I have a similar story if a very minor one. I was visiting a friend in Ottawa, and wasn't sure where he lived. I thought I found the place, but prior to parking around back I parked out front to go knock on the door to make sure it was the right building. I didn't notice but I happened to be parked in front of a fire hydrant (which is illegal). So my buddy came to the door and we were chatting for a few moments and he mentioned that he though I was getting a parking ticket behind me. So I walked over and explained the above the the parking officer. He agreed and said not to worry about it and made a show of ripping up the ticket.
Fast forward several months later I get a court summons, in Ottawa (hundreds of km from where I actually live) that basically said pay this fine (60$ I think it was) or show up for court, failing to show up was an admission of guilt. Apparently the Officer never canceled the ticket. I got in a written fight with the City of Ottawa over the issue, and they brought in the Officer who then decided to lie about everything. I was left without recourse.
My options were to either pay the 60$ ticket knowing I was in the right, or travel to Ottawa incurring expenses of hundreds of dollars for the privilege of defending myself. In the end I had to eat my rage and just pay the stupid fine. It really comes down to how important the decision is to you VS the expense you are going to incur defending yourself. In my case it just didn't make any sense. In the context of this story he probably should have traveled to defend himself. From the sounds of it however he had other factors influence his decision (custody decision with his kid), which really adds another level of unfairness to the whole affair.
Obama is a Democrat. The President and the DNC accuse Russia of fixing the election in favor of the Republicans and Trump. The person that apparently facilitated that (or at least leaking the information) was Assange through Wikileaks. Wikileaks previously come out and said that Assange would surrender himself to the US if they granted Manning leniency.
Manning has already plead guilty (sort of anyway) and has served time in jail which so far at the US is concerned a public win. Obama didn't have to pardon, only commute the sentence to be shorter. Should Assange now fail to surrender himself (which is likely I think anyway), the US certainly (and Democrats specifically) gain the moral high ground if you can call it that publicly. Best case is they now get to bag Assange as well and get credit for that before leaving office.
At any rate I see Manning as currently a chip with little value but being used as a political pawn which is more valuable to the US than her just rotting in jail. There will also be those republicans that also see that as a punch in the eye, which probably doesn't hurt the cause either... Bottom line, totally politically motivated.
I was surprised to hear about Manning. That said after reading the same content you posted, it starts to make a lot more sense. Considering Assange's role in the whole DNC and Russian hacking scandal this sounds a lot like a fsck you from Obama, the DNC, and the US government. Regardless of if Wikileaks honors what they said, it puts the ball firmly in their court (pardon pun), and also builds a stronger case against him, if only in the court of public appeal. In effect they have already had a win with a guilty Manning, keeping her in jail longer serves little purpose (not to mention her actions won her some public outcry), where offering clemency either nabs them a bigger fish in Assange, or more likely just gives him a public black eye. So yeah, I don't see this so much about Manning herself, but rather using her as a political pawn against Assange and his alleged recent actions with the Russians and "fixing" the US elections against the Democrats (or at least insomuch as the public story is concerned).
The fact that you think you "OWN" your DVD is hilarious. Read your "LICENCING AGREEMENT"...
This has always been a problem with an industry that want's it's cake and eat it too. Also why so few people are going to be crying tears to hear that another Company is horning in on their profits.
The real argument is that at least it is a static licencing agreement that you "own"... The irritating part about Netflix et al is the fact that certain points in time licencing agreements get changed (due to a variety of reasons all of which involve money and profit, but typically cost of licence, and regional locking and exclusive deals), and the movie/TV you enjoyed watching could just vanish without notice. I know I was halfway though a TV series once only to have the licence not renewed (for whatever reason), and then no longer able to have access to that content anymore... Whereas if you owned the DVD you would (at least until your media dies or gets lost).
