Yeah, but back then speeding tickets were
a) not very common (according to people who were driving then)
b) rarely paid because hearings degenerated into a lot of "did not" - "did too" ing. (educated guess plus anecdotes)
c) not very high (matter of public record)
Now facebook will delete every nasty post anyone has ever written about me (like the ones complaining that I don't have facebook), right?
Right?...
Oh, I forgot. I am just one mostly peaceful and law-abiding citizen, not thousands of armed and murderous thugs so I don't rate much sensitivity.
That's only when they get challenged and need an excuse. Usually they simply don't care.
Side issue:
Does it strike anyone else as odd that Congress rarely tries to justify their actions based on the "necessary and proper" clause? Seems to me that means even they admit most of the laws they pass aren't "necessary and proper."
but I'd be(sic) the formulation of ink hasn't changed much since the first Bubblejet printers showed up on the market in the early 90s.
There's where you're wrong. One of the issues the parent raised was viscosity. I don't know much about printer cartridges, but what (s)he said makes sense and jibes with my experience with both cartridge refilling kits and learning to write with a goose quill (yeah, I know.) Ink has to be the right consistency for any given medium you use to deliver it. If you put India ink into a ball-point pen it will leak. Any time the cartridge technology changes, the ink would probably have to be reformulated.
Remotely disabling a car's engine without any regard for the traffic situation around said vehicle.
No control of brakes.
Onstar can already do something similar. We know where that's led.
Anyone here in a volunteer EMS? I'm not but I've ridden shotgun a couple times when I was with friends who suddenly got calls. Not only does the emergency vehicle have to stay moving, but other drivers need to yield quickly.
As far as I can tell the only possible reason for implementing such a system is that IBM has recently developed a large portfolio in the trauma treatment and tort industries. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I don't actually believe that, but it definitely fits from a certain angle.
I pay $15 for DSL but absolutely nothing for TV.
It is a law of nature that there is never anything to watch on TV. It is also natural law that people must prove this law by observation a minimum of once a week. Having 15 channels instead of 150 cuts way down on your observation time.
Doing that favors worthless nonentities.
Exactly. There is no such thing as someone who toes the line all the time. The only possible result of continuing this practice is to bar from the positions that require it anyone but those personality-less nonentities who:
a- have so little individuality that it is possible to destroy all traces of it from the internet,
and
b- have so little self respect that they are willing to.
In answer to your title, because for over fifty years, the high school curricula in most states has been systematically gutted of anything that could possibly be useful to a graduate looking for a job of any sort.
The trend of everyone going to college started during Vietnam when people needed student exemptions from the draft. There really isn't much use for a bachelors in many fields except to please hiring managers who think you must be pig ignorant and stupid if you don't have one.
Anyone living in NYC has at least one fewer Second-Amendment related right than someone living in Arizona. In contrast, as of last week anyone living in Arizona has one fourth amendment right less than someone in NYC.
I call bull on the stereotype. Last time I "consulted" (quotes because he was both friend of a relative and relative of a friend so it was kinda informal) for a physicist it was to set up some of his OS 9 programs to work properly in OSX's classic mode.
What about hogging bandwidth? I know someone who downloaded a Kubuntu install dvd using his neighbor's wifi. While I agree with you in general it's a fine line.
You are assuming that the politicians will get it if they are bludgeoned. Given our politicians -- current, former, and anyone electable in the foreseeable future -- I don't think that's a reasonable assumption.
I have an unpatched box from '01. It has never been on line and I use it exclusively for writing code and teaching the command line. (OK so it's free BSD not Windows) but even so...
I bet I'm the only geek who can live without internet and like it.
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At my school, the campus bookstore actually does use dumb terminals. All other administration computers have an emulator program.
There should be a market for some kind of kvm switch that works the other way around though I have no idea how it would be implemented.
Done that with a spare 17". Aspect ratio isn't quite as good on mine and the display itself isn't that great, but I can imagine.
WHOOHOO YEAH!!!!
