I take it finding the source material to prove me wrong was entirely too difficult, and thus the ad hominem? You do realize that attacking me personally, while providing zero evidence to support your own credibility, doesn't reflect well upon your own intellect, don't you?
Too bad; I actually like being proven wrong by people more well versed than I, but it seems more common to be brow-beaten by self-rightous assholes who think they're smarter than others, but lack the basic research skills required to back their claims.
Hey, I'm not the one who sold people "unlimited internet plans" and then pissed and moaned about them actually using it, nor am I the one charging outrageous rates for data access, nor have I refused to use the vast and ever-growing amount of profit from said outrageous data access fees to beef up my infrastructure to support all the devices I've sold people.
You definitely have something to be pissed about, but your chagrin is incorrectly placed. I'm not the telco, so feel free to go fuck yourself, Chief.
Last time I checked, bullets are usually meant to kill. DU penetrators aren't a radiological hazard, they're a chemical hazard, much like lead.
Either way, from what I've read, there are several nations trying to get them banned per the Geneva Conventions, which is reason enough to question their place on the battlefield.
What's the point of shooting someone with a kinetic energy penetrator if you don't want them to die?
The point, or rather, my point, is that the person who gets hit with the kinetic energy penetrator isn't necessarily always the right person, or the person you were aiming for.
Soldiers shooting other soldiers is one thing, but I take issue with "guaranteed to kill, if not instantly than in a slow and painful manner" techniques when they end up being used (whether intentionally or inadvertently) on innocent civilians.
For the record, I set up a G+ account under the entirely fictitious name "CanHas DIY" when G+ first came about, and continue to use the pseudonym to this day.
I have yet to receive and correspondence from Google regarding adding a "real" name to the account.
One uses chemical properties (density) to enable a greater kinetic energy and thus more easily penetrate armoured targets.
And, you know, poison the living shit out of anything they (the bullets) come into contact with.
IMO, using radioactive ammunition on personnel, knowing full well that even the wounded will suffer the effects of radiation sickness, qualifies as nuclear weapons use, though I'm sure the various state militaries would disagree.
The only way you can attack the aircraft carrier is to surprise all of those ships. A supersonic missle would work on an aircraft carrier for the same reason it would work just about anywhere else. If you can't recognize it and react in time with a missle that can intercept a supersonic missle, then you can't stop it.
As someone who regularly downloads multi-gig Linux ISOs on my phone, I have to disagree.
You must be the same guy I saw hauling six full size pieces of plywood on top of his Cooper mini.
Are you kidding?? The interiors in those things are hideous. I'd be far more likely to be seen hauling six sheets of plywood in a Miata... a V8 Miata:D
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Regarding the case of downloading ISOs on my phone over Verizon's 3G network (which I have a grandfathered 'unlimited' plan with, BTW) -
...so long as they alone know who they really are so the data aggregated goes in the right buckets.
Nothing's stopping Google+ from offering a secondary ID you can become, while Google still knows who you are.
Except for people like me who would leave if we had to interact with "MonkeyFucker-69" and the rest of their ilk. Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.
From my experience, anonymity has little to nothing to do with civility; I used to regularly post commentary on the website of my local (Gannett-owned) newspaper. Recently, they (as required by Gannett) went from an anonymous, PHPbb based system to linking comments to Facebook profiles - they, too, claimed that it would lead to "increased civility." however, this has been anything but the case. Sure, there are less vitriolic comments, but that's not because people are being less uncivil, but rather a side effect of the push for real names driving many, many of the regulars from the site, myself included.
Adjusted for volume, the amount of hatefulness on said newspaper forum hasn't gone down one bit, and I would wager that acts of incivility have increased a fair amount. The only 'advantage' to people being forced to use their real names is that if they piss another person off, that person now knows who's house to firebomb.
I concur:
Raspberry Pi + Small Display + cheap usb keyboard gives you what you're looking for, and within your budget (give or take a couple bucks).
Since the Pi + LCD listed above pull a total of less than 7 watts a piece, you should have no trouble powering several with a low-cost portable power solution, such as solar/wind generators, or hell, even a dynamo; I mean, why not?
Well the difference is the type of network traffic you will do on your phone vs. traffic you will do on your PC.
On your phone you are more or less just going to check your email, and browse a few pages.
As someone who regularly downloads multi-gig Linux ISOs on my phone, I have to disagree.
On your PC or Laptop, you will be doing hours of browsing and watching movies, and other activities.
Well, then, maybe Verizon shouldn't have spent so many marketing bucks pimping Netflix/Pandora streaming to their customers, if they didn't want/expect customers to actually use them.
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
Hmmm, how long will it take to go from business intelligence tools to intelligence tools used against a population? Are sheeple dumb animals?
Tell you what, go try and shear/milk a couple, then come back and give us your report.
Oh, and make sure to get it all on video. For, you know, research.
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
You obviously don't look at what they do spend money on.