I took "AI" computer science class back in University (about 20 years ago now, Jesus!). Anyway as part of the class I created a program for a local pub that boasted the most beers on tab (25 or 30 I think). It would ask the user a serious of questions, and from the answers calculate the optimal beer the person should order. If I have to say it worked pretty awesome (Though I think it was written in VB4 if I remember correctly). I think I got a 98% on the project and everyone got a fun laugh out of it also (was a popular pub for students and professors). At any rate, back then we call such things "Smart Systems" or "Expert Systems", so even then a bit of a distinction between that and true AI (which is a Turning thing). Though it *was* part of an AI class so there is that. So for very low values of AI, yes I'm sure the cutting edge technology built by CS students in short order for a class assignment 20 years ago is in just about anything these days. I'm not sure that is all that meaningful however insofar as the accepted idea of what AI really is however as the title suggests.
Well I got my Computer Science degree during the middle of the dot-com craze, and graduated in 2000, just prior to the entire mess poping like the rest of my dreams... That said, I think I've done alright, but not the life of grandeur I thought might be headed my way... Graduating a couple years earlier might have been a different story.
At any rate, all you have to look at for this trend in average salary is what percentage of the workforce was unionized then VS now. I bet if you had the statistics to remove both salaries from the average equation (the 60% then, and probably the 10% now), the difference might not be so alarming. Unions have taken a beating the last 20 years or so and wages reflect this.
I don't think it is quite as simple as even that. Take the drug Insulin for example. Discovered and essentially patented by a university for 1$ with the altruistic thinking that by allowing drug companies to produce it royalty free, more patients that desperately need the drug would be able to afford it. Didn't quite work out that way. Some interesting articles below.
This definitely seems like a "Hey hold my beer, and watch this!" type of scenario with predictable results... Though you never know with these guys, landing a rocket on end, on a floating platform in the ocean also seemed a bit nuts yet they did it anyway.
While I have driven in NH roads and not Cali, a small point to make. Cali is huge, while NH is tiny. I would expect the northern portion of Cali roads to be worse than the south part, just like NH is far north of most of Cali. Frost and frost heave destroy roads, particularly those without enough gravel base. It is the gravel base that prevents the asphalt from flexing too much and breaking apart. Up here in Canada, a lot of gravel base needs to be used otherwise the lifespan of a highway won't be very long. I've seen examples in Cali that use almost none, though I expect that is in the south. It is so long N/S that they probably have to use graduated standards from top to bottom so to speak. As a whole all NH roads would be subject to much more severe winter weather than Cali. Anyway to quote that song from a few years ago from Megan Trainor, its all about the base.
I think the real news is that Norway only has 5 million people in it! Am I the only one that just assumed the entire nation had more than a large urban city?
Rocket ship propellant using vinegar and baking soda? Sure some carbon might be released back into the atmosphere, but much of it used it space would just be gone... Perhaps not the most efficient, but maybe someone can science the shit out of that.
There's more. Typically even in the corrupt corporate world you insure your assets, and while you take risks perhaps, you do so under the umbrella of insurance coverage and what you need to pay to keep that coverage.
With a nuclear facility no insurance company is going to even think about insuring you. It's not that the risks are so high, but the damages are. So while these facilities get "privatized" all the risk and damage is still nationalized. So the company gets all the perks and none of the jerks, so OF COURSE they are going to abuse the crap out of that, because why not? About the only thing to fear is if they can prove that someone was intentionally delinquent and that as a result cause the accident. However that can be pretty hard to prove and you have to know that every single decision that CEO is making (and likely management under them) the #1 first consideration is save ass and what can I do to ensure that this never comes back to bite me in the ass.
I never owned one, but I liked the idea. I almost got one, did a bunch of research, but went with the LG G4 instead. There were a couple of reasons why, and as you say the implementation was a bit lacking. I think if they kept at it and improved upon it, it could have been a big winner.
#1: Mods. Where are they? How can I buy them? Scarcity. So far as I am aware there were 3, and you couldn't find them anywhere outside of your initial purchase. #2: The biggest and most useful is probably the most boring, that being a simple battery replacement. However they made it to be non hot-swapable. Meaning in order to use it you needed to turn off the phone, do the swap, then boot everything back up again. Just imagine if all you had to do was yank one out and slam a new one in. Sure you would need some small battery reserve hidden someplace, but it could have applied to all mods. #3: The other two, a camera and a speaker, were not enough of an improvement over what you already got, they needed more. #4: Due to design you lose some waterproofing which could scare some people, though probably not a whole lot you can do without size increases.
