Refusal by the US and EU to engage with Russian law enforcement, in order to forment the appearance of conflict, in the insane attempt to sell more guns and bullets for no other reason than insensate greed, blocks the ability to mutually cooperate to end the problem, fucking morons.
Higher resolution, frame rate, curve, 3D, fuck it all, more power, more power, more power. Lots of ram, user installable OS, play right on the TV no console, mass storage, when the TV screen is off it might as well be a file server. Really, really, big screen all in one Android at a pinch, preferably Linux or Steam OS or even Mac OS. Fuck the pretty picture I want more power, more ram, more storage and definitely no fixed camera or microphone (removable with manual on off switch). Ohh and a tablet tied to the system as a remote control and keyboard and remote visual unit, preferably the TV being able to handle more than one tablet connected at a time for group play. MORE POWER
Total computer installs M$ is destroyed by Linux. That is installs on TVs, Tablets, Phones, Servers and whole range of appliances. M$ is now just hanging in there on the desktop based upon nothing but lock in via applications and existing data and that is real bad, in new markets in only has the Xbone and the Xbone will come under real threat from more and more powerful smart TVs and smart phones. Keep in mind, with smart phones, with portable custom fitted VR glasses (still to hit the market), you have a big screen in your pocket and that is doom for game consoles.
Business, there are real problems there, no business wants to be spied on and it business practice advantage put up for sale to the highest bidding competitor and that does not even touch medical practices, where M$'s spying is against the law and both the medical practice and M$ come under real legal threat.
M$ is now wildly uncool and that is doom in the consumer market. M$ does not maintain the privacy of business and that is a real problem. The desktop market will shrink to power users and they are a really fussy, demanding market and as far as M$ gross invasion of privacy and demands for control over power users, they have a great big ole 'fuck you' coming.
There were much smarter directions to go in, they were just stupidly arrogant and it is unlikely they will be able to come back from that. Never forget desktop PCs and the consumer market are parting ways, so M$ will lose the bulk of the PC market right there, not to competitors but to smart phones, smart TVs, tablets and cheap simple notebooks running Android (way good enough for what most of them will be doing). So not so much M$ losing the desktop market, just the desktop market pretty much shrinking back to early 2000 levels and M$ is pissing that market right off, so screwed and they deserve it.
Computer power makes backwards compatibility just a matter of an additional layer between old and new and old software being more compact means no appreciable speed loss, with that compatibility layer. Everyone knows the big uppercut is coming, Android and of course the Linux distribution that underpins that. M$ huge failure of phones and desktops is creating a software ecology that will spread to the new desktops, without windows. M$ is rapidly becoming the company people love to hate and that is death for any company, how many billions have they spent on brand advertising, just to blow it all away by being privacy invasion control freak perves that make stupendously arrogant demands upon their customers rights.
You obviously have no understanding of how business tax deductions work. Companies can be generating huge profits and by some miracle of mathematics declare tax losses (the mathematics being the numbers surrounding campaign donations). Tax depreciation of capital assets is one of those vehicles of tax minimisation for some (the bulk of workers get zip). So before any claims of burning through money you have to look at EBITDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (from that you can tell how a company is really doing). Excluding of course funky stuff like offshore income shifting and grossly inflated executive salaries and even profitability weirdness versus profit (generating extra debt to make a company look more profitable whilst actually generating less profit).
What you of course completely ignore is newspapers compete. Compared to print, the internet provides global competition for news. Why do they complain about RT because RT can target a global audience, well beyond the confines of one city or even extended delivery beyond that city.
The New York Times is dying a slow grim death. It's model of supporting it's advertisers above the value of truth has set it up to fail in the internet age or more specifically global delivery of news direct to the end user pretty much where ever they are in the world.
You have not even seen the real killer of all dead tree news, accurate auto translation services. Now that will really blow the whole news media front wide open. Even the most backwater third world news service will have access to a global market, not that they will be able to capture it, just that it opens up so much more competition. News organisations that favour advertisers over readers and truth are dying. What was really funny, the whole fake news scam that they conspired to create as a cartel, did them far more harm than it did those who they targeted. Accurate auto translation services are going to blow the internet and last millenniums media market wide open.
