hhmmm.... curious. I've been reading science fiction since the 60's. I have a personal library of over 700 novels, plus what I've borrowed from public libraries, and I've never heard of this Gibson character.
Sounds like you are either Russian reading Russian sci-fi, a troll, or both.
I just bought a "new" car. It was $11000, for a 2011 model year with 40k on it in nearly pristine condition, and a mid-level trim level (so it has a few options and upgrades, air, heated seats, etc...)
How much are you going to subsidize a new electric car to make it price competitive to that?
Why are you comparing a used ICE car against a new electric car? You are not in the market for a new ICE car, then you're not in the market for a new electric car. However, compare the 6 year old ICE car against a used six year old electric car. Sure, people who only buy used cars will be buying ICEs for longer as it takes time for the used market to get older EVs in the supply chain. IF EVs take off, then the poor will probably be still driving older clunky ICEs for quite some time just as they drive older, clunky, less expensive ICE cars now. Eventually, if driving an ICE car starts to signify you are either a collector or poor, EVs will have won.
No offense intended, but you do realize you look like an idiot when you're still pushing the "Russians haxored the 2016 election to make Trump win" thing at this point, right?
Actually, the major point isn't even that the Russians tried to affect our elections. Like most forms of espionage, we do it, they do it, everybody does it. That's the nature of the game, but when somebody gets caught, there is the political game of making a stink about it. That signifies to the foreign power they have gone too far and should pull it back some. This time, they get caught and the person who won not only hasn't made a stink about it, standing behind his country, but even encourages it. Signifying to the foreign power that they have not reached the limit of what they can do but can step up attempts to affect our politics even more before they are even told to stop. So now we have an American politician that is siding with foreign powers against American sovereignty because it favors him. The major threat here is that they are being influenced by a foreign power over the nation they are supposed to be acting in the best welfare of. This is after there was already suspicions that the same political figure was in financial debt to institutions of the same foreign power to which they refuse to clear up by even releasing information that is traditional for such candidates to release to the public even after winning. The major fear here is not that some foreign power tried to sway our elections, but that the winner of said election is being influenced if not acting complicitly with said foreign power for personal gain.
Naah, Nasa _pretends_ to want to send men to Mars but their primary function (as defined by Senate funding) has become keeping the pork pipeline of continual studies on "how to get to mars" open.
I'm sure that NASA would love to send people to Mars, but they know that's not going to happen and only mention it because every administration since Bush the Younger wants to say they're working on it. There's not enough NASA money going towards Mars to even claim it as pork.
I doubt that. There have to be a decent percentage of people who just use a phone for work only.
Um, a decent percentage of people's work requires apps these days for things like two factor authentification. People on call have apps to do thier work if they get called. I use VPN and RDC to get things done rather than carry around a laptop, nevermind have to drive across the city to a computer. the CxOs use apps because they don't want to carry around a laptop to get into systems when they have to off site. Stroke doctors use app on phone and tablets to look at X-Rays and give the ER vital information when seconds count. Then there are the banks, taxis, pay parking, food delivery services, etc. that all shuffle you off to use their apps. There are probably a decent percentage of people who don't use apps but there are still a decent percentage of people who don't use email either.
Really, except for their original Marvel content, they have nothing on streaming I want to see. There are still a long list of movies I want to see and get them on DVD. I have lots of old classic movies to watch still, a few series, and then new stuff as it comes out. I can see which ones I could watch streaming and it is a grand total of one series (which I decided not to finish anyway). On the flip side, I've been bored and went looking on steaming side of things for interesting new things to watch. I've yet to comes across anything that was worth finishing. Every now and then somebody suggests something on streaming and I'll watch it, but those are few and far between and usually documentaries. I really don't see much value except for their original content to their streaming, and am getting upset as DVDs they did have sometimes drop off to the Saved list while still for sale, meaning they are not replacing lost, stolen, damaged DVDs still in production.
