Well guns are downright shitty at propelling objects at great velocities. A particle accelerator, low-bypass afterburning turbofan, or rocket engine would do far better jobs, depending on the size of the object and how long you want it to go fast. So why the fuck are people using guns for propelling their objects? They only apply thrust/acceleration for a tiny fraction of a second to very specific small objects and the top speeds are garbage.
But the gun makes perfect sense as a purpose-built deadly weapon, isn't that odd? The projectile is ideally sized for killing people and smaller animals, the range makes sense for use by a human, the speed is decent, it's as if that was its intended purpose throughout history!
Cars on the other hand are downright shitty weapons. They're designed, to the greatest practical extent, not to kill. They tend to break on impact. Newer ones will stop by themselves if you attempt to drive them into a person or vehicle. You have to attack a dense crowd of people with a vehicle the size of a small house to cause deaths in the same league as a gun could.
ReactOS is trying to play catch-up on a road made of speedbumps. Every time a new version of Windows comes out, that's another speedbump, about the biggest speedbump that could ever exist, a full-featured modern OS (strictly speaking) with a healthy serving of legacy cruft on the side. They'd need an overwhelming development speed advantage over Microsoft to ever create a practical substitute for the current version of Windows.
If only NiMH had the proper voltage - it has a lower voltage - 1.2v vs. 1.5v, so the more cells the device takes, the greater the undervoltage. It does work decently for low-power devices that only take 1 or 2 batteries such as clocks and TV remotes, but let's not kid ourselves.
I've been trying out a commercial off-the-shelf alkaline battery recharger, although by now I use them in so few things that I've hardly been able to see how effective the recharged batteries are compared to new ones. It does work, but you can only safely recharge the batteries a few times before they're likely to leak.
LOL no they're going to hold the encryption keys, which just keeps everyone except the French government eavesdropping on the communications. Until the keys are leaked that is.
Came here to see how similar this stuff is to Terrafoam. Answers below:
Materially: Somewhat. It's a set of foam building materials used for automated construction, but not fired brick panels in a single do-it-all material. They're also still using regular wooden frames for the doorways and roof.
Architecturally: Still a good ratio of windows and bathrooms to bedrooms, so no...not yet.
That's an interesting interpretation. To me it looks like wage growth ranges from 4~6% from 2014 to 2016 before it begins to drop. It takes 2 big falls, one in early 2016 and one in late 2016, before it begins to recover. It eventually recovers to about 5% before beginning the drop mentioned in TFS.
If you look at the 10 year chart, wage growth generally stays in the range of 2~6% from mid 2010 to late 2016. So the current trend is still well within that range, although I don't see how a drop toward what appears to be an average number since recovery from the great recession can be encouraging.
Like the stock market losses due to recent attempts to initiate a trade war and the wealth transfers to the 1% through tax "reform," this downturn is just part of Making America Great Again, and you should accept your losses with pride for the glory of the Dear Leader. Things will get better...real soon...any day now...
Since you're apparently some kind of capitalist-utilitarian who's fine with plutocratic racist demagogues shitting up the world as long as the stock market is doing OK, maybe you should hold your praise until you see how President Tweety's trade war with China plays out, and how much his useless monument to xenophobia in the middle of the desert costs. Those have the potential to make Dubya's wars look cheap in retrospect.
Wow, this post is amazing! The historical parallels are beautiful! Bravo, mod parent Interesting!
Now it's PC/SJW science instead of Jewish Science, and this time it's climate science, string theory and women's studies instead of Einstein's theories of relativity, Heisenberg's theories of quantum mechanics, and Freud's organized psychoanalysis. And now likewise, those scientists are taking refuge in other countries.
This is amazing, it's almost like being able to use a time machine to visit Germany in the '30s.
A gun is designed to fire a projectile optimized for piercing flesh at the greatest possilble speed to maximize the odds of piercing flesh. You can't say the same of a potato gun or the typical hobby store slingshot. It's a deadly fucking weapon that is designed to kill first and foremost. Accept the reality of your weapon.
I could entertain the idea of lighter restrictions on guns that can't legally be taken onto pulblic property and must be securely transported between private properties - the equivalent of a non-street-driven car.
A gun is a purpose-built deadly weapon that is hilariously impractical for anything other than killing things or simulating killing things. Accept it.
