That, and the general lack of respect for skilled tradesmen. The perception since WW2 had been that if you don't get a white-collar job, you're a failure.:(
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Yeah, that was the part that impressed me too. And it would be easy to drop in smaller tires to size it down for smaller rounds. Where was this when I was splitting wood all the time??
That's for sure. I also live in the country, and there are useless horses coming out everyone's ears. Folks who decry horse slaughter should perhaps volunteer the cost to keep a retired horse, which amounts to around $3000/year (plus the vet bills that accumulate more rapidly with an aging animal that, as a species, is already prone to a variety of ailments).
Funny how these same people who are against killing surplus or useless horses also scream about overgrazing... but they don't seem to have a problem with hay in SoCal hitting $600/ton this spring.
Doesn't even need to be that. Most public streets have municipal lampposts at convenient intervals, 30+ feet tall and fairly well immune to tampering (being too tall and too slick to climb easily), that can provide an excellent and permanent vantage point at minimal expense... and quite possibly without anyone noticing, if cameras are installed to look like part of the existing streetlight and as part of "routine maintenance".
Actually, considering how profitable are the side bits (eg. classes that 'sex offenders' must attend, amounting to thousands of dollars for the court system at no particular risk or expense to LE), it wouldn't surprise me at all if this sort of thing began happening.
Learning to make do and do well enough on damned little is part of what you're supposed to learn in life. If you didn't learn it before, you'll learn it in college. Being thrifty all around, reusing and repurposing, cooking your own meals because it costs a fraction of what it does to eat out. These are valuable life lessons that will serve you in good stead when things don't go entirely swimmingly later on.
I knew someone in Los Angeles who had disposed of some tired storebought tomatoes by tossing them into the front yard for the birds to eat. The seeds volunteered all over the place and after a few years of benign neglect, their yard was one big self-renewing tomato patch -- producing perfectly edible tomatoes, all of the same variety. Apparently whatever they'd bought at the grocery were not hybrids.
Lazy was probably not the best word. But people do generally avoid needless work, and when that was something you formerly had to do to survive, it can be perceived as 'lazy'. If the deaf person can now hear and has no pressing need for ASL, why go to all the extra work of learning or maintaining your ASL?
I've heard basically the same about 'dwarf culture' -- that when surgical techniques for increasing leg length became a realistic treatment, there was a huge backlash against it, as if being able to be 'fixed' invalidated all the existing dwarfs.
And don't think it doesn't exist among the blind, too. A friend who is partially sighted has been on both sides of the fence, and while immersed in it, railed against the same crap in the blind community.
When I was a kid I lived next door to the deaf-and-blind school. Every kid in the neighborhood played on the grounds. We never saw the blind kids, but when we'd see the deaf kids out on the grounds, we'd try to include them in our games. But they would not play with the rest of us.
Some people fail basic math... Frex, this handy story problem:
new truck: $500/mo. payment, $200/mo. insurance, $500/yr lic. old truck: $700 in repairs on average every 3 years, which is $20/month, permanent lic. $270 one-time cost, ins. $10/mo. Both get about the same gas mileage. Which one is more expensive to own??
There was a story here a while back about where someone had pulled together stats, total number of computers vs how many were infected (I don't remember precisely how they collected the data, but I vaguely recall it was from a search engine's logs). We were all astounded to read that the infection rate was only 0.4% of all internet-connected computers.
Same here. I'd have to replace the whole machine to 'upgrade' the OS, and there's nothing Win7/8 can do for me and my current needs that XP can't. Firewall and router, don't click on or run random shit, and don't let email run scripts... I have clients with setups 15+ years old, infection-free, who do no more than that for security.
Someone pointed out that these 0day exploits aren't quite... that most derive from reverse-engineering the patch, then seeking unpatched machines. No patches, no cues where to look.
I got one purely for the ISA slots. It's very stable and well-mannered, tho it does need an update to handle larger HDs. (I don't really care since anymore I either run HDs as externals or off a SATA adapter card.) Company responds to support queries with a Real Human.
I have a stash of P2 and P3 motherboards/CPUs for the same reason... ISA slots, and fast enough for the purpose.
That's another good point, and I've known people who did not distinguish. One function of skimming is to find out if it's worth your while to read carefully... read everything carefully and you waste a lot of time and effort.
I max out at about 800wpm with full comprehension, but can skim much faster -- a skill learned in high school history class, where the trick was to pick out the highlights from the wall of uninspired text. Conversely, I may read a book with a leisurely pace at a similarly relaxed speed. And yeah, I've found that people who read slowly do not grok that some people can process print that fast.
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That, and the general lack of respect for skilled tradesmen. The perception since WW2 had been that if you don't get a white-collar job, you're a failure. :(
Yeah, that was the part that impressed me too. And it would be easy to drop in smaller tires to size it down for smaller rounds. Where was this when I was splitting wood all the time??
I still have the axe. :)
Having split lots of cottonwood, I know the problem...
But here's a handy invention that takes all the work right out of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Of course, you gotta have a spare $38k to buy it with first...
Horses are well-adapted to the cold. Their winter hair is so insulative that snow will accumulate on their backs, and not melt.
And because horses sweat, they're also adapted to the heat.
Maybe we could ship the PETA idiots to slaughter... none of them has ever done any useful work, so they're probably quite tender and tasty.
