The gag order is dependent on the last commissioners submitting their comments of record, so the chair can not release it till those last two GOP holdouts let him. I agree this is not 'the republicans', but it is two republicans creating a situation which the party is then benefiting from by painting it as a 'FCC problem'.
Damn they are good, since people tend to write it off, as you did, as republican bashing.
I am not sure that is the case anymore. CPU mining was already orders of magnitudes less efficient than GPU, and GPU mining less efficient than ASIC by a similar scale. Even with 'free' CPU time, even on a mass scale, the trickle it would likely generate would be next to worthless.
Yes, natural uranium can be dangerous. People who collect samples generally are careful to keep them shielded and have to be very careful regarding how they touch them and not breath any possible fragments in.
Setting aside Centralia, pretty much any area down stream of current 'blow the top off a mountain' coal mining operations are uninhabitable or at minimal quite toxic. It ruins the whole watershead of the area. We have similiar problems with other mining operations for things like iron, silver, copper, etc. While we all like having cheap power and metal, it is only cheap because we do not pay for any of the damage done or people sickened, it is simply written off as 'well, it is their fault for being poor and not moving!'
Taking a look at any coal production state, there are dozens of superfund sites that have rendered the region they contain unfit for human habitation.
Getting back to Centralia, it is a bit of a worst case superfund site, the fire is not going to 'go out' in any of our lifetimes. It is also different in that the fumes from national park fires are not toxic, while Centralia should not be entered without breathing equipement.
It all depends on who pays the costs. Could you imagine if the coal industry was actually charged for all the costs they incur? There are whole regions that have been abandoned in the US and mining operations can render huge areas uninhabitable due to groundwater contamination. But they do not pick up the tab for that, it is generally spread out between the fed and local people. The nuclear industry is held to higher standards of responsiblity, but that is about it.
However, as these immigrant groups move up the social ladder, the GOP offers them something the democrats do not, the oppurtunity to use their newfound political power on others. The democrats are fairly big on 'remember when you had it hard? why not help someone else?' while the GOP provides 'real americans are better, now that you are a real american you can be crappy to others too, you earned it!'. This has proven to be a pretty effective tactic for courting previously dismissed groups.
Keep in mind, while the whitehouse is important to the party, it is irrelevant to individual members of congress. 'Loyalty' is something trumped, but actual representatives are pretty self serving and are mostly doing what gives them the best chances of being reelected (or revolving door) themselves. Who controls the white house our what legislation change actually makes it through is a secondary concern.
Which is pretty much the personality type you HAVE to have in order to get and keep such offices. People who do put the party first, or getting things done first, do not generally last as long.
No wondering required, this is a pretty time honored political tactic. Passing bills you know have no chance of making into law (or better yet, no chance of surviving SCOTUS) not only scores points with your own voters but allows the person to escape the negative repercussions of insane bills and the effect they would actually have.
Well yes, the issue is not where the metadata of sorts is stored, but how it is expressed to the user.
Though at the moment executables can select their own icon and make it appear like a file icon from some other application. The idea would be to have some element of the icon that is based off the exention but which the file has no other control over, so if something is a file that doulble-clicking it will execute code, there would be some visual cue as such.
"Intellectual Property" does not muddle the lines between copyright and trademark, it is a catch all term that includes the two legal concept along with others. Individual cases still need to reference the actual legal frameworks in question.
At 11 minutes they could probably make that argument, but it would be stretching it. The line between parody and derived work often sits somewhere around how long it is and how easy it is to identify as not being produced by the original.
Yeah, there are some areas where it could really use some improvement, though striking a 'do what I mean' balance has proven somewhat tricky.
Mod wise, BuildCraft's flood gate introduces some fun new water mechanics, though wow can it make a mess if you do not think through your placement. Luckily many packs also include some expanded sponge mechanics to clean up the mess.
Why do you need this sandbox in order to build stuff? What is wrong with building mechanical stuff using actual wood or metal or meccano or lego? What is wrong with building electrical stuff using actual breadboards and wires and components?
