And who composes an essay so fast that the limiting factor is the physical act of writing?
I do. I find myself thinking far ahead of where I'm at with my writing, which forces me to try to remember every point I want to address as I'm composing the whole essay. The SAT's and such don't really give you much scratch for knocking out ideas and refining them.
But I believe her. There's no hypocrisy... she's benefiting from past animal research, but she'll be damned if anyone else can benefit from future research. That's not hypocritical, right?
If it were "every once in a while", I'd agree. The problem is that the terrorist threat is overstated and overrated in the first place, and is only a mechanism to exert more control by the government over the population. Terrorists have killed fewer people in the US over the last 10 years than auto accidents have in one. Yet where does the money go?
It's not useless. It's simply a symbol of control, and a way to keep people cowed. They haven't taken it to red, they're reserving that for when they need a shot of mindless patriotism to get something illegal taken care of, so they can claim it was done to "prevent terrorism".
Someone's always shooting at someone else. If this sheet blocks bullets effectively, it means that whoever is behind it remains huggable. I'm all for that.
RAID5 is awesome for my media center. It's data that's not terribly valuable and can be recreated, but I don't want to lose it to a drive failure because the initial creation wasn't easy, and a large, cohesive bit of space is nice for a media center program like MythTV. The drives are inexpensive, true, and I only spent $400 on 4 1TB drives. That's all I can fit in that case, and having that extra 1TB of space on my media center right now means that instead of the array being 75% filled, it's only 50% filled.
Just because you can't think of a place for it doesn't mean there isn't one.
Seconded. I have a 4x1TB RAID5 in my media center for the same reason. It'd be a pain in the ass to re-rip all my DVD's and such, but I don't really need to back up the data. I just want it to be fault tolerant, so if a drive dies, I can replace it and not lose all my data.
Just FYI, mechanical drives will NEVER not be open to the air. The heads depend on the Bernoulli effect to lift above the platter to where they to the reading. No air means that the head stays in contact with the disk, which is bad mojo.
Hell, I'm not even a major Trekker (Trekkie? I never know what the latest P.C. term is...) and I'd pay $5K for it. It's a hell of a conversation piece, as well as memorabilia. I'll bet there are a bunch of Trek fans who have the cash to blow who'd bid this way over that.
I've never been in favor of either of them. ASCAP are a bunch of assholes, as big or bigger than the RIAA. ASCAP does not help the artists. They take a tax out of every venue on the assumption that there might be some music played by some artist that they represent. And the redistribution works like with the RIAA... the top acts get a ton of cash, the rest get fuck-all. After ASCAP takes their fees, of course. ASCAP is just as much of a cancer on 90% of artists and the public as the RIAA is. They want to control whose music gets played so they can take their pound of flesh. Fuck them.
Nuclear power is an amazing technology that would solve many of the world's power problems, yet all kinds of people fight against it. This entire article is about the knee-jerk idiocy that happens when anyone sees the word "nuclear". They're fighting it because the morons of the world will think that irradiation makes the food dangerous.
ASCAP is a separate group from the RIAA. They just "represent" the labels like Sony, BMG and so on. ASCAP is just saying they want their pound of flesh, since the RIAA already gets theirs from the licensing fees. It doesn't make the claim any less bullshit, but it sheds light on the train of thought. ASCAP wants to tax everything it can classify as a "performance", the RIAA does the same for everything it can call a "license". Or get Congress to agree is a performance or license, respectively.
"If it were a perfect world, everything would be perfect." It is impossible to clean everything perfectly, every time, all the time, with soap and water. Especially on an industrial scale. That is why irradiation exists. Or perhaps you would like to volunteer to wash veggies for the companies? Or perhaps pay many times what you're paying now, due to the cost of such washings?
Would it also block the phones in the rest of the courthouse? In the buildings nearby? Hell, the phones of the people in the audience? If so, you're trampling on everyone's rights for the transgressions of a few. That's not acceptable.
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Not only that, but the police aren't even responsible for enforcing a restraining order.
And who composes an essay so fast that the limiting factor is the physical act of writing?
I do. I find myself thinking far ahead of where I'm at with my writing, which forces me to try to remember every point I want to address as I'm composing the whole essay. The SAT's and such don't really give you much scratch for knocking out ideas and refining them.
Sorta like the hypocrites in charge of PETA?
