A rural WISP, serving a handful of customers and not part of a chain, is a small operation. A "Mom-and-POP" if you will. ("POP" = "Point of Presence", the term of art for the site to which the customers are connected.)
Such operations don't have enough revenue to do fancy web design and e-commerce systems. The may be one or a handful of people, some or even all part time, maybe not even the "day job" for the principals. They may even be a hobbiest or some other Net-lover-or-needer who got fed up with the big ISPs ignoring their little rural area (and the downsides of satellite ISPs), brought in a high-speed line, and set up a WISP to offload some of the bandwidth and costs. They are doing well if they're able to keep the net up to their customers.
This is what the Internet was like in the early days, before the telecoms and cable companies got involved. Enjoy!
The trees get their water from precipitation, either directly as rainfall or from later snow melt.
And the water in the rainfall came from the humidity in the air (which was then "squeegied out" by the mountains forcing the air upward).
But much of the water in the air came from the imported irrigation water, evaporated by transpiration in irrigated plants (and a bit from wet surfaces). Very little of the water imported to west-of-the-Sierras ends up in the Pacific Ocean or refilling overpumped underground aquifers, nearly all ends up in the air, blowing toward the mountains, to fall as rain or snow.
This is good, because the water off the coast of California is mostly the Alaska Current. It's cold, so it doesn't humidify the air much. (Swimming in it will kill you in 15 to 30 minutes. The dewpoint in Silicon Valley, when the wind isn't coming from the land, runs around 50F.) Indeed, much of the humidity coming from the ocean is the result of the imported water that DID make it to the Pacific - arriving substantially warmer that what was already out there.
So, though the mountain trees get their water from rain, snow, or fog, the rain, snow, or fog gets ITS water largely from the imported irrigation water.
Scientists blame five-plus years of drought on the increasing tree deaths
Next up: lung cancer causes smoking!
It's not entirely silly written backward like that. Trees transpire a lot of water from the ground into the air, where it later falls as rain downwind (or uphill, where it can then fall as rain (or snow, becoming snowpack) and feed rivers that flow back upwind, to repeat the cycle.)
Not enough to account for the drought, though. But nonzero nonetheless. B-)
Also, grass would do it far more than trees. (Grass evaporates six times as much water per acre as a lake surface - or swimming pools.)
I don't understand why buying a domain name would be considered free speech.
What part of "slippery slope" or "chilling effect" don't you understand?
Without your own domain you're at the mercy of others to get your words out. (In case you hadn't noticed, a couple of the big-name services are currently engaged in purging "hateful" posters and suppressing display of articles ferom "fake news" sites. When you get down to the actual posters and sites suppressed, the actual definitions seem to actually be "conservative".)
Just as the right to free speech and a free press includes the right to become your own publisher - whether printing leaflets, pamphlets, or newspapers. Look at the documents from the U.S. revolution, things like _The Federalist Papers_. To do that effectively today you'd need your own domain - and publishing your contact information would bring the wrath of several power groups down on your head.
Federico Faggin... later went on to design the Intel 8080 and the Zilog Z80 with Masatoshi Shima, a Japanese engineer with a "steel trap mind...
Which leaves out the fact that the 8008 was not an in-house-conceived upgrade of the 4004. Instead it was a commission, from Datapoint corporation, to implement the instruction set of their Dreatapoint 2200 terminal as a microprocessor chip.
A failed commission at that: TI dropped out early, and Intel got theirs to work, but with a chip that came in late, and slower than Datapoint's 100-ish chip TTL design (even though the latter's ALU was serial rather than parallel). So Datapoint and Intel agreed to settle the contract, with Datapoint being refunded the costs and Intel getting to sell the chip as their own when they got it finished, and make derivatives.
Great deal for Intel. Not so hot for Datapoint, whose flagship terminal was now facing competition based on their own instruction set and designs.
When you cut a deal with a big semiconductor house, you have to watch out for this sort of thing. As I understand it, the TI calculators came from a similar situation where TI built a 4-bit processor as a commission for a calculator manufacturer, then built and sold their own products around it and its follow-ons.
Similarly with Ford and Motorola. Ford commissioned the processor for the EEC-III without including an option for a spin to include design upgrades identified as very-useful-to-necessary. They identified several things that would make the chip better. So they reported them to Motorola in the hopes they'd incorporate them in a follow-on despite no contractual obligation to do so. They did make a follow-on with the improvements, which they sold to GM. B-b
So, as with a Deveel, if you think you cut a good deal with a semiconductor company, be sure to count your fingers, then your toes, then your relatives...
