The only real hope is a constitutional amendment limiting the interstate commerce clause.
We're going on 80 years of oppression under/Wickard/ - it's not good strategy to hold out hope for something where you'd need to get a supermajority of Congress to vastly limit their own power and roll-back nearly a century of power and bureaucracy.
Nay, the only thing (within the State mechanism assumption) that is having success in limiting Federal power is nullification through initiative measures and that's even only on one very narrow power. Everything else is going wildly in the other direction, over any long-enough timescale.
It appears that the only real chance of sanity now lies outside the State mechanism -/Wickard/ may well have been the point of no return. Every system on earth ever run by power-lusty men has had a point of no return from which it's never recovered.
Be careful of 'hope' - you can die waiting for it to show up.
Apparently the law was intended to be used against fishermen and not CEOs of banks.
Well now, see, by going after a fisherman once in a while, they can ward off the people calling for an end to Sarbox since it's never enforced, but gives license to Wall Street to run amok. Given a conviction, they can keep it on the books, not risk having it ruled "void for vagueness" and whenever the People complain about getting screwed, they can point to Sarbox and say "we have a law for that" while still never prosecuting Wall Street (gotta keep that sweet campaign money rolling in).
The trouble is the people who are getting screwed are complaining to the people who are ultimately screwing them, if they'd care to look even a millimeter past first-order effects.
If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be.
if we were to find natives in the US...
Team Blue: But are they paying "their" taxes? They were born within the geographic confines of a nation state, so they implicitly agreed to a the Social Contract.
Team Red: Do they not benefit from the clean air and logging bans the government provides? Why should they not have to pay for those benefits? We can't have any free riders taking advantage of the system. They should be working and have ID's.
like another comment said, sometimes a quiver of arrows is the most sensible policy.
The Aldera design is even in the same color scheme, except it doesn't suck as architecture (implemented McQuarrie designs tend to lose the That 70's Look of his paint). Here's the deal - windows make for free light for a whole bunch of exhibits (put the dark ones in the center), normal humans enjoy bright and sunny places, and they also enjoy non-creepy architecture as well.
The proposed design looks like the Taelon embassy tried to assimilate a circus tent, and - what is that, a golden halo on top of the Lucas building? Are we not supposed to take this as a literal edifice to ego?
Electricity, roads, mechanized farming, and every other technology that makes up our modern way of life.
That's a good argument for putting the spy chiefs in charge of those things too, then. Like it or not, roads have become the primary means of getting a terrorist to his target - the road people need to accept the new reality. One can never be too safe - try to keep up.
With lighting, there is a technology, T5, that is twice as efficient as what you are using now. That is, it produces the same amount of light while using half as much electricity, and, incidentally, all the carbon dioxide and things we associate with electricity production.
We are not moving to the T5 technology because there is not enough europium and terbium to make those lamps. The way they get that efficient is using twice as much europium and terbium.
All I'm finding online about "t5 lighting" is a fluorescent bulb size and an ad from GE advertising a high-efficiency T5 that can get 54W "of light" from a 47W tube...
I don't get how this would add up. If I can buy a $9 Cree bulb now, and let's assume that the entire cost of the bulb is the europium and terbidium content, to set an upper limit, then Cree could offer me an $18 bulb with half the energy consumption and presumably without that heatsink if they wanted to?
But Cree is voluntarily holding back the availability of the high-efficiency bulbs out of respect for the shortage? Or they just can't get enough (even though they could ramp up from a small amount to millions and millions of bulbs in a few years?)
I feel like the Q&A must have missed something that was said. If I can save 50% of the power used over 20 years, I would be really surprised if that 20 years worth of power plant production wasn't worse for the environment than a mg or two of rare earth extraction in CA would have been to make the better bulb in the first place. Is this a case of environmental regs making things worse?
An app can hardly be less secure than the current system
Well, playing this out - before the thieves could steal my extra underwear and toothbrush. Now the Hotel can steal all my contacts, SD card contents, location information, etc.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure this will be "no special permissions" once it's a required app for checking in (or if not required you can avoid the $15 keying fee by using the app)...
Guess it depends what you're securing. Any hotel door that doesn't have an unkeyed deadbolt (only lockable from the inside) is sketchy, but most don't. If your security isn't their top concern, then you have to ask what is. Usually cost vs. revenue, and there are all sorts of things they can do to improve their revenue by accessing your data. Did you Like Kit-Kat bars on Facebook? Guess what's in your mini-bar tomorrow. There need be no sinister agents at the Hotel - the maid simply gets a printout of what to stock each room with every day and the Front Desk clerk simply asks you to NFC the pad when you check in. If you're a Verizon or AT&T customer, the clerk knows when you're pulling in the hotel driveway and the minibar is already stocked before your arrival.
