But bcc prevents this entire problem. If you send a message to a large distribution you should always use bcc. Then when some retard hits reply-to-all the reply is only directed to the original sender rather than the entire distribution list.
Yes and no. If you are sending a message to a large (or even small) group of addresses, using BCC prevents everyone from seeing everyone else's addresses, and thus prevents the "reply-all" troubles.
For a mailing list system however, any message sent by chris@some-company.com to everyone@some-company.com gets sent to everyone on the list. The system may or may not be set to deliver those messages with a return address of chris@some-company.com or of everyone@some-company.com or something else, regardless of how Chris uses "bcc" or "to" or "cc" to address the original message.
Clealy, for large mailing lists, the system should be set to not allow posting from just anyone.
THE UBI portion of you income would have to be extremely highly regulated on what the UBI is spent on by the average person.
Otherwise what is to prevent Joe Schmoe from blowing his 24K UBI on non necessities such as smokes, beer, lottery tickets, pizza rolls, etc?
Then Joe is still out the basic necessities of life like shelter, clothing and sustainable food and no better off than he was before now with the difference being the Mr Hard Worker's tax money is paying for Joe to be a leech.
While I totally understand the desire to make sure that the UBI is not "misused" on whatever we think are things that it should not be used for, one of the points of UBI is to remove overhead and let the recipients make any choices of use - you know, minimize the "nanny state".
Perhaps what you are looking for is something more like a system of free caffeterias that supply free fully ballenced meals of "magic food bars" or bowls of "super-fortified glop", combined with a barracks of cots and maybe free generic clothes. This would address food, shelter, and clothing and let people work and pay for anthing else.
Personally, I am more in favour of trials of UBI systems. We have advanced a whole lot since the 1900s, and society is prosperous enough that we should be able to support everyone with a pretty high standard of living with much less individual work per person needed - the 10 hour work week should be the standard by now. Unfortunately, the "organic" evolution of our ecconomic system does not naturally creat that type of system - instead we end up with more work being done by less workers and more concentration of wealth and power in a smaller fraction of the population. Some system that spreads the benifits from efficiency advances more widely would be a good thing.
I do like the Instant Runoff Vote that fairvote.org is championing. I see that Maine just apporved via a ballot measure for "Ranked Choice Voting" to be used to elect U.S. senators, U.S. representatives, the governor, state senators, and state representatives,
I like "Instant Runoff Voting" too. It looks like Maine passed a ballot inniative that will give them "Ranked Choice Voting" in future elections starting in 2018. Not for president, but for "U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative".
We'll just distribute the power through the worldwide superconductor grid. You know the one, built at a cost of 75 quadrillion dollars and requiring a constant supply of liquid nitrogen through the worldwide liquid nitrogen pipeline.
I fainly recall seeing a proposal for using liquid hydrogen for the cooling and delivering that to the end user to fill their H2 automobile tanks.
NATO's military and economic power dwarfs Russia. Russia is, these days, a regional power whose reach basically extends little past the Bosporus.
Additionally, Russia has a very different view of history compared to the interpretations common in North America. Not that either one is necessarily "wrong" or "right", but aspects of each are certainly different.
Take WW2 for example - most North Americans have little understanding how devistating that war was in the USSR. This video for example gives some graphics about per-country WW2 deaths that shows how the USSR's deaths dwarf everyone else's. I can see how this type of history can make a people feel pretty put upon.
Zero evidence has been presented that Russia is "guilty" of anything... But American Exceptionalists seem eager....
I came across this the other day in a different context and found it interesting. I had never heard about "whataboutism" or "tu quoque" for the Latin lovers out there.
"Whataboutism"
Whataboutism is a term describing a propaganda technique used by the Soviet Union in its dealings with the Western world during the Cold War. When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[1][2] It represents a case of tu quoque or the appeal to hypocrisy,[3] a logical fallacy which attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
I suppose if they didn't sell well enough, then I guess it doesn't make sense to sell them at all, but while expensive they were nice devices. I
am still hoping that SOMEONE will start producing an attractive, high quality display with the docking features that would work well with a laptop or MacMini (power, Gig ethernet, USB ports). The LG models do not have ethernet ports or cameras, and while the 5k model does have USB 3.1 ports, the 4k model's downstream ports seem to be limited to USB 2.0. While I understand that people have a variety of style preferences, the black plastic LG models will not match some people's tastes.
