Do you really want to suffer through ad after ad every time you pass a building? Pass a Wendys and have to listen to an ad about their Frosty and maybe a jingle. Pass a McDonalds and they pipe the smell of french fries into the passenger cabin. Pass a state farm agent and have to suffer the ‘like a good neigbor’ jingle. Only later will you discover they buried a clause allowing them to retain all location information where your car went and can sell it to any law enforcement or anyone else without your consent or even having to inform you they did it. They will completely destroy any right to privacy you have just like Google Home ‘accidentally’ called 911 on a donestic dispute. The curious part is that google home does not interface with the PSTN, it doesnt register a telephone number and address with your PSAP. It is amazing how it managed to deploy an entire SWAT unit to his house.
I take it you arent tracking this new disease the CDC is baffled by. It acts like polio but a polio vaccine does nothing to stop it. It isnt the ones we have vaccines for that worry me. I have more vaccines than most anyone. During the first gulf war I was vaccinated and medicated with shit I still dont know what it is. I do know that we were all instructed to never donate blood. First it was 5years, but then a nee shot was administered in 1993 and that got upgraded to ‘never donate blood as long as you live’. I am faitly certain only a few can lay claim to that level of vaccination.
Ebola actually works too fast for it to go pandemic. Modifying it to have a 3 week incubation period would likely wipe out the planet.
People did not get evicted and they did not ‘lose their job’. Some may have saught emplyment elsewhere but no federal employee was fired because of a government shutdown. No landlord is going to evict because they were 30 days past due. The eviction process takes longer. Its one thing to disagree, it is entirely another to make up a fake crisis while attacking anothers fake crisis. It makes you the same. Guess you and trump have a lot more in common than you realized.
The SCRA, an updated version of the Soldiers and Sailors Act, protects from eviction, reposession, and forclosures. This is in the process of being expanded to include federal employees during government furlough. Any court challenge to an eviction would fair poorly for the landlord trying to evict.
The one difference was that Y2K gave us an army of COBOL programmers with not much other skills, but still fixable in programming. Whereas, in this case, I forsee the manufacturers feigning an inability to patch in order to drive sales. I think my newest Garmin is 10yrs old. I am sure they wished we replaced them as fast as cell phones.
I have thought about getting a new one, I was just waiting to see if some needed features ever got incorporated. I have never liked the touchpad interface on these. I have always wondered why they aren’t Bluetooth so that I can transmit an address from my phone into my Garmin. Not only is data input a little easier on the phone but there are many times where the address I’m putting in was sent to me via email or calendar. I’m not a fan of using my phone itself as GPS mapping because any sort of notification or incoming call always suspends everything else. Mostly my GPS functions as a HUD when its not gving directions.
As dumb as Siri is with dictation, I have no fears of it reporting back my information. Aside from incorrect pronouns (they instead of she, it instead of them,etc), its likely to report me playing squash or flying a box kite. There is some comfort in that;-)
One example was the adoption of gym equipment. When lightening first hit the scene the ability to play or even charge your phone from the equipment, while using the elliptical vanished. There is always something cool about knowing that I was generating my own re-charge power through my work out.
I have a love hate relationship with the lightning connector. I love the fact that it’s reversible. I also love the fact that the connector is smooth and not prone to dents and dings. Micro USB tends to get worn out over time. When I plug in to recharge my son’s Kindle the cable is so loose that it could practically fall back out. It doesn’t matter how new the charging cable is, it is the socket that does not fit snugly. But I definitely hate the fact that the cable seems to die so much quicker. I don’t know if it is the design or what, but with the old connector I still have cables laying around that work to this day. It seems I am having to swap out my lightning cables annually. It is not even just the cheap third-party ones either. I’ve had the ones package with the phone fail as well. I have one that only works in one direction, i.e. it is not reversible; partial failure.
I guess I need to take a closer look at USB-C. I don’t have any equipment that uses this. I wonder if they addressed some of the delicate nature of micro USB. Don’t get me wrong it’s highly functional, but the connector never seems to mesh together effortlessly. I have seen sockets damaged because somebody tried to push it in the wrong way. They probably shouldn’t have pushed as hard but on the flipside it’s just not as resilient.
The city started making them go back and fix it. There was no conduit, no directional boring, and no backfill except for this white foam and/or tar depending on the neighborhood. It was 1 step away from duct tape and bailing wire. The problem is that Spectrum Cable and the LECs (ATT, Windstream) have such a stranglehold on internet services that the city counsel is desperate to bring in new challenging business. Wireless is a real PITA here in Louisville. We do it, but there are many times that even a google earth survey shows you should have line of sight only to find out otherwise on a site survey. It is not a flat landscape. The only upside to all of this is that due to the fear factor of fiber to the curb service, ATT got off their asses and stop making 30Mbps their best service and started working on some facet of 100mbps service, albeit severely distance limiting. Spectrum (formerly TWC) went from 45Mbps residential service to 200Mbps for nearly the same MRC.
