Yes, there is an obstructionist Congress, but there are many areas where the president could've acted freely and unilaterally, (to keep the campaign promises that got him elected in the first place), but didn't. He could've been light-years better than his predecessor, but in fact, his record is worse in many instances. I hope the examples are glaring enough for even the most ardent supporter not to need them listed here. The sad truth is that, even our team lies about campaign promises.
I agree with most of what you say, but we at least know that the condition of our early planet was (self-evidently) quite favorable. Still, that tells us almost nothing, since we have no idea how life actually formed, or why. Can't wait till someone figures that out.
The center of the galaxy is not considered a habitable zone. Nor is the outer part. If you divided the galaxy into a three-ring bullseye, you want the middle (second) ring. If your looking for other life in any galaxy, the center's not the direction to head. We are in the Goldilocks zone.
Seems whenever I have mod points, I can find nothing to mod up. Wish I had some now.
We have no idea how life began. We have no idea whether or not the formation of life was a unique event. People are using math to extrapolate the number of possible civilizations but, just because two times two is four, doesn't mean you have four of anything. It is ridiculous to make predictions based upon a single data point of which almost nothing is known.
Yeah, I think I have quite enough random cars jumping in front of me as it is. Of course, if you're on foot and need a vehicle, they simply do not spawn near you. But get in a car, and suddenly the streets are full. I wonder if they're referring to the way traffic spawns when you're not in it, say, as seen from a chopper? I'm glad they're porting it to PC, though. I'd like to get my roommate into it, and be able to play at the same time. But I'd really prefer that they fixed some of the problems they already have, (freezing issues, few Survivals, etc...).
What we should be doing is eliminating top-level names like.com,.org,.net, and especially.mil, because these are all American-biased. Instead, every country should get its own two-letter domain (.uk,.us, etc.), and inside each of those there should be.co,.org,.mil,.gov, etc..
I feel I must be missing something because, wouldn't be better to petition the site actually hosting the content you object to, rather than the search engine that found it? I mean, wouldn't you next have to go to DuckDuckGo, and then to all the other search engines, and search engines of the future, to get them to remove the same results? Surely I'm not understanding this ruling? Maybe it's cached results of content, long gone, that they want removed? That's gotta be it. Right?
Another alternative for hair is just to condition, not shampoo.
The introduction of conditioner is what allowed the practice of daily shampooing to become common. I can still remember the Clairol Herbal Essence commercial jingle from the late sixties / early seventies:
"You can wash your hair, now, every night, every night...",
Myself, I stopped shampooing daily in the eighties. I rarely shampoo more than once per month, just rinse it with water during my daily shower. My (long) hair stays clean enough, looks healthy, and is easier to manage. If you're not using shampoo, you'll have no need of conditioner, (except when you do shampoo).
Dear Google, If you're reading this, (haha, I know you are!), please, come save me from the Comcast-Time Warner monopoly and their slow as molasses high-speed internet.
Except the act of actually playing it *once* physically destroys the media. Vinyl is like driving a new car off the lot: the value drops by about 20% the first time you drive it. Then each additional time you drive it, the value drops by an additional amount. If you play vinyl about 15 times, you have lost more than 50% of the original material. The stylus ploughing through (relatively) soft plastic is like a steel plough going through (relatively) soft soil. At some point all you have is a smooth "shhhhhhhhhh" sound with very faint sounding something that used to be music. You do make a point though "Vinyl is still fairly superior for physical archiving"....so long as you never play it.
I'm sorry, that's complete hogwash. I don't know if you've ever owned records, but I've been buying them since the mid-sixties. I'm sure I have many records that are older than you are. If you only get fifteen plays out of an album, you are doing something seriously wrong. I'm a little shocked at how many slashdotters seem to believe this nonsense, but I guess many people have now grown up without any exposure to vinyl. Now, if you're not here to cut the grass, please get off my lawn.
With proper handling and a proper turntable setup, records can be played and last many decades. I have records that are fifty years old, records I've played many times, that are in perfect shape. My punk records from the late seventies / early eighties got a lot of use, bordering on abuse, when I was a club DJ thirty-some years ago. Still got 'em, and they still play great. I'm sure records will "wear-out" eventually, but jeez, several decades of use seems "fairly superior" to me, compared with other physical media.