Do you send out drivers or haul them back to the surface and clean them? Both are wickedly expensive
They have to be tethered to something anyway (fixed power cable) - why not allow them to anchor/de-anchor so they can be pulled up to a cleaning ship? Why would that add a tremendous cost to each unit? No need for a winch on each unit - that can be on the ship. The one moving part would be some sort of attachment mechanism - the motor for that can even be on the umbilical from the ship. I'm assuming these things will be "smart" and can phone home with some sort of report about its need to be cleaned.
So how do you clean them? Do you send divers down several hundred feet to hand scrape a moving blade?
Isn't that what robots are for?
If that's too hard there are things that could be done with heat, current, toxins, anchors/winches, enclosing the moving parts inside a closed environment (propeller in the current sounds suboptimal) - when your machines don't have to move around the world, some limitations go away.
I'm no professional diver, but even just wreck diving in strong surges is quite a challenge - I can't imagine trying to get any work done. Human divers are probably a last resort.
Normally, the feather system wouldn't be unlocked until the rocket-powered spaceship is moving about Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times faster than the speed of sound. Instead, the co-pilot moved the lever from locked to unlock when the spaceship was traveling at about Mach 1, Hart said.
Modern cars have a feature where you can't take the key out of the ignition if you forget to put the thing in park. This feature saves me from stupid about twice a year. Humans are error-prone - there's a whole field, poka yoke dedicated to preventing these sorts of errors.
Test pilots are the best of the best. If one of them can make a catastrophic mistake then so can any commercial pilot.
Now, they may have figured that that sort of safety gear was "for later" and test craft are often bare-bones, and test pilots are often relied on to not make those kinds of mistakes. Assuming the premise here, we might see more automation early in the design process going forward. Virgin might be able to survive a year-long investigation but that kind of delay is an ongoing liability. It may turn out to be faster and cheaper in the long run to add in those costs up front, if delays are calculated into the cost.
Hrm, no 60fps version on that one for me (Chromium, Fedora). I went to the YouTube blog and clicked on the link to some video about a gamer TV show and it let me do 48fps, so the plumbing must be at least partially there.
The titles (fast-moving graphics) looked great on that one BTW. I didn't really notice a difference in the real-world video. Guessing the source material is the key.
The EU couldn't get negative rights straight if one hit it over its head.
Statists who love entitlements love to call them "rights" because "rights" have popular support.
The EU has created an entitlement to be forgotten, not a right, no matter what they call it. It's easy to tell the two apart - a right requires simply leaving a person alone - an entitlement requires a third party to provide a good or service, customarily under some threat of retribution for not doing so.
That's exactly what the EU has done - it forces somebody at the media outlet to remove a bit of data, without compensation - call it servitude or conscription, depending on your perspective, to provide a benefit to the person making the complaint.
Compare that with the right to free speech, the right to practice religion, the right to be free from searches - they all require the person to be left alone, and no third party is pressed into service.
Malarkey like TFA is what happens when people start thinking that entitlements are right - in an area where no entitlement has even been created, people who've heard about the EU's folly start thinking they have a right to another's labor. That kind of thinking is not alien to the US, though it's gone out of favor in the last century and a half, at least in the direct sense.
A really nasty federal grand jury could put the screws on those who deserve to be punished.
Yeah, good luck finding a prosecutor who will go after the State for protecting its power by hiding its abuses from the press. That's a career-killer for any ladder-climbing prosecutor, and it appears all the other types have been driven from the vocation at this point.
If businesses need winter hours, they can have those.
That's crazy! Next thing you know you'll claim my Home Depot will be closing an hour earlier during the winter. This could never work! We need DC politicians to schedule our business hours or there will be mass chaos!
As far as I can see now it just screws with people's sleep cycles and schedules to no particular effect.
Not "no particular effect" - the incidence of heart attacks spikes; that one can be debated whether they would have happened later anyway (probably not all of them, but there is some number).
But the incidence of fatal car wrecks right after the time change is unmistakable. This policy literally kills people, a modern "stab them in the fucking heart at the alter of central planning" ritual, and people _still_ ignore that and wonder if there might not be extra time to mow the lawn.
