Actually, they didn't. Section 702 only deals with overseas intelligence gathering - not domestic. But go ahead and push your hyper-partisanship and claim it's the same thing that Presidents Bush and Obama both willingly signed (in 2008 and 2012, respectively).
Balanced DACs are great; balanced amplifiers? Not so much. You can use a good balanced DAC right into a single-ended amp. Using balanced amps not only halves your damping factor (twice the output impedance) and increases THD+N (two devices, not correlated, tend to add 3 dB more noise and distortion), but the "gain" of having a balanced system for noise immunity is irrelevant because the current levels are huge relative to induced fields from other sources.
You will NEVER fully plug the analog hole. You might make it inconvenient - but you cannot plug it. At some point, you convert to an analog voltage to drive a diaphragm (either a voice coil driven device like a traditional speaker or balanced armature, or a distributed conductor device like a planar magnetic or electrostat). You can always - ALWAYS - find a place to tap off an analog signal in the audio reproduction chain. It may be more difficult, but the hole will always be there.
That is what they claim. The reality is there were several phones released back in 2014 and 2015 which were thinner than 5.5mm AND kept the 3.5mm jack. Any claim about "too thin" is simply a lie.
The Focal Clear - considered one of the top headphones on the market today - comes with a 1.2m long cable that has a 3.5mm jack. Most of the high end headphones come with cables that support 3.5mm jacks mainly because the preponderance of portable DAPs sport a 3.5mm jack. And yes - I design and manufacture many of those items in the high-end headphone market.
I'll take a nice and rigid and tough 1/4" to 3.5mm adpater any day over a Lightning-to-3.5mm soft and long cable dongle... Likewise I prefer a nice dual-prong (airplane) to 3.5mm right angle adapter, so my headphone plug isn't jabbing me in the ribs.
They key argument against having a 3.5mm jack is the amount of space it takes up. Like having a 25pin parallel port on the back of your phone.
The Gionee Elfie S5.1 and the Vivo X5Max (both released way back in Q4, 2014) are 5.1mm thick. Making them 2mm thinner than the iPhone 7. And both have a 3.5mm jack on them. I guess Apple engineers just aren't as good at packing components inside a cell phone as these second-tier Chinese brands who can figure out how to fit a 3.5mm diameter hole into a 5.1mm thick body...
You can usually find free shipping - just not 2 day - for most items on Amazon. If you REALLY need it in 2 days and cannot afford to pay for fast shipping OR Amazon Prime, then you probably can get it locally. And if you cannot afford that, well - best to see if you can sell some of your EBT benefits.
A more interesting - and physically, more possible - relationship would be the magnetic field wandering and causing climate change. The ratio of masses between our molten core (about 2 * 10^24 kg) and the atmosphere (5 * 10^18) is close to 6 orders of magnitude. Given the temperature of the core (over 4000K), I think taking the atmosphere from ~288K to 290K (like is the concern over the rest of this century, a 2 deg K rise) would have effectively zero impact on that much more massive, much hotter core. However, we do know that the magnetic field has quite a bit of impact on shielding for the Earth, which affects not just solar inputs to the system but cloud formation.
I never see tolerances or error bars, just high-levels of precision stated. So are we to assume that all measurements ever taken with regards to global temperatures are accurate to better than 0.005 deg F? That it is of spatial coverage and consistency so as to be reliable, consistent and wholly representative of the trend? Yes, I've done actual environmental science (specifically marine and fisheries research via SONAR) and know all about the need for accuracy in measurements, tolerancing, and spatial resolution. If only climate science cared equally!
No data, not statistics, nothing. A simple claim with a single measurement (2.36 deg F). What is the tolerance of that measurement? Is it accurate within 0.01 deg F? There's nothing at the source link to give any data - or even a link to data. This is just a PR release. I guess that passes for "science" these days...
$8.7 billion would put LA right in the middle of the Fortune 500, if it was "revenue". We talk about Big Business being the Fortune 500; well, the city of LA has a budget that would put it right on-par with Big Business, and it has the ability to not only create regulations and laws that affect business and individuals, but also enforce those regulations and laws via threat of force. Big Government kicks in nicely for LA.
First off, your data is about entire tax load including individuals - we're talking corporate tax rates here. Do you have anything that says US corporate tax rates were lower than the OECD average? Second, take a look at your own data, the second page. The US is higher - or even - in just about every category EXCEPT for VAT. We don't have a national VAT, we have individual State/County/City sales taxes. And those aren't counted at all. When you look at total tax receipts across all jurisdictions, you'll find we're quite close as a whole. But hey - ignore a major source of funding for our various levels of Government and things look fabulous! Remove the VAT from the OECD calculations and you'll find the US is quite high, actually...
