The reason why we have the USPS is to ensure that everybody in the US can send mail anywhere else in the US for the same price. As it is they don't have a monopoly in any meaningful sense, as it's just the mailbox that's restricted, there's no law against there being a separate dropbox for some other carrier. Or for mail to be left on the door step. In fact Amazon and most legal firms of any size already contract with private couriers for internal mail.
At any rate, it would be tough for other competitors to really compete with the USPS as delivering outside of cities is really expensive and USPS has to do that as well for the same price.
The thing is that we are paying for their lifestyle choice in general. If you take a look at where various federal and state dollars end up going, the rural areas get far more than what they pay in. Even as they whine about the tax burden and demand spending cuts go only to the things that the city folks want. Ignoring that most of the money that could be cut is going to things they want.
Because fractions are a lot easier to deal with than decimals in this kind of situation. For many things like cooking and chemistry, using the SI units isn't really a problem, and for many it's a help, but trying to measure out things consistently for carpentry is a real pain in the ass.
The smallest unit a carpenter ever measures is 1/16" which is 1.588 millimeters. And that unit comes up fairly often, it's not so bad if you keep to quarters and eights, but you do a lot of halving and doubling of things in carpentry and for that fractions are really nice. Metric doesn't really handle it so well, which is why you see ingredients in recipes so often differ ever so slightly from the same recipe using imperial measures.
The US economy is roughly $13tn a $125m loss isn't really that notable. It is stupid and I would prefer the money to be spent in better ways, but it's hardly a sum of money worth wasting a lot of time worrying about. The cost of the things you're referring to would be dwarfed by the cost of us changing the system we use.
Same goes for the other things that were linked, those are things that are supposed to have safeguards, which obviously weren't followed. The system of measure being blamed is quite silly when you're supposed to have double checks to make sure that it isn't done wrong.
That right there is the problem. The imperial system works, and unless you're into science or import/export there's no compelling reason to stop using it. I'm familiar with the metric system and can convert the ones I really need in my head, but the reality is that there's no compelling reason for normal people to switch.
And it's definitely in opposition to our general culture to force something like that on the citizenry, especially if the status quo actually works. There's just too much inertia for it to change any time soon. I get the feeling that with every successive year that it's less and less likely to happen. I doubt that Europeans would have either had they needed a referendum in each country to make it happen at once.
You can see why private industry would hate this proposal: it robs third parties of the ability to collect advertising and customer data through user authentication. So naturally they'll use scaremongering and useful idiots civil libertarians to claim this isn't what it is, and that we're much better off with a completely private system with no rules as to who can collect what data about what.
You don't think that there is something very wrong with the proposal? We don't have a national ID card for a reason. It's simple enough as it is to check to see if somebody arrested in IA is wanted in TX or MA as it is, I don't think we need or want to provide the government with an easy way to keep tabs on people that haven't been charged with any crimes.
The post office would be budget neutral if it could drop or reduce service to rural areas. A normal business would be allowed to charge more money for service which cost more money, but the USPS is required to charge anybody anywhere in the US the same postage. As a result, a helicopter delivery of 1 letter costs the sender the same amount as delivery via horseback, or a quick delivery across town in any major metropolitan area.
Intel doesn't manufactures any ARM processors, do they? Which is probably what's going on there. An attempt to derail the OS by adding in support for their own processors. Given how they've been behaving, I wouldn't be surprised if they started leaning really hard on anybody using ARM chips with Android.
It doesn't matter if the unemployed feel that way, the whole unemployment system is set up to shame and humiliate people. It's about one step up from panhandling. The amount of actual assistance provided is negligible, without a significant amount of savings to start with you're not going to be living on it for more than a few weeks.
Plus, when has it ever mattered to bullies whether the justification for ridicule was reasonable? Being viewed as less capable by those round definitely is detrimental to the sort of networking that it takes to get a new job in modern America.
So, my brother who just got laid off by his employer due to downsizing and has been working his butt off to find a new job, is being childish? Because clearly the money that he's getting which barely pays for health coverage and has a huge number of strings attached is conducive to his finding gainful employment which would allow him to get of government assistance.
News flash, before I went back to school I was making a lot more than minimum wage and I could barely afford to pay my bills. Let alone the small fraction of my wages that I would have gotten from unemployment.
