Are we better off as a species because the first inventions could be used for immoral things? Yes, we are. Those immoral actions are the result of individuals utilizing tools to change the environment to their needs; even if their needs means the end of a rival tribe.
It must be remembered that almost everyone today has a better standard of living than royalty of say, the middle ages. And that didn't happen through prayer.
Even the internet and the 'information overload' is not something new. The printing press had a similar effect which would eventually lead to the highest levels of literacy the world has ever seen. Are we better off because the printing press created more yellow journalism? Yes, we are because at the same time literacy empowers the individual. The internet gives those literate individuals more information which forces them to sift through that information to find truth.
I think that at base is a problem that is not technological in nature. Critical thinking. I think above all else, Critical thinking, or near enough to it, must be taught to people. As well as the truth that there are people out there who profit by others not using critical thinking. I know that when I read something, there is a good chance it is bullshit, and knew that long before the internet can along.
I can look it up. And after you look at neough things, you can get a pretty good idea of what the truth is. There are examples in the various denialist schools of thought where after enough research you fin dout who is lying and who is telling half truths and who is telling the truth.
With a lack of critical thinking skills, one falls back onto more emotional skills, such as confirmatin bias, or wishful thinking.
And ends up becoming an olde fate, thinking and declaring that technology is bad. Just like some members of earlier generations have. Yet they all seem to think that the technology they grew up with was okay.
He created an explosion of Red phosphorus n the basement of his house apparently not knowing that it was sensitive to shock, and he was pounding it with a hammer. So we have a young fellow that is remarkably careless.
You have a young fellow who's PARENTS were remarkably careless. I too pounded stuff with hammers when I was around 16 year old. I too liked fire, chemical experiments, playing with electricity.
I did as well. One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a big Chemistry set - and this was back in teh day where they put real chemicals in them, not just vinegar and baking soda. I made a lot of interesting stuff. I even had my own little outbuilding to use as a chemistry shed. But I did get some guidance and limits. I did adhere to them as well. I quickly understood radioactivity and it's ability to reach out and touch you. Its all just safety with chemicals.
In this fellows family, there were some major problems with his mother and also with him. Both were diagnosed Scizophrenic and at least he was diagnosed bipolar. What a sad mess.
We could be reaching a point of either diminishing returns or even a point when technology actually could have a detrimental effect on our lives.
All technology has a good and a bad side. Even technology that saves people's lives adds to the population. The technology that created the nuclear weapons can generate power when done right. New technology can put people out of work, but that might beat subsistence farming. It sure dose for me anyhow.
The internet is a good example. It's improved our lives in many ways, but it's also created a whole new class of problems, headaches, and information overload. Are we really quantifiably happier today than we were 30 years ago?
I am. I'm pretty certain that you aren't. If I might make an observation, I've noticed that a lot of people have problems adjusting to new things. They also might have what I call "Old Dude Syndrome" which is the capability of some folks, mostly middle aged men, to become incredibly angry about incredibly small things.
And those friends of mine who voted a particular way in the last election had about a day at most of joy, now have become either angry about everything all over again, or strangely quiet and worried. But that's another story.
Well, we certainly have much easier access to much more information and benefit from its convenience. But has it made our overall lives that much BETTER?
Oh hell yeah! Where do you want to draw the line of what is allowable? Electromagnetic communication? Early industrial revolution? Subsistence farming? Iron, Brass, Stone? The wheel?
I have a weird affliction in that while I have advanced in age just like everyone else, I have not managed to think like an old person. Coupled with not looking my age, people tend to think I am in my early 40's, not my early 60's . All of that gives me na interesting perspective, since my friends are largely my own age, and advancing into olde farte status.
Enjoy the technology. There are lots of weird people out there who never had internet access, and merely bring their weirdness to it. Don't let them define the internet.
If it was secure, I could control which outside servers the operating system contacts and what information it sends to them. An operating system for which you cannot even control where it connects to is insecure by definition.
It connects to more than a hundred outside servers Microsoft refuses to publish a complete list of these places and what data it exactly transmits, so it is also practically impossible for the end user to reliably distinguish Microsoft traffic from trojan horses and malware. It's ridiculous to call that secure.
Annnnd argument over! This needs to be at +5 everything moderators.
Security that the USER cannot control is not what **i** would call a selling point
A fine stance if you are a a technically competent IT pro or equivalent.
Because security is soooooooo hard!
