It seems that lots of people do not want an educated society. I am guessing it is because it makes their job more difficult if they have to explain their actions rather than an ignorant electorate not understanding the details so it is easy to just give them some marketing speak and then do what you want.
Control/ability to make rules freely, is more important than even profits. Profits can lead to more control, but an uneducated populace allows direct control.
My English teacher is going to kill me (in the afterlife!) for the above "paragraphs".
The big question is who is operating such scanning radar arrays.
If I told you, I would have to kill you. Lucky for you, "who" is not an answer that is possible to convey to humans because humans have not evolved the "brain circuitry" necessary to comprehend. Can you talk to your dog about who owns the car that your dog is riding in? Of course not. Dog's don't speak a human language and they are incapable of understanding titles, banks loans, etc. Well, in the same vein, the best I can do for you is point over there ---->
They are operating it.
But once we go down the road of explaining sentience above your level, I have to kill you or else you will disturb the rest of humanity in such a way that mass mayhem will eventually be the result.
Sorry bro. Until you start exhibiting signs of higher consciousness, we have to leave you in the dark in regards to what is really going on. It is for your own safety. Be happy with your radial tires, toaster, and tv set.:)
I would like to know if this is a natural phenomenon or is it possible it is from sentient beings.
So would everyone else.:)
There is no indication in the summary.
Of course not. They don't know either.
I let my brain relax and I see what the problem here is. I am unsure if I can speak of it coherently, but here is a shot at it:
You are assuming these people know MUCH more than they actually know. The stuck an antenna out the window and they found some radio noise that seemed a bit more than just noise. They looked at the position of the antenna and the strength of the signal and have tried to guess where those signals were coming from. They didn't "see" anything in particular in that direction that should be causing those "noises" but they still felt it was important to share that they did indeed hear noises. They shared all of the facts that they were aware of in the hopes that someone like you might have an idea to propose that they can further investigate.
TL;DR, some people heard some noises. they pointed out the direction the noises came from. they have no other facts than noises and direction.
Beyond the TL;DR, the repeating signal could be significant or it could just be another pulsar/neutron star type of thing that also repeats. If the noises had "complex" patterns and was repeating, that would indicate aliens. If the repetition and contents of the signal can be explained by known interactions, then it is not aliens. The situation we are in now is combination of both: We don't see anything "complex" about the signals but we can't explain them either.
So yeah. That is where we, and now you, are at currently.:)
Turns out, US manufacturers intentionally add butyric acid (which is a good part of what makes vomit smell) because it was what "consumers demand".
This is an argument against Direct Democracy. The average person is a weak-willed mouse who just wants to survive another day. Personal preferences, hell, ANYTHING about them is largely unimportant because they feel largely unimportant. They go with what they know and take no risks. If the cheese/chocolate they ate when they were little tasted like shit, that is what they expect it to taste like when they buy it for themselves. No changes allowed.
There are enough of this type of person to cause TVs to only be Smart TVs, chocolate to have butyric acid added, Microsoft to feel confident in using the general public as alpha and beta testers, Democrats in believing that "Russians influenced the elections!" will get people to vote for Democrats in the next election, etc.
Some of the aspects of this world are utterly gross... but then, making sausage is gross too. Meh.
Very nice. Google just gave themselves more leverage in dealing with advertisers. Big win for them.
Oh wait! I got the wrong message.
Google is so fucking awesome in how they think of the users of their browser. They block malicious ads for us! Thank you so much Google. You take care of us so well.
Or it it back to what I first said and now Google has a mechanism to assure advertisers that a particular ad was definitely displayed so pay us more to show that ad.
No no no. I must be a good person and thank Google for all the great stuff they do for us. I am a proper citizen. Please don't send the elimination squad for me.
On the bright side, many are calling out that this is fake news.
I find myself wondering where the people are who normally call out the other bullshit being presented here.