Need? No, but it does have one significant advantage, and that is cost vs return. The game is not that expensive, the hardware to run it is not that expensive, and the flexibility within it is pretty significant. Mechanical and electrical projects both require obtaining raw materials per project and tools can be quite expensive. Minecraft also has a significant multiplayer capability which allows collaborative projects on scales a child hobbyist is less likely to have access to.
I would not call it a replacement for other craft projects, but then again I would not consider mechanical/electrical projects a replacement for fiber crafting or vice versa. Different tools, different experience.
I am not sure what misunderstanding of my argument leads you to say that. I'd be against writing in a word processor which limits your vocabulary and sentence structure for no good reason, certainly.
Any project, wood, writing, music, is going to have limitations on it due to the tools or physical laws.
No, but I'd have a problem if one electronic music creation platform (say... Garageband?) massively dominated all other sorts of music composition online or offline.
Ah, the old 'if something is popular and it is not my thing, it is bad!' argument. Why exactly something that draws people in and gets them creating stuff bad? People gravitate twoards the tool and platform that suit them best, so while it is possible if you remove the option they would find other outlets, those outlets have already been rejected by them for not being what they are looking for.
That is remarkably false. Many school field trips and demonstrations and home experiment kits which were routine when I was young are permitted today, at least in the UK.
Not sure where you are paying attention, but I see a vibrant kit marketplace well in excess of what was available 20 or 30 years ago. I envy kids today and the options they have at just a few clicks of a mouse and a little shipping time. I have even been ordering kids projects or reading plans lately because there are so many and they make great little lazy saturday activities. The only place I can think of that is more limited today would be chemistry sets, which were a small market in the first place and their removal impacts a tiny number of (enthusiastic) people.
But on the whole I have seen the market for beginners and experiment kits in pretty much every domain explode, with more variety easier to obtain than ever.
How is giving them a sandbox to build whatever they want tearing their imaginations from them? Are you against writing too? Or music? Are only 'maker' projects acceptable acts of creativity?
Not sure where you are bringing regulation into it since that has pretty minimal impact on the types of projects a child is going to be able to build unless their parents shower them with resources.
I had a similar thought. While there is focus on the file extension, if the goal is to make sure users are only double clicking files they should be, having them memorize a bunch of magic 3 letter codes probably will not improve things much.
A better solution would either be something obvious about the icon (runnables bordered in red or something), or even have two different mechanisms for 'load this file in its proper application' and 'run this application'. Having the same action for both behaviors was probably a mistake in the first place.
I guess one lesson to take away is that it is dangerous to think you know what you are doing, or how a little experience can be worse then none. This was their second product, so they went through all of this before and were successful. This time it got away from them.
I am really curious how the BoM got so bad. Earlier in the project they were actually starting to get quotes going downward due to the increased volume of orders they were going to have.
It should be noted though that this particular project was also set up with microinvesting (EU only), so while the Kickstarter platform did not allow for investment, the project itself did actually have a way to invest in it.
In this case, they already had done it once before. This was their second kickstarter for the same basic project, with their previous one being successful and for general sale. They wanted to improve the design and take it from a 'hacker friendly' packaging to something 'consumer friendly'. So their track record was actually pretty good for a very similar device.
Sounds like the way it has been for all 40 some odd presidents so far.
Things have to be really bad for there to be a revolution, and that is just not the case for the majority of the population, at least a majority with power. Most of the people who keep dreaming of revolution are pretty well off but pissed over idealogical reasons, which is not enough for mass revolt. If we do see something, it will probably come from black citizens after they become a majority yet still have a minority stake in the economy/politics, which I am guessing is not the revolution you are picturing.
I've heard it said that we get the type of candidates for political office that we do because the system is not attractive to good and noble candidates.
Unfortunately, beyond the attractiveness of the work, good and noble people just don't get the votes needed to get office. We decry the behavior and tactics of politicians, but they work, at least from the perspective of elections.
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The gag order is dependent on the last commissioners submitting their comments of record, so the chair can not release it till those last two GOP holdouts let him. I agree this is not 'the republicans', but it is two republicans creating a situation which the party is then benefiting from by painting it as a 'FCC problem'.
