Learning about Twitch (from one of my teenagers) was my first "holy shit, I must be getting old" moment. My comment to her was "you are actually watching someone else playing a video game for hours on end?" to which she replied: "You spend hours watching other people play football, don't you?" Touche teenager, touche.
the hydraulic spaceship door was operated by another person and that as the actor passed beneath it, he was hit hard in the pelvis and pinned to the floor.
So, two rookie mistakes. The actor for entering an unsafe situation, and the operator not making the area safe.
when he walked on to the set not believing it to be live
You would think someone that's been around as long as he has would be aware that all systems should be treated as live until verified otherwise. You don't just pick up a wire. You don't just walk into a confined space. You don't just push a button.
I don't imagine a movie set is any different than any other potentially dangerous work space. You have to know your environment, even if it is constantly changing, and your safety is ultimately your responsibility.
It's not the legitimate or semi-legitimate companies that irritate the shit out of me. It's the scammers that drive me bananas. "We are calling to talk about lowering your credit card rates, please verify your credit card number for us." There is absolutely nothing that traditional enforcement (cease and desist, fines, etc.) can do about those. It seems unfair to completely block legitimate VOIP calls to cell phones, but there has to be some way to block the scammers without putting undue burdens on legitimate companies.
Not that it matters, no matter who wins, ( Ego A or Ego B ) we all lose anyway.
You realize there are more options than Hillary or Trump, right? I understand that any of those candidates or parties are an absolute long shot for the presidency, but if you think we're fucked if either Hillary or Trump get in, why not "waste" your vote on one of the other candidates, and get a few of your friends and relatives to join you. It may not happen this election, but if the "outsider" parties start gaining traction we may be able to get out of the two-party-system hellhole.
I've built several dozen pcs over the last 16-17 years and I enjoy it
Couldn't agree more. The only part about the ridiculous article I agree with is the hunting and picking components, then price-shopping to get the best deal. It's not hard to blow an entire Saturday researching, hunting, and buying computer components.
The rest of the "Article" reads like a teenager trying to fix his four-wheeler. "Waaaaaaa, this is hard" "I dropped my wrench." "Which way to I turn a bolt to loosen it?" "What color is oil supposed to be?" "My hands got dirty."
"That's why I recommend Apple products..." Fucker probably pays Jiffy Lube to change his oil and windshield wipers too.
How about some numbers:
Number of law enforcement officers in the US: 765,000
Number of LEO related deaths last year: 1,000
Deaths/LEO:.1%
Number of blacks in the US: 37,685,840
Number of black gang members in the US: 279,000
Blacks that are gang members:.74%
Number of gang related deaths last year: 2000
Number caused by blacks: 600 (This assumes the same ratio of total gang members vs black gang members, 31%)
Deaths/gang member:.2%
I'm not sure the point I was trying to make, but numbers are interesting, nonetheless. (I was going to just not post this, after forgetting what my point was, but I wasted too much time digging through the internet for numbers) WP has a good article analyzing the all police involved shootings in 2015: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Hint: Police keep killing folks. Many of them unarmed, in handcuffs, and mostly black
Emphasis mine, and [Citation Needed]
Now, I can't disagree, police killing people is a problem, but why does race ALWAYS have to play a part? According to this 100 (ish) people were killed by police last month. 35 white, 27 black, 19 latino. Why do we only care about the black ones?
All cops are the problem though, because even if they aren't racist killers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
This is going to get me flamed, but I'm past the point of giving a crap. Let's change out a few words here and see how it works
All blacks are the problem though, because even if they aren't gang bangers and killers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
Let's try a less inflammatory one
All programmers are the problem though, because even if they aren't bad programmers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
There are good people and bad people, good cops and bad cops, good programmers and bad programmers. How about we quit painting with such a broad brush?
What infuriates me is the lack of accountability. I understand that cops have a shitty job, and I understand that the use of force is probably justified the majority of the time. Even if the majority of them are justified, that leaves a percentage that aren't. Where is the accountability for those? On the other hand, where is the accountability for the citizens dancing and taunting police officers after they came to stop a local 7-11 from being looted, while the officer's brothers are laying dead?
How about some details? Was this person sitting calmly at their desk, diligently working, or were they in the boss' face using a bouquet of four letter words when they were escorted out? I've personally never seen or heard of the first one happening, I've seen the latter happening a few times.
