"Hell is full of good intentions or desires" - Saint Francis de Sales
"Some of the worst things in history have been done 'for their own good'" - Me (AFAIK)
But hey, we've got a bunch of bleeding-hearts in my generation and the previous that want to protect everyone from any kind of unhappiness, so they do lots of things for our own good, like the USA PATRIOT Act, attacking Iraq (which is what it's morphed into after not finding any WMD's...), zero tolerance policies which tend to just magnify violence when it does happen... the list goes on.
So don't install flash, and don't play the videos. You can still use Lynx to browse the Internet, you know. It's still 100% up to the user agent. But you'll miss out on a lot. Besides, the flash video is more elegant than mpeg video in general, what with being able to easily custom-brand videos and such.
"128 bit address space. In other words theoretically there are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses available. This means there are approximately 6.67 * 10^27 IPv6 addresses per square meter on our planet."
Yeah... not so much on the running out any time soon. Hell, you could have an IPv6 address per SERVICE, and not run out in the near future.
The only thing I'd like to "fix" about the Internet is more bandwidth to the endpoints, and availability of home ISP's at a reasonable price (affordable to people making $50K or less a year without it being a major expense) that don't do port filtering and try to wall us into their garden.
No, he wanted to MOVE his already purchased copy of XP. He didn't want anything for free. Just because it came with a computer doesn't mean anything. Do you expect to not be able to sell your old car radio if you take it out, just because it came with your car? Or even just use it in another car? He did get screwed in the deal, he bought a product and then is unable to use it because of artificial limitations that were not stated before his purchase (I guarantee you neither Dell nor Microsoft told him that the license couldn't be transferred before he paid for it, whether it's "common knowledge" or not is immaterial). You're either a troll or a moron, but quite possibly both.
A personal attack would have been if I called you a yellow-bellied coward for not having that information out. What I was simply doing was pointing out that you yourself use anonymity, and there are many very good reasons for it to be part of the system that governs us, so that it is more based on the true feelings of the voters, rather than any kind of coercion they may be subjected to. And if they ARE subjected to coercion, they can lie to keep their persons and property safe, while still voting their conscience without fear of being "found out". If your point is that the system is that people CAN be dishonest, well, yes. It's because it's safer for everyone involved that way, and will in actuality provide results more in line with the voter's actual desires than a "traceable" system would.
Because ATM's are perfect. ATM manufactures are often the SAME as the voting machine manufacturers and they still can't get it right. ATM's and slot machines are successful in use because fraud doesn't have catastrophic effects across the industry, it's just a spot "hiccup". Voting machine fraud means the wrong person is put in office for however long, or even worse, amendments and other laws are passed erroneously.
So why do you go by "torkus", and not have an email or website on your slashdot info? Anonymity has it's place, doubly so in politics. He's not saying "lying" in order to gain something other than perhaps freedom from persecution and retribution from people who may not agree with what he said/voted.
1) Not directly, no, but my opinion as a Linux user affects the tech purchases of at least 10 people very strongly, and the purchasing decisions of my company at least moderately
2) Definitely. Good business sense.
3) Nope. But it's not good business to alienate the people who support your operations. Goodwill may not go on a line in your ledger, but it's a quite real value (or cost, should you misuse it).
You expect it at this point because execs were educated in the 80's, where the bottom line is the ONLY line that matters. But that's not really the best way to approach things, because you lose loyalty when you show none, which will screw you over whenever you make a single misstep, rather than people being forgiving of a faux pas (such as with companies like Google) simply because the company shows so much goodwill towards their customers.
Then they better not use open-source based software in the firmware program. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You get Linux for free, you need to abide by the copyright agreement.
That means you're not using your skills right. What you should do is offer to look at it for her, since you do your own car repair, and could tell her if it was just cleaning off the corrosion on her battery terminals or if she needed a full rebuild. All of a sudden you're attractive and useful, and you have a reason to spend more time with her. The root problem is that you're technically inclined, but not interpersonally inclined. Recognizing you have a weakness is the first step to solving it;) He may be an effeminate jerk, but he saw his opening in the conversation and took it, and you didn't see yours.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
There are a lot of people who just trust in the "magic" of their car running, their computer doing what they want... but it still scares them a bit. Add in the scary specter of "nukeular" unknown, and they get scared.
Wait, what? The sun's pretty big, dude, and the orbit is around the center of mass of the sun. You don't have to get it exact, you just have to get it close enough, somewhere between probably 10-30km/s to hit the diameter of the sun, and even less if you aim more towards the sun. Besides, for your escape solution you'd have to get it going significantly faster than 12km/s going out... that 30km/s "boost" is tangential to the earth's orbit, which means that the relevant component of the velocity directly away from the sun won't be quite high enough if you just give it a 12km/s boost. Check out orbital mechanics sometime... it's really interesting;)
But if you could recapture the exhaust from all the cars for say, 100,000 people (kinda like what a power plant provides power for), then you could filter out a pretty appreciable amount of CO. We're talking economies of scale. A power plant is MUCH bigger than a car engine... if you were talking about reprocessing fuel in say, a nuclear powered sub, I'd agree with you. It's a silly idea. But for a powerplant, it makes great sense.
