That is hilarious. NYT may or may not be more credible than some other news sources. Broder may or may not be more credible than some other reporters. Apparently, you don't judge issues, you don't judge stories - you just believe a story based on who wrote it, and who published it. Do you think about the stories, or would that strain your brain?
Voting? I don't vote party lines, for Dummiecrats, for Repugnacions, or for Tea Partiers. I vote individual candidates and issues, thank you very much. How do you vote?
Hush now, you're going to upset the zealots. Please don't offer them any links to history's most deadly storms. Whatever you do, don't mention Galveston. And, absolutely, do NOT mention that Mexico has had even deadlier storms, long before the age of industrialization.
Imagine that - a registered member logs in as AC to tell us that he's a douche. Wow - at least he knows he's a douche!! There is hope for him. Not much, but some hope.
Yeah, I've been wondering how to connect my refrigerator to the internet. And my toaster, washer, dryer, vacuum, my car, my mower, chain saw - everything!
What could go wrong? It's not like there are any threats to SCADA that are connected to the internet, is there?
Actually - China is working on a controlled die off anyway. They got to many people. They have limited the right to reproduce. One couple, one child. That is not a sustainable birth rate. China is intentionally decreasing their population, right now, as we sit and chat about it. A few catastrophes aren't going to deter them.
The logs don't lie. The logs of that trip have been published. As the Wannabe King has already posted, Broder deliberately undercharged the car, repeatedly. The logs indicate that he intentionally sabotaged the test, so that the car would fail the tests. Broder used the test to "prove" that the car doesn't work as advertised. Broder had an agenda, and dishonestly used the car to promote his agenda.
As I recall, my telephone had an instruction manual, that suggested that I charge it for an hour before initial use. Had I only charged it for thirty minutes, then complained that it doesn't hold a charge very long, would that be honest? Hell no, it wouldn't. If subsequent charges were only permitted to half-charge the batteries, would I have a legitimate complaint that my phone doesn't hold a charge? Again, hell no.
Read the logs.
In a gasoline powered car, you can't put ten gallons into a sixteen gallon tank of a car that gets 12 mpg, then expect to drive it 180 miles. It just doesn't work that way. You WILL run out of gas!
How many sites are you willing to pay a penny per view? Or even a tenth of a penny per view? How about a hundredth of a penny per view?
Seriously, tally them up for yourself. There's no more advertising, and the sites all use paywalls. Start counting those that you will continue to visit, and what price you're willing to pay. Are there any sites that you're willing to pay ten cents per view? How about a dollar?
If/when microtransactions are made workable, I might visit some sites that I visit now, but there are others that I'll just never load again. There are sites that should be paying ME for visiting. They don't, so I don't.
Anyway - I doubt that 3/4 of the web will disappear..gov will remain,.edu will remain, game sites that see a profit will remain. Many other sites have their loyal followings who will willingly pay microtransactions to stay with the site. Other sites are paid out of pocket by the owners, and have little if any advertising on their pages.
Yeah, some of the web would disappear - but no big loss.
The biggest changes would be apparent in the news media's sites. And, many of them can just dry up and blow away. I'm not paying twenty dollars per year for access to ANY of their sites. Nor ten dollars. I might pay microtransactions that total up to a dollar in a month's time, but it's not likely. I'll find my news elsewhere.
That's pretty awful, isn't it? You whore yourself to advertisers, who may or may not exploit vulnerabilities in a person's system, but always make using your site more unpleasant. That doesn't work, so you set up a pay wall. And, nobody pays to see what you've got behind the paywall.
I guess that spells bankruptcy for you, huh?
Well, tough shit. You should have thought things over long ago. Offer a product that people really want, and offer it for a reasonable price. You failed to offer a reasonably priced product that people want? Well - screw you - go hungry. No one gives a small damn about you. You tried to milk the cash cow, but you never even warmed your hands up before grabbing hold of the cow's teats. When she kicks you in the head, don't expect any sympathy from anyone at all.
Keyword is "practical". The Wright brothers did not fly a practical plane. All that they did, was groundwork that helped others to develop a real, practical plane.
I'm not convinced that Gustaf did anything remarkable, nor am I convinced that he did NOT do anything remarkable. The images in the citations are not impressive. Someone would have to copy it, and make it fly, for me to be impressed.
Let's remember, there were snake oil salesmen by the thousands back in the day. And, rainmakers. And, yes, they even had politicians back then. I need a little proof before I believe the thing in those images actually flew. I don't even require that it's flight time equals that of the Wright brothers. Just get it off the ground, under it's own power, and I'll accept that it can fly. Fifteen feet, fifty feet, five hundred feet of flight - none of it can happen if the damned thing won't get off the ground.
