1) I can absolutely talk about the actions of Syria, Iran, etc. I just don't think it's terribly productive for me to tell Iran what it should do. Out of curiousity, what do you think I should be saying, and what practical difference would it make if I said that?
2) Nations are made of living breathing people, obviously. If you haven't noticed, people don't respond well to hypocrisy. On an individual level, people will treat you poorly if you treat them poorly. There's nothing about that fact that means I think that other people are "cardboard cut out character reflections" of my actions. The same goes for international relations.
The real question here is why I bother talking to someone who can't stop setting up and knocking down the same straw men over and over. Nothing I've said could possibly be construed to imply either of the two numbered points you've made. All you're really doing here is illustrating your own intellectual dishonesty by trying to put words in my mouth.
And then the whole thing went digital, and the idea of collecting has lost some of its luster. First of all, it's not something you can display on your shelf, so you don't get the satisfaction of having your collection also be a design choice in your house. At most, you might be satisfied when you go to sit through your computer, or as you scroll through your iPhone.
The satisfaction comes from sitting around with friends, talking music, and being able to bring up any piece that's been mentioned in 15 seconds or so. Or if you're entertaining, and leave an appropriate subset of your music on shuffle, and still setting the perfect mood.
Unless the reception is spotty, or you've hit your data cap for the month.
And "access to the entire library" only means access to the entire library of music that they deem profitable to present to you. What streaming service can I subscribe to that will let me stream the live recording of the Yonder Mountain String Band show I went to last fall? Does it also provide the entire Nine Inch Nails catalog, including remix albums? If I want to hear "Gentle On My Mind", am I stuck with the Glen Campbell version, or can I get the John Hartford original?
Unless the answer to all those questions is "Yes", then streaming isn't really any more convenient than managing your own music collection.
I think developing nukes is a bad idea for everyone. However, I don't get a say in how sovereign nations other than my own conduct their defense. And if I did, calling for others to disarm before we have disarmed ourselves is simply hypocrisy.
but apparently, you are happy just to say the usa should get rid of them and then iran will happily follow along because iran is made of cotton candy and kisses
Iran is clearly made of rusted old barbed wire. If we handle it with a clenched fist, we only hurt ourselves.
I don't trust anyone with nukes. That's why I advocate complete disarmament. As long as the US has nukes, other countries will seek nukes to defend themselves against the US. Do you really think "Do as I say, not as I do" is going to work against a theocracy?
This could easily be replaced with a browser plugin. Then there's no one to C&D because the author of such a plugin need never agree to Googles TOS. Google would have to C&D their users directly.
Agreed. Pretty much any site of any size registers.com,.org, and.net. There's no meaning to the hierarchy anymore, so just flatten it. Instead of registering slashdot.org, slashdot.net, and slashdot.com, just register slashdot.
Or you could open up the top level domain registry, and register '.slashdot' as a TLD. The end result is the same.
We've been escalating tensions with Iran for 60 years. Still hasn't worked. The real naivete here is believing that hostility will be met with anything but hostility.
Just as we are responsible for US domestic policy, we are also responsible for US foreign policy. Iran is never going to listen to my criticism of their foreign policy, but my representative in Congress (at least in theory) might.
I can at least make it clear that I will never vote for anyone for whom nuclear disarmament is not a priority. Once we no longer pose a nuclear threat to Iran and other countries, we'll have a lot firmer ground to stand on when we try to get others to disarm.
If you rely on a streaming service to listen to your favorite music, it will go away. Music changes in popularity, and if your favorite music isn't popular anymore, they'll drop the license. Now you can't listen to your favorite music anymore.
Rely on streaming if you must, but when it bites you don't expect any sympathy.
it was about that time that Carmack made it clear that Doom would never be ported to the Amiga due to hardware concerns
Apparently, Carmack was wrong. It won't run on an Amiga 500, but the A500 was 6 years old at that point. The Amiga 1200 was current at the time Doom was released. And you can obviously run Doom on it now.
