I would expand item 3 to be 100% dollar-free and 99% time-free. In many parts of the US, lower-class workers can't afford to take the full day off from work that they would need in order to go to a state office and get the ID. I have one friend from Germany who couldn't understand why anyone would be opposed to requiring ID to vote, but that was because he also didn't understand why it was difficult to get a ID.
The true cost isn't the dollars, it's the time required to obtain an ID card. When the nearest office is 2 hours away, and your boss will fire you if you take an entire day off from work to go there, it becomes pretty much impossible. Statistically, minorities are more likely to be in that situation, but it's really just as much an attempt to discriminate against the poorer working population as it is racial discrimination.
Their business model *DEPENDS* on people paying a monthly subscription and then not using it.
That's basically the business model of just about any product or service where you don't pay for exactly the amount that you use. Mobile phone service, Internet service, club memberships, all-you-can-eat buffets, etc.
Why buy out MoviePass? They just had a concept that can be easily duplicated.
Because it can't be easily duplicated. Everyone knows about MoviePass. It has enormous name recognition. "JlvPass" has none.
Netflix is also "just a concept". Do you really think you can create a new Netflix?
Netflix is a concept, some contracts with content producers, and a lot of infrastructure. Contracts would be almost zero issue for a movie theater chain, since they already have agreements in place to sell tickets for the movies. So the only question is how much it would cost to setup the same amount of infrastructure that MoviePass currently has. My hunch is that it would cost a relatively small amount.
If you're looking for a UI that's similar to the Windows 95/98/XP era, then you probably want KDE. To me, the most important advantage of KDE is that it's highly configurable. I can setup the UI to work pretty much however I want, not least of which is changing keyboard shortcuts.
Why should the city dictate this crap? This is just pointless and excessive regulation for the point of regulation. Why is there a limit on cabs, other than to create a market for medallions or limit a core commodity to just a few?
Because before they did, there were way too many taxis. And not just "traffic is a little slower" too many taxis, but literally drivers racing each other to get to a person standing on the sidewalk. Cities like New York decided that limiting the number of taxis was a fair tradeoff for reducing the number of collisions and fist fights.
Who the hell thought "Updating, don't lose power or force-shutdown or it will bork your OS" was a good idea?
People who didn't want the OS getting borked. Updating core parts of the operating system basically needs to be a single atomic operation, and replacing a bunch of files on disk usually isn't. This isn't a trivial problem to solve, though it certainly isn't impossible either. I would say that it should be solved in current operating systems (Windows 10, any Linux distribution from this year, etc.), but for systems from 15 years ago, I'll give them a pass on it.
Who would have thought adding more taxis to city roads would increase traffic?
Anyone who paid attention to cities like New York and Boston before taxi regulations and subways. It was horrible, but for some reason a lot of people want to go back to it.
The Osborne 1 was the first commercially available laptop computer, sold in 1981 for an inflation adjusted $5,007 (1981 price, $1,800). You can get a Dell laptop starting at $799 (didn't even try to find a cheaper option, though I'm sure they exist).
Just as an FYI, I bought a cheap Dell laptop for $300 a couple months ago.
1). They rely on the grid for their power, which is supplied by carbon producing minerals. Coal/Natural Gas.
That is not at all universally true. Many parts of the world get a significant amount of electricity from solar, wind, hydroelectric, or geothermal, and the general movement is in that direction. Also, large power plants are more efficient and better able to contain waste products than large numbers of small engines.
Court-mandated censorship like this sets a bad & creepy precedent. If the claims are bogus, let them be settled in the traditional manner via libel lawsuits after the fact.
I have no idea how precedent works in India's judicial system, but in the US system, this is already a possibility. If a company believes that no reasonable amount of money would adequately compensate them, such as permanent damage to the company's reputation, then they can ask a judge for an injunction against whomever is harming them. It's up to the judge to decide if the damage to the company outweighs the harm that would almost certainly be done by restricting the behavior of the other party.
This is a resolution to initiate a study: the government equivalent of your parents saying "sure, we'll think about it".
That's all.
The anti-repair lobbying money won't start substantially until the study is completed.