This is mostly untrue. Chinese nationals have no trouble getting passports or leaving the country. Of course I'm sure the government targets a few individuals, just like the western ones do, but there is no mass amateur spy programm as some people seem to think.
Every student coming over here has been indoctrinated to put china first. The idea that china is the center of the universe is fully ingrained in the culture. The characters that mean China literally translate to middle kingdom or central kingdom. Its represented as a square with a line going right through the middle of it. If you think America-First is an offensive concept and that the word Nationalism is a dirty word like Fascism, then you should really really really hate China. What they have redefines the term Nationalism to such an extreme that no word really fits. The Chinese that do come here to live permanently do not speak ill of China if there is even a single other Chinese person around them. I once had a Taiji instructor who would never say anything negative about China unless he was certain no other Chinese person could hear and word did not get back. He was allowed to work here as a teacher, but his wife and kids were required to stay in China as 'insurance'. Then suddenly, and unexpectedly he announced he was moving to 'Florida'. We could tell he wasn't really moving to Florida. We suspect possibly Canada or Alaska. We don't know if he managed to somehow secure safety for his family or what. The PRC meddles, all the time. They meddle in shit you would wonder who the fuck would even care.
Unhappy with just 5 recognized major 'styles' of Taiji ( Chen, Yang, Wu, Wu-Hao, and Sun), during the 2014 International Taiji Symposium (held in the USA btw) the PRC pushed and inserted another 'Grand Master' of Her-style onto the community. The other 5 families were fearful of the government 'diplomat' sent to oversee the Symposium and his government shills sent with him. The first 3 days these same people we see and talk to nearly daily were so stiff and tight lipped you could have fed them coal and they'da shit diamonds. This new Her-style?.... looks EXACTLY like Chen, the guy's dad studied Chen. They literally live in Chenjiago (Chen Village). To everyone else in the world who gives 2 shits about Taiji, its Chen-style. There is nothing political to be gained. We're taking about a martial art that, while one of the largest practiced martial arts in the world, so few can actually practice it martially its not relevant. But the PRC dislikes ANYTHING they cannot control. 'Eddie' Wu Kwong Yu was named Grand Master and the lineage holder by his uncle Wu Tai Sin, lived in Canada and not in China, so the PRC 'decided' that Ma Hai-Long was to be the Grand Master of the Wu Style despite the family association's appointment. Ma Hai-Long wasn't a Wu, he was merely married to a Wu (the families have been friends for generations so there is a lot of intermarrying). Don't get me wrong, I like Ma Hai-Long, he is a great guy. He would be the first to tell you (away from chinese ears) that he is not the true lineage holder. Now that Eddie has moved back to China and has somehow made nice with the PRC, he is starting to show up more and be recognized as the lineage holder. Are there any nuclear secrets to be learned from this meddling? No, they are a meddlesome people and simply cannot help themselves.
Hell they fucking decided they were going to pick the next Dalai Lama. Are you a Buddhist? Do you care who the next Dali Lama is? The PRC is decisively atheist, so they really should not give 2 shits about Tibet or its spiritual leader, nor should they even think that by picking someone they can control, the Tibetan Buddhists will recognize their hand-picked shill as the Dali Lama. Its born from pure arrogance and a level of meddling they simply cannot help themselves from doing.
So do I believe ANY Chinese national who is in a position to commit corporate espionage in order for China to maintain or gain superiority in fiel
Most of what you claim is true, for the wrong reasons. Most Chinese nationals aren’t moving back out of choice and are merely looking to cash in with intellectual property. It was a prerequisite to be able to come here in the first place. They still have family under the thumb of the PRC. Make no mistake, they are not free to do what they want over here. They still answer to the PRC.
In my opinion, any corporation that engages in any government contract should be prevented from hiring any foreign national under any circumstance at this restriction should also extend to their subcontractors as well. If your Company has a government contract didn’t even the people washing dishes in the cafeteria need to be a US citizen without exception.
For those without government contracts, I agree that the government should not cherry pick which companies get protected. I have the same complaint about the ads that they show before movie. Why is it that if I film a movie in the theater I face jail time, but if somebody blatantly steals my code and start selling it on eBay their worst penalty is a civil lawsuit? Could it possibly be that Hollywood always hosts very high dollar, per plate, fundraising events for Democrat politicians?
You’re correct on both counts, but per capita is a better means of comparison when total population varies greatly. Total population of Wyoming is vastly lower than California. To compare the two it is essential to use a per capita basis.
But ultimately what you pointed to with financial incentive is a huge problem in law enforcemnt and it has been for a very long time. Asset forfeiture is a stinking pile of corruption. I’ve heard nightmares of vending machine operators being flagged for making small cash deposits, a literal reality of their occupation, and had their entire bank account seized for asset forfeiture. Even when they prove themselves innocent they do not get that money back. One sheriffs office acquired $250,000 for themselves by exploiting asset forfeiture on a vending machine operator.
