I have no problems eating pigs, cows, chickens, and other domesticated animals. Truth is these animals would never survive in the wold today in their present form.
HAHAHAHAHA, you've never actually been around any of these animals, have you?
Seriously, the only reason some of those animals might not survive is because there's little habitat left to survive in. Many would die off, but mostly because of there being too many in one place to support them.
Pigs especially are unbelievably adept at surviving in the wild, there's more than one place in the world where formerly "domestic" pigs are wiping out more native species than humans are. Not only can pigs survive, feral pigs are downright dangerous.
If you've been in some areas of the country, chickens wandering free is a common sight.
Cows do just fine too. Free-range cattle basically live on their own already.
Domestic turkeys? Well, yeah, there are *some* domesticated animals that wouldn't do well, but surprisingly few of them so long as they're in an environment capable of supporting them.
That seems to be true of UK publications in general. US motorcycle mags drool over every little thing that they see. UK mags will harshly slag on anything they don't feel is good. If the item they're reviewing is especially bad, they can get downright nasty. Which, of course, makes for a very entertaining article.
Speaking as an ex-cop, never, EVER, *EVER* consent to a search.
Doesn't matter if you might get hassled while the cop tries to find a reason to search, you also have the right to keep your mouth shut. Unlike a warrant-based search, which must state *specifically* what they are looking for, and thus limits them to the places where such items can be found, consent searches allow *anything*. And, once you consent, you can't take it back, since a smart cop will isolate you while they perform the search.
Frankly, you may not know what is in your car/home, etc. All you need is for one of your idiot friends to have left something behind you didn't know about.
A cop who asks for consent is fishing. If a cop has probable cause, he won't ask, he'll get the warrant, or search immediately if allowed (exigent circumstances, probationers, etc). The more they try to convince you, the more sure you can be that they don't have anywhere near enough evidence for a warrant.
Folks think that if they consent to a search, the cop will feel better about them. Of all the folks I searched with consent, the *best* I felt toward them was mild contempt for voluntarily surrendering their constitutional rights. The rest? Well, frankly, I still get a real belly-laugh over the folks I arrested for drugs, illegal weapons, stolen merchandise, etc because they were dumb enough to give me consent to search.
They have surprisingly little spare time to read/.... or, it seems, anything else.
Bwahahaha.
Seriously, the biggest joke on the white-collar world is that the folks with the greatest amount of free time are the blue-collar workers. They're the ones who actually *take* three-week vacations, spend weekends boating, etc.
Unless they've changed pintle ring mounts since I was in the service, swapping guns is *less* than a 5-minute job. This isn't really a turret, it's a pintle on a rotating ring mount. You pretty much carry the gun to the vehicle, drop it on the pintle, and away you go. There are some specialized weapons that may require more complicated mounting, but I haven't seen one on that type of mount.
RVs have separate gray and black water systems too, and I'm here to tell you, while the grey water doesn't smell like shite, it still has a tremendous pong that you *don't* want in your home.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it fraud, but I would say that the ISPs have to be a LOT more clear about what you're actually paying for.
I lease a rack with a colocation service, I've got a 100base-T connection from my rack, and no doubt I can saturate it 24/7 if I had a mind to. However, my contract clearly states that I am allowed an average usage of X Gb/month, which is significantly lower than 100Mb/sec * 1 month. This is standard for such contracts.
The problem on the consumer side is that to enforce that, every single customer would have to be managed for bandwidth use, and billed accordingly. Believe it or not, that's not so simple. It requires a significant amount of additional hardware, software and manpower to deal with that, plus the additional cost of dealing with customer service in the billing department. For the colo, not so big a deal for a few hundred customers, for a cable company, it would be more of an issue dealing with several tens of thousands of customers. Truth is, I'd bet that a lot of colos don't even bother to monitor bandwidth on individual customers unless they suspect the customer is really hitting the bandwidth hard. I'm willing to bet if I called my provider, they wouldn't be able to tell me what my usage was, because my traffic is low enough as to not be worth monitoring. Collecting those kind of stats on the router definitely hits performance.
