I don't believe for a second that this is anything other than a PR move.
The US military is one of the largest consumers of oil in the world. Several studies commissioned by the government indicate that the US military can reduce consumption by as much as 60% over a decade if they really wanted to by modernization. The US Air Force and US Navies represent the lion share of usage. Every time their budgets come up, without fail, they decide they would rather be able to kill someone better rather than replace their ancient technology. Its absolutely not an oversight.
There has been massive improvements in turbines and diesel over the last two decades and yet the majority of the technology powering the US military is firmly rooted in 1960s to 1970s technology. Keep in mind, as a rule of thumb, the technology behind most military technology is one to two decades behind the cutting edge. So that means a ship commissioned in the 1980s is likely using 1960s to 1970s engine technology. Hell, winglets alone on the Air Force's non-combat aircraft can save billions every year.
I've repeatedly ranted in on slashdot on how Obama has consistently showed massive ineptitude by failing to create a new government works program. In doing so, he could have saved our country trillions by creating massive jobs unseen since Truman. Jobs, with our current economy, are almost priceless.
Did you know the US infrastructure is rapidly failing? By 2030 the US must invest a minimum of 1.3 trillion dollars to renew our infrastructure (which was largely gifted to these companies by the government, and all but unmaintained) or we will be a second or third world country. The US has almost 3x as many brownouts and power failures than it did just two decades ago - and growing. Aging infrastructure is directly responsible. If you've experienced power failure in your life, its extremely likely the power company is to directly blame for lack of infrastructure renewal - and they know it. There are literally some towns in the US which experience more than 200 days per year with brownouts and blackouts every year. Think about that! Bridges and levies are also failing at an alarming rate. In some southern states, as much as 60% of all bridges have officially been deemed unsafe for use.
Literally, the infrastructure in the US is so bad, with less than $10,000 of parts and the right knowledge, the entire central and eastern electric grid in the US can be taken down for years. And its entirely likely it would cascade to Canada and surrounding grids. If terrorists find a complicit electrical, industrial engineer, they found their most powerful weapon - ever.
Bluntly, Obama could have been a hero. He could have rebuilt out nation for the next two hundred years. Obama could have put millions to work for the next several decades; with work our country absolutely must have. Obama could have saved our country trillions, effectively paying for all of the infrastructure renewal. Obama could have lowered energy prices for the entire world and reduced our dependency on foreign countries. He did none of that.
When the government and military announces they'll will be retooling almost everything, only then will I believe this isn't anything other than an empty PR stunt. Until such time, they are absolutely full of shit.
I mean all roads lead there which was a pretty big advantage, I think.
Exactly. Rome was the first country/empire to officially recognize roads as a military and economic weapon. They built roads throughout their entire empire for exactly those reasons.
Even in the US, rail and roadways were officially funded by the military. In fact, even to this day, a huge number of signs have DoD information on the back for military use in the event of catastrophic emergencies. Countries without highways can not properly defend themselves.
I think its funny how many people don't really understand what they are talking about.
Pragmatically, further back that a couple hundred years ago, people rarely traveled. Period. It was largely the aristocracy and wealthy and/or merchants who did the vast majority of traveling. A minority traveled father than twenty to forty miles; and that was typically a city trip for supplies. Its not like in the movies where everyone is constantly traveling around. Traveling to a new area frequently means months to years to become re-established. Its a big, life changing event.
Some exceptions are the military. On foot, on clear terrain, forty to fifty miles were expected. They could do more but would generally be useless for fighting if they did. On horse, with good terrain, calvary would expected to do roughly eighty miles. On rough terrain, a foot soldier was expected to do twenty miles. In heavy forest and/or mountains, snow, etc., ten miles is a good day. Now keep in mind, these guys had heavy equipment they had to carry too, not to mention supplies. And that's really the magic of it all. Having water and food is key. Sure, you *can* travel a much father distance, but being absolutely useless for the next couple of days, assuming you don't die, assuming supplies can catch up, doesn't do anyone any good whatsoever. And don't forget, most places didn't even have roads outside a city. That's one of the things that made Rome great after all.
