Keep doing what you do. The money you save will more than buy all the tools you need, and you get to keep the tools. No one will care about your stuff like you care about your stuff, and when YOU fix it you can respond immediately to malfunctions and get your gear back in the game.
Small example: I just did two front-end jobs (bushings, ball joints, sway bar links, wheel bearings, brake pads and rotors) on my and da wifes pickup trucks.
That more than paid for the ball joint press kit, and would have paid for the floor jack and other hand tools if they had not been on hand from many other jobs.
The financial benefits of fixing nearly all your own stuff are impressive. No need for new cars or new homes is a lifelong money "force multiplier".
We don't call mechanics, plumbers, electricians (except where code requires it), welders, PC techs, roofers, carpenters, and so forth. We can usually fit working on our stuff into convenient time slots. It's also FUN.
Engines BTW are often not worth internally repairing (I'm a mechanic) but if you can do a clutch you can certainly replace an engine.
"Brilliance" would be INTELLIGENT government support for our domestic industries, but our government and people are incompetent to do that, so "tariffs" it is.
Part of not getting mugged is not looking like a target and avoiding bad areas. If you actually NEED a smartphone ("it makes you money") then conceal it and don't answer it in Chud zones.
The ROE for avoiding scumbags hasn't changed since Ogg coveted Zorgs shiny rock.
Don't display shiny rocks, and if it's an option be able, willing, and ready to use lethal force in self-defence.
Rabid secularity is reasonable since there is no evidence that any superstition is based on truth or that Sky Fairies exist.
Superstition itself deserves no respect, and one may respect the LEGAL rights of superstitionists while scorning and ridiculing their ideas.
Any act is "about religion" if the actor invokes religion. Religion should be attacked. It is nonsense. Unfortunately the only people with the balls to attack religion are Communists, since Western freethinkers are few and far between and too reticent.
Religion is Osama bin Laden, Rick Santorum, Jihad, Crusades, and Zionism. It is nothing but a system of deliberate lies to exalt superstitionists that they may oppress those who won't lick their boots.
If a rental property isn't being paid for, the landlord may remove the furniture etc to storage and accrue storage charges. Then, if those aren't paid, it goes to public auction.
In government service, OP makes sense. I served in the Air Force through the transition from various Unix terminals to Windows and it's really quite simple.
You give people orders and they obey them because they have no choice. There is no obligation to heed any whining.
There is a place for heeding users, and there is a place for giving orders and expecting them to be obeyed.
"How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?"
Your car matters when you pay to have it repaired, though "computers" are a plus in general. However not all auto computer functions are required to be disclosed, so a generic code reader won't always solve your problem.
Auto makers would love to "wall off" independent mechanics as well as DIYers:
It's the act that's punished. Consequences hurt? Don't fucking do the act, that being the point. If your self-control is that poor, you don't need access to firearms. (I say this as a staunch Second Amendment advocate.)
If the perp grabbed wallet full of that amount of cash instead, it wouldn't even be interesting and certainly wouldn't make Slashdot.
Larval Belgians should be told WHY they cannot be read to, and encouraged to remember their enemies. You are never too young to remember who fucked you over, and you have a lifetime for payback.
Tell people "reading is subversive" if you want to get them to read.
"I have a better idea. Let's not waste time or effort making the world ridiculously safe."
Don't presume "safety" is my main interest. That's not my goal. If.men were cheap I'd be fine with the "wooden ships and iron men" approach which worked well on Earth. We could afford to throw away both and we did. Men are now a burden. One has to ship them back and they can't be left in space until they die. Robots can be used, expended, and left in place. Their materials and parts may be used in the future.
Robots are required on earth and space, and a "robots first" policy benefits more humans than a "tourists first" policy which doesn't further robot development. Given that we have limitless time to send meat, there is every reason to perfect and send machines first
Turkey is in the unenviable position of being caught between Ataturkism and Islam.
