2. If someone else does, it's their problem. They're not asking you to be their Mommy and tell them what's good (or bad) for them, anymore than you're asking them to be your Mommy....
Done. Problem solved.
And as an extra bonus (for one group or the other), someone will get to tell someone else "See!? I Told You So!"
So a win-win situation, in general. Yeah, you lose the "I told Wilbur and I told Orville that that thing would never fly" parts which sooooo many people enjoy. But that's a minor loss, really....
No, a 2.5F average increae in temps has nothing to do with forest fires. If it did, then we could reasonably expect that the requirement by the Feds in the 70s to set building thermostats up 6F would have increased the likelihood of building fires.
Probably the main cause of the increase in forest-fire acres burned has been the change in policy to let the fires burn until and unless they endanger human habitat(s). Which is much healthier overall for forests than the old policy, but which will more or less automatically result in more forest fires burning more acres....
The reason there is federal money is to limit the influence of these private interests.
No, the reason for Federal money is that primaries are expensive, and the Parties didn't want to do it on their own dime. So they got the various States to pay for it.
So, what else is new? I expect that about half the people wailing about this particular violation see nothing at all wrong with translating "shall not be infringed" as "shall be infringed if it scares me".....
Judges decide who is allowed to legally look at things.
Which is irrelevant to my question, since my question is more about who is going to be able to ILLEGALLY use the backdoor.
Or are you one of those people who think that the government can invent a flawed encryption scheme that is literally impossible for someone else to abuse?
Note, by the by, that your solution can be implemented by skipping the backdoor and making all encryption illegal. After all, the Judges can keep the government from abusing the openly available data about everything that happens anywhere in the world, right? And no criminal would DARE to look at all that freely available information - it's against the law to do so after all, and we all know that criminals are intensely law-abiding, right?
So, when are you planning on publishing YOUR banking information, credit card numbers, etc to the world? After all, the judges will keep that from being abused.....
On the other hand, no encryption means I have to go back to writing checks to pay bills, the way we did when I was a kid.
Because there's no way I'm putting my banking information online for everyone to look at using the backdoor(s) various people would love to see in place. Bad enough having to trust the people I WANT to give my money to, without having to absolutely trust everyone in the whole world who might want some of my money....
Even when they gained meager rights they were considered 3/5ths of a person.
Umm, no.
The 3/5 compromise was all about getting Slave States to vote to ratify the Constitution, since otherwise, the low population of the South would leave them basically screwed in the House.
Without that compromise, we would still be under the Articles of Confederation, or, more likely, split into five or six nations.
So, effectively, the 3/5 compromise set us up for the Civil War, and freeing the slaves, rather than the alternative, which would have left slavery alive and well....
You will not have enough supplies to live for hundreds or thousands of years so you are slowly going to run out of resources and eventually die anyway.
Frankly, if you have all the resources in the world, you're going to die long before "hundreds or thousands of years" anyways.
Hell, even if you believe in Biblical lifespans, you're talking a handful of people who've ever made "hundreds of years", much less "thousands of years"....
I had a similar thought, that these horrible amounts of pollution aren't doing a damned thing to reduce the net birth rate.
No, the net birthrate seems unaffected by this. It IS, however, affected by wealth. The wealthier societes (Japan, EU, US, places like that) are seeing declines in birthrates, to the point that Japan is already seeing negative population growth, with the EU and USA heading that way rapidly....
How about the next time his pickup truck exceeds the speed limit or parks illegally, we set it on fire. Is that OK?
Parked illegally on your propoerty? Tow it away and no problems. And no, you're not required to tell him where it was towed to. Set it on fire? Generally, setting ANYTHING on fire without a permit is illegal, so I wouldn't try that. Though if you left your pickup in front of my aunt's house, she'd set it on fire in a heartbeat. And dump the leftovers into the pond....
I'm curious. 18 manchines, user and admin for each, but only 32 passwords?
As to where to store them, I like PasswordSafe myself, but there are other password managers if passwordsafe isn't to your taste. Then I have to remember two passwords (the one for password safe & the login to one machine (the one I keep passwordsafe on).
By the by, any clue when the government is going to figure out that requiring passwords to be changes every X days is a bad idea, which encourages bad (easily remembered) passwords?
For that matter, I'm not all that impressed by rules requiring "at least one upper case letter, at least one number or punctuation, at least [this many] (which always turns into, for the user [this many} characters"....
I look forward to seeing George W. and Dick Cheney being convicted of war crimes in Iraq.
Based on the history of "war crimes trials", that should come just after Iraq invades the US, conquers it, and occupies it.
And at that point, noone will be surprised at Bush/Cheney war crimes trials.
Note that I expect the war/invasion/occupation to come almost immediately after the Second Coming of the Christ. Well, maybe not quite that soon, but sometime after that, anyway....
