No kidding. Even if you want to poo-poo a mechanical thermostat, how complicated is a thermistor, stable voltage reference, comparator, relay, a few other passives, and a potentiometer with a calibrated dial?
Yeah no kidding. The house I rent (built 1964) has central heat only and they put a 'new' thermostat. The damned thing has a AA battery running it, and it's not even digital. What's the point? I guess if it failed and I really needed the heat on I could pull it off the wall and just short the two control wires together to get the furnace to run.
Can you really blame me that much for being defensive? Ironically enough you get attacked enough for having the audacity to actually express your opinion on the Internet that after a while it seems like everybody is out to get you.
I guess in your situation, your only choice is 'not Trump' because he'll destroy this country the rest of the way with heretofore unknown efficiency and speed. Might even get us in a nuclear war for all we know. Sorry for your situation not giving you the choice for a write-in, that seems incredibly unfair, they're taking away any real choice!
Yeah sure they're such a great company now, forcing everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 whether they want it or not, countermanding settings you set specifically, installing 'updates' that amount to malware/spyware and calling it 'telemetry', etc etc etc. Or are all of you the 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear' types, and furthermore think that Microsoft knows what's best and everyone should just shut up and do as they're told? What are you all even DOING on Slashdot, then? If you believe all that is right then how are you different from the average, non-technical consumer sheep that just use whatever is put in front of them and don't even know that the computer they bought isn't even really theirs, it's Microsofts', because they really have no control over it? Are you really going to call ME the 'troll' here, when Microsoft is the biggest troll in the room? Bull-fucking-shit. I used Windows since v3.1 and the worst complaints about it were dependability, but I even held an MCSE at one point and learned that the haters just didn't know how to manage it properly (for the most part) -- but now they go WAY too far, and I, the former more-or-less satisfied user says "ENOUGH!", and you call ME the troll? Fuck you all sideways with a rusty chainsaw, if you don't like what I have to say, but come correct: Microsoft is the villain here, not me.
The Linux community had better go over every single line of that code to make sure MicroSuck isn't slipping in some sort of malware/surveillance code, as they're wont to do. If it contains anything that can't be examined at the sourcecode level then it's into the trash with it. Or just ignore it anyway because it comes from MicroSuck, so how could it possibly be any good?
Some guy comes along and recommends a Republican or Democrat anyway
Is your reading comprehension poor? Or do you just not understand what '3rd party candidate' means? It means someone who is not running as a Republican or Democrat. Find a Libertarian candidate and vote for him. Or are you so thoroughly indoctrinated that you don't realize there are others to vote for than the trash the GOP and DNC are putting out there? Do you want to be responsible for your vote going to someone who will further fuck up the country? It doesn't matter if your 3rd-party vote wins or not it's a protest of the way the system works and the fact that everyone in the two major parties that's running is not qualified to be POTUS.
I just did an interview over google hangouts, w/o a phone number. Don't be retarded.
Was it with a Nigerian prince, interviewing you for a work-from-home 'import/export' job that requires you to {strike}launder{/strike}transfer funds through your personal bank account?
The Sunni extremists that laughingly call themselves the 'islamic state' aren't a country at all, they're a bunch of homicial asshole animals running around the middle east cutting off peoples' heads and generally being gigantic assholes, and by the way NOBODY likes them that matters, I couldn't even beleive North Korea would tolerate them for a minute let alone let them have a nuke, China and Russia and the U.S. aren't going to start lobbing nukes at each other even if they did get a nuke and use it (nobody would believe a False Flag op by those asshole either), so that's not on my Worry List at all. Trump being POTUS and throwing his considerable bulk around and deciding someone needs a small nuke up their ass on the other hand would worry me quite a bit, and I'd hope no military commander would be stupid enough to follow any order involving using a nuke of any size unless it was legitimately a Last Resort. So please go sell your FUD somewhere else, I'm not buying it.
One of the Big Three networks also brought this back. It was less than memorable. I'd condense an hour show down to about 10 minutes total runtime by fast-forwarding through all the pointless yakity yakity yak and just getting down to the destruction derby -- but even that was so predictable as to be a bad joke. Even good booze couldn't save it for me. The whole concept has been completely played out, it's been made clear which designs are superior to all the others, they win reliably, and aside from random failures and flukes (which are few and far between) it's ho-hum boring as hell now.
TL,DR: Bored now, nothing to see here, move along..
