Indeed. Every webcomic and every news site has the same shit interface. I hate them all and I want them to be more like slashdot. If you guys are going to copy any website, copy a website clearly based on slashdot with well thought-out improvements: reddit. But given my druthers, you wouldn't copy any other website... it'd stay slashdot. Come for the vaguely nerd-related news, stay for the comments.
Yeah, that sounds more reasonable. In WA, there will be three licenses: grower, processor, retailer. There's a 25% excise tax on grower -> processor and processor -> retailer and a 25% sales tax. I think that's too much: it nearly doubles the price (%95 markup), which leaves a good margin for organized crime to profit in. But unfortunately, it's what we voted on. Promotional givaways to the public are illegal in WA, though growers and processors can give free samples to the next up the chain.
Obligatory: you don't know shit about the decision-making process of addicts. These aren't idiots fouling the gene pool. You're no smarter. Ignorant judgmental creeps like you should be culled from the gene pool -- we'd all be in a better if trivial levels of compassion were among "common sense".
Treat addiction like the disease it is, and it goes away. Encouraging addicts to off themselves only puts money into the pockets of the crooked assholes who peddle these drugs, exacerbating the problem. This drains the resources of the host society, reduces the available talent pool for the arts and sciences, and guess who can't afford birth control: addicts.
Self-righteous assholes like you are what got us to this place to begin with. May your ignorant worldview fuck off and die.
In a well-regulated market where customers know what they're buying, you would be absolutely correct. However, you're ignorant about the reality of drug market, and it shows.
Many dealers are sketchy assholes only out to make a buck. When demand drops on an already-cheap drug that they bought too much of, it gets cut into other more expensive drugs. If it gives a similar high to (say) heroin, then it'll get mixed with heroin. The effects will be less pronounced, but just as bad over time. The user gets addicted to it, and pretty soon, any other dealer's product won't give the fix.
Implementation of a good control framework is implicit to almost all pleas to legalize drugs. Don't just stop cracking down on drug labs. Tax the drugs, crack down on unlicensed labs, and audit the licensed ones frequently to make sure they're making pure stuff and selling it unadulterated. Regulate the entire supply stream, like Washington and Colorado are doing with pot, and organized crime dries up. Unless the tax is unreasonably high (as I expect to be the case in WA).
Especially if you feed them chickens. Weird quote from the article:
He's turning the larvae loose on some leftover bits of chicken. "The bugs consume this material. Probably 90 percent of the material is consumed, and all that's left is a little bit of bone and sinew and fur."
Um. Wut. Somebody sold him a strange chicken indeed, if it had fur.
Where do I sign up? If I could get a "code reviewed by third party" stamp on my papers, I'd feel a lot better about publishing the code and the results derived from it. Maybe mathematicians are weird like that -- I face stigma for using a computer, so anything I can do to make it look more trustworthy is awesome.
lolwut. Have you ever been in an airplane? Have you ever looked outside while in said airplane? If you said 'no' to either of these questions, you aren't qualified to make recommendations to the Air Force or FAA. I answered 'yes' to both of these questions, and have observed on many occasions that clouds are quite opaque, and would defeat any 'visual recognition algorithm'.
Not all large gatherings of white people are exclusive. Now, if you just hate white people, that's your problem.
All the burners I know would like to see more diversity: gender, culture, ancestry, politics, whatever. My neighbor is a chinese immigrant, and she had a blast there. Only you can make Burning Man a more diverse event. Pennsic, on the other hand... I've meet too many racists who devote their lives to the 'glory days' of old Europe, and too many black and hispanic SCAdians to really say either way. As I haven't been involved in the SCA for a decade, I don't know anybody I can ask if they feel excluded at wars.
Burning man is essentially the Pennsic of the maker community. There are a lot of nerds that go to burning man. Lotsa arduinos projects and hackers of all stripes. It's not just a drug scene.
The problem is the mini wall chargers. Cheap ones are made of cheap materials. If your transformer shorts at the wrong point (likely, since it's made on the cheap), you deliver 120VAC to your device that's built to handle 5VDC. And then whoever is holding on to the metal case gets a shock. And to anybody who's like "but why is the case connected to anything anyway?" It probably wasn't. But when you dump 120V into a 5V hole, and the phone is milimeters thin, an air gap just doesn't offer that much resistance.
I saw three of these things blow last week at my local hackspace (we were using them for Raspberry Pi's, but whatever). Bottom line: if you're going to make a cubic-inch transformer that steps 120v down to 5v, and put out an amp, you need to use quality materials. This isn't altruism on Apple's part, nor is it greed. This is them covering their asses. They can say "hey, look, we did everything we can -- the user bypassed warnings, and hacked her OS just to use a faulty charger". And they get zero fault.
It'll change. The terror may be unimaginable before it changes... but much will change. Who can stand up to the US? It'll take the alliance of China and Russia. We can't stand against their combined force. And so, in a fit of desperation, we'll use the bomb. In a world without humans, there will be peace. Does that mean Obama will deserve the peace prize after all?
Slashdot Mirror
LAAAAME
Nope, just the lamest attempt at an armed revolution, ever.
Indeed. Every webcomic and every news site has the same shit interface. I hate them all and I want them to be more like slashdot. If you guys are going to copy any website, copy a website clearly based on slashdot with well thought-out improvements: reddit. But given my druthers, you wouldn't copy any other website... it'd stay slashdot. Come for the vaguely nerd-related news, stay for the comments.
