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October 28, 2016 at 1:58 AM in reply to: OT: I really wish Google Fiber would be in San Diego #802719
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Participant[quote=millennial][quote=FlyerInHi]Some relatives came to visit my parents today. I asked an elderly cousin who he’s voting for. He said “I’m not voting because I just turned 70. I don’t know anything. Let the young people vote and create the world they want.” He sais old people over 70 should not be allowed to vote.[/quote]
Wow that’s an interesting point of view. Nice in theory, but a very slippery slope when you start using that logic. First old people over 70, then non-workers, then mentally disabled, then non-tax payers…
Tell him that it’s OK if he votes, probably not that many left to make too much of a difference anyways. Less impact then him driving on the road.[/quote]I would have to agree with ‘millennial’ here. I also want to add that at 70 years old, people would have seen more and would be more aware of what NOT to do (because they went through it already – and tends to contribute to something called wisdom.). Remember that those at 70 years or older, were alive during a World War. Very few people now have experienced something like that, and why it is desirable to ‘nip’ something like that before it starts. Mans ability to destroy himself increases each year, never reducing. Avoiding something like a world war is never more important than now, and can not be accomplished by placating the violent.
October 25, 2016 at 8:17 AM in reply to: OT: I really wish Google Fiber would be in San Diego #802613Participant[quote=moneymaker]There is still one more technology out there that no one is trying as far as I know and it involves lasers and small telescopes, set up just like the internet with redundant paths in case of birds/trees.[/quote]
It has been around for quite a while, particularly when there wasn’t much fiber around. I can’t remember the name of the company that used to do that. I don’t think it exists anymore. There is a problem transferring in open air – due to atmospheric distortion causing scintillation (that shimmering you see looking through a telescope). It wrecks havoc with high data rates.Found a wiki on the subject, which reminded me of the company name (Terabeam).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicationParticipant[quote=no_such_reality]Just checking, is the webpage reader view capable? In which case, you’d tap reader view then tap forward and just email yourself a link with the text extracted by the reader forward. Or if notes or another app is enabled send it to that.[/quote]
May not work for him. It is not a standard web server. It looks like it streams data from port 80 during sampling and then the data is ‘gone’. You can’t forward a link to it because there is not a web server on the net behind it. I almost suspect that the sampler is using ad-hoc point to point wifi vs client connecting to router.October 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM in reply to: OT: I really wish Google Fiber would be in San Diego #802606Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
If i remember it was some rural areas where small businesses still wanted to use dial up for their credit card machines….. time to upgrade to new technology.Should people in rural area expect subsidized services? Maybe they should pay more to make the business viable for providers.[/quote]
Not as easy as you think, when you consider the real costs.
I found overhead and in-ground power line installation costs.Overhead lines are about $280,000 per mile, underground are about $1.5million per mile. This is construction cost, not media cost – so it is a good approximation for cable/fiber.
I do wonder if these numbers are a bit ‘pumped up’, however, I have seen other people who have long driveways have to pay to bring the power to their house – in one case $1200 for 60′ – not including the cabling.
The interesting part is that the telcos could convert at their cost and may even come out ahead. It will significantly reduce power consumption (driving all of those telco wires consumes a significant amount of energy) and could get money back on recycling copper.
Participant[quote=XBoxBoy]I went today to the range and I was able to easily get the data into the browser. Now here’s the incredible rub. iPad browsers don’t support select all. The only way to select all the text was to highlight a word, then move the little blue ball to enlarge the selection. It takes over a minute to scroll all the way up and down to get the data for about 8 shots! I find this incomprehensible. Why in God’s name did the designers of the iPad browsers, (I tried Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome) feel that they should not support select all? Other iPad apps have select all, so why not the browsers?
[/quote]There’s no ‘save page as’ function w/ the iPad? I am not that familiar with what is available on the iPad browsers. The ‘parsing’ of the saved data might be a bit different then copy paste, since it would be raw html and not formatted ‘rich text’.[quote=XBoxBoy]
Once I’ve managed to select all, it’s not too bad to copy and paste to my text editor (textastic) which I can get the files off later with out too much trouble. (Although this weird invention called a file system would probably make it much easier, but I guess that’s too advanced for iPad.)[/quote]{snark}iPad has a file system – everyone other than Apple is not special enough to be allowed to see it… {/snark}[quote=XBoxBoy]At any rate, I realized after I struggled for so long trying to select all that I do have a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but I hadn’t brought it to the driving range. Tomorrow or the next day I’ll take that with my iPad and Trackman and see if it goes better. (The keyboard does allow me to hit cntrl-A to select all.) If it still is an awkward pain, I’ll look into a low cost laptop.