This is a self-selected group of people being "tested". In fact, this group of people are entirely defined by not being worried about privacy. Do you think that might skew the results somewhat? Further, what were the distributions of ages and what maths were used to normalize it all?
To me, this article is an agenda and the study is an excuse to air it and none of you seemed to call it for that this time. Am I wrong or is Slashdot sleeping today?
No agendas? No twisted thinking? Critical thought? Honest analysis?
What the fuck are you doing on this planet. They are going to send someone to kill you soon. We are all supposed to be insane. Russian Interference! Trump! Hillary! No time to think, act now!
Meh. It is how most crimes get "solved". All evidence that we have points to X person doing this. Someone has to be punished. X person gets punished... all without ever fully validating that the assumptions based on the evidence are incontrovertible.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? ROFLMAO. Being "right" is all that matters. Being correct is not relevant.
LOL. You two are talking right past each other. Neither one of you is fully understanding what the other has to say. Stop being invested in being right and try to honestly figure out what he is talking about. The same advice goes to the person you are addressing. Seriously, you BOTH have great points to discuss, but the intended meaning keeps getting sidelined by... stupid ego bullshit?
An example:
Your completely unsubstantiated claim they all were corrupt is unfair.
Ecclesiastical corruption did happen
The person you are responding never used the word "all". He said there was corruption and you even confirmed that but you also changed his argument first to lessen the truth of what he was trying to get at.
I could show the same sort of absurd misunderstandings from the person you are speaking to, but I got the urge to laugh at this point, so this is where I stop. Go ahead and spin it as me attacking you and fully supporting the other guy's argument. That is your modus operandi... but be aware that I support neither of your arguments. I see truth in both and I see purposeful misunderstanding from both sides.
Relax. This is just a "feel good" piece for women. It allows the dominated and helpless but ever so strong woman of today feel better about her lowly position in life. She can now say, "see? women have been respected in the past, you should respect me now."
Of course, all of this shit is insane. We make true what we believe to be true. You can never escape: if you act like shit, you will get treated like shit. if you act respectfully, you will be treated respectfully. The problem is that people want to be respected but not act in a respectful manner.
I really wish these types of stories would stop appearing on Slashdot. Very few of the people here are actually programmable in that manner. There is too much critical thought to overcome with this bullshit.
If it requires any sort of technology on my own phone, then they are doing it WRONG. The telephone network is no different than the Internet network. If I am an ISP or Telecom provider, nothing enters my network without permission and nothing exits my network without permission. Source and destination, within my own network, is essentially guaranteed. I am not letting anything into my network without a known, by me, source and destination. There is ZERO room for "unknown" activity without cutting wires and sending random voltages down them... and the results of THAT will not leave my own network anyways.
No. If this requires technology on MY end as a consumer, then this is not about preventing spoofing, it is about tracking and gathering data, presumably to monetize it.
With articles like this, I feel the desire to become a "denier".
Shit is happening. Some of it looks pretty nasty. Regardless of what we can predict about the consequences, altering the chemistry of the air we breathe IS going to have an effect, likely a negative effect.
Articles like this that scream about percentages and how it is much worse than we thought and having it all served with a sauce of "the world is ending!", yeah. This was designed to create deniers, not to alert us to a problem that we should solve.
The worst part about it is that there are people who are legitimately scared and want to alert the rest of humanity... but humanity doesn't want to listen, so they dial up their rhetoric to insane levels...
and now most people ignore them.
Of course, having the people who are profiting off of this situation throwing shit into the mix to confuse everything doesn't help, but it is not the real problem. The real problem is how to get people as a whole to care since the only individuals who care are either making money from the situation or are too terrified to express themselves coherently.
Not malice, not a desire for customer data, but simple negligence combined with bone shattering stupidity.
Looking for the best in people and situations is usually a good quality to exhibit. Unfortunately, if you are not diligent enough, you may find yourself excusing terrible and fully intentional behaviour....
This is in the summary: Videos in that bucket were unencrypted due to the costs associated with implementation and "lost revenue opportunities due to restricted access."
