"I'm sure there are tons of people like me who would do the same."
I've met plenty of them, and after getting laid off I joined their ranks!
I'm sure not to get a job in my area, have no reason to take one before some poor bastard who needs to feed his kids, and my overhead is so low I do fine.
Low overhead when your income is good pays off then and even more when income shrinks!
Since the masters and elites can gorge on tax dollars, there is no stigma for the lower classes doing the same thing.
"A) Where and how is 347/wk covering all of his bills? Because it wouldn't work in Sarasota Florida, I can say from experience."
If you didn't have many bills to begin with, that is enough to survive in Georgia and the Carolinas. When I worked in vo-tech many of our students were unemployed and content to ride it out between jobs.
They'd room together in a rental for a couple hundred a month each and have enough left over for vehicles, food, and beer.
I'd have to measure it, but at least ten degrees and likely more.
Put it this way, it's dramatic. I had to wear sunglasses while applying the coating because the reflected glare is painfully bright on a sunny day. WEAR SUNSCREEN when you put this stuff on, because you'll get baked from above and below.
That doesn't address the travel advantage. I don't care to PAY to TRAVEL to LOOK at BOOKS when I can browse and buy online. That's more than a few percent price penalty. If I have to ORDER a book in person then I must TRAVEL to pick it up.
I don't care about store ambiance when I can chill in my recliner at home and shop naked while surfing/.
Auto parts stores "get" what you just posted, and often have complementary websites so you can find out what they carry and what's in stock.
They ADAPTED to "I need it now" with same and next day delivery, a mix of online and onsite purchasing, etc.
If they can do it, I'm not impressed with other businesses who can but CHOOSE not to. I don't need brick and mortar book stores. Shopping online is faster and much more convenient.
"I think it's proof that most of us slashdot geeks are such social basket cases even our ancestors had to move to a foreign land and get a neanderthal to date them."
I'd use white roof coating, rolled on some test shingles nailed to a sheet of plywood before trying any specific coating on a home. It may take a couple of coats to cover. I would also consider a light gray coating if available.
The temp reduction is no joke. I coated the tops of my ISO container shop buildings and my metal house roof white. The ISOs are sealed, no windows (stormproof and keeps my gear dry) and get rather warm. White tops make them reasonable workspaces.
I didn't add the glass microspheres one can buy to mix with paints and roof coatings, but I'll do that next time. (BTW I fucking HATE asphalt shingles. If I won the lottery I'd use steel trusses and modern standing seam roofing.)
"Google is not a telecom provider, but the principles of data equality and "common carrier" status absolutely apply to a service as omnipresent as Google Search."
There are ways to go about dealing with such problems without leaking secrets. No matter how much passion is involved, there is no legal military right to do what Manning did.
There was also no necessity. There are many ways an experienced G.I. could have tackled the problem.
Manning could, for example, have contacted appropriate Congresscritters with a description of what he'd found and how an investigation could review the content. Doing multiple Congressional contacts would mean each would know the other knew.
Since the negative impact has been minimal, I'm not convinced what he "leaked" wasn't manipulated and salted with "useful content". He'd be the perfect chump.
Young (not much life experience), has emotional problems, unsophisticated, bit of an attention whore, with a natural fanbase that won't notice or acknowledge those issues.
Facilitating his inclinations without entrapment would be a perfect sting. Not all intelligence folks are hacks like Gordon Liddy. Feeding a spy what you want them to see is classic.
"I am coming to believe that we need to look at NASA's mission and alter it for the post Cold-War era."
Get rid of NASA as it exists, switch to missions where the humans stay on Earth, and let the rest of the world spend their money on manned entertainment (it's not "exploration").
Instead of doing for the rest of the world what it should do for itself, we can sit back and reap the benefits.
There are many countries which have no space program and do just fine. Germany is the worlds second largest exporter, far more efficient in every way than the US, and doesn't bother with space exploration because it isn't useful to them.
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"I'm sure there are tons of people like me who would do the same."
I've met plenty of them, and after getting laid off I joined their ranks!
I'm sure not to get a job in my area, have no reason to take one before some poor bastard who needs to feed his kids, and my overhead is so low I do fine.
Low overhead when your income is good pays off then and even more when income shrinks!
Since the masters and elites can gorge on tax dollars, there is no stigma for the lower classes doing the same thing.
"A) Where and how is 347/wk covering all of his bills? Because it wouldn't work in Sarasota Florida, I can say from experience."
If you didn't have many bills to begin with, that is enough to survive in Georgia and the Carolinas. When I worked in vo-tech many of our students were unemployed and content to ride it out between jobs.
They'd room together in a rental for a couple hundred a month each and have enough left over for vehicles, food, and beer.
I'd have to measure it, but at least ten degrees and likely more.
Put it this way, it's dramatic. I had to wear sunglasses while applying the coating because the reflected glare is painfully bright on a sunny day. WEAR SUNSCREEN when you put this stuff on, because you'll get baked from above and below.
Downloading a VLK copy of XP has been an easy option for many years. No activation, no problem.
