This is the polar opposite of libertarianism. Do you not have access to a dictionary?
You have to understand that authoritarians, when they get mad, just shout "libertarian!" like a panic sound. They're not smart enough or well-read enough to understand what that means (because if they were smart and well-read they wouldn't be authoritarians) but they have, as a group, figured out that libertarians are their mortal enemies.
It's like when the grass on the savanna moves, the successful human's first thought is "lion!" It's not usually a lion, but that reaction serves people well, because the cost of "just a breeze" is so high when that's an error.
So, when a neophyte political philosopher posts some nonsense suggesting we gut one of our most fundamental civil liberties, "libertarian!" can be seen as an expected response from all but the most deeply committed of authoritarians (who would just nod and perhaps murmur, "good idea").
So I guess it's down to, do you want an indestructible phone screen, or do you want one that feels good?
And if you're selling the replacement parts, 'breakable' isn't a bad option.
That aside, there are some 'self-healing' plastic coatings that I'd be interested in seeing on a cell phone. I pretty much don't care how it feels - I just want it to work well and be low-maintenance. Actually I'm pretty sure all my monochrome cell phones had screens with plastic coatings, and I never balked at how cheap they felt, I just used them to make phone calls.
I'd love to see $30 smart phones on the horizon - plastic-sandwiched OLED could help there. I realize Apple won't be in that business, but I can think of a few billion people in the world who could use one.
If the Saudis suddenly stopped selling oil to Europe, the US would be mostly okay, but it would trash our allies and seriously destabilize the world picture.
Awesome, let's let Europe deal with Europe, then. The Marshall Plan is so last century.
I have had wireless charging on my Palm Pre for years, its ok but not all that.
I've got it for our Touchpad that got converted to Android. The kids previously broke the charging port on a Nook Color. The microUSB connector is a nasty little lever due to its thinness and length.
I'll bet old people with arthritic joints (much less Parkinson's) don't appreciate MicroUSB charging either.
Now, then, can I get one big mat for all the family gizmos instead of a dozen individual charging mats?
Heck, I had a feature phone a decade ago with that as one of the six utilities.
But I'm gonna assume they integrated it with Hangout, or tacked 'with location' or 'in the cloud' or some other nonsense onto the existing known methods.
Used to be I'd read the patent to figure out what kind of sociopathic evasion they engaged in, but that's when I still believed the patent system had some redeeming value.
yeah, I usually do installs with both pfSense and OpenWRT, each doing what they do best. With VLAN capable switches, there are really many awesome topologies you can handle.
I have to say that AP mode wasn't that good on 1.2.3 but everybody says it works well on 2.x and everything else does work well, so it's probably the only all-in-one solution for the OP that can do an all-GUI config.
But not on citizenship. A Chinese national who acquired, say, Swedish citizenship could attend. A Swede who moved to China and became a Chinese citizen could not. Therefore, it's not discrimination on race or national origin.
Your examples are spot-on, but you're missing how the Civil Rights Act is interpreted.
One test that's applied is whether a government action disproportionately impacts a protected group, whether that's the intent or not. That's what gives things like VoterID law challenges some feet - if they can prove that VoterID disproportionately affects, say, people of color, then it would be held unconstitutional. Just like drug laws that convict black men at a rate 3-10x that of white men, so the War on Drugs has been deemed unconstitutional - oh, wait, no, they ignore that one.
4.) Send your old Nvidia card to Nvidia head office for RMA in protest by mail. (Write it off)
That may be a good moral stance, but it's not a fix. nVidia has already said they don't care about the linux multi-head users - sending them a small amount of e-waste isn't going to change that.
get a new law passed that would require hardware manufacturers to provide full specifications
This is analogous to patching bad code with more bad code instead of fixing the bug. The reason there is so little competition among video card manufacturers can be found in the patent system and corporate liability law.
The idea of buying a $40 32GB SSD and using it as a cache instead of a hybrid drive is silly - those cheap SSD's wear out very quickly with sustained writes.
I don't know if it's SLC, or what, on the drives, but you can push a lot of data to disk and not break the SSD on these things, which is fairly remarkable for NAND flash.
