" The people themselves don't change. Once someone is about in their mid-20s or 30s, their habits and preferences become ingrained and are highly unlikely to ever change for the rest of their lives."
Maybe its because I am getting older, or not old enough, but [citation needed] on that one. I regularly change my mind. I also regularly have insights. I hope people don't lose that with age, and I certianly know many 60y+ old people who have to adapt and do.
You realized we are talking about reading different numbers off of street signs right? I would feel bad if I ever got to a point where I was incapable of reading signs, and probably shouldn't be driving at that point. I guess the km/h text on the speedo isn't bigger on american cars? canadian cars all have both scales, with the km/h being the most prominent or a different colour, going back to at least 80s cars. Wouldn't most new cars have electronic speedometers which would probably change at the touch of a button? is this really that difficult for people that should in theory, have the ability to drive?
"Many of our rules are violations of that first most basic right, pretty much anything that someone else thinks that you should do or not-do for your own good:"
I would guess then that you are not in favour of public education for k-12, universal heathcare, or government run power & water companies. Just some of the things, of which to live without, would to me be a distopia already.
I think most libertarians will find that the things that society collectively taxes and pays for, roads, sewers, schools, bylaw enforcement, emergency preparedness, police, fire, ambulance, etc, will most likely add up to the amount they are paying in taxes anyways. So you most likely will not pay less in the end, or it will be marginal. Unless you want to privatize all those services, which in my experience (yours of course may differ), always leads to poorer quality service and costs going up for everyone. For profit necessitates that costs will always rise to meet an ever-growing need to profit.
Never forget that YOU are the government. You pay for it, you elect it, they hopefully follow what the majority of the electorate wants. So to argue against government, generally breaks down to "I dont want to pay for various things I do not use or agree with", which is just plain selfish.
This guy's near daily media appearances has certainly inspired many canadians including myself. I have watched many children sing along with his ISS song (not as good as david bowie, but its the thought that counts) and it really inspires. Hopefully helping lots of kids to think about becoming scientists, researchers and yes astronauts. Space can seem so dull sometimes, he really brings it to life.
I may not care for much patriotically these days, but hes really doing canada a service being so media savvy. I am not sure if american astronauts do so much singing, and perhaps its covered extensively by their local media and I just never hear about it. But he really could be one of a kind.
". If you want my content, watching ads is my price"
No you have it backwards. If you don't want to be part of the culture, lock up your content and don't show it to anyone. If someone can see it, they can tell someone about it, sharing in its most basic sense. *GASP* without paying you!
I say you make your works private and then you can have them all to your self! no one will get your precious content in any way you deem unfit! Perfect solution.
You can trade control for a bunch of flashy features. All his points are still valid though.
Cloud computing is about losing control of your data, and in alot of cases your rights.
Its renting vs owning, an age old computer debate. Lease against sales. There will always be feature benefits to either side. But his points about the unprescedented monitoring and lack of control is if anything, more problematic in this age than ever before. So the features better damn well outweigh the costs, and for a lot of people, a lot of situations, they don't.
I find the tracking my kms on fuelly has led to much more knowledge about how many L/100km I am actually getting, rather than relying on "ideal" conditions. When doing research before buying new cars, it is also nice to have a "real world" database. I used to track using just the trip counter but it turns out that was wildly inaccurate. http://www.fuelly.com/
" I'm no IT professional and don't know the logistics of it all but when I upgraded it was like day and night. I really don't understand the slow uptake to 7. Laziness?"
Core 2 duo computers are the oldest pc that can run windows 7 with any sort of acceptable slowness. Computers cost money. You do not have to be an IT professional to do the math here. We have plenty of pentium 4s in my environment still. No one wants to buy a brand new pc for some intern or browsing the web and basic word processing when XP runs perfectly well on those same p4s.
Cost cutting, and imperfect solutions.As well as other things that happen in The Real World to fallible human beings.
