So, Gavagai80, certainly you would have no problem with all the rest of us listening to Gavagai80 poop, or listen to Gavagai80 masturbate, and record it for prosperity, or maybe play it back at some future time that you have no control over? Of course not.
I agree. There's no longer a practical way to "vote with your dollars". The only way to exact any change is to vote with more extreme measures. I've been seeing more stories about how tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg are putting more money into personal security, al la "escape hatches". Perhaps there's a connection?
They're typically parked in a charging station, not a roadway, and they're not (from the reports that I've read) making any outward threats to anyone. They're only trespassing if they refuse to leave after being asked to do so by the property owner. Are they assholes? Yes, but being an asshole in and of itself is not a crime.
Except it's typically not a public entrance; the charging stations are on private property and the trucks aren't blocking any sort of a driveway. From the reports that I've seen, the gas station attendant tells the truck owners to leave, and they do. The truck owners are still assholes, but reporting them to the police probably won't accomplish anything unless they refuse to leave the property.
The first computer I ever built was on a S100 board. And by "built", I mean wire wrapped by hand from pencil drawn schematics. The S100 standard didn't last all that long but it was one of the first standardized buses for the personal computer age.
Giant unavoidable animated advertisements. That's the end game. Los Angeles is now also starting to install these pieces of shit. Where's a terrorist with an airplane when you need one?
If only we didn't have to adhere to things like building & fire codes, we could save a fortune!! Go check out a country where they have no building codes some time and then decide if that's how you want to live.
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
Time zones also effect interstate commerce, which is then the jurisdiction of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. From what I distantly recollect from history classes, many Supreme Court cases revolved around it. I don't imagine the courts would give much credence to the idea that time zones are a 1st amendment issue.
The national shift to the metric system was still going strong during the Carter years. It was pressure from the Reagan White House, along with general public reluctance, that killed it.
Reagan was dead set on killing many of Carter's goals (energy conservation, the metric system) much like Trump is dead set against anything that Obama ever did.
Search and rescue dogs, or drug sniffing dogs, need immediate positive reinforcement when they've done their job correctly. Fido finds the injured hiker? Good boy Fido, here's a steak. Fido points out that hippie when I gave Fido out secret cop signal? Good Fido, here's a hug and a treat.
When sniffing for cancer, you can't exactly say "Good boy. This poor man has cancer, here's a treat!". You can't base a diagnosis on the reaction of dog, and certainly not in front of the patient. The cancer would have to be verified by biopsy or other means, which if course takes time. Praising the dog for what they did days ago doesn't teach them anything.
Discounts? Compare Kroger/Ralphs/whatever's normal, non discounted, price against other stores. You're not getting a discount, you're just not being ass-raped by not giving them tracking information.
Do you really think that Joe CrackHead would stop to think whether phones are still in use before he stripped and sold them?
"Oh no, I better not steal these wires to support my habit; someone might still talking to their mother on them. I should wait until I receive official notice that they're no longer in use before I resort to my plan of thievery!"
CRT terminals were still in the future. Later; FORTRAN, PDP-11 machine code, Forth, and various flavors of assembly language. It was really a big deal when Turbo Pascal was released.
I still have the box it came in; it holds Christmas ornaments out in the garage.
A 8086 machine with 640kB RAM, single 5-1/4" floppy drive, CGA graphics adapter.
When I bought it I was torn between spending extra to upgrade to a 20MB hard drive or getting an EGA graphics card (16 colors!). I went with the 20MB hard drive; a wise choice in hindsight.
A month or so later I bought a real time clock adapter which came as a socket that plugged in underneath the BIOS ROM (?). It was great not having to set the date & time every time you turned on the computer.
Some time later I bought a math co-processor. The mother board had a socket for it so all you had to was plug it in and suddenly floating point math could be done at blazing speeds.
These catch-all laws are frequently used to prosecute people that are not in favor with the current establishment, whomever they may be.
I think that the CEO of Burger King, since he's paid so much to be the standard bearer for that corporation, should take full responsibility when they fuck up.
It won't happen, of course; laws only exist to punish little people.
Let's see him win his next reelection without using the Internet. Is that possible? Of course not.
As long as old white men like him keep getting elected into office, things will never get better.
At what point do people start sabotaging Verizon's equipment? At what point do people start insinuating threats to any of their neighbors that happen to work for Verizon? An what point do people erect a guillotine for the CEO and board members of Verizon? Not for a long, long time, if ever These things will continue until then.
I've been using PasswordSafe for several years now. My only problem with it is keeping its database synced up between my home computers and my work computer. Whenever I make changes to the copy on my work computer I have to remember to copy it to my home server via sftp and vice versa.
