T-Mobile is aware of their shortcomings: http://explore.t-mobile.com/test-drive-free-trial
T-Mobile has been making a huge push in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) on the 700 MHz band
nd I imagine that as everyone switches over, it won't matter which carrier you have,
since eventually you'll be able to roam on any network.
how can we trust them to act as officers of a court?
You shouldn't.
Any system based on trust will be abused.
A computer case that doubles as the heat-sink FTW!
At 70 lbs, it could also double as a boat anchor.
Increasing surface area of your heat sink is a much more efficient way to dump heat than increasing the thermal mass of your heat sink.
The original post asked for "another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office."
An example was given and then the goal posts got moved for no reason that I can discern.
Gaza certainly was not "occupied" until a few days ago.
The entire world disagrees with your notion that Gaza is not occupied.
In the most literal sense, Israeli troops have not been standing on every street corner.
In every other sense, including all the legal ones, Israel is an occupying power.
Am I the only one who read "The Man in the High Castle" and thought it was a confusing mess?
Any movie adaptation would have to pare the story line down to its bone.
That could only improve it.
Maybe SSE helps algorithm A much more than it does algorithm B. Or B outperforms A on AMD, but not on Intel. Or maybe it is strongly dependent on size of source (there is an implicit assumption that all algorithms scale linearly with size of source; maybe in actual fact some are not linear and others are).
In real life, for some compression jobs you don't CARE how long it takes, and for other jobs you care very much. Or imagine an algorithm that compresses half as fast but decompresses 1000 times faster. That doesn't even register in the score.
The things you mention have always been left as an exercise for the reader.
What benchmark isn't tagged with qualifiers that explain what it does and doesn't mean?
Marketing literature in computing has always been littered with metrics that are completely useless unless you know how to interpret them in the context of what you want to be doing.
Iran can make nuclear weapons and they won't even say a word.
Iran dilutes nuclear material
July 21, 2014
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/iran-dilutes-nuclear-material/story-fn3dxix6-1226995916083
IRAN has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms, the United Nations' nuclear agency says.
THE move was expected. Tehran had committed to convert or dilute its 20-per cent enriched stockpile under an agreement with six powers last November that froze its atomic programs pending negotiations on a comprehensive deal. Those talks were extended on Saturday to November 24.
Still, the development was noteworthy in reflecting Iran's desire not to derail the diplomatic process with the six countries - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
If you really cared about Iran and not about piling up perceived failure at Obama's feet, you sure as shit would have seen this headline from last week.
It wasn't a secret. The AP, AFP, Reuters, and pretty much everyone was talking about it.
/Naturally Fox News did their best to report only on the extension of talks.
So in other words, its a non issue, but we should get pissed off over a non issue just so that when it hypothetically becomes a real issue we will have already expressed the correct amount of outrage?
Companies float these trial balloons to see if it gets shot down out of the sky.
If it doesn't, then they progress to the next stage of the trial.
So yes, get pissed off at "a non issue," because with enough outrage, most companies will say "I'm sorry" and then pull back.
Sometimes the people in the different color uniform are acting like animals, these animals are killed, not murdered.
Enemy combatants are not murdered,
The intentional death of a human being is always murder.
Societies then create moral and legal exemptions to allow murders that the people consider necessary.
Sometimes the people (in uniform) dehumanize the enemy to make it easier to murder them.
It's an extremely ugly road to go down: http://i.imgur.com/riixJyL.jpg
And I'm not exaggerating: http://i.imgur.com/ODMmE5i.jpg
I'm glad we're civilized enough to have stopped making dehumanizing propaganda the official government policy.
I hope you can catch up with the civilized world.
But you have no problem basking in the freedom provided by those who use them.
There's a lot implicit in that sentence.
Which freedom is "provided" by our military.
Which freedom specifically are we all basking in?
What freedom has been preserved or provided by invading Iraq or Afghanistan?
Post 9/11 laws have done more to take away our freedoms than anything the military has done to recover or preserve them.
Is freedom from terrorist attacks more important than freedom from warrantless wiretaps, loss of due process (hello terrorist watch list), freedom from enhanced interrogation, National Security Letters, Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition, freedom from assassination (sorry, targeted killing), freedom from secret courts (separate from the loss of due process), and I could keep going.
If you went back 50 years and told someone this is what the USA would become,
they'd laugh and say that you're describing Soviet Russia or East Berlin.
which also mafically translates into a monopoly or biopoloy for Internet access and municipal fiber is supressed.
I recall reading a paper which studied market behavior and it concluded that even 4 or 5 companies that aren't colluding can still naturally behave like a cartel.
It's not just enough to have competitors, you must have meaningful competition.
All this talk of level playing fields ignores the entire point of subsidies.
The idea is to foster a new industry whether it's through loans, grants, or University research.
"Level playing field" ignore the fact that the fossil fuel industry is an established multi-trillion dollar global industry.
Last year, the oil industry spent ~$700 billion just on finding new oil.
Cutting everyone's subsidies is not leveling the field, it's taking green energy out back and shooting it.
That's dumb. Pedestrians and bicyclists don't have the same requirements as automobiles, we should focus on keeping them separated. It's not as though they need to share the same space, except where no thought has been given to them.
Roads belonged to pedestrians and they had priority, not horse carriages, bicycles, or eventually automobiles.
The status quo, where you separate pedestrians and drivers, is entirely a concoction of the automotive industry.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
Roads were originally a shared space and the thinking is moving back towards that direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space
People have been talking about this ever since (and likely before) T Boone Pickens stole the water in western TX.
Texas has uniquely dumb laws that let you suck up whatever water is underneath your land.
So if you own a couple acres on the edge of a giant underground reservoir that spans several counties, you are allowed to drain the entire reservoir from your property.
Texas tried to mitigate this by allowing for local water boards, but they get bullied/sued if they don't allow the resource extraction.
Read more here: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/who-stole-the-water-20140623
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