This practice goes all the way back to around the time of the great depression. It has long been argued that a disproportionate amount of incarceration occurred in order to create the workforce to build roads. At the time prisoners were regularly used as hard labor workers; chain gangs. Therefore there was an incentive to incarcerate the poorest as a means of cheap labor. The result is what has been perceived as racial disparity. I personally believe the economics played just as big of a role and anyone equally as poor would have been subject to the same mistreatment.
The very concept that any portion of a correctional system can be placed in a situation where there are financial incentives for depriving you of your liberties is so profoundly unconstitutional, that it literally violates the pretense of it, starting with the preamble. Without even citing any specific passage of the constitution, and looking at it as a whole, the idea that there is a financial incentive to deprive you of freedom is the antithesis of the Constitution itself
Yea everyone is working on removing that jack and giving out adapters. Just one more thing to get lost or ‘lost’ in the bottom of a bag. I dont believe the bs that they needed that space. The damn phones keep getting bigger. The new xl size looks like someone is holding a small dinner plate to their face. They look like what we joked about with gillette shaving razors; that one day its going to have 15 blades and look like a coffee cup saucer was being drug against your face. Guess phones had to get there first.
I’m fairly certain that you did not have a seven hour talk time Bluetooth headset when the razr was out. For me anything then or than an iPhone is just too thin. I have Bluetooth now but when I answer the phone it’s not like I can let the damn thing ring and ring and ring while I’m trying to finish out a headset. At least the speakerphone doesn’t create echo like they used to. They do however seem to pick up a lot of background noise.
I do tend to go through a lot of headsets. It seems they give an IPX7 rating to just about anything now. Mine start failing around 4 - 6 months because I use them during my workouts and eventually one side will start cutting out and just fail entirely. It doesn’t seem to matter if the name brand is Sony, Pioneer, Jabra, or some unknown brand off Amazon. Heck my current amazon headphones have lasted twice as long as my Pioneer. I have a Jabra single piece that docks and recharges like an air bud. It only has 2.5hr talk time before having to re-dock it. It also seems to drain even when turned off. I could charge the whole thing for 3 hr and not use it over the weekend; come momday its dead. Thats, by far, my least fsvorite one.
Look at the breakup of ATT. Once the experts decide its bad they go back to congress and congres passes the laws and or directs the agency. The FTC did not break up ATT by themselves. You somehow think doctors can’t be bribed by corporations? It’s amazing how many pharmaceuticals get approved that later get taken off the market because they faked the drug trials you somehow think doctors can’t be bribed by corporations? It’s amazing how many pharmaceuticals get approved that later get taken off the market because they faked the drug trials and real people suffered. Death should not be a listed side effect of an approved medication.
You mean something with only an hour of talk time that gets drained out my first two hours of work? Nope. I’ve never had to go out in the field to troubleshoot a network failure at a remote POP and be on the phone for six hours straight trying to diagnose fiber issues. I’ve never needed both hands to do that when my goddamn headset dies. Did I mention that the minute you fold the clamshell up it hangs up on you? You can’t answer a clamshell with it closed, or couldnt back then. Wired? At the time of the razr there were studies that suggested that the wire acted as a conduit thereby giving you even more of the high powered tdma right into your ear canal. Just like BPA, it shifted. BT was still in its intfancy back then. It was a bad fit for anything but short conversations at the time.
It is my understanding that the EPA rules were based on actual environmental disasters not theoretical what if‘s. Each policy that they created was based on the case study of an actual environmental event. The net neutrality rules were based on a fear that stemmed from a patent filing to charge for faster access. Microsoft filed a patent for the Xbox One that would count how many people are in the room watching a pay-per-view. If the number of people exceeded what was deemed the size of a family, it would suspend playback until you called and paid more money. I have yet to see a legislation banning that nor have I seen that actually get implemented. For all we know, as hard as it is to believe, the patent was filed to prevent somebody else from doing that.
To put this in perspective, in the late 70s and early 80s most Americans were getting screwed over by AT&T Bell. The FTC is already charged with antitrust oversight. Yet the FTC did the right thing and kicked it back to Congress requesting legislation to break them up. This is what should be happening.
I could not agree more with your statement about tribalism. Though I try to not use –ism. The other word they used to describe this is whataboutism. That’s just the way of vilifying your opponent when he exposes you for being a fucking hypocrite. Just use the original word for it, hypocrisy. There used to be this proverb about people living in glass houses and throwing stones. All I ever see now is a bunch of shattered ass windows. It’s that tribal mentality that removes accountability from our elected officials. We are so afraid of the other party that we continuously overlook the wretched stench coming off our own candidates. Why is the concept lesser of two evils even acceptable? You’re telling me out of a population of 700 million we can only find two candidates ? Clearly this design was orchestrated and embraced by all sides. Just like they’re punishing people for handing out copies of the constitution at universities, I soon suspect that the book 1984 will find itself on the ban list.
