Wait, you use your phone to make calls? How... quaint. Seriously, the ability to make calls from my phone could be dropped and I wouldn't even miss it.
I think making calls is sort of the definition of a phone.
Hey it is 200 years in the future. We should have by then what the sales people promised us for Windows 95.
C'mon this is supposed to be the bright future. Maybe they have the bugs worked out of Windows 10 by then. Now that I think about it, CBS and Microsoft missed a golden opportunity for marketing synergy. They could rebrand Windows 10 Enterprise, to Windows 10 Discovery
No love for Hillary. But Bernie _wasn't_ a D until he saw an opportunity once all the viable candidates stepped aside to give Hillary 'her turn'.
Bernie??? Not a Democrat??? The Socialist from Vermont???? He's the only honest Democrat around. I will never forget him ON NATIONAL TV saying, "We will raise taxes. Oh yes we will."
The power to create laws, such as would cover DACA, comes from congress.
Except Congress passed a law. Many, in fact. Over a period of decades. Those laws left virtually all implementation details up to the Executive branch.
That wiggle room provided by Congress provides plenty of space for DACA. It's not like DACA was granting citizenship.
What the Executive Order giveth, the Executive Order can taketh away. This is a lesson lost on some...
George Zimmerman springs to mind. Trump will use the Presidential Pardon to free the KKK man.
I hate to smack you back into reality, but Zimmerman was found not guilty in a public trial. I know you Berkeley types think that CNN had already found him guilty, but no pardon, Presidential or otherwise, was required.
Ah, the myth of Lee, a good ole boy, never meaning no harm.
But no, he was a traitor and a member of the Rebel Alliance. He rejected his duty. He turned on his country, and brought violence upon it. He only chose peace when it was forced upon him by defeat.
Watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" on PBS. Shelby Foote's insights are incredible. He has a trilogy of books that are wonderful too. He is(was) a master of Civil War history. One of his greatest insights was the small grammatical change that happened after the War. References to the US changed from "The United States are" to "The United States is". The US was seen as a collection of semi autonomous states. Many people felt more loyalty to their state than to the collection of states that made up the country. Lee was such a person. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to fight for Virginia. The Confederacy was ancillary to his loyalty.
The marching pace of progress in modern society is much different than 1861. At that point, we were only 71 years into the experiment of a "strong" central Federal government which was not all that strong anyway. People had more loyalty and ties to their home state than we do today.
Your "good ole boy" comment only shows your own ignorance of the facts involved. And I fail to understand at all what the Fugitive Slave Act had to do with the reputation or motivations of Lee. Are you alleging he had a hand in crafting it?
China is making big progress on this, including a system to feed traffic light timing information directly to cars so they can brake and accelerate more intelligently.
Unless this is accompanied with fully autonomous cars, it will be pointless. Where I live, my city spent $800,000 (mostly Federal grant money) to coordinate the timing of the traffic lights on our most busy road. I drive that road every day. There are 15 traffic lights I must cross on that road, on a daily commute of 3.9 miles; driveway to parking space. 3.4 miles of my commute is on that road.
The issue is that many of the commuters are idiots. The lights are timed such that if you drive the speed limit, you can go through every light - except one - without stopping. The idiots I see every day insist upon driving 10 to 15 MPH under the speed limit causing traffic to back up behind them and forcing us to all stop at many lights.
It is very frustrating that two clueless idiots can drive side-by-side, blocking both lanes, causing us all to stop at those lights. On the rare occasion that I am at the front of the pack, I drive the morning or afternoon commute at the posted limit and never stop. Invariably, when I look in the rear-view mirror, I see the poor shlubs far behind me getting caught at lights that I do not.
My 3.9 mile commute can vary between nine and twenty two minutes depending on the abilities of my fellow commuters to figure out the speed limit and traffic light technology. My average mileage per leg of the commute varies between 15 and 29 MPG in a mid sized hybrid.
1. Now that you are using company X's product are you medically unable to use company Y's?
Is that why it's "reasonable" at first?
Company X's product appears to be the only one that works for me. I have tried other products in the past, but none work as well. The patent has recently expired, but so far no generics have yet hit the market.
The "reasonable" statement referred to the cost when it was new. As the patent nears expiration, drug makers raise the price as they know generics are coming. My medicine costs (which were high but manageable) tripled. Last year, my one prescription completed my out-of-pocket costs for my high deductible plan by itself. This is a medicine that will be 1/10 the price in five years and someone will still be making a huge profit. There are already three generic makers awaiting FDA approval and more in the wings.