Cars must be registered and insured and legally require training to use, even though they're designed NOT to kill to the greatest practical extent. Why aren't guns controlled at least as tightly as cars?
Think of it as "everything on home computers." If you take control of the home computers, you can DRM everything on the Internet. What would be the best way to do that? With walled-garden computing, of course. Remember that when the original iPhone launched, iOS didn't have a clipboard or download capability.
Oh please, the idea that DRM deters piracy is a fallacy. It never has, which is why publishers have been doubling down trying insanely complicated and powerful DRM systems like Denuvo in an attempt to make it so strong that it might actually do something. If publishers were smart they'd make their works affordable and DRM-free for maximum profitability. DRM is a symptom of nonsensical, emotion-based business superstitions.
This is a great idea for all humans, unfortunately our ass-backwards idiotic economic system would be greatly wounded by it, since targeted advertising is a decent chunk of the economy.
This isn't the first or last activity that is harmful but profitable, but the only other one so profitable is fossil fuels, and unlike most there is no vastly less harmful but comparably profitable alternative to take the place of the activity we're stopping (like renewable energy for fossil fuels, or "living" for cigarettes). Privacy isn't profitable - this is quitting cold turkey.
Merely calling an argument "glib" basically means "your response was concise yet devastating, and I am unhappy about it." An actual glib response should be answered by addressing the oversimplification.
Marky Zuck then goes on to call "fake news" on the fact that Facebook's users are its product. They're an advertising platform, they sell their users' viewing time to advertisers, this isn't a secret.
Why? Nazis are the most delicate snowflakes of all, constantly complaining that others' rights of free speech and association are hurting their widdle feelings.
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Well guns are downright shitty at propelling objects at great velocities. A particle accelerator, low-bypass afterburning turbofan, or rocket engine would do far better jobs, depending on the size of the object and how long you want it to go fast. So why the fuck are people using guns for propelling their objects? They only apply thrust/acceleration for a tiny fraction of a second to very specific small objects and the top speeds are garbage.
But the gun makes perfect sense as a purpose-built deadly weapon, isn't that odd? The projectile is ideally sized for killing people and smaller animals, the range makes sense for use by a human, the speed is decent, it's as if that was its intended purpose throughout history!
Cars on the other hand are downright shitty weapons. They're designed, to the greatest practical extent, not to kill. They tend to break on impact. Newer ones will stop by themselves if you attempt to drive them into a person or vehicle. You have to attack a dense crowd of people with a vehicle the size of a small house to cause deaths in the same league as a gun could.
ReactOS is trying to play catch-up on a road made of speedbumps. Every time a new version of Windows comes out, that's another speedbump, about the biggest speedbump that could ever exist, a full-featured modern OS (strictly speaking) with a healthy serving of legacy cruft on the side. They'd need an overwhelming development speed advantage over Microsoft to ever create a practical substitute for the current version of Windows.
If only NiMH had the proper voltage - it has a lower voltage - 1.2v vs. 1.5v, so the more cells the device takes, the greater the undervoltage. It does work decently for low-power devices that only take 1 or 2 batteries such as clocks and TV remotes, but let's not kid ourselves.
I've been trying out a commercial off-the-shelf alkaline battery recharger, although by now I use them in so few things that I've hardly been able to see how effective the recharged batteries are compared to new ones. It does work, but you can only safely recharge the batteries a few times before they're likely to leak.
LOL no they're going to hold the encryption keys, which just keeps everyone except the French government eavesdropping on the communications. Until the keys are leaked that is.
Now modifying the list, THAT'S where the fun's at!
I wonder how many weeks of free luxuries they would lavish you with before they notice that you aren't gambling :D
I've never considered moving off of Gmail as seriously as when I heard about this new idiotic anti-feature.
Came here to see how similar this stuff is to Terrafoam. Answers below:
Materially: Somewhat. It's a set of foam building materials used for automated construction, but not fired brick panels in a single do-it-all material. They're also still using regular wooden frames for the doorways and roof.
Architecturally: Still a good ratio of windows and bathrooms to bedrooms, so no...not yet.
That's an interesting interpretation. To me it looks like wage growth ranges from 4~6% from 2014 to 2016 before it begins to drop. It takes 2 big falls, one in early 2016 and one in late 2016, before it begins to recover. It eventually recovers to about 5% before beginning the drop mentioned in TFS.
