The same people who willingly install devices into their OBDII port that lets insurance companies monitor their driving habits.
Wait, you mean I was supposed to plug that thing into my real OBDII port and not the one I hacked together to provide readouts for my ultra-realistic "Desert Bus" remake?
So, let me get this straight: you want to keep the shitty status quo in telecom because "OMG the 'Free Market' is great!," but calling a third-party IT guy (the equivalent of your plumber example) when your router has a problem would be terrible?
I was actually half-trolling (implying that the US is no longer a first-world country), but intentionally wrote it so that it could be interpreted either way.
Besides, the US does use the metric system for a lot of things, including most manufacturing and science. A lot of goods people buy are really created in metric sizes, which are then converted when they print the label.
Move to the smaller tech hubs outside California and you can save 15% right up front, and then get a damage multiplier via cheaper living.
The frightening thing is that this is true even if your "smaller tech hub" is New York City.
Zero first-world nations still use imperial measurements.
So would you rather we put a gun to your head and make you cough up $50 and have $10 of it go to waste, or put a gun to your head and make you cough up $80 ($40 plus another $40 to make sure the first $40 wasn't wasted)?
(Note that those are the only two choices. We have a gun to your head, remember? Refuse to choose and we pull the trigger.)
Seattle is a special case: apparently, your Internet access is fucked up because you keep electing shitty city councilpeople who make rules that ISPs hate. You should quit doing that.
.... to "simple" drones, that don't have altitude sensors or gps? Both of my daughter's drones have simple leveling sensors and that's pretty much it. Would unsophisticated drones be illegal by this bill?
It's a Feinstein bill. So of course yes.
While not "Officially" Codified as a Capital Crime, it is often sanctioned and applied by the state.
Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
From Wikipedia on Apostasy "Iran – illegal (death penalty)"
The catch here is it is often applied under the broad umbrella "blasphemy."
What else makes my journal entry a rant? Who is being more intellectually dishonest here?
Do you stand corrected that the death penalty is often given in Iran for apostasy, or do you have some evidence to the contrary proving that the hundreds of links from sources like wikipedia.org, et al are Western propaganda?
Rant implies it is not a well justified set of accusations and denouncements. As stated in the letter I have no truck with followers of Islam who allow those around them to believe and live as they want.
Seems it will roll out peicmeal like other HTML JavaScript enhancements in the past
A quick google turned up this useful link.
With many browsers you can use many features now (but not all).
IIRC, VB.NET is going away in the next version of
As if we DON"T ALREADY DO THIS.
It's pretty much necessary, seeing as the other side can wage "war" 24/7/365 as well. I'd prefer a way to achieve a lasting peace, but I don't see how; there's no one on the other side with the authority to negotiate one (even if you could make peace with one group, as soon as you do so six others will splinter off to do more terrorism), and we can't kill them all without unacceptable collateral damage.
Not anti-SLAPP legislation (which are state laws), but the Communications Decency Act section 230, a rare case of an evil plan backfiring. The idea was to censor the Internet and throw a sop to dissenters by providing a shield from liability for user-provided content, but the courts ended up ruling everything but that sop unconstitutional.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
