"On this day, the glide slope signal was not available due to maintenance work"
Interesting. A requirement for redundant glide slope transmitters would seem to be in order. If you only have one and it shits the bed during foul weather at night, that's not good new.
The Prius is built to MUCH higher crash safety standards than the Pinto or the Nova.
It is also expected to perform better, be much quieter, and last far longer than that old junk. The Pinto and Nova were econoboxes built as cheaply as possible.
"The only reason Windows gained market share in the 90s was because it went out of its way to not be a closed system."
Sheeit. The reason it gained market share was you could effortlessly copy the OS and Office and whatever apps you wanted then install them on any PC as many times as you liked. I expect many older Slashdotters can still recite Windows keys from memory.
"Paedophilia was once commonly accepted as late as the 17-18th centuries (see also at least half of the females in Casanova's autobiography, Histoire De Ma Vie, if you want some indication of just how common)"
Paedophilia or ephebophilia? The distinction matters.
The best use for shipping containers in refugee situations would be to unload containers holding supplies then use the container with something like the Sea Box kits when it's empty. Of course the rest of the container could be filled with Ikea kits.
Containers can be used to make structures used by the group or NGOs providing relief while families live in the tent-ish shelters.
Containers are stable at high wind velocities, easy to modify with basic equipment, and since they are supported by the end fittings they are easy to elevate above where water may accumulate.
Place tents in the lee of a container and they are protected from wind. Surround tented areas with containers and have a 360-degree windbreak.
(I moved my 40-foot High Cubes using an manual Wyeth-Scott comealong, snatch blocks, and chains. I pivoted the ends by supporting one on an 18-wheeler rim while the other rolled on some 8" diameter scrap pipe. I elevated them using bottle jacks and wood cribbing. If one old guy can do that single-handed it's no wonder ISOs are popular worldwide.)
The use of MIXED solutions using what's available is the way to go.
Lincoln welders are priced competitively. The company is famous for their quality equipment which often lasts decades. (The SA series engine-driven welders are standard in oil field and pipeline use in many countries.)
"Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market."
The American worker isn't priced out of the market. For example, we export BMWs to mainland China. We don't need many meat puppets and nut turners to do that.
The American worker is less NECESSARY because efficient businesses need fewer workers. Workers are an expensive burden, which is why even Foxconn is turning to robotics.
Pirating will happen anyway, and MSFT of all software companies knows (or knew) how to benefit from "market chumming".
Seems they forgot how Office 97 slaughtered the competition by being so convenient to copy from the CDs borrowed from work.
I want to see MSFT screw users good and hard because I don't care for the company. Large hardware dongles keyed to each application would be just dandy.
...I don't go to theatres because the audience can't shut up.
Many if not most people where I live who go to theaters are nasty, loud, backward trash who babble on their phones and yell at the screen. If James Holmes lived where I do he'd have snapped sooner!
If you live where the social experience at theaters is actually FUN, for fucks sake support those establishments. Small and specialty theaters need audience support to survive being overwhelmed by commercial suckage.
"Are we prepared for a day when 50% of the world or more has to be on welfare simply because there are no jobs available to humans anymore?"
Technology will eventually make "Communism" necessary and that's because there will be the choice between "welfare" and the masses killing their masters. That doesn't mean "Communism" is good any more than "Capitalism" is good. Both are tools appropriate to some situations and not others.
There is no reason not to kill someone if it will benefit you more than NOT killing them. There is no reason not to pay people not to kill you if it maintains your wealth and power.
If someone is going to punish me for what I find on MY property, fuck 'em.
A few bones or arrowheads or potshards aren't going to change the world, are not a Mayan temple (one thing is not like the other) and I refuse to suffer that academics may be entertained.
If I found bones, they'd be bone meal in my garden. If I found stone items, they'd be gravel, if I found pottery it would be dust, and if I found precious metals they'd be in a crucible meeting my cutting torch with some modern metals added to skew the assay.
If OTOH the government were to PAY for the COMPLETE costs of rescuing the objects and/or buy my property at a suitable profit, they could have at it.
What I buy and own is mine and I'd kill to protect it if I thought fit. Without property rights there is no (practical) freedom.
