It's by design. That way, with "carrier grade NAT" you can't just connect, get an IP, and run a home server for your emailz or whatever, you have to by the premium "routable" plan.
It turns the formerly interconnected "web" even more into a centrally controlled "snowflake" model. Much more profitable for the utilities, but also far more fragile than it needs to be, too. All for the low, low cost of not bothering to upgrade.
I kinda feel like this is the first trial balloon for one of the manufacturers getting ready to announce a new console.
The most likely one would seem to be Nintendo, with a "full HD" model, announced around mid 2011, and either Sony or MS sniping them by bringing something to market a little ahead of schedule (and therefore under-polished.) But that kinda happened already, so we'll see what happens next.
Although, if people can live forever, I'm changing my opinion on term limits to "pro" I shudder to imagine what it would be like to have Ted Kennedy as eternal senator.
It would be a nightmare for one person to live forever: continually watching all her friends dying every half century or so. But for everyone to live "forever"? I agree with you. We would have to think about the malthusian dilemma, but there's quite a bit of buffer to resolve that.
Ah, the is-ought fallacy. I haven't seen this one here in a while.
Suffice it to say that "nothing lasts forever" is not an argument for preventing something from lasting forever. Or for preventing something from lasting longer than it used to. Or even for not trying to make something last longer than it used to, if you think you have a way to do that.
Why is it the the apple line of laptops look cool and sober and PC laptops have 10 stickers, a miss-match of random useless applications pre-installed and blinding leds and chrome all over? I am writing this on a 6 moth HP elite book that I quite enjoy and is not that bad, but it still looks like a farm tractor next to my wife's macbook pro.
That seems to have changed a bit in recent months. You can now get a shiny, grey, plastic laptop with black keys designed to look awfully similar to the aluminum Macbook line, and without too many stickers.
But that does raise the question: How come no one else is building a milled aluminum case of any color, and a giant touchpad? It's like they missed the whole point of apple's case design.
If you're going to make a lookalike, why not go all the way? Doesn't everything come from the same Chinese factory anyway?
I like FedEx. They take the boxes off the truck every time the delivery run is over, so you can pick up your package at the distribution center if you miss the delivery (and it's not closed yet.)
Indeed, the price of ending slavery in the US was very high. On the same scale in terms of affronts to human dignity as the original offense.
But imagine this: A real republic, where the states get to mind their own business, and the federal government operates completely within the bounds of the constitution, taking no more authority than is necessary to accomplish the few duties that can only be discharged at the federal level (like treaties and defense), and nothing else. AND no human slavery.
Studies show that you move up the pay-scale faster by changing jobs, rather than "hoping for a raise." Probably for the same reason that you get a better deal when you change to a different broadband carrier than when you simply renew your contract with the same company.
Parent says he schedules the payments. As in, he goes into the bank's website weeks ahead of time and sets up a bill-pay, choosing X as the target date. In this case, I find it difficult to argue that it could be anyone other than the bank's fault for the payment not going through on time.
Though I still leave a week's buffer in my bill-pays, because I'm a pretty small account, and the bank can afford better justice, especially when it's spending my money (and yours) for it...
Unfortunately, you technically can do this. You just have to pick one of the small charter companies that doesn't use the terminal, or fly yourself. The unfortunate part comes when you pay the bill.
In other words, the groping and nudie pictures are just for poor people, not their wealthy and/or politically connected betters.
It really was a different matter when the airlines were paying for the security and making it a condition of sale. As a private entity, they can put almost whatever conditions they want on their contracts as long as their customers agree to those conditions, barring certain rights that cannot be waived.
They have much more freedom in the matter, and frankly, the original security was basically a PR move to put more butts in the seats anyway.
The issue is that nothing in the constitution grants the federal government the authority to conduct these searches, and there are a few spots where that kind of thing is specifically forbidden to the federal government. It is tremendously worrisome the longer these shenanigans are allowed to continue, and worse, to progress.
