Meat quality was horrible 100+ years ago, before the US government did inspections.
So you completely discount the effect of refrigeration on the quality of meat, eh? Do you think all meat was horrible a hundred years ago or only factory-produced cheap meat? Would you buy meat today that wasn't inspected, if the government was out of that business?
Since babies regularly die from massive haemorrhaging of the intestines from e.coli outbreaks, what should I do about my choice of meat inspectors?
That's the fault of the voters. They elect politicians who wage war.
Only governments with massive power can wage massive bloody wars. Power corrupts - let's not give them that power to abuse.
The people are getting what they want.
No I'm not.
If you don't want wars, then stop voting for them.
I did, it didn't make any difference.
We've had lots of anti-war politicians, even in the last election. They usually get laughed at.
I campaigned for one.
The government is elected by the people; it isn't composed of gods who know what's best for us.
How many of the people are really voting on an informed basis?
If the people want peace, they need to vote for it.
Or have a government that isn't capable of massive warfare and empire building.
Would you prefer dirt footpaths? Or would you prefer a toll booth at the end of your driveway? How exactly do you think roads are going to be built without government?
Just like they were before the government took them over in the late 1800's. Mostly turnpikes, yes you paid a toll at both ends. Today that would be cake with an EZPass-type system.
the people are so stupid they listen to all the advertising instead of doing their own research.
It had absolutely nothing to do with the limits of DOS, which is evidenced by the immediate jump in addressable memory when IBM moved up to a 24-bit addressing scheme.
Immediate if you upgraded to DOS 5 and loaded HIMEM.SYS to teach DOS about extended memory, you mean. Or QEMM a couple years earlier, or if you lived in that layer of hell earlier with EMS boards where you had to carve out a 640K chunk of conventional memory and constantly swap out pages across the ISA bus.
I remember having several sets of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to chose from on boot so I could get the correct memory model in place for the app I needed to run. I can't believe I was running linux just 3 years later.
The issue is that once you create one electron-positron pair from photons, you can get a cascade reaction where there are so many electrons/positrons floating around that you don't have a coherent laser field anymore.
It would be interesting to see whether a series of LASER cavities could be used as generators for these high-energy electron/positron clouds, and then do something further with them. Perhaps control them with a magnetic field and... well, somebody will probably figure out how to use that as a weapon.
3-4 choices is probably sufficient, and most people would only partake of one of each. Also - conduit. The only reason I don't have commercially available Internet at my house is because the local government granted a monopoly to a cable company to provide Internet access, but allows them to only serve the maximally-profitable areas.
The government is the problem here - don't patch bad government with more government, it never works.
I just downloaded the archive from WikiLeaks (googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow:/" in robots.txt) and greped for "Khalifa Abdullah"
Is it just my biased perception, or is there actually less variation among names in the Muslim world than is common in Western cultures? This would have a direct impact on the ability of the government to find a matching name. Perhaps for every Abudullah Muhammad there is a Zachary Turnblad around the corner but it's just not common on the news. Or perhaps the extremists tend to coalesce on certain patterns.
(googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow:/" in robots.txt)
Gosh, what are they thinking? The Google cache and The Wayback Machine are powerful resources for Wikileaks to leverage.
These are the dumbest idea ever. They take what may be a reasonably secure password, and give attackers an option to bypass that password with a series of questions that can be easy to find the answers to.
I put in 'wrong' information myself whenever I'm forced to, but then I have to store it, which is another attack surface.
2) I believe that there are patents around the randomising idea.
Yeah, there are. I came up with a variation on the idea I called wokkey which I used for the times when I was left with no option but to use a "cybercafe" terminal for logging into my accounts. I had a patch against SquirrelMail for a while, worked fine, but it's slow and onerous, so only useful for the paranoid, not the android users.
I colored the keypad over with a permanent marker in similar color to the keys.
Back to the smudge idea, those being greasy fingerprints, you can also put a bit or cornstarch in your palm and blow at the keypad. It'll only stick to the greasy keys.
You can wipe them down with alcohol the day before if you want.
Ah, the things you learn in the textfiles section of your local bbs.
With the dollar having lost more than 7X its value in the past 50 years, there's no reason now that dollar coins can't act like quarters and five dollar bills take the lowest-denomination paper spot, relative to how people used to behave. People leave pennies and sometimes nickels behind - that's an indication of value. Trouble is, a decimal system of money makes inflationary policy cumbersome.
The non-use of the coin dollar in favor of the paper dollar, might actually be a tribute to the value of the coin dollar according to Gresham's Law.
