Yes, there's food stamp laundring out there, but with such small amounts, most people really are using them to avoid health issues related to starvation.
If we dropped those subsidies that farmers get for keeping farm land out of production, and also drop price supports that keep food prices higher than they would be, you could plow half of that money into food stamps and probably have something line 4x the impact.
Foodstamps are run out of the Department of Agriculture, who also end up handing out price supports, and land banking payments. The mission of the department is to make sure every American gets fed.
They need to stop working against their own mission. The whole idea of paying farmers not to farm is wrong headed.
If the department wants to tinker with farming, they should fund crop development that provides greater variety in the foods American eat. Instead we live one chicken beef, and wheat and potatoes, essentially a mono-diet.
yes but now undeserving super rich people can go that high without years of experience and risk as test pilots or military pilots.
Well Richard Branson isn't a totally uncaring individual, maybe you should write him a letter and suggest some equally undeserving super poor illiterate homeless destitute low-life be given a free ride on one of the first few flights.
That will surely solve all the world's problems and bring harmony and a semblance of equality across the class-divide that so obviously grinds your grits.
People who oppose Google employees while screaming gentrification are raceist, and gentrification is the rallying cry of one particular racist ethnicity, the identity of which I'll leave you to research at your leisure.
It really wouldn't be Tesla's fault if developers were using cheap materials when building the house, but it is nice of them to do something to try and mitigate future issues after it becomes a known possibility. We can't account for every scenario that will ever occur, but we can learn as we go along.
And that is exactly what happened in this case, the problem was inside the junction box. (Not saying aluminum was used).
That Tesla can detect it in their charge adapter is great. I hope it sounds the car horn rather than simply stops charging. After all who knows how many upstream junction boxes were also over-heating from bad connections? Who knows what size breaker they decided to put in the main panel when the original one tripped?
Would it have been better if this had been thought of ahead of time? Probably. But lets check all the other hybrid/electric cars and their chargers before we jealously hang Tesla out to dry.
Let's compare apples to apples; if you access your bank using a non-jailbroken iOS device using Safari, that's going to be a lot more secure than any desktop browser.
Perhaps if by "desktop browser" you mean old versions of windows, you might be right. My browsers run in a sandbox, and I also only access my bank from Linux.
I'd argue that on a non-jailbroken iOS device you might be more secure than on your home computer and wired LAN. Your home computer is far more likely to be infected with keylogging malware or similar.
You's argue that, but according to this article you's be dead wrong.
Really, how many people do you have running through your house that you need to worry about a key-logger?
Most of these banks are contracting mobile development out.
I would bet that 80% of these 60 banks are buying the same moderately customized app(s) from the same vendors. I would also suspect there will be similar flaw with the android versions.
Given that most banks don't have any in-house mobile development, they are probably all descending on the few vendors that wrote and customized these apps, an they will all get fixed about the same time.
Actually, I doubt even requiring residential solar to feed properly conditioned current upstream would ever be efficient or worth while.
Maybe they could feed the neighborhood loop, which is usually much lower voltage, but even this would probably a battery generator set in each house to supply 3-phase synced power back up to the transformer. Electronics sufficient to do that would probably be unsafe in the residence.
The thing that makes more sense is finding a solution for in-home storage such that each building is time-shifting excess solar power for peak and nightime use.
If this Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery could be scaled up to JUST that size it would be great sufficient. The home would be pulling no power off the grid while it was charging, and less power off the grid when it was discharging. If you can do that with a couple of reasonable sized tanks in the back of the garage, or crawl space (or where-ever) then fine. If that requires much more than a 275 gallon tank, forget it. Not going to happen.
I think there is a reasonable reluctance to put enough batteries in a home to time-shift sufficient solar power on the premises.
Most programmers I know (and I know a lot of them) can work furiously on a project and produce a lot in a short time, but ONLY for a short time. Then they either burn out, or have to come out of the basement to tat.
The reason why phones and tablets replace cheap compact cameras is that cheap compact cameras have never been too ambitious to begin with.
Very true. But according to the link I posted its not just compact cameras that are taking the hit. Interchangeable Lens, DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras are also all Down, in excess of 20%
This is probably for the same reasons, the old cameras are (more than) good enough, and anyone doing this professionally as well as serious hobbyists probably already has an inventory that meets their needs. It will take significant (factor of 10, say) improvement in sensors and optics to get these guys to put down the gear they know so well.
I don't loan cars. But people who do (car rentals) always try to foist insurance on their customers, but their customers (most of them) have their own insurance that covers them regardless of what vehicle they drive. The rental companies only insure their own inventory against loss.
Everything is migrating into the portable. For most people their day to day personal use of computers and cameras and phones has all gone portable.
