My cat plays fetch. You have to train them, but they can learn just as well as dogs. Training cats isn't really any harder than training dogs, it's just different. If you try to train a cat like you'd train a dog, you'll fail and be frustrated.
We all understand that you need to respect cars as they are dangerous and there are laws that address this.
You had me until this. This statement doesn't really match reality, especially in the context of gun owners being being irresponsible. Traffic accidents are one of the leading non-disease related causes of death among humans. Spending any time at all in traffic will show you how little regard people give to how dangerous their vehicle is and how little attention they pay to driving.
Per capita gun violence stats have more to do with the bimodal distribution of gun owners. There's a large population of responsible target shooting or hunting enthusiasts who would never commit a crime with their gun and a small population of criminals who own guns in order to commit crimes. A third large population of responsible people don't own guns, removing them from the distribution. Imagine if the only car drivers were trained, professional race-car drivers and texting, makeup-applying, constantly distracted sixteen year olds.
Having an introverted personality isn't the same as having a social phobia. Some people just don't really care about interacting with others all of the time. This isn't because introverts are afraid of others or of interactions with them.
Replace introvert with 'people suffering from social phobias or anxiety', though, and your idea is more insightful.
Having crossed a fair few borders in my life, the US ones are without a doubt the most unpleasant ones.Worse even than the former East German one (albeit on a West German passport... I'm sure with an eastern block passport they would have been even worse).
It's odd, given that on the whole the US is full of friendly people trying to be helpful... all the assholes seem to hang out at the border and at airports.
I got similar treatment at the East German border, with an American passport. We were in a Belgian car and were waved through, but my father insisted on getting our passports stamped. When he saw them, the guard at the gate jerked back and reached for his gun. After a bit of questioning, though, we were on our way. It was totally worth it: they used a whole page for stamps and signatures and stuff.
I think a lot of the tragedies could have been prevented had people close to the murderer(s) taken responsible action, early on, when harmful behavior was exhibited
Unfortunately, there's no mechanism for doing that. The only mechanism for involving the authorities for a non-minor is through the criminal law system, which is designed less for treatment and more for punishment. I can't think of a way to get mental help for someone about to crack that wouldn't cost an enormous amount of money or turn them into a felon. We need to fix that.
So it's in the best interest of Americans to slash our standard of living to that of a third world country, just so that the executives can squeeze even more labor out of our paltry wages while they live lives of extreme comfort and wealth? The goal should be to bring up the standard of living everywhere, not sacrifice any progress we've made in any one place to prop up the fiefdoms of our ruling class.
You know that your life, also, will look worse and worse in this race to the bottom, right? You do realize that you're not one of the ruling class and you never will be, right? It's not necessary to destroy the American middle class to bring up the Indian middle class.
I'd go with the battery option too, but your argument is bunk. The only advantage the battery solution has is cost (and refilling for free, again cost).
There is nothing even remotely unstable about butane. It's flammable, but people carry cigarette lighters around all the time and nobody ever gets hurt by them. Lithium-ion batteries, on the hand, are very unstable. You know you're not actually storing "solar power" in your device, right. You're using a high density chemical battery that has a history of bursting into toxic flames if mishandled (or charged too much, or discharged too fast, or...). A pocketful of butane is much safer than a pocketful of lithium-ion battery.
Drop and give me twenty. Seriously, though, quick little body weight exercises are great for getting your blood moving and decramping your butt after sitting in a chair for hours. People do tend to look at you weird, though, so a little privacy is nice. (On the upside, after a few weeks they stop looking at you weird!)
What? GE makes lots of weapons. They had a big stake in nuke manufacture. They also make a lot of the gatling guns in service, like the M134 and the big gun on the A-10. I wouldn't say they're the largest member of the military industrial complex, but they're in the club. Anyway, making engines for warplanes is just as important as making guns for them.
How powerful is this device? Can it host a large enough server for less wattage than a normal PC?
If what you want to serve can be delivered to the device efficiently from an SD card or USB2 peripheral connected to flaky USB, yes. Otherwise, no; buy a cubieboard or PogoPlug Rev.2 (which has USB3.)
Yeah, the flaky USB subsystem was a real letdown. Every use case I had involved at least one USB port and (even with the polyfuses bypassed) you can't depend on it staying functional. The ethernet controller hangs off of USB, also, and it shows. If you need USB and ethernet, the Pi is right out.
If you need any sort of unattended reliability, skip the Raspberry Pi and keep searching.
