"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 United States
In other words, don't assume YOUR side will always be enforcing those laws you want enacted.
And until DNA analysis proves them distinct species -- how many of these 'new' discoveries are actually regional variants (which is to say, breeds) of existing known species? The way species are classified, often determined by trivial variations in stuff like size or coat color/length, makes me think they'd consider dogs to be two hundred distinct species.
From TFA (yeah, I know it's embarrassing, but I read it): === The timers lowered the number of accidents involving pedestrians. In other words, when people know how much time they have to get across the intersection, it helps them get across safely or decide not to start in the first place. But the timers also increase collisions between cars. ===
Human injuries are harder to "fix" than is damage to cars. The study found the type of vehicle accident increased was the rear-end collision, one of the least likely to cause serious injury, and at a level considerably below car-vs-pedestrian.
So I think having the countdown timers is a reasonable tradeoff -- fewer major pedestrian injuries in exchange for a greater incidence of relatively minor vehicle damage and generally lesser driver/passenger injuries.
[It occurs to me to wonder if today's rear-end crashes might have gone largely unreported back in the era when they didn't routinely total the car, as they often do today.]
For myself, I find these countdowns do the opposite. I drive a truck (usually with a load), and it has more momentum than a car, so I need to plan a little better. So if there are only N-seconds left, I know I might as well coast (rather than step on it) because I'm not going to make the light anyway. Conversely, if there are NN-seconds left, I might as well keep going at my present speed because I =am= going to make the light. Very handy, as it removes the guesswork ("How long does this one blink before it goes yellow? Did I miss the first blinks?")
Welcome to the unintended consequences of the breakup of Ma Bell.:(
I remember when your local and long-distance were ALL Ma Bell (barring the small local co-ops) and even party lines and 5-digit phone numbers. Now get off my lawn!!
Eh? No, we were bewailing a requirement of defacing our books, but then it occurred to me that such signatures might be valued by future owners, as I value my antique the more because it has a history.
(Just for S&G, I tracked down the original owner's descendants -- turns out they still live in Boston.)
Seems to me the issues with the shrimp and such should be fairly easy to replicate in the laboratory -- find yourself some normal shrimp, impound some of the suspect seawater (no, you don't get to make your own), release your normal shrimp (and whatever shrimp eat) into it, and examine their descendants. Has anyone bothered to do this?
Cuz otherwise I wonder to what degree the observed defects have always been there, but perhaps until the spill subjected the area to intense scrutiny, harvesters may have ignored them to avoid reducing their catch.
Somewhere out there is also a half-gig archive of SB drivers, tho my copy (which was hell to get downloaded in one piece) is stashed on a disk in storage which isn't very useful right now.
I lived for many years in the desert, and I can attest it's much the same -- nothing lasts very long, not even durable plastic. If the sun doesn't get it, the alkaline soil will.
All very good thoughts, even without invoking plastic-stealing aliens or aquatic goats. As to the recycling aspect, seems to me that would be more cost-effective than trawling landfills, since the ocean's inhabitants would have already done most of the relatively-expensive work of separating out food waste, biodegradables, and the like.
As to the expected ginormous quantity, one wonders if this is just a ghost of the fashionably extreme predictions of a few decades ago, which would have had the entire planet cheek-by-jowl in starving humans buried in waste.
As a fellow antiquitor, I covet your evicted Matrox vidcards:)
Is it wrong that I keep a P4-3GHz (with ISA slots!) solely to run DOOM?:D Tho for some reason newer ISA sound cards refuse to play nice in it, so it makes do with the rather horrible-sounding SB16 that came in my original 486.
Hmm, you don't happen to have a list of the various SET BLASTER lines for different SB cards?
One of my small treasures is a copy of the Complete Works of Byron. One of the wonders it contains is the signature and dedication written in it by the original owner, who gifted it to a family member -- in 1847.
Even so, the notion of writing my name in my own books (probably 5000 or so volumes) gives me the quivering shudders. Not to mention the most horrid case of writer's cramp.
We've already experienced private police forces; they're called mob enforcers.
I recall hearing about the BSA, with federal marshals in tow, raiding private businesses in search of unlicensed software. I don't know how that came out.
And something interesting along the lines of private police and prison forces:
I've read of predators (most of which don't mind scavenging) who've learned that a fire means once the fire is out, there will be free food lying around in the burned area (animals that didn't make it out in time, and mostly suffocated).