It seems the government is keen on moving from a "we govern by your consent, as outlined in this contract written 200 years ago that anyone can read" model to a "we're bigger than you, so you do what we say" model, and we (well, travelers in this specific instance, but there are other areas where unauthorized government intrusion continues to fester unopposed as well) seem to be letting them.
TSA is not a private entity. They could've made that argument when there were private security firms, but TSA is a division of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the federal government.
Their evidence is illegally collected, and would be inadmissible as well, if all the judges weren't corrupt.
There are things she likes which I don't really have access to.
And do you use her interest and knowledge to springboard your trying to stretch a little bit, or are you glad when she doesn't bring those things home?
Ahh, you're referring to price elasticity. It's different in different markets. Some products get the taxes priced in, and some don't. It all depends on the elasticity of supply, the elasticity of demand, and the margin that the company is currently operating at.
For instance, no company can afford to weather a tax that exceeds their current margin. They will have to raise prices, cut costs elsewhere, or make way for other businesses who have already done those things, or who don't have to worry about the tax.
Ireland raising its corporate tax might mean that a business based in ireland will have to consider relocating to a singapore or a china in order to compete on the global market. It might also mean that that business will be out-competed by businesses already in singapore and china.
Nations should strive to minimize the taxes levied, but they should also use excise taxes to maintain domestic cost parity against foreign companies with lower tax and regulatory burdens.
Scaling the entire display is not the proper solution to the problem of people with different comfort zones regarding feature sizes within the display.
And anyway, Apple already did what you ask. They took the iPhone and scaled up the display to create a smartphone with a giant screen. They called it the iPad....
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It's by design. That way, with "carrier grade NAT" you can't just connect, get an IP, and run a home server for your emailz or whatever, you have to by the premium "routable" plan.
It turns the formerly interconnected "web" even more into a centrally controlled "snowflake" model. Much more profitable for the utilities, but also far more fragile than it needs to be, too. All for the low, low cost of not bothering to upgrade.
That depends on what kind of surface you're standing on. It won't work on a "very large sphere" though...
I kinda feel like this is the first trial balloon for one of the manufacturers getting ready to announce a new console.
The most likely one would seem to be Nintendo, with a "full HD" model, announced around mid 2011, and either Sony or MS sniping them by bringing something to market a little ahead of schedule (and therefore under-polished.) But that kinda happened already, so we'll see what happens next.
Although, if people can live forever, I'm changing my opinion on term limits to "pro" I shudder to imagine what it would be like to have Ted Kennedy as eternal senator.
It would be a nightmare for one person to live forever: continually watching all her friends dying every half century or so. But for everyone to live "forever"? I agree with you. We would have to think about the malthusian dilemma, but there's quite a bit of buffer to resolve that.
Ah, the is-ought fallacy. I haven't seen this one here in a while.
Suffice it to say that "nothing lasts forever" is not an argument for preventing something from lasting forever. Or for preventing something from lasting longer than it used to. Or even for not trying to make something last longer than it used to, if you think you have a way to do that.
Why is it the the apple line of laptops look cool and sober and PC laptops have 10 stickers, a miss-match of random useless applications pre-installed and blinding leds and chrome all over? I am writing this on a 6 moth HP elite book that I quite enjoy and is not that bad, but it still looks like a farm tractor next to my wife's macbook pro.
That seems to have changed a bit in recent months. You can now get a shiny, grey, plastic laptop with black keys designed to look awfully similar to the aluminum Macbook line, and without too many stickers.
But that does raise the question: How come no one else is building a milled aluminum case of any color, and a giant touchpad? It's like they missed the whole point of apple's case design.
If you're going to make a lookalike, why not go all the way? Doesn't everything come from the same Chinese factory anyway?
I like FedEx. They take the boxes off the truck every time the delivery run is over, so you can pick up your package at the distribution center if you miss the delivery (and it's not closed yet.)
But.. the iPad only has one screen, why would they do that?