There are some noteworthy exceptions, such as some of the African tribes who are legendary at running vast distances (example, Zulu) and going right into combat - and winning. But these guys carried only a shield, spear, and absolutely minimum of food and water, and even then, it was war. It was not an everyday event.
Going back to antiquities, it was exceedingly rare to ever travel outside of your valley - again, unless you were a merchant. Realistically, people did not travel. When they did travel, they rarely traveled father than twenty to thirty miles. Those that did travel farther than that, typically had a vocation which required it (merchant, navy, explorer) or a wallet to simply allow for it (summer, winter home). And even then, when they did travel, it was exceedingly rare to be great distances in a day. And of these, ships are the sole exception - until trains - and then cars and planes.
That's because its about who you know, who you went to school with, which buddy is on your board, which board your buddy wants you on and what back room deals you can swap with each other to make each of you look good; in the short term. And once you look good, you all get together for a circle jerk to give each other a raise.
Most companies today are led by people whos sole desire is to see how much they can legally plunder - even while they are sinking the ship they plunder. But, what do you expect when literal sociopaths are considered good leaders?
These days, its rare for a US CEO to make a long term decision. They almost always make a decision for tomorrow, knowing for well its a very bad decision for day after tomorrow. But they don't care because they'll be long gone with their golden parachute before they have to deal with their poor decisions. And even better, the next guy gets blamed. We even see this happen in politics too - all the time.
Actually if you look at the football player, you can actually see artifacts to the right of the player's head, as well as a smaller, less obvious artifact halo around his body in the JPEG image, which is entirely missing in the webp image. Aside from that, everything looks more or less the same to me. Again, aside from the football player image, I wouldn't prefer one over the other which means, for me, webp is the winner.
A bigger questions is, with the rise of small computing devices, how does decoding perform on these devices? What about encoding? What about devices lacking FP? How does this compare with JPEG? If it takes half the bandwidth and memory but twice as long (twice the battery power) to decode, is that still a viable solution?
You're right. "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" was not what I wanted to hear.
And this is why political discussion on/. is a bad idea. Almost no one seems capable of critical thinking. Its far too emotional. That's what the whole world calls, "a joke". If you want to take that literally, well, its speaks extremely poorly of you. Not to mention, it also means we've been in nuclear war with the Soviets since President Reagan. I assume you understand the extremely well known reference, which too was a joke.
Realistically, McCain and everyone else absolutely knows attacking Iran was never an option. Well, certainly not at the time. The US is way over extended with its military power and budget and a third theater is simply not an option. McCain understands this well and he's even spoken about it. That's not to say, the option doesn't exist - which is a fact even Obama and his administration points out and has spoken to, to some degree.
Ultimately, his comment proves two things. One, he made a bad joke. Some even laughed at the time. Two, your sense of humor is so poor, you can't spot obviously bad jokes. Three, you make big decisions based on a bad joke. Hmmm...not good. Not good at all. In fact, as far as bad ideas go, your decision is actually a far worse idea than it was for McCain to make that joke. But I'm sure you'll somehow find a way to forgive yourself.
I voted for Obama based on my belief that he would make better decisions than McCain.
And that's why the majority made such a clearly bad decision. Anyone who took a step back from all the talking points could clearly see they had exactly one path available; regardless of who you voted for. There was McCain who told people the truth - which wasn't what they wanted to hear. Then there was Obama who lied, lied, and lied some more and only told people what they wanted to hear. Exact opposites. Once he was in office, Obama very closely followed the plans cleanly laid out by McCain (and other Republicans). Its not as if Obama had much of an option to do otherwise. McCain even said as much.
Anyone who honestly thought Obama would do what he said was completely disconnected from reality and likely ignorant of world events; excluding headlines. Bluntly, it NEVER mattered who you voted for in the last election, there was only one reasonable set of actions which could have been implemented.
