To explain it to US readers, they're basically becoming Germany's Mexicans.
The hard-working blue-collar engine of the economy? Good for y'all! Have they started opening up good Syrian restaurants, yet?
And there in lies Germany's actual problem.
Germany, to keep its manufacturing sector powerful it needs a steady flow of cheap labour, labour sources from Europe are drying up.
However whilst the extreme right tolerated poor Europeans because they were the right colour and believed in the right sky faerie they cant tolerate these new immigrants because they aren't the right colour and believe in the right sky faerie.
to get a PO box, and have all packages shipped to you there. Its 100% secure, nobody but you can get your package. And USPS shipping is usually less expensive than other options.
The only problems are:
- many companies have exclusive contracts with shipping carriers that cannot deliver to PO boxes, and
- many companies refuse to ship to PO boxes even if they do offer USPS shipping, possibly out of obsolete paranoia.
This.
It is extremely uncommon for a delivery service to leave parcels on doorsteps in England and Australia because someone might pass it and thing "I'll have that".
In Australia if you cant have someone present for the delivery, you'll have to pick it up from a Distribution Centre or Post Office. In the UK they might leave it with a neighbour.
Smart door locks are not the solution as they just expose your home to burglary. In fact like the parent poster pointed out, a solution already exists. This kind of thing just screams "solution looking for a problem".
2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).
Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...
Actually, real ale is served slightly below room temperature this can be anywhere up to 8ÂC (yes C, none of that F nonsense, we'll drag your measurement systems in to the 18th century kicking and screaming if we have to) this happens to be room temperature in many places because a lot of pub landlords are too miserly to turn the heat up. It isn't flat either, ale is carbonated naturally rather than by an introduced gas like a Lager (which is the closest equivalent we have to American beer here in England). Ales are a traditionally made beer designed to be flavoursome.
Americans, you will be unfamiliar with the concept of Real Ale but it is a staple of English Drunkenness and lout culture. I dare say ordering that near frozen, over carbonated, low alcoholic, tasteless gnats piss that Americans call beer will get you turfed out of a Rough Pub faster than you say "Oi! Did you spill my pint", "Did you look at my girl" or "I'll fucking 'ave you".
The Whitehouse switch board is notorious for blocking everyone who isn't scheduled. I don't see Trump ever getting an unscheduled phone call.
That sounds exactly like any executive environment I've ever seen.
You will very rarely be able to talk to someone important without a private appointment. They have systems and people expressly designed to ensure that nothing unexpected reaches them. I've worked in public and private sector and seen the same thing from elected leaders to CxO's of mid level companies. I'm sure there will be a public email address for Mike Pence, you can email it but it goes to a series of staffers who will respond with cookie-cutter form letters.
So it's not just the white house, Try getting to the CEO of BHP Billiton (Andrew McKenzie) without going through several levels of subordinates before getting an appointment.
that was clear when 9/11 happened and Bush was in a classroom, he had no clue what to do next because nobody prodded him
Utter fucking bullshit. Bush did EXACTLY what he should have as a leader. He was told of major catastrophe and responded by asking for more information and by reassuring everyone through stoically continuing his current schedule, which meant finishing reading to the children.
Please never run for president as you have no idea how to act as one.
When told of an emergency, any emergency whether buildings are on fire or not what he should have done is said "I'm sorry kids, I've got an important matter to attend to but I promise I'll be back to finish", the stood up and calmly walked out of the room, into his car and done his job.
Even if Bush had no idea what to do, he should have excused himself and started talking to people who did.
What do you mean FDR dragged his feet on US involvement in WWII? That was an isolationist Congress. FDR pushed as close to the line, and even a little across the line. He managed to push through Lend-Lease, but it was Pearl Harbor that finally gave him the political capital to get war declared on the Axis.
The thing is, we dont just have to deal with fake news but fake history also.
Many Americans still cling to the false history that puritans were fleeing England due to receiving persecution... The reality was that England of the time tolerated many religions and it was the puritans who were not permitted to persecute others.
