GPS tracking, for example, can be used to follow aides from one office to another, or from the floor to an office, making it more difficult to have some of the delicate negotiations often required to make a government work
The negotiations would be done without phones present anyway. If you are worried about it, hand your phone to another aide. Let them wander around like they are doing the regular things. Nobody will ever know that you were sitting somewhere else. Or just leave it in your desk. It'll be obvious you don't have your phone on you, but it won't point to anything in particular.
That's my finding as well, a high-quality unit well set up is better than a "better spec" unit that's set up less than optimally. My 720p plasma that's 6 years old, gets compliments all the time. I've never talked about it, until someone else brought it up. Whenever I go to the home of a 4k user, I know it. "How do you like my 4k?" If it were any good, you wouldn't have to point it out to everyone.
Nope. The conservatives spent millions of taxpayer money suing the government to make sure they had "free speech zones" legal to segregate protesters. That you don't know reality doesn't change it.
To go that speed, and to do so safely, you need some very specific equipment. I doubt her tires were rated for that speed.
Let me guess, the last time you bought a new car, it came with bias tires.
Near as I can find, she was in a '90s C230 with OEM H-rated (or better) tires, or should have been, unless she replaced the OEM with something not 130 mph or better rated.
I know the suspension wasn't built for, nor tuned for, handling those speeds.
So a German car designed for the Autobahn isn't capable of 107?
The equipment is (in practice) never the problem. It's the driver, driving byond their capabilities.
rarely does anyone explain how these taxes would get spent to actually clean up the mess.
I see it explained all the time. Either you are too dumb to understand, or are wilfully ignorant (whether avoiding those discussing it, or ignoring it when they do).
The environment has an equilibrium point, and scrubs CO2 itself. We are dumping in more than the environment can scrub. So the "fix" is to slow down the CO2 production to a number below scrubbing level, and CO2 will decrease without humans removing any CO2 from the air at all. There's some talk of actual CO2 scrubbers, but the common designs are for enclosed spaces that have spikes in CO2 well above the levels that are in the environment. Just reducing CO2 removes CO2. No huge windfalls for those working on scrubbing tech.
A carbon tax helps __you__ the consumer. It helps internalize the externalities of global pollution used in making things. When the plastic toy on the shelf goes from $10 to $100, you'll switch to a wooden toy that dropped from $40 to $20 at the same time. This is good for everyone, even though the environment-haters will focus on the 10 more cost for the worst offenders, rather than the 2x from something environmentally damaging to something twice as much that's not. Which may be bad (or good) but is outside where the discussion goes.
The working alternative is public funding through merit based incremental updates.
A carbon tax doesn't work because it taxes billionaires, who pass the costs on to consumers, but "public funding" subsidizes the worst offenders, rewarding past bad behavior and gives subsidies to billionaires.
Your suggestion is to do whatever's best for the billionaires. I'm not sure that's effective or wise.
Also, the accounting is complex and confusing. The oil extracted in Alaska is "free" to the company extracting it, then taxed. That's how the law is written. But BP (and others) will treat the tax as an extraction manufacturing cost sometimes, and as a "tax" in other places. They treat the same one transaction in multiple different ways to minimize cost. The lack of consistent accounting rules is a direct subsidy. But BP claims the free oil as a subsidy sometimes, but objects when anti-oil environmentalists call it a "subsidy". BP claims it's a subsidy, so I have no problems agreeing with them in their declaration that all the oil they extract is a subsidy gift to them.
Of course, if you are a rational human being and realize that CO2 cannot possibly be a pollutant
Water is a pollutant. An overflowing river is a bad thing. Drinking water can cause death by hyponatremia. A rational human being realizes that, in moderation, almost everything is fine, but in excess, almost everything is deadly. Oxygen is toxic. Too much Oxygen would kill almost everything as well.
It's simple. You said it yourself. " the atmosphere tends to heat them up into flaming Big Balls-O-Fire " but simple shielding fixes that. You need "fuel" to get back from the asteroid belt. For that, you user asteroids. Throw one the opposite direction you want to go, and off you go. Every hurdle is only there because you can't think of an answer. That doesn't make it hard, it just makes you stupid.
