One of the good things (I mean this with no sarcasm) about widespread illegal immigration is that it creates a huge "unbanked" population in some parts of the US, which mostly uses cash. This makes it difficult for brick-and-mortar businesses not to accept cash, thus delaying the cashless transition. And no, I have no problem with the law being broken if it serves the interests of privacy.
I was more cashless for a long time, then I got poor, so I started using more cash. Makes budgeting easier, and feels comforting to have actual money in my pocket.
The trend in US cities has been to introduce legislation REQUIRING brick-n-mortar stores to accept paper money -- at least on the local level, government is responsive to popular anger about tech and inequality.
The problem is that the VOTERS are also stinking cowards, voting for "tough on crime" cop scum (sheriffs are often elected) that in turn lobby for mass surveillance. For the cheeeeeeldren, of course.
The ideal would be to make companies too afraid to retain ANY data and personal information -- to drive the cloudpushers out of business by strangling them with regulations.
Which is why there should be laws penalizing invasion of privacy. If companies start getting fined for bad behavior and their assets start being taken, they'll listen -- money talks, BS walks.
The only companies that take data privacy seriously are those that DON'T nudge you towards their cloud, that sell software that encourages local storage, preferably in encrypted form.
It will be the glued-shut, no-port, soldered-everything version of the old 17" MacBook Pro... this thing will be to power laptops like the Jeep Compass is to off-road vehicles.
Does "Support for 32GB of RAM" mean you can plug in two 16GB modules, or does it just mean that you can pay 3x the street price of the RAM extra to buy a laptop with it soldered to the motherboard?
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sucks, has lymphoma, which is currently in remission. I hope that it comes back, and that a potential cure was suppressed due to Goldman not investing in the technology.
Let the piece of filth get a taste of his own medicine!
Amazon are scum with no regard for their customers' (or is it products') privacy. (1) Archiving/mining/sale of purchase data (2) Selling facial recognition systems to police agencies worldwide, including in less than savory places (3) Normalizing always-on microphones in people's homes.
I hope this is only the beginning of the backlash against Amazon and Jeff "Pic Dick" Bezos -- the ideal end game would be a big 'ol trust busting party, as was held for AT&T in the early 1980s. Split Amazon up into 10 or so companies, then move on and do the same to Google and Microsoft.
(1) Safety razor. (2) Cheapie phones designed for developing-country and poor-area use (low-end Moto and Samsung) typically still have removable batteries. You just won't impress a date with them, which might be a good test anyway. (3) Ebook reader? Just use a laptop and get access to a good e-library site.
Here's what's going to happen. Merced-Bakersfield is going to get built -- too much money invested in the project. This route will be connected to Oakland via existing tracks used by Amtrak between Merced and Bakersfield. These tracks will be electrified to allow running of HSR trains between Oakland/Berkeley/Emeryville and Bakersfield. Meanwhile they'll be electrifying the existing Metrolink line to Lancaster as far north as Santa Clarita and hiring a Chinese consortium to build from Santa Clarita to Bakersfield via the median of I-5.
There are ways around this dumbassed law. It's possible to get a waiver, and relatively easy.
Also, the fixed infrastructure (rails, ties, signals) doesn't cost more when sourced in the US. Land acquisition and fixed infrastructure the the major costs here. The actual trains aren't expensive by comparison and can be acquired using state funds. New Federal regulations actually make it easier to run lightly-modified European train cars in the US -- they've weakened crash regulations that were absurdly tight.
By your standard of rail being 1800s technology, wheels on roads are 10th century B.C. technology. The neat thing about rail is that it stays on the "road" at 150 mph or more, regardless of weather conditions. It's also easy to power electrically, since steel rails provide a current return path with no worries about charging batteries or maintaining them.
The ideal system would actually be a hybrid of your system and rail -- driverless vehicles to bring passengers to stations, where shorter (2 or 3 car) driverless trains would run frequently between stations. Low-speed buses for shorter trips, higher-speed rail for longer hauls. Trains should be long enough to have a bathroom, some food service, ability to get up and walk around between stations, etc.
(1) Let the corrupt US contractors build from Merced to Bakersfield.
(2) Use existing tracks from Oakland to Merced. Electrify them. Extend from Emeryville across the Bay Bridge to a terminal in SF.
(3) Hire a French, Japanese, or Chinese company to build from Bakersfield to LA Union Station. They know what they're doing as far as high-speed rail and will get it done at 1/4 the cost of "buying American."
That's generally not true; most mail clients flag mail as deleted in the local archive. You have to run a "compact" on the archive in order to totally delete "deleted" messages.
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I think this is illegal ... see below:
https://www.today.com/money/fe...
Or maybe was illegal before Trump watered down protections against such things.
One of the good things (I mean this with no sarcasm) about widespread illegal immigration is that it creates a huge "unbanked" population in some parts of the US, which mostly uses cash. This makes it difficult for brick-and-mortar businesses not to accept cash, thus delaying the cashless transition. And no, I have no problem with the law being broken if it serves the interests of privacy.
