The texting is problematic, but the ban makes it much worse.
The stupid people who will text and drive used to do it with their phone on top of their steering wheel. Now that it's a primary offense in some jurisdictions they are still doing it, but down in their lap, so the cops can't see it. At least before their focus was off but the road was still in their field of view. Now they just roll over the center yellows and never even see the head-on collision. We have one windy state highway about 15 miles from here that is seeing a fatal head-on about every other month now.
I'm becoming convinced that no legislation can fix this other than legalizing autopilots on cars. Most people who are driving would rather not be driving.
Icinga is the community-oriented fork of nagios. My experience was: write a c patch for nagios core to fix an annoying behavior (re: alerting correctness), put it up on the nagios list, get no response, a week later get a mail from the icinga dev team saying that the patch is really great and would it be OK if they used it in icinga (not required by license, they were just being polite).
After maintaining my own private branch of nagios for a while, now I get icinga from rpmforge with the patch already integrated. It's pretty much the bog standard open source stereotype.
some of you people are crazy. spend lots of money to bypass some feature that costs less than the workaround
Lots of people will do things that are against their immediate economic interests to bring social pressures to bear on those who are behaving badly towards the community. It's called spite.
Same here. I recall reading an article about the discovery of DHT and its effect on male pattern baldness and how it would be easy to address with that information. "Phew," I said, "I've got 25 years for them to work that out!".
Today I buy spray-on sunscreen... gee, thanks Omni!
Yeah, it's a good compromise. I've run a few Momentus drives in my laptops and they've about doubled performance with no additional work from me.
On my current laptop, I have an mSATA SSD that I've got carved up for ZFS log and cache on my/home but for / I've actually been chatting on the ext4 list this week regarding a patch that will allow me to use an ext4 external journal on the root drive. That performs better than flashcache/dm-cache for many workloads.
But all of that stuff is alpha-geek or earlier today, so having an easy stock solution is a good idea.
True, but cost is also a factor for most. If you're doing a 3-day trip from NY to LA, or say Madrid to Moscow (about the same distance) then you're probably going to want to rent at least the kind of chair that can fold flat for sleeping, if not a bedroom. At least on Amtrak, those options are more expensive than flying (the bedroom much more expensive). If you can put up with sitting for 3 days, it can be cheaper, but that's not more comfortable.
Once you start to have multiple travelers (say a family of 4), Amtrak becomes much more expensive than just driving and renting motel rooms. The economies of scale should not be that way.
The point some people are making is that there is no reason not to have 'it' come back as a woman.
Well, from what I read elsewhere, the large majority of fans want a male Doctor, so that's a very good reason - to give the buying audience what it wants. They're at the point where sonic screwdrivers are available at many of the mass merchandise locations and I saw a few around Cub Scout camp this summer. This isn't 1977 anymore - they have a cash cow to protect.
However, folks like me, who have stopped watching because it's the same general story, different window dressing, all the time, might tune in again if the writers had a new angle to explore. Really, though, they could serious screw that up, because the Doctor doesn't use his gender very much and if it's just a vehicle to explore the patriarchy, then it's not really Who, and if it's done in concert, they'd really have to keep that angle fresh, which would be tricky and I don't see their writers taking any Stracynzkiesque dives into characters. They could stand to watch Princess Leia, Delen, or Sam Carter a thousand times to figure out what to do right with a woman Doctor, but perhaps they were right not to take it on without a very firm plan of how not to do it wrong. Doing a Kochanski would be the worst.
I agree that the US has the worst of both worlds, but violence and murder is not the solution to better health. Markets and charity are much better deliverers of value.
I'm not even *allowed* to buy real health insurance and most everybody I know has the attitude "cost? Who cares, insurance pays for it." When we were shopping around for baby delivery options, one of the hospitals told us nobody had every asked before what the typical charges were for an uncomplicated delivery.
Since my State passed a law that made insurance unaffordable for my family, I've gotten pretty good about shopping. A recent ultrasound we needed was at a private no-insurance business that charged $277. The local hospital that "everybody goes to" was $900 for the ultrasound plus $400 for the radiologist to read it. Another local hospital blood lab wants $350 for a Vitamin D test, when I bought an entire panel of about 50 tests from a private lab for the same money.