What Carmack really meant was that it wasn't worth the effort to port Doom to the Amiga hardware.
Two options: take military action against Iran to prevent them destabilizing the region
Since when is a sovereign nation developing defensive capability "destabilizing"? Attacking a sovereign nation when it exercises its right to defense is far more destabilizing.
i never understood this "single out the USA for what everyone does" nonsense
I'm not one to quote scripture often, but a good cliche is a good cliche.
âoeWhy do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brotherâ(TM)s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, âLet me take the speck out of your eye,â(TM) when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brotherâ(TM)s eye." Matthew 7: 3-5
And if you see a vulnerability in scum like Kim Barking Mad Teapots North Korea or Ahmadinejad's Iran then we should be doing our best to take them out now whilst we still can.
Which is exactly the mind set that got us into this position. Neither Iran nor North Korea would be such a big problem for us now if we hadn't sponsored a coup in one, and used the other as a proxy during the Cold War.
The way we deal with them today will set the stage for the next 50-100 years. We can keep fucking with them, or we can work on decreasing tensions.
They are analogs of cannabinoids found in cannabis, seemingly structural analogs from what I have seen. Its almost as bad as referring to a drug as "bath salts".
That's not true either. Look at the structure of THC. Three contiguous rings, one of which is aromatic. Now look at the structure of one of these JWH compounds. Two pairs of contiguous rings, all aromatic, separated by a ketone.
Those structures are completely unlike one another, except that they both happen to bind to the CB1 receptor. That's really all we can say about them, they are synthetic CB1 agonists.
You're even stupider than the tea partiers. I would love to have a black man in office. Someone like Cornell West would be an amazing president. Barack Obama is a straight up authoritarian.
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1) I can absolutely talk about the actions of Syria, Iran, etc. I just don't think it's terribly productive for me to tell Iran what it should do. Out of curiousity, what do you think I should be saying, and what practical difference would it make if I said that?
2) Nations are made of living breathing people, obviously. If you haven't noticed, people don't respond well to hypocrisy. On an individual level, people will treat you poorly if you treat them poorly. There's nothing about that fact that means I think that other people are "cardboard cut out character reflections" of my actions. The same goes for international relations.
The real question here is why I bother talking to someone who can't stop setting up and knocking down the same straw men over and over. Nothing I've said could possibly be construed to imply either of the two numbered points you've made. All you're really doing here is illustrating your own intellectual dishonesty by trying to put words in my mouth.
And then the whole thing went digital, and the idea of collecting has lost some of its luster. First of all, it's not something you can display on your shelf, so you don't get the satisfaction of having your collection also be a design choice in your house. At most, you might be satisfied when you go to sit through your computer, or as you scroll through your iPhone.
The satisfaction comes from sitting around with friends, talking music, and being able to bring up any piece that's been mentioned in 15 seconds or so. Or if you're entertaining, and leave an appropriate subset of your music on shuffle, and still setting the perfect mood.
Unless the reception is spotty, or you've hit your data cap for the month.
And "access to the entire library" only means access to the entire library of music that they deem profitable to present to you. What streaming service can I subscribe to that will let me stream the live recording of the Yonder Mountain String Band show I went to last fall? Does it also provide the entire Nine Inch Nails catalog, including remix albums? If I want to hear "Gentle On My Mind", am I stuck with the Glen Campbell version, or can I get the John Hartford original?
Unless the answer to all those questions is "Yes", then streaming isn't really any more convenient than managing your own music collection.
US adults struggle with reasoning skills too.
I think developing nukes is a bad idea for everyone. However, I don't get a say in how sovereign nations other than my own conduct their defense. And if I did, calling for others to disarm before we have disarmed ourselves is simply hypocrisy.
but apparently, you are happy just to say the usa should get rid of them and then iran will happily follow along because iran is made of cotton candy and kisses
Iran is clearly made of rusted old barbed wire. If we handle it with a clenched fist, we only hurt ourselves.
