Because climate-change denialism. Because EPA can force the Free Market (peace be upon it) to not pollute so much, i.e. to cost them money and kill jerbs. Because the fossil fuels industry is very rich and can afford the finest congressweasels money can buy.
Well, you know. Even after 20-odd kids and six teachers got gunned down in Connecticut we couldn't have an adult conversation about gun control and keeping them out of the hands of crazies, criminals, and the irresponsible. It was basically the same people (the Republicans) who made sure we couldn't.
Nor have I ever heard of opponents of an EPA policy criticize it on the grounds that the EPA hasn't disclosed relevant scientific information.
Not since the end of the Bush II Administration, at least. Bush the Lesser's policy was to quash science that disagreed with his politics, and this included pollution controls.
Heh. alt.geek died years ago and some of us former posters made a Facebook group called "alt.geek refugees", and I think there's a similar group on G+.
I'm sad that Usenet is basically dead save for binaries and a few text froups, some features of the newsreaders have yet to be surpassed.
You're crazy. Ars's current layout is really nice, IMO, it's just that you only get a headline and sometimes a subheadline in the list of articles, instead of a summary, but that's not a huge deal when you have professional journalists who can write well.
My local paper's doing the browsable, etc. PDF online version for subs too. I won't use the thing because there's no reason to make me skip several pages to read the rest of a story just because that's how they had to lay it out in the physical medium. Browsers != newspapers.
The really stupid thing with that is I'm a subscriber, get the physical copy, but their normal HTML page doesn't let me see more than 5 or 10 pages a month... unless I block Javascript from a certain domain, which I do.
Don't get me wrong by my disillusionment comment. I'm just as strongly pro-civil rights as ever, I just don't hold with libertarian economic policies or their ideas about the night watchman state.
I really don't know and don't much care; I got out of the libertarian scene years ago after I grew disillusioned with both the people and the philosophy.
IMO those people you cite are the ones who really don't "get it"; they're the "libertarians" whose idea of liberty is limited to them and theirs.
Or, indeed, members of the "chosen people" because of impatience or making a simple mistake or being rude to a prophet. The Old Testament god was a fucking asshole.
Actually, he's not; RON PAUL is a states-rightser. This means that he's just fine, really, with state governments being oppressive, but the feds has best not put a stop to it or try to oppress someone the states aren't.
Come off it. I'm death on the modern GOP, but treating what happened in the early '70s like it still matters is overreach. There's plenty of/good/ reasons to distrust them without digging up skeletons.
ISTR that the Navy wanted a fighter with greater than 1:1 thrust/weight (as with the later F-15 and F-16), but this standard wasn't met until the F110s were installed.
The F-14A was kinda crap performance-wise, though, because of the terrible TF30 engines it'd been saddled with. That wasn't rectified until the B model, which used F110 engines (and incidentally made the ejection system safer).
All/etc/password contains on a properly configured modern system is userid, login name, login shell, and home directory./etc/shadow is where the hashed passwords are stored, readable only by privileged accounts.
About all/etc/passwd gains an attacker is a list of good login names.
Yup. I've been here since sometime in '98 and even then people would gripe about the quality of the editing... but as another poster observed, back then they were unpaid amateurs and this was just Taco's blog.
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Thanks for proving AC's point: you're pointing to one guy because you can't show anything systematic.
And see, that kind of unthinking fanaticism is exactly why we're going to keep having mass shootings.
Have a nice shotgun mouthwash.
Because climate-change denialism. Because EPA can force the Free Market (peace be upon it) to not pollute so much, i.e. to cost them money and kill jerbs. Because the fossil fuels industry is very rich and can afford the finest congressweasels money can buy.
Well, you know. Even after 20-odd kids and six teachers got gunned down in Connecticut we couldn't have an adult conversation about gun control and keeping them out of the hands of crazies, criminals, and the irresponsible. It was basically the same people (the Republicans) who made sure we couldn't.
Nor have I ever heard of opponents of an EPA policy criticize it on the grounds that the EPA hasn't disclosed relevant scientific information.
Not since the end of the Bush II Administration, at least. Bush the Lesser's policy was to quash science that disagreed with his politics, and this included pollution controls.
Heh. alt.geek died years ago and some of us former posters made a Facebook group called "alt.geek refugees", and I think there's a similar group on G+.
I'm sad that Usenet is basically dead save for binaries and a few text froups, some features of the newsreaders have yet to be surpassed.
One wonders if the government will start insourcing IT projects again since their outsourced service providers seem to suck.
You're crazy. Ars's current layout is really nice, IMO, it's just that you only get a headline and sometimes a subheadline in the list of articles, instead of a summary, but that's not a huge deal when you have professional journalists who can write well.
My local paper's doing the browsable, etc. PDF online version for subs too. I won't use the thing because there's no reason to make me skip several pages to read the rest of a story just because that's how they had to lay it out in the physical medium. Browsers != newspapers.
The really stupid thing with that is I'm a subscriber, get the physical copy, but their normal HTML page doesn't let me see more than 5 or 10 pages a month... unless I block Javascript from a certain domain, which I do.
And some actual by-Cthulhu editing and fact-checking.
Actually, no. We got the peace prize because we resoundingly rejected the Republican Party in 2008.
Apple ProDOS had most of that, albeit it was 8-bit.
Don't get me wrong by my disillusionment comment. I'm just as strongly pro-civil rights as ever, I just don't hold with libertarian economic policies or their ideas about the night watchman state.
I really don't know and don't much care; I got out of the libertarian scene years ago after I grew disillusioned with both the people and the philosophy.
IMO those people you cite are the ones who really don't "get it"; they're the "libertarians" whose idea of liberty is limited to them and theirs.
Or, indeed, members of the "chosen people" because of impatience or making a simple mistake or being rude to a prophet. The Old Testament god was a fucking asshole.
Actually, he's not; RON PAUL is a states-rightser. This means that he's just fine, really, with state governments being oppressive, but the feds has best not put a stop to it or try to oppress someone the states aren't.
Come off it. I'm death on the modern GOP, but treating what happened in the early '70s like it still matters is overreach. There's plenty of /good/ reasons to distrust them without digging up skeletons.
It's an election year.
Aw, piss off. Those people were here before Dice, even before VA.
ISTR that the Navy wanted a fighter with greater than 1:1 thrust/weight (as with the later F-15 and F-16), but this standard wasn't met until the F110s were installed.
The F-14A was kinda crap performance-wise, though, because of the terrible TF30 engines it'd been saddled with. That wasn't rectified until the B model, which used F110 engines (and incidentally made the ejection system safer).
And, let's be honest, /etc/password sounds scary, and is probably the most attention-getting thing this guy could have said to the average person.
His point is WHARRGARBL GOVERNMENT ALWAYS BAD. Don't try to reason with him or give facts.
All /etc/password contains on a properly configured modern system is userid, login name, login shell, and home directory. /etc/shadow is where the hashed passwords are stored, readable only by privileged accounts.
About all /etc/passwd gains an attacker is a list of good login names.
Yup. I've been here since sometime in '98 and even then people would gripe about the quality of the editing... but as another poster observed, back then they were unpaid amateurs and this was just Taco's blog.