Note that Iraq can, if they wish, go ahead with the war crimes trials right now, if they'd like. But the entire world is going to just laugh and point if they do. When all's said and done, the prerequisite for "war crimes trials" is overwhemling military victory.
And if it's not obvious, no I don't approve of the concept of "war crimes trials". Even when applied to ex-NAZIs after WW2. It set a dangerously stupid precedent....
If they didn't threaten human stuff, the best thing to do would be to let them (the naturally caused ones, anyway) burn themselves out.
Good point. There are lifeforms that have evolved to take advantage of forest fires. And which were pushed close to extinction (in the USA) when our policy was "Forest fire?? Put it out, right now!".
The new Forest Service policy (new to me - some of you are probably young enough that it's been policy all your lives) is to let them burn unless they endanger humans or human property.
C"mon, we're talking 10000 acres here. 4000 hectares for those who can't be bothered to learn more than one way to measure things. The USA, currently, has something like 750 million acres of forest (300M hectares). So this 10K acres amounts to 0.00133% of the US forest land. Assuming the entire 10K acres is/was forest.
Oh, and Falcon doesn't use H2-O2. It uses Kerosene & LOX. And if there were 1000 Falcon launches annually, the pollutants released would still be rather lower than NYC's annual commuter traffic.
Yes, I know it's fashionable to hate on Musk. But he's not destroying the world, he's not taking food from the mouths of babies, he's not making things worse for anyone (except possibly ULA and the Russians)...
I know automation will come one day, but are we just making more poor people.
You're right! We should ban job-destroying things like this. And the cotton gin. Combine harvester. Railroads (do you even grasp how many teamster jobs were lost to the railroads??). Steamships. Fore-and-Aft-rigged sailing ships.
All of those things cost jobs! Thousands to millions of them each! So we should roll things back to 1600's technology, and we wouldn't have so many poor, unemployed people!
We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who breaks out in hives anytime they hear the words "socialized medicine".
We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who will sue anyone over anything bad that happens.
The problem isn't the lack of socialized medicine - it's the multi-billion dollar settlements that will come with any failure of the device in question. Because while the Feds have to approve use of these devices, they do NOT release the makers from liability by doing so....
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Let's try a novel approach to the problem.
1. If you don't want to go to Mars, don't.
2. If someone else does, it's their problem. They're not asking you to be their Mommy and tell them what's good (or bad) for them, anymore than you're asking them to be your Mommy....
Done. Problem solved.
And as an extra bonus (for one group or the other), someone will get to tell someone else "See!? I Told You So!"
So a win-win situation, in general. Yeah, you lose the "I told Wilbur and I told Orville that that thing would never fly" parts which sooooo many people enjoy. But that's a minor loss, really....
Probably the main cause of the increase in forest-fire acres burned has been the change in policy to let the fires burn until and unless they endanger human habitat(s). Which is much healthier overall for forests than the old policy, but which will more or less automatically result in more forest fires burning more acres....
Pepsi. Coca-Cola. Tea. Coffee. Pretty sure all of those fit your specification for "drug".
So, should we make all of those illegal?
First off, Constitution only allows two terms as President. Obama has had his, and isn't eligible to be Pres again, even as a write-in.
Secondly, he's not as popular as all that. He might come in third as a write-in, it's extremely unlikely he'd come in first.
No, the reason for Federal money is that primaries are expensive, and the Parties didn't want to do it on their own dime. So they got the various States to pay for it.
What stronger? This is a Cat 3 storm. There are usually several every year.
As long as we have that "legal tender for all debts, public and private" thing on our currency, that's not really an option....
So, what else is new? I expect that about half the people wailing about this particular violation see nothing at all wrong with translating "shall not be infringed" as "shall be infringed if it scares me".....
ICBMs are ALWAYS designed for suborbital trajectories. Otherwise, they wouldn't hit anything.
Even a FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) is suborbital.
They are "free healthcare"??
Really? If so, send me a couple. I could use some free healthcare on the hoof.
Oh, you meant "their free healthcare"?? Never mind.
Judges decide who is allowed to legally look at things.
Which is irrelevant to my question, since my question is more about who is going to be able to ILLEGALLY use the backdoor.
Or are you one of those people who think that the government can invent a flawed encryption scheme that is literally impossible for someone else to abuse?
Note, by the by, that your solution can be implemented by skipping the backdoor and making all encryption illegal. After all, the Judges can keep the government from abusing the openly available data about everything that happens anywhere in the world, right? And no criminal would DARE to look at all that freely available information - it's against the law to do so after all, and we all know that criminals are intensely law-abiding, right?
So, when are you planning on publishing YOUR banking information, credit card numbers, etc to the world? After all, the judges will keep that from being abused.....
On the other hand, no encryption means I have to go back to writing checks to pay bills, the way we did when I was a kid.