" I think that putting cameras in places with rampant crime", WOW, they are going to put cameras in corporate boardrooms whose claimed value is beyond a billion dollars, that's fantastic because of course that is where crime is by far the most rampant and not the petty crime of the streets. No the crimes are corruption of democracy, treason, wars for profit, bad medicines, tainted food, completely corrupted fourth estate, mass fraud of every description, I mean really horrendous crimes that cost of the lives of misery and cause the suffering of billions.
Cops are getting body cams when are the far more corrupt politicians going to get body cams, their decisions often resulting in far more suffering and how they came about that decision being of extreme importance to the voting public.
Here is betting there will be no public cameras watching where by far the bulk of crimes are actually being committed.
I started putting on free aps, never bought any apps because pretty much, I never really much used the free apps and ending up deleting them all, except government provided ones, local, state and federal (don't use those much either except when I actually need to). When it comes to mobile content, I simple went with a phone that allowed large added storage and built up a library of content to dump on the phone, done and finished (more than enough for when moving about).
Reality is "Identity Theft" is a purposeful lie produced by public relations and marketing agencies to push the burden of the crime from the banks to individuals. It is a lie. The reality is the fraud is not against the individual the fraud is against those who accept that false identity. Why the shift, so you the ignorant mug punters get stuck with the loss and the banks wander off laughing.
The truth is, when you get hit by a false claim, you are entitled to seek the prosecution of those who attempted to make that false claim. By any reasoned justice those who made the false claim against you must now prove they were defrauded by another party, else be charged with fraud themselves. It should never ever be up to you to prove anything, you should just be able to forward a complaint of false fiscal claims against you as fraud to the authorities and let them deal with it.
Of course the banks would end up with the bill, hence the scam of identity theft, where you the innocent party and now liable for the corrupt stupidity of the banks until you can prove your innocence, can you not see the criminal corruption in that.
Here http://store.steampowered.com/... let me fix that for you and http://store.steampowered.com/.... Yeah not so much any more and if you check you steam library you will find out exactly which Mac OS and Linux games you already own, just waiting to be downloaded and installed.
The desktop is a dying market except for power users, hobbyists, scientist. Business is making the shift to smart terminals and for less secure communication purposes simple disposable notebooks (no windows in site lust secure locked doors, nobody wants the employees wide open to the prying eyes of potential competitors who pay for M$ for access).
It could have been a shrinking market with windows but M$ killed that, so the desktop will become a shrinking market with Linux and of all companies, Apple, still a good solid professional market, pretty much back to its main professional market prior to consumer PCs which in reality when technology caught up is smart phones (fitted VR micro glasses for gaming), smart TVs, tablets for the smart TVs and disposable notebooks for communications (not gaming).
Whoops no gaming console, yep, pretty much no gaming console.
So let me get this straight. You think a phone the US President uses to make personal PUBLIC tweets to the PUBLIC needs to be secured from what exactly ?!? Just curious as to what it needs to be secured from, as long as it is off when he does not use it, in fact Secret Service agent could hand it to the President upon request ie put the battery in and turn it on and here yah go El Presidente (true for any country in the world, not just to pick on the incompetence of the US Secret Service because it would be them who is at fault on so elementary a security failure) ie being able to listen in on that phone when it is not making personal presidential PUBLIC tweets to the PUBLIC (which you want to keep private from exactly who, Aliens perhaps).
To be fair, Gartner most probably had no idea at all about Windows anal probe 10 and M$ shooting itself in the foot and then sticking the bloody stump in it's mouth. You can not be 'cool' and sell into the consumer market with a accessory personal device whilst being seen as control freak perves wanting to control and pry into everyone's personal life. Windows watching you masturbate is not exactly the best way to sell a device that people will carry around with them. So basically smart phone forecast prior to windows 10 vs smart phone outcome post windows 10. Only a wildly arrogant company would do what M$ has done and Gartner could not have reasonably expected M$'s fuck crazy scheme. Compulsory software installs, desktop advertising, encrypted user monitoring, hacking into microphones and cameras, really sick stuff. M$ is pretty much killing itself in the consumer market and is rapidly reaching the point of no return and perhaps even crossed over.