I can't say for sure what the best answer is, but ala carte pricing for bandwidth use is not likely to be practical from the ISP's perpective. All I can say is that they should be very up-front about what you are and are not paying for.
Any carrier that wants to restrict access loses their common carrier status. The providers are probably right to say they have the right to control their own networks. However, the minute they start controlling content, they should take responsibility for it. Common carrier status is all about not being responsible for/controlling what goes over the wires.
I'm willing to bet if the FCC said "go ahead, but you lose common carrier status" none of us would ever hear another word about this.
I see your "no military use" and raise it by declaring *my* software license to prohibit its use by, and/or for the benefit of pasty-white males with no girlfriends/wives.
So there, nya nya.
Seriously, part of the whole purpose of the GPL was to prevent software from being restricted to only certain classes of people. Yes, you may get all fuzzy about it not being used by those nasty military types, but as far as I'm concerned, it's one big step down a slippery slope.
And if you honestly think *any* branch of any government gives a rat's behind about your restrictions, well, I've got this great product for you, it's called dehydrated water. It's really convenient, and weighs almost 100% less.
Having worked in emergency services for a number of years, I can tell you that diesel is far more stable, and less likely to explode under normal conditions than gasoline.
Try this: You go into your garage (door closed), and pour two gallons of gasoline on the floor. Wait 20-30 minutes, then light a match. I'll do the same thing with 2 gallons of diesel. I can already tell you the results. In your case, your garage will be reduced to splinters, if not your entire house. In my case, I'll be looking at the floor trying to figure out the best way to clean up 2 gallons of spilled diesel.
Heck, bone conduction earsets have been available for at least 15 years now for two-way radios. Motorola made them for tactical radios for police use back then.
Really? How do you know it was the second-hand smoke that caused the cancer? You know, there actually are people who get lung cancer who have never smoked/lived with a smoker. And I've yet to see anyone be able to prove without doubt the specific cause of *any* cancer. The best I've seen is probabilities regarding the cause.
I'm not claiming second-hand smoke isn't a concern, it certainly could be. But I've never seen any doctor diagnose a cancer with a 100% certainty of the cause.
Gee, it couldn't POSSIBLY have been the fact that his new car was different than the old one could it? Maybe this had nothing to do with the fact that the vehicle had ABS, and everything to do with the fact that the guy was a complete idiot.
I've taken several performance driving courses, in a variety of vehicles. Every one of them behaves differently, and thus needs to be "learned" by the driver in order to determine what it will do under various circumstances.
Oh wait, I can. Granted, not for long distances, but I hardly find this impressive. Heck, my wife lifts more than that on a nearly daily basis. Now, one of the guys in my office can squat nearly 600 lbs, THAT is impressive. And yet, somehow, he manages to do it without any technological enhancement.
Actually, even there, I'm thinking his standing was shaky.
School equipment, in a school facility, with no contract to use it for private use.
The acid test is this, if he had produced a commercial-quality film (something like Blair Witch), would he have had the rights to market it commercially himself, or would the school have an interest in it? My guess is that the school would have easily been able to establish ownership rights.
And then on top of that, he abandoned it, further showing that in his own mind, he did not own it.
The Red Team aren't the ones who were responsible for setting up the boxes.
Though, for reasons even they can't comprehend, they were constantly consulted on what to install on them, and even were asked for *binary* install packages.... If you want to blame someone, blame the organizers, not the red team. I mean, c'mon, what would *you* do?
Yeah, one of the Red Team members is a friend/co-worker of mine.
Yes, the corporate suits are not comfortable with OSS companies, because the folks in the OSS companies don't wear suits. But it's not actually because of the clothing, it's what the clothing implies. The lack of suits tells them that these are technical people in charge, not business people. The suits don't like dealing with technical people, because they don't really understand us. They feel more comfortable with people wearing suits, because people who wear suits are their kind of people.
I just love hearing from our C_Os about how we in development should do whatever the sales/marketing folks tell us, because "if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have jobs". Meanwhile, I'm sitting here thinking, well, what the heck would they sell if we weren't creating products?