XboxBoy[/quote]
Good luck..You can also look at getting a laptop from Dell – directly. That is how I have gotten several of my past laptops. Dell also has a ‘refurbished equipment’ sales department. These are often ‘turnins’ from corporate leases and are built better than most of the equipment you find at places like Office Depot, Frys – etc, while also being cheaper in most cases (because of being refurb). If the company you work for has a purchase agreement with Dell, your company may allow you to ‘piggyback’ an order. The company I once worked for allowed it, it was a 20% discount.
Note: Dell owns Alienware…
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]The standards for defamation of public figures are different in the U.K.
Actually the women who came forward lately may be able to sue Trump for the comments he made about them. It would be satisfying to see Trump die of a thousand lawsuits.[/quote]
So far, two are down, and probably glad they are not dealing with Melania.Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Wildes previously said Melania got green card in 2001 through marriage. Wildes contradicted himself in latest letter.
I think you need to try again.Melania was never a top model. No agency, no fellow model came forward to vouch for her. She was a middle range model trying to survive in NY.
I have nothing against her, but she should have shown humility and kept her mouth shut; and she has after the controversy broke.[/quote]
I would be very careful of what you say and make sure you can back it in court. This woman is sue happy, and presently really pissed off. She has already sued the Daily Mail. It is not Wildes that I am pulling data from.Donald Trump may let such things go, but Melania is a different story. I don’t know what you know of women (for real) but I do know they can really hold grudges. Imagine bearishgirl with a good portion of Trump’s resources. Be careful of what you write.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]I doubt Melania was making $3000 per photo shoot. She was like thousand of models in NYC looking for a break.
One thing about Melania is that she was focused. she didn’t party and waste her money.All the evidence so far show that she worked as a tourist for cash then married someone for a green card. Maybe a journalist will find a marriage license in some municipality somewhere because they are public records.
“Stamping visa” every few months is tourist visa.
Look at the timeline. Melania came in 95/96. She got green card in 2001. Married Donald in 2005. No company come forth to corroborate the H1B.
Previous statement said she got green card in 2001 through marriage.[/quote]
You spewed crap w/o looking at the references.. try again. And yes, she was up in the upper category of models. She doesn’t have the look I like, however her look was ‘in’ at the time.As for every few months on a tours visas, try looking up before spouting (note periods are listed in months):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visaAlso note that she initially got a B-1 in August ’98 – which means she could not work. It was followed by a H-1B in Sept same year which allows work and could apply for green card after.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]All, thanks for correcting.
Still plenty of unanswered questions.
According to the timeline, in 2001, Melania adjusted from H1B to green card (Wilkes’ letter) not to EB-1. Had she been on EB-1 she would not have been eligible for citizenship in 2006. Citizenship is 5 years after green card or 3 years if green card was through marriage.So, if Melania obtained her citizenship in 2006, only 1 year after marrying Donald, we can only assume she got a green card in 2001. How did she get her green card back then?[/quote]
How about the modeling agency sponsoring her for a green card. The visa for a model is H-1B3. To get this one, you will have to be sponsored by a reputable American agency. There are also O-1 visas that can be obtained by really top models – which do not require an sponsoring by an American modeling agency.NOTE:Melania was at a level in her career at the time that she could have gotten either a O-1 or a H-1B3.
When marrying a foreigner, there is a time period after marriage and applying for spousal naturalization. I suspect that some or all of the time period during her H-1B was used to cover the normal waiting period (I think it is something like 3 years – I can find out if it is really really important). There are different ways to do this.
As for ‘hardline’, I am only hardline on those that want to disrespect the laws, enter the US illegally, then expect to get citizenship, amnesty etc. Yes, the process is messed up and needs to be fixed, but as citizens we are expected to follows the laws of the country, or at least make a genuine effort at trying. Starting off by breaking the laws of the nation and then expecting citizenship is not a very good way to start. I understand that there are hardships in their country (Mexico, Guatemala, etc), but in many cases the move is for economic benefit not true asylum.
I hear claims that by deporting them, we are being cruel. Lets be realistic here. If you are in Mexico illegally, you can be imprisoned there for 2 years in a Mexican jail – and then be deported. It can be more than 2 years if the judge, prosecutors or anyone else with some authority want you to grace their hand with silver(a bribe). Several of these cruelty claims have come from Mexican politicians themselves. On that one point, I think that Mexican politicians need to work on fixing their country so that their own citizens would not want to run to the United States, instead of making claims against our deportation – particularly considering their own rights records. Lets start by having Mexico declare a realistic minimum wage and enforcing it!?
