I'd finally be able to install that rail gun I've always wanted out back so that I ca drop hypersonic kinetic kill payloads on what ever jack hole is blathering on in the media about some idiotic topic.
It's my Constitutional right to be able to bare rail guns, so I don't want to hear about it from all you pinko-commies.
So in otherwords you want to be assigned when and how much you can buy gas for? Commrad Lenon would be so proud of you!
Here is an example for you.
You think the price of gas is going up before a holiday so you rush over to the gas station a few days in advance and fill up your car and an extra gas can to avoid the higher price. You are actually speculating.
So that should be illegal right? Oh wait you mean when the "other guy" does it because he is just being evil and trying make money off of it and only when he buys a whole bunch of gas! Like say a farmer or a businessman or an airline......
Oh wait you mean those really bad "other guys" buying and selling futures in the stock market. Those evil jerks drive up the prices right? So now the regional distributor has no fuel to carry your city through said holiday because he can only buy fuel when it's his turn at the set low price and when you go to fill up your car at the gas station they have no gas................Starting to get the idea yet?
The President or Congress or some beurocrat in Washing would get to pick when you get fuel for your city based on it's need, and since you and your city didn't vote for them in the last election (or pay bribes) they choose to put you very low on the waiting list for that wonderful cheap fuel. See isn't central planning fun!!
You need to go take a couple a couple of economics classes and I don't know maybe read a little history from the WW1 & WW2 and about the fuel shortages during the 70's to find out that price fixing and rationing does not work......ever
Come back when you head has a little more content in it and maybe then you can have a valid opinion.
I think the point they were trying to make is if you are charged with something, I would assume minor such as a parking violation, littering, or a speeding ticket, and every single person demanded a trial it would collapse the system.
You don't have to pick something that will get you the death penalty that will get you life in prison to make your point.
Go to a protest, get arrested for tresspassing, make and ass of yourself so you actually get charged, demand a trial even if they offer you a light fine, and clog up a court room for a few hours/days. Multiply that by 1000 and suddenly the court system in a city is shut down for a month. Multiply that by another 1000 and you'd shut down half the courts in the country.
Of course two can play that game. A few small automated drones with image recognition that find, lock onto, and track police officers and their cars and broadcast live their activities on youtube and position information on google maps as well as where they live and who are their family members are.
Once that starts happening we'll finally have a serious discussion about privacy. (After they try to ban that but find out it's impossible to do so.)
Sounds like they need to come out with that laser based pest (mosquito) control sooner than later.
"Oops I'm sorry officer but it keeps getting getting flying cock roaches and your surveillance quad copter mixed up and burning a hole through it."
As far as "seeing" in your house the police using IR cameras to spy on you will just motivate everyone that much more to go green faster and heavily insulate their homes making those cameras pretty much useless for spying. Personally I'd rather have them us IR for patrolling so maybe we can finally get rid of the rediculous amount of outdoor lighting we have everywhere in the city.
The bacteria may have a shot lifespan, but the spore out there lasts for years and can be stired up by wind storms. Of course you lungs are not exactly a dry air location, as a result you can get some much nastier respiratory diseases in both California and Nevada that you typically don't see anywhere else.
I'm getting to the point that it's hardly worth even renting the things anymore there is so lettle worth watching these days, much less thake home and rip.
"What the gas rings can be used for is transporting other gasses (like pepper spray or tear gas or pesticide) long distances with a decent amount of accuracy, holding their cargo inside the calm center spinning vortex"
We already have an old school "vortex" gun that spins a piece of lead to delivery it with extremely high amounts of accuracy over much greater distances. It works on criminals, looters, politicians (what happens when the first two marry and have kids), and protesters equally well.
Don't let them fool you. They don't ride the public tranport outside major cities any more than we do in the US, and in the major cities it is bumper to bumper traffic.
Small villages and towns you could walk in, but that was only because of zoning and not due to a lack of cars. (The streets were lined with them). For example I never lived more than a block away (5-10 houses) from a pub in any village I lived in. (A village is the equivalent to a small neighboorhood.) Which is very rarely allowed in the US. Same goes for post offices and small markets.