GOVERNING.
Agreed, nobody is governing the markets here except special interests, lawyers, and insurance companies. But a bunch of know-it-all eggheads cannot have access to as much information as hundreds of millions of consumers all working independently and cooperatively. And the mandates? I live in a state that does not mandate car insurance and we pay 1/3 of what all the neighboring states' residents do and we actually have a lower percentage of uninsured drivers than states where insurance is mandatory and thus unaffordable. Competition can only lower prices when it exists. But, before long I'm sure we'll hear about forcing employers to provide auto insurance, pet insurance, and whatever else people might think is a "good idea".
Actually, the artists are allowed to have monopolies. It's in the constitution.
The GP only said that they weren't entitled to them. They do get them, that much is clear.
How many homes would carpenters build if any old squatter could just rush in and live for free after the last nail is driven home?
You're right to invoke the property argument here because it's key. The home the carpenters built is real property. Nobody should be deprived of their real property, or the right to do with their real property what they wish.
However, that's just what copyright does. Let's say I have a stack of paper and a pen. Is it my paper and pen? Can I do what I want with it? No, not if copyright is around. I cannot arrange the ink on that paper in any of millions of combinations because somebody else(s) has the legal monopoly on those arrangements. Take the US. For every one beneficiary, there are 300,000,000 people who lose their property rights in one specific way. If they insist on doing so anyway, the government will use violence to stop them. That's elevating imaginary property rights over real property rights.
And I also want the world to have books and that's why I'm happy to give the artists control over their work. It's the ethical thing to do.
"Because I want it" is not an ethical justification for violence. Besides, there are millions of abandoned works that are lost for at least a century because of the copyright regime, so if you want people to have books, that's a losing strategy.
Well, then what is the solution? How would you pay the authors, musicians and photographers?
"How will the cotton get picked?" Even if we don't have a better solution now, in light of the lack of a clear market for such solutions, that's still no justification for doing what we know to be a wrong thing.
But Creator Endorsed looks like a good pass at a replacement system.
Perhaps Nixon was right when he claimed that, "When the president does it, it's not illegal"?
There was a leak today about the scary yet nonsensical plot that the puppet regime of Yemen supposedly foiled against Al Qaeda (due to NSA intercepts, no doubt). Think that'll get somebody imprisoned even though Obama has used Espionage Act prosecutions against leakers more than every other President combined?
However, I'm not sure copyright deserves to survive in today's technological world when it does as much to deter creation and innovation as it does to foster it.
Right, the unfairness that this guy is talking about is for the book authors, and his suggestion is less freedom for the web authors. Classic mistake.
Copyright itself is less than 500 years old - a response to the technology of the printing press (along with some misguided economic thinking in the 1600's - Adam Smith hadn't even published yet), and given our means of mass-communication today, we've moved past it. Technology changes, and the rules of the game need to change along with it.
For the US, it should have been obvious to the framers that taking away the property rights of (Everybody - 1) for the sake of some "rights" to imaginary property for one person was an error, but at least they had the idea that it should be only for real people and only for a short time, if it was at all. Madison massively underestimated the ways that people will twist a well-intentioned but flawed system for their own sociopathic benefit. That "limited times to an author" can be held to mean "for a corporation, a century after an author's death" should be evidence enough that the mechanism has failed.
He rightly says:
As a creative worker, I understood sharing with the photographers
But from that assumption he ought to conclude that creative workers will reward other creative workers because they're decent people, not because somebody has a gun to their head forcing them to do so. The 4% of people who will freeload are not worth imposing tyranny on the other 96% so that a corporation can profit from Transformers 3 in the year 2149.
Another gem:
In other words, the machine isnâ(TM)t just a dumb hunk of silicon: It's a living creator.
And I thought copyright was an out-there fantasy. The author is right to raise the issue of unfairness, but more unfairness isn't the solution.
That is what describes the world's rulers today. This reaction against Snowden and Manning confirm that.
