What about "Headline Neutrality". As soon as I read that Congress voted to "shred" my rights, I knew I was only going to get one, very biased, side of the story. The truth is that this vote changes nothing. The FCC had already revoked most privacy protections, and this vote just prevents those rules from being reinstated.
"Plausible" possible "sightings" of Tasmanian "Tiger" prompt "search" in "Queensland."
Also, if they live in Queensland, they are not "Tasmanian".
But, anyway, there is about a zero chance that these sightings are real. Thylacines can coexist with humans, and did for 40,000 years. They can NOT coexist with dingoes. Dingoes arrived in Australia (probably with Indonesian traders) about 3500 years ago. As they spread across the continent, thylacines rapidly went extinct, and only survived in Tasmania because the dingoes didn't cross the Bass Strait. There is very little chance that a sustainable population of thylacines could have survived in direct competition with dingoes for over 3000 years in one, and only one, location. That makes no sense.
Think of what you get for your money from NASA compared to the F-35.
How about we just think about what we get for our money from NASA? Comparing it to the F-35 is pointless since in no way whatsoever are they alternatives.
How about a billion dollars for 62 miles of wall/fence.
Using that as justification for spending on something completely unrelated is idiotic.
It is also a good place to test unicellular Martian organisms. Just make sure you have at least four firewall levels, and keep all the sharp objects away from the gloves.
In America, there have been some experiments with alternative currencies. The most famous is the Ithaca Hour which is nominally worth $10, which at the time it was first introduced was considered a fair wage for an hour of work in Ithaca, New York. One of the early justifications for the IH was that they could be donated to panhandlers with the assurance that it wouldn't be used to buy drugs. This turned out to be incorrect, since drug dealers and prostitutes were among the most enthusiastic early adopters of the currency.
What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Theranos is a PRIVATELY held company. There are only a handful of shareholders, and they already control the board. So they would just be suing themselves.
That generally means that the content creator can't earn revenue through YouTube any more
Unlikely. Some companies care about their "family" image, and will not want their ads associated with offensive content. Other advertisers don't care so much. So the obvious solution for Google is to offer a more expensive premium ad platform that excludes offensive videos, while offering a lower priced platform for companies that are more tolerant, and an even cheaper platform for those that actually want to target that audience.
The market will fix this. Disney will pay slightly more for ads, while Breitbart News gets a discount.
Melania came over on an H2B visa, and Trump recruits 100's of seasonal workers at Mar-a-Lago through H2B
Personal behavior and political beliefs are two separate things. When I do my taxes, I take advantage of every available loophole and write-off, but that doesn't mean I support those loopholes as a matter of policy.
The most successful countries in the world are socialist so it seems a strange statement. Norway has been rated the happiest country in the world with Denmark second. Both socialist.
Neither is socialist. Socialism: Government ownership of the means of production. Both Norway and Denmark are, by many measures, more capitalist than America. For instance, the Danish post office is privatized. If you at add in health care, America actually has a about the same government footprint as either. Social programs do not make a country "socialist".
Because, when oil prices were high, instead of saving for a rainy day, they squandered the windfall on import subsidies and giveaways while destroying every other part of their economy.
I'm not gonna chuck if up to gov't corruption because _everywhere_ has that.
Not to the same degree. On the Transparency International Corruption Index Venezula is a near rock bottom 166/176.
Did they piss everybody off somehow?
Yes, starting with their own people. Maduro is one of the least popular leaders in the world (although he beats President Hollande of France). Venezuela has few international friends. Even Cuba has backed off from helping them.
On the bright side, we have yet another excellent example of why socialism is a bad idea.
The women who choose software engineering as a career path are consistently saying that it's a problem.
Can you cite any evidence that more women engineers file gender discrimination or sexual harassment complaints than the average for other professions?
Anecdote: In my company, we have had several sexual harassment complaints about our shipping dept and our sales dept, but zero about any of our engineers.
In other words: "You aren't going to find anything better, everyone else is just as bad.
But she didn't say that. She never said it was "just as bad" everywhere/anywhere else, she just said it is common in tech.
Anyway, I think sexism is common in the tech industry only in the vacuous sense that it is common in all industries. I have seen zero evidence that tech companies are more sexist than construction companies, manufacturing companies, law firms, etc.
Must have been a REAL original idea seeing as it was being sold by others before he got his patent.