On a planet with limited resources, really, the easiest solution is the best. Simply put limits on power to weight ratios for domestic use vehicles and limit the weight just in case. Serves no purpose and it will not make people's genitals any larger, so simply ban the excess. Can a vehicle be declared unfit for purpose when it is unsafe to drive, yes.
Out of curiosity I checked the Steam web site for games that I already own and have installed on a PC, to see how many were available for Linux, Mac OS and Steam OS, not only were some of my favourites available but apparently I already own them on that OS as well, now that's cool, what can I say but bugger M$ with a dead dog's dingus. So now I have a choice of three OS's and abandoning some game titles or let a corporation steal my rights (so screw over my rights in order to play with a toy or preserve my rights and say goodbye windows anal probe 10, no choice at all).
Wireless makes for a very viable negotiating tactic when dealing with corrupt obstructive governments paid off by competing incumbent telecoms ie your voters are going to be really pissed off when they get second rate systems and we still get into the market and fibre will now be decades off thanks to you, your many business campaign contributors are going to be really pleased when you screwed all of them just to pay back a favour from one company, literally screwed hundreds of thousands of companies in order to get a kick back from one, good luck with that.
So they get into the market anyhow but still stick it to those corrupt politicians. Wireless does not preclude fibre optic connections, in fact the core of wireless is wired distributed to transmission towers, so to update, leave the tower for some customers and start wiring the rest.
Umm, look what you wrote, how dare you write that you fascist, you should be fired. I wont even quote what you wrote because that would make me as evil as you. Adolf who, the name that can not be spoken without you becoming as evil as the one whose name should not be spoken.
How about this, "All Jews Will Die", evil or not, well at least it is factual, all people of all religions will die sooner or latter.
What is really going on, to many snouts in the pseudo celebrity trough and they are becoming as argumentative and bitter as a pack of lorikeets with one fruit left in the tree. Sure it's all happy and come join the party when there is plenty of fruit in the tree and not many lorikeets but when they are a whole bunch of lorikeets and not many fruit, boy does the song change. Sure the lorikeets are pretty and all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but wow do the make a mess out of a fruit tree, bite the fruit, suck the juice and the spit the meat out, eating or is that drinking just as fast as they can, a whole tree decimated in a matter of days, just like the pseudo celebrities coming out of hollywood playing at politics.
The deep hooks are the reason why. Total control, total power, it infects their minds like a disease. Which is why privacy rights and all the rules and regulations. Yep, those ass hats would abuse the hell out of it, if not constrained and constrained hard, they have already gone way too far and need to be regulated, audited and punished with major fines and custodial sentences. To climb the corporate ladder requires psychopathic tendencies, that lust for power and control, the ability to abuse at will all those who frustrate them and it expresses itself in corporations that "lust for power and control, the ability to abuse at will all those who frustrate them".
Problem was that unregulated taxi services became a hub for crime and so regulations and controls were brought in and they had to be paid for. This as always got exploited by a minority to enrich themselves at the expense of the majority. So what regulations are required for random pick ups, what would be considered unsafe behaviour, what if the user doesn't pay, what if the driver steal luggage, what about fake drivers, what about inept drives or intoxicated drivers, what about drivers with medical conditions (intercept pick up with nefarious purposed in mind). Free for all would be quite chaotic, it always is because of liars, cheats, thieves and killers. If there were nothing but honest people, sure it would be fantastic but that is not the case.
All renewables will struggle with high energy power requirements, industry, commercial and high density residential. Suburban power in suitable climes will not be a problem but beyond that simply can not achieve the required energy out comes.
That does not even touch the concept of substantially increasing recycling of all material via high energy industrial processes. So using energy to eliminate waste and minimise resource use, a double plus but it will take a lot of cheap energy to achieve it. We should be starting to push into zero waste societies which is possible through effective industrial recycling, turning waste into useful matter to be used again. Even sewerage when properly treated can be turned into high value fertiliser and of course energy, 'natural gas' (tee hee).
Well, by the time they can use that patent in any meaningful way beyond simply experimentation it will have expired. So how much is it worth beyond experimentation, not much really. I smell another bankster pump and dump though, the gene bomb, to follow up the dot bomb collapse (only fools believe that lame scam any more).