Density in small towns was also due to zoning. Living in Newmarket within a 10 minute walk I had a choice of 20+ pubs and resturants and a few corner markets, but I also could reach out my bathroom window and hand my neighboor a roll of TP if he was out. So if you don't mind living on top of one another it's a great place to live.
Public transport out there was horrible. The busses were too few, too infrequent, and too expensive. (We didn't have to buy the $9 a gallon gas off base) Same goes for the train. There was a stop in town, but realistically you needed to drive to Cambridge (25 minutes away) if you wanted a convient time to travel. If you wanted to goto London you had the choice of paying $50 (per person) to ride the train or spend $30 on gas and drive yourself and three friends
Also outside the major cities and large towns riding a bicycle was an exercise in near death experiences. No shoulders, few sidewalks, narrow road, and a 40-60mph speed limit definitely made riding your bike very exciting.
Out in East Anglia that seemed to be a constant problem. Many of the signs were on the low walls that everyone had around their property, usually behind some bushes or weeds and only on one side of the street.
Throw that in with the grand bulk of direction signs telling you where a road went to rather than which road you were actually on, (not really the same thing when 2-3 roads leading out of town can go to the same place eventually) made for some rather confusing trips at times.
UK had some of the worse roads I've ever seen, but man they were fun tearing around on the them in my old BMW on an early morning. Narrow, twisty, and dangerous as hell, but an absolute blast!
Those "street sign" thingies don't exist in an organized fashion in England and other European countries I've visited where the roads and the locals have been their 700+ years before you showed up who really never put much thought in the fact that most of their streets had no signs.
Often I found myself driving around a village or town lost, unable to find the side street I was looking for only to find it on the way back out of town realizing it was on a wall or house that was only viewable from the street going in one direction.
I'd give it up, he just has to pay a licensing fee for my data. I'm thinking $10,000 yearly sounds about right.
Really that's what it boils down to, Facebook and most other websites really don't have that much to offer that doesn't already to exist in day to day life. If they want more from me then they are going to have to give me more.
Either you come up with something truly usefull, such as a dating site, that can actually find the best match for you damn near every time, or a job website that again can find you a job that suites you perfectly I see absolutely no need to make anything "easy" for them.
Or they can simple pay my yearly licensing fee. Their choice.
1 TB can be had for about $1,675 these days. Take a look at OCZ SSDs on new egg. The price is falling nicely, though I doubt it'll catch spinners in the next 10 years for cheapness.
Because for small random I/O operations, SSDs are about 100x as fast as mechanical drives, but nowhere near 100x as expensive. This is not too dissimilar to moving from spools of tape to hard drives. Tape still has better capacity per dollar than disk, but you don't see anybody booting their PC off tape, do you?
Just had a flashback of my TRS-80 that I had as a kid. Pressing play on the tape drive to listen to the data so I could line up on a program to load. Cassett tapes were expensive so you put lots of programs on them and had to write down the counter number in order to fast forward to them.
Seek time could be measured in minutes if my little sister or parenst were bugging me.
In reality the concept of "correct" spelling is a fairly new one. Until that OCD bastard Webster made his dictionary the English language was pretty fluid and there were multiple spellings for many words.
I've never had a head for spelling. I take that back, I do, I just could care less. But on a side note if I get within a drink or two of severe inebriation my posts and text have near perfect spelling and grammer. So much so when I'm drunk texting at 1AM my friends accuse me of lying about being drunk.
While I was attending University of Missouri, Columbia we had to take accessment exams and every year the engineering department would stomp on everyone else in EVERY catagory including the ones they were supposed to be good at.
And yes it drives me nuts to watch movies. Almost to the point where to enjoy a movie, with a lot of technical elements I need to have a beer or five so I don't nit pick.
The only things smarter than an engineer is a technician (I happen to be both). Engineers may know all the math, but they usually have no practical hand on and have a nasty habit of designing things that are half impossible to repair.
"WHY would it every break I'm a very smart engineer"
To which the tech responds: "You are a fucking moron. You put the part (that "never" breaks every 6-18months) behind three other parts and an access panel for absolutley no reason, when there was plenty of space to mount it where I could fix it in five minutes instead of 6 hours.