Your insurance rates are not based on how many seats it has,... It is purely based on cost of repair of car, along with your driving record.
and the computed probability of the car being in an accident, which is not JUST your driving record.
But they don't compute that based on every model of car. That would bury them in law-of-small-numbers noise. They need a large enough sample for the averages to show through. So they group many "similar" cars and take aggregate statistics.
It happened (about 1990, when I decided to buy a sporty car while I still had reflexes good enough to enjoy it) that one of the big group boundaries was two-seaters versus four-seaters. Of course the sports cars had ended up in the two-seater groups and trashed their estimated probability of being involved in an accident, relative to four-seaters. So there was a big difference in premiums between the two- and four-seaters. The auto companies had responded to that by making "four seater" sports cars with token rear seats. Example: The Diamond Star Motors Misusbishi Eclipse / Jeep Eagle Talon / Plymouth Laser. (Apparently there was a similar difference between the accident rates of standard and "crew-cab" pickup trucks that led to the jumpseat phenomenon, as well, about the same time.)
Now maybe these days the insurance companies have wised up and adjusted their group boundaries to avoid this auto company hack. But that is how it was, at least back at the start of the last decade of the 20th century, according to both my auto dealer and my insurance salesman at the time.
Really nothing special. It just so happens that the drive they use (electric) is especially well suited for low speed acceleration.
Like a motorcycle (with its insanely high power-to-weight ratio), an electric vehicle, in principle, can apply just enough torque to keep from spinning the wheels, and thus accelerate at a rate proportional only to the tires' coefficient of rolling friction. This is essentially the limit of acceleration for ANY wheeled vehicle.
Some sports and race cars cheat it - just a little - by using aerodynamics to put a little more downward force on the driving wheels at high speeds, and some race drivers raise the coefficient slightly by pre-heating (melting) the rubber. Both are equally possible with an electric drive. Meanwhile, the smooth, controlled, application of torque possible with electric drive makes it easy to track the friction coefficient - all the way back to the total stall at startup. So a well-designed electric drive SHOULD be able to beat or tie ANYTHING ELSE in a sprint.
But the early electric cars were designed by companies who thought the target market was deep-pocket eco-freaks and government-driven purchases and market distortion victims. So they didn't do the work to obtain performance. It took Elon Musk and some of his colleagues to realize that high-performance electric cars had a (voluntary) market, and actually build cars for that market.
When I was in the US I thought it was amazing how many people where hauling 4x8 sheets when looking at the cars people drove.
It's our government distorting the market.
They imposed the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard, to try to reduce fuel consumption. To meet it, the auto manufacturers killed the station wagon and started making mostly small cars. So people with a family too large to drive, or tote groceries for, in a rice-rocket moved up to SUVs, vans, and pickup trucks. Less mileage - but they're "commercial" (and some ARE needed for commercial purposes), so they don't count.
They don't count even though the Pointy Haired Bosses in some auto companies noticed that MOST of their SUVs never leave the cities and freeways, redesigned them into "Mall Terrain Vehicles" with smoother highway rides (crippling them for off-road work), and wondered why their former regular customers (who bought vehicles even during recessions) switched to other brands.
If the foolish government goes through with their threat to bring SUVs and/or vans under the CAFE standard, it just means more crippling of farming, ranching, and other businesses, while the people needing larger family support vehicles will move up to crew-cab pickups and small buses.
(This is one example of why people who live and work in rural areas tended to vote against Hillary and Democrats for other federal offices.)
Why do you honestly need a $40K F150 that's 20 feet tall? All you do is blind everybody you pull up behind with your headlights. It's a damn nuisance.
Because I need to tow several tons up mountains. (My F150 can tow 5 1/2 tons at highway speeds - though I'm not going to trust that rating on grades over 6%.)
And I need cargo capacity to bring a month's shopping from the nearest supermarket - more than 20 miles away - in a single trip, rather than five.
And I need high clearance to make it the last seven-tenths of a mile from the paved road to the ranch when the UNpaved road is a foot-and-a-half deep mud.
And I also need the high clearance to avoid getting stuck in the high desert (or a mountain pass or remote valley), 50 miles from a major road, 40 from a MAINTAINED road, out of cellphone coverage, and where it might be months before another vehicle comes by.
SOME of us don't do ALL our driving on city streets or freeways.
Yes, it does maybe 70% of its mileage in the city. But even at the lower gas mileage it's STILL a lot less energy (and a HELL of a lot less money) than making (and buying) another vehicle (and a bigger townhouse to have room to park it in Silicon Valley) just to use for commutes.
