regulations and good design, then something has to give.
Then the complaint becomes "Why don't they ship a bigger battery? WTF apple? Why do I have to buy this bigger battery with a huge lump on the back in order to have it last 30% longer?!"
Note that this is all predicated on keeping the same ridiculously thin form factor; the necessity of that ridiculously thin form factor is a completely fair argument to make.
That's just crazy talk. Having the decision logic be exactly the same for two intrinsically related functions. You'll get nowhere with ideas like that.
If it was "as quickly as possible" we wouldn't see further updates after a new model ships. And, by the way, that would still be better than some Android OEMs who ship with old software with known vulnerabilities and never update it.
Bitching about Apple's support lifetime on their phones is going to ring hollow with anyone that is actually paying attention - they are far better than practically any one else.
Are you kidding me? People all over the world accept the US Dollar too. Far more than accept Bitcoin. You know how I know that? I can walk into any store in the United States and buy something with US Dollars. Can you go buy your groceries with Bitcoin? Can you fill a perscription, or pay for a medical service with Bitcoin? Can you use Bitcoin to ride public transit? When is the last time you walked into a shopping mall and seen even over 25% of the retailers accepting Bitcoin?
There are other countries that accept US Dollars as their second unofficial currency as well. Cambodia, for example, basically only uses their own currency as a replacement for coins to represent fractional dollars, and US Dollars are accepted as the standard. When I was there recently, I didn't see a single place accepting Bitcoin. Good luck getting a ride from the airport using Bitcoin, but they'll give you a lift for $3 no problem.
There are exactly zero other systems that approach this size and scope. That's the reason for the story.
This is the world's biggest grid-connected battery, and it works as advertised, if not better. It may be particularly craven of me, but that seems to be rare with infrastructure projects these days.
Well, the argument could be made that the reason why these ISPs aren't still just trying to shovel Pay-per-view garbage down people's throats, and actually big enough to buy movie studios is because of the existence of the open Internet to begin with.
If the Internet wasn't open to begin with, AOL would still be king of the hill, and Comcast / Spectrum / Verizon / AT&T would still be trying to make their own AOL clones (or buying them) and trying to get people to switch. They'd still be paying loads of money to host their own chat services, own shopping services, own this and that, rather than just moving packets to companies that specialize in that kind of thing. Or, they would have to pay loads of money to contract with 3rd party providers - basically the same way they operate their cable television networks.
That's a big steaming load of "do not want." Everyone is better off because the Internet began, and remained, open. The ISPs sure as hell are, and so are we as subscribers, even if there are still problems (read: last mile de facto service monopolies).
I love how sarcastic quips from a complete asshole are now evidence of a criminal treasonous conspiracy. "went on TV and asked the Russians to release Clinton's emails"... do you even believe this shit yourself? I fucking hate Trump and even I know that particular incident was just an ill-advised joke in the middle of a thoroughly unimportant press conference during a Presidential election. If Trump thought the Russians had those emails, and if his campaign was colluding with the Russians (as you claim) why the fuck would he ask for that on live TV in front of 5+ different news networks? Have you even thought about that at all? Why wouldn't he have one of his soon-to-be-indicted (if not already indicted) flunkies ask them to do it when doing all the other back-room treasonous conspiracy and sedition?
Shockingly, "he is an asshole" actually is a valid point for not liking someone. And it's also a majority opinion that Donald J. Trump is, indeed, a huge asshole.
You are correct that "he is an asshole" probably isn't valid criteria for quantifying job performance as President, unless he's actively an asshole to other heads of state during diplomatic events and such. Someone can still be a complete asshole and be an effective President - see: Lyndon B. Johnson or Richard M. Nixon. Both huge, gaping, assholes. But both also passed landmark legislation that has made this country a better place since (Civil Rights Act, Clean Water Act being two examples) and both had major foreign policy victories that have helped to shape the world we live in (for better or worse).
The history books will have the final say on Trump, regardless of what people are saying today (good or bad).