What we have here is people trying to claim to have it both ways. The "most secure Windows ever" still requires a lot of security updates, which means it really isn't all that secure. As well, thre are two parts to any security updates. One is making the computer more secure. The second is having the computer work after the update.
Nothing like the secure aspect of a computer in endless reboot mode. Nothing like being powerless to do anything about it
I guess.
Microsoft's biggest failure in W10 was the Bohica update idea. Microsoft has always had problems with updates. I made a good part of my living by figuring out and repairing what they bitched up every month.
And W10 is no different - you just have no choice but to bend over and take it.
And having a working computer is as important as having one that is secure.
You should read up a bit on that part of the history. It's quite informative.
I know the history well. There was waht amounted to a populist revolt in Germany, one brought about partially as a result of the draconian post WWI punishments. A outsider was elected, and was quite popular for a few years, but in the end, after causing perhaps the worst war in history, and the subsequent destruction of the country and the split of the country into two - after many years, Germany is now a world economic power and a remarkably progressive place.
Hence the joke I tell my Democrat friends. A lot of them blanch when they hear it. My Republican friends mostly don't get it at all. Oddly enough, they are just as grumpy and pissed off at everything as they were two days after the election. They blanch when I tell them that after the last Democrat is shot, they'll need to conscript new ones so they have someone to hate on.
They're listed in my program. I don't do others' homework for them. I just point the way to information.
APK
So are you tellimg me that I have to go to the trouble to attach a real name to you AC - so that I can see the person who wrote your program? You really don't want that do you?
The issue of ingestion of radiological hazards is why I get irritated when people try and talk of the danger in terms of 'chest x-rays' and 'banana equivalent doses'
Its irresponsible and only exposes the claimant's ignorance. There is a world of difference between an alpha emitter in the hand, and one in the gut or lung.
But we have armchair experts in here who make sweeping claims that show their ignorance. Every bit as much ignorance as those who cower in fear at the mention of radioactivity.
the purification of the thorium from the lantern mantles ( apparently with nitric acid)
My mistake. He used the nitric acid - which he made himself - in a not so successful experiment to extract Uranium from pitchblende. the Lithium was used to purify the thorium form the ashes of the mantles.
The annual average effective dose from natural background is 2.4 mSv. However, when the article claim 1000 times normal background radiation, it doesn't say anything about the radiation type which is an important criteria to determine the effective dose. You need to qualifies the radiation, how much X-, gamma or beta radiation vs alpha, fission fragments and heavy particles vs neutrons vs high-energy protons. Doing a comparison in sievert is not appropriate. Where did you get this 1000 number?
No doubt from the rectum.
We had radium, Americium-241,Thorium, and tritium. So we have alpha, beta and gamma. Purification techniques performed in a small shed, and probably under woefully inadequate conditions. The likelihood of ingestion and inhalation of daughter element radon was very likely.
What is more, Hahn's mother was fearful of the radioactive element' being known would negatively impact her property value, so she gathered up what she could and threw it out in the trash. This was a remarkably scrrewed up family.
So the total extent of the radioactivity will never be known. Whether or not an autopsy will be performed on Hahn is not known either.
But almost certainly, the scraping of the radium clocks, as well as the Americium-241 from the smoke detectors, the purification of the thorium from the lantern mantles ( apparently with nitric acid) the not always careful lad almost had to be dosing himself severely with radiation as well as regular chemical poisons. I shudder to think of just the nitric acid exposure.
And 30 some years is about right for the delay between exposure and problems.
Still... just that radium paint alone, you wouldn't want the teen next door to have something like that...
What if he had more dangerous toxins like those found in a can of insecticide or certain common petroleum products at his disposal? We wouldn't want that either would we.
I truly hope that you do not work in the nuclear industry, as you have a remarkably arrogant and dangerous attitude.
No, Mister D from 63, they are not an equivalent as you suggest.
Many radioactive elements are also chemically poisonous as well as radioactive. A bit of Uranium in one's lunch will take out your kidneys before the radiation does anything to you. A kid shouldn't be playing with radioactive materials nor your ridiculous insecticide comparison.
However, to take your opinion that somehow radioactivity is safe, and making grand sweeping statements to that effect and not even making reference to the type of radioactivity is/was involved, makes me feel quite safe that you don't know what you are talking about.
1000 times background measured directly over a source is really not that much. And the risks it presents is much lower than a huge majority of people seem to think. I know the number 1000 sounds like a lot, but 1000 times something very small can still be very small.