By "black supremacist" you mean an African-American who is concerned they are far more likely to be unarmed and yet still shot to death by a police officer than a white American.
I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say he means the actual black supremacists, and not whatever strawman you're thinking of. Or are you under the impression that only white people are capable of being racists?
Actually you dont have enough data to make that assertion.
Given that we have very few issues with the Black equivalent of the Klan in western countries and that right wing white supremacist groups are on the rise in almost all western nations, I'd say you have even less cause to make your strawman.
Maybe we should just have the FCC classify them as a common carrier, and then not allow them to favor any particular communication over another that happens to be transmitted across their network.
For what reason?
No-one is forced to use Facebook to communicate nor is it an essential form of communication.
I mean with the number of different social networks out there, you'd have a hard time classifying them as a monopoly.
Methodology is being left to the ISPs. Which means it will most likely be a DNS block. People just need to point their routers at the google DNS and it is circumvented.
The Fine Aritcle mentioned that the method of blocking needs to be decided between the "Rights" holders and the ISP's. That means a protracted period of negotiation and probably back to court to decide who is going to pay for it. ISP's will have an extra cost and the "Rights" Holders will be trying everything not to pay for it.
In fact this decision may well get dropped in a second court case because the court will rightfully grant that ISP's are due reasonable compensation and the "Rights" Holders will flat out refuse letting ISP's off the hook.
As for the foxtel muppet he's claiming aussies don't use VPNs. Uh huh, right. That's why we have had legislation put through explicitly saying defeating geoblocking with VPNs is ok. Cause no one in Australia uses a vpn... Nope no one.
That Foxtel Muppet is head of a dying empire. Every one of his businesses is losing money and subscribers... But he has a few more dirty tricks up his sleeve to delay the inevitable.
There are two things we can take away from this making it a complete failure.
1. The court ruling said that every site they want to add in the future has to go through the court as a separate case. This means that it'll be expensive and risk listing the "Rights" Holders as vexatious litigants.
2. Given the success of the UK's blocking program nothing is going to change. In the UK if you want to get to a torrent site, you simply plug that sites name into Google. ISP's will be doing the bare minimum.
There was a huge fight about three years ago when the then Labor government's Senator Conroy tried to ram through internet censorship in Australia. The uproar was sufficient that the now marginal conservative government will not touch it. But now there is another attack from the courts, which is more difficult to deal with.
(Conway, incidentally, has taken up a lucrative job lobbying for gambling in Australia.)
It was closer to 6 years ago.
The thing about Conroy was that he was a big player in the religious right in the Labor party. His filter plan never made it past his own party as the religious right were a minority in Labor. They were mostly Third Way Centrists and smacked down the idea of a filter pretty hard (despite Conroy's multiple attempts to sneak it in). As such it was guaranteed he'd never be party leader.
The difference between the then Labor government and the current Liberal government (they're our conservatives for Americans playing along at home, note the big L) is that the far right, including the religious right is in control.
The Abbott/Turnbull govts are a big part of the reason I chose to move to the UK rather than to the eastern states. Given the success they've had in blocking pirating sites in the UK, this will be no impediment and wont help Murdoch's bottom line one iota (to access $TorrentSite in the UK you just put $TorrentSite into Google). I would expect Murdoch to be back at parliament next week demanding harsher measures.
One good thing that the courts did in this case was demand that all future URL's go through individual cases to be added to a block list. That means that they're not going to be able to keep up this game of whack a mole.
I just don't get it...WHY are governments so fucking afraid to let people make up their own minds how they want to be employed, what jobs to take and HOW they are compensated for it?
I've done a fair bit of contracting and I'm in favour if IR35.
These laws don't come from nowhere. There's not a panel of MPs sitting round figuring how to screw you just for the hell of it (unless you're poor and the Tories are in power).
Most of the "contracting" was just a tax dodge. If the money is paid to a company, that company can pay dividends (lower tax rate) and there's no national insurance (basically a form of income tax) for the employer to make their contribution too. Additionally, the money can be moved off without taxes since it's just regular business to business stuff.