"I refer them to the fact that gun regulation on the purchase of silencers has been so effective that very few people have them"
Silencers aren't necessary to using a firearm, hence not terribly popular although if you abide by the regs you can purchase and use them in most States.
The solution to the RIAA and MPAA problem is for powerful companies such as Google to BUY member companies and use their content for their own revenue models while giving them appropriate marching orders to relax content controls.
Google alone makes far greater revenue than all RIAA members combined. Buy a few member companies, fragment the enemy and profit thereby, then press on.
Minimum wage is so low that any company who wants to grow their own talent can pay it painlessly.
The skilled trades, unlike various Elitist Fuck Corporations, pay their apprentices because otherwise said apprentices wouldn't be able to have food, clothing and shelter.Internships/apprenticeships are increasing as they are the (proven over CENTURIES) way to grow skilled tradespeople.
Robots can move into situations where fear would stop most humans or distract them.
If you need to troll for contact and observe an area, robots can be quite useful. They can, for example, approach armored fighting vehicles "unafraid" and kill them.
Manning was an obvious attention whore who did a bulk dump of materials he couldn't possibly have reviewed in detail. Further, he was subject to the UCMJ. Any vet with a clue knows Manning could have pursued multiple avenues of legal disclosure through Congresscritters and other legislators eager to have at it. Manning was sloppy and foolish and asked for what he got. The military can't let people leak whatever they wish and make up their own rules.
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"On this day, the glide slope signal was not available due to maintenance work"
Interesting. A requirement for redundant glide slope transmitters would seem to be in order. If you only have one and it shits the bed during foul weather at night, that's not good new.
The Prius is built to MUCH higher crash safety standards than the Pinto or the Nova.
It is also expected to perform better, be much quieter, and last far longer than that old junk. The Pinto and Nova were econoboxes built as cheaply as possible.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness
The Prius is also carrying a hefty battery pack.
"The only reason Windows gained market share in the 90s was because it went out of its way to not be a closed system."
Sheeit. The reason it gained market share was you could effortlessly copy the OS and Office and whatever apps you wanted then install them on any PC as many times as you liked. I expect many older Slashdotters can still recite Windows keys from memory.
"They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect"
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropiracy9
"How long till kardashians invade?"
They are already here, on staff.
"Paedophilia was once commonly accepted as late as the 17-18th centuries (see also at least half of the females in Casanova's autobiography, Histoire De Ma Vie, if you want some indication of just how common)"
Paedophilia or ephebophilia? The distinction matters.
The best use for shipping containers in refugee situations would be to unload containers holding supplies then use the container with something like the Sea Box kits when it's empty. Of course the rest of the container could be filled with Ikea kits.
http://www.seabox.com/shelterpak.php
Containers can be used to make structures used by the group or NGOs providing relief while families live in the tent-ish shelters.
Containers are stable at high wind velocities, easy to modify with basic equipment, and since they are supported by the end fittings they are easy to elevate above where water may accumulate.
Place tents in the lee of a container and they are protected from wind. Surround tented areas with containers and have a 360-degree windbreak.
(I moved my 40-foot High Cubes using an manual Wyeth-Scott comealong, snatch blocks, and chains. I pivoted the ends by supporting one on an 18-wheeler rim while the other rolled on some 8" diameter scrap pipe. I elevated them using bottle jacks and wood cribbing. If one old guy can do that single-handed it's no wonder ISOs are popular worldwide.)
The use of MIXED solutions using what's available is the way to go.
"The pilot should have bailed out and let the damned thing crash into the crowd."
Pilot bailing out....of a conventional helicopter.
And to think /. was once a techy site.
Here's a better example, note the wages:
Lincoln welders are priced competitively. The company is famous for their quality equipment which often lasts decades. (The SA series engine-driven welders are standard in oil field and pipeline use in many countries.)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/12/yes-to-profit-sharing-and-no-layoffs-for-64-years-in-a-row.html
You can machine a plastic weapon on conventional equipment too.
Nonmetallic weapons go back many years. Here's a WWII ceramic grenade:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_4_grenade
"Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market."
The American worker isn't priced out of the market. For example, we export BMWs to mainland China. We don't need many meat puppets and nut turners to do that.
