Um, guns lead to philosophies like the Divine Right Of Kings and longing for Benign Despots, because only kings and despots could afford their own armies, and nothing but armies could defend against other armies.
Equal Rights and Rule Of Law had to wait until the invention of the large limited-liability corporation (e.g., East India Company, various syndicates for privateering against the Spanish back in the days of No Peace Beyond The Line, etc.). When commerce mattered as much or more than royal ambitions, then the rules and mores of commerce had to spread to everyone.
Classical medieval feudalism depended on overlapping, complex, hierarchical relationships.
Wrong. It depended on simple relationships (lord {=} vassal); it started to fall apart when the relationships became complicated (look up The Hundred Years War for a nasty case of its collapse)(see the Thirty Years War for its final collapse).
Anyway, it always was feudalism. Who owned their own computers before the Altair? In the early days of the PC era, most computer users still were primarily attached to work machines. The Internet was run by personal relationships between the Great Lords (i.e., the administrators of the major Internet nodes), sealed with little more binding at the beginning than a handshake (which was how Jon Postel got stuck running the DNS root node for years). Given that users can still choose what Schneier thinks of as feudal lords, that makes users minor barons, rather than serfs (no serf could do anything except run away from their lord, or launch futile revolts once a century or so).
Would Bruce Schneier really prefer it run by men with guns and bayonets enforcing the wills of THEIR lords (swayed, no doubt by bribes or job offers for after they leave Federal service), launching wars against each other like 20th Century govenrments, etc? Please, give me benign neglect, any day.
The shuttle basically suffered major bloat and feature creep, which was largely responsible for its ineffeciency and unreliabilty.
False. The original shuttle design was to be capable of High Earth Orbit and powered landing (i.e., could go around again if needed, just like a jet, rather than doing a dead-stick controlled crash as the shuttle-as-built did), but was Proxmired into what we got. The Dyna-Soar (the military shuttle-like design that was cancelled in favor of NASA's) was much smaller.
Yep. I am dumbfounded that they pass any laws, since they can be repealed by a simple vote of the majority of each chamber and the President not vetoing it. Passing ObamaCare was such a pointless act.
Cutting 900 million out of a budget that is Trillions of dollars under funded, is one of those "symbolic, substance-free gesture in order to generate the illusion that he is interested in" doing something.
If the only cut is that 900 million, yes it is meaningless. If it is one step of many, then Goldwater's famous comment (A billion, here. A billion, there. Pretty soon, we're talking real money.) applies to cutting as well as spending.
Bad example, but still proves the point. This datum of a search would not be enough to shift someone from not guilty by reason that I am not sure to absolutely guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. This WOULD be worth something in a Wrongful Death lawsuit, where the standard is merely the preponderence of evidence, but no one has standing.
Ahh yes, nothing tastier than stalking and killing a turkey with your bare hands and teeth. Their fear is the best seasoning.
Weapons are perfectly fair for humans. To quote Larry Niven, "My evolution included a club." To be fair, using a black power rifle isn't overkill, either.
13 And the evening and the morning were the leftovers.
And next evening and morning, and the one after that. And then God gathered the remnants together and called it "casserole" and saw that it wasn't really that great, but it was easy for the cook.
This one is easy. Drink madeira for your dinner wine, like G. Washington and all the other original patriots did.
Apparently, madeira didn't require paying a duty to the British government, back then, unlike most other wines.
Alternately, drink hard apple cider (assuming that your digestion isn't sensitive to it, as mine is -- damn, I miss it, around now), since the apples are almost always grown locally.
They are also fairly rare in useful concentrations. Just not unique to China (ever notice how many are named after places in Sweden?), Africa, or anywhere else. If the stream of Chinese rare earth minerals decreases to the point that the price really rises, somewhere else will start producing. Much like with oil, where the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States has only 40% of the world market, anymore.
Why is it that the French always get not blamed by Americans? That's so unfair.
Also untrue. The thing is that everyone knows that the French always act French, and everybody has decided to just accept it. As long as one DOES accept the French behavior and plan around that, they can be useful quasi-allies. Just don't think of them like they were British, Israeli, or even Germans.
