Consumers' Privacy Concerns Not Backed By Their Actions
That's like saying, "Patriots' Concerns About The Constitution, The Rule of Law, Limited Government, and Ethical Leadership Not Backed By Their Voting Records".
What is really needed is a free market, something capitalists hate and work against as it is not profitable.
There is no such thing as a "free market", especially when it comes to health care.
If a doctor tells you you're going to need heart surgery, or your kid needs cancer treatment, you're not going to shop around for the best price. If lung is punctured in a car accident and you're bleeding internally, you're not going to shop for the least expensive alternative to an ambulance to take you to the hospital.
There is no free market alternative for health care.
You are out of touch with reality. The Dow shot up from 19,827.3 to 25,075.1 -- an increase of *26 percent* the day of (or day after) Trump's inauguration.
No, it didn't. It took TWO YEARS for the Dow to go up from 19,827 to 25,075. It took from the day before Trump's inauguration day to the second anniversary of his inauguration day. As you say, it was a rise of 26 percent.
Did you know that over the exact corresponding period of time, from the day before his inauguration to the second anniversary of his inauguration, Under Obama the Dow went up 33 PERCENT? In fact, if you check the Dow on March 9, 2009 at the very depth of the Great Recession, you will notice that by the second anniversary of Obama's term the Dow rose an astonishing 61 percent.
The Dow now resides in record territory
No, it does not. It's well over 1000 points off its high. Also, did you know that the Dow resided in "record territory" for the entire second term of Barack Obama's presidency?
[Note: I am figuring out where the Trump supporters are getting this myth that the the Dow rose 26% in two days after Trump's inauguration. It is from a misreading of the big, wet baby's own tweet. The only problem is, in Trumpistan they get every single fact wrong, including the day the tweet was issued. see below]
The Overton window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] has moved to full 1984 in CA. Police, city, state and federal task forces now have the digital freedom to track every US citizen in CA.
California has the best privacy protection laws in the United States, by far.
The only vehicles with these new plates are state-owned vehicles. Also, there are strict limits with what law enforcement is allowed to do in California with information taken from license plate readers. The data must be destroyed in 60 days. In Texas, there are absolutely no restrictions on the use of license plate readers.
It was referenced again on the Mental Floss blog (written by some writers from This American Life and other places). It seems to be taken from the Wall Street Journal story.
This part of the scam I didn't know yet. Do you have some sources to read up on the details?
I read the story just this weekend. It was in a reputable publication, but I can't find it now. Let me continue looking at get back to you.
I remember showing my wife the story, since something similar happened to us. When we got engaged, I went out and spent a bunch on a gaudy ring. After we were engaged, she told me she felt funny wearing it and would I mind exchanging it for something smaller. I still remember that the difference was enough to buy a second car (this was a few decades ago). Every few anniversaries I offer to get her a bigger ring and she looks at me like I'm a dope.
The diamond industry for wedding rings is bullshit -- it was created in by US advertisers in the 1930s to prop up South Africa's failing economy. Don't buy into the hype. Real or synthetic, it's still BS.
There's even more to that story. In the 1950s, the diamond industry did research that showed that when the prospective bride was involved in the purchase of the engagement ring, they actually picked a smaller, less expensive diamond. So, the industry, led by De Beers, started a campaign pushing the idea that men were supposed to surprise their bride-to-be with an engagement ring, thus cutting the more frugal woman out of the picture. You know that iconic image of the man pulling out the little ring box, and the blushing bride squealing with delight? It's all some made up corporate horseshit like Santa Claus or Trump University.
It's bad enough that the De Beers family is covered in blood, but they've constructed a string of lies to sell their despicable merchandise.
The difference is that every one of the Drivers in a HomePod is under INDIVIDUAL Computer-Control. What the Driver sends to the speaker, and WHEN, are exactly determined by the A8 microcontroller, INDIVIDUALLY, for EACH DRIVER.
THAT my friend, has never been done before.
