So VW cheating now excuses a practice California has had for over a decade? I recently failed an emissions test for an "unapproved" catalytic converter . The thing is, it was approved when installed in this state 8 years ago, but the manufacturer was bought by a different company so the numbers don't match what's in the system. That's a load of crap.
Because none of our bought and paid for politicians would ever endorse it? Conditional opt out is better than nothing, not that it's not easily avoidable. We can't even stop telemarketers from calling our cell phones even if you put yourself on the federal (not California) do not call list.
Please go to hell. CARB is one of the shittiest things California has ever done. If cars pass tailpipe emissions they ought to be legal. That's not how CARB works. If there is anything non-factory on your car not licensed for your year/make/model by the state of California that's an automatic fail.
Why on Earth would you need that for Linux compatibility? While it was once a driver crapshoot with laptops
(and required plenty of config file edits) it's pretty good these days. I mean, unless things have gone incredibly badly in the past few years.
The only "exclusive" OS is the Mac platform and only because they only have drivers for their official hardware. That doesn't stop bootleg installs entirely but it definitely limits them.
That's your call. If you do production support or have kids, not so much. I am the last person to (in general) say "there ought to be a law" but in this case hell yes. That's the only way this will change
I did not mean that, just that it prevents those companies listed from knowing as much about you. Google isn't even shy about it anymore. If I go to a restaurant I get a notification asking for a review. So not only my cell carrier knows my location history, so does the Google...along with any other Android user that I may contact. That's serious 4th amendment BS except that they're a private company and therefore exempt (while archiving data that law enforcement officers and pretty much anyone else can access sans warrant) That affects you whether your using an iPhone or not.
So you're a Blackberry user or running whatever failed Linux thing Nokia was trying to do? I do sympathize, my last phone ran a full Linux distro (in a VM). That said, it won't prevent any of the things I said. That's the cell carrier. It has nothing to do with your phone other than it being turned on. Giving your GPS data to third parties is definitely shady but sans laws I don't see what you can do about it other than not bringing your phone (if you own a modern car you are pretty much bringing your phone, be it OnStar or whatever the Toyota/BMW/Mercedes/Tesla/etc versions are called) so even that isn't going to cut it.
While Facebook is avoidable good luck avoiding Microsoft and Google if you're not a member of the zombie Steve Jobs fan club...that said, whatever they extract is far less damaging than the Equifax breach, after that I'd say cell phone carriers and all of the historical gps data they share with third parties without your consent. Just like the instigators of the 2008 global financial meltdown the penalties = zero dollars.
Only if we replace the referees with those South Korean "Aliens" sentry guns. (yes those are actually real things...it's also how AEGIS works, that's the 'networked' version with IFF)
The embodiment of Christ and his disciples already died (I mean quit) for your chronically dysfunctional company so that they could rise on the seventh day at a company that could still be healed.
While I'm no fan of the 'one true scottsman' defense I've seen enough half assed dysfunctional 'scrum/agile' companies to see that it's not the process that's (usually) the problem, it's that companies think they can develop a "cargo cult" approach to this stuff and get some benefit out of it. They won't and the management aren't exactly likely to jump up and down screaming that this was their own damn fault.
I am perhaps China's worst nightmare, outside of the great orange one. I'm fairly handy and I use "The power of Grayskull...I mean Craigslist/eBay before buying new things".
The problem is that parts availability for most old repairable things is fading fast. There is only so much welding and epoxy can do. Eventually you need repair parts and they're largely gone for the old stuff. There are exceptions (you can buy replacements for pretty much anything on a 1960s era Ford Mustang) but in most cases you're going to be SOL at some point because some stupid little $2 part breaks 30 years after the fact. When the modern equivalent can't even last 10 that makes me a saaaad panda. That said, I still have many perfectly functional mechanical things dating back to well before I was alive and electronics dating back to 1977, many of which have required no repairs ever. They just work.
No matter how many baby seals (zero) were clubbed to death to make these things how can you imagine an "environmentally friendly" modern equivalent is actually friendlier than a thing that (given a few replacement parts) will literally last forever?
That's not to say that everything lasted forever in the "before time" but you had a choice. You could buy cheap garbage or things that cost a bit more and would last. Now you can spend infinity dollars and still end up with stuff that won't last.
