You don't have to have a house. You don't have to have a job. But if you want a house, you have to work. It's your option. No work, no house. But many socialists would provide you with some form of accomodations, even if it's in the slums, through either rent control or forcing landlords to set aside a specific number of units for people in your situation.
It's one thing to have a short-term safety net for situations completely out of your control. It's another thing to have mandated minimums even for people that don't want to put forth effort.
Great. Now you've done it. You posted the secret to unlimited perpetual energy, and now the oil companies are going to be coming for you, and probably for everyone who has read your post. And I was going to play some Lemmings tonight. Thanks a lot.
Come on! You're on Slashdot! You should know about these conspiracies from the first posts you read! THINK OF THE REST OF US!
How large are these service reservoirs? And how much of a toxin would be required to be introduced to one before it became problematic? As I recall, treated water contains small amounts of certain chemicals that will make it difficult for many toxins to survive more than a few hours, especially for quantities required for surreptitious introduction to the water.
I have to wonder about the marketing departments of both Intel and AMD. Neither has come up with anything really imaginative that didn't invite permanent derision since the Pentium name. I used to work for Toshiba's medical imaging division, and they put considerable time into coming up with names and testing them against focus groups. The last one that I remember was the Aquilion, which was taken from the scientific name of a seabird, IIRC. That's a good name because it has an elegant sound and isn't open to instant universal derision. Celeron, Duron, and Turion just don't make the grade.
On Windows at least, Mozilla has been keeping profiles in the user's directory (at least by default) since long before the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox line came out. The normal location is under Application Data\Mozilla. I believe it has had a similar setup on Linux, though I don't have a Linux installation with Firefox available to me right now.
The idea that any government can exist without any kind of intelligence architecture is at best naive. How else would the government be able to provide in-depth defense against smuggling to avoid tariffs (money to pay elected officials and their basic support staff, not to mention the military, has to come from somewhere)?
The world is interconnected, and even those that like to claim total self-sufficiency cannot help but admit that their own welfare is tied to that of other countries. No one country can have an economic collapse without affecting the rest of the world, at least in small part. The minimal impact would be the loss of a trading partner for its neighbors, but those neighbors would likely have to deal with economic refugees, and then would have to change its own policies to deal with it. Those changes ripple. Not being willing to put forth even an effort to see whether something is coming -- politically, economically, or militarily -- is suicide.
You should be planning for the LoTR: Super-Extended Titanium Edition 24 Dual-Layer Disc Multiple Format Surround Screen with 27.1 Speaker Immersion Encoding anyway.
Pfft. Platinum Edition. Your geek license should be revoked.
Cost doesn't matter to some people if they want it. People with chrome rims expensive enough to have bought another car are a niche market. Most people continue to use the basic set that was fit at the factory, and for these people, this might well make sense. If it's not at a reasonable price, though, it will be relegated to a similar niche market.
There's doing the trick, and then doing the trick quickly. Sure, your find string works, but for me, I'd rather use slocate. And grep may work for many things, but there are others that are more difficult to find, and when you're grepping several gigabytes, a centralized index will almost always be far faster and more effective.
if the tweels cost 3x as much, there is no saving here
If they last 3x as long (as the article suggests they might) then it balances out, and there is at least a possibility of savings of time from not having to change the tires as often, not to mention the lower volume of scrap material.
The published budget actually does contain some fairly detailed information on where money is going. Further, there are things that are expected to occur, and have been expected to occur, such as espionage, that are not specifically delineated in the Constitution. Even back then, governments spied on each other, and this kind of thing would have happened even then. It wasn't as widespread, but it did occur. Benjamin Franklin did this while in London before he was expelled as official colonial representatives when he got hold of letters sent by the Massachusetts governor and arranged for them to be published anonymously in Boston.
This is one of the reasons that we have civilian oversight of the intelligence budget in Congress. No, it's not perfect, and there are members that are should come off of it IMHO, but it's better than many nations have.
I'm of the overall thought that government is about twice as big as it should be, but there are things that are required, and have been required for centuries, for any government to exist. Spying is among them, and the details of it need to remain secret for obvious reasons.