Indeed, the price of ending slavery in the US was very high. On the same scale in terms of affronts to human dignity as the original offense.
But imagine this: A real republic, where the states get to mind their own business, and the federal government operates completely within the bounds of the constitution, taking no more authority than is necessary to accomplish the few duties that can only be discharged at the federal level (like treaties and defense), and nothing else. AND no human slavery.
Who says you can only have one or the other?
And a library of software that takes advantage of it equivalent to a pre-2007 smartphone...
Studies show that you move up the pay-scale faster by changing jobs, rather than "hoping for a raise." Probably for the same reason that you get a better deal when you change to a different broadband carrier than when you simply renew your contract with the same company.
Parent says he schedules the payments. As in, he goes into the bank's website weeks ahead of time and sets up a bill-pay, choosing X as the target date. In this case, I find it difficult to argue that it could be anyone other than the bank's fault for the payment not going through on time.
Though I still leave a week's buffer in my bill-pays, because I'm a pretty small account, and the bank can afford better justice, especially when it's spending my money (and yours) for it...
Unfortunately, you technically can do this. You just have to pick one of the small charter companies that doesn't use the terminal, or fly yourself. The unfortunate part comes when you pay the bill.
In other words, the groping and nudie pictures are just for poor people, not their wealthy and/or politically connected betters.
It really was a different matter when the airlines were paying for the security and making it a condition of sale. As a private entity, they can put almost whatever conditions they want on their contracts as long as their customers agree to those conditions, barring certain rights that cannot be waived.
They have much more freedom in the matter, and frankly, the original security was basically a PR move to put more butts in the seats anyway.
The issue is that nothing in the constitution grants the federal government the authority to conduct these searches, and there are a few spots where that kind of thing is specifically forbidden to the federal government. It is tremendously worrisome the longer these shenanigans are allowed to continue, and worse, to progress.
It seems the government is keen on moving from a "we govern by your consent, as outlined in this contract written 200 years ago that anyone can read" model to a "we're bigger than you, so you do what we say" model, and we (well, travelers in this specific instance, but there are other areas where unauthorized government intrusion continues to fester unopposed as well) seem to be letting them.
If you draw the control diagram suggested by the acronym, "PEBKAC" you will see the underlying problem with that production model.
Hint 1: it's open circuit.
Hint 2: where is your input coming from...
TSA is not a private entity. They could've made that argument when there were private security firms, but TSA is a division of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the federal government.
Their evidence is illegally collected, and would be inadmissible as well, if all the judges weren't corrupt.
Oh, that's so sad. Someone should do something about this tip disparity.
There are things she likes which I don't really have access to.
And do you use her interest and knowledge to springboard your trying to stretch a little bit, or are you glad when she doesn't bring those things home?
One of those options is boring.
Ahh, you're referring to price elasticity. It's different in different markets. Some products get the taxes priced in, and some don't. It all depends on the elasticity of supply, the elasticity of demand, and the margin that the company is currently operating at.
For instance, no company can afford to weather a tax that exceeds their current margin. They will have to raise prices, cut costs elsewhere, or make way for other businesses who have already done those things, or who don't have to worry about the tax.
Ireland raising its corporate tax might mean that a business based in ireland will have to consider relocating to a singapore or a china in order to compete on the global market. It might also mean that that business will be out-competed by businesses already in singapore and china.
Nations should strive to minimize the taxes levied, but they should also use excise taxes to maintain domestic cost parity against foreign companies with lower tax and regulatory burdens.
Why would the secret service be involved? Were they filling the balloons with counterfeit $10 bills?
But why are they named after the psychotropic drug from "Brave New World?"
All your friends have boring girlfriends.
Scaling the entire display is not the proper solution to the problem of people with different comfort zones regarding feature sizes within the display.
And anyway, Apple already did what you ask. They took the iPhone and scaled up the display to create a smartphone with a giant screen. They called it the iPad....
That really depends on the kind of encryption you use.