Libreoffice is actually a perfectly good Office tool. It just doesn't have the thousand bells and whistles that most people don't use. Oh, and it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Oh and its ethical. Several goods there and quite enough for me (alt-tab back to Lbreoffice).
Ordinarily, I'd say this...
Libreoffice's biggest issue is formatting. Not only can it fail to read Office formatting properly (to be fair, this is probably by Microsoft's design) but importing blank text and adding formatting results in disastrous and inconsistent results. 95% of people can do without the bells and whistles, but not the formatting that Office gets right.
And I'd love to dump MS office, so much so that it's only installed on one of my computers, the rest have Libreoffice but when writing something as complex and important as my CV, I have to resort to MS office.
especially since this sort of feature is becoming the norm across more and more Apple (and non-Apple) products these days
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No. Stop right there. This is not the norm in any laptop from any manufacturer. I challenge you to name me a single laptop vendor who is soldering the NVMe drive to the motherboard rather than using the industry-standard m.2 slot. You can't because there's aren't any
I have experienced multiple NVMe disk failures on laptops I manage, I have also experience board failures of systems using NVMe disks. In the first case, it is a negligible repair taking minutes, in the second case, equally easy to pop out the drive, mount it in a PCIe bridge card, and grab the data off.
Stop trying to normalize this latest instance of apple's short-sided thinking, which appears to be driven by only one "long term" goal, that is to say replacement of hardware with new garbage the second it dies even a minute out of warranty.
The fact that you try to reduce this down to a "huhr duhr poer users need backups" argument is preposterous.
This.
Whilst important data needs backing up, we shall not deny this... the majority of what I have on my personal laptop is far from vital. A lot of it is nice to have, but not vital. However I like the fact that should my laptop fail I can recover saved games or moderately useful things simply pop open the bottom via the removal of 8 screws and the SSD requires one further screw to be removed and the SSD can be plugged into a caddy or my desktop (as I don't have n m.2 caddy).
This kind of thing is important if you've got a fleet of laptops and lets face it, the best of end users are lazy with saving/copying to shared drives, so swapping out the HDD is a godsend for the tech. For personal use, I like being able to upgrade my hard drive. Sure my Asus K501U came with a 512 GB SSD, but who's to say when a 1TB SSD will get under £100 and then it will be cost effective to upgrade.
Using a TOTP solution like 1password or Google Authenticator is better than SMS, because unlike SMS it's very difficult to hijack.
You see the problem is... I need 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) for a variety of things, several banks, work, access to some government services. Most people do. SMS is available to everyone and universally accepted, not to mention cheap. I dont want to have to have a dongle for every single different bank nor can I believe that all these different services are going to get behind a single 2FA token (definitely not without some govt intervention and whilst I'm not one to go on wild anti-govt conspiracy theories but history has demonstrated that govt + tech == utter disaster).
The "problem" (sarcastic quotes) with SMS 2FA is that telephone companies in the US are easily duped by social engineering. This problem has been largely alleviated in the rest of the world by simple methods such as requiring sensitive items to be signed for in person (preventing someone from stealing your mail) usually with photo ID presented. The same problem will exist with any other multiple use 2FA system like U2F token/dongle. In fact it makes the system less secure as it's an item that can be easily stolen and cannot be secured by password or other means.
Sure SMS and phones are not perfect, but they're good enough. Telco's need to secure themselves against social engineering attacks (now this is one area where governments excel at... fining companies for privacy breaches).
They very likely are CT scanners as the bbc news article about Heathrow installing some says that Schiphol already tested them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
Also Amsterdam Schipol is a very well run airport and the Dutch are an exceptionally well mannered people with a solid work ethic. I've been though hundreds of airports and the only departing Customs or Immigration officer who ever asked me if I enjoyed my stay was at Amsterdam.
If price fixing nets more than $130 million in additional profit, stay the course!
This is what the other side of the pond doesn't understand about the EU... You treat fines as a one off thing. They aren't. Its 100 million Euro now... but if you don't stop it'll be 300 million Euro extra. The fines are obviously a slap on the wrist compared to what they made from the crime, but that's on purpose to discourage them from retaliatory action (like raising prices). However there is a very clear message that says next time, the slap wont be on the wrist with the EU.
Fines are there to discourage illegal business practices... but not to discourage business.