Really the only difference between the two candidates last election is, one told you what you didn't want to hear and the other blew smoke up your ass. All too often, in most facets of life, people are lured in with feel-food smoke blowing.
Seriously, its only been in maybe this last year where there has been any difference between Democrat or Republican as a result of that election. When people tell you it doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican, its true. The only real difference is which sector or special interest is lobbying. And this shows absolutely no chance of change until purchased lobbying and corporate contributions are outlawed. Until those change, you'll never have an honest government. And the longer the status quo remains in effect, the more corrupt things will grow and the more difficult it will be to change.
Honestly, there was one real difference in the last election...at least one politician actually told the truth for once. That alone, is noteworthy - but it cost him the election. Likely means no politician will make that mistake again. At least not any time soon.
Of course, this all ignores the fact that Linux already scales well beyond 48 cores. Even more so, it appears the group is confusing bus contention for OS scalability. The problem is, using modern CPUs (cores), they are sharing caching, which is all too frequently the real problem. The shared cache leads to cache contention.
Linux, right now, is capable of scaling well beyond 128 cores (err...cpus)...and more... Its just not standard code because the overhead is less optimal for 99.999% of the current user base. Basically this boils down to, Windows scales poorly. I've not met anyone who doesn't already know this.
Long story short, News at 11, a story everyone already knows. No new news is now news. Basically they documented what everyone already knows for almost a decade now.
Copper plated pellets are usually lead on the inside.
I've never seen copper plated pellets...only solid copper pellets and steel. Technically iron is not steel - but iron is used to create steel. I'd never actually heard of "soft iron" outside of old musket lore and then, never in modern use.
All this article shows is that Android security sucks.
No. So long as the stated permissions are properly allowing the data to "escape", Android security does not suck in the least. In fact, contrary to your assertion, so long as my criteria is met, Android security is excellent.
What is failing, and I believe you are expressing, is that the interface between the user and the Android security model is horribly failing. Either that, users just don't care. Even after explaining the issue to many users, many users continue to use the applications in question. Some of these applications are actually fairly popular (Shop Savvy, for example). Therefore, I assume, many users just don't care. After all, this is the same category of user who posts endless personal detail on public sites on a daily basis anyways.
Beyond that, what is failing, is the commercial component of Android sales. Piracy on Android is setting new records for the platform. The majority of users do not want to purchase anything. They are more than willing to pirate, almost at any cost (they'll even pay large sums to pirate sites but won't pay the developers). Even worse, Google has limited market exposure for pay apps which is further encouraging users to pirate. Even when donations are frequently available through alternate channels, people are not donating. As a result, commercial developers have exactly one route left for revenue - ads. Period.
The fact that pirates are creating a crappy situation for everyone is hardly the least bit surprising. And ultimately, these data concerns stem from the fact that developers can only make money from an ad revenue model. If people would stop pirating, developers wouldn't be placing ads in all of their applications. Users would be happy. Developers would be happy - and could pay their rent; and maybe even continue to develop. The only people who would be unhappy, are the pirates. Which basically means, its a win-win for anyone worthy of consideration.
Long story short, want to blame someone? Blame the pirates, first and foremost, for a situation which largely, wouldn't exist otherwise.
You're blending criminal and civil. They absolutely should be shielded from civil suit, but not from criminal prosecution.
I made a poor decision which causes the company to lose lots of money. Maximum investor less should be the amount invested. If on the other hand, I make a dangerous product, all those involved in that decision should be held criminally accountable.
Right, but under my scheme they don't have an intensive to stamp one way or another, at an accelerated rate. Having someone actually do the job they are paid to do correctly is typically preferred. And given that they USPO is on record as basically saying, "let the courts sort it out". Given a resistance free path in either direction, they'd likely green stamp rather than red stamp, which is basically where we're at today.
Notice your qualifier; and I agree. DU typically reads above background. That's not to say I'm implying you'll glow after exposure but I certainly don't want to sleep on top of it for any extended duration. Studies do show a correlation between tank crews having been deployed with DU shells and increased sterility.