With regard to net neutrality the more polite way to put it is. Net neutrality favours 99.99 percent of business, not just numbers but also revenue. Dropping net neutrality only favours 0.01 percent of business, so that 0.01% tried to sneak in by buying off politicians, however that moment seems to have past as net admins of those 99.99% of business have informed management what a dangerous move that would be.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats got gobbled up by the Corporate Party but both the Republicans and the Democrats are slowly but surely breaking free. Who implemented all the crap laws, the Corporate Party, those disgusting fuckers just hide it all buy buying out control of the other two politico parties, it is just the way the Corporate Party roles because they now fuck all people would vote for them.
Be happy we are finally starting to see a kickback on the theft of our privacy by government and by corporations. M$ picked a really bad time to go all 1984 on us, big brother, where the big brother is a bloody pervert abuser. Times they are a changin https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and for the better for a change.
Well technically speaking that copyright was illegally provided as the works in question were never tested according to law to ensure those works do promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. No test, by law, no copyright. Now that question still hasn't been answered. Why do patents adhere to law by being tested and why does copyright not adhere to law, is never tested and is protected a great public expense.
If the work does not promote the progress of science or the 'Useful' arts, it should not be copyrightable.
People are bitching and I think that is exactly what caused the pull back in the latest, unknown compulsory software install. They were probably going for another big control over the user power grab and chickened out, forcing the compulsory software install to be redone. These are not patches, not bug fixes, they are literally compulsory software installs and the user is not informed of the contents not can they refuse, master to slave, obey. Likely they were pushing further into George Orwell 1984 territory and got cold feet just before forcing the big brother install.
That average is not the problem. The big problems are, sudden thaw of the permafrost releasing methane due to a weather event, causing a major short term rise, leading to more methane be released. Also there are solar peak outputs to consider, we just moved out of an ebb and now high solar output is due. So yeah, that average does not even touch extreme weather events, not just earth's but the sun as well. That is what is driving the real concern, if only perfect averages would work on everything, Casinos playing craps would go bankrupt of course because only seven would ever be rolled, the average.
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Refusal by the US and EU to engage with Russian law enforcement, in order to forment the appearance of conflict, in the insane attempt to sell more guns and bullets for no other reason than insensate greed, blocks the ability to mutually cooperate to end the problem, fucking morons.
Higher resolution, frame rate, curve, 3D, fuck it all, more power, more power, more power. Lots of ram, user installable OS, play right on the TV no console, mass storage, when the TV screen is off it might as well be a file server. Really, really, big screen all in one Android at a pinch, preferably Linux or Steam OS or even Mac OS. Fuck the pretty picture I want more power, more ram, more storage and definitely no fixed camera or microphone (removable with manual on off switch). Ohh and a tablet tied to the system as a remote control and keyboard and remote visual unit, preferably the TV being able to handle more than one tablet connected at a time for group play. MORE POWER
Total computer installs M$ is destroyed by Linux. That is installs on TVs, Tablets, Phones, Servers and whole range of appliances. M$ is now just hanging in there on the desktop based upon nothing but lock in via applications and existing data and that is real bad, in new markets in only has the Xbone and the Xbone will come under real threat from more and more powerful smart TVs and smart phones. Keep in mind, with smart phones, with portable custom fitted VR glasses (still to hit the market), you have a big screen in your pocket and that is doom for game consoles.
Business, there are real problems there, no business wants to be spied on and it business practice advantage put up for sale to the highest bidding competitor and that does not even touch medical practices, where M$'s spying is against the law and both the medical practice and M$ come under real legal threat.
M$ is now wildly uncool and that is doom in the consumer market. M$ does not maintain the privacy of business and that is a real problem. The desktop market will shrink to power users and they are a really fussy, demanding market and as far as M$ gross invasion of privacy and demands for control over power users, they have a great big ole 'fuck you' coming.
There were much smarter directions to go in, they were just stupidly arrogant and it is unlikely they will be able to come back from that. Never forget desktop PCs and the consumer market are parting ways, so M$ will lose the bulk of the PC market right there, not to competitors but to smart phones, smart TVs, tablets and cheap simple notebooks running Android (way good enough for what most of them will be doing). So not so much M$ losing the desktop market, just the desktop market pretty much shrinking back to early 2000 levels and M$ is pissing that market right off, so screwed and they deserve it.
