But we don't even have those. We have officials saying they have evidence. There might be witness reports. There might be forensic evidence (which is even more questionable when it comes to the DNC server hacks, as the DNC used a private firm to do the analysis and not the FBI.)
What do you expect? That they are going to go into Trumps office and find a box labeled "proof" containing a bag of "hacks" and gloves with traces of electoral data on them?
I expect an explanation as to why the FBI/DNC/whomever is making the allegation, as to why they believe the Russian government was involved directly beyond "trust us we have evidence." These are serious allegations. They require solid evidence. Especially when certain three letter agencies have been known to cook up "evidence" when it meets a particular political need.
Aside from that, the main reason I'm skeptical is that, unless we have intelligence coming from the Russian government itself, it's pretty damned hard to prove where a particular intrusion came from. Someone using an off the shelf vulnerability scanner piped through a VPN or TOR endpoint originating in Russia, or a botnet operating in Russia - good luck tracing that. As far as the DNC email "hacks" go, IIRC the hackers guessed an easy password to get into at least one account.
hacked elections systems in several states, grabbing electoral data.
Allegedly.
Handing the electoral data and political information to people like Aaron Nevins and defacto co-ordinating with them to get Ron DeSantis elected in Florida
Allegedly.
There are plenty of allegations flying around that this was all Russia's doing. It very well may have been. What is lacking is evidence.
It would be politically expedient for the US if it were Russia behind the meddling. It may or may not be politically expedient for Russia to have Trump as president. Hillary was a known quantity to Russia. They've dealt with her before as Secretary of State. Knowing how someone operates is diplomatically valuable.
Trump *seemed* to be more friendly to Russia, but he was also incredibly flaky, even as a candidate. The reasoning behind a coordinated push to back Trump over Hilary seems tenuous at best.
The US had a month-long "shutdown", I believe, in the late 90's. Most of the federal government stopped working, except the military, FBI and federal hospitals. The vast majority of US citizens didn't notice a difference.
What's worse, making less than (I assume you mean US) minimum wage in a factory in China, or making almost nothing working on a farm in China?
Also keep in mind that whatever machine you are currently using to write your post was probably made by the same factory workers in China making almost nothing. At least, most of the parts were.
Here's Aphex Twin making the track Vordhosbn using ProTracker, a 90's tracker-style app, which were the forerunners of the modern loop based software tools like Live and Fruity. Even the rhythm isn't the same across any two bars. The problem isn't the software, the problem is the person using the software.
Am I the only one old enough to remember car radios and the whip antennas they had, which provided AM coverage?
The whip antennas were for FM coverage. Inside the head unit of the car radio is one of those bar-type AM radio antennas. I'm 100% sure because I used to work for a company that did TA/QA testing for car stereo systems.
The "magic" is that the impedance is very high with such a short antenna, so the radio has to be designed to deal with that.
Impedance doesn't matter. The length of the antenna needs to be an evenly divisible fraction of the wavelength of the middle of the band you wish to receive for optimal reception. For FM the shortest you can get away with is a few feet, which is the length of a whip antenna, or the wire for a pair of headphones. For AM it's several hundred feet.
You can't fit a decent FM radio antenna inside a phone, especially if the case is metal. Walkman-type radios used the earphone wire as an antenna, which is probably what the phones are going to have to do. This means you'll have to have wired earbuds for the radio to work.
The smallest workable AM antenna is a ~5 inch bar of iron with a super thin wire wound around it hundreds of times. You're *never* going to fit that into a modern cell phone.
That's what I'm saying. Pass a law saying the FCC can regulate the internet for the sole purpose of enforcing common carrier / network neutrality rules.
How about, instead of passing a bill telling the FCC to keep pretending the internet is a phone service and regulate it as such, pass a bill allowing the FCC to regulate the internet as a data service, ONLY for the purposes of equal access. The reason this is all happening in a round-about fashion is the FCC was never directly given the authority to regulate the internet directly. I'm for them keeping out of it as much as possible, but if you want net neutrality, pass a law saying the FCC can enforce net neutrality.
*Perhaps* for self-driving cars, but car manufacturers are SUPER paranoid about driver distraction to the point that there are strict rules about how fast stuff scrolls on a radio, and what types of information can be shown in certain colors, or flashing, or accompanied with sound. An ad blaring at you while you're waiting for a traffic light to change isn't going to happen. All it would take is one driver to say they were startled by the ad, hit the accelerator and smash into a semi truck, and the lawyers would be falling over themselves to file the first lawsuit.
The best part about all of this is it was the US State Department's idea to set up Ireland as a tax haven. Back in the late 40's when Ireland was basically broke, the US and UK got together with them to figure out how to fix their economy. The US brought up a bunch of ideas, and setting up a tax haven was one of them. So Ireland went ahead and did it.
