Em Adespoton

I remember when I had to set my VCR to record a program I wanted to watch; if YouTube gets that bad, I’ll just do the same thing; pre-record the video stream and skip the commercials.

The difference is that my ad blocker is quick and painless to set up, where TiVo involved some capital and planning.

But wait… didn’t China say the re-education camps were a hoax, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else in China, and that any issues they’d been having had already been resolved?

Perplexing.

Basically, people are more aware of how they, personally, are affected by the economy.

The economy in general is doing better, but the majority of citizens are able to apply less and less of that to the things they value, and they see more and more of it being funnelled to the already wealthy.

Perfect Dad joke material….

So I guess Trump is no longer allowed to vote in New York?

I presume Florida allows NY felons to vote though…,

It’s in the article; newer gen chips will have extra DRM that will prevent the hacks from working.

Oh, you meant when will the anti-hacks stop?

Bless your heart….

I thought you couldn’t have foreign ownership in Dubai?

And I don’t get the pie chart… what’s 100% represent?

Or is this foreign ownership in a particular location, like the US?

That also sounds like a great way to strip police and politicians of all soft power over time.

Do they realize that there are harder but astronomically better ways to manage a protesting public?

What this shows is that Trump’s entire team doesn’t really understand what Libertarian is. Kennedy seemed to understand, but his politics obviously don’t align.

Then again, personally I put Libertarianism in the same camp as Communism as far as ideologies that are great in theory, but handwave the human factor away. The trick is in how to avoid authoritarianism while still being realistic about how humans behave individually and in groups.

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

Anything faster would be a safety issue.

How else are they going to win the rail pod challenge?

A train is a collection of rolling railcars propelled by one or more locomotives. These are individual self-powered railcars.

So no, there’s no train here. Just monorail pods that will get congested as density increases.

The whole concept of a train is that all the cars move together and the only congestion is at the switching yards, where it can be optimized.

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.

Unfortunately, with the Belt and Road initiative, large parts of Africa already have well established Chinese police presence too.

It’s to enforce Chinese law abroad. Google “canada chinese police stations”.

I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….

The company I work for has acquired a number of small companies over the years; the result has been a mixed bag. In one case, the original product and employees were dropped completely, only retaining the IP. In a number of other cases, the original teams and products were kept intact with cross-over between products plus a huge boost in funding and customers over the years. In most cases, the companies were absorbed into existing management structures and the employees and technologies deployed inside the existing product line, sometimes with a few things that didn’t match the company strategy sold off or spun off into their own company.

Personally, I consider all the acquisitions except the single case where everything was abandoned to be a success; in that case, the exec in charge of acquisition was made redundant when everything else shut down.