I like cars that are fun to drive too (and have owned several) but two seat sports cars are hugely impractical and generally expensive luxuries.
And then there are the "four seat sports cars" with the two tiny rear seats that are just about unusable, even for kids.
Those seats are there to let you drive a sports car and not pay insurance like you are driving a sports car.
(Similarly with the fold-down "jump seats" in some trucks. You CAN ride in them, if you fold yourself up. But if the truck hits a bump, as you're likely to do a lot on a trip to, from, or around a work site, you're likely to break your tailbone. The space is really for tools and the seats are at least partly an insurance-rate hack.)
Personally, I would like to see something like the old VW beetle with a subaru boxer engine from an STI.
When the old VW bug was in production and common, there was this one upcountry law enforcement officer who made a little mod to his bug.
He took out the back seat and installed a Ford Interceptor engine. (That was the souped-up model that Ford would only sell to police for their traffic enforcement vehicles (or people who knew the order code and could slip it into their new-vehicle purchase paperwork).)
With the block entirely below the window line it made the car heavy and low-center-of-gravity enough to stay on the road during extreme maneuvers. Putting that much weight forward of the rear axle also kept drive-wheel traction up during acceleration.
Speeders in HIS jurisdiction did NOT get away. And there were a bunch, because he could tootle along in a clear area and nobody would suspect it of being an unmarked police car.
They should try asking Jabil whether they could do it for them and assemble in-country.
But I'd be just as happy if they didn't. If they're able to suck up Jabil's capacity faster than Jabil could build out more, even for a while, that would make it harder for the rest of Silicon Valley to get stuff made.
You obtained a thing through deception, and everyone in the transaction agrees that the thing has value. How isn't that fraud?
It's not a matter of "fraud". It's a matter of "Wire Fraud" under U.S. law.
Wire fraud is narrower than, say, mail fraud (which can apply to services). To be "Wire Fraud" there has to be a transfer of "money" or "property", not just "something of value".
If the thing transferred is something of which there is a fixed and limited amount, it might arguably qualify. But if it's just a count that the service can bump up and down arbitrarily, or an instance of a token of a class where the service can create or destroy as many as they like, it isn't "money"-like or "property"-like, no matter how much someone is willing to pay for it. It might be "service"-like. But that isn't an element of wire fraud.
- Internet giving voters access to information outside the mainstream press filtering. Especially:
- Wikileaks.
- Snowden. (Driving dissatisfaction with the power structure on both sides of the asile.)
- Social media organization/recruiting.
- Jobs crash;
- H1Bs replacing white-colars in tech.
- Illegals replacing blue-collars.
- Tech replacing more white- and blue-collars. And I could go on.
There already should be public backlash against government surveillance, Trump or no Trump.
What makes you think there isn't a public backlash?
That you don't see it on the mainstream news? After this last election, where the mainstream newsies were acting COMPLETELY as an arm of the Democratic Party, and publicly exposed by Wikileaks, do you think that you'd ANYTHING about people being opposed to surveillance if the Democrats happened to be for it?
The main way The Press gets power is to create illusions about popular opinion and use them to fool those with power they directly wield. The most powerful tool in their box is to distort the appearance of some issue by NOT reporting things that support one side (if things are already going their way), sometimes mountain-from-molehill focusing on the occasional event that supports the other (when they need to get movement).
Think about it: YOU're opposed to it (aren't you)? Most here on Slashdot are opposed to it. Both tech *illionaires and rank-and-file are opposed to it. We have a major organization (the EFF) opposed to it - seeded by some deep-pocket techie winners and sustained by voluntary donations. People on social media have flamed about it. Do you hear a single word about these things (which you KNOW have happened) in the mainstream media - except to flame Apple for resisting being forced to build a back door?
Conservatives have known about this for years.
Second Amendment supporters - conservative or not - have been aware of it for decades.
Now that you've got an issue where you're at odds with the left-wing authoritarians (and the newsies' omissions and their deliberate nature have both been exposed on the Internet), you get to be aware of it, too. B-)
2015 census shows 1.6 percent of the entire population of Nevada claims American Indian heritage. Reno's demographic is even lower than the state average. This is a substantial proportion in your book?
1. Many people with some American Indian ancestry (my wife, for instance) don't claim it on the census. (Especially in the western US, where census data was used to round up people with Japanese ancestry and intern them in concentration camps during WW II (which also kept them from paying taxes, mortgages, and business obligations, resulting in the loss of homes and businesses and impoverishing them when they were finally released.) This is still remembered, as are many of the other instances where the federal government interacted badly with tribals. After more than two centuries of bad track record, don't expect Indians to fall for claims by bureaucrats that "It's different now!" and admit to being members of a group that has often been the target of invasion and genocide.