I've seen some hospitals that still have working tube systems.
New hospitals are still putting them in. There's just no better way to get a biopsy from the OR to the Pathology Lab while the patient is sliced open on the table.
when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
When installing a new machine I always take 10 seconds to create a 'demo' user account. I'll sometimes use it for actually doing a demo or presentation, but usually just to FUS to it when somebody wants to borrow the Firefox. XFCE or something similarly light makes it less painful to switch into it.
Corporations definitely seek to organise the political system according to their values - you just have to look at how much they spend on lobbying. The logical end result is a government by the corporate, for the corporate
Corporations are legal fictions that only exist by the power of the government monopoly on violence.
Maybe The People should understand why this isn't a good arrangement. Partnerships and Companies don't suffer the same problems that corporations do.
The trick is when The People are educated by The Government that is controlled by The Corporations.
It should be imperative that the antenna be absolutely as strong as possible, because it's a goddamned cell phone. The whole point of the thing is to make phone calls.
Oh, for Pete's sake, we've got people buying iPhones around here when the AT&T signal is terrible. A few carry a second phone on Verizon.
"A mobile phone that never made any calls - fascinating." (apologies to Grig)
Stop lying. You can get a Hymotion plug-in pack and a dealer to install the modification with no warranty loss.
Just looking into this for a friend - it appears that a123 anticipates that Toyota may void its warranty with their system installed and offers additional warranty coverage for denied claims in this case. Good for them, but it's bound to be an additional headache in practice, should such a claim be necessary.
Unless you can point to an indemnification from Toyota...
oops, that wasn't Preview..... and if you really care about seeks put SSD's in front of the hard drives, with ZFS or bcache type technology. You can cut your power consumption by 80% too. As they say, "ZFS loves cheap drives".
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Meat quality was horrible 100+ years ago, before the US government did inspections.
So you completely discount the effect of refrigeration on the quality of meat, eh? Do you think all meat was horrible a hundred years ago or only factory-produced cheap meat? Would you buy meat today that wasn't inspected, if the government was out of that business?
Since babies regularly die from massive haemorrhaging of the intestines from e.coli outbreaks, what should I do about my choice of meat inspectors?
That's the fault of the voters. They elect politicians who wage war.
Only governments with massive power can wage massive bloody wars. Power corrupts - let's not give them that power to abuse.
The people are getting what they want.
No I'm not.
If you don't want wars, then stop voting for them.
I did, it didn't make any difference.
We've had lots of anti-war politicians, even in the last election. They usually get laughed at.
I campaigned for one.
The government is elected by the people; it isn't composed of gods who know what's best for us.
How many of the people are really voting on an informed basis?
If the people want peace, they need to vote for it.
Or have a government that isn't capable of massive warfare and empire building.
Would you prefer dirt footpaths? Or would you prefer a toll booth at the end of your driveway? How exactly do you think roads are going to be built without government?
Just like they were before the government took them over in the late 1800's. Mostly turnpikes, yes you paid a toll at both ends. Today that would be cake with an EZPass-type system.
the people are so stupid they listen to all the advertising instead of doing their own research.
Where did they get their education anyway?
It had absolutely nothing to do with the limits of DOS, which is evidenced by the immediate jump in addressable memory when IBM moved up to a 24-bit addressing scheme.
Immediate if you upgraded to DOS 5 and loaded HIMEM.SYS to teach DOS about extended memory, you mean. Or QEMM a couple years earlier, or if you lived in that layer of hell earlier with EMS boards where you had to carve out a 640K chunk of conventional memory and constantly swap out pages across the ISA bus.
I remember having several sets of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to chose from on boot so I could get the correct memory model in place for the app I needed to run. I can't believe I was running linux just 3 years later.
This does leave a problem of how light sabers work without blowing up the user the second it cuts something made of matter.
Nobody has suggested the two technologies are based on the same principles, have they?
The issue is that once you create one electron-positron pair from photons, you can get a cascade reaction where there are so many electrons/positrons floating around that you don't have a coherent laser field anymore.
It would be interesting to see whether a series of LASER cavities could be used as generators for these high-energy electron/positron clouds, and then do something further with them. Perhaps control them with a magnetic field and... well, somebody will probably figure out how to use that as a weapon.
Hundreds of wires to a house? 30 sewer companies?
3-4 choices is probably sufficient, and most people would only partake of one of each. Also - conduit. The only reason I don't have commercially available Internet at my house is because the local government granted a monopoly to a cable company to provide Internet access, but allows them to only serve the maximally-profitable areas.
