The point is, if you think you can do so much to improve the idea you got from a book, why not just stop claiming the two are related at all?
My counterpoint - Starship Troopers. The book was an interesting commentary on the nature of war and the miltary, the movie was a saturday afternoon sci-fi monster flick with lines like "They sucked his brain out!'. What remained of the philosophical tone was totally reversed. The coolest technology from the book was removed. The characters were stripped of all their motives. I wouldn't complain if they had called it "Space Bugs" and renamed the characters, but they had to claim it was based on the RAH book just to lure in a few more people with hopes of seeing somthing as good as they had read.
If a screenwriter or director wants to rewrite the story so much why don't they just write their own story from scratch? I think it's due to greed and a very shallow imagination.
Well, isn't it a lot easier to recover from a backup all the critical/unique data that used to reside in your/home directory, if you still have a completly functioning computer?
If you suspect you may have been infected, isn't it nice to be able to simply restore your/home and trust that you don't need to kill half a day or more formating your drives and reinstalling everything?
And if you have a firewall that disallows viruses from sending email, wouldn't it be nice if the virus couldn't just disable the firewall because it lacks the permissions to do so?
Yep, everytime I start to think I'm tired of fixing people's computers I just up my rate by another $10/hour. Oddly it doesn't do much to slow down the requests but it makes me a little happier.
I think that people need to accept that no matter where they live there will be certain advantages and disadvantages. To coerce the public into funding the homogenization of the nation is somthing I find absurd. I think that people should be encouraged to work together for they're mutual benefit and karmic well being - but they should never be forced to.
I see little difference between taxation and extortion, the fact that you will occasionaly benefit from what the government does with your money does nothing in my eyes to distinguish it from mafia "protection" money.
I'd be happy to voluntarily let some of my money go to good causes and necessary services(in fact I already do). I don't like being threatened with imprisionment if I don't submit to paying 90% of my earnings (think of all the taxes you pay - when you buy, when you sell, what you just keep - it's all taxed!)to a government whose only claim to legitimacy the threat of overwhelming force and a "social contract" which they claim I have accepted simply by being born.
I guess it comes down to disagreement over whether I should pay for other people having their cake and eating it too. I don't see why you expect the rest of us to pay to make sure that someone who chooses to live in BFE can have cheap phone service or why using my internet connection to talk to other people should obligate me to submit to taxes and regulations that aren't necessary.
And it wouldn't be so expensive to get phone service to rural area's if they used a wireless (MMDS, VHF, Sattelite, etc.) internet connection and VOIP instead of miles of copper wire. Also, I don't see the problem in it costing more to live in places where it costs more to live. Do people in California pay an avocado tax to subsidize Alaskan's avocados? Hell, maybe they do.
Telephone companies are regulated because they used to be natural monopolies - there was only one company that could get that pair of copper wires to your house. Now you can get a general purpose connection to your house via POTS, fiber, coax cable, wireless in one of it's variations, etc.
Because it was a waste of fucking resources to benefit only 1% of Internet users. Those people in the 1% probably already don't get spam anyway (I don't get more than a handful a year).
Just whose resources are being wasted? Spammers? It doesn't costs them anything to be honest about what they're pushing (it may reduce their profits some though). Users? I just don't see any waste there, worst case no change, best case massive resource savings. The FTC? It's done now, if you think this regulation was pointless it will just take more resources to change it back. Maybe there will be some enforcement costs?
I'm savvy enough to know how to filter my mail and definitely get enough spam to be a nuisance (mostly due to a couple postings on public (non porn) newsgroups without obfuscating my address).
a) Would you rather see 100 variations of "hot sluts that dig farm animals want to meet you tonight"?
b) So there are people who may see an explicit image before they scroll down, that goes now too. At least most people will benefit and none will suffer.
c) Similar to point b. If 99% of people can't figure out how to use the tools they've got, so what? Why not do somthing to help the other 1% of us anyway? The people who don't want porn spam will still figure out pretty quickly not to open massages titled "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT". Right now you can't tell anything from the subject line - porn spam comes with subject lines ranging from (no subject) to "Your Mother Called".
If you'r using dd to copy a partition and you find it slow, how cold you possibly attribute it to the filesystem? Doesn't dd just do a raw copy and ignore the filesystem in a case like that?
The altruism of the public is a pretty slender thread to hang your livleyhood on. I seriously doubt that enough people these days are going to pay higher prices for union goods just because they think it's the right thing to do. Most workers these days aren't unionized and simply don't give a shit, they'll do as their wallets demand.
Unions are like a dam in a river. A dam can hold back some of the water forever and all of the water for a while - but evetually the dam will break or overflow. If it makes economic sense to outsource jobs then they will be outsourced - maybe not by your company but by the company that takes over the market when your company can't compete anymore. Yeah your union garuntees you a job - until it kills the business.
You don't really think the size of our paper has anything to do with our level of scientific advancement. There are many reasons why the metric system is good and we should all learn to use it - standardizing our paper sizes isn't one of them. (BTW the metric system sucks for times when you really do want to use fractions)
With the size, cost, and efficiency of buck/boost switching voltage regulators improving the way they are, I don't think that the discharge curve will be as critical as it used to be.
