Meh. I'm in the Seattle phone book, and other than a couple of hate emails absolutely no one in 15 years of posting on Internet forums has actually done anything. I've also gotten several emails sent to me privately by people unwilling to post online but agreeing (and in one case offering to collaborate on a project). More than the hate emails, I think. Of course I don't post places like the neo-nazi or jihadist web sites so YMMV.
Got threatened with death the other day here on SlashDot by some Libertardian off-grid idiot simply for pointing out some of the benefits of civilization. Not the first time, although that was the most amusing reason.
True enough, but then think about delivering that line to an audience of 5000 people, half of whom have been drinking or toking. Which is mor understandable?
Several ACs above said the same bizarre thing earlier in the thread, and I really can't figure out why. Are you trying to say "their sky god is worse than our sky god! Go destroy that one first!" or what is your point?
I don't think that the intent is to convert the religious 'true believers', they're lost causes. There are an awful lot of people in the world, in all cultures, who have lost their faith in religion and feel alone and perhaps frightened of a life without the familiar restrictions. I live in Seattle now and there are plenty of non-theists here, but I used to live in Michigan and Florida and Peru. It can be a scary thing to grow up in a place where children are taught that atheists worship Satan and commit atrocities because they have no morality. These are the people that I hope this movie reaches.
No, I don't work in your industry, but have dealt with a multitude of issues from CAD "engineers" in my own work (security systems). I apparently didn't make the point that I wanted, sorry. What I mean is that when the CAD guy can send his design to the printer and see a few minutes later "Oh, crap, that won't work" he's not wasting YOUR time building something wrong, and then building it again correctly (maybe). In my job I can't remember how many times we've been sent to do a job with designs that won't work, and which we can't convince Engineering that it won't work, and have to cobble together our own solution in the field and then convince them to update their drawings. I doubt my field is alone in that sort of experience.
It's JP Morgan. The only way that will come back is if they can charge 10-15% fee, the same as they do their money laundering, er, 'private banking' services. You'd be better off going to the cash machine, taking the cash out, handing it to him, and letting him deposit it into the same machine. They're not charging a fee for that again, are they? I left them when they started charging for our "permanently free" checking account.
You could probably do it at a credit union. They're owned by their customers, not shareholders, so have to keep their customers' wants and needs in mind.
The reason for the Second Amendment, and the reason why it doesn't specify what types of weapons, were because at that time the 'town hall cannon' wasn't just a decoration. Port cities owned cannon batteries to protect against pirates and Spaniards, rural villages and frontier outposts had cannon and mortars to be used in the case of attack by brigands or Indians, and many merchant ships were better armed than most naval vessels. It wasn't until the tail end of the 19th century that bands of marauders were finally no longer a part of the life of rural America, my own great-great-grandparents in northern Michigan had to be prepared to protect their farms from the Strangist Mormons raiders.
There's a reason why all the printed guns use pistol rounds, it's because the powder load is so much smaller. A pistol round will put a dent and possibly a hole in a car door, a rifle round will go through the door, through the driver and passenger, and out the other door.
Even if it can only be used in prototyping that's still a big deal. Having a tool and die maker spend a week on converting a drawing into a one-off sample of something is expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. When the design engineers can send the thing directly to a printer and see almost immediately that Tab A really won't fit into Slot B the time saved and improvement in quality and process will be enormous.
What is the purpose of having a regulation if affected parties are not going to be forced to abide by it? It effectively changes from a 'regulation' to a 'suggestion', and we're having enough trouble trying to keep Tyson, Weyerhouser and Pfizer under control as it is. Newt Gingrich's moment of brilliance was when he realized that he didn't have to repeal laws that his corporate sponsors didn't like, all he had to do was reduce or eliminate the budget to enforce the law. Do you honestly think that Nabisco and Budweiser will voluntarily abide by food safety and purity regulations if no one is looking over their shoulder making them do it? The FDA exists for a reason, it's because the previous attempts at eliciting voluntary cooperation from producers failed miserably.
Scientology was created as a bet between two science fiction authors, and Mormonism as a complex scam by a known fraudster. Millions of people worship both. T
Uh, no. I don't want the meat industry setting standards for salmonella and fecal coliform bacteria in food stuffs, or trusting Coca Cola and Perrier to provide clean drinking water. American Airlines and Delta are not competent to direct the national air traffic control program and never will be. And I think we've seen what allowing the banking and insurance industries to voluntarily police themselves produce. Government exists for a reason, that reason being that business cannot be trusted to hold the public good in mind when there is the possibility of making a nickel by fucking over every other living organism on the planet.
You should read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" for a beginner.
It would take a decade to colonize the moon. The simple spinoff technology from that relatively minor effort ( 1/2 cost of Iraq invasion) should be sufficient to revitalize science and technology on Earth. Unfortunately that doesn't generate the kind of stock market bump that creates quarterly executive bonuses, so it's likely that nothing will be done.