Thank you. For a long time now, it's been duck-and-cover for white people that weren't happy with the policies coming from the Obama white house, that didn't want to be unfairly labeled as racist just because they had critical opinions that had nothing to do with race. Never mind that there were things that administration did that they did agree with and actually liked - if you weren't 100% on board, racist!
Just like during the early 2000s, it was "go-along-or-you-hate-America" and "agree-or-we-label-you-as-someone-who-doesn't-support-the-troops"; it became "always-agree-with-the-president-or-you're-racist". Unfortunately, that pendulum seems to be going the opposite direction and it's becoming "always-disagree-with-the-president-or-you're-racist."
There has been a toxic discourse brewing in this country since the Clinton impeachment (and possibly before, stretching to pre-Watergate), neither major party is immune from it, and apparently more and more people are sycophantic enough to fall into the same vitriolic rhetoric. Nothing gets fixed until that is recognized, and people learn to stay above the ad hominem.
It's been a bleak year for actual policy discussion, and there's no light on the horizon showing it's going to get any better any time soon, I'm afraid.
Now only if people voted on FCC commissioners. Oh, I know, vote out the President that appointed these shills... well Mr. Pai was appointed by Obama, and made Chairman by Trump.
Who exactly should we be voting out here? The whole senate that voted to confirm these shills? Good luck with that.
Cable TV and cable ISP are one in the same. At least, they'd really like to be.
And this FCC vote gets them a bit closer to being there - now the cable companies that own content providers (Comcast, Charter / Time Warner / Spectrum, etc.) can make nice two-way peering agreements with each other to fast-lane their content, and put the brakes on anyone that doesn't have ISP subscribers to sell out^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bring to the bargaining table (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon)
Hey look, quasi-legal collusion to shut out competition. Brought to you by the Telco shill FCC.
Just because he's not a mass murderer in the outline of Pinochet or Pol Pot doesn't mean there's nothing to complain about.
Oh, and "all politicians lie" is equivocation trash. Just because they all do it doesn't remotely make it okay. Good job participating in the race to the bottom.
Does your economic model figure in the massive subsidy that fossil fuels receive in the form of not having to pay liability damages for the hundreds of thousands of respiratory problems caused every year from externalization of the exhaust going up the stack?
If they started putting a rider in your generation charge to pay back the Medicare claims for downwinders, solar starts to look real good. And this doesn't even touch any arguments about climate change.
This confidence rests on the fact that ISPs highly value the open internet
I had no idea that Michael Powell was a comedic writer.
ISPs highly value the ability to extort content providers that aren't fully owned subsidiaries of the ISP, or aren't other ISPs that can extort their fully owned subsidiary content provider.
ISPs highly value the idea of being able to charge other companies money for access to your eyeballs and ears, while also charging you money for access to content that the ISP doesn't actually own.
They basically do. It's just that some amendments are added by unanimous consent so there isn't a recorded vote. If they had a voice vote for every amendment, no bill would ever pass because the one crank Senator that doesn't like something would just sit there hanging amendments about anything and everything as a back-door filibuster - a simple "debt ceiling" bill would take weeks because of all the tea party types hanging amendments like Christmas ornaments just to stall after deadlines because they want the world to burn.
No thanks. The process they use now is far from perfect, but it could also be far worse.
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LOL editor... if they were an actual editor, the summary wouldn't duplicate sentences in the summary. I'm just waiting for a dupe post of the article so we can have a dupe of the dupe.
From the summary (as posted when I posted this, in case the monkeys try to ninja-fix it):
Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine. Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, but only if a scientific panel decides that the benefits justify the risks. Some scientists are eager to pursue these studies because they may show, for example, how a bird flu could mutate to more easily infect humans, or could yield clues to making a better vaccine.
It may be an old argument, but it's still a good one. Does your cryptobit collection actually have value as a currency if you can't buy real things with it easily?
Note: there is a difference between an investment, and currency. You can't buy groceries with stocks and bonds either, but they don't pretend to be a currency.
Very few countries care about what you take out on an airplane. Many more care about what you bring in on one, and what the value is.
