I'm not sure what planet you're from, but I've been flying on planes since I was barely even walking and talking. There is *nothing* rude about reclining, neither explicit nor implied. It is, however, nice and courteous to the person behind you to recline slowly and gently if at all possible. You do not have a right to not have the seat in front of you recline. You *do* have a right to control whether your own seat reclines.
I think that's a little bit of oversimplification. I've yet to see what systemd does so much better than traditional init or sysvinit style other than make a clusterf*ck out of everything... Maybe it's "I've been working 20 years with something. It might not be perfect, but the alternative seems to be at least an order of magnitude worse than what I currently have."
As for service monitoring, there are other options out there than you can use to replace init or mix into your init system to handle that... such as runit.
Me thinks it needs to keep working at it. I am an old guard - I still use Slackware - so I require some actual evidence of it solving a problem. I'd rather just replace my init with runit... At least it doesn't require a bunch of dependencies which I may not want on a system to perform service monitoring.
It saves them money and makes use of existing stuff instead of having to build new.
No. No. And again, No. It's cheaper if we just electrocute to death everybody ever found guilty of a crime. Why don't we just electrocute them all instead of having to build those big, expensive prisons and feed people? Hell, does it even matter that they're guilty of having forgotten to pay for their livestock purchase within 24 hours?
When it comes to the police, cheaper is not necessarily better. I would rather not have police plowing through mine or my neighbor's door with an MRAP. We aren't in a war zone, the police aren't the military, and there is zero justification to make everybody feel like we're living without rights and freedoms under martial law. Some studies have shown that when police are less aggressive (possible even not carrying guns) and laws are toned down from the "let's be tough on crime and send people away to jail for 10 years for carrying around a little dead leaf in their pocket", that violence between the police and the populace also goes down.
Accountants and MBA's tend to be only concerned with financial costs and ignore the other, real costs. Surely you're not one of those?:-)
Just because "top eyeball network providers agree" doesn't mean it's fact either. This isn't the old PSTN where carriers got paid to terminate a call from another carrier destined for your own subscribers. That model worked because that was very much so a push-model (caller on other provider calls you, you didn't send the first ring to get that entity to connect to your). The Internet in general doesn't work that way, sorry to break it to you. It is, by and in large, a pull model.
I've done that one myself... bluetooth supporting head unit + android tablet. The only thing I've got left to do (when I have time) is to cut up a piece of polycarbonite to mount it on the center console in place of the ash tray and broken drawer on my car.
there is the Fraternal Brotherhood of Police, which would give out stickers to place in your back window. Rumor was that it would cause police throughout the state to be more... forgiving... in the cases of traffic violations.
You might want to read up upon the relevant laws and see that things can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The transfer of property and finances from a deceased parent to a minor surviving child who has no other living parent might not be penalized at all. Also, I don't think it's typical for a surviving spouse to have to pay estate taxes, and especially wouldn't have to in a community property state.
They are due upon transfer of your property and finances from your estate to that of another individual. This distinction is important, because if you donate all your estate to charities none of your family will need to pay estate taxes.
Even the Haredi community is more diverse than one might expect. I know several Haba"d members who are quite active on the Internet. Some of those Haba"d members enjoy popular culture and movies, and some will only ever watch whatever they deem to be educational only. I am not finding the specific affiliation for this school, so for all I know it could be Neturey Karta - in which case, nothing about them would surprise me (they spit on 8 year old girls for being "immodestly dressed").
...and yet there is no one single vaccine for the entire influenza virus family. Thus even getting the vaccine can be completely useless, and needs to be given seasonally even. And even if you're not immunocompromised, if you have egg allergies that can be a problem too.
And then let's not forget the whole "I'm healthy and young..." argument brought up by the GP... Spanish Flu about 100 years ago killed predominantly young, healthy adults.
We're still in very bad drought in central Texas. But the common areas of many communities and the golf courses (I think we have 1 single one in the area) usually receive water for their grass from reclaimed (post-sewage treatment). I don't know if that reclaimed water is potable beyond the "water the grass" but it sure beats using fresh supply. But on the same note: wtf do we have this ridiculous obsession with grass anyway? Most of these grasses are unsuitable for this climate yet so many HOA's in the area *require* grass.
I can smell plenty of it coming from your post as well.
