Here's a little concept I've been working on. Why don't we use a real OS?
Such as...? I assume you're not talking about Linux, since after all, by your reasoning, if Linux were a "real" OS, we wouldn't need Xen/VMWare/etc., right?
Why do you specify 'outside your home'? Don't the laws apply just as much inside? Surely we should also install cameras inside the home. After all, if you're doing something illegal, you deserve to get caught. The cameras won't create new laws by themselves, only enforce the ones that exist. And if you're doing nothing illegal inside your home, you have nothing to worry about.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live the laws include the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. The government may not search my property without obtaining a warrant, which requires probable cause. And putting publicly owned cameras on my property could certainly be construed as "taking of land for public use", for which the government would be required to provide "just compensation", as well. That's why it's not OK for the government to put cameras in private homes, while it is OK (legally - I'm not saying I like the idea) to put them in public places.
Phones for use on Sprint and Verizon networks have no SIM slot because they're CDMA.
So don't use those networks then.
That's easy to say, but, at least in my personal experience, Verizon has the best network coverage and service in most parts of the US. (Meanwhile, in response to the GP post, CDMA does support a SIM-like card, but Verizon does not implement it AFAIK.)
Rather than buying locked phones and whining about how difficult it is to unlock them why not just buy an unlocked phone?
Perhaps because unlocked phones can cost 2-4 times as much as the same phone with a contract?
The feeling can be described as feeling little bubbles grow in your brain and blow up, your eyes kinda wanna get as far away as possible from the bubbles.
There are also bubbles in your throat, and sometimes your feet.
Wait.. there must've been something else in that Coke:P damn it.
You have stolen Fizzy Lifting Drinks! Get out of my chocolate factory!
The problem with the American immigration system is that they have their priorities wrong. The American immigration system focuses on those that have family, unskilled or what have you. In contrast Canada favors skilled. Recently there was a study on immigration policies and they said systems like Canada are better for the country in the long run because skilled labor integrates better. Switzerland, Germany, UK, Australia all have skilled labor immigration programs and it works quite well for them.
And to think that people call Americans selfish. One would think that countries that claim to be more liberal than the US would want to help the poor, unskilled refugees of the world, give them a relatively safe place to live and better opportunities than they had back home. I guess not, eh? I guess in your country, if you had a Statue of Liberty, the inscription on the base would read "Your huddled masses? Your wretched refuse, yearning to breathe free? FUCK 'EM!! We don't want 'em here! We've got ours, and screw anyone who hasn't gotten theirs yet!"
When you have a public system, allowing private competition only makes a huge gap between service levels of the public and private systems, and you end up with something only marginally better than you have down there at the moment.
Which is exactly the way it oughta be, IMO. Coercively-financed government "services" should be a minimum safety net, not a replacement for letting the market work where it can.
Ah, but for that to work, it also needs to start caring what is best for everyone, in stead of teaching each individual to bank on themselves beating the odds.
If no one tries to beat the odds, then no one will. We will start to become more and more like the welfare states of Europe. And you might want that, but I don't, dammit. If you want Europe, then go move there; don't bring it here.
Besides, we can care and still look out for #1. If the people of America really care about this issue, there's nothing stopping someone from starting up a non-profit charitable organization that can take donations and use them to finance health care for the poor. And, after all, if the people of America really care, there'll be plenty of money, right? No need to get the government involved. And if the people of America don't care, then where do you get off forcing your worldview onto them?
Why not tie the kg to the second and meter via the Newton? 1 Newton is defined as 1 kg * m * s^-2. Using centripetal force in a plane normal to the earth's gravitational field eliminates gravity from the equation.
Riiight. 'Cause we all know that the Earth's gravitational field is totally perfectly uniform, and never ever changes.
If they've already defined the metre using constants, isn't something like this the best way of defining a kilogram.
Hmm. Um, how much deuterium/tritium oxide is in that water? What temperature/pressure is it at? And how are you going to keep it from evaporating? Let's leave it to the scientists to come up with the best standard kilogram, mmm-kay?
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They need the russian guy from armageddon to bang on the side of the computers!
You kidding? This whole thing probably started when that guy tried to "un-pimp ze space station"...
The only thing that makes gas taxes unfair is that they unfairly penalize people who have cars with poor gas mileage. The tax would more accurately go against the weight of the car and the number of miles driven, as those two factors have more to do with how much wear and tear you cause on the states infrastructure.
But such vehicles (i.e. large heavy vehicles) also tend to cause more damage to the environment (correction: to our environment). So why shouldn't they pay more?
Obviously this was been pushed to the limits by people like Don Imus and Howard Stern, eventually leading to their firings (and many fines).
