Unfortunately I did not experience that. I voted for one of the other ones but and even if everyone who voted 3rd party in my stat had voted for one of the major party ones it still wouldn't have flipped the outcome of my state.
I don't want us to be wold police and have argued long against it. Unfortunately because we have played that role for so long a lot of countries are dependent on the US being there to defend them if something happens (western Europe, Japan, South Korea, other parts of S.E. Asia, the Middle East, the UN, etc) so I realize that packing up immediately would be bad so a deliberate unwinding would be needed.
That is why I tell the recruiters for companies in those area that they can't afford me. I want at a minimum the same standard of living I have now and things are negotiable but they won't offer enough to even come close. In silicon valley my house would be a multi million dollar property (will be paid off in 9 years), and my recreational property (owned outright) would probably be as well. Add in that I am able to save 30% of my income, am in a really good school district, and what ever premium you would have to pay me to deal with the CA crazy, drought, mud slides, forest fires, earthquakes, etc. and and you would be looking at several multiples of what I make instead of a 10%-20% increase over my current pay.
BMW owners pay through the nose for their cars, then pay through the nose again to get them fixed just because they're proprietary and expensive.
Have things changes in the last couple of generations of BMWs? I have an '02 e46 and it is pretty dead simple to work on and maintain. The most proprietary thing I have dealt with was the PVC system when I switched it out from the warm weather one to the cold weather on and the worst part there was getting it positioned without removing the intake manifold. The brakes are dead simple to change pads and rotors and doing a fluid flush on them is simple. Changing belts, spark plugs, filters, and consumable sensors (looking at you o2 sensors) is simple as well. Even changing out the fluid in the diff and transmission is exceptionally simple (you mean I don't have to drop a fucking pan or take off a cover and then smear everything with black RTV silicone). My only real beefs are with the coolant systems and their shitty hose connections (god these are a bitch to get off when you change hoses) and that even shittier plastic pressurized expansion tank and the window regulators. The design of the OEM window regulators on the e46 cars really sucks but they are easy enough to change out and only take about 30 minutes to do correctly. They do have that canister filter which took some figuring out the first time I changed oil on one (several cars ago) because I was looking for the standard can filter that I was use to. Granted on a 15 year old vehicle with just under 200,000 miles on it you have other problems like sensor failures (had to replace a cam position sensor) but even that is simple and only takes a few minutes and I haven't had many of them.
Getting things done at the dealership is just asking to get bent over. I had one window decide it wanted to live at the bottom of the door and it looked like it was going to rain so I went to the dealer. I ask how much it would cost the dealer to do and they gave me some stupid quote and said most of it was the 1.5 hours of labor. I told them that I could direct my 6 year old to do it in under an hour. I made it home before the rain. My 6 year old wanted to fix it so I directed him on how to do it and it took him about 50 minutes and that includes not having the right tool for popping off the inner door panel and instead wrapping a slotted screw drive in electrical tape.
I would like to remind you that about a trillion dollars a year go toward "defense".
No it is actually closer to half that and if you include veterans benefits it is only about 60%. That isn't to say there isn't waste and stupid shit going on since we all should be familiar with generals and the like saying they don't want something and don't need it but congress approves money for it because it brings home the bacon to their district. Personally I think our military budget is over sized and everyone likes to complain the the US spends more than the next X countries combines on their military but unlike China or Russia we are a high cost of living country and unlike most of Europe we end up being world police. Personally I think we would be better off telling the rest of the world they need to take a bigger role in keeping the peace and dramatically scale back our forces in places like the middle east, Europe, Africa, Asia. We can't do this all at once and it needs to be done in an orderly fashion but over a 4-8 year span we could dramatically cut back.
She will take about 20 photos of the exact same shot from the exact same angle to try and get the best picture and not delete a single one.