Umm, on many of the highways I drive on in the U.S., when the oncoming traffic is placed closer (without a significant median), there are guardrails. If it's even closer, there's a concrete or double concrete barrier. You can argue that maybe we need more barriers, but engineers clearly use these solutions in many places in the U.S. when conditions warrant it.
There are *vast* stretches of highway that are just as the GP described them - completely and without any barriers other than the median. Apparently you have driven on a select few roads in this country. I've driven many very long distance trips, and about the only region I have yet to drive through is the PacNorthwest.
There's something called "adjust your driving to conditions." You simply can't always go the posted speed limit in heavy rain.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. I think the GP already stated "while driving the posted speed limit or less". I've hydroplaned at speeds of 15 mph in extremely heavy flow on I-35 near Dallas. Do you think either I or the GP continued to drive at that speed?
For normal traffic, there's no need to travel at 80 mph. In fact, it reduces gas mileage usually to go significantly above 55 or so, because air resistance increases much more rapidly and you have to fight that at high speeds.
Cite your sources for this often repeated tripe. My own MPG continues to rise until it peaks when my speed exceeds 110 mph. Most any car that I've owned (and none of them were your big honking pointless SUVs or any other sort of passenger truck) continued to increase in performance up to at least 80 mph. Even in the case of a Toyota Prius, the efficiency won't peak until approximately 75 mph. This statistic that you quote is a relic of the 1970's oil embargo years and the types of cars typically driven at that time. I somehow doubt it even applies to diesel big rigs these days either.
As for why speed limits are what they are, I'm sure there are SOME places in the U.S. where they are politically motivated... corruption is everywhere.
Probably a non-trivial number. Remember, there are many places where the police will harass and/or arrest a private citizen who visibly warns drivers that they are approaching a speed trap. If safety was the real motivation, then the police would not harass people like this. But instead it's about the money.
The human body has physiological reactions to traveling. On an open highway, with little to look at, the sound, vibrations, and general motions of the vehicle tends to lull people into relaxation and sleep at speeds around 55 mph. At speeds approaching 80 mph, everything about the vehicle tends to key the occupants into full alertness. Except for known unsafe areas, the interstates would be much SAFER with higher speed limits.
What the heck are you talking about? Citation needed. Maybe in cars from 25 years ago or in your giant truck.
To the best of my knowledge, the increase in speed limit in TX over the years did not see a significant increase in accidents or fatalities. There are plenty of roads with posted limits as high as 80 and I think even SH 130 toll has 85 even.
In most modern cars, putting the cruise control on at high speeds will result in people relaxing... it doesn't matter whether you're going 55 or 65 or 80.
Citation please.
In any case, even if there were some minor benefit in terms of alertness at 80 mph, it would largely be trumped by the vast increases of kinetic energy that happen as you go faster at high speeds -- which means a subsequent significantly greater time and effort to stop safely... or greater energy thrown into collision s
That is my main concern. As far as I'm concerned, if I have purchased a product, I am free to modify it as I see fit. Will they try to push for legislation to make it illegal for me to modify my car to enable those seat warmers they gave me but didn't collect from me? Will we no longer own our cars but only be licensed to use our cars?
The running of wiresl is what costs the money, not the upgrading of the equipment once the wires are all run. If anything, when it comes to normal customer usage scenarios, it's the interconnections that cost, and they cost regardless of whether they're being used or not. There is a huge difference between me watching 100 GB of Netflix traffic that originated right from East Buchanan Coop's racks to my endpoint on East Buchanan Coop's network than if it came from somewhere outside of their network.
As it is, your equipment is always sending some sort of traffic at all times, even if they (the data on the wire) only serve to maintain the signal on an otherwise idle line. That's just how it works.
They can do that with their own private money then, and not receive money from the state for such things. That's the single biggest problem with this being a violation of the 1st amendment.
Additionally, are they teaching ALL religions' creation theories or just their own little Christian one? I mean, if they gave equal time to Muslim stories of creation, and mentioned people by their Arabic names, then sure, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much and might actually hold up to the "all competing *beliefs*", *not* "theories". Oh, I'm sorry, they'd never teach anything about those "Ay-rabs" or... (That's the single most effective way to quash this - give them what they want but require they give equal time to beliefs that they don't believe in. It'll bring out their true colors faster than putting a brand new red shirt in a load of white laundry...)
