So this didn't happen? Obama was beating that war drum right until Congress (including the Senate, led by his own party) told him to sit down and shut up. That's when they tried to go the diplomatic route, and then spin history saying that the whole Congressional authorization for military force was just a "bargaining chip" to get Syria to the table, and not another complete disaster when it comes to the relations between Congress and this White House.
Yeah right. Syria saw a way to get rid of this shit without having to pay to do it, and blame someone else if (when) something goes wrong. And, it was a bargaining chip for Assad to stay in power - he gets to say "Ohh, we're giving up all our bad shit that has left my country in the world's doghouse for decades! Clearly we want to work with the world unlike the jihadist rebel fucks shooting up the place!" Never mind him using his air force to bomb cities and civilians that told him to go eat a bag of shit. And never mind the so-called Free Syrian Army who are blockading cities and not allowing food in because the city is siding with the government.
Hey, didn't we send a bunch of Marines to Somalia when some fuckface of a warlord and his thugs used hunger as a weapon? I guess black people in Mogadishu count, but arabs in Aleppo don't. Killing with hunger over weeks of time is completely okay, just like using helicopters and tanks on civilians. Just as long as they don't use chemicals that kill in minutes - that provokes international outrage!
Because, to some people, the method of someone being killed is more important than the fact they were killed to begin with. See: Syria's chemical weapon attacks last year.
One hundred thousand people dead from bullets and explosives, Obama, the US Department of State, the collective foreign policies of Europe, and anyone else that isn't directly sharing a border with Syria could give a fuck. One hundred people dead from Sarin, OH BOY LET'S INVADE! LET'S SANCTION! BOMB THE FUCK OUT OF DAMASCUS!!
Dead is dead. Outside of the moment someone dies, the method hardly matters.
Are you saying that criminals don't obey the law? I'm SHOCKED to hear of this revelation.
(I still shake my head at people that think that a felony-C weapons charge is going to be the deterrent from someone committing a felony-A crime like assault / armed robbery / manslaughter / murder)
Oh No! 90 days in jail on top of that 15 year bid!
Anyone that actually used the Control Strip on Classic MacOS would tell you that it was no substitute for the Start Menu, because it was the most buggy resource-hungry piece of shit that Apple ever wrote. Yes, that set even includes iTunes for Windows.
Control Strip was never meant to do all that - it was meant for laptops to be able to adjust screen brightness and whatnot. It was then perverted into the collection point for every half-assed UI plugin that someone could dream up.
It has been this way since Windows 95. The drivers that come with the OS are bare-bones half-functional anyway. If you're doing it right, you're at least downloading the reference driver from the company that makes the part (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.), if not from the company that slaps their silk screen on it and sells it first-party (EVGA, Asus, etc.).
It wouldn't be a Microsoft OS if you didn't have to give it a driver to talk to a completely standard SATA controller that it booted from.
I had a coworker that got a roll of dollar coins every pay period, and used them for tips at lunch. Or, as a sap if he got in a fist fight.
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It's not. It's the evolution of journalism in the information age, unfortunately. Fox News just seems to embrace it more than most.
30 years ago, people bought newspapers to get their news and opinion in a portable convenient format. Now, people get push notifications of things happening half way around the world, minutes after they happen. You can't open a web browser without getting "opinion."
In the old days, reporters would fact check everything because their editors would bury them in some county bureau if they got taken on a story, especially if getting taken meant other newspapers could report on them getting took. Printing a correction would be ducked at any opportunity. Now, they just take the story off the web site and it vanishes from public consciousness, and they just print the newspaper from what remains on the web after a few hours of vetting by the readership for what is real.
If you fact check, you can't beat your competition to the story. And the news business is all about being first and exclusive to report.
I found a '93 4runner with only 140k miles on it. I'm waiting for the IFS to break in some fashion so I can cut all that shit off and weld on some shackles for leaf springs + a front solid axle. Unfortunately, even the IFS on the 2nd gen 4runner is good, so it's going to be with me for a while.
For what it's worth, Intel didn't buy McAfee for the shitty antivirus product. They bought them for the encryption technology and other so-called intellectual property which they are now implementing on their "enterprise" SSDs and vPro chipsets.
They know the AV product is shit; it just comes bundled with other stuff they want. Much like if you buy a new PC from one of the big OEMs.
While that episode was great, I was speaking towards the legendary performance of those trucks as off-road racers and rock crawlers. If you can find an '85 pickup, all you have to do is add a rear locking diff and raise it up enough to fit 33" tires under it, and it will drive over or through practically anything.
Before the "Tacoma" brand existed in the US, it was just the Toyota pick-up. Still a Hilux elsewhere though. And those late '80s, mid '90s Toyota trucks are indestructible.
The voltage will be constant (depending on what country you're in) - either 115V or 230V. Well, we'll hope it's constant, or you're replacing that power supply.
