No Socialism is people getting together and starting a co-op ISP.
Excuse me? That definition there is much more like free initiative, with contracts being written as the co-op members want. Socialism IMHO would require state-mandated membership of the allowed co-op(s).
Push the beanbag of coral reefs and the ecosystem that provides humans with fisheries pops. Push the fisheries and populations of SE Asia will pop across borders en masse, as they are faced with serious threat of poverty and famine. This all leads to suffering and conflict that did not need to happen.
Call me chicken little all you like, I still think that politics is about exercising power AND ethics, not just observing and passively waiting for the next equilibrium.
Pro sports are great at demonstrating what changes in society without having to wait decades to take new measurements.
The NBA did not have a lot of foreign born players in Jordan's day. The Bosman ruling in Europe confirmed that a football club with a broad talent pool for its recruitment will have an advantage in relation to regional/local clubs.
Looking at photos of what were considered strong players in the 1980s, I get the impression that now any semi-pro is bulkier. The NBA slam dunk contest apparently is losing viewers because more and more players can replicate what the best pros can do, and obviously a "specialist dunk artist" from youtube can do things that a more well-rounded basketball player doesn't have time to train.
It's globalisation in action, Youtube just lets people see the results with ease.
I think that's how it started, but then with Youtube enabling anything to become a nice money on the side job, you have guys producing 900 films on the same subject to prolong their 15 minutes of fame, and getting a nice year on year income.
Obviously this guy claims that "nobody becomes a flat earther for the money", which is the kind of thing that conspiracy minded people like to hear.
No beheading... yet. Other people have visited these conferences for the purpose of recording +5 Interesting podcasts and there were a few religion-related ideas that stayed with me: 1) the claim that there were no atheist flat earthers; 2) the significant overlap between the conference attendees and young earth creationists; 3) the way a muslim attendee was shunned.
so... no news of radicalisation, but give them time and maybe we will see that too one day.
isn't it pretty fucking humiliating to admit that a dozen russians with broken english and a 5 figure budget were SO much more effective than the $Billions worth of marketing people on Hillary's side
No, not at all. One one hand, no campaign is aimed at convincing _everyone_ to vote for their candidate. Different people make their voting decisions at different times, and with different reasons. If in the end the 2016 election result was similar to the 2012, but with Florida and (I can't remember which) 2 or 3 other states voting for the Rep candidate, it certainly doe not mean that the non-Russian part of the campaign was irrelevant.
On the other hand, the Republican party had other candidates, not just DJT. He won against all of them, and the Russian preference in terms of rival to Hillary were Trump (and Sanders). They could have supported any other Republican candidate, and surely the election would not have been 90% for the Dem candidate vs 10% Rep.
Are the other candidates really less preferable than the current president, from the point of view of the USA and Republican voters rather than Putin's? I doubt it.
OH! and I nearly forgot... Joe just had a car crash and needs to ring the emergency services and give them precise location... much better to have a bot figure those things out while the owner is busy trying not to to bleed to death.
Perhaps that guy from Pulp Fiction who had a speech impediment and still wants to order pizza from a place that does not do ecommerce.
Plenty of other scenarios can be imagined, involving people who work 9-5 and cannot be in the phone queue for some service that is also only open 9-5.
This can also be seen as a good way to avoid dodgy upselling. My robot is calling for the offer X that was advertised and your selling bot can argue for hours that there's a better deal, but I won't take it.
That is scary indeed, but not necessarily a shady deal. I carried out the same search you did (only later saw your link ooops) and while the majority of newspapers have articles showing that line (landing pages for paywalls included), there were others with a more detailed narrative. It appears to me that the Associated Press is the primary source, reporting on what went on on Iranian TV where their president did make that statement, obviously with some qualifiers and some outline of his next steps.
