Does the fine analysis account for things like the 70 kWh we developed here at home, today? Demand from the electric companies may be down. But I bet we're still using more energy than ever before if you include all the energy generated on site that does not get billed by the electric companies. They know what we get from them. They know what we give to them. They have no idea how much we use here. And we use the greater part of those 70 kWh. (Or the 90+ on a good day when it's not cloudy.)
My understanding is that only one person on the committee was allowed to see the FISA documentation. So how does Schiff make claims about the contents of the documentation and substantiate those claims? That rather damages the thrust if his memo. He then cites some statements by people, themselves under suspicion for wrongdoing in the FBI, to justify a collection of other claims.
One should consider why these companies want stiff regulation. They are big. They own their markets. They can absorb the extra costs and simply pass it along. Small startups cannot absorb the cost or pass it along. So effectively these companies are asking the government to stifle competition from startups. Think about it. {^_^}
Seems to me the chief flaw in this argument is the definition of "best". In this context it is another word like "fair", which means something different to each reader. If you pick the people who best fit the needs of the job you are being sensible and have the best chance of achieving the results described by the "needs". If you hire the best people in a field with no other criteria you get runaway primadonna-ism. If you hire the people in a field who best work with their peers you may get a solution; but, it may be pedestrian. You need the best people in the field who can work together and work creatively if you want serious innovation. So "best" is an inadequate word without modifiers. So this whole article is "fullabaloney". {^_^}
It is amusing to watch, isn't it? First you define anything Republicans like as fake. Then you check to see if Republicans or Democrats absorb more fake news. Of course, your results confirm your selection process. Fake news is that which does not bruise your nose when you bump into the wall it says is in front of you. It's fake news when you blame the whole world for the results of your own failings, such as losing an election because you were a thoroughly arrogant and rotten candidate for political office.
Besides it is college students who declaimed at length how rotten Trump's SoTU address "last night" when it had not taken place yet. Blue collar people probably had a better notion of reality. It would be interesting to find out. {^_-}
And that buries the lede because you presume rather than prove that the content people interacted with was designed to promote Trump or for fantastical reasons denigrate Clinton. There is no reasoning behind such a presumption. There is a good reason for the opposite of the presumption above, however. Why should Putin hate the woman who just authorized the sale of 20% of US uranium stock to Russia? {o.o} Just sayin'
If you consider who made this declaration that Trump's all wrong, perhaps on this issue we must admit, as much sa this will distress many of us, that Trump is correct - - - again. {O.O}
Whatever the merits of the situation I see a business opportunity for people who make protective cases for cell phones. Simply build one with an easy to install and easy to pop open attached lens cap. "Let 'em eat darkness."
Remember Henry Ford? Yes, him, the inventor of the automobile for the masses. (By no means the inventor of the automobile, of course.)
Henry had a silly idea, which arguably made his automobile a success. He paid his workers sufficiently well that they could afford one of the products they manufactured. For a success any business must have a potential customer base large enough to keep the company going. There is something to be said for keeping lowly, inefficient, organic, and unreliable human beings on the payroll. If there is no customer base the whole mercantile house of cards collapses. If all the fast food stores mechanize, especially the low end stores, how does that affect their customer base? Have they thought far enough ahead to factor this in or the Wall Street demands for every 3 months profit increase blocking vision of a fairly dismal future for us and for these companies?
I'm not sure I give very much of a damn about the rural coverage until I can get coverage for proper high speed (25 mbps) in my home less than a mile from city hall. The city has a population in the hundreds of thousands. Yet I sit here on a large lot that cable and fiber offerings claim they do not have to serve. "It costs too much for us to do it."
If rural people get high speed coverage how about making it mandatory that anybody offering service within a city must honor the offer for everybody in that city? Then I could kick some Charter and Verizon ass until I got proper service. DSL on ancient noisy phone lines sucks dead bunnies through garden hoses.
We gave the creep a second chance; and, he blew it. While the appropriate punishment should be something like defenestration 30 stories up, keelhauling, or drawing and quartering these are considered to be cruel and unusual punishment. But a later article here has suggested something that would be ideal and is considered by Telenav to be completely normal treatment for human beings. So we'll take up their suggestion, put this fellow in a immobile automobile with their advertising service for at least 12 hours every day for the rest of his life. Now, should we provide him with the means for suicide or not?
