Lots of sites I frequent use it and it's a *terrible* UI model for browsing and commenting on forums. It's slow, has a clunky UI, lacks features, and even WORSE they scrub comments religiously if you even remotely criticize the parent site or any of its prinicipals. I'm assuming Disqus is presenting hosts with a ridiculously cheap package for anyone to think it's a good idea.
Unless it's another Total Information Awareness tool and they don't *care* about how usable it is...
That all sounds grand in Libertarian Heaven, but the reality is letting them go down would have been a devastating impact on the economy and probably enough to make recession far worse. BTW, I don't know if any of those links made the point but the estimated costs for social services for all those laid off employees would have been over $100 BILLION.
It's not about absolute prevention. Making it illegal keeps it off the books and out of the catalogs. The casual buyers no longer have access. It also deters bigger monied interests from investing in improving the technology enough to make them practical. I don't know much about these 3D weapons, but from the results that activist was getting, it'll take more than a guy tuning a printer in his basement to make them practical. This is a case where prohibition can have a real impact, especially when it's focused on creating some technology from being created.
This is how you solve these social problems. Seems obvious, but people have to know it's wrong, but more importantly everyone else has to know it's wrong as well. Even if they wouldn't do the right thing on their own, having dozens of disapproving eyes following you along with the occasional vocal critic does wonders. The shaming effect is a pretty powerful social force (unless you're a pop diva).
There's always a fresh pile in my yard off to the side where she must think it would be less visible to let her dog go. I saw her once, but I was just getting up and didn't have a chance to run down and yell at her. But, the poop is always there. I'd wait for her, but she only walks her dog on my yard once or twice a week. If I had a sprinkler system, I'd rig it to go off the moment she set foot there. Or, maybe beam her dog with something for shock like a rotten egg.
I don't want everything I say, do, or participate in blasted all over the interwebz. I don't post daily or hourly updates on my schedule to twitter or facebook. And, just because YOU elect to blog minute-by-minute innocuous details of your life for the 1000 people who "follow" you, doesn't mean I want to be a part of it.
I can accept that cameras are going to be out wherever I go, but I'd be pretty pissed off to find some quite, intimate conversation with my girlfriend over dinner blasted out on some idiot's blog who happened to be one table away because he thought my private conversation was entertaining.
I disagree w/ your comments about the "new" economy. We still need those manufacturing, agriculture, and manual labor jobs. We just decided to pay indentured servants sucking toxic fumes in Asia 1/10 and Latin American illegal immigrants 1/2 the cost to do the work.
This is a Wall Street recovery, not a Working Man recovery. Keynesian is an epithet nowadays, so instead of going the 1930s route and investing in infrastructure and public works to put working stiffs back in the field, we elected to dump money on Wall Street until the investors felt happy enough to start diversifying out of their tortoise shells. No one should be surprised that the effect is great stock prices and mediocre, trickle-down improvements in the economy everywhere else.
These index milestones are irrelevant except for the fact that the trickle down effect might raise the flow up to Babbling Brook.
OTOH, it was hard work (>80h per week average, in critical times >400h/month), strange habits, uncertainity, and a lack of decent positions after it.
I can imagine no scenario where that would be worth it at any point in my life. In my 20s, I would have missed out on so many memories. And after that I doubt I'd have the energy for that kind of rigor. Said a friend of mine about a guy who build an entire house by himself, "life's too short to work that hard."
Conspiracy, as in what the GP is positing; that there's a conspiracy to cover up the President's intentions to start out healthcare.gov with a flawed website. And, to what purpose? He secretly wanted to F up his major achievement?
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Lots of sites I frequent use it and it's a *terrible* UI model for browsing and commenting on forums. It's slow, has a clunky UI, lacks features, and even WORSE they scrub comments religiously if you even remotely criticize the parent site or any of its prinicipals. I'm assuming Disqus is presenting hosts with a ridiculously cheap package for anyone to think it's a good idea.
Unless it's another Total Information Awareness tool and they don't *care* about how usable it is...
You're all talking abotu CONSTRUCTION. I'm talking about DESIGN.