Seems to me the important point here is that they COOKED and ate plants... indicating that uncooked plants were unsuitable food.
And as you say, poop only indicates what they ate this week. Maybe it's a seasonal crop. Maybe it indicates the hunting was poor. Maybe someone had dietary perversions.
And maybe it was why they died out -- being reduced to relying on unsuitable foods.
Isolated individual hills of about 500 feet high are all it takes to create a microclimate. This guy is talking about a third of a mountain range worth of average elevation from ground level. Does he not think this will alter climate patterns, possibly in a broad and irreversible way? Certainly it would alter rainfall patterns, perhaps causing moisture to pile up west of the wall and subsequent drought behind the wall.
I'll take the relatively small risk of tornadoes, thanks.
That, and it ignores the easy circumvention -- instead of buying one 44oz drink, buy three 16oz drinks (or one infinitely-refillable 16oz drink, which seems to be the norm anymore anyway).
An ammonia/propane explosion is particularly impressive, as my long-ago neighbor's former travel trailer can attest. (And his former garage, and former windbreak of mature pines.)
As to using ammonia for fuel, tho... here's the elephant in the room:
The livestock industry doesn't make enough manure to supply all of crop agriculture's insatiable appetite for nitrogen, which is usually supplied as ammonia. About half the fertilizer used today is made from ammonia derived from catalyst conversions (and over 80% of the ammonia produced goes to fertilizer). If we shunt this to fuel, there goes at least half our crop productivity.
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"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 United States
In other words, don't assume YOUR side will always be enforcing those laws you want enacted.
An example of how determining guilt is being misused:
Idaho Court Criminalizes Sleeping It Off
http://www.thenewspaper.com/ne...
And until DNA analysis proves them distinct species -- how many of these 'new' discoveries are actually regional variants (which is to say, breeds) of existing known species? The way species are classified, often determined by trivial variations in stuff like size or coat color/length, makes me think they'd consider dogs to be two hundred distinct species.
From TFA (yeah, I know it's embarrassing, but I read it):
===
The timers lowered the number of accidents involving pedestrians. In other words, when people know how much time they have to get across the intersection, it helps them get across safely or decide not to start in the first place. But the timers also increase collisions between cars.
===
Human injuries are harder to "fix" than is damage to cars. The study found the type of vehicle accident increased was the rear-end collision, one of the least likely to cause serious injury, and at a level considerably below car-vs-pedestrian.
So I think having the countdown timers is a reasonable tradeoff -- fewer major pedestrian injuries in exchange for a greater incidence of relatively minor vehicle damage and generally lesser driver/passenger injuries.
[It occurs to me to wonder if today's rear-end crashes might have gone largely unreported back in the era when they didn't routinely total the car, as they often do today.]
For myself, I find these countdowns do the opposite. I drive a truck (usually with a load), and it has more momentum than a car, so I need to plan a little better. So if there are only N-seconds left, I know I might as well coast (rather than step on it) because I'm not going to make the light anyway. Conversely, if there are NN-seconds left, I might as well keep going at my present speed because I =am= going to make the light. Very handy, as it removes the guesswork ("How long does this one blink before it goes yellow? Did I miss the first blinks?")
Welcome to the unintended consequences of the breakup of Ma Bell. :(
I remember when your local and long-distance were ALL Ma Bell (barring the small local co-ops) and even party lines and 5-digit phone numbers. Now get off my lawn!!
No problem... after all this is slashdot, you're *supposed* to misread stuff !! ;)
Eh? No, we were bewailing a requirement of defacing our books, but then it occurred to me that such signatures might be valued by future owners, as I value my antique the more because it has a history.
(Just for S&G, I tracked down the original owner's descendants -- turns out they still live in Boston.)
Seems to me the issues with the shrimp and such should be fairly easy to replicate in the laboratory -- find yourself some normal shrimp, impound some of the suspect seawater (no, you don't get to make your own), release your normal shrimp (and whatever shrimp eat) into it, and examine their descendants. Has anyone bothered to do this?
Cuz otherwise I wonder to what degree the observed defects have always been there, but perhaps until the spill subjected the area to intense scrutiny, harvesters may have ignored them to avoid reducing their catch.
Thanks!
