Honestly I don't watch any series any more. There far too many dumb reality TV programs out there that are just as mind numbing as sitting and smoking weed the entire evening. Maybe if I did smoke weed I would find TV more entertaining - they should look into this and see whether ratings are higher in Colorado and other states that have legalized.
The only thing I do watch is the evening news, and *some* science programs. My wife watches sports, but even there the economics are all screwed up with the networks overpaying for mediocre stuff, which results in overpaid coaches and overpaid athletes, and the inevitable scandals which result from this. Even here, more sports are going to a streaming model, and once that transition is complete, a whole bunch more people will cut the cord.
For the purposes of voter ID, the only fraud you eliminate is voter impersonation fraud. There are other types of fraud that might occur (such as tampering with a voting machine), but which voter ID isn't able to stop that.
Here is the catch though. There is essentially no evidence that there is any voter impersonation fraud out there that needs to be prevented. People have tried again and again, and they just can't find it other than the occasional outlier. So you are going through all sorts of hoops to try and prevent something that isn't happening in the first place.
There is a subset of the population for whom voter ID is a problem however - and has other people have suggested the rules are set up specifically to make it hard for some subset of Democrats to vote. People who might not have a drivers license. Perhaps some elderly who might have given up the drivers license when they stopped driving. You might say that you only need to go down to the DMV, and assuming that the nearest DMV is convenient (this is not always the case), you can't just show up and ask for ID. You need to provide other documentation to prove you are who you say your are. If your name has changed (perhaps through marriage), you need to provide documentation of every name change. Some elderly were born before birth certificates were routinely issued to every baby - and if you can't get the birth certificate, then no ID for you. If your name is misspelled on one of the pieces of documentation, then no ID for you. It is positively Kafkaesque. And now you have people who have voted for decades being turned away from the polls because of these stupid laws.
In some states (I believe Texas), a gun registration is considered valid ID. But a student ID is not. Now explain to me exactly who it is that this is intended to prevent from voting, who it might be that would be assisted in voting, and what the logic of all of this might happen to be?
Maybe not weak encryption, but that's my read as well - the system got hacked by some unspecified means, and the system was "designed" in such a way that there was no to do an audit to filter out bogus ballots.
There is a fascinating tradeoff between having an anonymous ballot and the ability to do an audit and/or recount.
That's what I am noticing. While the prices go up, the quality goes down. More and more "reality" junk. More and more insipid and inane programs. And what seems like hundreds of "crap" channels on the cable (shopping, infomercial) that serve no purpose other than to artificially inflate the channel count that the cable company provides.
My wife is a sports nut, and right now you can't get that online. That and a handful of news programs is about all we regularly watch, and you can't get that online either. I would dearly love to pull the plug on the whole business and go without and form of TV.
No, the problem is somewhere ahead of you, there are people waiting for a traffic signal (blocked from moving most likely because the block on the other side of the signal is completely full). And the same goes for the block ahead of it, and so on, and so on.
In some cases the cars are waiting to merge onto another road that is also at a standstill. Or sometimes merging from 3 lanes down to two.
There are a limited set of cases where human behavior causes problems, and you have enumerated some of them. But day-in, day-out long traffic jams in the same place every day are just caused by too many cars on the road.
There is a 2nd location on Tyco Road - it looks like they have a service department there, but from the outside it looks like just any other car showroom.
Where I am, the bad traffic is stuck at a standstill. No more room for any cars on the road. Whether you are driving the thing or the car is driving itself, it isn't going to move any faster.
The only case I can see the benefit you describe is in somewhat congested roads where the traffic is still moving.
I can just see a traffic jam of unoccupied cars all tooling around trying to find parking.
Oh, wait - the rules say that you need to have a driver in case of emergency. So you are sitting in your "driverless" car circling around to find parking, and you can't leave the car until it finds a spot.
I am in complete agreement. The first thought that came to my mind is that I would like a PassivHaus.
My wife and I have been going back and forth about where we want to retire to. I am horrified by the horrible construction quality that one gets from the normal builders. We are thinking of buying a lot somewhere and then hiring our own builder who would build the thing to our specs. But the next phase for us is to see if we can find a custom builder that can deliver on what we want with huge bonus points for anyone who has already built something along these lines. I don't want to pay so that someone else can learn on the job.
I don't have the time/energy to build the thing myself.
Popular doesn't mean economically viable, and it doesn't mean that Uber valuation isn't far in excess of what it is really worth. I think it is a huge bubble that is just waiting for a pinprick, and once that happens, there will be layoffs all over the place.
