A bow and arrows is what you turn to when your 500 rounds of ammo has finally run out 3 years later.
You seriously expect that you could go 3 years while hunting for food and defending yourself, and only use one round of ammo every other day when the apocalypse strikes?
Pardon me for being a bit... shall we say 'offbeat'.
Why the guns? I don't mean "heavens to Betsy guns are bad, mmmkay?!?". I mean - why go for something that is going to be difficult to resupply in case of a massive catastrophe?
If you go "old school" and go with bow and arrow, not only are you very likely to be able to reuse your ammo, it also becomes very easy to resupply, as you can create your own.
And in case the zombie apocalypse strikes, you don't want to create a lot of noise either.
Not the "God made the world in 6 days, rested on the 7th and it is all described in the Bible".
I just want to see just how fucking angry and upset these Christian retards become, if there was a course called "Creationism 101" which taught that the Spaghetti Monster created the world yesterday, that Allah (God, the Islamic version) created the world in six days as per the Koran, that Yahweh created the world in six days as per the Torah, that Brahma and Vishnu created the world, and then left the Christian God out of the curriculum.
I mean - the Christian God is already covered by Yahweh and Allah, so why waste time on that.
And the Creationists should be happy, because their "Anti Evolution" point is taught, which is what they want. They keep claiming they just want people to know that evolution isn't the only option.
Everyone understands the potential benefits of coal and oil power: "power too cheap to measure", "no dependence on foreign fuel", "totally safe".
Except those potentials are nothing but marketing hype. Coal plants are expensive, dirty, dependent on foreign fuel, and dangerous. Atlantic Empress in the late 1970s, Castillo de Bellver in the mid 1980s, and now Deepwater Horizon for oil alone. All along since they were invented coal and oil facilities have been dumping poison in our lands, seas and rivers, whether where the fuel is mined, processed, used, stored, or "disposed" (whatever that is).
"Antis" could see any of their persuasive arguments deleted by actual safety and transparency. The dependence on secrecy that you admit the coal and oil industry has turned to is counterproductive in every way, and is the fault of the industry for making that choice. Not the fault of the people the industry tries to trick with the secrecy.
We know the potential upsides. We've got centuries seeing downsides - and knowing that even more are hidden, as those forced into exposure were always attempted to be hidden as long as possible. We're not a congregation of superstitious cowards. We are people protecteting ourselves from the undeniable dangers and damages we get while hoping for the unreachable potential benefits sold us.
And indeed the most obvious sign that we're being sold a scam is the conceit that the sellers are the only ones smart enough to know what's going on.
So - if I want to leave out a site from ALL my searches, I first have to search for something this site responds to, visit the site, go back to Google and then search again?
Why can't I block it without visiting? Why can't I add "-site:example.com" to my search term? Why can't I create a blacklist in my settings? Or upload a blacklist in a text file?
It seems to me like having to call a phone sex line BEFORE you're able to set up a block for that phone number.
Where is this magical place on Earth that is free from natural disasters (earthquake, tsunami, volcano, flood, drought, extreme cold, extreme heat, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, typhoon, mudslide, avalanche, wild fire,...)?
I think the biggest "natural disasters" in Denmark is lots of snow, and even then it's only a disaster in the sense that "it's more than we're used to".
Extreme temperatures? Lowest recorded temperature: -31.2 C/24.2 F. Highest recorded temperature: 36.4 C/97.5 F
Most precipitation in a 24 hour period? 168.9 mm / 6.6 inches
Hurricanes? Since 1891 (120 years of data) - eleven class 4 storms (>28.5 m/s winds for 10 minutes), three classified as hurricanes.
Tornadoes? A few that classify as maybe an F1.
Earthquakes? Most topping out at about a 4, as it's sitting on the middle of a plate. A single 5.2 was registered in 1982, originating 40 km under the surface. Only one earthquake recorded that has resulted in any kind of damage to houses, and those were minor damages (think cracks in brick walls).
Tsunamis? Since we don't get earthquakes, tsunamis need to be caused either by insanely big land slides, like the north face of the Canary Islands dumping into the ocean, or massive earth quakes in the Atlantic. And even then Denmark is shielded quite well by it's location.
Floods? They happen, but nothing serious. Usually just results in people getting wet living rooms and flooded basements. Most of the newer ones happens because the sewage systems in the cities haven't been updated to keep up with the massive increase in paved surface area that dumps water into them rather than soil absorbing the water.