Have you actually done the math to figure out how long it takes to break even on your purchase of new CFL's or LED's? And did you base it on "always turned on" or "according to my normal usage patterns" ? Being poor is damn expensive in the long term.
Why yes, that's an even better idea. Let's all have the gov't hoard all sorts of gold that could actually be used for something useful instead... You'd love for your graphics card to triple in price because now the gold for the contacts and other components is all scarce now, wouldn't you? A gold standard has a big downfall in common with BTC... it's naturally deflationary. A modest rate of inflation is not necessarily a bad thing, but having to go from paying 1/4 of your net income on your mortgage now to 1/2 of your net income in 15 years doesn't sound so hot either does it?
I'm sure that the Boston program is only down temporarily - stupid monkey with the wrench broke things. But never fear, it will be back again in the near future under a new guise... And when it does, I will keep singing that one Rockwell song every time I get in my car...
While I don't doubt your statements, it's probably a little further off than you might think still. Consider this: this 1911 gun still costs between 10 and 20 times the normal cost for a 1911 manufactured using conventional methods these days. As the price difference shrinks, I suspect the cries for more draconian laws (not just patent or copyright) will get louder and louder.
Nice, you compiled that whole post of yours with the -pedantic flag. And you ended up with a resulting program that doesn't perform the functions that the whole rest of the threads here pertain to. Perhaps somebody forgot to typecast it, but in reality what people who are complaining about the handling of the issue on behalf of the twits (that's what Twitter users are called, right?) to Github is not actual feminism. It's *militant* feminism which threatens everybody's freedom of expression in what should otherwise be an open society. (Note: I'm not talking Constitution or law here, I'm talking about culture.) Is a project like c+= sophmoric? Crass? Offensive to some people? Yes it is - on all counts. But perhaps the offensive material is meant to be a social commentary to get people to understand that things can go too far to the other extreme as well. (Yep, I'm giving everybody here the benefit of the doubt.) In the end, I think that if the facts are portrayed correctly here, then perhaps Github overreacted to those who already overreacted. It isn't as if the project was a networking stack named "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"...
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I'm not sure what planet you're from, but I've been flying on planes since I was barely even walking and talking. There is *nothing* rude about reclining, neither explicit nor implied. It is, however, nice and courteous to the person behind you to recline slowly and gently if at all possible. You do not have a right to not have the seat in front of you recline. You *do* have a right to control whether your own seat reclines.
I think that's a little bit of oversimplification. I've yet to see what systemd does so much better than traditional init or sysvinit style other than make a clusterf*ck out of everything... Maybe it's "I've been working 20 years with something. It might not be perfect, but the alternative seems to be at least an order of magnitude worse than what I currently have."
As for service monitoring, there are other options out there than you can use to replace init or mix into your init system to handle that... such as runit.
Me thinks it needs to keep working at it. I am an old guard - I still use Slackware - so I require some actual evidence of it solving a problem. I'd rather just replace my init with runit... At least it doesn't require a bunch of dependencies which I may not want on a system to perform service monitoring.
Are you sure you understand what a microkernel design actually is?
It saves them money and makes use of existing stuff instead of having to build new.
No. No. And again, No. It's cheaper if we just electrocute to death everybody ever found guilty of a crime. Why don't we just electrocute them all instead of having to build those big, expensive prisons and feed people? Hell, does it even matter that they're guilty of having forgotten to pay for their livestock purchase within 24 hours?
When it comes to the police, cheaper is not necessarily better. I would rather not have police plowing through mine or my neighbor's door with an MRAP. We aren't in a war zone, the police aren't the military, and there is zero justification to make everybody feel like we're living without rights and freedoms under martial law. Some studies have shown that when police are less aggressive (possible even not carrying guns) and laws are toned down from the "let's be tough on crime and send people away to jail for 10 years for carrying around a little dead leaf in their pocket", that violence between the police and the populace also goes down.
Accountants and MBA's tend to be only concerned with financial costs and ignore the other, real costs. Surely you're not one of those? :-)
Just because "top eyeball network providers agree" doesn't mean it's fact either. This isn't the old PSTN where carriers got paid to terminate a call from another carrier destined for your own subscribers. That model worked because that was very much so a push-model (caller on other provider calls you, you didn't send the first ring to get that entity to connect to your). The Internet in general doesn't work that way, sorry to break it to you. It is, by and in large, a pull model.