Having never been fired before, I don't have a lot of first hand experience, but I have been associated with a number of people that got fired. I have NEVER seen or heard of anybody that was fired abruptly without cause. (Turning tables over and yelling profanities is definitely cause, I've seen that a few times.) Even in right to work states, an employer will build a case against you, and you will be aware of that case being built. I've worked for a number of companies, every one of them had a similar "three strikes" policy. Verbal warning (that is documented, and signed by you), written warning (also signed by you), and then they show you the door.
ISPs traditionally offer "features" such as: free webmail, a DNS service that will helpfully redirect you to their ad-serving page when you type in www.googel.com, tech support (including, and limited to: Did you reboot the modem? Is it plugged in? Did you reboot the computer?), and a billing service that is second-to-satan.
Republican primary voters weren't interested in traditional candidates.
The Republican primary was more akin to a Reality TV competition than an actual democratic process. If you could smash together an episode of Jerry Springer, Celebrity Apprentice, and American Idol you'd have a pretty close representation of the Republican primary process. And, like every other reality TV show, American sheep are just lapping it up.
I have an idea. It's a new app called "think". Every hour it reminds you to stop and think. That way when you are writing a piece of shit app, your watch will alert you to stop and think "do I really need an app to remind me to breathe?"
We can have ones called "shit", "drink", "eat", and "fuck", that way you don't forget about any of the other basic human needs.
I was about to be a smart-ass, and disagree with you. My thinking was that TECHNICALLY you are re-generating electricity even if you aren't storing it for future use. But my googling led me to a clarification on the OP, what he's referring to is rheostatic dynamic braking not regenerative dynamic braking. The differentiating being what you do with the power you are generating. On order to be regenerative you have to re-use the power to do work (either immediately, or stored for future use), rheostatic just "burns" the energy as waste heat through a resistor bank. The earliest systems used rheostatic only, modern systems (in trains anyway, didn't research chars) use both.
I guess my biggest question is if you aren't using the "smart" features of the TV, installing apps, browsing the internet, etc, how is it getting infected with malware? From what I'm reading (in the sparsely detailed linked article) this isn't something that gets brought in from outside the device (bringing it in on an infected phone or pc), you have to install the offending app on the TV.
It seems to me that the only people that are affected by this are the people that want to use the "smart" features of the TV. The people that don't care to use apps on their TV are fine. I get that having a TV connected to a network opens an attack vector, but for this particular virus that isn't the source of the problem. And setting up a segmented network for your smart tv gets you around that problem.
Seriously? I mean, I realize Apple doesn't own a copyright on the letter "S", but Microsoft couldn't think up a better moniker for a sub-release of a device?
You have had 5 catastrophic ball-joint failures in your life? I call BS. Replacing 5 worn out ones is believable, but having 5 of them come apart on you? Not a chance.
while avoiding the nasty business of fixing the "human problems" like warlords, ignorance and superstition, and apathy.
I'm not trying to be crass, but we are working on rockets and flying cars because they are solvable engineering problems (and there is profit potential). Warlords, ignorance, superstition, apathy... Good luck with those. A couple generations of better information access might HELP the problem, but good luck doing anything that upsets the balance of power. Those in power will take drastic and severe steps to retain that power. Hell, we can't even get Internet to people in Cuba.
At least world hunger and clean drinking water are immediately solvable, we have the technology to do it. We could end world hunger in 5 years if we wanted to, but nobody is willing to pony up the dough. (The US, for example, spent $600M on defense alone last year. Source You can buy a lot of water filters for $600M dollars. I'm not bashing the gov't for their military spending, that's a different conversation for a different day. Just pointing out that the money is there, should we choose to prioritize our discretionary spending differently.)
Pandora was the only service that gave me other songs that were good accompaniments with each other. The other sites just seemed to go by artist genre.
Same experience. I love Pandora for their ability to not play crap I don't like. I have 4 different stations "trained" pretty well, for different moods.
Biggest complaints: 1: I can't just play a song I want to hear. 2: Even paying for Pandora One, you still are limited in the number of skips. 3: No way to "turn off" things I don't like, such as acoustic tracks, or live music.
Mash together Google's music service (or Spotify, or whatever) with Pandora's ability to "match" content and you'd have a gold mine. It doesn't fix all of the problems as above, but it would come closer than anything I've found.
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Learning about Twitch (from one of my teenagers) was my first "holy shit, I must be getting old" moment. My comment to her was "you are actually watching someone else playing a video game for hours on end?" to which she replied: "You spend hours watching other people play football, don't you?" Touche teenager, touche.
the hydraulic spaceship door was operated by another person and that as the actor passed beneath it, he was hit hard in the pelvis and pinned to the floor.
