While I'm probably more of a tree-hugger than most Slashdotters, I'm occasionally tempted to start marketing Organic Hemlock Tea... "The first tea that's guaranteed to reduce your impact on the environment!"
Nah. The controllers will come with long strings to spin up the gyros.
Seriously, though, I can't tell from TFA, but if they're planning on using gyro-sensors like those in some digital cameras, those probably don't draw that much power.
I'm repeatedly amazed at how successful corporate media et al have been in demonizing the whole idea of lawsuits, especially "consumers" suing corporations. I wonder if some media-savvy gang member got the idea for the "Stop Snitchin'" campaign from this.
I suppose they were both inspired by the various forms of the "code of silence" encouraged by other criminal elements in society.
What about pay-at-the-pump? I haven't gone inside to pay for gas more than three or four times in the last eight years (usually because the pay-at-the-pump terminal was broken). Seems like that would undercut the strategy.
Ditto, but I assume that there's some value for them in my using my ATM card. Tracking or some damn thing. I'm sure the given reason is "for the customer's convenience", but please. This isn't my second day on the planet.
Well said. It's become such a pain for kids to go outside and do any exercises now, most figure why bother. We did some really crazy stuff as kids and, looking back, I'm surprised no one drowned. But somehow we all managed to survive.
Millions of people a day drive without seatbelts and live to tell about it. Therefore, seatbelts are totally unnecessary. QEH.
"... defense spending is IMHO one of the few legitimate things for government to be doing.
I actually agree with you on that point. It's too bad that the vast majority of "defense spending" in the US isn't actually spent on defense. If it were, we'd need a hell of a lot less of it.
And as far as cynicism is concerned, in the words of Lily Tomlin, "I try to be cynical, but it's hard to keep up."
I was cynical about the presidency when Bill Clinton was in office. But my attitude back then would look like simple-minded naivite if I applied it to Bush and his enablers.
Sounds like the world's getting ready to redraw some political boundaries and justify some defense spending.
Justifying defense spending is easy. Just line up your favorite talking heads on TV and have them talk about how the people who look different and talk weird really really hate freedom and want to kill all right-thinking peace-loving citizens. Have the talking heads subtly or not-so-subtly question the courage and patriotism of anybody who isn't pissing their pants over the supposedly imminent threat.
Then arrange to borrow the funding for the defense spending. This way, you can put off paying the bills until it's somebody else's problem. With any luck, your political opponent will be in office then, and you can criticize them for the economy that you screwed up. Bonus points if they try to raise taxes to pay off the debts you incurred -- or even just try to end the huge tax cuts you gave to your filthy-rich buddies. (Many of whom just happened to profit enormously from defense contracts and/or own the media corporations who practiced "balanced" journalism by not questioning your lies.)
Wheee! It's a fun game that everyone enjoys... well, everyone you care about. The millions of poor dead bastards and their families, not so much. But no sweat -- with some careful handling, some of those grieving families can be the supposed threat for the next time your side is in office.
The problem with #2 is that any video game that is not appropriate for children will be immediately pulled from store shelves.
Yeah, just look at cigarettes! When it became against the law to sell them to minors, they became impossible to find, and the entire tobacco industry collapsed.
It isn't as clear a topic as many folks represent it to be, which is a good reason to keep regulations regarding it down at the state level... Part of the functions of a state is to be "experiments" in law for the rest... each can try their own ideas out, and every one can see how things work out.
We've already seen "how things work out" in those experiments. Things were really, really bad.
This government -- particularly the Administration and their enablers -- works on their personal version of compromise. Which essentially means that they just keep demanding what they want in different ways, and if they don't get what they want, they find a way to simply take it. Then, when necessary, they hide their thefts behind "state secrets", "executive privilege", and the all-inclusive "national security".
But to call the edits partisan or manipulative just because they gave the benefit of the doubt to Bush is going too far.
At this point, anyone giving Bush the benefit of the doubt -- on this or any of a number of other subjects -- is partisan or at least very badly informed.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 1,746,873 times...
Your comment is akin to saying "Wow, you mean someone entered a public library that everyone is allowed to enter" when in fact the charge is that the person went in and set fire to the books.
Actually, it's more like going into a library and stealing books you don't want anyone to read. Which I gather is a real problem at libraries.
Learning to drive elsewhere, I have no idea how many cars I've honked and swore at for waiting at a red light to make a right turn, even at an empty intersection.
Even where turning right on red is allowed, it's not obligatory.
pre-heating.. there's only two states an oven can be in, heated or unheated!
Carlin (or whoever wrote that) evidently doesn't cook much. While many recipes call for the oven to be fully heated before putting the food in -- hence pre-heating -- there are certainly recipes that call for the oven to be at room temperature when the food is put in, and then turned on. So using "pre-" in the former circumstance is perfectly reasonable.
(Of course, to be really geeky, one could point out that all ovens -- even those at room temperature -- are "heated". After all, none of them are at absolute zero...)
While the implementation may well be flawed, it's also possible that the observer's perception of the situation is too limited to adequately judge it. By the nature of the problem, shaping traffic patterns can involve local actions that look non-optimal but have a positive effect on the overall system.
The nuclear blasts were horrific, but were not the worst things in the war by far. And when you start to open the comparisons out a bit farther, there are true genocides out there that make the wartime atrocities pale by comparison.
Hey, most murderers only kill one or two people -- they're practically angels... by comparison.
