You might be closer than you think to the ways cults are started.
Some borderline Luddite over bearing parent imposes a rule that if something was good enough for their parents its good enough for their children, and another oddball sect is born.
So if everyone around you started chewing khat*, you'd say: "My children can do it, too, so they will function in the world around them. We're not some cult who abstains from what everyone else is doing!"
I doubt your children will miss anything if they're not constantly exposed to TV series, smartphone apps or the internet in general. The educational value of ruining your attention span is also quite dubious to me.
*: Or smoking cigarettes, if that sounds less far-fetched to you. I assume neither of us lives in Yemen.
On German satellite HD channels, timeshift is usually disabled for many channels. And there's still ads, and you have to pay 60€/yr for the HD channels. IPTV (Telekom Entertain) DOES support timeshifting on all channels, but it's impossible to get the recorded movies out of the set-top-box (Microsoft Mediaroom). So I'm stuck watching on my TV. That is, as long as my subscription for IPTV was active. The second I changed my DSL provider, all the movies on my STB's HD were...gone. Imagine my fury when some long-kept documentaries were lost.
It's simply MUCH easier to download complete seasons of "Game of Thrones" and just put them on a NAS, or do whatever I like with them.
I remember when GoT started on TNT HD: I missed the first few episodes, and the only way to catch up was... pirating.
Well, healthcare is a problematic issue in all the countries - because of its nature. I cannot even start to explain the system in Germany, its rules, shortcomings and benefits. Let's just say: healthcare is *always* expensive. I think our system is comparatively okay. The British NHS is a disaster with low-quality healthcare for the masses, the US system *so far* seems to provide good results, but at high cost, and with social problems I would rather not see in my country. I was quite surprised to see fellow students without healthcare in the US when I studied there. At that time, in Germany, most students were just part of their parents' contract, or paid the student premium of maybe 60 USD/mo.
Why not have a mail service that scans your documents for you and delivers them electronically? That way, you could keep your "virtual" mailing address. I heard the NSA might be willing to help, since they put most of the infrastructure in place already.
You are part of the reason home delivery is so expensive. If you don't want to drive miles to a mailbox cluster, the USPS doesn't want to drive those miles to deliver a bulk mail envelope that only earned them 25 cents.
So you are saying that we could all be better off (more comfortable, less junk mai) if the USPS just increased prices? Paying 2x the current amount isn't going to stop anyone from sending you important mail, but it COULD stop bulk mail. I often have to dump 95% of my mail right at the door, and I bet I have already lost *some* important mail that was hidden between some junk mail I tossed.
Nope, that is actually the definition of opportunistic behaviour. In a democracy, in theory we transfer power to people we have elected for certain goals and values. If I wanted a flag hanging in the wind, parties would become obsolete.
85 tons is the displacement of the boat. 11.7 tons is the weight of the battery, so the charging time and capacity are less than you think. Where do these ominous HP come from in your calculation, anyways? How many HPs do the electrical outlets in your house have?
Of course, you could have found and translated the Wikipedia entry at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BBranor_PlanetSolar, which gives the capacity of the battery as 1130kWh, the weight of the batteries as 11.7 tons, and some more information.
Remembering the times when Deutsche Telekom was still called "Deutsche Bundespost" and a state-owned monopoly, I can only say: NO WAY!!!
Why is it that so many people believe that a monopoly "works better" if it's state-owned instead of privately held? A private monopoly must at least make sure they are not being substituted away by some related technology (and therefore stay *somewhat* attractive), while *every single* government monopoly makes sure, using the law and force, that nobody competes with them, ever.
The best thing that ever happened to the German telecommunications market was to allow competitors in, and push Deutsche Telekom aside (still profitable, paying good dividends on their stock).
Deutsche Telekom is not a "monopoly". They still own the network, but are forced to rent "the last mile" to competitors at regulated prices. Their market share is not that high. Vodafone, O2, KabelDeutschland and others are only some of their competitors.
