> Spoken like a true American. Moar is always better value, even if you donâ(TM)t need all of it, right? Would you like your Pi[drive] supersized?
I have stacks and stacks of multi-terabyte spinning rust and I am still at a loss to see point of this thing.
I also have 200G of flash on my phone.
Just put a decent ethernet port on the thing and let the bulk storage be some place else on the local network. If you are willing to settle for USB, network storage isn't going to be any worse.
Sure there is. There is a single heuristic to govern the whole thing. It may OFFEND your PERSONAL PREFERENCE but that doesn't make it irrational or illogical.
2/3rds of the firearms deaths in the US are SUICIDE.
The MURDER rate is the meaningful number. There's also violent crimes of all kinds regardless of whether or not a gun was involved. In some states (like New York), non-gun murders make up 40% of the grand total.
You can spin the numbers any way you like.
This is why political partisans in other government departments should not get to generate anti-gun propaganda. The study of crime should be done by branches of the government that have crime as a part of their mandate. There should be no "scope creep".
CRIME should be the focus of gun numbers and those numbers should not be disconnected from similar crimes (gun or not).
> To be fair, anyone frothing at the mouth should not be allowed to be in possession of any weapon and should seek medical care immediately.
The only "frothing" I see are from idiot liberals that think that they are in any danger, when their white flight has ensured that they are at no risk at all. They are completely out of touch with the reality of the situation. They have no clue what people in the cross fire have to actually deal with.
They really only care about the situation when "the wrong people" get hurt.
They're flaming hypocrites.
All of that said, I am highly skeptical that the measures viewed as useful would have any impact beyond those areas which already have gun violence stats comparable to the "safest" parts of Europe.
> I'm all for starting a campaign to allow non-violent, convicted felons to own a gun and even some violent, convicted felons to own guns.
I am uncomfortable with the idea that the state can disenfranchise you at all. I don't care what the excuse is. The populace is far too eager to go along with such measures as long as they employ the right bogeyman.
That's what guns really are, the canary in the coalmine. They are the first indicator that government has lost a proper fear of the citizenry. They are allowing their open contempt to show.
It's like of like Romney but more pervasive and more open.
"fear your neighbors. they can't be trusted. you can't be trusted. you can only trust the state"
The problem with investing more trust in the state is the fact that all of those schmucks you don't trust to run their own lives are the ones in the government.
> Yes, the healthcare systems of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are all superior to what's on offer in the US.
No they aren't. This is just liberal media narrative. Democrats can't be the night on the white horse if they don't convince you that there is some dire problem for them to solve for you.
In the US, quality of outcome only becomes a problem when you are in the clutches of one of the variants of socialized medicine. You want LESS of Euro-medicine rather than more of it.
Of the four, the UK is the only one remotely comparable to the US and the Tories are currently doing their best to undermine that.
Distrust anyone that has so much contempt for you that they won't trust you with "dangerous things". Also consider that perhaps the most dangerous thing that they unwashed masses have access to is the ballot box.
If I can't trust my neighbors, then I have much bigger problems than guns. Bleeding hearts born and bred in the suburbs can't really relate because they really have no clue how everyone else lives.
Most "organizers" just get in the way. They destroy whatever organization you managed to have in the first place. iPhoto was especially bad about this. Picasa was nice in that it was an all-in-one-sink app that did not completely destroy your own organizational scheme. It was very unusual in that respect.
If I had a backup copy of my entire house, I really wouldn't care so much about the "theft" aspect of a burglary. Of course you make the common mistake of confusing scarce things with non scarce ones.
...except quite often by the time you deliver something to do that, you might as well deliver an entirely separate machine to go with it.
The GPU isn't the only limitation of Apple laptops. My main motivation for having a monster laptop myself is not the superior GPU, or more RAM, or a faster CPU. It's the drive bays. Only monster machines come with the amount of storage I want in a laptop.
The storage needs of PC gaming will likely be hampered by the netbook you're trying to plug into the external GPU.
What's to keep in sync if the two machines serve two mostly orthogonal purposes? In the age of the cloud, that sort of thing should be a total non-problem. You shouldn't worry about the state of your two PCs anymore than you would worry about the state of n+1 mobiles and streamers.
Some of the victims families have already stated that they don't want the death of their loved ones to be used as an excuse to undermine the Bill of Rights.
They have to keep on repeating the Big Lie. They can't portray themselves as the knight in shining armor if there isn't some grave injustice that needs correcting. They need to repeat the media narrative that upward mobility isn't possible.
We could do ALL of those things and still come up short on Bernie's promises. Pretty much everything the guy is promising is a fantasy. That's his only redeeming quality. His agenda is too absurd. Unfortunately, far too few people understand the mechanics of American governance (forget about political science).
Bernie's policies don't just require "higher taxes" or "more government spending", they would require a PROFOUND increase in both. There's simply no free lunch, even in societies that believe in that sort of thing. The piper is paid.
