85th percentile speed drivers are often going above the posted limit. So, on most highways they would be giving a rate break to those who speed and penalizing those who obey the speed limit?
Yes.
That'll be fun to hear them argue in court during the inevitable class action suit.
Only where speed limits are set to raise money, not to make roads safe.
Studies have consistently shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed, so they really just need to measure how fast you go and charge more for the slower and faster drivers.
AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public.
Uh, not true. They were pumping out new bombs on a production line, and the third bomb would have been ready to go soon after the second was dropped; Truman vetoed any further use. If I remember correctly, they were up to about one bomb a month by that point, and accelerating.
A 'howling lunatic' who's actually put space station modules in orbit for testing. That puts him ahead of everyone in the 'space hotel' business, unless you count the Russians flying tourists to ISS.
The Outer Space Treaty is one of the worst pieces of communist garbage of the last hundred years, and another reason Apollo put space travel back decades.
Why try to develop the moon anyway? It's almost as extreme as space itself, so why not just build an orbiting hotel instead?
Bigelow is working on orbital hotels. But, when all's said and done, there's not much to do in orbit once you've looked out the window for a few hours and tried out some zero-g shagging. At least on the Moon you can climb into a space suit and go exploring.
This isn't just Cisco. No-one can trust US technology any more; they've got from the most trusted on the planet to, at best, no better than the Chinese, in the space of a few months.
2014 Chevy Silverado "High Country", MSRP $44,000 (from Chevy's web site). That might even be reasonable to get a comparable price point from a Tesla truck...
Yes. Given the price, and the number of people who mostly use their truck to carry crap around town, it's probably one of the few sane markets for electric vehicles.
Besides which, many movies over the last few decade or so have been shot digitally at much lower resolutions than 4k, or scanned from film for compositing at 2k, or use CGI rendered at 2k or less. So, while recent movies might look better, many old ones won't.
No, it's simply "pay your taxes or fuck off". Companies will, when forced to, always choose to pay their taxes because they can still make a profit, just less of a profit.
Yes. They'll just increase prices, so you pay more and the extra money is sent to the government. Or they'll cut wages, so you earn less and the extra money is sent to the government.
If you want to give more money to the government, you could just send them a cheque and cut out the middle-man.
Your tax is so high because these people don't pay any. 1 billion divided by 30 million taxpayers in Italy is 30 bucks each.
Ha-ha. Who do you think pays the money to the corporations that they then hand it to the government?
Hint: it's not the space fairies.
Corporate taxes are just a way to tax more money from 'the people' while getting idiots like yourself to cheer it on. Every penny comes from increased prices, reduced wages, or reduced income for stockholders.
For example who is to say there is no value in HTTP/2 over an IPsec protected link without TLS?
That is precisely the attitude that made IPSEC a bloated pig that's almost impossible for mortal man to configure: 'Who is to say there is no value in an IPSEC connection with no encryption?'
Can you explain what the actual, tangible benefits of throwing billions and billions of dollars at the SSC would have been? Other than a demand from Big Science for even more money a few years later to build Even Bigger Science?
We're not that far off thin client gaming. So suggesting that lots of companies won't be running 3D games server-side in the near future is disingenuous.
If you're buying a server to run 'thin client gaming', you sure as heck won't be using integrated graphics to do so.
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85th percentile speed drivers are often going above the posted limit. So, on most highways they would be giving a rate break to those who speed and penalizing those who obey the speed limit?
Yes.
That'll be fun to hear them argue in court during the inevitable class action suit.
Only where speed limits are set to raise money, not to make roads safe.
...is who decides what is safe driving?
Studies have consistently shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed, so they really just need to measure how fast you go and charge more for the slower and faster drivers.
AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public.
Uh, not true. They were pumping out new bombs on a production line, and the third bomb would have been ready to go soon after the second was dropped; Truman vetoed any further use. If I remember correctly, they were up to about one bomb a month by that point, and accelerating.
A 'howling lunatic' who's actually put space station modules in orbit for testing. That puts him ahead of everyone in the 'space hotel' business, unless you count the Russians flying tourists to ISS.