Then do like I'm planning on doing: Find a 3rd-party candidate you can live with, and vote for them, even if they don't get elected, and suggest to as many people as you think are ready to listen that they do the same. The only way we're going to effect REAL change in our political system is to make a statement with our actions, and I believe it has to start with things like this. Neither the Republican or Democratic parties are really suitable anymore but they're so entrenched that hardly anyone realizes that we can still have other political parties (or NO political party even) in this country. You'll also have the perhaps dubious honor of being able to say, 'Hey, I didn't vote for so-and-so, it ain't my fault!' when shit goes wrong, rather than having to hang your head in shame because you backed another bozo.
Your car is not a lifestyle, it is transportation. You keep adding shit to cars that distract the driver from driving more and more and more, and you all wonder why some people are such poor drivers? Get all this crap out of your cars and just drive!
Now all we need is (somehow) Trump getting elected, and he really would destroy the world. Using even ONE of these damn things would start World War 3. Is this just sabre-rattling by the U.S. in light of the DPRK baring their chihuahua-sized teeth and yapping furiously?
A person who videos INSTEAD of rendering aid, when their aid is needed, is a shithead.
What if that person is not qualified to be a First Responder (doesn't know enough first aid to be useful and knows that, or just isn't confident enough) and they know that actual First Responders are on their way? Sure it seems callous to just stand there and video it, but otherwise they just stand there? Of course if they're all excited and acting like it's 'fun' or something then they need to be punched in the nose.. but that's besides the point. Like it or not you can't legislate 'taste' either; discouraging poor taste is up to public opinion, not Congress or the courts.
That also goes without saying.. but the average citizen won't listen to that, all they'll hear if you try is 'conspiracy theory nutjob', so we have to point out how stupid it all is and wake their sheep brains up so they'll complain and maybe we can stop asshole politicians from destroying everything.
it will give terrorists a backdoor to everybody's device
That goes without saying -- as will the fact that every cyber-criminal in the world will have access within a few weeks. At that point you may as well just post your driver's license, social security number, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else the general public can get them -- because they won't be safe anymore. It'll ruin the Internet completely because there will be NO security for anyone.
Oh, yes, you're absolutely right! And while we're at it, everybody knows that large bodies of water can drown a person in a few seconds, so we'll need a ban on those, too! No more lakes or rivers allowed, they all have to be dried up and blocked off. Put up a 30 foot high wall separating France from the Atlantic, too, since the ocean is nothing but death waiting to happen! Everyone will have to have special permits and safety training/certification for the taps in their homes, showers are frowned upon, and posession of a bathtub marks you as a terrorist since it's nothing but a murder weapon! Meanwhile let's get our scientists working on a way to prevent death-from-above, otherwise known as rain..
..then only criminals will have strong encryption. Why can't idiot politicians see this!? Legislation like this will do ABSOULUTELY NOTHING to prevent terrorism, it will only curb freedom of speech and the real security of honest, law-abiding, non-terrorist citizens!
No, friend, you find a third-party candidate you can live with, and vote for them, regardless of whether they're going to win or not, because it's the closest thing we have to a 'vote of no-confidence' in our system. We have to make a stand somewhere, and it's either start voting for 3rd party candidates, or join a militia.
Oh gee since it's totally impossible that anyone might build a working thorium reactor power plant in the future I'll just be a good little sheep and do what everyone else is doing because everyone else is doing it. Because we're all just sheep. BAAAAH. BAAAAH go the sheep, BAAAH, BAAAH!
Guess what? I think you're all wrong. What are you going to do about it? Report me to the Thought Police?
Photovoltaics are putting a band-aid on the world's energy problems. It's a useful interim solution, but it is not a long-term solution. Among other things the energy density is too low. I work for a large corporation and they're installing literally acres and acres of solar panels everywhere they can, and it's still not enough to make them independent of the public grid -- especially when you consider that the sun has to be shining for them to work at all. Enjoy the solar panels on the roof of your house, friend, I'm sure they cut your electric bill, but it's not the be-all-end-all solution to the world's energy needs, never has been, never will be, not even with wind and wave power.
No, I don't care about any 'proposal' you're referring to. People don't think far enough ahead, and that's why we as a race end up running into so many problems: putting a band-aid on things instead of fixing the real problem.
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No kidding. Even if you want to poo-poo a mechanical thermostat, how complicated is a thermistor, stable voltage reference, comparator, relay, a few other passives, and a potentiometer with a calibrated dial?