Here are two links that use the AP report but actually expand on the clickbaiting headline: exhibit A exhibit B
I don't know if these newspapers are distasteful or propaganda machines like RT, Daily Mail and Fox, so sorry if you have to wash your eyes and floss your brain after following the links:S. It could be that AP has different prices for different access to their reports. Everyone and their dog decided that quoting that headline unchanged was a useful thing (thus contributing to that viral effect that creeped us both out) , but only a subset of news sources went with the full report.
Europe does this right, food has 'calories per 100g' on every package.
Sadly, over here in the UK we do have the contents per 100g, but sometimes it's in small print on the back of the package, while the front has in large print the nutritional info per serving, usually with a photo of something that is way larger and prettier than "a serving".
I'm sure that in 20 years there will still be a few niche markets where fossil fuels are still relevant but not much more.
Are the millions of 250cc (or smaller) motorcycles they use in Asia a large enough niche market? Today, something like the Honda PCX or Click 125 sells for the equivalent of USD1800-2200 in places like Thailand, Phillipines, Indonesia... Are those guys all going to spend extra for a battery version of these "work horses" and then have extension leads trailing from shops, rather than selling petrol in glass bottles?
Yep, agreed. The current strategies roll out the new tech gradually because of battery density and manufacturing constraints runs in parallel with wanting to avoid cannibalisation of ICE sales. This slow uptake makes a lot of sense as you point out, but the whole situation is really bad for reduction of emissions.
One thing I'm guessing that could be different in the BEV world is that existing market segments and performance expectations do not correlate with range. If Ford made lots of Fiestas with 150miles winter range today, they might struggle to convince people to spend significantly more for the same range on a heavier Focus or Mondeo.
Today, they can just have overlapping price ranges between the high end Fiesta and low end Focus and people will choose on different factors, not necessarily related to real life road performance. A Focus or Mondeo with 130miles winter range because of extra weight would look quite silly next to the mythical 150 miles Fiesta, especially if the prospective buyer is a lone commuter. Maybe this is why some manufacturers are spinning off their electric car range into separate brands (Polestar, DS, Opel). That way their marketing won't have to compare and explain ICE specs with BEV specs on the shop floor.
Who gives a damn about what GM or Ford do any more? Call me when Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan and Hyundai [...]
I certainly do, because they have volume, in the same way that the groups you mentioned are very large and cover most market segments.
I'm based in the UK and the media here has an expectation that the Vauxhall/Opel Corsa will have a battery model in 2020. As a GM group member, these guys have sold a LOT of these cars, and now they are part of the PSA group they should still sell a lot. Here's a chart.
It's all very nice there are 10 different models in the "over $50K and over 300bhp" market segment, but it's when Ford, GM, Renault, VW, PSA and the big Asian manufacturers mass produce cheap electric cars that we'll get over petrol/diesel for passenger vehicles. Tesla can probably live well as a specialist high end brand, and/or a supplier to everyone else.
Only had to stop every 4-5 hours or so, and since superchargers tend to be located in the parking lots of nice places to eat most of the time, it lined up perfectly with our meal schedules.
Having a Tesla supercharger is likely to be a way to tell good restaurants from lesser competitors.
That's a very limited translation you made. Slashdot may have a clear US-centric audience, but Facebook has more than 1 billion users all over the world. If all US Conservatives feeling slighted by the items on your list were on FB (I mean ALL of them), they'd still be a small part of this total. Your ideas of what is a "progressive bubble" is and of what are the main issues that drive a wedge between "progressive" and "conservative" are really too US-Centric to be the real guidelines for FB.
Just take a look at what is considered "left" and "right" for politics in Europe vs USA, and you'll see that your local issues aren't really anyone else's issues.
With Satya Nadella as CEO, Microsoft seems to be quite more interested in "Embrace, have the user pay rent for Azure-related things forever". It doesn't sound as nifty as the 3 E's of yesteryear but it's clearer than the Underpants gnomes strategy.
