What about lack of upward mobility? All my life I've been told I'm being held back because of the huge cohort of baby boomers who will eventually retire and then my generation gets to shine. Its finally starting to happen, slowly. What happens socially when the retirement age goes from 60 to 120, meaning I/we have to sit thru another 60 excruciatingly boring years?
Another problem is if you thought income inequality was bad, wait until you see balance sheet inequality. So a college degree used to mean an extra average of $25/yr income (used to, now it just means unemployment plus student loans instead of just unemployment, and the receptionist and your realtor are now required to have English degrees or MBAs). Over 40 working years that delta adds up to lets say a million bucks. Over 100 years, it adds up to 2.5 million bucks. So I'd expect the education bubble to explode upwards even more.
Another problem is no nation has more criminals than the USA. Do they get treatment? Should a 20 year old murder who got life meaning a 60 year sentence be released at 80, or not medicated so he dies at 80, or held until he's 120 or ? Another problem is the goal of the prison industrial complex is to make, say, 3% of the population felons per decade. If people only live as adults for maybe 50 years, that means 15% of the population dies after being imprisoned and they never work inside the legit economy again. What happens when people live to 150, that means 45% of the population gets felonized.
I am curious to know how much electricity was wasted on this apparently useless endeavour.
Not enough to really matter.
In english he writes that it took 191 days to calculate it, which is only 4500 or so hours.
I can't read enough Japanese to figure out what he was doing, but he certainly comments a lot about hard disk failures and stuff. That would seem to imply something more like a repurposed desktop and less like a professionally managed cloud NAS. Or maybe not.
Anyway I think you can safely assume "your average civilian" can't afford more than 500 watts of CPU, so figure 9000 KWh.
Today, the price of a KWh where I live is 11 cents. It used to be less but the idiots sold all their nukes and installed lots of natgas turbines, so the price has exploded. This is a common strategy for mostly unregulated monopolies to make more money; F it all up. Anyway historically according to my Japanese teacher years ago, electricity costs about twice as much in Japan as in the US. So lets round up to a quarter.
We'll also round up the KWH to 10e3. Multiplying, thats a mere 2500 cents, or a whopping earth shattering $25.
The problem is finding high end computation hardware that depreciates less than $25 in a year, so the energy consumption is more than just noise in the environmental budget. Another way to phrase it, is take the price of an incandescent lightbulb and multiply it by 10, thats how much energy they use. On the other hand, heavy computational equipment usually approaches the cost of electricity. Light computational equipment like i-devices are physically incapable of the end user using as much energy as it took to make them.
The other problem with waste is the guy ran it during the summer, apparently. If he ran it in winter, for many people it would cost nothing at all, and for almost all people it would cost a fraction less. For example, my aunt's electrically heated house could run a 1 KW floor radiator thingy for an hour, or a 1 KW pi calculator for an hour. No energy difference, but one calculates pi and the other does not.
Maybe he wants to measure the _exact_ lenght of his tool, perhaps the length of it equals PI?
Pi is not used for that. Pi shows up all over the place in math, but the geometry is the ratio of circumference to diameter for all circles. "If its round and so much across then its so much around".
Your tool post finally makes goatse a legitimate/. posting reference. Take the distance around the "grand canyon" of goatse and divide it by the distance across. Assuming its a perfect circle, that ratio will be pi. In fact it will be pi for any non-tearing perfectly round goatse like picture.
rational = terminates (your "finite") or repeats (your "infinte"). Which doesn't matter because pi is irrational as per numerous different proofs and all irrational numbers are infinite in length.
If this is some sort of "holy book" "intelligent design" thing where the bible says pi is actually 3, then I can't help you there...
That said, most/all jurisdictions allow "personal sales" between neighbors, which allow things like changing your neighbor's oil or having your kid mow their lawn or babysitting or whatever. Have you actually looked into this?
The relevant language in this state is "occasional sales" and it requires a business license/registration, less than 20 days/yr of operation, no other licensing requirements (for example, all car air conditioning work requires a license, therefore all car AC work is sales taxable regardless of other conditions), well under poverty line annual income for the exempted work, can not be promoted as a regular ongoing business but solely as an individual transaction, and can not be the primary occupation / source of income for the business. Basically a lot of legal dancing around so church sponsored yard sales are tax exempt without actually writing "church sponsored yard sales are exempt".
So, at least for sales tax, I would not be exempt because I do not have a business license in a non-related profitable line of work. If I owned a scrapbooking store, and then I mowed the neighbors lawn, then it would technically be legally exempt IF I document it, etc.
