That question was rather definitely settled back in 1865...M
Settled in a trial by combat, not properly adjudicated law (though the Supreme Court did rubber-stamp the war in 1867).
I'm hopeful that today people will be more sane. The weapons are bigger - do you think anybody will accept another Civil War, or perhaps a nuking of Manchester, NH?
The Federalist Papers are still quite clear on the matter as to the proper arrangement of the States and the Federal government. But if nobody acts like it matters, then does it really? We nullified the REAL-ID mandate a few years, and now we're rejecting sexual molestation at airports and regulations on intrastate trade of firearms. Medical Marijuana might just make it through this year if the Wizard grants the governor a heart.
The pertinent question is how long the Federal government can last. It's already pretty old by the standards of most governments other than Roman Empire and ancient Egypt, but the Romans didn't completely debase their currency until near the end (trying to hold on to their empire), and then it rapidly wound up in a state of fragmentation.
How does it help any to have small government on state level, if you still have a large federal government making shots above that?
I'd very much rather have small Feds, but a honest-to-God social democratic state government.
Once there's enough political support, we're going to enforce the US Constitution (our State's agreement with the general government). We're already criminalizing the most egregious Federal overreaches, have bills in place to protect intrastate commerce, and will continue to nullify bad laws, and, if ultimately necessary, secede. I doubt that happens before the Dollar collapses, though, so it's probably unnecessary.
For some reason I always hear people trying to scare me away from using these. Something about the driver support being unreliable, but I don't know why that should be. For mechanical drives there ought to be plenty of bandwidth to go around to enable a shared channel to work well enough.
On the other hand, USB always expects this kind of stars-with-stars topology.
Parent is an obvious apologist but I'll respond anyways.
The Space Shuttle didn't work? You have to be kidding!
nope
Someone who claims the space shuttle "didn't work" probably was saying in 2003, "I'm glad those 486's were retired. They weren't even multi-pipelined. Good thing we have these Pentium III / Athlon processors now to take us to new levels of productivity."
Nope, the Itanium (Merced) is the better analogy. It could do the things it was designed to do, eventually, but for most purposes is not cost effective even thought it looks better on paper. But the Shuttle didn't even look good on paper. You should go listen to the recent Science Friday archive with one of the original Shuttle designers. They *knew* that it was a BS design-by-committee craft and they spent lots of time before it got built trying to make up lies to justify it.
Do you think any system is going to hit all of its goals the first time around?
After 30 years of incremental progress it ought to have at least come close.
Furthermore, their design goal was not to be $50M per launch.
You're right, in today's dollars it would be more like $40M. In reality it's about $1500M. They missed by a factor of 40.
Their design goal was to send people and cargo to low-earth-orbit to increase our engineering and science knowledge in space and to return people and cargo safely
So far so good.
to a runway touchdown
What good has that done?
A hope that they would achieve spaceflight at $50M per launch was merely a political fantasy, which is irrelevant.
Wait, this was funded by the American people. Are you saying they were lied to but that's irrelevant?
From a long-term perspective, it doesn't matter if the shuttle cost 10x its initial estimate to operate.
It's 40x the per-launch cost, but in terms of opportunity costs, the number is much higher - there were only 1/10th the number of projected flights. We probably could have launched rockets once a week, but in the rocket/space station model that wouldn't have been necessary. Better, faster, and cheaper.
It gave us experience and knowledge from refining processes / technology / materials of the initial system. It has taught us what works, what is difficult to make work and what the practical tradeoffs are for a given spacecraft design. These are the benefits from simply being in the environment.
True, and an alternate spaceflight program would also have yielded these kinds of results.
To quote Han Solo, "flyin' through [hyper]space ain't like dustin' crops, boy!"
That's the authority to quote?
Tell me: How you are going to do an analysis of a failed ammonia pump on the space station without the shuttle?
How big is it? Will it fit on a Soyuz? If not, can you imagine human engineers could develop a larger version of the Soyuz?
You cannot open up a pump containing (or, even if vented, that previously contained) poisonous fluid on the space station.
Wait, why don't they have a sealed maintenance bay on the ISS? Maybe because the launch costs are so high? Maybe because it wouldn't fit in a shuttle? All of Skylab was lifted by one (1) rocket.
Thus, you need to bring it back to Earth. What is the only vehicle can do this? hmm?... crickets... Yes, the space shuttle.
Right, so in a world where only the Shuttle got built, only the Shuttle is available for materials returns. That's simply begging the question.
For those that want a car analogy, the ISS operating without the space shuttle would be like throwing out the entire contents of your car's engine bay in your car when something goes wrong, and ordering a new one for replacement (that may or may not develop the sa
Uh, sure it is. Micro-USB is smaller, just as sturdy (actually I've broken several usb ports, never a micro-usb port) and it's obvious which way the connector goes. I don't know why everyone hasn't switched to micro-usb for everything.