OK when I read the list of cars I here was my initial reaction...
Electric Mustang? It will have a range of 10km. More likely is it will have two settings, a "Sport" with a range of 10km, and a "Normal" which will have the range of a normal electric car I suppose or slightly worse.
Electric Police Car? My first vision of a police chase against a combustion car, where they just have to outlast the police to out distance them and they run out of juice... Might make a good premise for a bank heist movie chase or something.
Electric Transit Van? OK that just makes perfect sense really, probably need extra capacity for distance and weight likely though.
Electric F-150 Truck? OK first I thought it was a stupid idea, sure lots of torque but figure the capacity drain will be excessive, However the line "powerful enough to stand-in for on-site generators in a pinch" was not something I thought of, and is actually pretty useful. Could even see it in heavier use in contractors and the like. Anyway maybe not such a bad idea.
While I don't disagree totally, I'd say your reliance on four wheel drive may be misplaced. I've looked into it as I've wondered myself and what might be the best solution. There has been a number of studies done, and I don't think any of them really had conclusive proof that four wheel drive or all wheel drive had any positive impact on winter performance. Anecdotally I could see it logically helping if you were actually stuck someplace to get you going again, however that is going to be a pretty rare occurrence unless off-roading intentionally. However multiple studies HAVE shown that the simple act of putting winter tires on your car/truck will have an immediate and noticeable positive impact on winter driving. So if you're running a 4x4 truck on all seasons, you aren't going to have the control that you might have on someone with two wheel drive with winter tires. Also I've surprisingly found that on my own car a feature (physical mechanism not digital gizmo) I think that was meant for cornering performance actually has a bit of a difference in snow which is a limited slip differential, which basically allows the drive wheels to spin at different rates given certain conditions.
You're right on about the battery however. Until tempature tolerances become better they'll have limited success in the North. I'd also guess that they would use some power simply to keep the batteries a bit warmer as well, further reducing capacity.
I guess two other things, is you're right the concept of a solar roof doesn't jive with snow. Technically I guess it could reduce efficiency to heat the roof to melt the snow, but that will only work to a point. Once it is covered, your choices are limited to trying to shovel your roof and killing yourself in the process. One potential positive I think you missed is if you had an electric car and power station, if you did loose power for a considerable time, while it might not be advisable to drive about willy nilly, you might be one of the few folks around *with* access to power (because of your battery banks), at least for awhile anyway.
Initially thought about what is stopping an immediate reversal once Trump comes in, however I think it is a moot point.
Key: "By contrast, it would take decades to fully develop the production infrastructure necessary for any large-scale oil and gas leasing production in the region."
So unless he is just doing it for optics, there really isn't much drive to do anything about it. Indeed, the act itself on Obama's part is pretty empty when you think about the fact that the basic infrastructure just doesn't exist to do it in the first place, it would take a very long time to build it, not to mention being expensive, never mind the actual technical difficulty of drilling in the first place (never mind the obvious political realities, one being the very large elephant in the room: Russia). So you aren't going to have companies lining up to do it anytime soon, there are plenty of cheaper and easier places to drill. Sure, at some point some will start to look seriously at the region, but it won't be in the next 4 years, nor likely in the next 8 years... Meaning why would Trump care one way or another about an act that prevents an action no one is trying to do, and won't for his foreseeable tenure as President.
Considering Google apparently made 75 Billion in profits last year, 3.8 Billion hardly seems all that "yuge" when taken into perspective.
Also I'm not sure what writing novels and all the rest is about, but the last time I heard about Google and confidentiality was all about unfair wages and employees sharing information about what they make with each other to get a better idea of how much money they should be making in relation to everyone else.
Seeing as the work produced by said employees profited almost 75 Billion, the lawsuit is for 3.8 Billion, and this is probably about employee wages, it doesn't seem all that unjustified. In fact, without having a valuation that large it would probably be hard to be taken seriously by corporate at all without being ignored or simply just spending who cares how much throwing lawyers at the problem. Even at 3.8 Billion, at almost 1.5B a week, Google could pay off that amount in just over 2 weeks...