Note this in no way removes my obligation to pay income tax. (We have a modest rate for both where I live)
Furthermore if I change oil I have all kinds of crazy federal EPA and state requirements. Not crazy if I deal in thousands of gallons per week of toxic used oil, crazy if I do this "once" for a friend in addition to maintaining my own car.
Also its illegal to operate a business of any sort on "my" property without a zoning variance. I'm generously allowed 8 rummage/garage sales per year, but no other exemptions. Technically I am zoned to work on my neighbors car in their driveway as a service to them, think of those mobile windshield repair vans or any building contractor, but I could not work on their car in my driveway.
I paid a lot of extra money to get a non-HOA house, so at least I don't have those little hitlers breathing down my neck, and I have nicer neighbors.
I'd like to get a great chair, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.
According to the tech journalists, this is a post desktop / post laptop world. You don't want to get left behind.
Chair: We will do all our work at home or trendy local coffee shop for meatspace meetings. So, your overstuffed recliner in the living room, and those corporate issue Starbucks chairs will do. Once the boss figures out a guy in India can work at his home just as well as you can, for a tenth the cost, you won't have to work in those chairs anymore. People in their 20s can slouch on any old chair and survive, mostly. Once they hit 40 they need at least a passing attempt at ergonomics, but luckily that won't matter because rampant agism means you'll never be hired over age 30 anyway.
Keyboard: Watch some more Leo Laporte. The keyboard is dead. We're going to do hard core kernel hacking and literature writing using the ipad on screen keyboard, and multitouch gestures. I suppose if you jailbreak your iDevice you could install a new keyboard applet/library, but pretty much you're stuck with what the device provides. Sorry.
Mouse: The mouse is dead. The cool kids only use touchscreens. Hope you don't like eating fried chicken and cheetos, or at least hope you never have to share a phone/tablet with someone who does.
Monitor: Apple only makes one size / shape / resolution / surface finish (glossy) ipad and everyone else copies them right down to smooth corners. The new Henry Ford model T era of "any color you want as long as its black".
Actually, far too many workspaces are set up at countertop height (34"-36"), which is much too high. A sit-down working desk, especially if you spend a lot of time at the keyboard, should be no higher than 28"-30" off the floor. That is why add-on keyboard drawers hang UNDER the desk, often by 4"-6".
Had those trays at work... absolutely crippling to tall people like myself. My knees would hit the tray so I had to spread my legs and get all bow legged from typing between my knees or hunch my hips/back/shoulders to type in front of my knees. Five minutes with a screwdriver removed the tray and the pain.
Gas powered cars still go many miles after the gas gauge hits empty. A fuel gauge reading empty is suppose to tell you "Fill up as soon as possible" not tell you need to get out and push.
Empty means buy a new fuel pump because the old one just sucked up all the water, rust, sand, whatever from the bottom of the tank. Also the in-tank pumps are notorious for overheating and burning out in air/vapor and only running cool when immersed in fuel, so even a perfectly clean tank can burn out the pump if the pump is in an empty tank. Maybe more so in summer than winter... Also if the pump fails after pumping rusty water for awhile rather than instantly, you'll probably end up replacing the fuel filter, maybe the injectors, who knows.
I'm a bit tired of people claiming that an activity is very american just because the person is from USA and likes it.
You must be the life of the party when an american brings up the topic of "american football" (as opposed to real football = soccer). I'm from the US, our style of football is somewhat popular here (only around 5% really care, but at least 50% go along to get along with them). So our style of football is very american, oh well.
The reason for "american DIY culture" is our profoundly anti-business anti-entrepreneur climate. If you own a set of wrenches in Ecuador even if you mostly work on your own vehicles you'll be considered a "pro car mechanic" by an American if you ever help your neighbor change their windshield wiper blades, so an Equadorian (?) in that situation can't be DIY if they're a businessman, so there is no DIY culture in Equador, even if the same percentage of guys are turning wrenches under a shade tree in their backyard... In the US we have a huge quantity of laws and regulations to prevent individual entrepreneurs from competing with the bigger businesses, because those bigger businesses have purchase the govt and "suggested" those laws to the purchased politicians to improve their profits. I can't even begin to imagine the paperwork and financial resources required to let me change my neighbor's oil for a couple bucks... but I can change my own (so far) without too much govt interference, although they're working on it...
An american DIYer is pretty much just a frustrated entrepreneur. In a better country they're be a very small part time businessman, a dude with a "side job".