A while back I started to get pop ups of this type that clearly identify when I'm about to close the tab (they probably check the mouse movement). I imagine it's highly effective in getting attention, but once again (for the millionth time), being inconvenient is not an acceptable way to get attention. Being user-unfriendly like that only leads to continuing an arms race, and I'm happy to see Mozilla working on this sort of thing once again.
If you have a Windows Phone, you should be considered lucky that you had it as long as you did. But it is now going into legacy mode, and getting updates will be hard to do. As Microsoft is ramping down its support.
With some luck, malware developers will overlook these devices and they will work in 2 years more or less as they work now.
The camera on a Lumia 925 is good enough, the maps are good enough, the browser is good enough. When these older devices fail, there will be plenty of alternatives, with or without Microsoft making them. If they decide to make a portable Xbox device, maybe they can get their hands on a profitable slice of the mobile market, or at least defend what they have from the not-mobile Xbox before Android consoles take over.
I haven't even heard about Salon until this came up.
I can't help to wonder though - waste of CPU cycles through ads or through a mining operation. At least they are honest about it.
They are a well established player. If you want a good article from Salon that hasn't been quoted here on/. lately, do a search for "Courtney Love does the math". If memory serves, it was written in the year 2000. After reading that, you can refer to Courtney Love as the voice of reason and moderation:)
I'm not 100% sure if it's pointless, as there are differences in how Windows behaves in different regions. For my machines in the UK, there are no funny ads or auto-installing/uninstalling apps.
That's using Windows 10 Home (MS online account says: 10.0.16299.192), and Enterprise (winver says: version 1511, build 10586.1417) on the work machine. They could adopt a sensible naming convention, like Windows 10 Protruding Proboscis instead of all these meaningless numbers.
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No Socialism is people getting together and starting a co-op ISP.
Excuse me?
That definition there is much more like free initiative, with contracts being written as the co-op members want.
Socialism IMHO would require state-mandated membership of the allowed co-op(s).
Push the beanbag of coral reefs and the ecosystem that provides humans with fisheries pops. Push the fisheries and populations of SE Asia will pop across borders en masse, as they are faced with serious threat of poverty and famine. This all leads to suffering and conflict that did not need to happen.
Call me chicken little all you like, I still think that politics is about exercising power AND ethics, not just observing and passively waiting for the next equilibrium.
He may be a nihilistic Malthusian, but Thanos had a valid point.
That's on my favourite T-shirt actually.
Pro sports are great at demonstrating what changes in society without having to wait decades to take new measurements.
The NBA did not have a lot of foreign born players in Jordan's day. The Bosman ruling in Europe confirmed that a football club with a broad talent pool for its recruitment will have an advantage in relation to regional/local clubs.
Looking at photos of what were considered strong players in the 1980s, I get the impression that now any semi-pro is bulkier. The NBA slam dunk contest apparently is losing viewers because more and more players can replicate what the best pros can do, and obviously a "specialist dunk artist" from youtube can do things that a more well-rounded basketball player doesn't have time to train.
It's globalisation in action, Youtube just lets people see the results with ease.
I think that's how it started, but then with Youtube enabling anything to become a nice money on the side job, you have guys producing 900 films on the same subject to prolong their 15 minutes of fame, and getting a nice year on year income.
Obviously this guy claims that "nobody becomes a flat earther for the money", which is the kind of thing that conspiracy minded people like to hear.
No beheading... yet.
Other people have visited these conferences for the purpose of recording +5 Interesting podcasts and there were a few religion-related ideas that stayed with me:
1) the claim that there were no atheist flat earthers;
2) the significant overlap between the conference attendees and young earth creationists;
3) the way a muslim attendee was shunned.
so... no news of radicalisation, but give them time and maybe we will see that too one day.
isn't it pretty fucking humiliating to admit that a dozen russians with broken english and a 5 figure budget were SO much more effective than the $Billions worth of marketing people on Hillary's side
No, not at all.