And I'm not sure if I am making a joke or not. {o.o}
Lemme see, when I was in college in the 60s I was able to earn a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with a decent GPA at the same time I was reading one to two SF paperbacks a day depending more on availability than time. So that's at least 400 a year. The collection I had before a water leak killed off about half it it was about 200' of paperback books, 95% of which I had already read. At about 1/2" per book that's about 4800 books. And then I had another about 1000 that were used to prop up the second row of books so I could see enough of their spines to read the titles. I'd slowed down reading somewhat when I got a day job and was married. These days I am picking up my reading again. Lemme see - about 20 books in the last four weeks. Retirement's great in that respect.
And based on friends I have at LASFS I'm no super hero level reader. Whereinheck did this "scholarly person", Nilanjana Roy, get her numbers? Did she pick them out of her nose?
And this surely points up how poorly educated younger people not alive and especially not adult 50 years ago have become. Some things are worse, in the name of making them better. Some things are so much better it's laughable to say we're worse off than 50 years ago.
50 years ago it was all about the ugly American. Today it's about the gulled stupid American. I expect those hoary old ethnic jokes about Poles, Russians, "Negros", "Wops" "Micks", and so forth to be recycled about Americans who neither know nor appreciate what we have today.
50 years ago I was just about to get my MSEE degree from Univ of Mich. I know first hand what it was like then. Some is now worse, including some important things. An utterly amazing whole LOT is better. I can live relatively poor today far far FAR better than I could live extremely wealthy in 1967.
For over 30 years ago I have been watching people whing and whine about ever smaller real and imagined insults. At 73 I figured I'd likely be dead by the time it came to a head. Now I am not so sure. The reductio ad absurdum situation has everybody being perpetually insulted, mentally crippled, and cowering in basements just because somebody else is still alive. We're approaching this with frightening rapidity. I expect within the next few years to see some major construction project go up with major design flaws because somebody considered it a nasty micro-aggression to call designer's attention to the design's fatal design errors.
Have fun, children. You let yourselves be duped into this world view. Now you get to live with it a heck of a lot longer than I do. {o.o}
Hm? I have one "social media" account. It gets touched about once a year give or take. If they require the ability to monitor my social media account I'll generate one, and touch it maybe once a year give or take. I'm not welded to social media instant interaction. Email is sufficient. And if they want THAT password, I could, when it mattered, kiss them off and go elsewhere. Now - well - retirement does have some advantages. {^_-}
If the government did this we'd be screaming loud and clear to our lords and masters in our Legislature to put an end to it. We've already done this, repeatedly.
Why in hell should I trust Facebook more than the government? Why in double plus hell should I trust Facebook to never ever under any circumstance share the data with the government?
I always figured there was a good reason to avoid Facebook, twitter, and such while I fudge, a lot, with linkedin. It's not paranoia when you know "they" are out to get low lying fruit and you happen to be low lying fruit for their picking.
NPR's studied a topic which needs some study - "What are the affects of body cameras?" Then it presumes the correct question is, "Does this affect police behavior?" Of course, that question in the end does not matter. What matters is whether citizens unjustly treated by police offered a better final outcome for police brutality cases and whether police officers unjustly accused by citizens with whom they interacted also provided a better final outcome in their cases. It's a shame NPR didn't seem to ask THAT question. (Or the person posting here didn't suppressed this portion of the question...)
I cannot say I was "inside". I was pretty darned close, though, as the chief moderator of the Amiga conferences on the late lamented BIX, "BYTE Information Exchange". If I tried to write down everything I heard as Commododo went extinct I'd probably be sued for slander within seconds. I am pretty sure most of what I think I know is accurate. It's generally multiply sourced from the engineers and software people who were there to the end.
When the owner of a company decides to milk it for what he can get out of it as it disintegrates the results are ugly. The motivations varied from ugly to pathetic.
It will be REALLY interesting to see what David has to say about it.
{^_^} formerly long ago jdow@bix[MUNG].com. (Munged to protect the current holders of bix.com.)
Visit New York New York® Las Vegas hotel. Visit the Cirque show. Visit the bathrooms associated with the show. Listen to the strange voices you hear. But, only you can hear it. This is done with modulated ultrasonic sound waves, a shaped reflector, and your ears.
And if the State Department people are so dumb they cannot turn around and sleep with their feet where their head would normally be to escape something specific to where the head normally rests, they have earned their headaches. And, yes, I believe the average US diplomat could not find its ass in the dark using both hands.
I met Jerry decades ago at a Soldier of Fortune convention to which my then boyfriend had dragged me. As the days progressed my attire morphed somewhat, to John's obvious delight. In those days I was pretty decent looking. Then I got sadder and wider instead of wiser. So I was dressed down somewhat extremely when John and I were sitting at one of the Sahara Hotel's (RIP) bars awaiting Jerry's presentation. We were talking about an observation I, an engineer in the RF communications field, had noticed. I asked John to back me if I went over to ask Jerry about it.