That leaves only professional use of all of these devices still in the market for the work environment, and that quad core you bought 4 years ago is still just about all the machine most people need in the office.
The computer industry, in its rush to portable, hasn't had time to spend obsoleting your desktop with useless layers of eye candy. Most new computer horsepower historically was gobbled up by look and feel anyway, and other than large touch screens entering the work place (and meeting resistance), there is simply no reason to replace most office computers.
The market was never driven by equipment wearing out, it was always about rapid planned obsolescence.
In almost all Australian cities (and for that matter European and Asian cities), the closer you get to the CBD/downtown, the pricier property is. People want to live close to work, close to the v Right in the urban core you have the super-expensive high-density places where the young, rich and hip want to live. Then as you go out in rings you get suburban housing of gradually decreasing price.
So what? Different cultures do things differently.
There are vibrant lifestyle (shops, cafes, restaurants, entertainment, nightlife etc.) available all over a city, in many trendy locations, and most of it is not downtown, where there is zero parking.
Our culture is different. Owning your own house has always been a significant part of the American dream, and if you can't find a single family dwelling close enough to where you work an apartment or condo is the next best thing. But most people do not want to live in downtown. And as soon as they get married, the first thing they want to do is move their children out of the meat-market and drug cesspool that all those "rich trendy hipsters" you are so fond of invariably turn any place they congregate into.
A city highrise is no place to raise a family.
This limits the value of center-city residential property. However that same property has a higher value as Office complexes. So, being a somewhat free country, builders tend to build office complexes, and old apartment buildings are renovated and made into offices. There is still plenty of downtown housing left, but even the hipsters don't generally want it.
Are the Google programmers not old enough to drive or what's going on there? Why does Google have to drive them to school^wwork like a soccer mom?
One bus displaces 30 to 60 cars.
If more companies did this our streets would be less crowded.
It seems the main point of contention here is that these buses made an arrangement with the city to use existing bus stops, (which didn't inconvenience anybody and simply made better use of a public resource).
Had they set up their own bus stops, on private property, perhaps near park-and-ride lots I suspect the protests would have been exactly the same.
Because this issue isn't about the buses. Its racism, pure and simple.
These Google employees bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the communities they live in. That creates jobs and income for everything from the groceries bagger to the car dealers and the condo builders. It also drives out crime, because educated affluent people demand better policing and more police. Oakland, of all cities needs crime reduction, by any means possible, including affluent tax payers.
But crime doesn't like to be driven out. And the gangs start fighting back by stirring up trouble, trying to build an US vs THEM sentiment in the community. Make no mistake, "Gentrification" is a racist concept.
In general, far as I can tell, galaxies don't really 'pass' each other. Big ones gobble up small ones as the Milky Way has undoubtedly done to many dwarf galaxies in the area. Big ones merge with other big ones, as we shall do with Andromeda in a couple of billion years. Those interactions will definitely send some stars hurtling through intergalactic space, but we won't have a disk galaxy after that. Sadly more of an amorphous blob.
But I'm not sure it matters, because any interaction between galaxies, might leave remnants of one traveling at odd angles and speeds within the other. I write code for a living, and therefore, I'm totally guessing here.
True, but then why do we have this entire whiny slashdot article wondering why people support old Python versions?
The clear implication is that it is somehow the programmers fault for not re-writing the universe each time python developers sneeze? It should be patently obvious that the fault lies with the Python Devs for failing to bring their users along, and that some people, most people, just about all people, have something better to do than rewrite systems every three years.
But you STILL have a maintenance headache, because you might not be entirely sure which version the script you inherited was meant to run with. I've seen plenty of Python scripts shipped by people I assume are professionals because they work for people like Red Hat, or Google, that haven't got a single clue in the code about which version they expect.
Nah, I'm not speculating on where they got their energy at all.
Just pointing out that "million miles per hour" is not unusual in this universe, and therefore escape velocity is not that hard to achieve. All it would take is galaxies spinning at different angles passing each other to spit off a few stars from the fringe edge. In fact the edge is probably ragged precisely because stars are occasionally spun off, like the outside skater roller derby.
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Diabetes isn't a food stamp issue.
To a large extent type two diabetes an educational issue.
Yes, there's food stamp laundring out there, but with such small amounts, most people really are using them to avoid health issues related to starvation.
If we dropped those subsidies that farmers get for keeping farm land out of production, and also drop price supports that keep food prices higher than they would be, you could plow half of that money into food stamps and probably have something line 4x the impact.
Foodstamps are run out of the Department of Agriculture, who also end up handing out price supports, and land banking payments. The mission of the department is to make sure every American gets fed.
They need to stop working against their own mission. The whole idea of paying farmers not to farm is wrong headed.
