One of the first things you learn in the drivers manual is not to park by a fire hydrant.
That depends on which country you're in. And, by the sounds of other parts of this thread, on which street of which district of which county of which conurbation of which state of America you're in, if you're in America at all. I take it from the wildly varying rules described above (and probably below) that the "Driver's Manual" [*] is issued valid for a particular length of highway between two junctions.
Seriously, how - in "one nation under dog," - can you have significantly different driving and road-marking rules in different places? Or do you have to get a passport and visa to cross over internal borders as my wife had to do when she lived in Soviet Russia? Is the effect of changing time zones *that* bad?
Incidentally, the local fire brigade here have a way of reminding people to adhere to rules about not obstructing access to fire vehicles by parking on both sides of a road for example : They just drive down the road anyway to get to their destination. And if they trash 16 cars in one street, half of which are parked illegally, that's the driver's problem to take up with the insurance company. (10 of them complained ; so the fire brigade sent the insurance companies copies of the warning letters which had been hand delivered the previous year about "this road is an emergency vehicle access route. Do not park on the side with the 'do not park here' markings." The insurance companies universally refused the claims, leaving the customers with smashed cars, no insurance settlement AND part of the bill for repairs to the fire truck. Subtlety is not their strong point. My buddy who lived on that road had a small car, properly parked, and was howling with laughter.)
[*]("Driver's Automatic", surely? That being America where people can't chew gum, think polysyllabic thoughts, drive straight and change gear at the same time.)
OS vendors take the view that you can either move forward with them, or die in a fire.
The second word of your rant is the important one. "vendor" : one who sells something. And once they've sold it, they see no reason to pay the slightest bit of attention to the buyer, except as a potential source of future sales. And after making that sale, the only interest they have is in the sale after that.
I think that it's crap too, but I don't kid myself where it's roots lay. It's i nthe infality of a sale.
While I hate it - absolutely hate it, the likely only way out of this is to move, in the software world, from software sales to software leasing. Which in turn leads directly to the nightmares of DRM, recurring license fees and so many other horrors. But unless a software house is receiving regular income from a product, then thy are simply not going to focus on it, but instead they'll focus on the new release, and the sales that will bring. And so, "Bling!", "Shiny!", the tyranny of the new.
Configure your software so it can be leased, and control the leases with hardware dongles. You'll easily be pulling in $15,000/seat/year, and your customers will be happier with that than paying for 5 years upfront. Leasing is, after all, tax-deductible every year, unlike a purchase which amortises.
Your list does a lot of double-counting. What is the difference between a clay pigeon shooter and a competition shooter on which basis you count them separately? Rabbits etc (extremely rare) versus your amorphous "private hunters" class. (To be honest, I think you're skirting around saying "poachers" ; I bloody well wish there were more poachers, because I've been trying to find a supply of bunny for the pot for years. No butchers in the city can get rabbit, or has been able to get it for years.)
I live in Scotland and though I'm not a country bumpkin, I'm not a city slicker either. Rabbit with the guts in as well as the lead shot would suit me fine. The wife would up-chuck, probably, so I'd have dress it out in the yard before she gets back form work.
Most of the rabbits; I've eaten have been ferreted, not shot (poachers like it quiet). Pheasants... mostly shot by twats from some bank who rent guns for their posturing (IME ; yours may vary, particularly if you're getting your pheasant by night). Grouse likewise. Pigeons and squirrels I've never heard of someone hunting with guns - but using poisons as pest control, yes. Got to be careful with the poisons these days - there are landlords facing jail for the raptors found dead on their property.
Farmers I covered ; a good number have one or two guns ; many don't have any, but do have a friend. Farmers don't make up anything like 9% of the population (the last figure I had for the entire agricultural workforce was substantially less than 1%). Remembering that in the region of 80% of the population live in towns of 20,000 or more inhabitants, and people who live in the "country" are decidedly the exception to the norm, then your personal sample may be well off the average.