What about the Apollo-Soyuz docking in the 70s? Two command centers in different nations speaking different languages made things much more difficult, I would imagine.
It doesn't invalidate your point -- it was still around 30 years ago -- but it was a bit later than you remembered.
The new rule is that all shuttle missions must be planned so that a docking with the ISS is possible. This reduces payloads and prevents some work, such as that which needs to be done soon on the Hubble Space Telescope.
In any case, work on the ISS is so backed up that I believe all of the coming missions are planned to be for work on the station. The shuttle has become half of what it was planned to be -- an inexpensive method of getting nominally mundane things done. It's an expensive construction vehicle now, the equivalent of a foreman's pickup truck, but made of gold.
This is correct, because overflights are a violation of sovereignty, but unarmed recon aircraft are hard to justify war over. Possibly armed aircraft flying at high speed over military installations at what are essentially attack altitudes are a whole other story. I just wanted to make sure those brave (crazy?) pilots got their credit, too.
I'm not sure that it's quite that good, but it is almost certainly much better than what we can get from commercial feeds. Example: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in color at (IIRC) 25cm resolution. This is from 2002, and it's my understanding that 5cm resolutions are available commercially now (if you want to pay for them). Figure the government can probably, if they need to, pick up 1cm or so resolution, maybe down to 5mm in exceptionally clear weather with no significant wind. If you have a very large analog watch, they might be able to get an idea of the time, but I don't think they're going to be reading the seconds.
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You don't have to have a house. You don't have to have a job. But if you want a house, you have to work. It's your option. No work, no house. But many socialists would provide you with some form of accomodations, even if it's in the slums, through either rent control or forcing landlords to set aside a specific number of units for people in your situation.
It's one thing to have a short-term safety net for situations completely out of your control. It's another thing to have mandated minimums even for people that don't want to put forth effort.
Great. Now you've done it. You posted the secret to unlimited perpetual energy, and now the oil companies are going to be coming for you, and probably for everyone who has read your post. And I was going to play some Lemmings tonight. Thanks a lot.
Come on! You're on Slashdot! You should know about these conspiracies from the first posts you read! THINK OF THE REST OF US!
How large are these service reservoirs? And how much of a toxin would be required to be introduced to one before it became problematic? As I recall, treated water contains small amounts of certain chemicals that will make it difficult for many toxins to survive more than a few hours, especially for quantities required for surreptitious introduction to the water.
You'd have to seriously underclock your system to get a 4MHz Pentium anything. Did you find some hidden 1/400 multiplier in your BIOS?
I have to wonder about the marketing departments of both Intel and AMD. Neither has come up with anything really imaginative that didn't invite permanent derision since the Pentium name. I used to work for Toshiba's medical imaging division, and they put considerable time into coming up with names and testing them against focus groups. The last one that I remember was the Aquilion, which was taken from the scientific name of a seabird, IIRC. That's a good name because it has an elegant sound and isn't open to instant universal derision. Celeron, Duron, and Turion just don't make the grade.
On Windows at least, Mozilla has been keeping profiles in the user's directory (at least by default) since long before the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox line came out. The normal location is under Application Data\Mozilla. I believe it has had a similar setup on Linux, though I don't have a Linux installation with Firefox available to me right now.
It costs a half billion dollars just to put the shuttle into space and bring it home, doing nothing else.
For $154 million, they'd let you touch the orbiter on the launch pad while it's fueled.
The idea that any government can exist without any kind of intelligence architecture is at best naive. How else would the government be able to provide in-depth defense against smuggling to avoid tariffs (money to pay elected officials and their basic support staff, not to mention the military, has to come from somewhere)?
The world is interconnected, and even those that like to claim total self-sufficiency cannot help but admit that their own welfare is tied to that of other countries. No one country can have an economic collapse without affecting the rest of the world, at least in small part. The minimal impact would be the loss of a trading partner for its neighbors, but those neighbors would likely have to deal with economic refugees, and then would have to change its own policies to deal with it. Those changes ripple. Not being willing to put forth even an effort to see whether something is coming -- politically, economically, or militarily -- is suicide.