So...working for 30+ years in some cases (Thorium based reactors do not but Uranium based breeder reactors have already been proven to do so) still counts as "does not work"...good to know. It clearly does work and if reactor fuel ever went into short supply the power of economics would show you that. Currently it's cheaper to run far less efficient reactors and laugh uncontrollably while packaging up long term radioactive waste, just as the "eco-warriors" do when they once again block disposal in salt mines in the middle of a goddam desert because apparently leaving it in some plastic 55g drums inside the city limits makes way more sense.
Ten years after he may be eligible for the..."I'm old where are my pills line" vs the I'm both gullible and greedy and don't have borderline adult onset dementia line...
While I would argue the former, what am I doing siding with an obvious scammer? If there is a option C nail to a physical cross option please sign me up provided that doesn't involve tens of thousands of my dollars, otherwise I'll use the power of imagination instead
Nuclear energy is pretty much 100% renewable if you do it with breeder reactors vs light water. I mean, it "uses" water by turning it into steam, which then gathers in the atmosphere as lets say..."a cloud"...and precipitates back into the ground as "rain" so unless your local area is lacking water I don't see the major problem other than South Korea (Samsung is located here) having the exact same (byproduct of the process) weapons grade uranium that North Korea already has. What is the downside?
I'm not even sure if it's legality, here in California it's like $7 a pack and a 30% plus bump in health/life insurance. At those rates Heroin may actually be cheaper.
Okay rose colored glasses guy. You do know the unpopular shows aren't on Hallmark (or whichever old people channel you watch) because they were terrible right?
While there has been some blatantly terrible television in the last 15 years the power of the internet is making it way better. Your choice is no longer "The Apprentice" or "Survivor" season 15, Amazon and Netflix will greenlight pretty much any crazy thing you want to pitch. While there are plenty of terrible ones there are also plenty of good ones that never would have made it onto ABC/CBS/NBC or even the oh so "risque" FOX/Comedy Central. They are (by contrast) but IP content isn't controlled by the FCC so they can pretty much do whatever.
That's patently unfair...what if you're a closeted pedophile watching Olympic women's gymnastics or a closeted gay guy watching Olympic male wrestling? If you haven't yet discovered the power of the internets I can see how that would be right up your..alley.
If his Trumpiness were a eunich He wouldn't have paid all that cash/hush money for sex workers and russian mail order brides
...It's the year 2018, can you all please just get over that Hillary lost already? I'm not saying she personally murdered people in Bengazi or any of that Fox News garbage but she had an opportunity to explain what her plan for the next 8 years was and...literally nothing. She was expecting a "freebie" since her opponent was a mysogonistic troll with tiny hands and I'm sorry sunshine, that isn't how it works. Lots of people were unhappy with the status quo and all you were offering was 8 more years of apathy. Obama promised to do many things (I know, I voted for him) and actually delivered on very few. He was a much better public speaker than Bush Jr but his one significant claim to fame was passing an extremely watered down healthcare bill...and I guess that Nobel prize for literally not being a member of the Bush family. Hillary failed to give any sort of plan other than trying to "one-up" Bernie (and vice versa) in the primary. It's now mid-2018 so please stop already.
Way to intentionally deflect the issue asshat. Solar doesn't work at night time. Wind only works when it's windy out. I'd like my lights to stay on whether or not either of those two conditions are met. If you mandate "100% Renewable" you effectively mandate another Enron scam where the state gets billed for millions of dollars in "peak usage" fees unless you have many many (also ecologically unfriendly) batteries to cover that.
Yo...it would be a shame if your internet connections was to break unexpectedlty for weeks at a time or run at 300bps but for a fee we can "protect" those for you.
While I agree Netflix can afford a few payoffs (in addition to those they have ALREADY PAID) it's going to show up on your bill. Unless you directly work for the cable/telecom industry I cannot see how you would be in favor of this. Netflix (and everyone else) already pays for internet bandwith.
Because to you income = profit? It does not. It's income - expenses, same as always. If you increase expenses (because Comcast or Disney wants more $$$) then the only way to be profitable is to raise income (fees).
While Disney arguably has a right to fees (very arguably with their quest for permanent copyright extensions) Comcast only owns the pipes....but not paying them off would have destroyed their business so Netflix paid up. That's why your monthly fee is $14 and not $11 like it was prior to this. This bullcrap will now extend to every other major internet provider because if you can legally run a toll bridge, why wouldn't you want your cut? Netflix won't absorb that cost, consumers of Netflix will.
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So VW cheating now excuses a practice California has had for over a decade? I recently failed an emissions test for an "unapproved" catalytic converter . The thing is, it was approved when installed in this state 8 years ago, but the manufacturer was bought by a different company so the numbers don't match what's in the system. That's a load of crap.
