A 61-year-old Florida mailman was arrested Wednesday after he landed a gyrocopter on the U.S. Capitol west lawn. The gyrocopter was carrying the pilot and 535 stamped letters for members of Congress urging 'real reform' to campaign finance laws.
So in other words, they arrested a Federal Employee on Federal Property for doing his job.
Well, forcing it to trade-in it's Hummer for a tax credit to buy a new Tesla, Prius or Leaf would be a start -- also, banning sodas, severely taxing and restricting smoking and requiring fast food franchises to offer healthy alternatives can't hurt.
Though they may make claims that piracy is a great compliment and testament to the show's popularity, it's clear that they would like to curtail piracy by offering legal avenues of watching the show as evidenced by their recent launch of HBO Now and scheduling the release of new episodes to happen simultaneously world wide.
Personally, I was a hater of HBO for the last few years due to their open hostility to Netflix, their taking of sides AGAINST Net Neutrality and their tying of their streaming service to Comcast et al -- but I've come to forgive them a bit because of their work with Amazon in bringing their back catalog of originals for internet streaming free to Amazon Prime users and their launch of HBO Now, which I have signed up for.
So it pains me a bit to see HBO change tact and offer a compelling streaming service only to suffer a massive leak by a trusted party so soon after it's debut. While I'm sure HBO will take it in stride, I've long said that if these bad actors like HBO could offer legal channels to get their content without a wait, I would sign-up and not pirate. But, with this action and the amount of seeders and leachers, it seems the use case claimed by many -- that they only pirate due to not having a clear legal means to watch without having to wait several months for the DVD release -- is the exception and not the rule.
Due to my own empirical observations, I would have to disagree. In my late teens and early twenties when studying liberal arts, philosophy and making my living as an illustrator and animator, I rarely drank but would smoke weed pretty frequently and maintained a 3.6 to 4.0 GPA without even trying.
However, when I decided to teach myself to code a few years later, I found the weed really got in the way, so bought some beer and found I could drink a fair amount of beer and still grok the info I needed and retain it. As such, I stopped smoking weed and started drinking for my recreational pleasure.
The Universe is not an iGadget -- we don't need the new shiny to replace the old just to get new features. So get past your short sighted grasp of existence and learn to realize that by fully understanding something, we can set ourselves to better exploiting it instead of wasting energy looking for things that don't exist. And it's not like we are anywhere near having a complete understanding of the universe or it's composition. So anything we can lock down is a major step forward regardless of how "revolutionary" it may be on a superficial level.
I like John Oliver, but his attempts at humor early in the interview just came off as awkward at best. However, he did finally hit his stride when he started in with his survey results, which showed Americans have no clue and even less concern with educating themselves on todays issues much less wanting to do anything about it. Hopefully Snowden got the message -- that coming here to "Face Trial" as he has supposedly been mulling over would not serve any sort of public debate or discourse that could create change, but only be ratings fodder for Fox and CNN. Because yes -- American's don't care, Americans don't want to know, Americans just want to be given shiny things.
As long as it means more profits for almighty Job Creators and lower Gas Prices for me, then I'm all for it.
Go tell Gore and his lying "scientists" to go get some real education at Church.
Where is the progressive ideas of tolerance here? This is blacklisting in the worst way and I can tell you it is firing up fans who have never cared about the Hugo's in the past.
Well, better late than never for the realization that "progressive liberals" are every bit as hateful, willfully ignorant and bigoted as the "teabaggers" they consider their arch-nemesis.
You can thank American Mainstream "News" Media for bringing America into such a divisive political state where ideology trumps common sense and reason and debate are considered tools of the foolhardy "moderates".
Don't forget the "Taptic Engine" a haptic feedback mechanism that creates a "tapping" sensation on your wrist.
Personally, that bit is great -- I can be notified of a text or call during a meeting and check the pertinent info quietly and discreetly.
Have a FB account don't use it. Have Twitter don't use it. Maybe I'm just super boring -- but I have nothing I feel the need to broadcast or share online.
But seeing how we've invented words like "overshare" -- I suspect most people fail to realize that very little actually merits a twat or wallposting
Right after jettisoning the unprofitable divisions of NASA, USPS and the EPA, Carly's next big agenda will be merging Mexico with the US to strengthen it's cheap labor market to compete with China and solve the immigration problem for once and for all.
Hey -- don't ignore the DESIGN part of "Modular Design". A crime novel may follow a pattern seen elsewhere in other crime novels, but lifting while chapters out would constitute breach of copyright. Just because creating something according to a certain methodology is known, that doesn't make your methodology that you labored developing worthless and public domain.