Drought? Not really. There are summers where there is barely any rain, but Denmark is a collection of relatively small islands and a single peninsula. It is almost completely surrounded by water, so any kind of serious drought could be fixed with desalination plants very quickly.
Blizzards? We get those, but moderate temperatures and moderately low amounts of snow means the only reason they cause problems is budget and idiocy. Budget because the local municipalities aren't setting aside enough money for snow clearing and idiocy because people look out at a blizzard and uncleared roads, turn on the radio and hear that the authorities are advising people to stay indoors and then go "what the fuck do they know?" and end up stuck in a ditch.
Mudslides? No mountains or hills to speak of. Which rules out avalanches as well.
Wild fires? There are some minor wildfires in the heathland every year, maybe one or two major ones a decade, but nothing life threatening, and definitely not even close to being a natural disaster.
Volcanoes? Closest volcanoes are in Iceland and southern Europe/Mediterranean.
I thought natural disasters were God's vengeance upon humans? If he had mercy, he wouldn't have smote them in the first place.
Or is this just another one of those strange religious things, like where the vengeful, hateful and all powerful being is going to condemn us all to to suffer in fire for ever and ever until the end of time - yet somehow still loves us?
Colonizing the Moon is an engineering task. We already know all the science we need. It's a vacuum, it has radiation, it has commonly used minerals.
We don't need new scientific knowledge to solve that problem. We need engineering knowledge to solve that problem, and while it might be difficult to realize, you cannot just reassign astrophysicists to solve your plumbing problems.
And how does having an iPad prevent you from writing your notes?
I've known lots of students who after a semester had not a single handwritten note in their textbook, but still had tons of notes for the books.
I've known lots of students who used their laptops for most note taking and using handwritten pages for stuff they couldn't write in text.
Being given an electric screwdriver does not immediately turn every single problem you face into a screw. It just makes it easier to screw stuff in place, and I think most competent people know that at times they'll need pliers, saws, hammers and lots of other tools.
Since Apple's music has been DRM free for years and it's extremely trivial to backup the music, the risk of loss actually seems much lower to me that the risk of loss for a physical CD.
But... I bought it on my iPod! How do I make a backup of it? You sync it in iTunes.
What's iTunes? The software that you have to install to use the device.
Where does that install? On your computer.
But... my computer broke down last month and I haven't gotten it fixed! And?
And you have to get the music back for me! No. Backup is your own responsibility.
But how? Through your computer and possibly by copying it to an external hard drive as well
So why didn't I get a computer and hard drive with my iPod? Because you didn't pay for it.
But YOU should provide it! No.
Yes! Why?
Because it's the law! What law?
You have to! Does Ford also have to provide you with every single tire your car will ever need, the gas it consumes, the oil it uses, the wiper fluid etc?
Well, don't be stupid, that's not the same thing! Why not? Compared to the price of a new car, those things are minor. Compared to the cost of your iPod the computer and backup hard drive cost more than it does.
But you have to do it for me!
That is more or less the conversation I've had with a customer who was complaining about losing the two tracks he had bought from iTunes Store, nine months earlier and hadn't ever listened to since.
Personally I don't understand why the music execs are so greedy, but then again, they're not the ones having to tell customers that they have to handle their copies responsibly. Things might have a different tune, if every person who ever bought a scratched CD or LP had called the record company instead of returning to the store.
Opera is not "hooked in" to that control. Opera Mini runs proxy servers direct back to Opera and all content is routed through there (to save you on bandwidth and phone battery when rendering complex sites).
Who said anything about Opera Mini? Opera Mini is a different product than Opera.
Opera Mini doesn't run on OS X, and this is about Opera on the AppStore for OS X, not Opera Mini on iTunes Store for iOS.
The downside is that, simply put, your phone is only connecting to Opera's proxies (the other downside is that Opera gets to see everything you send and receive, and I don't think SSL encryption works to protect your data from Opera's proxies, and you thought Google paranoia was bad!).
In fact it's SO bad, that Opera themselves are blatantly shouting this fact on their website!
No, I say they aren't saying "DO NOT USE SSD!". They are saying "DO NOT USE WEAR LEVELING HARDWARE".
SSDs are a subset of wear leveling hardware (as I said in my post). But so are pretty much all flash based drives, including USB, memory cards etc.
TrueCrypt are also saying "BE WEAR OF SECTOR REPLACING HARDWARE" - the kind you find in hard drives, yet the parent to my post doesn't seem to have an issue with that for some strange reason.