I started to repeat myself. Read my reply to the tank crewman who replied elsewhere.
That was a goof on my part. I knew the distinction, I simply didn't express it correctly. I meant to say, "...surrounding Arab", but simply got lazy and said, "...other Arab...", which clearly implies inclusion. After I submitted and re-read I realized my error. I hoped it would be overlooked. Clearly it was not.
As a side, I tip my hat to you for politely correcting my misdeed rather than the typical grammar nazi attack which is oh-so-common on/.
My father has hearing aids in both ears. Both are the invisible kind which fit completely inside the ear. Even phones with hear aid compatibility, he frequently has trouble hearing them so he usually resorts to using the speaker phone option and holding it in proximity to his ear/hearing aid. He wants to use bluetooth with his phone but all of the hearing aids he finds requires completely external hearing aids or the requirement of a bluetooth companion around the neck plus larger, non-invisible hearing aids.
So my question is, are you aware of any bluetooth earpieces which may sit outside the ear, which is also compatible with an inner ear hearing aid? If you do, please, please share. My father would be thrilled if I can point him toward a solution.
And, yes, I concur that we are all a part of the government. Indeed, I remember saying that as well. So I think we're more in agreement than you suggest.
Its sounds like we agree there.
Now if you want to argue the US' mandate has lowered the cost of other nations to wiretap telcom, I'll absolutely agree with you...again...;)
And BTW, thanks for your service! I have the highest respect for those who serve. Especially for tank crews! I absolutely would never want to be tank crew.
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I don't believe for a second that this is anything other than a PR move.
The US military is one of the largest consumers of oil in the world. Several studies commissioned by the government indicate that the US military can reduce consumption by as much as 60% over a decade if they really wanted to by modernization. The US Air Force and US Navies represent the lion share of usage. Every time their budgets come up, without fail, they decide they would rather be able to kill someone better rather than replace their ancient technology. Its absolutely not an oversight.
There has been massive improvements in turbines and diesel over the last two decades and yet the majority of the technology powering the US military is firmly rooted in 1960s to 1970s technology. Keep in mind, as a rule of thumb, the technology behind most military technology is one to two decades behind the cutting edge. So that means a ship commissioned in the 1980s is likely using 1960s to 1970s engine technology. Hell, winglets alone on the Air Force's non-combat aircraft can save billions every year.
I've repeatedly ranted in on slashdot on how Obama has consistently showed massive ineptitude by failing to create a new government works program. In doing so, he could have saved our country trillions by creating massive jobs unseen since Truman. Jobs, with our current economy, are almost priceless.
Did you know the US infrastructure is rapidly failing? By 2030 the US must invest a minimum of 1.3 trillion dollars to renew our infrastructure (which was largely gifted to these companies by the government, and all but unmaintained) or we will be a second or third world country. The US has almost 3x as many brownouts and power failures than it did just two decades ago - and growing. Aging infrastructure is directly responsible. If you've experienced power failure in your life, its extremely likely the power company is to directly blame for lack of infrastructure renewal - and they know it. There are literally some towns in the US which experience more than 200 days per year with brownouts and blackouts every year. Think about that! Bridges and levies are also failing at an alarming rate. In some southern states, as much as 60% of all bridges have officially been deemed unsafe for use.
Literally, the infrastructure in the US is so bad, with less than $10,000 of parts and the right knowledge, the entire central and eastern electric grid in the US can be taken down for years. And its entirely likely it would cascade to Canada and surrounding grids. If terrorists find a complicit electrical, industrial engineer, they found their most powerful weapon - ever.
Bluntly, Obama could have been a hero. He could have rebuilt out nation for the next two hundred years. Obama could have put millions to work for the next several decades; with work our country absolutely must have. Obama could have saved our country trillions, effectively paying for all of the infrastructure renewal. Obama could have lowered energy prices for the entire world and reduced our dependency on foreign countries. He did none of that.
When the government and military announces they'll will be retooling almost everything, only then will I believe this isn't anything other than an empty PR stunt. Until such time, they are absolutely full of shit.