I really liked Enterprise. Or at least what it could have been. My only issue was casting Scott Bakula as his acting style has almost always rubbed me the wrong way. I like him in Quantum Leap but have not liked him since. The other chars were not so bad though, The dog was AWESOME and probably the 2nd best cast member after Connor Trinneer as Tucker,
Enterprise got good in Season 3, the first two were pretty bad. The first season was so bad I didn't even finish it and didn't get around to watching it again until 2008. Season 4 was also good but you can tell they piled in the next 3-4 seasons of ideas in the last half a season because they knew they were about to be cancelled, hence why is was good.
To me Bakula was OK, a little bland but OK. Connor Tinneer is the most annoying actor and character I've ever seen.
I think they (banks, Visa, etc.) Want to skim every transaction.
That is true in America, but not everywhere. In China, WeChat and AliPay have zero transaction costs for either buyer or seller. The value of the data collected is enough, and competition keeps them from charging fees.
So it's the same principle... They're just not charging cash.
In the US and other countries banks are already skimming off of every transaction they can. They're called merchant fees or interchange fees and whenever you use a card to pay for something, the merchant has to pay the bank in order to receive your money (this is automatically deducted).
Cash is still a thorn in their side that they want gone.
English is seldom as precise as we programmers would like to make it. "Bread" is defined as "flour, water and yeast"... but various breads are made without yeast... and bread is used generically for food (dating back to hebrew/biblical usage), not to mention using the term to describe money.
Given that the various soy and nut milks have been in use (and named) since the 13th (other sources, 17th) centuries, it seems to me that the horse left this barn a long time ago.
And unleavened bread typically have specific names depending on where it's from. E.G. Tortilla, Matzo, Roti, Damper, Pide. The colloquial English noun for them is flatbread but English speaking countries rarely ate unleavened bread.
I'm pretty sure few, if any people refer to it as just "bread".
As for milk, it's been exclusively used for dairy milks for centuries the same as bread has been used (and still is used) to refer to leavened bread. I think calling "soy" milk, milk is deceptive. Same with vegan sausages.
There are already sentry guns. We can already program drones to drop payloads autonomously. We already have killer robots, and we do not even need AI to make them.
This.
I do not fear artificial intelligence... I fear the natural idiots who are giving them orders.
Go to much of Europe outside the UK, and it's like a breath of fresh air.
(1) No warning signs everywhere, and no attempt to protect people from themselves. 10 year olds walk or take transit to school. Train windows open -- if you stick a hand out, it's your own problem
This is mainly a point of pride for the British, Warning signs are almost a tradition here. It's like asking the Germans not to be fastidious and humourless or the French not to be arrogant and on strike.
(2) Fewer nannying restrictions on alcohol
Such as? The biggest restriction on booze here is not being able to buy it under the age of 18.
You should try going to Australia or Canada to see restrictions on alcohol sales... or Thailand where alcohol cannot be sold between 2 and 5 in the afternoon.
Tax is a bugger, but we're far from the only European nation that taxes the living shit out of alcohol.
(3) Widely ignored and/or lax drug laws in many countries
Drug laws are pretty widely ignored here. So much so that quality cocaine is cheaper in London than in Colombia (OK, there is very little local market for the devil's dandruff in Colombia).
You're confusing us with those across the pond who send pot users to jail.
(4) Fewer sexual taboos. Nudity/toplessness are much more accepted
Ahhh, the old Victorian Britain stereotype. Whilst we don't walk around in the buff like the Spanish, Brits are not that prudish (and really never were). British swearing will make most uncouth Europeans blush.
(5) Stricter privacy laws. More restrictions on employers -- employers aren't allowed to meddle in private lives outside of work as much.
OK, this one is accurate.
The Tories have a hard on for removing privacy and personal rights and that's why Brexit must be stopped. For all the idiocy thats been produced by Brussels, it's dwarfed by that out of Whitehall.
Well, roughly, they have spent the last two years building up manufacturing capability, and only the last month has their manufacturing been putting out a reasonable number of cars, so the upfront costs are spent, but the income stream produced by the investment has only started. The key question is to look at Tesla's balance sheet in six months.
In more nerd terms, the "income" part of "income-outgo = profit" is a time integral, while a large portion of the outgo is fixed, so the profitability rises with time.
Will Tesla be profitable? Stay tuned.
That is why we separate CAPEX (CAPital EXpenditure, the building of factories) from OPEX (OPerational EXpenditure, cost to produce a product), Tesla's revenue is not matching their operating costs.