That some (perhaps most) of these companies would cut corners and do the wrong thing was inevitable. But the implication of your question is that it's inevitable everywhere, which is not true. It's perfectly possible to construct a system so that no employees have access to the content other than those who need it to troubleshoot specific problems at customer request, and even those are closely audited and monitored.
The fact that your data is stored on their servers guarantees that these kinds of things can happen. They even say WHY they keep that data: To monetize it!
I don't think people realize what the real trade is here. People who buy (why do they have to pay for it?) these devices are essentially allowing an external entity to place a camera in their home to monetize any data that the camera can capture, things such as routines, demographics, etc. It just so happens that the person purchasing this device can also access the video feed for their purposes, such as who is ringing their doorbell. Of course, only the "security" aspect of the device is mentioned.
Honestly, this shit feels soooo slimy. Disgusting even. There is a clear lie through misrepresentation here.
I don't normally call people a dumbass, but really if it were that simple, don't you think they would have implemented it by now? These guys are motivated by millions, maybe billions of dollars. An idea as trivial as the one you have expressed is likely one of the first things they considered.
Your job, should you choose to accept it, it is to figure out possible reasons why your idea wouldn't work. You already know it doesn't work because it is not being implemented, so you can be sure, if you look hard enough, you will find why it won't work.
I don't mean dumbass in a mean way, more of a "are you serious?" way.:)
The first rational series of words so far. Let's find out why it is grabbing the "canvas". If moral outrage is appropriate, then we can move on to the moral outrage department. In the meantime, let's just find out exactly WTF is happening and why it is happening.
But consider this: given a choice between voting for the knave and voting for the fool, you should vote for the knave. Why? Because the knave is competent. But watch the knave like a hawk.
Well, the only people who can "watch" that knave are the "intelligence" agencies. Those agencies pretend to be held in check by the Executive, but as we have seen, those agencies are NOT fully controlled by the Executive. Even worse, those agencies fully believe they are above Congress as can be seen by having the Director (James Clapper) explicitly and deliberately lie to a Congressional panel.
In theory, your argument is correct. In reality, reality is far more complex than theory.
I guess you have been reading selective accounts of current events. Even the Rs don't like the way DJT is pulling out of Syria. And several erstwhile cabinet-members who are generals didn't like it either.
This is actually one of the most interesting developments during this Presidency. Either the military industrial complex will have Trump assassinated because he is no longer controllable or... there is no "or" here. This is huge money that Trump is currently fucking with and the people who normally receive that money are vicious and amoral. I have no idea what is coming after this surprising decision.
Relax bro. This is something that can be discussed maturely. I am sure that when push comes to shove, the OP is perfectly capable of finding a reasonable laptop that will suit his and his new employee's needs. He is just bringing up some discussion to reassure himself that he has thought of everything in relation to this new situation.
Try being a bit more generous in your thinking to come off as a less intolerant person.:)
That being said, I would recommend a business line laptop with plenty of RAM, an SSD, and the highest screen resolution you can find with the ability to hook up to one or more external monitors.
With the software requirements listed, I would 100% choose to go the Linux route, but if the OP is not capable of troubleshooting any issues with Linux, then go with what he can find support for.
The scary thing is, that logical fallacy is the default mode for most humans.
If you say something nice about Trump, all sorts of people will suddenly be attacking you and claiming that you are a Trump supporter. What. The. Fuck. A stopped clock is correct twice a day, commenting that the clock appears to be accurate at this moment does not imply that I think the clock is accurate at all moments... but for some people, remarking on the coincidence is equivalent to closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears, and screaming "la la la I can't hear you! The clock is ALWAYS accurate!"
It is like a mental disease or something. The weirdest part about all of it is that I see what appear to be perfectly normal people suddenly turning into "frothing at the mouth" idiots through the use of this logical fallacy. Just blows me away.