2. Reno the city, and other cities along the west side of Nevada (the part with which I'm familiar), have adjacent and/or nearby reservation land, with substantial housing occupied primarily by people of tribal descent. Functionally they're suburbs, so their populations don't count to the core city numbers even though they may work in the city, shop there, participate in sports, go to the university, vote in the county, state, and national elections that affect the city, campaign for or against candidates, etc.
Try it with Palo Alto California. Or Atherton. Or Mountain View, Milpitas, Fremont, San Jose...
Even people from the most expensive places on the East Cost (NOT New York City) are shocked at the jump in cost of living when they move to Silicon Valley.
Nevada allows guns even in casinos (concealed with a shall-issue (i.e, go through the hoops and they must issue it) permit). But federal law prohibits them in zones around people being bodyguarded by the Secret Service. Federal law trumps state law and this law hasn't been tested in court against the Second Amendment.
How did they get all those hillbillies to leave their guns at home?
In addition to being racist and intolerant of diverse cultures, this use of "hillbillies" is incorrect, and displays your provincialism. The term applies to people in portions of the Appalachian mountain range, on the opposite side of the continent and more than 2,000 miles away from both the Sierras (where Reno is located) or the (somewhat more eastward) Rockies.
If you really want to flame the people of Nevada, try "cowboys". (Also Indians: A substantial fraction of the local population and culture happen to be members of, or descended from, one of the several local tribes.)
Out here in the not-so-urban areas (where much of the pro-Trump people live) "BLM" is the Bureau of Land Management - a federal bureaucracy whose overreach is one of the major issues in the presidential politics this cycle.
The TLA is already in use, and recycling it for another actor in this drama causes initial misreading of posts that do this.
Funny, the reality of the situation is votes for Clinton are already being flipped to Trump.
Voters have also been reporting Trump-to-Clinton flips in several states, and several locations in some of them, since early voting started.
(This is the first time I've seen it alleged to go the other way. Maybe the Clinton camp was getting ready to challenge a loss after the Trump polling spike?)
Of course, if you Google for "vote flipping", the only things you find in the first couple pages are the Clinton-to-Trump report and election official denials of the Trump-to-Clinton claims.
The latter are phrased as if they were just Trump's tweet, too. The several news reports of people reporting them seem to be conveniently absent.
So few people use features specific to 7,8,10. To general user its arbitrary.
I'm working with a production tool from Nordic for flashing/burning and testing their IoT devices in mass production.
It's software development environment (necessary for testing the peripherals you added to your board) is only supported under 7, 7-pro, 8, and 8.1. (I've since heard that 7 Pro 64-bit is still available for a while but haven't checked that, or whether they really went ahead with the threatened shutdown this time.)
Microsoft end-of-lifed the OS versions and (supposedly) the last time you could get a new one from a retailer was Oct 31, (and then only preinstalled on a new machine).
I suspect the Oct purchase spike was, at least partly, users of mission critical applications that only run on the relevant versions, trying to head off disaster if a machine fails or they need additional seats.
If you're trying to rig an election at the voting booth, you're doing it wrong.
(As Black Box voting points out) rigging it at the central server is more effective. But rigging the voting machines mean that it's harder to determine (in jurisdictions where this test is possible) by comparing the counts posted at the precincts to the totals posted centrally.
Of course attack-in-depth gives a cheating organization more opportunities to make an election come out "correctly". For instance: Motor-Voter (mail-in registration), plus no-excuse-required absentee mail-in voting, plus inadequate or nonexistent checks for eligibility (or existence) of the purported voter, makes it trivial to generate as many extra votes as you want. (I recall the discovery that more than three thousand "voters" were voting from one address in Berkeley. ("We're just serving as a mail drop for homeless people." Really? Thousands of them?)
There are lots of other ways to do this, too. Especially if you can get your organization's members who have achieved positions as judges to block any checking of of voter eligibility as "discriminatory voter intimidation".
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Service is poor. No web bill payment...
A rural WISP, serving a handful of customers and not part of a chain, is a small operation. A "Mom-and-POP" if you will. ("POP" = "Point of Presence", the term of art for the site to which the customers are connected.)