So, two rookie mistakes. The actor for entering an unsafe situation, and the operator not making the area safe.
when he walked on to the set not believing it to be live
You would think someone that's been around as long as he has would be aware that all systems should be treated as live until verified otherwise. You don't just pick up a wire. You don't just walk into a confined space. You don't just push a button.
I don't imagine a movie set is any different than any other potentially dangerous work space. You have to know your environment, even if it is constantly changing, and your safety is ultimately your responsibility.
I was thinking the same thing... That could have been a nice boost the the trading account.
Or just flat out eliminate the ability to spoof caller ID...
It's not the legitimate or semi-legitimate companies that irritate the shit out of me. It's the scammers that drive me bananas. "We are calling to talk about lowering your credit card rates, please verify your credit card number for us." There is absolutely nothing that traditional enforcement (cease and desist, fines, etc.) can do about those. It seems unfair to completely block legitimate VOIP calls to cell phones, but there has to be some way to block the scammers without putting undue burdens on legitimate companies.
Not that it matters, no matter who wins, ( Ego A or Ego B ) we all lose anyway.
You realize there are more options than Hillary or Trump, right? I understand that any of those candidates or parties are an absolute long shot for the presidency, but if you think we're fucked if either Hillary or Trump get in, why not "waste" your vote on one of the other candidates, and get a few of your friends and relatives to join you. It may not happen this election, but if the "outsider" parties start gaining traction we may be able to get out of the two-party-system hellhole.
but I heard it has a lot of oil.
Sounds like they need some Freedom(TM)
And nothing of value was lost.
Dammit, I was gonna say that!
I've built several dozen pcs over the last 16-17 years and I enjoy it
Couldn't agree more. The only part about the ridiculous article I agree with is the hunting and picking components, then price-shopping to get the best deal. It's not hard to blow an entire Saturday researching, hunting, and buying computer components.
The rest of the "Article" reads like a teenager trying to fix his four-wheeler. "Waaaaaaa, this is hard" "I dropped my wrench." "Which way to I turn a bolt to loosen it?" "What color is oil supposed to be?" "My hands got dirty."
"That's why I recommend Apple products..." Fucker probably pays Jiffy Lube to change his oil and windshield wipers too.
How about some numbers:
.74%
.2%
Number of law enforcement officers in the US: 765,000
Number of LEO related deaths last year: 1,000
Deaths/LEO:.1%
Number of blacks in the US: 37,685,840
Number of black gang members in the US: 279,000
Blacks that are gang members:
Number of gang related deaths last year: 2000
Number caused by blacks: 600 (This assumes the same ratio of total gang members vs black gang members, 31%)
Deaths/gang member:
I'm not sure the point I was trying to make, but numbers are interesting, nonetheless. (I was going to just not post this, after forgetting what my point was, but I wasted too much time digging through the internet for numbers) WP has a good article analyzing the all police involved shootings in 2015: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Hint: Police keep killing folks. Many of them unarmed, in handcuffs, and mostly black
Emphasis mine, and [Citation Needed]
Now, I can't disagree, police killing people is a problem, but why does race ALWAYS have to play a part? According to this 100 (ish) people were killed by police last month. 35 white, 27 black, 19 latino. Why do we only care about the black ones?
All cops are the problem though, because even if they aren't racist killers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
This is going to get me flamed, but I'm past the point of giving a crap. Let's change out a few words here and see how it works
All blacks are the problem though, because even if they aren't gang bangers and killers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
Let's try a less inflammatory one
All programmers are the problem though, because even if they aren't bad programmers themselves they're aiding and abetting the ones who are.
There are good people and bad people, good cops and bad cops, good programmers and bad programmers. How about we quit painting with such a broad brush?
What infuriates me is the lack of accountability. I understand that cops have a shitty job, and I understand that the use of force is probably justified the majority of the time. Even if the majority of them are justified, that leaves a percentage that aren't. Where is the accountability for those? On the other hand, where is the accountability for the citizens dancing and taunting police officers after they came to stop a local 7-11 from being looted, while the officer's brothers are laying dead?
Idk, Maybe he watched Judge Dredd and thought it was kind of a good movie.