The only mistake here is it sounds like this may have been different in the past. If there was ever any pretension that it was different, the Whiskey Rebellion should have put an end to that and the Alien and Sedition Acts confirmed it.
At this point the veneer has just worn so thin that most people can see through the façade. Perhaps propaganda is a lost art, or maybe the People just have better communications tools and won't have the wool pulled over their eyes any longer by a fascist media establishment.
BTW, you forgot 'hypocritical'. The USG is still sheltering Luis Posada Carriles (just one example). Meanwhile it wants Snowden back when every likelihood is he'll be tortured like Manning was (independently determined by Amnesty International, the UN, and the EU ministers).
I don't have any need for 3D, but I'll gladly GLADLY buy a 500ppi head-mounted display that I can use instead of a laptop screen, say 3x5". 700ppi would be even better.
I looked at using a small Android tablet for this purpose, but the display interface options are currently too laggy.
The medical outcomes are marginally better but cultural factors result in a wash or worse.
The US lags the rest of the world in just about every health outcome:
Right, that's why it's important to distinguish between health outcomes and medical outcomes. The US health outcomes are only as 'good' as they are because the medical outcomes are somewhat superior. If the US medical outcomes were average, the health outcomes would be even worse.
But I'm sure any government interference would make the situation worse.
If you can't see the extant government interference in the healthcare market then you've never worked in healthcare and aren't paying attention. Look into CMS reimbursement rates and the HMO Act of 1973 for starters. After that, look at how the "justice" system has all the doctors scared out of their wits, often paying malpractice insurance premiums greater than their salaries. Follow up with the AMA's monopoly on medical school accreditation.
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You seem to not accept that US culture is based on Puritanism. Killing good, loving basically wrong. Neck up, good, neck down, bad.
why? texting takes more attention.
The texting is problematic, but the ban makes it much worse.
The stupid people who will text and drive used to do it with their phone on top of their steering wheel. Now that it's a primary offense in some jurisdictions they are still doing it, but down in their lap, so the cops can't see it. At least before their focus was off but the road was still in their field of view. Now they just roll over the center yellows and never even see the head-on collision. We have one windy state highway about 15 miles from here that is seeing a fatal head-on about every other month now.
I'm becoming convinced that no legislation can fix this other than legalizing autopilots on cars. Most people who are driving would rather not be driving.
You really should stop using saying that you utterly fail to understand the meaning of, it just makes you look ignorant.
What ever are you talking about?
Icinga is the community-oriented fork of nagios. My experience was: write a c patch for nagios core to fix an annoying behavior (re: alerting correctness), put it up on the nagios list, get no response, a week later get a mail from the icinga dev team saying that the patch is really great and would it be OK if they used it in icinga (not required by license, they were just being polite).
After maintaining my own private branch of nagios for a while, now I get icinga from rpmforge with the patch already integrated. It's pretty much the bog standard open source stereotype.
some of you people are crazy. spend lots of money to bypass some feature that costs less than the workaround
Lots of people will do things that are against their immediate economic interests to bring social pressures to bear on those who are behaving badly towards the community. It's called spite.
Those could be repurposed into some very interesting industrial controllers.
Neat.
Same here. I recall reading an article about the discovery of DHT and its effect on male pattern baldness and how it would be easy to address with that information. "Phew," I said, "I've got 25 years for them to work that out!".
Today I buy spray-on sunscreen... gee, thanks Omni!
Yeah, it's a good compromise. I've run a few Momentus drives in my laptops and they've about doubled performance with no additional work from me.
On my current laptop, I have an mSATA SSD that I've got carved up for ZFS log and cache on my /home but for / I've actually been chatting on the ext4 list this week regarding a patch that will allow me to use an ext4 external journal on the root drive. That performs better than flashcache/dm-cache for many workloads.
But all of that stuff is alpha-geek or earlier today, so having an easy stock solution is a good idea.
I am fine with slower if it is more comfortable.
True, but cost is also a factor for most. If you're doing a 3-day trip from NY to LA, or say Madrid to Moscow (about the same distance) then you're probably going to want to rent at least the kind of chair that can fold flat for sleeping, if not a bedroom. At least on Amtrak, those options are more expensive than flying (the bedroom much more expensive). If you can put up with sitting for 3 days, it can be cheaper, but that's not more comfortable.