Really? I agree with you that USB takes 3 tires to plug in, but Micro-USB takes 6, at least on my phone. I get zero tactile feedback from it. Heck, a Centronics looks downright ergonomic in comparison. Mini-USB works pretty well for me.
I don't get why the world hasn't adopted easy to plug genderless cables yet.
We have allowed the shuttle to reach End Of Life without any suitable replacement.
Good. They didn't work. Their design goal was to launch weekly, with something like a $50M launch cost. They failed on all respects.
Some NASA political genius decided that since they failed they'd re-label the Shuttle as the ISS-ferry. Except that's a really slow an inefficient way to orbit a space station.
Maybe now SpaceX can do the lifts on real rockets and NASA can worry about how to build a moon base.
The FaceTime protocol is partly based on numerous open industry standards.
And yes, that includes H.264 and AAC. Whole industries are based on these standards, just get a cash pool going, get the damn required licenses and get with the program already.
As does Google's which is based on XMPP. But without the patent hassle.
I realize that the government would like to keep it in effect forever just because of the power it grants them, but shouldn't they at least have to come up with some kind of new excuse by now?
Has the Federal Government ever backed away from more power, at least since the Jackson administration? There's not much you can do at the Federal level except watch it crumble under its own weight, but come join us in New Hampshire where we're fixing government from the bottom up. These folks will help you get here: http://freestateproject.org/
Herman Cain (GOP presidential candidate): Master of Arts degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971.
The trouble with engineers who don't get Liberty is that they come up with very clever solutions. I used to be one of them. I loved the FairTax, for instance. What an excellent engineering solution to an economic problem - if you don't mind putting the entire country on welfare and Constitutionally getting the Feds involved in intrastate commerce.
Herman Cain is an example of this - he's a former head of a Federal Reserve Bank, the system which has caused so much of America's current problems, and he advocates for the system despite its obvious problems.
That said, many of my very best liberty friends here in New Hampshire are engineers. The Free State Project is teeming with them, and several of the most brilliant minds I work with in the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance are engineers. We're lucky to have several pro-Liberty engineers currently serving in our House of Representatives. They know how to attack problems, work a process, and create solutions.
The maid will claim he shut the door to imprison her, he will claim they shut the door after mutually agreeing to sex. So these records prove nothing
Fortunately the accused in our system don't have to prove anything, just convince the jury that there's reasonable doubt. If it boils down to a he-said/she-said situation, that shouldn't be too hard. If there's further evidence of sexual entrapment, even easier.
But, no matter, he'll have been replaced at the IMF even before a pre-trial hearing, so the goal will have been met and it doesn't matter what the judicial outcome is.
Just curious - did you work in hotels with $3K/night suites? I'd not expect them to have the same key systems as the La Quinta. Don't get me wrong, I prefer the La Quinta to the posh hotels (it's a bed for Pete's sake...) but my question is whether your experience is directly relevant.
For instance, most office buildings I've worked in with prox-card systems will sound an alarm if the door is left open for more than 30 seconds (or whatever they're programmed for) to prevent unauthorized entry.
I'm sure it's just coincidence that on his first non-diplomatic trip to the US after denouncing the US Dollar Strauss-Kahn is found to be a perv, thrown in Riker's Island, and Geithner demands his resignation.
This whole story is flamebait. Clinton didn't make the suggestion, the interviewer did, and asked him to speculate on it. He isn't actually advocating for a ministry of truth, nor is he even in government anymore.
Are you sure about that? I'm going to go check Snopes.
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You could sit in your dorm room playing XBox with your nerdy friends or you could actually go meet a girl and take her out.
Or study and make your $100,000 of student debt worthwhile.
It is? Then what have I been doing wrong for all these year?
Not modifying the firewall on the fly. Perhaps you've been restarting the firewall while your users were using the system. Different thing.
That question was rather definitely settled back in 1865...M
Settled in a trial by combat, not properly adjudicated law (though the Supreme Court did rubber-stamp the war in 1867).
I'm hopeful that today people will be more sane. The weapons are bigger - do you think anybody will accept another Civil War, or perhaps a nuking of Manchester, NH?
The Federalist Papers are still quite clear on the matter as to the proper arrangement of the States and the Federal government. But if nobody acts like it matters, then does it really? We nullified the REAL-ID mandate a few years, and now we're rejecting sexual molestation at airports and regulations on intrastate trade of firearms. Medical Marijuana might just make it through this year if the Wizard grants the governor a heart.