Now with more cowbell! *clang* *clang* *clang*
I've done that one myself... bluetooth supporting head unit + android tablet. The only thing I've got left to do (when I have time) is to cut up a piece of polycarbonite to mount it on the center console in place of the ash tray and broken drawer on my car.
there is the Fraternal Brotherhood of Police, which would give out stickers to place in your back window. Rumor was that it would cause police throughout the state to be more... forgiving... in the cases of traffic violations.
You might want to read up upon the relevant laws and see that things can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The transfer of property and finances from a deceased parent to a minor surviving child who has no other living parent might not be penalized at all. Also, I don't think it's typical for a surviving spouse to have to pay estate taxes, and especially wouldn't have to in a community property state.
They are due upon transfer of your property and finances from your estate to that of another individual. This distinction is important, because if you donate all your estate to charities none of your family will need to pay estate taxes.
Even the Haredi community is more diverse than one might expect. I know several Haba"d members who are quite active on the Internet. Some of those Haba"d members enjoy popular culture and movies, and some will only ever watch whatever they deem to be educational only. I am not finding the specific affiliation for this school, so for all I know it could be Neturey Karta - in which case, nothing about them would surprise me (they spit on 8 year old girls for being "immodestly dressed").
...and yet there is no one single vaccine for the entire influenza virus family. Thus even getting the vaccine can be completely useless, and needs to be given seasonally even. And even if you're not immunocompromised, if you have egg allergies that can be a problem too.
And then let's not forget the whole "I'm healthy and young..." argument brought up by the GP... Spanish Flu about 100 years ago killed predominantly young, healthy adults.
We're still in very bad drought in central Texas. But the common areas of many communities and the golf courses (I think we have 1 single one in the area) usually receive water for their grass from reclaimed (post-sewage treatment). I don't know if that reclaimed water is potable beyond the "water the grass" but it sure beats using fresh supply. But on the same note: wtf do we have this ridiculous obsession with grass anyway? Most of these grasses are unsuitable for this climate yet so many HOA's in the area *require* grass.
I call BS on much of your post.
I can smell plenty of it coming from your post as well.
Umm, on many of the highways I drive on in the U.S., when the oncoming traffic is placed closer (without a significant median), there are guardrails. If it's even closer, there's a concrete or double concrete barrier. You can argue that maybe we need more barriers, but engineers clearly use these solutions in many places in the U.S. when conditions warrant it.
There are *vast* stretches of highway that are just as the GP described them - completely and without any barriers other than the median. Apparently you have driven on a select few roads in this country. I've driven many very long distance trips, and about the only region I have yet to drive through is the PacNorthwest.
There's something called "adjust your driving to conditions." You simply can't always go the posted speed limit in heavy rain.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. I think the GP already stated "while driving the posted speed limit or less". I've hydroplaned at speeds of 15 mph in extremely heavy flow on I-35 near Dallas. Do you think either I or the GP continued to drive at that speed?
For normal traffic, there's no need to travel at 80 mph. In fact, it reduces gas mileage usually to go significantly above 55 or so, because air resistance increases much more rapidly and you have to fight that at high speeds.
Cite your sources for this often repeated tripe. My own MPG continues to rise until it peaks when my speed exceeds 110 mph. Most any car that I've owned (and none of them were your big honking pointless SUVs or any other sort of passenger truck) continued to increase in performance up to at least 80 mph. Even in the case of a Toyota Prius, the efficiency won't peak until approximately 75 mph. This statistic that you quote is a relic of the 1970's oil embargo years and the types of cars typically driven at that time. I somehow doubt it even applies to diesel big rigs these days either.
As for why speed limits are what they are, I'm sure there are SOME places in the U.S. where they are politically motivated... corruption is everywhere.
Probably a non-trivial number. Remember, there are many places where the police will harass and/or arrest a private citizen who visibly warns drivers that they are approaching a speed trap. If safety was the real motivation, then the police would not harass people like this. But instead it's about the money.
The human body has physiological reactions to traveling. On an open highway, with little to look at, the sound, vibrations, and general motions of the vehicle tends to lull people into relaxation and sleep at speeds around 55 mph. At speeds approaching 80 mph, everything about the vehicle tends to key the occupants into full alertness. Except for known unsafe areas, the interstates would be much SAFER with higher speed limits.