When CDs first came out in the mid-eighties, we were promised that:
a.) they'd sound better, and
b.) they'd last forever.
I was an early adopter, but by the mid-nineties, I'd figured out the hard way that neither were true. At least, not if you had a proper hifi.* Thank god, I kept all my records! By 1995, I traded-in all my CDs for more records, and have never looked back. I am very grateful the rest of the world seems to be catching up. There was a short period when I thought records would cease to be made.
I have many records that are thirty, forty, and fifty years old, and play perfectly. I had always taken care of my records, and did the same with CDs. Yet, my CDs, no matter how carefully I handled them, would always end up skipping, or making weird noises. With the advent of high(er) speed internet and the MP3, and later, better file formats, it always shocks me to hear that anyone buys CDs anymore.
*If you have less than a couple thousand dollars to spend on sound reproduction, you are definitely better off going with digital. With a $500 turntable/cartridge setup, you're gonna continue to wonder why people say records sound better.
What are they gonna do with big speakers? I doubt one in fifty slash-dotters owns a proper stereo to begin with, (put down the keyboard, I'm not talking about you). Few people understand what "flat bass" means, let alone care about it. They just want to hear low-end of some sort. For them, Bose sounds great. In fact, I would venture to say many people actually like boomy bass. People buy these Dre's to connect an iPod. How good do they have to be? Isn't it the name printed on them that really counts?
Kudzu. Just sayin'. And for a novel lifeform, the whole World is its oyster, (or Zebra Mussel), since it would essentially be an invasive species everywhere in the World. The Law of Unintended Consequences, and all that....
I love talking to people who are adamant that intelligence is not heritable, yet believe in evolution. When I ask how we evolved from presumably less intelligent ape-like ancestors without intelligence being heritable, I can almost see the gears grind to a halt.
As usual, it's a bit of both. What is clear is that anyone can improve their level of intelligence.
I think this is intended for those users who use poor passwords. Although, come to think of it, it wouldn't help them either.
This shouldn't be an issue. I'm a long-time Mac OS user, which has come with an encrypted password manager since at least 2001. I'm sure Windows must have one by now, too. It's trivial to create a strong, unique password for every site or service I sign-up to, (somewhere north of 600 unique passwords, now), and I've only had to remember one strong password all these years. I've never had an account compromised. Why isn't everyone doing this?
If you were a little older, kid, you'd be remembering the reliability of older cars much differently. You grew up during the dark days of American car making. I'll take the simplicity and rock-solid build of a 1960's American car, any day.
And that fact is largely to blame for most of the problems I have with the internet.
The internet used to be a labor of love: if you loved something, you had a site. It wasn't about making a buck off of people. Call me whatever name you like, but I'd rather 300 baud of people who love what they're hosting than 1Gbps of adware.
I'm with you. I liked the internet a lot better before everyone decided they needed to make a buck off it. I wish most of these commercial sites would go out of business. It's actually a lot harder to find stuff I'm interested in, now.
Here's another thing I learned in the early days of the internet: Never use your real name online. You use your real name on Facebook, and you care about your privacy? I'm sorry, you're an idiot. It seems like every month there's an article like this, from some clueless "tech writer" who seems completely oblivious to the existence of ad and tracker blocking, and cookie management. I'm a truck driver, for god's sake.
I wish I had mod points now. The DEA should have no say whatsoever over a highly useful and perfectly legal over the counter medication. I have never cooked meth and have never been found guilty of cooking meth. Therefor, as I am innocent until proven guilty, the proper assumption is that I am not going to cook meth with a box of decongestant.
Law enforcement is supposed to cause less harm than criminals.
The DEA shouldn't exist, period. How adult people choose to spend their free time should be no concern of government. Prohibition always creates crime where none existed.
How do people even make meth in this country? Anything with Pseudoephedrine in it requires them to scan your drivers license.
Clearly you've never heard of "smurfing." The large-scale operations have mostly been taken over by Mexico, where this pesky law doesn't exist. As always, where there's a will, there's a way.