IOW it's a massive tax dodge most of the time.
The other thing is that employees used to have far fewer rights. We know how it plays out and it turns out those rights are a good thing. And if you want that protection of a company it comes with responsibilities to your employees because the country works better that way. And ultimately since we have a welfare state willing to step in when the proverbial hits the fan so if companies go screwing over employees every other taxpayer ends up on the hook. So wanting to have regular employees but none of the responsibilities is yet more freeloading.
And companies started doing that a lot. Not all, but enough that it became a problem. So the government passed a law that you can't skimp on obligations by playing word games. I think that's reasonable.
The idea of contracting is that you get paid a higher wage in exchange for giving up certain rights guaranteed to full, part and permanent part time employees such as Pension/Superannuation contributions, paid annual/sick/compassionate leave, leave notice periods, so on and so forth. For example, as sysamin earning £40,000 p/a on full time would expect £400-600 per day on contract in the UK. The contractor can be let go tomorrow for any reason with no recourse... but thats what you accept by being contract and why an employer pays more for it.
I dont think this is codified in law... but its frowned upon to abuse it.
I've lived in Shanghai and the most eye opening part about it is was how spectacularly wrong my American colleagues were about China. Before I left to live there, I was told how Communist it was, how dangerous it was, how there was no freedom. What I found was a country that is way more capitalist than the US and people pretty much leading the life they wanted. There are so many things that squash your freedom in the West but you don't notice it because you've known no better,
Whilst I agree that Americans tend to swallow a lot of propaganda about China that is horribly incorrect (yep, China is communist in name only and provided you don't rock the boat you can get away with a lot), Shanghai and Hong Kong are oddities amongst China because of the high levels of foreign activities in these cities, even after the PLA took Shanghai in 1947, Beijing never really controlled it and still don't to a large degree. Beijing are content to leave Shanghai to it's own devices as long as they don't cause problems.
That being said, even in other provinces and Beijing itself, you wont find yourself bothered by the government much... Doubly so as a foreigner. The rule of thumb is not to cause trouble, If you make trouble for the government (or anyone in power really) then of course they're going to deal with you.
What about my freedom to be free of your secondhand smoke?
Firstly I agree with your point. Fortunately most smokers in the UK are extremely polite about their bad habits.
But I have to ask, have you ever been to China? People smoke everywhere there.
That is a huge part of the reason why people dont want to work there. If you want to attract talent, you either have to offer insane wages and packages like they used to in Dubai or offer good wages and packages in some place people want to live. Expats are attracted to places like California, Southern England, Paris, Amsterdam and others because these places are very nice places to live, Most places in China are the complete opposite. Sure Hong Kong can attract talent, but not Guangzhou or even Beijing as these places dont have the amenities, let alone quality of life as London, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bangkok...or even Manila.
Yep. Ditching the steering wheel and the pedals would be really, really dumb. It would mean that if the car had a problem it would be stuck where it is.
Surprise! The very high end cars have already done this. Lexus, BMW, Rolls Royce, several others all have drive-by-wire systems, the steering wheel is controlled by individual electric motors(sometimes a single motor). And and electric motor on the pedal simulates the feel of hydraulic pressure.
Suprise! They still haven't gotten rid of the steering wheel or other controls. They've just moved to drive by wire.
The problem isn't with Drive By Wire accepting input and translating that to output, the problem is with decision making. DBW is a proven technology, although I will lament the feedback you got from physical cables and pulleys, I cant fault the tech. The problem is with the speed and accuracy of the decision making by the autonomous systems. They've only been demonstrated in perfect conditions with a human backup making sure they didn't make mistakes.
Currently when they encounter a problem they just stop and throw control back to a human driver. That'll be completely useless when said driver is too busy playing Candy Crush to avoid a bag of sand left in the middle of the lane. Something I encountered this morning, fortunately I'm an attentive driver and knew the lane next to me was clear.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Trump can try. But the reality is that shutting down departments is extremely difficult because each department has supporters in Congress and a network of lobbyists. He can't fire an entire department without violating Civil Service laws that protects workers from politics.