Trust me it's meant to be demeaning, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. The unemployment system is set up to get people off it as quickly as possible, regardless of whether or not the individual is gainfully employed. Bullying is a standard tactic that they use as is humiliation where possible.
It might not be like that where you're from, but around here that's standard practice because obviously if it wasn't degrading nobody would ever find a job.
I'm curious how this isn't a demeaning act. It sounds very much like a scarlett letter. There's a surprising number of people out ther that assume that the unemployed are picking up a huge check and are able to afford to sit around doing nothing for long periods of time. I don't know about Florida, but around here the checks are a pittance at best, my brother got laid off a while back and the check is barely enough to cover rent, definitely not also pay for food and health insurance.
I remember applying myself, and the "adjudicator" was very clearly in bed with the employer, was willing to take the fraudulent claims of my former employer as the gospel, but required me to prove that they were requiring me to work off the clock. On top of the general bullying and revision to questions when he didn't like the answer.
Around here that sort of behavior is endemic to the system.
If you're trying to remember those addresses then you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to be assigning the addresses either via DHCP or statically, in either case you should be able to look the information up quickly. Or better yet have some sort of a chart if it's a smaller network.
When it comes to firewalls, you just declare an alias near the top of the file and use that from there on out. It would be ridiculous to have to type in the address everywhere it's needed, plus, rather than changing it once if need be you have to change it in possibly dozens of places.
Yes, IPv8 is going to feature 1024bit addresses just in case there's a few molecules in the galaxy that haven't gotten their unique address, and with room left in case we want to inhabit the rest of the universe.
Being able to remember the addresses isn't a particularly valid thing to consider, we need a much larger number of addresses than we currently have, consequently they're going to be hard to remember. IIRC if you're handing them out statically on that sort of a basis you're doing it wrong.
It sounds like your living in an area of the country with actual competition. Around here I've got the fastest connection offered, at a whopping 5mbps up from 4mbps a decade a go, and I have yet to get a speed test that tells me I'm getting anything over 3mbps.
And, the cost is $50 a month, before taxes, IIRC, if I want to switch to an ISP with decent latency, good luck, all of the options are pretty pathetic in that regards.
Wow, the sheer incompetence is mind blowing. Yes, we could go almost indefinitely without IPv6, but it would be a situation of NAT upon NAT upon turtles, and well, lets be honest from there it's turtles all the way down.
The problem is that there are a lot of services which don't work with NAT, and if we limit ourselves to just the ones that do, there's all sorts of cool things which nobody will bother to invent because they're impossible.
As has often been suggested around here, just because something is good enough, does not mean that it's acceptable. If the telecoms weren't so damned greedy, we could have IPv6, they're already gouging us on service as it is, requiring them to actually provide proper IPv6 shouldn't require rate changes.
No, but IPv6 adoption should have been happening by now. It's a bit like being hit by a train whilst standing in the tracks, you know eventually you're going to have to do something about it, but the engineer hasn't yet blown the horn, so clearly you can wait longer.
The problem is that it's not like a normal store. If Walmart refuses to carry a game because it's violent, you've got other options. However if Apple doesn't want you to have an app for whatever reason, you have to void your warranty in order to install it.
Which is the point, this isn't like a normal store this is one where Steve Jobs tells you what you can and cannot buy.
Glove box is a bad choice, because they are legally permitted to request license and registration, plus in much of the country insurance information. So if you've got any of those things in the glove box like many people do, they're still likely to see it as they do watch when you reach in their.
I'm guessing from the tone that it's those of us that refuse to recognize the perfection of St. Steve and his magical turtlenecks and how he just wants everybody to be happy in his utopian society. Or something like that.
The problem is that they're not deciding what they sell, they're deciding what you can buy or use. Well, not me, I don't have an iPhone, and not those that have theirs jailbroken, but for a significant portion of the iPhone user base, this means that those apps are no long available.
Precisely what does legislation have to do with this? This is about how to create a similar service that doesn't reward that sort of bad behavior and foaming at the mouth.