Vets : maybe use a gun, maybe a humane killer that uses shotgun cartridges - are they licensed as guns (probably - that's a group I hadn't considered - along with the zoo keepers)? And how many are there in the countries of the UK? A thousand perhaps (for 20 per county)?
Army cadets? One of my friends (well, guy I shared an apartment with) was put on a charge at the OTC for not returning his weapon to the lockers properly. So you're implying that their younger colleagues are allowed (or even required) to own guns at home? That stretches my credibility, a long, long way. Besides, even if every member of the armed forces were to possess a weapon at home (very, very dubious ; the only member of the forces I've known at all closely have been medics of various grades, but that's a biased sample too), that would only net you around 85,000 (and declining) to add to your tally.
Besides, I thought we were talking about personal weapons, not ones owned by the army, navy, police, or other organisation as part of their job.
A NSL only gives the government authority to grab information without a warrant that would otherwise be grabbable with a warrant.
I see the relevance of that, if NSLs are in the least bit relevant.
Do you know (e.g., any previous public statement by Truecrypt developer(s) ) that NSLs are in the slightest bit relevant? It's a very common error of logic on Slashdot for most commentators to make the incorrect assumption that everyone in the world is an American Citizen living in America. And who is therefore subject to pressure from an NSL. Which sounds very silly to me, being a non-American, not resident in American and not likely to travel via or to America in the foreseeable future.
There is a faint rumour that the Truecrypt developer(s) are at least partly based in Eastern Europe. Where the subtlety of the previous security regimes is... "legendary" is a good word. The arrival of an NSL is more likely to be accompanied by a sympathetic hand written note (or tape recorder with self-igniting tape) saying "The fucking Yankees know who you are. Kill it. Now. Or we'll let them have you, and then your friends."
Every time that he launches a cowardly assault on his guard's boots with his face, he'll get a fair trial and another 15 years on his pre-trial remand time (of course he can't go onto main trial with outstanding trivial charges unsettled against him - that would be unfair!) ; every time he attempts to damage his guards manliness by swallowing his jizz, he'll be charged tried and convicted for sodomy (Chelsea Manning is going to "go down" on the same charges, I'm sure).
Look, Snowden's trial will be perfectly fair. And if he has to live to 378 for it to start, well that's his problem.
Sheesh - next thing you know you'll be complaining that it's not fair for people to have to pay for the electricity supplied to their testicle-mounted heaters. You have testicle mounted heaters, don't you - like it says in the NSA's "Human Anatomy for Faceless Automata Guarding Traitors" text book. That's where you plug the mains power in to warm them up if they're cold, or cool them off if they're hot.
9% of people own guns, or the number of registered guns in the country is 9% of the population (which would be a bit shy of 6 million)?
Thinking around all my various friends and family, I can only think of two who own weapons - one of whom was in the shooting club at university and still owns his couple of target guns, which he keeps at it's registered address, some 300 miles from where he lives with his wife and children. They haven't been fired for a decade or so. The other person was a competitor in the last-but-one (or two?) Olympic biathlon and also has several weapons at her university's gun club too - which is a different 300 miles from her home.
There is probably a farm worker or two with a rat-blasting gun or two at home.
"Hunting" : the only two variants that happen in this country are fishing and fox-hunting, and neither requires guns (fishermen's catapults for scattering bait on the water are also classified as offensive weapons and can get you jail time if used as weapons ; though if you're lugging your fishing kit about with the catapult in the bag, you'll probably not get done for it ; same logic for gutting knives etc ; they have "legitimate other uses" than as weapons).
You're probably including starting pistols and air rifles in the count too. If it were 9% of people owning a gun, then I'd know in the order of a dozen people who currently own a gun. Adding up including a couple of people I knew in school who had air rifles 35 years ago and I still can't get up to a dozen people I've ever known to own a gun. Not even counting decommissioned antiques.
the appearance of a TV that will produce a better picture. That's something, right?
Yes. It's called marketing.