:) No I'm talking about downloading 5-10 things at once. Not looking at webpages. Webpages still take a noticebable amount of time to load which is entirely dependent on the servers. So I'll open 10-15 of those and go back to them once they've all loaded.
A typical heavy load for me. (all at the same time) Running software updates, watching a movie (streaming), downloading another movie/game/etc, uploading a ripped dvd to a friend while talking to said friend on skype/video and poking around on the web. I might use 1/2 of my FIOS connection.
I'd love a 1Gbps internet connection. Doing transfers around the house over the 1Gbps lan is nice. On older spin drives it is faster than they can go, so it does feel like you are working with files on your machine.
;) Not faster than my harddrive I just swapped in a pair of Raided OCZ Vertex 3's which pretty much saturate the 6Gbps Sata 3.
The only reason your connection is outstriping your requirements is that the servers are still throttling individual connections to content.
I can barely take advantage of my 25/25Mbtps FIOS line with a single website, but I can make it breath a little harder by doing 5-10 at once. Until I can get 3-5MBps transfer rates consistently from most websites I doubt I ever will push it to it's limits.
My first modem was this 900 baud monstrosity that a friend gave to me(he "upgraded" to a 2400!). It was slightly faster than having someone just read the code off to you over the phone and type it in yourself.
We didn't have that inter-whats-it thingy back then. Just modems and some really high long distance phone bills if you wanted anything that was located out of town.
In the sixties and seventies people could afford 1 car not 2. Cars were death traps back then.
Gas was completely unregulated back then. I for one don't miss the smog and the lead.
Food is still relatively inexpensive if you actually make your own. No one in the 60/70's bought large quantites of pre-made food and ate out for 3 meals a day of fast food.
None of the things that people consider necessities now existed back then, and what did was insanely expensive.
2-4 cars per family - absolutley fuck no!
Tv's bigger than 24" no, color TV no, cheap Tv's - no
Home computers - no.
Home entertainment systems - no
Video game consoles - no
Internet or cable tv - no
Digital phones, cheap long distance (video/global calls unavailable) - no
Cell phones - hell no
Designer/label clothes - yes did everyone wear them - no
Cheap airfare - no
Houses bigger than 2000sq ft - rarely
Cheap electronics - hell no - stereos/record players/tvs were very expensive
Digital photography - no - just very expensive film based
Modern medical treatments - no - you lived (or not) with most ailements that are trivial to treat now
Advanced education nearly universally available - no
What most people take for granted today as a mediocre lifestyle is beyond what even the wealthy had access to in the 60's and 70's
If you want to live that dream lifestyle just strip all the things above from you and your family and you'll find today's pay quite easy to get by on
A US citizen is responsible for 10 to 20 times more resource and energy consumption than a Chinese or Indian citizen, for example.
A US citizen is also usually responsible for 10 to 20 times more resource and energy production than a Chinese or Indian citizen. If they want more resources and energy all they have to do is produce them.
Yes and you in Europe with your 50-75% tax rates are doing oh so much better. I lived in England and worked throughout Europe for the last three years. Everything costs twice as much and is half the size, and let's here it for those high double digit unemployment rates!
The women are not typically not nearly as fat(sigh)and the beer is much better(double sigh), but other than that you guys are swiming in as many problems as we are.
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It's my Constitutional right to be able to bare rail guns, so I don't want to hear about it from all you pinko-commies.
Here is an example for you.
You think the price of gas is going up before a holiday so you rush over to the gas station a few days in advance and fill up your car and an extra gas can to avoid the higher price. You are actually speculating.
So that should be illegal right? Oh wait you mean when the "other guy" does it because he is just being evil and trying make money off of it and only when he buys a whole bunch of gas! Like say a farmer or a businessman or an airline......
Oh wait you mean those really bad "other guys" buying and selling futures in the stock market. Those evil jerks drive up the prices right? So now the regional distributor has no fuel to carry your city through said holiday because he can only buy fuel when it's his turn at the set low price and when you go to fill up your car at the gas station they have no gas................Starting to get the idea yet?
