It gets better when you realize that the rest of the right wing mean by smaller government is one run exclusively by them.
Look at it this way the republican who wrote the patriot act is pissed that a democrat is abusing his law in such a way. his answer. it isn't smaller government but to pay a dedicated top secret clearance law firm tens of millions of dollars annually to justify the poorly written law.
If republicans really wanted smaller government then they should be trying to get things like the patriot act NSA spying programs not only under control but shut down to save on government spending. but not one republican will actually push for that.
depending on the provider you don't get a new ip address when do those things either. from my limited experiments with Comcast and Time Warner they give the same IP address to the same Mac address every time.
I replaced a router on both and got new ip addresses. however when i cloned the mac address from the old routers to the new I got the old ip addresses.
Now this is really limited. 4 routers on two service providers. so take it with a grain of salt and a shot of tequila .
No but it is almost as much as watching the walk of shame after a major holiday.
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hell take an xbox one, and a 60" led flat screen, back to 1995.
they would declare it VR, Just the resolution alone would astound us back then. forget about motion tracking and voice controls, it would be star trek.
in 1998 I donned a VR headset of the time and walked on a tread mill. it was fun though a bit disorienting since the screens weren't lined up for my prescription properly.
Like Microsoft if you have billions, and make billions. but still are losing it takes a long time to fall.
The USA is going in the wrong direction but still with some intelligent leadership and leadership council(congress) it can be turned around.
I don't have hope that the politicians will change.
Hell it took Rome a good 3-400 years. to fall. The USA has a much larger pile of gold to pillage before it can burn. Yes I know of the debt. but rome had a larger percentage of debt. in a good pillage debt doesn't matter.
The one and only thing I don't like about classic is moderating. bring the beta's moderate functionality to classic and bamn your done.
though i don't think the feedback teams even care anymore. I think slashdot corporate overlords are pushing new web synergies to modernize, and (insert buzzword bullshit here).
That is why they keep trying and keep failing. Slashdot is supposed to be content and random posts (some from trolls, some from wannabe, and some from insightful people). you make it not about the discussions and the people will leave.
Well threading is broken, try following a large thread. you can never figure out where it ends.
Post limits are gone..( browse at zero unless I am mod. to see AC's but not just trolls)
It uses about 10% of screen real estate. I mean come one there is so much white space you can use your monitor as a light source.
Poll's are on every page, because well everyone wants to read the current poll all the time right? and on really long threads that poll section goes all the way to the bottom.
The only thing I really like. is the new moderate button. that works and looks good.
microsoft had those timex smart watches that updated by facing the watch to the monitor which then flashed to transfer the data. that was what mid 90's.
Smart watches have existed in some form for a while. the problem has always been the UI is to small to do much with.
personally I think Apple will wait until they can get a decent laser projector to work on your arm. Sort of like that laser keyboard only wrist worthy.
damn straight. I am this close to building an Arc reactor. I am long way from electric thrusters with thrust greater than 3 newtons, but I almost have the power.
sets the minimum standard insurance companies must provide. a lot of insurance plans basically failed if you tried to use them.
Requires everyone to take part and since everyone has an equal chance of being sick and needing health care they need insurance anyways. a simple doctors visit without insurance costs hundreds of dollars.
uses the IRS Who is watching your income anyways to monitor it to make sure you are paying for insurance anyways.
created a website to link states, and available insurance plans in those states together so that you didn't have to go to dozens of different places to shop around. like amazon one stop shopping.
For Car insurance you can go to X insurance company website any where in the country and they would give you the correct answers. for health insurance it varies by city even though it is owned by just a couple of companies across the country.
lastly the USA has only moderate health care overall since most can not afford to pay for it. however we also have the most expensive care in the world by several times. we pay more for less care in the USA than anywhere else. The free market has failed miserable in Health insurance.
I see this more for car dealers,mechanics,distributors rather than home owners. You will still need raw materials. Home owners don't like keeping boxes of screws.
No you will take your car in and they will print parts you need. You want new gizmo they print it and ship it.
The first thing I see being mass produced will be gaskets,washers, prints etc. Which are generally a massive waste in cost of materials, etc
As someone who works with industrial pigments. Yes they are. Clear bases are not to bad, but every white base is slightly different.
You add multiple base materials and each one will take pigment differently. So rubber will tint differently, than each type of plastic, and each hybrid will vary slightly too. It will make matching actual colors consistently a pain in the ass. Possible with good chemistry. But a pain.
that only works if what you diversify into is capable of picking up the slack.