Submitter must be some uneducated PC technician fuckwit to live in that ghetto...
You may be unaware of how big Camden County is. Points for harshing on Camden (city) but full penalty and three-game suspension for reading comprehension failure and then calling the submitter names about his intelligence because of your fail.
I thought that, but no - they want everything *but* the kernel, and maybe steal away a few features from the kernel (*cough* VC's *cough*) and glibc at some point.
Because if you run a systemd system, you can swap out linux for bsd or mach or qnx and not really notice, if the hardware is well-supported.
Not voting isn't the same as expressing dissatisfaction with all of the candidates
Partial credit.
it is the same as voting for the candidate who wins.
No, it's the same as stating "I have no confidence in this system". Imagine if only 10% of the population voted - who could rightly claim legitimacy? By voting, you legitimize the system, one that...
In a real voting system, one of the options would be "none of these candidates should be allowed to hold office"
is rigged for there to be no means of expressing complete dissatisfaction.
@kreuzotter wrote: We should have an amendment that every ballot must contain the choice "none of the above". I would go voting every time.
So, now are you going to get the Dems or the GOP to support that Amendment? Trick question! - you need both to get the requisite majority in Congress and at the States to pass an Amendment. So, hahahhaa - yeah... now you understand.
Corrupt government? Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
News for LG - some people, nay - lots of people - put their so-beautiful-we-can-hardly-stand-it LG phones in cases.
I run a GS4 for a daily driver, and it has as thin, but not micro-thin bezel. If I'm selecting some text that goes to the edge of the screen, I still have to pull back the silicone "layer 1" the wraps just around the edge.
This is not a good feature.
Maybe the new LG is shatter proof and waterproof, though, in which case I withdraw my criticism. I would never be so cynical as to suggest that making cases impossible to use would improve profits through increased unit accidental destruction.
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The only real hope is a constitutional amendment limiting the interstate commerce clause.
We're going on 80 years of oppression under /Wickard/ - it's not good strategy to hold out hope for something where you'd need to get a supermajority of Congress to vastly limit their own power and roll-back nearly a century of power and bureaucracy.
Nay, the only thing (within the State mechanism assumption) that is having success in limiting Federal power is nullification through initiative measures and that's even only on one very narrow power. Everything else is going wildly in the other direction, over any long-enough timescale.
It appears that the only real chance of sanity now lies outside the State mechanism - /Wickard/ may well have been the point of no return. Every system on earth ever run by power-lusty men has had a point of no return from which it's never recovered.
Be careful of 'hope' - you can die waiting for it to show up.
Apparently the law was intended to be used against fishermen and not CEOs of banks.
Well now, see, by going after a fisherman once in a while, they can ward off the people calling for an end to Sarbox since it's never enforced, but gives license to Wall Street to run amok. Given a conviction, they can keep it on the books, not risk having it ruled "void for vagueness" and whenever the People complain about getting screwed, they can point to Sarbox and say "we have a law for that" while still never prosecuting Wall Street (gotta keep that sweet campaign money rolling in).
The trouble is the people who are getting screwed are complaining to the people who are ultimately screwing them, if they'd care to look even a millimeter past first-order effects.
If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be.
if we were to find natives in the US...
Team Blue:
But are they paying "their" taxes? They were born within the geographic confines of a nation state, so they implicitly agreed to a the Social Contract.
Team Red:
Do they not benefit from the clean air and logging bans the government provides? Why should they not have to pay for those benefits? We can't have any free riders taking advantage of the system. They should be working and have ID's.
like another comment said, sometimes a quiver of arrows is the most sensible policy.
The Aldera design is even in the same color scheme, except it doesn't suck as architecture (implemented McQuarrie designs tend to lose the That 70's Look of his paint). Here's the deal - windows make for free light for a whole bunch of exhibits (put the dark ones in the center), normal humans enjoy bright and sunny places, and they also enjoy non-creepy architecture as well.
The proposed design looks like the Taelon embassy tried to assimilate a circus tent, and - what is that, a golden halo on top of the Lucas building? Are we not supposed to take this as a literal edifice to ego?
Maybe people who weren't as mentally sharp had fewer employment options and ended up in jobs with shift work.
You might have noticed that if you weren't up all night.
Electricity, roads, mechanized farming, and every other technology that makes up our modern way of life.
