So you're complaining that they're improving the product over what was initially announced? As long as they deliver the device as originally spec'd in the Kickstarter they are meeting their obligations.
Absolutely! Why? Because they've FAILED to deliver!
I don't know if the spec creep necessarily "caused" the failure, but it sure as Hell didn't help!
If they wanted to give people more for donating more, they should have delivered as promised first, then worked on some kind of bonus (maybe a discount on 2.0 or something).
If it includes SystemD, LMDE isn't different enough from regular Mint to be worth maintaining. But if it's more different -- if regular Mint uses SystemD and LMDE doesn't -- then it justifies its existence.
That's one reason why I drive cars built in the previous millennium, and have no plans to every buy one built after 2005 or so.
(Of course, if I were really paranoid I'd get an old diesel Benz with mechanical injection -- those things can operate without an electrical system at all, as long as you don't mind things like headlights and windshield wipers not working, and having to push-start it).
You assertion that America's signal intelligence organization should be criminally prosecuted for doing what Congress explicitly authorizes, directs, and pays it to do, is precious beyond words. I'm also sure you think that the United States is the only nation on the planet with such an operation.
First, Congress does not have the authority to direct any entity to act unconstitutionally.
Second, by implying that you believe the NSA acted properly, you are conflating the NSA's legal actions against foreigners with its illegal actions against Americans. You are furthermore conflating the NSA's legal collection of military intelligence with its illegal collection of evidence used for law enforcement purposes.
Third, the spying other countries do is entirely irrelevant, both because (unlike the NSA) they are not bound by the Constitution and because nothing they learn about any American is actionable in an American court of law (except to the extent that it's being shared with the US government, which acts on it unconstitutionally). I expect the NSA to protect Americans from foreign espionage, not collude with the foreigners against Americans!
Fourth, the fact that your entire post is an ad-hominem attack is even more "precious beyond words."
Because most of those of us with the courage to post under our own/. ID...
Speak for yourself, fascist!
Snowden did nothing whatsoever to "damage" the USA; the NSA did all the damage itself. Snowden is a hero, period.
That said, the government should not "grant clemency" to Snowden because doing so still implies that he did something wrong and the government is merely being "merciful." Instead, what the government should do is exonerate Snowden and go after the real criminals, i.e., the treasonous fuckwads at the NSA.
Solar, wind and nuclear [electricity] are hard to use as transportation fuels (especially for vehicles of the long-range variety). Direct nuclear power (of the 1950s atomic-age variety) would work, but is a no-go for obvious political reasons.
Besides, there are four ways to fuel a solar car:
You can make a battery-electric vehicle, and charge it using photovoltaic (or solar-thermal) electricity.
You can use photovoltaic (or solar-thermal) electricity + CO2 + H2O to make synthetic gasoline and use it in a normal internal-combustion engine vehicle.
You can grow plants to absorb the solar energy, then harvest them and turn them into biodiesel (or ethanol, if you either have the right climate to grow sugar cane or you're stupid) and use them in a normal internal-combustion engine vehicle.
You can use photovoltaic (or solar-thermal) electricity to crack H2O into hydrogen gas, and use it to fuel a fuel-cell electric vehicle (or an internal-combustion vehicle modified to burn hydrogen).
I don't see why so many people are automatically dismissing the third option in favor of the first (or worse, the fourth); it's entirely possible that biofuels (or a combination of biofuels and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels) will continue to work the best just because they have the highest energy storage density.
As far as the politics, here in Illinois, it's all about propping up the megafarm corporations which own 99% of the corn farms. The politicians have been trained to vote for anything that boosts business, since that correlates to jobs and tax revenues.
What I want to know is why is it so goddamn hard for those farms to just switch to growing soybeans instead? And why is the existing soybean lobby apparently asleep at the wheel? If we grew soybeans instead of corn then we could make biodiesel -- which actually is efficient to produce -- and get rid of the "ethanol is stupid because it costs more fossil fuels than it saves" problem once and for all!
If you doubt how that is how most people would have seen it in 1950, just fast-forward and think of how most people see the activities of the NSA today.
Are you implying that Bletchley Park was spying against their own people? Because that's what's wrong with the NSA, not the fact that they're "egghead smart-asses," or the fact that they're spying. The NSA spying against foreign enemies* is just fine.