So what you are saying is that smaller ISPs need to be able to lie about the quality of their services to compete, hmm, OK :| (FU).
Computer power makes backwards compatibility just a matter of an additional layer between old and new and old software being more compact means no appreciable speed loss, with that compatibility layer. Everyone knows the big uppercut is coming, Android and of course the Linux distribution that underpins that. M$ huge failure of phones and desktops is creating a software ecology that will spread to the new desktops, without windows. M$ is rapidly becoming the company people love to hate and that is death for any company, how many billions have they spent on brand advertising, just to blow it all away by being privacy invasion control freak perves that make stupendously arrogant demands upon their customers rights.
You obviously have no understanding of how business tax deductions work. Companies can be generating huge profits and by some miracle of mathematics declare tax losses (the mathematics being the numbers surrounding campaign donations). Tax depreciation of capital assets is one of those vehicles of tax minimisation for some (the bulk of workers get zip). So before any claims of burning through money you have to look at EBITDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (from that you can tell how a company is really doing). Excluding of course funky stuff like offshore income shifting and grossly inflated executive salaries and even profitability weirdness versus profit (generating extra debt to make a company look more profitable whilst actually generating less profit).
What you of course completely ignore is newspapers compete. Compared to print, the internet provides global competition for news. Why do they complain about RT because RT can target a global audience, well beyond the confines of one city or even extended delivery beyond that city.
The New York Times is dying a slow grim death. It's model of supporting it's advertisers above the value of truth has set it up to fail in the internet age or more specifically global delivery of news direct to the end user pretty much where ever they are in the world.
You have not even seen the real killer of all dead tree news, accurate auto translation services. Now that will really blow the whole news media front wide open. Even the most backwater third world news service will have access to a global market, not that they will be able to capture it, just that it opens up so much more competition. News organisations that favour advertisers over readers and truth are dying. What was really funny, the whole fake news scam that they conspired to create as a cartel, did them far more harm than it did those who they targeted. Accurate auto translation services are going to blow the internet and last millenniums media market wide open.
" I think that putting cameras in places with rampant crime", WOW, they are going to put cameras in corporate boardrooms whose claimed value is beyond a billion dollars, that's fantastic because of course that is where crime is by far the most rampant and not the petty crime of the streets. No the crimes are corruption of democracy, treason, wars for profit, bad medicines, tainted food, completely corrupted fourth estate, mass fraud of every description, I mean really horrendous crimes that cost of the lives of misery and cause the suffering of billions.
Cops are getting body cams when are the far more corrupt politicians going to get body cams, their decisions often resulting in far more suffering and how they came about that decision being of extreme importance to the voting public.
Here is betting there will be no public cameras watching where by far the bulk of crimes are actually being committed.
I started putting on free aps, never bought any apps because pretty much, I never really much used the free apps and ending up deleting them all, except government provided ones, local, state and federal (don't use those much either except when I actually need to). When it comes to mobile content, I simple went with a phone that allowed large added storage and built up a library of content to dump on the phone, done and finished (more than enough for when moving about).
Reality is "Identity Theft" is a purposeful lie produced by public relations and marketing agencies to push the burden of the crime from the banks to individuals. It is a lie. The reality is the fraud is not against the individual the fraud is against those who accept that false identity. Why the shift, so you the ignorant mug punters get stuck with the loss and the banks wander off laughing.
The truth is, when you get hit by a false claim, you are entitled to seek the prosecution of those who attempted to make that false claim. By any reasoned justice those who made the false claim against you must now prove they were defrauded by another party, else be charged with fraud themselves. It should never ever be up to you to prove anything, you should just be able to forward a complaint of false fiscal claims against you as fraud to the authorities and let them deal with it.
Of course the banks would end up with the bill, hence the scam of identity theft, where you the innocent party and now liable for the corrupt stupidity of the banks until you can prove your innocence, can you not see the criminal corruption in that.
Here http://store.steampowered.com/... let me fix that for you and http://store.steampowered.com/.... Yeah not so much any more and if you check you steam library you will find out exactly which Mac OS and Linux games you already own, just waiting to be downloaded and installed.
