Not a very solid foundation. Everything you do affects others. If your rights stop at having any effect on other people, clearly you could be compelled to work your whole life, as you can't deny others the benefit of your productivity. No mutilating yourself in a way that affects work performance!
IMO, you have to start with "we must accept minor harm from others in the name of freedom". That makes it a lot less clear when it comes to forcing vaccinations. It's more of a "preventing tragedy of the commons" issue, and those are always thorny.
Perhaps this is a bit trollish, but just to illustrate how difficult the core issue is, does that freedom also include being able to abort your unborn daughter or son?
Unborn daughter? Oh, we've gone past that now. Virginia has started the debate on how long after birth you can kill off inconvenient kids.
(e.g., abortion deals with a fetus that has no rights as a person)
It seems like we're going to dispense with that convenient formulation of the issue in the years to come.
IMO, it's the ride on the rocket that's the interesting test. Most electronic components deal very poorly with extended heavy vibration, even at 1g. (If you ever move cross-country, you'll find a lot of consumer electronics mysteriously stop working soon after the move.)
Space qualified hardware is not trivial. In the old days what was qualified would be one or likely two or more generations earlier than current which was a big deal when each generation typically brought significant performance improvements. Nowadays I assume it's more bulk. Still I'd think they'd leave the system up till it stopped working and then schedule to bring it back for analysis.
I believe the hardened hardware is still around a decade old, performance-wise. It's just that performance hasn't changed much in a decade. I do wonder what they do about cooling. You don't have to underclock a modern server processor by much to dispense with the fan, but you still need some airflow over a large surface area heat sink. Maybe they just solved the problems related to shaking/vibration well enough to support a sizable heat sink.
Or of course you can just use mobile components everywhere, but I don't think that's what this payload is. Anyone know?
They're always in a jacket. Fibre channel "cables" are more jacket than optics. That being said, they can still be damaged by crushing or bending past their minimum radius, and when that happens you get a cable that sort of works most of the time, which is quite annoying. Optical really isn't appropriate for something you'll be frequently plugging/unplugging (though not all USB use cases are like that). I've never had a problem with e.g. optical audio connectors between stereo components (another use case that makes little sense).
Not that much difference between government and mega-corporations these days, if you haven't noticed. Rights are rights. They need protecting from any overwhelming power.
You cannot for instance claim that your drug cure something that it has not been able to prove it cures
Yes. Yes you can. That's free speech. What you can't do is sell the drug based on fraudulent information (or be financially tied to the seller). That's a restriction of business, not on speech.
You are not allowed to pretend you are a doctor and offer up medical advice for someone under those auspices.
Chiropractors.
But, more seriously, you're talking about fraud again. You're totally free to offer medical advice as long as it's clear you're not a doctor, so that's it's not mistaken for professional advice.
I see very few places where legal restrictions on speech per se make sense. Really, only when the speech presents a clear and immediate danger, such as organizing a lynch mob or provoking a protest to turn violent. The courts have kept that restriction very narrow.
I don't think it's simpler at all. Would you ban books on safe cracking? What if it's a slightly-fictionalized account. What about OJ's book? Obviously, you'd have to give the government to power to decide what speech is legal. How much freedom do you surrender to the government in order to not be confronted with something disturbing?
There's hardly a freedom more important than the right to be wrong. The right to hold, discuss, and publish ideas that more people think are downright stupid and dangerous is the core right in a free society. After all, saying and doing what everyone in society thinks is correct needs little protection.
If people want to separate fools from their money on Amazon, that's their clear right. The nice thing is: if a clear bestseller emerges, education can then be focused on debunking that specific work, and have a very broad reach compared to a million stupid misconceptions across the internet.
Fibre channel is a protocol, not a piece of hardware. You can do fibre channel over copper. You can do ethernet over glass.
I'm not sure what the point of optical USB would be. Optical is slower than copper, and rather pointless until you get to long-haul. If you need to connect distant point, perhaps with some routing in between, use a networking protocol.
Well according to your numbers I am both Gen X and Millennial.
Squishy distinctions tend to overlap. If you take one of those "are you a Millennial" pop culture tests, I'd bet it comes up half-Gen X, half-Millennial.
And people still commonly believe the new millennium started in 2000. Fencepost errors, not worth fighting over.
It is if you don't unload and clear the chamber first. A lot of people forget about that one in the chamber. One little slip while taking the slide off and bang.
You just don't point the gun at your face until it's disassembled. I've never heard of anyone who didn't understand that, even when very drunk. It's the most basic rule of gun safety: all guns are loaded, until you're looking through the empty chamber through the locked-back slide. It's perhaps believable for someone to shoot themselves in the leg, through the table, though even that is an unlikely chain of events.
Anything but 20 year boundaries is Gerrymandering, And clearly the baby boom starts in 1945, so that's the "epoch". Of course, going backwards you have the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation and the Centennials,
FYI, high speed single car accidents in the AMs that are running off a bridge, wrong-way on the interstate, etc is probably a suicide not an accident. But the police are never going to put that into a report unless there's a suicide note. And the modern way for young people to off themselves is not car crashes nor self-inflicted gunshot, it's an overdose of a drug the gets written up as "accidental overdose".