CAPEX debt can be carried for a long time as long as you're making money on each product sold.
I'm still predicting that Tesla will be bought up by one of the existing big manufacturers (VAG, BMW, Toyota, Nissan Renault) for pennies on the pound. It might take a few years but it'll happen.
You do understand, I trust, that the American space program greatly benefited from German scientists hustled into the country after the war. Werner von Braun ring any bells. Both the Americans and the Soviets plundered the wreckage of Nazi Germany for its technological innovations, and in particular for aeronautics technology. Whether it was guided missiles or jet aircraft, the Germans had come a lot further in their research and development in these areas.
Go back even further than that... the only reason the western allies won the war was because our German scientists were better than their German scientists.
I use 2G and 3G systems for my data logging projects. They are much cheaper. Eventually I am afraid I will need to use a full 4G LTE system (at least in the US).
As you specified "at least in the US" you're probably living in a country that chose GSM from the very begining. Verizon does not have a "3G" GSM network such as HSPA, they went with CDMA which was a slower, more dead end technology. They're one of the last networks to get rid of it.
If you want to use 3G GSM devices in the US, you need to go with AT&T as they're the only company that implemented an internationally compatible version of 3G GSM.
Kids will always find ways to access what they want to see. Best to teach/explain/trust than to make them feel suppressed or constantly watched.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... Back this thing up here... It sounds like you're talking about actual parenting, creating an environment where if your child sees something that they're confused about or disturbed by, they can talk to their parent.
No, in this case the breeder simply wants a fail-proof electronic nanny so they don't have to do anything to raise their crotchspawns.
I'd really need to hear what your definition of socialism actually is
I use the dictionary definition:
"a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned OR REGULATED by the community as a whole."
The only other thing you could possibly mean is that everyone acts as a capitalist agent, but the government takes most or all of their earnings.
Well, the income tax rate in Denmark is just over 60%, so it fits that definition, too.
I don't know if there's a group of people on the planet weird enough to play by those rules.
Denmark. Denmark plays by those rules. More than 60% of income in Denmark goes to taxes. Last time I checked the definition of "most", 60 percent meets the definition.
Face it: The happiest countries in the world are the countries that have struck a balance between socialism and market economies.
Market economies are independent of socialist/capitalist governments. The market economy fails when a government puts it's ideologies above functional economics... I.E. under extremist governments. Both extreme socialism and extreme capitalism will lead to a collapse of a market economy, ironically due to the same issue, one party gaining too much power over the market, under socialism it's the government, under capitalism it'll be a corporation. End result is the same really.
No country operates a successful "pure" capitalist or socialist economy, they're all mixed in various amounts.
Is it offensive or just shorthand to avoid having to say/write "Lanina/Lantino" every single time?
What is the word for someone who sees offence everywhere? Not themselves offended as such, just assuming everyone else is motivated by offence.
The solution already exists in Spanish. Use the masculine pronoun for a mixed gender or gender non specific, Latinos would be correct in Spanish. In English you could also use Latin or Latin people as gender non-specific.
it is las latinx or los latinx, depending on if its a group or males or females;);)
OMG WAFFLEBOTTOM!!!1!11!!ONE!!ELEVEN!!!11!!!1
How dare you assume the gender of that word.
Seriously, I converse with Latinos (mostly Colombians, occasionally Argentinian) on a regular basis. Not once I have I ever heard them complain about the lack of gender neutral pronouns, most are happy to keep the masculine pronoun as encompassing both genders and the feminine pronoun for exclusively female. Not even my teacher who constantly bemoaned the lack of modernisation in the language.
I think the gender neutral way of saying Latino would be "persona Latin" (latin person). I think whoever invented "latinx" has too much time on their hands and doesn't speak Spanish as that word is a bitch to pronounce (Latin-ks or Latin-equis, maybe Latin-diez if we're using roman numerals. The h and sh sounds are predominantly Mexican and rarer further south). Point in short, Latino countries are less hung up on this issue.
The various websites associated with Gawker are so terrible it is comical.
This.
A few used to be good for geek related news like Gizmodo and IO9 but Gizmodo quickly turned into an Apple fanboy service site and lost most of it's readership when a site redesign made it impossible to avoid that. IO9 took a while longer but eventually that was folded into Gizmodo and became irrelevant.
This is why I no longer fly....