Americans have this strange idea that they can have things both ways, spend like drunken sailors, and never have to pick up the tab.
The idea that you can "cut waste" or "cut fraud" just leads to the degredation of whatever program you're trying to gut.
This is politics, social justice, and class warfare nonsense that I have little interest in as a "geek" or "nerd". There's plenty of this nonsense in other outlets. I come HERE for the stuff that isn't EVERYWHERE ELSE.
Although some of rebuttals were nice examples of mathematics and logic and that kind of thing kind of borders on "geeky".
...not sure what this AI is supposed to do that isn't already painfully obvious to someone used to reading lab results. Lab results are already generally printed with indicators that a test is out of range. Beyond that, the same lab report could include "alerts". Once you are doing that in any way, shape or form then what's the point in stopping with just one condition?
Seems like they could do more good by focusing on the more obscure and less obvious stuff.
Are we having nominations for most retarded comment of the week? You should be right up there.
This is a tool for people that have a legal copy already.
There is no "entitlement" here except the basic expectations that come with property ownership.
You are simply advocating the position where only corporations have rights and the rest of us mere peasants aren't entitled to personal property right any more.
It's funny that people represent a long standing senator as some sort of "man of the people". He's as much part of the establishment as anyone. Regardless of his politics and his campaign slogans, he's simply not what he's pretending to be.
If you really want to vote for a 3rd party candidate, than just do that. Don't pretend the Senator from Vermont is some sort of maverick outsider.
See Ted Cruz for an example of "maverick outsider" senator. He's what that really looks like and it isn't pretty.
Agreed. The SFC is not the owner of either of the works in question and is not the author of the license in question. They have no stake or standing in the matter.
As authors of the GPL itself, I would say that Stallman or the FSF do have some say in the matter.
...except war isn't quite that organized. You never know what the task at hand will actually require.
Meanwhile, you have an entire division of men (and women) quite capable of accurately hitting targets at ranges you're so eager to dismiss out of hand.
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> Spoken like a true American. Moar is always better value, even if you donâ(TM)t need all of it, right? Would you like your Pi[drive] supersized?
I have stacks and stacks of multi-terabyte spinning rust and I am still at a loss to see point of this thing.
I also have 200G of flash on my phone.
Just put a decent ethernet port on the thing and let the bulk storage be some place else on the local network. If you are willing to settle for USB, network storage isn't going to be any worse.
Sure there is. There is a single heuristic to govern the whole thing. It may OFFEND your PERSONAL PREFERENCE but that doesn't make it irrational or illogical.
Bingo!
2/3rds of the firearms deaths in the US are SUICIDE.
The MURDER rate is the meaningful number. There's also violent crimes of all kinds regardless of whether or not a gun was involved. In some states (like New York), non-gun murders make up 40% of the grand total.
You can spin the numbers any way you like.
This is why political partisans in other government departments should not get to generate anti-gun propaganda. The study of crime should be done by branches of the government that have crime as a part of their mandate. There should be no "scope creep".
CRIME should be the focus of gun numbers and those numbers should not be disconnected from similar crimes (gun or not).
> To be fair, anyone frothing at the mouth should not be allowed to be in possession of any weapon and should seek medical care immediately.
The only "frothing" I see are from idiot liberals that think that they are in any danger, when their white flight has ensured that they are at no risk at all. They are completely out of touch with the reality of the situation. They have no clue what people in the cross fire have to actually deal with.
They really only care about the situation when "the wrong people" get hurt.
They're flaming hypocrites.
All of that said, I am highly skeptical that the measures viewed as useful would have any impact beyond those areas which already have gun violence stats comparable to the "safest" parts of Europe.
> I'm all for starting a campaign to allow non-violent, convicted felons to own a gun and even some violent, convicted felons to own guns.
I am uncomfortable with the idea that the state can disenfranchise you at all. I don't care what the excuse is. The populace is far too eager to go along with such measures as long as they employ the right bogeyman.
That's what guns really are, the canary in the coalmine. They are the first indicator that government has lost a proper fear of the citizenry. They are allowing their open contempt to show.
It's like of like Romney but more pervasive and more open.
"fear your neighbors. they can't be trusted. you can't be trusted. you can only trust the state"
The problem with investing more trust in the state is the fact that all of those schmucks you don't trust to run their own lives are the ones in the government.
> Yes, the healthcare systems of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are all superior to what's on offer in the US.
No they aren't. This is just liberal media narrative. Democrats can't be the night on the white horse if they don't convince you that there is some dire problem for them to solve for you.
In the US, quality of outcome only becomes a problem when you are in the clutches of one of the variants of socialized medicine. You want LESS of Euro-medicine rather than more of it.
Of the four, the UK is the only one remotely comparable to the US and the Tories are currently doing their best to undermine that.
