My youngest son is on the autism scale. One trait of some people with autism is that for them there is no such thing as a general case. A room with furniture does not have a "delta" wherein a moved chair is "previous room with a chair in a different place"; instead, every arrangement of the room is a different room. No number of different arrangements will ever coalesce into them being understood as variations on the same base room.
What I really like about this model is that eating good food becomes reasonable. While I am a decent cook, I don't have the ingredients on hand to make whatever I want any time. If I order food my money goes into food and I can drink iced tea for pennies instead of $1.89 + tax & tip or even better, all the alcohol I want without paying $10 a drink.
Eating the entire meal out was reasonable when my wife and I first got married. Now with three kids, two who eat like adults, going out for a simple quick casual sit down meal costs $60-70 and $120 or more for a "nice" meal and that is before alcohol is considered.
isn't there a good chance you'll be illegally using somebody's patent somewhere (especially if you are a third party, ie repair company)
IANAL but it seems that if a person originally had a right to use a copy of the original software/firmware then even if modified the remaining original software still carries that license. A person could not then transfer it elsewhere but if Device A could use software modules B, C & D then device A could still continue using modules B & D even if C was modified or replaced.
Not really. There are plenty of people who when seeing what they did wrong in the past do it again. Any time somebody tells you "But this time it is different..." they probably need to get their hindsight vision checked.
Your post cannot be allowed and must be banned. How dare you bring up facts that do not mesh with the narrative that evil men are at war with women? You can now expect the SJW army to descend upon you for your transgressions. Haven't you learned yet that only non-triggering words that support the narrative of a heartless, selfish white male patriarchy are permitted?
In general, a person who has completed a degree is going to have a leg up on the person who doesn't. This is the reason that a 22 year old ROTC college graduate second lieutenant gets the same pay and more responsibility than an E-5 with 8 years of service. While not universally true, it takes a certain minimum level of mental aptitude to complete college that translates into increased employment capability.
And cats kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines.
I think cats kill a very different kind of bird than wind turbines. I am pretty certain that the number of hawks and eagles killed by house cats is very close to zero in comparison. Taking out predators seems to me to be more likely to matter in the ecosystem balance picture.
Every time I read this stuff I think about the BSG reboot wherein the Galactica and its Vipers survive only because they aren't part of the Network of Things. My 16 year old is a month from his license and my next car will not only not be drive by wire it is going to be manual transmission. I will not go gently into this technology goodnight.
I have been on the jury side of nullification. Once while on a Grand Jury a case involving bodily injury was brought wherein the facts very clearly indicated evidence sufficient to go to trial and was strong enough that a prosecutor would have an easy time getting a conviction. A common sense examination of the facts, however, indicated that he was not responsible for the crime. I can't discuss the specifics but the scenario was similar to that in the NFL where a player gets hit but the ref only sees and calls a foul on the retaliation punch. We chose to No Bill the indictment. We specifically talked in deliberation about whether we were in bounds to do this but at the end of the day we decided that this was best for the situation.
I think it is also important to note that the most the jury can do is determine to not act in one specific instance. A jury cannot increase charges or bring charges against an individual. The worst thing the "mob rule" jury can do is decide the outcome of one case.
He's NOT successful. He is a terrible businessman, who's declared bankruptcy six times.
Trump has never personally declared bankruptcy, only entities he has formed. This is part of business. In any business transaction both sides hope to gain from the interaction and should price the risk of non-payment or default into the deal. Only the foolish assume the other party will perform. If one is unwilling to risk then pass on the deal.
In baseball a batter that is successful one time in three is considered an overwhelming success. Trump is principal owner of over 500 businesses. If failure is six times out of 500, please let me be a failure like that.
a man who has gotten ahead in life by saying asinine things
The left, and many on the right, fail to grasp how incredibly shrewd Trump is. I don't much care for him as a person but the facts are undeniable that he is a successful real estate developer in NYC. It doesn't matter if his original seed money came from his father, one does not build ANYTHING in Manhattan without having a lot of clues. A great many things involving a large number of stakeholders have to happen to build a project and he did it multiple times.
In his first full attempt at public office (continued to the actual election), he ran for the highest office in the world and won. The man beat first the GOP, of which he was only peripherally a member that was united against him, and then beat the MSM and the career politician who was supposed to be the pre-determined next POTUS.
People think him to be a clown because he doesn't talk like a lawyer and then underestimate him. Sun Tzu said "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Only one side in this battle knew the truth about the enemy.