I'm pretty sure the corporate version is likely very configurable particularly when its a 1 Billion dollar contract with the DoD to not include any telemetry they don't see fit.
For the individual user sure, MS is going to do whatever MS is going to do.
I've seen over the years more configurable options for folks to lock down the MS environments within the corporate setting. I've seen some aspects so locked down that they more less break certain features in the name of security or ease of support or whatever.
Nope. Unless your docking port also contains your GPU and CPU. We're talking workstations here.
I am sitting here typing this on my new "workstation" laptop on a dock with 3 monitors and "top of the line" enterprise GPU. It is still not the same as a proper desktop workstation. I can get away with it more less because I'm not quite as much as a power user as I used to be. However the options available to you are so much more vast on a desktop configuration as to be ridiculous to compare it in any serious way with any laptop...
They can't, the power consumption, heat generated etc... just isn't feasible in a laptop form factor.
Another reason to get a desktop system (apart from the fact it is much cheaper for compatible power), if you have a 4000$ laptop you better believe that thing is the first thing stolen under any circumstances. I had a funny (sort of, not really) occurrence where my house was broken into and robbed, my desktop is *easily* the most expensive thing in the place, however the thieves left it alone. TV, gaming system, etc.. heck even cologne were all taken, but a desktop with its wires etc, even one in ITX format I guess was just too much work, or at least not seen as "valuable" (or at least not saleable)...
I haven't done a ton of research, however progeria aging seems a pretty logical statement. Progeria may look like accelerated aging, it may even have shared cursors as aging. However it is not aging nor accelerated aging. Wiki uses the word "resembles" and that usage is probably very purposeful. So maybe their might be some take aways learned eventually that may help in corresponding aging process, but maybe (probably) not.
What this research does "resemble" is work towards treatment of an incredible rare disorder that cuts the lives short of those that have it. That is the news here, that advances are being made in terms of potentially helping those with progeria. Framing it as a tonic for eternal life is kind of insulting really.
My girlfriend does this all the time. It drives me nuts.
She'll read something (that is obviously false) and ask me about it. My first response is usually "Did you read that on Facebook?"
Not even talking about political BS (though there is plenty of that). Mostly ridiculous health claims. Not to mention all the easy quizzes and BS that are essentially the chain emails of the 1990's where people have figured out a way to make money on them.
As it is I sleep with a fucking bar of soap at the bottom of my bed for some stupid reason. Saw one today where a bunch of girls I know were talking about trying the onion in the sock. Really? These are supposed to be rational intelligent people I know. Ugh.
People believe what they want to. You can find this on both the left and the right. I'd argue it is a bit more prevent on the right for a whole host of reasons. They tend to be less educated for one. The demographic is much older also (more set in their ways if you will). They tend to be more religious, which has at it's core a strong tendency of belief without proof. Generally speaking the ideology to simple concepts is strong. So as you say "most of them". I'd say another reason is simply blind self interest, which is not so much about not believing, and more about not caring and towing the party line because it aligns more with more less your fiscal situation.
As you also mention, not all fall within this group. Along the same lines as your story, I had a political conversation with an individual who is an engineer, who was young, who I would also consider pretty bright. He was also pretty right of the political spectrum. My argument at the time with him was that he was voting against his best interests, in that he had a well paying unionized job, yet he was voting for someone who was anti-union who had a history of breaking unions. He didn't believe me. Said their was zero proof of that, and that he was very pro-union. I was incredulous, I mean to me it was such a very obvious thing. However I came to the conclusion that it wasn't totally his fault. He just wasn't all *that* interested in politics, hadn't really followed it much in the past, thus was lacking a lot of history to draw upon. Like the thread topic and summary, he bought into the "fake news" being pushed out by the political party, and took at face value what they say as being true, words VS actions so to speak. Anyway I tried to tell him about the various real life examples where the right had actively broke unions, but I'm afraid it probably fell on deaf ears and he likely voted right anyway. At that point he had already bought into the hype.
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I have a similar story if a very minor one. I was visiting a friend in Ottawa, and wasn't sure where he lived. I thought I found the place, but prior to parking around back I parked out front to go knock on the door to make sure it was the right building. I didn't notice but I happened to be parked in front of a fire hydrant (which is illegal). So my buddy came to the door and we were chatting for a few moments and he mentioned that he though I was getting a parking ticket behind me. So I walked over and explained the above the the parking officer. He agreed and said not to worry about it and made a show of ripping up the ticket.
