And how often does that come up? Plastic guns still need metal springs, BTW, which will be enough to set off a metal detector, plus the, you know, bullets. Ceramic knives? As in "a broken dinner plate"? Somehow we've survived the scourge of ceramic knives for a dozen centuries - I think we'll be OK.
Do you know it's also illegal for violent felons to own handguns? Do you also believe this is "confiscation"?
It's blatantly unconstitutional. There's no "except" in the Second Amendment. There's a process for amending the Constitution, but instead we got into the habit of ignoring it (cleverly "interpreting" it to find "penumbras"), and so it no longer protects us. Just as the security checkpoints at courthouses are blatantly unconstitutional - no "unless we're scared" in the Fourth Amendment either.
Fortunately, it only takes about 2% of gun owners to have courage and ability to hold the totalitarians at bay, and that's as true today as it was in 1775. The noise from Democrats about gun confiscation will remain noise.
So you move the goalpost from "no one will try" to "no one has tried", but that's still quite wrong. Hawaii, New York, Missouri, Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon, and of course California all proposed gun confiscation legislature, as well as Feinstein pushing it at the federal level, and that just in 2013.
Politicians try all the time.
Or did you mean "no one has sent troops to do it"? Or did you mean "I'm just making up bullshit because I'm a troll"? Cause I'm pretty sure it's that last one.
Why is that more dangerous than a cheap "Saturday night special" like the kids at my high school used to shoot each other? Would it be less or more of a problem if the 3D printer was used to make a lost-wax casting mold instead? Would the blueprints for CnC milling a gun be more or less of a problem than 3D printing?
Who sits 1-2 feet from a screen? That's nuts. At 1 foot from a screen, your detailed (macular) visual field is about 4" across. Heck, you only have binocular vision for a patch 11" across at 1 foot away.
Quite a few Democratic politicians have firmly stated that they want to confiscate guns, including Hillary (look upthread for citations). They're pretty open that they just want common sense gun confiscation laws, often mentioning how wonderful that was in Australia.
Totalitarians realize the necessity of disarming the populace before they can fully impose their will on the people.
https://vimeo.com/ Is the "backup, just in case" that a lot of YT content creators are pointing out. I've heard a couple of "No, this isn't the end of YouTube, but just in case here's my vimeo channel."
That's going to be exactly the problem. The only people who will volunteer for something like this are people with an agenda.
This. Feminists will volunteer, and flag all MRA vids. MRAs will volunteer, and flag all feminist videos. PS4 fanboys will join and flag all videos portraying XBox in a good light, XBox fanboys...
And Goggle will be silent on all of it and just mysteriously take down or demonitize videos left and right with no explanation ever given.
He still has a point about "standard", but since the option for laptops with Linux pre-installed seem to be growing over time, I don't see a distoptia where all laptops sold are locked down to Windows. If anything, MS seems to finally be on its way out (albeit very slowly).
The manufacturers are still getting away with claiming it, is the point. Just like MS will keep pushing "signature" machines, and keep getting away with it. Sure, some geek somewhere might have the time to hassle them in small claims court - won't change anything.
It's going to make the laptop market annoying. OTOH, no real geek buys a pre-built desktop PC, so no effect there.
In those days though subtle variation in MHz actually made quite a noticeable difference in how the system performed, even noticeable to an average user - the differences MS/Sony are talking about have an impact but is more than subtle enough that few people can really even tell them apart.
HD vs 4K is almost never going to be noticeable for TV viewing: you have to be within 8 feet for a 65" screen, closer still for 55" or 42". However, for games it's different. People often sit closer for gaming than they do for TV viewing (filthy console peasants - they sit on the floor with their livestock), and text looks better in 4K.
So getting 4K right is probably within the realm of what humans can distinguish. 8K OTOH - you basically have to be so close that the whole TV won't fit in your field of view (so maybe there's a point in 8K movie theater projectors, but not home use).
"Similar" is the thing. I'm sure MS has a bevy of lawyers ready to explain how Linux is not "similar". Much like manufacturers are now claiming they you have to use their "special" oil, or void the warranty.
Are you one of those people that wish MS would still stick with the Windows 2000 UI?
That's pretty much the usable Windows UI. It got a bit better with Win7 in that the taskbar can combine launching programs and switching to them, if you prefer it that way (I do). Other than that, Win7 UI as configured by a geek looks very much like the Win2k UI.
Almost every UI change in the past 15 years - to bascially any established software product - was wrong-headed, stupid, and abandoned in the next version.
And the way to dramatically reduce the chance of that is to (A) Stay in school. (B) Don't have kids before you finish school. (C) Don't have kids before you are married.
This! This isn't preachy moralism, it's firm statistics. These factors matter (for avoiding poverty) more than race or parents income.
Kindergarten, when I went to school, was mostly about lining up for recess, sharing toys, and learning colors and the names of the letters. Some counting perhaps. But mostly just how to get along, raise your hand if you need to ask something, and wash your own hands after using the bathroom....