And youre OK with this? They are elected officials. If they go around passing laws to delegate the rights to legislate, which is outside the scope of the constitution, you fucking fire their ass and replace them with somebody who will not do that shit. Why are so many people so eager to piss away their democracy? If your senator or congressman does something unconstitutional you fucking call them on it. If they continue to do that you fucking replace them. Why is this so hard to understand? Because too many sheep let them get away with it.
Making policies based on theoretical possibilities is beyond the scope of their mandate. You would have to prove that the consumer was being harmed. Even these theoretical worst case scenario‘s only serve to harm companies like Facebook and Netflix not the end-user. I’m not saying that rule shouldn’t be made to prevent a problem, but that’s where Congress steps in and not the FCC. In theory someone could violate every FCC rule on issues of language and nudity during a live broadcast. Why doesn’t the FCC flat out just ban live broadcast then? Same reason. You could also theoretically electrocute yourself pissing in a wall outlet. I don’t see any rules requiring us to have those child protection caps on wall outlets to make sure that people don’t fucking piss in them.
These federal agencies are supposed to only step in when there is clear evidence of abuse. Their rules and mandate should be limited to the scope of the abuse. We cannot have an elected bureaucrats creating legislation. You surrender your democracy when you do shit like that. What’s next? Banning all vehicles because car emissions are linked to cancer? Banning smart phones because the EM radiation from the displays cause sleeplessness? You can’t have a panel of six people deciding what’s best for the entire goddamn world without the rest the world having input and an accountability system to fire them if the rest the world disagrees with them.
They should have NEVER existed in the first place. This was another classic example of Obummer thinking he was elected King, going around making new rules and side stepping the legislative branch every chance he got. It has set a precedence that should have never been allowed and now every president thereafter is constantly bypassing congress. Just like the Dreamers act. If you want something to be so, then legislate it. Period. Stop shirking your responsibilities and expecting the executive branch to be the “bad guy“ so you don’t risk losing an election. That’s what cowardly fucks do. All these goddamn states suing the executive branch, when all they have to do is get their goddamn congressman and Senators to pass a fucking law, is ridiculous. If there was a law and the executive branch chose not to enforce it, then you’d have a right to sue the executive branch. You don’t have a right to sue the executive branch for failing to make a law. The case should be dismissed purely on a lack of standing.
I had the razr and didnt like it. Like most clam shell phones, they are too thin, making the art of balancing the earpiece between your shoulder and ear, while trying to use two hands for other tasks, damned near impossible. It was not comfortable. The only plus was butt dialing was almost eliminated.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, supplied by their Marketing Department.
They are not, however, known for the quality of their products.
Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units" -- Everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.
The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesized drinks to the company of a robot, or 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with' as it is described by the aforementioned Marketing Department. It should be noted that many who do not Enjoy, then go on to fail to Share, unless this includes sharing strongly-worded opinions toward their complaints department.
The Hitchhiker's Travel Guide describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Only their complaints department survived the general economic implosion of the company as a whole
I agree, I think the question is can facebook itself do an end-run to get around this. They seem to be some pretty big speech fascists lately. Lets use your example of the public meeting. The politician cannot remove someone, but can the building owner who happens to side with the politician?
one can certainly cite this precedent when challenging facebook. If a politician has a facebook page for public forum and facebook bans someone, then by proxy facebook is violating their 1st amendment right. I would run this up the flagpole with the ACLU
I wonder how far this ruling can be interpreted. Obama was the first, but far from the last, to use a metric fuckton of fake followers in order to brainwash the masses that more people agreed with him than really did. It is basically exploiting human nature to side with what appears to be the winning side of an argument.
>saying the "interactive component" was a public forum and that she engaged in illegal viewpoint discrimination.
by using fake followers can one not also argue that too is 'illegal viewpoint discrimination' by turning a 60/40 opinion into a 99/1 to drown out their voice?
Catch up. CallerID spoofing is ALREADY outlawed. This is why crazy ass people that think we need more gun laws are stupid. There are already laws in place that outlaw any other illegal act that thay committed with their gun. Making the law doesn’t change fucking anything. How long has pot been federally illegal? I bet there’s nowhere in the United States you could buy that shit, huh? There is very little you can do technologically because there are a few valid reasons for it. One reason is call forwarding. If you allow a carrier to present a number that they do not own, such as preserving the original calling information when you forward the call, you leave yourself open for somebody to drop a call on the network with calling information that is bogus. One other very prominent place that uses this technique is crisis centers and shelters. When they return calls to potential victims, and often battered women, they disguise the calling information so as not to alert the potential abuser.
