Bullshit, the economy does not collapse without immigration. That has never happened anywhere.
Economies have certainly collapsed due to an absence of cheap labour. In fact, just about every country that closed its borders and became insular has had an economic collapse. Hell, if immigration control was so effective, why isn't North Korea an economic power.
However the immigration control part of Brexit isn't whats going to kill the UK economy, the dual effects of losing access to the single market and losing Scotland and Northern Ireland is what will sink the UK. If the UKIP got their way a few businesses will shut down, mostly those that are labour intensive for low cost products. The practical effect for the UKIP voter is that they will have to wash their own cars, clean their own houses and not eat out as often because they cant afford to pay an Englishman to do these menial tasks for them. That would be the case even if they weren't going broke because manufacturing will have moved overseas (it was only here to avoid EU tariffs).
We've already seen the negative effects start, a 3 fold increase in bridging loans. When the shit really hits the fan, people will literally be losing their homes because they cant afford the repayments. The credit crunch is going to be a holiday in comparison.
The only two ways that Brexit doesn't end in tears for the British people is if it is stopped (EU prez Tusk has said this is quite doable) or the UK accepts the EU's four freedoms in exchange for access to the single market. Although option two ends in status quo para Brexit legally, we essentially lose all power in the EU and are dependent on their mercy.
A healthy economy means increased birthrates
I've always found it odd that those who are anti-immigration want people to have more babies... well as long as they're the right colour and religion.
The thing is, I'm an immigrant to the UK but no-one says a word, no-one tells me to fuck off back home because I'm a white Anglo.
The NYT is famous for its WMD in Iraq, Saddam is going to attack the US fake news. Fox is packed with fake news. Face it, ever since the the news media turned to click bait journalism (infotainment), the news from the left, right and center is likely to have many fake components, salted with a dash of truth to make it more palatable. The Russians did it (meaning everything bad that ever happens) is the latest in click-bait journalism. Time to boycott the mainstream (fake) press.
Being from the UK, I tend to compare the Daily Mail (right wing nonsense) with the Guardian (left wing nonsense). Whilst I prefer less biased resources, I'd take the Guardian over the Daily Mail any day. The Guardian has less outright lies and is written in a far more eloquent way, there is a minimum level of intelligence required to read the Guardian so they cant simply piss on their readers backs and tell them it's raining like the Daily Mail does which writes for the lowest common denominator.
That would be you because the RFS didn't address anything that the GP talked about. It doesn't matter if the danger is imminent, you're asking someone with little or no situational awareness to suddenly take control of a potentially deadly piece of equipment.
And lets face it, with autonomous car technology, most steering wheel attendants (I cant call them drivers) will be on their phone, if their even sober enough to drive. So they will be completely unaware of what the vehicle perceives.
As others in this thread have commented, this sounds like a method to ensure manufacturers cant be sued.
Seems logical. I don't see a lot of non-Indians writing apps for the Indian market.
You've got that backwards, this is about having Indians write apps for non Indian markets. Basically so App production can be farmed out to off-shored body shops more easily.
This may not be solely due to pedestrians not paying attention because they're head is too far buried in their phones. A lot of drivers do the same and are depending on others to avoid the collision. The person who gets hit may not necessarily be the one on the phone.
Beyond that, there is a cost we all have to bear from preventable deaths, most western countries will shut down roads, have emergency services, A&E triage, medivac choppers all of which have a direct or indirect cost to all of us. Even if we didn't have that, we still have to cost of paying someone to scrape them up off the pavement. We cant just leave them there as rotting corpses are a health hazard (which again, is a huge cost).
Only if Google provides a mean to get the OEM unlock code. Sony has a website you can go to, but not all their phones are unlockable.
Google does not provide the carrier unlock code, the carrier puts that on, enforces it and removes it. I was talking about the bootloader unlock like here for the Nexus 5x
Carrier locking is more of a problem with the unregulated US telecoms industry, here in the UK carriers are required to unlock my phone at my request. Not that I've bought a phone from a carrier... ever. Living in Oz and the UK means that I could buy off the shelf phones that worked on most if not all carriers. Its the same with Iphones, if you want that carrier unlocked you have to talk to Verizon or AT&T, not Apple.
I still firmly belive that carrier locking should be outright illegal.