The American worker is less NECESSARY because efficient businesses need fewer workers. Workers are an expensive burden, which is why even Foxconn is turning to robotics.
No one in their right mind has faith in the US trial system or respects anything its government does.
Who wants to linger in jail, possibly for years, awaiting "trial"? You still get "punished" either way.
Pirating will happen anyway, and MSFT of all software companies knows (or knew) how to benefit from "market chumming".
Seems they forgot how Office 97 slaughtered the competition by being so convenient to copy from the CDs borrowed from work.
I want to see MSFT screw users good and hard because I don't care for the company. Large hardware dongles keyed to each application would be just dandy.
...I don't go to theatres because the audience can't shut up.
Many if not most people where I live who go to theaters are nasty, loud, backward trash who babble on their phones and yell at the screen. If James Holmes lived where I do he'd have snapped sooner!
If you live where the social experience at theaters is actually FUN, for fucks sake support those establishments. Small and specialty theaters need audience support to survive being overwhelmed by commercial suckage.
"Are we prepared for a day when 50% of the world or more has to be on welfare simply because there are no jobs available to humans anymore?"
Technology will eventually make "Communism" necessary and that's because there will be the choice between "welfare" and the masses killing their masters. That doesn't mean "Communism" is good any more than "Capitalism" is good. Both are tools appropriate to some situations and not others.
There is no reason not to kill someone if it will benefit you more than NOT killing them. There is no reason not to pay people not to kill you if it maintains your wealth and power.
"Out of respect for the short attention span of people today, I'll refer you to the Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Of_Socrates [wikipedia.org]"
tl;dr
People with a need for genuinely secure communication didn't use the Internet. Communication still happened.
Internet surveillance is so effective because people cannot resist the convenience of using the internet.
If someone is going to punish me for what I find on MY property, fuck 'em.
A few bones or arrowheads or potshards aren't going to change the world, are not a Mayan temple (one thing is not like the other) and I refuse to suffer that academics may be entertained.
If I found bones, they'd be bone meal in my garden. If I found stone items, they'd be gravel, if I found pottery it would be dust, and if I found precious metals they'd be in a crucible meeting my cutting torch with some modern metals added to skew the assay.
If OTOH the government were to PAY for the COMPLETE costs of rescuing the objects and/or buy my property at a suitable profit, they could have at it.
What I buy and own is mine and I'd kill to protect it if I thought fit. Without property rights there is no (practical) freedom.
"I refer them to the fact that gun regulation on the purchase of silencers has been so effective that very few people have them"
Silencers aren't necessary to using a firearm, hence not terribly popular although if you abide by the regs you can purchase and use them in most States.
The solution to the RIAA and MPAA problem is for powerful companies such as Google to BUY member companies and use their content for their own revenue models while giving them appropriate marching orders to relax content controls.
Google alone makes far greater revenue than all RIAA members combined. Buy a few member companies, fragment the enemy and profit thereby, then press on.
However, there is no practical way to crack down on that, and MANY classic battle rifles were first made on manual machine tools.
http://www.cncguns.com/
Minimum wage is so low that any company who wants to grow their own talent can pay it painlessly.
The skilled trades, unlike various Elitist Fuck Corporations, pay their apprentices because otherwise said apprentices wouldn't be able to have food, clothing and shelter.Internships/apprenticeships are increasing as they are the (proven over CENTURIES) way to grow skilled tradespeople.
Robots can move into situations where fear would stop most humans or distract them.
If you need to troll for contact and observe an area, robots can be quite useful. They can, for example, approach armored fighting vehicles "unafraid" and kill them.
It's an old idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuu_g7svoE
That would kick much ass for custom work too. If the color can be scanned then matched, even better!
The problem with the well-armed patriots is that they don't care about any Amendment but the Second.
The unarmed patriots don't care about the Second Amendment.
American could use some ideological overlap.
Manning was an obvious attention whore who did a bulk dump of materials he couldn't possibly have reviewed in detail. Further, he was subject to the UCMJ. Any vet with a clue knows Manning could have pursued multiple avenues of legal disclosure through Congresscritters and other legislators eager to have at it. Manning was sloppy and foolish and asked for what he got. The military can't let people leak whatever they wish and make up their own rules.