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Do you really want to suffer through ad after ad every time you pass a building? Pass a Wendys and have to listen to an ad about their Frosty and maybe a jingle. Pass a McDonalds and they pipe the smell of french fries into the passenger cabin. Pass a state farm agent and have to suffer the ‘like a good neigbor’ jingle. Only later will you discover they buried a clause allowing them to retain all location information where your car went and can sell it to any law enforcement or anyone else without your consent or even having to inform you they did it. They will completely destroy any right to privacy you have just like Google Home ‘accidentally’ called 911 on a donestic dispute. The curious part is that google home does not interface with the PSTN, it doesnt register a telephone number and address with your PSAP. It is amazing how it managed to deploy an entire SWAT unit to his house.
I take it you arent tracking this new disease the CDC is baffled by. It acts like polio but a polio vaccine does nothing to stop it. It isnt the ones we have vaccines for that worry me. I have more vaccines than most anyone. During the first gulf war I was vaccinated and medicated with shit I still dont know what it is. I do know that we were all instructed to never donate blood. First it was 5years, but then a nee shot was administered in 1993 and that got upgraded to ‘never donate blood as long as you live’. I am faitly certain only a few can lay claim to that level of vaccination.
Ebola actually works too fast for it to go pandemic. Modifying it to have a 3 week incubation period would likely wipe out the planet.
People did not get evicted and they did not ‘lose their job’. Some may have saught emplyment elsewhere but no federal employee was fired because of a government shutdown. No landlord is going to evict because they were 30 days past due. The eviction process takes longer. Its one thing to disagree, it is entirely another to make up a fake crisis while attacking anothers fake crisis. It makes you the same. Guess you and trump have a lot more in common than you realized.
The SCRA, an updated version of the Soldiers and Sailors Act, protects from eviction, reposession, and forclosures. This is in the process of being expanded to include federal employees during government furlough. Any court challenge to an eviction would fair poorly for the landlord trying to evict.
The one difference was that Y2K gave us an army of COBOL programmers with not much other skills, but still fixable in programming. Whereas, in this case, I forsee the manufacturers feigning an inability to patch in order to drive sales. I think my newest Garmin is 10yrs old. I am sure they wished we replaced them as fast as cell phones.
I have thought about getting a new one, I was just waiting to see if some needed features ever got incorporated. I have never liked the touchpad interface on these. I have always wondered why they aren’t Bluetooth so that I can transmit an address from my phone into my Garmin. Not only is data input a little easier on the phone but there are many times where the address I’m putting in was sent to me via email or calendar. I’m not a fan of using my phone itself as GPS mapping because any sort of notification or incoming call always suspends everything else. Mostly my GPS functions as a HUD when its not gving directions.
As dumb as Siri is with dictation, I have no fears of it reporting back my information. Aside from incorrect pronouns (they instead of she, it instead of them,etc), its likely to report me playing squash or flying a box kite. There is some comfort in that ;-)
One example was the adoption of gym equipment. When lightening first hit the scene the ability to play or even charge your phone from the equipment, while using the elliptical vanished. There is always something cool about knowing that I was generating my own re-charge power through my work out.
I have a love hate relationship with the lightning connector. I love the fact that it’s reversible. I also love the fact that the connector is smooth and not prone to dents and dings. Micro USB tends to get worn out over time. When I plug in to recharge my son’s Kindle the cable is so loose that it could practically fall back out. It doesn’t matter how new the charging cable is, it is the socket that does not fit snugly. But I definitely hate the fact that the cable seems to die so much quicker. I don’t know if it is the design or what, but with the old connector I still have cables laying around that work to this day. It seems I am having to swap out my lightning cables annually. It is not even just the cheap third-party ones either. I’ve had the ones package with the phone fail as well. I have one that only works in one direction, i.e. it is not reversible; partial failure.
I guess I need to take a closer look at USB-C. I don’t have any equipment that uses this. I wonder if they addressed some of the delicate nature of micro USB. Don’t get me wrong it’s highly functional, but the connector never seems to mesh together effortlessly. I have seen sockets damaged because somebody tried to push it in the wrong way. They probably shouldn’t have pushed as hard but on the flipside it’s just not as resilient.
The city started making them go back and fix it. There was no conduit, no directional boring, and no backfill except for this white foam and/or tar depending on the neighborhood. It was 1 step away from duct tape and bailing wire. The problem is that Spectrum Cable and the LECs (ATT, Windstream) have such a stranglehold on internet services that the city counsel is desperate to bring in new challenging business. Wireless is a real PITA here in Louisville. We do it, but there are many times that even a google earth survey shows you should have line of sight only to find out otherwise on a site survey. It is not a flat landscape. The only upside to all of this is that due to the fear factor of fiber to the curb service, ATT got off their asses and stop making 30Mbps their best service and started working on some facet of 100mbps service, albeit severely distance limiting. Spectrum (formerly TWC) went from 45Mbps residential service to 200Mbps for nearly the same MRC.
