This summary is incredibly stupid, the 4 year old model referenced is the base model, that indeed does use the same parts, however there HAVE been plenty of updates to the MacBook Pro line since then, introducing SSDs, Retina displays, slimmer builds, and current generation MBPs have Broadwell CPUs. Now for sure they are due for an update but I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen this calendar year.
You're stupid. US citizens spent about 10.7 trillion in retail expenses in 2011 (first number I could easily find), to get that to our current budgetary levels you're going to need to tax that at around 30% (+ income from other taxes) to cover federal spending for that time period, and I don't know about you but I sure as hell am not currently paying 30% in federal taxes. And keep in mind, that's 30% ACROSS THE BOARD, no exemptions for low income or food stuffs, etc. "Oh well we can cut government spending to make up the difference!" OK, you're going to need to cut government expenditures probably in half to make a fair tax work without inordinately hurting the lower classes, good luck with that. Now if you wanted to abolish income tax and supplant it with a low rate fair tax, I may be game there, but make sure you're only talking about personal income tax, continue to tax the corporations otherwise we're never going to be able to meet budgetary requirements.
Is it just me or does this read like a giant piece of bait? An article decrying the "difficulty" of getting into PC gaming when in the same article praising various sub reddits for their willingness to help?
Yet another reason not to buy apple products, I don't want to be forced to buy a $40 adapter for my $10-20 earbuds and I DO NOT want to get railroaded onto ANOTHER battery powered accessory for my phone.
Maybe you should read TFA before making statements like this. PayPal thought that this service was facilitating illegal file sharing, similar to MegaUpload, and that violates PayPal's ToS. Seafile is a pretty small company, since they don't have alot of people using the service that can vouch for it, if they can't provide evidence that the service ISN'T being used for illegal file sharing, I can't necessarily blame PayPal for cutting them off. To be clear, I don't blame Seafile for taking the stance they have, I would have done the same thing. I just understand why PayPal did what they did, and if or when enough Seafile users start publicly complaining, PayPal may very well reverse their position.
Give one good reason why the world should not ""strike back".
Islamic State has declared and is enacting war on the world.
Because the world does not have the willpower to move in and control the situation on the ground for the next couple of decades. If we want to actually win we have to convince the people that actually live there to keep these assholes in line. If we go in and blow everything up all it's going to do is recruit the next generation of jihadist assclowns.
TFS: "ask those questions and not just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them" about climate change."
I'm sure Bill Nye would completely agree with you there Sarah, he would also follow that with encouraging the asker to go and research their answer. This is the difference between the two of them.
People on the autism spectrum tend to have a lot more stress in their lives, various types of stress have long been linked to higher mortality rates, be that from suicide to distracted driving to heart attacks to drug use as a coping mechanism to straight up side effects from medication. I would be mind boggled that this is news but when I saw that this "study" was performed by an autism advocacy group, I realized its nothing more than an attention grab.
Quite the opposite: Detroit is such a basket case precisely because most of its residents already receive a "basic income" from the government.
Spoken like a true believer (drank too much of the koolaid). Ok, so I'm guessing that you're going on the traditional "everyone on welfare are lazy sacks of shit, go get a job" bullshit, ok fine. What jobs are there in Detroit? Have you ever been there? Have you looked? Please explain your statement. What jobs are the people that may have worked in heavy manufacturing going to be qualified for, mostly retail and food service, right? And when those jobs don't pay enough to get by, what are they supposed to do then? So what should they do, move to where there are jobs? How do you do that without money? Without transportation? Without a clear idea of where to go? No answers yet? Ok, so let's go back to your next likely argument, the evil government makes working in the US too expensive, if wages could be down around $3 an hour we'd have tons of jobs. Ok, I'll give you that, but how the hell is anyone going to be able to afford to buy anything at $3 an hour? Do you think that deflation is going to automatically kick in once there are 25 million more workers? Probably not, more likely those companies (especially profit driven ones) will take the extra money they save from not having to pay employees as much and pocket it.
If you think I'm wrong, great, I welcome an open debate about this. My only request is that before you speak, actually stop and consider the situation the residents of Detroit, and of anyone else on government assistance for that matter, and what their real options are. Don't just repeat Libertarian platitudes, stop and think about the real effects of the situation that they're in. Also, don't just assume that everyone is fucking lazy, that in of itself is fucking lazy.
Oh, and keep in mind all you libertarian fuckwits out there, even Ayn Rand accepted government assistance.
It also could have something to do with the wildly fluctuating value of Bitcoin, you want to charge $4.99 for this app but who knows if that's going to be 0.0121 or 0.0124 or 0.011 bitcoins in the future?
People that go on about going off gold and such have no damned idea of how money works. ALL money, including gold, is only worth the collective value that a society puts upon it. Gold is no different, if you and I didn't think gold was worth 3 grains of sand, then we wouldn't trade in it, so what makes paper money or invisible money any different?