I'm not sure Clarkson 'made the show' like he thinks he did
Considering Clarkson developed the present format of Top Gear AFTER they had cancelled it due to weak ratings, hen single-handedly pitched and sold the concept to the BBC, created the character of "The Stig" (originally to be called The Git -- since race car drivers are all gits) and brought in Hammond and May and is the central host, key figure and driving personality behind Top Gear... YES Clarkson did quite literally and figuratively 'make the show'.
Actually, as a Developer I completely trust Comcast Business. True broadband, excellent upstream rates, and great QoS and reliability.
Outages are infrequent and dealt with rapidly, their customer service is actually knowledgeable and the turnaround time to get an install is under 48 hours (I had a tech out installing at my new rental the day after I signed up for service and hadn't even had a chance to move in yet.
I know many other small businesses and startups that use Comcast business and who have the same positive experience.
Comcast Cable however are an evil cabal of raging assholes that love nothing more than abusing their customers.
But Comcast Business and Comcast Cable are two different divisions and run independently of each other.
Ahhh AC -- the product of the gadget generation that simply can not grasp the concept that new technology does not come out all nice and shiny like an iPhone -- but takes decades to become powerful and useful to the masses.
Perhaps AC had been around in the 70s or 80s and seen the evolution of the PC from a curiosity, to an expensive utility to a common place commodity he'd have a better appreciation for product evolution.
In a few years, given advances in materials and fabrication technique, I'm sure even AC will start to see the potential of 3D printing as something beyond a pipedream.
Probably an SF Bay Area transplant -- to them anyone not fervently clamoring for a Authoritarian Government to telling everyone what to eat, drink and how to generally live their lives is conservative. I hate the Bay Area and regret moving here -- leaving by this Summer I hope.
Well, considering that one of the areas I'm not entirely happy with is media transcoding times between various audio and video formats on some fairly sizable files, with this I think I'd see a profound effect on FFMPEG's performance.
to not recognize that more government control of the Internet is a good thing.
To all conservatives, more government regulation is uniformly bad.
To all liberals, more government regulation is uniformly good.
And so there we have the two sides, one pressing us to a feudal-style Private Police State run by Corporate Fascists, the other into a Authoritarian Police State Run by Big Government and Corporate Citizens. Either way we are already good and fucked regardless of who you vote for.
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With Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. We've seen what "close" gets us with rocketry, and it's not pretty.
A 61-year-old Florida mailman was arrested Wednesday after he landed a gyrocopter on the U.S. Capitol west lawn. The gyrocopter was carrying the pilot and 535 stamped letters for members of Congress urging 'real reform' to campaign finance laws.
So in other words, they arrested a Federal Employee on Federal Property for doing his job.
After that shitfest you can't pay me to read anything by Stephenson ever again.
Well, forcing it to trade-in it's Hummer for a tax credit to buy a new Tesla, Prius or Leaf would be a start -- also, banning sodas, severely taxing and restricting smoking and requiring fast food franchises to offer healthy alternatives can't hurt.
Personally, I was a hater of HBO for the last few years due to their open hostility to Netflix, their taking of sides AGAINST Net Neutrality and their tying of their streaming service to Comcast et al -- but I've come to forgive them a bit because of their work with Amazon in bringing their back catalog of originals for internet streaming free to Amazon Prime users and their launch of HBO Now, which I have signed up for.
So it pains me a bit to see HBO change tact and offer a compelling streaming service only to suffer a massive leak by a trusted party so soon after it's debut. While I'm sure HBO will take it in stride, I've long said that if these bad actors like HBO could offer legal channels to get their content without a wait, I would sign-up and not pirate. But, with this action and the amount of seeders and leachers, it seems the use case claimed by many -- that they only pirate due to not having a clear legal means to watch without having to wait several months for the DVD release -- is the exception and not the rule.
They most certainly had pagers and carphones were the ultimate status symbol in the early to mid-80s
However, when I decided to teach myself to code a few years later, I found the weed really got in the way, so bought some beer and found I could drink a fair amount of beer and still grok the info I needed and retain it. As such, I stopped smoking weed and started drinking for my recreational pleasure.
The Universe is not an iGadget -- we don't need the new shiny to replace the old just to get new features. So get past your short sighted grasp of existence and learn to realize that by fully understanding something, we can set ourselves to better exploiting it instead of wasting energy looking for things that don't exist. And it's not like we are anywhere near having a complete understanding of the universe or it's composition. So anything we can lock down is a major step forward regardless of how "revolutionary" it may be on a superficial level.
I like John Oliver, but his attempts at humor early in the interview just came off as awkward at best. However, he did finally hit his stride when he started in with his survey results, which showed Americans have no clue and even less concern with educating themselves on todays issues much less wanting to do anything about it. Hopefully Snowden got the message -- that coming here to "Face Trial" as he has supposedly been mulling over would not serve any sort of public debate or discourse that could create change, but only be ratings fodder for Fox and CNN. Because yes -- American's don't care, Americans don't want to know, Americans just want to be given shiny things.