Why everyone on slashdot defends to death nuclear power is beyond my understanding. The waste lasts for tens to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years. You cannot possibly ensure anythings containment on that time scale.
We have a molten planet full of heat, a source a few tens of km away from every person. We have a fusion reactor wirelessly sending power to the planet. People need to figure out that nuclear is not the answer.
Iran doesnt have prison camps anywhere near the scale of north korea. Any sane person would say that at this point, north korea had it coming. Big time.
Americans hate iran, however iran is similar to america in many ways. North korea is off the scale horror show. Even I, as a non interventionist, can plainly see that any action performed by the USA would be viewed at defence at this point.
"The extended border region doesn't obviate the need for reasonable suspicion"
If its you and the cops word, I guarantee that the judge will trust the cop unless you have overwhelming evidence. And negative bonus points if the reason you are before this judge is that they found something in the officers illegal search.
Dhs is I think american federal government, the state of washington just legalized marijuana. Is just one of the many examples of what could go horribly wrong for a law abiding citizen when you give police extra powers unnecessarily.
To me it looks like it could revolutionize. I could never get into smart phones, but this sounds way more of what I would consider "virtual reality". What I pictured in the 80s and 90s of that anyways. Its not lawnmower man, you are there in the real world. Altered states of reality.
Dude, get your handbrake adjusted. its not hard but as the brakes wear, it needs to be tightened. All it does is force the brakes in the rear harder against the drum than they would be otherwise. It should most certainly prevent your car from rolling on an incline in neutral. That's the whole point of it.
Many handbrakes are self tightening (but not all). So the more you use them, the better they get. That is why some people recommend always using your handbrake, to tighten it up every time. Personally I never use it unless parked on a hill. And be careful not to over tighten or your breaks will drag.
Hopefully you dont know that the celebrity and the race are two very distinct things and the grand parent was not talking about that some alien race, but one who wants to be on the tabloid grocery market isle.
But the point is that the cardassians were supposed to be nazis. Bajor was obviously isreal, klingons germans, romulans russians, etc.
North korea on the other hand are the ones with the spaceship that "wont go" and needs geordi to fix them, only to have his good will taken advantage of by malevolent imbeciles.
Hes saying that windows is built with users in mind while linux is built with programmers in mind. However android is doing exceptionally well. So it kinda puts the spotlight on the UI of linux, and well obviously 100% compatibility is always going to be a factor. The two things that apple adds, come to think of it.
Is the fact that many of my servers run ontop esx server a nice middle ground to end the os wars?:P
The hard drive market is awful. I recently settled on a 1tb WD black drive. Because it has a 5 year warranty. For the same amount, i could get a 1 year warranty 2tb 5400 rpm drive.
The market is crap. The low end drives are just piles of smoking trash, and the "high end" aka NORMAL hard drives circa 2010 are like 80 or 90 cents per GB. (wd black 2tb = $170). They they added a mid range (RED), and an ultra low end space wise 7200 rpm (blue). which position themselves in price wise right and conveniently in between green and black! used to be every drive got the best technology and cache. Now we have gay ass segmentation
And seagate, dont get me started. They have no warranties longer than 3 years, with most drives have a 1 year warranty. Yeah thanks no. Firmware bug + 1 year warranty.. PASS
good thing most computers which are not servers of some sort can get by on a single $70 ssd. The quantum leap of performance which is the solid state drive allows me to defer most mechanical hdd purchases till an age of reason returns.
One of the last things the system recorded, was the wee little hands of the owner's 4 year old grandson, playing with the mouse. He made all 16 little boxes in the status grid turn black. Just 16 little clicks.
"are other IT shops as averse to open source as ours seems to be?"
Uh.. How can that be? I could not do my job without:
- Filezilla - pfsense - vnc - ffdshow, media player classic - chrome & firefox and plugins - various GPL sharepoint plugins - apache & mysql - windirstat - bind - putty - a bunch of things running on top of linux (so we can all have a big thanks linux for that!) - etc, etc, etc
In fact, I will go out of my way always to find a 100% free solution, because I know that support contracts, new versions and upgrades all cost money in the closed source world. Without fail.