Back on topic: Deutsche Telekom also does IPTV, and they are being accused of violating network neutrality since they want to exempt it (and phone services) from their planned DSL caps (75GB @DSL, 200GB @VDSL 50MBit). Partly correct, but it's not "internet" because Telekom has built a parallel infrastructure for it (separate VLAN, separate distribution network). Partly, because at the same time they have a sh*tty backbone connection to, for example, YouTube and want to make separate agreements with them to a) "finance better connectivity" and b) have select services exempt from bandwidth caps.
No other provider does this. I went from Deutsche Telekom to O2, and suddenly Youtube in HD started working (it is really unuseable on DTAG's network). Also, if you use a VPN and then start Youtube, everything is fine - even if exactly the same backbone connection is used.
We have FTTC here and (sucking) VDSL for the last few meters (in my case, 200), resulting in a 50MBit connection. I *wish* I could upgrade to FTTH, which should not be too costly considering they just need to shoot a fibre through a pipe. My connection (Deutsche Telekom) is fully IP anyways (internet, HDTV, telephone).
But FTTH just won't happen, because then Deutsche Telekom would lose some monopoly advantages: They just flexed their lobbying muscles to get VDSL vectoring approved. Now THEY get their hands on all copper wires in a bundle to correct for signal degradation that would not exist in a FTTH setting.
But hey, they promised 100MBit VDSL,,, not that fibre would be much faster...
You have obviously never seen the train parking zones (I live near one), and you have never seen the prices of heated, weather-protected PTZ HD cameras. And a drone is "shared equipment" that can easily be moved to a new spot.
I don't even want to talk about the cost of setting up "poles" (you seem to be imagining a stick in the ground) that are fit for use in that kind of area. I'm not even getting into the legal concerns of setting up PTZ cameras close to residential areas. Even the potential (!) to watch a residential neighborhood makes it illegal.
How do you track fleeing sprayers with a pole-mounted camera? Walking poles?:-)
Meanwhile, the only problem with the old [card] tech has been reliance on magnetic strips that can and do wear out or get erased. So replace them with invisible IR barcodes or something. Or maybe *contact-full* chips that require touching something
Uh, so you don't already HAVE chips?! My EC card has had them for years. All ATMs use the chip, and magnetic strips only work as a fallback option (though there are safeguards against simply using a copied card without chip).
I am curious, what are the options for online banking in the US today? When I was a customer of Citibank in the US in 2001, it was just username/password (I had an HBCI encryption chip on my German card then...)
The reason you bring up fraud is that it's what you would do if you wanted to force a result. People who don't consider that kind of cheat wouldn't jump to that conclusion.
Excuse me, but that is clearly bullsh*t. Having gone through University will make you suspect fraud, but just because you have seen it everywhere left and right during your studies. From students cheating in math exams and "forgetting" references in their papers, to 100% faked studies published by high-ranking journals.
Question to beekeepers: Is feeding HFCS/fructose to bees considered good practice? Sounds fishy to me, to feed bees a completely different sugar in place of glucose.
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos. I expect it is more of a case of not being able to fully rule out a bacterial infection so they prescribe the anti-biotics to cover all their bases and to help the patient feel like their problems are being taken seriously.
That's happening everywhere. The problem is partly with the patients being quite impatient with their doctors. All *my* doctor did when I came to him with e.g. a a severely sore throat or a sinusitis was to tell me that yes, he could give me antibiotics, but he would recommend I try some other things first: inhalation, drinking a lot of water, avoiding eating and drinking anything the most common bacteria would love. Basically for a sore throat: no dairy products, no sugar, instead sour food and drinks.
Of course, if you can't work and don't want to call in sick, he prescribes antibiotics. Sometimes also as part of the diagnosis, since testing in the lab cuts deeper into his budget than a test drive with antibiotics. So, it's the health provider's fault: Lab testing: expensive and therefore evil. Antibiotics: cheap way to go.
