An example of a toothless good guy? Well, Switzerland, for one. They have that citizen militia, but it's unlikely they'll be winning any wars with it.
So maybe Switzerland is a non-entity... but the Swiss lead pretty good lives. I'd prefer for my country to be a non-entity; that way it would stop taxing me to pay for an oversized military and let me and my countrymen get back to the business of leading ordinary happy lives.
Unless someone commits fraud, I don't see how connecting buyers with sellers is parasitism. It's a useful service, and like other useful services it is worth paying for.
After I graduated but before I started my new job, there was a period of time when I needed short-term health insurance. A friend sent me a link to an online health care clearinghouse where I was able to search for what I wanted (catastrophic coverage) and buy it ($5k deductible, everything covered, $26/month), with very few hassles. The system worked quite well, and I doubt they spent a billion dollars* on the site.
This has nothing to do with AirBNB and everything to do with a garden-variety disturbance of the peace and trespassing (on the parking spots). Don't blame AirBNB for people being dicks; the criminals here were the guests.
Well, if the property is more valuable as short-term lodging for visitors than for resident rentals, then perhaps that indicates that there is high demand for that, and that this city at this time very much wants to be somewhere people visit.
I live in Washington DC -- traffic tickets are unabashedly used as a source of revenue. The city was "broke" (meaning that all the money had been embezzled and they wanted more), and the two proposals were:
1) more red light cameras and parking enforcement 2) let the bars serve booze longer so more alcohol taxes
"they need to make very, very sure that innocent people truly have nothing to fear from them. A lot of people probably follow his advise because it it necessary."
This is exactly it. If the police want to make it easier to investigate real crime then they need to make innocent people comfortable around them. Cut the overzealous traffic enforcement and drug war.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and the call quality is *garbage*. Voices often manage to be both loud enough that they provoke nonlinear garbage from the speaker *and* drowned out by background noise at the same time!
I dunno, have you used Nikon's newer stuff? I shoot birds with the new Nikon 80-400. I can get sharp shots handheld down to 1/40 sec most of the time and 1/20 sec much of the time. (This is on a highly-demanding sensor, 24MP DX, and on truly static targets; these speeds aren't practical for actual birds.) Can you do that with Canon's new IS? I don't know; i only know the performance of the older IS on my father's 100-400.
Another extremely good IS system is the sensor-shift IS used by Olympus in the E-M5 and E-M1.
If a malfunctioning kindle can generate enough RF to possibly interfere with a plane, then a malicious attacker could *certainly* interfere with a plane. If a device running on a few watts of power can fuck up a plane this badly then I don't want to get on it.
The truth is that only California is serious about environmental protection, and the rest of you just want to rape the land and shit in your neighbor's mouths through the air.
This line, in particular. Yes, I know that pollution used to be awful, but this statement is a bit over the top, don't you think?
There is a big difference between air quality standards and "WARNING: This jetway contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer" signs.
I'm not surprised. I hadn't heard about that one, but I had heard of something they did with flutes: they had professional flautists listen, blindfolded, to a top-grade expensive flute, and then one made from concrete. They couldn't tell the difference. I can see it mattering a bit more for an instrument where the body itself transmits strong vibrations, but the Stradivari thing has always had the air of hype around it.
There was a semi-related thing with pianos: Kawai, a piano maker, started using plastic parts in the action of their pianos. They were really doing it because the plastic was more durable than wood, and so the part-plastic action would sound good for longer than a wooden action that might sound appreciably worse in a few years, but their competition derided them for making "plastic pianos".
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They don't like either US snooping or Chinese snooping or Russian snooping, but they might do their own if you do something they don't like.
GP's suggestion of trusting in the mutual antipathy of major world powers seems like a good one.
An example of a toothless good guy? Well, Switzerland, for one. They have that citizen militia, but it's unlikely they'll be winning any wars with it.
So maybe Switzerland is a non-entity ... but the Swiss lead pretty good lives. I'd prefer for my country to be a non-entity; that way it would stop taxing me to pay for an oversized military and let me and my countrymen get back to the business of leading ordinary happy lives.
