You have selective reading comprehension challenges or you really shouldn't comment on legal matters. IANAL either, but I don't suffer from selective reading disabilities. Your quoted clause (7324 (b) (2) (B)) is invalid because he was there as an official for the FCC and paid for by Treasury funds which violates clause 7324 (b) (1) of the Hatch Act. That clause is a requirement before 7324 (b) (2) (B) can be applied.
That aside, under 7323, he's already prohibited from doing what he did. For the set of excluded employees under 7324, I think you'd have an uphill climb claiming an FCC commissioner falls under section 7324 (b) (2) (A) "the duties and responsibilities of whose position continue outside normal duty hours and while away from the normal duty post". I don't think a business trip to a convention/meeting/panel discussion qualifies for that clause, although I'll grant you you can try to shoe-horn it in. I'll enjoy seeing how you manage that and exclude all the other career gov employees that regularly travel to conventions etc, effectively rendering the Hatch Act moot except in defined workplaces.
So the Act leaves no room for guessing. It says these officials may engage in political activity, they are not prohibited. Period.
Here's the entire subsection for you. It's really not that hard to read.
So, effectively, (a) applies while (b) does not further restrict him, and (c) allows him to vote and express his opinions, outside of the restrictions set up by (a).
Since Citizens United, bribery can only be stated to have occurred if the politician is caught agreeing to supply some action in response to a payment or action.
You have drunk the koolaid and wish everyone else to partake. There's already a lot of you out there.
Most current mining operations/coins have absolutely 0 real value, no matter what their stated exchange rate is. Real value doesn't fluctuate by 50%+ a week at the drop of a rumor. It's even worse than gambling on penny stocks. If you think it's any different than that, you need to revisit what penny stocks and OTC trading really involves. Cryptocurrencies/exchanges are exactly like them.
Toyota GT-Four/Alltrac. Probably not a fair comparison:)
I was driving a 1982 300SD, which still handles better than a 1994 Corolla.
Depending upon the 94 Corolla model (base - terrible, GTS, almost drivable) they were FWD cars with massive understeer. That's a fuel efficient econobox with some lipstick being compared to a racing heritage set of vehicles. TBH, I did not look up whether the Imprezza was WRC in your model year, but IIRC it was shortly afterwards.
Real software development is complicated. Anyone that says otherwise hasn't worked with successful real systems. I don't discount your career path, in fact, for the past 15 years or so new prospective developers I hired followed it exclusively because the basic college grad just wasn't worth hiring. Not sure what happened to colleges since just before 2000, but the quality of supposed software folks with degrees dropped off a cliff.
I think: writing a simple web page is... simple. Writing a basic mobile game, perhaps in the realm of simple still. Writing high end high speed guaranteed to process transactional code with verifiable auditing: complicated. Guess which one pays the most reliably and is the hardest to find people for?
The crossovers aren't significantly different than the 80's econoboxes. CAFE standards destroyed the utility of cars, so americans rebelled and bought small SUVs to get that functionality back.
I could comfortably fit 6 adults into the 1978 Caprice Classic and fill the trunk with luggage. I can marginally fit 6 people and luggage into the MKT, and there's no way to fit 6 adults into a modern sedan.
A lot of that has to do with the introduction of bucket front seats, and semi-bucket rears. When you plan for 4 people seating, getting even 5 in is tough.
The modern car will not only have a higher CG, it will weigh much more. Congress passed rollover protection, perhaps they had never met the car industry and expected them to use better material, in any case modern cars are heavy pigs by 90s standards.
And yet, they still outhandle them in most cases, especially on broken pavement and the like, because instead of crap like macpherson or even double wishbone (which is at least decent, if bulky) they are using multilink front and rear.... Now I drive a 1998 A8 Quattro. The difference in handling is night and day.
