Yep. A service where the signal to noise ratio is only envied by SETI will become slightly less useless. Now hipsters can use full spelling to describe their outrage at Urban Outfitters being sold out of that perfect frumpy sweater that they wanted to buy!
Of course it's possible. But claiming one companies obsolescence merely because another billionaire "unveiled a design" especially in a field like rocketry is absolutely ridiculous.
That's like people saying that ULA is washed up when Musk "unveiled the design" for the Falcon 9. ULA seems to be doing just fine, and so is SpaceX.
Target the lame duck that isn't answerable to anybody. He can sign the pardon on his way to board Marine One to be flown back to Chicago to start writing his next book, and there isn't jack shit that anybody could do about it.
The next President, whoever it is, would have to live with it, the reaction of Congress, etc. for the rest of their term.
If taxed at 100%, it would only make up half of the FY2015 budget deficit, to say nothing of reducing the amount of taxes needing to be collected from everyone that paid taxes in 2015.
TL;DR: the IRS would still be shaking you down for cash, and in no way should your comment be moderated as "informative".
So if they legally (by your own statement) avoided these taxes, they should just pay them anyway because you say so? Maybe if the government is that hard up, they shouldn't make tax deals like this.
And, by the way, who appointed you the head arbiter for world taxation? And, do you voluntarily pay more taxes then you legally have to? If not, fuck you too, because you're obviously "crooked" by your own statement.
Yeah, we should definitely bill someone for the fire department showing up after their house burns down. Or maybe bill their neighbors for preventing the fire from spreading? Oh, I know - let's bill the whole city just a little bit spread out to prevent all fires from spreading, and we can even make it an annual thing. In fact, for convenience, let's link it to property values, or perhaps earned wages.
Nothing is temporary unless the sunset date is written into the language of the law itself, which the Congress does all the time. Of course, this only means that Congress needs to pass another law to amend the date.
Anyone saying otherwise is either naive, an idiot, or both.
You're making an argument that having the seat belt inertial lock falsely engage every once in a while (annoying, but what we had for 50 years now) is worse than having a far more complex software controlled system that may not engage at all (TFA).
Usually the airbag sensors will have a speed interlock as well, as the inflation of the airbag in a tiny parking lot fender bender would cause more injury than not inflating the air bag. Definitely more financial injury.
Well, there's two different ways of making a nuclear ballistic missile.
1. Make a huge fucking rocket and put your big heavy crude weapon on top of it. See: Titan series of ICBMs, also used to launch Gemini capsules into orbit. 2. Use a staggering amount of resources to miniaturize your nuclear weapon, and use a smaller more efficient rocket. See: anything currently in the US, Russian, or Chinese arsenal, such as the Minuteman or Trident series of ICBMs.
North Korea has had very public issues with #1, and they just haven't had the resources or time to do #2. I have a feeling that these test detonations are more about dick wagging and telling lies then actual milestone progress towards #2. Isn't it odd that these tests always coincide with some other event happening that North Korea hasn't been invited to (G20 summit in China), or some military exercise involving a country close to North Korea (South Korea, Japan, etc.)?
You are absolutely correct. The history of nuclear weapons is that one country getting them, means other countries get them:
The US bomb begat the Soviet bomb. The Soviet bomb begat the Chinese bomb, the English bomb, and the French bomb. The Chinese bomb begat the Pakistani bomb. the Pakistani bomb begat the Indian bomb. In recent years, the US conventional war machine and dubiously-justified invasions begat the North Korean bomb, and progress on the Iranian bomb.
The one exception to all this seems to be South Africa, who had a nuclear weapons program and then voluntarily gave it up after Apartheid ended.
#1 just guarantees that the cable companies will come up with some unnecessary horseshit compatibility-breaking change to their systems every 2 years in order to keep rent-seeking. And, you'll be stuck with the old piece of shit set-top box that's useless and have to dispose of it yourself. Win / win.
Unfortunately, most of the 'community' thinks that it's an acceptable solution to require their own boot image to run some ported software. God forbid you would want to do something unheard of, such as having both a media player software (Kodi or Plex) and still have access to a web browser without having to fucking reboot, or go through dependency hell to get things working.
OS X supports AptX - I can't think of any reason other than sheer stupidity that they wouldn't put it into iOS 10 as well, now that they're triumphantly leading us all to the wireless future with their "courage".
Punish literally millions of people because Samsung fucked up on a small fraction of one brand new product, which they are attempting to make right (even though they are making a hash of it).
Yeah, that's not an overreaction that would normally draw consternation around here.
Many planes now have 110VAC power ports at each seat, unlike the airports they land at. So there is a significant chance of a phone being charged while in flight.
As I said, that's a legitimate gripe. Having to buy an extra thing where one was not necessary before is stupid. But spreading FUD that it's not possible is disingenuous at best.
So don't buy Apple's headphones? It's not like those are the only ones that possibly work. Use bluetooth, or use the included lightning-to-mini-phono adapter.
Just like every version of Windows has been "The best version of Windows yet!" since Windows 95. You know it's true, because every single installer has told you so after you've [allegedly] already purchased it.
I like to call it "customer purchase reassurance".
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Odd; I thought Twitter's business model was being the Internet's primary source for meaningless waffle.
Yep. A service where the signal to noise ratio is only envied by SETI will become slightly less useless. Now hipsters can use full spelling to describe their outrage at Urban Outfitters being sold out of that perfect frumpy sweater that they wanted to buy!
Of course it's possible. But claiming one companies obsolescence merely because another billionaire "unveiled a design" especially in a field like rocketry is absolutely ridiculous.
That's like people saying that ULA is washed up when Musk "unveiled the design" for the Falcon 9. ULA seems to be doing just fine, and so is SpaceX.
