The goal of large waste reductions must be met one small waste reduction at a time.
As for the power-producing tech, replacing power plants or retrofitting scrubbers deals with the problem at the source. One problem materials (CD, whatever) are DISPERSED they are vastly more difficult to deal with.
"a CD manufacturing plant in a country with an actual working EPA is far, far better for the environment than the toxic waste dump that we are creating in China right now,where environmental activists get thrown in prison as 'enemies of the state'. "
"What about those people who aren't required to be in touch 24 hours a day, but perhaps the 8 working hours they do each day, are they going to have to use their personal cell phone? "
There can't be a "requirement" for access via systems not provided by the employer.
I prefer to use my personal cell (AND webmail) for work. _I_ keep all my contacts and correspondence. Fire me, and that goes with me. Let the next guy reaccomplish my contact list and information (what's on my PC lives on my personal flash drive, backed up at home).
"As a scientist, and a feminist, this offends me."
So bring a picture of whatever YOU like to fuck when you go into space. There should be more fucking (straight,gay,whatever) and less concern over what someone else faps to,
Die in a (old-school oxygen-rich capsule atmosphere, so we keep this on-topic!) fire.
"Actually companies weigh this all on a risk basis."
That doesn't mean that pressures don't influence their objectivity, since the primary objective for individuals in those companies is to make a buck and avoid jail.
Considering what Islamic countries do to those not, or insufficiently, Islamic, there really is logical ground to oppose people affiliated with it and consider them enemies. There is zero evidence, anywhere, I defy you to find it, of Islamic governments enhancing freedom by ensuring secular law and trying to keep religion out of government.
There is an ideological imperative in some quarters to consider religion "different" so one can ignore the outcomes its believers produce when they run the show.
Want a taste? Bring a stack of Christian literature through Saudi customs and inform them you intend to convert the heathens.
You can buy all the Qurans you like in the US, and even sects like Louis Farrakhans Nation of Islam are free to demonstrate on the street.
"Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem."
No children should have oral sex without benefit of clergy.
The same people who absolutely revile any government intrusion into their data privacy go apeshit when the idea of protecting humans from non-government criminal assault is raised.
While I agree with keeping da gummint out of my business, there is tremendous unexplained sympathy for violent "civilian" criminals.
Those who don't want to defend themselves serve a useful purpose in diverting criminals from fucking with ME, but I still find them silly..
"If the intruder is unarmed, they pose little threat."
Bullshit. Tell that to any woman who has been raped by an "unarmed" assailant!
"If they are armed, you've just put yourself into a firefight."
That implies I didn't kill them from behind visual cover, lie down on the floor (assuming darkness) or other alternatives. I have no duty to warn an armed intruder.
"No guarantee you'll be the one to walk out of that one. Where is the rational reason for wanting to confront someone under these circumstances?"
That the alternative is being AT THEIR MERCY. I can't retreat through a wall, I have a wife I'll not abandon, and running just makes for an exposed target.
Anyone who gets past the dogs and breaks in has demonstrated they are determined to enter, so there is no benefit in giving them MASTERY of the situation. The proper combat response is to neutralize the threat. I wouldn't stand up in a window while deployed and politely ask an armed Jihadist to play nice, and I won't offer myself as a target in my home.
It's also perfectly fair. If I break into your home, I encourage you to shoot me! Heck, if I go that nuts, follow up with the bayonet.
My way of avoiding ventilation is to stay where I belong, in MY space, in MY "castle", hence my support for the castle doctrine.:)
"Eh, at least it keeps you from any job more technically challenging than filling a fry bag...or emptying a Doritos bag"
Back in The (1980s) Day, which ended around the time I enlisted, normal off-duty epic military drunking was supplemented with a substantial amount of weed.
No problem so long as you showed up sober for duty. Every now and then we had a surprise recall, and literally carried the drunks in so they could sign the roster. The stoned made it in on their own, the rest of us drove them back to barracks to sleep it off, and life was fine.
USAFE functioned as designed, and based on that I have to say a perpetual >>>off-duty drunken/baked state of affairs was great for morale. So, for that matter, was constant whore chasing!
With no internet social media for the public to look up our arses (literally and figuratively) we partied, fucked, raised hell, and defended freedom. Long exercises and mass sortie generation meant we worked even harder than we played, but we didn't do both at the same time.
The same folks who lived this way had no problem stepping up a few years later and fighting the Gulf War. The idea that being a party monster is inherently bad for you is far from the truth. Stupid people will be stupid with or without chemical help.
"The religion says that conceal-carry would lead to the Wild West all over again, with gunfights in the streets everywhere. "
The "Wild West" beloved of writers wasn't constantly violent. People were busy working to survive and make money, not engaged in a perpetual Hollywood gunfight.
Yes, but not manned by untrained merchant crews from Third World shitholes. That would make a worse mess.