Once you start to have multiple travelers (say a family of 4), Amtrak becomes much more expensive than just driving and renting motel rooms. The economies of scale should not be that way.
The point some people are making is that there is no reason not to have 'it' come back as a woman.
Well, from what I read elsewhere, the large majority of fans want a male Doctor, so that's a very good reason - to give the buying audience what it wants. They're at the point where sonic screwdrivers are available at many of the mass merchandise locations and I saw a few around Cub Scout camp this summer. This isn't 1977 anymore - they have a cash cow to protect.
However, folks like me, who have stopped watching because it's the same general story, different window dressing, all the time, might tune in again if the writers had a new angle to explore. Really, though, they could serious screw that up, because the Doctor doesn't use his gender very much and if it's just a vehicle to explore the patriarchy, then it's not really Who, and if it's done in concert, they'd really have to keep that angle fresh, which would be tricky and I don't see their writers taking any Stracynzkiesque dives into characters. They could stand to watch Princess Leia, Delen, or Sam Carter a thousand times to figure out what to do right with a woman Doctor, but perhaps they were right not to take it on without a very firm plan of how not to do it wrong. Doing a Kochanski would be the worst.
Elon, you're all growed up now - it's time to get yourself a few protégés.
I agree that the US has the worst of both worlds, but violence and murder is not the solution to better health. Markets and charity are much better deliverers of value.
I'm not even *allowed* to buy real health insurance and most everybody I know has the attitude "cost? Who cares, insurance pays for it." When we were shopping around for baby delivery options, one of the hospitals told us nobody had every asked before what the typical charges were for an uncomplicated delivery.
Since my State passed a law that made insurance unaffordable for my family, I've gotten pretty good about shopping. A recent ultrasound we needed was at a private no-insurance business that charged $277. The local hospital that "everybody goes to" was $900 for the ultrasound plus $400 for the radiologist to read it. Another local hospital blood lab wants $350 for a Vitamin D test, when I bought an entire panel of about 50 tests from a private lab for the same money.
GOVERNING.
Agreed, nobody is governing the markets here except special interests, lawyers, and insurance companies. But a bunch of know-it-all eggheads cannot have access to as much information as hundreds of millions of consumers all working independently and cooperatively. And the mandates? I live in a state that does not mandate car insurance and we pay 1/3 of what all the neighboring states' residents do and we actually have a lower percentage of uninsured drivers than states where insurance is mandatory and thus unaffordable. Competition can only lower prices when it exists. But, before long I'm sure we'll hear about forcing employers to provide auto insurance, pet insurance, and whatever else people might think is a "good idea".
Actually, the artists are allowed to have monopolies. It's in the constitution.
The GP only said that they weren't entitled to them. They do get them, that much is clear.
How many homes would carpenters build if any old squatter could just rush in and live for free after the last nail is driven home?
You're right to invoke the property argument here because it's key. The home the carpenters built is real property. Nobody should be deprived of their real property, or the right to do with their real property what they wish.
However, that's just what copyright does. Let's say I have a stack of paper and a pen. Is it my paper and pen? Can I do what I want with it? No, not if copyright is around. I cannot arrange the ink on that paper in any of millions of combinations because somebody else(s) has the legal monopoly on those arrangements. Take the US. For every one beneficiary, there are 300,000,000 people who lose their property rights in one specific way. If they insist on doing so anyway, the government will use violence to stop them. That's elevating imaginary property rights over real property rights.
And I also want the world to have books and that's why I'm happy to give the artists control over their work. It's the ethical thing to do.
"Because I want it" is not an ethical justification for violence. Besides, there are millions of abandoned works that are lost for at least a century because of the copyright regime, so if you want people to have books, that's a losing strategy.
Well, then what is the solution? How would you pay the authors, musicians and photographers?
"How will the cotton get picked?" Even if we don't have a better solution now, in light of the lack of a clear market for such solutions, that's still no justification for doing what we know to be a wrong thing.