Fast forward several months later I get a court summons, in Ottawa (hundreds of km from where I actually live) that basically said pay this fine (60$ I think it was) or show up for court, failing to show up was an admission of guilt. Apparently the Officer never canceled the ticket. I got in a written fight with the City of Ottawa over the issue, and they brought in the Officer who then decided to lie about everything. I was left without recourse.
My options were to either pay the 60$ ticket knowing I was in the right, or travel to Ottawa incurring expenses of hundreds of dollars for the privilege of defending myself. In the end I had to eat my rage and just pay the stupid fine. It really comes down to how important the decision is to you VS the expense you are going to incur defending yourself. In my case it just didn't make any sense. In the context of this story he probably should have traveled to defend himself. From the sounds of it however he had other factors influence his decision (custody decision with his kid), which really adds another level of unfairness to the whole affair.
My take:
Obama is a Democrat. The President and the DNC accuse Russia of fixing the election in favor of the Republicans and Trump. The person that apparently facilitated that (or at least leaking the information) was Assange through Wikileaks. Wikileaks previously come out and said that Assange would surrender himself to the US if they granted Manning leniency.
Manning has already plead guilty (sort of anyway) and has served time in jail which so far at the US is concerned a public win. Obama didn't have to pardon, only commute the sentence to be shorter. Should Assange now fail to surrender himself (which is likely I think anyway), the US certainly (and Democrats specifically) gain the moral high ground if you can call it that publicly. Best case is they now get to bag Assange as well and get credit for that before leaving office.
At any rate I see Manning as currently a chip with little value but being used as a political pawn which is more valuable to the US than her just rotting in jail. There will also be those republicans that also see that as a punch in the eye, which probably doesn't hurt the cause either... Bottom line, totally politically motivated.
I was surprised to hear about Manning. That said after reading the same content you posted, it starts to make a lot more sense. Considering Assange's role in the whole DNC and Russian hacking scandal this sounds a lot like a fsck you from Obama, the DNC, and the US government. Regardless of if Wikileaks honors what they said, it puts the ball firmly in their court (pardon pun), and also builds a stronger case against him, if only in the court of public appeal. In effect they have already had a win with a guilty Manning, keeping her in jail longer serves little purpose (not to mention her actions won her some public outcry), where offering clemency either nabs them a bigger fish in Assange, or more likely just gives him a public black eye. So yeah, I don't see this so much about Manning herself, but rather using her as a political pawn against Assange and his alleged recent actions with the Russians and "fixing" the US elections against the Democrats (or at least insomuch as the public story is concerned).
LOL!
The fact that you think you "OWN" your DVD is hilarious. Read your "LICENCING AGREEMENT"...
This has always been a problem with an industry that want's it's cake and eat it too. Also why so few people are going to be crying tears to hear that another Company is horning in on their profits.
The real argument is that at least it is a static licencing agreement that you "own"... The irritating part about Netflix et al is the fact that certain points in time licencing agreements get changed (due to a variety of reasons all of which involve money and profit, but typically cost of licence, and regional locking and exclusive deals), and the movie/TV you enjoyed watching could just vanish without notice. I know I was halfway though a TV series once only to have the licence not renewed (for whatever reason), and then no longer able to have access to that content anymore... Whereas if you owned the DVD you would (at least until your media dies or gets lost).
I took "AI" computer science class back in University (about 20 years ago now, Jesus!). Anyway as part of the class I created a program for a local pub that boasted the most beers on tab (25 or 30 I think). It would ask the user a serious of questions, and from the answers calculate the optimal beer the person should order. If I have to say it worked pretty awesome (Though I think it was written in VB4 if I remember correctly). I think I got a 98% on the project and everyone got a fun laugh out of it also (was a popular pub for students and professors). At any rate, back then we call such things "Smart Systems" or "Expert Systems", so even then a bit of a distinction between that and true AI (which is a Turning thing). Though it *was* part of an AI class so there is that. So for very low values of AI, yes I'm sure the cutting edge technology built by CS students in short order for a class assignment 20 years ago is in just about anything these days. I'm not sure that is all that meaningful however insofar as the accepted idea of what AI really is however as the title suggests.