Trump will teach you.
I work in government IT. No one is worried about Trump. No one.
This,
Trump cant just shut down an entire department. Primarily because they actually have a role to fulfil.
His only power is to replace the directors... And if the staff stand up to the directors he's back at square one but with egg on his (orange) face.
I don't recall seeing a Windows computer without this since... geez... probably Windows XP.
I am not sure that it has ever been all that accurate though.
I am surprised that Mac even had this indicator in the first place. The main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
Windows XP had a battery remaining time as standard, I'm pretty sure Windows 2000 did too. Cant remember Win 98.
I cant think of a Linux distro that cant do this either (AHCI command if you're not running a GUI, if memory serves).
This move is more likely to be that they don't want their users to notice that the battery lasts significantly less than the advertised time. Out of sight, out of mind, that kind of thing.
They should have kept the format, changed names were required, and carried on.
That's what they are doing. Instead of the quiet Stig, its the loudmouth american. Instead of the studio, they have the tent. Instead of SIARPC, they have "Celeb Mind Whatevertheheck"... instead of "The News" they have "Conversation Street". It's changed enough(according to the lawyers) so that the BBC can't go after them.
I would go so far as to say, they'd do a complete exact copy of the show if they could get away with it... but this is what we are stuck with for now.
Also, unlike the Old New Top Gear, it's entirely pre-recorded. So any significant changes will have to wait for season 2 as they don't have enough time to replace large sections of the show with new VT's.
Doubly so seeing as it's winter. James May will be de-greasing his Motorbike in the bath tub. Richard Hammond will be delousing his throng of pets and Jeremy Clarkson will be enjoying a nice snifter of port by the fire fuelled by the bulk of hate mail he receives each week.
I suspect that planning for S2 will start soon-ish. Wilman and Clarkson aren't idiots and will have looked at what the viewers liked or disliked and change accordingly. Its not like they made a wildly successful program that occasionally featured cars for 13 years.
I have no idea what you're using your machine for but it certainly won't fit a lot of people's use cases.
Actually it'll fit a lot of use cases very well.
Very few people need raw CPU power. Far more users I deal with require portability, hence we sell them a lot of ultrabooks with I5-xxxU processors. The U series are designed to be slower but have a lower TPD so they can last longer on battery power, which is something we get asked for a lot more than processing power.
And the I5-U processors are fast enough that most users never stress them.
I think you need to evaluate more use cases than just your own before making woeful blanket statements.
Except that affluent idiots (unless you really did mean effluent) arn't the only target market.
Yep, they target poor idiots as well.
Apple products have become like Toyota Camry's. Everyone can afford one and the only people who consider them special are hopeless Toyota Fanboys (I say this as a man who lusts after a good condition MKIV Supra... So I mean really hopeless).
People are rapidly turning away from Apple because they keep making it harder to do things (getting rid of regular USB ports, Ethernet adaptors, making it harder to run Windows) and the competition is producing better spec'ed laptops for less money. Why would I get an MBP for US$2500 when I can get the same spec from Asus or Dell for US$1200?
Not even artists are using Apple any more since print is dying. The web design industry has pretty much moved to Windows, much to the chagrin of the hipsters.
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To explain it to US readers, they're basically becoming Germany's Mexicans.
The hard-working blue-collar engine of the economy? Good for y'all! Have they started opening up good Syrian restaurants, yet?
And there in lies Germany's actual problem.
Germany, to keep its manufacturing sector powerful it needs a steady flow of cheap labour, labour sources from Europe are drying up.
However whilst the extreme right tolerated poor Europeans because they were the right colour and believed in the right sky faerie they cant tolerate these new immigrants because they aren't the right colour and believe in the right sky faerie.
to get a PO box, and have all packages shipped to you there. Its 100% secure, nobody but you can get your package. And USPS shipping is usually less expensive than other options.
