The whiny bitch in Star Wars is the hero. Luke in IV was pretty whiny, and Anakin in II and III was pretty whiny.
The whiny, insecure one this time is Kylo.
They may not be following the pattern of the first 6, they may not have even seen it, but in the first 6, the whinyest character in the movie is the hero of the series. It's almost like Lucas wanted the challenge of making you hate the character, then redeem them in your eyes.
Also, JJ should never do an ensemble movie. He handled ensemble TV by having one episode about one thing, and the next about something else. With a movie, the first was about Finn or Rey, and was never more than seconds away from one of them. Poe might as well have been "Cantina monster #7". The fact it was Poe who teamed with Finn in the beginning, and he came back later was irrelevant. If it'd been a different character later, it wouldn't have mattered to the story, or the viewers. Lea and Han were also quite replaceable, aside from the parent thing, which didn't go anywhere anyway.
Thinking back, that's also how Star Trek went. The ensemble was important only in how they interacted with Kirk. Spock/Uhura existed only as a foil for Kirk, not as a romance we see any of (other than to give us a joke, or a motivation for Kirk, or one of them interacting with Kirk).
JJ should be forced to watch Love Actually 100 times. So he can see a movie where everything is related, but nothing is the center. Every story ark is the center, while that story is on screen, and they are all tangentially related, but they don't drive towards a single identifiable goal.
The battle on the ground/battle in the air was close to it, but but even there, JJ failed miserably. The battle was 100% air. Oh no, it's not working. Then 100% on the ground. There wasn't a story arc about the battle in the air coinciding with the battle on the ground that are independent but intertwined. Something that builds suspense for multiple things, while keeping interest in both.
The fact that it was billed as multi-hero just makes the lack of it worse. He should scrap that idea and make it all about Rey. Rey is the captain, and Finn is Spock, and Lea is Pike, Poe is Chekov, and so on. Not that Star Wars was bad, but that the composition of the movie detracted from it, rather than added to it. Like the lens flare that JJ manged to avoid for a movie. That's not poor writing (something I-III was plagued with), but poor directing.
Almost all ISPs already do DPI, prioritization, and have a mechanism for content filtering (even if it's generally not turned on). There'd be some admin, but the equipment to filter out pirate web sites is already deployed almost universally around the world.
TFA didn't say it wasn't stealthy, TFA said it was too loud. It looks like TFS was summarized and interpreted from the article, as "stealth" wasn't mentioned in TFA. But even TFS said the *engine* wasn't stealthy, not the unit. Your reading comprehension is poor. There is no logical implication in TFS or TFA that the unit is too large, and no mention of hear in either TFA or TFS. TFA explicitly lists an issue with sound.
Arguing about "stealth" as an abstract issue when the only identified issue with the unit was noise is a non sequitur. Yet, pointing that out, gets asshats to come out and complain.
TFS and TFA mention only sound (And multiple times), yet never mention heat. But somehow you infer that they didn't mean that it was loud, but that it was big and hot.
It's done like a regular phone, but running a W10 derivative. What MS needs to do is to design a media update to W10, XBOne, and Surface to auto-discover and cloud all devices in a house. Want to watch netflix on TV? Pull it up on your phone, tablet, or computer, and click "play netlfix on XBOne, and the XBOne will flip to netflix (if not already in use) and let that device be the remote for the TV. Want to game? Play XBOne games on the PC, so long as it's authorized. Use your phone as an XBOne controller. Make the entire ecosystem interchangeable and connected. Play PC games on the XBOne with the XBOne controller through the PC (using the XB controller as a PC controller, and the XBone as the display, not actually playing the game, the game runs on the PC with display to the XBOne or tablet or phone).
The kind of thing that would really piss off the Slashdotters that don't want their devices to do things before they tell them to.
I can think of a million things that could be done to integrate the phone/tablet/PC/console into a single logical device with every device an extension of that media cloud. MS has been preparing for, but avoiding it. It's time to just make every home device into a single device cluster.
And if we were all stuck with USB-C? It's smaller and faster. And there's no rule that would prevent multiple, just at minimum a fall-back to USB. So you can still have your wireless charging. You'll want to keep a wire of some kind for file transfer and recovery, anyway.
With the exception of the top 2 in the industry, everyone else is using the open standard. That's the point and the problem. Anyone who feels they can benefit from abusing their popularity to harm consumers, does. That's why this is a government issue. The anti-consumer nature of the proprietary connectors.
