You're seeing the misleadingly-easy moral of the story. As in, "easy, but not sufficent."
What would be the moral if the story went "My dad's laptop bag was destroyed in a house fire" or "My dad's laptop bag got stolen in a mugging?" I suspect your trollbag answer would be "don't live in flammable houses" or "resist a mugging or die trying."
No, the real moral is "don't keep your primary and your backup in the same easily-{destroyed|stolen|misplaced} container".
I thought the entire point of a fuel tax was to discourage consumption of fossil fuels.
The point of a fuel tax is to collect tax revenue. The greenwashing of a simple tax was a brilliant PR move, but it doesn't pan out now that the green goals are appearing to come true.
To a large extent, your use of fuel is proportional to your damage to roads.
With some notableexceptions, which use very little or no fuel (in the "cents per gallon taxation" sense). This was discussed in one of the previous near-dupe Slashdot stories mentioned in TFS.
If your vehicle doesn't use taxable fuel, Oregon wants a way to help you pay your fair share (to put it how they probably would). Or, looking at it another way, they don't want alternate-energy vehicles becoming a tax evasion method.
Put 'em in people containers. Kinda like cargo containers, but people-sized and people-shaped. One size fits all, of course. This assumption is already embedded in how they accommodate their passengers.
All you have to do then is do a 3d space-filling exercise with the appropriately-shaped people containers. If the flight's not completely booked, you can still put in the empty containers, or maybe cargo containers of the same shape.
Of course, there's always a risk that passengers would be unhappy with being bundled up like cargo, immobilized in a form-fitting box, and stuck in place for hours at a stretch. But you could definitely push ticket prices down further if you could pack the plane like this, and think of the extra revenue you can pull by offering container life support (fresh air, for instance) at a modest and nominal fee.
Sure. They're coming up with an ankle version for the workplace environment. It comes attached to a 120 pound iron ball with a short segment of chain. You'll be cozy and secure at your galley oar ^w^w desk.
Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrèditès ont tort. It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Really? That's a lot of faith there in an organization that hasn't done very much to merit it.
Let's indulge a little idle speculation on my part. Nothing I say from here down in this post is supported by any objective evidence; the only thing you could say is that the things I speculate on have been done in other contexts.
Proprietary, unlicensed connector. As far as Sony is concerned, the only things you plug into the headset connector has "Sony" stamped into it, as proof that any money spent on buying it went to Sony first and foremost. A revenue stream is a terrible thing to not capture.
A digital audio protocol. Also proprietary and undocumented, except to hypothetical licensees. And protected by draconic DRM, so no reverse engineering for you. After all, we gotta close that analog hole, right?
Aggressive treatment of homebrewing. Lawsuits aplenty. Criminization of homebrewing which runs afoul of the protected nature of the interface (because only criminals reverse engineer).
Yeah. I'm just speculating. But if you draw up a list of the companies in the world that might be inclined to this approach, Sony would absolutely be in the top two.
Require a card to shop there? With the thin profit margin of grocert stores, they cant afford to pay someone to just check cards when people enter.
You obviously haven't shopped at a Sam's Club. Hell, you haven't shopped at Wal-Mart... your friendly "Welcom to Wal-Mart" oldster could easily be repurposed as a card-check monkey, at precisely zero operating cost increase.
"Discuss later" means "You can complain futilely among yourselves about how you got exactly dick for all your trouble, and we will gloat among ourselves about how cleverly we screwed you over."
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead. [a company puts COBOL on the cart] Oracle Corporation with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence. Java: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: What? Oracle: Nothing. There's your ninepence. Java: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Oracle: Yes he is. Java: I'm not. The Dead Collector: He isn't. Oracle: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. Java: I'm getting better. Oracle: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. Java: I don't want to go on the cart. Oracle: Oh, don't be such a baby. The Dead Collector: I can't take him. Java: I feel fine. Oracle: Oh, do me a favor. The Dead Collector: I can't. Oracle: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long. The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at Microsoft. They've lost nine today. Oracle: Well, when's your next round? The Dead Collector: Thursday. Java: I think I'll go for a walk. Oracle: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? Java: I feel happy. I feel happy. [The Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club] Oracle: Ah, thank you very much. The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Oracle: Right.
Slashdot editors could eventually get their shit together and finally understand what "to edit" actually means.
I was right with you up until that one. I think you were overcome by the moment and flew over the line from "wildly improbable" to "flatly, no exceptions, law-of-nature impossible" by momentum.
I agree that there's enough novelty that "workshop" isn't a strong enough word. And I agree that any word beginning with "work" isn't really very appealing. But for a lot of people, the social angle is somewhere between "irrelevant" and "frightening". Let's face it. A lot of hackers treat social interaction as just another tool, and the kinds of social interaction you're talking about in the hackerspace social concept doesn't solve any problems they have right now. Or, maybe more fairly, any problems they recognize. Obviously, the social compact behind hackerspaces solves a lot of logistical problems by concerted group effort in Getting Expensive and Difficult Stuff Done, but I think a lot of hackish folks would just wait for someone else to solve those problems and then take advantage of the results. In this specific case, I'm pretty sure I'd be one of the ones at some corner bench using all the equipment provided by the hacker activism and organizational efforts, but not reaching out to get involved in the next round of tool acquisitions or funding outreach... unless I had a concrete and specific need that I'd have to work with others to solve.
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You're seeing the misleadingly-easy moral of the story. As in, "easy, but not sufficent."
What would be the moral if the story went "My dad's laptop bag was destroyed in a house fire" or "My dad's laptop bag got stolen in a mugging?" I suspect your trollbag answer would be "don't live in flammable houses" or "resist a mugging or die trying."