Damn they are good, since people tend to write it off, as you did, as republican bashing.
I would wager 'sarcastic'.
I am not sure that is the case anymore. CPU mining was already orders of magnitudes less efficient than GPU, and GPU mining less efficient than ASIC by a similar scale. Even with 'free' CPU time, even on a mass scale, the trickle it would likely generate would be next to worthless.
Yes, natural uranium can be dangerous. People who collect samples generally are careful to keep them shielded and have to be very careful regarding how they touch them and not breath any possible fragments in.
Setting aside Centralia, pretty much any area down stream of current 'blow the top off a mountain' coal mining operations are uninhabitable or at minimal quite toxic. It ruins the whole watershead of the area. We have similiar problems with other mining operations for things like iron, silver, copper, etc. While we all like having cheap power and metal, it is only cheap because we do not pay for any of the damage done or people sickened, it is simply written off as 'well, it is their fault for being poor and not moving!'
Taking a look at any coal production state, there are dozens of superfund sites that have rendered the region they contain unfit for human habitation.
Getting back to Centralia, it is a bit of a worst case superfund site, the fire is not going to 'go out' in any of our lifetimes. It is also different in that the fumes from national park fires are not toxic, while Centralia should not be entered without breathing equipement.
It all depends on who pays the costs. Could you imagine if the coal industry was actually charged for all the costs they incur? There are whole regions that have been abandoned in the US and mining operations can render huge areas uninhabitable due to groundwater contamination. But they do not pick up the tab for that, it is generally spread out between the fed and local people. The nuclear industry is held to higher standards of responsiblity, but that is about it.
However, as these immigrant groups move up the social ladder, the GOP offers them something the democrats do not, the oppurtunity to use their newfound political power on others. The democrats are fairly big on 'remember when you had it hard? why not help someone else?' while the GOP provides 'real americans are better, now that you are a real american you can be crappy to others too, you earned it!'. This has proven to be a pretty effective tactic for courting previously dismissed groups.
Keep in mind, while the whitehouse is important to the party, it is irrelevant to individual members of congress. 'Loyalty' is something trumped, but actual representatives are pretty self serving and are mostly doing what gives them the best chances of being reelected (or revolving door) themselves. Who controls the white house our what legislation change actually makes it through is a secondary concern.
Which is pretty much the personality type you HAVE to have in order to get and keep such offices. People who do put the party first, or getting things done first, do not generally last as long.
No wondering required, this is a pretty time honored political tactic. Passing bills you know have no chance of making into law (or better yet, no chance of surviving SCOTUS) not only scores points with your own voters but allows the person to escape the negative repercussions of insane bills and the effect they would actually have.
Well yes, the issue is not where the metadata of sorts is stored, but how it is expressed to the user.
Though at the moment executables can select their own icon and make it appear like a file icon from some other application. The idea would be to have some element of the icon that is based off the exention but which the file has no other control over, so if something is a file that doulble-clicking it will execute code, there would be some visual cue as such.
"Intellectual Property" does not muddle the lines between copyright and trademark, it is a catch all term that includes the two legal concept along with others. Individual cases still need to reference the actual legal frameworks in question.
At 11 minutes they could probably make that argument, but it would be stretching it. The line between parody and derived work often sits somewhere around how long it is and how easy it is to identify as not being produced by the original.
Yeah, there are some areas where it could really use some improvement, though striking a 'do what I mean' balance has proven somewhat tricky.
Mod wise, BuildCraft's flood gate introduces some fun new water mechanics, though wow can it make a mess if you do not think through your placement. Luckily many packs also include some expanded sponge mechanics to clean up the mess.
Why do you need this sandbox in order to build stuff? What is wrong with building mechanical stuff using actual wood or metal or meccano or lego? What is wrong with building electrical stuff using actual breadboards and wires and components?