The only problems are:
- many companies have exclusive contracts with shipping carriers that cannot deliver to PO boxes, and - many companies refuse to ship to PO boxes even if they do offer USPS shipping, possibly out of obsolete paranoia.
This. It is extremely uncommon for a delivery service to leave parcels on doorsteps in England and Australia because someone might pass it and thing "I'll have that".
In Australia if you cant have someone present for the delivery, you'll have to pick it up from a Distribution Centre or Post Office. In the UK they might leave it with a neighbour.
Smart door locks are not the solution as they just expose your home to burglary. In fact like the parent poster pointed out, a solution already exists. This kind of thing just screams "solution looking for a problem".
2. No, we drink it cold over here. Just not so cold you can't taste it (because our beer is worth tasting).
Don't lie. You drink it at room temperature because Lucas makes you refrigerators...
Actually, real ale is served slightly below room temperature this can be anywhere up to 8ÂC (yes C, none of that F nonsense, we'll drag your measurement systems in to the 18th century kicking and screaming if we have to) this happens to be room temperature in many places because a lot of pub landlords are too miserly to turn the heat up. It isn't flat either, ale is carbonated naturally rather than by an introduced gas like a Lager (which is the closest equivalent we have to American beer here in England). Ales are a traditionally made beer designed to be flavoursome.
Americans, you will be unfamiliar with the concept of Real Ale but it is a staple of English Drunkenness and lout culture. I dare say ordering that near frozen, over carbonated, low alcoholic, tasteless gnats piss that Americans call beer will get you turfed out of a Rough Pub faster than you say "Oi! Did you spill my pint", "Did you look at my girl" or "I'll fucking 'ave you".
The Whitehouse switch board is notorious for blocking everyone who isn't scheduled. I don't see Trump ever getting an unscheduled phone call.
That sounds exactly like any executive environment I've ever seen.
You will very rarely be able to talk to someone important without a private appointment. They have systems and people expressly designed to ensure that nothing unexpected reaches them. I've worked in public and private sector and seen the same thing from elected leaders to CxO's of mid level companies. I'm sure there will be a public email address for Mike Pence, you can email it but it goes to a series of staffers who will respond with cookie-cutter form letters.
So it's not just the white house, Try getting to the CEO of BHP Billiton (Andrew McKenzie) without going through several levels of subordinates before getting an appointment.
that was clear when 9/11 happened and Bush was in a classroom, he had no clue what to do next because nobody prodded him
Utter fucking bullshit. Bush did EXACTLY what he should have as a leader. He was told of major catastrophe and responded by asking for more information and by reassuring everyone through stoically continuing his current schedule, which meant finishing reading to the children.
Please never run for president as you have no idea how to act as one.
When told of an emergency, any emergency whether buildings are on fire or not what he should have done is said "I'm sorry kids, I've got an important matter to attend to but I promise I'll be back to finish", the stood up and calmly walked out of the room, into his car and done his job.
Even if Bush had no idea what to do, he should have excused himself and started talking to people who did.
What do you mean FDR dragged his feet on US involvement in WWII? That was an isolationist Congress. FDR pushed as close to the line, and even a little across the line. He managed to push through Lend-Lease, but it was Pearl Harbor that finally gave him the political capital to get war declared on the Axis.
The thing is, we dont just have to deal with fake news but fake history also.
Many Americans still cling to the false history that puritans were fleeing England due to receiving persecution... The reality was that England of the time tolerated many religions and it was the puritans who were not permitted to persecute others.
By "black supremacist" you mean an African-American who is concerned they are far more likely to be unarmed and yet still shot to death by a police officer than a white American.
I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say he means the actual black supremacists, and not whatever strawman you're thinking of. Or are you under the impression that only white people are capable of being racists?
Actually you dont have enough data to make that assertion.
Given that we have very few issues with the Black equivalent of the Klan in western countries and that right wing white supremacist groups are on the rise in almost all western nations, I'd say you have even less cause to make your strawman.
Maybe we should just have the FCC classify them as a common carrier, and then not allow them to favor any particular communication over another that happens to be transmitted across their network.