This is mostly untrue. Chinese nationals have no trouble getting passports or leaving the country. Of course I'm sure the government targets a few individuals, just like the western ones do, but there is no mass amateur spy programm as some people seem to think.
Every student coming over here has been indoctrinated to put china first. The idea that china is the center of the universe is fully ingrained in the culture. The characters that mean China literally translate to middle kingdom or central kingdom. Its represented as a square with a line going right through the middle of it. If you think America-First is an offensive concept and that the word Nationalism is a dirty word like Fascism, then you should really really really hate China. What they have redefines the term Nationalism to such an extreme that no word really fits. The Chinese that do come here to live permanently do not speak ill of China if there is even a single other Chinese person around them. I once had a Taiji instructor who would never say anything negative about China unless he was certain no other Chinese person could hear and word did not get back. He was allowed to work here as a teacher, but his wife and kids were required to stay in China as 'insurance'. Then suddenly, and unexpectedly he announced he was moving to 'Florida'. We could tell he wasn't really moving to Florida. We suspect possibly Canada or Alaska. We don't know if he managed to somehow secure safety for his family or what. The PRC meddles, all the time. They meddle in shit you would wonder who the fuck would even care.
Unhappy with just 5 recognized major 'styles' of Taiji ( Chen, Yang, Wu, Wu-Hao, and Sun), during the 2014 International Taiji Symposium (held in the USA btw) the PRC pushed and inserted another 'Grand Master' of Her-style onto the community. The other 5 families were fearful of the government 'diplomat' sent to oversee the Symposium and his government shills sent with him. The first 3 days these same people we see and talk to nearly daily were so stiff and tight lipped you could have fed them coal and they'da shit diamonds. This new Her-style?.... looks EXACTLY like Chen, the guy's dad studied Chen. They literally live in Chenjiago (Chen Village). To everyone else in the world who gives 2 shits about Taiji, its Chen-style. There is nothing political to be gained. We're taking about a martial art that, while one of the largest practiced martial arts in the world, so few can actually practice it martially its not relevant. But the PRC dislikes ANYTHING they cannot control. 'Eddie' Wu Kwong Yu was named Grand Master and the lineage holder by his uncle Wu Tai Sin, lived in Canada and not in China, so the PRC 'decided' that Ma Hai-Long was to be the Grand Master of the Wu Style despite the family association's appointment. Ma Hai-Long wasn't a Wu, he was merely married to a Wu (the families have been friends for generations so there is a lot of intermarrying). Don't get me wrong, I like Ma Hai-Long, he is a great guy. He would be the first to tell you (away from chinese ears) that he is not the true lineage holder. Now that Eddie has moved back to China and has somehow made nice with the PRC, he is starting to show up more and be recognized as the lineage holder. Are there any nuclear secrets to be learned from this meddling? No, they are a meddlesome people and simply cannot help themselves.
Hell they fucking decided they were going to pick the next Dalai Lama. Are you a Buddhist? Do you care who the next Dali Lama is? The PRC is decisively atheist, so they really should not give 2 shits about Tibet or its spiritual leader, nor should they even think that by picking someone they can control, the Tibetan Buddhists will recognize their hand-picked shill as the Dali Lama. Its born from pure arrogance and a level of meddling they simply cannot help themselves from doing.
So do I believe ANY Chinese national who is in a position to commit corporate espionage in order for China to maintain or gain superiority in fiel
Most of what you claim is true, for the wrong reasons. Most Chinese nationals aren’t moving back out of choice and are merely looking to cash in with intellectual property. It was a prerequisite to be able to come here in the first place. They still have family under the thumb of the PRC. Make no mistake, they are not free to do what they want over here. They still answer to the PRC.
In my opinion, any corporation that engages in any government contract should be prevented from hiring any foreign national under any circumstance at this restriction should also extend to their subcontractors as well. If your Company has a government contract didn’t even the people washing dishes in the cafeteria need to be a US citizen without exception.
For those without government contracts, I agree that the government should not cherry pick which companies get protected. I have the same complaint about the ads that they show before movie. Why is it that if I film a movie in the theater I face jail time, but if somebody blatantly steals my code and start selling it on eBay their worst penalty is a civil lawsuit? Could it possibly be that Hollywood always hosts very high dollar, per plate, fundraising events for Democrat politicians?
You’re correct on both counts, but per capita is a better means of comparison when total population varies greatly. Total population of Wyoming is vastly lower than California. To compare the two it is essential to use a per capita basis.
But ultimately what you pointed to with financial incentive is a huge problem in law enforcemnt and it has been for a very long time. Asset forfeiture is a stinking pile of corruption. I’ve heard nightmares of vending machine operators being flagged for making small cash deposits, a literal reality of their occupation, and had their entire bank account seized for asset forfeiture. Even when they prove themselves innocent they do not get that money back. One sheriffs office acquired $250,000 for themselves by exploiting asset forfeiture on a vending machine operator.