Worse than that. Many (most?) of them have you pull the foreign code from the foreign site directly. So even if they did audit it, the foreign site could change the code and their site would dutifully ask you to run it.
I specifically reported this during the alpha and the beta and nothing at all changed. In fact, from a user perspective, nothing at all has changed from the alpha to the launched site, so I don't think they gave a shit about bug submissions. Since alpha, the short summaries, fucked up scrolling, weird swiping behavior, etc have all been reported by many users.
Technically, you did buy the house. You just bought it with borrowed money and the used the house as collateral. Unless you stop paying back the loan, the bank has no claim on the collateral. You signed a contract saying that you'll pay for insurance and not damage the value of the collateral. None of that means that you don't own the house. (The selling-your-info-to-marketers stuff was in that contract, too, unless you were observant enough to strike it out. That is not a sticking point for them, just a little bonus.)
It's not encrypted from the exit node (How could it be? This is where the Tor network interfaces with the normal internet.).
Tor does have an advantage in that exit nodes are usually chosen somewhat at random and are switched often. You would get hours of someone's traffic at an unsecured wifi hotspot. As a Tor exit node, you would get a few minutes each of a thousand different people.
I'm surprised that there still isn't a fine-grained egress firewall for Android like Firewall iP for iPhones. That's one of the few things I really miss after ditching the iPhone.
No, delusional. "Overqualified" is usually a bad quality to have in an employee. It means they're not fully using their abilities, will be bored at the job, and will ultimately leave as soon as better prospects present themselves.
Specifically and deliberately staffing your company with overqualified employees is a recipe for poor performance and high turnover. Anyone who thinks that's a good idea is delusional.
It's not an entirely unreasonable view from the perspective of the customer, though. Outsourcing manufacture of a product (to anywhere, but SE Asia is the locale of choice these days) is a cost-cutting move. When a company is deep enough in cost-cutting mode to close up local manufacturing and completely move it out of the country, it wouldn't be surprising if they asked the new manufacturer to decrease the quality, too. Or if they haven't yet asked that, they might shortly do so to further cut costs. Or the new manufacturer might do it by themselves.
The company is trying to make their product more cheaply and they may not have even adjusted their price to account for this.
Outsourcing the manufacture of a product that has always been billed as a "craft" product is basically abandoning the product. It clearly isn't made by "highly trained craftsmen passing along the secret steel recipe" or whatever if a bunch of kids in a Chinese sweatshop can make it. The company is either admitting that there's nothing special about the way they used to make their product, or they've sold out and now sell an inferior knock-off of it.
When you strip the world of comforting delusions, nihilism is all you have left. I imagine a lot of activists remain so dedicated so they can avoid having to give up the last thing that gives their life any form of meaning. They fight because the alternative is to admit that in a long term view, they are nothing.
This can actually be a wonderful thing. It gives us responsibility for our situation and power over our surroundings. Instead of leaving us admitting that we are nothing, it should leave us knowing that we can change everything. The world isn't some shitty place full of assholes because God wants it that way or because power-hungry jerks are actually better people. The ultra-wealthy only possess most of the resources because we all agree that they do. All of this can change; it isn't part of some natural order.
Nihilism shouldn't be depressing. It should be utterly liberating. We are rational actors in a universe that doesn't care about us. We are free.
He didn't claim that Mao Tse-Tung wrote the art of war. He claimed that Mao appreciated the deceptive tactics of his mother and he appreciated the Art of War (which uses many deceptive tactics). Frankly, I don't know if this is factually correct (though it's plausible).
Reading comprehension around here is really pathetic.
Well, assuming a gaussian distribution with a standard deviation of fifteen points and integer IQ scores, about 4% of the population have an IQ score of exactly 100. So 48% are worse.
I think the problem is rather less about the actual horse meat and more about deception. If you're buying something labeled 'beef', it's not pleasant to find that it's up to a third 'not-beef'. With that deception also comes the suspicion of further deception. Does the product even meet health standards? Can you believe anything else that's written about the product on the label?
Then, horse meat is generally cheaper than beef. So charging beef prices for deceptively labeled horse meat is its own valid source of complaint.
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My cat plays fetch. You have to train them, but they can learn just as well as dogs. Training cats isn't really any harder than training dogs, it's just different. If you try to train a cat like you'd train a dog, you'll fail and be frustrated.
We all understand that you need to respect cars as they are dangerous and there are laws that address this.