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The reason why we have the USPS is to ensure that everybody in the US can send mail anywhere else in the US for the same price. As it is they don't have a monopoly in any meaningful sense, as it's just the mailbox that's restricted, there's no law against there being a separate dropbox for some other carrier. Or for mail to be left on the door step. In fact Amazon and most legal firms of any size already contract with private couriers for internal mail.
At any rate, it would be tough for other competitors to really compete with the USPS as delivering outside of cities is really expensive and USPS has to do that as well for the same price.
The thing is that we are paying for their lifestyle choice in general. If you take a look at where various federal and state dollars end up going, the rural areas get far more than what they pay in. Even as they whine about the tax burden and demand spending cuts go only to the things that the city folks want. Ignoring that most of the money that could be cut is going to things they want.
Because fractions are a lot easier to deal with than decimals in this kind of situation. For many things like cooking and chemistry, using the SI units isn't really a problem, and for many it's a help, but trying to measure out things consistently for carpentry is a real pain in the ass.
The smallest unit a carpenter ever measures is 1/16" which is 1.588 millimeters. And that unit comes up fairly often, it's not so bad if you keep to quarters and eights, but you do a lot of halving and doubling of things in carpentry and for that fractions are really nice. Metric doesn't really handle it so well, which is why you see ingredients in recipes so often differ ever so slightly from the same recipe using imperial measures.
The US economy is roughly $13tn a $125m loss isn't really that notable. It is stupid and I would prefer the money to be spent in better ways, but it's hardly a sum of money worth wasting a lot of time worrying about. The cost of the things you're referring to would be dwarfed by the cost of us changing the system we use.
Same goes for the other things that were linked, those are things that are supposed to have safeguards, which obviously weren't followed. The system of measure being blamed is quite silly when you're supposed to have double checks to make sure that it isn't done wrong.
That right there is the problem. The imperial system works, and unless you're into science or import/export there's no compelling reason to stop using it. I'm familiar with the metric system and can convert the ones I really need in my head, but the reality is that there's no compelling reason for normal people to switch.
And it's definitely in opposition to our general culture to force something like that on the citizenry, especially if the status quo actually works. There's just too much inertia for it to change any time soon. I get the feeling that with every successive year that it's less and less likely to happen. I doubt that Europeans would have either had they needed a referendum in each country to make it happen at once.
You can see why private industry would hate this proposal: it robs third parties of the ability to collect advertising and customer data through user authentication. So naturally they'll use scaremongering and useful idiots civil libertarians to claim this isn't what it is, and that we're much better off with a completely private system with no rules as to who can collect what data about what.
You don't think that there is something very wrong with the proposal? We don't have a national ID card for a reason. It's simple enough as it is to check to see if somebody arrested in IA is wanted in TX or MA as it is, I don't think we need or want to provide the government with an easy way to keep tabs on people that haven't been charged with any crimes.
The post office would be budget neutral if it could drop or reduce service to rural areas. A normal business would be allowed to charge more money for service which cost more money, but the USPS is required to charge anybody anywhere in the US the same postage. As a result, a helicopter delivery of 1 letter costs the sender the same amount as delivery via horseback, or a quick delivery across town in any major metropolitan area.
Intel doesn't manufactures any ARM processors, do they? Which is probably what's going on there. An attempt to derail the OS by adding in support for their own processors. Given how they've been behaving, I wouldn't be surprised if they started leaning really hard on anybody using ARM chips with Android.
The issue is that an idea like this is so incredibly stupid that the person having it should have just kept it to themselves.
It doesn't matter if the unemployed feel that way, the whole unemployment system is set up to shame and humiliate people. It's about one step up from panhandling. The amount of actual assistance provided is negligible, without a significant amount of savings to start with you're not going to be living on it for more than a few weeks.
Plus, when has it ever mattered to bullies whether the justification for ridicule was reasonable? Being viewed as less capable by those round definitely is detrimental to the sort of networking that it takes to get a new job in modern America.
So, my brother who just got laid off by his employer due to downsizing and has been working his butt off to find a new job, is being childish? Because clearly the money that he's getting which barely pays for health coverage and has a huge number of strings attached is conducive to his finding gainful employment which would allow him to get of government assistance.
News flash, before I went back to school I was making a lot more than minimum wage and I could barely afford to pay my bills. Let alone the small fraction of my wages that I would have gotten from unemployment.