Distrust anyone that has so much contempt for you that they won't trust you with "dangerous things". Also consider that perhaps the most dangerous thing that they unwashed masses have access to is the ballot box.
If I can't trust my neighbors, then I have much bigger problems than guns. Bleeding hearts born and bred in the suburbs can't really relate because they really have no clue how everyone else lives.
Exactly.
Most "organizers" just get in the way. They destroy whatever organization you managed to have in the first place. iPhoto was especially bad about this. Picasa was nice in that it was an all-in-one-sink app that did not completely destroy your own organizational scheme. It was very unusual in that respect.
If I had a backup copy of my entire house, I really wouldn't care so much about the "theft" aspect of a burglary. Of course you make the common mistake of confusing scarce things with non scarce ones.
"Ship, make me another copy of all my shit"
Well, the 4.5 ERP system is probably already native on Oracle and has run on Linux for years already.
It's the "cheap crap" software vendors that are likely locking you into Microsoft. Even some of those pretend they can run on Oracle.
...except quite often by the time you deliver something to do that, you might as well deliver an entirely separate machine to go with it.
The GPU isn't the only limitation of Apple laptops. My main motivation for having a monster laptop myself is not the superior GPU, or more RAM, or a faster CPU. It's the drive bays. Only monster machines come with the amount of storage I want in a laptop.
The storage needs of PC gaming will likely be hampered by the netbook you're trying to plug into the external GPU.
What's to keep in sync if the two machines serve two mostly orthogonal purposes? In the age of the cloud, that sort of thing should be a total non-problem. You shouldn't worry about the state of your two PCs anymore than you would worry about the state of n+1 mobiles and streamers.
Some of the victims families have already stated that they don't want the death of their loved ones to be used as an excuse to undermine the Bill of Rights.
So you can't play the "but the victims" card.
They have to keep on repeating the Big Lie. They can't portray themselves as the knight in shining armor if there isn't some grave injustice that needs correcting. They need to repeat the media narrative that upward mobility isn't possible.
We could do ALL of those things and still come up short on Bernie's promises. Pretty much everything the guy is promising is a fantasy. That's his only redeeming quality. His agenda is too absurd. Unfortunately, far too few people understand the mechanics of American governance (forget about political science).
Nah... not Northern Islamistan.
Northern Burkastan.
Been to Paris lately?
Bernie's policies don't just require "higher taxes" or "more government spending", they would require a PROFOUND increase in both. There's simply no free lunch, even in societies that believe in that sort of thing. The piper is paid.
Americans have this strange idea that they can have things both ways, spend like drunken sailors, and never have to pick up the tab.
The idea that you can "cut waste" or "cut fraud" just leads to the degredation of whatever program you're trying to gut.
This is politics, social justice, and class warfare nonsense that I have little interest in as a "geek" or "nerd". There's plenty of this nonsense in other outlets. I come HERE for the stuff that isn't EVERYWHERE ELSE.
Although some of rebuttals were nice examples of mathematics and logic and that kind of thing kind of borders on "geeky".
Lies, damned lies, and journalism.
Fine, then go to a DIFFERENT website.
This is scope creep and anyone here that's been up to see "the real world" should despise scope creep for the evil that it is.
...not sure what this AI is supposed to do that isn't already painfully obvious to someone used to reading lab results. Lab results are already generally printed with indicators that a test is out of range. Beyond that, the same lab report could include "alerts". Once you are doing that in any way, shape or form then what's the point in stopping with just one condition?
Seems like they could do more good by focusing on the more obscure and less obvious stuff.
Are we having nominations for most retarded comment of the week? You should be right up there.
This is a tool for people that have a legal copy already.
There is no "entitlement" here except the basic expectations that come with property ownership.
You are simply advocating the position where only corporations have rights and the rest of us mere peasants aren't entitled to personal property right any more.
It's funny that people represent a long standing senator as some sort of "man of the people". He's as much part of the establishment as anyone. Regardless of his politics and his campaign slogans, he's simply not what he's pretending to be.
If you really want to vote for a 3rd party candidate, than just do that. Don't pretend the Senator from Vermont is some sort of maverick outsider.
See Ted Cruz for an example of "maverick outsider" senator. He's what that really looks like and it isn't pretty.
In terms of encryption, DVDs are quite unremarkable. Any number of tools will allow you to access the contents of a DVD in unencrypted form.
Generating a DVD ISO is a very low bar.
BluRays are a bit more tricky. The encryption is less primitive and countermeasures are still rapidly evolving.
Agreed. The SFC is not the owner of either of the works in question and is not the author of the license in question. They have no stake or standing in the matter.
As authors of the GPL itself, I would say that Stallman or the FSF do have some say in the matter.
The SFC can go pound sand...
...except war isn't quite that organized. You never know what the task at hand will actually require.
Meanwhile, you have an entire division of men (and women) quite capable of accurately hitting targets at ranges you're so eager to dismiss out of hand.