Perhaps. I never thought I was the crème de la crème of any of the scenes that I was in either, but I didn't get much in the way of nasty rebuke. I did know how to dress and I'd get cleaned up right before going out, and I'd go to the kinds of places where what I was seeking wasn't immediately disqualified.
I did go to very trendy places a couple of times, but found that they consisted basically of a bunch of posers out strutting to outdo each other, a very caustic environment. Made the other scenes that I hung-out in seem outright friendly by comparison. Looking at the effort that these people put into themselves, they were well past the the point of diminishing returns if their efforts were measured on a geometric scale; they had to expend a whole lot of effort and expense for very little additional return.
I guess one thing that I did learn is that women didn't care what you thought you offered in relationship potential. Met my wife through a partner-dance scene, ballroom in our case, where actually having skill was necessary if one wanted to impress. One had to have something to offer that was respected by one's potential partners. "Being nice" didn't count. I found that when I was able to appear to be fun to be around I had a lot more success than when I specifically tried. Being broodish or moody doesn't work; men aren't interpreted as deep or mysterious, they're interpreted as having nothing that women want or being boring unless the man has already demonstrated that he has some other quality. This is why musicians and artists can be brooding or moody and still attract women, while geeks in the virtual world, by and large, won't.
...have a "report" system that censures or bans someone after enough negative reports are made about them, either in absolute terms, or in relation to the number of conversations that have an exchange of more than two volleys?
This doesn't seem like it would be all that hard to fix, without resorting to unusual measures like the ones brought up.
Everyone said I was daft to build a datacenter on an earthquake-prone swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest datacenter in all of Bangladesh.
But the primary function of a hammer is not to destroy or kill. It can be used that way, and it can even have legitimate uses to destroy, but it has more uses than that.
Firearms are designed to destroy or kill, or indirectly to threaten to destroy or kill. This is true whether used by a criminal in a crime, or by a person carrying or brandishing to protect himself or others.
Because of the intended purpose of firearms, there should be a higher burden of responsibility placed upon them, and I've met plenty of people that are enthusiasts that do not live up to that standard.
Lake Mead is an artificial lake, created by the construction of the Hoover Dam. With the presence of that dam its size can be regulated. Creation of the lake was a byproduct of the benefits of having the dam, not the specific intent of the project in the first place.
Having read most if not all of Foundation, I find Asimov to be a little overrated, but I didn't find him to be intentionally malicious or with designs of intrusiveness.
peer to peer communication during extended blackouts? File transfer? gaming? video chat?
And probably still counting against one's data plan, even though it bypasses the cell-towers.
Kind of like now, how they want to deduct minutes from my cell plan when I'm using my home 802.11n wireless to make phone calls through my cell handset.
That's because in order to execute the laws, they have to exist in the first place. The governor needs the laws to reflect his ideology so that he may carry them out and further his ideology.
Because it's a lot easier to target specific individuals or a specific group of individuals to actually get something useful, and for it to work undetected for longer, than it is for something to be ubiquitously deployed where it actually provides specific, useful results and remains undetected.
If there are only a few thousand materials scientists working on processor tech that will advance microprocessor development, it's easier and cheaper to drop a few thousand trojan-horse USB memory FOBs with hacked USB subsystem controllers that will get what I want than it is to attempt to infect every device being sold new. These FOBs won't be quality-checked either, while batches of new devices for retail sale probably will get at least some checking.
Wait, so we reject it because it provides more protections than the bare minimum required by law?
He is the head of the executive branch of government of his state, which means that ultimately he's in charge of the State's Attorneys General office, and since officers in California are deputized at a state level too (for arrests as criminals change jurisdictions) he has a stake there too.
The Executive branch's job is to represent the operations of the State. The Legislative branch's job is to represent the citizenry/populace. I hate to break it to you, but this is actually working in the way it's meant to. If the Legislature wants this law to pass then they need to come up with a supermajority to override the veto.
Or, let the situation reach a prosecution, and then appeal the grounds of evidence from the drones and wait for it to go through the State courts, possibly ending up in Federal courts.
I donno about you, but as the Start Menu got more and more cluttered since its debut with Windows 95 I've tended to put stuff in the quicklaunch area, or for commands with short names that have had the same name for many years, Window+R -> exename worked well too. Now that the Start Screen is so intrusive I've doubled-down on Win+R and on "pinning" things to the taskbar.
People don't even read the article before submitting the story in the first place.
If it's any consolation that's one of the things that's bothered me about Slashdot from the beginning- it often takes awhile for one's submitted article to be rejected or occasionally approved for the main page, but it seems like the moderators or admins don't actually research the summary before posting it.
How could companies justify plowing money into oil wells, semiconductor plants, toy factories, apple orchards, etc. if they don't have assurances in place that the cash will be recouped? Yet people invest in those things everyday. What makes launch services any different?