Unfortunately the general population seems to have an attention span of 139 characters or less. If it doesn't make a good quip that can be packaged and quoted and still be under 140, it won't get noticed or read. Even those tackling complex issues, like John Oliver does, rarely goes 140 characters without a joke. It's bread and circuses all the way down.
I've now accumulated enough wealth to where I do not need to work
It's called "retirement", even if you do it at 30. I'd be there now, but my wife won't stop spending.
You might want to look at "Socialist Libertarian" when you get a minute,
Unfortunately, that's outside the realm of discussion in the US. Libertarian = anarcho-capitalism, and nothing else. The Libertarian Party claims all things libertarian, including Libertarian socialism (LS), and the LP is anarcho-capitalist, at least the party meetings I've been to in Texas and Alaska were dominated by them, as are many of the candidates. So when you start talking LS, people confuse you with the LP, and you are dismissed as a right-wing nutjob. Even if all you want is lower taxes and more services.
I wouldn't be for a conscription plan, but I'm for universal employment, WPA style. Anyone without a job should be able to show up at the local WPA office and get a job building something. We should be able to abolish welfare for a WPA program, so long as child care was affordable and accessible. Even the crack addict 4000 lb bedridden welfare queen with 15 children all by different men (the non-existent welfare boogeyman) should be able to electric-wheelchair herself into the office and do paperwork or something within her capabilities, between hits of the crack pipe.
And in return, we will have infrastructure again. We have bridges falling apart, not kept up in the years since built because the only way to do so is pay contractors $1000 for a $10 job. Get hundreds of unemployed working on fixing those things, and you'll spawn a golden age of growth. One of the reasons everyone recognizes the '50s as a massive success isn't just the obvious, but that all the buildings and roads built in the '30s and '40s made success possible. Not that we need every town to have a marble town hall in the middle of a town square, as was done under the WPA, but digging trenches for fiber would be amazing. The cost of laying fiber to every home isn't in the fiber, but in the trenching and labor of laying/connecting. Get the unemployed working on that, and in 10 years, the number of unemployed will be shrinking and rural US will have 100Gb fiber to the home.
It's cheaper to pay them to work than pay them to not work, and you get productivity from them. No-shame jobs with livable pay, and you'll cut crime, and there's no need for a law about minimum wage when any worker paid $1 an hour can quit and go get paid $15 an hour to improve the nation. The private pay will rise to match the government pay to make sure McDonalds still has someone flipping burgers.
Universal employment is achievable, and vastly cheaper to the taxpayer than current unemployment and welfare schemes. Save money, better results. I can think of millions of little things we could be doing to cut costs and improve services. But nobody is interested in those topics. More important is their stance on gay marriage, abortion, Muslims and immigration.
See? I too know how to play the game in bringing up completely unrelated subjects & do the guilt by association ploy.
So the plug the charger uses to connect to mains power is irrelevant to the charger. You have an odd definition of "unrelated".
Were electrical safety to be an issue (which it isn't),
Now you are claiming electrical safety is unrelated to chargers, charging cables and all that? Really? Want to try again? Or should I paste in some LMGTFY about charger fires?
the onus would be on you to prove that lightning is in any way inferior to USB in electrical safety.
Nope. I didn't assert either was inferior to the other. You asserted that the government shouldn't be involved in charging [electrical safety]. I dispute that absurd claim. Lying about my position to try to make me look bad just makes you look like an idiot. I can scroll up and see what you said, though I predict you'll deny it anyway.
Like golf, cricket, croquet, boxing, wrestling, handball, water polo, darts... All football!
OK, every team field sport. Cricket and croquet would have been considered lawn games, not field games, as would "lawn" bowling, and the derivative tenpin bowling.
Funny how many people hate history because it conflicts with their opinions. Rugby Football League and Rugby Football Union are still the official names for rugby. The "association" was dropped from soccer, mainly as an anti-English aristocracy movement (more anti-English outside England and more anti-aristocracy inside England). http://www.todayifoundout.com/...
But all the retcon you want can't change reality. Soccer is the more accurate word for Association Football in English.
In reality, people who "choose" to try to save their family over someone they don't know, usually kill both from their lack of ability to control their car.
Also, it's a fraudulent scenario. I've still not seen a realistic example where it would come into play. In fact, my stated solution to such events would *always* put the lives of the occupants over those outside the car. So I'm not sure what the objection is to it.
