I agree fully. Anyone I actually want to interact with me will email me, text me, call me, ring my doorbell, talk to me at an event we're both at, or similar. Facebook solves a problem that doesn't exist for me. I've never seen any need to be on Facebook because I'm not interested in seeing posts from people that I wouldn't talk to otherwise.
Is it a contradiction for a Libertarian to do whatever he wants and to flout the existing "rules" of the game? I thought freedom of choice was something Libertarians prized, so his choice not to accept campaign contributions is perfectly acceptable. It could also be because of the strings that come with those contributions. Corporations tend to love stricter laws with heavier enforcement that removes more personal freedoms. Why align yourself with organizations so opposed to the libertarian view. (I doubt corporations would be happy if he worked to abolish all IP laws, stopped all corporate tax breaks, reduced government spending on pork projects, or any attacked any of the millions of laws on the books right now that benefit nobody but the owners of various corporations)
Sure, you can do all of that no problem. However if you manage to crash said car while you do that, and it happens to damage someone else's person or property, or the pellets from that 12 gague happen to do damage to someone else's person or property where they strike, then you'd be in huge trouble... Libertarians don't agree with Anarchists that you can do anything at all that you want. Libertarians believe that you should be allowed to do anything you want as long as it doesn't interfere with other people. Libertarians even see a need for government, and the police and military, to strictly enforce the few relevant laws preventing you from harming others. A libertarian government would have no law against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, specific medical procedures (abortion, assisted suicide, etc), or who you can or can't marry, or many of the things that government currently spends your hard earned money on. But the remaining laws (against things like murder, assault, theft, tresspass, vandalism) would be strictly enforced.
When a typical user downloads Ubuntu for free and installs it on a computer with a Windows license that the user did pay for, Canonical gets nothing in the form of payment.
but their solution isn't to try to get manufacturers to offer OS choice on machines, instead it's to ask users to pay twice to use only one operating system.
How about a method to get some of the major manufacturers to allow you to direct your Microsoft tax to Ubuntu instead when you don't plan to ever run Windows...
And neither TELUS nor Bell nor Rogers stock any high end QWERTY phones... apparently Canadians aren't allowed to like them... TELUS has the Galaxy Ace Q, a low end smart phone with a small screen and shipping with android 2.3 Rogers has the Galaxy S Glide, again a low end smart phone with a small, low res screen, and android 2.3 Bell... I can't even find a QWERTY keyboard anywhere in their line up right now (they were the last Canadian telco to carry a high end QWERTY phone, the Motorola XT860 (Canadian version of the Droid 3) but it's now outdated and discontinued.)
That particular method has been (mostly) debunked. But the article here does make substantial assumptions about the environment the DNA is subjected to, any situation that leaves DNA in a different environment from that envisioned by the authors is also likely to have a different result. So I'd say that neither this article, nor the lack of ability to reproduce the DNA in insects in amber reports, proves the impossibility of getting a hold of Jurassic DNA in some form.
You list two manufacturers and a retailer... kinda odd... Motorola makes the droids not Verizon. Unfortunately Verizon seems to be the only retailer who wants to touch them, but that's a different issue.
Please convince the manufacturers of this!!!! They realized it's cheaper to build a phone without one, and that they can even convince most people to accept them, so nobody wants to build one anymore, and those that do, only seem to put them on their low-end phones, not the top of the line ones. I'm running a Motorola XT860 (Canadian cousin of the Droid 3) but I'm eyeing a new phone, and it's very hard to find a useable one (It's also a real pain dealing with Motorola as they are horrid about lockdown and they refuse to ever upgrade software)
And that is precisely why I have the Motorola XT860 (Canadian cousin of the US Droid 3) QWERTY keyboards are the ONLY way to go on a smartphone. SSH is a breeze, as is every other text entry task. Unfortunately phone companies have discovered they can trick users in to using on screen keyboards, and it's a lot cheaper to make a phone without physical keys, so they pretend people actually like it (and amazingly enough manage to actually convince people of it too!) there are a couple of manufacturers with QWERTY keyboards on their low end phones at this point, but I think Motorola is the only one with QWERTY keyboards on it's top end phones. too bad Motorola is such a dick about lockdown and software updates...