(* Both words are important: spying against foreign allies is not fine because it leads to Five Eyes style domestic-spying-by-proxy, and spying against domestic enemies is not fine because doing so without a valid warrant (i.e., not a FISA dragnet) is unconstitutional.)
It is only reasonable to shut down the freeway if the [probability that the object is actually a bomb] * [the damage caused by it exploding] costs more than [the damage caused by shutting down a major Interstate during rush hour]
Considering that the chance of it being a real bomb is incredibly low, that even a soda-can worth of high explosive can't do that much damage (especially since it was placed on a decorative rail, not supporting column), and that a whole lot of people were delayed by the shutdown, the police's response was entirely unreasonable.
Wrong school: the bridge is almost adjacent to Georgia Institute of Technology (actually, it's a bit North: the GA Tech campus mostly ends at 10th St.). The school responsible for the "art project" is Georgia State University, which is a couple of miles further south.
If your peaceful protest has an ideology that's anything but capitalist, then I'm sure there's someone at the FBI capable of construing it as "dangerous to [the concept of] property."
Given the more-or-less-total legality of video surveillance in stores and other commercial settings(so long as there's no audio, that can be a major issue in some jurisdictions), and the willingness to accept clickwrap EULAs as being equivalent to real, contract-grade, 'consent', I suspect that 'privacy rights' won't know what hit them.
I really wish the ACLU would go find some sign-language-using people and get a court case to overturn that bullshit "video surveillance somehow isn't wiretapping" rationale.
Because the amount of energy it uses isn't the problem. The amount of money it uses is the problem, and we* only care about energy to the extent that energy costs money. If it costs less money to convert the fuel to run in existing engines than to replace the engines with ones that can run the new fuel, then that's what we'll end up doing.
(* Some individuals care about energy use as a matter of principle, but society in aggregate doesn't.)
In theory, yes. In practice, they will be shot if they get near anything that might be misconstrued as a gun (see e.g. the John Crawford and Tamir Rice murders).
The militia is not the government's business. The militia is the People's business, and may be used against a government if it has become tyrannical. (In fact, that's what the people who wrote the Bill of Rights has just finished doing!)
What support does it need to add? It should be acting exactly like a generic x86 machine; the new OS should be written to support it as a matter of course.
I mean, sure, the fancy stuff (mouse pointer integration, cut-and-paste between VM and host, etc.) are nice, but it's not as if they're necessary.
It's really quite trivial on a mechanical level to convert literally any gasoline vehicle to run on methane. They get less mileage per unit of mass, but the output is of course vastly cleaner, the crankcase lubricant lasts longer, and so on. The fuel can be stored in relatively inexpensive tanks compared to hydrogen, or of course compared to the energy density of batteries. Propane conversions are common in off-roading. Range becomes an issue, but I see a lot of Jeeps with conversions up here in the sticks. Gas will work at any right-side-up angle even when the tank is mostly empty, unlike gasoline.
Or, of course, you can use the fischer-tropsch process to turn the methane into actual gasoline and not have to bother converting the vehicles.
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Most other first-world countries manage it.
Absolutely! Why? Because they've FAILED to deliver!
I don't know if the spec creep necessarily "caused" the failure, but it sure as Hell didn't help!
If they wanted to give people more for donating more, they should have delivered as promised first, then worked on some kind of bonus (maybe a discount on 2.0 or something).
Look, you can't even describe it without using the word "application!" Give it up -- an app by any other name is still an app.
If it includes SystemD, LMDE isn't different enough from regular Mint to be worth maintaining. But if it's more different -- if regular Mint uses SystemD and LMDE doesn't -- then it justifies its existence.
That's one reason why I drive cars built in the previous millennium, and have no plans to every buy one built after 2005 or so.
(Of course, if I were really paranoid I'd get an old diesel Benz with mechanical injection -- those things can operate without an electrical system at all, as long as you don't mind things like headlights and windshield wipers not working, and having to push-start it).
"Bum" means "broken," not "buttocks!"
First, Congress does not have the authority to direct any entity to act unconstitutionally.
Second, by implying that you believe the NSA acted properly, you are conflating the NSA's legal actions against foreigners with its illegal actions against Americans. You are furthermore conflating the NSA's legal collection of military intelligence with its illegal collection of evidence used for law enforcement purposes.