For what reason?
No-one is forced to use Facebook to communicate nor is it an essential form of communication.
I mean with the number of different social networks out there, you'd have a hard time classifying them as a monopoly.
Could it be
C) The democrats chose their candidate poorly and Trump winning had not much to do with Obama and more to do with Hillary?
D) the media was stacked against Clinton.
For the weeks leading up to the election all we heard about were Clinton Emails. Nothing about Trumps policies, it was all about discrediting Clinton.
Methodology is being left to the ISPs. Which means it will most likely be a DNS block. People just need to point their routers at the google DNS and it is circumvented.
The Fine Aritcle mentioned that the method of blocking needs to be decided between the "Rights" holders and the ISP's. That means a protracted period of negotiation and probably back to court to decide who is going to pay for it. ISP's will have an extra cost and the "Rights" Holders will be trying everything not to pay for it.
In fact this decision may well get dropped in a second court case because the court will rightfully grant that ISP's are due reasonable compensation and the "Rights" Holders will flat out refuse letting ISP's off the hook.
As for the foxtel muppet he's claiming aussies don't use VPNs. Uh huh, right. That's why we have had legislation put through explicitly saying defeating geoblocking with VPNs is ok. Cause no one in Australia uses a vpn... Nope no one.
That Foxtel Muppet is head of a dying empire. Every one of his businesses is losing money and subscribers... But he has a few more dirty tricks up his sleeve to delay the inevitable.
There are two things we can take away from this making it a complete failure.
1. The court ruling said that every site they want to add in the future has to go through the court as a separate case. This means that it'll be expensive and risk listing the "Rights" Holders as vexatious litigants.
2. Given the success of the UK's blocking program nothing is going to change. In the UK if you want to get to a torrent site, you simply plug that sites name into Google. ISP's will be doing the bare minimum.
There was a huge fight about three years ago when the then Labor government's Senator Conroy tried to ram through internet censorship in Australia. The uproar was sufficient that the now marginal conservative government will not touch it. But now there is another attack from the courts, which is more difficult to deal with.
(Conway, incidentally, has taken up a lucrative job lobbying for gambling in Australia.)
It was closer to 6 years ago.
The thing about Conroy was that he was a big player in the religious right in the Labor party. His filter plan never made it past his own party as the religious right were a minority in Labor. They were mostly Third Way Centrists and smacked down the idea of a filter pretty hard (despite Conroy's multiple attempts to sneak it in). As such it was guaranteed he'd never be party leader.
The difference between the then Labor government and the current Liberal government (they're our conservatives for Americans playing along at home, note the big L) is that the far right, including the religious right is in control.
The Abbott/Turnbull govts are a big part of the reason I chose to move to the UK rather than to the eastern states. Given the success they've had in blocking pirating sites in the UK, this will be no impediment and wont help Murdoch's bottom line one iota (to access $TorrentSite in the UK you just put $TorrentSite into Google). I would expect Murdoch to be back at parliament next week demanding harsher measures.
One good thing that the courts did in this case was demand that all future URL's go through individual cases to be added to a block list. That means that they're not going to be able to keep up this game of whack a mole.
I just looked up this IR35 thing....a UK rule.
Yep.
I just don't get it...WHY are governments so fucking afraid to let people make up their own minds how they want to be employed, what jobs to take and HOW they are compensated for it?
I've done a fair bit of contracting and I'm in favour if IR35.
These laws don't come from nowhere. There's not a panel of MPs sitting round figuring how to screw you just for the hell of it (unless you're poor and the Tories are in power).
Most of the "contracting" was just a tax dodge. If the money is paid to a company, that company can pay dividends (lower tax rate) and there's no national insurance (basically a form of income tax) for the employer to make their contribution too. Additionally, the money can be moved off without taxes since it's just regular business to business stuff.
IOW it's a massive tax dodge most of the time.