I've done that but usually with a tripod mounted camera but there it isn't to pick the best one. When I do that I am planning on combining them and doing things like focus stacking, HDR, or super resolution photography or a combination of them. For film I will also scan the negatives multiple times as well and combine them to reduce the noise and also produce images closer to the advertised resolution of the film scanner than can otherwise be achieved. Yes I have some photographs where I am getting 60-70 megapixels of actual data off of 35mm film but that requires having very fine film (50 speed Ilford B&W, 100 speed Kodak Ektar), a camera on a tripod, and the use of a high quality lens (my worst one diffraction wise is an f/4.5 500mm the best is an f/1.4 50mm one), and shooting with a wide open aperture. I love my full frame picture of Dome of the Rock that I took from on top of Mount of the Olives where I can clearly see the Islamic Calligraphy in the mosaic work on the outside with nice crisp lines.
But by god in college we tried to get it there. I'm actually surprised that the worst thing that ever happened in college was the still drunk the next afternoon or the time a buddy jump, kicked with both feet a lamp post, and then stuck the landing only to moments later get picked up by the cops and taken to spin dry for the night. Our general rule was that you weren't trying if you didn't finish a 1L of captain.
Expectations. It looks like a silly dumb fun movie. I still want to see it and everything I have read from those who have seems to indicate it will deliver on those expectations.
I think it is expectations one has going in. I like to point out to movie snobs that I did like "The Expendables" mostly to irritate them. The reason I liked it was that that it delivered on my expectations. Sometimes it is fun to go watch about an hour and a half of pure brain melt. I wanted to see explosions senseless action, some good one liners, and expected a plot about as deep as my kids' wading pool. It delivered. That said I thought Jurassic Park 3 was terrible but because it didn't deliver on what I wanted. I knew it was going to suck, but all the previews and what not indicated I might actually get to see some CGI dinos getting blown away. Well the plot sucked but I held out hope and even the ending with the marines on the hover craft looked like it might deliver but alas I was let down. If I am expecting Shakespeare you had better deliver. Although Shakespeare isn't as haughty as most people believe it to be, especially with lines like this "He ploughed her, and she cropp'd.".
To me that read more like no government is better than about the most corrupt shitty government one could come up with. Maybe just disposing of the entire North Korean government and military leaders and doing nothing else would improve that country too.
Does Ford make something as large as the 8000 series John Deere? I usually see smaller ford tractors that would be good for up to about 640 acre family farms but nothing like the monsters that Case IH, JD, or Kubota make for huge industrial farms.
There are basically autonomous tractors now and John Deere makes some that use differential GPS for navigation. As far as the rest of the tractor goes you are correct in that the cabs are starting to resemble aircraft cockpits with all sorts of monitoring and controls. It isn't like we are talking about the old John Deere Model D any more when it comes to tractors. You also left out the modern computer control of the engine and transmission that is found in every modern passenger vehicle that greatly improves the efficiency of a tractor as well.
Anyone that tells you that Somalia is an example of Libertarianism is selling you a lie, and you're an idiot if you buy it.
I would say that instead the person saying that is a very devoted listener of Thom Hartman or is politically aligned with him. Other key giveaways is the use of the term "bankster", mentions of the "Bush crime family", or spending far too much time on concept of "money is not speech".
Well I guess I have stirred that pot well, lets what comes up now.
Fogging film isn't a concern unless you have 800 speed or higher film and most of the people who used 800 speed film now use the shitty camera on their cellphone. Most of those who still use film now do it for the art of film photography and will typically be using slow high quality films usually 200 speed and slower to maximize image quality. For example I exclusively shoot 100 speed color and 50 speed B&W film and even then I make the TSA hand examine my film instead of sending it through the x-ray (they have to do this if you request). Furthermore the people who would likely care about film s-ray exposure likely know about how to avoid it and the few people still using a point and shoot film camera would likely just think they took yet another roll of shitty pictures.
So just like almost every other measure they have put in place since 9/11 then. There are exceptions like having the random air marshal on some flights and having hardened locked cockpit doors but things like going from 6 check points down to 2 checkpoints at the MSP airport (also other airports but they aren't my local one) only makes larger crowds of targets.
