>Not only does it not solve the problem, but it prevents finding a solution.
How so?
It seems reasonable that having a physical barrier in place would enhance efforts to use "virtual" methods.
What gets mixed up in this is that nobody (or almost nobody) wants zero immigration. Most people, self included, like the idea of open borders, "huddled masses, yearning to be free" and all of that. But that mindset is based on people declaring themselves to be loyal ones of us, not mere passers by. That's why I don't like guest worker programs, which seem to me a way to put a legal stamp on a permanent underclass.
Your sig line defines argumentum ad logicam, and your post exemplifies it.
When has a giant wall ever worked? Ask the Palestinians. Ask the East Germans.
But not only are you employing ad logicam, but Red Herring, as well. The very reason some people give for wanting a virtual fence is that a physical barrier will not (in itself) prevent border crossing.
And asking for a "sensible" immigration policy presupposes that we agree on the goals for such a policy, and the standards by which one should be judged.
. It's not even the exclusive territory of religious extremists though it does seem to be something of a hallmark of them. It's a problem of the self-interested mind.
I think you're failing to see apples and oranges here. First, the fact that the blue laws were passed means (our government being run the way it is) that at least for the time when the laws were passed, they were not "religious extremists" but some kind of majority coalition. For instance, though I don't care about church, I like the fact that there is a quiet time on Sunday morning during which stores are closed. Helps me enjoy my waffles. The whole "day of rest" thing is something religions have right, I think. Now, if they try to close the Waffle House they're going to have a political fight on their hands.
Secondly, wanting to extend morality is a universal trait. Codes of morality differ, but what they all have in common is that morality is how we believe everyone ought to behave. It's not even a baby step from there to "let's pass a law" (be it against selling beer on Sunday or using ethnic slurs).
But the apples-and-oranges part is that the Taliban are not asking for the networks to be down for religious or moral reasons, but for tactical advantage. They're wanting the telecom companies to choose sides. It's also not out of laziness. How often do people forget to turn off their cell phones in theaters, job interviews, etc.? Someone would forget to turn his phone off during that big kill the Americans meeting at the Poobah's pad, and boom, no more Poobah.
I think Spielberg built a huge PR hill to climb for the litigious American market. Ever see Jaws? As Mythbusters showed, in the extremely unlikely event that an air tank ruptured, it would typically expirate rather explode. It would be difficult indeed to make the tank explode, but that's the image I have.
A twist on that by which the energy industry could rake in profit is by declaring it unsafe to use compressed air. Instead only compressed CO2 or Nitrogen should be used, to avoid fire hazard.
O'course, that kind of undermines efficiency for braking, which should best be done by compressing air. Maybe they could use two tanks and use the difference in potential (pressure) between the two in a closed system.
The subtlety is that just because something is closed doesn't mean it's less secure. The principle is that its security should not depend on its closure or obscurity.
A device with a secret algorithm, mechanism, or control is in fact more genuinely secure (tautologically) than a device without it, as long as the device's maker is willing to assume that the bad guys know about it, and doesn't rely on its secret nature. Relying on the secrecy for security means they will be more likely to slip up in other areas. It also means that any flaws in their design will be exposed less quickly. Their security will improve less quickly, in other works, but that doesn't say anything about how good it is.
The trouble is that, parasuit nature being what it is, the management types will rely on the secrecy, and even worse, tout all of their secret goo as a selling point. They never realize that the instant you say, "I've got secret protections!", you no longer have secret protections.
512x512 monochrome amber plasma display. Programmable keyboard. Online chat during multiplayer dungeon games, chess, etc., with users from across town or across the ocean.
will go to the figurehead artists, who put their name to some words and then drive their hybrid SUVs to their red carpet galas, leaving the poor, starving attorneys, accountants, and publicists to do the real work -- the licensing?
It's time to make a stand. We at the firm of Leech, Suxxor & Scabb are taking up the cause of starving parasuits everywhere.