Trust me it's meant to be demeaning, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. The unemployment system is set up to get people off it as quickly as possible, regardless of whether or not the individual is gainfully employed. Bullying is a standard tactic that they use as is humiliation where possible.
It might not be like that where you're from, but around here that's standard practice because obviously if it wasn't degrading nobody would ever find a job.
I'm curious how this isn't a demeaning act. It sounds very much like a scarlett letter. There's a surprising number of people out ther that assume that the unemployed are picking up a huge check and are able to afford to sit around doing nothing for long periods of time. I don't know about Florida, but around here the checks are a pittance at best, my brother got laid off a while back and the check is barely enough to cover rent, definitely not also pay for food and health insurance.
I remember applying myself, and the "adjudicator" was very clearly in bed with the employer, was willing to take the fraudulent claims of my former employer as the gospel, but required me to prove that they were requiring me to work off the clock. On top of the general bullying and revision to questions when he didn't like the answer.
Around here that sort of behavior is endemic to the system.
If you're trying to remember those addresses then you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to be assigning the addresses either via DHCP or statically, in either case you should be able to look the information up quickly. Or better yet have some sort of a chart if it's a smaller network.
When it comes to firewalls, you just declare an alias near the top of the file and use that from there on out. It would be ridiculous to have to type in the address everywhere it's needed, plus, rather than changing it once if need be you have to change it in possibly dozens of places.
Yes, IPv8 is going to feature 1024bit addresses just in case there's a few molecules in the galaxy that haven't gotten their unique address, and with room left in case we want to inhabit the rest of the universe.
Being able to remember the addresses isn't a particularly valid thing to consider, we need a much larger number of addresses than we currently have, consequently they're going to be hard to remember. IIRC if you're handing them out statically on that sort of a basis you're doing it wrong.
It sounds like your living in an area of the country with actual competition. Around here I've got the fastest connection offered, at a whopping 5mbps up from 4mbps a decade a go, and I have yet to get a speed test that tells me I'm getting anything over 3mbps.
And, the cost is $50 a month, before taxes, IIRC, if I want to switch to an ISP with decent latency, good luck, all of the options are pretty pathetic in that regards.
Wow, the sheer incompetence is mind blowing. Yes, we could go almost indefinitely without IPv6, but it would be a situation of NAT upon NAT upon turtles, and well, lets be honest from there it's turtles all the way down.
The problem is that there are a lot of services which don't work with NAT, and if we limit ourselves to just the ones that do, there's all sorts of cool things which nobody will bother to invent because they're impossible.
As has often been suggested around here, just because something is good enough, does not mean that it's acceptable. If the telecoms weren't so damned greedy, we could have IPv6, they're already gouging us on service as it is, requiring them to actually provide proper IPv6 shouldn't require rate changes.
No, but IPv6 adoption should have been happening by now. It's a bit like being hit by a train whilst standing in the tracks, you know eventually you're going to have to do something about it, but the engineer hasn't yet blown the horn, so clearly you can wait longer.
Yes, but only if the other party doesn't attempt to listen.
The problem is that it's not like a normal store. If Walmart refuses to carry a game because it's violent, you've got other options. However if Apple doesn't want you to have an app for whatever reason, you have to void your warranty in order to install it.
Which is the point, this isn't like a normal store this is one where Steve Jobs tells you what you can and cannot buy.
Glove box is a bad choice, because they are legally permitted to request license and registration, plus in much of the country insurance information. So if you've got any of those things in the glove box like many people do, they're still likely to see it as they do watch when you reach in their.
I'm guessing from the tone that it's those of us that refuse to recognize the perfection of St. Steve and his magical turtlenecks and how he just wants everybody to be happy in his utopian society. Or something like that.
The problem is that they're not deciding what they sell, they're deciding what you can buy or use. Well, not me, I don't have an iPhone, and not those that have theirs jailbroken, but for a significant portion of the iPhone user base, this means that those apps are no long available.
Yes, and isn't that also the same time zone where Cyberdyne Systems is located as well?
Precisely what does legislation have to do with this? This is about how to create a similar service that doesn't reward that sort of bad behavior and foaming at the mouth.