Allow me to suggest a modification to your plans...
1. Send them some nasty letters and emails. Even better: be polite but detailed and specific in explaining exactly how they went wrong and why you will no longer buy from them nor allow your company to buy from them UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR WAYS.
2. Buy AMD chips instead. Yes, of course, AMD chips have the same thing in them-- but that is still money that Intel won't get from you and you'd be fostering competition which is a good way to motivate AMD or Intel to remedy this stuff. CEASE BUYING AMD PREFERENTIALLY IF INTEL CHANGES OR LOSES ENOUGH MARKET SHARE THAT YOU CAN START THREATENING AMD.
> it should be illegal to discriminate against people for past transgressions unless they clearly disqualify the individual
The problem is... pretty much every felony 'clearly disqualifies' you from pretty much every job. Violent acts, sexual assaults, and major thefts top the list of felonies, and I can't imagine any employer wanting someone who is known to solve problems with violence, might rape a co-worker, or might steal as an employee. I can see ignoring a DUI for a job that doesn't involve driving, though. Perhaps there are other obvious exceptions.
I agree that felons who have finished their sentences need opportunities instead of being dumped on the street unable to find work and told not to associate or communicate with their peers (since they're usually also convicts) even for support. Maybe there ought to be supervised government sector jobs for them, essentially chain gangs, only nicer and without the chains and with decent pay. Maybe they need to accept that after crossing a certain threshold they will never again be trusted by society.
Maybe release after a felony should come with mandatory lifelong parole that becomes less strict over time but never actually stops until you're dead.
>Making iPhones in a Chinese factory is better than being a Chinese peasant
Actually, option one should be taken seriously.
Maybe you get some nice warm fuzzies if you stop child labor (even child prostitution in some areas of the world), but you're probably not thinking about the fact that without that work they're probably starving beggars on the road side. Not for long though, if they're really starving.
It's important where that could be true to worry more about providing better opportunities than attempting to ban the current unpleasant practices.
> Then add 5.00 extra for streaming, 5.00 extra for HD streaming, 5.00 for social network access, and so on and so forth.
Actually, tiered pricing based on QoS and bandwidth would be fine (assuming reasonable competition in the ISP market). It's tiered pricing for access to particular sources (or, worse, network access billing on the server side) of data that's bad.
Imagine if it was impossible to start a new Netflix because you can't start a company with enough capital to pay the major ISPs' fees for streaming video to enter their networks? Imagine if the ISPs simply add a 'tariff' to all streaming video because they have their own streaming service. Sure, you can still watch or serve up video... but it's going to keep buffering at anything above CGA resolutions.
>Imperial Japan, Stalin's Soviet Russia, Mao's Red China, Pol Pot's Cambodia
Japs, commies, and brown people and all 'over there'. Jews, on the other hand... look white, are fine with capitalism, and live among us in the West. That wouldn't be as big a thing today, but back when it was occurring it made a difference, and we ultimately get our history lessons from the people who experienced that history.
And then there's the whole cold, calculated, methodical attempted genocide employed by the Nazis. Somehow it's different when they treat it like a clerical task.
Yeah, that was my first thought; you NEVER pay ransom when what was stolen is also valuable to someone else. You're dealing with criminals, and you expect honest behaviour?
You also never pay ransom when you can't stop them from simply repeating their crime, but that doesn't really apply in this case. And if you can afford to take the hit, you don't pay ransom simply to make the crime less profitable in general.
Not quite standard, in that they've made it with fairly common materials to reduce the cost... but they say nothing (in the pop science article) about the solar panel efficiency or the electrolysis efficiency, so I'm guessing it's average or worse. And they admit they have no solution to the problem of how to economically and efficiently store whatever hydrogen it produces.
So overall, 'meh'. While building that device happens to be beyond my current personal abilities, it remains unimpressive.
>we have to fall back on the absolutely no evidence ever level!
The problem isn't a lack of evidence, the problem is a lack of trust in the agencies telling us about it because in the past they've not only told lies, but actively manufactured them to serve their agendas. (And gotten caught at it, obviously)
Of course, in the past those agendas were more or less in line with that of the White House.
Yeah... generally the Android buyer gets a product that costs significantly less money and has a less recognizable brand name on it. (It's also more likely to have a bunch of preloaded crap apps and be tethered to the Google marketplace instead of the Apple one, but it's easier to install 3rd party apps.)