It's one thing to link to a document, another not to have read it, but to misrepresent the document you link to shows that you are a) An idiot b) Trying to spread FUD
TrueCrypt doesn't talk about a lack of security on SSDs. They talk about the problem of wear leveling. True, this is present on pretty much all SSDs (and flash-based devices), but that is not the same thing.
They say:
Due to security reasons, we recommend that TrueCrypt volumes are not created/stored on devices (or in file systems) that utilize a wear-leveling mechanism (and that TrueCrypt is not used to encrypt any portions of such devices or filesystems).
Now, if someone comes along and invents or build an SSD that does not provide wear leveling (not the best of ideas until we start hitting millions if not billions of erase cycles), TrueCrypt would have no qualms about it. They have no qualms about using TrueCrypt to handle USB keys that have no wear--leveling either.
But be honest about their recommendations. And answer me this: Do you know if your USB keys, SD-cards etc. that you store encrypted information on use wear leveling?
If you don't know, then you obviously do not care about the potential security risk this entails (you're more likely to lose a small item than a computer), and thus you wouldn't care about the potential security issue with an SSD either.
Oh, and if you want to be REALLY paranoid about this issue, I suggest you read their section on reallocated sectors. Let me give you the paranoia-inducing bits here:
Some storage devices, such as hard drives, internally reallocate/remap bad sectors. [...] This may have various security implications. For instance, data that is to be encrypted in place may remain unencrypted in the bad sector.
Ye GODS - it seems TrueCrypt recommends you do not encrypt you hard drives either!
Here's the thing. Sending you a nasty-gram explaining that your product is infringing on the following 27 patents will take 1 company lawyer maybe 1 hour.
That doesn't mean they are suing you. It's not a suit, until it gets to court. We only hear about the big vs big, because they are the only ones who can afford going to court.
You, as a private person or even a small company, does not have the resources to defend yourself against 27 patent infringement claims.
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"We're sorry we bribed these guys over there. How much do we have to pay you guys to make this problem go away?"
You seriously expect that you could go 3 years while hunting for food and defending yourself, and only use one round of ammo every other day when the apocalypse strikes?
Pardon me for being a bit ... shall we say 'offbeat'.
Why the guns? I don't mean "heavens to Betsy guns are bad, mmmkay?!?". I mean - why go for something that is going to be difficult to resupply in case of a massive catastrophe?
If you go "old school" and go with bow and arrow, not only are you very likely to be able to reuse your ammo, it also becomes very easy to resupply, as you can create your own.
And in case the zombie apocalypse strikes, you don't want to create a lot of noise either.
I say "preach it!". It being intelligent design.
Not the "God made the world in 6 days, rested on the 7th and it is all described in the Bible".
I just want to see just how fucking angry and upset these Christian retards become, if there was a course called "Creationism 101" which taught that the Spaghetti Monster created the world yesterday, that Allah (God, the Islamic version) created the world in six days as per the Koran, that Yahweh created the world in six days as per the Torah, that Brahma and Vishnu created the world, and then left the Christian God out of the curriculum.
I mean - the Christian God is already covered by Yahweh and Allah, so why waste time on that.
And the Creationists should be happy, because their "Anti Evolution" point is taught, which is what they want. They keep claiming they just want people to know that evolution isn't the only option.
Maybe he's trying to be read?
That's true for pretty much all types of fuel:
Everyone understands the potential benefits of coal and oil power: "power too cheap to measure", "no dependence on foreign fuel", "totally safe".
Except those potentials are nothing but marketing hype. Coal plants are expensive, dirty, dependent on foreign fuel, and dangerous. Atlantic Empress in the late 1970s, Castillo de Bellver in the mid 1980s, and now Deepwater Horizon for oil alone. All along since they were invented coal and oil facilities have been dumping poison in our lands, seas and rivers, whether where the fuel is mined, processed, used, stored, or "disposed" (whatever that is).
"Antis" could see any of their persuasive arguments deleted by actual safety and transparency. The dependence on secrecy that you admit the coal and oil industry has turned to is counterproductive in every way, and is the fault of the industry for making that choice. Not the fault of the people the industry tries to trick with the secrecy.
We know the potential upsides. We've got centuries seeing downsides - and knowing that even more are hidden, as those forced into exposure were always attempted to be hidden as long as possible. We're not a congregation of superstitious cowards. We are people protecteting ourselves from the undeniable dangers and damages we get while hoping for the unreachable potential benefits sold us.
