Don't be ridiculous. They were obviously referring to the cartridges from the now-defunct gaming platform, and the modules will be inflated with an invisible touch, yeah.
Right, I knew what you were saying, I was just being facetious. We'd need an alternate universe with some different "zero point," as well as an efficient means of transporting energy between the two.
Why so much wasted effort just to hide some pr0n from mommy & daddy | a roomate?
Stick it in ~/pr0n, or MAYBE ~/.pr0n, and quit being a sneaky hypocrite.
I know this will come as a surprise, but some of us are hiding this stuff from our kids. Embarrassed? Not really. I just don't think 10 is an appropriate age to watch porn.
You've missed the point entirely. Highways in EU are FEDERAL projects, so that's not an argument against Federalism. Moreover, 2nd best != last place. Plenty of places around the world have NO highways, which I think you'll agree is a less desirable condition.
Also, people in the EU pay out the ass for their roads in the form of fuel taxes -- something which I'd be happy to do, but the majority of people in the US apparently would not.
Well, I'm pretty liberal, but I try to keep things in perspective. Unfortunately, it's the all-or-nothing, baby-with-the-bathwater hellraisers who get all the attention.. just human nature I guess.
Yet is it proven time and again that quality comes from competition not legally-enforced monopoly.
True. I forgot we'd never have IE6 if not for competition with Netscape, or AOL without competition from Compuserv, GEnie, et al. Except that municipal internet is gaining popularity while people are being left behind by ISPs "competing" for urban subscribers. Competition is good, as long as it doesn't end. But "winning or losing" is the natural conclusion to competition, and once enough competitors are weeded out, you have a monopoly, so it's a bit of a Catch-22. But competition and monopoly each have their place.
It is ridiculous to think that the US government has made airlines SAFER. The airlines were "off the hook" BECAUSE of FAA mandates -- the big airlines openly WELCOME FAA mandates because they know it sets an unbearably high (and inefficient and useless) standard that most competitors won't be able to meet.
Yeah, yeah.. "Government is bad, +1 insightful!" I know it's popular to demonize government, and I'm going to continue to be ignored by mods unless I'm making a post about vanishing 4th Amendment Rights, but you're still making hasty generalizations. Citing a few problems does not mean that the whole thing is ineffective. Air traffic control in the US is the best in the world, and you might not care about high maintenance standards, but some of us do. It's a barrier to entry? Too f'ing bad.
If an airline is given 100% responsibilities for its future, why would they want an explosion or a crash?
Look at ValueJet, putting O2 canisters in the cargo hold without inspecting them. Okay, it was actually the company that certified them safe for transport, but nonetheless, ValueJet had serious maintenance problems to begin with -- enough that it muddied the actual investigation and provided tons of false leads. Of course companies don't want their planes to crash, but people are falliable.. they are tempted to take shortcuts by lowering costs and raising profit margins. They don't EXPECT the planes to crash, they just figure they can get by with slightly lower standards. Is it a good long-term strategy? Of course not. Will they get weeded out when their planes start falling out of the sky? Sure. But isn't it worth the extra cost to make sure they never get to fly in the first place? I think it is. I'm happy that planes falling out of the sky are still statistical improbabilities and are rare enough that they're still newsworthy. But I digress.
The DMV isn't even Federal, so that's irrelevant to an argument about the efficacy of Federal government. My passport, on the other hand, arrived in three weeks instead of the promised six. My tax returns always arrived in under 2 weeks (back when I was foolish enough to have more deducted than I owed). I didn't see any major gaps in the road the last time I drove cross country. I'm glad people are getting Pell grants so they can go to college. I'm glad we have a space program. I'm glad there's someone regulating standards, so we know that the gallon of gas we're paying out the ass for is an actual gallon of gas.
We take much of what the government does for granted. As I mentioned previously, until you've lived somewhere with a completely inept government, it's difficult to look at things objectively. Look at Africa for a perfect example of society with weak/bad government, where food and medicine can't even reach people because there are no roads or airports. Look at Brazil where deforestation goes unchecked. Hell, look at the US under the Articles of Confederation, when the federal government barely had the power to convene sessions of congress.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that things should be handled at the lowest level possible AND I believe the Federal government is a bloated mess, but the Fed still has more to do than just maintain a military; in fact that should be one of its lowest priorities. Mistakes and problems != don't work. Government absolutely has problems, and lots of them, but that doesn't mean we should just throw our hands in the air in surrender and say that imprefections mean the whole thing is worthless.
