I've never towed a damned thing in my life (in spite of having a hitch on my truck), but I agree they seem like a convenience impulse with little thought to robustness. The makers are obviously not catering to people whose primary concern is the integrity of their load. If I did have to have one, this one seems better than most to my eye:
Only one of the balls is welded, and it looks like there might be a substantial stump fitted inside in addition to just the weld. Some balls are just better than others.
Oh, I get it now: the three balls are different sizes to accommodate different loads and it's simply rotated in the receiver(?), right? I'm a trailer hitch simpleton.
What exactly is a "three-pronged trailer hitch"? Google Images doesn't seem to have a clue, and it doesn't sound very functional. How does a trailer hitch with more than one "prong"/fulcrum do anything useful?
So they're butthurt that Snowden did an end-run around them and the rest of crony-crammed Congress - because he knew they couldn't be trusted to be forthright - and took what he'd learned straight to the press and the public, and now determined to see him get a lethal injection in retaliation for the snub? Do they need to be reminded again that they work for us and our interests?
Think twice before you help re-elect either one of them.
Oh, but this is in a whole new league of foolingishness beyond sipping brandy... AND it's being done in the name of boosting corporate profits and not improving the human condition.
Remember, the chairman-before-last was Michael Powell who hit the revolving door going the other direction, so Wheeler arriving through the same door shouldn't come as a shock. It should still piss you off to the point of beating your ploughshare into a sword and sharpening your pitchfork.
The acting here wasn't bad - many of the Hidden Frontier episodes had horrendous acting - and the scripting was decent, but I still wouldn't call it "dead-on" or "great". Most of the cast aren't "dead-on" depictions of the original cast, neither in morphology nor acting; it was hard for me to forget that I wasn't watching TOS. Still, it showed enough promise that they roped Doohan's son and Michael Forrest into it, so it bears watching, but the promise isn't fully realized and may not ever be with the current cast. Yes, Cawley had a little too much fun exaggerating the Kirk character, but otherwise New Voyages' cast, sets, and scripting was/is better. I'm curious how much (and which) of ST:NV you could have watched in such a short stretch before your reply. World Enough and Time would have been the episode to watch.
I got distracted and didn't say it earlier, but my very first reaction when beginning to watch this was to wonder why these folks didn't simply pool their talents with those of the New Voyages crew? There's what seems to me to be a needless duplication of effort here, especially the physical sets and props work. Had this talent and script (and Michael Forrest) been produced as a New Voyages episode I wonder if it might have been considerably better?
Somebody's never heard of Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II, in spite of one episode nearly winning a Hugo Award and nearly a dozen actors from TOS contributing to various episodes, and even some of the original writers on board contributing new scripts? I hope it's just ignorance that motivated the OP and Soulskill to promote this to the exclusion of ST:NV and all the other Star Trek fan productions in active production. This is not "the most faithful re-creation of the original series".
Yeah, I'd settle for that approach. What you suggest is heresy, though, because then the browsers by design won't faithfully render the "standard". Would it still be effective if it was just one rebel browser?
You just succinctly explained why tools like NoScript are so desperately needed, not why they aren't. The real problem is Web design that serves an agenda contrary to the desires and rights of those who use the Web. Fix that problem and annoying tools like NoScript won't be necessary.
What that means, BTW, is that Web developers need to grow both a conscience and a spine and say NO when they're asked to code Bad Things. It also means that the pushovers and corporate plants over at the W3C need to stop adding crap to the standard that aids and abets these Bad Things.
... information technology push into some broad, overarching conspiracy to convert America's young people into thoughtless worker drones makes no sense.
I didn't say or mean to say that this/these programs had that agenda. Rather I think that is specifically not their agenda, though I don't know what it is otherwise... simple marketing?
... fuel a cycle of economic growth.
== Ponzi scheme (that benefits you-know-who)
... what are you doing...?
I don't have kids and not much influence on education otherwise, but I've mentored (twice-)gifted kids. People I call friends tend to be critical thinkers to the last man and I really find it frustrating talking with people who aren't, so I'd have to jump way outside my comfort zone to even begin to do something more. In any case there's precious little we can do to actually prevent that "predictable" behavior short of having another revolution (which as we should know is even then just a temporary band-aid that might last a generation if we were lucky). Our society is fully tolerant of and even encourages it. A populace dominated by critical thinkers might discourage it, but what civilization ever had that demographic?