The power supply draws the current (amps) needed at that particular moment. It is not constant. An idling computer will draw FAR less amperage than one that is busing working on something. The Dell may be rated at 1500W, but will be pulling much less than that on average.
In the fantastic HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" there was an entire episode entitled "1968" that conveys exactly that point. The last bit of dialog is someone in Mission Control relaying congratulatory telegrams to the crew capsule as they travel back to earth, with one being a telegram from someone that simply says "You saved 1968."
I was thinking about all the incredible things that my grandmother saw happen in her lifetime - she was born not long after the first flight at Kitty Hawk, and saw the aerospace industry develop from glorified powered gliders to moon landings to jet airliners that everyday people can travel the world on. Automobiles from something only the rich had, into something that everyone had. Telegraphs to television to digital cellular phones on global communications networks. The Farmer's Almanac to weather satellites and phased radar. Actual ice boxes to modern refrigeration. Antibiotics. Organ transplants. Eradication of polio and smallpox. Computers you can fit in a bag that are thousands of times more powerful than the ones that used to take up whole rooms, which were amazing for their time too. High-rise steel construction. The list goes on and on.
This new narrative of "OMG we don't do anything any more, not like we used to" is completely unfounded, but hardly new. In 15 years it's likely that today's bioscience research will eradicate major diseases like HIV, and the cause the survival rate of cancer to continue it's climb. And in 15 years, people will continue to bitch that we just don't do any amazing things anymore, like they were doing 30 years ago when they were laying trans-ocean fiber links and launching global positioning constellations.
Part of the reason they didn't do it when they made the landing, was because of all the hell (read: lawsuit from an atheist) that NASA caught from this reading on Apollo 8. Buzz Aldrin was (is) a deeply religious man, and observed communion in the LM after landing on the moon, after making this comment on the public radio loop:
"This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way."
He wanted the communion to be broadcast, but had the sense to ask first, and due to the lawsuit it was deemed to not be a good idea.
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So this didn't happen? Obama was beating that war drum right until Congress (including the Senate, led by his own party) told him to sit down and shut up. That's when they tried to go the diplomatic route, and then spin history saying that the whole Congressional authorization for military force was just a "bargaining chip" to get Syria to the table, and not another complete disaster when it comes to the relations between Congress and this White House.
Yeah right. Syria saw a way to get rid of this shit without having to pay to do it, and blame someone else if (when) something goes wrong. And, it was a bargaining chip for Assad to stay in power - he gets to say "Ohh, we're giving up all our bad shit that has left my country in the world's doghouse for decades! Clearly we want to work with the world unlike the jihadist rebel fucks shooting up the place!" Never mind him using his air force to bomb cities and civilians that told him to go eat a bag of shit. And never mind the so-called Free Syrian Army who are blockading cities and not allowing food in because the city is siding with the government.
Hey, didn't we send a bunch of Marines to Somalia when some fuckface of a warlord and his thugs used hunger as a weapon? I guess black people in Mogadishu count, but arabs in Aleppo don't. Killing with hunger over weeks of time is completely okay, just like using helicopters and tanks on civilians. Just as long as they don't use chemicals that kill in minutes - that provokes international outrage!
Because, to some people, the method of someone being killed is more important than the fact they were killed to begin with. See: Syria's chemical weapon attacks last year.
One hundred thousand people dead from bullets and explosives, Obama, the US Department of State, the collective foreign policies of Europe, and anyone else that isn't directly sharing a border with Syria could give a fuck. One hundred people dead from Sarin, OH BOY LET'S INVADE! LET'S SANCTION! BOMB THE FUCK OUT OF DAMASCUS!!
Dead is dead. Outside of the moment someone dies, the method hardly matters.
Threat Level Orange sounds like a bad "Made for SyFy" movie title.
Yeah, because the crowdsourced moderation is so free of flaws, and never abused.
Here, from the published book "US Government and Politics":
If we list a set of rights, some fools in the future are going to claim that people are entitled only to those rights enumerated and no others.
Thus, the 9th and 10th amendments. James Madison was a Genius.
Wait.
Are you saying that criminals don't obey the law? I'm SHOCKED to hear of this revelation.
(I still shake my head at people that think that a felony-C weapons charge is going to be the deterrent from someone committing a felony-A crime like assault / armed robbery / manslaughter / murder)
Oh No! 90 days in jail on top of that 15 year bid!
Anyone that actually used the Control Strip on Classic MacOS would tell you that it was no substitute for the Start Menu, because it was the most buggy resource-hungry piece of shit that Apple ever wrote. Yes, that set even includes iTunes for Windows.
Control Strip was never meant to do all that - it was meant for laptops to be able to adjust screen brightness and whatnot. It was then perverted into the collection point for every half-assed UI plugin that someone could dream up.
It has been this way since Windows 95. The drivers that come with the OS are bare-bones half-functional anyway. If you're doing it right, you're at least downloading the reference driver from the company that makes the part (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.), if not from the company that slaps their silk screen on it and sells it first-party (EVGA, Asus, etc.).
