"while the "right" is generally those who favor letting people live their lives as they choose."
The Right = "the Religious Right", and they aren't big on personal liberty with the exception (which I support) of the Second Amendment. Their version of "freedom" doesn't include gays, atheists, or anyone else who doesn't thump a Bible.
I think they should be humored and coddled and talked into signing over their worldly goods as an act of faith. The stupid deserved to be humilitated, for profit.
Scientists ought to seek out other countries for funding. The brain drain can work in reverse.
If China were smart, it would buy up the scientific talent chased out of the West by religious oppression. China was once the most advanced country in the world. There is no reason that shouldn't happen again. The Communists knew what to do about religion, and did it in a manner no harsher than that which spread religion in the first place.
Why is that a Troll? There are almost zero secular Conservatives, and not enough to make policy.
Religion and science are opposing views, and religionists have a history of stifling science and killing scientists they thought threatened belief in their imaginary celestial friend.
"The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits."
No coincidence that the Religious Right in the US, who compose the vast majority of the Tea Party, are funded by oil billionaires among others.
It's the perfect storm of anti-science superstition and corporate greed.
"Not if I was a Senator, Congressman, President, or other member of the government. It would be my job to keep my employer (the People) informed, not to hide things my boss would disapprove of."
Quite right. There can be no justification for military security of any sort, so your duty as a member of government would be to dump as much information as possible into the open...
OTOH, Linux still supports plenty of hardware for which Windows driver support was dropped, forcing Windows users who "upgrade" to buy new peripherals.
I like being given free peripherals, so I have no complaint, but those who buy new ones because they can no longer get drivers may be less pleased.
Going on a turd hunt for scanner drivers and software for Windows vs. just plugging in my "inherited" HP scanner to my Ubuntu machine? I'll take option 2.:)
"There is a problem with these engines in that they don't idle."
Odd. All the turbine and jet engines I maintained during 26 years in the Air Force must not have got that message. They idled quite nicely, had "idle" throttle settings, etc.
Small turbines WOULD be nice for a hybrid though,since they could charge a hydraulic accumulator for rapid restart (in the manner of the F-16 Jet Fuel Starter). That accumulator could have both a backup electric pump and a hand pump (the hand pump for the F-16 is tiring to use, but it's very small and works fine).
"The turbine itself was wired against tampering. All the bolts had little wires threaded through the heads that were then attached to the component the bolt was used in. "
That's called "safety wiring", and has been used for many, many years to keep aircraft fasteners from coming loose. It is also standard on much aerospace ground equipment, and would be normal for such an automotive turbine.
Depends on the diameter of the turbine and how stout a band is designed into the case. Turbine gensets have been around for many decades in the commercial and military aircraft world.
Modern materials like those used in AFV spall liners are plenty adequate to contain any frags.
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"Not if they visit using a Live CD based OS."
VMs aren't just for running "installed" operating systems. :)
A live CD image boots nicely under QEMU and VirtualBox. Grab some .isos and enjoy.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ is small, light, and fast, but you can run Ubuntu and similar images.
If you remaster your image with custom software, you can use it as easily as a premade .iso.
"while the "right" is generally those who favor letting people live their lives as they choose."
The Right = "the Religious Right", and they aren't big on personal liberty with the exception (which I support) of the Second Amendment. Their version of "freedom" doesn't include gays, atheists, or anyone else who doesn't thump a Bible.
"Also, there's far less oversight of food and drug safety over there."
At the moment.
They've only had since 1948 to go from "impoverished smoking war ruin" to their present state.
"10 years of work on his laptop without a single backup?"
Otherwise accomplished people can go brain-dead when it comes to backing up data. I think many of them resent admitting that data is perishable.
I tell customers that if they don't learn how to back up their stuff, they don't care about backing up their stuff, and not to mourn its loss.
I think they should be humored and coddled and talked into signing over their worldly goods as an act of faith.
The stupid deserved to be humilitated, for profit.
Scientists ought to seek out other countries for funding. The brain drain can work in reverse.
If China were smart, it would buy up the scientific talent chased out of the West by religious oppression. China was once the most advanced country in the world. There is no reason that shouldn't happen again. The Communists knew what to do about religion, and did it in a manner no harsher than that which spread religion in the first place.
Why is that a Troll? There are almost zero secular Conservatives, and not enough to make policy.
Religion and science are opposing views, and religionists have a history of stifling science and killing scientists they thought threatened belief in their imaginary celestial friend.
"The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits."
No coincidence that the Religious Right in the US, who compose the vast majority of the Tea Party, are funded by oil billionaires among others.
It's the perfect storm of anti-science superstition and corporate greed.
"Now if they can develop this for human consumption think what it would do for people with Alz........Aaahhhhhh......whassitcalled? ...."
Teapartism. Currently the only treatment is euthanasia.
"Not if I was a Senator, Congressman, President, or other member of the government. It would be my job to keep my employer (the People) informed, not to hide things my boss would disapprove of."
Quite right. There can be no justification for military security of any sort, so your duty as a member of government would be to dump as much information as possible into the open...
OTOH, Linux still supports plenty of hardware for which Windows driver support was dropped, forcing Windows users who "upgrade" to buy new peripherals.
I like being given free peripherals, so I have no complaint, but those who buy new ones because they can no longer get drivers may be less pleased.
Going on a turd hunt for scanner drivers and software for Windows vs. just plugging in my "inherited" HP scanner to my Ubuntu machine? I'll take option 2. :)
....page hits is thriving!
"You still need to pay for eminent domain. If you want to maintain the appearance of being a "free country", at any rate."
There is enough money available to simply acquire the whole company, or pay whatever they like for the software.
Mod Up!
Car analogies would work better if you could warez a car...
That's why the Air Force, whose decentralized desktops are scattered across large bases, still sticks with them instead of terminals.
"Use a Wankel. All the same advantages. They're even replacing turbines for APUs."
Wankels are complex than the successful Capstone.
http://www.capstoneturbine.com/news/video/view/bus.asp
"There is a problem with these engines in that they don't idle."
Odd. All the turbine and jet engines I maintained during 26 years in the Air Force must not have got that message. They idled quite nicely, had "idle" throttle settings, etc.
Small turbines WOULD be nice for a hybrid though,since they could charge a hydraulic accumulator for rapid restart (in the manner of the F-16 Jet Fuel Starter). That accumulator could have both a backup electric pump and a hand pump (the hand pump for the F-16 is tiring to use, but it's very small and works fine).
"The turbine itself was wired against tampering. All the bolts had little wires threaded through the heads that were then attached to the component the bolt was used in. "
That's called "safety wiring", and has been used for many, many years to keep aircraft fasteners from coming loose. It is also standard on much aerospace ground equipment, and would be normal for such an automotive turbine.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/turbines.html
Depends on the diameter of the turbine and how stout a band is designed into the case. Turbine gensets have been around for many decades in the commercial and military aircraft world.
Modern materials like those used in AFV spall liners are plenty adequate to contain any frags.
http://www.capstoneturbine.com/prodsol/
I'm not rich, but some /.ers are. Hang one of these in a hybrid and have at it.
He's SAVING desired books from the shredder. The "heartless" nonsense is merely because he isn't personally collecting them to fap over.
SELLING them to people who want them is efficient recycling. Not a fucking thing wrong with that, it give more people a shot a them.
"Do you think having both arms and legs amputated is a more just punishment?"
Doing them one at a time leaves room for the criminal to change his ways.
If he persists, his ability is reduced each time he is punished. :)
"Also, eeeeew! eeew! God why! eeeew!"
Great for identifying stolen laptops!
They may grind off my etching, but they'll never clean out my keyboard.