You could say the same in the other direction though. Everything that was printed against Hillary were lies even though we have hard evidence to the contrary and the only reporter that dared stood up against them were Russian stooges even though those same journalists were the ONLY ones in the US with the balls to bring the truth about the Iraq war and the NSA. Just because a particular viewpoint doesn't fit in your world view doesn't mean it is wrong.
How about this: Every purchase >$600 a business makes needs a 1099 filed with the IRS (went in with ObamaCare). Ever started a business? You need ~$200-2000 for various licenses just for being allowed to run it, often yearly. Liquor licenses, a leftover from prohibition can sometimes cost $20k between local, state and federal regulations. Want to put a digital display or an arcade in, get ready to get an advertising or gambling permit.
Coastal states uniformly have higher state taxes and regulations. Also more welfare state and resulting crime which is why they are overwhelmingly democrat. Trump can't order the states even as president to do anything about their own taxes.
Actually most of the engineering is still done in the US, especially with Apple. Companies that offshore engineering quickly learn that the Chinese don't care very much about things like copyright and patents.
I once worked for a company that did offshore their plant to China including the engineers, a few months later the plant was abandoned and another plant was started by the engineers cutting out the US corporation. Some of those "counterfeit" parts were at some point implied into an oil rig springing a leak a few years ago.
Yes, but that's aggregated and averaged data. They're now giving you a live view into the same data, basically, they are setting up a view on the current ingress of data.
It's called coupons. There are plenty of people willing to come to a place for 'free' beer or other low cost things. Just advertise on Facebook you are selling tickets at 20% of the street value, you'll have an instant 500 people there.
Wholesale diesel costs about $1.5/gallon. A day of diesel for the island thus costs ~$450/day, with shipping and storage probably about 20k/year. A set of generators for 1.5MW probably costs about 500k, and the same in maintenance over 10 years especially in a remote area. So you're talking about at the high end (with land, storage, regulatory and fuel cost increases) $1.5M investment once all is said and done.
Solar currently costs about $1/W. 1.5MW is thus about $1.5M and lasts 20 years with a lot less maintenance. So the investment is kind of steep if you've been able to stagger the costs across a number of generators but saves in the really long run >10 year.
There is a similar argument to intelligent design though.
I can certainly see the pro's if you are offended because your food died a cruel death (a very relative cruelty compared to wild nature).
But food from a local grocer or butcher (even though I don't get food from Walmart due to both cost and quality) has a string of regulations from FDA and other agencies attached due to the volume and conditions. A local farmer often doesn't have to comply with the strictest set of regulations (often none at all). In most cases food from a grocer is thus safer to eat whereas food poisoning from a farmer often goes unnoticed (again due to scale).
My objections though are that it is often more wasteful and costly to have a farmer travel and sell small amounts than a farmer selling large volumes of their produce. If it were at all profitable, "better" and manageable for all farmers to have their own supply chain to the city, we wouldn't have grocery stores.
That's the problem exactly, who would want equality between the sexes? Neither men nor women want it, everybody wants to be 'on top'. If it was truly equality you wanted, you would've stopped arguing some time in the 1950-70s.
Women's rights have been overcompensated for and are now infringing on men's (and as a result male gay and human) rights, it's very clear in court cases regarding alleged sexual assaults, domestic or custody disputes and it's becoming ever clearer in work places.
I suppose most activist feminists these days fall right into the "organized activity on behalf of women's interests", not equality. It's definitely not the academic/scientific theory they subscribe to.
They wouldn't be called feminists if they wanted equality. Slavery abolitionists didn't want an equal number of free people to slaves. This isn't a "civil rights" or "women's rights" movement, it's a feminist as there are communists or rationalists, it's not an equality of opposing views or people they want.
No, it won't work. In the beginning of the Internet, it was done that way, then slowly people realized you can use shell companies since they are also legal names in a legal sense and then people realized it was just as easy to put a fake name and now you can't even see names anymore in most whois lookups.
The problem to the lay person is that the 'AI' in contemporary media is portrayed as a sort of super-intelligence that is purely logical and thus superior to humans (and subsequently morally 'better' as well). It's easy to say by an attorney that a non-human, self-aware entity enhanced a perfect digital replica of the scene, it is therefore free of any human bias and thus a 'perfect' proof.
To go with your gears example, when people use gears all the time and they're always right, imagine you develop a complex gear system that can do something no human has ever done nor can feasibly verify and you call it an 'mechanical intelligence', people will assume it's always right given the prior simple gears have always been right.
You can't really upscale resolution but you can "enhance" images (especially raw ones) to a point. A lot of shots may be over or underexposed with some details left in one or more of the channels but visually blocked out, having thousands of minuscule changes and filtering go through a human in the hope of seeing something would be nearly impossible and having a filter to weed them out is helpful.
JPEG and similar compression are like MP3 - you can filter out what the algorithm defines as outside of the human realm to perceive but a lot of those assumptions are faulty leading to noticeable artifacts. However it is very hard to recover the data lost in "lossy compression" although you can make some assumptions to recover them.