So it's a bit suspect when the US congress calls CEOs onto the floor and lambastes them for taking advantage of something the US told Ireland to do.
1. The OTAs are selling unused rooms at a discount. 2. They are getting them because the hotels are selling them nights at a discount.
So what are the hotels complaining about, exactly? If they don't want OTAs to sell these rooms, they should stop doing step 2. Of course, then they wouldn't be getting *any* money for these rooms, as they are *unsold rooms*
Getting a two-way connection from a moving satellite is a nightmare. You get all kinds of frequency-shift, Doppler, atmospheric, and localized multi-path problems. You'll need a big chunk of spectrum for all the error correction and sync signals required. You'll either need a tracking dish, which will be expensive, or a phase-array, which is cheaper to build but will require a more complicated and expensive front-end.
It may work for niche cases for low-bandwidth applications in remote areas. I'm guessing the uplink hardware will be so expensive that you'll have micro-ISPs serving small areas.
Intrinsic value, for it to have any meaning at all, should place some limits on the price of the item in question.
Intrinsic value has little to do with market price. It's the inherent value of a product/commodity/stock/etc... divorced from market value.
You could say the intrinsic value of a company is it's profit margin, or the sum of it's assets, or it's future ability to generate profit.
The intrinsic value of steel can be derived by it's demand as a component in products. The intrinsic value of gold is in it's ability to fulfill a specific need, that need being to store or exchange value. This has been borne out by thousands of years of economic activity.
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Yes. That is what a witness report is
But we don't even have those. We have officials saying they have evidence. There might be witness reports. There might be forensic evidence (which is even more questionable when it comes to the DNC server hacks, as the DNC used a private firm to do the analysis and not the FBI.)
What do you expect? That they are going to go into Trumps office and find a box labeled "proof" containing a bag of "hacks" and gloves with traces of electoral data on them?
I expect an explanation as to why the FBI/DNC/whomever is making the allegation, as to why they believe the Russian government was involved directly beyond "trust us we have evidence." These are serious allegations. They require solid evidence. Especially when certain three letter agencies have been known to cook up "evidence" when it meets a particular political need.
Aside from that, the main reason I'm skeptical is that, unless we have intelligence coming from the Russian government itself, it's pretty damned hard to prove where a particular intrusion came from. Someone using an off the shelf vulnerability scanner piped through a VPN or TOR endpoint originating in Russia, or a botnet operating in Russia - good luck tracing that. As far as the DNC email "hacks" go, IIRC the hackers guessed an easy password to get into at least one account.
Hacked the DNC and DCCC,
Allegedly.
hacked elections systems in several states, grabbing electoral data.
Allegedly.
Handing the electoral data and political information to people like Aaron Nevins and defacto co-ordinating with them to get Ron DeSantis elected in Florida
Allegedly.
There are plenty of allegations flying around that this was all Russia's doing. It very well may have been. What is lacking is evidence.
It would be politically expedient for the US if it were Russia behind the meddling. It may or may not be politically expedient for Russia to have Trump as president. Hillary was a known quantity to Russia. They've dealt with her before as Secretary of State. Knowing how someone operates is diplomatically valuable.
Trump *seemed* to be more friendly to Russia, but he was also incredibly flaky, even as a candidate. The reasoning behind a coordinated push to back Trump over Hilary seems tenuous at best.
The US had a month-long "shutdown", I believe, in the late 90's. Most of the federal government stopped working, except the military, FBI and federal hospitals. The vast majority of US citizens didn't notice a difference.
Outsource it to Carl Sagan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, electric BMWs are a wasteful boondoggle, but using one to get lunch doesn't even cause the police abuse meter to twitch.
It does if it costs taxpayers $15/mile to operate.
What's worse, making less than (I assume you mean US) minimum wage in a factory in China, or making almost nothing working on a farm in China?
Also keep in mind that whatever machine you are currently using to write your post was probably made by the same factory workers in China making almost nothing. At least, most of the parts were.
It rattled the windows of my friend's house. He thought a utility pole transformer exploded a block over. It was quite a bit more than imperceptible.
Here's Aphex Twin making the track Vordhosbn using ProTracker, a 90's tracker-style app, which were the forerunners of the modern loop based software tools like Live and Fruity. Even the rhythm isn't the same across any two bars. The problem isn't the software, the problem is the person using the software.
https://vimeo.com/223378825
Am I the only one old enough to remember car radios and the whip antennas they had, which provided AM coverage?
The whip antennas were for FM coverage. Inside the head unit of the car radio is one of those bar-type AM radio antennas. I'm 100% sure because I used to work for a company that did TA/QA testing for car stereo systems.
The "magic" is that the impedance is very high with such a short antenna, so the radio has to be designed to deal with that.