That's a good argument for putting the spy chiefs in charge of those things too, then. Like it or not, roads have become the primary means of getting a terrorist to his target - the road people need to accept the new reality. One can never be too safe - try to keep up.
bad translation probably - they heard he WAS a huge asshole. One letter.
All I'm finding online about "t5 lighting" is a fluorescent bulb size and an ad from GE advertising a high-efficiency T5 that can get 54W "of light" from a 47W tube...
I don't get how this would add up. If I can buy a $9 Cree bulb now, and let's assume that the entire cost of the bulb is the europium and terbidium content, to set an upper limit, then Cree could offer me an $18 bulb with half the energy consumption and presumably without that heatsink if they wanted to?
But Cree is voluntarily holding back the availability of the high-efficiency bulbs out of respect for the shortage? Or they just can't get enough (even though they could ramp up from a small amount to millions and millions of bulbs in a few years?)
I feel like the Q&A must have missed something that was said. If I can save 50% of the power used over 20 years, I would be really surprised if that 20 years worth of power plant production wasn't worse for the environment than a mg or two of rare earth extraction in CA would have been to make the better bulb in the first place. Is this a case of environmental regs making things worse?
An app can hardly be less secure than the current system
Well, playing this out - before the thieves could steal my extra underwear and toothbrush. Now the Hotel can steal all my contacts, SD card contents, location information, etc.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure this will be "no special permissions" once it's a required app for checking in (or if not required you can avoid the $15 keying fee by using the app) ...
Guess it depends what you're securing. Any hotel door that doesn't have an unkeyed deadbolt (only lockable from the inside) is sketchy, but most don't. If your security isn't their top concern, then you have to ask what is. Usually cost vs. revenue, and there are all sorts of things they can do to improve their revenue by accessing your data. Did you Like Kit-Kat bars on Facebook? Guess what's in your mini-bar tomorrow. There need be no sinister agents at the Hotel - the maid simply gets a printout of what to stock each room with every day and the Front Desk clerk simply asks you to NFC the pad when you check in. If you're a Verizon or AT&T customer, the clerk knows when you're pulling in the hotel driveway and the minibar is already stocked before your arrival.
Do you send out drivers or haul them back to the surface and clean them? Both are wickedly expensive
They have to be tethered to something anyway (fixed power cable) - why not allow them to anchor/de-anchor so they can be pulled up to a cleaning ship? Why would that add a tremendous cost to each unit? No need for a winch on each unit - that can be on the ship. The one moving part would be some sort of attachment mechanism - the motor for that can even be on the umbilical from the ship. I'm assuming these things will be "smart" and can phone home with some sort of report about its need to be cleaned.
So how do you clean them? Do you send divers down several hundred feet to hand scrape a moving blade?
Isn't that what robots are for?
If that's too hard there are things that could be done with heat, current, toxins, anchors/winches, enclosing the moving parts inside a closed environment (propeller in the current sounds suboptimal) - when your machines don't have to move around the world, some limitations go away.
I'm no professional diver, but even just wreck diving in strong surges is quite a challenge - I can't imagine trying to get any work done. Human divers are probably a last resort.
Normally, the feather system wouldn't be unlocked until the rocket-powered spaceship is moving about Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times faster than the speed of sound.
Instead, the co-pilot moved the lever from locked to unlock when the spaceship was traveling at about Mach 1, Hart said.
Modern cars have a feature where you can't take the key out of the ignition if you forget to put the thing in park. This feature saves me from stupid about twice a year. Humans are error-prone - there's a whole field, poka yoke dedicated to preventing these sorts of errors.
Test pilots are the best of the best. If one of them can make a catastrophic mistake then so can any commercial pilot.
Now, they may have figured that that sort of safety gear was "for later" and test craft are often bare-bones, and test pilots are often relied on to not make those kinds of mistakes. Assuming the premise here, we might see more automation early in the design process going forward. Virgin might be able to survive a year-long investigation but that kind of delay is an ongoing liability. It may turn out to be faster and cheaper in the long run to add in those costs up front, if delays are calculated into the cost.
Hrm, no 60fps version on that one for me (Chromium, Fedora). I went to the YouTube blog and clicked on the link to some video about a gamer TV show and it let me do 48fps, so the plumbing must be at least partially there.
The titles (fast-moving graphics) looked great on that one BTW. I didn't really notice a difference in the real-world video. Guessing the source material is the key.
Freaking only getting ISDN speeds after 8pm.
Don't compete with Comcast's primetime video on demand sales, dude.