Because none of our bought and paid for politicians would ever endorse it? Conditional opt out is better than nothing, not that it's not easily avoidable. We can't even stop telemarketers from calling our cell phones even if you put yourself on the federal (not California) do not call list.
Please go to hell. CARB is one of the shittiest things California has ever done. If cars pass tailpipe emissions they ought to be legal. That's not how CARB works. If there is anything non-factory on your car not licensed for your year/make/model by the state of California that's an automatic fail.
Why on Earth would you need that for Linux compatibility? While it was once a driver crapshoot with laptops (and required plenty of config file edits) it's pretty good these days. I mean, unless things have gone incredibly badly in the past few years. The only "exclusive" OS is the Mac platform and only because they only have drivers for their official hardware. That doesn't stop bootleg installs entirely but it definitely limits them.
That's your call. If you do production support or have kids, not so much. I am the last person to (in general) say "there ought to be a law" but in this case hell yes. That's the only way this will change
I did not mean that, just that it prevents those companies listed from knowing as much about you. Google isn't even shy about it anymore. If I go to a restaurant I get a notification asking for a review. So not only my cell carrier knows my location history, so does the Google...along with any other Android user that I may contact. That's serious 4th amendment BS except that they're a private company and therefore exempt (while archiving data that law enforcement officers and pretty much anyone else can access sans warrant) That affects you whether your using an iPhone or not.
So you're a Blackberry user or running whatever failed Linux thing Nokia was trying to do? I do sympathize, my last phone ran a full Linux distro (in a VM). That said, it won't prevent any of the things I said. That's the cell carrier. It has nothing to do with your phone other than it being turned on. Giving your GPS data to third parties is definitely shady but sans laws I don't see what you can do about it other than not bringing your phone (if you own a modern car you are pretty much bringing your phone, be it OnStar or whatever the Toyota/BMW/Mercedes/Tesla/etc versions are called) so even that isn't going to cut it.
While Facebook is avoidable good luck avoiding Microsoft and Google if you're not a member of the zombie Steve Jobs fan club...that said, whatever they extract is far less damaging than the Equifax breach, after that I'd say cell phone carriers and all of the historical gps data they share with third parties without your consent. Just like the instigators of the 2008 global financial meltdown the penalties = zero dollars.
God damn it...it ate my href link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Good news, that isn't the only way to make space ships. We've even stockpiled plenty of 'fuel'.
Only if we replace the referees with those South Korean "Aliens" sentry guns. (yes those are actually real things...it's also how AEGIS works, that's the 'networked' version with IFF)
The embodiment of Christ and his disciples already died (I mean quit) for your chronically dysfunctional company so that they could rise on the seventh day at a company that could still be healed.
While I'm no fan of the 'one true scottsman' defense I've seen enough half assed dysfunctional 'scrum/agile' companies to see that it's not the process that's (usually) the problem, it's that companies think they can develop a "cargo cult" approach to this stuff and get some benefit out of it. They won't and the management aren't exactly likely to jump up and down screaming that this was their own damn fault.
I am perhaps China's worst nightmare, outside of the great orange one. I'm fairly handy and I use "The power of Grayskull...I mean Craigslist/eBay before buying new things".
The problem is that parts availability for most old repairable things is fading fast. There is only so much welding and epoxy can do. Eventually you need repair parts and they're largely gone for the old stuff. There are exceptions (you can buy replacements for pretty much anything on a 1960s era Ford Mustang) but in most cases you're going to be SOL at some point because some stupid little $2 part breaks 30 years after the fact. When the modern equivalent can't even last 10 that makes me a saaaad panda. That said, I still have many perfectly functional mechanical things dating back to well before I was alive and electronics dating back to 1977, many of which have required no repairs ever. They just work.
No matter how many baby seals (zero) were clubbed to death to make these things how can you imagine an "environmentally friendly" modern equivalent is actually friendlier than a thing that (given a few replacement parts) will literally last forever?
That's not to say that everything lasted forever in the "before time" but you had a choice. You could buy cheap garbage or things that cost a bit more and would last. Now you can spend infinity dollars and still end up with stuff that won't last.
So...working for 30+ years in some cases (Thorium based reactors do not but Uranium based breeder reactors have already been proven to do so) still counts as "does not work"...good to know. It clearly does work and if reactor fuel ever went into short supply the power of economics would show you that. Currently it's cheaper to run far less efficient reactors and laugh uncontrollably while packaging up long term radioactive waste, just as the "eco-warriors" do when they once again block disposal in salt mines in the middle of a goddam desert because apparently leaving it in some plastic 55g drums inside the city limits makes way more sense.