So not only am I signing myself up for budget problems and obligations, I am also passing that down to future successors, which is just not good admin'ing.
Thats not to knock closed source software, there are always applications that simply do not exist in the open source world in any stable way. Again it also depends on how open minded your IT shop is too, and how well they make consensus decisions, do research, and not just go to lunch with vendors.
"When I see a distance of a multiple of 60 one can quickly determine how many hours it will take to get there when driving.:-)"
question: I am driving the speed limit of 100km/h . How many hours will it take me to drive 250km? Answer: 2.5 hours
How is 60 simpler than 100? People simply prefer what they are used to. miles is ridiculous to me because nothing is in miles where I live. How many miles is 100km? answer: who the fuck knows! 64.756??? it could be anything. I mean look at all that math you had to do in your posts to convert convoluted american measurements!
people prefer what they are used to. You can easily see this by looking at how people from the UK defend mph, and how people from canada defend using letter size paper.
You are completely right, and yet, if I were an american and knew all that, wouldn't I want to have a gun? Would you not go to Somalia or any other violent and dangerous place armed?
I sure don't want loose gun control laws in my country, but - no offence - americans are so fucked up, I couldn't imagine living there WITHOUT a gun!
And that's how you see and agree with both sides of this debate!
NK deserves to be taken out and should have been delt with many years ago. As someone else alluded, many of their citizens are born into concentration camp conditions.
They are kept here because of the 3 generations of shame rule. Their grandparents or whomever, committed political crimes. Why doesn't anyone do anything? China. China is why.
[you posit that its hyperbolic to say there is a risk of satellite collisions] "I mean, it's probably technically true The odds may be infinitesimal, but still higher than the odds of any other danger."
Because in it, they discuss at length, and 3d model, the 2009 collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision ) which most certainly did occur recently and definitely in our lifetimes.
Their thesis was that it will become more and more of a problem unless people start taking it seriously and not just writing it off as a one time fluke, as you are.
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Maybe its because I am getting older, or not old enough, but [citation needed] on that one. I regularly change my mind. I also regularly have insights. I hope people don't lose that with age, and I certianly know many 60y+ old people who have to adapt and do.
You realized we are talking about reading different numbers off of street signs right? I would feel bad if I ever got to a point where I was incapable of reading signs, and probably shouldn't be driving at that point. I guess the km/h text on the speedo isn't bigger on american cars? canadian cars all have both scales, with the km/h being the most prominent or a different colour, going back to at least 80s cars. Wouldn't most new cars have electronic speedometers which would probably change at the touch of a button? is this really that difficult for people that should in theory, have the ability to drive?
I would guess then that you are not in favour of public education for k-12, universal heathcare, or government run power & water companies. Just some of the things, of which to live without, would to me be a distopia already.
I think most libertarians will find that the things that society collectively taxes and pays for, roads, sewers, schools, bylaw enforcement, emergency preparedness, police, fire, ambulance, etc, will most likely add up to the amount they are paying in taxes anyways. So you most likely will not pay less in the end, or it will be marginal. Unless you want to privatize all those services, which in my experience (yours of course may differ), always leads to poorer quality service and costs going up for everyone. For profit necessitates that costs will always rise to meet an ever-growing need to profit.
Never forget that YOU are the government. You pay for it, you elect it, they hopefully follow what the majority of the electorate wants. So to argue against government, generally breaks down to "I dont want to pay for various things I do not use or agree with", which is just plain selfish.
This guy's near daily media appearances has certainly inspired many canadians including myself. I have watched many children sing along with his ISS song (not as good as david bowie, but its the thought that counts) and it really inspires. Hopefully helping lots of kids to think about becoming scientists, researchers and yes astronauts. Space can seem so dull sometimes, he really brings it to life.