But American Healthcare has been publicly funded for decades. In fact, the cost of healthcare in America was under that of Germany before socialized healthcare was brought in.
Sorry but that is incorrect.
American health care corporations have been publicly funded for decades, but not healthcare itself.
Also you're spending far more than countries with public health care. 2015 expenditure per capita in USD:
Australia = $4420
Canada = $4608
France = $ 4407
Germany $ 5267
UK = $4003
US = $9451
Out of the 35 OCED countries, the US is the most expensive with Luxembourg taking up the number 2 spot ($7765). Out of the 217 countries surveyed by the WHO, the US is 217. You can take 27 off of that number if you like because the WHO has no statistics for 27 nations, but I'd find it hard to believe that French Polynesia has a significantly higher health care spend than the US.
So it isn't that the US doesn't have the money to spend, its just that the system is completely wrong. If the US copied the UK's NHS verbatim, you would half the cost of your health care and eliminate almost all out of pocket expenses and probably 90% of all insurance premiums.
Get the government out of health care and health insurance entirely,
We already tried that in the UK. The NHS works better.
This.
The NHS, for all its faults is better than any other system I've used. It is certainly light years ahead of the Australian system... which is light centuries ahead of the US system.
The problem the US has is that health care companies have license to bill... then license to bill again. So they charge the government first, then the user. If the US simply forklifted an NHS system in, health care costs will drop almost immediately. The UK's NHS certainly has issues (GBP 10 million spent on erectile dysfunction drugs last year) but it is at least designed to put the patient first and does this pretty damn well. The US health care system is designed to protect profits, not people.
Remember that the US govt spends more per person on healthcare than the NHS spends per person. There's no way in hell the private industry can do it cheaper when they have to make a profit and report to shareholders (In the UK, the NHS shareholders are the people using the service).
Accenture is basically a giant body shop of consultants and no skill cheap contractors. Their consultants will blow smoke up your ass harder than a fully loaded 2 stroke marine diesel and their contractors suck harder than a black hole with daddy issues. I have twice dealt with Accenture at customer sites and I have never met one who wasn't just wasting my valuable oxygen.
Yes, but if anyone can find a way to make Accenture suck even worse, it's Oracle.
and atheist (right and wrong aren't enforced socially in the same manner as Western countries)
Hogwash! For one, China is largely Buddhist (or variations of), not atheist.
Buddhism is by definition, atheist. Atheism is the absence of belief in a god (opposite of Theism, the belief in god or gods). Buddhism does not contain a god or higher power that controls everything. Buddhism is about the universe responding to what you do, whether you're resurrected as a higher or lower being depends on how you've lived your life, not what $_.Skyman allegedly says (lets ignore that every single one of his directives was written by the hand of man).
Buddha was a man who, according to Buddhism, achieved enlightenment. Buddha does not control or influence from beyond the point of enlightenment and it's the goal of Buddhists to reach the same level of enlightenment. Buddhists religious texts are treated more like guides than unquestionable directives.
Buddhism is not the only major religion to be atheist, and despite being rather non-authoritative compared to theist religions they have also been abused by those in power. That being said, I'd much rather sit next to a devout Buddhist than a devout Christian. Unwelcome proselytising is not the done thing for Buddhists (its a personal journey and all that).
Buddhist being atheist is about the only thing the GGP got right though.
Second, the USA started off industrialization in a similar poorly-regulated dog-eat-dog kind of way. Europe used to rib us about it. Poor people take more risks because they have less to lose. Read about "Muck Rakers". Tape-worm eggs were sold as diet medicine, for example, and nobody did anything about it.
It wasn't just the USA, Europe was pretty messy too although we did it earlier than the US. The thing is, for Europe this was well over 100 years ago where we used kids to clean smoke stacks. For China, there are many people who remember when Mao told them to make steel in their back yards (which resulted in massive amounts of pig iron, which is too brittle for most applications requiring steel). Much like Europe and the US, China's middle class are rising.
If the product really behaves as what it's being sold as, it's a counterfeit. If it doesn't, it's an outright fake. I once bought a micro SD card that turned out to be fake (it failed, and then the company said the serial number wasn't valid). When buying phone batteries on eBay, I expect them to be counterfeit. They've always worked, though I don't have any good way of telling if the mAh ratings were real.