The "challenge" is cost effectiveness. Making it sound harder than it is just makes you look stupid.
S an article that people don't notice or care about framerate is your link for complaints about low framerate?
I'm "budget". Though I get people visiting for the first time that ask if my 720 TV is 4k.Gamers trained for years to recognize glitches may notice. Nobody else does. Good lighting, proper setup and wow someone with inferior content.
In the US, most people who call themselves that are large-government Republicans who want drug legalization. So you'll have to be more specific on which dictionary definition you are using, or we'll take the common one.
So, I'm disappointed that Elon announced the "instant Mars demo" immediately after last month's at-sea landing. Yes, for Elon SpaceX has always been about Mars. But now is the time for SpaceX to focus on making a profit and having a rapid cadence. If Elon does that, he will have lots of $$$ and recovered boosters for Mars projects.
Cheaper launches are about Mars. You don't launch to Mars. You launch 10-100 times to build a launch platform in orbit, then launch to Mars from orbit, not the surface. So as the costs drop, the profitability increases. The profits are "reinvested" into more launches (unpaid ones) to put up a Mars launch platform. With 18 per year, and 10% being profits launched as "bonus" launches, that'd be about 2 a year dedicated to Mars. Depending on the plan, that puts the Mars launch a few years off. If they can launch more per year, they can speed that up, but they seem very connected. Launches = Mars. Not today, not tomorrow, but eventually.
Yeah, so they are too lazy to call the FBI. Though the FBI isn't any better. I called once, after they ran a campaign asking for people to report attempted fraud, and I reported the fraud attempt. They asked me if I had lost any money yet. I said "no". They hung up on me. For calling in what they said to call in on. Probably had too many people call in the 419 and other scams that are FI jurisdiction that the FBI refuses to investigate.
I watched a (predumably) drunk driver commit a hit and run. The location of the incident was on a major highway. I was on the phone with the police while it happened, i had called the non-emergency number to report the drunk driver. The police employee said they'd come out to the nearest parking lot in 4-6 hours to take a statement. I asked if they could come to me 1 mile from there, as I was almost home by that point, and didn't want to wait 4-6 hours in a parking lot. "No, we can only go to the scene to take a statement." Never mind, hung up. The cops are too busy to do their jobs. And that's not the only time I witnessed a crime and the cops refused to come out. The one time I was robbed (6+ cameras catching the event) I was accused of an inside job and lying about it. The detectives couldnt find a robbery on a CCTV tape with the timestamp of the robbery given. Of course, forward to that time, watch for 30 seconds, and there was the guy I described, doing exactly what I said happened. Great to be accused of theft with a false report of robbery to cover my theft, when I obvioulsy didn't have the money on me and the CCTV caught the whole thing.
That's what the conservatives would have you believe, but it's about fiscal policy. not the things you list, that drive up inflation. Inflation is bad, we agree, but it's cased by the rich bankers that profit from selling the same money to different people 10 times.
Yes. But the problem is that the US is an empire. The US enforces local laws globally, and interferes in internal matters routinely. The budget of the US enforces US IP globally. So they get the benefits of a global empire, but don't pay into it. That's the problem. The US should not be the world's enforcement (certainly not for the US companies that don't pay their share of tax). Yes, I realize that Apple pays lots, but still not their share.
No trophy for speed. Snapchat encouraged the crash no less than Mercedes who placed a speedometer in the car, and allowed the car to be sold in a state it could reach 120+.There was no active encouragement by Snapchat for speed, and given there were 3 people in the car, and the one doing the selfies was the driver, Even if there were some encouragement for a high number, there's no requirement that you be the driver to do it. She was doing 100+ while taking selfies. Taking selfies was a greater contributor than the speed. The speed just magnified the result of the inevitable crash (caused by stupid, not speed).
Christal McGee should be tried for kidnapping and attempted murder. She was asked by her passengers to stop, and she refused. That's kidnapping. She performed an action she knew to be dangerous that caused life-threatening injuries. That's attempted murder.
Place the blame on the person who deliberately did stupid, not the company that allowed it.. If you are doing that, sue Goodyear, they made tires that didn't spontaneously combust at 60 mph in a 55 mph zone, stopping her crime spree.