I've come across this kind of thing on other "high-end" Li-Ion batteries too, including on laptops, a high-end GPS unit and a satellite comms system. I've never seen this kind of thing on cheaper clones, in lower-end devices like phones, or in any other gadgets where the battery might be regarded as disposable once it deteriorates. Unless the battery in question has a means of asking for a calibration charge, or some such, and a charger that has a dedicated mode for doing so, then you should always try and recharge the battery before it fully drains.
Your perception is its "high end" because it gets you involved in the recalibration process. The cheap ones recalibrate, they just don't let you know, therefore you perceive them as cheaper.
when the millionaire kids are more intelligent and healthy by default
They already are. Better food / less heavy metal contamination / mental stimulation results in higher intelligence. Its laughable to claim rich kids are not healthier than other kids, first of all on average they're probably the only kids permitted regular pediatrician visits.
And how smart is this guy if he shares a private post with the entire world by accident? Does he think that he's a congressman?
Pretty smart if his purpose was to slap at the UI that makes it possible.
There is a growing bipolarity on G+ of people who think the "public" option should be eradicated and those who think that circles as a sharing option should be eradicated. Both groups think the other group is insane and literally can't empathize with their mindset. Kind of like the deletionists vs the non-a-holes on wikipedia (sorry for it being honest/slanted but I forgot the name of the non-deletionist party at this instant)
For those who don't get it, Bretz was a (the?) prototypical catastrophism dude who fought a horrible battle against the uniformitarianists and the U basically won and suppressed him for some decades. The C have a vaguely biblical outlook, because noahs floods and fire and brimstone with in with the C outlook. HOWEVER Bretz was from early-mid last century, biblical C guys other than crazy radio preachers had long since died out. The Venn diagram of serious C geologists and crazy fire and brimstone preachers has an overlap, but its mighty small indeed. The appeal of the U position was frankly physics envy, the laws of nature are always the same and always will be, relativity and the constant speed of light everywhere and stuff. You can kind of forgive the U guys for not understanding the thermodynamics of the earth in a non-nuclear world. For what little they knew back then, its surprising they didn't get more confused than they did.
The "modern" point of view is there is no conflict between U and C outlooks. The laws of physics and thermodynamics have applied for some billions of years, and that in no way conflicts with the existence of volcanoes and glaciers and giant river floods and comets and stuff. If I recall Bretz's C thing was a totally out of control river flowing thru what is now a desert, or something like that.
I don't remember what Lemaitre's thing was, too lazy to look it up on wikipedia, and it also probably has nothing to do with the trolling anyway.
Its like divining the religious views of astronomers by looking at nova astrophysics papers and assuming that has something to do with the "star of bethlehem", when really all the astronomer wanted to do was integrate an equation and run some physics.
You can't seriously investigate intelligent design, it's not science. Any sane university should run anyone who thinks it is out on a rail.
Sociological madness of crowds study, pathological delusional psychology, computer assisted statistical historical analysis... Which brings out the haters that the soft sciences are not really science, blah blah blah whatever.
Domesticated livestock and food crops have been intelligently designed by farmers over the past few centuries. Are there measurable numerical long term genetic effects of intelligent design actions, which I'm predicting would show up in modern Holsteins but not modern Humans?
The vast majority of that waste is still capable of producing useful energy. If it was reprocessed there'd be a lot less that needs to be stored.
Correct engineering, wrong politics.
The problem is the folks who would be hired to reprocess are so incredibly crooked and such political backstabbers that we would literally have less pollution if we just tossed it all off the end of a pier into the ocean, or heck, if we just ground it up and sprinkled it on our breakfast cereal. For "national security" we can't have anyone reporting on stuff being dumped out on the ground, not can we?
I don't think the French or Japanese are as corrupt as the Americans, or at least they're as corrupt overall yet corrupt in ways that make it safer for them to reprocess than for us to reprocess. We should simply sell/give the stuff to them.
> Government officials "scientized" politics. They made decisions that were largely political but cloaked them in the garb of science.'"
One could argue that this has happened often, in many fields. What's new here?
Wait till she discovers the psuedoscience of economics... if yucca mountain got her wound up into writing an article, Keynesian economics might literally make her head explode.
their low-end printers are just as shitty as Lexmark's or Canon's
Somewhere in China there's a factory that makes the internals for ALL cheap printers and depending on incoming orders puts them in a slightly different case and slaps a different sticker on the box. Ditto the laptops, clothes, etc.
Its like being astounded that the quality of the clothes at walmart, target, and kohls are all about the same, when they all came outta the same political prisoner staffed sweatshop and arrived onshore inside the same shipping container. Its not like the more expensive store sprinkles their clothes with "cool dust" or something. At the bottom, its all just junk.