Just like in Germany, where guns are outright illegal, and only outlaws (and police and few hunters) have guns. Now what happens in a city like Bremen, that has some problem with ethnic gang crime? They create a "gun-free zone". No joke! In the middle of a country where guns are illegal, we have a gun-free zone. Trick question: does it apply to legal or illegal guns?:-)
...because, you know, everything in nature is *always* in balance. That's why ice ages are but a myth, just like evolution. Which both don't happen without some "balances" tipping.
You can't tell me that he was the first to have these ideas:
- Swap batteries! How could I NOT think of that! To be honest, I *did* buy spare batteries for my phones. But I never used them. Part of the problem is the loooong boot process of most current phones, another part is the flimsy back cover - and the fact that I use an additional leather cover for my phone. And the aforementioned rule of the USB chargers. Makes changing multiple batteries *very* inconvenient. I just pack a small 2xUSB / 2A charger and cables wherever I go. It's a good conversation starter to have another USB cable for the person sitting next to you (with the same problem). Plus, my phone would literally suck the batteries empty within a few hours.
- Hacked furnitures: I wonder what dimwit coined the word "hack" for that. But I guess that, just like me, there must be more people doing this kind of thing. Hold a tablet above my bed? My SO would literally KILL me. Exercise machine vs. tablet computer: I have that. But for a laptop, since I still don't own a tablet. And my phone is obviously too small.
I wonder why the above comment has been moderated "funny". I think he was dead serious. But it's good to know that at least SOME criminals are such utter morons that they would leave a digital "paper trail".
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You might be closer than you think to the ways cults are started.
Some borderline Luddite over bearing parent imposes a rule that if something was good enough for their parents its good enough for their children, and another oddball sect is born.
So if everyone around you started chewing khat*, you'd say: "My children can do it, too, so they will function in the world around them. We're not some cult who abstains from what everyone else is doing!"
I doubt your children will miss anything if they're not constantly exposed to TV series, smartphone apps or the internet in general. The educational value of ruining your attention span is also quite dubious to me.
*: Or smoking cigarettes, if that sounds less far-fetched to you. I assume neither of us lives in Yemen.
...or log in to both accounts from the same IP or browser?
True infact.
On German satellite HD channels, timeshift is usually disabled for many channels. And there's still ads, and you have to pay 60€/yr for the HD channels. ...gone. Imagine my fury when some long-kept documentaries were lost.
IPTV (Telekom Entertain) DOES support timeshifting on all channels, but it's impossible to get the recorded movies out of the set-top-box (Microsoft Mediaroom). So I'm stuck watching on my TV. That is, as long as my subscription for IPTV was active. The second I changed my DSL provider, all the movies on my STB's HD were
It's simply MUCH easier to download complete seasons of "Game of Thrones" and just put them on a NAS, or do whatever I like with them.
I remember when GoT started on TNT HD: I missed the first few episodes, and the only way to catch up was... pirating.
Next they'll start cutting cost in restaurants: providing a single menu, or just letting the patrons cook.
Well, healthcare is a problematic issue in all the countries - because of its nature. I cannot even start to explain the system in Germany, its rules, shortcomings and benefits. Let's just say: healthcare is *always* expensive. I think our system is comparatively okay. The British NHS is a disaster with low-quality healthcare for the masses, the US system *so far* seems to provide good results, but at high cost, and with social problems I would rather not see in my country. I was quite surprised to see fellow students without healthcare in the US when I studied there. At that time, in Germany, most students were just part of their parents' contract, or paid the student premium of maybe 60 USD/mo.
Why not have a mail service that scans your documents for you and delivers them electronically? That way, you could keep your "virtual" mailing address. I heard the NSA might be willing to help, since they put most of the infrastructure in place already.
You are part of the reason home delivery is so expensive. If you don't want to drive miles to a mailbox cluster, the USPS doesn't want to drive those miles to deliver a bulk mail envelope that only earned them 25 cents.
