Any smokers want to make threats, I'll see them in an MMA cage. I won't have to hit them. Two rounds of ducking and dancing around them and their emphysema will have them on the mat.
So in the UK that meant it needed to lobby MPs. MPs are of course elected and know that,
But in the USA, elections are a muti-million dollar business. In some cases, billions. With most of that money going to mainstream media outlets. Because of this, candidates are beholding to their funding sources to a much greater degree than in most other true democracies.
One could propose a system where media outlets (many under the regulatory authority of the FCC) would have to contribute free air time to candidates, freeing them from much of their fundraising needs and resulting quid-pro-quos. But the media lobbyists aren't about to let that sort of rule making happen.
It's about personal property. My property happens to include my data. I might be hiring an ISP to move it for me, just like I'd hire a moving company to pack and haul my household effects. But it's still all mine. Verizon can't have it. And the FCC has nothing to say about it other than to set down rules for how it will be moved. Just like the USDOT regulates the trucking industry.
OK. That's for emissions. But no such law or regulation exists for privacy yet. So the states need to get busy and pass 50 different sets of laws before the federal government steps in like they did for the EPA.
California has it's own standards. The EPA can go and fsck themselves. Want to sell cars in California? Meet CARB standards. Don't want to build 50 versions of cars? Make them all meet CARB. Same idea for privacy.
Interesting technology. Now implement this for a signal riding on a 500 kV bus and try to get power up and data back on anything other then fiber. When you have substation potentials that can rise by hundreds of kV during a fault, and that's exactly when you need your data, fiber is a godsend.
Cost isn't really a factor at the low tech end where TOS cable exists. Like TFS says, it's mainly cheap plastic and losses over 6 or 15 feet are insignificant. Where fiber really shines is for isolation.
And if you think fiber is more fragile, you haven't experienced the despair of broken HDMI cables and plugs.
Carbon dioxide alone isn't enough to accelerate plant growth. We will also have to increase the rate of nitrogen fixation by producing more NOx. Volkswagen, where are you when we really need you?
I'm guessing that they are just stirring up FUD in the foreign markets in order to generate more interest in their domestic built Su-30.
Not that I think this is totally a bad idea. Someone needs to teach Lockheed that they didn't in fact lock up the foreign markets for fighters. They may have US markets tied up politically. But others can just wander over to the dealership across the street.
My game stopped working. I* fixed it. As should be my right.
*Or I had the mechanic of my choice perform the repair. For myself and all the other people who own this product.
Keep all this EA ass-hattery in mind as you purchase vehicles and other products. For which manufacturers maintain the right to not only withhold support, but remotely disable when they feel end of life has been reached. [This fulfills my obligatory bad car analogy quota for the week.]
And this is what lies behind the manufactured panic. Opportunities to leverage climate change as a mechanism for wealth transfer are disappearing. Coal is dying not due to regulation but because natural gas is so cheap. And the same will happen with wind and solar. Once the technology matures, it will replace fossil fuels. Opportunities for all the central planning committees are vanishing fast.
"The researchers found that after about 30 minutes the diesel exhaust began to affect brain activity. The EEG data suggested that the brain displayed a stress response"
They left out the part about having the subject exposed to years of anti-diesel press releases prior to conducting this test.
"We believe our findings are due to..."
I stopped reading right here. Where the science stopped.
Volkswagen made the proper tradeoff between NOx and particulates. And they got shit on.
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Stitches?
Any smokers want to make threats, I'll see them in an MMA cage. I won't have to hit them. Two rounds of ducking and dancing around them and their emphysema will have them on the mat.
So in the UK that meant it needed to lobby MPs. MPs are of course elected and know that,
But in the USA, elections are a muti-million dollar business. In some cases, billions. With most of that money going to mainstream media outlets. Because of this, candidates are beholding to their funding sources to a much greater degree than in most other true democracies.
One could propose a system where media outlets (many under the regulatory authority of the FCC) would have to contribute free air time to candidates, freeing them from much of their fundraising needs and resulting quid-pro-quos. But the media lobbyists aren't about to let that sort of rule making happen.
It's about personal property. My property happens to include my data. I might be hiring an ISP to move it for me, just like I'd hire a moving company to pack and haul my household effects. But it's still all mine. Verizon can't have it. And the FCC has nothing to say about it other than to set down rules for how it will be moved. Just like the USDOT regulates the trucking industry.
OK. That's for emissions. But no such law or regulation exists for privacy yet. So the states need to get busy and pass 50 different sets of laws before the federal government steps in like they did for the EPA.
The boobies too.
California has it's own standards. The EPA can go and fsck themselves. Want to sell cars in California? Meet CARB standards. Don't want to build 50 versions of cars? Make them all meet CARB. Same idea for privacy.
[Oblig. Bad Car analogy.]
Well then you can opt out. Or not join the class. Nobody can make you become a part of the group.
Databrokers
Google, Facebook and Twitter all need to commit Sudoku.
The analog hole.
Once analog line outs, S/PDIF and headphone jacks are done away with, you little criminals won't be able to steal our precious content.
This.
Interesting technology. Now implement this for a signal riding on a 500 kV bus and try to get power up and data back on anything other then fiber. When you have substation potentials that can rise by hundreds of kV during a fault, and that's exactly when you need your data, fiber is a godsend.
Cost isn't really a factor at the low tech end where TOS cable exists. Like TFS says, it's mainly cheap plastic and losses over 6 or 15 feet are insignificant. Where fiber really shines is for isolation.
And if you think fiber is more fragile, you haven't experienced the despair of broken HDMI cables and plugs.
Carbon dioxide helps plants grow.
Carbon dioxide alone isn't enough to accelerate plant growth. We will also have to increase the rate of nitrogen fixation by producing more NOx. Volkswagen, where are you when we really need you?
Hey look! Pictures of my junk.
Too many pictures of that out on the Internets already.
I'm guessing that they are just stirring up FUD in the foreign markets in order to generate more interest in their domestic built Su-30.
Not that I think this is totally a bad idea. Someone needs to teach Lockheed that they didn't in fact lock up the foreign markets for fighters. They may have US markets tied up politically. But others can just wander over to the dealership across the street.
This is the other way around. Nobody is stopping Comcast from putting in their own fiber. But Comcast is interfering with a public function.
Still can't beat the nice mechanical feel of the actual calculator buttons.
What about Detroit conditions?
Shades of Being John Malkovich.
My game stopped working. I* fixed it. As should be my right.
*Or I had the mechanic of my choice perform the repair. For myself and all the other people who own this product.
Keep all this EA ass-hattery in mind as you purchase vehicles and other products. For which manufacturers maintain the right to not only withhold support, but remotely disable when they feel end of life has been reached. [This fulfills my obligatory bad car analogy quota for the week.]
Rachael, BTFO!
The free market is on track
And this is what lies behind the manufactured panic. Opportunities to leverage climate change as a mechanism for wealth transfer are disappearing. Coal is dying not due to regulation but because natural gas is so cheap. And the same will happen with wind and solar. Once the technology matures, it will replace fossil fuels. Opportunities for all the central planning committees are vanishing fast.
Diesel stresses the brain
"The researchers found that after about 30 minutes the diesel exhaust began to affect brain activity. The EEG data suggested that the brain displayed a stress response"
They left out the part about having the subject exposed to years of anti-diesel press releases prior to conducting this test.
"We believe our findings are due to..."
I stopped reading right here. Where the science stopped.
Volkswagen made the proper tradeoff between NOx and particulates. And they got shit on.