Don't take this too serious. If it would stop driving bans for diesels, this government would also consider rainbow unicorns for every school kid.
(Hello downvotes? If you are not in tune with German politics: this is the same government that is in contempt of court for failing to enforce effective measurements to stop excessive pollution levels. This is not at all a sincere suggestion.)
They are complaining about "toxic content directed at children". We are talking about the worlds biggest ice cream manufacturer, they own brands like Lipton who make billions from sugar water with ads like these Muppet animations targeted at children gulping it straight from the bottle:
Actually, they are. Arguably it's the cryptominer fools that the part manufacturers want nothing to do with, because chances are you ramp up manufacturing now (so 3-6 months until you actually see higher supply) and by then they are on to the next coin fad.
Loss of face. They put so much money (10M+!) in they would look like idiots if they eventually decided to drop it and Assange gets to make a victory lap on the way to Paddington Station to catch the Express to Heathrow.
There was a warrant out for the guys arrest as far as I'm aware. IYO should we simply let people with arrest warrants walk free?
The correct place to answer the justice question is in a law court.
Basically you're asking the UK to [publicly and openly] forgo the rule of law.
Yes, it's highly annoying that Assange's actions have led to this cost in seeking to fulfil the warrant to have him answer for this alleged crime. But I can't see how we can maintain rule of law if we let people who have allegations to answer in court simply hunker down for a bit and avoid having to do so.
The British legal system may look like idiots to you, but that's immaterial. What they look like if the let Assange walk free is a system in which the rule of law doesn't apply to people who can muster the right social supporters.
All part of government should operate to maximize their appointed goals within a specified budget.
Should we let all departments operate without budget considerations? For road and rail maintenance, is it acceptable to simply let some problems be left alone if the cost goes beyond budget?
Police do not spend infinitive amount of resources on all crimes. Those 10M+ represent assaults that don't get investigated, ironically also sexual assaults. How many future crimes, murders, rapes, or theft is the UK allowing because funding to stop those criminals are being spent on this single case?
The Assange case is like the government building a hospital in the middle of London, employing thousands of employees and treating exactly 1 patient. Telling them to not do so is not to forgo having health care or telling them to disband government, but rather demanding that government funding is held to some minimal standard.
Can we have a rule of law while accused criminals of crimes that has a maximum of 4 years jail time, who then can run to a embassy, be granted asylum, and 8 years later have the case dropped? Is that such an massive loophole? How many potential criminals should we expect to use such loophole over the next 100 years? My prediction: 1 if we count this case.
This[0] from 2016 shows 13,500 outstanding cases of those "who skipped court bail while facing charges including murder, child sex offences and rape" in the UK.
It appears that Assange can be tried for "Bail, failure to surrender"[1][2]. (Maximum 3 months sentence unless sent for trial.) I'm not aware that he's be charged with anything else, so, on the face of it, the money could have been more usefully dispersed to protect the public.
> The resource-usage is wasteful to the point of irresponsible.
Agreed, but that's not how the law works. The law should prosecute everybody they have on their lists, regardless of the economics, it should be a matter of principle rather than one of cost-benefit analysis.
Not saying that this isn't how it often turns out to be, but that's how it should be.
A basic lack of fundamental understanding has caused the author to quickly fall into an expertly laid trap by marketers that seek to equate 48 volt systems with some sort of "green, hybrid, clean" spirit, leading to such bizarre statements like "The advantages of the new 48-volt systems are considerable. They offer fuel economy improvements of up to 15 percent"
Of course it's all about saving a few dollars on copper.
Today, APIs don't keep working for a month because someone thought replacing careful design with a bad emulation of SQL is the new hotness. They call it GraphQL.
Can you name an API that was deprecated in favor of GraphQL? (Considering that article is about maintaining backward compatibility while continuing to innovate)
All the docs for graphql (and Apollo) recommend always making backwards compatible changes.
If anything, graphql apis would be easier to maintain in the long run, since clients asks for what they want. New clients could ask for the new data, without breaking the responses for old clients.
Eh, not for WebGL it won't. Nobody even implements DX other than high-powered desktop GPUs.
Will it live on? Sure, we will still have games and Xboxes. But if you're going to pick a standard that can work on mobile and desktop, there is no contender other than Vulkan.
2. Both of them... If you are gamer, you are going to Steam (and Valve is not a friend of the Windows store idea). I'm not happy with this situation either, as I prefer GoG, and GoG is a distant second.
3. Doom, Wolfenstein II, F1 2017, The Talos Principle from the other side of genre spectrum or the upcoming Star Citizen. Vice versa is more true, there's no DX12 game worth playing, that's not also Vulkan game.
1. Not everyone is rich enough to buy flaghship phones.
2. Lots of gamers just use XBox or PS4 (no Vulkan there). And on PC, not everyone uses Steam. Plus Microsoft already started to be more agressive regarding games on Windows 10, with Age of Empires remaster being the first example.
3. Well it is a matter of taste, not everyone craves for FPS, then there is also the small matter that Vulkan is not supported on XBox anyway, while DX 12 is. With much better developer tooling.
1. Then a game console is not much relevant either.
2. Age of Empires is Microsoft's game in the first place. Of course they will want their assets to use their technologies. 3rd party adoption is a rounding error. On the PC, except for 1) hardcore indie games players and 2) games locked to the publisher's platform, everyone uses Steam. In the second case, where the games are exclusive to a publishing platforms (Origin, Uplay), they have similar attitude to Windows store as Steam.
Windows store is an existential threat to them. They will ignore it as long as possible.
3. Sure, that's why I mentioned The Talos Principle (a puzzle game). Xbox API will be handled exactly as PS API is.
Nature has in house staff editors and reviewers that vet papers before sending them out to per-review. Most papers sent to Nature get rejected long before the per-review process starts.
Your mistake is in assuming that someone is trying to solve some scholarly distinction between who matches the dictionary definition of either term better.
No. It's a tax construct, and that is the only criteria we should use to measure it.
(Hello downvotes? If you are not in tune with German politics: this is the same government that is in contempt of court for failing to enforce effective measurements to stop excessive pollution levels. This is not at all a sincere suggestion.)