You can go to the library and read up on the NEC for free. What they charge for is the 'stupid tax' for people who don't understand that getting up out of the chair, actually turning off the computer awhile and going down to the library will answer their problems for free.
'Searching for all Info only on the Internet' is an obsession. I remember similar obsessions back in the early days of CDROM, when we'd all go out looking for something, *anything* on CD-ROM media to justfy having that expensive thing in the computer.
It's a good obsession, of course, because it causes people to do things like give complete sets of the Britannica Encyclopedia to a thrift store where I can buy them for fourty cents a volume (or less, I got a computer set at auction a few months ago for one dollar because nobody would bid on it). The Britannica CDROM ain't gonna work right in the next, or the next after that, version of Windows. The paper copies in my library work fine, one set I keep around is the 1917 edition (it has cool maps, for one thing...)
For the kind of people who don't want to download something and then have to keep track of the install binaries, it might be viewed as a 'value add' that he packages it, puts it on a CDR for them, etc.
I see places like CheapBytes doing that all the time.
Now, it does seem pretty annoying that he goes so far out of his way to rename them and make it almost impossible to identity the free downloadable version.
'Discrimination' would be if they went after only blue eyed people in an attempt primarily to discriminate against blue eyed people for whatever reason.
It's not discrimination to limit the scope of prosecution to a practical number of cases. And after a practical number of people have been 'made examples of' everybody else will fall in line.
Handguns are sometimes referred to as 'equalizers.' Let's face it, if someone is attacking you, they have prepared, and you quite likely haven't. So any weapon that requires skill and training, the assailant is at an advantage. A handgun, on the other hand, just requires a certain amount of training, and then is useful at close range without needing to be 'primed' or 'fit'. A smaller woman, for instance, can defend herself quite adequately with a handgun if she's had a bit of training in it's use. Let's not turn this into a ninja discussion.
I guess it's just a hopeless situation and we need to just turn over all our money to The Government to manage. They're so much better at it than anybody who works for said money could possible imagine.
The hypocricisy of certain political interests does not negate the truth of what needs to happen. There are actually people out there who think Big Government is bad. They're not aways the Party Activists (Democrat or Republican) who sustain the political machinery, but sometimes they actually achive good things.
Being cynical doesn't help anything at all. What it does do is encourage complacency. Worthless paper shufflers LOVE complacency, if it ensures that the forms will continue to roll in and they won't have to actually do anything productive for the economy.
There are specific laws prohibiting any private company from becoming a letter carrier. The parcel delivery business is different. If you set up a bicycle courier service in a big city, and your bicycle-riding delivery people put letters into the official US Postal Service mail boxes that people and businesses have put out on the street/sidewalk, your couriers will be arrested. It's specifically against the law for anybody except for an official USPS letter carrier to put letters in a mailbox.
The government overhead for Medicare/Medicaid might only be 3%, but the burden paid by people who choose to or have to pay actual cash for their health care is greatly increased by the mentality that government feed-troughs for the Medical Industry encourages.
The Health Care industry is based on a mentality of entitlements. The hospital/clinic is entitled to as much money as some bureaucrat in Washington decrees, not what a particular medical procedure costs, and not what people are willing or able to pay.
Actually, all the data I have ever seen shows that the Junk Mail subsidizes the actual person-to-person letters. The bulk mailers pay less, but are a profit center for the Postal Service, as they pre-package things efficiently, and are a consistent and predictable revenue stream for the Post Office.
Without the junk mail traffic, individual letters would probably need a $0.75 or more stamp on them.
If you go to FedEx or UPS, what you pay to ship a package is based on how far it's going. But with the post office, it's the same price no matter where you send your mail.
Actually, when I go to the Post Office to send a parcel out to somebody, they use the zip code to determine what zone it is in and I pay a rate according to the distance it will travel. And since I live in a rather small town with a post office but not a decent UPS storefront, the Post Office is where I ship things.
Letters are a different matter. Needless to say private companies are allowed to compete with the Postal Service to deliver parcels, but not letters.
The Postal Service is a government-enforced monopoly. How in blazes could anybody show you a better postal service? Even if there was a better postal service, operating underground and thriving, presenting it openly as an example would result in the Feds rolling in and shutting it down.
The Post Office is like Microsoft, with the difference that it's what Microsoft would be like if federal agents showed up at your house and arrested you for having anything other than Windows on your hard drive.
