I'm typing on a Windows Natural Keyboard, which was the upper limit of excessive buttons for Windows. There are 19 extra function keys. The "calculator" button really brings up the calculator. The "Menu" button brings up a menu. The "Mail" button brings up Thunderbird. None of this is particularly useful.
I have a sadly driver-deprecated MS Office Keyboard, that has an honest-to-god big beefy scrollwheel (not some little slider but a knuckle-sized rubberized spinny thing that looks like it came from a good laser printer's feed mechanism) on the left side. For 3D work where I'm riding the mouse whhel to zoom in and out all day long, it was awesome (less awesome were the un-remappable hair-trigger cut/copy/paste buttons right below the wheel). God I loved that thing.
I've heard this meme from my batshit right-wing zionist relatives, but I've never determined where it's coming from.
It seems to rest on some kind of question-begging with regard to US/Israeli foreign policy justifications, but it's so ludicrously extreme I can't see otherwise-intelligent people swallowing it without some evidence.
So what's the evidence at the root of this meme? Who in a position of any political power in America, from the municipal level on up, has any desire to advance the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood? What's in it for them? How about the media? What does the NY Times benefit from helping the Muslim Brotherhood?
I think it has to do with case law around the fifth amendment treating something you have (the document) differently than something you know (the passphrase). The former can be compelled by a subpoena, while compelling the latter could be self-incrimination.
It's sort of on the scale of "Is there any scientific study showing how much knocking on front doors, with fists or with synthetic "knocking devices", increase the rate and/or intensity of houses collapsing? Or are we just blindly pulling the dragon's tail?"
I dunno, I'd have to put the incident where Interplay(?) reverse-pirated the scene crack of their game for their official DRM-removal patch above that.
Isn't laser guidance an old technology at this point when used for airstrikes? Are these solved problems, or was GPS-guided ordnance the eventual solution?
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology. Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart? It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Actually, Talmudic Law has a black-letter exception that a danger to human life supercedes any aspect of religious law. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to eat bacon on the sabbath, that's what you do.
Well, my household (with water-saving sinks/showerheads but a fairly inefficient washer and small children in the house) uses about 100 gal/day at a rate of about $0.02/gallon. We burn about 2 gal/gasoline a day for commuting at a rate of about $3.50/gallon. That's $60 of water and $210 of gasoline per month, but at 50x the volume.
Also, oil deposits aren't doing much for the local ecosystem (leaving fracking out of the discussion for now), but drain an aquifer and you really fuck up the environment and piss off any locals trying to grow food.
On one hand: what's the reason two guys want to be recognized as a "marriage"? Not children, as they can't have them, and they're just as capable of raising a kid one of them had with a third party as mere friends as a couple -- it can never be "their" kid, at most of one of them. The uncomfortable truth is that they're after lowered taxes and certain other benefits meant to encourage having kids. A solo person deserves such benefits more than them.
How about:
Being able to visit/make medical decisions for your spouse if they are hospitalized or incapacitated. Being able to adopt a child together in a way that gives both parents legal parental rights in relation to their child (everything from school permission slips to keeping the child if the spouse dies) Being considered a spouse in legal proceedings (spousal 5th amendment immunity, inheritance laws, etc.) Being able to marry a foreigner without fear they will be deported
And since when is an adopted child not the parents' kid? That's not only reprehensible, it's missing the whole point of encouraging marriages as child-rearing units. It's established that gay couples adopt kids with disabilities at a higher rate than straight couples, for example.
Furthermore, we don't question the 80-year old newlyweds, and merely shake our heads and sigh (as opposed to foaming at the mouth about 'threats to traditional values') at celebrity marriages measurable in hours.
We also have huge amounts of legal and social framework set up to accommodate 2-adult family units; enabling the gender bits to be flipped any which way doesn't actually change any of how things work. Opening up the system to accomodate polygamy would open huge cans of worms (an organized crime ring could all get married to each other, and be fully protected from someone turning states' evidence, for example).