Have you watch more than one episode? Then yes. :)
1) Jake and Nog.
2) Wormhole aliens and the whole Prophets thing.
3) Sisko.
All of these things are bad. Granted the Dominion War series was good.
Well I got my Computer Science degree during the middle of the dot-com craze, and graduated in 2000, just prior to the entire mess poping like the rest of my dreams... That said, I think I've done alright, but not the life of grandeur I thought might be headed my way... Graduating a couple years earlier might have been a different story.
At any rate, all you have to look at for this trend in average salary is what percentage of the workforce was unionized then VS now. I bet if you had the statistics to remove both salaries from the average equation (the 60% then, and probably the 10% now), the difference might not be so alarming. Unions have taken a beating the last 20 years or so and wages reflect this.
I don't think it is quite as simple as even that. Take the drug Insulin for example. Discovered and essentially patented by a university for 1$ with the altruistic thinking that by allowing drug companies to produce it royalty free, more patients that desperately need the drug would be able to afford it. Didn't quite work out that way. Some interesting articles below.
http://other98.com/insulins-in...
http://insulinnation.com/treat...
This definitely seems like a "Hey hold my beer, and watch this!" type of scenario with predictable results... Though you never know with these guys, landing a rocket on end, on a floating platform in the ocean also seemed a bit nuts yet they did it anyway.
While I have driven in NH roads and not Cali, a small point to make. Cali is huge, while NH is tiny. I would expect the northern portion of Cali roads to be worse than the south part, just like NH is far north of most of Cali. Frost and frost heave destroy roads, particularly those without enough gravel base. It is the gravel base that prevents the asphalt from flexing too much and breaking apart. Up here in Canada, a lot of gravel base needs to be used otherwise the lifespan of a highway won't be very long. I've seen examples in Cali that use almost none, though I expect that is in the south. It is so long N/S that they probably have to use graduated standards from top to bottom so to speak. As a whole all NH roads would be subject to much more severe winter weather than Cali. Anyway to quote that song from a few years ago from Megan Trainor, its all about the base.
I think the real news is that Norway only has 5 million people in it! Am I the only one that just assumed the entire nation had more than a large urban city?
Rocket ship propellant using vinegar and baking soda? Sure some carbon might be released back into the atmosphere, but much of it used it space would just be gone... Perhaps not the most efficient, but maybe someone can science the shit out of that.
There's more. Typically even in the corrupt corporate world you insure your assets, and while you take risks perhaps, you do so under the umbrella of insurance coverage and what you need to pay to keep that coverage.
With a nuclear facility no insurance company is going to even think about insuring you. It's not that the risks are so high, but the damages are. So while these facilities get "privatized" all the risk and damage is still nationalized. So the company gets all the perks and none of the jerks, so OF COURSE they are going to abuse the crap out of that, because why not? About the only thing to fear is if they can prove that someone was intentionally delinquent and that as a result cause the accident. However that can be pretty hard to prove and you have to know that every single decision that CEO is making (and likely management under them) the #1 first consideration is save ass and what can I do to ensure that this never comes back to bite me in the ass.
I never owned one, but I liked the idea. I almost got one, did a bunch of research, but went with the LG G4 instead. There were a couple of reasons why, and as you say the implementation was a bit lacking. I think if they kept at it and improved upon it, it could have been a big winner.
#1: Mods. Where are they? How can I buy them? Scarcity. So far as I am aware there were 3, and you couldn't find them anywhere outside of your initial purchase.
#2: The biggest and most useful is probably the most boring, that being a simple battery replacement. However they made it to be non hot-swapable. Meaning in order to use it you needed to turn off the phone, do the swap, then boot everything back up again. Just imagine if all you had to do was yank one out and slam a new one in. Sure you would need some small battery reserve hidden someplace, but it could have applied to all mods.
#3: The other two, a camera and a speaker, were not enough of an improvement over what you already got, they needed more.