But they won't. As we see every day, people are too stupid to say no to injustices such as this.
That's great if you don't have family and friends thousands of miles away or across oceans. It's not stupidity that makes many people fly: it's the desire to see their families.
As I told my family members who moved away - I'm not important enough to live near, so you're not important enough to visit. If I show up, I do, but I'm under no obligation. But I won't fly unless it's a private flight chartered by me.
Regardless, you are going to have to decide how much shit you want to put up with. That's how much shit you're going to take. That might include getting your children felt up. Go to Ebaum's world and look up what the TSA is allowed to do. I'd put the link here, but it looks like KP. I'm certainly going to scour my computer tonight.
When I was moving to the UK from Oz, my mother tried the old guilt trip of "But I hardly see you now..." at which point I had to say "I've lived an hour away for a decade and now you're worried about seeing me".
My point is, once you get out of the US air travel is a lot nicer. Airports are run by businesses that understand that customers want their customers to move quickly from A to B, A being whatever godforsaken mode of transport took them to the airport and B being a metal tube full of meat cargo. London Heathrow, Singapore Changi and Amsterdam Schipol are great airports that are relatively fast to get through for their size. Honestly I think I could turn up at LHR with 90 mins before wheels up and have plenty of time (and at lest 30 of that 90 mins will be walking, Heathrow is fucking massive), you couldn't hope to do that at LAX in a month of sundays. Asian airlines actually seem to care about customer service and comfort (European airlines are still crap though), standard economy on Singapore Airlines is called premium economy on others and when you're flying for 14 hours, an extra inch of leg and arse space is a godsend.
BTW, charted and private planes are subject to TSA screening... So unless you're flying GA from and to a non TSA field, you're still up for an enhanced pat down.
Really? You have a State Issued ID that MUST be affixed to your car, and you are willfully driving it and PARKING IT in public view, on private property. And that is invading privacy?
The invasion of privacy is where they send it to ICE without you doing anything wrong.
Just because you can see my license plate, doesn't mean you have the right to do what you please with it. Same with the front of my house or what you can see through my windows.
Wow you can predict precisely where the laser will hit and have the mirror at the ready? Or you're simply walking down the battlefield with a full dress mirror??
Sequined armour dah-ling... Full dress mirrors are so last year.
As a non-American I find it odd to observe from a distance the esteem that a document written in 1787 is held.
Few other concepts from that era are held in unquestioning reverence by as many people. Horses and buggies? Leeches for tonsillitis? Nope we've moved on.
But suggest that a document in 1787 might require a bit of interpretation as society has moved on a bit since then? Somehow this is an unthinkable affront to the framers of said document.
My own country holds our founders in a bit less regard. John A McDonald? Any decent highschooler will tell you he was an alcoholic, racist, womanizer and all around asshole. Why highschooler? Because we learn it in school. Canadians tend not to place our leaders in amber and preserve them forever more. We don't dietize them. We recognize their faults and virtues in equal measure.
Sometimes we do it to excess, but it might be worth thinking about. I'm reasonably sure the framers when they held it as self-evident that all men were created equal, they didn't intend to be placed on a pedestal for all time, nor I think would a person who truly believes that sentiment expect their words to be enshrined in amber, never to be looked at with a critical gaze?
Might it be time for a V2 rewrite as opposed to another patch release? Just a thought.
A lot of countries hold their founding documents in high esteem, however most do not trust them to safe guard their rights as when it gets down to it, a constitution or bill of right is just ink on a page. Rights are protected by people, if the population supports people who restrict rights, even rights for minorities and unpopular people then those rights are no longer protected for everyone and any document is rendered powerless.
This is why I've never worried about Australia not having a bill of rights. The defence of rights occurs in the court and the Australian courts have done a very good job over the years striking down laws that are unconstitutional or even simply against the public good... Then again, Australian judges are generally selected on merit, rather than being political appointees.
The American reverence for their document is nothing for them to be ashamed of, however the do need to lose the belief in it's magically protective properties.
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Libreoffice is actually a perfectly good Office tool. It just doesn't have the thousand bells and whistles that most people don't use. Oh, and it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Oh and its ethical. Several goods there and quite enough for me (alt-tab back to Lbreoffice).
Ordinarily, I'd say this...