Yeah no kidding. The house I rent (built 1964) has central heat only and they put a 'new' thermostat. The damned thing has a AA battery running it, and it's not even digital. What's the point? I guess if it failed and I really needed the heat on I could pull it off the wall and just short the two control wires together to get the furnace to run.
Can you really blame me that much for being defensive? Ironically enough you get attacked enough for having the audacity to actually express your opinion on the Internet that after a while it seems like everybody is out to get you.
I guess in your situation, your only choice is 'not Trump' because he'll destroy this country the rest of the way with heretofore unknown efficiency and speed. Might even get us in a nuclear war for all we know. Sorry for your situation not giving you the choice for a write-in, that seems incredibly unfair, they're taking away any real choice!
Yeah sure they're such a great company now, forcing everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 whether they want it or not, countermanding settings you set specifically, installing 'updates' that amount to malware/spyware and calling it 'telemetry', etc etc etc. Or are all of you the 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear' types, and furthermore think that Microsoft knows what's best and everyone should just shut up and do as they're told? What are you all even DOING on Slashdot, then? If you believe all that is right then how are you different from the average, non-technical consumer sheep that just use whatever is put in front of them and don't even know that the computer they bought isn't even really theirs, it's Microsofts', because they really have no control over it? Are you really going to call ME the 'troll' here, when Microsoft is the biggest troll in the room? Bull-fucking-shit. I used Windows since v3.1 and the worst complaints about it were dependability, but I even held an MCSE at one point and learned that the haters just didn't know how to manage it properly (for the most part) -- but now they go WAY too far, and I, the former more-or-less satisfied user says "ENOUGH!", and you call ME the troll? Fuck you all sideways with a rusty chainsaw, if you don't like what I have to say, but come correct: Microsoft is the villain here, not me.
The Linux community had better go over every single line of that code to make sure MicroSuck isn't slipping in some sort of malware/surveillance code, as they're wont to do. If it contains anything that can't be examined at the sourcecode level then it's into the trash with it. Or just ignore it anyway because it comes from MicroSuck, so how could it possibly be any good?
Talk about voting for a 3rd-party candidate
Some guy comes along and recommends a Republican or Democrat anyway
Is your reading comprehension poor? Or do you just not understand what '3rd party candidate' means? It means someone who is not running as a Republican or Democrat. Find a Libertarian candidate and vote for him. Or are you so thoroughly indoctrinated that you don't realize there are others to vote for than the trash the GOP and DNC are putting out there? Do you want to be responsible for your vote going to someone who will further fuck up the country? It doesn't matter if your 3rd-party vote wins or not it's a protest of the way the system works and the fact that everyone in the two major parties that's running is not qualified to be POTUS.
I just did an interview over google hangouts, w/o a phone number. Don't be retarded.
Was it with a Nigerian prince, interviewing you for a work-from-home 'import/export' job that requires you to {strike}launder{/strike}transfer funds through your personal bank account?
..I got some bad news for you, AC.
The Sunni extremists that laughingly call themselves the 'islamic state' aren't a country at all, they're a bunch of homicial asshole animals running around the middle east cutting off peoples' heads and generally being gigantic assholes, and by the way NOBODY likes them that matters, I couldn't even beleive North Korea would tolerate them for a minute let alone let them have a nuke, China and Russia and the U.S. aren't going to start lobbing nukes at each other even if they did get a nuke and use it (nobody would believe a False Flag op by those asshole either), so that's not on my Worry List at all. Trump being POTUS and throwing his considerable bulk around and deciding someone needs a small nuke up their ass on the other hand would worry me quite a bit, and I'd hope no military commander would be stupid enough to follow any order involving using a nuke of any size unless it was legitimately a Last Resort. So please go sell your FUD somewhere else, I'm not buying it.
One of the Big Three networks also brought this back. It was less than memorable. I'd condense an hour show down to about 10 minutes total runtime by fast-forwarding through all the pointless yakity yakity yak and just getting down to the destruction derby -- but even that was so predictable as to be a bad joke. Even good booze couldn't save it for me. The whole concept has been completely played out, it's been made clear which designs are superior to all the others, they win reliably, and aside from random failures and flukes (which are few and far between) it's ho-hum boring as hell now.
TL,DR: Bored now, nothing to see here, move along..