As a user of a patented drug that has skyrocketed in price over the past 10 years, I have thought about this problem quite a bit. The pharmaceutical industry follows the same business plan as the street dealer. The first hit is free. Luckily my costs have "only" tripled since 2005.
The costs climb dramatically over the last ten years of patent for broadly used drugs. In the early years, the drug is always reasonable. Once the victim is snared, the milking begins and continues until the patent expires and bio-substitutable alternatives appear. I propose the following:
All patented pharmaceuticals cannot rise in price any faster than the rate of inflation. If the manufacturer increases pricing over inflation, the patent is cancelled. The manufacturer had better price their meds at their expected rate-of-return in the beginning. This will prevent extortion on the back end of patents. This may price new meds out of reach, but there will be no more rape of the consumer and insurance carriers for meds that have been around for ten years.
If prices are too far out of reach early, there will be few adopters and no profits. Prices will have to equalize to reasonable numbers. Drug costs have risen to non-sustainable levels.
In the case of a lock, they've already proven that you owned the lock. For example, if they searched your house and confiscated a locked safe, they can prove to a satisfactory degree that you owned the safe, and it is reasonable to presume that a person knows how to open their own safe. So there is nothing testimonial about admitting you know how to open the safe.
Really? I have Master locks all over the house that I can't open. When I need one for something, I go out and buy a new one hoping I will some day find that little slips of paper that lets me open an old one. They pile up in drawers. I have a lock on one of my fence gates. It was there when I bought the house. I have no key. My youngest drags shit home all the time from the neighbor's trash. He had a small locked box that he couldn't open. He smashed it open, but the principle is that you cannot prove that someone can open a lock unless he has admitted it to you.
If you can open a safe in your example, the "testimonial" part is admitting that you have control over the safe and are theoretically responsible for the contents within. Refusal to open leaves reasonable doubt that you know the contents.
Vandermeyden recently took out a hefty loan to buy the cheapest version of the Model S Tesla car and has a reservation for the upcoming Model 3. She is hopeful her lawsuit and public comments won’t end her career at a company she loves: "I think they’re a revolutionary and innovative company."
Oops. She chose poorly. The even bigger issue is that she is now toxic. If she loses her case, it'll be a very hard sell to get hired again a la Ellen Pao.
I think the original Alien movie makes a great example. But the whole movie wasn't about a bad ass woman going to town, it was about a normal woman going to town. The power of two "mother" figures out to protect their "young".
You are confusing the original Alien movie (Alien - Ridley Scott) with the first sequel (Aliens - James Cameron). In the original, there was no indication Ripley was a mother and there were no human children in the story. The sequel Aliens featured the Xenomorph queen and the showdown between her/it and Ripley who protected Newt. The director's cut of Aliens also had a subplot where you discovered Ripley's motivation was due to the fact she was a mother and her young child had grown up and died while she was drifting through space over decades after the destruction of the Nostromo.
The fault is most definitely Windows. None of my Linux machines require a reboot to update except for the kernel. Since NT was first released in 1993, Microsoft still hasn't figured out how to do this. I updated a couple frozen machines this week that required a double reboot after Windows Update ran. How is this even a thing?
So if you physically rotate the drives...how is that "automatic"?
More importantly, keep in mind some of the ransomware running around is sneaky, running transparently for weeks or months to ensure that whatever backups are being made have rolled passed their maximum retention and all the new backups are actually encrypted. After a common retention period like 3 months, the malware pulls the plug...deleting the local encryption keep and throwing up a ransom note. "Oh, but I have week's worth of backups, I'm fine!"...until you realize all those backups are also encrypted...
Which is why I have URbackup running on my LAN backing up all the family computers. It shares no NFS or SMB folders to be infected or tampered with. I have a years worth of quarterly full backups and six months worth of daily incrementals which it stores very efficiently using hard links. It has Windows, Mac and Linux clients. I check it weekly to make sure I don't see a huge spike in incremental data saved which would indicate a ransomware event. The chronically lazy can get reports emailed.
It won't help if the place burns down, but the very important files are duped periodically and stored offsite. These days I worry more about Locky than I do about fire, flood, or tornadoes, but then I have kids.