MSFT will fail, as steve ballmer spent a decade and still couldn't move MSFT past windows and office dominance. xbox is getting there, but it is still losing money on every sale of the unit. and after ten years is just starting to turn profit on the R&D for the consoles.
Google's core business is search and advertising. The problem is targeted ads are failures. I am 100% less likely to use a targeted advertisement than a regular one. why? because targeted ads only work for what you already have bought. Amazon has 15 years of my buying history. they have not once sent me a useful targeted ad.
google is throwing everything they can out there and see what sticks. cars, tablets, phones, email, bundling, whatever. now look at google plus. you have to have a google plus account to use google services yet google plus is a wasteland of wannabe's
Social media is failing, because programs + advertisers want you to log in with your social media account so they can broadcast their ads over your social media. nearly every tablet app wants you to broadcast every single time you play a fart noise(or insert stupid game step here) on your device.
Advertising is over saturating the marketplaces so badly people are tuning out the advertisements. which mean the advertisers in turn push harder and harder.
Advertising is a core business of google. as advertising becomes less and less successful, google has to change up.
So you are advocating that a bad law, a corrupt court system, and black budget surveillance of the american people that costs the US taxpayers billions of dollars annually, should be stopped by paying tens of millions of dollars for a very specialized group of lawyers, and assistants. (as proposed by the guy who wrote the patriot act and is mad it is being used beyond his limited imagination)
Why not repeal the law, and literally save billions of dollars..
of course that would be fiscally conservative and that is not allowed by any politician.
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It gets better when you realize that the rest of the right wing mean by smaller government is one run exclusively by them.
Look at it this way the republican who wrote the patriot act is pissed that a democrat is abusing his law in such a way. his answer. it isn't smaller government but to pay a dedicated top secret clearance law firm tens of millions of dollars annually to justify the poorly written law.
If republicans really wanted smaller government then they should be trying to get things like the patriot act NSA spying programs not only under control but shut down to save on government spending. but not one republican will actually push for that.
Netflix already pays for bandwidth.
What this is
I place a long distance call to you I pay the charges.
I call you collect you pay the charges.
What this is.
I call you long distance I pay the charges and depending on your phone company you also pay the charges.
We both are paying for the content and you get to pay twice.
depending on the provider you don't get a new ip address when do those things either. from my limited experiments with Comcast and Time Warner they give the same IP address to the same Mac address every time.
I replaced a router on both and got new ip addresses. however when i cloned the mac address from the old routers to the new I got the old ip addresses.
Now this is really limited. 4 routers on two service providers. so take it with a grain of salt and a shot of tequila .
No but it is almost as much as watching the walk of shame after a major holiday.
hell take an xbox one, and a 60" led flat screen, back to 1995.
they would declare it VR, Just the resolution alone would astound us back then. forget about motion tracking and voice controls, it would be star trek.
in 1998 I donned a VR headset of the time and walked on a tread mill. it was fun though a bit disorienting since the screens weren't lined up for my prescription properly.
oddly enough Plan 9 is from the guys who invented Unix who were trying to reinvent it.
Much simpler
Pillage then burn.
Never
Burn then pillage
Like Microsoft if you have billions, and make billions. but still are losing it takes a long time to fall.
The USA is going in the wrong direction but still with some intelligent leadership and leadership council(congress) it can be turned around.
I don't have hope that the politicians will change.
Hell it took Rome a good 3-400 years. to fall. The USA has a much larger pile of gold to pillage before it can burn. Yes I know of the debt. but rome had a larger percentage of debt. in a good pillage debt doesn't matter.
Better go watch repo men.
That is true ransom ware.
Not quite true. The big problem with the ABL is maintaining target lock long enough for the laser to burn through.
Unless the lasers are firing from a handful of targeting positions. It is a bitch to track in real time.
I uploaded two screenshots for feedback@slashdot.org. timothy respond in twenty minutes with a short personalized response and a canned message.
800x600 would be generous. I lose enough text for a 640x400 screen. from a 1280x800 I lose almost 75% of the screen to whitespace.
Forget features. how about fixing the white space issue.
Depending on the thread my screen can show 75% whitespace to text.
Give a spot to upload screenshots. once you start in a thread the layout is almost entirely whitespace instead of text and posts.
The one and only thing I don't like about classic is moderating. bring the beta's moderate functionality to classic and bamn your done.
though i don't think the feedback teams even care anymore. I think slashdot corporate overlords are pushing new web synergies to modernize, and (insert buzzword bullshit here).