Well, there was the whole "building a civil society, economic base, and modern infrastructure more or less from scratch" thing, but that was more the WZO and the kibbutz movement.
how much real computing power is needed for South Park?
Actually, South Park is made with Maya (except for the pilot short which they did in Aftereffects). They've likened the process to using a bulldozer to build a sandcastle.
They'd replace federal taxation, of which they get back about 78 cents of every dollar in federal services, with an income tax scheme that gave them 100 cents of every dollar. Also, they could charge ground rent on the US military bases that will inevitably remain on their soil.
Removing the financial gain aspect - replacing RIAA lawsuits with criminal investigations, and civil suits from record companies with criminal charges.
Lamar Smith's website was infringing something with a declared copyright - a Creative Commons-licensed photo that specified attribution and noncommercial use (not even a license fee!)
I can tell you are a mediocre programmer by your comment. You think you are better than others. You are this way only because you pay more attention. That is a skill that can be taught (have done it many times).
I don't claim to be a programmer. I do a bit of scripting to get my job done. I sometimes try to teach others in my niche a little bit of scripting to help them get their jobs done. Usually those people (who are already comfortable using computers in ways that don't feature a "like" button) learn just fine.
I also have a side job fixing people's PCs. I don't look down on my clients - they're often wonderful to interact with and extremely competent in their areas of expertise. Many people seem to have some kind of phobic reaction to computers, though, that causes them to completely suspend their otherwise clearly well-developed critical thinking skills (Really? You're a big-city heart surgeon and you gave a ransomware company your credit card number?)
This is what I mean when I disagree that most people can program. Most *habitual computer users* can program. Most *people* can't give decent driving directions.
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I'm typing on a Windows Natural Keyboard, which was the upper limit of excessive buttons for Windows. There are 19 extra function keys. The "calculator" button really brings up the calculator. The "Menu" button brings up a menu. The "Mail" button brings up Thunderbird. None of this is particularly useful.
I have a sadly driver-deprecated MS Office Keyboard, that has an honest-to-god big beefy scrollwheel (not some little slider but a knuckle-sized rubberized spinny thing that looks like it came from a good laser printer's feed mechanism) on the left side. For 3D work where I'm riding the mouse whhel to zoom in and out all day long, it was awesome (less awesome were the un-remappable hair-trigger cut/copy/paste buttons right below the wheel). God I loved that thing.
I've heard this meme from my batshit right-wing zionist relatives, but I've never determined where it's coming from.
It seems to rest on some kind of question-begging with regard to US/Israeli foreign policy justifications, but it's so ludicrously extreme I can't see otherwise-intelligent people swallowing it without some evidence.
So what's the evidence at the root of this meme? Who in a position of any political power in America, from the municipal level on up, has any desire to advance the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood? What's in it for them? How about the media? What does the NY Times benefit from helping the Muslim Brotherhood?
It just makes no kind of sense to me.
USA -> USA rates:
$0.17/minute voice
$0.12/text
$0.17/MB data
Holy crap. Nearly $300/month for medium usage (500 minutes + 200 texts + 1 GB data). This is an improvement?
I think it has to do with case law around the fifth amendment treating something you have (the document) differently than something you know (the passphrase). The former can be compelled by a subpoena, while compelling the latter could be self-incrimination.
Sure, Apple is, but how about Adobe? As I recall they were dragged kicking and screaming into native x86 Mac code after years of procrastinating.
Because McElligot's Pool is near Sneeden's Hotel and State Highway 203, not the middle of Antarctica.
It's sort of on the scale of "Is there any scientific study showing how much knocking on front doors, with fists or with synthetic "knocking devices", increase the rate and/or intensity of houses collapsing? Or are we just blindly pulling the dragon's tail?"
I dunno, I'd have to put the incident where Interplay(?) reverse-pirated the scene crack of their game for their official DRM-removal patch above that.
And hell, who hasn't shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?
Isn't laser guidance an old technology at this point when used for airstrikes? Are these solved problems, or was GPS-guided ordnance the eventual solution?
It's driver-dependent. All the consumer Linksys stuff I've run across has it, and some other vendors, too.