I'm just not a snake oil purchaser. I want videos, photos, and eyewitnesses by the score.
As has been demonstrated a number of times, drones aren't especially selective with targeting. We routinely read of some guy being targeted, and incidentally, three children, two women, and a bystander were killed, and six bystanders were hospitalized.
Yeah, it depends on which weapon is mounted on that weapons platform how many people might be in the kill radius. Still, history suggests target selectivity sucks.
I remember Buzz and Neil. That's about all that fits into my cast of characters from fifty plus years of life. I mean - it's not like I flew to the moon with any of them. Had that occurred, I'd likely remember that man's name too!!
Maybe I can push Christopher Columbus out of my mind, and make room for another moon landing pilot. Nahh - that bastard won't go.
Yes, and it probably would have been better if the first footsteps of creatures leaving the primordial soup of the ocean had been preserved. The question is: WHY?!?!?!
Yes, it ruined my whole fucking DAY! My whole DAY, dammit! I inserted the installation media, expecting to see a place to vote. It wasn't there. THOSE DOUCHES!!
And, you're missing the point. MS had already been convicted of ruining people's businesses with unfair competition practices.
Good point. Collusion will get you in a lot of trouble in the US. I can't believe it's not a crime in the EU. Had Google NOT snitched, they'd likely be setting themselves up for charges against themselves.
I'm trying really, really hard, but I can't remember any love from Microsoft toward it's customers. Ever. Back in the day, ***DOS was available from a variety of sources, free or dirt cheap. MSDOS cost over a hundred dollars. I picked up a package at my local computer store, inspected it, read the marketing hype on the label, and told the wife, "I think I'll get this MSDOS 5.0." I got to the counter, and when the sales clerk told me that it cost something like $125, I put it back on the shelf.
Yeah, I remember the love. Microsoft has always loved our money!
Sorry, but I got hung up on the numbers as well. "not quite 3/4 billion dollars" does not equal "almost a billion dollars". When someone says "almost a billion", I most definitely expect something more than.8 billion. Less than.75 is simply not "almost".
Yeah, I agree, because not one single nerd, or novice nerd, or nerd-to-be can possibly benefit from this article, right? Consider little Katy. She watches the world around her, and sees that some people do some fascinating things with ease, while other people struggle to get a computer to do what they want it to do. Katy has begun to keep up with various sites, like slashdot, where she learns a thing or two every day. There's no need for slashdot to cater to Katy, is there? I mean - she's just a little girl reading slashdot, not a "real nerd". Hell, she doesn't even produce testosterone, right? She can never be a nerd, right?
Or - alternatively, maybe you're just a different kind of zealot.
The story was carried on a local television news segment, and in the segment, they were stopping automobiles, at random, as opposed to checking the trucks at the weigh stations. Those three links were among the first hits on a google search - there are lots more.
I may be wrong, but I think that problem was partially solved.
Remember, for at least 20 years, passengers had been instructed over and over to just cooperate with hijackers. The plane that went down in Pennsylvania, diverted from it's intended target, is proof that the conditioning can be broken.
All we need to do, is to stop being victims. Fight back, and win or lose, you won't be a hostage.
Just disband the whole frigging Homeland Security. Put Customs back as a separate and distinct agency, ditto with Border Patrol. Screw the whole Homeland Security thing. It was bullshit when they thought it up, it's bullshit today. Janet Napolitano spends less time worrying about security, than about how to stop "piracy" and increasing corporate profits. She has her TSA agents stopping traffic on Interstate 40, in Tennessee, and shaking them down. Anyone with a thousand dollars cash is a "suspect". Anyone with an expensive car is a "suspect". Anyone who doesn't kiss the TSA agent's ass is a "suspect". I guess this an alternative for TSA agents who don't prefer fondling little children and old ladies in airports.
Disband Homeland Security, send Napolitano packing, and we can save the fifty million dollars she just wasted on uniforms.
Odd that most cops have to purchase their own uniforms, but TSA has a contract to buy uniforms for their degenerate agents.
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That is hilarious. NYT may or may not be more credible than some other news sources. Broder may or may not be more credible than some other reporters. Apparently, you don't judge issues, you don't judge stories - you just believe a story based on who wrote it, and who published it. Do you think about the stories, or would that strain your brain?
Voting? I don't vote party lines, for Dummiecrats, for Repugnacions, or for Tea Partiers. I vote individual candidates and issues, thank you very much. How do you vote?