The question of course, is what he was exposed to, how often, and did he ingest any of the radioactive matter. He was altready a bit careless, having OD'ed on canthaxanthin that he ingested as part of an experiment. He created an explosion of Red phosphorus n the basement of his house apparently not knowing that it was sensitive to shock, and he was pounding it with a hammer. So we have a young fellow that is remarkably careless.
The Americium from the smoke detectors, of which he stole a number of them - apparently 100 known. So most of that is excreted but the rest goes to the liver and one's nutsack if they happen to have one.
Thorium is fairly safe stuff, unless it is ingested, being an alpha emitter. Ingestion of the dust from one isn't so safe. He collected lantern mantles to collect the thorium they contained. Hahn used lithium from dismantled batteries to purify the thorium, using a Bunsen burner in the process. His standard of sanitation was not high.
Radium is another matter entirely about 20 percent of ingested radium makes its's way into the bones, and it is an alpha and gamma emitter. It's daughter element radon gas is also radioactive and causes cancer.
Tritium that he was going to use as a moderator, is also a radioactive beta emitter, but probably isn't/wasn't that big a deal.
So it is very plausible that this young fellow ingested enough material to do himself physical harm from the radioactivity.
We'll never know the full extent of the radioactivity, because his mother threw most of his collected materials into the regular trash. She was fearful of her property value.
Anyone who seriously thought a wall was going to happen -- never mind somehow convincing Mexico to pay for the damned thing -- probably needs a bit of a reality check at the best of times.
Can't say I disagree. I did back of the envelope calculations, and this would be the biggest make-work project ever, one that would drive the price of cement and steel/iron up like when the asian skyscrapers drove up copper prices. We're tallking either tax increases or billions to the deficit.
But I knew people who did believe we were going to have a wall constructed. They wanted one on the Canadian border as well.
But that said.. yeah. Its hard to get a handle on Trump's plans since he just spouts off whatever he's thinking at the time with no concern for consistency or even truth.
If I were to hazard a guess, it will be a bit confusing, as the Democrats probably plan on showing hiim the same respect as the Republicans showed O'Blama the past 8 years.
But then there's that business of his being more liberal than a lot of them.
It would certainly be nice to have some sort of indication about which actions are serious ahead of time though, to be sure.
One thing he as said on more than one occasion is that he likes to keep people guessing. That does have the ring of truth.
Hence the Popcorn and beer and taco party idea. You're invited as well, Altrag.
His transition team is staffed almost entirely by current or former lobbyists, too.
Once he takes office, I expect to see some discontent in the Trump-supporter ranks as they realise that Trump has neither the power nor the inclination to do half the things he promised them.
And Pepe' is gonna find out that he elected a person more left wing than the woman they want to put in front of a firing squad.
I've been hearing some things about his review of O'BlamaCare as well, and thinking there are some good things in it
Meanwhile, the popcorn and beer offer holds. Pepe' isn't going to be too happy in a few months.
At least 6 million people would disagree that it's gonna pass...
side notes - I'm really disappointed. Now not only is the wall not going to happen, apparently he's got more important things to focus on than putting his opponent in jail. Pepe' might not like this!
Pull up a lawn chair, sit a spell, and enjoy some popcorn bro, what kinda beer you want? I even have Tequila and bourbon in case you want to do shots. The wife is making tacos too.
I distinctly remember a wall being involved as well...
Oh, right. East Germany was, if you were reading the East German press at the time, such a paradise that it had to defend itself against a flood of economic refugees from the decadent West. It would totally never be used to keep people in, just to keep the foreign wreckers and criminals out. Funny how that worked out.
Apparently, the wall, a cornerstone of the campaign, has gone the way of most campaign promises.
The Who said it best - "Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss."
Sweet Jeebuz, so many people think that bandwidth is somehow infinite.
And every techno-zealot seems to want to dump everything else for their pet projects. I mean who wouldn't want an app for their smartphone that controls their window blinds? https://www.hunterdouglas.com/... I like how the woman is standing right in front of the window.
Its kinda scary that someone somewhere thinks that is the priority use of teh intertoobz.
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Are we better off as a species because the first inventions could be used for immoral things? Yes, we are. Those immoral actions are the result of individuals utilizing tools to change the environment to their needs; even if their needs means the end of a rival tribe.
It must be remembered that almost everyone today has a better standard of living than royalty of say, the middle ages. And that didn't happen through prayer.
Even the internet and the 'information overload' is not something new. The printing press had a similar effect which would eventually lead to the highest levels of literacy the world has ever seen. Are we better off because the printing press created more yellow journalism? Yes, we are because at the same time literacy empowers the individual. The internet gives those literate individuals more information which forces them to sift through that information to find truth.