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Am I meant to be on Slashdot, AND a mouth-breather, and unable to type, and have to stop chewing gum and halt peristalsis while posting. Oh, I know, I'll bitch about the retard-o-matic code!
But not until my $1,200 3d printer can print me a girlfriend.
Idid go Googling for a "3d shape file artificial vagina" for your printer, and I'd be flat-out astonished if it had never been done before. But I got as far as this and decided to stop.
I'm no doctor, but I've read a lot on this subject (mainly in order to debate loony antivaxers) and from what I understand, it's safer for a couple of unvaccinated kids to go to school with a bunch more vaccinated kids, because of herd immunity
This works if the success rate of vaccination is 100% ; it's not, it's typically in the high 90s of %. So the unvaccinated kids are protected form getting the bug by herd immunity, but they present a hazard to the people protecting them, who are only (say) 95% protected if the unvaccinated kids import the disease from their filthy family circumstances.
Bad deal all round, for the vaccinated kids.
If the parents don't want to vaccinate their kids, that's fine. But they've violated the social contract with the rest of society, and don't get to use the Health Service (I'm talking about the civilised world here, not America), their phone calls to the police are hung up at the station, their cars are fenced onto their own homes because they're not allowed to use publicly-funded roads, and if their house burns down, the fire brigade will bring marshmallows and a sound system.
Oh, and they get the option of home-schooling, or paying for a private school. I'll allow them to buy train tickets (would they be allowed to use banks owned by the government? Debatable.) after they've walked to the station.
(yes... when I was in college, I was asked to help someone who had some private things stored on his laptop... and when the thieves stole it, they demanded $3000 or else they would post all the nudie pictures of his GF that the victim took to the Internet.)
What on earth did your friend (for which I expect that you mean "yourself") expect from you? The hardware with the data on it has gone ; the thieves have it, they know what they have, and they know enough to be able to contact the person they stole it from, so it's pretty likely that they know how to contact the girlfriend in question.
Were you expected to somehow reach out through the airwaves and wipe the drive remotely, as well as all the drive and memory sticks to which they'd already copied the extortion-worthy pictures? OK - I'm told there are tools like that for Macs, in which case your "friend" either had them installed and hadn't used them for some reason, or they weren't installed, or hadn't worked (e.g., the pictures were now on another floppy somewhere other than the stolen computer).
Or, were you meant to be some sort of private detective, track down the thieves and beat them with a $5 wrench until they promise to not post their backups of the pictures to the net after you let them go.
Or were you just part of the find - murder - corpse disposal squad? That's a smart move, boasting about it in a public forum.
Or were you the one who had to explain to the girlfriend what happened. Actually, that's about the only credible scenario I can come up with - explaining that some bad shit had happened that your "friend" would have had a hard time predicting, and that the consequences were going to happen whatever your "friend" and/ or the girlfriend did. What - you expected the blackmailers to stay brought?
The story simply is not credible.
I smell something more sinister. The thieves knew the people they stole from, perhaps (so they knew that $3000 was a credible first bleed ; and they knew the images would cause embarrassment). Or the pictures had been taken without the girlfriend's consent. Or it was the girlfriend that the "official" girlfriend didn't know about.
I'm wondering who the fuck trusts MS enough to use Bitlocker. I don't.
The corporate IT people who provide this laptop [types - this one] for their corporate purposes using my skills trust MS enough to mandate Bitlocker on all their laptops. The user doesn't get an option - if the machine connects to their network, it must have Bitlocker installed and running, otherwise the machine won't be allowed any network traffic.
Their machine ; their choice.
Even if I had a Windows machine at home, that's not going to persuade me to use it. Or Windows.
Like I said, the house in question was built about 1870... which I make to be 140-odd years ago.
Then, having a bathroom (as opposed to a toilet) was pretty unusual. Most people (e.g. the 3 or 4 servants who lived in the attic rooms) would have had a chamber pot to piss and shit into during the night, and an ewer of water and a wash basin for the morning. And after the servants got up and cleaned themselves, their first task would have been to light the fires in the kitchen to warm up the stove and start to make warm water for their masters to wash with.
