Because otherwise Amazon would be using UPS and a bunch of postal workers would be out of a job. What needs to be taken care of is the massive waste in the postal system and any other de-facto government corporation.
At one point, you were able to ship a box across the country for a few bucks, when I went on school trips, mail was being manually sorted into bins and machines have since then pretty much taken over where entire postal offices are now fully automated. Costs have risen exponentially to the point that UPS and FedEx are currently competitors to USPS, when I was young, you wouldn't even think about using FedEx or UPS as an individual, nowadays, I actually ship all packages via UPS because their rates are rather close, they'll pick it up and the service, delivery rates and insurance is a ton better.
There has never been a case in the US where ambulances checked your ID and tax status before administering care.
What did happen pre-Obamacare was they would take you to a hospital, treat you and then worry about your insurance/costs. If you had no insurance, then you would have to pay for it, which is why you choose not to pay for insurance after all, although pretty much everywhere you didn't have to if you were poor enough. Also, your medical debts couldn't be collected upon and would just sit there until you died. My wife actually delivered a baby, free of charge because she didn't have insurance and some federal program kicked in.
Post-Obamacare, you will still get treated although now you are forced to pay both for insurance and for the treatment. If you can't pay, your medical debt gets sent to a private debt collector. My wife recently delivered another baby and even though we can't afford the bill out-of-pocket (did I mention, we have a "Gold Obamacare Service Plan", the bill now gets sent with threatening letters and we're forced to enter into a credit agreement, not a big deal, because I can pay it but it's on my credit report, which was previously illegal.
That is obviously completely optimal compression which is practically impossible to obtain. Also, Twitter is mostly non-English (spelling mistakes, emoji characters etc).
Typically you'll see 3:1 to 4:1 for text obviously you'll trade off speed for compression so about 2 bits per character and that is if you don't use a streaming algorithm, then you'll see closer to 2:1.
Yeah, but you pay 55% income tax and 21% sales tax. The ambulances still have to run, still cost (more expensive) gas. So basically any foreigner that pays $150 is subsidized by you.
Wow, get a new transaction broker. I think I pay a flat 10c for any card because I'm very low volume up to a certain amount, then it's like 2% + 10c. You add the cost into your gum or set a minimum transaction, business 101
At the end of the restaurant visit, wouldn't your cost be considered a "debt" since they've already provided the service.
If they don't announce they don't accept cash, then I would say, okay, I'll owe your business a debt. If they say: yes, that is right, then you can say: here is legal tender to settle the debt.
I find cash to be taking a lot longer in modern days. It's very rare I still have to wait for a slip of paper to sign, any purchase under $50 doesn't require it anymore and most systems now come with on-screen signing. I can just swipe the card before the cashier is even done scanning. With cash I have to count money, find change, wait for the cashier to punch it in, then wait for them to count change and then hope I don't lose the change somewhere or drop it on the floor.
I graduated with a college degree around 2001. Even though I was born right within the millennial per definition, I donâ(TM)t consider myself one. Perhaps because I started computing in the early 90s with some really old machines (286) so Iâ(TM)m not reliant on my phone/computer alone. I still write and diagram with a pen/pencil.
I've gotten a few notices where the ad is supposed to be saying "you're blocking ads" with a message to turn it off. I have the option to disable ads (when I'm logged in) but I've blocked ads on this site ever since they started allowing full page-covering ads and and even one that attempted to use browser exploits to replace my home page.
You make 178k with 1 kid and a 1200 sqft house and a beater car and you have no savings? You've got a problem. I make about half of that, have 3 kids and a house twice that size and I still am capable of doing additions to my house, have 2 cars and plenty of "stuff", eat high-quality food, go on vacation once or twice and spend ~$2500 on Christmas this year.
The differences are simple: The FTC was used to regulate the monopoly that was Bell (Federal TRADE Commission can set limits on effective monopoly trade within the market). With all the carriers like Google threatening to come into the market they wanted away from the FTC oversight which is why Obama introduced his "Net Neutrality" rules, move ISP's away from trade oversight and under the FCC which puts heavy technical requirements on new players in the market.
Now that the incumbent ISP's have once again merged into a large monopoly they want away from the heavy technical requirements within the FCC and go back under FTC oversight. The big monopolies have no threat anymore from smaller players even if they wanted to compete, the FTC puts no technical limitations, as long as they play "fair".
Whenever that balance gets threatened again, we'll see them campaign for FCC oversight once again and we'll have another supposed "Net Neutrality" law which is just going to be another oversight dodge.
No, communication would be slower and it would be "useless" only to consumers that want instant load times but we used to have network links that were much, much slower, more fragile and had more packet loss.
I can communicate with Japan at gigabit rates these days, anyone remember Sourceforge Japan, that site had an effective bandwidth of a 56k modem here in the US, it still worked though for the rare occasion you needed something from it.
Not sure if you knew but the Internet is designed to route around damage. There are plenty of lines running between the US and Russian-controlled waters, what would blowing one up accomplish?