Yes, considering human advancement can be measured by energy consumption it's EXACTLY what we need. And even better that it uses Aluminum instead of toxic Lithium. Now turn in your geek card and get the fuck out. You're not a techie, not a nerd, not a geek, you're just a progressive liberal troll who thinks living like a Hobbit is where it's at. So go take your troll act somewhere else.
As long as it means more profits for almighty Job Creators and lower Gas Prices for me, then I'm all for it. Go tell Gore and his lying "scientists" to go get some real education at Church.
Where is the progressive ideas of tolerance here? This is blacklisting in the worst way and I can tell you it is firing up fans who have never cared about the Hugo's in the past.
Well, better late than never for the realization that "progressive liberals" are every bit as hateful, willfully ignorant and bigoted as the "teabaggers" they consider their arch-nemesis. You can thank American Mainstream "News" Media for bringing America into such a divisive political state where ideology trumps common sense and reason and debate are considered tools of the foolhardy "moderates".
Don't forget the "Taptic Engine" a haptic feedback mechanism that creates a "tapping" sensation on your wrist. Personally, that bit is great -- I can be notified of a text or call during a meeting and check the pertinent info quietly and discreetly.
They'll do it for $300 per photo, but there's no guarantee they wont be reposted a day later.
> *scatters pencils across the floor*
> *laughs at damn_registrar's howls of anguish*
Have a FB account don't use it. Have Twitter don't use it. Maybe I'm just super boring -- but I have nothing I feel the need to broadcast or share online. But seeing how we've invented words like "overshare" -- I suspect most people fail to realize that very little actually merits a twat or wallposting
Right after jettisoning the unprofitable divisions of NASA, USPS and the EPA, Carly's next big agenda will be merging Mexico with the US to strengthen it's cheap labor market to compete with China and solve the immigration problem for once and for all.
Bro-fisted, chest-bumped and laughed our asses off! I mean, stop doing what we do best? That'll be the day.
Hey -- don't ignore the DESIGN part of "Modular Design". A crime novel may follow a pattern seen elsewhere in other crime novels, but lifting while chapters out would constitute breach of copyright. Just because creating something according to a certain methodology is known, that doesn't make your methodology that you labored developing worthless and public domain.
I'm not sure Clarkson 'made the show' like he thinks he did
Considering Clarkson developed the present format of Top Gear AFTER they had cancelled it due to weak ratings, hen single-handedly pitched and sold the concept to the BBC, created the character of "The Stig" (originally to be called The Git -- since race car drivers are all gits) and brought in Hammond and May and is the central host, key figure and driving personality behind Top Gear... YES Clarkson did quite literally and figuratively 'make the show'.
Actually, as a Developer I completely trust Comcast Business. True broadband, excellent upstream rates, and great QoS and reliability. Outages are infrequent and dealt with rapidly, their customer service is actually knowledgeable and the turnaround time to get an install is under 48 hours (I had a tech out installing at my new rental the day after I signed up for service and hadn't even had a chance to move in yet. I know many other small businesses and startups that use Comcast business and who have the same positive experience. Comcast Cable however are an evil cabal of raging assholes that love nothing more than abusing their customers. But Comcast Business and Comcast Cable are two different divisions and run independently of each other.
Ahhh AC -- the product of the gadget generation that simply can not grasp the concept that new technology does not come out all nice and shiny like an iPhone -- but takes decades to become powerful and useful to the masses. Perhaps AC had been around in the 70s or 80s and seen the evolution of the PC from a curiosity, to an expensive utility to a common place commodity he'd have a better appreciation for product evolution. In a few years, given advances in materials and fabrication technique, I'm sure even AC will start to see the potential of 3D printing as something beyond a pipedream.
Probably an SF Bay Area transplant -- to them anyone not fervently clamoring for a Authoritarian Government to telling everyone what to eat, drink and how to generally live their lives is conservative. I hate the Bay Area and regret moving here -- leaving by this Summer I hope.
Well, considering that one of the areas I'm not entirely happy with is media transcoding times between various audio and video formats on some fairly sizable files, with this I think I'd see a profound effect on FFMPEG's performance.
to not recognize that more government control of the Internet is a good thing.
To all conservatives, more government regulation is uniformly bad.
To all liberals, more government regulation is uniformly good.
And so there we have the two sides, one pressing us to a feudal-style Private Police State run by Corporate Fascists, the other into a Authoritarian Police State Run by Big Government and Corporate Citizens. Either way we are already good and fucked regardless of who you vote for.