The desktop is a dying market except for power users, hobbyists, scientist. Business is making the shift to smart terminals and for less secure communication purposes simple disposable notebooks (no windows in site lust secure locked doors, nobody wants the employees wide open to the prying eyes of potential competitors who pay for M$ for access).
It could have been a shrinking market with windows but M$ killed that, so the desktop will become a shrinking market with Linux and of all companies, Apple, still a good solid professional market, pretty much back to its main professional market prior to consumer PCs which in reality when technology caught up is smart phones (fitted VR micro glasses for gaming), smart TVs, tablets for the smart TVs and disposable notebooks for communications (not gaming).
Whoops no gaming console, yep, pretty much no gaming console.
So let me get this straight. You think a phone the US President uses to make personal PUBLIC tweets to the PUBLIC needs to be secured from what exactly ?!? Just curious as to what it needs to be secured from, as long as it is off when he does not use it, in fact Secret Service agent could hand it to the President upon request ie put the battery in and turn it on and here yah go El Presidente (true for any country in the world, not just to pick on the incompetence of the US Secret Service because it would be them who is at fault on so elementary a security failure) ie being able to listen in on that phone when it is not making personal presidential PUBLIC tweets to the PUBLIC (which you want to keep private from exactly who, Aliens perhaps).
To be fair, Gartner most probably had no idea at all about Windows anal probe 10 and M$ shooting itself in the foot and then sticking the bloody stump in it's mouth. You can not be 'cool' and sell into the consumer market with a accessory personal device whilst being seen as control freak perves wanting to control and pry into everyone's personal life. Windows watching you masturbate is not exactly the best way to sell a device that people will carry around with them. So basically smart phone forecast prior to windows 10 vs smart phone outcome post windows 10. Only a wildly arrogant company would do what M$ has done and Gartner could not have reasonably expected M$'s fuck crazy scheme. Compulsory software installs, desktop advertising, encrypted user monitoring, hacking into microphones and cameras, really sick stuff. M$ is pretty much killing itself in the consumer market and is rapidly reaching the point of no return and perhaps even crossed over.
On a planet with limited resources, really, the easiest solution is the best. Simply put limits on power to weight ratios for domestic use vehicles and limit the weight just in case. Serves no purpose and it will not make people's genitals any larger, so simply ban the excess. Can a vehicle be declared unfit for purpose when it is unsafe to drive, yes.
Out of curiosity I checked the Steam web site for games that I already own and have installed on a PC, to see how many were available for Linux, Mac OS and Steam OS, not only were some of my favourites available but apparently I already own them on that OS as well, now that's cool, what can I say but bugger M$ with a dead dog's dingus. So now I have a choice of three OS's and abandoning some game titles or let a corporation steal my rights (so screw over my rights in order to play with a toy or preserve my rights and say goodbye windows anal probe 10, no choice at all).
Wireless makes for a very viable negotiating tactic when dealing with corrupt obstructive governments paid off by competing incumbent telecoms ie your voters are going to be really pissed off when they get second rate systems and we still get into the market and fibre will now be decades off thanks to you, your many business campaign contributors are going to be really pleased when you screwed all of them just to pay back a favour from one company, literally screwed hundreds of thousands of companies in order to get a kick back from one, good luck with that.
So they get into the market anyhow but still stick it to those corrupt politicians. Wireless does not preclude fibre optic connections, in fact the core of wireless is wired distributed to transmission towers, so to update, leave the tower for some customers and start wiring the rest.
Umm, look what you wrote, how dare you write that you fascist, you should be fired. I wont even quote what you wrote because that would make me as evil as you. Adolf who, the name that can not be spoken without you becoming as evil as the one whose name should not be spoken.
How about this, "All Jews Will Die", evil or not, well at least it is factual, all people of all religions will die sooner or latter.
What is really going on, to many snouts in the pseudo celebrity trough and they are becoming as argumentative and bitter as a pack of lorikeets with one fruit left in the tree. Sure it's all happy and come join the party when there is plenty of fruit in the tree and not many lorikeets but when they are a whole bunch of lorikeets and not many fruit, boy does the song change. Sure the lorikeets are pretty and all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but wow do the make a mess out of a fruit tree, bite the fruit, suck the juice and the spit the meat out, eating or is that drinking just as fast as they can, a whole tree decimated in a matter of days, just like the pseudo celebrities coming out of hollywood playing at politics.
