So your wife is an abusive cunt. Good to know. The proper response is no,or possibly I'm seeing somebody.
Oh, so precious, so tender, so fragile we are. So easy to hurt and give big booboos to.
Asking a woman that they know is married is hardly the actions of an honorable man. Pulling that stunt, they should be happy that they were only told they weren't man enough.
Do that to a muslim and they may throw acid in your face
Frightened aren't you? Danger around every corner - the Universe wants to hurt you, and you are plum terrified. Now get back to your HEPA filtered safe room, the very air is poisonous - I saw that in an onlinee forum.
Good point. Men are called "fags" all the time on the Webnets.
Boom! You win the debate! (seriously)
I've been called names like that, encouraged to kill myself, and other forms of "abuse". Yet I just read those posts without a thought, until you brought that up.
And while I try not to act like that - with occasional slips - I don't think a thing of it.
So the question is Why? Why is something that means almost nothing to me and most other males, an unforgivable assault upon women?
It certainly isn't that women cannot be cruel. I've seen women go after other women and attempt to destroy them without any regret.
The idea that all spaces must be made safe for those who can brook no adversity or disagreement isn't going to work.
This. Without any baseline to compare against the statistic quoted is meaningless.
Probably is. Reading TFA, it appears that this is yet another attempt to label the female of the species as a protected class. This would extend to women permanent status of children, as a sort of permanent prey that is easily damaged.
Whereas once upon a time, women were encouraged to be strong and independent, now for some reason there are people trying to make them permanent children.
And we have to face it, a person who is incapable of fending off assholes on the internet is hardly the archetype of a strong independent person.
It also very much depends on how you define attack. I would rather like to see the precise definition before rushing to any judgement.
I think you'll find that opinions run the gamut from actual abuse, to disagreement.
These claims often trend to the silly. My wife is asked out all the time on line. In today's world, that is sexual harassment. She just giggles and tells the guy he's not man enough, but many women need intensive counselling for the grave damage done.
Their actual plan is to get us down to only 2 humpback whales, in the hopes of attracting starships from the future. They can then capture one and harvest the technology.
The part that was cut out of the script was that after finding out what what had happened, Space Whales invaded earth to harvest Japanese people for research purposes.
I’m with you on GPS. But I can see wanting remote control and data to my smartphone if my hot tub is outdoors in the winter. I can turn it on from the warm house and be able to know when the tub is actually hot before going outside.
Modern spas do much better when turned on, set the temp, and leave it there. About the only time to change that is if you are going away for a few weeks, then at least on my spa, you walk over, activate the control panel, and turn the temperature down.
Years ago, like the 1990's they suggested cycling the temperature. Didn't work all that great for the equipment, and you had to decide when you were setting up the cycling programming when you were going into the tub. Meh. That turned out to really suck. Get home from work, and the wife says It's supposed to rain starting arounf 10 this evening, so let's hit the tub at 8:30, okay?
You don't do that in a thermally cycled spa. Even so, our spa only loses about 4 degrees over a 12 hour period in the cold of winter. It's highly insulated and so is the cover. Manufacturer says set and forget.
No. Hot tubs can take days to heat up, you'd turn it up before you left your house. It's more efficient to keep it at constant temp than to raise and lower it anyhow.
Everything you said is 100% wrong. Yes, i would like fries with that, Skippy.
I have had spas since the mid 1990's, and only the earliest would use that abominable thermal cycling. The manufacturer even suggested that I set it and forget it on my latest tub. Constant thermal cycling of a water appliance like a spa isn't a good idea anyhow, from the standpoint of expansion and contraction of components.
As well, modern spas that aren't cheap hold their temps well. In the winter, our new outside tub will only drop maybe 4 degrees F over a 12 hour period as long as kept closed. Discovered this during a power failure.
AC is definitely wrong about heating time. I can fill mine with 50 degree F water, start it up, and have it at 104 degrees F in about 6 hours.
Nah. My original hot tub did that, and it was a major pain in the ass. You had to plan a time that you were going into it, and if the weather was going to be bad at 10 p.m., so you thought it might be nice to go in at 7, it wasn't going to be warm enough.
My present tub is really well insulated, and we keep it at a constant 104 degrees F. The UV bacteria control needs to cycle regularly as well. Just set the control panel with the mode, no need to have it exposed on the internet.
