And watch the hoo-rah that will erupt if something goes wrong and one of these whining journalists gets his ass blown out of the water. Then we'll hear, "Why were they allowing members of the general public to get so close to a hazard zone??"
Imagine the mess if a midair collision resulted in flaming wreckage... and in my observation, journalists are at best inconsiderate of safety margins, and at times downright reckless.
While that's true, they used to be a lot more objective, not to mention more literate, than they are now. Newspaper journalism was the last to slide but it's followed TV and internet into the wholly partisan, shiny-bytes toilet.
Same thing going on in Montana:( Worse, CA money has driven real estate prices (and RE taxes) up to the point that no working-class Montanan can afford a house anymore.
It's been suggested that the farming/ranching states should secede before they're overwhelmed. I have a better idea; let's kick out the coastal whackjob states instead.
If farmers could make a living wage (especially in the face of rising costs; fuel costs have tripled in the last decade yet the price of corn remains the same) instead of grossing less than 5% of the retail price of food, maybe those subsidies would no longer be necessary, politically or economically.
I'm not so sure... FEMA just classed my immediate area as a DHMO-surplus hazard area. I live at the crest of a ridge in the middle of a desert area that has NEVER had a DHMO surplus in all of recorded history. Point being between the People's Republic of Kalifornia and the feds, we don't know if we're drowning or dessicating. Does it surprise anyone that they can't tell one rock from another either??
[This nonsense from FEMA is going to add $67,000 to my mortgage, which I didn't agree to in the contract but is being forced upon me anyway, and devalues my property to unsalable and unbuildable. So I'm more than a little ticked about it.]
But extending copyright to the point that one cannot stand on the shoulders of those giants until they've been dead for a couple generations is essentially the same thing -- they're taking it to their grave with them.
Point was, the US got by just fine on tariffs and such, until the gov't began outgrowing its means. Then it started looking for other sources of income, which of course helped gov't grow, rinse and repeat. My goodness, look at all those wallets out there! If we had all that money, we could grow bloated wasteful programs like... well, the ones you listed.
Interesting, normally cites with penal code numbers are valid, and I saw the thing on some law-related forum. Regardless... some CA cities are using a snippet of federal law to make themselves into arms of the INS, which has essentially the same effect. There's a whole list of local LE depts on the INS site that have opted in, a couple being state police (saving local LE the trouble of being individually certified for the program).
Which wouldn't happen if gov't had to live within its means, just like the rest of us do. And in that case we wouldn't have a cancerous bureaucracy, either, because there'd be no funding to support it.
And as to the hoorah coming out of the pro-illegals in California, this was posted elswhere:
====== WITH THE FUROR IN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE OVER THE ARIZONA LAW, IT BEHOOVES ME TO POINT OUT THE FOLLOWING FROM THE CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE.
TO WIT:
Section 834b in the California Penal Code:
(a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. (b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following: (1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status. (2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States. (3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity. (c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited. =======
"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
-- Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S.
"The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation, and that quantity of statutory enactment and excess of government offer no substitute for quality of citizenship."
-- Warren G. Harding
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Formerly, we suffered from crimes. Now, we suffer from laws."
-- Tacitus
It's the internal army of agencies with essentially unlimited powers that bother me the most, along with gov't increasingly being "privatized" to give *private agencies power over other citizens*. (This is absolutely NOT the same as "privatizing" a function; it's more like setting up a gov't-sponsored mafia.)
This is, as I've pointed out before, about where Rome was around 250AD, and was probably their point of no return. We're getting there a lot faster, probably thanks to modern communications.
I don't know the technical reasons (tho your explanation makes sense in the hot-running machines); I can only speculate based on what I see. I have read that some cheap PSUs are bad about producing voltage spikes, so that would seem consistent here too.
I've almost never seen a dead PSU or mobo in a clone, yet these are THE most commonly-dead parts in namebrand PCs (even in the better-vented, cooler-running models). I concluded that there's something going on here that involves the PSU and mobo. And yes, memory and CPU are nearly always alive even if the entire rest of the machine is dead. I've got a whole boxful of perfectly good RAM and CPUs pulled from otherwise-dead Dells.
Thanks. Yes, that was partly my point. Also they're not only repeating the policies that didn't work, they're getting more and more extreme in their attempts to find a solution (just like in the story).
Or as another old jape aptly puts it, "I cut that piece of wood three times, and it's STILL too short!"
Trouble is, Obama's strategy WRT the economy reminds me of an old children's story that goes like this:
Mom accidentally poured salt into her coffee instead of sugar. Naturally this didn't taste right and was undrinkable. The whole family packed up and consulted scientists the world over, trying to find a solution to the problem -- but nothing worked. The coffee still tasted like it had salt in it.