Ten years after he may be eligible for the..."I'm old where are my pills line" vs the I'm both gullible and greedy and don't have borderline adult onset dementia line ...
While I would argue the former, what am I doing siding with an obvious scammer? If there is a option C nail to a physical cross option please sign me up provided that doesn't involve tens of thousands of my dollars, otherwise I'll use the power of imagination instead
Per the article specifically about those (not linked), yes they do...
Breeders were at first found attractive because their fuel economy was better than light water reactors, but interest declined after the 1960s as more uranium reserves were found,[2] and new methods of uranium enrichment reduced fuel costs.
Nuclear energy is pretty much 100% renewable if you do it with breeder reactors vs light water. I mean, it "uses" water by turning it into steam, which then gathers in the atmosphere as lets say..."a cloud"...and precipitates back into the ground as "rain" so unless your local area is lacking water I don't see the major problem other than South Korea (Samsung is located here) having the exact same (byproduct of the process) weapons grade uranium that North Korea already has. What is the downside?
I'm not even sure if it's legality, here in California it's like $7 a pack and a 30% plus bump in health/life insurance. At those rates Heroin may actually be cheaper.
Okay rose colored glasses guy. You do know the unpopular shows aren't on Hallmark (or whichever old people channel you watch) because they were terrible right?
While there has been some blatantly terrible television in the last 15 years the power of the internet is making it way better. Your choice is no longer "The Apprentice" or "Survivor" season 15, Amazon and Netflix will greenlight pretty much any crazy thing you want to pitch. While there are plenty of terrible ones there are also plenty of good ones that never would have made it onto ABC/CBS/NBC or even the oh so "risque" FOX/Comedy Central. They are (by contrast) but IP content isn't controlled by the FCC so they can pretty much do whatever.
That's patently unfair...what if you're a closeted pedophile watching Olympic women's gymnastics or a closeted gay guy watching Olympic male wrestling? If you haven't yet discovered the power of the internets I can see how that would be right up your..alley.
If his Trumpiness were a eunich He wouldn't have paid all that cash/hush money for sex workers and russian mail order brides
...It's the year 2018, can you all please just get over that Hillary lost already? I'm not saying she personally murdered people in Bengazi or any of that Fox News garbage but she had an opportunity to explain what her plan for the next 8 years was and...literally nothing. She was expecting a "freebie" since her opponent was a mysogonistic troll with tiny hands and I'm sorry sunshine, that isn't how it works. Lots of people were unhappy with the status quo and all you were offering was 8 more years of apathy. Obama promised to do many things (I know, I voted for him) and actually delivered on very few. He was a much better public speaker than Bush Jr but his one significant claim to fame was passing an extremely watered down healthcare bill...and I guess that Nobel prize for literally not being a member of the Bush family. Hillary failed to give any sort of plan other than trying to "one-up" Bernie (and vice versa) in the primary. It's now mid-2018 so please stop already.
Way to intentionally deflect the issue asshat. Solar doesn't work at night time. Wind only works when it's windy out. I'd like my lights to stay on whether or not either of those two conditions are met. If you mandate "100% Renewable" you effectively mandate another Enron scam where the state gets billed for millions of dollars in "peak usage" fees unless you have many many (also ecologically unfriendly) batteries to cover that.
So you're 100% okay with legalized mob activity?
Yo...it would be a shame if your internet connections was to break unexpectedlty for weeks at a time or run at 300bps but for a fee we can "protect" those for you.
While I agree Netflix can afford a few payoffs (in addition to those they have ALREADY PAID) it's going to show up on your bill. Unless you directly work for the cable/telecom industry I cannot see how you would be in favor of this. Netflix (and everyone else) already pays for internet bandwith.
So you're passing on the organ donor and solyent green initiatives? Bully for you Mr Solo.
Because to you income = profit? It does not. It's income - expenses, same as always. If you increase expenses (because Comcast or Disney wants more $$$) then the only way to be profitable is to raise income (fees).
While Disney arguably has a right to fees (very arguably with their quest for permanent copyright extensions) Comcast only owns the pipes....but not paying them off would have destroyed their business so Netflix paid up. That's why your monthly fee is $14 and not $11 like it was prior to this. This bullcrap will now extend to every other major internet provider because if you can legally run a toll bridge, why wouldn't you want your cut? Netflix won't absorb that cost, consumers of Netflix will.