Standardize on paying Apple a licensing fee for every charger sold in the EU? Nice idea. Apple loves people like you.
Yeah, that sounds more reasonable. In WA, there will be three licenses: grower, processor, retailer. There's a 25% excise tax on grower -> processor and processor -> retailer and a 25% sales tax. I think that's too much: it nearly doubles the price (%95 markup), which leaves a good margin for organized crime to profit in. But unfortunately, it's what we voted on. Promotional givaways to the public are illegal in WA, though growers and processors can give free samples to the next up the chain.
Obligatory: you don't know shit about the decision-making process of addicts. These aren't idiots fouling the gene pool. You're no smarter. Ignorant judgmental creeps like you should be culled from the gene pool -- we'd all be in a better if trivial levels of compassion were among "common sense".
Treat addiction like the disease it is, and it goes away. Encouraging addicts to off themselves only puts money into the pockets of the crooked assholes who peddle these drugs, exacerbating the problem. This drains the resources of the host society, reduces the available talent pool for the arts and sciences, and guess who can't afford birth control: addicts.
Self-righteous assholes like you are what got us to this place to begin with. May your ignorant worldview fuck off and die.
In a well-regulated market where customers know what they're buying, you would be absolutely correct. However, you're ignorant about the reality of drug market, and it shows.
Many dealers are sketchy assholes only out to make a buck. When demand drops on an already-cheap drug that they bought too much of, it gets cut into other more expensive drugs. If it gives a similar high to (say) heroin, then it'll get mixed with heroin. The effects will be less pronounced, but just as bad over time. The user gets addicted to it, and pretty soon, any other dealer's product won't give the fix.
Implementation of a good control framework is implicit to almost all pleas to legalize drugs. Don't just stop cracking down on drug labs. Tax the drugs, crack down on unlicensed labs, and audit the licensed ones frequently to make sure they're making pure stuff and selling it unadulterated. Regulate the entire supply stream, like Washington and Colorado are doing with pot, and organized crime dries up. Unless the tax is unreasonably high (as I expect to be the case in WA).
George W. Bush is still from Connecticut, no matter what he wants the Rupublicans to believe.
Wrong both counts.
He's turning the larvae loose on some leftover bits of chicken. "The bugs consume this material. Probably 90 percent of the material is consumed, and all that's left is a little bit of bone and sinew and fur."
Um. Wut. Somebody sold him a strange chicken indeed, if it had fur.
The topic is "BSA being asshats to the hacker scouts". An imaginary plagiarized shaggy-dog story about scout camp is not relevant to the topic.
That's what I call a false dichotomy. The post is clearly offtopic.
Where do I sign up? If I could get a "code reviewed by third party" stamp on my papers, I'd feel a lot better about publishing the code and the results derived from it. Maybe mathematicians are weird like that -- I face stigma for using a computer, so anything I can do to make it look more trustworthy is awesome.
Don't be silly. That just doesn't happen. Not in the air.
lolwut. Have you ever been in an airplane? Have you ever looked outside while in said airplane? If you said 'no' to either of these questions, you aren't qualified to make recommendations to the Air Force or FAA. I answered 'yes' to both of these questions, and have observed on many occasions that clouds are quite opaque, and would defeat any 'visual recognition algorithm'.
Not all large gatherings of white people are exclusive. Now, if you just hate white people, that's your problem.
All the burners I know would like to see more diversity: gender, culture, ancestry, politics, whatever. My neighbor is a chinese immigrant, and she had a blast there. Only you can make Burning Man a more diverse event. Pennsic, on the other hand... I've meet too many racists who devote their lives to the 'glory days' of old Europe, and too many black and hispanic SCAdians to really say either way. As I haven't been involved in the SCA for a decade, I don't know anybody I can ask if they feel excluded at wars.
Burning man is essentially the Pennsic of the maker community. There are a lot of nerds that go to burning man. Lotsa arduinos projects and hackers of all stripes. It's not just a drug scene.
Fun fact: hipsters existed before hippies.
Not if it burns to pee beforehand. Remember, burning man is about sharing.
Funny thing about this: legally liable means less to a megacorp like apple than the threat of lost sales.
The problem is the mini wall chargers. Cheap ones are made of cheap materials. If your transformer shorts at the wrong point (likely, since it's made on the cheap), you deliver 120VAC to your device that's built to handle 5VDC. And then whoever is holding on to the metal case gets a shock. And to anybody who's like "but why is the case connected to anything anyway?" It probably wasn't. But when you dump 120V into a 5V hole, and the phone is milimeters thin, an air gap just doesn't offer that much resistance.
I saw three of these things blow last week at my local hackspace (we were using them for Raspberry Pi's, but whatever). Bottom line: if you're going to make a cubic-inch transformer that steps 120v down to 5v, and put out an amp, you need to use quality materials. This isn't altruism on Apple's part, nor is it greed. This is them covering their asses. They can say "hey, look, we did everything we can -- the user bypassed warnings, and hacked her OS just to use a faulty charger". And they get zero fault.
It'll change. The terror may be unimaginable before it changes... but much will change. Who can stand up to the US? It'll take the alliance of China and Russia. We can't stand against their combined force. And so, in a fit of desperation, we'll use the bomb. In a world without humans, there will be peace. Does that mean Obama will deserve the peace prize after all?
Shot for preparing to leak documents, actually.