Different world - I remember finding the pull-wires for the servants call-bells when we were re-wiring the house after we moved in. We found the original electrical wiring from circa 1890 ; one of the early owners was a real technophile, in that day. But two parallel single-strand copper wires with rubber (yes, rubber!) insulation, designed for 12V DC and now (then, 1970s) carrying 240V AC... With the rubber perished to the point of falling to dust. Lovely. I like antiques, but I had no compunction about helping Dad to rip that stuff out and pull new twin+earth with the antiques. For the fiddly bits we trained the cat to run through the floorboards towing string to pull the next cable. Herring beats ripping up acres of floorboards!
I don't know the count around the Hawaiian islands, but when I was on a volcanology holiday on Tenerife, Islas Canarias, a couple of years ago the count of "sector collapse" scars identified on the seabed around the islands was in the mid-20, and only likely to go up. That points to around one collapse every couple of hundred thousand years.
If I lived on a coastline exposed to that threat, I'd have included it in my considerations over where to move. As it was I just counted storms, global warming and the Storegga slides.
My keyboard is wired to USB. But without the keyboard, I hardly use the tablet. Type on that piece of shit on-screen keyboard? No. (That means every on-screen keyboard I've used, though some suck worse than others.)
And yes, the risks of this should have been perfectly obvious,
As someone who has more knowledge of chemistry than the average man on the street, it's not particularly obvious to me, a priori. OTOH, as someone who walks past waste segregation drums several times a day between the tea shack and my worksite, one of which is dedicated to "oily rags", with signage about the hazard of spontaneous combustion of such oil-soaked rags (oily filters, etc)... that would have probably red-flagged such a change of procedure to me.
IIRC, a lot of nuclear waste involves dissolving in nitric acid followed by pH buffering. So, nitrates and high-surface area carbon-rich material. Hmmm, that's not a good recipe.
TFS (and probably TFA, I'm not moved to follow through on this story) shows confusion about their terminology.
no showers, no soap, no shampoo, and no deodorant. [...] not washing.
Well, hell, I filled the not showering thing when I was doing field work by the simple process of working from a tent in the mountains where the washing facilities consisted of a cloth and a lake (not even a bucket). Soap, shampoo and deodorant were not weight that I was going to pack into the area when I had to carry my weekly food and fuel rations in.
Why do you assume that everyone has a home with a shower? Our bath was installed in about 1870 and my parents (who still live there) see no reason to install a shower. I literally did not know how to use a shower when I went to university and discovered that was whet the Halls had.
People OD on heroin without being horribly uncomfortable.
And there, in a nutshell, you have the problem for many supporters of judicial murder. While I'm not going to claim that all of them are hypocrites, there are certainly many people who have the contra-Constitutional opinion that cruel and unusual punishments should be applied to criminals. So an effective and pain-free method of execution is always going to meet obstruction from the "make them suffer" brigade.
Hey, where do you think the US Govt gets it's torturers from? Syria? Egypt? Or good old home-grown normal people?
Plus, of course, who is going to get sued when the drug you inject into the to-be-executed victim turns out to be 1% heroin, 90% talc, and 9% bleaching powder. The victim would probably survive, after weeks of agony. And for sure everyone involved is goign to be sued to blazes.
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Impact the environment hard enough and there'll be nothing left large enough to bother looking at.
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That depends on which country you're in. And, by the sounds of other parts of this thread, on which street of which district of which county of which conurbation of which state of America you're in, if you're in America at all. I take it from the wildly varying rules described above (and probably below) that the "Driver's Manual" [*] is issued valid for a particular length of highway between two junctions.
Seriously, how - in "one nation under dog," - can you have significantly different driving and road-marking rules in different places? Or do you have to get a passport and visa to cross over internal borders as my wife had to do when she lived in Soviet Russia? Is the effect of changing time zones *that* bad?