If going that route why not put some things that would give you better plausible deniability like a volume filled with bank statements, credit card statements, tax documents, copies of important other documents like insurance policies, title/deed documents, mortgage documents, birth certificates, etc. as these would be things that one would reasonably like to protect. Hell I have VeraCrypt volumes for that stuff and it makes backing things up easy as I can just copy them to a USB flash drive and keep a copy in my safe at home, on the music drive in car, and in my desk drawer at work as the chances of all 3 getting destroyed at the same time is slim to none and if something does happens where all 3 backups are destroyed well I'm probably a shadow burned into the ground anyway so I won't care and no one in a 30 mile radius would care either as they would all be dead too.
The I don't remember is a perfectly valid defense if you are a politician. To be fair not only id Ronald Regan use it Hillary Clinton also used it quite deftly.
Sure both safes and encryption only delay access one of it's good for a few hours and the other if it's good a few millennia at least.
If it is good encryption it will take more than a few millennia. While not everything can be a as heat death of the universe proof as one time pads, pushing the estimated energy requirements up to the mass energy of a star usually works pretty well and it wouldn't be all that difficult to push them up over the mass energy of the visible universe either. This would be applicable for an ideal quantum computer which fortunately is not something we are even close to building now.
Personally I switched to VeraCrypt once these issues were disclosed even though it appears they weren't as serious as initially thought. the fact that VeraCrypt has been patched against issues found in the TC audit and against the Google disclosed issues makes it seem like a better choice at this point. I stuck with TC 7.1a for quite a while until I found a reason to switch since with security it is good to stick with a known quantity until something else has a good track record or a serious flaw is discovered in the original. For me it was the 2 google issues, for someone else it may have been the minor issues from the audit or the combination of the google issues and the audit but that is something that needs to be decided on individually until there is a very clear reason to switch.
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Unfortunately I did not experience that. I voted for one of the other ones but and even if everyone who voted 3rd party in my stat had voted for one of the major party ones it still wouldn't have flipped the outcome of my state.
I don't want us to be wold police and have argued long against it. Unfortunately because we have played that role for so long a lot of countries are dependent on the US being there to defend them if something happens (western Europe, Japan, South Korea, other parts of S.E. Asia, the Middle East, the UN, etc) so I realize that packing up immediately would be bad so a deliberate unwinding would be needed.
Yet I can have a bonfire with my neighbors and not have to drink $15 beers in an overly loud club filled with hipster douche nozzles.
That is why I tell the recruiters for companies in those area that they can't afford me. I want at a minimum the same standard of living I have now and things are negotiable but they won't offer enough to even come close. In silicon valley my house would be a multi million dollar property (will be paid off in 9 years), and my recreational property (owned outright) would probably be as well. Add in that I am able to save 30% of my income, am in a really good school district, and what ever premium you would have to pay me to deal with the CA crazy, drought, mud slides, forest fires, earthquakes, etc. and and you would be looking at several multiples of what I make instead of a 10%-20% increase over my current pay.
BMW owners pay through the nose for their cars, then pay through the nose again to get them fixed just because they're proprietary and expensive.
Have things changes in the last couple of generations of BMWs? I have an '02 e46 and it is pretty dead simple to work on and maintain. The most proprietary thing I have dealt with was the PVC system when I switched it out from the warm weather one to the cold weather on and the worst part there was getting it positioned without removing the intake manifold. The brakes are dead simple to change pads and rotors and doing a fluid flush on them is simple. Changing belts, spark plugs, filters, and consumable sensors (looking at you o2 sensors) is simple as well. Even changing out the fluid in the diff and transmission is exceptionally simple (you mean I don't have to drop a fucking pan or take off a cover and then smear everything with black RTV silicone). My only real beefs are with the coolant systems and their shitty hose connections (god these are a bitch to get off when you change hoses) and that even shittier plastic pressurized expansion tank and the window regulators. The design of the OEM window regulators on the e46 cars really sucks but they are easy enough to change out and only take about 30 minutes to do correctly. They do have that canister filter which took some figuring out the first time I changed oil on one (several cars ago) because I was looking for the standard can filter that I was use to. Granted on a 15 year old vehicle with just under 200,000 miles on it you have other problems like sensor failures (had to replace a cam position sensor) but even that is simple and only takes a few minutes and I haven't had many of them.