And indeed the most obvious sign that we're being sold a scam is the conceit that the sellers are the only ones smart enough to know what's going on.
That wasn't your question, nor the premise of your post.
You were asking the question in a "dream on, no such place exists" fashion, and I simply pointed out that it does.
So - if I want to leave out a site from ALL my searches, I first have to search for something this site responds to, visit the site, go back to Google and then search again?
Why can't I block it without visiting? Why can't I add "-site:example.com" to my search term? Why can't I create a blacklist in my settings? Or upload a blacklist in a text file?
It seems to me like having to call a phone sex line BEFORE you're able to set up a block for that phone number.
I have to say, that is one of the better comments I have read in a long time. Well done :)
Denmark?
I think the biggest "natural disasters" in Denmark is lots of snow, and even then it's only a disaster in the sense that "it's more than we're used to".
Extreme temperatures? Lowest recorded temperature: -31.2 C/24.2 F. Highest recorded temperature: 36.4 C/97.5 F
Most precipitation in a 24 hour period? 168.9 mm / 6.6 inches
Hurricanes? Since 1891 (120 years of data) - eleven class 4 storms (>28.5 m/s winds for 10 minutes), three classified as hurricanes.
Tornadoes? A few that classify as maybe an F1.
Earthquakes? Most topping out at about a 4, as it's sitting on the middle of a plate. A single 5.2 was registered in 1982, originating 40 km under the surface. Only one earthquake recorded that has resulted in any kind of damage to houses, and those were minor damages (think cracks in brick walls).
Tsunamis? Since we don't get earthquakes, tsunamis need to be caused either by insanely big land slides, like the north face of the Canary Islands dumping into the ocean, or massive earth quakes in the Atlantic. And even then Denmark is shielded quite well by it's location.
Floods? They happen, but nothing serious. Usually just results in people getting wet living rooms and flooded basements. Most of the newer ones happens because the sewage systems in the cities haven't been updated to keep up with the massive increase in paved surface area that dumps water into them rather than soil absorbing the water.
Drought? Not really. There are summers where there is barely any rain, but Denmark is a collection of relatively small islands and a single peninsula. It is almost completely surrounded by water, so any kind of serious drought could be fixed with desalination plants very quickly.
Blizzards? We get those, but moderate temperatures and moderately low amounts of snow means the only reason they cause problems is budget and idiocy. Budget because the local municipalities aren't setting aside enough money for snow clearing and idiocy because people look out at a blizzard and uncleared roads, turn on the radio and hear that the authorities are advising people to stay indoors and then go "what the fuck do they know?" and end up stuck in a ditch.
Mudslides? No mountains or hills to speak of. Which rules out avalanches as well.
Wild fires? There are some minor wildfires in the heathland every year, maybe one or two major ones a decade, but nothing life threatening, and definitely not even close to being a natural disaster.
Volcanoes? Closest volcanoes are in Iceland and southern Europe/Mediterranean.
I thought natural disasters were God's vengeance upon humans? If he had mercy, he wouldn't have smote them in the first place.
Or is this just another one of those strange religious things, like where the vengeful, hateful and all powerful being is going to condemn us all to to suffer in fire for ever and ever until the end of time - yet somehow still loves us?
Next time tell them they get 90 days free support for OS X and the iLife apps from time of purchase.
You'd be surprised at the amount of simple help they can get on the phone, and the amount of useful links they can get as well.
Colonizing the Moon is an engineering task. We already know all the science we need. It's a vacuum, it has radiation, it has commonly used minerals.
We don't need new scientific knowledge to solve that problem. We need engineering knowledge to solve that problem, and while it might be difficult to realize, you cannot just reassign astrophysicists to solve your plumbing problems.
And how does having an iPad prevent you from writing your notes?
I've known lots of students who after a semester had not a single handwritten note in their textbook, but still had tons of notes for the books.
I've known lots of students who used their laptops for most note taking and using handwritten pages for stuff they couldn't write in text.
Being given an electric screwdriver does not immediately turn every single problem you face into a screw. It just makes it easier to screw stuff in place, and I think most competent people know that at times they'll need pliers, saws, hammers and lots of other tools.
But ... I bought it on my iPod! How do I make a backup of it?
You sync it in iTunes.
What's iTunes?
The software that you have to install to use the device.
Where does that install?
