It's really only the @gmail.com address that is an issue, which is why I encourage people to simply buy themselves a personal domain.
Its just a shame that google no longer does free gmail hosting of your own domain (G Suite) for new customers. But you can get cheap hosting to forward your own domain email to a free gmail address and mailbox, and set outgoing mail as From: your own domain.
Why don’t communities vote on whether Waymo is allowed to drive in their town/neighborhood/street?
Because that is how a representative democracy works. You can't have people vote on everything. And do you want that anyway? Could be embarrassing if there is a vote on whether gays are allowed in the community.
If the majority of people are really that bothered, not just a few Luddites, why wouldn't the politicians listen? Arizona problem?
Who thought we would be landing rockets vertically with reusable boosters?
Rovers going for years on end on Mars?
20 years ago, our expectations had already come crashing down. The predictions of "Lost in Space", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "The Jetsons" etc etc had all failed to materialise. No moonbase, no flying cars. The lesson is not to cover your ears and rely on magicial technological advancement in the short term.
I wonder if the people of Easter Island were also saying "don't worry"?
My plan in the USA with with unlimited calls, unlimited texts and 2GB of data is $55/month. I don't know of any plan that would cost much less
This is surprising, since just about everything else is cheaper in the US than in other wealthy countries. You guys are really getting ripped off by the telcos.
The $10/month plans here are not sold directly by the major companies who own the networks, but but re-sellers or subsidiary brands (Belong, Kogan, ALDI,...) . Most are prepaid, but thats not a problem here.
Voice calls uses such a small amount of data, that the networks decided to effectively make them free, and just set a monthly fee based on your data cap. Well, one network did this, and the rest had to follow.
Most people here would still be on more expensive plans, because they want a subsidised handset, lots more data, or just don't know any better.
I didn't know having a cell phone was a basic human need that government should be getting involved with.
Communications is a basic need to function in modern society, and governments have been involved in that since Henry VIII. Governments subsidised where needed postal, and later phone services, to cover their countries. Now in the 21st century, cellular service has become much cheaper than fixed lines to provide, so it makes sense to stop mandating cheap rural fixed-line services, and replace them with cellular. Also, telcos are not allowed to charge more in small towns than in the city. None of this cross subsidy is new.
But this California proposal makes no sense. Why create another micro-tax? Do you have a separate tax for each spending program? Thats ridiculous. In Australia we pay A$10 (us$7)/month for unlimited calls and 1-2 GB of data. UK is similar. Even homeless people have cellphones. What does a basic service cost in the US?
But Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be the first PM with plans to ascend physically into space himself, - as a Pentecostalist in the Rapture.
I'm sure in the US you are quite accustomed to religious fundamentalists in power, but this is a new one for us. Fortunately, he will be gone in a few months.
Just curious - is that true ? a) escape velocity b) sizable rocks not just vaporized rocks c) not so hot of an impact to annihilate any actual life on said rocks?
Yes, for a sufficiently large impact, such as Chicxulub.
It is also a very serious idea that life did not originate on earth, but started from meteorites containing simple organisms like the above. Not "on said rocks", but deep inside them, in order to survive radiation on the long cold journey. It would explain why the first life appeared so early in Earth's history.
Nope, you totally misread. And I'm even brave or foolish enough not to post as AC.
As it stands, the welfare system in Western countries, including the US even, gives more economic incentive to poor or welfare-dependent young women to have children, than it does to middle-class people. Those incentives can be changed, without starving people. And small incentives can make a difference.
if you're dumb enough to fall for that you almost deserve to be scammed.
I keep reading sentiments like this (without "almost") on Slashdot and elsewhere. Why do dumb people deserve to suffer? Are less intelligent people fair game for anyone smart enough to trick them? Are the physically weak deserving of being beaten up and robbed? What is the difference?
And not entirely surprising if they turn out to be related. Large impacts such as the dino-killer asteroid would have sent large many tonnes of life-bearing rock all over the solar system, including to Europa.
If we do find such life deep under Mars, one question will be which came first.
But given Earth's escape velocity and dense atmosphere, it's extremely unlikely.