How about some details? Was this person sitting calmly at their desk, diligently working, or were they in the boss' face using a bouquet of four letter words when they were escorted out? I've personally never seen or heard of the first one happening, I've seen the latter happening a few times.
Having never been fired before, I don't have a lot of first hand experience, but I have been associated with a number of people that got fired. I have NEVER seen or heard of anybody that was fired abruptly without cause. (Turning tables over and yelling profanities is definitely cause, I've seen that a few times.) Even in right to work states, an employer will build a case against you, and you will be aware of that case being built. I've worked for a number of companies, every one of them had a similar "three strikes" policy. Verbal warning (that is documented, and signed by you), written warning (also signed by you), and then they show you the door.
ISPs traditionally offer "features" such as: free webmail, a DNS service that will helpfully redirect you to their ad-serving page when you type in www.googel.com, tech support (including, and limited to: Did you reboot the modem? Is it plugged in? Did you reboot the computer?), and a billing service that is second-to-satan.
Republican primary voters weren't interested in traditional candidates.
The Republican primary was more akin to a Reality TV competition than an actual democratic process. If you could smash together an episode of Jerry Springer, Celebrity Apprentice, and American Idol you'd have a pretty close representation of the Republican primary process. And, like every other reality TV show, American sheep are just lapping it up.
I have an idea. It's a new app called "think". Every hour it reminds you to stop and think. That way when you are writing a piece of shit app, your watch will alert you to stop and think "do I really need an app to remind me to breathe?"
We can have ones called "shit", "drink", "eat", and "fuck", that way you don't forget about any of the other basic human needs.
I was about to be a smart-ass, and disagree with you. My thinking was that TECHNICALLY you are re-generating electricity even if you aren't storing it for future use. But my googling led me to a clarification on the OP, what he's referring to is rheostatic dynamic braking not regenerative dynamic braking. The differentiating being what you do with the power you are generating. On order to be regenerative you have to re-use the power to do work (either immediately, or stored for future use), rheostatic just "burns" the energy as waste heat through a resistor bank. The earliest systems used rheostatic only, modern systems (in trains anyway, didn't research chars) use both.
I guess my biggest question is if you aren't using the "smart" features of the TV, installing apps, browsing the internet, etc, how is it getting infected with malware? From what I'm reading (in the sparsely detailed linked article) this isn't something that gets brought in from outside the device (bringing it in on an infected phone or pc), you have to install the offending app on the TV.
It seems to me that the only people that are affected by this are the people that want to use the "smart" features of the TV. The people that don't care to use apps on their TV are fine. I get that having a TV connected to a network opens an attack vector, but for this particular virus that isn't the source of the problem. And setting up a segmented network for your smart tv gets you around that problem.
Seriously? I mean, I realize Apple doesn't own a copyright on the letter "S", but Microsoft couldn't think up a better moniker for a sub-release of a device?
You have had 5 catastrophic ball-joint failures in your life? I call BS. Replacing 5 worn out ones is believable, but having 5 of them come apart on you? Not a chance.
while avoiding the nasty business of fixing the "human problems" like warlords, ignorance and superstition, and apathy.
I'm not trying to be crass, but we are working on rockets and flying cars because they are solvable engineering problems (and there is profit potential). Warlords, ignorance, superstition, apathy... Good luck with those. A couple generations of better information access might HELP the problem, but good luck doing anything that upsets the balance of power. Those in power will take drastic and severe steps to retain that power. Hell, we can't even get Internet to people in Cuba.
At least world hunger and clean drinking water are immediately solvable, we have the technology to do it. We could end world hunger in 5 years if we wanted to, but nobody is willing to pony up the dough. (The US, for example, spent $600M on defense alone last year. Source You can buy a lot of water filters for $600M dollars. I'm not bashing the gov't for their military spending, that's a different conversation for a different day. Just pointing out that the money is there, should we choose to prioritize our discretionary spending differently.)
Pandora was the only service that gave me other songs that were good accompaniments with each other. The other sites just seemed to go by artist genre.
Same experience. I love Pandora for their ability to not play crap I don't like. I have 4 different stations "trained" pretty well, for different moods.
Biggest complaints:
1: I can't just play a song I want to hear.
2: Even paying for Pandora One, you still are limited in the number of skips.
3: No way to "turn off" things I don't like, such as acoustic tracks, or live music.
Mash together Google's music service (or Spotify, or whatever) with Pandora's ability to "match" content and you'd have a gold mine. It doesn't fix all of the problems as above, but it would come closer than anything I've found.