Call them shallow, fashion idiots, or just people with more money than sense - I know a number of people who will not be upgrading their current Apple displays with LG models. I've had calls from clients looking into using some slighly older iMacs in "Target Display Mode" to work with new laptops who would prefer to spend the money to purchase new Apple displays.
A while ago, i stumbled on this ad. Its for micro usb, but surely it could be made for usb-c as well. Thier target is phone chargers, so weight inertia shouldn;t be an issue.
they removed one of the biggest selling features for me: MagSafe. That one connector has saved my notebook's ass many times, and it's a sad day to see it disappear off notebooks until Apple's magsafe patent expire someday. PreviouslyApple claimed the macbook air was too light for the magnets to separate, but i don't think that argument applies for the heavier macbook pro.
jerks.
I like MagSafe too. Looks like Griffin (and others?) are selling magnetic couplers for USB-c ports:
Perhaps, but the vast majority of the people I support who need or want a larger screen just use an external monitor at their place of work. They seem to think it makes more sense to have high portability between the places where they want high productivity.
I was actually hoping to get something in the 11" range size-wise. Then again, the the new MBP 13" are not that much bigger than the old 11" MBA (less than half of a cm wider and about 2 cm deeper, and about a half pound heavier (300 g)),
2016 MBP 13" - 30.41 cm x 21.24 cm at 1.37 kg 2015 MBA 11" - 30 cm x 19.2 cm at 1.08 kg 2015 MBA 13" - 32.5 cm x 22.7 cm at 1.35 kg 2015 MB 12" - 28.05 cm x 19.65 cm at 0.92 kg
Actually, now that I see how close in size it is to the 11" MBA I might not mind the extra half pound.
I can see some interesting use cases for that TouchBar, but dear God, when that Photoshop lady was demonstrating using the mousepad & TouchBar at the same time, I cringed. I mimicked it on my keyboard in front of me and my wrists cried out in pain -- I can't imagine how it'd be if the keyboard was in my lap (i.e. on a laptop).
Anyone that is doing much more than casual, every once in awhile Photoshop work...already is using something like a wacom tablet and pen.
Not having looked at the market in a while, I see that there is starting to be some competition for Wacom in the "Pen Display" category like the "XP-Pen Artist22" or the "Yiynova MVP22U" which are a fair bit less expensive than the Cintiq models from Wacom - but it looks like the reviews have them a bit less feature-rich than the Cintiqs are. With pricing though, many might find them "good enough".
There are too many variable that can cause a crash. There will be a crash, and when it happens, lawsuits will ensue. After enough loss is suffered then sel;f driving trucks will be no more.
Actually, that's how it is supposed to work. Eventually though, if they can cut down the accident rate enough, it will become less expensive than human drivers, and then that's pretty much the end for human drivers.
Urgh. IMHO BMWs are SO overpriced and overrated.....
I think you missunderstood the parent. chrysrobyn was saying that there was a BMW often seen on their commute that is very poorly driven and that chrysrobyn would contribute money to get it retrofitted as an AI driven vehicle since even with the current flawed AIs, the AI would be a better driver than the current human driver.
I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like I've seen this construction a lot more in recent weeks, and it really bugs me.
"X Times Less" is mathematical nonsense. "1/X As Much" is usually what is meant by it, and is both mathematically and linguistically correct.
So while I presume this headline means that Macs cost a third as much as Windows machines, that's not what it actually says.
Dan Aris
I'm with you!
Of course, in an attempt to improve the headline, someone might say "one third less" which would mean it cost two thirds of the other price, unless it means it costs 3/4 of the other price, since one thrid of 3/4 is the 1/4 price difference.
Combining multiplication (or division) with subtraction (or addition) in one statement in phrases such as "One third more" or "one quarter less" leaves some question as to what is meant. I always encourage people to stick with just one math operation "$5 more" or "twice the price" or "half of".
Some regions (Alaska, Alberta, Norway?) have set up systems where some of the assets of the region are held in some sort of a fund that pays dividends to citizens. To me this makes a bit of sense - all the citizens collectively "own" the assets, so when "the state" sells mineral rights or any of those assets, giving to money to the citizens seems logical.
Maybe we should take all of the country's non-tax income, and split that between all of the country's citizens, then increase the tax rate enough to make up for the "lost revenue". Selling out natural resources? At least then the "little guy" gets a piece of the action rather than just the enviromental degredation and lost future value to the country.
If you could invision that the average working week will be approximately 10 hours in 100 years from now because of Technology, then simply draw a line between now and then, and we need to get from here to there gradually in an orderly fashion. it is a simple as that.
