Jesus -- I haven't done acid since my college days a quarter century ago. You should lay off it.
Big Lie -- you're whole post is this. You try to take on the mantle of a freedom loving defender of American virtue, when the fucking straight fact is, you are the biggest NSA shill there is, and the NSA is one of the biggest threats to the US Constitution in the entire world. We also have other Executive branch things that are pretty fucking bad, but the NSA is anti-constitution, thus anti-American, and your support for the NSA makes YOU anti-American.
You have to be joking. There is no bigger defender of the state, the status quo, and the Anit-American activities of the NSA than you. I don't think there is a more statist asshole on all of Slashdot than you are, so I suppose we should add "deluded" to your list of faults now too.
Funny, I recently bought a place and I'm planting a garden. The soil is so clay heavy I could throw it on a wheel, and fire it to at least earthenware temperatures. This also means a rototiller is useless, so I've been using a shovel to remove the grass layer, which I pile up around the edges of the bed, a fork to break up the top 10 inches of clay, and then a wheelbarrow and shovel to cart over topsoil from a pile I had delivered. In a post-apocolypse world, we can omit the delivered dirt, because you wouldn't choose such crappy soil to start with.
I'm 45, not a weightlifter, runner... not even a regular exerciser. I'm a little chubby from sitting at a desk all the time. In about about an hour and half I can dig up, till with a fork, and wheel barrow over a 10" layer of top soil to do a 10x10 area. This gives me about 20" of planting bed, the 10" I broke up with a fork and the 10" I dumped on top, the grass clumps act like the frame for a raised bed. If this was done in good dirt without the need for added topsoil, subtract half an hour because of easy digging and no dirt hauling.
If I did two of those beds per day, one in the morning and one in the evening, I could dig up 1400 sq ft in a week.
It looks like I'd need about 23,000 square feet to feed myself, but some of that can be made up with space devoted to animals -- most though still goes to garden. http://www.treehugger.com/gree...
I started this post feeling sort of positive, but tilling soil in this manner burns 4-500 calories per hour. Do this for three hours per day on a 2000 calorie/day diet, and you're going to turn into a rail fast. If it was only 400 calories to dig 100 sq ft of easy soil, and I had to dig 15000 sq ft, I'm going to need an extra 60,000 calories to make it -- an extra month's worth of food to invest in labor to plant a garden. It is sounding increasingly unrealistic to hand dig a garden in the absence of outside inputs, i.e., food for the digger.
Didn't Englebart have a demo video of a CAD like system displayed on round monitors in the 60s? Maybe it was someone else but I clearly remember watching a video of a person manipulating the size of screws to place in holes. Can't remember if he used two pens or not but that is kind of like pinch/zoom. I just wish I could figure out how to find that video again.
Well, this is having it both ways for the NSA. They have a very elastic use of English, i.e., they say data is not collected when it is gathered, only when it is queried. No you are saying that once its collected, they don't need a warrant because they already got it.
Now -- I think they should have a warrant to collect information (and by collect, I mean that in the normal human sense of the word, not the DC sense). But that's not how things are being applied right now, and your interpretation if it gained currency, when coupled with the NSA's, would mean the end of all warrant requirements, because nobody collects data till they look at it (NSA) and the data is already collected so there's no problem looking at it (You).
the other side of that coin and probably more persuasive to a jury: Costco should have thought enough of the children, even if they are poor children, to not poison them.
When you say "Republicans", do you mean the New GOP (aka Democrats) or the Old GOP (aka parody of itself)?
Once upon a time, Federal prosecutors got prison time for 1100 banksters in the S&L crisis (which was 1/40th the size of the "meltdown"). Exactly how many did Obama prosecute?
And remember, it was under the current regime that GWB's due process free detention was expanded to include due process free execution, via secret legal memo no less.