Don't know why you posted "AC" but this is a very accurate description...
Russian trolls don't care which side of an argument they provide. Their goal is just to create polarization and argument. If they don't have accounts, they can't be shown to be Russian trolls, and can't have their accounts banned.
It goes beyond being able to take care of ones self; it also means the person is motivated to take care of himself over taking care of the community at large. In other words, selfish.
I don't believe those two are necessarily mutually exclusive.
You can be self sufficient, you can be successful.
After that, you have a choice...you can help others.
You many not to choose to help others...is that selfish? Not really.
Selfish is taking that prevents others from having too, and then not sharing.
But if you make your way through life, not breaking any laws, etc....you become somewhat wealthy. You're not obligated to help others. It is nice, a VERY good thing, but you're not being selfish if you don't give. Because, those others...had opportunity to do what you did and better themselves due their own individual efforts.
Charity giving is a wonderful thing, but it is not an obligation of life. Not feeling a need to be giving and being selfish are not always the same thing.
Sounds like you're arguing alignments with the DM in D&D.
Wind and solar are a tiny fraction of our supply at 2%, hydro 7%, and nuclear 4%. We have a long ways to go, but this is great news, hopefully the scale is now tipped to solar.
I skip breakfast (i'm on 12/12 intermittent fasting schedule) and I'm fit, healthy BMI, no high blood pressure. Dunno about glucose, but I'm also on low carb diet, so it should never really skyrocket.
No doubt due to the advantages of the famed healthy Russian diet, you "anonymous" coward.
Democrats won't even allow driver's licenses to be used for proving who you are to vote. But I assume there's an ulterior motive there.
You mean the constitution won't even allow a driver's license for proving who you are to vote. If the states wanted to provide IDs for free and made sure everybody got them, they could do it, but they don't want to have to pay the price and the point of IDs to vote is not to prove who people are but to prohbit people from voting through an effective poll tax and higher and higher hurdles to jump through.
Drivers licenses are issued by the state and each one does it differently, so it changes every time you move from state to state, and sometimes from license to license. A national ID would have to start at the national side of things. In addition, you'll need your national ID long before you need a driver's license just like you usually have to get a SSN pretty soon after birth these days. Plus, in my experience, since most people get their DL during school trip to the DMV as part of Driver's Ed class, they really don't check that hard and just assume you are who you say you are. They didn't even look at my birth certificate when I went. Another friend of mine mistakenly gave them the wrong birth year and spent his senior year as 20 years old. If there was a national ID, it would probalby be a passport, but those can be revoked or at least taken away.
Does your $1000 phone make you money? Does it even make you enough money to pay for itself? Or is it just a perpetual black hole for your money every month for overpriced dataplans so you can watch movies, or porn, or play games, or whatever it is you actually use it for? Name five things you use it for that aren't entertainment or something totally non-essential, five things that are practical and useful and preferably make you money or provide a real service (NOT ENTERTAINMENT!) that equates to money; I bet you can't.
Can tell you've never had to be on call with an IT career.
OK, you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to post this using a userID of "BradFromUSA" with a stock photo of a hot girl or member of the US military as your avatar. Your bio is supposed to read something like, "USA military vet and totally American guy #2A #JesusIsLord #MAGA Lover of USA freedoms, #NASCAR".
On Slashdot, they just post as Anonymous Cowards so they can't get their accounts banned.
Let's not act like the civil war in the US was thought because the north found it ethicly unbearable to enslave those poor negros.
That war had nothing to do with empathy for the plight of fellow human beings or lack thereof.
Wars are tools of politics and ethics and politics so rarely mix, we might as well assume they didn't at all. Please stop acting like they did...