I may not care for much patriotically these days, but hes really doing canada a service being so media savvy. I am not sure if american astronauts do so much singing, and perhaps its covered extensively by their local media and I just never hear about it. But he really could be one of a kind.
No you have it backwards. If you don't want to be part of the culture, lock up your content and don't show it to anyone. If someone can see it, they can tell someone about it, sharing in its most basic sense. *GASP* without paying you!
I say you make your works private and then you can have them all to your self! no one will get your precious content in any way you deem unfit! Perfect solution.
You can trade control for a bunch of flashy features. All his points are still valid though.
Cloud computing is about losing control of your data, and in alot of cases your rights.
Its renting vs owning, an age old computer debate. Lease against sales. There will always be feature benefits to either side. But his points about the unprescedented monitoring and lack of control is if anything, more problematic in this age than ever before. So the features better damn well outweigh the costs, and for a lot of people, a lot of situations, they don't.
I find the tracking my kms on fuelly has led to much more knowledge about how many L/100km I am actually getting, rather than relying on "ideal" conditions. When doing research before buying new cars, it is also nice to have a "real world" database. I used to track using just the trip counter but it turns out that was wildly inaccurate. http://www.fuelly.com/
dont fuck around
Core 2 duo computers are the oldest pc that can run windows 7 with any sort of acceptable slowness. Computers cost money. You do not have to be an IT professional to do the math here. We have plenty of pentium 4s in my environment still. No one wants to buy a brand new pc for some intern or browsing the web and basic word processing when XP runs perfectly well on those same p4s.
Cost cutting, and imperfect solutions.As well as other things that happen in The Real World to fallible human beings.
Why everyone on slashdot defends to death nuclear power is beyond my understanding. The waste lasts for tens to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years. You cannot possibly ensure anythings containment on that time scale.
We have a molten planet full of heat, a source a few tens of km away from every person. We have a fusion reactor wirelessly sending power to the planet. People need to figure out that nuclear is not the answer.
Iran doesnt have prison camps anywhere near the scale of north korea. Any sane person would say that at this point, north korea had it coming. Big time.
Americans hate iran, however iran is similar to america in many ways. North korea is off the scale horror show. Even I, as a non interventionist, can plainly see that any action performed by the USA would be viewed at defence at this point.
If its you and the cops word, I guarantee that the judge will trust the cop unless you have overwhelming evidence. And negative bonus points if the reason you are before this judge is that they found something in the officers illegal search.
Dhs is I think american federal government, the state of washington just legalized marijuana. Is just one of the many examples of what could go horribly wrong for a law abiding citizen when you give police extra powers unnecessarily.
Perhaps an eye fi to some sort of public hotspot, say at the donuts shop? works with most sd card cameras.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v1uyQZNg2vE
read the well stylized article::
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates
To me it looks like it could revolutionize.
I could never get into smart phones, but this sounds way more of what I would consider "virtual reality". What I pictured in the 80s and 90s of that anyways. Its not lawnmower man, you are there in the real world. Altered states of reality.
Dude, get your handbrake adjusted. its not hard but as the brakes wear, it needs to be tightened. All it does is force the brakes in the rear harder against the drum than they would be otherwise. It should most certainly prevent your car from rolling on an incline in neutral. That's the whole point of it.
Many handbrakes are self tightening (but not all). So the more you use them, the better they get. That is why some people recommend always using your handbrake, to tighten it up every time. Personally I never use it unless parked on a hill. And be careful not to over tighten or your breaks will drag.
Hopefully you dont know that the celebrity and the race are two very distinct things and the grand parent was not talking about that some alien race, but one who wants to be on the tabloid grocery market isle.
But the point is that the cardassians were supposed to be nazis. Bajor was obviously isreal, klingons germans, romulans russians, etc.
North korea on the other hand are the ones with the spaceship that "wont go" and needs geordi to fix them, only to have his good will taken advantage of by malevolent imbeciles.