It's doubtful that the lobbying would matter. When Right to Repair for cars went to a referendum, it got 86% support. I don't think they could spend enough advertising dollars to get 40% of the voters to change their minds.
And let's be totally candid here. The people cheering this study only look forward to it because they expect to be validated. Largely, they don't want simply to reveal facts...unless those facts agree with them.
What if the study actually determines that the best net economic result is to block private repair? Today's ardent supporters will just say it was rigged anyway.
That would be the bigger concern. Not the rigged part, that's just your paranoia and/or projecting, but ignoring the results of the study. The results won't just be about out-of-pocket costs, though, but will include things like environmental impact. This is Massachusetts, where there's a much higher proportion of scientists and engineers than most other parts of the country, so they'll do more than a superficial study, and hopefully they'll follow the results.
I believe that at the very least in exchange for a patent the patent holder should be required to provide complete documentation and detailed schematics.
In theory, they do. In order to be granted a patent, the inventor is required to include in the patent description everything that a person in the same industry ("person of ordinary skill in the art") would need to know to build the invention.
Whether or not that requirement is being properly enforced by the USPTO, well, that's a separate question.
This study doesn't have to include cars. Right to Repair for cars was already passed in Massachusetts about 5 years ago. The purpose of the study is to determine if that law should be extended to other products.
You list 4. but how is a military normally a 'free market' item? If you include it, what about other things like infrastructure and utilities? Surely they are better handled by some form of co-operative or government?
In the United States, basic infrastructure was included as part of the role of the federal government. In a time before the Internet, telephones, and electricity, communication consisted entirely of written letters. That was pretty much the only basic infrastructure that existed in the late 18th century (water supply and sewers were starting to show up, but they were still highly localized systems), so the Constitution includes post offices and roads as part of the federal government.
When asked why the federal government should be able to regulate the Internet, my response is that the Internet is simply the modern form of the postal system.
I'm almost never converting inches to yards, but if I do it's just divide by 12 * 3 = divide by 36. Sure I could convert meters to decametres slightly faster in my head... but why?
There's really no argument in using metric other than "But everyone else is doing it" and "Everything divides by 10!"
And, as you yourself said, it's faster to do the conversions in your head.
Also, I'd like to continue to name the temperature without going into decimals. It's much nicer to say "It's 91 degrees out" than "It's 32.78 degrees out."
That's some pretty impressive trolling. The precision of Celsius degrees is a little over half the precision of Fahrenheit degrees. To get the same precision, you would only have to add 1/2 when necessary. Even so, I doubt most people can distinguish temperature to that precision without using a thermometer anyway, so there isn't any need to use fractions of a degree in normal conversation.
It isn't a "new dating scheme", the year numbers are exactly the same. The only change is the labels, because, as you may be surprised to find out, non-Christians would rather not to refer to the current date as being in "the year of our lord".
You can easily argue that a 30 yr mortgage is not a sensible choice. I often wonder why I can buy a $80k truck and pay it off in seven years at $1000 a month but that type of loan is not available for real estate. They smack you with 100k in interest and amortize that in with the price of the home (80,000 + 100,000) over 360 payments or whatever. Perhaps that simple loan is available? Why aren't people using it?
People aren't using it because they can get a mortgage at 4-5% and investment returns of 7-10%. If you get the largest mortgage you can and instead invest the money you didn't put towards the down payment, the returns will almost always cover the extra interest.
farthest (furthest? I'm never sure about those two)
Farther and Farthest are typically used to compare physical distance. Further is typically used to mean some variation of "additional", though it can also be used for physical distance, depending on what guide you follow.
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I would expand item 3 to be 100% dollar-free and 99% time-free. In many parts of the US, lower-class workers can't afford to take the full day off from work that they would need in order to go to a state office and get the ID. I have one friend from Germany who couldn't understand why anyone would be opposed to requiring ID to vote, but that was because he also didn't understand why it was difficult to get a ID.
