You can get your hours doing anything in a plane. It doesn't have to be instructing. Crop dusting and towing banners counts, as long as your log book gets filled out.
Similarly, with legislatively reduced supply of pilots, look for cattle class throughout, with even tighter row spacing. Better keep those 747's tuned up, airlines, because you're gonna need to convert them to full economy class the way Japan uses all-economy class 747's between Osaka and Tokyo.
Consumers are getting exactly the level of service they are willing to pay for. It's why airlines have had to soak the passengers in other ways, including baggage fees and overpriced onboard snacks/meals.
Maybe we need to go back to the golden days of regulated airfares and routes.
He has no quarems with his $60 million private plane that generates no ROI.
A private plane doesn't have to generate revenue. Commercial or private, air travel costs time and money. If you can reduce travel time and turn it into working time, that can be enough to tip the cost:benefit ratio in favor of a private plane./.ers make the exact same argument about IT every day: It costs money, but it makes everyone more efficient, which generates revenue, which justifies the expense of IT.
âoeI would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas and a clear-sighted view of important issues,â Professor Crabtree says in a provocative paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics.
The average Athenian lived a life of drudgery and was illiterate.
Citizenship was hereditary (or very rarely granted by democratic vote) which made the "average citizen" a much different class of person than the average Athenian. It's like saying that if the average Harvard student were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive.
Those six minutes of video can be summarized as thus: Keystone CEO: we will not make a contractual condition (for our shippers) that the oil flowing through Keystone should remain in the USA or be matched with equivalent imports
You know, I held the same opinion until I decided to do some research to back up my position, and found that only the heaviest oils in the refinement process are any good for plastics(at least the consumer/industrial grade plastics we're used to). Those heavy oils are also the worst ones for burning for energy, with the lightest ones being converted to jet fuel and gasoline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel "... bunker oil is literally the bottom of the barrel; the only things more dense than bunker fuel are carbon black feedstock and bituminous residue which is used for paving roads (asphalt) and sealing roofs."
Everything that gets shipped from China arrives on a boat burning bunker fuel aka "Those heavy oils [that] are also the worst ones for burning for energy".
And I don't know where you got the idea that heavy oils are the worst for energy. In the same way that diesel has more energy content than gasoline, bunker fuel has more energy content than diesel. Bunker fuel just requires a lot more pre-treating before it can be used in an engine... which is why it gets sold so cheaply. Nothing smaller than a boat has room for all the extra machinery to heat and filter the fuel.
And if you don't care about S3D, then 11.1 is a non issue. Sounds like a bunch of FUD to me. Regardless, until you see a bunch of DirectX 11.1 exclusive games and DirectX 11 support is dropped (which will never happen), people are ranting about nothing.
You say "ranting about nothing" and I say that we're ranting about an arbitrary choice, not driven by technical considerations XP has been lingering for so long that Microsoft is probably shitting itself at the possibility that Win7 is going to be the next XP.
It's all part of a larger trend with Microsoft and their attempts to force the upgrade cycle when consumers are not interested. This is good for Microsoft, not so good for us.
No one wants to meet in the middle anymore. We need some leadership that knows how to reach across these boundaries but it appears to be at least four years out and maybe more. It's gonna be a rough ride in the meantime.
Who's this "no one" you're referring to? Obama and the Democratic leadership were bending over backwards to try and accomodate Republican demands. But, as it turns out, you can't negotiate with fanatics and fundamentalists.
For example, let's talk about spending and taxes: What do you think a compromise in "the middle" would look like? Now here was the Republican Party's idea of compromise: No new taxes, no military spending cuts, all the offsets will be in social spending. Romney is gone, so "closing loopholes" has died and the party now is vacillating between "$2 or $3 in spending cuts for $1 in revenue" and "no"
I would love a breakdown of profit by company on a hardware and content combined basis, but you again fail to supply a list. A mythical figure combing Apple with Samsung is equally a nonsense especially when trying to prove Apples relevance.
The last numbers I saw had Apple with 71% of the profits, Samsung with 37% of the profits, HTC with 1.x% of the profits and [everyone else] is *losing money.
*which is how the profits add up to >100%
The bottom line is Apple is losing Market share, and its desire to keep its massive profits is the problem.
15% of the market = 71% of the smartphone industry profits We should all be so lucky to have such a record to defend.