I think that at base is a problem that is not technological in nature. Critical thinking. I think above all else, Critical thinking, or near enough to it, must be taught to people. As well as the truth that there are people out there who profit by others not using critical thinking. I know that when I read something, there is a good chance it is bullshit, and knew that long before the internet can along.
I can look it up. And after you look at neough things, you can get a pretty good idea of what the truth is. There are examples in the various denialist schools of thought where after enough research you fin dout who is lying and who is telling half truths and who is telling the truth.
With a lack of critical thinking skills, one falls back onto more emotional skills, such as confirmatin bias, or wishful thinking.
And ends up becoming an olde fate, thinking and declaring that technology is bad. Just like some members of earlier generations have. Yet they all seem to think that the technology they grew up with was okay.
He created an explosion of Red phosphorus n the basement of his house apparently not knowing that it was sensitive to shock, and he was pounding it with a hammer. So we have a young fellow that is remarkably careless.
You have a young fellow who's PARENTS were remarkably careless. I too pounded stuff with hammers when I was around 16 year old. I too liked fire, chemical experiments, playing with electricity.
I did as well. One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a big Chemistry set - and this was back in teh day where they put real chemicals in them, not just vinegar and baking soda. I made a lot of interesting stuff. I even had my own little outbuilding to use as a chemistry shed. But I did get some guidance and limits. I did adhere to them as well. I quickly understood radioactivity and it's ability to reach out and touch you. Its all just safety with chemicals.
In this fellows family, there were some major problems with his mother and also with him. Both were diagnosed Scizophrenic and at least he was diagnosed bipolar. What a sad mess.
Rectum, darn near killed him.
Ahh, the ending of the best joke ever. Thanks for the laugh!
We could be reaching a point of either diminishing returns or even a point when technology actually could have a detrimental effect on our lives.
All technology has a good and a bad side. Even technology that saves people's lives adds to the population. The technology that created the nuclear weapons can generate power when done right. New technology can put people out of work, but that might beat subsistence farming. It sure dose for me anyhow.
The internet is a good example. It's improved our lives in many ways, but it's also created a whole new class of problems, headaches, and information overload. Are we really quantifiably happier today than we were 30 years ago?
I am. I'm pretty certain that you aren't. If I might make an observation, I've noticed that a lot of people have problems adjusting to new things. They also might have what I call "Old Dude Syndrome" which is the capability of some folks, mostly middle aged men, to become incredibly angry about incredibly small things.
And those friends of mine who voted a particular way in the last election had about a day at most of joy, now have become either angry about everything all over again, or strangely quiet and worried. But that's another story.
Well, we certainly have much easier access to much more information and benefit from its convenience. But has it made our overall lives that much BETTER?
Oh hell yeah! Where do you want to draw the line of what is allowable? Electromagnetic communication? Early industrial revolution? Subsistence farming? Iron, Brass, Stone? The wheel?
I have a weird affliction in that while I have advanced in age just like everyone else, I have not managed to think like an old person. Coupled with not looking my age, people tend to think I am in my early 40's, not my early 60's . All of that gives me na interesting perspective, since my friends are largely my own age, and advancing into olde farte status.
Enjoy the technology. There are lots of weird people out there who never had internet access, and merely bring their weirdness to it. Don't let them define the internet.
After years of being told that the only secure windows PC is one that is turned off, they listened.
They released a update that broke the boot system.
Wait! Is this insightful? Or funny? Or informative?
Yes.
If it was secure, I could control which outside servers the operating system contacts and what information it sends to them. An operating system for which you cannot even control where it connects to is insecure by definition.
It connects to more than a hundred outside servers Microsoft refuses to publish a complete list of these places and what data it exactly transmits, so it is also practically impossible for the end user to reliably distinguish Microsoft traffic from trojan horses and malware. It's ridiculous to call that secure.
Annnnd argument over! This needs to be at +5 everything moderators.
Security that the USER cannot control is not what **i** would call a selling point
A fine stance if you are a a technically competent IT pro or equivalent.
Because security is soooooooo hard!
What we have here is people trying to claim to have it both ways. The "most secure Windows ever" still requires a lot of security updates, which means it really isn't all that secure. As well, thre are two parts to any security updates. One is making the computer more secure. The second is having the computer work after the update.
Nothing like the secure aspect of a computer in endless reboot mode. Nothing like being powerless to do anything about it
I guess.