Never mind the fact that the sales department has a very regular turnover, and the sales people themselves aren't anything special, just your average ex-fratboy business major who made it through four years of college with an average 0.8 BAC. Nobody blinks twice when they leave, they just replace them. Yet, the company is horrified that I ride a motorcycle, because of the possibility that I may get injured/killed and thus leave them with a serious hole to fill that requires very specialized knowledge.
Truth? They fear us. They know that they are a dime a dozen. Our entire sales department could get hit by a bus tomorrow, and it would set the company back a month at worst. If the engineering department walked out, the company would fold up like a wet kleenex, and would *never* recover.
Ponytail and motorcycle boots. Sandals just aren't a good choice when you ride.
The weather's warming up here though, and the boots can get uncomfortable after a couple hours. I've been thinking of keeping a pair of bunny slippers at my desk to change into.
Wow, you have an incredibly narrow definition of evil.
By your definition, even Hitler wasn't evil. After all, he had his reasons. Granted, they were pretty warped, but he DID have reasons.
Yes, killing for the sake of killing is evil, but not all who are evil kill at all. Conning old folks out of their retirement money is also evil, even if you never kill anyone.
Webster - Evil... 1a: not good morally
IMO, evil *is* selfishness. It is putting your own desires so far ahead of everyone else's that you will willingly harm others in pursuit of your own desires.
The best thing I've found for killing the heat is Honey. I thought it strange when a New Mexico style restaurant I went to served baskets of sopapillas with the meal. But honey on bread definitely kills the afterburn of those Hatch chiles.
A related note, the original Scoville scale referred to the number of sprays of sugar-water it took to kill the heat of a measured amount of pulped chile on the tongue.
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I have no problems eating pigs, cows, chickens, and other domesticated animals. Truth is these animals would never survive in the wold today in their present form.
HAHAHAHAHA, you've never actually been around any of these animals, have you?
Seriously, the only reason some of those animals might not survive is because there's little habitat left to survive in. Many would die off, but mostly because of there being too many in one place to support them.
Pigs especially are unbelievably adept at surviving in the wild, there's more than one place in the world where formerly "domestic" pigs are wiping out more native species than humans are. Not only can pigs survive, feral pigs are downright dangerous.
If you've been in some areas of the country, chickens wandering free is a common sight.
Cows do just fine too. Free-range cattle basically live on their own already.
Domestic turkeys? Well, yeah, there are *some* domesticated animals that wouldn't do well, but surprisingly few of them so long as they're in an environment capable of supporting them.
Now, just think about that.... $200 for a cardboard box.
I'm pretty sure I could find something that comes in a box that size that would cost under $200. And then I'd have whatever came IN the box too.
For under $40, you could build a box out of 3/4" plywood, marine-grade, not even the cheap stuff.
Even at its most cut-rate, the funeral business makes the mob look like upstanding citizens.
That seems to be true of UK publications in general. US motorcycle mags drool over every little thing that they see. UK mags will harshly slag on anything they don't feel is good. If the item they're reviewing is especially bad, they can get downright nasty. Which, of course, makes for a very entertaining article.
Sorry,
Speaking as an ex-cop, never, EVER, *EVER* consent to a search.
Doesn't matter if you might get hassled while the cop tries to find a reason to search, you also have the right to keep your mouth shut. Unlike a warrant-based search, which must state *specifically* what they are looking for, and thus limits them to the places where such items can be found, consent searches allow *anything*. And, once you consent, you can't take it back, since a smart cop will isolate you while they perform the search.
Frankly, you may not know what is in your car/home, etc. All you need is for one of your idiot friends to have left something behind you didn't know about.
A cop who asks for consent is fishing. If a cop has probable cause, he won't ask, he'll get the warrant, or search immediately if allowed (exigent circumstances, probationers, etc). The more they try to convince you, the more sure you can be that they don't have anywhere near enough evidence for a warrant.
Folks think that if they consent to a search, the cop will feel better about them. Of all the folks I searched with consent, the *best* I felt toward them was mild contempt for voluntarily surrendering their constitutional rights. The rest? Well, frankly, I still get a real belly-laugh over the folks I arrested for drugs, illegal weapons, stolen merchandise, etc because they were dumb enough to give me consent to search.
I predict it will succeed in displacing jpg just like png displaced both gif and jpg.