The pertinent question is how long the Federal government can last. It's already pretty old by the standards of most governments other than Roman Empire and ancient Egypt, but the Romans didn't completely debase their currency until near the end (trying to hold on to their empire), and then it rapidly wound up in a state of fragmentation.
How does it help any to have small government on state level, if you still have a large federal government making shots above that?
I'd very much rather have small Feds, but a honest-to-God social democratic state government.
Once there's enough political support, we're going to enforce the US Constitution (our State's agreement with the general government). We're already criminalizing the most egregious Federal overreaches, have bills in place to protect intrastate commerce, and will continue to nullify bad laws, and, if ultimately necessary, secede. I doubt that happens before the Dollar collapses, though, so it's probably unnecessary.
Did they deprecate drive multiplexors in SATA?
http://www.cooldrives.com/cosapomubrso.html
For some reason I always hear people trying to scare me away from using these. Something about the driver support being unreliable, but I don't know why that should be. For mechanical drives there ought to be plenty of bandwidth to go around to enable a shared channel to work well enough.
On the other hand, USB always expects this kind of stars-with-stars topology.
You know what, you're right. I had mini-usb mistaken for micro-usb.
It's easy to remember - Micro-USB is the one that's horrible so the EU mandated it on all phones. ;)
Parent is an obvious apologist but I'll respond anyways.
The Space Shuttle didn't work? You have to be kidding!
nope
Someone who claims the space shuttle "didn't work" probably was saying in 2003, "I'm glad those 486's were retired. They weren't even multi-pipelined. Good thing we have these Pentium III / Athlon processors now to take us to new levels of productivity."
Nope, the Itanium (Merced) is the better analogy. It could do the things it was designed to do, eventually, but for most purposes is not cost effective even thought it looks better on paper. But the Shuttle didn't even look good on paper. You should go listen to the recent Science Friday archive with one of the original Shuttle designers. They *knew* that it was a BS design-by-committee craft and they spent lots of time before it got built trying to make up lies to justify it.
Do you think any system is going to hit all of its goals the first time around?
After 30 years of incremental progress it ought to have at least come close.
Furthermore, their design goal was not to be $50M per launch.
You're right, in today's dollars it would be more like $40M. In reality it's about $1500M. They missed by a factor of 40.
Their design goal was to send people and cargo to low-earth-orbit to increase our engineering and science knowledge in space and to return people and cargo safely
So far so good.
to a runway touchdown
What good has that done?
A hope that they would achieve spaceflight at $50M per launch was merely a political fantasy, which is irrelevant.
Wait, this was funded by the American people. Are you saying they were lied to but that's irrelevant?
From a long-term perspective, it doesn't matter if the shuttle cost 10x its initial estimate to operate.
It's 40x the per-launch cost, but in terms of opportunity costs, the number is much higher - there were only 1/10th the number of projected flights. We probably could have launched rockets once a week, but in the rocket/space station model that wouldn't have been necessary. Better, faster, and cheaper.
It gave us experience and knowledge from refining processes / technology / materials of the initial system. It has taught us what works, what is difficult to make work and what the practical tradeoffs are for a given spacecraft design. These are the benefits from simply being in the environment.
True, and an alternate spaceflight program would also have yielded these kinds of results.
To quote Han Solo, "flyin' through [hyper]space ain't like dustin' crops, boy!"
That's the authority to quote?
Tell me: How you are going to do an analysis of a failed ammonia pump on the space station without the shuttle?
How big is it? Will it fit on a Soyuz? If not, can you imagine human engineers could develop a larger version of the Soyuz?
You cannot open up a pump containing (or, even if vented, that previously contained) poisonous fluid on the space station.
Wait, why don't they have a sealed maintenance bay on the ISS? Maybe because the launch costs are so high? Maybe because it wouldn't fit in a shuttle? All of Skylab was lifted by one (1) rocket.
Thus, you need to bring it back to Earth. What is the only vehicle can do this? hmm? ... crickets... Yes, the space shuttle.
Right, so in a world where only the Shuttle got built, only the Shuttle is available for materials returns. That's simply begging the question.
For those that want a car analogy, the ISS operating without the space shuttle would be like throwing out the entire contents of your car's engine bay in your car when something goes wrong, and ordering a new one for replacement (that may or may not develop the sa
USB 3 offers no advantages over eSATA
Did they deprecate hubs in the USB3 spec?
If I plug in an eSATA drive I not only have to reboot, my motherboard likes to SUBSTITUTE the new drive for one of my original SATAs.
I submit that is one hell of an advantage USB 3.0 has over eSATA.
You motherboard sucks. Sorry 'bout that.
Uh, sure it is. Micro-USB is smaller, just as sturdy (actually I've broken several usb ports, never a micro-usb port) and it's obvious which way the connector goes. I don't know why everyone hasn't switched to micro-usb for everything.