According to Ulysses S Grant, who fought the war, spoke to Lincoln, and later became President, it was fought for one reason: money. He had no doubt that the Southern States could have left if they chosen soon after the constitution had been ratified, however, at the time, the US was still paying off the debt of the Mexican-American War, paid mostly with Northern money and blood, that allowed for the creation of Texas. The Southern states left, but decided not to take their debt with them and also wanted to keep all US possession such as Fort Sumter, wanting to take all their toys and not pay their bills. That's what forced the US's hand into the blockade and later the war. After that, abolishment of slavery was foretold as it had fallen out of favor, was economically crippling the South, and the main point of conflict between the states pretty much since the creation of the USA. At Richmond, when the South was all but defeated, Lincoln offer surrender terms being the South rejoin the USA as if nothing had happened, and abolish slavery, and the South could fill out any other terms they desired, which was expected to be payment for the loss of the slaves to the owners. Instead, the CSA used it to buy some time for one last suicidal attack.
There are, or were, VHS players that burn straight to DVD. You might find them on eBay or even Amazon. Otherwise, there are numerous VHS to digital converters for about $30 on Amazon. Your best avenue of making good conversions would probably be spent trying to research and get the best VHS player however. Also, converting to 1080p or the like is probably a fool's game. As others have mentioned, VHS is more like 480 and unless running some weird digital clean up which would probably run fine on 480, the increase in resolution just means a larger poorly imaged conversion.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to have any merit.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to dissuade them from following the money.
So true. It's simply disgusting that there is this cabal of union bosses, Leftist billionaires and government bureaucrats which is conspiring to further fund the *myth* of extragalactic cosmic rays, all in an attempt to push their agenda of redistribution of wealth and punishing Job Creators.
Actually, it's a conspiracy of the Technocracy which is attempting to alter the consensual reality to fit their physical narrative.
And then you work for the money to pay your electrical bill with.
That, and a working computer is a hot and noisy computer. Fuck that.
Ya, but I know my electricity bill is currently pretty trivial even with my computer on all day every day. If that is the solution for contributing to the internet and web and not having to make any sort of micropayment system work, it works for me.
I constantly get ads for the thing I've recently purchased.
I can't imagine a less effective form of advertising.
I noticed this too. When I go to a nearby city, there is a hotel I normally stay at and I just go there and reserve a room. For the next week ro so, I get ads for them even though I've already rented a room, particularly in Facebook and Google. I wondered about this and talked to a friend that was the social media / online advertising guy for a local company. I thought it was some algorithm or server side thing, but according to him this is a local browser side thing. Most people visit multiple web sites and take some time to decide before they buy, so the first line of advertising is for a webpage to check your cookies and if a website you have visited is on a list, serve you up the advertising hopefully to remind you that you wanted an item on that website and get you to go there again. I haven't read the article but from the title this might be what Apple is making harder.
This is so true, every time I go online and search for something to buy, the next six weeks are a constant stream of nothing but what I already bought. If I'm searching for it online it means I'm buying in the next five minutes. Not the next 6 weeks. These idiots haven't figured that out yet. Also, I'm still waiting for the Ad-Rapture where my feeds get filled with space games and Linux games. Hasn't happened yet and I won't be holding my breath. Online advertising is a total sham industry.
You buy things in the next 5 minutes, but most people don't. Most people visit multiple websites before making a decision and that decision making process can stretch out for weeks. So, when they see you search fro things, they target you in hopes of reminding you of their offering. The only way for them to "figure it out" would be to have total knowledge of what you have purchased. Do you really want that?
It is hard for me to imagine them posting those articles had any influence over anyone to change their vote, and these people wouldn't have voted for Hillary under any set of circumstances.
Well, it's not just a matter of convincing people who to vote for, but just as much in getting them motivated enough to go out and actually vote (or making them decide it's just not work it so they don't). Make people a little more angry and that could influence the final number of voters, not matter if the cause was real or not.
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hhmmm.... curious. I've been reading science fiction since the 60's. I have a personal library of over 700 novels, plus what I've borrowed from public libraries, and I've never heard of this Gibson character.
Sounds like you are either Russian reading Russian sci-fi, a troll, or both.
