The gun people want to keep their guns. Why are the anti gun people fighting them? They say it is to save lives.
Because it's not. Well, not the overall number of lives in general. They want less Jefferson, more Kim Jung Un, and feel that going in that direction will increase their *personal* safety, nevermind the statistics (this isn't about reason, it's about fear).
After all, somebody needs to control the stupid people (who aren't them, of course), and they're not about to let natural rights get in the way of having _their_ gang run things their way (with guns).
a 2D metaphor for our real 3D world, which lives in 4D spacetime
The 'rubber sheet' model might have helped me a bit, but I think it was more confusion than clarity. It was one day, maybe 5 years ago, when I saw/read/heard(who knows?) it explained that the motion of a planet is a straight line in 4D spacetime that it all suddenly made sense to me.
I'm not sure what is causing it... I just think its in everyone's interest if we take a few steps back and carefully consider what we are doing to ourselves.
Do theories that have predictive value carry weight? Because UBL expected this result and gave his reasons for how he could precipitate it.
I don't want to start an "is too"/"is not" argument here, but I do have one request of Slashdotters:
Think about what criteria you would use to judge if you're living in an authoritarian police state, if that distinction is important to you, and what you'd do about it if you decide it is. That might be last year, next year, or in a thousand years - you set the criteria. But do think about it - societies that fail to do so do not turn out well.
It really doesn't matter - even if we knew one was going to go off in three years, few people would change their lives. They'd wait until disaster struck and then try to steal from those who had done something (if not enough) to prepare.
Some isolated communities (largely Mormons) might get through it, if they can hide well enough to remain undetected.
There is no way I could get someone to spend 300$ instead of 20-50$ now days..
$300 is crazy, but I remember spending ~ $115 for a 54GL. That's also about what I spent on my first few WNDR3700's. Actually if you price that 54GL in food or energy, it's pretty close to $300 now. Obviously, Moore's Law, so that's not reasonable now, but the value is relevant.
While I love the guts of the WNDR3700's, having to solder and dremel in an antenna lead sucks, so for antenna-sensitive placements, Belkin might actually sell a few of these.
Yes if you find the right MiniITX board with a soldered on processor. but nothing that will have 4 or more ethernet ports. honestly you need 3 network interfaces just for a basic router.
You can - the MiniITX/Atom-based routers that I build and sell to my clients have 5 gigabit NIC's on them. But MiniITX is niche, and the parts are not cheap. If you just need a cheap multi-port router, put in a Mikrotik, and then run your pfSense 'on a stick' with as many VLAN's as you need, unless you need wirespeed gigabit processing.
You shouldn't - very large scale temperature changes have a direct impact on weather. Look at the Nin[a,o] oscillations, for instance (they impact us in North America, not sure where you're based).
Not that long ago (meaning.. 5 to 10 years) it was quite common in my area of northern new england to have a week or more of -30 at night -10 day
It's true - I bought my woodstove in 2001 to deal with the nights when we'd be running our oven just to keep the house above 55. Hasn't been necessary for that reason since (though heating with an on-property fuel source has bene quite nice). The ticks have been nasty, though.
Also, while those -30, -40 etc numbers sound terrible, if you dress properly its not that bad and further, they usually happen betwen 4am and 7am and quickly moderate.
It's not quite that easy. Ever go skiing at -10? You need a face mask properly configured with a breath warmer flap to be out in it for long. Even at that, you get tired out pretty quickly.
Look, every extreme weather event is caused by global warming. So are the moderate ones, so shut up and pay me a carbon tax while I repress the alternatives.
where the State Department warns the quality of medical facilities and services are 'generally well below U.S. standards'
to try to paint Bezos as some dolt who should have just listened to the government. As if nobody visits the Galapagos and humans never suffer from sudden, acute kidney stones.
Some people wanted to imprison those who helped runaway slaves escape to free territory. Same story, different century - this time it's about the privacy human rights of the planet.
I'm somewhat pleased to live in a town where the old houses all have secret compartments for hiding the slaves. The bitcoin address in my.sig pales in comparison.
And the publishers aren't going to give POD away for anything less than a paperback price.