For some reason, Ethanol made from Corn, Barley, or Wheat is ridiculously and terribly expensive. A pint can cost $20 easily.
Perhaps the energy efficiency isn't all that matters.... if this can reduce the cost of drinkable ethanol to say $0.10 a gallon, and make it widely available --- cheaper than milk at the grocery store.
Grain alcohol in bulk is in the $1-2 per gallon range already - better than milk prices in my region at least. Most people don't drink it pure. The $20/pint price buys you something reportedly much different than pure ethanol. Also there are the taxes for beverages of course.
Watching US crime dramas, I get the impression that it is not even completely clear if the reporter would be required to turn over the documention of the crime in the way that a "regular citizen" would be required. I think in both cases a judge would need to issue a supeona but that for the reporter, it might be more difficult to get (assuming in both cases it was not handed over voluntarily.)
It doesn't take a conspiracy when it's already in the interests of all the political ideologues and the owner class.
That I can agree with. I probably think that the effect is more subtle than you do - ecconomic and other factors coloring the perception of the people enough so that they interpret the issues in a way different from myself rather than the clear "need those workers" narrative. I do wonder what preconceptions color my own views.
I wonder if it would be useful to personally approach these types of issues by first trying to write down some if-then types of statements (If illegal immigration is more than x by this measure y than it is worth value $z to address), and then look at the data and see what my opinion on actions should be.
Do more than dream: get off your ass and start petitioning your representatives in your state legislature to introduce legislation or a state constitutional amendment to change the way your state counts the votes for elector appointments.
Yeah, I could do more.
Here is an advocacy group for voting reform with info about ranked choice voting in the USA:
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But bcc prevents this entire problem. If you send a message to a large distribution you should always use bcc. Then when some retard hits reply-to-all the reply is only directed to the original sender rather than the entire distribution list.
Yes and no. If you are sending a message to a large (or even small) group of addresses, using BCC prevents everyone from seeing everyone else's addresses, and thus prevents the "reply-all" troubles.
For a mailing list system however, any message sent by chris@some-company.com to everyone@some-company.com gets sent to everyone on the list. The system may or may not be set to deliver those messages with a return address of chris@some-company.com or of everyone@some-company.com or something else, regardless of how Chris uses "bcc" or "to" or "cc" to address the original message.
Clealy, for large mailing lists, the system should be set to not allow posting from just anyone.
THE UBI portion of you income would have to be extremely highly regulated on what the UBI is spent on by the average person.
Otherwise what is to prevent Joe Schmoe from blowing his 24K UBI on non necessities such as smokes, beer, lottery tickets, pizza rolls, etc?
Then Joe is still out the basic necessities of life like shelter, clothing and sustainable food and no better off than he was before now with the difference being the Mr Hard Worker's tax money is paying for Joe to be a leech.
While I totally understand the desire to make sure that the UBI is not "misused" on whatever we think are things that it should not be used for, one of the points of UBI is to remove overhead and let the recipients make any choices of use - you know, minimize the "nanny state".
Perhaps what you are looking for is something more like a system of free caffeterias that supply free fully ballenced meals of "magic food bars" or bowls of "super-fortified glop", combined with a barracks of cots and maybe free generic clothes. This would address food, shelter, and clothing and let people work and pay for anthing else.
Personally, I am more in favour of trials of UBI systems. We have advanced a whole lot since the 1900s, and society is prosperous enough that we should be able to support everyone with a pretty high standard of living with much less individual work per person needed - the 10 hour work week should be the standard by now. Unfortunately, the "organic" evolution of our ecconomic system does not naturally creat that type of system - instead we end up with more work being done by less workers and more concentration of wealth and power in a smaller fraction of the population. Some system that spreads the benifits from efficiency advances more widely would be a good thing.
No system is perfect. But just about ANY "alternative voting" system is better than what we have now.
http://fairvote.org/
I do like the Instant Runoff Vote that fairvote.org is championing. I see that Maine just apporved via a ballot measure for "Ranked Choice Voting" to be used to elect U.S. senators, U.S. representatives, the governor, state senators, and state representatives,
https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_...
Maine already splits its EC votes rather than sending them as a block to the sate-wide winner.
No system is perfect. But just about ANY "alternative voting" system is better than what we have now.
http://fairvote.org/
I like "Instant Runoff Voting" too. It looks like Maine passed a ballot inniative that will give them "Ranked Choice Voting" in future elections starting in 2018. Not for president, but for "U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative".
https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_...
