You should never trust data, unless you can verify it. This does not only work for government data, but also for data from companies or scientist or people or aliens.
As will everybody else in the world. And that is why politicians should not always follow the popular ideas. It is also why subsidizing is not always a bad idea. Remember when things where done, not because they were easy, but because they were hard?
What you need is leaders. What you have now are managers. (Clinton would have been a manager as well)
Lean does not mean there is a shitload of things I do not want, I do not want Gmail. I do not want Hangout. I do not want Facebook. I do not want Chrome.
I would like a device that only has Google Play and then _I_ decide what I have or at least have the ability to delete what I want.
Incidentally, if he's so stupid, how come Hillary isn't being inaugurated today?
Because people voted against the current political situation. Enough did not vote for him, but against her. People who understand this have used this to direct their votes.
Hence the lawsuit that you are FORCED to sell the land to the highest bidder. 1USD is bid. Any other takers? No? Sold.
Oh, you want to be smart and bid 1.000.000 yourself via somebody else? Fine. You have to come up with that money first. Oh, you don't have that money? (Remember that you will not just get that 1.000.000 There will be things added on top of that) Sorry, your offer was not only not valid, but an illegal scheme to inflate the price. So others may now re-enter their bid.
I have bought a 55" TV just to watch movies and the like. I however do not have cable. I just use it as a big monitor as they are way cheaper than a monitor of the same size and for the quality I need. No, I do not use ANY of the features from the TV. Not the channels. Not the Internet. Not the apps.
So I already have a 'modular TV'.
To be more specific. I have 3 monitors. One monitor goes through a splitter and that goes to 3 other screens. One on my desk as monitor 3 (24"). One to the kitchen to a 22" and one to the 55" TV. Those have thus the same image and as I run XFCE with separate screens, I can keep what I watch on those monitors.
Disadvantage of a TV to a monitor is that a monitor will turn itself off completely and the TVs I have need to be turned off and on, so I have to press the button on the remote.
Some movies are not available via torrent. Sure the blockbusters are, but many are not. Even recent movies that are out on DVD and Blueray are not always available. Especially if they are not blockbusters.
Just because YOU do not like to own things does not mean you should not care. If the only way to get content is to do this via rental, it means it is pretty easy NOT to let you see anything they do not want you to see and increase the prices for things they allow you to see. And when they have only a few distribution channels, they can easily control everything.
Why is it that, even now, people are still focused on the players and not the crimes?
Because the majority of the people is a social and emotional being and not a rational one. That means they are more interested in people than in anything else.
You see that in how people vote, for one. The fact that people are more interested in celebrities is another. It also explains why on one side we disagree that hitting your SO is a bad thing and you should be put in prison and on the other side find and make up excuses to still buy their records and adore the people who do this.
If this is a good or a bad thing in the long run is another discussion. For now it has served human DNA pretty well.
I am sitting next to him at the bar. His phone explodes, I have burns now. Does he have enough to cover all that? He is aware that now he is liable for everything, right? He forgot it at a friends house. The house burns down. They find the phone and it looks as if that might have been the cause. Paytime. He is alone in his car. It burst into flames. He pulls at the steering wheel and drives over a kid. Nice one.
In Belgium the employer can ask if you have a clean slate. What they will get is a yes or no. After a while these will be removed depending the type of crime. You also see the time it happened. It is only in very specific places where I was responsible for customers money that this was actually asked. If you are a desk jockey, most likely nobody will ask.
Innocent until proven guilty. Also the way Europe thinks about privacy is different from how the US thinks about it. In Europe everything is private unless it is public. In the US everything is public unless it is private.
And this is for all people, not just for a selected group. This thus includes people who are in prison. It is not that they suddenly are perceived as sub-human. They are still part of our society.
I live in Belgium and everybody (or at least every adult) can join a union if they want to. You have a selection of unions where you can go to, regardless where or if you work. There are some that are more specialized. e.g. for train staff, for white color, for management (yes, they can join a union as well), military and there will be several that will be specialized.
I just am with one that is close to where I live, because that is what was important to me.
So I just join the union and that is about it. None of the companies I worked for cared, except one, because they paid the contribution. When people are hired, nobody will ask if you are union or not, because nobody cares. I can imagine you are not even allowed to ask, but it is not important.
Also if the company has more than 50 employees, you have to have social elections that will vote for union representatives that will have monthly meetings with management.
So we have the choice and in reality every company with more than 50 people is unionized. All of them. By law.
The advantage is that it keeps the companies in check a bit. I get my 35 days vacation. I get several weeks payment minimal when they fire me (unless I did something illegal) and if there are major cuts in staffing, they will negotiate a much better deal than I ever could. e.g. 7 months pay after working somewhere for 2 years for me. Minimum was 3.5 months for somebody who was there for 1 month and others who worked there longer it was a lot more.