If we're comparing ARM devices, the Apple Newton Messagepad ran for at least 12 hours (of use) on a set of AA batteries. My Droid with an expanded lithium-polymer battery pack (double thick) can't do that (~27 hours of standby, but maybe 6-8 hours of constant use.).
But if you're comparing laptop form factors, the Apple Luggable was the top of its class of the time, and an i7-class machine today will get you about the same 6-8 hours, if you're lucky.
Yeah, both modern devices do more but the current draws aren't so much different, thanks to miniaturization.
I did do the search when I finally decided to part with my old stack of 8-bit magazines, and lo and behold, there was a guy digitizing most of them, and he had holes in his collection which I had in a box in the shed! I mailed the missing magazines to him (BTW, F.U. USPS, 30 year old magazines do not contain 'advertising') and he sent me back a set of CD's with/all/ of the issues on them. He was even willing to return the magazines, but I didn't need them. Win-win - I have a 5x5x2" backup archive of my collection which was previously measured in cubic yards.
c'mon, this guy works for the Chertoff group - Chertoff is most infamous for the pornoscanner scam which did squat for security but violated the rights of people in America by the millions. We'd expect his employees to be of the same ilk.
I'd complain, sure, but that's what they do. They would seize the servers, most likely. Denying the truth of how the FBI operates won't change anything.
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This is the polar opposite of libertarianism. Do you not have access to a dictionary?
You have to understand that authoritarians, when they get mad, just shout "libertarian!" like a panic sound. They're not smart enough or well-read enough to understand what that means (because if they were smart and well-read they wouldn't be authoritarians) but they have, as a group, figured out that libertarians are their mortal enemies.
It's like when the grass on the savanna moves, the successful human's first thought is "lion!" It's not usually a lion, but that reaction serves people well, because the cost of "just a breeze" is so high when that's an error.
So, when a neophyte political philosopher posts some nonsense suggesting we gut one of our most fundamental civil liberties, "libertarian!" can be seen as an expected response from all but the most deeply committed of authoritarians (who would just nod and perhaps murmur, "good idea").
So he took her in because he had a legal excuse for petty jealousy of her success?
Awesome. Don't talk to cops.
So I guess it's down to, do you want an indestructible phone screen, or do you want one that feels good?
And if you're selling the replacement parts, 'breakable' isn't a bad option.
That aside, there are some 'self-healing' plastic coatings that I'd be interested in seeing on a cell phone. I pretty much don't care how it feels - I just want it to work well and be low-maintenance. Actually I'm pretty sure all my monochrome cell phones had screens with plastic coatings, and I never balked at how cheap they felt, I just used them to make phone calls.
I'd love to see $30 smart phones on the horizon - plastic-sandwiched OLED could help there. I realize Apple won't be in that business, but I can think of a few billion people in the world who could use one.
no other metric shows a 25% inflationary factor for the dollar
The BLS methodology used from the 1970's to the 1990's does.
If the Saudis suddenly stopped selling oil to Europe, the US would be mostly okay, but it would trash our allies and seriously destabilize the world picture.
Awesome, let's let Europe deal with Europe, then. The Marshall Plan is so last century.
I don't know, how many of you are there?
"My precious, it make-es the beautiful sounds!"
Eh, on second thought, I was going for facetious there, but it came out a little too close to what I've seen...
Then the next GWB will have a reason to invade, thus the military contractors are happy.
Careful now, the next GWB is still in office. Or, should I say 'the next RBC'.
Stopping people make and/or deploying chemical weapons = good.
So they can't hurt innocent people?
Destroying chemical weapon stockpiles after a well publicised atrocity and somehow selling it as a victory = disingenuous.
So they can't hurt more innocent people?
I have had wireless charging on my Palm Pre for years, its ok but not all that.
I've got it for our Touchpad that got converted to Android. The kids previously broke the charging port on a Nook Color. The microUSB connector is a nasty little lever due to its thinness and length.
I'll bet old people with arthritic joints (much less Parkinson's) don't appreciate MicroUSB charging either.
Now, then, can I get one big mat for all the family gizmos instead of a dozen individual charging mats?
whether there was an app for that already...
