Us old schoolers remember when IBM was the Bad Guy and Microsoft was the hip new company we hoped would save us.
Hell, I had Microsoft Word on my Mac Plus, which was way better than MacWrite. Damn was I styling. Ok I had dual floppies and no external 20 meg HDD but still. Wtf is wrong with these DOS guys and Word Perfect?
The West no longer invades and expands, pushing the natives aside via immigration waves. Instead we just let the local thug murderously rule as long as he keeps the resources flowing.
I would like to point out this is a free speech topic. I am glad everyone is enjoying this right, rather than trying to get an orthodoxy mandated by government.
When we considered open source in the vehicle 15 years ago, the lawyers clobbered it as they company likes putting the supplier on the hook for recalls.
In any case, the company is responsible for defects in the open source. You cannot wave away the rights of anyone you plow into, regardless of the cleverness of any disclaimers.
The best thing to do when the consequences are multiple huntreds of thousands of dollars, or more, in fines and jail time is to NEVER try it and see unless you have a good idea on what would happen.
Any person should be able to ask if a particular action is legal w.r.t. a particular law, beforehand, and be given a straight answer.
If the government says, "I don't know", then the assumption should be that it is legal, and proceed on that. If government wants to change its mind, Ok, it can clarify, but cannot retroactively punish someone for a previous "I don't know".
That gives government more power than the Constitution authorizes.
It is nowadays a left wing theocracy, in the sense that politics and religion are the same thing, memewise -- large memeplexes whose purpose is to spread among cognitive units until they grow so large they can assume the mantle of forcing themselves on non-cooperative cognitive units.
As with traditional religions, Man should be free from the new ones.
"Democracy", in the context of "republic" and the writing of a constitution, means the direct votes of the people. This is spelled out as such where it applies in the Constitution. There is literally no reason for the word "democracy" to be used, especially given its modern context of unlimited Will of The People.
Much more important are words like "rights" and "freedom", both of which are part of the primary purpose of the Constitution, to make people free, which is to say free from government, which is to say free from the power hungry seeking to use government power for their own ends, including via democracy.
Other countries may believe a simple majority is the voice of god, but the US knows history and has blocks in against that, and thus the demagogues who are skilled in wielding it, too.
Some eastern sea ports are trying to deepen themselves by 5 feet or so to accomodate "Superpanamax" ships, the next size up that the Panama Canal expansion can handle.
The environmental impact lawsuits have caused this dredging to take longer than the original Panama Canal took to build.
Meanwhile China is building an even bigger canal nearby for even bigger ships. It looks like the center of empire has shifted again to the new economic powerhouse who is intent on keeping the trade routes open, while the old turns to the opposite, hampering trade and lording over its own people as it consumes the dying remnants of its own trade capability.
It is common for government to tax the hell out of things that compete effectively with their overpriced, boobdoggle, unionized government employee-loaded Peoples' Great Works.
So watch out for that. Detroit Metro airport built a giant parking structure and long-term parking lot that could not compete with private lots miles away that had to shuttle people in, so they slapped a 30% surcharge on those lots.
They also made it illegal for local hotels to let customers leave their cars in their hotel lots. Lots of outstate people would drive in and spend the night before flying out the next morning, and free parking was a service the hotels gladly provided. Now that is illegal.
The People's hatred and fear of government is well-earned.
I would show you how much I worry about The California People and the problems they pull upon themselves via the politicians they elect, except Slashdot does not allow popcorn eating emotes.
The graft and corruption is the purpose of such mega government projects. The bigger it is, the more skimming you can hide.
All the prime drivers need is some True Believers to offer meme rationale. Most other politicians, if they think of it at all, think "Cool! Lots of union construction jobs!"
The guards better not be stopping emergency vehicles.
At my campus, we were told to call the security because they knew what gate the ambulance would go through and how to direct them. It had nothing to do with taking over being a FR.
The other reason people might not like this: a) The Uncanny Valley b) It's basically a replay of a video recording, not the real people, why pay out of the nose for a glorified YouTube vide. c) It is always done the same, they are robots. There is no human interaction or improv. What makes comedians good is not a repetitive set of jokes you can see on Netflix, it is the improv with the attendees, with the set, with the people behind scene. I once went to a comedian who did an entire 10min improv bit with the translator for the hearing impaired, another one did a bit on his hotel and the town's name.
d) With "Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx To Tour As Holograms", this Rule 34 thing is really getting out of hand.