Even if they started after, it is unlikely that they "stole" his idea. Nobody reads through millions of patents looking for product ideas to steal. They might have "stole" the idea if he actually made a competing product, but TFA mentions nothing about that. Most likely, the other products were independent developments of a fairly obvious contraption. Bug traps like these have been around for decades.
Anyway, eBay offered to take down the allegedly infringing products if Blazer could show them a court ruling that they were actually infringing. He failed to do that. So not only was his case weak, he didn't even follow proper legal procedure.
The Html5 canvas has been widely available since 2006, and FedEx is a $50B/yr company. Why would it take them more than a decade to update a legacy app to a modern platform? Instead of paying their customers to install malware, they should hire some competent developers.
If that's the business of recycling old ideas, without adding any significant new ideas, then why not?
Well, it is a business. New ideas are risky. A movie with an innovative plot may be a hit, or it may bomb. But a remake or sequel using a proven formula is money in the bank. So it makes sense to just churn out another X-Men, Transformers, or Bond film.
And Amazon will lose their low transportation costs if their "fulfillment centers" are not in the U.S.
You seem to be under the delusion that American tax law makes sense. It does not. Taxes are not based on where activities occur, but where the company is incorporated. So if an American company makes a laptop in China, and sells it in France, the profit on that transaction is taxable in America. This gives companies a huge incentive to either incorporate overseas, or to keep their capital outside of America (the profit isn't taxable until it is repatriated). No other country has such stupid job-killing policies, but the American economy is big enough that a few trillion in foregone investment isn't big enough to bother fixing.
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Net Neutrality is next.
What about "Headline Neutrality". As soon as I read that Congress voted to "shred" my rights, I knew I was only going to get one, very biased, side of the story. The truth is that this vote changes nothing. The FCC had already revoked most privacy protections, and this vote just prevents those rules from being reinstated.
"Plausible" possible "sightings" of Tasmanian "Tiger" prompt "search" in "Queensland."
Also, if they live in Queensland, they are not "Tasmanian".
But, anyway, there is about a zero chance that these sightings are real. Thylacines can coexist with humans, and did for 40,000 years. They can NOT coexist with dingoes. Dingoes arrived in Australia (probably with Indonesian traders) about 3500 years ago. As they spread across the continent, thylacines rapidly went extinct, and only survived in Tasmania because the dingoes didn't cross the Bass Strait. There is very little chance that a sustainable population of thylacines could have survived in direct competition with dingoes for over 3000 years in one, and only one, location. That makes no sense.
Think of what you get for your money from NASA compared to the F-35.
How about we just think about what we get for our money from NASA?
Comparing it to the F-35 is pointless since in no way whatsoever are they alternatives.
How about a billion dollars for 62 miles of wall/fence.
Using that as justification for spending on something completely unrelated is idiotic.
So your best defense of NASA's budget is that we also waste money on other things that are even stupider?
It is also a good place to test unicellular Martian organisms. Just make sure you have at least four firewall levels, and keep all the sharp objects away from the gloves.
In America, there have been some experiments with alternative currencies. The most famous is the Ithaca Hour which is nominally worth $10, which at the time it was first introduced was considered a fair wage for an hour of work in Ithaca, New York. One of the early justifications for the IH was that they could be donated to panhandlers with the assurance that it wouldn't be used to buy drugs. This turned out to be incorrect, since drug dealers and prostitutes were among the most enthusiastic early adopters of the currency.
What this kind of paranoid person doesn't understand is that they can already track you to an incredible degree
Who is "they"? The NSA probably has access to my credit card transactions. But my neighbor doesn't, nor does my mother-in-law, nor do the local police.
Theranos is a PRIVATELY held company. There are only a handful of shareholders, and they already control the board. So they would just be suing themselves.
Individual people can own robots too, you know.
The same thing was said about cars and computers, yet how many individual people own those?
That generally means that the content creator can't earn revenue through YouTube any more
Unlikely. Some companies care about their "family" image, and will not want their ads associated with offensive content. Other advertisers don't care so much. So the obvious solution for Google is to offer a more expensive premium ad platform that excludes offensive videos, while offering a lower priced platform for companies that are more tolerant, and an even cheaper platform for those that actually want to target that audience.
The market will fix this. Disney will pay slightly more for ads, while Breitbart News gets a discount.
Women don't report it because they get shut down or ignored.