Oh, I agree completely. I'm just saying that it's fortunate for the rest of us that a few wackos like JT aren't completely ruining it for the rest of us. They're just making things mildly inconvenient.
You aren't thinking like Machiavelli, then. Why would you actually talk to them? You'd just promise to do so. Seriously, kids these days... no wonder things are going to hell in a handbasket. Everyone is fucking naive.
And if you're Machiavellian, profitable;) Use their problem to your advantage. Low-level bank female character... "Oh gosh, I just can't seem to get enough gold for [whatever]... I wonder who ever could help me? I'd even promise to talk to them!"
It takes weeks to ship things from China because people don't want to pay the extra to have things flown over. It's not hugely beneficial to have things delivered in hours... it takes a ton of time to get the thing manufactured in the first place (plans, tooling, etc.), a few weeks to save a LOT of money is always worth it. The only time it wouldn't be is with prototypes, but then, why aren't you just making those closer to home, or even having a direct hand in the building of the prototype? The "need" won't ever be there as long as it takes a fuckton more energy to move things more quickly than via a ship. But hey, maybe it's time to get back into the dirigible business...
Why should kids not learn how to deal with bullshit like that? Are they somehow magically retarded and pathetic, unable to deal with any even perceived slight? Oh wait, rhetorical question given today's political climate.
Look, kids need to have bad experiences and subsequently have guidance dealing with them themselves in order to learn. They do NOT need to be protected from every single thing that might possibly cause them to get even slightly upset. Because that raises a generation of entitled little twats with no work ethic and the strange idea that they should get promoted/praised just for showing up. I work with a lot of peers who are like that. Real life does NOT work that way in a stable, growing society.
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"Hell is full of good intentions or desires" - Saint Francis de Sales
"Some of the worst things in history have been done 'for their own good'" - Me (AFAIK)
But hey, we've got a bunch of bleeding-hearts in my generation and the previous that want to protect everyone from any kind of unhappiness, so they do lots of things for our own good, like the USA PATRIOT Act, attacking Iraq (which is what it's morphed into after not finding any WMD's...), zero tolerance policies which tend to just magnify violence when it does happen... the list goes on.
So don't install flash, and don't play the videos. You can still use Lynx to browse the Internet, you know. It's still 100% up to the user agent. But you'll miss out on a lot. Besides, the flash video is more elegant than mpeg video in general, what with being able to easily custom-brand videos and such.
You don't understand numbers too well, do ya? From the FreeBSD page on IPv6:
"128 bit address space. In other words theoretically there are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses available. This means there are approximately 6.67 * 10^27 IPv6 addresses per square meter on our planet."
Yeah... not so much on the running out any time soon. Hell, you could have an IPv6 address per SERVICE, and not run out in the near future.
The only thing I'd like to "fix" about the Internet is more bandwidth to the endpoints, and availability of home ISP's at a reasonable price (affordable to people making $50K or less a year without it being a major expense) that don't do port filtering and try to wall us into their garden.
No, he wanted to MOVE his already purchased copy of XP. He didn't want anything for free. Just because it came with a computer doesn't mean anything. Do you expect to not be able to sell your old car radio if you take it out, just because it came with your car? Or even just use it in another car? He did get screwed in the deal, he bought a product and then is unable to use it because of artificial limitations that were not stated before his purchase (I guarantee you neither Dell nor Microsoft told him that the license couldn't be transferred before he paid for it, whether it's "common knowledge" or not is immaterial). You're either a troll or a moron, but quite possibly both.
What about the [ketchup] and the [mustard]? That burger is being abused!
Dude. I'm in my mid 20's and even I have heard of plaster walls. Where have you been?
Link?
A personal attack would have been if I called you a yellow-bellied coward for not having that information out. What I was simply doing was pointing out that you yourself use anonymity, and there are many very good reasons for it to be part of the system that governs us, so that it is more based on the true feelings of the voters, rather than any kind of coercion they may be subjected to. And if they ARE subjected to coercion, they can lie to keep their persons and property safe, while still voting their conscience without fear of being "found out". If your point is that the system is that people CAN be dishonest, well, yes. It's because it's safer for everyone involved that way, and will in actuality provide results more in line with the voter's actual desires than a "traceable" system would.