No, the real moral is "don't keep your primary and your backup in the same easily-{destroyed|stolen|misplaced} container".
Back in my day we'd track down, invite them to a duck-hunting outing, and SHOOT the bastard ourselves.
FTFY.
That's OK. You can use the other 2 billion for your negative friends.
I thought the entire point of a fuel tax was to discourage consumption of fossil fuels.
The point of a fuel tax is to collect tax revenue. The greenwashing of a simple tax was a brilliant PR move, but it doesn't pan out now that the green goals are appearing to come true.
To a large extent, your use of fuel is proportional to your damage to roads.
With some notable exceptions, which use very little or no fuel (in the "cents per gallon taxation" sense). This was discussed in one of the previous near-dupe Slashdot stories mentioned in TFS.
If your vehicle doesn't use taxable fuel, Oregon wants a way to help you pay your fair share (to put it how they probably would). Or, looking at it another way, they don't want alternate-energy vehicles becoming a tax evasion method.
No, just once now.
Oh, wait, am I off by one?
We apologise again for the fault in the moderation. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Put 'em in people containers. Kinda like cargo containers, but people-sized and people-shaped. One size fits all, of course. This assumption is already embedded in how they accommodate their passengers.
All you have to do then is do a 3d space-filling exercise with the appropriately-shaped people containers. If the flight's not completely booked, you can still put in the empty containers, or maybe cargo containers of the same shape.
Of course, there's always a risk that passengers would be unhappy with being bundled up like cargo, immobilized in a form-fitting box, and stuck in place for hours at a stretch. But you could definitely push ticket prices down further if you could pack the plane like this, and think of the extra revenue you can pull by offering container life support (fresh air, for instance) at a modest and nominal fee.
Your sleep. My health.
Hmm. How to decide?
Hey, interesting fact. You leaning your seat back towards me in the row behind you puts your vulnerable throat closer to my hands.
Sleep tight!
-- Vincent, Gattaca
Perhaps an anklet?
Sure. They're coming up with an ankle version for the workplace environment. It comes attached to a 120 pound iron ball with a short segment of chain. You'll be cozy and secure at your galley oar ^w^w desk.
Standing waves the size of planets are awesome
Dr. Carl-Gustaf Rossby certainly thought so.
Why a human can play WoW, but the AI can't?
Have you ever seen a Looking-for-Raid raid group? If you ever had, you'd never claim that humans can play WoW.
The process of naming laws has pretty much destroyed irony.
Sure, we'll give him good credit for wanting to tamp down the uproar.
After all, Cameron's "Bad Cop" needs some kind of "Good Cop" to smooth down the unfocused anxiety of the herd.
And, going farther back:
-- Voltaire
Really? That's a lot of faith there in an organization that hasn't done very much to merit it.
Let's indulge a little idle speculation on my part. Nothing I say from here down in this post is supported by any objective evidence; the only thing you could say is that the things I speculate on have been done in other contexts.
Yeah. I'm just speculating. But if you draw up a list of the companies in the world that might be inclined to this approach, Sony would absolutely be in the top two.
Well, it's one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
But don't you step on my bluetooth shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my bluetooth shoes.
Let's be a little selective, though.
We wouldn't want to be wiped out by pandemic unsanitary telephone disease.
How could they make it illegal?
Lobbying. The usual way.
Require a card to shop there? With the thin profit margin of grocert stores, they cant afford to pay someone to just check cards when people enter.
You obviously haven't shopped at a Sam's Club. Hell, you haven't shopped at Wal-Mart... your friendly "Welcom to Wal-Mart" oldster could easily be repurposed as a card-check monkey, at precisely zero operating cost increase.
Exactly.
"Discuss later" means "You can complain futilely among yourselves about how you got exactly dick for all your trouble, and we will gloat among ourselves about how cleverly we screwed you over."
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a company puts COBOL on the cart]
Oracle Corporation with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
Java: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Oracle: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
Java: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Oracle: Yes he is.
Java: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Oracle: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Java: I'm getting better.
Oracle: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Java: I don't want to go on the cart.
Oracle: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
Java: I feel fine.
Oracle: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Oracle: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at Microsoft. They've lost nine today.
Oracle: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
Java: I think I'll go for a walk.
Oracle: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
Java: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[The Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Oracle: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Oracle: Right.
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Slashdot editors could eventually get their shit together and finally understand what "to edit" actually means.
I was right with you up until that one. I think you were overcome by the moment and flew over the line from "wildly improbable" to "flatly, no exceptions, law-of-nature impossible" by momentum.
Sorry. No partial prizes for mostly right.
I agree that there's enough novelty that "workshop" isn't a strong enough word. And I agree that any word beginning with "work" isn't really very appealing. But for a lot of people, the social angle is somewhere between "irrelevant" and "frightening". Let's face it. A lot of hackers treat social interaction as just another tool, and the kinds of social interaction you're talking about in the hackerspace social concept doesn't solve any problems they have right now. Or, maybe more fairly, any problems they recognize. Obviously, the social compact behind hackerspaces solves a lot of logistical problems by concerted group effort in Getting Expensive and Difficult Stuff Done, but I think a lot of hackish folks would just wait for someone else to solve those problems and then take advantage of the results. In this specific case, I'm pretty sure I'd be one of the ones at some corner bench using all the equipment provided by the hacker activism and organizational efforts, but not reaching out to get involved in the next round of tool acquisitions or funding outreach... unless I had a concrete and specific need that I'd have to work with others to solve.