Nope.
Target the lame duck that isn't answerable to anybody. He can sign the pardon on his way to board Marine One to be flown back to Chicago to start writing his next book, and there isn't jack shit that anybody could do about it.
The next President, whoever it is, would have to live with it, the reaction of Congress, etc. for the rest of their term.
Yeah, look at all those other rocketry companies that had to close the doors after losing a launch vehicle on the pad!
Oh wait, that would be none of them. It turns out that space is hard.
Apple's FY2015 revenue was $234B.
If taxed at 100%, it would only make up half of the FY2015 budget deficit, to say nothing of reducing the amount of taxes needing to be collected from everyone that paid taxes in 2015.
TL;DR: the IRS would still be shaking you down for cash, and in no way should your comment be moderated as "informative".
So if they legally (by your own statement) avoided these taxes, they should just pay them anyway because you say so? Maybe if the government is that hard up, they shouldn't make tax deals like this.
And, by the way, who appointed you the head arbiter for world taxation? And, do you voluntarily pay more taxes then you legally have to? If not, fuck you too, because you're obviously "crooked" by your own statement.
Yeah, we should definitely bill someone for the fire department showing up after their house burns down. Or maybe bill their neighbors for preventing the fire from spreading? Oh, I know - let's bill the whole city just a little bit spread out to prevent all fires from spreading, and we can even make it an annual thing. In fact, for convenience, let's link it to property values, or perhaps earned wages.
I'm not normally a grammar pedant, but the irony is just too delicious.
If you're going to call someone clearly uneducated, please use the proper form of "you're" - as in the contraction of the words "you are".
In case you're looking to become a bit less clearly uneducated yourself, you referred to his possession called a 'clearly uneducated' in your post.
Nothing is temporary unless the sunset date is written into the language of the law itself, which the Congress does all the time. Of course, this only means that Congress needs to pass another law to amend the date.
Anyone saying otherwise is either naive, an idiot, or both.
Except that SpaceX actually is flying stuff today, and this is a render and doesn't exist in the physical world.
You're making an argument that having the seat belt inertial lock falsely engage every once in a while (annoying, but what we had for 50 years now) is worse than having a far more complex software controlled system that may not engage at all (TFA).
I completely disagree.
Usually the airbag sensors will have a speed interlock as well, as the inflation of the airbag in a tiny parking lot fender bender would cause more injury than not inflating the air bag. Definitely more financial injury.
Well, there's two different ways of making a nuclear ballistic missile.
1. Make a huge fucking rocket and put your big heavy crude weapon on top of it. See: Titan series of ICBMs, also used to launch Gemini capsules into orbit.
2. Use a staggering amount of resources to miniaturize your nuclear weapon, and use a smaller more efficient rocket. See: anything currently in the US, Russian, or Chinese arsenal, such as the Minuteman or Trident series of ICBMs.
North Korea has had very public issues with #1, and they just haven't had the resources or time to do #2. I have a feeling that these test detonations are more about dick wagging and telling lies then actual milestone progress towards #2. Isn't it odd that these tests always coincide with some other event happening that North Korea hasn't been invited to (G20 summit in China), or some military exercise involving a country close to North Korea (South Korea, Japan, etc.)?
You are absolutely correct. The history of nuclear weapons is that one country getting them, means other countries get them:
The US bomb begat the Soviet bomb.
The Soviet bomb begat the Chinese bomb, the English bomb, and the French bomb.
The Chinese bomb begat the Pakistani bomb.
the Pakistani bomb begat the Indian bomb.
In recent years, the US conventional war machine and dubiously-justified invasions begat the North Korean bomb, and progress on the Iranian bomb.
The one exception to all this seems to be South Africa, who had a nuclear weapons program and then voluntarily gave it up after Apartheid ended.
#1 just guarantees that the cable companies will come up with some unnecessary horseshit compatibility-breaking change to their systems every 2 years in order to keep rent-seeking. And, you'll be stuck with the old piece of shit set-top box that's useless and have to dispose of it yourself. Win / win.
Unfortunately, most of the 'community' thinks that it's an acceptable solution to require their own boot image to run some ported software. God forbid you would want to do something unheard of, such as having both a media player software (Kodi or Plex) and still have access to a web browser without having to fucking reboot, or go through dependency hell to get things working.
So that's great that data can flow 5x what an x86 server can do. Does it cost 10x as much? Because if it does, you're likely better off with x86.
OS X supports AptX - I can't think of any reason other than sheer stupidity that they wouldn't put it into iOS 10 as well, now that they're triumphantly leading us all to the wireless future with their "courage".
But you're right, even AptX needs work.
I keep seeing this statement - that the Apple Watch is for "rich people" - but strangely I see far more people that make less than I do wearing them.
Rich people buy actual luxury watches - not these things that will be unsupported and collecting dust in 3 years.
Punish literally millions of people because Samsung fucked up on a small fraction of one brand new product, which they are attempting to make right (even though they are making a hash of it).
Yeah, that's not an overreaction that would normally draw consternation around here.
Many planes now have 110VAC power ports at each seat, unlike the airports they land at. So there is a significant chance of a phone being charged while in flight.
As I said, that's a legitimate gripe. Having to buy an extra thing where one was not necessary before is stupid. But spreading FUD that it's not possible is disingenuous at best.
So don't buy Apple's headphones? It's not like those are the only ones that possibly work. Use bluetooth, or use the included lightning-to-mini-phono adapter.
Just like every version of Windows has been "The best version of Windows yet!" since Windows 95. You know it's true, because every single installer has told you so after you've [allegedly] already purchased it.
I like to call it "customer purchase reassurance".