However the collary to this is that there is a difference between "fake" and "not genuine".
Many non-genuine products are just missing a brand. Bosch make oil filters for a number of auto manufacturers. The only difference between a Bosch filter and a Genuine BMW filter is that the Genuine BMW filter has a brand sticker and a huge markup. Its the same with many ICT products. Quite often the parts you buy were made in the same factory, sold off as excess and resold at a lower price than genuine components.
OTOH, there are legitimate fakes, but they are much rarer than most are lead to believe.
Personally I've never bought a fake component, unbranded ones designed to fit, but never a fake, but I also dont buy from random sellers on Alibaba.
Just buy a Pixel from Google. They work on VZW. They weren't bootloader lock to start, and AFAIK they still aren't.
In the interests of clarity -- OP was pretty clear, but let's make it absolutely clear: if you buy a Pixel at a retail store (Verizon, BestBuy, WalMart, etc) -- you get a locked bootloader with no carrier lock. It will work on carriers other than Verizon. But it will have Verizon shitware on it.
You can only get both the "unlocked bootloader" and "no carrier lock" if you buy a Pixel directly from Google.
Can you unlock the bootloader with a single command like I did with my Nexus 4 and 5x?
Scotland just voted to have a post-Brexit independence referendum. Without Scotland, there is no UK. Just the greater Welsh Hegemony.
Well it would get interesting as the EU doesn't let new entrants in on legacy deals. It's the euro, Schengen, full package if Scotland wants to rejoin. Which would mean they'd have to leave the pound and put real border control on the UK border.
And that would be an issue because... You already find it difficult to use English pounds in Scotland as most stores only accept Scottish Pounds. This is entirely to do with giving a 2 fingered salute to England. So accepting the Euro wont be much of an issue.
Border control with the South... Ya can bet ya wee fanny that's acceptable. Hell, I'd be surprised if the Scots don't push the English back to Hadrian's wall and keep those English oot.
Meanwhile England will be losing the population of Scotland, the backbone of it's armed forces, the picturesque highlands, the wealth of the North Sea and Brewdog.
UK is losing free access to a market 6x their domestic, and won't be the financial market for Europe. Hard to see how that won't result in a slowed economy and they'll certainly have less political influence as they can no longer affect EU policies.
Its worse than that... the UK is losing Scotland and all the wealth of the North Sea. All of Scotland voted to remain.
However EU president Donald Tusk has said that Article 50 can be rescinded, so all we have to do is wait for May and the conservatives to become so unpopular they'll have to change their tune. 6 months ago, I would have said that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable, however Theresa the Appeaser has pretty much assured that if there were an election tomorrow, he'd be elected because he's not her.
All the Brexiters are right about a union breaking under it's own stupidity... they were just wrong about which union.
You can say what you want about Trump, but Putin is in no way a simple-minded populist. He sees power and knows how to hold on to it. His country is small, but he knows how to wield power to achieve his goals.
This I agree with. Putin's biggest problem is that he cant control the EU, so a weakened EU makes him happy as he's able to intimate or exert more influence over the weaker (read: eastern European) members.
Also he fits into the group because he's a right wing nationalist. The one we should be discounting is Marie Le Pen... given what happened to Gert Wilders in the Dutch elections she's likely to lose in France. She's trying to do Filion, what Trump did to Hillary but because people have seen how bad Trump is, the French aren't buying it.
I love the lying moron alert at the start of a moronic lie
You love it so much you did one of your own.
MEPs are democratically elected but have no power to put forward a motion for debate or to enact a law
That is demonstrably false.
MEPs can and do table legislation. Because they vote on said legislation, it goes to the council first. This is called a "check and balance". The same as the Council cant pass a law without the ascent of the European Parliament.
Why not just have a simple easy to understand elected government?
It is.
I dont understand why you're having such a hard time understanding it when it works the same way as most two house democratic governments. The UK govt is more complex and less democratic due to the unelected house of lords and requirement for Royal Ascent.
Whatever sources you're getting your information from, I suggest you stop and get some new ones.
Interesting idea, but it means only one end of each runway is usable. The reason they build paralell runways is so both ends of the runway and different runways simultaneously can be used with wake turbulence being a major issue.
