What is the difference between having headphones in which nothing is playing, and earmuffs, or a hat that covers your ears?
What is the difference? Nothing according to the law. Exactly that happened to me.
Winter in Southern California is not a serious matter but I got into the habit of wearing my on-ear headphones (1) in the early cold morning when bicycling 7 miles to high school *without* my radio. (2) Wearing headphones also made it *easier* to hear because they blocked the wind noise. One month after California passed a law making it illegal to right a bicycle with headphones, I got an incontestable ticket.
That and other events demonstrating the police state established a deep respect for the legislature, law enforcement, and the courts. Fuck them all.
(1) Pickering OA-4 headphones - does anybody make anything as good anymore?
(2) I bicycled 14 miles every school day for years. In retrospect, I was lucky never to have been killed or seriously injured in city traffic.
But the USPS is supposedly an independent corporation. That is why they have to fund their pensions for the next 75 years but other government agencies don't
The USPS has to fund their pensions for the next 75 years because the pension funds go into treasury bills right where Congress can spend them.
I don't think anyone WANTS to be part of damaging something beautiful.
As soon as the government shut down, people drove into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down Joshua trees. People would pulverize coral with sledgehammers and then dissolve it in acid if it weren't so inaccessible. A certain portion of humanity is simply shit.
Before coral was protected, people would collect and cut it up to make things like coffee tables.
1. When you have a viable (politically and otherwise) solution to long term waste storage.
Instead we have Congress or rather the Democratic and Republican parties.
Nuclear power plants are required by law to pay fees to the DOE in return for the DOE taking responsibility for nuclear waste. The DOE of course never did this but was happy to accept the fees and give them to Congress to spend on other things.
2. Proper funding of costs for decommissioning of private reactors as they reach the end of their useful life.
3. A rational emergency fund pool.should, dear god, catastrophic failure occur to a private facility.
The law provides for these as well. Guess where the money went and who spent it.
Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
So does piracy. Every incremental price increase makes piracy look like a better deal. Netflix better be careful about finding that sweet spot and staying within it.
Even more so, every additional streaming service with a smaller selection of content makes piracy a better deal but Netflix has no control over that.
When a physical bank is robbed, everyone who has dollars in their pockets still has whole dollars. The theft had zero effect on the value of your pocket or what you can buy. When a crypto-currency exchange gets hacked (aka robbed), the value of what you own can tumble. Plus, add in the shear insecurity of crypto-currency, and you have the reasons why it's a complete failure and nonsense.
This depends on how much is taken in the robbery. Governments can take so much as to devalue the currency taking from everybody in proportional to how much they had.
And "trust" is your only option- it's all you can do, you can't rely on law enforcement to protect you eCoins. Because eCoins are not backed by government or insured by governments, governments are less inclined to help you get your money back if stolen by thieves and hackers.
And when it is the government stealing the money? Who protects you then?
We have agreed on a set of Box types of holding letters and small packages. We call them Mail Boxes. There are different types one for Cities, and other for more rural areas, they are types for businesses with a lock and key. We basically need a bigger box,
The government also made it illegal for other services to use a mail box intended for the postal service.
I keep saying it folks, we've got an election in two years, and it's going to be a turning point. We've seen Democratic Socialism work just fine where it's been tried.
Democratic socialism is not what is being offered.
So this is going to enable Apple and their ilk to even more aggressively force people to buy their own craptastic cables. Good intentions, but I know exactly how this will be used.
Mark my words, it will be used to oppress the user, not protect them.
It will not make any difference. One of the first USB-C ASICs advertised included DRM for the charging as a feature. Authentication was built into the standard.
Cooked? It takes a microwave oven with 1500 watts of power about one minute to boil a cup of water. Assuming you weigh 150 pounds, how long would it take a million times less power to cook you?
It will not be a problem here but with the right near field impedance matching, you can get a serious RF burn in less than a second with less than 5 watts if it is concentrated in a small volume. People who have messed with helical resonators and RF excited gas lasers have to be careful about this which I know first hand, well, finger.
The way this reactor works is that it breeds the U-238 into Pu-239 and that's what fissions. It also uses water as a coolant which is a bad idea we need to retire. A coolant that increases the intensity of the chain reaction is a really, really bad idea.