Getting things done at the dealership is just asking to get bent over. I had one window decide it wanted to live at the bottom of the door and it looked like it was going to rain so I went to the dealer. I ask how much it would cost the dealer to do and they gave me some stupid quote and said most of it was the 1.5 hours of labor. I told them that I could direct my 6 year old to do it in under an hour. I made it home before the rain. My 6 year old wanted to fix it so I directed him on how to do it and it took him about 50 minutes and that includes not having the right tool for popping off the inner door panel and instead wrapping a slotted screw drive in electrical tape.
I would like to remind you that about a trillion dollars a year go toward "defense".
No it is actually closer to half that and if you include veterans benefits it is only about 60%. That isn't to say there isn't waste and stupid shit going on since we all should be familiar with generals and the like saying they don't want something and don't need it but congress approves money for it because it brings home the bacon to their district. Personally I think our military budget is over sized and everyone likes to complain the the US spends more than the next X countries combines on their military but unlike China or Russia we are a high cost of living country and unlike most of Europe we end up being world police. Personally I think we would be better off telling the rest of the world they need to take a bigger role in keeping the peace and dramatically scale back our forces in places like the middle east, Europe, Africa, Asia. We can't do this all at once and it needs to be done in an orderly fashion but over a 4-8 year span we could dramatically cut back.
She will take about 20 photos of the exact same shot from the exact same angle to try and get the best picture and not delete a single one.
I've done that but usually with a tripod mounted camera but there it isn't to pick the best one. When I do that I am planning on combining them and doing things like focus stacking, HDR, or super resolution photography or a combination of them. For film I will also scan the negatives multiple times as well and combine them to reduce the noise and also produce images closer to the advertised resolution of the film scanner than can otherwise be achieved. Yes I have some photographs where I am getting 60-70 megapixels of actual data off of 35mm film but that requires having very fine film (50 speed Ilford B&W, 100 speed Kodak Ektar), a camera on a tripod, and the use of a high quality lens (my worst one diffraction wise is an f/4.5 500mm the best is an f/1.4 50mm one), and shooting with a wide open aperture. I love my full frame picture of Dome of the Rock that I took from on top of Mount of the Olives where I can clearly see the Islamic Calligraphy in the mosaic work on the outside with nice crisp lines.
And how would you define what being "British in heart and soul" is?
Easy see how the perform at football hooliganism.
So long as they start with the financial district I don't see a problem.
But by god in college we tried to get it there. I'm actually surprised that the worst thing that ever happened in college was the still drunk the next afternoon or the time a buddy jump, kicked with both feet a lamp post, and then stuck the landing only to moments later get picked up by the cops and taken to spin dry for the night. Our general rule was that you weren't trying if you didn't finish a 1L of captain.
Expectations. It looks like a silly dumb fun movie. I still want to see it and everything I have read from those who have seems to indicate it will deliver on those expectations.
I think it is expectations one has going in. I like to point out to movie snobs that I did like "The Expendables" mostly to irritate them. The reason I liked it was that that it delivered on my expectations. Sometimes it is fun to go watch about an hour and a half of pure brain melt. I wanted to see explosions senseless action, some good one liners, and expected a plot about as deep as my kids' wading pool. It delivered. That said I thought Jurassic Park 3 was terrible but because it didn't deliver on what I wanted. I knew it was going to suck, but all the previews and what not indicated I might actually get to see some CGI dinos getting blown away. Well the plot sucked but I held out hope and even the ending with the marines on the hover craft looked like it might deliver but alas I was let down. If I am expecting Shakespeare you had better deliver. Although Shakespeare isn't as haughty as most people believe it to be, especially with lines like this "He ploughed her, and she cropp'd.".
Hey he probably got his degree from University of Phoenix.
To me that read more like no government is better than about the most corrupt shitty government one could come up with. Maybe just disposing of the entire North Korean government and military leaders and doing nothing else would improve that country too.