Obviously IBM couldn't have allowed a giant clusterfuck of patent lawsuits to go forward after they had just publicly said the system isn't broken. So they engineered two massive corporations cross-licensing their portfolios in order to fit the IBM definition of "not broken" If it makes you feel better, I'm sure the illuminati & free masons were involved and the reptilians were not.
They claim they're measuring the geolocation of racism, but only pick one very specific type.
There's actually a term for "black-to-white racism." You know what it is? "Reverse-racism"
If you want to do more than skim the surface of racism, it helps to look at the issue in relation to power structures. Which is another way of saying "not all racism is equal."
I would have gone with Panama Disease In the '50s, it wiped out the global monoculture that was banana farming.
The banana industry switched to a new monoculture, which they thought was immune to Panama Disease. But the new banana is only immune to a specific strain, which is why Panama Disease is once again slowly spreading across the global.
And therein the problem: What rational person would go through the political process,
Someone who thinks they can make a change. The 2010 batch of Tea Party representitives are a good example. Despite holding political views way out in the fringe, they ran for office because they thought they could make a change. They have: they've repeatedly stymied the Democratic agenda and, on more than one ocassion, have tripped up the Republican agenda too. And I wouldn't call them irrational. Within their framework of ideas, they are very rational actors.
Elizabeth Warren is another example of a well meaning person who went through a bruising political fight to get a Senate seat. She created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republicans refused her nomination to head the agency, so she ran for the Senate in Massachussetts.
Of course there are fewer suits per patent, because there are literally 5 times the number of patent applications as there were 30 years ago. That means nothing. Deceitful bastard of a lawyer... but I repeat myself.
Don't forget that we have 5x the patents but almost no increase in patent examiners.
You can pick almost any regulatory body in the US Government and make a strong argument that they do not have the resources to fulfill their mandate.
Source? Last I saw it was just under $1.4 trillion cumulative for the last 11 years...
A true economic accounting would factor in the opportunity cost from forgoing your next best alternative. I suspect $X trillion in infrastructure spending would have brought us much greater returns over 11 years than $X trillion in military spending.
/I have no comment on the total amount spent for our middle east adventurism.
I feel like you and many others are missing the point: This isn't about supply and demand.
1. These areas are in an official State of Emergency. The rules of business are what the State says they are. 2. Price gouging is its own social harm. It is exploitative and creates massive inequities during a crisis
/Price gouging isn't illegal in all 50 States. Check your local laws.
Unless it's a really geeky community, you aren't going to find a lot of people interested in digging cable ditches if they still have to spend the same amount of money every month on their bill, that is even assuming you could get the level of service up to where your other ISP has it.
If it's a small rural town, there is someone with a backhoe that would be happy to volunteer their time & equipment for a community effort.
However the submitter decides to do it, he needs an accountant. And if he's getting help for free, two accountants. And no matter who's handling the money, trust but verify.
My experience has been that people take failure better than any success where their money has been mishandled. The worst thing you can do in a small town is to screw up with other people's money.
Sooner or later the west is gonna wake up and accept that Islam and the west are simply incompatible and that we should be pursuing a policy of containment just as we did with communism.
You don't need to pursue a policy of containment. The Islamists are mostly isolationsists and just want the Western world to leave them alone. But as long as there is oil, Israel, and strategic supply routes, they'll never get their wish.
And the appropriate response is probably some more neat math to make an algorithm for the same problem which is provably not attackable via this methodology.
The reason this attack works is because they can force a known memory state and then watch for changes. Changing your encryption isn't going to fix it. Mucking up the L1 Cache will. There might be a small performance penalty involved with screwing around with the L1, but that's better than the alternative.
I'm also amused that "A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and RSA Security" think "âoeAt present, this is a fairly elaborate attack and we would expect it to be mounted only by a sophisticated attack organization such as a nation-state,â This team is not a nation-state, but they think only nation-states can implement such attacks? o.O
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You can get your hours doing anything in a plane.
It doesn't have to be instructing. Crop dusting and towing banners counts, as long as your log book gets filled out.
Similarly, with legislatively reduced supply of pilots, look for cattle class throughout, with even tighter row spacing. Better keep those 747's tuned up, airlines, because you're gonna need to convert them to full economy class the way Japan uses all-economy class 747's between Osaka and Tokyo.
Consumers are getting exactly the level of service they are willing to pay for.
It's why airlines have had to soak the passengers in other ways, including baggage fees and overpriced onboard snacks/meals.