I don't trust anyone with nukes. That's why I advocate complete disarmament. As long as the US has nukes, other countries will seek nukes to defend themselves against the US. Do you really think "Do as I say, not as I do" is going to work against a theocracy?
This could easily be replaced with a browser plugin. Then there's no one to C&D because the author of such a plugin need never agree to Googles TOS. Google would have to C&D their users directly.
Agreed. Pretty much any site of any size registers .com, .org, and .net. There's no meaning to the hierarchy anymore, so just flatten it. Instead of registering slashdot.org, slashdot.net, and slashdot.com, just register slashdot.
Or you could open up the top level domain registry, and register '.slashdot' as a TLD. The end result is the same.
We've been escalating tensions with Iran for 60 years. Still hasn't worked. The real naivete here is believing that hostility will be met with anything but hostility.
Just as we are responsible for US domestic policy, we are also responsible for US foreign policy. Iran is never going to listen to my criticism of their foreign policy, but my representative in Congress (at least in theory) might.
I can at least make it clear that I will never vote for anyone for whom nuclear disarmament is not a priority. Once we no longer pose a nuclear threat to Iran and other countries, we'll have a lot firmer ground to stand on when we try to get others to disarm.
All nations are flawed, obviously. But the US is our nation, and we're responsible for its flaws.
But if you're going to use file sharing networks, why bother streaming in the first place?
If you rely on a streaming service to listen to your favorite music, it will go away. Music changes in popularity, and if your favorite music isn't popular anymore, they'll drop the license. Now you can't listen to your favorite music anymore.
Rely on streaming if you must, but when it bites you don't expect any sympathy.
it was about that time that Carmack made it clear that Doom would never be ported to the Amiga due to hardware concerns
Apparently, Carmack was wrong. It won't run on an Amiga 500, but the A500 was 6 years old at that point. The Amiga 1200 was current at the time Doom was released. And you can obviously run Doom on it now.
What Carmack really meant was that it wasn't worth the effort to port Doom to the Amiga hardware.
Was the US government ever seen as a "fair arbiter and force for peace in cyberspace".
The US has never even been a fair arbiter and force for peace in meatspace.
Two options: take military action against Iran to prevent them destabilizing the region
Since when is a sovereign nation developing defensive capability "destabilizing"? Attacking a sovereign nation when it exercises its right to defense is far more destabilizing.
Bruce Schneier is NOT a diplomat
All the more reason to trust that his analysis is accurate and not propaganda.
i never understood this "single out the USA for what everyone does" nonsense
I'm not one to quote scripture often, but a good cliche is a good cliche.
And if you see a vulnerability in scum like Kim Barking Mad Teapots North Korea or Ahmadinejad's Iran then we should be doing our best to take them out now whilst we still can.
Which is exactly the mind set that got us into this position. Neither Iran nor North Korea would be such a big problem for us now if we hadn't sponsored a coup in one, and used the other as a proxy during the Cold War.
The way we deal with them today will set the stage for the next 50-100 years. We can keep fucking with them, or we can work on decreasing tensions.
Can I seamlessly run Amiga games written for the 68000 on it? This would require emulation, but it's been done before.
You are asking the wrong questions. It's a cultural thing but if you ask a question that can be answered with "yes", that's all you're going to hear.
Lying is a cultural thing?
They are analogs of cannabinoids found in cannabis, seemingly structural analogs from what I have seen. Its almost as bad as referring to a drug as "bath salts".
That's not true either. Look at the structure of THC. Three contiguous rings, one of which is aromatic. Now look at the structure of one of these JWH compounds. Two pairs of contiguous rings, all aromatic, separated by a ketone.
Those structures are completely unlike one another, except that they both happen to bind to the CB1 receptor. That's really all we can say about them, they are synthetic CB1 agonists.
our time in reality is far too limited as it is for my tastes, and there's far too much to explore
That's like refusing to use salt because "there's far too much to eat".
You're even stupider than the tea partiers. I would love to have a black man in office. Someone like Cornell West would be an amazing president. Barack Obama is a straight up authoritarian.
That doesn't mean you can't be fired for it.