This sounds like the kind of crackpotedness my conspiracy-theorist friend would come up with. You know the kind of fellow I mean, the one that has all kinds of things to say about the Federal Reserve and probably watched the Zeitgeist movie too many times. I mean, I understand the legal theories behind it, but it seems too off-the-wall to be something that is actually happening.
I'm sure you'll have a lot of people disagree with a lot of your proposals, so bear with me and do keep in mind that I fundamentally agree with you that some major changes are needed in this country. However, I would like to suggest that you give a bit more thought to one particular point in your diatribe that you may have included without giving it much consideration:
Prison inmates will be forced to work to pay for their food, cells. No television, no books, no workout equipment, no basketball, no nothing. They get up, eat, work, eat, work, eat, go to bed, rinse, repeat.
Having been to jail a few times myself I can attest that a large selection of cheap paperbacks can make the experience a lot more bearable. Some kind of work during the day wouldn't hurt, either, but the ability to mentally remove oneself from the immediate surroundings is made possible for a very small expense, and does wonders for an inmate's state of mind. I've personally made quite a few donations of old paperbacks to local jails and juvenile halls for this very reason.
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Entirely off-topic, but that was my first DVD purchase as well.
Why not? Car geeks are a perfectly legitimate variant of geekdom. I think it is the underlying "take it apart, how's it work" urge that defines us, regardless of what's being dismantled.
Linux was mostly faster than The Hurd while also having much better hardware support, multi-core SMP support, and other modern functionality.
Um, duh? 20+ years real-world testing and updates and bugfixes from pretty much the entire open-source community vs. something that was released last week? Why don't they benchmark it against Google Plus and Bitcoin while they're at it?
This is especially galling to me; I have a book out that I encourage folks to share, but it's only in PDF form. The only people who are going to open it are ignorant of the fact that it could contain a virus, even though it doesn't.
Why don't you release it in more formats, like.epub and other reader-friendly extensions? To my knowledge, they can't execute arbitrary code on their own like.pdf and.doc can. My e-book reader app (FBReader) on my phone can't handle PDF, and it's how I do most of my reading these days.
This is assuming that by "have a book out" you mean you authored or published a work.
Actually, if the government were impotent, the price of meth would adjust to meet sane market conditions and the meth addict down the street wouldn't need to commit crimes to afford his habit.
Anonymous Coward??? I still remember working out of Grandparent Post tents. You wanted Anonymous Coward, you rolled up the sides. The tents usually smelled like Counter Strike anyway. These were some of the pilot units that were deployable before Desert Storm. Kids and their new fangled toys....
If drugs were legal, quality-controlled, and plentiful enough to be cheap or free, why would a drug addict need to break into your house again? Instead of spending all day trying to struggle for the next fix, they could put that time to more productive use. Most (if not all) of the problems you attribute to drug addiction are a direct consequence of prohibition, not the drugs themselves.
Your prejudices are showing with words like 'zombie' and 'dead weight'. The reason you don't see the functional addicts in society is because they are forced to hide their behaviors behind closed doors for fear of prosecution or persecution by narrow minds like yours.
How many slashdotters maintain physical addictions to caffeine? I'm speaking of those of us who have withdrawl symptoms when they go long enough without it. However, sources of caffeine are culturally acceptable, legal, and plentiful, so the harm those addicts do to themselves is minimal. How many times have you heard of someone stealing a purse for coffee? It's unnecessary because caffeine addicts can get their next fix for cheap or free on any populated street in the country, without the social stigma or fear of arrest that goes along with other addictive drugs.
I own a small business and ship ten or so rather valuable packages a month using USPS Priority Mail. It ALWAYS takes two days and costs between $5 and $15 depending on the size of the box. I used to use FedEx a few years ago, and my shipping costs were around $50 per package. I haven't had a lost package in the four years since I've used USPS.
This is ridiculous. The front page of my local newspaper (California, near the coast) is abuzz with "nyookulurr" concerns as well. Why don't they edit out the episodes having to do with, y'know, earthquakes and tsunamis, seeing as that's the brand of disaster Japan is facing right now. It seems to me that the situation with the power plants is being handled professionally and safely. If it wasn't for the public's irrational and uneducated fear of glowing green radioactivity, the nuclear power plants that we do have wouldn't be stuck at 1970's-level technology.