The very first class you take in Economics in school will explain, very simply, that increasing the price will reduce demand.
That rule assumes a Free and Open market. In this situation, it is about monopolies and the occasional oligopoly. In this case, the value proposition is in whether or not you want to watch TV, not how much you want to pay. Clearly, there is a line at where a normal person will say to themselves, "This is too much to pay to watch TV.", but the cable execs all appear to be misjudging that limit.
Thankfully, I have not been a TV "addict" for over 30 years now, so the only thing I care about all of this is how it will affect the price I pay for Internet.
Sounds to me like the Turks want to commit another genocide. Hopefully the Kurds can avoid the same outcome the Armenians suffered.
Why hope for a different outcome? The Kurds would gladly pay that price to have a country to call their own.
I mean, Armenia exists and Kurdistan does not, with that being the only difference between the two groups so far. Both have suffered attempted genocide, so if the Kurds get the same outcome, they also get a country. See?
I know you meant that you hope that the Kurds do not experience more bloody slaughters. I just HAD to point out the naive interpretation despite that.
Your calculations seem roughly correct for what they are describing. I think I I can help you find more waste heat than you have found.
The Bugatti Veyron (base model) generates 3,000 horse power when in operation. Of that 3k horsepower, only 1k horsepower can be captured and put to use as kinetic energy.
Where did 2k horsepower go? Mostly to various radiators to get rid of excess non-kinetic (read: thermal) energy.
I think it is possible to find waste heat to convert into electricity.:)
I am mildly annoyed at you. It is only 7 days into the new year and yet you have already hit what I consider a +6 comment. Usually, I only see 2 or 3 of these in a single year so either this year is looking to be a bumper crop of deeply insightful comments or I am doomed to suffer a drought for the rest of this year.
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It seems that lots of people do not want an educated society. I am guessing it is because it makes their job more difficult if they have to explain their actions rather than an ignorant electorate not understanding the details so it is easy to just give them some marketing speak and then do what you want.
Control/ability to make rules freely, is more important than even profits. Profits can lead to more control, but an uneducated populace allows direct control.
My English teacher is going to kill me (in the afterlife!) for the above "paragraphs".
The big question is who is operating such scanning radar arrays.
If I told you, I would have to kill you. Lucky for you, "who" is not an answer that is possible to convey to humans because humans have not evolved the "brain circuitry" necessary to comprehend. Can you talk to your dog about who owns the car that your dog is riding in? Of course not. Dog's don't speak a human language and they are incapable of understanding titles, banks loans, etc. Well, in the same vein, the best I can do for you is point over there ---->
They are operating it.
But once we go down the road of explaining sentience above your level, I have to kill you or else you will disturb the rest of humanity in such a way that mass mayhem will eventually be the result.
Sorry bro. Until you start exhibiting signs of higher consciousness, we have to leave you in the dark in regards to what is really going on. It is for your own safety. Be happy with your radial tires, toaster, and tv set. :)
I would like to know if this is a natural phenomenon or is it possible it is from sentient beings.
So would everyone else. :)
There is no indication in the summary.
Of course not. They don't know either.
I let my brain relax and I see what the problem here is. I am unsure if I can speak of it coherently, but here is a shot at it:
You are assuming these people know MUCH more than they actually know. The stuck an antenna out the window and they found some radio noise that seemed a bit more than just noise. They looked at the position of the antenna and the strength of the signal and have tried to guess where those signals were coming from. They didn't "see" anything in particular in that direction that should be causing those "noises" but they still felt it was important to share that they did indeed hear noises. They shared all of the facts that they were aware of in the hopes that someone like you might have an idea to propose that they can further investigate.
TL;DR, some people heard some noises. they pointed out the direction the noises came from. they have no other facts than noises and direction.
Beyond the TL;DR, the repeating signal could be significant or it could just be another pulsar/neutron star type of thing that also repeats. If the noises had "complex" patterns and was repeating, that would indicate aliens. If the repetition and contents of the signal can be explained by known interactions, then it is not aliens. The situation we are in now is combination of both: We don't see anything "complex" about the signals but we can't explain them either.