Most people forget that what a person wants is very different from what they buy. A person buying a drill didn't want a drill, they need to make a hole. Even the hole was only necessary because the person actually just needed to mount a shelf. The Democrats kept saying "Look at our great drill and all the features it has. You have to get it because it is the best drill." Trump said "I'll hang your shelf."
Also, specifically Tesla predicts that they won't need another round of financing, but that option is certainly open if they need it.
Musk had to say this. The cash burn at Tesla is factual and well known so any shareholder rightly cares if Tesla can pay its bills. When a company doesn't make a profit the only way to keep the doors open are borrowing or selling shares. Tesla's long term debt currently trades at a substantial discount to face value so the bond markets are saying they don't believe the hype and don't really want to lend to Tesla. If Tesla can't borrow then they have to sell shares. At depressed stock prices, any meaningful sale of stock is going to be dilutive to current shareholders. If current shareholders think this will happen, they will dump shares further depressing the price and requiring even more shares be sold to raise money.
The only option Musk had was to say things are fine because if they aren't then Tesla is done.
Either infinite or not. If not infinite, then not "semi-infinite" either. As physical and real, not infinite.
Though diagnosed, my mother in law is not being treated for cancer because the doctors have determined that at her age something else will cause her death long before cancer does. I think in this situation semi-infinite can be read as "longer than we have for shortage to be of concern."
who will be criminally responsible for the criminal acts of a corporation
Corporations do not commit criminal acts, only people do. Behind every "this product from Acme corp caused x deaths" was a decision made by a PERSON. The way one holds a corporation responsible is by opening the employees to criminal liability. Every corporate criminal conviction should see at least one actual person do prison time because a person or group of people consciously made a decision to act a certain way.
They basically don't fullfill any requirement for joining.
They are the fifth biggest economy in the world. That fact, and no other, should be sufficient for any organization of countries to want the UK as a member.
One wonders how secret it can be if there are Getty Images of it.
Taking a picture of a computer tells you nothing of what is in it. Neither does a picture of Fort Know tell you how much gold it does (or doesn't) contain.
Reality is somewhere between your extremes. What will actually happen is that as fossil fuels become less available (and therefore more expensive) only those uses that are still profitable at the higher cost will continue to use the fossil fuels. As demand shifts to renewables research and production will increase, decreasing the cost and accelerating the transition. This is the way it has always worked. Early adopters pay stupid prices to fund early development (see Tesla) encouraging competitors (see Every Car Company Not Named Tesla.) Eventually the market sorts out the winners and losers.
Outside government interference, prices do not move suddenly at the macro level. While short term events may cause price spikes or crashes, at the end of the day demand drives prices drives supply.
The problem with the left narrative is that it is far easier to explain difference through any lens but effort. I grew up going to school with a number of literal Vietnamese boat refugees. These kids wore Kmart special hand-me-down clothes but busted their butts to excel in school. You might as well not even turn in your paper when the teacher asks the class to write an essay for a contest entitled "What America Means to Me." They earned scholarships to college and ended up being successful. One friend of mine (last name Nguyen) earned an appointment to the Air Force Academy. These kids broke the "cycle of poverty" in one single generation. The only thing they had going for them were parents who cared and insisted that they work hard in school. They even didn't all have two parent families because in some cases the fathers had been executed in their home country. To anyone who says a child born in the projects has too great a burden to overcome, please explain how a single parent in government housing and receiving welfare has it worse than an immigrant refugee with nothing who doesn't speak English.
This is the big "gotcha" in technological advancement. Some of the things we do work solely because of some unique property of a particular element for which there is no substitute. This is where the laws of supply and demand break down. Normally increasing price causes additional supply to be produced, but what happens when there simply is no additional supply to be had no matter the price?
A friend of mine owns a garage that works on high end cars. He told me that on Mercedes now you can't even replace the battery without the involvement of MB. If you replace it the car literally will not start without being told it is okay by a MB Authorized shop, which of course costs money. He is not asking for MB to help him repair the car and frankly, if a MB owner wants to replace the battery on an out-of-warranty vehicle he damn well *should* have the right to do so. It isn't MB's job to be big brother and make sure the owner doesn't mess something up once MB's warranty responsibility ends.
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My youngest son is on the autism scale. One trait of some people with autism is that for them there is no such thing as a general case. A room with furniture does not have a "delta" wherein a moved chair is "previous room with a chair in a different place"; instead, every arrangement of the room is a different room. No number of different arrangements will ever coalesce into them being understood as variations on the same base room.