Since the support for all of them is going to be a call center in India where a dude tells you to reinstall XP even if you tell him you have a mac, you may as well just buy the cheapest one.
This does not explain why Brother's printers just absolutely rock. Work on linux outta the box, scanner/fax function works outta the box, supports ipv6 for something like a decade. Rare to have a mechanical problem, rarely jams. "Just works" kinda like HP stuff used to B.C. (Before Carly)
There is a swamp at the bottom of the barrel where it all sucks, but a step up from that and there's some good products out there.
RIM themselves don't seem to understand what's wrong: the linked article in the Guardian indicates it's a failed database upgrade, but the news earlier was reporting that RIM were blaming a core switch failure.
Anonymous was threatening to "take down the financial companies" on Monday or something like that. Nobody uses RIM except for megacorps which more or less equals the big financial companies.
Sooooo maybe Anonymous did it. Would certainly fit in well with the nothing but spin B S thats been reported so far. You'd think Anon would have taken credit... Maybe they've learned not to do that.
That way, they can still nuke botnet command & control domains
Not sure why that is the responsibility of the DNS registrar. Sounds a heck of a lot more like an ISP's job at the level of the IP router / bgp feed / resolving dns server.
The purpose is probably a lot more oriented toward pirate bay, planned parenthood, 4chan, those type of dns names.
The penalty should be a MULTIPLE of the value of the goods, thus encouraging you to actually earn the price of the goods and not just steal them. This is, after all, the market-based way.
So for a $1 candy bar, $10 worth of penalty seems appropriate. For a $200 electronic device, $2000 dollars penalty, etc.
And the same for the top end of things. For $20,000,000 worth of environmental destruction, $200,000,000 fine.
STILL doesn't work. So... lets say a BP-hired subcontractor again dumps some oil, causing $200M worth of fine. Divide the $200M by the number of quarts of oil in the spill, and its $1/quart. Actually sounds believable. So that means when I want to change my motorcycle's oil, I merely park at walmart and dump it right there, just remove the plug and out it pours (don't laugh, I'm told this kind of thing does happen at walmart...) After all, the punishment is only $4, so everyone in America should do this, right?
Nothing described so far binds him invariably to the conclusion that the phone was property of Apple.
Private citizens can "own" property. End of argument.
I suppose the only thing preventing a slippery slope is the whim of the prosecutor/judge.
Absolutely not, there's tons of case law mostly containing the key phrase "The reasonableness of the explanation is a jury question."
Google for the phrase and be prepared to be entertained. Usually, this kind of appeal is made when a bunch of individual theft cases add up to one big conviction. So, the cars plates were stolen property although the driver claims he had no idea... attached to a car that may have been rented in a receipt-less cash transaction but the car dealer claims was stolen... with a trunk full of rifles that the registered rifle owner claims were stolen but the defendant (again) claims were sold in an illegal receipt-less cash transaction... The jury might believe some of those separate claims, but no way they'd believe them all, and the appeal usually revolves around the idea that there should have been three separate court cases rather than one.
Rarely do appeals come up with that phrase for just one simple piece of property and one simple transaction.
it seems the penalty for selling stolen goods should be proportional to the value of those goods.
That would make life very tough on brick and mortar store owners, if I could walk out of the store with anything I want under a dollar... Hmm steal a $1 candybar and get 1/5000th which would be a fine of one nickel, 28 seconds of community service, and an hour and 45 minutes of probation.
The problem with a micro transaction economic system is its likely to be extended to a micro transaction justice system, where this kind of punishment might actually happen.
Yes the DA wants jailtime but I don't see that will do much good. I think at worst this was an E felony. Besides the CA jails are already overcrowded. Putting someone in jail for their first offense (as far as I know) when they are going to release them in 1/3 of their time anyways would not have served much purpose. I hope that the $250 didn't include forfeiture of $5000 that he got.
Its useful to compare to typical shoplifting convictions.
Basically the courts decided on a penalty that locally is only a little harsher than shoplifting an average iphone, much less than he would typically get for stealing $5K.
I have not looked into the guys prior record, if any, which at this low level has a pretty big influence on the court's punishment.
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What about lack of upward mobility? All my life I've been told I'm being held back because of the huge cohort of baby boomers who will eventually retire and then my generation gets to shine. Its finally starting to happen, slowly. What happens socially when the retirement age goes from 60 to 120, meaning I/we have to sit thru another 60 excruciatingly boring years?