Just because Slashdot has become a de facto mouthpiece for a community you happen to identify with doesn't place the editors under any obligation or responsibility to abandon their ideals/biases/slant/etc. If you feel that you are being misrepresented to the world by slashdot's editors then go represent your self. The editor's opinions do not necessarily reflect anyone else's - any one who assumes otherwise is an idiot and I don't worry too much about what idiots think. If they want to keep running things like they did in 1997 that's their perogotive. Nobody here is going to change a thing just because you bitched about it.
I won't try to defend the practice, but I will say that what you are describing is pretty much SOP in all print media. Have you ever seen the way they print retractions in newspapers?
The idea is that by having the gasoline engine coupled to a generator the engine can be made more efficient because it can be tuned for a particular speed and load. Conventional drivetrains require that the engine operate over a wide range of speeds and loads and thus the tuning is always compromised to achieve driveability throughout the range.
That can't be right. I thought the Duke Nukem Forever release was defined as the last discrete event to happen before the universe collapses completly.
Try reading your link again. It is the same one noted in the story regarding "innocent parties". The page you linked at flamingo-travel.com explains the the number (1-800-328-9795) does belong to the offending company.
I asked how many people have let them know how despicable fax smapping is now. The woman answering said nonchalantly "Oh, not very many". I let her know they'd be getting a lot more very soon now.
There's a big difference between the requirements for an offensive weapon and a defensive one.
With an offensive weapon you have much greater control over the dynamics of your encounter. You choose the the place and the time to make your shot. You get to aim more carfully at the bears vital areas. If it doesn't look like a good shot you don't take it.
In defensive situtations it's totally different. The shit has already hit the fan. The bear is coming for you and you need to stop him ASAP. You don't have time to line up the perfect shot. You need a firearm you can point in a hurry and that hits with real authority. A.454 casul will do it but you'd invariably be better off with a long gun. Most experienced people recomend somthing like a pump shotgun loaded with slugs or a.450 Marlin lever gun. There are numerous stories of people who got lucky and killed a bear with a single.22 or 9mm but there's a lot more stories of people who were mauled after the bear soaked up 6.44 magnums.
This is a general truism of weaponcraft - assasins may favor.22s but the defenders usually choose.45s. It's all about who initiates force.
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The point is, if you think you can do so much to improve the idea you got from a book, why not just stop claiming the two are related at all?
My counterpoint - Starship Troopers. The book was an interesting commentary on the nature of war and the miltary, the movie was a saturday afternoon sci-fi monster flick with lines like "They sucked his brain out!'. What remained of the philosophical tone was totally reversed. The coolest technology from the book was removed. The characters were stripped of all their motives. I wouldn't complain if they had called it "Space Bugs" and renamed the characters, but they had to claim it was based on the RAH book just to lure in a few more people with hopes of seeing somthing as good as they had read.
If a screenwriter or director wants to rewrite the story so much why don't they just write their own story from scratch? I think it's due to greed and a very shallow imagination.
Well, isn't it a lot easier to recover from a backup all the critical/unique data that used to reside in your /home directory, if you still have a completly functioning computer?
If you suspect you may have been infected, isn't it nice to be able to simply restore your /home and trust that you don't need to kill half a day or more formating your drives and reinstalling everything?
And if you have a firewall that disallows viruses from sending email, wouldn't it be nice if the virus couldn't just disable the firewall because it lacks the permissions to do so?
Why didn't this get mentioned earlier? It's over before it even got posted! I just hope I'll remember 8 years from now to try again.
Yep, everytime I start to think I'm tired of fixing people's computers I just up my rate by another $10/hour. Oddly it doesn't do much to slow down the requests but it makes me a little happier.
I think that people need to accept that no matter where they live there will be certain advantages and disadvantages. To coerce the public into funding the homogenization of the nation is somthing I find absurd. I think that people should be encouraged to work together for they're mutual benefit and karmic well being - but they should never be forced to.
I see little difference between taxation and extortion, the fact that you will occasionaly benefit from what the government does with your money does nothing in my eyes to distinguish it from mafia "protection" money.
I'd be happy to voluntarily let some of my money go to good causes and necessary services(in fact I already do). I don't like being threatened with imprisionment if I don't submit to paying 90% of my earnings (think of all the taxes you pay - when you buy, when you sell, what you just keep - it's all taxed!)to a government whose only claim to legitimacy the threat of overwhelming force and a "social contract" which they claim I have accepted simply by being born.
I guess it comes down to disagreement over whether I should pay for other people having their cake and eating it too. I don't see why you expect the rest of us to pay to make sure that someone who chooses to live in BFE can have cheap phone service or why using my internet connection to talk to other people should obligate me to submit to taxes and regulations that aren't necessary.