However, on point 3 it's far more likely for an Apple buyer to think they've done something special buying Apple than it is for an Android device buyer to think similarly about Android.
Lots of people buy an Android device because it's less expensive, which is different from brand loyalty.
This is one of those things that only history can decide. Sometimes there are people who need to be violently put down, and only in hindsight will be able to have sufficient confidence to know you were right.
Nazis, for instance. Jail is generally not useful in controlling them, and we have decided as a society that racist fascists who endorse genocide are unacceptable. If their numbers are insignificant enough they're not a threat, use legislation and jails... but if they ever become large enough in numbers that there's even a faint hope they might gain real power, it should be considered moral to kill them.
Then, of course, you run into the problem of vigilantism, mob mentality, due process existing for a reason, etc... but if those risks seem to be outweighed by what is expected if Nazis are running the show... you kill some damn Nazis.
>wasnt it one of the 386 486 586 sx dx whatever chips that you would upgrade by literally jamming another chip on top?
If I recall correctly, the 386sx was internally 32 bit but had an external 16bit bus, while the 486sx had a disabled or missing FPU. The dx variants were the ones that didn't have those limitations.
So far as I know, neither was upgradable by sticking another chip on top... though some motherboards would allow the CPU to be completely replaced.
The problem is that people are generally apathetic when they find things are pretty good... which they generally are in the USA.
However, Trump's base very passionately believes they are NOT good, and so they're motivated to campaign and vote.
What the apathetic voter needs to realise is that when they fail to vote for the status quo that has made them apathetic, they're giving more power to the people who want to disrupt it.
You must ALWAYS vote, no matter how little you care, or someone's going to vote in a way that makes you care in the next election cycle. An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.
My previous policy of 'cull the stupid from the gene pool' was not met with open arms......and of course there's the problem that it probably isn't genetic but environmental anyway (or rather, the genetic problem exists throughout the species, but environment overcomes it in some).
Any serious Russian effort in future will be run through American proxies, leaving Google only one option - filter by opinion.
The only way to really beat this domestically is education, so people aren't so easily influenced. Of course, you can back that up with counter-attacks and advise the foreign governments that so long as they're detected meddling in your affairs, you'll continue meddling in theirs.
Ultimately the best you can hope for is that the cyber version of MAD evolves and the whole thing becomes a smaller problem as both sides generally choose not to inflame the situation in fear of having to deal with reprisals.
>The "feature" is that by calling workers "independent contractors", Instacart can violate all of the laws set up to make sure that employers don't take advantage of workers.
This is an old trick that's so obvious it's not even really a trick. I've been on the wrong end of it myself... and I could have filed an anonymous complaint with the tax authorities over it, but that likely would have tanked the company and I'd have made even less. And honestly, I was making decent money anyway.
The innovation here seems to be using computer dispatching to apply the same model to turning desperate people into a fungible commodity.
>Wonder what would be the work around for the trackers and advertisers.
You answered your own question! "or whatever it's call when the server sending out the ads does the tracking itself."
They'll do their best to get a decent fingerprint of your system, and their tracking accuracy will be reduced (probably by far less than we'd hope or expect).
>that pretty much sums up BLM and 'progressives' today
While I don't know about 'progressives' (as it's a broad group and I'm not exactly opposed to the idea of improving society on general principles), BLM being a hate group is exactly why I have zero time for them and zero tolerance for their actions. (Which is NOT a cover for ignoring racism - it's explicitly about not tolerating belligerent, ignorant, freedom-oppressing actions under the protection of the 'race card').
Benefits: 3D circuits (with the extra potential complexity that implies), smaller chip for the same complexity (with reduced signal distance and heat generation)
Drawback: Getting heat out of the chip as only the outer layers will be next to a heat sink. Then again, we're talking 3D here... maybe they'll figure out how to weave a mesh of tiny heat pipes around the circuits.
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Allow me to suggest a modification to your plans...
1. Send them some nasty letters and emails. Even better: be polite but detailed and specific in explaining exactly how they went wrong and why you will no longer buy from them nor allow your company to buy from them UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR WAYS.
2. Buy AMD chips instead. Yes, of course, AMD chips have the same thing in them-- but that is still money that Intel won't get from you and you'd be fostering competition which is a good way to motivate AMD or Intel to remedy this stuff. CEASE BUYING AMD PREFERENTIALLY IF INTEL CHANGES OR LOSES ENOUGH MARKET SHARE THAT YOU CAN START THREATENING AMD.