The other problem with using these filters is that they're called artificial intelligences. They are not intelligent and calling them that leads to an assumption of infallibility. They're a form of Bayesian filtering and we've been using that since at least the days of OS/2 to "enhance" images, I used a demo of a program back then that did just that: inferences on JPEG to make a type of vector image. We just use more powerful clock cycles and more storage to have them perform better but they're not and never will be magic.
The question is, would they even be able to breathe, eat or drink without experiencing all sorts of health issues. Whether you increase or decrease the pollution, it will become a lot harder for your body to adjust a jump rather than a gradual increase. 100 years may not be that bad but it's more likely that it will be 200 or 500 years before someone can restore your body and your brain from the cell damage cryogenics does, people may have all sorts of evolutionary traits that deal with different CO, lead or oxygen in the environment.
The problem is we don't need a Python-esque shell for C#, us admins just need to be able to run "ipconfig" and "shutdown -r" on a Windows box and perhaps the command to re-register the freaking serial code every other month.
They most likely share data from 3rd party ad network crash handlers which are rife with bugs themselves and often used by developers to generate ad revenue. The story makes it look like more than half of the devices structurally fail (e.g. Need replacement) while it's 60% of the apps they track generate a crash handler which doesn't say much for either platform.
Even Apple phones don't drain that quickly. Mine is 3+ years old and still holds a good 8h of "active" time (regularly checking mails, a few phone calls), it used to be two full days when I purchased it although my activity has increased.
Well, I think it's entirely possible to have the 'ecosystem' be in a private server environment, plenty of people pay for it (usually large enterprises) but for the average consumer it's both too costly and too complex to maintain. Then you'd have a handful of servers all over that are 'vulnerable' to some mass attack.
It also allows you to pick up your phone from your computer or other devices. It's immensely useful if you sit at a desk and need to take a call, you can just use a headset. It's kind of 'expected' that such notification data runs throughout the ecosystem. Don't like it, turn off iCloud, then it doesn't happen unlike Android devices where it always happens regardless of your settings.
You don't even need access to the computer to do this "hack" - just use an existing network cable or be on the same network and you can read and modify any plain text sent over the wire. This isn't even "new", compromised USB network cards were all the rage 10 years ago when they first came out with those wallplug computers (before RPi even existed)
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There is an entire online archive for you to verify.
You could say the same in the other direction though. Everything that was printed against Hillary were lies even though we have hard evidence to the contrary and the only reporter that dared stood up against them were Russian stooges even though those same journalists were the ONLY ones in the US with the balls to bring the truth about the Iraq war and the NSA. Just because a particular viewpoint doesn't fit in your world view doesn't mean it is wrong.
How about this:
Every purchase >$600 a business makes needs a 1099 filed with the IRS (went in with ObamaCare).
Ever started a business? You need ~$200-2000 for various licenses just for being allowed to run it, often yearly. Liquor licenses, a leftover from prohibition can sometimes cost $20k between local, state and federal regulations.
Want to put a digital display or an arcade in, get ready to get an advertising or gambling permit.
Coastal states uniformly have higher state taxes and regulations. Also more welfare state and resulting crime which is why they are overwhelmingly democrat. Trump can't order the states even as president to do anything about their own taxes.
Actually most of the engineering is still done in the US, especially with Apple. Companies that offshore engineering quickly learn that the Chinese don't care very much about things like copyright and patents.
I once worked for a company that did offshore their plant to China including the engineers, a few months later the plant was abandoned and another plant was started by the engineers cutting out the US corporation. Some of those "counterfeit" parts were at some point implied into an oil rig springing a leak a few years ago.
Yes, but that's aggregated and averaged data. They're now giving you a live view into the same data, basically, they are setting up a view on the current ingress of data.
It's called coupons. There are plenty of people willing to come to a place for 'free' beer or other low cost things. Just advertise on Facebook you are selling tickets at 20% of the street value, you'll have an instant 500 people there.
Wholesale diesel costs about $1.5/gallon. A day of diesel for the island thus costs ~$450/day, with shipping and storage probably about 20k/year. A set of generators for 1.5MW probably costs about 500k, and the same in maintenance over 10 years especially in a remote area. So you're talking about at the high end (with land, storage, regulatory and fuel cost increases) $1.5M investment once all is said and done.
Solar currently costs about $1/W. 1.5MW is thus about $1.5M and lasts 20 years with a lot less maintenance. So the investment is kind of steep if you've been able to stagger the costs across a number of generators but saves in the really long run >10 year.
There is a similar argument to intelligent design though.
I can certainly see the pro's if you are offended because your food died a cruel death (a very relative cruelty compared to wild nature).
But food from a local grocer or butcher (even though I don't get food from Walmart due to both cost and quality) has a string of regulations from FDA and other agencies attached due to the volume and conditions. A local farmer often doesn't have to comply with the strictest set of regulations (often none at all). In most cases food from a grocer is thus safer to eat whereas food poisoning from a farmer often goes unnoticed (again due to scale).