Except for the fact that Obama did, in a very real sense, "grow up white" -- he was raised by his white family.
Home birth is quite safe in all but high-risk cases, and we know which ones those are.
Being unvaccinated is not.
Unless someone commits fraud, I don't see how connecting buyers with sellers is parasitism. It's a useful service, and like other useful services it is worth paying for.
After I graduated but before I started my new job, there was a period of time when I needed short-term health insurance. A friend sent me a link to an online health care clearinghouse where I was able to search for what I wanted (catastrophic coverage) and buy it ($5k deductible, everything covered, $26/month), with very few hassles. The system worked quite well, and I doubt they spent a billion dollars* on the site.
*Correct to one significant figure
Not every Bad Thing should be outlawed.
There's no contradiction in the belief that heroin addiction is bad and that the appropriate method to mitigate that harm isn't the police.
This has nothing to do with AirBNB and everything to do with a garden-variety disturbance of the peace and trespassing (on the parking spots). Don't blame AirBNB for people being dicks; the criminals here were the guests.
So in New York the following is illegal:
"Hey, want to crash at my place?"
"Sure, I'll buy you dinner."
Well, if the property is more valuable as short-term lodging for visitors than for resident rentals, then perhaps that indicates that there is high demand for that, and that this city at this time very much wants to be somewhere people visit.
I live in Washington DC -- traffic tickets are unabashedly used as a source of revenue. The city was "broke" (meaning that all the money had been embezzled and they wanted more), and the two proposals were:
1) more red light cameras and parking enforcement
2) let the bars serve booze longer so more alcohol taxes
"Innocent" here means "not hurting anyone" -- lacking in malicious intent. You should have been able to figure that out from the context.
"they need to make very, very sure that innocent people truly have nothing to fear from them. A lot of people probably follow his advise because it it necessary."
This is exactly it. If the police want to make it easier to investigate real crime then they need to make innocent people comfortable around them. Cut the overzealous traffic enforcement and drug war.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and the call quality is *garbage*. Voices often manage to be both loud enough that they provoke nonlinear garbage from the speaker *and* drowned out by background noise at the same time!
I use my storage for things like music. Sure, there are cloud music services, but that only makes sense when pulling things down from the cloud:
1) is possible everywhere
2) doesn't drain the battery
I dunno, have you used Nikon's newer stuff? I shoot birds with the new Nikon 80-400. I can get sharp shots handheld down to 1/40 sec most of the time and 1/20 sec much of the time. (This is on a highly-demanding sensor, 24MP DX, and on truly static targets; these speeds aren't practical for actual birds.) Can you do that with Canon's new IS? I don't know; i only know the performance of the older IS on my father's 100-400.
Another extremely good IS system is the sensor-shift IS used by Olympus in the E-M5 and E-M1.
You're not allowed to talk about buggering in Russia these days though...
So I am allowed to hold a two-pound book, then?
That's only because they can't do the former, because only the ludicrous "your iThing might crash the plane" excuse still flies for some reason.
So should they ban me from having a book or talking to the passenger next to me, too?
If a malfunctioning kindle can generate enough RF to possibly interfere with a plane, then a malicious attacker could *certainly* interfere with a plane. If a device running on a few watts of power can fuck up a plane this badly then I don't want to get on it.
This line, in particular. Yes, I know that pollution used to be awful, but this statement is a bit over the top, don't you think?
Can't tell if troll.
There is a big difference between air quality standards and "WARNING: This jetway contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer" signs.
"Thrustworthy" sounds like a colloquialism for someone worth having sex with.
I'm not surprised. I hadn't heard about that one, but I had heard of something they did with flutes: they had professional flautists listen, blindfolded, to a top-grade expensive flute, and then one made from concrete. They couldn't tell the difference. I can see it mattering a bit more for an instrument where the body itself transmits strong vibrations, but the Stradivari thing has always had the air of hype around it.
There was a semi-related thing with pianos: Kawai, a piano maker, started using plastic parts in the action of their pianos. They were really doing it because the plastic was more durable than wood, and so the part-plastic action would sound good for longer than a wooden action that might sound appreciably worse in a few years, but their competition derided them for making "plastic pianos".