And because they aren't as efficient. I have an older Wacom Intuos that I paid big bucks for, and I hate using it as a mouse for long periods - I have to move my hand over a foot to go from corner to corner on the screen! If it were any smaller, I'd have trouble with small details.
I *have* used a trackball for many things, including FPS gaming, and it was okay. I'm big to a Microsoft Arc these days, though, because it allows me to slightly curl my two smallest fingers under when my wrist begins to tire, and alternate between the two hand positions.
I did not say it was acceptable. I said that I can't imagine we'd get worked up about the comparison to Japanese torture techniques.
And yes, I'll freely admit that there are cases where I'm 100% okay with interrogation under fear of death or bodily harm - but those cases are extreme and quite limited, and greatly overshadowed by the evil of giving the government the power to do so.
I'm usually identified as "conservative" - I'm a tea party participant and sometimes organizer, I've voted (R) in the last 3 elections, and I'm active in local and state-level politics with a strong emphasis on gun rights.
Julian Assange is guilty of no crime in the United States. I would not welcome him here, but to think that we should prosecute him is ludicrous. Further, if he were an American citizen, I can't see prosecuting him for merely receiving and publishing information obtained by others. That's called journalism. He might be prosecutable under some other things he may or may not have done, such as using the information for purposes of blackmail, but not for merely publishing it.
As for the Japanese/waterboarding thing - well, you must have info I've not seen, because I can't imagine we'd get worked up about that, when in WW2, the Japanese were busy systematically injecting our downed airmen (among a much larger number of Chinese) with seawater, to see if it could be used as a substitute for saline in emergencies. Google "Unit 731".
LMAO, okay, my hackles are down. I just read you sig:)
I admin, I'm a bit on edge right now. I'm working to get open carry passed in my state, and have been going back-and-forth with opponents for a couple of weeks now, sometimes on film. It's hard to turn off.
There are still exceptions. I have a Toshiba notebook that refuses to work right under Linux. No ACPI, flaky wifi driver, etc, on a 2010-era machine. Deplorable.
We're saying the same things - processed grains (bread, pasta) and sugars (soda, candy, snack cakes) are very calorie-dense. If you sit down and eat ribeye until you're full, and the person beside you eats Little Debbies until they're full, the person beside you is going to be consuming a shit ton more calories than you are.
I'd go further and state that most of the obese people around you (including myself) got that way from eating processed grains and sugars - bread and soda, namely.
I'd lose a shit-ton of weight if I moved to a primarily meat diet.
Also, men are not herbivores. We are omnivores. We don't need fangs and claws because we are tool-users. My claws are rifles and my fangs are a stove. 100 generations ago, my ancestors' claws were spears and their fangs were a cooking fire.
Wrong story. "The Fountainhead" was about an architect (Howard Roark). Atlas Shrugged was primarily about a railroad tycoon (Dagny Taggart), a steel baron (Henry Reardon) and a philosophist-hero (John Galt).
That actually is a weakness. The scheme requires that more than 50% of the processing power of the network be legit.
There are safeguards in place to prevent it from happening by way of private concerns - the concern would be undermining the source of their newly-generated wealth. For a government, though, spending your dollars...
I don't think so, though. For it to be big enough for the NSA to bother with it, it would have an enormous amount of processing power associated with it.
And yet, none of the examples (that have happened) you listed are impacted by NN. Scarcity of bandwidth is A-OK according to these regs, so long as no traffic is given favourable treatment.
I'm not opposed to the concept - it just seems unnecessary to me. The *threat* of NN regulation seems like it was just as effective as the regulation itself.
First, Bush had support of both houses of Congress for both wars. Second, Healthcare isn't in the president's control, period, as it must pass both houses before it even gets to him. He can ask, pressure, and use political leverage on members of Congress, but he has no direct power here. As for Gitmo - well, I'm not sure what you had hoped would be voted on. It is well within the power of the Executive Branch to decide where to hold prisoners of war. Yes, there are questions about that designation, but it's not like Bush "ignored" Congress here.
Congress is composed of two houses - the House of Representatives, and the Senate. All spending bills must originate in the House, then move to the Senate.
Bush ignored his political opposition - which sometimes included his own party - but I can't recall off the top of my head any time when it could be said that he "ignored Congress".
Nah - The Poor Man's James Bond is a much better tome. Both contain inaccuracies, though, and the Anarchist's Cookbook will get you killed if you follow one of the recipes exactly.
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And because they aren't as efficient. I have an older Wacom Intuos that I paid big bucks for, and I hate using it as a mouse for long periods - I have to move my hand over a foot to go from corner to corner on the screen! If it were any smaller, I'd have trouble with small details.
I *have* used a trackball for many things, including FPS gaming, and it was okay. I'm big to a Microsoft Arc these days, though, because it allows me to slightly curl my two smallest fingers under when my wrist begins to tire, and alternate between the two hand positions.
I did not say it was acceptable. I said that I can't imagine we'd get worked up about the comparison to Japanese torture techniques.