Yes, when you self-drive you can choose to kill yourself, and others. Why is it so important that you retain that choice? Guns are easy to get. Go out the standard way, murder-suicide with a firearm.
An IRS Special Agent has the exact same powers as an FBI Special Agent (special agent, being the standard agent). The IRS runs in guns drawn and all that like an FBI raid when they take down someone. There was a guy at work that had filed 10 years worth of 10+ tax returns (all fraudulent) and the IRS came in like stormtroopers to take him away for hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax fraud. An IRS special agent can do anything an FBI special agent can.
But all that's irrelevant. The conspiracy theory is that the IRS agent didn't "do" anything. The FBI already did the work, and didn't want anyone to know they did it or how, so the IRS agent got the "credit". So your incorrect complaint that the IRS is powerless would support my rebuttal of that argument, not contradict it.
But my laptop will only charge my phone at 10W with USB-C. My current phone charger is 25W, so hopefully we'll see phones that can pull the "up to 150W" numbers, negotiated down, of course, to what the phone can handle, and the cables will work at 0W, 10W, or 150W without having to keep track of "data" cables and "charging" cables separately. And maybe see increases in the max power draw by accessories, for faster charging of things off a laptop that's pulling outlet power.
Generations aren't necessarily sequential. micro-USB and micro-B 3.0 were the same generation. They were competing, then complimentary. micro-USB is still current generation. For one, the micro-USB runs 3.0 speeds, despite the fact that the micro 3.0 is different. And USB-C isn't available, even if finally specified. Is there a phone or anything else with USB-C yet? If so, I haven't seen it.
And Mini USB is current generation as well. Many things that don't need the last mm squeezed out will use it. Cameras and things still come with mini as the current connection, and with power and speed equal to micro.
Yeah, and the government has all sorts of "safety" regulations around the wall jacks the chargers plug into. Do we really need the government to enforce minimum building standards?
and bitcoin is inherently bad for the environment. The processing needed to create new coins and the constant drain to process transactions is a massive waste of resources. Better would be a government run crypto currency, where the wallet was no less secure than bitcoin, but the coin generation was centralized and done in a way that didn't require increasing processing power. Yes, I know the supporters like that it's a deflationary currency out of the control of a government, but that's also one of the things that will prevent it from being used as a primary currency.
Instead of choosing a popular power standard, they created their own - hypocrisy is great isn't it?
They took the standard Type-C Euro standard and improved it, by adding a ground. The standard was demonstrably unsafe, so they improved it. Types E, F, J, K, and N are all based on C, and were all competing standards. No standard won out everywhere C was used, and though the jacks are no longer C, any electric device that can get away with it is C, and works just fine in Switzerland.
The US government requires car makers have warranties, and sell replacement parts. We should stop telling them what they can choose to sell.
Extortion prices for spare parts is called "capitalism" and any attempt to pass laws that protect consumers is fascist communist socialism that should get all the people calling for it shot, in the name of freedom.
Apple chargers require lighting so that if you forget your Apple Proprietary charger adaptor, you can't borrow one from the most adopted standard on the planet. This causes waste. People buying charges for a week's use on a holiday because they can't borow the proprietary charger, or waste where charging stations hold 20 standards for all the charger types.
Require all chargers use a USB-C connector, and be compatible with that standard for charging, even if they implement proprietary interconnect and charging as well over the same socket, and you'll cut costs for consumers, and reduce waste. The only thing hurt will be the proprietary-cable using companies, like Samsung and Apple. And yes, Samsung has plenty of Samsung-only connectors. Seems they didn't want to support HDMI in the micro-USB form factor, so they have a different connector in some devices (at least they do for my Tab, and others I've seen).
The only thing I'd be worried about is some idiot legislating the use of a standard phone/tablet/laptop charger designed by a committee and therefore big as a brick.
I've never seen anyone who was addressing the "charger" in these regulations. Just the connections between the charger and the device. I use Samsung chargers with Apple devices and vice versa. I just need 4 sets of cables/adapters for 4 devices (2 Apple, 2 Android, none use the same interconnect, but can fall back to using the same charger).