Microsoft's biggest failure in W10 was the Bohica update idea. Microsoft has always had problems with updates. I made a good part of my living by figuring out and repairing what they bitched up every month.
And W10 is no different - you just have no choice but to bend over and take it.
And having a working computer is as important as having one that is secure.
Um i think that more applies to crApple then microsoft since they can't do barely anything without something telling you no or keeping you locked in.
Examples?
You should read up a bit on that part of the history. It's quite informative.
I know the history well. There was waht amounted to a populist revolt in Germany, one brought about partially as a result of the draconian post WWI punishments. A outsider was elected, and was quite popular for a few years, but in the end, after causing perhaps the worst war in history, and the subsequent destruction of the country and the split of the country into two - after many years, Germany is now a world economic power and a remarkably progressive place.
Hence the joke I tell my Democrat friends. A lot of them blanch when they hear it. My Republican friends mostly don't get it at all. Oddly enough, they are just as grumpy and pissed off at everything as they were two days after the election. They blanch when I tell them that after the last Democrat is shot, they'll need to conscript new ones so they have someone to hate on.
They're listed in my program. I don't do others' homework for them. I just point the way to information.
APK
So are you tellimg me that I have to go to the trouble to attach a real name to you AC - so that I can see the person who wrote your program? You really don't want that do you?
The issue of ingestion of radiological hazards is why I get irritated when people try and talk of the danger in terms of 'chest x-rays' and 'banana equivalent doses'
Its irresponsible and only exposes the claimant's ignorance. There is a world of difference between an alpha emitter in the hand, and one in the gut or lung.
But we have armchair experts in here who make sweeping claims that show their ignorance. Every bit as much ignorance as those who cower in fear at the mention of radioactivity.
the purification of the thorium from the lantern mantles ( apparently with nitric acid)
My mistake. He used the nitric acid - which he made himself - in a not so successful experiment to extract Uranium from pitchblende. the Lithium was used to purify the thorium form the ashes of the mantles.
He wasn't looking well the last tine he was arrested for...
Interesting. The lad looks a little like this fellow from Nagasaki http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com...
Could be a coincidence of course. The only thing close I could think of would be meth issues.
Smells Like Teen Spirit.
The annual average effective dose from natural background is 2.4 mSv. However, when the article claim 1000 times normal background radiation, it doesn't say anything about the radiation type which is an important criteria to determine the effective dose. You need to qualifies the radiation, how much X-, gamma or beta radiation vs alpha, fission fragments and heavy particles vs neutrons vs high-energy protons. Doing a comparison in sievert is not appropriate. Where did you get this 1000 number?
No doubt from the rectum.
We had radium, Americium-241,Thorium, and tritium. So we have alpha, beta and gamma. Purification techniques performed in a small shed, and probably under woefully inadequate conditions. The likelihood of ingestion and inhalation of daughter element radon was very likely.
What is more, Hahn's mother was fearful of the radioactive element' being known would negatively impact her property value, so she gathered up what she could and threw it out in the trash. This was a remarkably scrrewed up family.
So the total extent of the radioactivity will never be known. Whether or not an autopsy will be performed on Hahn is not known either.
But almost certainly, the scraping of the radium clocks, as well as the Americium-241 from the smoke detectors, the purification of the thorium from the lantern mantles ( apparently with nitric acid) the not always careful lad almost had to be dosing himself severely with radiation as well as regular chemical poisons. I shudder to think of just the nitric acid exposure.
And 30 some years is about right for the delay between exposure and problems.
Still... just that radium paint alone, you wouldn't want the teen next door to have something like that...
What if he had more dangerous toxins like those found in a can of insecticide or certain common petroleum products at his disposal? We wouldn't want that either would we.
I truly hope that you do not work in the nuclear industry, as you have a remarkably arrogant and dangerous attitude.
No, Mister D from 63, they are not an equivalent as you suggest.
Many radioactive elements are also chemically poisonous as well as radioactive. A bit of Uranium in one's lunch will take out your kidneys before the radiation does anything to you. A kid shouldn't be playing with radioactive materials nor your ridiculous insecticide comparison.
However, to take your opinion that somehow radioactivity is safe, and making grand sweeping statements to that effect and not even making reference to the type of radioactivity is/was involved, makes me feel quite safe that you don't know what you are talking about.
1000 times background measured directly over a source is really not that much. And the risks it presents is much lower than a huge majority of people seem to think. I know the number 1000 sounds like a lot, but 1000 times something very small can still be very small.