Another problem is if you thought income inequality was bad, wait until you see balance sheet inequality. So a college degree used to mean an extra average of $25/yr income (used to, now it just means unemployment plus student loans instead of just unemployment, and the receptionist and your realtor are now required to have English degrees or MBAs). Over 40 working years that delta adds up to lets say a million bucks. Over 100 years, it adds up to 2.5 million bucks. So I'd expect the education bubble to explode upwards even more.
Another problem is no nation has more criminals than the USA. Do they get treatment? Should a 20 year old murder who got life meaning a 60 year sentence be released at 80, or not medicated so he dies at 80, or held until he's 120 or ? Another problem is the goal of the prison industrial complex is to make, say, 3% of the population felons per decade. If people only live as adults for maybe 50 years, that means 15% of the population dies after being imprisoned and they never work inside the legit economy again. What happens when people live to 150, that means 45% of the population gets felonized.
I am curious to know how much electricity was wasted on this apparently useless endeavour.
Not enough to really matter.
In english he writes that it took 191 days to calculate it, which is only 4500 or so hours.
I can't read enough Japanese to figure out what he was doing, but he certainly comments a lot about hard disk failures and stuff. That would seem to imply something more like a repurposed desktop and less like a professionally managed cloud NAS. Or maybe not.
Anyway I think you can safely assume "your average civilian" can't afford more than 500 watts of CPU, so figure 9000 KWh.
Today, the price of a KWh where I live is 11 cents. It used to be less but the idiots sold all their nukes and installed lots of natgas turbines, so the price has exploded. This is a common strategy for mostly unregulated monopolies to make more money; F it all up. Anyway historically according to my Japanese teacher years ago, electricity costs about twice as much in Japan as in the US. So lets round up to a quarter.
We'll also round up the KWH to 10e3. Multiplying, thats a mere 2500 cents, or a whopping earth shattering $25.
The problem is finding high end computation hardware that depreciates less than $25 in a year, so the energy consumption is more than just noise in the environmental budget. Another way to phrase it, is take the price of an incandescent lightbulb and multiply it by 10, thats how much energy they use. On the other hand, heavy computational equipment usually approaches the cost of electricity. Light computational equipment like i-devices are physically incapable of the end user using as much energy as it took to make them.
The other problem with waste is the guy ran it during the summer, apparently. If he ran it in winter, for many people it would cost nothing at all, and for almost all people it would cost a fraction less. For example, my aunt's electrically heated house could run a 1 KW floor radiator thingy for an hour, or a 1 KW pi calculator for an hour. No energy difference, but one calculates pi and the other does not.
Maybe he wants to measure the _exact_ lenght of his tool, perhaps the length of it equals PI?
Pi is not used for that. Pi shows up all over the place in math, but the geometry is the ratio of circumference to diameter for all circles. "If its round and so much across then its so much around".
Your tool post finally makes goatse a legitimate /. posting reference. Take the distance around the "grand canyon" of goatse and divide it by the distance across. Assuming its a perfect circle, that ratio will be pi. In fact it will be pi for any non-tearing perfectly round goatse like picture.
AFAIK, we still have no conclusive answer to the question whether Pi has finite or infinite digits.
No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_pi_is_irrational
There's five different approaches. There are more, mostly closely related cousins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number
rational = terminates (your "finite") or repeats (your "infinte"). Which doesn't matter because pi is irrational as per numerous different proofs and all irrational numbers are infinite in length.
If this is some sort of "holy book" "intelligent design" thing where the bible says pi is actually 3, then I can't help you there...
That said, most/all jurisdictions allow "personal sales" between neighbors, which allow things like changing your neighbor's oil or having your kid mow their lawn or babysitting or whatever. Have you actually looked into this?
The relevant language in this state is "occasional sales" and it requires a business license/registration, less than 20 days/yr of operation, no other licensing requirements (for example, all car air conditioning work requires a license, therefore all car AC work is sales taxable regardless of other conditions), well under poverty line annual income for the exempted work, can not be promoted as a regular ongoing business but solely as an individual transaction, and can not be the primary occupation / source of income for the business. Basically a lot of legal dancing around so church sponsored yard sales are tax exempt without actually writing "church sponsored yard sales are exempt".
So, at least for sales tax, I would not be exempt because I do not have a business license in a non-related profitable line of work. If I owned a scrapbooking store, and then I mowed the neighbors lawn, then it would technically be legally exempt IF I document it, etc.