FYI, the police are also never going to put "self-inflicted gunshot" into a report unless there's a note. It's "accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun". From the statistics, you'd think cleaning a gun is an intensely dangerous activity.
Marvel, the comic book side, is convinced they don't need those toxic comic book fans to sell comic books (the same toxic bigots that have been happily buying the most diverse entertainment medium since the 60s). Sales have of course plummeted and something like 1/3rd of comic book stores have closed since this new attitude took over. It's sad to see it die, but it's their business to kill.
There is an upside: it's been a long time since we've had a new wave of comic book heroes. The ongoing decimation of Marvel has opened the door to indie publication getting a foothold with fresh ideas.
"Trolling", as defined for the Slashdot mod (somewhat different than the current usage) is what you're talking about. An insincere post designed to provoke emotional reaction. "Flamebait" was misnamed from the beginning: it was always for "flaming" posts (which, to be fair, usualy provoke a response in kind, escalating until Godwin).
Disney should be disappointed. They paid several billion for the rights after all, and haven't come anywhere close to making that back. The bulk of money in Star Wars has always been from the toy sales, and once the original trilogy was over, toy sales to pathetic manbabies with massive disposable income and a desire to collect every damn thing.
No, it's really not. People believe what they read in the NYT or hear on the news far easier than what they read on Facebook. The studies showing this aren't controversial.
Meh. The lead actress said this movie wasn't for me. Fair enough, I guess. Seems like she'd know. When a company says it doesn't want my business, I find it best to move on.
Star Wars makes money on toy sales. Or at least, it used to. That's how badly The Last Jedi failed. Disney broke Star Wars, and it's an ordinary film franchise now, the days where the merch was a multiple of the ticket sales are over.
People will still go see the sequels - heck, people go see the transformers sequels. But the SW fanbase is turning its back on the movies (or in some prominent cases, abandoning fandom entirely in a public potlach ceremony).
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Good point! Though it seems there is case airflow through heatsink to the station.
I just wonder about the resiliency of cooling fans after launch - normal components really aren't designed for heavy vibration at multiple gs.
Not a very solid foundation. Everything you do affects others. If your rights stop at having any effect on other people, clearly you could be compelled to work your whole life, as you can't deny others the benefit of your productivity. No mutilating yourself in a way that affects work performance!
IMO, you have to start with "we must accept minor harm from others in the name of freedom". That makes it a lot less clear when it comes to forcing vaccinations. It's more of a "preventing tragedy of the commons" issue, and those are always thorny.
Perhaps this is a bit trollish, but just to illustrate how difficult the core issue is, does that freedom also include being able to abort your unborn daughter or son?
Unborn daughter? Oh, we've gone past that now. Virginia has started the debate on how long after birth you can kill off inconvenient kids.
(e.g., abortion deals with a fetus that has no rights as a person)
It seems like we're going to dispense with that convenient formulation of the issue in the years to come.
IMO, it's the ride on the rocket that's the interesting test. Most electronic components deal very poorly with extended heavy vibration, even at 1g. (If you ever move cross-country, you'll find a lot of consumer electronics mysteriously stop working soon after the move.)
Space qualified hardware is not trivial. In the old days what was qualified would be one or likely two or more generations earlier than current which was a big deal when each generation typically brought significant performance improvements. Nowadays I assume it's more bulk. Still I'd think they'd leave the system up till it stopped working and then schedule to bring it back for analysis.
I believe the hardened hardware is still around a decade old, performance-wise. It's just that performance hasn't changed much in a decade. I do wonder what they do about cooling. You don't have to underclock a modern server processor by much to dispense with the fan, but you still need some airflow over a large surface area heat sink. Maybe they just solved the problems related to shaking/vibration well enough to support a sizable heat sink.
Or of course you can just use mobile components everywhere, but I don't think that's what this payload is. Anyone know?
They're always in a jacket. Fibre channel "cables" are more jacket than optics. That being said, they can still be damaged by crushing or bending past their minimum radius, and when that happens you get a cable that sort of works most of the time, which is quite annoying. Optical really isn't appropriate for something you'll be frequently plugging/unplugging (though not all USB use cases are like that). I've never had a problem with e.g. optical audio connectors between stereo components (another use case that makes little sense).
Not that much difference between government and mega-corporations these days, if you haven't noticed. Rights are rights. They need protecting from any overwhelming power.
You cannot for instance claim that your drug cure something that it has not been able to prove it cures
Yes. Yes you can. That's free speech. What you can't do is sell the drug based on fraudulent information (or be financially tied to the seller). That's a restriction of business, not on speech.
You are not allowed to pretend you are a doctor and offer up medical advice for someone under those auspices.
Chiropractors.
But, more seriously, you're talking about fraud again. You're totally free to offer medical advice as long as it's clear you're not a doctor, so that's it's not mistaken for professional advice.