Such operations don't have enough revenue to do fancy web design and e-commerce systems. The may be one or a handful of people, some or even all part time, maybe not even the "day job" for the principals. They may even be a hobbiest or some other Net-lover-or-needer who got fed up with the big ISPs ignoring their little rural area (and the downsides of satellite ISPs), brought in a high-speed line, and set up a WISP to offload some of the bandwidth and costs. They are doing well if they're able to keep the net up to their customers.
This is what the Internet was like in the early days, before the telecoms and cable companies got involved. Enjoy!
The trees get their water from precipitation, either directly as rainfall or from later snow melt.
And the water in the rainfall came from the humidity in the air (which was then "squeegied out" by the mountains forcing the air upward).
But much of the water in the air came from the imported irrigation water, evaporated by transpiration in irrigated plants (and a bit from wet surfaces). Very little of the water imported to west-of-the-Sierras ends up in the Pacific Ocean or refilling overpumped underground aquifers, nearly all ends up in the air, blowing toward the mountains, to fall as rain or snow.
This is good, because the water off the coast of California is mostly the Alaska Current. It's cold, so it doesn't humidify the air much. (Swimming in it will kill you in 15 to 30 minutes. The dewpoint in Silicon Valley, when the wind isn't coming from the land, runs around 50F.) Indeed, much of the humidity coming from the ocean is the result of the imported water that DID make it to the Pacific - arriving substantially warmer that what was already out there.
So, though the mountain trees get their water from rain, snow, or fog, the rain, snow, or fog gets ITS water largely from the imported irrigation water.
It's not entirely silly written backward like that. Trees transpire a lot of water from the ground into the air, where it later falls as rain downwind (or uphill, where it can then fall as rain (or snow, becoming snowpack) and feed rivers that flow back upwind, to repeat the cycle.)
Not enough to account for the drought, though. But nonzero nonetheless. B-)
Also, grass would do it far more than trees. (Grass evaporates six times as much water per acre as a lake surface - or swimming pools.)
I don't understand why buying a domain name would be considered free speech.
What part of "slippery slope" or "chilling effect" don't you understand?
Without your own domain you're at the mercy of others to get your words out. (In case you hadn't noticed, a couple of the big-name services are currently engaged in purging "hateful" posters and suppressing display of articles ferom "fake news" sites. When you get down to the actual posters and sites suppressed, the actual definitions seem to actually be "conservative".)
Just as the right to free speech and a free press includes the right to become your own publisher - whether printing leaflets, pamphlets, or newspapers. Look at the documents from the U.S. revolution, things like _The Federalist Papers_. To do that effectively today you'd need your own domain - and publishing your contact information would bring the wrath of several power groups down on your head.
Federico Faggin ... later went on to design the Intel 8080 and the Zilog Z80 with Masatoshi Shima, a Japanese engineer with a "steel trap mind ...
Which leaves out the fact that the 8008 was not an in-house-conceived upgrade of the 4004. Instead it was a commission, from Datapoint corporation, to implement the instruction set of their Dreatapoint 2200 terminal as a microprocessor chip.
A failed commission at that: TI dropped out early, and Intel got theirs to work, but with a chip that came in late, and slower than Datapoint's 100-ish chip TTL design (even though the latter's ALU was serial rather than parallel). So Datapoint and Intel agreed to settle the contract, with Datapoint being refunded the costs and Intel getting to sell the chip as their own when they got it finished, and make derivatives.
Great deal for Intel. Not so hot for Datapoint, whose flagship terminal was now facing competition based on their own instruction set and designs.
When you cut a deal with a big semiconductor house, you have to watch out for this sort of thing. As I understand it, the TI calculators came from a similar situation where TI built a 4-bit processor as a commission for a calculator manufacturer, then built and sold their own products around it and its follow-ons.
Similarly with Ford and Motorola. Ford commissioned the processor for the EEC-III without including an option for a spin to include design upgrades identified as very-useful-to-necessary. They identified several things that would make the chip better. So they reported them to Motorola in the hopes they'd incorporate them in a follow-on despite no contractual obligation to do so. They did make a follow-on with the improvements, which they sold to GM. B-b
So, as with a Deveel, if you think you cut a good deal with a semiconductor company, be sure to count your fingers, then your toes, then your relatives...
Your insurance rates are not based on how many seats it has, ... It is purely based on cost of repair of car, along with your driving record.
and the computed probability of the car being in an accident, which is not JUST your driving record.
But they don't compute that based on every model of car. That would bury them in law-of-small-numbers noise. They need a large enough sample for the averages to show through. So they group many "similar" cars and take aggregate statistics.
