tries to accommodate every culture until its own gets lost in the noise
Which culture is it that's getting "lost in the noise"? The one we brought from Europe? The Native one we stepped on in the process? The African one we kidnapped to pick our cotton? The Chinese one that came to build our railroads?
Or one of the hundreds of other cultures that have been coming in to our country since its inception?
We are a nation of immigrants. Unless you are full blood Native you don't have to go back more than a handful of generations to find a foreign parent.
The US somehow feels like it must apologize for even the most feeble effort at border patrols
This one I agree with you on. All of the "I'm moving to Canada" people would be in for a hell of a shock when they got the border and were promptly (but probably politely) told to piss off.
Couldn't agree more. Me and my company are forking over about that much per month as well. Add that to my tax bill, then add in the billions in profit the insurance companies are making every year, and give me (and the rest of the country) our socialized health care.
Because the vast majority of people get healthcare through their employer or provided by the government and don't have to explicitly purchase it?
I don't see how that's relevant, unless I'm misunderstanding your point. I'm included in the vast majority and have employer provided health coverage. It cost me $500/month, and my company is chipping in at least that much per month. My employer certainly doesn't require me to participate, but if I don't I pay the "no-insurance-tax". How is that not the same thing as a tax? Just because I'm able to purchase it through my employer instead of an exchange doesn't diminish the requirement of having health insurance.
Even if my employer payed 100% of the cost, that's still money out of my pocket. That is, of course, assuming if my employer didn't have to expend the $1000 (or whatever) a month for health insurance I would see a portion of that money added to my salary/ESOP/bonus.
Charge 9% on student loans? Their's a good reason for that.
Care to elaborate on what that good reason is? Return is proportional to risk. Student loans are just about the lowest risk loans that can be made, and should be "priced" accordingly.
Was the job in Germany and Japan not finished properly? You have to commit to it over decades, and you can't do it alone, and you'll probably kill 3% of the worlds population.
Is killing another 60 million people worth it? Or is there maybe a better way around it this time? That being said, we just seriously pissed in Russia's Corn Flakes. It'll be interesting to see how they react once the dust settles.
Syria doesn't pose a direct significant threat, but Russia on the other hand... I'm going to go play some Fallout tonight, practice for the impending apocalypse.
I understand energy density, but that isn't the only variable in the equation. How efficiently you use that energy comes in to play as well. I don't claim to be an expert (very far from it, so I'd love for someone with actual knowledge chime in) but electric motors are significantly more efficient than gas engines. (Couldn't find any good numbers on jet engines, and I only assume the dude in the article knows what he's talking about)
I assume your being facetious... but I don't think it's the flying that's the difference. I'd say it makes a pretty big difference if you intend to land safely on different surfaces.
That depends. The general public are assholes, and are very wrong very regularly. Walmart will regularly escort unruly customers out the door and politely request they never return, or at least recommend that they do "shop at Target from now on" when the customer suggests that's what they will do. Because they can afford to lose a customer or two and negative reviews aren't likely to have a huge impact on the company.
Now a small start up that has one product? You better be down your your knees servicing every customer that comes through the door, no matter what they do or say. Especially when your one product isn't that novel and will be copied by 15 companies within the year. (I mean, I didn't read the article, but what they describe in the summary sounds exactly like what one of the big garage door opener manufacturers built already)
I realize this is just one anecdote, but I was traveling through Iowa City a couple weeks ago. I found the hotel I wanted, was about $90 all-in on Trivago. I called the hotel directly, they wanted $100 all-in. When I told her it was $10 cheaper online she said something to the effect of "well, that's the online price. If you want it for that price you have to book online". That didn't make any sense to me. Not only is the price $10 cheaper, they have to pay the middleman as well. I didn't want to try an explain that to the 20 year old, booked it online.
From: zayavka@bsme-mos.ru Subject: question Hey. I found your software is online. Can you write the code for my project? Terms of reference attached below.
The price shall discuss, if you can make. Answer please.
Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. It reeks like a phishing attempt. 1) Unsolicited e-mail. 2) Broken English. 3)Request to open attachment. 4)Vague subject. 5) Sketchy e-mail address.
Zero sympathy for people who fell for this. Nerds should know better.
TV can disappear tomorrow and it won't matter. People can get their entertainment the good old fashioned way by going outside instead of staring at a screen.
I would agree with you, for 90% of the stuff out there. I enjoy the "educational" stuff, documentaries, "how-to" type shows, that kind of thing. I'm talking the kind of things you find on the Science Channel, TLC 5 to 10 years ago, Discovery, Velocity. etc. I mean, if that stuff went dark I'd find other sources of information, but I can't say I want to see them go.
