1. Vermont has, for some time, been solidly Democrat. their last Republican Senator switched parties in 2001. Their last Republican Representative left office in 1991.
"Earlier this week, I spoke at a historic summit in Saudi Arabia. There, I urged our friends in the Muslim world to join us in creating stability, safety and security. I was deeply encouraged by the desire of many leaders to join us in cooperation toward these shared and vital goals. Conflict cannot continue forever – the only question is when nations will decide that they have had enough."
And so your second statement is itself invalidated. The rest of your little rant, if of similar quality, is discredited also.
Sony came to the Walkman (TPS-L2) from the BM-11. But it was not a home market product.
Japanese business used multipart memos back in the 70s for several reasons:
- Even Kanji is too difficult to write for trivial reasons. - Japanese efficiency was offended by the concept of telling someone to write or even type for you, unless your time was incredibly valuable. Executives might have a dictating secretary, but not their subordinates, and certainly not salarymen.
But Sony did make a variety of tape recorders, and someone got the idea of leveraging their cassette product experience ( probably based on the TC-50) to a truly portable dictating machine for the world market. this was a time when there were none, and Sony's BM series changed the office dictating machine market with high-quality cassette based devices, solving a multitude of problems. Among others, they developed counter-rotating capstan flywheels, solving speed fluctuations when the device was waved around as its attorney-owner waxed philosophic. This also won them a trip on Apollo missions, but not the BM-11 style mechanism, the TC-50.
It didn't take much to adapt the BM-11 into a player-only, the TPS-L2. Original Walkman. I bet they had not predicted the success.
Now, the TPS-L2 was a terrible product. It was a little delicate, literally falling apart in the hands of skaters, runners, and athletes. I was servicing the dictating machines, and the mechanism was virtually identical - I understood it and could fix them, though it gets tiring chasing P1x1.2mm screws around the shop.
Not that the WM series Walkman models were much better, but they improved quickly, as did the dictation machines. Sony developed court reporter versions, ultimately a carousel recorder that held 30 cassettes, a loathsome device. And microcassettes, then of course solid state devices. Walkmen evolved to CD players, Minidisc, and then Netman players nobody cared about.
Sony sure could use a hit like that. But what product today do they make that could be expanded on? Smartphones? No one yet has something revolutionary in that space. TV? Nope. Robots? Yes. Asimo could become something truly useful - but let them figure that out. Hints - Alexa. Roomba. Refrigerators.
My used (to me) Surface Pro 3 surpasses my expectations, and I'm used to Dell Latitude top of line laptops. Screen is lovely, touch works, i5/8GB/256GB model does all I want. KVM, Virtual PC, etc all work. Really. Battery life is fine, even for a used unit.3rd party chargers are weak, but heh.
If only I could justify the $.
The only complaints, big ones, they still don;t put a keyboard (Type Cover, $129+) in the box, purchased separately, and now no Surface Pen ($60). Cheap.
I wrote that adequately describe the most purchases, not that that was wrong or that it has to be made legal or illegal or anything but that it was adequate. I don't think anybody should be deciding legally what kind of car you can buy even though it appears that the state wants to tell what cars are available and what sort they are
It's fairly obvious that when cars largely do not use gasoline for fuel, the gas tax will be changed into something that accomplishes roughly the same purpose. And probably siphons off some revenue for other purposes. That's the way taxes work.
YOU could have European mass transit. But not anywhere where there are 'curvy roads'. Mass transit is mostly where there are streets. And buildings. And population density with short trips.
And if your curvy road has a 35MPH speed limit, it might, just might have a bus route serving it, but that's a 50-50 proposition.
So move to Europe, They have great mass transit there. And the drivers a blissfully polite.
To be fair, IP67 is dust resistance. IP 68 is water resistance. I double dog dare you to change the battery on a S8 without gloves and a screwdriver, and make it something like it was originally... And new adhesives.
IP67/68 water resistance pretty much requires a sealed device, and sealing smartphones pretty much guarantees they are irreparable. Sealing with adhesives, thermal or other, denies the average consumer a means to disassemble the phone just to change the battery.
And we will accept water resistance because the phones are so expensive we don't want a brief moment of strawberry daiquiri exposure to cost us even the deductible.