That's not hardware, that's software and firmware. You can have the worst hardware on the planet and still leave your phones unlocked and release your drivers for the community to tweak. Doesn't make it a good device, just makes it easy to work with. (Not saying HTC hardware isn't good, I don't have any experience with it, I just wish people would centre their complaints in the right place)
My biggest issue is with Motorola, from a hardware perspective I haven't seen better phones than what Motorola makes, they are rock solid, great performance on the radios, excellent audio quality, good, well thought out docking stations, HDMI and USB output ports, and they even offer phones with real keyboards.
But Motorola lock everything down as tight as possible, refuse to play nice with drivers and such for the community, and practically never release any software updates. (I hope Google fixes some of this, but I'm not holding my breath.)
I've found a better way to browse Slashdot from mobile. Check the box in my browser that says "request desktop version" I really wish I could convince my phone to ALWAYS request the desktop version, I never ever want to see the "mobile" version of any webpage on a phone with an HD display!
But I find Slashdot works great on my Motorola XT860 loading the full desktop site.
Only if it docks to a full size screen and keyboard. And if so, yes, it will replace the desktop PC. I don't think the tower under your desk is here to stay forever. But I also don't think the idea of a big screen and real keyboard/mouse are going away any time soon.
This has always been my problem. Last time I decided my computer needed more RAM I found out that it was now special order to get the appropriate type of RAM for the motherboard I had, but that was ok, because I had maxed out the motherboard already, So I needed a new motherboard, and new motherboards weren't compatible with my existing processor, video card, hard drives, power supply, or case. Similar experience on the computer before when trying to upgrade hard drives and discovered the BIOS didn't support a larger drive, so again, new mother board, meaning new processor, RAM, video card, power supply, and case.
Just the other week I upgraded my RAM on my existing machine to max it out, and I'm once again at the max the motherboard supports, so if I decide to upgrade anything more I need a new motherboard, processor, and that likely means a new case and power supply. Additionally, new motherboards don't generally have IDE connectors, so I probably need to replace my older IDE hard drives with SATA ones, and new motherboards don't usually have PS/2 connectors, so I'll need new keyboard and mouse. Worse yet my SCSI card needs a PCI slot, and new motherboards don't often have those anymore, and given how hard it is to find adapters for those I'll probably need a new scanner too (and 11"x17" scanners are hard to find and very expensive!). And that's the minimum, who knows what else won't be compatible.
Sure desktops are easy to upgrade, but only in the first year or so of their life, after that it might as well be a sealed box for all the good it does you to try to upgrade.
That said, I still think desktop PCs, or at least the interface part, are here to stay. I love my tablet, and it's completely replaced my laptop, but if I want to get serious work done I still want a full keyboard that isn't attached to the monitor, and a big, high res (that's a different rant) monitor, and a real mouse. I'm ok if the unit itself fits in my pocket, as long as I can get it hooked up to a full size user interface.
Which brings us to your second point, which is very correct. I have no idea how to change a person's mindset so they don't dump in the first place. If you ever figure it out, please pretty please let us know!
There is no 100% method, but the best way is to make sure they get caught. Scaring them off your property just sends them to someone else's, having the police fine and/or jail them sends a message that this isn't socially acceptable behaviour. This is why the camera idea, while a lot more effort for the submitter, is a better option than simply signs implying cameras or guns. It is actually possibly less effective in the short run for the submitter (especially if dealing with multiple people dumping), and takes more time, effort, and money then the signs, but it helps all of society, not just himself. I applaud the submitter for going this route.
The point is that you should not be automating something that claims to be 100% accurate under penalty of perjury at identifying content on the internet when we know that it's simply not possible to write such a thing.
I can't speak for what they advertise now, but at the time I definitely saw turn-by-turn guidance advertised for it. I was buying this device to replace my aging hp ipaq travel companion which came with tom-tom software pre-loaded. Unfortunately despite the N810 being far superior from a technology point of view, the choices made by nokia crippled it enough that I continued to use the old ipaq instead for many things. Nokia was too greedy, and it lost them my business forever. They gambled, and on this customer they lost.
