Yes. And both of those are entirely in the control of the end user.
I can buy a better car. I can buy a better brand of bullets. I can maintain both my car and my gun. The state is doing nothing to make that unnecessarily difficult (yet).
As several of us have said before: We will buy into this "smart gun" idea as soon as the Army does.
"Gun nuts" love owning the same rifle that the Army uses.
Meh. This assumption wasn't even true before. Those of us that are actually in the trenches already know this. Some magical new technology change doesn't really alter things.
You actually have to pay attention to your workload and how your application is handling it.
It's nice that some academic or journalist has finally caught up.
We don't have to occupy them. We can just completely disarm them. You are confusing our own genuine national interest with some misguided notion of empire or nation building.
Quite. This seems like a painfully obvious idea who's time perhaps has finally come. Aren't there already network file systems that do this kind of thing and have for perhaps decades already?
I've always thought that every household PC should be part of some sort of backup cluster where every important file is copied to every machine. Most people don't use what space they have. So there's plenty of this "empty space" to exploit.
I've done this for years myself on my own machines using relatively crude methods (rsync and cron).
Multi-master replication is old news in some industries. So those algorithms are already available for anyone that wants to implement a local TimeMachine-Dropbox hybrid.
We can appreciate how damaging this could be in other fields. Although you couldn't possibly be more clueless in terms of "how fast" other fields move. The problem with software is that nearly anything that gets patented is something that's already being done by 5 or 10 people or the entire f*cking industry.
That said, trivial sh*t does get patented in other industries and it's bullsh*t too.
If a medicore junior professional manages to come up with something in the course of their professional duties, that's not patent worthy. It's basically a variation on "undergrads could have re-invented it".
With software it's especially problematic since software "inventions" are more likely to be disseminated and embedded on consumer products. Software is a more vulnerable and visible target.
"diff for legal documents" is a little more sophisticated than that. MS Office tries to do something along those lines but fails to adequately account for basic english syntax. That's why they use a "special tool".
Although you still have to review the "code" and see what the deviant part actually means.
Yes. Because releasing a bunch of little frankensteins out into the wild is the same as keeping them confined to a single human host. You are ever so intellectually superior for being willing to completely ignore these distinctions, or consider the trustworthiness of exactly WHO is using a particular technology. Your scientific hubris is simply fabulous.
A lot of cancer is secondary, induced by the treatments that were used to deal with the previous cancer. Current cancer treatments are quite brutal and tend to do a lot of collateral damage.
It's one thing to "merely watch". It's quite another to be the one with his ass on the line. As such, I agree with those that advise actually following the scientific method and obeying the usual regulatory controls.
Validating these cures requires scientific rigor, not wishful thinking.
Only 1 in 10 "miracle cures" actually make the cut. None of this is simple, easy, or certain.
Of course not. The U.S. all about growth and opportunity. It's not some stale old country that's homogeneous and stable. It's not a place that pants for newcomers (or anyone else with ambition).
The funny thing about liberal bleeding hearts is that they all seem to be totally clueless and have no actual real experience with being poor. They just read nonsense written by some other clueless liberal crusader and take all of their propaganda at face value.
Clueless idiots in general abuse Emergency Rooms. This includes employed middle class people that get out of the transaction with nothing more than a $100 copay. This all stems from the delusion that it's all free. No one cares about what things cost and they will gladly abuse things as much as they can get away with.
Insulating people from costs is a clear and obvious way to ensure that any resource will be abused until the system breaks.
Hospitals (even the no profits) are profit seeking corporations. So they aren't going to discourage you. They look at you and see dollar signs.
Some jurisdictions (even evil republican ones even) will also run publically funded (free) hospitals.
Free basic healthcare is nothing that ANY working person can't afford. If you're whining about free professional services for anyone except welfare recipients, you really have less than no clue.
You're simply a manifestation of consumerism where paying for overpriced coffee is fine but paying a doctor is some great tragedy.
Also, more sophisticated libraries SHARE books. Certainly with the college level libraries Inter Library Loans are very common. You quite literally CAN have ANY book you want.
Zuckerburg is quite obviously talking self-serving bullshit. It doesn't matter if he's ever been in a real library or not. He will simply act like it because it suits his agenda.
Trying to compare his little walled garden to a hospital just makes him look like a giant robber baron jackass.
That's assuming a foreign credit card will even work in your country. That's a pretty retarded assumption.
That's why saavy travelers carry some cash just in case.
From a pure "IT geek technology perspective", every boffin here should be going "but where's the backup plan?". This is not granny's knitting forum. The people here really should know better.