So yeah. That is where we, and now you, are at currently. :)
HTH
Well played kind sir. Well played indeed. :)
The beauty of this situation is that the pork is already on the inside.
You got me dying of laughter now.
Turns out, US manufacturers intentionally add butyric acid (which is a good part of what makes vomit smell) because it was what "consumers demand".
This is an argument against Direct Democracy. The average person is a weak-willed mouse who just wants to survive another day. Personal preferences, hell, ANYTHING about them is largely unimportant because they feel largely unimportant. They go with what they know and take no risks. If the cheese/chocolate they ate when they were little tasted like shit, that is what they expect it to taste like when they buy it for themselves. No changes allowed.
There are enough of this type of person to cause TVs to only be Smart TVs, chocolate to have butyric acid added, Microsoft to feel confident in using the general public as alpha and beta testers, Democrats in believing that "Russians influenced the elections!" will get people to vote for Democrats in the next election, etc.
Some of the aspects of this world are utterly gross... but then, making sausage is gross too. Meh.
Very nice. Google just gave themselves more leverage in dealing with advertisers. Big win for them.
Oh wait! I got the wrong message.
Google is so fucking awesome in how they think of the users of their browser. They block malicious ads for us! Thank you so much Google. You take care of us so well.
Or it it back to what I first said and now Google has a mechanism to assure advertisers that a particular ad was definitely displayed so pay us more to show that ad.
No no no. I must be a good person and thank Google for all the great stuff they do for us. I am a proper citizen. Please don't send the elimination squad for me.
On the bright side, many are calling out that this is fake news.
I find myself wondering where the people are who normally call out the other bullshit being presented here.
This is a self-selected group of people being "tested". In fact, this group of people are entirely defined by not being worried about privacy. Do you think that might skew the results somewhat? Further, what were the distributions of ages and what maths were used to normalize it all?
To me, this article is an agenda and the study is an excuse to air it and none of you seemed to call it for that this time. Am I wrong or is Slashdot sleeping today?
I suspect we need a few more clones of you.
No agendas? No twisted thinking? Critical thought? Honest analysis?
What the fuck are you doing on this planet. They are going to send someone to kill you soon. We are all supposed to be insane. Russian Interference! Trump! Hillary! No time to think, act now!
Can I go home now? Please?
Meh. It is how most crimes get "solved". All evidence that we have points to X person doing this. Someone has to be punished. X person gets punished... all without ever fully validating that the assumptions based on the evidence are incontrovertible.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? ROFLMAO. Being "right" is all that matters. Being correct is not relevant.
LOL. You two are talking right past each other. Neither one of you is fully understanding what the other has to say. Stop being invested in being right and try to honestly figure out what he is talking about. The same advice goes to the person you are addressing. Seriously, you BOTH have great points to discuss, but the intended meaning keeps getting sidelined by... stupid ego bullshit?
An example:
Your completely unsubstantiated claim they all were corrupt is unfair.
Ecclesiastical corruption did happen
The person you are responding never used the word "all". He said there was corruption and you even confirmed that but you also changed his argument first to lessen the truth of what he was trying to get at.
I could show the same sort of absurd misunderstandings from the person you are speaking to, but I got the urge to laugh at this point, so this is where I stop. Go ahead and spin it as me attacking you and fully supporting the other guy's argument. That is your modus operandi... but be aware that I support neither of your arguments. I see truth in both and I see purposeful misunderstanding from both sides.
Relax. This is just a "feel good" piece for women. It allows the dominated and helpless but ever so strong woman of today feel better about her lowly position in life. She can now say, "see? women have been respected in the past, you should respect me now."
Of course, all of this shit is insane. We make true what we believe to be true. You can never escape: if you act like shit, you will get treated like shit. if you act respectfully, you will be treated respectfully. The problem is that people want to be respected but not act in a respectful manner.
