"That they are impossible to completely erase so it's unsafe to store company/secure data on them."
Sure it's safe. Drives are trivially cheap, so destroy them instead of wiping them. There are plenty of ways to dispose of drives. I'd just clamp it in a vise then fold it over with a hammer.
If the Illuminati are after your data or you like good destructive fun, Google "drive slagging".
"but see nothing to lose in trying to externalize the costs of training their expendable peons."
They HAVE nothing to lose. Colleges can sell training because companies express they want that, then the companies can pick from a surplus of "expendeons".
WAT?! You are wired just fine. I buy the simplest phones I can find off Ebay and swap SIM cards if I kill one.
Thrift is good when times are good AND when times are bad. Let the spendaholics fuck themselves over while you learn to live efficiently.
"The question is how do you change the mindset?" Enough chumps will change THEIR mindset that yours won't matter.
I always lived thriftily, bought used when I could (quality trumps newness in most things), and the result is a comfortable life! I LIKE Ramen, though I prefer the spicier Korean noodles. I'd eat noodles and rice now and then if I were a fucking millionaire.
Keep your money (three grand is very little, grow it with care) celebrate that careful (but not morbid) thrift lets you make better use of it, and tell anyone who would make you feel guilty for not blindly squandering your cash to die in a fire.
"Sadly, it is getting tougher and tougher to find those quality products,"
Only in brick-and-mortar stores. I grew up with those, and avoid them now.
With the internet I find it MUCH easier to find product information and reviews from actual users then buy what I like. I don't need the stores. Drop ship that shit with a tracking number and old couchslug is happy!
I don't have to rely on ADVERTS for info. Can you say "sea change"? I'm Old as Fuck (51) and in the so-called Good Old Days you had to do research by snail mail and catalog comparisons.
It sucked monstrously. Fuck nostalgia (well, except for the 1970s drug culture, which was fun with little negative consequence!).
Now, I can read Slashdot while ordering the mix of old quality stuff and new quality stuff that suits my wants. For example, I can order a vintage cutting torch off Ebay and the modern parts to put it back in use, saving (lots of) money and travel time.
I maintain most of what I own and the internet is access to the modern industrial cornucopia of Stuff. Sure, there's lots of cheap shit, but INFORMATION lets me route around it smoothly. The internet has saved me tens of thousands of dollars, made life simpler, and is a wonderful tool.
"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
Joe Stack
They will continue to happen unless and until people selling bogus software to the government are prosecuted for sabotage.
The problem is the inequitable justice system fails to inflict enough pain on white collar criminals to deter them, yet inflicts so much on those of lower social class they are often ruined and made worse.
"Who needs to burn through 20 feet of steel? Or even 2 feet of steel?"
Can you say "industrial metal cutting"? Some metal is laser-cut today, but being able to easily cut large thick steel sections would save even more time/work/money.
"Of course, anyone who believes such attempts to discredit Haggis and Wright probably also believes that Julian Assange is a rapist."
Or that Islam is a religion of peace. ALL superstitions are evil because they are untrue, and propagation of lies is evil. Scientology is merely a newer lie more easily exposed.
Faith is shit, prove thy superstition or expect no respect, for superstition deserves none nor do believers therein.
To judge by the societies it creates, Communism is preferable. Logic finally toppled Communism. Religion is immune to logic.
I've seen the best Islam can possibly produce, the spectacularly wealthy Gulf Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Islam mandates theocracy, and while suitable for primitives is not worthy of respect (nor is any other superstition). The Muslim Brotherhood are not the "atheist brotherhood", and while the world is very horny for "Islam with a marketable face" the Brotherhood still promote a religion that demands theocracy.
I judge Islam by its works, and they are all bad nowadays. If you doubt me, try hosting Slashdot in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
Slashdot Mirror
"On behalf of the many gentoo, arch, and slackware users"
What versions of Ubuntu are THOSE? (runs)
People have been assembling PCs atop the mobo box for testing for many years. This is nicer, but the origin is obvious.
"That they are impossible to completely erase so it's unsafe to store company/secure data on them."
Sure it's safe. Drives are trivially cheap, so destroy them instead of wiping them. There are plenty of ways to dispose of drives. I'd
just clamp it in a vise then fold it over with a hammer.
If the Illuminati are after your data or you like good destructive fun, Google "drive slagging".
They aren't "your" movies. At all. Don't forget it.
"but see nothing to lose in trying to externalize the costs of training their expendable peons."
They HAVE nothing to lose. Colleges can sell training because companies express they want that, then the companies can pick from a surplus of "expendeons".
WAT?!
You are wired just fine. I buy the simplest phones I can find off Ebay and swap SIM cards if I kill one.
Thrift is good when times are good AND when times are bad. Let the spendaholics fuck themselves over while you learn to live efficiently.
