" If GPS guidance goes down (IE our hardware has a problem), we simply cannot drive the machines. They are too wide to drive manually (my sprayer is 120 feet wide-- very difficult to drive that manually at less than 5 feet overlap even with markers) and the inputs too expensive to waste on overlaps."
They did it -- with the same size machines -- before GPS.
If they get away with it, next will be pornography, then any art that anybody even thinks somehow resembles pornography (they have done this to historical works in D.C. already), then condoms, then public speech at local government meetings, then...
First they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.
-- pastor Martin NiemÃller (1892â"1984)
Slippery Slope is only a fallacy when it's used inappropriately.
I could bring one of those puppies down with a few model rocket engines and some parts from Radio Shack. Oops, almost forgot... and some cleaning supplies from the local grocery store.
And if I don't, somebody else will. Maybe some new organization called "Unanimous" or something.
"Talk about worrying about the wrong problems. Why worry about how this is regulated before anyone can even come close to doing it?"
It's completely pointless anyway. If you're not "over" the United States, their laws do not and cannot apply, by International law. At all. So wait for the Earth to turn for a couple of hours, and mine away.
It's not even "worrying about the wrong problems". It's a non-problem.
... at how some people (particularly in certain industries) manage to make non-issues into issues.
Legislate "Do Not Track". Period. Done. End of story, end of problems. Those who make their living from tracking the comings and goings of other, innocent and unknowing people, can go suck eggs. I have no sympathy.
The shallowness of thinking is illustrated by the sig.
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."
Common misconception. But it *IS* a misconception.
Roughly 3/4 of the surface of this planet is covered by a thin skin of water. But doesn't mean the planet is 3/4 water. Far from it. Only a tiny fraction of this planet is water.
Labeling of foods? Yes. That is just honesty in a fair marketplace, hard to be had without labeling.
Health warnings about cigarettes? No. I do not pay the government to be my babysitter. We ALREADY know that tobacco causes cancer. How much warning do you fucking need? Do you honestly think that a picture of a diseased lung is going to stop somebody who wants to smoke? Well, guess what? The EXISTING warnings don't work. The only thing that has reduces smoking is that it is no longer "cool". Societal pressure, not government pressure.
Johnson? I agree with your point but what about Paul? Talk about exclusion... he is just about the only Congresscritter with a perfect voting record (if voting the way you say you will is the criterion) and a decades-long history of honesty and incorruptibility... yet he was excluded from debate.
Let's face it. The "Big 2" have rigged the game. And it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to this country (not "nation"... we are a republic, not a nation, and have never been a nation, get that straight) and it's an insult to other countries we pretend to support in their struggles for freedom.
This is why both the Republican and Democrat parties can go stuff it. They haven't been looking out for your interests, for most of your life. But they HAVE been taking your money.
If you vote for the same shit, you will get the same shit. And don't come knocking on my door.
(That was not aimed at parent, but at the general readership.)
"Unequal access to information is a very libertarian viewpoint, unless they've suddenly started advocating for laws preventing insider trading."
You've been sucking up the nonsense that non-Libertarians say about Libertarians. The key words here are "sucking", and "nonsense".
Libertarians are Adam Smith capitalists. As such they believe (as Smith himself wrote about, in his original treatise) that a reasonable and robust body of antitrust laws are necessary for a free market to exist. Because "totally free" logically ends up in monopoly or oligopoly, which is no longer a free market.
Contrary to the belief of some, Libertarians are NOT anarchists. They have their own party. Libertarians are not for totally "free" everything. Economically, the party platform is not "no regulation". It is "the minimum regulation THAT WORKS".
"The way debates are generally rigged to avoid including 3rd party candidates is a state and national disgrace."
Yes. Agreed. But that does not excuse the misinformation in the rest of your post.
"And as a Libertarian he should support the networks right to choose the content of their output."
Say WUT?
Um... hate to give you the news, guy, but TV networks get government money. Look it up. Therefore they are not independent entities, and therefore they do NOT get to choose.
Now, I know that the "equal time" rule was repealed. Nevertheless, recipients of our tax money are morally and ethically bound to give us a balanced view. If they refuse to do so, then they can fuck right off, and try to take their advertising dollars with them.
"Imperfect information is the reason the risk exists in the first place and the rest doesn't really follow."
What doesn't follow is your use of "perfect". That's the fallacy of reductio ad absurdum.
(Which isn't always a fallacy, I should add. Like slippery slope, it is only a fallacy when used inappropriately.)
A good and VERY workable market needs information. But nobody -- other than you, apparently -- insists that information has to be perfect. I have seen you make this argument before, and it is indeed quite absurd.
Dude... are you REALLY sure you didn't mean Ezekiel 23:19?