So yeah, I think it is strange that anybody could forbid me to join a union or even decide that I MUST join a union, or I can not get the job. (See, works both ways) From what I see, the US has guilds not unions. A guild is something that protects the profession. A union protects its members. At least that is the difference to me.
People didn't want Clinton. That is what happens if people vote against something instead of for something. Next (as is normal human behavior) they will find an excuse as to why they voted for Trump.
I do not live the the US. I do not even own a car, so take this with a lot of salt. When I see something like this I always see why it is not possible to do in the US, because it is so big. This would mean that you don't do anything, unless everybody is able to get it. Are you a communist?
What you could do is to see who IS living in the major metro area and who IS able to us an electric car and you will get to a much higher number.
The real reason is that fuel is cheap in the US compared to Europe. So in Europe Electric will be interesting much faster. If you would pay double or triple for your fuel, you would buy smaller cars and you would go to electric much faster.
I have seen this with ADSL where Belgium was one of the first in Europe to go to ADSL. Not because people where so advanced, but because of the high cost for calls. More than 1 hour of Internet per day and ADSL was more interesting. I other countries that was 3 hours.
If they started now, they are not as smart as I thought they were. The materials to buy drones and now even to buy complete drones are so obvious, I wonder why they only start now.
Is this because they are really ineffective and they use it as a last straw? Or is this now news to push some other agenda?
We have issues with a 1 pound quadcopter and now we are getting flying cars that will be several hundred pounds. And look how some people drive and are unable to see in two dimensions to see what goes on around their car. Now you add a third dimension. And all this in an space that is not regulated/overseen by the FAA.
So it might be possible that they are allowed to fly on some places. I can imagine that they still need to drive to the airport, take off and land at another airport and drive again with a licensed pilot while in the air,
So it will take a while till we see Fifth Element situations in NYC if that will ever happen.
There will not be a year of the Linux Desktop, but not because people do not want it, but because people do not care. You know what the wonderword is? Pre-installed.
People buy an android phone and an iPad and a Win10 Portable. Because people do not care. And Microsoft is well aware of that.
Have Linux pre-installed on a machine and people will buy it. And I do not mean somewhere on a website. I mean in the store with no option of selecting anything else. Not just one store, all of the stores and if they want Windows, they need to download and install it themselves.
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Alternate facts are doubleplusgood for those who use it. Remember: we have always been at war with Eurasia.
You should never trust data, unless you can verify it. This does not only work for government data, but also for data from companies or scientist or people or aliens.
As will everybody else in the world. And that is why politicians should not always follow the popular ideas. It is also why subsidizing is not always a bad idea.
Remember when things where done, not because they were easy, but because they were hard?
What you need is leaders. What you have now are managers. (Clinton would have been a manager as well)
You make it sound as if that is a bad idea.
Please keep up and read your new newspeak book. It isn't a lie, it is an alternative truth.
Lean does not mean there is a shitload of things I do not want, I do not want Gmail. I do not want Hangout. I do not want Facebook. I do not want Chrome.
I would like a device that only has Google Play and then _I_ decide what I have or at least have the ability to delete what I want.
Because people voted against the current political situation. Enough did not vote for him, but against her. People who understand this have used this to direct their votes.
Hence the lawsuit that you are FORCED to sell the land to the highest bidder. 1USD is bid. Any other takers? No? Sold.
Oh, you want to be smart and bid 1.000.000 yourself via somebody else? Fine. You have to come up with that money first. Oh, you don't have that money? (Remember that you will not just get that 1.000.000 There will be things added on top of that) Sorry, your offer was not only not valid, but an illegal scheme to inflate the price. So others may now re-enter their bid.
I have bought a 55" TV just to watch movies and the like. I however do not have cable. I just use it as a big monitor as they are way cheaper than a monitor of the same size and for the quality I need.
No, I do not use ANY of the features from the TV. Not the channels. Not the Internet. Not the apps.
So I already have a 'modular TV'.
To be more specific. I have 3 monitors. One monitor goes through a splitter and that goes to 3 other screens. One on my desk as monitor 3 (24"). One to the kitchen to a 22" and one to the 55" TV. Those have thus the same image and as I run XFCE with separate screens, I can keep what I watch on those monitors.
Disadvantage of a TV to a monitor is that a monitor will turn itself off completely and the TVs I have need to be turned off and on, so I have to press the button on the remote.
I like how they timed the "We are not going to prosecute her" "Oh wait, we are" happened. It changed just enough peoples mind.
Because that is not how the companies that do the selling will make the most profit.
Some movies are not available via torrent. Sure the blockbusters are, but many are not. Even recent movies that are out on DVD and Blueray are not always available. Especially if they are not blockbusters.
Just because YOU do not like to own things does not mean you should not care.
If the only way to get content is to do this via rental, it means it is pretty easy NOT to let you see anything they do not want you to see and increase the prices for things they allow you to see.
And when they have only a few distribution channels, they can easily control everything.
So who is affected? You are.