Libreoffice's biggest issue is formatting. Not only can it fail to read Office formatting properly (to be fair, this is probably by Microsoft's design) but importing blank text and adding formatting results in disastrous and inconsistent results. 95% of people can do without the bells and whistles, but not the formatting that Office gets right.
And I'd love to dump MS office, so much so that it's only installed on one of my computers, the rest have Libreoffice but when writing something as complex and important as my CV, I have to resort to MS office.
Your MacBook Pro has four USB-C ports.
A MacBook only has one USB-C port.
My Asus has 4 USB A ports, a headphone jack, and an SD card reader... It also cost 1/3 of the price of a Macbook Pro for the same hardware.
especially since this sort of feature is becoming the norm across more and more Apple (and non-Apple) products these days
. No. Stop right there. This is not the norm in any laptop from any manufacturer. I challenge you to name me a single laptop vendor who is soldering the NVMe drive to the motherboard rather than using the industry-standard m.2 slot. You can't because there's aren't any
I have experienced multiple NVMe disk failures on laptops I manage, I have also experience board failures of systems using NVMe disks. In the first case, it is a negligible repair taking minutes, in the second case, equally easy to pop out the drive, mount it in a PCIe bridge card, and grab the data off.
Stop trying to normalize this latest instance of apple's short-sided thinking, which appears to be driven by only one "long term" goal, that is to say replacement of hardware with new garbage the second it dies even a minute out of warranty.
The fact that you try to reduce this down to a "huhr duhr poer users need backups" argument is preposterous.
This. Whilst important data needs backing up, we shall not deny this... the majority of what I have on my personal laptop is far from vital. A lot of it is nice to have, but not vital. However I like the fact that should my laptop fail I can recover saved games or moderately useful things simply pop open the bottom via the removal of 8 screws and the SSD requires one further screw to be removed and the SSD can be plugged into a caddy or my desktop (as I don't have n m.2 caddy).
This kind of thing is important if you've got a fleet of laptops and lets face it, the best of end users are lazy with saving/copying to shared drives, so swapping out the HDD is a godsend for the tech. For personal use, I like being able to upgrade my hard drive. Sure my Asus K501U came with a 512 GB SSD, but who's to say when a 1TB SSD will get under £100 and then it will be cost effective to upgrade.
JWZ had a writeup about SMS, Google Auth and OTP
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/...
Using a TOTP solution like 1password or Google Authenticator is better than SMS, because unlike SMS it's very difficult to hijack.
You see the problem is... I need 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) for a variety of things, several banks, work, access to some government services. Most people do. SMS is available to everyone and universally accepted, not to mention cheap. I dont want to have to have a dongle for every single different bank nor can I believe that all these different services are going to get behind a single 2FA token (definitely not without some govt intervention and whilst I'm not one to go on wild anti-govt conspiracy theories but history has demonstrated that govt + tech == utter disaster).
The "problem" (sarcastic quotes) with SMS 2FA is that telephone companies in the US are easily duped by social engineering. This problem has been largely alleviated in the rest of the world by simple methods such as requiring sensitive items to be signed for in person (preventing someone from stealing your mail) usually with photo ID presented. The same problem will exist with any other multiple use 2FA system like U2F token/dongle. In fact it makes the system less secure as it's an item that can be easily stolen and cannot be secured by password or other means.
Sure SMS and phones are not perfect, but they're good enough. Telco's need to secure themselves against social engineering attacks (now this is one area where governments excel at... fining companies for privacy breaches).
They very likely are CT scanners as the bbc news article about Heathrow installing some says that Schiphol already tested them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
Also Amsterdam Schipol is a very well run airport and the Dutch are an exceptionally well mannered people with a solid work ethic. I've been though hundreds of airports and the only departing Customs or Immigration officer who ever asked me if I enjoyed my stay was at Amsterdam.
If price fixing nets more than $130 million in additional profit, stay the course!
This is what the other side of the pond doesn't understand about the EU... You treat fines as a one off thing. They aren't. Its 100 million Euro now... but if you don't stop it'll be 300 million Euro extra. The fines are obviously a slap on the wrist compared to what they made from the crime, but that's on purpose to discourage them from retaliatory action (like raising prices). However there is a very clear message that says next time, the slap wont be on the wrist with the EU.
Fines are there to discourage illegal business practices... but not to discourage business.