About the only reason to put the thing on the internet is so that you can brag about it being on the internet.
the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day
Today we can send in robots first to see if it's safe. Back then the only option was to set sail and literally pray you made it. I'm sure if they had been offered a choice they would have chosen robots too.
Remember that they were doing it for money too. I'm sure if you find someone desperate enough and/or offer enough cash you will get people willing to ride your glorified firework.
I'd pay to ride that candle. The desire to explore and accept the risks of exploration lies along a spectrum. From wing suit diving to living in a gated community yet having a safe room, with more than one security system.
It is interesting to speculate what the world would be like if we did no exploration or take any risks. Probably still living in grass huts.
Great way to kill your big development committee is to allow entryists to ruin your project under the guise of tolerance. It's already happening.
But d00d! 4.20!
Codes of Conduct always replace any original goal. They elevate the weakest and least tolerant into the position of being permanently offended dictators.
No appreciable fraction of a percent of humanity living on the Earth now, nor of their decedents for several generations, has any genuine hope of making a home on Mars even if their is a concerted effort to get there.
So? Much better to stay in that safe room, finger ready to dial 911 in case someone makes it past the guard at the gate, your ADT alarm system and Xfinity security cameras.
The age of exploration is over for many people, they are comfortable and happy with elimination of as many scary things as possible.
It has nothing to do with "scared", it has to do with people understanding basic science and physics. Space Nutters never learned it, so they think everything is possible. They are a lot like little children.
It is possible... it's just ridiculously expensive and mistakes will be made the first few attempts no matter how hard we try. We could probably start launching rockets for Mars in 2019 that could sustain a temporary colony, but the costs would be ludicrous and the risks high. We do have the technology today... IF we're willing to take a few risks and willing to spend an insane amount of money and other resources.
I wonder if they had these sort of arguments back in the day for things like wagon trains or sailing the oceans? People embarking westward in wagon trains had no assurance of success, indeed some met their ends going west. One of the more egregious failures was the Donner Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Even without bizzare cannibalistic endings, weather could be a big issue, and Death Valley wasn't named because of it's hospitality. There were other groups of humans that sometimes attacked these people as well.
Even before then, the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day.
Today's prudent person would advise staying safe at home, and not venture outside the city limits.
But even so - there are people who live in those inhospitable places, be it Death Valley or above the Arctic circle.
But there are humans and groups of humans who are not burdened with trying to live as absolutely long as possible, and not afraid to risk their lives. If the USA decides that it is just too dangerous or expensive, and that it no longer wishes to engage in exploration, some other group will take up the slack and they will own the future.
Masculine women, feminized males, learning disabilities to include ADHD, dropping sperm count. Inherent obesity. Sounds like a paranoid's list. But then there is the science to back it up. Oh - and then there is autism. But we'll just blame the tiny amount of thiomersal in vaccines instead of the huge doses of everything else.
I noticed that they try to avoid telling you which modules are being updated. It seems they know users are allergic to certain modules written by chinese hackers and they want to hide those.
>"The fine is for transmitting on certain frequencies reserved for communications with satellites. Broadcasting on those frequencies requires a license from the FCC,"
Exactly. There might be a lot of hate on Slashdot toward the FCC for perhaps exceeding their mandate in certain other issues, but THIS particular example is exactly why the FCC exists. If anyone were allowed to just broadcast on whatever frequencies they like for whatever purpose they like, critical infrastructure could be severely impaired and cause real damage/loss/chaos.
These folk must have been real cowboys. I can get an experimental radio license without much problem, and the rules for balloon launches are pretty straightforward. Straightforward to the point that I could right now conduct relevant research easily, without skirting the law.
Any restrictions regarding ballooning are strictly safety and letting the FAA know what is going on.
Why get licensed? Here's the NTIA chart of frequency allocations. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files... I have a big printout of this on my office wall to educate folks who just want to "pick a frequency and go".
Now for the satellites. A whole lot of coordination has to happen if you want to put satellites in orbit. They have a troubling aspect of being impromptu kinetic energy weapons, or just space debris that can clog up desirable orbits. If the US denied them, there was probably a good reason. Perhaps we are seeing why.
These folk are meddling in the affairs of dragons - they should be glad they were only fined by the F.C.C.
Your knee-jerk GUNZ IZZ SKEERY!!!! straw man is pathetic and intellectually about as deep as an August parking lot puddle in a shitty Florida strip mall parking lot.