For which we promptly invaded Mexico during the Spanish-American War. And how many pieces of Mexican territory did we retain as a result? (Hint, lower half of California, bits of AZ, NM, and Texas.
*Mexican-American* War, and UPPER California, not Spanish-American War and Baja California. We had Texas when the then-pro-slavery Democrats accepted the Republic of Texas's request to be annexed. We got ALL of Nevada, and Utah (maybe more, I haven't checked) and almost all of AZ and NM, except what we later obtained in the Gadsden Purchase.
What is the best way keep a cows from crossing a driveway over a ditch without using a gate. Do a) use a retractable brige, b)put a grate over the ditch c) put a scarecrow in the ditch or d) none of the above.
Obviously, a retractable bridge into one's ring fort or crannoch, as otherwise enemy raiders can follow and steal them (and burn the hall and rape the women, and even take them all as slaves).
"Best" requires defining more parameters than just using that word, alone. Out in Colorado, since the Indians have been taken care of (if only by convincing them that life as a cowhand beats life as a nomad, or stuck on the Reservation), the grate might be better, but the is because of other conditions not stated in the question, but very pertinent when asking if intelligence has changed just because IQ scores have.
I hate to say this, but Jersey shore and the like are still art, they are horrible, but that doesn't really take the ability to call them art away sadly.
All they are is Morton Downey, Jr. or Jerry Springer without a host or the security people to keep the guests from killing each other (while on stage). OTOH, they are dirt cheap to make, and don't require union writers whose residuals have to be paid for how every many times it is (I imagine until the series goes into the public domain). Seriously, since the whole point is to convince you to watch the commercials, what do you expect?
Why not just be blunt with them and tell them the truth that you find their arrogance offensive?
Like they would care that you found their arrogance "offensive"? They might even find it more fun to get that response Tell them that it is counterproductive and contraindicated, though, and ideally demonstrate the same, and you might get through (especially if you use those or similarly highfalutin' words, before restating in in Anglo-Saxonisms like "How can it be fixed?" for "How can it be rectified?").
Ask them about a medical issue they wont know, or perhaps a plumbing problem.
Just make sure that they don't know the answer, or worse, are convinced that they know the answer more than you are convinced that you know that their answer is wrong. Otherwise, your attempt will backfire badly. And remember, almost everyone knows more about SOMETHING entirely unrelated to their major or any courses that they might have taken, that they don't usually bring up. Maybe that smart-ass nerd has an uncle who was a plumber, that he cannot stand because he spent every Thanksgiving dinner boring everyone about all the lowest details about his job (much like I hated having to help with all our auto repair because my father wasted his life as an engineer when he really wanted to be a long-haul trunk driver and mechanic, so he thought that it would be fun and a bonding experience -- thank God he wasn't a torturer for the KGB:-).
anyway the only person who really had a right to ask that question was Hillary...
Actually, since he was being sued for sexual harassment, the lawyers who asked that question DID have the right. If they did not, the judge would have ruled it immaterial. And then they had to botch it by underdefining it.
I wasn't aware that the crown pays anything. Why would they?
To encourage more treasure hunters, of course. If one depended on professional archeologists, one would wait forever while they spent all their time investigating peasants' hovels and pre-Iron Age middens.
Oh, no, all my gold mining stocks will become worthless! Obviously, there are no new gold atoms generated (barring in some collider experiments) on a planetary scale, but the amount that matters is what is available to the economy by being concentrated in usable form, and that DOES increase with mining. The problem with bitcoins is that they are hitting their mining limits faster than gold has, by a large margin.
A better analogy would be to use Old Masters artworks, or muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s. Even there, restoration can bring scrapped cars (and I presume artwork, but my cousin restored a GTO, not a Rembrant) back for a profit.
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Um, guns lead to philosophies like the Divine Right Of Kings and longing for Benign Despots, because only kings and despots could afford their own armies, and nothing but armies could defend against other armies.
Equal Rights and Rule Of Law had to wait until the invention of the large limited-liability corporation (e.g., East India Company, various syndicates for privateering against the Spanish back in the days of No Peace Beyond The Line, etc.). When commerce mattered as much or more than royal ambitions, then the rules and mores of commerce had to spread to everyone.