The other thing is that employees used to have far fewer rights. We know how it plays out and it turns out those rights are a good thing. And if you want that protection of a company it comes with responsibilities to your employees because the country works better that way. And ultimately since we have a welfare state willing to step in when the proverbial hits the fan so if companies go screwing over employees every other taxpayer ends up on the hook. So wanting to have regular employees but none of the responsibilities is yet more freeloading.
And companies started doing that a lot. Not all, but enough that it became a problem. So the government passed a law that you can't skimp on obligations by playing word games. I think that's reasonable.
The idea of contracting is that you get paid a higher wage in exchange for giving up certain rights guaranteed to full, part and permanent part time employees such as Pension/Superannuation contributions, paid annual/sick/compassionate leave, leave notice periods, so on and so forth. For example, as sysamin earning £40,000 p/a on full time would expect £400-600 per day on contract in the UK. The contractor can be let go tomorrow for any reason with no recourse... but thats what you accept by being contract and why an employer pays more for it.
I dont think this is codified in law... but its frowned upon to abuse it.
I've lived in Shanghai and the most eye opening part about it is was how spectacularly wrong my American colleagues were about China. Before I left to live there, I was told how Communist it was, how dangerous it was, how there was no freedom. What I found was a country that is way more capitalist than the US and people pretty much leading the life they wanted. There are so many things that squash your freedom in the West but you don't notice it because you've known no better,
Whilst I agree that Americans tend to swallow a lot of propaganda about China that is horribly incorrect (yep, China is communist in name only and provided you don't rock the boat you can get away with a lot), Shanghai and Hong Kong are oddities amongst China because of the high levels of foreign activities in these cities, even after the PLA took Shanghai in 1947, Beijing never really controlled it and still don't to a large degree. Beijing are content to leave Shanghai to it's own devices as long as they don't cause problems. That being said, even in other provinces and Beijing itself, you wont find yourself bothered by the government much... Doubly so as a foreigner. The rule of thumb is not to cause trouble, If you make trouble for the government (or anyone in power really) then of course they're going to deal with you.
What about my freedom to be free of your secondhand smoke?
Firstly I agree with your point. Fortunately most smokers in the UK are extremely polite about their bad habits.
But I have to ask, have you ever been to China? People smoke everywhere there.
That is a huge part of the reason why people dont want to work there. If you want to attract talent, you either have to offer insane wages and packages like they used to in Dubai or offer good wages and packages in some place people want to live. Expats are attracted to places like California, Southern England, Paris, Amsterdam and others because these places are very nice places to live, Most places in China are the complete opposite. Sure Hong Kong can attract talent, but not Guangzhou or even Beijing as these places dont have the amenities, let alone quality of life as London, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bangkok...or even Manila.
Yep. Ditching the steering wheel and the pedals would be really, really dumb. It would mean that if the car had a problem it would be stuck where it is.
Surprise! The very high end cars have already done this. Lexus, BMW, Rolls Royce, several others all have drive-by-wire systems, the steering wheel is controlled by individual electric motors(sometimes a single motor). And and electric motor on the pedal simulates the feel of hydraulic pressure.
Suprise! They still haven't gotten rid of the steering wheel or other controls. They've just moved to drive by wire.
The problem isn't with Drive By Wire accepting input and translating that to output, the problem is with decision making. DBW is a proven technology, although I will lament the feedback you got from physical cables and pulleys, I cant fault the tech. The problem is with the speed and accuracy of the decision making by the autonomous systems. They've only been demonstrated in perfect conditions with a human backup making sure they didn't make mistakes.
Currently when they encounter a problem they just stop and throw control back to a human driver. That'll be completely useless when said driver is too busy playing Candy Crush to avoid a bag of sand left in the middle of the lane. Something I encountered this morning, fortunately I'm an attentive driver and knew the lane next to me was clear.
Yes, let the purge of climatologists began. After all, King Trump will demonstrate, unlike King Cnut, that he can stop the tides!
I've adjusted that to use the traditional Nordic spelling.
You're welcome.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Trump can try. But the reality is that shutting down departments is extremely difficult because each department has supporters in Congress and a network of lobbyists. He can't fire an entire department without violating Civil Service laws that protects workers from politics.