I really wish these types of stories would stop appearing on Slashdot. Very few of the people here are actually programmable in that manner. There is too much critical thought to overcome with this bullshit.
Social Agendas have no place on Slashdot.
If it requires any sort of technology on my own phone, then they are doing it WRONG. The telephone network is no different than the Internet network. If I am an ISP or Telecom provider, nothing enters my network without permission and nothing exits my network without permission. Source and destination, within my own network, is essentially guaranteed. I am not letting anything into my network without a known, by me, source and destination. There is ZERO room for "unknown" activity without cutting wires and sending random voltages down them... and the results of THAT will not leave my own network anyways.
No. If this requires technology on MY end as a consumer, then this is not about preventing spoofing, it is about tracking and gathering data, presumably to monetize it.
With articles like this, I feel the desire to become a "denier".
Shit is happening. Some of it looks pretty nasty. Regardless of what we can predict about the consequences, altering the chemistry of the air we breathe IS going to have an effect, likely a negative effect.
Articles like this that scream about percentages and how it is much worse than we thought and having it all served with a sauce of "the world is ending!", yeah. This was designed to create deniers, not to alert us to a problem that we should solve.
The worst part about it is that there are people who are legitimately scared and want to alert the rest of humanity... but humanity doesn't want to listen, so they dial up their rhetoric to insane levels...
and now most people ignore them.
Of course, having the people who are profiting off of this situation throwing shit into the mix to confuse everything doesn't help, but it is not the real problem. The real problem is how to get people as a whole to care since the only individuals who care are either making money from the situation or are too terrified to express themselves coherently.
Not malice, not a desire for customer data, but simple negligence combined with bone shattering stupidity.
Looking for the best in people and situations is usually a good quality to exhibit. Unfortunately, if you are not diligent enough, you may find yourself excusing terrible and fully intentional behaviour....
This is in the summary:
Videos in that bucket were unencrypted due to the costs associated with implementation and "lost revenue opportunities due to restricted access."
Note the words, "lost revenue opportunities".
Have a nice day Mr. Europa. :)
That some (perhaps most) of these companies would cut corners and do the wrong thing was inevitable. But the implication of your question is that it's inevitable everywhere, which is not true. It's perfectly possible to construct a system so that no employees have access to the content other than those who need it to troubleshoot specific problems at customer request, and even those are closely audited and monitored.
The fact that your data is stored on their servers guarantees that these kinds of things can happen. They even say WHY they keep that data: To monetize it!
I don't think people realize what the real trade is here. People who buy (why do they have to pay for it?) these devices are essentially allowing an external entity to place a camera in their home to monetize any data that the camera can capture, things such as routines, demographics, etc. It just so happens that the person purchasing this device can also access the video feed for their purposes, such as who is ringing their doorbell. Of course, only the "security" aspect of the device is mentioned.
Honestly, this shit feels soooo slimy. Disgusting even. There is a clear lie through misrepresentation here.
I don't normally call people a dumbass, but really if it were that simple, don't you think they would have implemented it by now? These guys are motivated by millions, maybe billions of dollars. An idea as trivial as the one you have expressed is likely one of the first things they considered.
Your job, should you choose to accept it, it is to figure out possible reasons why your idea wouldn't work. You already know it doesn't work because it is not being implemented, so you can be sure, if you look hard enough, you will find why it won't work.
I don't mean dumbass in a mean way, more of a "are you serious?" way. :)
The first rational series of words so far. Let's find out why it is grabbing the "canvas". If moral outrage is appropriate, then we can move on to the moral outrage department. In the meantime, let's just find out exactly WTF is happening and why it is happening.
But consider this: given a choice between voting for the knave and voting for the fool, you should vote for the knave. Why? Because the knave is competent. But watch the knave like a hawk.