Classical medieval feudalism depended on overlapping, complex, hierarchical relationships.
Wrong. It depended on simple relationships (lord {=} vassal); it started to fall apart when the relationships became complicated (look up The Hundred Years War for a nasty case of its collapse)(see the Thirty Years War for its final collapse).
Anyway, it always was feudalism. Who owned their own computers before the Altair? In the early days of the PC era, most computer users still were primarily attached to work machines. The Internet was run by personal relationships between the Great Lords (i.e., the administrators of the major Internet nodes), sealed with little more binding at the beginning than a handshake (which was how Jon Postel got stuck running the DNS root node for years). Given that users can still choose what Schneier thinks of as feudal lords, that makes users minor barons, rather than serfs (no serf could do anything except run away from their lord, or launch futile revolts once a century or so).
Would Bruce Schneier really prefer it run by men with guns and bayonets enforcing the wills of THEIR lords (swayed, no doubt by bribes or job offers for after they leave Federal service), launching wars against each other like 20th Century govenrments, etc? Please, give me benign neglect, any day.
The shuttle basically suffered major bloat and feature creep, which was largely responsible for its ineffeciency and unreliabilty.
False. The original shuttle design was to be capable of High Earth Orbit and powered landing (i.e., could go around again if needed, just like a jet, rather than doing a dead-stick controlled crash as the shuttle-as-built did), but was Proxmired into what we got. The Dyna-Soar (the military shuttle-like design that was cancelled in favor of NASA's) was much smaller.
Yep. I am dumbfounded that they pass any laws, since they can be repealed by a simple vote of the majority of each chamber and the President not vetoing it. Passing ObamaCare was such a pointless act.
Cutting 900 million out of a budget that is Trillions of dollars under funded, is one of those "symbolic, substance-free gesture in order to generate the illusion that he is interested in" doing something.
If the only cut is that 900 million, yes it is meaningless. If it is one step of many, then Goldwater's famous comment (A billion, here. A billion, there. Pretty soon, we're talking real money.) applies to cutting as well as spending.
What a good idea! Limit government to those that can be self-supporting. Plutocracy worked well during the founding years of the Republic, after all.
Prevent the whole 51% dictating to 49% thing.
How undemocratic!
Bad example, but still proves the point. This datum of a search would not be enough to shift someone from not guilty by reason that I am not sure to absolutely guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. This WOULD be worth something in a Wrongful Death lawsuit, where the standard is merely the preponderence of evidence, but no one has standing.
Ahh yes, nothing tastier than stalking and killing a turkey with your bare hands and teeth. Their fear is the best seasoning.
Weapons are perfectly fair for humans. To quote Larry Niven, "My evolution included a club." To be fair, using a black power rifle isn't overkill, either.
13 And the evening and the morning were the leftovers.
And next evening and morning, and the one after that. And then God gathered the remnants together and called it "casserole" and saw that it wasn't really that great, but it was easy for the cook.
Perhaps the most patriotic?
This one is easy. Drink madeira for your dinner wine, like G. Washington and all the other original patriots did.
Apparently, madeira didn't require paying a duty to the British government, back then, unlike most other wines.
Alternately, drink hard apple cider (assuming that your digestion isn't sensitive to it, as mine is -- damn, I miss it, around now), since the apples are almost always grown locally.
They are also fairly rare in useful concentrations. Just not unique to China (ever notice how many are named after places in Sweden?), Africa, or anywhere else. If the stream of Chinese rare earth minerals decreases to the point that the price really rises, somewhere else will start producing. Much like with oil, where the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States has only 40% of the world market, anymore.
Why is it that the French always get not blamed by Americans? That's so unfair.
Also untrue. The thing is that everyone knows that the French always act French, and everybody has decided to just accept it. As long as one DOES accept the French behavior and plan around that, they can be useful quasi-allies. Just don't think of them like they were British, Israeli, or even Germans.
For which we promptly invaded Mexico during the Spanish-American War. And how many pieces of Mexican territory did we retain as a result? (Hint, lower half of California, bits of AZ, NM, and Texas.
