I just bought an iPhone 5 SE 64 this summer, after my original release iPhone 5 died. Since the guts of the 5 SE are the 6s model, I don't see the point in getting a giant iPhone 7 when I can wait for the market to laugh at giant phones again and Apple comes to their senses and sells an iPhone 8 model that fits in my pocketses, yes, precious.
Stop pretending you know anything about actual elections procedures. I've been doing this since before you were in diapers and I was coding IBM System 360 using punch cards.
Actually, I use it on the bus and a lot of people have bikes. I can see having it suspend operations after 10 kph, but sometimes it "jumps" when I go into a light rail station tunnel and "pop up" a few miles away at 80 kph.
Without the 90 percent massive subsidies that fossil fuels get, in depreciation, cheap federal and state lands (mining regs), escaping penalties for pollution by bankruptcy, and literal cash infusions for fossil fuel industries, they would be bankrupt today.
Let's help them along and get rid of all fossil fuel vehicle and business tax exemptions, tax deductions, regulatory escapes, and all the other things that subsidize these inefficient fossil fuel dinosaurs.
Because humans have been around only a fraction of the time that dinosaurs existed (a very very very small fraction), and we've already survived at least three extinction level events. Our track record is pretty bad.
We don't need more things pushing us to extinction, no matter how convenient they are for you as an individual.
The best solution for Louisiana and Gulf coast aid for storms is simple.
Rezone all new buildings for solar and wind power only.
And build them on stilts.
Don't accept excuses.
This will both help the locals - as solar gets more efficient due to global warming and revitalize American construction industries, since construction labor is local for the most part.
Anything else is a total and utter waste of time.
Oh, and cancel all flood insurance over $1 million for any residential property.
Let the market fix the problem, not the tax subsidized fossil fuel No Change communism.
The discussion was the appropriate use of game sims in training. Game sims are very useful in expensive training to get basic operations skills and certain techniques down, but they tend to have certain flaws, due to the nature of how we design the sims.
If, for example, we expect to be continuing operations in certain desert and mountain terrains, which we will (unless something happens), we need to account for the actual extremes in actual operations in those climates.
We can do those in sims, to a certain extent, or we can realize those work better in actual physical training exercises supplemented by sims to teach basic operations, basic faults, highly likely combat impacts (stoppages and immediate actions), and highly likely environmental impacts (excessive heat, visibility and temperature control failure).
And, I served. Carp happens. Sims only work so far. Failure to train for that leaves one vulnerable, or like the stupid movies and commercials walking on a ridge so that everyone in the world can pick up your exact location from heat IR UV and basic line of sight silhouette optics. Or driving an armored vehicle into a bad situation you could have avoided.
Who do you think was in Afghanistan when the US Army bugged out off mission to Iraq? It wasn't unicorns, that's for sure.
Didn't say dump sim training. Sim training (games) is very useful. But only up to a point. A lot of that is a failure of the sims, but some is the failure to realize that when stuff goes wrong it cascades into many things going wrong.
I see you failed to read the post. I specifically referred to a number of environmental conditions most sims fail to accurately record.
Excessive heat. Inversion layers from heat. Rock stress from operations. Depends on the rock type or soil type. Some of these are partially simulated, but most aren't, even today.
It's wicked hot in a damaged MBT when the outside temp is 114 F and you're coated in black dust that's increased the sun's effect.
When we would send up Canadian reserve units against US active units, we found they had no idea their people would pass out inside the combat vehicles and tanks from extreme heat and dust, or deal with optical illusions from heated air, making it easy to trick them into going into tank traps that were covered by snipers with heavy and light mines. Or what happens when rocks crush your tank in a mountain pass because you fired your main gun next to an unstable rock face.
Sims only work so much.
You have to train for the bad things that happen, like your tank getting stuck in loose soil with water, and people who are actively trying to make you do the wrong thing. That requires actually taking vehicles into those actual types of terrain and obstacles.
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I just bought an iPhone 5 SE 64 this summer, after my original release iPhone 5 died. Since the guts of the 5 SE are the 6s model, I don't see the point in getting a giant iPhone 7 when I can wait for the market to laugh at giant phones again and Apple comes to their senses and sells an iPhone 8 model that fits in my pocketses, yes, precious.
Suck on that, marketoids.
Since all Apple "patents" and other IP are owned by invisible Irish firms that have no employees?
You are correct.
But they won't admit it.
Yeah, sure, "glitch".
Try, intentional hack.
No, I don't want to carify.
Stop pretending you know anything about actual elections procedures. I've been doing this since before you were in diapers and I was coding IBM System 360 using punch cards.
It is secret.
It's a federal crime to mess with the USPS.
You can go to jail for 10 years.
And they mean it.
Canada uses paper ballots too, filled out in pencil in the voting booth, and everyone in the entire country is automatically registered to vote.
Works fine.
They have this fancy thing called barcodes and numbers to ID them.
And we register you when you get a driver's license, in person, where we take this thing called a picture. Automatically.