I really liked Enterprise. Or at least what it could have been. My only issue was casting Scott Bakula as his acting style has almost always rubbed me the wrong way. I like him in Quantum Leap but have not liked him since. The other chars were not so bad though, The dog was AWESOME and probably the 2nd best cast member after Connor Trinneer as Tucker,
Enterprise got good in Season 3, the first two were pretty bad. The first season was so bad I didn't even finish it and didn't get around to watching it again until 2008. Season 4 was also good but you can tell they piled in the next 3-4 seasons of ideas in the last half a season because they knew they were about to be cancelled, hence why is was good.
To me Bakula was OK, a little bland but OK. Connor Tinneer is the most annoying actor and character I've ever seen.
I think they (banks, Visa, etc.) Want to skim every transaction.
That is true in America, but not everywhere. In China, WeChat and AliPay have zero transaction costs for either buyer or seller. The value of the data collected is enough, and competition keeps them from charging fees.
So it's the same principle... They're just not charging cash.
In the US and other countries banks are already skimming off of every transaction they can. They're called merchant fees or interchange fees and whenever you use a card to pay for something, the merchant has to pay the bank in order to receive your money (this is automatically deducted).
Cash is still a thorn in their side that they want gone.
English is seldom as precise as we programmers would like to make it. "Bread" is defined as "flour, water and yeast" ... but various breads are made without yeast ... and bread is used generically for food (dating back to hebrew/biblical usage), not to mention using the term to describe money.
Given that the various soy and nut milks have been in use (and named) since the 13th (other sources, 17th) centuries, it seems to me that the horse left this barn a long time ago.
And unleavened bread typically have specific names depending on where it's from. E.G. Tortilla, Matzo, Roti, Damper, Pide. The colloquial English noun for them is flatbread but English speaking countries rarely ate unleavened bread.
I'm pretty sure few, if any people refer to it as just "bread".
As for milk, it's been exclusively used for dairy milks for centuries the same as bread has been used (and still is used) to refer to leavened bread. I think calling "soy" milk, milk is deceptive. Same with vegan sausages.
There are already sentry guns. We can already program drones to drop payloads autonomously. We already have killer robots, and we do not even need AI to make them.
This.
I do not fear artificial intelligence... I fear the natural idiots who are giving them orders.
Go to much of Europe outside the UK, and it's like a breath of fresh air.
(1) No warning signs everywhere, and no attempt to protect people from themselves. 10 year olds walk or take transit to school. Train windows open -- if you stick a hand out, it's your own problem
This is mainly a point of pride for the British, Warning signs are almost a tradition here. It's like asking the Germans not to be fastidious and humourless or the French not to be arrogant and on strike.
(2) Fewer nannying restrictions on alcohol
Such as? The biggest restriction on booze here is not being able to buy it under the age of 18.
You should try going to Australia or Canada to see restrictions on alcohol sales... or Thailand where alcohol cannot be sold between 2 and 5 in the afternoon.
Tax is a bugger, but we're far from the only European nation that taxes the living shit out of alcohol.
(3) Widely ignored and/or lax drug laws in many countries
Drug laws are pretty widely ignored here. So much so that quality cocaine is cheaper in London than in Colombia (OK, there is very little local market for the devil's dandruff in Colombia).
You're confusing us with those across the pond who send pot users to jail.
(4) Fewer sexual taboos. Nudity/toplessness are much more accepted
Ahhh, the old Victorian Britain stereotype. Whilst we don't walk around in the buff like the Spanish, Brits are not that prudish (and really never were). British swearing will make most uncouth Europeans blush.
(5) Stricter privacy laws. More restrictions on employers -- employers aren't allowed to meddle in private lives outside of work as much.
OK, this one is accurate.
The Tories have a hard on for removing privacy and personal rights and that's why Brexit must be stopped. For all the idiocy thats been produced by Brussels, it's dwarfed by that out of Whitehall.
Then why isn't Tesla profitable?
Well, roughly, they have spent the last two years building up manufacturing capability, and only the last month has their manufacturing been putting out a reasonable number of cars, so the upfront costs are spent, but the income stream produced by the investment has only started. The key question is to look at Tesla's balance sheet in six months.
In more nerd terms, the "income" part of "income-outgo = profit" is a time integral, while a large portion of the outgo is fixed, so the profitability rises with time.
Will Tesla be profitable? Stay tuned.
