Oh sure, and I have. Unfortunately it's still not the same. That boat I was talking about was great way to travel. A bit like how those guys were imagining a kind of luxury air ship.
That wiki article makes it sound like the distinction is in adding "more of a super-science edge and uchronic tone". So maybe steampunk was more accurate?
I'd pay a certain premium to fly that way instead of the cattle car conditions of our present style of air travel. My understanding is that much of the cost in air travel is in dealing with the volatile cost of fuel... so maybe traveling by airship could be made affordable.
I took a jet boat from Ft. Myers beach to Key West recently (after the last shuttle launch) that was very nice, and recall thinking it was way better than flying, even if it took a while longer. I'm picturing something like that.
While it's not uncommon for someone to leave school with considerable school loans, or receive quite a bit of financial aid... it's isn't exactly uncommon for parents to pay for their child's college education either.
That aside, the rest of his rant was a ridiculous exercise in successful trolling.
Yeah their FAQ says available to the general public in November, and they always talked about making them available sale to everyone. I hope they make their projected deadline... I love the idea of a (cheap!) little project computer I can plug right into my TV.
Well and, I'm not a lawyer, but her legal representation spelled it out nicely. If what the TSA employee did can't be called rape, what she said would still be a matter of free speech. The word "rape" can be used (as illustrated by cases they provide) as rhetorical hyperbole. As in, "The state just raped me on my vehicle registration." or "Paying $8 for a coffee is a raping."
Either way, it sounds as though this won't happen. What I can't help but wonder is if the AFGE is footing the bill for the suit, meaning that we (and the defendant) are indirectly paying for the suit. I mean, certainly not strictly so, but it adds a dash of insanity to it all.
Oh sure, we've had a few very high profile cases of people defending themselves inside their homes lately, including one that helped get the illegal Chicago gun bans repealed.
I specifically meant carry, which keeps getting kicked around and then thrown out in trade for something else. It's horrible.
Hopefully some day we'll get it straightened out. But it's Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the country. Things like that are hard to do.
Because burning down 35,000 real homes when your molten salt solar energy storage system fails, or having your water recycling system backflow bad water through the tap is a bigger problem when you fill them with families of 4?
I guess that's the slippery-slope in action, huh? I wouldn't want it to be difficult for anyone that has a legitimate use (even hobby work) if they're clearly aware of all safe operating procedures. I guess that's the risk we'd run.
That's not a bad idea, and at the very least, I'd like to see wicked lasers make that a required course to order anything on their site over X mW. If they could self regulate a bit, at least it'd have the appearance of due diligence.
You, me and every other gun owner knows that they're potentially dangerous and illegal to use in public. Well, aside from self defense purposes in areas where you're legally allowed to defend yourself (not in IL, where I live).
But people treat lasers like toys. I'm not sure why... maybe because they don't usually go "bang". I've never seen a neighborhood kid waving a loaded gun around, pointing it at passing cars, into buildings, etc.
In short, different things are different. Lasers just might be one of those things where you should have a minor (read as, easy to obtain) license to buy one... hard as it is for me to say.
No, you're right, you're not really going to stop a wackjob from setting a forest on fire if he wants to. But I try not to overestimate the common sense of the average person, either. Between hurting themselves, other people, setting things on fire, causing accidents, etc., I could see lasers being one of those things you need to make some effort to own... at least such that people are required to understand the risks involved.
Though again, maybe I'm way too fired up about something that's not likely to be a real problem any time soon.
I'm normally the first guy to say, "oh leave people be", but this kind of thing is one where I think I'd be happier with a person having to have some kind of minor license to buy one... if only to just create some token hurdle to ownership.
The problem with lasers is that, whereas everyone knows how dangerous a firearm can be... people tend to treat lasers like toys with no consequences. "Yeah, yeah, don't shine it in anyones eyes... got it." But I have never seen someone wear eye protection when using one, much less making sure everyone for miles around had eye protection when they're shining it through windows, at passing cars, etc. And they're coming down in price so any goofball can screw around with pretty powerful ones.
Maybe it's time to make sure people buying these things really understand how bad they can screw up with these devices in just a moment of bad decision making? And I don't mean clicking "I Agree" to a paragraph on a website that they didn't read. Maybe something more like a amateur radio test?
For me, it's awkward talking favorably about regulation. Maybe I'm overly concerned about something that isn't really an issue.
That was useful, and it makes sense. Or at least as an old big-e / little-e definition.
And I get why someone that has done all that would want to avoid having anyone dilute the term. Though I do understand why others get a little grouchy about being snubbed for legitimately describing what they do, too.
I guess any time you co-opt a word from the english language for a more narrow and specific use, and defend your use with authority, you're going to run into problems like this.