So you make a strawman by claiming OP made a strawman? Bravo!
Your ideas are intriguing, citizen. Pray tell you have a newsletter a fellow citizen might subscribe to perchance?
They don't need engineers. They need accountants: Someone who can explain to them that every $1 they spend filtering microparticles out of the ocean would be a hundred times as effective if spent to prevent the trash reaching the ocean in the first place.
We know exactly where the trash is coming from. I suppose there might be some political issues, but we are never going to fix this problem if we don't remove the few sources of it.
I get UN notices regarding the plastic in oceans problem, and it is bizzare. Browbeating the developed world, - which is a dogwhistle for Americans - for yet another problem we are somehow responsible for, while almost completely ignoring those who are responsible. About the only real efforts are some projects in Africa.
China just goes along merrily injecting plastic in the oceans. And Africa probably hopes the rest f the world can get this figured out so they can dump with impunity.
The Amish just block the porn by not having electricity in their buildings or vehicles. Even if young 13 year old Ike acquires an illicit mobile device from somewhere he has no place to charge it.
Some around here have a phone on a light pol in the middle of a field. Guess that's okay. Maybe they use dilaup to get their porn fix?
Dasani already makes their bottles out of recycled plant waste. I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Make certain you get your minimum daily requirement of Bisphenol-A.
Glass is probably the least troublesome water storage material.
This might make you cringe, but locally we have some springs, typically near the tops of mountains, that have some of the most wonderful water you've tasted. Unfiltered, fresh out of the ground. People come from miles around to fill jugs of drinking water.
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So your wife is an abusive cunt. Good to know. The proper response is no,or possibly I'm seeing somebody.
Oh, so precious, so tender, so fragile we are. So easy to hurt and give big booboos to.
Asking a woman that they know is married is hardly the actions of an honorable man. Pulling that stunt, they should be happy that they were only told they weren't man enough.
Don't cry now.
Do that to a muslim and they may throw acid in your face
Frightened aren't you? Danger around every corner - the Universe wants to hurt you, and you are plum terrified. Now get back to your HEPA filtered safe room, the very air is poisonous - I saw that in an onlinee forum.
Good point. Men are called "fags" all the time on the Webnets.
Boom! You win the debate! (seriously)
I've been called names like that, encouraged to kill myself, and other forms of "abuse". Yet I just read those posts without a thought, until you brought that up.
And while I try not to act like that - with occasional slips - I don't think a thing of it.
So the question is Why? Why is something that means almost nothing to me and most other males, an unforgivable assault upon women?
It certainly isn't that women cannot be cruel. I've seen women go after other women and attempt to destroy them without any regret.
The idea that all spaces must be made safe for those who can brook no adversity or disagreement isn't going to work.
This. Without any baseline to compare against the statistic quoted is meaningless.
Probably is. Reading TFA, it appears that this is yet another attempt to label the female of the species as a protected class. This would extend to women permanent status of children, as a sort of permanent prey that is easily damaged.
Whereas once upon a time, women were encouraged to be strong and independent, now for some reason there are people trying to make them permanent children.
And we have to face it, a person who is incapable of fending off assholes on the internet is hardly the archetype of a strong independent person.
More importantly, how many of those abusive posts were written by women?
(and how many abusive posts did men receive?)
I've received lots of requests to kill myself, and other postings that qualify as abusive.
This study is not about men. It is about women, who must be protected from things.
It also very much depends on how you define attack. I would rather like to see the precise definition before rushing to any judgement.
I think you'll find that opinions run the gamut from actual abuse, to disagreement.
These claims often trend to the silly. My wife is asked out all the time on line. In today's world, that is sexual harassment. She just giggles and tells the guy he's not man enough, but many women need intensive counselling for the grave damage done.
Their actual plan is to get us down to only 2 humpback whales, in the hopes of attracting starships from the future. They can then capture one and harvest the technology.
The part that was cut out of the script was that after finding out what what had happened, Space Whales invaded earth to harvest Japanese people for research purposes.
Didn't we tell you that combining Ecstasy, Meth and Purple Drank was a bad thing?
... and have 50kg of pasta ready about 2 hours after that?
Well, Ramen noodles anyhow.
imagine the meyhem LOL
Ask and ye shall receive! http://www.therabbitvibrator.c...
Well, it depends...