I just bought a "new" car. It was $11000, for a 2011 model year with 40k on it in nearly pristine condition, and a mid-level trim level (so it has a few options and upgrades, air, heated seats, etc...)
How much are you going to subsidize a new electric car to make it price competitive to that?
Why are you comparing a used ICE car against a new electric car? You are not in the market for a new ICE car, then you're not in the market for a new electric car. However, compare the 6 year old ICE car against a used six year old electric car. Sure, people who only buy used cars will be buying ICEs for longer as it takes time for the used market to get older EVs in the supply chain. IF EVs take off, then the poor will probably be still driving older clunky ICEs for quite some time just as they drive older, clunky, less expensive ICE cars now. Eventually, if driving an ICE car starts to signify you are either a collector or poor, EVs will have won.
No offense intended, but you do realize you look like an idiot when you're still pushing the "Russians haxored the 2016 election to make Trump win" thing at this point, right?
Actually, the major point isn't even that the Russians tried to affect our elections. Like most forms of espionage, we do it, they do it, everybody does it. That's the nature of the game, but when somebody gets caught, there is the political game of making a stink about it. That signifies to the foreign power they have gone too far and should pull it back some. This time, they get caught and the person who won not only hasn't made a stink about it, standing behind his country, but even encourages it. Signifying to the foreign power that they have not reached the limit of what they can do but can step up attempts to affect our politics even more before they are even told to stop. So now we have an American politician that is siding with foreign powers against American sovereignty because it favors him. The major threat here is that they are being influenced by a foreign power over the nation they are supposed to be acting in the best welfare of. This is after there was already suspicions that the same political figure was in financial debt to institutions of the same foreign power to which they refuse to clear up by even releasing information that is traditional for such candidates to release to the public even after winning. The major fear here is not that some foreign power tried to sway our elections, but that the winner of said election is being influenced if not acting complicitly with said foreign power for personal gain.
Naah, Nasa _pretends_ to want to send men to Mars but their primary function (as defined by Senate funding) has become keeping the pork pipeline of continual studies on "how to get to mars" open.
I'm sure that NASA would love to send people to Mars, but they know that's not going to happen and only mention it because every administration since Bush the Younger wants to say they're working on it. There's not enough NASA money going towards Mars to even claim it as pork.
I doubt that. There have to be a decent percentage of people who just use a phone for work only.
Um, a decent percentage of people's work requires apps these days for things like two factor authentification. People on call have apps to do thier work if they get called. I use VPN and RDC to get things done rather than carry around a laptop, nevermind have to drive across the city to a computer. the CxOs use apps because they don't want to carry around a laptop to get into systems when they have to off site. Stroke doctors use app on phone and tablets to look at X-Rays and give the ER vital information when seconds count. Then there are the banks, taxis, pay parking, food delivery services, etc. that all shuffle you off to use their apps. There are probably a decent percentage of people who don't use apps but there are still a decent percentage of people who don't use email either.
Really, except for their original Marvel content, they have nothing on streaming I want to see. There are still a long list of movies I want to see and get them on DVD. I have lots of old classic movies to watch still, a few series, and then new stuff as it comes out. I can see which ones I could watch streaming and it is a grand total of one series (which I decided not to finish anyway). On the flip side, I've been bored and went looking on steaming side of things for interesting new things to watch. I've yet to comes across anything that was worth finishing. Every now and then somebody suggests something on streaming and I'll watch it, but those are few and far between and usually documentaries. I really don't see much value except for their original content to their streaming, and am getting upset as DVDs they did have sometimes drop off to the Saved list while still for sale, meaning they are not replacing lost, stolen, damaged DVDs still in production.
Don't know why you posted "AC" but this is a very accurate description...
Russian trolls don't care which side of an argument they provide. Their goal is just to create polarization and argument. If they don't have accounts, they can't be shown to be Russian trolls, and can't have their accounts banned.