Trump will teach you.
I work in government IT. No one is worried about Trump. No one.
This,
Trump cant just shut down an entire department. Primarily because they actually have a role to fulfil. His only power is to replace the directors... And if the staff stand up to the directors he's back at square one but with egg on his (orange) face.
If the institution has turned against what you believe is right, then the odds of making any positive change "from the inside" are extremely low.
I don't believe this is true
This is like saying that Rosa Parks should have just got up, gone to the back of the bus and worked to change it from the inside.
Standing up to corruption and cronyism is the only way to oppose it. If you become part of it, you end up empowering it.
Also bureaucracies are very easy to change when you control the head of it, they're just hard to change when you're at the bottom of it.
NT
This is about OSX, not Windows NT.
1) People complain about battery life on new Macbook Pro,
2) So remove battery time indicator.
3) Profit!
Fixed that for you.
The ??? part was pretty easy to figure out.
I don't recall seeing a Windows computer without this since... geez... probably Windows XP.
I am not sure that it has ever been all that accurate though.
I am surprised that Mac even had this indicator in the first place. The main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
Windows XP had a battery remaining time as standard, I'm pretty sure Windows 2000 did too. Cant remember Win 98.
I cant think of a Linux distro that cant do this either (AHCI command if you're not running a GUI, if memory serves).
This move is more likely to be that they don't want their users to notice that the battery lasts significantly less than the advertised time. Out of sight, out of mind, that kind of thing.
They should have kept the format, changed names were required, and carried on.
That's what they are doing. Instead of the quiet Stig, its the loudmouth american. Instead of the studio, they have the tent. Instead of SIARPC, they have "Celeb Mind Whatevertheheck"... instead of "The News" they have "Conversation Street". It's changed enough(according to the lawyers) so that the BBC can't go after them.
I would go so far as to say, they'd do a complete exact copy of the show if they could get away with it... but this is what we are stuck with for now.
Also, unlike the Old New Top Gear, it's entirely pre-recorded. So any significant changes will have to wait for season 2 as they don't have enough time to replace large sections of the show with new VT's.
Doubly so seeing as it's winter. James May will be de-greasing his Motorbike in the bath tub. Richard Hammond will be delousing his throng of pets and Jeremy Clarkson will be enjoying a nice snifter of port by the fire fuelled by the bulk of hate mail he receives each week.
I suspect that planning for S2 will start soon-ish. Wilman and Clarkson aren't idiots and will have looked at what the viewers liked or disliked and change accordingly. Its not like they made a wildly successful program that occasionally featured cars for 13 years.
Huh. So if you visit the UK, you won't be given access to Amazon Prime Video, despite that it's available in the UK?
Shhh, we're trying to keep them over there.
I have no idea what you're using your machine for but it certainly won't fit a lot of people's use cases.
Actually it'll fit a lot of use cases very well.
Very few people need raw CPU power. Far more users I deal with require portability, hence we sell them a lot of ultrabooks with I5-xxxU processors. The U series are designed to be slower but have a lower TPD so they can last longer on battery power, which is something we get asked for a lot more than processing power.
And the I5-U processors are fast enough that most users never stress them.
I think you need to evaluate more use cases than just your own before making woeful blanket statements.
Except that affluent idiots (unless you really did mean effluent) arn't the only target market.
Yep, they target poor idiots as well.
Apple products have become like Toyota Camry's. Everyone can afford one and the only people who consider them special are hopeless Toyota Fanboys (I say this as a man who lusts after a good condition MKIV Supra... So I mean really hopeless).
People are rapidly turning away from Apple because they keep making it harder to do things (getting rid of regular USB ports, Ethernet adaptors, making it harder to run Windows) and the competition is producing better spec'ed laptops for less money. Why would I get an MBP for US$2500 when I can get the same spec from Asus or Dell for US$1200?
Not even artists are using Apple any more since print is dying. The web design industry has pretty much moved to Windows, much to the chagrin of the hipsters.