Thanks for taking to time to respond. I haven't used film since 2003 when I bought my first digital. I now have a $300 point and shoot with a decent lens that does very well for snapshots. Most of the time I just use my phone which does amazingly well in all but the lowest light and the best part is that I always have it with me. I'm currently looking for a low end DSLR to improve my technique. I'm certainly not any kind of expert, but I like to play around with manual settings. I've been trying to decide whether to go Canon (T-6/T-6i) or Nikon (D3400) or wimp out and get a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ2300K long zoom point and shoot.
No company would ever think of applying DRM to things like power drills, leaf-blowers, etc., because you can legitimately purchase the same thing from a competitor.
Just curious... Do you still shoot film or just scan old stuff? Are you scanning slides, negatives, or prints? If you still shoot film, are the remaining labs any good at processing/printing or do you do it yourself?
While your post was insightful, I would argue the following:
1.) A United States Citizen declaring war on the United States. Where's that goddam manifesto? The last time that happened was the Civil War when the Confederacy committed treason.
As the Confederate states voted to secede from the union, they could not be judged as technically citizens at that time, therefore not technically treasonous. Of course, if you follow then Lincolnian school of thought, the vote was illegal and therefore null-and-void. I guess it all boils down to your opinion of self sovereignty of the states prior to the Civil War.
Shelby Foote claimed that prior to the war, the terminology used to reference the US was the following: "The United States ARE" whereas after the war it changed to "The United States IS". I think this is a telling observation of the reasoning of the time.
You're absolutely correct. Damn those tyrants in California for believing their vote should count the same as the vote of any other American. They need to learn that in America the rights don't belong to humans, and we're not all equal before the law. Rights belong to abstract constructs, like corporations or states or, if you're a republican, bank accounts.
When I hear this kind of stuff, I cringe at the educational system and what it has wrought. If you harbor anger and disagreement with the Constitution as written, perhaps you should propose an amendment to alter or abolish the Electoral College. Then you can lobby the states to ratify your amendment. Good luck on that part though, because the remaining 48 states aren't that eager to turn presidential selection power over to California and New York.
he waiter will earn less than the flirtatious waitress, have you any doubts about that?
Since I nearly always dine with an intimate guest, flirting would subtract quite a bit from the standard tip.
One time my (now ex) wife and I stopped at a Cracker Barrel off the highway while on a trip. The waitress gave ME the best service I ever had. She was friendly, attentive and prompt. My wife couldn't even order. The waitress wouldn't even look at her or acknowledge she existed. I had to order everything she got. I thought it was hilarious, but my wife was furious. She gave me a warning in no uncertain terms that I was forbidden to leave so much as a penny tip. She failed to see the humor when I explained a tip was deserved because of how wonderful my service was.
Looking back on things, I have to wonder if the waitress didn't secretly know my wife and was getting back at her for something she had done.
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Wait, you use your phone to make calls? How... quaint. Seriously, the ability to make calls from my phone could be dropped and I wouldn't even miss it.
I think making calls is sort of the definition of a phone.
Hey it is 200 years in the future. We should have by then what the sales people promised us for Windows 95.
C'mon this is supposed to be the bright future. Maybe they have the bugs worked out of Windows 10 by then. Now that I think about it, CBS and Microsoft missed a golden opportunity for marketing synergy. They could rebrand Windows 10 Enterprise, to Windows 10 Discovery
Paid for by the committee to re-elect Donald Trump. I guess they didn't learn anything from 2016.
Bernie??? Not a Democrat??? The Socialist from Vermont???? He's the only honest Democrat around. I will never forget him ON NATIONAL TV saying, "We will raise taxes. Oh yes we will."
Swearing an oath does not have any legal force.
Try using that defense when you are indicted for perjury and see how it works out for you.
The power to create laws, such as would cover DACA, comes from congress.
Except Congress passed a law. Many, in fact. Over a period of decades. Those laws left virtually all implementation details up to the Executive branch.
That wiggle room provided by Congress provides plenty of space for DACA. It's not like DACA was granting citizenship.
What the Executive Order giveth, the Executive Order can taketh away. This is a lesson lost on some...
Welcome to Trump land.
Todays -1 crazy, is tomorrows Trump plan.
George Zimmerman springs to mind. Trump will use the Presidential Pardon to free the KKK man.
I hate to smack you back into reality, but Zimmerman was found not guilty in a public trial. I know you Berkeley types think that CNN had already found him guilty, but no pardon, Presidential or otherwise, was required.
General Lee waged war against the US. He is the very definition of a traitor.
Traitors don't deserve statues.