You Democrats make me want to puke. You're like a bunch of Nixons. Hell, Obamacare is just Nixon's healthcare plan with the liberal parts stripped out. And of course, Obama's NSA would have made Nixon cream his pants... hourly.
So just sneak off and have a heart attack already you partisan retard. Here's the hint: DNC===GOP===FuckingBastards
No -- this hill slid five or six times in the last 60 years, and he said it's gonna keep on sliding. Back when, people weren't building there. More recently, probably with a little help from the housing bubble, people built it up.
Don't forget to subtract the value of the land. The house might blow away, but the land will still be there and it must be worth some amount over zero.
Ah yes, I'm sure you have never used language in anything but a literally exact manner. Certainly you have never used hyperbole, metaphor, idiom, or the 3rd or 4th definition of a word. Conversation with you must be scintillating. Oh -- add sarcasm to that list.
... a marvelous but little known institution called the "public library".
You are showing your own lack of perspective. Explain how this works for kids who do not have access to a public library because as kids they
1) can't drive 2) aren't on a bus line 3) can't walk 30 miles to town each way to get to a library
When I was in grade school in a rural area, we did get the bookmobile coming by every other week for a couple hours. Of course, the selection of materials that you can fit in a bus is absolutely nothing like what you would find in a big city library. One of the first books I read was LOTR. Very influential -- for me, that meant spending a lot of time in the woods looking for hobbits. That's time I could have spent better (botany, biology, mycology, geology for example), but I had nobody to give me that sort of educational guidance.
You must be a teacher. A couple years ago I overheard some teachers saying almost exactly the same thing: "gifted students take care of themselves."
Except... When everything is super easy, it is easy to learn how to coast with no effort. Then when things get hard, the reality check can be horribly destructive. And while it is true that left to his/her(*) own devices, a 12 year old is going to take care of himself, with the brain still developing it's a total crapshoot as to whether he'll be making choices that will be personally helpful in life.
Finally, there will be some example of some city kid learning everything in the college library on his own. Awesome. Except millions of kids don't have that opportunity because they don't live in a great city, or even a city, nor have access to a library anywhere but at school (a tiny crappy one). When all you have to do is look out the window and daydream, you don't learn many useful life skills.
I'm not calling Gates a Hitler, this isn't really a godwin thing. But Hitler was a vegetarian and perhaps even an antivivisectionist (early form of animal rights). This illustrates that you can find good in even the most heinous people.
That Gates is using his arguably ill-gotten gains for good purposes, doesn't make him a hero. It makes him a creep who has a little good in him (although philanthropy like his is usually more about a different kind of personal aggrandizement). Secondly, think how chilling his whole law-and-order-protect-the-government stance is coming from Gates (essentially Microsoft) -- just one more bit of evidence we live in a proto-fascist America.
Exactly how would a consumer figure out whether to trust a coin exchange? From their website? Do you look for a plain jane web 1.0 site under the notion that they are using solid technology without a bunch of zero day exploits -- or do you avoid it under the notion that they obviously aren't keeping up and are incompetent? Do you take the word of random forum posters? Call up customer service and expect them to say anything but your money is safe?
It's very easy to say something like "use a trustworthy exchange" -- but I would think it quite hard to actually figure out if an exchange is trustworthy, even for geeks, and next to impossible for other users.
The modern incarnation of tea party groups is basically a lesson in major party co-option and poisoning of a movement to neutralize it. The Democrats certainly don't want to focus on its origins, because those are rooted in an anti-war / anti-coroporate welfare philosophy and Democrats still like to pretend they aren't neo-cons. The GOP certainly didn't want it to spread and disturb its social issue message which it uses to cover its financially wanton behavior.
As for recent history, which has been effectively erased by both parties, there were Ron Paul Tea Party events in 2007 with a major focus on ending the wars in the middle east and protecting civil liberties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Check out the tags on the boxes being thrown in the the water for example around 1 minute in: "iraq war" "corporate welfare" "homeland security" etc. Or this video from Nov. 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... which is 80% anti-war (warning, pictures of burned and blown up kids from Iraq or Afghanistan).