Of course it's been done before. Do you really think Apple's going to do something innovative? That hasn't happened in well over a decade. Computer-controlled line arrays have been around for about that long.
No, I have not heard a stereo pair of Homepods because they haven't been available until the iOS 11.4 update. Furrther, it was Apple that was the one saying that the Homepods were so advanced that they would sound better than a "traditional" stereo pair, whatever that is.
There have been speakers systems with arrays of drivers in a single enclosure forever. If a Homepod pair is going to sound better than a similarly priced system of "traditional" stereo pairs, they're going to have to demonstrate more than just their ability to spin a press release.
"The company says that when two speakers are paired, they are capable of "delivering room-filling sound that is more spacious than a traditional stereo pair."
You gotta give it to Apple. Who you gonna believe, them or your own lying ears?
London is being crushed by one violent knife attack after another, the murder rate is astronomical and rising rapidly - and not coincidentally, the city is almost universally known as Londonistan. The entire country is being overrun by Muslim extremists.
This is a good lesson to you younger Slashdotters out there: racism makes you stupid. Look what's happened to poor Brett Buck (811747). He was probably just like you or me at one time, and could tell the difference between a National Front/Fox News fever dream and reality. Now, all he can do is holler things that are provably untrue.
Don't be like Brett Buck. You have your life ahead of you and there's just no coming back from racist insanity when it gets to that point.
I have, many times, and in many cities. If they put on a good show
Of course, because you're not a jerk. And you never know who the person with his instrument case open on the ground might someday become. The list of famous musicians who were once buskers is very long.
Rod Steward, B.B. King, Steve Martin, Janis Joplin and Robin Williams were all street performers at one time. Busking is an honorable livelihood.
People who say they would never give money to a busker simply do not have any soul whatsoever.
And let's not forget that master musician Sonny Rollins used to walk the few blocks from his New York apartment to play on the Williamsburg Bridge. He ended up getting a famous album out of it, reigniting his career and creating an image that was later used during the introduction to The Simpsons, with Lisa playing on a bridge. I seem to recall Rollins was even in an episode of the show.
Sonically and stylistically, pop music is now more homogeneous than ever. Arrangements, mix, instrumentation, even sound-alike synth patches replicated endlessly.
Your ears have gotten old, is all. Here are some songs from the Billboard 100 as of today. Tell me how they are sonically and stylistically homogeneous.
I just looked at the Billboard Top 30 for 1952, and almost every single song on the list is one of two chord progressions, either ii-V-I or I-IV-V. For that matter, practically the entire Great American Songbook of popular music written from the end of WWI to the early '60s could all be represented by one chord progression.
Popular music is not more similar today, musically.
Knowing it was a holiday weekend, how could you permit yourself to even potentially run out of beer?
it's a long story, but a thirsty friend dropped by unannounced earlier to watch the Eastern Conference Finals and the next thing you know my strategic reserves were running low. But I'm one of those loaves and fishes kind of Episcopalians who will give you the shirt of his back and the beer out his fridge, so I unselfishly and without regard for my own well-being shared what I had. Because I'm like that.
I just can't believe that a bunch of dune coons and sand níggers who reproduce like rats (as Allah commands!) might just have a water shortage. No fucking way! Damn who ever saw that shit coming amirite?! We just need our SJW types to tell those water molecules how terribly racist they are. Equal outcome must be guaranteed no matter what!
I know it shouldn't, but whenever I can make an Anonymous Coward really melt down like this, it just makes me feel like I have not lived my life in vain.
Now everybody have a safe and peaceful Memorial Day, and for those of you who are concerned about me running out of beer, yes, my neighbor had a fridge in his garage with enough Firestone-Walker 805 Pale Ale to get me through until I'm done watching the last episode of Evil Genius on Netflix. All is well.
I'm running out of beer and the Grocery Outlet is closed and I'm too buzzed to drive. And I'm supposed to be upset because Karachi's running out of water just because there are 20 million people there? You SJWs really suck, you know that? Who's going to stand up for me, huh? Nobody, that's who. Wait, I think I just heard my neighbor come home. I bet he's got some beer. Never mind.