Well, if Pentagon contractors don't get lots of pork where are the generals and admirals going to get their corporate board postings when they retire from "public service"? Gotta keep your priorities straight!
Tax loopholes are there there deliberately, to benefit specific classes of tax dodgers. It's the kind of system one gets when you let lawyers write the laws in such a manner that only they can makes sense of them or how to take advantage of them.
That must be why most military families qualify for food stamps. Oh, you mean Walmart wages.
European nations that aren't holding up their end of the NATO treaty in terms of defense spending
In case you didn't notice, the Soviet Union is gone. I realize that was easy to miss, many of the generals in the Pentagon seem to have overlooked it as well. Why do you think that European countries should burden their citizens with onerous taxes to fund a war that won't happen?
A conspiracy! **Gasp** We all know that those just NEVER exist. No one would ever conspire to feather their own nest at the cost of the integrity of their position! Why, only those wacky conspiracy theorists would ever imagine such a thing.
There aren't really any defenses you can latch onto to rationalize it.
Venezuela's pretty much an impossible target already. Large, well-armed, well-trained militias scattered throughout a country full of terrain a Western military would absolutely hate, a population that supports its government almost as much as it opposes foreign oppressors, and the immediate halt of oil from one of the US's biggest suppliers. Plus an entire continent that would erupt if the US dared. The US hasn't even been able to put Cuba back under its thumb in over half a century, Venezuela's so far out of the question as to be laughable.
Most of the theories that attempt to unify quantum and relativistic space assume multiple (7 to 25) additional dimensions that we currently can't detect and for which we have only the most vague of descriptions. Light is the fastest phenomena in the space/time that we know, nothing says that there can't be something faster that we currently can't detect.
The fastest thing currently known. Nothing says that there isn't something faster that we currently can't detect. A century and a half ago we couldn't detect ultraviolet light or cosmic rays, and half a century ago we weren't even sure that neutrinos actually existed.
I suspect you'll see a lot of the same phenomena that Neilson Ratings used to encounter, where people wrote down that they had watched a National Geographic documentary instead of the 'The Man Show' that they actually watched. Probably the count of diary-noted rice cakes would exceed the number of rice cakes manufactured by an order of magnitude.
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Meh. I'm in the Seattle phone book, and other than a couple of hate emails absolutely no one in 15 years of posting on Internet forums has actually done anything. I've also gotten several emails sent to me privately by people unwilling to post online but agreeing (and in one case offering to collaborate on a project). More than the hate emails, I think. Of course I don't post places like the neo-nazi or jihadist web sites so YMMV.
Got threatened with death the other day here on SlashDot by some Libertardian off-grid idiot simply for pointing out some of the benefits of civilization. Not the first time, although that was the most amusing reason.
True enough, but then think about delivering that line to an audience of 5000 people, half of whom have been drinking or toking. Which is mor understandable?
Several ACs above said the same bizarre thing earlier in the thread, and I really can't figure out why. Are you trying to say "their sky god is worse than our sky god! Go destroy that one first!" or what is your point?
By all the gods above, below and non-existent, that is the dumbest thing that I have read on SlashDot all week.
I don't think that the intent is to convert the religious 'true believers', they're lost causes. There are an awful lot of people in the world, in all cultures, who have lost their faith in religion and feel alone and perhaps frightened of a life without the familiar restrictions. I live in Seattle now and there are plenty of non-theists here, but I used to live in Michigan and Florida and Peru. It can be a scary thing to grow up in a place where children are taught that atheists worship Satan and commit atrocities because they have no morality. These are the people that I hope this movie reaches.
Says the brave little Anonymous Coward . . .
No, I don't work in your industry, but have dealt with a multitude of issues from CAD "engineers" in my own work (security systems). I apparently didn't make the point that I wanted, sorry. What I mean is that when the CAD guy can send his design to the printer and see a few minutes later "Oh, crap, that won't work" he's not wasting YOUR time building something wrong, and then building it again correctly (maybe). In my job I can't remember how many times we've been sent to do a job with designs that won't work, and which we can't convince Engineering that it won't work, and have to cobble together our own solution in the field and then convince them to update their drawings. I doubt my field is alone in that sort of experience.
It's JP Morgan. The only way that will come back is if they can charge 10-15% fee, the same as they do their money laundering, er, 'private banking' services. You'd be better off going to the cash machine, taking the cash out, handing it to him, and letting him deposit it into the same machine. They're not charging a fee for that again, are they? I left them when they started charging for our "permanently free" checking account.
You could probably do it at a credit union. They're owned by their customers, not shareholders, so have to keep their customers' wants and needs in mind.
