Ah, but from upper management's side, it means costs are shifted from purchasing physical hardware (who's cost is hitting a floor) to employee hours (which can keep going down). It means next quarter's expenses will be lower (the difference of which they can collect as bonuses now) and when the following quarter's expenses are back up (from IT having to maintain the mess), the bonus has already been collected. Then they can start looking to cut costs again by shipping the (now fungible) labor overseas, and collect another bonus. When the whole house of cards collapses, they've already cashed out.
I wish people (not you, others) would give this a rest and stop shouting about goodwins law as soon as someone brings up Nazi Germany. Assuming that just because it's there in the post is the end of an argument is beyone idiotic.
Calling someone a Nazi is just ad-hom and is basically the end.
His post was a very legitimate invocation of Godwin's Law, though. He was hyperbolically comparing the death penalty in Texas to Jewish genocide during the holocaust in order to end the argument.
The thing though it that Nazi Germany was an extreme example of many, many things. There for it is legitimate to point out that taking an ill considered idea to its logical conclusion winds up in Nazi Germany. It does serve very well to illustrate that an ill considered idea is, in fact, ill considered.
That's the whole point of Godwin's Law. Invoking it in an argument is lazy and does little to bring the other side to your point of view, but it doesn't invalidate the argument of the person invoking it (nor did he ever claim it did that).
And yes I was thinking exactly the same as you. Saying "if it's legal it's never murder" ignores the cases which have really happened in real history where legal things were widely considered to be murder.
If things were considered to be murder, then they were considered to actually not be legal or the entire legal system that supported them was considered to be invalid. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the fact that something is legal implies that it is morally good.
So your official stance is that because Bush was horrible, Obama is a saint? Or as the parent put it:
And don't pull that "Bush lied" crap either. That's a fallacy of "Two wrongs make a right." If Bush were a murderer, would that make it OK for Obama to just be a rapist?
You Republicrat cheerleaders make me sick. Can you fuckers stop rooting for your team long enough to see that both teams are rotten? You're making the whackjob parent look reasonable. At least he wasn't apologizing for Bush.
Opening an email and then leaving it on the server (as most people do) is like opening a letter and then leaving it open, taped to your mailbox outside. Anyone walking down the street can then read it, including the government.
No it isn't. You've stretched that metaphor too far. You can't read someone else's email (even if it's left on the server (a la IMAP)) without cooperation from the provider or directly hacking the account.
A better metaphor is a PO box. Previously, stuff left in a PO box for 180 days is arguably abandoned. However, now the PO box company has upgraded their service to treat the PO box more like a locker (IMAP), where you can store your stuff and access it when you want it. It's no longer reasonable to say that stuff left in a locker that you frequently use is abandoned after 180 days.
Oh, since things are worse other places we should just shut up and not fix the issues we have here? Clearly the most rational approach is to let our little solvable problems turn into huge intractable problems before even start trying to address them.
He's not being serious. He's lampooning the GP's comment that since nobody complained about his secret hidden camera glasses, then clearly nobody cares about privacy. He's right to mock him for that argument, too, as it is ridiculous.
On the ad front, people said the same thing about android. I haven't ever obtrusive ads.
The Maps app is pretty bad about this. When working on a phone with limited screen real estate, having any of the screen taken up by ads is obnoxious as hell.
And generally, Googles creepy tendrils run very deep into Android.
Really, this whole thing is a non-issue. Why is everyone so fanatically opposed to other people making different decisions and having other opinions? Americans are obnoxious in many ways, but the rest of the world seems to be occupied by straight up authoritarians.
I think that this is a perfectly adequate solution.
I'm a scientist and use metric for everything at work, but I can drive in miles and get groceries by the pound, too. It's really not that hard to effectively use both systems, and given time we can slowly move to using metric all of the time if we want. The most effective change happens so slowly that you can't pinpoint when exactly it happened. Since there's no urgency here, it will be fine if it takes another generation or so to fully transition.
Look at the progress we've made since the seventies. Today, anyone in science, engineering, medicine, the military, and many other fields are already proficient with both systems. There's no rush, so why not let it happen organically?
Not many providers think they need "banning" but they are a pretty easy trigger to get out of selling someone a residential service when they are clearly using it for business purposes. If you don't abuse the bandwidth, you can serve anything you want.
