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Trump, Time magazine interview, Aug. 20, 2015: Our real unemployment rate–in fact, I saw a chart the other day, our real unemployment–because you have ninety million people that aren’t working. Ninety-three million to be exact. If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%. We have a lot of room. We have a lot of people who want to work.

Since there are around 38 million blacks in the US and he claims 93 million are out of work, this cannot be true unless every black man, woman, and child is out of work three times. BTW, the 93 Million figure came from a report on non-workers, not unemployed workers. Even using this bogus number comes to under 30% unemployment.

He should have mastered this level of math by 5th grade. If you look at the ~5% unemployment figure, this is a reasonable number. When the unemployment drops below 3% we'll be under severe inflationary pressure.

I totally agree. However, you only need an elementary level in math to realize that something is amiss with Trumps numbers. For example, he claims that up to 42% in the US are out of work. Anyone with common sense would realize that having least 2 in 5 people out of work is absurd. In order to get to a figure like that, you would have to include every man, woman, and child over the age of 9. This includes retirees, students, handicapped, and other categories that can't or choose not to work. So to get that number down to a reasonable number, he would have to put children and retirees to work. I'll bet that he backtracks on this number and accepts the 5% unemployment very soon.

I did and don't see any credible rebuttal. My personal opinion is somewhere in-between. I neither trust the intelligence report nor the conspiracy pundits. Both latch onto an enemy and attach vague attributes to justify their position. I don't think the report is grasping at straws but I personally feel that they didn't drive the nail in the coffin.

I guess you don't want to read past the first comment in your link. I don't see anything "ripped to shreds".

There is evidence that an East - West facing roof can be effective as well. It took me a year of searching to find this property with little solar obstruction and the perfect orientation. That was after ten years of research for the best materials at a reasonable cost. Friends have good results on existing houses. Do what works best for you and your wallet.

I was going to respond to this until I looked at how much you've contributed on Slashdot, and probably elsewhere. I didn't find a single post that added to the conversation, you only try to belittle and berate others. Who's the pompous ass now?

Forgot to mention that I buy my coffee beans Peet's "Major Dikinson" discounted from Costco to make my daily coffee. Son-of-a-gun, I'm frugal too!

Sorry, my panels are from SunPower, made in the USA. In two years I've saved over 18 barrels of oil from being consumed, equivalent to about 70k pounds of CO2 so, yes I do feel good about this. Sorry that doing something make you assume I'm conceited. I was responding to "some places have weather" post. I'm not in CA, have "weather", and can still be energy positive with a small carbon footprint.

I'm in DE and have put up about 11KW of panels. I'm in a roughly zero cash-flow situation as my monthly gas and electric bills are virtually $0 after payment from the utility company for my generated power. My breakeven point will be in less than 4.5 years after installation. Of course I planned for this by building a super-efficient (LEED qualified) home with the roof facing solar South. Large overhangs prevent passive solar heating in the Summer but encourage it in the Winter. With the external blinds drawn and no supplied heat, my living room can reach 80F on a sunny day while the external temperature is at freezing.

So, it is possible to have a low carbon footprint and still improve your quality of life.

Why does a game like this need to have access to all your contacts? I'll load it when I can block this kind of nonsense.

As someone that was part of the team that pioneered iris recognition in the late 80s, I can say that this is totally the fault of the current software. We had various techniques implemented from the start that would prevent this kind of problem. Controlling multiple IR leds to provide a changing specularity pattern. This would guarantee that the eye was shaped as expected, rejecting all flat copies. Checking for the normal pulsation of the pupil would reject dead eyes. There were various other checks, like verification of facial features (there were two eyes, etc.). Checking for the proper occlusion of the eyelids was also part of the process. With only a few captures our testing has not shown this kind of issue (and we did try perfect eye replication). I've heard this kind of thing from the beginning, nothing new here. Again, we implemented all of these features in our original work, but implementors felt that these should not be included in their products.