Do I think that the $100 should be discontinued? No. I think that it would place an undue burden on too many people, especially with the way inflation has grown in the last 50 years. Banks cost money and placing most of the responsibility of maintaining your money supply in the hands of disparate private institutions just adds another point where failure can happen. But to leap to government control libertarian bullshit conspiracy theories is really stupid.
Here's a tip AC, if you want to not sound "so fringe", try inserting some logic or evidence into your arguments, you'll find you get a lot further.
Anonymous Cowards, posting stupid and racist bullshit shit since 1997. Poor != stupid, and considering the challenges they likely faced in clearing all of the waste from their water, and since Brazil isn't really know for wealth, I'm not surprised they couldn't do it while spending the billions necessary to build up the rest of the facilities that will undoubtedly go to waste after the Olympics are over.
Multiple cable operators are rare since the major cable companies all have agreements with one another diving up territories. My analogy (built off of yours) was meant to point out that telecoms will go out of their way to prevent new competitors from coming into their areas, not to imply that they specifically wiped out other ISPs.
Well just imagine that the doctor you speak of got legislation passed in your area making it damned near impossible for other doctors to come in and set up shop, even going so far as to sign an agreement with your landlord that only that doctor could care for the residents. Now imagine that that doctor has the balls to say that "they're doing it to protect the patients from bad doctors" and act all goodie goodie when a legitimate threat came up and they just happened to be able to stand on the side of right by saying "No, I won't install bio-monitors in all of my patients and help you kill off the fat ones". Would you be so willing then to trumpet that doctor as being a paragon of society?
These are all things Cox has done, in my area specifically. I am a Cox customer, but not by my choice by a long shot. My alternatives (and I live in a larger city, not in the sticks) are a shitty DSL provider that can give me a whopping 1.5mbit connection, satellite (with terribly latency and throughput), and cell service (with horrible costs and terrible service). Just because they happened to be on my side this time doesn't mean that the second the RIAA offers them something better (pay for the upgrades, pay for lost customers) they wont say "fuck it it's too much effort off with their connections".
Wiredhas a much better article about what's going on with this order, they say that 1. the order leaves open the possibility that what the court is asking isn't possible, and 2. that the FBI isn't specifically asking Apple to unlock the phone but wants Apple to disable the feature that wipes the phone after 10 bad password attempts (they want to brute-force it).
Don't mistake their willingness to stand up to the content industry as a sign that they give a shit about their customers. The first argument against this is "it imposes undue hardships on Cox", re: "You want us to spend money implementing deep packet inspection, and lose more money kicking paying customers off of our network, to impose your rules, at zero benefit to us. No Thanks". The privacy arguments just make good PR.
To be fair, they're probably the best telecom out there, but that's still like being the least smelly turd in a porta-potty.
While it may or may not be dense, it's not likely to be conducive towards aircraft design, adding 8mm of material all over an airplane would A) royally fuck the aerodynamics and B) be stupidly hard to maintain. Think covering your plane in Styrofoam, you're going to lose alot of material to air friction every time you move the thing around.
And also I don't see much practical ground application, UHF isn't very useful for ground target detection due to it's inability to penetrate ground clutter. I suppose you could slap this stuff on a naval vessel and effectively "raise the horizon" on your vessel from surface detection but again, limited use.
I suspect the Chinese allowed this article to go to print as there isn't alot of military application here for a material as unwieldy as this, and they likely (and probably correctly) assumed that other governments are already aware of this material and have decided not to use it, for the same reasons.
You'd never find techs willing to subject themselves to the 24x7 aarp crowd, nothing more frustrating than trying to support gomers over the phone, trust me.
That said, +1 for anyone that is saying local support, many shops have a yearly support plan, the one I used to run charged $165 per year per pc for anti-virus, yearly tuneu (clean temps, startups, dust the interior, etc), and 10% off any additional services needed throughout the year.
I've ridden public transit to get to work from where I live in the past, first I have to walk about a Mile to get to the nearest bus stop, then it takes about an hour with one transfer to get to work. On a good day, it would probably take me about 1.5 hours to get to work from home using public transport.
Compare that to driving now, I have pretty easy interstate access where I live and my place of work is right off of that interstate. Traffic doesn't get too bad here most days but even when it does, it rarely takes longer than 45 minutes to get to work, and under normal circumstances, it takes me about 20 minutes. So my answer? No fucking way would I willingly take public transit unless I had no other alternative.
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This summary is incredibly stupid, the 4 year old model referenced is the base model, that indeed does use the same parts, however there HAVE been plenty of updates to the MacBook Pro line since then, introducing SSDs, Retina displays, slimmer builds, and current generation MBPs have Broadwell CPUs. Now for sure they are due for an update but I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen this calendar year.
