I think that they are making a choice between short term profits and long term customer satisfaction
Maybe this leaves a market segment open to people who want to run games as large scale hack-a-thons, but Blizzard does not seem to want to be that company
Hi cold, It is easy to mistake what the Libertarians are saying, but many of their authors try to claim that Unions fail to support individuals and thereby are bad for the workers that are in them. This is clearly contradictory to the history of unions the capability that they give workers to negotiate with owners.
It is the intent of Libertarian beliefs to undermine the workers by convincing them that their individual goals out weigh the advantages of collective bargaining for the group goals
Divide and Conquer
Oh, yes a citation "The great libertarian theorist Friedrich Hayek concluded that unions "are the one institution where government has signally failed in its first task, that of preventing coercion of men by other men-and by coercion I do not mean primarily the coercion of employers but the coercion of workers by their fellow workers." Hayek may have been thinking mainly of corrupt and unaccountable union leaders. But even a completely democratic union sometimes supplants private rights. As libertarians like Morgan O. Reynolds point out, majorities within a union are able to ignore minorities' preferences. " http://journals.gmu.edu/PPPQ/a...
It is still what Liberal means in Europe. but it has been scandalized as "Socialism" in the USA by the gop
Libertarian has been hijacked as some small government laissez faire concept which allows for complete control by the wealthy be convincing the masses that there is no benefit to cooperative efforts like Unions to support their common causes
The network that he gained access to was the In Flight Entertainment System via default userids and passwords
The primary order should have been for the airlines to set up routines to cycle the passwords We do not know if they did that because the only access that they claim he got at this point is to the box under his seat
I think that more definitive proof would be that he managed to log into the system because there could be claims that the box under the seat was being moved around by luggage feet of passengers behind him
None of this addresses how he managed to hop from the entertainment system network to the flight system network, which many people have claimed are air gapped from each other
FTA: a decade-long extension of the moratorium on regulating commercial human spaceflight a nine-year extension of industry-government cost sharing for damages caused by launch accidents and an act that would give companies property rights to materials they mine from asteroids.
So, the industry would like to have low regulations, GOVERNMENT PROTECTION from liabilities and sole ownership of whatever they find
Hey, I am fine with industry standing on its own and living or dying by the free market, but since when was letting the government own your liabilities part of the free market vision?
This reeks of cronyism and people simply working to maximize their profits at the cost of the rest of us. If you wanna mine an asteroid, then you have to pay for it if you drop it on my city No corporate welfare for you
It is really more a case of, "Do nothing because our profit margins are set for the current situation and we do not want to incur any additional costs by recognizing risks that upset our current plan".
Yes, but journalists have agendas at times In the final line of the article they are just echoing the anti-nuke crowd without any representation of an opposing view
"Several environmental groups have called for the plant to be permanently shut down."
Of course this did not include cover night and low-light times like cloudy days or when the sun is not 90 degrees to the panel So, you would probably need three times that amount with batteries to store and forward power as needed
and there is that pesky 'aging power transmission system' that needs to be replaced
Don't get me wrong, solar would be an excellent distributed power generation capability and Musk's idea of supplying localized batteries to handle night time use sounds like a smart idea, but we will need large power generation facilities for the next few decades and I would argue that Nuclear is the leas environmentally damaging of the lot
Kill off 99% of the human race, or let them die of starvation while they scrabble through the transition to an agrarian lifestyle, with all of the resulting mayhem as they fight over remaining stores and sit around in piles of their dung dreaming of bygone days of magic and lore when humans tried to challenge the gods and walk on the sky
Because we have to create a new generation of solar manufacturing plants to build the panels, multiple giga-factories for batteries and a whole now power transmission system to move that much energy around the continent.