And it wouldn't be so expensive to get phone service to rural area's if they used a wireless (MMDS, VHF, Sattelite, etc.) internet connection and VOIP instead of miles of copper wire. Also, I don't see the problem in it costing more to live in places where it costs more to live. Do people in California pay an avocado tax to subsidize Alaskan's avocados? Hell, maybe they do.
Telephone companies are regulated because they used to be natural monopolies - there was only one company that could get that pair of copper wires to your house. Now you can get a general purpose connection to your house via POTS, fiber, coax cable, wireless in one of it's variations, etc.
Just whose resources are being wasted?
Spammers? It doesn't costs them anything to be honest about what they're pushing (it may reduce their profits some though).
Users? I just don't see any waste there, worst case no change, best case massive resource savings.
The FTC? It's done now, if you think this regulation was pointless it will just take more resources to change it back. Maybe there will be some enforcement costs?
I'm savvy enough to know how to filter my mail and definitely get enough spam to be a nuisance (mostly due to a couple postings on public (non porn) newsgroups without obfuscating my address).
a) Would you rather see 100 variations of "hot sluts that dig farm animals want to meet you tonight"?
b) So there are people who may see an explicit image before they scroll down, that goes now too. At least most people will benefit and none will suffer.
c) Similar to point b. If 99% of people can't figure out how to use the tools they've got, so what? Why not do somthing to help the other 1% of us anyway? The people who don't want porn spam will still figure out pretty quickly not to open massages titled "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT". Right now you can't tell anything from the subject line - porn spam comes with subject lines ranging from (no subject) to "Your Mother Called".
If you'r using dd to copy a partition and you find it slow, how cold you possibly attribute it to the filesystem? Doesn't dd just do a raw copy and ignore the filesystem in a case like that?
The altruism of the public is a pretty slender thread to hang your livleyhood on. I seriously doubt that enough people these days are going to pay higher prices for union goods just because they think it's the right thing to do. Most workers these days aren't unionized and simply don't give a shit, they'll do as their wallets demand.
Unions are like a dam in a river. A dam can hold back some of the water forever and all of the water for a while - but evetually the dam will break or overflow. If it makes economic sense to outsource jobs then they will be outsourced - maybe not by your company but by the company that takes over the market when your company can't compete anymore. Yeah your union garuntees you a job - until it kills the business.
No, because Darl obviously never learns.
You don't really think the size of our paper has anything to do with our level of scientific advancement. There are many reasons why the metric system is good and we should all learn to use it - standardizing our paper sizes isn't one of them. (BTW the metric system sucks for times when you really do want to use fractions)
With the size, cost, and efficiency of buck/boost switching voltage regulators improving the way they are, I don't think that the discharge curve will be as critical as it used to be.
Yes, but it's sulfur compounds that make them stinky.
Where do you think sulfur comes from to begin with?
Just because Slashdot has become a de facto mouthpiece for a community you happen to identify with doesn't place the editors under any obligation or responsibility to abandon their ideals/biases/slant/etc. If you feel that you are being misrepresented to the world by slashdot's editors then go represent your self. The editor's opinions do not necessarily reflect anyone else's - any one who assumes otherwise is an idiot and I don't worry too much about what idiots think. If they want to keep running things like they did in 1997 that's their perogotive. Nobody here is going to change a thing just because you bitched about it.
I won't try to defend the practice, but I will say that what you are describing is pretty much SOP in all print media. Have you ever seen the way they print retractions in newspapers?
The idea is that by having the gasoline engine coupled to a generator the engine can be made more efficient because it can be tuned for a particular speed and load. Conventional drivetrains require that the engine operate over a wide range of speeds and loads and thus the tuning is always compromised to achieve driveability throughout the range.
That can't be right. I thought the Duke Nukem Forever release was defined as the last discrete event to happen before the universe collapses completly.
That should be news for all the people that come from places where gambling is illegal, vacationing in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, etc.
Try reading your link again. It is the same one noted in the story regarding "innocent parties". The page you linked at flamingo-travel.com explains the the number (1-800-328-9795) does belong to the offending company.
I asked how many people have let them know how despicable fax smapping is now. The woman answering said nonchalantly "Oh, not very many". I let her know they'd be getting a lot more very soon now.
There's a big difference between the requirements for an offensive weapon and a defensive one.
.454 casul will do it but you'd invariably be better off with a long gun. Most experienced people recomend somthing like a pump shotgun loaded with slugs or a .450 Marlin lever gun. There are numerous stories of people who got lucky and killed a bear with a single .22 or 9mm but there's a lot more stories of people who were mauled after the bear soaked up 6 .44 magnums.
.22s but the defenders usually choose .45s. It's all about who initiates force.
With an offensive weapon you have much greater control over the dynamics of your encounter. You choose the the place and the time to make your shot. You get to aim more carfully at the bears vital areas. If it doesn't look like a good shot you don't take it.
In defensive situtations it's totally different. The shit has already hit the fan. The bear is coming for you and you need to stop him ASAP. You don't have time to line up the perfect shot. You need a firearm you can point in a hurry and that hits with real authority. A
This is a general truism of weaponcraft - assasins may favor