User replaceable batteries in the same form factor would result in smaller batteries because of the additional shielding, casing, latches, connectors, wires. If the volume inside the phone is the same, and you have to add all of that due to safety regulations and good design, then something has to give.
Then the complaint becomes "Why don't they ship a bigger battery? WTF apple? Why do I have to buy this bigger battery with a huge lump on the back in order to have it last 30% longer?!"
Note that this is all predicated on keeping the same ridiculously thin form factor; the necessity of that ridiculously thin form factor is a completely fair argument to make.
That's just crazy talk. Having the decision logic be exactly the same for two intrinsically related functions. You'll get nowhere with ideas like that.
If it was "as quickly as possible" we wouldn't see further updates after a new model ships. And, by the way, that would still be better than some Android OEMs who ship with old software with known vulnerabilities and never update it.
Bitching about Apple's support lifetime on their phones is going to ring hollow with anyone that is actually paying attention - they are far better than practically any one else.
I don't mean this in a snarky or typical Internet way, but do you have sources for those metrics? I'd love to read how someone came to those figures.
Yeah, because investor money never runs away from entire sectors when a leader in a sector takes a shit.
No wait, that happens like every week.
Are you kidding me? People all over the world accept the US Dollar too. Far more than accept Bitcoin. You know how I know that? I can walk into any store in the United States and buy something with US Dollars. Can you go buy your groceries with Bitcoin? Can you fill a perscription, or pay for a medical service with Bitcoin? Can you use Bitcoin to ride public transit? When is the last time you walked into a shopping mall and seen even over 25% of the retailers accepting Bitcoin?
There are other countries that accept US Dollars as their second unofficial currency as well. Cambodia, for example, basically only uses their own currency as a replacement for coins to represent fractional dollars, and US Dollars are accepted as the standard. When I was there recently, I didn't see a single place accepting Bitcoin. Good luck getting a ride from the airport using Bitcoin, but they'll give you a lift for $3 no problem.
Much broader support. Hilarious.
There are exactly zero other systems that approach this size and scope. That's the reason for the story.
This is the world's biggest grid-connected battery, and it works as advertised, if not better. It may be particularly craven of me, but that seems to be rare with infrastructure projects these days.
Well, the argument could be made that the reason why these ISPs aren't still just trying to shovel Pay-per-view garbage down people's throats, and actually big enough to buy movie studios is because of the existence of the open Internet to begin with.
If the Internet wasn't open to begin with, AOL would still be king of the hill, and Comcast / Spectrum / Verizon / AT&T would still be trying to make their own AOL clones (or buying them) and trying to get people to switch. They'd still be paying loads of money to host their own chat services, own shopping services, own this and that, rather than just moving packets to companies that specialize in that kind of thing. Or, they would have to pay loads of money to contract with 3rd party providers - basically the same way they operate their cable television networks.
That's a big steaming load of "do not want." Everyone is better off because the Internet began, and remained, open. The ISPs sure as hell are, and so are we as subscribers, even if there are still problems (read: last mile de facto service monopolies).
Why waste perfectly good rockets on these two? A few cinderblocks, some chain, two straight jackets and an ocean-going boat would be just fine.
I love how sarcastic quips from a complete asshole are now evidence of a criminal treasonous conspiracy. "went on TV and asked the Russians to release Clinton's emails"... do you even believe this shit yourself? I fucking hate Trump and even I know that particular incident was just an ill-advised joke in the middle of a thoroughly unimportant press conference during a Presidential election. If Trump thought the Russians had those emails, and if his campaign was colluding with the Russians (as you claim) why the fuck would he ask for that on live TV in front of 5+ different news networks? Have you even thought about that at all? Why wouldn't he have one of his soon-to-be-indicted (if not already indicted) flunkies ask them to do it when doing all the other back-room treasonous conspiracy and sedition?
Use your brain, please.
Shockingly, "he is an asshole" actually is a valid point for not liking someone. And it's also a majority opinion that Donald J. Trump is, indeed, a huge asshole.