Unless of course you have some alternate plan of how the tens of millions of people who are currently dependent on nuclear energy are going to function in the mean time
These things take time to plan and execute, knee-jerk reactions and shutting off major building blocks of getting away from fossil fuels to some clean energy future does not help at all. We would be a more environmentally clean society NOW if environmentalists had not spent the last forty years fighting an emotional battle against nuclear power and had focused on the emissions of the fossil fuel industry
Instead we get constant lawsuits to prevent the building of a long term nuclear waste storage facilities and new nuclear plants while the coal plants dump CO2 that is heating the planet as well as mercury and uranium that is more damaging than any imagined nuclear accident
Compaq had put a lot of effort into modernizing their production lines in order to retool more quickly for new mahines
HP's mistake was buying them at the height of the market and missing out on the looming dotcom/telecom bust, which was already in motion by the time that the merger was announced in late 2001
If HP had acted like a few other tech companies, reduced expenditures and focused on delivery they may have fared better than they had. However, that was not the snake oil that their management was selling, and it was probably not what their shareholders wanted to here either
People do not eat people because it really pisses other people off, and, unlike large herbivores, large crowds of angry people are going to ruin your day and take away any advantage that you got from eating them in the first place
In cultures that do eat people they have customs that allow for it only if the 'person' they re going to eat had magical powers and was a witch of some sort, thereby accepted by the general population as not being a person any more
In the long term eating people has disadvantages like carrying forward diseases like kuru and, potentially, Creutzfeldt–Jakob
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That might lead a jaded person to believe that they are simply pumping revenue
I think that they are making a choice between short term profits and long term customer satisfaction
Maybe this leaves a market segment open to people who want to run games as large scale hack-a-thons, but Blizzard does not seem to want to be that company
Hi cold,
It is easy to mistake what the Libertarians are saying, but many of their authors try to claim that Unions fail to support individuals and thereby are bad for the workers that are in them. This is clearly contradictory to the history of unions the capability that they give workers to negotiate with owners.
It is the intent of Libertarian beliefs to undermine the workers by convincing them that their individual goals out weigh the advantages of collective bargaining for the group goals
Divide and Conquer
Oh, yes a citation
"The great libertarian theorist Friedrich Hayek concluded that unions "are the one institution where government has signally failed in its first task, that of preventing coercion of men by other men-and by coercion I do not mean primarily the coercion of employers but the coercion of workers by their fellow workers." Hayek may have been thinking mainly of corrupt and unaccountable union leaders. But even a completely democratic union sometimes supplants private rights. As libertarians like Morgan O. Reynolds point out, majorities within a union are able to ignore minorities' preferences. "
http://journals.gmu.edu/PPPQ/a...
Bernie Sanders is what was once called 'Liberal'
It is still what Liberal means in Europe. but it has been scandalized as "Socialism" in the USA by the gop
Libertarian has been hijacked as some small government laissez faire concept which allows for complete control by the wealthy be convincing the masses that there is no benefit to cooperative efforts like Unions to support their common causes
Paint
Paint one side of the object white and it will change its orbit
This would work with anything that we catch a few years out and would even produce results that could be calculated
Sure, it is not as exciting as blowing shit up, but way more effective
The network that he gained access to was the In Flight Entertainment System via default userids and passwords
The primary order should have been for the airlines to set up routines to cycle the passwords
We do not know if they did that because the only access that they claim he got at this point is to the box under his seat
I think that more definitive proof would be that he managed to log into the system because there could be claims that the box under the seat was being moved around by luggage feet of passengers behind him
None of this addresses how he managed to hop from the entertainment system network to the flight system network, which many people have claimed are air gapped from each other
Sure, take your whiny ass off to some secret hideaway and die of starvation without the common man to live of off you elitist scumbag
Welfare is only good when it goes to Corporations???
I just got a vision of Ted Cruz as a Welfare Queen, hard to type while clawing my eyes out
FTA:
a decade-long extension of the moratorium on regulating commercial human spaceflight
a nine-year extension of industry-government cost sharing for damages caused by launch accidents
and an act that would give companies property rights to materials they mine from asteroids.
So, the industry would like to have low regulations, GOVERNMENT PROTECTION from liabilities and sole ownership of whatever they find
Hey, I am fine with industry standing on its own and living or dying by the free market, but since when was letting the government own your liabilities part of the free market vision?