It happened (about 1990, when I decided to buy a sporty car while I still had reflexes good enough to enjoy it) that one of the big group boundaries was two-seaters versus four-seaters. Of course the sports cars had ended up in the two-seater groups and trashed their estimated probability of being involved in an accident, relative to four-seaters. So there was a big difference in premiums between the two- and four-seaters. The auto companies had responded to that by making "four seater" sports cars with token rear seats. Example: The Diamond Star Motors Misusbishi Eclipse / Jeep Eagle Talon / Plymouth Laser. (Apparently there was a similar difference between the accident rates of standard and "crew-cab" pickup trucks that led to the jumpseat phenomenon, as well, about the same time.)
Now maybe these days the insurance companies have wised up and adjusted their group boundaries to avoid this auto company hack. But that is how it was, at least back at the start of the last decade of the 20th century, according to both my auto dealer and my insurance salesman at the time.
Really nothing special. It just so happens that the drive they use (electric) is especially well suited for low speed acceleration.
Like a motorcycle (with its insanely high power-to-weight ratio), an electric vehicle, in principle, can apply just enough torque to keep from spinning the wheels, and thus accelerate at a rate proportional only to the tires' coefficient of rolling friction. This is essentially the limit of acceleration for ANY wheeled vehicle.
Some sports and race cars cheat it - just a little - by using aerodynamics to put a little more downward force on the driving wheels at high speeds, and some race drivers raise the coefficient slightly by pre-heating (melting) the rubber. Both are equally possible with an electric drive. Meanwhile, the smooth, controlled, application of torque possible with electric drive makes it easy to track the friction coefficient - all the way back to the total stall at startup. So a well-designed electric drive SHOULD be able to beat or tie ANYTHING ELSE in a sprint.
But the early electric cars were designed by companies who thought the target market was deep-pocket eco-freaks and government-driven purchases and market distortion victims. So they didn't do the work to obtain performance. It took Elon Musk and some of his colleagues to realize that high-performance electric cars had a (voluntary) market, and actually build cars for that market.
When I was in the US I thought it was amazing how many people where hauling 4x8 sheets when looking at the cars people drove.
It's our government distorting the market.
They imposed the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard, to try to reduce fuel consumption. To meet it, the auto manufacturers killed the station wagon and started making mostly small cars. So people with a family too large to drive, or tote groceries for, in a rice-rocket moved up to SUVs, vans, and pickup trucks. Less mileage - but they're "commercial" (and some ARE needed for commercial purposes), so they don't count.
They don't count even though the Pointy Haired Bosses in some auto companies noticed that MOST of their SUVs never leave the cities and freeways, redesigned them into "Mall Terrain Vehicles" with smoother highway rides (crippling them for off-road work), and wondered why their former regular customers (who bought vehicles even during recessions) switched to other brands.
If the foolish government goes through with their threat to bring SUVs and/or vans under the CAFE standard, it just means more crippling of farming, ranching, and other businesses, while the people needing larger family support vehicles will move up to crew-cab pickups and small buses.
(This is one example of why people who live and work in rural areas tended to vote against Hillary and Democrats for other federal offices.)
Why do you honestly need a $40K F150 that's 20 feet tall? All you do is blind everybody you pull up behind with your headlights. It's a damn nuisance.
Because I need to tow several tons up mountains. (My F150 can tow 5 1/2 tons at highway speeds - though I'm not going to trust that rating on grades over 6%.)
And I need cargo capacity to bring a month's shopping from the nearest supermarket - more than 20 miles away - in a single trip, rather than five.
And I need high clearance to make it the last seven-tenths of a mile from the paved road to the ranch when the UNpaved road is a foot-and-a-half deep mud.
And I also need the high clearance to avoid getting stuck in the high desert (or a mountain pass or remote valley), 50 miles from a major road, 40 from a MAINTAINED road, out of cellphone coverage, and where it might be months before another vehicle comes by.
SOME of us don't do ALL our driving on city streets or freeways.
Yes, it does maybe 70% of its mileage in the city. But even at the lower gas mileage it's STILL a lot less energy (and a HELL of a lot less money) than making (and buying) another vehicle (and a bigger townhouse to have room to park it in Silicon Valley) just to use for commutes.
I like cars that are fun to drive too (and have owned several) but two seat sports cars are hugely impractical and generally expensive luxuries.
And then there are the "four seat sports cars" with the two tiny rear seats that are just about unusable, even for kids.
Those seats are there to let you drive a sports car and not pay insurance like you are driving a sports car.