Note this in no way removes my obligation to pay income tax. (We have a modest rate for both where I live)
Furthermore if I change oil I have all kinds of crazy federal EPA and state requirements. Not crazy if I deal in thousands of gallons per week of toxic used oil, crazy if I do this "once" for a friend in addition to maintaining my own car.
Also its illegal to operate a business of any sort on "my" property without a zoning variance. I'm generously allowed 8 rummage/garage sales per year, but no other exemptions. Technically I am zoned to work on my neighbors car in their driveway as a service to them, think of those mobile windshield repair vans or any building contractor, but I could not work on their car in my driveway.
I paid a lot of extra money to get a non-HOA house, so at least I don't have those little hitlers breathing down my neck, and I have nicer neighbors.
I'd like to get a great chair, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.
According to the tech journalists, this is a post desktop / post laptop world. You don't want to get left behind.
Chair: We will do all our work at home or trendy local coffee shop for meatspace meetings. So, your overstuffed recliner in the living room, and those corporate issue Starbucks chairs will do. Once the boss figures out a guy in India can work at his home just as well as you can, for a tenth the cost, you won't have to work in those chairs anymore. People in their 20s can slouch on any old chair and survive, mostly. Once they hit 40 they need at least a passing attempt at ergonomics, but luckily that won't matter because rampant agism means you'll never be hired over age 30 anyway.
Keyboard: Watch some more Leo Laporte. The keyboard is dead. We're going to do hard core kernel hacking and literature writing using the ipad on screen keyboard, and multitouch gestures. I suppose if you jailbreak your iDevice you could install a new keyboard applet/library, but pretty much you're stuck with what the device provides. Sorry.
Mouse: The mouse is dead. The cool kids only use touchscreens. Hope you don't like eating fried chicken and cheetos, or at least hope you never have to share a phone/tablet with someone who does.
Monitor: Apple only makes one size / shape / resolution / surface finish (glossy) ipad and everyone else copies them right down to smooth corners. The new Henry Ford model T era of "any color you want as long as its black".
Actually, far too many workspaces are set up at countertop height (34"-36"), which is much too high. A sit-down working desk, especially if you spend a lot of time at the keyboard, should be no higher than 28"-30" off the floor. That is why add-on keyboard drawers hang UNDER the desk, often by 4"-6".
Had those trays at work... absolutely crippling to tall people like myself. My knees would hit the tray so I had to spread my legs and get all bow legged from typing between my knees or hunch my hips/back/shoulders to type in front of my knees. Five minutes with a screwdriver removed the tray and the pain.
Gas powered cars still go many miles after the gas gauge hits empty. A fuel gauge reading empty is suppose to tell you "Fill up as soon as possible" not tell you need to get out and push.
Empty means buy a new fuel pump because the old one just sucked up all the water, rust, sand, whatever from the bottom of the tank. Also the in-tank pumps are notorious for overheating and burning out in air/vapor and only running cool when immersed in fuel, so even a perfectly clean tank can burn out the pump if the pump is in an empty tank. Maybe more so in summer than winter... Also if the pump fails after pumping rusty water for awhile rather than instantly, you'll probably end up replacing the fuel filter, maybe the injectors, who knows.
I'm a bit tired of people claiming that an activity is very american just because the person is from USA and likes it.
You must be the life of the party when an american brings up the topic of "american football" (as opposed to real football = soccer). I'm from the US, our style of football is somewhat popular here (only around 5% really care, but at least 50% go along to get along with them). So our style of football is very american, oh well.
The reason for "american DIY culture" is our profoundly anti-business anti-entrepreneur climate. If you own a set of wrenches in Ecuador even if you mostly work on your own vehicles you'll be considered a "pro car mechanic" by an American if you ever help your neighbor change their windshield wiper blades, so an Equadorian (?) in that situation can't be DIY if they're a businessman, so there is no DIY culture in Equador, even if the same percentage of guys are turning wrenches under a shade tree in their backyard... In the US we have a huge quantity of laws and regulations to prevent individual entrepreneurs from competing with the bigger businesses, because those bigger businesses have purchase the govt and "suggested" those laws to the purchased politicians to improve their profits. I can't even begin to imagine the paperwork and financial resources required to let me change my neighbor's oil for a couple bucks... but I can change my own (so far) without too much govt interference, although they're working on it...
An american DIYer is pretty much just a frustrated entrepreneur. In a better country they're be a very small part time businessman, a dude with a "side job".