You had me until this. This statement doesn't really match reality, especially in the context of gun owners being being irresponsible. Traffic accidents are one of the leading non-disease related causes of death among humans. Spending any time at all in traffic will show you how little regard people give to how dangerous their vehicle is and how little attention they pay to driving.
Per capita gun violence stats have more to do with the bimodal distribution of gun owners. There's a large population of responsible target shooting or hunting enthusiasts who would never commit a crime with their gun and a small population of criminals who own guns in order to commit crimes. A third large population of responsible people don't own guns, removing them from the distribution. Imagine if the only car drivers were trained, professional race-car drivers and texting, makeup-applying, constantly distracted sixteen year olds.
Meaning you actually could become a glass cannon...
Well, it looks like it's back to tvtropes for me. There goes the rest of the night.
Having an introverted personality isn't the same as having a social phobia. Some people just don't really care about interacting with others all of the time. This isn't because introverts are afraid of others or of interactions with them.
Replace introvert with 'people suffering from social phobias or anxiety', though, and your idea is more insightful.
Having crossed a fair few borders in my life, the US ones are without a doubt the most unpleasant ones.Worse even than the former East German one (albeit on a West German passport... I'm sure with an eastern block passport they would have been even worse).
It's odd, given that on the whole the US is full of friendly people trying to be helpful... all the assholes seem to hang out at the border and at airports.
I got similar treatment at the East German border, with an American passport. We were in a Belgian car and were waved through, but my father insisted on getting our passports stamped. When he saw them, the guard at the gate jerked back and reached for his gun. After a bit of questioning, though, we were on our way. It was totally worth it: they used a whole page for stamps and signatures and stuff.
Glucose is oxidized in your body to produce carbon dioxide and heat. We typically don't refer to that as "burning". It's a very similar concept.
I think a lot of the tragedies could have been prevented had people close to the murderer(s) taken responsible action, early on, when harmful behavior was exhibited
Unfortunately, there's no mechanism for doing that. The only mechanism for involving the authorities for a non-minor is through the criminal law system, which is designed less for treatment and more for punishment. I can't think of a way to get mental help for someone about to crack that wouldn't cost an enormous amount of money or turn them into a felon. We need to fix that.
As someone stated above
Many American businesses hate their workers.
American workers are too stupid to hate them in return.
Here we are being actively screwed by others for their own personal gain and your response is not only to submit, but to defend them.
So it's in the best interest of Americans to slash our standard of living to that of a third world country, just so that the executives can squeeze even more labor out of our paltry wages while they live lives of extreme comfort and wealth? The goal should be to bring up the standard of living everywhere, not sacrifice any progress we've made in any one place to prop up the fiefdoms of our ruling class.
You know that your life, also, will look worse and worse in this race to the bottom, right? You do realize that you're not one of the ruling class and you never will be, right? It's not necessary to destroy the American middle class to bring up the Indian middle class.
One of these days I am going to build an EV but I will give it a master switch that I can pull if things go really bad.
I suggest a big red button with a molly guard. I really wish more devices had those.
I'd go with the battery option too, but your argument is bunk. The only advantage the battery solution has is cost (and refilling for free, again cost).
There is nothing even remotely unstable about butane. It's flammable, but people carry cigarette lighters around all the time and nobody ever gets hurt by them. Lithium-ion batteries, on the hand, are very unstable. You know you're not actually storing "solar power" in your device, right. You're using a high density chemical battery that has a history of bursting into toxic flames if mishandled (or charged too much, or discharged too fast, or...). A pocketful of butane is much safer than a pocketful of lithium-ion battery.
Drop and give me twenty. Seriously, though, quick little body weight exercises are great for getting your blood moving and decramping your butt after sitting in a chair for hours. People do tend to look at you weird, though, so a little privacy is nice. (On the upside, after a few weeks they stop looking at you weird!)
What? GE makes lots of weapons. They had a big stake in nuke manufacture. They also make a lot of the gatling guns in service, like the M134 and the big gun on the A-10. I wouldn't say they're the largest member of the military industrial complex, but they're in the club. Anyway, making engines for warplanes is just as important as making guns for them.
How powerful is this device? Can it host a large enough server for less wattage than a normal PC?
If what you want to serve can be delivered to the device efficiently from an SD card or USB2 peripheral connected to flaky USB, yes. Otherwise, no; buy a cubieboard or PogoPlug Rev.2 (which has USB3.)