I’m with you on GPS. But I can see wanting remote control and data to my smartphone if my hot tub is outdoors in the winter. I can turn it on from the warm house and be able to know when the tub is actually hot before going outside.
Modern spas do much better when turned on, set the temp, and leave it there. About the only time to change that is if you are going away for a few weeks, then at least on my spa, you walk over, activate the control panel, and turn the temperature down.
Years ago, like the 1990's they suggested cycling the temperature. Didn't work all that great for the equipment, and you had to decide when you were setting up the cycling programming when you were going into the tub. Meh. That turned out to really suck. Get home from work, and the wife says It's supposed to rain starting arounf 10 this evening, so let's hit the tub at 8:30, okay?
You don't do that in a thermally cycled spa. Even so, our spa only loses about 4 degrees over a 12 hour period in the cold of winter. It's highly insulated and so is the cover. Manufacturer says set and forget.
No. Hot tubs can take days to heat up, you'd turn it up before you left your house. It's more efficient to keep it at constant temp than to raise and lower it anyhow.
Everything you said is 100% wrong. Yes, i would like fries with that, Skippy.
I have had spas since the mid 1990's, and only the earliest would use that abominable thermal cycling. The manufacturer even suggested that I set it and forget it on my latest tub. Constant thermal cycling of a water appliance like a spa isn't a good idea anyhow, from the standpoint of expansion and contraction of components.
As well, modern spas that aren't cheap hold their temps well. In the winter, our new outside tub will only drop maybe 4 degrees F over a 12 hour period as long as kept closed. Discovered this during a power failure.
AC is definitely wrong about heating time. I can fill mine with 50 degree F water, start it up, and have it at 104 degrees F in about 6 hours.
Get it started up before you get home, perhaps?
Nah. My original hot tub did that, and it was a major pain in the ass. You had to plan a time that you were going into it, and if the weather was going to be bad at 10 p.m., so you thought it might be nice to go in at 7, it wasn't going to be warm enough.
My present tub is really well insulated, and we keep it at a constant 104 degrees F. The UV bacteria control needs to cycle regularly as well. Just set the control panel with the mode, no need to have it exposed on the internet.
About the only reason to put the thing on the internet is so that you can brag about it being on the internet.
You cannot compare previous exploration with going to Mars. It isn't comparable. We know what Mars is like. It isn't livable.
Neither is the top of Mount Everest. Yet people go there.
the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day
Today we can send in robots first to see if it's safe. Back then the only option was to set sail and literally pray you made it. I'm sure if they had been offered a choice they would have chosen robots too.
Remember that they were doing it for money too. I'm sure if you find someone desperate enough and/or offer enough cash you will get people willing to ride your glorified firework.
I'd pay to ride that candle. The desire to explore and accept the risks of exploration lies along a spectrum. From wing suit diving to living in a gated community yet having a safe room, with more than one security system.
It is interesting to speculate what the world would be like if we did no exploration or take any risks. Probably still living in grass huts.
Great way to kill your big development committee is to allow entryists to ruin your project under the guise of tolerance. It's already happening.
But d00d! 4.20!
Codes of Conduct always replace any original goal. They elevate the weakest and least tolerant into the position of being permanently offended dictators.
No appreciable fraction of a percent of humanity living on the Earth now, nor of their decedents for several generations, has any genuine hope of making a home on Mars even if their is a concerted effort to get there.
So? Much better to stay in that safe room, finger ready to dial 911 in case someone makes it past the guard at the gate, your ADT alarm system and Xfinity security cameras.
The age of exploration is over for many people, they are comfortable and happy with elimination of as many scary things as possible.
Some of us would call that terminal stagnation.
It has nothing to do with "scared", it has to do with people understanding basic science and physics. Space Nutters never learned it, so they think everything is possible. They are a lot like little children.
It is possible... it's just ridiculously expensive and mistakes will be made the first few attempts no matter how hard we try. We could probably start launching rockets for Mars in 2019 that could sustain a temporary colony, but the costs would be ludicrous and the risks high. We do have the technology today... IF we're willing to take a few risks and willing to spend an insane amount of money and other resources.
I wonder if they had these sort of arguments back in the day for things like wagon trains or sailing the oceans? People embarking westward in wagon trains had no assurance of success, indeed some met their ends going west. One of the more egregious failures was the Donner Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Even without bizzare cannibalistic endings, weather could be a big issue, and Death Valley wasn't named because of it's hospitality. There were other groups of humans that sometimes attacked these people as well.
