That's because extortion has nothing to do with lying. Extortion is the criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. You know, like your MAFIAA buddies.
What are you on about? Tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability. That's why they call it "tort law".
And you can kiss the small, local ISPs goodbye because they don't have the resources to deal with this.
Perhaps you could enlighten us with the thinking behind that weird statement. When something similar was done to the phone company, we grew from a grotesquely overpriced Bell monopoly to the present vast array of providers. I'm getting unlimited voice, unlimited domestic long distance, unlimited texting, and unlimited 2G data (although only 2.5GB of 3G) on my $35 Virgin Mobile no-contract plan. And I have a vivid memory of the bad old days of Bell Telephone when every call to even 30 miles away was a long distance charge, I couldn't install any equipment of my own, and had to pay enormous phone rental charges FOREVER.
That is about the break point between windows 2.0 and windows 3.0, with only the later doing "windows" as is commonly meant today. Windows 2 could only tile.
I can clearly remember using 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1.
It was 1.0 which couldn't overlap windows; only tile. 2.0 could overlap, and pretty much worked visually as we would expect a windowing manager to work today. 3.0 introduced 286 protected mode support, and could to some limited extent benefit even more from 386, but did not yet support the miracle of 386 protected mode.
1.0 was basically nothing more than a clever toy, but compared with text-mode DOS it did allow the stunning breakthrough of graphical mode Word and Excel. The problem with 2.0 was terrible memory limitations, not fully lifted until 3.1.
I am surprised a glider pilot can be that ignorant, aside from having no clue what an ad-hominem is. You can't fix stupid[*]. A bullet has ZERO L/D, genius, because it has ZERO LIFT. If you fire a bullet horizontally it will drop at exactly the same vertical component of v elocity as if it is dropped vertically in place. If you fire it at an elevated arc, it describes a ballistic trajectory. That does not mean it gains any aerodynamic lift.
[*] See? Even that is not an ad-hominem, because it is not offered as a (fallacious) argument. It is an OBSERVATION.
Actually glide ratio is an extremely important component of transport efficiency; it's closely related to L/D which is key to transport efficiency; but it's not my job to educate you.
The present fucked up capitalist model is not the end of history, you know. A currency based on something scarce and valued was around for a lot longer than our present worthless scrip backed by shit has been. I wouldn't be quite so smug and superior, personally. Of course you are free to belittle anybody you want to.
Let's see what happens after we are victimized by a series of depressions much more severe than the Great Depression.
Me driving my car with nobody else in it is just as efficient as the average of domestic airliners. Yeah, I get over 40 mpg. A lot of people do.
Ships are TERRIBLY, spectacularly inefficient for passenger transportation. Queen Mary 2 has a mass of 75,000 tonnes with a capacity of 2620 passengers. That's 155 tonnes pulling each individual passenger. She burns 12 tonnes of fuel every hour to move about 25 nautical miles. That works out to roughly 9 mpg per passenger.
Dry and liquid freight is a completely different story. Tankers and container ships are not making as much speed, and they are using less than one tonne to support each tonne of payload. Often MUCH less.
If you gutted out the accommodations and packed people into Queen Mary 2 in airliner coach seating, it would be a lot more efficient (if you could get 99% of them to sit nowhere near a window for long periods, and they didn't all die from DVT), but you would still cube out.
Wrong car. I owned 70s VWs - a Rabbit and a Scirocco - and they were absolute masterpieces with respect to maintenance. The oil filters spun right off no problem. I should know; i lay on my back and did it myself enough times. There were vast amounts of open space under the hood. I was able to do the points and plugs myself many times with no struggle at all. I changed my own timing belt on a lark, and trust me I had NO experience. It was absolutely a piece of cake; the engine was non-interference, so no matter if I screwed up the cam timing it was IMPOSSIBLE for a valve to hit a piston. But I didn't screw up anything. It fired right up and purred when I was done. Took minutes, literally.