The government is the problem here - don't patch bad government with more government, it never works.
I just downloaded the archive from WikiLeaks (googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow: /" in robots.txt) and greped for "Khalifa Abdullah"
Is it just my biased perception, or is there actually less variation among names in the Muslim world than is common in Western cultures? This would have a direct impact on the ability of the government to find a matching name. Perhaps for every Abudullah Muhammad there is a Zachary Turnblad around the corner but it's just not common on the news. Or perhaps the extremists tend to coalesce on certain patterns.
(googling wardiary.wikileaks.org doesn't work because of "Disallow: /" in robots.txt)
Gosh, what are they thinking? The Google cache and The Wayback Machine are powerful resources for Wikileaks to leverage.
Alrighty, then, we'll get on that in a jiffy.
These are the dumbest idea ever. They take what may be a reasonably secure password, and give attackers an option to bypass that password with a series of questions that can be easy to find the answers to.
I put in 'wrong' information myself whenever I'm forced to, but then I have to store it, which is another attack surface.
2) I believe that there are patents around the randomising idea.
Yeah, there are. I came up with a variation on the idea I called wokkey which I used for the times when I was left with no option but to use a "cybercafe" terminal for logging into my accounts. I had a patch against SquirrelMail for a while, worked fine, but it's slow and onerous, so only useful for the paranoid, not the android users.
I colored the keypad over with a permanent marker in similar color to the keys.
Back to the smudge idea, those being greasy fingerprints, you can also put a bit or cornstarch in your palm and blow at the keypad. It'll only stick to the greasy keys.
You can wipe them down with alcohol the day before if you want.
Ah, the things you learn in the textfiles section of your local bbs.
With the dollar having lost more than 7X its value in the past 50 years, there's no reason now that dollar coins can't act like quarters and five dollar bills take the lowest-denomination paper spot, relative to how people used to behave. People leave pennies and sometimes nickels behind - that's an indication of value. Trouble is, a decimal system of money makes inflationary policy cumbersome.
The non-use of the coin dollar in favor of the paper dollar, might actually be a tribute to the value of the coin dollar according to Gresham's Law.
I don't even know what the audio subsystem is called because its never been an issue, Ive never had to tinker with it.
Not even when you want to play the sound output from a program on your netbook on your living room dvr's speakers?
He also knows a lot about tea, and decided he makes more money by selling the shitty kind.
Cheap/easy to use. Universal appeal.
Not infrequently Slashdotters have better sources than the news media, especially if the topic leans towards tech.
I've seen some hospitals that still have working tube systems.
New hospitals are still putting them in. There's just no better way to get a biopsy from the OR to the Pathology Lab while the patient is sliced open on the table.
when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
When installing a new machine I always take 10 seconds to create a 'demo' user account. I'll sometimes use it for actually doing a demo or presentation, but usually just to FUS to it when somebody wants to borrow the Firefox. XFCE or something similarly light makes it less painful to switch into it.
I'll buy BluRay discs just as soon as they can work in my player.
check it out. Cool stuff.
Corporations definitely seek to organise the political system according to their values - you just have to look at how much they spend on lobbying. The logical end result is a government by the corporate, for the corporate
Corporations are legal fictions that only exist by the power of the government monopoly on violence.
Maybe The People should understand why this isn't a good arrangement. Partnerships and Companies don't suffer the same problems that corporations do.
The trick is when The People are educated by The Government that is controlled by The Corporations.
It should be imperative that the antenna be absolutely as strong as possible, because it's a goddamned cell phone. The whole point of the thing is to make phone calls.
Oh, for Pete's sake, we've got people buying iPhones around here when the AT&T signal is terrible. A few carry a second phone on Verizon.
"A mobile phone that never made any calls - fascinating." (apologies to Grig)
makes McCain look like a liberal
McCain is a liberal* - what's your point?
* authoritarian socialist, not a classical liberal
Hey, congrats on the only cogent analysis on this thread.
Stop lying. You can get a Hymotion plug-in pack and a dealer to install the modification with no warranty loss.
Just looking into this for a friend - it appears that a123 anticipates that Toyota may void its warranty with their system installed and offers additional warranty coverage for denied claims in this case. Good for them, but it's bound to be an additional headache in practice, should such a claim be necessary.
Unless you can point to an indemnification from Toyota...
this looks pretty good.
oops, that wasn't Preview. .... and if you really care about seeks put SSD's in front of the hard drives, with ZFS or bcache type technology. You can cut your power consumption by 80% too. As they say, "ZFS loves cheap drives".