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GPS tracking, for example, can be used to follow aides from one office to another, or from the floor to an office, making it more difficult to have some of the delicate negotiations often required to make a government work
The negotiations would be done without phones present anyway. If you are worried about it, hand your phone to another aide. Let them wander around like they are doing the regular things. Nobody will ever know that you were sitting somewhere else. Or just leave it in your desk. It'll be obvious you don't have your phone on you, but it won't point to anything in particular.
That's my finding as well, a high-quality unit well set up is better than a "better spec" unit that's set up less than optimally. My 720p plasma that's 6 years old, gets compliments all the time. I've never talked about it, until someone else brought it up. Whenever I go to the home of a 4k user, I know it. "How do you like my 4k?" If it were any good, you wouldn't have to point it out to everyone.
You mean the ones liberals fought for?
Nope. The conservatives spent millions of taxpayer money suing the government to make sure they had "free speech zones" legal to segregate protesters. That you don't know reality doesn't change it.
To go that speed, and to do so safely, you need some very specific equipment. I doubt her tires were rated for that speed.
Let me guess, the last time you bought a new car, it came with bias tires.
Near as I can find, she was in a '90s C230 with OEM H-rated (or better) tires, or should have been, unless she replaced the OEM with something not 130 mph or better rated.
I know the suspension wasn't built for, nor tuned for, handling those speeds.
So a German car designed for the Autobahn isn't capable of 107?
The equipment is (in practice) never the problem. It's the driver, driving byond their capabilities.
rarely does anyone explain how these taxes would get spent to actually clean up the mess.
I see it explained all the time. Either you are too dumb to understand, or are wilfully ignorant (whether avoiding those discussing it, or ignoring it when they do).
The environment has an equilibrium point, and scrubs CO2 itself. We are dumping in more than the environment can scrub. So the "fix" is to slow down the CO2 production to a number below scrubbing level, and CO2 will decrease without humans removing any CO2 from the air at all. There's some talk of actual CO2 scrubbers, but the common designs are for enclosed spaces that have spikes in CO2 well above the levels that are in the environment. Just reducing CO2 removes CO2. No huge windfalls for those working on scrubbing tech.
Fungible. Look it up.
The working alternative is public funding through merit based incremental updates.
A carbon tax doesn't work because it taxes billionaires, who pass the costs on to consumers, but "public funding" subsidizes the worst offenders, rewarding past bad behavior and gives subsidies to billionaires.
Your suggestion is to do whatever's best for the billionaires. I'm not sure that's effective or wise.
Of course, if you are a rational human being and realize that CO2 cannot possibly be a pollutant
Water is a pollutant. An overflowing river is a bad thing. Drinking water can cause death by hyponatremia. A rational human being realizes that, in moderation, almost everything is fine, but in excess, almost everything is deadly. Oxygen is toxic. Too much Oxygen would kill almost everything as well.
It's simple. You said it yourself. " the atmosphere tends to heat them up into flaming Big Balls-O-Fire " but simple shielding fixes that. You need "fuel" to get back from the asteroid belt. For that, you user asteroids. Throw one the opposite direction you want to go, and off you go. Every hurdle is only there because you can't think of an answer. That doesn't make it hard, it just makes you stupid.
The "challenge" is cost effectiveness. Making it sound harder than it is just makes you look stupid.
S an article that people don't notice or care about framerate is your link for complaints about low framerate?
I'm "budget". Though I get people visiting for the first time that ask if my 720 TV is 4k.Gamers trained for years to recognize glitches may notice. Nobody else does. Good lighting, proper setup and wow someone with inferior content.
Heated steel expands and weakens. Melting isn't necessary to cause structural failure.
How did his move help grow something more vile? Nothing changed from him leaving or not.
You know those places with "free speech walls"
The ones that the Republicans fought for? Though, they were called "free speech zones" before being used at universities.
In the US, most people who call themselves that are large-government Republicans who want drug legalization. So you'll have to be more specific on which dictionary definition you are using, or we'll take the common one.