Because all of those things were able to start small, relatively speaking, where only a handful of people were necessary to get the initial ball rolling. Even semiconductors; We looked at a house for its detached garage and the previous owner apparently had a small semiconductor fab set up in there at one point.
By contrast there's no real option for someone without already established financial means to launch things into space.
No one should be left out because there should be no contract. Instead, NASA should be fostering a spot market for launches. They should have a separate bid for each launch: "We want X satellite in Y orbit, and insured for Z dollars." Then give the launch to the lowest bidder. That way each company can work continuously to cut costs and improve services, knowing that if they leapfrog the competition, they can win the next launch, instead of being locked out for years.
This won't happen either; it's very expensive to develop the tech to do the launches, let alone to build production. No one will take the risk to develop unless they have so much guaranteed production as to amortize the cost of development over those units.
This isn't like the beginning of civil aviation or even how companies that want to design planes get into civil aviation now, building small planes until their success with small planes gets them the revenue stream to let them build bigger ones, etc, this would be like coming into the market and jumping straight to long-range widebodies. To my knowledge, the only companies that have even come close to that have all been government-sponsored.
The only way that you're going to get someone to pay for the development costs themselves is to give them enough production to justify those development costs, and the only way to do that is to guarantee them so many launches. It applies to both SpaceX and to Boeing.
I've never found a low-flow shower head that I liked, always had to spend an inordinate amount of time bathing if the flow was too low in order to get the shampoo and soap off, negating the savings. Being tall I've always had one of those "S" pipes with my own shower head to replace the downspout pipe, when I was a renter I'd install that and save the landlord's shower head to put back on when moving back out again.
Many low-flow water fixtures use a little plastic washer bushing thing inside that can be removed in a couple of minutes.
Burning Man has always had a geek component to it. There's the, "build the man" part, there are the art projects that are one part art, one part creative tech, there are the logistics parts of how to pull-off holding this event in this location.
A buddy of mine that's a huge geek has gone more than once; I've been tempted by my suburn-in-fifteen-minutes skin probably wouldn't serve me well.
I ask because the only person that I'm acquainted with that was raped in a festival-type setting had it happen somewhere down in Mexico on Spring Break during the late nineties when the Girls Gone Wild phenomenon was taking off, and she admitted that she was so drunk that she couldn't put up much of a fight.
Then why do they have a cable TV subscription with a bigscreen TV, a smartphone with a data plan, and stop at fast-food and spend $10/day between breakfast and lunch?
For fluorescent you'd actually step-up the voltage, not down. The amperage is much lower though, so you've got that going for you, which is nice.
If you want to go LED most efficiently then you need to go DC, but DC doesn't work well over distances, which is why AC was adopted as the grid in the first place.
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Could always shadow-ban them temporarily... That's mean, but might not violate the original terms of service depending on how they're written.
Perhaps. I never thought I was the crème de la crème of any of the scenes that I was in either, but I didn't get much in the way of nasty rebuke. I did know how to dress and I'd get cleaned up right before going out, and I'd go to the kinds of places where what I was seeking wasn't immediately disqualified.
I did go to very trendy places a couple of times, but found that they consisted basically of a bunch of posers out strutting to outdo each other, a very caustic environment. Made the other scenes that I hung-out in seem outright friendly by comparison. Looking at the effort that these people put into themselves, they were well past the the point of diminishing returns if their efforts were measured on a geometric scale; they had to expend a whole lot of effort and expense for very little additional return.
I guess one thing that I did learn is that women didn't care what you thought you offered in relationship potential. Met my wife through a partner-dance scene, ballroom in our case, where actually having skill was necessary if one wanted to impress. One had to have something to offer that was respected by one's potential partners. "Being nice" didn't count. I found that when I was able to appear to be fun to be around I had a lot more success than when I specifically tried. Being broodish or moody doesn't work; men aren't interpreted as deep or mysterious, they're interpreted as having nothing that women want or being boring unless the man has already demonstrated that he has some other quality. This is why musicians and artists can be brooding or moody and still attract women, while geeks in the virtual world, by and large, won't.
...have a "report" system that censures or bans someone after enough negative reports are made about them, either in absolute terms, or in relation to the number of conversations that have an exchange of more than two volleys?
This doesn't seem like it would be all that hard to fix, without resorting to unusual measures like the ones brought up.
Everyone said I was daft to build a datacenter on an earthquake-prone swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest datacenter in all of Bangladesh.
But the primary function of a hammer is not to destroy or kill. It can be used that way, and it can even have legitimate uses to destroy, but it has more uses than that.
Firearms are designed to destroy or kill, or indirectly to threaten to destroy or kill. This is true whether used by a criminal in a crime, or by a person carrying or brandishing to protect himself or others.
Because of the intended purpose of firearms, there should be a higher burden of responsibility placed upon them, and I've met plenty of people that are enthusiasts that do not live up to that standard.
Lake Mead is an artificial lake, created by the construction of the Hoover Dam. With the presence of that dam its size can be regulated. Creation of the lake was a byproduct of the benefits of having the dam, not the specific intent of the project in the first place.