Then do like I'm planning on doing: Find a 3rd-party candidate you can live with, and vote for them, even if they don't get elected, and suggest to as many people as you think are ready to listen that they do the same. The only way we're going to effect REAL change in our political system is to make a statement with our actions, and I believe it has to start with things like this. Neither the Republican or Democratic parties are really suitable anymore but they're so entrenched that hardly anyone realizes that we can still have other political parties (or NO political party even) in this country. You'll also have the perhaps dubious honor of being able to say, 'Hey, I didn't vote for so-and-so, it ain't my fault!' when shit goes wrong, rather than having to hang your head in shame because you backed another bozo.
Your car is not a lifestyle, it is transportation. You keep adding shit to cars that distract the driver from driving more and more and more, and you all wonder why some people are such poor drivers? Get all this crap out of your cars and just drive!
Now all we need is (somehow) Trump getting elected, and he really would destroy the world. Using even ONE of these damn things would start World War 3. Is this just sabre-rattling by the U.S. in light of the DPRK baring their chihuahua-sized teeth and yapping furiously?
A person who videos INSTEAD of rendering aid, when their aid is needed, is a shithead.
What if that person is not qualified to be a First Responder (doesn't know enough first aid to be useful and knows that, or just isn't confident enough) and they know that actual First Responders are on their way? Sure it seems callous to just stand there and video it, but otherwise they just stand there? Of course if they're all excited and acting like it's 'fun' or something then they need to be punched in the nose.. but that's besides the point. Like it or not you can't legislate 'taste' either; discouraging poor taste is up to public opinion, not Congress or the courts.
Whether it's intentional or not, this legislation will clearly violate people's First Amendment rights, and as such it cannot become Law.
That also goes without saying.. but the average citizen won't listen to that, all they'll hear if you try is 'conspiracy theory nutjob', so we have to point out how stupid it all is and wake their sheep brains up so they'll complain and maybe we can stop asshole politicians from destroying everything.
it will give terrorists a backdoor to everybody's device
That goes without saying -- as will the fact that every cyber-criminal in the world will have access within a few weeks. At that point you may as well just post your driver's license, social security number, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else the general public can get them -- because they won't be safe anymore. It'll ruin the Internet completely because there will be NO security for anyone.
Oh, yes, you're absolutely right! And while we're at it, everybody knows that large bodies of water can drown a person in a few seconds, so we'll need a ban on those, too! No more lakes or rivers allowed, they all have to be dried up and blocked off. Put up a 30 foot high wall separating France from the Atlantic, too, since the ocean is nothing but death waiting to happen! Everyone will have to have special permits and safety training/certification for the taps in their homes, showers are frowned upon, and posession of a bathtub marks you as a terrorist since it's nothing but a murder weapon! Meanwhile let's get our scientists working on a way to prevent death-from-above, otherwise known as rain..
I find it funny that Slashdotters aparently have never watched Fight Club, or they'd know this.
..then only criminals will have strong encryption. Why can't idiot politicians see this!? Legislation like this will do ABSOULUTELY NOTHING to prevent terrorism, it will only curb freedom of speech and the real security of honest, law-abiding, non-terrorist citizens!
No, friend, you find a third-party candidate you can live with, and vote for them, regardless of whether they're going to win or not, because it's the closest thing we have to a 'vote of no-confidence' in our system. We have to make a stand somewhere, and it's either start voting for 3rd party candidates, or join a militia.
Want to use a third party browser? $5.
Go ahead and let them try that shit, it'll trigger the anti-trust lawsuit to end all lawsuits.
Oh gee since it's totally impossible that anyone might build a working thorium reactor power plant in the future I'll just be a good little sheep and do what everyone else is doing because everyone else is doing it. Because we're all just sheep. BAAAAH. BAAAAH go the sheep, BAAAH, BAAAH!
Guess what? I think you're all wrong. What are you going to do about it? Report me to the Thought Police?
No thanks. I'll stick with thorium reactors as our best choice. And I'll stick by fusion power once they get that figured out.
Photovoltaics are putting a band-aid on the world's energy problems. It's a useful interim solution, but it is not a long-term solution. Among other things the energy density is too low. I work for a large corporation and they're installing literally acres and acres of solar panels everywhere they can, and it's still not enough to make them independent of the public grid -- especially when you consider that the sun has to be shining for them to work at all. Enjoy the solar panels on the roof of your house, friend, I'm sure they cut your electric bill, but it's not the be-all-end-all solution to the world's energy needs, never has been, never will be, not even with wind and wave power.
No, I don't care about any 'proposal' you're referring to. People don't think far enough ahead, and that's why we as a race end up running into so many problems: putting a band-aid on things instead of fixing the real problem.