I still remember the first time I ever saw a personal computer. I guess it was around 1979, and my friend bought some kind of computer that you hooked up to a TV, and, if I'm remembering correctly, you programmed in Basic, and had eight switches instead of a keyboard, (again, if I'm remembering correctly. Is that possible?). I wish I knew what this thing was. Anyway, the most interesting thing to me was that you could write a program that would make a sort of swirling psychedelic pattern happen on the TV screen - excuse me, monitor.
What I do remember clearly, is thinking, "Why in the world would anybody ever want a computer at home?" A few years later, I wanted a MacIntosh, badly.
Man, what country do you live in? Here in the US, you have two choices: The local cable internet monopoly, or nothing. Unless you seriously consider wireless phone data an option.
What bloodhawk said. The MPAA and RIAA just never seem to learn. I swear, it's like they want you to pirate. Here, some foreigners (I'm in the US) are willing to pay for convenient access to their lousy content, but no, they can't allow that for some fucking reason. Well, at least these people have their VPN already, so that they can download torrents in peace.
I ran it, (after pausing all my various blocking wares), and in most fields it came up with: "insufficient data." Elsewhere, it was plain wrong. The few things it was able to figure out, like my age, are explicit on the FB page. And of course, it could determine my city, also explicit. Of course, I'm old school, and never use my real name on the internet. I'm blocking trackers and ads, and tossing cookies each session, so I don't know if FB's getting much that is useful on me.
The current thinking seems to be, "Hey, the universe is big. There must be other life out there!" Uh-uh. There is zero evidence, and really, little reason, to think that the formation of life was anything other than a unique event. There's your Great Filter, right there.
Until we know how life came to be, we can say nothing about its existence elsewhere. Here we sit in the most habitable of habitable zones, on the most Earth-like planet possible, and life has only arisen once. Yet, people talk as if the moons of Jupiter could be teeming with life! I don't think so. As for the Drake Equation, it is merely math. Just because one plus one equals two, doesn't mean you have two of anything.
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Yes, there is an obstructionist Congress, but there are many areas where the president could've acted freely and unilaterally, (to keep the campaign promises that got him elected in the first place), but didn't. He could've been light-years better than his predecessor, but in fact, his record is worse in many instances. I hope the examples are glaring enough for even the most ardent supporter not to need them listed here. The sad truth is that, even our team lies about campaign promises.
I agree with most of what you say, but we at least know that the condition of our early planet was (self-evidently) quite favorable. Still, that tells us almost nothing, since we have no idea how life actually formed, or why. Can't wait till someone figures that out.
The center of the galaxy is not considered a habitable zone. Nor is the outer part. If you divided the galaxy into a three-ring bullseye, you want the middle (second) ring. If your looking for other life in any galaxy, the center's not the direction to head. We are in the Goldilocks zone.
Seems whenever I have mod points, I can find nothing to mod up. Wish I had some now.
We have no idea how life began. We have no idea whether or not the formation of life was a unique event. People are using math to extrapolate the number of possible civilizations but, just because two times two is four, doesn't mean you have four of anything. It is ridiculous to make predictions based upon a single data point of which almost nothing is known.
Yeah, I think I have quite enough random cars jumping in front of me as it is. Of course, if you're on foot and need a vehicle, they simply do not spawn near you. But get in a car, and suddenly the streets are full. I wonder if they're referring to the way traffic spawns when you're not in it, say, as seen from a chopper?
I'm glad they're porting it to PC, though. I'd like to get my roommate into it, and be able to play at the same time. But I'd really prefer that they fixed some of the problems they already have, (freezing issues, few Survivals, etc...).
What we should be doing is eliminating top-level names like .com, .org, .net, and especially .mil, because these are all American-biased. Instead, every country should get its own two-letter domain (.uk, .us, etc.), and inside each of those there should be .co, .org, .mil, .gov, etc. .
Hey, that actually makes sense!
I feel I must be missing something because, wouldn't be better to petition the site actually hosting the content you object to, rather than the search engine that found it? I mean, wouldn't you next have to go to DuckDuckGo, and then to all the other search engines, and search engines of the future, to get them to remove the same results? Surely I'm not understanding this ruling? Maybe it's cached results of content, long gone, that they want removed? That's gotta be it. Right?