I don't believe those two are necessarily mutually exclusive.
You can be self sufficient, you can be successful.
After that, you have a choice...you can help others.
You many not to choose to help others...is that selfish? Not really.
Selfish is taking that prevents others from having too, and then not sharing.
But if you make your way through life, not breaking any laws, etc....you become somewhat wealthy. You're not obligated to help others. It is nice, a VERY good thing, but you're not being selfish if you don't give. Because, those others...had opportunity to do what you did and better themselves due their own individual efforts.
Charity giving is a wonderful thing, but it is not an obligation of life. Not feeling a need to be giving and being selfish are not always the same thing.
Sounds like you're arguing alignments with the DM in D&D.
Wind and solar are a tiny fraction of our supply at 2%, hydro 7%, and nuclear 4%. We have a long ways to go, but this is great news, hopefully the scale is now tipped to solar.
Where the hell are you? That's even worse than the USA. We're running at 6% wind and solar, 7% hydro, and 20% nuclear.
I skip breakfast (i'm on 12/12 intermittent fasting schedule) and I'm fit, healthy BMI, no high blood pressure. Dunno about glucose, but I'm also on low carb diet, so it should never really skyrocket.
No doubt due to the advantages of the famed healthy Russian diet, you "anonymous" coward.
Democrats won't even allow driver's licenses to be used for proving who you are to vote. But I assume there's an ulterior motive there.
You mean the constitution won't even allow a driver's license for proving who you are to vote. If the states wanted to provide IDs for free and made sure everybody got them, they could do it, but they don't want to have to pay the price and the point of IDs to vote is not to prove who people are but to prohbit people from voting through an effective poll tax and higher and higher hurdles to jump through.
So, use the driver's license as the identifier.
Drivers licenses are issued by the state and each one does it differently, so it changes every time you move from state to state, and sometimes from license to license. A national ID would have to start at the national side of things. In addition, you'll need your national ID long before you need a driver's license just like you usually have to get a SSN pretty soon after birth these days. Plus, in my experience, since most people get their DL during school trip to the DMV as part of Driver's Ed class, they really don't check that hard and just assume you are who you say you are. They didn't even look at my birth certificate when I went. Another friend of mine mistakenly gave them the wrong birth year and spent his senior year as 20 years old. If there was a national ID, it would probalby be a passport, but those can be revoked or at least taken away.
13. Remote into the server to fix something while on call.
Does your $1000 phone make you money? Does it even make you enough money to pay for itself? Or is it just a perpetual black hole for your money every month for overpriced dataplans so you can watch movies, or porn, or play games, or whatever it is you actually use it for? Name five things you use it for that aren't entertainment or something totally non-essential, five things that are practical and useful and preferably make you money or provide a real service (NOT ENTERTAINMENT!) that equates to money; I bet you can't.
Can tell you've never had to be on call with an IT career.
OK, you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to post this using a userID of "BradFromUSA" with a stock photo of a hot girl or member of the US military as your avatar. Your bio is supposed to read something like, "USA military vet and totally American guy #2A #JesusIsLord #MAGA Lover of USA freedoms, #NASCAR".
On Slashdot, they just post as Anonymous Cowards so they can't get their accounts banned.
Let's not act like the civil war in the US was thought because the north found it ethicly unbearable to enslave those poor negros.
That war had nothing to do with empathy for the plight of fellow human beings or lack thereof.
Wars are tools of politics and ethics and politics so rarely mix, we might as well assume they didn't at all. Please stop acting like they did...