Even before then, the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day. Today's prudent person would advise staying safe at home, and not venture outside the city limits.
But even so - there are people who live in those inhospitable places, be it Death Valley or above the Arctic circle.
But there are humans and groups of humans who are not burdened with trying to live as absolutely long as possible, and not afraid to risk their lives. If the USA decides that it is just too dangerous or expensive, and that it no longer wishes to engage in exploration, some other group will take up the slack and they will own the future.
Did somebody put something in the entire western world's drinking water
Actually...yes, they did. Estrogens, phytoestrogens, and progesterones from food, plastics, and birth control.
You are exactly correct. The science is out there, but it's like a liberal's version of climate change denialism with many people
Meanwhile, those yummy endocrine disruptors are wreaking havoc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Masculine women, feminized males, learning disabilities to include ADHD, dropping sperm count. Inherent obesity. Sounds like a paranoid's list. But then there is the science to back it up. Oh - and then there is autism. But we'll just blame the tiny amount of thiomersal in vaccines instead of the huge doses of everything else.
I noticed that they try to avoid telling you which modules are being updated. It seems they know users are allergic to certain modules written by chinese hackers and they want to hide those.
Just part of the new Code of Conduct.
>"The fine is for transmitting on certain frequencies reserved for communications with satellites. Broadcasting on those frequencies requires a license from the FCC,"
Exactly. There might be a lot of hate on Slashdot toward the FCC for perhaps exceeding their mandate in certain other issues, but THIS particular example is exactly why the FCC exists. If anyone were allowed to just broadcast on whatever frequencies they like for whatever purpose they like, critical infrastructure could be severely impaired and cause real damage/loss/chaos.
These folk must have been real cowboys. I can get an experimental radio license without much problem, and the rules for balloon launches are pretty straightforward. Straightforward to the point that I could right now conduct relevant research easily, without skirting the law.
Any restrictions regarding ballooning are strictly safety and letting the FAA know what is going on.
Why get licensed? Here's the NTIA chart of frequency allocations. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files... I have a big printout of this on my office wall to educate folks who just want to "pick a frequency and go". Now for the satellites. A whole lot of coordination has to happen if you want to put satellites in orbit. They have a troubling aspect of being impromptu kinetic energy weapons, or just space debris that can clog up desirable orbits. If the US denied them, there was probably a good reason. Perhaps we are seeing why.
These folk are meddling in the affairs of dragons - they should be glad they were only fined by the F.C.C.
Your knee-jerk GUNZ IZZ SKEERY!!!! straw man is pathetic and intellectually about as deep as an August parking lot puddle in a shitty Florida strip mall parking lot.
So you make a strawman by claiming OP made a strawman? Bravo!
Your ideas are intriguing, citizen. Pray tell you have a newsletter a fellow citizen might subscribe to perchance?
Get some of his engineers on the project
They don't need engineers. They need accountants: Someone who can explain to them that every $1 they spend filtering microparticles out of the ocean would be a hundred times as effective if spent to prevent the trash reaching the ocean in the first place.
We know exactly where the trash is coming from. I suppose there might be some political issues, but we are never going to fix this problem if we don't remove the few sources of it.
I get UN notices regarding the plastic in oceans problem, and it is bizzare. Browbeating the developed world, - which is a dogwhistle for Americans - for yet another problem we are somehow responsible for, while almost completely ignoring those who are responsible. About the only real efforts are some projects in Africa.
China just goes along merrily injecting plastic in the oceans. And Africa probably hopes the rest f the world can get this figured out so they can dump with impunity.
The Amish just block the porn by not having electricity in their buildings or vehicles. Even if young 13 year old Ike acquires an illicit mobile device from somewhere he has no place to charge it.
Some around here have a phone on a light pol in the middle of a field. Guess that's okay. Maybe they use dilaup to get their porn fix?
Hmm - sounds kinky.
Dasani already makes their bottles out of recycled plant waste. I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Make certain you get your minimum daily requirement of Bisphenol-A.
Glass is probably the least troublesome water storage material.
This might make you cringe, but locally we have some springs, typically near the tops of mountains, that have some of the most wonderful water you've tasted. Unfiltered, fresh out of the ground. People come from miles around to fill jugs of drinking water.