Another alternative for hair is just to condition, not shampoo.
The introduction of conditioner is what allowed the practice of daily shampooing to become common. I can still remember the Clairol Herbal Essence commercial jingle from the late sixties / early seventies:
"You can wash your hair, now, every night, every night...",
Myself, I stopped shampooing daily in the eighties. I rarely shampoo more than once per month, just rinse it with water during my daily shower. My (long) hair stays clean enough, looks healthy, and is easier to manage. If you're not using shampoo, you'll have no need of conditioner, (except when you do shampoo).
Dear Google,
If you're reading this, (haha, I know you are!), please, come save me from the Comcast-Time Warner monopoly and their slow as molasses high-speed internet.
Except the act of actually playing it *once* physically destroys the media. Vinyl is like driving a new car off the lot: the value drops by about 20% the first time you drive it. Then each additional time you drive it, the value drops by an additional amount. If you play vinyl about 15 times, you have lost more than 50% of the original material. The stylus ploughing through (relatively) soft plastic is like a steel plough going through (relatively) soft soil. At some point all you have is a smooth "shhhhhhhhhh" sound with very faint sounding something that used to be music. You do make a point though "Vinyl is still fairly superior for physical archiving" ....so long as you never play it.
I'm sorry, that's complete hogwash. I don't know if you've ever owned records, but I've been buying them since the mid-sixties. I'm sure I have many records that are older than you are. If you only get fifteen plays out of an album, you are doing something seriously wrong. I'm a little shocked at how many slashdotters seem to believe this nonsense, but I guess many people have now grown up without any exposure to vinyl. Now, if you're not here to cut the grass, please get off my lawn.
With proper handling and a proper turntable setup, records can be played and last many decades. I have records that are fifty years old, records I've played many times, that are in perfect shape. My punk records from the late seventies / early eighties got a lot of use, bordering on abuse, when I was a club DJ thirty-some years ago. Still got 'em, and they still play great. I'm sure records will "wear-out" eventually, but jeez, several decades of use seems "fairly superior" to me, compared with other physical media.
When CDs first came out in the mid-eighties, we were promised that:
a.) they'd sound better, and
b.) they'd last forever.
I was an early adopter, but by the mid-nineties, I'd figured out the hard way that neither were true. At least, not if you had a proper hifi.* Thank god, I kept all my records! By 1995, I traded-in all my CDs for more records, and have never looked back. I am very grateful the rest of the world seems to be catching up. There was a short period when I thought records would cease to be made.
I have many records that are thirty, forty, and fifty years old, and play perfectly. I had always taken care of my records, and did the same with CDs. Yet, my CDs, no matter how carefully I handled them, would always end up skipping, or making weird noises. With the advent of high(er) speed internet and the MP3, and later, better file formats, it always shocks me to hear that anyone buys CDs anymore.
*If you have less than a couple thousand dollars to spend on sound reproduction, you are definitely better off going with digital. With a $500 turntable/cartridge setup, you're gonna continue to wonder why people say records sound better.
What are they gonna do with big speakers? I doubt one in fifty slash-dotters owns a proper stereo to begin with, (put down the keyboard, I'm not talking about you). Few people understand what "flat bass" means, let alone care about it. They just want to hear low-end of some sort. For them, Bose sounds great. In fact, I would venture to say many people actually like boomy bass. People buy these Dre's to connect an iPod. How good do they have to be? Isn't it the name printed on them that really counts?
Kudzu. Just sayin'. And for a novel lifeform, the whole World is its oyster, (or Zebra Mussel), since it would essentially be an invasive species everywhere in the World. The Law of Unintended Consequences, and all that....
I love talking to people who are adamant that intelligence is not heritable, yet believe in evolution. When I ask how we evolved from presumably less intelligent ape-like ancestors without intelligence being heritable, I can almost see the gears grind to a halt.
As usual, it's a bit of both. What is clear is that anyone can improve their level of intelligence.