Yeah, the publishers are the problem, protecting their obsolete business models via government monopolies. Without those, we'd already have a per-unit fee for content that reflects the true costs of distribution (and readership would be way up, "promoting the progress").
The potential is huge, but in the meantime I rarely pay more than $5 for a book (Amazon Marketplace), DRM free.
The Venn diagram for "U.S. Waived Laws" and "they are indeed following the law" isn't a popular meeting place.
But how is a summary titled, "F-35 Manufacturers File for Parts-Sourcing Waiver" going to get clicks? Why not be misleading and sensationalistic if you're going to generate views?
You can't say that honestly. Initial indications are of harm from glyphosate residues and retained b.t. toxin, at least in pregnant women in the latter case. The truth is we don't know the effects very well and we do know that irresponsible farmers aren't using roundup-ready processes diligently.
Unfortunately, reckless use has caused unrelated crops like golden rice to be rejected out of fear, which very definitely causes harm (not to mention boatloads of corn bound for starvation areas rejected in Zimbabwe and Zambia out of similar fear).
Super, thanks for the link. I'm still two years out from being able to keep them, but I'll save the data. Biting pigs? If they get too bad, I'll shoot them and eat them.;)
Oh. There's a problem with your market? Sounds like the job for The Invisible Hand! Invisible Hand will fix it!
Sorry, the Invisible Hand is unavailable for comment. It's been bound, gagged (handcuffed?), indefinitely detained and sent to Gitmo for questioning by the State.
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The gun people want to keep their guns. Why are the anti gun people fighting them? They say it is to save lives.
Because it's not. Well, not the overall number of lives in general. They want less Jefferson, more Kim Jung Un, and feel that going in that direction will increase their *personal* safety, nevermind the statistics (this isn't about reason, it's about fear).
After all, somebody needs to control the stupid people (who aren't them, of course), and they're not about to let natural rights get in the way of having _their_ gang run things their way (with guns).
"think of the children and didn't look at the rest. The list includes:
And now, Slashdot:
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Damn, I haven't had a use for that since 300 baud.
he wanted to destroy us.
No, he specifically wanted us to destroy ourselves, and sought to set in motion a chain of events that would cause this.
I don't see the point of looking at UBL's point of view on the matter
Why would you discount the enemy's analysis of our weaknesses?
a 2D metaphor for our real 3D world, which lives in 4D spacetime
The 'rubber sheet' model might have helped me a bit, but I think it was more confusion than clarity. It was one day, maybe 5 years ago, when I saw/read/heard(who knows?) it explained that the motion of a planet is a straight line in 4D spacetime that it all suddenly made sense to me.
I'm not sure what is causing it... I just think its in everyone's interest if we take a few steps back and carefully consider what we are doing to ourselves.
Do theories that have predictive value carry weight? Because UBL expected this result and gave his reasons for how he could precipitate it.
but that they are subject to the law as well.
I don't want to start an "is too"/"is not" argument here, but I do have one request of Slashdotters:
Think about what criteria you would use to judge if you're living in an authoritarian police state, if that distinction is important to you, and what you'd do about it if you decide it is. That might be last year, next year, or in a thousand years - you set the criteria. But do think about it - societies that fail to do so do not turn out well.
It really doesn't matter - even if we knew one was going to go off in three years, few people would change their lives. They'd wait until disaster struck and then try to steal from those who had done something (if not enough) to prepare.
Some isolated communities (largely Mormons) might get through it, if they can hide well enough to remain undetected.
There is no way I could get someone to spend 300$ instead of 20-50$ now days..
$300 is crazy, but I remember spending ~ $115 for a 54GL. That's also about what I spent on my first few WNDR3700's. Actually if you price that 54GL in food or energy, it's pretty close to $300 now. Obviously, Moore's Law, so that's not reasonable now, but the value is relevant.
While I love the guts of the WNDR3700's, having to solder and dremel in an antenna lead sucks, so for antenna-sensitive placements, Belkin might actually sell a few of these.
Yes if you find the right MiniITX board with a soldered on processor. but nothing that will have 4 or more ethernet ports. honestly you need 3 network interfaces just for a basic router.