I mean all roads lead there which was a pretty big advantage, I think.
Exactly. Rome was the first country/empire to officially recognize roads as a military and economic weapon. They built roads throughout their entire empire for exactly those reasons.
Even in the US, rail and roadways were officially funded by the military. In fact, even to this day, a huge number of signs have DoD information on the back for military use in the event of catastrophic emergencies. Countries without highways can not properly defend themselves.
I think its funny how many people don't really understand what they are talking about.
Pragmatically, further back that a couple hundred years ago, people rarely traveled. Period. It was largely the aristocracy and wealthy and/or merchants who did the vast majority of traveling. A minority traveled father than twenty to forty miles; and that was typically a city trip for supplies. Its not like in the movies where everyone is constantly traveling around. Traveling to a new area frequently means months to years to become re-established. Its a big, life changing event.
Some exceptions are the military. On foot, on clear terrain, forty to fifty miles were expected. They could do more but would generally be useless for fighting if they did. On horse, with good terrain, calvary would expected to do roughly eighty miles. On rough terrain, a foot soldier was expected to do twenty miles. In heavy forest and/or mountains, snow, etc., ten miles is a good day. Now keep in mind, these guys had heavy equipment they had to carry too, not to mention supplies. And that's really the magic of it all. Having water and food is key. Sure, you *can* travel a much father distance, but being absolutely useless for the next couple of days, assuming you don't die, assuming supplies can catch up, doesn't do anyone any good whatsoever. And don't forget, most places didn't even have roads outside a city. That's one of the things that made Rome great after all.
There are some noteworthy exceptions, such as some of the African tribes who are legendary at running vast distances (example, Zulu) and going right into combat - and winning. But these guys carried only a shield, spear, and absolutely minimum of food and water, and even then, it was war. It was not an everyday event.
Going back to antiquities, it was exceedingly rare to ever travel outside of your valley - again, unless you were a merchant. Realistically, people did not travel. When they did travel, they rarely traveled father than twenty to thirty miles. Those that did travel farther than that, typically had a vocation which required it (merchant, navy, explorer) or a wallet to simply allow for it (summer, winter home). And even then, when they did travel, it was exceedingly rare to be great distances in a day. And of these, ships are the sole exception - until trains - and then cars and planes.
Technically, humans can hear some microwaves too because of the heating and cooling of your brain or inner ear. The US Air Force also has a patent on it. Supposedly, they can literally make you hear completely intelligible voices - according to the US Air Force.
I'd pick the open source PNG that has become standard over the last ten years.
Great idea! Because everyone loves needlessly larger images - which is the exact opposite of what webp provides.
Not even a good troll or intelligent argument.
I wonder if the same in-hardware assists which boost JPEG/MPEG encode/decode can also be applied to webp.
That's because its about who you know, who you went to school with, which buddy is on your board, which board your buddy wants you on and what back room deals you can swap with each other to make each of you look good; in the short term. And once you look good, you all get together for a circle jerk to give each other a raise.
Most companies today are led by people whos sole desire is to see how much they can legally plunder - even while they are sinking the ship they plunder. But, what do you expect when literal sociopaths are considered good leaders?
These days, its rare for a US CEO to make a long term decision. They almost always make a decision for tomorrow, knowing for well its a very bad decision for day after tomorrow. But they don't care because they'll be long gone with their golden parachute before they have to deal with their poor decisions. And even better, the next guy gets blamed. We even see this happen in politics too - all the time.
Pretend for a second or two that I can actually count....hit submit instead of preview...after I added another talking point...
Actually if you look at the football player, you can actually see artifacts to the right of the player's head, as well as a smaller, less obvious artifact halo around his body in the JPEG image, which is entirely missing in the webp image. Aside from that, everything looks more or less the same to me. Again, aside from the football player image, I wouldn't prefer one over the other which means, for me, webp is the winner.
A bigger questions is, with the rise of small computing devices, how does decoding perform on these devices? What about encoding? What about devices lacking FP? How does this compare with JPEG? If it takes half the bandwidth and memory but twice as long (twice the battery power) to decode, is that still a viable solution?