You could extend that design to surround the airport with runways in a hexagonal or pentagonal configuration, It will give more runway options but be less efficient. Modern airports that deal with a large variety of wake turbulence categories tend to have a smaller runway for lighter passenger jets like 717's and bombardier CRJ's away from runways that handle heavy and super heavy categories.
With the Aerospace industry being notoriously cautious and conservative, I don't think we're going to see a change any time soon as parallel runways seem to be the most efficient design.
For the life of me, I can't fathom why anyone would want to live in a big city. Every perk I hear touted, I can beat. It's quiet, I have a yard, and I have more spending money that the saps choking on smog.
That isn't beating the perks, that just makes you sound like an old, angry redneck shouting at the sky.
Hey, you don't like the big city, good for you. However that doesn't mean your perspective is the one and only right perspective. I certainly get the appeal of living in a big, lively city. I also see the appeal of living in an area with lower rents and a lot of space. I'm fortunate that I can have the best of both worlds. I'm 45 mins from central London, That means a night out in one of the worlds best cities is a train ride away. However living out in Hants means I can own a car, pay less rent, so on and so forth. There are a few disadvantages like living in UKIP country, lack of general amenities, nightlife, good places to eat, these are things I miss from living in London. If I want a decent burger, it's a 15 mile drive.
City life appeals to a great many people, just because you dont understand that does not make it wrong.
I used to live in Perth and it was a 15 minute commute from Kingsley to Joondalup on a 10 KM (6.5 miles) commute on a good day. Melbourne is even worse. My current 5.5 mile commute in south west England is so dependent on the traffic. In no traffic, I'm looking at 10 minutes, if there's a problem on the Motorway, my commute can easily exceed 30 mins.
Working somewhere with flexible hours is the best thing you can do for a commute. The best shift I've ever done is 10 to 6. You beat the rush hour traffic and the school traffic both ways, doing 6 to 2 or 3 means you hit the school traffic going home. Plus people who dont love a good lie in are strange and unnatural.
Uh, no. If a drone is close enough to know who I am, I should be able to know who the operator is, without a layer of bureaucracy in the way. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Like a license plate number?
There are several license plate number databases in the UK but the worst someone can find out about me from my license plate is.
1. I drive a blue BMW 135i coupe with a 3L turbocharged engine.
2. My MOT is current and there are no listed problems with my car.
3. My car is taxed.
If I park in front of your house and you want to find out who owns that car, you'll have to go through a discovery process via the police.
What the article here is proposing is simply putting a transponder onto every drone. I'd have to say "good luck with that" as it took years and the support of governments to get just two standards for IDing airports (IATA and ICAO).
Notice that if you hire contractors to do some work on your house, they are more likely to show up in pickup trucks than giant vans.
That entirely depends on where you live.
I live in the UK, builders turn up in Ford Transit vans. The only people who own pickups here in the UK are usually city slickers who want to bully others on the road with their generative member compensation vehicle (usually a VW Amarok which only goes off road when the owner mounts a curb whilst picking up the kids). For obvious reason, tradesmen, builders, delivery drivers, et al. use vans. Its the same reason that it's more a space van than a space truck... unless you're using the exclusively Australian definition of the word truck.
SpaceX is really working on the "space pickup truck" idea.
Is this going to be driven by space rednecks with astro-mullets carrying their space shotguns?
Sorry, but that's the image I get from the idea of a space "pickup". Realistically it's going to be more like a space van or lorry.
Space X et al. are really just trying to use current technology, I'm hoping something like Reaction Engine's Skylon gets off the ground. If we want to make space travel economical, we're going to need something better than chemical rockets.
Keep thinking that Bannon et al are stupid. You may not like them - but that doesn't make them stupid.
Bannon et al. are idiots.
However the people that voted for them and continue to support their idiotic ideas are the ones who are really stupid.
The tide is turning against so-called "populist" politics precisely because people are seeing how much damage is caused when the stupid put idiots into power. Hanson lost in Western Australia, Wilders in the Netherlands lost, Le Pen in France is next.
The rest of the world should really thank you for being the shining example of what not to do.
However pretending to yourself that your political opposition is stupid; now that says something about you.
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Bullshit, the economy does not collapse without immigration. That has never happened anywhere.
Economies have certainly collapsed due to an absence of cheap labour. In fact, just about every country that closed its borders and became insular has had an economic collapse. Hell, if immigration control was so effective, why isn't North Korea an economic power.