I've come across this kind of thing on other "high-end" Li-Ion batteries too, including on laptops, a high-end GPS unit and a satellite comms system. I've never seen this kind of thing on cheaper clones, in lower-end devices like phones, or in any other gadgets where the battery might be regarded as disposable once it deteriorates. Unless the battery in question has a means of asking for a calibration charge, or some such, and a charger that has a dedicated mode for doing so, then you should always try and recharge the battery before it fully drains.
Your perception is its "high end" because it gets you involved in the recalibration process. The cheap ones recalibrate, they just don't let you know, therefore you perceive them as cheaper.
when the millionaire kids are more intelligent and healthy by default
They already are. Better food / less heavy metal contamination / mental stimulation results in higher intelligence. Its laughable to claim rich kids are not healthier than other kids, first of all on average they're probably the only kids permitted regular pediatrician visits.
And how smart is this guy if he shares a private post with the entire world by accident? Does he think that he's a congressman?
Pretty smart if his purpose was to slap at the UI that makes it possible.
There is a growing bipolarity on G+ of people who think the "public" option should be eradicated and those who think that circles as a sharing option should be eradicated. Both groups think the other group is insane and literally can't empathize with their mindset. Kind of like the deletionists vs the non-a-holes on wikipedia (sorry for it being honest/slanted but I forgot the name of the non-deletionist party at this instant)
For those who don't get it, Bretz was a (the?) prototypical catastrophism dude who fought a horrible battle against the uniformitarianists and the U basically won and suppressed him for some decades. The C have a vaguely biblical outlook, because noahs floods and fire and brimstone with in with the C outlook. HOWEVER Bretz was from early-mid last century, biblical C guys other than crazy radio preachers had long since died out. The Venn diagram of serious C geologists and crazy fire and brimstone preachers has an overlap, but its mighty small indeed. The appeal of the U position was frankly physics envy, the laws of nature are always the same and always will be, relativity and the constant speed of light everywhere and stuff. You can kind of forgive the U guys for not understanding the thermodynamics of the earth in a non-nuclear world. For what little they knew back then, its surprising they didn't get more confused than they did.
The "modern" point of view is there is no conflict between U and C outlooks. The laws of physics and thermodynamics have applied for some billions of years, and that in no way conflicts with the existence of volcanoes and glaciers and giant river floods and comets and stuff. If I recall Bretz's C thing was a totally out of control river flowing thru what is now a desert, or something like that.
I don't remember what Lemaitre's thing was, too lazy to look it up on wikipedia, and it also probably has nothing to do with the trolling anyway.
Its like divining the religious views of astronomers by looking at nova astrophysics papers and assuming that has something to do with the "star of bethlehem", when really all the astronomer wanted to do was integrate an equation and run some physics.
You can't seriously investigate intelligent design, it's not science. Any sane university should run anyone who thinks it is out on a rail.
Sociological madness of crowds study, pathological delusional psychology, computer assisted statistical historical analysis ... Which brings out the haters that the soft sciences are not really science, blah blah blah whatever.
Domesticated livestock and food crops have been intelligently designed by farmers over the past few centuries. Are there measurable numerical long term genetic effects of intelligent design actions, which I'm predicting would show up in modern Holsteins but not modern Humans?
Luckily we already have that to some extent in the field of medicine
You need to specify your country. USA, people will laugh at you or think you're trolling. Canada, eh, ya maybe so, maybe so.
The vast majority of that waste is still capable of producing useful energy. If it was reprocessed there'd be a lot less that needs to be stored.
Correct engineering, wrong politics.
The problem is the folks who would be hired to reprocess are so incredibly crooked and such political backstabbers that we would literally have less pollution if we just tossed it all off the end of a pier into the ocean, or heck, if we just ground it up and sprinkled it on our breakfast cereal. For "national security" we can't have anyone reporting on stuff being dumped out on the ground, not can we?
I don't think the French or Japanese are as corrupt as the Americans, or at least they're as corrupt overall yet corrupt in ways that make it safer for them to reprocess than for us to reprocess. We should simply sell/give the stuff to them.
> Government officials "scientized" politics. They made decisions that were largely political but cloaked them in the garb of science.'"
One could argue that this has happened often, in many fields. What's new here?
Wait till she discovers the psuedoscience of economics... if yucca mountain got her wound up into writing an article, Keynesian economics might literally make her head explode.
Another good one is climate science.
their low-end printers are just as shitty as Lexmark's or Canon's
Somewhere in China there's a factory that makes the internals for ALL cheap printers and depending on incoming orders puts them in a slightly different case and slaps a different sticker on the box. Ditto the laptops, clothes, etc.
