"Point me to a cloud backup solution that can handle 16TB over entry-level cablemodem bandwidth"
You are an extreme edge case. 99.99% of people don't have 16TB of data at home and the few that do likely don't have "entry-level cablemodem bandwidth."
Mirror your setup and physically haul it offsite weekly. I highly doubt there would be much lost in a weeks time.
"If I'm flying somewhere I want a human pilot" "and if I'm driving somewhere, I want to be in ultimate control of the vehicle."
You don't trust a vehicle with 20+ sensors that can react 100 times faster to all those concurrent inputs, but you do trust a random cab/bus/train/plane/blimp driver to always make the right call? Those same people who are at fault in 99% of fatal accidents. Those same people who tend to fall asleep, show up at work drunk, have emotional issues, have undisclosed health issues, etc?
Everyone is not creative. Everyone can't write, and most can't well enough that anyone would want to read it. Many can't sing, or draw, or express themselves beyond the level of a 3rd grader.
Does our current "fiat currency" "crash every other year b/c of market greed?" Yes, there are ups and downs in the market, but I wouldn't call it a crash.
And while I agree there needs to be a social safety net, people need to deal with change. This isn't a US problem. It isn't even necessarily a problem. All that said, automation isn't free. You can automate lots of jobs, but it may cost more to automate than it costs to pay someone to do it. Flipping burgers can easily be automated, but currently its cheaper and easier to train a 16yo to do it. They can also make fries, take out the trash, clean tables, and do other tasks. All that can be automated as well, but not cost effectively. Now, if we ever get iRobot humanoid style robots for under $100k, that will be extremely disruptive. That's likely at least a generation or more away though.
"This is how they will worm out of the grandfathered unlimited plans."
You speak as if they should offer unlimited forever, even if there are edge users using 500+GB/month. Are you also for rent control so someone who moved into an apartment in Manhattan in 1960 would still only pay $85/month? That doesn't seem fair. There is a reason they are called "grandfathered" customers. And like most grandfathers, they eventually die.
Are you arguing that if a company offers an "unlimited" plan that it should be available forever without any changes? Would it be ok if they allowed people to stay on the unlimited but only if they connect via 3G or whatever service was available when they signed up?
And to the person that said it was time to find a new service, I'm sure Verizon would love those people using 200-500GB/month to go elsewhere.
At some point, you are doing it "wrong." Be that having 10 pages concurrently open, or 100, or 10,000. Software is engineered for use cases. Crazy edge cases like having one million web instances open is beyond the scope of what developers generally engineer for. Is it possible? Sure. It that behavior expected? No.
If 99.999% of users never have more than 10 tabs open at a time, I suspect most browsers are made to accommodate a small multiple of that without issue. Beyond that and you are asking for trouble or less than optimal performance. Also, remember how much $$ you paid for that browser. You get what you pay for!
If you encrypt all your data and backup offsite, then physical security shouldn't be too big of a concern. If someone broke in and stole it all, you can always go to Best Buy/Wal-Mart/Target and buy a replacement laptop for $400. Even if they burned your office to the ground, you can get a replacement laptop and work from a Starbucks/McDonalds/FedEx Office/cheap hotel with WIFI for a week or so until you get your home situation worked out.
It seems like you are acting like a 5 year old who dad gave $20 and has to spend it as soon as possible.
I find it amazing that people have forgotten 70 laptops. That fact does make it a plausible excuse that the same amount of people could have forgotten they were carrying firearms when going through screening. I'm not saying its ok to forget you have a firearm in your possession, but to "face a penalty as high as $11,000" and a possible felony seems a little excessive. I'd like to see how many of those people are given a warning at sent home, and how many are arrested on the spot and convicted.
"homosexuals and heterosexuals differ because they are engaging in sex for completely different reasons. Heterosexuals are participating in the family tradition of procreation"
Wrong. Both mostly have sex for recreational purposes. Most heterosexuals do not want to procreate everytime they have sex. Not even every 1/100 times. Most heterosexuals are not the Duggers and do not want 25+ children over their lifetime.
I'd like to see results separated from verified buyers and everything else. If the results are too far apart, then that would seem to indicate someone may be pulling a scam.
"Why should we have cell phones that work for days when they should work for months on a charge or cars that only go a couple of hundred miles when they should be able to go thousands of miles on a single charge?"
You are confusing "should" with "I'd like to have". If we're going that route, then cell phones should have a charge the life of the phone. Cars should have a charge that will go 200k or the life of the car.