You're stupid. US citizens spent about 10.7 trillion in retail expenses in 2011 (first number I could easily find), to get that to our current budgetary levels you're going to need to tax that at around 30% (+ income from other taxes) to cover federal spending for that time period, and I don't know about you but I sure as hell am not currently paying 30% in federal taxes. And keep in mind, that's 30% ACROSS THE BOARD, no exemptions for low income or food stuffs, etc. "Oh well we can cut government spending to make up the difference!" OK, you're going to need to cut government expenditures probably in half to make a fair tax work without inordinately hurting the lower classes, good luck with that. Now if you wanted to abolish income tax and supplant it with a low rate fair tax, I may be game there, but make sure you're only talking about personal income tax, continue to tax the corporations otherwise we're never going to be able to meet budgetary requirements.
Is it just me or does this read like a giant piece of bait? An article decrying the "difficulty" of getting into PC gaming when in the same article praising various sub reddits for their willingness to help?
Yet another reason not to buy apple products, I don't want to be forced to buy a $40 adapter for my $10-20 earbuds and I DO NOT want to get railroaded onto ANOTHER battery powered accessory for my phone.
Maybe you should read TFA before making statements like this. PayPal thought that this service was facilitating illegal file sharing, similar to MegaUpload, and that violates PayPal's ToS. Seafile is a pretty small company, since they don't have alot of people using the service that can vouch for it, if they can't provide evidence that the service ISN'T being used for illegal file sharing, I can't necessarily blame PayPal for cutting them off. To be clear, I don't blame Seafile for taking the stance they have, I would have done the same thing. I just understand why PayPal did what they did, and if or when enough Seafile users start publicly complaining, PayPal may very well reverse their position.
Would you care to expand upon that or shall we start throwing out random statements?
You're a lobster.
Give one good reason why the world should not ""strike back".
Islamic State has declared and is enacting war on the world.
Because the world does not have the willpower to move in and control the situation on the ground for the next couple of decades. If we want to actually win we have to convince the people that actually live there to keep these assholes in line. If we go in and blow everything up all it's going to do is recruit the next generation of jihadist assclowns.
TFS: "ask those questions and not just believe what Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them" about climate change."
I'm sure Bill Nye would completely agree with you there Sarah, he would also follow that with encouraging the asker to go and research their answer. This is the difference between the two of them.
People on the autism spectrum tend to have a lot more stress in their lives, various types of stress have long been linked to higher mortality rates, be that from suicide to distracted driving to heart attacks to drug use as a coping mechanism to straight up side effects from medication. I would be mind boggled that this is news but when I saw that this "study" was performed by an autism advocacy group, I realized its nothing more than an attention grab.
Quite the opposite: Detroit is such a basket case precisely because most of its residents already receive a "basic income" from the government.
Spoken like a true believer (drank too much of the koolaid). Ok, so I'm guessing that you're going on the traditional "everyone on welfare are lazy sacks of shit, go get a job" bullshit, ok fine. What jobs are there in Detroit? Have you ever been there? Have you looked? Please explain your statement. What jobs are the people that may have worked in heavy manufacturing going to be qualified for, mostly retail and food service, right? And when those jobs don't pay enough to get by, what are they supposed to do then? So what should they do, move to where there are jobs? How do you do that without money? Without transportation? Without a clear idea of where to go? No answers yet? Ok, so let's go back to your next likely argument, the evil government makes working in the US too expensive, if wages could be down around $3 an hour we'd have tons of jobs. Ok, I'll give you that, but how the hell is anyone going to be able to afford to buy anything at $3 an hour? Do you think that deflation is going to automatically kick in once there are 25 million more workers? Probably not, more likely those companies (especially profit driven ones) will take the extra money they save from not having to pay employees as much and pocket it.
If you think I'm wrong, great, I welcome an open debate about this. My only request is that before you speak, actually stop and consider the situation the residents of Detroit, and of anyone else on government assistance for that matter, and what their real options are. Don't just repeat Libertarian platitudes, stop and think about the real effects of the situation that they're in. Also, don't just assume that everyone is fucking lazy, that in of itself is fucking lazy.
Oh, and keep in mind all you libertarian fuckwits out there, even Ayn Rand accepted government assistance.
It also could have something to do with the wildly fluctuating value of Bitcoin, you want to charge $4.99 for this app but who knows if that's going to be 0.0121 or 0.0124 or 0.011 bitcoins in the future?
The creator of the biggest hive of scum and villany on the internet has gone to work for google, and will "fix" social. What could go wrong?