It's easy to say they're all failures when you enjoy the benefits of them every day. Try living in a country with none of the above for a few years, and then extoll the virtues of minimal government.
Ah thin clients.. Terminals, we used to call 'em. They'd connect to mainframes. Eventually people got sick of sharing CPU time and having the system get loaded down during peak usage, so we all started using desktops. Now everyone wants to go back to the old days where one fsck up will screw up everything and "The system is shutting down NOW!!!" will once again cause a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of people cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
Yeah, but since it only costs $1US/yr to pay for 10 offshore workers, the dollar drain isn't nearly as significant. OTOH, people are still betting significant quantities of dollars, not playing.25/.50 Rupee Hold'Em.
Anyway, I think it's stupid to try to ban online gambling, especially using the proposed method. Prohibiting banks from paying casinos is stupid because a) it makes banks responsible for law enforcement, and b) most sites already have transfers routed through one of many third parties.
That's a pretty big leap of logic from X and Y don't work (in your opinion), ergo nothing works.
Infrastructure -- The highway system, telephone and power (mandatory service), spectrum management, the FAA Science -- NSF, NAS, NIST, NASA, PTO, USGS, NOAA Environment -- National Park Service, NEA Arts -- NEA, NEH Education -- Grants & loans, The other other NEA
So yeah, the federal government, like any other source of power, tries to increase its domain and is probably exceeding its ideal role these days, but that's not equivelant to every federal project being a failure.
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My mistake.
He said he planned to make changes as his analysis progressed, rather than waiting until the end of his review.
Good idea.. Having a "complete picture" is overrated anyway. George W. would be proud.
The problem is that if things aren't regularly encrypted, then the mere act of using encryption becomes suspicious.
Or 17 years from issue, whichever is longer. Thanks for playing.
Does anyone actually believe this guy is really dead? I sure don't, and neither do these people:
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I won't believe it....until I see a body. Just a little too convenient.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190353&cid=15
If you really wish to know, then you only have one way to know; DNA.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190353&cid=15
Prove he's dead.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190353&cid=15
Details on who signed the death certificate are fuzzy, but there are no plans for an autopsy. He's scheduled for cremation tomorrow morning.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190353&cid=15
I ask you: Is it normal for men in their sixties to just drop dead?
(I mean no disrespect to my Kotok with my parody. RIP)
Exactly. Slander, vandalism, and misinformation aren't bugs, they're features!
It is highly recommended, however, for taping ducks.
Low altitude planes are easily sighted around airports when they are about to land or take-off.
Having worked at an airport, I can say first hand that low altitude planes are very rarely about to take off.
Ask Slashdot: Wikipedia and the Collective Hive Mind?
I'm confused.. is that an offer?
Don't be ridiculous. They were obviously referring to the cartridges from the now-defunct gaming platform, and the modules will be inflated with an invisible touch, yeah.
Easy cowboy.. work on getting into the Sea Level Club first.
Wrong on both points: They can license it or freely allow it's implementation, and the term is 17 years.
Right, I knew what you were saying, I was just being facetious. We'd need an alternate universe with some different "zero point," as well as an efficient means of transporting energy between the two.
Why so much wasted effort just to hide some pr0n from mommy & daddy | a roomate?
Stick it in ~/pr0n, or MAYBE ~/.pr0n, and quit being a sneaky hypocrite.
I know this will come as a surprise, but some of us are hiding this stuff from our kids. Embarrassed? Not really. I just don't think 10 is an appropriate age to watch porn.
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You've missed the point entirely. Highways in EU are FEDERAL projects, so that's not an argument against Federalism. Moreover, 2nd best != last place. Plenty of places around the world have NO highways, which I think you'll agree is a less desirable condition.
Also, people in the EU pay out the ass for their roads in the form of fuel taxes -- something which I'd be happy to do, but the majority of people in the US apparently would not.
Well, I'm pretty liberal, but I try to keep things in perspective. Unfortunately, it's the all-or-nothing, baby-with-the-bathwater hellraisers who get all the attention.. just human nature I guess.
Yet is it proven time and again that quality comes from competition not legally-enforced monopoly.
True. I forgot we'd never have IE6 if not for competition with Netscape, or AOL without competition from Compuserv, GEnie, et al. Except that municipal internet is gaining popularity while people are being left behind by ISPs "competing" for urban subscribers. Competition is good, as long as it doesn't end. But "winning or losing" is the natural conclusion to competition, and once enough competitors are weeded out, you have a monopoly, so it's a bit of a Catch-22. But competition and monopoly each have their place.
