"> 4. How many laws were violated by the Dallas Police Department using a robot and an explosive device to kill a man?
Probably none. Police have the right to kill threats, this man was clearly a threat."
We are all threats depending on perspective. Police don't "have the right" to kill any more than anyone else does. While situations where lethal force are legally justified exist, that's different than "having the right" and police aren't special in this regard.
"This man" was clearly a threat but that's not the standard. Was he an imminent threat? If you have to pilot an RC robot with an indiscriminate killing device on it to get to him, it's really hard to claim "imminent". He may have been a bad man but that doesn't mean he wasn't murdered.
I find the phrase "...but then they had no option..." most telling when it comes to the use of lethal force. It's right out of a poorly written TV show.
There are always options, particularly in this day where there are more non-lethal capabilities than ever. If only police view non-lethal options useful for something other than torture and power tripping.
"When it comes to market regulations, libertarians are to the far right of conservatives, by saying that business should have virtually no regulations, where liberals want lots of regulations and conservatives want few."
This is complete nonsense. Libertarians are about personal liberty, that doesn't inherently speak to "market regulations". A properly functioning free market requires regulation and libertarians, as a rule, should want that.
"The left-right paradigm is incredibly flawed."
Yes it is, including your version of it. Libertarian opposes authoritarian, there is more than one axis. Libertarian is neither left nor right.
"By any modern definition of the term "Centrism", you are terribly incorrect in your assertion."
You're too ignorant to be telling others they are "terribly incorrect".
"The benefit to uSD is that it is backwards compatible to SPI flash by just hooking up to the right pins and clocking it accordingly."
But SPI sucks and that's not the "benefit" of uSD AT ALL. UFS is built on an industry standard, just a newer, better one that isn't SPI.
"If I'm not going to do that, then what benefit does this standard offer over an internal Type-C port, the next iteration of uSD, mini/micro-SATA, NG.4(??), or CompactFlash?"
It is removal storage that is much smaller than SATA, USB, and CF devices. Duh. Next iteration of uSD? What is that? It is probably not better than imaginary future products that you dream up.
"Seriously. CF gives you IDE support, uSD gives you SPI support, NG.4 gives you PCIe x4 support, and USB Type-C gives you up to 10 megabit USB support. Any price, space, and performance level is already covered. And most of those standards already have converters between them."
Of those, only uSD offers the form factor that this standard targets and it is stuck with low speeds and a terrible protocol that has no error correction or detection. It appears ultimately that your complaint is that they didn't use some PCIe derivative instead. Why should you care?
"I odn't always do that, but compared to (say) USB storage which I use a lot between devices, SD cards mostly stay put. So, obsolecence of the format won't really change much in practice."
"In practice" for you because you don't use devices where removable storage is valuable. No photographer works that way. Where do you think such exceptional speeds might be useful?
SD cards do not mostly "stay put" except to people who don't understand their intended usage.
"No photographer is going to use a camera without removable media."
BS.
Phones are viable for some photographer work and "photographers" use them. These phone are not limited to removable media varieties, a feature that enjoys far less success than forum posters would like you to believe.
"Going over the speed limit on an empty highway is still going over the speed limit and against the law."
But it's not a measure of "good driving". Traffic laws are implemented to create a large pool of violators, not to increase public safety. Empty freeways easily support greater than posted speeds.
For someone with no understanding of the process, yes that is true. For those same people the "this" being confirmed is beyond their comprehension as well.
" It takes a lot of arrogance from Apple to think they can upend a widespread and ubiquitous standard that has withstood the test of time..."
There is no evidence Apple thinks this at all.
"...and force every single audio equipment to use a connector to connect with an iPhone."
and this requires no "arrogance" whatsoever. Apple is under no obligation to support a connector that is of steadily declining value on phones. Furthermore, other phones do not support it, Apple is not the first here.
In my younger days the 3.5mm connector wasn't even in use and the switchboard connectors of over a century ago are irrelevant. The "serious" audio industry used neither on modern equipment. I suppose you think this makes you sound informed...
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"Because ads subsidize the content."
Not always and not likely in this case. Ads increase revenue, nothing ensures that ad-supported pricing will be lower due to the ads.
"> 4. How many laws were violated by the Dallas Police Department using a robot and an explosive device to kill a man?
Probably none. Police have the right to kill threats, this man was clearly a threat."
We are all threats depending on perspective. Police don't "have the right" to kill any more than anyone else does. While situations where lethal force are legally justified exist, that's different than "having the right" and police aren't special in this regard.
"This man" was clearly a threat but that's not the standard. Was he an imminent threat? If you have to pilot an RC robot with an indiscriminate killing device on it to get to him, it's really hard to claim "imminent". He may have been a bad man but that doesn't mean he wasn't murdered.
Apparently you don't understand the meaning of "imminent". Definitely don't.