That is why they keep trying and keep failing. Slashdot is supposed to be content and random posts (some from trolls, some from wannabe, and some from insightful people). you make it not about the discussions and the people will leave.
Well threading is broken, try following a large thread. you can never figure out where it ends.
Post limits are gone..( browse at zero unless I am mod. to see AC's but not just trolls)
It uses about 10% of screen real estate. I mean come one there is so much white space you can use your monitor as a light source.
Poll's are on every page, because well everyone wants to read the current poll all the time right? and on really long threads that poll section goes all the way to the bottom.
The only thing I really like. is the new moderate button. that works and looks good.
ah another one.
The world is round. unless the beam hit the planet it is being pointed out into space.
think about it.
shh the Earth is flat. Kentucky schools told him so.
microsoft had those timex smart watches that updated by facing the watch to the monitor which then flashed to transfer the data. that was what mid 90's.
Smart watches have existed in some form for a while. the problem has always been the UI is to small to do much with.
personally I think Apple will wait until they can get a decent laser projector to work on your arm. Sort of like that laser keyboard only wrist worthy.
damn straight. I am this close to building an Arc reactor. I am long way from electric thrusters with thrust greater than 3 newtons, but I almost have the power.
how is the government in our health care again?
the ACA
sets the minimum standard insurance companies must provide. a lot of insurance plans basically failed if you tried to use them.
Requires everyone to take part and since everyone has an equal chance of being sick and needing health care they need insurance anyways. a simple doctors visit without insurance costs hundreds of dollars.
uses the IRS Who is watching your income anyways to monitor it to make sure you are paying for insurance anyways.
created a website to link states, and available insurance plans in those states together so that you didn't have to go to dozens of different places to shop around. like amazon one stop shopping.
For Car insurance you can go to X insurance company website any where in the country and they would give you the correct answers. for health insurance it varies by city even though it is owned by just a couple of companies across the country.
lastly the USA has only moderate health care overall since most can not afford to pay for it. however we also have the most expensive care in the world by several times. we pay more for less care in the USA than anywhere else. The free market has failed miserable in Health insurance.
I see this more for car dealers,mechanics,distributors rather than home owners. You will still need raw materials. Home owners don't like keeping boxes of screws.
No you will take your car in and they will print parts you need. You want new gizmo they print it and ship it.
The first thing I see being mass produced will be gaskets ,washers, prints etc. Which are generally a massive waste in cost of materials, etc
As someone who works with industrial pigments. Yes they are. Clear bases are not to bad, but every white base is slightly different.
You add multiple base materials and each one will take pigment differently. So rubber will tint differently, than each type of plastic, and each hybrid will vary slightly too. It will make matching actual colors consistently a pain in the ass. Possible with good chemistry. But a pain.
that only works if what you diversify into is capable of picking up the slack.
MSFT will fail, as steve ballmer spent a decade and still couldn't move MSFT past windows and office dominance. xbox is getting there, but it is still losing money on every sale of the unit. and after ten years is just starting to turn profit on the R&D for the consoles.
Google's core business is search and advertising. The problem is targeted ads are failures. I am 100% less likely to use a targeted advertisement than a regular one. why? because targeted ads only work for what you already have bought. Amazon has 15 years of my buying history. they have not once sent me a useful targeted ad.
google is throwing everything they can out there and see what sticks. cars, tablets, phones, email, bundling, whatever. now look at google plus. you have to have a google plus account to use google services yet google plus is a wasteland of wannabe's
Social media is failing, because programs + advertisers want you to log in with your social media account so they can broadcast their ads over your social media. nearly every tablet app wants you to broadcast every single time you play a fart noise(or insert stupid game step here) on your device.
Advertising is over saturating the marketplaces so badly people are tuning out the advertisements. which mean the advertisers in turn push harder and harder.
Advertising is a core business of google. as advertising becomes less and less successful, google has to change up.
Because 15 years ago you can replace that sentence with Microsoft or MSFT, or M$FT.
Google is the new big guy and the doom guys love the new big guy.
no but you can run emac in chrome
Look for emac mode chrome ext.
So you are advocating that a bad law, a corrupt court system, and black budget surveillance of the american people that costs the US taxpayers billions of dollars annually, should be stopped by paying tens of millions of dollars for a very specialized group of lawyers, and assistants. (as proposed by the guy who wrote the patriot act and is mad it is being used beyond his limited imagination)
Why not repeal the law, and literally save billions of dollars..
of course that would be fiscally conservative and that is not allowed by any politician.