This kid is in custody and the wheels of justice are already turning. So let's get on with it. You're welcome to advocate prosecution of your bullet-point list of perceived 'criminals' after and/or concurrent with this process.
Or were you merely making one of those 'everybody does it' smear-everything-to-mush points?
I think you screwed up that quote. It is: 'A government of the people, by the people', not 'A government of the social-worker bureaucrats, for the benefit of the social-worker bureaucrats so they can meddle in people's affairs with theories they learned when they should have been courses with actual value in college.'
The point: The Nanny State needs to wither away. Cutting off it's money supply is a start. The number of times feeble attempts to turn 'Tax Cuts' into a bad thing in 'intellectual' circles is staggering.
The Clinton Administration loved selective enforcement strategies. "Here, let's have the IRS audit these people, and not poke around in these other peoples affairs...."
But isn't PC/104 still just an embedded AT-bus system? That would mean it's an 8 MHz 16 bit data path, wouldn't it? Please confirm or refute this, I haven't looked at PC/104 specs in years, and the bus may have evolved.
I've heard that the origin of PLC's being called that was because they got some sort of an exception from the Union by not being called a computer. Unions have traditionally been anti-Automation, and anything that says 'computer' on it is bound to be viewed with hostility.
Maybe somebody can confirm or contradict this. I found it interesting when a friend who's done a lot of industrial control systems told me.
Keep plugging together the modules 'the Man' told you were approved to fit into that ATX form factor case. Maybe you can get a really technical phillips screwdriver, one with cold cathode lights in the handle or something.
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Just type it all out again from memory with vi or emacs. Nobody will know the difference.
"Why have one painting of a sunset when you can have a whole album of half-finished water colors of sunsets....."
(or less, I got a computer set at auction a few months ago
Yikes. '...I got a complete set at auction...'
You can go to the library and read up on the NEC for free. What they charge for is the 'stupid tax' for people who don't understand that getting up out of the chair, actually turning off the computer awhile and going down to the library will answer their problems for free.
'Searching for all Info only on the Internet' is an obsession. I remember similar obsessions back in the early days of CDROM, when we'd all go out looking for something, *anything* on CD-ROM media to justfy having that expensive thing in the computer.
It's a good obsession, of course, because it causes people to do things like give complete sets of the Britannica Encyclopedia to a thrift store where I can buy them for fourty cents a volume (or less, I got a computer set at auction a few months ago for one dollar because nobody would bid on it). The Britannica CDROM ain't gonna work right in the next, or the next after that, version of Windows. The paper copies in my library work fine, one set I keep around is the 1917 edition (it has cool maps, for one thing...)
Well, enuff O.T. rant for the moment.
Why not? Spam could be part of a balanced meal along with, say, a few space food sticks.
For the kind of people who don't want to download something and then have to keep track of the install binaries, it might be viewed as a 'value add' that he packages it, puts it on a CDR for them, etc.
I see places like CheapBytes doing that all the time.
Now, it does seem pretty annoying that he goes so far out of his way to rename them and make it almost impossible to identity the free downloadable version.
'Discrimination' would be if they went after only blue eyed people in an attempt primarily to discriminate against blue eyed people for whatever reason.
It's not discrimination to limit the scope of prosecution to a practical number of cases. And after a practical number of people have been 'made examples of' everybody else will fall in line.
Handguns are sometimes referred to as 'equalizers.' Let's face it, if someone is attacking you, they have prepared, and you quite likely haven't. So any weapon that requires skill and training, the assailant is at an advantage. A handgun, on the other hand, just requires a certain amount of training, and then is useful at close range without needing to be 'primed' or 'fit'. A smaller woman, for instance, can defend herself quite adequately with a handgun if she's had a bit of training in it's use. Let's not turn this into a ninja discussion.
Naw, let's stick to prosecuting people responsible when bullets end up lodged in the wrong body organs, okay?
pot, kettle, black? Or did you just forget to include any citations?
I guess it's just a hopeless situation and we need to just turn over all our money to The Government to manage. They're so much better at it than anybody who works for said money could possible imagine.
The hypocricisy of certain political interests does not negate the truth of what needs to happen. There are actually people out there who think Big Government is bad. They're not aways the Party Activists (Democrat or Republican) who sustain the political machinery, but sometimes they actually achive good things.