You are correct that "he is an asshole" probably isn't valid criteria for quantifying job performance as President, unless he's actively an asshole to other heads of state during diplomatic events and such. Someone can still be a complete asshole and be an effective President - see: Lyndon B. Johnson or Richard M. Nixon. Both huge, gaping, assholes. But both also passed landmark legislation that has made this country a better place since (Civil Rights Act, Clean Water Act being two examples) and both had major foreign policy victories that have helped to shape the world we live in (for better or worse).
The history books will have the final say on Trump, regardless of what people are saying today (good or bad).
Thank you. For a long time now, it's been duck-and-cover for white people that weren't happy with the policies coming from the Obama white house, that didn't want to be unfairly labeled as racist just because they had critical opinions that had nothing to do with race. Never mind that there were things that administration did that they did agree with and actually liked - if you weren't 100% on board, racist!
Just like during the early 2000s, it was "go-along-or-you-hate-America" and "agree-or-we-label-you-as-someone-who-doesn't-support-the-troops"; it became "always-agree-with-the-president-or-you're-racist". Unfortunately, that pendulum seems to be going the opposite direction and it's becoming "always-disagree-with-the-president-or-you're-racist."
There has been a toxic discourse brewing in this country since the Clinton impeachment (and possibly before, stretching to pre-Watergate), neither major party is immune from it, and apparently more and more people are sycophantic enough to fall into the same vitriolic rhetoric. Nothing gets fixed until that is recognized, and people learn to stay above the ad hominem.
It's been a bleak year for actual policy discussion, and there's no light on the horizon showing it's going to get any better any time soon, I'm afraid.
Now only if people voted on FCC commissioners. Oh, I know, vote out the President that appointed these shills... well Mr. Pai was appointed by Obama, and made Chairman by Trump.
Who exactly should we be voting out here? The whole senate that voted to confirm these shills? Good luck with that.
Cable TV and cable ISP are one in the same. At least, they'd really like to be.
And this FCC vote gets them a bit closer to being there - now the cable companies that own content providers (Comcast, Charter / Time Warner / Spectrum, etc.) can make nice two-way peering agreements with each other to fast-lane their content, and put the brakes on anyone that doesn't have ISP subscribers to sell out^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bring to the bargaining table (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon)
Hey look, quasi-legal collusion to shut out competition. Brought to you by the Telco shill FCC.
You do know that Netflix has to pay for their own outbound bandwidth, right?
Just because he's not a mass murderer in the outline of Pinochet or Pol Pot doesn't mean there's nothing to complain about.
Oh, and "all politicians lie" is equivocation trash. Just because they all do it doesn't remotely make it okay. Good job participating in the race to the bottom.
21st Century Fox != Fox News
Does your economic model figure in the massive subsidy that fossil fuels receive in the form of not having to pay liability damages for the hundreds of thousands of respiratory problems caused every year from externalization of the exhaust going up the stack?
If they started putting a rider in your generation charge to pay back the Medicare claims for downwinders, solar starts to look real good. And this doesn't even touch any arguments about climate change.
with IBM trying to talk people into shoving blockchain where it doesn't belong
What, like the back of a Volkswagen?
This confidence rests on the fact that ISPs highly value the open internet
I had no idea that Michael Powell was a comedic writer.
ISPs highly value the ability to extort content providers that aren't fully owned subsidiaries of the ISP, or aren't other ISPs that can extort their fully owned subsidiary content provider.
ISPs highly value the idea of being able to charge other companies money for access to your eyeballs and ears, while also charging you money for access to content that the ISP doesn't actually own.
What a load of horse shit.
They basically do. It's just that some amendments are added by unanimous consent so there isn't a recorded vote. If they had a voice vote for every amendment, no bill would ever pass because the one crank Senator that doesn't like something would just sit there hanging amendments about anything and everything as a back-door filibuster - a simple "debt ceiling" bill would take weeks because of all the tea party types hanging amendments like Christmas ornaments just to stall after deadlines because they want the world to burn.
No thanks. The process they use now is far from perfect, but it could also be far worse.
Net neutrality
Clean air act
Wasn't that a bargain?