If the department wants to tinker with farming, they should fund crop development that provides greater variety in the foods American eat. Instead we live one chicken beef, and wheat and potatoes, essentially a mono-diet.
The question though, is 100km useful? That isn't even a third of the way to the ISS.
yes but now undeserving super rich people can go that high without years of experience and risk as test pilots or military pilots.
Well Richard Branson isn't a totally uncaring individual, maybe you should write him a letter and suggest some equally undeserving super poor illiterate homeless destitute low-life be given a free ride on one of the first few flights.
That will surely solve all the world's problems and bring harmony and a semblance of equality across the class-divide that so obviously grinds your grits.
Why did Nintendo want to buy patents that they didn't infringe?
Hadn't the just demonstrated in court that those patents were worthless?
People who oppose Google employees while screaming gentrification are raceist, and gentrification is the rallying cry of one particular racist ethnicity, the identity of which I'll leave you to research at your leisure.
And Camera sales are plunging just as rapidly.
Everything is migrating into the portable.
So what should I buy if I want a camera but don't want yet another $70 per month phone bill?
Buy A camera.
What did I say that convinced you it was necessary to ask?
It really wouldn't be Tesla's fault if developers were using cheap materials when building the house, but it is nice of them to do something to try and mitigate future issues after it becomes a known possibility. We can't account for every scenario that will ever occur, but we can learn as we go along.
And that is exactly what happened in this case, the problem was inside the junction box. (Not saying aluminum was used).
That Tesla can detect it in their charge adapter is great. I hope it sounds the car horn rather than simply stops charging. After all who knows how many upstream junction boxes were also over-heating from bad connections? Who knows what size breaker they decided to put in the main panel when the original one tripped?
Would it have been better if this had been thought of ahead of time? Probably.
But lets check all the other hybrid/electric cars and their chargers before we jealously hang Tesla out to dry.
Let's compare apples to apples; if you access your bank using a non-jailbroken iOS device using Safari, that's going to be a lot more secure than any desktop browser.
Perhaps if by "desktop browser" you mean old versions of windows, you might be right.
My browsers run in a sandbox, and I also only access my bank from Linux.
The government already has access to my bank account. They don't need to break into my computer to get it.
.
(Not discounting they might have broken into my computer for some other reasons).
I'd argue that on a non-jailbroken iOS device you might be more secure than on your home computer and wired LAN. Your home computer is far more likely to be infected with keylogging malware or similar.
You's argue that, but according to this article you's be dead wrong.
Really, how many people do you have running through your house that you need to worry about a key-logger?
Most of these banks are contracting mobile development out.
I would bet that 80% of these 60 banks are buying the same moderately customized app(s) from the same vendors.
I would also suspect there will be similar flaw with the android versions.
Given that most banks don't have any in-house mobile development, they are probably all descending on
the few vendors that wrote and customized these apps, an they will all get fixed about the same time.
Actually, I doubt even requiring residential solar to feed properly conditioned current upstream would ever be efficient or worth while.
Maybe they could feed the neighborhood loop, which is usually much lower voltage, but even this would probably a battery generator set in each house to supply 3-phase synced power back up to the transformer. Electronics sufficient to do that would probably be unsafe in the residence.
The thing that makes more sense is finding a solution for in-home storage such that each building is time-shifting excess solar power for peak and nightime use.
If this Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery could be scaled up to JUST that size it would be great sufficient. The home would be pulling no power off the grid while it was charging, and less power off the grid when it was discharging. If you can do that with a couple of reasonable sized tanks in the back of the garage, or crawl space (or where-ever) then fine. If that requires much more than a 275 gallon tank, forget it. Not going to happen.
I think there is a reasonable reluctance to put enough batteries in a home to time-shift sufficient solar power on the premises.
I'm voting for myth.
Most programmers I know (and I know a lot of them) can work furiously on a project and produce a lot in a short time, but ONLY for a short time. Then they either burn out, or have to come out of the basement to tat.
The reason why phones and tablets replace cheap compact cameras is that cheap compact cameras have never been too ambitious to begin with.
Very true.
But according to the link I posted its not just compact cameras that are taking the hit. Interchangeable Lens, DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras are also all Down, in excess of 20%
This is probably for the same reasons, the old cameras are (more than) good enough, and anyone doing this professionally as well as serious hobbyists probably already has an inventory that meets their needs.
It will take significant (factor of 10, say) improvement in sensors and optics to get these guys to put down the gear they know so well.
I don't loan cars.
But people who do (car rentals) always try to foist insurance on their customers, but their customers (most of them) have their own insurance that covers them regardless of what vehicle they drive. The rental companies only insure their own inventory against loss.
So its an entirely different use case.
Film at eleven.
No, film is done. You will have to stream it digitally.