I have struggled mightily with my senses of morals and ethics, for years. Yet I have come to the conclusion that we should build very special bombs, and rain bacon dust down on much of the Middle East, Persia, and parts of Northern Africa.
Yes, there will be innocents caught in the fallout.
Perhaps a more reasonable compromise would be to advertise that all American commercial flights will carry 5 pounds of bacon, rigged to vaporize in the event of a catastrophic failure. Thus the "heros" of militant Islam will never get their 72 virgins, or anything else of their version of Heaven, for that matter, and their efforts will not net them the finish they seek.
Remove the motivation, prevent the act.
If people want to use religion as a tool of war against us, turnabout is fair play.
"In fact perhaps this is something people ought to think about."
Still doesn't matter. Because too many 3D printers (including a recent very high resolution model from MIT that uses lasers) are public domain... GPL or MIT license or similar.
You want a DRM-free 3D printer? Make your own... just like 90% of the other people do.
"I would agree that it is completely unacceptable to agree to such censorship but somehow saying "no" seems to be a far better option than killing millions of innocent civilians and releasing large clouds of highly dangerous radioactive material into the environment..."
Well... I meant if it somehow bizarrely came down to a choice between the two. Which I admit is about as likely as the sun not coming up yesterday.
"Erm... CF isn't a dbms, or am I missing something here?"
Yes. The original purpose of ColdFusion was to enable database-enabled web apps. It is technically a web application server, but database access was its original and primary purpose.
In fact, the original extension for ColdFusion filenames was.dbm, which stood for Database Markup Language.
I did not mean to compare it directly with MySQL or PostgreSQL. My point was that other scripting languages, with those DB back-ends, do it just as well or better, and free.
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" If GPS guidance goes down (IE our hardware has a problem), we simply cannot drive the machines. They are too wide to drive manually (my sprayer is 120 feet wide-- very difficult to drive that manually at less than 5 feet overlap even with markers) and the inputs too expensive to waste on overlaps."
They did it -- with the same size machines -- before GPS.
Cry me a river.
If they get away with it, next will be pornography, then any art that anybody even thinks somehow resembles pornography (they have done this to historical works in D.C. already), then condoms, then public speech at local government meetings, then...
First they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.
-- pastor Martin NiemÃller (1892â"1984)
Slippery Slope is only a fallacy when it's used inappropriately.
"haven't you noticed all the goatees man?"
I think you mean Goatses.
My God... it's full of stars.
Look: there's Bruce Willis. Sam Jackson. Sigourney Weaver. Scarlet Johansson.
I knew it. Somebody get me out of here, please, before I have to appear in some 3rd-rate sequel.
"It is as illegal to take part in an unregistered raffle as it is to run one."
And it's getting to the point of WTFC (who the f*ck cares?).
The "digital archery" idea was so astoundingly bone-headed that I have a hard time believing these people are still running the organization.
Let's build a DNS-free, decentralized internet, and fire these bureaucratic bozos.
Yes, he administers the Student Software Engineers, and sometimes gives them harsh punishment in his office. At least, that's what it sounds like.
I could bring one of those puppies down with a few model rocket engines and some parts from Radio Shack. Oops, almost forgot... and some cleaning supplies from the local grocery store.
And if I don't, somebody else will. Maybe some new organization called "Unanimous" or something.
Talk about a waste of money...
"Talk about worrying about the wrong problems. Why worry about how this is regulated before anyone can even come close to doing it?"
It's completely pointless anyway. If you're not "over" the United States, their laws do not and cannot apply, by International law. At all. So wait for the Earth to turn for a couple of hours, and mine away.
It's not even "worrying about the wrong problems". It's a non-problem.
... Then, maybe we can start getting into a REAL internet economy.
... at how some people (particularly in certain industries) manage to make non-issues into issues.
Legislate "Do Not Track". Period. Done. End of story, end of problems. Those who make their living from tracking the comings and goings of other, innocent and unknowing people, can go suck eggs. I have no sympathy.
None.
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."
Common misconception. But it *IS* a misconception.
Roughly 3/4 of the surface of this planet is covered by a thin skin of water. But doesn't mean the planet is 3/4 water. Far from it. Only a tiny fraction of this planet is water.
It is Earth. Properly, justifiably, demonstrably.
Next, let's argue about how round it is.
Pardon me... I know you were not arguing that those things are necessary, you just asked about Libertarian platform. And I was just trying to explain.
Labeling of foods? Yes. That is just honesty in a fair marketplace, hard to be had without labeling.
Health warnings about cigarettes? No. I do not pay the government to be my babysitter. We ALREADY know that tobacco causes cancer. How much warning do you fucking need? Do you honestly think that a picture of a diseased lung is going to stop somebody who wants to smoke? Well, guess what? The EXISTING warnings don't work. The only thing that has reduces smoking is that it is no longer "cool". Societal pressure, not government pressure.