By the late 90s, all that had changed, at VW and every place else. The 99 Golf I still drive is a nightmare to do anything on. I've seen a mechanic struggle endlessly, cursing, with changing a snap-in headlight bulb that should be a 60 second job. There is just no room anywhere.
I've had TWO expert, experienced mechanics work together overtime for more than 8 hours just to change the timing belt. That particular job requires removing the engine mounts, suspending the engine, locking down the timing relationships with surgical precision using $200 worth of special tools, and following an intricate 200+ page procedure which I had spent weeks studying and researching the internet. I tried their patience by looking over their shoulders the whole time, calling out essential details I thought they were missing, making sure they turned the tensioner the right direction, etc, etc. The three of us probably spent at least $1500 in labor equivalent, and the parts totaled well over $400, including one-time use bolts. If the cam timing had been more than a single tooth off, the engine wouldn't have turned over for the hand check at the end. A little bit less off, and the valves could have kissed the pistons imperceptibly, a classic debacle for timing jobs on these engines which invariably results in the engine suddenly becoming a total wreck a couple of thousand miles later when a valve finally gives it up and drops.
It's pure INSANITY. All the tradeoffs are insane. Worshipping at the altar of aerodynamics has resulted in machines which any work under the hood is literally an expensive nightmare. I would buy another 1977 Rabbit base model in a HEARTBEAT if they would tool up and make it again. It weighed half as much as the current Golf and was significantly roomier inside, did not need power steering, even parking was light as a feather unassisted, there were no electric windows to jam or crash down inside the doors or have the motors fail, there was no alarm system to make false alarms. Best of all, there was no processing unit whatsoever anywhere in the car. Engine controls were vacuum advance and all-mechanical trouble-free fuel injection, PERIOD.
If I was worried about theft to park it in a bad area, I just spent five seconds unplugging the fuel pump relay under the dash.
Constructively speaking, the guys telling you to try the latest Mint are the smart money. Do it before giving up. It is a better bet than anything else.
But seriously, you've used Linux for YEARS and are not "comfortable" with the command line? Really? I am really not sure linux is a good idea for you if you won't make the investment in learning. It's not a criticism. Getting any really good results out of linux requires either a friend who is an expert to set it up and occasionally support it, or requires a serious commitment to learning, and that's not for everybody.
Jesus captain, elections have consequences. The NSL process was only created in 1978 by an act of Congress. I.e., this kind of shit is promulgated by the scum bastards that "we" elect.
No, not the lame stream media. Use your bean. Distribute it to the embassies of every country on earth, and every server in the world that you can find. Find out where Snowden sent his leaks. And just do a google search for "leak" - it reveals some "interesting" sites.
They sure as HELL would never vote for the vermin selected by the elite and presented to them as approved puppet candidates in the primaries and general elections. They would make GODDAM sure that none of the states tried to deny them their right to write in their choice on the ballot, and then they would BLOODY WELL USE that right.
As it is, the voters - as a body, not as individuals - get the regime they so richly deserve. Time after time.
It's good we elected Obama who has made sure to bring us "Hope and Change". It's good to know we elected someone who has limited and stopped all the abuses from the Bush era. Just imagine if he had just lied to us and instead simple extended and expanded these abuses of his predecessors. Hopefully we will get a constitutional amendment passed so we can vote our Glorious Leader in for a third term.
Yes, and before that, good thing we had GW Bush, true to his "conservative principles" - NOT. And before that, Clinton, And GHW Bush. And Reagan. And Carter. And Ford (he doesn't count so much, because he was never elected). And Nixon. And Johnson. And Kennedy. And Eisenhower. And Truman. And FDR. And... ad nauseum. The tearing up of the Constitution actually got well and truly under way by the tyrant Lincoln (look up the suspension of the write of habeas corpus -and other abuses - some time).
For a reasonably advanced state with a good detection system, there will always be plenty of warning after a mass ICBM launching to allow retaliation by ICBMs and SLBMs before the attack impacts. For hypersonic cruise missiles, I'm not at all sure that's a given.
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That's because extortion has nothing to do with lying. Extortion is the criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. You know, like your MAFIAA buddies.