Really? I agree with you that USB takes 3 tires to plug in, but Micro-USB takes 6, at least on my phone. I get zero tactile feedback from it. Heck, a Centronics looks downright ergonomic in comparison. Mini-USB works pretty well for me.
I don't get why the world hasn't adopted easy to plug genderless cables yet.
We have allowed the shuttle to reach End Of Life without any suitable replacement.
Good. They didn't work. Their design goal was to launch weekly, with something like a $50M launch cost. They failed on all respects.
Some NASA political genius decided that since they failed they'd re-label the Shuttle as the ISS-ferry. Except that's a really slow an inefficient way to orbit a space station.
Maybe now SpaceX can do the lifts on real rockets and NASA can worry about how to build a moon base.
Never underestimate the power of hubris and self-importance.
You make some good points, but:
Unless you have the source code and have compiled it yourself, you don't know what that program did with your password.
this one isn't correct. The app doesn't get your password, the system gets your password and give the app permissions.
Unless it throws up a dialog that just happens to look like the system's dialog, of course.
The FaceTime protocol is partly based on numerous open industry standards.
And yes, that includes H.264 and AAC. Whole industries are based on these standards, just get a cash pool going, get the damn required licenses and get with the program already.
As does Google's which is based on XMPP. But without the patent hassle.
I realize that the government would like to keep it in effect forever just because of the power it grants them, but shouldn't they at least have to come up with some kind of new excuse by now?
Has the Federal Government ever backed away from more power, at least since the Jackson administration? There's not much you can do at the Federal level except watch it crumble under its own weight, but come join us in New Hampshire where we're fixing government from the bottom up. These folks will help you get here: http://freestateproject.org/
Herman Cain (GOP presidential candidate): Master of Arts degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971.
The trouble with engineers who don't get Liberty is that they come up with very clever solutions. I used to be one of them. I loved the FairTax, for instance. What an excellent engineering solution to an economic problem - if you don't mind putting the entire country on welfare and Constitutionally getting the Feds involved in intrastate commerce.
Herman Cain is an example of this - he's a former head of a Federal Reserve Bank, the system which has caused so much of America's current problems, and he advocates for the system despite its obvious problems.
That said, many of my very best liberty friends here in New Hampshire are engineers. The Free State Project is teeming with them, and several of the most brilliant minds I work with in the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance are engineers. We're lucky to have several pro-Liberty engineers currently serving in our House of Representatives. They know how to attack problems, work a process, and create solutions.
Interested engineers might want to start here.
The maid will claim he shut the door to imprison her, he will claim they shut the door after mutually agreeing to sex. So these records prove nothing
Fortunately the accused in our system don't have to prove anything, just convince the jury that there's reasonable doubt. If it boils down to a he-said/she-said situation, that shouldn't be too hard. If there's further evidence of sexual entrapment, even easier.
But, no matter, he'll have been replaced at the IMF even before a pre-trial hearing, so the goal will have been met and it doesn't matter what the judicial outcome is.
and all three that I know
Just curious - did you work in hotels with $3K/night suites? I'd not expect them to have the same key systems as the La Quinta. Don't get me wrong, I prefer the La Quinta to the posh hotels (it's a bed for Pete's sake...) but my question is whether your experience is directly relevant.
For instance, most office buildings I've worked in with prox-card systems will sound an alarm if the door is left open for more than 30 seconds (or whatever they're programmed for) to prevent unauthorized entry.
I'm sure it's just coincidence that on his first non-diplomatic trip to the US after denouncing the US Dollar Strauss-Kahn is found to be a perv, thrown in Riker's Island, and Geithner demands his resignation.
For every piece of old hardware I have, I can usually find a home for it.
How do you find the homes? Personal connections, clubs, Craigslist?
But we'll spend trillions of dollars and radically change our society to 'deal' with them.
Bullshit. Skype is a late-comer to echo cancellation, there are tons of implementations available
Can you recommend one that works well with a laptop's speakers and microphone? I haven't found any.
This whole story is flamebait. Clinton didn't make the suggestion, the interviewer did, and asked him to speculate on it. He isn't actually advocating for a ministry of truth, nor is he even in government anymore.
Are you sure about that? I'm going to go check Snopes.
Don't give me this "free" vs "Free" bullshit, please. Fair is subjective.
You'll think this comment is silly when you decide to read fairtax.org instead of guessing about what it means from the name.
Less human suffering
Do you believe people suffer when their liberty is denied?
People paying what they individually think is a "fair tax" is a recipe of disaster
That's not the meaning of the "Fair Tax". You can find info on it online.
And I don't believe in libertarianism (as a society better than what we have, anyway).
How do you define 'better'? As MK Gandhi said, "the means are everything."