I'm a libertarian, but a long-term libertarian. Programs like Head Start are opposed by Libertarians because they fund poor people. But a smarter libertarian would support them. They've been shown to reduce problems later, and are an overall savings. I'd like to see the standing military disbanded. We shouldn't have troops on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq. We should be fighting ISIS only as a force assisting a UN task force. Pull out. Close 95% of foreign bases. Give away all the US military equipment to the states, and have the state guard form the defensive force of the US. And have the national military around to call up the guard for foreign wars, with the governors of each state responsible for the deployments (not the chain of command). So if all the mothers of guardsmen in Alabama were to march on the capitol, the governor would have the power to sit out that war. If every state sat out a war, then the CinC would have no army to command. That's closer to what the Constitution was designed around, and a whole lot cheaper to maintain.
I submit that a proper US budget would (After the debt is paid off) allow us to abolish the federal income tax. The government shouldn't be in the job of heavily taxing everyone to redistribute that tax. But the federal government should be passing laws that require the states to increase their taxes to provide services and such. The state tax should double, and federal income tax should end. Taxes should be collected as a head tax, and the states themselves taxed, not the citizens thereof. Let the state raise taxes and pass along duties to the feds. If that was re-done the amount needed by the feds would be smaller, and the amount collected would be smaller, and the tax burden shifting amongst the states to be proportional to population, not income, would cause a large re-structure of the tax liability. Right now, the urban states (NY, CA) pay much more to the feds than they get back. The "poor" states will need to decrease population or increase productivity to stay near the levels of today. The (effective) drop in taxes in CA and NY will encourage more to move there, and away from the poorer areas. So long as this movement is accommodated, the re-balancing will be quick and relatively painless.
The shift back to a collection of independent states paying in (equally by population) to a centralized fed for some things best centralized will cut overall taxes, increase liberty, and improve the country. Also, there's nothing in the Constitution about states leaving the union, so Congress should write some laws outlining a process. So, when some states see the changes, they can choose to sever ties, if the so wish, with a known and agreed process. The Civil War shouldn't have happened. Sometimes it's acceptable to separate and live and let live, rather than going through a bitter divorce with millions dead.
Taxes and the burden are unrelated. The debt masks the burden. And the $1M or so he may have saved would have been $0.003 cents or so per taxpayer. So no, you'll not notice a single government worker saving $1M. But if all of them saved $1M, then you'd notice.
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The whiny bitch in Star Wars is the hero. Luke in IV was pretty whiny, and Anakin in II and III was pretty whiny.
The whiny, insecure one this time is Kylo.
They may not be following the pattern of the first 6, they may not have even seen it, but in the first 6, the whinyest character in the movie is the hero of the series. It's almost like Lucas wanted the challenge of making you hate the character, then redeem them in your eyes.
Also, JJ should never do an ensemble movie. He handled ensemble TV by having one episode about one thing, and the next about something else. With a movie, the first was about Finn or Rey, and was never more than seconds away from one of them. Poe might as well have been "Cantina monster #7". The fact it was Poe who teamed with Finn in the beginning, and he came back later was irrelevant. If it'd been a different character later, it wouldn't have mattered to the story, or the viewers. Lea and Han were also quite replaceable, aside from the parent thing, which didn't go anywhere anyway.
Thinking back, that's also how Star Trek went. The ensemble was important only in how they interacted with Kirk. Spock/Uhura existed only as a foil for Kirk, not as a romance we see any of (other than to give us a joke, or a motivation for Kirk, or one of them interacting with Kirk).
JJ should be forced to watch Love Actually 100 times. So he can see a movie where everything is related, but nothing is the center. Every story ark is the center, while that story is on screen, and they are all tangentially related, but they don't drive towards a single identifiable goal.
The battle on the ground/battle in the air was close to it, but but even there, JJ failed miserably. The battle was 100% air. Oh no, it's not working. Then 100% on the ground. There wasn't a story arc about the battle in the air coinciding with the battle on the ground that are independent but intertwined. Something that builds suspense for multiple things, while keeping interest in both.
The fact that it was billed as multi-hero just makes the lack of it worse. He should scrap that idea and make it all about Rey. Rey is the captain, and Finn is Spock, and Lea is Pike, Poe is Chekov, and so on. Not that Star Wars was bad, but that the composition of the movie detracted from it, rather than added to it. Like the lens flare that JJ manged to avoid for a movie. That's not poor writing (something I-III was plagued with), but poor directing.
I get logged out randomly when refreshing, replying, or otherwise using the site. I, also, thought it was just me.
CBS is clearly in the right in this case (at least, I can't defend Axanar as fair use).