Again, if you want to behave like an apelike hunter and gatherer, you can go out and seize all the medicine that is currently invented.
If you want more, though, no, government funding of it is just a small fraction of the total invention. I don't want 1970-level medicine in 2015. Nor do I want 2015 level medicine in 2050 because some busybodies seized out all the profit making from it.
Please keep your literally mass murderous political theories to yourself and let the rest of us be free.
These things do not require innovation. Medicine does, and that costs money.
That's before governments ladle on well over a billion dollars of testing requirements on average for a new drug.
Government-supplied medicine is based off the idea of providing a static product, when in fact you actually want a changing, improving one, and rent control doesn't work with that.
Actually, China is and has been taking action on climate change, and if you've ever "seen" the air in a major Chinese city, you understand why.
It's a myth that anything the US does to offset climate change will be offset by some other countries, other countries have smart people who understand the problem, too.
This is action on pollution, not climate change, as every industrializing nation eventually does. (And does so only after integrating the benefits of industrialization, smoke and all, and not before, and properly so, as polluted cities are better for your longevity than dirt floor existence, the precursor.)
If you call it "climate change action", you get bonus brownie points.
The poor choices large subsets have made on behalf of everyone unfortunatly have included communism in the past, leading to just one brand of bread, available for just an 8 hour wait in a city block length line.
There is no check up on this, just as there isn't for all that NSA stuff. A check box, "did you get a warrant?" with no alarms going off if you didn't, and no tracking of what you looked at in any case, is a recipe for corruption to spy on politic enemies.
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Us old schoolers remember when IBM was the Bad Guy and Microsoft was the hip new company we hoped would save us.
Hell, I had Microsoft Word on my Mac Plus, which was way better than MacWrite. Damn was I styling. Ok I had dual floppies and no external 20 meg HDD but still. Wtf is wrong with these DOS guys and Word Perfect?
Get offa my lawn!
The West no longer invades and expands, pushing the natives aside via immigration waves. Instead we just let the local thug murderously rule as long as he keeps the resources flowing.
Is this a good development?
I would like to point out this is a free speech topic. I am glad everyone is enjoying this right, rather than trying to get an orthodoxy mandated by government.
It shows the company has money to burn giving janitors huge raises. People actually in demand want some of that.
When we considered open source in the vehicle 15 years ago, the lawyers clobbered it as they company likes putting the supplier on the hook for recalls.
In any case, the company is responsible for defects in the open source. You cannot wave away the rights of anyone you plow into, regardless of the cleverness of any disclaimers.
[They] claim that Buck Rogers entered the public domain...and they want to make a Buck Rogers movie called Armageddon 2419 A.D.
Well, hopefully the case is wrapped up by then.
The best thing to do when the consequences are multiple huntreds of thousands of dollars, or more, in fines and jail time is to NEVER try it and see unless you have a good idea on what would happen.
Any person should be able to ask if a particular action is legal w.r.t. a particular law, beforehand, and be given a straight answer.
If the government says, "I don't know", then the assumption should be that it is legal, and proceed on that. If government wants to change its mind, Ok, it can clarify, but cannot retroactively punish someone for a previous "I don't know".
That gives government more power than the Constitution authorizes.
It is nowadays a left wing theocracy, in the sense that politics and religion are the same thing, memewise -- large memeplexes whose purpose is to spread among cognitive units until they grow so large they can assume the mantle of forcing themselves on non-cooperative cognitive units.
As with traditional religions, Man should be free from the new ones.
"Democracy", in the context of "republic" and the writing of a constitution, means the direct votes of the people. This is spelled out as such where it applies in the Constitution. There is literally no reason for the word "democracy" to be used, especially given its modern context of unlimited Will of The People.
Much more important are words like "rights" and "freedom", both of which are part of the primary purpose of the Constitution, to make people free, which is to say free from government, which is to say free from the power hungry seeking to use government power for their own ends, including via democracy.
Other countries may believe a simple majority is the voice of god, but the US knows history and has blocks in against that, and thus the demagogues who are skilled in wielding it, too.
Sexual dysfunction drugs were discovered as a cool side effect of heart drug research.
He did rule it a minor violation. Handslapped, don't do it again.