I was more cashless for a long time, then I got poor, so I started using more cash. Makes budgeting easier, and feels comforting to have actual money in my pocket.
The trend in US cities has been to introduce legislation REQUIRING brick-n-mortar stores to accept paper money -- at least on the local level, government is responsive to popular anger about tech and inequality.
The problem is that the VOTERS are also stinking cowards, voting for "tough on crime" cop scum (sheriffs are often elected) that in turn lobby for mass surveillance. For the cheeeeeeldren, of course.
Pirate once, download to local storage, play locally after that. Who needs streaming?
Me? Nah, I'm not "happy" with Google -- fuck Google and the rest of Big Tech, and not in a pleasant way.
Yep, that too.
The ideal would be to make companies too afraid to retain ANY data and personal information -- to drive the cloudpushers out of business by strangling them with regulations.
Which is why there should be laws penalizing invasion of privacy. If companies start getting fined for bad behavior and their assets start being taken, they'll listen -- money talks, BS walks.
The only companies that take data privacy seriously are those that DON'T nudge you towards their cloud, that sell software that encourages local storage, preferably in encrypted form.
It will be the glued-shut, no-port, soldered-everything version of the old 17" MacBook Pro ... this thing will be to power laptops like the Jeep Compass is to off-road vehicles.
Even the automakers didn't weld their wheels on to keep for from changing tires.
Does "Support for 32GB of RAM" mean you can plug in two 16GB modules, or does it just mean that you can pay 3x the street price of the RAM extra to buy a laptop with it soldered to the motherboard?
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sucks, has lymphoma, which is currently in remission. I hope that it comes back, and that a potential cure was suppressed due to Goldman not investing in the technology.
Let the piece of filth get a taste of his own medicine!
Amazon are scum with no regard for their customers' (or is it products') privacy.
(1) Archiving/mining/sale of purchase data
(2) Selling facial recognition systems to police agencies worldwide, including in less than savory places
(3) Normalizing always-on microphones in people's homes.
I hope this is only the beginning of the backlash against Amazon and Jeff "Pic Dick" Bezos -- the ideal end game would be a big 'ol trust busting party, as was held for AT&T in the early 1980s. Split Amazon up into 10 or so companies, then move on and do the same to Google and Microsoft.
(1) Safety razor.
(2) Cheapie phones designed for developing-country and poor-area use (low-end Moto and Samsung) typically still have removable batteries. You just won't impress a date with them, which might be a good test anyway.
(3) Ebook reader? Just use a laptop and get access to a good e-library site.
So will "Piratebay and Chill" become the new PC term for sex on the couch?
Marko Ramius -- "I'm gonna steal this multi-billion ruble submarine and sail it into New York Harbor ... just TRY and stop me, Russkies. MUHAHAHAHAHA!"
I'd count it as a good thing that there are some cracks in the Walls of the Garden...
Here's what's going to happen. Merced-Bakersfield is going to get built -- too much money invested in the project. This route will be connected to Oakland via existing tracks used by Amtrak between Merced and Bakersfield. These tracks will be electrified to allow running of HSR trains between Oakland/Berkeley/Emeryville and Bakersfield. Meanwhile they'll be electrifying the existing Metrolink line to Lancaster as far north as Santa Clarita and hiring a Chinese consortium to build from Santa Clarita to Bakersfield via the median of I-5.
There are ways around this dumbassed law. It's possible to get a waiver, and relatively easy.
Also, the fixed infrastructure (rails, ties, signals) doesn't cost more when sourced in the US. Land acquisition and fixed infrastructure the the major costs here. The actual trains aren't expensive by comparison and can be acquired using state funds. New Federal regulations actually make it easier to run lightly-modified European train cars in the US -- they've weakened crash regulations that were absurdly tight.
By your standard of rail being 1800s technology, wheels on roads are 10th century B.C. technology. The neat thing about rail is that it stays on the "road" at 150 mph or more, regardless of weather conditions. It's also easy to power electrically, since steel rails provide a current return path with no worries about charging batteries or maintaining them.
The ideal system would actually be a hybrid of your system and rail -- driverless vehicles to bring passengers to stations, where shorter (2 or 3 car) driverless trains would run frequently between stations. Low-speed buses for shorter trips, higher-speed rail for longer hauls. Trains should be long enough to have a bathroom, some food service, ability to get up and walk around between stations, etc.
(1) Let the corrupt US contractors build from Merced to Bakersfield. (2) Use existing tracks from Oakland to Merced. Electrify them. Extend from Emeryville across the Bay Bridge to a terminal in SF. (3) Hire a French, Japanese, or Chinese company to build from Bakersfield to LA Union Station. They know what they're doing as far as high-speed rail and will get it done at 1/4 the cost of "buying American."
That's generally not true; most mail clients flag mail as deleted in the local archive. You have to run a "compact" on the archive in order to totally delete "deleted" messages.