But Creator Endorsed looks like a good pass at a replacement system.
Great quote, thanks. No wonder they shipped him over to France while the Constitution was being forced through.
Perhaps Nixon was right when he claimed that, "When the president does it, it's not illegal"?
There was a leak today about the scary yet nonsensical plot that the puppet regime of Yemen supposedly foiled against Al Qaeda (due to NSA intercepts, no doubt). Think that'll get somebody imprisoned even though Obama has used Espionage Act prosecutions against leakers more than every other President combined?
The hand grip is black plastic, thus it scares me (and could have been 3d printed, except it's cheaper to buy a nicer one).
So apparently the quote is: "over 9000? There's no way that can be right." linkage.
I'd be quite satistifed if I had the engineering skills to build that in my garage. Kudos to the guy for moving past 4chan.
Also: the Dell got what it deserved.
I still wouldn't want to get shot with it.
Yeah, if somebody fires Ben Johnson into you at full sprint, you're going to have a bad time.
However, I'm not sure copyright deserves to survive in today's technological world when it does as much to deter creation and innovation as it does to foster it.
Right, the unfairness that this guy is talking about is for the book authors, and his suggestion is less freedom for the web authors. Classic mistake.
Copyright itself is less than 500 years old - a response to the technology of the printing press (along with some misguided economic thinking in the 1600's - Adam Smith hadn't even published yet), and given our means of mass-communication today, we've moved past it. Technology changes, and the rules of the game need to change along with it.
For the US, it should have been obvious to the framers that taking away the property rights of (Everybody - 1) for the sake of some "rights" to imaginary property for one person was an error, but at least they had the idea that it should be only for real people and only for a short time, if it was at all. Madison massively underestimated the ways that people will twist a well-intentioned but flawed system for their own sociopathic benefit. That "limited times to an author" can be held to mean "for a corporation, a century after an author's death" should be evidence enough that the mechanism has failed.
He rightly says:
But from that assumption he ought to conclude that creative workers will reward other creative workers because they're decent people, not because somebody has a gun to their head forcing them to do so. The 4% of people who will freeload are not worth imposing tyranny on the other 96% so that a corporation can profit from Transformers 3 in the year 2149.
Another gem:
And I thought copyright was an out-there fantasy. The author is right to raise the issue of unfairness, but more unfairness isn't the solution.
Is Assange a journalist?
I'd say yes, but remember, he wasn't always in favor of leaks.
That is what describes the world's rulers today. This reaction against Snowden and Manning confirm that.
The only mistake here is it sounds like this may have been different in the past. If there was ever any pretension that it was different, the Whiskey Rebellion should have put an end to that and the Alien and Sedition Acts confirmed it.
At this point the veneer has just worn so thin that most people can see through the façade. Perhaps propaganda is a lost art, or maybe the People just have better communications tools and won't have the wool pulled over their eyes any longer by a fascist media establishment.
BTW, you forgot 'hypocritical'. The USG is still sheltering Luis Posada Carriles (just one example). Meanwhile it wants Snowden back when every likelihood is he'll be tortured like Manning was (independently determined by Amnesty International, the UN, and the EU ministers).
I don't have any need for 3D, but I'll gladly GLADLY buy a 500ppi head-mounted display that I can use instead of a laptop screen, say 3x5". 700ppi would be even better.
I looked at using a small Android tablet for this purpose, but the display interface options are currently too laggy.
The US lags the rest of the world in just about every health outcome:
Right, that's why it's important to distinguish between health outcomes and medical outcomes. The US health outcomes are only as 'good' as they are because the medical outcomes are somewhat superior. If the US medical outcomes were average, the health outcomes would be even worse.
But I'm sure any government interference would make the situation worse.
If you can't see the extant government interference in the healthcare market then you've never worked in healthcare and aren't paying attention. Look into CMS reimbursement rates and the HMO Act of 1973 for starters. After that, look at how the "justice" system has all the doctors scared out of their wits, often paying malpractice insurance premiums greater than their salaries. Follow up with the AMA's monopoly on medical school accreditation.
I find this deeply troubling
Of course you do, you're an infectious Earth-microbe.