Jatropha requires no pesticides, little water other than rain and no fertilizer beyond the nutrient-rich seed cake left after oil is pressed from its nuts.
No plants require pesticides.
Very few land-based plants require water other than rain, plants being unable to distinguish the source of their H2O.
As someone mentioned, most plants are able to live on soil and their own detritus.
I cannot contemplate for long the prospect of all those poor plants having their nuts crushed. Ooh, I hate when that happens!
Last week I resurrected an IBM Thinkpad (~1Ghz, munged 18G HD, 1600x1200x32, broken DVD and dead net port) using Damn Small Linux, booting from floppy and running off a USB key.
It's a fine system. Shoehorning everything to be able to run on a 16MB 486DX system makes a system with plenty of resources run fast.
I'm considering switching from the bloated hulk that is Fedora, which I have to use at work.
If you think today's sound quality is worse than 78's or a dusty, scratched, greasy Beatles 45 that your sister played on her Mattel ModGirl Record Player until you wanted to shoot her in the head, you're just wrong. And even the best turntables and tape decks introduced artifacts (rumble, clicks, hiss) of their own. Before digital music, the music listening experience largely sucked.
I have about 1500 LPs, 78s, and 45s that I am slowly ripping down to MP3, and I'm reminded every time I break out the distilled water and microfiber cloth to clean a record just how much better things are now, even if the music itself isn't.
As far as telephone and other communication sound quality goes, you used to have to raise your voice when talking long distance. Now, you just have to get out of the wind, or put on your noise-canceling headphones.
Compared to having physical media noise, distortion, and interference, digital music in general and MP3 specifically is wonderful. OTOH, the dynamic compression is bad. But they've been doing dynamic compression since the 1960s. Its worse now because they're selling what sells, and it gives the MP3 encoding algorithm less difference to work with between one part of a song and another.
The really weird thing is that you commented on it. Or is it weirder still that I commented on your comment that someone noticed that this guy wondered if his friend was waving his twig, berries, and mossy knothole in front of him while he couldn't see? I mean, a whole conversation about something that never, as far as we know or care, happened.
Me, I'd be thinking "Bagging that behotchy Princess will be worth it. Yes, indeed it will."
but their logic doesn't show. It could be that the protein they administered just wiped out all memory of a certain type.
To test whether the memory needs regular update (their "little machine" metaphor), they need to show that their protein doesn't harm existing memories, which is the opposite of what their experiment showed.
I don't block text-only ads, or even graphical ones that aren't annoying, but fit within the context of the site. But ads that obscure the content, or are offered in popups, intrusive flash, or similar mechanisms? Bye.
Am I "stealing" from the sites trying to get ad revenue? I don't think so, but neither do I care. I do not have an ethical or moral obligation to view their ads, any more than I have an ethical or moral obligation to sit and watch TV commercials or read every billboard on the highway. If they want to block me because I won't look at their ads, that's their loss, because if they insist on showing me the annoying ads, I don't want to visit their site. The annoyance of the ads is greater than the value of their site.
The beauty of the web is that everyone has a competitor, and eventually I'll find one who won't block me for behaving in a reasonable manner.
I can see that now. Yes, I had failed to account for the natural tachyon output of properly seated bananas (and the lower but significant output of properly seated plantains, as well). But we may be drifting slightly off-topic.
The OP is correct: the Linux Weather Forecast is like a car with a banana (properly seated) in the radiator.
The kernel is nothing like a car, with or without a banana in its radiator or anywhere else. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't describe the situation at all.
Imagine, if you will, a perfect state machine with N inputs and G(N) outputs, where each output is a Thorgen-Zeta function of all the inputs bounded by the radial square root of each of its eigenvalues. Clearly, the scope is integrable under N, which is probably what led you to your assumption. But where your car-fruit analogy falls down is in assuming that complete T-Z continuity with respect to time.
So a better analogy would be a car with a fish in its tailpipe, dripping maggots along the highway in the rain. Some of the maggots survive to become features, but some are squashed by schoolbuses full of sweaty cheerleaders.