And while battery life isn't on everyone's mind when they buy a new hot phone, it's a fairly common problem to see battery capacity diminish after 2 years. That is, for most of us, at least 800 charge cycles. Nothing is on the horizon that will do better. So we are mostly on a 2 year life cycle for most smartphones, especially the hot fast cool ones. 30 bucks a month in the US.
By design. For a long time to come. And more not less.
To be able to repair current design phones will require compromises, either design compromises or feature compromises. Water resistance the first.
When I laundered my M7 I was really, really peeved. Mostly because I could not disassemble it sufficiently to dewater it. Well, actually mostly because I even sent it through half a dry cycle... But I could, then, replace the display on my wife's iPhone 6s. The M7, impenetrable. And now my Android choices are limited, if I want to skip a generation of CPU and step up to the most current chipset. Which of the options I have are fixable? Oh, and support my carrier's better radio bands, WiFi hotspot, WiFi calling, oh that gets difficult.
We are being designed into losing the ability to fix stuff that could be fixed otherwise. I've been a two-way radio technician, calculator and tape recorder repairperson, typewriter repairperson, then PCs, but I can't see how to repair most smartphones for a living. The tools. The techniques. Impenetrable.
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Of course. So how do we get to the alternative?
1. Vermont has, for some time, been solidly Democrat. their last Republican Senator switched parties in 2001. Their last Republican Representative left office in 1991.
2. The populace has become majority Leftist.
So you're claiming the DNC was 2 for 2?
Authorship wasn't presented as a requirement.
Don't bother.
Ask Bernie.
From his speech in Jerusalem:
"Earlier this week, I spoke at a historic summit in Saudi Arabia. There, I urged our friends in the Muslim world to join us in creating stability, safety and security. I was deeply encouraged by the desire of many leaders to join us in cooperation toward these shared and vital goals. Conflict cannot continue forever – the only question is when nations will decide that they have had enough."
And so your second statement is itself invalidated. The rest of your little rant, if of similar quality, is discredited also.
Sony came to the Walkman (TPS-L2) from the BM-11. But it was not a home market product.
Japanese business used multipart memos back in the 70s for several reasons:
- Even Kanji is too difficult to write for trivial reasons.
- Japanese efficiency was offended by the concept of telling someone to write or even type for you, unless your time was incredibly valuable. Executives might have a dictating secretary, but not their subordinates, and certainly not salarymen.
But Sony did make a variety of tape recorders, and someone got the idea of leveraging their cassette product experience ( probably based on the TC-50) to a truly portable dictating machine for the world market. this was a time when there were none, and Sony's BM series changed the office dictating machine market with high-quality cassette based devices, solving a multitude of problems. Among others, they developed counter-rotating capstan flywheels, solving speed fluctuations when the device was waved around as its attorney-owner waxed philosophic. This also won them a trip on Apollo missions, but not the BM-11 style mechanism, the TC-50.
It didn't take much to adapt the BM-11 into a player-only, the TPS-L2. Original Walkman. I bet they had not predicted the success.
Now, the TPS-L2 was a terrible product. It was a little delicate, literally falling apart in the hands of skaters, runners, and athletes. I was servicing the dictating machines, and the mechanism was virtually identical - I understood it and could fix them, though it gets tiring chasing P1x1.2mm screws around the shop.
Not that the WM series Walkman models were much better, but they improved quickly, as did the dictation machines. Sony developed court reporter versions, ultimately a carousel recorder that held 30 cassettes, a loathsome device. And microcassettes, then of course solid state devices. Walkmen evolved to CD players, Minidisc, and then Netman players nobody cared about.
Sony sure could use a hit like that. But what product today do they make that could be expanded on? Smartphones? No one yet has something revolutionary in that space. TV? Nope. Robots? Yes. Asimo could become something truly useful - but let them figure that out. Hints - Alexa. Roomba. Refrigerators.
My used (to me) Surface Pro 3 surpasses my expectations, and I'm used to Dell Latitude top of line laptops. Screen is lovely, touch works, i5/8GB/256GB model does all I want. KVM, Virtual PC, etc all work. Really. Battery life is fine, even for a used unit.3rd party chargers are weak, but heh.
If only I could justify the $.