The housing market, - As of 2015, home prices have returned to near their historical highs (https://www.chase.com/news/062716-market-recovered) the job market, - 4.9% seems pretty low (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=us+unemployment+rate+2016) the middle class, - the nation’s aggregate household income has substantially shifted from middle-income to upper-income households. This seems like a good thing (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/) our civil liberties, - The Patriot Act isn't a good thing, but those great 1940s and 1950s had US Japanese detention camps and red scare tactics from the likes of Joseph McCarthy. and just about everything else - Right after Obama took office (3/6/2009) the DOW was at 6626. Today it closed at a record high of 19,083. The NASDAQ and S&P have had similar results. Its a stretch to give a president credit or blame for stock market results, but those are the kinds of results most Americans like to see. Even if they don't directly invest, their 401Ks and the companies many work for are likely performing much better.
"Over 50% of the voters outside of CA found Trump hopeful."
So California doesn't count? The latest figures for 2014 from the World Bank show that Brazil claimed seventh place with a gross domestic product of $2.346 trillion. California's gross state product, which is comparable to GDP, was $2.448 trillion in 2015, according to a report released last month by the U.S.
But sure, they are a bunch of pot smoking hippies whose opinions are instantly voided.
If you really want to profile, 99% of terrorists are men. And most of them are white men. In the US, all the 9/11 bad guys, most perpetrators of hate crime, most rapists, and most people who shoot schools up are white men. Let's put a travel ban on white men and there will much less crime.
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All that sounds good, but they don't teach "strip club" etiquette in high school Chinese/German.
"Point me to a cloud backup solution that can handle 16TB over entry-level cablemodem bandwidth"
You are an extreme edge case. 99.99% of people don't have 16TB of data at home and the few that do likely don't have "entry-level cablemodem bandwidth."
Mirror your setup and physically haul it offsite weekly. I highly doubt there would be much lost in a weeks time.
"If I'm flying somewhere I want a human pilot" "and if I'm driving somewhere, I want to be in ultimate control of the vehicle."
You don't trust a vehicle with 20+ sensors that can react 100 times faster to all those concurrent inputs, but you do trust a random cab/bus/train/plane/blimp driver to always make the right call? Those same people who are at fault in 99% of fatal accidents. Those same people who tend to fall asleep, show up at work drunk, have emotional issues, have undisclosed health issues, etc?
Everyone is not creative. Everyone can't write, and most can't well enough that anyone would want to read it. Many can't sing, or draw, or express themselves beyond the level of a 3rd grader.
Does our current "fiat currency" "crash every other year b/c of market greed?" Yes, there are ups and downs in the market, but I wouldn't call it a crash.
And while I agree there needs to be a social safety net, people need to deal with change. This isn't a US problem. It isn't even necessarily a problem. All that said, automation isn't free. You can automate lots of jobs, but it may cost more to automate than it costs to pay someone to do it. Flipping burgers can easily be automated, but currently its cheaper and easier to train a 16yo to do it. They can also make fries, take out the trash, clean tables, and do other tasks. All that can be automated as well, but not cost effectively. Now, if we ever get iRobot humanoid style robots for under $100k, that will be extremely disruptive. That's likely at least a generation or more away though.
"This is how they will worm out of the grandfathered unlimited plans."
You speak as if they should offer unlimited forever, even if there are edge users using 500+GB/month. Are you also for rent control so someone who moved into an apartment in Manhattan in 1960 would still only pay $85/month? That doesn't seem fair. There is a reason they are called "grandfathered" customers. And like most grandfathers, they eventually die.
Are you arguing that if a company offers an "unlimited" plan that it should be available forever without any changes? Would it be ok if they allowed people to stay on the unlimited but only if they connect via 3G or whatever service was available when they signed up?
And to the person that said it was time to find a new service, I'm sure Verizon would love those people using 200-500GB/month to go elsewhere.
"Many of the CEO's and board members went to private school together since they were toddlers."
Are you implying they are loyal to each other because they were in the 3rd grade together?
At some point, you are doing it "wrong." Be that having 10 pages concurrently open, or 100, or 10,000. Software is engineered for use cases. Crazy edge cases like having one million web instances open is beyond the scope of what developers generally engineer for. Is it possible? Sure. It that behavior expected? No.
If 99.999% of users never have more than 10 tabs open at a time, I suspect most browsers are made to accommodate a small multiple of that without issue. Beyond that and you are asking for trouble or less than optimal performance. Also, remember how much $$ you paid for that browser. You get what you pay for!