Some public school systems are broken, no doubt. There is also no doubt that for at least some of them (D.C. Schools are the example that proves it) lack of money is not the problem.
Yup, it's a 'fund allocation issue,' certainly.
Accompanying anecdote: When I was in high school a scant decade ago, the board decided to cut orchestra and ceramics for lack of funding - the same year, they approved an brand new $2,000,000 building for the football/American football teams (pretty much just locker rooms and storage).
Of course, school boards (and sport parents) support these sort of decisions by claiming that sports bring in money - the part they leave out is that the sports programs are still a net loss, as they tend to cost 1.5 - 3 times as much to operate as they generate in revenue. But, that's not the important part here, the important part is that arts and sciences suffer so that school board members and parents can spend more time watching minors knock each other senseless.
Even if you could get rid of the stupid people you would never get rid of stupid people. The previously middle-range IQ people would now because the stupid people. You then loop this forever until there is only one person on the planet, at which points he drops his glasses and can't read books.
It's not fair!
+1 for the reference, and a bonus +1 for the chuckle remembering that episode brings.
Of course there's no poison in the coffee. A real pro would put the poison on the rim of the cup.
Then again, a REAL real pro wouldn't even use poisons - too hard to make it look like an accident, and it's rather uncommon for police to hunt for an assassin when they don't think it was even a homicide.
Because i can't find one in either europe or i guess the usa as well. $45 in Shenzhen only i guess, $450+ for the rest of the world.
Where's the cheapness he's talking about?
Not sure about your locale, but I know the Big Lots' wholesale/closeout stores in this area keep a rotating stock of cheap, no-name Android tablets for around $45-65.
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Oh, an Aussie. Yea, I only meant that to apply to Americans, I can't speak for the rest of the world's patent process, as I've never dealt with any.
Mea culpa for the lack of clarification.
I take it finding the source material to prove me wrong was entirely too difficult, and thus the ad hominem? You do realize that attacking me personally, while providing zero evidence to support your own credibility, doesn't reflect well upon your own intellect, don't you?
Too bad; I actually like being proven wrong by people more well versed than I, but it seems more common to be brow-beaten by self-rightous assholes who think they're smarter than others, but lack the basic research skills required to back their claims.
Shame, that.
Because. Other. People. Are. Trying. To. Make. Phone. Calls. You. Fucktard.
Hey, I'm not the one who sold people "unlimited internet plans" and then pissed and moaned about them actually using it, nor am I the one charging outrageous rates for data access, nor have I refused to use the vast and ever-growing amount of profit from said outrageous data access fees to beef up my infrastructure to support all the devices I've sold people.
You definitely have something to be pissed about, but your chagrin is incorrectly placed. I'm not the telco, so feel free to go fuck yourself, Chief.
Last time I checked, bullets are usually meant to kill. DU penetrators aren't a radiological hazard, they're a chemical hazard, much like lead.
Either way, from what I've read, there are several nations trying to get them banned per the Geneva Conventions, which is reason enough to question their place on the battlefield.
What's the point of shooting someone with a kinetic energy penetrator if you don't want them to die?
The point, or rather, my point, is that the person who gets hit with the kinetic energy penetrator isn't necessarily always the right person, or the person you were aiming for.
Soldiers shooting other soldiers is one thing, but I take issue with "guaranteed to kill, if not instantly than in a slow and painful manner" techniques when they end up being used (whether intentionally or inadvertently) on innocent civilians.
For the record, I set up a G+ account under the entirely fictitious name "CanHas DIY" when G+ first came about, and continue to use the pseudonym to this day.
I have yet to receive and correspondence from Google regarding adding a "real" name to the account.
A round of depleted uranium is not a nuclear weapon.
Tell that to the people who get wounded by them, and subsequently die from radiation poisoning.
One uses chemical properties (density) to enable a greater kinetic energy and thus more easily penetrate armoured targets.
And, you know, poison the living shit out of anything they (the bullets) come into contact with.
IMO, using radioactive ammunition on personnel, knowing full well that even the wounded will suffer the effects of radiation sickness, qualifies as nuclear weapons use, though I'm sure the various state militaries would disagree.
If people start lobbing nuclear weapons around, then it's a completely different war,
Uh... Define "nuclear weapon"...
...if anyone has any experience using nuclear weapons, it's the United States.
Damn skippy, to this very day.
The only way you can attack the aircraft carrier is to surprise all of those ships. A supersonic missle would work on an aircraft carrier for the same reason it would work just about anywhere else. If you can't recognize it and react in time with a missle that can intercept a supersonic missle, then you can't stop it.
Say hello to Project Thor
As someone who regularly downloads multi-gig Linux ISOs on my phone, I have to disagree.
You must be the same guy I saw hauling six full size pieces of plywood on top of his Cooper mini.
Are you kidding?? The interiors in those things are hideous. I'd be far more likely to be seen hauling six sheets of plywood in a Miata... a V8 Miata :D
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Regarding the case of downloading ISOs on my phone over Verizon's 3G network (which I have a grandfathered 'unlimited' plan with, BTW) -
Why shouldn't I?