I think you're right about leaving well-enough alone on the iPad front. As TC put it, they're pimping a very, very nice ereader.... not an iPad wannabe. It just happens to be able to do a lot of what an ipad does too. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Certainly. In another thread we were talking about how you figure the cost of various things. Assembly really is different from "making" something, I'd say. Same with cars. Someone pointed out that a good percentage of our cars are assembled here, and I added that something like 40-80% of the parts could be US sourced. Now do you figure all the stuff you used to make all those parts? Because all that stuff came from China, Mexico, etc.
Anyway, some folks got real bent out of shape about what I said about the ipad. Really I love the idea of having more jobs here, it just seems like big import tariffs on foreign goods (finished or for assembly) would be a huge shock for us and them. Most everything we have is full of stuff that was made with foreign labor... it'd be no small feat to get over that.
A little basic research will show you it's often between 40 and 80 percent of a car in the US, depending on make and model, coming from US parts. Of course that doesn't deal with everything you use to make those cars, etc. but I digress. That's quite significant, I'd grant you. Though now consider what's happened to our auto industry over the last few decades. They've made movies about it. A family member of mine lost his job, home (and eventually family) over it. I've rolled through Michigan and parts of Indiana in the last few years that illustrate things well. I'm not entirely oblivious.
There's no need to ask people in those states where their cars came from, the information is everywhere. And I spent years living near a US auto plant. I have friends whose job it is to source foreign parts for US automobiles. There's no need to get all "USA! USA!" with me... I love the idea of having more jobs in the US. I just appreciate that without low cost foreign labor and manufacturing, we'd be in deep shit, right quick, in a lot of ways. Though I have to imagine there'd be a way to do it... safely. And preferably without telling the Chinese we employ to go screw.
First, it's zero dollars if it's a product that never comes to market. Second, it's zero dollars if nobody can buy one. And third, a good percentage of that upcharge goes into things that maintain our standard of living or merely deal with higher costs of resources here (like not polluting rivers, property, building costs etc.), not paychecks.
That said, take a deep breath. No need get crazy over a discussion on slashdot.
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Oh sure, and I have. Unfortunately it's still not the same. That boat I was talking about was great way to travel. A bit like how those guys were imagining a kind of luxury air ship.
That wiki article makes it sound like the distinction is in adding "more of a super-science edge and uchronic tone". So maybe steampunk was more accurate?
I'd pay a certain premium to fly that way instead of the cattle car conditions of our present style of air travel. My understanding is that much of the cost in air travel is in dealing with the volatile cost of fuel... so maybe traveling by airship could be made affordable.
I took a jet boat from Ft. Myers beach to Key West recently (after the last shuttle launch) that was very nice, and recall thinking it was way better than flying, even if it took a while longer. I'm picturing something like that.
While it's not uncommon for someone to leave school with considerable school loans, or receive quite a bit of financial aid... it's isn't exactly uncommon for parents to pay for their child's college education either.
That aside, the rest of his rant was a ridiculous exercise in successful trolling.
Yeah their FAQ says available to the general public in November, and they always talked about making them available sale to everyone. I hope they make their projected deadline... I love the idea of a (cheap!) little project computer I can plug right into my TV.
Well and, I'm not a lawyer, but her legal representation spelled it out nicely. If what the TSA employee did can't be called rape, what she said would still be a matter of free speech. The word "rape" can be used (as illustrated by cases they provide) as rhetorical hyperbole. As in, "The state just raped me on my vehicle registration." or "Paying $8 for a coffee is a raping."
Either way, it sounds as though this won't happen. What I can't help but wonder is if the AFGE is footing the bill for the suit, meaning that we (and the defendant) are indirectly paying for the suit. I mean, certainly not strictly so, but it adds a dash of insanity to it all.
Oh sure, we've had a few very high profile cases of people defending themselves inside their homes lately, including one that helped get the illegal Chicago gun bans repealed.
I specifically meant carry, which keeps getting kicked around and then thrown out in trade for something else. It's horrible.
Hopefully some day we'll get it straightened out. But it's Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the country. Things like that are hard to do.
Because burning down 35,000 real homes when your molten salt solar energy storage system fails, or having your water recycling system backflow bad water through the tap is a bigger problem when you fill them with families of 4?
:)
Just a guess.
That was my first thought. I'm still waiting for someone to build a city like Eureka with... well... slightly lower requirements for residence. ;)
I guess that's the slippery-slope in action, huh? I wouldn't want it to be difficult for anyone that has a legitimate use (even hobby work) if they're clearly aware of all safe operating procedures. I guess that's the risk we'd run.
I've seen strips of it applied to fleet vehicles. Usually on the bumper or tailgate. I'd guess you could put it up your rear window if you wanted.
:)
A bit evil, maybe.
That's not a bad idea, and at the very least, I'd like to see wicked lasers make that a required course to order anything on their site over X mW. If they could self regulate a bit, at least it'd have the appearance of due diligence.