The only complaints, big ones, they still don;t put a keyboard (Type Cover, $129+) in the box, purchased separately, and now no Surface Pen ($60). Cheap.
"Facebook Flooded With 'Sextortion' and Revenge Porn, Files Reveal"
"Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and "sextortion" on the site in a single month"
Um, this site claims there were almost 5 billion pieces of content posted in march 2017. .0001% of all items? Wow, a flood?
"in January Facebook had to disable more than 14,000 accounts related to these types of sexual abuse"
This site (again) claims there were 1.94 billion active accounts in March 2017... Hard'y a huge fraction they disabled. .00072%?
"and 33 of the cases reviewed involved children."
This, however, is truly despicable. And virtually immeasurable. Sad to think they must have missed a lot more.
I wrote that adequately describe the most purchases, not that that was wrong or that it has to be made legal or illegal or anything but that it was adequate. I don't think anybody should be deciding legally what kind of car you can buy even though it appears that the state wants to tell what cars are available and what sort they are
So did Subarus. And others. Mostly coking, the oil being heated to destruction.
My 98 900NG never did for 213k miles.
How about you go first? It was, after all your idea.
"people are buying these purely for vanity reasons."
Which adequately describes many, many car purchases. Worldwide.
Your point? There is, or needs to be, for many people, a different criteria for purchasing a car?
It's fairly obvious that when cars largely do not use gasoline for fuel, the gas tax will be changed into something that accomplishes roughly the same purpose. And probably siphons off some revenue for other purposes. That's the way taxes work.
The old design v function argument.
Our Republic has been malfunctioning for at least 8 years, and intermittently before that. Time to fix it.
YOU could have European mass transit. But not anywhere where there are 'curvy roads'. Mass transit is mostly where there are streets. And buildings. And population density with short trips.
And if your curvy road has a 35MPH speed limit, it might, just might have a bus route serving it, but that's a 50-50 proposition.
So move to Europe, They have great mass transit there. And the drivers a blissfully polite.
Well, it's an Explorer with half the roof and half the motor. No magic there.
And you can in fact steer an '86 911 with the gas pedal. In a gross fashion, but you can.
Saab nailed turbos even before. If only they hadn't sold to GM... And stopped trying to design cars like jets.
To be fair, IP67 is dust resistance. IP 68 is water resistance. I double dog dare you to change the battery on a S8 without gloves and a screwdriver, and make it something like it was originally... And new adhesives.
Yes, it can be done.
IP67/68 water resistance pretty much requires a sealed device, and sealing smartphones pretty much guarantees they are irreparable. Sealing with adhesives, thermal or other, denies the average consumer a means to disassemble the phone just to change the battery.
And we will accept water resistance because the phones are so expensive we don't want a brief moment of strawberry daiquiri exposure to cost us even the deductible.
And while battery life isn't on everyone's mind when they buy a new hot phone, it's a fairly common problem to see battery capacity diminish after 2 years. That is, for most of us, at least 800 charge cycles. Nothing is on the horizon that will do better. So we are mostly on a 2 year life cycle for most smartphones, especially the hot fast cool ones. 30 bucks a month in the US.
By design. For a long time to come. And more not less.
To be able to repair current design phones will require compromises, either design compromises or feature compromises. Water resistance the first.
When I laundered my M7 I was really, really peeved. Mostly because I could not disassemble it sufficiently to dewater it. Well, actually mostly because I even sent it through half a dry cycle... But I could, then, replace the display on my wife's iPhone 6s. The M7, impenetrable. And now my Android choices are limited, if I want to skip a generation of CPU and step up to the most current chipset. Which of the options I have are fixable? Oh, and support my carrier's better radio bands, WiFi hotspot, WiFi calling, oh that gets difficult.
We are being designed into losing the ability to fix stuff that could be fixed otherwise. I've been a two-way radio technician, calculator and tape recorder repairperson, typewriter repairperson, then PCs, but I can't see how to repair most smartphones for a living. The tools. The techniques. Impenetrable.
"we theorize, speculate, and focus on the worst-case scenario"
Yea, and I can get back to something more certain and true, like CNN or Facebook.
There is the XZ Premium, soon to be on sale. Headphone jack and all.
FM band antennae are somewhat more challenging to fabricate in the available space. The horrors of real life.