If it's only to video sites like YouTube you can use a VPN provider - what's $6/mo on top of an absurd Comcast bill already?
The European Union disagrees.
The EU couldn't get negative rights straight if one hit it over its head.
Statists who love entitlements love to call them "rights" because "rights" have popular support.
The EU has created an entitlement to be forgotten, not a right, no matter what they call it. It's easy to tell the two apart - a right requires simply leaving a person alone - an entitlement requires a third party to provide a good or service, customarily under some threat of retribution for not doing so.
That's exactly what the EU has done - it forces somebody at the media outlet to remove a bit of data, without compensation - call it servitude or conscription, depending on your perspective, to provide a benefit to the person making the complaint.
Compare that with the right to free speech, the right to practice religion, the right to be free from searches - they all require the person to be left alone, and no third party is pressed into service.
Malarkey like TFA is what happens when people start thinking that entitlements are right - in an area where no entitlement has even been created, people who've heard about the EU's folly start thinking they have a right to another's labor. That kind of thinking is not alien to the US, though it's gone out of favor in the last century and a half, at least in the direct sense.
A really nasty federal grand jury could put the screws on those who deserve to be punished.
Yeah, good luck finding a prosecutor who will go after the State for protecting its power by hiding its abuses from the press. That's a career-killer for any ladder-climbing prosecutor, and it appears all the other types have been driven from the vocation at this point.
Compare TFA with your run-of-the-mill Slashdot troll from the other day and try to identify the stark differences.
Or maybe Poe's Law is in effect and it's the same guy.
If businesses need winter hours, they can have those.
That's crazy! Next thing you know you'll claim my Home Depot will be closing an hour earlier during the winter. This could never work! We need DC politicians to schedule our business hours or there will be mass chaos!
As far as I can see now it just screws with people's sleep cycles and schedules to no particular effect.
Not "no particular effect" - the incidence of heart attacks spikes; that one can be debated whether they would have happened later anyway (probably not all of them, but there is some number).
But the incidence of fatal car wrecks right after the time change is unmistakable. This policy literally kills people, a modern "stab them in the fucking heart at the alter of central planning" ritual, and people _still_ ignore that and wonder if there might not be extra time to mow the lawn.
We're surrounded by sociopaths, by the millions.
But I wouldn't do business in the state. It's not worth the hassle.
Their legislators are working on banning businesses, at which point they can resurrect Chairman Mao and disband themselves, for a state of nirvana.
Submitter must be some uneducated PC technician fuckwit to live in that ghetto...
You may be unaware of how big Camden County is. Points for harshing on Camden (city) but full penalty and three-game suspension for reading comprehension failure and then calling the submitter names about his intelligence because of your fail.
It remains a big fat WONTFIX, NOTABUG.
Every distro should carry a tiny patch to fix that. My kids would say, "you can't just give a mouse an option, 'cause...".
they want systemd to become the kernel.
I thought that, but no - they want everything *but* the kernel, and maybe steal away a few features from the kernel (*cough* VC's *cough*) and glibc at some point.
Because if you run a systemd system, you can swap out linux for bsd or mach or qnx and not really notice, if the hardware is well-supported.
Not voting isn't the same as expressing dissatisfaction with all of the candidates
Partial credit.
it is the same as voting for the candidate who wins.
No, it's the same as stating "I have no confidence in this system". Imagine if only 10% of the population voted - who could rightly claim legitimacy? By voting, you legitimize the system, one that ...
In a real voting system, one of the options would be "none of these candidates should be allowed to hold office"
is rigged for there to be no means of expressing complete dissatisfaction.
@kreuzotter wrote:
We should have an amendment that every ballot must contain the choice "none of the above". I would go voting every time.
So, now are you going to get the Dems or the GOP to support that Amendment? Trick question! - you need both to get the requisite majority in Congress and at the States to pass an Amendment. So, hahahhaa - yeah ... now you understand.
Corrupt government? Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
News for LG - some people, nay - lots of people - put their so-beautiful-we-can-hardly-stand-it LG phones in cases.
I run a GS4 for a daily driver, and it has as thin, but not micro-thin bezel. If I'm selecting some text that goes to the edge of the screen, I still have to pull back the silicone "layer 1" the wraps just around the edge.
This is not a good feature.
Maybe the new LG is shatter proof and waterproof, though, in which case I withdraw my criticism. I would never be so cynical as to suggest that making cases impossible to use would improve profits through increased unit accidental destruction.