Because ATM's are perfect. ATM manufactures are often the SAME as the voting machine manufacturers and they still can't get it right. ATM's and slot machines are successful in use because fraud doesn't have catastrophic effects across the industry, it's just a spot "hiccup". Voting machine fraud means the wrong person is put in office for however long, or even worse, amendments and other laws are passed erroneously.
So why do you go by "torkus", and not have an email or website on your slashdot info? Anonymity has it's place, doubly so in politics. He's not saying "lying" in order to gain something other than perhaps freedom from persecution and retribution from people who may not agree with what he said/voted.
1) Not directly, no, but my opinion as a Linux user affects the tech purchases of at least 10 people very strongly, and the purchasing decisions of my company at least moderately
2) Definitely. Good business sense.
3) Nope. But it's not good business to alienate the people who support your operations. Goodwill may not go on a line in your ledger, but it's a quite real value (or cost, should you misuse it).
You expect it at this point because execs were educated in the 80's, where the bottom line is the ONLY line that matters. But that's not really the best way to approach things, because you lose loyalty when you show none, which will screw you over whenever you make a single misstep, rather than people being forgiving of a faux pas (such as with companies like Google) simply because the company shows so much goodwill towards their customers.
Then they better not use open-source based software in the firmware program. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You get Linux for free, you need to abide by the copyright agreement.
That means you're not using your skills right. What you should do is offer to look at it for her, since you do your own car repair, and could tell her if it was just cleaning off the corrosion on her battery terminals or if she needed a full rebuild. All of a sudden you're attractive and useful, and you have a reason to spend more time with her. The root problem is that you're technically inclined, but not interpersonally inclined. Recognizing you have a weakness is the first step to solving it ;) He may be an effeminate jerk, but he saw his opening in the conversation and took it, and you didn't see yours.
It shouldn't worry about offending people, but it should worry about appearing like it's trying to establish a state-approved or sponsored religion
Funny doesn't give you karma. Many funny jokes are modded insightful to give a karma boost instead of just being funny.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
There are a lot of people who just trust in the "magic" of their car running, their computer doing what they want... but it still scares them a bit. Add in the scary specter of "nukeular" unknown, and they get scared.
Wait, what? The sun's pretty big, dude, and the orbit is around the center of mass of the sun. You don't have to get it exact, you just have to get it close enough, somewhere between probably 10-30km/s to hit the diameter of the sun, and even less if you aim more towards the sun. Besides, for your escape solution you'd have to get it going significantly faster than 12km/s going out... that 30km/s "boost" is tangential to the earth's orbit, which means that the relevant component of the velocity directly away from the sun won't be quite high enough if you just give it a 12km/s boost. Check out orbital mechanics sometime... it's really interesting ;)
But if you could recapture the exhaust from all the cars for say, 100,000 people (kinda like what a power plant provides power for), then you could filter out a pretty appreciable amount of CO. We're talking economies of scale. A power plant is MUCH bigger than a car engine... if you were talking about reprocessing fuel in say, a nuclear powered sub, I'd agree with you. It's a silly idea. But for a powerplant, it makes great sense.
Oh, I agree completely. I'm just saying that it's fortunate for the rest of us that a few wackos like JT aren't completely ruining it for the rest of us. They're just making things mildly inconvenient.
Fortunately, those laws are routinely thrown out as unconstitutional.
You aren't thinking like Machiavelli, then. Why would you actually talk to them? You'd just promise to do so. Seriously, kids these days... no wonder things are going to hell in a handbasket. Everyone is fucking naive.
And if you're Machiavellian, profitable ;) Use their problem to your advantage. Low-level bank female character... "Oh gosh, I just can't seem to get enough gold for [whatever]... I wonder who ever could help me? I'd even promise to talk to them!"
It takes weeks to ship things from China because people don't want to pay the extra to have things flown over. It's not hugely beneficial to have things delivered in hours... it takes a ton of time to get the thing manufactured in the first place (plans, tooling, etc.), a few weeks to save a LOT of money is always worth it. The only time it wouldn't be is with prototypes, but then, why aren't you just making those closer to home, or even having a direct hand in the building of the prototype? The "need" won't ever be there as long as it takes a fuckton more energy to move things more quickly than via a ship. But hey, maybe it's time to get back into the dirigible business...
Why should kids not learn how to deal with bullshit like that? Are they somehow magically retarded and pathetic, unable to deal with any even perceived slight? Oh wait, rhetorical question given today's political climate.
Look, kids need to have bad experiences and subsequently have guidance dealing with them themselves in order to learn. They do NOT need to be protected from every single thing that might possibly cause them to get even slightly upset. Because that raises a generation of entitled little twats with no work ethic and the strange idea that they should get promoted/praised just for showing up. I work with a lot of peers who are like that. Real life does NOT work that way in a stable, growing society.