Maybe we need to go back to the golden days of regulated airfares and routes.
And almost no one gets those maximum sentences since 90%~95% of all cases are plea bargained before ever going to trial.
He has no quarems with his $60 million private plane that generates no ROI.
A private plane doesn't have to generate revenue. /.ers make the exact same argument about IT every day:
Commercial or private, air travel costs time and money.
If you can reduce travel time and turn it into working time, that can be enough to tip the cost:benefit ratio in favor of a private plane.
It costs money, but it makes everyone more efficient, which generates revenue, which justifies the expense of IT.
âoeI would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas and a clear-sighted view of important issues,â Professor Crabtree says in a provocative paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics.
The average Athenian lived a life of drudgery and was illiterate.
Citizenship was hereditary (or very rarely granted by democratic vote) which made the "average citizen" a much different class of person than the average Athenian.
It's like saying that if the average Harvard student were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive.
This post and a lot of comments make it seem like the oil produced would stay in our country and only used by us. Yea right
That was part of the stink surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline.
The folks who were going to build and run the Keystone XL Pipeline refused to commit to an agreement stating that they would not allow oil flowing through the pipeline to go outside of America.
Those six minutes of video can be summarized as thus:
Keystone CEO: we will not make a contractual condition (for our shippers) that the oil flowing through Keystone should remain in the USA or be matched with equivalent imports
You know, I held the same opinion until I decided to do some research to back up my position, and found that only the heaviest oils in the refinement process are any good for plastics(at least the consumer/industrial grade plastics we're used to). Those heavy oils are also the worst ones for burning for energy, with the lightest ones being converted to jet fuel and gasoline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
"... bunker oil is literally the bottom of the barrel; the only things more dense than bunker fuel are carbon black feedstock and bituminous residue which is used for paving roads (asphalt) and sealing roofs."
Everything that gets shipped from China arrives on a boat burning bunker fuel aka "Those heavy oils [that] are also the worst ones for burning for energy".
And I don't know where you got the idea that heavy oils are the worst for energy. In the same way that diesel has more energy content than gasoline, bunker fuel has more energy content than diesel. Bunker fuel just requires a lot more pre-treating before it can be used in an engine... which is why it gets sold so cheaply. Nothing smaller than a boat has room for all the extra machinery to heat and filter the fuel.
And if you don't care about S3D, then 11.1 is a non issue. Sounds like a bunch of FUD to me. Regardless, until you see a bunch of DirectX 11.1 exclusive games and DirectX 11 support is dropped (which will never happen), people are ranting about nothing.
You say "ranting about nothing" and I say that we're ranting about an arbitrary choice, not driven by technical considerations
XP has been lingering for so long that Microsoft is probably shitting itself at the possibility that Win7 is going to be the next XP.
It's all part of a larger trend with Microsoft and their attempts to force the upgrade cycle when consumers are not interested.
This is good for Microsoft, not so good for us.
No one wants to meet in the middle anymore. We need some leadership that knows how to reach across these boundaries but it appears to be at least four years out and maybe more. It's gonna be a rough ride in the meantime.
Who's this "no one" you're referring to?
Obama and the Democratic leadership were bending over backwards to try and accomodate Republican demands.
But, as it turns out, you can't negotiate with fanatics and fundamentalists.
For example, let's talk about spending and taxes: What do you think a compromise in "the middle" would look like?
Now here was the Republican Party's idea of compromise: No new taxes, no military spending cuts, all the offsets will be in social spending.
Romney is gone, so "closing loopholes" has died and the party now is vacillating between "$2 or $3 in spending cuts for $1 in revenue" and "no"
I would love a breakdown of profit by company on a hardware and content combined basis, but you again fail to supply a list. A mythical figure combing Apple with Samsung is equally a nonsense especially when trying to prove Apples relevance.
The last numbers I saw had Apple with 71% of the profits, Samsung with 37% of the profits, HTC with 1.x% of the profits and [everyone else] is *losing money.
*which is how the profits add up to >100%
The bottom line is Apple is losing Market share, and its desire to keep its massive profits is the problem.
15% of the market = 71% of the smartphone industry profits
We should all be so lucky to have such a record to defend.
Very curious about what happened here?
Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel
That's what happened.
Obviously IBM couldn't have allowed a giant clusterfuck of patent lawsuits to go forward after they had just publicly said the system isn't broken.