My child came home with and hour of math worksheets and sight words (not phonics, but rote memorization). Children in his class had trouble sharing, playing nice, working in teams, and being good losers... Because they are no longer allowed to do what Kindergarten was intended for in the first place. To learn all the basic social norms needed to actually be ready to be a student. He was hating going to school... AT 5 YEARS OLD!
My backwoods kindergarten in the 70's had a bit more: counting (and the names of the numbers), and I think single-digit addition, though there wasn't math homework. We also learned a bit about money: the names of coins and what a dollar was. I remember being fascinated by the idea of 1, 5, and 10 as physical objects.
I can't imagine kindergarten, or even elementary school, without play/excercise time (though I think in 5th grade it changed to more structured gym class).
The Federal Reserve does not coin money. That's the Dept of the Treasury (specifically, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Mint). There's not much connecting the two - the notes are technically backed by the assets of the Fed, but the Fed sold off most of those assets in the past 15 years, so that's a very abstract connection.
The money supply has very little to do with the amount of physical currency in circulation - something the gold nuts and BTC nuts don't seem to understand.
This court found that transferring BTC should be regulated the same as transferring Euros, or any other currency. Which is legal (but regulated).
An earlier court found that transferring BTC should be regulated the same as transferring gold, or any other valuable commodity. Which is legal (but has some reporting requirements).
Computer monitors are a very different use case than TVs. Which makes me upset that it's really hard to get a panel designed for PCs these days: 16x9 isn't the only aspect ratio useful for monitors!
People who saw the 70 mm Hateful 8 said it was great - if you saw it on the first night or two. Then picture quality dropped noticeably, as did registration. That's always been the big problem with analog formats - they don't hold up well.
They have made Amazon's ugly AWS website look modern and magnificent compared to the mess they rolled out (https://cloud.oracle.com/). Anyone have luck finding a price list or technical specs anywhere??
I'm not sure what anything actually costs, but it looks like $0.10 per core-hour? They seem memory-heavy, but AWS memory-heavy instances are a bit over over $0.08 per core hour.
If it were anyone else, I'd assume I was reading it wrong, but for Oracle, yeah, just charging 20% more seems like what they'd do.
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And how often does that come up? Plastic guns still need metal springs, BTW, which will be enough to set off a metal detector, plus the, you know, bullets. Ceramic knives? As in "a broken dinner plate"? Somehow we've survived the scourge of ceramic knives for a dozen centuries - I think we'll be OK.
Do you know it's also illegal for violent felons to own handguns? Do you also believe this is "confiscation"?
It's blatantly unconstitutional. There's no "except" in the Second Amendment. There's a process for amending the Constitution, but instead we got into the habit of ignoring it (cleverly "interpreting" it to find "penumbras"), and so it no longer protects us. Just as the security checkpoints at courthouses are blatantly unconstitutional - no "unless we're scared" in the Fourth Amendment either.
Fortunately, it only takes about 2% of gun owners to have courage and ability to hold the totalitarians at bay, and that's as true today as it was in 1775. The noise from Democrats about gun confiscation will remain noise.
So you move the goalpost from "no one will try" to "no one has tried", but that's still quite wrong. Hawaii, New York, Missouri, Virginia, New Jersey, Oregon, and of course California all proposed gun confiscation legislature, as well as Feinstein pushing it at the federal level, and that just in 2013.
Politicians try all the time.
Or did you mean "no one has sent troops to do it"? Or did you mean "I'm just making up bullshit because I'm a troll"? Cause I'm pretty sure it's that last one.
Why is that more dangerous than a cheap "Saturday night special" like the kids at my high school used to shoot each other? Would it be less or more of a problem if the 3D printer was used to make a lost-wax casting mold instead? Would the blueprints for CnC milling a gun be more or less of a problem than 3D printing?
Who sits 1-2 feet from a screen? That's nuts. At 1 foot from a screen, your detailed (macular) visual field is about 4" across. Heck, you only have binocular vision for a patch 11" across at 1 foot away.
nobody is trying to take away your guns
Quite a few Democratic politicians have firmly stated that they want to confiscate guns, including Hillary (look upthread for citations). They're pretty open that they just want common sense gun confiscation laws, often mentioning how wonderful that was in Australia.
Totalitarians realize the necessity of disarming the populace before they can fully impose their will on the people.
There will always be BSD.
https://vimeo.com/ Is the "backup, just in case" that a lot of YT content creators are pointing out. I've heard a couple of "No, this isn't the end of YouTube, but just in case here's my vimeo channel."
That's going to be exactly the problem. The only people who will volunteer for something like this are people with an agenda.
This. Feminists will volunteer, and flag all MRA vids. MRAs will volunteer, and flag all feminist videos. PS4 fanboys will join and flag all videos portraying XBox in a good light, XBox fanboys ...
And Goggle will be silent on all of it and just mysteriously take down or demonitize videos left and right with no explanation ever given.
1Tbs unless offered at a good price, would be useless for most homes
Comcast will offer unlimited* 1Tbs for a perfectly reasonable price.