"unlikely" just means it happens less often. The dinosaur-killer would have sent countless tonnes of earth-rock, some life-bearing, to Mars and beyond. Maybe none in the last 100ky to carry arrow-heads?
BTW, Earth's escape velocity is not the limiting factor. To escape the solar system, allowing for earth's orbital velocity, you need to be expelled from the surface at more than double that speed.
The Voyager probes reduced this by doing gravity-assist flybys.
No, but a lot of their products were seen as great value for money, taking into account the component quality and software. I'd say the standard iPad still is, but not much else.
to reliably get OS updates and upgrades, and not have to put up with a botched Android UI and bloatware, that meant buying a Nexus phone and tablet.... But then Google decided to give up on mid-price phones. They jacked up their prices, and a Pixel 3 now starts at $799.
True, but you have missed what replaced the Nexus. Google is using the same strategy as Microsoft in selling high-end aspirational hardware, while assisting other companies to provide cheaper versions. For cheaper "non-botched UI", you should now be looking at the Android One program, and HMD Golbal ("Nokia") phones. before that, Lenovo/Motorola were doing excellent mid-range handsets, without bloating or "botching" the UI like Samsung.
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It's really only the @gmail.com address that is an issue, which is why I encourage people to simply buy themselves a personal domain.
Its just a shame that google no longer does free gmail hosting of your own domain (G Suite) for new customers.
But you can get cheap hosting to forward your own domain email to a free gmail address and mailbox, and set outgoing mail as From: your own domain.
It is Evil.
We still do that "innocent until proven guilty" thing, sometimes.
Fair enough. Requiring people to pass a test to show safety awareness and responsibility before buying a deadly weapon would be quite an imposition.
But Arizona still does require a license for more serious matters.
There are much better ways of protesting than throwing rocks or pointing guns at the vehicle itself.
He pointed a gun at the test driver, and was charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct.
Does a guy lose his gun license for that, or would it be considered "cruel and unusual punishment" in Arizona?
Why don’t communities vote on whether Waymo is allowed to drive in their town/neighborhood/street?
Because that is how a representative democracy works. You can't have people vote on everything.
And do you want that anyway? Could be embarrassing if there is a vote on whether gays are allowed in the community.
If the majority of people are really that bothered, not just a few Luddites, why wouldn't the politicians listen? Arizona problem?
I don't hold much hope there. MIT is being taken over by the Diversity and Equity crowd. Fusion is a tool of the Patriarchy.
Who thought we would be landing rockets vertically with reusable boosters?
Rovers going for years on end on Mars?
20 years ago, our expectations had already come crashing down. The predictions of "Lost in Space", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "The Jetsons" etc etc had all failed to materialise. No moonbase, no flying cars. The lesson is not to cover your ears and rely on magicial technological advancement in the short term.
I wonder if the people of Easter Island were also saying "don't worry"?
Could have been a fleet of G'Gugvuntts and Vl'hurgs.
a wall.
So does The Times. Not sure which is more effective.
My plan in the USA with with unlimited calls, unlimited texts and 2GB of data is $55/month. I don't know of any plan that would cost much less
This is surprising, since just about everything else is cheaper in the US than in other wealthy countries. You guys are really getting ripped off by the telcos.
The $10/month plans here are not sold directly by the major companies who own the networks, but but re-sellers or subsidiary brands (Belong, Kogan, ALDI, ...) . Most are prepaid, but thats not a problem here.
Voice calls uses such a small amount of data, that the networks decided to effectively make them free, and just set a monthly fee based on your data cap.
Well, one network did this, and the rest had to follow.
Most people here would still be on more expensive plans, because they want a subsidised handset, lots more data, or just don't know any better.
Apple is the only one with a truly secure approach,
Number 538!
I didn't know having a cell phone was a basic human need that government should be getting involved with.
Communications is a basic need to function in modern society, and governments have been involved in that since Henry VIII.
Governments subsidised where needed postal, and later phone services, to cover their countries.
Now in the 21st century, cellular service has become much cheaper than fixed lines to provide, so it makes sense to stop mandating cheap rural fixed-line services, and replace them with cellular. Also, telcos are not allowed to charge more in small towns than in the city. None of this cross subsidy is new.
