I had an under-the-sink reverse osmosis system (Ametek, no longer in business) more than 20 years ago. I bought it for some of the plants I was growing at the time (insectivores, epiphytes, etc.), but then I discovered that *I* liked the taste of pure water myself and my usage doubled. Those damned RO membrane cartridges were quite expensive, and I eventually stopped using it. It would be nice to see the technique revamped with graphene if it can lower the cost in general (since home RO never used electricity anyway).
Of course personally I do wish the other 44% had a clue, but the only control I have is to present the best argument I can and hope that self-delusion and willful ignorance don't get in the way of them listening. If they don't, what do I do? Take the dictatorial route and force it upon them because I can? No, I'd rather not. That was my worry, that the rest of the majority will force them to go along because they can.
Hey, collaborative pizza-topping is a special case!
I don't know the perfect answer either, and probably isn't one. The solution winds up being unpalatable to somebody. Hopefully not too many. We do need to get rid of the excess nukes hanging over our heads. Maybe we can strap 'em to the backsides of really really heavily armored rockets and get our Mars colonization sooner rather than later!
I know that, you know that, but a whopping minimum of 38% of our peers don't know that and would contest action taken because of it. Even if we're right we'd still be wrong for abusing such a thin majority to ram a collective action down their throats. There's a reason the founders worried about tyrannies of majorities and went as far as requiring more than bare majorities for some congressional actions for instance. Some of the "checks and balances" of our system exist to limit the ability of majorities.
The correct solution here is to educate and inform that minority until it dwindles into insignificance, and then take the action we "knew" was right all along. (The other outcome is that they succeed in educating us why we're wrong and they become the majority instead.)
That's not really an overwhelming majority, is it? So what, take action anyway and to hell with the concerns of the other 38-44 percent who don't agree that it's a great idea? That could arguably be cited as an example of a tyrannical majority.
(I personally think 1,000 warheads is plenty enough to deter rogue states or factions that happen to get a few nukes and an urge to blackmail with 'em, but there's principle here.)
I seem to recall reading that the future of star formation in this Universe will involve increasing formation of brown dwarfs and a cacophony of rocky planets, as the supply of hydrogen for new stars dwindles and the "metals" from previous stars accumulates. Kinda sad, that all those rocky planets will be circling "stars" too dim and cold to make them suitable for life.
That's what we get when we allow our infrastructure to be "privatized". If something is "private" well then *duh* that means that it's owned by some-one rather than every-one. Big difference.
Doesn't matter. Most people will buy 7200RPM drives instead of 5400RPM drives for their RAID box if they are available because the difference in price doesn't make a fart of difference. Those same people won't buy SSDs instead because their price and capacity do make a fart of difference.
I came here to reply to the first truncated line of your comment... but then I was greeted with the second line that said exactly what I intended to say (that's it's marketing designed to sell until the honeymoon is over).
CF cards by design are faster than the SD cards being discussed here. SD was such a gawdawful spec right from the beginning. If you're using CF cards you're better off even using a lousy one.
But kudos to you for not giving a damn about ethical practices just because you think you benefit.
You mean Lexar, the same company that had deliberately misleading advertising for some of its USB Flash products in the last year or two during the transition to USB 3.0? Lexar had advertising and product descriptions for some of its USB 2.0 thumb drives that conveniently didn't even mention that they were USB 2.0, not 3.0. You had to read the fine print in a PDF document to find out the truth, and only then because of the appearance of the USB "High Speed" logo in the margin of the document. Apparently Lexar was trying to unload its stock of USB 2.0 products before it was too late by outright misleading people.
Forget what Lexar might have been doing honestly a decade ago; is that same company really one you want to depend upon now after it pulls a stunt like that?
Why is the business named after a person whose identity isn't even known to Google, and not the name of the founder or some other relevant thing or person?
Considering what is at stake in the Condor region in particular and the efforts of the incumbent Presidente to hasten its demise, I hope Mitnick does exactly what he says he's doing.
We exist to help donors promote liberty which we understand to be limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise.
Them's weasel words; when people like these speak them, they don't mean what the dictionary that the rest of us use says that they mean. Instead they're code:
-- personal responsibility = throwing ignorant or apathetic people to the wolves, without benefit of protections from people who are better equipped to detect unfairness and are willing to do it for others.
-- free enterprise = free reign to manipulate and disadvantage ignorant and apathetic people to the very limit of what the law allows (and a little bit more).
Was it Warren Buffet that said there's no such thing as a self-made man? The current crop of billionaires required the "contributions" of millions of people to amass their wealth. Concentration of wealth is concentration - and hoarding and denial - of natural resources.
The peculiar way you said it: "this Michael Geist guy". That phrase connotes an unfamiliarity with the subject because of the hesitance to simply refer to him by name.
The first you're hearing of Michael Geist just now, huh? I sincerely envy your man-cave. The isolation is nearly perfect. Faraday would have been jealous.
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I had an under-the-sink reverse osmosis system (Ametek, no longer in business) more than 20 years ago. I bought it for some of the plants I was growing at the time (insectivores, epiphytes, etc.), but then I discovered that *I* liked the taste of pure water myself and my usage doubled. Those damned RO membrane cartridges were quite expensive, and I eventually stopped using it. It would be nice to see the technique revamped with graphene if it can lower the cost in general (since home RO never used electricity anyway).