Be an apologist for MAFIAA organized crime if you get a kick out of it.
What are you on about?
Tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability. That's why they call it "tort law".
Perhaps you could enlighten us with the thinking behind that weird statement. When something similar was done to the phone company, we grew from a grotesquely overpriced Bell monopoly to the present vast array of providers. I'm getting unlimited voice, unlimited domestic long distance, unlimited texting, and unlimited 2G data (although only 2.5GB of 3G) on my $35 Virgin Mobile no-contract plan. And I have a vivid memory of the bad old days of Bell Telephone when every call to even 30 miles away was a long distance charge, I couldn't install any equipment of my own, and had to pay enormous phone rental charges FOREVER.
Perhaps you could enlighten us as to why you think there is some kind of mysterious and sinister side to net neutrality.
I'm in. Enthusiastically. Only some kind of nutcase would think that is not worth it.
I can clearly remember using 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1.
It was 1.0 which couldn't overlap windows; only tile. 2.0 could overlap, and pretty much worked visually as we would expect a windowing manager to work today. 3.0 introduced 286 protected mode support, and could to some limited extent benefit even more from 386, but did not yet support the miracle of 386 protected mode.
1.0 was basically nothing more than a clever toy, but compared with text-mode DOS it did allow the stunning breakthrough of graphical mode Word and Excel. The problem with 2.0 was terrible memory limitations, not fully lifted until 3.1.
I am surprised a glider pilot can be that ignorant, aside from having no clue what an ad-hominem is. You can't fix stupid[*]. A bullet has ZERO L/D, genius, because it has ZERO LIFT. If you fire a bullet horizontally it will drop at exactly the same vertical component of v elocity as if it is dropped vertically in place. If you fire it at an elevated arc, it describes a ballistic trajectory. That does not mean it gains any aerodynamic lift.
[*] See? Even that is not an ad-hominem, because it is not offered as a (fallacious) argument. It is an OBSERVATION.
Actually glide ratio is an extremely important component of transport efficiency; it's closely related to L/D which is key to transport efficiency; but it's not my job to educate you.
The present fucked up capitalist model is not the end of history, you know. A currency based on something scarce and valued was around for a lot longer than our present worthless scrip backed by shit has been. I wouldn't be quite so smug and superior, personally. Of course you are free to belittle anybody you want to.
Let's see what happens after we are victimized by a series of depressions much more severe than the Great Depression.
Not "boat".
Me driving my car with nobody else in it is just as efficient as the average of domestic airliners. Yeah, I get over 40 mpg. A lot of people do.
Ships are TERRIBLY, spectacularly inefficient for passenger transportation. Queen Mary 2 has a mass of 75,000 tonnes with a capacity of 2620 passengers. That's 155 tonnes pulling each individual passenger. She burns 12 tonnes of fuel every hour to move about 25 nautical miles. That works out to roughly 9 mpg per passenger.
Dry and liquid freight is a completely different story. Tankers and container ships are not making as much speed, and they are using less than one tonne to support each tonne of payload. Often MUCH less.
If you gutted out the accommodations and packed people into Queen Mary 2 in airliner coach seating, it would be a lot more efficient (if you could get 99% of them to sit nowhere near a window for long periods, and they didn't all die from DVT), but you would still cube out.
I know what would be even better. Let's use mutant precogs to find people guilty of precrime. Apologies to Philip K. Dick.
If you can work out how to open the goddam thing up without breaking it, and source all the required capacitors.
Wrong car. I owned 70s VWs - a Rabbit and a Scirocco - and they were absolute masterpieces with respect to maintenance. The oil filters spun right off no problem. I should know; i lay on my back and did it myself enough times. There were vast amounts of open space under the hood. I was able to do the points and plugs myself many times with no struggle at all. I changed my own timing belt on a lark, and trust me I had NO experience. It was absolutely a piece of cake; the engine was non-interference, so no matter if I screwed up the cam timing it was IMPOSSIBLE for a valve to hit a piston. But I didn't screw up anything. It fired right up and purred when I was done. Took minutes, literally.