I used to think using liquid water as a heat transfer fluid was a bad idea because at high temperatures it reacts with the cladding to make hydrogen and the high operating temperature and pressure stores enough energy in the water for a steam explosion but in a pressurized water reactor, the large negative void coefficient acts to passively control output power independently of any active systems.
Chernobyl was a graphite moderated reactor with a very large positive void coefficient and water only for cooling.
Yeah. The only way around that is with bitcoin, which is what Wikileaks did.
After what happened to Patreon competitor Subscribestar discussion about an alternative payment method has picked up but Bitcoin is not suitable. Some other cryptocurrancy may be. The powers that be are not going to allow such a system to become established without a fight and I am not sanguine.
Our Republican friends have been looking like Ayn Rand villains for years now. Take a look at Enron again some time.
Enron is a great example of of the villains in Ayn Rand's books. Create a mishmash of laws bought by a special interest to constrain the free market and then blame deregulation when it fails. What better way was there to fleece the investor owned utilities?
How long have the Democrats controlled the California legislature? Let's blame the Republicans anyway although honestly I would not expect any better of them and there is plenty of blame to tar both sides.
Patreon is really the latest attempt at that sort of thing, and for a large number of use websites it's turning out to be successful.
It works for the large but decreasing number of sites that Patreon and Patreon's transaction processors approve of. Dissenting content producers can go elsewhere until the transaction processors censor them again.
If you switched it to the Classic 2000 look then there was not a problem but the XP UI did not allow as much configuration as the 2000 UI and more and more features have been removed as time goes on. I suspect Microsoft wants to enforce a uniformity between device types but is doing it by removing features and customization.
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What is the difference between having headphones in which nothing is playing, and earmuffs, or a hat that covers your ears?
What is the difference? Nothing according to the law. Exactly that happened to me.
Winter in Southern California is not a serious matter but I got into the habit of wearing my on-ear headphones (1) in the early cold morning when bicycling 7 miles to high school *without* my radio. (2) Wearing headphones also made it *easier* to hear because they blocked the wind noise. One month after California passed a law making it illegal to right a bicycle with headphones, I got an incontestable ticket.
That and other events demonstrating the police state established a deep respect for the legislature, law enforcement, and the courts. Fuck them all.
(1) Pickering OA-4 headphones - does anybody make anything as good anymore?
(2) I bicycled 14 miles every school day for years. In retrospect, I was lucky never to have been killed or seriously injured in city traffic.
But the USPS is supposedly an independent corporation. That is why they have to fund their pensions for the next 75 years but other government agencies don't
The USPS has to fund their pensions for the next 75 years because the pension funds go into treasury bills right where Congress can spend them.
So the system was so secure that it did not use public-key encryption between clients and had no provisions for perfect forward secrecy?
If you try to lie to them then YOU messed up, moron.
This is exactly the problem except the FBI gets to decide what are lies. Silence does not give them anything to work with.
I don't think anyone WANTS to be part of damaging something beautiful.
As soon as the government shut down, people drove into Joshua Tree National Park and started cutting down Joshua trees. People would pulverize coral with sledgehammers and then dissolve it in acid if it weren't so inaccessible. A certain portion of humanity is simply shit.
Before coral was protected, people would collect and cut it up to make things like coffee tables.
But think of the potential for civil assets forfeiture.
1. When you have a viable (politically and otherwise) solution to long term waste storage.
Instead we have Congress or rather the Democratic and Republican parties.
Nuclear power plants are required by law to pay fees to the DOE in return for the DOE taking responsibility for nuclear waste. The DOE of course never did this but was happy to accept the fees and give them to Congress to spend on other things.
2. Proper funding of costs for decommissioning of private reactors as they reach the end of their useful life.
3. A rational emergency fund pool.should, dear god, catastrophic failure occur to a private facility.
The law provides for these as well. Guess where the money went and who spent it.
Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
So does piracy. Every incremental price increase makes piracy look like a better deal. Netflix better be careful about finding that sweet spot and staying within it.
Even more so, every additional streaming service with a smaller selection of content makes piracy a better deal but Netflix has no control over that.
And when it is the government stealing the money? Who protects you then?
In all the countries I've lived it was the ballot slip.
So you never lived in the US? Here we only get two choices and they both steal money.