Pretty funny coming from a guy who didn't bother reading the article.
Copying files isn't a new technology. Neither is copying a recipe for meth in a secluded trailer.
That all sounds grand in Libertarian Heaven, but the reality is letting them go down would have been a devastating impact on the economy and probably enough to make recession far worse. BTW, I don't know if any of those links made the point but the estimated costs for social services for all those laid off employees would have been over $100 BILLION.
It's not about absolute prevention. Making it illegal keeps it off the books and out of the catalogs. The casual buyers no longer have access. It also deters bigger monied interests from investing in improving the technology enough to make them practical. I don't know much about these 3D weapons, but from the results that activist was getting, it'll take more than a guy tuning a printer in his basement to make them practical. This is a case where prohibition can have a real impact, especially when it's focused on creating some technology from being created.
It's like an orgy of reach-arounds with you all congratulating each other on your witticisms.
They don't call it the Red(neck) Planet for nuthin'
Yo mama so fat, if she was any bigger she'd start fusing hydrogen.
ha! cute story!
Especially if he writes it on his crotch
I was just about to post this. Beautiful example of the dialogue that made Kevin Smith.
Slashdot's burgeoning pro-exploit crowd loves cheering these guys on, so how about cheering on his honorable sacrifice of $183K for the cause?
Joe Flacco got a $120 million dollar contract because he won the Super Bowl.
Yeah, you're right about that
This is how you solve these social problems. Seems obvious, but people have to know it's wrong, but more importantly everyone else has to know it's wrong as well. Even if they wouldn't do the right thing on their own, having dozens of disapproving eyes following you along with the occasional vocal critic does wonders. The shaming effect is a pretty powerful social force (unless you're a pop diva).
There's always a fresh pile in my yard off to the side where she must think it would be less visible to let her dog go. I saw her once, but I was just getting up and didn't have a chance to run down and yell at her. But, the poop is always there. I'd wait for her, but she only walks her dog on my yard once or twice a week. If I had a sprinkler system, I'd rig it to go off the moment she set foot there. Or, maybe beam her dog with something for shock like a rotten egg.
I don't want everything I say, do, or participate in blasted all over the interwebz. I don't post daily or hourly updates on my schedule to twitter or facebook. And, just because YOU elect to blog minute-by-minute innocuous details of your life for the 1000 people who "follow" you, doesn't mean I want to be a part of it.
I can accept that cameras are going to be out wherever I go, but I'd be pretty pissed off to find some quite, intimate conversation with my girlfriend over dinner blasted out on some idiot's blog who happened to be one table away because he thought my private conversation was entertaining.
I disagree w/ your comments about the "new" economy. We still need those manufacturing, agriculture, and manual labor jobs. We just decided to pay indentured servants sucking toxic fumes in Asia 1/10 and Latin American illegal immigrants 1/2 the cost to do the work.
This is a Wall Street recovery, not a Working Man recovery. Keynesian is an epithet nowadays, so instead of going the 1930s route and investing in infrastructure and public works to put working stiffs back in the field, we elected to dump money on Wall Street until the investors felt happy enough to start diversifying out of their tortoise shells. No one should be surprised that the effect is great stock prices and mediocre, trickle-down improvements in the economy everywhere else.
These index milestones are irrelevant except for the fact that the trickle down effect might raise the flow up to Babbling Brook.
I love these clever UIs that maximize visual cues. I would like to see a 3rd pie slice separating delays and cancellations, though.
It's called a depth chart; scaled to inches.
Don't you mean only if she divorces you?
OTOH, it was hard work (>80h per week average, in critical times >400h/month), strange habits, uncertainity, and a lack of decent positions after it.
I can imagine no scenario where that would be worth it at any point in my life. In my 20s, I would have missed out on so many memories. And after that I doubt I'd have the energy for that kind of rigor. Said a friend of mine about a guy who build an entire house by himself, "life's too short to work that hard."
Conspiracy, as in what the GP is positing; that there's a conspiracy to cover up the President's intentions to start out healthcare.gov with a flawed website. And, to what purpose? He secretly wanted to F up his major achievement?