Need? No, but it does have one significant advantage, and that is cost vs return. The game is not that expensive, the hardware to run it is not that expensive, and the flexibility within it is pretty significant. Mechanical and electrical projects both require obtaining raw materials per project and tools can be quite expensive. Minecraft also has a significant multiplayer capability which allows collaborative projects on scales a child hobbyist is less likely to have access to.
I would not call it a replacement for other craft projects, but then again I would not consider mechanical/electrical projects a replacement for fiber crafting or vice versa. Different tools, different experience.
I am not sure what misunderstanding of my argument leads you to say that. I'd be against writing in a word processor which limits your vocabulary and sentence structure for no good reason, certainly.
Any project, wood, writing, music, is going to have limitations on it due to the tools or physical laws.
No, but I'd have a problem if one electronic music creation platform (say... Garageband?) massively dominated all other sorts of music composition online or offline.
Ah, the old 'if something is popular and it is not my thing, it is bad!' argument. Why exactly something that draws people in and gets them creating stuff bad? People gravitate twoards the tool and platform that suit them best, so while it is possible if you remove the option they would find other outlets, those outlets have already been rejected by them for not being what they are looking for.
That is remarkably false. Many school field trips and demonstrations and home experiment kits which were routine when I was young are permitted today, at least in the UK.
Not sure where you are paying attention, but I see a vibrant kit marketplace well in excess of what was available 20 or 30 years ago. I envy kids today and the options they have at just a few clicks of a mouse and a little shipping time. I have even been ordering kids projects or reading plans lately because there are so many and they make great little lazy saturday activities. The only place I can think of that is more limited today would be chemistry sets, which were a small market in the first place and their removal impacts a tiny number of (enthusiastic) people.
But on the whole I have seen the market for beginners and experiment kits in pretty much every domain explode, with more variety easier to obtain than ever.
Heh. I remember when Mojang experimented with realistic water behavior. It did not go over well.
One of the old lessons in game design is sometimes realistic is not the best solution, and sometimes outright hurts playability.
How is giving them a sandbox to build whatever they want tearing their imaginations from them? Are you against writing too? Or music? Are only 'maker' projects acceptable acts of creativity?
Not sure where you are bringing regulation into it since that has pretty minimal impact on the types of projects a child is going to be able to build unless their parents shower them with resources.
I had a similar thought. While there is focus on the file extension, if the goal is to make sure users are only double clicking files they should be, having them memorize a bunch of magic 3 letter codes probably will not improve things much.
A better solution would either be something obvious about the icon (runnables bordered in red or something), or even have two different mechanisms for 'load this file in its proper application' and 'run this application'. Having the same action for both behaviors was probably a mistake in the first place.
I guess one lesson to take away is that it is dangerous to think you know what you are doing, or how a little experience can be worse then none. This was their second product, so they went through all of this before and were successful. This time it got away from them.
I am really curious how the BoM got so bad. Earlier in the project they were actually starting to get quotes going downward due to the increased volume of orders they were going to have.
It should be noted though that this particular project was also set up with microinvesting (EU only), so while the Kickstarter platform did not allow for investment, the project itself did actually have a way to invest in it.
In this case, they already had done it once before. This was their second kickstarter for the same basic project, with their previous one being successful and for general sale. They wanted to improve the design and take it from a 'hacker friendly' packaging to something 'consumer friendly'. So their track record was actually pretty good for a very similar device.
To be fair, they did name their project REALLY close to another company already in the field.
Sounds like the way it has been for all 40 some odd presidents so far.
Things have to be really bad for there to be a revolution, and that is just not the case for the majority of the population, at least a majority with power. Most of the people who keep dreaming of revolution are pretty well off but pissed over idealogical reasons, which is not enough for mass revolt. If we do see something, it will probably come from black citizens after they become a majority yet still have a minority stake in the economy/politics, which I am guessing is not the revolution you are picturing.
I've heard it said that we get the type of candidates for political office that we do because the system is not attractive to good and noble candidates.
Unfortunately, beyond the attractiveness of the work, good and noble people just don't get the votes needed to get office. We decry the behavior and tactics of politicians, but they work, at least from the perspective of elections.
I am personally in favor of alien overlords. I do not trust computer programmers.