I think this is intended for those users who use poor passwords. Although, come to think of it, it wouldn't help them either.
This shouldn't be an issue. I'm a long-time Mac OS user, which has come with an encrypted password manager since at least 2001. I'm sure Windows must have one by now, too. It's trivial to create a strong, unique password for every site or service I sign-up to, (somewhere north of 600 unique passwords, now), and I've only had to remember one strong password all these years. I've never had an account compromised. Why isn't everyone doing this?
If you were a little older, kid, you'd be remembering the reliability of older cars much differently. You grew up during the dark days of American car making. I'll take the simplicity and rock-solid build of a 1960's American car, any day.
The web is largely funded by advertisement.
And that fact is largely to blame for most of the problems I have with the internet.
The internet used to be a labor of love: if you loved something, you had a site. It wasn't about making a buck off of people. Call me whatever name you like, but I'd rather 300 baud of people who love what they're hosting than 1Gbps of adware.
I'm with you. I liked the internet a lot better before everyone decided they needed to make a buck off it. I wish most of these commercial sites would go out of business. It's actually a lot harder to find stuff I'm interested in, now.
Here's another thing I learned in the early days of the internet: Never use your real name online. You use your real name on Facebook, and you care about your privacy? I'm sorry, you're an idiot. It seems like every month there's an article like this, from some clueless "tech writer" who seems completely oblivious to the existence of ad and tracker blocking, and cookie management. I'm a truck driver, for god's sake.
I wish I had mod points now. The DEA should have no say whatsoever over a highly useful and perfectly legal over the counter medication. I have never cooked meth and have never been found guilty of cooking meth. Therefor, as I am innocent until proven guilty, the proper assumption is that I am not going to cook meth with a box of decongestant.
Law enforcement is supposed to cause less harm than criminals.
The DEA shouldn't exist, period. How adult people choose to spend their free time should be no concern of government. Prohibition always creates crime where none existed.
How do people even make meth in this country? Anything with Pseudoephedrine in it requires them to scan your drivers license.
Clearly you've never heard of "smurfing." The large-scale operations have mostly been taken over by Mexico, where this pesky law doesn't exist. As always, where there's a will, there's a way.
I still remember the first time I ever saw a personal computer. I guess it was around 1979, and my friend bought some kind of computer that you hooked up to a TV, and, if I'm remembering correctly, you programmed in Basic, and had eight switches instead of a keyboard, (again, if I'm remembering correctly. Is that possible?). I wish I knew what this thing was. Anyway, the most interesting thing to me was that you could write a program that would make a sort of swirling psychedelic pattern happen on the TV screen - excuse me, monitor.
What I do remember clearly, is thinking, "Why in the world would anybody ever want a computer at home?" A few years later, I wanted a MacIntosh, badly.
Man, what country do you live in? Here in the US, you have two choices: The local cable internet monopoly, or nothing. Unless you seriously consider wireless phone data an option.
What bloodhawk said. The MPAA and RIAA just never seem to learn. I swear, it's like they want you to pirate. Here, some foreigners (I'm in the US) are willing to pay for convenient access to their lousy content, but no, they can't allow that for some fucking reason. Well, at least these people have their VPN already, so that they can download torrents in peace.
I ran it, (after pausing all my various blocking wares), and in most fields it came up with: "insufficient data." Elsewhere, it was plain wrong. The few things it was able to figure out, like my age, are explicit on the FB page. And of course, it could determine my city, also explicit.
Of course, I'm old school, and never use my real name on the internet. I'm blocking trackers and ads, and tossing cookies each session, so I don't know if FB's getting much that is useful on me.
The current thinking seems to be, "Hey, the universe is big. There must be other life out there!" Uh-uh. There is zero evidence, and really, little reason, to think that the formation of life was anything other than a unique event. There's your Great Filter, right there.
Until we know how life came to be, we can say nothing about its existence elsewhere. Here we sit in the most habitable of habitable zones, on the most Earth-like planet possible, and life has only arisen once. Yet, people talk as if the moons of Jupiter could be teeming with life! I don't think so. As for the Drake Equation, it is merely math. Just because one plus one equals two, doesn't mean you have two of anything.