Incidentally, the local fire brigade here have a way of reminding people to adhere to rules about not obstructing access to fire vehicles by parking on both sides of a road for example : They just drive down the road anyway to get to their destination. And if they trash 16 cars in one street, half of which are parked illegally, that's the driver's problem to take up with the insurance company. (10 of them complained ; so the fire brigade sent the insurance companies copies of the warning letters which had been hand delivered the previous year about "this road is an emergency vehicle access route. Do not park on the side with the 'do not park here' markings." The insurance companies universally refused the claims, leaving the customers with smashed cars, no insurance settlement AND part of the bill for repairs to the fire truck. Subtlety is not their strong point. My buddy who lived on that road had a small car, properly parked, and was howling with laughter.) [*]("Driver's Automatic", surely? That being America where people can't chew gum, think polysyllabic thoughts, drive straight and change gear at the same time.)
They don't need precision. They've got nukes.
To quote the Revd Oliver Cromwell, "Kill them all. Let God sort them out."
The second word of your rant is the important one. "vendor" : one who sells something. And once they've sold it, they see no reason to pay the slightest bit of attention to the buyer, except as a potential source of future sales. And after making that sale, the only interest they have is in the sale after that.
I think that it's crap too, but I don't kid myself where it's roots lay. It's i nthe infality of a sale.
While I hate it - absolutely hate it, the likely only way out of this is to move, in the software world, from software sales to software leasing. Which in turn leads directly to the nightmares of DRM, recurring license fees and so many other horrors. But unless a software house is receiving regular income from a product, then thy are simply not going to focus on it, but instead they'll focus on the new release, and the sales that will bring. And so, "Bling!", "Shiny!", the tyranny of the new.
Configure your software so it can be leased, and control the leases with hardware dongles. You'll easily be pulling in $15,000 /seat /year, and your customers will be happier with that than paying for 5 years upfront. Leasing is, after all, tax-deductible every year, unlike a purchase which amortises.
I live in Scotland and though I'm not a country bumpkin, I'm not a city slicker either. Rabbit with the guts in as well as the lead shot would suit me fine. The wife would up-chuck, probably, so I'd have dress it out in the yard before she gets back form work.
Most of the rabbits; I've eaten have been ferreted, not shot (poachers like it quiet). Pheasants ... mostly shot by twats from some bank who rent guns for their posturing (IME ; yours may vary, particularly if you're getting your pheasant by night). Grouse likewise. Pigeons and squirrels I've never heard of someone hunting with guns - but using poisons as pest control, yes. Got to be careful with the poisons these days - there are landlords facing jail for the raptors found dead on their property.
Farmers I covered ; a good number have one or two guns ; many don't have any, but do have a friend. Farmers don't make up anything like 9% of the population (the last figure I had for the entire agricultural workforce was substantially less than 1%). Remembering that in the region of 80% of the population live in towns of 20,000 or more inhabitants, and people who live in the "country" are decidedly the exception to the norm, then your personal sample may be well off the average.
Vets : maybe use a gun, maybe a humane killer that uses shotgun cartridges - are they licensed as guns (probably - that's a group I hadn't considered - along with the zoo keepers)? And how many are there in the countries of the UK? A thousand perhaps (for 20 per county)?
Army cadets? One of my friends (well, guy I shared an apartment with) was put on a charge at the OTC for not returning his weapon to the lockers properly. So you're implying that their younger colleagues are allowed (or even required) to own guns at home? That stretches my credibility, a long, long way. Besides, even if every member of the armed forces were to possess a weapon at home (very, very dubious ; the only member of the forces I've known at all closely have been medics of various grades, but that's a biased sample too), that would only net you around 85,000 (and declining) to add to your tally.
Besides, I thought we were talking about personal weapons, not ones owned by the army, navy, police, or other organisation as part of their job.
I see the relevance of that, if NSLs are in the least bit relevant.