#4: Due to design you lose some waterproofing which could scare some people, though probably not a whole lot you can do without size increases.
OK when I read the list of cars I here was my initial reaction...
Electric Mustang? It will have a range of 10km. More likely is it will have two settings, a "Sport" with a range of 10km, and a "Normal" which will have the range of a normal electric car I suppose or slightly worse.
Electric Police Car? My first vision of a police chase against a combustion car, where they just have to outlast the police to out distance them and they run out of juice... Might make a good premise for a bank heist movie chase or something.
Electric Transit Van? OK that just makes perfect sense really, probably need extra capacity for distance and weight likely though.
Electric F-150 Truck? OK first I thought it was a stupid idea, sure lots of torque but figure the capacity drain will be excessive, However the line "powerful enough to stand-in for on-site generators in a pinch" was not something I thought of, and is actually pretty useful. Could even see it in heavier use in contractors and the like. Anyway maybe not such a bad idea.
While I don't disagree totally, I'd say your reliance on four wheel drive may be misplaced. I've looked into it as I've wondered myself and what might be the best solution. There has been a number of studies done, and I don't think any of them really had conclusive proof that four wheel drive or all wheel drive had any positive impact on winter performance. Anecdotally I could see it logically helping if you were actually stuck someplace to get you going again, however that is going to be a pretty rare occurrence unless off-roading intentionally. However multiple studies HAVE shown that the simple act of putting winter tires on your car/truck will have an immediate and noticeable positive impact on winter driving. So if you're running a 4x4 truck on all seasons, you aren't going to have the control that you might have on someone with two wheel drive with winter tires. Also I've surprisingly found that on my own car a feature (physical mechanism not digital gizmo) I think that was meant for cornering performance actually has a bit of a difference in snow which is a limited slip differential, which basically allows the drive wheels to spin at different rates given certain conditions.
You're right on about the battery however. Until tempature tolerances become better they'll have limited success in the North. I'd also guess that they would use some power simply to keep the batteries a bit warmer as well, further reducing capacity.
I guess two other things, is you're right the concept of a solar roof doesn't jive with snow. Technically I guess it could reduce efficiency to heat the roof to melt the snow, but that will only work to a point. Once it is covered, your choices are limited to trying to shovel your roof and killing yourself in the process. One potential positive I think you missed is if you had an electric car and power station, if you did loose power for a considerable time, while it might not be advisable to drive about willy nilly, you might be one of the few folks around *with* access to power (because of your battery banks), at least for awhile anyway.
Initially thought about what is stopping an immediate reversal once Trump comes in, however I think it is a moot point.
Key:
"By contrast, it would take decades to fully develop the production infrastructure necessary for any large-scale oil and gas leasing production in the region."
So unless he is just doing it for optics, there really isn't much drive to do anything about it. Indeed, the act itself on Obama's part is pretty empty when you think about the fact that the basic infrastructure just doesn't exist to do it in the first place, it would take a very long time to build it, not to mention being expensive, never mind the actual technical difficulty of drilling in the first place (never mind the obvious political realities, one being the very large elephant in the room: Russia). So you aren't going to have companies lining up to do it anytime soon, there are plenty of cheaper and easier places to drill. Sure, at some point some will start to look seriously at the region, but it won't be in the next 4 years, nor likely in the next 8 years... Meaning why would Trump care one way or another about an act that prevents an action no one is trying to do, and won't for his foreseeable tenure as President.
Considering Google apparently made 75 Billion in profits last year, 3.8 Billion hardly seems all that "yuge" when taken into perspective.
Also I'm not sure what writing novels and all the rest is about, but the last time I heard about Google and confidentiality was all about unfair wages and employees sharing information about what they make with each other to get a better idea of how much money they should be making in relation to everyone else.
Seeing as the work produced by said employees profited almost 75 Billion, the lawsuit is for 3.8 Billion, and this is probably about employee wages, it doesn't seem all that unjustified. In fact, without having a valuation that large it would probably be hard to be taken seriously by corporate at all without being ignored or simply just spending who cares how much throwing lawyers at the problem. Even at 3.8 Billion, at almost 1.5B a week, Google could pay off that amount in just over 2 weeks...