There is a difference between 'ALL' in science and 'ALL' in daily language usage. I also had fun pointing these things out when I was 12 or so.
It also has crossed your mind while reading it, so the ALL stands.
Because the majority of the people is a social and emotional being and not a rational one. That means they are more interested in people than in anything else.
You see that in how people vote, for one. The fact that people are more interested in celebrities is another. It also explains why on one side we disagree that hitting your SO is a bad thing and you should be put in prison and on the other side find and make up excuses to still buy their records and adore the people who do this.
If this is a good or a bad thing in the long run is another discussion. For now it has served human DNA pretty well.
I am sitting next to him at the bar. His phone explodes, I have burns now. Does he have enough to cover all that? He is aware that now he is liable for everything, right?
He forgot it at a friends house. The house burns down. They find the phone and it looks as if that might have been the cause. Paytime.
He is alone in his car. It burst into flames. He pulls at the steering wheel and drives over a kid. Nice one.
In Belgium the employer can ask if you have a clean slate. What they will get is a yes or no. After a while these will be removed depending the type of crime. You also see the time it happened.
It is only in very specific places where I was responsible for customers money that this was actually asked. If you are a desk jockey, most likely nobody will ask.
Innocent until proven guilty. Also the way Europe thinks about privacy is different from how the US thinks about it.
In Europe everything is private unless it is public.
In the US everything is public unless it is private.
And this is for all people, not just for a selected group. This thus includes people who are in prison. It is not that they suddenly are perceived as sub-human. They are still part of our society.
I live in Belgium and everybody (or at least every adult) can join a union if they want to. You have a selection of unions where you can go to, regardless where or if you work. There are some that are more specialized. e.g. for train staff, for white color, for management (yes, they can join a union as well), military and there will be several that will be specialized.
I just am with one that is close to where I live, because that is what was important to me.
So I just join the union and that is about it. None of the companies I worked for cared, except one, because they paid the contribution. When people are hired, nobody will ask if you are union or not, because nobody cares. I can imagine you are not even allowed to ask, but it is not important.
Also if the company has more than 50 employees, you have to have social elections that will vote for union representatives that will have monthly meetings with management.
So we have the choice and in reality every company with more than 50 people is unionized. All of them. By law.
The advantage is that it keeps the companies in check a bit. I get my 35 days vacation. I get several weeks payment minimal when they fire me (unless I did something illegal) and if there are major cuts in staffing, they will negotiate a much better deal than I ever could. e.g. 7 months pay after working somewhere for 2 years for me. Minimum was 3.5 months for somebody who was there for 1 month and others who worked there longer it was a lot more.
So yeah, I think it is strange that anybody could forbid me to join a union or even decide that I MUST join a union, or I can not get the job. (See, works both ways)
From what I see, the US has guilds not unions. A guild is something that protects the profession. A union protects its members. At least that is the difference to me.
People didn't want Clinton. That is what happens if people vote against something instead of for something.
Next (as is normal human behavior) they will find an excuse as to why they voted for Trump.
640K should be enough for everybody.
I do not live the the US. I do not even own a car, so take this with a lot of salt.
When I see something like this I always see why it is not possible to do in the US, because it is so big. This would mean that you don't do anything, unless everybody is able to get it. Are you a communist?
What you could do is to see who IS living in the major metro area and who IS able to us an electric car and you will get to a much higher number.
The real reason is that fuel is cheap in the US compared to Europe. So in Europe Electric will be interesting much faster. If you would pay double or triple for your fuel, you would buy smaller cars and you would go to electric much faster.
I have seen this with ADSL where Belgium was one of the first in Europe to go to ADSL. Not because people where so advanced, but because of the high cost for calls. More than 1 hour of Internet per day and ADSL was more interesting. I other countries that was 3 hours.
If they started now, they are not as smart as I thought they were. The materials to buy drones and now even to buy complete drones are so obvious, I wonder why they only start now.
Is this because they are really ineffective and they use it as a last straw? Or is this now news to push some other agenda?
We have issues with a 1 pound quadcopter and now we are getting flying cars that will be several hundred pounds. And look how some people drive and are unable to see in two dimensions to see what goes on around their car. Now you add a third dimension. And all this in an space that is not regulated/overseen by the FAA.
So it might be possible that they are allowed to fly on some places. I can imagine that they still need to drive to the airport, take off and land at another airport and drive again with a licensed pilot while in the air,
So it will take a while till we see Fifth Element situations in NYC if that will ever happen.
There will not be a year of the Linux Desktop, but not because people do not want it, but because people do not care.
You know what the wonderword is? Pre-installed.
People buy an android phone and an iPad and a Win10 Portable. Because people do not care. And Microsoft is well aware of that.
Have Linux pre-installed on a machine and people will buy it. And I do not mean somewhere on a website. I mean in the store with no option of selecting anything else. Not just one store, all of the stores and if they want Windows, they need to download and install it themselves.