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology. Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart? It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Actually, Talmudic Law has a black-letter exception that a danger to human life supercedes any aspect of religious law. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to eat bacon on the sabbath, that's what you do.
Well, my household (with water-saving sinks/showerheads but a fairly inefficient washer and small children in the house) uses about 100 gal/day at a rate of about $0.02/gallon. We burn about 2 gal/gasoline a day for commuting at a rate of about $3.50/gallon. That's $60 of water and $210 of gasoline per month, but at 50x the volume.
Also, oil deposits aren't doing much for the local ecosystem (leaving fracking out of the discussion for now), but drain an aquifer and you really fuck up the environment and piss off any locals trying to grow food.
It displaces its own volume by not having any of itself sticking up out of the water.
On one hand: what's the reason two guys want to be recognized as a "marriage"? Not children, as they can't have them, and they're just as capable of raising a kid one of them had with a third party as mere friends as a couple -- it can never be "their" kid, at most of one of them. The uncomfortable truth is that they're after lowered taxes and certain other benefits meant to encourage having kids. A solo person deserves such benefits more than them.
How about:
Being able to visit/make medical decisions for your spouse if they are hospitalized or incapacitated.
Being able to adopt a child together in a way that gives both parents legal parental rights in relation to their child (everything from school permission slips to keeping the child if the spouse dies)
Being considered a spouse in legal proceedings (spousal 5th amendment immunity, inheritance laws, etc.)
Being able to marry a foreigner without fear they will be deported
And since when is an adopted child not the parents' kid? That's not only reprehensible, it's missing the whole point of encouraging marriages as child-rearing units. It's established that gay couples adopt kids with disabilities at a higher rate than straight couples, for example.
Furthermore, we don't question the 80-year old newlyweds, and merely shake our heads and sigh (as opposed to foaming at the mouth about 'threats to traditional values') at celebrity marriages measurable in hours.
We also have huge amounts of legal and social framework set up to accommodate 2-adult family units; enabling the gender bits to be flipped any which way doesn't actually change any of how things work. Opening up the system to accomodate polygamy would open huge cans of worms (an organized crime ring could all get married to each other, and be fully protected from someone turning states' evidence, for example).
Like Standard Oil? Ma Bell?
...an agreement the employers entered into voluntarily.
Well, there was the whole "building a civil society, economic base, and modern infrastructure more or less from scratch" thing, but that was more the WZO and the kibbutz movement.
how much real computing power is needed for South Park?
Actually, South Park is made with Maya (except for the pilot short which they did in Aftereffects). They've likened the process to using a bulldozer to build a sandcastle.
They'd replace federal taxation, of which they get back about 78 cents of every dollar in federal services, with an income tax scheme that gave them 100 cents of every dollar. Also, they could charge ground rent on the US military bases that will inevitably remain on their soil.
...in the first world. Infection/mortality rates in Africa are terrifying.
Removing the financial gain aspect - replacing RIAA lawsuits with criminal investigations, and civil suits from record companies with criminal charges.
Goes from a civil tort to a federal felony, which is a pretty big fucking deal.
Lamar Smith's website was infringing something with a declared copyright - a Creative Commons-licensed photo that specified attribution and noncommercial use (not even a license fee!)
I can tell you are a mediocre programmer by your comment. You think you are better than others. You are this way only because you pay more attention. That is a skill that can be taught (have done it many times).
I don't claim to be a programmer. I do a bit of scripting to get my job done. I sometimes try to teach others in my niche a little bit of scripting to help them get their jobs done. Usually those people (who are already comfortable using computers in ways that don't feature a "like" button) learn just fine.
I also have a side job fixing people's PCs. I don't look down on my clients - they're often wonderful to interact with and extremely competent in their areas of expertise. Many people seem to have some kind of phobic reaction to computers, though, that causes them to completely suspend their otherwise clearly well-developed critical thinking skills (Really? You're a big-city heart surgeon and you gave a ransomware company your credit card number?)
This is what I mean when I disagree that most people can program. Most *habitual computer users* can program. Most *people* can't give decent driving directions.