Like George Washington? History is written by the winners.
Watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" on PBS. Shelby Foote's insights are incredible. He has a trilogy of books that are wonderful too. He is(was) a master of Civil War history. One of his greatest insights was the small grammatical change that happened after the War. References to the US changed from "The United States are" to "The United States is". The US was seen as a collection of semi autonomous states. Many people felt more loyalty to their state than to the collection of states that made up the country. Lee was such a person. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to fight for Virginia. The Confederacy was ancillary to his loyalty.
The marching pace of progress in modern society is much different than 1861. At that point, we were only 71 years into the experiment of a "strong" central Federal government which was not all that strong anyway. People had more loyalty and ties to their home state than we do today.
Your "good ole boy" comment only shows your own ignorance of the facts involved. And I fail to understand at all what the Fugitive Slave Act had to do with the reputation or motivations of Lee. Are you alleging he had a hand in crafting it?
Much in the same way the Taliban destroyed statues if the Buddha, destruction of history should always be opposed, or should we tear down mt Rushmore?
No, not like that at all. They don't want to destroy the statue of Robert E. Lee, they just want to put it somewhere else, e.g., in a museum.
Really? I guess that's why they broke off a chunk of it and spray painted it red?
Unless this is accompanied with fully autonomous cars, it will be pointless. Where I live, my city spent $800,000 (mostly Federal grant money) to coordinate the timing of the traffic lights on our most busy road. I drive that road every day. There are 15 traffic lights I must cross on that road, on a daily commute of 3.9 miles; driveway to parking space. 3.4 miles of my commute is on that road.
The issue is that many of the commuters are idiots. The lights are timed such that if you drive the speed limit, you can go through every light - except one - without stopping. The idiots I see every day insist upon driving 10 to 15 MPH under the speed limit causing traffic to back up behind them and forcing us to all stop at many lights.
It is very frustrating that two clueless idiots can drive side-by-side, blocking both lanes, causing us all to stop at those lights. On the rare occasion that I am at the front of the pack, I drive the morning or afternoon commute at the posted limit and never stop. Invariably, when I look in the rear-view mirror, I see the poor shlubs far behind me getting caught at lights that I do not.
My 3.9 mile commute can vary between nine and twenty two minutes depending on the abilities of my fellow commuters to figure out the speed limit and traffic light technology. My average mileage per leg of the commute varies between 15 and 29 MPG in a mid sized hybrid.
Questions:
1. Now that you are using company X's product are you medically unable to use company Y's?
Is that why it's "reasonable" at first?
Company X's product appears to be the only one that works for me. I have tried other products in the past, but none work as well. The patent has recently expired, but so far no generics have yet hit the market.
The "reasonable" statement referred to the cost when it was new. As the patent nears expiration, drug makers raise the price as they know generics are coming. My medicine costs (which were high but manageable) tripled. Last year, my one prescription completed my out-of-pocket costs for my high deductible plan by itself. This is a medicine that will be 1/10 the price in five years and someone will still be making a huge profit. There are already three generic makers awaiting FDA approval and more in the wings.
As a user of a patented drug that has skyrocketed in price over the past 10 years, I have thought about this problem quite a bit. The pharmaceutical industry follows the same business plan as the street dealer. The first hit is free. Luckily my costs have "only" tripled since 2005.
The costs climb dramatically over the last ten years of patent for broadly used drugs. In the early years, the drug is always reasonable. Once the victim is snared, the milking begins and continues until the patent expires and bio-substitutable alternatives appear. I propose the following:
All patented pharmaceuticals cannot rise in price any faster than the rate of inflation. If the manufacturer increases pricing over inflation, the patent is cancelled. The manufacturer had better price their meds at their expected rate-of-return in the beginning. This will prevent extortion on the back end of patents. This may price new meds out of reach, but there will be no more rape of the consumer and insurance carriers for meds that have been around for ten years.
If prices are too far out of reach early, there will be few adopters and no profits. Prices will have to equalize to reasonable numbers. Drug costs have risen to non-sustainable levels.
Really? I have Master locks all over the house that I can't open. When I need one for something, I go out and buy a new one hoping I will some day find that little slips of paper that lets me open an old one. They pile up in drawers. I have a lock on one of my fence gates. It was there when I bought the house. I have no key. My youngest drags shit home all the time from the neighbor's trash. He had a small locked box that he couldn't open. He smashed it open, but the principle is that you cannot prove that someone can open a lock unless he has admitted it to you.