Hush now, you're going to upset the zealots. Please don't offer them any links to history's most deadly storms. Whatever you do, don't mention Galveston. And, absolutely, do NOT mention that Mexico has had even deadlier storms, long before the age of industrialization.
How 'bout that Spanish Armada?
Imagine that - a registered member logs in as AC to tell us that he's a douche. Wow - at least he knows he's a douche!! There is hope for him. Not much, but some hope.
Yeah, I've been wondering how to connect my refrigerator to the internet. And my toaster, washer, dryer, vacuum, my car, my mower, chain saw - everything!
What could go wrong? It's not like there are any threats to SCADA that are connected to the internet, is there?
Actually - China is working on a controlled die off anyway. They got to many people. They have limited the right to reproduce. One couple, one child. That is not a sustainable birth rate. China is intentionally decreasing their population, right now, as we sit and chat about it. A few catastrophes aren't going to deter them.
The logs don't lie. The logs of that trip have been published. As the Wannabe King has already posted, Broder deliberately undercharged the car, repeatedly. The logs indicate that he intentionally sabotaged the test, so that the car would fail the tests. Broder used the test to "prove" that the car doesn't work as advertised. Broder had an agenda, and dishonestly used the car to promote his agenda.
As I recall, my telephone had an instruction manual, that suggested that I charge it for an hour before initial use. Had I only charged it for thirty minutes, then complained that it doesn't hold a charge very long, would that be honest? Hell no, it wouldn't. If subsequent charges were only permitted to half-charge the batteries, would I have a legitimate complaint that my phone doesn't hold a charge? Again, hell no.
Read the logs.
In a gasoline powered car, you can't put ten gallons into a sixteen gallon tank of a car that gets 12 mpg, then expect to drive it 180 miles. It just doesn't work that way. You WILL run out of gas!
How many sites are you willing to pay a penny per view? Or even a tenth of a penny per view? How about a hundredth of a penny per view?
Seriously, tally them up for yourself. There's no more advertising, and the sites all use paywalls. Start counting those that you will continue to visit, and what price you're willing to pay. Are there any sites that you're willing to pay ten cents per view? How about a dollar?
If/when microtransactions are made workable, I might visit some sites that I visit now, but there are others that I'll just never load again. There are sites that should be paying ME for visiting. They don't, so I don't.
Anyway - I doubt that 3/4 of the web will disappear. .gov will remain, .edu will remain, game sites that see a profit will remain. Many other sites have their loyal followings who will willingly pay microtransactions to stay with the site. Other sites are paid out of pocket by the owners, and have little if any advertising on their pages.
Yeah, some of the web would disappear - but no big loss.
The biggest changes would be apparent in the news media's sites. And, many of them can just dry up and blow away. I'm not paying twenty dollars per year for access to ANY of their sites. Nor ten dollars. I might pay microtransactions that total up to a dollar in a month's time, but it's not likely. I'll find my news elsewhere.
Most criminals make money dishonestly. That makes criminal activity alright?
That's pretty awful, isn't it? You whore yourself to advertisers, who may or may not exploit vulnerabilities in a person's system, but always make using your site more unpleasant. That doesn't work, so you set up a pay wall. And, nobody pays to see what you've got behind the paywall.
I guess that spells bankruptcy for you, huh?
Well, tough shit. You should have thought things over long ago. Offer a product that people really want, and offer it for a reasonable price. You failed to offer a reasonably priced product that people want? Well - screw you - go hungry. No one gives a small damn about you. You tried to milk the cash cow, but you never even warmed your hands up before grabbing hold of the cow's teats. When she kicks you in the head, don't expect any sympathy from anyone at all.
Bankruptcy, dude. Now, kindly fuck off and die.
Keyword is "practical". The Wright brothers did not fly a practical plane. All that they did, was groundwork that helped others to develop a real, practical plane.
I'm not convinced that Gustaf did anything remarkable, nor am I convinced that he did NOT do anything remarkable. The images in the citations are not impressive. Someone would have to copy it, and make it fly, for me to be impressed.
Let's remember, there were snake oil salesmen by the thousands back in the day. And, rainmakers. And, yes, they even had politicians back then. I need a little proof before I believe the thing in those images actually flew. I don't even require that it's flight time equals that of the Wright brothers. Just get it off the ground, under it's own power, and I'll accept that it can fly. Fifteen feet, fifty feet, five hundred feet of flight - none of it can happen if the damned thing won't get off the ground.
I'm just not a snake oil purchaser. I want videos, photos, and eyewitnesses by the score.