You're right. "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" was not what I wanted to hear.
And this is why political discussion on /. is a bad idea. Almost no one seems capable of critical thinking. Its far too emotional. That's what the whole world calls, "a joke". If you want to take that literally, well, its speaks extremely poorly of you. Not to mention, it also means we've been in nuclear war with the Soviets since President Reagan. I assume you understand the extremely well known reference, which too was a joke.
Realistically, McCain and everyone else absolutely knows attacking Iran was never an option. Well, certainly not at the time. The US is way over extended with its military power and budget and a third theater is simply not an option. McCain understands this well and he's even spoken about it. That's not to say, the option doesn't exist - which is a fact even Obama and his administration points out and has spoken to, to some degree.
Ultimately, his comment proves two things. One, he made a bad joke. Some even laughed at the time. Two, your sense of humor is so poor, you can't spot obviously bad jokes. Three, you make big decisions based on a bad joke. Hmmm...not good. Not good at all. In fact, as far as bad ideas go, your decision is actually a far worse idea than it was for McCain to make that joke. But I'm sure you'll somehow find a way to forgive yourself.
I voted for Obama based on my belief that he would make better decisions than McCain.
And that's why the majority made such a clearly bad decision. Anyone who took a step back from all the talking points could clearly see they had exactly one path available; regardless of who you voted for. There was McCain who told people the truth - which wasn't what they wanted to hear. Then there was Obama who lied, lied, and lied some more and only told people what they wanted to hear. Exact opposites. Once he was in office, Obama very closely followed the plans cleanly laid out by McCain (and other Republicans). Its not as if Obama had much of an option to do otherwise. McCain even said as much.
Anyone who honestly thought Obama would do what he said was completely disconnected from reality and likely ignorant of world events; excluding headlines. Bluntly, it NEVER mattered who you voted for in the last election, there was only one reasonable set of actions which could have been implemented.
Really the only difference between the two candidates last election is, one told you what you didn't want to hear and the other blew smoke up your ass. All too often, in most facets of life, people are lured in with feel-food smoke blowing.
Seriously, its only been in maybe this last year where there has been any difference between Democrat or Republican as a result of that election. When people tell you it doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican, its true. The only real difference is which sector or special interest is lobbying. And this shows absolutely no chance of change until purchased lobbying and corporate contributions are outlawed. Until those change, you'll never have an honest government. And the longer the status quo remains in effect, the more corrupt things will grow and the more difficult it will be to change.
Honestly, there was one real difference in the last election...at least one politician actually told the truth for once. That alone, is noteworthy - but it cost him the election. Likely means no politician will make that mistake again. At least not any time soon.
Completely agree.
Of course, this all ignores the fact that Linux already scales well beyond 48 cores. Even more so, it appears the group is confusing bus contention for OS scalability. The problem is, using modern CPUs (cores), they are sharing caching, which is all too frequently the real problem. The shared cache leads to cache contention.
Linux, right now, is capable of scaling well beyond 128 cores (err...cpus)...and more... Its just not standard code because the overhead is less optimal for 99.999% of the current user base. Basically this boils down to, Windows scales poorly. I've not met anyone who doesn't already know this.
Long story short, News at 11, a story everyone already knows. No new news is now news. Basically they documented what everyone already knows for almost a decade now.
Copper plated pellets are usually lead on the inside.
I've never seen copper plated pellets...only solid copper pellets and steel. Technically iron is not steel - but iron is used to create steel. I'd never actually heard of "soft iron" outside of old musket lore and then, never in modern use.
All this article shows is that Android security sucks.
No. So long as the stated permissions are properly allowing the data to "escape", Android security does not suck in the least. In fact, contrary to your assertion, so long as my criteria is met, Android security is excellent.