Personally I just don't get Uber, but I have never had any trouble with using a normal taxi either.
The communicators in the original Star Trek were sort of like this. The original Moto Razr copied some design elements from that - if you just take that phone and permanently flatten it, you have something roughly the same shape and size as an iPhone.
And what do I use it for? Mainly to unlock PasswordSafe. I have the YubiKey NEO, so it has a USB connection so I can plug it into the PC. And it also has NFC, so I can use it to unlock the same password database on my Android phone.
Every year or two we undergo emissions inspections - they use a sensor to measure what is in the exhaust gas, and if things are outside of the required limits, you have to fix it. In addition, they use the OBDII port to see if there are any codes being thrown by the engine, and if there are you have to fix those as well.
Older cars were grandfathered in, and only need to pass whatever the standards were at the time they were manufactured.
I had the Cliq myself back in the day. As a phone, I liked it, but by today's standards it was short on memory with a slow CPU, and the display couldn't support pinch-to-zoom.
The more critical problem however is that app developers stop properly testing apps against older versions of the SDK. You might get an "update" of some sort to some app, and it turns out to be broken. This was ultimately the thing that forced me to install Cyanogenmod on the Cliq - the old 1.6 SDK (was it Donut?) was just too old, and I could get to Froyo (and I believe ultimately Gingerbread) by switching roms.
Then again, perhaps the SDK has stabilized enough that maybe those things don't matter much for most apps.
When there is a hurricane or severe storm, then TWC is 2nd to none. The McWeather thing they replaced it with is total crap. Their comment was that most people get their weather from the internet, and now that they dropped TWC, I really do.
Honestly I think they should drop those other programs that they have in the evening as well. Note however that they will drop them in an instant when there is severe weather out there somewhere, and switch over to live coverage.
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Honestly I don't watch any series any more. There far too many dumb reality TV programs out there that are just as mind numbing as sitting and smoking weed the entire evening. Maybe if I did smoke weed I would find TV more entertaining - they should look into this and see whether ratings are higher in Colorado and other states that have legalized.
The only thing I do watch is the evening news, and *some* science programs. My wife watches sports, but even there the economics are all screwed up with the networks overpaying for mediocre stuff, which results in overpaid coaches and overpaid athletes, and the inevitable scandals which result from this. Even here, more sports are going to a streaming model, and once that transition is complete, a whole bunch more people will cut the cord.
One would hope that this isn't where Christy is going for ideas.
Why not a fingerprint scanner like we have on a variety of smartphones..
For the purposes of voter ID, the only fraud you eliminate is voter impersonation fraud. There are other types of fraud that might occur (such as tampering with a voting machine), but which voter ID isn't able to stop that.
Here is the catch though. There is essentially no evidence that there is any voter impersonation fraud out there that needs to be prevented. People have tried again and again, and they just can't find it other than the occasional outlier. So you are going through all sorts of hoops to try and prevent something that isn't happening in the first place.
There is a subset of the population for whom voter ID is a problem however - and has other people have suggested the rules are set up specifically to make it hard for some subset of Democrats to vote. People who might not have a drivers license. Perhaps some elderly who might have given up the drivers license when they stopped driving. You might say that you only need to go down to the DMV, and assuming that the nearest DMV is convenient (this is not always the case), you can't just show up and ask for ID. You need to provide other documentation to prove you are who you say your are. If your name has changed (perhaps through marriage), you need to provide documentation of every name change. Some elderly were born before birth certificates were routinely issued to every baby - and if you can't get the birth certificate, then no ID for you. If your name is misspelled on one of the pieces of documentation, then no ID for you. It is positively Kafkaesque. And now you have people who have voted for decades being turned away from the polls because of these stupid laws.
In some states (I believe Texas), a gun registration is considered valid ID. But a student ID is not. Now explain to me exactly who it is that this is intended to prevent from voting, who it might be that would be assisted in voting, and what the logic of all of this might happen to be?
Maybe not weak encryption, but that's my read as well - the system got hacked by some unspecified means, and the system was "designed" in such a way that there was no to do an audit to filter out bogus ballots.
There is a fascinating tradeoff between having an anonymous ballot and the ability to do an audit and/or recount.
There won't be much left to burn anyways..
That's what I am noticing. While the prices go up, the quality goes down. More and more "reality" junk. More and more insipid and inane programs. And what seems like hundreds of "crap" channels on the cable (shopping, infomercial) that serve no purpose other than to artificially inflate the channel count that the cable company provides.