However the immigration control part of Brexit isn't whats going to kill the UK economy, the dual effects of losing access to the single market and losing Scotland and Northern Ireland is what will sink the UK. If the UKIP got their way a few businesses will shut down, mostly those that are labour intensive for low cost products. The practical effect for the UKIP voter is that they will have to wash their own cars, clean their own houses and not eat out as often because they cant afford to pay an Englishman to do these menial tasks for them. That would be the case even if they weren't going broke because manufacturing will have moved overseas (it was only here to avoid EU tariffs).
We've already seen the negative effects start, a 3 fold increase in bridging loans. When the shit really hits the fan, people will literally be losing their homes because they cant afford the repayments. The credit crunch is going to be a holiday in comparison.
The only two ways that Brexit doesn't end in tears for the British people is if it is stopped (EU prez Tusk has said this is quite doable) or the UK accepts the EU's four freedoms in exchange for access to the single market. Although option two ends in status quo para Brexit legally, we essentially lose all power in the EU and are dependent on their mercy.
A healthy economy means increased birthrates
I've always found it odd that those who are anti-immigration want people to have more babies... well as long as they're the right colour and religion.
The thing is, I'm an immigrant to the UK but no-one says a word, no-one tells me to fuck off back home because I'm a white Anglo.
The NYT is famous for its WMD in Iraq, Saddam is going to attack the US fake news. Fox is packed with fake news. Face it, ever since the the news media turned to click bait journalism (infotainment), the news from the left, right and center is likely to have many fake components, salted with a dash of truth to make it more palatable. The Russians did it (meaning everything bad that ever happens) is the latest in click-bait journalism. Time to boycott the mainstream (fake) press.
Being from the UK, I tend to compare the Daily Mail (right wing nonsense) with the Guardian (left wing nonsense). Whilst I prefer less biased resources, I'd take the Guardian over the Daily Mail any day. The Guardian has less outright lies and is written in a far more eloquent way, there is a minimum level of intelligence required to read the Guardian so they cant simply piss on their readers backs and tell them it's raining like the Daily Mail does which writes for the lowest common denominator.
Guess who didn't RTFS :/
That would be you because the RFS didn't address anything that the GP talked about. It doesn't matter if the danger is imminent, you're asking someone with little or no situational awareness to suddenly take control of a potentially deadly piece of equipment.
And lets face it, with autonomous car technology, most steering wheel attendants (I cant call them drivers) will be on their phone, if their even sober enough to drive. So they will be completely unaware of what the vehicle perceives.
As others in this thread have commented, this sounds like a method to ensure manufacturers cant be sued.
Seems logical. I don't see a lot of non-Indians writing apps for the Indian market.
You've got that backwards, this is about having Indians write apps for non Indian markets. Basically so App production can be farmed out to off-shored body shops more easily.
Let Darwin do his work... ;-)
But Darwin works too slowly.
This may not be solely due to pedestrians not paying attention because they're head is too far buried in their phones. A lot of drivers do the same and are depending on others to avoid the collision. The person who gets hit may not necessarily be the one on the phone.
Beyond that, there is a cost we all have to bear from preventable deaths, most western countries will shut down roads, have emergency services, A&E triage, medivac choppers all of which have a direct or indirect cost to all of us. Even if we didn't have that, we still have to cost of paying someone to scrape them up off the pavement. We cant just leave them there as rotting corpses are a health hazard (which again, is a huge cost).
Only if Google provides a mean to get the OEM unlock code. Sony has a website you can go to, but not all their phones are unlockable.
Google does not provide the carrier unlock code, the carrier puts that on, enforces it and removes it. I was talking about the bootloader unlock like here for the Nexus 5x
Carrier locking is more of a problem with the unregulated US telecoms industry, here in the UK carriers are required to unlock my phone at my request. Not that I've bought a phone from a carrier... ever. Living in Oz and the UK means that I could buy off the shelf phones that worked on most if not all carriers. Its the same with Iphones, if you want that carrier unlocked you have to talk to Verizon or AT&T, not Apple.
I still firmly belive that carrier locking should be outright illegal.
But American Healthcare has been publicly funded for decades. In fact, the cost of healthcare in America was under that of Germany before socialized healthcare was brought in.