(Similarly with the fold-down "jump seats" in some trucks. You CAN ride in them, if you fold yourself up. But if the truck hits a bump, as you're likely to do a lot on a trip to, from, or around a work site, you're likely to break your tailbone. The space is really for tools and the seats are at least partly an insurance-rate hack.)
Personally, I would like to see something like the old VW beetle with a subaru boxer engine from an STI.
When the old VW bug was in production and common, there was this one upcountry law enforcement officer who made a little mod to his bug.
He took out the back seat and installed a Ford Interceptor engine. (That was the souped-up model that Ford would only sell to police for their traffic enforcement vehicles (or people who knew the order code and could slip it into their new-vehicle purchase paperwork).)
With the block entirely below the window line it made the car heavy and low-center-of-gravity enough to stay on the road during extreme maneuvers. Putting that much weight forward of the rear axle also kept drive-wheel traction up during acceleration.
Speeders in HIS jurisdiction did NOT get away. And there were a bunch, because he could tootle along in a clear area and nobody would suspect it of being an unmarked police car.
They should try asking Jabil whether they could do it for them and assemble in-country.
But I'd be just as happy if they didn't. If they're able to suck up Jabil's capacity faster than Jabil could build out more, even for a while, that would make it harder for the rest of Silicon Valley to get stuff made.
You obtained a thing through deception, and everyone in the transaction agrees that the thing has value. How isn't that fraud?
It's not a matter of "fraud". It's a matter of "Wire Fraud" under U.S. law.
Wire fraud is narrower than, say, mail fraud (which can apply to services). To be "Wire Fraud" there has to be a transfer of "money" or "property", not just "something of value".
If the thing transferred is something of which there is a fixed and limited amount, it might arguably qualify. But if it's just a count that the service can bump up and down arbitrarily, or an instance of a token of a class where the service can create or destroy as many as they like, it isn't "money"-like or "property"-like, no matter how much someone is willing to pay for it. It might be "service"-like. But that isn't an element of wire fraud.
... when the drained brains are already unused because they've been replaced by H1Bs and are unemployed?
Think about it:
- Internet giving voters access to information outside the mainstream press filtering. Especially:
- Wikileaks.
- Snowden. (Driving dissatisfaction with the power structure on both sides of the asile.)
- Social media organization/recruiting.
- Jobs crash;
- H1Bs replacing white-colars in tech.
- Illegals replacing blue-collars.
- Tech replacing more white- and blue-collars.
And I could go on.
There already should be public backlash against government surveillance, Trump or no Trump.
What makes you think there isn't a public backlash?
That you don't see it on the mainstream news? After this last election, where the mainstream newsies were acting COMPLETELY as an arm of the Democratic Party, and publicly exposed by Wikileaks, do you think that you'd ANYTHING about people being opposed to surveillance if the Democrats happened to be for it?
The main way The Press gets power is to create illusions about popular opinion and use them to fool those with power they directly wield. The most powerful tool in their box is to distort the appearance of some issue by NOT reporting things that support one side (if things are already going their way), sometimes mountain-from-molehill focusing on the occasional event that supports the other (when they need to get movement).
Think about it: YOU're opposed to it (aren't you)? Most here on Slashdot are opposed to it. Both tech *illionaires and rank-and-file are opposed to it. We have a major organization (the EFF) opposed to it - seeded by some deep-pocket techie winners and sustained by voluntary donations. People on social media have flamed about it. Do you hear a single word about these things (which you KNOW have happened) in the mainstream media - except to flame Apple for resisting being forced to build a back door?
Conservatives have known about this for years.
Second Amendment supporters - conservative or not - have been aware of it for decades.
Now that you've got an issue where you're at odds with the left-wing authoritarians (and the newsies' omissions and their deliberate nature have both been exposed on the Internet), you get to be aware of it, too. B-)
2015 census shows 1.6 percent of the entire population of Nevada claims American Indian heritage. Reno's demographic is even lower than the state average. This is a substantial proportion in your book?
1. Many people with some American Indian ancestry (my wife, for instance) don't claim it on the census. (Especially in the western US, where census data was used to round up people with Japanese ancestry and intern them in concentration camps during WW II (which also kept them from paying taxes, mortgages, and business obligations, resulting in the loss of homes and businesses and impoverishing them when they were finally released.) This is still remembered, as are many of the other instances where the federal government interacted badly with tribals. After more than two centuries of bad track record, don't expect Indians to fall for claims by bureaucrats that "It's different now!" and admit to being members of a group that has often been the target of invasion and genocide.