Except that Comcast just started blocking inbound SMTP. Running a mail server for your own use hardly qualifies as a business purpose and there's no legitimate reason to block inbound SMTP when they're already blocking it outbound.
(Blocking outbound port 25 cuts spam significantly and is easy to work with by relaying mail through the ISP's mail server. Blocking inbound port 25 does nothing but stop people from receiving mail on a machine run at home. It's abuse of the customer for the sake of abuse, but if I complain I'll get my connection axed.)
Yes I know this contradicts the conventional wisdom that HFCS is bad, while sucrose (which your body breaks down into 50% fructose / 50% glucose) is good.
Well, your body breaks it all down to CO2 and H2O in the end, so it all must be absolutely identical in every way. Surely the entire process of metabolism and regulation can be dismissed out of hand.
You're missing something though - the fact that everyone's indiscretions will be available will mean that indiscretions will matter less.
That doesn't really follow, though. What will happen is that we'll have a larger class of people who will never be fit for high level jobs, politics, certain professions because of their actions as teenagers. Kids in the "right" class will be taught not to make these mistakes or their parents will pay to have them properly covered up.
Our society may talk the talk, but it isn't really tolerant of indiscretions, youthful or otherwise. In the same way, charging more and more people with felonies for minor victimless crimes doesn't make people look less harshly on felons; it just makes a larger class of unemployable felons.
I may need another video card if games start being written for the new consoles. On the other hand, consoles are aimed at contemporary TV sets and 1280p/60Hz is is pretty anemic even compared to last decade's PC gaming.
I just really hate to go back to chasing that upgrade dragon.
As someone who just got back into PC gaming about five years ago, I can say that that doesn't seem to be as much of an issue any more. My rig was pretty awesome when I first put it together (though not that expensive), and I can still play any new games with all of the settings maxed out. If that trend continues for another couple of years, it's easily in the realm of console lifetimes.
I worked with someone who contributed to a chemistry textbook and they showed me how the editors (or someone at the publishing house) had deliberately introduced errors into the text and figures so that they could be corrected in future editions. One example he showed me was a figure that had been present since the first edition that mysteriously had different errors in different editions, despite being otherwise identical (the graphic was the same but different parts were mislabeled in different editions -- the first edition was the only one that was entirely correct).
Smokeless powder is just nitrocellulose. Treat cellulose stock (paper, cotton, etc) with a 1:1 mixture of concentrated nitric acid and sulfuric acid. Wash with water and dry. Cut up into small pieces.
The primer is a primary explosive and will be harder to make safely and reliably, but it can be done by any competent chemist.
No specific arms are mentioned in the second amendment, so specific mention is a pretty specious argument. Also, cannon were regularly owned and operated by private parties at the time of the drafting of the constitution. I'm not arguing in favor of private cannon ownership, just pointing out that your argument needs work.
I don't really understand the point of "demonstrating your skills" by killing some harmless creature. That is just killing for fun which is frankly rather barbaric and certainly not very respectful of the life that was just ended. I don't object to hunting if you really need the food (not applicable for most of us) or if there are humane environmental considerations. But most hunters I know do it because they find it to be fun. They enjoy the act of killing something and sometimes they also enjoy the challenge of accomplishing that feat. But if they really wanted a challenge, why not do it with a knife or at worst a bow, up close and personal. Using a rifle that can kill at several hundred yards to hunt a woodland creature is not exactly a huge challenge. If you want to test your sharpshooting abilities, you don't need to kill something to do that. Hunting isn't evil but it frequently is pointless and cruel.
If you want to eat meat, hunting is the opposite of evil. If you are a decent hunter, you can quickly and painlessly kill an animal. So you get meat to eat from an animal that has lived its entire life free in nature. Grocery store meat comes from animals raised in high density industrial operations only to be slaughtered by the same people who previously fed them. Grocery store meat is certainly more efficient, but it's a hard argument to say it's more ethical. You only disparage hunting as pointless and cruel because you get to distance yourself from where the meat at the store comes from. It may be impractical for everyone to hunt for their own meat, but that doesn't make it unethical.