However, now that local taxes are more in-line with overseas taxes, Apple is repatriating those funds. They are no long held overseas. Additionally, if you think it is all held in cash, you are sorely mistaken! Most is held in short-term investments, often including bonds and stocks of other companies, which is in fact going back into the economy. And of course, more cash locally means easier to share dividends with shareholders and 401Ks/IRAs meaning more money in the economy.
Why not? We had the highest marginal rate, and one of the highest average and effective rates in the G20. Our biggest competitors - Germany, China, France, India - all enjoyed much lower marginal average, and effective corporate tax rates. Why shouldn't we be more in-line with our competition?
Using slave labor is bad, but trying to avoid taxation - that's OK. Do you take all the exemptions you can? Can we also accuse you of actively trying to avoid paying taxes?
This was an executive order, rules change only. No legal basis for them to challenge - since there is no law there in the first place. All Trump did was revert back to the pre-2015 "bad days" of no net neutrality. Oh, it was so much worse back then, just a couple of years ago!
I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and have been traveling to China (and living, at least 3 months each year) for 20. I've been to Beijing countless times. Yes, a lot of it is smog - but when the wind blows out of the West, a lot of the brown you see is actually dust from the Gobi. Much like we get sand in Hollywood Beach, CA and you get dust in your house around harvest time near any wheat farm.
A lot of the pollution in Beijing comes from the Gobi Desert. It is a fairly regular thing for fine desert dust to be an appreciable amount of the pollution. That seems worthwhile in terms of filtering - and it's a 100% natural source of "pollution" (which is more than just man-made stuff).
So at some point, if you're a business accepting/using BTC, you need to eventually convert it to real currency (so you can pay suppliers, workers, utilities, rent, etc). And you need to record those receipts/expenses in a form that the Government will recognize so you can do your taxes and reporting. So how does that help give a "fuck you" to the Government when you buy/sell something with BTC?
Or are you suggesting that your entire supply chain (including rent, utilities, employees) all use BTC and that you have zero desire to report your actual expenses and income to the Federal Government and just hope Mr. IRS doesn't come wandering by and asking how you can afford a nice place, car, mortgage, and a dozen employees - all with zero income OR expenses?
What do you expect Twitter to do? Provide a completely free (directly) instant message platform to hundreds of millions of people and NOT have some kind of machine analysis of messages?
Why not? Skype does that - and they funded themselves with premium accounts and add-on telecom interconnectivity.
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Actually, they didn't. Section 702 only deals with overseas intelligence gathering - not domestic. But go ahead and push your hyper-partisanship and claim it's the same thing that Presidents Bush and Obama both willingly signed (in 2008 and 2012, respectively).
Balanced DACs are great; balanced amplifiers? Not so much. You can use a good balanced DAC right into a single-ended amp. Using balanced amps not only halves your damping factor (twice the output impedance) and increases THD+N (two devices, not correlated, tend to add 3 dB more noise and distortion), but the "gain" of having a balanced system for noise immunity is irrelevant because the current levels are huge relative to induced fields from other sources.
What if I could show you a phone that was 2mm thinner than the iPhone 7 - and retained it's 3.5mm jack? What if I can show you several such phones?
You will NEVER fully plug the analog hole. You might make it inconvenient - but you cannot plug it. At some point, you convert to an analog voltage to drive a diaphragm (either a voice coil driven device like a traditional speaker or balanced armature, or a distributed conductor device like a planar magnetic or electrostat). You can always - ALWAYS - find a place to tap off an analog signal in the audio reproduction chain. It may be more difficult, but the hole will always be there.
That is what they claim. The reality is there were several phones released back in 2014 and 2015 which were thinner than 5.5mm AND kept the 3.5mm jack. Any claim about "too thin" is simply a lie.
The Focal Clear - considered one of the top headphones on the market today - comes with a 1.2m long cable that has a 3.5mm jack. Most of the high end headphones come with cables that support 3.5mm jacks mainly because the preponderance of portable DAPs sport a 3.5mm jack. And yes - I design and manufacture many of those items in the high-end headphone market.
I'll take a nice and rigid and tough 1/4" to 3.5mm adpater any day over a Lightning-to-3.5mm soft and long cable dongle... Likewise I prefer a nice dual-prong (airplane) to 3.5mm right angle adapter, so my headphone plug isn't jabbing me in the ribs.
They key argument against having a 3.5mm jack is the amount of space it takes up. Like having a 25pin parallel port on the back of your phone.
The Gionee Elfie S5.1 and the Vivo X5Max (both released way back in Q4, 2014) are 5.1mm thick. Making them 2mm thinner than the iPhone 7. And both have a 3.5mm jack on them. I guess Apple engineers just aren't as good at packing components inside a cell phone as these second-tier Chinese brands who can figure out how to fit a 3.5mm diameter hole into a 5.1mm thick body...
You can usually find free shipping - just not 2 day - for most items on Amazon. If you REALLY need it in 2 days and cannot afford to pay for fast shipping OR Amazon Prime, then you probably can get it locally. And if you cannot afford that, well - best to see if you can sell some of your EBT benefits.