Howard Stern wasn't fired; he signed a very lucrative deal with Sirius, and started working for them when his (also lucrative but not nearly as much so) Infinity Broadcasting contract expired.
Here's a hint for you left-ponders -- the Daily Mail is the UK equivalent of Fox: a racist rag which will print anything which puts muslims, women, gays, trades-unionists or the working class in a bad light. Check snopes before posting a story from them.
So this article is supposed to make Muslims look bad? Well, I suppose it does, but to me it makes the schools and teachers look bad, for being willing to shy away from the truth in the face of intolerance. The Holocaust happened, dammit, and any school (and any government that administers education) that pretends otherwise should be sorely ashamed.
Is that an American football field or an Australian Rules football field?
Seriously, though, can't we just use yards or meters? I don't know about other countries, but here in the U.S. we spend more mental energy envisioning big rotating or end-to-end football fields around or next to things.
C'mon now, this is Slashdot. Everyone together: How maybe Libraries of Congress is that?!?
Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.
Is that "city" or "highway"? Does the guy beat on his car or baby it? How will that number be any better or more useful than the numbers the EPA comes up with now, which at least have some attempt at rigor behind them?
Saying that the disparity of wealth is greater in the US (which is, in fact, true by every common measure of wealth disparity) is not saying that the poor of the USA are in similar conditions to the poor in India. It says nothing about that at all. Yes, if you said that, on average, the poor of the US were equally poor to those in India you would be wrong. But that's not the issue at all. The issue was disparity of wealth, not absolute conditions of the "poor" in each country.
But that wasn't what was being discussed, what was being discussed was the inequality of wealth, not the condition of the poorest of the poor.
But why is that what matters? That sounds like some sort of petty "keeping up with the Joneses" metric. It's silly. The fact that Bill Gates is a bazillion times richer than I am doesn't make me any less well off, or any less satisfied with my economic situation. It seems to me that the question should not be "how big is the difference between rich and poor?" but "how well off are the poor?" And, by and large, the poor are better off in the US than they are in a whole lot of other places.
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It's time the radios get smarter, and start talking to one another...
Everyone mark your calendars - it was/is on August 10, 2007 that TerraNet, the little-known precursor to SkyNet, was born...
Here's a little concept I've been working on. Why don't we use a real OS?
Such as...? I assume you're not talking about Linux, since after all, by your reasoning, if Linux were a "real" OS, we wouldn't need Xen/VMWare/etc., right?
I don't know about where you live, but where I live the laws include the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. The government may not search my property without obtaining a warrant, which requires probable cause. And putting publicly owned cameras on my property could certainly be construed as "taking of land for public use", for which the government would be required to provide "just compensation", as well. That's why it's not OK for the government to put cameras in private homes, while it is OK (legally - I'm not saying I like the idea) to put them in public places.
All the other places the heat flow is too low to be usable for anything else than house heating.
Uh, yeah? If we could heat all of America's homes geothermally, rather than by burning oil or gas, that wouldn't be worth doing?
What would the same box cost, running $FAVORITE-LINUX-DISTRO instead of Vista? $250?
You know, life in NYC is so difficult. Here let me run through the million and 1 annoying things about living here:
So why don't you move already?
Phones for use on Sprint and Verizon networks have no SIM slot because they're CDMA.
So don't use those networks then.
That's easy to say, but, at least in my personal experience, Verizon has the best network coverage and service in most parts of the US. (Meanwhile, in response to the GP post, CDMA does support a SIM-like card, but Verizon does not implement it AFAIK.)
Rather than buying locked phones and whining about how difficult it is to unlock them why not just buy an unlocked phone?
Perhaps because unlocked phones can cost 2-4 times as much as the same phone with a contract?
he "wasted on Coke" phase:
The feeling can be described as feeling little bubbles grow in your brain and blow up, your eyes kinda wanna get as far away as possible from the bubbles.
There are also bubbles in your throat, and sometimes your feet.
Wait.. there must've been something else in that Coke
You have stolen Fizzy Lifting Drinks! Get out of my chocolate factory!
The problem with the American immigration system is that they have their priorities wrong. The American immigration system focuses on those that have family, unskilled or what have you. In contrast Canada favors skilled. Recently there was a study on immigration policies and they said systems like Canada are better for the country in the long run because skilled labor integrates better. Switzerland, Germany, UK, Australia all have skilled labor immigration programs and it works quite well for them.
And to think that people call Americans selfish. One would think that countries that claim to be more liberal than the US would want to help the poor, unskilled refugees of the world, give them a relatively safe place to live and better opportunities than they had back home. I guess not, eh? I guess in your country, if you had a Statue of Liberty, the inscription on the base would read "Your huddled masses? Your wretched refuse, yearning to breathe free? FUCK 'EM!! We don't want 'em here! We've got ours, and screw anyone who hasn't gotten theirs yet!"