Well, that's a weird response. Ghostery may be closed source, but what it's doing isn't exactly magic. Read the page source and linked javascript yourself. You can find the trackers by hand. Dismissing the claim of multiple tracking scripts on a privacy-required site because you don't like the tool someone used is a bizarre way to operate.
(Yes, I know that the Ka band is like 15Ghz wide, and that phones could work around existing devices)
Maybe not, though. Non-communication gear in bands that are mostly empty tend to shit all over their band. Especially old police kit that you just know is well maintained and calibrated.
If we locked up the big players who cheat on their taxes we might now have a nation left at all. These days business and crime are almost the same word.
Insightful typo. Imagine what this place could be with that scum removed from the top.
Irrelevant anyway, because wrt the government's powers the constitution is default deny, not default allow. Nowhere is it explicitly spelled out that the federal government can restrict firearm ownership, so it doesn't have that power. The Bill of Rights is not a complete enumeration of the rights of US citizens (as stated explicitly in the ninth amendment) and is no way the source of the rights that citizens have.
Your post is yet another example of why the Bill of Rights was a bad idea.
I'm not weighing in on this "debate", but the temperatures in the UK are artificially warm because of the ocean currents. Compare the UK to other regions of similar latitude to demonstrate this. If those ocean currents are disrupted by larger climate changes, expect to see the UK and most of western Europe get much colder overall, even though the global temperatures may be higher.
Being coastal and bounded on the west by an ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if Alaska is in the same situation.
It won't change anything, really. The only traffic laws that will ever be regularly enforced are speeding and running red lights. Anything else, even if it's horribly disruptive and regularly leads to accidents will be completely ignored or even regularly practiced by police as well (like following too closely, changing lanes without signaling, etc).
While air resistance increases at higher speeds, it doesn't impact fuel economy as much as the gearing in the transmission does. If you compare two otherwise identical cars, the one that allows you to travel at 75 mph @ 2 krpm will get much better fuel economy than the one which has to run at 4 krpm (even though the former will be under higher load). The inefficiency in the engine contributes to more fuel waste than the increased air resistance.
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Ah, but from upper management's side, it means costs are shifted from purchasing physical hardware (who's cost is hitting a floor) to employee hours (which can keep going down). It means next quarter's expenses will be lower (the difference of which they can collect as bonuses now) and when the following quarter's expenses are back up (from IT having to maintain the mess), the bonus has already been collected. Then they can start looking to cut costs again by shipping the (now fungible) labor overseas, and collect another bonus. When the whole house of cards collapses, they've already cashed out.
Somebody wins (just not you).
I wish people (not you, others) would give this a rest and stop shouting about goodwins law as soon as someone brings up Nazi Germany. Assuming that just because it's there in the post is the end of an argument is beyone idiotic.
Calling someone a Nazi is just ad-hom and is basically the end.
His post was a very legitimate invocation of Godwin's Law, though. He was hyperbolically comparing the death penalty in Texas to Jewish genocide during the holocaust in order to end the argument.
The thing though it that Nazi Germany was an extreme example of many, many things. There for it is legitimate to point out that taking an ill considered idea to its logical conclusion winds up in Nazi Germany. It does serve very well to illustrate that an ill considered idea is, in fact, ill considered.
That's the whole point of Godwin's Law. Invoking it in an argument is lazy and does little to bring the other side to your point of view, but it doesn't invalidate the argument of the person invoking it (nor did he ever claim it did that).
And yes I was thinking exactly the same as you. Saying "if it's legal it's never murder" ignores the cases which have really happened in real history where legal things were widely considered to be murder.
If things were considered to be murder, then they were considered to actually not be legal or the entire legal system that supported them was considered to be invalid. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the fact that something is legal implies that it is morally good.
So your official stance is that because Bush was horrible, Obama is a saint? Or as the parent put it:
And don't pull that "Bush lied" crap either. That's a fallacy of "Two wrongs make a right." If Bush were a murderer, would that make it OK for Obama to just be a rapist?
You Republicrat cheerleaders make me sick. Can you fuckers stop rooting for your team long enough to see that both teams are rotten? You're making the whackjob parent look reasonable. At least he wasn't apologizing for Bush.