That is why we separate CAPEX (CAPital EXpenditure, the building of factories) from OPEX (OPerational EXpenditure, cost to produce a product), Tesla's revenue is not matching their operating costs. CAPEX debt can be carried for a long time as long as you're making money on each product sold. I'm still predicting that Tesla will be bought up by one of the existing big manufacturers (VAG, BMW, Toyota, Nissan Renault) for pennies on the pound. It might take a few years but it'll happen.
You do understand, I trust, that the American space program greatly benefited from German scientists hustled into the country after the war. Werner von Braun ring any bells. Both the Americans and the Soviets plundered the wreckage of Nazi Germany for its technological innovations, and in particular for aeronautics technology. Whether it was guided missiles or jet aircraft, the Germans had come a lot further in their research and development in these areas.
Go back even further than that... the only reason the western allies won the war was because our German scientists were better than their German scientists.
CDMA is not dead. Current LTE is a more advanced version of CDMA and called something else because Qualcomm submitted it to a standards body.
Nope, LTE is the "4th" (3.5th actually) generation of the GSM standard.
WiMax was meant to be the replacement for CDMA although it wasn't developed from CDMA. WiMax has also died a well needed death.
Verizon's CDMA was designed for voice and data was added on as a second thought. While modern versions of CDMA are designed for data and voice.
what you call GSM is the old voice only TDMA tech which was competing with CDMA for voice
Nope, what I call GSM are the group of technologies including GSM, UTMS, HSPA and LTE which colloquially fall under the moniker GSM.
I use 2G and 3G systems for my data logging projects. They are much cheaper. Eventually I am afraid I will need to use a full 4G LTE system (at least in the US).
As you specified "at least in the US" you're probably living in a country that chose GSM from the very begining. Verizon does not have a "3G" GSM network such as HSPA, they went with CDMA which was a slower, more dead end technology. They're one of the last networks to get rid of it.
If you want to use 3G GSM devices in the US, you need to go with AT&T as they're the only company that implemented an internationally compatible version of 3G GSM.
Explain.
Monitor.
Then trust.
Kids will always find ways to access what they want to see. Best to teach/explain/trust than to make them feel suppressed or constantly watched.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... Back this thing up here... It sounds like you're talking about actual parenting, creating an environment where if your child sees something that they're confused about or disturbed by, they can talk to their parent.
No, in this case the breeder simply wants a fail-proof electronic nanny so they don't have to do anything to raise their crotchspawns.
I use the dictionary definition:
Well, the income tax rate in Denmark is just over 60%, so it fits that definition, too.
Denmark. Denmark plays by those rules. More than 60% of income in Denmark goes to taxes. Last time I checked the definition of "most", 60 percent meets the definition.
Face it: The happiest countries in the world are the countries that have struck a balance between socialism and market economies.
Market economies are independent of socialist/capitalist governments. The market economy fails when a government puts it's ideologies above functional economics... I.E. under extremist governments. Both extreme socialism and extreme capitalism will lead to a collapse of a market economy, ironically due to the same issue, one party gaining too much power over the market, under socialism it's the government, under capitalism it'll be a corporation. End result is the same really.
No country operates a successful "pure" capitalist or socialist economy, they're all mixed in various amounts.
Is it offensive or just shorthand to avoid having to say/write "Lanina/Lantino" every single time?
What is the word for someone who sees offence everywhere? Not themselves offended as such, just assuming everyone else is motivated by offence.
The solution already exists in Spanish. Use the masculine pronoun for a mixed gender or gender non specific, Latinos would be correct in Spanish. In English you could also use Latin or Latin people as gender non-specific.
it is las latinx or los latinx, depending on if its a group or males or females ;);)
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How dare you assume the gender of that word.
Seriously, I converse with Latinos (mostly Colombians, occasionally Argentinian) on a regular basis. Not once I have I ever heard them complain about the lack of gender neutral pronouns, most are happy to keep the masculine pronoun as encompassing both genders and the feminine pronoun for exclusively female. Not even my teacher who constantly bemoaned the lack of modernisation in the language.
I think the gender neutral way of saying Latino would be "persona Latin" (latin person). I think whoever invented "latinx" has too much time on their hands and doesn't speak Spanish as that word is a bitch to pronounce (Latin-ks or Latin-equis, maybe Latin-diez if we're using roman numerals. The h and sh sounds are predominantly Mexican and rarer further south). Point in short, Latino countries are less hung up on this issue.
The various websites associated with Gawker are so terrible it is comical.
This.