This practice goes all the way back to around the time of the great depression. It has long been argued that a disproportionate amount of incarceration occurred in order to create the workforce to build roads. At the time prisoners were regularly used as hard labor workers; chain gangs. Therefore there was an incentive to incarcerate the poorest as a means of cheap labor. The result is what has been perceived as racial disparity. I personally believe the economics played just as big of a role and anyone equally as poor would have been subject to the same mistreatment.
The very concept that any portion of a correctional system can be placed in a situation where there are financial incentives for depriving you of your liberties is so profoundly unconstitutional, that it literally violates the pretense of it, starting with the preamble. Without even citing any specific passage of the constitution, and looking at it as a whole, the idea that there is a financial incentive to deprive you of freedom is the antithesis of the Constitution itself
Yea everyone is working on removing that jack and giving out adapters. Just one more thing to get lost or ‘lost’ in the bottom of a bag. I dont believe the bs that they needed that space. The damn phones keep getting bigger. The new xl size looks like someone is holding a small dinner plate to their face. They look like what we joked about with gillette shaving razors; that one day its going to have 15 blades and look like a coffee cup saucer was being drug against your face. Guess phones had to get there first.
I’m fairly certain that you did not have a seven hour talk time Bluetooth headset when the razr was out. For me anything then or than an iPhone is just too thin. I have Bluetooth now but when I answer the phone it’s not like I can let the damn thing ring and ring and ring while I’m trying to finish out a headset. At least the speakerphone doesn’t create echo like they used to. They do however seem to pick up a lot of background noise.
I do tend to go through a lot of headsets. It seems they give an IPX7 rating to just about anything now. Mine start failing around 4 - 6 months because I use them during my workouts and eventually one side will start cutting out and just fail entirely. It doesn’t seem to matter if the name brand is Sony, Pioneer, Jabra, or some unknown brand off Amazon. Heck my current amazon headphones have lasted twice as long as my Pioneer. I have a Jabra single piece that docks and recharges like an air bud. It only has 2.5hr talk time before having to re-dock it. It also seems to drain even when turned off. I could charge the whole thing for 3 hr and not use it over the weekend; come momday its dead. Thats, by far, my least fsvorite one.
Look at the breakup of ATT. Once the experts decide its bad they go back to congress and congres passes the laws and or directs the agency. The FTC did not break up ATT by themselves. You somehow think doctors can’t be bribed by corporations? It’s amazing how many pharmaceuticals get approved that later get taken off the market because they faked the drug trials you somehow think doctors can’t be bribed by corporations? It’s amazing how many pharmaceuticals get approved that later get taken off the market because they faked the drug trials and real people suffered. Death should not be a listed side effect of an approved medication.
You mean something with only an hour of talk time that gets drained out my first two hours of work? Nope. I’ve never had to go out in the field to troubleshoot a network failure at a remote POP and be on the phone for six hours straight trying to diagnose fiber issues. I’ve never needed both hands to do that when my goddamn headset dies. Did I mention that the minute you fold the clamshell up it hangs up on you? You can’t answer a clamshell with it closed, or couldnt back then. Wired? At the time of the razr there were studies that suggested that the wire acted as a conduit thereby giving you even more of the high powered tdma right into your ear canal. Just like BPA, it shifted. BT was still in its intfancy back then. It was a bad fit for anything but short conversations at the time.
It is my understanding that the EPA rules were based on actual environmental disasters not theoretical what if‘s. Each policy that they created was based on the case study of an actual environmental event. The net neutrality rules were based on a fear that stemmed from a patent filing to charge for faster access. Microsoft filed a patent for the Xbox One that would count how many people are in the room watching a pay-per-view. If the number of people exceeded what was deemed the size of a family, it would suspend playback until you called and paid more money. I have yet to see a legislation banning that nor have I seen that actually get implemented. For all we know, as hard as it is to believe, the patent was filed to prevent somebody else from doing that.
To put this in perspective, in the late 70s and early 80s most Americans were getting screwed over by AT&T Bell. The FTC is already charged with antitrust oversight. Yet the FTC did the right thing and kicked it back to Congress requesting legislation to break them up. This is what should be happening.
I could not agree more with your statement about tribalism. Though I try to not use –ism. The other word they used to describe this is whataboutism. That’s just the way of vilifying your opponent when he exposes you for being a fucking hypocrite. Just use the original word for it, hypocrisy. There used to be this proverb about people living in glass houses and throwing stones. All I ever see now is a bunch of shattered ass windows. It’s that tribal mentality that removes accountability from our elected officials. We are so afraid of the other party that we continuously overlook the wretched stench coming off our own candidates. Why is the concept lesser of two evils even acceptable? You’re telling me out of a population of 700 million we can only find two candidates ? Clearly this design was orchestrated and embraced by all sides. Just like they’re punishing people for handing out copies of the constitution at universities, I soon suspect that the book 1984 will find itself on the ban list.