I bought it as a final sale, store wouldn't take it back (I though I had researched it well enough before hand... apparently not) And as I live in North America the consumer protection laws here are pitiful.
Except turn by turn directions were a specifically advertised feature of the product with no fine print saying it would cost hundreds of dollars more, and even that would only buy you a few years license. In fact it ended up being cheaper to buy myself a tom-tom in addition to the N810 then to activate the limited time navigation feature once. I'm still using the tom-tom. the N810 is long gone.
Similar here, I bought a nokia N series tablet, one of the advertised features was offline mapping. Nowhere did it mention anything about extra charges, Until you had bought the device and tried to use the maps to find out that they wanted over $100 more for limited time access to the maps that were already loaded on the device, and were an advertised feature of the device. I vowed right then never to buy another Nokia product.
I had just finished going through the metal detector, and while I was about to collect my tray load of stuff, a person came up to me and asked me to come with him. he carried my tray of stuff and asked if I had heard about the new scanners, I said that I knew of them, but had never experienced one. The entire instructions I got were "stand here, hold your arms up, turn around" then he pointed out the yellow squares on the screen showing the "suspicious" areas. Had I been asked to remove things from my pockets I would have. At least he didn't insist on groping me, he allowed me to operate my own pockets, which I find is quite rare among those types.
The first company I noticed this issue at we worked a 12 hour shift, I got the legally mandated 2 15 minute paid breaks and 1 half hour unpaid lunch. the smokers got 4-6 15 minute paid breaks and 1 half hour unpaid lunch. nothing official about it, but "I'm going for a smoke" seemed to be a valid excuse to wander off for 15 minutes, whereas "I'm wandering off for a few minutes" wasn't. As I said though, I don't work there anymore...
My biggest problem with smokers and their smoke breaks is that many companies don't extend the same paid breaks to non-smokers. I have worked several places where smokers left the building to go smoke for 15 minutes every 1-2 hours, and yet if I wandered off from my desk that often for that long I was threatened with termination. (I will note that I don't work at any of those places any more, but the point still stands)
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so has that on surface ships....
I agree fully. Anyone I actually want to interact with me will email me, text me, call me, ring my doorbell, talk to me at an event we're both at, or similar. Facebook solves a problem that doesn't exist for me. I've never seen any need to be on Facebook because I'm not interested in seeing posts from people that I wouldn't talk to otherwise.
Is it a contradiction for a Libertarian to do whatever he wants and to flout the existing "rules" of the game?
I thought freedom of choice was something Libertarians prized, so his choice not to accept campaign contributions is perfectly acceptable.
It could also be because of the strings that come with those contributions. Corporations tend to love stricter laws with heavier enforcement that removes more personal freedoms. Why align yourself with organizations so opposed to the libertarian view. (I doubt corporations would be happy if he worked to abolish all IP laws, stopped all corporate tax breaks, reduced government spending on pork projects, or any attacked any of the millions of laws on the books right now that benefit nobody but the owners of various corporations)
Sure, you can do all of that no problem. However if you manage to crash said car while you do that, and it happens to damage someone else's person or property, or the pellets from that 12 gague happen to do damage to someone else's person or property where they strike, then you'd be in huge trouble...
Libertarians don't agree with Anarchists that you can do anything at all that you want. Libertarians believe that you should be allowed to do anything you want as long as it doesn't interfere with other people. Libertarians even see a need for government, and the police and military, to strictly enforce the few relevant laws preventing you from harming others.
A libertarian government would have no law against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, specific medical procedures (abortion, assisted suicide, etc), or who you can or can't marry, or many of the things that government currently spends your hard earned money on. But the remaining laws (against things like murder, assault, theft, tresspass, vandalism) would be strictly enforced.
The summary complains that:
When a typical user downloads Ubuntu for free and installs it on a computer with a Windows license that the user did pay for, Canonical gets nothing in the form of payment.
but their solution isn't to try to get manufacturers to offer OS choice on machines, instead it's to ask users to pay twice to use only one operating system.
How about a method to get some of the major manufacturers to allow you to direct your Microsoft tax to Ubuntu instead when you don't plan to ever run Windows...
And neither TELUS nor Bell nor Rogers stock any high end QWERTY phones... apparently Canadians aren't allowed to like them...