What the heck are you talking about? Citation needed. Maybe in cars from 25 years ago or in your giant truck.
To the best of my knowledge, the increase in speed limit in TX over the years did not see a significant increase in accidents or fatalities. There are plenty of roads with posted limits as high as 80 and I think even SH 130 toll has 85 even.
In most modern cars, putting the cruise control on at high speeds will result in people relaxing... it doesn't matter whether you're going 55 or 65 or 80.
Citation please.
In any case, even if there were some minor benefit in terms of alertness at 80 mph, it would largely be trumped by the vast increases of kinetic energy that happen as you go faster at high speeds -- which means a subsequent significantly greater time and effort to stop safely... or greater energy thrown into collision s
It's only slightly illegal in parts of Texas. :-)
That is my main concern. As far as I'm concerned, if I have purchased a product, I am free to modify it as I see fit. Will they try to push for legislation to make it illegal for me to modify my car to enable those seat warmers they gave me but didn't collect from me? Will we no longer own our cars but only be licensed to use our cars?
The running of wiresl is what costs the money, not the upgrading of the equipment once the wires are all run. If anything, when it comes to normal customer usage scenarios, it's the interconnections that cost, and they cost regardless of whether they're being used or not. There is a huge difference between me watching 100 GB of Netflix traffic that originated right from East Buchanan Coop's racks to my endpoint on East Buchanan Coop's network than if it came from somewhere outside of their network.
As it is, your equipment is always sending some sort of traffic at all times, even if they (the data on the wire) only serve to maintain the signal on an otherwise idle line. That's just how it works.
They can do that with their own private money then, and not receive money from the state for such things. That's the single biggest problem with this being a violation of the 1st amendment.
Additionally, are they teaching ALL religions' creation theories or just their own little Christian one? I mean, if they gave equal time to Muslim stories of creation, and mentioned people by their Arabic names, then sure, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much and might actually hold up to the "all competing *beliefs*", *not* "theories". Oh, I'm sorry, they'd never teach anything about those "Ay-rabs" or ... (That's the single most effective way to quash this - give them what they want but require they give equal time to beliefs that they don't believe in. It'll bring out their true colors faster than putting a brand new red shirt in a load of white laundry...)
Have you actually done the math to figure out how long it takes to break even on your purchase of new CFL's or LED's? And did you base it on "always turned on" or "according to my normal usage patterns" ? Being poor is damn expensive in the long term.
Why yes, that's an even better idea. Let's all have the gov't hoard all sorts of gold that could actually be used for something useful instead... You'd love for your graphics card to triple in price because now the gold for the contacts and other components is all scarce now, wouldn't you? A gold standard has a big downfall in common with BTC... it's naturally deflationary. A modest rate of inflation is not necessarily a bad thing, but having to go from paying 1/4 of your net income on your mortgage now to 1/2 of your net income in 15 years doesn't sound so hot either does it?
I'm sure that the Boston program is only down temporarily - stupid monkey with the wrench broke things. But never fear, it will be back again in the near future under a new guise... And when it does, I will keep singing that one Rockwell song every time I get in my car...
While I don't doubt your statements, it's probably a little further off than you might think still. Consider this: this 1911 gun still costs between 10 and 20 times the normal cost for a 1911 manufactured using conventional methods these days. As the price difference shrinks, I suspect the cries for more draconian laws (not just patent or copyright) will get louder and louder.
Nice, you compiled that whole post of yours with the -pedantic flag. And you ended up with a resulting program that doesn't perform the functions that the whole rest of the threads here pertain to. Perhaps somebody forgot to typecast it, but in reality what people who are complaining about the handling of the issue on behalf of the twits (that's what Twitter users are called, right?) to Github is not actual feminism. It's *militant* feminism which threatens everybody's freedom of expression in what should otherwise be an open society. (Note: I'm not talking Constitution or law here, I'm talking about culture.) Is a project like c+= sophmoric? Crass? Offensive to some people? Yes it is - on all counts. But perhaps the offensive material is meant to be a social commentary to get people to understand that things can go too far to the other extreme as well. (Yep, I'm giving everybody here the benefit of the doubt.) In the end, I think that if the facts are portrayed correctly here, then perhaps Github overreacted to those who already overreacted. It isn't as if the project was a networking stack named "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"...