I'm pretty sure the corporate version is likely very configurable particularly when its a 1 Billion dollar contract with the DoD to not include any telemetry they don't see fit.
For the individual user sure, MS is going to do whatever MS is going to do.
I've seen over the years more configurable options for folks to lock down the MS environments within the corporate setting. I've seen some aspects so locked down that they more less break certain features in the name of security or ease of support or whatever.
I think it is all about scale and management at that level.
I have no doubt moving a small to medium sized organization from MS to something else is possible.
However when you are talking about 4M deployments across a diverse usergroup you would have to think really hard about that decision.
...a Bike problem to me.
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Nope. Unless your docking port also contains your GPU and CPU. We're talking workstations here.
I am sitting here typing this on my new "workstation" laptop on a dock with 3 monitors and "top of the line" enterprise GPU. It is still not the same as a proper desktop workstation. I can get away with it more less because I'm not quite as much as a power user as I used to be. However the options available to you are so much more vast on a desktop configuration as to be ridiculous to compare it in any serious way with any laptop...
They can't, the power consumption, heat generated etc... just isn't feasible in a laptop form factor.
Another reason to get a desktop system (apart from the fact it is much cheaper for compatible power), if you have a 4000$ laptop you better believe that thing is the first thing stolen under any circumstances. I had a funny (sort of, not really) occurrence where my house was broken into and robbed, my desktop is *easily* the most expensive thing in the place, however the thieves left it alone. TV, gaming system, etc.. heck even cologne were all taken, but a desktop with its wires etc, even one in ITX format I guess was just too much work, or at least not seen as "valuable" (or at least not saleable)...
I haven't done a ton of research, however progeria aging seems a pretty logical statement. Progeria may look like accelerated aging, it may even have shared cursors as aging. However it is not aging nor accelerated aging. Wiki uses the word "resembles" and that usage is probably very purposeful. So maybe their might be some take aways learned eventually that may help in corresponding aging process, but maybe (probably) not.
What this research does "resemble" is work towards treatment of an incredible rare disorder that cuts the lives short of those that have it. That is the news here, that advances are being made in terms of potentially helping those with progeria. Framing it as a tonic for eternal life is kind of insulting really.
My girlfriend does this all the time. It drives me nuts.
She'll read something (that is obviously false) and ask me about it. My first response is usually "Did you read that on Facebook?"
Not even talking about political BS (though there is plenty of that). Mostly ridiculous health claims. Not to mention all the easy quizzes and BS that are essentially the chain emails of the 1990's where people have figured out a way to make money on them.
As it is I sleep with a fucking bar of soap at the bottom of my bed for some stupid reason. Saw one today where a bunch of girls I know were talking about trying the onion in the sock. Really? These are supposed to be rational intelligent people I know. Ugh.
People believe what they want to. You can find this on both the left and the right. I'd argue it is a bit more prevent on the right for a whole host of reasons. They tend to be less educated for one. The demographic is much older also (more set in their ways if you will). They tend to be more religious, which has at it's core a strong tendency of belief without proof. Generally speaking the ideology to simple concepts is strong. So as you say "most of them". I'd say another reason is simply blind self interest, which is not so much about not believing, and more about not caring and towing the party line because it aligns more with more less your fiscal situation.
As you also mention, not all fall within this group. Along the same lines as your story, I had a political conversation with an individual who is an engineer, who was young, who I would also consider pretty bright. He was also pretty right of the political spectrum. My argument at the time with him was that he was voting against his best interests, in that he had a well paying unionized job, yet he was voting for someone who was anti-union who had a history of breaking unions. He didn't believe me. Said their was zero proof of that, and that he was very pro-union. I was incredulous, I mean to me it was such a very obvious thing. However I came to the conclusion that it wasn't totally his fault. He just wasn't all *that* interested in politics, hadn't really followed it much in the past, thus was lacking a lot of history to draw upon. Like the thread topic and summary, he bought into the "fake news" being pushed out by the political party, and took at face value what they say as being true, words VS actions so to speak. Anyway I tried to tell him about the various real life examples where the right had actively broke unions, but I'm afraid it probably fell on deaf ears and he likely voted right anyway. At that point he had already bought into the hype.