Sorry but that is incorrect.
American health care corporations have been publicly funded for decades, but not healthcare itself.
Also you're spending far more than countries with public health care. 2015 expenditure per capita in USD:
Australia = $4420
Canada = $4608
France = $ 4407
Germany $ 5267
UK = $4003
US = $9451
Out of the 35 OCED countries, the US is the most expensive with Luxembourg taking up the number 2 spot ($7765). Out of the 217 countries surveyed by the WHO, the US is 217. You can take 27 off of that number if you like because the WHO has no statistics for 27 nations, but I'd find it hard to believe that French Polynesia has a significantly higher health care spend than the US.
So it isn't that the US doesn't have the money to spend, its just that the system is completely wrong. If the US copied the UK's NHS verbatim, you would half the cost of your health care and eliminate almost all out of pocket expenses and probably 90% of all insurance premiums.
Get the government out of health care and health insurance entirely,
We already tried that in the UK. The NHS works better.
This.
The NHS, for all its faults is better than any other system I've used. It is certainly light years ahead of the Australian system... which is light centuries ahead of the US system.
The problem the US has is that health care companies have license to bill... then license to bill again. So they charge the government first, then the user. If the US simply forklifted an NHS system in, health care costs will drop almost immediately. The UK's NHS certainly has issues (GBP 10 million spent on erectile dysfunction drugs last year) but it is at least designed to put the patient first and does this pretty damn well. The US health care system is designed to protect profits, not people.
Remember that the US govt spends more per person on healthcare than the NHS spends per person. There's no way in hell the private industry can do it cheaper when they have to make a profit and report to shareholders (In the UK, the NHS shareholders are the people using the service).
Accenture is basically a giant body shop of consultants and no skill cheap contractors. Their consultants will blow smoke up your ass harder than a fully loaded 2 stroke marine diesel and their contractors suck harder than a black hole with daddy issues. I have twice dealt with Accenture at customer sites and I have never met one who wasn't just wasting my valuable oxygen.
Yes, but if anyone can find a way to make Accenture suck even worse, it's Oracle.
Hogwash! For one, China is largely Buddhist (or variations of), not atheist.
Buddhism is by definition, atheist. Atheism is the absence of belief in a god (opposite of Theism, the belief in god or gods). Buddhism does not contain a god or higher power that controls everything. Buddhism is about the universe responding to what you do, whether you're resurrected as a higher or lower being depends on how you've lived your life, not what $_.Skyman allegedly says (lets ignore that every single one of his directives was written by the hand of man).
Buddha was a man who, according to Buddhism, achieved enlightenment. Buddha does not control or influence from beyond the point of enlightenment and it's the goal of Buddhists to reach the same level of enlightenment. Buddhists religious texts are treated more like guides than unquestionable directives.
Buddhism is not the only major religion to be atheist, and despite being rather non-authoritative compared to theist religions they have also been abused by those in power. That being said, I'd much rather sit next to a devout Buddhist than a devout Christian. Unwelcome proselytising is not the done thing for Buddhists (its a personal journey and all that). Buddhist being atheist is about the only thing the GGP got right though.
Second, the USA started off industrialization in a similar poorly-regulated dog-eat-dog kind of way. Europe used to rib us about it. Poor people take more risks because they have less to lose. Read about "Muck Rakers". Tape-worm eggs were sold as diet medicine, for example, and nobody did anything about it.
It wasn't just the USA, Europe was pretty messy too although we did it earlier than the US. The thing is, for Europe this was well over 100 years ago where we used kids to clean smoke stacks. For China, there are many people who remember when Mao told them to make steel in their back yards (which resulted in massive amounts of pig iron, which is too brittle for most applications requiring steel). Much like Europe and the US, China's middle class are rising.
If the product really behaves as what it's being sold as, it's a counterfeit. If it doesn't, it's an outright fake. I once bought a micro SD card that turned out to be fake (it failed, and then the company said the serial number wasn't valid). When buying phone batteries on eBay, I expect them to be counterfeit. They've always worked, though I don't have any good way of telling if the mAh ratings were real.
However the collary to this is that there is a difference between "fake" and "not genuine".
