Newsflash: Lawsuits don't clean water once it's been contaminated, and lawsuits do not reverse global warming. Lawsuits don't subdue increased ferocity of tropical storms. They just punish with a laughably small punitive financial charge that is chalked up as the cost of doing business, and then depending on the nature of the judgement, might be written off as losses when taxes are filed.
And.. don't forget when iPhones catch fire, they blame third-party chargers, completely glossing over the fact that it is up to the device (the phone) to cut off current to the battery pack once the target voltage has been reached.
> * 100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving To Death During The Next Ten Years
That was a gross under-estimate.
> * Population Will Inevitably And Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases In Food Supplies We Make
Today we produce enough food to feed ~13 billion people, but most of it is thrown away either due to greed or mismanagement.
> * Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously Thirty Years From Now, The Entire World Will Be In Famine
For 1-2 BILLION people, it probably seems like the entire world is in famine because famine is all they will ever know. See: greed and mismanagement, above
> * In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have To Wear Gas Masks To Survive Air Pollution
Clean air will be sold in cans, so consider the business opportunity. Yay capitalism!;)
> it is a much nicer language to code in and because the original language is under the LGPL there is no risk of being sued for an alternative implementation (indeed several alternative implementations already exist - ironpython for example).
That wouldn't matter if Oracle gets their filthy hands on python. Remember when Java was released on the GPL? That alone should have vindicated Google.
Brick & Mortar businesses' response has been to cut back selection. Just TRY to find good precision screwdrivers locally, for example. Sears, Home Depot, Lowes, smaller hardware chains, etc - no dice. Frys has some decent sets but they're not here in the northeast so they aren't an option.
Appliances such as mixer stands - you'll find 5qt and under KitchenAid mixers with the weak motor and plastic gear case at many stores, but most don't stock the 6qt and larger models with the stronger motor and transmission with metal gears. Soo. I'm going to Amazon for that.
Monitors - Worst Buy is the only local authorized reseller for the ROG Swift monitor but no stores I've been to stock it. I went to Amazon for those. I'll be buying another through Amazon. Why do the Worst Buy "ship to store" for free shipping when I have to go pick it up, whereas ordering from Amazon gets me free shipping to my door, with better customer service?
Klipsch speakers - I can't get the Reference Series at local authorized retailers, even at the "Mangolia" outlets at Best Buy. They stock plenty of the Synergy line (which isn't bad, but isn't great), so again, I've been turning to online retailers for Reference-series speakers.
That's just a small handful of examples but I could list so many more. I try to shop local, but when the stores stick to carrying low-end crap I'm forced to shop online. It seems like retailers only want to sell low-end items that need replacing after six months to a year rather than higher end product lines that actually last.
If there were only backup systems which could detect changes in motion by measuring acceleration regardless of what nonsensical GPS data says and maybe a secondary device which measures angular changes, and if the path since the last good data set could be extrapolated based on these hypothetical devices. For a thought exercise let's call the acceleration detector an "accelerometer" and the angular detector a "gyroscope." It's such a shame that those devices do not exist and are not already included in cruise and air to surface missiles./s
Yup. I just posted a link to another video to Samsung Mobile USA's facebook page.:D We should harass Samsung with this until they agree to bring back user-replaceable batteries:)
> . It's probably only a matter of time before Apple, LG, or some other manufacturer has a similar problem, and also can't figure it out because of the total destruction involved.
Apple already does; their response is that third-party USB chargers are to blame. Which of course is false, since USB chargers' job is to provide 5VDC (aside from QC which can provide higher voltages at request of the device), that's all; the USB charger will keep supplying 5VDC as long as it is connected. It is the device's job to monitor the battery's voltage and cut off current to the battery pack when the target voltage is reached... and if there is an incoming overvoltage, it's also the device's job to stop accepting power.
This has been an ongoing problem since the iPhone 4, but since Apple is Apple, they get a free pass on it.
Hardware changes would be required as the phone will not boot without the battery pack's being connected. Besides if I've got to run a tethered device I may as well use my laptop or just sit at my desktop.
This has been occurring with every iPhone model since the iPhone 4 up to and including the iPhone 7, and Apple's stance is to blame the third-party USB chargers, completely ignoring the fact that all USB chargers do is provide 5VDC (or up to 9VDC for most QC chargers or higher for Class B QC 3.0 chargers) and it is up to the USB charger to cut off current to the battery pack when the target voltage is reached.
Apple loves to blame their users, third-party devices, or anything else that they can and Apple fanbois never call them out on it. Antennagate? "You're holding it wrong." Firegate? "Don't use third-party USB chargers." Bendgate? "Don't put your phone in your pocket" (despite that Samsung phones are thinner and do not exhibit this problem - although putting your cellphone in your back pocket is moronic to begin with; you are begging to be pickpocketed)
They do, but Apple blames third-party chargers. Nevermind that all they do is provide 5V over a USB port and it is up to the USB device to actually monitor the cells and cut off current when the target voltage is reached.