What I really like about this model is that eating good food becomes reasonable. While I am a decent cook, I don't have the ingredients on hand to make whatever I want any time. If I order food my money goes into food and I can drink iced tea for pennies instead of $1.89 + tax & tip or even better, all the alcohol I want without paying $10 a drink.
Eating the entire meal out was reasonable when my wife and I first got married. Now with three kids, two who eat like adults, going out for a simple quick casual sit down meal costs $60-70 and $120 or more for a "nice" meal and that is before alcohol is considered.
isn't there a good chance you'll be illegally using somebody's patent somewhere (especially if you are a third party, ie repair company)
IANAL but it seems that if a person originally had a right to use a copy of the original software/firmware then even if modified the remaining original software still carries that license. A person could not then transfer it elsewhere but if Device A could use software modules B, C & D then device A could still continue using modules B & D even if C was modified or replaced.
Hindsight is always 20:20
Not really. There are plenty of people who when seeing what they did wrong in the past do it again. Any time somebody tells you "But this time it is different..." they probably need to get their hindsight vision checked.
Your post cannot be allowed and must be banned. How dare you bring up facts that do not mesh with the narrative that evil men are at war with women? You can now expect the SJW army to descend upon you for your transgressions. Haven't you learned yet that only non-triggering words that support the narrative of a heartless, selfish white male patriarchy are permitted?
In general, a person who has completed a degree is going to have a leg up on the person who doesn't. This is the reason that a 22 year old ROTC college graduate second lieutenant gets the same pay and more responsibility than an E-5 with 8 years of service. While not universally true, it takes a certain minimum level of mental aptitude to complete college that translates into increased employment capability.
And cats kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines.
I think cats kill a very different kind of bird than wind turbines. I am pretty certain that the number of hawks and eagles killed by house cats is very close to zero in comparison. Taking out predators seems to me to be more likely to matter in the ecosystem balance picture.
Will these dolphins be accompanied by sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads?
Every time I read this stuff I think about the BSG reboot wherein the Galactica and its Vipers survive only because they aren't part of the Network of Things. My 16 year old is a month from his license and my next car will not only not be drive by wire it is going to be manual transmission. I will not go gently into this technology goodnight.
Forget "uh" and "umm." I want to see the AI that can competently use "Eh" like a Canadian.
it sucks for us old timers who want single player games
Amen!
The first game I ever purchased as a kid was Wizardry for my parent's green screen Apple ][e. I just want to get immersed by myself in an epic RPG.
I have been on the jury side of nullification. Once while on a Grand Jury a case involving bodily injury was brought wherein the facts very clearly indicated evidence sufficient to go to trial and was strong enough that a prosecutor would have an easy time getting a conviction. A common sense examination of the facts, however, indicated that he was not responsible for the crime. I can't discuss the specifics but the scenario was similar to that in the NFL where a player gets hit but the ref only sees and calls a foul on the retaliation punch. We chose to No Bill the indictment. We specifically talked in deliberation about whether we were in bounds to do this but at the end of the day we decided that this was best for the situation.
I think it is also important to note that the most the jury can do is determine to not act in one specific instance. A jury cannot increase charges or bring charges against an individual. The worst thing the "mob rule" jury can do is decide the outcome of one case.
He's NOT successful. He is a terrible businessman, who's declared bankruptcy six times.
Trump has never personally declared bankruptcy, only entities he has formed. This is part of business. In any business transaction both sides hope to gain from the interaction and should price the risk of non-payment or default into the deal. Only the foolish assume the other party will perform. If one is unwilling to risk then pass on the deal.
In baseball a batter that is successful one time in three is considered an overwhelming success. Trump is principal owner of over 500 businesses. If failure is six times out of 500, please let me be a failure like that.
a man who has gotten ahead in life by saying asinine things
The left, and many on the right, fail to grasp how incredibly shrewd Trump is. I don't much care for him as a person but the facts are undeniable that he is a successful real estate developer in NYC. It doesn't matter if his original seed money came from his father, one does not build ANYTHING in Manhattan without having a lot of clues. A great many things involving a large number of stakeholders have to happen to build a project and he did it multiple times.
In his first full attempt at public office (continued to the actual election), he ran for the highest office in the world and won. The man beat first the GOP, of which he was only peripherally a member that was united against him, and then beat the MSM and the career politician who was supposed to be the pre-determined next POTUS.