Many non-genuine products are just missing a brand. Bosch make oil filters for a number of auto manufacturers. The only difference between a Bosch filter and a Genuine BMW filter is that the Genuine BMW filter has a brand sticker and a huge markup. Its the same with many ICT products. Quite often the parts you buy were made in the same factory, sold off as excess and resold at a lower price than genuine components.
OTOH, there are legitimate fakes, but they are much rarer than most are lead to believe.
Personally I've never bought a fake component, unbranded ones designed to fit, but never a fake, but I also dont buy from random sellers on Alibaba.
In the interests of clarity -- OP was pretty clear, but let's make it absolutely clear: if you buy a Pixel at a retail store (Verizon, BestBuy, WalMart, etc) -- you get a locked bootloader with no carrier lock. It will work on carriers other than Verizon. But it will have Verizon shitware on it.
You can only get both the "unlocked bootloader" and "no carrier lock" if you buy a Pixel directly from Google.
Can you unlock the bootloader with a single command like I did with my Nexus 4 and 5x?
The leave camp are not knuckle draggers. Not all of them.
Not all of them, it's only around 99.85% knuckle draggers.
Scotland just voted to have a post-Brexit independence referendum. Without Scotland, there is no UK. Just the greater Welsh Hegemony.
Well it would get interesting as the EU doesn't let new entrants in on legacy deals. It's the euro, Schengen, full package if Scotland wants to rejoin. Which would mean they'd have to leave the pound and put real border control on the UK border.
And that would be an issue because... You already find it difficult to use English pounds in Scotland as most stores only accept Scottish Pounds. This is entirely to do with giving a 2 fingered salute to England. So accepting the Euro wont be much of an issue.
Border control with the South... Ya can bet ya wee fanny that's acceptable. Hell, I'd be surprised if the Scots don't push the English back to Hadrian's wall and keep those English oot.
Meanwhile England will be losing the population of Scotland, the backbone of it's armed forces, the picturesque highlands, the wealth of the North Sea and Brewdog.
UK is losing free access to a market 6x their domestic, and won't be the financial market for Europe. Hard to see how that won't result in a slowed economy and they'll certainly have less political influence as they can no longer affect EU policies.
Its worse than that... the UK is losing Scotland and all the wealth of the North Sea. All of Scotland voted to remain.
However EU president Donald Tusk has said that Article 50 can be rescinded, so all we have to do is wait for May and the conservatives to become so unpopular they'll have to change their tune. 6 months ago, I would have said that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable, however Theresa the Appeaser has pretty much assured that if there were an election tomorrow, he'd be elected because he's not her.
All the Brexiters are right about a union breaking under it's own stupidity... they were just wrong about which union.
You can say what you want about Trump, but Putin is in no way a simple-minded populist. He sees power and knows how to hold on to it. His country is small, but he knows how to wield power to achieve his goals.
This I agree with. Putin's biggest problem is that he cant control the EU, so a weakened EU makes him happy as he's able to intimate or exert more influence over the weaker (read: eastern European) members.
Also he fits into the group because he's a right wing nationalist. The one we should be discounting is Marie Le Pen... given what happened to Gert Wilders in the Dutch elections she's likely to lose in France. She's trying to do Filion, what Trump did to Hillary but because people have seen how bad Trump is, the French aren't buying it.
I love the lying moron alert at the start of a moronic lie
You love it so much you did one of your own.
MEPs are democratically elected but have no power to put forward a motion for debate or to enact a law
That is demonstrably false. MEPs can and do table legislation. Because they vote on said legislation, it goes to the council first. This is called a "check and balance". The same as the Council cant pass a law without the ascent of the European Parliament.
Why not just have a simple easy to understand elected government?
It is.
I dont understand why you're having such a hard time understanding it when it works the same way as most two house democratic governments. The UK govt is more complex and less democratic due to the unelected house of lords and requirement for Royal Ascent.
Whatever sources you're getting your information from, I suggest you stop and get some new ones.
http://archives.chicagotribune...
Interesting idea, but it means only one end of each runway is usable. The reason they build paralell runways is so both ends of the runway and different runways simultaneously can be used with wake turbulence being a major issue.
You could extend that design to surround the airport with runways in a hexagonal or pentagonal configuration, It will give more runway options but be less efficient. Modern airports that deal with a large variety of wake turbulence categories tend to have a smaller runway for lighter passenger jets like 717's and bombardier CRJ's away from runways that handle heavy and super heavy categories.