You are accepting a 1 on a million response with the norm. When such logical fallacies are the basis of your argument, the rest must be flawed.
You lie about how much you lost so they investigate and put you both in jail. It sucks, but its the best we got.
So, I'm disappointed that Elon announced the "instant Mars demo" immediately after last month's at-sea landing. Yes, for Elon SpaceX has always been about Mars. But now is the time for SpaceX to focus on making a profit and having a rapid cadence. If Elon does that, he will have lots of $$$ and recovered boosters for Mars projects.
Cheaper launches are about Mars. You don't launch to Mars. You launch 10-100 times to build a launch platform in orbit, then launch to Mars from orbit, not the surface. So as the costs drop, the profitability increases. The profits are "reinvested" into more launches (unpaid ones) to put up a Mars launch platform. With 18 per year, and 10% being profits launched as "bonus" launches, that'd be about 2 a year dedicated to Mars. Depending on the plan, that puts the Mars launch a few years off. If they can launch more per year, they can speed that up, but they seem very connected. Launches = Mars. Not today, not tomorrow, but eventually.
Yeah, so they are too lazy to call the FBI. Though the FBI isn't any better. I called once, after they ran a campaign asking for people to report attempted fraud, and I reported the fraud attempt. They asked me if I had lost any money yet. I said "no". They hung up on me. For calling in what they said to call in on. Probably had too many people call in the 419 and other scams that are FI jurisdiction that the FBI refuses to investigate.
I watched a (predumably) drunk driver commit a hit and run. The location of the incident was on a major highway. I was on the phone with the police while it happened, i had called the non-emergency number to report the drunk driver. The police employee said they'd come out to the nearest parking lot in 4-6 hours to take a statement. I asked if they could come to me 1 mile from there, as I was almost home by that point, and didn't want to wait 4-6 hours in a parking lot. "No, we can only go to the scene to take a statement." Never mind, hung up. The cops are too busy to do their jobs. And that's not the only time I witnessed a crime and the cops refused to come out. The one time I was robbed (6+ cameras catching the event) I was accused of an inside job and lying about it. The detectives couldnt find a robbery on a CCTV tape with the timestamp of the robbery given. Of course, forward to that time, watch for 30 seconds, and there was the guy I described, doing exactly what I said happened. Great to be accused of theft with a false report of robbery to cover my theft, when I obvioulsy didn't have the money on me and the CCTV caught the whole thing.
That's what the conservatives would have you believe, but it's about fiscal policy. not the things you list, that drive up inflation. Inflation is bad, we agree, but it's cased by the rich bankers that profit from selling the same money to different people 10 times.
Yes. But the problem is that the US is an empire. The US enforces local laws globally, and interferes in internal matters routinely. The budget of the US enforces US IP globally. So they get the benefits of a global empire, but don't pay into it. That's the problem. The US should not be the world's enforcement (certainly not for the US companies that don't pay their share of tax). Yes, I realize that Apple pays lots, but still not their share.
The news report indicated the driver was snapchating, and at least one of the passengers request she stop.
She was taking selfies while driving. It wasn't about speed, it's about being an idiot while driving. The rest is distraction.
The app works as a passenger. That the driver felt the need to drive and snapchat points to the driver being the obvious idiot.
No trophy for speed. Snapchat encouraged the crash no less than Mercedes who placed a speedometer in the car, and allowed the car to be sold in a state it could reach 120+.There was no active encouragement by Snapchat for speed, and given there were 3 people in the car, and the one doing the selfies was the driver, Even if there were some encouragement for a high number, there's no requirement that you be the driver to do it. She was doing 100+ while taking selfies. Taking selfies was a greater contributor than the speed. The speed just magnified the result of the inevitable crash (caused by stupid, not speed).
Christal McGee should be tried for kidnapping and attempted murder. She was asked by her passengers to stop, and she refused. That's kidnapping. She performed an action she knew to be dangerous that caused life-threatening injuries. That's attempted murder.
Place the blame on the person who deliberately did stupid, not the company that allowed it.. If you are doing that, sue Goodyear, they made tires that didn't spontaneously combust at 60 mph in a 55 mph zone, stopping her crime spree.