"The question is how do you change the mindset?"
Enough chumps will change THEIR mindset that yours won't matter.
I always lived thriftily, bought used when I could (quality trumps newness in most things), and the result is a comfortable life!
I LIKE Ramen, though I prefer the spicier Korean noodles. I'd eat noodles and rice now and then if I were a fucking millionaire.
Keep your money (three grand is very little, grow it with care) celebrate that careful (but not morbid) thrift lets you make better use of it, and tell anyone who would make you feel guilty for not blindly squandering your cash to die in a fire.
"Sadly, it is getting tougher and tougher to find those quality products,"
Only in brick-and-mortar stores. I grew up with those, and avoid them now.
With the internet I find it MUCH easier to find product information and reviews from actual users then buy what I like. I don't need the stores. Drop ship that shit with a tracking number and old couchslug is happy!
I don't have to rely on ADVERTS for info. Can you say "sea change"? I'm Old as Fuck (51) and in the so-called Good Old Days you had to do research by snail mail and catalog comparisons.
It sucked monstrously.
Fuck nostalgia (well, except for the 1970s drug culture, which was fun with little negative consequence!).
Now, I can read Slashdot while ordering the mix of old quality stuff and new quality stuff that suits my wants. For example, I can order a vintage cutting torch off Ebay and the modern parts to put it back in use, saving (lots of) money and travel time.
I maintain most of what I own and the internet is access to the modern industrial cornucopia of Stuff. Sure, there's lots of cheap shit, but INFORMATION lets me route around it smoothly. The internet has saved me tens of thousands of dollars, made life simpler, and is a wonderful tool.
""All your currency are belong to us"
Sincerely,
Your government."
"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
Joe Stack
Two words:
"Blackhawk Down"
The worst thing to introduce into a country freed from colonial domination would be any force with Caucasian soldiers.
That reflects the modern fetish for law.
Law is shit unless you have a gun to back it up.
Fun stuff, but the US shouldn't be the ones firing them or it will taint the process.
For people to appreciate freedom they must suffer to obtain it, and for peoples justice to be respected the people must kill their masters themselves.
Jeeps are completely obsolete because they are tiny. APCs of about ten tons work very well, but we don't build modern ones.
Those things are also outside the ability of most /.ers to influence for good or ill.
"The economy and the market exist ONLY to serve us, never the other way around."
"Respond to" /= "serve".
That would send the price of American "beer" skyrocketing due to the reduced supply of the key ingredient.
They will continue to happen unless and until people selling bogus software to the government are prosecuted for sabotage.
The problem is the inequitable justice system fails to inflict enough pain on white collar criminals to deter them, yet inflicts so much on those of lower social class they are often ruined and made worse.
I put up a bullshit profile that states it's light on info due to Facebook policy. I tell my friends to email me, and they are fine with that.
"First post AND dubs? I must be a god!"
And a E-Standards Compliant one at that!
"Who needs to burn through 20 feet of steel? Or even 2 feet of steel?"
Can you say "industrial metal cutting"? Some metal is laser-cut today, but being able to easily cut large thick steel sections would save even more time/work/money.
http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Issue/Article/False/86876/Issue
Strongly agree!
Hardware is trivially cheap, data is expensive, and destroying a hard disk is easy.
"YOu dont enter a situation with a 50,000 foot view and the hand of god."
THAT is why UAV tech is being pushed so hard.
http://www.defensereview.com/general-atomics-mq-9-reaper-uasuav-retrofitted-with-gorgon-stare-electro-opticalinfrared-eoir-multi-camera-system-the-all-seeing-eye-in-the-sky-you-look-at-it-you-die/
"When did freedom of religion become freedom from rule of law?"
Superstition, always, sets itself above secular law.
"Of course, anyone who believes such attempts to discredit Haggis and Wright probably also believes that Julian Assange is a rapist."
Or that Islam is a religion of peace. ALL superstitions are evil because they are untrue, and propagation of lies is evil. Scientology is merely a newer lie more easily exposed.
Faith is shit, prove thy superstition or expect no respect, for superstition deserves none nor do believers therein.
"This just in, Islam is not the new Communism."
To judge by the societies it creates, Communism is preferable. Logic finally toppled Communism. Religion is immune to logic.
I've seen the best Islam can possibly produce, the spectacularly wealthy Gulf Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Islam mandates theocracy, and while suitable for primitives is not worthy of respect (nor is any other superstition). The Muslim Brotherhood are not the "atheist brotherhood", and while the world is very horny for "Islam with a marketable face" the Brotherhood still promote a religion that demands theocracy.
I judge Islam by its works, and they are all bad nowadays. If you doubt me, try hosting Slashdot in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
Google could divide and conquer by buying a considerable chunk of the entertainment industry.