There's a certain convenience with our tech, but it's at the destruction of their native way of life. $50 says a lot of middle-aged natives to elders would rather have the old ways of life.
I'd also think it's also about how these people's town is washing away.
As for their houses, and all that - it's us whiteys (Russians, Americans, etc) who ended up forcing this lifestyle on them. Had it not been for us, they'd still be living their native lifestyle, and probably a hell of a lot happier to boot.
"Ladies and Gentlement of the Jury, let the record show that the accused shot off-screen no fewer than 35 times in order to reload gun. Surely this goes beyond simple defense or insanity, and into the realm of premeditated downtime"
I live in Alaska. Any time I go out into the woods (fishing, hiking, camping) I carry a loaded.44 magnum. I do not leave the car without it. I wear it until I am back at the car. I've only had to draw it once (and I have never had to fire it at wildlife.)
The number of gun crimes are rising in Alaska, but it is not because of access to handguns (which you do not need a concealed weapon permit to carry, I might add.) There are plenty of rifle and shotgun related crimes (most often due to gangs or sheer stupidity - one instance involved a husband asking his wife to shoot a frying pan, which he held - and he ended up taking the ricocheted bullet. They were both drunk. Another fine instance was when the drunk husband held the rifle to his stomach, and asked his drunk wife to pull the trigger.)
Furthermore, limiting access to handguns wouldn't solve a thing; gang members have access to handguns before they are able to purchase them legally, and gang members have access to fully automatic weapons that require a permit to have in the first place.
The problem, one might say, is with idiots and degenerate gang members having them, but limiting access to the public won't affect either of those in the least.
Having been at last years Rubi-Con, I know personally that it's pretty much a group of small time thugs and petty theives. Most of them know little to nothing. It was horrible. People stopped showing up for their speaking sections after they found out what it was like.
Oh yeah. It's cool when you 'own' things in the hotel. Because 'owning' means 'destroying'. I liked the police dogs last year...
Sure - actual costs of disk space and such is pretty low. After all, you can get 120 GB for 100 bucks these days, and spam is pretty small in size. But how about having to upgrade a server because it's too busy handling spam? Or the time it takes me to sift through 500 spams for real mail in case I have a false-positive (as I do)? Or the cost of me having to set up all sorts of anti-spam filters to block it? How about the fact that I have to back up my server to tape, and a lot of those mail spools are spam. There's a lot more to the cost of SPAM than disk and network usage alone. It takes them an hour to set up the list, the content, and then the programs blast out spam. Cost to them: Minimal. Cost to me: enormous. Cost to my coworkers: enormous.
I've got the order to stop spam, but not lose mail. Fun!
Mature as in "This is not for kids, this contains violence", or "this is something that belongs at www.somethingawful.com/hentai" ? If it's 'adult' in the sense of 'hentai' then let's just leave it where it is. If it's adult as in 'not a kids video game' then they should move forward...
I run about 90 percent linux. My main workstations are all linux, and I dual boot for games alone. Once games are done, I boot back into linux. I use linux at work, linux on my servers, linux everywhere. I can play counter-strike in WINE, but since it doesn't support voice communication, it can't be used all the time (plus, standard WINE's handling of OpenGL games is pretty poor). Linux provides me with literally everything I need, except games..
Oy! I use turbolinux. Because of constraints with budget, and because I inherited them, I run a turbolinux web cluster. It runs very well. It's really useful, as if a server goes down, I only have bad pages for 10 secods. It's a pain to set up, but it's all I have, dangit.
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There's a certain convenience with our tech, but it's at the destruction of their native way of life. $50 says a lot of middle-aged natives to elders would rather have the old ways of life.
I'd also think it's also about how these people's town is washing away. As for their houses, and all that - it's us whiteys (Russians, Americans, etc) who ended up forcing this lifestyle on them. Had it not been for us, they'd still be living their native lifestyle, and probably a hell of a lot happier to boot.
"Ladies and Gentlement of the Jury, let the record show that the accused shot off-screen no fewer than 35 times in order to reload gun. Surely this goes beyond simple defense or insanity, and into the realm of premeditated downtime"
As we can see from Calculon, you aren't just stuck as a robot arm. Thespomat, David Duchovny - the sky is the limit.
I'm glad *somebody* got the reference. I knew I was going out on a limb making it, but I had to.
"The" tax man is just a little dehumanizing, thank you very much. (Some people are just sensitive about proper article use.)
Now if only they maintained their oil pipelines like they are required to.
I live in Alaska. Any time I go out into the woods (fishing, hiking, camping) I carry a loaded .44 magnum. I do not leave the car without it. I wear it until I am back at the car. I've only had to draw it once (and I have never had to fire it at wildlife.)
The number of gun crimes are rising in Alaska, but it is not because of access to handguns (which you do not need a concealed weapon permit to carry, I might add.) There are plenty of rifle and shotgun related crimes (most often due to gangs or sheer stupidity - one instance involved a husband asking his wife to shoot a frying pan, which he held - and he ended up taking the ricocheted bullet. They were both drunk. Another fine instance was when the drunk husband held the rifle to his stomach, and asked his drunk wife to pull the trigger.)
Furthermore, limiting access to handguns wouldn't solve a thing; gang members have access to handguns before they are able to purchase them legally, and gang members have access to fully automatic weapons that require a permit to have in the first place.
The problem, one might say, is with idiots and degenerate gang members having them, but limiting access to the public won't affect either of those in the least.
Having been at last years Rubi-Con, I know personally that it's pretty much a group of small time thugs and petty theives. Most of them know little to nothing. It was horrible. People stopped showing up for their speaking sections after they found out what it was like. Oh yeah. It's cool when you 'own' things in the hotel. Because 'owning' means 'destroying'. I liked the police dogs last year...
Sure - actual costs of disk space and such is pretty low. After all, you can get 120 GB for 100 bucks these days, and spam is pretty small in size. But how about having to upgrade a server because it's too busy handling spam? Or the time it takes me to sift through 500 spams for real mail in case I have a false-positive (as I do)? Or the cost of me having to set up all sorts of anti-spam filters to block it? How about the fact that I have to back up my server to tape, and a lot of those mail spools are spam. There's a lot more to the cost of SPAM than disk and network usage alone. It takes them an hour to set up the list, the content, and then the programs blast out spam. Cost to them: Minimal. Cost to me: enormous. Cost to my coworkers: enormous. I've got the order to stop spam, but not lose mail. Fun!
Mature as in "This is not for kids, this contains violence", or "this is something that belongs at www.somethingawful.com/hentai" ? If it's 'adult' in the sense of 'hentai' then let's just leave it where it is. If it's adult as in 'not a kids video game' then they should move forward...
I run about 90 percent linux. My main workstations are all linux, and I dual boot for games alone. Once games are done, I boot back into linux. I use linux at work, linux on my servers, linux everywhere. I can play counter-strike in WINE, but since it doesn't support voice communication, it can't be used all the time (plus, standard WINE's handling of OpenGL games is pretty poor). Linux provides me with literally everything I need, except games..
Oy! I use turbolinux. Because of constraints with budget, and because I inherited them, I run a turbolinux web cluster. It runs very well. It's really useful, as if a server goes down, I only have bad pages for 10 secods. It's a pain to set up, but it's all I have, dangit.