My 88 had multi-link suspension. It handled everything in the road without issue, was low and puts not only every crossover to shame, but every car you listed that you have driven. My recent cars are/were also far better than those listed and the electronic dampening has made a difference in ride comfort, but not handling over that 88. In fact, I'm shopping for a car now and all the SUV/crossovers I'm driving I have to remind myself to drive like granny so I don't scare anyone because the roll of the car is so damn great even at school zone speeds. The lack of feedback in steering is actually somewhat dangerous IMHO as you can't tell what the wheels are going over or whether the road has changed. Having your car imitate the Cadillac or Lincoln town car land yachts of the 70s is not a desired feature for a vehicle. You could drive down a railroad track in those relics and not spill your mug of coffee.
I'll buy another american (Ford/GM/Chrysler) car as soon as they make one that can go past 150K miles without looking like they're about to fall apart. Hell, I'll take 100K, honestly. For some reason, their trucks/SUVs do a much better job at hitting the 150K milestone, however certain Japanese and European makes hit those almost effortlessly without breaking the bank on repairs on the way and generally still are presentable even when they hit 200K.
The real benefit of 8K sets, provided they make it work at a reasonable price, is glassless 3D. It's a 4K picture that uses the rest of the extra pixels to create a lightfield. It was demoed at CES 2018. I would love to see this.
I am on TV number 4 since 2000. 2 of those are in use today, a 1080P plasma and a 4K UHD OLED. The 4K UHD OLED is absolutely awesome for 1 main reason: passive 3D. Other than that, for anything 1080P, it's a pretty rough draw between the sets. True 4K UHD content does look amazing.
Automaton generates new jobs, better quality of life, and more goods at a lower price for more people.
Automation generates new jobs (yep, 10 jobs for designing and building agricultural robots built by other robots to harvest apples) losing 100K jobs (apple pickers).
There in lies the fallacy to your position. It's a 2:1 or 10:1 or 100,000:1 disparity in old jobs to new jobs. That's what automation is bringing to humanity over the next several decades. And agriculture is a good place to start to see how the impact of automation almost completely removes the need for people from the supply chain.
That long foreseen "leisure" time brought by the wonders of technology was just a little early back in the 40s and 50s, because production of all things still required lots of people, they were just helped by the automation of the day to be more productive. The difference now is that automation produces products and people are unnecessary in several cases already (the Kia factory comes to mind as one that has nearly reached this stage, Amazon warehouses are heading this way)
No worries on that count and thanks for acknowledging it.
I was actually drawing a metaphor DDT -> birds, Flash -> security. So even if there are benefits to using the agent/technology, the disadvantages are overwhelmingly against it.
Anyone blaming Trump still is stuck in the Silicon Valley bubble. Nothing that they said would happen has happened. Stocks did not drop, unemployment did not increase, economy did not tank, no one's civil rights have been taken away.
It takes time to turn the Titanic. Stocks have gone up because the dollar has gone down. It's a more complicated equation that just a single number comparison with last year. Unemployment takes time, the economy is still chugging along. It took years to undo the financial mess Bush Jr and the Republicans worked decades to get us into, and it will take some time to feel the real effects of Trump and this Republican Congress' actions as they borrowed from tomorrow to essentially pay off their base into accepting an unsustainable budget that gains them billions.
For the next couple of years, barring unforeseen fortunate events: unemployment will increase and the economy will grow as measured in total $s but in reality diminished due to inflation. As for civil rights, don't dare speak out against your government effectively, apparently you're a traitor if you do.
I'll be more specific, then: if one finds the available technologies lacking, there are two reasonable options: invent the necessary technology, or do something else.
Obviously... but are you then asserting that the technology of vector animation *IS* actually lacking in post flash modern web technology?
DDT kills pests like bed bugs. It also had major negative impacts on birds so DDT was banned. We are now lacking an effective and efficient means of killing bed bugs. Yet no one intelligent says we should bring back DDT although we bemoan the return of bed bugs.
I just happen to have installed... Win10 1709. The exercise... was 1h30 tops.
Glad to see that MS got down to a mere 90 minutes to install the OS with basic defaults. </sarcasm>
Granted, for many people you can add another couple of hours to setup the desired software and disabling/enabling all stuff Windows 10 gets wrong in the default settings... but, if you're after a working computer, you can get one really quickly these days. We are far far far away from setting aside two days to configure a Windows machine.