A few used to be good for geek related news like Gizmodo and IO9 but Gizmodo quickly turned into an Apple fanboy service site and lost most of it's readership when a site redesign made it impossible to avoid that. IO9 took a while longer but eventually that was folded into Gizmodo and became irrelevant.
That's great if you don't have family and friends thousands of miles away or across oceans. It's not stupidity that makes many people fly: it's the desire to see their families.
As I told my family members who moved away - I'm not important enough to live near, so you're not important enough to visit. If I show up, I do, but I'm under no obligation. But I won't fly unless it's a private flight chartered by me.
Regardless, you are going to have to decide how much shit you want to put up with. That's how much shit you're going to take. That might include getting your children felt up. Go to Ebaum's world and look up what the TSA is allowed to do. I'd put the link here, but it looks like KP. I'm certainly going to scour my computer tonight.
When I was moving to the UK from Oz, my mother tried the old guilt trip of "But I hardly see you now..." at which point I had to say "I've lived an hour away for a decade and now you're worried about seeing me".
My point is, once you get out of the US air travel is a lot nicer. Airports are run by businesses that understand that customers want their customers to move quickly from A to B, A being whatever godforsaken mode of transport took them to the airport and B being a metal tube full of meat cargo. London Heathrow, Singapore Changi and Amsterdam Schipol are great airports that are relatively fast to get through for their size. Honestly I think I could turn up at LHR with 90 mins before wheels up and have plenty of time (and at lest 30 of that 90 mins will be walking, Heathrow is fucking massive), you couldn't hope to do that at LAX in a month of sundays. Asian airlines actually seem to care about customer service and comfort (European airlines are still crap though), standard economy on Singapore Airlines is called premium economy on others and when you're flying for 14 hours, an extra inch of leg and arse space is a godsend.
BTW, charted and private planes are subject to TSA screening... So unless you're flying GA from and to a non TSA field, you're still up for an enhanced pat down.
Really? You have a State Issued ID that MUST be affixed to your car, and you are willfully driving it and PARKING IT in public view, on private property. And that is invading privacy?
The invasion of privacy is where they send it to ICE without you doing anything wrong. Just because you can see my license plate, doesn't mean you have the right to do what you please with it. Same with the front of my house or what you can see through my windows.
Wow you can predict precisely where the laser will hit and have the mirror at the ready? Or you're simply walking down the battlefield with a full dress mirror??
Sequined armour dah-ling... Full dress mirrors are so last year.
This is just a step in the direction of making us think that it is the big mega-corporation's job to censor what what we read.
How? This is basically the equivalent of mail clients placing FW: in front of a forwarded message...
If anything I'd rather know if a message I receive is genuinely from the sender or something they've copied.
As a non-American I find it odd to observe from a distance the esteem that a document written in 1787 is held.
Few other concepts from that era are held in unquestioning reverence by as many people. Horses and buggies? Leeches for tonsillitis? Nope we've moved on.
But suggest that a document in 1787 might require a bit of interpretation as society has moved on a bit since then? Somehow this is an unthinkable affront to the framers of said document.
My own country holds our founders in a bit less regard. John A McDonald? Any decent highschooler will tell you he was an alcoholic, racist, womanizer and all around asshole. Why highschooler? Because we learn it in school. Canadians tend not to place our leaders in amber and preserve them forever more. We don't dietize them. We recognize their faults and virtues in equal measure.
Sometimes we do it to excess, but it might be worth thinking about. I'm reasonably sure the framers when they held it as self-evident that all men were created equal, they didn't intend to be placed on a pedestal for all time, nor I think would a person who truly believes that sentiment expect their words to be enshrined in amber, never to be looked at with a critical gaze?
Might it be time for a V2 rewrite as opposed to another patch release? Just a thought.
A lot of countries hold their founding documents in high esteem, however most do not trust them to safe guard their rights as when it gets down to it, a constitution or bill of right is just ink on a page. Rights are protected by people, if the population supports people who restrict rights, even rights for minorities and unpopular people then those rights are no longer protected for everyone and any document is rendered powerless.
This is why I've never worried about Australia not having a bill of rights. The defence of rights occurs in the court and the Australian courts have done a very good job over the years striking down laws that are unconstitutional or even simply against the public good... Then again, Australian judges are generally selected on merit, rather than being political appointees.
The American reverence for their document is nothing for them to be ashamed of, however the do need to lose the belief in it's magically protective properties.