I can. 7 year copyright, plus 7 year extension makes the copyright of TOS quite expired. As such, a derivative work of TOS is legal use.
Almost all ISPs already do DPI, prioritization, and have a mechanism for content filtering (even if it's generally not turned on). There'd be some admin, but the equipment to filter out pirate web sites is already deployed almost universally around the world.
TFA didn't say it wasn't stealthy, TFA said it was too loud. It looks like TFS was summarized and interpreted from the article, as "stealth" wasn't mentioned in TFA. But even TFS said the *engine* wasn't stealthy, not the unit. Your reading comprehension is poor. There is no logical implication in TFS or TFA that the unit is too large, and no mention of hear in either TFA or TFS. TFA explicitly lists an issue with sound.
Arguing about "stealth" as an abstract issue when the only identified issue with the unit was noise is a non sequitur. Yet, pointing that out, gets asshats to come out and complain.
TFS and TFA mention only sound (And multiple times), yet never mention heat. But somehow you infer that they didn't mean that it was loud, but that it was big and hot.
It's done like a regular phone, but running a W10 derivative. What MS needs to do is to design a media update to W10, XBOne, and Surface to auto-discover and cloud all devices in a house. Want to watch netflix on TV? Pull it up on your phone, tablet, or computer, and click "play netlfix on XBOne, and the XBOne will flip to netflix (if not already in use) and let that device be the remote for the TV. Want to game? Play XBOne games on the PC, so long as it's authorized. Use your phone as an XBOne controller. Make the entire ecosystem interchangeable and connected. Play PC games on the XBOne with the XBOne controller through the PC (using the XB controller as a PC controller, and the XBone as the display, not actually playing the game, the game runs on the PC with display to the XBOne or tablet or phone).
The kind of thing that would really piss off the Slashdotters that don't want their devices to do things before they tell them to.
I can think of a million things that could be done to integrate the phone/tablet/PC/console into a single logical device with every device an extension of that media cloud. MS has been preparing for, but avoiding it. It's time to just make every home device into a single device cluster.
And if we were all stuck with USB-C? It's smaller and faster. And there's no rule that would prevent multiple, just at minimum a fall-back to USB. So you can still have your wireless charging. You'll want to keep a wire of some kind for file transfer and recovery, anyway.
With the exception of the top 2 in the industry, everyone else is using the open standard. That's the point and the problem. Anyone who feels they can benefit from abusing their popularity to harm consumers, does. That's why this is a government issue. The anti-consumer nature of the proprietary connectors.
I am verbose, not articulate.
Unfortunately the general population seems to have an attention span of 139 characters or less. If it doesn't make a good quip that can be packaged and quoted and still be under 140, it won't get noticed or read. Even those tackling complex issues, like John Oliver does, rarely goes 140 characters without a joke. It's bread and circuses all the way down.
I've now accumulated enough wealth to where I do not need to work
It's called "retirement", even if you do it at 30. I'd be there now, but my wife won't stop spending.
You might want to look at "Socialist Libertarian" when you get a minute,
Unfortunately, that's outside the realm of discussion in the US. Libertarian = anarcho-capitalism, and nothing else. The Libertarian Party claims all things libertarian, including Libertarian socialism (LS), and the LP is anarcho-capitalist, at least the party meetings I've been to in Texas and Alaska were dominated by them, as are many of the candidates. So when you start talking LS, people confuse you with the LP, and you are dismissed as a right-wing nutjob. Even if all you want is lower taxes and more services.
I wouldn't be for a conscription plan, but I'm for universal employment, WPA style. Anyone without a job should be able to show up at the local WPA office and get a job building something. We should be able to abolish welfare for a WPA program, so long as child care was affordable and accessible. Even the crack addict 4000 lb bedridden welfare queen with 15 children all by different men (the non-existent welfare boogeyman) should be able to electric-wheelchair herself into the office and do paperwork or something within her capabilities, between hits of the crack pipe.
And in return, we will have infrastructure again. We have bridges falling apart, not kept up in the years since built because the only way to do so is pay contractors $1000 for a $10 job. Get hundreds of unemployed working on fixing those things, and you'll spawn a golden age of growth. One of the reasons everyone recognizes the '50s as a massive success isn't just the obvious, but that all the buildings and roads built in the '30s and '40s made success possible. Not that we need every town to have a marble town hall in the middle of a town square, as was done under the WPA, but digging trenches for fiber would be amazing. The cost of laying fiber to every home isn't in the fiber, but in the trenching and labor of laying/connecting. Get the unemployed working on that, and in 10 years, the number of unemployed will be shrinking and rural US will have 100Gb fiber to the home.