Somewhere out there is also a half-gig archive of SB drivers, tho my copy (which was hell to get downloaded in one piece) is stashed on a disk in storage which isn't very useful right now.
I lived for many years in the desert, and I can attest it's much the same -- nothing lasts very long, not even durable plastic. If the sun doesn't get it, the alkaline soil will.
All very good thoughts, even without invoking plastic-stealing aliens or aquatic goats. As to the recycling aspect, seems to me that would be more cost-effective than trawling landfills, since the ocean's inhabitants would have already done most of the relatively-expensive work of separating out food waste, biodegradables, and the like.
As to the expected ginormous quantity, one wonders if this is just a ghost of the fashionably extreme predictions of a few decades ago, which would have had the entire planet cheek-by-jowl in starving humans buried in waste.
Rather, I suspect this was done as a way to open the door to taxing 'income' via Bitcoin etc., which if it's not money, is harder to do.
California gov't is nothing if not avaricious.
Maybe you can find it here?
https://archive.org/details/DO...
Or perhaps up a step at the main archive?
https://archive.org/search.php...
(Argh, more old shit to download!! Must... resist...)
AHA! Someone discovered the NS3 source!! Resistance is futile.
As a fellow antiquitor, I covet your evicted Matrox vidcards :)
Is it wrong that I keep a P4-3GHz (with ISA slots!) solely to run DOOM? :D Tho for some reason newer ISA sound cards refuse to play nice in it, so it makes do with the rather horrible-sounding SB16 that came in my original 486.
Hmm, you don't happen to have a list of the various SET BLASTER lines for different SB cards?
One of my small treasures is a copy of the Complete Works of Byron. One of the wonders it contains is the signature and dedication written in it by the original owner, who gifted it to a family member -- in 1847.
Even so, the notion of writing my name in my own books (probably 5000 or so volumes) gives me the quivering shudders. Not to mention the most horrid case of writer's cramp.
We've already experienced private police forces; they're called mob enforcers.
I recall hearing about the BSA, with federal marshals in tow, raiding private businesses in search of unlicensed software. I don't know how that came out.
And something interesting along the lines of private police and prison forces:
https://www.prisonlegalnews.or...
When the subject came up elsewhere, someone noted that Montana has a law prohibiting private police forces.
(I find it hilarious that this was in Hardin, where you can hire a hitman for five bucks.)
Question:
How is the password to an encrypted drive intrinsically different from the key to a safe deposit box?
Discuss.
Dunno about the rest of it, but I'd love to take the CorelDraw for linux off your hands, box, manuals, and all!
The truth is, I can't live without the included PhotoPaint, and I prefer the older versions (I use v8 on Windows).
I've read of predators (most of which don't mind scavenging) who've learned that a fire means once the fire is out, there will be free food lying around in the burned area (animals that didn't make it out in time, and mostly suffocated).
Or there's a bit of vegetarian agenda being pushed here (not for the first time with such research).
Seems to me the important point here is that they COOKED and ate plants... indicating that uncooked plants were unsuitable food.
And as you say, poop only indicates what they ate this week. Maybe it's a seasonal crop. Maybe it indicates the hunting was poor. Maybe someone had dietary perversions.
And maybe it was why they died out -- being reduced to relying on unsuitable foods.
Isolated individual hills of about 500 feet high are all it takes to create a microclimate. This guy is talking about a third of a mountain range worth of average elevation from ground level. Does he not think this will alter climate patterns, possibly in a broad and irreversible way? Certainly it would alter rainfall patterns, perhaps causing moisture to pile up west of the wall and subsequent drought behind the wall.
I'll take the relatively small risk of tornadoes, thanks.
That, and it ignores the easy circumvention -- instead of buying one 44oz drink, buy three 16oz drinks (or one infinitely-refillable 16oz drink, which seems to be the norm anymore anyway).
An ammonia/propane explosion is particularly impressive, as my long-ago neighbor's former travel trailer can attest. (And his former garage, and former windbreak of mature pines.)
As to using ammonia for fuel, tho... here's the elephant in the room:
The livestock industry doesn't make enough manure to supply all of crop agriculture's insatiable appetite for nitrogen, which is usually supplied as ammonia. About half the fertilizer used today is made from ammonia derived from catalyst conversions (and over 80% of the ammonia produced goes to fertilizer). If we shunt this to fuel, there goes at least half our crop productivity.