Do you know (e.g., any previous public statement by Truecrypt developer(s) ) that NSLs are in the slightest bit relevant? It's a very common error of logic on Slashdot for most commentators to make the incorrect assumption that everyone in the world is an American Citizen living in America. And who is therefore subject to pressure from an NSL. Which sounds very silly to me, being a non-American, not resident in American and not likely to travel via or to America in the foreseeable future.
There is a faint rumour that the Truecrypt developer(s) are at least partly based in Eastern Europe. Where the subtlety of the previous security regimes is ... "legendary" is a good word. The arrival of an NSL is more likely to be accompanied by a sympathetic hand written note (or tape recorder with self-igniting tape) saying "The fucking Yankees know who you are. Kill it. Now. Or we'll let them have you, and then your friends."
Look, Snowden's trial will be perfectly fair. And if he has to live to 378 for it to start, well that's his problem.
Sheesh - next thing you know you'll be complaining that it's not fair for people to have to pay for the electricity supplied to their testicle-mounted heaters. You have testicle mounted heaters, don't you - like it says in the NSA's "Human Anatomy for Faceless Automata Guarding Traitors" text book. That's where you plug the mains power in to warm them up if they're cold, or cool them off if they're hot.
Thinking around all my various friends and family, I can only think of two who own weapons - one of whom was in the shooting club at university and still owns his couple of target guns, which he keeps at it's registered address, some 300 miles from where he lives with his wife and children. They haven't been fired for a decade or so. The other person was a competitor in the last-but-one (or two?) Olympic biathlon and also has several weapons at her university's gun club too - which is a different 300 miles from her home.
There is probably a farm worker or two with a rat-blasting gun or two at home.
"Hunting" : the only two variants that happen in this country are fishing and fox-hunting, and neither requires guns (fishermen's catapults for scattering bait on the water are also classified as offensive weapons and can get you jail time if used as weapons ; though if you're lugging your fishing kit about with the catapult in the bag, you'll probably not get done for it ; same logic for gutting knives etc ; they have "legitimate other uses" than as weapons).
You're probably including starting pistols and air rifles in the count too. If it were 9% of people owning a gun, then I'd know in the order of a dozen people who currently own a gun. Adding up including a couple of people I knew in school who had air rifles 35 years ago and I still can't get up to a dozen people I've ever known to own a gun. Not even counting decommissioned antiques.
Come back touting your faith when you've got some evidence.
£2/year to see Brenda shot? Where do I sign up?
No ammunition is readily available in the UK. Because almost nobody owns guns.
Yes. It's called marketing.
What the fuck is the server up to now? :
Am I meant to be on Slashdot, AND a mouth-breather, and unable to type, and have to stop chewing gum and halt peristalsis while posting. Oh, I know, I'll bitch about the retard-o-matic code!
Idid go Googling for a "3d shape file artificial vagina" for your printer, and I'd be flat-out astonished if it had never been done before. But I got as far as this and decided to stop.
This works if the success rate of vaccination is 100% ; it's not, it's typically in the high 90s of %. So the unvaccinated kids are protected form getting the bug by herd immunity, but they present a hazard to the people protecting them, who are only (say) 95% protected if the unvaccinated kids import the disease from their filthy family circumstances.
Bad deal all round, for the vaccinated kids. If the parents don't want to vaccinate their kids, that's fine. But they've violated the social contract with the rest of society, and don't get to use the Health Service (I'm talking about the civilised world here, not America), their phone calls to the police are hung up at the station, their cars are fenced onto their own homes because they're not allowed to use publicly-funded roads, and if their house burns down, the fire brigade will bring marshmallows and a sound system.
Oh, and they get the option of home-schooling, or paying for a private school. I'll allow them to buy train tickets (would they be allowed to use banks owned by the government? Debatable.) after they've walked to the station.
What on earth did your friend (for which I expect that you mean "yourself") expect from you? The hardware with the data on it has gone ; the thieves have it, they know what they have, and they know enough to be able to contact the person they stole it from, so it's pretty likely that they know how to contact the girlfriend in question.