It's cheaper to pay them to work than pay them to not work, and you get productivity from them. No-shame jobs with livable pay, and you'll cut crime, and there's no need for a law about minimum wage when any worker paid $1 an hour can quit and go get paid $15 an hour to improve the nation. The private pay will rise to match the government pay to make sure McDonalds still has someone flipping burgers.
Universal employment is achievable, and vastly cheaper to the taxpayer than current unemployment and welfare schemes. Save money, better results. I can think of millions of little things we could be doing to cut costs and improve services. But nobody is interested in those topics. More important is their stance on gay marriage, abortion, Muslims and immigration.
See? I too know how to play the game in bringing up completely unrelated subjects & do the guilt by association ploy.
So the plug the charger uses to connect to mains power is irrelevant to the charger. You have an odd definition of "unrelated".
Were electrical safety to be an issue (which it isn't),
Now you are claiming electrical safety is unrelated to chargers, charging cables and all that? Really? Want to try again? Or should I paste in some LMGTFY about charger fires?
the onus would be on you to prove that lightning is in any way inferior to USB in electrical safety.
Nope. I didn't assert either was inferior to the other. You asserted that the government shouldn't be involved in charging [electrical safety]. I dispute that absurd claim. Lying about my position to try to make me look bad just makes you look like an idiot. I can scroll up and see what you said, though I predict you'll deny it anyway.
Like golf, cricket, croquet, boxing, wrestling, handball, water polo, darts... All football!
OK, every team field sport. Cricket and croquet would have been considered lawn games, not field games, as would "lawn" bowling, and the derivative tenpin bowling.
Funny how many people hate history because it conflicts with their opinions. Rugby Football League and Rugby Football Union are still the official names for rugby. The "association" was dropped from soccer, mainly as an anti-English aristocracy movement (more anti-English outside England and more anti-aristocracy inside England). http://www.todayifoundout.com/...
But all the retcon you want can't change reality. Soccer is the more accurate word for Association Football in English.
OK, every team field sport.
In reality, people who "choose" to try to save their family over someone they don't know, usually kill both from their lack of ability to control their car.
Also, it's a fraudulent scenario. I've still not seen a realistic example where it would come into play. In fact, my stated solution to such events would *always* put the lives of the occupants over those outside the car. So I'm not sure what the objection is to it.
Yes, when you self-drive you can choose to kill yourself, and others. Why is it so important that you retain that choice? Guns are easy to get. Go out the standard way, murder-suicide with a firearm.
An IRS Special Agent has the exact same powers as an FBI Special Agent (special agent, being the standard agent). The IRS runs in guns drawn and all that like an FBI raid when they take down someone. There was a guy at work that had filed 10 years worth of 10+ tax returns (all fraudulent) and the IRS came in like stormtroopers to take him away for hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax fraud. An IRS special agent can do anything an FBI special agent can.
But all that's irrelevant. The conspiracy theory is that the IRS agent didn't "do" anything. The FBI already did the work, and didn't want anyone to know they did it or how, so the IRS agent got the "credit". So your incorrect complaint that the IRS is powerless would support my rebuttal of that argument, not contradict it.
But my laptop will only charge my phone at 10W with USB-C. My current phone charger is 25W, so hopefully we'll see phones that can pull the "up to 150W" numbers, negotiated down, of course, to what the phone can handle, and the cables will work at 0W, 10W, or 150W without having to keep track of "data" cables and "charging" cables separately. And maybe see increases in the max power draw by accessories, for faster charging of things off a laptop that's pulling outlet power.
Generations aren't necessarily sequential. micro-USB and micro-B 3.0 were the same generation. They were competing, then complimentary. micro-USB is still current generation. For one, the micro-USB runs 3.0 speeds, despite the fact that the micro 3.0 is different. And USB-C isn't available, even if finally specified. Is there a phone or anything else with USB-C yet? If so, I haven't seen it.
And Mini USB is current generation as well. Many things that don't need the last mm squeezed out will use it. Cameras and things still come with mini as the current connection, and with power and speed equal to micro.