The question of course, is what he was exposed to, how often, and did he ingest any of the radioactive matter. He was altready a bit careless, having OD'ed on canthaxanthin that he ingested as part of an experiment. He created an explosion of Red phosphorus n the basement of his house apparently not knowing that it was sensitive to shock, and he was pounding it with a hammer. So we have a young fellow that is remarkably careless.
The Americium from the smoke detectors, of which he stole a number of them - apparently 100 known. So most of that is excreted but the rest goes to the liver and one's nutsack if they happen to have one.
Thorium is fairly safe stuff, unless it is ingested, being an alpha emitter. Ingestion of the dust from one isn't so safe. He collected lantern mantles to collect the thorium they contained. Hahn used lithium from dismantled batteries to purify the thorium, using a Bunsen burner in the process. His standard of sanitation was not high.
Radium is another matter entirely about 20 percent of ingested radium makes its's way into the bones, and it is an alpha and gamma emitter. It's daughter element radon gas is also radioactive and causes cancer.
Tritium that he was going to use as a moderator, is also a radioactive beta emitter, but probably isn't/wasn't that big a deal. So it is very plausible that this young fellow ingested enough material to do himself physical harm from the radioactivity.
We'll never know the full extent of the radioactivity, because his mother threw most of his collected materials into the regular trash. She was fearful of her property value.
Popcorn is north American
Tacos are central American
Beer is European
Thanks for including everyone, you've made America great again!
And just like Billy Mays in heaven, we're gonna party like its $19.99!
Anyone who seriously thought a wall was going to happen -- never mind somehow convincing Mexico to pay for the damned thing -- probably needs a bit of a reality check at the best of times.
Can't say I disagree. I did back of the envelope calculations, and this would be the biggest make-work project ever, one that would drive the price of cement and steel/iron up like when the asian skyscrapers drove up copper prices. We're tallking either tax increases or billions to the deficit.
But I knew people who did believe we were going to have a wall constructed. They wanted one on the Canadian border as well.
But that said.. yeah. Its hard to get a handle on Trump's plans since he just spouts off whatever he's thinking at the time with no concern for consistency or even truth.
If I were to hazard a guess, it will be a bit confusing, as the Democrats probably plan on showing hiim the same respect as the Republicans showed O'Blama the past 8 years.
But then there's that business of his being more liberal than a lot of them.
It would certainly be nice to have some sort of indication about which actions are serious ahead of time though, to be sure.
One thing he as said on more than one occasion is that he likes to keep people guessing. That does have the ring of truth.
Hence the Popcorn and beer and taco party idea. You're invited as well, Altrag.
His transition team is staffed almost entirely by current or former lobbyists, too.
Once he takes office, I expect to see some discontent in the Trump-supporter ranks as they realise that Trump has neither the power nor the inclination to do half the things he promised them.
And Pepe' is gonna find out that he elected a person more left wing than the woman they want to put in front of a firing squad.
I've been hearing some things about his review of O'BlamaCare as well, and thinking there are some good things in it
Meanwhile, the popcorn and beer offer holds. Pepe' isn't going to be too happy in a few months.
At least 6 million people would disagree that it's gonna pass...
side notes - I'm really disappointed. Now not only is the wall not going to happen, apparently he's got more important things to focus on than putting his opponent in jail. Pepe' might not like this!
Pull up a lawn chair, sit a spell, and enjoy some popcorn bro, what kinda beer you want? I even have Tequila and bourbon in case you want to do shots. The wife is making tacos too.
At least 6 million people would disagree that it's gonna pass...
You are right.
Oh, right. East Germany was, if you were reading the East German press at the time, such a paradise that it had to defend itself against a flood of economic refugees from the decadent West. It would totally never be used to keep people in, just to keep the foreign wreckers and criminals out. Funny how that worked out.
Apparently, the wall, a cornerstone of the campaign, has gone the way of most campaign promises.
The Who said it best - "Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss."
This is why its popcorn time.
The problem is you can't just add more bandwidth.
Mod up! You could have stopped right there.
Sweet Jeebuz, so many people think that bandwidth is somehow infinite.
And every techno-zealot seems to want to dump everything else for their pet projects. I mean who wouldn't want an app for their smartphone that controls their window blinds? https://www.hunterdouglas.com/... I like how the woman is standing right in front of the window.
Its kinda scary that someone somewhere thinks that is the priority use of teh intertoobz.
Doesn't that make it circular reasoning?
Spherical reasoning. With cows and shit.