But this California proposal makes no sense. Why create another micro-tax? Do you have a separate tax for each spending program? Thats ridiculous.
In Australia we pay A$10 (us$7)/month for unlimited calls and 1-2 GB of data. UK is similar. Even homeless people have cellphones. What does a basic service cost in the US?
Why would I want a superconducting CPU?
Give me my hoverboard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be the first PM with plans to ascend physically into space himself,
- as a Pentecostalist in the Rapture.
I'm sure in the US you are quite accustomed to religious fundamentalists in power, but this is a new one for us.
Fortunately, he will be gone in a few months.
Just curious - is that true ? a) escape velocity b) sizable rocks not just vaporized rocks c) not so hot of an impact to annihilate any actual life on said rocks?
Yes, for a sufficiently large impact, such as Chicxulub.
It is also a very serious idea that life did not originate on earth, but started from meteorites containing simple organisms like the above.
Not "on said rocks", but deep inside them, in order to survive radiation on the long cold journey.
It would explain why the first life appeared so early in Earth's history.
Panspermia hypothesis
PBS SpaceTime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nope, you totally misread. And I'm even brave or foolish enough not to post as AC.
As it stands, the welfare system in Western countries, including the US even, gives more economic incentive to poor or welfare-dependent young women to have children, than it does to middle-class people. Those incentives can be changed, without starving people. And small incentives can make a difference.
Natural selection.
If you have a reasonable way to stop dumb people from breeding, I'm all for it.
But making them even poorer does not seem to help.
if you're dumb enough to fall for that you almost deserve to be scammed.
I keep reading sentiments like this (without "almost") on Slashdot and elsewhere.
Why do dumb people deserve to suffer?
Are less intelligent people fair game for anyone smart enough to trick them?
Are the physically weak deserving of being beaten up and robbed?
What is the difference?
Would be neat if we found the same thing on Mars.
And not entirely surprising if they turn out to be related.
Large impacts such as the dino-killer asteroid would have sent large many tonnes of life-bearing rock all over the solar system, including to Europa.
If we do find such life deep under Mars, one question will be which came first.
Genesis 19:24-25:
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
That doesn't sound like a meteorite burst to you?
You'd have to be quite delusional to think that referred a meteorite rather than a volcano. "Sulphur" FFS!
Also, 5000BC is far too early for any biblical influence. The Hebrew language itself only goes back to around 1000BC.
But given Earth's escape velocity and dense atmosphere, it's extremely unlikely.
"unlikely" just means it happens less often. The dinosaur-killer would have sent countless tonnes of earth-rock, some life-bearing, to Mars and beyond.
Maybe none in the last 100ky to carry arrow-heads?
BTW, Earth's escape velocity is not the limiting factor. To escape the solar system, allowing for earth's orbital velocity, you need to be expelled from the surface at more than double that speed.
The Voyager probes reduced this by doing gravity-assist flybys.
Android One wasnâ(TM)t around in the US until last year,
That's why I said "before that, Lenovo/Motorola were doing excellent mid-range handsets, without bloating".
Apple products have never been about low prices.
No, but a lot of their products were seen as great value for money, taking into account the component quality and software.
I'd say the standard iPad still is, but not much else.
to reliably get OS updates and upgrades, and not have to put up with a botched Android UI and bloatware, that meant buying a Nexus phone and tablet. ... But then Google decided to give up on mid-price phones. They jacked up their prices, and a Pixel 3 now starts at $799.
True, but you have missed what replaced the Nexus. Google is using the same strategy as Microsoft in selling high-end aspirational hardware, while assisting other companies to provide cheaper versions.
For cheaper "non-botched UI", you should now be looking at the Android One program, and HMD Golbal ("Nokia") phones. before that, Lenovo/Motorola were doing excellent mid-range handsets, without bloating or "botching" the UI like Samsung.
https://www.android.com/one/
Personally, I know that coal is dying
And where coal is not dying, it is being mechanised. The days of labour-intensive underground mining are well dead.