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This sounds like the kind of crackpotedness my conspiracy-theorist friend would come up with. You know the kind of fellow I mean, the one that has all kinds of things to say about the Federal Reserve and probably watched the Zeitgeist movie too many times. I mean, I understand the legal theories behind it, but it seems too off-the-wall to be something that is actually happening.
Are the files needed to print one of these up on Thingiverse yet?
Prison inmates will be forced to work to pay for their food, cells. No television, no books, no workout equipment, no basketball, no nothing. They get up, eat, work, eat, work, eat, go to bed, rinse, repeat.
Having been to jail a few times myself I can attest that a large selection of cheap paperbacks can make the experience a lot more bearable. Some kind of work during the day wouldn't hurt, either, but the ability to mentally remove oneself from the immediate surroundings is made possible for a very small expense, and does wonders for an inmate's state of mind. I've personally made quite a few donations of old paperbacks to local jails and juvenile halls for this very reason.
Entirely off-topic, but that was my first DVD purchase as well.
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I wonder how large the black hole's HOSTS file is...
Why not? Car geeks are a perfectly legitimate variant of geekdom. I think it is the underlying "take it apart, how's it work" urge that defines us, regardless of what's being dismantled.
Linux was mostly faster than The Hurd while also having much better hardware support, multi-core SMP support, and other modern functionality.
Um, duh? 20+ years real-world testing and updates and bugfixes from pretty much the entire open-source community vs. something that was released last week? Why don't they benchmark it against Google Plus and Bitcoin while they're at it?
Honestly I prefer FBReader on my G1. I did try calibre on my laptop, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Distributed.net is a 404. Please fix your link, I really do want to follow it.
Too soon...
This is especially galling to me; I have a book out that I encourage folks to share, but it's only in PDF form. The only people who are going to open it are ignorant of the fact that it could contain a virus, even though it doesn't.
Why don't you release it in more formats, like .epub and other reader-friendly extensions? To my knowledge, they can't execute arbitrary code on their own like .pdf and .doc can. My e-book reader app (FBReader) on my phone can't handle PDF, and it's how I do most of my reading these days.
This is assuming that by "have a book out" you mean you authored or published a work.
Yeah, I read JJ Luna's books too.
They've recently decided to phase out the color coded system in favor of a two-level system: "Imminent", and "Ongoing".
Actually, if the government were impotent, the price of meth would adjust to meet sane market conditions and the meth addict down the street wouldn't need to commit crimes to afford his habit.
You know, to those of us with signatures turned off, you appear mildly insane.
Not any more so than the average internet wingnut, but still...
Anonymous Coward??? I still remember working out of Grandparent Post tents. You wanted Anonymous Coward, you rolled up the sides. The tents usually smelled like Counter Strike anyway. These were some of the pilot units that were deployable before Desert Storm. Kids and their new fangled toys....
Now get off my lawn.
FTFY... but now it doesn't make sense...
If drugs were legal, quality-controlled, and plentiful enough to be cheap or free, why would a drug addict need to break into your house again? Instead of spending all day trying to struggle for the next fix, they could put that time to more productive use. Most (if not all) of the problems you attribute to drug addiction are a direct consequence of prohibition, not the drugs themselves.
Your prejudices are showing with words like 'zombie' and 'dead weight'. The reason you don't see the functional addicts in society is because they are forced to hide their behaviors behind closed doors for fear of prosecution or persecution by narrow minds like yours.
How many slashdotters maintain physical addictions to caffeine? I'm speaking of those of us who have withdrawl symptoms when they go long enough without it. However, sources of caffeine are culturally acceptable, legal, and plentiful, so the harm those addicts do to themselves is minimal. How many times have you heard of someone stealing a purse for coffee? It's unnecessary because caffeine addicts can get their next fix for cheap or free on any populated street in the country, without the social stigma or fear of arrest that goes along with other addictive drugs.
Sounds like success to me.
I like that one, way fresher than that old 640k line. :-)
I thought that saying was from novelty coffee cup manufacturers, not the Chinese.
This is ridiculous. The front page of my local newspaper (California, near the coast) is abuzz with "nyookulurr" concerns as well. Why don't they edit out the episodes having to do with, y'know, earthquakes and tsunamis, seeing as that's the brand of disaster Japan is facing right now. It seems to me that the situation with the power plants is being handled professionally and safely. If it wasn't for the public's irrational and uneducated fear of glowing green radioactivity, the nuclear power plants that we do have wouldn't be stuck at 1970's-level technology.
The AquaPenguin video is pretty cool too, but the eerie glowing blue eyes are creepy.
The vomitorium.