You can't treat such "hardware" as hardware anymore: it's a computer, which needs security updates like any other computer that's connected to a network.
If there is not a realistic way to know about, get, and add security patches to ANY computer that connects to a network, don't buy it.
If T wanted to reduce crime in general, which should be the logical goal, he should ask, what's the best way to reduce crime per federal dollars spent? I've seen no evidence that spending more fed dollars on JUST illegal immigrants is more effective than spending on it on general law enforcement, such as more FBI staff, systems, and/or more cops.
He's just obsessed with "outsiders" as a personality quirk. It's not based on any sound crime-solving monetary/resource allocation logic or model. I don't think he'd have the patience to review any such study or model with a critical eye. By all appearances, it's his gut tribalism instinct driving his decision process, not math, models, and logic. You are welcome to demonstrate he has given crime-fighting resource allocation some real thought...
Improvements...Windows 10 is now supported (there should be no "Internal PortAudio Error" or failure to find any devices as long as the built-in audio devices are enabled).
That's not "improvements", that's a bug fix in my book.
It has very little effect on intelligence, which is primarily genetic.
It's a combination of genetics, environment, and education.
We need simple jobs for simple people
True, but tariffing China up the wazoo isn't going to significantly improve things for them. It may increase manufacturing here some, but it would also make goods more expensive for everybody else. They won't like that. Plus, the relatively high cost of labor here will just spur factory automation research.
In the end, we'll probably need some amount of make-work programs, being it babysitting, non-medical elder-care (like taking them for a walk), landscaping/grounds-keeper of public buildings, tutoring young kids, and neighborhood watch (basic security).
Canada has French and English speaking groups, and they get along fairly well. I'm not sure if that's a diverse enough "test", however. What are some mixed-ethnic countries that seem to be getting along fairly well?
There's NO evidence they commit more crimes than the average population, and even less by some estimates. Most come here to work; they can commit crimes in their home country better because they know the language, if crime were their goal.
The crime angle on that is a Fake Problem. Bad Trump.
But, we chose the entertaining choice! How could we not be entertained? Trump is the only person I can think of that would be more absurd as a president than William Shatner when in-character.
Kirk had some real leadership skills in that he'd assemble staff and experts together to discuss, and look for a consensus. T doesn't have the attention span for that, often interrupting to change the subject, usually about himself.
T is more like an amalgamation of Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, Bozo, and Barney Fife (ego-wise).
Your candidate didn't win and it's upsetting to you...the behavior of Hillary supporters ( and, let's face it, Hillary herself ) soured her support outside of her base.
Rather than argue about which side is the most evil/bad/mean/incompetent, let's agree the culture war in the USA is intensifying, which is a big source of tension in the USA for both sides. Remember, Texas talked of secession after Obama's election win.
Progressives want bigger gov't-backed safety nets and education opportunities, and conservatives believe that the private sector will make everyone's boat float higher if the gov't gets out of the way such that they don't need a safety net. (And there's also climate change, abortion, pollution, etc. etc.)
I believe heavy-trickle-down is kaflooey* in modern times, but realize I'm not going to change conservative minds on that such that both sides are stuck at an impasse, thinking the other side is getting in the way.
Perhaps it's time to split the USA rather than waste resources and anger on gridlock and seesaw politics.
* The benefits of increased economic activity from lower taxes and deregulation almost always have flowed UPward since about 1980, not outward. Automation, offshoring, and the death of unions changed things toward the 1% compared to pre-1980. Trickle down ain't work anymore; the TD model is broken and leaking oil.
way to increase happiness in your country is to make it whiter and less diverse, then?
Or, maybe they just found a nice balance between capitalism and socialism, unlike the rest of the world.
Here in the USA, we are taught to "work hard and play hard", which is a recipe for getting worn out both physically and mentally. We have to keep up with the Jones' both at work and at home.
The "work hard and play hard" mantra could be said to be from the "protestant work ethic", or could be from plutocrat propaganda, being that working hard and playing hard gets the plutocrats the most profits: employees that work their asses off, then get home and spend their asses off on the plutocrats' hyped products and fashions.
Many educational loans are private loans. And guess what - you can't discharge them in bankruptcy, so the lenders have very little incentive to not throw money at you.
They do a sales-job on the poorly informed. It's hard to get accurate info on how graduates of a given school actually do because the school spends a lot to taint that. Whenever the consumer can't get good information about the product, scams and snow-jobs take over. The Federal Gov't has been trying to clean that up by enforcing accurate placement info in ads, but it hasn't been easy.
One way to manipulate customers is to start out with a quality school, build up a good reputation, and then slack off to improve profits but screw the new-coming students. They milk their prior reputation. Eventually their reputation sinks, they file bankruptcy, and the same investors reshuffle themselves into a different company and start again somewhere else using their experience in education slimebaggery. (The original investors sell off most the ownership later in the cycle so that the bankruptcy doesn't hit them hard.)