*Mexican-American* War, and UPPER California, not Spanish-American War and Baja California. We had Texas when the then-pro-slavery Democrats accepted the Republic of Texas's request to be annexed. We got ALL of Nevada, and Utah (maybe more, I haven't checked) and almost all of AZ and NM, except what we later obtained in the Gadsden Purchase.
Not to mention that the Japanese occupied the Aleutians during WWII.
There is also evidence that the Soviet Spetznaz had occasional training ops in Alaska.
, but without them it will never become a descent source of information about life on this planet.
Nor of spelling. "Decent" not "descent", which would mean something different and a bit punny.
What is the best way keep a cows from crossing a driveway over a ditch without using a gate. Do a) use a retractable brige, b)put a grate over the ditch c) put a scarecrow in the ditch or d) none of the above.
Obviously, a retractable bridge into one's ring fort or crannoch, as otherwise enemy raiders can follow and steal them (and burn the hall and rape the women, and even take them all as slaves).
"Best" requires defining more parameters than just using that word, alone. Out in Colorado, since the Indians have been taken care of (if only by convincing them that life as a cowhand beats life as a nomad, or stuck on the Reservation), the grate might be better, but the is because of other conditions not stated in the question, but very pertinent when asking if intelligence has changed just because IQ scores have.
I hate to say this, but Jersey shore and the like are still art, they are horrible, but that doesn't really take the ability to call them art away sadly.
All they are is Morton Downey, Jr. or Jerry Springer without a host or the security people to keep the guests from killing each other (while on stage). OTOH, they are dirt cheap to make, and don't require union writers whose residuals have to be paid for how every many times it is (I imagine until the series goes into the public domain). Seriously, since the whole point is to convince you to watch the commercials, what do you expect?
Why not just be blunt with them and tell them the truth that you find their arrogance offensive?
Like they would care that you found their arrogance "offensive"? They might even find it more fun to get that response Tell them that it is counterproductive and contraindicated, though, and ideally demonstrate the same, and you might get through (especially if you use those or similarly highfalutin' words, before restating in in Anglo-Saxonisms like "How can it be fixed?" for "How can it be rectified?").
Ask them about a medical issue they wont know, or perhaps a plumbing problem.
Just make sure that they don't know the answer, or worse, are convinced that they know the answer more than you are convinced that you know that their answer is wrong. Otherwise, your attempt will backfire badly. And remember, almost everyone knows more about SOMETHING entirely unrelated to their major or any courses that they might have taken, that they don't usually bring up. Maybe that smart-ass nerd has an uncle who was a plumber, that he cannot stand because he spent every Thanksgiving dinner boring everyone about all the lowest details about his job (much like I hated having to help with all our auto repair because my father wasted his life as an engineer when he really wanted to be a long-haul trunk driver and mechanic, so he thought that it would be fun and a bonding experience -- thank God he wasn't a torturer for the KGB :-).
Odd. I thought that they would surely have banned you from using the computer anymore, Mr. Kaczynski.
anyway the only person who really had a right to ask that question was Hillary ...
Actually, since he was being sued for sexual harassment, the lawyers who asked that question DID have the right. If they did not, the judge would have ruled it immaterial. And then they had to botch it by underdefining it.
I wasn't aware that the crown pays anything. Why would they?
To encourage more treasure hunters, of course. If one depended on professional archeologists, one would wait forever while they spent all their time investigating peasants' hovels and pre-Iron Age middens.
but look for a strangely dressed eccentric and you might have some joy.
If you mean The Doctor, you had better be careful. He leaves a trail of corpses behind him as thick as The Outlaw Josey Wales did.
new gold isn't being generated
Oh, no, all my gold mining stocks will become worthless! Obviously, there are no new gold atoms generated (barring in some collider experiments) on a planetary scale, but the amount that matters is what is available to the economy by being concentrated in usable form, and that DOES increase with mining. The problem with bitcoins is that they are hitting their mining limits faster than gold has, by a large margin.
A better analogy would be to use Old Masters artworks, or muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s. Even there, restoration can bring scrapped cars (and I presume artwork, but my cousin restored a GTO, not a Rembrant) back for a profit.