I've got plenty of relatives with guns. None of them have ever killed people. One of them, however, was used to kill a cougar that was starting an attack run on one of those relatives, thereby saving his life.
So, you're saying that there are cougars loose in all our schools? Then why do they call them, "active shooter drills" and not "cougar drills"?
Also "well regulated," at the time that the Constitution was written did not mean "significantly controlled by government oversight" as is its most common meaning now. It meant "smoothly functioning."
Ok then, could you please tell your "smooth functioning" well-regulated militia to stop shooting up schools?
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That's like saying, "Patriots' Concerns About The Constitution, The Rule of Law, Limited Government, and Ethical Leadership Not Backed By Their Voting Records".
https://www.google.com/search?...
We all miss those glory days, brother.
There is no such thing as a "free market", especially when it comes to health care.
If a doctor tells you you're going to need heart surgery, or your kid needs cancer treatment, you're not going to shop around for the best price. If lung is punctured in a car accident and you're bleeding internally, you're not going to shop for the least expensive alternative to an ambulance to take you to the hospital.
There is no free market alternative for health care.
No, it didn't. It took TWO YEARS for the Dow to go up from 19,827 to 25,075. It took from the day before Trump's inauguration day to the second anniversary of his inauguration day. As you say, it was a rise of 26 percent.
Did you know that over the exact corresponding period of time, from the day before his inauguration to the second anniversary of his inauguration, Under Obama the Dow went up 33 PERCENT? In fact, if you check the Dow on March 9, 2009 at the very depth of the Great Recession, you will notice that by the second anniversary of Obama's term the Dow rose an astonishing 61 percent.
No, it does not. It's well over 1000 points off its high. Also, did you know that the Dow resided in "record territory" for the entire second term of Barack Obama's presidency?
[Note: I am figuring out where the Trump supporters are getting this myth that the the Dow rose 26% in two days after Trump's inauguration. It is from a misreading of the big, wet baby's own tweet. The only problem is, in Trumpistan they get every single fact wrong, including the day the tweet was issued. see below]
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
And here, you can look at the Dow history yourself to check for yourself.
California has the best privacy protection laws in the United States, by far.
https://www.comparitech.com/bl...
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/...
The only vehicles with these new plates are state-owned vehicles. Also, there are strict limits with what law enforcement is allowed to do in California with information taken from license plate readers. The data must be destroyed in 60 days. In Texas, there are absolutely no restrictions on the use of license plate readers.
Those are air rifles.
They just leave them at the high school.
What are you taking about? Could you please be more specific?
OK, I found it. The first mention I could find of the story was in a Wall Street Journal article from 2009 (behind a paywall).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...
It was referenced again on the Mental Floss blog (written by some writers from This American Life and other places). It seems to be taken from the Wall Street Journal story.
http://mentalfloss.com/article...
I read the story just this weekend. It was in a reputable publication, but I can't find it now. Let me continue looking at get back to you.
I remember showing my wife the story, since something similar happened to us. When we got engaged, I went out and spent a bunch on a gaudy ring. After we were engaged, she told me she felt funny wearing it and would I mind exchanging it for something smaller. I still remember that the difference was enough to buy a second car (this was a few decades ago). Every few anniversaries I offer to get her a bigger ring and she looks at me like I'm a dope.
I'll continue looking for the story.
There's even more to that story. In the 1950s, the diamond industry did research that showed that when the prospective bride was involved in the purchase of the engagement ring, they actually picked a smaller, less expensive diamond. So, the industry, led by De Beers, started a campaign pushing the idea that men were supposed to surprise their bride-to-be with an engagement ring, thus cutting the more frugal woman out of the picture. You know that iconic image of the man pulling out the little ring box, and the blushing bride squealing with delight? It's all some made up corporate horseshit like Santa Claus or Trump University.
It's bad enough that the De Beers family is covered in blood, but they've constructed a string of lies to sell their despicable merchandise.