I see very few places where legal restrictions on speech per se make sense. Really, only when the speech presents a clear and immediate danger, such as organizing a lynch mob or provoking a protest to turn violent. The courts have kept that restriction very narrow.
I don't think it's simpler at all. Would you ban books on safe cracking? What if it's a slightly-fictionalized account. What about OJ's book? Obviously, you'd have to give the government to power to decide what speech is legal. How much freedom do you surrender to the government in order to not be confronted with something disturbing?
Can you distinguish between alking about a thing and doing a thing? Try hard.
There's hardly a freedom more important than the right to be wrong. The right to hold, discuss, and publish ideas that more people think are downright stupid and dangerous is the core right in a free society. After all, saying and doing what everyone in society thinks is correct needs little protection.
If people want to separate fools from their money on Amazon, that's their clear right. The nice thing is: if a clear bestseller emerges, education can then be focused on debunking that specific work, and have a very broad reach compared to a million stupid misconceptions across the internet.
It's called Fibre Channel and its very expensive.
Fibre channel is a protocol, not a piece of hardware. You can do fibre channel over copper. You can do ethernet over glass.
I'm not sure what the point of optical USB would be. Optical is slower than copper, and rather pointless until you get to long-haul. If you need to connect distant point, perhaps with some routing in between, use a networking protocol.
Well according to your numbers I am both Gen X and Millennial.
Squishy distinctions tend to overlap. If you take one of those "are you a Millennial" pop culture tests, I'd bet it comes up half-Gen X, half-Millennial.
And people still commonly believe the new millennium started in 2000. Fencepost errors, not worth fighting over.
It is if you don't unload and clear the chamber first. A lot of people forget about that one in the chamber. One little slip while taking the slide off and bang.
You just don't point the gun at your face until it's disassembled. I've never heard of anyone who didn't understand that, even when very drunk. It's the most basic rule of gun safety: all guns are loaded, until you're looking through the empty chamber through the locked-back slide. It's perhaps believable for someone to shoot themselves in the leg, through the table, though even that is an unlikely chain of events.
Anything but 20 year boundaries is Gerrymandering, And clearly the baby boom starts in 1945, so that's the "epoch". Of course, going backwards you have the Silent Generation and the Greatest Generation and the Centennials,
Someone mod AC up - the post is informative.
FYI, high speed single car accidents in the AMs that are running off a bridge, wrong-way on the interstate, etc is probably a suicide not an accident. But the police are never going to put that into a report unless there's a suicide note.
And the modern way for young people to off themselves is not car crashes nor self-inflicted gunshot, it's an overdose of a drug the gets written up as "accidental overdose".
FYI, the police are also never going to put "self-inflicted gunshot" into a report unless there's a note. It's "accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun". From the statistics, you'd think cleaning a gun is an intensely dangerous activity.
"Millennials" are no longer "children", you're thinking of "Generation Z" - Since you wanted to be a troll, troll correctly dipshit.
Millennials are people born 1985-2005. Generations are 20 years.
1945-1965 Baby Boomer
1965-1985 GenX
1985-2005 Millenial
2005-2025 Digital Native
People make up finer-grained marketing demographics, of course.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Marvel, the comic book side, is convinced they don't need those toxic comic book fans to sell comic books (the same toxic bigots that have been happily buying the most diverse entertainment medium since the 60s). Sales have of course plummeted and something like 1/3rd of comic book stores have closed since this new attitude took over. It's sad to see it die, but it's their business to kill.
There is an upside: it's been a long time since we've had a new wave of comic book heroes. The ongoing decimation of Marvel has opened the door to indie publication getting a foothold with fresh ideas.
"Trolling", as defined for the Slashdot mod (somewhat different than the current usage) is what you're talking about. An insincere post designed to provoke emotional reaction. "Flamebait" was misnamed from the beginning: it was always for "flaming" posts (which, to be fair, usualy provoke a response in kind, escalating until Godwin).
90% of everything is crap. Some of the 10% non-crap EU books were pretty good.
Disney should be disappointed. They paid several billion for the rights after all, and haven't come anywhere close to making that back. The bulk of money in Star Wars has always been from the toy sales, and once the original trilogy was over, toy sales to pathetic manbabies with massive disposable income and a desire to collect every damn thing.
These days? Not so much.
No, it's really not. People believe what they read in the NYT or hear on the news far easier than what they read on Facebook. The studies showing this aren't controversial.
Meh. The lead actress said this movie wasn't for me. Fair enough, I guess. Seems like she'd know. When a company says it doesn't want my business, I find it best to move on.
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This is why Slashdot has a Flamebait mod. It's often abused as an "I disagree" mod, but this sort of thing is what it's intended for.
Star Wars makes money on toy sales. Or at least, it used to. That's how badly The Last Jedi failed. Disney broke Star Wars, and it's an ordinary film franchise now, the days where the merch was a multiple of the ticket sales are over.
People will still go see the sequels - heck, people go see the transformers sequels. But the SW fanbase is turning its back on the movies (or in some prominent cases, abandoning fandom entirely in a public potlach ceremony).