Even if they managed to take out everything in the Atlantic, there would still be capacity via satellite, radio and Pacific links. The only "use" of this exercise would be to tap traffic, but then what idiot throws about valuable data unencrypted on the Internet. Additionally, if they managed to tap a line, then they would have to install their own line to be able to actually listen to it which would be very noticeable.
In the end this is just warmongering and spreading FUD, there are better ways of destroying the Internet or valuable infrastructure, they have access to the source code of Microsoft Windows, they could probably power down the entire Navy fleet and the majority of government offices remotely since they're still running XP.
The problem is not whether it can be done, weâ(TM)ve done it already. The problem as always is cost.
Pretty much all of inhabited areas these days has been wired with data-capable systems, even if itâ(TM)s just 56k or DSL for third world countries with a twisted pair. Most areas have wireless coverage of some sort. Whether or not the locals can or want to afford the connection is another thing.
Putting stuff in LEO or space doesnâ(TM)t solve that problem of either bandwidth or cost, actually it makes the equation worse.
You know, not Obama's version of monopoly carriers that bundle services or the post-Bell monopoly all-in-one carriers. We need to split up Spectrum, AT&T and cohorts, allow free access to any fiber/copper and poles that had government subsidies or land grabs involved (which is almost all of it) and split Internet from TV and phone carriers.
I have some old servers that could go up there with a bunch of older batteries, Tesla could also provide a dead battery bank. Would be interesting to see what if anything is necessary to run regular hardware in space, failure modes and whether ECC correction rates or a metal casing would suffice. That way we donâ(TM)t have to send rad-shielded expensive stuff for âoenon-criticalâ entertainment to future Mars missions.
There is plenty of old gear laying around research universities, there is no need for expensive stuff.
Then you say "username incorrect" or "password incorrect" as appropriate. You generally do the username lookup first anyway so the logic could be short circuited.
The energy content of wood is ~16 MJ/kg and paper is fairly close to that. There are about 16 million books in the LoC and 120 million other 'things'. The average weight of a book is ~1.6kg and let's assume the other "things" amount to ~50% of the volume of books in form of combustible materials (wood, paper etc).
So you have 16 * 1.6 = 25.6M kg and another 12.8M kg of other materials. That's approximately 614 Terajoules or enough energy to lift ~5 Falcon Heavy's into LEO?
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Because otherwise Amazon would be using UPS and a bunch of postal workers would be out of a job. What needs to be taken care of is the massive waste in the postal system and any other de-facto government corporation.
At one point, you were able to ship a box across the country for a few bucks, when I went on school trips, mail was being manually sorted into bins and machines have since then pretty much taken over where entire postal offices are now fully automated. Costs have risen exponentially to the point that UPS and FedEx are currently competitors to USPS, when I was young, you wouldn't even think about using FedEx or UPS as an individual, nowadays, I actually ship all packages via UPS because their rates are rather close, they'll pick it up and the service, delivery rates and insurance is a ton better.
Okay Lennart, get laid already, I'll pay for a hooker weekly, just stop working on systemd
There has never been a case in the US where ambulances checked your ID and tax status before administering care.
What did happen pre-Obamacare was they would take you to a hospital, treat you and then worry about your insurance/costs. If you had no insurance, then you would have to pay for it, which is why you choose not to pay for insurance after all, although pretty much everywhere you didn't have to if you were poor enough. Also, your medical debts couldn't be collected upon and would just sit there until you died. My wife actually delivered a baby, free of charge because she didn't have insurance and some federal program kicked in.
Post-Obamacare, you will still get treated although now you are forced to pay both for insurance and for the treatment. If you can't pay, your medical debt gets sent to a private debt collector. My wife recently delivered another baby and even though we can't afford the bill out-of-pocket (did I mention, we have a "Gold Obamacare Service Plan", the bill now gets sent with threatening letters and we're forced to enter into a credit agreement, not a big deal, because I can pay it but it's on my credit report, which was previously illegal.
That is obviously completely optimal compression which is practically impossible to obtain. Also, Twitter is mostly non-English (spelling mistakes, emoji characters etc).
Typically you'll see 3:1 to 4:1 for text obviously you'll trade off speed for compression so about 2 bits per character and that is if you don't use a streaming algorithm, then you'll see closer to 2:1.
Yeah, but you pay 55% income tax and 21% sales tax. The ambulances still have to run, still cost (more expensive) gas. So basically any foreigner that pays $150 is subsidized by you.
Wow, get a new transaction broker. I think I pay a flat 10c for any card because I'm very low volume up to a certain amount, then it's like 2% + 10c. You add the cost into your gum or set a minimum transaction, business 101
At the end of the restaurant visit, wouldn't your cost be considered a "debt" since they've already provided the service.
If they don't announce they don't accept cash, then I would say, okay, I'll owe your business a debt. If they say: yes, that is right, then you can say: here is legal tender to settle the debt.