Now, the other 90%, reality TV, game shows, talk shows, series, all that crap could be bundled up, tossed in the dumpster, and set on fire. There are a couple series I watch, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, watched House and Breaking Bad pretty regularly, but can I say I gained anything by them being around? Not really, save for being entertained for a few hours.
I'm sure they would like to know how they could make lots of money when other digital sources fail to.
Provide a streaming service that allows me to watch whatever NFL, MLB, and NHL games I want to, Live, and I'll happily pay $20-30/month. There is no way that they are getting that much from my cable company. Seems like a win-win.
You obviously failed to take into consideration the COST OF PROGRAMMING. Contracts to carry sports programming are very expensive.
CBS, Fox, NBC, etc. are currently paying those costs, and raking in cash from advertising and franchise fees. The advertising isn't going away, and a direct model would most likely put more subscriber money directly into the pockets of ESPN. The main problem is that the entrenched players would never let that happen. Too much money being made.
Fine, you don't like the gun analogy? Substitute any other of the thousands of possible things that have "pro" versions and "toy" versions. The argument isn't anything related specifically to guns. The GP's argument is that because he finds UAVs irritating means that any of them that aren't a toy should be banned from public use.
I'm interested in your point of view regarding the right to fly a drone
My point of view on flying a drone is the same I hold on just about everything else. My right to do so shouldn't be unreasonably impinged upon, right up until the point where it impacts someone else's ability to reasonably exercise their free right to do whatever the hell they want to do. That goes conversely as well, everyone else has the right to do whatever the hell they want to do, as long as it doesn't affect my right to do the same.
No more consumer guns unless it can only be fired after pumping it, shoot no more than 50 feet, and can't fire more than a.177 caliber projectile. Basically: A childs' BB gun. You want more than that? You have to have a legitimate business reason to have one, and you have to pay license fees, insurance, and obtain permits to operate it anywhere near public hunting land. Goddamned hunting rifles are a nuisance and should never have been allowed in the first place.
I need to know if you have a license to have a child.... May I see the license please? What do you mean you don't have it on you? You know the law, It's required.
I am in favor of this as well. If there was a way to safely sterilize at birth, only to be un-done upon completion of an IQ and means test? We already have enough people on this planet, we don't need more for the sake of having more.
If so then someone could just report all of their plates as lost and then not be responsible for them?
Just like people can report their cars or guns stolen. Makes it kind of awkward when the police show up with a search warrant to investigate an alleged offense and your "stolen" or "lost" cars/guns/drones are sitting in the garage/safe/closet. Why is this shit so complicated to some people? Just because it's a new technology doesn't mean 99% of these "issues" haven't been sorted out thousands of times already.
Will there be a way to report the plate lost
Holy shit, that sounds complicated. Oh, nevermind. There's already a "cancel registration" button on the FCCs UAS registration website. How much work would it be to add a "reported stolen" flag on there?
...flying an unlicensed drone in your backyard if your neighbors don't...
What do his neighbors have to do with what he does in his back yard? It's his back yard. As long as he remains in his back yard, and isn't in violation of any noise (or other) ordinances, the neighbors have no input on the matter.
or if it doesn't have a camera which lets it look over your neighbor's fence.
I can see over my neighbor's fence from the elevated deck in my back yard. Does that mean I'm not allowed to go out on my deck with a camera without my neighbors permission?
That being said, I am 100% in favor of what DJI is proposing. Once I operate my quad off my private property it should need to have reasonable means of being identified by citizens who wish to file a complaint. I don't view this any different than my car.
It's the same reason a gallon of milk costs $5 at the convenience store and $3 at the grocery store. It's all a function of volume, overhead, and most importantly convenience. If not paying the $5 for your books was more important, order it online. If the instant gratification is more important, it's going to cost you $5. Just like the milk, if you don't want the hassle of the grocery store that convenience cost you $2. WalMart does the same thing, prices vary by market and online vs store. (The only difference, Walmart will generally match their online price if you print it out and bring it in. Which I'm sure B&N would have done if you made some noise about it)
If they make it soon enough after the initial release it would totally be worth it.
While your math adds up, I still can't get past the logic. Is the movie somehow worse if it's viewed two months later? $2 from Redbox still gets you the same movie experience you described, it is just a little later.
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Why only negative votes? Wouldn't it make sense to dump everything?
tries to accommodate every culture until its own gets lost in the noise
Which culture is it that's getting "lost in the noise"? The one we brought from Europe? The Native one we stepped on in the process? The African one we kidnapped to pick our cotton? The Chinese one that came to build our railroads? Or one of the hundreds of other cultures that have been coming in to our country since its inception?