But I believe her. There's no hypocrisy... she's benefiting from past animal research, but she'll be damned if anyone else can benefit from future research. That's not hypocritical, right?
Here in Colorado we find Prairie Dogs yearly that are plague carriers
Screw you! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real, and I'll sue you for implying that he might not be!
Peer pressure. It's just not cool to smoke any more.
If it were "every once in a while", I'd agree. The problem is that the terrorist threat is overstated and overrated in the first place, and is only a mechanism to exert more control by the government over the population. Terrorists have killed fewer people in the US over the last 10 years than auto accidents have in one. Yet where does the money go?
Obama has no money. All he can do is take out a loan from China and give it to you. Do we really want that?
It's not useless. It's simply a symbol of control, and a way to keep people cowed. They haven't taken it to red, they're reserving that for when they need a shot of mindless patriotism to get something illegal taken care of, so they can claim it was done to "prevent terrorism".
I'll be really scared when we hit plaid...
Someone's always shooting at someone else. If this sheet blocks bullets effectively, it means that whoever is behind it remains huggable. I'm all for that.
I can haz a plural?
A leather whip won't get through leather armor, though. Not even close. Again, different physics at play.
RAID5 is awesome for my media center. It's data that's not terribly valuable and can be recreated, but I don't want to lose it to a drive failure because the initial creation wasn't easy, and a large, cohesive bit of space is nice for a media center program like MythTV. The drives are inexpensive, true, and I only spent $400 on 4 1TB drives. That's all I can fit in that case, and having that extra 1TB of space on my media center right now means that instead of the array being 75% filled, it's only 50% filled.
Just because you can't think of a place for it doesn't mean there isn't one.
Seconded. I have a 4x1TB RAID5 in my media center for the same reason. It'd be a pain in the ass to re-rip all my DVD's and such, but I don't really need to back up the data. I just want it to be fault tolerant, so if a drive dies, I can replace it and not lose all my data.
Just FYI, mechanical drives will NEVER not be open to the air. The heads depend on the Bernoulli effect to lift above the platter to where they to the reading. No air means that the head stays in contact with the disk, which is bad mojo.
Gotta love file extension based executability determination. It's not like Unix file attributes had this solved a long time ago.
Hell, I'm not even a major Trekker (Trekkie? I never know what the latest P.C. term is...) and I'd pay $5K for it. It's a hell of a conversation piece, as well as memorabilia. I'll bet there are a bunch of Trek fans who have the cash to blow who'd bid this way over that.
I've never been in favor of either of them. ASCAP are a bunch of assholes, as big or bigger than the RIAA. ASCAP does not help the artists. They take a tax out of every venue on the assumption that there might be some music played by some artist that they represent. And the redistribution works like with the RIAA... the top acts get a ton of cash, the rest get fuck-all. After ASCAP takes their fees, of course. ASCAP is just as much of a cancer on 90% of artists and the public as the RIAA is. They want to control whose music gets played so they can take their pound of flesh. Fuck them.
Nuclear power is an amazing technology that would solve many of the world's power problems, yet all kinds of people fight against it. This entire article is about the knee-jerk idiocy that happens when anyone sees the word "nuclear". They're fighting it because the morons of the world will think that irradiation makes the food dangerous.
Mmmmm, corporatism... only a few steps from the holy grail that is Fascism.
ASCAP is a separate group from the RIAA. They just "represent" the labels like Sony, BMG and so on. ASCAP is just saying they want their pound of flesh, since the RIAA already gets theirs from the licensing fees. It doesn't make the claim any less bullshit, but it sheds light on the train of thought. ASCAP wants to tax everything it can classify as a "performance", the RIAA does the same for everything it can call a "license". Or get Congress to agree is a performance or license, respectively.
"If it were a perfect world, everything would be perfect." It is impossible to clean everything perfectly, every time, all the time, with soap and water. Especially on an industrial scale. That is why irradiation exists. Or perhaps you would like to volunteer to wash veggies for the companies? Or perhaps pay many times what you're paying now, due to the cost of such washings?
Would it also block the phones in the rest of the courthouse? In the buildings nearby? Hell, the phones of the people in the audience? If so, you're trampling on everyone's rights for the transgressions of a few. That's not acceptable.
It's actually Bullshit! Er... the blind taste test you saw was probably on the Organic Foods episode in the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, that is ;)