On your computer.
But ... my computer broke down last month and I haven't gotten it fixed!
And?
And you have to get the music back for me!
No. Backup is your own responsibility.
But how?
Through your computer and possibly by copying it to an external hard drive as well
So why didn't I get a computer and hard drive with my iPod?
Because you didn't pay for it.
But YOU should provide it!
No.
Yes!
Why?
Because it's the law!
What law?
You have to!
Does Ford also have to provide you with every single tire your car will ever need, the gas it consumes, the oil it uses, the wiper fluid etc?
Well, don't be stupid, that's not the same thing!
Why not? Compared to the price of a new car, those things are minor. Compared to the cost of your iPod the computer and backup hard drive cost more than it does.
But you have to do it for me!
That is more or less the conversation I've had with a customer who was complaining about losing the two tracks he had bought from iTunes Store, nine months earlier and hadn't ever listened to since.
Personally I don't understand why the music execs are so greedy, but then again, they're not the ones having to tell customers that they have to handle their copies responsibly. Things might have a different tune, if every person who ever bought a scratched CD or LP had called the record company instead of returning to the store.
Who said anything about Opera Mini? Opera Mini is a different product than Opera.
Opera Mini doesn't run on OS X, and this is about Opera on the AppStore for OS X, not Opera Mini on iTunes Store for iOS.
In fact it's SO bad, that Opera themselves are blatantly shouting this fact on their website!
The bastards! They aren't even shy about admitting it!
But don't worry - I'm sure your tinfoil hat can protect you from the Norwegian secret police.
That would be in the L3 point, and that one is highly unstable, and a planet in L3 would be knocked out of it whenever Jupiter or Mars is close by.
L4 and L5 is much more likely, but not for a duplicate Earth, as we would be able to see it from here.
Sorry, in a day when you can buy a car for under US$ 13,000 these premium cars are absurd
Sorry, in a day when you can buy a TV for under US$ 100 these premium TVs are absurd
If you don't want one - don't buy one. I'm fairly certain Apple isn't holding a gun to your head, forcing you to buy any of their products.
I'm not sure they're all planets. I'm pretty sure a lot of them are moons.
And for a relatively small solar system, that's still doable. Our solar system's 8 planets have 168 natural satellites.
No, I say they aren't saying "DO NOT USE SSD!". They are saying "DO NOT USE WEAR LEVELING HARDWARE".
SSDs are a subset of wear leveling hardware (as I said in my post). But so are pretty much all flash based drives, including USB, memory cards etc.
TrueCrypt are also saying "BE WEAR OF SECTOR REPLACING HARDWARE" - the kind you find in hard drives, yet the parent to my post doesn't seem to have an issue with that for some strange reason.
It's one thing to link to a document, another not to have read it, but to misrepresent the document you link to shows that you are
a) An idiot
b) Trying to spread FUD
TrueCrypt doesn't talk about a lack of security on SSDs. They talk about the problem of wear leveling. True, this is present on pretty much all SSDs (and flash-based devices), but that is not the same thing.
They say:
Now, if someone comes along and invents or build an SSD that does not provide wear leveling (not the best of ideas until we start hitting millions if not billions of erase cycles), TrueCrypt would have no qualms about it. They have no qualms about using TrueCrypt to handle USB keys that have no wear--leveling either.
But be honest about their recommendations. And answer me this: Do you know if your USB keys, SD-cards etc. that you store encrypted information on use wear leveling?
If you don't know, then you obviously do not care about the potential security risk this entails (you're more likely to lose a small item than a computer), and thus you wouldn't care about the potential security issue with an SSD either.
Oh, and if you want to be REALLY paranoid about this issue, I suggest you read their section on reallocated sectors. Let me give you the paranoia-inducing bits here:
Ye GODS - it seems TrueCrypt recommends you do not encrypt you hard drives either!
40,000 pages? Is that all?
The Danish laws and rules regulating unemployment insurance funds alone is 22,408 A4 pages.
Here's the thing. Sending you a nasty-gram explaining that your product is infringing on the following 27 patents will take 1 company lawyer maybe 1 hour.
That doesn't mean they are suing you. It's not a suit, until it gets to court. We only hear about the big vs big, because they are the only ones who can afford going to court.
You, as a private person or even a small company, does not have the resources to defend yourself against 27 patent infringement claims.
Since anyone can, will and have sued anyone and anything else over anything, it seems that you are proposing that noone ever user codecs?