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And why is someone willing to pay for gold? Think about that for a second, and you can't just answer "Because someone else will value it"
People that go on about going off gold and such have no damned idea of how money works. ALL money, including gold, is only worth the collective value that a society puts upon it. Gold is no different, if you and I didn't think gold was worth 3 grains of sand, then we wouldn't trade in it, so what makes paper money or invisible money any different?
Do I think that the $100 should be discontinued? No. I think that it would place an undue burden on too many people, especially with the way inflation has grown in the last 50 years. Banks cost money and placing most of the responsibility of maintaining your money supply in the hands of disparate private institutions just adds another point where failure can happen. But to leap to government control libertarian bullshit conspiracy theories is really stupid.
Here's a tip AC, if you want to not sound "so fringe", try inserting some logic or evidence into your arguments, you'll find you get a lot further.
Anonymous Cowards, posting stupid and racist bullshit shit since 1997. Poor != stupid, and considering the challenges they likely faced in clearing all of the waste from their water, and since Brazil isn't really know for wealth, I'm not surprised they couldn't do it while spending the billions necessary to build up the rest of the facilities that will undoubtedly go to waste after the Olympics are over.
Multiple cable operators are rare since the major cable companies all have agreements with one another diving up territories. My analogy (built off of yours) was meant to point out that telecoms will go out of their way to prevent new competitors from coming into their areas, not to imply that they specifically wiped out other ISPs.
Well just imagine that the doctor you speak of got legislation passed in your area making it damned near impossible for other doctors to come in and set up shop, even going so far as to sign an agreement with your landlord that only that doctor could care for the residents. Now imagine that that doctor has the balls to say that "they're doing it to protect the patients from bad doctors" and act all goodie goodie when a legitimate threat came up and they just happened to be able to stand on the side of right by saying "No, I won't install bio-monitors in all of my patients and help you kill off the fat ones". Would you be so willing then to trumpet that doctor as being a paragon of society?
These are all things Cox has done, in my area specifically. I am a Cox customer, but not by my choice by a long shot. My alternatives (and I live in a larger city, not in the sticks) are a shitty DSL provider that can give me a whopping 1.5mbit connection, satellite (with terribly latency and throughput), and cell service (with horrible costs and terrible service). Just because they happened to be on my side this time doesn't mean that the second the RIAA offers them something better (pay for the upgrades, pay for lost customers) they wont say "fuck it it's too much effort off with their connections".
Wiredhas a much better article about what's going on with this order, they say that 1. the order leaves open the possibility that what the court is asking isn't possible, and 2. that the FBI isn't specifically asking Apple to unlock the phone but wants Apple to disable the feature that wipes the phone after 10 bad password attempts (they want to brute-force it).
Don't mistake their willingness to stand up to the content industry as a sign that they give a shit about their customers. The first argument against this is "it imposes undue hardships on Cox", re: "You want us to spend money implementing deep packet inspection, and lose more money kicking paying customers off of our network, to impose your rules, at zero benefit to us. No Thanks". The privacy arguments just make good PR.
To be fair, they're probably the best telecom out there, but that's still like being the least smelly turd in a porta-potty.
While it may or may not be dense, it's not likely to be conducive towards aircraft design, adding 8mm of material all over an airplane would A) royally fuck the aerodynamics and B) be stupidly hard to maintain. Think covering your plane in Styrofoam, you're going to lose alot of material to air friction every time you move the thing around.
And also I don't see much practical ground application, UHF isn't very useful for ground target detection due to it's inability to penetrate ground clutter. I suppose you could slap this stuff on a naval vessel and effectively "raise the horizon" on your vessel from surface detection but again, limited use.
I suspect the Chinese allowed this article to go to print as there isn't alot of military application here for a material as unwieldy as this, and they likely (and probably correctly) assumed that other governments are already aware of this material and have decided not to use it, for the same reasons.
You'd never find techs willing to subject themselves to the 24x7 aarp crowd, nothing more frustrating than trying to support gomers over the phone, trust me. That said, +1 for anyone that is saying local support, many shops have a yearly support plan, the one I used to run charged $165 per year per pc for anti-virus, yearly tuneu (clean temps, startups, dust the interior, etc), and 10% off any additional services needed throughout the year.
I've ridden public transit to get to work from where I live in the past, first I have to walk about a Mile to get to the nearest bus stop, then it takes about an hour with one transfer to get to work. On a good day, it would probably take me about 1.5 hours to get to work from home using public transport.
Compare that to driving now, I have pretty easy interstate access where I live and my place of work is right off of that interstate. Traffic doesn't get too bad here most days but even when it does, it rarely takes longer than 45 minutes to get to work, and under normal circumstances, it takes me about 20 minutes. So my answer? No fucking way would I willingly take public transit unless I had no other alternative.
Ugh, I forgot how obnoxious the old ThinkPad logo was, PLEASE dont bring that back...
the Java installer has been pushing the ask toolbar for years now, so no.