Further, because of the scams and slime, many instead opt for established "big name" universities knowing that at least they have a degree with a big name on it. But this drives up the prices on the big-names. You can't manufacture history.
If we "just let the market correct itself", many millions could be screwed out of many trillions, perhaps even creating a nasty bubble. Capitalism does poorly when consumers can't or don't get good and timely info about the product. Thus, I don't trust a pure-market solution. The solution is probably a combination of market forces and oversight to ensure schools are building better mouse-traps instead of building better customer-traps.
The hearing, on the other hand, HAS spent a lot more time examining the circumstances under which someone working on the Obama administration's watch committed the serious federal felony of publicly disclosing the details of surveillance
You mean the GOP-stuffed hearing? NOBODY other than T himself has offered any public evidence of the O wiretap claim, nor has any agency said they have private evidence beyond the tweet itself.
It appears to be a lone tweet so far.
The FBI says they are vigorously pursuing who committed that felony.
False. Comey said they have no info confirming T's tap-claim tweet.
In my opinion, T should be forced to disclose where he got the alleged info, either in public testimony or on a signed document. It's too big of a claim to just let fly without accountability.
We should still try to know if Russia attempted to interfere regardless of whether they were successful or not in changing the outcome. Focusing on the outcome itself just turns into a political scuffle (which I'll join anyhow).
and on issues the average person could more easily relate to.
Using the snake oil argument that he will SOMEHOW magically turn the clock back to the 70's and all the Chinese factories will flow back to the rust-belt and there will be no robots taking the jobs instead. I don't like lopsided trade either, but even no-ed Chinese factory jobs are doomed as robots grow incrementally better every year. He offered an over-simplistic "solution" to complex problems: "Everything is outsiders' fault". Clever marketing, but 90% false.
Education is our only realistic solution to stay ahead of robots and cheap labor, because they are not going away. China is not the only cheap-labor nation by far. H may have had a jerky personality, but her education and retraining solutions were far more grounded in reality and specifics than the vague orange used-casino salesman with A.D.D.
poor scientist who blames the universe for their shortcomings.
This fake universe won't run my fantastic experiments right. It's a low energy universe and has the worse ratings of all. I will defund it, build a sphere around it, that's a roundish wall by the way, and make God pay for it!
I can see the ad now: "$70 billion dollars has been spent by world governments so YOU can have the very best fluffy bar from Boondoggle Chocolate Company!"
I get different info on that in that both OS's are based their smart-phone counterparts to a large extent. They may have made several watch-related adjustments, but they are not from-scratch. Anyhow, hopefully we'll see if Swatch can pull it off from a battery/power standpoint.
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You can't treat such "hardware" as hardware anymore: it's a computer, which needs security updates like any other computer that's connected to a network.
If there is not a realistic way to know about, get, and add security patches to ANY computer that connects to a network, don't buy it.
No-bezel Envy. Pffft, humans. Don't complain when it explodes in your pocket or something. Just don't bring your flaming tush near my lawn.
No, average population, period.
If T wanted to reduce crime in general, which should be the logical goal, he should ask, what's the best way to reduce crime per federal dollars spent? I've seen no evidence that spending more fed dollars on JUST illegal immigrants is more effective than spending on it on general law enforcement, such as more FBI staff, systems, and/or more cops.
He's just obsessed with "outsiders" as a personality quirk. It's not based on any sound crime-solving monetary/resource allocation logic or model. I don't think he'd have the patience to review any such study or model with a critical eye. By all appearances, it's his gut tribalism instinct driving his decision process, not math, models, and logic. You are welcome to demonstrate he has given crime-fighting resource allocation some real thought...
That's not "improvements", that's a bug fix in my book.
It's a combination of genetics, environment, and education.
True, but tariffing China up the wazoo isn't going to significantly improve things for them. It may increase manufacturing here some, but it would also make goods more expensive for everybody else. They won't like that. Plus, the relatively high cost of labor here will just spur factory automation research.
In the end, we'll probably need some amount of make-work programs, being it babysitting, non-medical elder-care (like taking them for a walk), landscaping/grounds-keeper of public buildings, tutoring young kids, and neighborhood watch (basic security).
But isn't it more like finding out your neighbor is arsonist?
The Titanic sinking can be quite entertaining, UNLESS you happen to be on it.
Canada has French and English speaking groups, and they get along fairly well. I'm not sure if that's a diverse enough "test", however. What are some mixed-ethnic countries that seem to be getting along fairly well?
There's NO evidence they commit more crimes than the average population, and even less by some estimates. Most come here to work; they can commit crimes in their home country better because they know the language, if crime were their goal.
The crime angle on that is a Fake Problem. Bad Trump.
Kirk had some real leadership skills in that he'd assemble staff and experts together to discuss, and look for a consensus. T doesn't have the attention span for that, often interrupting to change the subject, usually about himself.
T is more like an amalgamation of Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, Bozo, and Barney Fife (ego-wise).