Yeah, and the government has all sorts of "safety" regulations around the wall jacks the chargers plug into. Do we really need the government to enforce minimum building standards?
and bitcoin is inherently bad for the environment. The processing needed to create new coins and the constant drain to process transactions is a massive waste of resources. Better would be a government run crypto currency, where the wallet was no less secure than bitcoin, but the coin generation was centralized and done in a way that didn't require increasing processing power. Yes, I know the supporters like that it's a deflationary currency out of the control of a government, but that's also one of the things that will prevent it from being used as a primary currency.
Instead of choosing a popular power standard, they created their own - hypocrisy is great isn't it?
They took the standard Type-C Euro standard and improved it, by adding a ground. The standard was demonstrably unsafe, so they improved it. Types E, F, J, K, and N are all based on C, and were all competing standards. No standard won out everywhere C was used, and though the jacks are no longer C, any electric device that can get away with it is C, and works just fine in Switzerland.
The US government requires car makers have warranties, and sell replacement parts. We should stop telling them what they can choose to sell.
Extortion prices for spare parts is called "capitalism" and any attempt to pass laws that protect consumers is fascist communist socialism that should get all the people calling for it shot, in the name of freedom.
Require all chargers use a USB-C connector, and be compatible with that standard for charging, even if they implement proprietary interconnect and charging as well over the same socket, and you'll cut costs for consumers, and reduce waste. The only thing hurt will be the proprietary-cable using companies, like Samsung and Apple. And yes, Samsung has plenty of Samsung-only connectors. Seems they didn't want to support HDMI in the micro-USB form factor, so they have a different connector in some devices (at least they do for my Tab, and others I've seen).
The only thing I'd be worried about is some idiot legislating the use of a standard phone/tablet/laptop charger designed by a committee and therefore big as a brick.
I've never seen anyone who was addressing the "charger" in these regulations. Just the connections between the charger and the device. I use Samsung chargers with Apple devices and vice versa. I just need 4 sets of cables/adapters for 4 devices (2 Apple, 2 Android, none use the same interconnect, but can fall back to using the same charger).
Certainly in the US, but that's not universal.
I'm a libertarian, but a long-term libertarian. Programs like Head Start are opposed by Libertarians because they fund poor people. But a smarter libertarian would support them. They've been shown to reduce problems later, and are an overall savings. I'd like to see the standing military disbanded. We shouldn't have troops on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq. We should be fighting ISIS only as a force assisting a UN task force. Pull out. Close 95% of foreign bases. Give away all the US military equipment to the states, and have the state guard form the defensive force of the US. And have the national military around to call up the guard for foreign wars, with the governors of each state responsible for the deployments (not the chain of command). So if all the mothers of guardsmen in Alabama were to march on the capitol, the governor would have the power to sit out that war. If every state sat out a war, then the CinC would have no army to command. That's closer to what the Constitution was designed around, and a whole lot cheaper to maintain.
I submit that a proper US budget would (After the debt is paid off) allow us to abolish the federal income tax. The government shouldn't be in the job of heavily taxing everyone to redistribute that tax. But the federal government should be passing laws that require the states to increase their taxes to provide services and such. The state tax should double, and federal income tax should end. Taxes should be collected as a head tax, and the states themselves taxed, not the citizens thereof. Let the state raise taxes and pass along duties to the feds. If that was re-done the amount needed by the feds would be smaller, and the amount collected would be smaller, and the tax burden shifting amongst the states to be proportional to population, not income, would cause a large re-structure of the tax liability. Right now, the urban states (NY, CA) pay much more to the feds than they get back. The "poor" states will need to decrease population or increase productivity to stay near the levels of today. The (effective) drop in taxes in CA and NY will encourage more to move there, and away from the poorer areas. So long as this movement is accommodated, the re-balancing will be quick and relatively painless.
The shift back to a collection of independent states paying in (equally by population) to a centralized fed for some things best centralized will cut overall taxes, increase liberty, and improve the country. Also, there's nothing in the Constitution about states leaving the union, so Congress should write some laws outlining a process. So, when some states see the changes, they can choose to sever ties, if the so wish, with a known and agreed process. The Civil War shouldn't have happened. Sometimes it's acceptable to separate and live and let live, rather than going through a bitter divorce with millions dead.
Taxes and the burden are unrelated. The debt masks the burden. And the $1M or so he may have saved would have been $0.003 cents or so per taxpayer. So no, you'll not notice a single government worker saving $1M. But if all of them saved $1M, then you'd notice.