> it should be illegal to discriminate against people for past transgressions unless they clearly disqualify the individual
The problem is... pretty much every felony 'clearly disqualifies' you from pretty much every job. Violent acts, sexual assaults, and major thefts top the list of felonies, and I can't imagine any employer wanting someone who is known to solve problems with violence, might rape a co-worker, or might steal as an employee. I can see ignoring a DUI for a job that doesn't involve driving, though. Perhaps there are other obvious exceptions.
I agree that felons who have finished their sentences need opportunities instead of being dumped on the street unable to find work and told not to associate or communicate with their peers (since they're usually also convicts) even for support. Maybe there ought to be supervised government sector jobs for them, essentially chain gangs, only nicer and without the chains and with decent pay. Maybe they need to accept that after crossing a certain threshold they will never again be trusted by society.
Maybe release after a felony should come with mandatory lifelong parole that becomes less strict over time but never actually stops until you're dead.
>Making iPhones in a Chinese factory is better than being a Chinese peasant
Actually, option one should be taken seriously.
Maybe you get some nice warm fuzzies if you stop child labor (even child prostitution in some areas of the world), but you're probably not thinking about the fact that without that work they're probably starving beggars on the road side. Not for long though, if they're really starving.
It's important where that could be true to worry more about providing better opportunities than attempting to ban the current unpleasant practices.
> Then add 5.00 extra for streaming, 5.00 extra for HD streaming, 5.00 for social network access, and so on and so forth.
Actually, tiered pricing based on QoS and bandwidth would be fine (assuming reasonable competition in the ISP market). It's tiered pricing for access to particular sources (or, worse, network access billing on the server side) of data that's bad.
Imagine if it was impossible to start a new Netflix because you can't start a company with enough capital to pay the major ISPs' fees for streaming video to enter their networks? Imagine if the ISPs simply add a 'tariff' to all streaming video because they have their own streaming service. Sure, you can still watch or serve up video... but it's going to keep buffering at anything above CGA resolutions.
>Let's say you only want to keep the breach quiet...
Well, then, everything worked out!
>Imperial Japan, Stalin's Soviet Russia, Mao's Red China, Pol Pot's Cambodia
Japs, commies, and brown people and all 'over there'. Jews, on the other hand... look white, are fine with capitalism, and live among us in the West. That wouldn't be as big a thing today, but back when it was occurring it made a difference, and we ultimately get our history lessons from the people who experienced that history.
And then there's the whole cold, calculated, methodical attempted genocide employed by the Nazis. Somehow it's different when they treat it like a clerical task.
Yeah, that was my first thought; you NEVER pay ransom when what was stolen is also valuable to someone else. You're dealing with criminals, and you expect honest behaviour?
You also never pay ransom when you can't stop them from simply repeating their crime, but that doesn't really apply in this case. And if you can afford to take the hit, you don't pay ransom simply to make the crime less profitable in general.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
I happen to think it's not a bad idea to read Mein Kampf. haven't done it personally, but it's not a bad idea.
There are, in fact, ways to extract CO2 and turn it into fuel we can burn again, closing the carbon cycle. Trees are nature's method for it.
Artificial methods just aren't cost effective yet.
Not quite standard, in that they've made it with fairly common materials to reduce the cost... but they say nothing (in the pop science article) about the solar panel efficiency or the electrolysis efficiency, so I'm guessing it's average or worse. And they admit they have no solution to the problem of how to economically and efficiently store whatever hydrogen it produces.
So overall, 'meh'. While building that device happens to be beyond my current personal abilities, it remains unimpressive.
>we have to fall back on the absolutely no evidence ever level!
The problem isn't a lack of evidence, the problem is a lack of trust in the agencies telling us about it because in the past they've not only told lies, but actively manufactured them to serve their agendas. (And gotten caught at it, obviously)
Of course, in the past those agendas were more or less in line with that of the White House.
It's interesting how you managed to overlook the fundamental difference between the scenarios in order to justify your butthurt.
Yeah... generally the Android buyer gets a product that costs significantly less money and has a less recognizable brand name on it. (It's also more likely to have a bunch of preloaded crap apps and be tethered to the Google marketplace instead of the Apple one, but it's easier to install 3rd party apps.)