Even the new Pope wants to sanction Prenda's lawyers. Oh wait....
Don't go to Marie Callender's.
Of course personally I do wish the other 44% had a clue, but the only control I have is to present the best argument I can and hope that self-delusion and willful ignorance don't get in the way of them listening. If they don't, what do I do? Take the dictatorial route and force it upon them because I can? No, I'd rather not. That was my worry, that the rest of the majority will force them to go along because they can.
Hey, collaborative pizza-topping is a special case!
I don't know the perfect answer either, and probably isn't one. The solution winds up being unpalatable to somebody. Hopefully not too many. We do need to get rid of the excess nukes hanging over our heads. Maybe we can strap 'em to the backsides of really really heavily armored rockets and get our Mars colonization sooner rather than later!
I know that, you know that, but a whopping minimum of 38% of our peers don't know that and would contest action taken because of it. Even if we're right we'd still be wrong for abusing such a thin majority to ram a collective action down their throats. There's a reason the founders worried about tyrannies of majorities and went as far as requiring more than bare majorities for some congressional actions for instance. Some of the "checks and balances" of our system exist to limit the ability of majorities.
The correct solution here is to educate and inform that minority until it dwindles into insignificance, and then take the action we "knew" was right all along. (The other outcome is that they succeed in educating us why we're wrong and they become the majority instead.)
That's not really an overwhelming majority, is it? So what, take action anyway and to hell with the concerns of the other 38-44 percent who don't agree that it's a great idea? That could arguably be cited as an example of a tyrannical majority.
(I personally think 1,000 warheads is plenty enough to deter rogue states or factions that happen to get a few nukes and an urge to blackmail with 'em, but there's principle here.)
I seem to recall reading that the future of star formation in this Universe will involve increasing formation of brown dwarfs and a cacophony of rocky planets, as the supply of hydrogen for new stars dwindles and the "metals" from previous stars accumulates. Kinda sad, that all those rocky planets will be circling "stars" too dim and cold to make them suitable for life.
That's what we get when we allow our infrastructure to be "privatized". If something is "private" well then *duh* that means that it's owned by some-one rather than every-one. Big difference.
What a great example of begging to be considered unobservant.
When did we start to allow police forces in Western countries start to behave like militias?
How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with Police Militarization Expert Radley Balko. There ya go.
Hey, Superman is not a drone! He's very much in control of himself.
Doesn't matter. Most people will buy 7200RPM drives instead of 5400RPM drives for their RAID box if they are available because the difference in price doesn't make a fart of difference. Those same people won't buy SSDs instead because their price and capacity do make a fart of difference.
I predict there's going to be a few pissed manufacturers of 2.5-inch RAID enclosures.
I didn't say I was buying it, either. I wish I had more choice in not buying the shiny screens.
I came here to reply to the first truncated line of your comment... but then I was greeted with the second line that said exactly what I intended to say (that's it's marketing designed to sell until the honeymoon is over).
"Crispness" over visibility, huh?
CF cards by design are faster than the SD cards being discussed here. SD was such a gawdawful spec right from the beginning. If you're using CF cards you're better off even using a lousy one.
But kudos to you for not giving a damn about ethical practices just because you think you benefit.
You mean Lexar, the same company that had deliberately misleading advertising for some of its USB Flash products in the last year or two during the transition to USB 3.0? Lexar had advertising and product descriptions for some of its USB 2.0 thumb drives that conveniently didn't even mention that they were USB 2.0, not 3.0. You had to read the fine print in a PDF document to find out the truth, and only then because of the appearance of the USB "High Speed" logo in the margin of the document. Apparently Lexar was trying to unload its stock of USB 2.0 products before it was too late by outright misleading people.
Forget what Lexar might have been doing honestly a decade ago; is that same company really one you want to depend upon now after it pulls a stunt like that?
Thanks for that. I should have found it myself.
Why is the business named after a person whose identity isn't even known to Google, and not the name of the founder or some other relevant thing or person?
Considering what is at stake in the Condor region in particular and the efforts of the incumbent Presidente to hasten its demise, I hope Mitnick does exactly what he says he's doing.
We exist to help donors promote liberty which we understand to be limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise.
Them's weasel words; when people like these speak them, they don't mean what the dictionary that the rest of us use says that they mean. Instead they're code:
-- personal responsibility = throwing ignorant or apathetic people to the wolves, without benefit of protections from people who are better equipped to detect unfairness and are willing to do it for others.
-- free enterprise = free reign to manipulate and disadvantage ignorant and apathetic people to the very limit of what the law allows (and a little bit more).
Was it Warren Buffet that said there's no such thing as a self-made man? The current crop of billionaires required the "contributions" of millions of people to amass their wealth. Concentration of wealth is concentration - and hoarding and denial - of natural resources.
The peculiar way you said it: "this Michael Geist guy". That phrase connotes an unfamiliarity with the subject because of the hesitance to simply refer to him by name.
"this Michael Geist guy"
The first you're hearing of Michael Geist just now, huh? I sincerely envy your man-cave. The isolation is nearly perfect. Faraday would have been jealous.
Why do they wanna attack defenseless innocent asteroids that are just minding their own business?