Its like being astounded that the quality of the clothes at walmart, target, and kohls are all about the same, when they all came outta the same political prisoner staffed sweatshop and arrived onshore inside the same shipping container. Its not like the more expensive store sprinkles their clothes with "cool dust" or something. At the bottom, its all just junk.
Since the support for all of them is going to be a call center in India where a dude tells you to reinstall XP even if you tell him you have a mac, you may as well just buy the cheapest one.
This does not explain why Brother's printers just absolutely rock. Work on linux outta the box, scanner/fax function works outta the box, supports ipv6 for something like a decade. Rare to have a mechanical problem, rarely jams. "Just works" kinda like HP stuff used to B.C. (Before Carly)
There is a swamp at the bottom of the barrel where it all sucks, but a step up from that and there's some good products out there.
RIM themselves don't seem to understand what's wrong: the linked article in the Guardian indicates it's a failed database upgrade, but the news earlier was reporting that RIM were blaming a core switch failure.
Anonymous was threatening to "take down the financial companies" on Monday or something like that. Nobody uses RIM except for megacorps which more or less equals the big financial companies.
Sooooo maybe Anonymous did it. Would certainly fit in well with the nothing but spin B S thats been reported so far. You'd think Anon would have taken credit... Maybe they've learned not to do that.
That way, they can still nuke botnet command & control domains
Not sure why that is the responsibility of the DNS registrar. Sounds a heck of a lot more like an ISP's job at the level of the IP router / bgp feed / resolving dns server.
The purpose is probably a lot more oriented toward pirate bay, planned parenthood, 4chan, those type of dns names.
There's a group that has something working reminiscent of the way torrent magnet links work. I can't remember their name now.
google for namecoin ? For some value of reminiscent, thats correct, for some value of correct anyway.
The penalty should be a MULTIPLE of the value of the goods, thus encouraging you to actually earn the price of the goods and not just steal them. This is, after all, the market-based way.
So for a $1 candy bar, $10 worth of penalty seems appropriate. For a $200 electronic device, $2000 dollars penalty, etc.
And the same for the top end of things. For $20,000,000 worth of environmental destruction, $200,000,000 fine.
STILL doesn't work. So... lets say a BP-hired subcontractor again dumps some oil, causing $200M worth of fine. Divide the $200M by the number of quarts of oil in the spill, and its $1/quart. Actually sounds believable. So that means when I want to change my motorcycle's oil, I merely park at walmart and dump it right there, just remove the plug and out it pours (don't laugh, I'm told this kind of thing does happen at walmart...) After all, the punishment is only $4, so everyone in America should do this, right?
Nothing described so far binds him invariably to the conclusion that the phone was property of Apple.
Private citizens can "own" property. End of argument.
I suppose the only thing preventing a slippery slope is the whim of the prosecutor/judge.
Absolutely not, there's tons of case law mostly containing the key phrase "The reasonableness of the explanation is a jury question."
Google for the phrase and be prepared to be entertained. Usually, this kind of appeal is made when a bunch of individual theft cases add up to one big conviction. So, the cars plates were stolen property although the driver claims he had no idea ... attached to a car that may have been rented in a receipt-less cash transaction but the car dealer claims was stolen ... with a trunk full of rifles that the registered rifle owner claims were stolen but the defendant (again) claims were sold in an illegal receipt-less cash transaction ... The jury might believe some of those separate claims, but no way they'd believe them all, and the appeal usually revolves around the idea that there should have been three separate court cases rather than one.
Rarely do appeals come up with that phrase for just one simple piece of property and one simple transaction.
it seems the penalty for selling stolen goods should be proportional to the value of those goods.
That would make life very tough on brick and mortar store owners, if I could walk out of the store with anything I want under a dollar... Hmm steal a $1 candybar and get 1/5000th which would be a fine of one nickel, 28 seconds of community service, and an hour and 45 minutes of probation.
The problem with a micro transaction economic system is its likely to be extended to a micro transaction justice system, where this kind of punishment might actually happen.
Yes the DA wants jailtime but I don't see that will do much good. I think at worst this was an E felony. Besides the CA jails are already overcrowded. Putting someone in jail for their first offense (as far as I know) when they are going to release them in 1/3 of their time anyways would not have served much purpose. I hope that the $250 didn't include forfeiture of $5000 that he got.
Its useful to compare to typical shoplifting convictions.
Basically the courts decided on a penalty that locally is only a little harsher than shoplifting an average iphone, much less than he would typically get for stealing $5K.
I have not looked into the guys prior record, if any, which at this low level has a pretty big influence on the court's punishment.