The story simply is not credible.
I smell something more sinister. The thieves knew the people they stole from, perhaps (so they knew that $3000 was a credible first bleed ; and they knew the images would cause embarrassment). Or the pictures had been taken without the girlfriend's consent. Or it was the girlfriend that the "official" girlfriend didn't know about.
The corporate IT people who provide this laptop [types - this one] for their corporate purposes using my skills trust MS enough to mandate Bitlocker on all their laptops. The user doesn't get an option - if the machine connects to their network, it must have Bitlocker installed and running, otherwise the machine won't be allowed any network traffic.
Their machine ; their choice.
Even if I had a Windows machine at home, that's not going to persuade me to use it. Or Windows.
Then, having a bathroom (as opposed to a toilet) was pretty unusual. Most people (e.g. the 3 or 4 servants who lived in the attic rooms) would have had a chamber pot to piss and shit into during the night, and an ewer of water and a wash basin for the morning. And after the servants got up and cleaned themselves, their first task would have been to light the fires in the kitchen to warm up the stove and start to make warm water for their masters to wash with.
Different world - I remember finding the pull-wires for the servants call-bells when we were re-wiring the house after we moved in. We found the original electrical wiring from circa 1890 ; one of the early owners was a real technophile, in that day. But two parallel single-strand copper wires with rubber (yes, rubber!) insulation, designed for 12V DC and now (then, 1970s) carrying 240V AC ... With the rubber perished to the point of falling to dust. Lovely. I like antiques, but I had no compunction about helping Dad to rip that stuff out and pull new twin+earth with the antiques. For the fiddly bits we trained the cat to run through the floorboards towing string to pull the next cable. Herring beats ripping up acres of floorboards!
If I lived on a coastline exposed to that threat, I'd have included it in my considerations over where to move. As it was I just counted storms, global warming and the Storegga slides.
My keyboard is wired to USB. But without the keyboard, I hardly use the tablet. Type on that piece of shit on-screen keyboard? No. (That means every on-screen keyboard I've used, though some suck worse than others.)
One pint for being a damned good SF author whose ink-on-paper books I've enjoyed.
Second pint for being a clear thinker and vocal speaker on this - and many other - points.
As someone who has more knowledge of chemistry than the average man on the street, it's not particularly obvious to me, a priori. OTOH, as someone who walks past waste segregation drums several times a day between the tea shack and my worksite, one of which is dedicated to "oily rags", with signage about the hazard of spontaneous combustion of such oil-soaked rags (oily filters, etc) ... that would have probably red-flagged such a change of procedure to me.
IIRC, a lot of nuclear waste involves dissolving in nitric acid followed by pH buffering. So, nitrates and high-surface area carbon-rich material. Hmmm, that's not a good recipe.
Well, hell, I filled the not showering thing when I was doing field work by the simple process of working from a tent in the mountains where the washing facilities consisted of a cloth and a lake (not even a bucket). Soap, shampoo and deodorant were not weight that I was going to pack into the area when I had to carry my weekly food and fuel rations in.
Why do you assume that everyone has a home with a shower? Our bath was installed in about 1870 and my parents (who still live there) see no reason to install a shower. I literally did not know how to use a shower when I went to university and discovered that was whet the Halls had.
And there, in a nutshell, you have the problem for many supporters of judicial murder. While I'm not going to claim that all of them are hypocrites, there are certainly many people who have the contra-Constitutional opinion that cruel and unusual punishments should be applied to criminals. So an effective and pain-free method of execution is always going to meet obstruction from the "make them suffer" brigade.
Hey, where do you think the US Govt gets it's torturers from? Syria? Egypt? Or good old home-grown normal people?
Plus, of course, who is going to get sued when the drug you inject into the to-be-executed victim turns out to be 1% heroin, 90% talc, and 9% bleaching powder. The victim would probably survive, after weeks of agony. And for sure everyone involved is goign to be sued to blazes.
What about 'Alt' then 'F', then 'S'?