Yeah, the flaky USB subsystem was a real letdown. Every use case I had involved at least one USB port and (even with the polyfuses bypassed) you can't depend on it staying functional. The ethernet controller hangs off of USB, also, and it shows. If you need USB and ethernet, the Pi is right out.
If you need any sort of unattended reliability, skip the Raspberry Pi and keep searching.
Worse than that. Many (most?) of them have you pull the foreign code from the foreign site directly. So even if they did audit it, the foreign site could change the code and their site would dutifully ask you to run it.
I specifically reported this during the alpha and the beta and nothing at all changed. In fact, from a user perspective, nothing at all has changed from the alpha to the launched site, so I don't think they gave a shit about bug submissions. Since alpha, the short summaries, fucked up scrolling, weird swiping behavior, etc have all been reported by many users.
Technically, you did buy the house. You just bought it with borrowed money and the used the house as collateral. Unless you stop paying back the loan, the bank has no claim on the collateral. You signed a contract saying that you'll pay for insurance and not damage the value of the collateral. None of that means that you don't own the house. (The selling-your-info-to-marketers stuff was in that contract, too, unless you were observant enough to strike it out. That is not a sticking point for them, just a little bonus.)
It's not encrypted from the exit node (How could it be? This is where the Tor network interfaces with the normal internet.).
Tor does have an advantage in that exit nodes are usually chosen somewhat at random and are switched often. You would get hours of someone's traffic at an unsecured wifi hotspot. As a Tor exit node, you would get a few minutes each of a thousand different people.
I'm surprised that there still isn't a fine-grained egress firewall for Android like Firewall iP for iPhones. That's one of the few things I really miss after ditching the iPhone.
No, delusional. "Overqualified" is usually a bad quality to have in an employee. It means they're not fully using their abilities, will be bored at the job, and will ultimately leave as soon as better prospects present themselves.
Specifically and deliberately staffing your company with overqualified employees is a recipe for poor performance and high turnover. Anyone who thinks that's a good idea is delusional.
It's not an entirely unreasonable view from the perspective of the customer, though. Outsourcing manufacture of a product (to anywhere, but SE Asia is the locale of choice these days) is a cost-cutting move. When a company is deep enough in cost-cutting mode to close up local manufacturing and completely move it out of the country, it wouldn't be surprising if they asked the new manufacturer to decrease the quality, too. Or if they haven't yet asked that, they might shortly do so to further cut costs. Or the new manufacturer might do it by themselves.
The company is trying to make their product more cheaply and they may not have even adjusted their price to account for this.
Outsourcing the manufacture of a product that has always been billed as a "craft" product is basically abandoning the product. It clearly isn't made by "highly trained craftsmen passing along the secret steel recipe" or whatever if a bunch of kids in a Chinese sweatshop can make it. The company is either admitting that there's nothing special about the way they used to make their product, or they've sold out and now sell an inferior knock-off of it.
When you strip the world of comforting delusions, nihilism is all you have left. I imagine a lot of activists remain so dedicated so they can avoid having to give up the last thing that gives their life any form of meaning. They fight because the alternative is to admit that in a long term view, they are nothing.
This can actually be a wonderful thing. It gives us responsibility for our situation and power over our surroundings. Instead of leaving us admitting that we are nothing, it should leave us knowing that we can change everything. The world isn't some shitty place full of assholes because God wants it that way or because power-hungry jerks are actually better people. The ultra-wealthy only possess most of the resources because we all agree that they do. All of this can change; it isn't part of some natural order.
Nihilism shouldn't be depressing. It should be utterly liberating. We are rational actors in a universe that doesn't care about us. We are free.
He didn't claim that Mao Tse-Tung wrote the art of war. He claimed that Mao appreciated the deceptive tactics of his mother and he appreciated the Art of War (which uses many deceptive tactics). Frankly, I don't know if this is factually correct (though it's plausible).
Reading comprehension around here is really pathetic.
Well, assuming a gaussian distribution with a standard deviation of fifteen points and integer IQ scores, about 4% of the population have an IQ score of exactly 100. So 48% are worse.
I think the problem is rather less about the actual horse meat and more about deception. If you're buying something labeled 'beef', it's not pleasant to find that it's up to a third 'not-beef'. With that deception also comes the suspicion of further deception. Does the product even meet health standards? Can you believe anything else that's written about the product on the label?
Then, horse meat is generally cheaper than beef. So charging beef prices for deceptively labeled horse meat is its own valid source of complaint.