Another thing to consider is that Melania, in the worst case, tried to work within the screwed up system to get the correct visa. She did not sneak across the border. There are many indications that she did do it correctly. Note that the fed has historical records of all visas that were given, and they have been quiet.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12377286/melania-trump-illegal-immigrantHere’s LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-politics-melania-immigration-20160914-snap-story.htmlYawn – Much Ado About Nothing.
Participant[quote=all]1) Fashion models do not need bachelor, or equivalent for H-1B (sometimes referenced as H1B, but not H1-B).
2) Immigrants of extraordinary abilities can self-sponsor under EB-1.[/quote]I wonder if the hourly wage of a top model would ‘qualify’ in the eyes of those that want tax money. I pulled Glassdoor and data from ‘photosecrets.com’
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/fashion-model-salary-SRCH_KO0,13.htm
http://photosecrets.com/how-much-to-pay-models
The last I heard for a ‘top model’ was over $3000/hr.
I don’t think there will be too much of a problem of a Visa. One thing they are worried about is the person entering on a visa not being able to support themselves (for a work visa).
The salary levels on tech H-1Bs admittance has gotten ridiculously low, something like $64k. I think I posted it on a thread somewhere else on piggington.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]You can argue about these two shit bags all you want. From the echelon of people who could actually be president , evidently very few of them want to be.
Anyone who could be president is already rich and actually has a premium life compared to what president goes through. Only kind of fucked up egotistical people would want the job. That’s what we get. In Obama’s case if they are not extreme rich and powerful insiders a completely propped up telepromted puppet.The whole process is tearing at the fabric of society. Get elected from the floor of the Jerry Springer show, manipulating people’s most base issues that have nothing to do with good governance and go to work for the oligarchs of which you probably are one. None of these people have being a public servant as a high priority. Can’t even let your kids watch the process it’s so bloody shameful.[/quote]
Don’t know if it is Orwellian or Barnum and Bailey.. maybe a bit of both, throw in some “Three Days of the Condor”(re: Shadow Gov that really pulls the strings while making us think our votes really make a diff).This whole political structure needs an enema.
Participant[quote=harvey]I’m sure if you provide enough details about Trump’s fleet of aircraft you’ll prove that he’s not a pervert.
Please go on…[/quote]
Do you mean pervert or lecherous. Not the same. The question is whether a situation actually occurred. If he is flying around on his own planes and was never on that plane, then it couldn’t have occurred. If a person has expensive jets to fly around on, they are less likely to fly commercial.According to FlyerInHi’s post, it looks like it may have come forward through Trump’s campaign – or Pence is helping dig a hole for Trump. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall in the decision to bring Gilberthorpe forth. I am trying to get a timestamp off the ‘Today’ article, to make sure of the actual sequence.
Got it from the web-server.
Date issued: 2016-10-14T17:55:54.000Z
Date modified: Saturday, October 15, 2016 6:49:16 PMFor the NYPost:
Article-published time: 2016-10-14T21:16:42+00:00
Article-modified: 2016-10-14T22:32:16+00:00If there is nothing else coming forth, then Giberthorpe would have been it. Yeech, I would have just let it come out without announcing and kept my distance from this guy.
His credibility would go up if it is determined that he was telling the truth about ‘procuring’ as a 17yr old. Slight chance that is going to happen.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=ucodegen]
More like prove it and being very careful of how words are crafted and why. As for arranging – that is not the same as vetting. I think there are other shoes to fall here.
[/quote]OMG, we have to be careful about language where Trump is concerned?
[/quote]Yes. If you allow one side to be so syntactically ‘careful’ as to get by with “it depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”, got to be just as careful with the other side.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]it would be exciting to get laid in an airplane bathroom on a commercia jet.
it would be boring to have sex on yr. iwn plane.[/quote]
To me it is more about with who than where.How about in free-fall??
On the space station in zero gravity??I don’t know about bathroom on commercial jet vs own jet. I think I would go for own jet – provided that ‘we’ (no not you scardy) would be left alone in the passenger area — there are all sorts of interesting surfaces to get messy on Trump’s plane. Could even go for some hyperbolic flights.
Most commercial jet bathrooms are cramped, not always clean, sometimes smelly.
Thinking it over, I think I would like zero G best.
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