AC in SoCal? You must be joking. There's no need for AC in SoCal. It's naturally cool and non-humid in summer. That's a part of the reason it's so overpopulated (climate).
Drive a few hours east. That's where the hot weather is.
Clueless liberals think that everything would be all lovey-dovey over there without "western interference" or " Israeli imperialism" fail to acknowledge the history and culture of the region. These are "countries" that can't stay together without brutal military dictactorships to keep the warring factions in line. Their idea of democracy is that it's a means to "sieze power" and abuse every other faction.
These people are at each others throats without a conqueror to keep them in line. With a conqueror to keep them in line they are a constant threat to the rest of us.
The whole region is at least 500 years behind politically.
Well,that's what ISIS fancies itself as... the new Caliphate. It's a historical term really. Using it doesn't mean that you're pledging allegiance to them. It just means that you understand the historical context involved.
I would bring up Charles Martel, Vlad the Impaler, and Sobieski in the same context.
This is where the whole thing actually starts to touch on "tech".
Anyone that's done any work in this area knows that name matching is total bullshit. Beyond the con law issues of using this no fly list for anything, it's simply a useless piece of trash. It defies well understood principles of data mining.
The no fly list shouldn't be used to deny anything to anybody.
That's not even getting into the policies surrounding how the list is managed.
Long arms? Are you on crack? This was a flight to the US. There is nothing "long armed" about it. They either get turned back at Gatwick or turned back in LA. At least this way they don't end up stuck in limbo at LAX.
Spain also doesn't have dirt poor 3rd world displaced farmers that have a great work ethic but simply don't see the value of literacy or a lot of formal education.
It also doesn't help that they have a culture that is specifically anti-assimilation. Doing well and trying to fit into the larger culture and be a success is considered "selling out". That's probably one key difference right there between blacks in the US and blacks in the UK.
Liberals telling them that they're helpless victims all the time probably doesn't help.
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That doesn't surprise me. You sound like someone that's "proudly ignorant" of this subject.
Some of the most useful gun designs are OLDER than the consumer use of automobiles.
Yes. And both of those are entirely in the control of the end user.
I can buy a better car. I can buy a better brand of bullets. I can maintain both my car and my gun. The state is doing nothing to make that unnecessarily difficult (yet).
As several of us have said before: We will buy into this "smart gun" idea as soon as the Army does.
"Gun nuts" love owning the same rifle that the Army uses.
Meh. This assumption wasn't even true before. Those of us that are actually in the trenches already know this. Some magical new technology change doesn't really alter things.
You actually have to pay attention to your workload and how your application is handling it.
It's nice that some academic or journalist has finally caught up.
We don't have to occupy them. We can just completely disarm them. You are confusing our own genuine national interest with some misguided notion of empire or nation building.
Quite. This seems like a painfully obvious idea who's time perhaps has finally come. Aren't there already network file systems that do this kind of thing and have for perhaps decades already?
I've always thought that every household PC should be part of some sort of backup cluster where every important file is copied to every machine. Most people don't use what space they have. So there's plenty of this "empty space" to exploit.
I've done this for years myself on my own machines using relatively crude methods (rsync and cron).
Multi-master replication is old news in some industries. So those algorithms are already available for anyone that wants to implement a local TimeMachine-Dropbox hybrid.
Bullshit.
We can appreciate how damaging this could be in other fields. Although you couldn't possibly be more clueless in terms of "how fast" other fields move. The problem with software is that nearly anything that gets patented is something that's already being done by 5 or 10 people or the entire f*cking industry.
That said, trivial sh*t does get patented in other industries and it's bullsh*t too.
If a medicore junior professional manages to come up with something in the course of their professional duties, that's not patent worthy. It's basically a variation on "undergrads could have re-invented it".
With software it's especially problematic since software "inventions" are more likely to be disseminated and embedded on consumer products. Software is a more vulnerable and visible target.
"diff for legal documents" is a little more sophisticated than that. MS Office tries to do something along those lines but fails to adequately account for basic english syntax. That's why they use a "special tool".
Although you still have to review the "code" and see what the deviant part actually means.
Yes. Because releasing a bunch of little frankensteins out into the wild is the same as keeping them confined to a single human host. You are ever so intellectually superior for being willing to completely ignore these distinctions, or consider the trustworthiness of exactly WHO is using a particular technology. Your scientific hubris is simply fabulous.
A lot of cancer is secondary, induced by the treatments that were used to deal with the previous cancer. Current cancer treatments are quite brutal and tend to do a lot of collateral damage.
How about actually BEING a patient?