My objections though are that it is often more wasteful and costly to have a farmer travel and sell small amounts than a farmer selling large volumes of their produce. If it were at all profitable, "better" and manageable for all farmers to have their own supply chain to the city, we wouldn't have grocery stores.
Only at marked up prices at the same cost and for no obvious scientific benefit though.
That's the problem exactly, who would want equality between the sexes? Neither men nor women want it, everybody wants to be 'on top'. If it was truly equality you wanted, you would've stopped arguing some time in the 1950-70s.
Women's rights have been overcompensated for and are now infringing on men's (and as a result male gay and human) rights, it's very clear in court cases regarding alleged sexual assaults, domestic or custody disputes and it's becoming ever clearer in work places.
I suppose most activist feminists these days fall right into the "organized activity on behalf of women's interests", not equality. It's definitely not the academic/scientific theory they subscribe to.
They wouldn't be called feminists if they wanted equality. Slavery abolitionists didn't want an equal number of free people to slaves. This isn't a "civil rights" or "women's rights" movement, it's a feminist as there are communists or rationalists, it's not an equality of opposing views or people they want.
No, it won't work. In the beginning of the Internet, it was done that way, then slowly people realized you can use shell companies since they are also legal names in a legal sense and then people realized it was just as easy to put a fake name and now you can't even see names anymore in most whois lookups.
Perhaps infallible is the wrong word.
The problem to the lay person is that the 'AI' in contemporary media is portrayed as a sort of super-intelligence that is purely logical and thus superior to humans (and subsequently morally 'better' as well). It's easy to say by an attorney that a non-human, self-aware entity enhanced a perfect digital replica of the scene, it is therefore free of any human bias and thus a 'perfect' proof.
To go with your gears example, when people use gears all the time and they're always right, imagine you develop a complex gear system that can do something no human has ever done nor can feasibly verify and you call it an 'mechanical intelligence', people will assume it's always right given the prior simple gears have always been right.
You can't really upscale resolution but you can "enhance" images (especially raw ones) to a point. A lot of shots may be over or underexposed with some details left in one or more of the channels but visually blocked out, having thousands of minuscule changes and filtering go through a human in the hope of seeing something would be nearly impossible and having a filter to weed them out is helpful.
JPEG and similar compression are like MP3 - you can filter out what the algorithm defines as outside of the human realm to perceive but a lot of those assumptions are faulty leading to noticeable artifacts. However it is very hard to recover the data lost in "lossy compression" although you can make some assumptions to recover them.
The other problem with using these filters is that they're called artificial intelligences. They are not intelligent and calling them that leads to an assumption of infallibility. They're a form of Bayesian filtering and we've been using that since at least the days of OS/2 to "enhance" images, I used a demo of a program back then that did just that: inferences on JPEG to make a type of vector image. We just use more powerful clock cycles and more storage to have them perform better but they're not and never will be magic.
That's all I do to a Windows box before it needs wiping. We only run Mac, Linux and BSD boxes.
The question is, would they even be able to breathe, eat or drink without experiencing all sorts of health issues. Whether you increase or decrease the pollution, it will become a lot harder for your body to adjust a jump rather than a gradual increase. 100 years may not be that bad but it's more likely that it will be 200 or 500 years before someone can restore your body and your brain from the cell damage cryogenics does, people may have all sorts of evolutionary traits that deal with different CO, lead or oxygen in the environment.
The problem is we don't need a Python-esque shell for C#, us admins just need to be able to run "ipconfig" and "shutdown -r" on a Windows box and perhaps the command to re-register the freaking serial code every other month.
They most likely share data from 3rd party ad network crash handlers which are rife with bugs themselves and often used by developers to generate ad revenue. The story makes it look like more than half of the devices structurally fail (e.g. Need replacement) while it's 60% of the apps they track generate a crash handler which doesn't say much for either platform.
Even Apple phones don't drain that quickly. Mine is 3+ years old and still holds a good 8h of "active" time (regularly checking mails, a few phone calls), it used to be two full days when I purchased it although my activity has increased.
Well, I think it's entirely possible to have the 'ecosystem' be in a private server environment, plenty of people pay for it (usually large enterprises) but for the average consumer it's both too costly and too complex to maintain. Then you'd have a handful of servers all over that are 'vulnerable' to some mass attack.
I think that research was debunked. There is $225 worth of materials in the iPhone. There is a huge development, marketing, sales etc cost.
It also allows you to pick up your phone from your computer or other devices. It's immensely useful if you sit at a desk and need to take a call, you can just use a headset. It's kind of 'expected' that such notification data runs throughout the ecosystem. Don't like it, turn off iCloud, then it doesn't happen unlike Android devices where it always happens regardless of your settings.
You don't even need access to the computer to do this "hack" - just use an existing network cable or be on the same network and you can read and modify any plain text sent over the wire. This isn't even "new", compromised USB network cards were all the rage 10 years ago when they first came out with those wallplug computers (before RPi even existed)