Opening an email and then leaving it on the server (as most people do) is like opening a letter and then leaving it open, taped to your mailbox outside. Anyone walking down the street can then read it, including the government.
No it isn't. You've stretched that metaphor too far. You can't read someone else's email (even if it's left on the server (a la IMAP)) without cooperation from the provider or directly hacking the account.
A better metaphor is a PO box. Previously, stuff left in a PO box for 180 days is arguably abandoned. However, now the PO box company has upgraded their service to treat the PO box more like a locker (IMAP), where you can store your stuff and access it when you want it. It's no longer reasonable to say that stuff left in a locker that you frequently use is abandoned after 180 days.
Oh, since things are worse other places we should just shut up and not fix the issues we have here? Clearly the most rational approach is to let our little solvable problems turn into huge intractable problems before even start trying to address them.
He's not being serious. He's lampooning the GP's comment that since nobody complained about his secret hidden camera glasses, then clearly nobody cares about privacy. He's right to mock him for that argument, too, as it is ridiculous.
On the ad front, people said the same thing about android. I haven't ever obtrusive ads.
The Maps app is pretty bad about this. When working on a phone with limited screen real estate, having any of the screen taken up by ads is obnoxious as hell.
And generally, Googles creepy tendrils run very deep into Android.
Thankfully we don't have a dictator in the US.
Really, this whole thing is a non-issue. Why is everyone so fanatically opposed to other people making different decisions and having other opinions? Americans are obnoxious in many ways, but the rest of the world seems to be occupied by straight up authoritarians.
I think that this is a perfectly adequate solution.
I'm a scientist and use metric for everything at work, but I can drive in miles and get groceries by the pound, too. It's really not that hard to effectively use both systems, and given time we can slowly move to using metric all of the time if we want. The most effective change happens so slowly that you can't pinpoint when exactly it happened. Since there's no urgency here, it will be fine if it takes another generation or so to fully transition.
Look at the progress we've made since the seventies. Today, anyone in science, engineering, medicine, the military, and many other fields are already proficient with both systems. There's no rush, so why not let it happen organically?
Not many providers think they need "banning" but they are a pretty easy trigger to get out of selling someone a residential service when they are clearly using it for business purposes. If you don't abuse the bandwidth, you can serve anything you want.
Except that Comcast just started blocking inbound SMTP. Running a mail server for your own use hardly qualifies as a business purpose and there's no legitimate reason to block inbound SMTP when they're already blocking it outbound.
(Blocking outbound port 25 cuts spam significantly and is easy to work with by relaying mail through the ISP's mail server. Blocking inbound port 25 does nothing but stop people from receiving mail on a machine run at home. It's abuse of the customer for the sake of abuse, but if I complain I'll get my connection axed.)
Yes I know this contradicts the conventional wisdom that HFCS is bad, while sucrose (which your body breaks down into 50% fructose / 50% glucose) is good.
Well, your body breaks it all down to CO2 and H2O in the end, so it all must be absolutely identical in every way. Surely the entire process of metabolism and regulation can be dismissed out of hand.
You're missing something though - the fact that everyone's indiscretions will be available will mean that indiscretions will matter less.
That doesn't really follow, though. What will happen is that we'll have a larger class of people who will never be fit for high level jobs, politics, certain professions because of their actions as teenagers. Kids in the "right" class will be taught not to make these mistakes or their parents will pay to have them properly covered up.
Our society may talk the talk, but it isn't really tolerant of indiscretions, youthful or otherwise. In the same way, charging more and more people with felonies for minor victimless crimes doesn't make people look less harshly on felons; it just makes a larger class of unemployable felons.
I may need another video card if games start being written for the new consoles. On the other hand, consoles are aimed at contemporary TV sets and 1280p/60Hz is is pretty anemic even compared to last decade's PC gaming.
I just really hate to go back to chasing that upgrade dragon.
As someone who just got back into PC gaming about five years ago, I can say that that doesn't seem to be as much of an issue any more. My rig was pretty awesome when I first put it together (though not that expensive), and I can still play any new games with all of the settings maxed out. If that trend continues for another couple of years, it's easily in the realm of console lifetimes.