They have surprisingly little spare time to read /. ... or, it seems, anything else.
Bwahahaha.
Seriously, the biggest joke on the white-collar world is that the folks with the greatest amount of free time are the blue-collar workers. They're the ones who actually *take* three-week vacations, spend weekends boating, etc.
Unless they've changed pintle ring mounts since I was in the service, swapping guns is *less* than a 5-minute job. This isn't really a turret, it's a pintle on a rotating ring mount. You pretty much carry the gun to the vehicle, drop it on the pintle, and away you go. There are some specialized weapons that may require more complicated mounting, but I haven't seen one on that type of mount.
I'll still bet you've got traps.
RVs have separate gray and black water systems too, and I'm here to tell you, while the grey water doesn't smell like shite, it still has a tremendous pong that you *don't* want in your home.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it fraud, but I would say that the ISPs have to be a LOT more clear about what you're actually paying for.
I lease a rack with a colocation service, I've got a 100base-T connection from my rack, and no doubt I can saturate it 24/7 if I had a mind to. However, my contract clearly states that I am allowed an average usage of X Gb/month, which is significantly lower than 100Mb/sec * 1 month. This is standard for such contracts.
The problem on the consumer side is that to enforce that, every single customer would have to be managed for bandwidth use, and billed accordingly. Believe it or not, that's not so simple. It requires a significant amount of additional hardware, software and manpower to deal with that, plus the additional cost of dealing with customer service in the billing department. For the colo, not so big a deal for a few hundred customers, for a cable company, it would be more of an issue dealing with several tens of thousands of customers. Truth is, I'd bet that a lot of colos don't even bother to monitor bandwidth on individual customers unless they suspect the customer is really hitting the bandwidth hard. I'm willing to bet if I called my provider, they wouldn't be able to tell me what my usage was, because my traffic is low enough as to not be worth monitoring. Collecting those kind of stats on the router definitely hits performance.
I can't say for sure what the best answer is, but ala carte pricing for bandwidth use is not likely to be practical from the ISP's perpective. All I can say is that they should be very up-front about what you are and are not paying for.
In my opinion, the solution is simple.
Any carrier that wants to restrict access loses their common carrier status. The providers are probably right to say they have the right to control their own networks. However, the minute they start controlling content, they should take responsibility for it. Common carrier status is all about not being responsible for/controlling what goes over the wires.
I'm willing to bet if the FCC said "go ahead, but you lose common carrier status" none of us would ever hear another word about this.
I see your "no military use" and raise it by declaring *my* software license to prohibit its use by, and/or for the benefit of pasty-white males with no girlfriends/wives.
So there, nya nya.
Seriously, part of the whole purpose of the GPL was to prevent software from being restricted to only certain classes of people. Yes, you may get all fuzzy about it not being used by those nasty military types, but as far as I'm concerned, it's one big step down a slippery slope.
And if you honestly think *any* branch of any government gives a rat's behind about your restrictions, well, I've got this great product for you, it's called dehydrated water. It's really convenient, and weighs almost 100% less.
Having worked in emergency services for a number of years, I can tell you that diesel is far more stable, and less likely to explode under normal conditions than gasoline.
Try this: You go into your garage (door closed), and pour two gallons of gasoline on the floor. Wait 20-30 minutes, then light a match. I'll do the same thing with 2 gallons of diesel. I can already tell you the results. In your case, your garage will be reduced to splinters, if not your entire house. In my case, I'll be looking at the floor trying to figure out the best way to clean up 2 gallons of spilled diesel.
No, I'm pretty sure they weren't copying anyone when they released Bob.
Of course, I'm equally sure they wish nobody remembered that.
Heck, bone conduction earsets have been available for at least 15 years now for two-way radios. Motorola made them for tactical radios for police use back then.
Really? How do you know it was the second-hand smoke that caused the cancer? You know, there actually are people who get lung cancer who have never smoked/lived with a smoker. And I've yet to see anyone be able to prove without doubt the specific cause of *any* cancer. The best I've seen is probabilities regarding the cause.