I would have thought "A Naked Black Hole Is STREAKING Through the Universe" would have been the obvious headline.
On the other hand I grew up in the 60's-70's...
Oh, that would have been good!
When I first saw the headline, I thought they were talking about a Naked Singularity. Now that would have been interesting.
That's what I thought too.
We'll just distribute the power through the worldwide superconductor grid. You know the one, built at a cost of 75 quadrillion dollars and requiring a constant supply of liquid nitrogen through the worldwide liquid nitrogen pipeline.
I fainly recall seeing a proposal for using liquid hydrogen for the cooling and delivering that to the end user to fill their H2 automobile tanks.
NATO's military and economic power dwarfs Russia. Russia is, these days, a regional power whose reach basically extends little past the Bosporus.
Additionally, Russia has a very different view of history compared to the interpretations common in North America. Not that either one is necessarily "wrong" or "right", but aspects of each are certainly different.
Take WW2 for example - most North Americans have little understanding how devistating that war was in the USSR. This video for example gives some graphics about per-country WW2 deaths that shows how the USSR's deaths dwarf everyone else's. I can see how this type of history can make a people feel pretty put upon.
http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
(It is a great example of data visualization as well as being informative.)
Zero evidence has been presented that Russia is "guilty" of anything ... But American Exceptionalists seem eager....
I came across this the other day in a different context and found it interesting. I had never heard about "whataboutism" or "tu quoque" for the Latin lovers out there.
"Whataboutism"
Whataboutism is a term describing a propaganda technique used by the Soviet Union in its dealings with the Western world during the Cold War. When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[1][2] It represents a case of tu quoque or the appeal to hypocrisy,[3] a logical fallacy which attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My mistake: it seems as though the 5k LG displays do in fact have a camera and mic.
I suppose if they didn't sell well enough, then I guess it doesn't make sense to sell them at all, but while expensive they were nice devices. I
am still hoping that SOMEONE will start producing an attractive, high quality display with the docking features that would work well with a laptop or MacMini (power, Gig ethernet, USB ports). The LG models do not have ethernet ports or cameras, and while the 5k model does have USB 3.1 ports, the 4k model's downstream ports seem to be limited to USB 2.0. While I understand that people have a variety of style preferences, the black plastic LG models will not match some people's tastes.
Call them shallow, fashion idiots, or just people with more money than sense - I know a number of people who will not be upgrading their current Apple displays with LG models. I've had calls from clients looking into using some slighly older iMacs in "Target Display Mode" to work with new laptops who would prefer to spend the money to purchase new Apple displays.
Because an $8 one won't work, right?
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter...
Since there are two in that item, its only $4 each.
A while ago, i stumbled on this ad.
Its for micro usb, but surely it could be made for usb-c as well. Thier target is phone chargers, so weight inertia shouldn;t be an issue.
http://www.dx.com/p/wsken-micr...
It looks like there are a variety of options that claim data as well as power for micro usb - here is another one:
http://www.dx.com/p/magnetic-d...
With all the Apple models now using USB-c exclusively, there is going to be quite a market for adapters and docks and general peripherals with USB-c.
they removed one of the biggest selling features for me: MagSafe. That one connector has saved my notebook's ass many times, and it's a sad day to see it disappear off notebooks until Apple's magsafe patent expire someday. PreviouslyApple claimed the macbook air was too light for the magnets to separate, but i don't think that argument applies for the heavier macbook pro.
jerks.
I like MagSafe too. Looks like Griffin (and others?) are selling magnetic couplers for USB-c ports:
https://griffintechnology.com/...
The market for 17" MacBooks only gets stronger.
Perhaps, but the vast majority of the people I support who need or want a larger screen just use an external monitor at their place of work. They seem to think it makes more sense to have high portability between the places where they want high productivity.
I was actually hoping to get something in the 11" range size-wise. Then again, the the new MBP 13" are not that much bigger than the old 11" MBA (less than half of a cm wider and about 2 cm deeper, and about a half pound heavier (300 g)),
2016 MBP 13" - 30.41 cm x 21.24 cm at 1.37 kg
2015 MBA 11" - 30 cm x 19.2 cm at 1.08 kg
2015 MBA 13" - 32.5 cm x 22.7 cm at 1.35 kg
2015 MB 12" - 28.05 cm x 19.65 cm at 0.92 kg
Actually, now that I see how close in size it is to the 11" MBA I might not mind the extra half pound.