If you can open a safe in your example, the "testimonial" part is admitting that you have control over the safe and are theoretically responsible for the contents within. Refusal to open leaves reasonable doubt that you know the contents.
Oops. She chose poorly. The even bigger issue is that she is now toxic. If she loses her case, it'll be a very hard sell to get hired again a la Ellen Pao.
You are confusing the original Alien movie (Alien - Ridley Scott) with the first sequel (Aliens - James Cameron). In the original, there was no indication Ripley was a mother and there were no human children in the story. The sequel Aliens featured the Xenomorph queen and the showdown between her/it and Ripley who protected Newt. The director's cut of Aliens also had a subplot where you discovered Ripley's motivation was due to the fact she was a mother and her young child had grown up and died while she was drifting through space over decades after the destruction of the Nostromo.
The fault is most definitely Windows. None of my Linux machines require a reboot to update except for the kernel. Since NT was first released in 1993, Microsoft still hasn't figured out how to do this. I updated a couple frozen machines this week that required a double reboot after Windows Update ran. How is this even a thing?
So if you physically rotate the drives...how is that "automatic"?
More importantly, keep in mind some of the ransomware running around is sneaky, running transparently for weeks or months to ensure that whatever backups are being made have rolled passed their maximum retention and all the new backups are actually encrypted. After a common retention period like 3 months, the malware pulls the plug...deleting the local encryption keep and throwing up a ransom note. "Oh, but I have week's worth of backups, I'm fine!"...until you realize all those backups are also encrypted...
Which is why I have URbackup running on my LAN backing up all the family computers. It shares no NFS or SMB folders to be infected or tampered with. I have a years worth of quarterly full backups and six months worth of daily incrementals which it stores very efficiently using hard links. It has Windows, Mac and Linux clients. I check it weekly to make sure I don't see a huge spike in incremental data saved which would indicate a ransomware event. The chronically lazy can get reports emailed.
It won't help if the place burns down, but the very important files are duped periodically and stored offsite. These days I worry more about Locky than I do about fire, flood, or tornadoes, but then I have kids.
Thanks for taking to time to respond. I haven't used film since 2003 when I bought my first digital. I now have a $300 point and shoot with a decent lens that does very well for snapshots. Most of the time I just use my phone which does amazingly well in all but the lowest light and the best part is that I always have it with me. I'm currently looking for a low end DSLR to improve my technique. I'm certainly not any kind of expert, but I like to play around with manual settings. I've been trying to decide whether to go Canon (T-6/T-6i) or Nikon (D3400) or wimp out and get a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ2300K long zoom point and shoot.
Or printers. Or farm tractors. Or cars. etc...
Just curious... Do you still shoot film or just scan old stuff? Are you scanning slides, negatives, or prints? If you still shoot film, are the remaining labs any good at processing/printing or do you do it yourself?
If you "just" need a 55" screen, you have focused on a very very very very very narrow proportion of people.
Really? Best Buy has a 55" LED on sale this week for $349. I bought a 55" three years ago for $850. Are they really that rare?
As the Confederate states voted to secede from the union, they could not be judged as technically citizens at that time, therefore not technically treasonous. Of course, if you follow then Lincolnian school of thought, the vote was illegal and therefore null-and-void. I guess it all boils down to your opinion of self sovereignty of the states prior to the Civil War.
Shelby Foote claimed that prior to the war, the terminology used to reference the US was the following: "The United States ARE" whereas after the war it changed to "The United States IS". I think this is a telling observation of the reasoning of the time.
When I hear this kind of stuff, I cringe at the educational system and what it has wrought. If you harbor anger and disagreement with the Constitution as written, perhaps you should propose an amendment to alter or abolish the Electoral College. Then you can lobby the states to ratify your amendment. Good luck on that part though, because the remaining 48 states aren't that eager to turn presidential selection power over to California and New York.
One time my (now ex) wife and I stopped at a Cracker Barrel off the highway while on a trip. The waitress gave ME the best service I ever had. She was friendly, attentive and prompt. My wife couldn't even order. The waitress wouldn't even look at her or acknowledge she existed. I had to order everything she got. I thought it was hilarious, but my wife was furious. She gave me a warning in no uncertain terms that I was forbidden to leave so much as a penny tip. She failed to see the humor when I explained a tip was deserved because of how wonderful my service was.
Looking back on things, I have to wonder if the waitress didn't secretly know my wife and was getting back at her for something she had done.