I worked with someone who contributed to a chemistry textbook and they showed me how the editors (or someone at the publishing house) had deliberately introduced errors into the text and figures so that they could be corrected in future editions. One example he showed me was a figure that had been present since the first edition that mysteriously had different errors in different editions, despite being otherwise identical (the graphic was the same but different parts were mislabeled in different editions -- the first edition was the only one that was entirely correct).
Smokeless powder is just nitrocellulose. Treat cellulose stock (paper, cotton, etc) with a 1:1 mixture of concentrated nitric acid and sulfuric acid. Wash with water and dry. Cut up into small pieces.
The primer is a primary explosive and will be harder to make safely and reliably, but it can be done by any competent chemist.
No specific arms are mentioned in the second amendment, so specific mention is a pretty specious argument. Also, cannon were regularly owned and operated by private parties at the time of the drafting of the constitution. I'm not arguing in favor of private cannon ownership, just pointing out that your argument needs work.
I don't really understand the point of "demonstrating your skills" by killing some harmless creature. That is just killing for fun which is frankly rather barbaric and certainly not very respectful of the life that was just ended. I don't object to hunting if you really need the food (not applicable for most of us) or if there are humane environmental considerations. But most hunters I know do it because they find it to be fun. They enjoy the act of killing something and sometimes they also enjoy the challenge of accomplishing that feat. But if they really wanted a challenge, why not do it with a knife or at worst a bow, up close and personal. Using a rifle that can kill at several hundred yards to hunt a woodland creature is not exactly a huge challenge. If you want to test your sharpshooting abilities, you don't need to kill something to do that. Hunting isn't evil but it frequently is pointless and cruel.
If you want to eat meat, hunting is the opposite of evil. If you are a decent hunter, you can quickly and painlessly kill an animal. So you get meat to eat from an animal that has lived its entire life free in nature. Grocery store meat comes from animals raised in high density industrial operations only to be slaughtered by the same people who previously fed them. Grocery store meat is certainly more efficient, but it's a hard argument to say it's more ethical. You only disparage hunting as pointless and cruel because you get to distance yourself from where the meat at the store comes from. It may be impractical for everyone to hunt for their own meat, but that doesn't make it unethical.
1. Fuck ghostery, its closed source nonsense.
Well, that's a weird response. Ghostery may be closed source, but what it's doing isn't exactly magic. Read the page source and linked javascript yourself. You can find the trackers by hand.
Dismissing the claim of multiple tracking scripts on a privacy-required site because you don't like the tool someone used is a bizarre way to operate.
(Yes, I know that the Ka band is like 15Ghz wide, and that phones could work around existing devices)
Maybe not, though. Non-communication gear in bands that are mostly empty tend to shit all over their band. Especially old police kit that you just know is well maintained and calibrated.
If we locked up the big players who cheat on their taxes we might now have a nation left at all. These days business and crime are almost the same word.
Insightful typo. Imagine what this place could be with that scum removed from the top.
Irrelevant anyway, because wrt the government's powers the constitution is default deny, not default allow. Nowhere is it explicitly spelled out that the federal government can restrict firearm ownership, so it doesn't have that power. The Bill of Rights is not a complete enumeration of the rights of US citizens (as stated explicitly in the ninth amendment) and is no way the source of the rights that citizens have.
Your post is yet another example of why the Bill of Rights was a bad idea.
I'm not weighing in on this "debate", but the temperatures in the UK are artificially warm because of the ocean currents. Compare the UK to other regions of similar latitude to demonstrate this. If those ocean currents are disrupted by larger climate changes, expect to see the UK and most of western Europe get much colder overall, even though the global temperatures may be higher.
Being coastal and bounded on the west by an ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if Alaska is in the same situation.
It won't change anything, really. The only traffic laws that will ever be regularly enforced are speeding and running red lights. Anything else, even if it's horribly disruptive and regularly leads to accidents will be completely ignored or even regularly practiced by police as well (like following too closely, changing lanes without signaling, etc).
While air resistance increases at higher speeds, it doesn't impact fuel economy as much as the gearing in the transmission does. If you compare two otherwise identical cars, the one that allows you to travel at 75 mph @ 2 krpm will get much better fuel economy than the one which has to run at 4 krpm (even though the former will be under higher load). The inefficiency in the engine contributes to more fuel waste than the increased air resistance.