"I've been doing this for three decades now."
You've been working with browsers since 1986? You are a true poineer! I guess Sir Tim Berners-Lee stole his idea from you in 1990.
If you encrypt all your data and backup offsite, then physical security shouldn't be too big of a concern. If someone broke in and stole it all, you can always go to Best Buy/Wal-Mart/Target and buy a replacement laptop for $400. Even if they burned your office to the ground, you can get a replacement laptop and work from a Starbucks/McDonalds/FedEx Office/cheap hotel with WIFI for a week or so until you get your home situation worked out.
It seems like you are acting like a 5 year old who dad gave $20 and has to spend it as soon as possible.
A scantily clad margot robbie explains suicide squad.
I find it amazing that people have forgotten 70 laptops. That fact does make it a plausible excuse that the same amount of people could have forgotten they were carrying firearms when going through screening. I'm not saying its ok to forget you have a firearm in your possession, but to "face a penalty as high as $11,000" and a possible felony seems a little excessive. I'd like to see how many of those people are given a warning at sent home, and how many are arrested on the spot and convicted.
"Love it or leave it."
Thant's a great mantra. That's why everyone stayed when Obama was elected.
Its basically a way of telling people that if they don't like how you think, they should leave.
"homosexuals and heterosexuals differ because they are engaging in sex for completely different reasons. Heterosexuals are participating in the family tradition of procreation"
Wrong. Both mostly have sex for recreational purposes. Most heterosexuals do not want to procreate everytime they have sex. Not even every 1/100 times. Most heterosexuals are not the Duggers and do not want 25+ children over their lifetime.
I'd like to see results separated from verified buyers and everything else. If the results are too far apart, then that would seem to indicate someone may be pulling a scam.
"Why should we have cell phones that work for days when they should work for months on a charge or cars that only go a couple of hundred miles when they should be able to go thousands of miles on a single charge?"
You are confusing "should" with "I'd like to have". If we're going that route, then cell phones should have a charge the life of the phone. Cars should have a charge that will go 200k or the life of the car.
"Limiting the maximum size of soft drinks that can be legally sold in NYC."
Great example. I'm sure plenty of companies are moving offshore due to soda size limitations.
"What are these mythical regulations?"
They can't dump all that industrial waste into the US waterways anymore like they can in China. That gives them a competitive advantage.
Also, they have to pay those whiny workers a minimum wage. And meet OSHA requirements. Also, causing them to lose a competitive advantage.
The housing market, - As of 2015, home prices have returned to near their historical highs (https://www.chase.com/news/062716-market-recovered)
the job market, - 4.9% seems pretty low (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=us+unemployment+rate+2016)
the middle class, - the nation’s aggregate household income has substantially shifted from middle-income to upper-income households. This seems like a good thing (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/)
our civil liberties, - The Patriot Act isn't a good thing, but those great 1940s and 1950s had US Japanese detention camps and red scare tactics from the likes of Joseph McCarthy.
and just about everything else - Right after Obama took office (3/6/2009) the DOW was at 6626. Today it closed at a record high of 19,083. The NASDAQ and S&P have had similar results. Its a stretch to give a president credit or blame for stock market results, but those are the kinds of results most Americans like to see. Even if they don't directly invest, their 401Ks and the companies many work for are likely performing much better.
"operating your phone in a moving vehicle wasn't an option for close to 100 years"
Actually, it wasn't an option for 13.772 billion years
"What's your excuse on espousing torture of innocents?"
In case you missed it, torture of the guilty is also wrong.
"in many cases it's a felony trespass to enter a freeway on foot if it has a center divider"
This is why many people don't trust the government. Sure, its dangerous but should it really be a felony to walk onto a road?
"Over 50% of the voters outside of CA found Trump hopeful."
So California doesn't count? The latest figures for 2014 from the World Bank show that Brazil claimed seventh place with a gross domestic product of $2.346 trillion. California's gross state product, which is comparable to GDP, was $2.448 trillion in 2015, according to a report released last month by the U.S.
But sure, they are a bunch of pot smoking hippies whose opinions are instantly voided.
If you really want to profile, 99% of terrorists are men. And most of them are white men. In the US, all the 9/11 bad guys, most perpetrators of hate crime, most rapists, and most people who shoot schools up are white men. Let's put a travel ban on white men and there will much less crime.
"Mishandle classified information and you are a felon."
Even if you have broken the law, that doesn't make you a felon. There is still the matter of judicial process.