A more interesting - and physically, more possible - relationship would be the magnetic field wandering and causing climate change. The ratio of masses between our molten core (about 2 * 10^24 kg) and the atmosphere (5 * 10^18) is close to 6 orders of magnitude. Given the temperature of the core (over 4000K), I think taking the atmosphere from ~288K to 290K (like is the concern over the rest of this century, a 2 deg K rise) would have effectively zero impact on that much more massive, much hotter core. However, we do know that the magnetic field has quite a bit of impact on shielding for the Earth, which affects not just solar inputs to the system but cloud formation.
I never see tolerances or error bars, just high-levels of precision stated. So are we to assume that all measurements ever taken with regards to global temperatures are accurate to better than 0.005 deg F? That it is of spatial coverage and consistency so as to be reliable, consistent and wholly representative of the trend? Yes, I've done actual environmental science (specifically marine and fisheries research via SONAR) and know all about the need for accuracy in measurements, tolerancing, and spatial resolution. If only climate science cared equally!
No data, not statistics, nothing. A simple claim with a single measurement (2.36 deg F). What is the tolerance of that measurement? Is it accurate within 0.01 deg F? There's nothing at the source link to give any data - or even a link to data. This is just a PR release. I guess that passes for "science" these days...
$8.7 billion would put LA right in the middle of the Fortune 500, if it was "revenue". We talk about Big Business being the Fortune 500; well, the city of LA has a budget that would put it right on-par with Big Business, and it has the ability to not only create regulations and laws that affect business and individuals, but also enforce those regulations and laws via threat of force. Big Government kicks in nicely for LA.
First off, your data is about entire tax load including individuals - we're talking corporate tax rates here. Do you have anything that says US corporate tax rates were lower than the OECD average? Second, take a look at your own data, the second page. The US is higher - or even - in just about every category EXCEPT for VAT. We don't have a national VAT, we have individual State/County/City sales taxes. And those aren't counted at all. When you look at total tax receipts across all jurisdictions, you'll find we're quite close as a whole. But hey - ignore a major source of funding for our various levels of Government and things look fabulous! Remove the VAT from the OECD calculations and you'll find the US is quite high, actually...
No this is LA it is big Government. The LA budget is 8.7 billion dollars which puts it ahead of 10 States.
However, now that local taxes are more in-line with overseas taxes, Apple is repatriating those funds. They are no long held overseas. Additionally, if you think it is all held in cash, you are sorely mistaken! Most is held in short-term investments, often including bonds and stocks of other companies, which is in fact going back into the economy. And of course, more cash locally means easier to share dividends with shareholders and 401Ks/IRAs meaning more money in the economy.
Why not? We had the highest marginal rate, and one of the highest average and effective rates in the G20. Our biggest competitors - Germany, China, France, India - all enjoyed much lower marginal average, and effective corporate tax rates. Why shouldn't we be more in-line with our competition?
Using slave labor is bad, but trying to avoid taxation - that's OK. Do you take all the exemptions you can? Can we also accuse you of actively trying to avoid paying taxes?
Not an option a few years ago, unless you wanted to spend 14-16 hours on a train... As-is today, it is still a 7 hour journey.
This was an executive order, rules change only. No legal basis for them to challenge - since there is no law there in the first place. All Trump did was revert back to the pre-2015 "bad days" of no net neutrality. Oh, it was so much worse back then, just a couple of years ago!
I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and have been traveling to China (and living, at least 3 months each year) for 20. I've been to Beijing countless times. Yes, a lot of it is smog - but when the wind blows out of the West, a lot of the brown you see is actually dust from the Gobi. Much like we get sand in Hollywood Beach, CA and you get dust in your house around harvest time near any wheat farm.
A lot of the pollution in Beijing comes from the Gobi Desert. It is a fairly regular thing for fine desert dust to be an appreciable amount of the pollution. That seems worthwhile in terms of filtering - and it's a 100% natural source of "pollution" (which is more than just man-made stuff).
So at some point, if you're a business accepting/using BTC, you need to eventually convert it to real currency (so you can pay suppliers, workers, utilities, rent, etc). And you need to record those receipts/expenses in a form that the Government will recognize so you can do your taxes and reporting. So how does that help give a "fuck you" to the Government when you buy/sell something with BTC?
Or are you suggesting that your entire supply chain (including rent, utilities, employees) all use BTC and that you have zero desire to report your actual expenses and income to the Federal Government and just hope Mr. IRS doesn't come wandering by and asking how you can afford a nice place, car, mortgage, and a dozen employees - all with zero income OR expenses?
It's kind of like a coin, but made with bits.
What do you expect Twitter to do? Provide a completely free (directly) instant message platform to hundreds of millions of people and NOT have some kind of machine analysis of messages?
Why not? Skype does that - and they funded themselves with premium accounts and add-on telecom interconnectivity.