Or perhaps it depends on how you look at it. But the problem is easier to understand as a False Dilemma, not a Straw Man. Since we don't know exactly how long life takes to evolve, because it's a random process that we've never watched happen, it could be that it evolved independently on Earth, in comets, and all over the place. It could also have come solely from the planet Krypton. Even finding actual life in a comet would not show that it evolved there, rather evolving or being created by God on Krypton. That's a metaphor.
The good professors should embrace, as they say, the healing power of 'and'.
What a bunch of baloney. While it may be that collective punishment is barred by the Geneva Conventions, it is most certainly allowed in other venues which don't include prisoners of war or protected non-combatants.
Also, there are lots of things that the GCs disallow, such as corporal punishment, that are left to the judgment of parents. I would add that a kid old enough to use a computer unsupervised is past the age of spanking. There are things allowed by the GCs that I would never do, such as imprisoning my kids. And there are rights under the GCs that would be stupid to extend to kids, such as the right not to be questioned.
Part of this may sound like preaching to the choir, but bear with me. There is a tendency to want the government to do something about every problem, and the hassle of online scumbaggery is no exception. Individuals (and their guardians) need to take responsibility for their own protection, and not expect either the government to protect them (which it cannot) or for faceless strangers to be kind to them, which a tiny but significant portion will not.
Each of these steps solves roughly half of the remaining problems not solved by the previous ones.
A fool and his unarchived data are soon parted. If you want it, make an offline copy of it.
Switch to Linux, a Mac, or Anything But Windows. Most of the following only apply if this one won't work for you.
Download and install Lavasoft Ad-Aware or similar spyware detector, even if your virus scanner says it provides that protection.
Don't open email with attachments, or respond to spam with so much as a single click. You have been warned.
Stay away from porn sites. They're bad for your computer.
Stay away from online games except those you know to be crap-free.
You don't know that any of them are crap-free.
Don't download commercial music except from commercial vendors to whom you pay a fee. Yeah, sucks to be us. But you get what you deserve, and if you're trying to get something for nothing, you'll give something for nothing in return.
So what do you do if your kids download some game, P2P app, or other crapware-laden piece of stupidity? Take away the computer. What if you have several kids, and you don't know who did it? Enlist their aid and hold them all accountable. Tell them that if any of them downloads crapware and the guilty party won't come forward, they all do their homework at the library (for a week or month or whatever).
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>Not only does it not solve the problem, but it prevents finding a solution.
How so?
It seems reasonable that having a physical barrier in place would enhance efforts to use "virtual" methods.
What gets mixed up in this is that nobody (or almost nobody) wants zero immigration. Most people, self included, like the idea of open borders, "huddled masses, yearning to be free" and all of that. But that mindset is based on people declaring themselves to be loyal ones of us, not mere passers by. That's why I don't like guest worker programs, which seem to me a way to put a legal stamp on a permanent underclass.
Your sig line defines argumentum ad logicam, and your post exemplifies it.
When has a giant wall ever worked? Ask the Palestinians. Ask the East Germans.
But not only are you employing ad logicam, but Red Herring, as well. The very reason some people give for wanting a virtual fence is that a physical barrier will not (in itself) prevent border crossing.
And asking for a "sensible" immigration policy presupposes that we agree on the goals for such a policy, and the standards by which one should be judged.
>You should have said something.
... people.
So that was YOU. Expect to hear from my
Secondly, wanting to extend morality is a universal trait. Codes of morality differ, but what they all have in common is that morality is how we believe everyone ought to behave. It's not even a baby step from there to "let's pass a law" (be it against selling beer on Sunday or using ethnic slurs).
But the apples-and-oranges part is that the Taliban are not asking for the networks to be down for religious or moral reasons, but for tactical advantage. They're wanting the telecom companies to choose sides. It's also not out of laziness. How often do people forget to turn off their cell phones in theaters, job interviews, etc.? Someone would forget to turn his phone off during that big kill the Americans meeting at the Poobah's pad, and boom, no more Poobah.