Finally one of the kids spoke up: "Mom, why don't you just dump it out and pour a new cup of coffee??"
In line with your sig... did Henry Ford require government loans to get his newfangled auto assembly line off the ground??
When did it become gov't business to decide which technologies should be funded or not?
Also, haven't we learned our lesson about foreign-owned power generation yet? Or do you really LIKE paying 10 times what you did when it was all US-owned??
(Yes, my bill is actually 10x what it was before "deregulation", despite using 1/3rd less power. That's about 6 times the inflation rate for the same period.)
Yes, but that's not always practical (I've run into many cases where it is not). Regardless, it was a stupid, selfish decision that totally ignored the needs of average users, as evident by both the vote back then and the subject of this article.
That must be why Moz is also worse about losing partially filled-in forms, and losing your place in a previous page too. And I can't imagine why it would need to recheck all the whatnots -- isn't that what the "only check for newer versions of a page, not every freakin' time you see it" setting is supposed to prevent?
It does seem to have a lot of bad coding Zen all around.:(
Only thing that keeps me using SM is that IE and Opera are even more annoying, and FF is unusable IMO. I still use NS3 on slashdot, and a lot of other places that render down to text gracefully:) The speed and convenience differences are absolutely... appalling.
Re our club's donated slushpile, I found that in namebrand PCs, there are two components most likely to be dead:
1) motherboard (even with good caps)
2) power supply (which is usually a dead-minimum capacity, cheaply-made unit)
I soon became suspicious that the high percentage of dead mobos (even with good caps) was secondary to the shit PSUs, maybe producing wobbly voltage or not enough juice, at any rate my speculation was that having to barely scrape by on a shit PSU was damaging and eventually killing the mobos, and possibly other components too. Low voltage is hard on motors; what does it do to a HD motor over time? would that partly explain why the optical drives in namebranders fail so much more often than those in clone units??
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And watch the hoo-rah that will erupt if something goes wrong and one of these whining journalists gets his ass blown out of the water. Then we'll hear, "Why were they allowing members of the general public to get so close to a hazard zone??"
Imagine the mess if a midair collision resulted in flaming wreckage... and in my observation, journalists are at best inconsiderate of safety margins, and at times downright reckless.
While that's true, they used to be a lot more objective, not to mention more literate, than they are now. Newspaper journalism was the last to slide but it's followed TV and internet into the wholly partisan, shiny-bytes toilet.
[flourishes cane and whirls cloak] A pleasure indeed. May we meet again under less trying circumstances!
Which I think is reasonable enough, if copyright timeframes were equally reasonable.
Indeed, I find myself buying relatively new DVDs (mostly TV) but BT'ing relatively aged audio.
Same thing going on in Montana :( Worse, CA money has driven real estate prices (and RE taxes) up to the point that no working-class Montanan can afford a house anymore.
It's been suggested that the farming/ranching states should secede before they're overwhelmed. I have a better idea; let's kick out the coastal whackjob states instead.
If farmers could make a living wage (especially in the face of rising costs; fuel costs have tripled in the last decade yet the price of corn remains the same) instead of grossing less than 5% of the retail price of food, maybe those subsidies would no longer be necessary, politically or economically.
I'm not so sure... FEMA just classed my immediate area as a DHMO-surplus hazard area. I live at the crest of a ridge in the middle of a desert area that has NEVER had a DHMO surplus in all of recorded history. Point being between the People's Republic of Kalifornia and the feds, we don't know if we're drowning or dessicating. Does it surprise anyone that they can't tell one rock from another either??
[This nonsense from FEMA is going to add $67,000 to my mortgage, which I didn't agree to in the contract but is being forced upon me anyway, and devalues my property to unsalable and unbuildable. So I'm more than a little ticked about it.]
Well, yes, that was the point.
But extending copyright to the point that one cannot stand on the shoulders of those giants until they've been dead for a couple generations is essentially the same thing -- they're taking it to their grave with them.
Point was, the US got by just fine on tariffs and such, until the gov't began outgrowing its means. Then it started looking for other sources of income, which of course helped gov't grow, rinse and repeat. My goodness, look at all those wallets out there! If we had all that money, we could grow bloated wasteful programs like ... well, the ones you listed.
Considering the direction the UK has taken since then, this does not seem to be entirely a good thing. Maybe it was the proximity to 1984.
