Your internet provider is a conduit on which multiple services rely. It cannot and should not, by law, be used to control or limit access, or police content either of it's own accord or upon request of external parties.
There are plenty of things your ISP "should not be" but the fact remains they are required to play by the rules passed by the lawmakers. If a law is passed saying they are required to cut you off if you pirate the new Star Wars movie, then that's what they have to do. They may (or may not) choose to fight on your behalf, but in the end you shouldn't shoot the messenger - You should fire the politicians.
When Tesla begins using its new 2170 battery cell, which for Model 3 is expected to happen in the second quarter of this year, its vehicles will be 95% made in the US, making them the "most American" cars available.
Panasonic continues to produce battery cells in Japan and elsewhere, but will be steadily expanding production at the Gigafactory in Nevada. Tesla also plans to source much of the raw materials in those cells from the US. The company is believed to be developing a source of lithium at Silver Peak, not far from the Gigafactory, and Nevada lawmakers have proposed new tax incentives aimed at increasing lithium production in the state.
Pickup trucks are about American steel and brawn, tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods.
First of, Anonymous Coward, if you're talking about "buy American" then a Tesla is way wicked more American-made than a Ford F150.
...and as for "tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods" you're probably describing about 5% of pickup truck owners. The only thing most pickups 'tug' is their owners' fat asses down to the Dunkin' Donuts.
If course they do. Canada is full of refugees, all very happy to be here, and the majority of whom are working hard to integrate into Canadian society.
My next door neighbours are refugees. The whole family works freaking hard and all manner of scut jobs.
2) To return to their origin as soon as it is safe to do so.
My next-door-neighbours arrived here in Canada as refugees from Vietnam in the 70s. They got jobs, became citizens, and raised children. 40 years later, Vietnam is now 'safe' but they have no interest in returning there. They're Canadians now. The mother of the household vacations there every few years to visit friends and family, but that's it.
The Syrian refugees across the street from me will likely follow the same pattern - They are integrating themselves into our community. If, a decade from now, Syria is 'safe,' the pull to go back there will likely be weak.
I don't think people mind that Airlines have effective social media teams. However, what people like me do object to is the fact that an email or phone call or (gasp) paper letter goes into a black hole - But a tweet? You have a cheerful response, often with a resolution to the issue, within 30 minutes. I'd like companies to treat all communications equally and importantly - Yet because tweets (and, to a lesser extent, Facebook post) are public and searchable, they get higher priority.
Well, I for one wouldn't sell you my spare mirelurk meat for gold post-apocalypse. You'd be best advised bring something I can eat, drink, or shoot at mirelurks.
If that scenario, you're not looking for someone buy your spare mirelurk meat, you're looking for someone to trade/barter for it.
Gold has little value in a pure barter scenario.
...but in a post-barter scenario, where you need an actual currency - e.g. you want to sell it to Person B so you can turn around and buy something from Person C - Its relative scarcity makes it an ideal currency.
Google maps was great... then they decide to take away features randomly that are extremely useful.
Can you give me three or four examples? Other than vaguely recalling that maybe they had an option for cycling directions that minimized routes with hills, I can't think of anything.
(I think they've also gotten rid of 'joke' direction like "Swim across the Pacific Ocean" but I assume that was just he legal department wading it.)
As somebody living in Belgium and having used telegram service, morse has nothing to do with it
Yeah - Every time one of these 'death of telegrams' stories appear on Slashdot people always assume it means morse-code telegrams, which is of course wrong.
Teletypes were in use for telegrams for over 100 years.
However, Twitter is a corporation. They have no legal obligation to provide you a platform. If you don't like Twitter's policies you can use an alternate platform or go make your own Twitter.
Pocketcasts on Android recently "improved" their Podcast app and broke several pieces of good usability.
Deleting a played podcast no involves multiple taps, batch delete is gone and you can no longer hide podcasts you don't care about.
I don't know why the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule no longer applies to apps. It's frustrating.
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider. The alternatives, such as Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Slack and Skype are all islands keeping communications with their borders. Even e-mail is still more universal.
Kinda-sorta "universal."
I have an unlocked Android Samsung Galaxy S5 with Verizon firmware on the Rogers Canada network.
My wife can send me a text easily enough - "Can you pick up the kids?" and I can in turn reply easily enough. So in that context, yes it's universal.
However, due to issues with the Verizon firmware on Rogers I can't send / receive "MMS" text messages - So if the text is long or is a picture I can't get it.
Also, if there's a "group text" happening on a group of iPhones and I get dropped into it I can't participate in the group. I get some of the messages as individual texts and I can reply to that one sender.
In those contexts, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp work much better.
Came to the thread to read posts from snooty coffee snobs describing perfect beans while deriding harried salarymen (and women) for buying a cuppa joe on their way to work.