And youre OK with this? They are elected officials. If they go around passing laws to delegate the rights to legislate, which is outside the scope of the constitution, you fucking fire their ass and replace them with somebody who will not do that shit. Why are so many people so eager to piss away their democracy? If your senator or congressman does something unconstitutional you fucking call them on it. If they continue to do that you fucking replace them. Why is this so hard to understand? Because too many sheep let them get away with it.
Making policies based on theoretical possibilities is beyond the scope of their mandate. You would have to prove that the consumer was being harmed. Even these theoretical worst case scenario‘s only serve to harm companies like Facebook and Netflix not the end-user. I’m not saying that rule shouldn’t be made to prevent a problem, but that’s where Congress steps in and not the FCC. In theory someone could violate every FCC rule on issues of language and nudity during a live broadcast. Why doesn’t the FCC flat out just ban live broadcast then? Same reason. You could also theoretically electrocute yourself pissing in a wall outlet. I don’t see any rules requiring us to have those child protection caps on wall outlets to make sure that people don’t fucking piss in them.
These federal agencies are supposed to only step in when there is clear evidence of abuse. Their rules and mandate should be limited to the scope of the abuse. We cannot have an elected bureaucrats creating legislation. You surrender your democracy when you do shit like that. What’s next? Banning all vehicles because car emissions are linked to cancer? Banning smart phones because the EM radiation from the displays cause sleeplessness? You can’t have a panel of six people deciding what’s best for the entire goddamn world without the rest the world having input and an accountability system to fire them if the rest the world disagrees with them.
They should have NEVER existed in the first place. This was another classic example of Obummer thinking he was elected King, going around making new rules and side stepping the legislative branch every chance he got. It has set a precedence that should have never been allowed and now every president thereafter is constantly bypassing congress. Just like the Dreamers act. If you want something to be so, then legislate it. Period. Stop shirking your responsibilities and expecting the executive branch to be the “bad guy“ so you don’t risk losing an election. That’s what cowardly fucks do. All these goddamn states suing the executive branch, when all they have to do is get their goddamn congressman and Senators to pass a fucking law, is ridiculous. If there was a law and the executive branch chose not to enforce it, then you’d have a right to sue the executive branch. You don’t have a right to sue the executive branch for failing to make a law. The case should be dismissed purely on a lack of standing.
I had the razr and didnt like it. Like most clam shell phones, they are too thin, making the art of balancing the earpiece between your shoulder and ear, while trying to use two hands for other tasks, damned near impossible. It was not comfortable. The only plus was butt dialing was almost eliminated.
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, supplied by their Marketing Department.
They are not, however, known for the quality of their products.
Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units" -- Everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.
The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesized drinks to the company of a robot, or 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with' as it is described by the aforementioned Marketing Department. It should be noted that many who do not Enjoy, then go on to fail to Share, unless this includes sharing strongly-worded opinions toward their complaints department.
The Hitchhiker's Travel Guide describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Only their complaints department survived the general economic implosion of the company as a whole
I agree, I think the question is can facebook itself do an end-run to get around this. They seem to be some pretty big speech fascists lately. Lets use your example of the public meeting. The politician cannot remove someone, but can the building owner who happens to side with the politician?
one can certainly cite this precedent when challenging facebook. If a politician has a facebook page for public forum and facebook bans someone, then by proxy facebook is violating their 1st amendment right. I would run this up the flagpole with the ACLU
I wonder how far this ruling can be interpreted. Obama was the first, but far from the last, to use a metric fuckton of fake followers in order to brainwash the masses that more people agreed with him than really did. It is basically exploiting human nature to side with what appears to be the winning side of an argument.
>saying the "interactive component" was a public forum and that she engaged in illegal viewpoint discrimination.
by using fake followers can one not also argue that too is 'illegal viewpoint discrimination' by turning a 60/40 opinion into a 99/1 to drown out their voice?
Catch up. CallerID spoofing is ALREADY outlawed. This is why crazy ass people that think we need more gun laws are stupid. There are already laws in place that outlaw any other illegal act that thay committed with their gun. Making the law doesn’t change fucking anything. How long has pot been federally illegal? I bet there’s nowhere in the United States you could buy that shit, huh? There is very little you can do technologically because there are a few valid reasons for it. One reason is call forwarding. If you allow a carrier to present a number that they do not own, such as preserving the original calling information when you forward the call, you leave yourself open for somebody to drop a call on the network with calling information that is bogus. One other very prominent place that uses this technique is crisis centers and shelters. When they return calls to potential victims, and often battered women, they disguise the calling information so as not to alert the potential abuser.