Jerry had just been approached by a trophy hunter who tried to bed the macho men at the SoF convention and write a book about it. Jerry had brushed her off. So I walked over. He expected another proposition. "May I ask a question about the people here at the convention?"
He allowed me to ask. So I asked something like this (the exact quote is lost in time), "For a collection of men who are obviously interested in the art of warfare why in heck is there no communications equipment on display along with the firearms in the huckster room?"
Jerry performed the best double-take I have ever seen. His expression went through states faster than I could register. Finally with a mildly bewildered look he allowed as how he didn't know and that it was indeed a good question. Then we went off to his presentation.
Some time later I got into my car with John and we went to the local Science Fiction and Fantasy club, LASFS. Jerry was there and recognized me. We had fun talking dirty, I mean techie both PCs and novels.
Along about 1985 when BYTE Magazine's online service BIX was being beta tested Jerry whispered to me during a LASFS meeting, "Don't leave before you talk to me." So outside we talked. He gave me the instructions for accessing BIX's beta test. I didn't know he was a damn pusher! {^_-} It infected me so badly that by the time BIX's lights were turned out I was the head moderator on the system and getting paid for my addiction.
During all this time I never once saw Jerry as anything other than an old style gentleman to those who treated him fairly and decently. If I had to grade how much I respected him on a scale of one to ten it would be something like 15. We didn't always agree. But he respected me and I respected him. (And I still think the Commodore Amiga was better than either the Macintosh or the IBM PC of the same era. {^_-})
Damn I'm going to miss him even though I've been expecting it and dreading that it would happen someday. Warranties expire. His did. Mine is in the process. Still, losing him is a serious loss. I sit here imagining his parade ground tenor happily giving God some computer advice to make his job easier or spinning yet another good yarn.
Jerry, please rest in peace. Your legacy will live on for a long time.
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Does the fine analysis account for things like the 70 kWh we developed here at home, today? Demand from the electric companies may be down. But I bet we're still using more energy than ever before if you include all the energy generated on site that does not get billed by the electric companies. They know what we get from them. They know what we give to them. They have no idea how much we use here. And we use the greater part of those 70 kWh. (Or the 90+ on a good day when it's not cloudy.)
{^_^}
My understanding is that only one person on the committee was allowed to see the FISA documentation. So how does Schiff make claims about the contents of the documentation and substantiate those claims? That rather damages the thrust if his memo. He then cites some statements by people, themselves under suspicion for wrongdoing in the FBI, to justify a collection of other claims.
{^_^}
One should consider why these companies want stiff regulation. They are big. They own their markets. They can absorb the extra costs and simply pass it along. Small startups cannot absorb the cost or pass it along. So effectively these companies are asking the government to stifle competition from startups. Think about it.
{^_^}
Seems to me the chief flaw in this argument is the definition of "best". In this context it is another word like "fair", which means something different to each reader. If you pick the people who best fit the needs of the job you are being sensible and have the best chance of achieving the results described by the "needs". If you hire the best people in a field with no other criteria you get runaway primadonna-ism. If you hire the people in a field who best work with their peers you may get a solution; but, it may be pedestrian. You need the best people in the field who can work together and work creatively if you want serious innovation. So "best" is an inadequate word without modifiers. So this whole article is "fullabaloney".
{^_^}
It is amusing to watch, isn't it? First you define anything Republicans like as fake. Then you check to see if Republicans or Democrats absorb more fake news. Of course, your results confirm your selection process. Fake news is that which does not bruise your nose when you bump into the wall it says is in front of you. It's fake news when you blame the whole world for the results of your own failings, such as losing an election because you were a thoroughly arrogant and rotten candidate for political office.
Besides it is college students who declaimed at length how rotten Trump's SoTU address "last night" when it had not taken place yet. Blue collar people probably had a better notion of reality. It would be interesting to find out.
{^_-}
And that buries the lede because you presume rather than prove that the content people interacted with was designed to promote Trump or for fantastical reasons denigrate Clinton. There is no reasoning behind such a presumption. There is a good reason for the opposite of the presumption above, however. Why should Putin hate the woman who just authorized the sale of 20% of US uranium stock to Russia?
{o.o} Just sayin'
If you consider who made this declaration that Trump's all wrong, perhaps on this issue we must admit, as much sa this will distress many of us, that Trump is correct - - - again.
{O.O}
29.97Hz? Seems there is a very significant market still operating on that frame rate.