You should be planning for the LoTR: Super-Extended Titanium Edition 24 Dual-Layer Disc Multiple Format Surround Screen with 27.1 Speaker Immersion Encoding anyway.
Pfft. Platinum Edition. Your geek license should be revoked.
No, there's this association of amazing electronics in Japan. They don't send us the good stuff.
And I thought pr0n over dial-up was slow. Talk about stringing yourself out...
Cost doesn't matter to some people if they want it. People with chrome rims expensive enough to have bought another car are a niche market. Most people continue to use the basic set that was fit at the factory, and for these people, this might well make sense. If it's not at a reasonable price, though, it will be relegated to a similar niche market.
You're also, then, believing that CowboyNeal even exists. What proof do you have of this?
There's doing the trick, and then doing the trick quickly. Sure, your find string works, but for me, I'd rather use slocate. And grep may work for many things, but there are others that are more difficult to find, and when you're grepping several gigabytes, a centralized index will almost always be far faster and more effective.
That's what the LA Pick is for. Besides, it's more fun to see a suspect go spinning out of control than to see them slow down on flat tires.
if the tweels cost 3x as much, there is no saving here
If they last 3x as long (as the article suggests they might) then it balances out, and there is at least a possibility of savings of time from not having to change the tires as often, not to mention the lower volume of scrap material.
The published budget actually does contain some fairly detailed information on where money is going. Further, there are things that are expected to occur, and have been expected to occur, such as espionage, that are not specifically delineated in the Constitution. Even back then, governments spied on each other, and this kind of thing would have happened even then. It wasn't as widespread, but it did occur. Benjamin Franklin did this while in London before he was expelled as official colonial representatives when he got hold of letters sent by the Massachusetts governor and arranged for them to be published anonymously in Boston.
This is one of the reasons that we have civilian oversight of the intelligence budget in Congress. No, it's not perfect, and there are members that are should come off of it IMHO, but it's better than many nations have.
I'm of the overall thought that government is about twice as big as it should be, but there are things that are required, and have been required for centuries, for any government to exist. Spying is among them, and the details of it need to remain secret for obvious reasons.
What about the Apollo-Soyuz docking in the 70s? Two command centers in different nations speaking different languages made things much more difficult, I would imagine.
It doesn't invalidate your point -- it was still around 30 years ago -- but it was a bit later than you remembered.
The new rule is that all shuttle missions must be planned so that a docking with the ISS is possible. This reduces payloads and prevents some work, such as that which needs to be done soon on the Hubble Space Telescope.
In any case, work on the ISS is so backed up that I believe all of the coming missions are planned to be for work on the station. The shuttle has become half of what it was planned to be -- an inexpensive method of getting nominally mundane things done. It's an expensive construction vehicle now, the equivalent of a foreman's pickup truck, but made of gold.
I think we'd all readily acknowledge that NASA is made up of a lot of very smart individuals.
Ajent K said it best: "A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
For these companies to already be talking about FTTH while my parents still chug along at 56k seems as if the two are living in different worlds.
They should be happy to have that. Some people don't even have the mere option of dial-up.
Weren't they responsible for confirmation of the state of the missiles in near-launch readiness?
Ooooh... My bad.
What happens if you use two mirrors a few meters apart? Could you then use interferometry to boost the resolution to sharper values?
This is correct, because overflights are a violation of sovereignty, but unarmed recon aircraft are hard to justify war over. Possibly armed aircraft flying at high speed over military installations at what are essentially attack altitudes are a whole other story. I just wanted to make sure those brave (crazy?) pilots got their credit, too.
I'm not sure that it's quite that good, but it is almost certainly much better than what we can get from commercial feeds. Example: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in color at (IIRC) 25cm resolution. This is from 2002, and it's my understanding that 5cm resolutions are available commercially now (if you want to pay for them). Figure the government can probably, if they need to, pick up 1cm or so resolution, maybe down to 5mm in exceptionally clear weather with no significant wind. If you have a very large analog watch, they might be able to get an idea of the time, but I don't think they're going to be reading the seconds.