You can - the MiniITX/Atom-based routers that I build and sell to my clients have 5 gigabit NIC's on them. But MiniITX is niche, and the parts are not cheap. If you just need a cheap multi-port router, put in a Mikrotik, and then run your pfSense 'on a stick' with as many VLAN's as you need, unless you need wirespeed gigabit processing.
You shouldn't - very large scale temperature changes have a direct impact on weather. Look at the Nin[a,o] oscillations, for instance (they impact us in North America, not sure where you're based).
Not that long ago (meaning.. 5 to 10 years) it was quite common in my area of northern new england to have a week or more of -30 at night -10 day
It's true - I bought my woodstove in 2001 to deal with the nights when we'd be running our oven just to keep the house above 55. Hasn't been necessary for that reason since (though heating with an on-property fuel source has bene quite nice). The ticks have been nasty, though.
Also, while those -30, -40 etc numbers sound terrible, if you dress properly its not that bad and further, they usually happen betwen 4am and 7am and quickly moderate.
It's not quite that easy. Ever go skiing at -10? You need a face mask properly configured with a breath warmer flap to be out in it for long. Even at that, you get tired out pretty quickly.
You can't have it both ways
Look, every extreme weather event is caused by global warming. So are the moderate ones, so shut up and pay me a carbon tax while I repress the alternatives.
And other animals where cancer rarely, if ever occurs.
I don't really see how this is 'news'
It's not, the submitter just wanted to say:
to try to paint Bezos as some dolt who should have just listened to the government. As if nobody visits the Galapagos and humans never suffer from sudden, acute kidney stones.
You have to break the law. There's a difference.
Some people wanted to imprison those who helped runaway slaves escape to free territory. Same story, different century - this time it's about the privacy human rights of the planet.
I'm somewhat pleased to live in a town where the old houses all have secret compartments for hiding the slaves. The bitcoin address in my .sig pales in comparison.
And the publishers aren't going to give POD away for anything less than a paperback price.
Yeah, the publishers are the problem, protecting their obsolete business models via government monopolies. Without those, we'd already have a per-unit fee for content that reflects the true costs of distribution (and readership would be way up, "promoting the progress").
The potential is huge, but in the meantime I rarely pay more than $5 for a book (Amazon Marketplace), DRM free.
And lose access to the paywalled resources to which your library subscribes for use within its facilities.
You want me to get in my car, drive across town, and walk into a particular building, to use a computer, to get to something on the Internet?
Riiiiight.</TheCos>
closed-source security
We learned in 2013 that this is an oxymoron.
But, man, I can't get ZoneMinder to run its purge jobs reliably enough to not fill the filesystem.
The Venn diagram for "U.S. Waived Laws" and "they are indeed following the law" isn't a popular meeting place.
But how is a summary titled, "F-35 Manufacturers File for Parts-Sourcing Waiver" going to get clicks? Why not be misleading and sensationalistic if you're going to generate views?
There is no health issues.
You can't say that honestly. Initial indications are of harm from glyphosate residues and retained b.t. toxin, at least in pregnant women in the latter case. The truth is we don't know the effects very well and we do know that irresponsible farmers aren't using roundup-ready processes diligently.
Unfortunately, reckless use has caused unrelated crops like golden rice to be rejected out of fear, which very definitely causes harm (not to mention boatloads of corn bound for starvation areas rejected in Zimbabwe and Zambia out of similar fear).
Time travelers from the future are historians....
A confounding factor is that good historians also sometimes appear to be prescient.
Super, thanks for the link. I'm still two years out from being able to keep them, but I'll save the data. Biting pigs? If they get too bad, I'll shoot them and eat them. ;)
I don't know about writings, but you might enjoy this video.
they won't poop on a magnetized carpet?
Oscillate the field and you've at least got an exercise device.
Oh. There's a problem with your market? Sounds like the job for The Invisible Hand! Invisible Hand will fix it!
Sorry, the Invisible Hand is unavailable for comment. It's been bound, gagged (handcuffed?), indefinitely detained and sent to Gitmo for questioning by the State.