Congress has similar rules about not making campaign calls from their government desk phones.
If they do this, let them. Then clear the oceans of Russian vessels and let that asshole explain to his people why it is happening.
Of course this is to publicly show we are tracking them so it won't happen. I am sure the US can strategically cut cables at will, too.
Some eastern sea ports are trying to deepen themselves by 5 feet or so to accomodate "Superpanamax" ships, the next size up that the Panama Canal expansion can handle.
The environmental impact lawsuits have caused this dredging to take longer than the original Panama Canal took to build.
Meanwhile China is building an even bigger canal nearby for even bigger ships. It looks like the center of empire has shifted again to the new economic powerhouse who is intent on keeping the trade routes open, while the old turns to the opposite, hampering trade and lording over its own people as it consumes the dying remnants of its own trade capability.
It is common for government to tax the hell out of things that compete effectively with their overpriced, boobdoggle, unionized government employee-loaded Peoples' Great Works.
So watch out for that. Detroit Metro airport built a giant parking structure and long-term parking lot that could not compete with private lots miles away that had to shuttle people in, so they slapped a 30% surcharge on those lots.
They also made it illegal for local hotels to let customers leave their cars in their hotel lots. Lots of outstate people would drive in and spend the night before flying out the next morning, and free parking was a service the hotels gladly provided. Now that is illegal.
The People's hatred and fear of government is well-earned.
I would show you how much I worry about The California People and the problems they pull upon themselves via the politicians they elect, except Slashdot does not allow popcorn eating emotes.
The graft and corruption is the purpose of such mega government projects. The bigger it is, the more skimming you can hide.
All the prime drivers need is some True Believers to offer meme rationale. Most other politicians, if they think of it at all, think "Cool! Lots of union construction jobs!"
But were police encounters getting worse or just being filmed more? The latter is far more likely the case.
So you are saying "good!" Good that net deaths are increasing rather than decreasing as a result of police adapting to filming?
Uhhhhhh, thanks, Mr. SJW?
The guards better not be stopping emergency vehicles.
At my campus, we were told to call the security because they knew what gate the ambulance would go through and how to direct them. It had nothing to do with taking over being a FR.
The other reason people might not like this:
a) The Uncanny Valley
b) It's basically a replay of a video recording, not the real people, why pay out of the nose for a glorified YouTube vide.
c) It is always done the same, they are robots. There is no human interaction or improv. What makes comedians good is not a repetitive set of jokes you can see on Netflix, it is the improv with the attendees, with the set, with the people behind scene. I once went to a comedian who did an entire 10min improv bit with the translator for the hearing impaired, another one did a bit on his hotel and the town's name.
d) With "Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx To Tour As Holograms", this Rule 34 thing is really getting out of hand.
Well that's a good question. Should atoms with enough added energy to fluoresce still be tunneling?
Again, if you want to behave like an apelike hunter and gatherer, you can go out and seize all the medicine that is currently invented.
If you want more, though, no, government funding of it is just a small fraction of the total invention. I don't want 1970-level medicine in 2015. Nor do I want 2015 level medicine in 2050 because some busybodies seized out all the profit making from it.
Please keep your literally mass murderous political theories to yourself and let the rest of us be free.
These things do not require innovation. Medicine does, and that costs money.
That's before governments ladle on well over a billion dollars of testing requirements on average for a new drug.
Government-supplied medicine is based off the idea of providing a static product, when in fact you actually want a changing, improving one, and rent control doesn't work with that.
Actually, China is and has been taking action on climate change, and if you've ever "seen" the air in a major Chinese city, you understand why.
It's a myth that anything the US does to offset climate change will be offset by some other countries, other countries have smart people who understand the problem, too.
This is action on pollution, not climate change, as every industrializing nation eventually does. (And does so only after integrating the benefits of industrialization, smoke and all, and not before, and properly so, as polluted cities are better for your longevity than dirt floor existence, the precursor.)
If you call it "climate change action", you get bonus brownie points.
The poor choices large subsets have made on behalf of everyone unfortunatly have included communism in the past, leading to just one brand of bread, available for just an 8 hour wait in a city block length line.
There is no check up on this, just as there isn't for all that NSA stuff. A check box, "did you get a warrant?" with no alarms going off if you didn't, and no tracking of what you looked at in any case, is a recipe for corruption to spy on politic enemies.