People think him to be a clown because he doesn't talk like a lawyer and then underestimate him. Sun Tzu said "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Only one side in this battle knew the truth about the enemy.
Most people forget that what a person wants is very different from what they buy. A person buying a drill didn't want a drill, they need to make a hole. Even the hole was only necessary because the person actually just needed to mount a shelf. The Democrats kept saying "Look at our great drill and all the features it has. You have to get it because it is the best drill." Trump said "I'll hang your shelf."
Also, specifically Tesla predicts that they won't need another round of financing, but that option is certainly open if they need it.
Musk had to say this. The cash burn at Tesla is factual and well known so any shareholder rightly cares if Tesla can pay its bills. When a company doesn't make a profit the only way to keep the doors open are borrowing or selling shares. Tesla's long term debt currently trades at a substantial discount to face value so the bond markets are saying they don't believe the hype and don't really want to lend to Tesla. If Tesla can't borrow then they have to sell shares. At depressed stock prices, any meaningful sale of stock is going to be dilutive to current shareholders. If current shareholders think this will happen, they will dump shares further depressing the price and requiring even more shares be sold to raise money.
The only option Musk had was to say things are fine because if they aren't then Tesla is done.
is the Chinese leadership lamenting the loss of the pressure point they thought they had to influence the world.
Either infinite or not. If not infinite, then not "semi-infinite" either. As physical and real, not infinite.
Though diagnosed, my mother in law is not being treated for cancer because the doctors have determined that at her age something else will cause her death long before cancer does. I think in this situation semi-infinite can be read as "longer than we have for shortage to be of concern."
who will be criminally responsible for the criminal acts of a corporation
Corporations do not commit criminal acts, only people do. Behind every "this product from Acme corp caused x deaths" was a decision made by a PERSON. The way one holds a corporation responsible is by opening the employees to criminal liability. Every corporate criminal conviction should see at least one actual person do prison time because a person or group of people consciously made a decision to act a certain way.
They basically don't fullfill any requirement for joining.
They are the fifth biggest economy in the world. That fact, and no other, should be sufficient for any organization of countries to want the UK as a member.
One wonders how secret it can be if there are Getty Images of it.
Taking a picture of a computer tells you nothing of what is in it. Neither does a picture of Fort Know tell you how much gold it does (or doesn't) contain.
Reality is somewhere between your extremes. What will actually happen is that as fossil fuels become less available (and therefore more expensive) only those uses that are still profitable at the higher cost will continue to use the fossil fuels. As demand shifts to renewables research and production will increase, decreasing the cost and accelerating the transition. This is the way it has always worked. Early adopters pay stupid prices to fund early development (see Tesla) encouraging competitors (see Every Car Company Not Named Tesla.) Eventually the market sorts out the winners and losers. Outside government interference, prices do not move suddenly at the macro level. While short term events may cause price spikes or crashes, at the end of the day demand drives prices drives supply.
The problem with the left narrative is that it is far easier to explain difference through any lens but effort. I grew up going to school with a number of literal Vietnamese boat refugees. These kids wore Kmart special hand-me-down clothes but busted their butts to excel in school. You might as well not even turn in your paper when the teacher asks the class to write an essay for a contest entitled "What America Means to Me." They earned scholarships to college and ended up being successful. One friend of mine (last name Nguyen) earned an appointment to the Air Force Academy. These kids broke the "cycle of poverty" in one single generation. The only thing they had going for them were parents who cared and insisted that they work hard in school. They even didn't all have two parent families because in some cases the fathers had been executed in their home country. To anyone who says a child born in the projects has too great a burden to overcome, please explain how a single parent in government housing and receiving welfare has it worse than an immigrant refugee with nothing who doesn't speak English.
If you aren't paying for it you are the product being sold. It is as simple as that.
no suitable substitute has been found
This is the big "gotcha" in technological advancement. Some of the things we do work solely because of some unique property of a particular element for which there is no substitute. This is where the laws of supply and demand break down. Normally increasing price causes additional supply to be produced, but what happens when there simply is no additional supply to be had no matter the price?
A friend of mine owns a garage that works on high end cars. He told me that on Mercedes now you can't even replace the battery without the involvement of MB. If you replace it the car literally will not start without being told it is okay by a MB Authorized shop, which of course costs money. He is not asking for MB to help him repair the car and frankly, if a MB owner wants to replace the battery on an out-of-warranty vehicle he damn well *should* have the right to do so. It isn't MB's job to be big brother and make sure the owner doesn't mess something up once MB's warranty responsibility ends.