We are a nation of immigrants. Unless you are full blood Native you don't have to go back more than a handful of generations to find a foreign parent.
The US somehow feels like it must apologize for even the most feeble effort at border patrols
This one I agree with you on. All of the "I'm moving to Canada" people would be in for a hell of a shock when they got the border and were promptly (but probably politely) told to piss off.
Couldn't agree more. Me and my company are forking over about that much per month as well. Add that to my tax bill, then add in the billions in profit the insurance companies are making every year, and give me (and the rest of the country) our socialized health care.
Because the vast majority of people get healthcare through their employer or provided by the government and don't have to explicitly purchase it?
I don't see how that's relevant, unless I'm misunderstanding your point. I'm included in the vast majority and have employer provided health coverage. It cost me $500/month, and my company is chipping in at least that much per month. My employer certainly doesn't require me to participate, but if I don't I pay the "no-insurance-tax". How is that not the same thing as a tax? Just because I'm able to purchase it through my employer instead of an exchange doesn't diminish the requirement of having health insurance.
Even if my employer payed 100% of the cost, that's still money out of my pocket. That is, of course, assuming if my employer didn't have to expend the $1000 (or whatever) a month for health insurance I would see a portion of that money added to my salary/ESOP/bonus.
Charge 9% on student loans? Their's a good reason for that.
Care to elaborate on what that good reason is? Return is proportional to risk. Student loans are just about the lowest risk loans that can be made, and should be "priced" accordingly.
Was the job in Germany and Japan not finished properly? You have to commit to it over decades, and you can't do it alone, and you'll probably kill 3% of the worlds population.
I went ahead and fixed that for ya.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is killing another 60 million people worth it? Or is there maybe a better way around it this time? That being said, we just seriously pissed in Russia's Corn Flakes. It'll be interesting to see how they react once the dust settles. Syria doesn't pose a direct significant threat, but Russia on the other hand... I'm going to go play some Fallout tonight, practice for the impending apocalypse.
Good news then, if you look on the forums people say it'll be out in less than 6 months.
I understand energy density, but that isn't the only variable in the equation. How efficiently you use that energy comes in to play as well. I don't claim to be an expert (very far from it, so I'd love for someone with actual knowledge chime in) but electric motors are significantly more efficient than gas engines. (Couldn't find any good numbers on jet engines, and I only assume the dude in the article knows what he's talking about)
I assume your being facetious... but I don't think it's the flying that's the difference. I'd say it makes a pretty big difference if you intend to land safely on different surfaces.
The customer is always right.
That depends. The general public are assholes, and are very wrong very regularly. Walmart will regularly escort unruly customers out the door and politely request they never return, or at least recommend that they do "shop at Target from now on" when the customer suggests that's what they will do. Because they can afford to lose a customer or two and negative reviews aren't likely to have a huge impact on the company.
Now a small start up that has one product? You better be down your your knees servicing every customer that comes through the door, no matter what they do or say. Especially when your one product isn't that novel and will be copied by 15 companies within the year. (I mean, I didn't read the article, but what they describe in the summary sounds exactly like what one of the big garage door opener manufacturers built already)
Some, like the company I work for, are self-insured. The insurance card may say "blue cross" but it comes out of the company pocket book.
I realize this is just one anecdote, but I was traveling through Iowa City a couple weeks ago. I found the hotel I wanted, was about $90 all-in on Trivago. I called the hotel directly, they wanted $100 all-in. When I told her it was $10 cheaper online she said something to the effect of "well, that's the online price. If you want it for that price you have to book online". That didn't make any sense to me. Not only is the price $10 cheaper, they have to pay the middleman as well. I didn't want to try an explain that to the 20 year old, booked it online.
From: zayavka@bsme-mos.ru
Subject: question
Hey. I found your software is online. Can you write the code for my project? Terms of reference attached below. The price shall discuss, if you can make. Answer please.
Sorry, that doesn't pass the smell test. It reeks like a phishing attempt. 1) Unsolicited e-mail. 2) Broken English. 3)Request to open attachment. 4)Vague subject. 5) Sketchy e-mail address.
Zero sympathy for people who fell for this. Nerds should know better.
TV can disappear tomorrow and it won't matter. People can get their entertainment the good old fashioned way by going outside instead of staring at a screen.
I would agree with you, for 90% of the stuff out there. I enjoy the "educational" stuff, documentaries, "how-to" type shows, that kind of thing. I'm talking the kind of things you find on the Science Channel, TLC 5 to 10 years ago, Discovery, Velocity. etc. I mean, if that stuff went dark I'd find other sources of information, but I can't say I want to see them go.