'The best part is this,' Srinivasan said. 'The people who think this is weird, the people who sneer at the frontier, who hate technology, won't follow you there.'"
Nope, instead they'll be the ones who build a thick high wall around your new "space" to make sure you stay put and don't infect everything outside of it. Your space will become a prison like Waco, Texas, etc. Eventually they'll decide to reclaim the space you Occupy, and then it's game-over.
The sociopaths running many of the nation's tech corporations, whether they be software or hardware engineering, have no desire whatsoever to encourage a larger American workforce for those industries. The reason for that lack of motivation is simple: such a workforce educated here would expect higher salaries to pay off their enormous student loans (for institutions with massive tuitions used to subsidize profit-seeking research and not education) and would thus diminish their profit more than a similarly educated immigrant or outsourced workforce. They and their peers in other industries of course could sacrifice excess profit and reduce the prices of their goods, thus reducing inflation and the nationwide cost of living and allowing people to live on lower wages, but why would sociopaths do that?
Allergies are a dysfunctional immune system response, not a normal constructive one. This device is not targeted at people with dysfunctional sensitivity to temperature, unless we conveniently reclassify any response to temperature as dysfunctional.
You're missing the point: if the body is tricked - as this technique aims to do - into thinking the ambient temperature is tolerable when it's really not, that likely has a health effect. That part of the nervous system exists for a reason. As that ancient commercial declared, "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
You'd have a distractingly hot/cold wrist at the very least if that had any hope of doing what you suggest. That's in any case not the goal of what is described.
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I don't call them prongs.
But what does she call them?
I've never towed a damned thing in my life (in spite of having a hitch on my truck), but I agree they seem like a convenience impulse with little thought to robustness. The makers are obviously not catering to people whose primary concern is the integrity of their load. If I did have to have one, this one seems better than most to my eye:
http://www.turnoverball.com/products/adjustableballmounts/tow-stow-receiver-hitch
Only one of the balls is welded, and it looks like there might be a substantial stump fitted inside in addition to just the weld. Some balls are just better than others.
And yes, she did say that, too.
Oh, I get it now: the three balls are different sizes to accommodate different loads and it's simply rotated in the receiver(?), right? I'm a trailer hitch simpleton.
I'm a trailer hitch simpleton, I guess... how would the other two balls be used? Surely not all three at the same time?
Can you 3D-print one of those for me? Maybe I can visualize it then.
What exactly is a "three-pronged trailer hitch"? Google Images doesn't seem to have a clue, and it doesn't sound very functional. How does a trailer hitch with more than one "prong"/fulcrum do anything useful?
The problem in the US is that the debate is controlled by idiots... and calling them idiots is being nice.
This coming from a self-named idiot making public comments on the topic....
So they're butthurt that Snowden did an end-run around them and the rest of crony-crammed Congress - because he knew they couldn't be trusted to be forthright - and took what he'd learned straight to the press and the public, and now determined to see him get a lethal injection in retaliation for the snub? Do they need to be reminded again that they work for us and our interests?
Think twice before you help re-elect either one of them.
Moore's Law isn't even a law... it's a prediction. Didn't we already agree that predictions are only useful to talking heads, pundits and hucksters?
That might be a more legitimate use for this than how it's being marketed now.
Oh, but this is in a whole new league of foolingishness beyond sipping brandy... AND it's being done in the name of boosting corporate profits and not improving the human condition.
Whatever could go wrong with that?
Remember, the chairman-before-last was Michael Powell who hit the revolving door going the other direction, so Wheeler arriving through the same door shouldn't come as a shock. It should still piss you off to the point of beating your ploughshare into a sword and sharpening your pitchfork.