Heck, I had a feature phone a decade ago with that as one of the six utilities.
But I'm gonna assume they integrated it with Hangout, or tacked 'with location' or 'in the cloud' or some other nonsense onto the existing known methods.
Used to be I'd read the patent to figure out what kind of sociopathic evasion they engaged in, but that's when I still believed the patent system had some redeeming value.
yeah, I usually do installs with both pfSense and OpenWRT, each doing what they do best. With VLAN capable switches, there are really many awesome topologies you can handle.
I have to say that AP mode wasn't that good on 1.2.3 but everybody says it works well on 2.x and everything else does work well, so it's probably the only all-in-one solution for the OP that can do an all-GUI config.
But not on citizenship. A Chinese national who acquired, say, Swedish citizenship could attend. A Swede who moved to China and became a Chinese citizen could not. Therefore, it's not discrimination on race or national origin.
Your examples are spot-on, but you're missing how the Civil Rights Act is interpreted.
One test that's applied is whether a government action disproportionately impacts a protected group, whether that's the intent or not. That's what gives things like VoterID law challenges some feet - if they can prove that VoterID disproportionately affects, say, people of color, then it would be held unconstitutional. Just like drug laws that convict black men at a rate 3-10x that of white men, so the War on Drugs has been deemed unconstitutional - oh, wait, no, they ignore that one.
You know what makes Facebook more usable? Not using Facebook.
Yes, I just burned Karma.
Well, that would be deserved.
"You know what makes a stove more usable? Not cooking!"
see?
If the affidavit is accurate, he's going to have a hard time dodging the charges. Spending all his money on defense might not be the best option.
4.) Send your old Nvidia card to Nvidia head office for RMA in protest by mail. (Write it off)
That may be a good moral stance, but it's not a fix. nVidia has already said they don't care about the linux multi-head users - sending them a small amount of e-waste isn't going to change that.
get a new law passed that would require hardware manufacturers to provide full specifications
This is analogous to patching bad code with more bad code instead of fixing the bug. The reason there is so little competition among video card manufacturers can be found in the patent system and corporate liability law.
Fix the real bugs.
to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one
There's no biological reason why this effect would last more than ten to fifteen minutes.
How the fuck is that ok? That's called murder where I come from.
It was just a peasant. She was having a mental episode where the rulers are - how terribly inconsiderate of her superiors.
The idea of buying a $40 32GB SSD and using it as a cache instead of a hybrid drive is silly - those cheap SSD's wear out very quickly with sustained writes.
I don't know if it's SLC, or what, on the drives, but you can push a lot of data to disk and not break the SSD on these things, which is fairly remarkable for NAND flash.
If we're comparing ARM devices, the Apple Newton Messagepad ran for at least 12 hours (of use) on a set of AA batteries. My Droid with an expanded lithium-polymer battery pack (double thick) can't do that (~27 hours of standby, but maybe 6-8 hours of constant use.).
But if you're comparing laptop form factors, the Apple Luggable was the top of its class of the time, and an i7-class machine today will get you about the same 6-8 hours, if you're lucky.
Yeah, both modern devices do more but the current draws aren't so much different, thanks to miniaturization.
Ah, progress.
I did do the search when I finally decided to part with my old stack of 8-bit magazines, and lo and behold, there was a guy digitizing most of them, and he had holes in his collection which I had in a box in the shed! I mailed the missing magazines to him (BTW, F.U. USPS, 30 year old magazines do not contain 'advertising') and he sent me back a set of CD's with /all/ of the issues on them. He was even willing to return the magazines, but I didn't need them. Win-win - I have a 5x5x2" backup archive of my collection which was previously measured in cubic yards.
c'mon, this guy works for the Chertoff group - Chertoff is most infamous for the pornoscanner scam which did squat for security but violated the rights of people in America by the millions. We'd expect his employees to be of the same ilk.
I'd complain, sure, but that's what they do. They would seize the servers, most likely. Denying the truth of how the FBI operates won't change anything.
I have no problem with them busting an attempted murder for hire, but I do have some concerns about law enforcement actually becoming drug dealers.
Oh, come on now, let's not play naive.