The masters are mostly above the law, and the hope for peaceful change is so limited that breaking stuff is pretty mild compared to alternatives.
Morality isn't a "duty" to abide by when there will NEVER be a reward, it's a "trade". Virtue has never been its own reward. That's a useful lie.
Our masters don't act "morally" towards us, so we are absolved of any obligation to reciprocity.
That doesn't address the travel advantage. I don't care to PAY to TRAVEL to LOOK at BOOKS when I can browse and buy online. That's more than a few percent price penalty. If I have to ORDER a book in person then I must TRAVEL to pick it up.
I don't care about store ambiance when I can chill in my recliner at home and shop naked while surfing /.
Auto parts stores "get" what you just posted, and often have complementary websites so you can find out what they carry and what's in stock.
They ADAPTED to "I need it now" with same and next day delivery, a mix of online and onsite purchasing, etc.
If they can do it, I'm not impressed with other businesses who can but CHOOSE not to. I don't need brick and mortar book stores. Shopping online is faster and much more convenient.
"I think it's proof that most of us slashdot geeks are such social basket cases even our ancestors had to move to a foreign land and get a neanderthal to date them."
Yes, BUT IT WORKED!
I'd use white roof coating, rolled on some test shingles nailed to a sheet of plywood before trying any specific coating on a home. It may take a couple of coats to cover. I would also consider a light gray coating if available.
http://www.roofcoatings.org/wcc.html
The temp reduction is no joke. I coated the tops of my ISO container shop buildings and my metal house roof white. The ISOs are sealed, no windows (stormproof and keeps my gear dry) and get rather warm. White tops make them reasonable workspaces.
I didn't add the glass microspheres one can buy to mix with paints and roof coatings, but I'll do that next time. (BTW I fucking HATE asphalt shingles. If I won the lottery I'd use steel trusses and modern standing seam roofing.)
"students ought to have the option to rent rather than buying anything they're not going to keep."
They do. It's called downloading one copy, breaking the DRM, then spreading it far and wide.
Coerce ME into the textbook racket? Fuck me? No, fuck YOU and have a nice day.
We live in a world where our masters and the elites don't have to obey rules, so why should we obey them for their benefit?
Sportsmanship is for Little League, not for war.
Too small. Don't approach with a ship because that creates an expectation of taking prisoners.
Use drones and kill the target with a missile.
Stop "catching" them.
We don't "catch" the enemies we hit with airstrikes or artillery nor is there an expectation that we should.
Blow them out of the water, don't strafe them with small arms.
There is no reason to mix sports and education.
Hire NON-STUDENT teams that make money, scrap ALL non-profit student sports and let them do their hobbies on their own dime.
Bodies don't explore space, probes do.
We have centuries to perfect the robotic systems we MUST have for the utterly hostile environment of space (and for more efficient work on Earth).
Note puddle between feet of the corpse after the kill.
I didn't notice that touch when I saw it in the theater when it came out so long ago. :)
Critique the lecture and perhaps it will be changed.
Alternately, perform what you'd like to see and post on Youtube.
"Google is not a telecom provider, but the principles of data equality and "common carrier" status absolutely apply to a service as omnipresent as Google Search."
Citation needed.
"How this goes down with blacks, hispanics, ... is the real test."
No. It works for those it works for. For those it may not work for, try something different.
"So what do K-12 students without broadband at home do? Go to a public library every day?"
No, teachers can download the content for those without internet access:
http://www.khanacademy.org/downloads
There are ways to go about dealing with such problems without leaking secrets. No matter how much passion is involved, there is no legal military right to do what Manning did.
There was also no necessity. There are many ways an experienced G.I. could have tackled the problem.
Manning could, for example, have contacted appropriate Congresscritters with a description of what he'd found and how an investigation could review the content. Doing multiple Congressional contacts would mean each would know the other knew.
Since the negative impact has been minimal, I'm not convinced what he "leaked" wasn't manipulated and salted with "useful content". He'd be the perfect chump.
Young (not much life experience), has emotional problems, unsophisticated, bit of an attention whore, with a natural fanbase that won't notice or acknowledge those issues.
Facilitating his inclinations without entrapment would be a perfect sting. Not all intelligence folks are hacks like Gordon Liddy. Feeding a spy what you want them to see is classic.
Fleshlights don't HAVE shoulders.
http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/meh.ro5516.jpg
"I am coming to believe that we need to look at NASA's mission and alter it for the post Cold-War era."
Get rid of NASA as it exists, switch to missions where the humans stay on Earth, and let the rest of the world spend their money on manned entertainment (it's not "exploration").
Instead of doing for the rest of the world what it should do for itself, we can sit back and reap the benefits.
There are many countries which have no space program and do just fine. Germany is the worlds second largest exporter, far more efficient in every way than the US, and doesn't bother with space exploration because it isn't useful to them.
Finally, we can build an Intelligent Fleshlight!
Divorce is looking better and better.
The difference between "dumb" and "smart" being a trivially expensive hard disk, I prefer locally hosted apps and the disk.
You can do anything the "dumb" version can with a "smart" version.