So, it's not actually installed yet, it's just the base, now you get to "tweak" all the crap to actually get it to a real working state. And only then would I worry about installing software.
I just recently did a full fresh install of OSX 10.12 on a mini. It took 60 minutes total to install the OS, migrate the old 10.10 system to the new system and then get the latest updates for all software. Fully configured system with heavy personalized modifications ready to go. If I'd skipped the migration as I did on another system, it took about 50 minutes, including installing all necessary software.
Ubuntu was about 45 minutes for the various things I needed setup. I should mention I had to google a few of those. Mint was less than 30.
If you're catching the drift that I'm not impressed with MS's performance here, you'd be spot on. There's no excuse for their OS to be this user unfriendly. Perhaps win 10's next release could focus on user friendliness? Right, that's right up there on their priority list, right behind user privacy and security.
I originally wanted term-limits, then realized there's a better way - non-consecutive terms. You cannot run for re-election. Politics, especially congress, was never intended to be a career.
In his defense, installing MS's OS takes more than a couple of hours, few is not a word I'd use in relation to these installs. I do agree with your assessment of a new PC. You never buy OEM bottom of the barrel unless all you're needing is a web browser, email, and perhaps some document editing. In his case he needs Adobe, I'll assume PS at the minimum. For that, I'd have bought no less than a Core i7 with 16GB RAM as a bare minimum. Given that it's a Windows machine, I'd probably go with 32GB. I'd also have an M.2 SSD in it for the system at least. It wouldn't have been anywhere near the cheapest option.
What gets me is that if you're on the fast ring, there's a few things you do to protect yourself:
Have another computer as a backup
Have a cloned HD copy at hand in case something goes haywire
Use a second non system disk for all data, preferably backed up regularly to an external device.
because the fast ring will fail as it is an unstable branch.
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For anyone that wonders if the gov can hold keys securely, I merely point them to the NSA's secret keeping capabilities
You have selective reading comprehension challenges or you really shouldn't comment on legal matters. IANAL either, but I don't suffer from selective reading disabilities. Your quoted clause (7324 (b) (2) (B)) is invalid because he was there as an official for the FCC and paid for by Treasury funds which violates clause 7324 (b) (1) of the Hatch Act. That clause is a requirement before 7324 (b) (2) (B) can be applied.
That aside, under 7323, he's already prohibited from doing what he did. For the set of excluded employees under 7324, I think you'd have an uphill climb claiming an FCC commissioner falls under section 7324 (b) (2) (A) "the duties and responsibilities of whose position continue outside normal duty hours and while away from the normal duty post". I don't think a business trip to a convention/meeting/panel discussion qualifies for that clause, although I'll grant you you can try to shoe-horn it in. I'll enjoy seeing how you manage that and exclude all the other career gov employees that regularly travel to conventions etc, effectively rendering the Hatch Act moot except in defined workplaces.
So the Act leaves no room for guessing. It says these officials may engage in political activity, they are not prohibited. Period.
Here's the entire subsection for you. It's really not that hard to read.
So, effectively, (a) applies while (b) does not further restrict him, and (c) allows him to vote and express his opinions, outside of the restrictions set up by (a).
Since Citizens United, bribery can only be stated to have occurred if the politician is caught agreeing to supply some action in response to a payment or action.
You have drunk the koolaid and wish everyone else to partake. There's already a lot of you out there.
Most current mining operations/coins have absolutely 0 real value, no matter what their stated exchange rate is. Real value doesn't fluctuate by 50%+ a week at the drop of a rumor. It's even worse than gambling on penny stocks. If you think it's any different than that, you need to revisit what penny stocks and OTC trading really involves. Cryptocurrencies/exchanges are exactly like them.
I was driving a 1982 300SD, which still handles better than a 1994 Corolla.
Depending upon the 94 Corolla model (base - terrible, GTS, almost drivable) they were FWD cars with massive understeer. That's a fuel efficient econobox with some lipstick being compared to a racing heritage set of vehicles. TBH, I did not look up whether the Imprezza was WRC in your model year, but IIRC it was shortly afterwards.