Tacitly outsource pirate eradication to countries that can just kill them and don't have to follow rules. Rules do not empower, they restrain and restrict and in the case of war, only serve defeat.
We forget what it took to deal with piracy back in The Day, pretend it can be done differently, so we shouldn't do it.
"Speculating that the King of Saudi Arabia is an ass should not be considered an official secret."
Chilling Effects apply to diplomacy, not just whistleblowers.
I understand the Slashdot preference that all official communication be shouted from the rooftops and general hatred of government, but don't expect people charged with negotiation and alliance building to share those ideas.
"Guns on the other hand are not typically built in people's garages."
That doesn't mean that is difficult to do, and folks like the Afghans do it all the time, minus modern facilities. A basic lathe and common hand tools along with common steel stock can be used to make simple submachine guns like the Sten which fire from an open bolt.
Fabbing bombs such as EFPs is even easier, and one needn't stick around to use them. All that's needed is a container, explosives, and a detonator.
If you want the classic anti-vehicle sort, a stick of 6" Schedule 40 pipe, a 4'x8' sheet of 1/4" plate for end caps and projectile discs, explosive, and detonators wouldn't set you back much money or effort. (No, I haven't made any, but if it's obvious to one mechanic it's damn well obvious to hundreds of thousands since it's so very basic.)
"Why should it be okay to kill them if you catch them in the act?"
To ensure they don't attack you as a target of opportunity. How dare you value those people? How dare you value a burglar more than his victim? Do you hate good citizens?
"I've yet to see someone drop a cement mixer truck at a political rally."
Fill it with ANFO like the rental truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and it could ERASE the whole rally.
The diesel smell would be unremarkable, and the cement mixer would even take care of the blending.
Truck bombs are quite common elsewhere, easy to build, require no secret or even "hard to get" information to produce (it can be derived from innocent sources with no effort), and really the only reason they aren't common in the US is Americans are content with their lot.
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Quite right, many people do this. Search for quite PC/silent PC.
The goal of large waste reductions must be met one small waste reduction at a time.
As for the power-producing tech, replacing power plants or retrofitting scrubbers deals with the problem at the source. One problem materials (CD, whatever) are DISPERSED they are vastly more difficult to deal with.
"a CD manufacturing plant in a country with an actual working EPA is far, far better for the environment than the toxic waste dump that we are creating in China right now,where environmental activists get thrown in prison as 'enemies of the state'. "
I prefer it there to here.
"What about those people who aren't required to be in touch 24 hours a day, but perhaps the 8 working hours they do each day, are they going to have to use their personal cell phone? "
There can't be a "requirement" for access via systems not provided by the employer.
I prefer to use my personal cell (AND webmail) for work. _I_ keep all my contacts and correspondence. Fire me, and that goes with me. Let the next guy reaccomplish my contact list and information (what's on my PC lives on my personal flash drive, backed up at home).
That's a stunning amount of plastic waste and manufacturing process waste no longer being generated.
"Are you supposed to broadcast your donkey porn to the neighbor in the open?"
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your video feed.
"It is a Femdom world baby! Get used to it."
Palin in 2012!
Pretending OP isn't trolling:
"As a scientist, and a feminist, this offends me."
So bring a picture of whatever YOU like to fuck when you go into space. There should be more fucking (straight,gay,whatever) and less concern over what someone else faps to,
Die in a (old-school oxygen-rich capsule atmosphere, so we keep this on-topic!) fire.
There SHOULD be some outrage at their "rape" charges.
What's next, bitch doesn't come and it's rape?
"Actually companies weigh this all on a risk basis."
That doesn't mean that pressures don't influence their objectivity, since the primary objective for individuals in those companies is to make a buck and avoid jail.
They bear aggressive, adversarial watching.
Considering what Islamic countries do to those not, or insufficiently, Islamic, there really is logical ground to oppose people affiliated with it and consider them enemies. There is zero evidence, anywhere, I defy you to find it, of Islamic governments enhancing freedom by ensuring secular law and trying to keep religion out of government.
There is an ideological imperative in some quarters to consider religion "different" so one can ignore the outcomes its believers produce when they run the show.
Want a taste? Bring a stack of Christian literature through Saudi customs and inform them you intend to convert the heathens.
You can buy all the Qurans you like in the US, and even sects like Louis Farrakhans Nation of Islam are free to demonstrate on the street.
"12 y/o girls don't count."
I blame the education system!
"90% of their porn involves women crying."
Those tentacle and eel insertions DO look painful.
Squid, not so much...
Mod up! This was the only really worthwhile comment in the thread.
There is a whole genre of such pr0n, so what deters some clearly arouses others.
"Hint to you guys: if you read this plate, and your brain says "have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids, have oral sex with kids!", then it's not the plate that's the problem."
No children should have oral sex without benefit of clergy.
That's why the job should be given/left to countries whose rules of engagement don't favor the pirates.
The same people who absolutely revile any government intrusion into their data privacy go apeshit when the idea of protecting humans from non-government criminal assault is raised.