Hes saying that windows is built with users in mind while linux is built with programmers in mind. However android is doing exceptionally well. So it kinda puts the spotlight on the UI of linux, and well obviously 100% compatibility is always going to be a factor. The two things that apple adds, come to think of it.
Is the fact that many of my servers run ontop esx server a nice middle ground to end the os wars? :P
The hard drive market is awful. I recently settled on a 1tb WD black drive. Because it has a 5 year warranty. For the same amount, i could get a 1 year warranty 2tb 5400 rpm drive.
The market is crap. The low end drives are just piles of smoking trash, and the "high end" aka NORMAL hard drives circa 2010 are like 80 or 90 cents per GB. (wd black 2tb = $170). They they added a mid range (RED), and an ultra low end space wise 7200 rpm (blue). which position themselves in price wise right and conveniently in between green and black! used to be every drive got the best technology and cache. Now we have gay ass segmentation
And seagate, dont get me started. They have no warranties longer than 3 years, with most drives have a 1 year warranty. Yeah thanks no. Firmware bug + 1 year warranty.. PASS
good thing most computers which are not servers of some sort can get by on a single $70 ssd. The quantum leap of performance which is the solid state drive allows me to defer most mechanical hdd purchases till an age of reason returns.
The perfect crime...
Uh.. How can that be? I could not do my job without:
- Filezilla
- pfsense
- vnc
- ffdshow, media player classic
- chrome & firefox and plugins
- various GPL sharepoint plugins
- apache & mysql
- windirstat
- bind
- putty
- a bunch of things running on top of linux (so we can all have a big thanks linux for that!)
- etc, etc, etc
In fact, I will go out of my way always to find a 100% free solution, because I know that support contracts, new versions and upgrades all cost money in the closed source world. Without fail.
So not only am I signing myself up for budget problems and obligations, I am also passing that down to future successors, which is just not good admin'ing.
Thats not to knock closed source software, there are always applications that simply do not exist in the open source world in any stable way. Again it also depends on how open minded your IT shop is too, and how well they make consensus decisions, do research, and not just go to lunch with vendors.
Minecraft can for sure be played as a family!
Its creative,
its open ended,
there is danger and intrigue
we just bought a 4th copy!
question: I am driving the speed limit of 100km/h . How many hours will it take me to drive 250km?
Answer: 2.5 hours
How is 60 simpler than 100? People simply prefer what they are used to. miles is ridiculous to me because nothing is in miles where I live. How many miles is 100km? answer: who the fuck knows! 64.756??? it could be anything. I mean look at all that math you had to do in your posts to convert convoluted american measurements!
people prefer what they are used to. You can easily see this by looking at how people from the UK defend mph, and how people from canada defend using letter size paper.
Oh DRIVE!
Now grand parent makes sense. MOD PARENT UP
You are completely right, and yet, if I were an american and knew all that, wouldn't I want to have a gun? Would you not go to Somalia or any other violent and dangerous place armed?
I sure don't want loose gun control laws in my country, but - no offence - americans are so fucked up, I couldn't imagine living there WITHOUT a gun!
And that's how you see and agree with both sides of this debate!
NK deserves to be taken out and should have been delt with many years ago. As someone else alluded, many of their citizens are born into concentration camp conditions.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4682842/North-Korean-prisoner-born-in-concentration-camp-escapes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_22
They are kept here because of the 3 generations of shame rule. Their grandparents or whomever, committed political crimes.
Why doesn't anyone do anything? China. China is why.
You must not have seen space junk 3d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUZO5pW7-5U
http://www.space.com/14132-space-junk-3d-film-orbital-debris.html
Because in it, they discuss at length, and 3d model, the 2009 collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision ) which most certainly did occur recently and definitely in our lifetimes.
Their thesis was that it will become more and more of a problem unless people start taking it seriously and not just writing it off as a one time fluke, as you are.