Real software development is complicated. Anyone that says otherwise hasn't worked with successful real systems. I don't discount your career path, in fact, for the past 15 years or so new prospective developers I hired followed it exclusively because the basic college grad just wasn't worth hiring. Not sure what happened to colleges since just before 2000, but the quality of supposed software folks with degrees dropped off a cliff.
I think: writing a simple web page is ... simple. Writing a basic mobile game, perhaps in the realm of simple still. Writing high end high speed guaranteed to process transactional code with verifiable auditing: complicated. Guess which one pays the most reliably and is the hardest to find people for?
The crossovers aren't significantly different than the 80's econoboxes. CAFE standards destroyed the utility of cars, so americans rebelled and bought small SUVs to get that functionality back.
I could comfortably fit 6 adults into the 1978 Caprice Classic and fill the trunk with luggage. I can marginally fit 6 people and luggage into the MKT, and there's no way to fit 6 adults into a modern sedan.
A lot of that has to do with the introduction of bucket front seats, and semi-bucket rears. When you plan for 4 people seating, getting even 5 in is tough.
The modern car will not only have a higher CG, it will weigh much more. Congress passed rollover protection, perhaps they had never met the car industry and expected them to use better material, in any case modern cars are heavy pigs by 90s standards.
And yet, they still outhandle them in most cases, especially on broken pavement and the like, because instead of crap like macpherson or even double wishbone (which is at least decent, if bulky) they are using multilink front and rear. ... Now I drive a 1998 A8 Quattro. The difference in handling is night and day.
My 88 had multi-link suspension. It handled everything in the road without issue, was low and puts not only every crossover to shame, but every car you listed that you have driven. My recent cars are/were also far better than those listed and the electronic dampening has made a difference in ride comfort, but not handling over that 88. In fact, I'm shopping for a car now and all the SUV/crossovers I'm driving I have to remind myself to drive like granny so I don't scare anyone because the roll of the car is so damn great even at school zone speeds. The lack of feedback in steering is actually somewhat dangerous IMHO as you can't tell what the wheels are going over or whether the road has changed. Having your car imitate the Cadillac or Lincoln town car land yachts of the 70s is not a desired feature for a vehicle. You could drive down a railroad track in those relics and not spill your mug of coffee.
I'll buy another american (Ford/GM/Chrysler) car as soon as they make one that can go past 150K miles without looking like they're about to fall apart. Hell, I'll take 100K, honestly. For some reason, their trucks/SUVs do a much better job at hitting the 150K milestone, however certain Japanese and European makes hit those almost effortlessly without breaking the bank on repairs on the way and generally still are presentable even when they hit 200K.
The real benefit of 8K sets, provided they make it work at a reasonable price, is glassless 3D. It's a 4K picture that uses the rest of the extra pixels to create a lightfield. It was demoed at CES 2018. I would love to see this.
I am on TV number 4 since 2000. 2 of those are in use today, a 1080P plasma and a 4K UHD OLED. The 4K UHD OLED is absolutely awesome for 1 main reason: passive 3D. Other than that, for anything 1080P, it's a pretty rough draw between the sets. True 4K UHD content does look amazing.
The fossil record would contain a large number of intelligent dinosaur toilets, if they had existed.
There are these largish deposits of oil, coal, and pockets of natural gas.
Pai was appointed to the commission, not to lead it. A minor but important distinction. That it was under the gun of McConnell is another point.
Then Obama should have made use of the bully pulpit and called Pai an obvious cocksucker for the industry.
I think Pai is doing that job quite well all by himself. Anything more seems like effort wasted.
not so "top-secret" if I can read about it on slashdot
That makes you an insider! Aren't you excited??
I feel like 1 in a million
Automaton generates new jobs, better quality of life, and more goods at a lower price for more people.
Automation generates new jobs (yep, 10 jobs for designing and building agricultural robots built by other robots to harvest apples) losing 100K jobs (apple pickers).
There in lies the fallacy to your position. It's a 2:1 or 10:1 or 100,000:1 disparity in old jobs to new jobs. That's what automation is bringing to humanity over the next several decades. And agriculture is a good place to start to see how the impact of automation almost completely removes the need for people from the supply chain.