Ataturk understood what it took to push Turkey somewhat into the modern age, but the methods were harsh and as the military grip loosens Islamists will win. Islam is bad, Ataturkism is bad (ask surviving Armenians!), and Turkey should be kept out of the EU because it's not rational to weaken the EU by installing enemy cultures in positions of power. (If your culture doesn't promote secular freedom, it's evil to that degree. )
Automation is vital to the efficient production and distribution of everything you need to have an apartment on Earth.
If you have an apartment offworld, it will take even more automation to build and assemble it. If you were to use human labor the cost would be prohibitive.
Nor should it now. We ALL die. We die by the millions. We die in cars, in hospital beds, and everywhere else.
You can safely fly in modern aircraft thanks to generations of test pilots including many who died "pushing the (flight) enevelope" for the sake of knowledge. It was well worth the sacrifice.
"Yes. As they put it during Project Mercury, "No Bucks, no Buck Rogers." Well, the reverse is true, as well."
They didn't have the remotely-manned tech we do now or robots in quantity would have preceded men.
If there is, at the moment, anything a man can perform which a robot cannot, that argues for improved robots rather than sending expensive tourists. We need improved robot tech for all the dull/dirty/dangerous jobs on Earth, and as we are moving to "lights out manufacturing" in advanced industries so we should seek to automate everything else over time.
Slashdot Mirror
Farkdot isn't News for Nerds.
You must be old here.
Warfarin bait mixed with peanut butter works a treat on rats and mice....
"Finally, we can find Japanese Waldo"
Oh. WALdo. My bad.
Keep doing what you do. The money you save will more than buy all the tools you need, and you get to keep the tools. No one will care about your stuff like you care about your stuff, and when YOU fix it you can respond immediately to malfunctions and get your gear back in the game.
Small example:
I just did two front-end jobs (bushings, ball joints, sway bar links, wheel bearings, brake pads and rotors) on my and da wifes pickup trucks.
That more than paid for the ball joint press kit, and would have paid for the floor jack and other hand tools if they had not been on hand from many other jobs.
The financial benefits of fixing nearly all your own stuff are impressive. No need for new cars or new homes is a lifelong money "force multiplier".
We don't call mechanics, plumbers, electricians (except where code requires it), welders, PC techs, roofers, carpenters, and so forth. We can usually fit working on our stuff into convenient time slots. It's also FUN.
Engines BTW are often not worth internally repairing (I'm a mechanic) but if you can do a clutch you can certainly replace an engine.
"Brilliance" would be INTELLIGENT government support for our domestic industries, but our government and people are incompetent to do that, so "tariffs" it is.
There is a difference between reasonable precautions and trolling for muggers.
Just because you have the right to do X doesn't make it a smart choice in all locations.
Part of not getting mugged is not looking like a target and avoiding bad areas. If you actually NEED a smartphone ("it makes you money") then conceal it and don't answer it in Chud zones.
The ROE for avoiding scumbags hasn't changed since Ogg coveted Zorgs shiny rock.
Don't display shiny rocks, and if it's an option be able, willing, and ready to use lethal force in self-defence.
Rabid secularity is reasonable since there is no evidence that any superstition is based on truth or that Sky Fairies exist.
Superstition itself deserves no respect, and one may respect the LEGAL rights of superstitionists while scorning and ridiculing their ideas.
Any act is "about religion" if the actor invokes religion. Religion should be attacked. It is nonsense. Unfortunately the only people with the balls to attack religion are Communists, since Western freethinkers are few and far between and too reticent.
Religion is Osama bin Laden, Rick Santorum, Jihad, Crusades, and Zionism. It is nothing but a system of deliberate lies to exalt superstitionists that they may oppress those who won't lick their boots.
HIgh percentage? Citation needed.
The major purpose of such sites has always been warez and porn. That's why there are so many links to them passed 'round the net.
No one here believes otherwise but many pretend it.