Then shortly after Obama's election, Karl Denninger popularized an idea of sending tea bags to Congress. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... His focus was on the fraud and abuse the Feds winked at during the financial meltdown, and he was livid when the GOP coopted the Tea Party, and turned it into some "Guns, Gays, God" focused BS: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... Indeed, it took almost no time for the GOP to co-opt the Tea Party: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
He also supported the Occupy Movement's focus on banking fraud and interestingly, thought it's lack of centralization good, seeing centralization as the fatal exploitable flaw for tea party groups: http://rt.com/usa/tea-occupy-d...
Anyway, today's Tea Party is a caricature the DNC and GOP created for their own purposes by poisoning the original ideas.
Actually there is a law. The highest law. The 4th Amendment forbids general searches, which is the only thing this device enables.
Secondly, they want to apply the third party doctrine, specifically, if you share info with a phone company they can just hoover it up. But none of the people whose cell phones were affected made an agreement to share information with the cops directly -- the cops in this situation are not a third party, they're "the man" in the middle.
Boston is not in Florida. The only exception in FL apparently is this:
6. for educational purposes in 11 states Example: students in culinary school ... The law permits "the tasting of alcoholic beverages by a student who is at least 18 years of age" as part of a course at an accredited post-secondary educational institution, but the student may not "consume or imbibe" the alcohol.
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More than that, in Cold Fjordistan, everything is true, especially the lies.
Nobody cared about Iraq the second time until the Oligarchs got in their head it would be profitable for them and then lied to get that profit.
But then you're Cold Fjord -- fascist statist NSA lover. No Federal evil is too small for you to love, but bigger is always better isn't it?
Jesus -- I haven't done acid since my college days a quarter century ago. You should lay off it.
Big Lie -- you're whole post is this. You try to take on the mantle of a freedom loving defender of American virtue, when the fucking straight fact is, you are the biggest NSA shill there is, and the NSA is one of the biggest threats to the US Constitution in the entire world. We also have other Executive branch things that are pretty fucking bad, but the NSA is anti-constitution, thus anti-American, and your support for the NSA makes YOU anti-American.
You have to be joking. There is no bigger defender of the state, the status quo, and the Anit-American activities of the NSA than you. I don't think there is a more statist asshole on all of Slashdot than you are, so I suppose we should add "deluded" to your list of faults now too.
Today, Cold Fjord and the NSA _are_ the Nazis.
Funny, I recently bought a place and I'm planting a garden. The soil is so clay heavy I could throw it on a wheel, and fire it to at least earthenware temperatures. This also means a rototiller is useless, so I've been using a shovel to remove the grass layer, which I pile up around the edges of the bed, a fork to break up the top 10 inches of clay, and then a wheelbarrow and shovel to cart over topsoil from a pile I had delivered. In a post-apocolypse world, we can omit the delivered dirt, because you wouldn't choose such crappy soil to start with.
I'm 45, not a weightlifter, runner ... not even a regular exerciser. I'm a little chubby from sitting at a desk all the time. In about about an hour and half I can dig up, till with a fork, and wheel barrow over a 10" layer of top soil to do a 10x10 area. This gives me about 20" of planting bed, the 10" I broke up with a fork and the 10" I dumped on top, the grass clumps act like the frame for a raised bed. If this was done in good dirt without the need for added topsoil, subtract half an hour because of easy digging and no dirt hauling.
If I did two of those beds per day, one in the morning and one in the evening, I could dig up 1400 sq ft in a week.
It looks like I'd need about 23,000 square feet to feed myself, but some of that can be made up with space devoted to animals -- most though still goes to garden.
http://www.treehugger.com/gree...