Interesting, normally cites with penal code numbers are valid, and I saw the thing on some law-related forum. Regardless... some CA cities are using a snippet of federal law to make themselves into arms of the INS, which has essentially the same effect. There's a whole list of local LE depts on the INS site that have opted in, a couple being state police (saving local LE the trouble of being individually certified for the program).
Which wouldn't happen if gov't had to live within its means, just like the rest of us do. And in that case we wouldn't have a cancerous bureaucracy, either, because there'd be no funding to support it.
So it was for the first 150 years or so...
And as to the hoorah coming out of the pro-illegals in California, this was posted elswhere:
======
WITH THE FUROR IN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE OVER THE ARIZONA LAW, IT BEHOOVES ME TO POINT OUT THE FOLLOWING FROM THE CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE.
TO WIT:
Section 834b in the California Penal Code:
(a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. (b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following: (1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status. (2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States. (3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity. (c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.
=======
Pot, kettle, hello??
"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
-- Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S.
"The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation, and that quantity of statutory enactment and excess of government offer no substitute for quality of citizenship."
-- Warren G. Harding
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Formerly, we suffered from crimes. Now, we suffer from laws."
-- Tacitus
It's the internal army of agencies with essentially unlimited powers that bother me the most, along with gov't increasingly being "privatized" to give *private agencies power over other citizens*. (This is absolutely NOT the same as "privatizing" a function; it's more like setting up a gov't-sponsored mafia.)
This is, as I've pointed out before, about where Rome was around 250AD, and was probably their point of no return. We're getting there a lot faster, probably thanks to modern communications.
I don't know the technical reasons (tho your explanation makes sense in the hot-running machines); I can only speculate based on what I see. I have read that some cheap PSUs are bad about producing voltage spikes, so that would seem consistent here too.
I've almost never seen a dead PSU or mobo in a clone, yet these are THE most commonly-dead parts in namebrand PCs (even in the better-vented, cooler-running models). I concluded that there's something going on here that involves the PSU and mobo. And yes, memory and CPU are nearly always alive even if the entire rest of the machine is dead. I've got a whole boxful of perfectly good RAM and CPUs pulled from otherwise-dead Dells.
Thanks. Yes, that was partly my point. Also they're not only repeating the policies that didn't work, they're getting more and more extreme in their attempts to find a solution (just like in the story).
Or as another old jape aptly puts it, "I cut that piece of wood three times, and it's STILL too short!"
I'm okay with repealing the laws of thermodynamics, so long as they ban DHMO instead. ;)
Trouble is, Obama's strategy WRT the economy reminds me of an old children's story that goes like this:
Mom accidentally poured salt into her coffee instead of sugar. Naturally this didn't taste right and was undrinkable. The whole family packed up and consulted scientists the world over, trying to find a solution to the problem -- but nothing worked. The coffee still tasted like it had salt in it.
Finally one of the kids spoke up: "Mom, why don't you just dump it out and pour a new cup of coffee??"
In line with your sig... did Henry Ford require government loans to get his newfangled auto assembly line off the ground??
When did it become gov't business to decide which technologies should be funded or not?
Also, haven't we learned our lesson about foreign-owned power generation yet? Or do you really LIKE paying 10 times what you did when it was all US-owned??
(Yes, my bill is actually 10x what it was before "deregulation", despite using 1/3rd less power. That's about 6 times the inflation rate for the same period.)
Yes, but that's not always practical (I've run into many cases where it is not). Regardless, it was a stupid, selfish decision that totally ignored the needs of average users, as evident by both the vote back then and the subject of this article.
That must be why Moz is also worse about losing partially filled-in forms, and losing your place in a previous page too. And I can't imagine why it would need to recheck all the whatnots -- isn't that what the "only check for newer versions of a page, not every freakin' time you see it" setting is supposed to prevent?
It does seem to have a lot of bad coding Zen all around. :(
Only thing that keeps me using SM is that IE and Opera are even more annoying, and FF is unusable IMO. I still use NS3 on slashdot, and a lot of other places that render down to text gracefully :) The speed and convenience differences are absolutely... appalling.
Re our club's donated slushpile, I found that in namebrand PCs, there are two components most likely to be dead:
1) motherboard (even with good caps)
2) power supply (which is usually a dead-minimum capacity, cheaply-made unit)
I soon became suspicious that the high percentage of dead mobos (even with good caps) was secondary to the shit PSUs, maybe producing wobbly voltage or not enough juice, at any rate my speculation was that having to barely scrape by on a shit PSU was damaging and eventually killing the mobos, and possibly other components too. Low voltage is hard on motors; what does it do to a HD motor over time? would that partly explain why the optical drives in namebranders fail so much more often than those in clone units??