Rather than argue about which side is the most evil/bad/mean/incompetent, let's agree the culture war in the USA is intensifying, which is a big source of tension in the USA for both sides. Remember, Texas talked of secession after Obama's election win.
Progressives want bigger gov't-backed safety nets and education opportunities, and conservatives believe that the private sector will make everyone's boat float higher if the gov't gets out of the way such that they don't need a safety net. (And there's also climate change, abortion, pollution, etc. etc.)
I believe heavy-trickle-down is kaflooey* in modern times, but realize I'm not going to change conservative minds on that such that both sides are stuck at an impasse, thinking the other side is getting in the way.
Perhaps it's time to split the USA rather than waste resources and anger on gridlock and seesaw politics.
* The benefits of increased economic activity from lower taxes and deregulation almost always have flowed UPward since about 1980, not outward. Automation, offshoring, and the death of unions changed things toward the 1% compared to pre-1980. Trickle down ain't work anymore; the TD model is broken and leaking oil.
Ironically if T doesn't grow some maturity soon, he may end up damaging the GOP more than the Dems in the end.
Or, maybe they just found a nice balance between capitalism and socialism, unlike the rest of the world.
Here in the USA, we are taught to "work hard and play hard", which is a recipe for getting worn out both physically and mentally. We have to keep up with the Jones' both at work and at home.
The "work hard and play hard" mantra could be said to be from the "protestant work ethic", or could be from plutocrat propaganda, being that working hard and playing hard gets the plutocrats the most profits: employees that work their asses off, then get home and spend their asses off on the plutocrats' hyped products and fashions.
You tell me, Scooby.
They do a sales-job on the poorly informed. It's hard to get accurate info on how graduates of a given school actually do because the school spends a lot to taint that. Whenever the consumer can't get good information about the product, scams and snow-jobs take over. The Federal Gov't has been trying to clean that up by enforcing accurate placement info in ads, but it hasn't been easy.
One way to manipulate customers is to start out with a quality school, build up a good reputation, and then slack off to improve profits but screw the new-coming students. They milk their prior reputation. Eventually their reputation sinks, they file bankruptcy, and the same investors reshuffle themselves into a different company and start again somewhere else using their experience in education slimebaggery. (The original investors sell off most the ownership later in the cycle so that the bankruptcy doesn't hit them hard.)
Further, because of the scams and slime, many instead opt for established "big name" universities knowing that at least they have a degree with a big name on it. But this drives up the prices on the big-names. You can't manufacture history.
If we "just let the market correct itself", many millions could be screwed out of many trillions, perhaps even creating a nasty bubble. Capitalism does poorly when consumers can't or don't get good and timely info about the product. Thus, I don't trust a pure-market solution. The solution is probably a combination of market forces and oversight to ensure schools are building better mouse-traps instead of building better customer-traps.
You mean the GOP-stuffed hearing? NOBODY other than T himself has offered any public evidence of the O wiretap claim, nor has any agency said they have private evidence beyond the tweet itself.
It appears to be a lone tweet so far.
False. Comey said they have no info confirming T's tap-claim tweet.
In my opinion, T should be forced to disclose where he got the alleged info, either in public testimony or on a signed document. It's too big of a claim to just let fly without accountability.
We should still try to know if Russia attempted to interfere regardless of whether they were successful or not in changing the outcome. Focusing on the outcome itself just turns into a political scuffle (which I'll join anyhow).
Using the snake oil argument that he will SOMEHOW magically turn the clock back to the 70's and all the Chinese factories will flow back to the rust-belt and there will be no robots taking the jobs instead. I don't like lopsided trade either, but even no-ed Chinese factory jobs are doomed as robots grow incrementally better every year. He offered an over-simplistic "solution" to complex problems: "Everything is outsiders' fault". Clever marketing, but 90% false.
Education is our only realistic solution to stay ahead of robots and cheap labor, because they are not going away. China is not the only cheap-labor nation by far. H may have had a jerky personality, but her education and retraining solutions were far more grounded in reality and specifics than the vague orange used-casino salesman with A.D.D.
This fake universe won't run my fantastic experiments right. It's a low energy universe and has the worse ratings of all. I will defund it, build a sphere around it, that's a roundish wall by the way, and make God pay for it!
Have them make 'The Martian' then also, to save money. Not sure about Bollywood theme music, though.
...can they cross the road?
The dinosaurs even got wiped out by an asterisk.
But if it dumps orange/red paint on an orange/red guy, nobody will know or care.
But she charges $4 million.
I can see the ad now: "$70 billion dollars has been spent by world governments so YOU can have the very best fluffy bar from Boondoggle Chocolate Company!"
I get different info on that in that both OS's are based their smart-phone counterparts to a large extent. They may have made several watch-related adjustments, but they are not from-scratch. Anyhow, hopefully we'll see if Swatch can pull it off from a battery/power standpoint.