Can you provide any evidence whatsoever that this is more prevalent in tech than in any other industry?
Melania came over on an H2B visa, and Trump recruits 100's of seasonal workers at Mar-a-Lago through H2B
Personal behavior and political beliefs are two separate things. When I do my taxes, I take advantage of every available loophole and write-off, but that doesn't mean I support those loopholes as a matter of policy.
So when my self-driving car is suddenly unable to drive at night, do I take it to a mechanic or to a psychologist?
Neither. You wipe the mud off the camera lens.
Until the car companies pull a John Deere and claim DMCA.
The "Right to Repair" laws prohibit them from doing that. But those laws only apply to cars.
this matter has long been settled in cases such as the one that allows you to use whatever brand oil and consumables (filters etc) in your car
Nope. "Right to repair" laws only apply to cars, not to products in general. They don't even apply to tractors and other vehicles.
The most successful countries in the world are socialist so it seems a strange statement. Norway has been rated the happiest country in the world with Denmark second. Both socialist.
Neither is socialist. Socialism: Government ownership of the means of production. Both Norway and Denmark are, by many measures, more capitalist than America. For instance, the Danish post office is privatized. If you at add in health care, America actually has a about the same government footprint as either. Social programs do not make a country "socialist".
why the heck are they doing so bad?
Because, when oil prices were high, instead of saving for a rainy day, they squandered the windfall on import subsidies and giveaways while destroying every other part of their economy.
I'm not gonna chuck if up to gov't corruption because _everywhere_ has that.
Not to the same degree. On the Transparency International Corruption Index Venezula is a near rock bottom 166/176.
Did they piss everybody off somehow?
Yes, starting with their own people. Maduro is one of the least popular leaders in the world (although he beats President Hollande of France). Venezuela has few international friends. Even Cuba has backed off from helping them.
On the bright side, we have yet another excellent example of why socialism is a bad idea.
The women who choose software engineering as a career path are consistently saying that it's a problem.
Can you cite any evidence that more women engineers file gender discrimination or sexual harassment complaints than the average for other professions?
Anecdote: In my company, we have had several sexual harassment complaints about our shipping dept and our sales dept, but zero about any of our engineers.
It's a major problem in technology
Can you cite any evidence that sexism is worse in technology than in other industries?
In other words: "You aren't going to find anything better, everyone else is just as bad.
But she didn't say that. She never said it was "just as bad" everywhere/anywhere else, she just said it is common in tech.
Anyway, I think sexism is common in the tech industry only in the vacuous sense that it is common in all industries. I have seen zero evidence that tech companies are more sexist than construction companies, manufacturing companies, law firms, etc.
Must have been a REAL original idea seeing as it was being sold by others before he got his patent.
Even if they started after, it is unlikely that they "stole" his idea. Nobody reads through millions of patents looking for product ideas to steal. They might have "stole" the idea if he actually made a competing product, but TFA mentions nothing about that. Most likely, the other products were independent developments of a fairly obvious contraption. Bug traps like these have been around for decades.
Anyway, eBay offered to take down the allegedly infringing products if Blazer could show them a court ruling that they were actually infringing. He failed to do that. So not only was his case weak, he didn't even follow proper legal procedure.
Marshall is in East Texas... thank you very much.
That's too bad. West Texas is almost as nice as New Mexico. East Texas is nearly as bad as Louisiana.
The Html5 canvas has been widely available since 2006, and FedEx is a $50B/yr company. Why would it take them more than a decade to update a legacy app to a modern platform? Instead of paying their customers to install malware, they should hire some competent developers.
If that's the business of recycling old ideas, without adding any significant new ideas, then why not?
Well, it is a business. New ideas are risky. A movie with an innovative plot may be a hit, or it may bomb. But a remake or sequel using a proven formula is money in the bank. So it makes sense to just churn out another X-Men, Transformers, or Bond film.
And Amazon will lose their low transportation costs if their "fulfillment centers" are not in the U.S.
You seem to be under the delusion that American tax law makes sense. It does not. Taxes are not based on where activities occur, but where the company is incorporated. So if an American company makes a laptop in China, and sells it in France, the profit on that transaction is taxable in America. This gives companies a huge incentive to either incorporate overseas, or to keep their capital outside of America (the profit isn't taxable until it is repatriated). No other country has such stupid job-killing policies, but the American economy is big enough that a few trillion in foregone investment isn't big enough to bother fixing.