It wouldn't be a Microsoft OS if you didn't have to give it a driver to talk to a completely standard SATA controller that it booted from.
When you put your PIN number in the ATM machine, it uses the NIC card to transmit the data to the bank. It all makes perfect sense!
Probably some misguided attempt at a MAC address ACL - because MAC addresses can never be spoofed, ever. Not even once.
I had a coworker that got a roll of dollar coins every pay period, and used them for tips at lunch. Or, as a sap if he got in a fist fight.
It's not. It's the evolution of journalism in the information age, unfortunately. Fox News just seems to embrace it more than most.
30 years ago, people bought newspapers to get their news and opinion in a portable convenient format. Now, people get push notifications of things happening half way around the world, minutes after they happen. You can't open a web browser without getting "opinion."
In the old days, reporters would fact check everything because their editors would bury them in some county bureau if they got taken on a story, especially if getting taken meant other newspapers could report on them getting took. Printing a correction would be ducked at any opportunity. Now, they just take the story off the web site and it vanishes from public consciousness, and they just print the newspaper from what remains on the web after a few hours of vetting by the readership for what is real.
If you fact check, you can't beat your competition to the story. And the news business is all about being first and exclusive to report.
I found a '93 4runner with only 140k miles on it. I'm waiting for the IFS to break in some fashion so I can cut all that shit off and weld on some shackles for leaf springs + a front solid axle. Unfortunately, even the IFS on the 2nd gen 4runner is good, so it's going to be with me for a while.
For what it's worth, Intel didn't buy McAfee for the shitty antivirus product. They bought them for the encryption technology and other so-called intellectual property which they are now implementing on their "enterprise" SSDs and vPro chipsets.
They know the AV product is shit; it just comes bundled with other stuff they want. Much like if you buy a new PC from one of the big OEMs.
So can iOS, if you jailbreak. But that involves a user actively smashing apart the security that this discussion is about.
That's like saying "you realize someone can totally steal your shit if you remove the front door from your house, right?"
While that episode was great, I was speaking towards the legendary performance of those trucks as off-road racers and rock crawlers. If you can find an '85 pickup, all you have to do is add a rear locking diff and raise it up enough to fit 33" tires under it, and it will drive over or through practically anything.
The Toyota Hilux is basically the Toyota Tacoma.
Before the "Tacoma" brand existed in the US, it was just the Toyota pick-up. Still a Hilux elsewhere though. And those late '80s, mid '90s Toyota trucks are indestructible.
Watts = volts * amps.
The voltage will be constant (depending on what country you're in) - either 115V or 230V. Well, we'll hope it's constant, or you're replacing that power supply.
The power supply draws the current (amps) needed at that particular moment. It is not constant. An idling computer will draw FAR less amperage than one that is busing working on something. The Dell may be rated at 1500W, but will be pulling much less than that on average.
There was an awesome sale on punctuation at the Grammar Store. I stocked up on semicolons.
It's right there, on the lens, blurring everything!
In the fantastic HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" there was an entire episode entitled "1968" that conveys exactly that point. The last bit of dialog is someone in Mission Control relaying congratulatory telegrams to the crew capsule as they travel back to earth, with one being a telegram from someone that simply says "You saved 1968."
Except for non-Abrahamic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Shintoism (which by the way encompass more people.)
No, they don't.
I know, why bring actual data into a quantitative discussion...
I was thinking about all the incredible things that my grandmother saw happen in her lifetime - she was born not long after the first flight at Kitty Hawk, and saw the aerospace industry develop from glorified powered gliders to moon landings to jet airliners that everyday people can travel the world on. Automobiles from something only the rich had, into something that everyone had. Telegraphs to television to digital cellular phones on global communications networks. The Farmer's Almanac to weather satellites and phased radar. Actual ice boxes to modern refrigeration. Antibiotics. Organ transplants. Eradication of polio and smallpox. Computers you can fit in a bag that are thousands of times more powerful than the ones that used to take up whole rooms, which were amazing for their time too. High-rise steel construction. The list goes on and on.
This new narrative of "OMG we don't do anything any more, not like we used to" is completely unfounded, but hardly new. In 15 years it's likely that today's bioscience research will eradicate major diseases like HIV, and the cause the survival rate of cancer to continue it's climb. And in 15 years, people will continue to bitch that we just don't do any amazing things anymore, like they were doing 30 years ago when they were laying trans-ocean fiber links and launching global positioning constellations.
Part of the reason they didn't do it when they made the landing, was because of all the hell (read: lawsuit from an atheist) that NASA caught from this reading on Apollo 8. Buzz Aldrin was (is) a deeply religious man, and observed communion in the LM after landing on the moon, after making this comment on the public radio loop:
"This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way."
He wanted the communion to be broadcast, but had the sense to ask first, and due to the lawsuit it was deemed to not be a good idea.