*Capped at 1 GB/month. Comcast programming excluded from the cap.
He still has a point about "standard", but since the option for laptops with Linux pre-installed seem to be growing over time, I don't see a distoptia where all laptops sold are locked down to Windows. If anything, MS seems to finally be on its way out (albeit very slowly).
The manufacturers are still getting away with claiming it, is the point. Just like MS will keep pushing "signature" machines, and keep getting away with it. Sure, some geek somewhere might have the time to hassle them in small claims court - won't change anything.
It's going to make the laptop market annoying. OTOH, no real geek buys a pre-built desktop PC, so no effect there.
In those days though subtle variation in MHz actually made quite a noticeable difference in how the system performed, even noticeable to an average user - the differences MS/Sony are talking about have an impact but is more than subtle enough that few people can really even tell them apart.
HD vs 4K is almost never going to be noticeable for TV viewing: you have to be within 8 feet for a 65" screen, closer still for 55" or 42". However, for games it's different. People often sit closer for gaming than they do for TV viewing (filthy console peasants - they sit on the floor with their livestock), and text looks better in 4K.
So getting 4K right is probably within the realm of what humans can distinguish. 8K OTOH - you basically have to be so close that the whole TV won't fit in your field of view (so maybe there's a point in 8K movie theater projectors, but not home use).
"Similar" is the thing. I'm sure MS has a bevy of lawyers ready to explain how Linux is not "similar". Much like manufacturers are now claiming they you have to use their "special" oil, or void the warranty.
Win 10: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...
It's just Win 7 + "fuck you"
you watch a video off a stream that isn't official or VEVO then the ad revenue doesn't go back to the artist.
ContentID says you're wrong.
If you don't want to pay for the music then why are you listening to it?
I'm not listening to it, I'm watching the sexy girl dance. The music is just what she's dancing to.
The editors were replaced with dancing llamas a looong time ago (and not at great expense, either).
Are you one of those people that wish MS would still stick with the Windows 2000 UI?
That's pretty much the usable Windows UI. It got a bit better with Win7 in that the taskbar can combine launching programs and switching to them, if you prefer it that way (I do). Other than that, Win7 UI as configured by a geek looks very much like the Win2k UI.
Almost every UI change in the past 15 years - to bascially any established software product - was wrong-headed, stupid, and abandoned in the next version.
And the way to dramatically reduce the chance of that is to (A) Stay in school. (B) Don't have kids before you finish school. (C) Don't have kids before you are married.
This! This isn't preachy moralism, it's firm statistics. These factors matter (for avoiding poverty) more than race or parents income.
Kindergarten, when I went to school, was mostly about lining up for recess, sharing toys, and learning colors and the names of the letters. ...
Some counting perhaps. But mostly just how to get along, raise your hand if you need to ask something, and wash your own hands after using the bathroom.
My child came home with and hour of math worksheets and sight words (not phonics, but rote memorization). Children in his class had trouble sharing, playing nice, working in teams, and being good losers... Because they are no longer allowed to do what Kindergarten was intended for in the first place. To learn all the basic social norms needed to actually be ready to be a student. He was hating going to school... AT 5 YEARS OLD!
My backwoods kindergarten in the 70's had a bit more: counting (and the names of the numbers), and I think single-digit addition, though there wasn't math homework. We also learned a bit about money: the names of coins and what a dollar was. I remember being fascinated by the idea of 1, 5, and 10 as physical objects.
I can't imagine kindergarten, or even elementary school, without play/excercise time (though I think in 5th grade it changed to more structured gym class).
The Federal Reserve does not coin money. That's the Dept of the Treasury (specifically, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Mint). There's not much connecting the two - the notes are technically backed by the assets of the Fed, but the Fed sold off most of those assets in the past 15 years, so that's a very abstract connection.
The money supply has very little to do with the amount of physical currency in circulation - something the gold nuts and BTC nuts don't seem to understand.
This court found that transferring BTC should be regulated the same as transferring Euros, or any other currency. Which is legal (but regulated).
An earlier court found that transferring BTC should be regulated the same as transferring gold, or any other valuable commodity. Which is legal (but has some reporting requirements).
Computer monitors are a very different use case than TVs. Which makes me upset that it's really hard to get a panel designed for PCs these days: 16x9 isn't the only aspect ratio useful for monitors!
People who saw the 70 mm Hateful 8 said it was great - if you saw it on the first night or two. Then picture quality dropped noticeably, as did registration. That's always been the big problem with analog formats - they don't hold up well.
They have made Amazon's ugly AWS website look modern and magnificent compared to the mess they rolled out (https://cloud.oracle.com/). Anyone have luck finding a price list or technical specs anywhere??
There's this. https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US...
I'm not sure what anything actually costs, but it looks like $0.10 per core-hour? They seem memory-heavy, but AWS memory-heavy instances are a bit over over $0.08 per core hour.
If it were anyone else, I'd assume I was reading it wrong, but for Oracle, yeah, just charging 20% more seems like what they'd do.