I started this post feeling sort of positive, but tilling soil in this manner burns 4-500 calories per hour. Do this for three hours per day on a 2000 calorie/day diet, and you're going to turn into a rail fast. If it was only 400 calories to dig 100 sq ft of easy soil, and I had to dig 15000 sq ft, I'm going to need an extra 60,000 calories to make it -- an extra month's worth of food to invest in labor to plant a garden. It is sounding increasingly unrealistic to hand dig a garden in the absence of outside inputs, i.e., food for the digger.
"Touchscreen in the mid-80's? "
Didn't Englebart have a demo video of a CAD like system displayed on round monitors in the 60s? Maybe it was someone else but I clearly remember watching a video of a person manipulating the size of screws to place in holes. Can't remember if he used two pens or not but that is kind of like pinch/zoom. I just wish I could figure out how to find that video again.
Well, this is having it both ways for the NSA. They have a very elastic use of English, i.e., they say data is not collected when it is gathered, only when it is queried. No you are saying that once its collected, they don't need a warrant because they already got it.
Now -- I think they should have a warrant to collect information (and by collect, I mean that in the normal human sense of the word, not the DC sense). But that's not how things are being applied right now, and your interpretation if it gained currency, when coupled with the NSA's, would mean the end of all warrant requirements, because nobody collects data till they look at it (NSA) and the data is already collected so there's no problem looking at it (You).
Where's the flood of April First stories? Do I have the date wrong? Is the lack of them the joke? Am I not getting the jokes?
the other side of that coin and probably more persuasive to a jury: Costco should have thought enough of the children, even if they are poor children, to not poison them.
When you say "Republicans", do you mean the New GOP (aka Democrats) or the Old GOP (aka parody of itself)?
Once upon a time, Federal prosecutors got prison time for 1100 banksters in the S&L crisis (which was 1/40th the size of the "meltdown"). Exactly how many did Obama prosecute?
And remember, it was under the current regime that GWB's due process free detention was expanded to include due process free execution, via secret legal memo no less.
You Democrats make me want to puke. You're like a bunch of Nixons. Hell, Obamacare is just Nixon's healthcare plan with the liberal parts stripped out. And of course, Obama's NSA would have made Nixon cream his pants ... hourly.
So just sneak off and have a heart attack already you partisan retard. Here's the hint: DNC===GOP===FuckingBastards
Term limit idea: one term in any part (i.e., no going to the senate after being in the house) and you get summarily executed at the end of the term.
That would attract some strange people to politics. Not sure if they'd be more dangerous than what we have though.
No -- this hill slid five or six times in the last 60 years, and he said it's gonna keep on sliding. Back when, people weren't building there. More recently, probably with a little help from the housing bubble, people built it up.
Don't forget to subtract the value of the land. The house might blow away, but the land will still be there and it must be worth some amount over zero.
Ah yes, I'm sure you have never used language in anything but a literally exact manner. Certainly you have never used hyperbole, metaphor, idiom, or the 3rd or 4th definition of a word. Conversation with you must be scintillating. Oh -- add sarcasm to that list.
All that is true. But when a kid has no guidance on what to select, it's just a dice roll on whether he selects something useful.
Your answer is is to choose better parents and spend exponentially more on those who will always need help with eating?
You are showing your own lack of perspective. Explain how this works for kids who do not have access to a public library because as kids they
1) can't drive
2) aren't on a bus line
3) can't walk 30 miles to town each way to get to a library
When I was in grade school in a rural area, we did get the bookmobile coming by every other week for a couple hours. Of course, the selection of materials that you can fit in a bus is absolutely nothing like what you would find in a big city library. One of the first books I read was LOTR. Very influential -- for me, that meant spending a lot of time in the woods looking for hobbits. That's time I could have spent better (botany, biology, mycology, geology for example), but I had nobody to give me that sort of educational guidance.
You must be a teacher. A couple years ago I overheard some teachers saying almost exactly the same thing: "gifted students take care of themselves."