Well, the only people who can "watch" that knave are the "intelligence" agencies. Those agencies pretend to be held in check by the Executive, but as we have seen, those agencies are NOT fully controlled by the Executive. Even worse, those agencies fully believe they are above Congress as can be seen by having the Director (James Clapper) explicitly and deliberately lie to a Congressional panel.
In theory, your argument is correct. In reality, reality is far more complex than theory.
I guess you have been reading selective accounts of current events. Even the Rs don't like the way DJT is pulling out of Syria. And several erstwhile cabinet-members who are generals didn't like it either.
This is actually one of the most interesting developments during this Presidency. Either the military industrial complex will have Trump assassinated because he is no longer controllable or ... there is no "or" here. This is huge money that Trump is currently fucking with and the people who normally receive that money are vicious and amoral. I have no idea what is coming after this surprising decision.
Relax bro. This is something that can be discussed maturely. I am sure that when push comes to shove, the OP is perfectly capable of finding a reasonable laptop that will suit his and his new employee's needs. He is just bringing up some discussion to reassure himself that he has thought of everything in relation to this new situation.
Try being a bit more generous in your thinking to come off as a less intolerant person. :)
That being said, I would recommend a business line laptop with plenty of RAM, an SSD, and the highest screen resolution you can find with the ability to hook up to one or more external monitors.
With the software requirements listed, I would 100% choose to go the Linux route, but if the OP is not capable of troubleshooting any issues with Linux, then go with what he can find support for.
Cheers :)
The scary thing is, that logical fallacy is the default mode for most humans.
If you say something nice about Trump, all sorts of people will suddenly be attacking you and claiming that you are a Trump supporter. What. The. Fuck. A stopped clock is correct twice a day, commenting that the clock appears to be accurate at this moment does not imply that I think the clock is accurate at all moments... but for some people, remarking on the coincidence is equivalent to closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears, and screaming "la la la I can't hear you! The clock is ALWAYS accurate!"
It is like a mental disease or something. The weirdest part about all of it is that I see what appear to be perfectly normal people suddenly turning into "frothing at the mouth" idiots through the use of this logical fallacy. Just blows me away.
Have a nice day. :)
The very first class you take in Economics in school will explain, very simply, that increasing the price will reduce demand.
That rule assumes a Free and Open market. In this situation, it is about monopolies and the occasional oligopoly. In this case, the value proposition is in whether or not you want to watch TV, not how much you want to pay. Clearly, there is a line at where a normal person will say to themselves, "This is too much to pay to watch TV.", but the cable execs all appear to be misjudging that limit.
Thankfully, I have not been a TV "addict" for over 30 years now, so the only thing I care about all of this is how it will affect the price I pay for Internet.
Sounds to me like the Turks want to commit another genocide. Hopefully the Kurds can avoid the same outcome the Armenians suffered.
Why hope for a different outcome? The Kurds would gladly pay that price to have a country to call their own.
I mean, Armenia exists and Kurdistan does not, with that being the only difference between the two groups so far. Both have suffered attempted genocide, so if the Kurds get the same outcome, they also get a country. See?
I know you meant that you hope that the Kurds do not experience more bloody slaughters. I just HAD to point out the naive interpretation despite that.
I am guessing that the majority completely missed this great Family Guy reference. That was an awesome episode.
Hi Ray.
Your calculations seem roughly correct for what they are describing. I think I I can help you find more waste heat than you have found.
The Bugatti Veyron (base model) generates 3,000 horse power when in operation. Of that 3k horsepower, only 1k horsepower can be captured and put to use as kinetic energy.
Where did 2k horsepower go? Mostly to various radiators to get rid of excess non-kinetic (read: thermal) energy.
I think it is possible to find waste heat to convert into electricity. :)
I am mildly annoyed at you. It is only 7 days into the new year and yet you have already hit what I consider a +6 comment. Usually, I only see 2 or 3 of these in a single year so either this year is looking to be a bumper crop of deeply insightful comments or I am doomed to suffer a drought for the rest of this year.
Well done. :)