Having read most if not all of Foundation, I find Asimov to be a little overrated, but I didn't find him to be intentionally malicious or with designs of intrusiveness.
And probably still counting against one's data plan, even though it bypasses the cell-towers.
Kind of like now, how they want to deduct minutes from my cell plan when I'm using my home 802.11n wireless to make phone calls through my cell handset.
That's because in order to execute the laws, they have to exist in the first place. The governor needs the laws to reflect his ideology so that he may carry them out and further his ideology.
Because it's a lot easier to target specific individuals or a specific group of individuals to actually get something useful, and for it to work undetected for longer, than it is for something to be ubiquitously deployed where it actually provides specific, useful results and remains undetected.
If there are only a few thousand materials scientists working on processor tech that will advance microprocessor development, it's easier and cheaper to drop a few thousand trojan-horse USB memory FOBs with hacked USB subsystem controllers that will get what I want than it is to attempt to infect every device being sold new. These FOBs won't be quality-checked either, while batches of new devices for retail sale probably will get at least some checking.
Kind of like PATRIOT Act for laws allowing the government to spy on people?
It's all Orwellian doublespeak.
He is the head of the executive branch of government of his state, which means that ultimately he's in charge of the State's Attorneys General office, and since officers in California are deputized at a state level too (for arrests as criminals change jurisdictions) he has a stake there too.
The Executive branch's job is to represent the operations of the State. The Legislative branch's job is to represent the citizenry/populace. I hate to break it to you, but this is actually working in the way it's meant to. If the Legislature wants this law to pass then they need to come up with a supermajority to override the veto.
Or, let the situation reach a prosecution, and then appeal the grounds of evidence from the drones and wait for it to go through the State courts, possibly ending up in Federal courts.
I donno about you, but as the Start Menu got more and more cluttered since its debut with Windows 95 I've tended to put stuff in the quicklaunch area, or for commands with short names that have had the same name for many years, Window+R -> exename worked well too. Now that the Start Screen is so intrusive I've doubled-down on Win+R and on "pinning" things to the taskbar.
More like the Orwell system, or perhaps the Huxley system...
I wouldn't take home any electronic swag...
People don't even read the article before submitting the story in the first place.
If it's any consolation that's one of the things that's bothered me about Slashdot from the beginning- it often takes awhile for one's submitted article to be rejected or occasionally approved for the main page, but it seems like the moderators or admins don't actually research the summary before posting it.
...all she was doing was imparting some of her reprocessor genes to him, thus causing blocking of the proper jumping genes, to turn him human?
Because all of those things were able to start small, relatively speaking, where only a handful of people were necessary to get the initial ball rolling. Even semiconductors; We looked at a house for its detached garage and the previous owner apparently had a small semiconductor fab set up in there at one point.
By contrast there's no real option for someone without already established financial means to launch things into space.
This won't happen either; it's very expensive to develop the tech to do the launches, let alone to build production. No one will take the risk to develop unless they have so much guaranteed production as to amortize the cost of development over those units.
This isn't like the beginning of civil aviation or even how companies that want to design planes get into civil aviation now, building small planes until their success with small planes gets them the revenue stream to let them build bigger ones, etc, this would be like coming into the market and jumping straight to long-range widebodies. To my knowledge, the only companies that have even come close to that have all been government-sponsored.
The only way that you're going to get someone to pay for the development costs themselves is to give them enough production to justify those development costs, and the only way to do that is to guarantee them so many launches. It applies to both SpaceX and to Boeing.
I've never found a low-flow shower head that I liked, always had to spend an inordinate amount of time bathing if the flow was too low in order to get the shampoo and soap off, negating the savings. Being tall I've always had one of those "S" pipes with my own shower head to replace the downspout pipe, when I was a renter I'd install that and save the landlord's shower head to put back on when moving back out again.
Many low-flow water fixtures use a little plastic washer bushing thing inside that can be removed in a couple of minutes.
Burning Man has always had a geek component to it. There's the, "build the man" part, there are the art projects that are one part art, one part creative tech, there are the logistics parts of how to pull-off holding this event in this location.
A buddy of mine that's a huge geek has gone more than once; I've been tempted by my suburn-in-fifteen-minutes skin probably wouldn't serve me well.
Citations please?
I ask because the only person that I'm acquainted with that was raped in a festival-type setting had it happen somewhere down in Mexico on Spring Break during the late nineties when the Girls Gone Wild phenomenon was taking off, and she admitted that she was so drunk that she couldn't put up much of a fight.
“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Then why do they have a cable TV subscription with a bigscreen TV, a smartphone with a data plan, and stop at fast-food and spend $10/day between breakfast and lunch?
For fluorescent you'd actually step-up the voltage, not down. The amperage is much lower though, so you've got that going for you, which is nice.
If you want to go LED most efficiently then you need to go DC, but DC doesn't work well over distances, which is why AC was adopted as the grid in the first place.