You, me and every other gun owner knows that they're potentially dangerous and illegal to use in public. Well, aside from self defense purposes in areas where you're legally allowed to defend yourself (not in IL, where I live).
But people treat lasers like toys. I'm not sure why... maybe because they don't usually go "bang". I've never seen a neighborhood kid waving a loaded gun around, pointing it at passing cars, into buildings, etc.
In short, different things are different. Lasers just might be one of those things where you should have a minor (read as, easy to obtain) license to buy one... hard as it is for me to say.
No, you're right, you're not really going to stop a wackjob from setting a forest on fire if he wants to. But I try not to overestimate the common sense of the average person, either. Between hurting themselves, other people, setting things on fire, causing accidents, etc., I could see lasers being one of those things you need to make some effort to own... at least such that people are required to understand the risks involved.
Though again, maybe I'm way too fired up about something that's not likely to be a real problem any time soon.
I'm normally the first guy to say, "oh leave people be", but this kind of thing is one where I think I'd be happier with a person having to have some kind of minor license to buy one... if only to just create some token hurdle to ownership.
The problem with lasers is that, whereas everyone knows how dangerous a firearm can be... people tend to treat lasers like toys with no consequences. "Yeah, yeah, don't shine it in anyones eyes... got it." But I have never seen someone wear eye protection when using one, much less making sure everyone for miles around had eye protection when they're shining it through windows, at passing cars, etc. And they're coming down in price so any goofball can screw around with pretty powerful ones.
Maybe it's time to make sure people buying these things really understand how bad they can screw up with these devices in just a moment of bad decision making? And I don't mean clicking "I Agree" to a paragraph on a website that they didn't read. Maybe something more like a amateur radio test?
For me, it's awkward talking favorably about regulation. Maybe I'm overly concerned about something that isn't really an issue.
That was useful, and it makes sense. Or at least as an old big-e / little-e definition.
And I get why someone that has done all that would want to avoid having anyone dilute the term. Though I do understand why others get a little grouchy about being snubbed for legitimately describing what they do, too.
I guess any time you co-opt a word from the english language for a more narrow and specific use, and defend your use with authority, you're going to run into problems like this.
Who wants an e-reader without an e-ink display?
Well, Apple sold quite a few iPads. Besides, Amazon has a lot of stuff to sell beyond ebooks. Not least of which is video content.
I think you're right about leaving well-enough alone on the iPad front. As TC put it, they're pimping a very, very nice ereader.... not an iPad wannabe. It just happens to be able to do a lot of what an ipad does too. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
And a scissor lift. I have to say, that was pretty impressive for a Keynote presentation.
Well presumably their competition would be subject to the same market conditions.
Certainly. In another thread we were talking about how you figure the cost of various things. Assembly really is different from "making" something, I'd say. Same with cars. Someone pointed out that a good percentage of our cars are assembled here, and I added that something like 40-80% of the parts could be US sourced. Now do you figure all the stuff you used to make all those parts? Because all that stuff came from China, Mexico, etc.
Anyway, some folks got real bent out of shape about what I said about the ipad. Really I love the idea of having more jobs here, it just seems like big import tariffs on foreign goods (finished or for assembly) would be a huge shock for us and them. Most everything we have is full of stuff that was made with foreign labor... it'd be no small feat to get over that.
It looks as though he's done this while being monitored. Truly bizarre.
A little basic research will show you it's often between 40 and 80 percent of a car in the US, depending on make and model, coming from US parts. Of course that doesn't deal with everything you use to make those cars, etc. but I digress. That's quite significant, I'd grant you. Though now consider what's happened to our auto industry over the last few decades. They've made movies about it. A family member of mine lost his job, home (and eventually family) over it. I've rolled through Michigan and parts of Indiana in the last few years that illustrate things well. I'm not entirely oblivious.
There's no need to ask people in those states where their cars came from, the information is everywhere. And I spent years living near a US auto plant. I have friends whose job it is to source foreign parts for US automobiles. There's no need to get all "USA! USA!" with me... I love the idea of having more jobs in the US. I just appreciate that without low cost foreign labor and manufacturing, we'd be in deep shit, right quick, in a lot of ways. Though I have to imagine there'd be a way to do it... safely. And preferably without telling the Chinese we employ to go screw.
First, it's zero dollars if it's a product that never comes to market. Second, it's zero dollars if nobody can buy one. And third, a good percentage of that upcharge goes into things that maintain our standard of living or merely deal with higher costs of resources here (like not polluting rivers, property, building costs etc.), not paychecks.
That said, take a deep breath. No need get crazy over a discussion on slashdot.
Actually I detailed a few of those things in other posts and got tired of listing them.
And relax, I have no evil agenda, I was just making a point.