According to Ulysses S Grant, who fought the war, spoke to Lincoln, and later became President, it was fought for one reason: money. He had no doubt that the Southern States could have left if they chosen soon after the constitution had been ratified, however, at the time, the US was still paying off the debt of the Mexican-American War, paid mostly with Northern money and blood, that allowed for the creation of Texas. The Southern states left, but decided not to take their debt with them and also wanted to keep all US possession such as Fort Sumter, wanting to take all their toys and not pay their bills. That's what forced the US's hand into the blockade and later the war. After that, abolishment of slavery was foretold as it had fallen out of favor, was economically crippling the South, and the main point of conflict between the states pretty much since the creation of the USA. At Richmond, when the South was all but defeated, Lincoln offer surrender terms being the South rejoin the USA as if nothing had happened, and abolish slavery, and the South could fill out any other terms they desired, which was expected to be payment for the loss of the slaves to the owners. Instead, the CSA used it to buy some time for one last suicidal attack.
Okay, then, how many square smoots is that?
*sigh* Are those standard or imperial smoots?
There are, or were, VHS players that burn straight to DVD. You might find them on eBay or even Amazon. Otherwise, there are numerous VHS to digital converters for about $30 on Amazon. Your best avenue of making good conversions would probably be spent trying to research and get the best VHS player however. Also, converting to 1080p or the like is probably a fool's game. As others have mentioned, VHS is more like 480 and unless running some weird digital clean up which would probably run fine on 480, the increase in resolution just means a larger poorly imaged conversion.
If hundreds of professional astrophysicists are devoting their careers to studying a problem, you can be sure that nothing you come up with off the top of your head, without knowing anything about the subject, is going to dissuade them from following the money.
So true. It's simply disgusting that there is this cabal of union bosses, Leftist billionaires and government bureaucrats which is conspiring to further fund the *myth* of extragalactic cosmic rays, all in an attempt to push their agenda of redistribution of wealth and punishing Job Creators.
Actually, it's a conspiracy of the Technocracy which is attempting to alter the consensual reality to fit their physical narrative.
How many blue whales is that?
Exactly?
Blue whales are a unit of weight, not area. Get your units right.
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
10.2 degrees Libraries of Congress
and my computer works to pay for it.
And then you work for the money to pay your electrical bill with.
That, and a working computer is a hot and noisy computer. Fuck that.
Ya, but I know my electricity bill is currently pretty trivial even with my computer on all day every day. If that is the solution for contributing to the internet and web and not having to make any sort of micropayment system work, it works for me.
I constantly get ads for the thing I've recently purchased.
I can't imagine a less effective form of advertising.
I noticed this too. When I go to a nearby city, there is a hotel I normally stay at and I just go there and reserve a room. For the next week ro so, I get ads for them even though I've already rented a room, particularly in Facebook and Google. I wondered about this and talked to a friend that was the social media / online advertising guy for a local company. I thought it was some algorithm or server side thing, but according to him this is a local browser side thing. Most people visit multiple web sites and take some time to decide before they buy, so the first line of advertising is for a webpage to check your cookies and if a website you have visited is on a list, serve you up the advertising hopefully to remind you that you wanted an item on that website and get you to go there again. I haven't read the article but from the title this might be what Apple is making harder.
This is so true, every time I go online and search for something to buy, the next six weeks are a constant stream of nothing but what I already bought. If I'm searching for it online it means I'm buying in the next five minutes. Not the next 6 weeks. These idiots haven't figured that out yet. Also, I'm still waiting for the Ad-Rapture where my feeds get filled with space games and Linux games. Hasn't happened yet and I won't be holding my breath. Online advertising is a total sham industry.
You buy things in the next 5 minutes, but most people don't. Most people visit multiple websites before making a decision and that decision making process can stretch out for weeks. So, when they see you search fro things, they target you in hopes of reminding you of their offering. The only way for them to "figure it out" would be to have total knowledge of what you have purchased. Do you really want that?
It is hard for me to imagine them posting those articles had any influence over anyone to change their vote, and these people wouldn't have voted for Hillary under any set of circumstances.
Well, it's not just a matter of convincing people who to vote for, but just as much in getting them motivated enough to go out and actually vote (or making them decide it's just not work it so they don't). Make people a little more angry and that could influence the final number of voters, not matter if the cause was real or not.