Third, the spying other countries do is entirely irrelevant, both because (unlike the NSA) they are not bound by the Constitution and because nothing they learn about any American is actionable in an American court of law (except to the extent that it's being shared with the US government, which acts on it unconstitutionally). I expect the NSA to protect Americans from foreign espionage, not collude with the foreigners against Americans!
Fourth, the fact that your entire post is an ad-hominem attack is even more "precious beyond words."
Speak for yourself, fascist!
Snowden did nothing whatsoever to "damage" the USA; the NSA did all the damage itself. Snowden is a hero, period.
That said, the government should not "grant clemency" to Snowden because doing so still implies that he did something wrong and the government is merely being "merciful." Instead, what the government should do is exonerate Snowden and go after the real criminals, i.e., the treasonous fuckwads at the NSA.
By that definition, the United States was founded by terrorists.
We have that. It's called "Monopoly."
Solar, wind and nuclear [electricity] are hard to use as transportation fuels (especially for vehicles of the long-range variety). Direct nuclear power (of the 1950s atomic-age variety) would work, but is a no-go for obvious political reasons.
Besides, there are four ways to fuel a solar car:
I don't see why so many people are automatically dismissing the third option in favor of the first (or worse, the fourth); it's entirely possible that biofuels (or a combination of biofuels and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels) will continue to work the best just because they have the highest energy storage density.
What I want to know is why is it so goddamn hard for those farms to just switch to growing soybeans instead? And why is the existing soybean lobby apparently asleep at the wheel? If we grew soybeans instead of corn then we could make biodiesel -- which actually is efficient to produce -- and get rid of the "ethanol is stupid because it costs more fossil fuels than it saves" problem once and for all!
Are you implying that Bletchley Park was spying against their own people? Because that's what's wrong with the NSA, not the fact that they're "egghead smart-asses," or the fact that they're spying. The NSA spying against foreign enemies* is just fine.
(* Both words are important: spying against foreign allies is not fine because it leads to Five Eyes style domestic-spying-by-proxy, and spying against domestic enemies is not fine because doing so without a valid warrant (i.e., not a FISA dragnet) is unconstitutional.)
Your search-fu is weak, tepples-san.
It is only reasonable to shut down the freeway if the [probability that the object is actually a bomb] * [the damage caused by it exploding] costs more than [the damage caused by shutting down a major Interstate during rush hour]
Considering that the chance of it being a real bomb is incredibly low, that even a soda-can worth of high explosive can't do that much damage (especially since it was placed on a decorative rail, not supporting column), and that a whole lot of people were delayed by the shutdown, the police's response was entirely unreasonable.
Wrong school: the bridge is almost adjacent to Georgia Institute of Technology (actually, it's a bit North: the GA Tech campus mostly ends at 10th St.). The school responsible for the "art project" is Georgia State University, which is a couple of miles further south.
If your peaceful protest has an ideology that's anything but capitalist, then I'm sure there's someone at the FBI capable of construing it as "dangerous to [the concept of] property."
In a sane and just world, a credit reporting agency giving out incorrect information would be considered libel.
I really wish the ACLU would go find some sign-language-using people and get a court case to overturn that bullshit "video surveillance somehow isn't wiretapping" rationale.
Because the amount of energy it uses isn't the problem. The amount of money it uses is the problem, and we* only care about energy to the extent that energy costs money. If it costs less money to convert the fuel to run in existing engines than to replace the engines with ones that can run the new fuel, then that's what we'll end up doing.
(* Some individuals care about energy use as a matter of principle, but society in aggregate doesn't.)
In theory, yes. In practice, they will be shot if they get near anything that might be misconstrued as a gun (see e.g. the John Crawford and Tamir Rice murders).
The militia is not the government's business. The militia is the People's business, and may be used against a government if it has become tyrannical. (In fact, that's what the people who wrote the Bill of Rights has just finished doing!)
"Flare" vs. "flair".
What support does it need to add? It should be acting exactly like a generic x86 machine; the new OS should be written to support it as a matter of course.
I mean, sure, the fancy stuff (mouse pointer integration, cut-and-paste between VM and host, etc.) are nice, but it's not as if they're necessary.
Or, of course, you can use the fischer-tropsch process to turn the methane into actual gasoline and not have to bother converting the vehicles.