However, on point 3 it's far more likely for an Apple buyer to think they've done something special buying Apple than it is for an Android device buyer to think similarly about Android.
Lots of people buy an Android device because it's less expensive, which is different from brand loyalty.
>"It's OK to punch a Nazi."
This is one of those things that only history can decide. Sometimes there are people who need to be violently put down, and only in hindsight will be able to have sufficient confidence to know you were right.
Nazis, for instance. Jail is generally not useful in controlling them, and we have decided as a society that racist fascists who endorse genocide are unacceptable. If their numbers are insignificant enough they're not a threat, use legislation and jails... but if they ever become large enough in numbers that there's even a faint hope they might gain real power, it should be considered moral to kill them.
Then, of course, you run into the problem of vigilantism, mob mentality, due process existing for a reason, etc... but if those risks seem to be outweighed by what is expected if Nazis are running the show... you kill some damn Nazis.
NSFYL... Not Sorry For Your Loss.
> it quickly reaches defining "the stupid" as "people who disagree with me"....
Well... the original original plan was, in fact, "cull the people who disagree with me". So there's that.
I'm constantly refining the approach.
>wasnt it one of the 386 486 586 sx dx whatever chips that you would upgrade by literally jamming another chip on top?
If I recall correctly, the 386sx was internally 32 bit but had an external 16bit bus, while the 486sx had a disabled or missing FPU. The dx variants were the ones that didn't have those limitations.
So far as I know, neither was upgradable by sticking another chip on top... though some motherboards would allow the CPU to be completely replaced.
The problem is that people are generally apathetic when they find things are pretty good... which they generally are in the USA.
However, Trump's base very passionately believes they are NOT good, and so they're motivated to campaign and vote.
What the apathetic voter needs to realise is that when they fail to vote for the status quo that has made them apathetic, they're giving more power to the people who want to disrupt it.
You must ALWAYS vote, no matter how little you care, or someone's going to vote in a way that makes you care in the next election cycle. An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.
My previous policy of 'cull the stupid from the gene pool' was not met with open arms... ...and of course there's the problem that it probably isn't genetic but environmental anyway (or rather, the genetic problem exists throughout the species, but environment overcomes it in some).
Any serious Russian effort in future will be run through American proxies, leaving Google only one option - filter by opinion.
The only way to really beat this domestically is education, so people aren't so easily influenced. Of course, you can back that up with counter-attacks and advise the foreign governments that so long as they're detected meddling in your affairs, you'll continue meddling in theirs.
Ultimately the best you can hope for is that the cyber version of MAD evolves and the whole thing becomes a smaller problem as both sides generally choose not to inflame the situation in fear of having to deal with reprisals.
>The "feature" is that by calling workers "independent contractors", Instacart can violate all of the laws set up to make sure that employers don't take advantage of workers.
This is an old trick that's so obvious it's not even really a trick. I've been on the wrong end of it myself... and I could have filed an anonymous complaint with the tax authorities over it, but that likely would have tanked the company and I'd have made even less. And honestly, I was making decent money anyway.
The innovation here seems to be using computer dispatching to apply the same model to turning desperate people into a fungible commodity.
>Wonder what would be the work around for the trackers and advertisers.
You answered your own question! "or whatever it's call when the server sending out the ads does the tracking itself."
They'll do their best to get a decent fingerprint of your system, and their tracking accuracy will be reduced (probably by far less than we'd hope or expect).
>that pretty much sums up BLM and 'progressives' today
While I don't know about 'progressives' (as it's a broad group and I'm not exactly opposed to the idea of improving society on general principles), BLM being a hate group is exactly why I have zero time for them and zero tolerance for their actions. (Which is NOT a cover for ignoring racism - it's explicitly about not tolerating belligerent, ignorant, freedom-oppressing actions under the protection of the 'race card').
Benefits: 3D circuits (with the extra potential complexity that implies), smaller chip for the same complexity (with reduced signal distance and heat generation)
Drawback: Getting heat out of the chip as only the outer layers will be next to a heat sink. Then again, we're talking 3D here... maybe they'll figure out how to weave a mesh of tiny heat pipes around the circuits.
>And do not post the "why your email solution won't work" check list.
So you already know your solution won't work, you've been told many times, and yet you still propose the same, unworkable solution.
Why?