If a rental property isn't being paid for, the landlord may remove the furniture etc to storage and accrue storage charges. Then, if those aren't paid, it goes to public auction.
In government service, OP makes sense. I served in the Air Force through the transition from various Unix terminals to Windows and it's really quite simple.
You give people orders and they obey them because they have no choice. There is no obligation to heed any whining.
There is a place for heeding users, and there is a place for giving orders and expecting them to be obeyed.
We have computers now and music is incidental. Before PCs life was boring and music filled that space.
They don't read everything the factory scanners do. See my post.
I LIKE modern scan tools, but the rigs at the dealerships and the cheap (but very handy) auto store units are different beasts.
"How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?"
Your car matters when you pay to have it repaired, though "computers" are a plus in general. However not all auto computer functions are required to be disclosed, so a generic code reader won't always solve your problem.
Auto makers would love to "wall off" independent mechanics as well as DIYers:
http://www.righttorepair.org/main/Default.aspx
IAAM. (I Am A Mechanic.)
"How is the value of a life determined?"
By subjective human sentiment. Nature kills and recycles all "life", which evolved to deal with that by producing replacements.
It's the act that's punished. Consequences hurt? Don't fucking do the act, that being the point. If your self-control is that poor, you don't need access to firearms. (I say this as a staunch Second Amendment advocate.)
If the perp grabbed wallet full of that amount of cash instead, it wouldn't even be interesting and certainly wouldn't make Slashdot.
Larval Belgians should be told WHY they cannot be read to, and encouraged to remember their enemies. You are never too young to remember who fucked you over, and you have a lifetime for payback.
Tell people "reading is subversive" if you want to get them to read.
"I have a better idea. Let's not waste time or effort making the world ridiculously safe."
Don't presume "safety" is my main interest. That's not my goal. If .men were cheap I'd be fine with the "wooden ships and iron men" approach which worked well on Earth. We could afford to throw away both and we did. Men are now a burden. One has to ship them back and they can't be left in space until they die. Robots can be used, expended, and left in place. Their materials and parts may be used in the future.
Robots are required on earth and space, and a "robots first" policy benefits more humans than a "tourists first" policy which doesn't further robot development. Given that we have limitless time to send meat, there is every reason to perfect and send machines first
Turkey is in the unenviable position of being caught between Ataturkism and Islam.
Ataturk understood what it took to push Turkey somewhat into the modern age, but the methods were harsh and as the military grip loosens Islamists will win. Islam is bad, Ataturkism is bad (ask surviving Armenians!), and Turkey should be kept out of the EU because it's not rational to weaken the EU by installing enemy cultures in positions of power. (If your culture doesn't promote secular freedom, it's evil to that degree. )
Automation is vital to the efficient production and distribution of everything you need to have an apartment on Earth.
If you have an apartment offworld, it will take even more automation to build and assemble it. If you were to use human labor the cost would be prohibitive.
Nor should it now. We ALL die. We die by the millions. We die in cars, in hospital beds, and everywhere else.
You can safely fly in modern aircraft thanks to generations of test pilots including many who died "pushing the (flight) enevelope" for the sake of knowledge. It was well worth the sacrifice.
"Yes. As they put it during Project Mercury, "No Bucks, no Buck Rogers." Well, the reverse is true, as well."
They didn't have the remotely-manned tech we do now or robots in quantity would have preceded men.
If there is, at the moment, anything a man can perform which a robot cannot, that argues for improved robots rather than sending expensive tourists. We need improved robot tech for all the dull/dirty/dangerous jobs on Earth, and as we are moving to "lights out manufacturing" in advanced industries so we should seek to automate everything else over time.
The same reasons you don't.
"That would make you his boss. Are you sure you thought that through properly?"
He may be a very "beta" boss.
Dead tree encyclopedia were extremely expensive "per search", and of course updates were few and far between.
Good riddance. They served their purpose well, but we don't need them any more.