{o.o}
Whatever the merits of the situation I see a business opportunity for people who make protective cases for cell phones. Simply build one with an easy to install and easy to pop open attached lens cap. "Let 'em eat darkness."
{^_-}
Remember Henry Ford? Yes, him, the inventor of the automobile for the masses. (By no means the inventor of the automobile, of course.)
Henry had a silly idea, which arguably made his automobile a success. He paid his workers sufficiently well that they could afford one of the products they manufactured. For a success any business must have a potential customer base large enough to keep the company going. There is something to be said for keeping lowly, inefficient, organic, and unreliable human beings on the payroll. If there is no customer base the whole mercantile house of cards collapses. If all the fast food stores mechanize, especially the low end stores, how does that affect their customer base? Have they thought far enough ahead to factor this in or the Wall Street demands for every 3 months profit increase blocking vision of a fairly dismal future for us and for these companies?
{^_^}
I'm not sure I give very much of a damn about the rural coverage until I can get coverage for proper high speed (25 mbps) in my home less than a mile from city hall. The city has a population in the hundreds of thousands. Yet I sit here on a large lot that cable and fiber offerings claim they do not have to serve. "It costs too much for us to do it."
If rural people get high speed coverage how about making it mandatory that anybody offering service within a city must honor the offer for everybody in that city? Then I could kick some Charter and Verizon ass until I got proper service. DSL on ancient noisy phone lines sucks dead bunnies through garden hoses.
{o,o}
Of course the combined distro would have to rename itself as "Freedows". Then they could claim was snack food for computers.
{^_-}
We gave the creep a second chance; and, he blew it. While the appropriate punishment should be something like defenestration 30 stories up, keelhauling, or drawing and quartering these are considered to be cruel and unusual punishment. But a later article here has suggested something that would be ideal and is considered by Telenav to be completely normal treatment for human beings. So we'll take up their suggestion, put this fellow in a immobile automobile with their advertising service for at least 12 hours every day for the rest of his life. Now, should we provide him with the means for suicide or not?
And I'm not sure if I am making a joke or not.
{o.o}
Does that mean that alien boy I have hidden in my closet can come out and run around in public now?
Dayum I'm gonna miss him. He's gooooood!
{O,o}
Lemme see, when I was in college in the 60s I was able to earn a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with a decent GPA at the same time I was reading one to two SF paperbacks a day depending more on availability than time. So that's at least 400 a year. The collection I had before a water leak killed off about half it it was about 200' of paperback books, 95% of which I had already read. At about 1/2" per book that's about 4800 books. And then I had another about 1000 that were used to prop up the second row of books so I could see enough of their spines to read the titles. I'd slowed down reading somewhat when I got a day job and was married. These days I am picking up my reading again. Lemme see - about 20 books in the last four weeks. Retirement's great in that respect.
And based on friends I have at LASFS I'm no super hero level reader. Whereinheck did this "scholarly person", Nilanjana Roy, get her numbers? Did she pick them out of her nose?
{^_^}
And this surely points up how poorly educated younger people not alive and especially not adult 50 years ago have become. Some things are worse, in the name of making them better. Some things are so much better it's laughable to say we're worse off than 50 years ago.
50 years ago it was all about the ugly American. Today it's about the gulled stupid American. I expect those hoary old ethnic jokes about Poles, Russians, "Negros", "Wops" "Micks", and so forth to be recycled about Americans who neither know nor appreciate what we have today.
50 years ago I was just about to get my MSEE degree from Univ of Mich. I know first hand what it was like then. Some is now worse, including some important things. An utterly amazing whole LOT is better. I can live relatively poor today far far FAR better than I could live extremely wealthy in 1967.
{^_^}
For over 30 years ago I have been watching people whing and whine about ever smaller real and imagined insults. At 73 I figured I'd likely be dead by the time it came to a head. Now I am not so sure. The reductio ad absurdum situation has everybody being perpetually insulted, mentally crippled, and cowering in basements just because somebody else is still alive. We're approaching this with frightening rapidity. I expect within the next few years to see some major construction project go up with major design flaws because somebody considered it a nasty micro-aggression to call designer's attention to the design's fatal design errors.
Have fun, children. You let yourselves be duped into this world view. Now you get to live with it a heck of a lot longer than I do.
{o.o}
I wonder if I could duplicate the redirect notification and trick somebody into installing some malware..... No good deed goes unpunished.
{o.o}
Hm? I have one "social media" account. It gets touched about once a year give or take. If they require the ability to monitor my social media account I'll generate one, and touch it maybe once a year give or take. I'm not welded to social media instant interaction. Email is sufficient. And if they want THAT password, I could, when it mattered, kiss them off and go elsewhere. Now - well - retirement does have some advantages.