Because there's no way I'm putting my banking information online for everyone to look at using the backdoor(s) various people would love to see in place. Bad enough having to trust the people I WANT to give my money to, without having to absolutely trust everyone in the whole world who might want some of my money....
Okay, I'll bite. How do you make "official exceptions" that CANNOT be used by the "bad guys"? Seriously curious here.
Umm, no.
The 3/5 compromise was all about getting Slave States to vote to ratify the Constitution, since otherwise, the low population of the South would leave them basically screwed in the House.
Without that compromise, we would still be under the Articles of Confederation, or, more likely, split into five or six nations.
So, effectively, the 3/5 compromise set us up for the Civil War, and freeing the slaves, rather than the alternative, which would have left slavery alive and well....
Frankly, if you have all the resources in the world, you're going to die long before "hundreds or thousands of years" anyways.
Hell, even if you believe in Biblical lifespans, you're talking a handful of people who've ever made "hundreds of years", much less "thousands of years"....
No, the net birthrate seems unaffected by this. It IS, however, affected by wealth. The wealthier societes (Japan, EU, US, places like that) are seeing declines in birthrates, to the point that Japan is already seeing negative population growth, with the EU and USA heading that way rapidly....
Parked illegally on your propoerty? Tow it away and no problems. And no, you're not required to tell him where it was towed to. Set it on fire? Generally, setting ANYTHING on fire without a permit is illegal, so I wouldn't try that. Though if you left your pickup in front of my aunt's house, she'd set it on fire in a heartbeat. And dump the leftovers into the pond....
I'm curious. 18 manchines, user and admin for each, but only 32 passwords?
As to where to store them, I like PasswordSafe myself, but there are other password managers if passwordsafe isn't to your taste. Then I have to remember two passwords (the one for password safe & the login to one machine (the one I keep passwordsafe on).
By the by, any clue when the government is going to figure out that requiring passwords to be changes every X days is a bad idea, which encourages bad (easily remembered) passwords?
For that matter, I'm not all that impressed by rules requiring "at least one upper case letter, at least one number or punctuation, at least [this many] (which always turns into, for the user [this many} characters"....
He'd be right to think so. City names have been used for nuclear attack subs since Los Angeles (which is not named after Angels).
Based on the history of "war crimes trials", that should come just after Iraq invades the US, conquers it, and occupies it.
And at that point, noone will be surprised at Bush/Cheney war crimes trials.
Note that I expect the war/invasion/occupation to come almost immediately after the Second Coming of the Christ. Well, maybe not quite that soon, but sometime after that, anyway....
Note that Iraq can, if they wish, go ahead with the war crimes trials right now, if they'd like. But the entire world is going to just laugh and point if they do. When all's said and done, the prerequisite for "war crimes trials" is overwhemling military victory.
And if it's not obvious, no I don't approve of the concept of "war crimes trials". Even when applied to ex-NAZIs after WW2. It set a dangerously stupid precedent....
Are these the mandatory turn-ins that have been mostly ignored?
Or do they predate the mandatory turn-ins? If so, why did they have to do the mandatory turn-in if previously enacted laws worked so well?
Or do they post-date the mandatory turn-ins? If so, why did they work better than the mandatory turn-ins, which were mostly ignored?
Note that the Australian government says those turn-ins were largely ignored. It's not just propaganda by the pro-gun types....
Good point. There are lifeforms that have evolved to take advantage of forest fires. And which were pushed close to extinction (in the USA) when our policy was "Forest fire?? Put it out, right now!".
The new Forest Service policy (new to me - some of you are probably young enough that it's been policy all your lives) is to let them burn unless they endanger humans or human property.
C"mon, we're talking 10000 acres here. 4000 hectares for those who can't be bothered to learn more than one way to measure things. The USA, currently, has something like 750 million acres of forest (300M hectares). So this 10K acres amounts to 0.00133% of the US forest land. Assuming the entire 10K acres is/was forest.
Oh, and Falcon doesn't use H2-O2. It uses Kerosene & LOX. And if there were 1000 Falcon launches annually, the pollutants released would still be rather lower than NYC's annual commuter traffic.
Yes, I know it's fashionable to hate on Musk. But he's not destroying the world, he's not taking food from the mouths of babies, he's not making things worse for anyone (except possibly ULA and the Russians)...
IOW, chill.
You're right! We should ban job-destroying things like this. And the cotton gin. Combine harvester. Railroads (do you even grasp how many teamster jobs were lost to the railroads??). Steamships. Fore-and-Aft-rigged sailing ships.
All of those things cost jobs! Thousands to millions of them each! So we should roll things back to 1600's technology, and we wouldn't have so many poor, unemployed people!
We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who will sue anyone over anything bad that happens.
The problem isn't the lack of socialized medicine - it's the multi-billion dollar settlements that will come with any failure of the device in question. Because while the Feds have to approve use of these devices, they do NOT release the makers from liability by doing so....