The true cost isn't the dollars, it's the time required to obtain an ID card. When the nearest office is 2 hours away, and your boss will fire you if you take an entire day off from work to go there, it becomes pretty much impossible. Statistically, minorities are more likely to be in that situation, but it's really just as much an attempt to discriminate against the poorer working population as it is racial discrimination.
Their business model *DEPENDS* on people paying a monthly subscription and then not using it.
That's basically the business model of just about any product or service where you don't pay for exactly the amount that you use. Mobile phone service, Internet service, club memberships, all-you-can-eat buffets, etc.
Why buy out MoviePass? They just had a concept that can be easily duplicated.
Because it can't be easily duplicated. Everyone knows about MoviePass. It has enormous name recognition. "JlvPass" has none.
Netflix is also "just a concept". Do you really think you can create a new Netflix?
Netflix is a concept, some contracts with content producers, and a lot of infrastructure. Contracts would be almost zero issue for a movie theater chain, since they already have agreements in place to sell tickets for the movies. So the only question is how much it would cost to setup the same amount of infrastructure that MoviePass currently has. My hunch is that it would cost a relatively small amount.
If you're looking for a UI that's similar to the Windows 95/98/XP era, then you probably want KDE. To me, the most important advantage of KDE is that it's highly configurable. I can setup the UI to work pretty much however I want, not least of which is changing keyboard shortcuts.
Why should the city dictate this crap? This is just pointless and excessive regulation for the point of regulation. Why is there a limit on cabs, other than to create a market for medallions or limit a core commodity to just a few?
Because before they did, there were way too many taxis. And not just "traffic is a little slower" too many taxis, but literally drivers racing each other to get to a person standing on the sidewalk. Cities like New York decided that limiting the number of taxis was a fair tradeoff for reducing the number of collisions and fist fights.
Well, we better make sure to get cap the ridesharing, then, before the streets of New York get congested for the first time ever in history.
It used to be a lot worse. You know what the city did to fix it? Capped the number of taxis.
In several languages (at least Hebrew and Latin), your "Lord" and "Master" are the same word.
As usual, you won't provide any citations for what you're saying, because you're wrong. So I'll just leave the the dictionary here for you.
Who the hell thought "Updating, don't lose power or force-shutdown or it will bork your OS" was a good idea?
People who didn't want the OS getting borked. Updating core parts of the operating system basically needs to be a single atomic operation, and replacing a bunch of files on disk usually isn't. This isn't a trivial problem to solve, though it certainly isn't impossible either. I would say that it should be solved in current operating systems (Windows 10, any Linux distribution from this year, etc.), but for systems from 15 years ago, I'll give them a pass on it.
REAL programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
I keep hearing that real programmers use butterflies.
Who would have thought adding more taxis to city roads would increase traffic?
Anyone who paid attention to cities like New York and Boston before taxi regulations and subways. It was horrible, but for some reason a lot of people want to go back to it.
Headline should be: "Facebook suffers over-inflated stock prices for X years."
Where X = 1? Even after this 20% drop, the stock price is still higher than it was a year ago.
The Osborne 1 was the first commercially available laptop computer, sold in 1981 for an inflation adjusted $5,007 (1981 price, $1,800). You can get a Dell laptop starting at $799 (didn't even try to find a cheaper option, though I'm sure they exist).
Just as an FYI, I bought a cheap Dell laptop for $300 a couple months ago.
1). They rely on the grid for their power, which is supplied by carbon producing minerals. Coal/Natural Gas.
That is not at all universally true. Many parts of the world get a significant amount of electricity from solar, wind, hydroelectric, or geothermal, and the general movement is in that direction. Also, large power plants are more efficient and better able to contain waste products than large numbers of small engines.
Court-mandated censorship like this sets a bad & creepy precedent. If the claims are bogus, let them be settled in the traditional manner via libel lawsuits after the fact.
I have no idea how precedent works in India's judicial system, but in the US system, this is already a possibility. If a company believes that no reasonable amount of money would adequately compensate them, such as permanent damage to the company's reputation, then they can ask a judge for an injunction against whomever is harming them. It's up to the judge to decide if the damage to the company outweighs the harm that would almost certainly be done by restricting the behavior of the other party.