{^_-}
If the government did this we'd be screaming loud and clear to our lords and masters in our Legislature to put an end to it. We've already done this, repeatedly.
Why in hell should I trust Facebook more than the government? Why in double plus hell should I trust Facebook to never ever under any circumstance share the data with the government?
I always figured there was a good reason to avoid Facebook, twitter, and such while I fudge, a lot, with linkedin. It's not paranoia when you know "they" are out to get low lying fruit and you happen to be low lying fruit for their picking.
{^_^}
NPR's studied a topic which needs some study - "What are the affects of body cameras?" Then it presumes the correct question is, "Does this affect police behavior?" Of course, that question in the end does not matter. What matters is whether citizens unjustly treated by police offered a better final outcome for police brutality cases and whether police officers unjustly accused by citizens with whom they interacted also provided a better final outcome in their cases. It's a shame NPR didn't seem to ask THAT question. (Or the person posting here didn't suppressed this portion of the question...)
{^_^}
I cannot say I was "inside". I was pretty darned close, though, as the chief moderator of the Amiga conferences on the late lamented BIX, "BYTE Information Exchange". If I tried to write down everything I heard as Commododo went extinct I'd probably be sued for slander within seconds. I am pretty sure most of what I think I know is accurate. It's generally multiply sourced from the engineers and software people who were there to the end.
When the owner of a company decides to milk it for what he can get out of it as it disintegrates the results are ugly. The motivations varied from ugly to pathetic.
It will be REALLY interesting to see what David has to say about it.
{^_^} formerly long ago jdow@bix[MUNG].com. (Munged to protect the current holders of bix.com.)
Visit New York New York® Las Vegas hotel. Visit the Cirque show. Visit the bathrooms associated with the show. Listen to the strange voices you hear. But, only you can hear it. This is done with modulated ultrasonic sound waves, a shaped reflector, and your ears.
And if the State Department people are so dumb they cannot turn around and sleep with their feet where their head would normally be to escape something specific to where the head normally rests, they have earned their headaches. And, yes, I believe the average US diplomat could not find its ass in the dark using both hands.
{^_^}
If you can't do the time don't do the crime. It's that simple.
{^_^}
I met Jerry decades ago at a Soldier of Fortune convention to which my then boyfriend had dragged me. As the days progressed my attire morphed somewhat, to John's obvious delight. In those days I was pretty decent looking. Then I got sadder and wider instead of wiser. So I was dressed down somewhat extremely when John and I were sitting at one of the Sahara Hotel's (RIP) bars awaiting Jerry's presentation. We were talking about an observation I, an engineer in the RF communications field, had noticed. I asked John to back me if I went over to ask Jerry about it.
Jerry had just been approached by a trophy hunter who tried to bed the macho men at the SoF convention and write a book about it. Jerry had brushed her off. So I walked over. He expected another proposition. "May I ask a question about the people here at the convention?"
He allowed me to ask. So I asked something like this (the exact quote is lost in time), "For a collection of men who are obviously interested in the art of warfare why in heck is there no communications equipment on display along with the firearms in the huckster room?"
Jerry performed the best double-take I have ever seen. His expression went through states faster than I could register. Finally with a mildly bewildered look he allowed as how he didn't know and that it was indeed a good question. Then we went off to his presentation.
Some time later I got into my car with John and we went to the local Science Fiction and Fantasy club, LASFS. Jerry was there and recognized me. We had fun talking dirty, I mean techie both PCs and novels.
Along about 1985 when BYTE Magazine's online service BIX was being beta tested Jerry whispered to me during a LASFS meeting, "Don't leave before you talk to me." So outside we talked. He gave me the instructions for accessing BIX's beta test. I didn't know he was a damn pusher! {^_-} It infected me so badly that by the time BIX's lights were turned out I was the head moderator on the system and getting paid for my addiction.
During all this time I never once saw Jerry as anything other than an old style gentleman to those who treated him fairly and decently. If I had to grade how much I respected him on a scale of one to ten it would be something like 15. We didn't always agree. But he respected me and I respected him. (And I still think the Commodore Amiga was better than either the Macintosh or the IBM PC of the same era. {^_-})
Damn I'm going to miss him even though I've been expecting it and dreading that it would happen someday. Warranties expire. His did. Mine is in the process. Still, losing him is a serious loss. I sit here imagining his parade ground tenor happily giving God some computer advice to make his job easier or spinning yet another good yarn.
Jerry, please rest in peace. Your legacy will live on for a long time.
{^_^} Joanne Dow