The reason for the Second Amendment, and the reason why it doesn't specify what types of weapons, were because at that time the 'town hall cannon' wasn't just a decoration. Port cities owned cannon batteries to protect against pirates and Spaniards, rural villages and frontier outposts had cannon and mortars to be used in the case of attack by brigands or Indians, and many merchant ships were better armed than most naval vessels. It wasn't until the tail end of the 19th century that bands of marauders were finally no longer a part of the life of rural America, my own great-great-grandparents in northern Michigan had to be prepared to protect their farms from the Strangist Mormons raiders.
There's a reason why all the printed guns use pistol rounds, it's because the powder load is so much smaller. A pistol round will put a dent and possibly a hole in a car door, a rifle round will go through the door, through the driver and passenger, and out the other door.
Even if it can only be used in prototyping that's still a big deal. Having a tool and die maker spend a week on converting a drawing into a one-off sample of something is expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. When the design engineers can send the thing directly to a printer and see almost immediately that Tab A really won't fit into Slot B the time saved and improvement in quality and process will be enormous.
What is the purpose of having a regulation if affected parties are not going to be forced to abide by it? It effectively changes from a 'regulation' to a 'suggestion', and we're having enough trouble trying to keep Tyson, Weyerhouser and Pfizer under control as it is. Newt Gingrich's moment of brilliance was when he realized that he didn't have to repeal laws that his corporate sponsors didn't like, all he had to do was reduce or eliminate the budget to enforce the law. Do you honestly think that Nabisco and Budweiser will voluntarily abide by food safety and purity regulations if no one is looking over their shoulder making them do it? The FDA exists for a reason, it's because the previous attempts at eliciting voluntary cooperation from producers failed miserably.
Scientology was created as a bet between two science fiction authors, and Mormonism as a complex scam by a known fraudster. Millions of people worship both. T
Uh, no. I don't want the meat industry setting standards for salmonella and fecal coliform bacteria in food stuffs, or trusting Coca Cola and Perrier to provide clean drinking water. American Airlines and Delta are not competent to direct the national air traffic control program and never will be. And I think we've seen what allowing the banking and insurance industries to voluntarily police themselves produce. Government exists for a reason, that reason being that business cannot be trusted to hold the public good in mind when there is the possibility of making a nickel by fucking over every other living organism on the planet.
You should read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" for a beginner.
It would take a decade to colonize the moon. The simple spinoff technology from that relatively minor effort ( 1/2 cost of Iraq invasion) should be sufficient to revitalize science and technology on Earth. Unfortunately that doesn't generate the kind of stock market bump that creates quarterly executive bonuses, so it's likely that nothing will be done.
Well, if Pentagon contractors don't get lots of pork where are the generals and admirals going to get their corporate board postings when they retire from "public service"? Gotta keep your priorities straight!
Tax loopholes are there there deliberately, to benefit specific classes of tax dodgers. It's the kind of system one gets when you let lawyers write the laws in such a manner that only they can makes sense of them or how to take advantage of them.
pays wages competitive with the civilian market
That must be why most military families qualify for food stamps. Oh, you mean Walmart wages.
European nations that aren't holding up their end of the NATO treaty in terms of defense spending
In case you didn't notice, the Soviet Union is gone. I realize that was easy to miss, many of the generals in the Pentagon seem to have overlooked it as well. Why do you think that European countries should burden their citizens with onerous taxes to fund a war that won't happen?
A conspiracy! **Gasp** We all know that those just NEVER exist. No one would ever conspire to feather their own nest at the cost of the integrity of their position! Why, only those wacky conspiracy theorists would ever imagine such a thing.
There aren't really any defenses you can latch onto to rationalize it.
Then you really don't have much imagination.
Living in colonies on the moon.
Venezuela's pretty much an impossible target already. Large, well-armed, well-trained militias scattered throughout a country full of terrain a Western military would absolutely hate, a population that supports its government almost as much as it opposes foreign oppressors, and the immediate halt of oil from one of the US's biggest suppliers. Plus an entire continent that would erupt if the US dared. The US hasn't even been able to put Cuba back under its thumb in over half a century, Venezuela's so far out of the question as to be laughable.
Most of the theories that attempt to unify quantum and relativistic space assume multiple (7 to 25) additional dimensions that we currently can't detect and for which we have only the most vague of descriptions. Light is the fastest phenomena in the space/time that we know, nothing says that there can't be something faster that we currently can't detect.
The fastest thing currently known. Nothing says that there isn't something faster that we currently can't detect. A century and a half ago we couldn't detect ultraviolet light or cosmic rays, and half a century ago we weren't even sure that neutrinos actually existed.
I suspect you'll see a lot of the same phenomena that Neilson Ratings used to encounter, where people wrote down that they had watched a National Geographic documentary instead of the 'The Man Show' that they actually watched. Probably the count of diary-noted rice cakes would exceed the number of rice cakes manufactured by an order of magnitude.