That's for sure. I also live in the country, and there are useless horses coming out everyone's ears. Folks who decry horse slaughter should perhaps volunteer the cost to keep a retired horse, which amounts to around $3000/year (plus the vet bills that accumulate more rapidly with an aging animal that, as a species, is already prone to a variety of ailments).
Funny how these same people who are against killing surplus or useless horses also scream about overgrazing... but they don't seem to have a problem with hay in SoCal hitting $600/ton this spring.
Doesn't even need to be that. Most public streets have municipal lampposts at convenient intervals, 30+ feet tall and fairly well immune to tampering (being too tall and too slick to climb easily), that can provide an excellent and permanent vantage point at minimal expense... and quite possibly without anyone noticing, if cameras are installed to look like part of the existing streetlight and as part of "routine maintenance".
Actually, considering how profitable are the side bits (eg. classes that 'sex offenders' must attend, amounting to thousands of dollars for the court system at no particular risk or expense to LE), it wouldn't surprise me at all if this sort of thing began happening.
Learning to make do and do well enough on damned little is part of what you're supposed to learn in life. If you didn't learn it before, you'll learn it in college. Being thrifty all around, reusing and repurposing, cooking your own meals because it costs a fraction of what it does to eat out. These are valuable life lessons that will serve you in good stead when things don't go entirely swimmingly later on.
I knew someone in Los Angeles who had disposed of some tired storebought tomatoes by tossing them into the front yard for the birds to eat. The seeds volunteered all over the place and after a few years of benign neglect, their yard was one big self-renewing tomato patch -- producing perfectly edible tomatoes, all of the same variety. Apparently whatever they'd bought at the grocery were not hybrids.
The real reason is probably a lot simpler: Cost.
Before you break ground on a single-family home in Pleasanton CA, you must cough up in excess of $125,000 (yes, 125 grand) in fees and permits.
I expect said fees and permits are even more expensive in San Francisco proper.
[For comparison, in Los Angeles County a home building permit is $38,000. Here in Montana it's from $50 to $2000 depending where you are.]
I'd say that his revision would have the direct effect of creating a more-effective police state, where the government need never fear The People.
The whole POINT of the 2nd Amendment was that government SHOULD fear The People.
The explanation will be AGW and CO2 until something more profitable comes along...
Fascinating video on the sunspot factor. Makes the best sense I've seen yet.
...it says that sometimes they found the new equaled or surpassed the old.
That's far from being "can't distinguish".
It's been done for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Lazy was probably not the best word. But people do generally avoid needless work, and when that was something you formerly had to do to survive, it can be perceived as 'lazy'. If the deaf person can now hear and has no pressing need for ASL, why go to all the extra work of learning or maintaining your ASL?
I've heard basically the same about 'dwarf culture' -- that when surgical techniques for increasing leg length became a realistic treatment, there was a huge backlash against it, as if being able to be 'fixed' invalidated all the existing dwarfs.
And don't think it doesn't exist among the blind, too. A friend who is partially sighted has been on both sides of the fence, and while immersed in it, railed against the same crap in the blind community.
When I was a kid I lived next door to the deaf-and-blind school. Every kid in the neighborhood played on the grounds. We never saw the blind kids, but when we'd see the deaf kids out on the grounds, we'd try to include them in our games. But they would not play with the rest of us.
Some of whom practiced slaving and genocide, too. Roundly denied by the idyllicists.
Some people fail basic math... Frex, this handy story problem:
new truck: $500/mo. payment, $200/mo. insurance, $500/yr lic.
old truck: $700 in repairs on average every 3 years, which is $20/month, permanent lic. $270 one-time cost, ins. $10/mo.
Both get about the same gas mileage.
Which one is more expensive to own??
There was a story here a while back about where someone had pulled together stats, total number of computers vs how many were infected (I don't remember precisely how they collected the data, but I vaguely recall it was from a search engine's logs). We were all astounded to read that the infection rate was only 0.4% of all internet-connected computers.
Same here. I'd have to replace the whole machine to 'upgrade' the OS, and there's nothing Win7/8 can do for me and my current needs that XP can't. Firewall and router, don't click on or run random shit, and don't let email run scripts... I have clients with setups 15+ years old, infection-free, who do no more than that for security.
Someone pointed out that these 0day exploits aren't quite... that most derive from reverse-engineering the patch, then seeking unpatched machines. No patches, no cues where to look.
Someone here turned me on to this motherboard:
http://www.ibase-i.com.tw/mb80...
I got one purely for the ISA slots. It's very stable and well-mannered, tho it does need an update to handle larger HDs. (I don't really care since anymore I either run HDs as externals or off a SATA adapter card.) Company responds to support queries with a Real Human.
I have a stash of P2 and P3 motherboards/CPUs for the same reason... ISA slots, and fast enough for the purpose.
That's another good point, and I've known people who did not distinguish. One function of skimming is to find out if it's worth your while to read carefully... read everything carefully and you waste a lot of time and effort.
I max out at about 800wpm with full comprehension, but can skim much faster -- a skill learned in high school history class, where the trick was to pick out the highlights from the wall of uninspired text. Conversely, I may read a book with a leisurely pace at a similarly relaxed speed. And yeah, I've found that people who read slowly do not grok that some people can process print that fast.