This reeks of cronyism and people simply working to maximize their profits at the cost of the rest of us.
If you wanna mine an asteroid, then you have to pay for it if you drop it on my city
No corporate welfare for you
Doom can run on a Super Nintendo, while Quake requires more system performance.
Doom is a fan favorite, but Quake is a more relevant demo
It is really more a case of, "Do nothing because our profit margins are set for the current situation and we do not want to incur any additional costs by recognizing risks that upset our current plan".
On geologic timescales, we have not existed for very long so...
By that standard our civilization, much less our species, seems trifling
Thanks I can relax now
Uh, yeah...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They made them for the military when you weren't paying attention. The plan is to use them as a drone ambulance that can carry 800lbs of cargo
I think that you mean 'Global', but it's all the same for the people who are expecting UN helicopters to show up any moment
Yes, but journalists have agendas at times
In the final line of the article they are just echoing the anti-nuke crowd without any representation of an opposing view
"Several environmental groups have called for the plant to be permanently shut down."
Sometimes I think that is what greenpeace envisions
This guy did some math that came up with a square area 44 miles on a side to fulfill peak load
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/...
Of course this did not include cover night and low-light times like cloudy days or when the sun is not 90 degrees to the panel
So, you would probably need three times that amount with batteries to store and forward power as needed
and there is that pesky 'aging power transmission system' that needs to be replaced
Don't get me wrong, solar would be an excellent distributed power generation capability and Musk's idea of supplying localized batteries to handle night time use sounds like a smart idea, but we will need large power generation facilities for the next few decades and I would argue that Nuclear is the leas environmentally damaging of the lot
Kill off 99% of the human race, or let them die of starvation while they scrabble through the transition to an agrarian lifestyle, with all of the resulting mayhem as they fight over remaining stores and sit around in piles of their dung dreaming of bygone days of magic and lore when humans tried to challenge the gods and walk on the sky
How long is the time on that bomb?
Because we have to create a new generation of solar manufacturing plants to build the panels, multiple giga-factories for batteries and a whole now power transmission system to move that much energy around the continent.
Unless of course you have some alternate plan of how the tens of millions of people who are currently dependent on nuclear energy are going to function in the mean time
These things take time to plan and execute, knee-jerk reactions and shutting off major building blocks of getting away from fossil fuels to some clean energy future does not help at all. We would be a more environmentally clean society NOW if environmentalists had not spent the last forty years fighting an emotional battle against nuclear power and had focused on the emissions of the fossil fuel industry
Instead we get constant lawsuits to prevent the building of a long term nuclear waste storage facilities and new nuclear plants while the coal plants dump CO2 that is heating the planet as well as mercury and uranium that is more damaging than any imagined nuclear accident
Normal safety measures effective, loss of transformer handled in professional manner
Instead we get vague hand waving and reference to controversies generated by people wanting to shut down all nuclear power plants
Thank you /. for supporting the luddite agenda
How is preventing people from committing acts of terrorism giving away our freedom?
Just wait until Oracle jumps in the mix and starts a bidding war, because... well just because
Because it is a requirement of NASA and if you want to make money launching people for them, then you might as well prove you can do it
Compaq had put a lot of effort into modernizing their production lines in order to retool more quickly for new mahines
HP's mistake was buying them at the height of the market and missing out on the looming dotcom/telecom bust, which was already in motion by the time that the merger was announced in late 2001
If HP had acted like a few other tech companies, reduced expenditures and focused on delivery they may have fared better than they had. However, that was not the snake oil that their management was selling, and it was probably not what their shareholders wanted to here either
People do not eat people because it really pisses other people off, and, unlike large herbivores, large crowds of angry people are going to ruin your day and take away any advantage that you got from eating them in the first place
In cultures that do eat people they have customs that allow for it only if the 'person' they re going to eat had magical powers and was a witch of some sort, thereby accepted by the general population as not being a person any more
In the long term eating people has disadvantages like carrying forward diseases like kuru and, potentially, Creutzfeldt–Jakob