Epic Fail, extreme right. We do it, we do it more cheaply, and more people vote.
We use these things called paper ballots.
So does Oregon.
We all vote by mail, so hack all you want.
We can always rerun the paper ballots again.
This is a direct violation of the international treaties the US signed with Canada and the EU, Australia and New Zealand, and Japan.
Other countries ... meh.
But you can't do that by treaty.
If by God, you mean the NSA.
Already stored on the relay device reads collected.
So it is available, even if they tell you it isn't.
And they can recover it from the physical disks. It's just a lot harder.
In fact, the armored car bodies and basic weapons platforms are sold by Canada to them.
Not just the spy stuff.
Human rights?
Hah.
Actually, I use it on the bus and a lot of people have bikes. I can see having it suspend operations after 10 kph, but sometimes it "jumps" when I go into a light rail station tunnel and "pop up" a few miles away at 80 kph.
It's the use of smartphones while driving, not the app itself.
Don't drive while using a cell. Don't drive while while fiddling with stuff like food, drinks, etc that distract you.
It's in your driver's license test. Those are not legal things to do.
How hard is that?
Let's be crystal here, that's what this is.
Don't drive and cell.
Ever.
Apparently they only sell it in Asia, so that means it has a 52 percent fail rate, right?
Without the 90 percent massive subsidies that fossil fuels get, in depreciation, cheap federal and state lands (mining regs), escaping penalties for pollution by bankruptcy, and literal cash infusions for fossil fuel industries, they would be bankrupt today.
Let's help them along and get rid of all fossil fuel vehicle and business tax exemptions, tax deductions, regulatory escapes, and all the other things that subsidize these inefficient fossil fuel dinosaurs.
Literally.
Why do we care?
Because humans have been around only a fraction of the time that dinosaurs existed (a very very very small fraction), and we've already survived at least three extinction level events. Our track record is pretty bad.
We don't need more things pushing us to extinction, no matter how convenient they are for you as an individual.
Let's get real.
Driverless cars make sense if you live in a neighborhood full of drunk adults, or a retirement community, or if you're severely handicapped.
And that's it.
Now stop playing Pokemon GO on your smartphone and running over neighborhood kids.
The best solution for Louisiana and Gulf coast aid for storms is simple.
Rezone all new buildings for solar and wind power only.
And build them on stilts.
Don't accept excuses.
This will both help the locals - as solar gets more efficient due to global warming and revitalize American construction industries, since construction labor is local for the most part.
Anything else is a total and utter waste of time.
Oh, and cancel all flood insurance over $1 million for any residential property.
Let the market fix the problem, not the tax subsidized fossil fuel No Change communism.
It's that CEO CFO COO and other top execs wanted to break the law and pad their bonus payments at the expense of older American citizen workers
The discussion was the appropriate use of game sims in training. Game sims are very useful in expensive training to get basic operations skills and certain techniques down, but they tend to have certain flaws, due to the nature of how we design the sims.
If, for example, we expect to be continuing operations in certain desert and mountain terrains, which we will (unless something happens), we need to account for the actual extremes in actual operations in those climates.
We can do those in sims, to a certain extent, or we can realize those work better in actual physical training exercises supplemented by sims to teach basic operations, basic faults, highly likely combat impacts (stoppages and immediate actions), and highly likely environmental impacts (excessive heat, visibility and temperature control failure).
And, I served. Carp happens. Sims only work so far. Failure to train for that leaves one vulnerable, or like the stupid movies and commercials walking on a ridge so that everyone in the world can pick up your exact location from heat IR UV and basic line of sight silhouette optics. Or driving an armored vehicle into a bad situation you could have avoided.
Who do you think was in Afghanistan when the US Army bugged out off mission to Iraq? It wasn't unicorns, that's for sure.
Didn't say dump sim training. Sim training (games) is very useful. But only up to a point. A lot of that is a failure of the sims, but some is the failure to realize that when stuff goes wrong it cascades into many things going wrong.
I see you failed to read the post. I specifically referred to a number of environmental conditions most sims fail to accurately record.
Excessive heat. Inversion layers from heat. Rock stress from operations. Depends on the rock type or soil type. Some of these are partially simulated, but most aren't, even today.
It's wicked hot in a damaged MBT when the outside temp is 114 F and you're coated in black dust that's increased the sun's effect.
Could you simulate them?
Sure.
But not very well.
When we would send up Canadian reserve units against US active units, we found they had no idea their people would pass out inside the combat vehicles and tanks from extreme heat and dust, or deal with optical illusions from heated air, making it easy to trick them into going into tank traps that were covered by snipers with heavy and light mines. Or what happens when rocks crush your tank in a mountain pass because you fired your main gun next to an unstable rock face.
Sims only work so much.
You have to train for the bad things that happen, like your tank getting stuck in loose soil with water, and people who are actively trying to make you do the wrong thing. That requires actually taking vehicles into those actual types of terrain and obstacles.
Game that.