Needs to be modded more insightful.
I find the phrase "...but then they had no option..." most telling when it comes to the use of lethal force. It's right out of a poorly written TV show.
There are always options, particularly in this day where there are more non-lethal capabilities than ever. If only police view non-lethal options useful for something other than torture and power tripping.
"And leftists have been responsible for their fair share of killings."
What's the leftist's "fair share" of killings? You seem to be an expert on that subject.
"When it comes to market regulations, libertarians are to the far right of conservatives, by saying that business should have virtually no regulations, where liberals want lots of regulations and conservatives want few."
This is complete nonsense. Libertarians are about personal liberty, that doesn't inherently speak to "market regulations". A properly functioning free market requires regulation and libertarians, as a rule, should want that.
"The left-right paradigm is incredibly flawed."
Yes it is, including your version of it. Libertarian opposes authoritarian, there is more than one axis. Libertarian is neither left nor right.
"By any modern definition of the term "Centrism", you are terribly incorrect in your assertion."
You're too ignorant to be telling others they are "terribly incorrect".
"Only now are people realizing this..."
No, most realized it from the start. It is, in fact, less the case now than it was before.
Sounds like the world would be better off with you asleep.
You don't but the content creator does. You think that a movie leaps out of a camera fully formed?
"The benefit to uSD is that it is backwards compatible to SPI flash by just hooking up to the right pins and clocking it accordingly."
But SPI sucks and that's not the "benefit" of uSD AT ALL. UFS is built on an industry standard, just a newer, better one that isn't SPI.
"If I'm not going to do that, then what benefit does this standard offer over an internal Type-C port, the next iteration of uSD, mini/micro-SATA, NG.4(??), or CompactFlash?"
It is removal storage that is much smaller than SATA, USB, and CF devices. Duh. Next iteration of uSD? What is that? It is probably not better than imaginary future products that you dream up.
"Seriously. CF gives you IDE support, uSD gives you SPI support, NG.4 gives you PCIe x4 support, and USB Type-C gives you up to 10 megabit USB support. Any price, space, and performance level is already covered. And most of those standards already have converters between them."
Of those, only uSD offers the form factor that this standard targets and it is stuck with low speeds and a terrible protocol that has no error correction or detection. It appears ultimately that your complaint is that they didn't use some PCIe derivative instead. Why should you care?
"I odn't always do that, but compared to (say) USB storage which I use a lot between devices, SD cards mostly stay put. So, obsolecence of the format won't really change much in practice."
"In practice" for you because you don't use devices where removable storage is valuable. No photographer works that way. Where do you think such exceptional speeds might be useful?
SD cards do not mostly "stay put" except to people who don't understand their intended usage.
More like Google realized how awful their removable storage worked and fixed it, leading manufacturers to consider adding it back.
Cloud storage provides backup, not a niche at all. WiFi is commonly available.
As he said, a niche requirement. In the overall market for phones, no one does that.
What makes you think that not already the case? Slot power consumption has never been enforced in the history of PCs.
It's laughable to think that nVidia is only being constrained by their belief that AMD is rigidly honoring specs. Neither are.
"... but by defintion the 6-pin PCIe cable..."
Which cable is this?
I doubt you've ever even seen a PCIe spec, much less know anything practical about one.
"No photographer is going to use a camera without removable media."
BS.
Phones are viable for some photographer work and "photographers" use them. These phone are not limited to removable media varieties, a feature that enjoys far less success than forum posters would like you to believe.
but it's not "most people". Most people do not need 128GB, that's a simple fact.
Easy to say...but I somehow doubt this.
"Going over the speed limit on an empty highway is still going over the speed limit and against the law."
But it's not a measure of "good driving". Traffic laws are implemented to create a large pool of violators, not to increase public safety. Empty freeways easily support greater than posted speeds.
For someone with no understanding of the process, yes that is true. For those same people the "this" being confirmed is beyond their comprehension as well.
You might want to rethink that calculation, genius.
As long as they don't break the law when doing so, no one would argue against it.
If you're speeding on the freeway, why shouldn't the cops shoot your car with a bazooka, right? If they thought they could get away with it...
" It takes a lot of arrogance from Apple to think they can upend a widespread and ubiquitous standard that has withstood the test of time..."
There is no evidence Apple thinks this at all.
"...and force every single audio equipment to use a connector to connect with an iPhone."
and this requires no "arrogance" whatsoever. Apple is under no obligation to support a connector that is of steadily declining value on phones. Furthermore, other phones do not support it, Apple is not the first here.
In my younger days the 3.5mm connector wasn't even in use and the switchboard connectors of over a century ago are irrelevant. The "serious" audio industry used neither on modern equipment. I suppose you think this makes you sound informed...
"Here's the real truth, kids..."
Kids preaching to kids. It never ceases to amaze how the most ignorant on this subject brag that they know the "real truth".