The President or Congress or some beurocrat in Washing would get to pick when you get fuel for your city based on it's need, and since you and your city didn't vote for them in the last election (or pay bribes) they choose to put you very low on the waiting list for that wonderful cheap fuel. See isn't central planning fun!!
You need to go take a couple a couple of economics classes and I don't know maybe read a little history from the WW1 & WW2 and about the fuel shortages during the 70's to find out that price fixing and rationing does not work......ever
Come back when you head has a little more content in it and maybe then you can have a valid opinion.
You don't have to pick something that will get you the death penalty that will get you life in prison to make your point.
Go to a protest, get arrested for tresspassing, make and ass of yourself so you actually get charged, demand a trial even if they offer you a light fine, and clog up a court room for a few hours/days. Multiply that by 1000 and suddenly the court system in a city is shut down for a month. Multiply that by another 1000 and you'd shut down half the courts in the country.
Once that starts happening we'll finally have a serious discussion about privacy. (After they try to ban that but find out it's impossible to do so.)
"Oops I'm sorry officer but it keeps getting getting flying cock roaches and your surveillance quad copter mixed up and burning a hole through it."
As far as "seeing" in your house the police using IR cameras to spy on you will just motivate everyone that much more to go green faster and heavily insulate their homes making those cameras pretty much useless for spying. Personally I'd rather have them us IR for patrolling so maybe we can finally get rid of the rediculous amount of outdoor lighting we have everywhere in the city.
The bacteria may have a shot lifespan, but the spore out there lasts for years and can be stired up by wind storms. Of course you lungs are not exactly a dry air location, as a result you can get some much nastier respiratory diseases in both California and Nevada that you typically don't see anywhere else.
I'm getting to the point that it's hardly worth even renting the things anymore there is so lettle worth watching these days, much less thake home and rip.
"What the gas rings can be used for is transporting other gasses (like pepper spray or tear gas or pesticide) long distances with a decent amount of accuracy, holding their cargo inside the calm center spinning vortex" We already have an old school "vortex" gun that spins a piece of lead to delivery it with extremely high amounts of accuracy over much greater distances. It works on criminals, looters, politicians (what happens when the first two marry and have kids), and protesters equally well.
Small villages and towns you could walk in, but that was only because of zoning and not due to a lack of cars. (The streets were lined with them). For example I never lived more than a block away (5-10 houses) from a pub in any village I lived in. (A village is the equivalent to a small neighboorhood.) Which is very rarely allowed in the US. Same goes for post offices and small markets.
Density in small towns was also due to zoning. Living in Newmarket within a 10 minute walk I had a choice of 20+ pubs and resturants and a few corner markets, but I also could reach out my bathroom window and hand my neighboor a roll of TP if he was out. So if you don't mind living on top of one another it's a great place to live.
Public transport out there was horrible. The busses were too few, too infrequent, and too expensive. (We didn't have to buy the $9 a gallon gas off base) Same goes for the train. There was a stop in town, but realistically you needed to drive to Cambridge (25 minutes away) if you wanted a convient time to travel. If you wanted to goto London you had the choice of paying $50 (per person) to ride the train or spend $30 on gas and drive yourself and three friends
Also outside the major cities and large towns riding a bicycle was an exercise in near death experiences. No shoulders, few sidewalks, narrow road, and a 40-60mph speed limit definitely made riding your bike very exciting.
Hey genius it's $8.50 a gallon because of a $4 a gallon tax surcharge. Gas shouldn't be any more expensive in the UK than in the US.
Throw that in with the grand bulk of direction signs telling you where a road went to rather than which road you were actually on, (not really the same thing when 2-3 roads leading out of town can go to the same place eventually) made for some rather confusing trips at times.
UK had some of the worse roads I've ever seen, but man they were fun tearing around on the them in my old BMW on an early morning. Narrow, twisty, and dangerous as hell, but an absolute blast!
Often I found myself driving around a village or town lost, unable to find the side street I was looking for only to find it on the way back out of town realizing it was on a wall or house that was only viewable from the street going in one direction.
GPS elimintated alot of that nonsense.
An article? What the fuck is that? What do you do with it?
Really that's what it boils down to, Facebook and most other websites really don't have that much to offer that doesn't already to exist in day to day life. If they want more from me then they are going to have to give me more.