This is a resolution to initiate a study: the government equivalent of your parents saying "sure, we'll think about it".
That's all. The anti-repair lobbying money won't start substantially until the study is completed.
It's doubtful that the lobbying would matter. When Right to Repair for cars went to a referendum, it got 86% support. I don't think they could spend enough advertising dollars to get 40% of the voters to change their minds.
And let's be totally candid here. The people cheering this study only look forward to it because they expect to be validated. Largely, they don't want simply to reveal facts...unless those facts agree with them.
What if the study actually determines that the best net economic result is to block private repair? Today's ardent supporters will just say it was rigged anyway.
That would be the bigger concern. Not the rigged part, that's just your paranoia and/or projecting, but ignoring the results of the study. The results won't just be about out-of-pocket costs, though, but will include things like environmental impact. This is Massachusetts, where there's a much higher proportion of scientists and engineers than most other parts of the country, so they'll do more than a superficial study, and hopefully they'll follow the results.
I believe that at the very least in exchange for a patent the patent holder should be required to provide complete documentation and detailed schematics.
In theory, they do. In order to be granted a patent, the inventor is required to include in the patent description everything that a person in the same industry ("person of ordinary skill in the art") would need to know to build the invention.
Whether or not that requirement is being properly enforced by the USPTO, well, that's a separate question.
This study doesn't have to include cars. Right to Repair for cars was already passed in Massachusetts about 5 years ago. The purpose of the study is to determine if that law should be extended to other products.
You list 4. but how is a military normally a 'free market' item? If you include it, what about other things like infrastructure and utilities? Surely they are better handled by some form of co-operative or government?
In the United States, basic infrastructure was included as part of the role of the federal government. In a time before the Internet, telephones, and electricity, communication consisted entirely of written letters. That was pretty much the only basic infrastructure that existed in the late 18th century (water supply and sewers were starting to show up, but they were still highly localized systems), so the Constitution includes post offices and roads as part of the federal government.
When asked why the federal government should be able to regulate the Internet, my response is that the Internet is simply the modern form of the postal system.
There is no "our lord" in BC or AC ...
But there is in AD. "Anno Domini", "Year of our Lord".
I'm almost never converting inches to yards, but if I do it's just divide by 12 * 3 = divide by 36. Sure I could convert meters to decametres slightly faster in my head... but why?
There's really no argument in using metric other than "But everyone else is doing it" and "Everything divides by 10!"
And, as you yourself said, it's faster to do the conversions in your head.
Also, I'd like to continue to name the temperature without going into decimals. It's much nicer to say "It's 91 degrees out" than "It's 32.78 degrees out."
That's some pretty impressive trolling. The precision of Celsius degrees is a little over half the precision of Fahrenheit degrees. To get the same precision, you would only have to add 1/2 when necessary. Even so, I doubt most people can distinguish temperature to that precision without using a thermometer anyway, so there isn't any need to use fractions of a degree in normal conversation.
Didn't BCE/CE come about fairly recently due to political correctness?
Nope, about 400 years ago. It's the second paragraph in the Wikipedia link.
I think you missed the memo... the new dating scheme is BCE and CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
BC and AD have gone out the window...
It isn't a "new dating scheme", the year numbers are exactly the same. The only change is the labels, because, as you may be surprised to find out, non-Christians would rather not to refer to the current date as being in "the year of our lord".
You can easily argue that a 30 yr mortgage is not a sensible choice. I often wonder why I can buy a $80k truck and pay it off in seven years at $1000 a month but that type of loan is not available for real estate. They smack you with 100k in interest and amortize that in with the price of the home (80,000 + 100,000) over 360 payments or whatever. Perhaps that simple loan is available? Why aren't people using it?
People aren't using it because they can get a mortgage at 4-5% and investment returns of 7-10%. If you get the largest mortgage you can and instead invest the money you didn't put towards the down payment, the returns will almost always cover the extra interest.
farthest (furthest? I'm never sure about those two)
Farther and Farthest are typically used to compare physical distance. Further is typically used to mean some variation of "additional", though it can also be used for physical distance, depending on what guide you follow.