So you are saying that we could all be better off (more comfortable, less junk mai) if the USPS just increased prices? Paying 2x the current amount isn't going to stop anyone from sending you important mail, but it COULD stop bulk mail. I often have to dump 95% of my mail right at the door, and I bet I have already lost *some* important mail that was hidden between some junk mail I tossed.
Nope, that is actually the definition of opportunistic behaviour. In a democracy, in theory we transfer power to people we have elected for certain goals and values. If I wanted a flag hanging in the wind, parties would become obsolete.
Your question immediately brought this gem back to mind: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705773/
Watch it, it contains some epic quotes worthy of quite a few trash movie awards.
85 tons is the displacement of the boat. 11.7 tons is the weight of the battery, so the charging time and capacity are less than you think. Where do these ominous HP come from in your calculation, anyways? How many HPs do the electrical outlets in your house have?
Of course, you could have found and translated the Wikipedia entry at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BBranor_PlanetSolar, which gives the capacity of the battery as 1130kWh, the weight of the batteries as 11.7 tons, and some more information.
It costs US$ 103-118 (depending on whether it's diesel or not) where *I* live, so still a bargain :-)
1. Pay a few guys to start clapping and keep going.
2. Profit!
(Or: guess where the word "claqueur" comes from. This effect has been known for centuries.)
Remembering the times when Deutsche Telekom was still called "Deutsche Bundespost" and a state-owned monopoly, I can only say: NO WAY!!!
Why is it that so many people believe that a monopoly "works better" if it's state-owned instead of privately held? A private monopoly must at least make sure they are not being substituted away by some related technology (and therefore stay *somewhat* attractive), while *every single* government monopoly makes sure, using the law and force, that nobody competes with them, ever.
The best thing that ever happened to the German telecommunications market was to allow competitors in, and push Deutsche Telekom aside (still profitable, paying good dividends on their stock).
Deutsche Telekom is not a "monopoly". They still own the network, but are forced to rent "the last mile" to competitors at regulated prices. Their market share is not that high. Vodafone, O2, KabelDeutschland and others are only some of their competitors.
Back on topic: Deutsche Telekom also does IPTV, and they are being accused of violating network neutrality since they want to exempt it (and phone services) from their planned DSL caps (75GB @DSL, 200GB @VDSL 50MBit). Partly correct, but it's not "internet" because Telekom has built a parallel infrastructure for it (separate VLAN, separate distribution network). Partly, because at the same time they have a sh*tty backbone connection to, for example, YouTube and want to make separate agreements with them to a) "finance better connectivity" and b) have select services exempt from bandwidth caps.
No other provider does this. I went from Deutsche Telekom to O2, and suddenly Youtube in HD started working (it is really unuseable on DTAG's network). Also, if you use a VPN and then start Youtube, everything is fine - even if exactly the same backbone connection is used.
We have FTTC here and (sucking) VDSL for the last few meters (in my case, 200), resulting in a 50MBit connection. I *wish* I could upgrade to FTTH, which should not be too costly considering they just need to shoot a fibre through a pipe. My connection (Deutsche Telekom) is fully IP anyways (internet, HDTV, telephone).
But FTTH just won't happen, because then Deutsche Telekom would lose some monopoly advantages: They just flexed their lobbying muscles to get VDSL vectoring approved. Now THEY get their hands on all copper wires in a bundle to correct for signal degradation that would not exist in a FTTH setting.
But hey, they promised 100MBit VDSL,,, not that fibre would be much faster...
You have obviously never seen the train parking zones (I live near one), and you have never seen the prices of heated, weather-protected PTZ HD cameras. And a drone is "shared equipment" that can easily be moved to a new spot.
I don't even want to talk about the cost of setting up "poles" (you seem to be imagining a stick in the ground) that are fit for use in that kind of area. I'm not even getting into the legal concerns of setting up PTZ cameras close to residential areas. Even the potential (!) to watch a residential neighborhood makes it illegal.