Now, the other 90%, reality TV, game shows, talk shows, series, all that crap could be bundled up, tossed in the dumpster, and set on fire. There are a couple series I watch, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, watched House and Breaking Bad pretty regularly, but can I say I gained anything by them being around? Not really, save for being entertained for a few hours.
What never fails to amaze me is how people seem to think that a strike what their first option
These are the same people that shut a freeway down during rush hour to make their point...
I'm sure they would like to know how they could make lots of money when other digital sources fail to.
Provide a streaming service that allows me to watch whatever NFL, MLB, and NHL games I want to, Live, and I'll happily pay $20-30/month. There is no way that they are getting that much from my cable company. Seems like a win-win.
You obviously failed to take into consideration the COST OF PROGRAMMING. Contracts to carry sports programming are very expensive.
CBS, Fox, NBC, etc. are currently paying those costs, and raking in cash from advertising and franchise fees. The advertising isn't going away, and a direct model would most likely put more subscriber money directly into the pockets of ESPN. The main problem is that the entrenched players would never let that happen. Too much money being made.
I'm interested in your point of view regarding the right to fly a drone
My point of view on flying a drone is the same I hold on just about everything else. My right to do so shouldn't be unreasonably impinged upon, right up until the point where it impacts someone else's ability to reasonably exercise their free right to do whatever the hell they want to do. That goes conversely as well, everyone else has the right to do whatever the hell they want to do, as long as it doesn't affect my right to do the same.
No more consumer guns unless it can only be fired after pumping it, shoot no more than 50 feet, and can't fire more than a .177 caliber projectile. Basically: A childs' BB gun. You want more than that? You have to have a legitimate business reason to have one, and you have to pay license fees, insurance, and obtain permits to operate it anywhere near public hunting land. Goddamned hunting rifles are a nuisance and should never have been allowed in the first place.
I need to know if you have a license to have a child.... May I see the license please? What do you mean you don't have it on you? You know the law, It's required.
I am in favor of this as well. If there was a way to safely sterilize at birth, only to be un-done upon completion of an IQ and means test? We already have enough people on this planet, we don't need more for the sake of having more.
If so then someone could just report all of their plates as lost and then not be responsible for them?
Just like people can report their cars or guns stolen. Makes it kind of awkward when the police show up with a search warrant to investigate an alleged offense and your "stolen" or "lost" cars/guns/drones are sitting in the garage/safe/closet. Why is this shit so complicated to some people? Just because it's a new technology doesn't mean 99% of these "issues" haven't been sorted out thousands of times already.
Will there be a way to report the plate lost
Holy shit, that sounds complicated. Oh, nevermind. There's already a "cancel registration" button on the FCCs UAS registration website. How much work would it be to add a "reported stolen" flag on there?
...flying an unlicensed drone in your backyard if your neighbors don't...
What do his neighbors have to do with what he does in his back yard? It's his back yard. As long as he remains in his back yard, and isn't in violation of any noise (or other) ordinances, the neighbors have no input on the matter.
or if it doesn't have a camera which lets it look over your neighbor's fence.
I can see over my neighbor's fence from the elevated deck in my back yard. Does that mean I'm not allowed to go out on my deck with a camera without my neighbors permission?
That being said, I am 100% in favor of what DJI is proposing. Once I operate my quad off my private property it should need to have reasonable means of being identified by citizens who wish to file a complaint. I don't view this any different than my car.
It's the same reason a gallon of milk costs $5 at the convenience store and $3 at the grocery store. It's all a function of volume, overhead, and most importantly convenience. If not paying the $5 for your books was more important, order it online. If the instant gratification is more important, it's going to cost you $5. Just like the milk, if you don't want the hassle of the grocery store that convenience cost you $2. WalMart does the same thing, prices vary by market and online vs store. (The only difference, Walmart will generally match their online price if you print it out and bring it in. Which I'm sure B&N would have done if you made some noise about it)
Therefore there is little to no correlation between my enjoyment of a film and its RT freshness.
There is a definite correlation for me, but it happens to be inverse. If something scores high on there there is a pretty good chance I'll hate it.
If they make it soon enough after the initial release it would totally be worth it.
While your math adds up, I still can't get past the logic. Is the movie somehow worse if it's viewed two months later? $2 from Redbox still gets you the same movie experience you described, it is just a little later.
Here ya go I mean it doesn't say, "WONTFIX, LOL" verbatim, but there are 128 items in there labeled "No Fix", so they may as well say LOL after it.