As a GenXer, I could never text on a flip-phone numeric keypad. I just didn't have the patience to try to cycle through the numbers to get the letters I needed, nor could I accept that poor spelling, syntax and grammar that it required. Once we got proper QWERTY keypads I was all over it.
The movie / TV industry needs to follow the music industry's lead. It took years, but today nearly any song you might want to listen to is available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. If I want to hear "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora followed by some Fats Waller I just punch it into the search and there it is.
There needs to be a similar service for video - $30 a month (or whatever) and everything is there. Everything. Betwitched episode? It's there. Star Trek Discovery? It's there. Wonder Woman movie? There. The Goonies? The Sopranos? You name it. I realize it's a licensing nightmare the music industry figured it out. Time for TV / Movies to do the same.
It doesn't imply it credibly. Whoever made the panicked decision to divert the plane, made a bad call
I'm a frequent flier (65K miles last year) and I disagree, Anonymous Coward.
I think a lot of security measures are stupid, e.g I have no issue with sharps on board - And what exactly does confiscating granny's jar of homemade spaghetti sauce accomplish?
However in this situation you really don't know if this was a 21st century 'note.' What if I found out there was a bomb on board and I was trying to silently and anonymously notify the crew? You just don't know.
And the way airlines are hiring right now, any commercial pilot who leaves an airline not due to performance or loss of medical will find a job somewhere else, they will just start over in seniority and pay.
While it's true the Regionals are hiring - So getting a job earning $30K flying from Fargo to North Platte isn't hard - Getting a job at a mainline American "big three" carrier remains extremely competitive and difficult.
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and Windows Classic Shell...
On Windows 8.x I was a hardcore Classic Shell user.
On Windows 10 it just seems more trouble than it's worth. I still have it, but likely going to uninstall it soon.
they need to get a court order and not some auto take down.
Is that what the law says?
Your internet provider is a conduit on which multiple services rely. It cannot and should not, by law, be used to control or limit access, or police content either of it's own accord or upon request of external parties.
There are plenty of things your ISP "should not be" but the fact remains they are required to play by the rules passed by the lawmakers. If a law is passed saying they are required to cut you off if you pirate the new Star Wars movie, then that's what they have to do. They may (or may not) choose to fight on your behalf, but in the end you shouldn't shoot the messenger - You should fire the politicians.
Did you RTFA, Anonymous Coward?
When Tesla begins using its new 2170 battery cell, which for Model 3 is expected to happen in the second quarter of this year, its vehicles will be 95% made in the US, making them the "most American" cars available.
Panasonic continues to produce battery cells in Japan and elsewhere, but will be steadily expanding production at the Gigafactory in Nevada. Tesla also plans to source much of the raw materials in those cells from the US. The company is believed to be developing a source of lithium at Silver Peak, not far from the Gigafactory, and Nevada lawmakers have proposed new tax incentives aimed at increasing lithium production in the state.
F150s are 85% American.
Teslas are about to hit 95%.
https://chargedevs.com/newswir...
Pickup trucks are about American steel and brawn, tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods.
First of, Anonymous Coward, if you're talking about "buy American" then a Tesla is way wicked more American-made than a Ford F150.
...and as for "tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods" you're probably describing about 5% of pickup truck owners. The only thing most pickups 'tug' is their owners' fat asses down to the Dunkin' Donuts.
China has turned Xinjiang, the Northwestern part of the country surrounding Urumqi, into one of the most advanced surveillance states in the world.
Cue obligatory Slashdotters with standard response...
...in 3, 2, 1...
"Yeah, well the USA is twenty-five times worse!!"
I too, grew up in the 1970's and watched all of the Star Wars movies...Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Timeframe confirmed by AC's use of "Star Wars" and not "A New Hope."
So they don't integrate with the host society.
If course they do. Canada is full of refugees, all very happy to be here, and the majority of whom are working hard to integrate into Canadian society.
My next door neighbours are refugees. The whole family works freaking hard and all manner of scut jobs.
2) To return to their origin as soon as it is safe to do so.
My next-door-neighbours arrived here in Canada as refugees from Vietnam in the 70s. They got jobs, became citizens, and raised children. 40 years later, Vietnam is now 'safe' but they have no interest in returning there. They're Canadians now. The mother of the household vacations there every few years to visit friends and family, but that's it.
The Syrian refugees across the street from me will likely follow the same pattern - They are integrating themselves into our community. If, a decade from now, Syria is 'safe,' the pull to go back there will likely be weak.
I don't think people mind that Airlines have effective social media teams. However, what people like me do object to is the fact that an email or phone call or (gasp) paper letter goes into a black hole - But a tweet? You have a cheerful response, often with a resolution to the issue, within 30 minutes. I'd like companies to treat all communications equally and importantly - Yet because tweets (and, to a lesser extent, Facebook post) are public and searchable, they get higher priority.