With the Aerospace industry being notoriously cautious and conservative, I don't think we're going to see a change any time soon as parallel runways seem to be the most efficient design.
For the life of me, I can't fathom why anyone would want to live in a big city. Every perk I hear touted, I can beat. It's quiet, I have a yard, and I have more spending money that the saps choking on smog.
That isn't beating the perks, that just makes you sound like an old, angry redneck shouting at the sky.
Hey, you don't like the big city, good for you. However that doesn't mean your perspective is the one and only right perspective. I certainly get the appeal of living in a big, lively city. I also see the appeal of living in an area with lower rents and a lot of space. I'm fortunate that I can have the best of both worlds. I'm 45 mins from central London, That means a night out in one of the worlds best cities is a train ride away. However living out in Hants means I can own a car, pay less rent, so on and so forth. There are a few disadvantages like living in UKIP country, lack of general amenities, nightlife, good places to eat, these are things I miss from living in London. If I want a decent burger, it's a 15 mile drive.
City life appeals to a great many people, just because you dont understand that does not make it wrong.
Who lives in Austin and has a 16 minute commute?
I'd say the same for Melbourne.
I used to live in Perth and it was a 15 minute commute from Kingsley to Joondalup on a 10 KM (6.5 miles) commute on a good day. Melbourne is even worse. My current 5.5 mile commute in south west England is so dependent on the traffic. In no traffic, I'm looking at 10 minutes, if there's a problem on the Motorway, my commute can easily exceed 30 mins.
Working somewhere with flexible hours is the best thing you can do for a commute. The best shift I've ever done is 10 to 6. You beat the rush hour traffic and the school traffic both ways, doing 6 to 2 or 3 means you hit the school traffic going home. Plus people who dont love a good lie in are strange and unnatural.
It's a mystery to me why anyone is still using uTorrent when qBittorrent is so much better.
This.
I switched to qBitTorrent years ago and haven't looked back.
My current mission is to find a nag free anti-virus that doesn't install all and sundry into every browser, nook and cranny it can.
Uh, no. If a drone is close enough to know who I am, I should be able to know who the operator is, without a layer of bureaucracy in the way. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Like a license plate number?
There are several license plate number databases in the UK but the worst someone can find out about me from my license plate is.
1. I drive a blue BMW 135i coupe with a 3L turbocharged engine.
2. My MOT is current and there are no listed problems with my car.
3. My car is taxed.
If I park in front of your house and you want to find out who owns that car, you'll have to go through a discovery process via the police.
What the article here is proposing is simply putting a transponder onto every drone. I'd have to say "good luck with that" as it took years and the support of governments to get just two standards for IDing airports (IATA and ICAO).
Notice that if you hire contractors to do some work on your house, they are more likely to show up in pickup trucks than giant vans.
That entirely depends on where you live.
I live in the UK, builders turn up in Ford Transit vans. The only people who own pickups here in the UK are usually city slickers who want to bully others on the road with their generative member compensation vehicle (usually a VW Amarok which only goes off road when the owner mounts a curb whilst picking up the kids). For obvious reason, tradesmen, builders, delivery drivers, et al. use vans. Its the same reason that it's more a space van than a space truck... unless you're using the exclusively Australian definition of the word truck.
SpaceX is really working on the "space pickup truck" idea.
Is this going to be driven by space rednecks with astro-mullets carrying their space shotguns?
Sorry, but that's the image I get from the idea of a space "pickup". Realistically it's going to be more like a space van or lorry.
Space X et al. are really just trying to use current technology, I'm hoping something like Reaction Engine's Skylon gets off the ground. If we want to make space travel economical, we're going to need something better than chemical rockets.
Keep thinking that Bannon et al are stupid. You may not like them - but that doesn't make them stupid.
Bannon et al. are idiots.
However the people that voted for them and continue to support their idiotic ideas are the ones who are really stupid.
The tide is turning against so-called "populist" politics precisely because people are seeing how much damage is caused when the stupid put idiots into power. Hanson lost in Western Australia, Wilders in the Netherlands lost, Le Pen in France is next.
The rest of the world should really thank you for being the shining example of what not to do.
However pretending to yourself that your political opposition is stupid; now that says something about you.
You need to look up the definition of irony.