Either you come up with something truly usefull, such as a dating site, that can actually find the best match for you damn near every time, or a job website that again can find you a job that suites you perfectly I see absolutely no need to make anything "easy" for them.
Or they can simple pay my yearly licensing fee. Their choice.
1 TB can be had for about $1,675 these days. Take a look at OCZ SSDs on new egg. The price is falling nicely, though I doubt it'll catch spinners in the next 10 years for cheapness.
Just had a flashback of my TRS-80 that I had as a kid. Pressing play on the tape drive to listen to the data so I could line up on a program to load. Cassett tapes were expensive so you put lots of programs on them and had to write down the counter number in order to fast forward to them.
Seek time could be measured in minutes if my little sister or parenst were bugging me.
I've never had a head for spelling. I take that back, I do, I just could care less. But on a side note if I get within a drink or two of severe inebriation my posts and text have near perfect spelling and grammer. So much so when I'm drunk texting at 1AM my friends accuse me of lying about being drunk.
While I was attending University of Missouri, Columbia we had to take accessment exams and every year the engineering department would stomp on everyone else in EVERY catagory including the ones they were supposed to be good at.
And yes it drives me nuts to watch movies. Almost to the point where to enjoy a movie, with a lot of technical elements I need to have a beer or five so I don't nit pick.
The only things smarter than an engineer is a technician (I happen to be both). Engineers may know all the math, but they usually have no practical hand on and have a nasty habit of designing things that are half impossible to repair.
"WHY would it every break I'm a very smart engineer"
To which the tech responds: "You are a fucking moron. You put the part (that "never" breaks every 6-18months) behind three other parts and an access panel for absolutley no reason, when there was plenty of space to mount it where I could fix it in five minutes instead of 6 hours.
A typical heavy load for me. (all at the same time) Running software updates, watching a movie (streaming), downloading another movie/game/etc, uploading a ripped dvd to a friend while talking to said friend on skype/video and poking around on the web. I might use 1/2 of my FIOS connection.
I'd love a 1Gbps internet connection. Doing transfers around the house over the 1Gbps lan is nice. On older spin drives it is faster than they can go, so it does feel like you are working with files on your machine.
I can barely take advantage of my 25/25Mbtps FIOS line with a single website, but I can make it breath a little harder by doing 5-10 at once. Until I can get 3-5MBps transfer rates consistently from most websites I doubt I ever will push it to it's limits.
We didn't have that inter-whats-it thingy back then. Just modems and some really high long distance phone bills if you wanted anything that was located out of town.
As far as their behavior. If they are high and doing harm then the last thing they'll end up shooting up with is lead.
Problem solved.
Gas was completely unregulated back then. I for one don't miss the smog and the lead.
Food is still relatively inexpensive if you actually make your own. No one in the 60/70's bought large quantites of pre-made food and ate out for 3 meals a day of fast food.
None of the things that people consider necessities now existed back then, and what did was insanely expensive.
2-4 cars per family - absolutley fuck no!
Tv's bigger than 24" no, color TV no, cheap Tv's - no
Home computers - no.
Home entertainment systems - no
Video game consoles - no
Internet or cable tv - no
Digital phones, cheap long distance (video/global calls unavailable) - no
Cell phones - hell no
Designer/label clothes - yes did everyone wear them - no
Cheap airfare - no
Houses bigger than 2000sq ft - rarely
Cheap electronics - hell no - stereos/record players/tvs were very expensive
Digital photography - no - just very expensive film based
Modern medical treatments - no - you lived (or not) with most ailements that are trivial to treat now
Advanced education nearly universally available - no
What most people take for granted today as a mediocre lifestyle is beyond what even the wealthy had access to in the 60's and 70's
If you want to live that dream lifestyle just strip all the things above from you and your family and you'll find today's pay quite easy to get by on
A US citizen is also usually responsible for 10 to 20 times more resource and energy production than a Chinese or Indian citizen. If they want more resources and energy all they have to do is produce them.
The women are not typically not nearly as fat(sigh)and the beer is much better(double sigh), but other than that you guys are swiming in as many problems as we are.