Well, I for one wouldn't sell you my spare mirelurk meat for gold post-apocalypse. You'd be best advised bring something I can eat, drink, or shoot at mirelurks.
If that scenario, you're not looking for someone buy your spare mirelurk meat, you're looking for someone to trade/barter for it.
...but in a post-barter scenario, where you need an actual currency - e.g. you want to sell it to Person B so you can turn around and buy something from Person C - Its relative scarcity makes it an ideal currency.
Gold has little value in a pure barter scenario.
Google maps was great... then they decide to take away features randomly that are extremely useful.
Can you give me three or four examples? Other than vaguely recalling that maybe they had an option for cycling directions that minimized routes with hills, I can't think of anything.
(I think they've also gotten rid of 'joke' direction like "Swim across the Pacific Ocean" but I assume that was just he legal department wading it.)
As somebody living in Belgium and having used telegram service, morse has nothing to do with it
Yeah - Every time one of these 'death of telegrams' stories appear on Slashdot people always assume it means morse-code telegrams, which is of course wrong.
Teletypes were in use for telegrams for over 100 years.
The right to free speech is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Yes. It's why Concepcion Picciotto was able to protest at the White House for 35 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, Twitter is a corporation. They have no legal obligation to provide you a platform. If you don't like Twitter's policies you can use an alternate platform or go make your own Twitter.
It's not just density, it's population overall.
Russia has a population of 145 million. That's more than 4 times Canada's population. That brings economies of scale that lowers prices.
> The first one, (A New Hope)
The first one, (Star Wars)
FTFY
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAw0...
Pocketcasts on Android recently "improved" their Podcast app and broke several pieces of good usability. Deleting a played podcast no involves multiple taps, batch delete is gone and you can no longer hide podcasts you don't care about.
I don't know why the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule no longer applies to apps. It's frustrating.
The crazy thing is that text messages are still a more universal platform, allowing any person with a mobile phone to message anyone else using a different service provider. The alternatives, such as Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Slack and Skype are all islands keeping communications with their borders. Even e-mail is still more universal.
Kinda-sorta "universal."
I have an unlocked Android Samsung Galaxy S5 with Verizon firmware on the Rogers Canada network.
My wife can send me a text easily enough - "Can you pick up the kids?" and I can in turn reply easily enough. So in that context, yes it's universal.
However, due to issues with the Verizon firmware on Rogers I can't send / receive "MMS" text messages - So if the text is long or is a picture I can't get it.
Also, if there's a "group text" happening on a group of iPhones and I get dropped into it I can't participate in the group. I get some of the messages as individual texts and I can reply to that one sender.
In those contexts, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp work much better.
Came to the thread to read posts from snooty coffee snobs describing perfect beans while deriding harried salarymen (and women) for buying a cuppa joe on their way to work.
Was not disappointed.
As a GenXer, I could never text on a flip-phone numeric keypad. I just didn't have the patience to try to cycle through the numbers to get the letters I needed, nor could I accept that poor spelling, syntax and grammar that it required. Once we got proper QWERTY keypads I was all over it.
The movie / TV industry needs to follow the music industry's lead. It took years, but today nearly any song you might want to listen to is available on Spotify, Apple Music etc. If I want to hear "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora followed by some Fats Waller I just punch it into the search and there it is.
There needs to be a similar service for video - $30 a month (or whatever) and everything is there. Everything. Betwitched episode? It's there. Star Trek Discovery? It's there. Wonder Woman movie? There. The Goonies? The Sopranos? You name it. I realize it's a licensing nightmare the music industry figured it out. Time for TV / Movies to do the same.
There's no pilot shortage.
There's a shortage of pilots willing to work for less than McDonald's wages.
Kinda sorta. The salaries mean people aren't willing to go to flight school in the first place.
So yes there's a shortage of pilots, but it's due to the reason you state - Low salaries.
It doesn't imply it credibly. Whoever made the panicked decision to divert the plane, made a bad call
I'm a frequent flier (65K miles last year) and I disagree, Anonymous Coward.
I think a lot of security measures are stupid, e.g I have no issue with sharps on board - And what exactly does confiscating granny's jar of homemade spaghetti sauce accomplish?
However in this situation you really don't know if this was a 21st century 'note.' What if I found out there was a bomb on board and I was trying to silently and anonymously notify the crew? You just don't know.
And the way airlines are hiring right now, any commercial pilot who leaves an airline not due to performance or loss of medical will find a job somewhere else, they will just start over in seniority and pay.
While it's true the Regionals are hiring - So getting a job earning $30K flying from Fargo to North Platte isn't hard - Getting a job at a mainline American "big three" carrier remains extremely competitive and difficult.