The deep hooks are the reason why. Total control, total power, it infects their minds like a disease. Which is why privacy rights and all the rules and regulations. Yep, those ass hats would abuse the hell out of it, if not constrained and constrained hard, they have already gone way too far and need to be regulated, audited and punished with major fines and custodial sentences. To climb the corporate ladder requires psychopathic tendencies, that lust for power and control, the ability to abuse at will all those who frustrate them and it expresses itself in corporations that "lust for power and control, the ability to abuse at will all those who frustrate them".
Problem was that unregulated taxi services became a hub for crime and so regulations and controls were brought in and they had to be paid for. This as always got exploited by a minority to enrich themselves at the expense of the majority. So what regulations are required for random pick ups, what would be considered unsafe behaviour, what if the user doesn't pay, what if the driver steal luggage, what about fake drivers, what about inept drives or intoxicated drivers, what about drivers with medical conditions (intercept pick up with nefarious purposed in mind). Free for all would be quite chaotic, it always is because of liars, cheats, thieves and killers. If there were nothing but honest people, sure it would be fantastic but that is not the case.
All renewables will struggle with high energy power requirements, industry, commercial and high density residential. Suburban power in suitable climes will not be a problem but beyond that simply can not achieve the required energy out comes.
That does not even touch the concept of substantially increasing recycling of all material via high energy industrial processes. So using energy to eliminate waste and minimise resource use, a double plus but it will take a lot of cheap energy to achieve it. We should be starting to push into zero waste societies which is possible through effective industrial recycling, turning waste into useful matter to be used again. Even sewerage when properly treated can be turned into high value fertiliser and of course energy, 'natural gas' (tee hee).
Well, by the time they can use that patent in any meaningful way beyond simply experimentation it will have expired. So how much is it worth beyond experimentation, not much really. I smell another bankster pump and dump though, the gene bomb, to follow up the dot bomb collapse (only fools believe that lame scam any more).
With regard to net neutrality the more polite way to put it is. Net neutrality favours 99.99 percent of business, not just numbers but also revenue. Dropping net neutrality only favours 0.01 percent of business, so that 0.01% tried to sneak in by buying off politicians, however that moment seems to have past as net admins of those 99.99% of business have informed management what a dangerous move that would be.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats got gobbled up by the Corporate Party but both the Republicans and the Democrats are slowly but surely breaking free. Who implemented all the crap laws, the Corporate Party, those disgusting fuckers just hide it all buy buying out control of the other two politico parties, it is just the way the Corporate Party roles because they now fuck all people would vote for them.
Be happy we are finally starting to see a kickback on the theft of our privacy by government and by corporations. M$ picked a really bad time to go all 1984 on us, big brother, where the big brother is a bloody pervert abuser. Times they are a changin https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and for the better for a change.
Well technically speaking that copyright was illegally provided as the works in question were never tested according to law to ensure those works do promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts. No test, by law, no copyright. Now that question still hasn't been answered. Why do patents adhere to law by being tested and why does copyright not adhere to law, is never tested and is protected a great public expense.
If the work does not promote the progress of science or the 'Useful' arts, it should not be copyrightable.
People are bitching and I think that is exactly what caused the pull back in the latest, unknown compulsory software install. They were probably going for another big control over the user power grab and chickened out, forcing the compulsory software install to be redone. These are not patches, not bug fixes, they are literally compulsory software installs and the user is not informed of the contents not can they refuse, master to slave, obey. Likely they were pushing further into George Orwell 1984 territory and got cold feet just before forcing the big brother install.
That average is not the problem. The big problems are, sudden thaw of the permafrost releasing methane due to a weather event, causing a major short term rise, leading to more methane be released. Also there are solar peak outputs to consider, we just moved out of an ebb and now high solar output is due. So yeah, that average does not even touch extreme weather events, not just earth's but the sun as well. That is what is driving the real concern, if only perfect averages would work on everything, Casinos playing craps would go bankrupt of course because only seven would ever be rolled, the average.