Of course it's been done before. Do you really think Apple's going to do something innovative? That hasn't happened in well over a decade. Computer-controlled line arrays have been around for about that long.
https://loudaudio.com/martin-a...
http://www.alconsaudio.com/lin...
No, I have not heard a stereo pair of Homepods because they haven't been available until the iOS 11.4 update. Furrther, it was Apple that was the one saying that the Homepods were so advanced that they would sound better than a "traditional" stereo pair, whatever that is.
There have been speakers systems with arrays of drivers in a single enclosure forever. If a Homepod pair is going to sound better than a similarly priced system of "traditional" stereo pairs, they're going to have to demonstrate more than just their ability to spin a press release.
They sound better than a clock radio, but they don't sound $700 good.
No. An array of speakers in one enclosure is not an improvement on true stereo when all music is now recorded in stereo.
Unless Apple now wants to argue that all music is being produced and mastered wrong.
You gotta give it to Apple. Who you gonna believe, them or your own lying ears?
This is a good lesson to you younger Slashdotters out there: racism makes you stupid. Look what's happened to poor Brett Buck (811747). He was probably just like you or me at one time, and could tell the difference between a National Front/Fox News fever dream and reality. Now, all he can do is holler things that are provably untrue.
Don't be like Brett Buck. You have your life ahead of you and there's just no coming back from racist insanity when it gets to that point.
Of course, because you're not a jerk. And you never know who the person with his instrument case open on the ground might someday become. The list of famous musicians who were once buskers is very long.
Rod Steward, B.B. King, Steve Martin, Janis Joplin and Robin Williams were all street performers at one time. Busking is an honorable livelihood.
People who say they would never give money to a busker simply do not have any soul whatsoever.
And let's not forget that master musician Sonny Rollins used to walk the few blocks from his New York apartment to play on the Williamsburg Bridge. He ended up getting a famous album out of it, reigniting his career and creating an image that was later used during the introduction to The Simpsons, with Lisa playing on a bridge. I seem to recall Rollins was even in an episode of the show.
Your ears have gotten old, is all. Here are some songs from the Billboard 100 as of today. Tell me how they are sonically and stylistically homogeneous.
https://youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY
https://youtu.be/luHhJalHanw
https://youtu.be/QRF9TgkBCjc
https://youtu.be/qMNnVBv4tME
I just looked at the Billboard Top 30 for 1952, and almost every single song on the list is one of two chord progressions, either ii-V-I or I-IV-V. For that matter, practically the entire Great American Songbook of popular music written from the end of WWI to the early '60s could all be represented by one chord progression.
Popular music is not more similar today, musically.
it's a long story, but a thirsty friend dropped by unannounced earlier to watch the Eastern Conference Finals and the next thing you know my strategic reserves were running low. But I'm one of those loaves and fishes kind of Episcopalians who will give you the shirt of his back and the beer out his fridge, so I unselfishly and without regard for my own well-being shared what I had. Because I'm like that.
I know it shouldn't, but whenever I can make an Anonymous Coward really melt down like this, it just makes me feel like I have not lived my life in vain.
Now everybody have a safe and peaceful Memorial Day, and for those of you who are concerned about me running out of beer, yes, my neighbor had a fridge in his garage with enough Firestone-Walker 805 Pale Ale to get me through until I'm done watching the last episode of Evil Genius on Netflix. All is well.
I'm running out of beer and the Grocery Outlet is closed and I'm too buzzed to drive. And I'm supposed to be upset because Karachi's running out of water just because there are 20 million people there? You SJWs really suck, you know that? Who's going to stand up for me, huh? Nobody, that's who. Wait, I think I just heard my neighbor come home. I bet he's got some beer. Never mind.
Happy Memorial Day everybody!
So, you're saying that there are cougars loose in all our schools? Then why do they call them, "active shooter drills" and not "cougar drills"?
Ok then, could you please tell your "smooth functioning" well-regulated militia to stop shooting up schools?