One one hand, no campaign is aimed at convincing _everyone_ to vote for their candidate. Different people make their voting decisions at different times, and with different reasons. If in the end the 2016 election result was similar to the 2012, but with Florida and (I can't remember which) 2 or 3 other states voting for the Rep candidate, it certainly doe not mean that the non-Russian part of the campaign was irrelevant.
On the other hand, the Republican party had other candidates, not just DJT. He won against all of them, and the Russian preference in terms of rival to Hillary were Trump (and Sanders). They could have supported any other Republican candidate, and surely the election would not have been 90% for the Dem candidate vs 10% Rep.
Are the other candidates really less preferable than the current president, from the point of view of the USA and Republican voters rather than Putin's? I doubt it.
OH! and I nearly forgot... Joe just had a car crash and needs to ring the emergency services and give them precise location... much better to have a bot figure those things out while the owner is busy trying not to to bleed to death.
But there are times where Duplex could be useful.
Perhaps that guy from Pulp Fiction who had a speech impediment and still wants to order pizza from a place that does not do ecommerce.
Plenty of other scenarios can be imagined, involving people who work 9-5 and cannot be in the phone queue for some service that is also only open 9-5.
This can also be seen as a good way to avoid dodgy upselling. My robot is calling for the offer X that was advertised and your selling bot can argue for hours that there's a better deal, but I won't take it.
That is scary indeed, but not necessarily a shady deal.
I carried out the same search you did (only later saw your link ooops) and while the majority of newspapers have articles showing that line (landing pages for paywalls included), there were others with a more detailed narrative. It appears to me that the Associated Press is the primary source, reporting on what went on on Iranian TV where their president did make that statement, obviously with some qualifiers and some outline of his next steps.
Here are two links that use the AP report but actually expand on the clickbaiting headline:
exhibit A
exhibit B
I don't know if these newspapers are distasteful or propaganda machines like RT, Daily Mail and Fox, so sorry if you have to wash your eyes and floss your brain after following the links :S.
It could be that AP has different prices for different access to their reports. Everyone and their dog decided that quoting that headline unchanged was a useful thing (thus contributing to that viral effect that creeped us both out) , but only a subset of news sources went with the full report.
Europe does this right, food has 'calories per 100g' on every package.
Sadly, over here in the UK we do have the contents per 100g, but sometimes it's in small print on the back of the package, while the front has in large print the nutritional info per serving, usually with a photo of something that is way larger and prettier than "a serving".
That sounds encouraging. Where is that? What are the most popular models? I'd love to ride electric, but not at Zero Motorcycles inc. prices.
I'm sure that in 20 years there will still be a few niche markets where fossil fuels are still relevant but not much more.
Are the millions of 250cc (or smaller) motorcycles they use in Asia a large enough niche market? Today, something like the Honda PCX or Click 125 sells for the equivalent of USD1800-2200 in places like Thailand, Phillipines, Indonesia... Are those guys all going to spend extra for a battery version of these "work horses" and then have extension leads trailing from shops, rather than selling petrol in glass bottles?
Yep, agreed. The current strategies roll out the new tech gradually because of battery density and manufacturing constraints runs in parallel with wanting to avoid cannibalisation of ICE sales. This slow uptake makes a lot of sense as you point out, but the whole situation is really bad for reduction of emissions.
One thing I'm guessing that could be different in the BEV world is that existing market segments and performance expectations do not correlate with range.
If Ford made lots of Fiestas with 150miles winter range today, they might struggle to convince people to spend significantly more for the same range on a heavier Focus or Mondeo.
Today, they can just have overlapping price ranges between the high end Fiesta and low end Focus and people will choose on different factors, not necessarily related to real life road performance. A Focus or Mondeo with 130miles winter range because of extra weight would look quite silly next to the mythical 150 miles Fiesta, especially if the prospective buyer is a lone commuter. Maybe this is why some manufacturers are spinning off their electric car range into separate brands (Polestar, DS, Opel). That way their marketing won't have to compare and explain ICE specs with BEV specs on the shop floor.