They cook it. The boil it, stew it, and bake it; they put it in salads, sandwiches, and snack trays.
But I'll grant you that it doesn't smell bad unless you cook it, so I'd certainly agree that it's something best not done.
Kimchi stinks when you cook it. It just does. Especially in a microwave. Ye gods, the stench.
At least if the Korean's gastronomy is used to it, he won't foul the air twice.
But the Westerners had better lay off the stuff, or there will be hell to pay.
Good point.
I think Spielberg built a huge PR hill to climb for the litigious American market. Ever see Jaws? As Mythbusters showed, in the extremely unlikely event that an air tank ruptured, it would typically expirate rather explode. It would be difficult indeed to make the tank explode, but that's the image I have.
A twist on that by which the energy industry could rake in profit is by declaring it unsafe to use compressed air. Instead only compressed CO2 or Nitrogen should be used, to avoid fire hazard.
O'course, that kind of undermines efficiency for braking, which should best be done by compressing air. Maybe they could use two tanks and use the difference in potential (pressure) between the two in a closed system.
The subtlety is that just because something is closed doesn't mean it's less secure. The principle is that its security should not depend on its closure or obscurity.
A device with a secret algorithm, mechanism, or control is in fact more genuinely secure (tautologically) than a device without it, as long as the device's maker is willing to assume that the bad guys know about it, and doesn't rely on its secret nature. Relying on the secrecy for security means they will be more likely to slip up in other areas. It also means that any flaws in their design will be exposed less quickly. Their security will improve less quickly, in other works, but that doesn't say anything about how good it is.
The trouble is that, parasuit nature being what it is, the management types will rely on the secrecy, and even worse, tout all of their secret goo as a selling point. They never realize that the instant you say, "I've got secret protections!", you no longer have secret protections.
512x512 monochrome amber plasma display. Programmable keyboard. Online chat during multiplayer dungeon games, chess, etc., with users from across town or across the ocean.
In 1978.
will go to the figurehead artists, who put their name to some words and then drive their hybrid SUVs to their red carpet galas, leaving the poor, starving attorneys, accountants, and publicists to do the real work -- the licensing?
It's time to make a stand. We at the firm of Leech, Suxxor & Scabb are taking up the cause of starving parasuits everywhere.
We just want what's right.
We just want what's fair.
Last week I resurrected an IBM Thinkpad (~1Ghz, munged 18G HD, 1600x1200x32, broken DVD and dead net port) using Damn Small Linux, booting from floppy and running off a USB key.
It's a fine system. Shoehorning everything to be able to run on a 16MB 486DX system makes a system with plenty of resources run fast.
I'm considering switching from the bloated hulk that is Fedora, which I have to use at work.
If you think today's sound quality is worse than 78's or a dusty, scratched, greasy Beatles 45 that your sister played on her Mattel ModGirl Record Player until you wanted to shoot her in the head, you're just wrong. And even the best turntables and tape decks introduced artifacts (rumble, clicks, hiss) of their own. Before digital music, the music listening experience largely sucked.
I have about 1500 LPs, 78s, and 45s that I am slowly ripping down to MP3, and I'm reminded every time I break out the distilled water and microfiber cloth to clean a record just how much better things are now, even if the music itself isn't.
As far as telephone and other communication sound quality goes, you used to have to raise your voice when talking long distance. Now, you just have to get out of the wind, or put on your noise-canceling headphones.
Compared to having physical media noise, distortion, and interference, digital music in general and MP3 specifically is wonderful. OTOH, the dynamic compression is bad. But they've been doing dynamic compression since the 1960s. Its worse now because they're selling what sells, and it gives the MP3 encoding algorithm less difference to work with between one part of a song and another.
Want to experience something different? Grab Wish You Were Here.
Ha.
The really weird thing is that you commented on it. Or is it weirder still that I commented on your comment that someone noticed that this guy wondered if his friend was waving his twig, berries, and mossy knothole in front of him while he couldn't see? I mean, a whole conversation about something that never, as far as we know or care, happened.