How do you track fleeing sprayers with a pole-mounted camera? Walking poles? :-)
Meanwhile, the only problem with the old [card] tech has been reliance on magnetic strips that can and do wear out or get erased. So replace them with invisible IR barcodes or something. Or maybe *contact-full* chips that require touching something
Uh, so you don't already HAVE chips?! My EC card has had them for years. All ATMs use the chip, and magnetic strips only work as a fallback option (though there are safeguards against simply using a copied card without chip).
I am curious, what are the options for online banking in the US today? When I was a customer of Citibank in the US in 2001, it was just username/password (I had an HBCI encryption chip on my German card then...)
The reason you bring up fraud is that it's what you would do if you wanted to force a result. People who don't consider that kind of cheat wouldn't jump to that conclusion.
Excuse me, but that is clearly bullsh*t. Having gone through University will make you suspect fraud, but just because you have seen it everywhere left and right during your studies. From students cheating in math exams and "forgetting" references in their papers, to 100% faked studies published by high-ranking journals.
Question to beekeepers: Is feeding HFCS/fructose to bees considered good practice? Sounds fishy to me, to feed bees a completely different sugar in place of glucose.
Yes. I doubt that doctors are insincerely prescribing antibiotics as placebos. I expect it is more of a case of not being able to fully rule out a bacterial infection so they prescribe the anti-biotics to cover all their bases and to help the patient feel like their problems are being taken seriously.
That's happening everywhere. The problem is partly with the patients being quite impatient with their doctors. All *my* doctor did when I came to him with e.g. a a severely sore throat or a sinusitis was to tell me that yes, he could give me antibiotics, but he would recommend I try some other things first: inhalation, drinking a lot of water, avoiding eating and drinking anything the most common bacteria would love. Basically for a sore throat: no dairy products, no sugar, instead sour food and drinks.
Of course, if you can't work and don't want to call in sick, he prescribes antibiotics.
Sometimes also as part of the diagnosis, since testing in the lab cuts deeper into his budget than a test drive with antibiotics. So, it's the health provider's fault: Lab testing: expensive and therefore evil. Antibiotics: cheap way to go.
In the late 1990's someone proclaimed that there was nothing more to invent, and he was proven to be very very wrong ...
Perpetual idiocy. I remember reading that most physicists agreed that everything in physics had been discovered. That was right before Einstein.
We can not know what we can not (yet) know.
Just like in Germany, where guns are outright illegal, and only outlaws (and police and few hunters) have guns. Now what happens in a city like Bremen, that has some problem with ethnic gang crime? They create a "gun-free zone". No joke! In the middle of a country where guns are illegal, we have a gun-free zone. Trick question: does it apply to legal or illegal guns? :-)
...because, you know, everything in nature is *always* in balance. That's why ice ages are but a myth, just like evolution. Which both don't happen without some "balances" tipping.
You can't tell me that he was the first to have these ideas:
- Swap batteries! How could I NOT think of that! To be honest, I *did* buy spare batteries for my phones. But I never used them. Part of the problem is the loooong boot process of most current phones, another part is the flimsy back cover - and the fact that I use an additional leather cover for my phone. And the aforementioned rule of the USB chargers. Makes changing multiple batteries *very* inconvenient. I just pack a small 2xUSB / 2A charger and cables wherever I go. It's a good conversation starter to have another USB cable for the person sitting next to you (with the same problem). Plus, my phone would literally suck the batteries empty within a few hours.
- Hacked furnitures: I wonder what dimwit coined the word "hack" for that. But I guess that, just like me, there must be more people doing this kind of thing. Hold a tablet above my bed? My SO would literally KILL me. Exercise machine vs. tablet computer: I have that. But for a laptop, since I still don't own a tablet. And my phone is obviously too small.
I wonder why the above comment has been moderated "funny". I think he was dead serious. But it's good to know that at least SOME criminals are such utter morons that they would leave a digital "paper trail".
Maybe he/she just remembered his 8th grade chemistry class, like I just did. Table of elements and such. Made the pun rather obvious.