While I agree with keeping da gummint out of my business, there is tremendous unexplained sympathy for violent "civilian" criminals.
Those who don't want to defend themselves serve a useful purpose in diverting criminals from fucking with ME, but I still find them silly..
"If the intruder is unarmed, they pose little threat."
Bullshit. Tell that to any woman who has been raped by an "unarmed" assailant!
"If they are armed, you've just put yourself into a firefight."
That implies I didn't kill them from behind visual cover, lie down on the floor (assuming darkness) or other alternatives. I have no duty to warn an armed intruder.
"No guarantee you'll be the one to walk out of that one. Where is the rational reason for wanting to confront someone under these circumstances?"
That the alternative is being AT THEIR MERCY. I can't retreat through a wall, I have a wife I'll not abandon, and running just makes for an exposed target.
Anyone who gets past the dogs and breaks in has demonstrated they are determined to enter, so there is no benefit in giving them MASTERY of the situation. The proper combat response is to neutralize the threat. I wouldn't stand up in a window while deployed and politely ask an armed Jihadist to play nice, and I won't offer myself as a target in my home.
It's also perfectly fair. If I break into your home, I encourage you to shoot me! Heck, if I go that nuts, follow up with the bayonet.
My way of avoiding ventilation is to stay where I belong, in MY space, in MY "castle", hence my support for the castle doctrine. :)
"Eh, at least it keeps you from any job more technically challenging than filling a fry bag...or emptying a Doritos bag"
Back in The (1980s) Day, which ended around the time I enlisted, normal off-duty epic military drunking was supplemented with a substantial amount of weed.
No problem so long as you showed up sober for duty. Every now and then we had a surprise recall, and literally carried the drunks in so they could sign the roster. The stoned made it in on their own, the rest of us drove them back to barracks to sleep it off, and life was fine.
USAFE functioned as designed, and based on that I have to say a perpetual >>>off-duty drunken/baked state of affairs was great for morale. So, for that matter, was constant whore chasing!
With no internet social media for the public to look up our arses (literally and figuratively) we partied, fucked, raised hell, and defended freedom. Long exercises and mass sortie generation meant we worked even harder than we played, but we didn't do both at the same time.
The same folks who lived this way had no problem stepping up a few years later and fighting the Gulf War. The idea that being a party monster is inherently bad for you is far from the truth. Stupid people will be stupid with or without chemical help.
"The religion says that conceal-carry would lead to the Wild West all over again, with gunfights in the streets everywhere. "
The "Wild West" beloved of writers wasn't constantly violent. People were busy working to survive and make money, not engaged in a perpetual Hollywood gunfight.
Yes, but not manned by untrained merchant crews from Third World shitholes. That would make a worse mess.
Tacitly outsource pirate eradication to countries that can just kill them and don't have to follow rules. Rules do not empower, they restrain and restrict and in the case of war, only serve defeat.
We forget what it took to deal with piracy back in The Day, pretend it can be done differently, so we shouldn't do it.
The problem belongs to the shipping companies.
"I can also follow friends and family with annoying them."
I annoy mine in person.
"Speculating that the King of Saudi Arabia is an ass should not be considered an official secret."
Chilling Effects apply to diplomacy, not just whistleblowers.
I understand the Slashdot preference that all official communication be shouted from the rooftops and general hatred of government, but don't expect people charged with negotiation and alliance building to share those ideas.
"Guns on the other hand are not typically built in people's garages."
That doesn't mean that is difficult to do, and folks like the Afghans do it all the time, minus modern facilities.
A basic lathe and common hand tools along with common steel stock can be used to make simple submachine guns like the Sten which fire from an open bolt.
http://www.milsurps.com/content.php?r=422-Blueprints-for-The-STEN-MKII-(complete-machine-plans)
Fabbing bombs such as EFPs is even easier, and one needn't stick around to use them. All that's needed is a container, explosives, and a detonator.
If you want the classic anti-vehicle sort, a stick of 6" Schedule 40 pipe, a 4'x8' sheet of 1/4" plate for end caps and projectile discs, explosive, and detonators wouldn't set you back much money or effort. (No, I haven't made any, but if it's obvious to one mechanic it's damn well obvious to hundreds of thousands since it's so very basic.)
"Why should it be okay to kill them if you catch them in the act?"
To ensure they don't attack you as a target of opportunity. How dare you value those people? How dare you value a burglar more than his victim?
Do you hate good citizens?
"I've yet to see someone drop a cement mixer truck at a political rally."
Fill it with ANFO like the rental truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and it could ERASE the whole rally.
The diesel smell would be unremarkable, and the cement mixer would even take care of the blending.
Truck bombs are quite common elsewhere, easy to build, require no secret or even "hard to get" information to produce (it can be derived from innocent sources with no effort), and really the only reason they aren't common in the US is Americans are content with their lot.