TELUS has the Galaxy Ace Q, a low end smart phone with a small screen and shipping with android 2.3
Rogers has the Galaxy S Glide, again a low end smart phone with a small, low res screen, and android 2.3
Bell... I can't even find a QWERTY keyboard anywhere in their line up right now (they were the last Canadian telco to carry a high end QWERTY phone, the Motorola XT860 (Canadian version of the Droid 3) but it's now outdated and discontinued.)
That particular method has been (mostly) debunked. But the article here does make substantial assumptions about the environment the DNA is subjected to, any situation that leaves DNA in a different environment from that envisioned by the authors is also likely to have a different result.
So I'd say that neither this article, nor the lack of ability to reproduce the DNA in insects in amber reports, proves the impossibility of getting a hold of Jurassic DNA in some form.
You list two manufacturers and a retailer... kinda odd... Motorola makes the droids not Verizon. Unfortunately Verizon seems to be the only retailer who wants to touch them, but that's a different issue.
Please convince the manufacturers of this!!!! They realized it's cheaper to build a phone without one, and that they can even convince most people to accept them, so nobody wants to build one anymore, and those that do, only seem to put them on their low-end phones, not the top of the line ones.
I'm running a Motorola XT860 (Canadian cousin of the Droid 3) but I'm eyeing a new phone, and it's very hard to find a useable one (It's also a real pain dealing with Motorola as they are horrid about lockdown and they refuse to ever upgrade software)
And that is precisely why I have the Motorola XT860 (Canadian cousin of the US Droid 3) QWERTY keyboards are the ONLY way to go on a smartphone. SSH is a breeze, as is every other text entry task. Unfortunately phone companies have discovered they can trick users in to using on screen keyboards, and it's a lot cheaper to make a phone without physical keys, so they pretend people actually like it (and amazingly enough manage to actually convince people of it too!)
there are a couple of manufacturers with QWERTY keyboards on their low end phones at this point, but I think Motorola is the only one with QWERTY keyboards on it's top end phones. too bad Motorola is such a dick about lockdown and software updates...
That's not hardware, that's software and firmware. You can have the worst hardware on the planet and still leave your phones unlocked and release your drivers for the community to tweak. Doesn't make it a good device, just makes it easy to work with. (Not saying HTC hardware isn't good, I don't have any experience with it, I just wish people would centre their complaints in the right place)
My biggest issue is with Motorola, from a hardware perspective I haven't seen better phones than what Motorola makes, they are rock solid, great performance on the radios, excellent audio quality, good, well thought out docking stations, HDMI and USB output ports, and they even offer phones with real keyboards.
But Motorola lock everything down as tight as possible, refuse to play nice with drivers and such for the community, and practically never release any software updates. (I hope Google fixes some of this, but I'm not holding my breath.)
I've found a better way to browse Slashdot from mobile. Check the box in my browser that says "request desktop version" I really wish I could convince my phone to ALWAYS request the desktop version, I never ever want to see the "mobile" version of any webpage on a phone with an HD display!
But I find Slashdot works great on my Motorola XT860 loading the full desktop site.
Only if it docks to a full size screen and keyboard. And if so, yes, it will replace the desktop PC.
I don't think the tower under your desk is here to stay forever. But I also don't think the idea of a big screen and real keyboard/mouse are going away any time soon.
This has always been my problem. Last time I decided my computer needed more RAM I found out that it was now special order to get the appropriate type of RAM for the motherboard I had, but that was ok, because I had maxed out the motherboard already, So I needed a new motherboard, and new motherboards weren't compatible with my existing processor, video card, hard drives, power supply, or case.
Similar experience on the computer before when trying to upgrade hard drives and discovered the BIOS didn't support a larger drive, so again, new mother board, meaning new processor, RAM, video card, power supply, and case.
Just the other week I upgraded my RAM on my existing machine to max it out, and I'm once again at the max the motherboard supports, so if I decide to upgrade anything more I need a new motherboard, processor, and that likely means a new case and power supply. Additionally, new motherboards don't generally have IDE connectors, so I probably need to replace my older IDE hard drives with SATA ones, and new motherboards don't usually have PS/2 connectors, so I'll need new keyboard and mouse. Worse yet my SCSI card needs a PCI slot, and new motherboards don't often have those anymore, and given how hard it is to find adapters for those I'll probably need a new scanner too (and 11"x17" scanners are hard to find and very expensive!). And that's the minimum, who knows what else won't be compatible.