By the late 90s, all that had changed, at VW and every place else. The 99 Golf I still drive is a nightmare to do anything on. I've seen a mechanic struggle endlessly, cursing, with changing a snap-in headlight bulb that should be a 60 second job. There is just no room anywhere.
I've had TWO expert, experienced mechanics work together overtime for more than 8 hours just to change the timing belt. That particular job requires removing the engine mounts, suspending the engine, locking down the timing relationships with surgical precision using $200 worth of special tools, and following an intricate 200+ page procedure which I had spent weeks studying and researching the internet. I tried their patience by looking over their shoulders the whole time, calling out essential details I thought they were missing, making sure they turned the tensioner the right direction, etc, etc. The three of us probably spent at least $1500 in labor equivalent, and the parts totaled well over $400, including one-time use bolts. If the cam timing had been more than a single tooth off, the engine wouldn't have turned over for the hand check at the end. A little bit less off, and the valves could have kissed the pistons imperceptibly, a classic debacle for timing jobs on these engines which invariably results in the engine suddenly becoming a total wreck a couple of thousand miles later when a valve finally gives it up and drops.
It's pure INSANITY. All the tradeoffs are insane. Worshipping at the altar of aerodynamics has resulted in machines which any work under the hood is literally an expensive nightmare. I would buy another 1977 Rabbit base model in a HEARTBEAT if they would tool up and make it again. It weighed half as much as the current Golf and was significantly roomier inside, did not need power steering, even parking was light as a feather unassisted, there were no electric windows to jam or crash down inside the doors or have the motors fail, there was no alarm system to make false alarms. Best of all, there was no processing unit whatsoever anywhere in the car. Engine controls were vacuum advance and all-mechanical trouble-free fuel injection, PERIOD.
If I was worried about theft to park it in a bad area, I just spent five seconds unplugging the fuel pump relay under the dash.
Constructively speaking, the guys telling you to try the latest Mint are the smart money. Do it before giving up. It is a better bet than anything else.
But seriously, you've used Linux for YEARS and are not "comfortable" with the command line? Really? I am really not sure linux is a good idea for you if you won't make the investment in learning. It's not a criticism. Getting any really good results out of linux requires either a friend who is an expert to set it up and occasionally support it, or requires a serious commitment to learning, and that's not for everybody.
Loser. Go play with Windows.
Moron. Go play in the street.
Do you think maybe there is a fundamental difference between a missed keypress and having gross dyslexia?
Shellshock did not affect a "library", but an executable.
Jesus captain, elections have consequences. The NSL process was only created in 1978 by an act of Congress. I.e., this kind of shit is promulgated by the scum bastards that "we" elect.
No, not the lame stream media. Use your bean. Distribute it to the embassies of every country on earth, and every server in the world that you can find. Find out where Snowden sent his leaks. And just do a google search for "leak" - it reveals some "interesting" sites.
They sure as HELL would never vote for the vermin selected by the elite and presented to them as approved puppet candidates in the primaries and general elections. They would make GODDAM sure that none of the states tried to deny them their right to write in their choice on the ballot, and then they would BLOODY WELL USE that right.
As it is, the voters - as a body, not as individuals - get the regime they so richly deserve. Time after time.
Yes, and before that, good thing we had GW Bush, true to his "conservative principles" - NOT. And before that, Clinton, And GHW Bush. And Reagan. And Carter. And Ford (he doesn't count so much, because he was never elected). And Nixon. And Johnson. And Kennedy. And Eisenhower. And Truman. And FDR. And ... ad nauseum. The tearing up of the Constitution actually got well and truly under way by the tyrant Lincoln (look up the suspension of the write of habeas corpus -and other abuses - some time).
For a reasonably advanced state with a good detection system, there will always be plenty of warning after a mass ICBM launching to allow retaliation by ICBMs and SLBMs before the attack impacts. For hypersonic cruise missiles, I'm not at all sure that's a given.