Apple beat them to it starting with the iPhone 4 and it continues up through the 7. Of course they blame third-party chargers, because the phone isn't responsible for cutting off current to the battery when it reaches full charge.;)
FALSE! Only the cellular radio needs to be turned off now, and for no technical reason in relation to the aircraft itself, but because the cellular network is not designed to handle large volumes of high speed cell handovers. Bluetooth and wifi are perfectly acceptable and now allowed by every major airline.
All I ask is the ability to exclude a carrier. I would exclude USPS as long as I live in Dover because they will not deliver packages that are larger than will fit in the mailbox for anyone on this route. Everywhere else I've ever lived USPS will ring the bell if they have a package that won't fit but not here. Instead they scan the package AS DELIVERED (although to be fair to the carrier, she specifies "per supervisor") so that they don't look bad to Amazon, and leave a slip instructing us to pick the packages up. Oddly enough, they (USPS) will deliver to the door on this route on Sundays (wtf?)... but not any other day.
> Seriously, loosing the USPS won't be a good thing in the long run.
It depends on where you live. Most places I've lived, USPS is every bit as good as UPS and FedEx where the carriers will ring your bell or at least honk the horn if they've got a package for you.
Now, I live in a city but on a "rural route" (in a city) and they will not ring the bell. Instead, they leave the little slip letting you know that they expect you to do their work for them and go pick up the package. I would not have a problem with this if the post office were open beyond bankers' hours... but they close early and I work until 6pm. How the fuck am I going to get my packages without taking time off of work?
To make things worse, they scan the packages as "delivered" - but in the particular carrier's defense, she notates it "scanned as delivered PER SUPERVISOR." One time I asked her about this, and she said she puts "PER SUPERVISOR" because she has been instructed to scan packages as delivered but she knows that is essentially mail fraud so she clarifies that it is per instruction of her supervisor. She said the reason her supervisor does this is to make them not look bad to Amazon, because she makes her do this for ALL customers on this route when the package will not fit in the mailbox. Her supervisor has instructed the staff to not even load the packages on the truck.
Fuck the USPS. The sooner we let them die the better.
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Newsflash:
Lawsuits don't clean water once it's been contaminated, and lawsuits do not reverse global warming. Lawsuits don't subdue increased ferocity of tropical storms. They just punish with a laughably small punitive financial charge that is chalked up as the cost of doing business, and then depending on the nature of the judgement, might be written off as losses when taxes are filed.
> The Libertarian party's core tenet is fuck you, I'm eating,
No, they're of the Idiocracy mindset: "Shut up, 'batin!"
And.. don't forget when iPhones catch fire, they blame third-party chargers, completely glossing over the fact that it is up to the device (the phone) to cut off current to the battery pack once the target voltage has been reached.
I agree. When I do not have my S7 Edge in a case it is difficult to hand it to someone without activating something.
> * 100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving To Death During The Next Ten Years
That was a gross under-estimate.
> * Population Will Inevitably And Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases In Food Supplies We Make
Today we produce enough food to feed ~13 billion people, but most of it is thrown away either due to greed or mismanagement.
> * Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously Thirty Years From Now, The Entire World Will Be In Famine
For 1-2 BILLION people, it probably seems like the entire world is in famine because famine is all they will ever know. See: greed and mismanagement, above
> * In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have To Wear Gas Masks To Survive Air Pollution
Clean air will be sold in cans, so consider the business opportunity. Yay capitalism! ;)
Star Trek has ALWAYS promoted diversity and equality. Have you not ever seen TOS?
> it is a much nicer language to code in and because the original language is under the LGPL there is no risk of being sued for an alternative implementation (indeed several alternative implementations already exist - ironpython for example).
That wouldn't matter if Oracle gets their filthy hands on python. Remember when Java was released on the GPL? That alone should have vindicated Google.
> The fact that: a) he wasn't a politician at the time, means his off-the-cuff luke warm support meant nothing;
False.
I distinctly remember his attempting to run previously. Let me google that for you.
Ah yes. here we go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Brick & Mortar businesses' response has been to cut back selection. Just TRY to find good precision screwdrivers locally, for example. Sears, Home Depot, Lowes, smaller hardware chains, etc - no dice. Frys has some decent sets but they're not here in the northeast so they aren't an option.
Appliances such as mixer stands - you'll find 5qt and under KitchenAid mixers with the weak motor and plastic gear case at many stores, but most don't stock the 6qt and larger models with the stronger motor and transmission with metal gears. Soo. I'm going to Amazon for that.
Monitors - Worst Buy is the only local authorized reseller for the ROG Swift monitor but no stores I've been to stock it. I went to Amazon for those. I'll be buying another through Amazon. Why do the Worst Buy "ship to store" for free shipping when I have to go pick it up, whereas ordering from Amazon gets me free shipping to my door, with better customer service?
Klipsch speakers - I can't get the Reference Series at local authorized retailers, even at the "Mangolia" outlets at Best Buy. They stock plenty of the Synergy line (which isn't bad, but isn't great), so again, I've been turning to online retailers for Reference-series speakers.