Does Ford make something as large as the 8000 series John Deere? I usually see smaller ford tractors that would be good for up to about 640 acre family farms but nothing like the monsters that Case IH, JD, or Kubota make for huge industrial farms.
Unless GPS satellites will helpfully relay John Deere kill signals, it's a little hard to see how the kill switch is going to work.
The people who buy these tractors are likely buying them for a related feature also offered by John Deere.
There are basically autonomous tractors now and John Deere makes some that use differential GPS for navigation. As far as the rest of the tractor goes you are correct in that the cabs are starting to resemble aircraft cockpits with all sorts of monitoring and controls. It isn't like we are talking about the old John Deere Model D any more when it comes to tractors. You also left out the modern computer control of the engine and transmission that is found in every modern passenger vehicle that greatly improves the efficiency of a tractor as well.
Anyone that tells you that Somalia is an example of Libertarianism is selling you a lie, and you're an idiot if you buy it.
I would say that instead the person saying that is a very devoted listener of Thom Hartman or is politically aligned with him. Other key giveaways is the use of the term "bankster", mentions of the "Bush crime family", or spending far too much time on concept of "money is not speech".
Well I guess I have stirred that pot well, lets what comes up now.
Fogging film isn't a concern unless you have 800 speed or higher film and most of the people who used 800 speed film now use the shitty camera on their cellphone. Most of those who still use film now do it for the art of film photography and will typically be using slow high quality films usually 200 speed and slower to maximize image quality. For example I exclusively shoot 100 speed color and 50 speed B&W film and even then I make the TSA hand examine my film instead of sending it through the x-ray (they have to do this if you request). Furthermore the people who would likely care about film s-ray exposure likely know about how to avoid it and the few people still using a point and shoot film camera would likely just think they took yet another roll of shitty pictures.
If anything, this ban will make flying less safe.
So just like almost every other measure they have put in place since 9/11 then. There are exceptions like having the random air marshal on some flights and having hardened locked cockpit doors but things like going from 6 check points down to 2 checkpoints at the MSP airport (also other airports but they aren't my local one) only makes larger crowds of targets.
Hey I like my "Fruit of the Boom" brand undies.
If going that route why not put some things that would give you better plausible deniability like a volume filled with bank statements, credit card statements, tax documents, copies of important other documents like insurance policies, title/deed documents, mortgage documents, birth certificates, etc. as these would be things that one would reasonably like to protect. Hell I have VeraCrypt volumes for that stuff and it makes backing things up easy as I can just copy them to a USB flash drive and keep a copy in my safe at home, on the music drive in car, and in my desk drawer at work as the chances of all 3 getting destroyed at the same time is slim to none and if something does happens where all 3 backups are destroyed well I'm probably a shadow burned into the ground anyway so I won't care and no one in a 30 mile radius would care either as they would all be dead too.
The I don't remember is a perfectly valid defense if you are a politician. To be fair not only id Ronald Regan use it Hillary Clinton also used it quite deftly.
Sure both safes and encryption only delay access one of it's good for a few hours and the other if it's good a few millennia at least.
If it is good encryption it will take more than a few millennia. While not everything can be a as heat death of the universe proof as one time pads, pushing the estimated energy requirements up to the mass energy of a star usually works pretty well and it wouldn't be all that difficult to push them up over the mass energy of the visible universe either. This would be applicable for an ideal quantum computer which fortunately is not something we are even close to building now.
Personally I switched to VeraCrypt once these issues were disclosed even though it appears they weren't as serious as initially thought. the fact that VeraCrypt has been patched against issues found in the TC audit and against the Google disclosed issues makes it seem like a better choice at this point. I stuck with TC 7.1a for quite a while until I found a reason to switch since with security it is good to stick with a known quantity until something else has a good track record or a serious flaw is discovered in the original. For me it was the 2 google issues, for someone else it may have been the minor issues from the audit or the combination of the google issues and the audit but that is something that needs to be decided on individually until there is a very clear reason to switch.