It's one thing to "merely watch". It's quite another to be the one with his ass on the line. As such, I agree with those that advise actually following the scientific method and obeying the usual regulatory controls.
Validating these cures requires scientific rigor, not wishful thinking.
Only 1 in 10 "miracle cures" actually make the cut. None of this is simple, easy, or certain.
> And lastly, the Bible is a few thousand years old - not a thousand - and was written by stone age goat herders who thought the world was flat.
That more accurately describes your own ancestors. The Jews not so much.
They had a sophisticated society with universal literacy when your ancestors were living in caves and eating other.
Of course not. The U.S. all about growth and opportunity. It's not some stale old country that's homogeneous and stable. It's not a place that pants for newcomers (or anyone else with ambition).
> Uh, in the US? Since when?
Since the 60s actually.
The funny thing about liberal bleeding hearts is that they all seem to be totally clueless and have no actual real experience with being poor. They just read nonsense written by some other clueless liberal crusader and take all of their propaganda at face value.
Clueless idiots in general abuse Emergency Rooms. This includes employed middle class people that get out of the transaction with nothing more than a $100 copay. This all stems from the delusion that it's all free. No one cares about what things cost and they will gladly abuse things as much as they can get away with.
Insulating people from costs is a clear and obvious way to ensure that any resource will be abused until the system breaks.
Hospitals (even the no profits) are profit seeking corporations. So they aren't going to discourage you. They look at you and see dollar signs.
Some jurisdictions (even evil republican ones even) will also run publically funded (free) hospitals.
Free basic healthcare is nothing that ANY working person can't afford. If you're whining about free professional services for anyone except welfare recipients, you really have less than no clue.
You're simply a manifestation of consumerism where paying for overpriced coffee is fine but paying a doctor is some great tragedy.
Also, more sophisticated libraries SHARE books. Certainly with the college level libraries Inter Library Loans are very common. You quite literally CAN have ANY book you want.
Zuckerburg is quite obviously talking self-serving bullshit. It doesn't matter if he's ever been in a real library or not. He will simply act like it because it suits his agenda.
Trying to compare his little walled garden to a hospital just makes him look like a giant robber baron jackass.
Negative rates? You gotta be kidding? Where?
Again. Damn glad there's an ocean between us.
That's assuming a foreign credit card will even work in your country. That's a pretty retarded assumption.
That's why saavy travelers carry some cash just in case.
From a pure "IT geek technology perspective", every boffin here should be going "but where's the backup plan?". This is not granny's knitting forum. The people here really should know better.
You can't pay for candy with a savings account.
This kind of nonsense does make minors non-entities. A nice little twist that the "adults" in question really don't give a f*ck about.
AC in SoCal? You must be joking. There's no need for AC in SoCal. It's naturally cool and non-humid in summer. That's a part of the reason it's so overpopulated (climate).
Drive a few hours east. That's where the hot weather is.
Clueless liberals think that everything would be all lovey-dovey over there without "western interference" or " Israeli imperialism" fail to acknowledge the history and culture of the region. These are "countries" that can't stay together without brutal military dictactorships to keep the warring factions in line. Their idea of democracy is that it's a means to "sieze power" and abuse every other faction.
These people are at each others throats without a conqueror to keep them in line. With a conqueror to keep them in line they are a constant threat to the rest of us.
The whole region is at least 500 years behind politically.
Well,that's what ISIS fancies itself as... the new Caliphate. It's a historical term really. Using it doesn't mean that you're pledging allegiance to them. It just means that you understand the historical context involved.
I would bring up Charles Martel, Vlad the Impaler, and Sobieski in the same context.
This is where the whole thing actually starts to touch on "tech".
Anyone that's done any work in this area knows that name matching is total bullshit. Beyond the con law issues of using this no fly list for anything, it's simply a useless piece of trash. It defies well understood principles of data mining.
The no fly list shouldn't be used to deny anything to anybody.
That's not even getting into the policies surrounding how the list is managed.
Long arms? Are you on crack? This was a flight to the US. There is nothing "long armed" about it. They either get turned back at Gatwick or turned back in LA. At least this way they don't end up stuck in limbo at LAX.
Spain also doesn't have dirt poor 3rd world displaced farmers that have a great work ethic but simply don't see the value of literacy or a lot of formal education.
It also doesn't help that they have a culture that is specifically anti-assimilation. Doing well and trying to fit into the larger culture and be a success is considered "selling out". That's probably one key difference right there between blacks in the US and blacks in the UK.
Liberals telling them that they're helpless victims all the time probably doesn't help.