2. Reno the city, and other cities along the west side of Nevada (the part with which I'm familiar), have adjacent and/or nearby reservation land, with substantial housing occupied primarily by people of tribal descent. Functionally they're suburbs, so their populations don't count to the core city numbers even though they may work in the city, shop there, participate in sports, go to the university, vote in the county, state, and national elections that affect the city, campaign for or against candidates, etc.
Try it with Palo Alto California. Or Atherton. Or Mountain View, Milpitas, Fremont, San Jose ...
Even people from the most expensive places on the East Cost (NOT New York City) are shocked at the jump in cost of living when they move to Silicon Valley.
Are there no guns allowed at Trump rallies?
Nevada allows guns even in casinos (concealed with a shall-issue (i.e, go through the hoops and they must issue it) permit). But federal law prohibits them in zones around people being bodyguarded by the Secret Service. Federal law trumps state law and this law hasn't been tested in court against the Second Amendment.
How did they get all those hillbillies to leave their guns at home?
In addition to being racist and intolerant of diverse cultures, this use of "hillbillies" is incorrect, and displays your provincialism. The term applies to people in portions of the Appalachian mountain range, on the opposite side of the continent and more than 2,000 miles away from both the Sierras (where Reno is located) or the (somewhat more eastward) Rockies.
If you really want to flame the people of Nevada, try "cowboys". (Also Indians: A substantial fraction of the local population and culture happen to be members of, or descended from, one of the several local tribes.)
the same question to BLM negroes ...
Please don't TLA Black Lives Matter to BLM.
Out here in the not-so-urban areas (where much of the pro-Trump people live) "BLM" is the Bureau of Land Management - a federal bureaucracy whose overreach is one of the major issues in the presidential politics this cycle.
The TLA is already in use, and recycling it for another actor in this drama causes initial misreading of posts that do this.
Also:
Pull the battery before driving away and insert it just before using it. (Don't have it powered when driving past a webcam.)
And NEVER use it with any user I.D. associated with you (or put any identifying info on it, to be grabbed by malware.)
Nothing to it! B-)
(Or follow the original poster's advice.)
use someone else's computer ... or don't surf at all
Nah. Just use a burner laptop.
That you bought with cash.
At a suppler that doesn't have security cameras.
And walk to your car parked beyond traffic cam range.
Then use open WiFi - again while parked outside a free-WiFi providing business where you can approach and leave without driving near traffic cams.
Funny, the reality of the situation is votes for Clinton are already being flipped to Trump.
Voters have also been reporting Trump-to-Clinton flips in several states, and several locations in some of them, since early voting started.
(This is the first time I've seen it alleged to go the other way. Maybe the Clinton camp was getting ready to challenge a loss after the Trump polling spike?)
Of course, if you Google for "vote flipping", the only things you find in the first couple pages are the Clinton-to-Trump report and election official denials of the Trump-to-Clinton claims.
The latter are phrased as if they were just Trump's tweet, too. The several news reports of people reporting them seem to be conveniently absent.
So few people use features specific to 7,8,10. To general user its arbitrary.
I'm working with a production tool from Nordic for flashing/burning and testing their IoT devices in mass production.
It's software development environment (necessary for testing the peripherals you added to your board) is only supported under 7, 7-pro, 8, and 8.1. (I've since heard that 7 Pro 64-bit is still available for a while but haven't checked that, or whether they really went ahead with the threatened shutdown this time.)
Microsoft end-of-lifed the OS versions and (supposedly) the last time you could get a new one from a retailer was Oct 31, (and then only preinstalled on a new machine).
I suspect the Oct purchase spike was, at least partly, users of mission critical applications that only run on the relevant versions, trying to head off disaster if a machine fails or they need additional seats.
If you're trying to rig an election at the voting booth, you're doing it wrong.
(As Black Box voting points out) rigging it at the central server is more effective. But rigging the voting machines mean that it's harder to determine (in jurisdictions where this test is possible) by comparing the counts posted at the precincts to the totals posted centrally.
Of course attack-in-depth gives a cheating organization more opportunities to make an election come out "correctly". For instance: Motor-Voter (mail-in registration), plus no-excuse-required absentee mail-in voting, plus inadequate or nonexistent checks for eligibility (or existence) of the purported voter, makes it trivial to generate as many extra votes as you want. (I recall the discovery that more than three thousand "voters" were voting from one address in Berkeley. ("We're just serving as a mail drop for homeless people." Really? Thousands of them?)
There are lots of other ways to do this, too. Especially if you can get your organization's members who have achieved positions as judges to block any checking of of voter eligibility as "discriminatory voter intimidation".