Impedance doesn't matter. The length of the antenna needs to be an evenly divisible fraction of the wavelength of the middle of the band you wish to receive for optimal reception. For FM the shortest you can get away with is a few feet, which is the length of a whip antenna, or the wire for a pair of headphones. For AM it's several hundred feet.
See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You can't fit a decent FM radio antenna inside a phone, especially if the case is metal. Walkman-type radios used the earphone wire as an antenna, which is probably what the phones are going to have to do. This means you'll have to have wired earbuds for the radio to work.
The smallest workable AM antenna is a ~5 inch bar of iron with a super thin wire wound around it hundreds of times. You're *never* going to fit that into a modern cell phone.
That's what I'm saying. Pass a law saying the FCC can regulate the internet for the sole purpose of enforcing common carrier / network neutrality rules.
How about, instead of passing a bill telling the FCC to keep pretending the internet is a phone service and regulate it as such, pass a bill allowing the FCC to regulate the internet as a data service, ONLY for the purposes of equal access. The reason this is all happening in a round-about fashion is the FCC was never directly given the authority to regulate the internet directly. I'm for them keeping out of it as much as possible, but if you want net neutrality, pass a law saying the FCC can enforce net neutrality.
The Mac Quadra 840av was out in 1993 and supported 128MB of RAM. Heck the old IIci supported that much.
eselect profile set 7 (or whatever systemd/desktop profile you want)
emerge -avDN @world
systemd-machine-id-setup
Uncomment the systemd line in /etc/default grub and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Reboot - that's about it. It'll usually run the enabled openrc stuff by default. If not just enable it with systemctl.
*Perhaps* for self-driving cars, but car manufacturers are SUPER paranoid about driver distraction to the point that there are strict rules about how fast stuff scrolls on a radio, and what types of information can be shown in certain colors, or flashing, or accompanied with sound. An ad blaring at you while you're waiting for a traffic light to change isn't going to happen. All it would take is one driver to say they were startled by the ad, hit the accelerator and smash into a semi truck, and the lawyers would be falling over themselves to file the first lawsuit.
That's fine, but it's Ireland's policy to fix.
The best part about all of this is it was the US State Department's idea to set up Ireland as a tax haven. Back in the late 40's when Ireland was basically broke, the US and UK got together with them to figure out how to fix their economy. The US brought up a bunch of ideas, and setting up a tax haven was one of them. So Ireland went ahead and did it.
So it's a bit suspect when the US congress calls CEOs onto the floor and lambastes them for taking advantage of something the US told Ireland to do.
I was unaware that Apple was an architectural firm.
1. The OTAs are selling unused rooms at a discount.
2. They are getting them because the hotels are selling them nights at a discount.
So what are the hotels complaining about, exactly? If they don't want OTAs to sell these rooms, they should stop doing step 2. Of course, then they wouldn't be getting *any* money for these rooms, as they are *unsold rooms*
So is Disney using their, erm, near-monopoly power to nearly keep other movies from being made? Absolutely.
In what way, exactly, are they accomplishing this? Are they signing deals that prevents movie theaters from showing other studios' movies?
I assume you have some pretty solid evidence of this taking place, and links to back it up.
You think that, once a dog says that you have cancer, that's it? You don't need oncologists? You don't need radiologists? You don't need nurses?
The cancer dog sniffs you, wags his tail a certain way that means you have Leukemia, you take a Leukemia pill and that's it?
Have you had any experience with the medical profession at all?
Current movie studios:
Disney/Fox
Warner Bros.
Universal
Columbia
Paramount
Lionsgate
MGM
Amblin
Weinstein
And a few dozen smaller studios, as well as the foreign studios (Toei, Canal, Gaumont, Pathe)
So is Disney using their, erm, not-really-monopoly power to keep other movies from being made? No? Then why would the FTC step in?
1. Right-Click C:\Cygwin64
2. Select "Delete"
3. Empty trash
All done!
Getting a two-way connection from a moving satellite is a nightmare. You get all kinds of frequency-shift, Doppler, atmospheric, and localized multi-path problems. You'll need a big chunk of spectrum for all the error correction and sync signals required. You'll either need a tracking dish, which will be expensive, or a phase-array, which is cheaper to build but will require a more complicated and expensive front-end.
It may work for niche cases for low-bandwidth applications in remote areas. I'm guessing the uplink hardware will be so expensive that you'll have micro-ISPs serving small areas.
Intrinsic value, for it to have any meaning at all, should place some limits on the price of the item in question.
Intrinsic value has little to do with market price. It's the inherent value of a product/commodity/stock/etc... divorced from market value.
You could say the intrinsic value of a company is it's profit margin, or the sum of it's assets, or it's future ability to generate profit.
The intrinsic value of steel can be derived by it's demand as a component in products. The intrinsic value of gold is in it's ability to fulfill a specific need, that need being to store or exchange value. This has been borne out by thousands of years of economic activity.