I'm not claiming second-hand smoke isn't a concern, it certainly could be. But I've never seen any doctor diagnose a cancer with a 100% certainty of the cause.
Gee, it couldn't POSSIBLY have been the fact that his new car was different than the old one could it? Maybe this had nothing to do with the fact that the vehicle had ABS, and everything to do with the fact that the guy was a complete idiot.
I've taken several performance driving courses, in a variety of vehicles. Every one of them behaves differently, and thus needs to be "learned" by the driver in order to determine what it will do under various circumstances.
Imagine if I could carry 200lbs...
Oh wait, I can. Granted, not for long distances, but I hardly find this impressive. Heck, my wife lifts more than that on a nearly daily basis. Now, one of the guys in my office can squat nearly 600 lbs, THAT is impressive. And yet, somehow, he manages to do it without any technological enhancement.
Actually, even there, I'm thinking his standing was shaky.
School equipment, in a school facility, with no contract to use it for private use.
The acid test is this, if he had produced a commercial-quality film (something like Blair Witch), would he have had the rights to market it commercially himself, or would the school have an interest in it? My guess is that the school would have easily been able to establish ownership rights.
And then on top of that, he abandoned it, further showing that in his own mind, he did not own it.
Sounds to me like the tape didn't belong to him.
So while the tape might have been stolen, it wasn't stolen from *him*. And thus he had no legal standing regarding the theft.
The Red Team aren't the ones who were responsible for setting up the boxes.
Though, for reasons even they can't comprehend, they were constantly consulted on what to install on them, and even were asked for *binary* install packages.... If you want to blame someone, blame the organizers, not the red team. I mean, c'mon, what would *you* do?
Yeah, one of the Red Team members is a friend/co-worker of mine.
AMEN brother!
Can't count the number of times we've been here:
"How long will it take to build X?"
'At least three months, and it may not even be possible.'
"You've got two weeks, because that's when customer X comes on board, and we told them we already do it."
Here's a completely different point of view.
Yes, the corporate suits are not comfortable with OSS companies, because the folks in the OSS companies don't wear suits. But it's not actually because of the clothing, it's what the clothing implies. The lack of suits tells them that these are technical people in charge, not business people. The suits don't like dealing with technical people, because they don't really understand us. They feel more comfortable with people wearing suits, because people who wear suits are their kind of people.
I just love hearing from our C_Os about how we in development should do whatever the sales/marketing folks tell us, because "if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have jobs". Meanwhile, I'm sitting here thinking, well, what the heck would they sell if we weren't creating products?
Never mind the fact that the sales department has a very regular turnover, and the sales people themselves aren't anything special, just your average ex-fratboy business major who made it through four years of college with an average 0.8 BAC. Nobody blinks twice when they leave, they just replace them. Yet, the company is horrified that I ride a motorcycle, because of the possibility that I may get injured/killed and thus leave them with a serious hole to fill that requires very specialized knowledge.
Truth? They fear us. They know that they are a dime a dozen. Our entire sales department could get hit by a bus tomorrow, and it would set the company back a month at worst. If the engineering department walked out, the company would fold up like a wet kleenex, and would *never* recover.
Ponytail and motorcycle boots. Sandals just aren't a good choice when you ride.
The weather's warming up here though, and the boots can get uncomfortable after a couple hours. I've been thinking of keeping a pair of bunny slippers at my desk to change into.
Wow, you have an incredibly narrow definition of evil.
... 1a: not good morally
By your definition, even Hitler wasn't evil. After all, he had his reasons. Granted, they were pretty warped, but he DID have reasons.
Yes, killing for the sake of killing is evil, but not all who are evil kill at all. Conning old folks out of their retirement money is also evil, even if you never kill anyone.
Webster - Evil
IMO, evil *is* selfishness. It is putting your own desires so far ahead of everyone else's that you will willingly harm others in pursuit of your own desires.
The best thing I've found for killing the heat is Honey. I thought it strange when a New Mexico style restaurant I went to served baskets of sopapillas with the meal. But honey on bread definitely kills the afterburn of those Hatch chiles.
A related note, the original Scoville scale referred to the number of sprays of sugar-water it took to kill the heat of a measured amount of pulped chile on the tongue.