Are you that unable to make the connection? Nobody is entitled to someone else's work on terms not offered by the person who creates the work. The bogus, straw-man question of why someone would thing that "poor" people aren't entitled to art and entertainment is pure BS. There is an abundance of both, offered by artists and channeled through all sorts of outlets at no cost to people who want to consume it. If they want extra choices and convenience in order to get work that the people who create it would like to charge for, then not having that cash handy doesn't suddenly entitle them to that work.

I can't afford an original Picasso print. So, I should be entitled to it because I'm too poor to pay for it?

And ... what does this have to do with things being worth what people are willing to pay for them?

Regardless: yes, being successful has a lot to do with culture. As in, it's a damn shame when people who aren't equipped (or dedicated to) raising successful kids go ahead and have kids anyway. Look at Baltimore. Kids going to school and learning how to be humans and winding up as fairly comfortable middle class people, just miles from kids who get exactly as much (and often more) spent on them at school, who have subsidies available for college and countless other programs, but whose neighborhoods tend to be full of poverty and squalor.

For you, it's all about race. Because you're lazy, and/or you don't want to stick your neck out and talk honestly about family and neighborhood culture. Culture is not race.

And while you're deliberately mis-reporting and muddling things: Costco's basic membership is only $55. And there is no credit check necessary - feel free to pay cash. And an entire family, and every friend or neighbor they want to bring with them, can walk in and load up on things at sensible prices and check out on one person's card. Your fake barriers to spending less on things like commodity food are BS, and you know it.

Sure would be convenient if there was a Costco in easy walk-up range in those rough neighborhoods in West Baltimore, right? Ask the liberal democrats who've been running that city for decades why that specific area is so hostile to investment, why the people who live there are scared to carry bags of groceries down the sidewalk, and why it's so hard to find people willing and able to work in stores.

Really? Shall we start comparing the life prospects of poor white kids in Appalchia to the kids born to dual income white collar households places mostly black areas like PG County, outside of DC? Yeah, don't trouble yourself. BSing about it won't change it, as much as you'd strangely LIKE the narrative you're going on about to be true. Why, I don't know.

Or George Soros. Of course, he has thousands of mindless activist 'bots doing his bidding, so at least he's contributing to the botpocalypse in his own way.

Spoken exactly like someone who has never actually run (or even participated, with his eyes open) a retail business. You obviously have no notion, whatsoever, of what labor costs, what retail rent costs, what liability insurance costs, what taxes look like, or how little is left if you only mark things up 20%. Actually, there's nothing left. You're giving things away at that point ... but not for long, because you'll be bankrupt shortly.

And yet one of the main reasons that people go from being, say, lower middle class to "well off" (or rich) is by not being stupid with their money. I know several people who've being The Evil Rich after years and years of hard work, and they still shop at Costco, buy lightly used cars, and only spend what they think it's worth on bigger ticket things.

So what if a rich person doesn't care that the drink at a hipster bar costs $20, while for you that would be a stupid waste of money? There are billions of people in the world for whom what you would spend on a drink is still an insane luxury purchase. You aren't really foggy on this, are you? It's called a market.

Then why did you buy them? You made the decision that the purchases were what you decided to spend. That's what those items were worth at the time you reached for your wallet.

That's why this analysis will soon be performed by robots.

Here's the info: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rosetta+s...

Short version:

A team of sceintists and engineers spent many years and millions of dollars to land a spacecraft on a comet -- an unprecedented achievement in human history. One of the scientists wore his lucky shirt which depicted anime characters.

Feminists and gender warriors decided that landing a spacecraft on a comet wasn't important -- their supposedly hurt feelings about the pictures on the shirt were the only thing worth talking about that happened that day. Rather than telling the gender warriors to go fuck themselves (or, more appropriately, to go achieve something themselves before coming back and making demands), the scientist was forced to make a tearful apology.

In some circles, this has led to a backlash against the gender warriors. So every time anyone achieves anything significant, people say "What really matters is what kind of shirts they were wearing!" - as a reminder of the incident, and a way to contrast achievement versus entitlement.

It, and everything else, are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them.

You really don't actually think about the things you say, do you.

People who don't want to pay what the artist is asking (either directly, or through whatever agent/company the artist has chosen to work with) are 100% entitled to opt instead for entertainment and art offered to them at no charge by other people. How is this confusing to you?

Well, let's see what statistics has to say.

I ignored failures of the payload, non-propulsion systems, or any failures where I could not identify which stage failed. Failures of staging mechanisms were rounded up to the higher stage. Flights with missing stages were still counted. All variants of each rocket family were included - Soyuz includes R7 launches, Thor/Delta includes Japanese licensed derivatives.

Soyuz: 25 first-stage failures, 18 second-stage failures, 29 third-stage failures
Proton: 9 first-stage failures, 11 second-stage failures, 17 third-stage failures
Ariane: 4 first-stage failures, 0 second-stage failures, 4 third-stage failures
Thor/Delta: 5 booster failures, 22 first-stage failures, 16 second-stage failures, 11 third-stage failures

Soyuz and Thor racked up a lot of early failures of the first stage, which seems attributable to simple inexperience (each had one failure from failing to fill the fuel tanks before launch). Even compensating for that, it seems the first stage is a dangerous stage, prone to failure.

However, your statement seems to bear out - the third stage does seem disproportionately dangerous. Oddly, it often seems to be control of the third stage that fails, not always the rocket itself.

That wouldn't pass the Fair Use smell test, so it's a pointless rhetorical question.

Don't buy the $50 microphone/remote and it can't spy on you.

Although I suppose your new internet-enabled refrigerator could have a microphone hidden inside it and you probably wouldn't every know.

My guess is that although the Tegra X1 has LPDDR4 it only had 3GB installed, an old PC typically has 4GB or more installed (and is upgradable). I just put 16GB DDR3 in this PC for $100. I don't know what I will do with all that RAM, but I'd rather have too much than too little.

I think the SHIELD Android TV would probably make an anemic desktop, maybe a good Chromebox. But it's no i7 or even i3, and comparing a 10W chip to a 55W chip is probably not going to lead you to any surprises. Intel has cutting edge fabs and design teams, they might pull a lot more watts than an ARM but they can do more computations.

I'm curious if the graphics performance of the Maxwell in Tegra X1 is comparable to the Intel Iris graphics. The full size maxwell-based GPUs for PC are of course way higher performance, but my interest is if Maxwell is more efficient to the point that their scaled down version in Tegra can be on par or better than Intel's integrated graphics. That's where using one of these as if it were a desktop becomes interesting, rather than compare the CPU.