That's just a small handful of examples but I could list so many more. I try to shop local, but when the stores stick to carrying low-end crap I'm forced to shop online. It seems like retailers only want to sell low-end items that need replacing after six months to a year rather than higher end product lines that actually last.
If there were only backup systems which could detect changes in motion by measuring acceleration regardless of what nonsensical GPS data says and maybe a secondary device which measures angular changes, and if the path since the last good data set could be extrapolated based on these hypothetical devices. For a thought exercise let's call the acceleration detector an "accelerometer" and the angular detector a "gyroscope." It's such a shame that those devices do not exist and are not already included in cruise and air to surface missiles. /s
They should take it a step further and include an anesthetic that will knock out the thief for a couple hours, since time is a thief's worst enemy.
> The most despised web search engine,
I think Bing is despised more, and they provide the back end for Yahoo's shitty search results.
Yup. I just posted a link to another video to Samsung Mobile USA's facebook page. :D :)
We should harass Samsung with this until they agree to bring back user-replaceable batteries
> . It's probably only a matter of time before Apple, LG, or some other manufacturer has a similar problem, and also can't figure it out because of the total destruction involved.
Apple already does; their response is that third-party USB chargers are to blame.
Which of course is false, since USB chargers' job is to provide 5VDC (aside from QC which can provide higher voltages at request of the device), that's all; the USB charger will keep supplying 5VDC as long as it is connected. It is the device's job to monitor the battery's voltage and cut off current to the battery pack when the target voltage is reached... and if there is an incoming overvoltage, it's also the device's job to stop accepting power.
This has been an ongoing problem since the iPhone 4, but since Apple is Apple, they get a free pass on it.
Why did you not sue? This is ILLEGAL.
Since these phones will only be recycled, why bother with the static shielding bag?!
Hardware changes would be required as the phone will not boot without the battery pack's being connected. Besides if I've got to run a tethered device I may as well use my laptop or just sit at my desktop.
This has been occurring with every iPhone model since the iPhone 4 up to and including the iPhone 7, and Apple's stance is to blame the third-party USB chargers, completely ignoring the fact that all USB chargers do is provide 5VDC (or up to 9VDC for most QC chargers or higher for Class B QC 3.0 chargers) and it is up to the USB charger to cut off current to the battery pack when the target voltage is reached.
Apple loves to blame their users, third-party devices, or anything else that they can and Apple fanbois never call them out on it.
Antennagate? "You're holding it wrong."
Firegate? "Don't use third-party USB chargers."
Bendgate? "Don't put your phone in your pocket" (despite that Samsung phones are thinner and do not exhibit this problem - although putting your cellphone in your back pocket is moronic to begin with; you are begging to be pickpocketed)
They do, but Apple blames third-party chargers.
Nevermind that all they do is provide 5V over a USB port and it is up to the USB device to actually monitor the cells and cut off current when the target voltage is reached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple beat them to it starting with the iPhone 4 and it continues up through the 7. Of course they blame third-party chargers, because the phone isn't responsible for cutting off current to the battery when it reaches full charge. ;)
Funny that wifi is offered by most airlines now. I wonder how we connect to it with "anything that broadcast a signal has to be off?" ;)
FALSE!
Only the cellular radio needs to be turned off now, and for no technical reason in relation to the aircraft itself, but because the cellular network is not designed to handle large volumes of high speed cell handovers.
Bluetooth and wifi are perfectly acceptable and now allowed by every major airline.
All I ask is the ability to exclude a carrier. I would exclude USPS as long as I live in Dover because they will not deliver packages that are larger than will fit in the mailbox for anyone on this route. Everywhere else I've ever lived USPS will ring the bell if they have a package that won't fit but not here. Instead they scan the package AS DELIVERED (although to be fair to the carrier, she specifies "per supervisor") so that they don't look bad to Amazon, and leave a slip instructing us to pick the packages up. Oddly enough, they (USPS) will deliver to the door on this route on Sundays (wtf?)... but not any other day.
> Seriously, loosing the USPS won't be a good thing in the long run.
It depends on where you live.
Most places I've lived, USPS is every bit as good as UPS and FedEx where the carriers will ring your bell or at least honk the horn if they've got a package for you.
Now, I live in a city but on a "rural route" (in a city) and they will not ring the bell. Instead, they leave the little slip letting you know that they expect you to do their work for them and go pick up the package. I would not have a problem with this if the post office were open beyond bankers' hours... but they close early and I work until 6pm. How the fuck am I going to get my packages without taking time off of work?
To make things worse, they scan the packages as "delivered" - but in the particular carrier's defense, she notates it "scanned as delivered PER SUPERVISOR." One time I asked her about this, and she said she puts "PER SUPERVISOR" because she has been instructed to scan packages as delivered but she knows that is essentially mail fraud so she clarifies that it is per instruction of her supervisor. She said the reason her supervisor does this is to make them not look bad to Amazon, because she makes her do this for ALL customers on this route when the package will not fit in the mailbox. Her supervisor has instructed the staff to not even load the packages on the truck.
Fuck the USPS. The sooner we let them die the better.