So they engineered two massive corporations cross-licensing their portfolios in order to fit the IBM definition of "not broken"
If it makes you feel better, I'm sure the illuminati & free masons were involved and the reptilians were not.
They claim they're measuring the geolocation of racism, but only pick one very specific type.
There's actually a term for "black-to-white racism."
You know what it is? "Reverse-racism"
If you want to do more than skim the surface of racism, it helps to look at the issue in relation to power structures.
Which is another way of saying "not all racism is equal."
According to the census, North Dakot's population is 90.4% white and 1.3% black.
The State may or may not be full of racists, but we definitely know that it is not full of black people.
I would have gone with Panama Disease
In the '50s, it wiped out the global monoculture that was banana farming.
The banana industry switched to a new monoculture, which they thought was immune to Panama Disease.
But the new banana is only immune to a specific strain, which is why Panama Disease is once again slowly spreading across the global.
And therein the problem: What rational person would go through the political process,
Someone who thinks they can make a change.
The 2010 batch of Tea Party representitives are a good example.
Despite holding political views way out in the fringe, they ran for office because they thought they could make a change.
They have: they've repeatedly stymied the Democratic agenda and, on more than one ocassion, have tripped up the Republican agenda too.
And I wouldn't call them irrational. Within their framework of ideas, they are very rational actors.
Elizabeth Warren is another example of a well meaning person who went through a bruising political fight to get a Senate seat.
She created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republicans refused her nomination to head the agency,
so she ran for the Senate in Massachussetts.
Of course there are fewer suits per patent, because there are literally 5 times the number of patent applications as there were 30 years ago. That means nothing. Deceitful bastard of a lawyer... but I repeat myself.
Don't forget that we have 5x the patents but almost no increase in patent examiners.
You can pick almost any regulatory body in the US Government and make a strong argument that they do not have the resources to fulfill their mandate.
This is not an argument at all.
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
/. covered the news that Google was buying IBM patents for Android's protection from Apple & Microsoft
Remember when Google went on a patent buying spree? They bought Motorola to help them support Android.
It's not because Google needed the IP, it was to create a patent army to be use in future battles with tech giants.
That sounds awfully broken to me.
Source? Last I saw it was just under $1.4 trillion cumulative for the last 11 years...
A true economic accounting would factor in the opportunity cost from forgoing your next best alternative.
I suspect $X trillion in infrastructure spending would have brought us much greater returns over 11 years than $X trillion in military spending.
/I have no comment on the total amount spent for our middle east adventurism.
I feel like you and many others are missing the point: This isn't about supply and demand.
1. These areas are in an official State of Emergency. The rules of business are what the State says they are.
2. Price gouging is its own social harm. It is exploitative and creates massive inequities during a crisis
/Price gouging isn't illegal in all 50 States. Check your local laws.
The real Americans live on reservations.
Neither Democratic nor Republican Presidents have improved their unemployement numbers.
Unless it's a really geeky community, you aren't going to find a lot of people interested in digging cable ditches if they still have to spend the same amount of money every month on their bill, that is even assuming you could get the level of service up to where your other ISP has it.
If it's a small rural town, there is someone with a backhoe that would be happy to volunteer their time & equipment for a community effort.
However the submitter decides to do it, he needs an accountant.
And if he's getting help for free, two accountants. And no matter who's handling the money, trust but verify.
My experience has been that people take failure better than any success where their money has been mishandled.
The worst thing you can do in a small town is to screw up with other people's money.
While we're talking about firsts, I believe George W. Bush was the first President to start a war and not raise any taxes to cover war spending.
Sooner or later the west is gonna wake up and accept that Islam and the west are simply incompatible and that we should be pursuing a policy of containment just as we did with communism.
You don't need to pursue a policy of containment.
The Islamists are mostly isolationsists and just want the Western world to leave them alone.
But as long as there is oil, Israel, and strategic supply routes, they'll never get their wish.
And the appropriate response is probably some more neat math to make an algorithm for the same problem which is provably not attackable via this methodology.
The reason this attack works is because they can force a known memory state and then watch for changes.
Changing your encryption isn't going to fix it. Mucking up the L1 Cache will.
There might be a small performance penalty involved with screwing around with the L1, but that's better than the alternative.
I'm also amused that "A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and RSA Security"
think "âoeAt present, this is a fairly elaborate attack and we would expect it to be mounted only by a sophisticated attack organization such as a nation-state,â
This team is not a nation-state, but they think only nation-states can implement such attacks?
o.O