Who gives a damn about what GM or Ford do any more? Call me when Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan and Hyundai [...]
I certainly do, because they have volume, in the same way that the groups you mentioned are very large and cover most market segments.
I'm based in the UK and the media here has an expectation that the Vauxhall/Opel Corsa will have a battery model in 2020. As a GM group member, these guys have sold a LOT of these cars, and now they are part of the PSA group they should still sell a lot. Here's a chart.
It's all very nice there are 10 different models in the "over $50K and over 300bhp" market segment, but it's when Ford, GM, Renault, VW, PSA and the big Asian manufacturers mass produce cheap electric cars that we'll get over petrol/diesel for passenger vehicles. Tesla can probably live well as a specialist high end brand, and/or a supplier to everyone else.
Only had to stop every 4-5 hours or so, and since superchargers tend to be located in the parking lots of nice places to eat most of the time, it lined up perfectly with our meal schedules.
Having a Tesla supercharger is likely to be a way to tell good restaurants from lesser competitors.
No, the only byproduct is plutonium.
It can't be easy to be make a living as a pro-Trump comedian. The man is a parody of our times.
That's a very limited translation you made. Slashdot may have a clear US-centric audience, but Facebook has more than 1 billion users all over the world. If all US Conservatives feeling slighted by the items on your list were on FB (I mean ALL of them), they'd still be a small part of this total.
Your ideas of what is a "progressive bubble" is and of what are the main issues that drive a wedge between "progressive" and "conservative" are really too US-Centric to be the real guidelines for FB.
Just take a look at what is considered "left" and "right" for politics in Europe vs USA, and you'll see that your local issues aren't really anyone else's issues.
With Satya Nadella as CEO, Microsoft seems to be quite more interested in "Embrace, have the user pay rent for Azure-related things forever". It doesn't sound as nifty as the 3 E's of yesteryear but it's clearer than the Underpants gnomes strategy.
A while back I started to get pop ups of this type that clearly identify when I'm about to close the tab (they probably check the mouse movement).
I imagine it's highly effective in getting attention, but once again (for the millionth time), being inconvenient is not an acceptable way to get attention. Being user-unfriendly like that only leads to continuing an arms race, and I'm happy to see Mozilla working on this sort of thing once again.
Long after rappers and reality TV stars and tinpot despots and kings and presidents are dust and forgotten
I guess he was hedging his bets ...
All my shootings be drivebys
If you have a Windows Phone, you should be considered lucky that you had it as long as you did. But it is now going into legacy mode, and getting updates will be hard to do. As Microsoft is ramping down its support.
With some luck, malware developers will overlook these devices and they will work in 2 years more or less as they work now.
The camera on a Lumia 925 is good enough, the maps are good enough, the browser is good enough. When these older devices fail, there will be plenty of alternatives, with or without Microsoft making them. If they decide to make a portable Xbox device, maybe they can get their hands on a profitable slice of the mobile market, or at least defend what they have from the not-mobile Xbox before Android consoles take over.
I haven't even heard about Salon until this came up.
I can't help to wonder though - waste of CPU cycles through ads or through a mining operation. At least they are honest about it.
They are a well established player. /. lately, do a search for "Courtney Love does the math". If memory serves, it was written in the year 2000. After reading that, you can refer to Courtney Love as the voice of reason and moderation :)
If you want a good article from Salon that hasn't been quoted here on
I'm not 100% sure if it's pointless, as there are differences in how Windows behaves in different regions.
For my machines in the UK, there are no funny ads or auto-installing/uninstalling apps.
That's using Windows 10 Home (MS online account says: 10.0.16299.192), and Enterprise (winver says: version 1511, build 10586.1417) on the work machine. They could adopt a sensible naming convention, like Windows 10 Protruding Proboscis instead of all these meaningless numbers.