(maybe the NASA cuts won't eviscerate spaceflight after all)
Yeah, but back then speeding tickets were a) not very common (according to people who were driving then) b) rarely paid because hearings degenerated into a lot of "did not" - "did too" ing. (educated guess plus anecdotes) c) not very high (matter of public record)
Now facebook will delete every nasty post anyone has ever written about me (like the ones complaining that I don't have facebook), right? Right? ...
Oh, I forgot. I am just one mostly peaceful and law-abiding citizen, not thousands of armed and murderous thugs so I don't rate much sensitivity.
That's only when they get challenged and need an excuse. Usually they simply don't care. Side issue: Does it strike anyone else as odd that Congress rarely tries to justify their actions based on the "necessary and proper" clause? Seems to me that means even they admit most of the laws they pass aren't "necessary and proper."
but I'd be(sic) the formulation of ink hasn't changed much since the first Bubblejet printers showed up on the market in the early 90s. There's where you're wrong. One of the issues the parent raised was viscosity. I don't know much about printer cartridges, but what (s)he said makes sense and jibes with my experience with both cartridge refilling kits and learning to write with a goose quill (yeah, I know.) Ink has to be the right consistency for any given medium you use to deliver it. If you put India ink into a ball-point pen it will leak. Any time the cartridge technology changes, the ink would probably have to be reformulated.
Remotely disabling a car's engine without any regard for the traffic situation around said vehicle.
No control of brakes.
Onstar can already do something similar. We know where that's led.
Anyone here in a volunteer EMS? I'm not but I've ridden shotgun a couple times when I was with friends who suddenly got calls. Not only does the emergency vehicle have to stay moving, but other drivers need to yield quickly.
As far as I can tell the only possible reason for implementing such a system is that IBM has recently developed a large portfolio in the trauma treatment and tort industries. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I don't actually believe that, but it definitely fits from a certain angle.
I pay $15 for DSL but absolutely nothing for TV. It is a law of nature that there is never anything to watch on TV. It is also natural law that people must prove this law by observation a minimum of once a week. Having 15 channels instead of 150 cuts way down on your observation time.
Ah, so Vista isn't malware either? Shucks, I can't use one of my favorite lines on friends who ask me for help.
In other words, people are not quite as honest as expected. Depressing, yes. Surprising, no.
Doing that favors worthless nonentities. Exactly. There is no such thing as someone who toes the line all the time. The only possible result of continuing this practice is to bar from the positions that require it anyone but those personality-less nonentities who: a- have so little individuality that it is possible to destroy all traces of it from the internet, and b- have so little self respect that they are willing to.
In answer to your title, because for over fifty years, the high school curricula in most states has been systematically gutted of anything that could possibly be useful to a graduate looking for a job of any sort. The trend of everyone going to college started during Vietnam when people needed student exemptions from the draft. There really isn't much use for a bachelors in many fields except to please hiring managers who think you must be pig ignorant and stupid if you don't have one.
Anyone living in NYC has at least one fewer Second-Amendment related right than someone living in Arizona. In contrast, as of last week anyone living in Arizona has one fourth amendment right less than someone in NYC.
I call bull on the stereotype. Last time I "consulted" (quotes because he was both friend of a relative and relative of a friend so it was kinda informal) for a physicist it was to set up some of his OS 9 programs to work properly in OSX's classic mode.
Then the buying of politicians would be supplanted by the buying of judges for the purpose of getting rid of both laws and people they don't like.
What about hogging bandwidth? I know someone who downloaded a Kubuntu install dvd using his neighbor's wifi. While I agree with you in general it's a fine line.
Good idea. Why not have all interested slashdotters form a 501(c) to patent patent trolling and countersue everyone.
You are assuming that the politicians will get it if they are bludgeoned. Given our politicians -- current, former, and anyone electable in the foreseeable future -- I don't think that's a reasonable assumption.
That's true. This would be modded insightful if I hadn't used up all my mod points last week.
I have an unpatched box from '01. It has never been on line and I use it exclusively for writing code and teaching the command line. (OK so it's free BSD not Windows) but even so... I bet I'm the only geek who can live without internet and like it.
1-ignorance is not malice. 2-The fact that a post will lead to political discussion does not make it troll I call flamebait if anything.
I patented mocking stupid patents. My attorneys will contact you.
*hand pass* we can go about our business