Except ... When everything is super easy, it is easy to learn how to coast with no effort. Then when things get hard, the reality check can be horribly destructive. And while it is true that left to his/her(*) own devices, a 12 year old is going to take care of himself, with the brain still developing it's a total crapshoot as to whether he'll be making choices that will be personally helpful in life.
Finally, there will be some example of some city kid learning everything in the college library on his own. Awesome. Except millions of kids don't have that opportunity because they don't live in a great city, or even a city, nor have access to a library anywhere but at school (a tiny crappy one). When all you have to do is look out the window and daydream, you don't learn many useful life skills.
(*) last male/female
I'm not calling Gates a Hitler, this isn't really a godwin thing. But Hitler was a vegetarian and perhaps even an antivivisectionist (early form of animal rights). This illustrates that you can find good in even the most heinous people.
That Gates is using his arguably ill-gotten gains for good purposes, doesn't make him a hero. It makes him a creep who has a little good in him (although philanthropy like his is usually more about a different kind of personal aggrandizement). Secondly, think how chilling his whole law-and-order-protect-the-government stance is coming from Gates (essentially Microsoft) -- just one more bit of evidence we live in a proto-fascist America.
You assume there is no other evidence.
I'm always amazed at how much faith slashdotters put into simple stratagems that might be used at trial. Reality is very messy.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a jury will sleep through a negative inference instruction.
Exactly how would a consumer figure out whether to trust a coin exchange? From their website? Do you look for a plain jane web 1.0 site under the notion that they are using solid technology without a bunch of zero day exploits -- or do you avoid it under the notion that they obviously aren't keeping up and are incompetent? Do you take the word of random forum posters? Call up customer service and expect them to say anything but your money is safe?
It's very easy to say something like "use a trustworthy exchange" -- but I would think it quite hard to actually figure out if an exchange is trustworthy, even for geeks, and next to impossible for other users.
The modern incarnation of tea party groups is basically a lesson in major party co-option and poisoning of a movement to neutralize it. The Democrats certainly don't want to focus on its origins, because those are rooted in an anti-war / anti-coroporate welfare philosophy and Democrats still like to pretend they aren't neo-cons. The GOP certainly didn't want it to spread and disturb its social issue message which it uses to cover its financially wanton behavior.
As for recent history, which has been effectively erased by both parties, there were Ron Paul Tea Party events in 2007 with a major focus on ending the wars in the middle east and protecting civil liberties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Check out the tags on the boxes being thrown in the the water for example around 1 minute in: "iraq war" "corporate welfare" "homeland security" etc. Or this video from Nov. 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... which is 80% anti-war (warning, pictures of burned and blown up kids from Iraq or Afghanistan).
Then shortly after Obama's election, Karl Denninger popularized an idea of sending tea bags to Congress. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... His focus was on the fraud and abuse the Feds winked at during the financial meltdown, and he was livid when the GOP coopted the Tea Party, and turned it into some "Guns, Gays, God" focused BS: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... Indeed, it took almost no time for the GOP to co-opt the Tea Party: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And in case you think Denninger is just another Koch brother wannabe, he voted for Obama in 2007: http://voxday.blogspot.com/201...
He also supported the Occupy Movement's focus on banking fraud and interestingly, thought it's lack of centralization good, seeing centralization as the fatal exploitable flaw for tea party groups: http://rt.com/usa/tea-occupy-d...
Anyway, today's Tea Party is a caricature the DNC and GOP created for their own purposes by poisoning the original ideas.
Actually there is a law. The highest law. The 4th Amendment forbids general searches, which is the only thing this device enables.
Secondly, they want to apply the third party doctrine, specifically, if you share info with a phone company they can just hoover it up. But none of the people whose cell phones were affected made an agreement to share information with the cops directly -- the cops in this situation are not a third party, they're "the man" in the middle.
Boston is not in Florida. The only exception in FL apparently is this:
http://drinkingage.procon.org/...