It is ridiculous to think that the US government has made airlines SAFER. The airlines were "off the hook" BECAUSE of FAA mandates -- the big airlines openly WELCOME FAA mandates because they know it sets an unbearably high (and inefficient and useless) standard that most competitors won't be able to meet.
Yeah, yeah.. "Government is bad, +1 insightful!" I know it's popular to demonize government, and I'm going to continue to be ignored by mods unless I'm making a post about vanishing 4th Amendment Rights, but you're still making hasty generalizations. Citing a few problems does not mean that the whole thing is ineffective. Air traffic control in the US is the best in the world, and you might not care about high maintenance standards, but some of us do. It's a barrier to entry? Too f'ing bad.
If an airline is given 100% responsibilities for its future, why would they want an explosion or a crash?
Look at ValueJet, putting O2 canisters in the cargo hold without inspecting them. Okay, it was actually the company that certified them safe for transport, but nonetheless, ValueJet had serious maintenance problems to begin with -- enough that it muddied the actual investigation and provided tons of false leads. Of course companies don't want their planes to crash, but people are falliable.. they are tempted to take shortcuts by lowering costs and raising profit margins. They don't EXPECT the planes to crash, they just figure they can get by with slightly lower standards. Is it a good long-term strategy? Of course not. Will they get weeded out when their planes start falling out of the sky? Sure. But isn't it worth the extra cost to make sure they never get to fly in the first place? I think it is. I'm happy that planes falling out of the sky are still statistical improbabilities and are rare enough that they're still newsworthy. But I digress.
The DMV isn't even Federal, so that's irrelevant to an argument about the efficacy of Federal government. My passport, on the other hand, arrived in three weeks instead of the promised six. My tax returns always arrived in under 2 weeks (back when I was foolish enough to have more deducted than I owed). I didn't see any major gaps in the road the last time I drove cross country. I'm glad people are getting Pell grants so they can go to college. I'm glad we have a space program. I'm glad there's someone regulating standards, so we know that the gallon of gas we're paying out the ass for is an actual gallon of gas.
We take much of what the government does for granted. As I mentioned previously, until you've lived somewhere with a completely inept government, it's difficult to look at things objectively. Look at Africa for a perfect example of society with weak/bad government, where food and medicine can't even reach people because there are no roads or airports. Look at Brazil where deforestation goes unchecked. Hell, look at the US under the Articles of Confederation, when the federal government barely had the power to convene sessions of congress.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that things should be handled at the lowest level possible AND I believe the Federal government is a bloated mess, but the Fed still has more to do than just maintain a military; in fact that should be one of its lowest priorities. Mistakes and problems != don't work. Government absolutely has problems, and lots of them, but that doesn't mean we should just throw our hands in the air in surrender and say that imprefections mean the whole thing is worthless.
When they came for the usernames,
I remained silent;
I was not a username.
When they locked up the passwords,
I remained silent;
I was not a password.
When they came for people with sexual orientation,
I did not speak out;
Because I have no idea what that means.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
It's easy to say they're all failures when you enjoy the benefits of them every day. Try living in a country with none of the above for a few years, and then extoll the virtues of minimal government.
Ah thin clients.. Terminals, we used to call 'em. They'd connect to mainframes. Eventually people got sick of sharing CPU time and having the system get loaded down during peak usage, so we all started using desktops. Now everyone wants to go back to the old days where one fsck up will screw up everything and "The system is shutting down NOW!!!" will once again cause a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of people cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
Yeah, but since it only costs $1US/yr to pay for 10 offshore workers, the dollar drain isn't nearly as significant. OTOH, people are still betting significant quantities of dollars, not playing .25/.50 Rupee Hold'Em.
Anyway, I think it's stupid to try to ban online gambling, especially using the proposed method. Prohibiting banks from paying casinos is stupid because a) it makes banks responsible for law enforcement, and b) most sites already have transfers routed through one of many third parties.
We now have a higher percentage of our population in jail that the USSR at the height of the gulags.
That just means our Justice System (TM) is more effective at getting dangerous criminals off the streets. Duh!
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I believe that was his point.
That's a pretty big leap of logic from X and Y don't work (in your opinion), ergo nothing works.
Infrastructure -- The highway system, telephone and power (mandatory service), spectrum management, the FAA
Science -- NSF, NAS, NIST, NASA, PTO, USGS, NOAA
Environment -- National Park Service, NEA
Arts -- NEA, NEH
Education -- Grants & loans, The other other NEA
So yeah, the federal government, like any other source of power, tries to increase its domain and is probably exceeding its ideal role these days, but that's not equivelant to every federal project being a failure.