Sure desktops are easy to upgrade, but only in the first year or so of their life, after that it might as well be a sealed box for all the good it does you to try to upgrade.
That said, I still think desktop PCs, or at least the interface part, are here to stay. I love my tablet, and it's completely replaced my laptop, but if I want to get serious work done I still want a full keyboard that isn't attached to the monitor, and a big, high res (that's a different rant) monitor, and a real mouse. I'm ok if the unit itself fits in my pocket, as long as I can get it hooked up to a full size user interface.
Which brings us to your second point, which is very correct. I have no idea how to change a person's mindset so they don't dump in the first place. If you ever figure it out, please pretty please let us know!
There is no 100% method, but the best way is to make sure they get caught. Scaring them off your property just sends them to someone else's, having the police fine and/or jail them sends a message that this isn't socially acceptable behaviour. This is why the camera idea, while a lot more effort for the submitter, is a better option than simply signs implying cameras or guns. It is actually possibly less effective in the short run for the submitter (especially if dealing with multiple people dumping), and takes more time, effort, and money then the signs, but it helps all of society, not just himself.
I applaud the submitter for going this route.
The point is that you should not be automating something that claims to be 100% accurate under penalty of perjury at identifying content on the internet when we know that it's simply not possible to write such a thing.
Due process is so last century...
I can't speak for what they advertise now, but at the time I definitely saw turn-by-turn guidance advertised for it.
I was buying this device to replace my aging hp ipaq travel companion which came with tom-tom software pre-loaded. Unfortunately despite the N810 being far superior from a technology point of view, the choices made by nokia crippled it enough that I continued to use the old ipaq instead for many things.
Nokia was too greedy, and it lost them my business forever. They gambled, and on this customer they lost.
I bought it as a final sale, store wouldn't take it back (I though I had researched it well enough before hand... apparently not) And as I live in North America the consumer protection laws here are pitiful.
Except turn by turn directions were a specifically advertised feature of the product with no fine print saying it would cost hundreds of dollars more, and even that would only buy you a few years license. In fact it ended up being cheaper to buy myself a tom-tom in addition to the N810 then to activate the limited time navigation feature once. I'm still using the tom-tom. the N810 is long gone.
Similar here, I bought a nokia N series tablet, one of the advertised features was offline mapping. Nowhere did it mention anything about extra charges, Until you had bought the device and tried to use the maps to find out that they wanted over $100 more for limited time access to the maps that were already loaded on the device, and were an advertised feature of the device. I vowed right then never to buy another Nokia product.
I had just finished going through the metal detector, and while I was about to collect my tray load of stuff, a person came up to me and asked me to come with him. he carried my tray of stuff and asked if I had heard about the new scanners, I said that I knew of them, but had never experienced one. The entire instructions I got were "stand here, hold your arms up, turn around" then he pointed out the yellow squares on the screen showing the "suspicious" areas. Had I been asked to remove things from my pockets I would have. At least he didn't insist on groping me, he allowed me to operate my own pockets, which I find is quite rare among those types.
The first company I noticed this issue at we worked a 12 hour shift, I got the legally mandated 2 15 minute paid breaks and 1 half hour unpaid lunch. the smokers got 4-6 15 minute paid breaks and 1 half hour unpaid lunch. nothing official about it, but "I'm going for a smoke" seemed to be a valid excuse to wander off for 15 minutes, whereas "I'm wandering off for a few minutes" wasn't.
As I said though, I don't work there anymore...
My biggest problem with smokers and their smoke breaks is that many companies don't extend the same paid breaks to non-smokers. I have worked several places where smokers left the building to go smoke for 15 minutes every 1-2 hours, and yet if I wandered off from my desk that often for that long I was threatened with termination. (I will note that I don't work at any of those places any more, but the point still stands)
Just wait... they keep talking about adding airport style security to rail travel... and in some places in Europe they already have it...