You can take off your tinfoil hat and join the rest of us here in Realityland, that's what you can do.
When you have a public system, allowing private competition only makes a huge gap between service levels of the public and private systems, and you end up with something only marginally better than you have down there at the moment.
Which is exactly the way it oughta be, IMO. Coercively-financed government "services" should be a minimum safety net, not a replacement for letting the market work where it can.
Ah, but for that to work, it also needs to start caring what is best for everyone,
in stead of teaching each individual to bank on themselves beating the odds.
If no one tries to beat the odds, then no one will. We will start to become more and more like the welfare states of Europe. And you might want that, but I don't, dammit . If you want Europe, then go move there; don't bring it here.
Besides, we can care and still look out for #1. If the people of America really care about this issue, there's nothing stopping someone from starting up a non-profit charitable organization that can take donations and use them to finance health care for the poor. And, after all, if the people of America really care, there'll be plenty of money, right? No need to get the government involved. And if the people of America don't care, then where do you get off forcing your worldview onto them?
Why not tie the kg to the second and meter via the Newton? 1 Newton is defined as 1 kg * m * s^-2. Using centripetal force in a plane normal to the earth's gravitational field eliminates gravity from the equation.
Riiight. 'Cause we all know that the Earth's gravitational field is totally perfectly uniform, and never ever changes.
Flamebait? So a typical large vehicle doesn't pollute more than a typical small vehicle? Oh. My bad.
If they've already defined the metre using constants, isn't something like this the best way of defining a kilogram.
Hmm. Um, how much deuterium/tritium oxide is in that water? What temperature/pressure is it at? And how are you going to keep it from evaporating? Let's leave it to the scientists to come up with the best standard kilogram, mmm-kay?
They need the russian guy from armageddon to bang on the side of the computers!
You kidding? This whole thing probably started when that guy tried to "un-pimp ze space station"...
The only thing that makes gas taxes unfair is that they unfairly penalize people who have cars with poor gas mileage. The tax would more accurately go against the weight of the car and the number of miles driven, as those two factors have more to do with how much wear and tear you cause on the states infrastructure.
But such vehicles (i.e. large heavy vehicles) also tend to cause more damage to the environment (correction: to our environment). So why shouldn't they pay more?
Obviously this was been pushed to the limits by people like Don Imus and Howard Stern, eventually leading to their firings (and many fines).
Howard Stern wasn't fired; he signed a very lucrative deal with Sirius, and started working for them when his (also lucrative but not nearly as much so) Infinity Broadcasting contract expired.
A 2.5-pound notebook running Linux with WiFi and Bluetooth sounds sweet...
Then try one o' these bad boys. I know I want one. Yes, a little more than $500, but then again it can actually do stuff.
Here's a hint for you left-ponders -- the Daily Mail is the UK
equivalent of Fox: a racist rag which will print anything which puts
muslims, women, gays, trades-unionists or the working class in a
bad light. Check snopes before posting a story from them.
So this article is supposed to make Muslims look bad? Well, I suppose it does, but to me it makes the schools and teachers look bad, for being willing to shy away from the truth in the face of intolerance. The Holocaust happened, dammit, and any school (and any government that administers education) that pretends otherwise should be sorely ashamed.
Is that an American football field or an Australian Rules football field?
Seriously, though, can't we just use yards or meters? I don't know about other countries, but here in the U.S. we spend more mental energy envisioning big rotating or end-to-end football fields around or next to things.
C'mon now, this is Slashdot. Everyone together: How maybe Libraries of Congress is that?!?
Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database. Problem solved.
Is that "city" or "highway"? Does the guy beat on his car or baby it? How will that number be any better or more useful than the numbers the EPA comes up with now, which at least have some attempt at rigor behind them?
Saying that the disparity of wealth is greater in the US (which is, in fact, true by every common measure of wealth disparity) is not saying that the poor of the USA are in similar conditions to the poor in India. It says nothing about that at all. Yes, if you said that, on average, the poor of the US were equally poor to those in India you would be wrong. But that's not the issue at all. The issue was disparity of wealth, not absolute conditions of the "poor" in each country.
But again, why?
But that wasn't what was being discussed, what was being discussed was the inequality of wealth, not the condition of the poorest of the poor.
But why is that what matters? That sounds like some sort of petty "keeping up with the Joneses" metric. It's silly. The fact that Bill Gates is a bazillion times richer than I am doesn't make me any less well off, or any less satisfied with my economic situation. It seems to me that the question should not be "how big is the difference between rich and poor?" but "how well off are the poor?" And, by and large, the poor are better off in the US than they are in a whole lot of other places.
It ain't rape, but it ain't right.
No, it ain't. But that doesn't make it a crime, necessarily.