Second. "The Art of War".
And get the translation by Thomas Cleary. By far the best. Where anything is ambiguous, he includes several possible alternate translations.
Johnson? I agree with your point but what about Paul? Talk about exclusion... he is just about the only Congresscritter with a perfect voting record (if voting the way you say you will is the criterion) and a decades-long history of honesty and incorruptibility... yet he was excluded from debate.
Let's face it. The "Big 2" have rigged the game. And it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to this country (not "nation"... we are a republic, not a nation, and have never been a nation, get that straight) and it's an insult to other countries we pretend to support in their struggles for freedom.
This is why both the Republican and Democrat parties can go stuff it. They haven't been looking out for your interests, for most of your life. But they HAVE been taking your money.
If you vote for the same shit, you will get the same shit. And don't come knocking on my door.
(That was not aimed at parent, but at the general readership.)
"Unequal access to information is a very libertarian viewpoint, unless they've suddenly started advocating for laws preventing insider trading."
You've been sucking up the nonsense that non-Libertarians say about Libertarians. The key words here are "sucking", and "nonsense".
Libertarians are Adam Smith capitalists. As such they believe (as Smith himself wrote about, in his original treatise) that a reasonable and robust body of antitrust laws are necessary for a free market to exist. Because "totally free" logically ends up in monopoly or oligopoly, which is no longer a free market.
Contrary to the belief of some, Libertarians are NOT anarchists. They have their own party. Libertarians are not for totally "free" everything. Economically, the party platform is not "no regulation". It is "the minimum regulation THAT WORKS".
"The way debates are generally rigged to avoid including 3rd party candidates is a state and national disgrace."
Yes. Agreed. But that does not excuse the misinformation in the rest of your post.
"And as a Libertarian he should support the networks right to choose the content of their output."
Say WUT?
Um... hate to give you the news, guy, but TV networks get government money. Look it up. Therefore they are not independent entities, and therefore they do NOT get to choose.
Now, I know that the "equal time" rule was repealed. Nevertheless, recipients of our tax money are morally and ethically bound to give us a balanced view. If they refuse to do so, then they can fuck right off, and try to take their advertising dollars with them.
"Imperfect information is the reason the risk exists in the first place and the rest doesn't really follow."
What doesn't follow is your use of "perfect". That's the fallacy of reductio ad absurdum.
(Which isn't always a fallacy, I should add. Like slippery slope, it is only a fallacy when used inappropriately.)
A good and VERY workable market needs information. But nobody -- other than you, apparently -- insists that information has to be perfect. I have seen you make this argument before, and it is indeed quite absurd.
Okay?
I should have preceded it with "Given the choice..." but I felt that was pretty solidly implied by what I wrote.
"And no - you cannot do this with the christian bible. the christian bible is specifically the new testament,"
Wrong from the outset... no more argument needed.
"Ezekiel 23:20"
Dude... are you REALLY sure you didn't mean Ezekiel 23:19?
I have struggled mightily with my senses of morals and ethics, for years. Yet I have come to the conclusion that we should build very special bombs, and rain bacon dust down on much of the Middle East, Persia, and parts of Northern Africa.
Yes, there will be innocents caught in the fallout.
Perhaps a more reasonable compromise would be to advertise that all American commercial flights will carry 5 pounds of bacon, rigged to vaporize in the event of a catastrophic failure. Thus the "heros" of militant Islam will never get their 72 virgins, or anything else of their version of Heaven, for that matter, and their efforts will not net them the finish they seek.
Remove the motivation, prevent the act.
If people want to use religion as a tool of war against us, turnabout is fair play.
"In fact perhaps this is something people ought to think about."
Still doesn't matter. Because too many 3D printers (including a recent very high resolution model from MIT that uses lasers) are public domain... GPL or MIT license or similar.
You want a DRM-free 3D printer? Make your own... just like 90% of the other people do.
"I would agree that it is completely unacceptable to agree to such censorship but somehow saying "no" seems to be a far better option than killing millions of innocent civilians and releasing large clouds of highly dangerous radioactive material into the environment..."
Well... I meant if it somehow bizarrely came down to a choice between the two. Which I admit is about as likely as the sun not coming up yesterday.
"Erm... CF isn't a dbms, or am I missing something here?"
Yes. The original purpose of ColdFusion was to enable database-enabled web apps. It is technically a web application server, but database access was its original and primary purpose.
.dbm, which stood for Database Markup Language.
In fact, the original extension for ColdFusion filenames was
I did not mean to compare it directly with MySQL or PostgreSQL. My point was that other scripting languages, with those DB back-ends, do it just as well or better, and free.
"... approximately as well."
And in some cases, better.