And yes, I'll freely admit that there are cases where I'm 100% okay with interrogation under fear of death or bodily harm - but those cases are extreme and quite limited, and greatly overshadowed by the evil of giving the government the power to do so.
I'm usually identified as "conservative" - I'm a tea party participant and sometimes organizer, I've voted (R) in the last 3 elections, and I'm active in local and state-level politics with a strong emphasis on gun rights.
Julian Assange is guilty of no crime in the United States. I would not welcome him here, but to think that we should prosecute him is ludicrous. Further, if he were an American citizen, I can't see prosecuting him for merely receiving and publishing information obtained by others. That's called journalism. He might be prosecutable under some other things he may or may not have done, such as using the information for purposes of blackmail, but not for merely publishing it.
As for the Japanese/waterboarding thing - well, you must have info I've not seen, because I can't imagine we'd get worked up about that, when in WW2, the Japanese were busy systematically injecting our downed airmen (among a much larger number of Chinese) with seawater, to see if it could be used as a substitute for saline in emergencies. Google "Unit 731".
Can you cite a precedent here? A written license is a written license.
LMAO, okay, my hackles are down. I just read you sig :)
I admin, I'm a bit on edge right now. I'm working to get open carry passed in my state, and have been going back-and-forth with opponents for a couple of weeks now, sometimes on film. It's hard to turn off.
You really shouldn't anthropomorphize Science like that. It *hates* when you do that.
There are still exceptions. I have a Toshiba notebook that refuses to work right under Linux. No ACPI, flaky wifi driver, etc, on a 2010-era machine. Deplorable.
Um.... you think seeing a gun is probable cause to search without a warrant?
As a guy in a compound in a flyover country, only about half of those things are in my search history. I already know how to do the other half :0)
We're saying the same things - processed grains (bread, pasta) and sugars (soda, candy, snack cakes) are very calorie-dense. If you sit down and eat ribeye until you're full, and the person beside you eats Little Debbies until they're full, the person beside you is going to be consuming a shit ton more calories than you are.
Meat is not the cause of obesity.
Hey now! Arkansas schools aren't *that* bad - at least, they aren't as bad as Mississippi...
In fact, that's our state motto. "Thank God for Mississippi". If not for them, we'd be the butt of *all* the jokes.
I've not seen any major drilling in the eastern part of AR, but lots of it is going on in central AR.
Domesticated hogs do just fine in the wild. I don't even believe hogs were native the the Americas.
I'd go further and state that most of the obese people around you (including myself) got that way from eating processed grains and sugars - bread and soda, namely.
I'd lose a shit-ton of weight if I moved to a primarily meat diet.
Also, men are not herbivores. We are omnivores. We don't need fangs and claws because we are tool-users. My claws are rifles and my fangs are a stove. 100 generations ago, my ancestors' claws were spears and their fangs were a cooking fire.
Wrong story. "The Fountainhead" was about an architect (Howard Roark). Atlas Shrugged was primarily about a railroad tycoon (Dagny Taggart), a steel baron (Henry Reardon) and a philosophist-hero (John Galt).
As a startup, Google Docs are awesome. As a major company, I'd be moving away from them as soon as I had a formal IT department.
Ideally, there would be a Google Apps appliance. Best of both worlds.
That actually is a weakness. The scheme requires that more than 50% of the processing power of the network be legit.
There are safeguards in place to prevent it from happening by way of private concerns - the concern would be undermining the source of their newly-generated wealth. For a government, though, spending your dollars...
I don't think so, though. For it to be big enough for the NSA to bother with it, it would have an enormous amount of processing power associated with it.
Bitcoin.
And yet, none of the examples (that have happened) you listed are impacted by NN. Scarcity of bandwidth is A-OK according to these regs, so long as no traffic is given favourable treatment.
I'm not opposed to the concept - it just seems unnecessary to me. The *threat* of NN regulation seems like it was just as effective as the regulation itself.
First, Bush had support of both houses of Congress for both wars. Second, Healthcare isn't in the president's control, period, as it must pass both houses before it even gets to him. He can ask, pressure, and use political leverage on members of Congress, but he has no direct power here. As for Gitmo - well, I'm not sure what you had hoped would be voted on. It is well within the power of the Executive Branch to decide where to hold prisoners of war. Yes, there are questions about that designation, but it's not like Bush "ignored" Congress here.
Congress is composed of two houses - the House of Representatives, and the Senate. All spending bills must originate in the House, then move to the Senate.
Bush ignored his political opposition - which sometimes included his own party - but I can't recall off the top of my head any time when it could be said that he "ignored Congress".
Coming from a libertarian, this annoys the hell out of me as well.
I'm not opposed to the concept of NN, as much as I question its necessity as legislation.
It's not a lie, but it is certainly misleading.
Assange isn't a US citizen, and thus is not subject to US law.
You can freely exchange bitcoins for USD - there are operating currency exchanges, though their volume is quite low.
I believe going rate is something like 1 bitcoin = USD 0.25.
Nah - The Poor Man's James Bond is a much better tome. Both contain inaccuracies, though, and the Anarchist's Cookbook will get you killed if you follow one of the recipes exactly.