The acting here wasn't bad - many of the Hidden Frontier episodes had horrendous acting - and the scripting was decent, but I still wouldn't call it "dead-on" or "great". Most of the cast aren't "dead-on" depictions of the original cast, neither in morphology nor acting; it was hard for me to forget that I wasn't watching TOS. Still, it showed enough promise that they roped Doohan's son and Michael Forrest into it, so it bears watching, but the promise isn't fully realized and may not ever be with the current cast. Yes, Cawley had a little too much fun exaggerating the Kirk character, but otherwise New Voyages' cast, sets, and scripting was/is better. I'm curious how much (and which) of ST:NV you could have watched in such a short stretch before your reply. World Enough and Time would have been the episode to watch.
I got distracted and didn't say it earlier, but my very first reaction when beginning to watch this was to wonder why these folks didn't simply pool their talents with those of the New Voyages crew? There's what seems to me to be a needless duplication of effort here, especially the physical sets and props work. Had this talent and script (and Michael Forrest) been produced as a New Voyages episode I wonder if it might have been considerably better?
Somebody's never heard of Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II, in spite of one episode nearly winning a Hugo Award and nearly a dozen actors from TOS contributing to various episodes, and even some of the original writers on board contributing new scripts? I hope it's just ignorance that motivated the OP and Soulskill to promote this to the exclusion of ST:NV and all the other Star Trek fan productions in active production. This is not "the most faithful re-creation of the original series".
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Yeah, I'd settle for that approach. What you suggest is heresy, though, because then the browsers by design won't faithfully render the "standard". Would it still be effective if it was just one rebel browser?
You just succinctly explained why tools like NoScript are so desperately needed, not why they aren't. The real problem is Web design that serves an agenda contrary to the desires and rights of those who use the Web. Fix that problem and annoying tools like NoScript won't be necessary.
What that means, BTW, is that Web developers need to grow both a conscience and a spine and say NO when they're asked to code Bad Things. It also means that the pushovers and corporate plants over at the W3C need to stop adding crap to the standard that aids and abets these Bad Things.
... information technology push into some broad, overarching conspiracy to convert America's young people into thoughtless worker drones makes no sense.
I didn't say or mean to say that this/these programs had that agenda. Rather I think that is specifically not their agenda, though I don't know what it is otherwise... simple marketing?
... fuel a cycle of economic growth.
== Ponzi scheme (that benefits you-know-who)
... what are you doing...?
I don't have kids and not much influence on education otherwise, but I've mentored (twice-)gifted kids. People I call friends tend to be critical thinkers to the last man and I really find it frustrating talking with people who aren't, so I'd have to jump way outside my comfort zone to even begin to do something more. In any case there's precious little we can do to actually prevent that "predictable" behavior short of having another revolution (which as we should know is even then just a temporary band-aid that might last a generation if we were lucky). Our society is fully tolerant of and even encourages it. A populace dominated by critical thinkers might discourage it, but what civilization ever had that demographic?
'The best part is this,' Srinivasan said. 'The people who think this is weird, the people who sneer at the frontier, who hate technology, won't follow you there.'"
Nope, instead they'll be the ones who build a thick high wall around your new "space" to make sure you stay put and don't infect everything outside of it. Your space will become a prison like Waco, Texas, etc. Eventually they'll decide to reclaim the space you Occupy, and then it's game-over.
I wonder if an analog to that could ever exist in the United States.
The sociopaths running many of the nation's tech corporations, whether they be software or hardware engineering, have no desire whatsoever to encourage a larger American workforce for those industries. The reason for that lack of motivation is simple: such a workforce educated here would expect higher salaries to pay off their enormous student loans (for institutions with massive tuitions used to subsidize profit-seeking research and not education) and would thus diminish their profit more than a similarly educated immigrant or outsourced workforce. They and their peers in other industries of course could sacrifice excess profit and reduce the prices of their goods, thus reducing inflation and the nationwide cost of living and allowing people to live on lower wages, but why would sociopaths do that?
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FTFY.
Allergies are a dysfunctional immune system response, not a normal constructive one. This device is not targeted at people with dysfunctional sensitivity to temperature, unless we conveniently reclassify any response to temperature as dysfunctional.
You're missing the point: if the body is tricked - as this technique aims to do - into thinking the ambient temperature is tolerable when it's really not, that likely has a health effect. That part of the nervous system exists for a reason. As that ancient commercial declared, "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
You'd have a distractingly hot/cold wrist at the very least if that had any hope of doing what you suggest. That's in any case not the goal of what is described.