That long foreseen "leisure" time brought by the wonders of technology was just a little early back in the 40s and 50s, because production of all things still required lots of people, they were just helped by the automation of the day to be more productive. The difference now is that automation produces products and people are unnecessary in several cases already (the Kia factory comes to mind as one that has nearly reached this stage, Amazon warehouses are heading this way)
No worries on that count and thanks for acknowledging it.
I was actually drawing a metaphor DDT -> birds, Flash -> security. So even if there are benefits to using the agent/technology, the disadvantages are overwhelmingly against it.
Anyone blaming Trump still is stuck in the Silicon Valley bubble. Nothing that they said would happen has happened. Stocks did not drop, unemployment did not increase, economy did not tank, no one's civil rights have been taken away.
It takes time to turn the Titanic. Stocks have gone up because the dollar has gone down. It's a more complicated equation that just a single number comparison with last year. Unemployment takes time, the economy is still chugging along. It took years to undo the financial mess Bush Jr and the Republicans worked decades to get us into, and it will take some time to feel the real effects of Trump and this Republican Congress' actions as they borrowed from tomorrow to essentially pay off their base into accepting an unsustainable budget that gains them billions.
For the next couple of years, barring unforeseen fortunate events: unemployment will increase and the economy will grow as measured in total $s but in reality diminished due to inflation. As for civil rights, don't dare speak out against your government effectively, apparently you're a traitor if you do.
Obviously... but are you then asserting that the technology of vector animation *IS* actually lacking in post flash modern web technology?
DDT kills pests like bed bugs. It also had major negative impacts on birds so DDT was banned. We are now lacking an effective and efficient means of killing bed bugs. Yet no one intelligent says we should bring back DDT although we bemoan the return of bed bugs.
I just happen to have installed ... Win10 1709. The exercise ... was 1h30 tops.
Glad to see that MS got down to a mere 90 minutes to install the OS with basic defaults. </sarcasm>
Granted, for many people you can add another couple of hours to setup the desired software and disabling/enabling all stuff Windows 10 gets wrong in the default settings... but, if you're after a working computer, you can get one really quickly these days. We are far far far away from setting aside two days to configure a Windows machine.
So, it's not actually installed yet, it's just the base, now you get to "tweak" all the crap to actually get it to a real working state. And only then would I worry about installing software.
I just recently did a full fresh install of OSX 10.12 on a mini. It took 60 minutes total to install the OS, migrate the old 10.10 system to the new system and then get the latest updates for all software. Fully configured system with heavy personalized modifications ready to go. If I'd skipped the migration as I did on another system, it took about 50 minutes, including installing all necessary software.
Ubuntu was about 45 minutes for the various things I needed setup. I should mention I had to google a few of those. Mint was less than 30.
If you're catching the drift that I'm not impressed with MS's performance here, you'd be spot on. There's no excuse for their OS to be this user unfriendly. Perhaps win 10's next release could focus on user friendliness? Right, that's right up there on their priority list, right behind user privacy and security.
Term limits can take a lot of blame for this.
I originally wanted term-limits, then realized there's a better way - non-consecutive terms. You cannot run for re-election. Politics, especially congress, was never intended to be a career.
I hope GP reads this as a continuation of yours.
In his defense, installing MS's OS takes more than a couple of hours, few is not a word I'd use in relation to these installs. I do agree with your assessment of a new PC. You never buy OEM bottom of the barrel unless all you're needing is a web browser, email, and perhaps some document editing. In his case he needs Adobe, I'll assume PS at the minimum. For that, I'd have bought no less than a Core i7 with 16GB RAM as a bare minimum. Given that it's a Windows machine, I'd probably go with 32GB. I'd also have an M.2 SSD in it for the system at least. It wouldn't have been anywhere near the cheapest option.
What gets me is that if you're on the fast ring, there's a few things you do to protect yourself:
because the fast ring will fail as it is an unstable branch.
Saying the Pontiac Aztek is a shitty car is just a smokescreen. They're as easy to drive as anything else. You just don't want to pay for one.
I'd say that since GM VPs took pains to avoid being even seen near one indicates that most didn't even want to stand next to one.