Being cynical doesn't help anything at all. What it does do is encourage complacency. Worthless paper shufflers LOVE complacency, if it ensures that the forms will continue to roll in and they won't have to actually do anything productive for the economy.
There are specific laws prohibiting any private company from becoming a letter carrier. The parcel delivery business is different. If you set up a bicycle courier service in a big city, and your bicycle-riding delivery people put letters into the official US Postal Service mail boxes that people and businesses have put out on the street/sidewalk, your couriers will be arrested. It's specifically against the law for anybody except for an official USPS letter carrier to put letters in a mailbox.
The government overhead for Medicare/Medicaid might only be 3%, but the burden paid by people who choose to or have to pay actual cash for their health care is greatly increased by the mentality that government feed-troughs for the Medical Industry encourages.
The Health Care industry is based on a mentality of entitlements. The hospital/clinic is entitled to as much money as some bureaucrat in Washington decrees, not what a particular medical procedure costs, and not what people are willing or able to pay.
Actually, all the data I have ever seen shows that the Junk Mail subsidizes the actual person-to-person letters. The bulk mailers pay less, but are a profit center for the Postal Service, as they pre-package things efficiently, and are a consistent and predictable revenue stream for the Post Office.
Without the junk mail traffic, individual letters would probably need a $0.75 or more stamp on them.
If you go to FedEx or UPS, what you pay to ship a package is based on how far it's going. But with the post office, it's the same price no matter where you send your mail.
Actually, when I go to the Post Office to send a parcel out to somebody, they use the zip code to determine what zone it is in and I pay a rate according to the distance it will travel. And since I live in a rather small town with a post office but not a decent UPS storefront, the Post Office is where I ship things.
Letters are a different matter. Needless to say private companies are allowed to compete with the Postal Service to deliver parcels, but not letters.
The Postal Service is a government-enforced monopoly. How in blazes could anybody show you a better postal service? Even if there was a better postal service, operating underground and thriving, presenting it openly as an example would result in the Feds rolling in and shutting it down.
The Post Office is like Microsoft, with the difference that it's what Microsoft would be like if federal agents showed up at your house and arrested you for having anything other than Windows on your hard drive.
Fine.
This kid is in custody and the wheels of justice are already turning. So let's get on with it. You're welcome to advocate prosecution of your bullet-point list of perceived 'criminals' after and/or concurrent with this process.
Or were you merely making one of those 'everybody does it' smear-everything-to-mush points?
What's the point in 'rapid industrial growth' if the government taxes away everybody's income so noone can afford to buy anything?
Oh, I guess we can let bureaucrats and 'public interest' lobbyists decide what people need.
I think you screwed up that quote. It is: 'A government of the people, by the people', not 'A government of the social-worker bureaucrats, for the benefit of the social-worker bureaucrats so they can meddle in people's affairs with theories they learned when they should have been courses with actual value in college.'
The point: The Nanny State needs to wither away. Cutting off it's money supply is a start. The number of times feeble attempts to turn 'Tax Cuts' into a bad thing in 'intellectual' circles is staggering.
The Clinton Administration loved selective enforcement strategies. "Here, let's have the IRS audit these people, and not poke around in these other peoples affairs...."
But isn't PC/104 still just an embedded AT-bus system? That would mean it's an 8 MHz 16 bit data path, wouldn't it? Please confirm or refute this, I haven't looked at PC/104 specs in years, and the bus may have evolved.
I've heard that the origin of PLC's being called that was because they got some sort of an exception from the Union by not being called a computer. Unions have traditionally been anti-Automation, and anything that says 'computer' on it is bound to be viewed with hostility.
Maybe somebody can confirm or contradict this. I found it interesting when a friend who's done a lot of industrial control systems told me.
If you can't laugh at the buffoons at both ends of the political spectrum, you're taking crap waaaay too seriously.
Not that the 'wings' mean that much. The left wing and the right wing are both attached to the same big stupid bird flapping in the wind.
Well, then, that's even better, eh? So none of the people ranting about DRM or Palladium need to worry.
Still, the EFF needs money to pay the salaries of the VIPs on top, etc. Never mind....
Keep plugging together the modules 'the Man' told you were approved to fit into that ATX form factor case. Maybe you can get a really technical phillips screwdriver, one with cold cathode lights in the handle or something.