My wife is a sports nut, and right now you can't get that online. That and a handful of news programs is about all we regularly watch, and you can't get that online either. I would dearly love to pull the plug on the whole business and go without and form of TV.
No, the problem is somewhere ahead of you, there are people waiting for a traffic signal (blocked from moving most likely because the block on the other side of the signal is completely full). And the same goes for the block ahead of it, and so on, and so on.
In some cases the cars are waiting to merge onto another road that is also at a standstill. Or sometimes merging from 3 lanes down to two.
There are a limited set of cases where human behavior causes problems, and you have enumerated some of them. But day-in, day-out long traffic jams in the same place every day are just caused by too many cars on the road.
There is a 2nd location on Tyco Road - it looks like they have a service department there, but from the outside it looks like just any other car showroom.
Where I am, the bad traffic is stuck at a standstill. No more room for any cars on the road. Whether you are driving the thing or the car is driving itself, it isn't going to move any faster.
The only case I can see the benefit you describe is in somewhat congested roads where the traffic is still moving.
I can just see a traffic jam of unoccupied cars all tooling around trying to find parking.
Oh, wait - the rules say that you need to have a driver in case of emergency. So you are sitting in your "driverless" car circling around to find parking, and you can't leave the car until it finds a spot.
Really??? You can't?? We have a Tesla dealer just down the street from us, and yes we live in Virginia.
I am in complete agreement. The first thought that came to my mind is that I would like a PassivHaus.
My wife and I have been going back and forth about where we want to retire to. I am horrified by the horrible construction quality that one gets from the normal builders. We are thinking of buying a lot somewhere and then hiring our own builder who would build the thing to our specs. But the next phase for us is to see if we can find a custom builder that can deliver on what we want with huge bonus points for anyone who has already built something along these lines. I don't want to pay so that someone else can learn on the job.
I don't have the time/energy to build the thing myself.
Popular doesn't mean economically viable, and it doesn't mean that Uber valuation isn't far in excess of what it is really worth. I think it is a huge bubble that is just waiting for a pinprick, and once that happens, there will be layoffs all over the place.
Personally I just don't get Uber, but I have never had any trouble with using a normal taxi either.
Try Google.
I have one on my keyring. I know exactly what it is, and what it is used for.
The communicators in the original Star Trek were sort of like this. The original Moto Razr copied some design elements from that - if you just take that phone and permanently flatten it, you have something roughly the same shape and size as an iPhone.
Plexico, is that you? Did that gunshot wound to your thigh heal properly?
And what do I use it for? Mainly to unlock PasswordSafe. I have the YubiKey NEO, so it has a USB connection so I can plug it into the PC. And it also has NFC, so I can use it to unlock the same password database on my Android phone.
I don't know why, but to me it brings to mind the Borg.
I would have thought that the original author must have had DRM on the original copy of the ebook, and yet these pirate copies also have DRM.
So what happened here? Did the original author not use DRM on the original book, or did the pirate break the DRM so that they could distribute?
Every year or two we undergo emissions inspections - they use a sensor to measure what is in the exhaust gas, and if things are outside of the required limits, you have to fix it. In addition, they use the OBDII port to see if there are any codes being thrown by the engine, and if there are you have to fix those as well.
Older cars were grandfathered in, and only need to pass whatever the standards were at the time they were manufactured.
I had the Cliq myself back in the day. As a phone, I liked it, but by today's standards it was short on memory with a slow CPU, and the display couldn't support pinch-to-zoom.
The more critical problem however is that app developers stop properly testing apps against older versions of the SDK. You might get an "update" of some sort to some app, and it turns out to be broken. This was ultimately the thing that forced me to install Cyanogenmod on the Cliq - the old 1.6 SDK (was it Donut?) was just too old, and I could get to Froyo (and I believe ultimately Gingerbread) by switching roms.
Then again, perhaps the SDK has stabilized enough that maybe those things don't matter much for most apps.
Please cite your evidence for this assertion.
Please cite evidence to back up your assertion.
When there is a hurricane or severe storm, then TWC is 2nd to none. The McWeather thing they replaced it with is total crap. Their comment was that most people get their weather from the internet, and now that they dropped TWC, I really do.
Honestly I think they should drop those other programs that they have in the evening as well. Note however that they will drop them in an instant when there is severe weather out there somewhere, and switch over to live coverage.