Anyone that is doing much more than casual, every once in awhile Photoshop work...already is using something like a wacom tablet and pen.
Not having looked at the market in a while, I see that there is starting to be some competition for Wacom in the "Pen Display" category like the "XP-Pen Artist22" or the "Yiynova MVP22U" which are a fair bit less expensive than the Cintiq models from Wacom - but it looks like the reviews have them a bit less feature-rich than the Cintiqs are. With pricing though, many might find them "good enough".
XP-Pen - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...
Yiynova - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...
There are too many variable that can cause a crash. There will be a crash, and when it happens, lawsuits will ensue. After enough loss is suffered then sel;f driving trucks will be no more.
Actually, that's how it is supposed to work. Eventually though, if they can cut down the accident rate enough, it will become less expensive than human drivers, and then that's pretty much the end for human drivers.
Urgh. IMHO BMWs are SO overpriced and overrated.....
I think you missunderstood the parent. chrysrobyn was saying that there was a BMW often seen on their commute that is very poorly driven and that chrysrobyn would contribute money to get it retrofitted as an AI driven vehicle since even with the current flawed AIs, the AI would be a better driver than the current human driver.
I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like I've seen this construction a lot more in recent weeks, and it really bugs me.
"X Times Less" is mathematical nonsense. "1/X As Much" is usually what is meant by it, and is both mathematically and linguistically correct.
So while I presume this headline means that Macs cost a third as much as Windows machines, that's not what it actually says.
Dan Aris
I'm with you!
Of course, in an attempt to improve the headline, someone might say "one third less" which would mean it cost two thirds of the other price, unless it means it costs 3/4 of the other price, since one thrid of 3/4 is the 1/4 price difference.
Combining multiplication (or division) with subtraction (or addition) in one statement in phrases such as "One third more" or "one quarter less" leaves some question as to what is meant. I always encourage people to stick with just one math operation "$5 more" or "twice the price" or "half of".
Some regions (Alaska, Alberta, Norway?) have set up systems where some of the assets of the region are held in some sort of a fund that pays dividends to citizens. To me this makes a bit of sense - all the citizens collectively "own" the assets, so when "the state" sells mineral rights or any of those assets, giving to money to the citizens seems logical.
Maybe we should take all of the country's non-tax income, and split that between all of the country's citizens, then increase the tax rate enough to make up for the "lost revenue". Selling out natural resources? At least then the "little guy" gets a piece of the action rather than just the enviromental degredation and lost future value to the country.
If you could invision that the average working week will be approximately 10 hours in 100 years from now because of Technology, then simply draw a line between now and then, and we need to get from here to there gradually in an orderly fashion. it is a simple as that.
Quit talking sense!
For some reason, Ethanol made from Corn, Barley, or Wheat is ridiculously and terribly expensive.
A pint can cost $20 easily.
Perhaps the energy efficiency isn't all that matters.... if this can reduce the cost of drinkable ethanol to say $0.10 a gallon, and make it widely available --- cheaper than milk at the grocery store.
Grain alcohol in bulk is in the $1-2 per gallon range already - better than milk prices in my region at least. Most people don't drink it pure. The $20/pint price buys you something reportedly much different than pure ethanol. Also there are the taxes for beverages of course.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts...
So a "reporter" can document real rape and not be accessory to the rape? Wow.
I don't think there is any legal requirement for the reporter to act to prevent such a crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Watching US crime dramas, I get the impression that it is not even completely clear if the reporter would be required to turn over the documention of the crime in the way that a "regular citizen" would be required. I think in both cases a judge would need to issue a supeona but that for the reporter, it might be more difficult to get (assuming in both cases it was not handed over voluntarily.)
It doesn't take a conspiracy when it's already in the interests of all the political ideologues and the owner class.
That I can agree with. I probably think that the effect is more subtle than you do - ecconomic and other factors coloring the perception of the people enough so that they interpret the issues in a way different from myself rather than the clear "need those workers" narrative. I do wonder what preconceptions color my own views.
I wonder if it would be useful to personally approach these types of issues by first trying to write down some if-then types of statements (If illegal immigration is more than x by this measure y than it is worth value $z to address), and then look at the data and see what my opinion on actions should be.
Do more than dream: get off your ass and start petitioning your representatives in your state legislature to introduce legislation or a state constitutional amendment to change the way your state counts the votes for elector appointments.
Yeah, I could do more.
Here is an advocacy group for voting reform with info about ranked choice voting in the USA:
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv_in...