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So, Gavagai80, certainly you would have no problem with all the rest of us listening to Gavagai80 poop, or listen to Gavagai80 masturbate, and record it for prosperity, or maybe play it back at some future time that you have no control over? Of course not.
This (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_L._Stephenson) is that asshole. If you see him in the street, you know what to do.
I agree. There's no longer a practical way to "vote with your dollars". The only way to exact any change is to vote with more extreme measures. I've been seeing more stories about how tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg are putting more money into personal security, al la "escape hatches". Perhaps there's a connection?
They're typically parked in a charging station, not a roadway, and they're not (from the reports that I've read) making any outward threats to anyone. They're only trespassing if they refuse to leave after being asked to do so by the property owner. Are they assholes? Yes, but being an asshole in and of itself is not a crime.
Except it's typically not a public entrance; the charging stations are on private property and the trucks aren't blocking any sort of a driveway. From the reports that I've seen, the gas station attendant tells the truck owners to leave, and they do. The truck owners are still assholes, but reporting them to the police probably won't accomplish anything unless they refuse to leave the property.
The first computer I ever built was on a S100 board. And by "built", I mean wire wrapped by hand from pencil drawn schematics. The S100 standard didn't last all that long but it was one of the first standardized buses for the personal computer age.
Giant unavoidable animated advertisements. That's the end game. Los Angeles is now also starting to install these pieces of shit. Where's a terrorist with an airplane when you need one?
If only we didn't have to adhere to things like building & fire codes, we could save a fortune!! Go check out a country where they have no building codes some time and then decide if that's how you want to live.
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
Now we no longer need to pay any attention to our kids when they're near a swimming pool. We have technology to do it for us!
Time zones also effect interstate commerce, which is then the jurisdiction of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. From what I distantly recollect from history classes, many Supreme Court cases revolved around it. I don't imagine the courts would give much credence to the idea that time zones are a 1st amendment issue.
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Reagan was dead set on killing many of Carter's goals (energy conservation, the metric system) much like Trump is dead set against anything that Obama ever did.
When sniffing for cancer, you can't exactly say "Good boy. This poor man has cancer, here's a treat!". You can't base a diagnosis on the reaction of dog, and certainly not in front of the patient. The cancer would have to be verified by biopsy or other means, which if course takes time. Praising the dog for what they did days ago doesn't teach them anything.
Did you create content that's now owned by Disney? If so, then it's no longer yours to be stolen.
And yet without an Internet connection you would have able to post that drivel.
I want Republicans to be rounded up an exterminated, every single one of them Tell you what, if I get my wish, I'll give them their wish. Deal?
Discounts? Compare Kroger/Ralphs/whatever's normal, non discounted, price against other stores. You're not getting a discount, you're just not being ass-raped by not giving them tracking information.
Do you really think that Joe CrackHead would stop to think whether phones are still in use before he stripped and sold them? "Oh no, I better not steal these wires to support my habit; someone might still talking to their mother on them. I should wait until I receive official notice that they're no longer in use before I resort to my plan of thievery!"
CRT terminals were still in the future. Later; FORTRAN, PDP-11 machine code, Forth, and various flavors of assembly language. It was really a big deal when Turbo Pascal was released.
I still have the box it came in; it holds Christmas ornaments out in the garage.
A 8086 machine with 640kB RAM, single 5-1/4" floppy drive, CGA graphics adapter.
When I bought it I was torn between spending extra to upgrade to a 20MB hard drive or getting an EGA graphics card (16 colors!). I went with the 20MB hard drive; a wise choice in hindsight.
A month or so later I bought a real time clock adapter which came as a socket that plugged in underneath the BIOS ROM (?). It was great not having to set the date & time every time you turned on the computer.
Some time later I bought a math co-processor. The mother board had a socket for it so all you had to was plug it in and suddenly floating point math could be done at blazing speeds.
These catch-all laws are frequently used to prosecute people that are not in favor with the current establishment, whomever they may be.
I think that the CEO of Burger King, since he's paid so much to be the standard bearer for that corporation, should take full responsibility when they fuck up.
It won't happen, of course; laws only exist to punish little people.
Let's see him win his next reelection without using the Internet. Is that possible? Of course not. As long as old white men like him keep getting elected into office, things will never get better.
At what point do people start sabotaging Verizon's equipment? At what point do people start insinuating threats to any of their neighbors that happen to work for Verizon? An what point do people erect a guillotine for the CEO and board members of Verizon? Not for a long, long time, if ever These things will continue until then.
Wish I had mod points. Google isn't doing this for the benefit of anyone except Google.
I've been using PasswordSafe for several years now. My only problem with it is keeping its database synced up between my home computers and my work computer. Whenever I make changes to the copy on my work computer I have to remember to copy it to my home server via sftp and vice versa.