You hit the nail on the head. If it weren't for a $200 "loyal customer" incentive I wouldn't have bought my Priv. That said, I'm not sorry I did. BB10 was pretty good, not nearly as synergistic as WebOS, but very usable and a far cry better than Android's jump from app to app approach. Unfortunately, there was a dearth of apps and the Android emulator only partially filled the bill. The Hub implementation on Android is getting better with each release, but it is still a far cry from the experience on BB10.

Part of AT&T and Verizon's problem selling this unit is they take way too long to update. The Priv's software was pretty immature when it was released but got better (smoother and faster) with each update. Non-carrier phones have been upgraded to Marshmallow for months and there is still no sign of it for the carrier locked phones.

One of the things that may scare off people is the locked bootloader. If Blackberry stops supporting the Priv then there is no way to load an alternative OS. This is a far cry from my WebOS Pre 3 that has an active homebrew community making sure that as standards change (carrier APIs, Google APIs, etc.) the phone continues to be a winner. If it weren't for the fact that there isn't any modern hardware (LTE, etc.) support I would keep rocking with WebOS.

I've been working at home on and off for 35 years (mostly on). I've been very successful at making my work at home experience both productive and pleasurable. When I start working I get "in the zone" and produce high quality work in short order. Then I tried to put together a team, each working at home, to do development, QA, and documentation for various projects. Documentation was the only piece that I could claim worked. I found that, left on their own, my development team became unproductive and the QA team drifted away from the goals I specified and documented. I ended up doing much more micro-managing than I imagined to keep the team productive and focused. My productivity went dramatically down and the quality of my work was suffering from all the interruptions.

As for finding work to do at home, I ended up doing it by circumstance. The company I worked for shut their doors at a really bad economic time. I started a company to develop software products, but ended up mostly consulting and designing hardware and software under contract to keep bread on the table. I developed a reputation for quality work so when a former client started up a new company, he didn't balk on my request to continue to work at home across the country.

The hardest part of working at home is training your family that you shouldn't be disturbed during work hours. I don't know if I would entertain someone working for me at home again unless I saw the same commitment that I have. The worst part of working at home is the isolation from your colleagues and co-workers. I think my company keeps my visits to a minimum because I try to make up the time I wasn't interacting when I come.

I hung onto my WebOS Pre 3 phone until I could no longer find any more Verizon devices on ebay (the last one I cannabilized two broken ones into one working one). For the last few years I was trying to find a suitable replacement. I tried iOS, Android, and Windows phones but none could match the elegance of WebOS (yes, I know that all stole many features from it over the years). I ended up with a BB10 device which provides a well thought out design. It feels like it might be what WebOS would be if development didn't stop. It's "Just Type" implementation is superb. BB10 seems to be the same whipping boy in the media that helped kill WebOS.

Personally, I think this is a rumor due to the "Knox" security created by Blackberry for Samsung Android phones. How many times has the media reported falsely that Blackberry is about to be bought by Samsung, Microsoft, etc. John Chen has shown vision and grace in dealing with the detractors, even when they take things he says out of context and make him look like he's giving up on Blackberry. He's not afraid to push the envelope on phone designs, just look at the Passport. I'm hoping that the slider keyboard phone that comes out this year will be a Pre 3 killer and available on Verizon. It may be enough for me to leave Verizon if their customer sales and support bad-mouth it like they always do for anything that isn't Android or Apple.

If you like your Android or Apple phone then fine, but don't bash something just because it's not mainstream. I can guarantee that Blackberry phone and BB10 features are already being copied as we speak.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote about just such an event in a short story in the book "Welcome to the Monkey House". In that story he suggested that families would be confined to living together in a single house, with pecking order dependent upon age ranking. The eldest got to pick what to watch, got to eat first, etc. In this story one of the family members decides to water down the elder's anti-aging medicine so he would age and die. It has a strange and interesting twist at the end so I won't spoil it.