The Outer Space Treaty is one of the worst pieces of communist garbage of the last hundred years, and another reason Apollo put space travel back decades.
Why try to develop the moon anyway? It's almost as extreme as space itself, so why not just build an orbiting hotel instead?
Bigelow is working on orbital hotels. But, when all's said and done, there's not much to do in orbit once you've looked out the window for a few hours and tried out some zero-g shagging. At least on the Moon you can climb into a space suit and go exploring.
This isn't just Cisco. No-one can trust US technology any more; they've got from the most trusted on the planet to, at best, no better than the Chinese, in the space of a few months.
2014 Chevy Silverado "High Country", MSRP $44,000 (from Chevy's web site). ...
That might even be reasonable to get a comparable price point from a Tesla truck
Yes. Given the price, and the number of people who mostly use their truck to carry crap around town, it's probably one of the few sane markets for electric vehicles.
No, it's not. Don't be stupid. There's no grand conspiracy out to get you.
You apparently haven't been reading the news.
The TSA exists because after 9/11 people demanded that the government do something to make us safer.
Really?
Who exactly demanded that, other than the usual suspects in government who always want more power?
35mm film is greater than 4K
[citation needed]
Besides which, many movies over the last few decade or so have been shot digitally at much lower resolutions than 4k, or scanned from film for compositing at 2k, or use CGI rendered at 2k or less. So, while recent movies might look better, many old ones won't.
No, it's simply "pay your taxes or fuck off". Companies will, when forced to, always choose to pay their taxes because they can still make a profit, just less of a profit.
Yes. They'll just increase prices, so you pay more and the extra money is sent to the government. Or they'll cut wages, so you earn less and the extra money is sent to the government.
If you want to give more money to the government, you could just send them a cheque and cut out the middle-man.
Your tax is so high because these people don't pay any. 1 billion divided by 30 million taxpayers in Italy is 30 bucks each.
Ha-ha. Who do you think pays the money to the corporations that they then hand it to the government?
Hint: it's not the space fairies.
Corporate taxes are just a way to tax more money from 'the people' while getting idiots like yourself to cheer it on. Every penny comes from increased prices, reduced wages, or reduced income for stockholders.
Video cards even used to be designed to accelerated Autocad for DOS, and had special drivers for this purpose.
Oh God, I think I remember writing some of those :).
But training your users* to ignore those warnings just to access your site with encryption does the same thing.
No, it doesn't, because they'll do that for fluffykittens.com, but they won't do it for their bank.
The problem is that your browser trusted a non-trustworthy CA.
The problem is a lack of trustworth CAs in a world where governments want to spy on everyone.
For example who is to say there is no value in HTTP/2 over an IPsec protected link without TLS?
That is precisely the attitude that made IPSEC a bloated pig that's almost impossible for mortal man to configure: 'Who is to say there is no value in an IPSEC connection with no encryption?'
The browser would only indicate a site was secure if the certificate was signed by a reputable certificate authority.
How many people do you think check their web browser claims the site is secure before entering their login details?
Removing warnings about self-signed certificates just gives a new way for users to do stupid things without thinking about it.
Yeah, because who cares that removing that warning allows anyone to pretend to be your bank?
Venezuela is collapsing faster than America.
Well you wouldn't say now that physicist of the end of the 19th century were doing things that had no actual goal.
They weren't demanding billions of dollars of taxpayers money for their experiments.
A few dozens of billions is incredibely cheap given the life changing knowledge it will bring.
Such as?
Can you explain what the actual, tangible benefits of throwing billions and billions of dollars at the SSC would have been? Other than a demand from Big Science for even more money a few years later to build Even Bigger Science?
What weapons of mass destruction?
Under the modern definition, a hand grenade probably qualifies as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. I'm sure Iraq had plenty of those.
Hey, anyone one who can't read a thread before jerking their knee.
So he is $314 in the hole. Clearly he doesnt want to talk about semantics such as cost.
Clearly you didn't bother to read the thread, or you'd have noticed that it wasn't about cost.
We're not that far off thin client gaming. So suggesting that lots of companies won't be running 3D games server-side in the near future is disingenuous.
If you're buying a server to run 'thin client gaming', you sure as heck won't be using integrated graphics to do so.