...so long as they alone know who they really are so the data aggregated goes in the right buckets.
Nothing's stopping Google+ from offering a secondary ID you can become, while Google still knows who you are.
Except for people like me who would leave if we had to interact with "MonkeyFucker-69" and the rest of their ilk. Some of us like the higher level of civility that results from real names.
From my experience, anonymity has little to nothing to do with civility; I used to regularly post commentary on the website of my local (Gannett-owned) newspaper. Recently, they (as required by Gannett) went from an anonymous, PHPbb based system to linking comments to Facebook profiles - they, too, claimed that it would lead to "increased civility." however, this has been anything but the case. Sure, there are less vitriolic comments, but that's not because people are being less uncivil, but rather a side effect of the push for real names driving many, many of the regulars from the site, myself included.
Adjusted for volume, the amount of hatefulness on said newspaper forum hasn't gone down one bit, and I would wager that acts of incivility have increased a fair amount. The only 'advantage' to people being forced to use their real names is that if they piss another person off, that person now knows who's house to firebomb.
Not a feature I would tout.
Repeat after me:
Thank you for calling Dell Technical Support...
You forgot to tell us to get off your lawn...
I concur: Raspberry Pi + Small Display + cheap usb keyboard gives you what you're looking for, and within your budget (give or take a couple bucks).
Since the Pi + LCD listed above pull a total of less than 7 watts a piece, you should have no trouble powering several with a low-cost portable power solution, such as solar/wind generators, or hell, even a dynamo; I mean, why not?
How oh HOW is this patentable?
Simple: Have your veritable army of on-staff patent lawyers file it with USPTO.
FTFY.
They'd never allow little guys like you and I to patent such a thing.
Well the difference is the type of network traffic you will do on your phone vs. traffic you will do on your PC.
On your phone you are more or less just going to check your email, and browse a few pages.
As someone who regularly downloads multi-gig Linux ISOs on my phone, I have to disagree.
On your PC or Laptop, you will be doing hours of browsing and watching movies, and other activities.
Well, then, maybe Verizon shouldn't have spent so many marketing bucks pimping Netflix/Pandora streaming to their customers, if they didn't want/expect customers to actually use them.
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
Hmmm, how long will it take to go from business intelligence tools to intelligence tools used against a population? Are sheeple dumb animals?
Tell you what, go try and shear/milk a couple, then come back and give us your report.
Oh, and make sure to get it all on video. For, you know, research.
Are you saying that I should invite the interns to the company barbecue after all?
Invite? Hell, I was thinking about putting them on the menu!
The fact that business intelligence tools are also well suited to monitoring dumb animals dedicated to a life of exploitation and eventual slaughter is just one of those crazy coincidences, and has no deeper implications.
What do you mean, "also?"
"What are we going to do with all these humans?"
I suggest making tacos.
Or robot fuel.
You obviously don't look at what they do spend money on.
Some public school systems are broken, no doubt. There is also no doubt that for at least some of them (D.C. Schools are the example that proves it) lack of money is not the problem.
Yup, it's a 'fund allocation issue,' certainly.
Accompanying anecdote: When I was in high school a scant decade ago, the board decided to cut orchestra and ceramics for lack of funding - the same year, they approved an brand new $2,000,000 building for the football/American football teams (pretty much just locker rooms and storage).
Of course, school boards (and sport parents) support these sort of decisions by claiming that sports bring in money - the part they leave out is that the sports programs are still a net loss, as they tend to cost 1.5 - 3 times as much to operate as they generate in revenue. But, that's not the important part here, the important part is that arts and sciences suffer so that school board members and parents can spend more time watching minors knock each other senseless.
Even if you could get rid of the stupid people you would never get rid of stupid people. The previously middle-range IQ people would now because the stupid people. You then loop this forever until there is only one person on the planet, at which points he drops his glasses and can't read books.
It's not fair!
+1 for the reference, and a bonus +1 for the chuckle remembering that episode brings.
"Foxglove is damn near undetectable" did you just get here from 1950?
Yup - time traveler here. I went back so I could bang your mom, heard she was super hot back in the day.
In retrospect, I should have worn a prophylactic, and subsequently avoided this conversation.
Of course there's no poison in the coffee. A real pro would put the poison on the rim of the cup.
Then again, a REAL real pro wouldn't even use poisons - too hard to make it look like an accident, and it's rather uncommon for police to hunt for an assassin when they don't think it was even a homicide.
Foxglove is damn near undetectable, you know...
Care for some tea? >:)
Because i can't find one in either europe or i guess the usa as well. $45 in Shenzhen only i guess, $450+ for the rest of the world.
Where's the cheapness he's talking about?
Not sure about your locale, but I know the Big Lots' wholesale/closeout stores in this area keep a rotating stock of cheap, no-name Android tablets for around $45-65.
FYI, you get what you pay for.