The school is owned by the parents and taxpayers. The schools own NOTHING.
As has been demonstrated a number of times, drones aren't especially selective with targeting. We routinely read of some guy being targeted, and incidentally, three children, two women, and a bystander were killed, and six bystanders were hospitalized.
Yeah, it depends on which weapon is mounted on that weapons platform how many people might be in the kill radius. Still, history suggests target selectivity sucks.
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You've heard of that monkey theory thing?
I remember Buzz and Neil. That's about all that fits into my cast of characters from fifty plus years of life. I mean - it's not like I flew to the moon with any of them. Had that occurred, I'd likely remember that man's name too!!
Maybe I can push Christopher Columbus out of my mind, and make room for another moon landing pilot. Nahh - that bastard won't go.
Yes, and it probably would have been better if the first footsteps of creatures leaving the primordial soup of the ocean had been preserved. The question is: WHY?!?!?!
Yes, it ruined my whole fucking DAY! My whole DAY, dammit! I inserted the installation media, expecting to see a place to vote. It wasn't there. THOSE DOUCHES!!
And, you're missing the point. MS had already been convicted of ruining people's businesses with unfair competition practices.
How much do they pay you to be a shill?
Good point. Collusion will get you in a lot of trouble in the US. I can't believe it's not a crime in the EU. Had Google NOT snitched, they'd likely be setting themselves up for charges against themselves.
Remember the love?
I'm trying really, really hard, but I can't remember any love from Microsoft toward it's customers. Ever. Back in the day, ***DOS was available from a variety of sources, free or dirt cheap. MSDOS cost over a hundred dollars. I picked up a package at my local computer store, inspected it, read the marketing hype on the label, and told the wife, "I think I'll get this MSDOS 5.0." I got to the counter, and when the sales clerk told me that it cost something like $125, I put it back on the shelf.
Yeah, I remember the love. Microsoft has always loved our money!
yes, and .50000000000 also rounds up to one. "Not quite 3/4 billion" is how I would have phrased it.
Sorry, but I got hung up on the numbers as well. "not quite 3/4 billion dollars" does not equal "almost a billion dollars". When someone says "almost a billion", I most definitely expect something more than .8 billion. Less than .75 is simply not "almost".
Yeah, I agree, because not one single nerd, or novice nerd, or nerd-to-be can possibly benefit from this article, right? Consider little Katy. She watches the world around her, and sees that some people do some fascinating things with ease, while other people struggle to get a computer to do what they want it to do. Katy has begun to keep up with various sites, like slashdot, where she learns a thing or two every day. There's no need for slashdot to cater to Katy, is there? I mean - she's just a little girl reading slashdot, not a "real nerd". Hell, she doesn't even produce testosterone, right? She can never be a nerd, right?
Or - alternatively, maybe you're just a different kind of zealot.
http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2011/10/24/tsa-releases-vipr-venom-on-tennessee-highways/
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2212225/tsa-doing-random-truck-searches-on-tennessee-highway
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/10/25/ron-paul-calls-tsa-jack-booted-thugs-in-response-to-highway-checkpoints/
The story was carried on a local television news segment, and in the segment, they were stopping automobiles, at random, as opposed to checking the trucks at the weigh stations. Those three links were among the first hits on a google search - there are lots more.
I may be wrong, but I think that problem was partially solved.
Remember, for at least 20 years, passengers had been instructed over and over to just cooperate with hijackers. The plane that went down in Pennsylvania, diverted from it's intended target, is proof that the conditioning can be broken.
All we need to do, is to stop being victims. Fight back, and win or lose, you won't be a hostage.
You're on the right track.
Just disband the whole frigging Homeland Security. Put Customs back as a separate and distinct agency, ditto with Border Patrol. Screw the whole Homeland Security thing. It was bullshit when they thought it up, it's bullshit today. Janet Napolitano spends less time worrying about security, than about how to stop "piracy" and increasing corporate profits. She has her TSA agents stopping traffic on Interstate 40, in Tennessee, and shaking them down. Anyone with a thousand dollars cash is a "suspect". Anyone with an expensive car is a "suspect". Anyone who doesn't kiss the TSA agent's ass is a "suspect". I guess this an alternative for TSA agents who don't prefer fondling little children and old ladies in airports.
Disband Homeland Security, send Napolitano packing, and we can save the fifty million dollars she just wasted on uniforms.
Odd that most cops have to purchase their own uniforms, but TSA has a contract to buy uniforms for their degenerate agents.
Like Thermonuclear Warfare, the only smart move in the DRM game, is not to play.