When a physical bank is robbed, everyone who has dollars in their pockets still has whole dollars. The theft had zero effect on the value of your pocket or what you can buy. When a crypto-currency exchange gets hacked (aka robbed), the value of what you own can tumble. Plus, add in the shear insecurity of crypto-currency, and you have the reasons why it's a complete failure and nonsense.
This depends on how much is taken in the robbery. Governments can take so much as to devalue the currency taking from everybody in proportional to how much they had.
And "trust" is your only option- it's all you can do, you can't rely on law enforcement to protect you eCoins. Because eCoins are not backed by government or insured by governments, governments are less inclined to help you get your money back if stolen by thieves and hackers.
And when it is the government stealing the money? Who protects you then?
If you have a backyard, you should consider scrapping your lawnmower, and getting some wildflower and milkweed seeds.
The local government would fine me for doing that.
We have agreed on a set of Box types of holding letters and small packages. We call them Mail Boxes. There are different types one for Cities, and other for more rural areas, they are types for businesses with a lock and key. We basically need a bigger box,
The government also made it illegal for other services to use a mail box intended for the postal service.
You are using Netflix wrong.
I keep saying it folks, we've got an election in two years, and it's going to be a turning point. We've seen Democratic Socialism work just fine where it's been tried.
Democratic socialism is not what is being offered.
So this is going to enable Apple and their ilk to even more aggressively force people to buy their own craptastic cables.
Good intentions, but I know exactly how this will be used.
Mark my words, it will be used to oppress the user, not protect them.
It will not make any difference. One of the first USB-C ASICs advertised included DRM for the charging as a feature. Authentication was built into the standard.
Cooked? It takes a microwave oven with 1500 watts of power about one minute to boil a cup of water. Assuming you weigh 150 pounds, how long would it take a million times less power to cook you?
It will not be a problem here but with the right near field impedance matching, you can get a serious RF burn in less than a second with less than 5 watts if it is concentrated in a small volume. People who have messed with helical resonators and RF excited gas lasers have to be careful about this which I know first hand, well, finger.
The way this reactor works is that it breeds the U-238 into Pu-239 and that's what fissions. It also uses water as a coolant which is a bad idea we need to retire. A coolant that increases the intensity of the chain reaction is a really, really bad idea.
I used to think using liquid water as a heat transfer fluid was a bad idea because at high temperatures it reacts with the cladding to make hydrogen and the high operating temperature and pressure stores enough energy in the water for a steam explosion but in a pressurized water reactor, the large negative void coefficient acts to passively control output power independently of any active systems.
Chernobyl was a graphite moderated reactor with a very large positive void coefficient and water only for cooling.
Apple should learn from those unboxers on YouTube who go "ohh, braided cables" when opening a box. They say that for a reason.
But how do you make a shiny braided cable which is hard on the eyes?
Yeah. The only way around that is with bitcoin, which is what Wikileaks did.
After what happened to Patreon competitor Subscribestar discussion about an alternative payment method has picked up but Bitcoin is not suitable. Some other cryptocurrancy may be. The powers that be are not going to allow such a system to become established without a fight and I am not sanguine.
Especially a Salon. That is insane... they live off of cash tips. Read: avoid taxes.
The IRS estimates tips whether they exist or not.
No form of Nuclear power (including Fusion) is cost competitive with solar/wind/natural gas.
Good, then drop all of the subsidies and restrictions and let the chips fall where they may.
Our Republican friends have been looking like Ayn Rand villains for years now. Take a look at Enron again some time.
Enron is a great example of of the villains in Ayn Rand's books. Create a mishmash of laws bought by a special interest to constrain the free market and then blame deregulation when it fails. What better way was there to fleece the investor owned utilities?
How long have the Democrats controlled the California legislature? Let's blame the Republicans anyway although honestly I would not expect any better of them and there is plenty of blame to tar both sides.
Patreon is really the latest attempt at that sort of thing, and for a large number of use websites it's turning out to be successful.
It works for the large but decreasing number of sites that Patreon and Patreon's transaction processors approve of. Dissenting content producers can go elsewhere until the transaction processors censor them again.
If you switched it to the Classic 2000 look then there was not a problem but the XP UI did not allow as much configuration as the 2000 UI and more and more features have been removed as time goes on. I suspect Microsoft wants to enforce a uniformity between device types but is doing it by removing features and customization.