Me, I'd be thinking "Bagging that behotchy Princess will be worth it. Yes, indeed it will."
Have you ever lived in East Asia? They had the same problems there as here.
but their logic doesn't show. It could be that the protein they administered just wiped out all memory of a certain type.
To test whether the memory needs regular update (their "little machine" metaphor), they need to show that their protein doesn't harm existing memories, which is the opposite of what their experiment showed.
What am I missing (besides the years 1981-2)?
In fact, I've published my AdBlock List.
I don't block text-only ads, or even graphical ones that aren't annoying, but fit within the context of the site. But ads that obscure the content, or are offered in popups, intrusive flash, or similar mechanisms? Bye.
Am I "stealing" from the sites trying to get ad revenue? I don't think so, but neither do I care. I do not have an ethical or moral obligation to view their ads, any more than I have an ethical or moral obligation to sit and watch TV commercials or read every billboard on the highway. If they want to block me because I won't look at their ads, that's their loss, because if they insist on showing me the annoying ads, I don't want to visit their site. The annoyance of the ads is greater than the value of their site.
The beauty of the web is that everyone has a competitor, and eventually I'll find one who won't block me for behaving in a reasonable manner.
I can see that now. Yes, I had failed to account for the natural tachyon output of properly seated bananas (and the lower but significant output of properly seated plantains, as well). But we may be drifting slightly off-topic.
The OP is correct: the Linux Weather Forecast is like a car with a banana (properly seated) in the radiator.
The kernel is nothing like a car, with or without a banana in its radiator or anywhere else. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't describe the situation at all.
Imagine, if you will, a perfect state machine with N inputs and G(N) outputs, where each output is a Thorgen-Zeta function of all the inputs bounded by the radial square root of each of its eigenvalues. Clearly, the scope is integrable under N, which is probably what led you to your assumption. But where your car-fruit analogy falls down is in assuming that complete T-Z continuity with respect to time.
So a better analogy would be a car with a fish in its tailpipe, dripping maggots along the highway in the rain. Some of the maggots survive to become features, but some are squashed by schoolbuses full of sweaty cheerleaders.
The Linux forecast for tonight is ... dark.
Or perhaps it depends on how you look at it. But the problem is easier to understand as a False Dilemma, not a Straw Man. Since we don't know exactly how long life takes to evolve, because it's a random process that we've never watched happen, it could be that it evolved independently on Earth, in comets, and all over the place. It could also have come solely from the planet Krypton. Even finding actual life in a comet would not show that it evolved there, rather evolving or being created by God on Krypton. That's a metaphor.
The good professors should embrace, as they say, the healing power of 'and'.
war crime
What a bunch of baloney. While it may be that collective punishment is barred by the Geneva Conventions, it is most certainly allowed in other venues which don't include prisoners of war or protected non-combatants.
Also, there are lots of things that the GCs disallow, such as corporal punishment, that are left to the judgment of parents. I would add that a kid old enough to use a computer unsupervised is past the age of spanking. There are things allowed by the GCs that I would never do, such as imprisoning my kids. And there are rights under the GCs that would be stupid to extend to kids, such as the right not to be questioned.
In short, that's a giant non sequitur.
Part of this may sound like preaching to the choir, but bear with me. There is a tendency to want the government to do something about every problem, and the hassle of online scumbaggery is no exception. Individuals (and their guardians) need to take responsibility for their own protection, and not expect either the government to protect them (which it cannot) or for faceless strangers to be kind to them, which a tiny but significant portion will not.
Each of these steps solves roughly half of the remaining problems not solved by the previous ones.
So what do you do if your kids download some game, P2P app, or other crapware-laden piece of stupidity? Take away the computer. What if you have several kids, and you don't know who did it? Enlist their aid and hold them all accountable. Tell them that if any of them downloads crapware and the guilty party won't come forward, they all do their homework at the library (for a week or month or whatever).