What is failing, and I believe you are expressing, is that the interface between the user and the Android security model is horribly failing. Either that, users just don't care. Even after explaining the issue to many users, many users continue to use the applications in question. Some of these applications are actually fairly popular (Shop Savvy, for example). Therefore, I assume, many users just don't care. After all, this is the same category of user who posts endless personal detail on public sites on a daily basis anyways.
Beyond that, what is failing, is the commercial component of Android sales. Piracy on Android is setting new records for the platform. The majority of users do not want to purchase anything. They are more than willing to pirate, almost at any cost (they'll even pay large sums to pirate sites but won't pay the developers). Even worse, Google has limited market exposure for pay apps which is further encouraging users to pirate. Even when donations are frequently available through alternate channels, people are not donating. As a result, commercial developers have exactly one route left for revenue - ads. Period.
The fact that pirates are creating a crappy situation for everyone is hardly the least bit surprising. And ultimately, these data concerns stem from the fact that developers can only make money from an ad revenue model. If people would stop pirating, developers wouldn't be placing ads in all of their applications. Users would be happy. Developers would be happy - and could pay their rent; and maybe even continue to develop. The only people who would be unhappy, are the pirates. Which basically means, its a win-win for anyone worthy of consideration.
Long story short, want to blame someone? Blame the pirates, first and foremost, for a situation which largely, wouldn't exist otherwise.
It was a joke. Hell, even Myth Busters did a job of debunking the fake moon landing foil hat crowd.
They'll never release these videos in HD because you would see all the strings. ;)
There are also steel and copper pellets.
You're blending criminal and civil. They absolutely should be shielded from civil suit, but not from criminal prosecution.
I made a poor decision which causes the company to lose lots of money. Maximum investor less should be the amount invested. If on the other hand, I make a dangerous product, all those involved in that decision should be held criminally accountable.
Right, but under my scheme they don't have an intensive to stamp one way or another, at an accelerated rate. Having someone actually do the job they are paid to do correctly is typically preferred. And given that they USPO is on record as basically saying, "let the courts sort it out". Given a resistance free path in either direction, they'd likely green stamp rather than red stamp, which is basically where we're at today.
Then they should be payed per patent processed (either accepted or rejected) instead.
Which means they'll green light anything and everything they see.
Better to pay them to do their job regardless of the number of patents. You know...like much of the rest of the world.
is not particularly radioactive,
Notice your qualifier; and I agree. DU typically reads above background. That's not to say I'm implying you'll glow after exposure but I certainly don't want to sleep on top of it for any extended duration. Studies do show a correlation between tank crews having been deployed with DU shells and increased sterility.
I started to repeat myself. Read my reply to the tank crewman who replied elsewhere.
That was a goof on my part. I knew the distinction, I simply didn't express it correctly. I meant to say, "...surrounding Arab", but simply got lazy and said, "...other Arab...", which clearly implies inclusion. After I submitted and re-read I realized my error. I hoped it would be overlooked. Clearly it was not.
As a side, I tip my hat to you for politely correcting my misdeed rather than the typical grammar nazi attack which is oh-so-common on /.
My father has hearing aids in both ears. Both are the invisible kind which fit completely inside the ear. Even phones with hear aid compatibility, he frequently has trouble hearing them so he usually resorts to using the speaker phone option and holding it in proximity to his ear/hearing aid. He wants to use bluetooth with his phone but all of the hearing aids he finds requires completely external hearing aids or the requirement of a bluetooth companion around the neck plus larger, non-invisible hearing aids.
So my question is, are you aware of any bluetooth earpieces which may sit outside the ear, which is also compatible with an inner ear hearing aid? If you do, please, please share. My father would be thrilled if I can point him toward a solution.
Thanks.
And, yes, I concur that we are all a part of the government. Indeed, I remember saying that as well. So I think we're more in agreement than you suggest.
Its sounds like we agree there.
Now if you want to argue the US' mandate has lowered the cost of other nations to wiretap telcom, I'll absolutely agree with you...again... ;)
Opps...I forgot...
And BTW, thanks for your service! I have the highest respect for those who serve. Especially for tank crews! I absolutely would never want to be tank crew.