And Camera sales are plunging just as rapidly.
Everything is migrating into the portable.
For most people their day to day personal use of computers and cameras and phones has all gone portable.
That leaves only professional use of all of these devices still in the market for the work environment, and that
quad core you bought 4 years ago is still just about all the machine most people need in the office.
The computer industry, in its rush to portable, hasn't had time to spend obsoleting your desktop with useless layers
of eye candy. Most new computer horsepower historically was gobbled up by look and feel anyway, and other
than large touch screens entering the work place (and meeting resistance), there is simply no reason to
replace most office computers.
The market was never driven by equipment wearing out, it was always about rapid planned obsolescence.
paying a programmer that has 10 times higher productivity only 2 times more than industry average is underpaying,
10 times?
Wow. Careful you don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back.
In almost all Australian cities (and for that matter European and Asian cities), the closer you get to the CBD/downtown, the pricier property is. People want to live close to work, close to the v Right in the urban core you have the super-expensive high-density places where the young, rich and hip want to live. Then as you go out in rings you get suburban housing of gradually decreasing price.
So what? Different cultures do things differently.
There are vibrant lifestyle (shops, cafes, restaurants, entertainment, nightlife etc.) available all over a city, in many trendy locations, and most of it is not downtown, where there is zero parking.
Our culture is different. Owning your own house has always been a significant part of the American dream, and if you can't find a single family dwelling close enough to where you work an apartment or condo is the next best thing. But most people do not want to live in downtown. And as soon as they get married, the first thing they want to do is move their children out of the meat-market and drug cesspool that all those "rich trendy hipsters" you are so fond of invariably turn any place they congregate into.
A city highrise is no place to raise a family.
This limits the value of center-city residential property. However that same property has a higher value as Office complexes. So, being a somewhat free country, builders tend to build office complexes, and old apartment buildings are renovated and made into offices. There is still plenty of downtown housing left, but even the hipsters don't generally want it.
Are the Google programmers not old enough to drive or what's going on there? Why does Google have to drive them to school^wwork like a soccer mom?
One bus displaces 30 to 60 cars.
If more companies did this our streets would be less crowded.
It seems the main point of contention here is that these buses made an arrangement with the city to use existing
bus stops, (which didn't inconvenience anybody and simply made better use of a public resource).
Had they set up their own bus stops, on private property, perhaps near park-and-ride lots I suspect the protests
would have been exactly the same.
Because this issue isn't about the buses. Its racism, pure and simple.
These Google employees bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the communities they live in.
That creates jobs and income for everything from the groceries bagger to the car dealers and the condo builders.
It also drives out crime, because educated affluent people demand better policing and more police.
Oakland, of all cities needs crime reduction, by any means possible, including affluent tax payers.
But crime doesn't like to be driven out. And the gangs start fighting back by stirring up trouble, trying
to build an US vs THEM sentiment in the community. Make no mistake, "Gentrification" is a racist concept.
Oh, I also found some info about random non-galaxy stars that theoretically might be "picked up" by a galaxy.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question29.html
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2486.html
In general, far as I can tell, galaxies don't really 'pass' each other. Big ones gobble up small ones as the Milky Way has undoubtedly done to many dwarf galaxies in the area. Big ones merge with other big ones, as we shall do with Andromeda in a couple of billion years. Those interactions will definitely send some stars hurtling through intergalactic space, but we won't have a disk galaxy after that. Sadly more of an amorphous blob.
I'm not prepared to argue that point, although I've seen some reference in passing to galaxies passing right through other galaxies.
But I'm not sure it matters, because any interaction between galaxies, might leave remnants of one traveling at odd angles
and speeds within the other. I write code for a living, and therefore, I'm totally guessing here.
Nevertheless, malls have closed more city centers in the US than any other phenomena.
True, but then why do we have this entire whiny slashdot article wondering why people support old Python versions?
The clear implication is that it is somehow the programmers fault for not re-writing the universe each time
python developers sneeze? It should be patently obvious that the fault lies with the Python Devs for failing
to bring their users along, and that some people, most people, just about all people, have something better
to do than rewrite systems every three years.
But you STILL have a maintenance headache, because you might not be entirely sure which version the script you inherited
was meant to run with. I've seen plenty of Python scripts shipped by people I assume are professionals because they work for
people like Red Hat, or Google, that haven't got a single clue in the code about which version they expect.
Nah, I'm not speculating on where they got their energy at all.
Just pointing out that "million miles per hour" is not unusual in this universe, and therefore escape velocity is not that hard to achieve.
All it would take is galaxies spinning at different angles passing each other to spit off a few stars from the fringe edge. In fact the edge is probably ragged precisely because stars are occasionally spun off, like the outside skater roller derby.