I find cash to be taking a lot longer in modern days. It's very rare I still have to wait for a slip of paper to sign, any purchase under $50 doesn't require it anymore and most systems now come with on-screen signing. I can just swipe the card before the cashier is even done scanning. With cash I have to count money, find change, wait for the cashier to punch it in, then wait for them to count change and then hope I don't lose the change somewhere or drop it on the floor.
How so? It's only a few cents to get a transaction through. On Bitcoin these days a transaction costs $20+
I graduated with a college degree around 2001. Even though I was born right within the millennial per definition, I donâ(TM)t consider myself one. Perhaps because I started computing in the early 90s with some really old machines (286) so Iâ(TM)m not reliant on my phone/computer alone. I still write and diagram with a pen/pencil.
What response do you expect when you treat people like they're stupid. Pretty much all adults in the US know all about the Jewish holidays,
I've gotten a few notices where the ad is supposed to be saying "you're blocking ads" with a message to turn it off. I have the option to disable ads (when I'm logged in) but I've blocked ads on this site ever since they started allowing full page-covering ads and and even one that attempted to use browser exploits to replace my home page.
You make 178k with 1 kid and a 1200 sqft house and a beater car and you have no savings? You've got a problem. I make about half of that, have 3 kids and a house twice that size and I still am capable of doing additions to my house, have 2 cars and plenty of "stuff", eat high-quality food, go on vacation once or twice and spend ~$2500 on Christmas this year.
The differences are simple:
The FTC was used to regulate the monopoly that was Bell (Federal TRADE Commission can set limits on effective monopoly trade within the market). With all the carriers like Google threatening to come into the market they wanted away from the FTC oversight which is why Obama introduced his "Net Neutrality" rules, move ISP's away from trade oversight and under the FCC which puts heavy technical requirements on new players in the market.
Now that the incumbent ISP's have once again merged into a large monopoly they want away from the heavy technical requirements within the FCC and go back under FTC oversight. The big monopolies have no threat anymore from smaller players even if they wanted to compete, the FTC puts no technical limitations, as long as they play "fair".
Whenever that balance gets threatened again, we'll see them campaign for FCC oversight once again and we'll have another supposed "Net Neutrality" law which is just going to be another oversight dodge.
No, communication would be slower and it would be "useless" only to consumers that want instant load times but we used to have network links that were much, much slower, more fragile and had more packet loss.
I can communicate with Japan at gigabit rates these days, anyone remember Sourceforge Japan, that site had an effective bandwidth of a 56k modem here in the US, it still worked though for the rare occasion you needed something from it.
Not sure if you knew but the Internet is designed to route around damage. There are plenty of lines running between the US and Russian-controlled waters, what would blowing one up accomplish?
Even if they managed to take out everything in the Atlantic, there would still be capacity via satellite, radio and Pacific links. The only "use" of this exercise would be to tap traffic, but then what idiot throws about valuable data unencrypted on the Internet. Additionally, if they managed to tap a line, then they would have to install their own line to be able to actually listen to it which would be very noticeable.
In the end this is just warmongering and spreading FUD, there are better ways of destroying the Internet or valuable infrastructure, they have access to the source code of Microsoft Windows, they could probably power down the entire Navy fleet and the majority of government offices remotely since they're still running XP.
The problem is not whether it can be done, weâ(TM)ve done it already. The problem as always is cost.
Pretty much all of inhabited areas these days has been wired with data-capable systems, even if itâ(TM)s just 56k or DSL for third world countries with a twisted pair. Most areas have wireless coverage of some sort. Whether or not the locals can or want to afford the connection is another thing.
Putting stuff in LEO or space doesnâ(TM)t solve that problem of either bandwidth or cost, actually it makes the equation worse.
This is the UK, they correctly pronounce.
What are you doing here then?
You know, not Obama's version of monopoly carriers that bundle services or the post-Bell monopoly all-in-one carriers. We need to split up Spectrum, AT&T and cohorts, allow free access to any fiber/copper and poles that had government subsidies or land grabs involved (which is almost all of it) and split Internet from TV and phone carriers.
Password incorrect obviously. Given the username typically remains visible it's less likely to happen.
I have some old servers that could go up there with a bunch of older batteries, Tesla could also provide a dead battery bank. Would be interesting to see what if anything is necessary to run regular hardware in space, failure modes and whether ECC correction rates or a metal casing would suffice. That way we donâ(TM)t have to send rad-shielded expensive stuff for âoenon-criticalâ entertainment to future Mars missions.
There is plenty of old gear laying around research universities, there is no need for expensive stuff.
Then you say "username incorrect" or "password incorrect" as appropriate. You generally do the username lookup first anyway so the logic could be short circuited.
The energy content of wood is ~16 MJ/kg and paper is fairly close to that. There are about 16 million books in the LoC and 120 million other 'things'. The average weight of a book is ~1.6kg and let's assume the other "things" amount to ~50% of the volume of books in form of combustible materials (wood, paper etc).
So you have 16 * 1.6 = 25.6M kg and another 12.8M kg of other materials. That's approximately 614 Terajoules or enough energy to lift ~5 Falcon Heavy's into LEO?