If you look at the 10 year chart, wage growth generally stays in the range of 2~6% from mid 2010 to late 2016. So the current trend is still well within that range, although I don't see how a drop toward what appears to be an average number since recovery from the great recession can be encouraging.
Turning the economy around would mean tanking it. We can all be glad he hasn't done that.
Give the guy some time, he's showing a lot of "progress" on that front recently.
Time will tell, but so far, we are still on a trajectory which is much improved over the last administration's. Remember that.
Not an improved trajectory, just further along the same trajectory (at least until recently). To bring this article up to date:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/1...
The bull market is 109 months old. Trump owns 17 of them.
Including these months:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Like the stock market losses due to recent attempts to initiate a trade war and the wealth transfers to the 1% through tax "reform," this downturn is just part of Making America Great Again, and you should accept your losses with pride for the glory of the Dear Leader. Things will get better...real soon...any day now...
Since you're apparently some kind of capitalist-utilitarian who's fine with plutocratic racist demagogues shitting up the world as long as the stock market is doing OK, maybe you should hold your praise until you see how President Tweety's trade war with China plays out, and how much his useless monument to xenophobia in the middle of the desert costs. Those have the potential to make Dubya's wars look cheap in retrospect.
Wow, this post is amazing! The historical parallels are beautiful! Bravo, mod parent Interesting!
Now it's PC/SJW science instead of Jewish Science, and this time it's climate science, string theory and women's studies instead of Einstein's theories of relativity, Heisenberg's theories of quantum mechanics, and Freud's organized psychoanalysis. And now likewise, those scientists are taking refuge in other countries.
This is amazing, it's almost like being able to use a time machine to visit Germany in the '30s.
A gun is designed to fire a projectile optimized for piercing flesh at the greatest possilble speed to maximize the odds of piercing flesh. You can't say the same of a potato gun or the typical hobby store slingshot. It's a deadly fucking weapon that is designed to kill first and foremost. Accept the reality of your weapon.
I could entertain the idea of lighter restrictions on guns that can't legally be taken onto pulblic property and must be securely transported between private properties - the equivalent of a non-street-driven car.
A gun is a purpose-built deadly weapon that is hilariously impractical for anything other than killing things or simulating killing things. Accept it.
Cars must be registered and insured and legally require training to use, even though they're designed NOT to kill to the greatest practical extent. Why aren't guns controlled at least as tightly as cars?
Seems like a job likely to cause a person to snap:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
YouTube would remove such a video, you'll have to check LiveLeak.
There's more to being educated than rote memorization and repetition.
But rote memorization and repetition will take you a long way in formal education!
Think of it as "everything on home computers." If you take control of the home computers, you can DRM everything on the Internet. What would be the best way to do that? With walled-garden computing, of course. Remember that when the original iPhone launched, iOS didn't have a clipboard or download capability.
Oh please, the idea that DRM deters piracy is a fallacy. It never has, which is why publishers have been doubling down trying insanely complicated and powerful DRM systems like Denuvo in an attempt to make it so strong that it might actually do something. If publishers were smart they'd make their works affordable and DRM-free for maximum profitability. DRM is a symptom of nonsensical, emotion-based business superstitions.
This is a great idea for all humans, unfortunately our ass-backwards idiotic economic system would be greatly wounded by it, since targeted advertising is a decent chunk of the economy.
This isn't the first or last activity that is harmful but profitable, but the only other one so profitable is fossil fuels, and unlike most there is no vastly less harmful but comparably profitable alternative to take the place of the activity we're stopping (like renewable energy for fossil fuels, or "living" for cigarettes). Privacy isn't profitable - this is quitting cold turkey.
Merely calling an argument "glib" basically means "your response was concise yet devastating, and I am unhappy about it." An actual glib response should be answered by addressing the oversimplification.
Marky Zuck then goes on to call "fake news" on the fact that Facebook's users are its product. They're an advertising platform, they sell their users' viewing time to advertisers, this isn't a secret.
Why? Nazis are the most delicate snowflakes of all, constantly complaining that others' rights of free speech and association are hurting their widdle feelings.
I know, awesome feature! Anything can be improved by antagonizing nazi snowflakes!
https://torrentfreak.com/nsa-a...