While I'm certainly cheering on Virgin Galactic, and wish them well in this stage of their business model, I have to say that I won't really be personally tempted until an orbital tourist flight is available.
Of course, unless they establish orbital flights sooner and the price for same comes down farther and faster than I think it will, it's probably a moot point for me.
My god! Feeling good at the movies is a hysterical conversion disorder?!
No, but there's probably a name for the tendency to criticize people for saying something that they didn't actually say. Maybe it's something like "Spontaneous Self-Righteousness Syndrome".
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While I'm probably more of a tree-hugger than most Slashdotters, I'm occasionally tempted to start marketing Organic Hemlock Tea ... "The first tea that's guaranteed to reduce your impact on the environment!"
That was very helpful of you, but you forgot to explain about how common straw man arguments are.
Nah. The controllers will come with long strings to spin up the gyros.
Seriously, though, I can't tell from TFA, but if they're planning on using gyro-sensors like those in some digital cameras, those probably don't draw that much power.
That's true, as far as it goes.
But voting systems can -- and have been -- imagined that make it much more difficult to get away with such an attack.
I'm repeatedly amazed at how successful corporate media et al have been in demonizing the whole idea of lawsuits, especially "consumers" suing corporations. I wonder if some media-savvy gang member got the idea for the "Stop Snitchin'" campaign from this.
I suppose they were both inspired by the various forms of the "code of silence" encouraged by other criminal elements in society.
The parallels are rather striking.
Ditto, but I assume that there's some value for them in my using my ATM card. Tracking or some damn thing. I'm sure the given reason is "for the customer's convenience", but please. This isn't my second day on the planet.
Millions of people a day drive without seatbelts and live to tell about it. Therefore, seatbelts are totally unnecessary. QEH.
(QEB = "quod erat handwavandum")
I actually agree with you on that point. It's too bad that the vast majority of "defense spending" in the US isn't actually spent on defense. If it were, we'd need a hell of a lot less of it.
And as far as cynicism is concerned, in the words of Lily Tomlin, "I try to be cynical, but it's hard to keep up."
I was cynical about the presidency when Bill Clinton was in office. But my attitude back then would look like simple-minded naivite if I applied it to Bush and his enablers.
Justifying defense spending is easy. Just line up your favorite talking heads on TV and have them talk about how the people who look different and talk weird really really hate freedom and want to kill all right-thinking peace-loving citizens. Have the talking heads subtly or not-so-subtly question the courage and patriotism of anybody who isn't pissing their pants over the supposedly imminent threat.
Then arrange to borrow the funding for the defense spending. This way, you can put off paying the bills until it's somebody else's problem. With any luck, your political opponent will be in office then, and you can criticize them for the economy that you screwed up. Bonus points if they try to raise taxes to pay off the debts you incurred -- or even just try to end the huge tax cuts you gave to your filthy-rich buddies. (Many of whom just happened to profit enormously from defense contracts and/or own the media corporations who practiced "balanced" journalism by not questioning your lies.)
Wheee! It's a fun game that everyone enjoys
It's obviously a vertical monopoly. Because -- as everyone knows -- it's turtles all the way down.
Yeah, just look at cigarettes! When it became against the law to sell them to minors, they became impossible to find, and the entire tobacco industry collapsed.
We've already seen "how things work out" in those experiments. Things were really, really bad .
Nope. Suicidal followers are much cheaper.
This government -- particularly the Administration and their enablers -- works on their personal version of compromise. Which essentially means that they just keep demanding what they want in different ways, and if they don't get what they want, they find a way to simply take it. Then, when necessary, they hide their thefts behind "state secrets", "executive privilege", and the all-inclusive "national security".
And "Moon" is
It's like calling your dog "Dog".
Dropping like an Icy B.M., that's what it'd be doing up at 80,000.
At this point, anyone giving Bush the benefit of the doubt -- on this or any of a number of other subjects -- is partisan or at least very badly informed.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 1,746,873 times
Actually, it's more like going into a library and stealing books you don't want anyone to read. Which I gather is a real problem at libraries.
Even where turning right on red is allowed, it's not obligatory.
Carlin (or whoever wrote that) evidently doesn't cook much. While many recipes call for the oven to be fully heated before putting the food in -- hence pre-heating -- there are certainly recipes that call for the oven to be at room temperature when the food is put in, and then turned on. So using "pre-" in the former circumstance is perfectly reasonable.
(Of course, to be really geeky, one could point out that all ovens -- even those at room temperature -- are "heated". After all, none of them are at absolute zero
While the implementation may well be flawed, it's also possible that the observer's perception of the situation is too limited to adequately judge it. By the nature of the problem, shaping traffic patterns can involve local actions that look non-optimal but have a positive effect on the overall system.
Hey, most murderers only kill one or two people -- they're practically angels
Filing suit is part of the process of enforcing certain already-existing laws.
You might just as well say, "Instead of arresting people for everything, we could just make a law to prevent murder."
While I'm certainly cheering on Virgin Galactic, and wish them well in this stage of their business model, I have to say that I won't really be personally tempted until an orbital tourist flight is available.
Of course, unless they establish orbital flights sooner and the price for same comes down farther and faster than I think it will, it's probably a moot point for me.
No, but there's probably a name for the tendency to criticize people for saying something that they didn't actually say. Maybe it's something like "Spontaneous Self-Righteousness Syndrome".